With Vivan (ULu Pandan CC) and Liyan (Ci Yuan CC).
With coLLeague buddy, Sean PauL (no punt, that's the reaL name).
With Sean, Vivian and Liyan.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Buzz
Somehow this month the office has been buzzing with new peeps - temporariLy.
We have an intern from Ngee Ann PoLytechnic and two temp staff - aLL gaLs.
And so, not bad, made new friends! But they be here onLy tiL ApriL. .. =(
Office aside, this week is reaLLy cooL. My beLoved LiverpooL thrashed ReaL Madrid 4-0 and then Manchester United 4-1. On top of that, my team Greats aLso took to the top of the ESPZEN League.
That caps a wonderfuL week for myseLf. I hope everyone had a good one too ..
Somehow this month the office has been buzzing with new peeps - temporariLy.
We have an intern from Ngee Ann PoLytechnic and two temp staff - aLL gaLs.
And so, not bad, made new friends! But they be here onLy tiL ApriL. .. =(
Office aside, this week is reaLLy cooL. My beLoved LiverpooL thrashed ReaL Madrid 4-0 and then Manchester United 4-1. On top of that, my team Greats aLso took to the top of the ESPZEN League.
That caps a wonderfuL week for myseLf. I hope everyone had a good one too ..
Friday, March 06, 2009
Singing in the Rain
Thursdays are aLways good, for me particuLarLy.
Of course it has to be - being my off day. In addition, my constituency footbaLL training and games are on as weLL.
Today was a good day as the pLayers came back after a 9-month exodus since exiting the Last tournament in May 2008. There were new faces too, as I dragged my good friends Cong and ZR aLong for a "seLection match" where they sure have performed decentLy weLL.
Right after the match came the rain.
I Love the rain. It offers opportunities to approach a day in a different manner. For us who have juz finished a match with muddy boots, the three of us went into the open and washed our boots by the cute LittLe drain where the rushing water was pretty cLear. It has been years since I threw myseLf inside the rain, other than some footbaLL matches where it came unexpectedLy. PeopLe may tink its a bit crazy for a 24 year oLd to "pLay" in the rain, but I dun care Less. I am enjoying.
Somehow if kampongs stiLL exist, this experience wouLd sure be more common.
Sometimes, we tend to forget the LittLe stuff we aLL did during chiLdhood, and that is why most peopLe are oLd not physicaLLy, but in their heart.
Embrace the rain, if you can, when you can.
Thursdays are aLways good, for me particuLarLy.
Of course it has to be - being my off day. In addition, my constituency footbaLL training and games are on as weLL.
Today was a good day as the pLayers came back after a 9-month exodus since exiting the Last tournament in May 2008. There were new faces too, as I dragged my good friends Cong and ZR aLong for a "seLection match" where they sure have performed decentLy weLL.
Right after the match came the rain.
I Love the rain. It offers opportunities to approach a day in a different manner. For us who have juz finished a match with muddy boots, the three of us went into the open and washed our boots by the cute LittLe drain where the rushing water was pretty cLear. It has been years since I threw myseLf inside the rain, other than some footbaLL matches where it came unexpectedLy. PeopLe may tink its a bit crazy for a 24 year oLd to "pLay" in the rain, but I dun care Less. I am enjoying.
Somehow if kampongs stiLL exist, this experience wouLd sure be more common.
Sometimes, we tend to forget the LittLe stuff we aLL did during chiLdhood, and that is why most peopLe are oLd not physicaLLy, but in their heart.
Embrace the rain, if you can, when you can.
Friday, February 27, 2009
ChanneL BBC
A random pick on one of the SingteL's Mio Tv channeLs brought me to BBC KnowLedge on a typicaL weekday evening. The broadcast was titLed "The Sun".
As I watched on, the program captured my attention so much that emotions struck me when they reveaLed how the sun works and that in time to come, it wiLL burn out and bring the end to the soLar system and totaL darkness to the universe.
However, it wiLL not be in our time. By then, Man may have aLready concLuded their own story since the beginning of time.
FoLLowing that was another documentary - "Human 2.0". It toLd of the generation of human beings of tomorrow, in a worLd where technoLogy wouLd have taken over aLmost every LittLe aspect of each individuaL's Life.
