Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The moment the Earth stood still for me (in loving memory, a week from today, 10 years ago)

The day wasn't meant for concentrating in work, thus it was kind of slow and non-productive. Incidentally, the call came in and other things just had to jell in. It sort of affected my feelings and emotions but things was taking a step better, just slower.

Raymond asked a very good set of questions... quote: "Question of the Day: An interesting One. About Love. Q1: What is Love? Q2: U can choose 1 only: Will you choose the one who you love or the one who love you? Kindly justify your answer ...." which is later followed by: "Wat if d one love u, u dun have feel? But d one u love dun have feel towards u. Now ... choose again."

As of currently, there's 62 posts on this comment thread and the discussion may grow even longer than it seems. Not going to go into details. Zoey triggered the mood weather further when she mentioned about the "last breathe" that also coincides with Emileen's passing 10 years ago which is about a week from today for a full decade. The whole thing really got my mind clogged and clouded that I wasn't thinking straight or much. I even ended up driving on auto-pilot mode back home. Reaction time for me was deemed slower by milliseconds but that could also serve risky and can be rather deadly on the road.

Andy was being much of an asshole by making fun of everything knowing that she was the one I loved most in my heart even until today... and had to even brought in my pain of complication with Jo. He used 2 of the people I loved most in my life to amuse himself to Richard. It's not much of a fun if you think back about it... and there's nothing stupid about the fact that one would sacrifice for the other including giving up their own life for them... Well, I've dropped the stupid incident because I chose rather not to get angry and upset over brainless fools than to waste my precious time over pathetic retards.

And finally, thank you Venessa, for the good talk. I'm glad I could help you resolve your 'adult' issues. Don't worry, there's nothing to be ashamed talking about that 'topic' because we're all adult and I'm glad I could help and resolve your problems as well as make you feel better. Remember, I always speak in between the fence. Not for MEN or for WOMEN. That's my principle of things, righteous, fair and right straight down the middle. Thus, as Dr. Alicia and Queenie had praised, ethical and professional. Oh, and if I hadn't being that pro and good, the patients won't had come for the therapy, advise and counseling.

Finally, the last agenda... I tried to talk to you earlier today but didn't really had the chance. The 3rd party's presence was unexpected and as usual, I know you always deliberately had him there so that we'd not talk about the issue and you just want to drag it as much as possible and as long as you could. I know you just don't want things to be awkward just for the both of us. All I wanted to tell you was, don't complicate the issue. The situation is, if you can't get over the problem, then you can choose to abort the mission. We cannot evade it forever. Sooner or later we'll have to face this. Not talking about it won't help. It only makes things worse and more painful as it drags longer and longer. It's like the solution you said about other problems... "Block and Delete"... I know you don't wish to choose the solution of delete for our issue but it's not helping or getting anything better if you evade it. My opinion is still to take the trial, do the repair works, see the progress of the damages and probably (my prediction is most likely), it could completely fix the issue. I do agree with Queenie (Tang) on this; you're simply just complicating things. Come to think of it, it's exactly what I faced with the previous issue.

Oh well, I will not change the fact that you're stubborn and nothing can be done about it. It's your character. Speaking of Stubborn-ness... Emery, we spoke about this and you agreed to listen and give things a try and make it better. You know we're buddies and you can always come up to me again for better advise and counseling. As you can see, nothing can affect my ability to professionally consult you.  I've always being very ethical about my profession and all personal issues are always put aside when I have to work on other stuff. You're treated fairly like every other client patient. Well, except the case that I don't charge you for it. =) Oh, and sorry, couldn't accompany you to Pavilion earlier. Oh well, you know why and issue solved.

Last but not least, dearest blood sister of mine, IF YOU HAPPEN to read this... keep this here and DON'T drag it into the family and give Dad and Mom any worries. What happens here, talked about here, written here etc... STAYS here! Jane (Wai and Tang) thanks for your concern.

Jane Tang: your brother is always very strong, else I won't be able to solve your problems all the time. And stop complaining I don't pamper you enough... you know you're equally as important, else I won't had flown all the way over... all the time (when in need/emergencies). I may not have 24hrs a day for you, but I always make sure I have a pocket of air for you regardless. Love from me, mummy-kins and dadddy-kins.

Jane Wai: Speaking of which, have you bombarded your Jimi (17th Flr IBM) for me, yourself and his boss (as per discussed?)??? Yeah, he needs a good lecture and lesson from you. =P~ And you owe me a Blackberry Bold 9700. (Yeah, I don't care... :P ... we're buddies, so you know why)

Mich, Zoey, Eric, Ray: good topic... thanks for the discussion and that was a fun thingy... well, not really  'fun' sorta fun... but we did raise exciting and superb points. Especially the care and concern from all of you. Well, all except Mohan that I've to pity him about the Lesbian lover/partner thingy for him. Cheers mate.

