Continously Courting Controversy

Half a sunday

2011-01-16T14:31:00.005+08:00

Neighbourhood programme prompted me to pen this entry with a group of people doing their exercise/warm up (i assumed) at my house carpark. -.-

Discussing about which area of the carpark they are going to use.

Taking up their position. apparently, using this 'lane'.

And as i was writing this blog, there was some commotion happening in this group. only indian knows what they are talking.

Moving on to kill off my hunger, i prepared mushroom soup!

Mushroom soup.

Heating it...
and

pack for my family to eat later... if they want.

Ocassion update

2011-01-11T23:48:00.004+08:00

Learnt some pastery recently from my brother and it's a total failure in all aspects. anyway, i'll let the pictures do the talking.

Haha, i think it's just a shit. =X

Moving on, i realised i had spent $200 for the past 2 months on shirts and jeans with the latest addition from cotton-on and zara (yes, u didn't see wrongly, it's from zara!) costing $69.95 apiec. =((

But it's ok. i'm done with CNY shopping and i will do more house-visit to recoup the losses! =X

Clear backupuser.exe manually

2010-08-27T11:49:00.001+08:00

hey guys, you can remove it from this method.

- plug in all affected thumdrives/external hard-disk when your PC/laptop is shutdown.
- go into safemode (without networking, etc..) by continously hitting "F8" button when you start up your machine
- log in to an account with administrator rights.
- open My Computer. Under Tools --> Folder Options --> "view" tab --> select "show hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files"
- manually delete (shift + delete) files: backupuser, _backupuser, recycled (shown as a red recycle icon), autorun.inf
- These files are commonly found at C:\, C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo.
- Look up for secondary partition, your thumdrives, external hard disk that were previously plugged in and delete the files.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL THE DELETION MUST BE DONE AT THE SAME TIME DURING YOUR SAFEMODE SESSION. OTHERWISE, THIS TROJAN WILL COME BACK AGAIN.

Note: DO NOT DELETE THE FILE FROM YOUR PC FIRST (WHERE IT IS CLEANED), AND AFTER WHICH YOU PLUG IN YOUR THUMDRIVE. - THIS WOULD DEFEAT THE PURPOSE.
open My Computer. Under Tools --> Folder Options --> "view" tab --> deselect "show hidden files and folders" and check "Hide protected operating system files"

The trojan should clear.

Can't think of any suitable title

2010-06-29T10:16:00.002+08:00

oh well, i am spiderman! =(( say "spiderman" very slow.

Gotta get better!

EKOJ

2010-06-09T14:55:00.004+08:00

Joke 1
One day Dick Cheney, George Bush and Laura Bush were in a private jet going to France.

Then, George Bush said, " If i throw this hundred dollar bill off this jet I'll make one person happy!"

Then Dick Cheney said, " Man if i throw ten, ten dollar bills down, I'll make ten people happy!"
Then Laura Bush said, " If I throw one hundred one dollar bills off this jet I'll make a hundred people happy."

Then the pilot said, " Man, if I throw these 3 losers outta this jet, I'll make six billion people happy."

Joke 2
Scientists have finally discovered what is wrong with the female brain:
On the left side, there is nothing right, and on the right side, there is nothing left

post-exam activities

2010-05-20T23:52:00.002+08:00

Exams had been over for 3 weeks. Good news was that a lot of activities were planned in my head while I was preparing for exams.

All good thing don’t last, I suppose, I had difficulties in gathering friends out for movies and gathering due to a lot of reasons as most of them are either attached (thus not free), or preparing for exams and school assignments, or otherwise just not free.
I found myself ended in home after work and I had been only exercising to kill of the boredom. Trying to look at the good side of this is that I am able to spend more time with my parents, as I helped them with laundry, chit-chatting and even slept with them in the same room.

So bored I was that, I start to find myself more into politics and economics. As such, first time in my life, I bought a political-related book titled “Men In White, The Untold Story of Singapore’s Ruling Political Party. Foreword by the editor-in-chief was that, they covered story from all political figures – from the ruling to the opposition. Since everyone is so busy with their own things, I think I had to forsake asking them out, I probably will spend my time on reading this book. I had given the thoughts of getting another book after finished reading the earlier-mentioned book, titled “Mahathir Maverick”.

AHHHHH. My post-exam life is equally boring. :(

looks that kill

2010-05-20T16:40:00.004+08:00

from the conversation recently with a friend, and after reading and reflecting on his story, i think, in most ways, the scenario we experienced are somehow related. It seemed like looks and physical appearances are still very much relevant and highly-sought even between relatives.

To summarise, his story is that he felt "neglected" in some way as compared to his brother who, in his view, physically much better than him and relatives tend to chat up (more) with him.

Probably, in some way, i agree to certain extend, but i think it's not very much so serious as how he imagined it to be (that is unless his relatives are very materalistic kind). Putting myself into his shoe, my guess is that at the very first human instinct, one looks for nicest thing, etc.. Having to say that, if he is to be more proactive in certain areas, i think he will patch up the shortcomings.

Later on in the conversation, he added on saying that the communication was done “more” between him and theirs relatives compared with the relatives and him.

On a personal level, though I mentioned earlier on that I experienced something like him, but I feel that my scenario isn’t that serious as him, so I can’t comment or suggest anything.

On the whole, I still agree people between people look for the nicest thing in life and probably such thing exist subconsciously even in relatives relationship and as such may lead to a willingness in communication between parties, like my friend’s case then.

(I had sent a separate email to you, so please read it up)

Joke to be read (while waiting for new entry)

2010-03-05T00:06:00.002+08:00

A judge was interviewing a woman regarding her pending divorce, and asked, “What are the grounds for your divorce?”
She replied, “About four acres and a nice little home in the middle of the property with a stream running by.”

“No,” the judge said, “I mean what is the foundation of this case?”
“It is made of concrete, brick and mortar,” she responded.

“I mean,” the judge continued, “What are your relations like?”
“I have an aunt and uncle living here in town, and so do my husband’s parents.”

The judge said, “Do you have a real grudge?”
“No,” she replied, “We have a two-car carport and have never really needed one.”

“Please,” the judge tried again, “is there any infidelity in your marriage?”
“Yes, both my son and daughter have stereo sets. We don’t necessarily like the music, but the answer to your questions is yes.”

“Ma’am, does your husband ever beat you up?” the judge start increase his voice.
“Yes,” she responded, “about twice a week he gets up earlier than I do.”

Finally, in frustration, the judge asked, “Lady, why do you want a divorce?”
“Oh, I don’t want a divorce,” she replied. “I’ve never wanted a divorce. My husband does. He said he can’t communicate with me.”

Well, we can't blame her husband!

Reference from www.uleven.com

Holiday season over. School starts

2010-01-09T17:02:00.002+08:00

The last holiday was the best period i had in life.

The following saturday immediately after the papers, i joined sun tian's NUS classmates to a recreation game of badminton which among them, i only know sun tian and jaste. Nonetheless, all, including me, are friendly people and i gotta know the others such as wing, kiat siang, boon, calvin, jacky and many more.

A handful of them are enthusiastic type and we have a thursday slot too. Wing, Kiat Siang are regulars, joined by xiuli, mei min, jaste and me. As part of my vibrant holiday plan, I decided to join them every thursday and weekends

The badminton team. (Please exclude the comments why did i look like i'm dancing)

Birthday was pretty normal this year round. Had the usual same person wishing me for birthday and thanks for that. Unfortunately, I still haven't get a any pictures from the photographer. As such, i can only post up pictures of this as part of our little-things-we-did-there.

Preparing for BBQ

By lek meng and raquel's blessing, i bought a Fred Perry polo tee with their gift voucher that cost original price at $189, but after a 20% discount, it was priced at $151.20.

Moving on from this, I was invited by Takeda to their corporate christmas party, along with my colleagues. This is the first time that i went to such an event as my last invitation with Accenture was tied up with work commitments, hence i was unable to attend.

The funny thing was that I was not informed that a tie was needed for that function and I was already outside at Causeway point serving my client's PC. I immediately went to search for a golden tie to suit with my black tie, in conjunction to the color theme (black and gold).

As i am usually not good with complimenting color of tops/bottoms with accessories, I bothered the nearby aunties and sales person asking for their views!! Unbelievable, and they are very very friendly in giving views and opinion and eventually i even asked the sales person to get staff discount for me after i had decided to get a particular gold color tie! hahaa..

Before the event start

Am i seeing wrong things that I am holding on to a cup of beer?!!

This is how i train my marksman for .38 revolver and mp5

That event was fun and i headed home forgetting to take off my tie and it looks silly in the bus. :(

Next programme up, half-annual LAN game party hosted by me, joined by pengxiang, clarence and mandy.

LAN game in operation

Supper during our LAN game break.

Clarence and Mandy.

Deer and me. hahaa.

The annually hosted christmas dinner by Madeline was graced by a handful people. Madeline and her boyfriend joined in subsequently, Shuoke, Zhonghan, Me and and and Yingjia (in order of lateness! haha)

The limelight was on shuoke with everyone also posing a very sudden photo take requested by madeline

Yingjia and me have something in common on our faces. haha =x

Ok, to rectify the above pictures before i get pound by yingjia.

The official group photo without madeline as she declined to join in. I really don't understand why they wanted to kneel down to take photo!!

The main highlight of this post is that I went to malaysia after 8 years of absence to visit my relatives of my mother's side. Gosh, they are really fun to be with. Females are pretty, the guys are handsome, the young ones are showing potential to be a very very useful person in the society. The old ones are getting wiser and showing their relaxed moods after their children are working and on their own!

Beware that of the photos as the relatives on my mother's side are really a lot.

We went there by coach and we arrived in KLIA at around 3.30 pm. My cousin fetched us from our drop-off point to her house. Technically, I had sat for the longest period of my life from 7+ am 4 pm. My butt, back ached as a result.

Dinner was really very nice prepared by my aunt. Almost comparable with my mother's level of cooking skills! Unfortunately, i was desperate for dinner and i didn't any photo of it.

We caught up with almost everyone flanking to my cousin's house on the 1st evening after dinner and we chit-chatted till late night.

We had bak kut teh for the next day breakfast. Legendary Klang Bak Kut Teh just really can't lose to the other places that i had ate. You guys reading this should head down there for just this and you will that singapore was selling rubbish. =x

My 2nd uncle treated me for durian with his 2nd daughter ~~rushing~~ joining in for durian fest.

My mother caught in action

My first jeans after 3 years. Just in time to collect from alteration to be wore to malaysia.

Prepared to go for reunion dinner

Reunion dinner in the night (please be reminded it's 8 years ago when we had one proper dinner like this)

Restoran Imperial, someway near to bukit tinggi.

An official souvenir presentation. I just love the key chain, probably because of my utmost desire to travel to australia.

Menu for the dinner.

Picture1

Picture2

Whole family of my aunt

Lastly, i forgot why i ended up taking the "loose" photo with them

Toured yet another coporate event with such a turn-out

Please look at the no. of cars at the background. Z4, skyline, GTR, Porshe, etc...

We were at The Mines shopping centre. Please dun ask me where it is.

My very very hyper-active cousin in the middle whom his sister on the left of the picture was pretty much fed-up of entertaining him! hahaa..

A japanese cuisine that cost RM500+++

Went massaging with my another cousin and my bro on our 2nd last day and it cost only RM50 =)

Did some window-shopping at Jusco of Bukit Tinggi but unfortunately bought nothing from there.

On our final night we were back to 2nd uncle's house for another round of gathering

A very sudden and random photo my bro wanted me to take.

Bro was playing the hyperactive cousin of ours.

Alright. Final hour of the trip. We were unfortunately unable to get hold of an afternoon ticket else we could have breakfast together.

My mum and her sister.

The same cousin that fetched us sent us off.

When i was in toilet =x

The very very last photo before we boarded the bus.

Still enjoying in holiday mood, I hastily arranged weekend trip to JB with Lek meng, Raquel, Caosheng and Hana. (Thanks CS for agreeing)

How could i give up on their Bak Kut Teh? But the one in Klang is still the best.

The aftermath of go-kart. It could be more fun if there were more people as we are the only group there. We were there too early.

Amazingly, passing by Old Town 3 times in Klang, i never have the chance to even step in Old Town restaurant. Only to satisfy my taste bud on my JB trip.

Holiday's over. School start! Work hard and smart!

Party Weekend

2009-11-28T00:33:00.003+08:00

I had been in indulging into a korean drama these few days, whom my mum borrowed from her friend. Since exams are over, no harm watching.

Initially, i didn't pay any attention to the casts of this drama, but when the drama started, I found the lead actress somewhat familiar. Instead of continuing watching that drama, i spent time trying to recall which korea dramas/movies. good thing is that I had only watched 4 dramas/movies so it was pretty easy to eliminate and in the end, remember that she acted in the 200 Pounds Beauty. (I just want to praise myself with my good memory as i came across the movie 2 years plus ago)

ANYWAY, moving forward, the title of the drama is That Fool, 그바보, in which the link of the story plot can be found here. The official website for this drama is found here. It's the usual romance story but it has added elements of humor.

This drama spans 16 episodes with each episode playing on an average of 1 hour 4 mins WITHOUT ADVERTISEMENT. Imagine i had ~~wasted~~ spent 16++ hours in front of my 23" inches monitor.

Personally, I like this drama, but i wouldn't do any recommendation for it. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a website that was able to show this drama for all episodes, however, if you are keen, you can prepare 8 DVDS for me. [if you know what i meant] =)) And now, i'm unimpressed with singapore drama standards.

By the way, I like this drama so much that I got their soundtracks playing in my playlist, though the story plot is not going to realistically happen in real life.

**Something to note that the koreans somewhat, like the japaneses, seem to be of a hokkien descent. It seemed that their ancestors were from china who spoke hokkien dialect. Words and languages used were closely similar with hokkien such as the word "prepare" and others.

DISCLAMIER: The paragraph marked with double asterisks are the personal thought of the author whom he has no intention to stir up anything especially for political reasons with the countries mentioned.
[Blogging nowadays can be quite tiring ): ]

Madeline's Birthday
My sincere apologies for missing out your 21st birthday celebration in Furama Hotel today. Wish that you have a happy time over there and all the best to your future endeavors which i guess Andy had already took all those for you. haha, you are so fortunate! Nonetheless, i hope you are reading this. =)

TWSS-NPCC BBQ Gathering
Will be meeting tilden (organiser), shanhe (co-organiser), mingjie, weechong, selin, shirong down for a barbecue gathering in the Caribbean near to vivocity. FINALLY, i'm inside that condo! Cool. The special thing we are going to do tomorrow is not to bring any items (as much as we can) that harm our beautiful world

Yes, Saving Gaia, our "Corporate Social Responsibility" project initiated by the co-organiser. No plastic items, including utensils will be used tomorrow. Ok we will be bringing our own, of course. Everyone should do a part to something constructive to our environment. [By the way, i don't want to die in the year 2012! haha]

Sunday Birthday
This is nice. my birthday is on sunday. This weekends are with purpose. But i'm not expecting any programme on that day.. I know it's dull, but no celebration mood this year. =))

Not to forget, for 2nd time running, I had my birthday celebration celebrated in the east, and thanks to the following friends who were present. Sun Tian, Kok Boon, Jack, Pei Shi, Jovin, Jacky, Janice, Lek Meng, Raquel, Xavier and Angeline.

I will not head to TCC at Upper East Coast Road, where they sang the birthday songs with all their might! -.-" which the same scenario happened last year in Fish n Co in Parkway Parade shopping centre. [I realised that we didn't take any photos!]

New blog skin up

2009-11-18T23:04:00.002+08:00

the ex blog skin was facing some problem from the originator, thus, forcing me to change the skin.

It's not easy, though, not very difficult to find one clean and friendly-looking design as the one you are seeing now, coupling with the facts that you have to edit the HTML code with custom section, such as Tagboard, Links and some miscellaneous stuffs.

But nonetheless, with an intelligence like this, the coding was swiftly adapted and edited for the purpose.

(For facebook reader) Anyway, do drop by to the actual blog site to take a look.

Blog to fame

2009-11-16T21:54:00.002+08:00

I came across a couple of websites from kennysia.com and the other, which i can't say. Anyway, the message is that the blog award was so so grand! It was hosted in Pan Pacific Hotel in Marina Bay

What can be so good that you write your blog all the way to Pan Pacific Hotel to claim for your prize? Click here to take a look at how grand the event is.

Probably there will have a new category (Actually, i wanted the Most Entertainment Award, but Kenny sia is doing such a good job that most people in SEA knows about him, as a result, i have no choice but to change)

Most Lame Blog - wittyweida.blogspot.com

Those stuff aside, I had some few weird incidents happening around me.

First Incident
I used my office key to open up a door and i left it on the table after i went in to that room. A couple of hours later, I need that key but it was nowhere to be found. I am sure that i never leave the room after i unlocked the door.

