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Peeks, my photo gallery, has been published with its first photo set - skydiving in California! It’s gonna be a lot of work publishing all the pictures, so please bear with me…

Check out my photos!

For those interested, Peeks is made possible by the following technologies:

1. Wordpress 2.04, naturally
2. SimpleViewer 1.7 for the flash gallery
3. Kimili Flash Embed 1.1 to integrate the above two

Update: Ski Heavenly and Big Sur pics added!

Woo been a long time since I rock climbed

Fun fun. I have extremely painful forearms now though. Can’t even use the push-taps at public washrooms. Haha, hurts too much.

Some words are just funny… they have opposite meanings! for example:

FIX: a predicament / a solution.
The boat was sinking fast…that was a real fix!
He plugged the hole with chewing gum…that was a real fix!

ARGUE: Assert / deny.
Few would argue that children are the chief beneficiaries.

LEGENDARY: Famously true / Famously imaginary.
Your efficiency is legendary.

MIRROR IMAGE: Exactly the same / Exactly the opposite.
His responses were the mirror image of hers.

Cool, huh? Check out more interesting autoantonyms.

Yesterday night was a beautiful night - the first ever USP graduation dinner. And to think i almost missed it… hmm

We had a standard 8 or 10 course dinner (I don’t remember because I didn’t eat much), but I was running around too much meeting people I havn’t met in years! It’s been too long Among the people I was really glad to meet, in order of merit from best to worse (yeah, right :P):

• Felicia Chan, who was in my USP orientation group 4 years back - thanks for being such a great friend
• Jocelyn Chiu, who bitched to me non-stop about a particular guy she had to endure SEP with - optimism grounded in reality is key!
• Hong Yi, my fellow muggertoad in SoC, keep in touch!
• Simin, who worked with me in the NUSSU Bizcom Bash 2003 - can you buy me some chocolates with the $100 NTUC voucher you won?
• Jian Lun, who danced with me in the USP Rag Dance 2003 - you look as dashing as ever! ROM soon ok? Simin will say yes…
• Rina, who is always so fierce to me.. haha.. just kidding.
• Gracia, who played USP inter-faculty softball with me - glad to meet you again and go change the world with those youths!
• Aaron Ho, who ran past, grabbed a photo with me and didn’t even stop to talk (i forgive you :))
• Xinmei, who I met at my first USP module (Remember? Discourse is very hard… haha)
• Prof Albert Teo! Continue to do what you are doing for USP. I’m deeply respectful for the things you do - fabulous is an understatement!
• Eugene Ng, who stayed with me in level B2 of PGP in year 1… haha, those were the days aint it?
• Benjamin, who was with me at UBC in Vancouver as well as in level B2

The evening was indeed interesting… We had star performances by many of the staff… Peter Pang did a cantonese solo, Albert Teo did a Beethoven something (don’t trust me to remember those names) in A/B/C/D/E/F/G Sharp/Minor/Major. heh. We had an awesome skit by the MCs and some seriously excellent singing there…

Lijing and I had the most awesome post-event catching up too - we talked about a lot of things, mainly revolving around job hunting and stuff that happened in the past 2 years. Hey look, you have an award winning smile there in the photo below… use it in the job interviews, lah.

And before you know it, I’ve been to Easter Island, flew to French Polynesia and explored the islands of Bora Bora, Moorea, and Tahiti, got on a 28-hour, 33000 mile flight back to California, and took a few baby steps in Tokyo and hey, I’m home

Yes yes i know, I’ve been lazy / too busy to do much blogging and i’m skipping over most of the stuff… but hey, i promise I’ll make it up with pictures when they’re ready. haha!

I’ll share some highlights, though.

Easter Island - Amazing, facinating, *huge* moais (stone statues). It’s an enigma, really. Weather’s there fantastic, kinda a little warmer than California, nice and windy. Gwen and I dived there too! There was a huge, sunken moai. Hehe beautiful - we even have a picture!

Tahiti & French Polynesia - Gorgeous diving! Unbelievable I tell you. Manta rays, white-tipped sharks, black-tipped sharks, lemon sharks - you won’t believe how many we saw… I even managed to stroke one lemon shark heheh. Above land is another story though. Reminds me of Singapore 15 years ago… kinda like Malaysia. Yuks. If you’re charmed by those gorgeous island pictures and thinking of going there for your honeymoon - don’t! Especially if you grew up in the tropics. Believe me - you’re better off in Bali.

Tokyo - Our hostel was nice, but man, was it CRAMPED. I don’t have much to say about Tokyo, but man do i love the food :). What’s a man (who loves Jap food) to do? Other than that, I must say it was pretty boring.

For now, I’m back in Singapore… certainly looking forward to… food glorious food! (Man, i’m soooooo gonna get fat)