I have a confession to make...

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Friday...Whopppeeee...

Today is Friday.
Feeling kinda cheerful, thus this blog entry...
Doing this while i'm in office...
Life is more or less getting back on track after 3 weeks of lessons...

Was intending to go for a Intel event at Sentosa tomorrow with my Dearie, Cynthia...
But yesterday the organiser of the event called and said that due to the unpredictable haze, the event will be switch to indoor instead...

Wah, so now sian liao lor...Wanted to go to Siloso Beach to check out all the babes and hunks...
and vote for the Beach Babe and Beach Hunk Contest. Get all the nice freebies....
And also possibly drop-by for a walk in the new (soon-to-be-opened Biggest Shopping Mall in Singapore)Vivo City...
But now no chance liao...
by the way, in case you are wondering where the event is changed to??
It been shifted to a cafe along East Coast... and the main events there will be lots of "Counter Strike"Lan Challenges... (Boring!!!)
Guess i should be better off accompanying my dearie for a nice morning swim and to visit her colleague's baby in the hospital.

Some sinful evidences....Wahahahaha...

Ben & Jerry....Yum Yum

The Big and super sweet Banana Split we ordered...can't remember the name though

Well, She's enjoying it...

Burp.......

I think the chocolate is making me high....

5, 13, 24, 31, 35, 38, 43

5, 13, 24, 31, 35, 38, 43

Does this 7 numbers looked familiar to you???
Well, if it does... and if you did went to buy the Toto for the Mooncake Festival Draw...You could actually be more than 2 million dollars richer!!!
Well, for me??
I did went to buy...spent about 50 bucks and the closest i got was 31, 35 and 43.
You do need to get AT least 4 numbers right before you can get any form of prize money.

Ever wondered how was it like to strike the lottery???

Was reading an article online the other day, about 70% of those who strike the lottery ended up bankrupt a year later.
Why??
How did that happened???
Well, the most common misconception/problem was the winner actually thought that they had became instant millionaire overnight and there wasn't a need to work or budget themselves anymore...And with the sudden extra lump sum of cash available on hand. They became very easy with money, very often spending without any second thoughts...
Kinda scary, ain't it...

Well, just hope this serves as a reminder to those who strike Toto and please, please remind down-to-earth, before you actually join those 70% of bankrupted.

Yeah, and don't forget to give me a treat :P
Wahahahahaha

Taiwan Post...Here it is...

Sorry folks...
didn't had the time to sort the picture out...
but here are some of the highlights"lah"

People kept asking me "How is the trip?" "Fun?"
Hmmm...it's a 7days 6 nights trip...and all i can say is...
It's freaking "rushed"
Just imagine.... Morning call at 6am everyday...
and by 7.30am, ya done on the coach and onto your next destination...
It's worst then being back in Singapore (at least i could sleep till 7am)
But it's great making a full trip around Taiwan...
All the wonderful views along the way was magnifiect
Well enough of the words...Enjoy the pictures...folks


Early morning at Changi Airport T2...travelling by SQ... Yay...

Well, somebody in a convertible caught Cynthia's attention...

In our seats...


How strange....Teapot head guy to welcome you to Taiwan...
Hmmmm.....

Taipei 101....

New York'New York is just beside Taipei 101...

Toy 'R' Us...

"Quan Jia Fu" outside Taipei 101

Ma la Steamboat.... can't get use to the pork there :(
Although pork is my favorite kind of meat....


In the travel coach...

The Queen's Head at Ye Liu...

Heart broken....

Heaven Pedestal... See how close Cynthia is to the heaven...Wahahaha

Eating my ice-cream po piah...

Streets of Jiu Fen....

Yilan Train Station, going to Hualian...

Taroko....

dipping my legs into the cool spring water...Hahaha

Taroko...

Nine dragons in the marble scriptures... it symbolize something lah, but i can't remember liao...

Fu Kwan Shan...

Fu Kwan Shan...i like this picture the most...

Cynthia holding a White bitter gourd... you don't see this in Singapore do you??

sun moon lake...excellent scenic views


WenWu Temple...

Eating my "ji pa"....

eating her "chua pin"

Next stop, Shilin station....


Sian ar...Check in and flying home liao... :(

Given the chance, i would love to come back to Taiwan and shop to my heart's delight...
Arghhhh.....And there's so many places i have yet to visit....

i'm so pissed...

What the hell does she wants???
Arghhh...
Why can't she think before talking???
Why must she say things that are TOTALLY not related!!!
Arghhh...i don't know how long i can stand all this...

And what??? Just because i'm their children, i can't have my own temper??
What kind of twisted logic is that?? Am i not a human being with my own feelings???
And i can't have any sort of outbursts...because they are my parents???

Please.....
I wanna get out of this crap-hole...
I wanna a place of my own, where nobody will give me all this crap...
I'm so sick of all this...

I'm back!!!

Yes yes, after a week of going around taiwan...
I'm back to reality...
Do i feel recharged??? No... Rather tired i would say...
Schedule there was rather hectic...Early morning calls, and late nite back to the hotels...
What's worse?? Due to those 倒扁 and 挺扁 folks protesting...
I didn't get to go to 西門丁...Kinda sucks.
But it's a great trip nevertheless...
Will upload the photos soon, after i got them sorted out...
Cheers...

Final Countdown...

Yes, the day has finally arrived...
Leaving for Taiwan with my darling and my beloved family...
Far away from Singapore....

Seeya soon.....

