Saturday, May 31, 2008

Malacca

Came back from Malacca yesterday. Will post some pics soon and more updates. Too tired.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

My nephew.

I took some pics of my nephew practising the piano. Very impress I am. Too bad there were no accompaniment scores for my son to accompany him. Anyway, my nephew and my sis in law is staying over. I was told they would be staying over until Tuesday.
Anyway, my mom is admitted to NUH today. She has to have her right arm operated again as the mechanism to enlarge her vein has stopped working. She told me that its LA and she would have her eyes covered. She told me, that even though she does not feel alot of pain, she can still what is happening. I wished I could take a picture of the whole thing.
School holidays has started. But I'm going to be having remedial tomorrow - Wednesday. After which I would be following the P4 pupils for the Malacca trip.I'd be bringing my camera nevertheless, its just choosing which lens to bring. I think I'll go with a wide angle. Shoot in RAW and perhaps get one or two good shots.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

MR

Hooray, this is my first blog post using the mac pro. Love the feel of the keyboard although I do find the silver abit garish.
Anyway, today is MR day. Today is the day I received my reservist letter saying that I've done my duty and I can look forward to an ICTless life ahead. Hooray. I guess I could say that I've wore the No 4 for the last time today.
It has been hot the past few days and nights. It's almost midnight and the water running out from kitchen sink is very warm. I don't know about you, but this is very worrying. The funny thing is members of my household does not seem to care. I'm sure they do, somewhere, sometimes, but hey, switching off the lights when you leave the room is NOT that difficult isn't it?

Monday, May 19, 2008

My mac

It's almost 12 midnight and I've yet to complete transferring my pictures to my new mac pro. It is very tiring. I mean, it takea approximately half an hour to burn one dvd disc full of pics and another half an hour to import those pictures. Sheesh. If I'd have known, I would not bother importing them.
My dad have not paid his road tax and now he is afraid of driving his car. So I've to send him to LTA in Sin Ming and then send him back. That would take approximately 45 minutes to an hour. My wife, Su is having a camp tomorrow and thus I've to send her to school and that will be like at 6.00 AM! So basically, its Punggol-Goodman Rd-Sengkang-Tampines-Sin Ming-Tampines-Sengkang-Punggol-Woodlands-Punggol. Why to Woodlands, because my darling son, Adam, wants to sleep over at his grandmother's place. He is so happy that his school has closed down due to the many HFMD cases. I'm just glad that he is o.k

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Annaniq's comments

Responding to Annaniq comments...

Yeah. The only thing stopping me is typing the letter. I'm not fooling anybody or myself but it is going to be an adjustment. I just hope that it won't be that bad of an adjustment. The way I see it, it's what I've always wanted, being my own boss, being in the financial industry and having a very supportive wife, inlaws and my mom, dad and sisters. I know I can do it, its just a matter of mind over matter, or in my case, physical hard work and the bed.
Things been sucky in school lately. I've been to three other schools and I know that this school is not to my liking, and I could ask for transfer, again, but I won't. I think I have to stop this viscous cycle. I'm 36, and if everything goes well, I'll be 41 when I graduate. That's like 9 more years before I hit 50. I think life is more than just marking and listening to your ROs and doing things which just does not make sense.
That's why I'll try insurance and properties, I hope to help people too.
Not encouraging anybody to quit teaching, but I just think that one really needs to take a look at oneself, and try to meet the needs, and if you ask any psycho..., there are many needs. I just say, meet those immediate needs first, It does not take a million dollars or a million more minutes to make one's wealthy, just a dollar more than your cost and a minute more of the actual time needed.

I mean, if your livelihood cost, $100, and you earn $101, then you ARE wealthy, no debts, nor worries. and in 100 more days, you can take a day off. Of course, we must be realistic that our livelihood does not ONLY cost $100 but more than that, but then what if it does? WIll you die?

