Switched On Life

Today, I was whole day at Suntec Convention Centre.
There was a SAP Summit 2008 going on, so went down to take a look.

Met a few old friends / colleagues etc. Attended the talks / forums / presentations. Most of them were pretty much 'boring', except for a few speakers whom I find very interesting.

Anyway, the message presented will still be able SAP, and it bringing values to customers etc etc. Still, that's not my purpose of putting it on my blog.

At the end of the breakout sessions, there's a talk by this guy called Andrew May, an expert on performance. Kinda interesting again for one of those 'inspirational' talk.

There's an "In action" video clip as well. Can take a look.

He also recommended to read this Recharge Lounge site.

We need to 'slow' down our pace. Learn to 'switch off'. :)

Hapa Hapa (Kenyan word for 'slowly slowly')

The Babes

Alright!

Got some babes' photos!

Take a look!

The Naked Babe!

The Shy-to-smile Babe!

The Inquisitive Babe! (minus the gong-gia at the back) :D

The Dua-tow Babe!

The Cutish Babe!


The babes are nowadays, getting noisier. Ooooooooooooooooh!

Medium Sudoku

Ahhhhhhhhhh!
I missed by 1%!!!!!!!


Have to work harder!

Ohhh! Time to sleep! :D

Tyred

Last Saturday, just before I went BBQ & Genting, I saw that my car tyre was getting flat.

Since I was going off for a few days, I was worried that by the time I came back, that tyre would have gone so flat until I cannot use the car. So I went to pump air for it.
Wow! And the initial reading when I started to pump air was less than 10 PSI pressure! My tyre should be pumped at around 32 PSI!

Anyway, pumped air, then drove back and off I went for BBQ and Genting.

So yesterday morning, when I drove my car in the morning, I realised that tyre was getting flat again. Never drive, yet it is losing its air.
I had a meeting in the morning, so I tahan for a few hours, then drove my car to check at service station.

There's a nail hit into my tyre again! It is the
same tyre which was hit with a nail 3 months back!
I should be so lucky! Lucky! Lucky! Lucky!

So I had it repaired once again, and costs another $10.70 again.

October will I kena one more time? Hmmmm

Winner!

Just came back from Genting today.
The coach left at 11am, reached Singapore Tuas checkpoint close to 6pm, and arrived at Lavender MRT station before 7pm.

It was relatively ok ride, just that there's a family of 4 (all females) with 2 kids (a few months & another maybe 3 years old) were there as well.

Wah. Noisy siah. Talk extra loud, and the baby and kid can cry/shout anytime one.
I didn't really sleep on the coach ride, probably will get awaken by them anyway.
Best still, the baby poot poot, and the mother and granny have to work something on an empty chair to change the diapers.
Cool huh?

As for my Genting, it's just one of the usual.

Ever since first went Genting like more than 10 years ago, I only know that everytime I go there, I never win money back. :D

This time, I win!
IF I count this way:
I expected to lose maybe around $300 SGD.
This time, I lose maybe just slightly more than $100 SGD.
So I won $200 SGD!

Again, as usual, it seems like I win a bit more during the last day of stay.
But then, I only play jackpot, and playing jackpots usually only result in 9.5 losses out of 10. Hehehe.

Just two photos taken off my mobile phone for the early sunrise setting from the hotel lift:


SMSed Karinna on the way back. Not sure how's she's enjoying her New York trip. Didn't even bother to sms me back. *bleah*

Genting

I'm going Genting tonight! Back only on Tuesday. Need some cooling weather man!
Time to leave is about 10pm. Probably reach there around 4am, depending on the traffic jam.

Nowadays, ever since the Selamat-saga, the immigration checkpoint at Singapore is like a tortoise. Slow like don't-know-what. Hope don't get stuck for too long. Oh well, I won't be in a hurry anyway, if jam, so be it.

I've got a BBQ at Lakeshore this evening at 1830hrs. So I guess I won't be driving to the BBQ then. Not so wise to drive there, then rush back to put back my car, then rush down to Lavender MRT Station for the Genting transport.
It's only logical to go by MRT for this case. Far, but logical. :D

Haven't really packed or even changed currency. Packing should be easy, currency I still have some.

