能牵着我走完漫漫人生的人你究竟是谁？何时你才会出现在我面前？
也许我应该问的是，你是否会出现？
在这个夜黑无风的失眠夜里，容许我胡思乱想，允许我自怜。
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Friday, July 06, 2007
TGIF
hopefully no more URA press releases for today...i need to get off early...gonna catch Dim Sum Dollies with Rach & her colleagues..can't wait!
next week is gonna be real tough with me helming the fort alone ... i am SCARED.
b4 tackling the oncoming storm head on, i shall try to have a good time this weekend. having lunch with colleagues & ex-colleagues 2moro, followed by coaching session for S. sunday hopefully our long overdue kkn gathering(minus chuan - come back soon dude) will materialise, I miss u guys, esp u Xi! (book cafe sounds like a nice chill place, let's hope things work out this time, if not we can always go on a 'date' there 2gether...haha) n den dinner with WZ (sorry i don't mean to keep postponing dinner but I really am stretched!)
i need a break. a beach holiday or a trip back to london. must plan how to clear my 12 days of leave before end August.
Maddie (so tough to get u!), r we still going HK to visit Ayl & Marie at the end of the month?
next week is gonna be real tough with me helming the fort alone ... i am SCARED.
b4 tackling the oncoming storm head on, i shall try to have a good time this weekend. having lunch with colleagues & ex-colleagues 2moro, followed by coaching session for S. sunday hopefully our long overdue kkn gathering(minus chuan - come back soon dude) will materialise, I miss u guys, esp u Xi! (book cafe sounds like a nice chill place, let's hope things work out this time, if not we can always go on a 'date' there 2gether...haha) n den dinner with WZ (sorry i don't mean to keep postponing dinner but I really am stretched!)
i need a break. a beach holiday or a trip back to london. must plan how to clear my 12 days of leave before end August.
Maddie (so tough to get u!), r we still going HK to visit Ayl & Marie at the end of the month?
Thursday, July 05, 2007
now i'm freaking mad with URA...
the press release yesterday had lots of repetition of past govt land releases in the last month...called the person in charge to specifically clarify which are new areas as i'm totally clueless being new to the property beat.
She told me yes it's the one that was launched last month on the 18th at Anson Road. Today she called up and said it's not the anson rd & enggor st site and wants a correction to just anson road?!?! when i told her she told me it's tt site (come on... if i got the location wrong but have the plot ratio, gfa n everything else correct...den wat?) she simply said, "oh, in that case i shall get back to my boss and see if she still wants a correction."
next ting i noe, the correction request went straight to my big boss.
argh, i'm fuming mad.
the press release yesterday had lots of repetition of past govt land releases in the last month...called the person in charge to specifically clarify which are new areas as i'm totally clueless being new to the property beat.
She told me yes it's the one that was launched last month on the 18th at Anson Road. Today she called up and said it's not the anson rd & enggor st site and wants a correction to just anson road?!?! when i told her she told me it's tt site (come on... if i got the location wrong but have the plot ratio, gfa n everything else correct...den wat?) she simply said, "oh, in that case i shall get back to my boss and see if she still wants a correction."
next ting i noe, the correction request went straight to my big boss.
argh, i'm fuming mad.
office space
been handling ura announcements daily for the last week or so... at this rate i'm gonna be ura correspondent...
one thing i don't quite understand after scrutinising the no.s given to me: why is it tt the amount of office space tendered or listed in the last month or so is actually 5 times of the supply in 2004-2006 combined?
i was told tt the supply was low then cuz the authorities were worried tt there'll be an oversupply given the economy was in the duldrums...ok one mite say tt it's just economic theory...but isn't it supposed to be the case where the govt should release more land to be sold for infrastructure creation so as to help boost the economy? coming into the cycle so late, the current mad rush to release land might just create an oversupply come 2009 n beyond...早知今日，何必当初？
one thing i don't quite understand after scrutinising the no.s given to me: why is it tt the amount of office space tendered or listed in the last month or so is actually 5 times of the supply in 2004-2006 combined?
i was told tt the supply was low then cuz the authorities were worried tt there'll be an oversupply given the economy was in the duldrums...ok one mite say tt it's just economic theory...but isn't it supposed to be the case where the govt should release more land to be sold for infrastructure creation so as to help boost the economy? coming into the cycle so late, the current mad rush to release land might just create an oversupply come 2009 n beyond...早知今日，何必当初？
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
vodcasting...
been off the small online screen for the last month...must say the withdrawal symptoms are getting pretty bad...
i miss getting a car n planning a quirky storyline for it, n den proceed to bringing the storyboard to life...filming it in record time n getting my ptc lines right in the fewest no. of takes possible (usually more than 30... poor shangde)...n last but not least working with amazing video eds who never fail to perfect my storyline even beyond my imagination...
it's one of the things that the process is just as enjoyable if not more enjoyable than the end result...the result is just a closure to a happy chapter and the start to the next...
