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Tibet : The Tallest Palace, Lakes and Toilets

There's no freakin AIR here and yet I can jump so high! Genius! Jumping at Potala Palace, the palace on the roof of the world. Pity it has been Ah-Tiong-nised by planting a China Flag on the Square.

Potala Palace is really really breathtaking. Inside is where they enshrine their Dalai Lama's from the 14th century. Oooh..

Here at Namtso, almost 4800m high is a SALTWATER lake. Similarly, there's NO air and I'm still jumping and jumping and jumping. Miracle I'm still alive and well in Singapore.

Btw tt's my Sis, their native dogs are too cute to be true! They have even more fierce hairstyle then any of us in Singapore. Iiiiiiii, can give you Gatsby.... Gatsby!!

Finally some random shots for your viewing pleasure.

Tibetan's LOVE playing Pool... its those kind of things you'd least expect to see in one of the most isolated places in the world. I mean, pool? Gosh. And its really every small town you pass by u will see people playing pool.

Qingzang Railroad : The Highest Railroad in the World

Arrival at Golmud Station, freakin Communist-looking place. Golmud - Lhasa at Tibet takes 13hrs btw.

Henceforth, the train ride is boring AND made for Hobbits too. However the sights are breathtaking lah, mite.kudasai. Some parts of the tracks are actually on permafrost and need ammonia heatpipes to keep it forever frozen, if not the tracks will sag. The view is out of this world, but colours are not as good because the train has UV protection layers on the glass, thus it looks washed out, but you aren't really missing out a lot.

Qinghai : Not yet Tibet, Not quite Singapore

Woo peeps! I'm back from the roof of the world, 青藏高原 or Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. It was an incredible experience, every bit of it! U get an idea of a super isolated culture and religion (Tibetan Buddhism), taste their incredibly gross ingredient (酥油, or goat fermented milk) which they add to food and tea, smell China's incredibly backward sai kangs (toilet) and breathe the 60%-of-SG-O2-level air. All in all, there's too many things to write so I will summarise. Instead of a lengthy wordy diary, I just post the pics and u enjoy while i browse through the photos.

On the skies above China Mainland, I must add the stupidly small and cramp China Airlines A319 is made to ferry hobbits around.

Qinghai Arrival, Tu Tribe Welcome and tts my mom! Btw the Tu tribe are really $$suckers, everything also want us to pay pay and pay.

Qinghai was pretty boring and it was just a transit stop for us to acclimatise. On the way to the train station to Tibet and across the Gobi Desert, we met SNOW! It was sort of a snowstorm! Snow in background and Desert in foreground, duuuuu!

Btw tt's my dad teaching us to eat free ice-kachang in the snow.

Irashaimase

I-ra-sha-i-ma-se!

いーらーしゃーいーまーせ！

WHAT THE JAPANESE WILL DO: They will greet you with this phrase when you enter their store, sometimes in unison, sometimes in tandem. Sometimes you only hear "zaza.. MASEHHHH".

WHAT SINGAPOREANS TRY TO DO: They mispronounce it horribly. I-SHA-SHAI-MA-SU-MA-SEH!!! I-RA-SA-MA-SA-I !!! SHA-SHAI-MA-SEH!!!! Omg, if you open a store related to japanese culture, please make it an effort to educate your staff for 30mins how to pronounce irashaimase. " YI - RA - SHA - I - MA - SEH " Repeat after me noobies.

Wad would you feel if people pronounce our welcome languages wrongly? E.g.

CHINESE : Huan ying guang ling -----> Wah Ehng Kok Leng (Vietnamese?!?)

Xie Xie Ni ---------------> Sai Sai Ni. (Shit shit you)

Man Zou ---------------> Ma Zao (Mom, run)

MALAY: Selamat Datang! ----------> Selamat Dota

Selamat Jalan! ------------> Selamat Jia Lan (Welcome to eat cock)

INDIAN: Varnakam! ---------------> Father Come.

So, if you didnt like the above parodies, try to learn the proper pronounciation before things get lost in translation.

Chopsquad acquires a new RBX!

Wah all of us hibernating ah? All silenced and no inspiration meh? Never mind, IIIIIIIIII Can Give you Gatsby, Gatsbyyyyyy, Gatsbyyyyy.

After months of deliberation of buying a new bass, I have finally taken the plunge and bought a new Yamaha RBX-374 active bass. Take a look, isn't she the absolutest beauty of all basses???? Arrrgghhh.

She comes with 2 hum-reducing pickups and has 2 EQ settings, most reviews gave it almost perfect score for sounding much more than it costs. Only thing is it requires a 9V battery to make any sound; a minor inconvenience.

Another view from the top; notice the new Yamaha design at the top? I took a look at the brocheres and new guitars/basses will adopt this design. Dang, there goes exclusivity! Sweet sweet bass, can't wait to bring it for jamming.

