Hopefully everything turn out well for my dad. The environment of his current job is getting bad recently according to him. Upper management getting lousier, manpower getting tighter. Which was why he was looking forward to this new job. I can see that he still has feelings for this current job- after all he has been working there for over a decade already. But he felt that the deteriorating working environment is too much to take, and also since the company seems to have some buyover problems, might not be a bad choice to 'jump'. Prospect of the new job looked good, but now might not be within reach given the sudden realisation of some contractual issues. Sigh. My dad's like is filled with ups and downs, why can't he have something smooth this time? God/ Guan yin/ Buddha bless him and our family.

Recently went to Pek kio market for their last CLAP! fundraising event for the needy residents there. Brought over 5 decks of cards, 2 balloon pumps, 2 bags of balloons. Ended up using only the balloon stuff. Was happy with my first experience in helping out in a booth selling balloons, but I felt that I really need to improve on my speed and control, so as to burst lesser balloons. The afternoon ended with a parent complaining abt the slow making of her bugs bunny and she being frustrated, scolded her children for doing some harmless stuff. All because I did the bunny too slowly and it was due to it keep bursting. Really sucks man.

Heard from Baofa and Veronica that Wei Lai's event still might need helper, so I decided to join them without asking WL's permission. Luckily it's a rather free and easy thing, so more helpers are always welcomed. In the end I went to jurong earlier than the required time, so I sat on the upper stairs of the area where people waited for the IMM shuttle bus, and did a 160 bunny while waiting for the Chevron shuttle bus. Was determined to make one at a faster rate, but ended up only doing a little but faster. Hope to speed up my balloon making process with more practice from now on. Balloons are running out, think need to get more soon. =/

Whatever the thing is, just hope they go shun shun..

Gypsy Thread

Just finished watching the download. It's something very visual and magical for the audience, if done right. The problem is the handling has to be rather delicate and careful. It's not difficult to flash. Will spend some time to practice the effect. Dan Sperry is expectedly humourous, but I felt he could be more detail in his explanation, like giving more tips and experiences on the handling. 28 mins seemed like a lot of material would be covered before watching the clip, but much of the time was spent on meaningless stuff and humour. Watching the performances by Wayne Houchin and Dan himself made me feel the effect would be very clean. While I felt a little deceived, I'll strived to achieve that kind of standard. Time to practice!

The passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett were kind of shocking to heard this morning. Knew about the MJ's news since everyone on Facebook starting posting RIP messages about him. For the latter, not many knew or talked abt it, but saw it on the Yahoo! news while I was checking out MJ's news. Kind of a bad day to pass don't you think, as her death would be overshadowed by that of MJ's. =/ In any case, R.I.P. to both of them, and may those who loved them live on happily.

Had been visiting theory11 and dananddave website recently and I have some items that I'm interested to learn!

Gypsy thread seemed to be around for a long while, but sadly I've only heard of it recently. Will be looking forward to learn it on the 1-on-1 soon, when i still have some extra cash to spare. =D

Professor's Nightmare is also another trick that belong to that ' IshouldknowthattrickbynowbutIdon't' category. Norvin said that it's not expensive to learn, probably will check out the price from Baofa's side, if not might get from Aunty Betty's.

Identity by Richard Sanders! OMG it looked amazing! Extremely visual, and very high WOW factor in my opinion. Price is a little steep though. It's definitely in my wishlist, but maybe not buying it now. ;)

Knew about Pressure for quite some time now, but haven't really got into finding out abt it. Saw the trailer again today, and since I had some balloons with me, I thought I'll give it a shot. The basic effect worked out pretty well, though I'm still thinking abt the clean-up. Have some idea abt it, though pulling it off in front of a live audience might be a little hard. Wouldn't be buying the download/ effect since I don't think I wana spend that kind of money. Would have some fun trying to figure it out and perfecting it though.

Feeling good =)

Surprised gal today with this!


















Been very happy playing with balloons recently. Very fun and entertaining hobby actually. =)
To say that it's all joy that's the motivation for this interest is not entirely true, as I also do hope to use this skill to help me earn some pocket money, which can be extremely useful based on my current situation. So I hope to learn as much as I can for now, and seize any opportunities along the way.
Gal mentioned an interesting idea earlier today, shall think abt it these few days.
Also realised that this blog is becoming something that it wasn't meant to be when I first started it. I actually wanted to make it a magic blog, something like what Baofa started recently. Then somehow it became more like a daily diary blog, haha. Anyway, will try to put more magic/ balloons stuff in this blog from now on. =)

Bintan + Horrible job + To dos

Long time since I updated!

First thing on the list would be Gal's bday also our 3rd anniversary! =)
For the photos of Bintan trip, go my facebook see ba.
Our bintan trip can be summed up with the following:

-one dizzy ferry journey
-one look at how caucasians can be more kiasu than singaporeans
-one long wait to get room
-one nice room with fantastic view
-one delicious pizza
-one disappointing trip to pasar oleh oleh
-one broken down shuttle bus (in the middle of NOWHERE!)
-one 'lok kok' shuttle bus to our rescue
-one expensive and forgettable dinner
-one heartwarning gesture from the hotel, also a funny yet beautiful misunderstanding
-one breathtaking view of the nightsky full of stars above, with creatures of similar beauty flying among us
-one sleep till xiang xiang night
-one apparently not wonderful night for my gal as woke her up thrice by accident, oops! =/
-one rather satisfying breakfast buffet
-one beautiful beach! (really REALLY nice!)
-one attempt to suntan
-one small rain that killed that attempt
-one swimming pool that kept us occupied during the small drizzle
-one stone that poked a hole in my foot T.T
-one not so Yummy pizza
-one nice and sweaty experience with archery
-one smoother ferry journey home
-two cup noodles
-one more look at kiasu caucasians

All in all, a great holiday!

Came back from Bintan with a very positive mindset of finding a job. End up till now also don't have a decent, long term part time job for this vacation.

Had a extremely lousy one that required me to work from 8pm - 8am. YES! Night to morning, and not the other way round. And doing what? Stocktaking. =.= The worse is meeting a certain weirdo. Haiz, how wish nv take up that job. Lucky only work for a week, if not really will mati.

Currently I have another one-day job coming up on the 16th, suay suay that certain weirdo also doing. Haiz.

Went for a few interviews, going for one more next week also. hope something come out of it. Never thought searching for a part time job can be so hard. Guess I took the Nomura experience too much for granted. Bye bye $18/hr. =(

So now while searching for job, I'm also starting to get interested in balloon twisting! Very fun once you get started. Going to crash another workshop tomorrow, as well as another magic workshop. Need to see how thy actually teach kids magic, as it's something I can't really imagine very very well. Teaching kids of e.g. primary sch age things like card magic seems a little inappropriate imo. Coz it seem a little adult, and sort of like giving them the head start in gambling. So for me, if I had a workshop teaching magic, I'll probably teach them the very basic of magic. Misdirection, coins, spongeballs to name some of them. But not teaching card magic would be hard, since that's what probably they signed up for, after seeing so much 'miracles' performed by Liu qian on Taiwanese tv. =.=

Ok, so what will I be doing for the rest of the holiday?
1.) Go swimming
2.) Go running/ exercise
3.) By doing 1 & 2, I wana get a more even tan! =D
4.) Get a job
5.) learn the roads of Singapore
6.) Think about Father's day
7.) Learn more balloon twisting, including a certain requested one. =P
8.) .. add in when I think of them.