August 21th, 2006.

1.00am

Just came back from National Day Rally. I heard I was captured on TV. *grins* Some parts of the speech was quite insightful. I thought I would have a hard time to stay awake. But everything was ok. All the topics that PM Lee touched on was more on the intangible matters, like the Singapore Heartware. Had a couple of chats with a few ministers and MPs. Most of the ministers' and MPs' first question was, "What do you think of the Rally?" or "Which topic of PM Lee's speech, touched you the most?" Quite standard. *grins*

Went to attend the International Chess: Inter-School Championships. It was held at Ngee Ann Secondary. It was quite a sight. Today was the primary school finals. There are over 180 teams! :o Cool! I want to join!

I need to shout out a regret! *sobs* Went out on Saturday. Was walking around Bugis Street. Walked past the shop which I saw the very nice "San Guo" Chinese Chess Set. They were closing down. Doing stock check. I saw a box label "Figurine Chinese Chess" in chinese. I should had asked them for it! I should had bought it. The first time I did not want to buy was because it was very expensive. I could have got discount cause they are closing down. *sobs*

Anyway going to work out tomorrow. Everyone is telling I am fat. *growls*sad*

Good Night Singapore!

August 15th, 2006.

3.13am

Just finished bathing. Watching TV. The past few days was very packed. My SIP ended on last friday. Starting to miss everyone already. :( BR concluded the shoots over the weekend. "It is a WRAP!" Glad everything is completed, but quite sad cause I am also starting to miss the whole production and everyone in BR too.

Anyway for today, everything was very packed. First, I woke up late. And I rushed to by cards for the office people. Quite upset this morning. Cause everything is back to normal. I got tens of calls and tonnes of SMSes the whole time. :( However, I did got to office alive. :p So happy to see everyone again. :) Ivan and Christopher did my appraisal with me, and I am actually quite happy with it. :) Both of them were very frank with me and I am glad that I got very good feedback from them. :)

Got to school. Went to see Lawrenz first. Sort out some stuff. Went to Sports Club AGM. SU forget to wear red. Oops. *grins* After which, we had a very long meeting to decide what projects to do and who to do. It took 4 hours. :( Not quite productive. But it was a must.

A call out to all!

BR is currently having a SMS contest out on atlife.sg. The details can be viewed at all Macs plasma screens! Cool right? *grins* The topic of the contest is to tell us what is your childhood ambition. "What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?" SMS to 78800. Keyword (DREAM) space (your name) space (your ambition & reasons). In not more than 120 characters. A Ipod Nano awaiting you each week! Still have 9 Ipods left! What are you waiting for?! Hurry Up!

Got to get some rest. This week got to rush a lot things. Finalising SU's AWP. Got to hand in SIP Report. Need to write out my Presidential Speech for AGM. etc.

Good Night Singapore. Got to get some sleep. *winks*

August 10th, 2006.

SIP Day 79:

11.59pm

Went to supper with most of the RC chairmen, Ivan, Christopher and Hadijah. At "Chicken Club." The usual. Not bad. 1 more day to the end of SIP. Going to get some farewell gifts for them . Thinking of what to get. *wonders*

Hadijah and me had so much just now! While waiting for all the people to arrive, we all stayed in the car. And all the ways that they parked their car and did not see us as they walk past was so funny! Ivan even parked beside us. So funny! *grins*

The National Day Observance Ceremony was quite a success. Verlyn was so quite good as an emcee. Quite a surprise! *grins* Everything else was alright. And I did the flag-raising! The cake was 10kg. It actually tasted nice! *grins* A lot of big cakes do not actually taste nice.

Having a very packed weekend coming up. Tomorrow, going to work in the morning. Going school during lunch to meet raymond. Go back to work and after work rush back to school to attend AGMs. Straight after that got to SU's subcomm training camp. This is Glenda's and Yee Ping's maiden project. *grins* Saturday morning got to leave for BR filming and rush back to give a talk to the subcomms. Sunday will have BR filming! It will be at the Shooting Gallery. Cool. Guess who are going to be there? *wonders* Not going to tell you! *grins*

Anyway for all those that still do not know, the 5th and last webisode up. So please do tune in to www.becomingroyston.com .

