Happy New Year 2013

It's the new day for the year of 2013. Happy New Year!

Reflecting back the year 2012, it has been a hectic year for me as myself and Sarah finally ended our courtship and tied the knot, registered in the month of Oct 2012 and Chinese ceremony in Nov 2012. Now has been busy with our new house, our ongoing project for the coming month or two.

Well, looking forward to a better year, while reflecting and remembering my happy moments in the year 2012 :-)

Back in the year 2010

It has been a while since i have blogged. Why? It was since November 2009, whereby i was busy preparing for my last days in Halliburton for my closure there and also busy preparing myself for my upcoming job, new place new environment and surely new challenge. I am much anxious as the new project is already coming in, perhaps i have been dormant for about 2 years, doing less challenging stuff over the period of my stay in Halliburton (no offence anyone...)

As the new year, 2010 coming closer i was chilling out and relaxing myself. By mid January 2010, it was already my last day. It is good for me as i can spend some time to rest myself (physically and mentally) before my new job begin. But eventually not much rest was possible as Sarah was moving house, CNY clean up, planning for the new project over at new office and etc. With all that, not much regret as things went fine and great.

Looking at the calendar now, it is already March 2010. Let the remaining Q1 be better before heading to the Q2 for even busier life :-) Lets all be happy in life and i would try to blog more when i get my hands on my new laptop (still awaiting for it until mid March 10)...

I am back, but not all

I am finally back to kay elle however i am not in my best shape. Been having the cold and sorethroat even few days before i was 'release' from the rig and this afternoon went to see doctor as i cant stand the coughing non stop even at night. I need the rest!

Now hoping to recover asap and spend some time to sort out my stuff that i didnt have time attending to for the past 4 weeks. Wish me luck :-)

So near yet so far

I am still about 5 hours from KL city or known as home. Curretnly now awaiting for my transit flight from KK to KL at about 3:30pm. Had some lunch, now waiting for time to past and also converting a concert for my Nokia 5800, so that i can have some in-flight entertaintment later for the duration of 2hrs 25min.

Been so long i travel offshore this time, normally was just at most about 2 weeks, this trip is nearing one whole hitch for those other offshore guys whereby they normally do 28 days and in this trip, i clock in 25 days myself. During this duration of 25 days, i was on standby, merely with things to do and daily was just awaiting for time to past and the next day to come. I feel pretty much dumb for being needed to standby and those eyes of others who are there. They kind of looking down on us for doing nothing there, just eat and sleep for long duration, but do they know what we or i would say myself not that kind of person to get money just like that? I am not, and i dont enjoy that kind of life, but i have no choice to start with, so there i was for 25 days!

Now, when i get back i hope to get some rest and also spend time with family while awaiting for the photo shoot in the coming month where i hope i would be further practise my skills and also do some nice shots for some lovely couple :-)

Kay Elle, wait for me i am rushing back ASAP...

Cravings...

Not only ladies out there have cravings, even i do. What am i cravings for? Local food in KL which includes porky foods, mee, mamak food and etc... Soon i will have my hands on it to fulfill my poor stomach which has been deprived for about 3 weeks.

What else i will be doing when i reach back to kl?

1. Clubbing - I need some night life - probably go to a club with some friends or so...
2. Eat all the food that i longed for...
3. Spend time with my loved ones - family, sarah, friends, jack-jack, meeko and etc...
4. Get some thrill on the KL night roads - be damm with the drive slow, drive with my heart and feelings...
5. SHOP, SHOP, SHOP!!!
6. 3D - A Christmas Carol
7. Photography shoot out :-) Been so long since i was with E-3 :-)
8. Not to forget, my alcoholic drinks back home!!! Lets have a party :-)
9. Sushi with my friends...
10. Go with the flow of my heart :-) Get a life!!!

18++

Since 2 Nov 09 to date has been like 18 days that i am here in hte middle of the ocean. Still floating on good weather and also on bad weather, just having one aim which is to be around until they finish drilling this well. To ask me when can complete, i have got no firm answer as i ran out of answers to myself, all i am doing now is go with the flow. Why? Cause it is kind of dissapointing to me and those who wants me back in town by giving them false hope. So rather not giving false hope, i better not give any definite answer as well. Just hope to be back to town asap, as there are lots that i need to do before year end, some of it would be consider life changing decisions...

Change...

As always, change is inevitable in life. In fact i am now looking for some changes in my life as well, perhaps been in this comfort zone too much already and has felt the boredom of it already, just too lazy to move away. Looking forward to better opportunity and also chance to bloom, rather than sulking and not acting over it time after time.

