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As my close friends should know, that one of the better things I know is IT related stuffs. The personal helpdesk of aunties, friends on problems from basics of using the pc, to reformatting PC, to hardware of PC.

Therefore I decide to start this section on my blog, to share stuffs with my readers. As for those that fall asleep hearing PC stuffs , you might want to just ignore post on this

So basically, all the stuffs related to Information Technology will be post under the catogary “Know-IT-All” or in short, if you see a kITa on the top of the post, you might just want to skip it.

Meanwhile have fun guys.

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I Received an email from OMY Bloggers club for an RSVP invitation to the lastest Aaron Kwok Movie City under Seige. I decide to try my luck and I got the preview tickets!

Asking Wuyi along to the preview, we both reached Plaza Singapura and wait a while before the collection of the tickets started. We entered the GV Cinema and got ourselves a good seat! The whole cinema is actually booked for the event and I can see that there are lots of young bloggers around.

The movie City Under Siege is a film by Benny Chan which feature actors including Aaron Kwok as Sunny, Shu Qi as Angel, Jacky Wu (not the taiwan Jacky) as Sun Hao, Zhang JingChu (My Favourite!) and Collin Chu as the big bad guy in the movie.

The story is about mutants or so called mutated humans (Bian Zhong Ren) which has different stages of Mutation. Aaron Kowk act as Sunny, a guy whom have always wanted to peruse his dream just like his father, as a good flying dagger thrower. However , due to low confidence, he is unable to perform to his dad standards. Something happened to him and he turned into a mutant.

The movie on the surface is a very simple movie with a simple story that involves fighting of the mutants and the regular good guys eventually win bad guys script, however behind the simply logic, lies a few lessons. From the movie, it is trying to show some moral values, for example, the love between Sun Hao and Hua which tries to pass on an important lesson of always not lose yourself when you try to pursue something which is a very important lesson in life. However the movie also has this classic line , once the dagger is throw, make sure it hits the target.

Now to the comments on the movie.

Please note that I only give true options when it comes to review so pardon me if I said something bad about it.

The acting of the cast of the movie is great, however the movie itself has some missing links. The movie needs to have a better closure for the fight at the last part is way too simple as compared to the fight in the middle of the movie at the training area. However there are good parts of the movie that I like, the effects of the part where the flying daggers fight happened in the training area was impressive , and of course the dressing up of Aaron Kowk as the out of shape fatty (althought I don’t know what’s the link of that to the movie but it was a great one put up by Aaron). Also in this movie you can see the fighting sence of Zhang Jing Chu which you don’t normally see as she always acted as a weak women however in this, she fights the mutants! I love the actions fighting in the movie especially on those close combats featuring the martial arts. The movie is overall a good one with a predictable ending. If a twist is added into the movie, it would be great.

The movie is out at Golden Village now. Check out the trailer and you will know what I’m talking about.

And now for the Making of the Movie.

If you are into action movie , the movie would be one for you I give it an over rating of 3 popcorns over 5 . The cast and actions are good, the only bad thing is the missing links in the movie.

Sad to say, I didn’t accomplish all of what I want to do today.

I woke up at 7.50 instead of 7.30 [failed] , I made my own bed [accomplish], didn’t do any push ups [failed] and got out of my house at 8.30am [failed]

I only manage to complete chapter 1 of “PHP & SQL for Dummies” [failed] , did a 4km run [accomplish] , did 30 push ups and sit ups [accomplish]

Like I said, talk is cheap. It is always easy to talk. Lets see if things goes better for tomorrow. =)

- Wake up at 7.30am

- Make own bed

- Push ups

- Bathe

- get out of house at 8.30am

- Swim at Safra Tampines after work

- Finish off what is left of today for self-study.

I always look forward to a new month, so that I can have new plans. I will do reviews on my current job, financial including investments, stuffs to accomplish on personal life at every month end. My resolutions often goes into the drain or put on hold for too long. Somebody once told me that it’s not that she doesn’t believe that I will execute my plans, is just that I always put things on hold and drag on for too long. I realise that it is an important key habit of successful people, that has the mentality of if they want to get something done, by hook or by crook they will do it at the shortest possible time and not wait. That is what makes a successful person so successful.