been wanting to do the 2 new peugeots for the last 3 weeks but somehow it doesn't quite fit into my schedule...hopefully it'll materialise this sunday or next...shall also wait till then to unveil my new cropped hair if i can help it! ha...
rite i need to sleep...totally brain dead...so glad huiting will b back 2moro... the race to keep up with the established property teams of st n bt alone is really tough... i really have no idea what is impt n tt promises of exclusives are always broken... learnt these the hard way... nvm...soon i'll get the grip of things... deep breaths for now...
i miss getting a car n planning a quirky storyline for it, n den proceed to bringing the storyboard to life...filming it in record time n getting my ptc lines right in the fewest no. of takes possible (usually more than 30... poor shangde)...n last but not least working with amazing video eds who never fail to perfect my storyline even beyond my imagination...
it's one of the things that the process is just as enjoyable if not more enjoyable than the end result...the result is just a closure to a happy chapter and the start to the next...
been wanting to do the 2 new peugeots for the last 3 weeks but somehow it doesn't quite fit into my schedule...hopefully it'll materialise this sunday or next...shall also wait till then to unveil my new cropped hair if i can help it! ha...
rite i need to sleep...totally brain dead...so glad huiting will b back 2moro... the race to keep up with the established property teams of st n bt alone is really tough... i really have no idea what is impt n tt promises of exclusives are always broken... learnt these the hard way... nvm...soon i'll get the grip of things... deep breaths for now...
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
i hope the property mkt takes a breather... at least for my sanity sake... other papers r working on a team of at least 2 reporters while I'm running a one man show... this can't go on for long... don't forget i'm new... i'm not making excuses for myself but i need time to learn..
1800 words cover story + 1500 industrial property money cover + 1500 word response to ura release + 500 collective sale, all in one day is over the top.
1800 words cover story + 1500 industrial property money cover + 1500 word response to ura release + 500 collective sale, all in one day is over the top.
Monday, July 02, 2007
it's for real....
rite... tink i was too early to conclude in my last posting...i'm taking it back...
tings r getting bad in my paradise it seems, definitely a situation where kiasuism is justified... stupid evil terrorist, dun destroy london or the uk... i still wanna go back there some day!
poor brown...he looked really tired on tv... unlike Blair after the july 7 attacks...need to up the charisma & confidence factor dude... trying to keep calm is not enough to unite ppl against a bunch of screwloose losers
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i chopped my hair further... shortest it has ever been since JC...just below my ear...now i look like a kid...n got picked up by the kid salesman who sold me my new Olympus voice recorder @ sim lim yesterday...din believe me tt i'm way older than he is... tempted to whip out my IC if not for my yucky sec sch pix on it (i lost my IC in sec 2...so i got the P6 pix which was worse out of the way)
watched transformers too. too much metal flying around... makes me dizzy... wat was worse was romance n metals combined...although i'm a sucker for romantic flicks but this didn't quite do it for me.... perhaps i'm not willing to let adult world stuff mix with memories of my childhood still...the notebook still wins handsdown...total romance... not cheesy either.
having said tt, all in all not a bad show...much more decent than shrek or pirates...i quite enjoyed myself...love bumblebee! but somehow parts of the movie seemed to similar to past michael bay & spielberg masterpieces... for eg. the robot toking to boy at window scene...deja vu of jurassic park or was it lost world?
n now we wait for the simpsons.....rach & my fav cartoon... we could watch each episode 4-5 times min. over lunch @ Baker Street...those were the days when we ate in front of the computer willingly unlike now...
tings r getting bad in my paradise it seems, definitely a situation where kiasuism is justified... stupid evil terrorist, dun destroy london or the uk... i still wanna go back there some day!
poor brown...he looked really tired on tv... unlike Blair after the july 7 attacks...need to up the charisma & confidence factor dude... trying to keep calm is not enough to unite ppl against a bunch of screwloose losers
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i chopped my hair further... shortest it has ever been since JC...just below my ear...now i look like a kid...n got picked up by the kid salesman who sold me my new Olympus voice recorder @ sim lim yesterday...din believe me tt i'm way older than he is... tempted to whip out my IC if not for my yucky sec sch pix on it (i lost my IC in sec 2...so i got the P6 pix which was worse out of the way)
watched transformers too. too much metal flying around... makes me dizzy... wat was worse was romance n metals combined...although i'm a sucker for romantic flicks but this didn't quite do it for me.... perhaps i'm not willing to let adult world stuff mix with memories of my childhood still...the notebook still wins handsdown...total romance... not cheesy either.
having said tt, all in all not a bad show...much more decent than shrek or pirates...i quite enjoyed myself...love bumblebee! but somehow parts of the movie seemed to similar to past michael bay & spielberg masterpieces... for eg. the robot toking to boy at window scene...deja vu of jurassic park or was it lost world?
n now we wait for the simpsons.....rach & my fav cartoon... we could watch each episode 4-5 times min. over lunch @ Baker Street...those were the days when we ate in front of the computer willingly unlike now...
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