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Saturday, November 29, 2008

! Ometeto YUI

Ometeto!!!!!! YUI was ranked #1 in the recent CD-TV "most wanted lover" Ranking [16/08/08]


I guess she got it; not solely because of her look but also her talent as a singer-song writer! with her heart-felt songs; simply irresistible!




Takre care
kai
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桜 & 恋

YUI has work really hard to be where she is right now, frm a no-body back at 2006 when i first know this artiste. .



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Anyway last week met up with sec-kakis to makan over @ Chomp chomp! Everyone was busy eating; that I just simply snap on the food we’d and the aftermath! Ahahah



e jumbo sugar cane i pre-ordered w/o their knowing (all were like complaining so much la, but in e end also finished! ZZZ)
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The area around there is pretty serene, the lighting; atmosphere is really a good place for a date! =]

the spread
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aftermath! look@ the mess!
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Just todae met up with Mel and Cal over for lunch at Fish & co. after which head back to Rob CP, to meet up with those colleagues/friends I used to see every day back when I was a promoter there! All (except those new staff) still recognize me after like 4months **so swt**, but some took awhile.

I was browsing through some items when this auntie-promoter (whom I knew) came asking

“We having 20% now, can I help you?”

“Do you still remember me?” I replied

“We having 20% now, can I help you?” she repeated

“You really don’t know me ar?’

It was then she finally “AHaaha, you are that boy ar!” (took her awhile, LOL!!)

I bought some tofu-éclair for them; some took, some ps. Then there is this new staff over there, really cute one. My initial plan was to purposely left some over and pass it to her, but some auntie-promoter whom I don’t intended to give anyway very zi-tong go take then in the end don’t have lioa! So my plan buong lioa. . .@__@

introducing this musician, Richard Clayderman performing Mariage d'Amour, accompanied by xylophone! very bright yet light-heartening!
Mariage dAmour - Richard Clayderman

my sis intro this piece (piano-version) to me one,like so profound then me! lOL!!



oh yea forgot to mention that i got to drive the Bionix AFV (amour fighting vehicle) [size of a tank]!!!

YESH i drove this jumbo-daddy!



so fun la, like how many people got to drive that big daddy! i must say driving it is like a jumbo go-cart except that it comes with a gear and is definitely easier to drive then a car cux you get to drive it when you just learned it! LOL, i was scolded for speeding too =/ @__@. .

having said that, e worst part is post-driving, when all the maintenance comes in, the grease (texture of butter except that its black in color, you had to use your bare hand to smear the parts with that! tough luck!)had e luxuries to drive it but had the responsibility to do the most-tedious maintenance in SAF, suck thumb lor, wat to do, can easily down-pes with my conditions 9injuries and all those, but shan't, less i really cant take it, cux the real training yet to come. .. )

aiyo, my physical fitness also drop like mad (alot ppl said i became fatter lioa), so many weeks since my last physical training cux learning to drive ma + the signal set thingy, lecture and lecture so drop from sliver to a FAILED in e recent IPPT,zzzzz, i cant jump my SBJ lioa, zzzzz. mux otot...

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Miyazaki Aoi!

gosh in mins back to Gedong! waaAAAAAAA!

anyway finished 2 J-movies over the weekends, Virgin Snow and Tada, Kimi wo Ashiteru; both starring uber-cute Miyazaki Aoi!!!

introducing Miyazaki Aoi!



Decide to catch her works cux had seen her at NANA, which had left me quite deep impression and had heard loads of good comments on her acting skills, but of course the main reason for get me watching is this cutie (no doubt on her acting skills, she know for expressing herself via body language, which explained her limited lines in movie =]

both movies are rather slow-paced revolving round sweet-innocence romance! both shared 1 similarity; Miyazaki Aoi both left the lead actor suddenly just when love begin to spark. . . shall blog more bout the movies when i book out! tata!!

still prefer her cute-blur-innocence role in Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru
watch the trailer!


Takre care
kai
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桜 & 恋

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Yuki no hana (snowflower)

Yuki no hana ( translated as Snowflower) - Mika Nakashima (this song really touches me)
雪の華 - Nakashima Mika


here the translation if u're interested. .

