Ah yes! This is juguang jr you are seeing here!! He finally arrive to be with my family yesterday, 30 Dec 2005 in the afternoon. The above pic is taken just less than 10mins after he took his first breath of earth's oxygen!(if it's blur, it's because of my trembling hands ... dun blame my HP607!

The drama started 3.40am on the 30th dec when Ace woke me up and told me "I think abt time liao" ... so off we go to NUH delivery ward! After hrs of wait, the action begins at abt 10.45am, when she start to feel contractions of un-neglectable level! The events that follows in the next 4 hrs is really a nightmare for both of us, perharps because the baby has inherited his dad's "big size", he gave his mum a hell of time! I salute my wife for making it through without any injection; using only the "high gas". She decide against any injection cos it's said to cause side effect on the mum and also cause the baby to feel drowsy(thus needing injection for antidote).

I also have to salute myself, for surviving the whole live action. Guys, before anyone laugh at me, do it first before telling me how you feel. You look at the person you love, holding her hand, seeing her in extreme pain; you see bloody scenes, you see nurses and doc exchanging concern words ... mins pass, hours pass; and all you can do is hold her hand shouting encouragement ... 4 bloody hrs ... throughout the whole event, I started praying, yes, I prayed! Pray for god to forgive my sin whatever ... believe me, if a Deity is to appear and offer me to relieve her suffering and deliver my child safety in exchange for vanities like money(even my D70! haha!), I'll declare bankrupt the instant!

I dun wanna say too much, cos I really feel it's impossible to put the feeling to words, I just wanna tell all guys, pls, be there. After that, it'll change you (be prepared to suffer Post Traumatic Stress Disorder though) and the way you cherish what you have. It's also very important for your wife, you are the extra source of energy to last the marathon! At the end of the whole thing, I was really exhausted and lost my voice (shouting encouragement) ... then I imagine, how abt my wife who has gone through the pain and used all the energies to PUSH! At that point, I salute all Mums in this world!

Well, the journey has just started ... but I'm now upgraded and willing to take the challenge! Come what may!

The story of Facts, Perceptions and Trust ...

This was a pic capture in July 2003, using my then trusty Nikon 4300 PS camera. The trailing tail lights indicating car/cars passing by the beautiful Fullerton hotel?? Truth, facts or just perceived to be ...

Yesterday, a happy occasion was turned soured between my groups of friends in my workplace ... of course I was also involved. As usually the case, mis-communication always play a very big part in any unhappiness. Perharps one of the best lesson I've learn in life is to empathise and to see from another person's point of view. In life, we have to understand that not all human beings think alike or has the same beliefs, thus it's always better if we all can communicate effectively with one another ... well of course, sometime it hard to put across in words what we really meant.

Not wanting to divulge too much details, I only wanna conclude that yesterday's unhappiness was a consequence of mis-perception, mis-interpretation of facts or so call facts and the wrongful belief of the so call truth ...

People, when they are angry, always just sees the negative side of one another, they start to remember all the bad traits, the bad events ... and thus they start to form stories which they believed to be the truth, supported by the facts which they perceived to mean what it actually does not meant to be! And human beings, when challenged will immediately be put into a defensive mode that can be seems as hostile! It can really turn an event very very bad!

When I started to detach myself from the whole event of yesterday, I started to see why the actions & reactions of both groups, the minor little events all add up to explode into a full blown WAR. (wait wait, I'm not saying I'm not involve hor, detachment is a technic I use, that means I look thru whole event, including what I did too!! haha!)

In fact, I actually felt that yesterday events should be penned down to become a classical story for educating our younger generation. When I look back at it, it's really miraculous and of course very unlucky how so many other little small events had happened in the first place to become supporting "facts" of a perceived truth when war broke out! In fact, we should shoot a film of this event in the style of the National Geographic or izzit Discovery Channel 's "Seconds before Disaster"! hahaha!!!

Well, I just hope my friends; whether involved or not in yesterday case to have more trust in each other, to be more considerate of each other's feeling and be more patient in dealing with one another! Come on, WE ARE FRIENDS! Peace!

** aftermath; after hearing views from everyone, there are already calls made by parties involved( incuding myself) to clarify things. It seems ok liao, I just hope everyone forgive and forget and move on! Dun let the occasional thorn(argument) rob the Rose(friendship) off it's beauty!

Praying for a Auspicious New Year aheah!!

Hmm, a pic of some auspicious symbols I took in Chinese Garden. Posting for some goodluck! Hopefully my akan datang Baby Xiaoxin will be healthy and obedient. Hehe ... and I can smoothly transit to new career, oh also my knee cap injury quick quick recover, else can't play badminton.

Also hope that by the next chinese new yr, 12dailypro will still be up and running, giving me 44% interest in whatever investment I put in! haha! 12dailypro is the Autosurf site Adrian recommend to me, today just ended my 2nd investment, reaping abt US$100 in abt 15 days. I have reinvested US$200 and will be looking forward to total payment of US$288 after another 8 days! hehe!For those interested can click on the banner just above my visitor counter to take a look. Quite revolutional concept, was myself quite skeptical abt it at first too, but decide to try after Adrian got back his payments making US$1k!

Well, if u join by clicking the link, I get some commission from the site too, 12% for refering. But it's not MLM cos the referral perks stop at 1 lvl, meaning you recruit ur own downline and I will not benefit from it. There were talks at first if this is MLM or what ... think this explain it lor. Some might also feel that ... "wow, you get 12% commission from the site for recommending me ah ... etc ..." but only one thing to say, open ur heart/mind, e.g. I'm grateful to Adrian for telling me and taking the risk of testing it first. Moreover, the 12% doesn't directly come from my pocket. So, I have only this to say " why miss out on 44% profit just because I dun want someone else to earn a 12% that's not even mine or from my pocket!?? "

But hor, to conclude hor ... if anyone happen to join after seeing this ... the fact is I dun think the site will last forever, else I no need to work liao. So pls invest at your risk!

FengShui And 8 zi ... (Geomancy and 4 pillar destiny)

Well, first of all, wishing myself happy 29th birthday! haha! Happy birthday to my superior, Stealth and my colleague Ben too, they share with me the same birthdate.

Just tot I should pen down my "feel" for fengshui and 8 zi; well, as most know, fengshui is the art of living in harmony with your enviroment and 8 zi is the 4 pillar that is constructed using your birth data. I've attended courses at the Singapore Polytechnic, conducted by Mr Vincent Koh; founder of the Singapore Fengshui Centre. For me, the course was to gain extra knowledge on this topic as I've so often heard of scams and scare tactics sometime use by cheapo practistioner to force believer into buying all sorts of "artifacts"!

Let me just clarify something here, do note that whatever "cure" that is required in Fengshui is usually in the form of the 5 elements, namely metal, wood, water, fire and earth. It's believed that these 5 elements will create and also can destruct each other. Since in the 9 flying star Fengshui, all the auspicious or inauspicious stars are of one of the above elements, we always try to enhance or nudify the effects using another element. That explains the plants, red carpet or golden tortise using used in fengshui right? haha!

Thus, it should now be clear to you there isn't really any specific need to purchase that piece of expensive artifacts from ur "master", all you need is to place something of the correct element. Then of course, you need to be sensitive to the object that you place there, e.g. you dun put a knife in your bedroom if you are told to use metal element!! In conclusion, use the correct element that's manifested in an auspicious form.

Getting a bit long and dry, think I'll continue with my tots on 8 zi fortune telling another day.