Destiny arrives...

From my previous entry, i was still awaiting if i would be required to go offshore assignment and hope that it will come later, after my photo shoot for my friend, Shiau Wan wedding. However, things are most likely turn up as not it is and i was to go for offshore assignment the same day of my previous entry. I manage to finish up the work soon and got back just in time for the wedding day on Sunday, where i reach KL on Saturday night.

After the wedding is over, i am much tired as i have a feeling that photographers (a good one) will be with the bride and groom throughout their wedding, from planning ahead to the actual day, from early morning make up time until late at night when the wedding banquet over and the final photo is taken as a couple on the stage. This means that each one out there get a once in a lifetime for their wedding experience, we photographers get so much more once in a lifetime wedding experience :-)

Now what i am looking forward is more rest from my busy schedule, either personal or work. I most probably will be required to travel offshore sometime soon, and what is pushing me would be the photos that i have yet to complete processing... Hope i can get it done as soon as possible, else i will have angry newly weds come chasing after me :-)

Lastly, congratulations to the newly weds; Yew Leong and Shiau Wan!

Awaiting my destiny

Looking ahead at the operation at my work place, it seems it will be a busy few weeks ahead as all the operation is picking up and required to go offshore again. Sigh, it just have to come at the very wrong timing, as my friend's (Shiau Wan) wedding is just around the corner, in fact this Sunday. I really hope that i can make it for her wedding and help her to shoot for her wedding day along with Sarah and Kuan Ming. Hmm... hope that i can make it, else Sarah will be doing the shooting on my behalf only.

Work lately, what could i say been pretty tiring even i get 8-10 hours of sleep. Perhaps like what they says, after battling for sometime continuous, its not so easy to replace the rest that was not taken earlier, what is done is done and can never be replaced that easily. So now i am suffering from that symptom. In fact, i am not alone as my colleague also going through the same phase as i am. Wonder how long it will be going on until our management thinks it is the right time to take in new people to help out the team. Damm...

Now i am still waiting for the call to go offshore, hoping not so soon, not so fast and not so early. Just want it to come after Shiau Wan's wedding, then i will go unrelentingly...

Moody

Sigh, all of a sudden. I got infected and turned moody... Sigh, what a day...

Keeping quiet

Lots in my head, lots to share, but just not here yet. Not the right time, not the right time yet... let it prevails eventually. Till then, it will just be in me...

Busy, tiring yet lazy days...

Been some time since my last post, been about 3 months already. What have i been up to? Most of my time, workign my ass throughout the weekdays and weekends. What do i get? Nothing, what a DAMN!!!

What are my plans ahead? To enjoy more of my life and make the full out of it. Those plans up my sleeve are of course vacation, outings, photo shooting and etc...

Hope all these can come true soon...

Cheap weekend :-(

Sigh, been experiencing cheap weekends lately, probably for the past 3 or 4 weeks. Don't get what i mean? Haha...actually i didn't want to understand either, but just too bad... i understand it. Cheap as in only worth RM55 to buy my time for weekend (per day...) to slave myself with non-stop works. All work and no play for me!!!

Crappy employer

Crap...just got to know, i have outstanding payment for AMEX CC due to my company charge it to my card, without telling me and the statement did not come to my attention at all. Since Jan 09 till now is abt 3 months with 3.5% interest. FUCK, lousy crappy company, spend money for official business matter but end up paying myself and the INTEREST!!! Don't want to go anywhere more, next time ask me go here and there, FUCK OFF!!! Now, NO MONEY, NO TALK!!!

Counting seconds... Brings back memories...

I was watching a series movie, Monk at this hour alone in the Level 17 of Tower 2 at KLCC which is also the PCSB office. Why i am there? It is the second episode of my previous post. In this episode, it tells a story of Christmas celebration and i had a flash back, to the times when i was in Hong Kong with Sarah for our vacation back in the end of November and early December 2008.

It was a happy moments for us, getting our ass away from this busy and hectic life style while having a laid back vacation at a place where we are looking forward to go for quite some time. Although it was not as laid back as i mentioned just now, as we are on a trip/vacation, it meant to be always in a rush to cover as many locations as possible while we were there. We were pretty exhausted throughout the trip, but it was worth it every moment of it and pain on my shoulder, legs and body which is accumulated through the heavy bag that i have been carrying around throughout the journey.

Seeing that series, it brings back memory and i was hoping that i could be having another vacation real soon to somewhere else other than have to sit in office to work my ass for some crap ass... Sigh, guess that is the work nature, after working for quite some time. Well, until my next vacation i have to endure all these and be strong.

