Merry Xmas and Happy New Year

This Xmas, I would like to put up a tree in my heart, and instead of hanging presents, I would like to put the names of all my friends. Close friends and not so close friends. The old friends, the new friends. Those that I see every day and the ones that I rarely see. The ones that I always remember and the ones that I sometimes forget. The ones that are always there and the ones that seldom are. The friends of difficult times and the ones of happy times. Friends who, without meaning to, I have hurt, or without meaning to have hurt me. Those that I know well and those I only know by name. Those that owe me little and those that I owe so much. My humble friends and my important friends. The names of all those that have passed through my life no matter how fleetingly. A tree with very deep roots and very long and strong branches so that their names may never be plucked from my heart. So that new names from all over may join the existing ones. A tree with a very pleasant shade so that our friendship may take a moment of

rest from the battles of life. "May the happy moments of Xmas brighten every day of the new year". These are my sincere wishes.

Merry

X'mas

Jason Tan

David Lim,Sam

Wong,Raymond O,

Ranger Tham,Tan San

Lin,Goh Chong Seng,San

Chyi Perng,Cheong Hon Ming,

Alex Wong,Ally Ng,Amy Tan,Chan

Yanqi,Chan Yanlin,Chan Yanyi,Yee

Bee Leng,Chong Poh Yoke,Bernard Tay,

Lim Boon Ting,Branda Song,Brian Low,

Carol Koh,Casey Teo,Chanell Chuah,Ng Chee

Leong,Cheryl Lee,Teng Chin Yee,Mah Chin Teng

Chloe Wong,Chong Long Choo,Chong Peck Leong,

Christina,Marlene,Vijay,Vishnu,Paul Linus,Lim Chin

Lee,Celine Tan,Christy Tan,Corrine Gan,David Koh,Eng

Poh Ling,Esther Low,Esther Tai,Eugene Loo,Evelyn Cheang,

George Yong,Harry Yap,Hu SweeLeong,Joey Wang,Jacqueline Khor,

Nick,Keith,JamesLee,Johnson YuJoice Lu,Josephine Lee,JosephYau,

Michael Lau,Leo Cheung,Komala,Kyan OKT,Jecklin Woo, ST Tan,Tan

CM,Leong TF,Lim KW,

Richard Foo,Yong Chin

Fu, LeeChwu Pyng,Lee

Swee Yoong,Leong Peng

Yew,Lim BoonKit,Lex

Lau,Sean Koh,Naleena,

Magdalene Yap,Leong

Sheau Jiun,Guna,Patrick

Tan,Limi Cheong,Mai,

MarcoTian,Chen LuXian,

Max Ho,Mesh,Nashel,Peter,

Peggy Wang,Rachel Wong,Sheldon Kydd,Shereena Lim,Simon,Ong Teck

Guan,Ho Swee Gene,Tan Chan Hong,Tan Poh Kean,Yong Siew Woon,

Thomas Te,Venus Khoo,How Way Meng,Wilson Khoo,Zahira,Li Jun,

Lam Sook Peng,Ng Wern Shen,Samantha Lee,Malini,Meen,Rizal,Henry,

Nelson,Ng Ah Hoon,Peter Sumali,Soh Boon Chuan,Purdey Ong,Froleen

p.s. In case i left out anyone's name, please don't be angry ya... U are equally important and my wishes are also being sent to all my friends out there. God Bless.

Rainy Day

Waking up at 7.25am to a rainy day, with my wife and son are still sound asleep. Nice weather though, but seems that I am having problem sleeping. Can't sleep at night. And waking up very early in the morning, too.

Age is catching up, I guess. hahaha

My Sis Was Admitted Into Hospital

Was working on something important today when suddenly my phone rang... picking up to answer to get my dad on the other side.

"Hey... after ur work, u need 2 go 2 the SJMC, ok?"

Was in a big shock when he told me that. So I asked "What happened!?" where my dad answered "Ur sis fell down in her house, n now is admitted to the hospital". "Is she ok?", I asked. "Not really. She twisted her neck n now can't move n her head is now facing the back"

Damn!!! What will your reaction be when you heard that the situation is so bad? I bet you'll say "Fuck whatever is happening here. I'm going to the hospital" But come to think about my dad's last statement "her head is now facing the back"... hmmm... there's something fishy here.

So I waited till I finish my work, around 6.30pm where I went to the hospital to visit her. And to my relieve, she's alright. Dad was just exaggerating... hahaha. *sweat

Just gotto wait for the X-ray result and the doctor's report. Probably she'll be able to be discharged tomorrow noon. Thank God she's ok.

a xenophobia. How will you eat yours?

a xenophobia. How will you eat yours?

