tHiS iS My HoUsE!!!....

Hello 2009, Goodbye 2008

2008-12-31T17:32:00.003+08:00

Every year it turned out to have a handful of events which leave a huge impact on me.

1. The earthquake in China which touched every Chinese in the world. Tofu building, what a way to build them and worse of all. Tofu School Buildings.

2. The wonderful Beijing Olympics. It looks great, in fact the greatest i think but personally in term of morality acts and behaviours. The Chinese still have a big leap to make. No offences to anyone, but the poison milk incident is 1 good example. I bet i do not have to elaborate more.

3. Singapore first ever NIGHT GP. Kudos to the organisers to complete all the required works in such timeframe. Although there are room for improvements, but hey, there are always room to improvement. I have been there, heard the machines tore down the street of the Singapore city. I love it and I bet the rest who were there agreed with me.

4. The end of IBs, the end of Bear Sterns, the Mac siblings and Lehman Brothers, the end of ML and nearly AIG too. A new word which has been hardly used before. Trillion. Million is a rare word now. Trillion is the 'in' thing now.

5. President-elect of the United States : Barack Obama. What can I say? Nothing because it is none of my concerns since i'm not an US citizen. I do not know much about him, neither will i read up more about him but his election campaign was one of the top event of 2008. Agreed?

6. The Mumbai attacks. This shook the entire region or the world i think. Unfortunately, it left me with a countryman (it is a lady) died. May you rest in peace.

I hope 2009 will be a good year for everyone, myself, my career and most importantly, You. I hope you will have a smooth sailing year ahead and I will always stand by your side. :)

To the fcuker whose hand is so itchy.....

2008-10-13T17:43:00.001+08:00

I"m going to break your hand if i catch you doing it again!!!!!

Singapore GrandPrix

2008-09-28T23:30:00.009+08:00

My map and my grandstand ticket.

Yes, the first ever night race have completed and I have finally have the tested of the F1 machine raw sound. It was awesome, brilliant, stunning and magnificent. I never regretted going for the event, even though I was all by myself on the Grandstand.

A map sighting your location.

The view from my Grandstand.

A blur image of Lewis Hamilton. (Still fiddling with the setting of my camera.)

A blur image of Kimi Raikkonen. (Still fiddling with the setting of my camera.)

STR-Ferrari and RedBull.

Winner of the Singapore Grandprix : Fernando Alonso (Renault)

The day Wall St is no longer the same......

2008-09-18T20:51:00.003+08:00

1. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm until its bankruptcy in September 2008. The firm did business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales, research and trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking. It was a primary dealer in the U.S. Treasury securities market. Its primary subsidiaries included Lehman Brothers Inc., Neuberger Berman Inc., Aurora Loan Services, Inc., SIB Mortgage Corporation, Lehman Brothers Bank, FSB, and the Crossroads Group. The firm's worldwide headquarters were in New York City, with regional headquarters in London and Tokyo, as well as offices located throughout the world.

On September 15, 2008, it filed for bankruptcy protection; the filing marks the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The following day, its investment banking and trading divisions were acquired by Barclays along with its New York head office.

2. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. is a global financial services firm. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, the company provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related financial services worldwide. Merrill Lynch is headquartered in New York City, and occupies the entire 34 stories of the Four World Financial Center building in Manhattan. Plans were announced on September 14, 2008 for Bank of America to acquire Merrill Lynch, if approved by regulators and shareholders of both companies.

3.The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc., based in New York City, was one of the largest global investment banks and securities trading and brokerage firms prior to its collapse in 2008. The main business areas, based on 2006 net revenue distributions, were: capital markets (equities, fixed income, investment banking; just under 80%), wealth management (under 10%) and global clearing services (12%).

Beginning in 2007, the company was badly damaged by the subprime mortgage crisis. In March 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provided an emergency loan to try to avert a sudden collapse of the company. The company could not be saved, however, and was sold to JPMorgan Chase for ten dollars per share, a price far below the 52 Week High of $133.20 per share, traded before the crisis, although not as low as the two dollars per share originally agreed upon by Bear Stearns and JP Morgan Chase.

These names are no longer there any more. The businesses will be slowly be changed to their new acquired Company. Whatever it is, it looks like the bear have struck.

Further to that, AIG needed a lifeline from the Fed to prevent themselves from suffering the same fate as Lehman Brothers. More is sure to come.........

F1 fever......

2008-09-08T11:04:00.003+08:00

The F1 fever is starting to catch up..... F1 cars have been put up in various places in Orchard for fans to view....

Here is the McLaren F1.....

A personal best at the alley.....

2008-09-04T18:16:00.003+08:00

A personal best at the alley..... that is the best that i have even played. Hopefully can break this the next time.....

Give it a guess which is my score...... Beer on me for the winner(not for those present at the alley).

Jaded.....

2008-08-29T21:38:00.002+08:00

A lot of happened since my last blog entry. I'm sure a lot more will be happening again.

Unknowingly it is already Q3 of 2008, I felt nothing much have been achieved. Another year of my life I have wasted and I will never get it back again.

I have signed up for the 10KM run in Q4, hopefully i can actually finished it below 1hr.....

A day to remember

2008-04-15T18:40:00.002+08:00

Today i started blogging with a heavy heart. My uncle have left this world as on Sunday morning in his sleep.

He left behind nothing. No children, no wife. I have always read about people dieing in their sleep but it never come across my mind that it will be someone from my family. Even if it was, I will have never expected it will be this particular uncle of mine.

He was always the jovial one in the family. He was always the one who make the most jokes, he was always the one who everyone loves to talk nonsense to. Suddenly he is no longer around.

He left this world in the early morning, the gf only found out he wasn't going to wake up forever at about 11am. All my families were informed except for my grandma and he was my grandma's favourite son. She is 80+ this year and the only thoughts were if she is able to take this piece of news. So we went ahead with the funeral preparations and at the same time, discussing with all my uncles and aunties how to break the news to her. My mom and aunties brought her to the wake and told her while on the road.

It was such a heartbreaking scene to see her reaching her own son funeral.......... Today we saw him being rolled into the furnace. It's a heartbreaking scene too......

May you rest in peace.......

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This incident have brought me to my attention that I have been moving too fast, too fast till all i do is hi - bye, when i see him.

Treasure while you can, else time will slip through that fingers of your......

A true RED (part 2)

2008-01-08T18:20:00.000+08:00

I kinda ditch my BLUEZ for this RED. Wait. It is not a "KINDA", it is a reality. The BLUEZ has been ditched and for this RED hatchy.

For once, this car have the trail of my own. :) No, wait. It has the trail of US, not just me. :D

Hi 2008, Bye 2007

2008-01-01T10:13:00.000+08:00

I guess i would probably take this chance to reflect on all the happenings in 2007 and plans for 2008.

2007 have been a fruitful year. Full of ups and full of downs. Numerous things was changed, lifestyles, possessions, environment, career, health and habits. A lot of new experiences and challenges were laid into my path too.

I wonder how would 2008 unfold before me, some said in 2008, it will be a path of more downs than up. Roads will be longer, danger lurking along the paths. However, looking back at the previous previous years. Other than 2007, the difficulties that awaits me in 2008 are just like any other years that I had previously. So i'm thinking aloud now, what the diff??....

Anyway, I still hope for the better in 2008 and similarly, i can speak again in 2009 here that "It has been a fruitful year."

Becoming a true RED

2007-12-19T19:17:00.000+08:00

I will see RED on the 21th or later........

Mazda 2 | Honda Fit

2007-10-23T14:05:00.001+08:00

Hmm........ now this is where the headache start!!!!........ Any opinions.......

FIT RS!!!!!........ this is so damn cool!!!!...... but it is going to cost 70K SGD!!!!

Krabi, Thailand

2007-10-15T19:08:00.000+08:00

Went there for a few days. Basically is island hoping, sun tanning by the beach, spa retreat and checking out Krabi town.

Tiger Cave was missed due to incorrect planning, Cave kayaking was given a missed.

Ao Nang beach during the sunset......

Taxi Bike at work.

Wet Krabi Town.

Another beach. Cannot remember

Ao Nang strip by the beach front.

Ao Nang strip, where the pubs, restaurants, cafes, shops and resorts are.

Me in the tub!!!

Pee-a-boo toilet!!!....

Tup Island, if you look harder at pictures, there is a shoreline where you can walk to the other island.

Some island

Shot taken on Bamboo Island.... (surprisingly i didn't see any bamboo trees...... REMEMBER to bring your slipper down when you come here)

More Fishy....Fishy....Fishy....Fishy....

Fishy....Fishy....Fishy....Fishy....

Maya Laguna (Similarly, it is infected with tourists on speedboats...)

Maya Laguna

Another shot of Maya Bay, able to see that this place is infected with tourists!!! (Supposedly this is the place where "The Beach" was taken)

Maya Bay

View from my room

Our resort stay

Bikes for rent

Very informative board......

Ao Nang Beach

Our first dinner there..... Cute presentation yah.....

Nice tub..... Beng, maybe this can be the next club 9003!!!!...... haha.... and you can do your painting inside!!!

Pictures taken on my Birthday......

2007-10-15T19:04:00.000+08:00

Thanks Chrsytal for the pics...... Looking at these... make me hungry!!!!.....

Butter Crab!!!!..... My favourite......

Thank you.....

2007-09-17T18:58:00.001+08:00

Thanks for turning up for the dinner..... sorry if there was not enuff food. 5 Crabs, 1 Vegetable, 1 Toufu, 1 Fortune Chicken, 2 Rojaks.....

Thanks for the shoes.... Dunno who shared this... but still.... thanks alot....

Happy Birthday!!!

2007-09-15T09:56:00.001+08:00

Happy Birthday to you......
365 days later.... and it is going to be the BIG FIGURE MOVE!!!!......

Heaven's New Rules

2007-09-11T16:53:00.000+08:00

So, it was getting a little crowded in Heaven and God decided to change the admission policy.

The new rule: To get into Heaven, you must have had a real bummer of a last day on earth.
The next day at 12:01 a.m., the first new soul came knockin' on Heaven's door.

The Angel in charge, enforcing the new policy, promptly said to the man, "Before I can let you in, I need you to tell me how your day was going when you died."
"No problem," the man said.

I came home unannounced to my 25th floor apartment on my lunch hour and caught my wife half naked. She appeared to be having an affair, but her lover was nowhere in sight. I immediately began searching for him. My wife was crying and carrying on, but I scoured the apartment.

Just as I was about to give up, I glanced out onto the balcony and noticed a man hanging off the edge by his fingertips! The nerve of the SOB!

Well, I ran out there and stomped on his fingers until he fell. But, wouldn't you know it, he lands in some trees and bushes that broke his fall. This ticked me off even more. In a rage, I went back inside to get something to throw at him.

The first thing I saw was the refrigerator. I unplugged it, pushed it onto the balcony and flipped it over the side. It plummeted the 25 floors and crushed him!

Unfortunately, the stress brought on by all of this was so great that I had a heart attack and died right on the spot."

The Angel sat back and thought a moment. Technically, the guy didn't belong here, but he did have one very bad last day, guilty only of a crime of passion. So, the Angel said, "OK, sir. Welcome to the Kingdom of Heaven," and let him in.

Minutes later, another man approached. The Angel said, "Before I can let you in, you must tell me what your final day was like."

