Merry go round...

It used to be easy.... now really is a game of luck. I can go round and round... looking for one..

Playing hard to get huh... *&(%*!)#&*(%$*

Today i parked my car beside the new food count which is about 2-3 mins walk...ya ya is not that far, i know... but when i almost reached office..... there are 2 empty lots there...ma de...

I downloaded a budget monitoring software onto my i-phone yesterday...trying to see where my money goes.....no more NEX... no more shopping... :)

Finally got the soft spot!!

Beside is the maple syrup toast that baked by my bread machine...it was supposed to be honey toast but i had run out of honey so well.. maple syrup is the option...it taste ok, with a tint of sweetness. which is not too bad...i guess a toast is a toast. as long as it is soft and nice..what else can you ask for...:)

The photo was taken in my study room as it was already pass midnight and i wanted the bread to cool down. It just cute that the south park characters on my table is looking at the bread.... hehehe....







I started experiment with my bread machine recently. And wala...last night i finally baked the best bun i ever baked. It was so soft and nice. It comes in 3 favour, 5 tuna buns, 3 butter buns & 2 cheese buns... REALLY like those selling at the bakery.

This really make my day.. although the day was almost over since i started at evening...










Yes... i am alone at home(office) now... slow moving day again...

Oh...was crazy over website call groupon, a group purchase site where u can buy stuff at discounted price.. guess what i bought? a 3M camcorder projector..:P cost me $299 sin.. anyway, i am always crazy over hi-tech toy..so this is my new collection.. maybe will post some video in the future....:)

Home alone...:)

I am home alone... quiet dun let my boss know...shhh...

yes, office is my second home. right now everyone is out.. and i am alone...

enjoying my personal time, with music and internet....

What a wonderful world... shhh... dun tell my boss about this blog...

keep it to yourself, ok??

;)

How are you, derrick?

I am good, how are you?

It has been almost a year since i last blog... Life still goes on..

People that knows me, know that i like to explore hobbies and learn new "craft/skill". From early years of roller blading, tarot card reading, meditating, workout to recent baking... I want to fill my days with interesting stuffs..

Baking is fun but not that good to my health as i shouldnt take in too much plain flour & sugar. Anyway, i enjoy it... i even bought my own bread maker so that i can bake my own fresh bread and dun need to buy those commercial produced.

Work wise, Still same old company, coming to 3 years...Guess i am contented, with simple life style as long as the money is enough i guess i have nothing to complain..

Actually i just returned from a short trip. Yes, Malacca with Moon,Eugene,Jimmy and Sandy's family. A getaway is always good. Sometime i tend to think that, maybe i travelled too much when i was younger. I lose it... the excitement of travelling or the thrill of visiting new places...

I am like an old bird...tired and seeking comfort...

I have another trip in mid June. Going tioman with my brother's family and Moon.
It will be fun since Amos and Joy had grown up...:) I love them both.
Since i dun have any kids, i really adore them.

Coming Sept, i will turn 40..a big jump from the 30s straight into the...40s!!
haha...i hope life will be better for me.

Having good time...

We are having good time in office...me and my colleague, sandy. She is a close friend, sitting just beside me... we are both using iphone, so we manage to find time to play singapore mahjong through blue tooth...it was exciting and we both almost couldnt control our laughter.... just like two kids stealing candie and afraid of getting caught...

Now i am looking forward to my short trip to krabi.... courting down now....
4 more days of working....

i just hope it will not rain as much as in sg....

:)

A great toy- my new iphone

Damn cool huh ! This post is written using my iPhone.
What great toy..

Today is another wet raining day. Nice to have late wake up,
but seems that my body already custom to wake up at 8 in the morning.
I miss my younger day that I can sleep till 11... Heehee what a lazy pig..

i phone 4 mania

I queued 2 hrs for my i phone4 yesterday. Managed to sneak out of the office about lunch time and finally got it at 2pm...:P

A new toy for me... missed the last round with iphone 3G was out cos i was still holding on to my nokia E71 with contract. Actually Nokia E71 is not too bad a phone but just too small a screen to go online.... Iphone is really a cool toy huh... lots of free games and applications.. Another reasons, being i will be away next weekend...

Going to Krabi with moon. It will be more fun if i can play my iphone games when i am there holidaying...

I hope to take some cool pix and upload here, provided i am not too lazy...

Hooray! iphone4 YES!!

Losing Weight

I has been losing weight. From my usual 90kg. I am 82.9kg, weighted last night. A slimer me....well, the cause of the weight lose is due to my new found illness...

Gone to the doctor weeks ago. Found out that i am suffer from diabetes. Not a big deal in today's society but still is a change of lifestyle to me. I am now more aware of what i am eating and how much i can eat. I need to sort of give up my passion to baking too.... or maybe do some "light" baking with less sugar later on.

