and yes, you will be given one extra second on the 31st dec 2008 according to the world’s official timekeepers.
yeap, I was reading the newspaper this afternoon and this column in the world section has kept me well educated. I didn’t know you can actually add extra time to make the clocks coordination with the Earth’s spin. and I definitely know zero that it actually happened 24 times before since 1972 and the last time the leap second was added on 31st dec 2005.
where was I? how could I not know about it? talking about shallow huh (shame on you, Jamie)...
well... what should I do to make this additional one second to be more meaningful? one second is equivalent to the time of an eye blink or the time your heartbeat stopped when you sneezed. hell ya… it’s only one second and what else can I be possibly doing? I guess the answer is nothing haha…
2008 is ending in the next 2 days and 2009 is approaching soon. besides worrying age catching up, I think I really need to ponder what have I done over the year of 2008. one word describes best for my 2008, busy! I was busy with tonnes of work (events, unreasonable tight timeline projects and target sales of million). I was busy traveling for work (Singapore, Wuxi, JB and KK). I was busy traveling for vacations too (Krabi, Lang Tengah, Langkawi, KK again, Macau, Hong Kong and of coz Singapore for uncountable times).
looking back, I guess I did have balance life rite… I sacrificed my time to work hard but yet I pampered myself to play hard too. welldone for implementing my philosophy of life, balance life is happy life.
2009 is definitely a hard year with the financial crisis hitting us. some say it’s greater than the great depression and some say this catastrophe will last for about 20 years. I am no financial analyst hence I will just need to beware of my expenditure and make sure I work hard enough to earn my bonuses (I hope my boss is reading this hehe).
I’ll conclude this post by wishing all my dear friends a very happy new year. may you have a great journey ahead in 2009 and enjoy your 2008 to the very last additional second! oh and not to forget, my blog is going to be 1 year old soon… kudos for my blogging (crapping) spirit :P
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Thursday, December 25, 2008
it's the jolly season of the year
do I need to mention more? it’s definitely the month of december!
I kicked off this jovial month with an enjoyable trip to the land of TVB (where else but Hong Kong) den followed by lots of public holiday (which leads me to no mood to work at all).
also this month my company is celebrating the 9th magical anniversary with a safari theme. guess what’s my costume? I’m a zebra... that’s the easiest I could think of with just a black & white stripe tee and a headgear of Marty from Madasgascar. thank God that so coincidentally mcdonald’s has this kinda promotion at the same period of time or else I’ll be struggling like hell thinking what to wear. I’m loving it...
while in Singapore, I managed to catch up with Terry for a cuppa (I don’t remember the lastime we met... if not mistaken, I think it’s more then half a year ago). catching up with old friend is great but I was left envious bcoz... he’s flying off to Maldives the next day for work (although it’s for work but still... *envy envy*).
everytime when I was in Singapore, I promised Li Thim to meet up with her but I never once kept my promise. I know... shame on me and I’m sure a lot of you guys out there are nodding your head right now as I always do the same to everyone haha... so this time is a very good chance for me to do what I had promised and since her boyfriend was away, I decided to extend my stay at her place. thanks Li Thim for keeping me for the nite *muaks*. I couldn’t believe it that we talked and talked and talked so much that we sacrificed our shopping time hence we ended up rushing here and there to spend up my S$100 Isetan voucher that I won from my company DnD. but with no doubt, I definitely did have great fun being with her.
so now, yuletide time is here… Kent, Wah, Jen and I had decided to have a posh dining to award ourselves (after one whole year of suffering). we reached Bangsar right on time due to no traffic jam as what we expected and surprised to see that Alexis was so quiet. Hmmm… I wonder where’s the crowd but it doesn’t really matter as I prefer peace and quiet. we dined from starters to main course to desserts with white wine accompanying our meals and followed by red wine to bring us through the midnite. I personally did enjoy myself with everything fine and relaxing. it was almost 1am that we decided to continue the nite at our regular hang out (Mont Kiara’s Starbucks) while Wah joined his other friends at Taman Tun. but we were deeply disappointed when we realized starbucks had closed for the day. we were blanked for a moment as we really didn’t know what else to do but we refused to get home therefore we ended up buying some drinks from nearby 7eleven and mcdonald’s ice cream while resting our butt at starbucks’ area haha...
and today is exactly the christmas day but I am still stuck at home to do some coordinations with my Bangkok colleagues. no whining as I really do appreciate their commitment and effort.
lalala... cheerful happy mood... and not to forget, I will like to wish all my dear friends a very merry christmas and a great 2009 ahead!
I kicked off this jovial month with an enjoyable trip to the land of TVB (where else but Hong Kong) den followed by lots of public holiday (which leads me to no mood to work at all).
also this month my company is celebrating the 9th magical anniversary with a safari theme. guess what’s my costume? I’m a zebra... that’s the easiest I could think of with just a black & white stripe tee and a headgear of Marty from Madasgascar. thank God that so coincidentally mcdonald’s has this kinda promotion at the same period of time or else I’ll be struggling like hell thinking what to wear. I’m loving it...
while in Singapore, I managed to catch up with Terry for a cuppa (I don’t remember the lastime we met... if not mistaken, I think it’s more then half a year ago). catching up with old friend is great but I was left envious bcoz... he’s flying off to Maldives the next day for work (although it’s for work but still... *envy envy*).
everytime when I was in Singapore, I promised Li Thim to meet up with her but I never once kept my promise. I know... shame on me and I’m sure a lot of you guys out there are nodding your head right now as I always do the same to everyone haha... so this time is a very good chance for me to do what I had promised and since her boyfriend was away, I decided to extend my stay at her place. thanks Li Thim for keeping me for the nite *muaks*. I couldn’t believe it that we talked and talked and talked so much that we sacrificed our shopping time hence we ended up rushing here and there to spend up my S$100 Isetan voucher that I won from my company DnD. but with no doubt, I definitely did have great fun being with her.
