Move out, Move In

Pheww!! 2 days more to go and then I transfer to a different flat. Of course I need to transfer all my things just by myself. Well Yep!! I should learn to stand on my own. I prefer not to ask somebody to help me because it's dissapointing to receive the "No, I can't help you I'm not available.". So better don't bother asking. It's very overwhelming to feel if someone will just simply offer the help voluntarily. But these days, arrghhh so hard to find that here eh.... Well anyway, no worries for me because I can actually manage. I even managed to find a new room for me without asking the help of anybody and despite of the fact that I'm a stanger here in this country. And that made me a little more proud of myself and all the more after reading a SMS message from my housemate asking my help to find a room for her. Sure no problem with me but it just made me wonder and ask myself, "hey, I'm the foreigner here I should be the one to ask help LOL". But it's ok I will try to help. Everything is just a matter of time management and well planning. I am proud of what I am becoming. *giggle.. What am I? A bear? LOL*

Speaking of being proud, I was sort of relieved yesterday after receiving the official letter of appointment here in my office. I just couldn't believe how fast my position changes. I am so glad despite of just keeping myself quite, management acknowledged my efforts and my outputs. It's my aim to always provide outputs and be efficient always. And I'm glad they recognized that. I was so excited to relay it to my family the progress of my career. They were very happy making me feel how proud they are of what I have achieved so far. It no longer concerns me if others feels intimidated with me. Who cares? Weehhhh! hehehe. What matters is I am happy embracing the thought that all of these, I'm doing with a purpose, for my love ones. Oh boy, I can't wait to go home and be with them.

Thank you GOD for all the blessings...

Miles Distance

Distance won't matter!!! True indeed. I may be miles away from my home but that won't make me exempted resolving some concerns there. Well partly it gives me comfort because I still part of every decisions made there. Today what a headache! I made long distance call just to handle that newly hired nanny. We hired her a few days ago and just today we found out she started getting things from us and claiming it as her own. Dishonesty is the worst thing of all. We dont care if she doesn't know how to cook or clean the house for that can be trained but to steal from us, it's very, very bad thing. We don't have a choice but to fire her effective today. Hayzzz, it's very hard these days to trust instantly. We are learning our lesson now. Shouldn't be in a hurry looking for a replacement or else we will be victims again of such modus. I just hope things will still be manageable there. *Sigh*

Hooray.. My ordered books has arrived!!

Yippeyy, I received this morning the two books I have ordered from Amazon.com. It's the sequels of the Novel "Fallen" by Lauren Kate. Although my mind is very occupied lately contemplating and preparing for my upcoming flat transfer, I couldn't hide the eagerness to start flipping the pages of the book as I am very curious to know what will happen to the Angel-Mortal love story at the end. Whether their romance turned out to be a happy ending or a tragedy. Well, can't wait to read it but before that I need to cover it first to preserve it's good condition as I want to collect all the books I read. I am more into novels now that has sequels. The last book I read is 'Brisingr" By: Christopher Paolini, Eragon's Sequel. Although I found the story interesting, I stopped reading half way of the book. Events and characters are all interesting but somehow I find some complexity of the wordings used. Made me a bit dizzy absorbing the narration. Maybe I will just wait for the movie to come out. ^_^

Anyway, my LBC box is very full now with many stuffs I bought for my loveones back home. It's scheduled to be picked up this saturday. I'm excited for my box to reach my place. I feel a bit tired lately and the stress seems a bit unbearable now. Aside from the overwhelming stress, I find it hard also now dealing with bitter people because eventhough how much effort I'd tried for myself not to be affected by them and just continue to be happy and cheerful, sometimes they tend to absorb the energies I have. It's like they want if they are not happy, people around them should not be happy also. Hayzzz many times we have encountered such personalities and best thing to do is to start ignoring them because sometimes their bitterness can actually hurt others already. I just continue counting my blessings and embrace the fact that despite of all, many people believes in me, who cares for me and in fact love me back home. Here's hoping that things for me here in SG will run smoothly and I can go back after my task is done here. I can't wait to be home finally. In GOD's time .. ^_^

Flight Booking

Yaikss.. I booked a wrong date for my scheduled homecoming this month of August. Instead of Saturday, I booked friday. I got confused with this midnight flight schedule and the fact that I have a connecting flight really made me dazzled even more. When I printed my itinerary, I am just thinking that maybe I'll just file additional leave to cover it. I have allocated my remaining leaves for December to spend more time with my love ones, so I was trying to see whether I can make use of one day more. But as I checked it, it will compromise either my schedule of going back to my city or my returning date here in SG. Hayzzz both played big impact a lot. So I have decided to login again to the airline site and change the date of my booking. It's my first time to change flight schedule but I know there will be an additional charge for me. True indeed! There is. The airline charged me 60.00sing dollar as the "Change Fee". Oh My! I know it's quite much. This cost me 2 thousand pesos if converting it to Philippine peso. Huhuhu!! In my mind I am crying. However, there's no one to blame but myself. I should drink coffee first before placing my booking to help me more alert. Well anyway, what matters is I'm still on track with my schedules so I would have more time with my loveones this December. I'll just slash some habits this week. Strictly no coffee session at Starbucks, yet? No buying of extra things unless very important. This week will be a very cost cutting week for me to maximize the budgetting I have allocated.


