7 March 2012
3 March 2012
1 March 2012
March 2012 : Post 1
"Whenever you feel weak,
Remember those who made you strong,
and
Whenever you start to doubt yourself remember those who believe in you."
Remember those who made you strong,
and
Whenever you start to doubt yourself remember those who believe in you."
29 February 2012
February 2012: Post 11
The Dalai Lama Says...
"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values"
"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values"
28 February 2012
February 2012 : Post 10
你见，或者不见我，我就在那里，不悲不喜。
你念，或者不念我，情就在那里，不来不去。
你爱，或者不爱我，爱就在那里，不增不减。
你跟，或者不跟我，我的手就在你手里，不舍不弃，来我的怀里 ，
或者，让我住进你的心里，默然，相爱，寂静，欢喜。
你念，或者不念我，情就在那里，不来不去。
你爱，或者不爱我，爱就在那里，不增不减。
你跟，或者不跟我，我的手就在你手里，不舍不弃，来我的怀里 ，
或者，让我住进你的心里，默然，相爱，寂静，欢喜。
27 February 2012
February 2012 : Post 9
Buddha Says...
"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills"
"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills"
26 February 2012
February 2012 : Post 8
Finally cleared my OWD diving pool session yesterday with my friends at SAFRA Mount Faber.
2 more weeks to Tioman trip!
Jaws and body so aching...
Can't wait to explore Pulau Tioman!
2 more weeks to Tioman trip!
Jaws and body so aching...
Can't wait to explore Pulau Tioman!
17 February 2012
16 February 2012
February 2012 : Post 6
Buddha Says...
"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else"
"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else"
15 February 2012
14 February 2012
February 2012 : Post 4
背痛中。。。
最近在烦恼一件事。思绪很乱，心情很烦躁。
需要一个人给我意见，让我在这混乱的思绪中整理头绪，好让我可以心平气和的和一个我非常不想讲话的人。事关我的未来。。。
最近在烦恼一件事。思绪很乱，心情很烦躁。
需要一个人给我意见，让我在这混乱的思绪中整理头绪，好让我可以心平气和的和一个我非常不想讲话的人。事关我的未来。。。
10 February 2012
February 2012 : Post 3
The Dalai Lama Says...
"Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference."
"Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference."
9 February 2012
4 February 2012
14 January 2012
January 2012 : Post 6
很忙的一天。
早上到Telok Blangah 为独居老人大扫除。别组都是1房式的，我们组比较特别，3房式。我们一边打扫，一边和老人聊天。我负责厨房，包括洗地和壁橱。很累！不过挺开心。
下午到Ion Orchard 和朋友吃饭。
傍晚和好朋友兼前同事一起剪头发。清爽多了！=）
11 January 2012
January 2012 : Post 4
I just came back from the department dinner at Carousel at Park Royal Scotts. One of the worst dinner that I don't enjoy.
We had department meeting in the afternoon too, conclusion is that it is a crap meeting.
Probation appraisal is coming. I should be starting to to prepare my weapon to bomb the incapable manager.
We had department meeting in the afternoon too, conclusion is that it is a crap meeting.
Probation appraisal is coming. I should be starting to to prepare my weapon to bomb the incapable manager.
5 January 2012
3 January 2012
1 January 2012
31 December 2011
25 December 2011
23 November 2011
November 2011 : Post 10
Seriously pissed off keep clearing the shit of the same person.
This time this person got 2 month to do the stuff and what the fuck has this person been doing during this period. If this person got problem doing, why can't and don't voice out in the earlier part.
WHY MUST WAIT TILL THE DATELINE IS TOMORROW AND THEN SAY CAN'T FINISHED.
I got my own things and dateline. Why make YOUR problem my problem.
This time this person got 2 month to do the stuff and what the fuck has this person been doing during this period. If this person got problem doing, why can't and don't voice out in the earlier part.
WHY MUST WAIT TILL THE DATELINE IS TOMORROW AND THEN SAY CAN'T FINISHED.
I got my own things and dateline. Why make YOUR problem my problem.
22 November 2011
21 November 2011
November 2011 : Post 8
Just when I thought that I had my last event at the 2nd last day of the year. I was told today to help a colleague in organising a naming ceremony and be her deputy lead for the event. Less than a week!!
My good manager always like to come with all kinds of pattern......
November 2011 : Post 7
This is my second time that I bought plants again.
My first my 'bamboo' that I bought 2 years ago for my office during the Chinese New Year.Too bad the plant died shortly after I shifted it back to home after 2 years. =(
Bought a pitcher plant and a orchid from the marketplace at the World Orchid Convention 2011 hosted in Marina Bay Sands.
My new love - Pitcher Plant! <3
Pitcher Plant Closeup
My New Love - Orchid
Hope that I have green fingers and the 2 plants don't die in my hands. =X
I have relocated the pitcher plant to my office. Hope it will adapt and grow well. =)
My first my 'bamboo' that I bought 2 years ago for my office during the Chinese New Year.Too bad the plant died shortly after I shifted it back to home after 2 years. =(
Bought a pitcher plant and a orchid from the marketplace at the World Orchid Convention 2011 hosted in Marina Bay Sands.
