JB trip, April 2006

I still can't imagine myself buying these in JB ! My friend said that I am being too obsessed with Indonesia now ! He said that Singapore got so many young and single men, why the need to master Bahasa Indonesia ? I think he is the one who is mad ! Learning Bahasa is necessary for my line of work as I am dealing with rich Indonesian decision makers now and it is important to build good rapport with them (which means to be able to communicate in their native language with them) in order to clinch the deal or even multiple deals (as they can afford it) !

If my friend had not stopped me, I would have bought the Korean and Japanese ones too ! To learn Korean (more importantly) for my regular dosage of Korean movies or dramas !

And according to my management, Indonesia and China have the largest market shares in the Asia Pacific region and they have the spending power so they are among the best to work with. The Japs and Koreans are a bit difficult though coz of the language barrier and they tend to adopt their own country's or Western countries' business partners. I find Singaporeans and Malaysians fine to liaise with too, for businesses and final decisions come faster than the Indonesians'. In a nutshell, I love working with the Indonesians and Chinese because they have "given" me multiple deals before :D

However, what I pine for most now is to be given a chance to work in HK ! I love HK for its similarity to Singapore and also mainly because I can speak Cantonese, Mandarin (the Chinese's Putonghua) and English well enough to survive there. I also adore HK's cool and nice climate, her many shopping and eating houses and many, many other stuff ! My Indonesian colleague joked that she should introduce me to her HK friend and make me stay in HK for a month to "see for myself how the HKers there live ! They live in a stressful environment and almost everything is in a very fast pace. Anyway, I am also considered a quarter of a HKer because both my maternal and paternal grandfathers came from Guangdong, off the southern province of China ! Not really HK but, well, almost right ?

OMG ! Why am I uttering all these now here ? I should be talking about my JB trip yesterday right ?? Hehehe...

Well, my JB trip was okay but not really satisfying coz I didn't really get what I wanted...

We wanted to catch Mission Impossible 3 or the Korean tearjeaker Daisy in City Square's cineplex but they dun have these 2 shows there yet :( So we watched "Failure to Launch" instead. It turned out to be a rather entertaining and funny romantic comedy, worth its ticket price :)

Bought quite an alarming number of stuff there; the 2 Indonesian learning books and CD as mentioned above, a white top, half a year's supply of monthly disposable contact lens (for only RM100!), a nice namecard holder and more than 30 ORIGINAL Korean, HK and English DVDs !!! Gosh ! May be going back to JB again next weekend with the same colleague coz we wanted very badly to catch Mission Impossible 3 or Daisy there ! We also discovered that there is a cheap KTV which offers buffet dinner with 3 hours of KTV singing for only RM35+++ per person ! :D I think I am one of the odd ones who only tend to shop a lot in overseas and seldom purchase stuff in Singapore.

When I am either very happy or very sad, I will do silly things like buying the whole shop home and spending like nobody's business....

Happy Labour/May Day Holidays

The Chinese call it the "五一劳动假日“ (Labour Day Holidays) and the good thing is that they actually have a whole week's worth of national holidays during the first week of May every year !

Singaporeans and Malaysians also enjoy a long weekend given that May Day falls on a Monday this year.

Too bad though Indonesians have to work on the first of May annually; it's not a public holiday for their country.

Looking forward to spending my May Day holidays with friends. Good friends, that is. I met up with a close girl friend this evening for dinner and we updated each other about the recent events happening in our lives. Long time no see but we can really talk non-stop !

Tomorrow morning, I will be going to JB (again!!) with a colleague of mine. We both look forward to a day's worth of eating, shopping and watching the latest movies there if they are out !! Mission Impossible III and Daisy ?? I really love Tom Cruise and Jeon Ji Hyun !

I love long holidays and good company these days ! No bf but I am getting happier these days ! Hehehe :)

Lurve Indon :)

I love Indonesia !

Pertamina rocks !!

