One year ago........

3hours to the new year

I could see people said how great HE was .....
I chatted with the people who were real life witness on HIM.....
I listened to the touching story I never heard or knew before about HE changed their life....
I shook their hand who said sorry but grateful that HE lived his life to the fullest....

At the hours that changed my life for the better

Crowd started to leave to spend their 00.00 hours with their loved one....
Main road outside swarmed by party reveler...........
Car honking......
Trumpet singing..........
Firework blasted over the dark sky............

At the 2nd hours of new year

Took the bow at HIS glorious and smiling picture ,
The two gesture that hadn't shone through HIM in the past two years..........
I knew HE left us for the better in the upcoming year.........
I believed HE has changed a lot of our character and our approach toward life ahead......

For this I want to say I love you and miss you dearly.....

Thank for came by in my dream three time this year and kept teach me how to live the life to the fullest.

Hope you have a good rest "over there" !!!

Love you,



Your son

A Nomination of my photo

Boxing day is shopping time.

It's not my cup of tea!

I opened up my flickr account this morning and found this in my inbox :


Hi dna4,

I am writing to let you know that one of your photos has been short-listed for inclusion in the sixth edition of our Schmap Sydney Guide, to be published mid-January 2009.

www.schmap.com/shortlist/p=49503134246N01/c=SJ50013771

Clicking this link will take you to a page where you can:
i) See which of your photos has been short-listed.
ii) Submit or withdraw your photo from our final selection phase.
iii) Learn how we credit photos in our Schmap Guides.
iv) Browse online or download the fifth edition of our Schmap Sydney Guide.

While we offer no payment for publication, many photographers are pleased to submit their photos, as Schmap Guides give their work recognition and wide exposure, and are free of charge to readers. Photos are published at a maximum width of 150 pixels, are clearly attributed, and link to high-resolution originals at Flickr.

Our submission deadline is Tuesday, December 30. If you happen to be reading this message after this date, please still click on the link above (our Schmap Guides are updated frequently - photos submitted after this deadline will be considered for later releases).

Best regards,

XXXXXXXX
Managing Editor, Schmap Guides
www.schmap.me/

Shoot........this pretty goob smacking feeling!

Somebody actually looked into my Flickr account and short-listed one of my picture of AMP tower for the map. WOW........................

Even though it is still on the short-list process but I'm pretty proud about it.

After all , I am not burning my cash for the DSLR gear!

Blog title ?(@*#(!*#*$*$)_!_

I think i have to change the title of this blog. It seems that I did my post from the place that no other blogger do it ; toilet @ casino and NOW accupunture clinic.

Yes , you heard it right.Accupunture clinic! My rolled ankle from the misery basketball night two week ago still hasnt fully recovered so time to call my 'accupunturist'-i dont know whether its the right word, into the action.

What I'm feeling now? Fully electrocuted with these needles hanging on my achillies and ankle. I think I posted the picture how it looked like before.

Said enough abt this torture!

Work? It getting quiet now,i think ppl going out for the holiday already.

Man, i really trully bored at work.I am just been lazy to do anything eventho pile of compliance need to be done. Festive season what do you expect , holiday mood.

Okay , I gotta go now ,my accupunturist came back already.He gonna start 2nd round of torture.lol ;p

Wish you a Merry xmas peps!

5 sleeps to christmas

Another week gone.

5 sleeps to xmas. Gotta be good it means closer to the end of fantastic year and closer to my holiday.

So what i gonna do till xmas?

1.Xmas dinner with my team tonight , guessed what we gonna have ? Indian food is our fave pick. Not a fave one for me today though considering im sitting in the casino toilet.U know what im doing?hahaha.

2.Xmas shopping for the team and xmas kringle on sunday.Economy a little bit tough so i just gonna get something reasonable and useful for the team.'old school mode on'

3. Xmas lunch at diana's place.Looking forward for this one since its kinda re-union of all the old team,including my ex bosses.Havent seen everyone for ages.I gotta bring my EOS since there will be a lot of pro over there.

Alright , my time is up here.All been flushed and time for luncheon.

Have a great and safe xmas to everyone out there.

I hate you BUT I love you

Copy the image from Axioo website

It is so true about this image, sometime you have to see from different angle / perspective.

I guessed it shows "How do you perceive one on another in your life ? " - It's kinda the Half full and Half empty glass analogy.

I remembered once I hate my parent decision but looked it back through now. I can see how they actually loved my so much with that decision. Somehow , It took a while for young naive brain to get it!

