.....times of refreshing.....

This seems a fast week to me as it's weekend again! Well, it could be because I took a day off last Monday, thus I only worked for four days. :) Anyway, I am sure everybody had a fruitful week and it's time to give ourselves some pampering. Let's wind down over the weekend, whether driving to a nearby peaceful town, enjoying the sands and the sun,...

After leaving Zenxin for Kluang, my wife visited her godsister who suffered a mild stroke. She has been staying in the hospital for three days before given the green light to go home. When I read her medical report, I was so shocked that her cholesterol level was 9.9 mmol/L and her uric acid was super high around 410µmol/L. I understand she was a...

Perhaps this ends my photography contest saga. I went to Zenxin at Kluang, Johor to collect my first prize of cash, vouchers, membership card and not forgetting an interesting Fujifilm Instapix Mini 8, which is an instant camera. They also posted this on their facebook page. Yours truly and my little princess collecting the prize from Zenxin's...

I dunno why I felt I must get this device even before it is launched. Maybe it's the portable 8" form factor as well as the stylus. I always wanted to write on my ipad but then, the rounded kinda stylus doesn't really write well. Then, the Samsung Galaxy Note phablets seems too 'small' for scribbling while I think the note 10.1 was too big, same as...

I had a great time with my badminton gang where we decided to have a gathering after work for a nice dinner at the well-known and expensive Jumbo seafood restaurant here. It's all thanks to one of my teammates who won a S$200 voucher at the recently concluded Li Ning Singapore Open badminton championship. Thus, he generously decided to buy us a...

One of my friends wrote in his facebook that he used to run to keep fit and shed the extra fat away but however now, he run to melt the negative and emotional feelings away. While I was jogging last week in the gym, suddenly this statement dawned upon me as I was feeling kinda down then too and jogging is really a good way to melt these negative feelings...

Sometimes it's easy to frown and get angry over small matters. I remember there was once when I was in my previous company, a colleague of mine just cut through a working conversation that I had with my another colleague. This 'rude' colleague was much senior than me and while I was speaking, she just cut through and talk to my colleague! I was...

I had a pleasant Sunday service in my church today. Somehow I felt good after the church service. Maybe its due to prayers by the Methodist Bishop of Malaysia where my church invited him to preach as well as conducting the Holy Communion service. Somehow this reminded me of what I read in Norman Vincent Peale's (author of The power of positive thinking....

Most of the time (and all the time....) , daddies like me usually leave the tutoring of homework or even crafts work to the wives. Somehow, I always felt my wife can teach my kids better....LOL. Well, there was this evening when my wife  nagged me (again) to help my kid with his school work. It's about creating a bookmark by simply drawing...

I posted two weeks ago that I entered a photography contest and I even solicited some votes from my dear readers here. Well, to my delight, I came out as the winner of the photography contest with 271 likes (votes) compared to second place 145 likes and third place 111 likes. Though the prizes are not very attractive, it's a great feeling to win something....

Strange, somehow I recalled a piece of advice from a classmates back in the 90s then. I remember he told me whenever I wanted to do something, do it wholeheartedly with 100% efforts else do not do it. We may set a lot of goals and have a lot of wish lists but somehow, if you are not interested in putting efforts to get it, chances are you will attempt...