<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598</id><updated>2012-05-20T22:11:45.550+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Feng Soon - McCartney II</title><subtitle type='html'>A life of a regular blogger. 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(:&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-1433278436052261388?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/1433278436052261388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=1433278436052261388' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/1433278436052261388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/1433278436052261388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2010/03/end-starts-here.html' title='The end starts here'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-4829184732121097795</id><published>2010-02-11T04:44:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-02-11T04:45:39.213+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I can't help but to voice this;</title><content type='html'>Life for me now is just pure moderate. Nothing much, nothing exciting, other than meeting up sweetheart like last week. That was like a week ago. Other than that, nothing much worth mentioning. Life now seem like 'spirale vers le bas' (English: spiral down), just disband somehow, despite not able to host a last public performance. Recording wasn't successful, but still trying. On the verge of going broke soon, as now I'm living on my own, somehow indirectly on my own. Anyway that's not very important. I'm going to retreat to my 'meditating zone', to regain clear mindset, hopefully.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, on the lighter note, I met a friend, just now, yes, just now. He's my former classmate. We know each other for like six years now?&lt;br /&gt;We aren't close kind. But once in awhile we whine to each other, as we are the kind that uses to have nightlife. I still have that nightlife bloods run through me. You can never know how peaceful night is. So as usual, we went to our hangout spot and sit down updating each other, like our personal life and retard we are. Hahaha. In between the conversation of updating, my friend need to run home to check something, which I volunteer to follow, since I had nothing much, and can't fall asleep anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went to his house; the last time I went was like in 2005? He is the second eldest in the family of five. His mother is the one who is contributing to the household and daily necessities. With her mom working in the afternoon shift to early morning next day, I can't help but feel sympathetic. His mom knows me, and I know his mom. We had a little chat, and trust me, she's a nice lady, a nice mother. From my instinct and what my friend told me, which I had confirm, is that his mother, is someone who don't show sadness and always happy, trying to get by everyday, and she's not earning much per month, F.Y.I. the little chat was short, but memorable and sweet, but I can't help to ask my friend what have happened to his mom, because apparently, it seems to me that her health have been deteriorate slowly. The last time I met his mom was still in pretty pink health, but when I just spoke to his mom, I can't help but to feel sad. I don't know where the sadness came from, but I just felt sad.&lt;br /&gt;Despite knowing his family condition, mom being the one contributing to major household and such; yet she still can live happily without much stress and etc. I remember once my friend told me, that he and his elder brother was fighting, mom tried to stopped the fight but no avail, which result mom crying and praying at the same time. Trust me, from here, I have no idea how to describe such a nice lady. Despite we had casual chat once in awhile, is somehow hurts to see my friend and his mom living in such condition.&lt;br /&gt;When I was there earlier on just now, the mom was sleeping in the living room together with his younger brothers. What affect me more is that not only their living condition is bad, but also, their monthly bills, such as unities bills and etc. I wanted to help so bad, but unfortunately, I've not yet to able to feed myself (read below about me starting to live independently). I admire how my friend's mom able to live without thinking much; probably she don't show it I suppose?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite being at my friend's place for a mere 10 minutes, I was deeply affect. Why people like us, can't live as happy like how my friend's mom is doing? We have those luxury things, which they don't have such as Internet, iPod, latest handphone, Aircon. This seriously affected me badly in a way or another, but in the positive way. This made me sit down and think seriously on changing my lifestyle. Sometime, money can't really buy happiness. Not only that, my friend is such a nice friend that he in a way or another try to help his peers, at least by accompanying them the whole day. I remember once I just mere ask him out accompany me, as I felt lonely just to drive alone; he did offer to pay for the petrol, but I turned him down, saying is okay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking at this, makes me think, I'm also on the verge of going broke, you might be telling me to go find job, but hey! I'm entering NS, can't I just enjoy the remanding 20 plus days or so? Despite able to commite to everything including to wooing a girl now, but what's the point? Money can't buy really happiness or love. Even if money can buy, did she ever see how sincere I was, by running around to grab stuff, but leave me here hanging like a headless chicken (see: Mike the Headless Chicken) for going two months? Haha! I suppose let natural takes it own path, no rush! I've the patience. :D This too, does apply me in my music and my planned career. Well I suppose this is life, what I'm probably facing is just piece and puzzle of life that I believe everyone do face it in their life hood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to the outside world! Leaving teenage hood to adulthood. (:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Till then, Happy Chinese New Year folks!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-4829184732121097795?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/4829184732121097795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=4829184732121097795' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4829184732121097795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4829184732121097795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2010/02/i-cant-help-but-to-voice-this.html' title='I can&apos;t help but to voice this;'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-628816309506208653</id><published>2010-01-07T04:46:00.012+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-08T01:30:34.658+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello 2010</title><content type='html'>I know I'm a bit late, but well, is always better to be late than not updating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretty fast isn't? 2010 is here. 10 years ago, which is the year 2000, obviously, we were celebrating a new millennium. Probably allow me to update what have actually happened in the world and in my life for the past 10 years. :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be prepared, this is going to be a looong post! Wordy but in points form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those in &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Orange&lt;/span&gt; is world news, those in &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Blue &lt;/span&gt;is my personal life. Majority might got to do with United States politics, as I love their politics a lot!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" &gt;December 31, 1999 - January 1, 2000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" &gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Year 1999&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem"&gt;Year 2000 problem&lt;/a&gt; arise was a problem for both digital (computer-related) and non-digital documentation and data storage situations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;December 31&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin"&gt;Boris Yeltsin&lt;/a&gt; resigns as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Russia"&gt;President of Russia&lt;/a&gt;, leaving &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Russia"&gt;Prime Minister&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin"&gt;Vladimir Putin&lt;/a&gt; as the acting President.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;2000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 1&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- Promoted to Primary 3.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 1 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- People over the world welcome a new &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;millennium.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 31&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Airlines_Flight_006"&gt;Singapore Airlines Flight 006&lt;/a&gt; collides with construction equipment in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai_Shek_International_Airport"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Chiang&lt;/span&gt; Kai &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Shek&lt;/span&gt; International Airport&lt;/a&gt;, resulting in 83 deaths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;November 7&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000"&gt;United States presidential election, 2000&lt;/a&gt;: Republican candidate Texas Governor &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush"&gt;George W. Bush&lt;/a&gt; defeats Democratic Vice President &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore"&gt;Al Gore&lt;/a&gt; in the closest election in history, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;2001&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- I was promoted to Primary 4, the year of streaming exam, to see whether which stream (EM1, EM2 or EM3) I will be promoted to in the year 2001. In the year 2008, this system was abolish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;January 20&lt;/span&gt; - George W. Bush succeeds &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton"&gt;Bill Clinton&lt;/a&gt;, becoming the 43rd &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States"&gt;President of the United States&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;June 12&lt;/span&gt; - Racist fight started in my class, I was blame or label for the cause of the fight. The causes of the fight was very simple, one of my Chinese friend push me, pretty hard to my Malay friends. They (my Malay friends) thought I wanna started a fight, and that's how it happened. I have been keeping it to myself. When my dad was called in, he didn't gave me a earful scolding, but he finally understand what I'm going through in school, threatening, being sabotage and etc.