I am counting myself lucky...

Hi brudders,

I am just happy to be able to share with you all what I have gone through yesterday night, an experience of a lifetime!

It was a great night, I was on my brother's car where we were heading home after hanging around in town. So, after refueling @ Shell Tampines Ave 4, we took the usual Tampines Ave 10 and then TPE so we can exit Elias Road for home.

While on lane 3 between Tampines Ave 10 & Elias Road exit, we felt a thud from the back, and before we knew it our car was spinning anti-clockwise out of control. The front slammed onto the metal guard railing, car sprung and continued turning. It came to a stop between Lane 2 & 3 of TPE.

The first instinct was to see if we were wounded. What can I say, we were so lucky to be only suffering from bruises, other than slight nausea from the spin! Quickly we got down, and realized our car was in a total wreckage at the engine & car boot. My god, how did we survive the impact?

So, here came this young chap checking us if we were ok. Only then did we know he was the driver that filtered from Lane 1 to Lane 3, and in the process bumped into our rear right. We were relieved no one was seriously injured during the car accident, except causing a huge jam as our car were stuck on the TPE. Shortly, the officers came by to assist. The episode came to a temporary end after the tow truck took our car away around 1am.

Through this close encounter, I really appreciate the gift of life and no matter how well managed it appears to be, there could be times where things are just not within our control. So, live happily and fully while it last...

Surprise

Hi guys,
I was supposed to be at work by 9AM today, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a fellow colleague in HR. Completely forgot, because I have not been able to sync my Lotus Notes calendar with my Nokia phone the past week. So I got 2 calls from my colleagues and walked in late at 9:30AM to a room full of HR people who went "Surprise"!

Apparently, the surprise was on all the Oct babies (ME) as well and I had held up the "celebrations. So here is the picture of us happy Oct babies from the HR Team. 3 of them share the same birthday. I think us Libra, well-known diplomats make good HR people, hahaha....

My Blog :P

Yoz brudders, i have decided to setup a blog myself but focused purely on my trading.. You guys have fun reading if u r interested in trading yah :)

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Photo of my block


My first minced meat noodles at small shop near house.


Menu

Went grocery shopping and took photo of Oriental Pearl Town

Adding some more highlights

Hi people, i am haphazardly using blog, not very familiar with it yet. Anyway, here are some more photos. Life here is pretty good so far, weather is cool, i think i can wear the same shirt for 3 days....but dont tell anyone ok?

Today i started tinkering around the house - i started the washing machine without putting any clothes in, cos i did not know how to stop it when i accidently pressed start. Wireless is up, no issues. At night, i walked around and explore the place. Nice place, though usually there is haze throughout the day. Amazingly, i have not sneezed yet. Ok friends, keep in touch!

Atul - I will check if i can get your wimbledon tickets here, but dont be lazy la, buy online! Dont think will have much difference lor....

Woke up early this morning, around 6.45am. Again, dint sleep well! This is view from my apt.

Arrived and taking Maglev

Going to work!

This morning I took taxi to Longyang road, to catch the Maglev! Super cool train which can travel up to 400km/h I heard. It is the only magnetic levitation train outside Germany.



















Oh this is just my breakfast - bought porridge at KFC....

My first dinner alone - Pork with Rice, soup and coke

Scene at nite - my handphone sucks.

This is Wendy Shanghai - place where i ate the pork with rice....so many Wendys in Shanghai eh, Atul?

OK folks, will upate you in the future. Meanwhile, this place is really cool, and so many "entertainment" haha....but no money leh...YJ will be coming over to Shanghai, hopefully will be able to tour the place with him. Ok folks have a good time and take care!

These are photos of living room, bedroom and toilet. I think this is a pretty nice place! Impressed, bathroom with jacuzzi, anyone wants to come and stay with me?

Day 1 in Shanghai

Folks, I touched down at 2pm and immediately went to airport office. Left around 7pm to go makan dinner and make my way back to apartment. Ironically, I had dinner at Hooters....ahaha...nothing much, just friendly waitresses. Then I made my way back to apartment and was sooo sooo surprised - super shiok. Bathroom with jacuzzi and tv, masterbedroom with walk in wardroom.....I will publish some photos of apartment

All the best for Shanghai

Okie bro, by the time you see this you would have landed, settled (hopefully) and looking forward to this new chapter in your life.
Wish you all the best, work hard, play hard, enjoy your stint, i am sure it will be fun and stay cool as ever yeah...:)