"Open your mind with flow of ideas and perspective , you'll treasure the wisdom"

Start of the weekend

Sent the car to be fixed at kingsford.

Waiting time started at McD ''family resto'' - luckyly they got the free wifi with ''generous limit'' of 50mb, a very very rare thing in Sydney.Bloody crappy network here in oz , even worse than indo i supposed.

Enough saying how bad free wifi overhere.

It's pretty interesting to have breakie in McD in the morning.A cup of hot capucinno with one equal sugar and listening to 2days Fm.

I see ppl fight for the death to get the weekend paper provided to the extent the old folk in front of me run to the counter to grab it.Funny hey?

I see ppl kept lining for their hot breakie.Man , it never stop, a constant flow.Reminded me with the line in bakmi gajah mada in the sunday morning.

So? I got another 20mins to burn until my car is ready.

Dunno what to do? Finished all the quota and kick my ass off.

Weekend wrap up

Time is flying!

Hell yeah , it's december , the festive season , already.It means closer days to my holiday.

It seems just last week the beginning of '08 - now another 31sleep to go!

This weekend is like our ritual w'end - ie nothing really exciting happening.Sleep , food and groceries on the top of house hunting. Speaking of house hunting , it's really interesting to see how the real estate agent tries to sell it.Some of them tried to sell it hard , too hard untill they frightened the buyer.Some of them sell it easily 'till the buyer walk away.

Reflecting to my work - i never 'sell' anything to my client. I always help them to get the appropriate products.There is a fineline on it, not everyone can understand on this approach. I tried to 'infect' this technique to all my staffs.Haven't had success so far but it will eventually get into their mindset.

Enough said! I blog this entry from my lovely mobile since my 'tight quota ass' inet run out the d/l limit , it throttled back to dial up modem 64kbps,SUCK!

Feeling crappy today

Walked to the city today for my last workshop ; "mind sense". A great session - teach you have to believe on what you can do by choosing your emotional state and getting your positive behaviour together.

It's kinda true and relevant on all your life not limited to your work.If you can fully do it,sky is the limit!

They presented Anh Dho ; a comedian who are vietnamese background been told that he could't be a great comic.He proved everyone wrong by being the comedian of the year and earning $0.5 mill and living his life to the fullest.

Some key point I took out of this workshop:
-Be courages to set your goal
-Aim high and you'll be surprise how eady it can be achieved.
-Get out of your comfort zone to be a new person
-Learn to fail and bounce back to be a stronger human

I'll bet that you'll land into the moon before you feel the loss of gravity if you BELIEVE IT!

Btw i attached a couple pic i took from mobile.

Can't wait till January

I'm really lookig forward to have holiday in January.
Cant wait sitting at the dinner table on the night before chinese new year.
From my memory, this'll be my 1st chinese new year with my beloved family since 2002.I really miss the new year spirit; eat lot of foodies , meet all ur relative u normally wouldnt see , most importantly the red envelopes $$$ *cling....cling....cling*

Indo - I'm coming.........

Test

I'm trying to post the blog from the new mobile.

Test......1.....2......3!

New Phone......I'm A happy 3 customer

Finally , I got the new Nokia E71 after "days" of craving for the new mobile phone.

Well , I already got two other mobile at the moment N70 and Dopod810.

I just tried to find the new excuse to get the new phone by saying the N70 is getting rustic and Dopod 810 is stupid enough ; unable to "beep once" ringing mode so I couldn't really use it at work. Hahahha...... I have to throw my sales pitch to Sherly to pursue her allowing me get the new mobile.

Afterall , I really got the GREAT deal from 3mobile, LOVE ya..... They waived me the cancellation fee of $176 and I only need to pay extra $10 on the top of my low cap.HAPPY CHAPPY CUSTOMER! My loyalty got paid off now with $14 discount on monthly spending after staying with them more than 4 years.

Said enough on 3mobile, I really considered either to get the blackberry 8707G and E71. Read all the review and they gave a decent high score! I supposed the only big different is the OS and camera function. This time I chosen more conservative and reliable mobile ,NOKIA.It gave me a easy to navigate option that I comfortable with and "beep once" ringing mode (Love this mode- i missed this option since I used my Dopod).

I am still trying to play arround the mobile to fully understand all the function. The new added function is Nokia Maps , look good in the name but its pain since you gotta pay for using it.Nokia gave 7days trial which is pretty minow!

