Pretty Crazy

Finally, I have filled myself with enough inspiration to start posting stuff here again. Being busy in work for the past few weeks made my brain dried of any ideas to write something to entertain whoever is reading it now...

Well, just realised that my department now has some people who are pretty crazy. Pretty, but crazy. We have one transferred from another department, been in the company for quite some time, so I already know her as one of the 'pretty crazy'. So is fine, until 3 months ago, we have employed another lady who looks pretty and cheerful.

Eventually, come to know that she is also the 'pretty crazy'. By crazy, I do not mean acting wierd or speaking gibberish, or stares into air with buldging eyeballs, but the ability to crack jokes and speak the exaggerated way that is least expected of them by their looks.

I am awfully entertain by them whenever I talk to both of them, who are really similar in the way they speak and even thoughts. The combined power of these 2 瘋狂美少女 really brighten up each day in this dread job... It makes me feel that at last, after all my good friends who have left the company, there is still new colleague that I can look forward to.

Both of them became fast friends, talking about their marriage stuff and stuff, sharing jokes, making funny nicknames, which unfortunately is for me most of the times. But I guess is fine and I do hope that this will last me a little bit longer till I get my next bonus. : )

Maybe I should post a photo of both of them in my blog and introduce them as 瘋狂美少女x2!

Save the Seals!!

http://www.hsus.org/protect_seals.html

Really couldn't bear the sight of this! Why is it that killing of human is brought under international media limelight while this is not seen in our news??

Killing human is cruel, how about this. Judging by this, wouldn't be surprised if children next generation will only get to see seals in the books we do for sabre-tooth tigers or the dodos.

Talking about saving the environment and mother earth as the latest trend now...

Please seriously help in doing something for the seals, they are unsafe from predators in the sea, and now endangered by human on land.

http://www.boycott-canada.com/assets/pdf/Seal%20Petition.pdf
http://www.hsus.org/furfree/fashion/retailers/furfree_retailers_designers.html

From this:


To this:


Because of this:


Just to do this:

Cheer - A Piece of Summer...

陳綺貞的live演唱會真的很棒，有一種簡單得無法抗拒的魔力。沒有華麗的服飾，沒有炫人的舞台裝飾，只有簡單的吉他與她最自然且溫柔的嗓音。單純的音樂，有著巨大的吸引力。

其實我真的沒有想過我會這麽瘋狂地在演唱會裏又唱又跳的。 而我也很驚訝于陳綺貞的演唱會裏歌迷的熱情。到了下半場的時候，前排的人都已經全都站在椅子上又唱又跳每一首很熟悉的歌曲，讓我也忍不住跟著起舞。當她走下台時，我也很衝動的爬上椅子，看著她那麽的靠近，忍不住揮著手且拼命尖叫。

到了尾聲，竟然Encore了5次還不願離開，直到工作人員開始趕人，我才不情願的離開。我很少看演唱會，但是我相信可能只有陳綺貞的live，會讓我對她的音樂戀戀不忘。用她的音樂 創作與聲音，讓我忘不了感動的那一晚。

Bored during office hours

2 situations will happen when an insect, such as spiders bit on any human being:

Number one, the Marvel comic's case. The human bitten will inherit some supernatural powers resembling the abilities of the insects, magnified by 200 times to that of humans standard.

Number two, the horror story's case. The spider will attempt to not only bite you, but also to lay their next generation inside your wound, under your skin, so that few months later, you inherit an ugly and painful boil which will burst open with thousands of hatched baby spiders crawling out from your skin. Ewww...

Comex Part 2

Reached home 2315 and showing of all the bargains we've got at comex from past 2 days... Winner!

COMEX War Survivors!

1 Acer laptop, $2380.
Creative speakers, $49.
Micro sd card, $20.50.
External harddisk 320GB, $349.
Optical mouse and screen cleaner, $0.
Stucked in traffic jam... Priceless.

Details of

Meeting

This week, our department held a really big meeting, getting as many as 50 people from around Asia and Oceania. The amount of crowd is a bit horrible, though we've had that 1 year ago, but I was not in it, so I didn't really care then.

