Festive Season

The year is coming to an end. Dec is always the most looked forward to mth of the yr. With the long anticipated bonus coming real soon, and X'mas presents exchange, dinners followed by a brand new year.

I like Dec, too bad I wasn't born in tis mth (nonetheless, I like being a Taurus too, straight forward, stubborn & loyal). Usually weather is cooler during the yr end. Lots of Christmas decor and lightings around to brighten up the mood plus plenty of pretty gifts and good food everywhere. Shopping couldn't be more fun in Dec with a good purpose.

This yr, I see a number of X'mas trees within my company. Our dept has also set up one for the fun of it. Christmas decor can be quite costly, those little litte ornaments & lightings can easily sum up to $100++. But it's oni once a yr and reusable, so I guess it's still worth it.

It's a shame that we dun get to enjoy snow in Singapore. Wouldn't it b fun, hvg snowball fights, skiing in hilly mountains, or simply watching soft, light snow flakes floating from the sky while drinking hot coffee at New Asia Bar...

Jus imagine, walking down Orchard Road wearing pretty jackets or stylish trench coats, holding the hands of ur loved ones, enjoying the pretty lightings. U can hear soothing Christmas Carols everywhere, and snow flakes falling onto u nose, making u wriggle and too cold to touch..... Romantic isn't it..... (there I go dreaming again) :p

Okie, enuff of dreaming... the year is coming to and end and I'm looking for to Dec... all the Christmas presents and goodies and parties......

A Brand New Look

Ah ha, I've finally decided to do away wif my fav pink outlook and change to a brand new refreshing greenary look. No doubt, pink is still e best, but it has existed for a year and it's time for a new image.

I'm still a lousy blogger, learning to add in new stuff to my blog. Somehow when it comes anyting tat is IT related, I'm as good as an idiot. Those programming codes r like foreign language to me. How I wish short cuts r available for me to click on to download music, change image, colours, fonts, layout easily.

I would hv loved to put in Inuyasha pic as my background
and change the colours n fonts to make it more personal.
I noe it's possible to do so, oni if I've a "teacher" to patiently
teach me. Part of the reason that I'm nt IT savvy it's I simply
hv no patient with tis equipment. Somehow, downloading
someting can take ages, and understanding those foreign languages
and applying them seems more difficult then climbing Mt Everest!

I blog mainly bcos I enjoy writing. Sometimes, I'd write in different style depending on my mood. Eg, a form of reflections, reporting of certain incidents or jus purely tots (simply jot down watever tat comes into my mind). I'm a dreamer & a tinker, I spent lots for free time jus letting my mind drift. Some interesting, some silly, or sad or happy or impossible or fantasy.

The oni flaw is, I'm nt too good wif language. I'm jus not creative enuff to b a writer. Though there r times I wished tat I've such gift to write beautifully, hv the ablility to express beta and more efficiently. Writing can b a powerful tool if used wisely.

So, if u hv such a gift, cherish it, use it.

Harry Porter and the Goblet of Fire

The long waited movie of the year seems more like a disappointment to me. If u r a fan of Harry Porter (the book), u wld hv agreed wif me tat the movie seems like a snap shot of each chapter wif an abrupt ending. Some characters have been totally cast off while many r jus being briefly brought across without much meaning...

Dumbledore doesn't seems as kind and wise as he was being described in the book. Important characters like Prof McGonagall, Malfoy (both senior & junior), Prof Snap seems like a nobody in the show while Percy was nt even mentioned in the movie. Somehow, the movie jus doesn't seems to link too well.

I used to b a true HP fan (until Bk 5). I find the story captivating and refreshing, full for fantasy. However, when the author became popular, her ideas began to shift a little. No longer is HP jus a 'Children' story book, it became more complicated and bloody. With the 1st killing in Book 4, it has sorta changed her style. My concept of HP is abt Friendship, Bravery, Love, Determination and Humour set in the world of magic & fantasy.

While the book gets thicker, the story gets less interesting. Too much effort is placed on the vengence of Voldemort against Harry Porter, repeating the same old story in a more lengthy and bloody way. I would rather the story keeps it's simplicity, going straight into it's focus. I din manage to finish book 5 as I find it too draggy to continue. Nearly one third of the book and I still dun get to see where is the story heading to. Mayb it was meant to be kept as a suspense, but it was simply overdone. Thus, the book is still lying on my shelf, waiting for me to pick it up again.

I guess it's time to pick it up n give it another try. I heard that it wasn't too bad once it gets into the story. & was told that Bk 6 is even more interesting. Hmm, shdn't hv too high hopes, otherwise might be disappointed again.

Testing on posting of pic

I'm a really lousy blogger, all I knoe is how to write a post or send a pic via picasa. When I visit some other blogs, I find their blogs interest wif nice background pic, music and pic all nicely saved in folders etc.

Thus, I've decided to try out other ways of posting a pic. Let's c if it works. :p

hahaha, succeeded.. this is beta...

ok.. will stick to tis method then....

ciao...

Dept Cruising Trip

I've not been blogging here for quite sometime le. Nearly forgotten the user name & password. Altogether I've got 3 blogs. Many will think this is silly, it's like keeping 3 dairies. Well, well, I've my reasons to split up my blogs, each meant for different stuff. Like I mentioned previously, this is more for photo viewing than feelings or tots.

Nonetheless, I'll still make effort to blog here once in a while.

I just came back from cruising. It was a company paid trip, mainly to have a dept team building on cruise. Thks to another dept initiate effort, small dept like mine can now follow suit and request for similar welfare to attend course on a cruise.

Frankly speaking, cruising can be real boring. Unless you are a serious gambler (which reminds me of a colleague), there ain't much to do on tat "big" ship. Food was lousy. According to many (those who ever went on similar cruise), the standard of food has drop tremendously. Even the ice cream taste lousy.

I was glad that this trip include a team building session tat occupied half of my time. I swear, the best part of this crusing trip is actually the team bldg itself. Other than tat, we are like unwanted souls, wandering around wif no purpose.

Good thing there r still some mahjong players who help to kill some time on the square table. I'm not into casino (not enuff spare $ & guts to try my luck), neither am I interested in visiting the library or hair saloon (who needs to do their hair on the ship, the serious gamblers might be pulling out their hair unknowingly). I din bring any gym gear or swim wear, so exercise is out. There r too little shops to last me for half an hour, not to say half a day. So tat leaves oni the mahjong room, theatre, disco, lounge and games room. Thus, it's pretty obvious that there is literally nothing much to do on tat ship.

Despite my complaint of the boredom, I actually find this trip quite fun. Firstly, it was my 1st trip with the whole dept. 2ndly, we r confine together so we do lots of tings together. There are actually alot of laughter through out, some r silly yet memorable.

I believe I'll keep the memories wif me forever, thanks to my dear colleagues. They r really a nice bunch of pple.

I wish that there are more such trips by the company (who wld not like to go on free trips :P).

:)