lets get party started

i once heard someone said, "you will never own a second car if you dun hav e first one". well, in another context, it also means "you will never have a successful business if you dun start one"...... i used to be convinced but now, i am even more convinced that ive made e right choice by starting junpiter futbol aka jpf!

for e start, jpf is never going to make any profit. im 100% sure about it, haiz... no worries, i am giving myself 1 year to make jpf a successful online! by then hopefully i can secure some simple sponsors to keep e site going. ofcos making profit is one of e prorities but i know it aint gonna be that quick.

logo designing has been very challenging for e designing firm which ive engaged. everytime i received e new designs, i never seems to be able to connect with it. no disrespect, e designs are good but everytime it just dun really "clicked". i always feel e designs could be better, could be more pro or could be more artistic. well i guess its never enough and real tough for e designer for having such a client like me!

we can never rush things to be done, or at least its true on my end for jpf. video recording to be e first thing to come next month then follow by e editing, things are slightly delayed per my initial schedule but no worries at all. eventually e best will be presented to all!

big money

this month my colleagues have been going gaga over e 11.5million toto which is going to be drawn in about 2hrs time from now! okay, i myself invested reasonably and just like all other typical singaporeans, wishing that i can be e luckiest one in singapore!!

few days back, i have got this very wild dream. i do not need to be e luckiest one but if i can be ONE of e luckiest one, erm... probably just 2million will do, i will do e following.

first of all, i will use 1million to purchase a condo unit! by collecting rental from this unit, should be able to get a minimum a thousand. that should be quite a healthy side income though! rent it out to foreign students!! haha!

second, e wildest one, i might want to quit my job (indefinitely) to fulfill a dream - professional footballer. *i heard people at e back saying.. football again* to me, i believe you can only talk about dream or ambition ONLY if you have MONEY! im a believer of no money no dream sort of typical singapore chinese guy. so now if ive got e money liao, im gonna give it one last shot at football fame! big clubs such as saf, tampines or home surely wont want me but at least i am confident of approaching clubs like hougang or tanjong pagar for trial! wah lau.. tanjong pagar signed inexperienced players from national footbal league and even prime league, definitely i should be given such an opportunity considering e fact ive got some relevant "expired" experience! haha!! i promise to be a si bei hardworking and disciplined player!

1 year. give myself 1 year to fulfill that simple dream of being a professional footballer. times up, if i do not make an impact in pathing out a (football) career, i will be back to e corporate world! so very crucial, lets see hows e outcome tonight!!

Men Top 5 Fashion Mistakes

i chanced upon this article from yahoo news and i couldnt help, i wanna give my 5cents worth of comment! hopefully men out there can improve ba, haha! its funny too! read on...

men's top 5 fashion mistakes, they are:

1. Absence of the The Right Fit
2. Collar Popping
3. Wearing sunglasses indoors or at night
4. Carrying women’s bags
5. Sports jerseys

e first one - absence of e right fit. e article goes this way saying some men really have a way of squeezing their butt into a freaking tight jeans and some are wearing a pair of jeans which it can accomodate 2 person! just recently i bought this pair of jeans from bugis, one of my favourite store actually, its those kind of body-hugging sort which can be used as a 3/4 jeans. well, among my jeans, that is e most tightest one and yet i think i look quite ok in that. reason being....?? im slim ma! anyway, i did see men and some friends of mine really squeezed themselves into a real tight jeans revealing their sexy butt curves! guys, time to relook at e whole proportion and e size ya. gonna find something which does not look ass-hugging tight and at e same time, no alien-workshop baggy!

collar popping. i admit i do popped my collar while im in my polo-T at times. and if theres time where im doing that, my wifey will be e first one to remind me to have e collar down! to her, polo-Ts collar should not be popped at ALL TIMES! now i truely believe what she said now. im gonna be guai and keep all collars down to earth on my 1.78m height frame to remain "IN" in e fashion world!

wearing sunglasses indoors or at night. arh ha... e moment i read this, it reminds me of e bollybood zee cine award which ive done recently at my workplace. everytime during this task force meeting to discuss on e events logistic, theres this think-that-he-sibei-yandao-and-cool indian guy who always has his shade on even if e meeting was held in a meeting room! and then my colleagues and myself would always joked about his shade and his undesired coolness! haha! ok, back to my case, so from now onwards, i will remind myself to remove my shade e moment i reach e train station cos normally i will always have it on to avoid eye contact even (sometimes) if im in an indoor venue such as train station, department stores and etc.

