report's killing me

I just completed my 40 odd pages of my mid term report ! PHEW
I'm tired now, gotta wake up at 6am !!!
ARGH!!!! MC ? I shall see....

God knows it

15mins for me to update

The earthquake of Sichuan didnt grip a hold on me only until today when I came to realised the intensified calamity which the people of Sichuan had undergo.

I managed to chanced upon the Charity Show on channel 8. Initially, I just wana catch a glimpse of it because I still have my unfinished report to complete and the dateline is like on the next day. But as I continued to watch, I got so caught in and couldnt help it but to sympathize with the fellow brothers and sisters in Sichuan.

Why must this happened?
Innocent lives are taken away, the simplistic province of china which was once so filled with jubilee now turns into a living hell for the people. Hopes are crushed , purpose of life ebbed away over time...
We are talking abt 60,000 lives taken away and it really breaks me when I see a whole new figure of the death toll in papers every day.
The escalation from hundreds to thousand then to tens of thousand really blows my mind !

Allow me to show you some truth. All these calamities do not happen without a reason. Everything has been stated and it is revealing clearly over time. Some of you may despise me for doing this, or some may say why should I believe in what you are taught in church and etc...

Hold on to your comments !
Read this up and I hope it will somehow stir up that heart of yours.
This is the truth not from some high respected leaders, not from the elders of the church, not from my teachers, not from my parents. Not from MAN but from GOD !

Luke 21:7 - 11

Teacher," they asked, "when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?"

He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them. When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away."

Then he said to them: "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

Jesus is talking about the intensity of one calamity after another. The previous earthquake was a 6.5 in magnitude but now we are talking about a 7.9 magnitude earthquake. Gosh it really scares me! Just awhile ago, china had another aftershock and it was a 6.5magnitude earthquake. Guys, strings of events are going to be fulfilled according to what the bible has stated few thousands years ago.

Stop indulging yourself about self-proclaimed prophets manx. I have heard so much about people saying this is the last Olympic held, year 2012 is Doomsday, there will be a great earthquake on the day of the Olympic itself and etc...

Gotta wrap up everything.

This was indeed an awakening call for me manx. My walk was God wasnt good lately and hence I lost my purpose of life. It was through this that make me realised the Sovereignty of every word in the bible. 60,000 lives were taken away, its not a joke manx. Cherish what you have now, do not wait for a hard lesson to be taught in order to show love.

Love the people around you, love the people whom you dislike because you will never know if you will still see them tmr.

I will keep praying for you ( daddy mummy mk rek lk mao ks johnathan jason ql ch mic and all my fellow friends and loved ones.

Hate me not for that cause it shows my love for you!

Jesus loves all of you!

Dare to dream

Today work was exceptionally different. I've got another Industrial Attachment (IA) student from Croatia who was being attached to my dept. Woah his name is Ivo and he is really amicable. He will be attached to ST Aerospace for 3 months and I guess both of us are leaving around the same time.

Woah it was really a good time chatting with him during working hours. He is currently studying at one of the universities in NYC and guess how old is him? He is only 21 and he is like half a year away to his degree. I have realised that SG males are really at a disadvantage manx. Take me for instance, by the time I complete my degree, I will be like 26 or 27 and I guess in a year or 2, i will be eligible for marriage manx. I mean I do not have an established career by that time, how am I supposed to get settled down manx? No wonder statistics show that working adults are getting involved in marriage at a very much later time than its supposed to be. This doesnt show the workaholic-ism of Singaporeans but demands of our society. Who will be in the right mind to get married without a established career?

Okay I foresee how is my life journey going to be like few years down the road. Time is battling against me, I gotta cherish the time I have now and not make any blunders anymore. Getting into sec 5 wasted 1 year of my time and I cant afford to waste anymore time.

Getting back to the topic, I realised Ivo's dad is a pilot of SIA and he is retiring in about 5 years time. I somehow sense that God has gave me opportunities to come to know of the people who are in the aviation industries. I've got a contact of a pilot who used to work in ST Aerospace few years back and amazingly he was introduced by one of my colleague, Mdm Wong, in my dept. Mdm wong gave me his email (after permission was granted by him) and asked me to contact him, but i have still yet to do so maybe due to the hectic working life.
Now Ivo's dad is a senior pilot and I guess I will have to seize every opportunity that comes along.

Its not a bad thing to have big dreams, and some have gave up those ambitious dreams because they felt it is impossible for them to fulfill that dream.

I guess what you can do is to yourself this : are you willing to take up those challenges that comes along the way in fulfilling that dream of yours?

I have always longed to be a pilot, since i was a little kid. I'm fascinated by the different fleets of aircraft whenever my parents brought me to the airport and until now, my love for aircraft supersedes every other things. i wont deny that learning/ studying pilot manuals is tough and it takes great discipline to study them but at the end of the day, I know i must know them because they are essential. So this is the struggle that most of us faced.

Will your passion be overcome by the challenges you are going through in fulfilling your dream?

If yes, then I guess to gotta reconsider what do you want in life, your career specifically. Have you found where your passion lies or are you still searching for it?

