Sunday, November 30, 2008

黃鶯鶯 - 情雪

其实,上个月放进部落各的歌曲(酸甜), 是我临时找出来的。
临时想不起“情雪”, 所以就 。。。 。。。
现在补回。

非常棒的一首歌。让你听出耳油!


黃仲崑也唱过这首歌。感觉也非常好! 应该没有特别的MTV吧!?!?


王菲也唱过一个广东版,“曖昧”。


够经典吧!

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曲:陈小霞
词:姚若龙

你是我昨天的笑容
也是我今夜的伤痛
当幸福飘到我肩头
你转身扬起一阵风
於是幸福吹散成寂寞
於是寂寞被锁在眼中

我是你昨天的玫瑰
却是你今夜的后悔
当孤独飞到我面前
我眼中只有一片黑
於是孤独倾落成雨水
於是雨水就打在心扉

属於我们爱情的冬天
来自你眉头的积雪
慢慢冷漠了你的脸
将我推离你可靠的肩
属於我们爱情的冬天
堆积我心头的积雪
慢慢绑住了我的眼
关於未来
一点也看不见

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Precious & Sapphire

This week I was attending a course on Business Planning & Consolidation. Sounds boring, I know. :P

Work, what to do? Work!

Today, was at home whole day. Karinna went for her physiotherapy, and my mother-in-law was hospitalised. I was home alone, except for my dogs.

They were playing, somehow, and I took a video of it. Short one. :P

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Police

Few days ago, went to Bedok Police station, hoping to get some updates regarding the previous weekend hooha.

Actually, I tried calling the number provided in the website, but can never get through. Gave up, and went personally there.

At the counter, the police on duty there simply cannot trace the case log, even after I provided my IC and my mother's IC.
Address also supplied, still cannot find.
Don't know what kind of Business Intelligence tool they using. Maybe it's time to change. :P
After many many tries, he said he'll try some brute force way, and finally manage to trace an incident number, and the investigation officer's name.
Officer not on duty, hard to get update from them. Their system has no record of what is the next update status!

Funny.

Just wait for them to call might be a better choice ... ...

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Spaghetti

Today, the domestic goddess displayed her prowess in culinary again.
This time, spaghetti.

What's more impressive is that, she hurt her left ankle yesterday. Slipped and sprained, and cried like a baby ... ...

Anyway.
She whipped up this:

This plate is acually an extra plate. That means, this is my supper in another few hours' time! Oh my god!

It's a simple and decent meal. Just have some sausage in there, plus onions. I hate onions. :D
And the other plate shows additional side dish. Chicken breast meat.

Overall verdict: My wife's cooking not so bad. *wink wink*

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

FSI Congress

We had a exhibition booth for an event in Suntec today and tomorrow.
It's Financial Services Industry Congress.

Basically, we're there to promote some awareness to the software which we are reselling. PowerSim
It's a software that helps to do simulation, be it for financial purpose, logistic purpose, or even resource planning.

Just a small booth in the exhition hall.

See the hamsom guys from Hypercube, entertaining the prospect in the centre.

Well, the crowd is not a lot, but I guess this is a good practice for us to start reaching to a little bit more mass audience.
It can be helpful for the future. :P

Monday, November 17, 2008

心晴大动员 Life Transformers

I think this is a fantastic show.
No doubt, it can be very heart-aching to watch the show, but at the same time, it can be very overwhelming to know that you are living so much better than you think you are.

Of course, home home has a hard to pronounce mantra.
I've learnt to one laugh and go ... ...

Today's episode was great. I find the 9 year old Wang Chunfeng an amazing child. I believe any parent who has a child like that, will feel very blessed.

I think I have a liking for such shows. Previously, the US show "Three Wishes" is a must-watch for me on Sunday mornings if I were home. Likewise, "Life Transformers" should be watched if you have the time.



Apparently, it appears to be receiving very high viewership in Singapore.
心晴大动员, 加油啊!


田铭耀: 不要阿!!! 雪糕那里可以拿来炒?!? 它会mmmeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllttt的!!!

Maintenance Certificate

My installation of the SAP system did not go well in the first try. Error occurred somewhere related to XI portion of the installation.

Since I don't really bother with the XI part for now, I decided to uninstall, and re-install only with the component that I wanted.

All went well, and the system was up and running on Saturday actually. Did some post steps tasks, and it dragged till today.
Everything was ok.

As I tried to patch the system futher, I encountered new problem. After checking it out, SAP is introducing another thing to (in a way) prevent abuse of rampant SAP installations.
That means, more pain in my ass. :P

Technically, it is introducting this thing called Maintenance Certificate, which will last for a period of 3 months each time, to validate that the server installed has valid licensing with SAP.

By Jan 2009, it becomes a compulsory thing. Terok!

Guess I have to read up more stuff, in order to prepare my systems for it.
hehehe. Pain!


Thursday, November 13, 2008

Linux

I had been trying to test install SAP system on my home PC for some time. Actually, I had stopped for a long time because I kept hitting on problem previously.
I had not re-tried for about 1-2 months already, and I just get myself to do so again. Ultimately, I want to put other components into the system when done.

Usually, such installation is easy feat to me, just that this particular instance is on Linux, and I used CentOS, which is technically not a supported platform for SAP system.
But then, there are some documents available to roughly say how to go about doing it.

Well, the document is based on an older CentOS4, and I am using CentOS5.

Typical problem about having to use the Java version from IBM. This part was ok. Couldn't start installing the system due to this "libXp.so.6" missing.
Took me a while to find out how to get it done.
yum install libXp.x86_64
That's the command to install it since I am using a 64-bit version of Linux.

So once with that done, it seems to be a bit more smooth-sailing.