At present, the thought of the future is nothing short of bLeak, unLike the simpLe days of the Last century Less the unfortunate WorLd Wars.
Somehow, no doubt every being on earth can stiLL do their part for the generation of tomorrow, technoLogy is by far advancing way too fast to handLe.
With such a pace in Life, are you stiLL abLe to feeL?
Given the short time we have on earth, maybe we shouLd rethink the reason for our very existence, or eLse it wiLL be nothing but a waste.
PLease, take time to visit the Link as foLLows:
The Great Warming
A random pick on one of the SingteL's Mio Tv channeLs brought me to BBC KnowLedge on a typicaL weekday evening. The broadcast was titLed "The Sun".
As I watched on, the program captured my attention so much that emotions struck me when they reveaLed how the sun works and that in time to come, it wiLL burn out and bring the end to the soLar system and totaL darkness to the universe.
However, it wiLL not be in our time. By then, Man may have aLready concLuded their own story since the beginning of time.
FoLLowing that was another documentary - "Human 2.0". It toLd of the generation of human beings of tomorrow, in a worLd where technoLogy wouLd have taken over aLmost every LittLe aspect of each individuaL's Life.
At present, the thought of the future is nothing short of bLeak, unLike the simpLe days of the Last century Less the unfortunate WorLd Wars.
Somehow, no doubt every being on earth can stiLL do their part for the generation of tomorrow, technoLogy is by far advancing way too fast to handLe.
With such a pace in Life, are you stiLL abLe to feeL?
Given the short time we have on earth, maybe we shouLd rethink the reason for our very existence, or eLse it wiLL be nothing but a waste.
PLease, take time to visit the Link as foLLows:
The Great Warming
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The "LoneLy Hearts CLub" Affair @ Batam on VaLentine's
On the ferry to Batam.
I Like this picture - totaLLy twisted courtesy from Serene and Long.
Nathan, Serene, Jane, ELeanor, KeLvin .. Less Me behind the Lens.
That's Ms Vain with an attitude, and that's me trying to use broken MaLay to order food.
The cabLe ski experience, though we're onLy starting from the beginner's stage.
The LoneLy Hearts CLub members for the day.
VaLentine's was decorated with a LoveLy atmosphere around HoLiday Inn HoteL, and there we are taking advantage of it.
Where eLse can you rejuvenate yourseLf with chiLdhood favourite - A&W and its very originaL Root Beer FLoat.
On the ferry to Batam.
I Like this picture - totaLLy twisted courtesy from Serene and Long.
Nathan, Serene, Jane, ELeanor, KeLvin .. Less Me behind the Lens.
That's Ms Vain with an attitude, and that's me trying to use broken MaLay to order food.
The cabLe ski experience, though we're onLy starting from the beginner's stage.
The LoneLy Hearts CLub members for the day.
VaLentine's was decorated with a LoveLy atmosphere around HoLiday Inn HoteL, and there we are taking advantage of it.
Where eLse can you rejuvenate yourseLf with chiLdhood favourite - A&W and its very originaL Root Beer FLoat.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
VaLkyrie (The Movie)
Yet another exhiLarating movie added to my recent movie-whoring, based on a true story - of few heroic men who chose to foLLow their principLes despite sacrificing their Lives. Starring Tom Cruise as CoLoneL Claus von Stauffenberg, who attempted the assasination of HitLer and Led the coup in a bid to save Germany from further Loss of innocent Lives and shame.
Indeed, in war, victory beLongs to none. Everybody Loses something. Even though humans are born equaLLy of bLood, can we say that the soLdiers who die on the battLefieLd are not comparabLe to the Leaders? Is it fair that some peopLe are chosen to dictate others' Lives as such to send them to death?
I beLieve in democracy and freedom. Every man shouLd be their own dictator. And this movie has aLLowed me to understand one good man who sacrificed for the good of his country and peopLe despite coming against the odds.
Yet another exhiLarating movie added to my recent movie-whoring, based on a true story - of few heroic men who chose to foLLow their principLes despite sacrificing their Lives. Starring Tom Cruise as CoLoneL Claus von Stauffenberg, who attempted the assasination of HitLer and Led the coup in a bid to save Germany from further Loss of innocent Lives and shame.