Bottomline : Follow your desire, work towards in and you will see success.

Long Weekend

How I've always longed for such a good, long weekend manx !

I do not know if my weekend was eventful but I guess I spent most of my time resting and being involved in a event over at the Singapore Turf Club. Has been a great working experience with mk, jason foo and chen long. WOAH !! they are just a good bunch of people to be cranky with manx.

Ok movie updates in awhile...

I spent my entire afternoon rushing on my report, it is half way through and I'm struggling!!! Still alive and kicking though :)
Mk is like the platform of my distress. He was like rushing me to get out of my home because we are supposed to meet for dinner and movie.

We went to P.S and got good seats for the movie MADE OF HONOUR, we went to SUSHI TEI, paragon, to have our dinner. Frankly speaking, even though we have been working in ST for months, we just couldnt resist the food over there. SAKAE SUSHI diners out there, would you like to consider Sushi Tei if you are going SAKAE again for your next meal?

We had scallops, grilled squid, swordfish sashimi, sal belly soup, beef ramen ( for me) , ebi Don (for mk) and more...
Just a little advice: Avoid the ebi don, it dont really taste good.
Our dinner was made complete with a complementary desert, ice cream with crepe, by the manager.

Fabulous is the word to describe it ! It comes with a price though, we spent like $80 for a meal like that... Worth it but watch your spending little kid. haha

Alright movie updates :

Synopsis:
For Tom (Patrick Dempsey), life is good: hes sexy, successful, has great luck with the ladies, and knows he can always rely on Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), his delightful best friend and the one constant in his life. Its the perfect setup until Hannah goes overseas to Scotland on a six-week business trip and Tom is stunned to realize how empty his life is without her. He resolves that when she gets back, hell ask Hannah to marry him but is floored when he learns that she has become engaged to a handsome and wealthy Scotsman and plans to move overseas. When Hannah asks Tom to be her maid of honor, he reluctantly agrees to fill the role but only so he can attempt to woo Hannah and stop the wedding before its too late.

My rating : 3.5 /5 stars ( you gotta catch it, esp lovely dovey couples out there)

I feel the movie teaches alot on how you express urself to the one you really love. How many of a time we got mistaken with things that shouldn't meant the way it ought to be.
Or.....its only when someone whom you cherish leaves you then you start to realise that you gotta open urself up, be frank and express it out. And by the time you realised that, it is just too late....

The implication here does not only deals with you and your gf/bf but also those whom you loved so much but dare not express your love to them, your PARENTS.

I shall not go any deeper into that, else i will be like spending the entire night typing it out and then dozing off in my office tmr.

Bottomline:

For couples: Be frank with one another, always express yourself the best you know how to your partner. Honesty is the best policy yeah. Share whatever is in your mind, be it a blunder you've made or when you feel like praising your partner. I guess both genders appreciate words of affirmation, encouragement, compliments and most importantly being confided to one another.

Family: Dont you agree, as we grow older in age, there is a always a gradual escalation in the propensity to hide our feelings/thoughts from our parents. In times of trouble, your friends are always the 1st whom you turned to, and your parents may be the last in your mind to seek help from. Why is this so? I guess, it only boils down to the relationship you have built with your parents all these years.

Suggested steps:

1)Tell them how much you love them
2)Thank them for the little things that they do for you
3)Share with them how lousy/good you feel for that particular day
4)Sought them for advice when you need any

It takes 2 hands to clap too. So likewise parents should play their part too. I have noticed Caucasian parents have modeled the roles of being parents really well. Thumbs up !

Who says we can't gain anything from the movies?
What a joke....

Oh yeah, mk and I saw Swing and Shu Xian at the MRT escalator. Wooh we could barely recognized them, but still we did some catching up within that few mins before we bid one another goodbye. wahaa, i got a craving to catch CHOCOLATE and WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS this week, any interested parties bo ? haha and i need MK's Safra card. wahaa

Tired .... buenas noches !

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Before I even begin, allow me to 1st clear the cobwebs which are lying all around, termites feeding on the rotting HTML of this blog, tremendous increased in spiders population so on and so forth . . .

HAHA let's begin...

Its Friday again !! HURRAY, this is a day where no thoughts of unsettled assignments are involved (even though i owe like 4 weeks of report and half way through my mid-term report), I'm just giving myself a break, isolate myself away from those sickening workloads.

People usually ask me : Hey fred, how's attachment manx ?

Fred : Yeah it's good, learn alot

(in my heart this is my heartfelt description of internship. " Internship is boring after 2 months because everything seems to be so routinized and for goodness sake, I have to write a 60 pages long report at the end of my internship, thus I'm contrived to learn ! "

Nah, I'm not going to have a whining session here again ! We shouldn't live our lives this way, so full of negativism manx. Be contented what you have now, you may not see the benefits for the long run, but rest assured, the fruits of your labor are promising and will soon be revealed over time.

SOUNDS cliché !!
Speak for yourself FRED ! wahaaa

What's up next ?

