Brothers Team VS. Sisters Team

Have not been updating recently... In another few days time, i might not be able to update le. This webby will start to grow cobwebs le. Just to let everyone know what is happening in the past few days... On friday, i slacked at home. Just enjoy my computer and the coolness of the swimming pool. The weekends was spend very fruitfully. I attended my friend's wedding. I as a guy, was the team leader of the Brothers Team. We did crazy things... The Sisters Team really made a fool of us. Shall not write all the embarassing things we did here. At the wedding dinner, the Brothers Team was the one that emerged the winner in the Team games. Too bad for the ladies, we have a phone card. Haha... Somethings just cannot use money to buy. Hehe... As for today, i went out the entire day. Was out at Orchard and an old lady came up to me. I was listening to my player so i could not hear what she said. She held a plastic bag with a bottle of cooking oil. She asked me to buy. I rejected and continue walking. Friends say i do not have heart for the lady. But i see it as i do not know what the bottle contains. It may look like oil, maybe its some flammable liquid and i may be fined heavily. Anyway, one message to my friends... If you complain i do not have heart for the lady, YOU SHOULD INTERRUPT AND PAY FOR THE OIL.

Simple as that...

Calmer Seas Now...

After so many days of rough seas, the waters are calmer now. No more thunders or lightning and tall, dangerous waves. Once awhile a blow of strong wind and a crackle of rain here and there. The sea is better but i still think that stronger winds are building up and maybe another major storm coming up. Have to start to make preparations for the next storm... Right now, a uplifting story to share with everyone.

The Merchant and The Mighty One
A merchant was very bad at business. He have been making losses for the past few months. One night, when he was counting his losses, he decided that it was all his luck. So he called out to God, 'Oh my God, why must you do this to me? I am a devoted person to your religion and why i deserve such punishment??' At that momment, God appeared infront of the Merchant. God said, 'I am God, the Mighty One. I heard that you have a problem with me?' The Merchant was shocked and replied, 'Yah, I need to ask you three things. You must answer me with all your knowledge.' 'Okay, what are your three questions?' asked God.
The merchant asked, 'What is a million hours to you?'
God replied, 'Just one second.'
Next the merchang asked, 'So... What is a million dollars to you?'
God replied, 'Just a single mortal cent.'
The merchant sat down and think before he came up with the third question...
'Can you give me one mortal cent?'
God replied, 'Of course... In the time of one second.'

I've learnt not to ask much in one lifetime. Just be content with what you have. Enough is enough, just feel blessed that you are sleeping under a roof, in a bed and blanket. Some are sleeping in a cupboard box as young as 6months old...

Camp, New Friends and a Bad Ending

Totally stretched... From head to toe. The past two days have been spent helping out at my club's FO camp. The freshmen came to enjoy and i saw happy faces. There were sad faces but they soon changed to happy ones. The first day was not very tiring. I was a station master and a couple of friends. We went shopping before we went to our station. At the station, i used a marker pen to draw on their arms. They are to write their group name and the initials of the camp. It was pretty hectic at some point and i predicted that something will happen at the back. So when we are finished with our station, we moved to the last one to help out. It was a blessing that we went as the station was out of manpower. Do it a fast one and send them back to school for dinner. The next day was spent at Sentosa. I was there for more than 12hours. Now my parts of my body are in reds. Burnt and sore. But i had a great time. Even though the entire body was wrecked and the skin was burnt, the sensation was great. After that was something that i did not enjoy much. Something bad happened and i could not enjoy at the camp. In the end, i just slept through the night and prepared for the worse at home. I do not wish to say much about this. I know how to handle such emotions now. Already been through 20 years of my life, i am well aware on how i should behave. Now it just waits for time to pass...

Rejection X 2!!

Another hectic day for me... Morning busy answering phone calls, preparing invoices and checking that orders are correct. Arghz... Almost gave a customer hell when he is so fussy about a few crates of beer. What more do you want me to do?? Taste every single bottle before i send it to u to confirm that they are fresh? With all the daily stuff, i still have to do up the new system for acceptance. So many things to do... But i overcomed everything and completed it all. Came home with mom and ate dinner. After that was packing of bags for the camp.

I actually rejected 2 person that wanted to apply for the position. The first one was because she was malay. She fitted every requirement i needed. But she was a malay. A christian malay. Too bad, cause our customers are 99% Chinese, they speak dialects and mandarin. How to communicate with them?? The other was introduced by a friend. My friend, shall not say who, told me she is willing to work. She needs the money. I do not ask for her contact, but waited for her to contact me. In the end, she let me wait for a couple of days and contacted me. Forgive her as i do not know her. She asked me lots of questions, silly questions. I asked questions and she did not gave me a satifactory answer. One of my most hated answer she gave me was, 'Eh... Your company cover transportation anot?? Do i need to entertain customers?' It is just a simple office job, did i mention anything about entertaining them?? Guess she is just another 'tai tai' in the making. Definitely will give my parents a hell of a time.