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;September 11&lt;/span&gt; - Almost 3,000 are killed in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_attacks"&gt;September 11, 2001 attacks&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center"&gt;World Trade Center&lt;/a&gt; in New York City; the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon"&gt;Pentagon&lt;/a&gt; in Arlington, Virginia; and in rural &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Shanksville&lt;/span&gt;, Pennsylvania after &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_11"&gt;American Airlines Flight 11&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_175"&gt;United Airlines Flight 175&lt;/a&gt; crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_77"&gt;American Airlines Flight 77&lt;/a&gt; crashes into the Pentagon, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93"&gt;United Airlines Flight 93&lt;/a&gt; crashes into a grassland in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Shanksville&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 29&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - Former lead guitarist of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles"&gt;The Beatles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison"&gt;George Harrison&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;died of lung cancer at the age of 58.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;2002&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 1&lt;/span&gt; - I was promoted to EM2, was put under the second best class for EM2 stream, well that's what they say, but to me, is just pure crap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - Former &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Singapore"&gt;President of Singapore&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong_Teng_Cheong"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Ong&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Teng&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Chong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; died &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;at the age of 66 from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphoma" title="Lymphoma"&gt;lymphoma&lt;/a&gt; in his home. Among the five former presidents who have died, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Ong&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Teng&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Cheong&lt;/span&gt; is the only one who did not receive a state funeral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;-Can't remember much for the year 2002-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;2003:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 1&lt;/span&gt; - Promoted to Primary 6, EM2, final year in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Juying&lt;/span&gt; Primary, after a good 6 years, enter &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Juying&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Primary's&lt;/span&gt; door since 1998. Also the year for &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;PSLE&lt;/span&gt; (Primary School Leaving Examination usually dubbed as Please Stop Learning English).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;February&lt;/span&gt; - Severe acute respiratory syndrome (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;SARS&lt;/span&gt;) outbreak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;March&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- Ministry of Education of Singapore announced that all primary schools, secondary schools and junior colleges will be shut until April 6, 2003. Polytechnics and universities are not affected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;April 5&lt;/span&gt; - Singapore government announced that school closure will be extended. Junior colleges will reopen on April 9, secondary schools on April 14 and primary schools and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;pre&lt;/span&gt;-schools on April 16.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September - October&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - Primary School Leaving Examination. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;October 24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde"&gt;Concorde&lt;/a&gt; makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_travel"&gt;supersonic travel&lt;/a&gt; to a close, at least for the time being.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November &lt;/span&gt;(or) &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - Release of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;PSLE&lt;/span&gt; result. Attained 140 points (2003). Enough for me to enroll to Boon Lay Secondary under Normal Technical stream the following year. In today with 140 points (2010) is enough for one to get into Normal Academic Stream.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2004:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; - Entered Boon Lay Secondary School as a Normal Technical student.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 6&lt;/span&gt; - Join Boon Lay Secondary Public Address Sound System (PA) as a crew (now we called it member)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;February&lt;/span&gt; - Rehearsal for National Day Parade 2004 (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;NDP&lt;/span&gt; 04), &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;pre&lt;/span&gt;-parade segment begins. I remember I skipped rehearsal for nearly three weeks, because I was asked to be the leader, leading almost 100 people in a formation, which I don't want and appealed and failed. I came back with a huge earful scolding, and was stripped of my position. Yes! At least kinda worth it. :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan"&gt;Ronald Reagan&lt;/a&gt;, the 40&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; President of the United States, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Ronald_Reagan"&gt;dies at his home&lt;/a&gt; in Bel-Air, California at the age of 93. A 6-day state funeral follows after his death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;August 9&lt;/span&gt; - Perform at the National Stadium (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;Kallang&lt;/span&gt; Stadium) for &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;NDP&lt;/span&gt;, perform &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;infront&lt;/span&gt; of a crowd of 55 thousand people &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(will upload video soon)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;August 12 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- Singapore's prime minister &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goh_Chok_Tong"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;Goh&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;Chok&lt;/span&gt; Tong&lt;/a&gt; hands over his position to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hsien_Loong"&gt;Lee &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;Hsien&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;Loong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 2 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2004"&gt;United States presidential election, 2004&lt;/a&gt;: U.S. President George W. Bush defeats Senator &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry"&gt;John Kerry&lt;/a&gt;. Republicans make gains in the House and Senate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 26 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- A day after &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"&gt;Chirstmas&lt;/span&gt;. One of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake"&gt;worst natural disasters in recorded history hits Southeast Asia&lt;/a&gt;, when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"&gt;epicentered&lt;/span&gt; just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"&gt;Sri&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"&gt;Lanka&lt;/span&gt;, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;2005:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; - Promoted to Secondary 2 NT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;January 20&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush"&gt;George W. Bush&lt;/a&gt; is inaugurated in Washington, D.C. for his second term as the 43rd &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States"&gt;President of the United States&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; - Appointed as Councillor for a period of a year.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 27&lt;/span&gt; - The &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"&gt;Superjumbo&lt;/span&gt; jet aircraft &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380"&gt;Airbus A380&lt;/a&gt; makes its first flight from Toulouse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 15 &amp;amp; 16&lt;/span&gt; - Participated in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"&gt;AEIQ&lt;/span&gt; (Student Leader Convention (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"&gt;SLC&lt;/span&gt;05) 2005) at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"&gt;CHIJ&lt;/span&gt; St. Nicholas Girls School (June 15) and Catholic High School (June 16). A very memorable event, also can be regards as one of the major turn point in my life. I went along with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"&gt;Fahmi&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"&gt;Xin&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"&gt;Yi&lt;/span&gt; and Amelia. I met the following people;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"&gt;Shermaine&lt;/span&gt; from Cedars Girls' Secondary School;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dominic from St. Patrick's School;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Kai Li from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"&gt;CHIJ&lt;/span&gt; St. Nicholas Girls School;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wee &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"&gt;Siong&lt;/span&gt; from Catholic High School;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"&gt;Ning&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"&gt;Xin&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43"&gt;CHIJ&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44"&gt;Toa&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45"&gt;Payoh&lt;/span&gt; (Secondary);&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elvira from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46"&gt;CHIJ&lt;/span&gt; St. Theresa Convent;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47"&gt;Shuyi&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48"&gt;Bukit&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49"&gt;Panjang&lt;/span&gt; Government High School.