Today I witness another case of children going out of control. My young cousin is nagging his father, my uncle to go home. But he keep pushing it to later. He keep nagging and finally showed his temper.
I lose my temper too. Why are our children getting to be like that?
No father material in me.
5 more days to the death of 2006
5 more sleeps till 2006 is over. How time fly.
This year was pretty eventful. Election was held this year, I left my company, rainfall was measured to be the highest in approx 20 years for Singapore... the list goes on and on.
This year was pretty eventful. Election was held this year, I left my company, rainfall was measured to be the highest in approx 20 years for Singapore... the list goes on and on.
Day 7 Eumundi market
Eumundi Market. It is a pretty good place to spend some tourist buck. It full glory only open on Wednesday and Saturday from between 8:00 am to 1:30 pm in the afternoon.
This place is great. It has what the big supermarket lacks. Character and Art. Various artist , craftsman or woman gather here to sell their wares. Food included.
My recommendation is to visit this place at least once, when you are in Brisbane. Eumundi Market.
As you can see it is very popular. The carpark is full!!
Part of the Gold Coast
The Gold Coast, the place to surf. Sun, Sand and the Sea.
Yes I got a sun burn.
Yes I got a sun burn.
Day 1 and 2 at Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort
Day 1. After touchdown, we were whisked away to the jetty to catch the 1st boat ride for the day to the tangalooma, wild dolphin resort. This is our ride.
This is the view of the resort from the sea.
This is the resort from the jetty. That is not the reception build.
Yup. This is it.
The activity there are plenty. From snorkeling, diving, tanning to 4WD ride and sand toboggan.
This is the view of the resort from the sea.
This is the resort from the jetty. That is not the reception build.
Yup. This is it.
The activity there are plenty. From snorkeling, diving, tanning to 4WD ride and sand toboggan.
Tower Drop
This is the tower drop. You are sent approximately 12 storey up. Then drop you down at terminal velocity.My heart was at my throat when the drop happened. It slowly crawl back to it original place in my chest after a few seconds. Then when I started enjoying the speed and adrenaline , it slowed down. That was day 2.
Sunrise from 11000m in the air
Seeing the sun rise so high up in the air, it is a sight to behold. No matter how many times I see it, it never fails to give me a sense of awe.Sunrise sunset. It is another day again.
Sprains.
A fall when I was in the army came back to haunt me. After that fall, I had a hairline crack in my little toe on my left leg. In addition, my knees had a sprain. I was unable to run properly for 1/2 year.
Now recently, it seems that taking up blading has cause unnecessary stress to the knees.
Now is all "ouch".
This site provides quite a bit of information on knee injuries.
http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/Knee_ligament_injuries.html
Now recently, it seems that taking up blading has cause unnecessary stress to the knees.
Now is all "ouch".
This site provides quite a bit of information on knee injuries.
http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/Knee_ligament_injuries.html
Singaporean and Lift
At the end of 2006, I realize one thing. That thing is that there are some minute number of Singaporean who are ignorant of how the lift button works.
I was in the lift returning from my evening jog. The lift stop at 11th floor. A young girl of around 15 approached the lift wanting to enter. "Going up?", I asked. She turn towards an unseen companion and laugh. The lift door closed and continue its way up.
Lift Button and how it works
If you want to go up, press the up button. Any lift that is going up will stop when it is at your level.
If you want to go down, press the down button. Any lift that is going down will stop at your level.
I was in the lift returning from my evening jog. The lift stop at 11th floor. A young girl of around 15 approached the lift wanting to enter. "Going up?", I asked. She turn towards an unseen companion and laugh. The lift door closed and continue its way up.
Lift Button and how it works
If you want to go up, press the up button. Any lift that is going up will stop when it is at your level.
If you want to go down, press the down button. Any lift that is going down will stop at your level.
Wireless at SG
IDA's wireless at Sg plan seems to be working. However, the capability to handle large volume of traffic might not be there yet.
I was in the library yesterday with my laptop trying to surf using the wireless@sg connection. It prove abit of hassle as it did not reflect my password change. So I had to flip out my handphone to reference the password.
Apart from that, it was relativly smooth. Speed was acceptable from a public kiosk accessing internet.
However towards the end of my session, my connection dropped. I was redirected to a singtel wireless login page.
Huh?????? WTF!!!
I did not have time to find out more. to be con't ........ (if there is a 2nd time)
I was in the library yesterday with my laptop trying to surf using the wireless@sg connection. It prove abit of hassle as it did not reflect my password change. So I had to flip out my handphone to reference the password.
