New year resolutions time...is it?
Not so sure if I have already made any new year resolutions yet. Maybe I've, but lets add some for the sake of today. =P
So what should I be up to and about in 2009?
1. Practice some self-control *winks.
2. Make sure Ny Ny is feeling great with me *winks.
3. Establish my 'travel fund' idea.
4. Work smarter, not just harder.
5. Continue work as a lifestyle, not as a chore.
6. Finish outstanding work as much as possible.
7. Visit my grandmother more often.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
A Christmas week well-spent.
Was so busy the past week, no time to update my blog.
Xmas greetings to everyone!!! - Apparently my chatbox 'died' overnight. Cannot use it anymore. So people, please feel free to leave comments in my blog entries, else I dunno who has been a sport in visiting me these few horrid days.
- Brought my girlfriend to my family's christmas gathering, relatives didn't ignore her, talked to her so often. Could see that she enjoyed the gathering. So did I, seeing how well she got along with them. Glad that she could try the Eurasian recipes that my Eurasian relatives are skilled in. She hinted that she wanted to know how its done. Really happy to see that she got along well with my younger cousins, a few seem to be really into her. :) My uncles and aunts also showed approval on her character, very much to my happiness. +1. My dad saw her too; seems that he's okay with her as well.
December 29th. Sunday.
Ended work at the wee hours. Sucks right? But never mind. Decided to spent a fruitful day with Jenny, though really shagged. Had set a few choices of either going to the movies, east coast park, marina city park or library. In the end, decided to go marina city park, but when reached there, no such park, since still in construction. Kenna tricked by the national parks website. Damn it. Saw a shuttle bus to the Marina Barrage.
- Dunno what the hell it was, but decided to take it nonetheless. Ended up at the new city reservoir. Believe it ornot... The view there was really good. Took a few photos of Jenny and me. Plus the scenery of course. Somehow or rather, a condo there could really fetch a good price. After that, we went to MS for dinner, at Bily Bombers, since I got discount voucher. The Buffalo wings were great, except that the sauce sucked big time. Jenny will agree on it! Met Zixian at Starbucks Coffee in Suntec before going home, guessed that he would be there.
Xmas greetings to everyone!!! - Apparently my chatbox 'died' overnight. Cannot use it anymore. So people, please feel free to leave comments in my blog entries, else I dunno who has been a sport in visiting me these few horrid days.
- Brought my girlfriend to my family's christmas gathering, relatives didn't ignore her, talked to her so often. Could see that she enjoyed the gathering. So did I, seeing how well she got along with them. Glad that she could try the Eurasian recipes that my Eurasian relatives are skilled in. She hinted that she wanted to know how its done. Really happy to see that she got along well with my younger cousins, a few seem to be really into her. :) My uncles and aunts also showed approval on her character, very much to my happiness. +1. My dad saw her too; seems that he's okay with her as well.
December 29th. Sunday.
Ended work at the wee hours. Sucks right? But never mind. Decided to spent a fruitful day with Jenny, though really shagged. Had set a few choices of either going to the movies, east coast park, marina city park or library. In the end, decided to go marina city park, but when reached there, no such park, since still in construction. Kenna tricked by the national parks website. Damn it. Saw a shuttle bus to the Marina Barrage.
- Dunno what the hell it was, but decided to take it nonetheless. Ended up at the new city reservoir. Believe it ornot... The view there was really good. Took a few photos of Jenny and me. Plus the scenery of course. Somehow or rather, a condo there could really fetch a good price. After that, we went to MS for dinner, at Bily Bombers, since I got discount voucher. The Buffalo wings were great, except that the sauce sucked big time. Jenny will agree on it! Met Zixian at Starbucks Coffee in Suntec before going home, guessed that he would be there.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Back home sweet home...
Finally...I touched down Changi Airport on the 13th at 11.45pm.
I was expecting that I could breeze through the customs and give my darling Jenny a surprise visit at home. But who knows, the luggage collection took so long, 'yup, customs was a breeze...' My dad thought I was mad when I finally got out of the arrival hall, with the wish to see my girlfriend at the moment. Frankly, my dad probably took it as a moment of madness.