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I still can somewhat remember their respective school, if my memory doesn't fail on me. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50"&gt;Haha&lt;/span&gt;! From the above list, I still kept in contact with four people, which two I'm pretty close with. One of the event that will probably be in my memory for as long as I live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;June 23&lt;/span&gt; - First group outing (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51"&gt;SLC&lt;/span&gt;), organise by &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52"&gt;Shermaine&lt;/span&gt;, met &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53"&gt;Novabelle&lt;/span&gt; from other group. But we welcome her anyway. Took a set of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54"&gt;neoprints&lt;/span&gt;, also my first time taking &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55"&gt;neoprint&lt;/span&gt;. Watch a movie, I still have the movie ticket but the wording have long gone since. Is the last time I saw &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56"&gt;Shermaine&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57"&gt;Novabelle&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;June 27&lt;/span&gt; - Attended &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58"&gt;CHIJ&lt;/span&gt; St. Joseph Convent student council investiture together with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59"&gt;Fahmi&lt;/span&gt;. Met Athena and Kai &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60"&gt;Peng&lt;/span&gt; there. This is the second part of my turning point. I met Laurence from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61"&gt;Catcholic&lt;/span&gt; High School there too, well we met before hand at the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62"&gt;SLC&lt;/span&gt; 05. Their program of the investiture promote me to draft one for the coming year (2006) investiture. Their program of the investiture, really totally awesome. Still kept in contact with the above three people as of today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;October 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Bali_bombings"&gt;2005 Bali bombings&lt;/a&gt; kill 26 people and injure more than 100.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;November 22&lt;/span&gt; - Watched Sky High with Elvira (from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63"&gt;SLC&lt;/span&gt;), it was that day she know that I was prone to sharp pinch. Wee &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64"&gt;Siong&lt;/span&gt; join us shortly afterwards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;November 28 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; - Attended Outward Bound Singapore (OBS) camp, my last turning point in life. It was during this, I learn anger control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;December 5&lt;/span&gt; - I was elected to be the 27&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; President of the Public Address.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;December 17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - Hosted a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66"&gt;SLC&lt;/span&gt; group outing co-organise with Group A and D. I'm from Group C. Met Sin &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67"&gt;Yee&lt;/span&gt;, Audrey and Tricia and Benjamin through this gathering. It was held at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68"&gt;Sentosa&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Athena, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69"&gt;Ning&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70"&gt;Xin&lt;/span&gt;, Sin &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71"&gt;Yee&lt;/span&gt; and I, co-organise if I didn't recall wrongly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2006:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 3&lt;/span&gt; - Promoted to Secondary 3 NT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 3&lt;/span&gt; - I succeeded Justin &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72"&gt;Ong&lt;/span&gt;, becoming the 27&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; President of the Public Address.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 14&lt;/span&gt; - Attended training programme for YEAH! Councillors. Met a few ore people there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;January 27&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;Celebrations are held in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74"&gt;Salzburg&lt;/span&gt; and around the world, for the 250&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; anniversary of the birth of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart"&gt;Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;July 3&lt;/span&gt; - Sworn in for my second term as 27&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; President of the Public Address.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;July 17&lt;/span&gt; - Appointed to be Executive Councillor for a period of a year. Initially Vice President, but turned down offer, due to found it is fun to be a Executive than a Vice President.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;August 3&lt;/span&gt; - Good friend pass on at the age of 15.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;August 16&lt;/span&gt; - Went Ubin with Doris as we miss OBS. Emmeline was unable to join us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;October - December&lt;/span&gt; - Attained Youth Excellence Award in the Heartlands! (YEAH!) Learner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;2007:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 3&lt;/span&gt; - Promoted to 4NT, the year of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_77"&gt;GCE&lt;/span&gt; N level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 3&lt;/span&gt; - Vacant office as the President of the Public Address after serving for two terms. Succeeded by Anna &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_78"&gt;Ng&lt;/span&gt;, first female elected President of the Public Address. Anna later ratified the two terms limit during her presidency, which eventually her successor is prohibited from serving more than two terms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 3&lt;/span&gt; - Assume office as President Mentor of the Public Address.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;August 10&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- The last time I stepped into cinema. Not until a year and half later. The movie was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Hour_3"&gt;Rush Hour 3&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;August 31&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;- First Lady of Singapore, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79"&gt;Urmila&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80"&gt;Umi&lt;/span&gt;) &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_81"&gt;Nandey&lt;/span&gt;, pay a visit to Boon Lay Secondary during Teachers' Day &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(will upload photo if I found it)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Team up with incumbent President Anna &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_82"&gt;Ng&lt;/span&gt; and Vice President &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_83"&gt;Yih&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_84"&gt;Loong&lt;/span&gt; for the event under PA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;September 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - Left office as President Mentor of the Public Address&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, also temporary left service as PA, but still a member of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_85"&gt;BLPA&lt;/span&gt; (Boon Lay Secondary Public Address), just that I'm barred from holding any office until N level is over.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;September 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - Focus on GCE N Level.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;October 25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - World largest jumbojet, Airbus A380-800 enter passenger service with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Airlines#A380"&gt;Singapore Airlines&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;November 17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Return service for BLPA as the Advisor of the Public Address.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;November 18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Brought a drumset for $900 and been playing since then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;November 23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - Graduation Night. The last night we are there as a class&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;November 26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Grandma pass on at the age of 93.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;December&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Release of N level result. Did better than I expected. Was expecting 13 points, but I got 11 points instead, making me the top 10 students in class, well there's quite a number of top 10 students, we got more than 10 students eligible for top 10 though. Hahaha!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;2008:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Enter year 1 as ITE student majoring in Mechatronics at ITE Balestier (College West).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;March 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Grandfather pass on at the age of 97.