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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Heard omething interesting bout Prince Charles lately. It seems that someone who worked close to him had retired and he spilled the beans on the perculiar habits that Prince Charles have.
1. He always labels his eggs like 1 to 7, in degree of hardness. If say egg number 3 is too hard for him today, he would switch to egg 4 and so on...
Conclusion: His cook is a super egg chef, able to cook the egg in 7 degree of hardness at precise levels. Well done cook.
2. He likes to use his own hand towel or toilet paper in the toilet. Every piece has a "c" on it, stands for his name I guess.
Conclusion: He is rich, and wasteful. Hand tower are not to be kept after use, why print the name? Well on the other hand he is rich, so what the heck.
Suggestion: Might wana install a golden tap. (whats the obession with toilet for rich guys, guess I will never know)
3. He do not give verbal orders, it seems he prefer to write it down in small pieces of paper.
Conclusion: He might like to eat mooncake, since the history behind it was passing secret orders in the mooncake.
Actually these arent much, just thought he is a poor guy, with his many perculiar habits beeing exposed. Everyone has those somehow somewhat, even me. Lets see, whats mine. Nahh cant share it on the web. Haha.

Ohh to those who are still angry over what an ex-president of Indonesia said bout Singapore being a small red dot. Please try to understand the following explanation gave recently. "I said then Singapore was a small red dot surrounded by a big sea of green, but that was to encourage the young people of Indonesia, to be aspiring like Singapore, to make it, despite so small." I think it went something like that. Well so he is not looking down on us. So lets forget bout the whole incident, bury the hachet. HAha. Little red dot eh... GrRRR... I will never forget.
Friday, September 22, 2006
I am on leave today, yet I am awake at the moment(actually so much earlier) and eating sucky cornflakes(not because I don't like them, mines all soggy and... yucks). I could have slept later and enjoy my day, why didnt it rain this morning. Not that it would matter cause my parents are quarreling again, gosh in the early morning. Bothm me and my brothers are so used to it, but shit it, he can still manage to go on sleeping. Why am I a light sleeper? Really makes me wonder why they still stay together, for the negligible amount of love they still have for each other? For us? Well we are grown up now, having single parent aint that difficult. I dont care, at least my mum would lead such a better life. I guess he would die if without us, literally. Ok guess its obvious who I dun like in the family. Shan't say anymore, afterall he is still my father afterall.

Burning question, is there true love at all? Most of us denies it, scorning at those seeking to find true love. Well is it that there is no true love or we just can't find it? Is it a lucky bunch of us is to find it and the rest of us just find a partner to live with and thats it for life.
It funny as I write this, afterall I am going out with my girlfriend later in the noon. Well at least whats between us is love, maybe not"true" love thats all. HAhah. Who knows what true love is anyway? Hands up anyone? Maybe we all owned it, just that we don't know.

Ohh ya, been getting coments from friends and colleagues, and yes I am getting f**. Ok maybe not f**, just a bit round hoh? HAHah yes I notice that myself as I look at myself in the mirror everydae and look at the picture of myself 5 years back on the wall. Totally different. Used to have a big, sharp face. All I have left is a big round face. Well I have been trying to make myself go back to normal(not that I am not normal now). Even the world is anti skinny people now. Theres a fashion walk in Paris, it says they are not using models with BMI below 18. THey dun wan people to think that skinny is the way to go. Ehhh, but I am not skinny, I am round. Don't know why I cite this incident. Anyway I will go for workout more frequentnow.