"No problem," said the second man. "But you're not going to believe this.
I'm on the balcony of my 26th floor apartment doing my daily exercises. I'd been under a lot of pressure, so I was really pushing hard to relieve my stress. I guess I got a little carried away, slipped and accidentally fell over the side! Luckily, I was able to catch myself by the fingertips on the balcony below mine.

But then all of a sudden this wild man comes running out of his apartment cursing a blue streak and starts stomping on my fingers. Well, of course, I can't hold on. Luckily, I drop through some trees, breaking my fall, and I land in some bushes. I'm battered but alive.

As I'm lying there face up on the ground unable to move, I see the lunatic push a refrigerator off the balcony. It falls the 25 floors and lands right on top of me. Lights out!"

The Angel quietly laughs to himself as the man finishes his story. "Very well, my son" the Angel says, "welcome to the Kingdom of Heaven," and he lets the man enter.
Minutes later another man comes along. The angel says, "Please tell me how you died."

Guess who's e 3rd person.........
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An old colleague told me this via MSN.... haha.... and it got it right..... he sianz..... haha.....

Week 2 (19 Aug ~ 25Aug)

2007-08-25T04:01:00.000+08:00

19 Aug
Wet weather spoils everything. Today was a day of sightseeing. First destination. The British Airways London Eye. I know we are building one back home but i’m in London, so went up for a ride. The view was magnificient. Almost catching a good view of the whole of London city. There was Wembley Stadium, the House of Parliament, etc etc. Whole ride took about 45mins. It was a waste because of the rain else it would really be great. Oh ya, the ticket cost about 15pounds. Expensive??? Next destination, Buckingham Palace. WTF is that? Go to http://www.google.com/ and type in Buckingham palace. The result will tell you what is that. Nah, i’m kidding. This is the place where the Queen entertains her guests or hold functions, the place where she works, etc. Or in another words, something like the Istana in Singapore.

I don’t how to describe it, but it is so F****** GRAND. There were at least 5-10 chandeliers, countless paintings from the 18 centuries that is kept up to today. I cannot remember how any rooms were there but there East Gallery, the Ballroom, the Marble Room, etc, etc. Oh and i saw those Royal Guards that United Kingdom are famous for (Those guards in red with black furry headgears). They have a ceremory for changing Guards which occur everyday at 11am, too bad i missed it. As the Palace does not allow photo taking inside, all you can see are the outside shoots of the Palace.

Well, there are still alot of destinations which i did not have time for it. Which hopefully next time i get the chances to visit them.
House of Parliament
The London Eye
A bird eye view from the London Eye
Nearer shot of the House of Parliament
Lunch of the Day, Roasted Bacon with salad.
The Bromsgrove Guild
Outside the Buckingham Palace
Another outside shoot of the Palace from the Garden
A view from far from the Palace garden
Dinner of the day. Thai Green Curry with Rice. (Don't look green to me)

20 Aug
Last week here in London. Training sessions are all over. Now I probably be taking calls or tagging onto someone here who can guide me along. Today is much much better, no rain but it is still windy. I hope this will be the case for the rest of the week. Starting to feel home sick already. I’m just sick of eating bread, eating cold sandwiches. As i’m sitting here at a cafe, suddenly there was this very long limo. Full of ladies in the limo and it is PINK!!!!!

That’s all for today. I’m going back to the hotel. Cya soon Singapore.

The Pink Limo

21 Aug
Nothing exciting happened today. Same old stuffs at work, full of learning, full of questions to ask everyone, how to do this, how to do that but if i don’t ask, i will never know how to do them. I rather be a nuisane for a day than be a nuisane forever. :P Had a informal lunch meeting with my boss and 2 other heads. Gave some feedbacks on how i wish my team can improve better and they advised me how to improve things better and some of the expectations and requirements they have for me.

Went to Four Season Chinese Resturant at Bayswater for dinner. Had the usual stuffs that i can get them easily in Singapore and I realised i never appreciate such food until I came here. The roast duck was as good as Singapore, the roast pork was good but not great. My mom’s roast porks are better. Hmm... I miss my mom cooking. The kailan was alright, nothing spectacular so was the Kung Po Diced Chicken but the TangHoon Beef was excellent. I was really full, very full. After dinner was drinking again. The area in Bayswater is rather full of activities, it was crowded. There was quite a number of chinese restaurants too. Most of them sell the same stuffs as the Four Season Chinese Restaurant i went.

Their version of Electronic Road Pricing (The London version)

22 Aug
A very windy and cold morning greeted me. It was really really cold. Especially after the rain last night. After that it was off to work again, today was more challenging. Start to work on more work requests and more challenging calls. Had a bagel for lunch, it was good. Hardly get hot meals here, either they are expensive or they tasted awful. :P

Again I went for a drink again. Didn’t know where to go for dinner, just got a chicken burger from a Kebah stall and got a salad from Mark & Spencers. Yes, the Mark & Spencers sell food here. Big difference from the Mark & Spencers in Singapore where its sell clothings and snacks.
Remember i told you that the weather was cranky here. Suddenly it was raining heavily, so cold and so wet. So far this was the heaviest I have ever seen.

I feel kind of weird now. Because there is a game between England and Germany. Under normal circumstances, i would wake up in the middle of the night to catch these games but no, they are showing on TV at 8pm at night. Devaju......

Mr Pineapple at work

23 Aug
A normal day at work again with more to learn. Gav promised to bring me out for Curry, so after work, went down to south London with Scotty and Gav at some Indian restaurant but before having curry, they must drink first. End up having 2 pimms of Stella and head down to the curry place. I'm impressed that they have very delicious curry dishes.

24 Aug
Last working day at Pats London, last night at London. Nothing much to do. Had a relative busy day, following up work requests, checking on production issues. Particular pissed of with someone in the Singapore office. Farking stupid.... anyway, i almost forgotten about getting things for my families and friends.

Last night was spent in the office talking to Beng and Hanny on the MSN. Haha.... particular right.... but still alright, Scotty wanted pizza for dinner, so end up with a Hawaiian pizza again. Not the particular way i want spent my last night in a foreign land but most of them already had plans for the evening and I shall not disturb their weekend any further.

Hawaiian Pizza

25Aug,
Had my last breakfast at the hotel and waited for the cab to come pick me up. Surprisingly, the cab driver kind of take me to see the places i visited previously. Lovely and full of histories is the way to describe them. :)

The airport was full of passengers leaving the country. I guess either Changi Airport is huge, or Heathrow Terminal 3 is too small, it is really crowded though as compared to Changi Airport.

My daily breakfast at the hotel. (I'm staying away from breads, bacon, beans and sausages)

Week 1 (11Aug ~ 18 Aug)

2007-08-25T03:58:00.000+08:00

11 Aug

Things didn’t departed as per normal. My flight was delayed for an hour for a stupid part that need to be replaced. So my flight that supposed to reach London @ 1910 turned out to reached @ 2010. However, when we reached there, the traffic was high so we have to stay in the holding area for about 10mins before we are allowed to land. Lan Lan.... That is not all. Since we are late, the original parking that the plane supposed to park got taken by another plane. Lan Lan.... waited for 10mins again. This was really not my day..... , I have to wait for freaking 30mins for my lugguage before i can finally depart the custom immigration.
Met up with my driver and the driver is kind of blur and slow.... So i left the airport at about 2130, i reach the hotel and finally settled down @ 2300. Time to go to sleep already. Not a good start......

12 Aug
Quite a good start. The breakfast was pretty nice, there was bacon, eggs, sausages, etc etc etc. The usual stuffs where you can find. Since I have the whole day, so I decided to check out the Abercombie & Fitch outlet. I remember clearly I know where the place was, but I guess i was early, that’s why I couldn’t find the place, since most of the shop open @ 12noon on a Sunday. So after lunch, i finally asked my gf to text me the exact address and finally I found it. The clothings are farking expensive. They are of the same prices as the US stores but the prices are in pounds.

For the whole day, I went to the following places. The Tower Bridge and London Bridge. The 2 places are full of tourists and I’m one of them. Decided to check out the route to office too. Had McDonald for lunch since I didn’t know what was good. After that, I went down to Stamford Bridge, yes the House of the Chelski FC. Hoping to get the ticket for the opening match but guess what, the match was already played halfway. The stadium is nice, very nice. Haha.... and guess what, I was outside the stadium when Michael Essien score the winning goal. Haha.... cheap trill ya.

So since i couldn’t go into the stadium, i just took a few pictures and left the place. It was still early, so took the train to visit St Paul Cathedral. Grand. Very Grand is all i can describe the cathedral. Stay there for a while and left the place and head back for the hotel.

Pics for the day....
Tower Bridge
Chelsea Football Club @ Stamford Bridge
My office location
St Paul Cathedral
The Entrance of St Paul
Tower of London

13 Aug
Left for work at 0740, reached office at 0800. Guess I was supposed to report to work at 0900. Haha... anyway, training wasn’t that bad. Got an introduction of the company, got a overview of the different components of the architecture of the system. There was another 3 GSD members that started on the same day. So i guess things are not that bad afterall.

Crapz.... Look like the rain is here. Look like it is going to be a wet week. Got to get my umbrella soon. The weather is very nice, cool and sunny, just nice the kinda weather that I love but hopefully not the rain.

I will try to post the pictures as much as possible. As i have to pay the internet access at my hotel, the nearby coffee place has free Wi-Fi access, so i might head down there after work to get myself hook up to the network.

14 Aug
I realised something about the people here. Everyone is so polite and everyone is so enthusitic about work. Everyday my boss’s boss greet me good morning, in fact he greet everyone on his team good morning. He seem to make an effort to do so. I’m amazed..... very amazed by the culture here. This time here gave me new insight and new learning about the way treating the subordinates.

The wet weather is here. It’ve really rain. Had no choice but to buy my umbrella. The day ended with a session of drinks with the new guys and the old staffs.... It was really great.

15 Aug
The day started off with the wet weather again. Mid day it was sunny again. The day ended with wet weather again. Cranky weather and please be reminded that it is summer now. It sure doesn’t feel like summer to me when everyday it is around 20’C.

Met Scott, the Team Leader here. He was excellent. Seem to me they are really positive about my appointment of Team Leader in Singapore. I really hope that I can do a good job.

End up going drinking again with Ben Smith, James Rob and Scott. It was really fun hanging out with them. Gave me a good insight of Gavin (My direct boss) and Paul (My boss’s boss)

The thing i realised in London is the buildings. There is a good mixture of old buildings and modernise ones. They seem to be able to mix the new ones with the old ones which I quite like them. Full of cultures and histories.

16 Aug
It was another day of drinks again. Cos one of the GSD guy was leaving and he was quite well liked by the rest. Everyone kinda turned up for his farewell drinks. Oh, btw he is from HongKong so I kinda feel much at home hanging out with him. He was really friendly too, well all of them are friendly.

Had a few drinks and he brought me down to Chinatown at Leicester Sq for dinner. Yes, rice with vegetables, pork chop, toufu and chicken. The first time that i ate something that resembles home. The food was great although not as good as Singapore but it was still close enough. By the time i reach back at the hotel it was already 2330. Realised it was pretty dangerous to be walking around at that time.

Something i kinda of lose track of time as it seem like everyday is a working day. Finally it is Friday and it is the weekend again.

Leicester Square

17 Aug

It is the last day of training. Next week I will be working together with the guys here. Probably won’t be answering calls but will try to help out.