Apart from that, it was relativly smooth. Speed was acceptable from a public kiosk accessing internet.
However towards the end of my session, my connection dropped. I was redirected to a singtel wireless login page.
Huh?????? WTF!!!
I did not have time to find out more. to be con't ........ (if there is a 2nd time)
East Coast on a Thursday Afternoon.
Must applogize for my sms. But I also want to share the view. It was a great day!
The big yellow and blue funiture mall
This is day 1. Opening day for this big yellow and blue funiture mall. The big yellow sign point to the way we should enter. However, due to it being day 1 and crowd control measure being taken, it does not actually point to the place you enter.
What I did was to take the cargo lift to bypass the crowd queueing up to get into the mall.
Look at that queue! There are people more infront of them.
This is not a mall!! It is a wharehouse with airconditioning builtin. Furniture Furniture everywhere. All of them flat packed. Ready to roll from the shelf to your car, to your house.
The size is huge. It took me more than 2hrs just to leisurely walk from the start to the end. This is without taking a look at all the stuff. Anyway it is just like the other branch. The only difference is the size and the spaciousness of the display.
What I did was to take the cargo lift to bypass the crowd queueing up to get into the mall.
Look at that queue! There are people more infront of them.
This is not a mall!! It is a wharehouse with airconditioning builtin. Furniture Furniture everywhere. All of them flat packed. Ready to roll from the shelf to your car, to your house.
The size is huge. It took me more than 2hrs just to leisurely walk from the start to the end. This is without taking a look at all the stuff. Anyway it is just like the other branch. The only difference is the size and the spaciousness of the display.
A case of "Huh?"
Caught this by chance. The expression on this kid face tells me that he is very interested. However he does not understand a heck bit of what his older sibling is trying to tell him."You lead. I will follow"
Fitness
For 2 days in a row, I jogged.
Day 1:
I jogged continuously for 15min and 47 sec.
Did 2 sets of 4 chin ups, dips and some crunches.
Day 2:
I jogged continuously for 20min and 31 sec.
Did 0 chin up as my muscle are totally aching. Did 3 sets of 10 backpress and 3 sets of crunches.
Bear, watch out. I am going to be fit again.
Day 1:
I jogged continuously for 15min and 47 sec.
Did 2 sets of 4 chin ups, dips and some crunches.
Day 2:
I jogged continuously for 20min and 31 sec.
Did 0 chin up as my muscle are totally aching. Did 3 sets of 10 backpress and 3 sets of crunches.
Bear, watch out. I am going to be fit again.
Trends when having a break
Now that I have way too much time to use, it is perhaps time to buck up on the use of grammar by writing. They say practice makes perfect.
The whole point of this blog is to document the fact which I noticed. Everytime when I am having a long break, I will fall sick first.
I had a bad flu on Friday. It was so bad that my muscle spasm. I feel the chest muscle and shoulder muscle tense up. Almost to the point of having cramps. Saturday feel the same. Not too many sneeze, but cough also conjured up the same muscle spasm. In addition to that, the flesh beside the spinal cord ache. It is like I did some hundreds of trunk bending exercise. Sunday feels much better. Muscle ache is still there. Sore throat subside a bit. Nose is blocked. But overall much better.
Well .... time to get things in action. Let me have a fresh start.
I am reinstalling my PC/Laptop.
The whole point of this blog is to document the fact which I noticed. Everytime when I am having a long break, I will fall sick first.
I had a bad flu on Friday. It was so bad that my muscle spasm. I feel the chest muscle and shoulder muscle tense up. Almost to the point of having cramps. Saturday feel the same. Not too many sneeze, but cough also conjured up the same muscle spasm. In addition to that, the flesh beside the spinal cord ache. It is like I did some hundreds of trunk bending exercise. Sunday feels much better. Muscle ache is still there. Sore throat subside a bit. Nose is blocked. But overall much better.
Well .... time to get things in action. Let me have a fresh start.
I am reinstalling my PC/Laptop.
Chapter 30: Frontline - End
Another chapter of my life ended on the 24th Nov 2006. A short stint in or at the frontline*. I cannot say that it was a bad experience but neither is it a good one. There are also plenty of experiences in between the good and the bad.