Lyrics to Snowflower (Yuki No Hana) :
Together hand in hand we walked through evening gloom
Long shadows on the pavement, cast from the sunset sky
If only this would last until the end of time
And if this is forever I swear that I could cry

The northern wind starts to blow
And the smell of winter’s in the air
As we take each step upon the ground
The season of love grows near

We could share the very first snowflowers of the year
In your arms where I belong
Watch as the city turns from grey to white
The day turns into night
Love that floats like wayward clouds, that’s not what we’re about
Sure and strong is my love for you
And it comes from the bottom of my heart

With you by my side, to catch me when I fall
I can cast my fears aside; feel twice as tall
If only this would last, this smile upon my face
And if this is forever, you’re my saving grace

The nights were so cold without you
And the days were always short on light
Now a fire’s warming me through
And suddenly this upturned world is feeling right

We could share the very first snowflowers of the year
In your arms where I belong
Watch as the city turns from grey to white
The day turns into night
Love that floats like wayward clouds, that’s not what we’re about
Sure and strong is my love for you
And it comes from the bottom of my heart

If there comes a time when you have lost your way
I’ll turn myself into a star to guide you through
If ever you find tears upon your face
I will be there, always be there for you

We could share the very first snowflowers of the year
In your arms where I belong
Watch as the city turns from grey to white
The day turns into night
Love that floats like wayward clouds, that’s not what we’re about
Sure and strong is my love for you
The city turns from grey to white
The day turns into night

We could share the very first snowflowers of the year
In your arms where I belong

Cold winds from the North blow
The sky casts its last glow
But you and I are standing strong

(Thanks to hwfan for these lyrics)
[ Snowflower (Yuki No Hana) Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]


Takre care
kai
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桜 & 恋

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Ministry of Food, japanese casual restaurant + cafe

So I found a perfect place for Japanese dessert (thx to mel) @ Bugis Junction. They called themselves Ministry Of Food or MOF, probably got their idea from MOS but both are definitely non-related.

Main course wise, I’d this cold seafood ramen. One wouldn’t have imagined that mayonnaise could go well with noodles You I was skeptic initially but gave it a try as both the chef and he highly recommended it. It took about 10minutes before the dish was served.

What a humongous shared! [Cold seafood raman]
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I called it a 2in1 dish as it served both as a starter (salad) as well as main dish (the ramen) with generous amount of mayonnaise + some Jap sauce. I guess if you mixed the dish well enough, you will feel ton of surprises in your mouth, sometime there’s crunchy (from the squid, cucumber, and toasted almond), sometime juicy- soft bite from the tomatoes. As for me, I just eat the noodles and the salad separately as I just can’t seem to place the noodles and the vegetables on the ladle. @___@ well anyway the presentation is a wow factor and will get you indulge any sooner, but since there generous amount of mayo, one may felt’ je-lat’ after ¾ way so I suggest this is a dish for 2! =] and it fast, cux a cold dish could ‘dish up’ some water after awhile.



Look light and simple @____@. If you like mild taste, this for you!
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the maguro
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Actually before I even tucked in, I knew it wouldn’t be as good as the one I tried back at Waraku, judging by the flesh and all that. He agreed with me too. Its not fatty, not sweet. Bah this dish was a spoiler and waste of $$$, LOL. But hey at least no we know this stall sashimi cannot make it. LOL! So fast come to judgment.

Then came the dessert! Woooooooooooza!

Mocha Zen
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Woot! Ultimate sweetness from the bean paste yet not je-lat. The slight bitterness mocha ice-cream just sought of balance the sweetness, but it’s still overwhelming. The flavor just lingered in your mouth! Mouthful after mouthful, I just can’t stop! Plus the rice ball, simple it look, but its great even on its own! I guess this dish will be lagi sweeter if shared with your loved one =]


Mel had his Mocha Kurian (I think)

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His is like some sundae with some jelly some mix of fruits and bla blla. Looks fanciful; but don’t think as good, hahaha @__@

Ebekawa
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Then come the ebekawa (some baked mochi in red bean paste, and honey?)
I guess I can’t taste anything sweet after that mocha zen, cux its already at its peak, if I hadn’t have wash my mouth with green tea! LOL. Hmm the dish wasn’t as impressive as it looks but is definitely a ‘work of art’.


Takre care
kai
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Friday, November 21, 2008

Am i wrong?

Sometime I just wanna spark a conversation to show my concerns, but feared that I may seen as over-persistent.
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Then I chose to be neutral, refusing to talk of sudden, which make me seen as indifferent.

Aiyo @_______@

quickly back to Armour and guess will be to shag to think all these laio. . .

Takre care
kai
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桜 & 恋

jux thought of the tittle as my itunes was playng 'Am i wrong?' too by dear YUI =/

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

A moment to remember

Ah just finished this heart-wrenching yet warming K-movie titled [A moment to remember].
We all know both Japan and Korean are good at their recycled theme of either lead roles dying from certain diseases that bring the audience to tears. Cliché as it always is, it still never failed to touch our heart.