Today was Yee’s last day. The HongKong guy that who was leaving. Ended up having dinner with him and another Hongkong down at Chinatown again. This time was Japanese food. Nice but expensive. It was 60pounds (180SGD) for 3 person, in Singapore, that would easily be 180SGD would get you a very very decent japanese food.

Thinking of where to go this weekend. Probably will do some shopping over at Covent Garden, Pacadilly Circus on Sat and if possible head down to Craven Cottage, to catch the game between Fulham and Boro.

Some drinking crowds outside a pub nearby my office

The National Gallery

18 Aug

As decided the day before, I did went to Pacadilly Circus and Convent Garden for shopping and trust me, they are not cheap to begin with, especially Convent Garden. The place has more things in terms of clothings, shoes, etc, etc but they are really expensive. For example, I saw a pair of shoes from the Onitsuka Tiger range. It was really nice and i really liked it but the price kinda put me off. It was 60pounds, that works out to be 180SGD. I suspect i can get them cheaper back home. Next, i was at Picadilly Circus, there was this store shop that sells alot of sport apparals. Some were cheap, some were not. Managed to get a t-shirt which is on SALE and it still cost me 30SGD. Crapz right.

Lastly, I did head down to Craven Cottage. Home of Fulham FC. They were playing against Middleborough. The stadium was shabbly than I expected. Even our Geylang United Stadium looks better expected Craven Cottage can take in more spectators than Geylang United. Anyway, Fulham lost 2-1 to Boro, they were kind of unlucky as they had a number of referreeing errors. The fans were full of passion, especially the Boro’s fan. I believe there were just 2000 – 3000 of them but their voices were louder than the home fans. Way way louder.
After the match, didn’t head out much, just some simple sightseeing and i head back to my hotel. Although one of my colleagues was holding a party at his place, i didn’t print out his address. So too bad, back in the hotel watching tv.
Picadilly Circus Underground Station
Regent Street
Slightly before kick off
This is where I sat
Dinner for the night.

Bye Singapore, Hello London... :)

2007-08-11T11:27:00.000+08:00

Time to go.... ;0)

Date of Departure : 11 Aug, Time of Departure : 1240

2007-08-07T17:57:00.000+08:00

Destination : London Heathrow Terminal 3

Attack of the JellyFishes on Sat....

2007-07-25T21:20:00.000+08:00

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all thanks to Muscle.... this was my dinner tonight...... self made carbonara.......

New Job, New Start

2007-07-24T19:38:00.000+08:00

Today is the start of my 2nd job. Luckily everything went smoothly today, finger cross for the rest of the week. Things look fairly easier but hopefully things get moving faster and I get settled down quickly too. The current care taker of the team is really CMI, i guess he seriously have a problem with communication but I guess he was there for a reason.

Look like my working hours is brought forward by at least 4hours, meaning i got to be @ work @ 0530 which result that my decision to change my car to a weekend car is dashed, well not totally dashed yet but chances are very slim now. Maybe i shall plan my own shift to my advantage. Heehee.....

There will be restructuring in the office, guess i shall not be so comfortable in my current workstation as I will probably be moving to another desk. I like the deskthat I'll be moving to. Why? I shall show you in future. I think it is an ideal place.

A return to Sepang F1 Circuit

2007-07-21T13:21:00.000+08:00

Last time i went is for the Japan GT Race, this time is with RexFactor Trackday. Interesting event but full of casualties including myself. @#$^&*^*()_*^$@@$%

- 1x Golf GTI damaged his left wheel, headlights, fender, bumper, got to towed back
- 1 x Subaru Impreza WRX STI damaged right headlight, fender, bumper, lucky can drive back
- 2 x Subaru Impreza WRX, Engine 'biang' - Towed back (Suspect these 2 are STI too)
- 1 x Subaru Impreza WRX STI, 2 x punctured tires, luckily nearby the circuit have workshop.
- 1 x Honda Accord Euro R. Damage to the bonnet, front bumper, front fenders, headlights, lucky can drive back.
- 1 x passport lost after reaching Singapore (CCB.... that's my passport, dunno where i dropped it. That the result of no sleeping for more than 24 hours)

Here the action pictures during in the day.
Nismo Z-tuned Nissan March without his colour
Nismo Z-tuned Nissan March in action
Gary 'beoing' that ultra big turbo on the Evo 9
Evo 9 Wagon... Dun play play....
WRX on the straight road....
EVO 9. Lots of them, White, Black, Blue, Gun Metal but NO RED!!!!.....
Back to the Pits for cool down.....

Hello...... Are you Andy............Tan??

2007-07-16T15:48:00.000+08:00

Again, I have received such calls from this bloody organization call SAFRA looking for Andy TAN. Despite previous times, telling them this is not Andy Tan's number, somehow they do not seem to understand. Even with suggestions, that update your records or remove my number, they dun seem to get it.....

It is really frustrating, it is just like telling my baby nephew, don't do this. Just that my nephew is still a baby and these idiots are freaking adults. I mean where the hell did their brains went to. OMG....... In the end, I yelled at their Communication and PR Division representative to get this done.

It just pisses me off that my message did not go through previously. This time wasting and this is totally dumb.

To ANDY TAN,

You are a dumb fark. You can't even remember your mobile number. Imagine how dumb are you. Cannot imagine you can be part of some committee shit. I guess with those SAFRA idiots + you, doesn't make much an important committee.

Parking Idiots....

2007-07-08T18:08:00.000+08:00

The name says it all : parking idiots. Look at the amount of space that is available on the left side of the car, yet this idiot can parked it into my lot. So I purposely parked it very closely by the driver side so that he will have a problem getting in.

Too bad when I returned, the car have already drove off. It would be interesting to see how that farker gets into his car.....

Finale.....

2007-07-07T12:25:00.001+08:00

Yeah!!!!.... It is the final week of work. As I seen all my ex-colleagues countdown to their last day. I finally understand how happy they are. On the other hand, during this notice period, things get freaking bored. Everyday you just step into the office, just to show your face. Basically for the last 2 weeks, I'm there just to tell people that "I'm still around, but please do not come and ask me things, cos I don't farking care....." :P

Going to take one week off and decide if i want to continue taking the whole month off. New employer is giving the deadline to start work on the 6 Aug if not earlier. Pretty excited with the new environment, afterall, this is my 2nd job. The first one lasted me 4 1/2 years.

Til then. Finger crossed.......

Times flies......

2007-06-28T20:48:00.000+08:00

Time indeed flies... cause in another 2 weeks time. I'm going to be out of job. I'm leaving this coy for good. For once, i'm happy with what is going to happen. Things have not been going well weeks ago, finally things is kind of falling into place...... I'm glad.

1. Things wasn't that settled. Everyone was still trying to grasp hold what was happening after my boss "resigned". Although i had resigned before, i was still very sad that she "resigned". Worse, the very farker that she brought in, is back stabbing her now. This kind of idiot.... hope he get his deserved retribution in future..........

2. My team was unsettled. The future of my team was full of uncertainty. Even when things were finally settled down. Things was still going against them. Hopefully they will find a new place where their efforts is appreciated....

3. Despite the fact that i was leaving. Rumors were flying around that i was staying. Suddenly everyone seem so friendly to me, persuading me to stay. However, after so much have said. No one actually counter-offer me. What rubbish, expecting me to stay for nothing. I'm sorry friend, the world don't work this way. There is a price for everything, although somethings are still priceless.

4. My wisdom tooth surgery didn't go too well. For the whole week, it still hurt badly. Up to this morning, it was still aching. Visited the doc again today and he fixed it up and now it is getting better.

5. My darling is enjoying her new job. I'm glad she is happy there, not like her old place. Work like mad and others get the rewards. Pui..... This happened to me too, I slogged like hell and others just claim the efforts... &*^%$&^(*&()&^&$# Ball to you..... I'm leaving for good and wish you all farkers suffer in hell.............

For now.......

2 done, 2 to go....

2007-06-13T21:38:00.000+08:00

The dentist chair.... something that i have not visited for 7 yrs.... the result for not going in the past is here to haunt me.... my wisdom tooth is causing decays to my 2 back teeth(I think it is called the 2nd molars). Now i'm having toothache from the decays.... @$#^&%&*&(*$%$ Anyway... i'm done with the right side. Have to wait for it to heal before I go and do to the left side.

Tough on the wallet and tough on my mouth.....

One door closed, the other will open.

2007-06-07T22:52:00.000+08:00

Suddenly things doesn't look like what is should be anymore...... somehow I felt that my eyes are playing a trick on me. They dun seem to be telling me the truth. Looks like the road ahead is clouded but soon the fog will lift and the road will be clear for travel again.....

For once i'm clear that this path have come to an end and time to switch to a new path.

菜鸟家族

2007-05-28T20:23:00.000+08:00

It is funny that all I see are people from the 菜鸟家族, I realized that coming to the workforce have widen my knowledge and I believe that dumb people the majority and the clever ones are the minority. Why did i say so, becos the clever ones have to lead the dumb ones.....

Here's what I encountered today.

1. In Excel there are [Sheet1], [Sheet2] and [Sheet3] at the bottom of the spreadsheet where we can categories the spreadsheet for easy viewing.

Two readers can actually missed that it was Font size 14. Amazing right. Worse, one of the sheet contains important information and they just simply assumed that everything is kept the same and use the old broker code. Ha. Too bad for them, redo everything again.

2. We have a standard kind of form for new applicants to fill in. However, the form might not be updated and requires periodically updates. So to avoid this problem we can actually write what we need at the side or under the Remarks.

The question we got was "How do i write on the form???". OMG. Has she ever heard of a wonderful invention call the 'PEN'. Jesus Christ!!!! Can you imagine that?

I guess everyone in this Coy is either dumb fucks.... or they can't give a shit about using their freaking brains..... We are using just 20% or even lesser of our brains.... These farkers are just using none.....

So come to think of it, this 家族 members have the same name....
姓氏: 菜
名: 鸟
They are all 菜鸟!!!

Back From Redang Island

2007-05-22T21:59:00.000+08:00

Realized it is more than a month since my last entry, anyway here is the latest update.

Just came back from Redang Island, I love that place. The water is clear, crystal clear in fact. Stay at Berjaya Redang Beach Resort. Originally booked for a superior room but was upgraded to deluxe room.... (Nice but scary) The beach is beautiful, in fact it was pretty much like a private beach, everyone seem to have enuff space to enjoy themselves, if the beach had less died corals, i guess i would think the beach is perfect. Here some pictures from the lovely island.

Left Singapore on the 16th night and reached there onli in 17th noon. Overall, i spent like 20 hours on the bus and the ferry. Quite wasteful in my opinion but still find it acceptable. Stayed for 3 nights, did a spa massage, snorkeling at various spots of the island and enjoying the sun, the sand and the water.

And then we made some funny findings on the island.

1st there is Frankie the lizard. A huge lizard that come by our hotel room EVERYDAY and stay there by the door. On the last night he even brought his companion along.... Yuckz...... He even came to say Goodbye when we left......

2ndly, it was Mussel's arch enemy (He is A-xia, they are the Masks xia), this couple was like wearing a visor to protect their face from getting burnt and they spent hell lots of time in the sun. At least 5 hours...under the direct sun. Oh gosh...... anyway they were really funny to look at .....

3rd finding is this china couple. They were with us on the snorkeling trip. They rented a set of flippers each, and the woman kanna gan by one of the ang mo for not knowing how to use the flippers safely. Anyway the flippers was not the main finding, they are really weird. They think they are taking their summer collection photos.... the lady would posed and the guy would help to take the pictures. The most funniest part is, they would bother to go back to the hotel room and change to another set of clothing and come back to the beach for photo taking. This happens a total of 3 times. First she was wearing short, Second she was wearing sarong, Third she was wearing dress.......

