Thursday, October 18, 2007

Logic of Fish & Prawn attitude Growing!!!

Wednesday night actually went out with Serene to meet up for coffee but haiz... who knows Roy's group is involved and he got Vincent to join too. Didn't wanna mention the details what Vincent said in Jalan Besar Coffee Shop. I will treat i didn't heard and pretend nothing happen..

Anyway, i supposed to meet him on Friday for dinner and he offered to come over my work place to pick me up. Haiz... i told Sis about it, and she scolded me don't waste people time if i don't have the intention. Others will blame me for misleading him.. :(

I actually missed Lew Lew. He sent me a good nite message and i realised i have not meet him for very long cos i keep fly him kite giving all sorts of excuse for not meeting.

Gone the fish and here comes the Prawn!!! :(

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

What is Love?

One of my collegue forward this email, after reading i was kind of sad cos my dear sis is undergoing similar situation. My cousin-in-law Serene actually called me if i can stay with Sam for a week to accompany her as the family is worried she might want to commit suicide. One of the in-law Niran who is working in the drug centre as a Psychologists actually said Sam might think otherwise. So i was given this job to take care of her. Of cos i can, but i can only go next week so i called her everyday to make sure she is fully occupied.


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To those who are married, .. not married .. and soon to be married ..


MARRIAGE

When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her
hand and said, I've got something to tell you. She sat down and ate
quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.

Suddenly I didn't know how to open my mouth. But I had to let
her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic
calmly.

She didn't seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me
softly, why? I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away
the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man! That night, we
didn't talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find
out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a
satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Dew. I didn't love her
anymore. I just pitied her!

With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which
stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my
company.

She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who
had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt
sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take
back what I had said for I loved Dew so dearly. Finally she cried loudly
in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was
actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me
for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.

The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing
something at the table. I didn't have supper but went straight to sleep
and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Dew.

When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just
did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.

In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: she didn't
want anything from me, but needed a month's notice before the divorce.
She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal
a life as possible. Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a
month's time and she didn't want to disrupt him with our broken marriage.

This was agreeable to me. But she had something more, she asked
me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day.

She requested that everyday for the month's duration I carry her
out of our bedroom to the front door ever morning. I thought she was
going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her
odd request.

I told Dew about my wife's divorce conditions. She laughed
loudly and thought it was absurd. No matter what tricks she applies, she
has to face the divorce, she said scornfully.

My wife and I hadn't had any body contact since my divorce
intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the
first day, we both appeared clumsy. Our son clapped behind us, daddy is
holding mummy in his arms. His words brought me a sense of pain. From
the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten
meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; don't
tell our son about the divorce. I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put
her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove
alone to the office.

On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned
on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that
I hadn't looked at this woman carefully for a long time. I realized she
was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair
was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I
wondered what I had done to her.

On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of
intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her
life to me.

On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of
intimacy was growing again. I didn't tell Dew about this. It became
easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday
workout made me stronger.

She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a
few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed, all my
dresses have grown bigger. I suddenly realized that she had grown so
thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily.

Suddenly it hit me... she had buried so much pain and bitterness
in her heart. Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head.

Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it's time to carry
mum out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an
essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer
and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I
might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms,
walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her
hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly;
it was just like our wedding day.

But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I
held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to
school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn't noticed that our life
lacked intimacy.

I drove to office... jumped out of the car swiftly without
locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind...
I walked upstairs. Dew opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Dew, I
do not want the divorce anymore.

She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead. Do
you have a fever? She said. I moved her hand off my head. Sorry, Dew, I
said, I won't divorce. My marriage life was boring probably because she
and I didn't value the details of our lives, not because we didn't love
each other any more. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home
on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart.

Dew seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then
slammed the door and burst into tears. I walked downstairs and drove
away.

At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers
for my wife. The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled
and wrote, I'll carry you out every morning until death do us apart.



The small details of your lives are what really matter in a
relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the
bank, blah..blah..blah. These create an environment conducive for
happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves. So find time to be
your spouse's friend and do those little things for each other that
build intimacy. Do have a real happy marriage!

If you don't share this, nothing will happen to you.

If you do, you just might save a marriage.
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Monday, October 8, 2007

Missing Call


Last Saturday was a really busy day. Went to Urban Pooch with Audris and Dennis. Suppose to be a celebration for Cotton but seems like she was too tired and was lying around sleeping. Anyway, the place was ok. Food was not bad.

