Updates and dates

So many things have changed in just a week.


So many things are floating around in my mind now. Not so sure what i want to do with the current situation. Someone's status is back to normal. I still have feelings for her. But is this love reciprocated?

How should i put it? Will she tell me that she detest how i look physically? Or will she use family bonds as a issue, or the pursuing of further education as an understanding not to be together.

Ah well, It bothers me so.

Officially, I'm a singapore-certified lobster. Cooked by Chef Kenny. Thanks to the basketball game from 9-2. I'm cooked, in a well-done manner.

I'm not going for aikido this week. Thanks to it. Too raw liao.

Things done so far.

Was thinking that I shouldn't just use this blog to update on my exercise status.


Alright. I'll put my wishlist here then.

Wishlist:
1. Canon DSLR 500D
2. A proper bicycle
3. A Shodan Grade
4. A driving license.

Just an update from my Oct 18 entry, I've managed to achieve both certification stated. So happy of the results.

Aikido Today.

Aikido pretty much wrapped up my exercise today. I'm soaking wet from the training. Still considering whether should go for 2 lessons per week or once. This decision will be tantamount to 1 of my new year resolutions.


1. Shodan Grade.

Day 2

150 shomen uchi
20 push ups

Fat to fit. Promise.

I went for a medical checkup recently when I went to see the doctor after always falling sick due to migraine. Got a rude shock when I was informed that I was 20 kg overweight.

That was in 2009. I told myself. What have I been doing? I used to be so thin last time, now I'm saddled with man boobs. And a spare tyre to boot. Told myself that everyday I'll work up a sweat and document every instance of it down here.

1. I did 150 shomen uchi with my bokken today.
2. I did 30 push ups today. 3 sets of normal, spider and diamonds.
3. I practiced 10 single hand chops today, each side.

Myself

I got hooked. Yep....to borderlands. I almost have hardly anytime to study for my paper on mon. Still thinking should I just go ahead and try for the exam. Wonder if I can read all the way to the fifth book by 5am.

Haiz.

New Year Resolution 2010

Time to make New Year Resolution once again.


I always ask myself, "What's the point in making resolutions when you don't keep them?" I dunno. Really.

But Still Here I GO!

1. Better $$$ Mgnt. (Brought Forward from 2009.)
2. Start having some inital investments.
3. Get ready to buy my 1st endowment plan?
4. Get my Driving License 3A.
5. Get ALL my CERTIFICATIONS.
6. Work HARD @ my career.
7. Start a Diploma in Psychology.
8. Get a proper desktop.
9. ~(To be added next.)

Hort Park Photos

Promised a friend that I will show him some photos I took @ Hort Park....then got the feeling that I missed my blog.

My soul screams out.

Literally.


So much stuff is happening at work. Not say great stuff. Just a lot of hiccups making life in work seem like a repetitive cycle on and on these few weeks.

So much SQL errors making me sick. Sometimes I question myself if this is due to wrong instructions given from the top or myself that cause such errors. Just thinking about it during the weekend makes me so pek chek.

What else is boring into my mind right now? CERTIFICATIONS LOR!!

So many pocket-aches and headaches to go. A Peek into the current 2.

1. GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)
- More info here.

2. SNORT Certified Professional (SnortCP)
- More info here.

I have less than 1 month for the later one....ahhhh. :(

I have less than 3 months for the more expensive first one. -____-"

Free mooncakes are yummy!

Its the time of the year again!!! Nah not Christmas, doesn't come so early in Singapore.

Oh yah, Hamilton won the F1, Tauflik sang the anthem wrongly. No big deal to me.

The good deal is...all the yummy free samples of mooncakes around the shopping malls. Seriously, this isn't like me in the first place. I only started becoming like this since I went into RMIT, and started hanging out with the freebies foodie club.


I remember then I used to get free stuff like beer, sausages, t-shirts, etc. And it kinda got me hooked on the freebie's galore. Dunno why, I do feel a sense of happiness sampling the munchies like a kiasu auntie.

Oh dear...Jenny's gonna flip when she sees this. :P

Life so far...

Time passes by really fast, its being close to two years since I graduated from Uni. Seems like my perspective of things has changed. Taste has changed, Love has changed. etc.

Used to think about the simple life, now begin to think about the bigger picture. Think about having a car to get to work, drive girlfriend around, fetch her home...Think about buying a place to call my own. Think about getting credit cards in my wallet...Think about what investments to make.

