My Rambles and Nonsense =)

Unfortunate

2009-03-27T08:17:00.000-07:00

My work, life and stress have caught up on me and i have decided not to blog much. No more promise or anything. Well, i will be focusing my energies on this event url instead. Do take a look.

http://www.mywedding.com/haoloveyi/

RSVP will be send out only during May - Sept 09 as the event will only take place during Dec. Of course if you are very happy to attend the event, please do RSVP earlier. Be the earliest attendees to RSVP and witness the wedding of two piglets (Hao & Yi)

Free Management Course =)

2009-03-13T00:17:00.000-07:00

I find the below stories meaningful and funny.

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Story 1
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up hershower, when the doorbell rings.

The wife quickly wraps herself ! in a towel and runs downstairs.

When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbour.

Before she says a word, Bob says, 'I'll give you $800 to drop that towel.' After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked infront of Bob, after a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves.

The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.

When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, 'Who was that?'

'It was Bob the next door neighbour,' she replies..

'Great,' the husband says, 'did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?'

Moral of the story:
If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

Story 2
A priest offered a Nun a lift. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident.

After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg.

The nun said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?' The priest removed his hand. But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again.

The nun once again said, 'Father, remember Psalm 129?'

The priest apologized 'Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.'

Arriving at the convent, the nun sighed heavily and went on her way.On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look u! p Psalm 129.

It said, 'Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.'

Moral of the story:
If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a greatopportunity.

Story 3
A sales rep! , an administration clerk, and the manager are walking tolunch when they find an antique oil lamp.

They rub it and a Genie comes out.The Genie says, 'I'll give each of you just one wish.''Me first! Me first!' says the admin clerk. '

I want to be in the Bahamas ,driving a speedboat, without a care in the world.'Puff! She's gone.

'Me next! Me next!' says the sales rep. 'I want to be in Hawaii , relaxingon the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladasand the love of my life.'

Puff! He's gone.

'OK, you're up,' the Genie says to the manager. The manager says, 'I want those two back in the office after lunch.'

Moral of the story:
Always let your boss have the first say.

Story 4
An eagle was sitting on a tree! resting, doing nothing.

A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, 'Can I also sit like you and do nothing?'The eagle answered: 'Sure, why not.'

So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of asudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story:
To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.

Story 5
A turkey was chatting with a bull. 'I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree' sighed the turkey,'but I haven't got the energy.

''Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?' replied the bull.They're packed with nutrients.'

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enoughstrength to reach the lowest branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top ofthe tree.

He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.

Moral of the story:
Bull Shit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there

Story 6
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the birdfroze and fell to the ground into a large field.

While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was.

The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.

A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cowdung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Morals of the story:

(1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
(2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is yourfriend.
(3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keepyour mouth shut!

THUS ENDS THE FIVE MINUTE MANAGEMENT COURSE

My Work

2009-03-10T19:31:00.000-07:00

Work Work

It has been a long time since I worked overtime for my job. I went back to work on Saturday and worked for a total of 14 hrs. Then on Monday and Tuesday, I also worked overtime, clocking 14 hr and 14.5 hrs each.

The feeling is tiring, but my mind was filled with money cashing in. I am not lying. On Tuesday, one of my colleagues wanted to give up around 10.10pm and my inner thought was, “hmm, we should work till 11pm so that I can claim one more hour of OT pay”.

Now my only concern is that I might get off-in-lieu instead of OT pay. That will almost defeat my purpose.

I wonder if there will be OT today.

Weird day

Have you ever thought of a day which you might lose your wallet and everything is lost?

Hence I have always separated the items in my wallet to an external cardholder. I have IC in my wallet, and 11B (Army ID) in my cardholder.

My bank A debit card in my cardholder and bank B debit card in my wallet. This is to ensure that I won’t lose everything if either one went missing. To ensure survivability, I kept small amount of cash in my cardholder for emergency.

Then came the day my prophecy came true. I left my wallet on my office table and went for lunch. Upon ordering of food, I realized my wallet missing. I panicked for a second before I remember I have an emergency card holder, my savior.

Back in the office, I retrieved my wallet and immediately reimburse the cash amount in my cardholder.

After my OT, I took a cab home and wanted to pay the driver a $50 notes. He said he had no change, flaunting multiple $50 notes in front of me (luckily I am not a robber. After searching my wallet, I realized I also do not have enough small notes in my wallet. I asked if he had nets machine, he said “no”. Then came my savior again. With it, I managed to gather $18, just enough to pay for my $17.60 cab fare (which I am going to claim from ah gong, my company).

I was saved twice by my cardholder, my emergency purse… the power of contingency plan. That somehow made me feel great as the mechanism put in place actually works.

Miku cute song

2009-03-08T07:09:00.000-07:00

Farnie song =)

I am smoking

2009-02-26T00:46:00.000-08:00

After reading the article found below, i realised i am actually smoking 1-10 cigarettes per day and my chance to die prematurely is great =)

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Source - Yahoo News

PARIS (AFP) - - Simply being overweight, but not obese, from an early age boosts the risk of premature death by a third -- as much as smoking up to 10 cigarettes a day, researchers in Sweden reported Wednesday.

People who are clinically obese by the age of 18 more than double that risk, putting themselves in the same danger zone as long-term heavy smokers of normal weight, they found.

And combining the two factors accumulates the risk: an obese heavy smoker, for example, is nearly five times as likely to die prematurely than a non-smoker who is neither too thin nor too fat.

At least a billion people in the world are overweight, and nearly a third of them are obese, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Obesity rates have soared over the last three decades, especially among children.

Earlier studies have shown that being excessively fat shortens lifespan and leads to increased rates of chronic disease such as diabetes and arteriosclerosis.

But researchers have disagreed sharply up to now on whether being above ideal weight without crossing the line to obesity takes years off one's life.

Nor have previous studies directly compared the impact on mortality of smoking and excess weight.

The study designed by Martin Neovius of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm goes a long way to settling the debate, and shows clearly for the first time that being too heavy can be as dangerous as smoking a couple of packs a day.

Neovius and colleagues analysed data for 45,000 men who underwent mandatory military conscription tests in Sweden in 1969 and 1970 at the age of 18.

Data included participants' smoking habits, and their body-mass index (BMI) -- weight in kilogrammes divided by the square of one's height in meters.

A BMI of 25-to-30 indicates being overweight, while above 30 means one is obese. The range of normal weight is 18.5-to-24.9.

The follow up period was, on average, 38 years. During that time, 2,897 subjects died.

The lowest death rate, as expected, was among non-smokers of normal weight. But researchers were surprised to find that being obese carried a greater risk of premature death than being a heavy smoker.

Even more startling, however, were the dangers of being overweight.

"What we show is that for the overweight, there is a significantly increased risk of premature death, similar to smoking one-to-ten cigarettes a day," said Neovius in a phone interview.

Two key studies in the United States -- one at the Center for Disease Control and the famous Nurses' Health Study at Harvard -- had arrived at opposite conclusions on this question.

"Our results confirm the Harvard findings," said Neovius, whose research was published in the British Medical Journal.

The two studies are highly complementary, he added. "We find exactly the same in men and they did in women," erasing any doubts as to possible differences across the sexes.

The Swedish study did find, however, that being severely underweight -- a BMI of under 17 -- carried about the same risk of early death as being overweight or a light smoker.

Policy makers should take note of these results, and increase awareness of the risks related to being too fat, or too thin, Neovius said.

"Anti-smoking campaigns have been very successful. But we don't have any good preventative programmes for overweight and obesity," he said of Sweden, adding that the situation elsewhere is comparable.

