Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all beloved bloggers!

I may not blog this coming days, as i need to prepare for my Christmas presents for my colleagues! but i will still be reading your blogs!

The SEED

THE SEED - Very good story

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his directors or his children, he decided to do something different.

He called all the young executives in his company together. 'It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO,' he said. 'I have decided to choose one of you.' The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued. 'I am going to give each one of you a seed today - a very special seed. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO.'

One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed. Every day, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure. Six months went by - still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however. He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil - he so wanted the seed to grow.

A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick at his stomach. It was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He took his empty pot to the board room.

When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed. A few felt sorry for him! When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back. 'My, what great plants, trees, and flowers you have grown,' said the CEO. 'Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!' All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room! With his empty pot. He ordered the financial director to bring him to the front.

Jim was terrified. He thought, 'The CEO knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!' When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his seed. Jim told him the story. The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, 'Here is your next Chief Executive! His name is Jim!' Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow his seed. How could he be the new CEO the others said? Then the CEO said, 'One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed.BR I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow. All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers.

'When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive!'

Moral:
If you plant honesty, you will reap trust
If you plant goodness, you will reap friends.
If you plant humility, you will r! eap grea tness.
If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment
If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective.
If you plant hard work, you will reap success.
If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation.
So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later.

New Christmas Song

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town.

It's hitting you once,
It's hitting you twice
It doesn't care if you've been careful and wise
Recession is coming to town

It's worthless if you've got shares
It's worthless if you've got bonds
It's safe when you've got cash in hand
So keep cash for goodness sake, HEY

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town!

Finance products are confusing
Finance products are so vague
The banks make you bear the cost of risk
So keep out for goodness sake, OH

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town.

My review on W595

I have changed the phone with my daughter's Samsung L700.

For W595, i personally felt that the basic requirement of the phone was not able to fulfil. The phone is very pretty and no doubt about it. The sound is also good, however, the screen is not as good, when i transferred pictures from PC to the phone and save it as screen saver & wallpaper, they become blurred even though the pictures were taken with high mega pixels. I was disappointed.

Next, which i am most particular about phone. The SMS alert only sounded for 5 seconds and stop with the screen become blackout, even i have set the alert to a song which last for at least 4 mins. I emailed Sony Ericsson about this and this is their reply:"The ringtones for your handset unit is only set to play for 10 - 15 seconds only." But i have tested many times and they dont ring more than 5 seconds. If i m waiting for a SMS, i must hold on to the phone otherwise I m sure to miss SMS. In fact, even since I have the phone I always miss SMS or miss calls because the ringing is simply too short. What would i be able to hear if i m in a noisy place and it rings only 5 seconds. NOTHING AT ALL!

Another thing about the phone which i dislike is the screen blackout within a few seconds of idling, even if there is a transmission between phones via bluetooth. I also emailed them and this is their reply :" I do apologize there are no setting for it as it is designed this way so that is does not consume more energy to the phone." But even i have the ability to charge the phone often, they dont allow for an option!

This is the 1st time I m using Sony Ericsson Phone, all the while I was using Nokia & Samsung. So far I have no problem with all my Nokia and samsung Phones. Just that I thought I should change for something different since they all said that sony ericsson were GOOD! Well! I m wrong! I will not buy anymore Sony Ericsson Phones again.

Disney Bag Tag

Today I was on leave, because the children's last day of school and they have parties! Programs was abit over run due to some "expected" event! Then I went to Suntec Convention Hall for 2 exhbitions. Home Appliances & Food, and Popular BookFest.

At the Home appliances & Food fair, we had 6 scoopes of New Zealand Ice-cream for only $4.50, when 1 scoope cost $4!

At bookfest, we spent about 3 hrs there. I think 1/4 of the time was spent on waiting & qeueing... there, i made the Disney bag tag for them and little Bryan! Hope he will like it cos i don know which disney cartoons he likes. I will "AIR" over to him....

Sony Ericsson W595

I have one of my wishes fulfilled. Last Sunday I bought the Sony Ericsson Phone W595. Was very happy because it came with many freebies and the phone is beautiful. The freebies : SHE DVD & CD, JJ's CD & JJ's Concert tickets for 2! WOW! I didn't expect it because it was not published or promoted anywhere.

However, after using for a few days, I was disappointed. I will write a review later. Now thinking if i should sell the phone.

African Violet

These are plants in my office since April in year, I think i have bought at least 4 pots of African Violets, but non of them still alive, but when they were dying, we cutted their leaves and plant in water & water baby, and new roots came out and now, I have repotted one of the plant into soil again. Hopefully, they can live this time.