Anyway this beach is rather quiet compared to Long Beach (Laguna Redang is located). and the beer is freaking expensive. I paid 17RM for a small bloodly glass. I think the glass can only hold 150ml of the beer... Felt so farking conned.... other than that, the breakfast was so-so, didn't tried the hotel food cos they were freaking expensive, a plate of fried rice was 25Rm....

Overall i would visit this place again maybe to another beach where Laguna is but not within these few years unless they found a better way to travel to this island.

Time's up

2007-04-18T22:32:00.000+08:00

I guess it is really time's up for me. I know I have spoken about this before but I really think I should move on. Everyday, I drag myself to work.... I force myself to work.... This is not healthy,
I used to love my job, I used to love working with the team, but this have changed drastically eversince the business have been bought over. With the old team all over the industry, it is great to see them excel except myself. Maybe i'm jealous but seriously speaking. There is nothing to be jealous about.

An old colleague recently introduce me to his colleague, this is Andy, Head of Support team for MAN. I wish i was proud of my title but i'm not. I'm underachieving, underpaid (everyone on earth seem to think their underpaid), I wish I can be more involved but somehow i'm not getting there yet......

The current team is working fine, there is two very clever staffs which still requires a bit of time and I'm sure they will achieve more than me. I don't know what is going to happen next. Hopefully I will find something that I like or else..........

Phantom Of The Opera

2007-04-02T20:28:00.000+08:00

Wonderful. Totally enjoyed the play. Although, my seat wasn't that fantastic but it was good enough. Next time, I will probably spend a bit more and get a slightly better ones. Most important, she was there along side with me throughout the show. Certainly hope she enjoyed as much as i did.

The voice, the pitch... it was clear... it was high.... definitely something which is entertaining especially you heard it 'live'. I would recommend this to my friends.

Traits of a leader

2007-03-29T21:57:00.000+08:00

Honesty - Display sincerity, integrity, and candor in all your actions.
Competent - Your actions should be based on reason and moral principles. Do not make decisions based on childlike emotional desires or feelings.
Forward-looking Set goals and have a vision of the future. The vision must be owned throughout the organization. Effective leaders envision what they want and how to get it. They habitually pick priorities stemming from their basic values.
Inspiring - Display confidence in all that you do. By showing endurance in mental, physical, and spiritual stamina, you will inspire others to reach for new heights.
Intelligent - Read, study, and seek challenging assignments.
Fair-minded - Show fair treatment to all people. Prejudice is the enemy of justice. Display empathy by being sensitive to the feelings, values, interests, and well-being of others.
Broad-minded - Seek out diversity.
Courageous - Have the perseverance to accomplish a goal, regardless of the seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Display a confident calmness when under stress.
Straightforward - Use sound judgment to make a good decisions at the right time.
Imaginative - Make timely and appropriate changes in your thinking, plans, and methods. Show creativity by thinking of new and better goals, ideas, and solutions to problems.

This is something that i would like to have. Hopefully i can achieve 1/2 of what on the list so that i can lead my team well.

Unfortunately, those leaders in MF do not have such traits. Really so unfortunate........

A new toy to replace my v3

2007-03-20T21:44:00.000+08:00

Just got this phone to replace my V3. Sometimes I just felt my v3 was pushed to the limit for my usage. Officially, my v3 have been passed on to my mom so that she can take my nephew pics. :P :P

Actually wanted to get the Samsung z400 which was going for 88bucks... and this phone it was going at $468..... but when i made up my mind, the salesperson told me "Oh, you actually have a $100 voucher from M1".... Den it made me reconsider my choice. Cos with of the following

1. subscription of value added service, there is a deduction of $50.
2. my $100 voucher.
3. A rebate of $60 from my M1 Platinum Card when i purchase a 3G phone.
4. $35 cash bonus earned from my credit card

So total savings was $245. So total i spent $223. :)

The Phantom of the Opera

2007-03-19T21:41:00.000+08:00

A date with the Phantom on 31 Mar, 2pm. Finger crossed that nothing clashes with this... or else.... things probably going to get nasty.......

2007-03-03T10:42:00.000+08:00

Just as yesterday night I was rushing back home to get the car and rush back to office. Seem to me I'm always rushing here... rushing there..... damn i hate this. I used to ask myself, why the hell does the morning crowd seem to be on a fast pace. .... after joining the workforce for 4 yrs. I finally understood.... so that in office, it will look natural that they are busy.

Starting to pick the pace at work.....Sometimes I just wish I could leave this place for another better place..... but it is not that this place is really fark up.... but I just want to see how big is this world.... there is so much to learn.. .and I'm here already for 4yrs.... Everyday I just tell myself.... Time is not up for you yet.... Patience, you must have...... my young padawan...

Look like I'm slacking on my entries recently. Well, Chinese New Year is coming to an end. Total P & L..... +10..... this is considered a good yr already, taking past years into account.... Just went for a boat trip last Sunday, end result - First Degree Burnt..... damn.... at this moment, my back itch like fark..... the skins are flaking everywhere...... the whole back is peeling like nobody business......

Piped in music at Capital Square

2007-02-11T21:06:00.001+08:00

Pulau Ubin + Car back from Workshop

2007-02-01T17:46:00.000+08:00

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Ubin

2007-01-26T11:34:00.000+08:00

It is really funny when to see human do the things to get into other ppl's good book. Our London and Chicago VVIP is here in Singapore. So the admin clerk, send out an email to everyone tell them not adjust the window blinds. Instead, every blinds have to be aligned properly.

Amazing right? Totally cannot think properly. The sun is glaring, those who sit near the window will have a hard time looking at their screens, how are they supposed to work? This is not the first time already, and guess what, she will yelled at anyone who pull the blinds down. Dumb right?
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Will be going to ubin on Sunday for a 3 days 2 nights chalet with my friend. :) Will try to take some pics there since the previous time didn't took much. :D

So... it is 2007 already

2007-01-08T11:26:00.000+08:00

Indeed... times have flies.... it is 2007 already. As times changes, i strongly believed humans should change too. Either they changed for the better or they changed for the worse.

As 2 companies merged or 1 acquired by the other. There are bound to be resistance from either side of the coy. However, it sadden me greatly to see that people willing to work for the new coy but there is a majority of people who think that

"oh, the acquisition is completed. Can stop moving forward already..... "

Moving forward, is a term that is widely used by the people there. Unfortunately, 50% of those who used it, do not understand the meaning of moving forward. Here is what I found. Maybe I should print this out and paste it at my notice board.

mov·ing [moo-ving] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective

1.	capable of or having movement: a moving object.

2.	causing or producing motion.

3.	involved in changing the location of possessions, a residence, office, etc.: moving expenses.

4.	involving a motor vehicle in motion.

5.	actuating, instigating, or impelling: the moving spirit behind the party.

6.	stirring or evoking strong feelings or emotions, esp. touchingly or pathetically: a moving story.

for·ward [fawr-werd] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adverb Also, forwards.

1.	toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.

2.	toward the front: Let's move forward so we can hear better.

3.	into view or consideration; out; forth: He brought forward several good suggestions.

4.	toward the bow or front of a vessel or aircraft.

5.	ahead (defs. 4, 5).

–adjective

6.	directed toward a point in advance; moving ahead; onward: a forward motion.

7.	being in a condition of advancement; well-advanced: It was quite forward in the season when we finished our planting.

8.	ready, prompt, or eager.

9.	presumptuous, impertinent, or bold: a rude, forward child.

10.	situated in the front or forepart: the forward part of the ship.

11.	of or pertaining to the future; for the future or forward delivery: forward buying; a forward price.

12.	lying ahead or to the front: Take the forward path.

13.	radical or extreme, as persons or opinions: the forward trend in certain liberal thought.

–noun

14.

Sports.

a.	a player stationed in advance of others on a team.

b.	Football. a lineman.

c.	Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.

15.	Finance. something bought, as a security, for future delivery.

–verb (used with object)

16.	to send forward; transmit, esp. to a new address: to forward a letter.

17.	to advance or help onward; promote: The training will help to forward your career.

–verb (used without object)

18.	to advance or play a mechanism, recording tape, cassette, etc., in the forward direction: to find a musical selection without forwarding through the whole cassette.

Oh well, like what i have illustrated to my colleagues. We are a ship that is split into 2 side. 1 that row the left and the other row the right. So if 1 side doesn't do shit.... the ship end up going...... in circle. This is what I'm feeling. Even the captain is good for nothing...... This is a sinking ship... Must look out for rescue boats already.....

In the end, Mother Nature still wins

2006-12-30T01:19:00.000+08:00

As much as human evolved, Mother Nature still have the last laugh. Despite we have grown smarter, wiser, more efficient, more better technologies and new breakthrough. Mother Nature still a level higher.

An earthquake in Taiwan have damaged several undersea cables which resulted a massive meltdown on the Phones and Internet lines. Gave the I.T. personnels a whole lots of shit before the New Year. Anyway, things are more or less back to normal now but i think the recovery is still not back 100%. Hopefully within the next 2 weeks things would be back to where they were before if not better.
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The last working day of the year. Great. Wrapped up all the loose ends today and shall start all afresh in the new year. No resolutions this year. Just some wishes for the new year.
1. My family and her family would be healthy and happy
2. My career would take a next step higher and my salary to be in the next big figure
3. We can take a step closer to our goals.

Shall have a good party on NYE and grab some rest during the next few days before stepping a gear up into the new year. :)

Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year.

2006-12-25T12:17:00.000+08:00

Merry Xmas to all. :)

Rain Rain Go Away.....

2006-12-20T10:04:00.000+08:00

Finally the sun was out yesterday, after consecutively 2 days of raining. I'm quite happy to see the sun. After the cold temperature. Feel abit like Genting Highland.... :) Flash flood were reported, tree branches have fall off, walls have fallen due to the soften of the soil. Seem to me that the old problems in the 70s and 80s were coming back again. Interesting circle huh.

Anyway, yesterday marked the completion of my 3rd high key in-camp. Great. 3 down, 4 high key to go with 3 low key and that will complete my NSMEN liability. Christmas is round the corner again. Still yet to get my gift for the gift exchange :P, coincidentally this year, the gift exchange party clashes with our Company D & D. Both event is not to miss.

Comm dead....

2006-12-16T09:47:00.000+08:00

blogger is away due to communication link is down......... to be replaced with new hardware......

Malacca

2006-11-29T17:37:00.000+08:00

Just came back from Malacca. Pretty nice place. I quite like it except for the wet weather. Stayed at Hotel Puri, a refurnished hotel from an old baba house just in front of Jonker Street where the hawkers will make stores to sell souvenirs, food, fruits, shoes, t-shirts, bags, etc etc.... There are a lot of museums and art galleries too.

The food there were delicious and cheap too, except for the "cendol" which i didn't like the taste... but the funny thing is, the cendol stall was full of people.... and some even took pictures of the cendol stall.
- We had chicken rice balls + vegetables, bascially chicken rice but the rices are served in ball for 2 persons and it cost us only 14rm.
- The nonya laksa was good too but i would not recommend you to take the "hum" that cost us like 6rm.
- The dim sum was cheap and nice too, with a lot of variety for you to choose.
- Pineapple tarts are freshly baked. It is crunchy on the outside but soft on the inside. Taste great.
- Dining at the coffeeshop is even cheaper. Lunch was just 6.5rm for 2 persons. 3 dishes + 2 plates of rices.
- Dumpling Noodles and Redang Chicken Noodles that is at Jonker street is a must try. Really good.

