I read today The Newspaper about a loan shark touched by a women's plight, he gives her $300 instead hounding her for hubby's debt.

It remind me of Toh as he used to work as a loan shark collector before.

He told me once, he suppose to collect a debt and the man was not in (ran away) but his wife were at home though. The pity woman was crying not because of him but because she had no money to buy milk powder for her baby. Toh brought some milk powder and gave the woman some money before he left the place.

He was disgruntled and grumble to me, on that day not only did he failed not recovered debt but also lost money for the milk powder & 'donation' to the lady.

But deep inside I know he felt good about himself.

What goes around, comes around.
He's a believer of karma.

Have you ever wondered why A, B, C, D, DD, E and F are the letters used to define bra sizes? If you have wondered why, but couldn't figure out what the letters stood for, it's about time you became informed!

{A} - Almost Boobs...
{B} - Barely there.
{C} - Can't Complain!
{D} - Damn!
{DD} - Double damn!
{E} - Enormous!
{F} - Fake.

To be honest, I never thought of seeing Rachel again after we broke off because I'm sure somehow sub-consciously we will experience physical discomfort or so called awkward feeling I was pretty surprised when we met up after our separate ways, we were chatting like old friends again.

What astonished me even more was, when Rachel met me up today at Parkway, we were actually on the brink of engaging in a quarrel like the good old days. Arrgggg......

Just as I was preparing myself into retaliate mode, I started to pray, “Lord, give me the strength to deal with the people who are going to piss me off today.”

Suddenly, as if God has spoken, I realized something that I never grasp before and I fully comprehended now.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Make love not war as condoms are cheaper than guns.

Profound, but true though. My eyes suddenly were wide open and my temper subsided as quickly as it erupted. Hallelujah, I think I have attained a new level enlightenment yet again.

Rachel is here to hand me my birthday present and we went to Jack's place to have our lunch.


(Needless to say, food is yummy)


(Do you folks find Rachel a lot prettier these days?)


(This I like the most, very natural)

Having said that, I'm going to show you her 'ugly' pics. Maybe not.........You see, Rachel always maintain in showing only her prettier side only. (All women are naturally vain of course)

But you guys can catch glimpse of her rest of photo in my web site.

This is my present she gave me.



So it was back home only then I unwrap my present and I found this.



It was mini doggy bank and to my surprise, I discovered inside all were full of $1 coin. Isn't Rachel lovely? Tell me if you are not touched. But to me the greatest gift I ever received from her was knowing her.

(To Rachel only – If I were to change my mobile phone, I let you have my K700i and I will take your T610 for trade it if you want)

I have one doggy bank but is a bigger version at home. Now I have a pair.



Before I concluded my diary of the day, I wanted to add that I found Rachel more independent than before. Even after we broke off, I still have minor worries for her like....

- Do she knows she needs to do maintenance on her pc?
- Whether she has enough client? (Change to job)
- Etc

Now, finally I can have a rest of my mind.

I was schedule to go onboard a vessel which my principal chartered the vessel. There was another agent who was appointed by the vessel owner to handle crews change for the vessel. So I'm the charterer's agent and the other chap was the owner's agent.

This owner's agent, David also happened to be my friend. He called me up just before the ship arrives in Singapore.

David: We must board the vessel together. Problem, this ship have problem.
Me: What problem?
David: Received telex from Master, the cook stabbed the chief officer with a knife.
Me: Did he died?
David: No, but we go up the vessel together.
Me: Huh? Why together? I will be onboard later, got something else to attend to.

So after vessel anchored, 30 min later I was onboard. I saw 2 police coast guard boats standing by which I learned later on it was the Captain requested for it. I went to the Captain cabin and I saw Captain, Chief officer & David. The moment I step in, the Captain locked his door.

The chief officer's head was wounded but not serious. The cook was schedule to be sign off because of his action, however the Captain had no gut to tell him because he was afraid of being stab as well.

So leaving with no choice David, the owner's agent went off to inform the cook himself. The moment he left, the Captain locked his door again. Few minutes later, there was a bang on the door, the Captain did not answer and asking me not to make any noise.

You should see the Captain's expression and it was exactly his behaviors which made me nervous. There I was sitting there wondering what could possible happen if the cook charge in with a knife?

Scenario 1
Cook stabbed Captain which make me a potential eye witness then. (What? Witness to murder crime? I'll be so busy then and that really pissed me off)

Scenario 2
A rage man will stab anyone in his sight, including me. (What? Stab me? If I don't die, how? I'll be busy seeing doctors and that pissed me even more)

The tense moment last for half an hour which at the end of the day, nothing happen. But during the whole episode, I don't know whether to be afraid or amused.

Have you guys ever buy your groceries in a wet market before?

I do.

For me it like once a month affair (if my mum is cooking) and I always find it fantastic compare to supermarket. The atmosphere, ambiance is like WOW!

