Never wrestle with a pig

Never Wrestle With A Pig ...
... you'll both get dirty, and only the pig will enjoy it.

Funny enough, I was reading this business book yday, which apparently is quite popular some time back, on how to build your biz and career.

How timely as my laptop now gives me the fits and I was out of internet the whole night last night and this book warns me of too much reliance on the great www . :P

With wireless connection at home, its both sick and extremely convenient as I go along with my daily routine of turning on my laptop once I come home to my room before I leave to shower, hear it humm and be glued on internet till I sleep. I dont watch much TV really, guess this is my primary source of entertainment even though i face the computer 8 hrs a day at work already....its actually a little scary to think that I am already complaining without 1 night's worth of my cyberspace addiction..withdrawal symptoms are unthinkable..sigh..me a slave of the cyberspace...

Anyhow the 1st 50 pages that I read mention how face- face contact, EQ, social skills at the workforce is slowly eroding as more pple are hiding behind internet/emails as their form of communication. When the former should be getting more important that ever, that personal touch...which is really quite true, made me think of the rampant use of sms here in Singapore as most of us get free 1st 500 smses hence we would prefer to text each other even we have arrived in the same mall/meeting place to say that I'm here look for me at XXX?

Oh well, on a superficial note,have to admit that I was tickled/attracted by the title of this book more than the content that it promises. Will let you know if I found some new earth-shattering theory ok? :)

final moments

my laptop threw me a fit yesterday before it declared itself a slow death....
it was its 3rd time this year which it crashed
and yesterday i couldnt even get into the basic windows screen, was stuck at the blue screen which tried to do a system/registery check on the FAT files ( ha found that FAT sounds for File Allocation Table, only went so far :P)
Had help from my dad's company IT guy, which explains why I can type this posting now, however lets just say it wouldnt last for long before he gives me the fits again..alas now its a final slow death....apparently have some 144MB of bad file data or something. Time to get a new hard disk if he konks out on me again...

Short lifespan these males...

A song that gives me the "oompf" whenever I listen to it

Keane - Is It Any Wonder

I
I always thought that I knew
I'd always have the right to
Be living in the kingdom of the good and true
and so on

but now I think how I was wrong
And you were laughing along
And now I look a fool for thinking you were on, my side

Is it any wonder I'm tired
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right

Sometimes
It's hard to know where I stand
It's hard to know where I am
Well maybe it's a puzzle I don't understand

But sometimes
I get the feeling that I'm
Stranded in the wrong time
Where love is just a lyric in a children rhyme, a soundbite

Is it any wonder that I'm tired
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right
oh, these days
After all the misery you made
Is it any wonder that I feel afraid
Is it any wonder that I feel betrayed

Nothing left inside this old cathedral
Just the sad lonely spires
How do you make it right

Oh, but you try
Is it any wonder I'm tired
Is it any wonder that I feel uptight
Is it any wonder I don't know what's right
oh, these days
After all the misery you made
Is it any wonder that I feel afraid
Is it any wonder that I feel betrayed

a woman's threshold of pain is enormous

thoughts when having my 1st ever facial today. A delicate balancing act of not screaming out in pain and not letting the cotton wool stuck onto my eyes gets too soaked from tears :

- eyebrow plucking- pain rating 6/10

- shaving of legs or using the epilator- pain rating 6/10

- wearing high heels ( not counting extreme weather conditions) pain rating 4/10

- facial ( which includes extractions- imagine sharp instruments poking and being pressed hard onto face to clear congestions and trying the same spot over and over again)pain rating 8/10

-having your period, while it varies from mth to mth, would say pain rating 5/10

- who knows then pregnancy would be pain rating 10/10 I would assume

No wonder woman has a higher threshold of pain than man (this is a fact)

Trip to Argentina-V

Definately a highlight of the entire 3 week trip is going to Iguazu Falls, which is right at the border of Argentina and Brazil. You get a more panaromic view from the Brazilian sight but its at Argentina where you can get up close and personal,,,,aka going with the adventure ride with the speedboat and getting close to the waterfalls and where you get drenched literally...:)

Another small "surprise" from this trip is that I never thot that I would need a visa to go to Brazil since I dont need 1 to go Argentina. Also accrue to last min notice otherwise I would have checked online if i needed one, Anyways went to the border found out the harsh truth that i needed one went back to get one done up, luckily its like 20mins away from the town to the border and managed to go to the Brazilian side to see the falls the next day...But hey...being Singaporean, one of the major perks is to be visa-free...now this was not a common experience at all :P

Oh well, we dont like your cty too ....hehehe. Check out the amt of water spewing from the falls, its like flushing a toilet and the flush got spoilt and water continues to gush out ...:P



Last words abt the argentina trip: I still couldnt believe that I have been there and back. Looking at the photos does jolt some kind of memmory that yes i have eaten that and been there. However I still can't shake off the dream-like essence or perhaps this happened in my other life which I wasnt aware of quality...:) Glad I made this trip.

