End of 2007...

It's the last day of 2007, a good time for me to review to see how have I done for this year:

UPSIDE
Work:

• 2 week training at US back in Feb - Very Fun but too short to really learn anything
• Winning deals - Not as many as I had hoped, but closing big deals is damned shiok
• All-time favourite FE award - Small but meaningful, yet not too useful..

Personal:

• Marathon - Significant improvement in timing again by around 25 min.
• Football - Joined Agilent FC for the veterans league. yet to score a legal goal
• Travel - 5 days HK/Macau trip with dear in Nov. Not too shabby, at least Macau & Disneyland were quite fun

DOWNSIDE
private...


It seems to me that 2007 has not been as fruitful as 2006.
Hope 2008 will be a better year!

Resolution for 2008:

Better balance between work and personal time. Steps to take:

1. Fix and follow a strict sleep routine. current habit is no good
2. Strike balance between networking and working time in office. avoid getting involved in too many meaningless banter
3. Max of 0.5 day for additional work on weekends. currently doing so, will continue this
4. Eat breakfast everyday!
5. Less caffeine intake (= less red tea)

Engineering looks cool once again...

Saw this amazing video on Youtube on how this guy managed to transform the Wiimote into amazing human-machine interfaces with some ingenious methods.

Engineering is no longer as popular as it used to be as a career, and many locals are choosing other more glitzy paths. The MOE should show this video to students to reverse this trend.
Now, who said Engineers are not cool? (well, thats apart from the choice of title for the videos..)

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote


Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote

Another nice show from Will Smith!

Just watched "I am Legend" this noon with dear.

Pretty neat show, but the ending is really abrupt and a let down.

I'm impressed by the German Sheperd that can really act!

Feeling a bit bored now...

Just finished some work, and its 3am in the morning.
This has become a trend for me to work till the wee hours to complete additional work that I don't have the time to do during office hours...

Totally not worth upsetting my health for work.
Gotta start kicking this habit.

Test post of one of my favourite MV on youtube:

Does cold weather affect the mood?

Life has not been as smooth sailing as I had hoped it to be, and things are not in the best of situations.

I still can't get some issues out of my head.

I may not show it openly but I have been feeling a bit down and disappointed at how some things have transpired.

One can't help but compare and reflect on whether past decisions are wise and best.
There is always a tendency to work out hypothetical situations and compare the "what ifs" against the "what is"...

I sense a vicious cycle of digression and self-blame... Will need to quickly snap out of this.


End of year summary coming up in next entry... 2006 seems like a much better year for me..

Great Show!

大哥是对的!!

抢钱,抢粮,抢娘们!!

人无信便是畜生!!

安心上路!!

纳投名状,兄弟结义

生死相托,吉凶相救

富祸相依,患难相扶

凡外人乱我兄弟者,视投名状,必杀之

凡兄弟乱我兄弟者,视投名状,必杀之

Ya Zi is gone...

In loving memory of Ya Zi, who left us on 11th December 2007

Ya Zi
2006 - 2007

Some pics from HK trip

Disney Hollywood Hotel!

Chip & Dale (with their soft toys!)

Wanted to post more pics, but the damned website keeps having problems uploading my pics...
Maybe will post a few more when I'm more free

Disappointed, but oh well...

A bit disappointed, but I'm not in a position to make noise.
Can't help it but sometimes I wonder if I had made the right decisions...

Dun ask me what happened.
I just want to talk to myself on this blog.

Looking forward to a weekend of sports again to drown out those negative thoughts...

Don't be too nice to everyone (2)...

Seems like I don't really learn from mistakes sometimes...

I think I just have found the 2nd CPT Quek in my life...
These people just simply have a 8-character clash with me.
For no reason (or maybe they dun like my face), they will see any simple innocuous banter as the most malicious rumour-mongering session.

Not to dwell too much into details.
Just a simple analogy on what had transpired:

• Fren A, saw his fren B (an acquaintance to you) buying mocha at Starbucks, and pointed it out to you.
• You tell Fren C (whom is a good fren of B) that you saw B at Starbucks buying mocha.
• C chats with B and asks if the mocha at Starbucks is good, letting B know in the process that you told him that you saw B there.
• B gets mad and scolds you for being so busybody and deliberately checking out his private activities, and starts to send multiple emails to you and C to declare that B is C's fren, but NOT your fren, and proceeds to put weird tags on his msn declaring he is NOT your fren.
• Fren D, E, F sees it on msn and everyone asks you what happened...
  
  
  How would you feel?

Moral of the story? "What The Fark...."

I think the last time I have heard "My friend is XX... NOT YOU..." was way back in primary school.
I'm amazed how 30+ years old adults can say something like this...


Remember: Only be nice to those who deserve it.

Marathon

Finished my 5th marathon on Sunday.
Broke through the 4.30hr international standard and achieved 4.15hr this year.

Pretty good results considering this is about roughly 25min improvement from last year's timing.

But I have to admit that I was quite lazy in this year's run.
Always had the lazy mindset of holding back a bit so that it will be easier for me to break the record again the next year. (I did the same thing last year)

I was quite surprised at my speed that I have managed to clock up to around 11kmh for the first 33km, which subsequently ended up in me walking for most of the later part since I will break the 4.30hr even by walking for the rest of the journey.

The good thing about this year's run for me is that I have finally felt my breakthrough in the legendary invisible wall. My legs used to give way at around 30+km in the past runs, but I'm feeling ok this year, and could have ran all the way to the end without walking (if not for being lazy).

So probably next year I'll be expecting to clear the 4hr mark, which is easily achievable if I can hit somewhere near this year's performance.


Will post some stuff on my HK trip later.
Need to catch up with work first..