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WHAT HAPPEN TO MY LINKS !! ITS GONE !!! ————>

Man i know i should be spending more time on my blog and learning how to make full use of it ….

CreeD

Stand Here With Me – Press Play

Majority of the songs played by well loved rock band refers to Christianity, although this band has never declared themselves as a Christian Band.

Enjoy this song here fellow Christian Mates & Rock Fans.

Stand Here With Me By Creed.

Other Creed Tracks i would recommend:

• What If
• My Own Prison

Christian Orientated:

• Higher
• Arms Wide Open
• One Last Breath (Not your average Christian rock song)

*Creed disbanded in 2004 and is rumoured to be planning a reunion by 2009.
They have a total of 3 albums, each were hot selling.

Albums

1. My Own Prison (More of Emo Rock genre, not your average)
2. Human Clay (More mainstream, most famous hits)
3. Weathered (Most mainstream, you can’t go wrong with this album)

Live ‘N’ Loaded

A half an hour show on channel 5 featuring bands performing live on stage  and a terrific audience grooving to all that amazing local talent. What took Mediacorp so long? I repeat, the show is LIVE. I just wish this could spark of Singapore as being a hub for talents in English music. Enough of Ching Chong music being the majority, can ? ! (Australia’s English music scene is pretty strong.)

Hosted by ever youthful VJ UTT makes a terrific choice as who else can relate more to youth and music. The audience looked like they were having so much fun and the whole atmosphere really makes me feel like being there. Sure, it is not as cool as perfomances by most white skinned countries but knowing how Mediacorp Channel 5 is trying to promote potato music for Kantan people  leaves the Kantan people some room to breath in a sense of having their own identity! Of course, it is supporting our local talents that gets me excited.

Live ‘N’ Loaded premiered tonight and happens every Tuesday, 9pm.

Cairo, Egypt

Now lets see…

Many good news have been pouring in lately and the few months ahead will be busy.

I have been granted an interview session with Unisim and have decided to go for Lasic this coming end February while i have my Annual leave.
Should everything go smooth, a huge change in lifestyle, hard work and determination awaits with satisfying returns.

My Bahasa Indonesian course under Cambridge education will begin End February as well, despite a delay from the supposed January commencement. I have, also, started trading shares, learning some basics from my Mother. Although my shares have been going downhill, still, all good things comes to those who wait.

Photography… still an ongoing hobby.

I am also determined to obtain my motorcycle license in which i am only left with the last lesson followed by a test. It seems i have to complete it by June before some cert expires.

Back to running and cutting down on weight lifting as well. My metabolism rate seems to have decreased quite significantly, which is a real blessing to me.

Embracing all that is given to me.
Life’s Good!

Be a man, do the right thing !

More often than not, we let our emotions take control and make silly decisions.
Let your logic and gut feeling take control, the one that dwells deep within your stomach.
The one that knows no anger and foolishness, the one that thinks and plans for your future and tells you what is really good for you.

Dear Starhub

I typed this so quickly in 3-5 minutes in such anger…

” I have been having terrible connection to the game server for Warhammer online that does not occur on other games like TF2.

I have called your customer service hotline for help in which i would get through only 1 in 8 times. The longest i had waited was half an hour before i had to hang up. This becomes discouraging and thus leaves me to not calling and bearing with the problem despite paying my subscription fees every month, as opposed to a friend of mine who pays the same subscription fees living in bukit timah but getting no problem in his connection.

A few times i have called only to have the customer relations officer tell me to leave a contact and he will address the problem but i have not been gotten back to.

I am at my wits end as i would like to terminate my contract with starhub and sign up with singtel such so that i can get a reliable connection for my gaming but i will not be able to due to your policies. Am i going to have to tolerate this untill my contract is up?

Reasons for switching subscription : A non improving understaffed hotline, terrible connections for heavy built up neighbourhood areas, No response from staff.

I will be reasonable here as the problem could be at my end of the connection. But do bear in mind, people like me who come back from work just to enjoy his online time just get discouraged and helpless from a non responsive service care that does not provide instant solution through calling.

