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Sin - HK

Today is my last day in Singapore. So where am I going later? Dang dang dang....not Geylang, but Orchard Road......

You would agree that my blog has become more 'personal' in the last few months. Who could blame me? When you resign, get married, join a new firm, move to another country etc at the same time, you f care what happen in the political, business or football scenes...:)

At times, I wanted to tok about the Cremea issue, the Isa impact, the Proton and the Taiwan party elections etc, but I decided to talk about my diarrhea, wedding, shopping etc....(u must be crying 'thank God')...

OK ok, will update more after I settle down in HK....(at least until I buy a new laptop...my wife has taken possesion of this one...andddddd......wife always WINS)...:D

Junior

posted by Junior @ 12:01 PM 6 comments

I had a diarrhea

I hope I have spelled diarrhea correctly.

I had a horrible diarrhea yesterday and I spent almost the whole day looking for toilet. I dun know why I had such a bad diarrhea.

I went out partying until 2 am on Friday nite. Woke up late and had KFC as breakfast. Ate maggie assam with egg (my fav) as during tea time and follow with 1 jug of beer at the East Coast beach.

Came back at 7.20 pm and went to join my neighbour's party and ate curry chicken. Drank wine and beer somemore.

I dun understand why I got diarrhea though.....:).

Junior

posted by Junior @ 2:42 PM 2 comments

FeedReader for Dummies

ok ok I know I have not been writing much. Sometimes, I write 3 posts in a day and sometimes, I write 1 in 3 weeks......

BUT NOW, you need not worry! Because technology has come to the rescue again. This thing calls RSS FeedReader, will notify you once there is any updates to this site. ALL you need to do is to instal it. Initially I tot it would only be useful to my daily blog reading. But I was very very very pleasantly surprised to find that the feeder automatically comes with feeds from other top sites such as yahoo news, business weeks, AWSJ etc etc. You can read a lot of news in ONE very simple window. Personally I deleted a lot of those feeds to keep my window a lot simpler. But it is upto you to choose.

Here is how to instal the RSS Feeder and I promise you, you would love it. I must thank this guy Jason who wrote a long piece on this RSS thing in his blog. If you want to know more about the technical site and the complete posting by him, you can go here.

I have ignore the technical side of this and merely post below the APPLICATION:-

(1) Firstly, go here to instal the FeedReader version 2.90

(2) Install the program and run the program. You will see an interface like this:-



(3) Click on the first icon at the tool bar to add new feed.



(4) Type your desired blog’s RSS feed address and click next.


Note: To add this blog to your FeedReader, simply type http://juniortok.blogspot.com/atom.xml in the above. I used Jasons' photo here so that you know I have copied this WORD FOR WORD and PIC for PIC. You see, me very 'light bright square big'.....


(5) Type your desired name for the blog and click finish.



Repeat (3) to (5) for other blogs. You would notice that all you need to do is to copy the blog's address and add 'atom.xml' at the end of the address. According to Jason, Blogspot blog uses this 'atom.xml' thing. Other blog service provider migth use the same or something else....

I like this FeedReader. It is very very easy to use and I can read news and blog in one single window and I know what are the latest update.

Unfortunately my FeedReader does not refresh or update automatically. But NVM, all I need to do is to click Refresh or Update whenever I want to read....

Cool

posted by Junior @ 6:32 PM 6 comments

Freedom

Deputy Minister suspended over Dewan outburst
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk S. Sothinathan has been suspended as Deputy Natural Resources and Environment Minister for three months effective yesterday for breaking ranks with the Government in Parliament.

“He is a member of the front bench and should not have taken a stand like what he did, criticising his own Government.” This, Abdullah added, “is certainly a breach of party discipline”.

I really want to write about this. I really do not like what I saw. I understand that I have not watched the tape (parlimen) and do not know what this Datuk Sothinathan ACTUALLY said. But based on what I read from the press, he touched the racial sensitive issue and he was suspended.

We Malaysia simply have this habit of sweeping everything under the racial carpet and I am very sick of it.

WE DO NOT HAVE THE FREEDOM OF SPEACH EVEN IN OUR PARLIMENT.

One of the duties of Parliment is to question Government decision and policies. If one is PUNIHSED for speaking his mind, there is something wrong. I know his MP is not suspended and his right is protected. But to suspend him from other post is merely saying to other MP, hey dun mess with me if you want power, status and money.

If the Government walk straight stand straight, it should not be afraid of being scrutinized and questioned.

We still have a loooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnng way to go.

I am very sad.

Junior

posted by Junior @ 11:21 AM 3 comments

1 wedding 3 events

I should have posted this long time ago but I was too bogged down by different things. Just a short (very short indeed) summary of what happended that day:-

8.30 am We were all ready to go to pick up the bride



10.30 am We gau tim the tea ceremony at the bride's house. Getting ready to come back KL. Photographer was gaya and I was told that they took 10,000 photos.... (these pictures are provided by Lockee)



4.30 pm Church solemnisation started



4.45 pm The flower girls were ready but the bride's dad was not in the church due to KL traffic....we were 15 min late



5.00 pm The matrimony final began and I was legally married



8.00 pm The dinner started. I asked the restaurant not to wait for the late comers.....many got drunk very quickly

posted by Junior @ 2:46 PM 6 comments

Back Again

Junior

posted by Junior @ 2:55 PM 1 comments

Link

I have posted this before but I tot I did not need to post because I pasted that 'link' dunno wat code in this site. But that did not work.... So here I am again...

