Belated Merry Christmas, Goodbye 2008

A belated Merry Christmas... No shutdown (my present organization dun have this practice) this year, so no time to laze around to update my blog..yeah i know excuses again... haha


Read on..

The passing of Christmas means that the new Year is coming hoho... goodbye santa... I think all the shopping malls will be busy changing their decos and preparing for New year... After New Year will be Chinese New Year...

Time to spend $$ again... Sighz...

Mum kept pestering me to throw away my shorts and buy new ones... Oh well will try to buy new shorts for CNY bah, also considered New clothing rights? hehe... But these few days weather damn hot, dun feel like gg out shopping....

But well i got new stuffs again, 2 new umbro Tshirts, 1 new Umbro sports shorts and a pair of new swimming trunks (cos i only have credit card and need min purchase of $20 but well my trunks very old already at least 3-4 yrs time to change)..next in the pipeline will be swimming googles... haha change trunks might as well change all right?

Mabbe will get another biz pants and shirt and that will be all for my CNY "new" clothings.. afterall this CNY mabbe no "relatives" to visit le...


2008 not a very good year for me, hope that 2009 will be much much better, think it shouldn't be worse than 2008 bah haha...

Time to start the arduous spring cleaning and old stuffs throwing sessions...
Hoping so much that i can throw away all the old stuffs and change all to new one... haiz but that's quite impossible...


Btw this is my new CCNA pass... haha


So much pattern...

Christmas Presents for...... Myself

Bought alot of stuffs this Christmas aka waste alot of $$ haha...
but ok lah it's the festive seasons afterall, Times are bad, spend if u can haha...
However spent alot liao gotta stop or reduce spendings else will be broke soon...


recounting the stuffs i bought:- if u read my earlier posts i think some of the stuffs no need to describe hehe.

1) Ipod Nano 3Gen 8GB

2) Sennheiser CX 95

3) JBL on stage micro (ipod Dock)

4) 8GB MS Pro Duo for PSP

5) Latest Addition - Philips Electric Shaver (Din wanted to get this in the 1st place, if interested click here to read on (Pics and Story))

View of my new shaver





always wanted to change my current aging(4/5 years?) philips shaver for quite some time already. Also wanted to "upgrade" to a rechargeable one from my battery operated one (to reflect my current status mah haha)
Saw from a courts brochure that there's an "exclusive" model that's affordable so took 3 bus services (not really that far from my workplace actually but there's just no "more" direct service) from my workplace to the nearest courts (Bt Timah) on Monday. After listening to the salesperson talking for a long time, actually quite tempted to get the philips latest Nivea model that is waterproof and for wet shave, apparently that model u can put shaving cream inside and it can 'excrete' the nivea shaving cream while shaving but..... the catch is this, when u shave, the hair will drop from the bottom of the blades(there is no place to contain the hair) and the shaving cream for u to pump is in this special container which at present can only get frm courts. Ok i am a lazy person, so usu i clean my shaver once every few mths haha so i guess i am not suitable for that model. Ok then decided to stick to my original plan to get the "exclusive" model but alas they don't have stock. Ok lazy me strikes again, lazy to come back again after the 3 bus service change, go back empty handed? ok nvm then settled for the 3 blades one... now i am "professional" le, can use more "non cheapo" and more "pro" type bah... haha so the salesman started his work again to intro me all the philips 3 blade shaver...3 models cheapest, cheaper, and not cheap.. in the end i took the cheaper one cos i wanted the XL shaving head haha...they gave me a philips sandwich maker as a free gift also.. haha.. Why i nv considered braun shavers? i think i am too used to philips and dun really like the braun "cage" design when it breaks, always injure my skin.
Oh ya a little drama at the end. i left my credit card at the store, while filling up the lucky draw forms. The cashier very nice, called (dunno how she got my num) me and i gotta return to the store from bukit panjang plaza to get it back.

Oh also bought the "1 litre of tears" DVD from TS bukit panjang. Good shows should buy to keep mah... haha

One litre of Tears

just finished watching the japanese drama "One litre of tears ()" from crunchyroll.
Though touching and sad, but i think it does have some valuable lessons in life that we can take from...
Read on...

Synopsis from dramawiki
One Litre of Tears (Ichi Ritoru no Namida) is about the life story Kitou Aya (1962-1988) a girl who had an incurable disease called Spinocerebellar Degeneration Disease (also known as SCA type 2; spinocerebellar ataxia type 2)at a young age of 15. (meaning that she will have no control over her muscles, even if her brain wanted to)
Although the girl in the drama - Ikeuchi Aya, lived in the 21st century, her character was based on Kitou Aya's life, how she struggled and fought her disease and how she wrote her deepest thoughts until the last day she could hold a pen. Before she died, her writings were published including the poems she wrote while she is staying in a school for the disabled. This gave new hopes to people who suffers the same disease as she did and soon Aya received letters of appreciation and thanks from those people. At the age of 25, she succumbed herself into a sleep where she could no longer feel any pain.

Her diary accounts what are her feelings as she goes through her treatment and how she battles her incurable disease.

This story let us know how fortunate we are, we are able to move our limbs and speak freely where-else for some others, even such simple stuffs (to us), they are also not able to accomplish and it's very real.and yet we are still grumbling how unfair god is to us, for not letting us have the little luxuries(that branded pants, that latest gadgets) that others had. Compared to her, are we blessed?

Courage and optimistic, when faced with the fact that she will be unable to walk, unable to speak and unable to do even the most basic things, Aya did not subjected herself to depression. She still tried in the best possible way to contribute to society, and put have a smile for everyone. Till the very end, she still did not give up and continued writing to inspire all others who are battling diseases. Ask ourselves if this happened to us, how many of us can carry on life in such an optimistic way as her? In our present society, we grumble over even the smallest thing, give up when faced with a little obstacle and feel like giving up.

her story really touches and inspires me, if u have time, do watch it, I hope it will inspire u just as it did for me.

Human Life is fragile, Treasure it

Links:

frm dramawiki

English translation of Aya's Diary

My New Gadgets...

Ipod Nano 3G (dunno why i prefer this to the new slim 4G, looks cuter don't u think?)


Sennheiser CX95 for my Ipod (this actually cost more than my Ipod...)


JBL micro on-stage docking station for my Ipod (very good sound for it's size and portable)


Ipod in docking station


New Sanyo eneloop charger


Plus a whole box of eneloop batteries


Finally more capacity for my PSP




BTW, from 1 Dec 2008, i am officially a CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) haha