Let start with the bad ones. I realize that argument is a argument is a argument. There is no good think about an argument. It leave me drain an unmotivated to work. Why is it an argument? It is because, the parties involve do not see eye to eye. My explanation does not answer the others question, neither did is reply address my concern. This is also the workplace where someone sitting close to me has to send an email to tell me what is going on. I hate this kind of environment. I also don't like it when you share ones opinion, the answer you get is "From the way I look at it........" (It stay that way. I still see it my way) . Lastly, for a company that claims to be a technological company, ie dealing with IT, you have to explain to the managers what are servers. Servers are servers and are valid in both the physical and software context. Weblogic Application Server is a software server. A cuboid metal box with wires sticking out of it, running HPUX, with 2 RISC CPU and a few hard disk is a hardware server. (There is now a new definition that is becoming more and more valid and that is a VM. A WM serving information from within another computer is also known as a server. The server within a server.)
The good things are always the hardest to part. It just happen to be the most intangible part of the whole experience. You gain friends and you share ideas. Lotiki - www.lotteryintelligence.com, bears the fruit of a small discussion starting from how to strike it rich. We talk about statistics and probability. Slowly we mind the official website for information. Stripping 20 years of 4D results and putting it into our own database. Surprisingly, we found that there are still numbers yet to be open on the 4D lottery. Sharing of experiences, some bring in view point of another part of the globe. How you think is influence by how where brought up.
Along the way in the middle of all these good and bad:
- I restarted my class 2B license lessons. (For those non local reading, in my country you need to have a license to ride a motorcycle. That license to ride is known as the class 2b license. It only allow you to ride motorcycle between the 0-200 cc range.)
- I learn a little about data center operations.
- Server relocation is a simple, but tough job. The dependencies are plenty and most are hidden within the complex, deceiving configuration files.
- I think someone deserved to be spank. If you say the thing is easy to do, then you do not need me to do a sizing of the work for you.
-IBM notebook are really good. I was issued a notebook with a warranty sticker shown to expire in 2000, it has a WIN98 compatible sticker. It is still running and its performance is rather decent if I do not open to many things at the same time. The thing is that it still works after what 7-8 years at least. The 12.1 inch form factor also make a the lightest laptop I ever had. Correction, it is a desktop replacement. The battery is dead. No plug in, No playing.
-My boss is really overloaded. Handling so many project at the same time and still don't display much signs of being burn. I am actually quite impress. But then signs being burn are creeping in.
-There are Naruto fans here too!
-The mince meat noodle at the coffeeshop near to the NTUC is great!
-I am getting better at playing pool. I won the last game against my colleague in the last game, 2-1.
-A colleague keep saying that I'm just too nice.
-Taking taxi some times can be a hassle. Some taxi drivers are full of complaints and while some has great philosophy of how life should be. But in summary, all of them disagree with the government on how they should handle the taxi company.
- I don't like to work late. I want my life, even if it is plain and boring.
- Things get done not because of an email, but because of a nice "please" and "Coffee on me".
- I get to work on my birthday. Which I normally try to take the day off.
- There are quite a number of female staff with very nice curves in the frontline.
- Drinking milk give you power. The term is milk power.
- There are backline in the frontline.
Well now I am in search of new ideas, a future, healthier and better life. I wish whoever is coming in good luck.
* not referencing the war. Frontline is a local Company doing IT.
Let start with the bad ones. I realize that argument is a argument is a argument. There is no good think about an argument. It leave me drain an unmotivated to work. Why is it an argument? It is because, the parties involve do not see eye to eye. My explanation does not answer the others question, neither did is reply address my concern. This is also the workplace where someone sitting close to me has to send an email to tell me what is going on. I hate this kind of environment. I also don't like it when you share ones opinion, the answer you get is "From the way I look at it........" (It stay that way. I still see it my way) . Lastly, for a company that claims to be a technological company, ie dealing with IT, you have to explain to the managers what are servers. Servers are servers and are valid in both the physical and software context. Weblogic Application Server is a software server. A cuboid metal box with wires sticking out of it, running HPUX, with 2 RISC CPU and a few hard disk is a hardware server. (There is now a new definition that is becoming more and more valid and that is a VM. A WM serving information from within another computer is also known as a server. The server within a server.)
The good things are always the hardest to part. It just happen to be the most intangible part of the whole experience. You gain friends and you share ideas. Lotiki - www.lotteryintelligence.com, bears the fruit of a small discussion starting from how to strike it rich. We talk about statistics and probability. Slowly we mind the official website for information. Stripping 20 years of 4D results and putting it into our own database. Surprisingly, we found that there are still numbers yet to be open on the 4D lottery. Sharing of experiences, some bring in view point of another part of the globe. How you think is influence by how where brought up.
Along the way in the middle of all these good and bad:
- I restarted my class 2B license lessons. (For those non local reading, in my country you need to have a license to ride a motorcycle. That license to ride is known as the class 2b license. It only allow you to ride motorcycle between the 0-200 cc range.)
- I learn a little about data center operations.
