What's so special about this bracelet? It's the first bracelet I made myself. Bought the beads out of impulse and all the stones are supposed to help me boost my luck based on horoscope. Not too bad for a first try ba, though took around 6hrs in total to complete it which is a bit long. The only prob now it that it's not 'man' enough, do not know whether can match clothes or dare to wear out or not.
Received this letter on Friday, inviting me to a one day interactive seminar with Edward De Bono, written here as world leader in creative thinking. Basically it's just a normal spam mail, but what interest me is the postage label. It's written here as "Mr Wilson Lee, PA to Director, Nomadic Technology"
Nomadic Technology is not even a registered company and I only mentioned this name to my suppliers and customers. How did they have my particulars. It's the second time I receive letter addressed to director of Nomadic Technology, the previous time is from NDF asking for donation. Nevertheless it felt quite good to be addressed as director. Perhaps in 10 yrs time I really can be addressed as director?
Labels: Movie Review
Guess that I'm slightly hooked on writing movie reviews, perhaps I could brush up my English and work for First in the future? After the traumatism from Miss Potter, I found that we really opt to read more movie reviews before heading to the cinemas and hope that through my blog, I can reduce the cursing and swearing at the cinemas after the show. Anyway, thanks for allowing my blog to hit 100hits, finally. Enough of the unrelated stuff, here's my review of Protege.
Movie Summary:
Nick (Daniel Wu) is an undercover from the anti-nacotics to investigate on Kuan (Andy Lau), the head of a powerful drug-trafficking ring. After 7 years as undercover, Nick managed to earn the trust of Kuan and rose to become his Protege and was taught the whole process of drug trafficking. In the meantime, Nick also came into contact with a family of drug abusers who affected him emotionally.
What I think about the movie:
A very informative move, showing the process of drug-trafficking from planting of poppy in the golden triangle, to the manufacturing and distribution of drugs. The movie also sent out a strong anti-drug signal as we can see how the lives of drug abusers are affected by drugs. Nevertheless, it does not make the film appear as a documentary. Humourous conversations and actions ensure constant excitment in the movie. What is lacking in this movie is perhaps a good ending, the ending is probably there because of a need of an ending and seems abrupt and meaningless.
My Rating:
4.0/5 - Recommended star-studded movie. One can really learn a great deal about drugs from this movie.
Labels: Work
Quoted from ST Digital Life (20 Feb), the top 10 abuses at work are:
How many are you guilty of? For myself, I'm guilty of items 2,3,4,7,9 (hope boss is not looking) Seems like there's many like me out there, which makes me less guilty afterall.
Labels: Movie Review
Movie Summary:
Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage), a bike stuntman, in a moment of folly made a pact with the Devil, selling his soul in exchange for his dad's health. Years later, the Devil contacted Johnny Blaze and transformed him into the Ghost Rider to help him eliminate his son, 'Black Heart'. Johnny then began his adventure as the Ghost Rider.
What I think about the movie:
A movie with a wide range of genre: Horror, action and a component of comedy. Fairly action packed movie with explosive and fighting scenes every few minutes and few scary scenes bound to shock the faint-hearted. Story line is simple but slightly illogical, just like any other heroic movies. The bad thing about this movie is that the enemies are weak, depriving any exciting and notable fighting scenes.
My Rating:
3.0/5 - Good effort for the actions but poor effort for the plot. Can't blame it really since it's based on a Marvel comic and I can't expect more from a comic.
Labels: Festival
Happy CNY to all readers of this blog!!
As usual 1st day of CNY is spent in Grandpa's house. Still remember last CNY Peixin is my best companion as we SMS each other for the entire day to keep each other occupied. This year my best companion is my PSP. Chiong Legends of Heros II for the entire day, almost completed it. Did exchange a few message with princess but the conversation din really get going.
Seen many familiar faces and unfamiliar faces as usual. No real topic to talk about unfortunately so it was still quite boring. Dun know why, as one grows up the feeling of CNY is just not there. Just appears to be another normal day just that you see more people in red than usual. Am I getting old?
Labels: Movie Review
First time writing a movie review here. Here's what I think about this movie Miss Potter
About this movie:
This movie is set in the 1900's and is about the lifestory of Beatrix Potter, the creator of Benjamin Rabbit. It talks about her life during her 3o's, when she experienced ups and downs in both her lovelife and her career.
