Back From Tokyo

Had an awesome trip. Lotsa photos.

Pix should be up soon if I'm not too lazy :)

MBS Casino

Went to the Marina Bay Sands casino last Wednesday after a few drinks.

We actually walked from office all the way over there. Think its a good time to go on a weekday because its less crowded. Its huge and very nice! Clean and good...similar to the Venetian in Macau.

Ended up winning a little even after paying the $100 entrance fee! :)

'Rents just went to Egypt! So shiok.

Will be heading to Tokyo with the wifey next week! Whoooooooot! Just bought the latest Canon Ixus 130 ($499) just for the trip. 14.1megapixels! Wahseh...

Crowded Trains

Blogging on the train now. With the opening of the Circle Line, the North East Line has gotten so much more crowded.

Sometimes I wonder whether Singapore is getting too crowded. To the point where even extreme suburbia like Sengkang is filling up trains at the start of the NEL. Sigh.

There're more expats living here too. Cost of living must be rising tremendously.

Played golf over the weekend at Palm Springs Batam. Our team made up of Maple, Terence, Nick and myself shot a 12-over 84. Narrowly lost to the other team of Eugene, Youlong, Arnold and Tony, who scored an 82. Was a really fun and easy course.

My arms are aching from Body Combat last evening. Its the 3rd week in a row I've attended the class. That ought to be a record.

And then today I got a basketball game somemore.

Tired.

JP Morgan Corporate Challenge

Clocked 32:03 for the 5.6km run. Think I should be able to improve on this next year.

That places me at 1,110 out of 11,753 runners on Thursday evening.

Aching all over now haha.

Global Warming Is Killing Us

I can't even stand under the sun anymore without breaking into sweat.

Sigh.

And I'm still praying that Manchester United will still win the league somehow!

View From The Top

Its amazing to think I've been in the same office for three and a half years now. Never really appreciated the view from up here until recently. The views are magnificent. You can see most of the Singapore CBD area on a clear day.

On a usual evening, the view is very soothing from my Front Office side.

On a rainy day, we're up amongst the clouds.

And on a sunny day, things can't get any clearer than this, can it?

Beautiful eh?

Wonder how long more I'll be here?

Home On A Friday

How rare is that?

Wifey is sleeping early because she needs to rest.

The long two weeks of consecutive work is taking its toll. Really looking forward to soccer tomorrow. Hope it doesn't rain. Next week will be an exercise week, with Body Combat on Monday and the JP Morgan run on Thursday. Should be fun.

Spent the last few weeks interviewing alot of candidates. Job market is certainly picking up.

Sigh.

Looking forward to Tokyo in 3 weeks!

Who wants to visit the Shanghai World Expo?

Days Of Days

This is my10th consecutive day of work, staying past 8pm for at least 5 of them. Really tired. Two more days to the weekend.

Can't wait.

So will Liverpool field a weaker team against Chelsea so that Man U will not win the league? Highly likely.

Can't wait for Tokyo tour end of next month.

Gosh I need a break.

Cloudy Ash

Went to the gym for the 2nd time in 2 weeks! That's quite a record. The Body Combat class was really tiring. Then I finally got a haircut at a small little barbershop. Think it looks pretty nice now :)

Bangkok business trip got canned at the eleventh hour :( Darn. Was hoping to go despite all the trouble there. Would've been fun to see the Red Shirts.

That giant ash cloud halting flights all over Europe sure is gonna add a cloudy stain to the markets. Was hoping the markets would drop further but they're more resilient than I thought.

Then the suing of Goldman Sachs made it even more certain that all hell would break loose. But no, still everything looks fine and dandy.

I wonder how long more before the big runroad?

Anyway I watched Manchester United beat City in the local derby on Saturday in the comforts of home. Email me if you'd like to know how I did it. Was so happy when Scholesy turned up at the last minute to score that sweet header. Glad we're still in the title race. Hopefully we'll win all our games and Chelsea will lose one or more of them.

Oh and last weekend we caught How To Train A Dragon with my siblings. Awesome show. You guys should go catch it!

Ris Low Begone!

Was at MediaCorp's AMK office recently to collect my Speedo watch for my winning letter to 8days(finally!).

Who would have thought that I would stumble on a filming crew right at the reception. They were filming a new English series called Silver Linings. Then I noticed the crew kept refering to this tall (and ugly) girl as Ris and then I realised who that was. Dammit, the more you hate them the more your paths will cross - Murphy's Law. And by golly was she irritating or what. For starters she cannot act for shite, more on that later. And she was speaking in her usual irritating I-cannot-speak-properly-but-people-love-me-right type of lynch-deserving voice. Buay tahan.

The bad acting was so bad, that I didn't even need to tell you it was bad. The scene seemed like a cameo scene for her and all she had to do was stop an old lady walking past the reception of the office. 9 takes. That's how long I was there for and still when I left they were still doing the same scene. After each take, the director kept faulting Ris (she can't act - which is why her stupdity is not an act, its real!)and telling her how to improve. Even the old lady actress looked forlorn that this show is gonna bomb with Ris in it haha.

I have a 99.9% confidence level that I will not be waiting for this series to air.

Ok enough ranting. The whole comedy (I dunno if that series is a comedy but it didn't look like it) really eased my 20min wait for a silly Speedo watch.