Thursday, March 29, 2007

恋之憩

恋之憩

曲/词:梁文福

什么样的温柔
才能轻抚你的伤口
什么样的思念
才能牵走你的忧愁

什么样的拥抱
才是你寂寞的尽头
什么样的守候
才能被你接受

你的眼是芬芳的醇酒
凝着许多记忆的深忧
我是未曾醉过的温柔
浅浅一就不愿罢休
你的眉是幽幽的港口
蹙着许多静静的绸缪
我是一个情感的水手
短短一驻就不愿再走

什么样的温柔
才能轻抚你的伤口
什么样的思念
才能牵走你的忧愁

什么样的拥抱
才是你寂寞的尽头
什么样的守候
才能被你接受

你的眼是芬芳的醇酒
凝着许多记忆的深忧
我是未曾醉过的温柔
浅浅一尝就不愿罢休
你的眉是幽幽的港口
蹙着许多静静的绸缪
我是一个情感的水手
短短一驻就不愿再走

别再说你能不能够
只是问你接不接受
啊无言的你可否知否
并非回忆才天长地久

你的眼是芬芳的醇酒
凝着许多记忆的深忧
我是未曾醉过的温柔
浅浅一尝就不愿罢休
你的眉是幽幽的港口
蹙着许多静静的绸缪
我是一个情感的水手
短短一驻就不愿再走

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Countdown

One more day!
Japan, here I come!

Red Tapes

Yesterday my sister Kelly called me, asking me to help her draft some emails to some authorities in order to get her neighbouring shop to reduce noise level.

She owns a beautician shop, and recently part of the unit was leased to a tenant doing music recording services. How exciting!
Well, it turns out that the noise level of awful singings are quite a high decibels, and the singers are usually awful to hear, and the songs are basically re-sung over and over again throughout the day! Very exciting indeed!

The shop owner would not want to deal with the new tenant directly, as it would result in paying the tenant a sum of fees for termination.

My sis asked HDB to help. They came. Took some pictures. Off they go, saying they will followup with the owner. Nothing heard for the past 3-4 weeks.
She called police at Hougang, was told a similar complaint was filed before, and they will pass the case to Ang Mo Kio HQ station. Nothing heard.
Best of all, my sis went to "Meet-the-MP" session. To her horror, she was told that the MP does not want to meet her as she is just a tenant, and not the owner. Wow. Service to the people! Wow wow. Wow wow wow! Not even listening, how to service the public? Makes you wonder?

So she needs me to help her write some official letter or email to get attention from some relevant authorities.
I don't really know which is the right authority that will address this too!
Anyway, spent my night cruising around the government websites. Went put some query/feedback at HDB site, ACRA site, and chanced upon a CutRedTape site setup to help public being pushed from 1 agency to another.

So far, only received a reply from HDB, although not a help reply yet.

We'll see.

Then again, I'll be out of Singapore this Friday. Don't really have much time to followup until I am back on 07 Apr.
Let's hope the right feedback can come from the CutRedTape site. If not, just another waste of people's money to set up useless stuff.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Old Pictures



Happen to browse through some of my CDs.

Guess what I found? Some photographs taken in the past during some of our tours to other countries.

This particular picture, if I remember right, is taken at Wanaka, New Zealand. We were in New Zealand from 01 - 18 Jan 2004.

Look at the lake (Lake Wanaka), so huge. Pretty isn't it? I mean the lady in the picture. ;)

Monday, March 26, 2007

Holiday moods

Yesterday morning, went to Mustafa. We were there about 0930, sort of crowded already.
Bought quite a lot of stuff.

Some vitamins, multivibe stuff.

Also got money changer there!
And it has a little better rate than what we have in Tampines, so changed money there.
Going to Japan this coming Thursday night (more like Friday early morning lah). :P

Was back at home after visiting my parents, had to start clearing some stuff, check some work, and think of packing for the trip.

In the night, I got my maid to come over to teach her how to deal with the 2 dogs at home. The dogs will be at home while we are on holiday. Their usual custodian (my mother in law) is not able to look after them this time round. So have to teach the maid to release the dogs from the condoned area, clear their poos, clean the mess if they made any, and change newspapers for the pee-tray.

