Taxi driver (2)

I already said that 'crouching tiger hidden dragon' among the taxi drivers in my previous post. It is true! I met another one 2 days ago.

After shopping, my friend and I decided to take a taxi together. I dropped my friend off first and then set off for my place. As i was a bit sick, i keep sniffing in the taxi. The taxi driver ask me if i am sick and i told him that i only have a small flu.

Driver: Try putting your palm on your forehead for 15 minutes. You will feel much better.

I thought that was funny but i did it anyway because i don't know how to say 'no'. So paiseh.

Driver: Trust me, you will be able to breathe better after 5 minutes. This is part of Qi Gong. I teach Qi Gong when i am not driving.

I can't believe it, the cab driver is a qi gong master.

Me: Oh really?

Driver: Yes, because i go the student's house to teach so i thought it will be better to be a taxi driver too, the expenses not so high.

Then he gave me a piece of flyer with his number and the benefits of qi gong on it. He told me that he used to be one of the instructors in the top qigong school in singapore but they later decided to retrench him.

He told me that he charge $300 for one month's course and the fee is shared by the number of students. If there are 3 students, each person will pay $100.

Well well, i saw that one of the benefits of qigong is to avoid premature aging.. hee hee.. maybe i should go for it.

Black Hole

I am now into this serious topic about the Black Hole. Maybe you can't tell that someone like me will be interested in Astronomy but you are wrong. I am basically interested in everything in the universe.

At one point of my short life, i was very interested with the Black Hole. I want to know what it is so i did alot of researches from the net and from books. I have quite alot of astronomy books in my home now. :P

BLACK HOLE

Mysterious name for those who do not know what a black hole is. I do not know in details about the black hole but i can generally tell you what it is.

A black hole is a concentration of mass with a gravity so great that nothing can escape from it. The gravitational field is so strong that the escape velocity is more than the speed of light. Meaning, anything that is within the gravitational field of the black hole needs to travel faster than the speed of light to escape it.

Since the escape velocity of the black hole is more than the speed of light, it means that even light cannot escape the gravity pull of black hole. Hence, we canot see anything emmitting from the black hole. It will be invisible, just black space.

This is not a photo, it is a computer generated picture.

The imaginery surface of the black hole is the event horizon. At the event horizon, the escape velocity is the speed of light. Therefore, the escape velocity inside the event horizon will be more than the speed of light.

For example, you may see a star not moving , hovering at the event horizon but it is in fact travelling at the speed of light away from the black hole. If it is travelling slower than the speed of light, it will be sucked into the black hole.

Another example, imagine you are watching an astronomer approaching the black hole. As it approaches the black hole, it starts to move slower and slower and finally it just stops there not moving.

What you saw was actually the light reflected off the body of the astronomer. The lights gets slower and slower to reach you when the astronomer reach the event horizon as the gravity pull gets stronger and stronger. Finally, the astronomer gets sucked into the black hole but you will still see the image of the astronomer at the event horizon because the light got stuck at the event horizon.

Types of black holes
Black holes are formed when stars collapsed and squashed themselves into a high density mass. It will thus increase the gravity of the space around it. For example, if our sun is collapsed into a star with only 3km radius, it will be a black hole as it deforms the space around it causing a very strong gravity pull.

There are 3 kinds of black holes:
- Stellar mass black holes
- intermediate-mass black holes
- supermassive black holes.

Stellar mass black holes have the mass of a typical star, about 5-15 times the mass of the sun.

Intermediate-mass black holes have the mass of a few thousands times the mass of the sun.

Supermassive black holes have the mass of about 1% of a typical galaxy! That is really super massive. Supermassive black holes might form when a few intermediate mass black holes collapsed into each other.

It is believed that in the centre of all galaxies is a super massive black hole, including milky way.

What will happen if someone falls into the black hole?

I have a memory that i read in a book if someone falls into the black hole, he will see nothing but then the gravity pull will tear him apart within 7 seconds.

If someone was to put his hand over the event horizon, his hand will be chopped off and pull towards the centre of the black hole.

Well.. I am not so good at explaining such stuff but i hope you guys more or less understood what i am trying to say. If you are interested, you can look them up in some astronomy books!

Wang Li Hong

Recently, i have been listening to Wang Li Hong's songs and i think his songs are pretty nice! :D

Please don't think that i only listen to opera for 24 hours everyday. Last year i bought a CD of his and i didn't really listen attentively to it until recently, i listened to it while working in my office. I think the words in his songs are quite nice, unlike most of the pop songs in the market now which are just gibberish.

I start to even think that he is quite handsome leh! hahaha

F*** UP Day

Totally.... f*** up yesterday, totally.

