In Hindsight

As part of the departmental Sports Carnival, yesterday and today were the foosball event.

I joined solely for the lucky draw, which is eligible for participants only. The first prize is an Ultrabook you see, and I really want one for my wifey.

Hey, at least I am honest! =P

Nelson, who's in the same group, who signed me up in the first place saying we would be a team, 'aeroplaned*' me yesterday. But I stuck to it, for the Ultrabook, of course. =P

* gave me the slip

I partnered with another teammate, who is good in foosball, and let my 10% skill plus 90% luck carried us through two straight wins. The second team of our group, the mixed double, performed admirably winning two straight games as well so our group got into foosball final, which happened today.

Nelson was there today, the group decided to stick with yesterday's pairing for the first two teams since it worked quite well. I was in the first team, so Nelson ended up in the third team.

With the skill of my teammate and my sheer dumb luck, we won the first match in two straight games. Nelson, probably bought by our opponent team since they have pretty ladies in their team, tried his damnest to distract me during my play.

Our group lost the second match, the mixed double match so the third team was up. Nelson in action, and had the pressure of deciding the outcome. My chance to revenge, muahahaha!

Only I didn't. Not that I didn't want to, mind you, it's because I lack Nelson's nonsense talking skill. =\

And I wanted my group to win also lar...

During Nelson's play, his mobile phone rang, he looked at the caller and passed the phone to me, asked me to talk to 'Ayam' (Malay for chicken). Which I did, all nice and proper, informing Ayam about Nelson's situation.

In retrospect, I should have cracked some jokes instead. Guess I am just not a quick-witted person, oh well. Anyway, here are the jokes in hindsight:

"This is Nelson Tan, the God of Birds voice mail, recorded using the irresistible sexy voice of CK Goh, please leave a message after the tone. *Beep!*"

"You have reached Nelson Tan, the God of Birds' answering machine. Press one for English, press two for chicken language, press zero to speak to a real person."

"*buuck buuck buuck buuck buuck...*" (random chicken sound)

=P

Oh, our group won the foosball event, woohoo to sheer dumb luck! =P

 

第十个

晚餐后和妻子聊天，谈到她干妹的婚事，说仅是订婚钻戒或婚纱就多过我们整个婚礼的费用。

干妹的未婚夫是个剃光头的有钱人，我带点自嘲的说：

“都不知道为什么你要嫁给我？光头是光头，但是是个穷光头，应该像你干妹那样嫁个有钱的嘛。”

“嫁给你的时候你还有头发，过后才变光头。”

“变光头还可以啦，因为十个光头九个富嘛，怎么知道你是第十个。”

“哈哈哈！你好可怜。”

妻子也噗嗤一笑。

我想，唯一我还可以说的应该也只有‘我很丑，可是我很温柔’吧？

^_^

Dinner with the ladies, part three

Apparently, disclosing their eating capability hasn't got me banned, as I was invited to another dinner with the ladies this evening.

^_^

Though I think as a revenge, they tagged me as a kettle for the one dinner that I missed because I was on business trip. Don't mess with the ladies. -_-"

This time it's also a birthday dinner, but unlike last time, this time we had cake and song!

Home made cake by wifey and birthday song led by the shameless evil one*, totally against the birthday aunty girl's wish.

*me ler!

Today I was a bit** blur so I may not recall all the topics chatted. Think there were talks about when the aunties girls knew each other in high school (felt so left out), about eyebrows, about pregnancy, about baby, sleeping with baby, giving baby shower, baby delivery and reminder to take some throat soothing medication or supplement before going into the delivery room so can scream and shout with gusto (needless to say it's Yours Truely who said that =P).

**okay okay, more blur than usual

Well, the trend of increasing lady count didn't continue. Though I am still stuffed today, so that part is still same old same old. =P

As usual, a very joyous evening. Thanks ladies! =)

21 days is a long time

Started an experiment slightly less than two weeks ago. I wasn't the gung ho one who committed this in front of everyone, but I am sadly the lowly cheap labour being assigned to get my hands dirty and make it happen.

It's not like this is the first time anyway. Really. If only my tai chi is good, or I am also one of those 'talkers'. Honest worker can't prosper it seems.

