Bingo!

Nah it isn't the Bingo game this time, was posting on the kukuclock a few posts back. Now something related to time again, the Bingo Watch


How do I read it ?
Here's the instruction,
The outer dots are numbered 1-12 for the hours and the inner dots for minutes - there's a small red marker on the inner track which points to the minutes in a traditional manner.

Unlimited Bus Ride - SBS

Car owners, may skip this section as it might not be relevant to you. SBS Transit has a new offering that give SeasonPass gives users unlimited trips on buses for $98 a month.

This new pass will benefit commuters who pay more than $3.30 a day for bus travel.
My personal case study, I would spent $2.50 on SBS bus to/from office.
Taking average of 23 working days per month, $2.50 X 23 = $57.50

Comparing it with another user, which pay more than $3.30 per day,
$3.30 X 23 = $75.90

Hmm, to make it worth the $98 bucks, unless you travel on both weekends,
$3.30 X 30 = $99
or a minimum travel fee of $4.30 per day,
$4.30 X 23 = $98.90


Promotion
(1) SBS Transit is offering a discount of $30 to commuters who buy three months worth of season pass stamps.

(2) NTUC members get a bigger discount, and get an additional $24 discount, paying $240 for a three month pass.

SK-II

Gosh, this will be a major impact to the reputation of the famous skin product, SK-II. Are you one of the SK-II user, heard of the news from China ?

What:
"SK-II is suspending sales of its skin care products line in China and temporarily
closing its SK-II counters", note posted at a consumer refund location in Shanghai said.

Why:
Last week Chinese authorities discovered traces of the two toxic metals in nine SK-II products including powder, foundation, lotion and cleansing oil products. Shanghai health officials added three more items to the list Friday.

Shanghai health authorities said Friday they found chromium and neodymium in three more SK-II cosmetics -- a facial cleanser, a wrinkle treatment mask and a whitening product.

Chromium can cause eczema, while neodymium irritates the skin and can damage the lungs and liver if inhaled.

Screaming obscenities, an unruly group of consumers kicked down the front door of the Procter and Gamble office only hours after the company said it would stop selling its Japanese-made SK-II line.

SINGAPORE : The Health Sciences Authority says it has completed its testing on the six SK-II products sold locally, which have been reported to contain harmful ingredients.

HSA says its results showed these two substances are present in the products as trace impurities and are at levels which do not pose any safety concerns.

HSA adds that it will continue to closely monitor the situation and keep an eye on the safety of cosmetic products sold in Singapore.

Point of views,
A, I m gonna stop using SK-II products after hearing this HARMFUL substances!!
B, Well, it's reported that the contents are at a levles which do not pose any safety concerns.
C, I m scare of the side effect who know I might be the unlucky one.
D, The result of the product is great, that all I care.

Cyril Magic "string"

Do you enjoy watching magic trick ? Personally I like it, all the "WoW", "How he did that", "That's amazing" and somehow it would be great if the magician actually teach you the trick =D. Check this video, How to move a ring diagonally upwards?

Cyril's magic lesson

Check this "cap in the bottle" too, if only I know the trick behind. awesome!!!

Alarm

RINGggggGGGG!!!!!DU DU DU DU!!!! Time to wake up. How many of ya actually wake up immediately upon the alarm alert ? That's a tough task for me 5 times a week man. My bad habit, tendency to hit the snoozes button. Since University days, I have been using my mobile phone alarm function till now.

Gotten my worst record today, pre-set the alarm at 0800hrs and snoozed it for an HOUR (held my mobile phone in my palm and keep pressing the snooze =\). I purposely set the interval of the snoozing alarm to 1 minutes prevent myself from getting too deep into dreamland again. It used to work but somehow today it failed terribly. Unwillingly, I drag myself off bed with a half-awake brain and get a wash up which help alittle.

Experience the above ? Any personal tips working together with one of the human best friend "ALARM" devices ? Came across this awhile ago, "kukualarm"

It base on the theory of waking up the mind first.

Kuku Alarm ClockHow about collecting eggs then? That is after all what they do on the farm. This funky, but highly practical Kuku Alarm Clock forces you to do just that.

Set its alarm and then be greeted every morning by your Kuku Alarm Clock laying eggs...and because it won't stop chirping until you've returned its eggs(0.o what if you couldnt find the last egg =D), this clock will not only wake you up, but keep you up. Just imagine how difficult it’d be trying to return to your slumber after crawling around the floor and looking under your bed, sheets or pillows for each and every last egg.

A whole lot more effective than tropical waterfall sounds or cute chirping birds, the Kuku Alarm Clock makes it difficult, if not impossible to go back to sleep. In fact, after this clock's five eggs and crowing sounds, you'll probably have to restrain yourself from throwing it against the wall.

Waking up is always hard to do, but this alarm clock actually makes it fun to get out of bed.

Poll Service

Yeah, it's rather easy to find a polling service afterall. Just took me a couple of minutes and got this free polling service from Web Poll Central. Here's some of the features,

Key Features
1) No HTML knowlegde needed
2) Unlimited Polls
3) Unlimited votes
4) Up to 9 options
5) Various presentation formats
6) Fits in your current design
7) 100 % FREE service
8) Ability to have a random poll
9) Ad free version available now !

Will be testing it, if it's good, I will add it to my permanent links. Will be sorting out my link into catergories for ease of navigating.

Google Inc

Got my regular mail updates from Jobstreet. Normally, I will only spend less than 30 sec to browse through the offers in the market within my preference. Check this job adv - Google Adword Associate - Singapore. This gonna be a GREAT experience, if you are hired.
1) Being part of the most popular brand in the world.
2) FANTASTIC area of expertise, Adword, well from my experience 95% of the websites I visit contains "Ads by Google"
3) Broaden your network with advertisers
4) Profitable knowledge from the experiences accumulated(write books and put the knowledge into personal business(if it's allow =D)
5) Understand market trend

Most Viewed Video - YouTube

No idea what I did and landed up with this video. BUT he's really GREAT especially the robot part and he's moves match the music well (most of it)



YouTube - Most Viewed (All Time)#1

Evolution of Dance

Thailand Unrest

State of even greater uncertainty and confusion are happening in Thailand. Just when I thought the rainy days are over for Thailand after the King helps to resolved it's political unrest over the Thai PM, Thaskin. Thai Military had seize control of the Constituion, Senate, Cabinet. Message from BANGKOK - Thailand's coup leader, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, said Wednesday the military needed to seize power in order to unite the nation after months of political turmoil.

You might consider adjourning your travel to Thailand for the time being,MFA advises Singaporeans planning travel to Thailand to monitor developments and take precaution.

