Merry Xmas

Weather: Rainy and Cool

Feeling: Enthusiastic about the holidays

Ho ho ho... its prezzie time, although I only have one prezzie thus far. 

Anw, we should never reduce Christmas to the mere “exchanging of gifts” and to keep in mind that  it is about the blessed remembrance of the birth of Jesus.  It is the day to mark peace, which the world certainly needed after the recent Mumbai incident. 

I wish you all a very blessed and Merry Christmas and may you and your families be worthy recipients of the child Jesus' greatest blessings.  O come all ye faithful!

A trip to the land of the raising sun

It was a 10 days honeymoon to Japan (10 Dec - 19 Dec), visiting Tokyo and Osaka. 

As expected, the weather was cold, but bearable, registering a minima of zero degrees celsius and a high of 14 degrees celsius. I was armed with only a warm jacket in hand for this trip and 4 layers of clothing was my operating norm.  

There was many "first" in this trip.  A very obvious "first" would be me deviating from my usual travel methods; instead of "free & easy", i hopped onto a guided tour.  The main consideration was not because of the language deficiency that i would be facing, but rather the lack of time to plan a trip.  To my pleasant surprise, i was thankful that i was on a guided tour.

The tour guide, Miky, of vietnam origin was fabulous! Not only did he speak fluent mandarin, he also, at many occasions, explained to the group, the various culture and traditions of the Japanese. (do you know why the Japanese always uses a try whenever they are having a meal?why are their food always slightly saltish? and why they finish everything on their plates?)  That certainly allowed us to better appreciate the little gestures by the Japanese.  When we observed other tour guides and their working attitude, we were glad that we had Miky. 

Some other "first" in this trip includes my first encounter with snow! you can call me a "mountain turtle", even tough I feel that I have travel much in my life.  

Finally, another obvious "first" is that my traveling companion is my wife, instead of a frenz or a gf. =p  Thank you dear for this wonderful experience.

One of my personal favorite:  A view of Fuji on the bullet train to Tokyo.

 

An Unfulfilled Stomache

I was in Mindef this morning to do some coordination work and met Bernard while i was in the carpark. Surprisingly, he Jio me for lunch, which I readily agreed.

Was quite hungry by that time as I didn't had breakfast this morning and wanted to eat food of higher carbohydrates content, but to my dismay, they are going to eat porridge. **sigh**

Lunch was porridge with egg, fishcake, ikan belis, peanuts and salted vege. There was no meat and it cost 6 per per head. damn ex...

Amazingly, there was no dinner at home too when I got home. Mum and Dad was not around and I was too tired to go out to buy dinner. So guess what; Its plain meggie mee for dinner.

Both lunch and dinner were unfulfilling.

I ill-treated my stomach... need to sayang him tml

Feeling Lonely

It's a Saturday and I'm bored at home. My only motivation for the day is to attend a wedding tonight.

I was thinking hard of the things that I could do at home (work, work and more work) and that kinna irks me, cos i don't seem to have a life. damn...

PQ was out training with her "team" for the competition. Something that I would do if I was still bowling competitively. However, I've moved on cos I know I simply cannot afford the time to train... and bowling certainly needs training.

To add salt to the wound, the TV shows across all channels sucks today and I even tried playing games on my XBOX to kill time.

Zz.zzzz..

Still Waiting For It

My samsung phone is getting crappy.

I received a sms from Philip this afternnon and when I opened my mailbox folder to read the message, it turned out that the msg was from PQ instead and was dated 18/01/06!!! Amazing rite...

Dunno whats wrong with this lousy phone and I had to askPhilip to resend the sms as it was nowhere to be found in my mailbox.

Can my E61 (non camera version) comes quickly please...

No Longer Bonded

Yeah....

I completed my bond and can seek new employment...

Anyone willing to hire me??... hehe.. I'm rather good at PowerPoint and Open Office.. so making presentation is not a problem for me. haha...

Beside that, I'm good at documentation, following rules and protocols and works orderly according to timeline given. Lastly, I'm good at catering for contingency.

If my resume is good enough, kindly hire me!!! haha...

Kinna Fustrating

Its fustrating when:

1) When you set out to buy 2 things over the weekend only to realise that the first shop is nowhere to be found in the building and the second shop isn't open on a Sunday.

2) When the renovation contractor made some fundamental errors that will take great pain to rectify.

3) You selected 5 choices of wall paper, but none of them is available. What a waste of time.

Transformation of a Man

I had dinner with Ben yesterday at Serangoon G when he posed this question which I had a hard time answering.

"Do you think your partner has influenced you in a certain way and vice versa". This question was asked in the context of food preferences whereby Ben told us that he has since moved to eating boiled chicken versa roasted chicken after meeting XY and since then onwards, he only eats boiled chicken to suit XY.

I paused for a while and looked at PQ in the face to think through if we have ever changed our likings since we got together. There were many bubbles forming in my head to find an answer.

Frankly, I dont have an answer at that point in time, as our eating habits have not changed since getting together. For example, I still prefer boiled chicken rice whereas PQ loves roasted chicken rice and we have never tried to influence each other to try to accept what you like! The way two of us works is that we have came to an agreement to "disagree" on issues that we cant resolve and move on. Thereis no point trying to convince each other of your preference (and it applies not just to food). If PQ wants to eat roast chicken while I prefer the other, we will just go about and order 2 separate plates.

And it is not necessary a bad thing to look at it. Firstly, there is less disagreement per se, and secondly, you are who you are and why do you have to change if that is not what you like.

anz

Loooonnnggg Weekeeeendddd....

Its a long weekend, yet I'm at home at working. Sad life, but that's my schedule as NDP gets into the final preparation phase.

Also realised that there isn't any public holiday in the month on June and July... OMG! Holiday drought... Also realised that my big Day is only 6 months away and there are still lots of issues to work on. I don't even know if I have sufficient time to prepare for it since I'm going for an extended course starting Aug. In essence, my "plate" is full...

Anw, here is what I intend to do today:

1) Go tailor a suit later for the big Day!
2) Get a pair of matching shoe.

Dunno how much that is going to cost me. Time to stress my bank account again... =(

anz