Final day of year 2008

Today is the last day of year 2008, have been quite a busy month for me ever since i came back from my exams leave.

We have a few projects rushing to catch the deadline for planter box/baywindow GFA exemption, my team leader has been chasing at us to get the submission in ASAP. Everyday has to listen to his nagging. One by one we managed to get the job done. =)

While busy for our work we also have sometime for our year end Christmas party at our Studio 2/3, this year our office wanted to bring more joy to the children from Child@street11 ,which is our office adopted charity, by giving them some Christmas presents. There a wishing list from the children and we can choose which gift we want to give. I choose to give a toy jet plane to a six year old boy. =)

This year our exam results seem to release quite early...haiz..i din do well at all.. i got all 3 B-, however, i am happy to see that my Cap points is improving bit by bit..but mathematically i have no chance of getting a 3rd class le...hope to finish off my final sem with better results next year. =)

Our company has announced that we will get our paycut in march 2009, hopefully that can help to sustain our company expenses for one whole year and hope that the economic can recover fast in later 2009.

I hereby wish everyone a wonderful year ahead and hope the days in 2009 is filled with things that mean the most to you!!!

Cheers!!

CK

1st December.. =)

Wa! How can one month passed so fast...? I thought i last posted was 2 weeks ago..so fast december liao!
Okie..okie...three things i want to say...first of all, my exams is finally over, i took 3 papers this semester, all open book exam, which is good, don't need to memories. Secondly, is back to work tomorrow, after 2 weeks 'break' i really don't feel like going back to work, these 2 weeks although i didn't enjoy myself (cos studying) but at least i don't need to wake up so early and can sleep till i want to wake up..so good! Lastly, thanks goodness this month alot of holiday to look forward. =)

Many things to do.

OMG...2 months + din post anything liao...time flies too fast. I am too busy with my work, assignment and draft dissertation. Two weeks later even have a class test for one of my module, after that will soon be examinations. Stress...

I have been taking leave on every friday of October to try doing my dissertation, but most of the time found myself doing other projects which the deadline is so near, so until now my dissertation only done 30%..very jialat. Must quickly do liao.

Economic is bad now, we are in recession,heard my company is trying to cut down manpower by getting majority of the staffs to do a cad drawing test, your test will be assess by the softwear company (Bentley), pass or fail will be notify by your director, then you will know your fate liao. Scary? Haha.

I heard it all started from our IR project kena complained that the drawings are terrible and no standard, this has upset our CEO, hence, i believe he wanted to do such a test to eliminate those who can't draw properly, indirectly i think they are also trying to get rid of some staffs lah. To me a staff is good or not cannot be judge just by its speed of drawing, whether he is hardworking or not is also important. Since the problem came from the IR side why don't they just test those group of people?

Gold or Silver Olympic medal for Singapore

Wow…History has been made, a moment which will be remembered by many Singaporeans at least for the next 4 years from now. Singapore wins its first Olympic medal in 48 years on 15th August 2008 when the women's table tennis team made it into the final of the team event by beating South Korea 3-2. It has been a long wait for Singapore since our weightlifter Tan Howe Liang won the only silver medal for Singapore's at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

I must say they are the first Olympic medal winners since Singapore independence in 1965.

Today Feng Tianwei was the heroine. She gave Singapore a good start by winning the 1st set and secured Singapore the final spot by winning the crucial 5th set.

Singapore will face China in the final on Sunday. It is either a gold or a silver medal for Singapore, although most people will think China will win, but we will keep our fingers cross, because anything can happen when it comes to a final match.

Well done to the women's table tennis team…you have done us proud! =)

Here are the Semi-final results: Singapore beat South Korea 3-2

Feng Tianwei (SIN) bt Dang Ye Seo (KOR) 11-5, 11-5, 11-2

Kim Kyung Ah (KOR) bt Li Jiawei (SIN) 5-11, 11-8, 9-11, 11-6, 11-9

Wang Yuegu/Li Jiawei (SIN) bt Park Mi Young/Kim Kyung Ah (KOR) 11-7, 11-6, 11-9

Dang Ye Seo (KOR) bt Wang Yuegu (SIN) 11-8, 14-12, 11-9

Feng Tianwei (SIN) bt Park Mi Young (KOR) 11-7, 12-10, 3-11, 11-9.