Please advice
Or spare me the contract. “

Here is to wishing everyone…

Every new year’s eve or the first of January, a large number of  “resolutioners”(no such word) will sit down to think of what they would achieve this year. Some of them would blog it down, some would pen it down. Those who pen it down would purchase a nice logbook from Popular or AnBC  stationary stores, and these logbook will probably only have it’s first two pages written on before  having their fates sealed in the household wastepaper bin, ending up in the waste incinerator ready to return back to nature. Interestingly, what is written on the first two pages are probably exactly what was written the year before, just that the author had probably forgotten all about it.(Resolutions returned to nothingness like how the logbooks return back to nature.)

Some of the most common resolutions i would hear people say are Losing Weight, Saving money,  getting a girl/boyfriend,  treating parents better, treating girlfriend/boyfriend better, studying harder, keeping fit, starting a new hobby, eating right, taking up a sport, etc… (Notice some of them involve having a routine “twice  a week i must do this” style that shows a discipline lapse that they are trying to improve on that they should probably already had improved on sometime during 2008.)

I do not have any bombastic resolutions that would spark a drastic changes in my life. Looking back on 2008, i thought to myself that i had done alot, more than what i had expected of myself. Frankly,  at midnight 31st December, counting down was of the least significance to me while i was in a taxi on the way to Alicia’s New Year’s Eve party. What is so special about yesterday and today that i would have to make resolutions for the next twelve months about? For me, resolutions are made everyday and I tend to evolve and alter them as I see more in life. 2008 was a good year for me, thus instead of having life changing resolutions, i just wanted 2009 to be an even more hardworking year for me whereby i would improve further on leading a more fruitful life and lifestyle.  I love my life so much now and am so happy that all the resolution i can ever make for 2009 would be that things stay just like they are now, on the same positive increasing curve of course!

Here is to wishing everybody success in reaching all their goals and fulfilling their dreams, and when 2010’s New Year’s Eve arrives, everyone to be looking back in satisfaction of what they have been rather than regretting time wasted and looking forward still wishing what they could be.

Cheers!

Part 3 : An Eight Day Trip away from Home

Upon touchdown into Moscow, some of us made a trip to an Italian restaurant whereby i ate the most delicious blue cheese pizza ever. As my money changer had given me one thousand Russian rubles in stacks of ten dollar notes, the bill looked like we paid a hefty sum. We headed back to the hotel immediately on foot as the cold was unbearable. The night pictures shown below was not easy to take as each shot had me remove my gloves which caused my hands to freeze and become numb almost immediately.

It was indeed a white Christmas for me and the temperature ranged between -8 to -12 degrees Celsius. The city was blanketed by snow and some people were even traveling around on horses. One of the pictures below shows a mosque, a large amount of Russians are Muslim.

I stayed in the following day as the temperature got even colder and so did everyone else. Many of them had gotten cold rashes, the flu and fever even when staying within the premises of the hotel. Unfortunately, i got stubborn and when out in search of a stall that sells calling cards and i almost felt like my nose would fall off my face. The coldest month in Russia would be in February whereby the temperature could drop to a minus 40 degrees Celsius.

That pretty much sums up my Eight day trip. Its great to be back home.

Thumbs up for SMRT’s decision

I have never felt happier to stand in our MRTs than i did last evening when i entered a train to realise that there were no seats in the cabin. There are railings at each sides of the cabin for you to rest your buttocks on and the whole cabin looked really spacious. No more brushing your legs onto slippers and shoes of those who tend to cross their legs, taking up more width space, thus having their foot sticking out. Also, we can now stand comfortable in every segment of the cabin without commuters who are seated staring continuously, or taking accidental glances at us.

The choice by SMRT for implementing this is truely wise as it is more of a win-win situation. It addresses the crowded cabin issues and has made my ride to the city within the city a much more enjoyable one. (We never really get seats these days anyway.)