carrying womens bags! right from young, i remember my mum telling me NOT to carry womens bags. well, for her objective, its not about being "pang-dang" but to her, by carrying a womans bag is not e most manly thing to do. my wifey will agrue... her bags are all branded one ok! anyway, ive been cultivated as such so i cant help but to laugh while reading these! separately, i think my own collection of bags are more fashionable than my wifeys though! haha!

lastly sports jersey... buay tahan! it totally reminds me of my schoolmate, din! why leh? he is e typical guy who will wear jersey nearly everyday, be it to orchard or for study. you know e funniest part is what - hes not a football fan at all and yet he wears newcastle lah, man utd and etc! i ever asked him before why hes always in a football jersey and e reply is something which i would not disagree with, probably admit he has a superb valid point of view. he said jersey does not have crumpled after wash as much as normal t-shirts or shirts because of its material. so by wearing jersey daily, his mum will not have to iron his wears at all!! yar liao lor! (win already lor!) HAHAHA! when i was younger, i used to wear jersey around even during my courtship dayz with my wifey. now i dont do that anymore due to e fact that i am more aware of my personal fashion at stake.

to be presentable and outstanding among your peers, we will have to bring out e best in ourselves by not overdoing in certain dressing. fashion is all about do-you-dare-to-wear but adequately. something which we can carry off without being too "over-dress" and comfortable. dress accordingly to occasions and you will be oustanding and fashionable. not to forget e 5 pointers above too!

mr nice guy - ah gong

this story goes back to saturday. having slept only at 3am on friday night, i was waken up by my father's call on early saturday morning informing me that.. ah gong passed away. its really a shock news to me. woke up immediately and made my way down to ah gong's place.

compared to others, ah gong is a fortunate old man. he passed away in his sleep. and i thought everybody took it quite well especially ah ma. probably ah gong was already in his 90s and we all knew sooner or later this would happen. my impression of ah gong might not be as deep as some of other grandchildren actually. however i can always remember e tone of how ah gong spoke when he's alive at either kampong or blk-19. ah gong was a well-respected man during e era. to what extend? he was once a consultant to a clan for near 50years! his calligraphy was excellent and probably thats something which ive inherited from him - my handwriting is slight above presentable! i will always remember there's this big phone list which ah gong used to hang up beside his telephone, ah gong insisted to write manually all e families' contacts on it and if im not wrong, e papers which he wrote on was cut by him as well. that might be too far away for you guys to imagine, how about this.... just before ah gong's death, he wrote his own obituary notice! ive seen e original copy after his death and all we need to do was to fill in e blanks - e dates and time of his death on e notice. thats how much he loved writing.

past few days at e wake was like a mini gathering at e void deck. only to know e occasion was not a festive one. as i am considered an "internal" grandson (内孙), i am involved in e prayer and chanting every night till e day ah gong was cremated. during the prayer and chanting, e monks encouraged us to follow through and sing along to their prayer and chanting with e "chord" book. e scripts came with hanyu pinying and ive got to recite word by word and at e same time catch up with their pace! i am finding something interesting here... beside every single word, there was some strokes and circles. ive been trying to figure out was that similar to those usual music scorebook where it tells you where to drag e verse, when to stop and drag again and etc. i still couldnt figure that out. e whole night at e prayer and chanting, i would be analyzing how those monks' "scorebook" was understood and how those musical instruments were played! aiya, ah gong understand one lah - i couldnt recite e "scorebook" so i made use of my time kneeing there to focus on things which interested me lor!

next, e food served at e wake was simply unbelievable! i never knew that food served at a funeral wake could be what i would describe as a feast! im so looking forward to e dinner where they would serve fresh steamed fish, fried chickn cutlet, hot soup, vege and etc.... comes supper, there were stir-fried noodles, deep-fried chicken wings, siew mai and etc.... i helped myself to countless packets of drinks as well! now we all know, e chef and cooks at funeral wake really kicked ass at void deck! my only tiny complaint was e portion of e food could be more!!