However this time, is really tiring for me to see so many people and to handle all the logistics and stuff. I hope the next one won't be so soon. Just staying there throughout the whole day is very tiring, especially we have 吊帶郎 doing a lot of presentations with materials that are so so heavy that even the NA guy is sending an email to my colleague saying he is facing a critical situation to find a nap spot... I just thought that 吊帶郎 is trying to kill us slowly with his powerpoints.

In whatever way, I am happy that it is all over!! The follow up is going to be horrible though, and the next week I will tons of things to think through and do. The only consolation I get from all the torturing meetings is the really good food that nice people from overseas brought for us. : )

Yes, I am eternally grateful to them for bringing the delicious good food from their own countries to fill up our stomach while we are draining away the brain juices for the meeting. Amen...

P.S. Hopefully I can take a photo of our snack corner, provided the food are not gone by then...

老爸說錯話

I realised that my father can really create funny jokes sometimes, especially when he is talking about some celebrities while the whole family is watching TV shows. I really do not think he did it deliberately; he just doesn't know names of celebrities well, and sometimes only remember a certain part of something and he just mixes up with the other...

某天在看新綜藝節目[我愛星期天]。。。看見陳健彬在唱歌：
妹:哇~陳建彬會唱歌的嚒？還唱得挺不錯的。
爸:對阿，他以前是唱歌台的嘛，當然會唱歌咯！以前他很紅的，有一個組團叫那個‘云吞團’。。。
妹:哈？云吞團？哈哈哈哈。。。真的嗎？
媽：不是啦！什麽雲吞團。。。是叫‘文工團‘啦。
哈哈哈哈。。 太好笑了。

梁媽媽註解*
文工團:在兵營裏面做表演的[部門]。

Terribly Sickly Part II

Oh shit!! I am sick again the last weekend. I don't know if is flu but I felt really bad with all the 'leaking tap' nose and the terrible pain at the throat and head.

I know is due to really lack of rest, because I have been coming home real late during Friday, and sleeping late on Sat. The Sunday was totally messed up cause I started to have a bad headache during the evening. I have also given myself an overdose of pills for my running nose and it really didn't get well during the night.

As expected, the today morning I was feeling as bad, a little better but still giddy and really tired. So again I took MC.

I suspect the real problem could be due to stress, about what I don't know... I am really sick of being sick all the time. I really swear to myself I am going to sleep real early, stop thinking about partying time and stuff. At least for the next month because I don't want my boss to start thinking that I am up to something with all that sick leave. Man, is really bad month since Jun to July.

KBox Wif Frens

Today went to kBox at cineleisure wif ex-colleagues as birthday celebration... It's been a really long time that we have had such a big group outing!

Really enjoyed not just because of the very good buffet feast but also have met yilidan and others... Is been a long time that I was last entertained by her　冷笑话s... Then did i realised i really missed to have my dear colleagues working with in the same office and sharing those boring days of work...
Its just like the feeling of ...reunion after graduation. :)

Hope this good relationship can last long. Its not everytime that we can get to know such a bunch of good colleagues-turned-friends, for me, this is surely good luck.

Terrbily Sickly

Felt really screwed up by the flu virus for the whole of last week and this. During last weekend I caught the flu buggy, so I had to give up going to BBQ party and stayed at home during weekend feeling bad like I was dying while the virus devour me slowly... And then the whole week was so bad, because the running nose just wouldn't go away... I gave up and went to the nearest panel doctor to get some pills.

Clarinase was prescribed to me for the day, so that it wont' cause drowsiness. After a few hours of taking it, the 'leak' was on again... duh..

Continously, the running nose developed into cough, and throat inflammation on the next weekend.. and of course all plans was blown off because of this. Still, I insisted on Harry Potter yesterday, and then today, I really couldn't woke up for work because I have coughed continuously the whole night and couldn't get a good sleep. So here I am, taking MC on Monday, still feeling sad and tired...

