How do you cope with a gloomy and wet Monday morning, coupled with a nagging headache? You can't, although you really have no choice but to take it head-on. Didn’t even bother to grab a copy of TODAY or the STRAITS TIMES this morning....just felt like staring at the head of this guy standing next to me on the train. Strangely, it makes my head feel better; do I have the inate ability to transfer 'headaches' to other peopl??
We had 2 buffets and 1 'major' dinner this weekend....it was my birthday weekend...give me a break :) My 'diet', by now, is spiralling out of control into the abyss. Li-Anne's right, I love food too much.....well not 100% true, but it's a way of rewarding yourself after a long day, or a long week. You can’t just take that away from a man. And no, you can’t replace it with a big plate of carrots and lettuce, topped with fat-free mayonaise.
Bumped into my army buddy, Bryan, at IKEA on Saturday (again). You don't see someone over a year, then you bump into him twice over two months. He's a good guy, must reeaaaalllly remember to give him a call when I get back from Sydney. We had hell-lots-of-fun back in Service Medic School...sigh...the care-free days of the military. Ok, my headache's back, think this fellow's head has max-ed out, have to change to another head. Wow, I can feel Hiroshima starting too.....this is not good.......not good at all.......
Monday, November 21, 2005
Friday, November 18, 2005
Down Under Dugong...
Ok, it's official. My little 'Boobee' is going with us to Sydney next week! Don’t ask me why she's called 'Boobee', its just a term of endearment, and probably a mutation of the common term 'Baby'. Anyway, we're starting to fear Terelle thinks her real name is Boobee Leong.
Its absolutely incredible how much they charge you for a 'infant' seat on the plane. Let's just say it is 500% over my initial estimate. Well, regardless, she's coming with us on my business trip and we've actually arranged for a bassinet on the plane too. In case youVre wondering, I just found out the meaning of that word too. It stands for 'Bed on Plane in Sky' - size S only. It comes 'free' with her grossly over-inflated airfare. And since she ain't even going to occupy a seat on the plane, we might as well take the bassinet; father and daughter can take turns to get some snooze in it. :)
Li-Anne and I were saying that it'll be great to go back there, this time with Boobee, after what.....8 years? More so that the last time, we had some really bad shots of the Opera House. I would really want to blame my lousy underwater camera, it really was....but this time, I'll be well-equipped. Hehehe. So looking forward to it, especially when I'm staring down the barrell of the gun called 'WORK OVERTIME OVER CHRISTMAS SEASON'!! Li-Anne has been extremely supportive over this busy and stressful period; I hope we can have smashing good-old fun as a family next week. It'll be nice to meet up with Jason again after 3 years. He was the funky Chinese-Australian-Malaysian-whatever dude we met on the Grand Canyon tour back in Arizona. He has kindly offered to show my big and small 'Boobees' around while I work my a*** off DOWN UNDER!!!! Thanks bro.
Its absolutely incredible how much they charge you for a 'infant' seat on the plane. Let's just say it is 500% over my initial estimate. Well, regardless, she's coming with us on my business trip and we've actually arranged for a bassinet on the plane too. In case youVre wondering, I just found out the meaning of that word too. It stands for 'Bed on Plane in Sky' - size S only. It comes 'free' with her grossly over-inflated airfare. And since she ain't even going to occupy a seat on the plane, we might as well take the bassinet; father and daughter can take turns to get some snooze in it. :)
Li-Anne and I were saying that it'll be great to go back there, this time with Boobee, after what.....8 years? More so that the last time, we had some really bad shots of the Opera House. I would really want to blame my lousy underwater camera, it really was....but this time, I'll be well-equipped. Hehehe. So looking forward to it, especially when I'm staring down the barrell of the gun called 'WORK OVERTIME OVER CHRISTMAS SEASON'!! Li-Anne has been extremely supportive over this busy and stressful period; I hope we can have smashing good-old fun as a family next week. It'll be nice to meet up with Jason again after 3 years. He was the funky Chinese-Australian-Malaysian-whatever dude we met on the Grand Canyon tour back in Arizona. He has kindly offered to show my big and small 'Boobees' around while I work my a*** off DOWN UNDER!!!! Thanks bro.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Watch this A***Dugong....
It's just amazing what some people would do to get some press-time and publicity. Its like in their normal mundane lifes, they are just one-in-a-gazillion, insignificant speck of dirt which no one really takes notice of. That can only be the reason.
If you think about it, it's ain't all that difficult.
(1) Choose a sufficiently controversial topic, do be careful that it won’t get you sued in court or thrown in jail. Remember, racism in a multi-cultural based country is a definitely no-no. It obviously isn't that obvious to some people.