Since last thurs Lew Lew called and i did not picked up his call, my phone is like pretending dead ever since like myself pretending not to answer. I ordered Fish and chips and it comes with a soup. Trust me, the soup taste Good... But sadly, my fish and chips run out of chips, so they gave me onion rings instead. Anyway, before that my mum bought me rice with dishes from the market. So basically, i have my lunch at 12pm and my fish & "Onion Ring" at 3pm. Sinful....


I also ordered grilled chicken meatballs for Cotton and dris ordered German Shepard pie-chicken for Coco. But for some reason, cotton refuse to eat. Great!!! Ended up coco finished all the food. So i should say the food should be gd cos coco was like hunting up n down for the plate. If u wonder how both of them look like. A shot here..


After all the eating, i sent them back and went for my 2nd gathering at Orchard Swensen. Of cos not for my dinner, but just to meet the rest there and we headed down to Mt Faber. Arr... didnt stay there... No Carpark lot so the group decided to go to Cafe delmar. Is a nice place and ambience is good. We actually sat inside as the weather is kind of humid and warm.

After a few drinks, we decided to head to Clark Quay Safra KTV pub. The place was ok. But Rain at MS is better i think. I think we only stayed till about 1am and we went to Marina HK Dim Sum Cafe. Food is so so.

ANW, Serene said Roy's friend Vincent wanna hmm..... ANW, i gave the no. And this start all the rumours, bla bla bla...

I told my Sis Sam, i guess i only appeal to the "Lao Kok Kok" Cos vincent is coming to 30's. And sam said cos u always wear black ma. -_-|||

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Waterfall

I was looking on the web and realise how powerfull Waterfall drink is... Dear Serene, now i know how strong the drink is and though u are a gd drinker but... hmm..
No more such drinks....

http://www.stomp.com.sg/stfoodiesclub/drinks/liquiddiet/37/index.html



30ml Kahlua
30ml Galliano
30ml brandy
30ml Sambuca

The two liqueurs and brandy are mixed before 30ml Sambuca is poured into the drink and set alight.

***Danger: Although their names sound harmless, their after-effects are to be reckoned with, even for those accustomed to hard liquor.

'Instead of drinking half a bottle of vodka to get high, you can have one glass of these drinks and get the same effect,'' says Marco De Miranda, 35, general manager of Bar None at the Marriott Hotel.

God heard me!

I was K-po to know if Singtel realli issue any voucher to my client so i email him last week so i can use the same tactics with Starhub if it works and here's his reply:
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ya...they give me SGD30 more...$*#(&^$Q

I tell them to keep the SGD 30....and i swap to starhub.

regards
xxx
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In conclusion, u thought all service provider are idiots and comply to all customer complaint by throwing vouchers to you.

But surprising i receive S$100 voucher from Starhub on the same day??? I guess God heard my voice knowing i need it more urgently due to such condition of my Motorola V3i. And i got myself a Samsung U700 on that Sunday. And guess how much, i only paid S$98 after discount of S$100. A great saving....

Sunday, September 23, 2007

What we call Singaporean Kiasuism & Complaint Master

Was so busy with work and i hardly go online nowadays. Not much exciting stuff happens. Maybe one little funny stuff which i heard from client recently which i felt that, wah... typical Singaporean Kiasu and "Kian Peng".

My client told me last week he dropped his phone into the toilet bowl. His screen was flikering and he knew is a matter of time his phone will leave him. So coincidently Singtel called him up to promote a plan to him which is less off S$8 on his bill every month for 2 years. He took this opportunity to make a complain about the customer service person by saying: " Can you check and take a look what plan i'm using and my usage before u decide what plan you want to promote to me. What is $8? i'm not keen with the $8 but more on the entire package and the call out mins. I'm very disappointed with your service. I want to terminate my line. I can't deny that he is actually using the corporate plan and his bill was like more than $100 per month so to Singtel he is one of them Singtel will like to retain. So the poor CS guy apologised and commit that he will returned his call before 6pm once he talk to his manager. But too bad, he didnt so my dear client wrote a complaint letter in.
So i asked his, whats your purpose? And he told me, i want to get the Singtel voucher to buy a new phone. -_-|||

Haiz... Typical Singaporean complaint king......... And i pity the poor CS guy...

While saying this, i realised i wrote a complaint letter last week to City Cab as well. Extract below..


