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Well it’s here, a cross road in life again. The beacon is set and lit up red awaiting my attention. I know language is not my forte but please do excuse me when I’m unable to articulate well, especially in the grammar department.

So it was time for the half yearly appraisal and I’m presented with a fresh perspective of life and what to expect from hence forth. Where do I see myself and what do I see myself become? It is not a time for self pity but a time for reflection and thought. As a kid I always have dreams of being someone but I have never found myself to be resilient in what I do and always put out ideas but never been able to see them through. Things did change during my days in polytechnic and during a year in secondary school when my Maths teacher cried in front of my class. But I kind of loss this fighting spirit along the way and cheerful as I am I have eroded the very core of my being. I have lost something, someone or worse… myself.

So blame it on national service, 2 1/2 freaking years of mindless exercise and duties. It totally dulled my mind and I think I got really stupid in those 2 1/2 years. Stripped of my drive, where was the “I want to go OCS and become officer spirit”? Damn it what happened? Where did I mess up?

The stage is set for a recollection of ideas and of course the review of my life in the next few days. I just need to pray about it and spend time talking to the person who treasures me the most. I really need wisdom to carry on, I’m tired and need a break, I want to redo my room and be re-energized again.

Think a little, pray a lot and take a leap of faith.

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Here goes the GST hike as of 1st July 2007, Singaporeans now play 7% GST for things they purchase rising from the previous 5%. The great part about this is the the government is very nice to give us a “package” to cushion the “blow”. Well there is the best part about this, in order to prevent oneself from paying more then what the offset package provides you can only spend SGD$10,000 so that the SGD$200 covers your hike of 2%. Well that being said, it is good as at least I can save more and spend less. Those who are poorer and do not even get SGD$10,000 a year would definately benefit from this program and it becomes an ideal situation as the poorer would benefit from this. Yay for being poor ya?

NOT…

Why do I say this? reason being the GST only went up by 2% but vendors have already started to take advantage of this hike and make ridiculous and blatant increases in their prices. I’ll cite an example, I went to Maxwell market to have a Po Lo Bao, so prices were usually SGD$1 for the bun which I felt was just okay, I mean it’s just a bun and some char siew inside it. So I paid up and was stopped by the kind auntie who said, sorry mister the price has risen to SGD$1.40. I was taken a back and being the nice guy I paid up and then started to do some maths.

The bloody bun went up 40%! 40 freaking percent, I mean come on using the hike to create an opportunity to exploit the public. If I want to pay SGD$1.40 for a freaking bun from a hawker center I rather give it a miss and just have something else. It’s a bloody rip off if you tell me, please wake up your idea and think about it. I can get something of a even higher quality at breadtalk and still show off that I’m eating expensive bread. They should be fined for making such blatant increases!
Consumer protection is really poor in Singapore and retailers will continue to do as they please. I feel that one day I’ll be one of the poor ones in this country. Prices are just going to continue rising in this cut throat society. It will just suck and suck you dry, one day GST will go up again and it’s all right because they say so and retailers will continue to play games with the consumers. If nothing is done about “controlling” the retailers the consumers will just suffer, this is one of the perhaps many other cases I have yet to encounter.

Worked late last night and hailed a cab home. Well I waited and to my delight I got a Mercedes cab and quickly hopped into the cab thinking that I’ll have a great ride in luxury and comfort but I was sadly mistaken.

Before I could even belt up the taxi uncle just sped off, perhaps the closest scenario that could come to my mind was that of the scene in the French film Taxi. Imagine for the first time in my life I actually felt and heard a cab wheel spin! Okay, it was brief but the wheels actually lost traction with the road and boy was I in for a surprise. The guy drove like Daniel, the main lead in the show taking small lanes, heavy acceleration and braking making the ride less then pleasant.

I was tired and all I wanted was the luxury of comfort or what I thought I would be getting when I hopped into a Mercedes cab at least. What good does it do when a company tells you that you should travel in style and feel comfortable when not a single ounce of my body felt so. This is a good example of a staff having a total mis-match with the prevailing brand personality of the Mercedes Cab fleet.

The worst part about the ride was that the car was never meant to be a race car and it damn well felt uncomfortable cause the spring settings and such were not developed for such intense driving. I arrived home feeling even more worn out, I hope my next experience will be a better one.

Yeah man, for the last month weeks seem to be eaten up by some invisible monster who loves time, every single day at the office is like entering a vortex where time is grossly accelerated and before you know it, the day has come to an end and it’s time to go home, to go back to rest so that I can be productive at work the following day.

Really will rest ever come? IDIs, meetings, audits, analysis, brain storming, CRM. Hmm… I really wonder what I am good at, do I know myself, do I know what I am doing really? Who is SerSiTiv?

I think it’s time to take a bit of time off and reflect on life and find out my real self, do a little personal branding and see what it does for me and of course with that I think a revamp of this website will be underway if I ever get down to do some personal branding.

