Author: Wilfrid

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I See I Write

Random Encounters in the Period of WC Fever

Rejoice! Our electronic signboard with real-time display of estimated time of reaching the destinations is once again in operation (3 years?). If I remember correctly, it was too expensive to operate then. I wonder what changes today. I personally miss those signboards a lot. How accurate is that today? Well, I did several observations and they were accurate up to 1 minute with my madman driving skill – I still miss the target by a minute though. Sigh.

I do not play football, cannot tell who has fouled in the game, and neither do I gamble on results. Many friends of mine told me that they have not watched many matches. I replied to them that I have not missed many matches. In fact, I glue to the TV from 9pm to 5am each and every day. And thanks to Maxim, the magazine, I have this big piece of poster that I can stick onto the wall and update the results as World Cup progresses.

6777 3777 is a number that I shall remember from now on besides 43657 (IDOLS, duh! For SMS voting …). I am sick of ordering pizzas every time. It is expensive and I can never finish them in one go. McDonald’s delivery service is awesome and it is my brand new discovery. 6777 3777 that is. As for 43657, well, after another week of boring all-guys performance at the Singapore Idol (seriously, do guy viewers find all-guys performance even interesting to watch?), this coming episode will be all-girls performance (yay!). Except that I don’t really see any eye candies at all from the commercials. Pretty, cute, and young Singaporean gals, where are you all?!

It is because of The Omen that I have missed first half of Argentina’s match on Friday. So I have missed the first 3 goals. But I got to see the next 3 goals on the second half. How cool is that?! USA versus Italy was all blood and gory. I am sure the American viewers would love it. If you visit USA and watch their local news for just one day, you will know what I mean.

Back to The Omen – the supposed horror film that to me, it is more of a thriller – I sort of thought that the storyline is familiar. Turned out that The Omen is a remake of the 1976 classic and it has four parts to it. I wonder if they will continue remaking all.

Some of you have already known my “passion” towards ants. If you wish to buy some ant baits, don’t get Baygon. I made that mistake couple of years ago and I have just made it again. First, the baits draw the entire population of ants out of their nets and kill them all on the spot there and then. I took some pictures but they are just too gory to be displayed on my site. Second, the baits don’t work on all type of ants – specifically the fast moving ones. Buy the other brand instead (off hand, I forgot). The proper way to kill them is to let them take the baits into their nest so that I don’t need to clear all the “corpses”.

The American Idol Taylor Hicks’s single is out with his first song Do I Make You Proud. No dude, you make me sad, you make me angry, you make me want to burn all the shops that carry your single. Katherine should have been the Idol, Elliot should have been the Idol, even Chris should have been the Idol.

Oh well, time for the first match … and don’t forget, 6777 3777.

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Diary

My buddy Benny … Cat on the Bonnet

This is Benny! (and he is available!)

Though Benny lives just with jogging (read: not walking) distance from me, we hardly see each other. Anyway, he belongs to my list of good-friends-whom-you-see-once-in-a-year category. This time round, I took him to have ice-cream. I swear as I listen to his experience in his full time trading, I so want to write a book for the notice and layman like myself.

I did not know that we have a cat in our condo that likes to rest on car’s bonnets. I wonder if she does the same to my car as I have seen her for a couple of days. The cat must be from the land properties behind our condo.

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I See I Write

Singapore Idol – All Gals (Part 1)

After watching the painful All Boys (Part 1) last week – too many whom cannot sing AND don’t look good – the girls I thought are better both in looks department as well as … perhaps, in singing department.

For those overseas readers, the Singapore Idols website is … not surprisingly http://www.SingaporeIdol.com.

Last week’s result was no brainer. This week I have finally got to place my very first Idols vote through SMS (60 cents per SMS mind you). Jasmine sang the best and also looks decent, so she has my first vote. Between Gayle and Milly, one is better in the singing department (I do like Gayle’s voice) and the other can easily look the best in the competition so far (her eyes were so watery!). Undecided. I have casted 1 vote each. Then I thought, what the hack, I cast 1 extra vote to Jasmine just so show my support.

Now, that is S$2.40 for round 1.

Latest Update: Alright. The result is in. The girl whom I have invested 2 votes has made it (Jasmine that is). Sort of very disappointed that Gayle doesn’t make it. Instead, Rahimah – the one who has no look and can’t sing (can’t reach the high notes) – made it. Being the only Malay contestant in that round, I have predicted that she would make it. Still, I don’t like the result. At least not all of it.

After watching the painful All Boys (Part 1) last week – too many whom cannot sing AND don’t look good – the girls I thought are better both in looks department as well as … perhaps, in singing department.

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Diary

Ayer Rajah + I Need Petrol

My good old friend Mark

My good buddie – provider of this website – Mark is back from his long long honeymoon. So I called him up for lunch and guess what? He is back to his old client at Ayer Rajah! Well, I used to meet Mark like at times once a week at Ayer Rajah like a year ago when I was still driving with my old car. Lots of old memories have gone through my mind and I am glad to walk the memory lane.

Oops ... petrol's running out!

When I saw the entire fuel indicator went literally empty when I was in a jam at CTE, I was worried. I turned off my aircon and stereo and prayed that I made it to the petrol station.

Yes! I made it!

Phew! I made it and my car took in 47.5 litre of petrol (note: my petrol tank is a 50 litre tank).

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Diary

Absolut Peach!

Cynthia got me the new favour Absolut Apeach. It tasted like any other Absolut Vodka … and always … served chilled right from the freezer.

