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after years of resolution making for New Year... i am finally making realistic resolution ... ... easy this year as to last year... 1) read and completed my first book (from NLB): National Geographic Photography Field Guide: Secrets to Making Great Pictures (picture of book from Amazon.com)... a great book for a noob like me into SLR, though the book is a bit old (some topics on films and B/W, dark room)... the overall techniques in using SLR for different environment are easy to understand and practical... have been trying the various recommendations with my Canon 450D and it works :P 2) this same day, i went for a 30-min cycling (my 'exercise-at-least-once-a-week' resolution): quite tiring on the first few pedals... but as i warmed up, i can reminscent the 'feeling' when i was having night cycling 15 years ago!... great feeling... East Coast Park is great, especially at night with no crowd. still reading a few books at one go: a) Wiley Canon EOS Rebel XSi 450D Digital

the famous Albert St prawn mee stall at old airport road... will have at least 10 less patrons forever starting today... my family was eating at old airport road hawker centre this evening... we were seating 2 tables away from albert st prawn mee stall... they really had a number of patrons, famous for their prawn and bak kut mee, i tried twice before. two ah bengs even ordered their prawn mee and were seating on the table outside their stall... when i just finished my fook chow fishball noodle, i heard this 'sssssssss', 'sssssssss' sound... guided by this sound, it was actually coming from albert st prawn mee... the cook was spraying something on the lightings... to my horror, it is the usual can (green and red) that we used to kill cockroaches and other pests! BAYGON!!!!! these white fluorescent tubes (with the flies flying around) were on top of the utensils and serving table, the soup base was near it... and the cook was busy spraying that can of BAYGON for a good 1

first day of Chinese New Year (CNY) started on 26 Jan 2009... Monday. the usual visit to my dad's pl... a slight change of plan this year... visited my in-laws (photos) after dad's pl and then last stop at my grandma's, meeting up with my dad's side of extended family, cousins and aunties (about 30 odd)... the last stop always ended with setting up mini 'gambling' den... the big/small dice set that was given free with every new moon abalone purchased... i actually bought the abalone becos of this dice set... hahaha... day 1 ended around 2100hr for me... losing less than 10. day 2 CNY... visited my elder brother's place... all the kids were really busy playing at the double-decker bus bed... adults were busy with blackjack, KFC and prata... haha... made my best and fastest earning... 40 bucks in 15 mins :P... thereafter rushed to visit my wife's uncle, have another meal (nice and delicious home cooked food)... closed to 3.30pm, we adjourned to my mum'

the first day of our office opening since CNY started this day (day 8 of CNY)... not really for any reason as i started work 'technically' on the 4th day of CNY (supposed to be lucky for office opening)... really unlucky... i strained my left back and 'hit' by my 'fren' ASTHMA again the previous night... it must be the yuan yang (coffee-tea combo) from The Central... how crazy i am as caffeine is and has always been my assassin... almost killing me last night... literally. thanks buddha that i still have my ventolin... but the back strain stills ponders till this time and date. 'first day' in office... gong xi my boss, did a few quotes and that's it... and of course, mj with kakis. just 2 hours, i am supposed to be in bed... but ziyi came by with TODAY newspaper asking, "Papa, what is this?", pointing to Sudoku! whoa! for the last 1 hour, i was explaining and coaching her on the gameplay of sudoku... i think she will enjoy it... she likes n