Ok time to end the day, or so I think… Sorry if I sound disjoint cause I’m quite brain dead already. Hope tomorrow will be a better day.

Life in Singapore is some times quite crazy, I really do wonder if we are just Kay Poh by nature. It’s like this in built sensor that drives us crazy if we do not address this need, and this sensor is set off by things like accidents, fires etc. But really is all the visual stimulant necessary or just a plain waste of time.

This really sparked me off on this topic as I was traveling along the CTE this morning, and yeah an accident occurred before I made it to the 2nd gantry. Of course it was already about 7:28 when I was caught in this jam that entailed from the first gantry. So well I had to pay the stupid ERP charges because of the jam. What fascinated me really was that Singaporeans slow down to watch. I mean you want those 4D numbers or are you just plain Kay Poh? It’s an accident, someone got hurt but what about the stupid gantry? Come on, move on and save $0.50 for the guy behind you, not that it’s a big thing but it’s still money.

I think it’s a ploy by LTA, arrange a “mock” accident and delay the cars behind so that you can get more ERP money. Well stop being to Kay Poh and drive when you need to or else you may be the next “thing” that people will be kay poh about!

Hello yes I’m blogging again, this time quite early in the morning. I guess you can say that it was quite a refreshing experience getting up earlier. Maybe it is because of a interview I would be going to later. No if you were thinking Job Change that is not the case.

It’s quite interesting the things you see in the morning, I’m kind of siting at Starbucks having a brew of the day and listening to what goes on around here, there is this guy who is speaking his heart out to a Caucasian lady. Talking about technology and such, I’m starting to understand how come some would find it a turn off and it’s time I start to get my mind involved in the more human kinds of stuff like reading more newspaper. Oh yeah turn off because the other party cannot understand what I am talking about hahaha.

Life has been great I should think, I do not lack anything but I think I’m just complacent about life. But humans, being the way we are would never be satisfied when we see others having more. It’s really about capability and how one strives to become “bigger” in this society. Why? Cause I was just thinking how come I would choose a Starbucks for coffee when I could get one at a near by cafe which brings my average cost up 4 times. It’s something in me, I really do think I need to start picking up my bible more often and get my daily spiritual nutrition, when faced with more then 18 hours of crap a day a 15 min devotion is such a small fraction of that time.

Well that is that and good morning life, perhaps this should be a turning point. Can I do a second “life” physically or even spiritually? At this cross road I can only stand and stare, a little afraid, a little pessimistic about the next step to take.

I’ll end here for now to save those reading from absorbing my negativity, time to log off and prepare for the interview at the same time perhaps take out my devotion notes and devote some time to them.

Oh BTW in Sunday School when teachers teach you about envy and that it is bad, trust me it is bad. Be satisfied in life and you’ll live to be a happier person. If not the never ending cycle to attain what others have would leave you rather miserable.

Hi everyone or anyone who ever does read this blog, welcome back to my life again. This place was created as an avenue for me to release my neural capacity because soon I’m going to explode with billions of electron transfers encased within my skull.

Work has been quite demanding for me, without prior training or experience I placed myself in a industry where I would potentially be unable to perform. But on the other hand it would be a good way to experience more of life and build up myself to meet greater demands in the near future.

The only problem or perhaps one of the many problem I have is the way I present myself, my whole library of words and phrases is in a rojak bowl, full of everything. Somewhere in the pile I have some programming conventions and languages, somewhere else I have my English grammar, somewhere there I would have my report writing set of words and phrases. As you can see it is definitely Not Organized at All.

The weeks are passing by really fast and my mind if full of what I potentially have to do the next day, it’s a crazy race to ensure that deadlines are kept so that clients are happy and your boss would be happy. I’m starting to feel the strain of being too many things in one, ideally I wanted this role so that I can expand my capabilities and add value to the company. But now I guess I’m struggling with even the most basics of basics. Perhaps I’m really what they call a Jack of all trades master of non.

So lets keep this blog as simple as possible for my readers, that is the way business writing should be ya? Simple and straight to the point, I think life is crazy and every single day flashes by so quickly it seems quite hard for me to breath. I guess it’s time to take a little time off, go for some R&R, recharge and move on again.

On the side note, EntityX do you have gala premier tickets to transformers?

And life goes on…

The third installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, the film has continued to capture audiences with their key character Jack Sparrow. He hides the brilliance of his pirate heritage under a shell or stupidity and chance. Being either super lucky or just plain smart I would leave it for the discerning audience to judge.