Bottlenecked!!

Last few days been rather busy. Everyday fully packed and did not have much time to update here or do things i wanted to do. Below will be a little recap on things during my absence.

Thursday
Been out the whole day. Morning was surfing the net on some resources and learning how to do more management on cashflow. There is alot to learn on cashflow management. If we were to just earn money and be a good employee all our lives, i guess we are just living on the 'next paycheck' type of lifestyle. I decided that i will not live like that. I want freedom to learn what i want. Later in the afternoon, i joined my juniors to their preparation camp. It was Amazing Race in the city limits. In the end, i joined the gals and they brought me around shopping... But i knew what i was supposed to do. So its like pretty prepared. I left them around the evening time to send my dad off. He is going to London to catch a match by Liverpool. The irony here is, he will land at Manchester, take a stadium tour of Old Trafford and live in the city. The only time he will go Liverpool is on the match day and its a bus ride over. Irony right?? We bid him farewell while he is on his way to the customs. Hope he finds the business class lounge.

Friday
Woke up early in the morning to join my mum for work. Will be substituting my dad for the meantime. I cannot cover everything but at least there is an extra pair of hands. Most of my time are spent reading newspapers and doing up the computer system. The rest are spent doing checks on goods, picking up calls and doing invoices. In the evening, i went for a SCS meeting. It was a mix of leaders from each IT tertiary school. It was rather boring but seeing old friends there was pretty good. I like the ideas thrown out for the events that will be organised this year. The bad part is that i will not be part of it. No... Its not the bad part. It is the worse part...

Work and play...

Interview with a Vampire

Have not been blogging for the past few days. I celebrated Mother's Day during the weekends. This year decided not to buy her something. I went to the market and bought a couple of lobsters and made bbq-ed cheese lobsters for her. I make a mastercard commercial out of these...

Lobsters... $48.
Cheese... $5
Herbs and spices... $15
The look of my mum with that lobster dish... Priceless...

Haha... Total rip off!! But the look on her face is really satisfying. I wasted 2 lobsters, the first had too much cheese and it was not well cooked. The next was overcooked and the cheese did not melt. But the last 2 lobsters was perfect. Man, it was good. We ate it with my family and i created another recipie! Hehe... Next time i bring the recipie to bbq party.

My dad gave me a task to contribute to the family business . He asked if any of my friends would like to work for us, females only. He want to unload some of the stress that my mum is handling so she would not work so hard. Should have done that a long time ago. So i went around and asked friends to spread the message. But they have to go through an interview. My interview. That is why the title. It is the title of one of my favourite movies by Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. I will filter the candidates and see which i would hire. Any mistakes or unhappiness my parents have, i will be responsible. Well, talk about responsibility and committment. Furthermore, i have to do it before i enlist. A tough challenge. But i have confidence that i will conquer it.

Divide and Conquer!!!

Spectrum of Colors

Nothing much today. Another boring day again... Morning was up early to prepare breakfast and eat it. Sometimes cooking your own breakfast in the morning is so satisfying. But it seems that after cooking, eating and washing up, the feeling of going back to sleep again haunts you. I tried to keep awake by using my computer. Thanks to a good friend of mine, we played some games together while i send her the graduation dinner photos. She is very good at that game, out of three games, i won only one. Till date, i think i won like four out of 20 games? Haha... Time to study more on that and win more often. I logged off later to buy some light bulbs from the hardware store. Came back and fixed everything up. Did not bother to log on again as i decided to play a game using a new tactic. Testing how would the game flow. Not a bad experience, learn a couple of things. My brother came back in the evening, taught him some tricks for his exams tomorrow. Hope he score well to make my parents' happy. Dinner soon followed and i sat down to read up more about some universities courses. All of them say they are the best, but whom shall i believe?

It rained this afternoon and near the ending, the sun shone brightly. It was the evening sun then... I was playing my game that time. The wall that the sun shone had became multi-coloured!! It was pretty shocking at first but i soon realise that it is just the rainbow of colours. I looked at it for awhile and enjoyed it. I grabbed my phone to take a photo of it... But no matter how i try, the phone just cannot capture the colour. Guess only the human eye can see such colour. Lousy phone...

Rain + Sun = Rainbow...

What Age Am I...

You Are 23 Years Old

23 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

The Gift

What an extremely boring day... Nothing was achieved today. Morning was spent watching anime. Old anime... I dug out my old VCDs and put them on the player to remind me of the times i spend watching them. Can't believe they are still in tip top condition. After that i went back to my room to play games. There was nothing much to do so i decided to do some research on the game itself. Had some amazing finds. After gaming, i exited the program and sat infront of my computer to chat with my friends. At the same do some maintenence work on my PC. I didn't realise there were so much crap in my computer disk. Dinner soon followed and i continue my gaming investment. Hehe... A little time was spent there as i soon decided to research more on project management. It seems that there are an estimated of 500K trainned professionals in that industry. Wow... And i am like one of the trainned but uncertified. Going to do more research tomorrow and see if i can get any leads to a certification.

