examination week...

Today I'm on leave...Y? Study for my exam lor...
Can tell from the title right?
always feel that I know what to study, but most of the time... "Is up the lorry one"
Let's hope this time round, it won't happen...

Just the day before, I receive an envelope...
what is it? Well, it's a market adjustment letter... Meaning?
my pay will be adjusted according to the market rate...
So am I satisfied with the adjustment?

Well... NO, I'm not... But people around me are telling me to be happy with what I have, after all that wasn't any news of it in the first place... So it supposed to be a kinda "surprise" thingy...
Am I surprised? Yeah, I sure am...

I shouldn't be talking about all this online should I? I think it's okay lah, since I never state out how much I'm drawing every month... Anyway, it's any insignificant amount...
So when can I join the credit cards club... Yah yah... It's not good to use credit cards..
Blah blah...It's a trap... It will make you spend all your future money... You will lose control...
Blah blah...
Maybe it just will... Guess it depends on individuals...

Well, enough ranting again...
Back to the books/notes...

Nursary Rhymes...

Do you still remember any of those nursary rhymes that you used to sing when ya in kindergarden??
For me, i realise that i CAN'T even complete "Baa Baa Black Sheep"
so sad...
So i went and google out the actually lyrics...
hope nobody else is as "forgetful" as i am...

Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!
One for the master, one for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.

Hey, but i still remember "Old MacDonald has a farm"
Wahahahahaha

How do you define "Kakis"

So much for being in the "gang"
maybe i'm over sensitive... but i feel so bitter after being betrayed... by people whom i regards as good friends... or good colleagues...
who can you trust these days??
Why do i say so???

A certain PE in the so-called lunch kaki group was promoted to senior PE... honestly i'm really happy for him!! after seeing him work and work... finally all is justified. So he suggested a informal treat to all of the "lunch kakis"gang. Which naturally is good news!!! a free lunch...to celebrate! Yay...
But before i ask anything about...THOSE closer kakis (should i mention names??) has already ask and waited for him to give a promotion treat, just waiting for a suitable date.

So on tuesday (1 Aug 2006), a certain female senior started to help the new senior PE make plans...she decided that japanese food would be the best choice. So she happily asked me if i could help her find out whether any resturant does delivery... which beside Saskae Sushi, they rest doesn't. So while helping her to find more info, she was writing out who will be included for the treat. Well, i hope i wasn't sleeping, but i did saw her include my name in the list.
So after all the searching, the PE decided that it too troublsome to wait for the delivery, why don't we head on to the japanese resturant at Causeway Point? Save all the hassle...
That's would be a great idea, expect for the transport... Is there enough seats?? So who's gonna drive??? At that point, the topic kinda died down at tea-break...

The next day (2 Aug 2006) happily knowing that there will be a treat at lunch time... i saw the senior PE and ask him, "so what time are we heading out for makan??" He shook his head. My first thought was, "he's must be busy lah, beside he don't bother about all this transport stuff."
So i left him alone and went to look for the (so-called organizer) female senior, "So how are we heading out today?" Her reply, "I also don't know, tired of asking the them liao lah, you go ask them yourself." I was like.... Okay, cranky weather again... So i thought probably i should just wait till the usual 11.30 odd plus then i go look for them, or i'm just a phone call away if they wanted to find me...

11.30 odd, left the new cleanroom lab, went to the old lab to look for them, nobody was around...
the female senior wasn't around, the tall senior techinican wasn't around too... Sat at in the lab waiting, i was thinking maybe they would call me. 10mins later, the new senior PE came in, saw me and ask me about the both of them. i replied, "Haven't seen them since 11.30 liao." He nodded and left... After another good 10 mins, i wander to the cube area to look away. Just as expected, the other engineer in the senior PE's group is gone too...

I felt so let-down...by these so called friends/kakis...
i'm not sore about not having the treat...
But if they didn't wanna include me in the list, they could have told me..
make up an excuse or something... don't just disappear like this...
i can give up my seat to somebody else... NO PROBLEM

Really makes me wonder who and where are my real friends.

Terrible night...

Everything that happened tonight was TERRIBLE...
I skip school, cause i didn't feel like going...
I'm sure i pissed her off...
I'm currently having a terrible whirling feeling in my tummy...
I'm having a bad headache...and i don't know why....
My head is feeling so heavy and confused...

It's bad...all bad...F&%king bad....
I just wish i had a chance to better express what i wanted...
but i don't know either...

I feel terrible :(
I hope this bad stomachache goes away soon...

What will you do???

