Friday, December 01, 2006

七年之痒，屁股痒

(快)七年了。做也烂了，骂也麻了，学也忘了，被欺也算了。
做也不是，不做也不行，败战一场就是了。天下老板，一个样。

朋友说，读书，毕业，做工，结婚，生子，好像是人生必经之路。她不以为然。
还有朋友说，够了，不干了。 多年后，风雨不改，原地不搬，牢骚依旧。做生不如做熟嘛！那也对。也有朋友说，七年了，和约满了，快失业了，该继续吗？ 或许，应该改做别的。

七年之痒，屁股痒。怎么办？

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The SMRT Cabby

Late for work, what's new?
Took a cab, as usual.

This one was really nice. He charged me only $10 instead of what's shown on the meter, which came to be almost $12. It wasn't a lot, but it certainly made my day. :D

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Monday, November 13, 2006

The Importance of Objectives

A meeting without an agenda is likely gonna be a waste of your time as you go around in circles, deviate from what's important and get sidetracked once too many. I never saw the importance of objectives or why we had to set one in the first place. Weren't rules made to be broken? Fortunately (or unfortunately), I've come to recognise the beauty of the bombastic word called OBJECTIVES.

Lamenting over lunch session, children who have "When I grow up, I want to be a...". The kids who didn't dream, didn't set goals and didn't know what they wanted to do are now in a kind of a dilema. What exactly is it that I want to do? What do I want to accomplish? Many of these questions are simply put in a black box with no answers and perhaps left to fate? Do you really want to do the same old crap in brand new shit? The same old shit is probably warmer and smells nicer? That was a joke a friend cracked.

Responsibilities come with committment. What is my objective of it all? What is your objective? How will the objective be met? Have you met them? I think I should stop being soft-hearted. It is truly a case of self improvement and self discovery through experience.

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Sunday, November 05, 2006

La Marche de L'Empereur (Luc Jacquet)

I love animals, all creatures big and small. Did anyone know that? Finally got to catch March of the Penguins. Truly, a remarkable story about a life so precious and fragile, the ardous journey of bringing just one single chick to this world.

Emperor penguins live where most other creatures flee. It takes a good 9 months to get baby penguins.And the remainder 3 Summer months are spent in the Ocean. When the sun and moon meets halfway, Penguins walk for 10 days to a safe place (w/o food) to meet and dance for each other, find a partner, mate. Keep up or be left behind and condemned. The winter months are long and harsh with blizzard storms and dark. Penguins huddle together for strength, warmth and encouragement. The male and the female have only a single goal, to defend the precious life nested under downy feathers.

3 months passes, Mum has egg under her downy feathers, getting hungrier by the day. Dad takes over the following months until Mum returns. Clumsy penguins accidentally break the egg in the process, Egg freezes. Game over.

Mum travels 10 days to where she came from, in search for food and to bring food back in time for the little one so that the famished father can relinquish his responsibility and hunt for food. Some, never make it back. A snap from the Sealion takes 2 lives, the mother and the chick, who will never be fed. If Mum didn't return in time, Chick would be abandoned.

Chick is born in Spring. They are cold and need food. Some never made it. They died from the cold and hunger. Soon, Chick is strong enough to be out from under Mum. But rejoice not, for there is Bird. Penguins seek solace in numbers but the unfortunate chick is taken away. Dad returns. It is summer. Family gathers a last time before returning back to the sea for the next 3 Summer months. Next Winter, they will return to this place again. Cycle continues.

Nature works in wonderful ways, yet at the same time, cruel. But such is the way of the world and a survival of the fittest. What is love? A love of the emperor penguins, is truly remarkable.

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Friday, November 03, 2006

The 2 Most Important Men In Your Life

He can cause you serious pain when you are not in pain. So he better be good. That's the dentist I'm talking about. If you're looking for a boyfriend (or husband), find a (good) dentist, the one who can clean your gums without hurting, that is. It didn't occur to me before today (I wanted to finish that remainder amt of money before year end) that dentists are gentle giants. Its a definite pre-requisite of a good dentist for me now, never mind if he's a little costlier. It's been a year. Business must be good, the clinic has relocated a little further down the street to a bigger and more visible space now. It surprised me a little when I found the last appointment was at 8pm. Not many dental clinics close this late. I asked him about orthodontics again. He told me about the hollywood extreme makeover smile. In simple terms, its crowning. But I'm seriously skeptical about this.

