All in a night...

It was Friday night, and all I wanted to do is to enjoy the weekend. So we rounded up some buddies and had dinner..... Heres the menu of my Full Course dinner for the evening:

Entree

Golden brown French Fries
+
Coke on the rocks
+
6 pieces of crispy tender Chicken Nuggets with Curry Sauce
(a.k.a Mcdonals Chicken McNugget Meal)


Main

Coffee Club Ceasar Salad
+
Garlic Pasta with Sauteed Prawns
(a.k.a. Coffee Club Garlic Prawn Pasta)


Dessert
Two towering THICK slices of Sing Wang's Honey coated French Toast with a slice of butter on top
+
Hong Kong Milk Tea.

Some would say this meal can feed an army.. I think not. It was only 7 course.....

A basketball team perhaps. Burp!

Zombie Land

.... its 304am on a friday morning.. and i cannot fall asleep.

Caffeine 1 : Maneless 0

Exercise Sunday

At the peak of my insanity..... I dragged myself out of my comfy bed and air-conditioned room this morning... to sweat under the hot sun.

I believe I deserve some sort of medal for this level of determination. Maybe an award of some sort?

I just love the feeling of wind in my face. And as I cruise down ECP, I stare up, into the deep blue sky. With the sun's smile peering through the leaves.

A view with a smile

Fort road is the best area to blade
Minimal traffic, amazing canopy and smooth terrain

Deep Blue Sky

Costumes

It is indeed interesting to try out new things. Today, with anxiety, curiosity and suspicion, I stepped into my first Costume shop. I was initially expecting the place to be nothing more than a classroom in size. No. It turned out to be about the size of a basketball court. If not bigger! Shelves stuffed with customs of different country, culture, themes, genres, movies, you name it, they will probably have it.

I got ahead of myself. My trip to the custom shop is all in preparation for my friend's wedding in June. They are having their wedding dinner in The Grand Shanghai. And as the name suggests, we are going to have a themed dinner, "Oriental" style!!

So, after 2 hours of digging, trying, laughing our heads off, I finally found (with the help of the friendly staff) the complete costume. Silk Ma-Gua, jacket, hat, pants, cloth shoes, everything! all I need now is a bird cage and a paper fan! They say I look like some 19 Century Chinese "Ah1 Xia4 Kia4". Those that frequent tea-houses. For those who don't understand this, go look up www.hokkien-ho-dictionary.com for answers... NO! this is not an actual website! Well, but it didnt come cheap. 60bucks for the whole set. Ouch!

Photos??? Hmm... maybe not yet. Might post a few of them during the wedding. It will be a smash! An eventful weekend if I do say so myself :)

White is the new black.

They say good things comes in pairs. I say, the more the merrier.

27inch luggage from Lojel-Japan. White.
(You must be crazy if you think I got the one in pink)

Some say it looks like something spiddy would carry. But I say, it looks cool. Cool factor 8/10!!!

Cuffs and Clip

Check out my new bling blings! The Great Sale has just begun! And being the patriotic citizen as I am, I have done my part in boosting our proud nation's GDP by spending!! Spend! Spend! Spend!!!

Heres $140bucks for the country!!!!

I've been eyeing this pair of cuffs and tie clip from Giorgio Mandelli since Jan!

A touch of class.... and loads of Vanity!

Ok! Now I just need a decent cuff-link shirt...

Oh! Vanity! Vanity!!! Shame on me! Shame!!

Vesak must mean Work in greek

I must be mistaken.

I was under the impression that Vesak day is a public holiday. Apparently, it just means another day at work.

Same mistake I made with Labor day. I thought it was a public holiday. It turned out to be another day that you are required to WORK.

Silly me.

Crisis, Fire fighting, server-down, orders blocked, operation folks complains, clients nag. Stomach ulcers, hair-loss, over-eating, sleepless nights, chest-pains and breathlessness. Am I really paid enough to handle all this?

Biology vs Destiny - Infidelity

Interesting quotes from a newspaper's Sunday column.

"Over lunch with a businessman in his 50's, who travels extensively and has a wide network of friends and associates, men and women, I asked how realistic it was for a woman to expect her husband to be faithful. Pause, and then :"Unrealistic"

Smart young man, in his 20's: "Monogamy is a social construct. Men are biologically made to stray. But the restraints of society and religion may make some faithful."

