Category: Life

Sickness and ailments

Thursday: threw out my back
Friday: gingerly getting about with my back pain
Saturday: slight sore throat + cough
Sunday: fever and bad sore throat that kept me in bed the WHOLE day
Monday: SUPER bad sore throat
Tuesday: Uncomfortable back, blocked ears
Wednesday: Stiff neck on both sides.. Elbow pain

Whoa its been a week of pain and rest needs to be found. And the ‘start’ of the torrent of work for November is about to begin. Work deployment starts tomorrow and then things will get hectic for work. Preparation on for last day of KOOL (25th) and rededication service (30th). Oh yeah supposedly I’m getting married this month too (mom’s friend apparently told my mom that I’m getting married this month). Wonder what preparations need to be done for that. If anybody care till me when it is and more importantly who I’m marrying do tell. Thanks.

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Frogger

So here I am at my sister’s place for the night as my mom wishes that she not stay alone while her husband, my brother-in-law, (okay that still sounds weird to say and type for that matter) and while lying down in front of the TV I see something move out of the corner of my eye. I turn my head and see a frog!
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So long farewell it’s time to say Goodbye…. It’s not Goodbye.. It’s see you later…

As my dear dear is on the flight on her way to the land of British and Scottish the realization is slowly setting in.. After dinner and an hour of CS and back home and it’s sinking in slowly… Anyway just a few thoughts from xkcd (it’s not exactly like that but you get the point)
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So it’s a so long for now and all the best for Ms Ruth Lim Ya Chee and Mr Andrew Tan Teck Ho. Enjoy yourselves, study hard and make a difference

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What a few days, what a few months….

A visit from Senior Pastor Derek Hong from my Singapore home church, COOS has so far been a great experience. Fallen way off the saddle in the past few months and I guess an atmosphere of familiarity and ‘security’ from days gone past of my days in Singapore has given me that extra push I need to get back on the saddle and head back on the path of the straight and narrow. Struggles in life, commitments in life and just life itself throw you many curve balls that you just can’t hit out of the ball park and all so often it seems that its just that nobody really understands: nobody there. I guess thats my problem. If I’m difficult to get along with “I’m sorry” but I’m far from perfect when it comes to building relationships. Sometimes I see myself as the stereotypical nerd with the thick rimmed glasses that isn’t popular and doesn’t mingle well. Well actually that basically my life in my secondary days. Time and time again you try to trust people and some how they let you down, not to put anybody down but we are all human and we all make mistakes. So you tend to shy away from people knowing that they’ll let you down. Yes I miss the days in Singapore when things seemed much ‘easier’ with more support from like minded people but life isn’t a bed of roses. We go through trials and tribulations to strengthen us for what else is to come. Well what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. Too much things floating around in my mind. I better go to sleep if I want to get to KOOL in 6 hours…

A few links providing good reading and listening material:

  • God Is Not As Interesting As My I-Phone or Harry Potter
  • Welcome to Ocellated: “Well, essentially, it’s about science and faith”
  • The Daily Audio Bible: Listen to the Bible in a year

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    Ponderings of the mind

    I wonder why I find it so hard to be happy for others. I know they deserve it but I cant help be feel jealous. A part of me knows I will not or even can not be like them and so it comes down to the ‘superiority’ of others vs ‘inferiority’ of me. This is something I’ve been tackling alot in the past few months. I keep asking myself what can I offer to others when I feel inadequate in so many levels. I know everybody has their talents and they need to be nutured with time and determination and purpose. I feel time just slipping away wondering where my days have gone. Wondering what I’m doing with my life when I know there are more important things out there. Deliberate and conscious actions need to be taken. Call this a cry for help or call this a cry of desperation but whatever it is, it’s a cry for change. Something has to go…

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    Busy busy days

    Been very busy with UAT (user acceptance tests) at ACB (Anti-Corruption Bureau) this week and will continue till the 24th. I would just like to thank God for sustaining me and seeing me through. Despite the same kind of hectic life I had last week, this week has been more bearable. Though today was practically a breaking point for me. The Business Objects (BO – yeah it does stink) server was acting very PMS life giving errors that I never encountered before and for some reason I reverted some modified files to the original so I had to re-edit those files. I did have a copy of the modified files though, but one thing I don’t get about Tomcat server is that if I copy a file over an existing one and reload the page it does NOT reflect the changes. I have to open the file, save it then it shows. It’s probably some issue with cache or something. If anybody knows do tell, cause the place we have in ACB has no Internet connection so troubleshooting anything is a pain: goes to show how much we depend on the web (especially Google search :p).

    Anyway in the next few days I need to get reacquainted with Business Objects XI (BOXI), WEBI reports, Crystal reports, metrics and analytics. After dealing with BOXI and Livelink (version 9.6) from OpenText I’m very surprised to see how pathetic their migration support is. For BOXI (the XI stands for 11 in roman numerals) it cannot export the data the analytics are linked to thus if you have a system set up and you want to migrate it to an existing system you have to recreate the analytics all over again. For Livelink workflow maps when you export from one system to another, some data can be lost. There is no easy migration tool for either of them…. probably just a business ploy to seek and pay for support.

    So its the weekend, so you guys enjoy it. I’ll be in ACB yet again cause I need to show something to boss on Monday and I need the smelling BO server for it and I can’t be bother to bring the server home: it’s not small and it’s noisy. But probably afraid I’ll drop it and make a big mess of the project :p. Night people and happy weekend

    Busy few weeks behind me

    Yup very busy weeks have past. 4 hours of sleep today yesterday. Was up doing the camp booklet design. Just came back from the meeting and supper which was actually dinner. It’s been tiring days and I’m sure I’m not the only one. Despite the little support that I got, I continue trodding on, because I know what I do is not for me, it’s not for my company, it’s for His glory just as the camp t-shirt design states. We all have our parts to play in life. We have been put in our places for a reason. Make the most out of it. Even when nobody understands. Even when nobody offers some support. For there are times when there are none for you, none but Jesus. Just thanksgiving to God for pulling me this week. I know there’s more to come but I’m sure it won’t be as bad as last week.

    One of the best thing’s I’ve seen as of late as I was lookng for images to put in the booklet was a wallpaper that says “Life is short, pray hard”. Yes it is and yes we should. Night all, the lack of sleep is taking over… bed here I come…..

    Sitting outside my office

    Right now I’m sitting in my car. Outside the office. Using my laptop. Doing what you may ask, doing work is what I answer. Thank God for wireless that I can still connect to the office router and communicate with the server we are using. They ought to set up a VPN connection or something so I can connect from home. Makes things much easier. Anyway I came back here after church and I saw lights in the office which was a good sign. Try the door and it was locked.

    Ok now I’m in the office my colleague was remoting the server and didnt see my message haha. So no more blogging, back to work