Oh well, knew all along there is a downside to upholding my principles.

Anyway, experiment went smoothly for a week then it started to go haywire. Not surprised, and it's nothing I couldn't handle. Yet.

Mind, it's a 24/7 experiment for 21 days straight, I would be surprised if it went without a hiccup or two. As the experiment nearing the end of the first week, I had to give the system a kick or two to keep things going.

At the beginning of the second week I had to conduct full day training for three days straight. Yes yes, I know, it boggles the mind that I am a trainer. Sometimes I find it hard to believe as well. =P

So the other unfortunate colleague who got assigned to run this shit lovely experiment had to take over. He is a good bloke really, but his experience in the system is somewhat limited.

And of course Murphy's Law had to strike then, in the morning when I started my class, the experiment went belly up. The colleague tried his best, I am sure he did. He took the initiative to seek help troubleshooting while I was not available, it's a pity he didn't get the right person.

So the experiment went down for three days until I was done with the training and was able to go have a look. After a quick check I realised the root cause wasn't what the colleague suspected, it's something beyond my capability. But I know which expert to call, so the experiment was up and running again later that day.

Darn you Murphy! If only you picked a time when I wasn't otherwise engaged.

Ever since this experiment started, I had been checking my e-mails every night on weekdays, before I go to sleep. On weekends, work e-mail is the first thing I check as soon as I wake up, then again after lunch, and the usual before sleep.

This is totally ruining my slacker reputation! =\

Oh, and the non-existent work/life balance.

Saw the dreaded 'system down' e-mail this morning. I covered last weekend so this weekend is under my colleague's care, but I figured I better go get it sorted out so that's exactly what I did.

I have no life whatsoever. >_<

You know, 21 days suddenly felt like such a long time. I am really looking forward to the end of this experiment. Still a tad more than a week to go, another weekend.

And I could really use a karaoke session after that.

男人不是人

夫妻俩除了分享快乐就是要分担痛苦的嘛，所以今天我向老婆仔抱怨诉苦。

讲了好一阵她都无动于衷，于是我忍不住问了句：

“怎么你都不同情我的？”

“哼？男人也会要人同情的乜？不是只要听解决方法的啊？”

“什么啦！当然也是要人同情啦！”

“男人也是人来的。”

“是乜？”

“！！！”

*惊*〔王祖蓝的‘我接受唔到咯！’〕

呆了好一阵。

“是的，男人也是人来的…”

过后老婆仔才解释说她的‘是乜？’是回应我的‘当然也是要人同情啦！’

哈哈！=P

中了「那些年」的毒

看了「那些年，我们一起追的女孩」那部电影后，我开始听「那些年」这主题曲。

听了「那些年」好几遍后我开始点击观看You Tube里和「那些年」有关的幕后花絮和网民上载的相关影片。

其中有个是九把刀和几位演员出现在戏院里给台湾影迷一个惊喜的，柯导九把刀在问答环节中的一些答案真的是棒极了。

两天前，我去书局买了九把刀「那些年，我们一起追的女孩」的小说。今天中午我看完了这生平第二本爱情小说。

我看的第一本爱情小说（妻子买的）是Cecelia Ahern写的「PS, I Love You」，也是看过电影后才看小说的。所以「那些年」可是我生平买的第一本爱情小说，和我生平看的第一本中文爱情小说！

现在我很想要看未剪的完整电影，甚至认真考虑要收藏。

天啊！我想，我真的是中毒了。

真是的，明明就是他人的爱情故事，我干吗要被那些情怀感染？

搞得心里情感起伏滔天，感触很深，久久不能释怀。

真是莫名其妙！

不过也因为看过电影和小说后都会被唤起这样的感觉，我给个： 9/10

Home Alone, extended version

Ten days, extended to fifteen because the kings want to stay at the in-laws' a while longer.

Why oh why does no body miss daddy? =(

And only because his mommy said he has to ask me for the extension, that my elder son reluctantly talked to me on the phone, after all those days being away. Both the kings didn't want to talk to me.

And on some days, even my wifey didn't want to talk to me, preferring the television and the mahjong.

