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Sunday, July 05, 2009
A reminder to self about what I did this weekend.
Friday after work was sauna and massage till midnight.
Saturday woke up late. Cleaned up. Watched television. Studied for Korean exam. Watched Confessions of a Shopaholic. Watched Sakura Cardcaptor. Had dinner. Played poker.
Sunday. Korean. TV. Class. Laundry and Ironing. Watched Ice Age 2.
OK. Phew. My memory is not that bad !
Oh no, another weekend flew by just like that and it is time for work on Monday again. And a busy week it will be as I have to do the quarterly KCSA as well. Urgh.
Friday after work was sauna and massage till midnight.
Saturday woke up late. Cleaned up. Watched television. Studied for Korean exam. Watched Confessions of a Shopaholic. Watched Sakura Cardcaptor. Had dinner. Played poker.
Sunday. Korean. TV. Class. Laundry and Ironing. Watched Ice Age 2.
OK. Phew. My memory is not that bad !
Oh no, another weekend flew by just like that and it is time for work on Monday again. And a busy week it will be as I have to do the quarterly KCSA as well. Urgh.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
So it is July and half the year has flown by. This year I have fallen behind in some of my resolutions, I would say that work is the main culprit. Work takes up a lot of my time nowadays, and it seems that a lot of what I do has to do with work. Nevertheless, career can be an important part of one's life especially at this stage, and with the results that I am getting, I do not particularly believe that it is such a bad thing. Anyway I am having loads of fun at the moment. I do have a Korean exam tomorrow, which is terrible, because I have a whole list of vocabulary to memorise. Though it is still great that I can read, because I never thought I would have the patience to learn a new way of writing, which was one of the reasons why it was so hard to pick up Japanese properly. But perhaps it is because I am going to a class which helps make the learning more fun and easier as well. But memorising in another language words for strawberry, hat, sea and waves takes me back to primary school. Though it never seemed to be so hard to remember that hat meant...hat ! If you understood that at all. How did we know that meant hat ? But why is it so hard now to say hat in another language. It was not that hard to learn it in Malay.
Time flies so much now that sometimes I cannot even remember what I did the previous weekend. I only remember that I watched Transformers at Cyberport after some drinks with the colleagues. Saturday was a day spent at Megabox, where we went ice skating, playing arcade games and then bowling till almost midnight. Sunday, was a lot of sleep plus Korean, and that was another weekend flying by. Luckily of course 1st of July waa holiday, one of the rare times, and it was great to have a midweek break. It brings back memories of when I would schedule Wednesdays off during university times. Having had a night of poker with colleagues the previous night, I woke up late, and did some grocery shopping and realised the newsstand under my apartment block was closed. Then made my way to a friends birthday party where Wii and Mahjong was involved. We had pizza and sushi for dinner. Work flew by again, which included meetings with some Koreans, though it was hard to understand them.
And now it is the weekend again.
Revision for exams....tomorrow. Perhaps a break for poker ? Or maybe a movie.
Watched Night at the Museum the other night, which was just alright, not particularly fantastic. Looking forward to Harry Potter though.
Time flies so much now that sometimes I cannot even remember what I did the previous weekend. I only remember that I watched Transformers at Cyberport after some drinks with the colleagues. Saturday was a day spent at Megabox, where we went ice skating, playing arcade games and then bowling till almost midnight. Sunday, was a lot of sleep plus Korean, and that was another weekend flying by. Luckily of course 1st of July waa holiday, one of the rare times, and it was great to have a midweek break. It brings back memories of when I would schedule Wednesdays off during university times. Having had a night of poker with colleagues the previous night, I woke up late, and did some grocery shopping and realised the newsstand under my apartment block was closed. Then made my way to a friends birthday party where Wii and Mahjong was involved. We had pizza and sushi for dinner. Work flew by again, which included meetings with some Koreans, though it was hard to understand them.
And now it is the weekend again.
Revision for exams....tomorrow. Perhaps a break for poker ? Or maybe a movie.
Watched Night at the Museum the other night, which was just alright, not particularly fantastic. Looking forward to Harry Potter though.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Another day another fun trip. But first Friday night, saw a whole night of Mahjong back at the Lucky Centre, with MrSng, wife and a friend. 9 hours of solid fun, a good seafood dinner, and a winning ending kept me very happy. Just happy enough to collapse in a cab and going home for a shower and a very short nap.
This time we rented the holiday house of the bank in Tong Fook, in Lantau Island. We gathered at the pier to leave around 12, and after a short ride, we were there. It was a very hot day and it was fun to go and pick up the car at the island. It was a real clanker and looked old and the air condition did not really work. We drove around the island toward the holiday house and had a great roadtrip kind of feel.
At the house, it was great to just sit and rest with the air conditioning on, but as the rest prepared to go for lunch, I volunteered to stay in. Actually I really wanted to just tan on the beach, so while they were all gone, I nipped down the backyard stairs and just tanned for a whole hour. It was great. Have not spent so much time in the sun, doing nothing but tanning for a while. I could feel all the sweat coming out and my skin burning as well. After an hour, took a cold shower, and then went swimming in the sea again when some of the others came back.