One last thing, pls be reminded for the last 5 years, there has been an increase in parkinglot summons lady(dunoe what to call them actually) from 25 to 800 plus. Next time you see some auntie with an urmbrella standing next to your car, DO NOT think that they are admiring your beautiful car. Yes its beautiful, but they dont do so in hot sun. Pls rush over to see if say sorry sorry sorry, leaving soon and see if you can save yourself 50 bucks. Otherwise you will hear, sorry cannot cancel, key in oredi.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Recently it occur to me that at my work post, it seem like I am a amourer/peasant in my tribe. No doubt people might say my tribe is one of the best in world, but it does matter which class you belong to in whatever tribe you are in. Being in the back line, I can only work twice as hard in making the best weapons for the front line warriors to go out in their hunt and war. Sometimes I even have to double act as peasants and tend to my crops and harvested animals. Its true it is the warriors that go out and hunt and bring back the "food" for the tribe, but where would they bewithhout our support? It is true not everyone has the skills or what it takes to be in the front line, but pls do not underestimate our efforts to the tribe.

Also the latest thing in news is the IMF. I personally do not understand why Singapore is spending so much on this event, when they are not appreciating it. They are even complaining how come we are not letting activist enter Singapore, where it is our organizing committee who did all this for their own safety. Harlow visitors, even the plates you eat from cost 90 bucks per piece. Not forgetting the 300 BMWs, the luxurious office and so much more...

Lastly, I heard a news regarding one woman being pushed down the MRT track with the train approaching as they quarrel. If not for the woman's quick reflex, she would have suffered a horrible death. Scary news...

Well guys, life is fragil, life is short. Lets make full use of what we have now, appreciate whatever we have. Life always goes on...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Our Dear Mentor, MM Lee KY is such a brillant man. I do sincerely admire him in a way, that somehow Singapore turn from a fishing village to a well advance state of today, standing amonst power nations like USA and Japan. Well some may agree, some may disagree with this man's capabilities or achievements, Singapore did indeed turn into what we are today. Crocodile tears shed 40 over years back? I think any tear shed that brings success is a tear well shed.

Well why the sudden mention bout our beloved MM? I saw the papers this morning about his mention about China. How they use their weight to "push" pressure on us. Though they alway say all countries are equal, regardless big or small. But when they dun see eye to eye with Singapore, they say "1.3 billion people are very unhappy". This reminds us a fact, 4 million do not equal to 1.3 billion. So at the end of the day, come countires are still big, some are well, still small.
Also read from my company's website that he joined us as a special advisor. Well thats good news for all of us at Citi, though I would not see how that would directly affect me unless my bonus jumps 3 fold. Well thats a dream that nwill never come through. But hey, didnt they sing this famous song, "There was a time, when people say Singapore won't make it, but we did..." Hmmm. Keeping my fingers cross.
Lastly, my taxi driver today was so proud of Singapore. He also like our MM alot. He narrated an Indian friend telling him this:"In India, we have everything. We have Jewel, oil, and.... but we dont have one thing. We dont have Lee Kuan Yew.

Well next lets vent our anger on Singtel and Starhub. Me and my shifu life has been tormented by these 2 idiotic company who wanted to go through capital reduction lately but cant decide their mind as to who is eligible. Well maybe its not their fault, but who else can I blame? Guys out there, pls support M1 who has been the most obedient kid in town.

They will add to my hate list to companies who should be bombed. Ok in case people start to link this to terrorist act, this is pure fun and entertainment, from the writer's figment.

List of companies I wana bomb:
1. HSBC - torments me with 300 plus customers every quarter and the number is increasing as I am typing....
2. Suntec - OK, infact all the REITS comapnies, but being their 'leader', lets give severe warning to others
3. Microsoft - 160 clients, troublesome for every month recon, trouble when they decide to have a stupid dutch auction
4&5. Singtel and StarHub - both sucks equally. Why am I holding a Singtel line?

Well I guess the list can go on. So maybe comapnies can stop having corporate actions. Hmmm that would put me out of job. Ok, let them have simple CA next time. Lets wish upon a star tonight. Wish....
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
"Take my hand, bring me out of here." This seems to be a romantic line that a going to-be bride saying to some guy, to take her hand and run out of the church, away from someone she do not want to marry. But in life, I guess thats a line everyone longs to say, to say to someone who can save them out of their pain or misery.