Why oh why does no body love me? =(

While they are having fun over at the in-laws', abandoning me to grow spiderweb and cultivate mushrooms, I have fallen ill to a serious case of hug withdrawal.

Hug Withdrawal

Cause:

Prolonged hug deficiency and insufficient cuddling.

Symptoms:

Depression, bolster obsession, moodiness, hug-related fantasies, mentally imbalance, anti-socialism, not-a-happy-bunny-ness.

Cure:

Hugging and cuddling. For best effect, fondle loved one passionately.

Initially the title was Hug Withdrawal, but I like this title more. =)

心语·天国

小天使，六年了

你在天堂还好吧？

妈妈和两个弟弟去找外公外婆

你有在看顾着他们吗？

我想你也会是粘外公外婆

和超级粘你小舅的吧？

爸爸这几天心情有点低落

所以今天想起你额外伤感

不要担心，爸爸会没事的

你可要做开心快乐的小天使哦

乖乖了，我的小天使

Evil vanquished

I suppose, besides being able to sleep undisturbed, the only other good thing about wifey and the kings being away is that I have a lot more time to play computer game, undisturbed.

Evil is back and after three weeks, I finally vanquished it for the first time. ^_^

First normal difficulty kill, with my wizard

Compared to those who killed it within hours of the game being released, I am positively turtle speed. =P

 

can't you like, hold your head with both hands?

Each to his or her own, I have never been the "rushing" or power gamer type. Things like first kill, phatest loot, or any ranking stuff mean nothing to me. Guess I just have no epeen. =P

 

my wizard first death, killed by the environment! >_<

Don't have many screenshots since game pace is fast and need both hands to play so I didn't hit the print screen key all that often. =)

Just sharing a few of the screenshots of my wizard along her journey to normal difficulty Diablo kill in this entry.

 

kaboom!

Of course I have been playing all five classes at the same time. Wizard is the first created and first to kill Diablo. My barbarian has just entered Act 4, my monk and witch doctor in Act 3 and my demon hunter bringing up the rear in Act 2.

 

gotta try every new skill or rune uncovered. This one is shiny!

Alrighty, back to gaming! =)

那些年

刚刚看了「那些年，我们一起追的女孩」，感触良多。

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虽然我中学时就读的是全男校，所以我没有剧中的那些经验，但戏里的情感却深深烙在我心中，动人心旋。

也许拍得好的戏就能触动观众感性的那面，唤起一种共鸣的感觉吧？还是只是自己感情丰富所以容易感动？

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怎么都好，我终于明白，为何朋友在唱这出戏的主题曲时有那么多的情感。

我在想，究竟，同时给这么多人追的感觉是怎样的？

如果有下一世，我想做迷人可爱的女生！

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女主角笑时的酒窝，让我想起一位朋友的笑容。唔，她还好吧？

Sudden Peace

I took two days off, making it an extra long weekend in addition to the replacement holiday for Agong's birthday.

According to the tag the FedEx employee left on my door the past two days, the delivery was attempted around 13:10 hours, on both days. Today* will be the last delivery attempt.

So I left the door open while I had my simple fried egg and bread lunch near to 13:00 hours. When I was done with lunch, cleaned and washed up. The delivery hasn't heppened.

I took a can of chilled Coke from the fridge and went out to the corridor. The wind was howling, the dark clouds were closing in.

In fact, light drizzle fell onto me when I was out there, but I didn't mind it. It's not going to kill me.

Then all of a sudden I felt a sense of peacefulness. There outside my front door, with the wind blowing, light rain falling, and sipping my chilled Coke.

Just like that, tranquillity. My mind wandered and imagined myself besides a quiet beach.

Which is quite ironic as I was facing the graveyard hill.

Just as I was thinking how nice it would be if I was really at a secluded beach, with wifey, just the two of us, without the kids, without care and just enjoying the peace and quiet, the noon time prayers broke my reverie.

Bummer. If I ever got the chance to go on such a break, it must be a place without mosque.

Anyway, after I finished my Coke with no FedEx personnel showing up, I came home, closed the door, and wrote this entry. I am done now, it's 14:00 hours and still no delivery.

Oh well.

* this entry was written on 31st of May 2012, but I had reached my self-imposed 11 entries per month limit in May so this entry will be posted in June.