Now , I gotta sell my DOPOD810 either in EBay or Indo. Anyone interested to buy? It still in MINT condition (I really meant it) , has TomTom Navigator software and loads of extra! Sent me the comment if you want it!

Overall satisfaction: Happy with my choice!

On the other news, I'm going back to Indo for chinese new year on 24Jan-15Feb'09.Got good price from SQ,nice! Saving up my "wedding and 1st home " dollar!

Cool song

Found this bedroom singer from the KambingJantan blog.

Nice and cool arrangement!

http://www.myspace.com/adhitiasofyan

The rise of the black

Two biggest history happened this week;

Monday morning, Lewis Hamilton is the 1st youngest black driver to win the F1 championship - thank for silly toyota.

Tuesday night, Barrack Obama is the 1st African American to be the USA President - thank for the lame McCain.

It's a start of new beginning and hope!

Hat up for both of you!

La Perouse

Sunset to end the great spring day

Like this candid shoot

Corica "the strudel heaven"

Got this apple strudel fresh from Perth as part of the fund raising done by my friend.

Yes, it is a CORICA strudel

"Crispy and rich with the whipping cream mixed with the fresh granny smith apple"

Feel like in Heaven

Friday Nitez

"A Glass of Moscatto to unwind your day" - That what I called pampering yourself.

Mamak

Finally, we went to this Malaysian restaurant after two or third time bad luck 'coz there is always long queue. Tonight , we went straight to the tiny winy table literally.

Anyway , these some pictures taken by my old rusty but do-able N70 camera

The menu

Nasi lemak with fried chicken. Nice sambal and crispy bait fish.

Soft and crispy Roti with onion - nice Sambal and curry

Finished the dinner with Ice Kachang - too sweet by my standard but decent taste compared to other Malaysian stall

Andy Lau Concert 2008

Finally, the tickets are ready to be picked up!

We're not a big fan of him but I think it would be a worthed concert to go.

We started to download his songs and watch the karaoke in YouTube ---> We Tried to be The Fans.

Talking about a real fans , my friend (H) is a real die-hard fan of Andy lau.Every time we went for the karaoke , he ALWAYS (*I Stressed this word ; ALWAYS*) sings his songs. Well , he sang really well with exact tones and pronunciation as Andy Lau sing so he's damn good singer man to the point he can monopolize the microphone for the entire karaoke.

To prove his love to Andy Lau , he went to the Korean/Hong-ki hairdresser in the chinatown and the conversation goes like this:

* The stylist washed and the blow dried his hair *

HairStylist ( HS ) : So.....how would you like the style today? *with broken english*

My Friend : Hmmm......
* slowly picked up something out of his pocket like Chow Yun Fat in the God of Gambler movie *

My Friend : I wanna be like him ............ a newspaper with ANDY LAU picture on it!!!

HS : * Speechless *...................... Okay!!

Man I couldnt believe someone can be a fanatic to celebrity especially a male! (U!*(*&@&!)&!*&

Cockatoo Trip

The Journey started here : A free ferry trip

People still lining up for the free trip.....suck-in!! Just pretending you are tourists and cut the line.hahahaha:)

What a perfect day with a perfect background

After 15mins free ride, Here you go the island with the big yellow banner!


Potato wedges is a relief to a starving girl

Tummy's full --- She going estatic with the camera shoots!!


Tried to appreciate the art : "self reflection"

One of the best shoot ; good composition and lighting * I think*

I like this shoot ; creative look but gotta try to edit it in photoshop later

An ambition to carry the Olympic torch, It's vain now!


Final shot in the island. One thing I noticed about this island ; Cockatoo by the name and Seagull-Rule by the nature.

Morning View

View out of my bedroom this morning

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Freekin COLD!!!

Winter rain and gust


I'm going to practice my photography skills tomorrow if the weather is fine.

Planning to take picture around the harbor and bridge with the ferry.

I'll post the pictures tomorrow!!!

Leaf

Shooting Date/Time
8/17/2008 11:20:31
Tv(Shutter Speed)
1/400Sec.
Av(Aperture Value)
F4.5
Metering Modes
Evaluative metering
Exposure Compensation
0
ISO Speed
200
Lens
EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Focal Length
32.0 mm
Image size
4272 x 2848
Image Quality
Fine

1st picture taken from MY Brand New EOS450D

"A wise man says if you want to appreciate how beautiful a girl is , looks into their eyes when they wake up in the morning - unknown"

I think it is so true

What a better start to take a picture of this special lady?

Exciting week

Ghee..... it has been a really hectic week so far!