It is a super long story and i wonder if i should tell the whole world here. Anyway, the whole world is not reading my blog so i guess it's ok.

First, i happily set off to Joo Chiat CC after my work for the OBMC. I even brought my 2 long spears which made it very difficult to travel.

Along the way, i bought some bread to eat as dinner as I don't want to be late for class. Finally, after much travelling and difficulties, i arrived at Joo Chiat CC.

no one here yet, so i smsed CS.

'I reached, where are you?'

he replied,' I can't come.'

Fine i thought. So i called Shu Fen.

'Are you coming?'

'No, i got a company dinner, can't go today.'

Fine again. So i called Peiru up.

'Are you coming?'

'Nope.'

Isn't that great? Isn't that just fantastic? No one is coming and no one gives a damn to tell me about it.

I called up CS.

'Isn't that great? No one is coming and no one tells me about it.'

'Did teacher know?'

'I don't know. I thought we already confirmed it last week that this week's lesson will be on Wednesday.'

'Yah. Why not you get a room first?'

'I am not sure, but i will try.'

So i proceeded to the office with fire in my stomach.

'Hello, i would like to get a room for the opera class.'

'What class?'

'Opera'

'Under what name?'

'Xi qu xue hui?'

'under what group?'

'I don't know.'

'how come you dont know?'

'Because i am a student, (bitch)' I didn't say the word bitch but i would love to.

'I have to know what group you are under.'

'I dont think we are under any group.'

Anyway that bitch refused to give me a room so i call CS.

'Erm.. which group are we under?'

'What group? We are xi qu xue hui.'

'Yah i told her, (the bitch), that we are from xiqu xuehui but she don't know about it. She insist on which group we are from.'

'We are not under any group. Is Mr Yap there?'

'No, only one person, (the bitch), is here.'

'Who is she?'

'I dont know'

At this time, the bitch butt in. 'How come you everything also dont know?'

I retorted, ' He asked me your name and i said i dont know. (how the hell i know your name? I only know you are a bitch.)'

'Tell her we are from xi qu xue hui and Mr Yap already knows that we are coming.'

She said,'What does your xue hui do?'

'learn about opera.' Isn't that obvious from our name? what a dumbass she is.

So i told Bitch what CS told me. She finally gave me a room and mumble something about if someone comes, i will have to give the room to him/her.

Whatever. I just mumbled something and went off.

In the office, i saw a notice on the cupboard. I took a picture of it but it wasn't clear. It says:

We are committed to high quality service and continuous improvement to meet the needs of our residents to achieve the PA's ojectives.

Yah right, please don't make my toes laugh.

Bitch.

Anyway, i went to the room and i realised that she gave me a room full of chairs and tables. What a shit.

So i moved the tables and chairs to one side and sit down awhile.

I smsed Jiali that i am in room 203. She called back.

'Did you sms me?'

'Yes.'

'I don't know about the class leh.'

'I thought we decided last week?'

'I called Shu fen yday to confirm it and she told me she will check with CS and confirm again with me but she did not call me back so i didn't know there is class today.'

'That is fine. Since there is only one student today, i guess you don't have to come.'

'I am sorry.'

'It's ok.'

Totally F*** UP right?

I am so fedup, i put back the tables and chairs, i returned the key to the bitch and i took a cab home. I realized i don't have enough cash so i used my debit card to pay.

I smsed ShuFen about it and told her that i will not join the class next year.

It is a F*** UP CC anyway.

I am sick and tired of my suayness which has been with me for a long time. I don't know what the hell is wrong with these people and why the world is so fucked up.

Fortunately, the VCDs i bought from china arrived yesterday and i had a great time watching it at home. Yah, i should have returned hom to watch the VCDs instead of going to the fucked up CC run by a bitch. To think i was carrying the spears around too. Fortunately, yesterdays was the last lesson.

Singing and Taxi driver

Today, i got another singing session at Tanjong Pagar Complex, Qian Xi Lou restaurant. It is the 81st anniversary of Hui An Gong Hui and Hui Hua Wushu association (the names might not be exact as I did not take much notice of the names). Anyway, I had a grreatt time. There was fabulous food, wushu to watch and we sang some songs.

We got 3 tables which adds up to around 20+ of us. How come so many people? Because, part of the chinese orchestra was there too. I was very hungry and we only started eating only at around 8+pm leh.

This is the photo of the first show, actually we played a CD for this piece and the performers up there just played relaxly and Mei-E sang relaxly. Of course we can't cheat the audience with CD all the way. So the next one is the real thing.

The trio singing, this is the real thing. haha...

