February 14. A day where couples celebrate. But how many will know exactly the history of this lovely day? Apart from knowing who is Cupid, I didnt know much about this season. So if you are curious like me, you may wish to watch the short videos at this link... Happy Valentine's Day by the way!Saturday, February 14, 2009
Happy Valentine's Day!
February 14. A day where couples celebrate. But how many will know exactly the history of this lovely day? Apart from knowing who is Cupid, I didnt know much about this season. So if you are curious like me, you may wish to watch the short videos at this link... Happy Valentine's Day by the way!
Monday, February 09, 2009
First day of work
This is the first time in my life where I had not spent a single cent during my first day of work. The reason being that there was free company transport and I had brought my own lunch (having the nearby canteen to be in renovation)...
So far, fatigue has not hit upon me yet even though I woke up at 5.30am this morning. I reckon it could be that I had not move much in the office, being a couch potato, whilst doing the scanning of documents and keying in of data. But I am sure my eyes and wrists would feel the weariness soon. Perhaps in 2-3 hrs time...
By the way, a young fellow who is also working temp at my workplace tot I was married... becos of the ring on my middle finger... haaa... i almost got choked. Perhaps I cant blame the kid, cos I was wearing formal clothes as well, thus adding on to suppport his assumption that I am married. And since today is the last day of Lunar New Year (Yuan Xiao Jie), I would forgive anyone who might have unintentionally uttered the wrong question.
So far, fatigue has not hit upon me yet even though I woke up at 5.30am this morning. I reckon it could be that I had not move much in the office, being a couch potato, whilst doing the scanning of documents and keying in of data. But I am sure my eyes and wrists would feel the weariness soon. Perhaps in 2-3 hrs time...
By the way, a young fellow who is also working temp at my workplace tot I was married... becos of the ring on my middle finger... haaa... i almost got choked. Perhaps I cant blame the kid, cos I was wearing formal clothes as well, thus adding on to suppport his assumption that I am married. And since today is the last day of Lunar New Year (Yuan Xiao Jie), I would forgive anyone who might have unintentionally uttered the wrong question.
Friday, February 06, 2009
Facebook turns 5.
It was quite surprising to realise that Facebook has turned 5. I mean, I didnt suppose that it have been around for 5 years. I thought it was at most 3 years old? And talking about 5 years back, when I just left poly...the top networking site in Singapore would have been Friendster. Everyone were pretty contented with it because you could add friends, send private msgs, post on each others' 'walls' and look at photo albums. Who could have thought that Facebook wave was introduced to add more 'colours' and varieties to the then virtual networking scene.
Even though I still log on to my friendster account, I do them less frequently as most of my friends are members of facebook rather than the former. Hence, it makes more sense for me to log on to FB cos I can get better updated over there.
Besides, I am more attracted by the applications at FB. At this moment, my most active involvement would be Pet Society. Here's a snapshot of the application.
For FB frequenters, i guess no elaboration is required. But for FB newbies, this application simply allows you to create and customise your own pet and to reach higher levels, you need to keep it clean and carry out activities to score points. In essence, this is a pretty good game if you got plenty of time to kill (play at your own risk in office though).
Now that most people got accustomed to FB's layout, can anyone still remember there was some uproar over the revamped appearance just last year in 2008? I might be one of those who are neutral about it, or in fact, glad of the change becos the page looks cleaner. My only negativity was just about the part of getting used to un-learn and re-learn. Some angry members at that time even created hate groups and petitions to condemn the changes and wanted the administrator to revert to the old format. Come to think about it, i actually joined one of them just for sake of joining. I wanted to see if the petition worked. Well, I guess it didnt cos I am still faced with the new layout till now, and i guess people already got use to it and forgotten about it, cos I dun hear or see any more complaints...
Another issue of FB is that at 5 years old(, it is still not generating profits. Read this article from yahoo lately. It is obvious that at such tremendous success, FB ought to make money. But why not? Perhaps costs have been too high and also the information are not fully optimised. I mean, this social network has so much information about its members, and people are linked to one another very closely. In fact, I can reach some of my friends faster in facebook rather than email.
One potential which I think FB should take advantage would be in terms of sellng events, or conferences, or even help employers to recruit people. The challenge would then be on the issue of privacy and authenticity maybe. But whatever it is, FB is something that is already deep into the lives of the new age people, and I am one of those who cant picture the lack of it, should FB fail to survive. Not at this moment yet.
Even though I still log on to my friendster account, I do them less frequently as most of my friends are members of facebook rather than the former. Hence, it makes more sense for me to log on to FB cos I can get better updated over there.
Besides, I am more attracted by the applications at FB. At this moment, my most active involvement would be Pet Society. Here's a snapshot of the application.
For FB frequenters, i guess no elaboration is required. But for FB newbies, this application simply allows you to create and customise your own pet and to reach higher levels, you need to keep it clean and carry out activities to score points. In essence, this is a pretty good game if you got plenty of time to kill (play at your own risk in office though).
Now that most people got accustomed to FB's layout, can anyone still remember there was some uproar over the revamped appearance just last year in 2008? I might be one of those who are neutral about it, or in fact, glad of the change becos the page looks cleaner. My only negativity was just about the part of getting used to un-learn and re-learn. Some angry members at that time even created hate groups and petitions to condemn the changes and wanted the administrator to revert to the old format. Come to think about it, i actually joined one of them just for sake of joining. I wanted to see if the petition worked. Well, I guess it didnt cos I am still faced with the new layout till now, and i guess people already got use to it and forgotten about it, cos I dun hear or see any more complaints...
