Rainy Tuesday Morning

Very heavy rain this morning, making me so sluggish, almost didn't want to come to work. This period of crazy run around to the hospital, view flats and to the clinic is really wearing me thin.

The rainy weather looks sad and moody but it cleanses at the same time and everything will be more beautiful again when the sun comes out.


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More pictures from Hortpark.

This plant sort of remind me of my sister, Mayvis.
The temperment can be both spikey and hot at the same time, just like the chilli out of the spikey cactus.

So where do you wanna go

Lalang, the most popular plant for wedding photos taken in Singapore

Thought this was quite a nice pool. I am sure they had a strong, massive community in there.

These photos were taken on Sheryl's birthday. We decided that we wanted to do something special for her birthday and when on photography trip. My photos were taken using her old Panasonic LX2 while she held on to our new DSLR the Nikon D5000. We were still talking about how we wanna compare who have taken better photos, and before we could do that the accident just left us with more things to worry about.

I am really looking forward to the next photography trip when my dear girl recover from the injury. I know I shouldn't but I can't help help feeling guilty about the accident.

I hope to be able to bring her for a trip to Bali or somewhere nearby after her recovery and maybe take some good pictures as well.

On the way to fetch Deardear from the hospital

I am excited to be fetching Deardear out from the hospital. Everything on the way there is so beautiful.

Poor girl have to go through so much because of this accident and is still worried that I will be feeling guilty.


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Missing my Naughty Girl

A picture of my naughty girl playing with my jacket while we were back in Guangzhou.

I miss Deardear

A while ago this was my Deardear still well and running around with me at Hortpark on her Birthday. I really missed her company very badly over the last few days when she was admitted pending her surgery.

I want my Deardear back.

The surgery is finally over

Sheryl has finally completed the surgery. It was so painful for her that the doctor have to diagnose morphine for her after the surgery.

She have gotten some screws in her feet and it really aches me to see her like that. Hope she will recover soon. I really miss my healthy Deardear.


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Location:Changi hospital

Sunday visit to the hospital

On my way collecting laptops for uncle simon and visiting Deardear at cgh. Somehow I really misses those lazy weekends.


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For every dark Hall, there is a brighter passage ahead

It was a heavy morning, almost everyone was at the edge of tearing and I could see how lost my sister was, and the blankness on her boyfriend and my mum’s faces. Sheryl was, however trying to pull off a very strong front for me. She was the only encouragement for me to go to China. It was a difficult morning for me to leave, looking at my mother, sister and Sheryl tearing and choking when I finally have to bid farewell to go China. I didn’t want to show my tears to them. I am feeling equally lost, going to new unfamiliar places, and not knowing what to expect. The feeling was heavily tense and I felt nervous probably still shaken by the food poisoning a week ago.

It has been more than 2 years since I first left Singapore for Guangzhou, China. There were joy, tears and laughter. I remember how lost I was when I first reached Guangzhou Airport; struggling with lots of luggage, trying to pretend that I know where I am going and with countless strangers coming up to you asking if you needed a car, mobile sim cards, it was a huge mess.

Thinking that what happened at the arrival was only as bad as it can get, just bring more disappointment. Work was crazy, there was almost no system at all (maybe there is,I am just a little upset), and everything is about having someone to be liable so that the next person bear no responsibilities to it. Learning the technicalities of manufacturing was tough; everything is in Chinese and most of the time you get slightly different answers from different operators and supervisors, so much for being an exact science.

Relationships were huge complex web of relationships, entangling in more relationships, intertwining with friendship, it just very complex, words, gestures, body language. There is no one single way to deal with these complexities and no one does it correctly all the time. I know of a person who likes to speak in riddles so that he could flip stories in any way possible just to show that he knows what he is talking about, but the downside of this action was that nobody really trusts him anyway, literally nobody.

It was really fun before some close friends started leaving, probably for the same reason. Before you even know I am one of the more senior guys around in the department, never expected that though. I probably left for the same reason as well, some things are just hard to change, and some people probably never will. Although I have some regrets about some of my actions like bringing Sheryl over only to come back in 10 months, and probably wasting a good part of my life in China, missing out my families in their problems and activities, but I want to believe that all these are just blessings in disguises. There probably isn’t a right or wrong answer in life but a matter of your perception of them. Nonetheless I love my wife, and I felt that the time spent in China was memorable, and probably family just got closer since I came back.

All is not lost, for every misfortune to happen there must a brighter passage ahead. I have seen it in my life and I want to believe in it.

I will break the entanglement and be more positive in life from here on.

Our badminton racket

2 months back and we have been consistently going on our exercise regime. We started tennis, badminton, and mahjong!(not that often though). See the red racket it’s my new badminton racket, fierce right. Hopefully I am equally fierce in the game.

My new ride back in Sunny Singapore

Having coming back to Singapore with lots of errands to run Sheryl and I came to the agreement that we will need a means of transport be it a car or bike. After some considerations, we decided that a bike is something that would fall nicely within out range without causing much damages to our pockets. Hence resulting in the followings:

We sourced very actively with friends and forummers on a possible bike. We wanted a scooter, likely a big one with lots of trunk space for our usually huge amount of thing to carry around. We found bumble bee and was very excited about it.

But the actual condition of "Bumble Bee" was disappointing, parts are disintergrating due to weather and age. However the conditions of the engine was in good condition, coupled with a interesting exhaust system, we decided to go for a revamp for our "Bumble Bee"

Lots of talks and discussion, checks and etc.

Finally we have our "Bumble Bee" made into "Ironhide" (Why the name, we thought that it look fiercer and the name sounded fiercer too... silly us)

IRONHIDE

Ironhide, I am sure more photos will come once we are more settled with our things.

Back in the Sunny Island of Singapore - The place where I call Hom

It was 2 years since I left China for a job that I have never expected. Now I am back to where I have started, a place call home.

Feeling a little lazy, I am going to start my recollection with a series of photos of my current and hopefully temporary crib.

Our makeshift shelves with all our stuff ranging from tennis, badmintons rackets and bags, to night snacks, books and a new laudry bag

The bears for my DearDear

The books I plan to complete

Lastly, my working area, something that I hardly do without anywhere

Testing for picasa

Before I start my recollection on the my blogs this is a test to see how the Picasa 3works now