Performance on the share market are affected too, from the
"Singapore shares lower after Thai military coup" article.
There is an additional concern in that the devastating 1997 Asian financial crisis had its epicentre in Bangkok when the Thai government allowed the baht to float freely in the face of a sharp deterioration in the country's balance of payments.

More info from wiki, East Asian financial crisis
The currency tumbled, sparking a collapse in Thailand's financial system which then spread across Southeast Asia and the broader region and required a massive International Monetary Fund-led bailout to halt.

Tracking Clicks on Link

Thought of adding the tracking features on link clicks statistic by users. Did a search on google and one of the search points to google analytic. If you have the an account with google analytic and you wish to track the clicks on the links of your website,

Here's the example, additional codes in [a href] tag by adding this codes 'onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/example_com');"'

<a href="http://www.example.com" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/example_com');"/>

Important: if your pages include a call to urchinTracker(), utmLinker(), utmSetTrans(), or utmLinkPost(), your Analytics tracking code must be placed in your HTML code above any of these calls. In these cases the tracking code can be placed anywhere between the opening <body> tag and the JavaScript call.

To verify if you have done it correctly, check your Top Content report 24-48 hours after the updated tracking code has been executed.

Any idea how do I display the number of clicks behind the individual links.

Check support for using track clicks on outbound links

Forbidden City

Been seeing tracks and prints of the Singapore Made musical play, Forbidden City from multiple sources, such as mobile TV, News, Tv, radio. Just saw the high rating reviews from some mediacorp artists on this musical play.

Synopsis
A historical retelling of the story of China's Empress Dowager, the story is seen from the eyes of an American painter, Kate Carl, who is commissioned to paint the Empress's portrait. The Empress recounts her amazing journey from a young imperial concubine to become the Empress of China and the pressures she faced. The musical explores the myths surrounding her reign, from the controversial death of her only son to her ambitious tussle for power. Having played to 60,000 people in 2003, Forbidden City is Singapore's most successful musical to date. Starring Asian sensation Kit Chan.

DURATION
Approx 2hrs
Interval: Approx 20 mins

Language
English With Chinese Subtitles

More info @ sistic, Forbidden City

Java script

Just discovered that there's this short Java script in my blog template along from the inital setup. The primary function set restriction on right click function. YUCKS, now that the reason why I cant open a additional tab within my firefox. For those who want this function add this codes into your template, do at the arrow brackets '<>' to 'script language=JavaScript' in the first line and '/script' in the last line

"
script language=JavaScript

//Disable right click script III- By Renigade (renigade@mediaone.net)
//For full source code, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com

var message="";
///////////////////////////////////
function clickIE() {if (document.all) {(message);return false;}}
function clickNS(e) {if
(document.layers||(document.getElementById&&!document.all)) {
if (e.which==2||e.which==3) {(message);return false;}}}
if (document.layers)
{document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=clickNS;}
else{document.onmouseup=clickNS;document.oncontextmenu=clickIE;}

document.oncontextmenu=new Function("return false")
//
/script
"

National Serviceman - Dead

GOSH!!! Another National Serviceman pronounced dead.

SINGAPORE: A full-time national serviceman was found unconscious at the foot of a four-storey building in Hendon Camp(I remember the last death case happened in the same camp. An officer drowned.) early Monday morning, and later pronounced dead.

Not much details given for this case, have to wait for the investigation report.
National serviceman death - CNA.

Examples

Came up with these 2 examples awhile ago,

1) If you wanna go hougang from tampines and only mode of transport is bus. You choose to take bus 10, will you reach hougang ? Everyday you take bus 10 and expect to reach hougang.

If the current actions does not bring you what you want. CHANGE your action!

2) Have it happen in your life before, you wanted something so dearly, eg a wallet that can purchase with $10. Will you be attracted to it or treasure it ?

If this wallet need you to pay $5000, take 1 week of leave, take flight to Nepal, swim for 10km to get it. How will you treat this wallet ?

Mua Ji

Oh it should be "Home-made" Mua Ji. Those who have yet to try this sweet base snack, you can get this for a price of 2-3 bucks at some coffee shop stall or the night markets. If you are free, how about a try of it for your love ones (the ingredient are rather and easy to make) ? The only tough part, IT's the stirring of the flour patties in the pot, when they start to cool down, it become super duper STICKY. But this process will determine the elasticity and chewing feel of the end product. Sob, though we made a whole pot of it, I only get a small share of it. The rest were distributed to my neighbours by my mum. Wanna be my neighbour ? haha.

Here's the recepie, "Mua Ji"

Ingredients
glutinous rice flour
water
roasted peanuts
sugar

Mua Ji - 9 Steps
1) Mix glutinous rice flour and water thoroughly until a smooth batter is formed.
2) Boil a pot of boiling water.
3) Prepare another pot and add some cooking/onion oil.
4) Make small patties from the batter, put them into the boiling water.
5) When the patties are floating, scoop them up into the other pot with oil and keep stirring the patties until they form a single entity.
6) Add enough sugar to the roast peanuts to pass the taste test
7) Cut up small portion of the glutinous rice cake and roll it on the peanut-sugar mixture.
8) Further cut the portion into bite-sized and mix well with the peanut-sugar mixture.
9) Ready to serve =D

Drink/Drive? Drink&drive

If you belongs to the second catergory, Drink&Drive, Japanese automakers are accelerating their efforts to develop cars that will not start if the driver has taken alcohol.

Nissan Motor Co. is considering developing a car that will not start unless the driver correctly inputs a long pin number, a difficult task for a person under the influence of alcohol.

The automaker is also considering developing a car, equipped with an alcohol detector, that would not start if there is alcohol on the driver's breath.

Industry leader Toyota Motor Corp. is also developing cars that will not move if the driver has taken alcohol.

In the United States and Europe, a system that locks the engine if alcohol is detected on the driver's breath is already in use, and a Japanese nonprofit organization is promoting such a system in Japan.

With all the above said, they miss out one point, there are lots of other automotor makers around. Consumers could easily switch to a "non-alcoholbuster"friendly car.

Read the full article

MP3 Fighter

ROUND 1! Fight !
There's lot of MP3 manufacturers around and this is a big consumer market. Thus everyone is trying to grab a share of it. The more well known ones are IPOD (by Apply), Zen(by creative). With the ending of lawsuit between these two major players, the software gaint, Microsoft pop and rolling out their brand of MP3 player, 'Zune'. Here's some of the features of the player,
The Zune MP3 player will feature wireless technology;
1)A built-in FM tuner
2)A three-inch (7.6-centimeter) screen designed for displaying music, pictures and video.
3)Colour, available in black, brown and white.
4)Zune devices were also designed to connect wirelessly with each other so users could share music or play "DJ," according to Microsoft.
Shared songs would automatically erase from borrowers' Zunes after three days or being played three times, Microsoft said.