I really hate falling sick during weekends, so I am determined not to let it happen for the 3rd weekend... I will rest really well, skipped all the swimming sessions and sleep real early... duh!!!

Why the Rush?

Few days ago, there was this incident that made me ponder why the need to rush through certain things when it really does not matter if I did not make it in time... and I could do things at my own comfort.

The initial plan was that after work, my colleague and I will leave the office on the dot and both of us will go to buy stuff at the shopping centre separately before heading home together. However, just minutes before 'the dot', I received a call from overseas on work and naturally I couldn't leave the office early. So I told my colleague to go ahead with her shopping and I will catch up with her, since I don't really have to spend too much time choosing what to buy (she wanted to buy clothes and I just need to purchase slippers and contact lens). So she went ahead... and what I was working on turned out to require much time then I initially thought.

After putting down the phone, she gave me a call saying that she was almost ready and if I am already out of office. So I told her that I will only require a little bit more time to get out of office and get what I want. In a frantic rush, I got my slippers and stuff and was rushing to the station control because she was already there. Finally managed to make it and together we headed home.

Actually on my way to station control, I thought to myself why am I rushing like mad... When shopping, I realised there was not enough cash and I paid everything out of card, and actually I was rather reluctant to pay by NETS for my slippers (because of the NETS fees increase and I don't feel like supporting them anymore by using it...) but because debit card was only for purchase more than 20 bucks... I could simply avoid this just by going to ATM to take money, but because of too short a time, I didn't.

The point is, if I really could not make it in time, I could just tell my colleague to go ahead without me. Instead, I have to rush and at the same time made my colleague wait for me. I was thinking that maybe taking a step back to review my actions instead of rushing into things may help to give a better decision and do things at comfort pace rather than just mad-rushing for really, nothingness. Conclusion is most of the times, I am too 'in a rush' just to get things done and sometimes the result is disastrous.

心裏的無理頭對話之一: (和一個大嘴巴的朋友傾訴心裏話)

A：縂有一天我會對世界說出我心裏的秘密（就是其實我XXXXX。。。），然後很坦然地面對別人對我的眼光！
B:哦。。別擔心,你已經有勇氣講出來了。值得鼓勵！
A:嗄？沒有啊，我都還沒有對全世界的人宣佈嘞。。。。。
B:喏。。（指著自己）你已經宣佈啦！你難道不知道我就是‘全世界’嗎？放心放心，你不敢也不能說出口的我都會代你告訴全世界啦。。。我就是你的嘴巴也是'勇敢'的代表啊。
A:。。。ㄟ。。。那個。。。-_-!


- By annoymous

Movie 刺青

I just went to watch this movie at Cathy last week with XS... And I definitely recommend this show, is really nice show. Not just because is a show about lesbianism, but also it says a part of life that happens to normal people that you can relate to it easily... Like the 小綠's lonely childhood when her mother abandoned her, she talks to herself using a toy phone like she is talking to her mother... Or 阿東 getting tattoos just to boost his inferior self...

Of course, the focus on the love story of of 小綠 and 竹子 is really the main part why I went to watch the movie... and after watching it I can only say.. HOT HOT HOT!!... wah.~ Both actress really has done well in the movie with high standard... especially Rainie, can see she really put a lot of effort acting 小綠, she just looks soo different from appearance on TV.

And then... Isabella (acting as 竹子) is so very very very 帥 in the show! Cannot imagine how this lady who looks like so pretty when I first saw her in the movie 蟲不知 can be like totally different in the show 刺青. I think her acting has everyone convinced!

Is a recommended show loh, but too bad the cinema just showed for a rather short period of time and I really didn't see much promotions or events ongoing for this movie... why huh?
Anyway, here's a few pics grabbed from Internet...

Poster of 刺青

Fondue cannot add HL Milk!

Today after dinner my family decided to take out the little pot for fondue, so my sis actually bought Hershey's dark chocolate bars to melt in the little pot... After cooking it for more than half hour the chocolate did not really melt nicely to creamy sauce, so we decided to add in milk.