At this point of time, it is still installing, and probably will finish only by tomorrow or maybe even Saturday.

I was crazy, I installed ABAP/JAVA/BI_JAVA/EP/NWDI/Mobile/PI.
Ha ha ha.

Will see what happen, at most re-do all over again.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Laksa

Ahhhh. My beautiful wife is in the mood to be a good domestic cook today. She went to buy Laksa Paste from PrimaDeli the other day, and said wanted to make laksa on Sunday.

After yesterday's wedding dinner, actually I was still feeling full. But since my wife cooks, eat the whole pot also can lah!

So this morning, went to market to buy some more ingredients, like bean sprout, prawns blahblahblah.

By noon time, the laksa fragrance is lingering around. Hmmmmmm.

Here we go, the ingredients prepared for the final product:

The laksa gravy with the tau pok cooked and heated. Not a big pot, but enough:

This bowl was the first scooped to be ready, for my mother-in-law:

This is mine, picture taken on the dining table, and there's more sunlight:

Finally, the bowl for the domestic goddess herself:

SEDAP!!!!!!!!!!! Yum yum! ;)

Come get it, before it's all gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *pooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof*

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Bed & Wardrobe

This morning went to office, coz' I've arranged a colleague to do a sharing session with fellow colleagues on certain topic for Business Intelligence and Planning.

Turn out was ok, and hopefully the audience can get a better understanding of the Business Planning & Simulation part of SAP. Afterall, to grasp everything within a single day is not exactly possible. :D

After the session was done, I headed down to Bedok old home. The ordered furniture is supposedly to be delivered today. By the time I reached there, around 2.30pm, the wardrobe has just arrived. Shortly after, the bed frame came in. Then after about half and hour later, the mattress popped by.

Funny, I wasn't really expecting the delivery to be broken into 3 different schedules. I guess it's a matter of mix and match of the items and the BEDS.SG folks probably arranged that way in they special way of cutting costs. Items are most likely from their different sources. *shrug*

At least delivery timing is pretty ok. They told me 2-6pm, and all delivered around 4pm. Not so bad after all.

I guess have to wait to see if the old man will complain, then will know if it is VALUE for money. Actually, I doubt my dad will complain much for the new furniture.

Here's the picture taken for the bed and the wardrobe. Ahhhh, the mattress cover is with Mr Bean print. My sister Kelly bought it, I didn't know about it. I bought another bed sheet the other day, and brought to him yesterday already.
Anyway, need to change bed sheet, so having extra is ok.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Furniture

I've been going to Ikea a few times lately. Went visiting some furniture shops at neighbourhood areas as well.

Why?

Need to get a more proper bed for the old man at the old home.
And he specifically asked for a wardrobe that has a locking compartment too!

I also made search on internet as well, and found this some websites that sells bed and bedframes etc.
I think the site is pretty good. In fact, lots of reviews seem to be more on the positive sides. Of course, we cannot be sure if the reviews are specially done up to entice customers.
There are other forums that gave comments regarding the items from the website.

I just made an order for a single bed and bed frame, plus another wardrobe. Can't expect much from the wardrobe quality, but the more important item which is the mattress should be ok.
Total damage for that is $463!
Expensive? Cheap? *shrug*

So, let's hope for the best. :D

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Aztech Wireless Adapter

Being IT Professional can be a pain in your own ass. *ouch* hehehe
Nah.

Everytime got computer problem within family homes, I become the helpdesk technician.
This time, my brother's PC at home had problem. Internet connectivity problem.

I previously checked, and confirmed it's hardware problem with the DLink Wireless Adapter. Can't detect at all.

Last weekend, I bought one. Aztech WL230USB Wireless Adapter. Not that it is good, it's just that it is CHEAPER!
Anyway, I somehow think that it will spoil again in another few months' time. Cross my fingers, and legs, and whatever ... ... ...

Just now, before coming back home, went to fix the problem. Getting the adapter to work is non-issue, but somehow still cannot connect to internet!
#W$@#%#$^%$^$#@!%^$%&^$^#$^&&*^*^#$%#&%^(*&)(&^*%^#@%^%*(*&U&@#W@

In the end, I had to reset the wireless router to get it to work. Dumb machine.

Well, at least it can work now.
1 down, ???? to go ... ... ...

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Swensens

Since no maid, no cooking, went out for dinner today.
We had 3 vouchers for Swensens, which are for full meals!
Just nice, 1 for me, 1 for Karinna, and another 1 for my mother-in-law.

So we headed to White Sands' Swensens.

First the soup of the day. Think it's vegetable soup. *shrug*

We have side dishes that come with the meal. We ordered these:



Mussels, Prawn Dipper, and Rodeo Wings.
For main course, Karinna and myself had the medium-rare Ribeye Steak, and my mother-in-law took the Chicken-in-a-Jacket.


Overall, the food is so-so. Of the above, the better one would be the Rodeo Wings.

At Swensens, you cannot leave without eating ice cream. Since the meal comes with a scoop of ice cream, of course we didn't order any other.

Ice cream is not bad.

Best of all, I love the feeling of eating 霸王餐.
Just leave without paying after eating.
COOL!

Maidless

This morning, sent my maid to the airport. She went back home to help take care of her daughter who is going to give birth in a few days' time. Yeah, my maid is going to be a granny soon.

Already told her to watch out her luggage weight, in the end, have to pay extra 8kg of excess baggage! 1kg costs $10! Wow, if put my in as excess baggage, that would be $750 extra!
Ooops!

Thus, we'll be left without maid for the next 3 weeks or so.
So have to do a bit more house chores again. *yawn*

Hope she enjoys her break from our clutches. :D