This above is tie shu 铁树, which I cut off the "new shoot" from its mother plant and plant in water baby, the new root also came out, this way, it will take longer time to grow into tall plant, heehee....

These are some of the newly grown leaves from a African Violet leave, still in water with water baby.

This one i have repotted into soil just last week. Hope it will grow well, if not i will be very sad.

Marriage Passbook ("sent to the girls only")

Jocelyn married William this day. At the end of the wedding party, Jocelyn's mother gave her a newly opened bank saving passbook with $1000 deposit amount.

Mother: 'Jocelyn, take this passbook. Keep it as a record of your marriage life. When there's something happy and memorable happened in your new life, put some money in. Write down what it's about next to the line. The more memorable the event is, the more money you can put in. I've done the first one for you today. Do the others with William.
When you look back after years, you can know how much happiness you've had.'

Jocelyn shared this with William when getting home. They both thought it was a great idea and were anxious to know when the second deposit can be made.

This was what they did after certain time:

- 7 Feb: $100, first birthday celebration for William after marriage
- 1 Mar: $300, salary raise for Jocelyn
- 20 Mar: $200, vacation trip to Bali
- 15 Apr: $2000, Jocelyn got pregnant
- 1 Jun: $1000, William got promoted
.
..... and so on...

However, after years, they started fighting and arguing for trivial things.
They didn't talk much. They regretted that they had married the most nasty people in the world.... no more love...

Kind of typical nowadays, huh?

One day Jocelyn talked to her Mother.
Jocelyn: 'Mom, we can't stand it anymore. We agree to divorce. I can't imagine how I decided to marry this guy!!!'

Mother: 'Sure, girl, that's no big deal. Just do whatever you want if
you really can't stand it. But before that, do one thing first. Remember the saving passbook I gave you on your wedding day? Take out all money and spend it first. You shouldn't keep any record of such a poor marriage.'

Jocelyn thought it was true. So she went to the bank, waiting at the
Queue and planning to cancel the account.

While she was waiting, she took a look at the passbook record. She looked, and looked, and looked. Then the memory of all the previous joy and happiness just came up her mind. Her eyes were then filled with tears. She left and went home. When she was home, she handed the passbook to William, asked him to spend the money before getting divorce.

The next day, William gave the passbook back to Jocelyn. She found a new deposit of $5000. And a line next to the record: 'This is the day I notice how much I've loved you thru out all these years. How much happiness you've brought me.'

They hugged and cried, putting the passbook back to the safe.

Do you know how much money they had saved when they retired? I did not ask.
I believe the money did not matter any more after they had gone thru all the good years in their life.

May be we can change to Childhood Passbook!

Men's Brain & Women's Brain

Click the link below and enjoy the video clip, is really interesting. Have a good laugh!

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sorry i cant upload the video from youtube.

IMM

We went to IMM during the public holiday. Have not been there for quite sometime, the kids have great fun there....until they refuse to leave. Will go again cos they din manage to play the water park as they were not so well....

Kidnapping!

I just heard that 1 distant relative was con $10K, bec of "kidnapping" her son! OMG! never thought this will happened near me....Then i asked why she dint call anyone else for help and to call her son immediately to confirm? Well, the kidnapper called her house phone and asked her if she has a handphone? Then instructed her not to use both the phones cos they will contact her ANYTIME! So end up she din have a chance to call for help! BTW, her son is already 20 plus, not small boy. perhaps she has been targeted! She is also not old, only early 50s....(my MIL live few blocks away only). If she call her, she wouldnt be con of her $10K.

So please inform your old folk at home to verify with the actually person, by calling his office/handphone or close colleague/friends, before u decide to what is the next action to take. Most ideal is to call the POLICE!

In Singapore, anyone caught kidnapping will be facing death penalty!

Fitness Test

This afternoon we went for our company fitness test! WOW like so long ago affair.....no lah i did not run! I hate running. I just walk, brisk walking. This is my 1st time taking part....must say my fellow colleagues are really very fit! Even walking is also dam fast! Haha though i m not the last but i do feel very tough! I didnt train before that thinking walking is nothing!....next year must do training....But i really feel good after sweating out!

Actually there should be another 6 colleagues from my section going with me, but last minutes they back-out due to work commitment! So I went with my supervisor, because she is one of the organiser.

:D

Nice to see my blogger friends giving encouraging comments when i m really down in office with "politic" today. Cos i m really very pissed and angry, they just like to throw the ball around the company not in my section. sigh!!!! We actually kena the ball when we 1st start work in 2002. But lucky we were there in that section only for like 2 months then we moved to our newly set-up section in another floor. Why we still have these shity people around! why they so like tat! The mind-set must changed! ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY!!!!!