Didn't take a lot pictures due to the bad weather. :)

The Cheng Hoon Temple, wanted to pray but didn't know the sequencing of praying.

Christ Church at the Stadthuys area. This is a popular tourist spot in Melaka.

This was the Maritime Museum. Heard that this is a monument from Portugal. Didn't went in as it doesn't felt worth the money. :P

A wall painting done free-hand. Wanted to take the painter but he was too shy.

2006-11-15T13:02:00.000+08:00

So that talking has started. So a man and a woman when being close to each other, means something is going on? Human sometime can be so shallow that they don't realized that. A man with a woman does not mean they are together. This doesn't apply to every human beings walking on the street.

The world looked like there is an invisible rule on everything. Everything must turn out the way it supposed to be. People have been following far too blindly. For once I hope everyone stop and question themselves on the things that they are doing. Rules and procedures are fixed but human are flexible and human brains are the most powerful tools which can make wonderful thing. Yet, some peoples just choose to follow without asking.

Here people want the workers to be creative but when ideas were given, the ideas get shoot down like a targetboard. So what the point of giving creative ideas when people are so resistance to changes.

Some Reflections

2006-11-07T12:12:00.000+08:00

64 yrs ago, on the 5 nov, my uncle came to this world, 64 yrs later, on the same day 5 Nov, he passed away.... How strange it is huh, and best, the number for his funeral parlour, No.5. Personally I do not know him very well and i dun see him much during the festival seasons. Whatever it is, rest in peace.
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Some singapore drivers are kiasi, so f****** dumb too. Imagine this, PIE speed limit is 90km/h but becos of the 'man in white' standing on the overhead bridge and taking a camera. Ppl slow down to 70km/h. For goodness sake, please observe the speed limits. Driving at 70km/h when it should be 90km/h, what purpose would it serve? And I encountered this twice on the same day. Anyway, I have my conclusion on those timid drivers. See Traffic Police, balls skrinked.

Sleep or Awake....

2006-10-24T13:26:00.000+08:00

Why does this world see those who are different as outcast? If that person who is not going to stay obediently in the line, he/she is deem as alien. I have my doubts. Just like the movie, The Matrix.... the humans and the machines..... the humans want to be awaken but the machines wants them to be asleep. Each fighting for their own cause.

Rules from the past, may or may not work anymore. Guess, it have been in placed far too long that ppls have long accepted that as part of their lives. Probably i'm a rebel, I'm an outcast due to the way i think but i'm sure out there in the streets, there is another person who is probably like me, wearing a mask to mask our thoughts, just to deceive everyone.....

Pulau Ubin

2006-10-13T22:50:00.000+08:00

Pulau Ubin, one of the last few islands that is left untouched by human. Wanted to go Chek Jawa but couldn't find the track there, only the 3rd cycle den we managed find the track but unfortunately, it was high tide today. So in the end couldn't see much.

Guess the life on the island is fairly simple. Saw alot of young students learning about the nature of the island. I didn't even noe that they have a chalet resort on the island. It would be a nice getaway from the hectic city pace.

I assumed that many may not even have step into Ubin. Well, this is the first time i been to Ubin, and i believe there will be more to come. :)

World Trade Center

2006-10-07T12:20:00.000+08:00

It was alright, but i was expecting much better. Guess in all mankinds histories, when it come to despair and disaster events, brothers are formed, bonding with one another were established. This prompted this question. "Must it come to the end, then humans are willing to do such acts?" Probably hope was in their mind.

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For goodness sake, I wonder how stupid human can be sometimes and if they are not stupid... then they must be selfish thinking that they are the only muthafuckers on this farking Earth. Despite all the efforts to stop all these hazy conditions, those idiots are still burning. Years after years, again and again, these haze come into the neighbouring countries, caused health problems to the civilians and all those idiots care is about their bloodly crops.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/234207/1/.html
Here is their stupidity work....

Interesting.

2006-09-27T12:48:00.000+08:00

Wanted to post this up but didn't had the time especially when so much had happened in such a short time frame....

It is somehow interesting to see yourself in another person's light. Things that they do just resembled of my younger immature days. Where life were centered around me, instead of me around life. The tantrums, the mentality and the attitude, i somehow awared that this was where i was several years back. It's come to a point where i'm felt sorry for what i have done over the last few years. I shouldn't have done all those.

I wondered if the Greater Intelligent up there, give me a chance to take a closer look at myself. Sometimes, i'm even amazed by it myself. It is almost like looking at a mirror. I guess somehow everyone is similar in a way... and at the same time different in a way. As someone had mentioned to me, only when you have that traits, you then will be able to recognise it in another person.

I hope i can help this person, however, due to my situation, it is inappropriate to do so, beside with pride on the line, I doubt he will accept my help or he would come to me for help..... For now, I shall be where I am.

30 minus 2

2006-09-15T14:01:00.000+08:00

Today is 30 minus 2 day. Any 2 more yrs will be a 'big figure' move. No plans for this year, probably just meeting my usual gang for a drink and end of the night with ah beng puking all over the place. :P MOS/Zouk??

I can't remember if what were my past years wishes and if they came true. I just hope that this year's wish come true.

Apology...

2006-09-11T12:10:00.000+08:00

Sorry bros.... i'm kind of sorting out some issues that have occurred for the past weeks, thus the absent from activities recently. We will be back.

Lao Tzu Quotes

2006-09-06T15:57:00.000+08:00

- A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
- He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
- He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
- He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
- Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
- Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Silence is a source of great strength.

September is here again

2006-08-29T22:59:00.000+08:00

Wow, with a blink of the eyes, it is coming to the last quarter of the year again. Very soon we will start shopping for X'mas gifts again..... Seem like times really flies.

Going to be another busy September and October, hopefully November will be quiet. End of November will be back in camp for my 3rd ICT, it will be another 3 weeks again. Damn... How I wish they can forget about me for 1 yr. 3 bloodly weeks. That is almost like 15 days away from work. Sickening.

Tough Times Ahead....

2006-08-24T20:32:00.000+08:00

How often do we know about others' life? Very much often, friends tried to help but in the end it just ended up making things worse. I learnt that myself, which is why when my friends has problems, i will only keep quiet and listen. Giving my views only when i think i need to.

It is the lives of 2 persons, we should respect them and their decisions. Cos at the end of the day, it is them who face the consequences. Only they know what is the best for them and not what you think is it good for them. One man's meat could be another man's poison.

Not to worry, I'm not talking about all the biatches that hang out with me weeks in, weeks out. I hope my friends will support my decision this time. Things will be tough from here onwards. Tough indeed.

Back

2006-08-16T21:39:00.000+08:00

yo yo yo.... got back yesterday from HK. Sun burnt from the hot weather, burnt wallet from the shopping, tired legs from all the walking and put on a bit of weight from all the good food...

From a point of view, it was a quite good trip. I enjoy the foods, the ladies, the weather, I love HongKong. If another chance for me, i would go there and work for a few years.

Pics will be post soon from Lantau Island, Causeway Bay, Tsim Sha Tsui, etc etc....

ANdy is off to HK

2006-08-10T12:45:00.000+08:00

Blogger is off to HK for the next 5 days........

Work_Club_Shop_Sleep_Soccer

2006-08-10T12:23:00.000+08:00

Work: I said enuff about work. I shall not elaborate more. But it just pissed me off sometime
1. having to clean up others mess when they screw up big time
2. take care of their work when they can just don't turn up for work as and when they wish to
3. burn my weekend for their bloodly development stuffs when they supposed to do it.
4. ensure others' responsibilities are done properly
5. make sure their works are co-ordinated properly.

How come their paycheck doesn't credit to my account. That's sum up my dissatisfactory. If the other side weren't in the process of an acquistion. I would have jumped ship long ago. Guess Aris were right, i don't look happy as much as I was trying to enjoy my weekend.

Club: MOS/Zouk. This is the 2 most common club, me and my friends will be hanging, if not it will be Club Mahjong, somewhere in Serangoon Garden. Just spent 1 hell of a nite @ MOS, got home @ 4plus am and went to work @ 0630. Blood shot eyes + a bad headache.

Shop: Still looking for the items i need for my ride. Hope it will be available soon.

Sleep: Always lack of sleep. Anyway when i die, i will have all the time that i can spend on sleeping.

Soccer: Been into a soccer regime lately, got myself a pair of boots to play with the company soccer buddies. Since they play regularly @ the Cage and once in a while, got to match fix for my company... hahaha..... Soccer season will be on this weekend. Liverpool vs Chelsea for the Charity Shield. Won't be around to see Liverpool kicking Chelsea's ass.... heehee....

Ashton Soh Yan Hung

2006-07-31T22:20:00.000+08:00

蘇彥衡, that is what my nephew is called. He is a baby with a quite bad temper. Still have not carry him yet, cos he looked very fragile. :P

Here the pictures taken on Sunday. This was taken after his bath.

A new addition to the family

2006-07-23T21:58:00.000+08:00

A new addition to my family. Ashton Soh. My sister-in-law just gave birth to a healthy baby boy last night. Heard from her description of the labour process... It sounds so scary... :P Best of all, my brother who will faint whenever he see blood, manage to survive the whole labour process with his wife in the labour room.... My parents were also totally delighted with the newborn.... Cos they have become grand parents, seeing my brother becoming a father.... i'm sure they are really happy.....my grandma would be even more delighted, cos she is now a great grandmother. I'm happy for my eldest brother for becoming a father. I'm sure Ashton will grow up to be a fine man like his dad.

I always find it very fortunate for a family to have up to 4 generations, and I grateful that this is happening to my family. Next year, during Chinese New Year, the baby is going to be the attraction.

Sorry for the lack of pictures, will put up some once I get the chance to take some....

Crash Course....

2006-07-09T22:16:00.000+08:00

Things just like to clash into each other. Training on sat morning, shopping for my soccer boots and gold pendant for my soon to come nephew, at night had to attend to Mr Jason's Birthday bash @ MOS (Totally forget about the pink dress code). Sunday had to send my dad to the hospital due to his weak heart..., had a soccer game @ 5pm in a awful pitch (almost like a swamp, not a field).... I'm totally exhausted from all these events.

Worse of all, World Cup final is tonight, 2am SG time, Italy vs France. Gut feeling is France is going to upset everyone again but Italians are not that bad either.... O-o?

It was great seeing so much friends gathering at the same place again. It was really fun, so much stupid things we talked about. Project Quit Smoking is up and running again.... :P For now, I will only smoke when clubbing.... Since the smoking is ban at most cafes, coffeeshops, hawker centres, good chance to quit.

Thanks ahyang for telling me what I need to hear. That silver lining should have been cut long ago, yet somehow it wasn't. Now it is.

Been there, Done that....

2006-07-04T23:08:00.000+08:00

I have gone to Genting and back.... 1st visit to Genting for me and 1st visit to the casino too. I seriously don't like the casino there. Wonder if Singapore's IR would it ended this way too.