Without thinking too much, you probably wouldn't think this person should be an important part of your life at all. The second man is the hairdresser. It looks like an amazingly easy job but he who welds the scissors has magic hands and I'm sure many who have found their frizzy partner in crime will atest to this. He will understand you better than you yourself can where split ends are concerned. Is it the better shampoo or the better hairdryer? I can jolly well shampoo or blow dry my own hair. But to achieve some glam of simplicity, is not as easy as it looks, really.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Why You So Stupid!

That's what I feel like telling boss number 2. He who can't even print something from the network drive himself and use email in an intelligent manner. He thinks he's the king living in the palace with 1000 palace girls to serve him and run errands for him. Then he nearly made me faint this morning when he tells me this component ABC of an e-ABC system is just "data transfer" because they already have the equipment. OMG.

Wake up your idea and pull up your socks.
You are lucky you still have a job.

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SA = Shoot Arrow

SAs are walking target boards.

My boss is having that time of the month AGAIN. No life, no entertainment, no nothing and stuck in foreign land. He asked a colleauge to ask me to call him (bloody hell, why can't he just call me straight, as if he doesn't have my number).

And so he asked my colleauge to ask me to call him so he could screw me upside down without having to pay for it (all the way from foreign land). WTH. He certainly flips roti prata well. He just needs to blame someone. When the bosses screw up, they must blame someone. So the someone is me. They forget when the below screws, its a reflection of how great the on top is.

I'm back to remind myself: "Got Hand Got Leg & Got Toilet Paper".

Colour of my mood: RED. I see RED and I just bought a bloody RED bag to match.

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Culinary Wizard

Chanced upon this website. Food reviews by someone from the industry. It has got to have some standard right?

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My Working Style

Just did the working style quiz and this is what I found. There must be something wrong :P

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Saturday, October 28, 2006

What "Toning" Really Means...

I cannot but feel like an idiot each time I try to convince someone about these facts. However, this article clearly nicely sums it up. *wink* I especially like the protein one.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Got Hand, Got Leg, Got Toilet Paper

I just accomplished 2 days of :nothing: in a small, tiny, enclosed space without windows at 18 degrees celcius. Frustration, disgusted and reminded of the lousy things people do. Despite 2 days of :nothing:, I actually feel happier because I do not have to see the faces of disrespect. So its actually quite :something:

I remind myself, I got hands, I got legs and recently, I remembered that I got toilet paper. Surely I don't die? Of cos I won't die. I figured out my worst scenario, and it doesn't sound very scary. Of cos I won't die.

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Sesame & Almond Paste

Right, another pastey dessert again. I was at Beauty World this time and finally got to eat the soft boiled eggs and bread I've been craving for so long now, for lunch. Tucked in a little corner stands a shop selling quaint desserts like fungus and papaya soup, pumpkin/yam paste and other interesting desserts. They sell pastes too! Right, naturally, my first question was, any 花生湖? No, was the answer (See, I told you!). I finally settled for Almond + Sesame Paste. Nice, also smooth but felt the texture of the peanut paste I had just a night ago was better and more fragrant. I could taste the starch in this one.

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Egg Custard

I finally got to make my own chawanmushi. You know, chawanmushi with wasabi tastes good. Some people say its simply weird combi. But I like it. So, who cares. The steamer was bought because of the furball I have at home. But for the first time in my life, I never felt the steamer I had at home was more useful than it looks.

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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Peanut Paste, My favourite!

I chanced upon 美香园甜品 in Hougang Mall by accident and the mini queue caught my eye. On second look, my favourite 花生湖! Well, besides trying brownies everywhere, this is something else I try everywhere. Enough taste, silky, smooth, not overpowering and not starchy. Going for $2.50 a bowl. I like it so much, so $2.50 wouldn't be unreasonable given that, its really not easy finding this delicacy locally. Right, did you know 花生湖 is really not easy to find. These shops can be selling every 湖 there is except 花生湖. Don't believe, try looking. Their mango and pomelo dessert going for $3.50 seems to be enjoying a pretty fast turnover.

