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Taobao order delivery - by 28th April

2009-03-19T15:40:00.005+08:00

Terms of Engagement

Item + Shipping (EMS/DHL) + Handling + Remittance

Shipping = Direct to seller house
Handling : RMB$30/shop you purchase from (maxed at RMB$250)
Remittance = Divided equally on all shoppers of this shipment.
Rate = RMB$1 = SGD$0.23

Payment instructions:
1. Paypal/POSB bank transfer for initial item + shipping to me.
2. Paypal/POSB bank transfer for prior to delivery to shopper.

Last order to be in by:20th April 2009
Delivery by 30th April 2009

*Note: please kindly state any further instructions prior to delivery. Any additional costs incurred will not be covered by me and I take no responsibility in ensuring the delivery of the item to me. Please please please please, check the seller's rating and who he sold to and ensure he is a respectable seller before purchasing.

Any questions, please feel free to msn/email me at ahfaii@hotmail.com
Thanks! :D

Taobao order delivery - by 28th March

2009-02-22T08:44:00.008+08:00

If you haven't been on taobao, you should go there now.
Prices are amazing. Range of goods available are amazing.
A good example would be this clock here, which you can find at Westmall level 1 for SGD$60++.

On taobao, it costs me only SGD$44. So I think its pretty worth it to do that :)

The shipping is quite amazingly expensive too, if you order only 1 or 2 pcs of items.

So therefore I'm coming up with a self-delivery in March if there are enough orders.
The method of payment are similiar to the usual quote; item cost + ems + handling charge.
Details of shipping are as follows:

Shipping charge:
For first 500g, RMB$190 (190/4.45=SGD$42)
Subsequent 500g, RMB$45 (45/4.45=SGD$10.10)

Handling charge:
SGD$5/item for every SGD$100 value.

Once you send me the item links, I'll double check with seller if he/she has the ones with the descriptions provided. Upon confirmation, I will bill you via email and you'll send money to my POSBank/paypal account for the item.

For the postage, I'll accumulate all items to the last second week of the month and then divide the cost accordingly to buyer and weight of the items among all customers. Once that is decided upon, I'll bill you again for the delivery.

Thank you for your attention. Please buy from Taobao and convince others to do so.
It might hurt the Singapore economy by a few thousand dollars, but I'm quite certain it won't hurt you at all as it saves you and me money :)

Contact me at ahfaii@hotmail.com (msn/email) for more information. I'll be happy to answer your queries :)

Finally Finally Finally~

2009-01-12T18:00:00.003+08:00

Finally! L4D has finish downloading!!! And it runs like CS on an ancient 486 on my 2 gig duo core laptop!!! Comtemplating if I should buy a computer for this game ;;;
Finally! I'm getting my own office!!! And lots of extra work, responsibilities and trouble incoming at no extra pay/position upgrade! WooooO~
Finally! It's the lunar new year and bonus package is coming!!! Wee~

Looking forward to play some games on my computer, less troubles at work and save lots of money this year... :DDD

some quick snapshots on first moments of 2009 and slow blogging ahead

2009-01-05T16:01:00.007+08:00

I almost died queuing for a ticket both times. But it was worth it to see her smile and the surprise on her face when she saw me at her door... :D

...

If you have people dying around you, read this.

Another colleague in my company is dying of cancer. His hair's all gone.
The fella's in a pretty bad shape now, but he stands strong still...not needing any kind of useless greetings and consolation. That makes me respect him a lot, not that he needs it from me anyway. The feeling he gives off is very much like a dying version of Zoro in one-piece; the tone of his voice and the way he does things; regretless, just-do-it attitude & fearless at all times. I'm not gay....but he's just fucking awesome!

Occasionally I'd see him in the office to come in some days and he'd be still as cool as ever, just less energy to utter nonsense and etc. We used to play badminton on weekly basis last year. I always get thrashed by everybody but well, it was fun playing with them.

I sincerely hope he wins the battle against this deadly enemy within...

...

On other issues; Today, I spent 12 hrs on a suffocatingly stinking train, followed by 3 hrs of crappy bus ride travelling all the way back to Guangxi again. I'm tired, not wanting to work and there's plenty of reporting to do. No walking around in the factory was required today... luckily. And I've got a date to buy some doggie clothes for my dogs tonight....yosha!!! :D

Left: buddy, Right: bee (cause always jumping around from one spot to another, non-stop)

Bad days

2008-12-31T11:55:00.002+08:00

I was late to work today, because time was at fault; a 30 minute bath, 10 minute shaving, 30 minutes of stuffing goodies into my lil bags and an impossibly slow check out procedures from the hotel...

A reminder of about life; One of my ex- bosses died. A very nice guy; hardworking, loves his family, etc etc...kena heart attack in the midst of marking papers in his office. The family only discovered he not around when he did come home for 1 whole day. I feel sorry for his wife. I really do.

Then I saw the article about Chew Chor Meng + Spinal Muscular Atrophy on yahoo.sg.

Then I ate crap stuff and laosai-ed at this god forsaken place in China.
And still, laosai-ing...

Shall we do it again?

2008-12-06T19:19:00.000+08:00

Shall I use this space once more... now that the garmen here got no more problems against it? :o

Moved // 搬迁

2007-09-14T19:29:00.000+08:00

I've gotta move to my blog to ahfaii.spaces on instead since i really can't find a good way to bypass their firewall... -_-;;;

To all to wrote to me

2007-08-24T11:55:00.000+08:00

You guys probably noticed that I haven't been online, blogging, or MSNing for a very long time already. Workload has been overwhelming for the past months, eating my precious play/study/pcc time away. Remaining time has been spent on writing personal journals, drinking with a few angmo friends and ... blah.

And I saw this picture on Phoebe's blog... with Phoebe and Sara in it.

Aren't they getting prettier and prettier... :\

Its kinda sad that I've not been able to hang out with them, so many months. I've given up hope on trying and trying to meet them, only to call them at the last minute that I can't make it. They've probably given up hope on me as well... but that can't be helped.

Work is still not very satisfying. Most of the time I'm just meeting customers and making them happy, treating them makan and drinks, throwing some money under the table onto their laps... its all fun and enjoyable. But I see no future in it...

And oh, I've uploaded the pictures that I took when the typhoon pabuk passed by HK. Generally its nothing about the wind... more of liz and her lovely friend though :P
And here's a few... :D

Will work for donuts.
Liz and her friend.... Cheryl?
sorry hehe~ I'm sure I'd remember her name better if i see her more often :P

Sweet Dynasty, the last restaurant on the street still open during the lvl8 typhoon arrangements...

Cropped; less of my fat tummy and more of the beauties.

Mental Note to self.

2007-08-11T01:37:00.000+08:00

I need to make a personal guide. A guide that has recommendations on how to burn time in hong kong/china. All the restaurants, etc... blahblah. Then I won't end up like today, acting stupidly wondering where to bring two beautiful ladies to have dinner when the level 8 typhoon blew my original plans away... -_-;;; sigh.

But still, it was a wonderful evening...

Responsiblities, Bribes and Death

2007-07-23T00:50:00.000+08:00

I received a report a couple of days ago from a China client, complaining that our products are all scratched(aka fucked, since no-scratches is the standard). They commented that nothing will save it, so they are gonna charge all cost of the materials to us since they provided the materials to us in the first place...

It is shocking news to me and my dad. Firstly, no one would possibly be able to pay for those materials since they are non-standard products and cannot be found in asia, as far as we know. It was custom made from Africa, sold to Singapore and then resold to our client. And it takes 3 months to create it, too. So even if anyone has got money, they wouldn't be able to speed up the process. With such a delay, the amount of manpower set aside to install these goods would be totally wasted. We are talking about 300-1000 people here, with highly paid 1 manager per 10-20 people...

Secondly, I, being in charge of QC, has been there for 50% of the time and has paid special attention to this batch of goods since its so freakin important. I cannot apprehend how these boards could possibly be screwed up since I've been fucking everyone to make them bear in mind how easily these materials can be damaged. Its surface, in reality, is almost as soft as tofu. Even a person with long fingernails would damage the materials if there's no safety tape on it...its that easy.

So we found our clients QC. And the client's client's QC. We opened up the latest batch of goods which I brought over personally. No damage, except for 5 pieces in the front. It was a case of accident, caused by my dear undead goblins who really, cannot be pack things properly. I fired the fella over the phone, with immediate effect, as a show of determination to get things right. I learnt that from local tv and authorities :o

The 2 QCs were generally around my age. We weren't very friendly at first, knowing that someone's gotta take the blame for these mishaps/accidents. Atmosphere was tense and everyone was unhappy about the quality of goods. But no one pointed fingers at anyone yet.

Client QC: Eh how to settle this? all your goods are scratched. if we use it, we're gonna be so fucked...
Client's Client's QC: Yeah. Fai, how?
Me: I'm not quite sure if its our fault that these materials are damaged. When it left our factory it was as perfect. I personally checked it all and I've photos to prove it.(K800i, my anti-responsibility device)
Client QC: But how do you explain all the goods are damaged now?
Me: Well, I don't think its my workers because, we are all trained on how to handle these materials with extreme care. Your workers aren't.

Babble babble babble. I couldn't argue with them much on the topic; they are the client. they are always right. Talk more, annoy them more. Annoy them more, your life = more miserable.

So there, we verbally promised to pay for the goods. A bold move.
The meeting ended amicably, since we had already taken the blame temporarily.

Dad left me at the factory to supervise further movement/transportation of the goods and to have dinner with the QCs. We checked a couple of the latest batch; no problem. Into the electroplating plant it went. Then we had dinner at a restaurant, talked a lot. I took the opportunity to squeeze some internal information about their companies and I got what I wanted. Anyway, these two guys were university grads, earning a quarter of what i do and actually only graduated half a year ago. We had some good food and banter. Everyone was happy.

Casually, I placed into their pockets (knowingly) what they earned for a month. The temptation was big for them. I gave them further reasons to pocket it, like 'oh your boss that day, told me to pass this money to you for your transportation and lodging here...', etc. Lame excuses, but its citizens of china that you're dealing with. Works a treat :)

The reports coming from them the next day, was much, much more pleasant than before. All the damage reported was halved, which was actually true. It was just that someone was trying refuse to work on this project, thats all.

I was glad the little money minimized the problem for us. Now what is left to pay, is about SGD$100,000. On a positive note, its been halved. What more could we ask for?

---

That night after dinner with the QCs, I took a bus to wander around that area. It was all industrial zone, full of ceramic factories and distributors. Pollution was extremely heavy and a thick fog of smoke was constant on the road. I felt like i was breathing in sand. Coughing was continuous; there was no 1 minute without anyone coughing...

The bus came to a t junction. I saw a body lying in a pool of blood. A damaged bicycle was a few metres away from the body. A hit and run incident has occurred. Many vehicles passed by, none bothered to stop. They were not intending to become involved in such an incident. That's the general thinking of all these bastards around here.

I got off the bus, asked someone for a number to call an ambulance. They told me to call police first, because the police would arrange an ambulance over together with them. That sounded fine to me. I stood next to the body and waited an answer from the 110. They were very busy; 1 whole minute to answer the bloody phone? what the fuck?

An impatient lady answered the phone, demanded the reason for calling and first my name and contact number. I told her what happened, but she was amazing with the misinterpretion. I told her an UNKNOWN car has knocked someone down, she asked me what are the TWO CAR'S plate number. etc etc etc... yes. They are, the amazingly deaf/misinterpreting police officers.

10 minutes later, the police arrived. They acknowledge arrival to location and declared they have found the body. ONLY THEN THEY CALLED FOR THE AMBULANCE...

So that's a total of 25 minutes to get an ambulance. A person in such a state probably can't wait even for more than 8-10 minutes lor. What are they thinking anyway? I personally conclude it as a total lack of values for other people's lives.

When the ambulance came, they took their own sweet time to go walk up to the body, touched a little and confirmed she's dead by feeling for breath through the nostrils. What the fuck? What happened to checking for pulse? And then they left quickly, telling police officers to get the funeral car to pick up the body...

The crowd gathered on the road to check out the latest drama. Half an hour later, they were all there. No efforts was made to tell those idiots to fuck off the road before another accident happens again... well done.

For me, this has been an eye opening experience for me. Don't expect anyone to call the ambulance for you unless you have 'save my life for RMB$102354263577566' written on you somewhere. That is all.

A chance for revolution

2007-07-20T01:06:00.000+08:00

I've been entrusted with more important task in the factory these days, since my dear Goblin Zombie Taskmaster has not been executing his orders properly through his own methods.

The scalar chain of command needs to be enforced. Paperwork on quality/quantity of our products must be done to ensure all our products are done well. But goblins / zombies / goblin zombies can't do such things. If they could, we Hongkies won't get paid exorbitant salaries to work there... haha~

I plan to introduce a new system in the factory. I call it, the "mission note".
All task assigned to the goblin zombies will be written on paper and stamped with my personal seal. Whenever goblin zombies complete fulfills the requirements/completes the mission, I'll reward them with cash when they turn in the note and show me the completed tasks. If they don't, then I'll mark the note as 'failed'... and they will be punished if they can't complete it more than a given number of chances.

Its like a dog treat. It is.

A part of me feels wrong to treat people like that. The other part tells me to feed cat food to cats and feed dog food to dogs, not feed human food to any of these animals.

And oh, I think I'd hire another personal secretary to do all that chinese writing for me. She'll be pretty, has technical knowledge on our products, intelligent, helpful, etc etc... :x

...

Enough of fantasy and back to reality. That would probably not work, because the monetary incentive would be really costly. We have so much things to do... imagine paying them $100 to get a job done? What if we have like 500 jobs for them to do? Shitty.

What if they disagree on the terms provided and refuse to work? That'd suck too. Maybe they'd even give me a punch if i deem their work as shitty :o

But the scalar chain of command... it really has to be enforced...

...

You guys don't need to understand what I'm saying. I'm just frustrated over stupid people that are working for us... bloody goblin zombie peons+taskmasters... grr...

Elbonia = China

2007-07-19T01:24:00.001+08:00

I'm a pointy haired boss. The cat's my dad.
And that's what we do... :o

Samantha's birthday, @ Heaven...

2007-07-09T01:11:00.000+08:00

Sam :)

Hadrian & Sam :D

GJ the Jp+Hk guy with his girlfriend whose name i forgot x_X

My lorry. Unable to start up because the fucking batteries got stolen again that night......fucking motherfuckers................ #@%@$$@#&@#@$&@$^@#%!#%!#$dllmpkchsssssss........@$^$@&$

work.

2007-06-25T09:05:00.000+08:00

I have more responsibilities now, but not more money.
The feeling I'm having these day, is kinda like playing a computer game called 'Simulation-Business', whereby the difficulty is set to hard level; in debt, with corrupted managers and uncooperative workers, limited resources, theft within the company, bad management system... blahblahblah.