I searched high and low for hours and then i decided to drop by to my supervisor's table and to my HORROR, the key was lying nicely in it!

Second Incident
I was searching and flipping my office and room for the access card to my another office, but it was nowhere to be found. Bag, office, pockets; you name it, i searched it.
This morning, when i was randomly flipping the pockets inside my bag out of boredom, to my horror (again), the card was just right in it, even i had searched that particular pocket for donkey times!

By the way, i'm down with flu!

Chatting Standing

2009-11-13T00:15:00.003+08:00

Move my lazy fingers to type something. I had so many things to write, but i haven't really organize my thoughts so, i shall left those topics aside first.

As I was clearing up my chat logs archive, I identified the top 4 persons who had tonnes of chat sessions in terms of log size.

Champion standing is Sun Tian with a log size of 6280 KB
1st runner-up is Tze Yong with a log size of 2875 KB
2nd runner-up is Rebecca with a log size of 2247 KB
Lastly, 3rd runner-up is Aom, with a log size of 1681 KB.

Ok, I've no idea what's the objective of this post though. Just thought and feel that i want to write something

Watch out for this space!

2009-09-02T22:21:00.000+08:00

Blogging soon.. so keep a lookout. before the preparation of exams :(
Enjoy is the word.. for now.. =)

Back!

2009-05-10T23:11:00.020+08:00

I had missed out a lot of updating since the last decent updates on February, due to the intensity of work and school projects.

I was busy with things such as studies, school projects, exams revision, work, friends and personal stuffs.

School load was pretty intensive as i was doing frequent revision, plus meet-ups with school mates for projects are taking up all the man-hours. As much as i could remember, friday, after school was cool. On the average of 3 weeks, i ended up going out with clarence and mandy after nite class and got a "fatigue hangover". That was still in februrary as i was in the frictional unemployment scenario. I was looking for job as to do something with economist, but no such job was on offer even though it was a very simple part time job with MTI.

The cool car! haha. Anyway, the owner changed the car plate, which is why i never bother to mask it.

My ex-colleague from MHA informed me of the job I was in the line previously, and due to the poor economy performances at that time, i was kind of forced to pick up the job as a desktop engineer. Time really fly very fast and it was in mid-march already.

That was my last entry in my blog but couldn't really count on anything as there wasn't any decent news in it. Anyway, a lot of events went on and i think that's what my life was so interesting.

Work started then, getting new colleagues and i was to roam around, so the people that i faced are pretty a lot. Chinese, Japanese, Europeans and a lot to talk about. It's interesting to make friends from different nationalities and that's when and where i can improve on my HR skills.

Apart from all these, a lot of meet-up sessions with friends all around singapore; from west to east, north to south for birthdays, lunches. So basically, in the month of march, it's just about it and some personal stuffs here and there.

The invitation that i never go. 21st bdae =x

Happy 21st birthday! 7 years already! pretty fast uh.

Another 21st bdae celebration. Felin, your decent-looking photo is so difficult to find!

In between, for some reason, i saw a lot of long-lost friends.

Come in the month of april, where it is the exams preparation month, so needless to say, i stayed at home after work to mug. Spending only a few hours to sleep each day and worrying for the papers. I even extended a table in my room to cope with the ever-increasing surface area i need to use to sort out the papers.

Creating space

That's the good thing with wireless keyboard and mouse =)

One of the battlefields mind-mappings

Coffees, schools, tonnes of papers, refillable ink are my weapons throughout these period, not forgetting my school mates, computers. Kudos to them! haha

One of the craziest thing i did was to went out in the middle of the nite with sun tian just 1.5 days before my paper to clarke quay and watch soccer, only to end up watching at his home and got commented "crazy" by my friend! haha..

Exams were good except for one paper which i believe at best will scrap through and I feared for the worst; that I may fail this paper. God bless me. I can't afford to fail.

Leave out the expected-and-usual details of late nite and early morning of revision and work respectively.

Sad thing was for a part-time students, I don't have the luxury time of taking a "break" after my exams and i went back to work after my exams immediately.

Met up with kim and joshua on saturday for chit-chat and gossipping (of one person! =))

Come to think of it, there isn't anything exciting to talk about, isn't it? I thought i have a lot of crazy plans. but, yawn!!!! To think that i was anticipating for my post-exams activities.

Goes International

2009-03-14T12:20:00.003+08:00

Hi All,

This blog has 'make its first step' to go global even though with the less appeal on international readers!

Cut the crap.. I had visited some site and found out that google has translation service and there the blog now, putting the translation link on the top page of the blog.

Whatever language you speak and read, you are able to do so as there are languages offered in:-

French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish
Japanese
Korean
Chinese (Simplified)
Arabic
Thai

No title

2009-02-23T20:55:00.013+08:00

I realised that i did not upload a photo showing part of my room which was invaded by someone.

An egg was threw into my room.

Damn irritating. Damn Evil. Happened on the 3rd day of CNY at around 3+ am. Yes, it was in the morning!

Alright. Some nice pictures ahead. Ehh, i dun mean to sound very sissy, but i thought the pictures were really beautiful and rich in colors.

But it seemed like the biscuits are too sweet. Diabetes personnel be aware!

Updates

2009-02-19T13:57:00.006+08:00

It's been some time that i have some updates over my life.. for my own purposes.

Taken a photo of my desktop from a digital camera which has better details than my camera phone. So here it goes:

only at a cost of $1789!

Being a jobless personnel, time was rather pretty hard to go by at times. I don't get use to being so free. But being on a positive side, I have the luxury time of doing self-revision from studies. I had pretty good savings habit when i was working so for time like this when i have no income, it served me well for a minor transition.

Had my 1st academic test after 3 years plus after missing out from school due to 2 years of my National Service commitment and 1 year of work. It's pretty much of a warm-up than any other thing else. I laughed at myself for being paranoid for a 15 question multiple-choice paper when the whole test was done.

Went for a jog on tuesday nite with yj and my knee cap flared up at the start of 2nd round again. I had been running 3 times in a week and i guess i need to cut down my frequency. I thought of participating in Standard-Chartered Marathon this year but i fear that i may not be able to do that in order to protect my knee caps. That's a disappointment consider that i prepared myself in all aspects plus the fact that i never participated before. But then i still got a year for myself, so hopefully there's a change and chance by then. All i know is that, i will not be jogging for this week till my knee cap recovered well.

Had been discussing about my annual overseas trip this year and the group had last year planned to go a little bit further this year, eg: australia. But the economy is not doing such a good favour, so we are planning to go to countries in South-East Asia. We had targetted countries such as Vietnam, The Philipines and Indonesia. Unfortunately, Thailand and Malaysia are out of scope.

There's a little bit of problem for me for overseas trip as I had always been objected strongly by my mother. This year will be more of a headache as I am currently jobless at the moment despite a strong level of savings. Well, depending on the countries i visit, maybe i could have the chance to pesuade my mother in allowing me to travel. Sigh, there's for someone who is 25 years of age.

Been cooping up at home for the past 2 weeks or so, except for going to SIM for lecture. Lined up programme for tonight and weekend. Hope i can be a little bit relax. I think i have signs of getting over-exertive on my school work despite there's really nothing much to do.

Alright, that's it for some update.

25 Items

2009-02-08T23:25:00.004+08:00

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you!

Following the masses just for once.

I like being alone some of the time.
I speak 7 basic languages
I can be funny and yet serious almost at the same time
I listen to pop, rock, rap, techno, heavy metal, classic, R&B, opera.
I know what you are plotting/thinking most of the time even I am not saying anything out.
I am named Bob, James Bob
My actual english name is Jonathan.
I am shy by nature
I cannot consume alcoholic beverages
I like soccer
This number is my birth month.
I (morally) support Manchester United
I am a family man
I love travelling to Bangkok
I love to eat (almost) anything
I appreciate coffee.
I am a part-time policeman
I consider myself being rich
I enjoy making friends of all nationalities
I am a virgin!
I may be a sportsman for singapore
I am pimple-prone
I am an ambition and determined guy (only when goals were set)
I hope to be a director of a movie in the future
Sad to say, this number is my age this year.

CNY

2009-02-05T01:15:00.003+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year to you all (and to whoever is reading this post)

Did nothing much on the those period as I was on leave (minus the unhappiness incident over at work).

Actually it's a hindrance and distraction to study at home. My mother likes to do this and that of the household works. Being already in an slightly below-average health state, I have no choice but to help her out with all these. I tell you. It's really very "long-winded" duties. I can get busy from morning like 7+ am until all the way until 3+ pm. I can name you all those standard duties which may sound less, but it just has so many things to do. Come finally at 3+ am, i tried sitting down at start my work.. with only 1.5 hours gone, I found myself helping out my mother for dinner.

-.-"

I tell you. I have no mood to study for the whole my leave period even though I told my friends that i was studying (coz that's what i INTENDED to do). So i knocked out pretty early throughout the whole weeks.

Went back to work though for a day for "handover" i think it's more of like a formality because I learnt those scopes for 4 months. But then, it's their fault.. not mine.

Eve of CNY, reunion dinner as usual. 1st day of CNY, started my duty as a son to 守.睡 Sorry for the non-chinese, i just can't translate it out.

Then went to relatives' house for house-visiting. And that's when I drove a Ford........... lorry. Haha, it's more difficult than car ok? With the slightly poor state of its mechanism.

2nd day of CNY. we just stayed at house, etc i think so.

3rd day, went driving from west to east and back to west. Wow.. Praise me! hahaha..

4th day, went back for work

5th day, returned the property of my previous employer and kiss goodbye to them.

Actually, i am not having a good mood to blog. Just plain lazy, i should say.

That's all... ba....

Presenting....

2009-02-03T00:35:00.002+08:00

My destructive picture for this month.

An extra link for you all to see the macro-mode of my ulcers in zoomed in mode.

If

2009-01-19T14:20:00.002+08:00

Extracted from some places in client's office I went to titled If. Here it goes:

If a barber makes a mistake, it is a new style
If a driver makes a mistake, it is an accident
If a doctor makes a mistake, it is an operation
If parents make a mistake, it is a new generation
If a politician makes a mistake, it is a new law
If a scientist makes a mistake, it is a new invention
If a tailor makes a mistake, it is a new fashion
If a teacher makes a mistake, it is a new theory
If you boss makes a mistake, IT IS YOUR MISTAKE

Amidst the busy period

2009-01-18T02:32:00.004+08:00

Amidst the busy 2 weeks, though it's not long (at all), but i think i have not really adjust it back to the date and paces.

Suddenly, i was thinking of how nice a holiday of 1 or 2 weeks will be good for the mental health.

I had drafted 3 places for holidays over this summer.

Melbourne
Cebu
Malaysia (places not decided yet)

Anyway, i'm still aiming for HD for my modules and hope everything goes pretty smoothly.

HOLIDAYS!!

School.

2009-01-17T02:10:00.010+08:00

School started for me since last week. I had been a good student so far, completing tutorials, rushing through the revision though it's late in the night (with the brain still functioning).

Tips on identify a good student (like me):-

Going through the lecture and study notes every time while traveling to school.
Staying back after the lecture for questions.
Revising / Doing tutorial on the journey back to home
Continue to do so even while at home late in the night.

Skipped a proper dinner every nite for classes, which spans mon to thur (yes, it's tiring). But my dinner in the late nite is this:

Just beans and brown rice.

Nonetheless, this topic isn't about my dinner but my school.

I have one lecturer who is an Associate Professor which i don't understand what he was trying to talk mainly because:-

His extreme slang
His assumption that we had foundation in this field.
To side-talk from the main topic frequently

I remembered in one instances that he was talking cock, much to my frustration for an unreasonable side topic and i gave a reasonably loud snoring sound in the lecture hall, and everyone looked at me including the lecturer.

I guessed he knew what i meant. I'm not sure whether he knows that i was the one who did it. Since i am paying so much for school fees, i should be getting the right info that i should be getting.

BUT, i pretty much regretted of what i did because I think i had embarrassed him in front of so many students and after all he must have some X factor for him to be an associate professor.

Being a good student (like me), I still went up to him and asked him questions despite of what i did earlier to him.

Ok another topic away from this entry title, I spent $1778 on a Acer Desktop with 3 years warranty, giving away a free epson printer (that cost $178)and free monitor upgrade to 23" from the previous 22" wide screen LCD.

the bad thing is, i accidentally threw the system box away with the graphics card driver, etc. ZZZZ

On work wise, my boss called him and asked me to work next week, which is my LOA (Leave Of Absence) period until the end of my contract. He told me that there will be some kind of compensation which he needs to discuss with our project manager.

I guess there was no sincerity in this discussion as i thought it would have been the case where my boss had already discussed with my project manager of my compensation, which then pass me the compensation terms.

Since they are slow in all these despite my notification 2 months ago before the end of my contract that i am not renewing, then why am i putting in so much effort during my LOA? End of the story is, that i am not going to do anything for them.

Alright, that's the update so far.

8 years of bak kut teh [Festive Season 2]

2008-12-14T22:15:00.022+08:00

Busy weekend this week with tonnes of activities.

Friday
Met up with Jennifer, Yifeng, Joshua, Lawrence, Guijie, and me for dinner in Pasta de Waruku in Marina Square. Had a long chat and dinner due to the waiting time. Anyway, the meeting had been long overdue. It was suppose to be like 3 months ago. But, i guess it doesn't kill much as long, everyone turned up.

Turned to starbucks for coffee session. and jennifer mentioned something about thai pub. We are considering of going there one day. The meet-up ended pretty much after that at around 10+ pm, if i am not wrong. Headed to different ways and reached home at around 11.30 pm.

Saturday
Anticpating the programme next day on saturday, I can't really sleep well. Prepared camera, passport, wallet with cash, extra batteries. I guess it's the fatigue from all these and the friday activites, i finally lie on the bed at around 2+ am.

Intended to wake up at 6.45 am but i missed out my alarm clock. Luckily for me, i woke up someone slightly later and rushed off to prepare myself and headed down to kranji mrt station to meet up with lekmeng and raquel before going to causeway.

To my pleasant horror, I was handed a S$150 Fred Perry voucher from LM and Raq. Ok, seriously, i dun know what to say. I can't just say thanks for this present. I did complain about the lost of my 2 fred perry shirts but i am not the person who indulge in branded goods. But then, thanks, and it's all i can say.

Stepped on the causeway bridge, and i wasthinking of taking some photos. But there was a message saying that the memory is full! Take a look at the memory card slot, it was empty. ~~Fucking~~ empty!! I cursed, sweared, and scolded of my brother throughout the whole trip. And what to do especially when i had cleared the singapore custom!

Met up with Caosheng after we cleared the malaysia immigration, and he brought us around to places. I love it.

We had western breakfast. Nothing of a great deal of it.

An emotional comeback to (but not) this restaurant for missing out bak kut teh for 8+ years. Seriously, the food can't be comparable to Singapore.

My lunch.

And I enjoy the traditional way the tea cups were prepared; using the tea to rinse through the cups in the above shown bucket, to clean away all the bacteria and germs in the cups. Then water off the tea by overturning the cup into the bucket and that's how the tea were served. Importantly, such a traditional (to me) were not found in singapore.

Headed down to Jusco shopping centre for some urban window shopping. Nothing great banged onto me, except for a couple of moden decoration items, but raquel got one shirt from nike and lekmeng got 2 books from popular there.

Mentioned something about going for penang laksa but it never materalise as it was quite late when we first discussed it. Anyway, we got off from there for seafood restaurant.

No photos were taken due to the above mentioned situation. We had 2 crabs with salted egg gravy on it, with kai lan, omelette egg, and Lao Shu Fen.

Went to a bar-like cafe for a drink and chit-chat. The environment was so cosy.

Old-school.

Very interesting photo shoot.

And a (small) bucket of drink.

And a shop was setup inside this cafe. They do have wireless in it too!

Left the place for causeway at around 10pm. Apologies for pressuring lekmeng and raquel. Cleared of entering Singapore in around 10 mins. Took bus 170 back to kranji mrt where in the middle of the journey, i got a vehicle escorting for me.

Sunday
The programme doesn't end up with me going back home from kranji mrt. I met up with clarence, mandy, pengxiang, xuemei for overnight KTV session. We were assigned to VIP room for 5 person. It's a heaven for us as there was disco light, stage smoke (dry ice), free flow of drinks.

Our room.

We sang from 11.30 till 5.30 am for just $27.75. But i knocked out for a while at around 5+ am. Resume singing when it's my turn.

Slept at around 7 am and woke up an hour later to go to temple for praying. Back up at home, for breakfast and knocked out at 9 am all the way until 5 pm.

Thanks caosheng for the guide. =)

Exclusive Entry!

2008-12-03T17:24:00.010+08:00

Before i added on to the Festive Entry 2 entry, a second half break in between.

A slight change recently at work. I asked my mother to prepare lunch for me to bring it to work. As part of expenditure cut. Well, i hope that the readers wouldn't think of me being a miser as to go so far to save money. Just that i have not enough to make any investment, so this is a beginning.