My new love - Pitcher Plant! <3
Pitcher Plant Closeup
My New Love - Orchid
Orchid closeup
Hope that I have green fingers and the 2 plants don't die in my hands. =X
I have relocated the pitcher plant to my office. Hope it will adapt and grow well. =)
18 November 2011
November 2011 : Post 6
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart,
Put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
16 November 2011
9 November 2011
November 2011 : Post 4
Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high,
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.
Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
-- Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.
Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
-- Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz
6 November 2011
November 2011 : Post 3
I just watched this movie with my colleagues at Bishan, after my Keppel Safety Convention meeting.
Cast
Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton
Dakota Goyo as Max Kenton
Kevin Durand as Ricky
Evangeline Lilly as Bailey Tallet
Hope Davis as Debra
Anthony Mackie as Finn
Olga Fonda as Farra Lemcova
James Rebhorn as Uncle Marvin
Karl Yune as Mashido
Synopsis
Real Steel is a 2011 American science fiction film starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Shawn Levy. The film is based in part on the 1956 short story "Steel" by Richard Matheson, though Levy placed the film in U.S. state fairs and other "old-fashioned" Americana settings.
Plot
In 2020, humans have been replaced by robots in boxing. Charlie Kenton is a former boxer who owns such a robot, Ambush, competing in unsanctioned matches and in exhibitions with it. At a rural fair, Ambush is destroyed by Black Thunder, a bull belonging to promoter Ricky. Having made a bet that Ambush would win, Charlie now owes Ricky $20,000, which he doesn't pay before leaving.
Charlie is informed his ex-girlfriend has died, and that he must attend a hearing to decide the fate of his preteen son Max. Max's aunt Debra and uncle Marvin want full custody, which Charlie gives them in exchange for $100,000, $50,000 of it in advance, on the condition that Charlie take care of Max for three months while the couple are away on a second honeymoon.
Charlie and Max meet with Charlie's childhood friend Bailey Tallet, who runs the boxing gym of her deceased father, Charlie's old coach. There, Charlie buys a secondhand WRB league robot, the once-famous Noisy Boy, and arranges for it to fight the illegal circuit's champion, Midas, at a venue belonging to his friend Finn. Partly due to his inexperience with Noisy Boy's combinations and partly due to his overconfidence, Charlie ends up losing control of Noisy Boy and Midas destroys it.
Charlie breaks into a junkyard with Max to steal scraps that he can use to put a new robot together. There, Max falls over a ledge, where he is saved from doom after being snagged by a lodged and buried robot arm. After Charlie pulls him back up, Max uncovers the entire robot, called Atom. On Max's insistence, Charlie takes it back to Bailey's gym, where they discover Atom is an obsolete Generation-2 sparring bot built in 2014. Atom has been designed to sustain massive damage, but is unable to deal much damage itself. Partly due to Max's insistence and partly due to Charlie needing money, the duo takes Atom to fight an unsanctioned outdoor match against a robot called Metro, and Atom wins, earning back some of Charlie's money.
Max later upgrades it to take vocal commands using spare parts from Noisy Boy and Ambush and successfully convinces Charlie to train the robot. Atom's string of subsequent wins and high-speed maneuvers, which were rarely seen from a robot, attracts the attention of a promoter from the World Robot Boxing league (WRB), who offers Atom a professional fight against a robot called Twin Cities. Charlie accepts, and Atom wins again, thanks to Charlie's knowledge of boxing, which allows him to locate a design flaw in Twin Cities. Taking advantage of Atom's subsequent novelty attention, Max challenges WRB champion Zeus, designed by arrogant genius Tak Mashido and sponsored by rich Russian Farra Lemcova, who first tries to buy the upstart Atom.
As Max and Charlie leave after the Twin Cities fight, Ricky and his men attack them, and steal their winnings. Feeling guilty, Charlie returns Max to his aunt and uncle, feeling Max will be safer with them, but Bailey convinces him that he can be a better father. Debra allows Charlie to take Max out for one last night, to the Zeus-Atom match. Zeus severely damages Atom while also getting injured, a first for Zeus. Ricky, who had bet Finn $100,000 that Atom would not last the first round, tries to slip away, but is cornered by Finn and his colleagues. In the last round of the five-round match, Atom's vocal receptors are damaged, and Atom must fight in shadow-boxing mode, copying Charlie's moves from the aisle. Zeus, now controlled manually by a furious Mashido, expends energy on trashing the defensive Atom, running low on power and turning sluggish as a result. Atom then begins to pummel Zeus, even knocking the seemingly invincible champion down once, but not winning before the round ends. The judges declare Zeus the winner on points, but that robot's reputation is tarnished, and Atom has become famous as the "People's Champion".
My Comment
This is a movie that surprises me, as I am kind of entered the cinema with low expectation.