That's all the resources that you can have to win the game...

...

I need a pay raise. And I'll always do.
I need to make myself so good that he'd never find someone else to replace me.
Then i'd ask for a really thick paycheck, which he'll not be able to refuse......

^_______________________________________^

Sian

2007-06-24T23:20:00.000+08:00

sian.

sian.

kan pua kan pua kan pua sian & dulan.

China can be a really fucked up place.

batteries, not included

My lorry's battery kena stolen when I left it in some dimly-lighted neighborhood, just beneath my friend's house. The locking mechanism that includes 2 bent nails locking it were cut with presumably, a pair of big snipper they use to break doors. And they couldn't be fucking bothered to unscrew the nail that attaches the wire to the battery, so they cut the wire too... making me pay another fucking $50 for it.

act like you're working; god's watching!

Then I went a police station to get a report filed, but they are so just fucking useless in China;
1.) no report number, no carbon copy, or computer record(no one would know if they dump it into the bin right after i left),
2.) made me wait 1.5 hours then start to interview me,
3.) made me repeat and repeat my answers over and over again like they can't understand Chinese,
4.) they speak with near-incomprehensible godknowswhere village slangs,
5.) none of the people inside the station other than 'the boss' was actually working or doing anything at all, except for smoking nonstop, drink tea, sleep or watch TV.

And finally, when they were gonna hand me a copy of a 'filed complaint' to claim insurance, they couldn't even fucking find their chop. Its a fucking police department chop lor, how can they lose it? They told me to come back again, tomorrow.

That's the 神州(Land of wonders) Police for you if you get into fucked up situations like this. They are just fucking eating away taxpayers money for NOTHING, nothing at all. Fuck you bastards, fuck you!!!

I went home, kena fuck by my Dad. He didn't fucking buy the cover-all-loss insurance, only got the traffic insurance which doesn't include theft. So I foot the bill for the battery... Paid a fresh RMB$500 for it. Well done! Nbcb!!! Hope you die a horrible death, asshole!! @$^#%*&#

Life, normal.

2007-06-15T21:48:00.000+08:00

---About work

My job, by itself is not too tough. I just need to manage people without educations of any kind that probably hates me a lot, keeping quality of our products in control while the people who do it are ruining it, ensuring rules and regulations are being abided to even though its near impossible to be followed...

Its the details, the small little details that are hard to handle. I feel like I'm working against a torrent of obstructions; my lack of knowledge in the technical expertise even though I've been here for nearly a year already, the people I work with and the language they speak (hunanese. sounds like mandarin but with a strange tongue curl to it.), which makes communication extremely hard. And even without it, it would be pointless also. What do they care about me anyway? duh.

There's been a problem with some stuff we ordered from Singapore and I might need to be attached to that company that makes the goods, as a QC... I'm looking forward to it....very much.

---About family

I spoke to my father last night about my brother and the exams he failed.

We are both aware that there's a problem in this whole situation; no one in the family actualy dotes on him, plays with him, or actually does things that are happy with him. My mom screams at him like crazy on the slightest things, me and my father in china most of the time, exposure to friends would be those online, on pellet-gun forums etc. We are concerned, very.

Father always say that buying things and encouraging him to play with interestings that he can learn from. It is not a bad thing actually, just that bro has no interest in anything like that. I see the whole scenario repeated again. His 'oh-lets-go-play+disect-this-and-learn-something-out-of-it-session'. Now that he doesn't have time, he stuffs bro with money and tells him that. Bro doesn't do that; bro buys guns with the money received and makes dad angry. Its a endless cycle.

Dad said he's hopeless. A cow can be brought to the river, but you can never make it drink.

I explained to him once again on my philosophy of learning. A person who wants to learn, is fueled by the passion that is 'infected' upon him or her by various factors such as environment, peers or his/her lifestyle. With a passion to do something, that person will want to find out the methods how to do it best.

To infect, is to make the cow thirsty. Walk it a few ten miles of road without water, then bring it to the river...

But the question that remains unanswered is, how to make bro thirst for knowledge? And who should do it?

---About the restaurant project
I discussed my restaurant plans with my cousin recently. He has the cash, and good management skills, great personality... all he needs is a good executor of his plans, which he hopes would be me.

But whats in it for me after it takes off?

Viva Singapoorer! The things I did last week!

2007-06-06T18:06:00.000+08:00

1. Asked for a glass of Red Wine on board the airplane and got a bemused look+weird 'okay' from the stewardess as a bonus. I do not know why... but well, at least she didn't ask me for my passport. The wine's from France and its not bad at all. ouht keep a bottle at home... hehe~

2. Totally forgot my assignment's deadline which means I'd probably have to freakin repeat my course...argh...-pwned-

3. Watched Pirates of the Carribeans 3. Stayed for 'special ending'. Had a long and well deserved toilet break after that...

4. Stayed in a queue for Boon Lay Nasi Lemak for 15 minutes without moving more than a few steps, had Ba Chor Mee instead...

5. Stepped on Singapore's grass! Its a wonderful feeling. They just don't have this kinda grass over there...

4. Enjoyed a 28 hours non-stop gaming therapy session with the boney dragon that rendered us dead tired,

5. Did a terrible presentation at the meeting with client. The deal is... sigh... =_=;

6. Ate Murtabak @ Zam-Zam! Delicious! Yummy! Hooooorayyyy! I love curry :D :D :D

7. Visited Geylang with the First person on our phonelists! And the Cow! The bastards! :P
*(Please kindly change his name on your phonelist to "Mr. First" or "Mr. Peng" from now on, so that he can suffer less of your 'accidentally call him non-stop' that he does not enjoy.)

8. Met Liz and a terrible gatekeeper with a bad attitude at Gate 42 which closed the gate at me, giving me a good excuse to stay another few days in Singapore...

7. Bought Pandan Cake...sigh.
Upcoming in production for youtube... :
The Pirates of the Pandan Leaves: Curse of the Pandan Cake!

6. Sat at coffee bean or some equivalent cafe @ Central with Ms. Viktoria & Co.
They are all nice, kinda kinky and crazy...

5. Passed by this cafe/restaurant place en route to a meet-a-melon session. Promised self to go there next time when he comes back to Singapore...

4. Played with Kaiwei's Canon 400D SLR Camera with that really cool pair of lens. Very tempted to pay 12 months of installments for it...very tempted. Had Nasi Goreng Ayam with him, his bro and cow after ripping lots of his wonderful photos which I will probably not share with u all.... ehehehehe~

3. For last third entry, I'd prove to you that cow's middle raised fingers' a permanent fixture on his hand. Just like hoofs on a cow eh...? And OH! HE HAS A GIRLFRIEND NOW! RAISE THE ALARMS! TELL EVERYONE! THE WITCH HUNT HAS BEGAN!!!!! XD

2. The last day on Singapore grounds. Second time to the airport in 7 days' time. No more money to burn. On board the 'legendary "LP" locker of doom... I was tied to a lousy chair, without water(unless i paid for amazingly exorbitant prices for it) and then transported to Hong Kong on that noisy machine. In my mind, I think I heard a voice saying this... "And in an emergency, if you're gonna need to walk the plank, lay it out yourself by pulling the two handles right next to ya! Don't know how to do it or cannot do it, die lor! We 'JS piratez' ain't gonna help ya with that! :P"

1. Back in Hong Kong. Hungry and poor. Burger King has taken Mcdonald's position @ the airport and is now selling burgers at 'UNBEATABLE' prices like SGD$8 a set meal! Wah lan!
Singapore Burger King how to compare!!!! LOL~

Theory of Fate

2007-05-31T16:06:00.000+08:00

"Fate is defined by the number of people we know of."

Thats what I thought when I saw all the couples around me at the Cinema, huggling and snuggling up to each other. From the looks of it, they probably didn't get to know each other at pubs and such. More likely to be some classmates-then-upgrade-to-boygirlfriend kind. Or maybe friends' friend, like friendster.

If its the latter, if you know only 6 people, and assuming those people u know knows only another 6 people, that would be a 6 x 6 = 36 people for your 'friends' friend' circle, or 'second-degree-friends' like friendster defines it. If you know more people, then the chances of you getting to know a girl of your dreams would be higher and the choice of dream girls would be more also, right?

Another thing is... I don't know how to put it, but listen to this story k...

Guy A is in this tiny village of 50 people that has only 1 dream girl which everyone wants. And he probably won't be loved by this dream girl. He goes to the urbanised village, gets to know like 100 people out of the 500. Assuming ratio of dream girl is 1 every out of 50 people around, u'd have a chance of at least 2 dream girls for 100 people he knows. Clubbing is a good way to know girls, but not everyone chio goes clubbing... I'd say the thing is actually 'having fun times' with the person u want to know. Just maybe watching movie, kboxing, picnics... its all fun... subjected to personal likings of course...

We should all socialise more, for the sake of knowing more people... for the sake of knowing someone u want to be with :P

...

I wanna live the way I lived before, but I'd hate it and love it at the same time...........

Look thinner in the photos

2007-05-12T10:46:00.000+08:00

From : http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/11322

How To Look Thinner in Photos

Fri Apr 6, 2007 10:24PM EDT

See Comments (300)

I'd be lying if I said I've never been tempted to destroy a picture because my eyes were closed or because the camera definitely added those ten pounds. I came across a few articles that answer that nagging question most of us have contemplated: Why does the camera add ten pounds? Blame it on lighting.

Slate says "The flat, even illumination on the red carpet makes it hard for the camera to capture dimension, unlike in a photo shoot with flattering soft lights. Cast from an angle, light creates shadows that sculpt the face and body by hiding unwanted flesh. Softer lights can hide wrinkles and smooth out the skin for women, while harsher lights on male faces exaggerate lines for a chiseled look. Without the aid of shadows, however, light exposes the imperfections of the face and body and makes the resulting image bigger and flatter." Thanks for the insightful explanation, Slate!

Unlucky for us, we don't have the luxury of having our own lighting technician casting light in all the right angles. Thankfully, the beauty section over at About put a list together revealing five red carpet secrets to looking thinner in photos. Here's the gist of the list:

Turn partially sideways, planting one foot in front of the other.
Pull your head forward to eliminate double chin.
Hold arms slightly away from the body.
Take a deep breath as you pull your shoulders back, chest forward.
Look away from the camera, then turn towards it, breaking into a smile before the camera clicks.
Wear an entire outfit of just one color.

Here's what I say: You're beautiful. Embrace every bit of yourself. Ten years from now, those "extra" pounds are not going to matter. What will matter is that a special moment with your friends and family was captured on film.

But...if you're really that worried about looking slim in photos you could always try out one of those cameras that digitally enhances your figure, or this Photoshop tutorial. Any professional photographers out there willing to gives us a few more tips?

Exploiting Weaknesses and Removing Fats

2007-04-30T12:50:00.000+08:00

I am the kind of people that is quite afraid of being hated by others.

These few salespersons from California Fitness probably saw through that.

Techniques like "no-buts interruption", "hide possible problems under the carpet" and "exploiting weaknesses through high-pressure" were very well executed.

So I lost HKD$1685 to them for 'one year's subscription international worldwide membership' which doesn't include monthly HKD$699 worth of payment to them.
Almost another $1800 if I don't slap myself awake soon enough...x_x;;;

Maybe this is the kind of pain i must go through before i'd actually make any actual effort to remove the fats from my body... the cherishing of things around us.... machiam "Saw" liddat ... lol~

I was, there.

2007-04-26T18:07:00.000+08:00

Yeap. Flew back to Singapore a couple of days ago for a couple of days for a couple of meals with a couple of friends for a couple of outings. I spent some days in pain from a terrible diarrhea, had some bochaiyuens and plain white porridge... and then I was back in HK.

---

And then I flew back to Singapore,
with Martin waiting for me at the airport for me...
to take him to wonderland... hehehe~

Whos the girl? ask me lah! lol~

Then this one? Just ask Martin!

Why is he smiling? :D
Come over China and ask me lah! :D

You shall support her!

2007-04-16T02:39:00.000+08:00

Ms. Christabel Campbell :DDD
She has my vote!!! Vote for her!!!

Its strange lah.
Looking through friendster at all the people I have not talked to ever since I left Singapore...
I realized that many people are going full speed ahead in their careers and etc..

That reminds me I should be doing the same as well, since I am 'Kiasu'... :D

Decisions = Responsiblities

2007-04-16T01:05:00.000+08:00

People are less educated in the countrysides of China.
They were not taught on how not to cross the roads.
Even if they were, they do not follow such rules since its the normal culture of their society.
I'm sure it'd be crazy for me to follow those rules.
Imagine a pedestrian crossing (about 10 lanes) with only 4 seconds to cross? siaobo?! lol~

Today I was at Macau for some gravesweeping with my relatives. Went to a very nice Restaurant in the Westin Resort for lunch and won some money on the mahjong tables from my relatives.

I took a bus to the Macau-Hongkong pier. On the way there, 2 crazy china-chinese bitches ran across the busy road and got me freaking hammered on the metal bar above the seat there. My finger bled from the friction caused, for like 1 whole freaking hour...

The anger was all over me. I felt like getting off the bus to give them both tight slaps for that... but what for? Personal philosophy says that anger is not the way to manage things, but revenge is a sweet antidote to where it hurts. I blame their slack and corrupted governments for not educating their public. Then I figured it was not really the government's fault at that moment of time... it was the individuals decision to cross the road in this manner. The government was just 1 of the many factors that caused this kind of things to happen...

Fuck you bitches.... -.-;

博客裏流行的擊鼓傳花遊戲:: You are the chosen ones!

2007-04-13T09:13:00.000+08:00

遊戲介紹：這是博客裏流行的擊鼓傳花遊戲，傳給誰誰就得接著，否則就得受罰，請認真對待，不要怕暴露隱私。

1.被點到名字的要在自己的博客裏寫下自己的答案，並且要加一個題目，並將加好的題目連同原來的一起，傳到其他6個人還要到這6個人的博客裏留言通知對方--你被點名了，被點名者不得拒絕回答問題，完成遊戲的人將會永遠得到大家的祝福。

2.這6個人要在自己的博客裏注明是在哪裹接到題的，並且再想一個題目傳給其他6個人讓遊戲繼續下去，不得回傳，被點到名字的人將得到大家的祝福，並且所有的美麗願望都會在不久的以後實現。

點名陷害我的人：Sara! :P

Q1: 如果看到自己最愛的人熟睡在你面前你會做什麼?
Hug her tight

Q2: 寫首自己最最喜愛的歌？
huh whats this question about? x_x

Q3: 當你最不知道穿什麼顏色的時候，你會選擇什麼顏色？
Blue and Black - Nice and Simple :D

Q4: 2006年你最後悔的一件事是什麼？
I shouldn't have bought an ipod... :\

Q5: 曾經有過最被感動的事是什麼？
Watching "Fly me to Polaris(星愿)"... it was the first movie I got teary-eyed at..