Well as a consumer, which MP3 player do you prefer? How about a poll ? (arghhh how do I create a poll)

H.I.G.H

Are you searching for place to hang with friends ?
What's your interest?
Alcohol?
Projector screen soccer matches?
Pools?
Table soccer?
Photo hunt?
High perfermance gaming stations(xbox, lan/internet games)?
Need private rooms group competition on games like Dota, Counter-strike etc?

You gonna drop by this highly interactive gaming hub - H.I.G.H located beside katong shopping center.
The first impression on the PC was, PROFESSIONAL. You are prompt with a custom make GUI for the games avaliable and together with a short description of the game. Incorperated with msn messenger and Team speak programs for more effective communications.

PS: Toilets within the hub.

Pinky

0.o a new layout from qiqi blog, MUCH BETTER compare to the previous one =D. It's more reader friendly and organise now. I like her scrolling photo banner. Oh ladies smokers ,will you spend on this?



PS: Got some problem with my warcraft3, can't connect to bnet. In the mist of finding the resolution, Look! Haha, used to use this phase "get a life man" on those hardcore gamers in game. If you didnt get the meaning/ for non gamers, in all games, generally you can keep living as long as you play. Even some games with game over, with a game restart, you can do it over again. !Endless life!

Now once again, you can look at things/subjects from lots of angles. And individual's perspective on those things/subjects might varies too. Which might leads to constructive outcome(positive competition)or destructive conflict(eg war)due to different ideas.

How much is it ?

Do you have google adsense on ya website ? Check out how the cheque might look like =D. Click on the photo to enlarge it, How much does it says?



By the way, that guy site is shoemonkey, http://www.shoemoney.com

I feel that the tagboard is missing some attributes, compare to cbox, it doesnt have the date/time stamp, and you cant go back to older posts. Got a couple of other ideas to add too. Thus there will be another revamp to my blog these couple of days again.

Just browsing

Did a little surfing during lunch, found this website which rank blog base on traffic, the Number 1 site, has over 1 Million of visitors per day. Gosh. Oh here's the url, http://truthlaidbear.com/TrafficRanking.php. For those who know about xiaxue blog, she's ranked 112th,a round of applause for her!

From that blog ranking url, I landed on this cool Gadgets blog, http://www.gizmodo.com/. It feature some of the latest and interesting gadgets in the market. One of those, a linux phone by motorla, E690, not sure of it's details. Had checked the motorla website, yet to be release in your product page.

Reports

Just a quick sharing with you guys, hear/see google adsense? If you are wondering what's that,it will flash relevant advertiser's ads on your website and you make some revenue. Advertisers pay either when users click on ads, or when the advertiser's ad is shown on your site. Upon the birth of my blog, I had implanted the adsense codes . Actually I started with blogging because I wanted to try out how google adsense works? Unknowningly, I saw tones of website putting up google adsense. Out of curiousity, I stumbled upon blogger and they offer simpify methods of getting adsense up and running with a few simple clicks. Here's the report generated after 3 months,

yucks, what can I do with $0.46 ? Taking a positive mind set, I earned the $0.46 in a passive way =D? For those guys which have high traffic to your website, I strongly recommend registering with adsense.

In the initial phase of blogging, I prompted myself with the following, "who will be reading this ? how many people are actually interested?" I found a free and simple visitors counter, but it isn't informative for me. Ended up with another service by google, Google Analytics. It's a interesting, detailed and user friendly service with statistic monitoring that generate graph output for easy digestion/comparsion. Take a look at the report, I get to know the source of visitor referral to my site.

If you wish to find out more about adsense, check out this Google Adsense. For Analytics, check out this Google Analytics

Are you what you signed?

been quite a few days since my last post. Well my notebook still in infected status, recalled the cracks that i was searching ? Yeah it's still hitting hard and getting stronger each day. Tones of trojan, adware, unwanted pop up, you named it man. Hives of the bugs!!!!

Had no choice but to use the last resort, recovery CD which wipe out everything on the disk. The reinstallation still in process man, need to get this VPN(virtual private network) software from my colleague.

Attended a course on thursday, "signature and you", do you know what's that ? It's called Graphology, it's the study and analysis of handwriting especially in relation to human psychology. In simple term, handwriting reading. When you signed your signature, it actually reflects how you want the world to perceive you. The handwriting 'reader' will be able to tell your personalities and character from your signature and a short paragraph. BUT it can't predict your destiny and tell you 4D or Toto.

From the speaker, I got to know that sometimes, during interview when you are asked to write a paragraph about something with signature(if the role/position is important enough to the company) the applicant's writing may be send to graphologists for analysis to determine if your personality and character fit the role.

After attending the short 2.5hrs course, I tested it out on my colleagues =D(on 4 of them). With a few basic key points, I read their signature, AMAZINGLY some of the points I gathered from their signature actually related to their first impression on me. After the readings, they all seem pretty entertained, Cheers!!

PS: Ask me for a signature reading when we meet up the next time. Don't worry, your bank account will be in safe hands. =D

CRACK yr Brainy

It's 0140hrs and thanks to my friend, KS, cracking my brain cell at this fabulous hour of the day. Time to excerise your brainy alittle readers,



Kill my brain cell

if I remember correctly, my lecturers mentioned tat microsoft use such question to test their employee.

37th OCT

Phewwww after a long, tiring and frustrating 2 days, I managed to get the OCT(Officer Cadet Trainne) video converted to the accepted format/size limit by 'youtube' and upload it. There are 2 parts, first, a 5 min appetizer follow by a 10 min main course, HOW about Dessert ? Bear with us please, we have limit production budget. I feel so emotional watching it again 3 years later, Enjoy!!

Appettizer


Main Course


For start I searched the web for free converter of avi to divx format, found plenty of them and tested about 5-6 of them. All of them comes bundle with this watermark build-in on their trial version.

I spent hours waiting for the file to be converted and found out that the output was incorporated with watermark. Thus the next thing in mind, CRACKs, SERIALs which are highly affiliated with virus, trojan, spyware etc. It pretty hard to find cracks/serials for latest version of these softwares.

Finally, I found a few BUT got an alert from the antivirus, zzzz. Lastly, I reached this 'ConvertMovie 4.0', got it's crack file and did a scan with my anti virus, nothing pop. Great, I proceed to execute it, NO!!!!!!!!!! Adware, trojan!!! There goes my laptop for the next couple of days. Hope I won't need reformat.

Resolution
Try 'window movie maker'. 'Youtube' accept the output format of window movie maker.

Multi-purpose Card

Which of the cards do you use frequently? Hope it's not your ATM or credit cards haha. It's the 'EZ-link' which for most of us, be it kids, students, working class, we use it almost daily. Hear the news a few days ago that, now you can actually add cash value into your EZ-link card at home with the sony peripheral device and access EZ-link website.