e mood at e wake was not really very low and dull but when e 3rd day reached, another bad news came, ah gong's younger brother, passed away too. we were stucked in a funeral marathon. all e relatives who were attending ah gong's were not allow to proceed to ah gong's younger brother's one as per instructed by e monks. it was those typical chinese taoist's rules. however it has been made clear, relatives will all flock over to ah gong's younger brother's wake after ah gong's bones have been picked today (thursday). me and joanne have been advised not to attend any more wake.

this year, e tan's great family has lost someone great, someone whom we looked up to. ah gong's spirit stays though. no chinese new year for e tans here this year. regardless what, we will all miss ah gong i believe. i feel for father too. he's trying to be strong but i know he's real saddened by e fact that his father passed away after so many years. hopefully everybody can recover from this loss and move on in life. and also hope that ah gong can bless e whole tans' families under his "umbrella"!

(PS: i should have spacings and paragraphs in between but blogspot screwed up on me here!)

sicko

im half dead for 2 days, and on e third day, i suddently feel slightly alive again. all thanks to e marvellous prescription from e doc and e fantastic discipline of mine by swallowing countless pills and tablets into e weak digestive system.

this month has not been a very healthy month for me. after a pull hamstring and a swollened toe, and now i am running a fever with a "complimentary" sore throat! in order not to pass e virus to my wifey and my precious bb, 2 nights in a row, ive been sleeping in e living room on e couch. finally i am recovering, probably tonight will be back on e comfy bed or at least i hope.

friday gonna be e futsal competition, my boss is urging me to recover well and fast so that i can lead e team in e first ever organized mice-industry futsal competition. i do not have much anticipation and target for this competition but hope that i can recover well and perform to my maximum. regardless whats e result, i believe we will have a great time!

300th

this is my 300th blog... prior to this i was still thinking what could be e best topic to blog for my 300th one but eventually its e middle finger related one! ok ok, nothing really related to this middle finger but i was pissed to e max today!

i was on e cab home this late evening after a wedding dinner, this cab uncle forgot to on his meter. my sala?? he realized it after 5mins and then he turned around to me and said he's gonna add $6 at e end of e final check. you didn't on your freaking meter and i have to pay for your mistake? hang on.... just before you think im turning nasty, i did pay at e end but not $6! hey dumb-ass, this is mr nice guy here - id add some tokens to e final bill but as a matter of fact, lets make this clear, i am not obligated to pay you since you're e one who didnt on your freaking meter.

uncle claimed that he's always on e road driving and he knows e rate way too well to quote me that $6. ah-hem.. uncle, i'm always on e road taking cab over singapore and i know e jumping of e meter way too well to know that you're f**king me around!! im only going to pay $3 e most i told him. so with my final check of $11.40, plus that $3 its $14.40... guess what, i knew he's going to "chu-stunt", he said very hard to calculate, make it $15, additional $0.60. mr nice guy said very hard to calculate huh, then take away e 40cents, make it a lump sum of $14 lor!! you clever im not dumb here.

eventually he accepted e fact that im aint push-over, accepted e hard-earned compromised $14. he took my $50 note and returned me $35 and tried his luck again, as a mr nice guy here, i said uncle, you short-changed me $1! i even said thank you at e end. i won against e dumb-ass.

do you know that i am so f**king pissed with this whole thing. even though ive won e case at e end i am still feeling s***! i dunno why but it's bothering me. just that sometimes we really have to stand up and defend ourself especially when someone try to "makan" you. i've enough of this s***. honestly speaking, i didnt snap but i stood up for myself and for my principle at e moment. anyway too tired to be pissed now... heading to bed, blog about other happier thing soon!

team building party

just when you were cracking your brains on various team building activites and games, all they wanted were just music and booze! ive been assigned to organize our first ever mice team building party at bora bora and guess what, its probably e best party i ever organized and attended! e games which we have arranged were fantastic not until e weather spoilted e fun. and what followed next, plenty of booze and great music! all e peeps simply took off their usual white collar shields and started jumping and dancing to e music! i was one of them. no hanky-panky but loads of bodies hugging dancing i supposed. food erm... food was nothing impressive but merely those straight forward bbq stuffs lor. nonetheless, ive mastered e art of organizing "ang-mo's" party; non-booze related activities, don't bother! lol!!