Q6: 比較喜歡爸爸還是媽媽？
Mom. Because she is my mother :)

Q7: 你最想要的5樣東西是什麼？
1. All the things from Ikea, including the space of their shops.
2. More friends in Hong Kong / China
3. A Pentium duo-core 1.83 ghz notebook with Windows Vista Ultimate
4. More money, just like everyone else
5. My degree from OUHK... :~|

Q8: 最後一次發自內心的笑是什麼時候：
I'm too young to tell when the last time I'd do that right? :\

Q9: 如果給你一個機會去世界上任何一個地方旅行,是哪里?
Just to travel? I'd go to... Dubai.... find more ways to make more money x_x;;;

Q10: 如果時間能倒流你希望回到哪一天：
The first day of secondary school, so that I can change everything that went wrong in my
life.

Q11: 最想實現的三個願望是什麼?
Kinder Surprise! 3 wishes in one! Hehe~
I want fun, love and to have enough resource to make everyone's life better!　

Q12: 我在你眼裏什麼樣？
A really nice, helpful person that has staunch faith in God :)

Q13: 如果讓你擁有一種超能力，你願意擁有什麼呢？為什麼？
Teleportation, so that I'd never be late again x_x;

Q14: 最喜歡哪部電影？

Infernal Affairs (无间道)
　　
Q15: 與喜歡的人見面,想要穿成什麼樣?
For a strong first impression I'd probably get the best out of my closet, which also
should match the occasion I'm meeting her for... :P　　

Q16. 你喜不喜歡我？
Yes, and thats' probably why I'm spending my time doing this... :P

Q17: 如何向喜歡的人表白？
I will never do that :o

Q18: 如果你愛的人不愛你怎麼辦？
Then I'd look for another one. NEXT! :P

Q19: 你會選擇having *** before marriage嗎？
Probably, yes.

Q20: 世界末日，你會倖存，並且你可以救一個人，你會怎麼做？
...another one of those mother/wife questions... ahh well...I'd save Sara, because she
handed me this quiz ... hahahaha~

Q21: 你在乎別人看你的眼光嗎？會為了眾人的反對放棄自己想要的東西或人嗎？
I have faith in what I see, but I also listen to people's reason not to do something.
We are all like just 3 blind people telling each other how an elephant looks like...so it really
depends...

Q22: 想要擁有一個怎樣的聖誕？
A happy one! And only with my family because I'd hope that my friends would be at home
with their families on this occasion too :)

Q23: 如果我們不認識。。你還想和我做朋友麼？
Why not? :P

Q24: 對我的第一印象和現在的感覺？
err... hmm~
When did I meet you anyway? Since I came to EPCL only right?
First impression of you was that you were the nice, helpful and a lil' silly kinda person :P
And nothing much has changed my perception about you so far... haha~

Q25: 你約他（她）遲到多久你會等?
6 hours... -.-;;;
Its dumb, but whats the not-dumb thing about love? Love=Dumb

Q26: 在什麼時候會想到我？
When you call me... :o

Q27: 2007年最想幹什麼？
Learn all the tricks and rules of my father's trade, and take over the factory. Then open a
restaurant and then buy a few cars if i'd afford it, yeap. Is that a great plan or what? :P

Q28: 如果有天你死了,希望是什麼死法?
Car accident. I'd hate to die from cancer or things that'd I'd know in advance.. :(

Q29: 男生：你愛的人不是處女你還會娶她並且一如既往的愛她嗎？
　　 (女生：如果你愛的人沒錢，你還會嫁給他麼？還是找個愛你而且很有錢的人？)
I wouldn't marry a virgin! Hahahahahahaha~

Q30: 朋友到底是怎樣的?
True friends know my true nature and they accept it. We are not perfect, we are just
human...

Q31: 如何拒絕追求你的人？
Isolate that person / Show that person the bad side of me...

Q32: 最想做什麼動物?
Cat... so that I can eat and sleep everyday! And get into territorial fights too... hahahaha~

Q33: 如果你和你現在的女(男)朋友在路上碰到你以前的女(男)朋友,你會怎麼辦??
We're all adults... just say hi-and-bye ;)

Q34: 覺得一直和一個人呆在一起會有一天厭倦嗎？（朋友或戀人）
Usually, no. But if its someone that I've seen for the whole of a month, yes...

Q35: 鬱悶的時候怎麼辦？
Play game to numb myself and other pleasurable activities...which you'd rather not know.

Q36: 最適合你發呆的地方？
In front of a good computer with a cup of warm tea, temperature @ 18 degrees celsius...

Q37: 你心目中理想的愛人是什麼樣子呢？
She is smart and knows how to keep me happy. She accepts my weaknesses, but does not
tolerate it all the time. She earns some money, hopefully not more than me. She is not as
sexy as Angelina Jolie, but she's not too ugly to be with either. She is educated and
graceful too... and blahblahblah...

Q38: 你相信一見鍾情還是日久生情啊？
都信吧？！ (me 2)

Q39: 在你的生命中，是友情勝過愛情，還是愛情勝過友情？為什麼？
Friendship; because the connection is not as fragile as love.

Q40: 最想要的公司福利是怎麼樣的?

ermmmm.....? A private car and airplane jet at disposal? hehehe~
　　

Q41: 願意離開家到很遠的地方去追尋幸福嗎？
Yes. That's why I'm here...

Q42: 你在大家面前和自己一個人時，差別有多大？
I don't know... it depends.

Q43: 下面兩樣你更喜歡哪個？雪山還是大海？
I'd rather die on the ice mountain than the sea... at least I'd have a corpse frozen for
eternity... x_x

Q44: 你最崇拜誰，理由？
Bill Gates, because he has made lots of money and changed our lifestyles...

Q45: 如果胡錦濤讓位給你...你想如何改造中國?
Yes. I will lay the freakin SMACKDOWN! on those corrupted officials that are useless in
developing china into the strongest power in the world, one level by one level(from the
highest level). With lesser money lost to corruption, China can become a much more
powerful country than any other in the world~And then I will... blahblahblah...

Q46: 如果你坐在一個面朝大海的窗前，有一個寫字臺，上面有一張紙一支筆，你想寫給誰，寫些什麼?
I'd write to my lawyer, my will. And then the next paper would be my pre-death
thoughts... hahahaha~

Q47: 迄今為止，你幹過最尷尬的事是什麼？
Just last week. I table-danced on a table to some of the richest people in Dongguan when I
lost some stupid game... x_x;;

Q48: 假如能讓你選擇兩個日期(出生和死亡)你會分別選擇哪一天？為什麼？
ehh... birthday will remain at 11/Dec/83... but I'd like to die 80 years later on
12/Dec/2063(so that everyone will be there to say goodbye to me and still have a good
laugh at it... hahaha)

Q49: 你覺得曖昧是一種幸福嗎？
Whats 曖昧??

Q50: 你覺得跟我認識是相見恨早還是相見恨晚?
This is such a complex question! Who set this quiz...?

Q51: 你被我點名的時侯,有咩感覺??
I was wondering what was the '點名' thing about. I couldn't log on to my blog or yours in
China~

Q52: 可以變身的話希望變成什麼?
猫.但又怕被鱼农处来抓走....

Q53: 你覺得男人跟狗這兩種生物，有沒有什麼差異之處？
waiiiiii......... -.-

Q54: 你覺得呢個世界奸人多定好人多呢？咁點算好呀？
Having a 20%奸人 -80%好人 would be nice... if there are too many奸人in the world, people
would probably feel quite hopeless when they get cheated... :x

Q55: 如果你有10蚊澳門幣會做d乜?
Save it in my cash box with all the rest of the 10 dollar macau notes which my grandma
give to me every year...

Q56: 形容一下中國人
The average Chinese in China is poor, compared with the average Hongkonger. They look
forward to the day they can have same wages as we do, get the same treatment we get.
Their clothes are flashy, screaming "i'm rich and i can afford LV!" with their fake LV bags.
They do not see how their clothes are any different from Hongkongers; but they wonder
how come people look at them with strange eyes.

Generally they do not believe in working hard for the "Hong Kong Dream", since there's no
possibilities of that happening just by working hard. Saving every single cent is their
motto and taking advantages of stupid, rich foreigners is a must-do. Sabotaging your
manager is a good way to get a higher position at the workplace and sacrificing people in the
process are okay.

It is a sad place that they live in and they know it. They are also very angry at the
corrupted officials, because they aren't part of it or that these corrupted officials are taking
too much in bribes and not helping anyone. People die when they try to rebel against
the government. A dead hush over everyone who talks about it.

But there are good parts of the China-chinese people too. Just move the focus away from
the bad side and look again... we are all chinese and we have some similar values in life. Its
really not that bad...

Q57: 你覺得我有咩地方需要改善的空間
I need more concentration... and I need more control.

Q58. 記得我們怎樣認識嘛？情景是怎樣？形容下吧！
We met at EPCL somewhere. At the general office and u needed to get something? No? :o

Q59. 想過一個怎樣的生日?
A birthday with many people, members of my original family.... yeah :D

Q60. 想做靚女(仔)定想做一個叻女(仔)? 為甚麼?
靚仔...because I'm an attention grabber... hahahaha~

Q61. 你有沒憎恨過人?
Yes.

Q62. 有無暗戀過人?
Yeeesssss.

Q63.你見到女仔著姣婆粉有咩感覺,咁男仔呢??
姣婆粉? Whats that?

Q64.你覺得我最需要咩??
God's help :)

Q65. 估我做乜會搵你??
For parties, birthday parties... which reminds me how come u didn't send anything to me
about our common friend's bday thingy... x_x;;

Q66.你夢想係咩?
Having a restaurant and a super cool-vip room where only my friends can come... hahaha~

Q65. 把這句的xxx給作好成一個句子?世界上最遙遠的距離,並非是生與死的距離,而是xxx;
(不能模倣張小嫻同泰戈爾的版本)
err??? what? oh! (i got it when I read phoebe's blog... you're supposed to fill in the damn
blanks!)

我的版本:
"世界上最遙遠的距離,並非是生與死的距離,而是坐在心爱的人边,却说不出你爱她..."

Q67.九型人格測試,你係第幾型?
Yeah. I'm a leader... or something... can't remember x_x

Q68. 請講一件我令你印象好深刻既事
erm... not really x_x;;;

Q69.你最想同我講GE說話
Why didn't u ask me to come for Beatrice's birthday :x

Q70. 甚麼人會令你想揍他一頓？
Car drivers in Dongguan. They piss me off, daily.

Q71.如果你激怒了你的異性朋友，你會做甚麼去補救？
I'd snuggle up on her and do whatever that'd make her happy... x_x;;;

Q72.你現在電腦的wallpaper是什麼？
Blue color. No pictures since I alwasys can't make out the icons with pictures in the
background...

Q73.你會怎樣形容自己的笑容?

奸.... hahaha~

Q74. 如果一定要你揀, 你會寧願住一間有老鼠0既屋啊?定係有蟑螂0既屋呢?

老鼠…(me 2...so that my cat would have something real to hunt... hahaha)

Q75. 最喜歡什麼植物？

西瓜,先人掌

被點名的 : Maymay(mayloverain), 阿恩(Kittyppy), Prudy (ptkchik), Ada(whirlgigi), Eunice(eunicebible), 阿恩(chiyan78)

Have a tickle :P

2007-04-03T01:28:00.000+08:00

I elbowed 2 glasses off the table in a single poker game at Heaven. Think they are pretty pissed off with me for that... or maybe not, since I lost like $200 to them in 4 hrs -.-;;;

Since you're here, have a tickle... and then later comment on this:

If you were me(having HKD$5000 and wanting to have a computer to blog, work and keep some personal financial records), would you...

1.) Buy a duo-core laptop that can run Vista at about HKD$8000 - $12000 (on hire purchase)?
2.) Buy an average-okay 1.6g laptop that runs XP at HKD$5000?
3.) not buy a laptop.

Please comment. Thx!

Imagination is at already @ work while the physical me is still on the way...

2007-03-31T21:16:00.001+08:00

and another...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/177/440674806_4b6cd73a29.jpg?v=0

Brought to you, by the tard-in-the-picture below... :D

The answer is 'No'.

2007-03-29T02:09:00.000+08:00

Someone asked me if I'm planning to get married.
The answer is no.
But I'm planning to get these though... :)

1.) Core-duo laptop with DVD burner + windows vista + the latest version of office
2.) Lots of stuff from ikea
3.) 2 phones that can synchronize with each other, so that i would not have to save telephone numbers twice in both my phones.

The Sound of Music is playing in the office.

2007-03-19T15:05:00.000+08:00

When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel, so bad.

Materials:
2 bottles of Coke Zero,
2 glasses from Ikea with Cork Cup-Coaster + half-filled with ice-cold water,
1 Sony Ericsson K800i,
1 HP Officejet 4255 all-in-one to print some documents,
1 Computer smoothly running a Windows XP,
1 Magazine to flip through on the train later on,
and a little time...

Happy Belated New Year Resolution

2007-03-19T01:16:00.000+08:00

I have a bad memory.
I can't remember where I placed my "Ahfaii's 2007 New Year Resolution" list.
Did I even write one? No?

But whatever lah...here's a new one.

1.) Start a business somehow, under my own name.
~~2.) Get another mobile phone~~
3.) Start saving money and keeping regular records on money spent.
4.) Keep a mood diary. Record all the overall moods of each day...(dunno for what also, fun maybe?)
5.) -hidden-
6.) Eat & Rest adequately everyday...

And yes, I just got a new phone... Sony Ericsson K800i.
Not exactly the newest phone, but well, its pretty good already :P

Thank you Msia. Thank you Indonesia. Thank you Friends...

2007-03-13T00:54:00.000+08:00

Really.

We ought to thank these two countries(three, if you would include Thailand) for all the restrictions on trade they have against Singapore. Especially the recent banning of sand+granite exports to Singapore.

If not for them, how can we make a 200%++ profit out of our products?
Thanks ah! Hahahahahahahahaha~~~

Chinese Test!!!