URL - http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090225/tts-health-disease-obesity-tobacco-c1b2fc3.html

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Blog Update

2009-02-26T00:35:00.001-08:00

I have removed the events on the right area and place a link to events on top. Notice that there is an events button on top. That links to a list of events or activities i have in plan.

Anyway, don't bother to take a look.

New beginning

2009-02-21T05:30:00.000-08:00

A new life chapter is beginning for me real soon as i have taken a very big step today. 21st Feb 09.

Perhaps some of you might guess, it is related to the above map.

I shan't not say more for now. Story to be continued some time later...

Right now i am full of anxiety and really looking forward to things to come. Meanwhile, i must also act on finding a more permanent job. =)

Animal Abuse

2009-02-18T18:38:00.000-08:00

Yesterday my house had some unexpected visitors and it seems that they are here to stay for a couple of year most probably. Rodents, yes and a family of 5!

My sis took some newspaper to lie on a corner of the living room which I thought she was up to no good. Then I saw a cage, and I was damn surprised she would burden herself with “animal abuse”.

She took home a cage of 5 hamsters and I almost fainted. Not in fear of the cute little animals, but in fear of me carrying the responsibility to look after 5 lives.

I shouted “Animal Abuse ah!” as I always felt keeping animals in cage is seriously depriving them of freedom. Freedom to see the world and enjoy what life provides. Of course logically we can’t keep them without caging them, but I would rather watch them in videos, photos or otherwise.

I would never want to be caged. Would you imagine for the next 20-30 years, you will be living in a small room, walking just from left to right? Eating things that you might not want, but without choice?

If you have wings to fly, but were never allow to use it, how would you feel? Well, it is of course my personal view, and my apology to all pet owners, no offense. Personally, I won’t keep a pet, unless they can be reasoned, think, behave and act like human do… I think there is none =)

Good luck to my sister, and hope those 5 hamsters don’t hurt each other. Yesterday I have already heard plenty of bickering noises and this morning they separate themselves into warring factions. I wonder who the gang leader is and who the victim is.

Happy Valentine

2009-02-13T07:26:00.000-08:00

Hi All, have a Great Valentine Day.

Here's something special made for my XY. Not well made but better than nothing =)

Incoming

2009-02-11T23:10:00.000-08:00

Recently I am still in the midst of searching for a HDB flat and will probably restart my effort to look for better job prospect.

I have revamped my web site, my pricing scheme, my contract and documents. Though they are some imperfection, however none are extremely critical at this point. Things can stay that way for a couple of weeks before I have the time to start bitchin’ on it again.

I am also very honored to be able to join EOY’s organizing team for EOY 09. I will be helping a little on design adjustment and minor details. It is a pretty exciting and major project to work in.

That’s all for this entry. See ya

Blog Problem

2009-02-08T22:25:00.000-08:00

Previously part of the user interface images of my blog template have broken links. This was due to the designer's photobucket account being overloaded.

At that point, i could not afford time to fix my blog till today. Thus my blog was temporary closed from viewing.

Now my blog should be back and running again. This time, i took over the control of the UI images and made some minor adjustment.

View the top banner, and it won't be hard to find out that i have added the v-day text.

Enough about my blog. Recently i am pretty busy with house searching and financial planning for my own family-to-be. Many unwanted problems deviated my plans and i am pretty frustrated at times.

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Ahhh before i close of this entry, PLEASE VISIT MY WEBSITE @ - http://www.icreativecapital.com/

I have added new services that my business can handle. Should you have friends, relatives or clients or colleagues that require graphic designer, please help refer them to me. =)

2009-01-30T07:00:00.000-08:00

My latest drawing. Pretty much map from previous one, changed the size physique alittle...

Vampire

2009-01-21T04:49:00.000-08:00

My latest drawing - Lisa Valentine (Vampire Girl). She's very fierce.

Update more later. Handling Client issue.

Edits -

Just to add, kudos to Ah Han for his crazy programming skills. He made a very good invention that gave me my favorite songs of my choice =)

Ichiban! Thumbs up!

Nice Song

2009-01-19T07:08:00.000-08:00

Sometimes when we touched

When i listen to the song, i feel relaxed and have lovey dovey feeling. Perhaps you do will find it sweet and nice.

More to look forward

2009-01-18T06:16:00.000-08:00

Today wasn't a happy day for me in the morning because of rubbish crap.

In the late noon, i met up with XY to have some discussion. we chat alot and thanks to Estee's magazine, i grewth more interest and looking more forward to plan our wedding.

Now that we made some simple budgeting, i came to terms with the amount of cash required. A heavy sum, and will need more painful sacrifice from both of us.

I will also need to do some serious workout for the possible photoshoot.

Till then i have more planning and actions to keep up with.

Major Update

2009-01-17T04:30:00.000-08:00

Since it is Year 2009, i have decided to do a site revamp. Yup, it is another blog template design by some stranger whom i probably won't even meet.

However, this is the best template i have implemented so far. Good thing is now everyone can leave a comment on the blog entry, previously locked. Hopefully i get to see some comments when i wrote so controvesy stuffs that not everyone will agree on.

The width of the blog entry is also pretty much nicer. Previously was pretty small and i had to ignore the restrictions and uploaded out of range photos. Kudos to the designer. He/she has a credit link at the bottom of my blog.

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Today i went for Tim's wedding. It is a beautiful wedding with lots of gorgeous people, talented people and maybe a few fat people like me.

Tim and wife were prefect, each made fantastic speeches. I am amazed at how calm & "zhai" Tim can be during his vow. Great Job~

Was a pity i didn't bring my camera, well it's battery is still dead after the battle during EOY. I never did bother to recharge it. Guess it is time to get it up for uncertainty time.

During the wedding, there was a girl, Joey (a lolita), Tim's employee, who presented the newly-wed couple two beautiful songs. Her voice was amazing, charming and mesmerizing. I saw much of the guys around me were all swept apart by her voice. I never thought i would enjoy hearing opera style singing, but coupled with her lovely face, it is totally enjoying.

In some wedding dinner, the guests normally pays more attention to the food than to the performer, but she was exceptionally captivating. Some performancers totally wheck weddings, she made the wedding much more interesting.

Just a side note, she caught my attention way before her marvellous performance. She is one of the prettier lolita around.

Today i also saw in person, Mingfa's fiancee and Bob's girlfriend. Those two guys are very xinfu too =)

After the event, i went lan gaming with Roy. Was fun even though i lost the match. It proves i am not good with every hero. My range of heroes that i am comfortable with is rather shallow. I am alittle too overconfident to use -random command. LOL

That's all for Tim's wedding. I wished i can have mine too... not yet, mada mada ne

Oh before i forgot, Tim and Ling's wedding photos are so well taken, and i can't find a suitable word to put. ICHIBAN

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Now i am blogging in the dark, alone in my room, listening to light music. I feel so relaxed... I guess i do love some space for privacy. In my future new house, i would also create a relaxing study room in case me or her needed some privacy.

Till next time blog.

A lolita

Random Update

2009-01-11T06:10:00.000-08:00

Random Update

Here's a preview of my product using 3D modelling software. It's not well textured and modeled as i am only a novice. But i am happy i achieved this much.

I watched Redcliff 2 today, i like it though many might not.

So much for this blog entry, i can't think of anything else to write. Next time then.

Yr 2009

2009-01-04T07:00:00.000-08:00

Year 2009

I longer have internet access at my workplace, hence i be blogging less as a result.

Here to wish everyone a Happy New Year.

I am currently learning to use Maya for 3D modelling. Hope i can pick it up real quick. It's quite fun for a start, but it gets intimidating when there are simply so much to learn.