After adding a little bit of HL milk and we started stirring the pot, hoping that the milk will aid in turning that chocolate bar into creamy sauce... but then....... instead of melting, it started to get harder!! In the end, after much stirring, the whole thing became like swampy mud, with lumps of unmelted chocolate, and really dry up that it couldn't even stick to fruits when I tried (though it still tasted nice la..).

















So after much discussion, we decided to add in plain water, since the whole thing was already ruined... it really couldn't get worst! And then... voila~ immediately after the water was added, the chocolate started to boil and melted into really nice creammy sauce~ yummy~ :D~
















Hohoho... really sinful to have fondue at house hor.. but still I enjoyed a lot with the fruits, marshmallows... and surprisingly, the chocolate goes really well with the dragon fruit.. hehehe....

This Month Is Broke...

Seriously I don't really calculate what I have spent for the month. This is because of plain laziness, plus and all the Excel spreadsheets that I created for accounting purpose during New Year was just not updated because it was simply forgotten and became an archived file in the PC.

However, though I don't really keep an expense account, I can still know when I am running out of money, like this month of June...

The large sum of money in medical fees. I visited the Chinese Sensei more than twice during May/June for my hand, and literally donated around 30 bucks, each time 10 dollars I think. Following that, I went to see my family doctor again to check out my knees, without getting any satisfying results, I paid 27 bucks for consultation and a healthy dose of painkillers which I did not start taking. The next 2 days, I went over to see the 5-dollars doctor, the company panel doctor and was finally, after 4 months, referred to an osteopath.
So simple maths tells that I have spent a total of 62 bucks just on consultation, and of course some useless medication. If I were to include the 68 bucks of glucosamine that I'd spent after getting advise from doctor that my cartilage is likely to be worn... I'd spent 130 bucks!

But, that's not the end of my woes, starting July, I may be going regularly to the osteopath, and, even before I met him/her, I already knew the consultation fees is a whopping 85 bucks as advise by the panel doctor. This is not including any other x-rays examinations or medication prescriptions; in another words, I have to pay 85 bucks entrance fees just to see the doctor's face and listen to the oh 'golden' words of advice (literally golden because is god-damn expensive!!).

Luckily luckiliy, thanks to my dearest HR personnel (who sadly is quitting) advised that the company does cover 80% of the consultation fees. If not... cannot imagine.

Medishield? CPF? Insurance? Based on the tip of the iceberg that I am seeing, I can now understand why there are people going broke after being hospitialised, they may be covered by Medishield, or maybe insurance, but that is never going to be enough... Just consultation already costs a bomb, just imagine hosptialisation and surgery!

In anyway, I do hope that this draggy kneecap problem can recover asap, if not, not only I will have to spend ever more $$ on consultation, I will also have to give up jogging and badminton... so sianz!

Happy 62th Birthday To Aung San Suu Kyi

Photo taken today on 19th June 2007, Singapore.
Today renews memories of forgotten Burma's democracy and strongly urges the international commitee to put their focus again on the world's most repressive regime and the country's democrat's fight.

If she falls, it will not only show Burma's failure on the fight of democracy, but also failure of the international commitee part to help a country's democracy.

Saturday de Performance

I was rather worried that I may make some mistakes during my performance, especially when I know that we only practiced twice or thrice for the past 3 weeks...

果然... I really made a mistake on the actual performance. Haiz..

I missed out the last bar and went right into the first bar again when my mates are still hitting their last... I was like.. oh shit! I played wrongly!! I think it really showed in my face, because I was frantically looking at my mate and trying to catch back the beat again... I only managed to do do that after missing 7 bars totally and hitting all the wrong beats...

Luckily I still managed to catch the last beat and ended together, if not, I think I am going to drown myself in the nearest drain liao.. sigh...

Overall the performance on Saturday was good, except for this which I feel is a total failure... The piece never really went wrong during my practice period leh.. then how come liddat?? A bit sianz. But never, I tell myself, just have to remember and do better the next time...


