$240 to learn how to slot in a memory card.

Go on… call me a dupe, a clumsy penguin or a dumbbell. I just broke or twisted 4 pins inside my CF cardholder for my Canon Eos 400D. Call myself a modern tech savvy chap living in a 1st world country which embrace itself with latest technology, it’s such an embarrassment when I brought in my baby to the Canon service center for repair. I can see the jeering eyes of the customer service staff flashing at me when he was told I damage my CF cardholder because I had made a mistake by putting my memory card upside down and used some force when it refused to slot in nicely.

Anyway, I had paid $240 from that silly lesson and now, I am only looking forward to get back my baby and start shooting at my target… if you’re wondering why I had not been posting any picture of my little pricess, now you know why…

Too bad I won’t be taking any nice Chinese new-year photo this year….

I always like and wanted to do things slowly and nicely, but whenever I find myself in a chaotic or messy situation, I seems to be a little bit disorganized. I’ve got to learn to calm down and really be cool and focus man! …I’ve got to be one man…

Happy New Year 2009.

Farewell 2008.
This year felt muck like a F1 race that whizzed by in a flash during the night race at the Singapore Grand Prix.

I have hardly had time to look back and take in all that transpired in the last 12 months or so, and now I am already trying to make a fresh new resolution for 2009.

I have always looked forward to a new year – not just because it reminds me of Gracia getting older and more independent but also the distance away to my goals and dreams are getting nearer.

But a New Year, however, means a whole lot more to me than just seeing Gracia growing up and knowing my dreams are getting nearer.

It has always been a time of renewal. I see every year-end as a period for self-reflection. This is also the time to surrender my heart to those who mean the most to me, especially my wife whom we had our fair share of conflicts as a husband and wife so that I can be renewed, refreshed, and restored. I am going to be a better husband this year.

There’s no better time than a new year to rethink our priorities. And for 2009, I am set to burn my access fat, improve my stamina, eat well, sleep more and most of all, to focus on the over all well being of my health.

Gosh… I hate to sound like a broken records, I know (like many of you) I had made this kind of resolution before and failed to fulfilled the promised that I made. But for 2009, somehow, I felt I am having a uncompromising determination and will power within me that will push me to succeed and hopefully by end of 2009 I am not only a gangster dad but a macho dad too… lol….

Good-bye 2008 and welcome 2009!

Happy New Year and all the best for every one of you too.

Tanglin Mall

We just went Tanglin mall to look for some fabrics, Lina heard from a friend that they have nice and colourful design over there. The Christmas decoration is already up and shops are starting to sell bells, wines, log cakes and many many more of the Christmas accessories and gifts...
Reindeer form a straight line greeting us at the very first shop we see.



Looking at the Christmas tree decoration... I am thinking we shall have one our home one day.

The beeline of CD stack neatly on the rack seems to amused little Gracia for a moment.



These are the fabric we came here for. But don't think we are buying anything here "Tangling Mall"... It's for the rich... you know what i am talking about don't you. Moreover, Lina didn't found anything she really like. She always said she can't find really nice design locally here and have to go online and get them from oversea supplier....(shall we start a biz importing fabric?)

Sun Proof....

Swinging In The Air.

We got this idea when we were at AMK HUB yesterday doing some window shopping. They got a swinging toy selling at $9.90....

We came home and made a D.I.Y swinging bear ourselves.


That's easy... we already had a hook extended from the ceiling that used to be an attachment for Gracia hammock when she was still a toddler. Just add a few more rubber band for the suspension effect and done....

Pasir Ris Farm

Now that we have found out this place at Pasir Ris Farm 1, just 10min drive from our house. We don't have to go else where for little Gracia to feed those 'hungry fishes'. I wonder if the owner feed them too because they really seems desperate when ever they see someone near, they(the fishes)will swim to you, open their mouth and they seems to be shouting “给我一点吃的吧!”（Give me some food!)










For some reason, Gracia seems to assiociate 'fish' with 'eat'. Maybe because we have been bringing her to feed fish since she was young and now when ever she see fish, she will eventually say eat. lol...

























She really enjoyed the swing pretty much... when ever i slower down, she'll fussed and ask me to do it faster.
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Broken Bridges.

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There is a story about a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She detested everyone except her loving boyfriend, who was always there for her.

One day, she turned to him and said:"If only i could see the world, i will marry you."

It wasn't long someone donated a pair of eyes to her.When the bandages came off, she finally able to see everything, including her boyfriend.

He asked her:"Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?"

The girl look at him and saw that he was also blind, just like her before.
She has not expected that and the thought of looking at his closed eyelids for the rest of her life totally turned her off.

Her boyfriend left in tears. Days later, he wrote her a note saying:"Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine."

This story illustrates how selfish - knowingly or otherwise - we can sometimes be.

Lets use this story as a gentle reminder and not forget where we have come from and who had given us a hand when we're down.