Let's say you have a cool 5K on your hands...
What will you do with it??
Put it in the bank and earn the pitiful interests???
Go out and play in the stock market with it???
Or???
What will you do???
How do you make money grow money???
Anybody have any suggestions?? Can let me know??
My dad's reply was, "What to do??" "We just aren't the adventurous kind of people who dare to take our money to go risk it for more profit."
Kind sad to hear that...
I guess it all runs in the blood...

But....
So what if i finish my diploma...even complete a degree or even a Phd...
I will never be able to earn (in my whole life) as much as a person who hit the first prize in a Toto draw...just over the weekend...

Hahahaha...
Mindless rattle again...

What keeps you going???

Managed to just squeeze a paper for the MST...
initially i only gotten 49 marks....
but due to to a mistake in marking... i managed to get two extra marks and passed it...
Wahahahahaha....lucky??
I think so...i couldn't answer more than half of the paper...
I'm slacking too much... too much...

so the lecturer posted us a question, what keep us going in this course???
The kind of commitment you must have to stay in a 4 or 5 year course, religiously coming for lessons almost everyday after work...
Various comments kept flying out...ranging from, "doing this for the pay advancement ah"..."no choice lor, cos living in Singapore"..."In singapore everything also look at certificate"...blah blah...
One thing for sure, everyone in the class isn't there for the pure interest of the course....

Bo liao Topics....

Was out for lunch in the afternoon with MT,E*Y* and ZP....
So the four of us were talking about cars...
As ZP is from PRC and with the launch of the new China-made car, the Cherry QQ.... So MT was asking him if he would support his country exports by buy the QQ??
given that all the other choices of cars that he can purchase is similar in specification.
He said that he would...
This gets me thinking....Will you support your own country products???
beside getting Singaporean girlfriend, of course.. Wahahaha...

So we had lunch...And we walked by this store selling Tupperware...
So E*Y* asked if given 2 pieces of tupperware, one made in Japan, the other in China..,
Which would you buy???
I pondered for a while... And replied! Of course the "japan" one lah...

So I was wondering...Sometimes it make people 'sian' to find that the stuffs that they purchased have the "Made in China" tab inside...
So I was suggesting, what if I sell a product that is made in China, but I print the "Made in China" wording in japanese...Will it work??? Will the consumer buy the product???
They would probably think it's made in Japan...Would they??? Hahahahaha
Well, I'm not deceiving anybody...Am I???
I did stated that it's made in China, just that it's in japanese what!!!
Wahahahaha.....

My post World Cup Review......

A bit late.....but better late then never.....

After a 30 day of World Cup mania…
A champion has finally emerged
Italy!!! Italia Italia Italia…
Fulfilling her destiny after 12 years…
If you do believe in Fate, Italy had won a World Cup every 12 years, the last being 1994.
And 12 year from then…..
Italy is the 2006 World Cup Champion!!!
Not that I’m a fan of the Arruzzi, but the goal-tight defence and the enterprising chances they create during the Finals against France was simply magnificent.
All the signs for a France failure was there…
The exit of Vieria due to a tight injury, the sub of Ribery, the amazing Let-me-head-butt-you Zidane being red-carded and the exit of Henry in the extra time, due to injury again… And Trgeuazt, the player who can’t score with his leg missed the penalty kick.
Plus,
Cool finishes by the Italians from the penalty spot…
All point toward an Italy victory….

Hahahaha…. think I’m starting to sound like a sport analyst…
How does I fare? Got potential? LOL

With the World Cup coming to an end…that means no more early morning shouts of “Goal” in the heartland areas….
More light sleepers can get a better night rest…
Less zombie workers in the company…

In the end, there will only one....

Today marks the end of World Cup Mania...
And Italy is the 2006 World Cup champion!!!!
will post my post game analyst tomorrow....
so all please stay tune..... :P

Tired day...after catching the world cup at 3am in the wee morning...
and just so heng...
so many freaking things to do...
Argh....

Let's hope tomorrow will be a better day...
Wahahahaha

Cheers everybody...

Sunday....monday...

These days life is pretty much came to a halt....
just passing each day as it comes by...
Rather aimlessly i would say...
Boring... Wonder what can i do to spice it up...
My PC is down again...it's so frustrating... you get it fixed, used it for a couple of weeks, and it breaks down AGAIN!
Arghhh...just feel like picking up the black mini tower and dump it down the rubbish chute... FOR GOOD...
But no money to get a new one :(

Found out that Creative is offering it's Zen Vision "M" for 50% on it's online store...
with terms and conditions applied!!!!

So was happily waiting for the "special" moment where i would cunningly get onto the webpage at the right moment and make my purchase...