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;March 24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Aspinall#Personal_life_and_death"&gt;Neil Aspinall&lt;/a&gt;, British record producer and business executive, childhood friend of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney"&gt;Paul McCartney&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison"&gt;George Harrison&lt;/a&gt;, head &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles"&gt;The Beatles&lt;/a&gt;' company &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps"&gt;Apple Corps&lt;/a&gt;, died of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_cancer" title="Lung cancer"&gt;lung cancer&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City"&gt;New York City&lt;/a&gt; in 2008 at the age of 66.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;May 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev"&gt;Dmitry Medvedev&lt;/a&gt; takes office as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Russia"&gt;President of Russia&lt;/a&gt;, replacing &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin"&gt;Vladimir Putin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;May 12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Over 69,000 are killed in central south-west China by the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake"&gt;Wenchuan quake&lt;/a&gt;, an earthquake measuring 7.9 Moment magnitude scale. The epicenter is 90 kilometers (55 miles) west-northwest of the provincial capital Chengdu, Sichuan province.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;June 27&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; After three decades as the Chairman of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft"&gt;Microsoft Corporation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates"&gt;Bill Gates&lt;/a&gt; steps down from daily duties to concentrate on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation"&gt;philanthropy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;June 30 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; July 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Participated in the Student Leadership Developement Programme - Blaze 1.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;August 16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Assume duty as bassist. Accquire myself a left handed (as I'm born lefty) &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6fner"&gt;Hofner&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6fner_500/1"&gt;500/1 Bass&lt;/a&gt;. One of the kind in Singapore. Also famously used by former Beatle bassist &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney"&gt;Paul McCartney&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d63/blss/McCartney.jpg"&gt;See Image&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; Got it for $1.3k.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;September 15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers"&gt;Lehman Brothers&lt;/a&gt; files for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_11"&gt;Chapter 11&lt;/a&gt; bankruptcy protection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;November 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008"&gt;United States presidential election, 2008&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama"&gt;Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt; is elected the 44th &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States"&gt;President of the United States&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden"&gt;Joe Biden&lt;/a&gt; is elected the 47th &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States"&gt;Vice President&lt;/a&gt;. Barack Obama becomes the first African-American President-elect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;2009:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Enter year 2 and final year as ITE student.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;January 20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama"&gt;Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inauguration_of_Barack_Obama" title="Inauguration of Barack Obama"&gt;inaugurated&lt;/a&gt; as the 44th, and first &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" title="African American"&gt;African American&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States"&gt;President of the United States&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- Enter cinema after a year and half. Watched &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandni_Chowk_to_China"&gt;Chandni Chowk to China&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href="http://lai-lies.blogspot.com/"&gt;JunJie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Somewhere around&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; March&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Reconnected with Sin Yee. No doubt, one of the best day in my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;April&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- Brought myself a left handed acoustic for $400.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;March &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;August&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Met up with Kai Li, Ning Xin, &lt;a href="http://didyousaysomething-trix.blogspot.com/"&gt;Tricia&lt;/a&gt; and Sok Wai. I aknowledge Kai Li and Ning Xin as my elder sister though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;August 4&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea"&gt;North Korean&lt;/a&gt; leader &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il" title="Kim Jong-il"&gt;Kim Jong-il&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon" title="Pardon"&gt;pardons&lt;/a&gt; two American journalists, who had been &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_imprisonment_of_American_journalists_by_North_Korea" title="2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea"&gt;arrested and imprisoned&lt;/a&gt; for illegal entry earlier in the year, after former U.S. President &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton"&gt;Bill Clinton&lt;/a&gt; meets with Kim in North Korea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;August 18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- Brought myself a electric guitar, a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphone_Casino"&gt;Epiphone Casino&lt;/a&gt; for $1.2k after modification.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;September&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- Heard from a friend that one of my primary school class parnter (Primary 4)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, commit suicide around July, died at the age of 17 or 18 &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;[Source needed]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 30&lt;/span&gt; - A &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sumatra_earthquakes" title="2009 Sumatra earthquakes"&gt;7.6-magnitude earthquake&lt;/a&gt; strikes just off the coast of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra" title="Sumatra"&gt;Sumatra&lt;/a&gt;, killing around 1,000 in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia"&gt;Indonesia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;October 30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- Awarded certification of apperication for being Class Representative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;November 22 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- Watch &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_%28film%29"&gt;2012&lt;/a&gt;. I find it not bad, but I wonder why so many people dislike the movie? Well least give credits for the graphics. (:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;December 21 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- Pass my driving Class 3 (manual) on my first try, with 12 points. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;December 25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - Wished all my friends a Merry Chirstmas and a Happy Birthday (word play, replacing New Year with Birthday), is consider one of the worst wordplay I ever did. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;December 31 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Sin Yee back from the States. &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Hours before New Year, I finally finish conquring all the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressways_of_Singapore"&gt;expressways in Singapore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;2010:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Just reach home after conquring. Graduate from ITE with GPA of 2.5. Plans for NS, which subsequently follow by going to music school. Mass SMS everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;January 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Start of rework of all my existing song-writing, compile them into a demo album.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah! Finally, I reach 2010. That should be all I suppose, although there's more, but those are more or less trivia. 10 good golden years, still counting. Till then, I wish you a Happy belated New Year, may god bless you, your family and your loves one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009#cite_note-69"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-628816309506208653?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/628816309506208653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=628816309506208653' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/628816309506208653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/628816309506208653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2010/01/hello-2010.html' title='Hello 2010'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-7454693018428329076</id><published>2009-12-22T08:02:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-22T08:12:09.523+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The day has finally come</title><content type='html'>After so many months of lesson and practicing, I have finally have achieve something that which will last me a lifetime. A driving licence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I pass on first try yesterday, with 12 points = 6 minor mistakes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having a P-plate on your family vehicle may not look nice, but it will always look awesome for those who just graduate, like me. Looking into P-plate is as good as looking at yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got my P-plate yesterday and my mom allow me to drive home (after much persuade and reasoning), from the driving center at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Ang&lt;/span&gt; Mo &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Kio&lt;/span&gt; (Singapore Safety Driving Center - &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;SSDC&lt;/span&gt;) all the way back to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Jurong&lt;/span&gt;. For once, I hit the highway. Is always my dream to drive on Singapore's Highway. The feeling was so indescribable!