Right now I am in a small town in Germany and I saw something quite interesting about paying the money.

I was having a drinking session with some of my colleagues at a bar and when it is about time to go and ask for the bill, instead of the waiter going to the cashier for billing, they will carry a wallet (I suppose IT IS the cashier) and they will make the remaining changes on the spot.

The only place which I can think of this method used in Singapore - the wet market.

But I would really admits it is a good way to reduce waiting for the customers.I think we should have more of this kind of services in Singapore aparts from the wet markets..

Cheers

Sometimes I think that life is irony. Things don't always goes that way we wanted it to be and at time, we encounter surprises which we are too shock to accept it as well.

Looking back in my spent life, regardless of work, relationship, friends, etc, all kinds are happening just as like our fate are being fixed to it, you would not really know what is going to happen next day. Things are moving everyday and we are trying to adapt to our "new" environment almost every seconds.

Perhaps that is what we called experience, things which we have gone through are just a way of building up the experience and by the time we grow old and think back about it, we start to wonder how comes things are coming into life which are not really up to our expectation.

Just some crap, but I still think that life is irony...

It does not matter what is going to happen, but who is going to make it happen.

Couldn't really remember the last time I have been blogging since I came back to Singapore. Work load is getting a bit messy at the current moment and it goes the same for my life as well. Ironically, hopefully i get to grow older with all the problems which I am encountering right now and make me a better person.

Hey, thanks to Allan that everyone turns around because of my roaring. (I think those sitting around that table knew what happened. Anyway, I make sure I will give you a punch the next time you try to pull the same trick again...

Look at our feast, those little dish are actually called "pan-chan" in Korean....



I know it is hard trying finish all the food.. Dun be angry leh...



Let's take a closer view how much food we have on the table.. there are the lettuces...



The pork and chicken



Eh, never turn on the stove ?!



Those with sweet tooth will definitely like this "pan-chan". It tasted like ikan with sugar if I am not wrong..



The... CHI CHI MIs



Last but no the least, the most popular food in Korea ! Ginseng chicken soup !



Anyway, for those interested in eating Korean food, or could not find a good place for it, here is the address ....


주신정"Ju Shin Jung" Korean Charcoal BBQ Restuarant

There are two shops in Singapore..

1. 27 West Coast Highway #01-18/19 Yess Centre, Tel: 6464-0872
2. 1018 East Coast Highway #02-01 Tennis Centre, Tel: 6447-9279

I was listening to 91.3Fm that day and there was a amazing fact which all of you might want to know.

On the 12:34.56 of 7th August 2009 would be a special time because it would form a sequence of 123456789 !!!

The next time it would appears will be 1000 years later... Where would we be by that time ?

Really fits Singaporean attitude of
Kiasu [怕输], Kiasee [怕死]

Singlish (English) Version of the Chinese Poem Above
(Translated by one of my friend)

It has been one and a half month since I came back to Singapore and seems like time are still as tight as I have predicted. While trying to pick up my pace in the company and at the same time spending more time with my elder sister who decided to further her studies in Australia. She just left about maybe 1 week ago. Home hasn't been that quiet .... Joking ! The atmosphere seems a bit weird without my sister... I think her friends would think so too, there isn't anyone to chiong with in boiler liaoz ...

Company has been a mess and so am I, still wondering what is my actual role in the company. Has been in the "BSBH" department, but it also seems like nothing has been done to improve the company management and system, Haiz !

Anyway, I hasn't been updating the blog recently as well and I will try to find some time to refurbish my blog with more information. Cya guys

1. J - That is the initial letter of my name, Jeffrey

2. The number "82" is part of my family number, it started out from my dad, which he slowly converted much of his "property" with the number "82" attached. It actually does have a meaning in these numbers. In Cantonese, it resemblance the pronunciation "fa ei", which laterally means "has became rich".

3. J82 - It was a fusion of me and my family number, but there is another meaning though. I shown this blog to some of my Korean friends and to their astonishment, they thought I knew Korean language. The reason behind was that the number "82" in Korean language is "pa ri". If you put the "J" in the front, it becomes "J-pa-ri", an odd and out of tune version of my real name Jeffrey. (Note that it is quite an difficult task for Korean to pronounce my name, and I have changed my name in Japan to "J-pa-ri" so that at least some one call me, I would recognize that person is me.)

4. P - this letter belongs to the initial of my surname. Would not like to disclose it, but most of my friends knew.

5. Productions - This word is used to accommodate the initial alphabet of my surname and to be more productive on me, friends and family. (Perhaps some other areas as well)

Currently preparing my stuff to return back to Singapore. Hooray !!! Since I have some time right now, I will do a short write up to my trip to Yokohama.

