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18 Jun 08 - Back From Argentina And Facing Unknown Certainties Got back from Argentina on 15 Jun 06 and is in the process of adjusting to normal (or abnormal if I really want to call it) life. Spent 3 days in a negotiation course and will formally report to my new department tomorrow. No big deal about that actually. While reporting to my new department is a certainty, how it will all turn out is an unknown. Managed to recover one of my SD card. Possibility of recovering the other one remains slim after I had tried with 2 recovery software. Shit happens. Think I better concentrate with my India blog first.

8 Jun 08 - Mixed Feelings About Home... Spent the day taking photos of lovely Ushuaia in absolutely clear weather (somehow the weather decided not to listen to the weather forecast). I must pray that my photos on this (my final) SD card remains safe and sound. Tried to hike up a snow capped mountain with only my jeans and worn-out Converse sneakers. Gave up half-way, drank beer and wrote a postcard (the 6th in 4 weeks) to Sally in the middle of nowhere, all covered with snow. Can that be taken as a hint that she is always on my mind? Tried to blog about Delhi/Varanasi/Agra; I done only 4 (out of 10) pages and it is way way overdue. No mood to do it though. When I come back to Sillypore, I really need to buck out and complete my India blog before starting with the blog on Argentina - that is to assume I can recover my photos. Fans, please pray for me!

7 Jun 08 - My SD Cards!! Before I know it, I am sitting in my comfortable hostel (with good heaters) in the end of the world (i.e. Ushuaia). Google it if you don´t know what the hell I am refering to. But this also means that I am almost towards the end of my one-month trip in Argentina. I kind of miss home (and chinese food), but I am starting to feel sad about leaving this country. Maybe I just don´t want to get back to work. I dont know if there are any hidden forces up there that just does not want me to have a perfect trip, but my second SD card got corrupted today. My Argentina blog is a big big uncertainity now. :(

2 May 08 - A Promotion And The Downside Of It... It was almost a pleasant surprise when I got back to work after my project in Bangalore. Met up with my boss and told her my bathing experience in the Ganges (!). She opened her drawer and handed me a letter. Ok, I been promoted for the 2nd time in 3 years. Hip hip hooray? I would like to consider that as an amazing feat. No doubt that will attract the admiration (or maybe jealously) of my collegaues but maybe I don't really care. To me, getting a promotion simply means that my boss appreciate what I am doing; it does not mean that it is the light at the end of the tunnel. (Boss: If you happen to read this, I want you to know it doesn´t mean that I am not appreciative of your reward)... incomplete p.s.: I never got to complete this entry as I was busily preparing for my Argentina trip and before I knew it, I was already on the flight to New York.

18 Apr 08 - Leaving Bangalore... Before I know it, I am leaving Bangalore after spending almost 8 months on a project. It was not a bed of roses but I did learn alot of things along the way. After confirmation that I will be posted back to Sillypore, I get a weird feeling everytime I walked around in the neighborhood (i.e. Koramangala). Afterall, I had spent endless amount of weekends here eating mutton biryani and drinking Kingfisher alone. It's probably a love-hate relationship (love India but hate the work). Or maybe, I silently wonder if I ever get a chance to visit India again after my involvement in the BLR project. Though I am really missing home now (been here for the past 7 weeks), I will do a short backpacking trip to Delhi, Varanasi and Agra. Anyway, do check out my Goa blog if you have nothing better to do.

7 Apr 08 - Go Goa Just came back from Goa; a tiny state in India that is facing the Arabian Sea. Nice beaches with hippies, duty free beer at Rs50 or S$1.85 per large bottle (this should explain the high beer count) and NO (as compared to Bangalore) traffic jams. The only pitfall being we have to travel for 15 hours (one way) by car to get there - this also means that I am now so sleepy and cannot find any motivation to do my work. My dear fans: It's been a long time since I wrote a travel blog. expect one real soon.