So much so for a brief introduction, my congrats to Sun Tian for getting a partner. Hopefully, both of them will work things out.

Took some photos at some creature that i saw before, but not in its nature color.

Lizard!

Got my 2nd batch of poly friends out for my birthday celebration, not much anything to highlight. They were very tired as well and still making their way out to meet up rather than to be at home.

Slacked at Mccafe and chit chatted a bit. Order some hot drinks as i felt that i shouldn't be drinking too much of the cold. Order a cup of espresso and a cake. To my horror, the cups were very small. It was charged for $2.20.

Scale 1: Comparing with the other size of dessert.

Scale 2: Length of the cup. Please also note that the height of the cup is not equivilant to the height of the drink in the cup.

Scale 3: Circumference of the cup.

Take you ruler out and take down this measurement and see for yourself the actual size in 3-Dimensions.

Festive Month 1

2008-12-02T10:01:00.009+08:00

With my birthday approaching, to me, it also means that the year-end festive celebrations are on its way as well.

Anyway, I guess my birthday celebrations had been concluded. I would like to thank my colleagues who celebrated my birthday, followed on by my 2 groups of secondary friends, and 2 groups of primary friends.

Anyway, this entry is not meant to talk about the number of celebrations that i had, but the holidays that are coming up. All just in, 2 months!

Hari Raya
Christmas
New Year
Chinese New Year

Though i am not a superstitious person, but all of these festive celebrations are greatly appreciated after a series of unfortunate events. Ok, i dun want to sound so pussy here, keep on saying how luck put me down, instead of taking a look at myself.

Anyway, some pictures of the celebrations.

With the 1st grp of sec sch friends.

With the 2nd grp of sec friends.

With my 1st grp of poly friends. PS: Phobia entering Fish n Co.

Not to forgetting the sms that stormed into my phone from 28th Nov 2008, 2355 hrs till 29th Nov 2008, 0030 hrs, keeping my fingers very busy reply and thanking them. Of course, friends that sent after 0030 hrs.

Thank you very much.

The photos are pretty much uploaded, so the link here

Regular updates

2008-11-23T22:47:00.011+08:00

joshua brought us to a restaurant at lorong L telok kurau for our lunch. I must say i like the place very took some photos with it

Obsession to eat.

i always like such drawings... coz i am not a good artist!

Notes by customers, i think.

A simple lunch. Anyway, brown rice has been what i eat whenever i'm at home. So if you are eating white rice, start converting to the brown's. There's a lot benefit in it. As for the taste..., you will get use to it soon.

Had a birthday celebration on fri evening and stayed over at chalet due to the far geographical location between my house and east coast.

But of course, it's not on me alone but with other 5 more colleagues. Just figured it out that there are a lot of nov babies. Do you want to know why? I guess couples make babies on Valentines' day and there we are popped out on nov.

Back to the main topic, I would like to thanks the head committee for its initiation on this celebration as well as the members who made an effort selecting presents and the misc. matters.
Thanks to my senior who separately bought me a present on top of the shared presents.

A glimpse of the photos:

The nov babies.

Was asked to pose.

My wallet had been supplied as presents since when i was in upper secondary school.

Link to this album. It's not fully updated yet.

That's it for now.

Random - Accenture

2008-11-13T11:57:00.006+08:00

Just to fill up the gaps from the last entry. Well.. this post will be kinda a random one.. nothing specific to note and mention.

Started off this week is yet another busy work, with problems related to my work scope. but the problem wasn't started off by me. so this has dragged on for a couple of days until yesterday, it was fully done with.

Chatted with cindy recently, a colleague in the co. but not in the same project, and i grumbled about my work and one topic was very interesting; my contract terms. I just remembered/realised that my contract states working day is from mon to fri. Which makes me realised that my boss NEVER tell me that i need to work on sat and HR NEVER informed me of this same goes for my PM (project manager). This means that i can SUE Accenture!

Why was this topic mentioned by the conversation with cindy? I was told by my temp. boss that i may have to work on this weekend as well as next weekend. 12 saturdays in a year, that i need to work. there's a couple of months that i went to work on a couple of saturdays in each month.

That also means i am working potentially an extra 20 days = another 1 working month!!!! fuck. which means i am not paid on the "14th" month.

Seriously, i dun understand why are there people dying to join Accenture.

Care to enlighten me, people-who-are-dying-to-join-accenture?

FM 2009

2008-11-09T11:32:00.003+08:00

Waiting for this game. Been playing this game since secondary 2 and i am loving it every time they release a new version.

Gotten all of my identity cards back; driving licence and nric. Will definitely be keeping it even well so i will not lose them in the future.

Budget is rather tight these 2 months as i had been spending way too much in oct and nov. I will be tightening up my expenditure for the next 2 months.

I had decided on the purchase N82 but this will materalise next year march as i had 2 hot items to get at the start of next year; desktop and external hard disk.

Right after i got into poly, i had been using laptop from then till now. The laptop i am currently using is from my co.

My boss met up with me to talk about my contract matter and i seriously wanted to tell him that i am not interested in renewing my contract with them when he suddenly cut in, right after his question, saying that you do not need to tell me now, you can consider it and gave me a reply on friday (7th nov 08).

Ok, as for the reasons, i am not going to say anything over here as it is too revealing here. I am afterall, a professional "executive" in the co. So i am not saying anything here. What should be private, should remain private.

Nov Party 2008

2008-11-07T18:00:00.002+08:00

Please show a hand there by replying me to this post ... on the attendance of the Birthday Party on 29th Nov 2008.

Thanks.

Room Sabotaged

2008-10-28T10:47:00.003+08:00

Updated and edited entry

An exciting chase happened yesterday; it's all started from my room.

At around 1+ pm, as i was in the room using my computer, someone threw a "bomb" into my room. Heard them saying "masuk". I dashed to the windows and saw 3 malay children around the age of upper primary on a bicycle riding off.

Ok, the natural reaction for me was to shout and i really regret shouting as it raised an alert to them.

Nonetheless, i sped off outside from my room in a bid to search for them. Fortunately for them, I couldn't find them. My brother joined in too.

Widen the search area, but still, can't find any trace of them. It happened to fast too, though i did see the 3 kids but i can't remember how they looked.

Prior to this incident, it happened 2 times before. One of the incident was the same as the above mentioned, but the other time which was more dangerous.

They threw in a bundle of 3 sparkle fireworks into my room. I was lucky as it dropped to the floor near to my bed instead of bed. Imagine the sparks by the sparkle fireworks heat up the bed sheet.

FIRE. Who will pay for it? Me or them?

Now, you should know why am i so pissed with the 3 kids (if i am right that all incidents were done by them)

Next time, it will not be so lucky for them.

Got home and was informed by my mom that my 2 FRED PERRY shirts were stolen.

Ok, what's next? I can't believe it. I had already long run out of shirts/t-shirts and 2 shirts went missing!

Definition in this entry
Bomb - The kind you can find in provision shop where it is compressed before "exploding" sending out powders/foams.

Masuk - Meaning "in" in malay word.

Impression

2008-10-23T14:43:00.003+08:00

Got a gathering recently with the others plus the, main attention of the day, Janice, who got back from UK some weeks ago.

Prior to that day, in Facebook, I edited the personal info under the "Looking For" status, thinking it is silly showing the information. Upon that thoughts, I removed the options: "Dating" and "A Relationship". Facebook then publicize the updated status listing as "I'm not single". Not that i mind with the new, but fake status. But I don't like broadcasting my status around when it is not true.

Anyway, back to the main point i want to talk about. I was late on that day as I was recalled back to work, out of the sudden due to servers-related problem (again). Unexpected power failure was the cause, so I have no choice but to head it back as there was users using the system on that weekend. Anyway, after all those, i met up with the others.

The first thing came out from their mouth wasn't asking about my job but about my status in facebook. Fine, if they are interested who is that "partner" of mine, instead they laughed on am i really attached.

-.-

I'm disgusted by it. No offend to anyone. Upon that remarks, I asked myself that why do my friends have such impression on me.

After some delibration, I guess I joked too much. In addition, I was "lame" in the sentences that we said. So i thought, these are the factors that contribute to the impressions. Well, I don't think i can't blame them. My mother too, thinking that I was unable to fend for myself when i was "kidnapped", saying why was i stupid to be a gurantor for a friend who loan $80,000.

I am serious about my life, my future, my retirement, my plans, my vision. I do plan for it too. I do think. I do have temper. (I do scheme. I am cunning; but i don't do that to my friends, what for since they are not my enemy) But being a nice guy doesn't mean my friends should have the impression of me. Especially those who know me for years.

Enough said for this. I guess i'm not joking too much and gotta be a serious person from now on.

This is so disappointing.

You Are Invited

2008-10-10T23:10:00.002+08:00

You are cordially invited to for my 24th Birthday celebration.
Regardless where you are; Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand. You can fly, swim, teleport there. Transportation not sponsored. Drinks and Food not included.

Venue: Cool Deck, Siloso Beach, Sentosa
Date: 29th November 2008
Time: 6pm to 11 pm
Attire: Casual Beach Wear
Event: Live Band feat. DJ Gee & DJ Jeff and DJ Cherry & DJ Pixi[e]dub

Everyone is invited.

See you there.

weekend

2008-10-06T11:36:00.005+08:00

Seemingly a forever period that i missed out my precious weekend on my own. Saturday outing was pretty a fresh day for me. though the bad thing is that i get to go out only in the late afternoon.

Went out with my mother in the 1st half of the day.. hmmm, nothing special to mention... =x

Watched movie with lekmeng, raquel, and sun tian at vivo.

Eagle Eye was a not-so-bad movie, but what fascinated me was the soundtracks in this movie. Ok, I don't know how many appreciates the music running on the background of the movie, but i'm sure i am one of those who paid attention to the sound/music.

And i had "accquire" the soundtracks "online" after watching the movie. Not a bad one. One of the best i rated, after Pirates of the Caribbean.

Anyway, had some small bites at one of the restaurant, like Black Boss (or something) prior to the movie, while waiting for raquel to satisfy her crave (i think so) and waiting for Sun Tian.

Like a prisoner whom was just set free from jail, those small bites were not enough for me and i had another round in Burger King.

Had a simple dinner at Kopitiam and headed down to Holland V for late-night dessert. No pub/club as i have problem drinking down alcoholic drinks except for Jolly Shandy. =)

Laugh at me at your peril. :)

Alright, that's all for my weekend.

now what?

2008-10-01T17:37:00.002+08:00

Following the urgent request by the basis side to transfer the data, my boss and I were solving the problem (as this is part of our job) fast. So, the data was successfully transferred to the downed server yesterday evening and I gave a sms to my basis colleague telling him that it's done and he can proceed with his job on his side.

But up to now, as of the time of this entry, there wasn't any progress! Fuck damn it. I don't know what are they up to. They are wasting my time on this problem.

Now what, tomorrow? No progress.. means the deadline this week is not possible to reach.

Summary of the past 1+ month

2008-09-30T23:59:00.008+08:00

My life was an interesting one especially over this month on work issue. Well, and as usual, nothing new or news on the personal side of my life.

Before i start, and i would like to give myself more 'life' into this page of my blog (as it had been words and words in the recent entries), i decided to add in one picture of my "future". So there it goes.

Ok, not really that course.. but that uni. As you can see from the bottom left corner of the file in the picture.

As for the past 2 (excluding this) entries, work was fantastically in a disastrous state. Spent 1 month and it is still not resolved. It seemed like also that bad lucks are interested to target me. Since it's a holiday (wow, like finally) tomorrow, so i shall spend a little of time to summarise up the series of unfortunate events.

First of all, on a thursday night and i was doing my routine check on my servers by doing the command "ping " and i couldn't get any responses from all of the servers in the same domain/network.

So, i went to the server room the next day to check it up. Restarted the servers and got it running and then gradually found the main reason why it had failed. But then, the database (aka db) for one of the servers are not working and then it set the worries throughout the whole of the project and her project members.

Well, the problem is i don't know what had i done wrong. But on the other hand, i can't tell my boss that "i don't know" even though i do not really know what happened though i had followed all the procedures on the necessary steps. Reading through the logs were one big tough job as the interface isn't like what u see in Microsoft Word or PDF document. Checking through the internet for resources/solution isn't any easy thing to do as well. Side note: This is how i make friends with google.com. My msn nick says it all.

A lot of suggestions were put forward to solve the problem and one of it (which we are doing it currently) was to copy the db data from one server to the downed server. In the midst of it, we did the tape copying. The bigger tape took around 2 hours as single tape is enough, therefore it's quick. So when the tape has finished copying and was about to load it up into the tape library to the downed server, my boss just realised that the tape library is spoilt! I didn't even realised that until he mentioned it. OK, it's my fault because all these were suppose to be my charge. Ok, so to save time, we tried out another method; using the smaller tape. This required a day's of job as it practically needs attention from the user as this has to change the tape (like a casette). Anyway coz of this, i was running up and down. So when everything was done, brought up to the downed server, then it broke down upon the 2nd tape). So it's like wasted my time and effort over all these.

Saturday was needed to come back for work to as I continue to FTP (aka File Transfer Protocol). As it is our last resort of transferring the data. Taking 2 days to complete but at the least, it's secured. And another 2 days (both on weekends) were eaten up was put to transfer the files to the server. The only positive thing was that I am able to remote in to the office to check on the progress. But my attention for that weekend was on the progress and I didn't go out.

Then during the saturday of the above paragraph, that the building undergo electricity maintenance and as a result my progress put on a hold for 3 hours. Not only that my laptop adaptor was partially spoilt by the sudden surge of power (multiple times).

Then on my office laptop, while i was clearing up unnecessary files, I accidently deleted the system files and i can't load up the windows and it's safe mode windows and i decided to reinstall the windows and that spent my 1 hour 15 mins of time doing on that before bringing it up.

------ OK, a breather for a while -------

I lost my NRIC, Driving licence card and ez-link card in TTSH. But it was not recovered. And I don't even have the time to report about these to the Police on that afternoon, coz of the problem in office. I was only 'given' time by myself near to the end of the day. Went to NPC and made a police report. I showed my NS nric and we chatted a bit on our NSF lives. Ok, so now you know which force i am in for my NS. Ended up it was 11.30 pm when i reached home without have my dinner yet.

The next day (again), my mum received a call from "kidnappers" claiming that i was being kidnapped and needed $80,000 to release me. My mother managed to have $5000 before she was about to meet them when my father happened to call in and he asked my mom to call me to verify and she did. She was then she realised she was almost a victim of a phone scam. Again, police report was made. :(

From that I knew it's impossible to have the 3 cards back. That means i am going to spend maybe $170 on these replacments. With that money, i can get a return tickets to and from bangkok.

So far, my life is on the average among the bad lucks life as it continue to haunt me for 1 month and furthermore.

Well, on the bright side, i have to thank lekmeng, raquel on their presence to boost me, not to forget my colleagues too and rebecca (of which she's an unexpected source) of their prayers and lucks, etc. It's time now i guess to walk out of the darkness and see some light. After all i had been in it for the past 1 month. Hopefully I will be hearing good news from my SAP counterparts later on.

Unlucky weeks (2)

2008-09-21T13:24:00.003+08:00

2nd week after the last bad lucks incident, came more bad lucks news for me. Monday and tuesday came out with a lot of work and etc, going home pretty late.

Wednesday was one of the hell day, as i lost my NRIC, Driving licence and an ez-link card. Work was pretty busy that i dun have any time to report loss of these cards to the Police. Now, i hate my job.

Anyway, went to police centre late in the night after i finish work with my father. On thursday, a call was made to my residential line telling my mother that i was kidnapped! According to my mother, the voice and the way i called her was excatly the same. They said that my friend loaned out $80,000 and i am the guarantor for him.

My mother, being a paranoid, plus the way i called her and my voice. She then activated her friend to prepare part of the ransom and was prepared to meet him (them). My father called in at this time then my mother told him the story. My father suggested to call me to verify and indeed, i was safe.

Ok so the story ended by ignoring the the "kidnappers". I don't understand why did my mother has to change her hp line (as the hp number was given to them), like why she has to be afraid of them? They should be the one who is afraid of us.

Anyway, my course of actions are to submit my ezlink card number to the Police. I firmly believe that they would used my ez-link card. So from there, they could trace the whereabouts with SMRT and Sbs Transit. If they enter MRT station, that would be even better as CCTV can get a pictoral face of them making the police (and me) to trace this person even easier!

A couple of questions came into my head.

How do the fuck they know the way i called my mother and where do they get my voice from?

How do the fuck they know that my mother would be the one who will pick up the phone, and not other person else?

I am going to get the bottom of this. I will work with the Investigating Officer on monday.

Most importantly, I think i am getting this correct. Pardon me with superstitious, as I had no ways to solve my bad luck. I went for a haircut and i told the hair dresser serving me to cut it as short as possible.

