Sunday, July 30, 2006

Which to choose? Love or F430?

In a perfect world, we would probably not need to make choices. But because we live in an inperfect world, sometimes we have to make certain decisions, whether we like it or not.

And on a lazy sunday evening, i let my mind wonder and hit on an interesting dilemma. As a guy, we love sports cars, you name it, we will drool over it. But of course, some of the more fortunate ones will be able to get their hands on one. That aside, I would seriously wonder, how will a guy fare, if he is given a choice to choose whether to have the perfect love OR the new Ferrari 430 spider, a 4.3 liter V8 with a century sprint dispatched as fast as you can write the word "Apple"

Here are 2 pictures of the F430:





























Picture this:
Would you rather be driving the F430 down the ECP, with the roof off, feeling the wind blowing across your face, with a nice setting sun casting warm orangy glow on the horizon infront of you OR having to face a gf who is tempermental, unreasonable, demanding and controls you with a yank of the leash she has over you?

Which one...?

4 months ago, I would have choosen the F430 without thinking. But now, I would need to pause and ponder for a while. Why? The reason is simple.

Loneliness. Not now but in the near future.

As I have mentioned before, once friends around you get married one at a time, slowly, you will soon realise you are left with not much of an assured companionship over the weekends. So what if you have a car that goes 0-100km/h in 4 seconds flat? you can't out run the loneliness no matter how powerful a car you got. Because no matter where you run to, there is only you.

Kappyo said to me on friday night, that if there is one person out there that I might like, I should take the chance and go for it. After all, according to her, it's a 50/50 chance(of which I totally disagree, citing my probability formula of findng someone i like n her liking in return).

Fair enough, but if the girl rejects you, you probably need a car like the F430, equipped with a limited slip differential (E-Diff in Ferrari speak) to get away as fast as possible from the girl out of awkwardness. And sometimes, there are too much to lose to even reach the state of risking it all. In a F430, the only thing you stand to lose is your driving license.

Yet, I know we still need to risk it, to find the right preson, because loneliness is a terrible thing to bear. So what if you have an F430? Even with 490bhp@8500 rpm and 465Nm@5250 rpm at your command, all you will manage to do is to burn a hole in the ozone layer and you will still find yourself feeling lonely.

Having said that, and to put things into perspective, choosing the F430 means no risk but be prepared to live a hermit life. Choosing love, means having to risk it all to find companionship but you will not be called a crab.

Until I know that my probability increases, I know what I'll choose.

Of 7th month and a nice cityscape picture

You know it's the 7th month when you see this eating at the same table as you are:
















Gawd...it's so funny~ brings a tear to my eye... *sniff*















Taken this on saturday when you peeps are enjoying the NDP preview (esp you jiahui!) but thanks for telling me about the LOTR track they used... i'll make an exception and watch NDP for that segment... heh heh

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Sometimes...a little can mean alot...















Was (and still is) helping wendy with her audit work... and it was pretty tough...with quite a number of information to look out for... a very draining exercise...

yet when i saw an egg tart on my desk...it somehow brightens up my day...by alot... I guess it's quite nice to have good friends (notice i never use the word collegues) around you in the course of your work...especially friends that care...and i have quite a handful of such friends around with me... thanks Wendy~

And that brings me to events of last weekend...it was quite a packed week for me...but the highlight of the weekend was this:

The veggie and fried rice was done by shuy, steam fish and egg with chinese sausage was done by suhua and i did the braised chicken in oyster sauce and a blueberry cheese-biscuit (which had a little bit too much cheese)















But it was great fun.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Hey Dude

Gotta dedicate this entry to dude..

.for selflessly helping me to collect first my Convo tix and secondly, my transcripts!

But of course, I helped her throw away her empty cup of watever she was drinking at NTUC last evening... :p

Cheers Dude!

Friday, July 21, 2006

Tired..... but happy too....