Simple Happiness

2008-12-22T07:01:00.000-08:00

Today i just gave a PC 17" Monitor to Stanley. I feel happy doing so, i can only say that is a kind of simple happiness.

Recently promised making a logo picture for Roy. I did some research and came up with a design that i like. However, it lacks something.

I'm so lazy that i don't feel like transferring my Batam photos. I'm only willing to lie on my bed playing my PSP - Winning Eleven.

Nite Blog, no photo for this entry.

Amazed

2008-12-17T21:27:00.000-08:00

Amazed

I am amazed by the increasing number of dogs and stray cats in the street, non-literally.

The dogs just mate and move on to the next cat. While the cats get hurt silly, in some cases, pregnant. Some moved on, some just trapped themself.

What did the cats fall prey to the dogs? Who is to blame? Oh well, i can't be bothered.

Just my view for young cats out there, don't be silly and open your eyes bigger. Only the extreme rare breed is loyal - like me.

Jokes

2008-12-16T20:17:00.000-08:00

Singlish Jokes

Here's some Singlish jokes i would like to share. Quite funny.

Teacher: Ah Kau, if your father has $10 and you ask him for $6, how
much would your father still have?
Ah Kau: $10.
Teacher: You don't know Maths.
Ah Kau: You don't know my father la!

Mother: David, come here.
David: Yes, mum.
Mother: You really disappoint me. Your results are getting worse.
David: But but but....I will only get my report card tomorrow ???
Mother: I know that, but I'm going Hong Kong tomorrow
so I'm scolding you now.

Father: Why did you fail your Mathematics Test?
Son: On Monday, teacher said 3 + 5 = 8
Father: So?
Son: On Tuesday, she said 4 + 4 = 8.
On Wednesday, she said 6 + 2 = 8.
If she can't make up her mind, how I know the right answer one ???

Girl: Do you love me?
Boy: Yes Dear.
Girl: Would you die for me?
Boy: No la, mine is undying love only !!!

Man: How old is your father?
Boy: Same as me la.
Man: How can that be?
Boy: He only became a father when I born lo !!!

Teacher: Simon, your composition on "My Dog" is exactly the same as
your brother's. Did you copy his?
Simon: No la, teacher. It's the same dog!

Father: Your teacher says she finds it impossible to teach you anything!
Son: That's why I tell you she's no good!

Teacher: Where were you born?
Student: Singapore , Sir.
Teacher: Which part?
Student: All of me ma....

A boy came home from school with his exam results.
" What did you get?" asked his father.
" My marks are under water," said the boy.
" What do you mean 'under water'?"
" They are all below 'C' (sea) level !"

Marina Barrage

2008-12-14T06:03:00.000-08:00

Photos taken at Marina Barrage.

2008-12-13T20:08:00.000-08:00

My Share of EOY 08 Cosplay Photos. Anyone who wish to have the original photo, just tag or email me at Vincent@icreativecapital.com.

I'm not a fan of dolls, but here's one of them for doll fans

This would be any Gundam fan's favourite cute collection

Group photo

This photo is for all ladies viewer (XY & ling etc.) I like the guy with gun, he looks good.

Free Ad for Pocky...

The guy is also very nice looking.

Nice Misa, pretty

A big contrast due to modern backdrop and historic characters

Goth Loli !!

Bunny !!

She's good too

Ah my favourite among all i have taken

This Eoy, i did not take too many photos. I am also pretty lazy to ask. =)

Pretty Ladies

2008-12-12T06:50:00.000-08:00

Hidden Photos

One is my darling, the other is our common poly classmate Steph. Pretty Pretty.

Btw these photos have not been publish till today in my blog exclusively. =)

This is a photo of me. See at your own risk.

2008-12-11T01:17:00.000-08:00

Resolution

Recently I have started listing my Resolution for Yr 2009. I met most of my resolution for Yr 2008, but I intend to make Yr 2009 a better year, despite the bad economy outlook and world situation.

I won’t list my resolution here however I will just roughly touch on what I will be focusing on.

As a start, I will be strengthening my data control & mgt (management). With better data control, I will be able start to gathering more information on various areas. Areas like family planning, relationship mgt, financial mgt, and health mgt will be part of my data control.

Besides all those, I will focus a great deal of effort on self improvement and business mgt. I didn’t set any resolution on self improvement this year, so in the coming year, I will need to work harder.

The inclusion of family planning is also something new, which makes my goals in Yr 2009 much more interesting. For relationship mgt, I will be coming up with my own Family Day and Friendship Day. At least there will be more things to look forward to per month.

Many goals are set for the year. Those goals are prone to unforeseen circumstances I fear. Nonetheless, if those are achieved, it will be a fruitful year for me.

Battle

2008-12-09T00:22:00.000-08:00

Battle

As I tried to know more of how friends around me are faring in this world, I began to compare their status to mine. I definitely pale in comparison when talking about financial status. The only thing comparable that I have is having a stable relationship with a life partner, which I have come quite far as compared to some of my peers.

Due to this comparison, I could easily fall into depression as I began to self-doubt my own intelligence, my ability, my decision making, and my image etc. A pure sense of low confident engulfs my heart. What went wrong, why am I so incompetence, why am I earning so little?

My battle against depression rages on.

The empathetic angel in my heart keeps telling me that I need not compare with everyone better off than me. There are always people less well off than me. I should be happy with what I already have, and work on to improve on what I have.

Yet the cunning devil in me keeps putting me down. He wants me to see the fragility of my life. He enlarges my weaknesses, while showing me how well others are doing. He forces me to bow down and give in to fate, so that he can destroy my life completely.

A part of me keeps on fighting the forces of evil and keeps reminding myself not to give up. A part of me keeps making me see how a failure I am, homing and digging in to my confidence in life, trying so hard to destroy it completely.

Luckily there is a pillar of support that helps contain the devil inside me. She is XY, whom I find my last remaining strength from. Nothing is for certain, thus I can’t help but fear the possibility of life without her.

Perhaps life would be much simpler without much thinking. There are people who do not plan for their future, living life by the day. Can I afford to be like them and ignore the uncertainties in life? Or should I resign to fate that I am much less competence than my peers?

In fact, I have never doubt my own ability until I see what the people in the world are producing. I may be happy with my design or work, then one day I saw someone else’s work, I got so embarrassed with the standard of work I did.

So tell me how should I face such reality? The angel is telling me to get up, find ways to improve and win the competition. The devil is telling me that I am simply not good enough, and I am good at none.

When I was at AFA 08, my friends asked me to make a drawing onto the area where visitors are allowed to add in their manga drawings. I saw two types of people. There are people who are happy to contribute their drawing even though their art are clearly out of proportion and certainly below-par, while there are some who contribute their really good talent and skills in drawing. My possible production would only stand in as a mediocre or even as a below-average piece of work. Hence I declined any suggestion to show my drawings.

My question is - what makes those people contribute their drawings when clearly their skills are not on par with others?

Even when it comes to working, a company may hire someone who claims to be competent in excel. When he starts work, he didn’t know how to use v-lookup function, macro etc. that is required in his work. Yet he dares to apply for the job and live off his company.

Similarly, I do not use adobe illustrator but certain job description states must be knowledgeable in adobe illustrator, do I just ignore that requirement and act as if I know?

There are again two types of people I see. One is someone who is less conscious of things around them and the other one is someone who looks at things more seriously.

Maybe I should start to worry less, and fight my way through. Perhaps like kung fu panda, who has no talent in kung fu, fighting his way in the world of martial arts. Eventually finding his way around it.

I do have similarity with that panda. I am fat and with dark eye circles. Hope I will find my way one day too, before it’s too late.