(2) Once you've found the topic, decide which side you want to be on. Usually, it'll be the side which 95% of the population is against. It really doesn’t matter which side YOU 'really' support deep down in your heart, you just want people to think you're a non-conformist. You can spend the next 3 months convincing your loved ones you're really not an a***hole and that you only wanted people to take notice of you. What your non-loved ones think about you is however inconsequential, so no worries there.
(3) Post some really ridiculous view on the topic in your blog, in the name of free-speech, and say you've always felt that way about it, to give the impression that you've had 'real' long-term values and views and that you're not just faking it.
(4) As in the wonderful and creative Heineken ad (I really love that one), ".......NOW WE WAIT....".
This is a sure fire way of getting the whole population of gullible Singaporeans to start talking about you. All of a sudden, your name is one of the top-ten search topics on Yahoo. Now comes the finishing move. :
(5) Find a physical representation of your topic of discussion eg. Toilet Bowl, call the reporters, tell them you need to add in the finishing touch to your masterpiece, get them to meet you and take a picture of you sitting on the item/topic with your most constipated look and watch it hit the headlines. WAHLAH............!!!!! (Just remember to give me the due-credit if this works out for you)
If you think about it, it's ain't all that difficult.
(1) Choose a sufficiently controversial topic, do be careful that it won’t get you sued in court or thrown in jail. Remember, racism in a multi-cultural based country is a definitely no-no. It obviously isn't that obvious to some people.
(2) Once you've found the topic, decide which side you want to be on. Usually, it'll be the side which 95% of the population is against. It really doesn’t matter which side YOU 'really' support deep down in your heart, you just want people to think you're a non-conformist. You can spend the next 3 months convincing your loved ones you're really not an a***hole and that you only wanted people to take notice of you. What your non-loved ones think about you is however inconsequential, so no worries there.
(3) Post some really ridiculous view on the topic in your blog, in the name of free-speech, and say you've always felt that way about it, to give the impression that you've had 'real' long-term values and views and that you're not just faking it.
(4) As in the wonderful and creative Heineken ad (I really love that one), ".......NOW WE WAIT....".
This is a sure fire way of getting the whole population of gullible Singaporeans to start talking about you. All of a sudden, your name is one of the top-ten search topics on Yahoo. Now comes the finishing move. :
(5) Find a physical representation of your topic of discussion eg. Toilet Bowl, call the reporters, tell them you need to add in the finishing touch to your masterpiece, get them to meet you and take a picture of you sitting on the item/topic with your most constipated look and watch it hit the headlines. WAHLAH............!!!!! (Just remember to give me the due-credit if this works out for you)
UNLUCKY Dugong
Ok, it's been a while, and yes, I didn’t manage to get into the SUBARU Challenge again. That's 2 years running, not too long considering that there' someone who has competed in it all 4 years since the competition started. But hey, the difference is, he got to place his hand on the cars everytime.
I'm seriously beginning to hate LUCK. It's something you have absolutely no control off, something you thank when it goes your way but you curse when it does not. Essentially, it's something you hope works in your favor, when you want to reap reward without expending effort. That's what I don’t really subscribe to, but well, sigh, I wouldn’t be complaining here if I had picked the colored ball. Its not like I would have gotten the car straight off, I just wanted the chance to compete.
To be honest, I was in two-minds as I stood in the queue waiting for my turn to pick the ball. I’ve just gotten assigned to this make-or-break humongo-bongo of a project at work, and there was no way in hell I was going to miss the important meeting on Monday. BUT I wasn’t one to quit at the last moment and dash YQ's (my partner) hope of winning the car. I made up my mind that if I got the colored ball, I'd give my 110%. He was really dissapointed, I could tell, and I really wanted him to be the one to try for the color ball. I knew LUCK never really favored me in such circumstances. Well, fate had it that the caller (main registrant) had to be the one to draw for the ball, and so, once again I had to re-live the horror of digging through a box of styrofoam ball-lets and ping-pong balls, and suffering the 'humiliation' of elimination at the hands of LUCK. YQ didn’t let his dissapointment show, but I could clearly tell he was feeling just as shitty as I did last year. His exact words were : "Oh well, back to my mundane life".
On hindsight, I probably wouldn’t have lasted the whole challenge (60+ hours this year), although I would have died trying. Reason I am sayng this is because as I was on my way to work on the train on Tuesday, I could feel a "HIROSHIMA-LIKE" ATOMIC EXPLOSION building up near my rear-end. As hard as I tried to will myself to 'tahan' till I got into office, there was no way, no way, I could have made it pass Bishan station. I started at Yishun. The rest was history, I'm just thankful the eventual blast radius was small and there were minimal casualties.