Nice Day To Wake Up To

Haven't had much chance waking up to a quiet and beautiful day, with birds chirping merrily (in fact, i have been awake since 2am this morning)

Anyway, it's a beautiful day Sunday, though. Quiet. Without those busy cars, buses and motorcycles going by as they are trying to reach to their work on time and trying to beat the traffic. Seeing my neighbors waking up to go to church.

Looking back, it has been very, and I mean very very, long time since the last time I am able to sit down peacefully in the morning, listening to the world around me going by their business. It has been a long time since then...

Now, what I want to do is just sit here quietly and enjoy the peacefulness and quietness of the morning before the busy days come by.

Sleepless Nite In Wangsa Baiduri

This has don't know been how many sleepless nites for me now... It has been almost everyday that I'll wake up around 2am in the morning, n can't find my way back to the dream world again.

There r so many things that r going thru my mind. Life, work, friends, etc, etc... but in the end, there's nothing conclusive. Didn't achieve much by thinking so much while I'm trying 2 get my arse back 2 the dreamland.

Actually, wanted to write more often. but there r times (in fact, most of d time) i'll find myself sitting in front of a blank blog post, thinking, wondering what to write. How to write. It just feels like i've lost myself in a certain way that I can't write anymore. I hv been trying to put down into pen about my daily life, experience, joy, hate, play, etc. But it happens that the time is totally not right when I have an inspiration to pen down something, and when I'd found time to blog about it, it'll b too late. *sigh (shake head)

Quiz for U

Was sent tis quiz by a fren 2day. Wanna share 2 test u.. hehehe (Take a pen and a piece of paper. Write down d answers) See if u r smart.. :p

1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend.... except one. Which animal does not attend?
4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?

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OK... the answers to the quiz are:

1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.

2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator?

Wrong Answer.

Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions.

3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend.... except one. Which animal does not attend?
Correct Answer: The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there. This tests your memory.

Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities.

4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?

Correct Answer: You jump into the river and swim across. Have you not been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.

Not Again...

Came back from work n was told that there's another house in PWB4 got broken in. This is just a week from the house in PWB9 that got broken into last week. *sigh

What r all those stupid guards doing there? Shaking balls!!?? Even in this guarded community, those robbers can manage to break into people's houses in broad daylight. And we are having such "hi" security that almost everyone that comes in can just wave their hands and those "hi" security guards will let u pass thru... (see what happens when those sh*t-asses r doing sh*t-ass jobs)

Now they even dare to send out fliers to tell us about them upgrading their security services, and also telling us, the residents, that they are taking action to prevent this issue. I think, with such "hi" security here, this thing is not gonna end...

Many Days...

Many days have passed
that I am in the dull...
looking out the window where
the sky is darkened by the storm clouds...
Hoping for ray of sunshine
for which the tree of growth
and the lawn of discovery
to give a promise of salvation.



For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
(Romans 8:24,25)

Things Are Tough Around Here

It has not been a very smooth and easy month for me here... With loads n loads n loads of things piling up just waiting to spill out and go out of control.

Has been a very demoralizing month and is very demotivating for me & my colleague, trying our best to handle but yet there r so many things which r out of our control, but yet we r responsible for them.

Really need some motivation... need to find something 2 cheer myself up all d time... if not, surely i'll b going 2 the "rambutan hospital" very soon hahahaha

Attitudes

The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace from that day.

We cannot change our past, we cannot change the fact that people will act in certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.

The only thing that we can do is play on the one string that we have and this string is, Attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it.

And so it is with you....We are in charge of our Attitudes.
-- Charles Swindoll

Working On Weekend

*tired

For the past 3 days, since Friday, 25/9/09, both Amy (colleague) and I have been conducting training to the company branches colleagues.

That stupid 'big boss' of ours r so damn dumb that they only allocate 3 days fr us to train where in actual fact, we need about 2 weeks to train up the users to be familiarized with the system. So I was still wondering how the fark i manage to complete my sections so fast hahaha. Plus there r so many ^*bugs in the system that our dear colleagues r so "happy" to discover.

I consider myself as very lucky as i wasn't "shot down" by our friends there for the bugs and other questions. I really pity poor Amy bcos she's now being "shot" with questions after questions after questions...

Hope that after they come back from lunch, we won't see so much ammunition flying all over the place and the session can go on smoothly.. pray that those *bugs will go back home n not stay till the end of the session.. hehehe

Life is all about Survival!

Has anyone personally had a real-life experience where u got urself into trouble just bcos u wanna help someone close to u? I have had heard loads of those. Wife got into prostitution to pay for hubby's debts. Man went bankrupt for defunct partnership with girlfriend, etc.

