Water view

Water Fengshui. Moving water in front of your place is a good Fengshui. It refreshes the chi and soothes the nerves.

Qi, deemed as the basic element of the physical world in ancient Chinese philosophy, is the essence of fengshui. The art of fengshui advocates there is a certain field, sort of like magnetic field, termed as qi field. An auspicious qi field is what fengshui practitioners seek while an evil one is what they strive to avoid. There are five elements - long (dragon), xue (cave), sha (sand), shui (water) and xiang (orientation). They are used to avoid evil qi and gain auspicious qi. In order to keep qi of the Heaven and the Earth in harmony in the construction of a new structure, earth vein should not be spoiled. The best orientation is a building with its face facing a river or a lake in the south and back against a hill in the north

Hmm... see what is infront of my building. This is my everyday view from my room.


Singapore river

Happy Ending

I went to see Happy Ending this afternoon with Flo and Saf.

Very good drama, more than only "campaign" of having equal right or struggle against discrimination but also adopted from very real situation that happened in gay life - first time falling in love with same sex ( happy and confusion), imagination of having happily ever after partner , self confuse, never ending party ( at the same place, same crowd and same person to see ) and many more.

A good job for the team involved, and two thumbs up for Alfian Sa'at, Ivan Heng, Ben Xiao, Robin Goh and Karen Tan.

Time flies so fast, everything is so quick - tomorrow start with having lunch in Delifrance hahahaha....

Food nation

Welcome to singapore. Anyone wanna join? Me had enough chicken rice already :D

Me...myself

I just watched Thai DVD that I bought in MBK called Me...Myself. The story is good and the idea is fresh for Asia movie. Two thumbs up!

I like the quote in the movie says :

How could we be so sure?
About who we really are;
or if we're being what we want to be;
or if we're being what other people want to be.

But the philosophy of living one's life states that..
the most valuable things about being human,
is having the freedom to choose

Whatever thought we had at the moment,
we would become as what we initially thought

So deep.

Miss melbourne suddenly

Ha! Receiving 6 minutes and 27 seconds phone call made me miss Melbourne. Isn't it cold now? Brzzz..... cannot tahan*





* singlish : can't take it

Bangkok

I was in a rush last Friday after work - need to catch my flight to BKK, first I'm afraid to miss my flight ( as usual haha ) and secondly I can't wait to meet surya. Yes! Surya ! My best friend and my apartment share-mate in Sydney.

The busy ECP at 5pm made me nervous but also brought my imagination of what will I do in Bangkok with Surya, while I kept looking at my watch in every 2 minutes. Ha! Finally I can check in 45 min before flying. Now it's the time to do marathon over changi Airport.

After 2 flying, I run to Thailand immigration and after 15 min in immigration, I run out straight to Jetstar terminal to meet Surya, unfortunately so many people in there and my last wish is he read my sms that I wait in front of SQ gate. After wait 15 min - finally I met surya. Ha!! So exciting after 2 months never meet. We don't even realize that the taxi has already waited since we kept talking. Haha...


First meet in Bangkok Airport - me was still wearing office shirt hahaha...


Grand palace


Canal boat trip

We had a very good time in Thailand, showed surya around, from Grand Palace until canal boat trip, from Siam paragon to chatuchak, from DJ station to suriwong area!

Sur, I am so blessed to have friend like you. Miss our dinner conversation in Sydney and sms you by asking " Dimana? koq belum pulang? " and always been replied " In Paddy's market " hahahaha......

Kop khun krap!

Weekend with Matthew

I will dedicate my weekend to Matthew - my brother - in view of the fact that I was too busy since he arrived in Singapore. Well, actually both is busy, he's busy with his course meanwhile me, of course with work.

Last 2 weekend I was in KL, last weekend I was in Jakarta. So I am trying to spend my time with him now - at least I try.

Friday, 6 July 2007 - 19.30hrs
We had dinner at Italian restaurant by the Singapore river with Florence. The restaurant itself is not far from my apartment, only 10 minutes walk. Good time, good wine, good conversation, good view and good companion. Thanks Flo.


The view from the restaurant

Saturday, 7 July 2007

14.20hrs - Raffles hotel
I can't believe that Matthew has not been to Raffles Hotel yet. Of course, we just passed it through - hopefully we can try to stay in the Raffles one day :P



14.30hrs Museum of toy
Not far from the Raffles, we visited toy museum. Oh I wanna be a child again especially when I saw the robot in 1983, oh it's like mine when I was small. That robot was my most expensive toy when I was child. And also there is FLASH GORDON toy! Start from his spaceship, his enemy Ming, his comics - he was my favourite hero before I know Wolverine.




The first barbie and her boyfriend Ken - I just know that Ken was so girly before - look at his shirt and short :D



16.00 DHL balloon
Finally I made it. Me and Matthew ride the balloon and feel Singapore view above 120m.

Bit bumpy due to strong wind. When everyone hold the rail - me still walk around the balloon and take some pictures.

Not recommended for those who scare of high.





16.45hrs - Singapore Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
We took bus from Bugis to Chinatown and stop in front of this temple.

Wow, this is an amazing temple, so nice, so grand and so majestic. It just been opened this year during Vesak day celebration, it cost 60 million SGD to built this temple. 2nd WOW!







17.30hrs Sri Mariamman Temple
Just walk for less than 10 minutes from the Buddha temple, we can arrive to th is temple. This is the oldest Hindu temple in Singapore, was built around 1843. Very nice sculptures of gods and goddesses start from entrance to the back.





After visit so many interest place, I take Matthew to one of interesting place too. Museum of Diesel, Esprit, GAP and Armani Exchange. VIVO city !! hahaha...

Jakarta

I landed in Jakarta last Friday evening. it's weekend but still traffic. Saturday, it took 1 hour to go to Taman Anggrek Mall accompany my friend to buy new PSP. And today it took 1 hour from my house to pick up Agil in Pancoran, we went to lunch in Plaza Indonesia and cross the sky bridge to go to church.

No matter what, even the traffic is worst - this is still my city. The city where I was born. The street food that feed me since I was small. The pollution smoke that I inhaled. You may get stress in Jakarta BUT you never get bored.