Friday, November 04, 2005
Wow, its weekend again tomorrow; certainly feels like we've had 3 weekends this week, after the 2 public holidays. Not that I'm complaining, I'd sure welcome more, but trying to pick yourself up to go to work after each 'weekend' is tough work! It's like you can’t generate enough adrenaline in your body, and then its 'weekend' again.
We had a game of racquet ball yesterday afternoon, if you ask me, is a game that should be introduced in Singapore. Its what I call a semi-skilled game, doesn’t need too much skill to start you off, yet promises you hours of fun and a very good full-body workout. We see many people struggling with games like squash and tennis, which requires a certain level of commitment to get the right skills to play them properly. Unless of course, if you find ball picking fun and a good workout, then i'd suggest racquet ball. For the uninitiated, racquet ball is played in a fully-sealed, squash-like court (longer but narrower), with a shorter version of a tennis racquet and a rubber-like squash ball which is double the size and bounces 3 times higher and faster. Sounds fun already huh?? The only downside of playing this in Singapore : you have to play it in a squash court, there are no racquet ball courts here. The squash courts here are all not fully sealed, so occasionally, the ball gets hit out of the court and you have to go chase it and retrieve it. Minor setback if you ask me. I'd be glad to give initiation sessions to any interested party, afterall, it gives me another excuse to go play. All equipment will be provided by yours faithfully, moi.
One more day to the Subaru challenge, gotta go get my medical checkup done today. Hope its worth it this year and I actually get to place my meaty palm on the car. This time round, the organisers added in a $10 registration fee per team, sounds to me like a blood-sucking money-grubbing exercise. I mean, its ok to charge a $10 fee for the teams who get to place their palms on the cars. But for those who fail to proceed past the 2nd qualification round (drawing the color ball from the box), how fair is it to charge them $10? It's already bad enough to not be able to participate - $10 to get your morale-zapped from your soul on a Saturday morning. Well, I can only be optimistic....Li-Anne's got a strong gut feel i'm gonna get it this year...so "finger's crossed"!! Oh, I met up with my partner yesterday, chatty "little" fellow, I did have a problem keeping up with his ever-changing conversation topics during our 45 minutes meeting, but Li-Anne did remind me that that's how 21year-olds behave. We were once there. I've gotta say he looks really tough, and sufficiently motivated. Never underestimate the human willpower, especially a motivated one. It's gonna be a "fight" till the end.....
We had a game of racquet ball yesterday afternoon, if you ask me, is a game that should be introduced in Singapore. Its what I call a semi-skilled game, doesn’t need too much skill to start you off, yet promises you hours of fun and a very good full-body workout. We see many people struggling with games like squash and tennis, which requires a certain level of commitment to get the right skills to play them properly. Unless of course, if you find ball picking fun and a good workout, then i'd suggest racquet ball. For the uninitiated, racquet ball is played in a fully-sealed, squash-like court (longer but narrower), with a shorter version of a tennis racquet and a rubber-like squash ball which is double the size and bounces 3 times higher and faster. Sounds fun already huh?? The only downside of playing this in Singapore : you have to play it in a squash court, there are no racquet ball courts here. The squash courts here are all not fully sealed, so occasionally, the ball gets hit out of the court and you have to go chase it and retrieve it. Minor setback if you ask me. I'd be glad to give initiation sessions to any interested party, afterall, it gives me another excuse to go play. All equipment will be provided by yours faithfully, moi.
One more day to the Subaru challenge, gotta go get my medical checkup done today. Hope its worth it this year and I actually get to place my meaty palm on the car. This time round, the organisers added in a $10 registration fee per team, sounds to me like a blood-sucking money-grubbing exercise. I mean, its ok to charge a $10 fee for the teams who get to place their palms on the cars. But for those who fail to proceed past the 2nd qualification round (drawing the color ball from the box), how fair is it to charge them $10? It's already bad enough to not be able to participate - $10 to get your morale-zapped from your soul on a Saturday morning. Well, I can only be optimistic....Li-Anne's got a strong gut feel i'm gonna get it this year...so "finger's crossed"!! Oh, I met up with my partner yesterday, chatty "little" fellow, I did have a problem keeping up with his ever-changing conversation topics during our 45 minutes meeting, but Li-Anne did remind me that that's how 21year-olds behave. We were once there. I've gotta say he looks really tough, and sufficiently motivated. Never underestimate the human willpower, especially a motivated one. It's gonna be a "fight" till the end.....
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