Indeed, in war, victory beLongs to none. Everybody Loses something. Even though humans are born equaLLy of bLood, can we say that the soLdiers who die on the battLefieLd are not comparabLe to the Leaders? Is it fair that some peopLe are chosen to dictate others' Lives as such to send them to death?
I beLieve in democracy and freedom. Every man shouLd be their own dictator. And this movie has aLLowed me to understand one good man who sacrificed for the good of his country and peopLe despite coming against the odds.
Monday, February 09, 2009
Mugs and Oscars
There was this mug I used for many years since secondary schooL. UnfortunateLy it broke some time Last year. Since then, I have had three other mugs - big, smaLL and with artistic deco, but aLL of which did not Last through three months.
I stiLL miss my oLd mug. And thats why they say, things are gone so that one can appreciate how vaLuabLe these things truLy are.
This festive period proves to be pretty enjoyabLe with the traditionaL reunions of different cLiques of friends and famiLies. Just Last weekend, I had met up with three totaLLy different groups of friends, and man, other than spiLLing the cash on good food, the gatherings are just good.
TaLking about Oscars, I caught the movie nominated for Best Picture in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Draggy as it seems, it is one that faLLs right into my tastebuds with its Light humour and phiLosophicaL approach. As for the storyLine, other that toggLing between the present and past, this show is straightforward as it is.
Watch it, if you dun mind Lengthy shows. This is pure science-fiction at its reaListic best.
And. somehow on Okto channeL, they are broadcasting Oscar winning movies Like the one that just ended as I am writing. The show is about this girL, Sophie SchoLL, who's part of a resistence movement against HitLer's cause for the war. She was eventuaLLy executed at the age of 22, but not in vain.
No, I am not that knowLedgabLe, but I Love history as much as I Love footbaLL.
The Oscar fever is here, but where's my beLoved mug?
There was this mug I used for many years since secondary schooL. UnfortunateLy it broke some time Last year. Since then, I have had three other mugs - big, smaLL and with artistic deco, but aLL of which did not Last through three months.
I stiLL miss my oLd mug. And thats why they say, things are gone so that one can appreciate how vaLuabLe these things truLy are.
This festive period proves to be pretty enjoyabLe with the traditionaL reunions of different cLiques of friends and famiLies. Just Last weekend, I had met up with three totaLLy different groups of friends, and man, other than spiLLing the cash on good food, the gatherings are just good.
TaLking about Oscars, I caught the movie nominated for Best Picture in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Draggy as it seems, it is one that faLLs right into my tastebuds with its Light humour and phiLosophicaL approach. As for the storyLine, other that toggLing between the present and past, this show is straightforward as it is.
Watch it, if you dun mind Lengthy shows. This is pure science-fiction at its reaListic best.
And. somehow on Okto channeL, they are broadcasting Oscar winning movies Like the one that just ended as I am writing. The show is about this girL, Sophie SchoLL, who's part of a resistence movement against HitLer's cause for the war. She was eventuaLLy executed at the age of 22, but not in vain.
The White Rose resistence movement with reaL person Sophie SchoLL in the middle. Copyright belongs to Dr George Wittenstein
No, I am not that knowLedgabLe, but I Love history as much as I Love footbaLL.
The Oscar fever is here, but where's my beLoved mug?
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Mid-twenties Crisis?
I was away for a toiLet break when three chiLdren entered the Community Club counter. My coLLeague, Kris, attended them on my behaLf.
The chiLdren are Wushu students who did not know if there is cLass on this fatefuL day. When I got back, Kris toLd the chiLdren "Ok, the kor-kor wiLL heLp you find out if Lesson is on ..."
One of the chiLdren excLaimed ..
"He is not kor-kor ...... he is UNCLE!"
Kris Laughed waLking away. The other two chiLdren Left bemused. Am I facing the mid-twenties crisis?
I think I am.
I was away for a toiLet break when three chiLdren entered the Community Club counter. My coLLeague, Kris, attended them on my behaLf.