Oh by the way, click here to check your EZ-Link balance, and usage : Query EZ-Link

Ready for Collection

Finally complete the installation and customization of my IBM T41. Now it's ready for collection by it's new Owner. Gonna miss her...

Oh Ladies, you might wanna check this out! Pinky Skin for Firefox

Carrot for rabbit

How's this gadget? Samsung YP-Z5F



A guy from starhub called this afternoon and I got to know that my resident maxonline contract has ended. He tried to induce me with the gadget aka carrot =D in order to tie us as their client for another 24mths (hey that’s 2 YEARs). I told him that I will be checking out the freebie online and reply him later. Reason? I remember seeing promotion offers like networking package which worth a few hundreds and Xbox 360 why pick this lower value item.

Just done with my research, the higher value freebies are tied to Maxonline ultimate or 6500 =\, I belongs to the 4000 category. Well I did a check on their competitor, singnet, hmmm nothing interesting on their broadband package.

Do you have digital voice? Free incoming and outgoing call FOC until Dec 2007 but you need to get a digital voice enable modem and register for the service. I got this digital voice a few months back, my only house line now and it require the modem to work. With the above notes, plus my current satisfaction level of their service is still good. I shall be a rabbit one more time haha.

PS : Strong Competition coming from our neighbour , good news Minister for International Trade and Industry Rafidah mentioned that the recent proposal to levy a RM20 tax on foreign cars entering Johor has been scrapped.

Mon - Move On

Started with a pretty rush day, well blame my bed haha just too comfortable. Skipped the most important meal of the day - Breakfast. Do you have a habit of eating breakfast ? I like having breakfast in the morning when i was in Aussie, if i m lazy at least a slice of bread spread with peanut butter(those wif nutz crunchy) plus a glass of ice cold milk. Yummy!! ^_^ But i hardly take my breakfast when I m back in town. Wonder why ? Any analysis from you ? My guess, weather.

Colin (my colleague) and I was tasked to setup some stuff, quite abit of uploading and downloading to do for the whole day. Well we have a pathetic temporary computer to work with thus i continued on my book and let him settle the stuffs =D. A guy from another department was there to guide us. But he's kinda of slow man(he know his stuffs but his fingers seem to pause alot on the keyboard) Oh, if someone guiding you on some topic and he/she offered, "if you are in doubt, just ask me" what would you do when you are in doubt ? Ask right ? And what you expect ? a reply on your question right ? Well this guy told us to ask questions when in doubt. When i poped the questions, most of the time he will show me his palm. Baka (my interpretation is hold on i m working on this) what's yours? There's lots of interesting people on planet earth - Move On

My favourite CNA newscaster, Andrea Chow


Oh dear, youtube is loaded with all her news telecast!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsQeXonQ1pA

PS: Issue with Window XP Service Pack 2 Advance Validation ??? Check this http://www.9down.com/story.php?sid=6867

lesson learnt

CHeers!!! great job for completing the last day of the week man. Weekends!!! But it's kinda of sad to look at my wallet right now, TOTALLY empty and i withdraw 50 bucks like 2 days ago. Food and transport expenses getting higher man. Or its the effect of the rising transport cost ? Just learn the the 4 level of wealth from Adam khoo book, "Secrets of self-made millionaires". The first level, Finanical Stability, was kinda of puzzle initially - what he meant by that?

Definition by him, Finanical Stability
1) Your current cash/cash equivalent items can sustain your current monthly expense for a minimum of 6 months
2) Possess hospitalisation and life protection for your family should anything happen.

Actually sometime someone told me about the cashflow to cover expenses for 6mths but i didnt really bother about. And guess did I manage to accumulate the required amount in my bank account after working for nearly year? NOPE =\. There's a simple strategy for it, actually a formula. stay tune.....yawnz....晚安

Rate this customer service experience

Just finished with the email on yesterday incident.

"
Hi, I m Sam. On 22 Aug 2006, I made a call to IBM support center @ 1800 3172 888 to make a request for recovery CD. After verification of my machine type and serial no., the customer officer recorded down my contact no. and informed me that i will receive a call from the support center to process my request. After a delay of few hours , i decided to call up support center @ 64189933, i waited on the line for nearly half an hour before i hang up. Tried another few calls later and finally someone pickup the call. But they could not find my record, i was shocked, the communication/transferring of customer information between the two place need some SERIOUS synchronization. The officer did try to trace my records using my mobile no. that i had provided to support center but failed. And the only way i have to go through the trouble of calling support center again. It's like pressing the RESET button and you have to start all over again.

I had the worst customer service experience and it's from a reputable company like IBM. I am utterly disappointed.
"

Snapshots

It's been quite awhile since my last post, time to start recording my life and stuffs again.

Just finished watching the National Day Rally Speech by PM Lee, http://www.channelnewsasia.com/nationalday/rally/video.htm

Pretty interesting, wide range of issues covered. Check it out. Sleeping time getting shorter if i go into details.

Here's some snapshots - picture speak a thousand words =D

Nice capture of Sunset


Posing for soya bean


Vacuum Day, a bath after working out is GREAT!


Culprit that mess up my meal timing on Monday.


Interesting food for the brainy


Oral-B, Cross Action almost near to 90% efficiency in removing plaque.

Oyasumi!

Waterspout

Gosh, i could have witness this rare sight. Why did they cancel the beach gathering ??? Damn!!! check this article,

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/224647/1/.html

A waterspout - commonly known as tornadoes over the sea - has been spotted off the coast of Sentosa, spooking many who were spending a lazy Sunday on the beach.

Mirror of Me

This weekend could be a busy one for some people out there, events like World Cyber Games @ Suntec and National Library Book sale @ Expo.

But kinda of in anti-crowded mood lately thus i choose to play Mahjong with beng, zk & ter on Sat and a relaxing day at silo beach with my NSI on Sun. Goddess of luck isn't on my side for gambling yesterday, for no good reason i became the shooter that create 2 rounds of max limit and a half limit to my opponents in 3 consecutive rounds. Well! that occurred only once in a blue moon.

As for the Sunny Sunday, gathering was cancel due to poor attendance. I was like didn't we all agreed on it two weeks ago.

So here's my Sunday at home, woke up late due to the overnight mahjong session followed by juicy prata-curry drumstick combo Wooo yummy!! Need prepare lunch, actually plan to do a simple 3 minutes maggi mee but my AUssy days suddenly zapped into my mind and here's the output. tahhhh - dahhhhhh "Stir Fried Mee with Nor Hiong"
Feel hungry ? haha


Here's some of pics :



Wonder why the auntie gave me 2 spoons ? Right and left hands?