Community Shield 2008

Manchester United won the 2008 community shield last night, the match featured last season league champion’s Manchester United against the FA cup winner’s Portsmouth. It was the repeat of the FA cup semi-final fixture between these two teams, which Man U lost at home by 1-0. Last night match was not very exciting; both sides have equalled chances to score.

The match ended 0-0 draw and had to settle by a penalty shoot-out which Man U won 3-1 on penalties to cling the trophy for the 2nd consecutive year. It was also a sweet revenge. Man U’s Tevez, Giggs and Carrick all successfully converted their spot-kick, Defoe scored the only goal for Portsmouth, his teammates had missed two and one was saved by the veteran Edwin Van Der Sar, the hero who had made 3 clean saved (3-0) also from a penalty shootout in this community shield against Chelsea last year and again made the crucial saved from Chelsea’s Nicholas Anelka to win Man U the Champions League last May in Moscow.

Hope this is a good start for Man U and hope they will win all the competitions along the way throughout this season. Cheers!!! =)

080808...Special Date Special Day

Today is a special day…8th August 2008…080808…too many Chinese it is an auspicious day because of the Triple ‘8’ digit…hahaha.
Well, I think to many people to be able to see this date is really special, because the next 080808 will be 100 years later in year 2108. In fact this is the 2nd time in my life so far to see such a special day, 20 years ago, I remember the date 080888, which was even more special. =)

Here are something to remember in this special date.

1) Heehee..Its friday..weekend mood..and also National Day eve.
2) Beijing Olympic finally begin, today is the opening ceremony.
3) This is the most important one..Singapore pools give a TOTO
jackpot of big prize of 8 million+..Wow!!! 9 of my team members
each contributed $10 to share buy the ‘hopefully can win
tickets’..wish us good luck and make this day even more special to
remember...haha! =)

National Museum Light Festival

HiHi..See these pictures!!! This is not done by photoshop…Okok..I know it can be done, but my photoshop skill is not up to that level yet, anyway, if I know how to do it, I would have decorate it with Manchester United logo, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool..the list goes on..haha!

These pictures were taken by my director last week when he went to the National Museum light festival. Later that night, I took bus 190 which had passed by the place and so lucky that the bus stopped at a long traffic and the nice spot enable me to witness this amazing light changing design on the building façade. Altogether I saw three different designs; the changing interval was about 30 sec…I think so.

I have never seen such an amazing thing before, there were a few big light boxes located at different areas, I believe this was where the graphics were being thrown out onto the building, but how it can be done so accurately and fitted nicely on each column and cornices is really amazing. I don’t know how it was being done. Anyway, I really appreciate this masterpiece of art-lighting graphic design. :)

Heartfelt Farewell to my close friend and teammates

Today is an emotional day to me cos today is my close friend Zairi last day at DP, he is also my polyclassmate, we joined the company the same year and it was our 1st job also. 1 month ago I was very surprised to hear that he was leaving, i think probably due to work stress or maybe he just want to change a new working environment. To many of us in DP he was a very diligent worker, he knows the authorites codes and submission very well, everytime many people came up to him for some authorites issues, including me..haha. His departure will be a great loss to the authority team. In fact my boss had already approached him and tell him to join our team if he decides to return to DP, through this we can tell that he is a capable worker even my director also admired him. Well, i know where he is going, but i won't disclose here in my blog. I wish him all the best and hope he will settledown fast in his new workplace...and hopefully he will come back to us very soon. =)

Coincidentally, two of my teammates will also be leaving us tommorrow, Maggie and Iskandar Toha, they have been with us for 1 year, both are also very hardworking staffs, today our team have a farewell party for them at the design bay. All of us had wrote down our best wishes in the farewell cards, we wish them good luck and success in their future. =)

Olympic 2008 is coming

The Olympic is coming soon, I think is about 14-15 days away, just like World Cup this world sport event is held once every 4 years, I don’t think I am able to catch all the games, but there are a few which I will try to watch and it is also my favourite, such as basketball, athletics, gymnastics, swimming, soccer and the synchronise swimming, I like to watch their lively and graceful routine and I find it amazing to do those routine in the water..cool !!!