21 Mar 08 - Alone Again (Naturally)
Dinner alone again (naturally) - Dinner tonight was tomato-based seafood (frozen shrimps) spaghetti with boiled cabbage. I cooked it myself and thought it was not that bad; I had not lost my cooking skills after all!		No, I am not trying to be Gilbert O'Sullivan. After nearly 3 months of fun and laughter, I am alone again (though I am not lonely) in the City of Traffic Jams. CH and BT (read blog dated 12 Jan 08) had returned to Sillypore after completing their tasks while I still struggle to finish mine. People tend to ask how I will cope when they go back; after all, it was them that made Bangalore a lot brighter than before. My answer is simple - I was "alone" for 4 months before they came. To me, I see it as back to the basics. And of course, this also means I will have to cook my own dinner (unless I am eating my favourite Mutton Biryani). I sometimes like to think that I had reached the stage of life that most will call it the "mid-life crisis". Life had taken an unexpected turn; first with the Bangalore project followed by the arrival of Miss Friendster. Though not necessarily negative, it just shows how life changes in such an unpredictable manner.
To be frank, my uncle's demise (read blog dated 18 Feb 08) should have affected more than it is currently. Somehow it doesn't. Anyway, I sincerely hope it was all due to work that is temporarily keeping those thoughts at bay. Maybe I had became such a corporate rat that I no longer bother to care. Maybe it's simply something in me that had died quietly without me noticing.

16 Mar 08 - When Do I Want To Go To Argentina??? Eh... Now?? The week from 10-16 Mar 08 had been an eventful week. Everybody was waiting for the announcement of the delay in the opening of the new airport (originally scheduled on 28 Mar 08). The news finally came on Wednesday; a 2 to 4 week delay. More news were announced on Thursday; a firm 4-week delay. A firm date was finally announced on Friday; the airport will be opened on *11 May 08. Will there be even more delays since the state elections are coming? This is an eye-opener for a silly Sillyporean like me. For the record, I had just completed 6.5 months in my India project. With the airport delay, I probably have to spend some more months here. But it was heartening to see a facebook* message from my boss reminding me to look on the bright side. What's more surprising is, she had asked me WHEN I would like to start my long break (she hasn't forgot about it) and she will work out a plan to make it happen for me!

6 Mar 08 - Wait Sometimes life is just about waiting for the next event to occur. We wait and wait. Slept for only 4 hours last night after spending more than 14 hours in a emotionless server room waiting for my vendor to resolve a critical issue so that my project can move on. To be frank, all I could do is to wait and prepare an update to the rest of my team. I am trying to think on a backup plan, but my mind seems to be completely blank. It is one of those days where I wished I was in Hanoi drinking Bia Hoi while watching the wheels.

18 Feb 08 - The Day Which He Quietly Left... Holding on to my passport with a boarding pass that shows a First Class seat, I was waiting for my flight in a departure lounge that looks more like warehouse. My mind seems to be in a blank. Or maybe it was actually churning out thoughts; thoughts that were heavier than lead. My mind was on my uncle, whom I (for the first time in my life) drank beer with just slightly more than a year ago. He happens to be that uncle that passed away last night; alone in hospital. On 55 years old, he was a victim of throat cancer. Even the best writers in the world couldn't have written better script; I was supposed to be on my way home (from the City of Traffic Jams) for my annual body maintenance session organised by my dear country. It was probably a good break away from my project; but his departure had changed everything. To be frank, I am not close to this relative of mine; he was not close to anyone anyway since he is always quiet and reserved. However, when I brought him to see the doctor in Malacca a year ago, we had a drinking session and I talked to him more than I had spoken to him for the past 28 years of my life. I'm not guilty for not spending more time with him; I am just plain sad that I had observed another reminder on how life can be that fragile. All things happen for a reason; some people just don't learn though...