Big Feast @ Pizza Hut BUT i only ordered a chicken mushroom soup =
Ok, here's the mirror part, i telling off my jacky on his behaviour and attitude for school work. It always pissed me off when he asked me some school work during the last few hours of the day before the next schooling day. That's a pretty long long story to it. As i was telling him off, he kept silent but from his facial expression (he seem to be listening and reflecting but kept smiling) suddenly i feel i m speaking to myself. I asked him "what's so funny, i m not telling you a joke here?" and his reply, "I m always like that". In the past, when speaking to others, i would most likely put on a smiley face be it good/bad/sometimes even serious matter, i couldn't control it. I wonder if it's the carefree attitude, cant be bother, lack of seriousness or something else. It's good to smile but do it at the right time.

Time for chess with Mr Zhou....

Nitroglycerin

UK, London on national critical terrorist alert 2 days ago, to-date 24 suspect has been arrested for the plot of flight bombing. Lots of flights have been delayed or cancel. And passenger have are allowed only minimum hand luggages.

The news reported that the explosives planned to be use are easily attained!!!! nitroglycerin - a colourless or yellow liquid made by combining sulphuric acid, nitric acid and a glycerin powder. When mixed, it is highly volatile and can be detonated by a small spark or vigorous shaking.
TATP (triacetone triperoxide), which can be made using nail polish remover and hydrogen peroxide.

According to one of the experts, the cost of these materials are rather affordable. =\

With reference from, http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=05c25106-9147-40a5-bf1e-d90fedfbc6d3

What's going on in this world? terrorist act, Israel & Lebanon conflict, all day high oil price, typhoon, Nuclear issue.

PS: Great effort for detecting the plot and deployment of the proactive actions.

3hrs @ TM

well to start off the new week, got a few items on mind and Tampines mall could help me resolve those. Oh and i found out that Tampines mall actually got a website, www.tampinesmall.com.sg

Spent around 3hrs there, here's the breakdown. Look for my printer ink at courts. Yucks they didnt have the black ink and i asked the salesgirl if there's other places around which sell this. She replied "No". Well in my mind there are challenger and maybe the best connection in century square. Maybe she doesnt shop around this area. In the end, i got it from popular book store.

Next thing on mind, to look for my bro gift. Got a black colour backpack off Isetan. Initially i thought of getting a green bag but from the condition of the current red bag, i guess black will be a better choice.

Lastly, first visit to "Hair Mechanics" greeted by a nice smile from the lady boss, ann, upon entering the shop. Next, i was directed to my seat and serve with a drink and magazine. The staff gave me a maxsim and newman, yeah stuffs that interest guys =D and it was pretty up-to-date, June 2006 issue. Someone poped behind my back when i was reading, oh my hair stylist of the day, Caslyn. Had a small discussion with her the hair style. Do you enjoy your hair cut session? Personally, i enjoy watching hair stylist who look very focus and executed their cuts in a detailed manner. Overall experience of this visit is good and pleasant.

shop & movie

HapPy Birthday!! to my country, Singapore and my bro. Wanted to get a backpack for my bro since he has been using my bag for the past months. He's rarely go out for shopping on clothes/bags/shoe. I understand most guys hardly do shopping but at least buy those items you need man. Some people give excuses like no time, no $$ for buying things that consider "need". Well it will be a long topic to dwell on.

Went to bugis with fox to browse for baggy, he's looking for those professional sling bag too. But couldnt find he's like at the end of the day. oh ya, here's the new shop of andrew's & co.



Fox in VIP room, oh he's on standby and answering calls on a Saturday. Well standby sux, but that what ahead of me starting Sep =


Time for MAKAN!!! Dinner. Went to the "Zheng Zhong Chong Qing Huo Guo", steamboat. Pretty crowded over there man. They have good variety of food and free flow drinks(only lime and sour pulm). It would be better,if the watermelon were ice cold =D. Overall rating 3.5/5



Ending the day with a movie, "Click" wonderful show. Working hard for the family is great but do leave some attention for them too. Need to learn about balancing work and family. How to do that? Ask those who have done it. Final note, it's good to do regular feedback to your day's actions when you are calm and relax. Sometime things might be overwhelm in your head and you reacted without thinking.

Tiger - Roar

Readers, are you planning for a short getaway. Check this out

SINGAPORE: Tiger Airways is launching its second anniversary celebrations with $2 one-way air fares to all its destinations in Thailand.

10,000 seats will go on sale from 31st July to the 6th August.

More offers are in the pipeline, and customers can visit the official website at www.tigerairways.com to catch them.

Key to major illness

still remember the sheep dolly ?? The first cloned sheep by humans. There's been lots of funds and resources pump into research of human cells or maybe usable organ parts ultimately to prolong one's life.

Still remember the movie, "The Island" ? For those who missed it, its about a company who provide backup human parts (only for those richie). This company actually got a large scale underground factory cloning their clients once they signed off the deal. Upon crisis of the client, his/her clone will be used.

From, http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/221554/1/.html
Singapore-based biotech company, ES Cell International (ESI), has become the first in the world to create human embryonic stem cells designed for clinical use.

This could speed up international stem cell research, which holds the key to the cure of major diseases.

This technology will prolong human health and lifespan in time to come. More lives maybe save, together with new lives born, what will happen?

Bus agony

Anyone has this feeling of rushing for some events or meeting someone but the bus just won't appear ?

I used to have them whenever i want to take bus 72, somehow it's just so popular. Just a few days ago i remember seeing through 4 X bus 88 before the 72 finally appear. On some occasion where luck is playing fun with ya, the passenger capacity is madness. You will be like almost sticking to one another. Saw this news today,

The standards cover six essential aspects of service -

* Bus service reliability - for example, at least 85 percent of bus services should not deviate more than 5 minutes from the scheduled frequency
* Loading - for example, weekday peak period bus loading shouldn't exceed 95 percent
* Safety
* Provision of information
* Availability of bus services
* Integration with other modes of public transport

reference : http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/221315/1/.html

Well good for the consumers that our agony maybe resolve. But if you are the public transport captains, what's their view on this ?

Toilets

OMG, beware of toilets too.



I feel this is worst compare to the massage prank. It's like a total change of emotion state. Imagine you are urgent and wanna release it, halfway before you are done .... OH HeLLLLlll

Massage?

Beware of Japan massage services =D LOLOLOL....

Transition

Yeah!! finally got my new pair of spec. Make a different type this time, using the transition lens which protect your eyes from ultra violet rays.






[[mummy with my spec]]


From benefits taken from transition webby, http://www.transitions.com/page.cfm?id=96

Convenient protection means getting protection from both glare and harmful UV radiation whenever you need it, without having to think about it.