No gift is too small to give, nor too simple to receive, if it is chosen with thoughtfulness and given with love.
Aesop Fables

Aesop Fables is a book of filled with children stories. It contains lots of entertaining yet valuable lessons for children to read and learn. One of the most familiar kind is the thirsty crow and the jug with half filled water. The crow put in stones so that the water will rise and blah blah blah... I'm sure most of us will know that story. The book contains lots of other stories. As a child, i loved that book. It taught me the virtues of life. The sentence above I have quoted is one that i will never forget. I still keep that in mind whenever a gift is given or received. But it depends on who is the receiver and giver.

Given with love...

A Few Hundred Years

What a hectic day i have today... At least i spend them wisely. Morning was nothing much, just a simple breakfast and a 90mins movie to go along. The perfect match for a lazy morning i would say. After that, i just sat in my room and watched anime for the next two hours. Bathed and prepared to meet the club members for a good round of LAN gaming. Arrived late and lost too. Had false information causing me to be blur... Nvm, next time i show them. Played three games in total. Sucked at the previous two but the last... I almost ruled them!! Haha... Played for like 15 rounds and i fragged some who started out way longer than me. A waste i could not stay long enough to grab top fragger. Haha... Left them midway, to join my ex-colleagues for movie. While having dinner at Cineleisure, i met up with an old friend. He was there for movie watching too. Too bad we are not watching the same movie. I caught up with my colleagues. Man... The new interns are giving my bosses and supervisor extreme headaches. Think about it... An intern installed a spyware to track the password of every user including the Administrator account?? My Boss was furious. I never saw him got angry before but when i heard the story, i believed that he is very scary when angered. People that do not show anger often, will explode at the worse momment. Just like me... Hehe... We watched 'XXX: The Next Level'. A good movie with lots of action, explosion, mod-cars, military vehicles, more mod-cars and a Fort Shelby Cobra!!! I think the movie just set the next level for action packed stuff.

Part of movie made me think that the African-American are taking over. In the movie, the hero, or anti-hero is a black person. His gang are black too. A few hundred years ago, black people or negros are considered last-class people. Not second class or even third class. Directly the last class. They are traded and treated as slaves. Till date, the whites and the blacks are not in good relations still. We are listening to music, sang by black people. Almost every sport we have or at the top is a black person. Celebrities and pop stars are moving towards the blacks. Even rappers like Xzibit, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube have made it to the big screen. I play a game that are featuring black people that fight like they do not care. Black people are modding cars that the whites just ride them. It all goes to show that black people are rising. They are no longer considered last class people. They are rising to first class, and fast. So who are helping them rising? Simple... The Media.

World Turning Black...

Picking Up the Pieces

What a good day to waste at home. Maybe it is just the feeling of staying home and enjoying all the hardware i have in my home. Morning was playing games, all kinds of computer and console games. My parents say that i am spending too much time playing games and should be using it to do something more fruitful. The way i see it... I see it as investing into my knowledge bank on gaming and its ideology. I do see myself as a game programmer or a game designer in the future. By absorbing all this foreign talent, one day i dream to create a game that the Americans, Japanese and South Koreans will play it like it is their staple food. In the afternoon, i made some macroni with cheese and herbs. Did not eat much as soon after i went swimming. A hot day for a cool dip. So i went down to the pool, in the end... I got the hot day but not a cool dip. The water was warm. Damn... A few laps to and fro and i gave up. I guess my body temperature is heated up by the water and not by itself. In the evening i just laid back on my couch and watched tv. Quality tv... At least it entertained me for two hours. Than it all ended when my Dad and my Brother came back with a new kind of amazon fish. I had to prepare a tank, set up the filtration system, make sure the water is treated for chlorine and sodium, etc... After that was just simply dinner and a another good bath.

In between lunch and swimming, i chatted with a couple of friends who are online. A couple of them is like catching up. Updating each other on what has happened and what is going to happen. Realise that time really fly past without one knowing. One of the chat was a friend from Sarawak, she was asking me if i could help her get a place to stay in Singapore. She is coming over to Singapore to study at one of our Polytechnics. Well, she won't be residing near me as the Polytechnic is not near my place. I called a couple of people and requested some information to be sent over to me. Anyway, she is coming over to study and i have to help. Her dad is an owner of a corporation that deals will mobile sanitation. Simply, mobile toilets. Disgusting but a very good business. Doing that to support five kids, two degree holders, one diploma(soon), two others studying at the secondary school. Hope next time she get her diploma, she decides to recide here. That way, i may recruit her as a business partner. Rich people backing a small project... That way i just provide the brains and using somebody's money. Muahahaha...

More catching up...