Last Sunday - we went for the City2Surf Run , wake up 6am and finished @4pm.Had a early dinner and went back and you can guess what happen next.........sleeping the whole night.All aching starting to take its territory....only sleep and a pray can help.But I am a secular minded person so the latter wasn't a preferred option.

Monday - busy day in the office to prepare the staff for the next 2 days since I would be away for the conference.

Tuesday - wake up 4am to catch a coach ,which never arrived until 6am, to Hunter Valley .Damn I gotta wait in central station for 1hr in freezing winter cold.I could've join the homeless ' conversation around the bond fire.....:P Well it's totally my fault anyway since I deleted the invitation email sent last week. Arrived at the conference , rego and started an exciting conference , team building (we made some short movie with the theme of "Brokeback Mountain" so gay) and listening to some crap until 5pm. Once the movie been released , I'll post it here.

Anyway I been nominated for the "best cameramen" but I was close but not close enough !!

Had the boring gala dinner with bunch manager I haven't got the clue. Sat next to the gay guy who laughing all the way when they played the movies everyone created. I wasn't sure if it was a funny clip or he just drank too much white wine ( that like 5-7 glasses ). Finished at 12pm!

Wednesday - Wake up @6am, couldn't sleep properly.A much better day in conference , no much thinking process needed. Hearing and listening to the big boss said and listening to a heroic speaker , who conquer the everest with his amputated toes and no oxygen. A good story about survival and been a positive and always look something that you can and want to achieve in life.

Thursday + Friday - Catch up the work I left behind the past 2days . Gotta work smarter coz on of my staff didn't come to work Her son got really sick. Went for the long and full paid lunch ( I swear this the 1st time I went for 1.5hr lunch) with one of the mobile lender.Nice!!

That sum up my tiring and short week!

I WANT A CAMERA !!

I have been craving to learn a new skill
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PHOTOGRAPHY

I kept looking for the digital SLR that suited my beginner skills.

I don't want to burn my $$$ for the feature I wouldn't use.

Ultimately , I don't want to spend Thousands buck since I can be easily bored with the new thing AKA anget...anget....tai...ayam.......(Plain English translation : HOT.....HOT.....CHICKEN.....SHIT). That's what my girl told me!

Well that's really true in a sense!

But.......

I really want to make this my hobby and I love taking picture of a landmark or landscape.Who knows I'll be the professional photographer for my weekend job?

Extra dollars needed..........

Finally, I have decided to get the new Canon EOS 450D with 18-55mm IS lens ( the basic lens ).

CityToSurf Marathon

Finally , I managed to fulfill my ambition to run in marathon 14 painful KM from City to Bondi beach. I really wanted to have a go since 2 years ago but I always got something I gotta do.

And I asked a couple friends to join me in the Fun run.

With 1 training in the bag ; 1 week before the D-Day

I really expecting NOTHING, well at least I could finish the run without St.John Ambulance escort.

I was over the moon with the result ; 168.52 minutes for 14km

I had some picture and video posted on this link

http://city2surf.sunherald.com.au/results08video.php?intbib=51263

NY resolution........Mission Accomplished

My planned "wish-list" for 2008 :

1. Got another promotion by mid-year
2. Got myself a decent apartment/house either here or Indo ( AMEN!! )
3. Help out my brother studying in Taiwan

I got the promotion today to run one of the branch in Pyrmont........*over the moon*

Good money with 40% potential bonus......yummy!!!!

Can't believe it happened so quick!!

Called my mom and bro to let them know about this GREAT news.

One resolution DONE......

Two to go........

Being Positive!

Can't Wait till August

I just saw the picture of my little nephew.....so cute.....

Can't wait until 15 August to see him !!!

A good Marketer

Nice work to create awareness!

Perfect Marketing = explosive and controversial

Work Smarter not Harder

I've heard this sentence over and over again either through work or friends.

I think this is a really powerful message around this sentence that I haven't got it YET.

People ( at least me not to generalize to all public) always think that if you want to success on anything you do , you gotta be work harder. I found it sometimes true. However , you get some constraint on how harder you can work , for instance : tiredness , family commitment and lack of motivation.

Hence, I gotta change my mindset from "work harder " type to "work smarter" type. It is a challenge that I somehow contemplating.The instance I have this week was 80/20 rule which says that all of our activities you will have 20 % success rate and 80 % idle or ineffective activity that won't contribute to the 20% success rate. I gotta start to minimize those activities to get more result, I think it just a matter of cost v benefit analysis on those activities.