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is like a sense of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;achievement&lt;/span&gt;. Thank heaven I didn't waste those time and money on nothing, thank god I didn't failed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thank those who gave me their blessing before the test. As we all know that &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;SSDC&lt;/span&gt; got the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;strictest&lt;/span&gt; tester in Singapore, also having the lowest passing rate. If I didn't remember wrongly, there were 7 people who took the session four test, and only 3 (including myself) passed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also thank those who congulate me after I pass my driving. Well, least now I got one thing lesser to worry about.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-7454693018428329076?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/7454693018428329076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=7454693018428329076' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/7454693018428329076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/7454693018428329076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/12/day-has-finally-come.html' title='The day has finally come'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-6897088107811372944</id><published>2009-12-07T02:20:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T02:23:12.677+08:00</updated><title type='text'>For you</title><content type='html'>Emerald and Pei Jun, this's for you! :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although I had already posted on Facebook. HAHA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d63/blss/PresidentialTransitionProjectresize.jpg" style="width: 412px; height: 96px;" jpg="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;view image &lt;a href="http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d63/blss/PresidentialTransitionProjectresize.jpg"&gt;HERE!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heh!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-6897088107811372944?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/6897088107811372944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=6897088107811372944' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/6897088107811372944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/6897088107811372944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/12/for-you.html' title='For you'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-2248505648261057183</id><published>2009-11-30T18:40:00.008+08:00</published><updated>2010-01-07T21:47:13.214+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A cute little red spot.</title><content type='html'>A 'red spot', appear more than two weeks ago. Back then, it was just a small harmless red spot. I didn't care much, couple of days later, two to three more surface, I ask my parents what are those, they merely reply, skin dirty, clean myself more often will do. So I heed their advice, a couple of days later, again. More spots start to surface. this time is just on my right hand, the left hand only have a few spots not more than five.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I decided to pay a visit to the doctor. Doctor told me skin sensitive, clean myself more often and eat those medicines will do. I paid $32 back then. That was thirteen days ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thirteen days later, which is today, I finish the medicines with is like a week ago. More spots appear. This time is like the scene in 2012. The land crack a bit, and a bit, and suddenly the whole land tears apart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only now, not only both of my hands are filled with red spots. My whole body is filled with red spot. The second worst part of red spots you can find is on my right foot and left thigh, both are equally filled with such madness red spot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those spots just basically appear and stay there. As if they brought the piece of 'land' (skin) or claiming is 'landed/private property'. They just basically appear almost everywhere, all the way up to my neck. The front of my body is no so severely affected, my right hand, back of my body, right foot and left thigh is severely affect, they are filled with immense red spot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The funny thing is that, they are not itchy nor painful. And they are unlikely chicken pox, because no pure natural human made water are filled in it. Those existing red spot just literally dried up and die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I decided to see a doctor again today, a different one. Bloody hell they gave me the same answer. Which is skin sensitive. Again I was given a medicine and a cream, coincidentally one of the medicine they gave is the same as the one my family doctor had prescript thirteen days ago. This time I paid $25.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a small world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-2248505648261057183?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/2248505648261057183/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=2248505648261057183' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/2248505648261057183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/2248505648261057183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/11/cute-little-red-spot.html' title='A cute little red spot.'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-7505764227396477017</id><published>2009-11-26T16:24:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-26T16:29:12.432+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hmmmmm</title><content type='html'>I wrote something!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like still like &lt;a href="http://kickedoff.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/sweet-sixteen-huh/"&gt;Emmeline's post despite it was posted two years ago&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-7505764227396477017?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/7505764227396477017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=7505764227396477017' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/7505764227396477017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/7505764227396477017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/11/hmmmmm.html' title='Hmmmmm'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-8291309240907312007</id><published>2009-11-18T21:29:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T21:32:35.764+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A quick short post.</title><content type='html'>Didn't know the song Zombie (by The Cranberries) is soooo easy, four roating chords, Em, C, G and D. Coool! Anyhow, just went to see a doctor just now and I confirm my worst fear. Well, gotta spend my time well! I ought to write a couple of more songs before start to record. Man, I'm hell behind schedule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gonna bring all my guitars to camp. If not, I might not be able to complete my song writing in time. :/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still. Is fun! xD&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-8291309240907312007?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/8291309240907312007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=8291309240907312007' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/8291309240907312007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/8291309240907312007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/11/quick-short-post.html' title='A quick short post.'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-6486723836951337225</id><published>2009-11-17T14:19:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T14:21:54.607+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Come back</title><content type='html'>Didn't expect to re-start blogging though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other than that, everything remains quite as it is. I retain the blog skin and the link. For two reason, Shi Ling helped me search for a blog skin a couple of years back despite my causal remark. Kinda touched by her action, and I retain the link is because for easy access.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although I'm back, but not literally, I'm just bored, well somehow, but not anymore soon! (:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I decided to start blogging again, because I want to. Well. Not exactly, being persuded by some friends to keep this blog open.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-6486723836951337225?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/6486723836951337225/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=6486723836951337225' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/6486723836951337225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/6486723836951337225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/11/come-back.html' title='Come back'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-7483100412862044441</id><published>2009-10-12T22:14:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T22:43:11.956+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I just recall,</title><content type='html'>I need to go to bed, goodnight. (:&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-7483100412862044441?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/7483100412862044441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=7483100412862044441' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/7483100412862044441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/7483100412862044441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-just-recall.html' title='I just recall,'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-7586248127769168123</id><published>2009-10-09T23:24:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T23:31:29.198+08:00</updated><title type='text'>All good things...</title><content type='html'>Benjamin show me this song when one of my second friend pass on. I find this very meaningful. The last time I listen to this song is probably when I was in Secondary 3. Is a good time to dig this song up again. (x&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IVI3V0nYlcs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;hd=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IVI3V0nYlcs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lovely, just way too lovely. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;A every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-7586248127769168123?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/7586248127769168123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=7586248127769168123' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/7586248127769168123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/7586248127769168123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/10/all-good-things.html' title='All good things...'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-6670478321977764496</id><published>2009-10-05T23:23:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-05T23:28:17.818+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting</title><content type='html'>Say I'm lazy to blog. I would prefer to upload a video! XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This should keep you people entertain, well for those song lover!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RoRbIkew1Ck&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RoRbIkew1Ck&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-6670478321977764496?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/6670478321977764496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=6670478321977764496' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/6670478321977764496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/6670478321977764496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/10/interesting.html' title='Interesting'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-8040665097915440974</id><published>2009-09-30T17:40:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-30T17:43:48.596+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A little updates</title><content type='html'>Went to primary school class reunion dinner, and apparently, during the dinner, I found out that one of my primary school mate had pass on. Just to think of it, she once used to be my class partner, sitting beside me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmmm, life still moves on. I was a little shock though. :\&lt;br /&gt;But I'm okay!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently rework on one of my written song, to make it much simple, but is about to come to an end soon. Just filling of words. Got to hand in the demo soon, I'm like one month behind schedule, but with valid reason though. I got to be quick!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life couldn't be worst isn't? (:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-8040665097915440974?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/8040665097915440974/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=8040665097915440974' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/8040665097915440974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/8040665097915440974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/09/little-updates.html' title='A little updates'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-1843384458288915048</id><published>2009-09-27T14:19:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-27T16:07:41.529+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I will</title><content type='html'>Die one of these days man. Everything is haywire. (x&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm lazy now. Kthxbye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Listen to this. Although is funny, but is meaningful. I don't know why. To me when I watch it, I find it more emotional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q_MmkjIhmZQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q_MmkjIhmZQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-1843384458288915048?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/1843384458288915048/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=1843384458288915048' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/1843384458288915048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/1843384458288915048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-will.html' title='I will'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-4831059552493680166</id><published>2009-09-26T22:30:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-26T22:47:15.968+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Time for a little update.</title><content type='html'>Driving wasn't bad, already cleared more than halfway through, like within four days. The best damn thing is I get a chance to horn at L plate driver, despite being a L plate driver myself. I find it pretty hilarious during the horn process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;10 minutes&lt;/span&gt; before horn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Feng&lt;/span&gt; Soon horned a taxi that cut into his lane suddenly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;6 minutes&lt;/span&gt; before horn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Feng&lt;/span&gt; Soon again horn a pedestrian  for crossing the road suddenly, moreover the pedestrian  the ain't using the designated pedestrian crossing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5 minutes&lt;/span&gt; before horn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Feng&lt;/span&gt; Soon asked his instructor, the following text is extracted as closed as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Feng&lt;/span&gt; Soon&lt;/span&gt;: Sir, don't mind me asking, but have you ever seen a L plate driver horn another L plate driver?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Instructor&lt;/span&gt;: Nope, probably it happened before, but not in my case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Feng&lt;/span&gt; Soon&lt;/span&gt;: Ah I see. Interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;30 seconds&lt;/span&gt; before horn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Feng&lt;/span&gt; Soon notice another L plate driver nearby, Car 10, is changing from minor to major road. Car 10 driver is a lady.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;10 seconds&lt;/span&gt; before horn.&lt;br /&gt;She checked her left traffic and her right blind spot but failed to notice nearby Car 8 (me) coming into her direction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5 seconds&lt;/span&gt; before horn.&lt;br /&gt;Car 10 drove out, and Car 8 had already prepared his left hand on the horn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;0 seconds&lt;/span&gt; before horn.&lt;br /&gt;Car 10 &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;cutted&lt;/span&gt; into Car 8 lane and Car 8 decided to horn.&lt;br /&gt;*BEEP!*&lt;br /&gt;Instructor: HAHAHA! Yeah! Correct! That's was correct! HAHA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2 seconds&lt;/span&gt; after horn.&lt;br /&gt;The following transcript is between &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Feng&lt;/span&gt; Soon and his instructor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Feng&lt;/span&gt; Soon&lt;/span&gt;: Sir, there you go. Now you seen a L-plate driver horn another L-plate driver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Instructor&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Hahaha&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;Feng&lt;/span&gt; Soon&lt;/span&gt;: There you go!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;p.s: I was being safety &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;hor&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learning to drive not only teaches you to drive, but also teaches you to horn at the right time. Therefore please do not take horn is something very aggressive. Is pretty interesting and fun though. Horn is something that let other driver know your presence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, parents went out for a walk, I &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;decline&lt;/span&gt; to join them. 26 years since they weld together. Loving. I wonder how they do so. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;XD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got to ask one of them these days! Haha!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Beatles - Back In The U.S.S.R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-4831059552493680166?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/4831059552493680166/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=4831059552493680166' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4831059552493680166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4831059552493680166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/09/time-for-little-update.html' title='Time for a little update.'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-142511554235972126</id><published>2009-09-24T21:05:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-24T21:06:40.804+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I have no time...</title><content type='html'>... to update. I'll try to one shot update everything, if possible and likely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, thank you, goodbye.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-142511554235972126?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/142511554235972126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=142511554235972126' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/142511554235972126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/142511554235972126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-have-no-time.html' title='I have no time...'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-3831696924771090446</id><published>2009-09-21T00:13:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-21T00:37:54.144+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I don't know</title><content type='html'>&lt;img src="http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d63/blss/DSCF6332.jpg" style="width: 336px; height: 214px;" jpg="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;view image &lt;a href="http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d63/blss/DSCF6332.jpg"&gt;HERE!