Ups & Down's

Life can be full of Ups and Downs. It can be good at one moment and not so good the next. It's just so unpredictable.

I wun be doing my ORD FFI together with pL le... Hope i have let pL down and hope that he doesn't blame me for it coz he could have proceeded to doing it without waiting for me. I just found out today by calling the respective medical and dental center's that the Medical FFI's valid for a month and Dental's for a year. Therefore, the earliest that i can have my Medical FFI's only on march 22. Well, i'll have mine done on march 24th as my dental's on 24th at 9am.

I'm putting up my ORD countdown timer once again. hehe... and talking about the ord timer, i also have one in my office's computer, one with the picture of southpark and it'll startup once i log into the pc... haha... so far, i'm left with only about 31 work days... yeah!

Room Inventory Record - I'm no longer the room in charge for my store. I've handed it over to my understudy.. hhee... Now's left with the petty cash book and the computer account. hehe...

And, i've been given officially 5 days of ORD off. and my leave of 11 days, that makes it 16 days of no-work in all. That means that i'll start working officially part time with ann siang on the 11th of march.

Cheerios and God Bless!

Provide Support

After trying out the Provide Support software for about 7 days, i decided to purchase it - for a year. Cost me USD$99.

I'll be implementing it on all the websites that i'm hosting. that means that they'll be having almost 24/7 customer service as well as a technical helpdesk.

Till then,

You're Blessed by the Grace of God Almighty.

Don's murder: Suspect in custody after 13 years

A Malaysian man wanted for the murder of a gay NUS professor 13 years ago has finally been arrested.

A murder that was committed 13 years ago and shocked the academic and the gay world has resurfaced. The death of Professor Lee Kok Cheong, who was the head of National University of Singapore's English Proficiency Unit, aroused considerable debate among the gay men here and this particular case will be the hot topic for many a few weeks to come.

Besides holding a top academic job, he was also publicly gay. This is the reason why this was such a sensational case especially back in a decade where people were still not as receptive to the idea of homosexuality.

Professor Lee, 54 at his death, was murdered in December 1993. He had lived alone, and for a while his murderers remained unknown and at large. A mystery telephone tip to the police two years after the murder provided them with their first break, and after a few years of investigation, the story finally pieced together. Too Yin Sheong, 26 was arrested and charged with the capital offence of murder. He was subsequently hanged.

Here's the story:

The Professor met Too in a coffeeshop and had invited him to his home in October 1993. Professor Lee made some advances towards Too in the house which caused Lee to feel uncomfortable and he left. However, the Professor was a rich man and it clearly displayed the valuable antiques he collected. Too took notice of them and stored it up for further usage.

Two to three weeks later, Too mentioned this episode to two friends, Ng Chek Siong, 27 (in 1998), and an anonymous someone by the nickname Kim Beh. Kim Beh suggested that it might be worthwhile to rob the Professor, and the way to gain entry was for Too to arrange a meeting on the pretext of introducing Kim Beh to the Professor.

The murder was set for December 12. Ng Chek Siong waited in the car outside the Professor's house whileToo and Kim went into the house. While the Professor was distracted, they went into the kitchen, found some knives and a cord, and with these murder tools, they tied him up, stabbed and strangled him. They then ransacked the house, stealing his ATM bank card. Too later used this card to withdraw cash.

Ng Chek Siong was found guilty of "passively" taking part in the killing of Professor Lee by not doing anything to prevent the murder from taking place and was given 8 years' jail and 10 strokes of the cane for robbery, theft and cheating.

Kim Beh however, was and has been on the run for the past 13 years. He was finally arrested last June by the Malaysian police for theft offences. Released from prison on Friday, he was brought back here and is currently in police custody.

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New Computer

At last, i've recived the new pc and i'm using it.

A Fujistu model P321 Desktop. Pentium 4, 2.9mhz, 256 mb of ram, which i paid S$190 to upgrade another 512mb of ram making it 768mb now with a 17" CRT monitor and 80gb hard disk.

I gave the 17" CRT monitor to my dad and i gave him my old pentium 4, 1.7mhz. I took the new fujistu and used back my old 15" LCD monitor.

I fixed up the old hard disk, but it seems that it's not reading so i've to troubleshoot it.. most proberly tomorrow. I've decided to use OpenOffice. It's free unlike Microsoft Office. Maplestory's taking a long long time to download. Can't play it today coz it's still downloading...

Downloaded mIRC, MSN Messenger, winamp, Firefox, Antivirus programs and antispyware so far...

