Johann Low

月曜日, 9月 25, 2006

[Trip to Japan (again)]

Tml by this time I shld be in Bangkok already for transit to Osaka. Maybe high up in the air? The trip has shortened by 2 days. I guess this is a good thing cos I can bring lesser clothes. Anyway now is still summer in Japan,so I will not need to pack thick winter wear there.

So here's the breakdown of the schedule :

25th - 26th=Thai/Osaka
26th - 27th=Osaka
27th - 29th=Tokyo

Initially, I was supposed to be departing from Nagoya Chubu Airport but since the trip was shortened my boss arranged it to be in Tokyo Narita. This no doubt brings back scenes of panic and anxiety when I was all alone in Tokyo Station, trying to find a way to Narita. Maybe I did not have prior planning but it was quite a bad experience as Tokyo Station is far far larger than any SGporean (who nv been overseas) can imagine. I think it is probably ard or slightly smaller than Ngee Ann City. And yes it is only a 'train' station.

Anyway I have sorta planned my way back from Tokyo, I shld be taking a limo bus to Narita from Tokyo Central Air Terminal (often known as T-CAT) I believe my hotel is quite near T-CAT as told by my Jpn agent. if not I will just take a cab there? hahaha..I think on the day back I need to get up early cos my flight is 11am and I need to reach Narita by 9. Limo bus will take about 1 hr..so I mst board the bus latest by 8. so I have to wake up by 6+? And Im going back alone.

My boss asked me to find a route from Narita to T-CAT for my China colleagues tml..so maybe I can get myself more familarised with the travelling to and fro. And i will try to aviod the OMFG confusing railway system as much as possible unless im there for travel.

Date of return is 29th, Fri nite.

elow at 12:21 午前 | (0) comments

日曜日, 9月 17, 2006

[TOKYO 260906 - 011006]

Looks like this biz trip is confirmed. The schedule is 26 Sep to 1st Oct. There were some hiccups on meeting a client in Jpn due to some problems with our goods and some compensation issues. Anyway hope there will not be anymore. That old jiji has some odd temperaments. But then this time round, most likely we are not going to Hokkaido to meet this jiji. We are going Tokyo!!! YAY! We are going to my Jpn agent's office to have a meeting. Maybe I can meet that Jpn gal with a cute voice, hehe.

Anyway, I dun like flying and this time I supposed I am flying alone (again). I cannot slp well on the plane cos it is so noisy. Guess this is different in the Business and 1st Class cabins.

Ok, finally I did something about my acne scarred complexion by going to see Dr Yeak @ Raffles Hosp. The clinic is nicely done, very cosy and very much like the clinics I went b4 @ Mount E. The service @ Aesthetic Center was great, rarely will u get such services from gahment hospitals. The nurses were nice (& young) and will greet every patient wif a smile. Try going to TTSH and u see nurses or doctors with a very unwilling face, often frowned and will avoid eye contact with patients. Are they overworked? I dunno but all I know is TTSH SUX, their doctors sux.

Oh abt my face, the nice lady doct told me my acne is more or less burnt out (not so active as when I was 17) so she asked me to do CP (chemical peeling) on the spot yesterday. I was abit er apprehensive thus I requested for facial washes or other forms of treatment 1st. Dr Yeak was fine and easy going with anything, in fact I dunno what to do..so I asked her to recommend. So I got a Therapeutic Dermatologic Formula AHA Facial wash, lotion and Retin A. Total damage is $117+!! A poorer man now...The doct said my scars n marks are rather light and superficial and also I nv use alot of skincare pdts on my face before, so I might have better results? Well I guess that's good news. Anyway I was advised to get sunblock..tho dr yeak nv recommended me cos she was worried it might cause outbreak due to clogged pores. I am keen on getting la roche posay sunblock which is gg to cos me $40+ I will be going back to see her after 1 months time.