2007-03-11T21:08:00.000+08:00

十岁以前，就不说了，无非是淘气和不懂事。

十三、四岁的时候，开始对女孩有好感，但是那时候他离女孩远远的，并且以讨厌女孩自居，生怕被同伴嘲笑。

十五岁的时候，听到大人们说某某男人好花，把女朋友甩了，女孩自杀了。他觉得这人真狠毒，自己将来一定要做个痴情的男人，一定要一生只爱一个人。

十六岁的时候，他喜欢上了一个女孩，但是他不敢和她说。仍然和往常一样，脏兮兮的在灰土飞扬的操场上踢球。只在女孩走出校门的时候，躲在二层的窗户上看她的背影，他觉得她一定是个天使。

十七岁的时候，有个女孩喜欢上了他，但是他离她很远，他心里面只有自己那个女孩，他觉得看别的女孩都是对她的不忠。

十八岁的时候，看了一个MTV，感动得想哭，他想，如果自己的女孩失去了双眼，他一定男主角会毫不犹豫的把自己的眼睛给她，让她能看到光明。

十九岁的时候，高考了。终于和自己暗恋的女孩分别，坐火车去学校的时候，感觉自己离她越来越远，心像被掏空了一样。还在想自己一定不会忘记她，等到自己成功以后一定要去找她。

二十岁的时候，听到有人讲黄色笑话，觉得这人真可耻。

二十一岁的时候，她的回信中告诉他，自己有了男朋友。偷偷的哭了一个晚上。

二十二岁的时候，他向一个女孩表白，女孩说“你是个好人，可是我还小。”他想，我的确是个好人，他说“没关系，我可以等你。”心想，我不会像那些花心的人一样，三年五年我也能等。

二十三岁的时候，说自己还小的女孩和一个帅哥恋爱了。他很纳闷，长大原来可以这样快。

二十四岁的时候，他又向一个女孩表白，女孩说“你是个好人，可是我并不适合你。” 他纳闷很久，我是好人你怎么还不适合我呢？

二十五岁的时候，他又追求一个女孩，女孩接受了他。他开始很幸福的为未来拼搏，他想，一时的开心只是暂时的，只有努力拼搏，他和她才能有快乐的未来，但是，半年以后，女孩和他分手了。只是因为另外一个男孩会说让她开心的话。女孩说“你是个好人，是我对不起你。”他似乎明白了问题所在，他是个好人。

二十六岁的时候，他开始堕落，交网友。打扮得时尚而酷，而且渐渐的学习着讨好女孩的话。不久，他有了个女朋友，虽然他对她也很好，可是，他心里知道，自己并不爱她。

二十七岁的时候，他和女孩分手了。他对女孩说“你是个好女孩，是我对不起你。”

二十八岁的时候，他尝试了一夜情，发现别人能做的，自己也一样。

二十九岁的时候，他学会了讲黄色笑话，并且以看旁边的女孩子脸红为乐趣。

三十岁的时候，他忽然发现自己变得很有能力追求到女孩，但是却没有了爱的能力。于是他在自己QQ上写下了如下的话

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其实每个男孩，本来都是想做一个感情专一的好男人的。

其实每个男孩，本来看女孩子都是看脸而不是胸部的。

其实每个男孩，本来都是不会讲黄色笑话的。

其实每个男孩，本来都是渴望爱一个人直到永远的。

只是，没有任何女孩爱这样的男孩，她们觉得这样的男孩太幼稚，太古板，没有情趣。

于是男孩开始改变，变成女孩喜欢的那种嘴角挂着坏坏的笑,玩世不恭或者幽默

开始学会说甜言蜜语而不是心里想说的话

开始学会假装关心，学会给女孩送小饰物讨好她

学会如何追求，如何把握爱情。

或者看破红尘，游戏情场，成为女人恨恨的那种男人

他们可以很容易俘获女孩子的心但是他们也会在黑的夜里叼着烟流泪

心里有爱的时候，没有女孩

有了女孩，却永远没有了爱的感觉

在听到女人抱怨世上没有一个好男人时候

他们不会再去努力做个好男人，只是微笑着擦肩而过。

Don't ask me why never translate. I'll strangle you.

Should I get married? o_O

2007-03-04T00:35:00.000+08:00

Why not? :\

Happy chinese new year!

2007-02-19T00:02:00.000+08:00

Its the Chinese Lunar New Year! :D :D :D
Happy New year! Gong xi fa cai!
I won $150 at the mahjong table today! yay~ :D :D :D

And this game looks like fun... quite girly, but well... its the sims :)

Examination

2007-02-16T00:53:00.000+08:00

The examination on business communication was damn easy!
Everything I studied came out! :D
Finally I can rest properly... :)

Getting fat? Read this and become thinner... by vomitting your lunch.

2007-02-15T14:26:00.000+08:00

夜神月,二十三歳,独身 !よろしく!! says:
now I so handsome

夜神月,二十三歳,独身 !よろしく!! says:
only need lypo

Water :: let go of the flow says:
*pukes*

夜神月,二十三歳,独身 !よろしく!! says:
to make myslef the next superstar

Water :: let go of the flow says:
*pukes* x2

夜神月,二十三歳,独身 !よろしく!! says:
next time older liao have to go for botox and stuff

Water :: let go of the flow says:
pukes x 3

夜神月,二十三歳,独身 !よろしく!! says:
to retain my youth

Water :: let go of the flow says:
pukes x 4

夜神月,二十三歳,独身 !よろしく!! says:
I know you're just jealous

Water :: let go of the flow says:
pukes x 5 standing by

夜神月,二十三歳,独身 !よろしく!! says:
no 1 say you're handsome

夜神月,二十三歳,独身 !よろしく!! says:
but it cant be helped

Water :: let go of the flow says:
nothing left to puke

夜神月,二十三歳,独身 !よろしく!! says:
i told u before my fren's mother saw my msn avatar and told him this guy quite handsome?

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Add jlcp83@hotmail.com on your MSN to start getting thinner right now!

Practice makes perfect

2007-02-11T00:49:00.000+08:00

To practice, is to achieve a greater skillfulness by repeating it over and over again.

I'm working on the assembly line tonight, punching holes through square steel plates.
And I suppose I could say that I noticed that the more you repeat something, you get more skillful.

When someone does something perfectly for more than 1000 times repeatedly, he can be called a 'pro' for the said skill, right? In that case, wouldn't meditiation be the fastest way to become pro in something? The speed of repeating that motion, in that sense, can be considered infinite. You can't count meditiation. Even if you can count the time, it does not count the repetitions within.

Meditiation is the way to infinite proness.... XD

---

I'm sick and tired. I have a headache, stomachache and heartache. I wanna go home. And its another 2 hours away. And I'm going crazy too.

I was looking through dota website this afternoon. And at this moment whereby i am pretty much crazy, I thought of doing something interesting;
Imagine all the angmos that don't know hokkien.
Put under hero-suggestion corner:

[Hero] Ninabei Cheebye, The Exalted One
Animation: Crab Warrior
Skills: Hole of Stench, Swallow, Exhaust, Lay

hahahhaha i am feeling so freakin lame~ x_X

Supressed Depression :: The Water

2007-02-07T15:21:00.000+08:00

Went to see Dr. Li yesterday evening after work.

"Look at these dark patches(referring to those blackish marks from the fire-cans)... you lack sleep terribly. How have you been sleeping for the past few days?"

"3-5 hours for the past few days as I was up all night playing games/drinking with friends."

"Don't do that too often. Your heart is already very weak. But on the other hand, don't blame yourself for it. You do need the company of your friends."

"You're probably the only doc in the world that would ever tell me I should stay up late...*chuckles*"

"Your eyes tell me a lot. A lot of sadness is behind those eyes."

She applies pressure onto a certain part of my leg.

"Let me know if its painful."

"OW! WTFNBCB! !@#%^@@$&"

"That's the result of trying to hide your emotions; your 'qi' is all clotted up, like a balloon almost exploding..."

"But I don't feel unhappy at all..."

"Only you yourself will know what are you really unhappy about. Practice your qigong and meditate. Perhaps its something that you've always tried to hide. Want to hear my guess? It might be offending though..."

"Please do tell me."

"You're a person too nice who probably won't retaliate even when you're beaten up. You accept the fact you're getting beaten up, but you don't vent your anger due to your upbringing/learning. The anger therefore, remains trapped without an outlet."

"So what am I supposed to do about that?"

"Everyone has their own solutions to their problem. Besides, it might not be the only thing troubling you...from your 'xiang'(looks)."

She took out the acupuncture needles, pressing the point whereby it was hurting just now.

"You're going to poke where it hurts?"

"Not really. But it might hurt a little... just for your info."

And she did it.
The feeling was like a bubble inside the leg burst, as though there was a bomb detonated inside.
(Ten second stunned ahfaii... good job doc. Next time play dota must bring this doc along...cfm all stun x infinite)

After the make-many-holes-in-ahfaii treatment ended, she also told me that I should be especially lucky this year since this is the golden pig year.

---Conclusion---

Best type of friends to go with my 'xiang': People from the rabbit years(1963/1975/1987/1999) / rat years (1960/1972/1984/1996).

Worst types of friends to go with my 'xiang': People of 'water' element, born from the same year(1983), or people of the Snake years(1965/1977/1989/2001).

-----------------

Let's see how true it will be... :D

Flying time

2007-02-05T03:32:00.000+08:00

I haven't done much back in Singapore during this trip.
Spent a lot of time playing Warcraft 3, go drinking with Warren, late night suppers... :D
Singapore is a wonderful place to come back for a holiday, especially with all the wonderful friends I have there...

Will be back again with more Krispy Kreme Donuts for those who fancy them... or haven't had one of those yet... haha! :D

Today's date is... Singapore :D

2007-02-02T19:11:00.000+08:00

Hi guys. I'm back in SG for a couple of days again.
Wish me luck... i'm going to repeat the episode of ahfaii-play-dota-with-the-unnamable-and-miss-the-flight... tonight...

x_x

Never bet more than you are willing to lose

2007-01-22T16:29:00.000+08:00

Never bet more than you are willing to lose. It is one of the codes I live by.
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I talked to my father about the website that I want to open and all I get is a repeated message; study/work harder lah, you already isn't spending much effort in your work. With this kind of thing going on for you, you'll probably just spend even less efforts on work/study.

I gave up trying to convince him that his worries are unfound. He just can't be bothered with me. (I suspect it has something with his life element and mine; he's jin (金=metal/gold), while i'm shui(水=water). It is only natural that 'metal' shapes the way water goes, and not the other way round...similarly, he shapes the way i go and fixes my course near-permanently...).

On the other hand, some people have a business on their own which is already dying.
But these people are not having enough trouble with the current factory yet, so they are gonna open a new factory in some rural areas of China.
It will be built on a piece of arable land, which should be outright illegal by Chinese laws.
With 'paid-help' from corrupted high court officials, there will be no breaking of laws.
And what can be wrong when a person lacks something called conscience?

Looking at the plan, these people is going to get a 150% return out of the few hundreds thousand dollars that they are putting in. If they don't, they'd still earn by having the land under their name and leasing out to other people.

Sounds all too good right? So they signed the contract with the local village manager and local court officials, paid up a few years rent and 'other fees'. But after checking with a reputed mainland lawyer, they were told that the contract they have gotten is actually not valid in law. Whats going to be happen?

God help these idiots -_-;;;

Random Clickings:
Breakup Statistics from Yahoo

Your support is my motivation

2007-01-10T02:02:00.000+08:00

I am a unique person that daydreams about making products all the time.

Some people call it daydreaming and tell me better keep my feet on the ground.

Some people call it a creativity at work and it's good to do that.

Thank you for telling me what you think.

I'll do what I need to do.

Even though its taking away my precious time and health, I believe its worth it.

Why can't i do it later? Well, I can... but it wouldn't be as good.

In fact, the theory is the same for everything else; If you need to go to the bathroom now, going later is fine... ya? Hahaha~

Therefore in theory, creativity is like shit?

Fuck theories! XD

Onwards to my strange and wonderful world of ideas!

- atelier-de-ahfaii.blogspot.com

Majulah Singapura!!

2006-12-22T12:05:00.000+08:00

The air was 16 degrees celsius @ 2am last night.
I got home and found my dad was snorting on my bed with the television on.
Mr Lam(father's friend) was sleeping in the guest room.

Slept in the living room sofa and dreamt of the 'Majulah Singapura' symbol that was on my coastguard jockey cap. Inside the dream, I got the symbol enlarged and then sewed onto my denim jacket. Then it fastforwarded to a scene where i marketed the jacket to many places; Hong Kong, China and back to Singapore eventually.

Majulah Singapura! (Advance, Singapore!)

Roar~

The Majulah symbol became a fashion brand; symbol of advancement for the people, like the communist styled red book and stuff like that... Mwahahahahaha~~~!!! And not to mention i got lots of money, fame and etc~

It was a happy dream... short, but extremely satisfying.

The best thing happened when I woke up; my jockey cap fell out of my untidy closet when I was getting changed for work... I kept thinking about it on my way to work today...

Its not illegal to put that insignia on clothes, right? :\

Source of education

2006-12-18T00:31:00.000+08:00

Of all the sources that can teach me things, teachings/lessons from friends are most pleasant and rewarding. Not to mention its easiest to recall too...

Can I learn something from everyone?

"The water moves better when someone/something pushes it to."

Family first

2006-12-17T22:38:00.000+08:00

Whatever you do, put your family in the first place.
Your parents are the ones who brought you to this world, raised you and gave you an education.
It is only right that you repay them with kindness, love and affection that they have shown you.

Sometimes my parents are just too tired.
They say things they don't mean.
They say things that are for my own good.
It doesn't sound like music and sometimes we turn a deaf ear to it.

That's what I think when my father told me that I am useless, uncommitted and unwilling to learn.
It sounds almost to harsh to bear, but when you think about it on a deeper level; the objective of his words is to improve me and hasten my speed in learning what he wants me to know, in order to be able to take charge of the factory.

And my mother always nags me. My grandmother too. Not to mention that my bro does that too(when he cannot find something to annoy me... heh)

But sometimes it can just be fucking annoying.

"listen and bear with it... their intentions are well meant."
"吃得苦中苦,方為人上人"

Pressxmas

2006-12-12T01:30:00.000+08:00

If I have SGD$20/HKD$100 to buy you a present, what would you want me to get you? :o

Birthdays celebrated x 23

2006-12-10T23:51:00.000+08:00

Happy birthday to me! I'm officially 23 now!
What am I allowed to do now??? :D :D :D

And since 7.30pm yesterday, I've gotten 3 presents already...

- Clothes
- A Zoro-style pirate's hat that supposedly serves multiple purposes...
- An angpao... guess how much? :P
- A belt...
- and a lunch treat from my new classmate which I declined.

Thank you all~!! :)
And oh, my birthday falls on the 8th of the 11th lunar month... which is coming next month!
It rocks to be chinese! wahahahaha~

Water Elemental

2006-12-06T00:52:00.000+08:00

If you have been wondering about the 'water' thing that I'm so crazy about recently, I'm talking about my life. I'm a shui-ming person, which translate to water-life. That means I follow characteristics of the shui-ming people.

Most of the characteristics of such people are like water; free flowing, easily shaped and can be very helpful to a lot of people.

I had a dream last night. I was standing on the dam and it was almost overflowing. I saw a cup on the table and si-fu was sitting there. He pushed the cup over and the water poured out of the cup. The water hit another cup and the course of the water was changed, hitting the side 'walls' of the mahjong table.

"Weak water will not travel far. You won't be able to go straight as there are many obstacles in your path."