What I think about this movie:
For Ms Potter, what she experienced might be ups and downs but to viewers, there's basically no ups and downs in the movie at all. This slow-paced shows really bore audience, especially in the start. Condensing a few years time into an hour plus movie is difficult, unfortunately the director did not do a good job and the film seems segmented. The ending was abrupt as well.
My Rating:
1.0/5 - No matter how good the reviews are, please do not watch it. The reason why I gave 1.o is for the Renee Zellweger's acting skills.
Went to orchard in search for PSP charger in preparation for CNY. As recommended went to Far East Plaza and went to this shop called Funz Square (#02-98). This shop sells a number of PSP games and accessories at affordable price. Bought the following from Funz Square:
Legend of Heros III ($58); PSP Adaptor ($18)
Also realised that Far East Plaza is a mini-heaven of street wears. Too bad I've bought my CNY clothes already, but there's always chances next month to revamp my waredrobe.Next I went to Heeren, as seen previously on Keeptouch Forum that it's a place to go for street wear. Only today did I realised that there's an area selling street wear hidden behind the third level shops, selling labels such as Fresh Imp and Four Skin. What a mountain tortoise I am! It's a must go next month to do my retail therapy. Anyway bought a leather bracelet from 77th street first.
My 2nd piece of bracelet
Last stop was John Little, Specialist Shopping centre. Really did not regret it, the section on level one is a chocolate heaven. Selling all the Meiji dark chocolates and many other sort of chocolate which you do not usually see outside. Just the Meiji chocolates is sufficient to excite me and I could not resist the temptation and bought a box of 86% Cacao. It comes in separate packaging and it's definitely easier for me to eat it in the office.
86% of goodness
All Meijians fall in
Labels: Work
5th day in Green team. Sometimes I really felt that I needed more challenges. The call stats of 100 is just not challenging enough and usually I could hit the stats 2-3hrs before 7pm. I'm a bad worker now who uses the company computer for msn and web surfing. Even Kane told me today to continue picking up calls despite hitting stats. I felt bad for it, despite maintaining a stats of 10/hr.
Few days ago I felt that I was letting down my customers and now I felt that I was letting down my company. I wonder how long can the temptation of $9/hr keep me going. I have a feeling that it will not be long, but plans are often different from reality.
Labels: Work
2nd Day in Green Team, did double banking again today, but this time with Rino. He's another 'old bird' in Green Team and his product and service knowledge is definitely better and I've learnt quite a number of things under him.
From the start I started to chiong to hit my stats and I hit quite a high stats today. One thing that I noticed is the quality of my calls. Really missed the time in billing where I could talk to customers for long periods of time without much worries. Settling disputes, debating with customers and the frequent OTOT breaks are really what I missed. Now in Green, due to the 100 calls/ day quota, I feel that I'm not really giving my best to the customers.
Now, I'd only answer whatever the customers asked me and not take the initiative to eleborate further. Whenever possible, I'll also advice customers to call back. Now that's the question, is this efficiency? If I had a choice, I'll prefer quality over quantity. At least I know the customers know better what I'm saying in the past and would less likely to call in for further enquiries. In life there's many occasions when we have to choose between quality and quantity as well. Whether in relationship, shopping, time management and many other aspect, we have to make a choice and most of the time I'll choose quality but why am I choosing quantity now? I really feel bad to those who called me today, hope that you all will not get through to the Green Team when you call in...
Labels: Work
Changed to a new department in StarHub called the Green Team. Not too sure why is it called the green team. Might be due to the official colour of StarHub, or does green means greenhorn too as most of the member of the Green Team are youngsters. Anyway, all I have to do is to clear as many general enquiries as I can as possible and the quota is 100/day.
For today, I did 'double banking' with an 'old bird' in Green Team, meaning that while I talk to the customers, she listen to the conversation and correct and advice me when necessary. That 'old bird' is called Alicia and she's actually 2years younger than me but was in the Green Team 2mths ago. She did taught me quite a number of things though most of the time she's folding stars or slacking or playing with my PDA.
Not a bad performance today, I've managed to hit 100calls on my first day at Green Team, of course I won't have done it without the help of Alicia. Yet still find this job a little boring, and at a point of time I'm thinking how long more can I withstand the job. Guess what keeps me going on will be the wage and the friends in Green Team. Gambate!!