Unlike other K/J-movie or drama I’d watched revolving round this theme like “autumn in my heart’, ‘Taiyou no Uta’, ‘Koizora’, ‘1L of tears’ and even the America ‘A walk to remember’, this one is different.

1 thing the lead roles suffered worse than parting- Physically they were together but fate just plays a nasty part.

Just when the couple was beginning to enjoying their blissful marriage, the lead actress discovered that she was down with Alzheimer (genetic), which slowly but progressively deleting her memories. Alzheimer, it brings forth mental death before a physical one, soon she will forget where she live, where the convenience store, eventually forgetting the love ones (like I mentioned earlier, physically they were together but he will just be another stranger).
She said ‘Soon I will forget you, lets part when we’re still happy’
‘I be your memory and heart’ he said (so sweet!!!)

Till now, there no other medical means but only pills can slow the degeneration. He tired all means to help her retain her memories, notepads etc but still one day she said I love you XX (her ex-lover name). He grit his teeth, clench his fist and said I love you too before weeping behind the close door; a very tragic scene. Imagine the one you hold dearest looking straight into your eye saying she love someone else. He knows she wasn’t referring to him but still he pretended. ..

It was only moment later, that she suddenly recall her memory with him that she realize what she had just said had really broken his heart. She immediately penned down while her memory still hanging loose, saying she is sorry, that she love him only, that she dint have to remember him as he’s already part of him and decide to leave him for good thinking that’s the best way for him to forget her and to stop bring him grief.

He still managed to find him eventually . . .

The end of the movie finishes off with him replaying the first time they met in the convenience store with all her friends and family in the store (i weep here). He takes her back to the retirement home as they are driving off he finally tells her he loves her (for the first time).
From here it really teaches one thing, even though you may shown how much you love someone, but always treasure the moment to say it before it’s too late. ;i still nvr learn ,@__@, haiz; Its
nearly too late for him though.

Anyway the director is pretty smart with plot too. . .

One part the show, she mentioned ‘I got to know you because I was forgetful (she went back to the convenience store to retrieve her misplaced wallet and met him) and continued saying now I going to forget you because I am forgetful’

Another part is, when she first bring the topic of marriage to him, he replied ‘you are always too confident, life isn’t always that smooth.’ Then subsequently after their marriage, the guy said ‘he going to help her with her regain her memory, try ways to cure her, she replied the same thing, ‘are always too confident, life isn’t always that smooth.’.
There are some nice analogy too, the carpenter analogy (the guy is architect himself) I call it. the guy held this hatred to his mum and would never want to forgive her. The girl mentioned that he had too much room in his room for hatred and said ‘forgiveness is about having just a little room for hatred.’ A true carpenter build his house within, no matter how wonderful on the exterior, he may still shiver inside’.


All in all, this is a movie I really recommend to watch. Can catch it at mysoju.com.

Kai
Takre care
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桜 & 恋
Alzheimer is like having a eraser in my brain she said. T__T

A moment to remember OST -
A moment to remember - OST

instrumental
A moment to remember - Min Seol

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

YUI-I'll be =]

Yea! Finally got hold myself of YUI’s latest album (4th)- MY SHORT STORIES. This album compiles all of YUI past B-side single with a new song’ I’ll be’. Many peeps out there still had no idea what A-side, what B-side.


Well you see in a single, there are usually 2 songs if you don’t include the instrumental version. The A-side is the song that the company heavily advertises on, i.e. on commercial via anime/drama/movie-tie in , while B-side is so called the ‘filler’ to the whole single. So is A-side always better? Yes usually, but not always some B-side of YUI songs stand out more than A-side, e.g.her 10th single,’ Jam’ stand out more than ‘Love& Truth’ and ‘ I wanna be’ stand out more than ‘Namidairo’ in her 11th single.

the lovely cover





the back cover


some of the photos shot



this look real cool!



and the sticker!!




Anyway, this album is really worth it, cux it contains many of YUI’s street live performances, where she started her career as a street-performer initially (or rather practice in the street), that I not too sure yet. What’s more, it even came with a sticker, LOL! I mean who in the right mind would tear out the sticker and paste?

Kai
Takre care
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桜 & 恋

YUI-I'll be
Ill be - YUI


feeling happy!!

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Monday, November 17, 2008

AMOUR!!