Been doing a lot of thinking.

Everyone will die one day. Is just the matter of how you will die. Now the answer to me....maybe of the complication to my this illness....

I am not sad, or keep asking myself " why me " but a relief... an answer to my question... I am glad that i have good friends surrounded me.

I was so touch with kat. Althought she is far away but her reply over skype really warm my heart and my eyes... i miss her dearly... cos she treat a friend with her warm heart and sincerity. I will make a trip up to KL soon! not a foodie trip now...
well, a shopping spree is still good enough to make me smile huh...:)

Been restless and cant seems to concentrate much in work. I hope it will be soon over and back to normal...

A word of advice to anyone that read this blog... dun eat too full or too much at meal... stay healthy and eat healthy! Take care...

Re: Happy in my life

I must say that, at this point of time. I am in my best. Having lived for 37 years, is now that i finally have some saving and a more stable life. I hope everyone will reach this stage sooner than me. The thing is i am not the saving type. I like to pamper myself with things i like... I should have bought my house if not because i spend so much on things that i dun need.

World peace..

Happy New Year, Sleepy head..

New year of 2009. A new begining. Every year a new year resolution. This year, I am wishing.... I want to be more active in the gym. Been a lazy pig too long. Is time to move my lazy ass to the track mill. I dun think i wanna join a marathon but just to lose some body fat and be lighted. So that i can fit into some figure hugging t-shirt or whatever, so that i am charming enough to attract some prince charming...:P

Ever since i am back to sg from beijing. Been on a long break. And i am glad that i found this new job that pay ok and give me a lot of freedom. Thanks boss.

Gone shopping last weekend, I guess it is enjoyable to do shoppin when u have some extra cash on hand. Two days of shopping left me with tiring feets. God, i think i should do more walking in the future to prevent any foot injury...:P

Wake up sleepy head!!!

Feels so sleepy now...help help....

Up up and away!!!

Up up and away!! Singapore economy is not that good lately... everyone is worry about their job and also the high living expenses. Yes, i was shocked lately by my electrical bill...gosh, it goes up to $300 plus which on average it should be about the range of $170 to $190. Anyway i am tryin to cut down my aircon timing. Which i normally on it when i reach homeat 7pm. Now i use fan and on the aircon at 10pm.

Started to play share lately too... So hope it will go up more and more!!!

Dec, holiday spirit...

So fast dec liao.... I can still remember last year, 15dec. I touch down beijing for my olympic project. What a cold cold winter to me. But overall i still miss my friend there and all good experience.

Started work in nov. Slow moving, just good for a old man like me.

Woke up at 8am and reach home at 630 or 7pm. It is really a far different from all my other job.

Enjoy life, enjoy me.

Lazy me....

Been a restless and lazy bum for weeks after my trip. Doing nothing, sleep late and wake up late... Feels worthless. I am really the type that need to work so that i feels i am alive...

Been decorating my room and i think my room are more cozy now. Hang up all the pictures that i bought long ago...:)

Been lazy too, in my mind the active me always wanna me to get up and go to gym but the other lazy me told me hey there is always tomorrow... FINALLY, yesterday, sunday afternoon, i packed my bag and i-pod, i gone for a walk in Macritchie. Done that in 2 hrs and 15 mins. now my feet still sore, reminded me to do it more often.

Realise that i can log on to my cableTv to watch those HBO movie whenever i like... so been stick to my TV a lot lately....

I did post some pictures on my facebook...so if u are my friend, please email me for adding u to my friend list...:)

World peace.

An email from Hue, Vietnam

hi all,

just reach Hue in vietnam this morning, staying in hotel which is so far the most expensive we have stay so far...USD25. Damn, but it come with hot water, air con, internet Pc in the room and a beautiful balcony.

Coming a long way from bangkok to cambodia to vietnam. I truely enjoy my long trip. We spend abt 4 days in Bangkok. It is good in shopping as usual. Food is great and people are friendly, good old bangkok.

In Cambodia we spend 3 days, we only do Siem Reap which is where Ang kor wat located. It is really cool to be really in the ruin, like u are in tomb raider the
movie with lara croft. Lot of picture taken. But after awhile all temple looks the same....:P the night life is interesting. Well, because Ang kor wat is so well known that is why they have interesting cafe good restaurant in Siem Reap. I even have a blue cheese hamburger one night for dinner.

