New CDs!

Yesterday evening, went to walk Tampines Central with Karinna after dinner.
It's definitely a better time to be at Tampines Mall or Century Square or Tampines One, as compared to weekends. :D

Actually, I had wanted to buy some CDs. I haven't bought CDs for the longest time yeah.

Went to the shops around the Interchange first. Didn't really have much to look around.
Then we headed towards Century Square. Bought some soya ice cream for Karinna, then walked around the place for a while.
Not much of CD shop for me to see also. :P

Then went to Tampines Mall. Ahhh... The music CD shop at level 4 has closed shop. I mean it is no longer there anymore.
Oh well. Some guys have all the luck!

Fret not! There's Popular at level 3!
So went there. Karinna went to browse some books, I went for the CDs.

These are my hunts:

Clockwise:
On the top left, its "Treasures" by Richard Clayderman. Hasn't heard his piano playing for a long time. It comes with 3 CDs, so I guess it's quite a good buy.
On the top right, that's "Smash Hits", a 3-CD compilation of definitive sounds of the 80s. Cool. I like.
On the bottom right, it's "80s Dance", another 2-CD compilation of the 80s pop dance music. Don't really know why I bought it, probably it's not that expensive I guess. 15 bucks.
On the bottom left, it's "你还有个我", a music compilation by Funkie Monkies who basically were involved in music and songs for the movie "881". This particular CD is a little more meaningful, as the royalties collected will go towards Down Syndrome Association (Singapore) to help them with their living.
This is the CD that I had wanted to buy. The rest were by-products. :P

Well, too many choices now.
Don't know which one to start listening.
heh heh heh

PS: Had problem with making new post yesterday, so dumped this in today.

Twelve Days of Meditation

Today, we started a course on meditation, at Hwa Chong Institution.

Strictly speaking, it should not be considered meditation. It is more to use some techniques to enable the use of the energy within our body to make us healthier, to put it simply.

It's called 真气运行学.
It's supposed founded by Professor 李少波教授.
Not that I know who he is or what. :D

And this course is conducted from 1930 to 2230 starting from today for consecutive 12 days!
Including Sat/Sun too!

So for these 12 days, timing is pretty tight, and by the time reach home, it's like already 11pm!

So what we learnt today?

Today, we learn to breathe.
Yes.
Breathe, and concentrate on a spot area about 1 inch below your heart, and concentrate on that area when breathing out.

Supposedly to feel 'something'.

I think I am always slow to feel things, so didn't feel much, except a little stuffy around that area.
Once you felt that 'something', you are somewhere 'promoted' to next level.

Hehehe. Only Karinna gets it, the green belt.
I'm still yellow belt.

Maybe tomorrow ... ...

Will Writing

Yesterday, I nearly died.

As I was driving out from my office carpark, I was looking out for cars coming from my adjacent angles.
There is a traffic light near the exit of the carpark.

On my way out, the view on my right on-coming vehical was blocked by a truck parking along the side of the road.
As I saw the traffic lights were red for my adjacent vehicles, I drove out towards the opposite side of the road.

Just as I moved out, one HUGE truck (those that carry the container type, smaller) was coming towards me from the right!
He wanted to beat the traffic light.
DAMN IDIOT.
But luckily, he still had time to stop, otherwise, I may become a prata on the road. :P

Ironically, or coincidentally, whatever you may like to call, I was driving to pick Karinna to attend a talk on "Will Writing".

Hah! How interesting huh?!?

Well, the talk on "Will Writing" was pretty interesting.

We know it is good and important to make a will, but usually procrastinate till you never know when to do it.
Such talk will always make you think of wanting to do it, and then sometimes, you forget again ... ...

The only thing is, a simple will is never going to make it easy for the will to be implemented correctly, and accordingly.
Complicated will is going to make your head big big until you feel like tearing the will apart.

To will or not to will, that is, whose question? :P

LCCT

On the day when I went KL, I was disappointed that I arrived at LCCT. Probably stands for Low Cost Carrier Terminal? Not sure.
I was hoping to take the train from KLIA to KL City, but alas, a mistake on my part in choosing the airline without looking carefully, resulted in that.
Dumb dumb!

Was walking around the place a bit, and saw this couple talking. Didn't really hear them talk, but I was imagining their conversation went like this.
Woman: Hey! What's that on your pants? Eeeks!
Man: (frantically looking down at his pants) What?!?! Where?!?! Huh?? WHAT?!?!!!!!
Woman: That thing! eeeeks!
Man starts jumping here and there for a while.

From there, I saw a cockcroach dropped down onto the floor, and the man kicked it away from him. The cockcroach got kicked and landed a short distance away, and hurriedly ran off elsewhere ...

Exciting. Interesting. Disgusting.

Since I was very free there, I took a bus from LCCT towards the city, more specifically, KL Sentral.
Very long never take a 40-seater bus, and only left the back seat somehow. Bus is quite full, take a look:

On reaching KL Sentral, I met up with my friend YinFoong. Here, he was checking with the people there to see if he can park his car safely there, without getting fines.

We just went for dinner, catch up a little, before I needed to head towards my booked hotel to make sure the room is still there for me!
The traffic there was quite heavy even at 7+pm, so I just took the train myself to find my way to the hotel.

Not that difficult to find in the end. I only know roughly the area to go, Chinatown area. :P
Found the place, checked-in and rested. Not so bad actually, although cannot really compare with the bigger ones since I paid only like S$60 for it.

