TC Life Notes - Pee Stop...

This is a pretty sad rap that I've heard, I play this song for whole day while I'm working, please enjoy...

After a day work, I'm feeling hungry, but yet to think about dinner, and I'm taking a bread that I've bought in the morning. While having it, I play mp3 songs and I listen to this cute voice... It's relaxing and refresh my mind, so I decide to share with people here, I'm not going to place it here for long time, but if any one would love to have it, can ask for it from me, just email to me and I'll send it to you. Enjoy... :)

Anne Murray - You Needed Me

FYI, I've removed this song, you may get from me if you are interested. :)

In life, there seem to be very rare moments when people beat all odds and make the impossible possible, this moments are very rare. Some people call this luck, fortune or whatever. I choose to think this moments are made by people just like you and me. :)

In the past I used to stress out about problems and etc., I felt boxed in and without a way out, but as the years went by I realized that I had always come out of those seemingly "impossible" situations, eventually the problems got solved one way or another. Yes... Everything has a beginning and an end, problems do the same. So by looking back I realized that whatever challenge I had in the present, had a solution. Maybe time tells you what to do, or it heals all.

Yesterday, I felt not easy after 4pm, the feeling was not good at all, just came down with it. I couldn't continue my works anymore, I stayed in the office till 6:30pm, went down for early dinner. I looked at green leafs on the trees surrounding me, hoped that it helped to relax my mind, but it didn't.

After 8:30pm, I left my office, I didn't go back home but IKEA! One of my favourite places, :). I walked along, looked at the furnitures, and the colours, it helped to refresh my mind, and I've forgot about the bad feeling that I had earlier on. Out of sudden, a small kid came to me, he pulled my long pants and called me Kor-Kor (elder brother), I was surprised, "Who's kid?" I was wondering... I looked around, noticed there was a lady walking to me with her smiley face. Yes, she looked familiar but I just couldn't recognize. She said "Hi, I'm Yee..", then only I recalled who she was. She's a long lost friend, for about 6-7 years.

Thought about it, I was renting a house at Section 17 in Petaling Jaya about 7 years back. Same to Yee, she was renting a room nearby, studying at University Malaya (UM). I got to know her, because she jogged in the evening, she by passed my house and we waved. Sometimes we knocked into each others at the same restaurant which is nearby our place. As I still remember, she was cheated by a guy (so called a boyfriend) who was never responsible for her pregnancy. She was very sad, tension and feeling hopeless. I couldn't help much, just gave my spiritual support to her. After a month plus, she left the place and we never kept in touch anymore. We met again at IKEA.

After that, we went to a cafe for drinks. We talked about the past, there were nothing much on me, but a lot of changes for her. She had been a single mother for years, shared with me about how did she manage to overcome all the problems she had, she worked hard to bring up the kid, was lucky enough to have family, friends and strangers to give her supports. The bad guy was never be there with her, left her alone somehow, I was quite angry with that idiot's behaviour, not to mention about him here, he was nothing to me at all. The kid was cute and energetic too, enjoyed eating and making funny faces to me, asked me silly questions and yet... I didn't know how to answer him, quite a smart kid. I was enjoying to have some funs with the kid too. She admitted that she was silly at 1 time, and luckily she didn't go for abortion. Anyway, she is now feeling happy with her life, to have a kid accompany her, she says to me that she will never regret at all, the kid means everything to her.

Well, there is always a way out as I wanted to share. Treasure everything in our life, clearly understand what do we want, and head for achievement. We will never avoid some problems along the journey, just be brave enough to overcome them and we will success in a way.

Advice to the girls, please fully utilize your eyes to look at the guy who you are be with. Just like my brother's father-in-law tells his daughters, if you have 4 eyes or more, just use them up, to know the guy more clearly. I agree with this statement.. :)

Cheers.. Thanks for reading.

After year 1993, I graduated from CHHS, hand writing in Chinese is getting less and lesser. Since I've knew her, I started to write sms in Chinese to her.

Well well... I find out that, I can't get the Chinese character correctly, or lack of confidence when I'm writing it, sometime I have to think / read again and again, double check if I've wrote them right!