What else?

Nothing lah. Just relak relak.

Wish me luck! ;)

Web Sudoku

I've been playing .Sudoku on the web for quite some time. Mind stimulating, practice brain cells. :). Sometimes, it's a good break from work.

There are 4 different levels. The Evil level is really evil. Easy level, well, my aim is to hit a good timing.

Finally, managed to hit into the Top 1% percentile.


Cool huh. Objective met for Easy level.

Next would be the Medium level. A bit tougher. :D

陈奕迅 - 好久不见

好美的一首歌！
曲本身比较平淡一点，词却略为感伤了点。
唱将的演唱又把感动度提高了很多点！
太棒了！



陈奕迅 - 好久不见

作曲:陈小霞
作词:林夕

我来到你的城市
走过你来时的路
想象着没我的日子
你是怎样的孤独

拿着你给的照片
熟悉的那一条街
只是没了你的画面
我们回不到那天

你会不会忽然的出现
在街角的咖啡店
我会带着笑脸回首寒暄
和你坐着聊聊天

我多么想和你见一面
看看你最近改变
不再去说从前只是寒暄
对你说一句只是说一句
好久不见

Atlantis Is Calling

Just came back from airport.

Sent Karinna to airport. Her flight will be taking off in another 20mins.
Departure from T3, and got a little lost at the carpark there.

Not so bad lah, manageable.

So my wife will be gone for 2 weeks!
Free man! Ho ho! Free man! Ho ho!

How? Like that no one nag at my ears, not used to it.

She'll be at Atlanta to have some kinda of 'orientation' for new staff, and then extending another 5 days or so in New York. After that then fly back to Singapore.
By then, her arrival date is around 27 July! Next Sunday, and early in the morning.

Ohhh. Atlanta and Atlantis, what's the diff? Who cares?

Sleep

Went to customer site in the morning.
A little groggy, coz' took the syrup for cough, which can cause drowsiness type.

Anyway, was there to check on some things, and then after lunch, decided that I cannot take it anymore, went home and sleep.

Slept for a cool 3 hours!
Maybe too much sleep is no good too, still have the sickly feeling.

Now my throat is better, the phlegm can more or less be spitted out easier.
The nose is still running in front of me, but not as bad as yesterday.

Tomorrow shall be an OK day! :)

No more MC!

Sick

Ahhh. I am sick! Just went to do doctor earlier, and came back with the above.

A bit blur, but it's a MC for a day tomorrow.
Wonder if I really need it or not. hehehe

Actually, my throat had been pestering me since last week. It didn't get better while at KL over the weekend.

It got a little worse yesterday, and still not good enough today.

Itchy throat, phlegms stucked at throat and hard to come out, and a little bit of running nose.

Had been taking anti-histamine since Sunday.

Anyway, it's not a big problem lah, just normal cold. Should be fine after a few days. :)

Work? Hmmmmm.

Dog Tired

I'm so dog tired!
Dog Nine Nine is tired!

Finally back from the 1-Day KL Trip. Terrible traffic jam at the causeway, took almost 3 hrs just to pass thru to SIngapore.

We left our home on Saturday morning around 6am. Went to pick the Pohs-nieces, then the Teo-niece. The morning jam wasn't that bad, was slower at Singapore side, but a breeze at Malaysia immigration.
By the time reach KL, it was about 1pm or so already. Tiring journey! See?

Then I brought them to the Chinatown there. Everytime we go KL Chinatown, always go to that particular shop to eat Wan Ton Mee.
Then the princesses complain too hot, so change venue, and bring them to KLCC.

I was actually very tired already, so I let the princesses go walk around themselves, and told them to be back at gathering point around 6.30pm.
Karinna and myself also walked a while, but not for long, before we decide to go outside and sit.
Actually, I even fell asleep in the mall on some rest-seats.
While we were seating outside, I took this picture of the Twin Tower. I've never taken a picture of that before, from what I remember.

At 6pm, the fountain started shooting water off. There were lots of people enjoying taking picture at that time. I had to wait for some opaque people to clear off from my view before I took this:

As usual, the princesses were not on time. tsk tsk tsk.