YES! No more bad luck so far. =)

Unlucky weeks

2008-09-14T12:43:00.004+08:00

Quote of this entry: What doesn't you kill you, makes you stronger.

Been down with unbelievable bad lucks since last friday. An unbelievable week for me which had made me so lousy. It all happened like this.

On thursday evening last week, I did a "ping" command onto my servers to make sure that they are alive as part of my routine check. However, all the servers didn't reply to me and i was pretty worried that the server might be down.

So, on friday, i drew out the key and went in. Checked that the servers were actually up and working. But, i still couldn't interact with them digitally.

So, i initiated a shutdown on all the servers. Bad things happen when the Service of one of the servers can't startup.

Informed my colleagues and after trying for a couple of hours, we can't do anything. Then we all informed my boss over this.

From there, hell starts to break loose and bad lucks were seem to be targetting at me.

My colleague and I went down to Basement (where one of the many servers we had are located) and it's a long way, so i had been running here and there a lot of times each day for the past week. We spent time until 9.30 pm in there before we left our workplace.
Boss came and suggested that to transferred these files to the downed server. So we spent 1 hour down there trying to mount the files directly to the unix machine. After trying that much, i'm unable to do so. Then i was thinking to copy the files were copied to windows and from there, to transfer to the USB external HD. From that idea, we had to stay back and configure the necessary setting before we all left the place. It was pretty early then. 7 pm
In order to have more backup coverage, we decided to have more backups with different medium. 4mm tape and a bigger tape. Did that and stayed back. Forget the timing though.
Done with the backup tapes the next day, wanted to recover and my boss just discover that the tape library (for the bigger tape) hardware fail! Gosh. Coz i didn't realise that it has stopped. Reprimanded me a bit.
My boss then thought of other idea. To bring a laptop and the external HD in to send the files in as there's an Gigabit Ethernet switch in it, therefore transferring of files would be quick. But, he forgot that the device is down and thus that idea was dropped. Again, the recovering of server is delayed.
Decided to do the slow method by ftp the files. And meanwhile, writing of data from the 4mm tape had began and i was hoping to change to the 2nd tape on that night as well. Didn't realise that it gotta be so long and i spent the whole night on friday in the office till sat 1.30 am without changing the tape. (Thanks lm and raquel who were there waiting for me till even so late)
Saturday. Came back to the office. Saw the message by the system informing me to change tape. and so i changed, but to my bad luck again, the system said that there's checksum error, and was unable to proceed to writing the data to the system. Damn it. To add to the problem, i was only informed at the last minute that there was an 3 hours power shutdown-cum-maintenance which of course i couldn't do anything else!
I realised that, at the end of the day, it might be the fault of the patch panel which linked to our office might have spoilt which was why it was unable to communicate well. Had i discovered that earlier, the above mentioned 7 points wouldn't occur.
For now, the good thing is that the ftp program that i used doesn't hanged the files on me though it would disconnect from the server after long period of inactivity.

Now i hope, that there would be no more bad luck anymore for tomorrow as we are going to restore the system. Everyone please pray for me.

Nonethess, from these past 8+ days, i realised what i was missing in relation to my work performances. Thanks rebecca for chatting with me throughout the whole night when i was in the office.

Overdue Entry

2008-08-25T22:29:00.014+08:00

Last weekdays were as usual dull-less. Not much activities to mention of.

Start of weekend was a bit different. Went out with my 1 year of secondary school friends to celebrate SK's birthday at Partyworld.

Time to meet was delayed from 7 pm to 7.45 pm. Thanks everybody. As i was there at around 7.15+ pm. Waiting down there can be quite stupid. Haha, i will not be early the next time i meet them.

Chit-chatted, sang songs, made jokes to one another, and of course celebrating SK's birthday.

Just also realised that we didn't take any group photos!!

The Birthday Lady

I dun look like my age when i laugh. Look at my wrinkles!

Maybe i am not andy.

Now, do you know why? haha.

Joan is an unexpected person, as in I didn't know that she was coming. Ok. All i know that she is quite close with sk and vice versa.

To Joan: I don't know why are you so 'formal' when you were chatting with me. I'm not your employer but your friend. So, please don't be so serious when we chat the next time. =)

You guys are right. As expected, I don't do such a lousy pose. I was forced by 4 other persons not inside this picture.

Something decent here.

Goh lah. We did take group photos.

We sang and sang until 12 pm before we were "delivered" home by Andy.

Happy Belated Birthday. =)

(And hor, I had to retype this entry 3 times because the connection with blogger broke down!)

365 days ago

2008-08-19T22:26:00.003+08:00

Guys, guess where was i 365 days ago?

I WAS IN THAILAND!!

Yes, i was having fun over there with my PNSD people and of course to meet Aom.

Ok, that was 365 days ago. Time really flies. I remember I was on time to reach singapore to celebrate my mother's birthday. And of course that's how i remembered my thai trip.

I am quite lazy to flip back whether i mentioned my rate to bkk is. Let me announce:

5 times in 20 months. ~~(and i nearly typed 20 times in 5 months)~~

Be warned. Do not attempt to break my record!

Ok, my mom's birthday is tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Mom!

A present from me:

Taken from Yilin's camera which took 2 years ago when i was serving my NS. Nice to know yilin, yupei and jess. They are funny people!

Weekend Update

2008-08-17T23:20:00.008+08:00

Had a very eventful weekend for this week.

Friday

Flew to New York, New York on last friday to meet up with secondary sch friend and 2 NPCC teacher officers for a dinner. I was the last inclusion for this gathering as i came down from work from the east side and it could be later if i didn't take taxi down. It's horrible taking taxi during peak hours from east to the west. :'(

Chit-chatted until the restaurant closed for the day. It's fun to mention of the old days and i was so full of envy of my past years. It could have been more fun if i am more extrovert than in the past, but nonetheless, my secondary school life was fun. Happy, Sad, scolding teachers and got scolded by teachers, etc.. and all the craps.

Unfortunately, there was no photos to show.

Went out to Holland Village after the gathering dinner. Selin drove me home to put down my laptop bag and drove me again to Gombak mrt. Thanks.

Had a cup of not-so-coffee coffee at The Coffee Club with MJ, SH, SR and WC. Went home via taxi again. Midnight and diesel surcharge. Thanks Singapore.

Saturday

Met up with my mother, Sun Tian, Lek Meng, and Raquel down to Sungei Buloh for a walk in the nature reserve. Woke up pretty early in the morning (and even earlier for the others) for this walk.

Paid just $3 for a bus transport from my house to Sungei Buloh, then to Sheng Siong Hypermarket at Woodlands Point and to just outside my house. With 2 small curry puffs and 2 bottles of 500 ml water. It's a refreshing idea to walk around in the nature reserve.... once in a while. haha

The not-so-wet wetland

The wetland

Thanks raquel for the shot of an unknown wildlife

My primary school water bottle.

My bolster being hung out to air. Haha

Thanks Sun Tian for driving me all the way to my workplace instead of the arranged drop-off point to get my laptop adaptor. Maybe it's the bad weather condition that he volunteered to do so. Seeing the rainy weather approaching my workplace area. I rushed up to my office, after changing the pass and getting the key, to take my adaptor and then ran all the way to the bus stop. Thanks god. It started to rain as soon as i reached the bus stop.

Sunday

Slept up late in the morning until like 10.30 am. Had 4 pieces of pratas; 1 egg and 3 plains. Went to my uncle's house to visit my cousin's baby who was just born. And my status now has upgraded to 堂叔. Ok it means I had become older too la. Rushed to lot one for movie Money Not Enough 2 with clarence and mandy. A bit of touching story and it wasn't as funny as the previous series.

Walked around the new lot one with them and went home to watch the women table-tennis final competition. A silver medal, not too bad. Clap for them. But i think it was half-hearted play from the singapore side. But for the first time in my life, I saw the Singapore Flag flying. =)

Sick of it

2008-08-12T22:12:00.005+08:00

Tagboard replies

meow: haha, no la.. i went to stay there 4 times in 14 months. How can he forget me?! haha

azizah: Ya, expected. Just dun want to admit that i am handsome. haha

Jen: Do you want to have your eye check? In what way we are similar? By the time of your tagboard, i reckon that you were very tired, thus the wrong judgement from you.

Joshua: Ya I scolded them. But of course at the right thing, and the right time. With the right mindset. Middle-fingers, 4-letter word, hokkien vulgarities. Anyway, this is part and parcel of training. At the end of the training, they sang a song for me. I'm actually quite touched. Like my NPCC days.

Entry

Things had gone pretty bad. I have no idea how to proceed on. Maybe i should let it stablise first. Anyway, over the weekend, I had tonnes of crazy programmes.

First of all, to 'celebrate' National Day @ marina square. It was crazily a lot of people. Man, choose a good spot next time. I bet there are still a lot of places that's uncovered.

Had dinner at Xin Wang HK Cafe. Talked cock for a while and we saw a lot of familiar faces. Ok, maybe coz of the national day celebration.

Drove around singapore in a bid to kill time and more talk cock session.

Actually come to think of it, I am out of touch with my friends.

Group I hanged out with

Poly classmate - ccjb, mandy, px

Poly FOC - st, lm, raq, wq, hl, kb

sec npcc - sh, wc, til, sr, sel, ly

poly classmate - ccjb & mandy are partner. px & xm are partner. ccjb and px are from the same school. ccjb, px, mandy and sometimes xm joined in their school's activities. So it left me sometimes left out of the grp totally. I have nothing to say. in fact most of the times, i am pretty quiet and left them to talk.

sec npcc - we don't usually meet up. If lucky, once a month. else, it can be a couple of months.

Poly FOC - the usual same people. It's at most meeting them regularly. They are the one whom i meet almost every weekend.

Seriously, i don't know what happen to my circles of friends.

Gotta do something to it.

Anyway i think i shall stop here. I had lost the motivation to blog.

Something good from here

First day of work after reservist

2008-08-05T22:31:00.004+08:00

Had my first full working day after my reservist for a period of 1 month. Some of the processes are a bit rusty.

Work was fine today. Chatted with lekmeng, sun tian, and penelope over the msn over my future stuff.

It's nice to see my colleagues. :)

Germaine called me like 5.55 pm and asked me whether can meet up for dinner. That's pathetic. It seemed like i am the backup of everyone's programmes.

hah.

Anyway, i agreed coz her birthday is around the corner and she said she had makeup, so i wanted to see how pretty she is. The germaine i know now is a camwhore. haha. She kept deleting photos citing reasons like eyes are too big, smile is not there; everything isn't enough, etc.

Pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3

Picture 2 and 3 were a deliberate shot in guardian. Why? Coz she pestered me to take it.

Pic 4

Picture 4 is worst. Purposely went to find a white lighting (which happen to be a staircase) and take a photo. To further complicate the situation, we had a security camera (which meant for security reasons) right in front of us recording our taking-photos actions into their recorder. -.-

The handsome wittyweida.blogspot.com author/editor/writer/creative director.

(pls vomit)

Expensive Weekend

2008-08-03T20:43:00.004+08:00

Thursday was my last day of my In-Camp-Training (ICT) and it was fun on the whole. Now, i don't feel like going back to work.

First of all, I have to thank to all people; Raquel, Lekmeng, Sun Tian, Weiqing and clarence who responded of my request to entertain me (both directly & indirectly) on the 1st week of the ICT.

Anyway, back to reservist thing. The last day of the ICT was basically returning of items and debrief. I'm touched and stunned with what my troopers came up for me for a song. It rhymed of the tune of "You are my sunshine". I can't understand what did the 34 men are thinking about.

Here it goes:
"You are my weida, my only weida"
"You make me happy, my skies are grey"
"You never know dear how much i love you"
"Please don't take my sunshine away"

Ok, i know it gave u a goosebumps but despite scolding them with the four-letter word, vulgarities, and showing the middle-finger signs to them, it shows how much they are ok with me.

Went out with weiqing, raquel, kokboon and meeting up with lekmeng at orchard after returning home to dekit the uniform. Unfortunately, sun tian was unable to join us.

Basically, that's for thursday.

Friday, reported back to PNSD and we recee areas as part of our reservist duties. Met up with my ex-colleagues over there and spent the whole day outside. I was forced to buy a new shirt after the PNSD outing as there were stubborn perspiration stain on my shirt. Met up with weiqing and lekmeng again at orchard.

And again that ended for the friday programme.

Met up with the same guys on saturday with sun tian in. Went to city hall and marina square for a walk and for LM to get something for him. Was thinking of buying samsung mp3 player, but ended up buying creative Zen x-fi 8 GB.

S$229 inclusive a pair of red cliff movie, an armband. Think it's not a bad deal.

Sunday was mentally drained. Movie marathon. 10.45 am red cliff at jurong point. Had breakfast prior the movie, and lunch until 2.30 pm and continue to watch The Dark Knight at 2.40 pm until 5.15 pm

Dinner with my family outside.

That ended my weekend!

War game

2008-07-30T19:01:00.000+08:00

Hi all, i'm updating my blog through mobile and i'm currently in the midst of war game. This is my first exercise, and so far we all are experiencing new things. Unlucky for me, i'm the first casualty coz i'm happen to be on the main road with no cover. All things were good for a first timer. Update you all later with more details.

War

2008-07-29T23:56:00.001+08:00

My last day of official training ends with a simulation of war games. I'm one of the commanders. It's a new experience for me. Hopefully, i'll be doing a good job and everything goes smoothly. On the good thing, thursday will be my last in-camp training. And there wouldn't be training on that day. On friday, i'll be going to PNSD for meeting and to take this chance to find my ex-colleagues.

Marksman

2008-07-28T12:11:00.000+08:00

A remarkable improvement from my testfire last friday. I got my marksman and thus, i am awarded $200. Haha. Congratulates me please!

Mobile blogging

2008-07-27T22:59:00.001+08:00

JamesBob goes mobile blogging. Pretty bored at the moment. Hope i can get marksman for shooting tomorrow. Wish me luck. Thanks guy.

4 more days

2008-07-26T00:06:00.003+08:00

4 more days to end my reservist 1st cycle.

Nonetheless, i can also request to downgrade my PES status and discharge me from KINS. My backache is giving me pain so easily. With the SBO, in 10 mins time, I felt ache on my back. In addition to that, my knee cap is giving way already.

Chatted with my men during one of the weekdays nite, and we somehow talked about thai trip and was surprisingly coincidence that we could meet.

The thai trip was originally planned on 17th jul to 21st jul 2008 and we intend to take the 6.30 am flight with tiger airways and all of these were met up with his travel plan.

I passed my IPPT test. No gold, no silver, no incentive pass, but only pass.

Shooting test coming on monday, and went through a test shoot today. Horrible. I failed it. This is the only time that i failed my shooting. Damn. It's a do or die situation now. Hopefully i can have $200 from it.

Enough of the reservist thing.

Happy Belated birthday to Clarence.

And just go do whatever things you want to do in your life; do something you think you are right. Do not let what others comment affect your personal life. What over was over. It's a brand new lease of life now.

Thai

2008-07-20T18:07:00.003+08:00

I think i still sccumbled my thai "spirit" in me.

After hearing thai languages and the thai in front of me for 2 hours yesterday, I was happily imaging myself to be in thailand.

Sigh.

I hate myself for being that. Those who know the history. It is not about thailand that i hate, it's something related with it.

It's so amazing that everything was not cleanly deleted, after nearly 2 years. Even in the midst of an occupied mind. Though it wasn't a very deep thought. I wonder how long more I need to forget about these totally.

Reservist 2nd round

2008-07-20T12:34:00.003+08:00

Seriously, one can't do anything much in the middle of the night in singapore over the weekend except for boozing (they drink a cup or so), supper-ing (other country offered real authentic food), KTV, late-night movie, bowling for my thai friends.

That was what happen last night when I ran out of clues and ideas on introducing places for them to go. Shopping centres are all we have, and practically, it's the same throughout. Just that different places, different designs.

Having supper at these places was fine consider the price, but taking taxi back is a horrible. Enough said of all these.

After the dinner, I went to join my sec sch grp for a proper dinner at Marina Square. Chit chatted for a while and i got message from ccjb and mandy to meet up for supper and late-night out.

Went to the new forest trail walk, which opened in may, last night. It was cool evening. We were joined by a couple of friends in groups of other groups, couples and running enthusiasts. It opened 24-hours for the public to walk, of course, at your own risk.

Finished touring one part of the park and off we go, it was around 4+ am. Seeing the clear traffic, I suggested to drive. Yes, for the 1st time, i drove on road from the park to Jurong via AYE.

Nothing wrong, ok? I got my licence already, i put up the triangle plate.

Alright, set to go. reservist, 2nd round start.

1st Phase of training

2008-07-18T22:31:00.002+08:00

All things went good so far.

Came under my charge was 34 SCs and SCCpl and SCSgt. We had intensive weapon training this week. Boosting physical training at the same time. Training all the way from 6.30 am till 9 pm from mon to wed.