More ofthen than not, most of us face troubles from all sources.
Some of us can't stand being in the sucky relationship. We have a unreasonable partner, who cant seem to know what we want(or rather what they want). Sometimes it seems that your partner isnt good enough, pretty or handsome enough, or worse still, rich enough.
For those looking to start a relationship, it seems, you cant seem to find someone right. Read something from my friend's blog. It goes something like this:
Either he is not handsome enough, or if he is, not rich enough. If he is handsome and rich, he is attached. If he is not attached, he has a lousy personailty. If he possess all the above qualities, he is a gay.
Haha what i think? Ok, maybe not a gay. He is god. Come on, we are not God, no guy is perfect. Nobody is.
For those in a sucky job(most of us is), do you wish to just shout out loud everytime your desk is piled up with work? When your boss is simply unreasonable or nasty to you. Or a stupid customer comes in and complain your job away. We have so much things to do each day, and yet we are faced with external factors that makes us stay back late at night in the office, without dinner. Afterwhich, if you have to take a long train ride back. Worse on top of worse.

So what do we do? What can we do? There is no one who can rescue you.
Some of us choose to adopt the positive attitude and be super happy and smile all the way. But when you cant take it anymore sometimes and frown, people ask whats wrong with you. Worse, they said you have changed. Worse still, you are tempremental.

Some take extreme approach and live in a world they create in. The world only contains nice people. If there are no nice people, they conjur them up. We refer to these people as psychotic. Ok just kidding. They are just idealistic. I do this sometimes, just sometimes.

Some take the practical way out things. Relationship sucks? Get out of it and find a new one. Work sucks? Get out of it and find a new one. Life sucks? Well, if you dare, get out of it and find a new one.(Better find WHETHER there is a next life before you do try. Personally I dun think its worth it)HAha. Well you cant just keep continuing to do that. YOu basically just get out from one shit hole into the other. Ok lets not be so pessimistic. You get out from one shit hole into a better shit hole. Haha ok, some of us do find better life after we dare to change. But we need to know one thing before that may happen.

Why are we often in mess? Its because we do not understand why we got into the mess the previous round and we keep getting into the same mess. Its human nature to blame something or someone when things goes wrong. One must learn not to blame anyone or anything. We must find the root cause of why things go wrong, instead of going around blaming anyone, or pushing issues to others. Only when we know whats wrong, we change. We take a more pragmatic approach and choose our new routes if neccessary. Otherwise its just shithole to shithole, till a knight in shiny armour comes along and save you (If he doesnt think you are smelly).

Well, easier than said. Who can overcome human nature. Who can live life to the fullest. Who can be happy everydae? Haha. So who can come and save me?
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Went to East coast yesterday. Its been pretty long since I been there and it was interesting to a point that there are many new activities that one can do there. Maybe can try some of it someday. Anyway had quite a nice crab dinner Jumbo and this time round the bun is much nicer. I guess the last time we ate here the bread was cold already. So Xiao Hui went back happy, afterall she was craving for some seafood dinner for quite some time already.

Anyway the main point I am writing today is it seems there is no point in getting 4 million smiles when some Singaporeans are still so rude. I met this guy pushing a pram yesterday and you know how big they are. He just parked it at the door and people had trouble squezzing in and out of the train. He did not care and just playing with his stupid palmtop.finally he got a seat but he just grab his baby and sit down and the pram was in the middle of the passageway, away from him. Cant he even pull it nearer to him? If anyone were to see, one might suspect what is a wandering ownerless pram doing in the middle of the train and it must be a terrorist bomb attack.

haha heard Mr Brown show. It seems since there are more than 4 million people in Singapore, what happen to the rest? Coz they excuse smile, people from Potong Pasir and Hougang. Hope our visitors will be more happy seeing us 'smile', afterall we are land of 4mil smile, 3mil999thousand smile better than Thailsnd, the land of thousand smiles.
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