Here's My Story

Singapore dawn Woke up at an ungodly hour of 5am but pretty excited since would get to see my honey in a few hours time :) Had rice puff with fresh milk for breakfast and checked e-mails one last time before packing up the laptop. Since I only had one bag (flying Jetstar Light too), I just walked out to the road and flagged a taxi. It's quite shocking how much cheaper taxi is during off-peak hours. I paid half of what I usually pay for ride during the evening peak period. Reached airport just past 6.15am and boy, there were long queues for the flights to KL, Hanoi and Bangkok i.e. all Jetstar counters had long queues. This did surprise me a little especially since I would have thought evening flights, after work, would be more popular. At about 6.25am, which was 35 minutes before departure, somebody finally had the sense to open another counter for KL. I guess some people's brains work much slower in the morning. Once again, as I find it peculiar only to budget airline ...

If you read this  and/or if you were one of the fortunate/unfortunate ones to have spoken with me recently, you would know of my opinion of how alike Avatar and Pocahontas are. Till last week, only 1 other person (a colleague) thought likewise too, without much prompting from me. Recent, she forwarded this to me: She suggested that we should do something similar with Lion King and turn it into a blockbuster :)

I have yet to work with my senior manager (the "eunuch"). We are in different specialisation team. Specialisation was instituted by the current big boss ("the empress") when she came into the picture a less than 2 years ago. So almost all the stories I heard are from my colleagues. Although I usually give people benefit of a doubt, these stories are too consistent with one another to be untrue (barring conspiracy). Some of the key details of the stories are: If there are lots of issues with the work and there's ample evidence that it is due to client's incompetence, he blames his team members for being inefficiency. He'll find two thousand and two reasons to side any other parties except for his team members. (JJ: Wow!) If client provides information/data miles later than the timeline communicated to them earlier, he still wants the team to meet the original deadline. The reason? Well, he's afraid that if he asks for extension of deadline, tha...

Teadot is situated in Tampines One. It is a refreshing change from the usual coffee place that people usually go. It serves mainly tea, with interesting names for them (gah, should have taken picture of the menu!). Such creative naming also extends to their small section of coffee but with rather negative adjectives though e.g. Boring Cappucino, Tired Coffee Latte, Lonely Coffee Frappe (lol!). The creativity also includes the size of the cup (puny, regular, generous), ingredients of the various tea as well the description of each of them. They have comfortable seats and tables that are modern and also cushions. There were no crowd when we went there at about 1pm. Not sure whether it's usually the case. Perhaps because it was Sunday? One curious note: shoppers traffic was noticeably thinner at Tampines One, compared to Tampines Mall. Although I believed it is a little pricey (about S$1 more than I thought what is reasonable), I still recommend this to everyone who loves tea an...

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When I was in Australia in Nov 2009, nearly every night I play Heroes of Might and Magic 5 ("H5") with my bro-in-law, right before I sleep. The strange thing is that, except for one night, my dreams had nothing to do with that game, which is inconsistent with the norm. Some details of the dreams are: (1) No time to study for exam (2) Don't understand a certain subject (in school/university) (3) Losing hair (4) Moving house (5) Consider continue renting (the current place) (6) Trying to catch up with someone Strange, isn't it?

An epic bedtime story by Ban (edited by JJ) Sir Bunny, the valiant knight, set off to save the naughty little dragon, JJ, from the evil princess Muscle Mary. JJ was being spanked for skank. JJ the dragon wanted to skank freely but was forbidden by the evil princess. Sir Bunny hopped to the evil tigress princess castle and said, “In the name of love and cuddles, I challenge you!” Then Sir Bunny brained her with a mallet. “Thank you, Sir Bunny,” said JJ, “I’m now free to find love and skank!...Want some fun?” And so Sir Bunny and JJ the naughty little dragon lived happily ever after. The End.

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Wed, 30 Dec 09 Last lunch of the year with colleagues. Colleague: Should we invite the senior manager? Me: Noooo. Otherwise, how can we then complain about the empress (i.e. big boss) and her eunuch (the senior manager)? Colleague: *laughed* Took night plane to KLIA and then KLIA Express to KL Sentral where Ban picked me up *muack!* Thu, 31 Dec 09 First time played Titan Quest multiplayer and with Ban. Was lagging but Ban managed to do port forwarding to drastically reduce ping to at zero or near zero. Ban took nearly half an hour deciding on name of character because he was undecided on which 2 masteries to select later (which then influenced the choice of name). I've suggested Bunny to him :P Lunched with Nothamsap and his friend at KLCC. Had pizzas at California Pizza Kitchen. Chatted a lot about a variety of stuff. Great fun! On the way to KLCC... Me: Honey, why haven't we reached the train station? (We're supposed to take train to avoid the city traffic...

Hmmm I wonder what JJ stands for :)