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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Valentine's Day
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since every1 is celebrating V day, do u guy/gals know what is a V day?
valentine's day also refer to saint valentine's day because this holiday is named after 2 men, both Christian martyrs named Valentine.
the stories continues...
as for my story...
u ppl more interested in my stories, right?
haiz... a bit pathetic leh, not sure is a curse or what :
- 2004 valentine : my big boss call me up & tell me he's in china, got problem with his email, hence i personally spend hours on that
- 2005 valentine : my housemate cook dinner for me (1 day before valentine).. and after the dinner... vomit & 'lao-sai' for 2 days
- 2006 valentine : after CNY & attend IT meeting for a week in taipei, meaning alone there lor..
- 2007 valentine : waleu... what else can i say? no valentine!
i shall sing sally yeh's "mei you qing-ren de qing-ren jie"
sMurFy at ... [ 8:34 PM ]
SAP Week
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my workplace now doing assessment and will implement SAP system real soon.
hence what can i do beside support, preparation & lotsa preparation & ground work?
and we also take this opportunity to chat & have dinner with my m'sia colleagues, bringing them for dinner, lunch n places...
see.. i still work on saturday
i late.. cos no taxi available.. even on saturday morning, u believe?
then when i got one.. this maxi cab came
waleu.. like take bus to office.. super sianz lor
damn it...
& me alone.. hmmph!

asmirada, opposite orchard parade hotel
they all damn smart..
we book the place ard 7pm
they say while we wait for the table to be ready.. they usher us to a place (where we can order drinks).. my boss say.. walau, good strategy

casuarina prata, near bedok reservoir
see all type of pratas?
kambing soup
actually not so nice leh
u want this?
5 bucks per piece lor

hmmph.. dunno what to order leh
so many type, eat what?
eat what?
me cute
me cute

lou hei on the 1st day, welcome dinner
we are the naughty fellas... lou till everywhere... confirm prosperous one lor

k.. this is the seafood dinner & turf city
so hungry that night..
but the seafood is quite cheap, got many discounts too
this is BS
our m'sia office MD
my boss keep teasing him about the 'suen hock' fish years back...
and BS say m'sia office rule no 1 : ban 'suen hock' fish at all cost
see.. we can choose n select what seafood we want
then we decide how we wanna it be lor


this is the king alaska crab
look like a water spider more than a crab.. but the meat is yummy n bouncy
chris say m'sia seafood taste much better wor...
so next time go m'sia, i'll stick to her... for good food

my lab gal
after a tired day.. sneak out for a rest...
she's giving me a high-five or ...
sMurFy at ... [ 9:27 AM ]

Monday, February 05, 2007
Piggy Year Coming
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argh... chinese new year coming
u know, another chinese new year is coming... so bloody fast
kinda scary, so fast...
last friday when i chilled out with my buddies, they mention to me that they're pretty busy with work n projects.. this year, really don't have the feel & smell of our big festive season, the chinese new year
el : eh, when go back?
kok : friday night lor, my sis got the coach ticket liao
sc : oh.. i got increment leh, this time go back kampar.. lemme open up a table n sama2 'lou-hei' a bit.. hope we all prosperous lar
el : pui.. sei pokkai.. this idiot, damn bloody high pay.. still got increment
kok : god is always not fair
sc : haha... a bit a bit only, where got much
ls : eh.. lou-hei cannot treat one.. cannot
el : then u dun bother to come lar, is okay one
kok : u stupid idea/mindset.. u're in 21st century, what lou-hei cannot be treated one..
ls : yes.. they say cannot, must pay yrself
el : damn.. either u pay the whole damn table or u keep quiet
ls : .... (of course keep quiet lar)
el : i pretty busy with my work, this year.. like no feel leh
kok : same here lar.. kinda like "oh.. cny coming, go back lor"
sc : oh.. u all idiots.. remember to look for me hor
el : why, yr wife dun make noise meh, u got permit to come out har?
kok : haha.. he's the one who initiate every year.. then later say cannot come out, argh.. dun bother about this salt egg
sc : what.. u all dun talk cock.. i say can come out, means can come out.. my wife n son in SG, wakakaka.. so i damn bloody free
ls : come, lets go ipoh go clubbing.. many xiao-mei there
el : argh.. dun talk cock
kok : k lar.. give him some face lar.. every year i use my proton to save him n fetch him out from his in-law house, else.. he'll bored to death.. u know lar, he boastful in front of us only, at in-law house.. sit there quite2 one
sc : fxxx... nothing to talk, then talk what, sit there do nothing n waste time lar..
el : okay lar.. we'll check it out
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last Sun i go chinatown yumcha with my badminton kakis cos e our hongkie friend come to SG for a week on biz trip, so we all go out n have yumcha with her
jo : eh ah mun, how are you?
kok : ok lar.. u leh, good?
jo : ok lar.. long time no see, last time i come here.. u also not joining us for dinner
kok : yalor... i guess that time i got something onz lar
jo : miss me or not..
kok : waleu.. i super miss u leh especially when u move back to hong kong
jo : aiyaa.. no choice lar.. i so pretty, a lot miss me lar.. no time for all of them.. u still got face, i purposely email u n let u know i go SG
kok : haiz.. after u left, i thought of giving up badminton
jo : why leh.. because of me, then u play badminton, right? i knew it...
kok : err.. actually.. when amanda move back to states & u back to hongkong.. i seldom got chance to win lar
jo : haha... haha... serve u right, only know how to bully me & amanda
kok : .... (keep quiet)
jo : no worry, u come to hongkong.. i'll arrange everything, remember to bring racket hor
kok : wah.. go hongkong also must bring racket...
jo : of course lar, u play in SG & MY..but never play in HK mah
kok : err.. ok lar..
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bad luck coming.. i think i didn't warm up properly after a heavy breakfast of yumcha
a sudden twist of my back when i executing my trademark 'cross-court jumping smash'.. alamak.. sudden feel a bit of pain on my waist
shit.. everything slow down.. & make my partner lose that set of game..
haiz.. guess i old liao
cannot perform such an act very often liao lor...
jialat.. jialat..
after my badminton, my colleague ang2 call me up n ask me to chinatown (again.. chinatown) for photography
to test out my newly acquired canon 400d with my solid 17-50mm f2.8 lens.
1st time using that camera lor... so here are some of my masterpiece (ops.. shall say some of my mastershits) cos i not familiar with that camera
click on the photo to have a bigger view, i've resize all to 1024x768
ktv at mosque street near chinatown
see the queues... all buying the dried meat
early morning when we drove pass, already got ppl queue.. the ppl here siao one lor.. my friend JP told me she queue for 2 hours to get that.. huh!
she mention about the sincerity when give to her relatives, etc.. even though the dried meat not fantastic at all...
frankly speaking.. who can feel yr sincerity, silly pingping..
see.. morning queue till night.. siao
chinatown mrt station, covered bazaar...
cultural show inside chinatown point