I tell her, I will continue to write in Chinese for her, in a way to pick up my Chinese again, but she asks me to be myself. Somehow I will stick to what I want to do, :) Else 13 years of Chinese education is going to be wasted / forgtotten.

Tommy ? Hwa? Do your feel the same ?

Of cause, I will speak in English with some other fellows...

Thanks, Queenny.. :)

I've been a fan of Superman, he is my hero. Today I read this news from National Geographic, it's a giant crystal cave, after reading it, I think of my hero Superman, Haha...

Last weekend, I drove back to my hometown, I was listening to radio, a song was played on air, it's a chinese song that sang by someone that I had no idea with, his voice was exactly same like Emil Chow (周华健). Today, I find this song on net, named Gan Xie Hua Jian (感谢华健), it's a remix of few old songs of Emil Chow. I look at his songs list, all the old songs title recall my life in the past 10 years, from 20 - 30 years old.

Think again, I've changed a lot, both mentally and physically.

Physical is never an issue, still the fit! Haha... But most struggling one is the mental. My mental power is getting stronger and focus, understands what I am doing, and knows where I am heading. I've learned a way to take things easy, enjoy my life, overcome whatever problems that I meet, think wisely and etc... They gain my confidence in doing any thing. But! Not recently. I always encourage people to look forward, learn the lesson from the past, and make sure it never happen again. This way always makes me a happy guy, I hope this goes to my dear friend, hope that she understands what I mean, everything is going to be alright. Learn how to give and take, accept whatever it is, look forward...

It's now 2am, I'm not feeling good. pretty sad... I can't fall asleep too. I just had a msn conversation. I feel that, we are growing up, have to learn a way to be more matured, more experienced. We work for our dreams, we have our milestones. But look back, we don't have much closed friends already, maybe not even one. And no one knows me so well, this is the fact, everyone has to accept it.

That is a misunderstanding conversation. It brings up some old memories, that don't worth a cent anymore, and they are not appear for long time in my mind. Because I still have to move on, achieve my goals. Someone has headed them up in the conversation, for me they are meaningless to talk about, they are not being aware of anymore. What I wish to know is, where am I heading toward.

Anyhow I don't wish to talk about it again here, I'm pretty sad and hopeless. What should I do? To gain the confidence. But I can tell her, I'm truly for her.

Here comes Hwa, my CHHS93 buddy. He has been a great friends to us. He enjoys life, currently working in London, and travels a lot. I receive his pictures again in email, he has made a trip to Mykonos in Greece. I am surprise that he can make trips often, Argentina before 05 January, Alps before 28th March, Munish before 11st April and Mykonos before 7th May.

This is Hwa.

Here are the pictures that he shares with few of us.

It's a nice place to visit and relax. Thanks a lot to Hwa for sharing.

I asked him before, how could he let go a good pay job here, and found another lifestyle in London, and it's like without caring much (maybe he has but he keeps things in his mind), and be a care-free man there? He told that I always had a choice, to choose who I wanted to be, what I wanted to do and how was my life going to be. I did agree with him, but that's not me. I used to have my dreams. After my college life, I started to work, burdens and commitments increased, and I had been working for that, it's tiring, but things were done, I got to move on.

Things and experiences tell me, I will deserve what I've chosen, with having discipline, following certain principles, and some times to achieve.

Anyway, do follow your feel, as long as you are happy with your life.

Last year, I participated in a competition, a badminton tournament that was organized by a company named Trans Niaga. I was really excited, got to know some friends, and felt proud of. I represented my friend's company, KDDI, for the game and not disappointed them, we've got champion! :)

This was the banner, when I entered into the hall, I saw it, the feeling was really excited. I walked around the area, looked at the players. Some of them were good players, they came from different places. And here are my team members, me in red, and I was told to have 2 set for each stage, 1 men's double and 1 more mix double. Fomr the starting up till the final stage.

Upper row, 1st from left is our supporter, he is 1 of the marketing guy for KDDI, he's not playing but giving us spiritual support. 2nd is the guy who mix with me for men's double, then the Japanese boss and wife, Miss Goh, a staff for KDDI, then me, the imported player... :)

Lower row from left is AiLing, she is imported player for KDDI, also is my ex-colleague for ExcelForce, she mix with me for mix double, then her hubby Nicholas, a joker for KDDI, and the rest are staffs + imported players for KDDI.