They appeared slightly later, then that Brenda complained leg pain lah, too tired lah, backside itchy lah, and blahblahblah. So went back hotel. Squeeze 5 of us into a touting cab that costed RM20! Kinda expensive actually, but paying for train rides would probably cost me RM14 as well, so just a little more to reduce time spent, and to rest legs; and I was tired!

So went back our Legend Hotel, but headed to the Mall besides it. Not much of shopping place there, so just took a quick dinner, and we went back to hotel and rest for the day. By the time unpack stuff and shower, also about 10pm already. Think I slept around 11pm that day.

Morning woke up around 8am. My hair was spiked. Needed to wet my hair then comb it into proper shape. :D
Was still very tired, but had to give my nieces morning call to go for breakfast.

Late or not? Sigh.
Anyway, breakfast was so-so, nothing really nice, but had to pay for extra voucher, because I only had 4 vouchers for this trip. But ok lah, my nieces CAN EAT!

Then we went back to our hotel room to rest, while they went 'swimming'. Why 'swimming'? Because they cannot really swim. Play water more like it. Push the wall and let themselves float for a while, happy already, stand and walk towards the wall and push themselves again. Cartoon.
Otherwise, hop themselves in the water along some partition float that differentiates between shallow and deep ground. Cartoon too!

We checked out at 1pm, then drove to Lot10. Do some bit of last minute shopping, and some late lunch before heading back to Singapore.



Was lost when heading up the expressway actually. Took a wrong turn and went to KLIA!
Was then advised to turn out, but headed another wrong direction that says "IPOH"!

Lucky for my brilliant wife, we made U-Turn, and headed towards right direction, and blasted our way back home.
Still, it is tirig, as shown:


Reach Johor checkpoint area around 1930hrs actually, but the mighty jam made it possible for us to reach Singapore only around 10pm. How exciting.
What to do? Missed the exit that goes towards Tuas 2nd link.

Since all no dinner yet, brought them to Jalan Kayu to have dinner-supper. After that then slowly send them back to their parents.
Eat paper prata. Funny stuff. :)

Tired but cannot sleep, coz my hair not dry yet. Thus, finish up this blog before I become lazy again.

Think I shall not buy any more vouchers for KL hotels. :D

KL?

These few days, news on Anwar's case has been pretty hot.

Furthermore, at such a time, majority of people all over the world cannot believe the truthfulness of the allegation.

For me, I'm going KL this coming Saturday, bring a few of my nieces there as well. Thus, the situation there is going to play an important part in the game plan.

Dangerous? Hmmm. From what I gather from some people, maybe not as bad as what I thought.
Traffic jam? Very likely as there's supposed to be a demonstration going on this weekend.
Sigh.

What a good timing huh?

Hopefully the travel there is smooth, plus I don't get lost on my way.
And if situation is not so good, have to restrict movement around the city.

Will have to see.

I have to give my nieces back to their parents you know. :D

Triaton

Today had lunch at Outram Park Bak Kut Teh near my old office at PSA there.

My ex-boss, Josef, came from Germany for holiday here, so my ex-colleagues arranged a lunch session with him, and then I was there!

Josef is still pretty much the same. Looks happy, must be his holiday mood.
He likes Asia, but after HP bought over our ex-company Triaton, guess his better option would be to go back Germany to work.

As expected, it would be just the few of us there. Winston, PuiKwan, Adrian and Joshua turned up for the lunch. Other than PuiKwan, there other 3 I still get to meet them here and there.
Afterall, my current company Hypercube works quite closely with HP on some of the projects that we do.

As usual, just some catching up with Josef and the rest. I think we were there almost 2 hours before going off.

Since he still has a home in KL, he is sure bound to come back Asia for holiday almost every 1 year or 2.

Other than PuiKwan and me, the rest are still with HP.
PuiKwan lost weight. Looks skinny already, like not enough food like that.

At the end of the lunch, and bidding all farewell, I remembered I forgot to take pictures.
It'll be another year or so before we'll meet Josef here again.

European Champion

I'm not a soccer fan.

Spain is the winner of European Cup.
I'm not their support either, and not support of Germany even!

But I sort of pity Germany.
They had been very consistently getting into final in quite a number of major tournaments, and had been losing in the final for the last few times.

Better luck next time.