What's The Value Of Your Gift?

Yesterday a lady walk into our shop holding 1 of our merchandise in her hand. After a while, she ask me what is the price of a particular item on the table. Well, the item that she enquired is the same as the 1 she is holding.

What does a gift means to you?

If you receive a LV wallet from Brad, would you be over the moon? But if you receive a $20 wallet from Tom, would you be looking at the rubbish bin?

What are you thinking of when you receive a gift? A LV wallet means Brad adore you? A monogram wallet means he got chic taste? Or he feel you deserve a LV?

Or did you ever consider why is Tom giving you a $20 wallet? Is he a miser? Or is it that he can only spare $20 out of his expenses? Or he feel that you may like this black colour multi-compartment wallet, a practical item? Or he feel you only deserve a $20 wallet?


Well, sometime it could really difficult to give a present for someone. Give your collegue a smaller gift, he may gossip you. Give him a bigger gift, you may also get gossip from someone else. Get him a discounted item, he may say you are cheap.

Sometime I wonder what is the VALUE of a gift. Is it the PRICE or the THOUGHT?

Road To Oscar

Oh Great!!!

A adaption film from Hong Kong had won an Oscar. Alan Mak and Andrew Lau's Internal Affair had won Martin Scorese, The Departed, an Oscar. I suppose the Hong Kong creators and team must be over the moon. Hong Kong had lots of great creators. Directors. Producers. Scritwriters. Actors. Stuntmen. Choroegraphers. etc etc... . And fantastic films.

Oh, I feel pity for Mr Dicaprio. He had 2 wonderful films in The Departed and Blood Diamonds, yet he did win the best actor award. His past film in Aviator also miss out on the award. Gosh. Well, when is his turn? Maybe ee had to wait for his award, just like Andy Lau who had finally capture his Best Actor Award after so many years.

Valentine's 2007

Happy Valentine's, My Princess :)

Black

I had just taken my shower. Now listening to the Black Album - Metallica.

Gosh. The album is full of drum, bass and guitar blasting away. Of course, their earlier albums were all more heavier. More heavy duty. More power punch. The black album is a bit more 'subtle' and mainstream. But I still love it. I suppose it is their 1st album that I had listen to. It feel rather sentimental to me.

Entersandman. A song that is full of energy. One of the crowd favorite. The music made me feel like there is a monster entering into a town in a quiet night. People run amok. Some heros wanna stop the monster.

The Unforgiven. A classic opening. A song that I feel like that a guy had done lots of wrong deeds. All the people can't forgive him. He is been left alone. He is been outcast. He is been left regreting for the rest of his life.

Nothing Else Matters. Another song with a brillant opening. It sound abit like detaching the surrounding. You only believe in what you believe in. You are determine to get what you want.

Wherever I May Roam. It is a song that it often made me feel like I am in a exotic desert, mystery place, barbaric city. A place where people on the street carry arabic-eqyptian sword and costume. Full of blooming and colourful flowers. Lots of tents. Lots of table silverware.

The Black Album is absolutely great.
Somtime I wonder how many fans are still listening to them.

Hello, How Are You and Goodbye.

I had a good friendship with C during our secondary days. We get along quite well. In our poly-NS days, we chance upon each other on the streets and make some small talks. During our working lives, we still bump into each other. But each time, we talk lesser and lesser. Recently, I bump into C on 2 occasions. The 1st occasion, we didnt really talk. We just say Hello, How Are You and Goodbye. On the 2nd occassion, I am just like a stranger to him. I try to talk to him, but he just brush off the talks. What had happen?

I had a 'normal' friendship with CY, who is also a friend of C and mine. CY and I are just 'friends' during those days. But during our working lives, we had bump into each other and we had laughter and chatted off well!!

Well, maybe C have reasons for holding himself back to me.

Sometime when people had step into the corporate world, they change. They talk about money. How much do you earn? What post are you holding? What house are you buying? What car are you driving?

Well, I had gone to a friend's wedding. And my old friends are talking around the bushes on these matters.
One even ask "Does your girlfriend stay in a condominium?"
And the guy reply "No. She stay in a terrace house. Haa. Surprise you. Haa".