I couldn't believe it when my brother exclaimed that he won himself a pair of tickets (the premium seating) for the upcoming CLICK 5 concert. My jaws almost dropped when he was like haughtily shouting for joy. I did not even win myself any lucky draws for these 20 years and he just got one like that. HOW CAN ?

What's more, he is not inviting me to the concert with him, nor any of his good friend BUT intending to sell the tics to those diehard fans ! This is his conversation with me :

Bro : Kor, tell you what. I am waiting for opportunity manx !

Me : what opportunity?

Bro : I'm waiting for SISTIC to sell away all the premium tics for the concert before I auction mine out to fetch a higher price ! GEEZ

Me : WHAT THE !!! You better treat us for a good dinner ! I want SUSHI TEI !!
(the thought of having sashimi comes straight to my mind)

Bro: (giving a gloomy expression...) Let's talk about it again. (and he walked away. At that very moment, that thought of mine seems distance away to its fulfillment, Im going to persuade and make him feel bad anyway. EVIL bro i am ! )

Next up ...

My buddy koh lian kwang finally sets up his very own , personal blog.
His blog features the slices of his life. (family, friends, love and school)
Certainly his blogs give every reader a sense of humour, every language or LK's lingo will be reflected in his daily entries. I shall introduce no more, visit his blog and I assured you wouldnt want to click on the " BACK " arrow.

I'm so captivated to your blog koh, good job buddy !!

Lastly . . .

Who will be interested to join me for the 5km run, organised by the Punggol Runners.
The route will be at Punggol. I guess I wont be there for a competitive run, but a run to test my physical status, not comparing records with other runners.

Let me spell out who I will be targeting : Derek, Jason, Deming, KS, MK, JIAMAO, RIC...
Contact me soon manx, so we can proceed with the registration.

With that, I am going to end here la. Eyes are so freaking tired la. Going for a cooling night run later. . . Any interested peeps ?

my ranting begins . . .

To begin my entry, please do safeguard yourself from all the rantings which I'm going to vent it out in this blog of mine. As usual, your views may vary but most importantly, I'm going to give a few honest feedbacks on ST James itself, specifically the Power House.

The ST James goers for that night: Mengkiat, Chris,Steph, my sis and her boyfriend, Serhan, and 2 other friends of hers, naming Breena and Johan, not forgetting myself too.

We hit the Bellini ard like 11pm and the entire place was already so packed. It was ladies night then but our ladies didnt have that 5 free drinks which are rightfully theirs, because they were late. A little bit more on Bellini, its like no other clubs in singapore, not a place for clubbers definitely. There is a small stage where the jazz singers like Jesse and Mr Brown (not that comedian though) and their band perform. The entire place is so consumed by matured ladies and guys, at least 23 of age, who will gather around the tables with hotspour or wine, and totally sucked in by the soothing songs. Free entrance for both sexes but make sure you are at least 23 of age, unless you have the same exceptions as us, where someone older gotta bring you in.
Cool place to chill, thumbs up !

In less than an hr, we hit the RNB room, the Power house. The crowd turned me off totally, it was like 1am and there are still huge crowd gathering at the backyard to wait for their turn to go in. All thanks to Johan who brought us in through his membership privilege. Me and mk ended up not paying any entrance fees.

Here comes my ranting . . .

There is practically no dance floor in that room even though many will say "there is what !"
Tables are all around the room, even on the dance floor(proclaimed by many). There is practically no place to even raise up your hands. I believe its the same as many club giants like Zouk and MOS where its seriously skin to skin contact when u are on the dancefloor. But most of the people there were gathered at the own tables(on the dancefloor), DRINKING ! minority of them are dancing. So imagine if you are so caught in by the music and started dancing, and there was this guy standing right behind you trying his his best to at least take a sip of his drink but couldnt because you are like bumping into him. I mean the entire atmosphere of that night will be ruined. All they need to do is to remove those tables which are obstructing the way.

Next free drinks were given to our ladies, but we were told to hop from one bar to another to redeem those free drinks. Why are the rules and regulations so rigid ? It was really annoying to squeeze our way through the crowd from one end to another just to redeem those free drinks, some nincompoops bumped into us like nobody's business, and worst they didnt apologize ! Give us a smile at least !
Okay we managed to see a long queue of ladies redeeming their free drinks and worst still the queue aint moving a single inch at all. Haiyo this is really terrible. We directed ourselves to the middle of the dancefloor instead.

Next drinks are really terrible !!! Instead of having our vodka orange and cranberry, I felt they are giving us jugs of juices instead. Are your vodka running out?
Drinks are still the best at double 0, good price and quality drinks !

Lastly, good music comes in intermittently throughout the night!
After 3am, i do not know what songs was the Deejay playing, i think that's one of the technique deejays have adopted to CHASE OUT CROWDS ! haha and it was really effective!
People are leaving at the point of time and we too packed up for the night.

Argh ! Sorry for the really long ranting manx, I will not ever step into power house anymore, but for Bellini, I will !! haha alright that's all for the entry, more pictures will be up soon after i take from steph.

Im going sushi tei with mk and his bro later. Wohoo sumptuous meal ahead !!