Upon reaching home, took me so long to clear my luggage, that I slept around 3. Zzz. Woke up the next morning to get to church. Got James his new bomber jacket, something different from his dull fashion outlook. He seems to kinda love the jacket. :P
Met Jenny after that, gave her her "Esprit" goodie bag and our personalized gifts. Could sense that she was really happy when she got her personalized gifts. She was smiling her 'mushy' smile once again. Boy, I really missed her for the past 9 days I wasn't in Singapore. To top it off, Hong Kong was rather dull in a way.
Argh. And its back to work when the bluey monday calls. Pics are incoming, once i sort them out.
First Up: Snippets of Life
Snippets of Life
I was expecting that I could breeze through the customs and give my darling Jenny a surprise visit at home. But who knows, the luggage collection took so long, 'yup, customs was a breeze...' My dad thought I was mad when I finally got out of the arrival hall, with the wish to see my girlfriend at the moment. Frankly, my dad probably took it as a moment of madness.
Upon reaching home, took me so long to clear my luggage, that I slept around 3. Zzz. Woke up the next morning to get to church. Got James his new bomber jacket, something different from his dull fashion outlook. He seems to kinda love the jacket. :P
Met Jenny after that, gave her her "Esprit" goodie bag and our personalized gifts. Could sense that she was really happy when she got her personalized gifts. She was smiling her 'mushy' smile once again. Boy, I really missed her for the past 9 days I wasn't in Singapore. To top it off, Hong Kong was rather dull in a way.
Argh. And its back to work when the bluey monday calls. Pics are incoming, once i sort them out.
First Up: Snippets of Life
Snippets of Life
Friday, December 12, 2008
3 days of poking into the computer for forensic means...
Started on my training on the 10th. Yeah, today is the 12th.
The conference on the first day had 2 tracks, the management track and the technical track. It was conducted in the Microsoft Convention Centre in Wan Chai. I found the technical track being really vendor-specific, focusing on open source forensic tools, mobile forensics tools and incident response methodologies.
The speakers spoke about establishing centre of excellence for the providing of computer forensics certification. From my view, I felt that they were trying to establish a standard for computer forensics training, since certain individuals were tend to capitalizing on the term for commercial value. The speakers were highlighting the need for further development into the cooperation between the academia, law enforcement and corporate services. There was also discussions on the further setting up of a online discussion forum for computer forensics investigators. I guess my favourites for the day were the ones on virtual worlds, governance and penetration testing via the Helix3 boot-up CD. There was a drinks cum networking session after the talks had ended, but drats, I forgot to bring my business cards to Hong Kong..
Day 2 -3 was to be conducted at the University of Hong Kong. It was my first time there, and yes, it gives a campus feel to me. However, I still felt that the design of RMIT was way better. In these 2 days, I took up the technical trainings on Mobile Devices Forensics, relating to generic phones and the iPhone. Up till now, I'm starting to feel the track on the iPhone is a real leltdown. The generic one was pretty much more hands on.
Next up, was the tracks I took relating to Incident Response, oh wow! what can I say, but the speaker really rocked. Really alot of new insights and knowledge gained from the speaker, Anthony Lai. The hands-on session pretty much rocked too, since it was much more technical in showing how to push out an exploits on a system vulnerability, as well as inserting the payload into the exploit. Lotsa interesting tools were also demostrated. I think that the extremely cool tool was the one called Maltego. As for today, I did Malware Analysis in the morn, and though the track was conducted in Mandarin, for a potato like me...IT DEFINITELY ROCKED! And yet I thought that I would be understanding nuts about it. I kinda regret not going for the second session on Windows Memory Forensics, since the current iPhone Forensics one that I'm in kinda sucks...pretty much close to zero hands on 1hr 10mins into the track. At least the track on Malware Inspection was really interesting with all the hands on.
Once the conference ends, I should be flying back home on the 13th. And its back to work for me. ;P
Pictures for the Course:
High Technology Crime Investigation Association Conference 2008
The conference on the first day had 2 tracks, the management track and the technical track. It was conducted in the Microsoft Convention Centre in Wan Chai. I found the technical track being really vendor-specific, focusing on open source forensic tools, mobile forensics tools and incident response methodologies.