First, 1-5 customers will get it at 50% off,
6-25 customers at 30% off,
26-75 customers at 20% off
and 10% off for the rest of the late comers.

Happily logged in at 0001, and only the 10% offer was left...
Huh, within a second, the offer was "SOLD OUT"
I was like....???!!!??? how could it be???
Felt so cheated... Wasted my time, hopefully waiting...
Shit... no wonder it's call Craptive....Opps, i meant Creative!!!

Maggie's Wedding...

No time to blog :(
Been playing too much basketball recently.
Trying so hard to get back my fitness...
With exam looming around the corner, i also have yet to touch my books since lessons stopped two weeks ago...
Die Die...Wahahahaha

Well, on the 2oth i attended my "jie jie's" wedding...aka Maggie's wedding...
Why "jie jie" you might ask??? Well, when i joined the company where i am working at.
we kinda "clicked" and she was really nice to me... until she decided she had enough and with aspirations to pursue what she wanted instead. A carrer in childcare...
Well, I really happy for her on her big day :)

Enjoy some of the photos i taken...
Dinner was held at Hotel Rendezvous

Notice outside the ballroom

JJ, table and the menu

The ballroom

Me and Maggie姐姐...before the dinner starts.

Ah Ta and Maggie

Ah Ta, the groom, Maggie and Moi...

Just before the second march in...

Everybody at our table...

All happy happy happy...


The end.... Happily Ever After...

Lazy, Raining Sunday...

Woke up real early today, hoping to go for my basketball training...
but 天不做美, it just kept on drizzling and drizzling...
it sucks...

Meet up with Brother JL, coming back to SG for a short break...
He looks like he enjoying life (opps, should i be saying this???) over at the US side...
and thanks to him, i got my new dosage of drug...
My new iTune Prepaid cards....Wahahahaha
And thanks for the message inside...sorry to be troubling you again too...

Well, being the show-off freak that i am...here are the hot pipping photos

No sharing of my bro's address...

The second enveople...

The card holder...

Brand new...US$25 bucks...

Thanks again...
Stay at Junction 8 Bishan's Coffee Beans for a chat, while waiting for Gufeng to arrive...
and left for Cynthia's place for dinner...

Cynthia's mum cooked chicken claypot rice...which was....yum yum

Finally, for those itching to know what it was???
Well.... here it is...
Presenting....

The case...

Opening the case....

Dust-cover...

The real mc-coy

The innards...Wahahahaha
Ain't it a beauty???
Thanks Dearie...for such a wonderful gift!!
Hope i didn't appear too flashy with this post :P

And specially to you, my dearie....
加油, 加油, 加油!!!! I know you can make it ;)

The Mania has begun...

Caught last night "live" telecast Germany verus Costa Rica game with my brother and Cynthia on channel 5.
and reading something on the fourm about the malaysian channel, RTM have been showing distorted images, just 3 days before the World Cup begins.
One can help thinking whether is it the handy work of a local cable-providing company....
I guess it's not hard to know which one it is, cause there is only one...
Wahahahaha.... Monopoly!!!!!
Yeah...that's how Singapore is like...every single thing is monopolized.
Wondering whether i will get into trouble saying all this...

According to TNP, it's a request by the company providing the TV rights to the Malaysian channels to have the signal distorted...so that the signal can only be view by malaysian televisions

Wow....i never knew that tv sold in Malaysia, have something special in them, that can decode distorted signals...and i guess locally available tv is specially tied to local tv signal LOR....
What crap... can you imagine this sort of statement coming from a local paper???

Well, i know...
You people probably think...
"Why you so cheapstake one??" Want to watch World Cup...go subscribe lah...
Make some much noise for what??? Go be a malaysian lor, then you get all the free telecast..

To people who think this way... i feel sad for you...
I feel that you have been properly brain-washed the way the whoever-is-in-control wants...
hahahahaha...
Wah...i crapped so much liao...and i doubt anything will change either...but at least i got it out of my system...Got to accept the fact, that how Singapore works.

So i guess tonight i'm probably gonna be getting my Argentina verus Ivory Coast telecast game on the so so so heng near-the-worldcup-time-kena-distorted Malaysian free to air channel.
Hopefully my eyes don't get spoil, watching too much jumping images...

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Something else....regarding the suspense...

Thank you for the surprise!!! it really was someting i never never expected...
Thanks again...so i guess the next month we gonna be eating out at the food courts then...
but with you...it's worthwhile...

Suspense...suspense...part 2

Seems like blogger is having some problem...
i have only manage to put up my yesterday post just an hour ago...
I hope none of the millions of bloggers got anything delete from their account...