2 days of casino is really enough for me. Spent most of my time on the Jackpot machines, cos I don't really know what to play, and pressing the Jackpot machines was the simplest of all. It was the Jackpot machine where I won the most... and also lost the most... in the end... i lost all of my winning from Jackpot...... On the 3rd day, I have no more energy left to go into the casino. Overall i won 50rm from the Casino from Bacarat and 38rm from Mahjong..... haha.... Spent 1/2 a day at the theme park, not all the rides which i really enjoyed but it was the usual suspects that I think where the fun came from. It was really funny especially you have Kev sitting beside you on the roller coasters.... haha...

The most tiring of all is the bus ride up, it was 7 1/2 hours up to Genting and it was about 9 1/2 hours back to Singapore. 3 days ended really fast, before you realised it, you were already preparing to come back to Singapore.

Done.....

2006-06-27T23:38:00.000+08:00

Yeah... the renovation works are completed. After 2 and a half week, it is finally finished. New paints, new closet, new floor tiles, new wall tiles... No longer need to go down my uncle's place to bath and everything is so much convenient now.

2 more days to Genting, and Hong Kong is within 2 months time.... Woohoo.... Time to sleep already, been bugged with fever, sore throat, flu, cough for the past few days and my neighbours ain't helping with their screaming during the World Cup.

Idiots

2006-06-15T20:13:00.000+08:00

Dear Residents of Blk 548,

Human created a container called dustin, please use your brain and use the dustin for your prawn shells, salted eggs and oranges skins. If dustin is not enough, HDB also gave you something called the rubbish chute. My car is not a rubbish bin, neither it is a dustin. Please do not try your rubbish out of the window, cos it will land on my car. I pay HDB for the parking space and not for you to throw rubbish on it. This is not a kampung whereby everywhere is a rubbish bin.

Owner of a Toyota Vios

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Some idiots are just brainless. They can just dirty every places but their home... damn angry... this is not the first time that my car have been mistaken for rubbish bins....

Day 4 : Renovation

2006-06-12T23:42:00.000+08:00

i'm confined to my small little room, alone with all the dusts, the new tiles. Mom and Dad are staying at my uncle's place while i stay home due to my room is the least to be worked on.

As the kitchen and the toilets are being renovated as I speaks. Bathing and brushing teeth have never been so troublesome. Lucky in a way is that my uncle lives on the 10th, while me and my parents lives on the 12th. Washing up will be at his place, but it is still not very nice to trouble them.

Still got to bear with this for another 2 and half weeks..... sianz....

Trap....Renovation.....World Cup/麻將

2006-06-06T13:38:00.000+08:00

Sometimes I just stupidly pissed myself off. Walking blindly into a trap i set for myself. Despite knowing the dangers, the consequences, the ripple effect, still I ended up inside it.

Maybe it is just like the famous quote in Mandarin, 明知山有虎﹐還要向虎山行。。。knowing there are tigers in the mountain, yet I choose to go through the mountain paths. As everyday go by, the heart become more weary each day.... weary from work, money, life.... Life isn't too good but that's coming from work.... Coming to work, sometimes is a torture, which i have no choice. Maybe these are signs for a break, a good break from everything.

Happy news is ringing in the family, my sister-in-law is giving to a baby boy in 1 month time and yes I'm going to be a uncle. This time really become Uncle Soh. Time to go shop for something for my little nephew.... My parents are so excited about the news that they are going to have a renovation for the house.
New toilets, new tiles for the kitchen and toilets, new colour for my room and the house (feel like painting it in light shade of purple), new wardrobe for me.

Come to think of it, my house is old already. We have been staying there for 20+ yrs. If i'm not wrong, it should be as old as me....

With World Cup coming... the hand start to itch again... wondering who will win this time.... any tips anyone?? :P :P but it is not as bad as those 賭神﹐賭后, every friday and sat at Ivan's house making 雞蛋.... haha.... once in a while, i will be invited to make guest appearances..... :P :P

Unfit to drive.....

2006-05-23T00:18:00.000+08:00

Dear Andy,

Due to the close shave tonight, I hereby certified you unfit for driving at night.

Dr Soh

Frustration.....

2006-05-20T02:26:00.000+08:00

With high expectations, come along great disappointment.
Some much said, yet nothing was fulfilled.

Late.....

2006-05-06T00:25:00.000+08:00

Wow.... This has become a neglected blog. :P Oh well, work, rest, party, study and soccer have been the activities for the past weeks.

Work still mounting as high as per usual. It never stop, it becoming more like a vicious circle where everyday i just keep adding tasks to my 'to-do' list. Guess holding the post of a AVP is not easy but getting paid like a clerical clerk.... To clarify, AVP = A Versatile Person.... meaning "Bao Shua Bo Hai", everything oso do.....

Rest, I guess resting mean sleeping and sleeping means i'm resting.

Party, It just never stop, first it started out from Tiesto, follow by Zouk Anniversary, den Judge Jule, den it is April's birthday cum KTV, den MOS with my boss, colleagues and some overseas office guests. Need a break dudes, my liver and lung have been overworked by the long island teh and nicotine....

Study, it just how demoralising u can get with you failed the paper by 1 mark. Damn it, 1 mark and for you to retake the paper, it freaking cost you 84bucks. Guess it will be more studies from this week onwards. Next paper is 24 May and after that, i will give the Module 2 (Rules and Regulations for Trading in Futures Contracts) paper a try again. Anyway i'm not the only one, my colleagues failed too. :P I was told it was not easy anyway, i agreed, it was really tricky and the words are twisted just to confuse you. Lan lan, retake again lor.

Soccer, at least in the new coy, the cohesiveness is there but politics are forever present. Since the coy is paying for the cost of playing at The Cage, why not go and have fun and at the same time, get to exercise too.

Oh ya, inspection is cleared. Yeah, waste of time and money just to clear this stupid test..... Tomorrow is election day, none of my business since i'm under Mr Goh, damn, there goes my chance to vote..... whoever wins i don't care, just whoever promised this and that... hopefully they deliver what they promised.

Zouk's 15th Birthday

2006-04-16T19:38:00.000+08:00

It is time for break, 2 consecutive nights of clubbing is taking a great piece of energy from my body. Friday was Tiesto @ MOS, something i didn't wanted to miss, However, Saturday was Zouk's 15th birthday. It is an event i didn't wanted to miss either. Didn't realised they had a theme for the night but I do have to admit, Zouk's idea does win over Ministry Of Sound when it comes to creativity, Zouk always come out with great theme. Last night, it was some The Crystal Ball theme.

Everyone was so well dressed, some with costumes, ladies were in nice dresses,the males were in jackets and some every in suits while myself in a polo T. :P Felt so out of place...

Just wished to have a relaxing chill night, but in the end, it turned out our table were filled with drinks. Here the amount of drinks that Reagan, Hanny, Simon, Kev and I took for the rest who couldn't attend the event becos it was kinda a private party and it was for those who are invited to the party only. Well i wasn't invited but someone didn't wanted to attend and he just left it on the floor.

Thanks bro.

Electrified by Tiesto @ MOS

2006-04-15T14:38:00.000+08:00

DJ Tiesto was here @ MOS.... World Best DJ.... Indeed, he lived up to his reputation. It was great, electrifiying and it's crazy... Glad I didn't miss it. Started spinning at 12.45am if i'm not wrong. Probably i wasn't in that clear state of mind to see the time. Karen was gone, April was gone too, I wonder if Chrystal was in that category too. :P Anyway we enjoyed the party, Beng, as usual, needless for me to mention, he is gone too.

Nothing have changed the past weeks. Nearly have a scare, 3yrs worth of hardwork, nearly gone down the drain. My documents and files was on my workstation and it crashes. Luckily it wasn't as bad as i thought. Harddisk wasn't that healthy, however, still manage to copy the files out. Phew..... Workload is still high as ever, everyday not only have to work on the daily stuffs, still have to attend to ad-hoc matters, ongoing projects, my team management, everyday i have to work at least 12hours. Other than that, 4 and 24 May, I have to sit for 2 financial services examinations. Damn, that is like 2 and half weeks more to first paper. Crossing my fingers that I can scrap thru this.

Til then.... take care.....

Eccentric....

2006-04-05T19:05:00.000+08:00

The weather gone crazy for the past few days.... rain just come from nowhere and causing floods and traffic jams,.... Been encountering eccentric weather.....

1st encounter on Friday : On my way to the ANC data center @ Ubi after my car inspection (Cbz Kev, you and your mouth.... my inspection failed!!) . The rain is so heavy that I was thinking of stopping at some carpark and wait for the rain to stop. It was really dangerous to drive in those conditions. Lucky the heavy downpour wasn't for long but flood were all over Ubi area. Partly caused by the constructions that is going on in that area.

2nd encounter on Sunday : It was fine weather all day, until i left the house for the weekly soccer session. Same thing, heavy rain that last for about an hour. O_o

3rd encounter today : That yaya papaya in my office still mentioning that what fine weather it was. Just 5 mins before reaching home. Heavy rain again and it lasted for an hour again... 5mins journey home become 10mins.

Maybe i'm becoming like a rain man.... rain just follows wherever i go....

Dilemma....

2006-03-26T20:06:00.000+08:00

"The Cage"; the latest soccer venue in Singapore. Charges : 90SGD per hour and they opened all the way till 3am. Interesting idea but quite a high charges in my opinion, but is quite popular. After us was some AngMos playing. Damn they made the pitch looked smaller compared to us Asians.

It is an enclosed area, with net covering all over the pitch and there is no stoppage. Even the top is covered with net, and there are ceiling fans, but when you are running, you dun feel the winds. It is very tiring, seriously tiring. Therefore get more players and the costs will not be so high.

I would highly recommended to get more than 15 persons. Best is get 20 players, 5-a-side.

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Met Elieen @ MOS last night. Someone who I have not seen for a long long time. Someone who suffered the same fate as me 1 year ago. It still hurts alittle, but it's no longer bitter. Did a bit of catching up with her, found out some news about some them. Great to see she is still as cheerful as before.

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My computer seem to be breaking down any minute. Hopefully it can hold til Window Vista is launched. This time the power supply gave way. Maybe will setup something that is really good this time, something that is 'kickass' and offer myself some entertainment. Miss the games that are available in the market now, but damn their requirement are getting higher and higher each time.

Sim Lim Sq is forever full of people. Full of geek and techies shopping for computer parts, uncles and aunties buying MP3 players for their kids and tourists buying electronics goods.

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Oh on why the title : "Dilemma", becuz i'm thinking if i should get a pair of shoes since I going to play regularly but so happened that my coy soccer timing clashes with my bball timing...... Maybe i should get 1 pair for soccer and 1 pair for basketball. :P :P

Dazed

2006-03-23T20:11:00.000+08:00

Nothing have been happening in particular. Only thing have been happening is work, nothing but work. Went to Apple store last weekend, as usual it was filled with people. The Ipod Nano is great man, just can't wait to get my hand on them, den again, i got my Pocket PC which can function just like a nano......

Been on a anime craze..... I'm now @ episode 47 of Naruto..., another 130 more to catch up to the most current episode. Thanks to hanny, copied all 176 epi + some other stupid stupid clips.... good enuff to keep myself occupied for the next 1 month.... :D

New Love.....

2006-03-12T20:59:00.000+08:00

200 PS delivered from a capacity of 2.0 liters without resorting to a turbocharger.... Woo...

This bitch is really a beauty..... Time to scrap my VIOS for this.... hahaha....

New models of civic are really nice and the design are totally awesome!!!....

The last picture is the UK spec Civic.... still puzzled why Kah Motors is not bringing this in.

Pictures....

