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Peek A Boo
Hey! How are you? 
17 October 2010. Isn’t it a fine day that I finally am here and was able to re-arrange my study room (again)? The sun is shining out there and got-your-back is playing in the background. I’m trying to re-create the positive energy in this room but I guess I need another month to really re-organise my stuff. At least there are no books, bags, boxes laying around the floor. I can dance again and probably do my 5 minutes exercise or even 5 minutes nap.
The fact that my now former colleague is leaving to China today for a month just to study Mandarin gave me the courage to make use of my time and life. Wasting time and proscastinating are the 2 things that I have mastered very well (you are my witness). So, today I thought of getting back the good energy first. Then do what I want to do.
It´s not easy to create a story when there are mountains of them to be told. Therefore, I will leave them for the next time when the brain has warmed up.
With that sentence, I wish you a wonderful day/night wherever you are.
Daylight Saving Time in Holland
It’s almost midnight here in the Netherlands. Another couple of hours and we are back to the ‘summer time’. This means we all will experience a lack of an hour sleep. I am glad it happens in the weekend as I need to adjust my mood before going back to work on Monday. Being at work at 9 in the morning is just nice but spending another hour in the evening because the real time of arrival was 10am might be an issue. It’s not that I leave my work on time every day but I might have an appointment on Monday evening with a certain financial institution to talk about the cheapest interest rate they are offering. Luckily there is no such thing in my schedule.
The change of time will also mean that I am closer to home and at the same time, I am older an hour compare to the winter time.
So, to the new time. Welcome summer time and enjoy the spring season, soon to be summer. 
Random Talk Update
Helloooo. Have you missed me? Sorry for my long absence. That happens when one tries to live a life full of excitement.
Apparently I’m not the only one who hasn’t updated her blog. I’ve been visiting my fellow bloggers and grinning from ear to ear when I saw their last post was in January or even last year December. 
Meaning I can be forgiven, can’t I?
Welcoming 2010 was not as merrier as last year. I didn’t invite many friends as last year’s but only my fellow Paparian girlfriend and her husband who live 7 minutes away from my place. I managed to make several photographs of the beautiful fireworks. As usual every year, I’ve been calling home in Sabah to share with my family the loud and noisy fireworks from here. Millions of Euros were spent for the fireworks alone. As it turned out, I’ve suffered homesick for the first time after more than a decade away from my country, my dear family and friends. It could also be for a reason that lead me to a certain tragedy.
The weather didn’t help much either. It had been cold, below zero degree Celcius and sometimes the real feel was far worse than the real temperature. For the first time after perhaps 20 years (according to my Dutch friends), the country was covered with lots of snow for weeks. I had so much fun taking pictures at first but then the fun went away when I was infected by some viruses. Depression in winter time is normal due to the lack of sun and positive mind. I did my best to be happy and to look happy when I realised I have eye-bags. Not sure if it would help but no harm trying, right? 
Oh, did I mention that it’s January and the Year-End crazyness was here? Did I also mention that I managed to get my butt of my desk for a couple of weeks? Ha! Gotcha! I had a nice resting weeks but still I had to work even from my dreams. Sucks!
I wish to share some photos with you but I am so hungry now that I do not have time to edit the photos and upload them here. I know it’s past 8pm already but I just can’t help from not eating every 1 or 2 hours. (The reason why I don’t share my latest photos with you.)
I might be back to tell you other tales. But I can’t promise. Anyway, it’s almost Chinese New Year and also Valentine’s day. I would like to wish my Chinese family, relatives and friends GONG XI FA CAI, WAN SHI LU YI.
Who wants ang pow?
Happy December
It’s the first day of December and I’m back!
Hoping to make a fresh start and not the my-new-year’s-resolution do any longer. For more than a decade, it’s been the same old tale. So, I wish to try something new: Live the present, forget future and bury the past. Or should it be: Bury the past, forget future but live the present? Oh well! Whatever suits!
Year of 2009! What a shame! I buried 2 family members (pardon me, 1 was cremated), having to say “sorry for your loss” countless of times, and having to hear the news that someone (who used to be a close friend) was just buried yesterday. Or was it last week? Forgive my memory full. I just try to catch up something that no longer is a breaking news.
Other than that, it is a story that deserves to be printed someday, when the time comes. Or I might share it here one of these days. Be curious and you’ll know what bothers your mind.