It's indeed a difficult task.

And without prior knowledge, gelling up 34 men wasn't an easy task either. Thanks god that the troopers were helpful though there were some naughty. Hope for better improvement next week.

Nonetheless, we all made it.

Pin is in singapore now at my time of this entry

reservist

2008-07-13T20:57:00.003+08:00

Ok, this is nice. Serve me right for not signing up for a regular force. Eg, SCDF, SPF, SAF, RSAF, Navy

I'm called up for reservist duty.

This is so boring.

Nonetheless, i can't escape away because my surname is not Lee.

Was catching up with Kenny's sia blog and his entries were really funny.

This is one of it

Tagboard frequency

2008-07-11T21:37:00.003+08:00

Talking about kenny sia in my last entry.

and so i am here again, to talk about kenny sia ... and that's a new thing i noticed.

His Tagboard..

There will be a new message at its slowest in every 3 secs; so much that it looks like a chat window.

Please observe the 3 seconds frequency.

So, my readers, do u know what to do?!

HEHEHE

SG bloggers VS Kenny Sia blogger

2008-07-10T21:28:00.002+08:00

For some reason, I went in and surfed kenny sia's blog. I must say I had the wrong impression of him. All along, I always though that his blog is about arrowing here and there or shooting here and there.

Until...

I read it and found it was so entertaining. Wow, i tell u. It's better than Steven Lim, it's better than xiaxue, it's better than dawn yang (talking about her, I realise that my cousin happens to know her) and it's definitely, it's better than mine!

Ok, back to kenny sia blog. He's amazing. He's a celebrities. Even celebrities, CEO find him. WTH.

Cut the crap. I think even if i don't provide his blog URL, i would have bet that you know it.

Read it! Be Entertained!

Reservist 2008 ~~sucks~~

relink

2008-07-09T22:47:00.001+08:00

i had relink the photo albums.

click here

Beautiful Week

2008-07-06T20:55:00.010+08:00

Had a very interesting week.

Started on the 23th June 2008

I went for my driving test. Thanks to the person who sent their wishes. Raquel, Lek Meng, Sun Tian, Weiqing, Germaine, Janice, Clarence, Mandy, Joshua, Melvin, Lawrence, Yifong, Hsien Ming, Huimin, Jun ming, Aom

The day started well, but it got a bit darker just before i started my warm-up lesson. And i thought it would be a rainy session but shortly after that the sky cleared up and everything went back normal.

Finished my warm up session, and then start the important stuff. My instructor brought me up to the waiting area and await for my test.

Tester got onto the car and he wished me luck and told me to relax and drive like i was learning car. So upon settling down, the tester told me to start off when i felt i am ready. But I observed that he didn't fasten his seat belt

Tester: Ok, you may start if you are ready
Testee: Ok, I shall start now.

Trying to delay a bit and i thought he will belt up but.. no.

Testee: Erm, Sir, do you mind fasten up your seat belt? Because i'm moving off soon.
Tester: Erm, Ok. You may move off now.

Cut short of the details, I was on a borderline deductable mark; with a score of 18. Which means I had passed the driving test.

NICE ONE JAMESBOB!

Ok, this is the highlight of the entry. Even more important than passing my driving test.

On that same week, 26th June, px, ccjb, md and jb would be heading down to bangkok for a 5-days holiday!

Had fun throughout the whole of the trip. From Day 0 to Day 5 and 2 hours of Day 6.

Day 1
Done with the neccessary clearance from Immigration.

Officer: So, do you know how to speak Thai?
Me: Pom puut par-sar tai dai nit-noi, krup
Officer: (Smile a bit) and said dee
Me: Korp kun krup

Puzzled, I asked the others and they said that the officer didn't even speak with them. Omg, i think he saw the frequencies of my visit to bkk.

Holiday is much more better than sex!

Retrieved our luggages and belongings. Bought thai SIM card, have some photo-taking session at the airport. And some of my lame news report clip. All for memories purposes. Took Pin's advise to take cab from the departure hall, as I am able to save almost 50% of the cab fees compared to taking taxi from arrival hall.

That's where experiences come in when I was able to guide through the taxi drivers to the hotel where we would be staying.

Welcome to Ratchathewi (or technically Ratchatevee). Didn't see this previously. Nice erection!

Orientated with the others on the shopping centres, landmarks in our area. We went around MBK shopping centre, Siam Square, Siam Centre, Siam Paragon, Central World & Zen, Platinum on our first activities.

A complimentary cup of some new drinks.

We just spent our first day walking around in the downtown area. And opening the first buying transaction for this trip happened to be ME!

Day 2
Woke up anticipating our planned theme park activities. Took a taxi down to Dreamworld and it was kind of long drive from east to west of SG.

Nothing much to describe as it is more fun to see the pictures than relating to you all in words.

Checking for road direction.

One of the Dreamworld Mascot. So cute!

From tourist to farmer, in Aussie Farm.

My first driving after passing my driving test!

A pose of the "dead"

US gives me respect no more!

Now you know who is the strongest in this world!

Went back to our hotel via mo chit BTS after a long ride of taxi. Practiced my thai language with the taxi driver. And yes, he understood me.

Went to Lek Massage, introduced to me by Ruth from Pin. A staff that knew Mandarin, Thai, English, Cantonese, Japanese. I respect her! An asset to the company.

Waited for Clarence to have his haircut and off we go to Suan Lum Night Bazaar (luckily, it's still in operation) for shopping. Dinner was pretty late as it was past 12 am on the 3rd Day. and we only had some food. For the 1st time in BKK, I felt hunger. haha.

Day 3
Woke up for our shopping! Platinum (pronounce locally as Plat-ti-nam) Fashion Mall proves to be a haven for shoppers and a dormant shopper like me! We spent an average 3 hours on each level. and we had cleanly cleared 3 levels.

Revillie with my room-mate.

Trying to make the same eyes as the eggs. Obviously, i failed.

And soon, darkness falls. We brought all the stuff we bought back to hotel via Tuk Tuk. Rested a while and we set on foot to A&W fast food restaurant.

We saw a group of people who spoke thai, japanese and mandarin sat at a corner of A&W. They seemed to have some kind of meeting. Eeee, it was like the Hong Kong triad meeting.

We made our way our from there after our dinner. Took quite some time for a cab and headed down to Suan Lum Night Bazaar to retrieve things we made from on the previous night. Bought Tattoo Colour CD with 2 songs I like in that album.

The skilled key chain maker.

Hurriedly out of that place as we wanted to ride on the Metro and we had hell a lot of fun from there. The guys wanted to learn one of the sentence i spoke with the thai. The sentence goes like this "pi puut par-sar ang-grit bpen ru bplao". And as any person who started learning a foreign language, one need some familiar language to assist in them and after some time, they came out with this "屁股pass了, upgrade每日嫖"

We were laughing like hell in the train. And I think we roamed around the street before heading back to hotel and sleep.

Day Four
Woke up refreshing and the plan of that day is go to Chatuchak Weekend Market for a sightseeing. Our stuff had more or less completed so there is no further urge to get anymore stuff.

Good foot massage.

The couple had their own agenda thus px and me went off to roam around and decided to go for foot massage. Learnt some thai language from the staff there. Had a comfortable massage. We were joined by the couple and headed to JJ market via Mo Chit BTS.

JJ Market!!

Clarence and I bought our magic tricks stuff over there, at different stalls. We walked around. Didn't really buy anything. Mainly because I had running out of money as well.

Clarence learning "magic".

We had our dinner at JJ mall. We order local delights to fill our stomach. Received a call back from home from my mum telling me that my thai teacher called me. And to update me on what handbags she wants. -.-

Something very pleasing when I checked my account of the ATM machine.

I will go to thailand 3 years later with more money! haha. I just realised it's 6-digit where i told my friends "I was so happy to see that i have 5-digit numbers in baht value."

Caught this spectacular view. Caught rainbow 2 times in JJ Market.

We continue to roam around the market.

We came across Jack Sparrow. Excatly the same. This is what i call - Originally Fake.

Headed straight to Siam Paragon for some reason that I can't remember. Bought movie tickets with mandy treating us. Thanks!!

Headed to Lek massage again for thai massage. I was separated with the others. I unknowingly fall asleep.

Went back to Siam Paragon again to buy dinner from Mcdonald to bring in to the cinema to watch Wanted. Thinking that they might have the same policy in Singapore, we are wrong. They do allow outside food to be brought in. Shame on ~~Singapore~~!

Paragon Ticketing Booth

Doesn't it look like a hotel pub?

Another shot.

Late night Siam Paragon.

Finished our movie and we walked around the Paragon Cineplex holding area. And the thoughts of watching another movie came up. And we bought another set of movie tickets, watching The Incredible Hulk.

While waiting for the movie time, we roamed around in their bowling centre. Awesome is all i can say. Their interior design is as good as those 5-star hotels and their ball, GLOW in the dark.

Visited their toilet before going in to watch movie, Listerine dispenser is found at the hand washing area. They have mirror in each of the cubicle. How nice it looks. It was more of a hotel than shopping centre.

Took taxi back to hotel from Siam Paragon. Fare? 35 baht. The meter never jumps. It's the same value as the flag-down. How near we were with the hotel and Siam Paragon. Though it was around 1+ am local time, we still did not stop there. We continue to watch soccer when we reached the hotel as it coincides the Final of Euro 2008. It was around 3.45 am thai time when i called it a day.

The longest day I had.

Day 5
Woke up for our breakfast later than the previous times. Prepared our stuff well and checked out at the hotel and our buggages to be kept with them for a while, and the rest went to Siam Paragon Gourmet Market for their local delights shopping. I would rather you to kill me if you want me to shop in Singapore Orchard Paragon.

Went to Blu-O to have 2 games of bowling. 240 baht for 2 games with a rental of shoes.

A shot to 10 pins

Took a taxi and go back to hotel to prepare us to check out. It was 1700 hrs thai time. I was very relutant to return to Singapore.

The room i stayed for the past 4 nights.

This photo was taken with other motive. Ha

The hotel i stayed in. In case it was forgotten.

The bell boy that finally remembered me! Hah

Bell-Boy: Did you stay here before? I remembered you.
Me: Yes, I came here with my friends last year December.

End of the trip. As for the rest, it was too depressing to remember it. I don't want to even talk about it. I hope i can enjoy the days like i was in Thailand, all the while.

Click on here for the photos for the trip.

An astonishing 2.22 gigabytes of pictures and videos were took for this trip. Record Breaking!

Next stop, Vietnam

Eye Check

2008-07-01T18:09:00.000+08:00

Good luck - good for the brain!>

Can you find the C? (Good exercise for the eyes!)

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Once you've found the C..........Find the 6

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Once you've found the 6... Find the N! (it's hard!!)

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Weekend

2008-06-08T23:46:00.004+08:00

Interesting weekend for this week.

On Saturday

Initially met up with my thai trip people for discussion of the programme, only to cancel for some reason.

Then to plan up with mini-FOC people for outing to accompany me to shop for pant, and jeans.

And for some reason, the thai trip discussion is back and i have no choice but to cancel the FOC people outing.

The progress was good. Programme was planned for the whole trip. And i got a special hideout i am going to bring my friend to next time!

Bought a G2000 pant and t-shirt. Stills searching for a jeans though.

Then we had dinner at Dohby Ghaut Exchange before i went to PS bus stop to wait for bus.

While waiting for bus, i saw somebody which gave me an insulting sms later in the night.

On Sunday

Waked up at 0545 hrs for PAssion Run at East Coast Park. Luckily Sun Tian had an apartment over there and I do not have to wake up so early.

Event started at around 6.30 am while my category started an hour later. And unfortunately, I saw the somebody's boyfriend which reminded me of that somebody. But it's a good thing, it kind of fired me up from a cooling and relaxing morning.

20 seconds before the run commenced

Result was pretty poor finishing at around 1 hr 13 mins, stopped running 4 times in between.

Then come the lucky draw. I think nobody is interested in the lucky draw as we took 2 hours to give away 40 prizes. Unbelievable. Below is the video excerpts from the ground.

Wash-up at Sun Tian's house again. Thanks for the stay. Hmm, had a heavy brunch of Duck rice adding with tau-foo, egg and rice.

We were joined by raquel, lekmeng and weiqing in sun tian's house. Watched some video and off we go to Chinatown to meet up with Elyn.

Had dinner over there as well.

Then down to PS intending to watch movie but cancel it off due to the lack of proper seating arrangement.

Walked around there as well and all of us went off from there.

Had a tiring weekend.

???

2008-06-05T11:15:00.002+08:00

Aiyo, can anyone or God tells me what went wrong with me?

Those thing aside;

Anyway, I am going shopping this saturday.

Fixed items on hand to buy are G2000 Pant, Jeans.

Optional items are belt, and a couple of shirt/pant to change my usual image.

I will be staying over at Sun Tian's house after all the shopping thing as I will be attending a running event at East Coast Park on sunday.

The meeting time will be at around 6.30 am. So it's impossible to reach there at that time from my house.

10 km. . .

On a positive note

2008-06-01T22:00:00.000+08:00

This week is my planned social-gathering week where I met up with friends whom i didn't meet up for months.

Start off on tuesday, met up with jennifer for dinner and we were joined up with joshua and guijie at Tampines Mall. Such a bully, leaving me and guijie long way home.

On Thursday, joined up with the Ignition Team for their class bbq at kovan. Ya, i'm kinda extra. Nonetheless, i enjoy making friends though i am shy by nature.

Yilin

Yupei

My deer

Everyone

The dance event in NP mentioned previously. Absent w/o apologies: Madeline & boyfriend :p

This is JamesBob
Reporting for Channel U Asia
Live from Home @ 2200 hrs

Confirmed

2008-06-01T03:36:00.004+08:00

Alright, it's confirmed now. Received my first recall order to call up for reservist duties.

I think it's rather unfair, consider that I ORD later than the others and was called up for reservist duties early than the others as well.

9th Jul to 4th Aug. I'm not mentally prepared and in fact, i am very reluctant.

I have not enjoy the civilian life for not more than a year, technically, it's only 10 months. But what can i do? My father was worst, he was called up for his 1st reservist duties only 6 months after his ORD. So after all, i wasn't that bad.

Decided to stay at home today as i dun feel like seeing some people. Nothing much for this weekend. Sat; Went for driving lesson. I slept at 8 pm and woke up around 2 am. Can't do anything much except for blogging. As for sun; Going for driving lesson again, then thai lesson and then to meet up with jennifer, joshua, vanessa for movie, then going down to novena to collect my race pack.

It's pretty weird that everytime i am about to go to bangkok, there would be negative happen, except for 1 occasion. Looking at the clips from the news report, it seemed they are rallying in Democracy Monument, so it's rather a safe distance away from my hotel and the places of interest i would be going except for Chao Praya River. But it gotta see how. Nobody seems interested to plan for the programme or at least voice out the places they dun want to go.

Will be arranging to meet up with various people before i go overseas, with lekmeng and raquel lined up. But i got a very bad feeling that it will be "empty" at the end.

Thinking of arranging to meet up with madeline, shuoke and their respective boyfriends (think so), chat buddy and yj on14th june.

And my always-lost twin whom i always can't contact her. So text me or something when you see this as i am not hearing from you from msn, sms, etc..

For now, I seriously can't enjoy the thai trip i am going on the 26th of june.

Suddenly

2008-05-29T11:36:00.002+08:00

Suddenly, I am not interested in the trip next month following by a remark of a person in my tour group a couple of days ago when we chatted.

In my 1st email to everyone after i booked the flight successfully, I instructed steps by steps of viewing the breakdown of the payment via Tiger Airways website in the email.

After meeting out last weekend, he was asking me 2 times of the breakdown of it. I felt a little pissed. So i MSN him again of the steps to view.

When he replied, he said he knew it all along though he didn't say anything much.

So here it is: If he knows about the payment breakdown from my email all along, then why did he ask me that question 2 times on that weekend? The conclusion is he doesn't bother to do anything.

I think the others are like that as well. In the end, we are in the airport, take a taxi, reached hotel. Waste time discussing about our next venue/programme. If there is a place for us to go, good for us. If any one of us wanted to go to that place, but do not know of the location, thus we will not go. And in the end, we headed back and do the same old things.

Then it had become a boring holiday. Which i think that person will start to complain of why are we doing the same thing in holiday.

Wait till he said that, I am going to shoot him down.

Last but not the least, i will control my temper as it is a holiday meant for everyone but i will not be making any effort to go around finding new places of interest, other than shopping, from now onwards.

BTW, i am quite bored of that place already, so it doesn't make any differences to me, thus I have nothing to lose since i have already gained something from this trip (to stay away from my parents)

Thai Trip

2008-05-28T15:44:00.004+08:00

Hi guys, once again, thai trip is on after some weeks of breakdown.

26th june to 30th june 2008

and also, i decided not to do anything for this trip.

that's all folk.