Anyways, mistake has been done. I'll just charge it to experience. Rule of the thumb (my thumb LOL): "Drink coffee first before making transactions online." Huhuhu.. :-(

Overwhelming

Hello, Oh my I haven't got the chance to put something in my page this past few days. For one, Im sort of a bit stressed figuring out some tiny issues in my flat. Luckily, I was able to find a new room for me to stay. Hope things will run smoothly when I move in already. Hayz, things seemed a bit overwhelming for me recently. I can really say that "No man is an island". I miss my love ones so much these days . I am just hanging on and just continue with my goal.

Pheww!!! what a relief I have just finished a tricky programming today. I was analzing it even last night. Gladly, the user understands the complexity of the computation and we both decided to just skip that part. Well tomorrow I bet, there's another programming module for me. But in the meantime I will have a movie marathon tonight. Staying late will be ok since tomorrow will be a fresh day for a new workload.

I miss someone who celebrated his birthday yesterday. Just so sad I'm not there to celebrate it with them. I miss my "big boy" too. Anyway, days is very fast. I'm excited to go back and cook foods as many as I like. I miss cooking. I'm also excited to see my nephew. Praying for my sis safety delivery and good health for both of them. I'm also occupied lately buying stuffs for her baby. I'm filling up the box for my love ones and already scheduled for pick up by LBC team. I want to add more. Maybe will browse some shops later.

Here's wishing that all things will run smoothly according to my plan and will be able really to put up the business we have in mind. Oh which reminds me, I should continue doing my feasibility study now. And oh yes, I should also check how's my stock doing as of today.

Well, till my next blog.....

My Malaysia Trip 2011

Woahh.. I know I need to blog all the happenings during my Malaysia trip last Saturday. You know I seemed feeling lazy to write something now as I am still regaining my energy after draining most of it last weekend. But I am afraid I will lose some important highlights of the trip so I will really force myself now to at least put here the details. Over all, I had fun and it was all worth it. It was also some sort of eating all day long aside from picture taking and gazing such a wonderful historical sights particularly in Melaka, the world's heritage city. Our IT boss was so kind enough as he toured us around and made some stopovers at a particular restaurants to taste some of the famous meals there like the Tangkak Beef at Restoran Kuang Fei at Johor Bahru for the breakfast, the Restoran Nasi Ayam for the chicken rice ball at Melaka for lunch and Restoran Nyonya Makko at Johor Bahru for the dinner.

We visited two towns of Malaysia namely, Johor Bahru and Melaka or also known as Malacca. I was quite amazed to know that in Melaka, you can actually see buildings built in decades and surprisingly people living there meticulously preserved it. No wonder they recognized Melaka as “the world heritage city”. From museums, fortresses and churches, you can actually see there that it still strongly standing and became one of the famous tourist spots of the town. I was able to see the Porta de Santiago or the gate of Saint James. It is the sole remaining gateway into the former fortress, known as A Famosa, built by the Portuguese when they conquered Malacca in 1511. Everything you could see there is very historical that I feel a bit saddened, as I really didn’t get to explore everything yet. A one-day tour will not make it as the city is filled with many interesting sights and places. Wish I can go back there again and stay for a couple of days. My boss suggested that it I intend to visit there again, it is a perfect spot if I get to stay at Holiday Inn Hotel. As from there, you can actually see all the famous area of Melaka including the A' Famosa backgrounds.

We had also toured the famous “Jonker Market” where you can actually buy souvenirs and much other stuff. We tasted the famous chiken rice ball, get to dropped by at Tangkak store and got to see the "Husband" and 'Wife" Cake. I got the chance also to sit in a heavily decorated bicycle rigshaw or pedicab. That was my first time to see a pedicab heavily adorned with flowers. Tourist can actually take a ride and can be toured around the historic village of Melaka.

I really had fun. Thanks to my colleagues and also to our IT boss who tended to be our driver/tourist guide.

Yahoooooo!!!

Here are some of the pictures I took.. ^_^

Scrumptious lunch

Yum! Yum!

My stomach was so heavy after taking that scrumptious lunch as a treat from a colleague who will celebrate his birthday tomorrow. I was so hungry then and on that moment when the waiter served the foods to us, it was so mouthwatering that I can't help myself but immediately take a big bite on that chicken steak lying so appetizing in my plate as it was beautifully decorated with carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, and fries. The cream mushroom soup was so delicious too. Yaiks! I'm afraid I'm losing control with my diet. Well' I'll just do much effort in the gym this weekend.

