Two Dinners With Two Friends

December 11th, 2011 Bryan Chung

For two nights over the weekends, I got to meet with Chanel and Xin Yun to have dinner one after another. First was with Chanel last Friday. Chanel and I ate dinner at Swensen’s on Friday night. I initially did not want to eat at Swensen’s after the disappointing meal quality at Suntec City last week after church service with my mum. I mean the food was not that fantastic to have to eat again. Nevertheless since Chanel wanted to eat it, I agreed. While driving from office to Compass Point, she was already there queuing up for table. She already knew she wanted to eat Teriyaki Chicken Pasta. For me, instead of eating a main course meal, I decided to try the Chicken Baked Rice. And I concluded after the meal that there are some dishes in Swensen’s that are good! Such as the two I mentioned above. Then we also shared one Christmas special ice-cream, the Chocolate Twinkle. That was also very good! So I enjoyed this meal at Swensen’s!

Walking towards the car park, we stopped by a shop and Chanel told me she likes this iPhone casing. She found it very cute and she always wanted it but did not want to buy it for herself. Without much thinking, I decided to buy it for her as a Christmas present. Here she wanted me to post the photo of it.

The second dinner was last night together with Xin Yun. We were supposed to meet with Chanel but she was too lazy to come out. Xin Yun and I had few places in mind – Pasta Mania; PepperLunch and Pizza Hut. We decided on Pizza Hut just opposite at Heartland Mall. Ironical thing was that Xin Yun ate Pizza Hut the day before. But she did not eat the Christmas pizza. Now Xin Yun wanted to eat the pizza. Every year on Christmas, I will try to eat the Christmas pizza from Pizza Hut because it looks so nice. This year one was no difference too. I mean, it looks attractive too!

However, the taste was a bit weird. They included mash potato in the pizza which made the pizza quite not-so-nice to eat. Nevertheless besides that, it was still quite okay!

“Thank you Chanel and Xin Yun for making the effort to have dinner with me! :) Truly appreciate your time! :)“

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Welcome December!

December 3rd, 2011 Bryan Chung

Here we are into the last month of 2011 – December! I thought it will be a less busy month for me at work since it is the school holidays. But I am wrong. I am in the busy phase of doing mass recruitment of part-time trainers for my coming 2012 schedules. With that, I have to do a lot of human resource work. Yeah, although I am not a human resource staff, I have to do some recruitment by myself. So I am meeting with a lot of new faces. Never had I thought I will be the interviewer. It was barely about 4 months ago that I am the interviewee. I have targets to meet and that is what is causing me to be stress up. Yet another new learning curve for me at work. But I am glad to be given the opportunity to gain more experience too. Speaking about recruitment, maybe I can post the poster on my website and see if I can get any response here.

Anyway with work aside, I am looking forward to some kind of short break when the Christmas and New Year comes. Those public holidays mean a lot now! I better get a good break before I get burn out even before 2012 arrives. So far so good though. Once I ever asked my boss, “Boss, how you even find time to date and get married while working?” Then he told me, “We need to balance between work and social life.” I wonder how people find time to date. Wait! Anyway even if I am free, I have no one to date. Like my friend Sarah always tell me, “Be patient.” Oh well! Any free dating websites you can recommend? :)

I have put some Christmas decorations on my blog and some snow effects. Hope it will feel more Christmassy. =)

Start your December good! The final month of 2011.

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My New Asus Essentio CG8250

November 28th, 2011 Bryan Chung

I bought myself a brand new computer over the weekend – the Asus Essentio CG8250. It as a crazily impromptu decision. The thought of buying a new computer came only after I saw some online advertisements on how cheap the computers were on offer at SITEX 2011 computer fair. For as low as $600 there were already computer for sale. I set a $1,500 budget on the computer I wanted to buy. I targeted for a better than average computer yet it is not aimed for heavy gaming. Since the only online game I am playing now is Blackshot. And the other graphics intensive game I play is NBA 2K12. Actually that game isn’t that high on graphics too. But with this new computer, I was able to set all the video settings to “High” mode and the game was awesomely and realistically so real! I mean the NBA game. It is superbly nice!

Well, I was eyeing to buy a new computer only after I buy a new mobile phone. But yet, I bought this new computer before buying the mobile phone. The phone I am aiming for is not release yet – the Samsung Nexus phone. I am still going to buy that phone. The computer that I was previously using is already coming 3 years old so I really wanted a better system to keep up with the technology now and to be able to play upcoming games. I am even considering trying Battlefield 3 or Modern Warfare 3. And for the first time, I actually spent my own money to buy my own computer. Now that I am working, it did not feel as heart pain when I spent the money. Actually when I even asked my Mum on whether I should get one, she told me to go ahead since I do have the money now.