Bear called me up and he was in Chinatown's wet market buying vegetable as his mum is cooking for tomorrow dinner. I thought I'm the only guy who do groceries shopping for my mum and now I found a partner.

Ah,.....men are like wine, best improve with age. But some turned vinegar though, men like Michael S (the one always borrowed money)

Bear went back home first to put his stuffs and we met at Suntec city. I took a bus because my van was not available. Along the way, I noticed there a lot of advertisement posters of enlarging women breast.

As I recalled, couple of weeks back I was training for my IPPT, I saw this gal with big boobs jogging. If she was naked jogging, I bet her boobs would be slapping all over her face.

Err.....shall talk about some other time.

So Bear & myself decided to watch the movie, “Meet the Fockers” and it was hilarious.





Bear: Either you lead me or follow me. If not get out of my way.

What more I can say?

After the movie, I met up with Stephanie at Singapore Post. (Yes, I have to forsake Bear like a mother deserted her children)

Is that logical? Logic is in the eye of the logician. Moreover, I can't think properly especially a pretty gal waiting for me.

I was in Stephanie's car (Honda jazz/fit).



(That's was the best pic as there no light)

She brought me to this pub near Bedok called, “Blooie's “
The name speaks for itself and with name like this, I'm already high.

No pics as you know pub too dark to take any picture. Anyway, this place is very secluded and it so remote it almost like a rural area. Since, I'm not driving, I took this opportunity to drink. I ordered 2 litres of hoegaarden beer and Stephanie had ice-lemon drink.

There we chatted like never before and I think I can discover more about a person in an hour of “play” than in a year of conversation.
(Hey just kidding.......naughty me)

She gave me my late birthday present and she asked me to put it at my home pc keyboard.

Ok, I listened to her and to my dismay I found I can't type fast. I had to move it's neck, body and legs here and there to find my key.

So Stephanie if you reading this, permission to place somewhere else?

Every year without fail, this day, Old veg (Chong) will call me.

This day is a special for both of us.



First and foremost, “Happy birthday” to Brother “Old Veg”. It is his birthday today!

May his hair grow an inch a day.

On this day every year, Old veg always call me up and sent birthday greeting to me.

You see, it's my birthday too!

Both of our birthdays fall on the same day, so we would call each other to give our birthday greeting.

It is the unwritten ritual which we have been doing this for the past 10 years!

It is another day at over the causeway, one of our fave place.

You know, once we alighted at the immigration checkpoint irregardless whether it was Singapore or Malaysia, most people sped like "Flash Gordon” to the join queue. I guess, kiasuism will always be part of the Asia people.

We arrived at 1:00pm and we went for a light lunch first.



We ordered soy source chicken and stew pork leg in claypot.



Eating may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without eating.

Bear needs to buy a belt and now he's wearing pant to work....no more jean.



Once a man indulges himself in shopping, very soon he comes to more shopping in hope of looking for more bargain goods and from there, procrastination come in.

Above sentence doesn't apply for a female. Shopping & procrastination is female.

We took a cab to Holiday Plaza and I asked Bear if he checked with the cab driver what the damage? Bear confidently said, “No need, it standard one, RM5," When we arrived the driver asked for RM10 which Bear gave to him without any violent objection. (It should not exceed RM5)

I can't raised any confrontation since he already paid up and this I have to disagree with Bear because it was precisely this kind of attitude with no question asked that why cab driver like to exploit us.

Another thing is ASSUMPTION IS THE MOTHER OF BLUNDER.

Damn, I pissed off because of a mere RM5/-? No, because I don't like the idea being conned.

Never mind, It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have doubts.

After some window shopping, it time to have afternoon snack.



Bak Ku Teh or Pork Rib Tea Soup.

After this meal, we walked to Palangi Plaza. Between our afternoon snack and dinner was only an hour different. We went to this restaurant whereby they serve raw food on hot stone.



Bear is busy tossing his steak from side to side.

You guys wouldn't believe this!!!

If I will to tell you folks after dinner we went to those roadside stalls to have our dinner again, would you doubt my words?

A picture tells a thousand words.

That the place for our second dinner.



That the stall we ordered our foods.



That Bear suggesting what we should eat.



Let us live while we live and let us eat while we can.

Do you know how painfully it was for me these few months?

Do you know how I suffered in silence?

Will you all understand how I feel the the past three months?

I doubt so.

It almost caused me to have a nervous breakdown. I looked at the mirror and asked myself, “What have I done to deserve this?”

What am I talking about? Why it affected me greatly.

I have 2 passions. One my pc and other is.......





My 11 year old, 34 inch TV picture shrink and it like a 14 inch TV. Finally enough is enough, I called up Toshiba services centre for repair services which they are coming tomorrow.

I asked the repair chap about my problem and if it worth to repair( I was hopefully not as I could given myself an excuse for buying LCD TV).

The repair guy said, "Only cost u $120/-"

Well on the brightside, by the time I purchase a LCD TV, the price will be all time low.

