Its getting nervous

I am not sure why that I am getting nervous as the date for my Hong Kong trip comes near. It is for sure that it is not my 1st time taking an airplane and not the 1st time take Cathay Airline too. I just cannot help it but to feel nervous. Maybe I am afraid that I will not know where to go once I reach Hong Kong and spend all my 5 days there in the Hotel. That is the worst scenario I can ever think of. Anyway, I am sure that if I could have a good time in University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia with my attachment partner in my Polytechic end of 2nd year, I definitely can have a hell of good time with my mei in Hong Kong. Don't worry, I am experienced .... hahah ... I mean ... experience in travelling and exploring.

By the way, I cannot help myself but getting happier every time Chien Ming Wang started for Yankees as he just could not stop winning and improving. He just strike out 10 New York Mets' batter in his last outing which was a career high for him. I cannot wait to watch his next game which is against San Francisco Giants this coming Sunday. I wonder how he will fare when he face Barry Bonds. Unfortunately, I will be in Hong Kong having fun that day. So .... sorry ... I am going to miss it

Where to go when it comes to currency exchange

Today, I went to Hasan's Global Money Exchange which he claims everyone in Ngee Ann Polytechnic knows about his family's shop to exchange for Hong Kong Dollar and a last minute RM for Shi Ting (my mei's best friend).

It was raining at that time and I was so lucky that when I reached the DBS bank in Peninsula Plaza, all of the 3 ATMs are down, yes, it was not 1 or 2, it was ALL 3 of THEM were showing blank screen on those small LCD monitors. What a luck I was having. So I had to run to the Fu Nan the IT Mall to withdraw out the Singapore dollar.

After going through the rain and crowded IT mall, I thought I could finally get down to money exchanging business. However, Hasan's don't know what relative or friend could only give me 1000 dollar note instead of the 500 ones i requested from him early in the morning. He told me that there were 3 banks issued 1000 dollar note in Hong Kong, Standard Charted Bank, HSBC and Hong Kong Shanghai Bank. The ones that people refuse to accept are from HSBC and Hong Kong Shanghai Bank, so the Standard Charted ones which he gave me are the ones that can be used. I was like ... hmm ... really or not, but since they offered such a good rate, so i just accepted them. However, I called Hasan again and complained to him, to my surprise, Hasan is indeed a good businessman as he immediately called back his brother and asked him to get the 1000 dollar note to change to small ones. I was so touched and feel a bit Pai Sei. Just became a Singaporean not long ago and started to complain like one already. haHaHaha

Anyway, Hasan's shop did give a very good rate. I am doing a free advertisment for him HahahHaahaHaaAHahAhaHAHaHa !!! AHAHAHahAaAhaha !!!

1st HOMERUN for Taiwanese Player in MLB

Mark down 13 Jun 2007 as 1 of the most special day in Baseball history, cause the 1st ever homerun by a Taiwanese player in MLB !!! On top of that, its by a pitcher who is last one in the homerun possibility list as batting is never their specialities. Kuo Hong Chih !! His name will be remembered forever not only being the 1st Taiwanese player to hit a homerun in MLB but also he is the 3rd player to hit the homerun for LA Dodger in a series of extremly rare back to back to back 3 homeruns. All of them come from the 1st pitch of each batter by the pitcher John Maine from New York Mets

This is how the 3 homeruns come from


And this needless to say, is the part specially focus on Kuo Hong Chih alone

王建民 (Chien-Ming Wang and 郭泓志 (Hong Chih-Kuo) both starting in MLB tomorrow

A sleepless night for me ... why??

Cause 2 of the best pitcher for Taiwan are both starting for their teams (Yankees and LA Dogers) in few hours time. That why I guess I am nervous. Especially, Wang is facing the challenge of Brandon Webb from Arizona Diamondbacks. Not only they both use sinkers as their primary weapon, but Brandon is even better than Wang as he won the Cy award last season when Wang only managed to be runner up. However, I do really hope that Wang Chien Ming can once again show me that he is also a Cy pitcher to be in the future and can pitch as good as Brandon or even better than him.

As for Kuo, all the best for his 1st win in the season tomorrow. If not because of his 2 tommy john surgeries. I bet he would be better than Wang right now.

By the way, we are going to watch ZODIAC tomorrow with my mei. We have been wanting to watch it for a long time. Especially, last Saturday, where Weilin and us could not get the tickets at Cineleisure, so we went to LIDO, yet we could not get the movie tickets, so Weilin (luckily she was driving that day) drove us to Vivo City to try our luck at Golden Village, but but but ... to our horror ... there was still no ticket !!!!

What is happening nowadays ?? Is it because internet booking for movie tickets are so easy and we, Singaporean (now i am a Singaporean ... haha .. I can change inbetween) simply have nothing to do during weekend except for watching movies that all the cinemas are full packed during weekends ??

I hate it when its crowded ....

It has been a long time since I last paid attention to a NBA final since the retirement of Jordan cause I simply do not like to see big guys like Duncan or O'Neil muscle in the pain or Kobe Bryan's arrogant face.

However, this year's playoff has caught my attentions with its continous surprises. From the 1st seeded Dallas lost to the last seeded Golden State to the guy who finally matured and brought his team into the 1st NBA final appearence .... LeBron James !!

Before he joined NBA, many people had already said he would be the next Jordan. All he needed was time to develope and now I can see him as an almost finished product. Just look at his performance in the GAME 5 of the Eastern Conference Final where he single handed taking on the whole Detroit Pistons. Time to time, Pistons were in the lead but time to time again he made Detroit's defence defenceless. 1 to 1, 2 on 1 or even 3 on him, it all seemed to be nothing to him. He just continue to put the ball into the basket, no matter how many defenders were guarding him. From here, I can see Jordan's shadow, cause that was what Jordan always did.

Just share a few videos and you will know how unstoppable he is...

Just like my label, I will be alone in the big big microbilogy lab for 1 whole week. It all because my supervisior is having a course this week and my partner is once again serveing the Singapore government for 1 week in the jungle.

So far the 1st day, I already start to miss my partner, cause I did everything on my own and that left me with no time to do my own staffs. I was basically occupied the whole day, from taking samples from the production lines, doing the bioburden and water testings to counting the colonies from the cultured plates and even doing environmental testings. If there was just one more person there, I would be much more relieve. hahah ... don't worry, I believe that I will be more relax tomorrow onwards ... cause I have finished all the weekly testings by today.