Sam’s farewell dinner

25Sep09

Few days ago, me and the rest iof ERP team in my office were having farewell dinner.The farewell is for one of our friend from ERP team that will leave the office. Honestly, I dont feel like joining the function initially since I’m financially broke only to survive until end of this month – payday. But since I’m already says okay like from the week before, so I thinked I’m just gonna borrow the money from someone else.

So there we went.

It was three of us going altogether for the first batch, me, my friends Chris who is driving, and Sam the farewell boy. We was the first group that reached the place. It was an Italian restaurant just close to Novena square, the place itself is not very big, like only able to cater 20 – 25 people at a time. So can you imagine by the time the rest of our group comes in, our tables has the loudest voice and laughter than rest of the tables. Anyway it wasnt realy crowded.

They served quite a vary of Italian dishes like pizza, pasta, and so on. And the price is very reasonable for a class of Italian restaurant. I remembered last time my friend took me to those Western food, and the price range is similar, around S$20 for main dishes.

We ordered seafood platter for oppening appetizer, and bread. The bread comes with an olive oil and dunno what sauce, my friend mix the sauce first so we can dip in the bread inside. Yummy, taste really fresh, sour and sweet at one time, and the platter is not that bad either. Their mayo sauce is winner.

Here comes the Pizza, we ordered two kind of pizza, one is with layer of ham, and the other has mushroom as the topping. As usual, Italian pizza always so thin but it really crunchy. Loved the one with mushroom.

Before we even finished the pizza, our pasta comes in. It really looks nice and it taste nice as well. They really put in big type of prawn inside. Yumm. The portion was so big, that one portion I think can cater up 3 to 4 person. Even so, my friend can’t finished it so they told me to whacked all the rest. I dont mind.

We still have a desert before we come to the main thing of this event. So we asked Sam to give a speech which is never happened. And we just happily to mingle around here and there, talking funny things about job, coleagues, basically we are gosipping anything about the company. Don’t you love just to hear gossip, . Even before my boss leave, she already start to ask Sam to re-think again, to stay work for the company. Not happened the first time, so I was not a surprise, they did that when Winston -my exboss- leaved the company few months back.
After realizing her effort leads to nothig – she decided to left earlier, and just after 5 minutes she went, she texted Chelsea that says Dinner is on her but please ask Sam to think again. We did ask. But Sam is hard like a nutshell, he stand firmly with his mind and started to explain to us the reason why he wanted to leave. He said he felt that he is stuck with his current work and fell too safe for this job, yet he’s still 30. He doesn’t want to wait for another 3 years and regret that he should do this thing years ago. Fair enough, I think he able to confirm us enough not to force him more.

Bye Sam, all the best for you man!!

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waiting people to move

25Mei09

Today at office,

Nothing to do while I was waiting…made me sleepy the whole day..
You don’t have to wait other peoplo to make a move, next time, take initiative, don’t wait!!

Do it yourself!!

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my last dollars for this month

29Apr09

Yesterday I was short on cash, force me to withdraw few bucks from my saving account. I drew $50 and today only got $25 remain in my wallet. I’ve spent $10 for train ticket top-up, $9 for earphone -since I lost my old one-, and $5 for lunch and dinner. See, not that I’m wasting money for worthless stuff, it’s just that things are getting more expensive today, trying to rip all money from your pocket. In fact, this month my daily expenses boost up like never before, made me to drew money from my personal saving account few times..

Last two days before payday, i’m still waiting in vain….

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simultaneously playing “count” and “beat”

28Apr09

Last night, while I practiced my drumbeat anyhow, I’ve learnt new stuff..And that stuff is what I never could’ve done before.. I don’t know how you call this, but anyway what i did is, my left hand played the constant quarter (counting tempo like metronom) while my right hand played different beat, such as triplet, space jam beat, and etc. Playing such stuff, it was like telling your left brain to do one task, and the other one to do different else..

First 10 minutes was tough, the counting hand would play just like what right hand played, and vice versa. Really difficult to control those hands. I kept persistent and insisted, as i tried to breakout every beat, and slowing down the count. Until I finally managed to play smoothly..Yeaah, I did it..I swapped different hand to count and to play beat. Cannot play instantly, it need to be slowly, and patience, then once you had the feel, you’ll able to played it.

I won’t be too sure this would be something useful in strikeforce - some drumming ministry that I join in. However, I do believe you’ve got to be able to practice this if you played real drumset as in the band, since you’d use your left hand to hit snare, while right hand constantly hit the hihat..

Practice makes perfect!!

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kin

28Apr09

A friend text me message yesterday, asking for my kin number. Truth was, I didn’t know what was “kin” mean. Yet, I thought he’s mistakenly type “fin” with “kin”. (FIN is identity number for us foreign worker). So I replied him, saying “I didn’t get it”, then he replied back, “It’s your parent’s or your sibling’s number”. Ha?? there’s actually a meaning of it? Did some searched in dictionary, and I found…

Kin : related by blood

Arrgghh!! I just knew that such word are exist, and fact that people are actually using it. I feel bad. Nevertheless, I’ll never forget this word..

Positive!!

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