But now it is really happening right in front of my eyes. This woman got herself into so much debts that banks keep calling her to pay her outstanding amount n she gotto cash-out more money using her credit cards to pay for her debts. All bcos of her brother!

This story gotto start around 2 yrs ago. They were a very good n close knit family where all the family expenses r shared amongst the siblings, n since they were staying in a fully paid-up house, therefore they got nothing to worry about paying the bank loan repayment for their house. But thing has made a 360⁰ turn about 2 years ago when the elder sister managed to persuade her parents n siblings to move to another house, very much bigger n more expensive.

There started her trouble. With her brother's n sister's salary r so low, she practically gotto help pay out for most of the new house repayment while waiting for her brother n sister to give the money back to her. To make the matter worse, they went on to get a brand new car after selling off their old Nissan Serena, which was also fully paid at that time.

So now, what has happen? Shit has hit the fan!

Banks keep calling her to pay for the outstanding debts as she has already defaulted for a couple of months, as she can't even manage to pay for the minimum payment for the cards. Although her brother n sister do give her some money to "pay" for whatever installment for the house n car, but those money is not even enough to cover half of the repayment amount. And we have not even mention the money they gotto spend for food for the family, the kids n parents.

Today, i heard that she went to her bank to cash-out some money using her credit card. Guess what the money is being used for? To pay the debts of her credit cards!

Damn!!! As we all know, banks will charge a very high interest rate on money cashed out using credit cards. But now she has "got no other choice" but to do that. N she is putting her legs deeper into the "pile of shit"

All these happen just bcos of one thing. Just bcos he is ur brother. Just bcos ur sister can't make ends meet by her meager salary. Just bcos u wanna protect ur brother n sister. And u r not willing to "force" n "chase" them for money. So now, u r getting into big pile of shit urself. U r cracking ur head to figure out how the hell u gonna clean up that load of shit, since ur brother n sister couldn't give u enough money to even cover their own share.

"Life is All About Survival" U alone can't b a hero n help others while u r not in any good state whatsoever. So it's high time that u take some action to get back those money that u help pay for them, n let them know that u r not much different compared to them. U r not their "money tree"! I can bet my last penny, they r not gonna thank u for helping. Why? It's bcos they r so used to it already! "Sis is there to cover, no worries"

Even if u get into trouble n even get sued by banks, they will not b able to help a bit. So what u gotto do now is to think of ur own survival. Who's gonna take care of ur children? Who's gonna pay for ur food? Who's gonna pay for u when u get sued for bankruptcy?

Air-Con That Is Not Cold

hv u ever slept in an air-conditioned room where the air is not even cold? *sigh... i can now foresee that im gonna hv 2 spend more $$$ 2 get a new air-con 4 my room. It is giving me headaches again. The service guy just came 2 fix it a few months ago n now the problem comes back again.

somemore, i just spent a couple of hundred 2 fix my car after d accident. Luckily my friend charged me very cheap 4 d work done n not charging me any for their workmenship.

all about money. MONEY is d only thing now that is d 'king of our life'. Without d 'king' we r doomed.

Reality Sucks!

There r times when u feel so tired and exhausted, and the first thing that comes to your mind is to get out of what u r doing and head on to somewhere and something that you like to do. But this isn't what the real life offering.

When we were young and living in an imaginary life of ours, we were thinking that when we grow up, we'll have lots of time because we will not be spending most of our time studying and doing homework. Then we'll have lots of money too as we'll be working and not getting just pennies from our parents. We'll have lots of friends too since on average we get to know around 5 - 10 friends a year.. hahaha

But in reality, this doesn't look as good as we thought it can be. Yeah... we grew up... but with those "extra" time that we have, we use them for Over-Time, and house chores since, I presume, most of you working adults will be staying away from your parents... Then how about the "lots of money"? Naahhh... Don't think so. We spent many years in our life trying to get a prestigious certificate and degree, or even masters, but ended up getting paid peanuts by bosses who use the excuse of "economy down-turn". Then with that little that we get, it's as bad as asking money from your parents.

Having lots of friends are good, and if you get to know on average of 5 - 10 new friends in a year, then by the time you get around 35 yrs old, ur friends list will be as long as the Golden Gate bridge... hahaha.. But, there's a problem here.. It's not a problem to make friends on an average of 5 - 10. It's whether you guys are really "friends".

