where will I be next year?

I went for an interview last Tuesday at KK and I met up with one of the hotel chain's group gm. I am looking for a move, out of Sandakan. I have been at this current hotel for more than 3 years now and I believe it is time to move on. The longer I stay here, the more stagnant I will become. I am not moving forward with this company, I am not gaining any additional experience and the most important is I am not improving myself at all. I want to be someone who is running in the front in this industry and not someone who is sitting behind and don't know what is happening out there. I think I can only achieve that if I leave this company and join a proper hotel, a hotel run by professional, not by a bunch of no-hoppers.

Hopefully I will get my break next year. Even if I am not going to go to another city, I will still try to join another hotel in the same city cause enough is enough.

SESB, pay me back my RM18.00

The nightmare is back!
I was supposed to play my weekly badminton game with my friends last night at the Yu Yuan hall at 7pm. When I arrived at the venue at 655pm, the whole place was in total darkness, so dark until you cannot see your own five fingers. Why? Power Outage again!!!

There were so many promise made after the much publicized East-West Grid was completed earlier and they (SESB) came out and said there will be less blackout from now on, even there is blackout, the restoration time will be very much shorter. Well, they can say all they want, believe it or not, it is up to you. For me, I will not believe a single word they said, simply because they are all lier! If you believe even one word they said, you will be doomed, fore sure.

We are supposed to be a developed country in 2020. I think the government only meant developed country in peninsula, in particular KL, definitely not Sabah and 100% not Sandakan. I am very sure, we will still be where we are by 2020 in terms of power woes. It will never get fixed.

This morning when I flipped through the useless local Merdeka Daily News, I just found out Sunny estate residents suffered a 10 hours blackout the day before. But I still want my RM18.00 back for not able to play at the badminton court that we already paid due to SESB useless power maintenance!

Pay me back, SESB

I am tired...

I am tired of listening to broken English
I am tired of incapable leader
I am tired of chaotic environment
I am tired of a place with no vision and mission
I am tired of seeing stupid decision and have to stick by it
I am tired of meeting which speaks dialect
I am tired of working for someone who does not know the job completely
I am tired....

I want to leave...one day, hopefully soon..

After moved...

I realised I miss my parents after I moved to the new house 1.5 months ago. When I was staying with them, we see each other everyday, we did not spend much talking or chatting. Last Sunday, we invited dad over for dinner (mom went to her usual Sunday's activity), I could see from his face that he was happy to dine with us and he could try out Ling's cooking for the first time which he said it was pretty good. After dinner, we sat in the living room and start talking. We talked about politics, we talked about a lot of other things. When I was still at the old house, we seldom talk like that, at this length. You can always learn something when you talk to a senior, no matter how smart you think you are. There are always some of their experience or stories which can be useful as a guidance in our life.

I am glad I have spent some time with my dad and I plan to do so more often in the future with both of them, provided mom can give up her Sunday hobby once a while, haha

We should always treasure what we have now instead of regretting when we don't have it anymore.

New House. New Home

Moved to a new house recently. Though not a very big house, but it is big enough for me and my wife. We always wanted to have a place of our own and now we have it. My wife is happy, she can now cook everyday, for me. (so I am happy too!) We live next to my in-laws, my wife's parents (duh!) so she is even more happier because of that.

I can't wait to go home after work now, may be the feeling is still new, still fresh. I just love to sit on the couch and do nothing, may be looking at the ceiling, doing some deep thinking..

My wife has a cousin, he is 2 years old +. This little fellow lives next to us and he is very talkative. I already knew that before we moved in but I didn't realise he is SO talkative! he can ask you a thousand questions a day (a bit exaggerated, though, :) ). It is fun to have him around, he cracks you up and he makes you laugh

Returning to Sinagpore..

Because of work, I returned to Singapore for 4D3N in April.
Walking on the street of Singapore is like walking down the memory lane. There are so many memories flash back, forgettable and unforgettable ones.
Anyway, It felt nice to come back to a place where I spent my best 7 years in my 20's. If not for what I have gone through there, I would not be who I am today.

Met some old friends in Singapore. It was nice to catch up with them and see their faces again. There are some I wanted to meet but did not manage to do so, may be next time.

It was a short trip but good enough.

Coming to Singapore..

It has been more than two years since the last time I stepped foot on this piece of land where I spent my best years in my 20's. Come middle of April, I will be there again because of work. People said when a city is getting more and more advanced and sophisticated, you tend not to find a lot fo true friends. I don't know how far is true but I do know I still have quite a number of true, good friends in the Lion city. Though we may not email each other that often, though we may not even call each once a month, I believe our friendship has long been established many years ago and the bond is so strong that no regular maintenance is necessary, I guess. We do sms once a while, I do think about them once a while, I am not sure about them though, :)

Hopefully I can see all of them again in this coming short and time congested trip to Singapore.

Chinese New Year..

Last time, I will be very much looking forward to this yearly event But now, it just seems like another day to me. In the past, all the old classmates or schoolmates would come out for gathering or things like that but we did not even bother to call each other this time round. May be everyone is busy with their own life after married and had kids. Priority in life has changed, I guess.

In the year to come, I think it is time for me to move one step forward. I am not sure if I am ready but if I do not do it now, me and my wife will be getting old pretty soon and we do not want to have a too big generation gap with our future generation. It is not an easy decision to make in life and it is a very important one also.