Well. Lets see if I can accomplish my plans for the month of August. Lets do a daily planning and review before I sleep and see if I can execute the plans successfully. For tomorrow, I want to wake up at 7.30, do my own bed, do some push ups, bathe at 7.45, get out of my house by 8.20am.

After work, I want to do my self-study and complete, Chapters 1 and 2 of “PHP & SQL for Dummies” , “Network Access Control for Dummies”

I want to do a run from my house to Reservoir with minimum distance of 4Km.

I want to do 30 push ups when I get back and 30 sit ups.

That’s all for Monday. =) New Month, New Plans, and lets hope, New Habits.

I realise that if you force yourself to do something over and over again, you will eventually do it without having to think about it as it is inbuilt in your subconscious mind as an habit.

I hate to but have to give out a huge sigh. A close friend of mine joined the “Players” . Succesful players play “The Game” . So what is “The Game” I am talking about. Not WoW, not Dota, not those facebook game but real life game of picking up and casual sex.

I once had a book “The Rules of the Game” . This book teaches a guy who know nuts about talking, to charm girls by doing the missions in the book and to finally get hooked up. I bought the book to see what Neil has to say about picking up and I have to agree that the steps in the book does make a guy a player. However, it is up to the person he himself to decide if he wants to play “The Game” .

To me, I never supported casual sex. I never belive in sex for the sake of sex other than sex that is in the form of making love. Well if you know what I mean that is. It is not just a physical thing but the connection between two person. I didn’t say it is wrong to go around sleeping with other people however, I condem people who are in a relationship doing it. Firstly, that is call cheating. Secondly, that is unfair to your other half. Thirdly, what kind of love is that if you betrayed the trust your partner gave you.

I have friends around me that cheats. What’s bad about it, I know their girlfriends through meet ups and gatherings and it just somehow feels wrong to know that your friend is cheating on the girl and yet you just keep quiet about it. However I also know the rules behind friendship. You don’t interfer in relationship of your friend. I seriously feel disgusted with the idea of having a partner at the moment and search for a better one while in a relationship. When you decide to be in a relationship, you should be prepare to put 100% into it. If you deem that this is not the perfect one, and you want somebody else, please breakup before you try to “look for a greener patch of grass” .

The weird things about girls is they are especially attracted to guys that are having intrested of other girls. It’s something inbuilt in them, some subconcious mind that makes that happen. Therefore that’s how the “girls love bad boys” that comes about.

All I could say is, if you want to play “The Game” Please not when you are attached. If you have to do it, please, use Protection. You don’t want to carry some illness back for your gf do you. Never say it will not happen because you never know what will happen because you are only human.

Pardon me..

The site is filled with cob webs and dust. DESERTED.

Seems like I went MIA yet again. As usual, always hot on something and turns cold a while later. Haven’t been in good shape recently, head was spinning, followed by flu attack after a week, having stomach flu. I suppose my medical bills claim is a sore eye on the company’s account.

I met up with a group of friends whom I was especially close with 4 years back and due to some childish stuffs, the group split. Partly I was at fault I suppose. Thinking back, it was really stupid and funny.

I haven’t been doing much lately, or rather I haven’t been doing much since March. Just suddenly felt that there is nothing for me to work hard for, no point for me to try to earn so much money and a simple sentence from a friend of mine strikes me deep. “You are letting the books shape your thoughts when your thoughts are not yours”. I agree. I was over obsess with earning money and getting rich and somehow I realise, rich is not just wealth. You can be rich in a lot of things, you can be rich in friends, rich in knowledge, rich in skills, rich in quality, and rich in happiness.

Should I say, I gave up hope on financial freedom, no. I have to agree that financial plays a part in every aspect of staying alive. However, we have to determine what our desire lifestyle is like , if not we will never have enough of what we get always wanting more and more. That’s Human.