so now, yuletide time is here… Kent, Wah, Jen and I had decided to have a posh dining to award ourselves (after one whole year of suffering). we reached Bangsar right on time due to no traffic jam as what we expected and surprised to see that Alexis was so quiet. Hmmm… I wonder where’s the crowd but it doesn’t really matter as I prefer peace and quiet. we dined from starters to main course to desserts with white wine accompanying our meals and followed by red wine to bring us through the midnite. I personally did enjoy myself with everything fine and relaxing. it was almost 1am that we decided to continue the nite at our regular hang out (Mont Kiara’s Starbucks) while Wah joined his other friends at Taman Tun. but we were deeply disappointed when we realized starbucks had closed for the day. we were blanked for a moment as we really didn’t know what else to do but we refused to get home therefore we ended up buying some drinks from nearby 7eleven and mcdonald’s ice cream while resting our butt at starbucks’ area haha...
and today is exactly the christmas day but I am still stuck at home to do some coordinations with my Bangkok colleagues. no whining as I really do appreciate their commitment and effort.
lalala... cheerful happy mood... and not to forget, I will like to wish all my dear friends a very merry christmas and a great 2009 ahead!
Friday, December 5, 2008
i love hong kong
this is not a tourism advertorial but I just want to declare my love for hong kong publicly :P
for those who are not aware… yes, I just came back from Macau/Hong Kong trip and nope, I do not have any souvenirs for you guys... sorry...
it is only my 3rd day back in my homeland but I’m already missing everything that Hong Kong has to offer... and I do really mean everything from the hong kong scenery to the extravagant shopping and the delicious food to its cold yet sunny weather.
the scenery at The Peak looking down all the nicely lighted up high rise building and the cable car scenery all the way up to Lantau Island’s Big Buddha are strongly embedded into my memory. although I did not manage to shop much due to time constrain, but I still adore all the shopping experience from the street markets (Ladies Street and Temple Street) to huge shopping centre (Kowloon and Tsim Sha Tsui) to the outlet shopping centre (Citygate Hall @ Lantau Island). besides that, I find that you just can’t go wrong with food in Hong Kong... yummilicious dim sum, seafood, roasted goose, roasted pigeon, congee, ying yong milk tea, soya bean milk... the list just goes on and on *saliva dripping*...
oh, guess what’s my biggest shopping outcome from Hong Kong? hehehe... if you are following my blog closely, I’m sure you would have guess rite. I bought a lime green 4th generation ipod nano chromatic… and I even managed to get it lower then the retail price (although getting it in Hong Kong is already much cheaper then getting it in Malaysia). thanks Alan for helping me to bargain… but despite the happiness, I was very disappointed too as I didn’t manage to get any Hard Rock merchandise (maybe it’s a sign for me to be back in Hong Kong soon again). I am a fan of hard rock merchandise and I must get something from the country that I traveled. too bad that it has moved to The Peak but we were not aware at all…
you must be wondering why I only brag about Hong Kong but in fact I did visit Macau as well rite... frankly speaking, Macau city sucks! it is such a dead city with hardcore gamblers at every corner of the streets. so I think it’s not worth mentioning anything about Macau here… but I definitely did enjoy the Taipa & Coloane village trip as I think the outskirt of macau is a good lay back, relaxing place to be.
Hong Kong, I’ll unquestionably be back for more :)
for those who are not aware… yes, I just came back from Macau/Hong Kong trip and nope, I do not have any souvenirs for you guys... sorry...
it is only my 3rd day back in my homeland but I’m already missing everything that Hong Kong has to offer... and I do really mean everything from the hong kong scenery to the extravagant shopping and the delicious food to its cold yet sunny weather.
the scenery at The Peak looking down all the nicely lighted up high rise building and the cable car scenery all the way up to Lantau Island’s Big Buddha are strongly embedded into my memory. although I did not manage to shop much due to time constrain, but I still adore all the shopping experience from the street markets (Ladies Street and Temple Street) to huge shopping centre (Kowloon and Tsim Sha Tsui) to the outlet shopping centre (Citygate Hall @ Lantau Island). besides that, I find that you just can’t go wrong with food in Hong Kong... yummilicious dim sum, seafood, roasted goose, roasted pigeon, congee, ying yong milk tea, soya bean milk... the list just goes on and on *saliva dripping*...
oh, guess what’s my biggest shopping outcome from Hong Kong? hehehe... if you are following my blog closely, I’m sure you would have guess rite. I bought a lime green 4th generation ipod nano chromatic… and I even managed to get it lower then the retail price (although getting it in Hong Kong is already much cheaper then getting it in Malaysia). thanks Alan for helping me to bargain… but despite the happiness, I was very disappointed too as I didn’t manage to get any Hard Rock merchandise (maybe it’s a sign for me to be back in Hong Kong soon again). I am a fan of hard rock merchandise and I must get something from the country that I traveled. too bad that it has moved to The Peak but we were not aware at all…
you must be wondering why I only brag about Hong Kong but in fact I did visit Macau as well rite... frankly speaking, Macau city sucks! it is such a dead city with hardcore gamblers at every corner of the streets. so I think it’s not worth mentioning anything about Macau here… but I definitely did enjoy the Taipa & Coloane village trip as I think the outskirt of macau is a good lay back, relaxing place to be.
Hong Kong, I’ll unquestionably be back for more :)
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