She got a bit worried, but I think should be ok lah.
Anyway, going to let her try a while while we are still in Singapore. That should be helpful.

Then went back to start picking clothings. Pulled out lots of clothings that I had wanted to throw. Took this opportunity to stuff them in, bring to Japan, wear them, and dispose them there!
Cool! I love it!
4 days to go!

Friday, March 23, 2007

黄昏

词:陈信荣曲:周传雄

过完整个夏天
忧伤并没有好一些
开车行驶在公路无际无边
有离开自己的感觉

唱不完一首歌
疲倦还剩下黑眼圈
感情的世界伤害在所难免
黄昏再美终要黑夜

依然记得从你口中说出再见坚决如铁
昏暗中有种烈日灼身的错觉
黄昏的地平线
划出一句离别
爱情进入永夜

依然记得从你眼中滑落的泪伤心欲绝
混乱中有种热泪烧伤的错觉
黄昏的地平线
割断幸福喜悦
相爱已经幻灭

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Prose19

在那宁静的夜
望向那浩瀚无边的海
看着那五彩灯炮
恍如黑暗中的灯塔
沉重的心
也会显得平静许多
有如雨后的雨
使人露出微心的笑意
心头的不快
随之抛到九霄云外

然而

在万赖惧寂中
陪伴着那神秘的洋
惟恐浪中卷来不知名的物体
冒出于面前
心中的波涛可会停止
平静的心
顿时也怦怦一阵
就如雨前的雨
让人措手不及
欢愉的心
也会随之而去

深夜的海洋
可动可静
是动是静
无人知晓

24 Jan 1988

Sick again

Today a little terok.

Morning was ok. Went SAP to attend some Partner Sales Enablement seminar.
Didn't want to attend the afternoon session, as it doesn't seem to fit what I am looking for.

So went back office. On the way, somehow, my nose started to feel itchy, and keep sneezing and my nose keep dripping 'water' :P

It got a bit more worse when I reached office. Did a bit of stuff, and decided to go back home.

In between, went to see my mother-in-law. So reach home about 5+pm.

Took a clarinase, and rested myself on the sofa.
Then went to buy dinner for Karinna and myself.

Then it came, felt weak along the way when buying the food. Once reach home, probably was hungry enough, ate pretty fast, and still felt pretty tired. Lied down on the sofa and started to fall asleep!

By the time wake up, almost 10pm already. But good, felt much better, not sure due to the clarinase or the nap! hehehe. Doesn't matter isn't it?

Just as I was writing this, it started to rain. Seems pretty heavy.
Maybe it's time to sleep soon.
Adios!

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Advertisements

Wow.

Hope I won't have problems for saying this.

I was thinking that IF KFC has no budget for advertisements, perhaps should just re-use their old advertisements on commercial TVs.

The recent commercial adverts from KFC, are ALL terrible.
And worst of all, ask viewers to vote via SMS for their favourite or something like that?

Finger cannot be licking good with the commercials showing when I want to eat KFC.

YUCKS!
Just my views, What's yours?

Nothing really

Last week my PC that has served me for about 3-4 yrs, suddenly kept quiet.
After getting my sister new PC, I brought back her old one (which was a gift from me previously), and re-formatted and re-installed for my own use.
Slow, it's an old Celeron with 128MB ram only. But nevermind, nowdays I don't really play games or anything, so I don't exactly need super processing powers for the system.
Guess I can still live with this old machine for time being.

Also, Karinna had to go KL for some meetings on Wednesday. Was quite a rush trip, otherwise I could just join her for the trip. Wasn't exactly very busy with my work for time being.
Anyway, she just came back yesterday. Maybe next time. :)

Of course, our trip to Japan is already confirmed. 29 Mar to 07 Apr. Following the tour group until 04 Apr, and then we are on our own until 07 Apr.
Travel insurance, also should have been bought already. Don't think there's anything else missing particularly, except on her telling her mother about the trip. Afterall, she still in the Home-care place.