Another issue of FB is that at 5 years old(, it is still not generating profits. Read this article from yahoo lately. It is obvious that at such tremendous success, FB ought to make money. But why not? Perhaps costs have been too high and also the information are not fully optimised. I mean, this social network has so much information about its members, and people are linked to one another very closely. In fact, I can reach some of my friends faster in facebook rather than email.
One potential which I think FB should take advantage would be in terms of sellng events, or conferences, or even help employers to recruit people. The challenge would then be on the issue of privacy and authenticity maybe. But whatever it is, FB is something that is already deep into the lives of the new age people, and I am one of those who cant picture the lack of it, should FB fail to survive. Not at this moment yet.
Monday, February 02, 2009
A bad beginning
I really need to apologise to myself- for not taking good care of myself. So I hope my body will recover soon- or rather, my mouth.
This whole ridiculous episode happened on Sunday morning. I was awaken by the alarm on my phone- of which I set it the night before. I wanted to get up earlier than usual to accompany my mom to the mkt. It is well- the 7th day of lunar new year, being the birthday of everyone. I didnt know why and how it happened, but it did. All in the split of maybe one second. I was down on the floor without me realising it. I tripped and fell on the hard tiles in my room. I guessed I wasnt fully awake enough to reach to my computer table to silent the alarm.
It was then I realised that I didnt just trip and fall. My mouth hit the floor hard and I broke my teeth. Yeah, there was blood too. Scared the hell out of me. I cut my lower lips. And they are bruised and looked as though I was given a punch on the lips. Only 1 front (read FRONT) tooth was smashed and broke into half. I thought it was lucky that I didnt smash my two front teeth. Until later.
My mom was totally freaked out by me. She wasnt able to completely get the picture as I stormed out of my room, into the kitchen to tell her that I fell down and broke my teeth and cut my lips. She didnt understand how it happened. In fact, my whole family didnt understand how this thing could happen. Well, it is ok, cos I didnt understand how I can get into this mess as well. Stupid me.
Becos of the not-so-little blood that I lost, I got a little bit of dizzy and faint. This usually happens when I didnt have enough sugar in my body. By this time, my mom is totally worried. After some rest, I got better. Afterwhich, my mom accompanied me to the doctor- I wasnt sure which doctor to see. A dentist or GP. But I eventually figured out that a dentist would be more apt in this case.
When the dentist looked at me, his reaction was something like.."Wah... quite serious"... Damned. I didnt want to hear this. At first I was worried abt my broken tooth but he advised that it wasnt the main issue. The more problematic part is that I hurt my two front teeth. The fact that they didnt fall off didnt mean that they werent hurt the most. the dentist performed an X-ray and he says that there is 90% chance that the root broke. So, what he can do now is to just splint up the two front teeth and go for review 2 weeks later. In other words, there isnt much he can do now. He also advised that root canal for the 3 teeth are inevitable. Now, the physical pain of the accident and injections werent the worst- the "heart" pain from the bill is more tormenting. The bill came at $250 for less than an hr of consultation and treatment.
And how am i gg to go for interview on wed? #%$#%
I hope my lips will get better and less obvious on wed. Cross my finger.
By the way, friends, I cant bite properly for now. So most likely have to put off any dinner outings for later time. Not until I get a new set of front teeth. I can still mit up for soft food though, if u dun mind.
Now I need to find out how much the root canal are going to cost me.
This whole ridiculous episode happened on Sunday morning. I was awaken by the alarm on my phone- of which I set it the night before. I wanted to get up earlier than usual to accompany my mom to the mkt. It is well- the 7th day of lunar new year, being the birthday of everyone. I didnt know why and how it happened, but it did. All in the split of maybe one second. I was down on the floor without me realising it. I tripped and fell on the hard tiles in my room. I guessed I wasnt fully awake enough to reach to my computer table to silent the alarm.
It was then I realised that I didnt just trip and fall. My mouth hit the floor hard and I broke my teeth. Yeah, there was blood too. Scared the hell out of me. I cut my lower lips. And they are bruised and looked as though I was given a punch on the lips. Only 1 front (read FRONT) tooth was smashed and broke into half. I thought it was lucky that I didnt smash my two front teeth. Until later.
My mom was totally freaked out by me. She wasnt able to completely get the picture as I stormed out of my room, into the kitchen to tell her that I fell down and broke my teeth and cut my lips. She didnt understand how it happened. In fact, my whole family didnt understand how this thing could happen. Well, it is ok, cos I didnt understand how I can get into this mess as well. Stupid me.
Becos of the not-so-little blood that I lost, I got a little bit of dizzy and faint. This usually happens when I didnt have enough sugar in my body. By this time, my mom is totally worried. After some rest, I got better. Afterwhich, my mom accompanied me to the doctor- I wasnt sure which doctor to see. A dentist or GP. But I eventually figured out that a dentist would be more apt in this case.
When the dentist looked at me, his reaction was something like.."Wah... quite serious"... Damned. I didnt want to hear this. At first I was worried abt my broken tooth but he advised that it wasnt the main issue. The more problematic part is that I hurt my two front teeth. The fact that they didnt fall off didnt mean that they werent hurt the most. the dentist performed an X-ray and he says that there is 90% chance that the root broke. So, what he can do now is to just splint up the two front teeth and go for review 2 weeks later. In other words, there isnt much he can do now. He also advised that root canal for the 3 teeth are inevitable. Now, the physical pain of the accident and injections werent the worst- the "heart" pain from the bill is more tormenting. The bill came at $250 for less than an hr of consultation and treatment.
And how am i gg to go for interview on wed? #%$#%
I hope my lips will get better and less obvious on wed. Cross my finger.
By the way, friends, I cant bite properly for now. So most likely have to put off any dinner outings for later time. Not until I get a new set of front teeth. I can still mit up for soft food though, if u dun mind.
Now I need to find out how much the root canal are going to cost me.
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