I attended a Kyushu-based taiko troupe at the Palms in Crown Casino last night. Calling themselves TAO, these awesome people gave me a extraordinary, sounding  performance. It beats my heart away, so to say. : ) I heard about them before and a few  years ago they were in Melbourne to perform; I missed it.
What set [...]

This arvo, there was a power outage in a few buildings, including my office. Big boss has decided to spend us lunch at a pub nearby since we were roaming around freely without anything to do.
I had myself a nice lamb rump and at the end of the lunch, the big boss said if the power [...]

After months of procrastinating, I took the liberty to upgrade WordPress to 3.0. Took an hour to backup my database and content with a lot of minor installation hiccups.

A very foggy morning today. For a moment I thought I was teleported into the dreaded Silent Hill when I stepped out of my home.
Fog + Low visiblity + Morning rush hour = Trapped-driver-with-two-hands-free-to-take-a-photo

P.S. How I wish my office route was on the other side of the road.

I have an upcoming visit to Guilin, China next year and it is required to have a visiting/tourist visa so I took the liberty to apply for one during the Christmas break week at the Chinese Consulate in Melbourne. For the record, I always assumed the staff will all dressed up to their best, presenting a good impression [...]

My colleague was building a PC for another colleague of mine. When he’s done assembling and installed the drivers, he told me to shove in my personal thumb drive to test if the USB front ports are working.
That fried my thumb drive, extra crispy.
Apparently my colleague accidentally plugged the USB front ports to a firewire connector [...]

A mate sent me a CNY SMS greeting as follows:
May u in the year of the ox be spared throdding on cowdung and hit with bull***t and have the wisdom to discern which is which
Thank you… I think.

Decided to celebrate my Big day and early Chinese New Year at a restaurant in Glen Waverly. I heard a lot of good reviews from colleagues and friends about its food so I decided to give it a try. Perhaps those sweet reviews hyped up my good expectations but it turned out to be pretty ordinary. [...]

Last week was my Big Day. My colleagues decided to ask me what plans do I have to celebrate such an important day of the year.
Colleague: So, any plans tonight? Go out dinner with friends? Get yourself pissed?
Me: I think I’ll just stay home and eat cereals for dinner.
Colleague: …
Loved to see the expression of my [...]

The summer for 2008/2009 kicked in rather late. Today marks one of the super heated days, a 39 degrees and my office air conditioning is down at the wrong time. As a “reward”,  my managing director issued a beach wear for today.

At 1pm sharp, about 75% 85% of the employees in my office has left the office early and it’s not even the last business day!
(-_-)”

Another year, another annual getaway from the real world. Manifest 2009 is here!
Though I’ve lost my precious camera and unable to capture this great moment with my DSLR, I still have my trusty old digital camera!!
Charging forward… the Cosplay hunter is on the prowl!

Lost my D80 at Victoria Gardens’ IKEA parking lot in Richmond. Some prick(s) smashed into my mate’s car and stole my Nikon DSLR along with my bag.
I shall curse that SOB with 100 different ways to suffer for the next 100 days.
On the positive side, I have an excuse for a D90 :p

Today marks the third night I’ve spent at my new home. And no, I didn’t buy it; I rented it. Living in the suburbs reminded me the good old days back in my university days: peaceful, clean, no hassling and buzzing sounds of vehicles (except that fire engine leaving the station from time to time).
But I do [...]

The e-Games WCG National Finals was held last week. My mate sent me that link a week ago and I thought I’d give it a visit to witness the Australia finesse teams in battle especially my long time favourites Call of Duty and Counter Strike (1.6 unfortunately).
Date: 8th to 9th August… check!
Location: Luna Park… check!
My camera: [...]