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Entries for October, 2007

October 19th, 2007

Long Absent

Posted by khing at 08:51 PM on October 19, 2007.

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It has been a while since I get to log on and updating my blog.  Partly due to the effect of facebook, I saw a glimpse of its setup, I believed sooner rather than later, influx of friendster user will migrate to facebook due to its more interactive and fun setup, although it looks to be time consuming.  The latest facebook convert is actually not me, but the owner of the lap top that I used religiously to update my blog.  The owner is none other than my sis.

 

 

 

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Hit Logging

Posted by khing at 09:29 PM on October 19, 2007.

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Towards the end of working day, my colleague remarked that we should go and instead maintaining a blog and earn up to 5 figures salary.  I did a quick check on one of the singapore most famous blogger, xiaxue on wikipedia.  Apparently, her blog attracts more than 20,000 readers.  I did a quick comparison to my hit logging report, mine is about 600 times less than her.  For the 1st half of October, my humble site attract a humble hit of 30+.

One of the way to increase the changes of hit to our site will depend on our blog content.  If we happen to talk about relatively popular phrase like xiaxue, since she got more than 20,000 readers, likelihood there will be lots of reader typing xiaxue name to search engine and my blog might has a chance to be in the return search.   You may not find me on top ten list, but you might able to find my blog on later pages.  This then will attarct unsuspecting victim into thinking my blog has wrote some wonderful and interesting things about xiaxue and increasing the chances of people reading my blog.

To support xiaxue and making sure she will earn 5+ figure,btw, not her body figure, have a look at:   http://www.xiaxue.blogspot.com

 Very few people knew I maintain this blog, and if my colleague and friend ever came across my blog by chance, hope you enjoy my blog and I don't earn 5+ figures salary.  Meanwhile, can only dream salary increment is as increasing as much as the rate of inflation.

 

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October 20th, 2007

Another Interpretation of Me:According to Tickle.Com

Posted by khing at 09:20 PM on October 20, 2007.

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Being an INTJ means that you can be a real intellectual powerhouse. Chances are that your mind is almost constantly engaged by one fantastic thought or another. Because you're the kind who is highly creative, keeping up with you can be like riding an intellectual roller coaster. But your zest for life usually goes beyond your own big ideas and endeavors. You can take real pleasure in helping others to reach their dreams as well. As a result, INTJs like you can be wonderful coaches to help people attain their goals. You seem to know how to bring out the best in people. In relationships, your type is known for deeply valuing your commitments. Not the kind to be an open book, you're often hesitant to share your feelings with others - especially in the early stages of a relationship. You may take a long time to admit the depth of your feelings for someone. It may also take some coaxing to get you to share personal details about your life.

To try it yourself, go to http://web.tickle.com/

 

 

 

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Do you live in the world's best city? Apparently I do.

Posted by khing at 10:14 PM on October 20, 2007.

Photo 1, Singapore : Around 5:00 PM

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 Photo 2, Singapore: Around 7:00 PM

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Photo 3, Singapore: Around 8:00 PM 

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According to the magazine, Monocle, which meant to capture audience with interest in global affairs, business, culture & design, July/August 2007 Issue, Singapore is ranked at Top 17.  Having reside in 3 different countries over 2.7 decade of my life, I quite agreed with the magazine's findings since the other two country did not made it to the top 20 list.

Malaysia:  The place where I am born and bred.  It does provide some transquility and its laidback atmosphere where one does not need to pack into rectangular box with wheel like jammed packed sardine to work everyday.  This applied to all the states in Malaysia apart from Kuala Lumpur.  Sadly, the reason is because public transportation is not fully developed.  To move around, one has to relay on private transportation.   Life is moving at a slower pace, which exception of Kuala Lumpur.  One may say the place reminiscence of Singapore, 10-20-30 years' back.

United Kingdom, London:  This is the city that trained me to able to walk a fast pace.  The city that exposed me on how small and insignification of one's achievement and also how one's achievement can surpassed thousands' others.  The city that bears hope to many for a better life.  It' not easy to love London at 1st sight, especially if you set foot on late autumn.  It's like stepping onto an very aged Singapore, transportation capacity has reaches its limit, the traffic started from Heathrow Airport, the underground is struggling to keep its pace, one has to juggle with probability of another train delay and strike by the workforce.

Singapore:  The present city I am in.  One thing I can say is I felt more secured.  I can feel more relax knowing the probability of random attack by buglars or racist remarks will be lower.  The Underground, or more fondly known as MRT is very efficient, 2 minutes waiting time at peak hour, less jammed pack than London but the trend is moving towards same direction. 

I can only concluded that I have lived and survived in the past, present and future.  Which is the best, I can say is it all depends on what you are looking for in life. 

 

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October 21st, 2007

Guitar: A Potrait

Posted by khing at 10:56 AM on October 21, 2007.

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October 24th, 2007

Random Act of Kindness

Posted by khing at 08:23 PM on October 24, 2007.

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In the few years since I have begun to travel this world, I've found myself changing... The cramped, cynical world view of a man who'd only seen life through the narrow prism of the restaurant kitchen... had altered.  I'd been so many placed.  I'd met so amny people from widly divergent backgrounds, countries, and cultures.


Everywhere I'd been, as I'd been in Beirut, I'd been treated so well. I'd been the recipient of so many random acts of kindness from strangers. And I began to think that no matter where I went or who I'd sat down with, that food, and a few drinks seemed always to bring people together...that this planet was filled with basically good and decent people doing the best they could...if frequently under difficult circumstances. That the human animal was perhaps a better...and nicer...species than I'd once thought...


I'd begun to believe that the dinner table was the great Leveler, where people from opposite sides of the world could always sit down and talk...and eat and drink, and if not solve all the worlds problems...at least, find for a time...common ground.

Now I'm not so sure.
Maybe the world's not like that at all. Maybe on the real world, the one without cameras and happy food and travel shows, everybody, the good and the bad together...are all crushed under the same terrible wheel. I hope...I really hope...I'm wrong about that...", Anthony Bourdain, 2006, On Beirut.

I watched the "Watching Beirut Dies" episode quite sometime ago,  it is a very moving episode and I was particularly taken in by Bourdain ending remarks to that particular episode. 

 

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