Gosh. Is now the common trend on 'Is you girl rich'? I only know 'Is your boy rich?.

Of course it is common to ask what do you do. We are concern and curious about each other. But lots of people ask this to 'grade' you.

Well, maybe it is a welcome to the world.

Sometime, man needs to learn how to be humble. Steve J is a humble man. He claim he is not a irreplaceable guy in his organization. Woww. I hope he say it sincerely.

Hello 2007!!!

This is my 1st blog of 2007.

Yr 2006 had flew past.
I suppose Yr 2007 gona zoom zoom past as well.

Well, Yr 2006 had finally let one of my dreams come true. I had finally let my design been produce as a product. Of course some people may say the products did not earn me any money. But I suppose only a true designer could understand how I feel.

A composer would be glad to hear his song been sang at a concert.
A fashion desiger would be glad to see his clothes parading down the catwalk.
A car engineer would be glad to see his car racing round the Formula 1 circuit.
I am glad to see my art work on the shelf.

Of course, I am still far and away from other elite designers. But nevertheless, I am very happy with my debutant work pieces with Mr LV. I suppose that our 1st collaboration is quite a success. Our joint-efforts had pay off.

Well, for Yr 2007, my wishes are that I hope the government could promote and create awareness on global warming. I hope the government could strongly encourage the public to SAVE THE EARTH!! I hope the government could educate his citizens.

Secondly, I hope there are more well-manner customers. I hope the government not only encourage the service industry to buck up their service standard, but also to remain the public that it take 2 hands to clap louder. I hope the public could stop abusing the so-call CUSTOMER RIGHTS!!

Thirdly, I wish my Princess with good health. Good luck. Safety. And stay chirpy chirpyz chip chipz.

Love.

Beatles

Beatles.
Oh, the classic Beatles.

They are genius in music.
Arn't they?

So sad that they had break up.
Wonder if they had stay on, how many more classic songs would be heard.

Listening to Beatles now. Sometimes, I find their music rather simple. But catchy! Lots of time, I feel their music direct with lukewarm feeling. Lots of time, I feel like singing along! Sometimes, I feel quite sad listening to their tracks. Sometimes, I feel light hearted. Sometimes, I feel 70s.

It's Christmas Time

Christmas time.
So this is Christmas. And what have you done?

Christmas time.
Christmas is coming. Another year is ending soon.

Christmas time.
I hope we could all enjoy our Christmas.

Merry Merry Christmas.
And A Happy New Year.

Fantastic Chocolate Cake?

Lately I had eaten the Chocolate Cake from Bukit Timah. The so-called awfully wonderful chocolate cake in this island. Most of the orders are made under reservation list. The paper used to claim it to be one of the best in this tropical country. The chocolate cake had been baked years after years. Popular for years after years.

Of course I am very curious to taste this chocolate cake. I love chocolate. Irrestible.

Finally I got to taste it last weekend. Smell good. But after having the first bite, I wonder 'What's the hype about this chocolate cake?'. It is just a simple cake. It is not fantastic at all. It is just a simple and ordinary chocolate cake. I am not a food connoisseur. But I could taste what is a really great piece of chocolate cake.

Sometimes I wonder the standard of some food critic's review. This chocolate cake is a great example. I wonder how do this journalist grade this cake so highly? She may like to eat food. But she is not a savory food critic at all. She is just a food lover.

I would prefer to eat my Meiji Dark Chocolate, after all.

Haze Attack!! Take great care, Chirpy Birds!

Nowadays the haze is still very 'POWERFUL'.

They look misty. They look dreamy. They look romantic.
But beware! Looks can kill.

I ask our company PR chirpy bird should we send a memo to the shop chirpy birds to take good good care of their body, especially during the hazy period? I thought the memo may lighten up their chirpy mood. So that they will be DoubleChirpy. Well, at the same time, the company would also like to show concern for their chirpy health!!

This memo may sounds a bit weird to somebody, but we are xxxxxx! We work hard and we have funny fun.

Chirpy chirpy chirp chirp..