Too bad, I've forgot their name, :) I'm sorry for that...

This is what we deserved... :) And we've got vouchers from Westin Hotel, to have delicious meals in the restaurant, expiry date before May 2007.

Here's a group picture.

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At last we made it! Sunday 06th May 2007, we had DimSum brunch at Westin Hotel located in Kuala Lumpur. We had been trying hard to plan for a meal at Westin Hotel many times, by fully utilizing the vouchers that we had got from the tournament, and they are expired sooner! We have the Japanese boss and his wife, their 2 daughters, AiLing and her hubby, Nicholas, Miss Goh and Me.

We booked at EEST, the chinese restaurant in Westin Hotel serves Asian cuisine. This is the main entrance at first floor.

Inside the restaurant, it is nice decorated, and they are busy preparing the foods, DimSum. We are placed at waiting seats, while they are arranging the tables for 8 of us.

This is a pretty funny thing and there is nothing to do with it, just to display. :)

Click the image to enlarge...

Not long later, we are seated. We are trying to understand, what are the foods like, and how are we going to have them. It sounds a little bit complicated but somehow we just order ALL the foods under Signature, From The Steamer, From The Ovens and Works, plus some in the following pages, hahaa... These foods are going to drive us crazy! Haha...

This is the first dish, just to keep our mouth busy with something light first, while waiting for our foods. Hahaa... Good service huh? So that we don't have chance to complain... Kekee...

These are the Beef Ball, Fried Guey-Kak and CheeCheong Fun! I do not take some pictures with the foods here because busy eating!!

On my left, they are AiLing, Nicholas and the Japanese boss. He is a handsome and silly man, as claimed from his wife.

Here we are, the wife of the Japanese boss, Miss Goh and me.

She is Lunar, clown is making some balloons for the kids.

Lunar and Solar (Sun and Moon), the 2 kids. Squid in pungent garlic sauce is served on the table, it is delicious!!

Well well... This DimDum brunch is at RM58++ per adult, RM26++ per kid, exclusive of fruit juices. Totally we have to prepare about RM400 for it. Sum up the 6 vouchers = RM480, think that we can escape by not paying a cent for the meal, but we still have to pay RM75 for the stupid taxes + additional fruit juices. Anyway we enjoy our time there, eating and talking nonsense for 3 hours... :)

2 weeks ago, I received an email from my boss, telling me that he had ordered a LCD monitor for me. I was surprised! As I was not aware of having a LCD monitor on my desk. Because... it's going to have cables running around at my work place, and again... there is no privacy at all, by having a huge screen showing what I am doing to my dear colleagues! Haha... Kinda funny.

Last week, I received this monster:

It's really HUGE!!

 

This is a really huge monitor, and colleagues envy me, but if they would like to have it, they may go ahead to take it from me, because I don't really need it! Somehow I'm used with my current laptop screen. First of all, I have to set it up and arrange it on my table. Secondly, this is really important! Try to adjust the highest resolution as possible! Kekee... The maximum I can do is only 1680x1050. Damn... Everything still looks huge on my screen! Look at this picture, showing that I'm blogging...

I'm composing this

Well done.

 

Well, I may say, it's good for gaming, and it's good for software development. Nowadays, most of the powerful IDE (Integrated Development Environment) like Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Eclipse and etc... They are having a lot of small detachable screens, like debug, properties, watch, class view, toolbox and other explorers. In order to have a clear view of the coding, we will enlarge the coding pane as big as possible, set up fonts size in 8 too, so that we can understand what is it going on... :)

Afterall, this is not pretty good enough and I don't wish to see someone comes over and ask me "Choong! What are you doing?" Silly.... :s

I've been busy lately, for my personal stuffs and etc.. Although I had 4 days off work, started on 28th April 2007, till 1st May 2007. I was back to my hometown for my family business. Beside that, I cleaned up the interior of my car too, as well as the engine bay. :)

As I promised, here are some pictures of my baby:

Engine bay.. Clean huh? :) Stocked engine and no modification.

Front View

The parts that have been replaced.

I hope that I can spend more time on blogging but I have some others to settle too. They are having quite high priority than blogging, but anyway I'll try to spare more time on this.