Sentosa Fun!

Sentosa.. A must visit place if you come here! Don't miss the fun!

The fun we had at Sentosa!


Check out these videos of a part of the fountain show!

A very cute video!

Tried a lot to get this video, which i'd seen in eashwar's iPod for the first time. I found it real cute. After that have been trying to get it, but never did. Until a couple of days back when i found it as a status message of someone in my list!
got the video on youtube. here it is!

Cheers!

Me, gaurav trying a bottoms up with a beer @ Simlim square.. it's come out real cool! Thanks to sharvil for this brilliant video!

The illegal pictures! (Cam not allowed in office!)

Infineon in GoogleMaps

Infineon in close up. (A photostitch, 6 photos together form this one)

My Cubicle!

Waiting for bus to Kallang MRT!

Near our house.. tried a new way. Found some nice places!

Simplifying Things!

Well, it's not that I don't have time to crap here. Nor is it entirely that I'm too lazy to write! Just that I thought, after receiving some constructive criticism from my blog readers (wow! that's sounds cool!), that I'd make things easy for them, by putting in a lot less text (essay, some may call my prev. blogs, not realizing that they're the ones who are either jealous or lazy!). So here's the try... Picture blogs! I really don't like the way they appear here. But it's okay for now! If anyone knows any site where i can blog pictures as well as text (like blogspot- should be fine) do let me know!

The professionals returning home!

Can you believe that's a cat!

HDB apartments (a four second exposure pic!)

Outside Block 71 (our block)

Infineon's VoIP chip.. Inca. I took the pic! cool right?

Chopsticks expert tutorials on how to eat Chicken Noodles with soya sauce and an awesome soup!

By the way... this is the dish.

What remains after the session. Pretty clean uh?!

Cheers! Nice dinner!

Chinese and the romantic pier

Well, as promised yesterday, here are some snaps i got from the net...

The hawkers (food courts) near our place

Thats' ECP again... Whoever took that picture-you rock!

An aparment looking exactly like ours, with clothes hanging out in the Singapore drying style!

And ya.. about today.. since this has become our usual routine, i wouldn't stress much on our uselessness!! Got up at 0921hrs for a visit that we were to give to the ministry of manpower for our visa, and for an appointment that sharvil had with his supervisor at 1000hrs! This time we didn't panic, coz we now know precisely what's to be done! We tried calling the supervisor, but we didn't have the number. So called the secretary instead, and asked her to inform him! 

Took bath (which was compulsory as we didn't take bath the prev day inspite of a really sweaty day!) and left to MOM by taxi (ya, company's refund still holds!). Got the visa thing done, and came to office. We were told that the meeting with the supervisor was at 1500 hrs. So went to the cubicle and got stuff ready to submit to the HR. Submitted, and went to the bank to open an account. This bank is called the POSB. Excellent service here.. within 15 mins we had the account ready, pass book and ATM card at hand! That was really cool!

Came back to office, had lunch (which was really good.. mutton, fish, rice n all..), came back to cubicle. While sharvil was trying to fix his comp with help from the IT helpline here, i was browsing and mailing ppl, coz my supervisor was on leave today!

After that there's nothing much to add.. slept for a while, woke up and took the company bus to MRT and came home. 

The evening me and sharvil went jogging to the beach, about 3-4 kms., and jumped into the water! Had a great time there.. running along the shoreline, writing names on the sea shore, and see them get washed away by water.. all this at 1930 hrs! Then half naked, we took a shower there, and went to the pier and started chatting for a while with the wind blowing at out face! 

Wow! I should be here with my girl friend man! I miss her so much, more so when i see other couples here... which is everywhere and all the time, except the office!! I so wish she was here. Seriously, for those who read this blog, and plan to come to singapore, you should do so with your girl friend or boy friend.. it's gonna be the best thing you've ever done in life! And remember to pay a visit in your 20s itself, and not after you get married with family n all. Of course you could come then, but that should be after you've made your 20s trip! And for those who are in their 30 plus, better later than never! :)

We had an awesome dinner today... Coming back from the pier, we stopped at a hawkers' and ordered some chinese stuff.. What follows may be skipped by pure vegetarians.. non veggies read on! 

First we ordered this ham-mushroom soup. First it tasted pretty weird, but with a bit more of salt and pepper, it was good.. mmm! Then arrived our noodle dish: Alio-e-Olio! These were the ingredients... Noodles, prawns, fish (all boiled, and with very l'll masala), and for the best part... the part that made us try it... the oyster, also boiled (couldn't find any masala on it though!) But it tasted pretty good. I mean, we liked the taste. But am sure most wouldn't like the taste! Probably we wouldn't have too, had we not been hungry and in the enthu to taste something different! But nevertheless, the stuff was good.. And here's a hint on how to eat chinese food stuff.. Don't try experiment or open (if possible) to see what's inside a particular stuff you've been served! Seriously, if you'd seen the oyster, you'd definitely, if not puke for in the worst case, atleast loose your appetite for sure! But I was determined to! So i saw it, and inspite of that had it! But it tastes fine! Much like meat... But you can feel the parts inside! Yuck? But it was indeed a 'wow' dish!!

So after that lovely dinner, we had a coke, got some really huge plums in a nearby fruit store, and came home. The plums were just absolutely tasty man! Never tasted plums like those before!

