understand your soulz

completed my second book of the year (and it's already july)... a recommended book for people into sales or looking for more frens.... "How To Make People Like You In 90 Seconds Or Less" by Nicholas Boothman. it teaches the techniques of leaving first impression, mimicking a person's actions and behaviour, and understanding the various signs / signals of a visual, audio and kinestic person... a rather lengthy book (for me)... comics and mag are still my best buddies...

soulz meter: sad... today: my usual groundhog day... fetching my wife and my girls after work... on the way to my in-laws place, turning into the small lane leading to carpark... as i was turning left, i stopped abruptly as i saw this girl lying on the middle of the lane!... how irresponsible is that family? whom walked past the girl and did not bother to 'teach' her... a second thought flew past... the girl did not move for a couple of seconds... the family that walked past her, turned back and was calling... time (less than a second) seems to freeze... that girl was MOTIONLESS... i knew for once that she was gone. i slowly drove past the 'small gap' between the two-way lanes and her... saw the pool of blood on right side of the lane and her right arm in red... i suddenly felt for her... the same feeling when my mum passed away... odd but really sad. a young life wasted... due to stress, pressure? from school, relationship, family or $$? that feeling still lingers as i...

it's been a while since my wife and i last visited a cinema (without my girls)... this year is exception. we went thru a number of movies... X-Men Origins-Wolverine, Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.. to name a few... watching a movie is always enjoyable with someone you loved... of course, the movies must be of certain acceptable standard for us to catch... Star Trek the movie: i had never been a fan... never caught any seasons ... the 2 things i know of Star Trek before watching... "beam me up" and Captain Spock (the guy with that pair of pointed ears)... Whether you are a fan or not, this is a must-see this year... if you miss it, own the DVD or Bluray... whatever... good effects, good plot, good mixture of race?! X-Men on Wolverine... ok or so-so... watch it only if you really want to know how Wolverine came about... not really required to know though... plot a bit lame. Transformers 2... my personal fav... nothing much abt plot... if you like the car...

GREAT... GOOD FEELING. that's my driving mileage in USA (13 Apr to 27 Apr 2009).. from touching down in San Francisco and off to Hertz... driving straight from the airport to next town, Watsonville... *knocked out* very soon (thanks to that JET-LAG). left-handed driving and speedometer in miles did not improve my understanding of US road conditions for 2 to 3 days.. especially turning right almost on the next road (can be on red light)... keeping to right side of the lane for slow coach (road hogger) like me during the first week... driving is a definite must to travel and enjoy the trip covering San Francisco (cooling weather but 'freezing winds' along coastal drive), LA (cooling weather) and Las Vegas (hot but dry) and back to SF (passing Yosemite with their snow)... 2 weeks was not enuff. Places visited (in chronological order): - Gilroy Premium Outlet - Coastal Drive along Highway 1 (from Monterey Bay to Hearst Castle) - Carmel by the Sea - Pismo Beach Premium Outlet (n...

for serving 10 years in the army, you get Hamilton watch with your name engraved. unique and true exclusivity to me (prior to this, i wanted to sell it if there is no engraving *sigh* ). i have 2 of these medals for being the best NS Unit. (Should we have 6 medals? see these reasons .) of course, the most important award is the MR letter to inform me that i am no longer under Mindef Notification Centre, no more IPPT and mobilisation.

our reservist PC (in civilian) for eight years of in camp before he is posted out.... saluting you, Sir!

21 Mar 2009 really marked the end of my Army career... or it is not? 1) the day of my reservist unit, 596 SIR stand down; 2) the day that we received Hamilton watch for our 10 years of service; 3) the day (although 31 March 2009 is the official MR) that i belonged to Mindef Reserve (MR); 4) the day that i can really 'hung' up all the camouflage uniform, SBO, helmet, full pack, black duffel bag, boots, all the mobilisation packs; i will miss the reservist days of crazy jokes between commanders and men, the special English language that we converse in, the Big 2 game (including climbing the stairs to buy drinks), hadoken thru PSP, brotherhood of men and among us (commanders namely Seah K P, Tong W M, Seow L B, Ang W S... of course, our ex-PC Chua T W)... and Lao Da (Tan W B), ex-6SIR. Photos of this event. 596 SIR stand down parade was held at Army Museum (beside Singapore Discovery Centre) at 7pm 21 Mar 2009... we had our last march in (in front of the spectators of family memb...