Btw introducing the bass player for chopsquad:

猫王。

Ain't she farking cute?? She can slap bass, play godlike riffs and yet laze around all day without practising.

Also, thanks Ben for the trouble regarding the staff/student price issue, he went all out to try and get the bass for me at >$500, a great value, however SHIPAI la, exceed some limit. In the end, I paid $560 for the RBX and a fast fret.

Edit: Went to Luthermusic wif PL to check out. OMG wad a dissapointment Luthers turned out to be. No electric guitars/basses... only acoustic guitar? Wah? Durian Season ah? I wanted to check out the RBX at Luther's but go in only see wood guitars. Zzz wad happened to my favourite guitar shop.

Play! A Video Game Symphony

i was there at the asian premier of Play! a video game symphony today at the esplanade concert hall...and i was expecting quite alot from this show...but maybe because it was the matinee show that i went..it was average at best..

not that my standards were THAT high...but seriously..glaring mistakes littered the entire 1st half of the performance and it took much shine off the specially-formed singapore festival orchestra...thankfully...the 2nd half saw a much much improved performance and at least i left slightly satisfied..maybe then again...it could be due to the matinee show...and the seasoned performers were resting from the show last night and preparing for the one after mine at 8....

i wasnt too sure about the choir though pl had mixed reviews regarding the choir...and for the matinee show..we had the good folks from NUS choir...

but the line-up of songs were great..and those really classic pieces from sonic, mario and zelda were once again heard albeit orchestra-arranged...and for you hardcore game-heads out there...too bad for you..you missed some cool stuff...

and for those reading and wants to attend as well...i apologise..but the only 3 shows are already over...

for now...maybe you might want to check out their official webbie:

http://www.play-symphony.com/

cheers!

Debut Post!!

Haha.. Im here to make my debut post! As everyone can see my mates have all posted ga-zillions of posts since we started this blog but here I am posting my very first post after some urging from my fellow... erm.. "Choppers". Haha. Now that the introductions of our band, sharing of our Japan trip and purpose of this blog (and also some complaints of our yellow skinned counterparts) have been done.. I really cant think of anything else to say with my limited creativity. Until I get my inspiration for a better post.. I apologise to anyone that sees this. Haha. Oh to add on a little something to wad Ben has said..

To everyone out there thats reading this.. Chop Squad is also looking for a drummer and guitarist. We absolutely welcome any friends or friends of friends interested. Pls contact us via our tag board. Thank you very much.

Our very own Cantabile??

hmmm...

Machine Gun Vox for Chop Squad?

a wild idea..but i think it would be kick ass...

worth a try?

Author's Note: Dear readers, votes are open. Make yourselves heard. Machine Gun Vox for Chop Squad?

Learning to breathe in Tibet

Ok guys! I've packed my bags and cameras and UV glasses and sun block lotion, ready to head to Shangri-La! Gonna take a flight later at 2am to reach Chengdu and Xining, where i'll take the new Trans-Alien landscape Qingzang Railway all the way to Lhasa. Z, it'll take us 3 days to reach Lhasa, capital of Tibet province. Wait, i hear you say... Ah Tiong Land!?? Is Kaibin mad?? But, fact is the Tibetans and Dalai Lama don't really see eye to eye with Ah Tiongs, so I should be on friendly territory. Haha.

Lhasa is approx 3km up in the sky, yes even higher than Taipei 101 and Malaysia's Petronas Twin Schtings. Thus, you can't fly there straight if u want to live, u'll die of attitude sicknes. Great, because of tt I have to take a very Ah-Tiong train and climb up to Lhasa. Woot I'm coming. And also, I'll need long sleeves and lots of sunblock as we're so near to the sun than you! Hope I don't become as chao tar as those dragon-boaters. Hm, I just cut my hair, omg, isit gonna burn my scalp? Sunblock on scalp? Unthinkable!

Hai, 8 June till 19 June, removed from the world I've grown accustomed to, to a place where I'll feed on Llama milk and no beef. So, see you world! Until the 19th then! じゃね！

Btw, I hope by the time I've come back, Pingling would have at least posted AN entry... haha! Duuuu!

Chopsquad Cube

Presenting the Chopsquad Cube!

This is fun... future pic posts from me will be in this form!

Edit: Apparently this cubey is quite cpu intensive.. hmm may need to consider spamming this, lest we scare pple from our blog haha.

Labels: New Discoveries

Finally, a Big Breather

After 4 days of 12 hours slogging per day, PC Show finally closed to the tunes of melancholic music from the BASTAAD courts speakers. I have made many new friends, enemies and learnt experiences from this stint, cos its my first sales work experience. This year was as terrible as all PC Shows, crowded streets, indians who just dont know their bargaining limit, totally rude Singaporeans and liars. In fact all promoters are liars.