There are a few places I want to visit and I want to do it. I want to go to taiwan, and try the “koi” bubble tea there. I want to go to Bali, to stay in the villa for a week, I want to go to Puket to dive in the blue sea. I decided to save up part of my monthly income to fulfil my wishes. News that happens everyday, from the young guy that got crashed by a tree to the middle age man that got kill sitting in a bus makes me realise that life is fragile, I can be sitting here typing this entry today and I don’t know if I can do it tomorrow. I find the need to do what we want to do fast because we only live once.

I need to find back the confidence I have lost, especially in love. I would love to love someone but at the same time, I fear love. I fear rejections, I fear stuffs which I once lost fear in. I hate the feeling of losing, I hate the feeling of rejection and I hate the feeling of people forcing me to give up something I hold so tightly, I lost my confidence and it became a barrier. I need to feel good about myself once more and I hope that somebody, someone out there will be able to do it. No, no religious talking here. Please.

For now, all is  important is to live life to the fullest and do what I want to accomplish asap. Like I say, life is fragile, you can live for others , but you never know when others will leave you. Live for yourself, for you deserve your own life.

There are times I just can’t be alone, I am thankful for people that are around me. Being there to hear me out when I need them and doesn’t force me to go out when I need to be alone. Thank you Siurong, Samantha, Nguan, Jerome , few of my closest friends I known since NS days.

Backtracked.

Friday 4th June 2010.

Extremely Emo date due to some stuffs in the memory bank. I love Fridays as it is always the day every working adult looks forward to. However as I have to work the next day, I didn’t really go out and enjoy it. Instead went to Samsung Service Center in Century Square to get mum’s new phone upgraded to Android 2.0 from 1.6. Mum bought a Samsung Galaxy Spica last week and we are all having fun playing around with Android, the applications which you can browse in the Android Market is seriously awesome. I don’t know how good the apps are in istore for Apple’s Iphone but android market seriously made me wow. Waited 15 min for a jump in a Single queue number. There were only two counters, no separation of collections and servicing. I shan’t complain much about the service attitude because I know how it feels to work like a robot non-stop for hours. Anyway I manage to get the phone updated within 1 hour. Meanwhile, in that 1 hour, I went to check out book at Popular book store. I am still planning to teach Secondary Maths for tuition as an extra income during the weekends. My budget is not that tight however I would want to get more “seed” money for my future financial planning at the same time, help out those that need help in maths by finding ways to teach well. Those that have knowledge does not mean they can teach. You will know what I mean if you fall asleep in lectures. Manage to get the phone back without any problems and Android 2.0 was way better than 1.6. Actually I upgraded the phone because of a bug that is inbuilt in android 1.6. If you set the language to “Chinese” and you try sending a message with Chinese character , the other party will receive “???” on their phone. However if you set your phone language to “English” and send Chinese Characters, the other party will receive perfectly well. Weird indeed. Well at least the phone is ok now. I seriously wants to get the new Samsung Galaxy S i1900. I tried it out at Singtel and I fell in love with it. My re-contact date is in October and the contract ends on February. However I am considering switching to Starhub as the service I get from Singtel is getting worse.

Saturday 5th June 1010

The Saturday at work was a peaceful one. Time flies and halfday was gone. Went to Singapore Pools to try my luck on the queue number I got from Samsung Service Center 0089 . You should check out what is the first prize and you will know how it feels to see 5000 fly away. Well I went home and took a nap and around 6.30pm. I went out of my house to meet Siurong, Samantha , Jerome, Gabriel , Nguan and of course, Nguan’s GF ! All of use agreed that Nguan has changed, for the better! More caring, and not anti women any more and doing things which we all never think he could do. It was nice seeing your friend fall in love and change to the better side. We have all been looking forward to the day that Nguan got attached. They are compatible! Loving scene are heart warming =)

Well I started off meeting the boys and their GF’s at Lau Pat Sat. It has been years since I walk around in CBD area . I used to walk a lot around that area when I was doing a part time job in a Tour Agency when I was 17 plus. That when how I went from under the shelter always to going out to explore stuffs. I use to not even have the courage to talk to people to having to call customer up, meet them, collect stuffs from them. Well after which we took Gab’s car over to Clarke Quay where Nguan and Som(Nguan’s GF) went to take GMAX Reversed bungee!