The next will not come so soon, and I was thinking of maybe just stopping for a few months and recuperate from my injuries and really go for some serious treatment. Age is catching up... haha..















This is a photo of my drum mates during training in Japan. Our teacher is Hayashida-san (3rd from the left, the only guy)

Job Hunting Woes

It's time to change job le... After seeing 3 quitting this month and 1, my dearest partner, quitting the next month, I feel that maybe is time for me to move on. Afterall, the salary is still less-than-expected even after the increment this year.

Also, this job has turned into a less than satisfactory job for me. The bulk of email requiring system support and help desk based, plus limitation for further developments of the system
made me feel there is also no further developments for me in this job. So, time to look for a new one, even though the people and the boss here are much better than all my previous jobs.

I think I am again facing a career dilemma: should I continue current job as a business process analyst or venture into other fields related to logistics? Seriously, I have been thinking of the question while combing through webpages from jobsdb etc. etc. and I have not been able to come to a conclusion till now. This is alarming as I still cannot decide the career path to advance.

Seriously, after looking at most logistics related jobs seems really quite boring... for the N time of my life, I start to think why I did I choose logistics in the first place.. sigh. Too late to regret
now.

Hopefully, I will be able to find something that I have the passion to work for life. I guess is everyone's dream too. Then again, reality... So what if the job market is really good now, there are still people who cannot find something they like or cannot get the job they want.

In anyway, looking forward Saturday's recruit for some new job opportunities...

Online jobs portal:
- http://www.monster.com.sg
- http://www.jobsdb.com
- http://www.jobscentral.com.sg
- http://www.st701.com.sg

**PS: please let me know if you have other good recommendations. Personally, I quite like st701.com.sg. ;)

Forum on Educating Teens for Safe Sex Practice

http://www.sgclub.com/singapore/let_kids_watch_6860.html

Just happened to stumble over this forum discussion of the show 'Play Safe' by Necessary Stage and read through the postings of the members...

I think it is so true that kids nowadays are different and not just the 'gor li' and 'zero point' can satisfy their childhood, also realised that peer pressure is really a main thing that drove lots kids into trying stuff they may not not even have heard of... just because they wanna 'click' with their friend... hiyo...

But anywhere, just thought that is really cool that sg people still has their thoughts about it and feel that it is important to either educate the outrageous kids about sex..

Personally felt that contributing factors would also be the changing medium of information (mainly the internet, which is so easily available and virtually no restrictions) and how is information translated via tv, adverts, magazines and even newspaper.

Blood and violence reports are shown in newspaper / tv and all the more on internet where there isn't any moral standards. Much more sex is potray to public ever so openly, magazines / posters etc. etc., and the worst of all in the Internet, and some really tweaked even the adult's minds and moral standards, let alone children when they see it... Very very wicked, I think.

If the media passing these information are so open about it, some that are totally out of the norm moral standards; yet parents, teachers and even the education is still so reluctant to discuss and educate kids about it, it is really inevitable that kids will turn out this way... If the world has to change to such, then maybe adults should start changing the way to educate the kid, especially on such sensitive issues.

However, judging by the forum, guess am still happy to know that young adults (which I believe most of them are) are really able to see it in the right perspective, not skeptical (though some are) but rather open and honest to discuss about the changes of society trend...

Groggy

Today is a bad day... It was raining, two of my colleagues were sick, the tons of work emails made me felt sick too... At that moment, even the air smell sicked. The sky was raining and grey during the whole afternoon. Luckily, the morning weather was sunny, during the time when we had the office fire drill. But then straight after the drill, it began to rain.. aiyah.. made me became so moody...

Hoping tomorrow will be a fine evening, then maybe I can go swimming again. The weekend mood should be better as I am again packed with activities to do, plus I have made up my mind to stop being lazy and update my CV for a new job and high $$...

Duh...

After 2 weeks of holidays and coming back to home sweet home.. I realised that my computer is infected with trojan!! I was like duh!... Managed to keep a clean record for the past 1 year and now this trojan thingy is going to get on my nerves for the next few weeks when I try to manually clean it up!

