First World Problems

How do you preserve our precious memories for the next generation? We will grow old one day and slowly forget them if there is nothing to help us recollect.

Keep them in an external hard disk and drop it one day? Internal hard disk and wait for PC to konk out? Print hard copies and misplace them? Or cloud it all and then forget the password when we are senile and old? 

#firstworldproblems

My Fav Duck Rice In All Of Singapore

@ East Coast Lagoon.

Been around for more than I have, and thankfully the sons have taken over the business.

Gotta enjoy these delicacies while they're still around.

Stoke City 2 Manchester United 0

LVG out. 

Nuff said.

Star Wars - The Force Awakens

Watched it with the kids. All I can say is that I loved it, even with the kids constantly asking question in the cinema and I have to ssshh them. Will need to watch it again for the Easter eggs though.

Some key questions:

1) Just who is Rey? Is she Luke Skywalker's daughter?

2) Why did Kylo Ren go to the dark side?

3) Who is that Snoke villain?

4) What will happen to Finn?

5) What will happen in Star Wars VIII?

6) What of Luke Skywalker now that he is found?

Truly a must watch.

Resort-style Living

Sometimes you wonder why there's the need for going to resorts when you have all them facilities right at your doorstep.

If only we appreciated and utilized them more.

Merry Christmas 2015

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

A time to give thanks and reflect. 

2015 has been kind, hopefully 2016 will be better by a mile.

Manchester United 1 Norwich 2

A loss to Norwich at home. Simply unacceptable.

Zero wins in 6 games

Out of UCL

Out of top 4

> £250mil spent

LVG must go. The players look really uninspired by you. 

Plus Rooney is a joke out there.

#lvgout

#ggmu

Bali 2015 II

As continued.

Day 3

Evening we put the kids at the Westin Kids Club for two hours and could afford the time for a nice romantic Japanese teppanyaki dinner for two at #hamabe

Day 4

A day out at the beach

Swimming at the resort

All in all it was a really wonderful trip.

Didn't feel like coming back.

Bali 2015

Our first family holiday of the year.

So far, it's been going so well that my only regret is not having extended it by one more day. Here's a quick recap so far.

Day 1

Swimming in resort

Swimming in resort

Swimming in resort

Jimbaran Bay for seafood dinner

Day 2

Water Bom Bali - voted #3 best water park in the world and it lived up to the hype somemore! Particularly power rides are The Climax and Smashdown 2.0. Unfortunately we couldn't bring the cameras in, so no pictures, but the kids loved it and it is world-class, especially where being kids-friendly was concerned.

Dinner in resort

Day 3

Bali Safari & Marine Park - started off abit underwhelming and expensive, but ended off okay. The main gripe is that the park seems to have more emphasis on paid entertainment over animal exhibits. The 1/2hr safari journey and the 1hr Bali Agung theatre show made up for it though.

It's been an awesome trip so far and the kids really love it.

More updates to come...

That Hair

Is this not the most ridiculous hairstyle Jeremy Lin can pull off?!

He's trying to look like the old China bowl-over-the-head-cut look.

I mean I'm a fan, but this is so ugly it's not even funny.

Really Looking Forward To A Good Break

Haven't taken my compulsory block leave yet this year.

This week is the week.

Really looking forward to the family holiday.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm working too hard.

AFC Bournemouth 2 Manchester United 1

Quite disillusioned by the whole LVG philosophy. If results aren't going our way, injuries are piling up, then the least I expected was a good game plan where the kids are properly utilized. 

No, the game plan was non-existent and the players didn't know what to do. Add to that the really weird substitutions - I mean seriously, taking out the most potent attacking threat (Fellaini) for a rookie attacking midfielder (Powell)?! What gives? Mata was woeful, why wasn't he replaced?

It's getting very demoralizing, especially knowing that yesterday's game could've been won and and class we had was definitely good enough with the right tactics. Too many players ball watching as well.

Didn't help that I wasted a good nights sleep by staying up till 4am.

Just terrible.

LVG had to go.

GGMU.

Reservist

I like being called up for reservist.

I count myself very lucky to have been drafted into a team and department that has had the continuity to last the entire duration of my NS reservist period. It is something I appreciate alot.

You hear multiple horror stories of being recalled to crap units or crap roles and it is true that many get stuck in such a rut.

I've managed to see the department grow from a small insignificant part of the brigade with so little manpower to what we have now, a standalone department that is making such significant contributions with friends from so many different professions.

Coming back it always feels like coming back to meet old friends to fight another paper war together. So much comraderie and friendship. And when I fill up the NS survey forms asking me whether I am confident of going into war if ever, I think of the band of brothers in with and give a resounding yes.

I am lucky indeed.

There is much to be thankful for.

Manchester United 0 West Ham 0

Our 5th 0-0 draw this season.

It's quite frustrating.

At least we played better in the second half and could have scored some goals but credit to West Ham they could've won the game too.

Without Rooney we have a better verve yet we couldn't take our chances.

It was nice to see Guillermo Verela his first team debut.

Pity we didn't win.

Next up is Wolfsburg on Wednesday where we have to win to progress to the next round.

GGMU!!!

Star Wars Is Coming!!!

Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens

Can't. Wait.

The Reunion

Recently I was graciously invited to a meeting of alot of ex staff.

It felt somewhat weird to be a minority amongst them, and yet all so familiar. There were very good vibes and old comraderie (we were a pretty close bunch once) over a night of drinks.

Sometimes I wonder how things could have turned out so differently had I made various decisions differently over the last few years.

At times it also felt like some of us were still clinging on to something we knew wasn't there anymore yet the mere reminiscing of those times made everything worth the effort to meet up.

It was nice seeing everyone again and talk about 'the good old days'. Yet everyone knew that those days were gone.

In life we unknowingly take a lot of things for granted. We should take a moment everyday to be appreciative of all that we already have around us.