What was the dream last time? How to get a fatter piggy bank? Maybe. I can't remember. Its being so long.

The Late Post: Shi Qing's Wedding

Hi People.

Sorry for the recent no-post rates of this blog. Being really busy since I started work. Everyday just passes by in a blink. Whoosh.



Shi Qing Wedding

Life's updates.

Time has passed so fast. In just a flash, I've worked for a year in my current company.

I have got a new wishlist, I get one every once in a while, but most of the time they are never ever completed. Only exception was the recent one had a 80% success rate. Now what's outstanding is only the desktop and bicycle.

Things I have to get done before end of the year.

1. SANS GSEC Certification
2. SnortCP Certification
3. Get my 5 days of personal development out on track.

Decision to Blog

I decided to blog today, just cos I realized I never really moved my blog since my SANS Course.

Things have been pretty fine, despite the onslaught of projects and sicknesses, ie flu. I've managed to turn the tide on some things, though there are others out there that require improvement on my part.

Things that I need to get:
My GSEC Certification - Gotta Start Working On Tis Soon. Pocket hurts from the bite.
My Snort Certification - Wonder how is it like?
My Bicycle - Shortlisted a few, though not really decided yet which to get.
A massage. - The chair just isn't doing any good.
A holiday. - My blood's being sucked dry.

I realized the blogger interface has changed abit, looks weird though.

It's my birthday on Sunday. Got a pen from Bernie,after taking some throws from him. Got a giant cup from New York New York membership. Need to get back in shape, either lose that gut or something else. Gonna turn 25, a year older since 2008. So whats the recollection since the previous birthday?

Can't really remember much for 2008. Yet I really loved the 2007 one. I've this thing for birthdays, dunno why. I feel that its an impt day to be celebrated for a person, since thats the day he/she became a person. Weird logic here, but ah, thats me.

My thoughts about the SANS course.

Been 3 days since I started the course. Overall the course is really interesting, due to the experience of the speaker as well as his ability to keep the audience in focus with what he is teaching. By the way, the speaker's name is Stephen Sims.

Did quite a bit of networking with the people here. Most of the peeps are from MHA, witch specks from the private sector. I wonder does the private sector covers such course sponsorship.

I find the spectrum of topics covered is really wide. Good for a entry level ITSEC professional. Found various topics that relate to my job scope, for most parts.

Day 1 of SANS 401: Networking Concepts

Starting my first professional course in security today. The speaker sounds really experienced... A plus point since the HTCIA. Learning about the topic that was covered in polytechnic.

I realized that I have yet to do so much outstanding stuff since I came back from Kuming. By the way, I'm currently blogging from my iPod touch, really gives a new sense of typing and blogging. Really feels very different from a Windows box.

Better stop blogging, continue listening to the teach speaking. Very innovative way of explaining the days module.

IT Show 2009

Just went to the IT Show last week. Actually, I'm quite confused with the play on words. PC or IT show?? I also not too sure myself.

As for what I bought, I kinda like it, though i don't really have any special feelings for it. The iPod Touch!!!

Somehow i do love the slider technology, damn cool. Jenny bought the alternative-made iPhone Mini...rather cool, can watch TV somemore.

Work today was really er rush hour. I actually planned for a list of things to be done today, but weird enough, so many stuff popped out, I didn't really had time to get down to my list. Damn shagged, I actually planned not to on the computer, since my eyes are already googled out from staring at the screen too much. But gotta get some things done here, bo bian.

To the Province of Yunnan (280509-040609)

Yunnan-Dali

Just touched down awhile ago at the airport in Kuming, met Aunt Irene and Francis there. Francis
thought that Uncle Gilbert was an old man due to his greying hair, so automatically took his luggage
from him. Took us 5 hours by minivan to reach Dali. Super long journey and my leg really cramped up.
Upon reaching, we met Jane,Aunt Irene's friend who helped us to reach our lodgings, then we headed off for dinner
in a xijiang restaurant. the mutton leg cost just nine bucks!! woohoo! On the third day, the day looked really
gloomy indeed. No sign of the rain stopping at all. But luckily, there were some nice things that happened.

- I found exotic food. - Yak Meat, Eel Sweet and Sour Soup, Naan Bread, Cheese bread
- I bought the fabled local produce - Taxidermised Butterflies, Pu-er tea, Yunnan Coffee
- I didn't get the marble and jade though, cos i didn't seem to have any uses whatsoever for it.
- I think I might want to go ahead and grab some of the local batik tomorrow.
- I went for a $9 massage run by the local hearing and speech impaired. It was great help to me, but I can't say it was painless.
- I met various people of the chinese minority, got to learn their culture as well as recording down the singing sessions.