Will try to retrieve my data from my old hard disk.. especially all my songs.. argh.... luckily it's all ripped from cd's which i bought, so it's not piracy.. hahaha....


Nitez ppl.

New Function/Feature

Nothing much happened today.

I'm still waiting for my new Fujistu desktop that my dad won to arrive.

And my camp has upgraded all the computers. Mindef has leased all computers from HP for 3 years. That's good news. No more computers inside room inventory and the computers are so much faster. Pentium 4 with 504mb of ram and Windows XP Service Pack 1.

In case if you haven't noticed, there's now a Live Support button or icon (whatever you call it) under the About Me section. It enables you guys to chat with me if i'm online or leave me a message if i'm offline. This is a trial program which i'm now trying on my blog, bpmc, film five and GRACE's website. If the response is good, i'll purchase it and implement it on all websites that im hosting. hehe...

Okie... got to go... btw, ty the software and let me know how you find it.

Cheers and goodnight. God Bless!

Confinement

Served my confinement on saturday and sunday. Reason: Unouthorized Loan of Stores.... :(

Overall, it's nothing much la... Tidied up my store.. haha...

Am so tired. Going to sleep le...

Nitez!

Maplestory & Confinement

Sianz.... I've been awarded 2 days of weekend confinement coz of an unauthorized loan. Will be spending this coming weekend in camp... I've decided to spend saturday doing a 100% stocktake and sunday doing a through cleaning of the store.

I started playing maplestory. Not a very bad game though... Now at level 12, but all my friends are like so way up.. haha....

Will be signing my clearance this coming monday with pL.... yeah!

God Bless!

Broadway Beng - starring Sebastian Tan

Sebastian Tan, our very own musical theatre star, returns from a highly successful run of Miss Saigon (UK) to be your Broadway Beng!

Of his smashing UK experience, Sebastian quips "I learnt a lot about how the English don't know how to 'lim teh' or 'lim jiu' or talk properly to 'lim peh'!" He just loves to be back home. Back to his roots as a born-and-bred-in-Redhill, Chow Ah Beng! and he is dying to tell us all about it.

Before he left for the UK, Sebastian "...Brought down the house.." (Straits Times) in KaraUok! Well expect no less this time round. Come enjoy his hokkien inspired humour as he ponders the difference between all things East and West. Come soak in his silky smooth "I'm a GeTai God" crooning voice as he rips into those Show Tunes.

You also won't want to miss his Sexy Singing Trio : "The Chio Bu's" ! Starring former Power 98 DJ Denise Tan, Leigh MacDonald "Forbidden City" and Jacky Pereira "Sleeping Beauty". Be sure to catch Sebastian Tan in Broadway Beng! He's living proof that you CAN take the Chinese Helicoptor out of Miss Saigon!

Went to watch on the opening night, which was on thursday, 2nd feb.

On average, it wax rather good, just that the opening number wasn't very good. I was nearly falling asleep by the end of the song, but luckily, it picked up and it's was laughter most of the time.

It also brings up tunes from Honk! as well as from Miss Saigon and those who wants to know what happens in a KTV, go watch it.

Cheers!

Broadway Beng Details:-

Date: 2 - 7 February 2006
Time: Friday @ 7pm, Saturday & Sunday @ 3 & 8pm and all other days @ 8pm.

Tickets from SISTIC or call +65 6348 5555.

Presented by: The Dream Academy Productions Pte Ltd
Official Hotel: Copthorne King's Hotel
Official TV Station: Arts Central
Official Radio Station: Power 98
Official Outdoor Media: Moove Media
Official Chinese Magazine: Nu You
Official English Magazine: Female Magazine
Official Make-Up: M.A.C
Supported by: Pacific Internet, SGBOY, Coffee Bean, HMV Singapore

Bug in Countdown Timer

After 15 seconds of troubleshooting, i realised that what caused my blog to stop loading after the caption ORD Countdown Timer was a bug in the javascript's scripting itself.

Now, it's back up and i can finally post and blog again...

Watched I Not Stupid Too with jared today. Was a nice show. go watch it.

I've made up my mind to work for ann siang. will be resigning from cgh.

am going to malaysia at 9 plus later... hhmmm time for me to sleep.. haha...

Nitez all..

Btw, i've not received a single red packet coz i dun celebrate CNY.

Have a Blessed Gay Lunar New Year people!

Dilema

Supposed to go to city harvest church today but didn't in the end as something cropped up in church. Will be going again most prob on the 28th.

I'm in a dilema. is that how's it's supposed to be spelled?? haha....

