Saturday, March 02, 2002

//* Palm m515 !! *//



A small upgrade from m505 but a drool nonetheless.
//* Airport emotions *//



The airport is where you see the basic human emotions - the joy of welcoming the return of a loved one, the sadness of the departure of someone you love, and last, but not least, the fanatic emotions of teenage girls trying to get the attention of their handsome idol(s) preparing to fly back home. Here are the photos I took at the new Changi Airport MRT station. No, there are no pictures of the fans nor their idol, a Taiwanese pop group called WeWe (pronounced Wee-Wee).

Friday, March 01, 2002

Just got back from driving lesson. After lunch, I am going to do my first photo shoot. Still deciding on where to go - Botanic Gardens or Airport MRT or Marina South or ...??
//* Panic! *//

Suddenly, the thought that in less than two days I will turn 31 makes me panic. The scary part is that I see friends and colleagues with their bf/gf/husband/wife happily attached, but here I am still all by myself. I have got to do something...but what should I do??

Thursday, February 28, 2002

//* Long long meeting... *//

Today's weekly department meeting is the longest ever. Everyone was given a chance to voice out problems faced in carrying out our work and suggest solutions. By the time the last person, that's me, finished, it's already 3pm! Lunch was delicious though, thanks to Alex and Li Jiuen. But, too bad I only took one round of the food...wasted!

Tuesday, February 26, 2002

//* Lunch time *//

I am sitting here thinking about where to go for lunch...alone. If I come out from my meetings early, I will have lunch with my lunch buddies - Trevor, Alex, Suhedi and Abdul. Usually, we will either take the shuttle bus to NUS canteens (and get to feast our eyes on young university girls) or go to Cintech I. But today, I'm late and they have gone off without me. *sigh* Another trip to the hub, Science Hub, that is.
It's Wednesday. Have had to work late at home last night on a flowchart for today's meeting. I did not feel the drain until when I try to wake up just now and realised I didn't sleep well. Read in the Chinese papers this morning that a local theatre group is staging a play based on µÚÒ»´ÎÇ×ÃܽӴ¥, an ebook I have read that left quite an impression. It's a touching love story of a couple who met on the net. If you have a Palm and can read Chinese on it, you can download the ebook here.

Monday, February 25, 2002

//* Life goes on... *//

Yep, you guessed it - I'm not among the nine who shared the $12 million Toto top prize. And so, life goes on...what to do?

Sunday, February 24, 2002

//* Going down memory lane... *//



This is a picture taken about 3 years' back in Melbourne. I am nearest to the camera on the right. With me are Rohan, BL and Ken, past and present colleagues who, like me, was sent there to help start the company's operations down under. I have yet to go anywhere that far for a vacation, but in the years just before the tech downturn, I have made working trips to Melbourne, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila and Seoul. For a boy-who-have-not-seen-the-world like me, it was godsend and it remains the highlight of my career thus far.
//* Loveless... *//

I have always been timid and shy. During my teens, I spent 4 years in a boys' school and then 2 years in junior college, and all I ever did in that time was study. No girlfriends and not much fun. After that, it was 30 tough months of National Service before I went to NUS. Again it was mostly just lectures, tutorials and projects at the university. I had some crushes from time to time but no real romance. You can guess that I probably don't have what it takes in the looks department. Worse, I didn't have the guts. In the years after graduation, I had my one and only relationship to date. I fall for her in 1996 but she went with another guy for about 3 years before we started off sometime in late 2000. My time with her lasted barely 5 months before she decided to call it quits. Maybe she has never loved me at all, but I will always remember those happy times. It has been more than a year since and the wounds has long healed. I am, however, still looking for that special someone to love and protect. Could you be the one?