Watching tonite's Te Xie left me sad.Cos tonite's 'case' was on 3 siblings whose parents cld not afford to pay for their pri sch education. Can u believe that this exist in Singapore? The eldest is a 13YO kid who is now in Pri 3, 2nd is a 12YO gal who is now in Pri 3, 3rd sibling is 10 also in P3. And their mum just given birth to a 4th child! Apparently, their sobstory is both parents were jobless so they cannt afford to send them to school. But good news is they have received ample help and now these 3 kids are doing extremely well with their studies.

Anyway this leads me to think so many young SG kids dunno how fortunate they are to be able to go school. Some kids even complain what Chinese diff to learn. Do they ever know that some kids dun even have the chance to go to school? Honestly, young people, including my generation and those younger do not fully appreciate what they have now. Complain complain complain, they shld go out work and mayb that will shut their trap and make them appreciate how lucky they are to be in SG.

elow at 11:32 午後 | (0) comments

火曜日, 9月 12, 2006

[Dead tired]

3 days of rest made my head dull. Was so so so dead tired after work (and during work). There's a tingling sensation of 'wind' in my head since last nite after having the fan to blast wind to my head for several hours. Anyway the day started out hot and it was really HOT..I was pespiring from Semb til Cityhall, the farking air-conditioning was almost non existent. Trying to save electricity ah? The farking bus was not better, a/c @ full blast but all I felt was luke warm air. At least the office a/c was much better.

Usually things go like this, I will feel lethargic @ work and I swear I will take a good nap on the train..but normally I cannot slp on the train? I wonder why..isjit becos Im always beo-ing any well dressed pretty OLs? =D. Ah, anyway I was listening to Jay's album and Fish's this evening. And yes it was still rather warm. Then at the corner of my eye,(no, not the tall pretty OL I saw earlier) I saw this young couple teasing each other. Then one thought flashed across my mind, why do people fall in love? Is it not stupid to do so when after awhile all u see is the ugliness of human nature? Suddenly, the though on why some people are so hard up for companionship bewilder me. Recent happenings in the chatroom also made me wonder, why are some of the guys so hard up for galfriends? What for? For what?

elow at 11:21 午後 | (0) comments

[可惜不是? ke xi bu shi ni ( a pity it is not u)]

I dun have much of an impression of this song by Fish Leong. But somehow,somewhere,some time ago I heard this sound being broadcasted so softly,so subtly over the radio and since then it has taken root. I searched over the net for the lyrics and as I listen to this song while reading the lyrics, it come to me so closely that tears began to flow down uncontrollably down. Not sure how but this song seems to touch me so subtle yet so deeply, it felt so close to heart. Another KTV song!!!! WAHHAHAHA..i miss ktv. I know I will probably tear if I sing this song.

Jay Chow's new album seem to be getting better. As usual, I like his ballets. The songs seem to protray his r/s with Hou Pei Cen? I dunno, just a guts feeling.

可惜不是?
?一刻突然?得好熟悉
像昨天今天同?在放映
我?句?气原来好像?
不就是我???的?据

差一点?了自己?了?
?与被?不一定成正比
我知道被疼是一??气
但我无法完全交出自己

努力??改?
却?不了?留的伏?
以?在?身?那也算永?
?佛?是昨天
可是昨天已非常遥?
但?上双眼我?看得?

可惜不是?陪我到最后
曾一起走却走失那路口
感?那是???我的手
?能感受那温柔
那一段我?曾心?着心
我想我更有?力?心?
可能?已走??人?景
多希望也有星光的投影
努力??改?
却?不了?留的伏?
以?在?身?那也算永?
?佛?是昨天
可是昨天已非常遥?
但?上双眼我?看得?

可惜不是?陪我到最后
曾一起走却走失那路口
感?那是???我的手
?能感受那温柔
可惜不是?陪我到最后
曾一起走却走失那路口
感?那是???我的手
?能感受那温柔
感?那是???我的手
?能温暖我胸口

elow at 12:04 午前 | (0) comments

日曜日, 9月 10, 2006

[oh life III]

@ this time I shld be flying somewhere high above on my way to Japan Hokkaido but anyway I am still here. The trip will not be this week but possibly next week? I certainly hope it will not clash with my appt with Dr Yeak whom I am going to consult with for my acne scars and marks.