So I landed myself in 1 of the most wu-luest camp here in mainland Singapore @ Sungei Gedong. Right now I’ll be training in the School of Amour (SOA), or more specifically Amour Infantry Leader Course (AILC). This course will stretch a total of 22weeks!, the longest post-Sispec life, other range from 6-13weeks. So that’s mean a delayed sergeant rank (hopefully I can still get it with my sustain injuries, finger cross-cross)


I should be camp ,right? Cux the staff over there gave us this week to clear our block leave! Most of them had left with 2days since Tekong, but I accumulated 2 extra days for my drill squad team won the first place back at Tekong, thus the ‘gift’.=]. My bunk mates were all giving me a sunken face when I booked up today and 1 even threaten to overturn my bed and stuff. LOL @___@

Thus this whole week I’ll be free! Guess gonna catch up with some friends real soon, but most of them also in camp @__@


Oh yea, and I will get to drive this tank in the midst of course! Looking forward to it. first impression will be fun, but I guess it wouldn’t be that comfortable inside.

I’ll be expecting more field camp, more cleaning of arms (man here in Amour there tons of weapons to maintained, zzzz), more soc , more lecture more theories to memorize, more technical handling test, more this more that @______________________________________________@

Kai
Takre care
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桜 & 恋

what do u get when u cross a double-edged sword with a clench fist>? (All amour guy will know it)

Saturday, November 15, 2008

neglecting my pride~

So my life there at SISPEC had come to a halt with the 28km road march marked the ending, the march commenced last night at 10 pm and ended today at 5am.

I fall out at the 16km point (2am) as I couldn’t bear the pain on my injured knee cap and ankle anymore. The medic who attended to me said that I tighten my ankle way too much (cux I was wearing ankle guard + black tape), same thing for my knee cap as well. I guess that phobia was carried on after completing the 24km BMTC road march.

I remembered back that I still grinned my teeth and managed to finished the march with the injuries; consequences -worsen the condition. I had problem walking up, down stairs after that, if not for the 12 days rest I don’t think I can make it for SISPEC too. This psychological barrier of not wanting to aggravate the condition (I don’t want to feel the pain of walking up down stairs anymore) is there since then. Coupled with the sprained ankle further lower my morale + will.

We chiong 8km (<2hrs) from the 4km-12km point, that part of time I was really mentally shag, I could feel the pain but continue to press on and swayed behind my platoon. I just look down and count each step I took to neutralize any thoughts. However I can’t help but already thinking of what reasons to give my staff sergeant that I want to fall out.

So we reached the 12km point (the toughest part of the march). I was so mentally shag that, I gave in to my emotion and weep in the dark after my staff told me to cont. yes I did another 4km and finally convinced my staff that I couldn’t take it anymore. I guess it not a pride matter that I want to cont or not, back then with my ego I will press on no matter what, but having mentioned the psychological barrier + mentally shag I chose to forsake it.
I still conclude that my physical fitness wasn’t there yet due to the fact that I missed out lots of conditioned running (again injuries). . . at the 6km point I was already using my mental str to press on to the 16km point (physically shag coupled with injuries). So at the 16km I just gave in.

I search deep within myself and realize that I gave up cux I just couldn’t take it, with the injuries as excuses to fall out. . . perhaps I yet to cross that psychological barrier?

Anyway I got posted to Armor infantry- another chiong-sua unit. In fact 7/10 of my bunk mates going there! LOL. I had totally no idea why they would post someone with injuries background to a super duper notorious chiong-sua unit. Zzzzz. And it will be another 22weeks! @___@.

Well hopefully I got assigned to drive the tank then don’t really need to chiong laio! Now with CPL rank , guess I had to uphold it with certain responsibility too!



Kai
Takre care
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桜 & 恋

Saturday, November 08, 2008

choo choo train

Thursday was darn hectic la! SOC test early in the morning and thereafter we head straight for urban operation at some abandon building.

As I’d skipped most of the conditioning training for SOC due to injuries here and there; I wasn’t really prepared for the test but decided to do it anyway. The 600m rundown was alright, then the low wall took me 2 tries to overcome, and as I was heading for the parallel beam, my rifle sling slip la, and the whole darn rifle drop! ZZZZ! Squad down picked it up, readjusted the sling and shake head before cont. then came the monkey bar, I slip @ the point 2 bar before finished, as the bar was kinda wet (drizzle in the morning)! Sergeant scolded me ‘Gei-kiang, for using 1 hand on 1 bar instead of 2 hands on 1) then I repeated the process and cleared it. when came to the low rope I already darn shag, lost momentum from the sudden stop when rifle drop + do the monkey bar twice, so totally gave up after 2 attempts. . . so the rest of the obstacles were done half-heartedly, low morale liao. . . zzzz. 50% of the 600m rundown to finished line was done walking(actually is really shag cux from the lack of conditioning, haiz). Well considering how many SOC conditioning lesson + morning run I’d missed and still did better than those who had gone through all those lessons, was able to console myself . . . LOL


