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Today I went to Hwa Chong JC to help Yee Ching out with her diabolo rehearsal. And I got a hysterical welcome by Abilai haha. I'd react in exactly the same way if I saw Lubey on the street.

Before that I had watched Percy Jackson at AMKHub. It was the first time I had gone to the cinema alone and it wasn't too bad. But who cares. My aim was to watch Logan Lerman. I had made up my mind ever since I first saw the movie poster. And I wasn't disappointed. By Logan, that is. The result was that afterwards I had to constantly cover my mouth to hide a stupid grin so people wouldn't think I was crazy.

Okay back to HC. It may look big and impressive from the outside, but I found it kind of ridiculous that they only had... Class benches?! 20-something people to 2 park benches are you kidding me? At least have 5! The campus is so damn big there's bound to be space! It's unbelievable.

Anyway, I met quite a few St. Nick's people and it was nice seeing them, though I felt a little out of place. And I found out that HC has a freaking grand piano!! Well, it's not a Steinway D-274, but it was a grand all the same! But I couldn't play it until the end of the rehearsal. So we went through the programme and yada yada and yay it's over! After fooling about on the piano with a few friends I headed to Coronation Plaza for dinner with Yee Ching. Then I went home and watched Peter Chao on Youtube.

Okay it's getting kinda late now and I have to wake up at 8 tomorrow. Why? To watch the figure skating medal event! They'll be playing Gershwin and Rachy's songs so I have to catch it! I'm rooting for Kim Yu Na because oh God she's hot!!

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I've been on the comp since I woke up, which means I've been staring at the screen for almost 8 hours now. I said almost because I had cello lesson just now. I just took a picture of the gigantic G1000 poster stuck proudly on the wall above Alex (in case you don't know, he's my piano).

Just got back my laminated life-sized poster of the Garmin G1000 on the King Air 200. Here's a picture of it in all its glory...



Here's a comparison with me:



And here's a comparison with Celly Belly:

I was at the airshow on 5 days, from Tuesday to Thursday and then on Saturday and Sunday. I tell you, trade days are awesome! There are so few people and you can board the aircraft whenever you want! What's more, there are no fences blocking the aircraft! However, the downside is that there are no freebies, as the people there are all businessmen/women.

It's my very own photography blog! So from today onwards I'll post all my photos on that blog and post a link here! Please please please comment!! Thanks! :D

So you're wondering what on earth I've been doing the past 8 hours? Well, I don't know myself. I mean, I've been playing Airline Manager, surfing the A.net forums and watching lame videos on Youtube, but it's strange how 8 hours can fly by so fast.

Oh, and I just discovered Fred on Youtube. Yes, it took me a while. I also recently started watching Nigahiga, months after my friends stopped parodying them in class. I know, I'm slow. And I'm kind of disturbed that I like Fred. He sounds annoying and acts like a gay but I still like his videos. I think the guy playing him being good looking has got something to do with it. (Oh no, I'm becoming more and more prone to stuff like this...) BUT!!! Good looks and annoying voice aside, I think the stuff in the videos are funny! Go check them out!

I'm also hooked on this 'band' on Youtube. I don't know if it can be called a band because it's only 2 people. It's called Pomplamoose. It's a play on the French word 'pamplemousse', which means grapefruit. I found out about them while reading mrbrown's blog. He's a fan of them too. They do covers and compose their own music. I love their compositions! Go check them out on Youtube! They have a website too, over here: http://www.pomplamoose.com/! I can't decide which song is my favourite, because they're all awesome! But if you don't have time to go through everything, I highly recommend Centrifuge, Beat the Horse, Expiration Date, My Favourite Things, La Vie En Rose, In the Season, and Little Things.

I'm progressing extremely slowly but surely in Russian. I can now conjugate the verbs 'to want', 'to eat' and 'to drink', form the prepositional case of nouns and also form simple sentences. I am not joking when I say that Russian is the most goddam difficult thing that I've ever tried to learn. It's ten times more difficult than Rach 3 because I managed to learn Rach 3. Not saying that I won't manage to learn Russian, but I'm going to take more than 110 days that's for sure!

Okay I'm off to listen to Pomplamoose and Prokofiev! Talk to you later! Peace out, home dog! (Haha, I totally ripped that off from Fred!)

Note that the poster is as long as Celly Belly with its tailpin extended. It's the most effing gigantic poster I've ever had and I don't know where to put it. When I finally find a wall to paste it on, I'll post another picture.

I took a lot of pictures there (duh, that's what airshows are for!) and uploaded them on http://bravosierra.shutterfly.com/. Do check it out and leave a comment!

Actually, the flying display wasn't that spectacular. For one, it only featured individual aircraft, not an aerobatics team like the Black Knights. The F-16 and the Apache 'integrated' display doesn't count. What's more, the star of the show, the F-111, didn't even perform on the public days due to a technical fault! How lame is that! I really pity those who went only on public days, because the dump and burn was awesome! (See my photos!)

But at least I caught the C-17 and the B-52, who came only on Wednesday and Saturday respectively. The C-17 flew for 2 rounds before flying away, while the B-52 only flew by once! Oh well. I can't complain! Think of those poor people who came on Sunday and missed both of them plus the F-111! That's gotta suck!

Saw some good-looking pilots! Again, go check out my photos at the above link!

Oh yes and I got some really awesome souvenirs from Garmin! So on Saturday I walked by Garmin's booth and saw a poster of the G600 flight instrument. Then the guy manning the booth asked me if I had any questions about it. I replied that I was just interested in the glass cockpit. Upon hearing the two words, he promptly disappeared into a room and returned with a huge life-sized poster of the G1000 flight display on the King Air 200! I think it's as wide as my dad's car!

And I think that Lufthansa Technik's freebies are the best. They were giving away this 3x3 Rubik's Cube with pictures printed on each face. I tell you, it's damn harder than it looks. Because not only do you have to get the colours right, you have to get the pieces to face the right direction. I took almost an hour to solve it, after re-doing it many times.

I didn't take many posters like I did at the last airshow. But it's okay as I've run out of space on my wall. What I did take, though, were pictures. Again, check out my photo album (link at the top).

I learnt many things from my 5 days at the airshow. The most important one is to go on trade days in future airshows.