I'm going to ORD in about 3 months time. After i ORD, i ought to be working. I've been offered jobs by 2 places. Changi General Hospital as well as Ann Siang Media. ASM is the one in charge of SGBOY.COM. So indirectly, i'll be working for SGBOY.

I want both. I love Nursing and i love the Media industry. Both has its pros and cons... Nursing = Shift Duties and 5 day week, ASM = Office hours and 5 day week. Pay wise, it's about the same so i dun really bother.

If i were to join Nursing, i wouldn't be able to go elsewhere in furture as who would want to employ me when i'm like 25 and have no other experience other then nursing? But if i were to join ASM, if i'm fired or when i resign, i can always re-join back nursing...

I'm not talking about SGBOY, as a gay point of view. I'm looking forward to it as i would be able to deal with my interest. Media. Meeting People. Making Contacts. Sigh....

What can i do? I'll just pray and pray and pray. I pray that God will lead me to what he wants me to do. Please pray along with me also. Thank you my dear friends.

God Loves You, no matter what your religion is. He Loves You.

My friends, you're Blessed! I am, too!

VIP Visit on Monday & Job Opening

It's been a tiring day. Tomorrow will not be any better. The commander of SOCPAC, a BG, will be coming over to my camp, and i'll have to do up the refreshment for them. Budget: S$100 for 10 persons. That's a lot for breakfast. And i've to set it up by 8.15am. Where am i going to get that? Well, no choice, but get SFI's help...

I'm still looking for my web and flash designer but to no avail.. I'm stressed.. Help.... If you do know of anyone suitable for this position or knows someone in need of a job, please refer them okie?

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Web/Flash designer, Freelance / Part-time

An extremely creative and talented individual with a good sense of style, you'll develop, design and mantain the company's web-portal. Strong proficiency in web layouts and Macromedia Flash is a must.

Applicants with experience in portrait photography is preferred or should have a keen interest in photography. Expertise in video editing, Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop is also an advantage.

All applicants should be Singaporean Citizens, Permanent Residents or have the necessary working passes to be employed in Singapore. Male applicants must have served national service or are exempted from doing so. Graduating students and ORD personnel are also welcomed to apply.

Please send some samples of your design work and/or URLs to homepages you've designed.

Interested applicants may email your resume with your expected salary to hr@film5.org. Alternatively, you may wish to fill up the online application form at http://www.film5.org/work.html.

Film Five Management | Film Five Productions | Film Five Events Management | GRACE talent management

Company Registration Number: 53043535K

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Selamat Hari Raya Haji

Here's wishing all my muslim friends a Selamat Hari Raya Haji!

Woke up late today, almost 2pm. Didn't do anything productive today. just recorded and digitized City Harvest's christmas musical drama, Christmas Land. Had in WMV format. about 600mb... Video and Audio quality not that good though.. just OK to view.. it's nice tat's why i bothered to record it down... and it was a tedious process.

Slept again at 5pm and woke up at 7.30pm to have dinner with joe.

Last night, i had someone smsing me suddenly asking how he could be a talent with my company.. hehe...

Added a ORD Countdown timer in my blog.. hehe..

Next Public Holiday: Lunar New Year - 28 February.

Okie... Time to sleep.. Goodnight Peeps!

Rainy Day

It's been raining since last night and until now, the rain hasn't stopped. I've not stepped out of the house for the whole of today. Rotting at home...

I've finally put up most of the articles onto my blog. Click on the My Articles hyperlink to view all my articles. Some are nice, especially the stories. I'm hoping to archive the Beijing Story online soon. It's so difficult to find it and i hope to archive it before that server goes poop, and there goes...

The Beijing Story is the english translation of Lan Yu, a film by Stanley Kwan. It's a classic gay novel. It was screened in singapore uncut sometime last year. Yup, i do have the VCD with me, so if you want, you'll have to contact me.

Okie.. and back to my articles. I hope you'll enjoy reading them. The very first article was in year 2001, that was when i was in sec 4. So that's when i started having my own homepage, as it was then called. Now's it's website.. haha... It's been a long way...

I'll continue writing articles when i have the time to, or when i'm not feeling lazy. It should be sometime this week as i've to have my article on my recent thailand trip for publication this coming weekend.

Cheers!

Update of Skin

I'm updating my skin again... rather, more add-ons to my skin.. haha... just that.. some of it dun work...

Well, nothing eventful happened thses few days..

Time to sleep...

God Bless!

New Song

I woke up only at 3pm today. That's a total of 13 hours of sleep. It's not always that i have the chance to sleep for this long.

