Friday, October 16, 2009

Happy Deepavali 2009



Happy Deepavali to our Hindu friends.


An advance Deepavali greeting for we are flying off to Hua Hin early tomorrow morning. Sawadee-kup! We love Thailand, the people and the food. This time around, our visit does not coincide with the festival Loy Krathong. Sigh.... but the utmost importance is that we join the Thais to pray for the King's speedy recovery from his illness. Long live the King!

Finally, we catch up. Not only I had a good lunch with Win and TK, we had good jokes as dessert too. It's beyond my imagination to have them without laughter. Nice to know that both of them are doing well. Hopefully we can have the rest in our next get-together.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Black and White?



Finally, I am more relax and able to find time to chat with most of my neglected buddies. Remember that you are not forgotten. It's just that I had to work till late at night. What a timely break for I am aching all over. To the Hong Hiao Gang, I will be having lunch with Chairman Winston and Towkay Tuah Kiat this Friday. As for Lee Hoon, Pipi, Christina and Neo, we should be able to gather after my Hua Hin trip. So make yourself available, okay?

Red tees, yellow tees or blue tees? Pray that Bangkok will be peaceful when we arrive on Saturday. Definately we will avoid the three colours. Margaret suggested we take black and white pictures instead. Why? Because most of our clothing will be in black and white. LOL

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Level 39



We have reached level 39 and should complete our tower's structure by next week. Soon the team will be disbanded with some of us leaving sooner than expected and the remainder stays a while longer. Deja vu. I am sure we gonna lose a good employer and trust they gonna lose us.... good workers too. N'est ce pas? Quelle horreur! C'est la vie.
It's too emo to look back but to march forward..... towards a more challenging project awaiting us, I hope. Dei Gratia. Understand a few of them are packing and leaving Singapore for good. I say 'Good luck buddies and hope we'll meet again.'
It's French disconnected and maybe I would have to start learning Japanese soon. Moshi moshi.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Happy Birthday, Smily!


Happy Birthday, Smily! Keep smiling and good health always.





Publish Post

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Sardines


Aiyoyo! That's me and Patrick in 1972. Back then, we had just shifted to Block 7 Margaret Drive. Life was tough for we had to squeeze our family of 9 in this 1 room 1 hall rented flat. The scenario was beyond words. Looking back, I wonder how we managed to survive those poverty years.
My late father hardly earned enough money to feed us. We are very grateful to have our eldest brother Thomas and sister Jessie who supported the family. To ensure our survival, they gave up their education reluctantly and went out to work at a very young age.
I promised myself that my children do not have to live like 'sardines' like us. Thank God that they each have an air-con bedroom with a queen size bed at a young age. I sincerely hope they treasure the luxury blessed upon them. As for Patrick, he is doing well and living in a private apartment.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Fractured English



I came across this interesting sentence while reading the web pages recently and it goes like this : ' Ignorant idiots will always bitch about shit they don't know. ' Yo, though it's sounds vulgar but it has the same meaning as 'Empty vessels make the most noise' in decent form.
My command of English is so-so only lah and every now and then you would notice grammatical English mistake in this blog. Most of us would term that as 'broken English'. Not for Margaret as she commented that my English is not totally broken but fractured. Huh??? Fractured English??? Aiyoh, I am confused.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Long live my PC!


Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! May all your wishes come true.




My PC has a new life. It's all thanks to my company IT professional James Liaw who helped me to reboot it. He made the task looks simple and warned me to install my anti-virus before accessing the web. Despite turning down my invitation for lunch, I still feel I owe him a meal.
I must also thank Margaret for downloading the neceesary software for the internet connection. Simply put it, I am a PC illiterate. What did I do? I carried the CPU from my home to my office and vice versa. It's not a joke. The CPU was damn bloody heavy. At the end of it all, it's worth it. Long live my PC!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Let the party begins


Happy Children's Day

1 October 2009 and it's Children's Day in Singapore. May all the children of the world be blessed with joy and happiness always.

Time flies and we are into the final quarter of the year 2009. In fact, it's the most celebrated months of the year for our family starting with Smily's birthday this month. In November, we have Fyn's and mine. Needless to say, the festive season Christmas falls on December. The celebrations continue with New Year 2010 and Margaret's birthday in January. There's more to come with Chinese New Year falls on Valentime day 14 February 2010. Mine oh mine! Let the party begins..............