YAY!

YAY! Managed to arrange a game for this Sunday. Together with my Saturday game, means it’s three consecutive weeks of two golf games per week.

 

No way I can continue this because I’ll be travelling the whole of next week. Then coming back for the weekend and then going to China for another two weeks. Gonna burn a weekend there and miss golf. Bleah.

 

By the time I return, it’d be end of March already. Time flies!

 

V Day

This year’s V-day was nondescript because I had a conference call that night at 1030pm and I had a cough so we just ate at home. I didn’t even buy a gift because I was too busy and we kinda decided not to buy gifts this year. But Someone was sneaky and bought me a tie. Very sneaky.

 

So over the weekend, I was sneaky too and went to buy the gift which I had wanted to get since December.

 

In my little speech before I gave my gift, I think I might have mentioned that this gift was an appreciation of the support that Someone has given me throughout the year so that I could concentrate on my work. So the gift was like “Growth Dividends”. Yes I said Growth Dividends. Haha.

 

I just calculated how much income tax savings I get from Budget 2011. Decent to cover part of the costs of the bag. YAY PAP!!!

Three-peat

I have played golf twice a week for two weeks now. Hopefully i can do that again this week. w00t!

Heads Down

Not sure if many or any of you would get this since it's a golf joke.

First week of 2011

It was the first week of 2011 for me the past week.

It started off quite relaxed because my Chinese clients were still having their Lunar New Year holidays.

A lot of them started work on Wednesday then BHAM! My Outlooks calendar just fills up! i had 4 calls and meetings on Wednesday and Thursday wasnt better.

The ultimate was Friday. After sending my mum for a check up and coming in at 2pm, i had:

A meeting at 2:30pm

Then a conference call at 3pm.

Then a meeting at 4:30pm, that lasted till 8pm.

Then i had to rush an presentation for my Chairman which i completed by 9pm.

I rushed home to have dinner before having a conference call at 10pm.

Then i had another conference call at 11pm and that lasted till 1am.

I quickly packed my golf bag after that so that i can sleep at 1:30am before waking at 4:15am for golf.

I was so bushed after golf on Saturday and slept the noon away.

Golf

Time and time again, im amazed at how weird the game of golf is and how fanatical some people, including myself, are.

We wake up at 4+am every saturday to travel to JB to wait in the dark for first light before teeing off.

Here's how dark it was while we were waiting for dawn to come.



It's also a game fraught with many superstitions. You arent supposed to say that the weather is good because it'd jinx it and then it'd rain. Some people think that drinking 100 Plus before the game would mean your score would be over 100, which isnt good at all. I myself have this pair of shorts that i dont wear because i always seem to have bad games when i wear it. Haha.

I am glad i managed to play 2 games over the CNY period and also two games over this weekend. I even broke my personal best today. Only downer was that i was caught by the JB traffic police for speeding today. 123kmh. That's not speeding!

Top Analogies

I saw this on my friend's FB. Damn funny.

 

56 worst/best analogies of high school students

Apparently the Washingtonpost held a contest in which high school teachers sent in the "worst" analogies they'd encountered in grading their students' papers over the years. (I place "worst" in quotes because many of these actually strike me as quite witty). The top 25 of these have been circulating around the "Sandra Bullock" ("net", get it?) recently, but I decided to post all 56 that I was able to find. Here they are, in their order of objective funniness (in my opinion):

1. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
2. He was as tall as a 6′3″ tree.
3. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
4. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
5. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
6. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
7. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
8. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
9. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
10. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
11. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
12. The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.
13. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
14. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
15. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at asolar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
16. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
17. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
18. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
19. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
20. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
21. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
22. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
23. Even in his last years, Grand pappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it hadrusted shut.
24. He felt like he was being hunted down like a dog, in a place that hunts dogs, I suppose.
25. She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword.
26. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
27. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
28. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
29. "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night.
30. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.
31. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
32. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
33. The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
34. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.
35. Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."
36. The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
37. The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
38. She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
39. Her pants fit her like a glove, well, maybe more like a mitten, actually.
40. Fishing is like waiting for something that does not happen very often.
41. They were as good friends as the people on "Friends."
42. Oooo, he smells bad, she thought, as bad as Calvin Klein's Obsession would smell if it were called Enema and was made from spoiled Spamburgers instead of natural floral fragrances.
43. The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) in her first several points of parliamentary procedure made to Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton.
44. He was as bald as one of the Three Stooges, either Curly or Larry, you know, the one who goes woo woo woo.
45. The sardines were packed as tight as the coach section of a 747.
46. Her eyes were shining like two marbles that someone dropped in mucus and then held up to catch the light.
47. The baseball player stepped out of the box and spit like a fountain statue of a Greek god that scratches itself a lot and spits brown, rusty tobacco water and refuses to sign autographs for all the little Greek kids unless they pay him lots of drachmas.
48. I felt a nameless dread. Well, there probably is a long German name for it, like Geschpooklichkeit or something, but I don't speak German. Anyway, it's a dread that nobody knows the name for, like those little square plastic gizmos that close your bread bags. I don't know the name for those either.
49. She was as unhappy as when someone puts your cake out in the rain, and all the sweet green icing flows down and then you lose the recipe, and on top of that you can't sing worth a damn.
50. Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.
51. It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before.
52. Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com¥aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:¥flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake.
53. You know how in "Rocky" he prepares for the fight by punching sides of raw beef? Well, yesterday it was as cold as that meat locker he was in.
54. The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan set on medium.
55. Her lips were red and full, like tubes of blood drawn by an inattentive phlebotomist.
56. The sunset displayed rich, spectacular hues like a .jpeg file at 10 percent cyan, 10 percent magenta, 60 percent yellow and 10 percent black.

 

2011

2011 officially starts today for me because we went on our holiday on 7 Jan and I didn’t do much work in the days leading up to 7 Jan. Then the trip to China then CNY.

 

Today is the first day on 2011 for me and it was tough getting up even though I slept at 10pm the night before. Got in at 10am this morning. The engine isn’t fully revved up yet because the Chinese clients are still on holiday.

 

Now to do my expense claims.

 

Geeky

See what i have on my bedside when im on holiday. ipad, kindle, earphones and a hard drive to assess some company files if needed. And of course, my BB. What will i do without it?

Spoils

Here's a picture of all the things we bought.

Yes i bought a golf club. *beams* and i brought a zwa long looking bag as a hand carry so that i can buy the Tumi handcarry. We also bought a Tumi cabin luggage. Hee hee.


There's a distinct possibility that we are fans of Tumi. To verify, we gathered all our Tumi products used/bought in this trip.

Alcatraz

We went to Alcatraz as well. One of those things tourists must do when they're in San Francisco.

Here's what greeted us. Those were racist days.


This is the external building.


A typical cell. Tiny!


Alcatraz from a distance.

Warped

There werent any good restaurants in the factory outlet district we visited. We were too pooped to go look for something and San Francisco was a two-hour drive back. So we ate Macdonalds. We werent super hungry so the various finger foods there were quite perfect.

Or so we thought.

They were having this promo. 20 piece nuggets for US$4.99 and a 6-piece pack was US$4.99. Although we really just needed 6, we felt it was silly to pay $2 more for much lesser. So 20 pieces it was. Then we ordered a meal as well. Decided to get a happy meal since it'd be smaller.

Smaller it was. Check out how small the fries is, compared to Someone's hand. Tiniest pack of fries ive seen! Haha.



Also in the shot are the 20 nuggets. We didnt finish them all and brought them back to eat with our instant noodles breakfast the next day.