Then siao siao rushed back to company line, bring down stuff and head for urban ops. . spend a night over at the abandon building and I concluded myself that I would rather sleep in the open field with muddy mud, without shelter +creepy crawlies then squeeze in a confined area. . .well at least I slept soundly during field camp, maybe field camp more shag then can sleep well? Maybe. . . cux urban ops was kinda slack and slow…

Oh I realize I had gain a solid 4-5kg since entering sispec! OMG! Spend 8 weeks here, so is like2kg gain/mth!! I guess that load came from post-field camp days when level of physical activities decrease and with my intake of food cont to increase+ skipping of runs due to injuries. . . I tried to do some pull up last week after like 2 weeks never pulled and realize I can only do half of what I usually did! SIAO LIAO LA!!! Last time can SUA SUA say anytime can do at least 8 now 4 also got problem laio, ZZZZ!!!! SEIBEI JIALET.. . Must do some individual OTOT (own time own training) laio. . .

7 weeks just passed like that and next week is graduation parade laio! 28km road march and head straight to parade square! (wonder if my injured knee cap coupled with sprain ankle can take it?) And our staff had passed us out CPL rank laio! =] finally got something sews onto my NO.4 liao!!! =]

Kai
Takre care
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桜 & 恋

How can said I trying to act blur when I’m really blur? Haiz?



anyway, i randomly heard this familiar song over the net! it is the opening song for Autumn in my heart (my first Korean drama i think!)flashbacks of those scenes immediately came rushing down my brain. . . this song is really powerful/emotional as it managed to immediatly sink into heart and grasp your attention at the very beginning

Autumn In My Heart-Reason - Autumn In My Heart

Sunday, November 02, 2008

how many of u had read this? scary #11

On May 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM nightmare said:
> Pretty Chilling - read to the bottom. Try it out.
> > > > If you are a sceptical person - still read on as it's actually very interesting! !
> > > > This is actually really freaky!! (Mainly the end part, but read it all first)
> > > >
> > > > 1) New York City has 11 letters
> > > > 2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.
> > > > 3) Ramsin Yuseb has 11 letters . (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993)
> > > > 4) George W Bush has 11 letters.
> > > >
> > > > This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets interesting:
> > > > 1) New York is the 11th state.
> > > > 2) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight number 11.
> > > > 3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11
> > > > 4) Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers , was carrying 65 passengers. 6 + 5 = 11
> > > > 5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9 + 1+ 1 =11
> > > > 6) The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911.
> > > >
> > > > Sheer coincidence. .?
> > > >
> > > > Read on and make up your own mind:
> > > >
> > > > 1) The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was 254.
> > > > 2 + 5 + 4 = 11
> > > > 2) September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year.
> > > > 3) The Madrid bombing took place on 3/11/2004. 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11.
> > > > 4) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers incident.
> > > >
> > > > Now this is where things get totally eerie:
> > > >
> > > > The most recognized symbol for the US , after the Stars & Stripes, is the Eagle. The following verse is taken from the Koran, the Islamic holy book:
> > > >
> > > > 'For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced: for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and there was peace.'
> > > >
> > > > That verse is number 9.11 of the Koran.
> > > >
> > > > Unconvinced about all of this still ..?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Try this and see how you feel afterwards, it made my hair stand on end:
> > > >
> > > > Open Microsoft Word and do the following:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Type in upper case Q33 NY. This is the flight number of the first plane to hit one of the Twin Towers .
> > > > 2. Highlight the Q33 NY.
> > > > 3. Change the font size to 48.
> > > > 4. Change the actual font to the WINGDINGS……………………
> > > >
> > > > What do you think now????
> > > >

CHOCKIE MANIC

HELP IM ADDICTED TO CHOC! I’D BEEN CONSUMING 1of those 250G (THOSE BIG BAR ONE) ONCE PER WEEK!!! NOW THAT’S 1KG OF CHOC PER MONTH!!!!

Haven been collecting the wrappers for a while now, just few weeks ago that I started to keep it to keep track on the amount I had consumed over the months!


The levels of activities in SISPEC will undoubly burns those immense calories from CHOC but now coming near end of training, the CHOC just unknowingly but quite obviously been accumulating in my tummy as lots of peeps had been pointing that out!!! LOL. . .


I JUST CANT STRIPPED CHOC AWAY FROM MY LIFE. . .


Kai
Takre care
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