Working at Lenovo, they pay shit. $40 a day $10 for each laptop/desktop sold. HEllo... either ur margins very little, why are you paying ur promoters 10 measly dollars for something that cost at least 1K and above? Laptop promoters really are the Bangla's of the PC Show, Explain so hard the differences between so many brands, different specs knowledge (CPU, memory, OS, hard disk etc) while others juz focus on a specific product (portable HDD), withstand the fucking amazing flow of sweaty bargain hunters pushing u, tok till sore throat still dont wanna buy, customers who just wanna leech all available gifts..... for $10.

I have frens earning $200 a day selling portable hard disks. If you can sell 6 laptops a day u are good. That equates to $100 a day.

Ten Things I've Leveled Up this PC Show

10. Do not work at a brand u think u won't buy, because others think the same way.

9. Bosses can be stingy, but their wives are GODLIKE stingy

8. The prettier the promoter, the more sales she will chalk up.

7. The higher the skirt, the higher the sales.

6. Uni sch students can NEVER sell as well as non-uni students, especially guys.

5. Indians have the wonderful ability to provide Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound when haggling u for a better deal.

4. They speak 10 times faster then the average person, and 5 times as fast as a poor laptop promoter.

3. People who bring bebies and ostomates in prams and wheelchairs to PC Shows are very, VERY moronic, cos they clog up the whole damned path.

2. Selling laptops to old folks who thank you for your good service really warms your heart, but it colds later after you found out that their laptop spoil the next day.

1. Ping Ling and Ben didn't come visit me, and Ping's old fren.

Labels: work work

Thank You

and we've yet to hear form Pinggggggg........................

anyway a big thank you to those who've visited so far and we hope you'll continue to leave comments or drop little messages on the right-hand side box ---------->>

we love a lively blog! and i'm hoping those who've visited, please help us out on this! お願いします!!

今まで、ありがとうございました!

this blog, i hope can be something more than just an e-diary (or something like that)...
and so far, we've done a food entry, a places-we've-visited-and-we-think-you-should-visit-too entry, an ah thiong condemning entry (i seriously cannot stand some of them too -_-), a "working for an ah thiong company and making them happy" entry (KB! you made an ah thiong happy!) and a few more random entries...and i hope we can further expand our repertoire of entries so much so that we've got always something to talk about and something for you, our dear readers, to read about!

formalities aside, i thought of doing an album review and so here it is:

i just bought the new Linkin Park album, Minutes to Midnight at a good music store not really near me...and i thought the new album s*cked.. okie...people tend to be biased in reviews so i'm no exception, so whether the album is good or bad, the ultimate decision is still yours...

i thought track 7 What I've done was the saving grace for this otherwise disappointing album, and i thought track 9 Valentine's Day and track 12 The little Things Give You away are worth mentioning.. other than that, this was poor considered to the previous album, Meteora.

at 18.95 SGD it wasn't really expensive and i got a free LP wristband with my purchase...(hmv is gving away posters now) but what impressed me was the pictorial + lyrics book that comes with it...every song was given a 4-7 line introduction and the process of creating each song was also included as well...and it gave something more that just "getting to know the lyrics"....

overall i give it a 2.698675 out of a possible maximum of 5....

EDIT BY KAIBIN : FUCK I CAN'T STAND IT I MUST HIJACK YOUR POST. THIS ALBUM IS HORRIBLE! "HANDS HELD HIGH" IS FUCKING RUBBISH!! AMEN? YES YOU NEED TO ATONE FOR YOUR SINS FOR CREATING THIS HORRIBLE MUSIC PIECE. YOU ALL ATE CAT FOOD WHILE PRODUCING SONG? OMFG.

Working for the Happyness of Ah Tiongs

Haha, in the end I'm still making Ah Tiongs happy.

I'm working for Lenovo, an AH TIONG company who took over IBM and their staff, at the PC Show at suntec till sunday. How's the feeling? Great... I only sold 1 laptop today, bull. Who ask their stall positioning so kanasai, at one corner of the hall, the feng shui very bad. In the end we only sold 50% of wad other Lenovo distros sold, and got told off by our boss for being failures in selling. What to do boss? Most of us are from NTU CAC, quiet and studious, not like other veteran ah bengs and ah lians in other distros. More pork ?

Also, I don't understand, but why do 8 out of 10 potential Lenovo customers are Indian? Girlymannnn!!! I have a special affinity for Indians this pc show. Do I give them the "Mutton goes yay" face? Or did I shout "Woot I'm Coming" at them? Cause it's a yardless day. The only laptop i sold today was to a nice Indian family for their child. Its a child no parka rule.

Tml still have to chiong and chiong to sell. Grr.. sales...

P.S. Cheryl of Ping's Fame is working at another Lenovo distributor, so Pingling u wanna come down a while with an old friend?? ha ha ha.

wtsw Cher*l ds, yrsk ongsm.

synr, oysmns.