And the dogs! Have to get some big plastic bags soon, and put them inside the plastic bags, and put them down the refute choot (is that right spelling?? dun care). :P
hehehe

Monday, March 12, 2007

Monitoring

Woke up early today to check on my client's system.

Had sent an email over the weekend to remind my colleauges (whoever on duty today) to be in office early to ensure some monitoring process to be completed prior to allow other processes to continue.

Guess what?
No one was monitoring. So I did lor.
Nothing difficult, just that I cannot understand why a simple english statement such as below cannot be followed.
===BEGIN===
This means on Monday morning, please be in office early and check to make sure the Master Data Chain in 'XXX' is completed.

If there is any indication that it is still running, temporary change the schedule for Sales Chain to start at 0200 or even 0230.
===END===
Is it difficult? Sigh.

Car-setting

Yesterday was like a shopping day.

After we went back to my parents' place, we went to IKEA and Courts Hypermarts at Tampines.
Bought a kitchen clock at IKEA. Didn't really stay there long.
Went over to Courts, since Karinna wants to buy a thermal pot.
Don't really have anything that she really wanted also.
Then was looking around the place, looking at some of the prices for the PCs and notebooks and cameras.
Yeah, need to get a new camera soon too, for the Japan trip! (minus the Sakura ... :P)

Then saw a PC deal at $999, which I thought was ok. My sister wanted me to help her buy, and it seems like that deal is pretty good for her. Not too high-end, but still much superior than what I am having now. In any case, my nieces and nephew won't be able to take good care of the PC, and I am sure problems will surface with any kind of PC available to them.

Then off we went to Challenger at Simei, just to see if there's anything good there, 'coz I am a Challenger member. Nothing.
At least we bought some dog food there, not too wasted a trip.

Then EconMedicare is the next stop. Visit my mother-in-law lah.
Then went on to take dinner, then I went back to Courts to buy that PC, and bring over to my sister's home.

Travelling around like so fun like that. :P

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Prose18

平静的心
何时变得如此骚动
骚动的心
几时才能恢复平静

是你
是你使我充满朝气
洋溢着欢乐气息
是你
是你让我少了生气
生命中少了点意义

虽然如此
我还是会继续下去
走完我的旅程

10 Dec 1987

Friday, March 9, 2007

Resting

Oooh! Finally the course is over!
Not say it's a relief lah, but then, at least have more time to eat/sleep/idle now.
hehehe

Went for dinner at a Jap food restaurant at Concourse.
Not bad, a buffet dinner with shashimi stuff too!
About $38++, not cheap, but I think it is still alright.
At least should try to eat thouse more expensive stuff!
Ha ha ha!

Darn sleepy.
*yawn*

Monday, March 5, 2007

SAP Training

Today is the first day I conduct training on BW.
Doing Data Modelling + Advance Reporting training.

Very chim. I think I basically do not have good idea of what I was saying even. How terok.
Sometimes, those slides they put in there, cannot read their mind as to what they actually want to deliver to trainees. :P hehehe

Stand one whole day somemore, now my legs super tired, like gonna break like that.

This is not the first time I conducted training. Previously did once for Basis.
Same thing also, at end of day feel so tired, and so dazed until took MRT towards different direction, for a few stops somemore!
hehehe

But I supposed ok lah. Hopefully the result doesn't come out too bad!

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Prose6

岁月真是不饶人
如今已是孤单一个人
不知何方天涯同路人
愿与老夫成友人

光阴一去不回头
如今已是白了头
多少忧愁埋于心头
陪伴老夫独到尽头

人生 无奈


26 Oct 1987

BW System Copy

Today had to continue the BW System Copy that was adjourned on Friday.

Didn't expect too much of a problem initially, but what the heck, the system just simply give me headache all day long.

Actually, the system was up and running, just that simply having issues when trying to activate the source system for the R3.
Had to think so hard of manipulating tables, running functions or programs, but simply couldn't resolve it.

Fedup, had to check carefully of the errors, and saw something related to system settings. How frustrating.

Rightfully, I don't think I knew exactly what went wrong, and how it was resolved. What the heck right? At least the next time round, I would have better idea of what might be the way to move forward if I have the same problem. :P

Quite an exciting 10 hours of work! wowee!