Dota with Roy

2008-12-02T07:39:00.000-08:00

Dota with Roy

Today i went out with Roy for a dinner at Liang Court. We ended up in a lan shop playing dota.

It was lots of fun playing together as a team and fighting as one.

It was an absolute epic battle which we had zero kill and yet won the game. The saying goes, we may lose the battle but we won the war. Great job bro!

Was a fun date nonetheless.

Strange World

2008-12-02T01:52:00.000-08:00

Strange World

The world is bigger than we typically think of in our daily life. It is not just the brand of make up you use, or the car that you just purchased.

With the recent terrorist attacks, many of us play the blame game. Some blame it on religion, some blame it on country, some blame it on the government etc.

So here’s what I think. Irrational people, who twisted the religion teachings / or their own belief, in order to psycho somebody / themselves to destroy others, in the name of their twisted religion / belief. However, what are the motives of the masterminds? What made them do what they are doing?

Perhaps for revenge, jealousy, greed, survival or some hidden conspiracy of world order.

People make actions as they desire results. When they abandon all conscience and concern to achieve their results, they become in-human or monstrous.

I often wonder if some of the terrorists group can be reasoned or negotiated with? Or are they totally irrationalized and can no longer be made peaceful?

I understand that many of them dislike foreign countries for stepping into their country and they form groups to oppose their intervention. Apparently, no one likes to have others meddling with their own affairs. But why would others want to intervene and “KPO” with other countries’ affair?

I cannot judge / tell for sure who start all the terrorist issue. But one thing I can guess is that, someone / country / group has made an attack / suppress on another. So the other has to retaliate, and the international community has to step in to stop the conflict and punish the aggressor.

A simplistic solution would be an act of FORGIVENESS that avoids conflict and retaliation. Yet, this solution is rarely considered or effective. For e.g. Mumbai after the terrorist attacks, would the India government and its people step out to announce their forgiveness to the aggressor? Will they ask the terrorist group to step forward to acknowledge their mistake and deeds so as to receive forgiveness? Will the terror group even apologize? Answer is NO for both sides.

So naturally, India and its people will condemn the attack, and seek redress, perhaps through retaliation or punishment. That in turn will bring in vicious cycles like US versus Terrorist groups over 911 attacks.

Perhaps forgiveness for such malicious and atrocious attacks is entirely out of the question. However, would forgiveness as most religion has suggested, be the actual answer? Or would forgiveness bring forth more audacity for terrorist to attack?

Group A suppress Group B, Group B decides to retaliate with terrorist attacks, Group A seeks redress and punishment, Group A attacks with counter terrorist measure, Group B puts up more fight and effort. The cycle will carry on with more casualties than the scenario where admittance of mistakes and forgiveness is given.

Sadly, even though I believe forgiveness is the best solution to many world affairs, it is one of the hardest to accept and implement action in human nature. You might still be able to forgive someone who slaps you in the face, but you will find it so much impossible to forgive someone who has stepped over the line and stabs you in the stomach. Perhaps it is much easier to just retaliate than to eat the humiliation and pain suffered, especially when death / fatality is involved.

No wonder there is little forgiveness in the world stage. Human have their pride, dignity and some other consideration that kills forgiveness. Like Nan Jin’s incident, if full apology and forgiveness is given, the issue would have been history.

There will always be some group of people who take pride in their own justification and beliefs that blinds them from admitting mistake or forgiving others.

As such is the flaw in human that breeds conflict and stalemate on many of the world issues we face. Hence, I believe that there will be no true world peace until full admittance of mistake and forgiveness is practiced by everyone. In human nature, there is simply no such thing, world peace is just a spectrum that we seek.

To make things worst, the world has many other problems.

To name a few:

- Global warming
- Rising Sea level
- Increasing amount of Natural Disasters (drought, famine, cyclone, tsunami, earthquake, Volcanic eruption)
- Diminishing and scarcity of natural resources (Power, food, water etc.)
- Diseases and plague (e.g. SARs, AIDs, or Mutated form of fatal virus etc.)
- Economy crisis, wealth gap
- War (internal and external) between countries and groups
- Nuclear weapon / Weapon of Mass Destruction threat and danger
- Extinction of life species that affects the food chain
- Pollution and damage to environment, species and life.
- Digital intrusion to private life (hacking and online crimes)

These issues are big and major ones that requires big amount of efforts and countries to resolve. I believe given the current capacity and thinking of human kind, there will only be a slow and tough resolution for each of the issues.

If we think of some issues using simple mind, for e.g. Nuclear weapon and calling for all countries to disarm them, so that it is no issue at all. NOT POSSIBLE! Many political factors, security factors, economy factors and human factors are in the way of a seemingly simple solution.

Part of the Global warming issue and scarcity of resources are due to rapid development of human civilization. However, no countries will want or will be able to stop its path on development. China and India alleged of emitting great amount of pollution from its developing industries. Asking them to stop? Almost IMPOSSIBLE, as no other country would volunteer to slow down considerably or stop their development. Like earth, it is always spinning without stop. Perhaps back at Stone Age, where there are less people and little to no pollution, that’s where the world is at its most peaceful years.

Having advance to the age we lived in right now, there is simply no return ticket. We can only strive to develop & use technology to solve the modern day issue. Hopefully it does not create more problem instead.

The more we think and look at world issue, the more worries we will get. However, the world has world leaders that deals with such issues and direct the world economy and development.

Our future lies in their plans. Somehow, I suspect that some world events could be some hidden conspiracy plan executed by world leaders. We will never know if someone is controlling the terrorist attacks or someone is planning for world domination or particular global industrial monopoly or collecting spoils from a well planned fail economy or poisonous products to slowly thin human population.

Perhaps due to scarcity of resources, plague disease and economy, world leaders might resort to hidden agenda of thinning in human population for survivability. Of course this is just an unorthodox rumor that I find funny, but some ideas have already been put in movies that depict crazy evil guys destroying human population as a heretic solution to save earth.

All these issues are seldom discussed until they affect us. So only when big disaster strikes upon us, will we notice the danger and potential that lurks around us all the time. They are like a volcano, storing energy to erupt one day.

Even so, I don’t mean to encourage anyone to start brooding on these issues. We have to concentrate on our lives at the moment. Our job is to contribute to the society with the work that we do, while those powerful ones, who will be the world leaders. They will be working to change the world. For good or for worse, only time will tell.

Meanwhile, the world needs more love, not hatred or revenge. It is always important to look at people around you who have impacted your life.

Thanksgiving is your chance to show some love.

Crisis

2008-11-30T20:24:00.000-08:00

Crisis

Recently i am on severve low budget for the month of Dec. I have over-spent on several items which i did not regret (Disclaimer) last month.

Today i checked my acc balance and realised i am left with lesser than expected. It is off my expected range by around 300-400 dollars. Meaning, i can't afford to spend on anything except food, and transport.

Yet this holiday season would be pretty eventful for me. I have plans to meet up with friends more often and do much more. I guess, i have to shove my plans to next month or months after i recover from the financial crisis.

Right now, i intend to pump in & use my Hong Bao money from Yr 2008 for my meal this month. This is why i like collecting Hong Bao, those money do come in handy. (XY, i know you don't like collecting, please donate all to me. She can never understand my mentality.)

Roy is a lucky guy, as i promised him a dinner at Liang Court for Udon. He would be the last friend i would meet up for an expensive dinner in this month.

So Xy, no more resturant or expensive food court. I shall hide in your house or my house for meals. *Grins*

For those (Xy or Friends) who think i am joking with the kind of crisis i am in right now... It's real. I can no longer spend on extra if i am to stay afloat.

