Finding myself in the lost world..

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Rumblings..

[8:02 pm]

Why is it that Singaporeans are so kiasu?

Its not even 12 and hordes of people are waiting patiently outside the exhibition hall. Once the clock strikes 12, they rush in like packs of wolves, hunting for the best bargains. When I went in at 1215, it was so packed that I felt like sardines in a can..heck, even the sardines have some breathing room!!

If you ask me, the exhibition ain't much to cheer about, since big boys like Nikon and Creative weren't there. You get the usual stuff; SD-cards, memory cards, notebooks for sale. My brother quipped;" The prices are more or less the same as that of Sim Lim Square since the vendors are from there.." Yeah.. he's right..after helping my aunt buy a MP3 player, we went over to Harvey Norman to check out the price and bingo, same price!!!

Heck, wonder why people bothered to go there in the first place. Didn't get to buy my digital SLR there, which in the end I managed to get it at Parisilk for $200+ cheaper..next time you want to get electronics stuff and appliance, this is the place to go..the service is good and the staff are friendly. For someone who is always on a lookout for cheap and good buys and service, it is a gem.

My D40x didn't come bundled with the tripod (which I already had), dry box (which I may buy in the future) and bag (which I need one to store the camera), but it came with a 2GB SD-card which to me, is the most important thing. So, I can start on my photography conquests..yey!!

On another note, I also want to rap on the way things are being done at Harbour Front Tower. Once you park your car there, you can take the lift and exit through the main lobby. The problem comes when you need to retrieve your car. You can't enter the building through the main lobby and the only way is to go in through the car park entrance..what a stupid way of doing things!! The management should open just the portion of lobby which leads to the carpark lift and block off the other part like what National Library and UOB Building is doing..haiz..

Ok..this is the start of the long weekend as I am on leave tomorrow..going to make a day trip to Desaru to enjoy the beach..hehe..

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Random Thoughts...

[10:13 am]

As usual, yours truly is in a thoughtful mood again..

The events of the past two weeks flashed by so fast that I am still trying to figure out what actually took place..haha..

Besides the clearing the never-ending work and attending countless meetings during the weekdays, the two weekends were spent attending ROM ceremonies. While I am not keen on talking much about my work, the only thing I can say is that, I have finally come to realise that the work I am doing now will have significant impact on the organisation's journey and I am just glad to make a difference.

Now something which I can say more is the ROM ceremonies which I attended. 3 weddings in a span of 2 weeks was really too much for me man. Lets just say that it left me with plentiful of scary thoughts. Slowly and surely, as a good friend put it, the list of drinking kakis would be growing shorter month by month till they slowly diminish. In turn, the married list will just get longer and longer and soon my requests of meeting up for drinks would be turned down with the standard answer; "No off-pass from the wife, wife's all alone at home, etc" Then you will suddenly feel all alone and lost as you find that everyone is hitched except you.

On the other hand, attending ROMs also allows you to catch up with long lost friends and colleagues who have left for better pastures and meet new friends to widen my diminishing social circle, which I can say is sorely lacking.

I was introduced to someone during one of my friend's ceremony and now we are talking via msn and email. I can say she is a pretty funny and spontaneous character ..while I am boring her with the old man tales, she is regaling me with the little girl stuff..and this is done in my half-past six england and her almost impeccable Queen's English typical of those convent schools...haha..but hey, at least my England is slowly improving ok..and that's testimony to my daily encounters with the higher management whose conversational English is so cheem that I have to refer to the Oxford Dictionary for its meaning..

Well, lets see how it goes, life's still good to me and if everything turn out well, its a bonus, if not, its a lesson that can be learnt, analysed and archived for the future.

Enjoy the remnants of the weekend people. Cheers!!

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Sunday, May 13, 2007

The world can be small..

[4:57 pm]

Was visiting the dentist today to check out the status of my wisdom teeth..and was told that I would have to extract two of them as one of them was showing sign of decay. The BEST thing is, due to the complex nature of the extraction; situated near the nerve, I was referred to the specialist and that would cost me between 800 - 1K. Thank god I can claim from my medisave..if not..whewz..

But that's not the point of this post. Remember the air crash where our two of our boys were killed? I was talking to the nurse this morning and she related that one of the patient cancelled her appointment as she had to accompany her injured son back. And to top it off, on that day of the incident, my ex-clerk messaged me and informed me that one of our former clerk was injured there too...when I reached home that day, my brother told me his soccer kaki from college was one of the deceased. How small can the world get?

It just brings home the point that whenever a disaster happens, the community will be affected..you may have friends/relatives who are involved or who knows them and coming from a small sunny island like us, the effect is multiplied few-fold. Unless you have seen and experience the emotional suffering and distress it brings to the family, you won't know the impact. Even the strongest person can break down..

It teaches you to appreciate life and to make the most out of it before its too late..to let your loved ones know that you love them and vice versa. So take some time to appreciate the little things and bod with the family for life can unpredictable.

May the dead rest in peace and that the injured personnel recover speedily and put the lousy episode behind them.

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

The pursuit of happiness...

[10:03 pm]

As we come into the society to work, we aspire to strike it big, to be up there amongst the best. Like the rest, I aspired to be the best..for the past year, breeming with self-confidence, I pushed myself hard, exploring the unknown..but somehow one fine day, the self-reflection mode in me switched on and the question popped out; Am I happy with what I am doing? What does being happy mean to me? Can it be measured using material means or spiritual means?

Sometimes when questions like these pop up out of the blue, its time to call for a time-out and do a reality check. If I use material means to measure it, I can say its pretty good, for if you work hard, the financial rewards can be very promising..but being a more complex-thinking person that I am, I tend to measure it in terms of spiritual rewards..

Spiritually, I am not satisfied with what I am doing..for there are many things which I have seen and tried to ratify, but I seem to be fighting a losing battle..people are just turning a blind eye to it. While we are following the latest trends, we should not forget our fundamentals, fundamentals which have served us well to this day..but sadly, nobody care about it anymore..

So if you ask me whether I am happy now, all I can say is that, I am NOT and I am still in the pursuit of my happiness, finding a piece of the sky which I truly belong. I hope that you, like me can do a reality check and ask yourself whether you are happy and how you should find your own happiness.

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