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gotten my Provisional Driving Licence (&lt;em&gt;PDL&lt;/em&gt;) a couple of days back! I can't wait for my first lesson which is to commance on the September 22nd, 09. I have three lesson that day, so yep. Haha! I got ten lesson next week. So ya, chiong all the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know how long I can hide from reality, posing a all these shits. People who know me best (two are dead so left five), should know what am I refering about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this rate, I will flar up any sooner or later to anyone, and make their life a nightmare, dreadful or least HELL! *grin* I'm not joking. :D&lt;br /&gt;Just trying to make it sound happier. XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Beatles - A Day in the Life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-3831696924771090446?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/3831696924771090446/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=3831696924771090446' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/3831696924771090446'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/3831696924771090446'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-dont-know.html' title='I don&apos;t know'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-4646855467771806594</id><published>2009-09-18T23:47:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-19T12:14:51.845+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Forgotten and move on.</title><content type='html'>I bet no one will read this anyway, so ya, type me feeling out! XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The past of couple days have fine, not too bad I have admit. Been playing &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong"&gt;Mahjong&lt;/a&gt; for three days straight, but I never gamble, but I calculated if I had gamble, I would have won near to $550! Well, least the point is to get my mind of some couple of stuff. But I had forgotten and move on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But of course, comparing back then when I was young, now I have no one to talk to. I can express myself on a piece of paper and a couple of chords. No one is able to be there to hear me whine nor cheer me up. Perhaps song-writing is my next best friend. Which eventually I did manage to write out a song, before I really move on. Is like a quarter complete, cos I just got the inspiration while chewing on some sugar, waiting for my friend to finish his turn (cos I'm taking over his seat for Mahjong).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In another words, you are one damn lucky lady, better treasure people around you, who had been there for you. But nevertheless, letting things out is better than keeping to own self, which I'm doing right now (keeping to own self). Perhaps &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;I'm invisible in the &lt;/span&gt;past, but past is the past. Forward moving, looking forward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do get by with a little help from my friends, but I have none to turn into. They don't understand what situation I'm in now. Well fake face always works best for me! HEEEE! XDD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Life is so horrible that I nearly freeze to death under the sun. Hmmm, how interesting~.&lt;br /&gt;The Beatles (George Harrison) - Here Comes the Sun&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-4646855467771806594?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/4646855467771806594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=4646855467771806594' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4646855467771806594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4646855467771806594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/09/forgotten-and-move-on.html' title='Forgotten and move on.'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-5162708063421664904</id><published>2009-09-16T23:03:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-16T23:28:50.898+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Nowhere Man</title><content type='html'>This song proves it what I'm feeling now. For once I'm suppose I'm lost, but I should able to find my way out soon. But anyway enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/prTdfUx8spA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/prTdfUx8spA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May the best be shower upon you! (:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall move on, but I hope and wish and pray is a temporary one! (:&lt;br /&gt;Sorry and pardon me if I ever had misunderstood you. I never assume you, perhaps a couple of times. If you ever understand why I have done that.&lt;br /&gt;You're one nice person who deserve the best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe I'll face my &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;karma&lt;/span&gt; soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I still treated you as my friend. So ya. Perhaps keeping a distance for awhile may &lt;/span&gt;solve&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; the current crazy conflict.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Beatles - Nowhere Man.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-5162708063421664904?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/5162708063421664904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=5162708063421664904' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/5162708063421664904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/5162708063421664904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/09/nowhere-man.html' title='Nowhere Man'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-6473587365334308598</id><published>2009-09-15T21:31:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-15T21:55:15.325+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A long update (hopefully)</title><content type='html'>Hey guys! If you're reading this (which I think no one reads it anyway), please do pardon me for not updating for quite awhile. Sometime, someday I feel like closing down blog and no longer update this personal space. But anyway, that's not the objective of my updating today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The past week have been great! I had chalet with a few of my friends we didn't met for quite awhile, and I have to admit that the feeling was immense to the extend that I'm having withdrawal symptoms. LOL! But I'm getting fine with it. The chalet was held at Aloha Loyang, for once, this is my first time I stepped into Loyang, and it was awesome. The chalet itself pose a very warm feeling, like you're in a family with your friends, each of one have a role and responsibility. I love the enviroment, peaceful, not much people and quiet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you were to ask me, the chalet program itself is very typical, but the main point is the people there. The second day was a little boring, but I pulled it through! My usual wits never failed to entertain myself (lol -.-) and people who are around me, till the main event, which is the BBQ. Haha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last day, well, hours before we check-out, Yen Ching was nice enough to lend me her lap for me to lie on, knowing that I'm very shag, plus lack of bed. But she suffered by sitting in some crazy position to make me feel comfortable, well not really crazy. Heh! Thanks Yen Ching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon check out, I took a last look at the chalet, before closing the door in a funny manner which everyone expected. I slammed the door hard. AHAHAHA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before we go, I suggested taking the television remote controller as a memento. Ha!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall ask De Sheng (the host) to send me the photos as soon as possible!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shall update more soon! Do pardon me this is a very rough post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;p.s: I wonder why can't I form a band like The Beatles. Their life was so way awesome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The Beatles - From Me To You&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-6473587365334308598?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/6473587365334308598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=6473587365334308598' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/6473587365334308598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/6473587365334308598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/09/long-update-hopefully.html' title='A long update (hopefully)'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-4048553387447964488</id><published>2009-09-02T18:09:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-09-02T18:09:55.815+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm soo gonna learn,</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sr64NI33qUo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sr64NI33qUo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This piano piece, is awesome and I'm sooo gonna figure it out!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm off to sleep now!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-4048553387447964488?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/4048553387447964488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=4048553387447964488' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4048553387447964488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4048553387447964488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/09/im-soo-gonna-learn.html' title='I&apos;m soo gonna learn,'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-6770946455171451191</id><published>2009-08-23T10:27:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-08-23T10:50:59.981+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I shall blog soon</title><content type='html'>But due to lack of photos, I shall blog those need no peektures! XD&lt;br /&gt;I shall refrain from using to much Singlish or bad English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just recently, I had a meal with my classmate at Mac, and sitting next table to us was a old aunty. Likely cleaning service (because of her uniform). Which promote me the thought, why we are still sitting here enjoying Mac, where by the aunty next to us have to work like four hours to enjoy such meal, moreover during Mac Value Lunch hour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which link me to this thought, everyday our parents are working bloody hard to get us happy, by getting the things that you hardly need in your life, but are we really contented? Well if you asked me honestly, I was once never but for now, yes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ask yourself this question, when is the last time your parents had Mac, KFC, or Pizza? Usually I see my parents having hawker meals instead of fast food restaurant. Think of it, we kid or teenagers are pretty lucky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I won't deny I'm not lucky, I'm lucky! My dad got me a new electric guitar, and my dad supported me in driving, promoting me to get a driving license. Ain't I'm some lucky bastard?