4 Nov - 10 Nov (Deepavali in SG!)

This is kind of a cultural week to me...
4 Nov - Flight to SG was delayed again by 20 min.

5 Nov - Went to client's office for the first time. Beautiful! Had meeting with my big big boss for the first time. I never imagine someone his rank would know the details of the project that well. Food: yong tau fu for lunch and vietnamese food for dinner

6 Nov - Did some work and surf for info... Food: Thai pineapple fried rice for lunch and Ya Kun Kaya Toast for dinner

7 Nov - Another long long meeting... Food: Japanese set lunch bought by my boss (though he himself didn't manage to eat any since he had to handle something urgent on the phone) and fish noodle for dinner. Then went to buy a SIM card for SG. TV was switched on, and Beautiful Mind was on at 12:30 (after I shower). So I continue to watch till 2:30 - wanted to watch this for a long long time...

8 Nov - Holiday! Started my day by taking bus no. 64 to Little India. The whole street is full of Indians. Tried to make my way into the Indian temple, only to find that those going in and out are all males, exccept for one lady who was on her way out. So I moved away from there, and went to Mustafa Centre. Interesting place which looks like Mydin.

Took MRT to Orchard at 12pm. Met my schoolmate for lunch at din Tai Fung, Wisma Atria. We hopped to Taka (where I took photos of the teddies on display - cute!), and then to Borders at Wheelock.

At 3+, bought EZLink card and took MRT to Raffles Place and went to Asian Civilization Museum. Free entrance on public holiday! They had an exhibition on Nalanda Trail - what the monks would see and objects of meditation on the Silk Road, from China to India, when they went there to study Buddhism.

Then I took MRT back to Orchard, bought yakitori (or toriyaki, I'm not such a big Japanese food fan) from Taka, and headed to the nearest bus station to take bus 123 back to my hotel. What I didn't know is that, the buses have their own designated stops. So, I saw 123 before I cross the street. When I had crossed the street and looked at the listing of buses, it felt funny, 123 was not listed, yet, it was listed on the route. The guy I asked said he does not take 123, so he's not sure. But by right if you see it there on the route, it will pass by. 2nd bus #123 arrived. There's left signal so I assumed it would stop, but it didn't slow down as it was approaching. I raised my hand last minute, and it just shot by. A girl told me maybe I raised my hand too late. Ok, then the 3rd bus #123 arrived. I raised my hand early to wave, but it still shot by! Enough, I think I might catch it at the next stop, so I headed down the road. Sure enough, 123 is listed at the next stop. Imagine I spent almost one hour to wait for 4 bus no. 123! But I think I should be smarter next time with the buses in Singapore. Reached hotel, eat, and watched "Shall We Dance" till 9:30...

9 Nov - My lunch partner broke our appointment :(, had to eat yong tau fu on my own. Spent the day doing some analysis... and finally, fly home to MY! Something not so nice happened, scary!

10 Nov - Went to "wang lao xian shi" for lunch. Then bought some sundries, then went for my neighbour's buffet wedding dinner - a small one for neighbourhood people before the big day tomorrow. Have to skip the main dinner as I'm flying off to SG in the noon... And I'm watching Paycheck now! Tomorrow gotta wake up latest by 7:30...

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29 Oct - 3 Nov

29 Oct - Brought my car for service - drove ~1150km by this time :) Bought Klang Valley Street Directory at ~1pm. Slightly after 2pm, my PM decided to send me to SG for 5 weeks. I was supposed to depart on Wed. ~10pm, read my PM's email on the new engagement.

30 Oct - Settled my travel arrangements, and handed over my current responsibilities to my colleague.

31 Oct - MH flight to SG was delayed by one hour! New project team has 3 members, started to read up and do some data sorting. Had Indonesian food for lunch, and fish noodle for dinner (at a coffee shop at the ground floor of a flat). Fish noodle was quite tasteless thought the fried fish was ok. Then walked to Robertson Walk to buy mineral water. I spent in total one hour walking to get dinner and mineral water.

1 Nov - Brought my laptop to see doctor, i.e. SG IT. Very happy - battery was changed because it's faulty, and IT helped me to clean my start-up list to make it boot faster. Had first con-call with big boss, he did most of the talking - briefing us on the project. Had toast and soft-boiled egg for breakfast, Indian food for lunch, and sandwich and instant vegetarian noodle for dinner.

2 Nov - Discussion whole day... Had roti prata for breakfast, fish noodle for lunch and Burger King at Terminal 1, Changi Airport for dinner. Took Japan Airlines back to Malaysia, it's actually more comfortable than MAS, they provide pillow and blanket for the 40 minutes flight, and apple juice (which tasted good, not sweet). The safety instructions shown were also very engaging and interesting to watch - with the cartoon like characters.

3 Nov - Went to buy some hair accessories, has been looking for this type of accesory for weeks. Then went to buy a new mouse as my mouse was not working yesterday. Summary of conversation with my dad.

Me: My mouse is not working, I need to get a new one.
Dad: You killed the mouse?
Me: Ya, half dead. It got stroke for half its body, the part which I used more.

This is my 6th type of mouse that I have been using:

1st type: Wire non-optical mouse with no scroller button.
2nd type: Wire non-optical mouse with scroller button.
3rd type: Wire optical mouse with scroller button.
4th type: Retractable wire optical mouse with scroller button.
5th type: Wireless optical mouse with scroller button.
6th type: Uni-retractable wire optical mouse with scroller button.

There was another conversation with my colleague on our company's mouse by the Malaysia and Singapore office. Conclusion on the two "mice":

The Malaysia mouse is black in colour, fatter and bigger in size, and consumes too much and not long lasting in nature (wireless mouse consuming too much battery). The Singapore mouse is white in colour, sleeker and smaller in size, and disobedient and senstitive in nature (doesn't go where you want it to go, and sensitive to the clicks).

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