As the rest slowly all arrived, we settled in for some good old mahjong, and some people started preparing the food for barbeque as well. Barbeque was hot work, and led to many many burnt sausages. Steak was good though. After the food, we took turns to shower and then play more card games. We had a round of poker, where I won 500 bucks. More mahjong lasted till 2 am and I was soooo tired, especially after the previous night. Fell asleep in the hall and only woke up the next morning when people handed me a coke and an ice cream to start the day.
Rushed back to central after a McDonalds lunch as it was Korean class day as well. For the second week running, I was a very tired boy in class, but worth it, as by the end of the class I could read !!
Yay ! I can read Hangul now, but have no idea what the words mean.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
And that was because later that week, on the Wednesday no less, we went horse racing !! That was really fun. We all got stuck into work, tried to finish early and then jet setted across to the racing ground. Though we missed the first two races, there were still about eight to go. And we quickly got into the racing form and talked about strategies and reasons for each horse to win.We were there in a restaurant overlooking the racing ground, so we could see the real horses on the ground. Pretty fun. The great thing about being in the restaurant was that we were inside, where it was cool, while outside the Summer was really hot. The great thing was, I won quite a bit of money at the races at well, and had a really great track record at picking out the winners. The team was a bit impressed, though I must say, it was a lot about looking at the statistics. All in all, it was a very very fun night. Racing in Hong Kong, another great experience !!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Ooh I am falling behind..
Anyway, so the week after the yacht, was when my team had a barbeque. Perfect, with the hot weather. It was very fun, and a change from normal BBQ. The reason being, we had huge chunks of meat, large prawns, fish, gourmet sausages. Haha, such a difference from BBQing with friends of the same age. Drinks were beer, wine, and a huge bottle of sake.
One of the best things was the skyline from up there. This is at my boss's aparment. What a view right ? You can fall in love with Hong Kong just looking at the view. In this picture, you can actually see my aparment, somewhere in the middle. And you can also see my new office, into which I would be moving into in September. It is the tallest building in the picture. It will be very exciting.
Later on that evening, when the kids went to bed, we moved to poker, a perennial favourite of our team. Fun + huge winnings for me that night. And it was only the beginning of a very lucky week for me.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The yacht was loads of fun. We set off into the morning sun, with a strong westerly wind, and headed towards the wide open sea.
It had been slightly rainy earlier in the morning so there was no sun tanning or swimming going on. Rather, we aimed for Ma Wan, which was a place where cars could not access and was pretty special in that respect. 
We reached the jetty and were welcomed by colourful flags. We got off the boat and walked around the little village and took many pictures. Towards the other side, we arrived at one of the newest attractions in HK, Noah's Ark. Basically it is a huge model of the Ark, with animals, museums and restaurants. We walked around, had some ice cream and walked around the Ma Wan park as well. 
Later we got back on the boat and headed for Ping Chau island. Practically a village on an island and we took a long walk around the place before hopping to the next island Cheung Chau for a seafood dinner. Superbly cheap and delicious ! The ride back at around 9 pm was great, as all the lights were on in Hong Kong, and the feeling of the wind in your face, while you sit around telling ghost stories was also awesome ! We also took some funny photos.
It was a great feeling, and there was hardly any feeling of seasicknesses. It was also fun to get real close to some of the container ships to find out how huge they really were !!!Fantastic and loads of fun !!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Somehow, the days are seemingly flying by. I can hardly remember what happened last week at work, or what I did last weekend.
I only remember that me and FredBear met up with SoBear for dinner and some drinks later. Had a lot of inane fun, which is great and was good to meet him as well. He has finished his exams and is just now waiting for his results, and will probably start work as a lawyer in September. Amazing. Finally into the workforce. Very proud. Has put on a little weight too. Hehe. But then, so have I.
Ah...it was a weekend of extremely little sleep.
After work got hauled along to a bar at LKF, where I had no drinks, and then dinner at Cafe Siam. Then FredBear joined GATra and GAG and myself to MJ at GATra's place. Till about 4 am. So tiring. After a long day's work.
I know I started Saturday off very sleep after only a couple of hours sleep and stumbled to Chinese class. Had a very short nap at home before revising some French then taking the Subway all the way to Hang Hau, to meet GATra and FredBear for dinner. Dinner was pretty good though VERY unhealthy, and we ended up renting Burn After Reading to watch at FredBear's place. As you can imagine, we also bought some dessert to eat. By the time we started the movie it was almost midnight. Slept at 4 I believe.