Good food. Good place. Good movie. Thanks bro! =)















This was the reason why i'm so spent on friday morning...cos i stayed up till 3am the previous night...sigh~ it's been an emotionally draining week...but as long as someone's not gonna break down...it's all worth the while

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Pertapis

Ok.... normally i don't blog about work....and I can't...but i'll make an exception... because a good part of my work this afternoon was for community day!

I had the chance to go down to Pertapis (http://www.pertapis.org.sg), a muslim run Charitable organization to help gather logistical data for our annual community day and the experience was quite enriching, in more ways than one...

well besides doing something different from normal work, i got to interact with people from the malay community and hear sad stories about how and why certain old folks or kids end up at pertapis.

Short of saying cliche stuffs like "i guess i'm pretty fortunate" and the like, I believe what's best is for us to make the best of our situation, no matter what they might be...and these are what the children staying in Pertapis does...and we should learn from them.

We really should.

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Fun with gown

For those of you who missed our saturday's gown taking (in fact...almost all of you dua me!)...here are the photos... we had great fun but it could have been better with more people =p

Fort Canning...(click on picture to enlarge)



















Esplanade! And I realise Hong Leong building is in the background...how sad to be reminded of work...hahaha...



















The most productive of locations...the new NUS admin block!




































This is my favourite shot for the day... with YJ as model! heh heh








KK the "flasher" hahahaha....








And I had time for some artistic shots too =p
KK was my model for the day!











Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Convo 2006















Strangely, I can't find any good convo picture to represent the entire day's event... but I guess this is the best shot i got *shrugs*


Also, many thanks to all my NOC collegues for coming...so touched....*sob sob*...

And now, since the convocation is over...it's time to complete the video project i started 2 months ago... =) will keep you guys posted

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Touching Anime

Whisper of the Heart - Country Road (Jap Version)



No one is with me
Going fearlessly
That's the way i live
in the dream i saw

I must put my loneliness away
and protect myself and i'll learn to be strong

Country road, it'll take me, back to my home town
I can feel it now, if i just keep to this far-off way,
country road

It won't matter how lonely the times get.
You'll never see me cry
I'll keep my tears at bay.
I know i must take heart
And that hurrying is all i can do
only that way, can i forget

Country road, it may take me,
Back to my home town, but even so

Steeling my heart, i will not go now
Not while i'm free

So it's goodbye
Country road

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Belated, Belated, Belated Birthday Celebration

Hokai, due to unforeseen circumstances, what was supposed to be a birthday dinner dragged into a belated birthday dinner....2 weeks down the road.

But nevertheless, we had our birthday celebration for doc and dude@ marnia square. Kenny Rogers to be more precise...















Everything about kenny rogers is different. The tables are different, the utensils are different, the plates used are different. Thankfully, the food is still as good. Especially macaroni and cheese, which is both me and dude's all time favourite...if that was heroin, we will be hard-core heroin addicts ...




















The 3 of us...of which we asked a waiter to help us take this photo...poor guy...dude torment him by asking him to retake the shots until she got a good picture...

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Induction at The Legends, Fort Canning















We had a massive orientation of sorts at The Legends.... nice place...nice food...nice people.
To show you how nice the food is, here is the appetizer from today's lunch....
















And i'm thinking whether I should post pics of my orientation group...mmm....perhaps not...cos we are wearing some funny jerseys which makes us look like huge walking advertistment for our company.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Of green juices and CBD skylines















This witches' brew was Winnie's... somehow she had a tiny cauldron of greenish liquid too vile to name the ingredients...but they all started with letter "v", abeit with different species of these "v" ingredients.... However, it looked like THAT only after she decided to drop in a bubbly Vit-C tablet into it....YET, I think she drank every single drop of this....
































CBD revisited...was spending the afternoon with Max over at the riverside and talking about life in general... and this IS my life in general...especially from Mondays to Fridays....

Lastly... Jo, it was really really great talking to you on Friday night.... enjoyed your company. Too bad Peppa didn't come along... perhaps next time =)