As for work, things have been rather quiet recently. Another colleague has sorta 'left' the company but the only difference is he is now working as an agent. The new colleague came,a 28 yr old guy. Not really impressed by him cos he is kinda trying to...make impressions. Well I do appreciate the small talks but quite obviously our frequencies differ..so I can't really click with him. The other guy who left, he was from Mauritius. I cld click with him quite well. He is so Singaporean until we cld hardly differentiate.

Anyway, finally installed the $1598 Adobe CS 2 Standard Edition. It is really worth the money cos CS 2 is an excellent package for anyone or any company who deals with graphic design. Then again, how many wil fork out $1598? Illustrator CS 2 has this new feature called Live Trace which can trace out any raster images (ur jpegs,pngs etc) into vector graphics! Amazing feature, no wonder I see so many uber realistic vector art these days, so it is just Live Trace. Mediacorp has have actively using it, now u virtually see vectorized pics of the who n who in their new dramas..such as the new coming drama with Ivy Lee, Thomas Ong and Terance Chow. Photoshop CS 2 has a new feature called Vanishing Point. Anyone shld google to see its video demo, simply AMAZING.

I think more new colleagues are coming in, some will be foreigners who can speak in other languages.

Well, other than work, there's nothing much happening. Hardly met up my old pals now, though there was a cycling thing yesterday. Mondays - Fridays = Work. Saturdays and Sundays = home. Kinda peaceful, I dun really wish to see anyone or anything to disrupt this order, at least for the time being. Ohh, finally got Jay Chow's new album. I rem I just got his album last yr? It has been a yr oredi?! =OOOOO haha..time flies..now is September, I can count down for X Mas...then New Year, then CYN...then.........my 27th BD!!!!! AHHHHHHHhhhh...im hitting the 3X soon.

elow at 11:49 午後 | (0) comments

日曜日, 9月 03, 2006

[oh life II]

Once again I cannot come up with a appropriate title..anyway I guess hardly anyone reads, so dun matter.

Internet has brought many people from thousands of miles together, yet it seems to be it has moved people further away. How has it brought people closer? Well it connects people from one side of the world to the other, be it emails, IMs, forums. If u have someone who is residing or working or studying overseas and both of u have a broadband connection and a PC. A webcam and Skype, MSN, Yahoo is all u need to 'see' each other. U can even save loads on IDD calls.

How has it moved people further from each other? To me it is even though u can 'see' one another online but yet, there is hardly any conversation going on. Dun u feel u are so 'closed' so 'connected' but yet feel so remote? For those on MSN, do u have anyone whom u added eons ago and eventually u forget who they are? Or have u added someone for the sake of adding and over sometime u actually forget who they were? or even how u get to add them in the 1st place? I feel it is more distanced because the primary means of human interaction has been replaced by digits and binary codes.

Sometimes things u wanna say or convey cannot be replaced by text. Thus misunderstandings happened frequently among people who communicate with IMs and emails. What a morbid entry. This sux.

Workwise, the week has been quiet cos my boss was away (he was back on Fri tho). Oh yeah more colleagues are leaving, soon the office will be empty. Anyway I know there will be new colleagues joining in. I told my mum abt this while we were walking to Yishun Seafood to have our dinner. I said there shld be 2 more gals joining in to help out in the admin side and guess what she said 'mayb u can find one among ur colleagues...' anyway I brushed it off lightly by saying most gals ard my age or near my age are attached.

Dinner was good, we had claypot sea cucumbers and one plate of veg (name unknown) fried with preserved beancurd (foo yuu in Cantonese). the veg was EXCELLENT!!!!! My mum and I were relishing on that dish. I cld have licked that plate clean hahahahaha...The claypot consisted of sea cucumbers, mushrooms,sweetcorn sweet peas,roasted pork. Total cost: $19! Then we went Sembawang SC's Giant to walk ard, bought 1 bottle of shan zha green tea, sara lee's cake and bleach.

Tml I will have a 'date' with my boss and colleague, cos we be going to Funan to purchase Adobe CS II. yawn.

elow at 12:56 午前 | (0) comments