The next morning, after the buffet breakfast from the hotel (not bad actually), took a taxi down to Damansara Uptown.
Where the hell right? I don't know also. The taxi driver was also a little lost, and we make about 1-2 turns around the place and when finally alighted, it was just where we were when we just entered the area. hahaha
This is where lots of the big companys have an office in, in Petaling Jaya.

When the intro-training ended, it was onlu about 5pm. After chatting with one of the partipants, I went to OneUtama, I think it's the biggest shopping centre in PJ. Had some quick dinner there, and then headed my way to the airport.

Of course, the airport is small, not many things to do. Just before I boarded the plane, took a picture off the place.

Hopefully, I won't step into LCCT again.

Because NO TRAIN!! :P

Budget Terminal

Today is the first time I enter into our Budget Terminal, the terminal which had a naming contest for the budget terminal, and in the end, named as the "Budget Terminal".

It's pretty small. Just a few shops around the check-in area.
The departure gate entrance is just a few steps beside the check-in counters.



There are more shops inside. You cannot do away with Duty Free Shop in any airport, do you?
The whole shopping place is probably smaller than a football field even.
Then again, shopping is not my kind of thing.


Good thing is that, there is still an "Internet Zone" just before the boarding gates. So still can make use of my laptop to do something.
I'm sitting just right here!

And nope, I am not excited at all.
Taking Tiger Airways to Kuala Lumpur. Back tomorrow night.

Chilli Padi

On Saturday, we went to this place called "Chilli Padi" at Heng Mui Keng Terrace, which is at one end of the NUS campus area.

It's a pretty quiet place, especially since it's the weekend. Quite a nice place actually.

We were there for High-Tea Buffet, serviing nonya food.
It's pretty cheap, only $7.80, and this being a new outlet, it has a 30% discount for time being. Don't know how long it will last though.

Of course, with that pricing, cannot expect too much from the food.
It has laksa, mee siam, plus the various nonya kuehs available.
At that kind of pricing, it is definitely value for money.

Since it's at such ulu place, it's still worthwhile to note that there are still pretty many people who went there for the buffet. It was not full house occupancy, but I think it's about 80% occupied with foodies.
hehehe. Not bad for a ulu place.

See Karinna grinning and waiting for the food ... ... ...

Mouseless Days

See this?
Yes. This is my mouse.
The mouse which has been with me since year 2002, and still working hard for me.

2 days ago, was doing stuff at a customer site, and left my mouse there.
Thursday night, whole of Friday, and the morning part of today, my life was without my mouse.

Felt quite handicapped with the mouse to work on the computer actually. And my mouse is of mid-size type, not too big, not too small.
Just nice for my little petite hand. hahaha

Well, today had some meeting in office in the morning, and our partner from the customer site brought back my mouse for me. Of course, he needed to pass me something else, otherwise why would he take the trouble just to hand me my mouse.

Finally, reunited with my mouse.
Now can use my laptop with more ease. :)

老鼠老鼠我爱你
老鼠老鼠真美丽
你是我的小武器
没你的日子不容易！

:D

Car Scratch

Today was whole day out of office.

Morning went to a customer site to do some demo.
Not fantastic, and probably a long shot to do stuff with them.

Afternoon, went to IBP to meet up another colleague.

Left the place around 4pm.
Guess what, as I reversed my car, I forgot that I was quite near the wall.
As I tried to swirl my car backwards to the right side, I heard scratchy noise from the front of my car.

D'uh!
Dumb me!
I was thinking at that time, that something interesting must have happend there.
Argh!!!!!

Heck care heck care!

Drove all the way back, and it was rainy all the way.
Only when arrived at destination did I take a look at the car.

Guess what, my black car now has strains of yellow paints on the bumper.
It's unique and good to differentiate from other Black Nissan Sunny now I guess.
Ho ho ho!

Also, saw on my facebook, that one of my friends' cancer is now at stage4, and doctor says she has like 6 more months or so.
:(
Well, life is indeed unpredictable.
But she has been strong in facing it, as it appears.

Evelyn, hope a miracle can happen for you!

Dogs' World

Yesterday, went to a gathering with Karinna's friends.
Just a small dinner session at Wendy's place, at Sengkang.

She has a dog also, a male schnauzer called Ricco. More like tico(pek). lol

Anyway, we brought our girls there, and went to some park around Punggol there.
There are many people flying kites there ok!
And the kites are all quite big, I think. Too high up there for me to see.

After the walk, it's time to adjourn to Wendy's home.
Of course, the main centre of attraction are the 3 dogs, and Kelly, the little girl from another couple friend.

It's fun to disturb her with the dogs though. Only thing is, she gets to be ok with the dogs after a while. :P

Ricco, being the overly-amourous canine, he keeps chasing my little Sapphire, and tried caressing my Sapphire all over.
Worst still, he kept licking Sapphire over and over, and my poor Sapphire had ultra-wet dog-licked neck the whole night!
Ricco is not so interested in Precious, maybe Precious is older, and getting toothless. Not so attractive in dog's world anymore.
Sapphire being young, and always like people's attention, sure cannot escape Ricco's eyes. He just can't keep his eyes off her, and paws too!

Meanwhile, our food was good. The beef kway teow soup was quite nice. Our fried chicken was all eaten up as well. To think of it, the amount of food there was actually quite a lot.
We ate a lot! Ooooops.

At the end of the food, chit-chat and canine-chases, our 2 little girls were very tired.
On the way home, they were quick to rest and sleep in the car.
Good for them.

These are just some pictures taken for Precious and Sapphire in my car while waiting to go to Wendy's place.