"Do you know the power of the still water holds here?"

The dam gates broke free and a gigantic wave of water crushed the village walls and houses below , without mercy or hesitation. Nothing stopped it.

"Hold the water... stay still and strike at the right moment..."

---

I know what the dream is trying to tell me; I have not practiced my qigong for a very long time. The water is weak and it needs to be held; so that it will stay in shape, then be strong and unstoppable one day...

Maybe I sound crazy to you guys... but I can feel that its true.
The 'watery characteristics' are in me and I know what I should do to become a better person...

The water will lie still in the mountains and be held by the dam...

Death by Segmentation

2006-11-27T22:46:00.000+08:00

First the big ones die.
Then the ones that cannot tolerate the bad weather and terrible conditions around them dies.
Then weak, stupid and useless ones.
Then on with the ones that has not evolved to become stronger.
Then on with those who has lost their source of food... probably because they refuse to eat other things to survive...

Lesson to be learnt:
Don't be big and fat.
Be tolerant to bad conditions in your life.
Don't be weak, stupid and useless at the same time.
Become stronger, but don't go around bullying people because people will gather hunting parties to hunt things that hurt them.
And lastly, don't be so picky about your food k?

Creativity taking over control

2006-11-24T16:12:00.000+08:00

Brain dead after sitting here trying to do my assignment for the past 6 hours.
Crazy creativity has taken control over my brains. Will write some silly things before continuing my assignment...

I want to open my own cafe/restaurant.
I have confirmed the price that i'd have to pay for a very simple basic one;

RMB$60,000 to buy the shop / $700 for 3 month's rent
RMB$10,000 to buy the basic stuffs that I'm gonna need (average)
RMB$4,000 standby to pay 2 workers for 2 months
RMB$6,000 to keep myself alive for 2 months _____________________________________________________
RMB$80,000 in total

or minimum of RMB$2100 + 10000 + 10000 = RMB$22100

But i have responsibilities to help pay the rent at home...
hope my mom will get better pay / government flat soon...

Meanwhile, i better start looking for a job...
oops, no... do my assignment first! lol~

Walking the Festival Walk

2006-11-24T11:17:00.000+08:00

1. Windows Display Design competition 2. Sale: Tesla coils for Christmas.
3. Two piece : Man and woman 4. Name of the W.D.D competition.

My birthday is coming soon. Christmas is coming soon too. But Santa Claus hasn't been putting presents beneath my pillow for about ten years already. I think I'll send a complain to him regarding the slow, inefficient way to deliver my presents to me.

On the other hand, I heard from sources that maybe he has outsourced the job to other people a.k.a ahfaii's friends and get them to :: send the presents to me :: via DHL/UPS/Speedpost this year... :P

I thank you in advance.

Hung Fai, sleeps

2006-11-24T00:22:00.000+08:00

I'm a scatterbrain type of person that should not be entrusted to remember anything important.
As long as its not written down on paper/recorded on my phone, I'll probably forget it.
And thats very bad, especially when you are working in a place that cannot afford to let you make mistakes that cost them extra time.

So I've decided to quit and do something that doesn't require so much memorization.
Maybe I'll apply for that position as a dimsum sifu's apprentice.
Or become a waiter at some hotel and get to know more people from there...

I'll go sleep for now.

Breakfast can be a simple affair for me

2006-11-23T00:28:00.000+08:00

4.30am, Nathan Road
I tried to finish up my assignment before I went home. Progress is at 75% by the time my eyes were sore. I wasn't exactly tired but I could feel my heart being terribly overworked...

10.00am, Breakfast
I was late for work today. The HK$6 Apple and $1 Pear was what I had for breakfast today...
Just to keep the basic brain/stomach functions running...

And if I somehow die, please don't put me in one of those shoebox coffins... -_-;;;;;;

astray influenza

2006-11-21T01:20:00.000+08:00

Someone told me that I've been leading he/she astray.
Someone told me that I am leading he/she astray.
Someone told me that I will lead he/she astray.
Someone told me that I always lead people astray.
Someone told me that I am a good leader.

So in other words, people who can lead people astray are good leaders :-)

the rude / the courteous / the destiny

2006-11-20T12:55:00.000+08:00

This morning, I was moving my computer and stuff on a trolley to the elevator.
The door opened and there was just enough space for me & my lil trolley.
Some auntie that looks a little older than my mom, crept up behind me and cut my way into the elevator. And for your information, the lift isn't your regular modern lift that comes up to the 1st floor because you pressed the button; it only comes 'by-the-way' from above. And that means I'll have to wait for the freakin lift to some above floor and go down.

She had a strong belief that I should let her go in first because probably...
1.) I was pushing a trolley.
2.) She's an elderly. Young punks like me should let her go in first.

I don't think so. If you need to use the freakin elevator, you go inside after people whom are in front of you has gone in first.
1.) She has gray hair. She's definately not the type that is in need of using the elevator any more than I do. More like, she's fucked up and is lazy.
2.) Sorry, but I am no gentleman to bitches like these.

So I shouted at her... deep inside my heart.
Then channeled the energy of my anger to carry the stuff downstairs manually instead.

And then it had to rain after I moved the computer outside... luckily the comp's still okay -.-;;;

---

I was going to post a parcel in the afternoon at Kowloon Bay. But somehow I've forgotten the exact position of the post office and so I asked some auntie whom looked 'Kowloonbayese'. She pointed in a direction and told me it's behind the bank. I said thank you and she was nice enough to tell me 'have a nice day' (or something similar).

I jogged in that direction for a while and couldn't find it.
Someone tapped my shoulder; the auntie who pointed me this way.
She was almost wheezing running after me...
All that just to tell me she had made a mistake and its the other side... x_x;;;;

---

Anyway, I'm quite fed up living in this place.
As many of you people might know that I'm not particular about what I wear.
I've heard comments about me looking like a criminal when I didn't shave that day.
Those old people who get out of the lift with me makes sure I walk in front of them and not behind them. Sometimes aunties... yeah.

I better start working for my future. I don't wanna stay here any much longer.

Btw I quited my job today. Wanna work for F&B industries. Anything will do...

"The Water will move out of this puddle, with the help of the sun..."

Water:: my life's element

2006-11-19T11:37:00.000+08:00

論水：About water.

People with water. God of the Northern Dark Lord. ... Water is wisdom. The wise scheme. He/she who schemes are burdened. Only when forced will it stay in shape. Given the power to execute/kill. Can't make up his/her mind. Pour it to the West and it'll flow to the West, Pour it to the East and it'll flow to the East. Faced with winter, it'll freeze. Faced with summer, it'll dissipate.

Spring dictates water. ... . Borrow the wooden flame and warms itself. It can change itself. It rises in the day. With the sun. It'll shine beautifully. Thawing its iciness. Its heart is pure. Does things solemnly and properly. Proper administration makes it strong and brave . ... . Beware of dealing with the "gold-star" people. It'd be good to be born/live in the day. Those that born/live in the night will be poor and cold. In the period of February to March, the skies are breezy and nice. Lubricated by water... All things can grow. But in April to May, Floods can occur suddenly. Surely no luck with befall it.

Summer's water...And the great floods that touches even the skies, Can be prevented with 'earth'. Best if you can do so. The book says...When Water flourishes no Earth will stop it. it will slowly return where it come from.
If the earth is strong, It will not be only limited to fall. But will assist the earth getting rich.

Autumn's water...In the period of July to August...It should not be countered/stopped. Since it can borrow 'Earth' for defense, It will not flood...And lubricate(nourish) the earth to strengthen all. Lovable is a pure source. Richness.
If water gets countered by one that makes it leak, Water's pulse of life will be weak. But will not get rich.

Winter's water...Holds the power of movement. Though it will...??? Can't be forced. Even a gentle drop of water can become ice. Frozen. Cannot be changed. With Fire it can be commanded??? With Earth it can be commanded??? With the Sun ??? Can be commanded with just words of the mouth??? Water of the lakes and rivers, cold fate..??? Waters in the well, no cold fate...??? Water of the lakes and rivers, fate of cold, Cover it with a lot of 'Earth' and it will warm and stay pure. Water of the lakes and rivers, freezing makes it cold, So that it may not change. In the day of joy, the light of fire will warm the earth??? And there will be luck and joy for the water...

夫水者。People with water.
北方黑帝之神。God of the Northern Dark Lord.
高陽氏執權司事。...???
故曰水為智。Water is wisdom.
智者謀。The wise scheme.
謀者重。He/she who schemes are burdened.
所謂權行嚴凝之令。Only when forced will it stay in shape...?
主殺物之權。Given the power to execute/kill...?
執性不定。Can't make up his/her mind.
決諸東則東流。決諸西則西流。Pour it to the West and it'll flow to the West, Pour it to the East and it'll flow to the East.
遇冬則結。Faced with winter, it'll freeze.
遇夏則散。Faced with summer, it'll dissipate.
春令之水。Spring dictates water...?
斯時冰霜凍冷。...???
借木火羅溫之。Borrow the wooden flame and warms itself...???
自能變化。It can change itself.
晝生水孛。It rises in the day..?
太陽同行。With the sun.
名曰光霽澄徹。It'll shine beautifully...?
謂之冰霜凍解。Thawing its iciness.
心宇清吉。Its heart is pure...?
作事整肅。Does things solemnly and properly...?
政令威儀。Proper administration makes it strong and brave ...?
當主臺省揚名。...???
所忌金星交互。Beware of dealing with the "gold-star" people.
晝生為妙。It'd be good to be born/live in the day.
夜生貧寒。Those that born/live in the night will be poor and cold.
二三月間。In the period of February to March,
天氣暢和。The skies are breezy and nice.
遇水濟潤。Lubricated by water...
發生萬物。All things can grow.
作事超群。Everything will work.
但四五月間。But in April to May,
泛濫無定。Floods can occur suddenly.
必無福矣。Surely no luck.
夏令之水。Summer's water...
及洪水滔天。And the great floods that touches even the skies,
得土隄防。Can be prevented with 'earth'.
最為奇妙。Best if you can do so.
經云。The book says...
水盛而無土隄防。When Water flourishes no Earth will stop it.
遂歸愚濁。it will slowly return where it come from...?
若有土旺。If the earth is strong,
不以為倒限論。It will not be only limited to fall.
反主名利發達。But will assist the earth getting rich.
秋令之水。Autumn's water...
七八月間。In the period of July to August...
既濟萬物。It can help all.
不宜受剋。It should not be countered/stopped.
既能借土隄防。Since it can borrow 'Earth' for defense,
而不泛濫。It will not flood...
又能潤土結實萬物。And lubricate(nourish) the earth to strengthen all.
清源可愛。Lovable is a pure source.
富貴榮華。Richness.
若水受剋泄者。If water gets countered by one that makes it leak,
皆水之氣脈虛矣。Water's pulse of life will be weak.
卻不為福。But will not get rich.
冬令之水。Winter's water...
秉令行權。Holds the power of movement
雖曰水神用事。Though it will...???
能非令也。Can't be forced.
斯時點水成冰。Even a gentle drop of water can become ice.
凍結寒滯。Frozen.
不能變化。Cannot be changed.
得火為上令。 With Fire it can be commanded???
得土為次令。With Earth it can be commanded???
得太陽佐之。With the Sun ???
方可言令也。Can be commanded with just words of the mouth???
江河之水。Water of the lakes and rivers,
緣何有凍。cold fate..???
井內之水。Waters in the well,
緣何無凍。no cold fate...???
蓋土多則水暖而清。Cover it with a lot of 'Earth' and it will warm and stay pure.
江河之水。Water of the lakes and rivers,
凝寒成凍。freezing makes it cold,
不能變化。So that it may not change.
喜日光霽火土溫之。In the day of joy, the light of fire will warm the earth???
天降吉祥。And there will be luck and joy for the water...

水入日度：主性格溫厚，內剛外敏，聰明有才智，眾人見重，是主星，晝生有位，夜生大富；不是主星，晝生文藝出眾，不貴，夜生性巧，因道藝立身，後必富。

Water: main characteristic is gentle and generous, tough inside and sensitive outside, clever and wise, people see greatly of such people, is a main star???, if born in the day, they will have authority and position, born in the night and they will have great wealth. not a main-star, will be outstandingly talented in Art. No nobility. Born in the night, because of the skills they were brought up with, will surely be rich later on.

Lunch with me, Ikea...

2006-11-13T01:31:00.000+08:00

Have a seat, my friend... spaghetti with meat in cream sauce for you? ;)

How are you these days? Got any good lobang bo?

K...needa go back to work. I'll see you around...

Flickr subscription

2006-11-07T11:44:00.000+08:00

If anyone would like to send me a present (for whatever reasons), a two year pro account here would be kinda nice...

I've been thinking; if I sign onto the flickr for two years, I'll surely continue the subscription
after that since i wouldn't want to have that 20mb limit again. And you'd probably like to see your photos anytime too right? The addiction will go on and on... :\

Anyone has a flickr account for two years already? Do you feel an addictiveness to it?

So I paid almost HKD$400 for it. Couldn't tahanz... >_<;

Throw her down!

2006-11-06T02:45:00.000+08:00

Sick, but fun.

DHC / Fancl

2006-10-31T17:02:00.000+08:00

"You are required to devise a short-term marketing plan for DHC in ..."

"You will carry out a SWOT analysis that reviews both internal and external factors. Make sure to review the opportunities and threats in external environment. Also make sure that your review includes the competition."

DHC or Fancl better?
WHADDAFCUKDOICARE?!
WHYMUSTITBECOSMETICS?! WHY CANNOT DO MARKETING RESEARCH ON GAMES LIKE KOF OR WOW FOR GOD'S SAKE?!
FCUK WHY LIDDAT ONE?!WAZZUP WITH WHOEVER THAT CREATED THIS ASSIGNMENT FOR US?!

[LOOP=ENDLESS_TORMENT]

Pardon me, this is a 5 minute break that I have just given myself.
I've been sitting here in front of the computer for 3 straight hours looking at forums where girls/aunties/whatevers talk about DHC/FANCL cosmetic products(which one's better, which one more expensive, which one blahblah...)and nothing productive is being generated while I get tormented by such endless junk.
Trying to generate 'Strength' part of DHC is easy since everything can be found online, but how to find out what is the weakness of a fcukin company? Like anyone online would say "The DHC company's weakness is ..."

Then there's still the Opportunities... simi opportunities... biang.
Threat ki lan lah -.-;

And that's just part one of the assignment.

Anyone interested in doing my assignment for me for SGD$50 ?
No? How about $60?

GAAAAAAAAAAAAH~ T___________T~

Logged: The Gaijin @ SG

2006-10-31T01:05:00.000+08:00

11/10/06, 1000hrs @ Factory in Dongguan, China
Client calls my boss aka my father problems of the latest batch of goods, demanding boss to solve the problems for them. Boss delegates the task to me and expects to be there the next morning at 9am... like some warcraft 3 character liddat; left-click on ahfaii, press m on keyboard, left-click'. No need pack one lor! Rushed like hell!

