Plastic-man Hong

On our trip to Japan last December, Hazuki was nice enough to buy a few packs of these DIY kits called Pla-ban, which are very common in Japan as an activity for school kids.

I was quite curious about them and finally got time to test them out, (we just got an oven in our dept) results as below!

Each packet has a few sheets of plastic and key rings. The plastic sheets are yellow here becasue this kit is supposed to be special Glow-in-the-Dark sheets! You just need to use permament markers to draw the desired shape and then pop it in the oven for a few minutes and *Bish*, it magically morphs into this hard 3D shaped plastic which you can attach the key ring to!

Here are the results of my experiments! The bumblebee/dog shape was originally of the size in b/w! It shrank to about 1/4 of the original size.

This one looks way better, think it was because of the circular shape. I like this one.

Showed my colleagues and they are quite interested in ordering this in bulk as a activity for our events, so went to the website listed on the package but it's filled with incomprehensive Japanese, bah!

it's REALLY such a SMALL SMALL world

there are some friends we have never gotten to meet in Singapore, but, guess what? We met them overseas!!


We bumped into Junjie and his colleague in Bangkok in 2006!
We even took the same flight home!







We bumped into David and his wife in Krabi in 2007!
We also took the same flight home!

it's REALLY a small world

it's REALLY a small world

nayr and i realised we have some mutual friends, and we decided we shall dedicate this post to them, for knowing such WONDERFUL people like us.. haha

Sharon - Nayr's NS Buddy's GF and my Sec Sch Mate
Ziling - Nayr's Sec Sch classmate and my JC classmate
ChipSoon - Nayr's NS Mate and my CDC/HR colleague
TanPohLay - Nayr's SSC working partner and my JC classmate

it's a small world

jus realised recently there are so many friends (or rather colleagues) from my workplace (organisation) who were from the same secondary school as i was!

i realised when a sec sch friend sent me an email regarding a school alumni dinner. (& I didnt even know she's working in my organisation till she sent the email)

And yday morning, a close working colleague (fr another div) sent me a hello email saying she didnt know I was her sch mate too. We had a gd time reminising old times over emails.

it's such a small world.

If (r)Yan can cook, so can you (and so can the whole world too)

Read thesundaytimes on 15 Apr, and pges L26, 27 on "50 ways to pick MEE up" left me much drooling and craving for a simple fare of instant noodles...

so the very evening, after a nice nap, i dragged nayr to go NTUC with me to choose our instant mee brand/flavor & some eggs, ham and canned pork ribs [bought some ice-cream as dessert too. =)] to whip out some instant mee dishes according to the newspaper article.
we chose the canned pork leg with mushroom noodle and the indonesian mee goreng.

The entire cooking process back at home went quite well (with much excitement, adventure & jus a little bit of kalang kabok) & I must mention that nayr did all the cooking - I am only the facilitator. and dishwoman too lah..

And surprisingly, the noodles tasted better than i imagined them to be.
hmm.. will give him 70 marks out of 100 for the good job.

Nayr is happy that his training during the hours he spent on DS Lite's Cooking Mama paid off.

So, if rYAN can cook, so can the whole world, right?