And if anybody is wondering what happen to all the pictures in the previous post...
it been temporary removed, as i was trying to sort out my Flickr account...
The usual statement lah
"As I'm trying to serve you folks better, I apologise for the inconvinence caused!"
Wahahahahahahaha

Think i'm too 無聊 already....

And to you my lovely Cynthia,

So what had you gotten for me???

not that i'm really tempted to know...
just curious nia lor....

Suspense....suspense...

Was surfing around the internet reading articles here and there...
With the World Cup 2006 Germany starting tomorrow, football-mania can be felt everywhere...
Everybody is waiting for the first game to start...i can't remember which two teams are gearing up for the opening...
Probably it's the host country team verus one of the team in it's group.

So where are you catching your football??
Have you subscribed to the sneaky and cut-throat Starhub cable vision yet???
Or are you heading to the nearby Kopi Tiam for a seat with the ah peks??
Or have you gotten a really long antenna, hoping to catch the free "live" telecasts on the free-to-air Malaysia channels??
Or, how about going to the nearby 24hr MacDonald's outlet to catch the matches???
Whichever your choice are...i hope you will enjoy the matches as much as i do (even though i have yet to decide how i'm gonna cure my fix for the matches)
And lastly, hope all the folks get enough sleep before heading to work, and not ending up like ZOMBIES in the office..
Wahahahahaha

Seems like the flu bug is going around these past couple of weeks...
Well, i got sick twice in a row, my mummy got the flu bug too
and the latest causality...my poor dad...
I hope he get better tomorrow resting at home after getting the MC from the doctor...
sometimes i think he work too hard...leaving the house as early as 6.30am and only getting home at 7plus in the evening..
hai...勞碌命吧 that's his life...
Hope i don't sound like an unfilial son or something...

Sick sick sick...

So damn suay...
It's the third time this month i'm down with flu and it got worsen this time round, diagnosed with high fever...
Aching all over, can't sleep the previous night either...
Can't keep my eyes open...
Really hope it not something serious...can't help to think otherwise these days with the Avian Flu going around..
Hai....
So 命苦...

But i want to thank my wonderful girlfriend for taking urgent leave to take care of me and keep my company...the whole day
hope i didn't pass it over to you...
thanks...really appreciate it!
Given a two day MC by the doctor...can take a break from everything and just relax...
do some reading, be it pleasure or study...
This is a book that i just got....hee hee

Hahaha....

Not sure if i did mention on my blog, that Cynthia & i went to Kuala Lumpur over weekend.
So here are some photos from the trip...
if you want to see all of the photos, drop me a msg...i will forward you the link to the Yahoo's photo thingy...

Enjoy...


No, no you didn't see it wrongly... we STAYED at Ritz Carlton...



See how spacious the room is??? At first we only booked a Deluxe room, but the nice folks at Ritz Carlton upgraded up to a Exective Deluxe for us...



This what we had for dinner the first night. Only took photo of the first two dishes, cause both of us are too hungry le...hahaha... The first pic is small abalone and second is "la la" (kind of shellfish) and the third is stingray... all of them are wrapping in aluminium foil and grilled to perfection!!! Highly Recommended by Moi....LOL

after the good food, we walked around Chinatown, through all the stalls where a lot of branded Replica are sold...no, i didn't get any...

The great thing about staying at RC is, it has a cozy lounge at the 19th floor which provide complimentary drink most of the time..

I had a glass of red wine, while Cynthia opt for a beer instead...


At around 7pm, the personal butler will come in and set the bed for us.
and he left a little something for us by the bed.

Saturday morning...


Some candid shots before breakfast...

Breakfast is served at Rossini



The menu, what cynthia had and what i had

Oh yea, not forgetting the nasi lemak i had...Haha

And off we went to go shopping at the Twin Tower...
some shots of the Petronas Twin Towers along the way...
Yeah, we Walked there...



Menara KL (KL Tower)


and Suria KLCC, where all the shopping is...

Guess what we had for lunch??? A&W...yay

Waffle with ice-cream

Root beer float

Our Miss Koh have never taken the Malaysia's LRT...so here's her virgin trip


All these walking make the day passes really fast, soon it's dinner time again...
here's what we had

BBQ Wings

Penang fried kuay teow

Fried abalone mushroom

Oyster Omlette
Yum yum.....



Something i find amusing about the lift in StarHill Centre. They labelled each floor with wording instead of number...

Sunday before checking out, we went for some last min shopping and lunch at Planet Hollywood... which sadly is no longer available in Singapore...


While waiting for our food..



Tada...and lunch is served...


while waiting for the coach to come...


Bye bye Ritz Carlton...

Hope you, readers enjoy the photo as much as i do...