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A candid comment from a bachelor: "Men have millions of sperms, and women have only one egg at a time., So nature intended men to be polygamous."

Evolutionary biologist in fact support this view and make a case for a biological difference that explains why men stray more.

They say men are prone to sexual straying because men can father offspring with multiple sex partners. This way, they spread their genes far and wide, without having the responsibility to care for their offspring.

In contrast, a woman who gets pregnant, can carry only one child at a time. She also needs the mate to provide for the child. Thus biological make-up, and the pressure to keep the mate, act as constraints on female infidelity.

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Many women are brought up to think that marriage means happily ever after. They may think, in the abstract, that other men may stray, but not their own darling who loves them so much.

They under-estimate the discipline and commitment required to remain monogamous in today's modern society, when sexual attraction is the undercurrent in many a relationship, the sec act has been denuded of love and commitment, and religious and moral strictures are cast adrift.

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My retort to this is simple: Biology need not be destiny.

My own views is that both sexes have the capacity to be faithful - or unfaithful.

Perhaps men are biologically more primed to do so. It is certainly socially more acceptable for men to stay than for women. The male philanderer is viewed with tolerance, even respect, as a stud; the female philanderer is viewed with contempt as a slut.

Whether from biological or social imperatives, the result is that more women try harder to be faithful to their mates, and more succeed. Men try less hard, and more fail.

This should not be an excuse for either sex to give up. human beings are volitional creatures: We have the power of choice. We can choose to surrender to impulse and instinct and live at that primordial level - or we can choose to honour the tenets of a humane society and the marital vow.

In the end, the biggest constraints on infidelity have to be love and commitment and the desire to protect the sanctity of an exclusive, committed relationship.

Mature love requires self-restraint and sacrifice - values so out of vogue in today's society, yet so central to maintaining a loving relationship.

A man who strays, knowingly hurts his wife - and vice versa."

For the full article, check out page 10 : Reflect, of the Sunday's paper.

I agree to most of what the article says. Does a man, or a woman really want their marriage to fail? No, I don't think so. Ironically, instead of helping each other out, they put them to the test. Some women expect the men to please and pamper them while they do nothing, and expect the men not to stray (Note: Men not equals to dogs). Whereas some men just don't treasure what they have until they have lost them (Note: Women not equals accessories).

She: "How dare he not pamper me and treat me like a princess and do what I want him to do? And now he cheats on me?! How dare he?!!"

He: "Why cant she be less demanding and more fun to be with, like when we were dating?"

Well, it takes 2 hands to clap. Many of us forget.

Be passionate! Be Inspirated!

Go with your passion.

Learning about people and how to be a great leader, can happen outside of the traditional business sphere. Some people get business ideas from philosophy or studying religion. It all depends on what you're passionate about.

Inspiration can come from the most unusual of sources.

Tom Glocer, the CEO of Reuters, said that the philosophical writings of Honoré de Balzac served as a guide for him in the business world:

"With Balzac, ideas don't necessarily only come from a very direct path. Often the bigger lessons in life get learned in slightly indirect or abstract ways. If you're thinking of a problem in a narrow space, often the solution lies in reorienting in the way you approach the problem, and you end up solving a general set of problems."

If you can find something that motivates you and hones your potential, that is what is most likely to help you succeed.

25.5% Fats

Yes, thats what i am. I am made up of 25.5% fats! My birthday gift told me.

State of the art weighing machines can now not only tell you your weight, it can also tell you your fats content, Water%, Metabolic rate, Heart rate, Rate of hair loss, hours of sleep needed, whether you need to cut your nails, when to pick your nose, and cut your hair. It can do almost anything, including the washing of the kitchen sink! Nah.. but it CAn tell you your weight and fats content.

25.5%! more than 1/4 of me is made of fats! Urg!!!
Time to exercise. I've been trying to take midnight strolls for now.. considering my old bones.. and the fact that I don't get back from work till past midnight....

I leave you people with a word of wisdom, discovered through years of walking this planet....

"Audits are created to torture employees." ~Anonymous~

Lesson of the day # 984

Working continuously for 16 hours makes you forget which day it is...

Cool Car

This automobile stood out from the rest of the boring cars like a sore thumb, in a nice way. I think it really looks cool, with its vertical headlights.

Any guesses what was the origin of this heavily modified car? I have a guess...