Carbon footprint

In 2010 alone, I have made 16 return flights! Meaning I was in the plane for 32x!
And these contributed ~12.24 metric tons of CO2
Gosh!!!

Saving enough?

Read an article on why Singaporean is not saving enough.
The 3 main reasons given were:
1. Purchase a property where the monthly loan is more than 30% of the salary;
2. Own one or more cars, and this is probably another 30% of the salary;
3. Don't know how to do invest and make the money grow.
In fact, keeping the money in the saving account is "deflation". (Wow, I didn’t know about this)

Above, make me relook into my financial statue - so pathetic!!

Phuket. Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, my friends!
I am enjoying my holidays so far - been to great dives and saw leopard sharks.
Phuket are packed with "Farangs", when I mention packed...it is seriously PACKED.
Walked down the beach, almost 99% of the sun tanner is whites.

As for the night activities, the Thai girls are sooo aggressive and can be spot almost everywhere.
The indians are here, working as sales or pimps. Guess because they have a better command in English?

As for the shopping, shops are literally every corner. Phuket has expanded way too much for its own.
Store owner has to compete for customers.
And they have raised the price by at least 3 xs.
I bought a bangle for 150bt, when initial quote was 450 baht.
Some purses are price as 79bt, later they will sell it at 2 for 80bt.

Shopping is stressful and not that great anymore. It's the fault of the farang!! They just paid so much and make people raise the price to rocket high.

Break? Yes!! Yes!!! YESSSS....

Yes, I am taking a break from work.
In hours away, I will be on the flight to Phuket.

For the 6 days, I will love to do:
1. diving (pray that the weather will be good but the forecast for the week is "scattered thunderstorms")
2. sunbathing (I got a whole new bottle of sunscreen and 3 sets of bikini)
3. cycling (need some exercise afterall(
4. cooking (yes, there is a cooking class teaching how to cook thai food),
5. eating (lots and lots of spicy sour stuffs with that sweet thai ice tea)
6. nightlife (will I be amaze again? will the ladyboys show me "his" huge tits again?)

But for now, I am still working in replying work mails :(

Fast food = bad food

I am a sucker for fast food, especially Taiwan Mac, Sydney KFC and Hungry Jacks..
When I am in Taiwan, I will have Mac Donald at least twice a week .
Now.. How can I stop it?
I am planning to go Phuket in a few weeks time and if this goes on; I can never fit into the bikini :D

Oops, I have another craving now - Mac Donald hot fudge sundae.

Front seat

It has been a long flight in a FULL flight, but am glad that the airplane gave me the front seat.
However there is an irritating toddler who screamed at every single thing such as refused to sit, eat, etc. Argghh...

Fluffy candy cotton:

It's flight time

Bringing the trip to TW forward by a day.
Hope the upcoming trip will be a peaceful one.
Keeping the fingers crossed!

New edc coat

I always wanted to buy a water resistant trend-coat (with hood); and I GOT it today.
Found it at edc. Yippeeee!!!!!
Oops, have I mentioned that I got a new fleece just few weeks ago? And now, another coat?
Gosh… a quick count on what I have for “cold” weather
1.A black leather jacket from edc
2.A black trend coat from Zara (this one was really heavy so I am lazy to carry around)
3.A black fleece from edc, I think there are a couple more from mng…and they should be somewhere in the storage
4.A couple of demin jackets
5.A green coat from mng
6.The new black coat from edc, and oh… there is one more which is a gift.
Mmm… I don’t think my collection is too much. Do you think so?

New!!!

Hot coal

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned"
-Buddha quotes

Will I be the one that get burned?
How do you release anger?
How can you do it without anger?

Confusius Quotes

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Whatever within the beauty, is it a real beauty?
Can you really see/find the beauty in EVERYTHING?

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
-Confucius
Sounds right and it happen in everyday life

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-Confucius
Without complication, we wouldn't have internet, communication, fashion, food, etc.
But have we gone overboard?

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
-Confucius
That's why we have "study week" in school, and OT when in work force.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
-Confucius
Mmmm.... still trying to figure out.