Happy December! May it will bring a fruitful journey throughout the month.
Question Mark
I’m here at Changi Airport in Singapore. It’s a weird feeling… all sorts. But mostly sad, sad, sad. Is grandma still waiting for me? Can she cope with the pain and the waiting? Is it no longer an is but a was? It remains a big question mark to me. Are you still with us grandma?
I hope I’m still able to see her and she me.
On the other hand… there is that other feeling… nervous…
Friday At Last
Ah! It’s Friday again!
Who doesn’t like Fridays? Well! Not me. At least I DIDN’T!
I was not ready to enter the senior citizen world yet. So I didn’t like weekends. It does sound weird (doesn’t it?) since my weekends mostly were occupied with events, things to do, places to visit, people to entertain or simply just to sleep-in till noon. The thing of living in this country is: there is really NO exciting expectations but to grab the wet sponge and start wiping the windows or cleaning the toilets and bathroom. Not to mention going to the supermarkets to get the groceries for the coming days or week and then getting in a long que to finally be able to pay.
That’s what those who work full time, Monday to Friday, do in this country on their so exciting weekends. It’s natural to do the housechores and shopping groceries on Saturdays. The reason is the discounted gas price during the weekend. In fact, it is also applicable to the weekdays but only from 11.00pm onwards till 7.00am the next morning. If you were obsessed with the less-bills-to-pay, you might want to do this at night during the weekdays and enjoy the weekends for your social events.
But doing the cleaning, polishing and vacuming work after a hard and long day work? Indeed! A big NO NO to me.
So, I got annoyed when during my “trial and error”of getting at least a decent few hours of sleep at night, I got to hear all sorts of noise. Although not so loud, I still could hear it. A realisation: I would gain another sleepless night and look like a zombie-awaken-from-its-sleep.
Although the house has a good insulation, sometimes I feel like living in a very old and cold house with the feeling of kicking out the neighbours since they do the laundry work at night. I might exaggerate as it was my own fault not to fall asleep before it was 5am.*sigh*
Where was I?
Right! The Fridays. It was THEN! (That I did not like Fridays!)
Now, I can hardly wait for Friday to come as it has some medicine that can cure my wound.
TGIF!!!
Have a safe and wonderful weekend to you!
Free Sites Dilemma
(To my family, relatives and friends out there.)
My Space, Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, Linkedin and the list goes on.
Questions of how safe the sites are have been going on for quite some time. But no one knows (in my ring of friends and acquaintances of course) what the damage it can do to one.
Sharing your personal information to these sites might get you into trouble: hacked, spammed, scammed, etc. The last thing you know, you can’t even enter your account with the special-password-only-you-know because it got hacked.
Being the curious person as I am, I don’t mind setting up an account on Facebook, Friendster or even Linkedin.
So tonight I had my Linkedin set up. But after a few minutes, I thought of checking how secure Linkedin is. Well! This is what I’ve found out. Or you can also read another article at eweek here. I guess you know by now what’s my next action was.
Indeed! I disabled the new account. (What a waste of time setting it up! Alright, finger’s pointing at ‘moi’.)
Next!
Well! Since I’ve deleted most of my photo albums at those free sites, now I’m going to edit the profile and also delete the remaining photos still displayed there. The next move will be to remove my name from all the tags of friends’ photos.
Why all these hasles, you might ask.
Simply because I don’t want my photos being used by those parties (whom I’ve agreed on their terms and condition upon signing up in their sites that I may allow them to use any of my photos without my consent.)
Another reason is just because I don’t want to sabotage my beloved family or friends’ faces by putting up their photos on those free sites when suddenly you found out that their beautiful faces or even caught-in-the-act photos are attached to a site that I-don’t-even-dare-to-mention.
I’m not giving you a bad idea but just think and act before it damages your (perhaps) wonderful life.
Further: check out all the terms and conditions of all the free sites you are using including those photos site. Unless if you don’t mind sharing your work (i.e. photographs) being used by other parties without giving you any credits.
Jason Manjaji’s Knockout Kick
The knockout kick by a Wong Loong Clan member. Thanks uncle David Manjaji for sharing this video.
“Just to share with you Jason’s awesome back kick. Jason is in the Blue. The guy is OK and has a bruised jaw! Click on the link below and have a look! Hopefully we will see Jason at the London Olympics!
Cheers
David”
Thanks to electricmanja (Jason himself) of Youtube.com