We parked at MOS carpark and walked over to the reverse bungee. As I walk past Crazy Elephant, in my mind I was wondering will I see someone and in fact I really saw her. Well. Since we no longer talk, I didn’t go over to say hi. She was with another ex camp mate of mine. Well at least she still looks good and living well, better than the times with me. I had to delete her from MSN and Facebook just to stop myself from checking how’s she’s doing every now and then. Sometimes, when you try too hard to forget stuffs, you eventually remembering them. I have been having insomnia, I wonder if that is the cause of the Dizziness .

Nguan was super nervous you can see it from his face. Although we always jump from the jumping tower, this is a totally different experience. Well in the end he really went up which I will never do it! Over my dead body! or maybe if I was drunk and high enough to go up there. Well at least he did it! like once in a life time. gosh. that is seriously scary. I can imagine it and my heart can feel it. We ended the night with a drink at the Irish Pub in Clarke Quay. Will update this post with Pics after I get them from Sam.

Sunday 6th June 2010

Spent the day at home. I seriously don’t enjoy listening to my uncle Sings and yet he keeps on coming to my house to Sing. Just don’t understand why. It really piss me off however I have got no right to say anything as this house belongs to grandma and not me. Ended the night with Mahjong session with cousin Darren, Aunt and Grandma. Lost like 14 bucks!

On a side note

I have finished my medication for my dizziness and yet I am still feeling it. I think I will have to go to a full body check up soon. I hope it is not as bad as I thought. I started to realise that I should put health before wealth. There is no point having so much wealth and not having the health to enjoy it.

I have drew up my financial blueprint of my monthly projected cash flow. Planning to get a Monthly Force Saving account with OCBC, MS123 and thinking of switching the funds in my citibank over to CMIB’s Fix Deposit of 1.25% interest for a period of 24 months. Citibank’s step up account when I signed up was offering 2% and now 0.5% . Interest rates are so low now. It is always the case, when interest rates goes up, the market is not doing well so banks need funds to invest , once the market recovers, they no longer need the money as they have used the money to make more money. Well I have also set a side a small amount for my “seed” money . Seed Money are those that you use to grow more money in investing (not gambling) .

World cup kicks off this Friday! However it is too expensive to subscribe to it.

Alright, goodnight =) Need some sleep.

when hopes of a tomorrow together is gone, what is left are memories of the past. I wrote this tune today playing it with my heart. That is how my memory of “us” sounds like.

It’s unhealthy to linger onto the past however memories will be here to stay forever. Letting go of the past is the key to happiness. Learning to let go is the process of getting stronger.

I appreciate this piece of memories and bookmarked them with this piece of music before I take a step and move on.

May peace, happiness and love finds their way through your life. I dedicate this song to the one I loved with blessings from the bottom of my heart. =)

Backtracked.

I met the boys on 22nd May, at Casuarina curry house for some Prata and regular meetup sessions. I guess the bunch of friends that I meet up frequently are the bunch of boys that swims in the sea with me.  Met up with Andy, Deborah, Quek, Samantha, Jerome and Nguan for the Roti Prata Dinner. It was the first time I heard nguan talk about his Thailand trip and his new found Thai girlfriend. Really feel happy for him as it is like finally he found someone he really loved and I can see how he changed. Just like how Sam said I changed 2 years back when I too started to get into my first relationship. I had this suddenly dizzy spell while having the prata and I have been feeling giddy for the whole week, from that day till now. Hopefully nothing bad is happening to me. After the prata, we went over to Serene Center’s Island Creamery to have our desert. Well this was the 2nd time I was there, the first time I was there was on my Birthday 2 years ago with her. Well memories always stays. The night ended well and sunday was again the regular mahjong session.