Seems easy to write and yet hard to be implemented!

"Life is not about What to Lose but What to Gain "

Money Paradox

Settings : @Fuel Station on Super Tuesday Nite ,when you can get cheapest fuel deal for the week.It's like NO-MAT in 21.
Main Actor : Indian cashier so-called "APU" and A big DICKHEAD proud OZ (ABDPO)

ABDPO : .....mate, don't you have any Vortex98 fuel ( premium leaded fuel ) ??
APU : I'm sorry sir , we waiting for the delivery
ABDPO: When will you have it ?
APU :....hmm.....probably tomorrow morning!
ABDPO: *High Tones* Mate, why you turn off the fuel every Tuesday? So it happened that every Tuesday you haven't got any Vortex.Always.....bloody........

Then, he walked toward his car......its LEXUS!

Man, you gotta shame on yourself , you can drive brand spankin' lexus but you can't afford to pay extra 10cents on your petrol and try to shame a poor operator who don't know anything about the Caltex policy.They just worked there!

Give 'em a break!!

That's I called Money paradox - the richer you are , the tighter you'll be.

Bday Present

"Air Jordan Spizikes"

I got this mad ballerz shoes from my friends

Thank heaps guys!!!

No wonder , my gf keep asking about my b'ball shoes

She's the spy........

1/4 Century + 365days

Man , that how's old I am today!

A sense of achievement and A sense of much more to achieve on the same time.

By far , I got the most best wishes even from someone who I knew only by the face.

My mobile hasn't stopped with flood of b'day text wishes and my work email swamped by tons of wish.

Most of the wishes :

1. ASTONISHING 80% - getting marriage soon and have a kids ( wow that a bold wish,ey !!!)
2. 10 % - more prosperous and successful in career and live
3. 5% - getting rich sooner than later
4. 3 % - have a healthy live and relationship
5. 2% - miscellaneous wishes , like : .....hope all your staff didn't give me a hard time ; .....hope u'll get the right house.

Thank guys for all the wishes - YOU MADE MY DAY!!!

ps: for those who hasn't wish me - you can drop in here!I still accept belated bday wish.LOL:)

Best and Worst Airport

Came across with this articles in Sydney Morning Herald this avo.

The best and worst airport to sleep over ;

With all prediction and prejudice , I'll imagine Indonesia will b the worst.

Guess What??

It came outside top ten for the worst on 2007

But....

It was runner-up in 2006

At least a clap for the airport's boss there and honestly not that bad for Indonesian standard because it was matched by the like of JFK airport ; NY airport.

Here's some comment :

"A most horrible airport unless you are a very strong cigarette smoker." (?)

"Later the same security guy came over and brought me a cup of tea which was all very civilised!" (Standanista)

"The most disgusting toilets I have come across. I gagged as I tried to not step in the human waste that surrounded the filthy squat toilet. Actually, as I write this, I am starting to gag. " (Mo)

source : http://www.sleepinginairports.com/bestof.htm

Called me ...... Uncle Yong

What a better finishing of the working week than this.....

Beep...beep...my mobile vibrates with incoming sms

"Ko , sista just went to operation room for caesar"

Another 1/2 hours.........

A new that we've been longing,

"Ko, a baby boy with 3.80kg and 49cm height"

WOW..... I was like winning a million lotto.

It was so surreal.

Finally, another soul been brought into my family.Thanks GOD!!!

For me , I'm officially an Uncle!

Yay.................

Another New Year Resolution

I guessed it's never too late to make NY resolution although 1mth into the year already.

Here's my list:

"Always try to make mistake on the first strike - so that I can learn Not to make another one"

"Be conscious around yourself"

"Don't take it anything for GRANTED" - I think I really have to commit on it, I don't want to lose someone without being able to tell them how important they are in my life.

Those I really want to be my foremost NY resolution!!!!! * finger cross *

My planned "wish-list" for 2008 :

1. Got another promotion by mid-year
2. Got myself a decent apartment/house either here or Indo ( AMEN!! )
3. Help out my brother studying in Taiwan

Small update

Most searched keyword today in Google " Heath Ledger"

Y ? Because He's dead.

Most searched keyword everyday in MyMind " What should I do? "

Y ? Because I'm not sure..............I'm in Limbo

Back to the "future"

Back to sydney this morning , what a chaotic airport !!

It takes me 1 hours to clear immigration and custom plus another 15mins wait for the taxi .

Outrageous!