17/09/07 14:34

To feedback@cdgtaxi.com.sg

Subject
CityCab - Feedback


Name: shuqi
Contact: xxx
Email: xxx
Feedback:
Feedback of the taxi ride 15 Sept 8.45pm - SHA799D Lim Soo Peng

To Whom it may concern,
I would like to express our concern on the taxi ride and the series of unfortunate events happened on last Saturday 15 Sept 2007. We felt it necessary to make our feelings known in view of the poor service we received despite current effort to raise Singapore Service standards.
My friend on board of a cab at Ang Mo Kio St 32 and told the driver to go to Bishan St. 24 before going to our final destination at Mohd Sultan. When I finally managed to get on board at Bishan, for some reason my friend forgot to inform the driver we still need to go to Junction 8 to collect some cakes thus we informed him immediately. We told the driver to wait at the taxi stand infront of junction 8 while my friend was rushing to the bakery store to collect the items. During the waiting period when I was sitting in the cab, I felt the driver impatient and questioning me how long my friend will take, which I did explained to him that she needs to walk to the basement thus might need some time. Afterwhich, my friend gave a call that she is waiting at the bus stop in front of the MRT station thus will like the driver to drive further down to pick her up. Upon making a request, the driver refused to move and mentioned that he was not allowed to wait at the bus stop as there is some fence blocking. I do understand his concerned but I felt the tone was extremely rude. When I told the taxi driver to drive a bit nearer to the bridge near the bus stop while my friend was waiting there, he refused again to move the car as his explanation was there is a lot of passengers waiting and he did not want to block the oncoming taxi. He insisted my frien to walk towards the car instead. When my friend finally board the cab, she was asking myself what was the problem for all the delay, but instead of myself given a chance to explain to my friend, the taxi shouted at my friend that there wasn't any problem at all since he doesn't know my friend. He felt that we did not informed him that he needs to travel numerous location. He did mentioned again that time was wasted in Junction 8 while waiting for my friend. We asked him that if he is not willing to travel from St 24 to juntion 8, he should made known to us earlier but not expressed his unhappiness at the taxi stand which almost 2-3 minutes wasted there making all the unnecessary argument. All in all, I do agreed and understand his concern for the traffic rules but I felt that he should not raise his voice at us and felt that all the argument can be avoided which resulted to some unhappiness to both parties. Being a customer, I believe we should receive some respect and should there be any constraint or problem, he should flagged to us earlier but not by raising the voice at the customer showing all the unhappiness.

I have note down the car plate number and the driver name for your necessary action. We urge you to look into this matter and treat all passengers equally. Every paying customers deserve good and responsible service.


Regards,
Shuqi


And followed by the reply from Citycab:

Our Ref: CTPL/2007092887


Dear Ms Lim

I refer to your email as attached and am dismayed to learn about your unpleasant encounter.

We agreed that the driver's attitude is unacceptable. As a transport provider, he ought to comply with passengers' requests and deliver the service in a professional manner. The driver had failed to render the service as expected of him. We will penalise him with a warning for his poor service and will include this complaint in his service record for us to monitor his performance closely.

Once again, we extend our sincerest apologies for any frustration caused over this incident. We will continue to reinforce measures to push up service levels by our taxi drivers.

Yours sincerely
xxx
Senior Executive
Customer Service Centre
Comfort Transportation Pte Ltd
CityCab Pte Ltd

In conclusion, my purpose is not to get free ride.. Wahaha... Is to feedback and get citycab to improve it. It was a lousy service.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

韩剧《真的,真的喜欢你》



This show is quite cute. Quite amazed by the acting of the little girl in the show. Though a bit draggy and slow in the middle, but is worth to wait till the last part of the show.

  《真的,真的喜欢你》与别的电视剧的不同在于这是描写青瓦台里照顾总统一家起居生活的一群人的故事。
第一次在荧屏上展现了外人看来是禁忌的地方里工作的一群人的生活。
虽然以青瓦台为主要背景,但这部电视剧的主角并非总统一家。电视剧注重的并不是总统和他的家人,而是数十年迎来和送走无数总统家人的、虽然在历史里存在,但是并没有表现出来的青瓦台的真正的主人们--- 总统的厨师和厨房里的阿姨们,木匠,摄影师等等。
  他们在韩国最特殊的地方工作,他们认为自己做的菜,门框,或者一通电话都是代表着国家,因此他们和总统一样努力认真地去工作,这部电视剧想表现的就是他们的朴素,坚强的一面。
  因此电视剧的更大意义在于表现认真努力地生活的普通人的空间,而不是青瓦台的权利或神秘。