Watched Nacho Libre and laughed like a horse. No one sat beside me so no complains have been made about me hammering my arm onto the seat next to mine... :o
Then the last bits of The Da Vinci code in japanese dub... with chinese subtitles...

12/10/06, 2349 hrs @ The ex-no.1 airport.

From the world's no.1 airport, I arrived at the world's no.2 airport after a 3 hrs ++ flight.
Iggy & his mom fetched me at the airport and ate @ Burger King.
I spoke in English all that while, not knowing his mom wasn't exactly proficient in English...

13/10/06, 0915 hrs @ somewhere near iggy's

Did research on bakchormee(minced pork noodles) by eating it for breakfast.
Then went to Client's office at Kaki Bukit.
I sat there waiting for an hour. Talked to Client for 20 minutes and waited another 1 hour for the project manager to take me to the site. Got to know John the project manager. This nice guy worked in Singapore Police Force Alpha team before this, so we had a lot of stuff to talk about... haha~

Met up with Aaron & Joo Seng at Jurong Entertainment Centre.
We sat at mcdonalds scanning girls, talking about girls, blahblah girls...
Kairin & Lawrence came along later on and we talked about some other stuff.
Did last minute shopping at Giants before they closed and got the materials i needed for the next day.

14/10/06, 1430 hrs @ Food Republic

Went to the factory to make sure everything is working.
Metup with Warren for lunch @ Food Republic to get ripped off again.
I had Nasi Padang that costed me almost $5 with only 3 dishes + rice?
(if you add in the the paper + banana leaf + fork + spoon got total of 8 things la hor... knn!)
Then when I was at the airport, I realised food republic wasn't such a big ripoff, comparing it to the airline industries. I missed the flight by 5 minutes and the airline staff told me I could get a ticket on the next plane for SGD$450/HKD$2200... which is a price I could get for a new 2 way ticket with airport tax included inside! So I said 'f*** you' to them (no i didn't) and went to have a beer with my buddies at Ice Cold Beer. Check out this Nike Hospitality Van we saw on our way there.

(They gave us a waffle for visiting the van... cool~ :D)

15/10/06, 0900 hrs

I had Yongtauhu for breakfast @ IMM with Lawrence. damn long never eat that liao ~>_<;;;

20/10/06 ... At factory overseeing work getting done. At UE Square waiting for client and meeting them up for some stupid pool game and a little drinking. At Marina Square, where I met Catherine and had dinner with her. She would look gorgeous if she was in better health... hope everything goes well for the surgery she's gonna go through...

21/10/06 ... 12am to 4am was DOTA time at Ahkong's place... another legendary timeless spacezone where time just passes before you can blink an eye.

21/10/06, 1800 hrs

Still playing dota. Huijuan came over to watch tv and have dinner with ahkong+me. She's looking more and more beautiful...Maybe its just because really long time never see her, or maybe its because she's getting all the love she needs from ahkong. What a couple -_-;
(if ahkong isn't my best friend i might just want to stab them to death for acting so lovey-dovey in front of me)

22/10/06, 1530 hrs @ Orchard
I went to look for the Cosafe (japanese styled french maid cafe) but was disappointed that it was not even open yet. Think maybe around November?

I watched Death Note with Iggy, Jeremy, Sacrilege, Nelstar and his wife that night. It was a good show... but I hated the part where Shiomi had to die. Shiomi~ >_<; Anyway, I was really surprised that Nelstar, now 24, is already married, got their HDB flat and working hard to pay off their 30 year loan. His wife wasn't the really attractive type, but I can feel the happiness within them and the appreciation for each other. We had coffee at starbucks and Nel gave a lecture to one of our friends on why he won't have a girlfriend and points out the few important factors.

You speak with too much vulgarities, directly / indirectly to girls.
You shower yourself with more attention then the girl.
You do not know how to please a girl.
You don't remember their birthdays.
You should not bring your friends along when dating with a girl.

Actually some of those points apply to me also... I'll remember that! >_<; And some other photos... just too damn many to write about le lah! *dulanz*

Not happy quit lor

2006-10-27T17:17:00.000+08:00

Happy cannot be used to describe me since I've returned from SG.
I won't get my overseas-work claim, nor transportation claim.
So I'm gonna be fuckin poor for the coming month.
And then there's lots of problem from all our clients.
Basically, my official job now is to get scolded by them for faults that I don't even know of,
to beg for their signatures on some stupid delivery note like I'm some stupid fan of theirs,
to get screwed at the office for sitting in the office for more than 15 minutes...
Its so wtf lor :(

My life so far rocks though. This might be just another rough patch of my life.

I told Dad that I'm really, really not interested in learning how to do this kinda technical
drawing, manufacturing and managing a bunch of goblins by cracking my whip at them.
He was quite cool about that and claims that he'd support me on whatever I'd like to do
as long as I'm interested to learn about it. Talked to him about the food business that I'd
like to startup soon. He says that he wanna fire our company caterer soon because their
standard is really hopeless, so I might as well step in and try to start my business like that.

I've been talking about it since last night. The concept was a little different from what I had in mind initially(bakchormee and co.~). For now, its name is 大饭堂 (English name still thinking).
The look of the restaurant would be simple; painted/wallpaper walls, big ceiling fans, a few standard 4 legged wooden rectangular tables with glass on it, about 20-30 wooden chairs for seats.
Utencils would be somewhat like what we had from "CIAS" (Reusable/disposable plastic tubs that can be used for takeaway, reusable/disposable plastic cups) to minimize financial damage from theft/damage.

Selection of food will be limited to Chicken/Beef/Pork, just like what they do on Aeroplanes.
Meals will come with fruit, vegetables and water for 'healthy-eating', which will be empathized once i get things started(posters in the restaurant, internet webpage and advertisements)

Onwards in the future when I have enough capital, i will develope it into a fast-food restaurant that sells chinese food like 真工夫... only better; Healthy, tasty food catered for the distictive towns at affordable pricings.

If u have ideas about what a restaurant that doesn't require much technical skills from a great chef should be like, let me know... I'm all crazy about opening a restaurant now... hahahahaha~

And err... please wait a few more days so that i can upload all the pics onto my blog entry for the SG trip... thanks >_<;

New Age Collectible Cards

2006-10-24T11:35:00.000+08:00

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15239063/wid/11915829/

If KOF ever came up with one of these, I'd probably have a whole set of it... >_<;;;
Maybe it'll be like Iori that has extra skills or other versions of K' that doesn't use fire... etc...

I drive myself crazy with my own imagination.

Make Contact

2006-10-16T09:55:00.000+08:00

Call me at +65 - 94688748
I'll be around for this week only.... thx :D

Talk to me

2006-10-10T18:35:00.000+08:00

Hi Loneliness,

Its me again. How are you? When was the last time I was spend some time with you? You missed my company didn't you?

I don't know why I'm even writing this to you when I hate you so much. Maybe this is called hate-mail. Get it? Ha ha ha. I hate you loneliness.

Is it really my fault that I have hobbies that no one shares? Or have no time to go out with anyone? Or not having anyone to go out with?

...

I'm going nuts. I think I'll go home now...

Fai

The Idealistic Me

2006-10-10T18:10:00.000+08:00

The ideal me would do all the things listed below daily(or almost daily):
- Sleep at 10:30pm
- Wake up at 6am.
- Practice 气功
- Run 5km after that
- Do 20 push-ups and crunches
- Bathe and get dressed within 20 minutes
- Eat breakfast, then DRIVE to work
- Do actual work
- Know the work inside out
- Make no mistakes at work by checking over and over again
- Do his assignments and study after work

How hard could that be? Why not man? Why not! :D:D:D

First day of school

2006-10-10T01:11:00.000+08:00

Its the first day of school today.
Quite a disappointing day...
Before I left my house at Dongguan, I couldn't associate the thought that if I need to go to school, I'd need the textbook and so I forgot to bring it over.
I laid out the solutions; go all the way back to Dongguan to retrieve it which would cost me $200, buy a new one for $260 and resell it on ebay afterwards, or I could borrow a older version of the book from the library which would cost me nothing...

I had a hard time looking for the stupid book; they placed it under 'Oversized Books' but the computer catalog doesn't say so.
So I was late for class on the first day.(I know I know, I should have left home earlier... -.-)

The teacher is not very pretty, not very proficient in English and spoke in Cantonese most of the time.
It makes me wonder why I signed up for English version of the course when the only difference was the language of the textbooks/powerpoints.
The classmates weren't particularly concerned, except for one who is a filipino.
Seriously I'd prefer everything in English since thats what I signed up for.
Proper English... I hope.

In this class of less than 20 people, I'm the only one that isn't hasn't had at least 10 years of working experience, the only one that didn't wear a shirt with ties with black pants, and the only one who keeps checking out the filipino... ( :x )
I don't feel like there's much chance of me making good friends at this course since we are on such different levels.
And during the break I think I accidentally offended someone.
Or maybe that classmate of mine is a prick that doesn't talk to people who doesn't earn as much as he does.
Ahh well, what does it matter anyway? :o

I'll do my best.

---

A lot of times when I talk to other people, I feel an absolute lack of confidence; simply because I'm so uneducated and know nothing about anything.
Sometimes I don't even know what I'm talking about.
People start talking to me about my job and I have no good answers.
All I can say to them is that I'm just a stupid kid helping out in a family business and still learning the basics of the trade.
I'm sick of giving that as an answer to people -_-;;;

I need to develop a base knowledge in every area I can, so that
Starting from today.

I wanna be a owner of a chain of noodle shops someday.
Research is ongoing and progresses will be published in time to come on my other blog (the atelier).
Criticism is welcomed.

Thanks for reading my blog. There's just no one around me that I feel particularly good to talk about my problems...

I miss you guys.

My father got married.

2006-10-09T00:42:00.000+08:00

So he did, officially, with the blessings from the relatives and his friends in business.

Who cares? :o

Mom was visibly upset and started throwing tandrums when I left for the dinner.
I dared not let her know where we were going for dinner...didn't want to see the next episode of Alien versus Predators....

I have reasons to believe that mom's lacking a goal in life and I think she's contemplating to use 'hating my father and making him suffer' as a good goal in life.

I don't wanna be there when that happens.

---

For the dinner, I invited a good friend of mine because other than a couple of relatives, I don't know them....so, yeah. To have someone to talk to and grab the limelight from me... mwahaha~
Everyone judged her as my girlfriend and teased her a lot... and me too >_>;
Especially Grandma... -.-;;;
My poor friend... I'm sorry to have made you feel embarassed. I'll make it up to you some other time okay? >_>;;;

The Angelic me :D :D :D

2006-10-04T22:00:00.000+08:00

Angel Style by greymentality

Name/Username

First Impression from Others

Others don"t notice you, you are like a phantom

Your Core

Is like a grande pillar

Potential to Stray from the Light

1%

Your Weakness

You"re invisible to people. Darn it!

Your Strength

You are the Bard of the Angels.

Your Wings

Shiney metal wings that flow like feathers

Your Focus

Beauty

Angel Style by greymentality

Name/Username

First Impression from Others

Others want you as a friend.

Your Core

Full of sensuality. Just the basics there. *wink*

Potential to Stray from the Light

52%

Your Weakness

Reading. You love learning stuff.

Your Strength

You know realllllllly secret stuff

Your Wings

Shiney metal wings that flow like feathers

Your Focus

Love

Angel Style by greymentality

Name/Username

First Impression from Others

Ready to follow your lead. You are kinda shiney.

Your Core

Is like a grande pillar

Potential to Stray from the Light

41%

Your Weakness

You sinned...once.

Your Strength

You were picked to weild the arrows of truth.

Your Wings

Filmy and flowing. Like gauze.

Your Focus

Worship

I am lucky, as always.

2006-09-28T17:33:00.000+08:00

A few days ago, I went back to HKIEd to get something done.
It so happened to be her Ada's day at work.
And so, we took some photos, had some delicious cake (by Sara) and had dinner later on...

[假设对白]
F:"Shocked to see me back here?"
P:"No, more like shocked to see you getting uglier..."

Mrs. Ada + Ahfaii.
She's getting married in November and gonna be living in San Francisco with the lucky fella... whoever it is >_<;;; (hahaha)

Mango Pancake at the Japanese Restaurant. The name of the restaurant was Golden sand or something?
Ahfaii's Ratings: 9/10
Good stuff. Whipped cream and Fresh Mango slices within the Chocolated-syrup pattern Pancake... :)~

From Left: Sara, Phoebe, Ada, Beatrice(probably Dr. Beatrice Lam in a few years time... >_<;;;) and the only handsome guy in the photo :P

带我走：提拉米苏
Take me Away: Tiramisu
Ahfaii's Rating: 10/10
I'd say its one of the best Tiramisu I've ever had in my life so far... one of the best.....

To Ikea-rize or not...

2006-09-28T17:10:00.000+08:00

According to the catalogs, it would cost me at least RMB$6000++ to get half my living room filled with Ikea stuff. On the other hand, it would cost me only $6000 to get my house fully furnished with other stores...

Let's see if they offer loans for that... >_>;;;

Move house?

2006-09-26T12:51:00.000+08:00

I'm gonna move out soon, I think? And I'd like to have some Ikea furnishings... :)

My home in Dongguan is right in between of two Ikea stores; one in Hong Kong, one in Guangzhou.  Maybe I should go to the one @ Guangzhou since I've never been there before anyway...

And before I forget, the previous careertest entry is from here:
http://www.careerkey.org/chinese/textfiles/

Career Test for you Sir?

2006-09-23T08:50:00.000+08:00

你的『擇業指南』測驗分數

『擇業指南』測驗量度你的性格，看你最接近六種基本性格類型中的哪一種。你的分數愈高，你的性格就愈接近某種類型。舉例來說，如果你的分數在藝術家型那一欄最高，那麼你的性格就最接近藝術家型。

你的分數如下﹕

現實 = 3

社交 = 14

探究 = 1

進取 = 14

藝術家 = 10

平實 = 8

細讀下面的指示然後跟著去做﹕

1. 找出你得到最高分數的性格類型是哪一個。
2. 在下面點選它的名字，那個類型所包括的所有工作都會出現。
3. 每一個你感興趣的工作你都點選。
4. 然後，找出你第二高的分數是哪個類型，又同樣的做一遍。你第三高分數的類型也可以同樣的做一遍。

你的分數如下﹕

現實 = 3

社交 = 14

探究 = 1

進取 = 14

藝術家 = 10

平實 = 8

進取性格類型

這類型的人喜歡領導和說服人，使人買他們的東西或接納他們的想法。他們一般來說都避免做一些要求細心觀察及動用科學性、分析性思維的活動。

他們善於領導人及使人買他們的東西或接納他們的想法。

他們重視政治、領導或商業方面的成就。

他們認為自己充滿活力、有雄心大志、喜歡交際。

Whats on the menu tonight?