I know soo teck will be excited when he sees this.

Ratio

2008-05-25T22:12:00.001+08:00

Just formulate a mathematics ratio recently. Interested to hear it out?

The ratio on my mum's nagging and me......

100:1

Now you know why am i so quiet......

Reflection

2008-05-24T12:22:00.000+08:00

Decided that I do not want to study in university when I was serving my NS, thinking that I need to expose myself to the society by working first. The other purpose was to get enough savings for my 1st year of university.

Now, 8 months had past by since I finished serving my National Service and here i am doing my reflection now.

As a whole, I think I am better than what i was compared to last year. I learnt a lot of things, mainly on my characters wise.

For work, I think I am very lucky (and i thank god) that I got into a company with a bit of 人缘, aka recommendation from the perm staff when i was working part time. I did not go through any interview and I am in the company where a lot of people said this company is good. Learnt a couple of insights on the mentality and the maturity in the process of the job scope that is under me.

Work aside, let's talk about personal growth in terms of character, etc..

I think I had gained a lot of thing these past 8 months. Being with friends, I am more better in handling friendship.

With gals, I am not interested to "look-out" for a girlfriend and i am taking it lightly. In the past, it was like i am a nice guy (not for any ulterior motive), but for now, i don't. I strongly believe girls (except for ultra close friends), for some weird reason, don't appreciate it. They might even thought that you are up to something not good.

With the thai, i had also given up her but of course still stay as friends. I must say i must be thankful for her effort for her to come from her house to meet me when i was there. As for the other thai friend, i learnt a lot of things from her. Though we are of the same age, I think she has more exposure than me and much more mature than me as well. So after all, it's not very bad to go thai so many times. After all, a lot of my friends had scandals over there after visiting bangkok!

There's a lot of thing i wish to express in writings but I feel it hard to describe it on here. All in all to say, it's a good thing that I didn't decided to study as it would not have give me so much rest time to ponder this and that, which result giving me time to reflect.

Thoughts

2008-05-23T08:48:00.002+08:00

Being bored on my way to school. Decided to do some blogging on the bus while on the way to work.

Some thoughts pertaining my recent activities.

I was thinking why am i able to meet up with my friends without making any much changes on the day where we planned to meet up, in terms of the day as well as the timing.

Recently, I was trying to arrange some time out with friends to meet up and a lot of obstacles came upon.

I'm not putting any blame on anyway, etc.. so dun get me wrong.

Sometimes I was wondering and came out with 2 possible scenario.

That I do not have much programme/activities
That I am a person who plan ahead

But I come out with no answer.

Anyway I decided not to meet anyone this weekend, given the "magnitude" effort for me trying to accommodate everyone by changing the timing and activity

Have fun over the weekend to everyone who arranged to meet over the weekend.

Last thing, I am closing my blog down soon, maybe, the latest by the end of mid next month. Thanks everyone for reading it.

Prior to that, I intend to pen down 2 more important entry, and that will be the end.

WORK, WORK :(

Home United FC. [FM-2008 ver]

2008-05-18T23:59:00.008+08:00

Engross heavily leading Singapore League Home United FC in Football Manager 2008 (aka FM 2008)

Been playing Manchester United and European league for too long, being sicked of it. I decided to try out some smaller league and it is definitely has a lot of difficulties. Anyway, presenting to you all the "contributions" for HUFC.

By the way, you can click on the screenshots to see the words clearly. :)

Here's the screen shot.

League Cup. Not very impressive though.

Singapore domestic League. That's then impressive.

Then the South East Asia Championship.

Then the Singapore Cup competition.

Then the Asia Champions League. Look who is the winner! :)

Then the Inter-continental Compeition aka Club World Championship. The score at half-time.

The final score. Still very proud of it.

And the final standing of the World Club Championship.

Terrific Tips

2008-05-12T22:19:00.003+08:00

Observed for nearly 23 years, I compiled a list of tips for everyone in their everyday's life.

Always use your fingers on your left hand to dig your nose to prevent the "gold" from reaching the other party; you never know when you will meet a person and a handshake may be needed.
When a woman is talking, listen hard. When a woman is nagging, still listen hard too; you never know when you need to response to her questions. If you fail to answer, there will be extra time for it!
Never be too good to a woman [Applicable to lesbian too; playing the lesbian role]. Woman, themselves, don't want to be treated too nice as well.
Never ask a woman on their geographical orientation, high chance you will lose your way. Tested, proven and confirmed.
To yes is no; and to no is yes. If you are confused, you are a guy; else you are a woman.
Never really believe a woman's answer. Because they don't even know what they want
If you are at least smiling a bit now; this is James Bob, else, this is James Bob too

!Original Script!

Closing down

2008-05-06T12:53:00.002+08:00

No point, no use.

Consider making this private.

But no point, no use.

I had more or less decided to close down

Unless....

Handling

2008-04-29T21:48:00.002+08:00

With the recent thoughts and planning for the thai trip, which until recently, it was confirm that the "deal" is off.

Well, i was a little bit pissed by it. A four-group expedition team started the planning of this trip around in Jan this year.

After comparing and checking the fees for the flight and the hotel, we came to a conclusion that particular week to travel.

Knowing that a few might suddenly change their decision, I suggested that we hold on the booking until end of march. Prior to that, everyone had confirmed informally that they would be available for it.

Come march, news of unavailablity surfaced. 2 of the 4-member group quarreled and the trip was put on hold.

Few weeks later, in april, they are ok and we are on the route of booking. However, news of SMU students to clock hours for CIP on the last 2 weeks of july. Thus, we have no choice but to narrow down the dates to ........ NONE!! (thanks to one person)

That's amazing! Initially, all of us agreed that throughout their holiday for SMU, ANY dates are good to go. Somehow, for just one person who didn't put his heart into committing this then suddenly tell us that 1st week is out, 3rd and 4th week out due to CIP (fair to him, can't blame him. as he didn't see it coming)

We are like 20+ age le. If you dun feel like going, just tell us straight. We are like been friends since poly yr 1. So we are fine with ur honest ans.

Reason why we planned so early is to get everyone's commitment into it. Working people like me and ur gf, tried to "predict" our workload in july so that we can determine whether we can go or not.

After the 3 of us settled for that date, and after a series of event, dates were narrowed down to none.

I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED.

For viewing pleasure

2008-04-22T20:56:00.003+08:00

Saw this video posted by one of my friends in Facebook.

Click on the link out of curiosity, and putting it up here is a sign of good recommendation

Wonder if i say that he is brave or he is funny or a bit silly. U grade it urself.

A sample of the video.

Just click here. http://www.youtube.com/user/rawangboy

Read through the report from the COI and I found out that the character of the staff was something that they didn't really tackle.

Why do i say so?

I went to the Detention Centre a couple of years ago as a visitor when i was serving my NS. When we finished our tour, one of my fellow 'colleague' asked the guide...

Q: Why were there two tall fences inside the forest?
A: (Readily ans the qns) Well, it was meant to keep the terrorist/terrorist suspect.

I was stunned and sweat a bit when i heard.

First question that i asked myself, why did they put all these dangerous people in the middle of the Singapore? Wouldn't it be logical to put them in changi prison?

Second question, why did the guide answer that question so readily? Doesn't he think that there will be a breach of confidentiality? Does he also think that all Police NS are all with clean background? Doesn't he think that the police NSF will pass the word along? Maybe there isn't much problem to them

It's a pity and shame that i wasn't happen to be in that area when he escaped as I already know the purpose of that place and would have definitely follow or try to capture mas selemat, seeing his unusual attire.

Whatever it is, that was over and all we can hope is that to put him behind bars again.

If you all want the document for the report, kindly contact me

Happy Birthday Weiqing

2008-04-20T22:32:00.003+08:00

Nothing much happen this week except for the humid and hot weather.

As for the NRA event in NP on friday, the performances was better in the 2nd half, but nevertheless, it's still a good effort on the whole as they also spent a lot of time and effort for it too.

Took photos with everybody and my chat buddy and somehow the 2 only photos that i took with her were missing. Zzzz.

Bought 2 shirts from giodarno on saturday for ~~$120~~ $81.

Initially, I intended to see one of the salesgal working in Giodarno, so i walked in and saw 2 shirts that i thought it was nice.

Tried them out and i liked them a lot. Expected the price to be around S$30. But the tag indicated $59 for each. So i put the shirts back.

Walked around the shopping centre, while at the same time i was still pondering those 2 shirts. Frankly speaking, I am not prepared to pay $120 for that 2 shirts but the nice shirts kept pulling the thoughts back.

Losing the temptation, i headed back to it and look at the shirt and enquired about the discount card thing. But too bad, it wasn't along with my wishes and out i go from the shop again.

Shortly after that, i decided to get those shirts and returned to giodarno again with the staff giggling at me *damn*

Took those 2 shirts out and passed to one of the staff. And the magic qns out from Raquel asking, can you help to get staff price for him? I think u can help, isn't it?

How many pieces? Ok la. CAN.

Muahaha. Call me an auntie if u want to. but i thought it was more worthwhile with $40 shirt each for a 30% discount. So it's like $20 off for each shirt and $40 for both

Imagine that you are paid for $10 an hour and u need to work for 4 hours to get $40. And what raq did for me (i was the mastermind as i was plotting for the staff price thing) was simply asking qns and getting her reply in just 30 seconds and $40 was saved.

Chocolate Bar on 3rd May.

Happy Birthday Weiqing!

Surprisingly, my twin called me!! :)

NP student again

2008-04-17T12:55:00.002+08:00

Going to Ngee Ann Polytechnic tomorrow to attend NRA performances meant for the NP freshie.

YES

I'm going there. Since I am going there, which not only means that i am a NP student, and also I am a 1st year student!

Biodata of JamesBob

Name: JamesBob
Age: 17
Course: Diploma in Inforcomm Technology

Haha. I will be only 17 years old for that few hours. Alright, I'm a NP student again!

Thanks chat buddy for the free tickets!

The Hottie And The Haughtie (2008)

2008-04-16T21:56:00.007+08:00

Finished my first romance production at HolyWood production on this movie title The Hottie And The Nottie (2008)

Enjoy the trailer.

The crews include Paris Hilton (from Paris) and James Bob (from Singapore).

Find me if you can. Hope you all guys will enjoy this movie.

Meanwhile, I am also on the process of filming my new 007 movie. Stay tune for the release within the next 2 years or even lesser.

Official Website: http://thehottieandthenottie.com/

Sccumbled

2008-04-09T22:30:00.002+08:00

Hi all, once again i decided to postpone what i wanted to say again.

Hmm, life's on the whole is good at the moment. The thai trip has once again hit with a bit of problems but gonna see how it goes from now.

Down with flu and probably fever with the erroneous weather of hot and cold temperature. Hopefully i will recover fast.

talk about something that surfaced while chatting with lek meng on msn a couple of days ago, it's something that a person being used, etc..

I dun know what to say and I dun know how to say it out. It has become like a loser in me when all these are shared out.

Hmm, I'm in a contradict mood. I don't understand how a person whom u actually interact and then suddenly turn her back on you. The only reason i thought that she had enough 'fun' with you and found you that you dun have any entertainment value.

I got the last straw. The whole episode told me that not to listen to people readily. It's not that I dun have a mind of my own, it's just that it's time for me to do some talking.

I will still be happily help out people who seeks it but at the end of the day, I will decide who to and who not to help.

Yes, i know i had repeated these in the past and now i am still in the same shit; back to square 1. Hopefully this time round, i will make it happen.

I will certainly make a couple of quiet choices; like what those people are capable to do.

SO, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, though not a single one of them will take a look over at this site. If i find excuses not to chat much with you, you got it.

I hate to core of such things; it's like you are ok with ur life, then u forgot the ppl prior to that and then continue ur life journey without putting those ppl in ur memories. blah blah.

If anyone who is reading this, can't get a chip of it, congrats to u as you are not in such kind of situation, but if you do, pls dun sympathize or pity me as I am attempting to get over with all these. Encourage me instead. thanks

And people who I am avoiding and happened to read this blog, pls don't think that's my problem as i tried all ways to "re-activate" it. Pls kindly do ur part in self-reflection as well as it is not fair to say, why weida did that to me.

And my damn brother is accquiring all kind of shits online and is going one day put me into legal trouble and most importantly, he is monopolizing the bandwidth!!

Again, Again

2008-04-02T22:19:00.005+08:00

Pre-empting to be busy in the coming days, here am i posting some entries.

This entry will be i guess full of emotion within me and i treat this as a self-reflection. and i was thinking of writing a controversial entry for the next one. see how daring i am.

Start off with a bit of off-the-track of the current theme. I am possibly and seriously thinking of canceling my thai trip this coming july as the fees that i am going to spend after matching with the best possible time and date, a total of S$357.98. And that was so much expensive compared to the previous trip that i went. But again, it is a 60-40 thing and everything is still possible.

Ok, appetizer has ended. Starting with the main course..

Since the appetizer was talking about thai and it sure, for the main course, that some thai element is involved in this main dish. No doubt.

Actually, i'm talking about the relationship element. Seriously i'm thinking that i am very lousy in handling all kind of relationships even as friends. I'm also utterly gutted by it. Though i am not rushing to get one, but that set you thinking. I am now not interested to pursue anyone even if i am interested coz i have no confidence of even considering going into it.

Other than some and selective friends, of course putting aside blood-related relationships, there isn't other kind of relationship(s) that i am able to maintain well.

I'm out to the society to work now and i am exposed to more and more weakness than i initially expected. I'm so stressed at work that, for the 1st time in my life, woke up in the middle of the night for every working day and worry about the job stuff that i am going to face, then find it difficult to sleep.

Again, work apart, like it's just a drink when one is consuming a main dish. I'm just treating it as a very nature course. Unless someone told me that she likes me, otherwise i wouldn't make any move. I'm sick of the whole process; call me a loser for all i care, just that i lost the confidence.

Ok, I think that's all for the main course. Come the desserts.

To end up this entry, let me reveal the agenda of next topic. The general clue is that it is something related to the main dish with the personnel involved!

So, readers, just wait! (provided if i have the time and the gut)

Monthly Revived! F***!

2008-03-30T18:16:00.003+08:00

Ok, the once-in-a-month thing came on my mother and she is flaring up again. Obviously, for no reason. I'm going to skip house more these weeks. I'm not interested in what she want to say. I dun feel like going home.

I dun know what happen to my twin, probably she wants a stop to all these. So, over here, on my side, i assume it is and i will also put a stop to it as well. No bad feeling anyway. :)

A few updates.

I dun think i am cut out to be in the job that i am currently in now. I wanna out but at the same time, I am quite worry as well as I do not have very much working experiences. Whatever it is, I intend to work until to the end of the contract and change job if need be. Probably I would also be going to study too. Whatever it is, I am not happy with my work there.

Surfed the People's Association Website the day before (saturday), intending to book a course for 10th apr but to my pleasant surprise, I happen to see a class slot that falls on sunday (which is the next day). Well, I know there isn't anyone who will join so i am not asking anyone there i go, joined the class despite the last minute knowledge.

I also signed up for PA membership with $10 for 3 years. Anyone who wishes to get discount, kindly notify me.

Back to the thai lesson. It was quite pretty interesting that I met the teacher back in JE bus interchange. She's like a typical singaporean with a chinese look. She doesn't seem like a thai to me. She knows mandarin, a little bit of hokkien, english, thai, and french. I might practice with her of my french when we are more familier, as you know thai people are generally friendly.

Off hand, yes it is. taking up this language was partly influenced by the histories (for those who knows) and i was thinking of learning other 'realistic' language (no disrespect here), but i thought since i had somehow made myself known to thai, why dun i strengthen it. And so, i decided to take up thai despite the last minute notification. 2nd reason is that, being out of classroom for so long, I am trying to accustom myself so in time to come when my uni class starts, i'm able to take off, for at least, smoothly. You see, i'm a slow learner. And the society is harsh and they dun care whether you are a fast or slow learner. So that's it.

1st lesson was cool though i was in a Beginner 2 class, but luckily, i was able to catch up quite well.. (for now). And we were made to sing song!! Haha. it was kind of fun. But language needs to practice constantly.

My phonetics is better now, after all, we spent 1 hour to pronounce. So, hopefully, this is a good start and all the way for me to learn thai.

I recorded the session throughout and hopefully that serves as a revision as well.

Happy Birthday Raquel

2008-03-26T00:23:00.002+08:00

Happy Birthday to Tilden and Raquel Tan!! Wishing her all the best for this year. Good luck and enjoy yourselves!!

^_*

Adventure with SMRT

2008-03-25T19:22:00.003+08:00

A very short journey of just 30 minutes can bring a tonnes of activities during the MRT ride.

First of all, i think the ladies will have a very good chance of winning the 100m dashes competition. There are ladies whom I saw wearing high heels running from the entrance of the mrt station and all the way to the platform in the hope of catching a train within 30 seconds.