Storyline is very standard, father and son relationship mediates by the robot.
Movie Poster
Cast
Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton
Dakota Goyo as Max Kenton
Kevin Durand as Ricky
Evangeline Lilly as Bailey Tallet
Hope Davis as Debra
Anthony Mackie as Finn
Olga Fonda as Farra Lemcova
James Rebhorn as Uncle Marvin
Karl Yune as Mashido
Synopsis
Real Steel is a 2011 American science fiction film starring Hugh Jackman and directed by Shawn Levy. The film is based in part on the 1956 short story "Steel" by Richard Matheson, though Levy placed the film in U.S. state fairs and other "old-fashioned" Americana settings.
Plot
In 2020, humans have been replaced by robots in boxing. Charlie Kenton is a former boxer who owns such a robot, Ambush, competing in unsanctioned matches and in exhibitions with it. At a rural fair, Ambush is destroyed by Black Thunder, a bull belonging to promoter Ricky. Having made a bet that Ambush would win, Charlie now owes Ricky $20,000, which he doesn't pay before leaving.
Charlie is informed his ex-girlfriend has died, and that he must attend a hearing to decide the fate of his preteen son Max. Max's aunt Debra and uncle Marvin want full custody, which Charlie gives them in exchange for $100,000, $50,000 of it in advance, on the condition that Charlie take care of Max for three months while the couple are away on a second honeymoon.
Charlie and Max meet with Charlie's childhood friend Bailey Tallet, who runs the boxing gym of her deceased father, Charlie's old coach. There, Charlie buys a secondhand WRB league robot, the once-famous Noisy Boy, and arranges for it to fight the illegal circuit's champion, Midas, at a venue belonging to his friend Finn. Partly due to his inexperience with Noisy Boy's combinations and partly due to his overconfidence, Charlie ends up losing control of Noisy Boy and Midas destroys it.
Charlie breaks into a junkyard with Max to steal scraps that he can use to put a new robot together. There, Max falls over a ledge, where he is saved from doom after being snagged by a lodged and buried robot arm. After Charlie pulls him back up, Max uncovers the entire robot, called Atom. On Max's insistence, Charlie takes it back to Bailey's gym, where they discover Atom is an obsolete Generation-2 sparring bot built in 2014. Atom has been designed to sustain massive damage, but is unable to deal much damage itself. Partly due to Max's insistence and partly due to Charlie needing money, the duo takes Atom to fight an unsanctioned outdoor match against a robot called Metro, and Atom wins, earning back some of Charlie's money.
Max later upgrades it to take vocal commands using spare parts from Noisy Boy and Ambush and successfully convinces Charlie to train the robot. Atom's string of subsequent wins and high-speed maneuvers, which were rarely seen from a robot, attracts the attention of a promoter from the World Robot Boxing league (WRB), who offers Atom a professional fight against a robot called Twin Cities. Charlie accepts, and Atom wins again, thanks to Charlie's knowledge of boxing, which allows him to locate a design flaw in Twin Cities. Taking advantage of Atom's subsequent novelty attention, Max challenges WRB champion Zeus, designed by arrogant genius Tak Mashido and sponsored by rich Russian Farra Lemcova, who first tries to buy the upstart Atom.
As Max and Charlie leave after the Twin Cities fight, Ricky and his men attack them, and steal their winnings. Feeling guilty, Charlie returns Max to his aunt and uncle, feeling Max will be safer with them, but Bailey convinces him that he can be a better father. Debra allows Charlie to take Max out for one last night, to the Zeus-Atom match. Zeus severely damages Atom while also getting injured, a first for Zeus. Ricky, who had bet Finn $100,000 that Atom would not last the first round, tries to slip away, but is cornered by Finn and his colleagues. In the last round of the five-round match, Atom's vocal receptors are damaged, and Atom must fight in shadow-boxing mode, copying Charlie's moves from the aisle. Zeus, now controlled manually by a furious Mashido, expends energy on trashing the defensive Atom, running low on power and turning sluggish as a result. Atom then begins to pummel Zeus, even knocking the seemingly invincible champion down once, but not winning before the round ends. The judges declare Zeus the winner on points, but that robot's reputation is tarnished, and Atom has become famous as the "People's Champion".
My Comment
This is a movie that surprises me, as I am kind of entered the cinema with low expectation.
Storyline is very standard, father and son relationship mediates by the robot.
Movie Poster
4 November 2011
November 2011 : Post 2
The event finally ended today without much hiccup, after almost 3 month long of preparation.
Now having a slight fever.
November 2011 : Post 1
Tomorrow is the event and I am still preparing the work at home.... Yawnz.... I am so tired and sleepy...
20 October 2011
October 2011 : Post 5
Joke of the day: Please religiously update in the system! Religiously update: Pray while you update & god will give you an inspiration to write.
October 2011 : Post 4
I finally bought my Samsung Galaxy SII White phone!!
Here goes my shopping indulgences again.
I'm so liking it!
Here goes my shopping indulgences again.
I'm so liking it!
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