If you have linked my site to your site, please send me an email.....or if you just want to flirt, please send me an email to

If you wanna say foul language or scold me, please send to

(p/s: Liama, Please post your 'KNN' again in the Comments)

BTW, anyone knows how to use RSS thingie ah? Can teach me ah?

Junior

posted by Junior @ 3:21 PM 6 comments

1 Wedding

I have said many times before my wedding that wedding is NOT for the groom, it is for everyone else. That was because there were a lot of big and small decisions in relation to the wedding. Most of the time, the groom does not have the say otherwise, if the groom is fussy, there will be a lot of tension (no. of table la, who sit where la, who get which table la, church flower la, car la, etc). So, it is better if the groom is more Chin-Chai (easy going). So, I said wedding is not for the groom but everyone else.

But I was wrong. Very wrong.

The wedding made me realised that I have a lot of friends and family members who take care of me well. One cannot organise a good wedding without any help from friends, immediate family and relatives.

Initially, I wanted to have a simple wedding. That was to fly her immediate family and my immediate family to Las Vegas and get blessed there. Alternative solution was to do that in Bali. In the end, I have a FULL DAY event:-

8.30 am Pick up bride
10 30 am Tea Ceremony (bride side)
12.00 pm Tea Ceremony (Groom side)
4.30 pm Church Solemnisation
7.30 pm Banquet

My brother team (about 20 of them) virtually spent the whole day with me or running around like a dog to help me out (even though I have a wedding planner) or to pick up the family to attend the church.

A drove us the whole day. B came to the rehersal for a few times. C delivered the car to me. D made the yam cake. E organised my stag nite. F checked the dinner bill. G drank on behalf of me. H busy looking for glasses for yam seng. I sent everyone home when everyone is drunk. J found me the wonderful wine for the banquet. K sang on my wedding. L took 2 days off to practice and play the guitar. M gave a speach. N read a scripture. O helped to pick up friends from overseas, P helped to pacify some guests, Q lent you the car. R designed the wedding bulletin. S printed me the wedding card. T video cam the exciting moments for me. U (and many U) ate a lot of funny things when picking up the bride. V distibuted all the invitation cards. W organised the flower boys and girls. X who supported me financially. Y drove all the way from KL. Z flew in from other countries............I can go on and on.....

That is on top of all the dirty work which has been done by the wedding planer and team.

I am glad that I did a FULL DAY wedding. Unfortunately, I cannot do it every year......:D

Junior

posted by Junior @ 2:37 PM 2 comments

Sorry Sorry

I was busy preparing and getting married the whole of last week...it is GAU DIM lorrrrrr :D kakakkakakak so happy...will write a bit about my wedding later...now to all star wars fan (yawn..)

http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html

It is quite a funny puppet show too...:D

Best
Junior

posted by Junior @ 9:09 AM 2 comments

Good House, Bad House

I have edited this post to add in a bad layout.

One of my hobbies is to go around town visiting different new residential projects. Recently I am very impressed with this new project in China:-

Good Layout



This is a very very good layout, if you are working in the property industry, please copy it :D :-

1. Clever design to seperate the dining area from the living area using a 'corridor' - look at the long arrow I drew, without affecting the 'flow' - very hard to do. That is also the center of the apartment.
2. Very square layout - very efficient
3. The dining area comes with a western kitchen set up, can use this to impress your guests and improve efficiency. If you renovate this area properly, it can be very very beautiful. Seperate chinese kitchen (to the north side of the layout) for oily cooking
4. All the master bed room, living room and study room are facing south.
5. Although the main entrance is facing the toilet, but this could easily be overcome by a partition...i dun know the word la, but in chinese we call it 玄关
6. Clever layout to seperate sleeping area from activities area. Privacy maintained.
7. None of the doors are facing each other

The only problems are (1) no storage room, (2) no maid room and (3) balcony is too small. But for a property with 1300 sf ++, this is very impressive liao.

Bad Layout

Compared the above with this 'what-not-to-do' layout:-

1. Look at where the Toilets are (red circle or square). It is in the CENTER of the unit. Look, where do you think the 'smell' could go?
2. Toilet again. The natural window for the Master bedroom toilet is to the balcany. Can u imagine you have some guests who open the door panel to the balcany and you need to 'mm mm'? Isn't that embarrasing?
3. The door or the Master Room and the other bed room are FACING each other. Customers don't like this from Fengshui perspective again. But it also invade your privacy.
4. Although the layout is squre but there is a space which is waste (where I put '????'). That is not a good 'coridor' as compared to the good layout.
5. This type of open kitchen (ie. without a seperate Chinese kitchen for oily cooking) is only 'good to see but not practical'
6. There is no storage room, wet kitchen. I nearly wanted to jump out and ask 'Where do I put my washing machine and dry my clothes leh?'
7. The bed in the master room is positioned wrongly. If you were to ly on that bed, you cannot see anyone coming in from the room. It makes you feel very insecured.