Aiyah.. i should have taken some photos of the wushu ppl. They are kinda cool and one of them is in the National Team.

After the show, i helped to pack the stuff and long bang SL coach to Geylang so that i can take a cab there. So i flagged this cab near the bus stop and the kancheong spider taxi driver ask me to 'quick quick, got bus behind!'

In the taxi, the driver ask me if i bought this new dress. What new dress? Then i realised that i was still wearing the chinese style costume!

Me: I just had a performance.

Uncle: What performance?

Me: Nanyin singing.

Uncle: Oh.. is it .. Xiang Ying? At chinatown there?

Me: It's Xiang Ling not Xiang Ying. You know Xiang Ling?

Uncle: My brother used to be there long ago.

Me: Oh, so coincident ah!

Uncle: You know the monk of guang ming shan like to listen to nanyin also?

Me: Yah, we go there once a year to sing.

Uncle: yah, got one lama like to listen to shan ge. Actually all these Lama are very clever one. Got one Nepal Lama learnt to use the computer in one month.

(hee hee.. this uncle is getting a bit too far.)

Uncle: You got hear the tibet song before?

Me: Nope.

Uncle: You want to hear?

Me: Ya sure.

Uncle: Ok ok.. let me test the key first... Aaahh... Aaah... Te ba xin trrr.. la ma ni ba som.. ......... Err.. i forgot the lyrics...

(he thought for awhile...)

Uncle: Te ba xin trrr.. la ma ni ba som ( and continue to sing)

Actually his singing was not bad but its strange.. to hear a tibetan song in a cab! haha.. this reminds me of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Don't look down on anyone. Everywhere there are people Wo Hu Cang Long.

Performance at Simei

Today, i had a performance at Simei and guolai did a lovely make up for me.. Take a look!

I had more photos and details at my opera blog, www.liyuanxi.blogspot.com~

Harry Potter~

YEA! I am going to see Harry Potter GOF next monday. Hee hee.. I didn't want to see it on it's premier cuz it's a thursday and it will cost me $8 to watch a movie on thursday. So I will be watching it on Monday, $7! (I know I only save $1 but each dollar counts ok! hmph)

And I purposely chose Lido theatres so i can watch it with the mega big screen. I wanted to watch it at GV grand at first but the timing is not good, 9.30pm, it will 12am when the show ends.

I am very excited lor~!!! ok!!!

Because GOF was my favourite book among all the 6. It was the most exciting book in the series and I cant wait to see the magnificent Triwizard Tournament!

The boy who did Harry Potter is getting too old for this role. I think he can't continue with the Order of the Phoenix and the Half Blood Prince cuz he will be too OLD!! He already look awkward in this GOF movie but if they get someone else to do Harry Potter, i can't accept it also because I am used to imagining this boy's face when i read the book. (Yah yah, i don't know the actor's name, call me sua ku if you want but i don't care cuz i only care about the movie.)

I wish that this boy can grow slower, so was the boy who did Ron.

Woohoo.... Can't wait to see it.

Caresse sur l'océan

I was listening to a soundtrack and i reminded myself of the French movie 'Les choristes'. It was a nice movie and there are beautiful songs in the movie. The song I love most was 'Caresse sur l'océan', meaning, caress on the ocean.

The movie was funny and the children in it were very cute!!
The movie, there is a teenager who has a wonderful voice but because he is a rebellious and autistic boy, he refused to join the choir organised by his teacher. The teacher tried to open him up to accept friends and join the choir. Finally, the boy opened up to the teacher and learnt singing from him. He then became a famous singer.

In the movie, there is another song 'Cerf-volant', meaning Kite. I like this song also cuz its cute. :D

J'aime beaucoup ce film!

I am PISSED

I am so extraordinary suay recently and i am fedup! I lost alot of money this mth for stupid reasons!!

1) My hp earpiece is gone, i put it in my hp box and when i want to find it, it's gone. I dont know where is it.

2) My hp original battery is gone too. I put it in my bag cuz i know that the unoriginal battery is going flat soon. Who knows when i want to change battery, i cant find it anywhere.

3) My camera spoil.

4) My phone just dunno why called up my mum and my mum dunno why just answer the call and never hang up. So the call lasted 3 damn hours!! Putain. I called my mum about it and she say she dunno anything.

I am so freakin suay! So suay that i cant believe it myself! What the hell..

I am going to skip lunch and dinner and scrimp and save from now on to cover my lost.

I hate this world.

Opera Photos

I think my liyuanxi.blogspot.com is overloaded with photos so i decided to put some opera photos here too.