(I realised i am in debt. I owe XY some amount, thanks to her reminder. I am in much worst state. I feel like being in US current situation)

Will look at all my expenditure and find ways to "cut cost".

Issues and payment that made things worst
- Singtel Bill (Sudden increase in amount, have to call them and ask)
- Insurance
- EOY (Maybe forgo-ing)
- Christmas gift (Should be making e-greeting or sms greeting instead)

I feel so dead now...

Cherish

2008-11-30T20:23:00.000-08:00

Cherish

Reading the news articles on the Singaporean Mumbai hostage that was unfortunately killed, I felt a strong and sudden sense of grieve for her even though I do not know her personally.

She is still so young, promising and has had just started her next stage in life. Her death is certainly unjust in our eyes (fellow Singaporean). Perhaps there are bits of patriotism or nationalism hidden in many Singaporean, waiting to erupt. She had certainly made it clear to many of us that we really need to cherish our love ones more. The current pain that her husband is going through would be unimaginably painful if applied to ourselves, losing someone so dear to us. Yes, and may God give her family the strength to overcome this dark period.

Having attended a few funerals in the past, I do remember the pain of losing people around me. However, in our day to day life, we seem to neglect the love and care that we should shower our love ones with. Instead, we find fault with each other and create conflicts that brings negativity to our lives.

Sadly, to cherish and to give love to people you love everyday is easier said than done.

Yet, I do put in small effort like giving a heart to people I like in MSN. That is my way of telling them, I do cherish and like them.

Their reaction: “You siao! Give it to XY lah, don’t give me okay.” Or “I don’t love you, don’t give me your heart!”

=_= !!!

Guess they will never understand my feelings for them. LOLx

No matter how painful the past may be, the only way to relieve the pain will be to see the present and move into the future.

Show me some love, save my tag board from dying. Leave me a tag. =)

Surprise

2008-11-28T00:03:00.001-08:00

Surprise

Today I had a small talk with my favorite poly classmate on msn. She has been the kind of sweet (to her bf) and cheery girl since I know her. **Note, being my favorite doesn’t mean I have special feelings for her or anything (Disclaimer).

We started chatting and I merely pop a question jokingly – “so when you are getting married?” She replied, “Next month”. I was like what!? OMG… who’s the lucky guy? Her bf that has been with her for 6 years apparently. I am so surprised that she is getting married. Anyway we had a good small chat nonetheless. Simply nostalgic.

During lunch, I met Huili who told me Iris (Ivy’s twin sister) is working in the same company as her. After Huili left, I approached Iris and…. This is what I said – “Hi Iris, how’s Ivy?”

I guess it’s kind of awkward to walk up to somebody and straight forwardly ask about someone else, especially when you hardly know her (Iris). Ivy is my secondary school classmate FYI.

Anyway it’s kind of strange to be talking to people whom I seldom talk to. Today is indeed a weird day, though it actually feels good. Somehow, they gave me a small sense of existence or at least someone in this world actually knows/remember me. Or maybe that’s what I really want from them.

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Just a link for EOY cosplay. Wanted to preserve it.
http://sgcafe.com/eoy2008/index.php

My Love

2008-11-25T18:53:00.000-08:00

My Love

I know a couple of friends who broke up with their boy friends for as long as half a year and are still suffering right now.

So I decide to delicate my current favorite song to them, as I feel the lyrics somehow relates to them.

Here’s my interpretation

你不是真正的快乐
词曲：阿信

人群中哭著你只想變成透明的顏色 (You wish to just fade away from crowd/people/reality)

你再也不會夢或痛或心動了

你已經決定了你已經決定了 (You have decided not to harbor hope and given up on love)

你靜靜忍著緊緊把昨天在拳心握著 (quietly you endure the pain)

而回憶越是甜就是越傷人了 (But the sweeter the memories you had, the more painful it gets)

越是在手心留下密密麻麻深深淺淺的刀割

你不是真正的快樂你的笑只是你穿的保護色 (Your smile now is merely a fake front, you are never really happy now)

你決定不恨了也決定不愛了把你的靈魂關在永遠鎖上的軀殼 (You are in fact locking yourself up mentally)

這世界笑了於是妳合群的一起笑了 (You smile only because others are smiling)

當生存是規則不是你的選擇 (When living on is not your choice)

於是妳含著眼淚飄飄盪盪跌跌撞撞的走著 (you can only endure, hurting yourself more in your path)

你不是真正的快樂你的笑只是你穿的保護色

你決定不恨了也決定不愛了 (You decide not to hate him, and not to love anymore)

把你的靈魂關在永遠鎖上的軀殼

你不是真正的快樂你的傷從不肯完全的癒合 (You are never really happy, as you never really want to let your wound heal/don’t let go of your wound)

我站在你左側卻像隔著銀河 (Even when I am with you, mentally we are still so apart)

難道就真的抱著遺憾一直到老了然後才後悔著 (Are you really going to bring this regret till your last/old?)

你值得真正的快樂你應該脫下你穿的保護色 (In fact, you are really worthy to find happiness again. Put down your false front and find true happiness)

為什麼失去了還要被懲罰呢 (Why torture and punish yourself when you already lost something dear)

能不能就讓悲傷全部結束在此刻 (CAN YOU PLEASE LET YOUR PAIN END HERE?)

重新開始活著 (LIVE A BRAND NEW LIFE)

Please note, my translation is not a direct Chinese to English translation. It is a translation of my feelings for the song, to the encouragement I want to share with all my friends who are still suffering.

I understand it is never easy to forget the pain and happy memories. But since something so bad already happened to you, why punish yourself more? Give yourself some love, I will give you mine, the world is still spinning. I can still be beside you, no matter how far you try to distant away from me.

Hao to all friends that he loves

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Last sunday, i went to AFA 08 with Jianxu, Wenkai, Colin & bro, Yiwen, Daniel & Ailing, plus my Darling.

Was fun and i like May'n's voice in the mini performance.

I like to move it move it

2008-11-21T17:05:00.001-08:00

Farnie show i watched with Xy and Steph. Some parts were predictable but the animation were well done.

I was sick in the cinema, so i could hardly laugh.

Friends or??

2008-11-19T05:30:00.000-08:00

Friends or??

Having live in this world for 25 years, i am always aware that friends come and go very fast.

They don't disappear from your life totally, but due to many factors, they do get out of your life at certain time.

I have also came to term that some friends will always remain on the surface no matter how much you hope it will change.

Over the couple of years knowing people from work, cosplay, gaming etc, i realised those friends are the hardest to penetrate.

I seem to have the time gap problem. I feel that somehow, it seems like i appeared too late into their life. They already have someone else who matters more to them. I am just a virtual entity.

Well, knowing a few gamer friends who walked out on me after moving on with their live.

They do so soon after:

- School starts
- Work starts
- Found boyfriend

These three killer culprits make up the main body of their ultimate reason for being busy.

Let me quote,
Vincent : Hi, how are you?
Friend : Busy
Vincent : So long since we chat, so hows your life (what's up)
Friend : School
Vincent : (Got a feeling, she/he's not wanting to talk) So busy ar, how's school then?
Friend : GTG, talk to you later

Some of them simply ignore sms (which i am guilty of). Not that i ignore it, i merely didn't reply immediately and forgot about it. Sometimes i do reply after a day or something, better than some who didn't reply at all. I can name a few of my friends immediately.... those apparently left my life totally. It's a pity, but oh well.

I will try to improve and reply ASAP, .....

Needless to say, friendship that remain special are those from secondary school and army days. These friends have more impact on my life.

