The clock is ticking and it's now the final countdown for the business assignment in Manila. To be honest, I love this place better than last year. I am happy with the working environment here that I don't get pissed off in the office, at least not anymore :) I don't know why but I have a feeling that for my previous trip it wasn't like this.

And all these made my steps became so much heavier today. I learnt to move, but not move on! LOL! Guess what, a while ago, a colleague asked where am I going for dinner today and maybe we can dine together, I wanted to say "ahhh leave me alone, I don't like the feeling of leaving, don't make me cry", haha, well I don't cry easily but to be honest my heart just doesn't feel well when it comes to a farewell to friends that you don't know if you will see each other again in the future.

But I have to go home, thanks for all the great time here, I appreciate every moment spent with all these guys here. I sincerely wish everyone here is blessed everyday.

Hectic schedule is coming, the places that I will be at for the coming 3 weeks are: Manila -> Singapore -> Kuala Lumpur -> TaiPei -> HuaLien -> TaiChung -> TaiPei -> Kuala Lumpur -> Segamat -> Johor Bahru -> Kuala Lumpur

My life is all about travelling! It's time to put all these on hold and enjoy the moment staying back in Kuala Lumpur! And just because I have to be away that much, I realise that the best place in the world to go is home.

Labels: Career, Life, Memories, Thought, Trip

A ship in harbour is safe, but that's not what ships are built for

Labels: Inspiration, Life, Memories, Photography, Thought

Today is the last day of weekend workforce in this year as we are going to freeze the development until next year. I guess no one want to break something during this period and spoil everyone's Christmas holiday, no?

Hence, life is moving on slower as normal beats (it was on remix beats for 3 months!) starting today, and guess what, I don't have any critical issue to work on today, so I decided to do a mailbox housekeeping after a hectic battle which I didn't even have time to tidy up my mailbox, a lot of trash mails in my inbox and consuming a lot of spaces, until the mail server have been warning me for a couple of times to archieve my mails. Well, sorry about that, but I am doing it right now, finally =p

I found a funny comic in my mailbox, shared by a friend some times ago, which I think is kind of fitted into my job situation. I am sharing it here, for the sake of fun, no offence to any other team =)

After this, I will be meeting family and relatives from all around the world! Ok, this round we are going to have it seperately in many different places around the world. But here in KL, we have relatives from Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, and Hong Kong! Can't wait any longer to meeting them!

Besides that, I finally got my Starbucks Planner 2011, a very nice leather planner, for me to start taking down notes on the coming plan. Probably would be nice for me to plan my expenses as I have to really learn how to manage my finance taking into account that I have a big debt on house loan :(

Lastly, wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you peeps, another great year ahead!

And the same to myself too, all the best in 2011 Mr Stevo!

Labels: Family, Life, Thought

I think my blog is a bit messy, with a lot of stupid posts. This is definitely not my usual style, I used to have them in very structured way, no?

Well, I decided to do a lil bit of housekeeping work on the blog. Removed those stupid posts with only one picture and one word, yet mean nothing to the readers. Oh yea those pictures do mean something to me but people reading it may not understand it. So, I decided to move it to draft, just to keep it there as diary.

Life had been very tough, you know, I am a person that always strive for work & life balance, that never in my life I'd have thought of working continuously for the whole month until when I am bearing the house loan. It's going to take me 35 years to clear my debt, and I don't want it to be that long, so I am working hard to make more money and I wanna get it done in 15-20 years. Yes I know that's tough but I'll strive for that.

The forth quarter of every year seems to be the most miserable season for me. On top of working during weekends, look at this receipt below then you will know how many working hours for me per day! (ok it's not that bad lar, the receipt is showing the longest working day for me in 2010, hehe!)

It may not be the most expensive car park receipt I ever had, but it is one of the longest working day for me

Guess what, I got a Blackberry Torch 9800 from the project budget! Cool eh? Heh! It may look cool but may uglify my nights & weekends. Let's hope I don't have to standby too much with this cool gadget, just FB-ing with this cool gadget all time without needing to reply mails. Dream on, dream on, Steve Kwok, wake up now and be realistic!

I wish I still remember how fancy my Friday night used to be...

*Sigh* I am officially a slave of money now... :(

Labels: Career, Life, Technology, Thought

城市人讲的是速度和时机，我们乡下人讲的是耕耘和努力

要快高长大哦

Labels: Family, Life, Memories

I felt a chill running thru my veins.

Chronic anxiety and panic attacks are running marathon in my body, always slow and steady yet sometimes gasping. Is it a sign of depression? I hope not.

I decided to destress myself by playing some music, the best suit one I have for myself is the song named "Hallelujah". Religionary worship songs are the best to calm down my vexation, though it is not the correct genre one. Instrumental music will be the alternative.

I am expecting a lot in myself, new project, training, fighting for my increment and promotion, equipping with in-depth knowledge, playing my role well, etc. I am suffocating, I am drowning!

I want a balance in my life. I need a break, yet it is a crucial period of the team now that we have new project kickoff today, web conference later today as prelude of the new modules training, tele conference tomorrow as project kickoff meeting, and new modules training next whole week.

There are so many projects coming in, the team has delivered so many quality works. Does the team deserve a good increment and great bonus? The salary payout gonna tell everything once the payroll runs this Friday, I expect another late notification letter.