I m Still Alive, dun worry

Hi all,

I am back here ! Dun worry, I am still alive and kicking and getting more cheerful these days. I have a tendency not to blog here when I am in a good mood. I mean, people usually blog when they are lonely, helpless or angry right ? And I'd rather talk to a real human being in real life than to blog down rubbish of my daily ramblings in cyberspace. I do not know who is reading my blog every now and then and do not want some irritants to read or know about my life also :P

Just to update here that I am getting better physically and mentally. Been talking regularly to my distant cousin and colleagues and everything's fine and good for the time being.

A few hours ago during dinner time, I received a call from J, my long time buddy from school. She asked me the symptons of leukaemia as her sister-in-law was being suspected of contacting the blood disorder ! One may or may not contact leukaemia when their white blood cells are dangerously higher than the red blood cells in their body. I advised J to seek a second opinion from another oncologist from a reputable hospital coz they do make mistakes sometimes. Hopefully it will turn out to be negative !

My Indonesian colleague is organizing a drinking session at One Night Stand this Friday. She said that ladies dun have to pay any entrance charges ! Lately, there have been freebies in the office ! Our MD treated us beer, drinks and finger food last Friday as we managed to achieve our targets last week. And just this afternoon, we had a FOC Ya Kun tea session too ! Nice nice :P I mean, it's always nice to have FOC drinking or tea sessions ! Haha, typical Singaporeans !

Going to JB this Saturday with a colleague ! Yippee !

Sick

I have been down with flu and fever since Friday. Haven't been sick for eons until recently. My throat's sore and it had affected my tastebuds; everything I ate tasted funny and terrible. I also felt my head and body warmer than usual.

Luckily Panadol came to my rescue.

人生如梦

这几天，我的感触很多。

为怎么人生如梦，爱情如戏？

爱我的人和我爱的人永远都不是同样一个人。。。

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He Cried when She Died....

Been away from the blogging world for quite sometime as my paternal grandma had passed away and it had somehow changed my way of thinking recently.

It was funny though, when you were still a scrawny kid, you used to play together and eat together with me. I still remember the tiny snooker table set and baby tricycle you and I used to take turns to ride in Ah-Ye's home.

You and I were born just 9 months apart; both were born in the year of the Monkey (which explains why we both love monkeys, apes, gorillas, bananas etc or anything that are associated with Monkeys when we were children). We are MONKEYS ! And we behave like MONKEYS too !!

Remember how we used to take pics with Ah-Ye during his birthday/s ?

Do you know that his birthday is exactly the same as mine ?

Do you know that my dad, your dad's bro shared the same fate as you do ?

All of us share the same surnames. We were so near, yet so far.

When I saw you again, the last being Ah-Ye's death 5 years ago, I feel a tinge of connection. Never before had such a feeling engulf me. Maybe coz I was never told of our family history until recently. I thought such complicated thingy exists only in HK dramas. Just like I thought the young and my loved ones would not be taken away from me so soon.....

Why was it that when we were kids, everything seemed so innocent and perfect? As we grew up and learnt of the truth, we drifted apart. True enough, kids are so inhabited when they crap together but why when they grow up, everything became so foreign?

I first saw your reddened eyes during Ah-Ye's funeral wake in 2001. You were clearly devastated and broken-hearted. Family relations did not mean much to me then as I was very much engaged in my own world of friends and then bf. I did not comfort you on your loss. I didn't do so too, just now, when you were the only one heard wailing in Mandai Crematorium Service hall 2's viewing gallery. I guess our family do not openly express out our feelings although they do care and love one another. We are very much a typical Chinese family. I had wanted to give you a light pat on your shoulders just now, to show that I understand your pain and feeling of lost and abandonment. Somehow, my hands forbidded me from doing so.

You are our family's first grandson （长子迪孙）and is cute. Being traditional grandparents, you were very much the apple of their eyes. I remember Ah-Ma would mention your name with pride and joy whenever we visit her during CNY in the recent decades. Even my Mother commented that you were a handsome kid. Especially when she last saw you 5 years ago too. I was so envious.

But behind your good looking face lies a sad childhood. Something which I got to know only in the recent years. I am sorry. I finally understand.

I feel a lot for you. Maybe because you share the same fate as my dad? Tomorrow, we will see each other again but I wonder when will we ever meet again?? I hope it wouldn't be another funeral till we meet again.

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寂寞难耐

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