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Other People's Lives

Someone I Met Who Has Mugenized His White Civic

As I was shopping for the solar panel of my black Civic, I was referred to a salesman in a roadshow who drives a Civic as well (his is white). Instead of selling me the solar panel, we spent like half an hour talking about what modification can be done to Civic and there is an online community that not only discusses about bulk purchase of parts but the members also meet every month to literally share knowledge on what are the hot mods out there. This salesman was so enthusiastic about the car that he took me to Golden Shoe Car Park and showcased all the wonderful things he has done to his car … so far.

As seen from the photos, clockwise from top right-hand corner, (1) a Mugen sticker to the front of the car, (2) all the Mugen stickers underneath the bonnet, (3) a really cool looking rain breaker with some special whirly pattern (you can’t see it but you just have to take my word for it), (4) metal plates for the foot petals (note: manual car), (5) a “Si” sticker instead of the usual “2.0” sticker, and (6) light weighted nuts (he knows exactly how heavy the original nuts are in kg) for the wheels together with the red brakes to go with. What I did not photograph was the boot of the car that revealed 2 powerful amplifier and an extra woofer.

PS. “Mugen” is a famous Honda modification.
PS. Photos taken by my Nokia N80 phone.

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Songwriting

New Song – Do It Again

I asked my friend GS to give me 10 things that struck her mind when I mentioned a word (not going to reveal here as I believe every song has to be interpreted in the audience’s own way). Her reply was: happiness, stressed, tired, guilty, euphoric, competitive, anticipation, dread, confusion, frustration.

Here is the lyrics of the new song.

Do It Again

You know something that is, something that is true
You can’t help but to, do it again, do it again
You dread this moment that you face … but here it goes again

You keep running away, lying to yourselves
You keep falling but you, do it again, do it again
This secret pleasure that you feel … you have been there before

Seducing you, this euphoric feeling that is blinding you
Confusing you, with what is right and with what is consuming you
This guilty feeling starts to spread all over you
Losing control to this temptation
Do it again, you so want to
Do it again, though you so dread to
Do it again, though it’s frustrated to
Do it again, you feel you just have to

Anticipation, that is running, in your veins, in your veins
You’re getting closer, you really really shouldn’t, but you do it again, do it again
You are tired, every steps you take, everything you get, all that you spent
How long more, will you realise that this happiness will never last
Do it again, do it again, do it again, do it again
How long more, will you realise that this happiness will never last

You know something that is, something that is true
You can’t help but to, do it again, do it again
You dread this moment that you face … but here it goes again

Seducing you, this euphoric feeling that is blinding you
Confusing you, with what is right and with what is consuming you
This guilty feeling starts to spread all over you
Losing control to this temptation
Do it again, you so want to
Do it again, though you so dread to
Do it again, though it’s frustrated to
Do it again, you feel you just have to
Do it again, you so want to
Do it again, though you so dread to
Do it again, though it’s frustrated to
Do it again, you feel you just have to

Copyright © 2006 by Wilfrid K. F. Wong. All Rights Reserved.

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I See I Write

New Sales Strategy …

Lately, I have been shopping for the solar panel for my car. I texted my car agent and he put me through this company that installs the brand of a solar panel that I have not heard of. So this salegirl called me up and explained to me what products they offer. After the call, she texted me her contact number and a website that contains her blog on not only her personal life, but also photos of all the cool cars that she has come across.

I must say that it is a very cool strategy. Her assets – pleasant looking with a decent personality – that are not able to put through the voice call are now shining through her own blog site. Next time if I have a company, the recruitment criteria would be:

1. Is she hot?
2. Is she hot?
3. Is she hot?
4. Does she blog and willing to share her blog with her potential clients and clients?

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Diary

Of Blue Light and Sunrise

Photos taken by my phone

[A]
Fed up with the frequent screen black out and system restart, I opted to do another “mini-upgrade” to my computer. As wise people would say, since you can never locate the exact cause of problem, just keep upgrading and your problem will one day be gone.

So, here was what I did. I added a moderate hard-disk of 300GB with the latest technology that supposed to perform better (the entire system now has 660GB disk space), added a moderate 1GB memory (now 2GB overall), and a brand new casing with additional fans (purchased separately) that suppose to solve my over-heat problem – if that was a problem to start with. Nicely surprised I was, this new casing come with fans that emits blue light (as seen in the picture).

So far so good, I have been loving my computer. But if past experience has one thing to teach me, never say “yay” too early.

[B]
A rare occasion required me to wake up at 6 in the morning and indeed it is rare for me to admire the sunrise (middle picture). It was beautiful beyond words. Funny thing is Nature offers us so much that we human beings just keep ignoring it each and every day. Now I have noted down in my to-do list that I wish to see sunset at Santosa. I really do wish … (or Malacca for that matter).

PS. All pictures taken with my N80. (Nokia should pay me for publicity.)

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Diary

Photos that My Phone N80 has Taken (So Far)

Alright. So I got this cool new phone of mine and I have been taking photographs like no others business. From top left-hand corner clockwise, here we go!

Cynthia and her dessert when we dined at one of the nice restaurant at Millennia Walk. Ah … the German beer, sausage, and lovely dessert. Next is an amazing Latte that Spinelli has offered. At first I was wondering why he took so long to make my Latte and now I know. See that lovely lady? Well, we were on a boat ride to one of the military sites and I thought the image is pretty crisp clear. Next, back in the office, that is my guitarist of my band Jason and the ex-member Jeremy who was playing the guitar when the photo was taken. Last, was that a beach resort that I have visited while my wife was away? Not at all! My client site that is.