Wah lau.. thanks to my 'clever' blood~er lor... Went to accept some files from msn that was sent by his friend's virus-manifested comp... and he opened it without even questioning what photo file was that.. and the whole msn went bonkers before he realised something is wrong...

I screamed at him when I hear his story... but then also no use. What is done cannot be undone. Maybe I should just be lucky that is not those high treat virus that will kill all my files inside... I think I should really find time to get some anti-virus software for my comp... Is kinda miracle that my PC has not suffer major mishaps for quite some time, considering it's anti-virus software free and heavily connected to the Internet most of the times...

Anyway, haven't been updating my blog often, really wonder if anyone will come and read it... this place is just like a deserted place used as my emotions rubbish dumping place, littering it with my wierd thoughts and other unhappening stuff... hiaz.

I hope I will start to post photos from my Japan trip with captions on my adventures down there soon... when I find some time.

夢を叶うな～

いま。昔の友達の写真を見ていた。　外国の旅行写真だった。　景色はすごく綺麗で、展望絶佳(てんぼうぜっか)だ。

羨ましいでしよ、こんなに素敵なところへ行った。私もいつか行けるように。。。でもね、私も若くないだろう、いくつか行ける？　その夢、私にはやりきれないだ。いつも思い出しながら、心も痛みを感じる。　
もし本当に叶うなら、あの時の私はどう思うだろう？　

時々私そういう感想がある：夢近く続いて、ものすごく悪いことになるかも。なら、多分このまま何もせずに、夢は夢見ればいい。夢を叶って、その後は何だ？また別の夢をつくる？それとも欲望がない人になる？もし何もなったら？たぶん次の問題は「どうする、どうなる」って自分に聞かれなきゃ。その「なにも」って感じこそ怖じさせる。

Life is Vulnerable

Life is just like a champagne glass with a very small base - a slight push is all it takes to break it into many pieces.

She was admitted to hospital and almost died, collapsed and wasn't breathing. A relapse of a sickness that was mistakenly diagnose as neurotic depression initially. Luckily, she survived, with the correct medication to help stablize her condition.

Almost couldn't believe that I had to go to CCU to visit her, it was like a sign that it will be the last time I will be seeing her face, alive. My friend went in and burst out crying, coming to me with all tears and asking me to go see her. I was more cowardly than I thought... Waited outside and refused to go in, just seeing her face from afar and trying to grab the lie that she is okay. I don't want to go in and have the feeling of 'to see her for the last time'.

After dragging for 10 over minutes, I gathered enough courage to go beside the bed, seeing her face. It wasn't that pale as I thought, and she could speak, but not clearly.

'I was afraid that I might never see you all again.' was what she said to me. I almost lose control over my tears. I couldn't stand there talking to her for long, as I didn't want to cry in front of her, it was too depressing. Death is so heavy to talk of at the moment. It was then that I truely felt how life is so fragile, just like candle in the wind. Her life was flickering like a small candle flame and struggling painfully to stay alive.

I was knocked with the truth that friends may just die any moment and leave me; guessed I wrapped myself with the comforting but stupid and naive thought that my friend will always be living well and healthy.

Thankfully to whatever, she is fast recovering and was transferred to normal ward now. However, her mood and feelings would be one of the crucial point to determine her full recovery.

I hope she can recover fully, be healthy and stay happy. To her, we may not meet that often, or even talk to each other frequently, but I know nothing is more comforting and happy than to know that she is living, and healthy.

I Love Cocktails

25 July 1952: Puerto Rico becomes a commonwealth.

San Juan
1½ oz. (3 Tbsp.) light rum
1 oz. (2 Tbsp.) grapefruit juice
1 tsp. coconut milk
2 tsp. fresh lime juice
½ cup crushed ice
2 tsp. brandy

Blend ingredients, except brandy, in a blender until smooth. Pour into a tumbler or wineglass. Float brandy on top.