Mass

While we were in San Francisco, we went to De Young Museum. I am usually not into such stuff but since it was quite famous, we went.

It was quite interesting overall and i wish i wasnt too tired towards the end that i didnt get to read all the descriptions and backgrounds of the pieces.

One of those which especially caught my eye was this:



The piece is called "Mass" and it is made up of the charred remains of a burnt down church and suspended in a cubiod shape. Playful use of the word "mass" in both the religious and scientific context.

Horsing Around

We went to the outlet mall when we were in San Francisco.

It's perhaps the only place we didnt take a picture because we, probably just me, was too busy shopping, plus it wasnt a very pretty place anyway.

Saw this shorts in Polo Ralph. So obiang.

Cui

Saw this sign in the airport lounge in China. It doesnt read like much but it resonated with how i felt when i entered the lounge.

Cui.

Boom!

We never mentioned this to anymore but when we reached San Francisco, we took a paid shuttle bus (more like a van) service from the airport to our hotel.

On the way there, i heard a super-loud bang on my left. Super loud. Turned out that the left passenger window that Someone was sitting before just shattered. It was super duper. The shards were on the floor, Someone was in a semi-shock, the van couldnt stop because we were on the highway, so the cold air just came right in as we tried to assess the damage.

Thankfully Someone wasnt hurt, or else it'd be a lonely holiday for me.

Tarts

I came here on the first day for dinner. There were Portuguese egg tarts on buffet. Decided on the buffet and whacked a number of those tarts. Second night I came for dinner.. Bread pudding replaced the tarts. Very disappointing but I had the buffet again.

Third and last night.. I'm here again for dinner but decided to go ala carte and maybe order those tarts ala carte but they weren't on the menu. I asked the manager if he sold the tarts. He offered to sell me four of them for the price of a slice of cake which was S$12. I told him that was too expensive plus I only needed two and so I decided against it.

He said he'd give me two of them for free.

Kio diooooooo!!

Promo

I was just informed that I got promoted to Vice President with a 10% increment.
Woot!

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2011

2011 officially starts today for me.
After a 14 days in San Francisco and Telluride, countless hours spent in the plane, numerous chicken mcnuggets, lots of shopping, I'm once again at the airport, waiting to go to Hong Kong.
Hello 2011! Hope you'd be good to me.

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Gifted

This arrived in the mail today. Turns out to be a silk thingy from a client.



I brought it back home but as it turns out for all China products, things just fall apart. One side of the string handle came out, and the bottom tore. Why cant some people do something right for a change?

Scared Scared

I asked my cousin to change some US$ for me because she could get some good staff rate and I met her over lunch today to collect my US$5,445.

A couple of hours ago, there was a fire alarm in the office. It rarely happens but I didn’t give it much thought. Then the alarm rang again and lasted for a very long time. I got scared and I took the whole wad of notes and put it in my pocket. It’s still in there, after 2 hours. Hee hee.

 

Christmas Treats

Seems like every year, the number of Christmas presents are dwindling. How sad.

Someone gave me a Tempur travel pillow to replace the one i lost. This will come in helpful in our 20 hour flight to SFO. *shudder*



Then, i guess Sox deemed that i needed an extra hand in golf when he decided to give me this:



Unfortunately, i already had that already. Haha. I guess an extra extra hand wouldnt hurt.

Palo Alto

Im researching on some places we can go while in San Francisco. Palo Alto came up. Thought it might be interesting to go there, especially when Facebook’s headquarters is there as well. Maybe can go there to find Mark Zuckerman and add some friends to reach my goal of 500 friends.

The Palo Alto city’s website is very boring and in fact right on the press release section on the homepage, out of 6 news items, three are of robberies and one is of an accident. Man, Palo Alto sounds like a dangerous place.

 

Booked

We finally managed to book our international and domestic flights for our holiday. Flying to SFO via Seoul then going to Colorado to ski and then spending some time in SFO for some chilling and factory outlet shopping. Hee hee.

I even ordered a Kindle 3 as well as a Bluetooth headset to be delivered for free to our hotel in Colorado so that I can pick it up there and save on shipping costs.

The trip is already beginning to pay for itself. W00t!

 

Flor

We went to this place some time back but i was too lazy to post.

Someone heard from someone about this place which sells great cakes.

Took us a while to find as i wasnt familiar with Duxton.



The tiny place was packed and when we reached at 3pm on Saturday. There wasnt a huge variety left. By the time we left at 4pm, most of it was sold out! Crazy.

The pic below was taken the second time we went there.



First time we went, we ordered so much. Haha.



Ordered the first round then went back to order two more.



In the end, we even took pictures of Pastry Chef Yamashita. I bet he only washes dishes back in Japan but before we Singaporeans are so Jap crazy, we even revere the dish washers of Japan.

Another Set

Saw the Amazon Gold Box offer the other day. 65% off the UE Triple Fi earphones. 65% off leh!!! chop chop ordered.

It arrived last week. The ziplock bag on the right side contains the earphones and the nice metallic box is in the middle. It's a bit weird that the box is the focal point instead of the earphones. Haha.

Package

I got a package today. From Jones the Grocer. No idea who would have sent me so im excited to know but at the same time, i am not super keen cos im not a huge fan of JTG.



Turns out i was right. Whole box of rabbit food. But very nice of the client to send anyway.



PS: My camera is very clear!

*shudder*

My sister is in Buenos Aires for work. We are all a little worried because it's the first time she's travelled for work.

The first night, she emailed me when she arrived and said that she didnt bring her ipod charging cable. It's a good thing she isnt an iphone user cos iphone users cannot do without a charging cable for 18 hours.

Well, i guess i guess what handphone she uses doesnt matter because in the second day she emailed me to tell me that she lost her handphone when she was out taking pictures on her handphone and a motorcycle drove pass and snatched her handphone out of her hand!

Gosh that's scary! She's only back in 9 days. *Shudder*

Another?

Wow.. just managed to sign another deal. They’re just dropping from the sky!

It’s raining deals. Hallelujah..

 

Deals!

We received the signed documents for our first deal in China yesterday. What a sigh of relief. It has been a crazy journey getting that signed. After I landed in Beijing, I got an email from another client that they’ve couriered their signed documents to us as well. So that’s two deals in two weeks. WHOPEE!

In some ways, the feeling is somewhat dulled because at some point during the negotiations you know the deal is done but got to wade through the administrative hassle before you see the executed documents.

Im happy nonetheless. Two deals in two weeks. W00t!

Blackberry

I really love my blackberry. I can sit here on my bed and reply to my work emails. Then get in touch with my friends on blackberry messenger and then some other friends on whatsapp. SMS is getting quite obsolete but some people are still there. I probably send about 150 per month. Such convenience.

Notes

I don’t know if im being anal. My Chairman just sent a note to a few department heads to say that he’ll be travelling on XXX and on holiday for XXX. Then one bugger replied “Your schedule is noted with thanks.”

I don’t get it. Why do people note things with thanks? Surely they can note it with cupcakes or bubble tea.

So stupid.