So what do i call friends who left my life almost totally? - AWOL
What do i call friends whom i don't have their contact, yet i think of them - LOST
What do i call friends whom i may mention or think about, yet lazy to contact them - FRIENDS
What do i call friends whom i chat on msn or give an sms - CURRENT FRIENDS
What do i call friends whom i initiate chat with - FAVOURITE FRIENDS

I am really sad when i put some friends into the AWOL category. They do not value our friendship, but are now mere accquintance in life. A few happen to be colleagues, some gamer friends, a few are special ones that are entangled with my good feelings for them etc. Let me move on from here, to focus on those few remaining ones.

My current dream is to have a small cosy house and to invite friends over for a small steamboat and chitchat session after days of work. For guys, we can have beer and laughter, for ladies, you girls can have some gossip session. I am working on it.

I have come to realise, we can dream big, but sometimes we are forced to look at reality. When reality comes knocking, sometimes you have to mould dreams to fit into reality and get down to earth.
Perhaps it is this arguement that made me decide better what i want in life. I hope i will treasure relationship better and bring positive influence to people i love.

Wrong decision?

i am shocked to hear reality from someone closest to me. Maybe it is the truth that i refuse to accept years back.

I could have made another choice, maybe i be much better off.

I couldn't understand the benefit of mindless education, now i have to bow to it.

Workout

2008-11-16T00:55:00.000-08:00

Workout

Recently XY played badminton with her secondary school mates, that reminds me that i am in need for workout too.

Maybe i should really plan some activities with her, instead of lying at home watching youtube, which kind off makes me feel so bored.

I be going for a dinner at Marriott Hotel with Aileen and her associates. It is a kind invitation from her, but i totally forgotten about it. It didn't go well with my plan for the day.

Well, let see how things goes then.

Cya blog

2008-11-12T00:07:00.000-08:00

Engaged

Hey guys I have finally made my move after 8 years with Xy. To make it clear, I have proposed to her with a brilliant rose on 2th Nov 2008 (also her birthday).

2 months prior the proposal, I made my research on making proposal. I also gathered information from her close friends like Estee, Stephanie etc.

After info gathering, I made a hotel reservation with a little surprise planned for her. The choice of hotel was a surprise for her. The appearance of Stephanie, Huili and Henry was also a surprise for her. Her birthday cake (heart shape brownie) delivered to the room was also a surprise for her. Lastly the proposal was the finale.

Bit of secret revealed here:
I am sorry to Estee that I didn’t include her for the proposal witness. I chose Stephanie because I am more accustomed to hanging out with her, which lowers the chance I might freak out during the proposal out of awkwardness.

I also bought the ring pretty early because of national service ICT. This is how army disrupts my civilian life, and I don’t freaking like it.

I am relieved that everything went into place nicely, but I think I looked stupid during the proposal. I also look fat and ugly as shown from the photos taken during the proposal. There’s tremendous pressure when I had to pop the words out during the crucial moment.

I admit I did freak out, but I still managed to pull through. Weird thing was, XY didn’t say a thing after the words pop out from my mouth. She remained silent until I prompted her to say something. I wonder what’s in her mind at that time of moment. Just say yes or okay, dammit! =_=

She finally took the ring after a moment of hesitation. God, I must be too imperfect for her to hesitate!

Anyway I am glad it is over, my only regret is looking ugly in the photos. I hate taking photos.

Now my status has turned from single to engaged. Looks like she is my first girlfriend and the only one I will have. My faithfulness will be the envy of women, but a mockery from fellow men.

2008-11-11T01:08:00.000-08:00

MayDay

This song is probably talking about people putting up a false front in their daily life. Many of us may seem happy, but deep down, somewhere is a heart that is hurt and sad. It later mentions that in actual fact, there is always something that is worth being genuinely happy about.

The music video also depicts a guy who has a girl friend, who apparently was paralyzed. And towards the end, the girl managed to smile despite her predicament. Somewhat touchy feeling towards the song, I like it somehow.

For some update on my Thailand shopping spree, perhaps you can check out my princess’s blog. She made an update entry.

Before I forget, I recently bought a laptop to replace my old pc that is not working. I didn’t have a good budget, so I had to settle for something low-end. I did some research, and found the one with the highest specifications that fits my budget. It is not wonderful, but it should serve my objective.

Will start using it soon. =)

My Acer - Aspire 4930G

Model
Aspire 4930G-732G32Mn
Operating System
Genuine Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium
Processor and Core Logic
Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor P7350 (2.0GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 3MB L2 cache), supporting Intel® 64 architecture
Intel® PM45 Express Chipset
System Memory
4GB DDR II RAM
Display/Graphics
14.1" WXGA Acer CrystalBrite™ colour TFT LCD
nVidia® GeForce® 9300M GS (256MB of dedicated DDR II VRAM)
Storage Subsystem
320GB HDD
DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer drive (DVD+/-RW)
Price (SRP)
$1,498

Birthday Girl

2008-11-02T18:28:00.000-08:00

The boy who bite the tiger tooth part2

Birthday Celebration at Link Hotel

Birthday Gift

Room at hotel - Oriental Style

2nd View of room

Will add story perhaps another time

Resolved

2008-10-30T19:44:00.000-07:00

Resolved

Remember my post on having poor luck? Things turned positive during the night.

After my work, i went to purchase an external harddisk in case i lost my 2nd one. It was also due to higher space requirement that make the decision for the purchase.

As i was making the payment, the cashier asked if i wanted to apply the membership for immediate rebate. I refused, and i was surprised when the customer in front of me offered her membership for me.

She had just signed up for the membership and decided to utilize her card for me. WOW, i got a $14 dollar discount instantly!

Yeah, she was a nice lady, quite pretty too. There are still nice singaporean around i guess. There has been three incidents when i didn't bring an umbrella during raining days. I was offered to share umbrella with three seperate people. Two were girls, one was a guy. Totally cool =)

Back to story, i went home and managed to find my harddisk. That's a relieve!

My leave was approved the next day, but not without several emails. Apparently, i got pretty upset with my boss as he approved it unwillingly.

The rest of the issues resolved themselves except the samsung phone of mine. Damn... i had to pay $80 bucks for the repair and to hear XY say, it's not the problem with the phone, it's the problem of the user, me! Arghh... i admit, but it doesn't feel good.

Now that i submitted my resume to Dewi, i hope to hear good news of being shortlisted. The JD she mentioned sound tough and crazy, but i guess i should start somewhere scary, besides the pay would be a good jump afterall, considering my low qualification.

Looking forward to continue my story on XY's birthday, then onwards towards thailand.

God bless us in thailand

2008-10-30T07:38:00.000-07:00

Her Photos

This is my friend Inuran. Damn i like her photo, she look so nice. Among her shots, these are the ones i like most.

Totally awesome!!

Luck

2008-10-28T19:19:00.000-07:00

My Luck

My handphone Samsung Soul died on me yesterday night as i am unable to switch it on.

This morning i took out my sim card and then slot it back to try getting it back on-line. I was able to switch it on, however, the phone cannot boot pass the loading screen. It hanged.... I took out my sim card and re-tried. It remained stagnant at the loading screen.

I need to bring it down to the hospital (service center) someday.
I am lazy =(

Then i wanted to bring my 2 External Harddisks to work so that i can do some backup and transfer some data, as well as clear up some disk space. Then i realised one of my harddisk is missing. Personal data could be gone, have to find it tonight. If i don't....

I don't like the idea of people using something i bought for myself and without my permission, browsing my data...that kinda' sucks.

When i opened my email at work today, i found two negative emails.

One was my boss asking "is my oversea trip for luxury purpose?" He seems kinda' reluctant to let me apply my leave. What can i do? i booked my air ticket already.