Saturday, May 17, 2008

MacBook Pro

Got myself a macbook pro 2.2 withe 120gb and 4meg ram. Cost me some 2.4k. I'm still trying it out and have yet to configure the comp to my preferences. Actually this is my first brand new mac. Have been using a preowned g4 dual chip desktop and I love it. I hope the mac book pro can do things better. Now I've to look for a firewire - firewire cable so that I could migrate the data to my laptop. Wish me luck.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Bought a new set of tyres

Bought a new set of tyres. Its the yokohama c drive. Was using the bridgestone gr-08 and wanted a change of brands, so to speak. Anyway find the tyres quiet maybe as quiet as the gr-08. But my car seems a bit more bouncier. maybe its due to stiffer side walls. Used my gr-08 for 40k and I thought its dues for a change, but when they took out the tyres, I believe the gr-08 could last another 10 k easily. If that is true, that the gr-08 would be a good value for money tyres. Previous to the gr-08, I had on the michelin pilot preceda which was stock for my tyres. Those tyres last around 30k km. And compared to the gr-08, its noisier. Lets see how long does this ac01 tyres last.

Here is a link to a review of the tyre.
http://www.onemotoring.com.sg/publish/onemotoring/en/motoring_buzz/motoring_accessories/yokohama.html

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Uni Letter

Just a got a letter offering me a place in Unisim. The intake will be in July. I was told to pay a $500 deposit which will offset the course fees later. Already paid using a cheque. Am really afraid. So many ifs. It's May, and I guess I'll be unemployed soon. I hope I can make this happen. Su told me that it should be exciting. Yeah, excitingly scary. I really hope it'll work.

A parent called me yesterday. She said her child does not want to go to school She then told me that she "whack" her daughter. She then told me the thinks she did to her daughter. I guess she was looking for a shoulder. I did not know how to react. I told her, that it was o.k to feel angry but I stop short of saying that she has every right to discipline the child. Sigh. What can I do. Tried calling a colleague who is in the PD department, but he did not pick up the phone. What can I do?

Oh by the way, I'm taking English with Sociology.

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Censorship

Read somewhere, that if you flag a blog often enough, the blog will be censured? Censured in this would mean that the blog would be unsearchable. Stupid, if people do care of what I think. Serious, why go through all that trouble. Just don't read it lah. True, some blogs may be confrontational in nature, but we are talking about the internet, the last bastion of free speech for many people. Get on with it, live your life, let others live theirs.

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Berita Harian 4th May 2008

Blog Entry
I’m now at woodlands, my in laws place. Its now 5.15 pm and I’m so bored. Anyway, I’ve read this article in Berita Harian that I thought it will be nice to share. Its in Malay so I will try to translate it to English without losing the essence.
The article is headlined, Happy, only for a Moment. The Subtitle reads “a young mother passed away after having some complication while giving birth.
It’s by Norman Sawi normans@sph.com.sg.
The husband, Mr Imran Ahmad lost his wife five days after she gave birth. She was 24 years old and she gave birth birth at National University Hospital. The baby, Dayang Dynaz was born safely without any complication. However, an hour after giving birth she complain of pain in her back and legs.
According to the husband, she also bleeds continuously while the doctor was sewing the area between her faraj and perenium, which was a common procedure after giving birth.
After about seven night, doctors told the husband that she was ready to be sewn back again. However, the wife’s condition worsen and she was transferred to the ICU. He was then told that the wife’s internal organs have lost their functions.
The doctors at NUH have yet given their explanation.
According to the husband, a surgeon in ICU told him that his wife has experience a case of Amniotic Fluid Embolism (AFE).
AFE is thought to be one of the complication after giving birth.
It is believe that this only happens once every 80000.
The wife name is Siti Zubaidah and she was 24 years old.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Fishing

Adam went fishing today. Very cool. He caught quite a number of duris, or catfish. From the look of it, he seems to love fishing. So there he was, fishing with his grandfather and granduncle, while the mum and dad have to run errands so that the people fishing do not ran our of ice and snacks.

Anyway, we went to punggol to fish, and there were so many people there. Despite the fact that the entrance to the site was quite obscure.

Here are some pictures...


KM 5d

Just purchase a preowned 5d from a guy who stays in kan ching rd. I'd say the conditon of the camera is fanastic. It comes with the angle finder, although I've yet to try that one out.