Visual quality means taking into account all the factors that can diminish vision, and choosing eyewear that provides the best vision, both indoors and out.

Visual comfort means having comfortable vision in any situation, minimizing eye strain and eye fatigue.

Hmmm is this true ?
Most people understand the need to protect their skin from UV rays, but most are not yet aware of the need to protect their eyes. Unfortunately, the effects of UV rays are cumulative. Research also shows that by age 18, most people have accumulated 80% of their total lifetime exposure to the sun.

Some personal views after this afternoon encounter, was on my way to take bus. It was about 1400hrs and pretty glaring outside, without knowing the glaring effect reduce, in my mind,oh must be my transition =D. In the past, i will be struggling with those glaring rays.

Conicidence

Went back to office to settle some paper work and email. I was chatting with my new manager, Victor and CL ( one of colleague who just resigned )pop in front of us. He's now under GMP(a recuitment company). Hmmm just a thought, if the department turnover rate is high ? Does it mean anything ? After gathering some hear say and research, most of the people in my department will leave upon completion of their bond (about 2.5 years) except for some minority.

Had lunch with him and two other guys at a nearby market. Upon parking i saw this nice car,


hahahah i just love bmw

And this my lunch. -> taste like baozhang's home-make maggi mee.


A went to order first, B (me, i saw A coming back without knowing what he ordered). C came after me ( but we mid halfway after i had ordered). D went last. Conicidentally all 4 of us make order with the same stall.

On our way back to the carpark, one of them was saying "better get back to office fast, finish up the tasks and pack up before the manager pop up". Almost immediately when he finished his last word, the door to carpark opened and we saw the manager walking towards us. LOL

updates

been quite awhile since my last update. Feelings lethargic lately and couldn't focus and totally stop about my to do list. There are items which i set the prority "urgent and important" about a month ago and it's still on my list today.

Here's some photos



Early for meeting and ..... you gonna WAIT for the rest, guess how much is the chair i m sitting.



Met Sophia for shopping at orchard, she was talking to another guy when i reached the MRT control station. Found out that the guys was actually looking for new faces kinda modelling stuffs for events and he approached her. After that just before went entered into the tunnel towards far east, another lady tapped her on the back and ask for her contacts, similar kind of stuffs. I was like "WHERE GOT SO POPULAR ONE!!!!" oh bck to the above pic took it at DFS, contains all the cannot signs. "Singapore a fine city" haha interesting ? Oh one last thing, didnt know that we cant purchase alcoholic drinks at DFS, the sale person actually told us that we need to pre-order. hmmmm...





had steamboat with beng,zk,heng and our bro,kachi, whose back for holiday. chong qin still taste better haha. We went for sheesha after the dinner, my first time man. We were unable to finish the bottle of apple mint man. wasted!!

PS: new mega shopping center at harbour front, Vivocity will be up in 3 months. The biggest GV threate will be there too. http://www.vivocity.com.sg
VivoCity and WDA organise Job Fair from 14-15 July 2006 to help tenants recruit staff

10M wedding

How much do you plan for your wedding ? It's 50k for my wedding. How would you want it to turn out ?

Check this http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/217201/1/.html

"It's a $10 million fairy-tale wedding between a Singaporean bride and the son of an Indian tycoon.

Decked like a prince, 27-year-old Adarsh Gabodia arrived - on a horse - at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Tuesday evening to claim his 25-year-old bride Neha Didwania.

A 6.5-carat engagement ring was what he gave her as a token of his love.

This was followed by a 10-carat diamond wedding band estimated to be worth at least a million dollars. "

fuel

Have you notice that general product/services prices are going up, especially the bills. One of the root issue, fuel price spike. Many countries are affected globally. What's going on in middle east man ? Fuel resource depleting soon?

Heard that SBS gonna review the fare soon. My mum updated me on the rise of electricity and gas bills. One of the article today - ComfortDelgro, which operates 15,600 taxis, has said that from July 10, it will increase the flag-down fare for its Comfort, CityCab and Yellow-Top taxis by 10 cents.

ComfortDelgro will also double the peak hour surcharge from July 10.

It is also adjusting its distance-related fare structure, which means commuters will be clocking a shorter distance for every 10 cents metered.

Even the gov are using it as reasons - "Maritime officials have said that the high cost of fuel is one key element restricting Indonesia's ability to conduct frequent maritime patrols along its vast coastline."

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/217166/1/.html

PS : those with car allowance, try ya luck asking for car allowance review =D

1-52

Was sorting out my mailbox with 27 new mails. One of the more interesting mail that i want to share. As for the accuracy of those info, please do your own research..

1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo
Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top. (Must test for myself)

3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and
nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other
at the same time.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II
weremade of wood.

12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa's lips.

14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so
you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink
in quicksand.

17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks
the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet
away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (Cap your toothbrush)

19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.


20. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but
was talked out of it by her doctor.

24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola,
and Budweiser, in that order. (Only for the US and Western world?)

25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the
left hand.

26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into
its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives
the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.

28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat
your fingers off".

37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

38. European women didn't wear underwear until the 1900's.

39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines. (Mmmmm...)

41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year. (It should have disappeared by now..)

43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is
saying"yes" in Sri Lanka.

46. There are more chickens than people in the world. (Definitely not after the bird flu!)

47. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse
order is "subcontinental".

50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

51. Beethoven poured ice water over his head before he composed. (Now we know why his hair looks so unkempt!)

52. In Pakistan, it's rude to show your feet.

10 Qs

Just took this awhile ago - http://www.doubleyourdating.com/m/17335/meet_women_test/

bolds fonts are the questions

1. Three attractive women are standing a few feet from you at a local bar. You want to start an interesting conversation with them that gets their attention. What's the best way to start it?

A. Ask them what their astrological signs are.

B. Say "Hey, you are the three most beautiful women in here,
can I buy you a drink?"

C. Tell them you need a woman's opinion, then ask them whether they
think it's cool for older men to get together with younger women,
like Michael Douglas with Catherine Zeta Jones.

D. Walk straight up to the most attractive one and say "Can I have
this dance?"
i picked: C



2. You're out on a date with a woman that you feel really attracted to. You can't tell if she likes you or not. What's the best way to find out?

A. Ask her outright "Am I your type?".

B. Kiss her.

C. Put out one of your hands and see if she gives you hers.

D. Say "You really have the hots for me" in a playful voice, andsee how
she responds.

i picked: D

3. You're talking to a cute girl that you just met in line at the bank. She's funny and playful with you. You want to get her phone number. Which is the best way to do it?

A. Ask her if she'd like to go out on a date with you sometime.

B. Glance at her bank papers to find out what her name is. Later,
look her number up in the phone book.

C. Ask her what her favorite restaurant is, then offer to take her there.

D. Say "Give me your phone number... here's a pen".

i picked: the option 'A' i saw was


4. You're out with a woman for the first time, and you're having a cup of coffee with her. She looks at you square in the eye and says "So, what kind of car do you drive?". What's the best way to answer?