2006-03-05T19:30:00.000+08:00

She have grown so much... and looked so much better now. She is currently babysitted by my mom. Eversince she retired, she has been working as a babysitter. Cute rite.... Children are always cute when they dun belong to you. :P :P

This 2 are my nephew and niece. I have posted picture of my niece before. I think she will become a pretty girl when grow up. Just look at her... so adorable and cute....

Ok, enuff of children.... here the fish tank that is in my office i was talking about.

Couldn't take a clearer picture. So please bear with the poor quality. Only until recently then i found out that this fish tank was actually requested by 1 of the staff from the company!.... Think about that, you requested a fish tank and the boss gave you 1..... Jeez..... I came to a conclusion that that person could be 1 of the profit earning centre. To make thing worse, you can only admire the fishes and corals... you cannot even touch the tank.... such a snobbish ass.....

Exercised.....

2006-03-05T19:07:00.000+08:00

It had been months since I touched something that is round, bouncing and you have to throw thru a basket. The old basketball regime have begun and it left me with a swollen thumb. :D

Great workout. Although play time were limited to abt 30mins, but this 30mins were highly competitive play. Met up with the old teammates, just bring back the good old memories. Those familiar faces, those familiar laughter and those old habits. Did a bit of catch up with them, some had married, some going to get married, some intend to get married, some like me.... still single.... :P and when we were leaving, i realised another funny sight.

Back then abt 1997, most of us walked to different basketball courts to challenge the local team, after that, most of us will turn up in bicycles to travel to other courts. Abt few years back, majority were in motorbikes. Now, most of us were driving cars already. Times has flies indeed.

Holiday....

2006-03-02T21:36:00.000+08:00

My mom have left for Korea.... 2 holidays in 6 months. How fortunate..... anyway she have been working for the past 10 over years. It is time for her to take a break. The sight of my mom going on a holiday just reminded me that i need a break. Preferably a break oversea.... Need to get away from the usual routine, the usual people, the usual hot weather of Singapore.

Work as usual, have been piling up. Especially when 2 departments from 2 different companies combined together. The amount of work processes that need to study and re-design them for the new setup. O_O" Not to mention that "ya ya papaya" in my department. Feel like slapping her, but it's alright. Hopefully she dun make any mistakes, if she does.... make sure she become papaya juice...

First week is coming to an end but still in the transition phase. It is a whole new culture, new environment, new lunch area, new route to work, new lift, new toilet, new rules, new standards.... in fact double standard.. as usual.

Just can't wait for the weekend to come. Oh... forget to mention, my office now have a fish tank.... woow.... a marine fish tanks full of nemos, corals, etc etc.... it's a 4ft tank if i'm not wrong. Haven't really have the time to go admire the fishes... but they look really nice. Will take a picture of them when i have the chance. They are serving free beers every friday. wow.... welfare right!!!.... If 1 day if the company gone bankrupted, I would probably guess it is all becos of all these fishes.... free drinks.... etc etc.... :P

New start....

2006-02-28T21:28:00.000+08:00

A fresh new start. Stepped into office @ 0645 in the morning, surprisingly many were already there. Chaotic morning..... Last minute cock-ups here and there.... more or less expected from a major shifting of 2 offices. The phones were ringing all day, and the worse is the ringtone, it is so loud and deafening...... saw a few ex-colleagues. Never will i expect to see them again.

Still trying to get used to the new environment, the office is quite nice... there is quite a nice view, the pantry is always filled with cans drinks (Cokes, Ice Cream Sodas....), Yeo packet drinks and mineral water (Ice Mountains)... that comes with a rule, food can onli be consumed in the pantry... that's mean no more eating on our own desk if you are going to lunch-in. Well, that gives us a reason to hang around the pantry.... heehee.... anyway i just go there for my daily dose of coffee... so doesn't concern me too much... :)

Smoking were a hassle too, have to take the lift down to the main lobby. Maybe i should quit smoking.... Lunch took a change. Changed of location and i think there are lot more variety of food at this new location. There are Hong Lim Hawker Centre, Golden Shoe Food Centre and those coffeeshops along the street behind Boat Quay. The only bad point about this place is, it is a bit far from the Raffles MRT station compared to Temasek Tower where it is so easily accessible to Tanjong Pagar MRT station.

Thinking of going for a short holiday in April or May, to either Hong Kong or Taiwan. Any takers??

Judgement Day.....

2006-02-24T07:24:00.000+08:00

A gloomy outlook outside the window. Suit the atmosphere found in the office. A total of 54 were axed. 54 known colleagues were axed. Some volunteered, some found it unexpected, some were delighted that they were axed, some who wish to be axed but unfortunately wasn't on the list. Tears were flowing, personal belongings packed. The joyful daily office are left with a small numbers of staffs. Just wished all those who are leaving all the best and may them be successful in the future.

One of them was handpicked by me to transfer to my team. She was axed. Was it my fault? Was it my dept head fault? or was it the one who started all these? Fortunately the integrity of my dept is still intact. Therefore, we had the least casualties. Some departments staffs were all axed except 1 or 2. I sympathize them, cos those who they have worked with for the past 5 years have all gone. Sigh.... This is something which hopefully in future, i will not experience this again. I will never forget a day like this.

Today is the last day that i will be working from this office. From Monday onwards, it will be a new environment, new start, new team. Hopefully a new job scope and a new monthly paycheck. :P

Faded....

2006-02-19T14:34:00.000+08:00

Another week to the new office. Lots of packing to do, time to empty the cupboard and the drawers. Situated not at the best location in some sense but i'm trying to see it in a positive way. Moving on the 25 Feb, another weekend to be spent in the office. Thinking back, for the past 2 saturdays, i can be found in the office. Burnt baby burnt!!!!... Since i'm single, so it's alright. Will post pictures of the new location. Nice building, hopefully nice office and new nice colleagues.

The group will be short of 2 person with yang and muscle leaving for aust again. No more hearing muscle's sexpidition. Haha... :P no more of yang's funny act, giving out money from the ATM machine. :P :P brandon is back in China again, hhmm... has he patched back yet?? :P

Time to rest.... Hell week coming up.

It's a scam....

2006-02-15T20:44:00.000+08:00

Once again it is valentine's day. A day where boy would give flowers to the girl, boy bring girl for dinner, boy bring girl for a walk, boy ***** girl at the end of the day???... haha.... :P minus the last statement... just trying to be funny.

I find it hilarious on my way home yesterday. There were more couples than usual on the train and some were having a bouquet of flowers, some were hugging onto their teddy bears... they looked very happy, giving each other a kiss at times..... i was laughing deep inside myself.... Suddenly all the bfs/gfs are so free to go dating on this 1 day... the rest of the 364 days... nothing special....

Dinner are exceptionally expensive, flowers demands never been higher; not to mention the price goes up 50% for 1 week and come down 75% the very next day..... so i concluded that St. Valentine was a florist..... times were bad and business were bad.... no one would concidentally buy flowers and bring their loved ones to dinner at the same day.... so he started this scam, together with all the restaurants' owners....... he started Valentine's Day.... hahaha.... :P :P so his business got better that very day. Sold off all his flowers.... :P :P

"Any day can be a Valentine's Day...." becos how i spent 1 day with my gf is not important, the more important issue here is how am i are going to spend the rest of your life with her. That is the more crucial point.

* From a SINGLE's point of view. :D

Zombie....

2006-02-11T09:10:00.000+08:00

Sometimes do you felt like you are just an empty shell, just with some processes installed in your shell and everyday you would just execute the same command again and again? Cos that is what i'm feeling right now. An empty shell. Maybe my tank is empty after clearing majority of the work that have piled up on my desk. Maybe this is what they called a 'burned-out' effect.

Been reading on a book called the Introvert Advantage. That's right. The name said it all. I'm classified as an introvert, not to the extreme but still fall into that category. Now then I realised how come i like to do things in certain ways and think about things. Guess i'm borned with it.

This is rather interesting, cos people actually go and study other people. I guess that is the natural of a human, where we want to know everything and want to study everything.

I never loved reading but I didn't know when did i fall in love with it. Guess something does changed when you grow....

Jaded....

2006-02-05T21:00:00.000+08:00

This CNY is tiring than the rest that I have spent. Mahjong for successive weekend and most of them ended early in the morning..... Felt like i'm older for another few years....

Anyway, the losts are more than winning.... never believe in new year luck.... can't remember when was the last time i ever enjoying the new year luck.... maybe i do have it.... just that others are more luckier than me,... :P

Crapz.. felt like i'm falling sick soon..... time to drown myself with plain water for the next 1 week...

GONG XI FAI CAI!!!!

2006-01-31T14:05:00.000+08:00

First of all, wish all a Happy Lunar New Year. Once again, it is the major festival of being a chinese : the Lunar New Year. Lotsa goodies to eat, lotsa of places to visit, lotsa of ang pao to take... :P gambling in every household suddenly become legalised for the next 15days.

I realised a trend during the New Year, the elders will always have questions to ask the younger ones, every year. When you are younger, they will ask, where are you studying, primary or secondary, blah blah blah..... and then when you are older, they will still ask the same questions with alot more with other questions, where are you studying, junior college, polytechnic or university, or are you working.... attached already, when getting married..... blah blah blah... lucky this year i evaded all these questions with going to work on the 2nd day.... :D

anyway, it looks like a good year for me.... I hope it stay that way.

Day 1 : The most quiet day i supposed. Ended the day in positive @ gary's place.

Day 2 : From office, I saw the sun rise and i see the sun set. Intend to go home and change and meet the gang @ Zouk for Paul Van Dyke (PVD). The moment i stepped into my room, damn, what a bloodly mess it was, spoiled all my mood to go out. My model cars were taken down, not to my surprise, i have to repair 1 of them.....

Anyway, in the end i went. First, the carpark queue took me 10mins. Second, the entry queue was crazy. Really crazy. Long time i have not seen zouk with such crowd. Luckily, i saw Joei and Rulin, managed to get myself in via Velvet.. Waited for another 30mins. During this 30mins, i learnt something. In this club business, it is all abt 'GUAN XI', all you need is to know the door bitch. Know her well and you will get your way in no matter how FULL HOUSE the club is.

Finally I got into the club... but the walk to my usual hangout, it took 10mins again. So the entire queue, wait, queue, walk took me 1 f****** hour. The music was good, the ladies were great and of cos, the gang were awesome. Not to forget that plate of Hor Fun cost me $6...... tmd.....

Day 3 : Journey to the NorthWest have been planned. ETA to CCK is supposely 3+, 4. I guess it would be 4+, 5. :P

Day 4 : Work. Work. Work.

Day 5 : Work. Work. Work.

Day 6 : Work. Work. Work. High chance of Mahjong happening on this day. All the gambling ghosts all released their true forms during chinese new year.... haha... :D

Safety.... Outprocess....

2006-01-25T22:17:00.000+08:00

Dear motorcyclist,

Please do not think you own the road, if you wish to end your precious life today, please pick a nicer car instead of my pathetic Toyota VIOS. The speed you were travelling can easily kill you instantly, probably the King of Hell took pity on you instead and let you live a little longer.

Lucky I see you coming, or else, i probably will have my licence revoked no matter what. Please do not appear out of nowhere, especially the blind spot of the driver. You are no Valentino Rossi and sadly your Honda Phantom is no Harley Davidson, so for goodness sake, please ride safety in future, please think of your daughters, your sons or your wife cos if i'm were to be a careless driver. I guess you would end up in a black bag.