Weekend....is over

And the countdown continues...
Yay.... everything is pretty much set...
So looking forward to the end of the countdown...
And, no no, in case you are wondering... I'm not ROM-ing yet :P
Wahahahahaha....

Spend the weekend rather lazily i would say...
Sat, i went for the Inter-company games at the old NIE with my dearie...
Which, of course, Chartered won...again... Wahahahaha
thanks for being there to support me, although it's such a warm and hot indoor court...
*muack*

After the game, ahead down to Orchard, to get my iBook's battery replaced.
If you didn't know by now... Apple are recalling close to two million notebook batteries after finding out that they are prone to overheating, and could posing a fire hazard to consumers. In view of nine reports of batteries overheating, including two reports of minor burns from handling overheated computers and other reports of minor property damage. So far no serious injuries were reported. (Thanks Goodness!!) So i checked and realise that my battery is included in the list, print out the form. Got to the newly renamed Epicentre@orchard (used to be called Applecentre@orchard) took a number waited... after half an hour... it number didn't even move a twitch...WTF!!! and it seems like the count is under-serviced!!! Could take the wait, as there are still more then 16 folks ahead of me... i LEFT... Maybe i should come down on a weekday...
As i was walking back to Orchard MRT, Cynthia noticed something and adivert my attention to it too... Take a look

Trees with mushroom-like patterns... Are they sick??? Hahaha....

Sunday was spent at Funan IT Mall, didn't want to go squeeze with the crowds at Comex '06 and the fact that it's at the Expo...is a big turn-off...
Beside, i don't really have anything to get there...
While i was at the MRT on the way to City Hall, i saw Singapore's shortest air stewardess from SIA...

Cute right??? Who say you must be at least 1.58m tall???

After finishing with Funan, and parting goodbye with my brother as he heads for his life-saving lessons. Cynthia and i headed on down toward Bugis and as we passed by the National Library, it's like we haven't been in it before leh, so why not!!! So we jumped into the lift and head to the highest available floor (13th) and the view was spectacular.



can even see the fire-red bugis village leh!!!
Well, maybe i shouldn't use "spectacular" to describle it. But it's a great view!!!

The day ended, with dinner at the newly revamped Tiong Bahru food centre...
Sorry no pictures on that...was too hungry liao. Hahaha...

Thank you...

I would like to thank you...
Yes, you!!!
for your support...
amidst what other people had said about me...
thank you for see all my good points and accepting all my bad ones too...
And whatever dumb comments other stupid people makes...
I know i will still have you!

Pluto no more...

So how many planets are there in the Solar System?
Do i hear a "Nine?" Well, wrong answer!!!
Haven't you heard the news already?
The last planet, Pluto, had been "downgraded" to a drawf planet...no more a regular planet anymore....
Well...here's a picture of Pluto...

Courtesy of pluto.planetologie.de/

Or do you prefer this Pluto??? Wahahahahah...


Courtesy of www.mda.dds.nl
Well, no worries for this doggy...he's still gonna remain Mickey Mouse's favourite pet dog...

Okay, back to the planet... This piece of shocking news came out a few days ago... which i feel kinda rocked everything that we know about the stars and beyond... Just because Pluto is not "round" as compared to the other planets and it doesn't travel in it's own orbit or does it not clear it's own path in orbit... The gurus decided that after 70 years of believing that there are 9 planets in the Solar System, they are gonna just take 1 of them away...
Will this sort of decision cause any kind of catastrophic backlash?
I grew up as a kid who was very very interested in the stars... hearing all this... kinda make me realise that sentence is so so so true...
"The only thing that doesn't change is Change itself!"
So, will they in another 20 years decided that they made a mistake and "upgrade" Pluto back to "planet" status again??? I don't know...i hope i do live long enough to see if that ever happens...

Well, i do hope he (below) doesn't mind all this kind of nonsense...
Afterall, the God of Death is not someone to be rifle with...


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And the countdown begins...

Yes yes...i'm back for another blog post...
It's countdown time to a fabulous oversea trip again...
i'm happy yet unhappy at the same time...
Happy, because all my loved ones are on this oversea trip with me!!!
Unhappy, because of this trip, i gonna miss my first outing with all the brothers from my night class to Genting Highlands.
Well, in life, you win some, you lose some... Can't have everything the way you want it.
Hahahaha....

So what have i been doing???
Hmm... according to my calendar...
I have played 4 games this whole week... 3 for my Chong Ghee Sport Club in the Chong Pang Cup. 1 game for Chartered in the Inter-company Games...
(won all the games, of course)
And the weekend before, particpated in the New Balance Realrun at Sentosa.
A gruely 10km run across road, sand and trail...and my timing??? a lousy 1hr 25mins
I had never fared well in running... at least not in those long distance run, but like i always say, "It's the satisfaction you get from crossing the finishing line!"
To me, timing doesn't matter :P
And of course, all this in the company of my brother and my sweetest darling :)
Coming up this Saturday, i'm gonna give biathlon a try too... a 800 metre swim in open sea and 1.5 km run at East Coast!
Kinda worried, with all the recent news of people collapsing halfway through all this kind of events.
Imagine this, those who collapsed are people who had been consistantly training for this sort of events. And me, i just trying to push myself for it. Seriously
i hope nothing happen to me...
Hahahahaha... I'm sure i'm gonna be fine...
YEAH!!!!
And yes, the small matter of clearing my yearly IPPT this tuesday... I hope i pass...
hai...

Well, it been a great week!!! and the next two weeks is gonna be even better!!!
Cheer and good night everybody!!

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…