27 Jan 08 - Sunday Nights... The Sunday night syndrome: it can never fail to bother me regardless where I am in this world. Don't know why the hell am I checking work emails now. It may be my karma at play; maybe in my past life I was a king who banned his subjects from clearing emails on Sunday nights. Dinner (with my Bangalorean buddies) was my favourite Hyderabadi Biryani and the number 2 American food, KFC (number 1 is of course Mcdonald's). Have to thank my buddies for keeping my sanity alive with all that crappy talk, chai and clove cigarettes. I'm enduring now and trying to keep my homesickness aside, though thoughts of eating a peach cake and watching Brokeback Mountain on a Sunday afternoon aren't really helping. Anyway, I had broken my records (since May 06) for Coke consumption - 32 cans in 27 days. Sometimes my pee looks like the caffeine-laden liquid. Not sure about the smell though. *Coke Inc* should reward me for being such a loyal supporter.

26 Jan 08 - Someone Told Me Had been in Bangalore for the past EIGHT weeks. It seems that I had lost count of the number of Kingfishers that I had drank. Someone told me the happiness I had been so deperately to find is actually inside (and not outside) me. Someone told me I am just a piece of confused arse who doesn't know what I want. Someone told me to relax since I will be going home in a week.

12 Jan 08 - And I Thought I Was Back In Singapore
Our eyes (from left - me, CH and BT) were clearly glued to the TV; Man Utd was playing against Newcastle United. I really don't care about the Premiership but was just waiting for someone to break Ronaldo's legs.		My colleagues decided to cook dinner on a boring Saturday evening - authentic Sillyporean dishes like stir-fry mixed vegetables with prawn, fried fish with home-made chilli paste and cabbage soup with chicken. And of course, to "wash" all the dishes down with the ultimate long grain basmati rice. And the result? Simply lovely (thanks to CH/BT). I never felt so full since my I got my appetite back (thanks Sara). For a moment, I almost thought that I was back in Sillypore. Anyway, another week had gone past for me while I continue to struggle in order to finish the race in Bangalore. Perhaps it's good that there's a lot of work to be done; time passes faster this way. I had now stayed in Bangalore for 6 weeks - a feat that was previously deemed impossible. Maybe I had become numb to everything, or maybe I had grown wiser. On paper, it's just 3 more weeks to the next pit-stop though no one knows if the pit-stop will be there when I reach it.

10 Jan 08 - I Rather... Here's something I had scribed while trying to resurrect my stupid internet connection. I rather not con you to bed if you ever going to block me I rather lose you as an object of lust than to lose you as a friend I rather be paranoid and make you leave me today than to hurt you tommorrow I rather make you set the lowest expectation on me than to make you sad one day All being said, all lonely people (yes, they are all the same) know that this short-term relationship will end one day - this being the only logical ending for everything.

6 Jan 08 - Are You Attempting To Change Me? The same old cowardly spineless loser is back in action again. Don't know who the f*** is he? No worries, it's very easy to sport him. He first tries to get close to someone. When he finally succeeds, he tends to back out; citing all sorts of silly reasons and leaving the other party high and dry (thanks, Radiohead). The explanation for this particular behaviour is no rocket science. The fact is he simply has no confidence to get close to someone (mentally, not physically) anymore. All he can think of is commitment, commitments and ALOT MORE commitments. Or maybe, he is just afraid of being changed?? p.s.: the above drafted by a loser who had just spent (aimlessly) 5 weeks in Bangalore, India

5 Jan 08 - Chasing Shadows On The Wall 2008 came like any other evening; the only exception was I was in India and struggling to sleep while the skies was filled with fireworks (and not to mention the deafening noise created by the fire crackers). Frankly speaking, I have nothing to provide in the webiste for the new year; how I wish I can be drafting my travel blog on Argentina, but if you are sick and tired of checking my beer count for the month, you can read my latest travel blog on Mysore. And please excuse me; I need to go back to work; regardless whether I am co-ordinating silly meetings or chasing shadows on the wall. That's my job, really.