- Server relocation is a simple, but tough job. The dependencies are plenty and most are hidden within the complex, deceiving configuration files.
- I think someone deserved to be spank. If you say the thing is easy to do, then you do not need me to do a sizing of the work for you.
-IBM notebook are really good. I was issued a notebook with a warranty sticker shown to expire in 2000, it has a WIN98 compatible sticker. It is still running and its performance is rather decent if I do not open to many things at the same time. The thing is that it still works after what 7-8 years at least. The 12.1 inch form factor also make a the lightest laptop I ever had. Correction, it is a desktop replacement. The battery is dead. No plug in, No playing.
-My boss is really overloaded. Handling so many project at the same time and still don't display much signs of being burn. I am actually quite impress. But then signs being burn are creeping in.
-There are Naruto fans here too!
-The mince meat noodle at the coffeeshop near to the NTUC is great!
-I am getting better at playing pool. I won the last game against my colleague in the last game, 2-1.
-A colleague keep saying that I'm just too nice.
-Taking taxi some times can be a hassle. Some taxi drivers are full of complaints and while some has great philosophy of how life should be. But in summary, all of them disagree with the government on how they should handle the taxi company.
- I don't like to work late. I want my life, even if it is plain and boring.
- Things get done not because of an email, but because of a nice "please" and "Coffee on me".
- I get to work on my birthday. Which I normally try to take the day off.
- There are quite a number of female staff with very nice curves in the frontline.
- Drinking milk give you power. The term is milk power.
- There are backline in the frontline.
Well now I am in search of new ideas, a future, healthier and better life. I wish whoever is coming in good luck.
* not referencing the war. Frontline is a local Company doing IT.
Slow. Turning Ahead.
In a matter of hours, I would be free. Free from the mundane tasks impose by the need to survive in the mordern society.I see myself making a big change ahead. Time to slow down and prepare myself for the turn.
This is our beach.
This a first world country's beach. Somehow, the education of the citizen is still not up to standard yet. I guess all the elite's hands cannot be dirtied and will not soil their hand to pick up the trash that was generated by them.
But then as a responsible earthling, we must all do our part to keep the environment clean. Less plastic, more plants. Less waste, more money.
But then as a responsible earthling, we must all do our part to keep the environment clean. Less plastic, more plants. Less waste, more money.
Photo Shoot.
Had a great time over the weekend. The five of us meet up for breakfast at TiongBahru newly renovated market place. After a bowl or Lor Mee, we move on to Telok Blangah Hill Park.So like we move around the hill 6 times like this, 2 camera men and 2 cameras. The total photo equipments on my car at that time was probably in the range of 10K ++.
Suprizingly, all of us had a car of different make and model. We had a Honda Civic, Renault Megane, Hyundai Matrix, Toyota Altis and Mitsubishi Lancer.
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| From Car Photo Shoot |
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| From Car Photo Shoot |
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| From Car Photo Shoot |
Rain.
Dark clouds was in the horizon as I was traveling on the TPE towards Woodlands. I can see the not just the dark clouds but the rain that was falling from heavens. It was like fuzzy dotted line being drawn from the clouds to the earth below. It was visible.
That was even before the first drop of rain hit my vehicle. The raindrop was big and heavy and the sound on it made on the roof of Matrix almost drown the radio blasting away. It was one of the heaviest rain I ever encounter.
That was even before the first drop of rain hit my vehicle. The raindrop was big and heavy and the sound on it made on the roof of Matrix almost drown the radio blasting away. It was one of the heaviest rain I ever encounter.
Budget Terminal
This is the departure hall of Singapore Budget terminal. Big and open, like a big warehouse. Hey wait a minute, it was a big warehouse. This is also a case where budget was terminally small.
Changi Airport Terminal 2
The new terminal 2. Recently renovated in conjunction to the hosting of the IMF talk in Singapore. Another effort to that failed to impress.It does not mean that it is not good looking or energy efficient, but the reason for the renovation is totally wrong.
Furthermore, the T2 viewing gallery is now no longer there. Back in 14 years ago the viewing gallery was right at the glass. It was the closest we can get without actually being a paying flying customer. Now that space is reclaim by the transit lounge.
I want this for my Birthday Present
I always wanted a Remote control plane. This baby really looks good. Power and speed. I wonder about the endurance?
Air, Land and Sea. Wooww!
I want one for christmas. I just cannot wait till my next birthday.
Footlose
Sandals and slippers. Comfort and convience.Slip on and slip off. Wear and go. With the sturdy, durable and hard rubber sole, this pair of Outlander Slipper is really great.
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