The other email was questioning me on a few database entries i made a year ago. Apparently those were classified in the wrong category. Anyway, it wasn't my fault entirely as i merely did the upload from data collected from engineers.

Those engineers are simply 'BO CHAP' (don't give a damn, and give me BULLSHIT). They can't be bothered with the integrity of the database and give me crap. So the database is CRAPPY! LOLx

Not that i am bothered by those events, i just can't wait for all to resolve itself. I am lazy. Thing is, they suck, i don't. Yet their problem becomes my problem. That hurts.

Guess i am out of luck for the day... what is to come tonight?

=)

Released!!!

2008-10-28T01:29:00.001-07:00

Released!!!

Finally i'm released from a short phase of both mental and physical torment.

The next phase would most probably be somewhere towards the mid or end of next year. It will most likely be far more painfully than the ones i had so far.

Put all those aside, i must treasure my time without such nusiance and disruption of my civilian life.

I planned to re-look at my current side business. I have planned to re-focus my energy to rebuilding it and thus making it more value adding for all my future and existing clientele.

There will be some phases that i have planned.

1. Research --> 2. Design --> 3. Action
4. Review and improvement

There will also be some changes made to my life. I hope to improve my current weak body, do as much self learning, find new jobs with my new knowledge and looking forward to getting my first house.

So much hope for the coming year, almost ignoring there is a world wide economic downturn. I can't help but fear for the worst. However, meanwhile i can only plan to build myself stronger in order to face the unknown and challenges ahead.

In order to progress, one should really build on his knowledge dramatically. Meaning to pick up a new skill and not just mastering the current skills that we hold.

For e.g. i may know how to use photoshop, i can research and further strengthen my capability with that particular program. However, i can progress even further if i learn new skills by learning to use other programs like illustrator, 3D studio max etc.

I will plan a sequence of actions to be carried out and even formulated them into an excel sheet with piorities set.

I have to be in control of my life. Time is against me, that is why i would have to cut down on gaming time. I hope by purchasing a laptop, it will eventually make me less addicted to game. Gaming with a laptop sucks (if you do not agree, please leave me a tag. Will reply)

That's all for this entry!

A nice video that gives a touching feeling

2008-10-18T20:42:00.001-07:00

Singaporean Girls

2008-10-16T20:23:00.001-07:00

I read an interesting article on Yahoo. So i will quote and share it here.

The main point i am interested in, would be those in bold and red that i have highlighted.

SINGAPORE, Oct 16 - "No money no honey" seems to be ringing true for Singapore's bridal agencies, which are seeing slowing business as the financial crisis and a looming recession hit love in the country.

Matchmaking is not uncommon in the country, which has a population of 4.8 million and a low birth rate, as older men turn to professionals to find a wife.

Some agencies help link up singles, while others -- like Lin's -- help customers find a prospective wife from abroad.

For S$8,000 , a man can pick a wife from among the women in Lin's shop, send her to the doctor, and get his marriage registered -- all in 12 hours, but only if the woman fancies him too.

If he does not fancy the women in the shop, he can pay another S$2,000 to fly to Ho Chi Minh City and meet 50-100 women in a hotel, but Lin warns customers this is illegal.

"My customers are usually over 35. That is when they get disappointed with Singapore women, whom they say have too high expectations," he said.

The women can stay in Singapore for only two months on visitor's passes if they are not married to a local, Lin said.
But as business slows to a crawl amid a sagging economy, some women have to go home without a husband.

"I hope to get married," said 19-year-old Nguyen Thi Hue, who returns to Vietnam on Thursday after two months in Singapore. "I want a husband who can dote on me and love me."

Read full story - http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20081016/tap-singapore-brides-c3bb44c.html

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LOLx, i lament at the fact that many girls in Singapore are still holding on to higher expectation for their guys despite financial independence capabilities.

The fairer sex have many times outdo guys in academic areas. I am sure there are guys who do good, but from where i studied before, guys are not as focus in academic studies than girls of the same age.

Guys tend to be more playful and less hitting on the books more hitting on girls maybe.

Since highly educated girls have better pay, better career prospect than girls in the past, they can have more choice of luxury lifestyle. Therefore, they will be less likely to settle for less.

Guys with mediocre education tend to earn less (not all, but many). They hold lower status job role and took a lesser salary. They ain't have status, wealth or power to control much in life.

They don't have extra money to spend on improving their image, their dressing & wardrobe, their health & hygiene, their bods, body language and mannerism etc. Thus, they have lower chance of attracting a SG girl with the first impression or even with interaction.

Thus, it is natural that foreign ladies (those that are in less developed countries and recieved less education) seems to be the easier way out. They have lower expectation which made SG guys seemingly to be doing better than their foreign counterparts.

No wonder guys are turning to foreign ladies. SG girls, please give SG guys a little more love =)

Do you agree with my thoughts? NO? Leave me some comments.

Story time

2008-10-14T19:52:00.000-07:00

Here's a story of a boy who bit the tiger's tooth. (Though story don't revolve around boy biting anything)

There lived a boy (actually a man) who had a girl friend for a couple of years. The boy is very poor yet the girl stays with him despite all negative factors the boy had.

The boy is:
- Fat
- Poor (no car, no cash and what not)
- Unhealthy
- Caught with addiction
- Not good looking
- Lowly educated

The boy is very appreciative of the girl and decides to buy her something that she always wanted. An ungradable lego set!!! (Actually something else, but not important)

The boy did some shopping and bought a small lego set with the most amount of money he could come up with. He left the shop very unhappy and disappointed as he could only afford a tiny set.

Weeks before the date of surprise, the girl suddenly took the boy to a lego store and told the boy what she was looking for, is an average set. The girl still didn't know the boy had already bought the lego set.

They boy's heart sanked and decided to upgrade the set in order not to disappoint the girl. He took the rest of his money for the upgrade and have no money for the rest of the month.

Just when you think everything seems romantic and fine, the boy also had to go through a week of jail term. Anything could have happen during the week.

Anxiety and uncertainty loomed the boy's heart. As the days to jail term came closer, more negativitely came to his mind. As much as he wants the jail term to pass by swiftly, he knew those days would be tough ahead.

His mind is tormenting, he is suffering...

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Not a complete story as the ending has yet to happen. Will update once the story unfolds.

Wonder

2008-10-13T01:03:00.000-07:00

These things makes me wonder about the future. As far as i hate things happening in my life right now, some part of me is looking forward to the future.

- Economy, which country, in the next ten years will be the next big power after the weakening of America? China or India or? How will Singapore fare against many fierce competition? Will we get phase out?

- Health, will there be a greater disaster outbreak of an unknown epidemic that catches us in surprise? Or would there be a man made one that is very much disasterous like a sudden world wide poisoning etc. Will human make incredible health discovery that change the way we live?

- Technology, will robots take over many chores and aspect in our life? Will AI Intelligence be too powerful? What type of robots will we get to see? War machines, companion, maid, worker, etc.? Will we one day, buy robots to work in our family like we each own a computer?

- War, will world war 3 happen? What will happen to Singapore if war break loose in the world.

- Space, will we ever meet other lifeform from other planets and interact with them? What other discovery will unveil to us about the universe, about our origin, our existence?

- Nature, will climate change and natural disasters create a big fallout that depletes our resource, wipe major population or cause utter chaos?

- Energy and resources, will we run out or resources that people fight among ourselves, war breaks out due to scarcity of resource? Or will there be many new sources of energy being discovered?

These are some things i wished i had an answer to, one which i can see and judge for myself. Of course, i am not looking forward to a war, but on brighter side of things. Like how robots are going to influence our life positively, medication improvements, our origin secrets, outer space exploration etc.