I think on Sunday, I just slept. Perhaps cooked. Really blank day because I remember turning up on Monday really dazed and wishing for the day to go by really fast and yet, it crawled. Coffee did not help. I am having some trouble sleeping nowadays and usually wake up around 4 am. Is this my body telling me to go out for a run, and then go into office early !?!?!? All the tiredness concluded in me falling asleep at 8.30 pm on Monday. Luckily it was UK and US holiday, and that made us able to finish up really early and go home at 7. Real early by my terms as usual days finish up by 8 pm.
An event happened at work which got me slightly sore. We discovered that some people were doing deals with customers that were not really good for the bank and yet when we started investigating them, they got all cranky and stopped giving us information. I am not giving up though, as I have started collecting information, and as you very well know, being in OCC before, I am able to get my information easily and understand as well. I thank the IG rotations that I am really able to understand more of the bank else I doubt I would be able to understand the BCA enough to discover what they were doing wrong and how they were hiding it. More saga to continue as I do not know how the bosses are going to solve this yet but I know that somebody is going to get hurt real bad. To think that they tried to lie that this was the only case but in fact I have hard proof on at least two other cases. Fun.
This will make us some enemies though. But justice has to be served.
Today is Dragonboat Festival and so it is a public holiday here in Hong Kong. Nevertheless made the trip back to office as I wanted to clear up some project work on FERMAT and test the new application. Got quite a lot done in the almost deserted office so it was great. Also met up with some new colleagues so that was ok. Went for lunch later near Happy Valley and finally topped up my prepaid for my mobile. Also managed to get a small Korean phrasebook for only HKD40. Really cheap, but was really tempted to get the French one with the CD as well, but I guess I wanted to save that as I do not really want to be all confused with learning two new languages at the same time. I think I shall be able to catch up with my French again later, quite easily. But since my Korean starts next week, I am really excited !! Have even got to buy a textbook but my chief grouse is that CUHK does all its student communication in Chinese !!! so it took me a while to get through all the rules of the course and stuff.
Going on a yacht tomorrow ! It is quite fun to pack.
I only remember that me and FredBear met up with SoBear for dinner and some drinks later. Had a lot of inane fun, which is great and was good to meet him as well. He has finished his exams and is just now waiting for his results, and will probably start work as a lawyer in September. Amazing. Finally into the workforce. Very proud. Has put on a little weight too. Hehe. But then, so have I.
Ah...it was a weekend of extremely little sleep.
After work got hauled along to a bar at LKF, where I had no drinks, and then dinner at Cafe Siam. Then FredBear joined GATra and GAG and myself to MJ at GATra's place. Till about 4 am. So tiring. After a long day's work.
I know I started Saturday off very sleep after only a couple of hours sleep and stumbled to Chinese class. Had a very short nap at home before revising some French then taking the Subway all the way to Hang Hau, to meet GATra and FredBear for dinner. Dinner was pretty good though VERY unhealthy, and we ended up renting Burn After Reading to watch at FredBear's place. As you can imagine, we also bought some dessert to eat. By the time we started the movie it was almost midnight. Slept at 4 I believe.
I think on Sunday, I just slept. Perhaps cooked. Really blank day because I remember turning up on Monday really dazed and wishing for the day to go by really fast and yet, it crawled. Coffee did not help. I am having some trouble sleeping nowadays and usually wake up around 4 am. Is this my body telling me to go out for a run, and then go into office early !?!?!? All the tiredness concluded in me falling asleep at 8.30 pm on Monday. Luckily it was UK and US holiday, and that made us able to finish up really early and go home at 7. Real early by my terms as usual days finish up by 8 pm.
An event happened at work which got me slightly sore. We discovered that some people were doing deals with customers that were not really good for the bank and yet when we started investigating them, they got all cranky and stopped giving us information. I am not giving up though, as I have started collecting information, and as you very well know, being in OCC before, I am able to get my information easily and understand as well. I thank the IG rotations that I am really able to understand more of the bank else I doubt I would be able to understand the BCA enough to discover what they were doing wrong and how they were hiding it. More saga to continue as I do not know how the bosses are going to solve this yet but I know that somebody is going to get hurt real bad. To think that they tried to lie that this was the only case but in fact I have hard proof on at least two other cases. Fun.
This will make us some enemies though. But justice has to be served.
Today is Dragonboat Festival and so it is a public holiday here in Hong Kong. Nevertheless made the trip back to office as I wanted to clear up some project work on FERMAT and test the new application. Got quite a lot done in the almost deserted office so it was great. Also met up with some new colleagues so that was ok. Went for lunch later near Happy Valley and finally topped up my prepaid for my mobile. Also managed to get a small Korean phrasebook for only HKD40. Really cheap, but was really tempted to get the French one with the CD as well, but I guess I wanted to save that as I do not really want to be all confused with learning two new languages at the same time. I think I shall be able to catch up with my French again later, quite easily. But since my Korean starts next week, I am really excited !! Have even got to buy a textbook but my chief grouse is that CUHK does all its student communication in Chinese !!! so it took me a while to get through all the rules of the course and stuff.
Going on a yacht tomorrow ! It is quite fun to pack.
