Vesak 2007

Vesak day, there's a grand temple opens. Floats depicting the Buddha in different cultures are parked right beside the grand new Buddha Tooth Relic Temple along South Bridge Road. China town is lighted up with dragon post lamps and red banners are hung from lamp post to lamp post. There's a new buzz in town.

Still stuck in office, wife calls. No keys to the house, on the cab from the airport. Reaching in 15 minutes. I grab my stuff and rush home.

The beginning Asia's golden era

Asia is in. Lots of cash in the region, stock markets are rising fast, China is charging ahead and so's India. It is in when Singapore films make it to Cannes. It is in when the face of Asia is the new beauty. Yes, Miss Universe 2007 is Japanese, Riyo Mori. Miss Korea made it to the finals too.

Freaking case sensitive

Damn, been twiddling around for two days wondering why the hell FireFox doesn't handle document.getElementByID ? After two days I realise, its getElementById .. Yes! Lose the capital D.. Lower it. Geesh.

Till ten o'clock

First time waiting at an alley off Lim Teck Seng Road. Its 9:50am waiting for the clock to hit 10 o'clock. No need to pay S$1/- to enter the ERP zone from 10am to 12pm. Notice those concrete obstacles that block access to the road? Heh, probably many motorcyclist have flanked the ERP gantry in the past.

A letter to god

There was a man who worked for the Post Office...whose job it was to process all the mail that had illegible addresses. One day, a letter came addressed in a shaky handwriting to God. He thought he should open it to see what it was about. The letter read,

Dear God,

I am an 83 year old widow, living on a very small pension. Yesterday someone stole my purse. It had £100 in it, which was all the money I had until my next pension check. Next Sunday is Christmas, and I had invited two of my friends over for dinner. Without that money, I have nothing to buy food with. I have no family to turn to, and you are my only hope. Can you please help me?

Sincerely,
Edna

The postal worker was touched. He showed the letter to all the other workers. Each one dug into his or her wallet and came up with a few pounds. By the time he made the rounds, he had collected £96, which they put into an envelope and sent to the woman. The rest of the day,

all the workers felt a warm glow thinking of Edna and the dinner she would be able to share with her friends. Christmas came and went. A few days later, another letter came from the old lady to God. All the workers gathered around while the letter was opened, It read.

Dear God,

How can I ever thank you enough for what you did for me? Because of your gift of love, I was able to fix a glorious dinner for my friends. We had a very nice day and I told my friends of your wonderful gift. By the way, there was £4 missing. I think it must have been those
thieving bastards at the Post Office....

Warmest Regards,
J D Victor

passwd revealed

Damn, revealed a production database password today, accidentally.

Lesson learn. While WinXP is loading applications in the background immediately after login? Never start any instant messaging while logging in. Well this happened.

1. ssh to production server
2. Start Gaim
3. Start Skype
4. start logging in
5. start logging into production database
6. at password prompt, start typing password
7. lo and behold, an irritating friend sends me an instant message.

The MSN window loads but has yet to display itself. But during this time, focus was on the hidden window just before I type the database password. Yeah, you probably guessed it, it got sent to my friend. Thankfully the clown doesn't know the exact nature of my job. But still, it is a lesson learnt.

Tribal Harley

This is a ride for earth day.

Mee Sua with egg

Yum! Haven't had this for awhile. Still taste as good. It is the mee sua soup with egg sold by Swee Ting at Maxwell Rd food court. The stock is sweet and tasty, use to come with seafood and mussels. Now to cut cost its just crab cake, fish cake, spring onions, some pork maybe chicken. But still good. Warms my heart and fills me tummy. That said, now I miss the mee sua in Malacca, now thats mee sua!

1-click web award 2006

1-click web award 2006,
originally uploaded by MacroGrey.

Ha ha ha, check this out http://www.1-click.jp

Its the 1-click web award for 2006. Hilarious creative use of flash.
Its got Japanese men in white sports wear carrying a huge mouse
pointer. I love it when they rest, especially the old guy in front
starts bending over and starts hitting his aching back.

Labour day

Son is down with a virulent flu. Getting him to take his medicine is next to impossible. Tried all ways, coax, threat, treat, walks and finally force. Problem with force is, he tends to throw up what medice we try to make him take. Any finally forced 4 out of 5ml of ibuprofen into him and he is asleep, traumatised and tired. Its going to be a long night ahead. Went to sleep with an empty stomach. That means milk feeds at 2, 3.30, 5.30am in the morning. Making milk is the easy part. Carrying him and coaxing him to sleep is tough. Better rest while he is. Its 2053h, labour day is ending.

Long night ahead

Its been awhile since I was stalked by a bapok. Last night one weirdo tried to be funny with me. Wearing a pair of bright yellow crocs, long bermudas & a cap. Intentionally over took me while i was walking home from the mrt station. When I increased my pace he immediately did the same and lead by a step. With my ear phones on & listening to music I decided to ignore the wierdo. He kept turning his head to smile at me.  I simply ignored him & kept my pace. It was late and my son is sick. We went our separate ways at the next junction. Good for him. Why do these weirdoes want and hope to get? On the spot blow job? To be sodomise(ed)? Go find a dog or some equally weird hang out like the pool opposite Liang Court. Oops! Its closed.