Top photos are the old computer, bottom two pictures is my new computer. I think I got a good deal because I was able to ask for an additional upgrade of another 4GB of RAM to make it to 8GB and also from 19″ monitor to a 20″ monitor. So my computer specifications are:

  • 2nd Generational Intel Core i5-2500 processor, 3.30GHz (6MB L3 cache)
  • nVIDIA GeForce GT520 2GB
  • 8GB DDR3 RAM
  • 1TB HDD

The rest not important. So for that, I paid $1,379. Below my projected budget of $1,500. Nice! I am happy with the new computer.

“Tiffany, thanks for accompanying me to SITEX and walking 3 hours with me. And helping to carry back the computer and even the process of fixing the computer up with me!“

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5 Compassion of Teck Whye Primary

November 23rd, 2011 Bryan Chung

Teck Whye Primary School was the last school I taught in for Media Literacy Programme (MLP) in this year. Finally I was able to take a class from start to end of the course – the complete 18 hours of the course. Previously at other schools, I had to skip a few lessons with the class to attend to another school. But I was determine to not let that happen for my Teck Whye Primary students. But I had to make the tough choice to hand over my students at Anderson Primary School to my colleague, as he finishes up the last 2 lessons there for me. I had to make that choice also because just after the first day with class 5 Compassion, they already told me they did not want me to leave them for a session. On the second day I went back, I received positive feedback from the teacher-in-charge too. She told me there were students who requested to go for MLP lesson than other enrichment class running concurrently or even their own CCA. It tells me that my students enjoy MLP. Whether or not is my teaching or because of the course itself. Hence, that was a lot of encouragement for me!

Before the course started, I was told that 5 Compassion was the best Primary 5 class in the level. Well, debatable after I finished 18 hours with them. “Haha!” Okay just kidding. They were really a nice bunch of students. Although at times they were really noisy. Drawing their attention can be hard. They kept telling me to raise my one hand and they will keep quiet because is what their form teacher does. But I rather not use that approach. I still had to raise my voice at a few students a few times but it was all part of classroom management. Ultimately they gave me their cooperation and most important, got work done!

As days went on, they even started to take my lesson like picnic sessions! From bubble tea, to Slurpee then brought mash-potato in to class and eat for lunch even. If that is not epic enough, one student even brought in cup noodles to eat! They told me they wanted to eat lunch while I am conducting my lesson. Alright, again at least they had fun and finished their work was what matters! See, everyone can have fun even in class! :)

“5 Compassion! Thank you so much for the experience I had with all of you! Some of you I seen for a few days only. While some came every lesson. Just unfortunate we cannot take a bigger class photo because on that day we took the class photo, many of you were not around. But still, it was a great time I had teaching you all! Many of you added me on Facebook, do continue to chat up with me! :) All the best for your PSLE next year!“

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Back to Astons again!

November 20th, 2011 Bryan Chung

Yup, I said I will visit Astons at Changi Airport again after eating there 2 weeks ago. So it was back to Astons last night together with my friends! Xin Yun came to my place and accompanied me the whole afternoon. Chanel and Kenneth came later. We decided to eat at BBQ Chicken at Rivervale Mall. However along the way while driving, I purposed Astons at Changi Airport. Much to my surprise, they did not mind! So immediately the change of destination.

Upon reaching the restaurant, we were shocked to see that the queue was so long! We got into the queue and started counting the number of groups in front of us. It was up to 10! So we expected to wait like an hour before we can get a table. However it was just 20 minutes of waiting and we got our table. Nevertheless, the food still took about 30 minutes before we started to eat.

I ordered the Chicken Teriyaki; Chanel ate Spaghetti with Salmon; Xin Yun ate Grill Fish with Herbs and Kenneth ate a simple Chicken Burger. All the food again was good! I am just surprised the Chicken Burger did not come with any fries. Just the burger alone, I felt it should have some fries to go along. At least it will improve the presentation of the dish too. Anyway, it was nice to be able to enjoy a dinner with my friends. I wish every of my Saturdays can be spent with friends, just to catch up with one another and stay in contact. That is why I am so appreciative when my friends want to spend time with me! :)

“Thank you Xin Yun, Chanel and Kenneth!“

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