最后一只恐龙

金鱼佬终于结婚了！在2007年的第十三天，我这证婚人亲眼目睹了这历史的一刻。我两年前回来的真是时候，同时见证了两位老友，他和阿强的结婚，夫复何求？

Not a good start to the New Year

My hometown, Sandakan, has been suffering from non-stop raining since the first day of 2007. It is really 24/7 kinda rain..My house was flooded once, we got up at 430am to clear the water. From then on, reports of landslides, fallen tree, broken roads were found at every corner of this small town. Life were lost, properties were damaged, traffic is congested even on a weekend due to road closure here and there. People here has been living in fear, I guess for the past 10 days or so as you may not know if your car gonna be hit by the next falling tree or broken road. I realise we are still much luckier than our fellow countrymen in the Peninsula, nonetheless we have also never experience this kinda raining season before. I just hope we will see the sun soon, real soon...

曼谷4天3日游记

10月2日
乘搭亚航班机从山打根飞往吉隆坡，原本五点起飞的班机，不知为何延误到六点零五分才起飞。飞了两个小时又三十分钟，终于抵达吉隆坡的廉价机场。这廉价机场其实就在国际机场的隔壁，可是却需要20-25分钟的巴士车程，如果有像国际机场的单轨火车穿行两者之间，我想不需要五分钟就可以到达了。在国际机场搭乘酒店的免费巴士，五分钟便到酒店了。匆匆的梳洗过后便找周公去了，因为明早要赶早机飞往我们的目的地，曼谷。

10月3日
六点被闹钟叫醒，提了行李，吃了早餐，叫了计程车便马不停蹄的赶往机场。在机场跟这次行程的伙伴，金鱼佬和女友会合后便前往登记，登机。还好，这班机准时起飞。


经过不长不短的两个小时，我们终于抵达泰国的首都，曼谷！出了机场，人海一片，在接机处不停的寻找接我们的导游，寻寻觅觅了大概十来分钟，皇天不负有心人，终于找到了。在从机场往酒店的途中，我们“有幸“的见证了曼谷最有名的，塞车！我们花了整整3个小时来完成半个小时的车程才到达酒店。

在曼谷的第一天没有观光安排，在酒店旁的一间餐厅医了五脏庙，我们便到处游逛，逛了几家购物中心都不是我们那杯茶，一直到了MBK，我们才找到我们要看的东西。我们就在MBK待了一个下午，到晚上才回酒店，就这样度过了我们在曼谷的第一天。

10月4 日
今天我们有半天的 city tour,七早八早就跟导游的车子出发，在湄南河游览，喂鱼，到古老庙宇参观，拍照留念。下午西线无战事，又到酒店附近的商场逛。晚上又到了重头戏时刻，去观赏著名的‘老虎秀‘，我早在若干年前已来曼谷看过，反而是我的爱人和朋友个个看得目瞪口呆。看完秀就回酒店蒙头大睡，累死了。


10月5日
早上到了闻名的皇宫参观，里头的庙宇，寺院，都是金碧辉煌，闪闪发亮，虽然我们不能进到皇宫里头探个究竟，可是在外头看去，已觉得它壮丽美观，富丽堂皇。原本我还打算去隔壁看睡佛，岂知临离开皇宫前却下起滂沱大雨，使我们寸步难移，浪费了我们宝贵的时间在那痴痴的等雨停。好不容易在雨中截到了计程车，回到酒店换了潮湿的衣服，我和爱人又再度出发到MBK, 做最后血拼，因为我们明早就回家了。

夜间，约好了去看曼谷之旅的第二炮重头戏，人妖秀。在长达一个小时的秀里，观众的哗声此起彼落，因为这些‘小姐‘们实在是太美了。有些简直是美得冒泡，如果在外头遇上，真的还不知道他们变了性呢。爱人和朋友都觉得这场秀值回票价。

看完秀，赶去一个夜间市场，做最后的血拼，我在这儿把所有的手信都买了，心满意足的回酒店休息，准备赶明天的早机，四点半就要上机场了，要命！

10月6日
睡没3-4个小时就被闹钟叫醒，下到酒店大厅，导游司机已在等我们。睡眼惺忪的我们四个，退房后就上了车往机场出发。这次是我们在曼谷遇到交通最顺畅的一次，半个小时左右就到了机场，比起刚抵步那天的三个小时车程实在是天渊之别。今天的班机也准时起飞，两个小时候就飞回到了吉隆坡，结束了我们4天3夜的曼谷之旅。

终结
曼谷是一个值得游玩的地方，可游览的地方很多，这次我们由于时间匆忙，只去了两个景点。购物的商场，廉价市场也多不胜数，吃的便宜，买的也不会贵，最重要的一点是曼谷的女子，大多数都美丽动人，随便在街上都可看到美女，让人眼花缭乱。唯一的问题是，曼谷的陆路交通真的令我不敢恭维，我想我们至少浪费了半天的时间在塞车上，最好的方法还是乘搭他们的轻快铁或地铁，方便又快捷。无论如何，如果有机会，我们一定会重游曼谷！

如果当初我考多一个A

小学五年级时有个不明文的规定，如果在检定考试中考到五个A就可以直接跳过六年级，到独立中学念初一。当年的我，在六科里考了4A2B,就只差了那么一个A. 如果多那么一个A,今天的我所走的路，所认识的人，可能迥然不同。
如果多了一个A...
我就不会认识到金鱼佬；如果不认识他，我就不会认识到我的老婆。
我就可能不会念酒店管理课程，那我就可能不会到新加坡工作；如果不到新加坡，就不可能到美国，不到美国，我就不会回到山打根。那今天的我又会在那里？
如果人生可以有如电脑一样，当你做错或走错了又可以回到原点，这样的人生又会是怎样的人生呢？