IRRITATING Mobile Phone User

This morning in the MRT, I heard someone playing some music from his mobile phone. Airing the music out from his handphone speaker! These type of IRRITATING behaviour had been occuring lately, AGAIN and AGAIN!!!

I wonder why would these inconsiderate user do this action? If you wana hear some nice music, you could always pluck in a earpiece and listen to it, enjoy in your own world. Unless you had lose your earpiece, or it had been damaged, or you left it at home, or you can't listen from earpiece from some health problem. Even if you really wana listen from the speaker, you could tune the volume lower. Why do you wana blare out the music?? Are you afraid no one know you like this song? Are you trying to hint everyone that you are cool (actually, you arn't)? Sometime I feel like pumping my TECHNO song from my handphone speaker against theirs! If I had a MP3 player and speaker in my Marimekko Ladybear Bag, I would pump out MY MUSIC against those irritating user. My super techno vs their pop song. My enchanting soprano vs their techno. My rock star vs their hip hop.

We don't need these type of people to tell us what are music. If we want good selection of music, we could go to HMV, Gramophone or THAT CD. The latter have excellent song selection airing from their superior BMB speaker, daily.

I am a great fan of theirs.

Striking Sensation

Liverpool had just won a 3-0 match against Spurs.

They display another control and attacking strategy. Up goes the tempo in the 2nd half. Gear up for a sudden fast and furious pace. They had attacks from the left and right flanks. Centre assaults. Low and high crosses.

Finally, a move by Captain Gerrard had Bellamy hitting the post from close range. But a follow-up by Gonzalez had earned the Chilean his 1st Anfield goal.

The 2nd goal is a stinger from Kuyt. A shot with power, accuracy and confidence. I believe there will be more similiar goals from the Dutch.

A counter-attack by the Reds result in another trademark shot by Riise. Another long, powerful and accurate shot.

Great team efforts. Great goals.

Alonso Goal !!

Few days ago, Liverpool had win 2-0 over the Toons. As usual, they had created numerous goal-scoring chances. But in this game, they managed to score. 2 goals. All connected to Xabi Alonso. The 1st goal was a diagonal defence splitting pass from Alonso which found Finnan laying on for Kuyt to score his 1st Anfield goal. The 2nd goal was a masterpiece. Alonso had lifted the ball from his own half. The ball shoot up high in the air and drop perfectly into the goal. No bouncing. Straight in.

:)

Steve Irwin The Crocodile Hunter

I had always enjoy watching Steve Irwin's programmes. I could see that he was extremely passionate and had great knowledge with animals. It was amazing to see him getting so close up with dangerous crocodiles, snakes, etc, at times.

But, we could not see him record another programme anymore. He had been an unfortunate victim of a stingray. It's spine had pierced his heart while filming an underwater documentary on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

The world had lost a Great TV host. An amazing animal lover.

Report On Bad Reporters?

Recently, Straits Times had featured an article on some popular nightspot with bad services. It had highlighted their poor service standards. Last year, there were also articles on umpleasant services, on some high-end retailers. I supposed these reporters may had reasoned that it were their duties to report the truth to the public. To unearth the dirt, bring it to the light.

I wonder would these reporters report on bad reporters?
Or are there no bad reporters?

Great Jamie and David

Yesterday I had managed to watched the programmes by David Blaine and Jamie Oliver again.

David is a great magician! His tricks are awesome.

Oh Jamie. I love watching his cooking show. His fantastic food. The way he cook. His passion. Yummyzz!

Multi Stars

Multi Stars

What Shape?

What Shape?

National Day 2006

Elsewhere in the Middle East, Israel and Lebanon are engaging in battles. Fire had been raging for the past few weeks. More soldiers had been recalled. More tanks. More air planes. More rockets. More ammo. More, more and more heat to come. Every generations of Israel had experinced war. From father to son. Lets hope all will end as soon as possible.

Here we are in Singapore celebrating our 41st National Day in 2006. Today, early in the morning we could hear children from nearby schools singing our Singapore's nation-bonding songs.

Lets hope Singapore could continue our peaceful days.
Onwards Singapore.

My 1st Salad

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