Shayne: I do worry about you once in awhile. We may not be close or know each other much; but I can sense that you're rather vulnerable at times and I also do care for everyone equally. Just so you know... not everything in life is always unfair to you or you're in the worst situation of your life. There are far more worse things than you are experiencing now and if they (and I) can climb up above it, so can you. =)

Oh, and I won't forget you, Chiew Yee a.k.a. Jiro... You're family, obviously I won't leave anything of you out. If I hadn't given enough love and hugs, then apologies... you know everything (yeah, including the deep inside of me) most compared to any others in this whole wide world. Thank you for everything. You're indeed the best. Else I won't be proud of you being my "daughter's" biological mother, am I right? Take super good care of my lil' princess Sophie. She's all I've got.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

The day when everything went wrong.

The series of unfortunate events just had to happen today. I'm exhausted and I've not bathed, cleaned up or neither have I brushed my teeth for the past 24hrs. All because I had to travel unexpectedly.

Earlier plan was to fly down to Singapore the day before but did not materialize after an emergency call for a meeting had to take place. Oh well, all of us rushed down to Malacca instead and had a LONG day with endless discussions and debates going on. Matters can never be cleared easily and we'll never settle anything anyway.

When the boss and I arrived back to KL at midnight and dropped the driver in Kajang to pick up his car, while we head straight to Shah Alam. We had to sit down with our Executive Chairman to discuss matters for immediate plans and decision-making. The outcome is, I've got to go over to Singapore immediately to resolve the mega crisis and authorize whatever requires my immediate approval.

After ending late, we hung out at the club for some midnight snack and lazing around to relief our stress and tiresome exhaustion. Guess what? We hit big and profited too.

Anyway, we left at 4.15am and I decided that there's no need to go all the way home anymore and thus went to KL Sentral, which is nearer to the club in Bangsar. I parked in there and waited till 4.30am for the Malaysian Airlines to open and got the first flight out of KL to Singapore. Air Asia wasn't open till 9am.

I took the KLIA Express but apparently, the first ride is a transit ride. Being mentally tired, I got detoured early and disembarked at Salak Tinggi (one station before KLIA) instead. I stupidly had to wait for another 18mins before the next ride comes by. Then, surprisingly, Air Asia at KLIA also operates from 9am to 9pm. So, my next flight back to KL wasn't possible to be bought at the KLIA.

I tried to make a call and it turns out that my phone is barred. At 6am??? my second phone's battery has already run dry and switching the sim card wasn't helping because I had no idea what was my LOCK CODE for the former phone.

At this moment, I could only think fast and act fast. Thus I made a call via the payphone and had her call me back. Got her to sort out the line and ran to the airport (LCCT) to get my return ticket. Coincidentally, she was down with diarrhea too. Sigh~! Well, eventually it got settled.

I had my breakfast at Oldtown in the main terminal building and started trying to test when my phone would start working. Even before I board the plane, I've try restarting the phone countless times. I was reassured it would work before I leave.

Ok, fine. I arrived at Singapore, tried the phone. Still no roaming and no line and still barred. The only thing I could do was to act fast. I found a power outlet, tried to charge a bit of my second phone. It was also barred! Hopeless because my 're-assured' thingy did not get working. Tried logging in from the Macbook but could not get the wifi access. Alas, found a free terminal with 15mins access limitation.

I hopped onto the terminal and quickly tried to go into gmail and see if I could get any communications with Diana and NO! No avail. Again, frustration caught up as I'm stranded without the next flight details and the counter closing for check-in is drawing near. The internet speed in Singapore wasn't that fast as I suspect there are too many users in the airport. So bearing with it, I managed to get into Facebook and started to dig for people to assist me.

God answered my prayers and cry. I quickly got Emery to call and SMS her. Well, things had to ding-dong ding-dong back and forth for a long time because a simple task wasn't done right and quickly. I can't blame it as not every can react to resolve crisis as quick witty as I do. So, I had to bear with it and kept restarting the terminal to communicate with her via Emery.

Finally, when I got the e-codes, I flew across the arrival hall, did what I had to do and go back into the check-in counters and managed to get my boarding pass back, just in time. Luckily the sky-train and everything else was in synch or I'll be one step late. Back in the departure hall. The Wifi (Wireless@SG) gave me problems. I tried running up and down the entire hall trying to connect to it from gate to gate and it didn't work. Ok, even the ground staff at the info counter couldn't help. So, I gave up and looked for another silly free terminal. Doing the exact same thing again, Emery had to push messages across for us again. I've restarted my phone countless times and STILL had no luck with the phone.

Heck, when I reached back to Malaysia, I still had the same problem after Diana said she already scolded the helpdesk so many times. In the end, I managed to get the phone back up after she attempted to call me. Then everything flowed thru. 12 missed calls and tones of SMSes came in. Including stupid voicemails.

Got things sorted and left for KL Sentral. Was pissed at the first driver for not picking me up despite he knew what time I was arriving back but instead, the smarter 2nd driver came to wait for me. SO? Hmm… good question, I fired the 1st driver after he had given so much trouble to us within 24hrs including the 30 cartons of water issue using our names and reputation. Hard luck, pea-brain.

This is where I finally get to say, HOME, SWEET HOME… Alas, I can rest in my sanctuary and have a good day.

Monday, May 3, 2010

101th Blog post: Young Music Prodigy to commemorate event

This is a great moment that I've to share this to everyone. 3 year old Howard 明版的, the great young music prodigy woos the crowd and "girls" (especially) with his awesome talent on drums...

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