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all actually very lucky, is just that we didn't notice, parents giving you almost everything, no one else can ever replace them! Really!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at yourself as a third person, you'll understand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, parents and child stuff aside. Now, yesterday recording.&lt;br /&gt;It turns out we need to be focus more, and be more prepared, Rahiman and I was recording a couple of songs (including our original), but apparently, we decided that we need more practices. We are nearly there, but not there yet. HAHA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can be done! We are cutting demo tapes to hand in! (x&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I'm asian!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Beatles - You Won't See Me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-6770946455171451191?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/6770946455171451191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=6770946455171451191' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/6770946455171451191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/6770946455171451191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-shall-blog-soon.html' title='I shall blog soon'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-4285345486612520461</id><published>2009-08-10T03:23:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-08-10T03:54:53.692+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello Goodbye</title><content type='html'>Time flies don't they? One moment you're here and the next &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;monent&lt;/span&gt; its gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How interesting life can be. If you were to ask me, I don't know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many things happen this couple of weeks. My bass guitar is its final stage of restoration, and soon its going to be a year of me possessing the most expensive guitar under my guitars &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;catalogue&lt;/span&gt;. I love my bass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let's see what has happen for the past few days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 6, Finally finish and completed working on my 12v battery tester, which is bloody annoying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 7, Went back to secondary school to collect 'Friends of Boon Lay' award, subsequently met up with Juniors, had Sushi with them, thanks to Mr. Sim treats. Can never thank him enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 8, Stayed at home doing nothing much, slept &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;thru&lt;/span&gt; out the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 9, Went out with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Dwee&lt;/span&gt; to catch up a little in town, subsequently met up with ex-school mate &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Safwan&lt;/span&gt; for a midnight supper and annoy him at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 10, Currently right now updating this dead space of mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm seeing things coming to me as expected. Damn, I didn't know that my this week schedule is &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;soo&lt;/span&gt; damn packed. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Bleh&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh ya! Not forgetting I went to places I had memories left with. It reminds me of those past, regardless with friends or family, friends or family members who had left (this world or country). (:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Where I can't find my brave face.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Paul McCartney - This One&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-4285345486612520461?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/4285345486612520461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=4285345486612520461' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4285345486612520461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4285345486612520461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/08/hello-goodbye.html' title='Hello Goodbye'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-1219510163097471377</id><published>2009-07-30T11:43:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2009-07-30T11:51:51.552+08:00</updated><title type='text'>One of my another meaningless crap video. :/</title><content type='html'>Just came across something on my youtube channel. Something I have uploaded a couple of years back, well, coming to two years actually.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jFJS0Jbp5EQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jFJS0Jbp5EQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This video, took me less than half and hour to make it. Is simple, but the message is direct and is pretty meaningful. Those were the days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm starting to miss my Secondary school life again. LOL!&lt;br /&gt;Those ponten days, those skipping lesson days, from nobody to a somebody. No one will expect me to become a hardcore musician upon graduation. Well, not modernly, but rock and roll. &lt;br /&gt;Is indeed remarkable, that Secondary school is a place that change one life, if you're willing to learn from your mistake. Take me for example, being the first NT student (Normal Technical stream) who manage to achieve the position as 27th President of the P.A. and 2nd Executive Councillor from NT (well initially I was given the position as Vice President, but I turned down).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is indeed remarkable. Although my life is not that remarkable, but is still remarkabl, I miss those ass days!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-1219510163097471377?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/1219510163097471377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=1219510163097471377' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/1219510163097471377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/1219510163097471377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/07/one-of-my-another-meaningless-crap.html' title='One of my another meaningless crap video. :/'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31879598.post-4627986415551565886</id><published>2009-07-27T19:24:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2009-08-01T23:22:44.886+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting cigarettes initials.</title><content type='html'>My friend send me this &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;SMS&lt;/span&gt; a couple of hours ago. Is about cigarettes initials, it got me laughing although I have heard of it few times, but some are actually pretty new.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Disclaimer!&lt;/span&gt; It maybe a little offensive to some. People who are easily being offended please don't continue on reading, thanks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SALEM&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;uck&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;nd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;ick&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;very&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; M&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;oment&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;OR&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;aturday&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;ll &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;adies&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;arn&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;M&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;oney&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MARLBORO&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;M&lt;/span&gt;an &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;lways&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;espect&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;L&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;adies&lt;/span&gt; Because &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;f &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;omance&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;nly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WINSTON&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;e &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;ndians&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;N&lt;/span&gt;ever &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;alute&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;o &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;ther&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;N&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;ations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It got me laughing for a while though. The last one is a little racist, but guess what, it was my Indian friend who sent me this! &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;AHAHA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love this kinda &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;SMS&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;In my life, I love them all&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31879598-4627986415551565886?l=ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/feeds/4627986415551565886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=31879598&amp;postID=4627986415551565886' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4627986415551565886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31879598/posts/default/4627986415551565886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ericmccartney-tan.blogspot.com/2009/07/interested-cigarettes-initials.html' title='Interesting cigarettes initials.'/><author><name>Feng Soon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06677395941999108907</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_R7XdJYLeY6k/SmNNgAjmJfI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Dvueo1qbjns/S220/n514947343_1836700_201.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