A. "I drive a 1976 Ford Pinto station wagon. Yellow. Why, what do
you drive?"... all in an overly-serious, sarcastic tone.

B. Tell her what you really drive.

C. Say "Can't you think of something more interesting to ask me? What
is this, an interview?"

D. Laugh and say "I don't drive... my mom gives me rides everywhere".

i picked: C

5. You're on the phone for the first time with a stunning model that you met through a friend at a small party. You've talked for a few minutes, and you want to ask her out on a date. What's the best way to do it?

A. Say "Hey, I'm busy today and tomorrow, but let's get together for a cup
of Starbucks on Wednesday. We can meet for fifteen minutes, and if
you're psycho, I can run away".

B. Tell her that you really want to take her out, and offer to pick her up
and take her to one of the nicer restaurants in your area.

C. Ask her in a friendly, casual way if she's be interested in going on a
date with you, then, if she says yes, invite her to have dinner with you.

D. Tell her that you've been thinking of her a lot since you met her, and
ask her if she's been thinking of you. If she says "yes", ask her if you
can take her to dinner sometime soon.

i picked: A


6. You're walking down the street, and you come to a street corner where a beautiful woman is standing. You really want to talk to her and see if she's single and interesting. What's the best way to do it?

A. Tell her you're lost and ask for directions.

B. Compliment her on her looks, then ask her if she is married or has
a boyfriend.

C. Say "What's a beautiful woman like you doing in a place like this?".

D. Casually say "I realize that most men probably judge you on your looks and think you're unapproachable... but I thought I'd give you the benefit of the doubt and see if you're friendly".

i picked: D - its a pretty interesting way to start conversation @@

7. You've been out on a first date for three hours with a woman that you feel very attracted to. You think she likes you, but you can't quite tell for sure. You want to kiss her, but you're not getting any "signals". What should you do?

A. Ask her if she would mind if you kissed her.

B. Say "Are you as attracted to me as I am to you?".

C. Reach over and stroke her hair, see how she responds...
if she seems to like it, kiss her.

D. Tell her to close her eyes, and then kiss her lips gently.

i picked: C


8. You've just met an attractive woman at a local coffee shop, and she gave you her number and email address. You really thought she was beautiful, interesting, and funny. How should you follow up with her?

A. Call her a few hours later on the phone and tell her how much you
liked her, and then ask her out for later that evening.

B. Wait a day or two, then call to say hi. Talk a few minutes, then
tell her you have to go. Hang up without making any future plans.

C. Call the number right there in front of her to make sure it's real.
If it is, call her a couple days later with your Caller ID blocked so she
doesn't know it's you, and when she answers ask her out for a drink

D. Wait three days, then call and ask her out on a date for the next night.

i picked: D - hmm recommended answer was B.


9. You had a first date with a woman. It went well. At the end you kissed her for a few minutes, and there was some chemistry in the air. She had to get to bed because she had a meeting at seven the next morning. How should you follow up?

A. Send red roses to her work, with a note that says "I had fun last
night, you are a very special lady".

B. Call her the next morning early, to make sure she's awake for her
meeting... and tell her you had a good time. While you're on the phone,
ask her out on another date.

C. Wait until the next night, then call her to say hi. Talk a few minutes,
then hang up without asking her out again.

D. Wait three days, then call her. When she answers, say hi, talk for
a few minutes, then ask her out on another date for the weekend at a
nice restaurant... to show her that you're "seriously interested".

i picked: D, darn forgot about human nature. - fan jian and curosity.


10. You met a girl in line at the grocery store, and your conversation led to her joining you for a cup of coffee right then and there. The conversation was interesting and fun. You called her the next day to say hi, but you got her voicemail, and she didn't call you back. It's been two days since then. What should you do?

A. Blow her off. A woman who doesn't return phone calls is flakey anyway.

B. Call her again, and if she answers, don't even mention that she never
called you back. Proceed as you would normally, and proceed to ask
her to coffee again sometime.

C. Call when you think she won't be home, and leave her another
message asking her to call you.

D. Call her in the evening when she's likely to be home, and
ask her point blank why she didn't return your call.

i picked: A

sunday 25

weird sunday man, after my morning activities, suppose to meet friends for a birthday lunch with jo aka birthday girl and heng aka birthday boi.(waiting for pic 1) But the timing when i m done with my morning activities is neither here nor there. Thus i went back home, wanting to took a nap. . . . .. . . . . .. it was a pretty long one man, from afternoon till 7pm and i woke up with about 12 missed calls.

Kinda of blur and dazed feeling, my souls isnt complete man. Shortly after my dinner, took a cabbie down to east coast for the bbq - 13.6 fare. Prove tat east coast is rather far from where i stay. Usually my cab fare doesnt exceed 10 bucks on normal hours.

Its been a quite awhile since the last bbq, but I WANT the bacon!!! darn those who ate so much bacon. I only gotten one of the last 3 pieces left. Out of the hmm abt 30 ppl i only managed to remember a few new faces (its a guild outing - World of warcraft, knights of the vanguard) and talked to a few of them. Took some pics before we left for another place. (waiting for pic 2)


Ok ard midnight,landed up in HKcafe to welcome my ryuichi san back from Bath. Didnt chat much with him man, we were both sitting at the ends of the long table. And we were shouting across 2 persons between us hahHa. Oh he's holding my dream phone man - nokia 8800,


but its just way out of my budget to spend that amount on phones for now. Hey where's all the travelling pics dude.(waiting for pic 3)

Will worldcup be a good excuse for tml morning ? haha

Condo 70

There's a couple in this city who just strike the 10 million lottery. They always wanted to have a penn house to be build on the 70th storey high condo. Finally the day has come for them to make the purchase with the winnings. After 2 years of waiting, the penn house is complete and the official give them a ring and made an appointment for them to view the penn house.

Happyily, they went to purchase some fruits, joss stick, clothes, brush and cleaning agents for the new penn house. They drove a short ride to their condo area and visited the security guard house to collect the keys for their penn house. Upon reaching the lift, they saw the notice, "lift under service". They were like arghh, do we still go up and take a look but its 70 storey say the wife. The husband encourage his wife c'mon lets go since we are already here.