Found some really nice photos of new version kunqu. I realized that they are now more modern in their make up and dressing. It's a good change but don't forget the traditional one too!

Modern dress and hairstyle.

Very classy right.....
This is the main character. not very pretty but is a good actress. I like this dress.

I like this dress.... also.

The king.... Not handsome. anyway this show is about ugly ppl.. haha....

The new version kun qu 'Yi pian tao hua hong'.

P72

I think there is seriously something wrong with P72. I don't know if there is something wrong with him or something wrong with the batteries. I charged the batteries full and when they couldn't last more than 1 hour. I am really pissed off with P72 cuz he is not behaving himself. I already spend $80 bucks to cure his sore eyes and now he suck the batteries dry whenever i on it.

Once I was at Kusu and P72 threw a tantrum. He suck the batteries dry and off himself without shutting the lens with the protective shutter. He just stone there. If you saw my Kusu island blog, you will notice some are taken with P72 and some with D500C.

Now I have to rely on my D500C to take all the photos for my blogs. D500C is not really good at taking photos.

If P72 still continue to behave like this, i am going to dump him and find another camera this christmas.

SL Packing Day

Today is a public Holiday~ so i went to SL to pack the costume. It was quite a hard work cuz the boxes are quite heavy. We took out everything and categorised them into their respective boxes.

Some of the costumes taken out and packed into pastic bags.

That is susan, taking out the costumes from the boxes. Actually SL has got alot of clothes becuz everytime SL do a full length, big production show, they will order a set of costumes. So far, we have got costumes for 'Bei He Ji', 'Mu Lian Jiu Mu', 'Ci Mu Lei' and some other misc excerpts.

Pack pack packing...... La la la... we had a good time!

While we were packing, the 2 very enthusiastic guys who painted the store room were clearing out another store room. We have 4 store rooms in SL. 2 for costumes and props, 1 for instruments and 1 for these books etc. Alot of stuff right?

We started at around 2:30 and we finished at 6pm. I forgot to take a photo of the newly painted leisure room upstairs. Will take a photo of it when i go there again. :D

Crappy Halloween Night Party

It is Holloween Night and it is also the eve of my friend's birthday. He asked us out to have a drink together at a pub in boat Quay. I seldom go to pubs but I love hanging out with them so i decided to go anyway.

i met Lock first at 7pm to watch a movie and after that we went to meet the birthday boy, Vincent. Vincent is a crappy guy. hahaha...... After that we met Henry aka Meekiah. Meekiah was a good friend of mine in Poly.

The four of us went to the pub together and the first thing meekiah did was to pick some songs to singing. Singing is meekiah's favourite hobby and he is a good singer.

This is Meekiah~

Vincent, the brithday boy, ordered Chivas and they started drinking but i dont like to drink so i just drank one glass of diluted Chivas. Vincent is an alcoholic!! He is also a very crappy guy and he always make me laugh like hell. Second to Vincent is Lock, then Henry. Henry used to make me laugh so much in poly. It is from them that i learn to be crappy myself but my skill is still far from them.

This is vincent. He always act some seh. See this shot not bad right..... Finally i introduce Lock.

Locky, showing me this disgusted face. Actually he was saying,"Your flashlight very glaring leh!"

Lock is another crappy guy cuz he told me that there was once, he gave toothbrush as birthday present to a friend!!!! -_-" quite unbelievable. Guess what he is giving to vincent for his

HAIR GEL!!! Somemore it's Amway's one. This is super hard wet look hair gel which Lock chose specially for Vincent. Hahaha.... It's indeed a funny present. Ok la.. it's a xin yi from Lock. Last time lock gave me Mooncakes for my bday......

Vincent posing with his gel! hahaha... After waiting for a long time, Henry got to sing.

Meekia the singing king.

Vincent told us that he has been thinking of creating a short film since all of us at this table is so talent.

Vincent: don't waste our talent mah, right?

Me: Sure or not, not so easy one.

Vincent told us that he missed those days when we were filming a short film for a school project. It was a very fun time.

Finally at 3am (Yes! I stayed there till 3 freaking AM!), we were about to leave. At this moment, Vincent said something that was very funny and i decide to blog it.

First, look at this picture.

Vincent say, if you buy a box of cigarettes, you have to be careful which picture you get on the box because after you smoke, you will end up as in the picture.

The first one shows this ulcer thing in the intestine or throat. Pretty disgusting.

And the last one show a guy in coma. So the best one will be the middle one with happy family.

Vincent: The one die is you family not you mah, so you can happily continue to smoke.

-_-"

Saw the dice? Saw the liquor? hahaha... it is a picture that depicts our 'duo luo-ness'!

hahaha... see this?