ANdy

Nearly got into an accident while i was on my way home, i was changing lane and this biker came out from nowhere at a high speed with the vehicle in front of me making a stop. Luckily, i took notice of his headlight and gave way to him or else it would be tragic. Haiz, common problem in Singapore where majority seem to be rushing as if they were rushing to HELL.... trying to achieve the SPEED DEMON title in HELL. You can have the title, i rather not have it.

Anyway, today marked the last day of my ICT, 2 'high keys' completed, 5 more 'high keys' and 3 'low keys' to go and I will be free.... hehs, the whole batch decided to go for buffet dinner @ Merchant Court. I'm damn full right now. Had lotsa sashimi, crayfishes, butter prawns, sharkfin soup, scallops and their famous durain pegat. At the same time, they having the UOB credit card promotion where min. 4 person dine in and 1 person will be dine free which is relatively a good deal.

Although I wasn't keen initially, still there was other reasons which prompted me to turn up. Spent 3 good weeks with them, although the whole course was a bit tiring with the lesson and exercises closely packed, still when you get 12 persons with different backgrounds and have gone through National Service, I'm sure you would expect lot of funny moments. Indeed there was.

Santa's present came real late last year. Here is the new monitor that Philips Service Centre had to replace for my faulty one due to the faulty one had no available spare parts. I wonder how long this 'bugger' is going to last but this look slightly better than the older one except it is much brighter.

Just nice for the New Year and it is just 3 more days to the Lunar New Year, yet i'm still have a list of tasks await me this weekend, gosh, wish i can split myself into 3 persons to get the tasks done.

1. Clean up my study table + the display shelf + the re-arrange of the items on displayed.
2. Wash my car.
3. Arrange my clothes in the wardrobe.

This year don't have the help of a girlfriend to help me with these tasks and these are all time consuming tasks, probably will take up the whole day of Saturday. I guess it should be completed before the reunion dinner.

A long post and i shall go to bed now. Time to return to office tomorrow and i have a lot of catch up with the happenings during the last 3 weeks.

Jaded....

2006-01-20T20:27:00.000+08:00

Jaded.... my 3 weeks of ICT is almost up. 3 more days and i will be back to the civilian world again. i just can't wait to go back to work, since my course commander is really a pain in e ass..... constantly irritate us.... even those working with her, can't stand her. I'm almost away from work for the whole month, just 2 days after i gone back to work, it is the Chinese New Year. Time to do shopping for the house and some new clothes again....

Anyway as i grew, the more i don't feel the New Year excitement. This year will be even quieter since i dun have to visit my relatives and i will be working on the 2nd day of new year too, anyway i dun mind going back since my mom is not expecting any special guest from me.... :p and this give me a good chance to escape all the marriage questions that will be thrown in my
direction.

Just came across this pic.... man i love the "yellow" colour with the white rims..... maybe next time when i wan to re-spray my car..... can choose this colour to go with my white rims..... :D :D not to mention the bodykit look great too.... :D~

Still saving up to do some project to my car.... hopefully before june this will happen. :D~ just tio 1 time 4D first prize.... heehee.... that's enuff liao...

No Update

2006-01-05T20:44:00.000+08:00

Currently on annual ICT.... so nothing much happened except there is a very annoying trainee who voice is so bloody loud and he think he is damn funny and he like to act as if he is damn 'gum' with the instructors and worse.... I got to be on the same course as him for 3 bloody weeks!!!!.....

Nevermind.... take this as a patience training course.... ()*^&^$%$#^%T*^$^% ^%$%$#%$&^%^#%$^&%&T^^&$ ok... back to training..... :P :D

Hi 2006, Bye 2005

2005-12-31T11:54:00.000+08:00

What a 2005.... I wonder what would 2006 be? In 2005, i lost someone who was dearest and impt to me, but i also found alot of new friends and got myself a few nice ones. Work wasn't that great, but an opportunity just shown up out of nowhere and nearly missed that chance. Got myself a car, a huge liability but mobility have greatly improved. Lastly, i realised i still have the drive and determination for studies, after some hardwork, i'm a now an inexperienced Sys Admin for Solaris 10. Hhhmmm, so looking back, 2005 wasn't that bad afterall. :P

Anyway did a little planning for 2006. Since now, I have more time for myself. I kinda want to do something that I never thought of doing.
1. Be even more actively involved in work.
2. Be widen my social circle
3. Spend a little more time with my parents.
4. Do a little travelling.
5. Quit smoking. Intend to drop the social smoker tag.
6. CCNA :P

For now, I will proceed to enjoy the NYE party tonight at MOS. First time to change a venue since we were loyalist of Zouk.

飘流教室 : 古巨基 [大雄]

2005-12-30T19:24:00.000+08:00

如果没有初恋感动经过下个怎会爱得死我
种种因果这日才有我情实在太多

如果失恋失得不够折堕
何来这刹那够勇敢的我所有伴侣都有份教我
曾太过拚命爱

压力大到彼此多么好也不得不分开
试过友情拿来暂借单恋多悲哀大概
其实要最真心说声多谢爱学到的多精彩

谁又是做人世眼泪不等于一切
献上我的心亦要适当去自卫
是我好胜我爱哭不是问题
不这样爱下个便伤不到底

谁自愿恨成世爱情不等于一切
共聚又离开从来并未学到可以发誓
可抱起来亦抛得低但学费都真的太贵
(转眼飘流是哪一位但学费都真的太贵)

曾经这双手给她抹眼泪
拿来抱你以免你的心碎一个又一个也得过去
而我已透视你

怕寂寞叫你遇上我所以不得不一起
过去有人同样害我少一位知己别怕
明白你始终都会走多谢你如今我输得起

最需要学的是如何麻木了又重头开始
让每一次亦似初恋第一次然后再为了下次开始

Stare.....

2005-12-28T16:59:00.000+08:00

If i'm given the chance to reborn again, what would i do?
If i'm given the chance to live my life again, i will still make the same decisions.
If i'm given the chance to know you again, i will still want to know you.
If only i'm given the chance..........

Merry Christmas 2005......

2005-12-26T02:07:00.000+08:00

Merry Christmas to all my friends..... Much awaited Xmas eve party @ Zouk (where else).... haha.... I would say... this is the only year where almost everyone turned up (Brandon is still in China).... TK, Mel, Hanny, Chrystal, Jon Wolverine, Sam, Wendy, Beng, Gselia, Kev, April, Jazz, Terence, David, Tick, Ivan, Princess Karen, Yang, Yanming and BF, Muscle, Dominic, Hsin, Jason... and of cos many more....

Great to see everyone enjoying themselves.... and getting wasted at the end of the nite. Dom was wasted.... so was Beng (I dun remember Beng being sober for Xmas)..... Sam was long gone before he stepped into Zouk..... Gary was 'gone' too.... hiding in the toilet puking.... :P :P April was like asking for action eversince we got out of Zouk (so i think she probably drunk too).... Terence was freaking irritating the whole nite.... stuffing snowballs into everyone's mouth... and not to mention the whistle blowing!!! :P :P

Pics for the nite.... click here ..... enjoy the pics... :P :P

Next week NYE will be round 2.....

I'm back online.......

2005-12-22T22:34:00.000+08:00

After a 2 weeks not coming online, it does feels a bit weird. For the past 2 weeks, many have happened. Events like Zoukout, MOS opening, Christmas shopping, Big Jon and Sam came back, etc etc.....

Zoukout was great... Armin was awesome.... the queue going in was a bit disappointing.... took us about 1hr before we were finally in the zoukout area.... but the pre-zoukout party @ HL Garage was crazy....

MOS opening was great too.... huge turnout for the event. The queue was like a giant serpent, thanks to Jason for everything..... the place was huge too.... There is a room : Pure.... full of cushions and bed.... 54 was groovy.... just like Saturday Nite Fever with John Travolta doing his famous move.... Tunnel was out of no where.... like no one knows abt it, like some secret gathering place..... the main stage is spacious.... with a water curtail opposite the DJ console.... sure eye catching....

Overall the place is awesome.... the bouncer need a bit of education.... same goes for the waiters.... other than that.... I wonder if this is another 1 hit-wonder and after a few month suffer the same fate as Centro.... I guess not....

Christmas is here again. Time flies, fresh in my mind, was the image of seeing Big Jon @ Zouk on Christmas eve..... and in 2 days times, we will be there partying again...... The atmosphere for Christmas came really late. It was not until last weekend then i start to shop for gifts for my friends. This year i decided to give the drivers' some gifts. Why? cos I become part of the drivers this year... so this year i started with them. Next year, i will be other ppls's turn to receive present from me. :P just another 2 more days to Christmas....

Workload is starting to pick up, I'm starting feel the pressure and the responsibilities weighting on my shoulder..... After all that has happened, things have been quiet down tremendously.... business is picking up slowly... some old employees have left the coy.... some who I have enjoyed working with, they left too.... I could have leave too.... but after some considering on my current job and the job offer. Staying was my final decision especially after speaking to an external person, i was convinced that staying wasn't a bad idea afterall.

Till then, Merry Christmas to all visitors of my blog....... Have a nice Xmas..... :)

Blanked......

2005-12-16T12:48:00.000+08:00

I'm a jinx in purchasing electronics. I just have to admit that. My LCD have failed me in this case. Yes. After i have changed my harddisk, and my computer was up and running again. The next day, an empty screen.

So now, my LCD monitor is at the service center and the fate is I could get a new monitor becos the faulty part is no longer available. Til den...... no update.....

Crashed.......

2005-12-05T13:10:00.000+08:00

Haiz.... Got to recover my computer..... It went dead yesterday. Got to change a new harddisk, copy all the data out into the new drive, reformat the old disk, install all the program back again.... Tedious process...... till den i wont be updating til the recovery is complete.

Funny stuff

2005-11-30T14:40:00.000+08:00

Last night, I received a weird call......

> Rrrrrrnnnngggg.....
: Looked at the caller-id, it was my brother. So i answered the call.
Bro > Oei, you working now is it?
Me > No, i'm at home. What's up?
Bro > Eh, ask you one question?
: I was expecting he is going to ask me some computer related stuffs.
Me > What?
: A bit buay song, since he interrupted me watching anime :P
Bro > Are you attached? I intro someone to you want anot?
: I was thinking to myself.... Do I looked so pathetic that i need my bro to intro girls to me??? O_O
Me > Huh? What?
Bro > No lah..... just come out for coffee like tat lah....
Me > You siao ah???.... Do this kind of things.....
Bro > Aiya.... just coffee nia.... nothing de lah.....
Me > See how first lah.....
: Conversation end......

Till now, I cannot believe it. My bro trying to intro girls to me..... Haiz....

A Nite @ Zouk

2005-11-27T14:04:00.000+08:00

Welcome back Mussel & Terence. Both came back from oversea and great to see you back. (Not like someone, came back oredi just hide at home...... tsk tsk tsk...... :P )

Here e pictures while we were there.....

Terence from AT&T Phillipines and David from AT&T Singapore. :P

Now... we always think there is something going on between both of them.... heehee.... this picture kind of confirmed their affair..... :P :P

Ermmmm..... I onli noe the lady... but who is that guy???? O_O??
Ivan> Do you know him???

Of cos... how could we forget about our Mr Beautiful Hair..... hahaha.... he wore a sweater that has his own personal cup behind..... see below. this is his personal cup..... haha.... hhhmm... i wonder where is his straw??.... saw that a few minutes ago....