Junior

I think I should be a property agent. .......

p/s: I just realised that I am also a fengshui master. My name is actually Lenient Jun. Please call 1-800-GoodChiBadChi to book.....

posted by Junior @ 10:56 AM 13 comments

Letter

Got this from someone

My dear Jagjit,

I am in a well here and hoping you are also in a well there. I'm writing this letter slowly, because I know you cannot read fast. We are not living where we did when you left home. Your dad read in the newspaper that most accidents happen 20 miles from home, so we moved 20 miles.

I am not able to send the address, as the last Sardar who stayed here took the house numbers with them for their new house so they would not have to change their address. Hopefully by next week we will be able to take our earlier address plate here, and that our address will remain same too.

This place is really nice. It even has a washing machine, situated right above the toilet. But I'm not sure it works too well. Last week I put in 3 shirts, pulled the chain, and haven't seen them since.

The weather here isn't too bad. It rained only twice last week. The first time it rained for 3 days and second time for 4 days.

The coat you wanted me to send you, your Aunt said it would be a little too heavy to send in the mail with all the metal buttons, so we cut them off and put them in the pocket.

By the way, I took Bahu to our club's poolside. The manager is Badmash. He told her that two piece swimming suit is not allowed in his club. We were confused as to which piece we should remove?

Your sister had a baby this morning. I haven't found out whether it is a girl or a boy, so I don't know whether you are an Aunt or Uncle. Your uncle, Jetinder fell in the nearby well. Some men tried to pull him out, but he fought them off bravely and drowned. We cremated him and he burned for three days.

Your best friend, Balwinder, is no more. He died trying to fulfill his father's last wishes. His father had wished to be buried in the sea after he died. And your friend died while in the process of digging a grave for his father.

There isn't much more news this time. Nothing much has happened.

Love, Mom.

P.S : Jagjit, I was going to send you some money but by the time I realized, I had already sealed off this letter.

posted by Junior @ 9:44 AM 0 comments

Do you have depression?

I got a lot of info from here . But I have summarised it and mix with my view.

A depressive disorder is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. A depressive disorder is not the same as a passing blue mood. It is not a sign of personal weakness or a condition that can be willed away. People with a depressive illness cannot merely "pull themselves together" and get better. Without treatment, symptoms can last for weeks, months, or years. Appropriate treatment, however, can help most people who suffer from depression.

Not everyone who is depressed or manic experiences every symptom. Some people experience a few symptoms, some many. Severity of symptoms varies with individuals and also varies over time:-

• Persistent sad, anxious, or "empty" mood
• Feelings of hopelessness, pessimism
• Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness
• Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed, including sex
• Decreased energy, fatigue, being "slowed down"
• Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
• Insomnia, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
• Appetite and/or weight loss or overeating and weight gain
• Thoughts of death or suicide; suicide attempts
• Restlessness, irritability
• Persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain

(Please read the full article re Depression in Woman, Man, Elderly and Children)

I read in another article that almost 40% suffers depression. I guess it must have included mild or less severe depression. Also, women experience depression about twice as often as men. Based on my 20 years of adulthood research, I have a few secret ways of combating depression for your reference:-

MEN

• Watch Football - cheering reduces the chances of being depressed. If that does not work, top up with supporting Liverpool (side effect: you might have heart attack instead)
• Drink beer - it keeps you happy (side effect: big belly, jail for drinka and drive)
• Play mahjong - it diverts your attention to somethign else (side effect: no money)
• Don't do house work - it makes you feel very 'low'. Avoid doing things like this like shopping with wife, pick her up etc (side effect - No sex, no beer and no mahjong because wife not happy)
• Visit Brothel - the guilt make you feel guilty so you will not have 'depression'. It is a logic of substitute (side effect: STD and VERY severe depression due to guilt)
• All of the above - this is for very serious case. do it at your own risk

Women

• Do housework - it divert your attention away (side effect: None)
• Cook and boil soup - it makes you feel very useful because you feed every body (side effect: None)
• Oblige to husband sex request - it makes you feel very femanine (side effect: None)
• Give BJ to husband - er...er...... (I am running out of excuses liao) (side effect: None)
• Do not do shopping - guilt will make you feel depressed (side effect: None)
• Do not buy shoes - You dun need that many pairs of shoes (side effect: None)

Junior

posted by Junior @ 10:42 AM 4 comments

Singing Lesson

Play Negaraku in cinemas

KUALA LUMPUR: Movie-goers may have to stand up and sing the national anthem before the start of the film as a mark of respect and appreciate the Negaraku campaign conducted by the Information Ministry.

“It’s not compulsory. The Government does not want to be regimental about it. But we are encouraging it and hopefully, it will be carried out willingly,”

Amazing...amazing....Malaysian Government never ceases to amaze me......

Y1, can you show me some Yoda talk on this? Movie wor, you strong hold la.....

Junior

posted by Junior @ 10:37 AM 4 comments