Trip to Argentina- IV

overdue postings

Miss Chin, right smuack in the middle has finally achieved her dream on going for a traineeship after serving her bond with the Singapore govt here. She has been working towards this goal consistently all this time, am both happy and proud of her for striving to fulfill her dream, she is one of those pple who "make things happen". All the best to her one year of drinking Belgium beer!


Miss Tangsukul, on the other hand, fulfilled her dream too 2 weeks ago by throwing her wedding luncheon, officially announcing to all of us, that yes she is indeed bound in the shackles and indeed married. We have to always remind her that he is not your bf anymore but your HUBBY, common errors all these newly weds make. When we getting cute chubby babies with your genes? :P Disclaimer: She is not married to dongwei who happened to be in this picture, this was also an overdue photo celebrating both of their bdays a month back.

Trip to Argentina-III

- The touristy places in Buenos Aires, La Boca, the early settlement area for immigrants as its right next to the port. Reason why the buildings are so colourful, according to the locals, its because the immigrants just took leftover paint from sites to paint their buildings. Nice...

- Ricoletta- one of the grandest and impressive cementary I have ever seen, those tombstones look more like fancy mini apartments, expensive marble finishing, intricate designs for grills etc. And boy do you have to be rich and famous to be buried there, inhibitants include, past presidents, military leaders, movie stars and old sch money.

- Saint Telmo- the old tango district, one of my favourite places in Buenos Aires. There are antique fairs on weekends and little stalls selling nice stuff too. In general the hustle and bustle of activity and colours are what that attracts me. :)

sleepless in singapore

such a loser, been back for 3 days now and still suffering from jet lag. The worst was yesterday, when it had me waking up at 3am for no bloody reason and for the next 1 hr i went online, wrote emails at 4am and talked to pple from the northern hemisphere on msn. Then I tried to get some shuteye before i have to leave for work in 2 hrs, for the next 2 hrs i lay in bed, tossing and turning, desperate enough to resort to counting SHEEP, which somehow turned to a bottle of juice instead, ( must be pressure to returning to work) ha! And without knowing it, its time for work and still no sleep.

Today was awful, yawning even on the way to work, when i got there, brain dead, as i took something and immediately forgot where i left it, in an instant. It didnt bode well for the start for the day....indeed, my worst fear came true for the rest of the day. At one instance, i thought i was going to fall asleep while eating, at another instance, i broke out in cold sweat. Such a loser I know.

Rushed home straight after work and after a 4 hr nap, I hope to make myself a hot cup of milo before i hope to pass out blissfully later, wish me luck, adios amigos! :D

Trip to Argentina- II

Buenos Aires...
1st impression I got was, am I in Europe, France or Italy? The city landscape is surrounded with colonial buildings from the Spanish, French and British colonization. Beautiful yet I can't shake off that feeling that hey I have been here before and am I really in South America? Beautiful architecture to gawk at as you roam through the streets. Plus you get to see really antique cars down the roads, as apparently they do not have a expiry time period for cars to get scrapped there, as long its working, you can drive it around.

People...
- Expectations were to see stylishly dressed pple strutting their stuff down the streets in STILTOES, well have to say maybe the women in Argentina has recognised the comfort and sense of wearing comfortable shoes go a long way, hence its not such a huge phenomenom as before.
- Friendly and service oriented in the occassions we encountered. Maybe Singapore should have the tipping system after all
- Hablar no espanol? Thats a tough cookie, as not all pple speak English, one needs Espanol or alot of body language to get around. Si?
- And due to cruel colonization, it is said that many native indians of AR have been moved to the southern part of the cty where they slowly die of harsh cold winters, as a result the population of the dictators future generations, has Argentine pple looking more fair skinned than the darker skin toned as the rest of South America.
- Btw this cty has 37million population, and 12 million lives in Buenos Aires, cty's area stands at 2,776,890 sq km. Took me 3 hrs to fly from Buenos Aires to Iguazu falls which is up north of the cty, equivalent of me flying to Bangkok from Singapore. :P

Trip to Argentina- I

The Journey.....
I almost thought we would never get there, for it was such a looonnng journey of flying time 25.5hrs, with 3 stop overs at KL, Capetown and Johhanesburg, waiting time of another 6hrs. I have flown to New York before for 24 hrs...but this flight to AR was bv far the loongest journey for me.

The return trip was much better than expected only 22hrs of flying, though transit stops are the same so is the waiting time.

Have to say that this would be the ONLY minus point for me to go to this beautiful cty again...Drug me out for a day perhaps?