I have try to find some Olympic logo from 1976 to 2008, among all these logo, I still find the 1992 version the best, maybe I like thing that are simple. The 2nd is the 1984 version, I still remembered I had a soft toy of that mascot, 3rd will go to the 1996 version. What is yours? =)

Spain the European Champion

Oops..my prediction is wrong...hahaha...

Spain is the Euro 2008 winner...Congratulations to them...they are the most consistence team and have remain unbeaten throughout this tournament. They deserve to win and they are the 1st team to win the new trophy, it is the same design but the size is larger than the past.

Liverpool striker Fernando Torres was the hero last night as he fired Spain to their 2nd European Championship since 1964.

The tournament had finally ended after 3 intense weeks of non-stop football action. Have to wait for another 4 years, this time will be another two countries co-hosting the tournament, Ukraine and Poland. Hope they can do better than Switzerland and Austria and hope this time England won't miss out on this tournament again. :)

Euro 2008 Final: Germany will win.

Tomorrow morning is the Euro 2008 final; I predict that Germany will be the winner. In fact it is a close call between them and Spain, whom have performed very well and have stay unbeaten so far.
Whenever I can’t decide who the winner is, I always like to look at some history to come out with a ‘formula’ to predict the winner. So why do I think that Germany will win?
I have two explanations:

Exception in the 1960s, Germany had gone on to win the tournament once in every decade; they won it in 1972 in the 70s, in 1980 in the 80s and in 1996 in the 90s. Euro 2008 will be the last for this decade; hence, I believe Germany should win.

Another scenario I have notice is beside the 1972 victory, whenever Germany had won the tournament, the defending champion for that tournament was an underdog team. In 1980, the defending champion was Czechoslovakia. In 1996, the defending champion was Denmark. In this tournament the defending champion was also an underdog team which is Greece, hence, this seem like it is going to favour Germany again.

Well, it’s just my anyhow figure-out prediction not guarantee…but I do hope that my prediction is right. We shall see…haha!

My 2nd Home

Today let me introduce to you my 2nd home..that is my office..Yess !!! A place which I have to spend nearly 9hrs or more from monday to friday and sometime even during the weekend. I don't really like my work, but i like my workspace, that is why i have this thinking...that is to make a nice working environment to make you feel like going to work..clever?...ok..i know it sound 'bo liao'..haha!..nevermind.

Over the years i have always try to decorate my workspace with pictures and toys that i like. Some I have retained for many years, because i really like them, for example my EPL coin box trophy, which filled with only 20 cent coins and its already nearly 4years. Another favourite is the IQ Professor and Arale which is a wind-up toy. My all time favourite is the lego version Ernie (somewhere below the computer screen). Recently just got a new one, which is a bear in Mr Fantastic Four version, i also added a wrestling belt to it...haha. All these toys have accompany me everyday during my stressful work. Other pictures are for me to look at to release stress... :)

Netherlands crushed out in Euro 2008

My heart was broken... :(

My fav Oranje army (Dutch for orange, nickname)
were eaten up by the thirsty Russian...

Netherlands were out of the Euro 2008 tournament after they lost to an in-form Russia, 3-1 after extra-time whom played very well this morning during their 1/4 finals encounter. The dutch players suddenly dropped their superb performance during the last 3 matches, they seem having difficulties in creating chances to score and their defence was very porous, many time in the match, the russians were able to make easy shooting chances inside the dutch's penalty area, if not because of the great holland goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar, who pulled of string of good saves, the match would had be ended in normal time.