Secondly, all the commuters would be trained to learn some magic. As the train were packed during every peak hour, commuters will then use their magic skills to slim them down so in order not to allow more passengers to come in as well.

Thirdly, we all have to learn how to strategically positioned ourselves so that as an individual, one can easy alight as well as not obstructing the other passengers' way. Which of course also explains why that Mas Selamat had been missing for 3+ weeks.

Fourthly, commuter might be able to learn the art of stoning as situation where the individual is a guy and was surrounded by a group of ladies of 4 sides with their front facing you. This technique is very important if that individual is a male, else, you will be sued for molesting. :)

Anyway, all these were mentioned for the fun of it. Please do not sue me, SMRT! haha.

Conspiracy or slow?

2008-03-08T00:48:00.002+08:00

Of the recent drama of Toilet Break from Whitley Road Detention Centre, if one is to analyse deeper of the development made so far, the rescue operation might not seem what it is suppose to be.

Let me explain.

1st of all. They took 4 hours to notify singaporean that a detainee had escaped. I really wonder do they really need that long time to search for him? If he did escape away, i think at most u need 1.5 to 2 hours to confirm that. Is he so stupid that he would stay in the detention centre knowing that the Police will lock the the whole place and then making himself no chance of escaping?

2nd. According to the news, the K9 (dog unit) was sent in for assistance some 4 days after he escaped. Prior to that, there were rains in that area. If the police said that they "spare no effort" in searching for him, may i know why K9 unit was so late to involve in this manhunt and the rain water might have also drained the scent away making him easier way to prevent detection from the dogs.

3th. One week later, the Police then informed the members of the public that the limping was only visible when walking briskly or running. Who knows that he happen to past by us with a good chance of prevent that attention because we are looking out for a very obvious limping.

4th. Same day as the above mentioned argument that members of the public were informed that he actually had other clothing that was taken away in the detention centre. So it seemed like from that, i conclude that the security were actually very slack as he had the time to take his personal clothing. And also that the police were very very inefficent considering that they need to work 24 hrs a day (spare no effort to capture him, remember? Thus working 24 hrs a day) to inform us that he had another set of clothing with him.

Now, piecing up all the above 4 points, I am seriously wondering if the Singapore Govt & the SPF is covering up anything or is there any conspiracy involved?

(My guess is he will most likely be dead when he is found. In short, he will never capture alive via what the state media reports.) Statement in bracket is a personal comment on this matter therefore is not liable for any responsibilities that come with it. Message is to the Singapore Govt, Singapore Police Force as well as the members of the public of all countries.

Or is the Singapore Police Force is reacting very very slow in providing the right information to the public to assist in the capture.

Exciting programme

2008-02-25T00:09:00.003+08:00

Hi all (and me in the future), just to update some programme for this whole week.

To start off, I bought Andrea Bocelli's CD again. I guess i start to hook to his songs. Anyway, you should listen to it. But if you dun want to buy, you can borrow the CDs from me.

Next, I will be attending my 1st english-speaking seminar on some finance thing. Not really a big thing but at least it helps (i hope) in controlling my expenditure from the income i have. Hope to gain some knowledge in handling such thing. It will be on this coming saturday, 1st march, at Suntec between 2 to 5 pm.

Surfed singnet website, trying to find out the expiry date for my internet contract and found out that it will be in Jul. Ok, so i went to check out the new contract offer and found that Nitendo Wii is on the list! Omg, It would be good if i can accquire that via the contract package as it will definitely be cheaper than buying the console itself. The problem is, will this package hold until May? I pretty hope so...

My bro's going to thailand this week for overseas army training and I was intending to get him to help me to extend my Happy prepaid sim card expiry date but to my dismay, there isn't any 7-11 shop over there. So, unfortunately, I have to trouble Pin to help me to buy a top-up card, send me the serial no. and I will pass it on to my bro via SMS so that he can update it.

Sorry and thanks, Pin.

Pin will be coming to singapore also at this weekend. Hope she will enjoy her stay over here.

Good thing always packaged with negative thoughts.

Didn't hear from my twin for quite some time. Hope there's something out from it somehow. Hope she is doing fine.

It's been quite sometime that my tagboard is active, so, pls do some typing over there. thanks. haha

Lost Taste

2008-02-17T21:39:00.002+08:00

After just got out of an "indigestion" recently, another part of my body start to malfunction. I just realised that I had lost my sense of taste. Though it's not very serious as I am still able to make up of the taste, but it's a very worrying matter. Shall wait till this weekend and see whether is there any improvement, otherwise, i will seek chinese medication.

This year "profit" for CNY'08 is $309. I can't remember of how much i got last year but i guess it should be around the same. This can be a very good money for me to save up. Of the angbao distributed by the Govt, I will be receiving $600, which breaks down to the $300 Growth Dividends, $200 GST credit and $100 NS-committment.

Unfortunately for me, who just started work, the govt didn't cut the tax rate for CPF, instead gave a 20% off for income tax in Assessement Year 2008.

Whatever it is, the spending Budget was constructively well-spent.

Had a change of music genre recently, i bought Andrea Bocelli CD from gramophone. Don't worry, it's a very cheap deal. The CD cost me $11.90 and comes with a free CD giveaway by Gramophone. Well, i thought the money was well spent. Listen to his songs; a very nice voice.

Btw, the genre of the music is Opera/Musical kind.

Dividends

2008-02-13T21:00:00.002+08:00

Send over $800 of dividends to my parents. That's a huge amount of money.

But that also means i have a lot of savings! :)

Despite going to overseas numerous times

That's all folks

Lunar Year 2008

2008-02-11T22:35:00.000+08:00

I decided to abandon my planned entry as mentioned in the previous entry. Moving on will be updating my life (as well as penning down for future use)

1st of all were all the CNY stuff. It's the rat year, so hopefully it's a witty start for everyone.
Cut the crap. Haha. Taking the angbao feels rather good for a start after working overnight on the day before eve of chinese new year.

Went back to main office on the day of reunion dinner to get some document signed and prior to that was so terribly surprised to see my beloved similar me - my twin. And i still dun know why she likes to hit me whenever she sees me.

Then headed back home to take a nap. Woke up for reunion dinner and stayed up all night until like 5.30 am where my parents woke up then i went to sleep.

First day of angbao collection began at around noon time where we visited our neighbours, where relatives came, and where we went to our relatives' side.

Second day was relatively the same where the count of the angbao is increasing

As this year coincides of weekends, it added on that with house visiting on sat and sunday to my friends' houses.

Chatted with my cousin yesterday night and she showed me how's the celebration over there is like. And suddenly the urge of visiting them became very strong and thus i had decided to drop by KL/Klang at the end of this year, if time permits, for a strictly relatives-visiting tour. To think back, it'd been 5 to 6 years since i last went back to malaysia.

As much as I like to travel to Thailand, going to Malaysia excites me as well.

I'm looking forward to my trip to Malaysia as well.

PS: This time round, my mother is really going to kill me

Controversy Topic

2008-02-02T17:10:00.000+08:00

My next topic will be a very tricky and controversial one.

Out of fun, out of boredom.

CNY new items

2008-01-29T23:26:00.000+08:00

Bought new items before the Chinese New Year is around the corner. Spent $39.95 on a shirt (and w/ probably a outfit)

I know this pic looks quite awful from this pic as i laid it down on the sofa. But i think it should look ok when one wears it else why did i buy??

Bought a watch also, courtesy of the contribution by the others for my birthday present from City Chain. It's not a bad deal to go with my mother as she bargained an additional 10% more discount, totally up to 20+% .

Kenneth Cole

At a cost of $150.

Bargaining Conversation

Mother: How much is the watch?
Salesman: $159
Mother: Any discount?
Salesman: 10% discount
Mother: Huh? Only 10%? I think you can give more la, right?
Salesman: Hmm...
Mother: (Cut in) I bought a watch over here a few months back and there's one gave me 50% off on a watch instead of the described 2 watches.
Salesman: Hmm, like that uh? Ok la, can la.. 20%. Showing $156 on the calculator
Mother: Still going to bargain. She said: "Discount to $150 la. It's easier to pay too.
Salesman: Deal. Anyway , i know that you want it and i'm waiting for you to speak up.

In the end, i bought the watch at $150 from $195. Unbelievable, right?

Well, the power of negotiation. That's yet another precious lesson i learnt today. Imagine that a $45 is being wrote off in less than just few mins of talk. Use it and convert and negotiate for better deal of higher fees.

World's Economic - Foolish or hardworking

2008-01-25T14:33:00.000+08:00

Hi, it's once again. The famous author of this blog. James ~~Boob~~ Bob. Ok fair enough, in fact, there's only one author over here. haha

Talk about sports news.

Newcastle appointed Kevin Keegan as their head coach and manager to try to rescue Newcastle poor run of results. Take a look at the pic below.

I actually don't mind to be Kevin Keegan considering that there's such a pretty fan supporting me my club.

Haha.. Another sports news. In tennis, Australian Open was. Unseeded Tsongo beat Nadal 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. Tsongo was impressive when i was watching the match via sopcast internet TV, he gave Nadal no chance to fight back with his wonderful play and serve.

That's it for sports news.

Talk about the world economic condition of recent weeks.

Recently, there are talks of potential recession throughout the world. Thanks to US and her president who raised the tax rates a couple of weeks ago.

And recently, the Fed Reserve released an economic stiumlus deal that helps to cut down the pitfall of economic recession.

Question popped out from my mind. He raised the tax in a manner he wanted. That, as a result, causing worries over the world and poor stock market performances in its initial stage. Then Citi Group retrenched thousands of their staffs because of the Bush's decisions.

What Bush did practically seemed to be like a twist of fingers and without any effort, he caused so much worry throughout the whole world.

Now, to 'rescue' his folly, he planned and released a $150 BILLION of relief package. When i was reading the news, i was so fascinated. In order to rescue his decision, US had to spend an astonishing $150 billion!!

I can't believe that his decision cost so much money! If he used these funds to develop and better the life of the ppl in the Middle East, I think ppl will turn to work instead of terrorism to better their life! In this way, he can also cut down the terrorist acts at the same time!

And the ppl working in the Fed Reserve thinks that they are the "god" who thought they rescue the world where in my opinion, i think they were manipulated by that Bush.

I really can't understand why the US ppl voted for him on majority for him to resume his presidential seat for the last President Election.

Anyway, i'm just pissed of how the money is spent. I hope that there will be a good US president who thinks logically.

An Eventful Day (With special highlight)

2008-01-20T23:11:00.000+08:00

Work had dragged me down in terms of mentally. Honestly speaking, i really didn't have anything much to do yet feeling lethargic. Whatever it is, I was feeling that way so much so that I don't bother to think much to blog and that explains why I had not been writing any entry since 1st of Jan 08.

Just for some updates, and also to keep track of myself in the future what i had done.

On the 1st week of Jan, there wasn't much activities except for work.

As for the 2nd week of Jan, I was about to sign up for thai lang basic course when my senior told me that there would be an monthly update of patch, etc to be done on saturdays. As the course will be conducted on saturday, therefore there was clashes of timing and with the risk of missing out the lesson. As such, i'm thinking of way and hope that when i signed up the course eventually, there would not be any unexepected crop-up during work stuffs.

3rd week of Jan, finally got Ian Tan to return the $40 he owed me. It can be incredible that he had been holding on for 4 months for that small amount!! Nevertheless, thanks to alvis who helped me to get it back.

Kind of made a new friend on her way to home after work while on my way to work.

Entering the damn security-tight place had problem as they barred me from entering the premises citing that I was in there for the wrong reason. Well, i must say, they are doing their job well. But i guess, it's damn stupid also for some reasons that i want to say but i can't (U all know, SINGAPORE what. Can get sued if the govt see what they dun want to hear) So, i'm not saying!!

Went to watch Body #19 with madeline on wednesday. And you can expect to be a very good horror/ghost movie since it's from Thai production. I wasn't let down by the suspense as well as the storyline. Just love the movie. If you all have not watch, pls watch as it's highly recommended, erm by me.

Finally make some time out on weekends to go Ikea to get a frame for a portrait that i got it from thailand 5 weeks ago. Prior to that, I went to driving and yes, everything was going smoothly for me. Clutch and accelerator coordination were good. Get to finally learn reverse for parking. I pushed my drivintg test date to 23 June 08 from 08 Apr 08. Hopefully it's a lucky day for me

Headed down to Tampines Ikea to get a frame with the dimension of 300 by 400 mm. Shopped for a while and got the frame and 10 shirt hangers. Met up with Lekmeng after that as we went to Crocodile Warehouse sale. I must say, it's a major disappointment. There wasn't anything nice to sell. It seemed like all are old products. I just can't believe those polo tee can sell at $89 to $100. It seemed like not suitable for any ages of people. Those buyers must be crazy to buy, if there is! So in the end, I only bought 5 underwear for $9. So much of effort of going down there to get a $9 underwear. YAWN..

Highlight of today's event.
Took 158 from paya lebar to go geylang for dinner. Upon alighting, I realised that my handphone wasn't in my pocket. After checking with my raq and lek meng on my bags and pockets (again), it was kind of confirmed that my mobile phone was left in the bus and I had the intention to CHASE after the bus. I know that's a crazy idea. But somehow, the images of my mother nagging and scolding me appeared and that made me determined to go for it. I checked with the TANs' what's the bus no and where is it from our location then.

After getting the information, I just ran for the bus. The bus was at the next bus stop when I sped off. To me, it was quite a distance away then. Nevertheless, i was determined to get it back. I ran and ran. Seeing the corridor of the shophouses and pavements are crowded, I ventured out and ran to the main road!! After running, I managed to nearly catch up with the bus. It was possible because the condition of the traffic was pretty jammed, so in a way it helped me.

But that's not the end of the story. The bus couldn't turned in to the bus stop as there were a lot of vehicles at the supposed bus-lane. Therefore the bus could only stopped at the main road. That was the time where I nearly caught up with the bus. In fact, I even overtook it. But somehow, the silly me, thought of not getting accident with the bus and other vehicles, didn't went up and try to stop the bus.

So i continued to run again, seeing the bus turning to Mountbatten road. I thought to myself that; Shit! The traffic condition was so much clear. And at that point of time, i was still somewhere in the Geylang's road. When i turned around the corner into mountbatten road, I saw the bus stop at a disgusting long distance away from me. I was thinking, if there wasn't anyone boarding or alighting, everything would be gone. And to add to my disappointment, the bus happened to just reach the bus stop.

All i was thinking was to have a chance for the bus to somehow stop longer. After what i thought that the last passenger had alighted, i thought all chance had gone. But still, i wanted to keep running as long the bus is within my sight. For some strange reason, the bus doors didn't close and some time later, a passenger just alighted. Seeing that situation, i was so encouraged and i forced myself to run even faster though I had to admit i didn't know where i get the energy from.

As soon as i forced msyelf to run faster, I saw the doors closing and starting to move. Luckily fotr me once again, the bus had to stop to give way to vehicle to pass by on the major road channel. Just then, i entered the bus stop and without thinking twice of my image, I knocked really hard onto the side of the bus for a lot of times to signal the bus driver that I am chasing for you, while it was moving out of the bus stop.

I thought. Woah, i finally made it. Went up to the bus. Apologised and explained to him of my situation with my body bending, craving for more oxygen. With the passengers all looking at me, I moved my way in to the seat I was on and was so surprised that my mobile phone was still there!

Lastly, I was so relieved and somehow gathered enough energy to shout across thanks to the bus driver and again with many people eyess looking at me for the whole episode.

Thanks to raquel and lekmeng who tried their best to catch up with me.

Lesson Learnt: With undying determination, right tactics, right system, one can reach their goal.

Happy New Year 2008. Year Of Rat

2008-01-01T23:23:00.000+08:00

Had a mini celebration at my home. Rushed home from work and made order on the way. As my parents dun like to celebrate out, therefore we are holding it at home.

Invited my bro's gf to join in as well. We had pizza hut instead of Canadian because the latter can only deliever around 2 hrs later.

$60 flew away in a flash when the delievery man came over with my orders. We ate and had fun chatting with one another.

It was pretty much a sin as i ate a lot of fried foods. But never mind. Exercise will do to cut away the fat.

Realised that 2008 is the year of Rat. Which means all born in 1984 belongs to that category. I had much pretty good luck last year. Hopefully everything will continue on for this year as well.

I decided to take up some short courses. I am thinking of language courses because first of all, it's relatively cheap, second is that it has practical usage of me and thirdly one of the lessons will be on SATURDAY which means i can commit more during work on weekdays. Lastly, the tutor is from her native country. With all these factors, it only reinforced my desire to take up short courses.

The course will be starting on 19th Jan. I doubt anyone will want to join me. Whatever it is, I will most likely take up this lesson. Of course, if anyone wishes to join, kindly join me too. :)

Again, Happy New Year 2008.

Where's my handphone?!

