Blast Off to the Big 3!

May 16, 2009 Leave a comment




Tracy has been working with me longer than anyone else. In fact, she has been through 3 companies with me, from Singapore to Shanghai to Hong Kong. She is never a pretentious or an unreal "corporate-packaged" girl. Tracy is more like your typical "Rachael" of Friends. She is direct, crude, dangerously clumsy and very candid. Most importantly, she is one-of-a-hell loyal assistant! She is always the "girl under the radar" and I never think she ever make any big impact in the corporate world.

I brought her back for my event this May. 3 of my clients came to me and sang her praises. I was very surprised – cos these are the "hard cookies" who don’t normally give good words. I was so proud of her and felt so happy for her. And last night, we had an informal "birthday drink" with Tracy and friends at Clarke Quay. I rewarded Tracy by participating in her birthday dare – "The Reversed Bungy!"

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My 1st Puppy Love

May 16, 2009 1 Comment


Through the wonders of Facebook, I managed to "reconnect" my friendship with Ida after nearly 18 years. I sent her a surprise gift on her birthday and we met over the past few nights to catch up those "good old days". As I was extremely packed with work over the past 10 days, Ida had to accomodate with my schedule and I made her (with Yixi and Meijie) come all the way to my hotel lobby to meet me. Wow, this sure sound exciting – imagine me meeting my "puppy love" at my hotel lobby!!! Haaa….I bet many of my guys and ladies readers (who are mainly Felicia’s buddies) are having second guesses about our night-outs… Sure, I did invited "her" up to my room to use the internet (what a good reason, right?). But disgustingly, 2 not so "Zi-tong" friends came along too and ransacked my room!

One of the most special moments between Ida and me was when she showed me a "love book" that I made for her 20 years ago! (My god, it was filled with mushy texts and graphics!) I was touched that she has kept this book with her for the past 20 years. When I saw the book, thousands of images flashed back in my head – "it was like traveling back in time to 1990" I said this to Ida. It was a very strange feeling… Like a psychic, when I touched the book, I can see that lost images of yesterday. I was sitting there, very quiet… and feeling very sad – for I realised that that pure love and innocence weren’t there in me anymore.  I remembered the time when I made that book. I was at my late-granny house.. And for that one moment, I felt so so so sad.

I hate to be sentimental again. And Ida can felt that too. For an uncomfortable moment, we just sat there, not knowing how to break the silence. I asked her permission to keep this book for a couple of days. I took the book and she left (for Shanghai).

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My Favourite Hotel View

May 16, 2009 Leave a comment

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Ahead of Raffles

May 16, 2009 Leave a comment


(Photo Taken: Boat Quay, Singapore – "Sir, the Swine Flu has nothing to do with us PIGeons…")

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Meet the Origins of Heroes and Xmen

May 4, 2009 Leave a comment

Alice brought back some really nice paper GOD-ICONS from her Taipei trip. She get us pick our own "GODS". Strange and amazing.. by some magical coincidence, the icons we picked out for ourselves are pretty matching to our own characters and vibes… Even the looks are the matching! Yeah, I am the RED HOT Dictative Chinese in this TRIO. The French boss is the Newy Sonic Ears Orange Red God and my Indian Buddy is the Far-Sighted Jade Green God.

Come to think of it… the Chinese Gods do have mutant-like powers… like the abilities to see a thousand miles or super-sonic hearing. My gosh! We created these mythical characters hundred years back (way way before the Hollywood superheroes movies/comics were created!). Marvel created the "Fantastic 4" but the Chinese has our own Marvelous "Ten Brothers"? However, we don’t call them "mutants" or Xmen – we coined these special people as "GODS" with purposeful powers! 

Yeah, we do have our own "Spiderwoman" – but she is typically known as the kickass, sexy hot Villian "蜘蛛精". Imagine we had a joint Chinese-Hollywood movie – Spider-man verus "蜘蛛精"! Wow!

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Umbrella Vending Machine

May 3, 2009 Leave a comment


Photo Taken: An attractive Umbrella Vending Machine inside the MTR Station. Cost: HK68 each.

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Smart Outdoor Media

May 3, 2009 Leave a comment


Photo Taken: Causeway Bay MTR Station – LG new Touch Phone with interactive floor screen (projection from the ceiling).

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The Siren is back!

May 3, 2009 Leave a comment

It is always a joy to have Yiyi with us in the Karaoke Room. She has a great voice and an even greater look! Best of all, she keeps Elkan, Scott and me happy! On a formal and serious note, she really can sing – Both English and Mandarin songs (male or female)! I wonder where Scott found such a beautiful Siren… Certainly not at the local Starbucks.

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Swine Flu Scare

May 3, 2009 Leave a comment

Swine Flu is finally officially in Hong Kong. 3 days ago, all the face-masks were sold out. And last night, we all received an sms from Smartone Vodafone – "the government has upgrade the warning to Emergency". Today, we saw a big difference outside. You can tell the local are taking good precaution. Many people on the streets, in the trains are all wearing face-masks. (In HK, the people who wear face-mask belongs to 4 groups of people – Those who are protesting. Or those who are sick. Or those who want to protect themselves. Or those who are going to Court.) Even the taxis are operating with half-opened windows. The lifts in my estate are sanitised twice an hour!

Apr-Jun has always been a lousy period! SARS happened during this period. And last year this time, we had the big Myanmar hurricane and the Sichuan earthquake. Let’s hope this Pig Flu is a small crisis. For once, Mexican Wave is not welcome anywhere else. Imagine you have the bird flu, the sars and swine flu all active at the same time!

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Kallang Roar in HK

May 2, 2009 Leave a comment

We were eating MOS Burger at MEGABOX this afternoon when we heard the familiar roar "Go! Singapore! Go!" Out of curiosity, we dashed out and watched an ice-hockey match between Singapore and Beijing. Sitting on our left was a group of Chinese and Hong Kongers and on our right was a group of Singapore Ang Mohs. They were yelling and cheering for Singapore. It was an exciting (and a very evenly matched) match between 2 groups of Under-12s. The atmosphere was fantastic and the mood was very high! Harshad (my Indian colleague), Hong Fei (my Malaysian colleague) and I found ourselves cheering for Singapore! (Urghh… I should bring out my air-horn and those infamous Hokkien/Malay slogans!)

The final score – 5-3. The young lions thrashed the Chinese flat! It has been quite a while since I last cheered for Singapore sport. Except this time, I am not at the old Kallang Stadium… I was cheering in a Hong Kong shopping mall, doing the Kallang Roar with a bunch of Singaporean Ang Mohs…. . So incredible! The Singapore Fever is here again!

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