Beside England, Holland is another team i like, they have always been my favourite since 1990. Every major tournament, the squad was always looked very strong and promising, but they always fall the hurdles during the knock-out stage, the best achievement they had so far was semi-final place in World Cup 98 and Euro 2000 and 2004. This year their squad is the strongest since World Cup 98, i thought they really have a good chance to win this tournament which they did 20 years ago, but too bad, they were out-played by the Russian who lead by the brillant dutchman Guus Hiddink.

Well, not much to look foward now, the tournament left only Germany, Turkey (Zzz...zz), Russia, Spain or Italy. I hope Spain will win Euro 2008...Good Luck to them.. :)

Euro 2008 Fever

Hi...i am getting more & more lazy to post my blog. I have many to write, i guess maybe i am just too lazy to write...haha.

I last posted my blog in April, that was way before my exams, & Manchester United was still chasing for the EPL tiltle and the champion leagues crown. Nearly 2 months have past, i have passed my exams and Man U had won the double. :)

My colleague Jane is out on a long medical leaves for a month, due to nose infection that she had to do an operation. Wish her a speedy recovery.

Last sunday my friend Zairi got married, wish him and his wife stay loving & blessing forever.

Now is my school holiday, i know i should start preparing for my dissertation, but i just want to relax abit first especially this month there is a EURO 2008...heeheehee! The tournament is still in the group stage, the 1/4 finals will start on thursday morning.

So far the tournament is quite exciting, there are some shocking results as well as some fantastic results, especially from my favourite team Netherlands, they had beaten Italy 3-0 and France 4-1, and they have top the group with a game to spare, if not wrong, their 1/4 final opponent is likely to be Russia lead by the former Netherlands coach Guus Hiddink.

Co-host Switzerland is out of the tournament after losing the 1st two matches, joining them is defending champion Greece. Last Night Spain also joined Portugal, Croatia and Netherlands into the 1/4 finals, there are 4 spots left, likely to be Romania, Russia, Czech Rep and Germany.

longtime din post.

OMG...Got 3 months + din post liao. So busy...time past so fast...Mth of May is coming soon. So many things have happen for the past 3 months...

In Feb, after submitted my URA submission, 3 days later client called to ask for a change of layout plan...ahhhh!!....stupid Kim Seng Plaza project keep changing layout plan, till now still haven't finallise with the design, fyi, there are about 50-80 options already (No Joke!!!)

In March , 3 friends got married...Siddiq, Jian Ming and Victor. Congratulations to them. :)

In April, busy with my school project and assignment, especially my Singapore Studies assignment 2, i am writing on Bishan Library, it is a very unique design building. Now i am busy studying for my exams, look forward for the long school holiday and Euro 2008 in June.

Lastly, update you on my Manchester United, In league, they are currently 1st, 3 point ahead of Chelsea, they will meet this weekend, a win over Chelsea will almost 100% successfully retain the EPL title, provided they don't slip-up against West Ham or Wigan. Man U is also in the semi-final of the UEFA Champion league, they will face Barcelona, hope they can make it to the final at Moscow to face either Chelsea or Liverpool, hopefully they can do a Double by winning both the EPL and Champion league. Cheers!!! :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Happy New Year !!!...So fast another brand new year has arrived. Hope many great things going to happen...haha! Well, the 1st thing happen is our team got another new project near Lakeside MRT and i heard rumour 1 more coming at Thompson road..''fainted''...so many new projects, currently we already got 3 new projects and 1 A&A to handle.

Well, there are 3 things i am looking forward, First, is to take a ride at the Singapore Flyer this coming March, Secondly, is to watch EURO 2008 in June, Holland is the team i will support. =) Lastly, can't wait to reach my final year of my part time studies at NUS this coming August.

I wish all my friends & colleagues good health & success in year 2008.