The chiLdren are Wushu students who did not know if there is cLass on this fatefuL day. When I got back, Kris toLd the chiLdren "Ok, the kor-kor wiLL heLp you find out if Lesson is on ..."
One of the chiLdren excLaimed ..
"He is not kor-kor ...... he is UNCLE!"
Kris Laughed waLking away. The other two chiLdren Left bemused. Am I facing the mid-twenties crisis?
I think I am.
Friday, January 30, 2009
SimpLy OrientaL
Drums, Lion dancing, firecrackers, brand new cLothes, ang-baos, gambLing, reunion gatherings.
The LittLe things associated with the Chinese every new year, are no different in 2009. That, is the Chinese tradition.
I was at Chinatown on Lunar New Year eve and saw curious ang-mohs snapping at the Lion dance performance with their cameras. It makes a typicaL chinese Like me proud, that westerners are appreciating our cuLture.
新年快乐, 大家 ..
Drums, Lion dancing, firecrackers, brand new cLothes, ang-baos, gambLing, reunion gatherings.
The LittLe things associated with the Chinese every new year, are no different in 2009. That, is the Chinese tradition.
I was at Chinatown on Lunar New Year eve and saw curious ang-mohs snapping at the Lion dance performance with their cameras. It makes a typicaL chinese Like me proud, that westerners are appreciating our cuLture.
新年快乐, 大家 ..
Monday, January 19, 2009
The Office
BLessed are the ones who do not work in an office environment.
An office, so furnished with tons of documents, fiLes and computers are but just a pLace for us to warm the chair for eight hours as weLL as achieving the most important factor - $ati$faction ...
It is a compLexed pLace of simpLicity.
Add "communication" and "seLf-perception".
The office wiLL be a simpLe pLace of compLexity.
And that soaks the energy out of any good worker who just wanna work.
So freaking shacked, unfortunateLy not because of workLoad.
BLessed are the ones who do not work in an office environment.
An office, so furnished with tons of documents, fiLes and computers are but just a pLace for us to warm the chair for eight hours as weLL as achieving the most important factor - $ati$faction ...
It is a compLexed pLace of simpLicity.
Add "communication" and "seLf-perception".
The office wiLL be a simpLe pLace of compLexity.
And that soaks the energy out of any good worker who just wanna work.
So freaking shacked, unfortunateLy not because of workLoad.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Monday, January 05, 2009
Thursday, January 01, 2009
30 Dec 08 - Khing's adidas PP Gathering
Meet Mummy Khing, the onLy boss with the most weLfare. I Like her Lots, reaLLy.
Meet the adidas peeps. From Left: Zaabah, EtheL, Serene, ELeanor, Jane, Arthur, ME and JuLian.
The Past, Present and Future of adidas PP.
84's with HeLen & Khing.
Meet Mummy Khing, the onLy boss with the most weLfare. I Like her Lots, reaLLy.
Meet the adidas peeps. From Left: Zaabah, EtheL, Serene, ELeanor, Jane, Arthur, ME and JuLian.
The Past, Present and Future of adidas PP.
84's with HeLen & Khing.
Creation by Me.
Ms Santa Khing CLaus (extreme right) with her annuaL give-aways.
Vain Babes at work... =D
2009
A new year has, yet again begun.
2008 was a bore. I have not stepped out of this isLand the entire year.
SuddenLy, I think of Taiwan. Its been one fuLL year since my return from my Love. Part of my heart has been Left behind there and there can never be any pLace with such certain degree of fondness I have. There wiLL never be an opportunity to be so reLaxed and free as I was when I was there. It is a heaLing haven for loneliness, hurt and jadedness.
I miss Taiwan and its warmth and simpLicity.
A new year has, yet again begun.
2008 was a bore. I have not stepped out of this isLand the entire year.
SuddenLy, I think of Taiwan. Its been one fuLL year since my return from my Love. Part of my heart has been Left behind there and there can never be any pLace with such certain degree of fondness I have. There wiLL never be an opportunity to be so reLaxed and free as I was when I was there. It is a heaLing haven for loneliness, hurt and jadedness.
I miss Taiwan and its warmth and simpLicity.
Monday, December 29, 2008
The Long Wait
For the first time in 10 years, I do not have to keep siLent when I taLk about the EngLish Premier League.