How I wish I can drive. At least i do not need to wait for transportation. You know how it is that when you are waiting for a certain bus but it does not come. Yes. It is very frustrating.

Good Night Singapore! Got to get some much needed rest. *wonders* And Picture of the Day is the nice 10kg cake that Christopher got from Prima Deli. With it is Hadijah and Jasmine (TECO new ACM). :)

August 8th, 2006.

SIP Day 77:

11.59pm

I am going to miss my days in TECO...

Actually had thought of quite a lot of things to write. But I think I have a Writer's Block now.

Anyway some updates!

NDD was quite a success. I would like to express my thanks to all the hard work that everyone had done. It was a challenge to complete such a big event. Glad I was up to the test.

Straight after the NDD, I went straight to school for TPSU Work Plan Retreat. We spend the whole night sharing ghost stories. And almost everyone was freaked out! *grins* The whole retreat was quite enriching and productive. My mummy helped to delivered 13-person worth of Macs to TP for us. We all felt kind of bad but I am so touched. I love you Mum! :) We had steam boat to wrap everything up. Cool right? *grins* Everyone had fun! It was a great bonding session. :)

Yesterday I resumed BR filming! Cool. But it was the sleepy scene! Nope! I will not disclose any information! *grins* Having a couple more days of shoots. Recently there are a couple of friends from IMD approached me to go for audition for their Project Pilot casting. Do not know if I am able to go for any. Kind of packed nowadays. Anyway webisode 5 is up! And from next week onwards, teaser trailers from BR will be out on Macdonalds Plasma TVs! Participate in the contest and stand to win a IPod Nano every week! There are even going to be wallpaper and ringtones from BR, to be downloaded!

To end everything off, National Day is coming. I do not know why. I kind of like Singapore. I think it is a great country. *wonders* I could not bare the thought of leaving here for good.

So... Good Night Singapore! I love you... *grins* :)

August 3rd, 2006.

SIP Day 74:

11.59pm

Had my first experience with a blood donation! The lime green bandage is so cool! So happy! Everytime there is a blood donation drive in TP, it always had overwhelming response!

I gave away my only NDP ticket to Christopher today. He worked so hard for NDD and had been very nice and lenient with me. Furthermore, he is intending to give his parents to watch the NDP. He is a very filial guy. I like that.

Today I am feeling much better. Kind of. I think my mood improved because I kind of gave instead of received. I like that kind of feeling. If someone can be happy because of something I had done, I am happy. People around me, parents, friends, buddies, mentors, and more, had always said that I always helped people even at my own expanse. I say yes to everyone and try to fit everything to my timetable. I try to help everyone but this will cost everyone to just have a little of what they expect of me. This will shortchange everyone who believed and had faith in me.

I will dwell on this. I think there are some things which I need to change... *wonders*

Good Night Singapore!

August 1st, 2006.

SIP Day 72:

11.47pm

Just feel that my life is in a mess right now.

To everyone out there, sorry if I was ever short-tempered and harsh on you.

Cannot remember any messier time of my life. Really feeling the drawback of having too many events or things in my life. Nearly could not hold back my emotions today. Nearly. But I held. Barely. If I had not, I do not think I would have finish my day.

Went for dinner after work today. No appetite and mood to eat, but had some gastric pains, so had to go and grab some food. I thought I would be of a older age to be sitting at a kopitiam and drinking teh all alone. Kind of sad. Felt like a lonely uncle. Kind of like the feeling which I had while watching Roystan Tan's "Sons". But in the short 30 minutes that I had alone while sitting there, I met 3 friends and had a lot of SMSes. "Sigh"

Really wish I could have 2 weeks off and get out of Singapore, to somewhere where no one knows that I am Alvin Neo. Africa sounds good. Sometimes animals are better creatures than humans are.

Thank you everyone for showing all your concerns. I am just going through a phase of growing up.

To end off, just want to share some quotes.

1) "You are what you are, because of the people around you."

2) "Life is a journey, enjoy it."

3) "Destination in life is important, process to get there even more so."

4) "With Great Powers, comes Great Responsibilities"

Changed my blog. Hope you all like it. Good Night Singapore and wish everyone to be free of worries.