Dale visits!

Dale Mason pop over to singapore for a short stopover before flying off to his China teaching trip. Dale is a tutor cum dean at Cromwell college, Irish australian! I promised that I would show him around our little island paradise. Told by his sister that Sentosa was a brilliant island resort, he wanted to see it for himself. All he wanted was a swim really and boy can he swim. Fella went all the way out of the lagoon in his snorkel, for a moment I thought that was it...... nope. .. 60++ and going strong mate.

I brought him to the most southern point of the Asian continent.

To be honest I didn't know that there was a southern end point in Sentosa.
The highest point in Singapore, all 164 metres of it.
The meal at the indian eating place with sheila:

Meal included soup kambeng, roti john, murtabak, paper prata, teh terik, murukuk and lotsa chatter.

Meal at the best pork rib soup restaurant with my dad. Yup, we eat all parts of the pig here; tail, liver, blood, leg, stomach and intestines. Dale was game enough to try the braised pig trotters (TER KAR), and he absolutely loved it
Yup, what a bloody mess, that is how we do it here mate.

Good luck with the rest of your trip, see you back in Brissy.

9holes

First 9 holes. sweet.

Somewhere over the rainbow

Somewhere over the rainbow

Way up high

There's a land that I heard of

Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow

Skies are blue

And the dreams that you dare to dream

Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star

And wake up where the clouds are far behind me

Where troubles melt like lemondrops

Away above the chimney tops

That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow

Bluebirds fly

Birds fly over the rainbow

Why then, oh why can't I?

28th

I wish we will all pass our 1st sem

Special thanks to wenjing, agnes, joyce and andre for the surprise celebration

It was truely memorable. : )

I feel like a tourist in Brissy

without the classes, the stress and exams, I feel like a tourist in Brisbane.

Day one of the tour brings me to West End market.

West end marker reminds me of London's Camden town market with the mix of eccentric wares and colourful vendors. There are fabulous vegetables, organic foods, plants, flowers, bric-a-brac, and buskers.

Mr Hungarian chef and our Lepeny

me and agnes enjoying our curry puffs.

Come on Maggies!

Tough luck on the boys. Have not won a single game this year. Things are pretty rough for them.

The club gave them a choice to relegate to a lower division, but they unanimously decided to stick it through. Good on ya boys!

I have followed them close to 4 months now and look forward to their training and games. Really fun treating them and feel like I am really part of the team.

Morale booster after a match, this one was in Mt Gravatt, about 10 min drive away.

One of the fellas, rocca... all damn big size lads.

Lil fella

Hey congrats edric on your first offspring...does look a bit like you and he is just in time for father's day too!

10 more to form a football team, so better get back to work mate!

Lil raphael

Crawling out

Thousand apologies for the lack of update.... work has been simply overwhelming. I have been really busy climbing out of this pithole. The climb was arduous, back breaking at times but boy was the air fresher higher up. Exams is just round the corner, and the going is gonna get tougher.

Wish me luck

Rockbottom....

Golly.... all of us has just started our clinics for a few weeks now. It is funny how when we are thrown back into the student mode, it totally screw up the brain. Maybe we have been taking for granted the dr diagnosis all this while and now the part of the brain that has not been used is suddenly triggered alive. Maybe it is the new approach of manual therapy and TDT. Anyway the learning curve is unbelieveably steep now, so steep that I feel that I have slide down beyond the x axis.

THE LEARNING CURVE
The crawl out of this pit is gonna be a painful one. It is friggin' depressing but thank goodness for the few friends who help lift each other's spirits.
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So guys.. chin up, I know it feels like the fuel is burning low.......
As Mr Walker says....... LET'S..................

Old website

I was clearing some of my bookmarks fav site, when I chance upon a website I did about 5 years ago. I was still in UK then and must have been really bored to make this pictorial site. Have a look:

the then younger dareklam

Attacked at the golf range

I was having a quiet practice at the Oxley driving range last friday.

Out of the blue, someone shouted for us to run for our lives!

"its coming your way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Me and Andre instinctly grabbed our equipment and ran as fast as we could.

Managed to get away in time before......

The friggin' water sprinkler got us.

Nabei... someone turned the sprinkler on early

The noozle will periodically swivelled and sprayed the articial grass mat as well. Talk about saving watter. Pui!

Quite a beautiful spectacle actually.

Pretty tough Paper

Gosh, all of us got the shock of our lives, pretty tough paper I must say.

I thought they will go easy with us and give us question like that.

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Maybe not.

Save water campaign

It has not rain in brisbane for a long time now. So the queensland garmen wants us to shower for only 4 minutes a day + no washing of cars + no watering of garden.

Someone installed a hourglass in my shower to remind me about the water restriction. Thanks! Now I know how much time I need for the bath tub to fill to the brim. keke.

In and Out of Prison

Nothing much to blog about this past week, because I was in prision.

Mental prision that is.

Preparing for a mid sem paper...

wah never felt this stress for many years.

wish me luck.