Did nothing much today. After i woke up, i went online and changed all the copyright dates from 2005 to 2006.. It's a new year.. haha... Look at all the other websites.. it's still 2005.. but all the websites hosted by me are until 2006.. hehe.. efficient huh?

I've changed the song from Child of Light to Indescribable. It's a song by Chris Tomlin from his album Arriving. I'm thinking of getting his album soon. I'm also wanting to get a few more albums.. Some of those i'm targeting would be the latest one by Delirious as well as the latest one by Hillsongs, the united live series.

That should be after jan 10.. wen my pay comes in.. haha....

And i think i'm starting dating soon... I've chanced upon someone but i dunno what that person's response to me is. well, i'll take one step at a time ba and i'll just leave everything in God's hands.

Back to work tomorrow. I dread that. Ciaoz.

Happy New Year

Year 2005 has past and it's now gone. With a blink of an eye, it's already year 2006. Time really flies. It was just only a moment ago that we last had a countdown to year 2005 and before all of us know it, it's already countdown to 2006.

I've been very busy for the past week or so due to the christmas musical. I had the chance to visit Free Community Church and attend their christmas service on christmas evening.

Yesterday was BPMC's Watchnight concert and downdown service. It was the first time in BPMC's history that i saw so many people raising their hands and some jumping during worship especially during the closing of the concert. People wanted encores and eveything wasn't enough. They wanted more! How i wished that i could see this happening every sunday and that the strength of our church would grow. I believe that this is just the starting.

I went to FCBC's Youthnet new year's day celebration. FCBC has really grown. Since it opened it doors in Touch Center in Marine Parade. It's now over at Max Pavilion at Expo. Comparing it to City Harvest, the former still needs to brush up on certain aspects and it would be perfect.

I hope that 2006 will be a better year for all of us here. I pray that God will touch the hearts of those who do not know Him yet. I pray that the broken hearted, the weak, weary and worn-out souls will be restored. As for myself, I pray that my walk with God will be closer and closer.

It's 3 months more before i ord in april. I will be back to work in CGH. I do not know what my plans are or where my future lies. I can only live day-by-day on His word and what He has already planned for me. If he wants me to stop nursing and go into full-time ministry work or even full-time mission work, i'll have to follow... it's like the song... so lead me i'll follow....

I'm so glad that it's monday tomorrow and it's a public holiday off-in-lieu. I need the well-deserved rest.

Have a great and Blessed year ahead.

Shalom, God with us.

Paragon @ Orchard Road

Just came back not too long ago from Paragon Shopping Center over at orchard road... the choir was performing there... overall, it was good, better than yesterday's over at the rc...

tomorrow... exercise falcon 1b, now over at mandai area... so wun be back until thursday... no water and electricty again.. haha...

okie.. tiem to sleep... ciaoz.

Tiring Christmas + New Song

It's been rather tiring week, rather weekend for me...

I'm totally drained out...

Thursday, 15 Dec, technical rehearsal, 7pm all the way to 1am.
Friday, 16 Dec, full rehearsal, 7pm till 1am... (okie... it's till 12 but i had to stay till 1am to do up the admin stuff and all tat...)

den for today.... had to reach church before 10am to setup for the rehearsal for tomorrow's service... den had a rehearsal for the mandarin ministry for their play... and it all went well...

just came home not too long ago... going to sleep soon as i'm really very very tired...

tomorrow will be performing at blk 247, pasir ris street 21 at 6pm for their christmas party... den on monday night at the stage outside paragon at orchard road at 8pm...

wun be attending serivce 2morrow.. haha...

And since it's christmas, i've change the background song to a medley of songs... Child of Light, taken from the musical One Of Us... Enjoy!

nitez!

Part-Time Flash/Web Designer Wanted

Part-Time Flash/Web Designer

An extremely creative and talented individual with a good sense of style. Strong proficiency in web layouts and Macromedia Flash is a must. Applicants with experience in portrait photography is preferred or should have a keen interest in photography. Expertise in video editing, Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop is also an advantage. Please send some samples of your design work and/or URLs to homepages you've designed.

If you think you fit the bill, interested applicants should direct their resumes, self-photos and samples of their work (if any) to:

hr@gracetalent.com

or

GRACE talent management, 416 Bedok North Avenue 2, #07-25, Singapore 460416.

You're Invited!

Dear All,

You're invited to the Christmas Musical. Contact me for more info.

Cheers!

P.S. My dad won the 4th prize in his annual D&D... The prize = Fujitsu Desktop...