understand your soulz

school days took up a quarter of our life... some longer some shorter... i can remember the early days in Kindergarten... it was a PAP Kindergarten at Beo Crescent Blk 36 (now Singapore Pools)... 2 years of my childhood were spent there... the standard PAP uniform of red and blue... the cute little boy carrying a luggage-liked bag (red and black checkered) waiting diligently at 1.45pm outside the school... Kindergarten's timing was 2pm to 4pm... that's me. i was already independent at that age (i think 5 or 6)... going to and coming back from Kindergarten alone... though my house was near but it was at least 2 blocks away... 1.30pm, i would start to prepare for school... wearing school uniform... reading and learning last minute's spelling test... getting mum to test me on the spelling...mum hardly knew the English spelling and i had to tell her the pronounciation :)... everything was settled within the few minutes and off... to school... though the long stairways from Buki...

i think i am really into the comfort zone... of laziness... no longer felt the passion of fire in work and things. my mind is almost 'switched off' everytime at work or at home... doing little constructive things, except the usual scrabulous, vmware, PSP, playing with my girls... that's really a father in retirement mode... haha... once i am stressed, migraine will set in... i have learnt to relax on matters and take things in their own stride... sounds logical?! laziness or calming soul ... choose one...

i've been having this white PSP for more than a week... only one game (WORMS)... still deciding to mod this set... i got a 4GB memory stick and the moment i got it, all the 'rubbish' starts to appear inside PSP. throw in a few comic articles and my girls' pictures, convert loads of cartoons/videos for my girl, listening to the internet radio (still listening now), dumping a few mp3 tracks... surfing the web (during toilet breaks)! PSP has become my official 'all-in-one rubbish dump'... anything that i wanted to see or use, i just upload... no limits for me, the only limitation? my 4GB!. portable game console?! it is more like a handy machine to me...got this TV out cable for PSP... now i can play my mp4 videos on any TV with components input... but only kid's videos now :) PSP is a thumbs-up for me, it really helps to 'kill' time, why iPOD?

i think i am really a slogger for work... i was a night project implementation yesterday, so only managed to get 4 hours of sleep... but surprisingly i am not really sleepy and can still carry on the tasks today! 3 day's ago, i slept like 10pm ('cos my wife is away to Frankfurt and i am the official baby-sitter for my 2 girls)... 10pm was really early for me, got up 6.50am the next day with MIGRAINE! more than 8 hours of sleep and this is what i get... the migraine continue the next day with just pain on a portion of the head...gReAt~~~ 'cheap bones' direct translation of 贱骨头! but one thing is for sure, migraine is not from not enuff sleep...

this is not your usual dentist saying... but from a father to his child. Ziyi finally started to brush her teeth before drinking her milk every morning... it has been a week and she has gotten used to it... hmm, i might want to train her to wake me up next :P

celebrated my 9th wedding anniversary yesterday... got a PSP from my wife ceramic white... i got a simple bouquet for her... tried Aji by Hanabi at Vivocity... ala-carte Jap buffet... sashimi was good... most of the items are of quality... too bad there is no dessert to go along... lunch time pricing is still acceptable at 36++, below 5 year-old kid eats free! we ended with Gobi strawberry shortcake, nice packaging (good for Valentine's Day). cake was delicious and not 'heavy'. the cream tastes good (surprisely for me as i don't really like cream)... check them out here . we had dinner with my family... and actually tried 2 restaurants at Central Mall! one ramen restaurant on 3rd floor (3 ramens to choose only?!) but it was delicious though slightly expensive... we adjourned to the restaurant beside this ramen house, a curry udon house... another good place to visit... both got 4/5 stars... a really 'bloated' day.

New Year's Eve was already a tiring day... though only half day's work. i fetch my wife and girls and off we go, shopping in Orchard since 4pm... (lunch at Jack's place - West Coast)... we were at Centrepoint until 7pm before we adjourned to Marina Square to 'book' a place... this is the must-go place if you intend to watch the New Year's fireworks... the best location is Marina Square food court. reaching 8pm, we thought we were early and a seat is guaranteed. how wrong! all the seats (alfresco) that had the best views were taken up... these guys probably camped before dinnertime. soon it was 12midnight, Happy New Year! the fireworks was great! screeeeaaams and SHOUTS!!! the mood was great. reached home around 2am...slept at 3am... at 5am plus, i heard a cry from Ziyi (my eldest girl)... thought she wanted to pee... but realise that she was running a high fever (my thermometer was 39.8 degrees)... suddenly i felt awaken, bringing the wet towels and started plac...