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Internship

I really do not think too highly of the intern sitting near me.

They sleep out in the open several times a day, blast the music (can't say this is all that bad) so the entire office shares his playlist, watch anime openly so that I can hear it as well, it was really loud. My new colleauge and I shot quizzical looks at one another and shrugged our shoulders.
Today over lunch (yes, we have lunch together), he proclaimed that he needs to sleep so he could go for track & field training later in the evening. Next, he attempted to asked my colleauge if he could go off earlier for his training which starts at 5.30 pm (Work hours end at 6 pm). So my colleauge asked him how often he needs to do this. "Actually, my track & field training is everyday." I guess he was just trying his luck for he later proposed if he could leave earlier on x & y day and make up for it on a, b, c day. In any case, he didn't get it either way because it was referred "up".

I've had interns under me before from the good to the mediocre and somewhat not-so-good ones. But this one has really pushed his luck too far. Luckily, he ain't mine. I have only one remark, young, immature and haven't seen how high the sky is. In any case, after working for close to 7 years, I haven't gotton the chance to see the other end of the rainbow either.

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SCAM

Imagine this, you receive a contract job offer, you jump for joy and prepare anxiously as you await that first day of work. On your first day of work, your employer tells you the "good news". We are going to convert your contract term to a permanent basis. Please sign this if you have no objections. You look at the letter. The notice period has been extended 3 times to a harrowing 3 months.

Don't you feel you have been conned? Would you take it? Btw, the above scenario actually happened.

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Monday, October 09, 2006

Hydration (or the lack of)

Came across this when I was reading up on hydration....

And if you are trying to lose weight, hydration is even more important. Even if you eat healthy and moderately and exercise, you will not lose weight without drinking enough water. Water is a big part of the metabolic system. It helps convert food into energy instead of fat. Without the enough water, your body will convert more food to fat than to energy. (Of course, there are dangers of overdoing water intake, called hyponetremia. But it is much more rare than dehydration is.)

See full article

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Sunday, October 08, 2006

WDO2006

Program line up was good. The whole program begins with a 1-hour session for the newbies at 10am, followed by a 50-min belly session, a 3-hour aerobic marathon in the afternoon, a Dancesearch (reminds me of So You Think You Can Dance?), followed by a yoga session at 7pm in the evening.

It all began with a terribly slow long queue during registration, followed by a 1-hour session of Experience Fitness with 3 20-min segments worth of Latino, Kickbox and StretchFit. The queue was so slow, that at 10am, there was still a queue visibly snaking at the registration booth. Apparently, the people handling the booths are just poorly trained and couldn't care less.

BellyBlitz is a workout inspired with belly dance moves. If you're into belly dancing, this workout removes the gracious beauty of the mythical arabian dance. So was it a good workout? If you perform the isolations well enough, maybe.

Taking out the hip-hop segment was the best thing to have happened. I mean, it's just not suitable for the most of the population. So it got replaced with a cardio latino. It was fun with its cha-cha & salsa moves.

Kickbox and Hi-Lo followed. Routine was simple and easy to follow. However, I must complain about the instructor leading the exercise, not doing the exercise, really. Towards the end of the 3rd hour, I must say, he lost it. And I could tell at least 50% of the crowd had no idea what was going on as well (had a feeling the remainder of the 50% or less were "their own members/people").

Every year, 2 or more prizes will go to someone whose employer is also the organizer. I do wonder about an event that draws a 1200 participant crowd. Is it really to promote an active lifestyle amongst the ladies here or for themselves? Afterall, such nature of activities are what they do for a living. I do recall filling in lucky draw slips that disqualifies all employess and direct families from taking part. I think it ought to be the same in this case.

Till then, I'll eagerly await WDO2007.

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Friday, October 06, 2006

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Swim With The Sharks, Then Eat Them

Interesting advertisment.
So eat or swim?

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