2007-12-29T23:59:00.000+08:00

Sending my hp to repair today seems to be a mistake as i have no preparation to get a spare hp. First of all, it was a pretty rash decision. Secondly, i'm currently employed and without a hp as a communication tool is definitely not going to help during the course of work.

Headed down to Nokia Care centre @ Causeway Point and expected the queue was very long as it's a weekend too. I guess there are also people who can't afford to fork out time during the weekdays as they are working. Whatever it is, the waiting time was around 80 mins. Zzzz

Since i had it expected, of course there are plans to meet the expectation. I headed down to the library nearby and got myself a book to read.

Yes, you didn't see wrong. I got a book to read. Well, don't be too fascinated yet as the book(s) i got hold were the True Singapore Ghost Stories by Russell Lee. Hahaha

Anyway, i also borrowed a non-fiction book and that relates to me very closely, ~~or rather my alias.~~

I borrowed a damn thick book title MI6. In case you all have no idea, it's an intel book. I thought it was cool and upon seeing the title, I just picked it up and borrowed without even thinking twice. Well, this shows that i am interested in intel job and why did i end up over IT job instead?

Guess what? PAP was even mentioned in the book. What's the content? I'm not sure.. I haven't finish yet.

Ok, back to the Nokia thing. I went back as i thought it was pretty near my queue no. But to my disappointment, it was still way off. 9 person before me. So, I had to wait there.

Got a big surprise when i was at the service counter. My 'daughter' was there! And we were served by the same customer officer.

Well, other than that, nothing big or special happen. Just sent my hp in to repair. Coming to think of it, they should had done so as the staff at Wheelock branch forced me not to send in.

Come to think of it, i should had make a complain. But that's about Weida, he's just a nice guy! :)

Alright. MSN is one way to connect to me or my resident line. Maybe email or my tagboard. Ehhh, come to think of it, i think nobody would want to contact me too.

Whatever it is, that's just in case.

End of the year is coming. So everyone of you have fun. And, be careful too. Wherever you are Sin or in Thai.

Concluding

2007-12-26T22:32:00.000+08:00

I'm always very fascinated about language and its histories & backgroun behind it. It also shows how human movement had been all the while.

I'm a chinese so naturally i focus on my mother tongue.

Since sec 3, i came in touch with common foreign songs in Asia. Other than english, languages like Thai, Japanese, Korea were in my songlist.

As i grew older and start to observe things, I realised that all these 3 languages have some common meaning of same words and even in writtings, of course the minorities of the words. The majorities of the words are changed or evolved to show their orignality of their each own 'country' after one or other reasons why they left their own orignal groups of their ex-ethnics.

In addition to the languages, things like cultures are closely related even till today. The more i know, the more i am interested and curious of how my descendants moved from 'probably, China*'

where * represents the own idea of the author and has no political agenda

Just to continue, from the recent friends that i made in thailand and learning some thai words and watching movies (with translation).

Words like 'Really' in chinese and thai meant the same, as for the pronunciation it's the same too, except that it's in Hokkien.

Words like "World" in chinese and japanese meant the same too, except that the pronunciation is in Hokkien.

Well, as for culture. These 3 countries had deep root of their past. King, Queen, Princes, Princesses exist in these countries and Yellow/Golden color was chose to be their 'official' color. And they have the similar building structures for the King/Emperor.

Enough of the saying and i think u all got what i meant.

Again, if i was given a chance to be part of the investigation team to unveils more histories of the human being movement in Asia, i will be more happy to be part of it and hopefully with my curiosity and interest would put out more theories on making new discoveries.

Come to think of it, i'm in year 2007 and didn't most of the histories had been discover?

:(

Happy Boxing Day

2007-12-26T01:03:00.000+08:00

I always thought that Boxing Day was a day for boxing, literally. It was like boxing others around! Haha, how silly i was. Now i know the real meaning of it.

Spare the introduction of the terms 'boxing day'. Go right to main details then.

Went to look for ST, LM, Kok and Qing at parkway parade after work. Went to buy things with them for the xmas later in the evening.

Settled everything and went to his house. Congratulations to Qing that she passed her driving test. Sun Tian was quite nervous when he passed the driving well to Qing. Haha. Can't blame him for that.

Assisted in preparation of xmas celebration, with her mum in as well. So, finally, everything was up on the table but it was a shortlived for me as I left the place shortly.

Went off from Sun Tian's house and reached Selin's. Missed out the celebration last year so I have to be back this year.

Greeted the host upon arriving.

With a big Hi-5!

Watched DVDs and playing board game over there, while also helping out to have food.

I couldn't understand the craving for Ben & Jerry's Ice cream until i ate it! So nice was that i 'advertise' for them. Forget about the ugly and unpresentable 'model' used for this 'advertistment'. The bottom line is that; the ice cream was good as i nearly finished the whole tub myself!

Not to forget the log cake which is indeed taking up the shape of a log. OMG, it's so nice. Well, definitely not from Prima Deli's :)

Lastly, the gift exchange session.

And i got myself these!! Thanks :)

I still owe presents to LM and co.

Year-End Summary

2007-12-23T21:45:00.000+08:00

Year 2007 is coming to an end with Year 2008 already with its right hand knocking on the door. A summary of this year ongoings and generally, it had been a good one after all. But of there, there are bad things as well. Somehow, I just couldn't think of what it is.

Like i said, year 2007 had been going well for me and i must stay i had enjoyed a lot this year.

Before heading to the main points, I just want to side track it a bit. It was a fantastic feeling for me to buy 4 items at a cost of $133.

Got 2 shirts with $13 and $39 respectively and 2 pairs of shoes with $39.95 each.

At least, i feel the money is worth spending and for its value.

Friends

Friends had been quite fantastic all the time. And much to my surprises, they made me usually happy all year round. People like the East Coast gang - ST, LM, Raq, KB + many more, had been hearing my complains all year round. Or rather been hearing those since they know me.

Made some new friends as the months went by. Caosheng, Pin, Joshua, Jennifer, Gui jie are those friends who also hear me out which i think was unbelievable. For someone whom we just knew.

Next was people like my twin. Entertaining my life as well.

My poly classmates were rather stagnant for most of this year until recently we got up in contacts. And they are still a group of wonderful friends.

Really appreciate these people in my life :)

Events

Started the (lunar) year with a bang as i strike lottery, though it wasn't a lot, but most importantly signified a good start of the year. Work in NS was good at that time with 9 more months to finish my service, and 10 reservist cycle to go :'(

Then made 3 trips to thailand with 3 different groups of people. Well, i guess, it's just for a single reason. But it was still fun back to the same area, place with different people. They just did stupid things at time. But i like it.

Get down to a temporary job. Pay was rather good. Working after normal hours is even better. I can easily earn a gross salary fo $2000+ a month and learning new things too. Got a permanent job deal with the assistance of the permanent colleagues there, I must say i am ashamed of myself.

Whatever it is, I am under no illusion that i am very lucky generally throughout the whole year. What comes down, must go up and vice versa, I will ride on this good luck as long as possible.

So, start to wear a RED UNDERWEAR on your new's year day!!

Shall not move to other sections like love, or career, etc. It's something that for now i am unable to see it as i still want to further my studies.

Future

I'm quite gloomy of my future though. I am quietly confident that I had the ability to pull it big in the future, but as of now, i am unable to know the ways of doing it so, which is to say i am pretty lost.

Going for further studies in 1.5 to 2 years time. Considering part time studies too as my initial plan was to go for full-time studies. Venturing into IT job as well, in case i need to fall back on something, this is something i can do.

Went for fortune-telling some time back, he said that I have a boss life. I take it as an encouragement as to make me to have a belief that I can make something big in my life.

Summary

Luck - Generally good this year
HR - As been always good
'Career' - Good as well
Love - As been always bad

I still love my friends.. Regardless of new or old one. My life could have been more difficult without them around.

Thrill of Thai

2007-12-19T00:24:00.000+08:00

This entry is break down into 3 sections. Mainly about pre-event, the event itself, and the post-event

Of course, let's start off with the pre-event.

Pre-event

1 week before the trip, I was busy doing Overtime (aka OT). Working for more than 18 hours a day for the past 4 days. First thing foremost, i am not desperately claiming any OT money which is 1.5x the rate of my normal salary. Anyway this is not the key messages.

The main point is of this section of the blog is that I intend not to tell my parents that I would be going to thailand. It is because whether to tell her or not, I would be scolded. Alright, I know it's not right of me to do that. Anyway, given a choice, i would rather tell my parents. The reason for not telling her is that for not trusting me; thinking that i am going to find prostitute over there.

Stayed over at ST's house and it's so nice of him to wake up early in the morning to drive me down to Budget Terminal to await for my flight.

Met up with my trip people after a light breakfast with Han's over there. We took our time and we were one of the last group to enter the plane.

The group, with the self-acclaimed-quite-seasoned-BKK traveller on the extreme left ^_^

At the Departure hall.

No operating of electronic items while on flight, thus, there is nothing to show you all. We entered the 'black hole' where there wasn't any air, according to my friend. It was terrifying. I never met such an incident before. The plane entered the roller coaster mode and it zoomed down to a lower height with great speed in a very short time. To be very frank, i was cold-sweating. Whatever it is, the incident after that seemed pretty fine because we were ahead of time by 15 mins, probably the 'black hole' pushed us forward.

Event

Sometimes, how i wish there's find function within a picture.

Reached the airport pretty early, at around 7.50+ am. Get our passport stamped, our face shot, and claimed our baggage.

Morale was raised upon claiming our baggage as I was able to put my 2 unhappiness behind and forget about it for the 3 days.

Whatever it is, I went to buy a prepaid SIM card from DTAC HAPPY. Doing a bit of advertising for them, sending SMS to local line is 5 baht and 6 baht to overseas. As for call, I'm not too sure. But it's still rather cheap for calls.

Paid 450 baht from airport to Samran Place hotel. The hotel that i had been staying for the past 2 times.

SH, SR, Til & gf went AWOL after leaving the airport as their taxi driver was unsure of the location. Communicated via WC, I told them to name some hot tourists spot like MBK, and fortunately enough, the taxi driver knew the place and drove them there. SH, a BKK traveller last year, had some impression of the place and soon enough we met up after they alighted.

Tired when only half a day has just gone by.

Went to 7-11 to stock up our water supply and other necessities and checked-in to the hotel. It was pretty fast that our stomach are demanding for lunch. We headed down to MBK for lunch at my favourite hotspot. The Pizza Company.

Ordered 2 sets of pizza meal and I just realized that we forgot to take any photo. We got ourselves into discussions of the plan for the day.

While we were in CentralWorld.

Taking the scenery.

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas.

Cowboy JamesBob

Horse-riding

They got a big space in the middle of the downtown shopping centre where they sell beer! Can you believe it?!

I notified Pin of our presence in the area. Soon enough, we got into shopping mode and started off in MBK, then down to Pathumwan area for shopping. Headed back to hotel and put down our stuff and we waited for Pin to pick us up.

The feeling was pretty interesting, it was like those time when we were meeting up internet friend. Anyway, we never meet prior that day. We chatted over the MSN for a couple of months after ruth's introduction.

Initially we should be going to khaosan road, a pity that the main highlight were closed due to the election pre-requisite terms and condition, therefore, we went to Suan Lum night market to have our dinner and shopping again.

Prior going there, I made a mistake in informing her of our location for her to meet us, due to my ignorance of the layout of the CentralWorld shopping centre. So, the poor her actually went high and low to search for us and spent some unnecessary time in the process of finding us.

My friends were getting rowdy that they actually guessed who's who and even opened an unofficial bet on when and where she would appear from. Gosh. haha, my fault.

While waiting for her at CentralWorld, we took photos of the night scene.

First photo.

2nd. This is the place where i met Pin's friend.

Merry Christmas!! Ho! Ho! Ho!

Took some photos of the place and, again for me, we bumped into celebrities. Bumping to celebrities in Thailand is never short for me. During my May trip, I met the female lead actress from OngBak. In my Aug trip, I saw a HK veteran actor in Chinatown. And this time round, I had 2 local celebrities and an important Singapore minister. Wonder if I will meet Tata Young one day. Haha.

Cut the crap. We took taxi down there to have dinner. Met up with Pin's friend. I didn't know how to spell her name, so i better don't. :) We had a good ice-breaker between all. It's quite amazing to see 2 countries people sitting down together and have a nice chat. I would like to emphasize that language wasn't a problem at all. Again, I just realized that we didn't take any photo!!

They went to shop, while I strolled around and Pin went off to work. OMG, i feel so bad informing her that I am coming down and that I was disrupting her working hours.

The night ended just like that. I wanted to go for massaging but everyone is dead tired. So i turned to bed as well.

Another lame production by JamesBob.

Woke up the next day early in the morning. Agreed to meet at 0830 hrs before heading down to JJ market, but i think the deadline can never be meet. We met up at around 9 am and we took a cab there.

As usual, looked for aom. Wanted to give her a surprise by showing myself, but she wasn't that. We chatted a week before this trip and she told me that she was tired of going to work, so I had no choice but to sms her thinking that she might be at home resting. Thus, giving my intention away.

The others went shopping while i walked around and then settled down at a drink stall near to her workplace for a couple of hours. Reason being is because my parents don't know that i will be in thai, so, it's wiser not to buy anything from there.

Next, down to ampawa, and unfortunately, aom was unable to join us a trip down there.

After an 1.5 hours ride. We finally reached.

One of the stalls over there.

All of us!!

New friend! :)

Had dinner over there as well. Called back home. My mother still don't know that i was in thai then.

Our delicious dinner!! She prepared everything for us.

This pepsi bottle is at my house now :)

Headed back and reached the hotel at around 11.30 pm. Chatted with her on the journey back, while the rest were sleeping soundly. Haha.

Bought lottery which i nearly strike. Else, i could have 1000 baht.

Had a shower, went for a massage with the rest. Went back to sleep and that's the end of day 2.

Met up at siam. Coz of the traffic jam, we met 2 hours later. YAWN. But never mind, we did meet up in the end. We took some photos at siam paragon and then went around doing some window shopping.

The others went around shopping again. Initially, I was hoping to have a proper lunch at a decent place with Pin, Aom and the rest. Unfortunately, Pin was unable to turn up due to work committment, thus I left the guys to eat while i went for lunch with Aom.

ok, i dun want to you all to think so much other than just we are friends. Pls, and thanks.

Went back to hotel. Packed up. I LEFT MY ADIDAS WATER BOTTLE OVER THERE!!!! Reached the airport. Checked-in. Home Sweet Home.

Post-Event

Had hell time. She knew where i went. I don't have to write too much details as, first, i dun have time to write as she passed on her verdict with punishment, and secondly, i believe you all know how i 'die'.

Maybe i shall dedicate an entry for all the 'punishments' that imposed on me.

F***!

Ready to go

2007-12-13T22:49:00.000+08:00

Alright. This is nice. Hmm, I really couldn't handle my emotion well. I guess i need really lots of time for it.

Same old 2 issue. But I have decided to let it go le. But i have to admit, it gotta takes time. Coz the guy's name keep appearing every now and then & that also means that she is hinting me to let go of her la. Whatever it is, thanks on her for accompany me today.

The another her is the same as well. Tested her out and she didn't know that i am going across out the sg border this coming weekend.

Though i had tried my best to understand her situation, i simply just can't find certain ans that satisfy me. Anyway, i wouldn't get angry because i think she can't understand. I learnt from the past and calmed myself down and let it flow naturally. But that doesn't meant that i couldn't be bothered about her anymore. Still hoping that we can continue.

Aiya, hope i wouldn't handl all those shits anymore. This is not going to be very healthy to continue like that. Hopefully, my mood will be better after i'm back.

cya soon. Be back on sun night/mon wee morning.

Gosh

2007-12-12T19:42:00.000+08:00

Gosh!! I think she doesn't bother about me, does she?

At the very least, that's what i see from all these. I think probably she is still trying hard to avoiding me.

SIGH!!!!!!

Chalet

2007-12-09T23:47:00.000+08:00

No mood to blog. Don't know what to blog either.

First, want to wish my twin a happy 18th birthday. From the look of it, think she had a lot of fun and surprises as well.

Been considering a lot over certain things and i decided to give a final decision. Due to future finance status of my family because of certain reason, I decided to work full time and only to consider to take up some short part time course.

And another thing that I had just decided (at the time of blogging) is to let nature take its course, and which i am not going to say what it is.

I will not be at home this coming thur, fri, sat and sun. I will be staying over at ST's house and will be heading for chalet for the remaining days. As well as contacting me will be a problem too. Anyway, just pray that i will be safe throughout. :)

As of now, I am at my workplace working on certain system patching and it is so cool to work overnight in a relaxing attire and err, i dun meant naked! haha..

Hopefully, i will be free to meet up with deer on wednesday and meeting up with my twin anytime before my chalet seem to be a virtually impossible task.

To sum up, this week is a very exciting, tiring and interesting week.

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2007-12-04T16:44:00.000+08:00

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