Ok, ok! is over! i still have my friends here!

I jus need to blog about it because recently there have too many unhappiness in office already which i have wrote but not posted. Timing not right! I will published later may be next month! Actually, most of the colleagues are very nice people!

I AM DONE HERE!

My New Blog Layout!

Finally, I have finished decorating my blog.....YEAH!!!!

&

WELCOME!

Change Layout

Time to change my Blog layout!......abit out already

Done for now, to be continued

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Release Date:
3rd August 2006
Language:
English
Running Time:
106 mins

Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Starring:
David Hasselhoff, Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, Sean Astin[full cast]
Directed by:
Frank Coraci

This movie was recommended by a movie therapist, this movie is good for parents who have no time for their family. It is also very funny.

Singapore Joke - Very funny!! Just for Laugh!

This is an email forwarded to me by my friend, just for sharing cos i think is really funny!!!:D

Story 1
Ah Lian ask shopkeeper: Eh Ah chek, u got sell stocking up to knee, boh?
Ah Chek : Lu siao ah! stocking wear up to 'yeo' (waist) only, where got
up to the 'nee'(breast) one.

Story 2
Ah Beng bought a Honda VTI recently and drove to Ah Lian's place to show
it to her. So there Ah Beng was bragging the various functions of his
new car to his girlfriend. 'This is ah, so fast even the Mata Chia
cannot catch ah!'
'Ha! Really ah!!! Steady lah!' said Ah Lian.
'Some more hor, this is Automatic one, vely easy to drive!'
So Ah Lian said, 'Let me try! I wan, I wan!'
So Ah Lian took the driver's seat and shifted the gear and floored the &
accelerator.
The next moment, the car sped backwards and crashed into the lamp-post.
'Alamak! What u doing? U Siao Char Bo! U see lah!
Wah Piang eh!' screamed Ah Beng.
'Solee, solee, pai sei lah! No lah, I tot hor, 'R' for racing mah!'*

Story 3
The Titanic was sinking, and there weren't enough lifeboats.
So the captain had to persuade male passengers to jump into the icy
waters to make room for women and children.
To the British he said. 'You must act like gentlemen.' They jumped.
To the Americans he said, 'You can be heroes.' They complied.
To the Germans he said, 'It's the rule.' They obeyed.
To the Japanese he said,' It's the consensus.' They obliged.
Then came the Singaporean and they just weren't budging until he came up
with the appeal: 'Free life jackets for those who jumped.'

Story 4
3 recruits - Chinese, Malay & Indian are at the army supply base to
collect underwear. The sergeant was there to aid the supplies.
Sergeant: Hei Ah Beng! How many underwear you need ah?
Ah Beng: (thinks a while) 7 sasen(sergeant)!
Sergeant: (puzzled) How come so many?
Ah! Beng: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun. One day one.
Sergeant: (Malay recruit) Eh Mat! How many underwear?
Mat: (without hesitation) 6 sargen!
Sergeant: (curious) How come six?
Mat: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat & Sun. Friday I wear sarong.
Sergeant: (Indian recruit) Dei Tambi. How many underwears dah dei?
Tambi: (very confidently) 12 Sarjen !!!!
Sergeant: (shocked & fell to the ground) Why you need so many for?
Tambi: January, February, March.....One month one.

Story 5
Once upon a time, a group of Ah Bengs stepped into a lounge and wanted
the DJ to play the song 'Ah Cheng Buey Ro Ti' (In Hokkien means Ah Cheng
buys bread). The DJ told them that they only have English songs and told
them to re-select another song. The Ah Bengs were very angry and kicked
up a bigfuss, claiming the DJ was insulting them. The manager had to
intervene in order to calm them down. Finally, after long talk with Ah
Bengs, the manager found out that Ah Bengs actually asking for the song
'Unchained Melody' by the Righteous Brothers.

Story 6
One day, two Ah Lians got into a lift from the 20th storey and want to
get down to the ground floor. As they looked at the dial, they could see
the number 20 down to number 2. It was then followed by a G. As they not
English-educated, they were puzzled and had no idea what does the letter
G mean. Suddenly one of them exclaimed excitedly and hit G. When they
finally reached the ground floor, the other Ah Lian was so impressed and
asked the first Ah Lian, 'Wah low!!!, how you know one?' The first Ah
Lian reply smugly, 'Easy lah.. G for Gero mah...'