2006-09-20T17:41:00.000+08:00

I had "The Onion Pig Picks" served on hotplate. They poured the sauce onto the hotplate and the oil was like popping all over and there was no tissue/napkin. So I sat away from the plate for 3-4minutes. Can't expect any good service from them since its a bloody cheap meal...

The food was pretty good. Decoratively sliced, dark green and crunchy cucumbers, tasty onion sauce with that pork chop, a beautiful raw egg slowly cooking on the hotplate... :)

Next time I'll get some of those outskirt rapes...

Made with effort, not with machines.

2006-09-12T18:12:00.000+08:00

I love Chicken Curry Rice. Especially with extra efforts put in it...

Hand me the controller honey!~

2006-09-11T18:00:00.000+08:00

Its absolutely miserable for one who hasn't got control of his own life...

But then again, what if that person is an idiot who doesn't know how to use the controller?

Who should have control? And to what extend?

Should that person be 'controlled' in the first place?

...

---

I watched 'Click' yesterday. It is a good show and I don't want to spoil it for you. Just don't expect it to be too much of a Comedy. Remember to bring some tissue paper with you if you are gonna watch it, its one of the most touching show ever since "Fly me to Polaris"... :~)

I love Quotes :)

2006-09-03T10:34:00.000+08:00

Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 and look through the random quotations until you find five that you think reflect who you are or what you believe. Repost them in your journal (with this information) and tag five friends to complete this meme.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.: Suzanne Necker (1739 - 1794)

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.
Suze Orman, O Magazine, February 2003

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

The first day off for this month : enjoyable

2006-08-28T14:22:00.000+08:00

I went out with a friend of mine yesterday. We were supposed to go to Shenzhen, but her parents wasn't too keen about that and so we did other things instead; met up at 8 to have breakfast at Pacific Coffee Company, watched a movie that stars Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, then ate lunch at some fancy japanese styled - western food restaurant, did some shopping, poured $60 odd dollars into UFO machines with deceptively-positioned dolls and traps, did some shopping at Jusco(we bought toys... lol) and wrote many 'cheques' to many people! :D

Its been 2 weeks since I have had so much fun. 2 weeks is a terribly long time to pass without internet, hanging-out with friends, or other entertainment... >_<;
And school's starting soon in early September! Wish me luck and wish my whole class are full of 'chiobu'(s)! And wish the teacher is a wonderful one too! XDD

By the way, to those who are wondering when I'll be back to Singapore, the closest date I can think of might be during late October when I might need to take a trip there... miss you guys lots!

A little photos...

2006-08-28T14:09:00.000+08:00

Hey guys! Here's some photos from my trip taken by a fellow volunteer Andy...

Check it out here.

Its your money, or money. Your life's worthless...

2006-08-22T15:49:00.000+08:00

Looking on the positive side as usual, I now have a valid excuse to purchase a brand new camera because my old one doesn't work anymore. The last time I tried to switch it on, it looked like a detonating time-bomb; it was getting hotter by the minute while the red light kept blinking and blinking.

I'm looking at my options between a SLR camera or just the old, regular 'something-that-i-can-stick-in-my-pocket' ones...

Or maybe I'll even change my handphone too. Get that latest sony ericsson cybershot hp and a Sony Alpha SLR.... :)~

That would be sooo perfect... >_<;

---

Its been really busy these days. I'm working for my father now; 7 days a week, at least 9 hours a day. I feel quite stupid about not asking how much he's gonna pay me. Maybe its because I wouldn't expect much from him / don't want to take so much from his now-already-dying company. Many of the workers have left now... I don't know. He is still trying to work his way out of the debts... I'd feel really guilty if I make him pay me $8000.(given the overtime and etc I have to do, I suppose I could get about $6500 at least. Throw in the amount of overtime and I'll have $8000)

I have breakfast with him daily. He is very, very stressed.
Eyes are always slightly red and watery; a obvious sign of sleeplessness.
A terrible temper to deal with anything other than customers; a sign of stress.
Hopes of getting out of debt are constantly mentioned, repeatedly...

I'll get stressed out too you know... :(

As usual, easily said than done.

2006-08-18T23:38:00.000+08:00

Hello everyone! Anyone on my MSN probably knows that I'm back from Mongolia already. Its been a great trip, thanks to wonderful teammates and all the nice people there~ :)

And once I'm back, trouble starts looking for me. On a daily basis, I'm being lectured for not getting ready for my studies. Money, time required to complete, the reputation of school, recognition... what the f@@@!

The school I wanna be enrolled in is HKU Space. But that is not gonna happen since the cost to complete the term is really too much for my parents to bear. Funny thing is, father is going to enroll me another even more expensive, part-time course. I fully understand that it would be pointless to have a degree without any working experience. But the thing is, its OPEN U.... I don't know why I am starting not to like it... :
But well, I can't be bothered anymore. No point trying to stress myself up any further...

---

Random quote::
"They used to envy me for all that free time I had. Now they envy me for the little time I have."

---

Photos are on the way... maybe next week?

Kindly refrain banging your computer for the slow loading of page ahead...

2006-08-04T09:24:00.000+08:00

As I'm running out of time to correct a little error when I posted this, please kindly read this entry from the bottom instead. Thank you!

After dinner, I went home and pigged out...almost. I remembered there was something in the turnip/carrot thingy that she gave me. I had a hard time digging it out... o_O;
So tired... zZzzZzzZ

Wonderful Wonderful BBQ Pork Ramen at HKD$45 a bowl with additional order of Corn.
But the Japanese fried ramen was even better! (Sorry... it was so good that we finished it before I could snap a photo of it... :x

I had dinner with a lecturer at a place that has Beatrice's Recommendations!* that evening.
And that piece of toufu you see above is the Cold Toufu. From the looks you might not see much differences... but when you put it into your mouth, there's a very 'perfect' sensation... a very 'Japanese' feel to it somehow... Yummy!

*Note: I'm gonna trademark that term... haha!

Ms. Donna Cheung...
without her, I don't think I'd get to know so many people in such a short time... :X

(from Right) Dr. George Ngai from Educational Policy and Administration department.
We always see each other at the corridors.... o_O

Ms. Kitty Ng, me(AGAIN! In that Forrest Gump T-shirt!) and Phoebe in a white dress.

Dr. Pattie Luk. Beatrice's boss.

Ms. Pat Fung. Forgot her position...but err...
I have breakfast with her occationally in the morning... :)

Ms. Prudy Chik, Research Assistant.

Its me and Beatrice again. A blue cup, Beatrice, Me and the turnip-pencilcase.

Miss Law(the New RA for the project), me(again), Dr. Ho, Dr. Eva Lai and Dr. Rosa Chiu-Ching Tak Lan(some of my old friends might find her looking suspicious familiar, someone that we usually see at Taman Jurong...? mwahahha)

Cake number 2. A early celebration for people involved in the Project

Prof. Bond, the 007 of the Department.

Josephine, Brenda, me and my direct supervisor.

Winnie. Most accurate fortune teller.
Very helpful and friendly...

"You can't get luckier than that."

Beatrice gave me a carrot/radish/turnip/Fai-look-alike/whatever pencilcase!~ XDD

"sigh, no more ahfaii..." (:X)

Beatrice, Senior Research Assistant.
I'd say she's more like a Good-food researcher.

Miss Ada. 'Very hardworking'
...and in a few months time, she'll be Mrs Ada something-something!
Congrats! :D

At Ada/Sara's room...

A new lecturer for the department, Ms Brenda Lo.
She will be my badminton teacher when I come back... :P

Phoebe and I. No, not in that order...

Beatrice, Sara and me.

More desserts?! Shocking! XDD

They ordered a mouthwatering Tiramisu cake,
just because I wanted to cut one... :~)

Yesterday was my last day at work in the EPCL department of HKIEd.
These wonderful, lovely and [insert any nice word here] colleagues of mine had a farewell lunch with me today...

Irony

2006-07-31T19:25:00.000+08:00

I play to learn.
I play to forget.
So what do I get?

Fate & Destiny

2006-07-27T13:21:00.000+08:00

I had lunch with a colleague of mine who is very famous for telling accurate characteristics, luck and destiny from their names.

According to her predictions...

- In friendships, (on the average) I will have some friends who do not treat me well. That happened already...
- In marriage, I will marry a wife that will bully me. If I marry one that doesn't, we'll divorce. I probably won't have luck to have good relationships with my kids. They'll probably hate me, too.
- In work, I will offer many good suggestions to my superiors, but they will always reject it because they hate me for being smarter than them. To tone down the effects of this, I was told that I should avoid playing the 'smart-alex' at work and just do whatever they tell me to... :(

- In romance: I will have luck in romance until 45. Before 40, it will mostly be women. She told me that I'm destined not to able to handle relationships properly and I will eventually be those people who avoid women. After 40, I'll have luck in romance with men... which I would seriously not want to. My colleague suggested that it might be caused by the inability to handle relationships with women, then i turned to men... :~(

- From 28 onwards, I should not engage myself in dangerous sports like skiing, sky-diving or even driving cars without a license. A very bad accident will occur if I do anything like that.

- Before 33, my life will be a relatively easy one...but after that, the sailings won't be so smooth anymore...

hurhur... my life suxxxx. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IN THISSSSS!!!! EVEN THOUGH SHE'S DAMN ACCURATE!!! T_T

New Game // Continue?

2006-07-25T18:33:00.000+08:00

By the 1312542135th time you play a game and exercute the "ultra-cool-sacred-secret-special-moves" for the 2143514th time, the fanciful graphics and the feeling of awe in discovering the secret moves won't be there anymore. It'll just become something so routine, so usual and boring that you'll no longer be able to appreciate it.

Can we say the same for love?

Or like a video game, we proceed to wait for the next edition of the game to come by, play another 24125316th times to get sick of it?

How many games are there? What if you only play one type of game? And what if that type of game isn't produced anymore? Would you be stuck forever playing the last game they made and replay those games that you no longer find interesting?

Replace dating as game and Sex, that 'sacred-secret-special-move'.
Maybe we aren't meant to play with it so much and so often until we get so sick of it until nothing is secret anymore.

When everyone else around is having fun with that game, the feeling of being left out, the tiredness of having everyone telling you how fun it is, etc... >_<;;

Your thoughts?

What is love?

2006-07-22T00:07:00.000+08:00

Q: What is love?

Interviewee1:
Love is a waste of time. Its basically a mathematical equation.
Love is not like food water or air which is essential for survival.
Love is not for survival.
But love is still essential because we are conditioned to think that it is important.

Q: You mentioned that its a mathematical equation, so is there a formula?

Interviewee1:
Actually a formula is to prove if an equation is valid. But in this case, since love is not for survival yet it is essential... makes it a conflicting equation. Hence its like saying it cannot be proven, hence love is a waste of time...

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Other replies:::

01.) Love is when one longs to be with another and each other gives n take from each other.
02.) A feeling that wont dies easily.
03.) I dont know.
04.) Love = Sex = Huat!
05.) Something that adds to my headaches. Something that I don't have.
06.) Indescribable ba... mutual respect/care and no limits in sacrifice ?
07.) Love is just a word. Fxxx is the action.
08.) Love means breakups and divorce in the progress. Please wait...
09.) 係一個正面既動力令到自己去do something／忍受／付出／花時間了解．．．從而得到滿足，even不求回報...
10.) LOVE IS 真心付出.
11.) Love is something u give but dun expect a return.
Q: If so, if I give money to the casher for buying things, then i dun expect her to give me change, is that love? :P

12.) I don't know what is love, but I think it goes way deeper than liking a person. It is like, even if you have achieved all your dreams and not having THAT person to share that happiness with you, it becomes all meaningless...

Quoted from "5 People You'll Meet in Heaven(thanks Janys):
"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nuture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end," she said. "Love doesn't."

I would like everyone who has taken the time and effort to reply my silly question. These replies have somehow helped me gained a new perspective on how should I view love is... :)

Thank you!

Mabel

2006-07-07T14:26:00.000+08:00

As far as I can remember, I know of 3 Mabels. And so far, they have been a wonderful presence in my life.

The first one was a girl I got to know in the arcades, she's now studying in Texas I think? She plays KOF lots. Learnt that some girls can be horrible... especially when they know Judo... >_<;
The second one was my tuition teacher...ooo how could I possibly forget? :)~
She helps me with my maths and science... and she was ... wonderful, too.
And the third Mabel (hopefully not the last one I am going to know), is a lecturer working in the same department as I am. She wasn't as beautiful as the last two that I knew, but she had the heart of an angel.

A couple of days ago, she invited me to chat in her office. We talked about the things I would like to achieve in a few years time.

"I wanna get a diploma in marketing, then continue doing business just like my father and grandfather did."

"Is Marketing really where your talents are?"

"I suppose so. A good friend of mine once told me that every few lines of conversation he had with me, I would deviate the conversation to something about making profits, business and etc."

"How about your interests? I thought you liked teaching.."

"I do, but teaching alone isn't going to do well to satisfy the materialistic me. You see, if my needs aren't fulfilled, how am I going to have that kind of love, passion and energy to teach well? I suppose teaching can wait until much later...maybe when I'm well off enough, I guess?"

She then handed me a book; "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People".

"Maybe you'll change after reading this. Try taking some time to do some self-reflection and tell me what you think. You can start by thinking up 10 things, events or whatever that has happened in your life so far that made you really happy. Note it all down and look for the similiarities between them. The answer might be there."

Humans are strange beings. For example, if you are going for a urine test, the urine sometimes just won't come out no matter how hard you want it to. Same goes for this... I spent the whole night thinking, eh, what made me REALLY, really happy?

Getting laid? Beating opponent in arcade/computer games? Having 'yes' as a reply when I asked the girl of my dream for a date? Getting my first paycheck? Getting to the top of the hill?

So far, the only time that I felt the happiest moment ever, was about 6 years ago? It was a ridiculous situation; I had accidentally dropped the toilet paper 'core' (u know, the hard cardboard thingy) unknowingly into the toilet bowl and did my business in it. (Now I know some of you might have heard of this story before, but I think there are some still who are interested)

After that, only Mom used the toilet and then she figured what had happened, somehow. She gave me a major lecture and forced me to get it out by myself. I offered to pay to get a plumber to get it done, but she insisted that I do it personally. You can pretty imagine that situation; a real, full stinking load of crap to pump out, put your hands (almost; i had a plastic bag) in it and get that stupid thing out... whoa. It makes me sick just thinking about it~!

For 1 whole hour I stood there procrastinating, omg omg why do i have to do this? Mom hates me mom hates me etc... Then finally at 11pm, I knew there was no other way out; I pumped and pumped and pumped. The stench... it was eternally unforgettable I tell you. And you do understand that when you try to thrust something into the toilet bowl, there's bound to be splashes and etc etc... Overall, it was just HORRIBLE.

