The Song of Jigglypuff

Gong Xi Fa Chai! From Piggy and Me!

All these while I thought golf is for old folks, businessman and Tiger Wood.. only until HG, Felix and SH tell me that golfing is.... FUN?!?! So, I decided to try it out, since the community center in Cyberjaya has the driving range facilities and HG has 2 sets of clubs. He also promised to teach me the basics.. - HG's professional golfing set - - Driving Range - So HG has 5 new students to learn golf from him. Me, SH, Felix, Shelly and Looi. - Me! - - SH - - Looi - There are few steps I learnt: Beginner shall use the P labeled club, different labels indicate different angle and distance that club able to deliver. One shall concentrate on the target (ball) as much as possible. One shall swing to bring up the ball, not hit nor wack the ball a.k.a not to use too much force. The perfect posture to play golf is hand straight, legs bend a lil, backbone straight. Left leg is the position locker, as we swing, the left leg shall not move - Sifu - So I managed to swing the ball up to the sk...

I stayed 2 weeks in Germany but my colleagues from other departments stayed for 3 months there. So they had a lot chances to go travel around Europe. Here's all the souvenirs I got from them! - Souvenirs from Germany, Paris, Venice, Swiss and Barcelona - Many thanks to Shelly, Soon Hee, Hock Guan, Yin Pin, Felix and Khoo!! Good thing you guys didn't forget bout me while traveling, hahaha!

I woke up as early as 7am on the last day of my visit to Singapore. I will be visiting Sentosa Island with Peng! Had not been there since I was 10 or so. We washed up and checked out from the hostel, I left my luggage there anyway. We had our breakfast at a nearby Kopitiam. - My Breakfast set: SGD 3.80 - - Peng's Breakfast set: SGD 3.80 - We then moved on to take the MRT to Vivo City and boarded the Sentosa Express for SDG 3.00 to Sentosa Island. We saw many teenagers with volleyball in hand going into the island for games. The journey into the island took around 10 minutes only. - Siloso Beach, man made beach - - Palawan beach, another man made beach - - The giant Merlion - - Me and Peng, underneath the Merlion - - The skyride that cost 10 SGD, 2 ways - We walked around the island for sightseeing, there were flower exhibition and it was really awesome.. though the exact date for the exhibition was not that day. - Beautiful flowers - - Future Expansion: Casino, expected to be done ...

Ah Beng and Ah Lian promised to be my tour guide around the island on this day. So I followed them travelling around with MRT, man, I love their MRT!! Going anywhere is so simple and hassle-free!! We went shopping at Raffles city, Suntec, Vivo city, Citylink Mall, etc.. I don't remember all the names of the complexes we been to. I got myself a G2000 blouse, a shirt for Wilson also from G2000 and T-shirts for my brother. Couldn't get my mom anything so I decided to bring her for shopping later in KL. As we were in Vivo city, Ah Beng suggested we go to Sentosa Island.. as we could board the train there from Vivo City. But the sun was too hot that day, almost burnt me off. So we went to watch the Mr. Gymnastic instead. Haha, see the muscular man showing their 6 packs. Geli! Then, Beng and Lian pass on the tour guide job to my other friend, Peng. She was doing her law practice in Singapore too! So I will spend the rest of the day with her. We had dinner at a Japanese restaurant at...

The 3rd day of my visit to Singapore kicks off with breakfast at the hotel again. Today I was scheduled to visit another hard disk manufacturer factory in Singapore, Showa Denko. I was suppose to visit the wastewater treatment plant with UNOX technology. This is an advance technology by the Japanese which is able to reduce the footprint of the treatment plant and increase the performance. But, how many investor would consider giving so much money into wastewater treatment plant like the Japanese? The plant was really great, very systematic and well kept. After this, we went up the Jurong Hill for an Indonesian lunch. The scenery from the hill was quite nice, considering Singapore is a building forest. I could see the Industrial area well from the look out point. The hill has another attraction other than the lookout point, the Garden of Fame. It contains many trees planted by famous people around the world, eg: Queen Elizabeth, King of Thailand etc.. But I couldn't search for Mahat...

I was awake at 7.30am on the 2nd day, had breakfast buffet at the hotel. Looking out from my hotel room, it's a mountain of tall buildings.. This is Singapore, tall buildings around... The first destination I went that day was Seagate Factory at Senai, Johor. We had to pass through the custom and took about 1.5 hours to reach the destination. I do salute people who go to and fro Singapore/Johor to work. It was really a hassle, to let custom officers check the vehicles and passport and worse was the traffic jam. Anyhow, the visit to Seagate was great. Seagate manufactures hard disks and it was a great experience looking at the plant. I learnt many tricks about operating a wastewater treatment plant in a semiconductor fab. The engineers on site gave me a round tour around the plant and I was really amazed. The plant was at least twice bigger than ours. After the visit, I joined all the engineers in Seagates for lunch in a nearby chinese restaurant. It was my first meal in Johor. The ...

Well, I was sent by my company to audit vendor's operation plants in Singapore and Johor. Since the economy was hitting most companies, including mine.. my MD decided to only send me alone for this trip (initially I was suppose to travel with a colleague). Being their customer, very potential long run customer, I was treated really well here. Upon arrival at Changi Airport, my vendors (Lim and Heather) picked me up and sent me to their head office. The engineers brief me on their company history, plants concept, design and operation details. It's quite weird feeling to have so many people explaining many stuff to me alone. Luckily my background is also water treatment, else I would be choking with informations from them. Then Lim brought me around their fabrication yard, checked on their skid fabricating processes, spare parts inventory, quality assurance etc. After that I was brought to lunch at a Hongkie style Char Chan Teng. Normal food served, just like our Wong Kok or Kim ...

I will be flying off to Singapore tomorrow, for a 5 days job trip. Well, nothing special bout that.. just that this is the first time I travel on my own to a foreign country. Previously either with Wilson, friends or colleagues. This time, alone! haha... guess I'm old enough for this! Wuhoooo~ Boarding a plane on my own? Geesshh... scary neh!

Alright, since I did the round up for year 2008, I shall do the new year's resolutions also. I wouldn't be so kiasu to put 20 resolutions and in the end achieving non.. I guess, concentrating on 5 main goals for 2009 and achieving it big and soundly will do. 1. Save, save and save Since the economy is slowing down this year, I shall start saving up money to secure myself financially. I'm not a person that rely on other people (especially parents), so I ought to prepare myself an umbrella for rainy days. Since I just started working on 2007, I've been spending a lot on vacations. So for this coming years, I want to cut down this expenses as much as possible. 2. Keep fit I lost 2 kg while traveling in Europe last few months. However I gained them back over the festive seasons and holidays now. Since my company has a free gym for us, I shall start jogging on treadmill on the coming week. I've got colleagues accompanying me for this exercise, we all hope to look stunnin...