I am busy with myself these few days playing online pc games battling with my friends. I can assured you folks, it is most addicting and it almost like having sex. When you defeat your opponents is like leading to an orgasm. Very fulfilling.

Today in office I was told that I needed to clear my leave.

Do I have a choice? I tried acting like a rioter and threatened to burn down my office and still I have to go on leave this whole week. Talk about office democracy, obvious there is none.

What should I do with all my free time this whole week? Man shall not lives on work alone I was told, so probably I will..........think of something.

Last night I have the weirdest and scariest dream of all life. Yes, it so eerie that I almost pissed in my boxer and put me into a trance. Even now when I think of this it still gave me goose bumpy. I can assure you, never in your life would you want to experience this nightmare of mine.

It causes me so much ordeal that I lost all my appetite. So what was my dream?

Listen carefully, I dream that I was LKY's illegitimate son!

Tell me people, is this not the most ultimate terrorized dream ever?

Finally!!!

After spending more than an hour searching for answer through the internet, I finally get my bluetooth working!!!

You see, after installing Windows service pack 2, they included a generic Bluetooth driver. Basically you can't use other bluetooth device.

To able to resolved this conflict, I never feel so good about myself!

I couldn't write any more as my urges to play "Lord of the Ring" is too much.

I am really fed up.

I was having my off day and I had spend the whole damn day reformat my pc. Each time when finished installing everything and I tried to connect to the Internet, guess what?

Trojan virus attacked like no tomorrow.

It slow my connection speed and my pc to almost a halt. It took me the SEVEN times when I finally decided to install sp2 (which I against it because it mess up my blue tooth) before connecting to the Internet and then everything at last turned out right. Thank God!

Now my PC have no more pirated software and my advise are instead of using window office for work, use open office instead which is free. As for AVG Anti-Virus, use AVG (free) and with it frequent update there no problem whatsoever.

Initially I wanted to install Linux O/S (free) but it seem not as friendly user as Window and most importantly not many games can support it.

Anyway I'm very busy these few days because of finding back my lost hobby.

Pc games.

You know what they say in Hokkien.

“The older you are, the more afraid to die”

This beginning to make sense as I grew older and just today after been using pirated Win XP Professional for the past 2 years, I actually brought an original XP home edition (oem version) at the price of $140/-. It sucks.

Oem software is without any support from Microsoft and full version (with support) a whopping of $399/-. Needless to say, XP Professional costs more.

With it new anti-piracy law in effect from 1st Jan 2005, I wouldn’t want to take any risk.

[People found to be illegally using software or downloading off the internet will face a maximum six months in jail and a fine of $S20,000 ($16,200) for their first offence, according to amendments to the Copyright Act introduced into parliament]

This will apply to home users as well. Don’t play with fire, you have been warned.

I also brought an original pc games “Lord of the Rings – The battle for middle earth” for $52.90.

I’ll be busy battling the forces of evil for the next few days. Yahoo.

But now, main task is to reformat my pc.

I feel so tired.

Yesterday, I woke up at 5:45am for work and I was already in bed at 10:30pm! Today woke up at 6:15pm and tomorrow will be 6:30am.

Early to bed, early to rise so to speak.

Some people are doing this all their lives and to me you know what this mean?

It is a strong indicator that I lack a social life.

To add to my misery, I was at seamen immigration dept for just ten minutes and when returned to my van, somebody actually complimented me on my driving. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said, "Parking Fine."

As I typing this, time is 6:46pm and I already feel sleepy. No prize for guess me what time I’ll be in bed.

Hello year 2005!

It’s the first day of the New Year!

What better way to start the year kicking is to meet up my old pal. Who is the ONE?

It is none other than the elusive Roger.

Roger called me saying his wife has opened a shop in Bugis village and today is the first day. I was thrilled for him naturally and I suggested that we should make it big. I mean really BIG!

He should be engaging lion dances (Bear as the lion head and Melvin as lion's back) and with me as VIP in ribbon-cutting ceremony. I also proposed have party poppers as fire cracker for good omen and with Rachel & Stephanie as cheerleaders for lively entertainment.

For a moment I thought Roger had a stroke for I swear there a minute silence over the phone.

I can see Roger is well and kicking after arriving Bugis.



He quickly ushered me to his wife’s shop.



(Roger's wife)

Since today is opening day the couple had to make some adjustment here & there.



The area is not yet fully developed for I could see some contractors still working at other units. I took some pictures on the left of the shop.



Still quite empty.

The right side.



Roger told me he himself installed everything in his shop! All these years I knew him, I never know Roger of all trade.

More pics




In such a significant event, there is no cutting ribbon-cutting ceremony? Never mind, I took this pic



Guess what Roger do after this?

He went shopping leaving his wife to tend the shop. Hold on a minute if you think I’m lying. I got prove, hardcore evidence.



If this is not shopping, I don’t know what is.