At 12am I finally got it out. I was exhilarated and very pleased with myself. The fruit of hard labour was just too wonderful...

More crap to come... later den continue...

:-(

2006-07-07T00:34:00.000+08:00

I smacked the kid today.

I didn't need to. He was quite normal; naughty and just not wanting to have a boring tuition lesson.

Now her mom wants to talk to me tomorrow. Great... -_-

...

I kind of feel like its my fault that he's not actually progressing as much as I wanted him to. Since the last library fine, I didn't borrow anymore books to help me in my teaching anymore. Without those aids, I feel so helpless trying to get his attention. The desperate feeling pushed me to anger... :~(

I am so sorry... argh!

Because, so and so...

2006-07-06T00:11:00.000+08:00

By wearing a nice shirt to work today, 10++ people stopped dead in their tracks, checked me out and ask me why I am I so well dressed today.

I should wear nice shirts to work.

你今天的幸运指数是... -10 / 10 !!!

2006-07-04T17:09:00.000+08:00

I had a couple of fortune cookies yesterday and it predicted the followings:

-your toilet bowl break.
-you will sit with smelly retard.
-you will step on dog poo-poo.
-your day will suck badly. everything will oppose you.
-causeway bay will trap you.

...

I got home 12am today. Almost automatically, I took off my shoes immediately and as I was about to take a pee. And there it was, a broken toilet bowl... thanks to my bro.

At 3am I felt like taking a pee. Ran 400metres to the toilet at the market(actually just 100m, but to and fro = 200m and being so tired it felt like twice the distance). Couldn't sleep after that.

Went to work. Was verbally punished for looking tired... -.-;;;

After work, I went to Causeway Bay to get my new ID card. On the way there I HAD to pass by the arcade and I was 15 minutes early on my schedule. So I played for a while. A sudden reminder rang in my mind; omfg! I'm meeting someone who hates cigarette stench later! (fyi, hk arcades=smokehouses.) So I ran out to buy a can of deodorant spray to overlap the stench as much as possible. Then my phone rang. It was my friend and she says she wasn't gonna make it for dinner tonight since boss ordered her to do OT... :(

Fine... whatever. So I went ahead to collect my new ID card. My phone rang again. This time it was Mom and she wants me to go home to get pictures of the toilet taken so that the plumbers could give us a quote. Ate and headed home hurriedly to get the photos sent to them. On the way to the busstop, I had this uncanny feeling that I forgot to do something but I just couldn't remember what it was. I got onto the bus and paid the fare...

After I got onto the bus, I finally recalled what I was supposed to do; send out something to my friend. It was too late to get off as I was almost home. Got everything done quickly and rushed back to causeway bay. Waited 15 minutes for the damn bus which supposedly should have been there in 5 minutes. Worried, I called the remittance shop and they said they would wait for me for another 15 minutes.

I was stupid enough to run around Jaffe Road without noticing that the road plates has the building numbers stated on them. So from one end I ran to the other and I came back to the spot where I had my dinner earlier on. The remittance shop was just across the road and I didn't notice =_=;;;

By then, the shop was closed and I was like quite pissed off since they didn't waited as they had promised. Decided to take the Ding-ding tram home to save 2 dollars and besides, I was all sweaty and smelled really bad so it might be better take something that has better ventilation. Two stops away, I regretted my decision. A mentally-disabled middle age man came onto the tram and sat beside me, took off his hat and there was this oppressive, disgusting stench which I couldn't possibly imagined that could be of this world. The lady who sat next to him on the other side quickly retreated and then went upstairs. As I took a brief look at him, he turned to me and smiled... just like a retard! (omfg, what am I saying, HE IS RETARDED.)

I walked upstairs and sat down. He followed suit and sat right next to me... =__________=;;;

"Hehhhh hehhh hehhh. I like sitting with u!"

"...........but I don't. Get the fuk away from me!"

"but I don't want to...."

So I sat there, with him sitting beside me and smiling, almost drooling too. When the tram moved, it was still alright since most of the smell blew backwards(my sympathies to those who sat at the back). But when the tram stops... ooooooof. Luckily, the driver was pushing the tram to full speed all the time and saved me a few minutes of torture. Had a hard time to get off since the fella refuse to move his legs to let me get out -.-;;;

Sigh... :~(

Saturday

2006-07-01T18:02:00.000+08:00

Me too. Watched Bleach since I woke up at 3pm today... haha! Its been quite some time since I've slept so much! I love sleeping! :D

Life Update!

2006-06-30T09:05:00.000+08:00

Hi how's everyone? I have been really busy with the plannings of the mongolian summer camp thing these days. Reading materials on Mongolian Culture, getting to know the local English curriculums and their standards, searching online for various materials, attending meetings, plannings, trying hard to translate the booklet. I barely have time to take a breather and since my boss needs to go Macau to help out at a seminar, majority of the workload has been transferred to me instead... -_-;;;

Meanwhile I am still tutoring the kid. And I just got my pay! :D

Toby Yau, The Kid.
Very restless and naughty boy, but with my ub3r-l33+n355 patience and preparations beforehand I managed to get him settled down by playing games... :P

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Food
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Maxim Fast Food, Hong Kong

Chicken Sushi with Salad :)

Haagen-Daaz

Special Edition Black Sesame Ice Cream: wonderful!

Pizza Hut

Cream Puffs with Molten Chocolate: Yummy!

Infatuation

2006-06-22T00:10:00.000+08:00

No girlfriends.
Low on Cash.
But still, I'm happily infatuated with the latest love in my life; teaching.

I'm loving it! (Just like the way mcdonalds would say it)
Its just so fun to teach! And I don't know why! :D
I was tutoring "the lil fuck" ( the FUgily Cocky Kiddie... i know its lame, but too lazy to find random short-forms) just now. Lesson went amazingly smooth today; taught him many many words and some sentence structures through fun and games. He was happy and I think I'm even happier; happy for him and for myself, too. By teaching him, I have also learnt more; about myself, my style, self-awareness, control and how to teach - timing of lesson, child management, etc..

I'm all excited about the trip. Father says he'll sponsor part of my trip, as much as he can... but honestly I doubt it would anything but a substantial amount. Business is not going so smoothly for him recently. Don't know how much longer he can continue like this...

Anyway, he's been trying to talk me back to help him out. I would like to, but there are other factors involved; financial concerns, actual interest in the business, school... Gahhh! It's still a few months away! I can afford think about it later!

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To: Butter Snatch (Carl)
Thank you! This is such a wonderful surprise. I never expected to actually get donations, or at least, not from someone thats so far away and barely knows me or the rural-english organisation!

Anyway, I would like to know if you're interested in funding me for this trip, or would you like to donate to the "Rural-English"Organisation? Please let me have your email address so that the me/organisers can pass you more information.

Best Regards,
Yeung Hung Fai

Music ringing in my head

2006-06-19T11:02:00.000+08:00

无间道
歌手：刘德华

不我不愿意结束我还没有结束
无止境的旅途看着我没停下的脚步
已经忘了身在何处
谁能改变人生的长途
谁知道永恒有多么恐怖
谁了解生存往往比命运还残酷
只是没有人愿意认输
我们都在不断赶路
忘记了出路
在失望中追求偶尔的满足
我们都在梦中解脱
倾心的苦
流浪在灯火阑珊处
去不到终点回到原点
相守那走不完的路
music
谁能改变人生的长途
谁知道永恒有多么恐怖
谁了解生存往往比命运还残酷
只是没有人愿意认输
我们都在不断赶路
忘记了出路
在失望中追求偶尔的满足
我们都在梦中解脱
倾心的苦
流浪在灯火阑珊处
去不到终点回到原点
相守那走不完的路
一路上演出难得糊涂
一路上回顾难得麻木
在这条亲密无间的路
让我想你你想我怎么会孤独
我们都在不断赶路
忘记了出路
在失望中追求偶尔的满足
我们都在梦中解脱
倾心的苦
流浪在灯火阑珊处
既然没终点回到原点
我想我们都不不在乎

Mission Mongolia - the first meeting

2006-06-16T23:40:00.000+08:00

...

I've had a fulfilling day. Lots of work at the office today. Emailed Dr. Li regarding the Mongolian Trip. He was very enthusiastic and came to me personally all the way to my office and invited to their meeting today... :)

It was the first meeting. Not many people attended(total of 8 only), but it was fine anyway. Everyone introduced themselves and we had a brief introduction on what they would like to achieve for this trip; teaching the teachers there to create suitable materials for teaching, encouraging the use of English... mostly that. After all, these are the things that the organisers are best at since they are working at the Department of Educational Policy and Adminstration and Dept of Curriculum and Instructions. Got to know a few teachers who are very worned out teaching fucked up kids of all kinds. We had a discussion on what we activities to organise during the summer camp of our visit; the objectives of the summer camp, the games we're gonna play with the local kids there, the complications of the games... etc. It was all wonderful and I'm glad that I am well prepared for this meeting today with all the "Creative teaching material production" books that I've borrowed from the library earlier(to prepare lessons for that fugly notti boy...ahaha).

I was told that there is no chance to exercise English there. Lack of teachers, resources, and many other factors causing a record low of motivation in learning English. I'm told that the kids there are extremely hardworking and clever, as according to one of the participants who have been there during the last trip(it was to somewhere in Beijing... one of those rural villages). They are able to use whatever resources they have actively, like using a pencil as a electricity conductor... :o

I believe all they need is a little push in the right direction, resources and fundings. The school we are visiting is a self-funded school. The teachers there(well-qualified individuals who deserve so much more) are only earning a meagre sum of RMB$500 a month(US$62.50 / SGD$100) . Respect man, Respect! From the letters they have written to the organisers, they are actually happy to teach there; the students there are willing to learn... no, not just willing... They are HUNGRY for knowledge and thirsty for more...!

But for English, they're not so motivated. Why? Because there is no motivation to learn that. Why? Because there is no use for it. Why is there no use for it? Because everyone there speaks Chinese/Mongolian language and it seems perfectly fine for them to be unable to speak English. Besides, anyone who speaks English well could be despised! WTF? WHY? Because...

Its just the way they are. (Maybe its a Chinese-thing. Till today I still don't understand it...). Actually, its not only happening in Mongolia. Even Singapore sometimes have that kind of problem; u pronounce a word properly, you'll be labeled as 'Angmo pai'(westernised) and occationally be stared at/despised. But really, whats the problem with speaking proper english? Its a mystery that needs to be solved asap...

And I'm still worried about what's the decision I should make about this thingy because its gonna be quite expensive; Minimum HK$5000-6000 because its not gonna be a funded thingy. Volunteers are going to be digging out money from their own pocket because even if there are any donations, its going to be going to the Mongolian School first; obviously they need the money more than 'us'(which excludes me).

Its not gonna be easy. Also, if I were to go, I'll need to end my contract one mth in advance... which I wouldn't want to since I'm strapped for cash now. I wanna go studying and I'm gonna need the cash for myself...

Donations anyone? Or volunteers?
Visit www.rural-english.com for more info on this.

Thank you and have a good day/night, wherever you may be.

Regards,
ahfaii

Mongolia? Villagers? o_O

2006-06-14T10:28:00.000+08:00

My school is organising a missionary trip to Mongolia to teach children in the countryside English.
I think its going to be a wonderful experience to learn ways to teach students.
I wanna go, but the problem is I don't think I'm academically qualified to do the job. So many people in school... :(

But in their advertisements they will also need somebody who can speak Putonghua to be their assitant... will try and see if I can go. If the organiser says I can, then I'll try to convince my bosses... ~_~;

What About Me?

2006-06-13T12:57:00.000+08:00

Friendster, Blogger, Forums... all got place to write 'About me'.
I would like to have something there for others to read about me but I'm...

1.) just too lazy/
2.) don't know what to write/
3.) can't write properly/
4.) all of the above.

Whatever it is, I just can't be bothered. I might as well outsource it...

Anyone out there free to write one for me? lol...

Composition : About ahfaii.
Write a English/Chinese passage/composition/poem/profile/autobiography...whatever about ahfaii! If yours is chosen to be posted on my blog/friendster/anywhere, I'll send you a gift! XD
Please participate and help the lazy ahfaii! THX! XD

10 minutes

2006-06-12T18:26:00.000+08:00

I am inside Hong Kong's World Trade Centre, using 10 minutes of free internet at the Customer Care Centre... :o

After work today, I took the staff bus with Ms. Kitty Ng, a teaching fellow currently teaching family therapies and children's play in the school. Never talked to her much until today. I've always known her as those 'always-happy-go-lucky' kinda person...blah.

We talked about the kid I was giving tuition to recently. She was impressed by my serious attitude towards it and gave me lots of useful tips in coaching the child. Lots of book introductions, sources of materials and etc...

I had a pleasant time talking to her about my recent hopes and dreams as well; me being almost totally interested in studying marketing, the stuff that I've done and my life before I came back to Hong Kong. Basically, it was about me being a gamer, a teenager that has used 4-5 years of his life for fun and pleasure. The talk we had gave her a little insight in what goes on a gamer's mind and what makes gaming so addictive, what causes people to game and why...etc.

She lives kinda close to me... and I can feel that she's gonna become one of my best friends already... hahaha. Intelligent, similiar values towards learning, life and etc. Its also a plus that she speaks English, too... haha~

Gotta go. People queuing behind me are getting restless... ~_~;

A date with THE KID!

2006-06-07T00:28:00.000+08:00

After work today, I went to a friend's place to teach her son English.

The kid's in Primary 5 now and the English Exams are coming really soon. I gave him a little test. He was terrible; can't spell, don't even know the words actually, sentence structures' in a mess. Don't know whats was, or how its used.

God save this kid.

The worst thing is he can't sit still. He's almost like he's autistic; running around the house and refusing to sit down for the lesson. Not scared of the cane his mom whips out. He'd shout 'hit me lah, i not scared of pain' in cantonese... fuckin kid. If he was my son I'd gladly give it to him -.-;

But anyway, i'm planning to skip the books and do other things with him like roleplaying and stuff like that instead... hopefully it helps.

Question...

2006-06-06T10:38:00.000+08:00

Do you think that people who have fancy skins for their applications on windows (Mozilla Firefox / WinAmp / Windows Itself) have inclinations towards costume fun on bed? :o

Time flies.

2006-06-05T04:45:00.000+08:00

Start : 31st May 2006 @ 00:01am
End : 5th June 2006 @ 06:45am

126 hrs and 45 minutes can pass by so quickly.
Spend 8-10 hours sleeping everyday. (32-40 hrs)
Spend 1 hour brushing up daily. (4 hrs)
Spend about 2-3 hours commuting from one place to another. (8-12 hrs)

So...

Actually the point is, I don't feel like I've spent 5 days in Singapore. But I did.

Will come back soon again! :P