The whole week was so busy at work but it was not really that bad as it’s a four day working week. The week passed fast and my head was in a dizzy mode since that Saturday. I went for an eye check-up only to realise my perfect eyesight still stays so it is not causing my dizziness. I went to a Chinese Physician in Bedok and the doctor said that I am having an infection in my ear and I am too heaty. He performed my first acupuncture experience on me (it was no fun man) and gave me some Chinese Herbs to brew. The consultation was not cheap. Fifty bucks! Anyway I might be having flu too just that I have got no running nose at the moment.

I met nguan yet again on Friday where we headed to 313 for coffee at toast box. Looking at how toast box’s sales is going, I think that bread talk group’s profit from toast box will still be good for this year. The share price goes back up to 0.545 per share during closing on Thursday after it dropped to 0.495 a few days back. The coffee was nice and nguan was so excited about his gf coming to Singapore next week and he is already planning how he’s going to spend the time while she’s here. To think that nguan kept complaining about people can’t make up their mind, he is now in confusion too. After which we met up with Jerome and head down to Marina Bay Sands to take a look. The Helix Bridge was an eye opener for me. Too crowded for now I would say, if there ain’t not that much people, it would be a nice and romantic place for couples to share some romantic moments while looking out into the River.

Marina Bay Sands’ shops are still under construction and there was nothing much there. Can’t even go into the casino! 100 levy for us to get in. Jerome manage to get a pair of shoes from Pedro and after which we headed to Popeyes at Singapore Flyer for dinner. Getting a seat there was getting fustrated when people don’t give a damn of how long you waited, they just get the seat once people stands up and some people can even snatch your seat away when you have already place your bag down! Welcome to Singapore, the Kiasu Society. Well finally we managed to get a seat and had our meal. After which it’s another kopi time at Xin Wang Hongkong Cafe at Marina Square. Head home after that with nguan sending me an sms telling me he took the wrong train and ended up at jurong east when he is suppose to head up to yishun. Lol.

As for Saturday, it is the family cohesion BBQ day. The night was great with lots of people chit chatting with each other, however the mood was not that lively or maybe it’s just me still feeling light headed. We had lots of food which we can’t finished and we started talking about not wasting food and somehow or rather, my logic of having to finish everything on the plate to not waste food has changed. My view of not wasting food is not to prepare/order too much food which you can’t finish instead of forcing yourself to finish what you have prepared/ordered.

I believe most relationships change people. Their views, their way of doing things and the way they want people to do things. For the good or the bad, there are bound to be changes.

Will be going to a western doctor to check out what problem am I having. Hopefully it is nothing that will take my life or disrupt my plans. Suddenly I feel that we have to be healthy that is the most important thing in life. Wealth before Money. That should be the way of life.

Midweek.

I always love Midweek since young. Wednesday means half of the week is gone and weekends will come by soon. As humans, we look forward to weekends as weekend = break. Perhaps we work too hard in our lives that we crave so much for having a break and the short 2 days of break is often not enough.

Slept late last night after watching IP MAN 2 . It’s really a good movie filled with emotions. Anyway, I keeps on seeing the word “movie” having this red line under it on wordpress. I wonder if there is no such word as “movie” .

Well there’s nothing much as work today, busy as usual with Kelvin Edwards from Valeport visiting. Sat in the meeting room with boss to talk with Kelvin about the improvements that valeport can have in the near future. Boss was talking about sending someone over to UK for Service training. It would be a nice experience if I were to allowed to go for the training in UK. Of course I would take the chance to go and see UK and maybe if I am really going, I would get a DSLR. =) Anyway nothing’s confirmed, it’s just a moment of chatting which might not come true anyway or it might not be me going.

Sometimes I am so tired that I feel like going some where which I can be alone with no one I know. I need that kind of break.

Memories have been haunting me lately. Perhaps it’s because June is coming. I met her in June and broke up last year in June and seriously, I don’t look forward to June because I am starting to hate June. Somehow I wish I can skip past that month.

On a side note, I am feeling sad for the people in Thailand, the country is totally in Chaos. Hopefully peace will restore soon.

Goodnight World and I thank you for keeping me alive.