Vietnam is a surprise to me so far. Lot of good good fun. We spend a long time in vietmam. Started from HoChiMing City. We spend abt 3 days there. Doing some site seeing and Good BBQ food there..then we bought a open bus ticket of abt USD45 that will bring u from HCM to Hanoi, with 4 stops in between. The first stop after HCM is MuiNe. A very very beautiful beach with many budget and expensive resort. The one that we stay in cost only USD16. It is really nice stay there. Will show photo later. After that we travel up to Ngn Trang and we spend 2 days there. Which we did interesting boating to 4 different islands. Lunch on the boat, swim in the ocean with floating bar and 'FREE' red wine was served. We even did a nice beauty oriented mud bath the next day. Really feel like tai-tai, as we dip ourselve in the mud tub. hmmm....then wash off then swim in the mineral water pool then massage...a nice and relaxing holiday indeed. We did a 12 hrs night bus ride to Hoi an. Which we spend a night there. Over there, they have a simple nice old town zone which looks like our old singapore port back in the 70s, but now more commercialize with many gallery and cafe. The most interesting there is a 2km bicycle ride out to the beach. A really long sandy beach which we take a lot of "artistic" pictures there. We just left Hoi an this morning and we are now in Hue. Me siting in the hotel room typing away.
No sure what we are going to do later, as we really take our time, dun plan much. We are going to Hanoi tomorrow evening at 5pm, another 16 hrs bus ride. Over there we will be doing 2 tours. One to Sapa and the other one to Halong Bay. Then we will fly back to Singapore.

So far it have been a relaxing and fun trip. I will post some picture when i got home.

Back to Singapore

Yes, lazy me! Been back to sg for almost 2 weeks and no update of any blog. Anyway, for the days that i am in sg. It has been a slow and uneven days... lots of late night(watching TV & surfing net) and wake up late (cos sleep late).

Planning on a trip with my army mate, foo. A short and suffering shoe string trip to thailand, camboria and maybe vietnam. Was trying to go as far as $2000 sin can bring us. Not really a lot of planning cos i just wanna enjoy my get away so just do one day at a time.

Also brought travel package for my mom and me. Yes, going in oct17. To somewhere... Shanghai, shouzhou and hanzhou. Yes, china again. Many asked me why. Cos i simply love it too much. Anyway the reason is the package is too good to be true. Full board with staying in 5 stars hotel. Plus i am bringing my mom so cant really travel to places that i like... Just wanna do something for her. I love her. And i wanna her to enjoy the fruit of my labour while i am still wealthy...:P

Anyway, she knocked at my door this morning at 11am. She makes milo for me... and wish me happy birthday. A red packet.... hmmm....i really forgot about it...how old am i this year? gosh...37 liao....no word...

And now i am typing away now...alone...

Happy birthday to me.

Letter of appreciation

This is an email that send to me by my Vice President, General Manager of Greater China Region....

On behalf of (XXX Management), I would like to extend my appreciation for all the hardwork in (XXX) @ Olympics 2008. You have shown great determination and "can do" attitude to overcome this challenging event. Things may have not taken off smoothly but by coming to see the final product of the showcase, indeed you have done well. Your contributions will not be forgotten.

I wish you have a great trip in China and upon your return to Singapore, do feel free to reach out to us.....I am sure we will have many opportunities in China and I am very sure your positive attitude will lead us to think of you again.

Indeed, this email makes my day.... and it almost makes me cry...:)

A good day

Monday, manage to have a good chat with my boss about my performance before i leave this friday. All and all, she thinks that i did a good job, just need to improve on some technical details etc. I am glad that my effort are not wasted.... That makes my day!

4 more days to go before I ORD. And i am really lookin forward to my Sin Jiang Trip. Oh, did i mention that i am going to Sin Jiang??

Yeah, silk road. Never really cross my mind to go there, but apparently, from my friend, that is a good place to visit as it is s different from the main land...but colleagues from here advice me otherwise.

Well, I am sure it will be a good trip for me! a well deserve trip after my long stressful working life in beijing....

:)

ExtensioN!!!

My boss told me that i need to work till end of july. Another 3 more weeks left. So no time for my korea holiday. And just now got a confirmation of my korea hotel stay. So now cannot go loh...sad sad...

Went on site just now, and my showcase really not that bad ...hmm quite impressive some more... sorry for my singaporean english, ok?? anyway, will post some photo when everything is more complete...

Pass by this restaurant yesterday evening... can u imagine what a name for a steam boadt restaurant.... must be damn LAN! :P wonder how many people wanna try it...

Wed...:)

Courting down to less than 10 days, the feeling is really good. Knowing that the suffering will not last. Makes me feels good and i am more cheerful now. Passby a travel agency last night after dinner. Saw on the ads board that from beijing going to seoul cost only 900RMB and with tax of 1200RMB, Total only 2100RMB. It really make me wanna travel there and do my R&R.

I wonder now when is my last day....I hope i can make a trip to seoul...

I love the traditional house that is on the web.

Lets see...

Food in beijing

Some yummy food for your eyes only!!!

hehehe...