So how does this installment hold up the name of Jack Sparrow? From what I feel the show has started to bore me in some ways, yeah the action is still there, the funny is still there but what I feel about this installment is that there is not really much about Jack Sparrow who only appears now and then to help piece the story together, instead Captain Barbossa , William and Elizabeth taking major screen time. So other then lots of gun fights and sword play there isn’t much adventure in the adventure, rather it’s just a story to help complete where they left off from the second installment. There are countless dialog in the show, full of talk, and talk and talk, trying to explain too much until it get a little confusing, of course 1/2 way into the show the sleepiness sets in and kind of makes me wanna doze off with various long scenes of conversation and sailing over mysterious oceans.

Elizabeth did really show a lot more in this installment, looking pretty as ever, the cloths do seem designed to fit her well. Of course who can forget. “Welcome to Singapore”, I would have loved it if Singapore had such cool pirates, looked more like China pirates to me and you definitely will not believe how well they live, but all that said, it was meant to be a fairy tale so lets just leave it as that. You’ll find yourself in for a shock if you watched the film prior to visiting Singapore.

Anyway my take is that the story line is somewhat confusing with lots of witty dialog and unnecessary dramatization of non key events, do not expect a happy ending as our hero never fail to deliver his dose of bad luck upon himself. It’s good for the laughs, eye candy and amazing sets so be prepare to enjoy your favorite pirate and do set your expectations low on the story line.

Got a new pair of shoes after shoving around the warehouse for about 30 minutes or so. This pair cost me $43 quite affordable for me. Simple design in a dark shade of brown. Suddenly I feel like a woman, what the heck was I doing at such a shoe warehouse sale?

*Checks below* Seems fine to me…

Yes I am back again this time with a load of crap up my …. desk, lots and lots of this crap is accumulating up here. The reason being that the crap will just find it’s way when I’m not at my desk and conveniently place itself here. Getting back from an interview or a meeting only makes me face this ever growing pile.

It gets worse when I go for interviews, I come back and find that I have to stack some more crap on top of this pile of existing crap. The crap at the bottom of the pile needs more attention else it becomes hard crap and then it will be very hard to scrape off the desk. Hard crap is also liable for attention from the Boss and they will ask you why you never take care of the hard crap first and it gets thrown at your face and because it is hard it will hurt.

So remember to always remove the crap from your table by converting the crap into a more presentable form and handing it over to the relevant parties.

And thanks very much for reading my crap.

Nike plus created a celebrity challenge between Daniel Ong and Carrie Chong. So Nike+ users in Singapore lets log on and support the team that you desire. Of course Carrie is my pick

This is quite sided, there are many supporting Carrie Wonder if the results are based on supporters or based on distance ran by the celebrities.

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There comes a time where there is a need to sacrifice in order to succeed, and I think the time is now. The transition of moving from IT centric job scope to a branding job scope is trying and of course hard. It has not been an easy 3 months but nothing unmanageable. I guess it’s really myself. If I sit down and take the time to read through what I have to do and of course see it with an open perspective I think I’ll adapt to the new life ahead.

Once I cross this hurdle I want to move forward, I want to differentiate, I want to innovate and become someone who can add value though what I can do. Trying times are ahead. Brace yourself and move quickly, the wave is here, grasp it with open arms because a hero is not someone who let others decide what he should be but one who show others who he truly is.

It’s been a long long time since I have last posted on my blog, the work is great, but it seems to me like it’s starting to make me feel really tired. Super drained from all the activities, the work, the music practices, the running around, the IT support and all the other things that occupy my time. I think it’s time to slow down a little, Ten Thousand Thoughts per Hour is how I describe my life now. Thinking all the time, no time to rest for a little relaxation. Maybe that is why I decided to come in here for a little anger release, I think…

Things in life are falling into place, little pieces at a time, small but the picture is forming in my life, opportunities, chances, hard work. I need to find the time to spend in quiet meditation, a place that I can release my spirit and soul to the one I call God. Somehow I feel that I’ve lost a crucial link in my life, something I know I need to connect with but am somehow unable to reach out and make that connection.

It’s time I stop thinking and start to do, time to move from this crazy life, everyday is a damn rush, today was a rush, the last 3 days were a rush, it feels good to work, but at the same time it’s starting to make me feel so tried. There are tons of work in the pipeline, research, findings, reading, photography, videos. Wow I think I’ve started to value add my life, I’m alive!

Okay so what is this post about, well it’s just to put things simply, I’ve got 10000 things running though my mine every hour, time to slow down and find out what matters most.

Got this for an uncoming trip, I really do not think 2 gb would be enough storage for my Camera, Nikon D70s, shooting RAW requires massive memory, so I hope the 10gb HDD is sufficient for the trip. Anyway yeah this gadget lets you place a storage media, Compact Flash, SD, MMC etc and copy them into the Hard Disk within the enclosure. Battery lasts for about 2 hours and it should be more then enough to fill a few CF cards before running out.

I got this at SGD $49 in Sim Lim Square. I’ll let you guys know if it came in handy for my trip, of course I hope I will find the time to post some photos espicially when I tell you guys that I do photography as well.