Yunnan- LiJiang

Reached Li Jiang after a 4 hour ride via bus from Dali. Missed some really nice scenic views on the mountain route, reason cause
my camera was in my bag, but in the end I managed to get some nice shots on the way down the mountains. Amazing thing though,
was that that China Army appeared to be having a military exercise of sorts on top the mountain we were passing through! Saw a few
covered tanks and alot of logistics vehicles. saw a grunt busy brushing his teeth by the roadside.
Lijiang's produce were really similar to that of Dali, reason being part of Yunnan. However, I was really enchanted by the batik designs of the
Dongba culture of the Naxi tribe. This trip in Li-jiang was neither happy nor sad, sad in the understanding of endless
unhappiness, happy that I got to know so much more culture ideas. Went to check out the night scene in the old town, was filled
with the local women in traditional dress promoting their bars. Boring shit....even the seventh month getai is
way more interesting. Pray that Kunming would be more interesting. Oh yeah, after the massage in dali, my lower back seems to be permanently
stiffen up.

- I found exotic food - Yak Milk, Dragonfly, Worms, Bees, Sichuan cake
- I bought the fabled local produce - batik fridge stickers, display sets, yummy sweets
- I got sichuan fish - but boy, it really sucked.

Yunnan - Kunming

Took a 45 airplane ride to Kunming. Was surprised that the trip from lijiang took longer than the
plane ride from the airport to Kunming city. If I were to come back on my own to China, I would
definitely give Kunming a miss. Nothing to buy, nothing to see. Just pure boliao city life,
the city just super dusty, if not for the rainy weather today. I'm supposed to be going to visit
the Stone Forest and some riverboat tour in the rain tomorrow. Seriously, I don't feel like going
given the options and things that have happened. This is really the first trip that I seriously yearn to
be back home enjoying my leave with my girlfriend. I'm reaching my limit here soon. Surprisingly enough, the stone forest was pretty interesting, got alot of scenic photoshots from there.

"Will be posting the pics up in awhile..2000+ photos."

Things to ponder

April 22nd. The day I changed the outlook of my blog. Frankly speaking, I still prefer the settings of my old blog. However, I decided that it deserves a change of outerwear.


I was showering just now at work, just while I was soaping up, I saw a small floating bubble in the water and instinctively formed a circle with my fingers to blow out another bubble - been doing this since I was a kid when my dad often taught me how to bathe as a toddler. Showing me how to blow bubbles was one particular fun thing I loved to do while in the shower. Alas, the bubble failed to form...what a disappointment.

Then it hit me. How long has it been since I last felt that I had all the time in the world to do something I really enjoyed. Rarely, I should say. Everyday of my life seems to be a passing phase in a project that's due to be completed sometime. Is it just me, or is it everyone else who have lost themselves in their pursue of their dreams..?

Long has it been since I felt it was an eternity for time to pass. Time seems to be passing by really fast, as if the bottleneck on it has suddenly been loosen. Remembered that long time ago, I used to enjoy munching my noodles and taking at least 30 minutes happily on my meal. Now it takes around 10 mins. Buy, munch, dump, drink and go.

My tiny red dot.

Recently there has been a new spate of happenings through this little island.

People walking around stark naked in Holland V, singaporean copies of Edison Chen, people with wild fantasies of exhibitionism. It's hard to tell Singapore has changed so much over the few years.

What happened?

Actually, nothing. No one changed. Only the mentality of the incoming generation changed. People feel shiok flaunting their birthday suit, so be it. I feel indifferent to it. It's just the older generations have some reluctance accepting the change in the young ones nowadays.

Lets say streaking, which is so common in the western universities is considered a taboo here in Asia. So taboo that people can get banned from staying in the hostel.

-This isn't the erosion of our traditional values, bur just something new in evolution.


I fell sick recently, over the weekend, while doing the weekend shift at work. Felt really horrible, couldn't breathe well for nuts. Only felt better after visiting the doctor on Monday. Many thanks to his antibiotics treats and 2 day MC for a sick dude. Jenny was so upset, sorry dear, but don't worry, I can take care of myself.

Thanks for the yummy porridge, Jenny....and your care and concern which really made me feel sooo loved for the past 2 days.