Labels: Career, Life, Thought

This morning, I heard that Meng Keong, a colleague of mine, had been assaulted and robbed by four Malay guys while he was on his way to LRT station from office last nite about 10pm++. The LRT station is located only like 5 minutes walking distance from the office and yet this can happen. Guess what, it was happened just along Jalan Sultan Ismail! Poor guy, he lost the company Blackberry phone, which in this case he might has to bear half of its price, it is still pending company decision. His watch and wallet with all the cards and cash were robbed as well. Luckily, the company laptop was secured. Apparently, the robbers only want cash and small items but not the bulky one so that they can run away in a quick manner.

A month ago, I have read an article online about a Youtube video clip of a robbery happened in Taman Maluri, Cheras. I tried to search for the keyword "Maluri Robbery" and found the clip. Well, as a Malaysian, it is nothing special to me. As I have heard a lots here and there, read a lots from the newspaper, I bet you too, if unfortunately you happen to be a Malaysian? Anyway this is the first time I see it with my eyes (from the video clip), and this is just so unbelievable! Malaysia boleh! You see the robbers memang boleh, aren't they?



Do you like Black Eyed Peas's song "Where is the love"? We have a local version here in Malaysia, "Where is the law". Have you ever thought of questioning the government of your safety? The criminal rate here is alarming for so long and why it just never been treaten seriously?

One of the major threat, the labours issues that never seems to end. Why issuing so many visas when you see a lots of them are creating trouble here? From time to time, there are a lots of news about criminals committed by them. If you are aware, Indonesians firing with the police on the road is not so strange here in KL. Come on, this is not counter strike, you cannot restart if you get head shot. I ain't too sure if there is similar case in Singapore or not, but obviously they will first consider Malaysia when it comes to committing crime, even though robbing Singapore Dollars is far more tempting than Ringgit. Probably they see the better chance to run away? They are putting us in a really vulnerable situation! And that's one of the points that causing the harmony in deep shit!

Almost everytime if I happen to take LRT to the office, I can see a group of Malay teenagers in school uniforms, sleeping at the staircase, rest chair, etc. Can the right associations counsel and educate these young generation to go back to school? Education is the best way to heal their mindset and shape their personalities, so that they don't become mat rempit or robbers in the future.

It is sad to see our homeland in such situation. Criminal rates is rising, and yet politics war is breaking out in parallel, together with discrimination, it is making the people running away from the country. Yes, every year there are a lot of friends that graduated in oversea declared that will not come back to Malaysia anymore. My brother and sister are the best examples, they came back and sick of the lifestyle here, so they went back to the places they once stayed for their studies. And now, even the local graduates are seeking way to run away from the country! You see Singapore is collecting the expertise that are running out of Malaysia, most of the labours they are issuing visas are highly educated Malaysians and Indonesians. Their government is smart, and doing the best to the citizens. Our wealthy government, what say you? What project that is done for the sake of the citizens? Ops, forget about the semi-value projects please, we are talking about the full-value projects now! The highway to the government offices at the pork-free zone Putrajaya? Whatever! If you are talking about the population in Putrajaya, is Segamat a smaller city than Putrajaya? Nope! We are bigger but yet you cancelled the highway project here! Hate talking about government and politics, it ruins my mood! How I wish many years ago Johore was somehow accidentally divided to be part of Singapore, haha!

Sorry, guess I've gone too far away from the topic, we were talking about the safety isn't it? Hah! Well, my advise is, go back home earlier after knock off. Get some companions if you were to walk in the darkness. No one can help you with awareness but you yourself.

May God bless you, Malaysians!

Labels: Life, Thought

I am kind of emo recently, for no reason, a small matter could either make my day or bring me down, probably because of the freaking hot weather here in KL?

It was so hot few days before my trip to Redang Island. And it was terribly hot during the trip. Anyway thanks to the sun, I love my tanned skin. Wondering how long will it last? However, I hate the weird tan shades left by the sunglasses! It makes my face looks so weird! And btw I'll only update the blog with the pictures taken in Redang Island next weekend, not in mood to upload pictures yet. And I am still waiting for the snorkeling pictures in Jesslyn's camera.

It has been so many days without rain, started to miss the smell of downpour, started to miss those days that walking on the street and got spattered with raindrops, that was happened almost everyday some time ago, and yea, I did complain that it happened too frequent, heh!

I decided to go for a portable air conditioner unit next month so that I don't have to sweat in the nite. Setting up a split air conditioner unit in my room is way cheaper but too troublesome as I might move out anytime, I mean it's not my own house anyway. I saw a quite tempting one in Sogo the other day when shopping with my colleagues during lunch break to get a wedding gift for another colleague. It is cool, love it. But pricy, RM1.6k. And I have read from Lowyat forum that it is not so powerful. Seriously need to do some research to see if it's worth its price. Need it desperately, dying of the heat in my room!

Added this item into my wanted list, sigh I have so many items in list. It's killing my saving! Wondering when will I become a wise spender? Everytime when I have extra money I'll seek for something to buy, somewhere to travel, aiks! And this month even worse, I have overspent so much, yet I am so into the Tai Pei trip! Luckily everyone wanted it to be next year, ok cool then. =)

Opssss... Out of topic! Well, the only thing I want to express in this post is that, I REALLY HATE THE HEAT! How I wish I can fly to a winter country now so that I can get rid of this terribly hot weather!

Fingers crossed, praying hard for a downpour...

"God our heavenly Father, through your Son you promised to those seeking first your kingdom and your righteousness all things necessary for bodily welfare: send us, we pray, in this time of need, rain to water the earth, especially here in KL, that we may receive its produce to strengthen and sustain us and always praise you for your bounty. O Lord, please guide and bless your people, that we may enjoy the nature and give you thanks with grateful hearts, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

Labels: Life