Nowadays, with the introduction of Friendsters, Facebook, and lots of other bla bla bla, there is no problem of making friends. But are those really your friends? I bet they are not. They are just numbers. "See... I've got 250 friends in my friend-list in Facebook" will bring an awe, but do you know them all? Nope... So what happen when you are really needing a true friend? You can't find one! There is nobody around for you to talk to... There is nobody around to comfort you... There is nobody around to give you courage... You are all alone!

This is just another day where you are too free and has got anything better to do and start thinking rubbish hahahaha. Anyway, I want to apologise to all my friends whom I have not been keeping in touch for some time. I really cherrish and appreciate your friendship. You guys always have a special place in my heart. Take care

Funny Dream

My dreams r getting weirder n weirder each day... Just yesterday morning, in fact it's around 6am, i had a very funny dream which I was still laughing even when i woke up.

Let me ask u something. When u r typing something in ur computer, how do u type "a square of 10" or 10²? U'll use superscript rite? Ok ok... if u r lost here, then u can stop already.. hehehe

But how do u do it when u r writing that on a piece of paper? U gonna go look for superscript too? Yeah... this was what's happened in my dream. I was writing something on a piece of paper at that moment n then it happened that i need to write "a square of something"... so guess what i did at the moment? i was trying 2 click onto that piece of paper 2 try getting the "Format" option and trying to figure out why there's no such option popping up for my selection... hahaha

Only then i realized that i was in fact writing on a paper n not on a computer... n started scolding myself "u so blardy stupid lor.. hor.. " hahaha..

Human Trafficking

There's this news that the custom is high on catching foreigners that come in our country to work without any proper working permit or visa. And rumor that whenever the officers are suspicious of a visitor, he/she will be called in for questioning.

But how do they know which fella to call in? Is it based on the number of visits in a period of time?

Anyway, that I do not care. But there was a call of a few visitors for questioning a few days ago. And apparently this fella came from China and his laptop was confiscated by the custom officer before he was questioned. Then after about half an hour of questioning, he was let off to go as there was "no any suspicion" as to his frequent visits to our country. But the officers had conveniently 'forgotten' to return the laptop to this poor chap.

So this poor ol'Chinaman went to request for his machine. Upon questioning why he wants the laptop for when he's just visiting, he blurted out saying "I need it to work here!"

There it goes... Just a couple of minutes ago, he was walking out the room a free man without any suspicion but now he's brought back into the room for further questioning and this poor chap is waiting to be deported back to his lovely home.. hahaha

Sleepless Nite In Wangsa Baiduri

It is yet another sleepless nite for me. But 2day, it has nothing 2 do with anything. Yeah...i know, there is still work pressure, life problem, but 2day i just can't get myself to sleep. Ok ok... in fact, i slept for a while n then is wide awake. Keep rolling n tossing on d bed n hoping that i'll fall asleep soon enough but *sigh... there i am sitting in front of my pc writing

Talking about work pressure, it has been a hectic month for me in July'09. There were so many things to do. Project manuals, testings, bla bla bla... n now that a new GM came in to replace the old one, so i supposed that he'll make some changes in out department. Had a short conversation with him today n he said he will keep the department 'as it is' n has no plan to make any changes...

Anyway, to me, changes is good. We need new ideas, new people, so that our place will see an improvement. With the 'old style' being practiced for so long, i think it's about time. Otherwise, those 'old' staff who claimed that they have been working here for many many donkey years will think that what they r doing now is correct n will not change for any Tom, Dick or Harry.. hahhaha

I think i gotto go catch some sleepy eyes... if not, i'll have big problem staying awake later.. hehe

3 Little Pigs

Do you still remember the "The 3 Little Pigs" story that our parents n the kindy teachers used to tell? Yea... i bet all of us still remember that big bad wolf... huffing and puffing away the poor piggys' house.

But today, the poor pigs r in trouble n their life are in danger.

Yeah! Yeah! They r not as cute n cuddly as they used to be. And they didn't know that the brick house they built was below water level, so whenever it floods, they gotto run for their pig's life hahahaha ...

Where Has Uncle Daniel Been?

Yeah... it's right. Where have I been? What have I been doing for the past many moons? What was I thinking that it is occupying my time and not updating this blog for so long.?

Actually I have been very busy with work lately. Project documentations, system testing, system and data verification, etc, bla bla bla... This has really taken up all of me... so the first thing that I do after work will be (no lar... not go 2 sleep hahaha) take a good rest n then play with my boy, Ethan. That's the only way to keep my mind out of that stoopeed work.

Really wish to find more time to update my blog but i'll be too tired even when it's only 10pm n the next thing i know it's already 7.30am the next morning... *gosh

Not to worry, I'll definitely take some of my time to update this blog more often... will not let you down.. hehehe :p