hotel 81 - these are moving still pictures.. it keep changing, v interesting
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chinatown streets...
chinatown point...
sMurFy at ... [ 11:05 PM ]

Saturday, February 03, 2007
modern life = busy & hectic?
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i guess i'll be travel very less this year as most major projects r in SG.. sometimes, travel out occasionally is very healthy
i seldom blog lately.. got lotsa stuff to write, but just don't have the time to sit down peacefully n write out something, pathetic right?
hence, my life is pretty boring with work, work & work.. and lotsa coordination and minor stuff needs my attention.
a lot of changes also happen at my workplace, kinda demoralized.. gd workers leaving one-by-one, left those good-for-nothing idiotic fella who know how to open their mouth and sending/receiving emails daily!
frankly speaking.. i value good working relationship rather than money..dun believe, try me!
oh.. lately my peers (my 2 little kakia) ask for my birthdate/time to see my fortune, huh.. am not sure how accurate they are lar.. but according to them, here's the analysis:
- work life pretty busier
- relationship among friends/colleagues, good
- be wary of back-stabber & 'small peoples', lotsa them
- love life = no luck for the coming year
hmmph.. guess it is time for me to spend some time to really think of what i want in my life, i guess.. IT IS TIME!
at last... at last i brave myself to splash a whopping $2.3k on my new dSLR. after months of research and comparison, i narrow down to just a few and at the end of the day, haiz.. no such thing as good & cheap
i bought a Canon EOS 400D, here's the breakdown:
400d body + battery grip + tamron 17-50mm F2.8 lens = $2.3k
good?
nope.. as i still need to get some basic stuffs like a dry cabinet (ard $300), a 100mm macro lens (ard $1k) & a flash gun (ard $600).
so around $4k to get the basic photography equipments, worth?
dun forget the upcoming diff varieties of lenses.. more to come!
k guys, here are some of the photo of my 400d
i didn't take the original lens come with the camera, it sucks.. n useless
the photo here are with the battery grip which cost me additional $180
here's the tamron lens that i get
17-50mm F2.8 which cost me ard $700 (1 piece)
and the professional camera bag which my buddies bought me for present last year, haha
they purposely get me an expensive camera bag.. to force me to go into photography, u say buddies or not?
i can't blame any1.. 1 of my interests too
most of my buddies are into photography.. some just spend $3k+ on one telephoto lens, some spend almost $5k on a 2nd hand camera body..
compare to them, mine just small fly lar
i should long join their league.. cos they're like my mom, like to nag..
now those idiots (my pig-dog friends) started to influence me to get a car, time to get a car.. waleu.. they think i got a laser color jet at home, can print out notes at the speed of 40 notes per minute.
frankly speaking... i guess my 3 groups of buddies (NTU, UOL & ACS)...lemme think2.. if i'm not wrong, most of them own a car already & leading a comfortable life
most of them are high flyer.. and i'm one of those who are slow & chasing hard.. damn it..but i'm delighted & happy as most of them are quite supportive, helpful & good to me.
oh.. i also help ahsi to get a panasonic lumix fx-50 from SG as she told me the price is more expensive in MY.
ahsi - here's the photo i've taken using yr fx-50 via macro mode
if u cannot take good photo with that camera, meaning yr skills not up to the par wor.. dun blame the camera
sMurFy at ... [ 10:44 PM ]

Ah Kok aka PicaKok aka Pica aka ah mun tou
A small pathetic overwork & underpaid IT fella in Axxxxxx
Currently XX yr old in this world (unable to reveal, confidential lar)
Plays badminton & sharpen my photography skills over the weekend...
Loves $$$
Loves bread and instant noodles...but BREAD is the best, pure & YUMMY
Hates idiots
Hates hypocrites