Tomorrow, Hello Malaysia!!! Praying for a safety trip.

Be Extra Careful

There's a sudden adrenaline rush I feel early this morning as I was on my way here in the office. I should never in a hurry. Safety first always as they say. My mind is still recalling that car rushing so fast that if I didn't run a bad thing might have happened. Oh GOD! Please forbid :-(. I should never ever under estimate the speed of any car approaching. Some drivers are just not that considerate. I should always take extra precautions especially when crossing roads. And above all, to pray always for protection.

Anyway, I feel a bit exhausted today for as usual I need to adjust a module I coded to fit in the user's requirements. After finishing each coding and if it runs perfectly, a mixture feeling of accomplishment and worn out is battling inside me that I need to re-channel my thoughts to free my mind and let go of the stress. Sometimes if the concentration of the coding is too much already to bear, what I usually do is to sing while formulating the logic of the codes. Through singing somehow it re-channels some of the pressure and stress that I'm bearing while programming. And it really helps a lot. Sometimes I retouch make-ups. It's a bit funny, yeah I know. Because the more make ups you will see in my face, it means I'm so stress already LOL. Most of my friends back home knows that ^_^. Well at least I have my own way of re-channeling stress.

Well, it’s an interesting day today.
Till my next blog....

Side Trip

It's raining but I was quite up for photo shooting earlier just for side trip. I was excited to see that I have captured something nice. My camera is not that super high tech but I had fun testing it. I am very much excited to post it here too. So here goes... Hope you like them. Oh I can't wait to take pictures in Malaysia. I will surely fully charge my camera by then.

This looks tasty.. can I eat this? jejeje

This somehow is telling me not to give up no matter what...

hmmm, i can make a good house out of this one.. LOL

"I need some carbon dioxide here".... says the plant... ^_^

Just New

I am actually just looking at my laptop screen right now while biting some strawberry biscuits as I can't find yet which tempo should I start. The blinking of the cursor seemed pressuring me at the same time I am savoring the taste of strawberry in my mouth. Yaiks, set aside the non-sense topic and I should start write something with sense LOL.

Ok!!

BRISINGR By: Christopher Paolini is the book I'm reading now. I just started yesterday so my mind is just starting to shift its interest from Angels to Dragons this time. Yes, as weird as I may sound but this kind of stories really captivated my interest. I happened to drop by at a convenience store last Friday and noticed this book there. Upon learning that this book is actually the sequel of Eragon, without a second thought I bought it. This is actually the third book and so I have decided to also look for Eragon (Book 1) and Eldest (Book 2) to have the complete Inheritance books of Christopher Paolini. It is also good to read something not yet out in the movie. These three books can be a very interesting addition to my collection. My friends keep on telling me to just borrow from library instead of buying to save. However, I choose to buy the books I read because I still want to read it again and it is actually such a joy collecting these items. So while I can still afford to buy these new released books, I’ll buy. Time comes when other priority should come first rather than buying books. Well at least, I already collected quite a few.

Last weekend, my first time to see what's in SG expo fair. Many items were actually on sale there on a very affordable price. Of course many people are queuing trying to avail all the promos offered like availing laptops for only 69sing, or digital camera for 5sing. Wish I was a bit earlier so I can buy that laptop but it’s ok though. I manage myself to buy a 14.1 Mega Pix Digital camera. The price is very reasonable and I find it quite nice. Not that super high tech thing though like DSLR cameras but it's just well suited for me. It's is one of the latest Digital camera models of Panasonic. I have chosen the color red as I find it quite feminine. Also, added to my joy lots of freebies along with it were given with no extra charge. They gave me 8GB memory card, a card reader, a mini tripod, camera case and LCD screen protector. Despite of the heat and the number of the crowd, I think my visit there was all worth it. I also bought a HP colour printer worth 39 sing dollar only, a laptop bag @15 sing dollar and a usb fan at 2.90sing dollar. To convert in Philippine Peso, just need to multiply it by 34.50. Not bad right? I mean to get an authentic gadget at an affordable price sounds very reasonable. So I'll say 'Yippee".

Well, I'm also happy because I bought something special for my love ones too back home and they really love it. I'm so excited to see it and to also use it when I get back there very soon. So far, things are still in place according to my plan. I just need to focus saving this time and lessen my spending unless really very important so I would be able to reach my goal why I work at such distance from home. A little sacrifice is really required. Just have faith and all my prayers for my love ones and myself. I am fervently hoping and praying that things will run smoothly.

Anyway, I am excited to test some shots using my simple but cute digital camera. I will try to post some of my shots here. I'll try to explore how I can interpret angles of a certain object. Exciting…