I was supposed to meet one of my business friend in Gunma (群馬), so I decided to push my trip forward and visit my friend in Yokohama since I have been there many times, but mostly for work. I stay in sakuragicho hotel for a night before meeting her the next day.



There were nothing to do in the night and I bought my dinner at KFC (which is totally different of what we are having in Singapore), and return to my hotel. Took some shots at the Ferris wheel and the amusement land as well.

I have decided to keep an outline for the H1N1 Influenza happening within Japan. The speed that the virus is spreading is exceptionally fast and masks are almost out of stock from the stores. As more and more people are moving around Japan to avoid infected areas, moving over to Osaka meaning that if there is a breakout, the virus will eventually spreads at a even higher rate.

10th May 2009

First cases of H1N1 flu were tested positive on 3 people who have flown from North American to Narita, Japan earlier this month. 49 fellow passengers on board has been quarantined as well. The four has recovered since.

17th May 2009

8 confirmed cases of H1N1 flu found in Kobe areas. 3 students from prefectural government-run Kobe High School and 5 other students from Hyogo High School were confirmed infected with the new type of influenza virus H1N1. A 17-year-old of Kobe High School was confirmed to have infected with Type A influenza in a gene test. Tests by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases also shows that two 16-year-old, a male and female of the same high school has been tested positive as well. Kobe municipal government made an decision on last Saturday to close 99 municipal schools, including kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools and high school in eastern Kobe until this Friday.

17th May 2009,1343hrs (GMT +09:00)

Nine more high school students has been tested positive, bringing the numbers to 17. Most of those infected has not travel abroad recently. Meanwhile 7 more people are suspected to be infected with H1N1 flu in Hyogo prefecture, including a teacher, a University student and five high school students.
17th May 2009,1741hrs (GMT +09:00)

20 more people has been tested positive for H1N1 flu. Bringing a total to 32 cases. The group consisted of 18 high school students from Osaka and Hyogo prefecture, where 8 of them were already ill. A college student in 20s and a teacher in his 40s was also tested positive for the H1N1 flu.

18th May 2009 0153 hrs (GMT +09:00 )

Number rises to 93. 53 cases in Kobe has been confirmed while 36 cases in Osaka has been reported. Authorities has asked more than 1,000 schools and kindergartens to stay shut on Monday.
18th May 2009,1108hrs (GMT +09:00)

Number reaches 121 after 25 new case were announced. The new batch of H1N1 virus was confirmed in Kobe. Also an employee in Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has also been infected. She works in the Sannomiya branch in kobe. 70 other non-managerial employees at the same branch was told to stay at home.
18th May 2009,1751hrs (GMT +09:00)

H1N1 cases soared to 129. More than 2,000 schools and kindergartens has been shut off after Japan authories warned that real number of infections from the H1N1 virus could already be in hundreds.

18th May 2009, 2006hrs (GMT +09:00)

H1N1 flu cases has risen to 163 cases. No cases was reported for Tokyo.More than 2,000 schools and kindergartens has been asked to shut down to slow down the spreading of the H1N1 virus.

20th May 2009, 1129hrs (GMT +09:00)

The number of Influenza H1N1 infections in Japan rose to 196 on Wednesday, most of them school students, as the outbreak spread to a third western prefecture, officials and media said.

The latest confirmed case of the H1N1 virus was a man aged in his 20s in the Shiga prefecture, who had last weekend visited the city of Kobe where the outbreak started.

20th May 2009, 1223hrs (GMT +09:00)

The number of Influenza H1N1 infections in Japan rose to 228 as outbreaks spread through to a third western prefecture.

22nd May 2009, 0621hrs (GMT +09:00)

One male in in Saitama (埼玉県) has been diagnosed to be contacted with the new swine influenza (H1N1). He had traveled to Osaka and Kyoto from 17th to 19th May, the period of time which swine influenza (H1N1) has been first discovered in Japan.

22nd May 2009, 0920hrs (GMT +09:00)

One Japanese has been quarantined in a India's hospital after being suspected to have contacted the swine influenza, as reported by Japan embassy in India on the 21st of may. The flight has departed from Japan's Narita airport and landed on India's New Delhi on the 20th of May.

the weather is nice today and i decided to test out the blogger feature.

I did not expect it to be that easy and fun.. One of the good feature provided by blogger, the only bad thing is that emailing through mobile phone in Singapore cost a bomb....

Seriously, I have neglected this blog totally, because I was wandering in my own world the past few months, or last 2 years... Right now I am going to recall all I have done in Osaka, and do some write up asap ...

Outside of the shop, they hanged a frame saying the following...





\seriously, perhaps of the mental effect of the frame which I saw earlier at the doorstep, the coffee does taste exceptionally cooling... The sacred effect ? The shop also had a nice atmosphere, like old english pub.