Had a long chat with jini, and my wingies selp and terror, who are planning to come here this october. Let's hope it works out fine!

And 0134 now... I don't wanna think about tomorrow! All I know is that neither of us is feeling sleepy at the moment! And that I, though not in a mood to blog just a few minutes ago, am in a don't stop typing mood now! 

Some more pics... 

An MRT Station

The Esplanade - Theatres on the bay

Some more pier stuff...

Google Map - Pier Close up.

Google Maps - The pier, long shot

That pic must have been taken at sometime in the morning... imagine that at 1900 hrs... truly a a place you'll wanna take your love to!

Some pics!

Me and sharvil have been roaming around city like crazy, and our owner, this hyper cool guy is making it all the more interesting by taking us to some legally allowed places! :P For more details contact the post owner! I don't wanna risk putting it all on this blog! So here are some pics of our endlessly flowing enthu's consequences...

Me and Sharvil near our flat

 

I think the oceans trying to tell me something...Shhh.. Trying to listen! :P 

Thats the king size bed in our room. It's clean for I cleaned it up for the pic.

 

A lake kinda thing filled with turtles near the East coast beach park (ECP)

The same bed in the morning just after we get up!

Gaurav, Sasidhar, Sharvil, JD @ ECP... waiting for our guide/senior/fundoo/friend/the schizoscasnic (got that wrong i guess. but that's what it sounded like when he said it!) Raghu!

I AM INVINCIBLE!

 

The cycling enthu! Almost 7 kms cycle ride against the cool beach breeze! 

Actually what we wanted to do was a lot of skating today (that is, learn, fall and stand up for today!). But we ended up cycling coz it was way too crowded there-safeguarding ourselves and the others. Nevertheless, we got these PROs in action. Check out!

And to the final pic in this blog... this is how we are right this moment! Sharvil's creating his first blog, and me updating mine! And his first blog is real good, but he's restricted access to it at the moment. Better he plays safe actually! You may use my name to get access, but don't misuse it! 

Alright, that's it for now. Next blog will be some pics that I'd downloaded from google maps. I'll put the pics first, and after i visit them, will give a description. 

And we'd better sleep now coz otherwise there's not way that we're gonna get our asses at MOM tomorrow morning at 0800!! (it's 0217hrs here now!, good morning already!)

First day Internship!

At singapore finally, and here at Raghuraman's place blogging from a Macbook! Exciting indeed! Let me first talk about how this laptop is... Well, I get the Apple PRO touch just like any other Apple products. User friendliness, the looks, performance... it's cool! Cost-we better not talk about it at the moment! Visual features are cool, and the dock, though something that I've used in the transformation pack, is obviously good and more, lets say, genuine here! In all, something that I've always wanted to try and here I am doing it! So, exciting!

Now coming to stuff @ Singapore. Firstly, the place is good! Really good! Be it the cleanliness, the way people follow rules here, the roads, the greenery, the transport-it's cool! And for someone who's come from India, these things are for sure, luring!
Me and Sharvil share the house here, basically a room for ourselves with attached bathroom, 2 separate wardrobes, AC, electronic water heater, a king size bed and a refrigerator, and a hall and kitchen which we share with the owner here. It's comfortable and well connected to all major places around. That's kinda the case with every place here i guess, thanks to the MRT and the buses! 
A funky thing with the transport, something really convenient too, is the EZtravel card we have for both the MRT and buses. You can top it up for how much ever you want, and keep traveling! No tickets, no cash needed for anywhere you go! And taxis services are pretty affordable here. We took a Mercedes Benz taxi (which wouldn't have been the case hadn't the company not accepted to refund it!) to the Ministry of Manpower to get the visa today. Traveled in style you know!
Coming to the company... Infineon Technologies, is an awesome building! Shaped like a ship, it's really unique! 

The best part is not that ofcouse, but how we went there on the first day! We'd planned to visit the office the previous evening itself so that we didn't have to search for it the reporting day, and that we did. We had a chat over a cup of tea with the seniors who're working there. That evening we went to a beach nearby, and planned to jog there the next morning at 0600hrs, then fresh up and leave to office. So what happened the next morning? pretty guessable now, coz that's what happens to all such great plans to great people... We went late!

What happend? Alarm rang at 6, 630, 730, we switched them all OFF, till the owner called at 0830 hrs to say all the best! we had to report at 0900 hrs! and bang! we get out of the bed, get ready, no bath! and took at bus to the MRT, came to a station called Aljunied (from where we gotta take a bus to the office), and got a taxi instead, that costed S$5, and reached office at 0920hrs! Thank God the HR lady wasn't available right then. we were asked to wait. 5 mins, she was there. she briefed us about stuff here. and we got our RFID cards issued (that's funky!). anywhere you go, you need this electronic card for access. we tap it near the door, a reads the code in the card wirelessly, and we're granted access.
met my project superviser, Goh Ban Hok. Sharvil's guy was in a meeting. So my guide took us around and showed me the lab i was gonna work n all.. lots of boards around, and complex instruments! let's see! Well, all looks good and interesting, let's see how my work goes on there!
So that was my first day as an intern - no bath, reported late, but had lots of fun!