After reach the 10th storey, the wife start saying "i m tired". But they still carry on. When they reach 20th storey, the wife start grumbling with emotion and body langauge wanting to take a break. But husband been keen and motivate to view their penn house, encouraged his wife to continue. At 30th storey, the wife really cant take it, insisted on having a break to relax the load a little. Its just too heavy on me. Husband feel somewhat similar too and decide " lets leave our loads here and collect it later after we are done. Their mood and morale become better after unloading all their stuffs. Reaching 40th storey is almost the threshold for the wife, the husband feel tired too but they told each other now we are at the half way mark, not too far high up neither too far down. Lets carry on with it. At 50th storey, blaming and quarreling started between the couple. "why did you choose to climb up at the first place, there always another day", "I could be at home now doing the things i want". Reaching 60th storey, gunpower level become higher for the wife. The husband took a deep breath and replied, "Alright dear, lets calm down its just 10 more storey". FINALLY they reached 70th, their feelings were at the highest peak, hugging each other, YEAH!! we make it. They walked up the door and waited. After a few seconds they turn over and look at each other, "c'com, open the door ? " Their face suddenly turned long and sour!!! OMG where's the "KEY" ? its at 30th storey!!! place where they unloaded all their stuff.

Dreams are powerful skill that human possess. Lots of impossible started off with dreams, eg Light bulb, aeroplanes, cars. Everyone have their own dream, in the above story the couple can turn back and return for their key. But if it's a life stages, can you turn back time when you are 70s and look for your Dream - key ?

snail mails

Have you wonder why normal letters mail to ya letterbox are also call snail mails?

Reached home last night and saw a couple of letters on my desk. As usual, i will sort out those that look more urgent or gov related and leave bills to the last.

First one read, bound by "act bla bla ...." you are suppose to turn up for an interview on 20 jun 2006 between 0900hrs - 1300hrs with National service KINs unit. !!! Today is 20 Jun 2006, Darn those piloce admin clerks. The sent out date was 14 Jun 2006, wonder if its the snail mail or the ppl.

Anyway called the hotline stated in the letter this morning. In my mind, no point calling at 0900hrs plus, gurantee no reply. But i still wanna get it over my head, so i tried my luck. Called at a intervals of 15 minutes till around 11am, i feel something is wrong. I went to check the webby for alternative contacts. !!!OMG Darn those ppl X 2, the number on the letter isn't reflected on the website but 3 other different numbers.

Finally got someone to sort things out, he's gonna setup a rather big unit this round and they need high potential inspector to lead the unit. I was like too early for lunch curry flavouring ? In the end, the unit is much bigger than other units because it's suppose to provide 'additional' manpower to other units. Darn those ppl X 3, now i m spare tyres

Banks

What's the first thing that come across your mind when you see that word?

$$$$ Yeah you are right, i m one of them.

Its a place where most people put their earnings in safe keeping, transaction, loans, e-commences, cards, finanical accessibility and many others which i have yet to find out. So what's the service(s) you would use provided by your bank? Even before that which bank did you choose ?

What are your consideration points for selecting the bank to open an account ?
1)Interest rate ? depends on what kind of account you have. I did some research sometime back, for the basic bank account, comparing banks : HSBC,DBS,OCBC,UOB,Standard Charted. Out of the above stated, Standard Charted 'e saver' offer the highest 1.88% => http://www.standardchartered.com.sg/cb/deposit/dep_esaver_ac.html

You may think, "why bother, its just 0.XXX different", i will leave that answer for you to find out.

PS : Just found out that citibank, you need at least $5k to open a citibank saving account.

2)Accessibility ? Can you find ATM or the bank center when you need them ? And the queuing rate.
3)Offer/privileges ?
4)Online services and their security ? Have been using DBS and OCBC online banking services, quite pleasant so far. But would like to try Citibank, got a good feedback from a friend.
5)Attractive bank tellers ? haha better not the queue will be so long!!!

OMG, i justed recalled i havent update my bank books for like 3 years since i started to use internet banking frequently.

Just imagine a world without banks............what will you see, hear, feel ? You might want to voice your imagination over at my tag board. Its kinda of empty for weeks that i thought that the codes are buggy thus nobody can post.

Tears

Have you ever cry before ?
Most people would be a 'yes' for events, people, relationship, loss etc

On my granny funeral, one of my uncle ask me if i shred any tears ? I was like ...., does it implies that you are more sad or filial when you cry ? I m emotionally sad that i m not able to visit granny while i have the chance. Had to sorrow that regretful feeling during the last moment whereby her coffin was sealed. Tones of stuff going through my mind, there's lots of chances and opp tat ppl miss when they have the option to make a choice.When our love ones are gone, then we learn to appreciate but its too late.

But my relationship ties with my cousins got better during the funeral as everyone committed their time to go down the funeral wake. I reflected back again, i went down almost every single day last week but what's hindering from doing so in the past ?

PS: I want to be a 3D person, determine the list of tasks, decide on the priority, do it.

Shit happens

As usual on the way to work, heavy downpour outside. Armed myself with an umberlla and journey to office.

What would you do normally when crossing traffic junction, Correct WAIT for green man. A gentle push on the traffic light button and boooooooomm SPLASH!!! !@#%%^ 98% of my shirt and pants are wet. DAMN tat bus driver. The anger meter almost burst.

U-turn and went back for a quick blow dry. 2nd attempt to cross that junction. Precaution taken due to previous experience, make it through well and good this round. BUT halfway walking to the MRT station 90% of my pants is drenched, the feeling was ARGHHHH fark it, Move On.

Feelings to rain will be different depending on location.
Outside + battling with the rain = Careful dun slip off
Indoor + cozy bed with qulit cover hugging ya love ones = let time pause

Granny - Regret

Things just happen before you know it.

On Monday, granny sky dive off the kitchen window and died. It was worst than shocked the moment i heard the news from my bro, BLANK.

Lately, she has been telling my mum that she saw those 'old' uncles and auntie appearing and talking to her. She's having hallucination but what caused it was unknown. But some chinese superstitious believe that its time for the living to enter the other world when you start seeing image of those already dead.

It could be the difficult and demanding treatment she got from my great grandma and perhaps other factors. Sadly, i m not really close to those relative on my mum side thus i know little.

About 3 weeks ago, i got to know the news that granny state of mind is unstable. My uncles bought her for doctor consultation (western and chinese sensei)and even those median but progess of her condition seem slow. I decided to visit her during one of the weekends. Somehow i did put it to priority and have been delaying my visit.

The long delayed visit finally been done yesterday, but it was heart-aching. I can only watched her peaceful face sliently from the side of her coffin. Physically she's so near but actually it's so far. In my mind, "WHY DIDNT I TURN UP EARLIER".

There's millions or even billions of tasks in life, majors and minors co-exist. Do not let those minor task delay or obstruct your major item. Even for major item, they can be catergorize under 1)urgent not important 2) important not urgent 3)urgent and important. Set your priority accordingly and ACT!!

Color

I m black, sis is emerald

What's ya colour ? Let me know if you are pink or white

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