The speakers spoke about establishing centre of excellence for the providing of computer forensics certification. From my view, I felt that they were trying to establish a standard for computer forensics training, since certain individuals were tend to capitalizing on the term for commercial value. The speakers were highlighting the need for further development into the cooperation between the academia, law enforcement and corporate services. There was also discussions on the further setting up of a online discussion forum for computer forensics investigators. I guess my favourites for the day were the ones on virtual worlds, governance and penetration testing via the Helix3 boot-up CD. There was a drinks cum networking session after the talks had ended, but drats, I forgot to bring my business cards to Hong Kong..
Day 2 -3 was to be conducted at the University of Hong Kong. It was my first time there, and yes, it gives a campus feel to me. However, I still felt that the design of RMIT was way better. In these 2 days, I took up the technical trainings on Mobile Devices Forensics, relating to generic phones and the iPhone. Up till now, I'm starting to feel the track on the iPhone is a real leltdown. The generic one was pretty much more hands on.
Next up, was the tracks I took relating to Incident Response, oh wow! what can I say, but the speaker really rocked. Really alot of new insights and knowledge gained from the speaker, Anthony Lai. The hands-on session pretty much rocked too, since it was much more technical in showing how to push out an exploits on a system vulnerability, as well as inserting the payload into the exploit. Lotsa interesting tools were also demostrated. I think that the extremely cool tool was the one called Maltego. As for today, I did Malware Analysis in the morn, and though the track was conducted in Mandarin, for a potato like me...IT DEFINITELY ROCKED! And yet I thought that I would be understanding nuts about it. I kinda regret not going for the second session on Windows Memory Forensics, since the current iPhone Forensics one that I'm in kinda sucks...pretty much close to zero hands on 1hr 10mins into the track. At least the track on Malware Inspection was really interesting with all the hands on.
Once the conference ends, I should be flying back home on the 13th. And its back to work for me. ;P
Pictures for the Course:
High Technology Crime Investigation Association Conference 2008
On Tour in Shenzhen...
Hi, have been away for awhile since i was away on tour in Shenzhen.
Bought lotsa stuff in Dong Men. Took lotsa pictures at "Windows to the World" that would be up once I have finished selecting which are the ones that I'm planning to upload to my site.
The trip was pretty alright, and there was a addition of my cousin's girlfriend.
Frankly, I'm surprised that he brought his girlfriend along. At the first impression, I thought she had a rather aloof behavior, behaving somewhat like a little pampered princess. But my initial understanding was that it might have been due to my cousin being really caring, due to the guy he is.
But what I can say is, her behavior, if could be measured in points, could probably be represented in a negative representation by the older, much more traditional folks. Though I could say I probably had around the same score, since I was rather frank on my cousin's parents trying to 'muscle' in on showing off during the trip. Seriously, I was rather disgusted by them, and they probably felt the same for me. However, I would have to acknowledge that my uncle was a really great and entertaining tour guide with lots of knowledge in the area.
Back to the girl. Her behavior was noted by the older folks that she seemed to be more concerned with enjoying herself than mixing with the rest. To put in a few words, it would be that she was really anti-social, and picky with food, a trait that my aunt didn't like.
Finally, after 3 days. We went to Hong Kong. My family took the flight home. And as for me, I started my computer forensics training courses with the HTCIA.
Bought lotsa stuff in Dong Men. Took lotsa pictures at "Windows to the World" that would be up once I have finished selecting which are the ones that I'm planning to upload to my site.
The trip was pretty alright, and there was a addition of my cousin's girlfriend.
Frankly, I'm surprised that he brought his girlfriend along. At the first impression, I thought she had a rather aloof behavior, behaving somewhat like a little pampered princess. But my initial understanding was that it might have been due to my cousin being really caring, due to the guy he is.
But what I can say is, her behavior, if could be measured in points, could probably be represented in a negative representation by the older, much more traditional folks. Though I could say I probably had around the same score, since I was rather frank on my cousin's parents trying to 'muscle' in on showing off during the trip. Seriously, I was rather disgusted by them, and they probably felt the same for me. However, I would have to acknowledge that my uncle was a really great and entertaining tour guide with lots of knowledge in the area.
Back to the girl. Her behavior was noted by the older folks that she seemed to be more concerned with enjoying herself than mixing with the rest. To put in a few words, it would be that she was really anti-social, and picky with food, a trait that my aunt didn't like.
Finally, after 3 days. We went to Hong Kong. My family took the flight home. And as for me, I started my computer forensics training courses with the HTCIA.
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