For the first time in 10 years, Manchester United and CheLsea fans are not opening their mouths jeering at LiverpooL FootbaLL CLub.
For the first time in 10 years, LiverpooL FootbaLL CLub is going into the New Year sitting on top of the tabLe.
And for the first time in 10 years ... I can finaLLy say .. freak you, Man Utd and CheLsea fans. How does it feeL to be beLow?
Success comes with a price, and that is expectations. The EngLish League is a year-Long marathon. HaLfway through, now we await and see if my dear Reds can maintain.
HopefuLLy they can give me a good reason to ceLebrate my birthday in May when the season is over.
For the first time in 10 years, I do not have to keep siLent when I taLk about the EngLish Premier League.
For the first time in 10 years, Manchester United and CheLsea fans are not opening their mouths jeering at LiverpooL FootbaLL CLub.
For the first time in 10 years, LiverpooL FootbaLL CLub is going into the New Year sitting on top of the tabLe.
And for the first time in 10 years ... I can finaLLy say .. freak you, Man Utd and CheLsea fans. How does it feeL to be beLow?
Success comes with a price, and that is expectations. The EngLish League is a year-Long marathon. HaLfway through, now we await and see if my dear Reds can maintain.
HopefuLLy they can give me a good reason to ceLebrate my birthday in May when the season is over.
The 12 Days of Xmas
.. tweLve days, thats wat Amos Lim Guoann said there were. And so we beLieved .. coz he is our good oLd friend.
The joyous moments of the 2nd and 3rd day of Xmas are captured as foLLows ..
26th December @ Leon's pLace
The Presents.
Above: PL & WY, my dear dear friends who I invited Last minute and forgot to teLL them about the Xmas Xchange. A consolation picture taken with other peeps' presents.
Above: Pictionary Champions. Dun be fooled by academic results. These team is out to kill with their "art" and "vocabulary".
Above: Kenneth and partner.
Below: The host, Leon Tan.
Above: PL& WY + Long & Amos, oLd time schooLmates.
Right: The pair that doesnt spend Lotsa time together, yet being aLways cLose somehow, somewhere, sometime. Long & Clement
.. tweLve days, thats wat Amos Lim Guoann said there were. And so we beLieved .. coz he is our good oLd friend.
The joyous moments of the 2nd and 3rd day of Xmas are captured as foLLows ..
26th December @ Leon's pLace
The Presents.
Above: The Group.
Left: Charmaine's got mine.
Left: Charmaine's got mine.
Above: PL & WY, my dear dear friends who I invited Last minute and forgot to teLL them about the Xmas Xchange. A consolation picture taken with other peeps' presents.
Above: Pictionary Champions. Dun be fooled by academic results. These team is out to kill with their "art" and "vocabulary".
Above: Kenneth and partner.
Below: The host, Leon Tan.
Above: PL& WY + Long & Amos, oLd time schooLmates.
Right: The pair that doesnt spend Lotsa time together, yet being aLways cLose somehow, somewhere, sometime. Long & Clement
Friday, December 26, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
PFC Season End BBQ @ PunggoL Park
PFC members.
PFC members + members' peeps.
Award Winners 2008 - Top Scorer & PLayer of the Year. No that ain me, it was on behaLf. Therefore covering the face is necessary.
Press conference for PLayer of the Year 2008. AbsoLute hiLarious, with microphones made from satay sticks, hotdogs and non-stop camera shots, and aLso a transLator (the PLayer of the Year can speak no good EngLish).
Press conference from the paneL of reporters.
PFC members.
PFC members + members' peeps.
Award Winners 2008 - Top Scorer & PLayer of the Year. No that ain me, it was on behaLf. Therefore covering the face is necessary.
Press conference for PLayer of the Year 2008. AbsoLute hiLarious, with microphones made from satay sticks, hotdogs and non-stop camera shots, and aLso a transLator (the PLayer of the Year can speak no good EngLish).
Press conference from the paneL of reporters.
It was 20 December 2008. A good evening of good food, fun and Laughter. ALL in aLL, it was a cooL evening with the company of good oLd friends and two babes.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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