Labels: X-gamble
Few days ago I'm wondering on when can I actually quit gambling. As of 31st Jan, I'm still facing a $180 deficit. With my usual $50 bets, it will take 4 consecutive wins for me to win back my capital to quit gambling.
Things often happen when you least expect it. It's quite true in this case. Never would I have expected that I will win 5 consecutive games on 2nd and 3rd Feb. On this 2 days, I actually turned the $180 deficit to a $50 win. However, just before I bet yesterday, I told myself if I won both matches last night, I'll donate $40 to the World Vision Rice Program. I believe that's the reason that I can produce this little miracle. In that case I'll proceed with the $40 donation this Wednesday, and with that I'll still have $10 profit for me to spend.
Money's not the real point for X-gamble. As my bets are relatively small, winning or losing doesn't make too much difference for me. What I'm more concerned about is my concentration and the time. Usually at this timing I'll be at the Gamebookers website, deciding which match to play, 'wasting' up to 1-2 hrs of my time each day. Now, I felt that I've more time to do my own stuff. Just tonight, after having dinner and reaching home at 8+, I've settled my Nomadic Tech stuff, watched Asean cup and Project Superstars and now do the blogging. I have not had this feeling that my time is fully utilised for quite some time and this feeling is just great.
For those gamblers out there, hope you can follow in my footstep to take a break and realise how life without gambling is. The temptation is there and I understand myself that some time it's just hard to resist the 'free money' out there. When you have time, divide the the profit you have by the time you spend on studying match, if you are fortunate you can still earn on average a few cents per hour. Is it really worth it? Time to ponder on it.
Labels: Work
Tonight, we had our first and last IX outing at Swensen’s Plaza Singapura. After much planning by Daryl, we finally managed to find this time when everyone is not working. Had a normal meal an as usual Earthquake as a finale.
Chatted there for about 3hours there, but topic mainly revolves around work. It’s just like a little review of our short stay in IX and how we have progressed from a blur blur CCC to a ‘not so blur’ CCC. Thinking of it time really flies and it has been 2 full months since we joined StarHub. Blunders aside, guess that we are all better communicators now. I suppose William has gained the most as he’s speaking on his new crush all night long, so much that I can really feel the love in him.
Both Ex-hubbers came today too. Glad to know that Wee Lee has already found a new job at Shell as account assistance. Although the pay is relatively lower, he seems to be rather happy with his new job. Just wondered would it be the last time I will see Jian Yi and Wee Lee and based on my feeling, it may well be the last time.
Finally, got to thanks Michelle for footing the bill for all of us. Really appreciated it. My only regret is that did not bring a camera along, so could not take a photo of all of us. The
Labels: Festival
Went to work despite off day today, for money of course. What other reason can there be? That’s not the point of my blog today, as the title implies. If you are a non-Indian who did not pass by Douby Gauht or Little India today, most probably you will not even realize that today is Thaipusam. Or worse still, some may ask what is Thaipusam? Not to blame them, Thaipusam is not a public holiday, that’s how realistic Singaporeans are, and I myself other then knowing that it’s a festival where Indians carry the Kavadis (the structures with sharp ends pokes in to the flesh of the carrier)
Upon stepping out of Douby Gauht MRT, I had the feeling that I reached Little India instead. Swamps of Indians are parading on the road and many others gathering on the pavement and fields.
The real festive mood can only be enjoyed in the night. When I went for dinner, that’s when the real ‘celebration’ started. There’s many more Kavadis than in the day and the crowd is larger. As they parade they sang and dance, it’s really a festive scene.
Time really flies, memories of countdown of 2007 still remains fresh in my mind but today is already the first day of February. So much dreams from the start of 2007 but let's see the highlights of 2007.
I have attend 2 21st Birthdays so far, 1 from Boon Kian and 1 from Sabrina. Guess that it's really a good time for long lost friends to meet again. Guess it's another busy year ahead attending parties.
Received my first pay this month. The feeling is really good when you have the money and be financially independent. It also allows me to go on shopping sprees which I haven done so for a long long time.
The thought of X-Gamble grew stronger this month. Especially since I lost quite a sum at the first week of the month. Later seeing some friends got into debts and on the other hand friends also begin enjoying life from quiting I'm tempted to quit. Launched X-Gamble but not really successful. Hopefully Feb will be a better month.
Finally I agreed to extend my contract at StarHub after much thought. I gave up the adventurous and nomadic me for the stable income I get. Will the trade off be worth it? Time will tell.