Saturday, March 3, 2007

Boring Saturday

Yesterday was doing a system copy for a customer.
Haven't done it for quite a few years already, a little rusty.

Have to do a lot of readup and have to confirm with some ex-colleagues of certain procedures. hehehe
Old already.

Anyway, it was quite smooth. System itself was up, no problem. However, the link from BW to its source system has some error. I guess it should be easy to fix, but customer forgot some of the critical user passwords. And didn't want to move on to change it as it might affect other system.
Nevertheless, tomorrow will have to sort it out once and for all, 'cause next week won't be free.

Today, the monitoring work for customer wasn't good. My guy triggered the full process right from beginning again when it was about to finish. Argh! Terok!
Somemore, was out with Karinna to go and pray the Tai Sui. So noisy there and had to rush home to check on the system.

So in the end, have to keep monitoring it till right now! All is ok as I have been rectifying some of the errors occuring.
Oh well, that's life!

Maybe it's time to switch career! hehe
Any lobang?

Friday, March 2, 2007

Mobile Phone

Hmmm. Come to think of it, the things I write about are usually few days back stuff.
Can't be too real-time right?

I have a life 1 ok!?!?! And I don't do mobile-blog too. hehe
Somemore, memories are getting poorer and poorer. So have to sit down and reflect what has happened. And a lot of times, cannot remember much! :O

Something interesting happened on Tuesday.
Was at Raffles Place Burger King there discussing stuff with colleagues. A phone call came. I answered, and tried to talk. Reception seemed to be pretty bad, and all of a sudden, my phone went quiet.
I checked, and it seems like the signal is almost zero. No problem, maybe due to underground area huh?
Then as I went home, the signal still never appear along the way, even when the MRT emerged out into Kallang station.
I am pretty patient (pretty and patient), and just check occasionally until I reach Tampines.
Wowee. Signal still died! So lucky.

On Wednesday, it was a day without mobile. Life seems weird without mobile lines nowadays. Not that I have a lot of people calling or what, but sometimes I need to call people! :P Like my wife. *grinz*

So halfway through some workshop, I left to get myself a new mobile. Need to have it more for work rather than personal life.

So I went back to Tampines Mall, and when it was my turn to be the next served, my mobile suddenly came alive!!!
The signals are back! Hooray!
But why? Damn.

Nevertheless, with some voucher given, I bought a Sony Ericcson K618i.

Still figuring out how to use.

Prose5


为什么而活?
为什么而死?
令人费解


愿再继续活
不愿随地死
为了什么?

人茫然 我也茫然
只知道
我活 只为自己
人活 只为生存

25 Oct 1987

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Cable TV

Ahh, the month of February!
The month of free cable tv preview from starhub!

For the cheap thrill of it, we watch the preview channel until it closes transmission officially at 12 midnight. hehe

Do I want to watch more SCV programs? Yes
Do I want to subscribe to SCV? No
Then how to watch?

Wait for next year CNY month. :P

Radish Cake

Haven't written for a few days.
Got reasons lah.

1st reason : lazy
2nd reason : still lazy
3rd reason : getting lazier
good enuff? :D

Few days ago, I think it's Monday, Karinna whipped up radish cake again. She did that I think 2 weeks back. The first time was ok, this time round was better, though no fantastic yet. See? I am so honest.
But I say it's a good try. This time the feel was not as hard when you eat it. Probably more water was added this time round.
But it's 1 big piece ok?!?!?! About 30cm in diameter I think.
Can you imagine, 2 persons eating it. And do you need to guess who would be eating most of it?
No prize for correct guess!
Still have a few pieces in the fridge, I think have to eat them up soon. hehehe

Yesterday was interesting, although you would have guessed that we ate radish cake for dinner. Ha ha ha. That's my favourite food this week.
Instead of eating it as steamed version, she uses her little intelligence to fry them. Felt like eating carrot cake like that. Of course lah, not as fantastic, but since she uses her heart to cook it, it tastes wonderful. *blush* hehehe
Ate 2 big plate of it, damn! Have to try losing weight again too!

How? Would you want to try some? ;)