Counting seconds...

The clock shows 1:30am and i am currently at KLCC, Tower 2, PCSB office at level 17. Why? Cause i am currently on standby while they are drilling on the rig. It takes ages to drill the well as they are drilling so very slow. for the past 24 hours, only drilled less than 200m, imagine how long it will take to drill 600m plus before they will perform cleaning. I am currently getting sleepy and while waiting for time to past, i am watching some movies and blog to kill some time.

Getting boring lately... life... I am just hoping that i need not work tomorrow night as i am kind of tired and need some rest, at the same time would like to spend my weekend with some more important people in my life...

Hope life gets better and meaningful in the coming future :-)

06.03.2009

Happy Anniversary to us :-) May not be a fancy day with lots of things going on, but it was indeed a great day spend together. May many more happy years to come :-D

I am wondering...

Currently i am stuck in a position where i dislike most. To go or not to go. The uncertainty is always haunting me as the previous time as well. I might need to go offshore soon if things don't go well or as how i plan it to be. Why? Cause one of my colleague was blacklisted and he could not go to 'his' rig anymore, so only left me and another one more guy. The other guy seems assigned to another job, so meaning only myself available, so guess what? Most probably i will be going. What is the sad part is that it falls on the wrong time, wrong place and wrong feel.

Guess what? Due to the reason that i may be asked to go offshore, i started to pray that the operation get postponed so that i get to stay in KL for the single reason that i want to be in town, to be with my dearest Sarah. Sigh... hate this feeling, of being taken so far away from my plans and also being not able to paln my own life and god knows what come next!

So bad of me to have that feeling and wishes, but hey i am still a normal human being with a normal life. And above all, my pay is not to the extend where it would able to cover all my sacrifices. Problem that money can solve or settle is not problem, but not all the time that money can solve all issue. For some, no matter how much you are paid, it still never will be enough for some certain sacrifices in life.

Weekend coming...

Sleepy now...

Thinking of Weekend...

Still need to work - on-call...

Today - Friday
- Pick up Sarah from Bkt. Jalil LRT station, returning from Melacca - business trip
- Sleep and rest for next day

Saturday
- Rest
- Shopping/Windows shopping/Cinema
- MAKAN!!!
- Friends meetup... good luck and all the best to Winnie on your "Meet the parents"

Sunday
- Sarah to KLIA to be flying to Philiphines
- Farewell dinner for Su Ching... flying on a jet plane to Australia... land of Kangaroos...
- Meet up good pal for chit chat session
- Ready for Thaipusam...more of Thaipusam holiday :-)

Monday
- Meetup - UTAR T11 at Tenji :-)
- Etc...Etc...

That's my plan for this weekend :)

Late then never - My CNY wishes :-)

Happy Chinese New Year, though late wishes, today is already the 12th day of the chinese calendar, but better than no wishes for this year. Hmm... CNY this year had its pros and cons. This year, the CNY leave is considered good, as for those in KL working, taking 3 days off will result in straight 10 days holiday. What more can you expect if it was not 10? I wanted to take more days off but guess good things need to come to an end, why not leave it to later when it could be best utilised :-) Cons is that i am so happen to be on-call throughout the celebration, with money for sure, but the feel of not able to enjoy the fullest and had to carry my laptop with me when visiting. Imagine, bringing laptop bag around during CNY, not the best thing that could ever happen. Why? Cause laptop bag can be considered as 'book bag' or in cantonese is pronounce is 'shu pau' which means sure lose. Surely those gambler would not want to meet me with that bag :-)

Since this year is not that good in terms of economic stability of the world nations, which also include our tiny country, just hope that things will turn out fine for me in terms of my work and hope there is progress over all and chances of advancement. Also hope all my family and friends would stay healthy and happy in life, bet that is the most important one in life. Some may hope for wealth and etc, but come to think of it, happiness is the main thing for me in life. Old fashion? Perhaps but what more can we get out of life if we are not happy clocking our daily shifts of our lifetime? Tell me or share with me if you have your thoughts.

What is left? Another 3 days more to go and CNY is over. Sigh, why time passes so damm fast, and the meaning of CNY seems to be fading, more to a days off rather than some big celebration. This year i tried to bring back some tradions back to my home, helped to decorate my house with some red stuff and hangging items, that could obviously bring up the CNY mood and as well to chip in to the reunion dinner with my relatives. Also to help out in preparing the food and not just sit and wait for food like the previous years, kind of like the idea of preparing for CNY as one whole family :-)

All well so far... hope this year will be a better year for all :-)