Story 7
Santa Singh (remember him?) just graduated from Law school and decided
to apply for a job in the most prestigious 'Lee & Lee Law Firm'
During the interview, Mr. Lee KY looked at Santa Singh's resume, thinks
for a while and said, 'Well, I would need to discuss your application
with my wife.'
And went off to discuss Santa's application with his wife. Lee KY's wife
said, 'C'mon, don't you know that we only hire lawyers with surnames
beginning with 'Lee' only? Of course, we can't hire Santa Singh!'
So Lee KY told the bad news to Santa Singh about his rejection.
Few days later, Santa Singh came back to the same company and request
for another interview and Lee KY said, 'Look Santa, I have already told
you that we only hire.......'
when Santa Singh interrupted him and said, 'I know, I know. I have just
changed my name.
Lee K Y looked at Santa Singh in surprise and asked, 'What is your new
name then?'
On this, Santa Singh replied, 'Surname Lee, Last name, Manga!'
(Manga-Lee)

Bubbling

My plum enzyme made last week was bubbling just now.....woooooo oh very nice! I like! When bubbling means the enzyme is very active! 1 more week to go before i can harvest!.....:D

SAD NEWS

today boss said we are going to relocate to another floor bec need to optimise office space! now under feasibility study sad sad sad!

Strawberry enzyme

This strawberry enzyme is my girls' favourite. Saw it so big and red, so buy 2 packs but small pack only able to fill half my container. But seeing these red and bright strawberry also very happy....yummy!

Plum enzyme

Day 1

Day 2 the juice is out but little, another few days the juice will be able to fill. Brought some to my colleagues and they said very nice...so i made more again....

Fire!

This morning when i woke up, i smell burnt and i thought today lunar 15th again or someone praying! Then went i walked to close the window, i saw black smoke from NTUC building there. Few months ago, there was a fire on the other side of the building now here! Terrible. The fire was behind the trees i cant really see what was burning, but there was a flower shop, a stand alone building.

Just now i went to NTUC and saw the "burnt" is really the flower shop! Very sad, dont know if they bought the fire insurance since they just moved in June when the wet market is now being renovated. Just now saw the boss, appeared very tired....all burnt, the wall, canopy, flowers and a lady was like talkng to him taking stock! The wall outside NTUC also become black. I really find this NTUC very very lucky, two times already and it escape being burnt down!.....

Guava Enzyme

It has been a long long time since I last posted my enzyme. Today, I wanna share this guava enzyme, I think it is the 1st time, this guava enzyme produce so much bubbles....this means that the enzyme is successful, very unlikely it will become moldy! It produces bubbles within a few days, very happy!

tenjewberrymuds

The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service,at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review:


Room Service (RS): "Morrin. Roon sirbees."

Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."

RS: "Rye..Roon sirbees..morrin! Jewish to oddor
sunteen??"

G: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs."

RS: "Ow July den?"

G: "What??"

RS: "Ow July den?...pryed, boyud, poochd?"

G : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."

RS: "Ow July dee baykem? Crease?"

G: "Crisp will be fine."

RS : "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"

G: "What?"

RS:"An toes. July Sahn toes?"

G: "I don't think so."

RS: "No? Judo wan sahn toes??"

G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes' means."

RS: "Toes! toes!...Why jew don juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"

G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."

RS: "We bodder?"

G: "No...just put the bodder on the side."

RS: "Wad?"

G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."

RS: "Copy?"

G: "Excuse me?"

RS: "Copy...tea...meel?"

G: "Yes. Coffee, please, and that's all."

RS: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, crease baykem, Anglish moppin we bodder on sigh and copy....rye??"

G: "Whatever you say."

RS: "Tenjewberrymuds."

G : "You're very welcome."
Morale of story - we need to speak clearly to our customers!!!

Champagne Grapes

This the Champagne Grapes from NTUC. Last week i went was cheaper by abt half so grap 1 pack. When it 1st came few weeks ago was like $7 plus, now $3plus, so why not buy & try. Ok lah, but u need to put a handful then good, otherwise too small to enjoy....:D

More walk at reservoir

Good weather when we reached there.

This old ang mo was practising his golf at the slope....free mah!

saw this in the reservoir, looks like snake body

Before i could feel my calf muscle aching, my hubby suggested that we go to the reservoir yesterday afternoon. OMG walking again...ok because is a family activity...but could not walk fast and far then rain. So the past 2 days have walking and walking, even today i went to the library i could stood down, calf muscle too aching....so quickly borrowed the books i wanted and headed home.....btw library is just across the road in front of my flat.