Well, life is just unpredictable, vulnerable and yet fascinating. It is great to treasure the very existence of your closest friend, your life partner, your family, your love ones who are still around you right now!! The very acceptance they gave, priceless. =)

Give them some love =)

Love ya XY
Fr Vincent Oct 2008

Changes

2008-10-09T19:38:00.000-07:00

Previous blog color is a messed up =)

Now it looks better, just the title picture is a little out of place. Will change it soon.

Oh, besides the changing of blog color, my life is going through some changes as well.

- Ridding myself of gaming addiction by slowly cutting down gaming time and jamming myself with self learning.

Meanwhile, here's a little story of what happened while playing LaTale (MMORPG) with people who made no sense =)

Latale is an online game very much similar to Maple Story, most of the gamers will be familiar with. It has different channels you can hop into if the current channel is loaded with players.

Quest - To kill Goblin King, a boss monster that spawn every 30 min after killed. So i went around searching for that monster. Finally found one after hopping a few channels.

So i made my move, making first hit on the boss. Then came a player named Cloud.

Cloud: OMG, you ruined my spawn time data.

Me: (Don't care, went on hitting the boss)

Cloud: KS-ER (Proceed to hit the boss monster)

Awhile later, the boss died, i took my loot.

Cloud: Keel Stealer, nvm, i got the spawn time for 6 other channels

First and foremost, I DID NOT KS. LOLx He KS-ED me instead, and he still got the nerve to call me a KS-ER. What the buck>?

I almost die laughing but at the same time swear at his stupidity. This is why i should not game that much. People aren't as intelligent or as reasonable in virtual world.

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Here's what happen in another Game - Deliverance-Online.

This happened in the game's forum. Players rambling about balance issue, thining population, gm lack of news and information, players leaving (which i did leave the game too).

In the forum, I tried to stay objective and tried to change their point of view from rambling to action. From pointing out what's wrong in the server, into telling them to act, and also gave them ideas to help the server.

Many of them still don't get it. They keep on argueing among themselves, on pointless issues and never see my point. Some didn't even read my post and rebuke me on points i explained earlier on. Call that blindness due to "I DIDn'T READ", but i called it stupidity.

Well, only until recently i see changes and effort made by the GM team, some of which are ideas i contributed like more events from the GM Team, some advertising & support for Player-held events, some screenshots collection that showed happy moments in Deli. Even if no one contributed those efforts to my ideas i gave them, but i know at least my ideas are helpful, workable and objective.

People just don't see my point. I would give them a big LOL as a bystander. Many of them are elitish whom blind themselves from objectivities, some arrogant, some pure idiots, some just want to stab you with words. Intelligent with words, but small at heart. I don't blame them, i am guilty sometimes too. It is just human. =)

I am still tempted to go back to the game, but it makes me feel stupid to do that. Those people are ingrates and elitistic people. There's even a few pinoy who see themselves as the superior race in the world. WOW!

These superior race can see their country corrupted as hell, much of population end up working as maid, but still they are superior. I get it... super maid. Not all pinoy are maids i totally agree, and i have nothing against them or pinoys. But just against the few individual who claim pinoy are the superior race. Ouch! Pure out of touch.

Each human race has their own weakness and strength. Generally, it is hard to say who is the superior race. I believe by saying pinoy is the superior race, he is making them look silly.

They can be proud of their origin, their country, but that doesn't make other country less better than them. Singapore is currently (not for sure in future) much better off than pinoy, but i rarely (actually have not seen) see such Literal Nationalism outrage.

Or Maybe i do... i always hear SG players claiming as better players than Malaysia counterparts and vice versa. It's lame. I guess i can't blame anyone, it's just human and their need to feel right, importance and better off.

What we are missing is..... - the bigger picture.

That's all for my ramble again. =)

LOL

2008-09-24T02:18:00.000-07:00

I LOL'ed when i saw this. As much as i like the song, the lyrics made me laugh and think dirty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOIzU0U1A-0&feature=related

Lame-verance Online

2008-09-22T18:36:00.000-07:00

Today i will be blogging about the Ragnarok Online - Deliverance Online private server that i am playing.

The server situation now is typical for any other server that has lowering population and little GM involvement. It is a tell tale sign that makes players feel that the server is dying. I'm not saying the server is dying, but it just seems so.

So recently i tried stuffs like organizing events, giving out freebies, and even writing a slightly positive review for the server inspite of all negative ones i read. What i learn is, there is nothing much you can do, unless you are the GM.

If the GM wants it alive, the server will be, as long as he stops the "i am busy" shit. You don't tell your customers in their face, "i am busy". Yes, you are too busy for your customers, so get someone else to help you with it!

To make my life happier, i choose to fark care and wash my hands for a dying cause. Once again, it hit me in the face that being all sympathic and helpful towards a community that is pretty much in their own world is not worth it at all.

Now i'm happier again to finally let go. Time to rest and relax for other games or something else.

But before i leave the server aside, i am trying to make 1 billion zennies in game =)

Pretty Book

2008-09-17T18:48:00.000-07:00

Recently compile a small collection of pretty faces of some ladies over the net.

I name the page Pretty Book. It is nothing malicious or offensive, but merely a collection of pretty face ladies for viewing. Not claiming the ownership of any photo, not using it for commercial or monetary purposes, not even advertising or distributing it in anyway.

Just wanting to keep a longer remembrance of pretty faces. Maybe a look a day at smiling faces, will make me feel better.

Will add more if possible. There's a link somewhere in my blog if you want to take a look. It is more for my personal viewing than sharing though. So don't kill me for it.

Totally no malicious, nudity or explicit content. So it's not as bad as you think.

Peace out

Ragnarok Online

2008-09-17T00:01:00.000-07:00

What!? You are still playing that old school game?

Yeah, i am playing it in a private server named Deliverance-Online. I am pretty active in the game forum and pretty infamous there for all my craps.

Thus, i think it will be pretty good if i channel my crap over to my neglected blog and make it more controversial.

So why play Ragnarok? I like the simple way the game is played. I like playing a private server as i can spend less time grinding. I like the way i kill players in that game. I can be merciless at times, while acting like a total innocent newbie.

Before you know it, you're kicked in the balls and busted.

To tell you the truth about me in the game, i am never showing my true intent and feelings. I'm too evil when it comes to gaming.

I do alot of research and whore myself to the game so much that i amazed myself. I can't even find out how to skpye with your dad but i can probably google and find out "how to pwn your bro in the game".

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I'm clueless why i can't make money out of a game, while i am spending so much more on them. Phail~!

Anyway, i am the happy smiley guy in Ragnarok Online, ready to stab ya. Join the server =)

My Tee Shirt

2008-09-16T23:55:00.000-07:00

Tee Shirt designed by me. Pretty Simple, and feel free to grab it~!

Get your 'I'm Not A Bug' Tee shirt NOW!!! http://www.cafepress.com/notabug
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What's up?

2008-09-16T23:22:00.000-07:00

Hey, i have just removed some of my blogs that i could not handle, and decide to dump all their future contents into one messy blog.

Yes and my new blog address is happy-vincent.blogspot.com

Yeah this new blog is supposed to be a happy one in which i will be happy to look at it myself. This means, i am not even to care if you like it or not.

So what you can read here are probably my ramble, my thoughts, my life stories and pretty much pictures.

It will also show you insights to the business i am running as well the games i am playing or interested about.

I do not promise you regular updates but each update should be pretty nice and casual.

This blog is of course open to all. Readers are welcomed, and don't be afraid to leave your comments. It won't bite ya.

Btw, my name is vincent.

Happy Birth date to my happy blog