I won a HP laptop from Spritzer's My No.1 Moment photography contest.

I was the 4th Week Winner. Submitted my Olympic Torchbearer photograph for the contest just for fun for winning and 3 weeks later, today, I got the call from Spritzer personnel telling me I won the contest!!

Will be collecting the laptop soon. Need to provide the correct label for proof of purchase. The empty bottle now is collecting dust at my room corner. Better dust it clean before submitting to them. :)

Everyone ask how come I always win stuff. Well, I'm going to share some tips. These tips are pretty logic and simple to follow. But I do not gurantee if you don't win anything.

Rule Number 1 (Mother of all rules)

If you never participate in any contest, you will NEVER win anything. Never say, "Arrhh, I will not be so lucky." How do you know if there were only 10 person who joined a contest and there were 20 prizes? I did that once and I missed a free Beijing/Shanghai trip for 2 from Snips Salon.

Rule Number 2

Never join a contest half heartedly. Give some heart and you'll be surprise how easy the slogans/the answers/the hidden clue will come to you. Which is why I never excel in sudoku challenges because I never did the challenge wholeheartedly. :)

Rule Number 3

Be creative. Make it personal, but not too personal. Just like reading advertorial blog, you would prefer reading the blogger's experience rather than just how good the product is. This trick is especially good if you are to join some contest where your personality needs to shine. Like reality TV.

3 tips are enough for now. If I write more, it's going to be long and boring. Just like slogans contest, 15 words or less. Someone ask if luck plays a role. Well I think maybe a 5%, 95% is your effort. No effort no winning.

Till the next winning.

After 7 years 4 months working in the South Plant, last Thursday (19/11/09) marked the last day I'm clocking out from it. Come next Monday, I will be clocking in at the North Plant (which is only 1 kilometer away). Why the drama, one may think, but 7 years walking up and down the familiar path, knowing every corner and every hideaway location, changing to a new location made me miss this cosy spot of mine.

No, he didn't die or something, but to return to Japan after 7 long years. One of his dream was to actually retire in Malaysia, but it seems that didn't come true to him. Nevertheless, he enjoyed staying in Malaysia for the past 7 years. He especially enjoyed the food as can be seen in his food blog (a rather popular one among the Japanese) and not to forget the ladies too. Well, that's what he told me. I believed it 100%. Hahaa..

We had a farewell for him in Oct 7 (yea, this post is rather late) and it was the best farewell party I have ever been to during my working life here. Thanks to the committee members, the farewell dinner was actually a blast. Speeches as usual but the best part was when the video show where all the Pan Asia managers wishing him luck in his future undertakings shown that he was very well respected in the Pan Asia region. That was just simply awesome.

The man looking back at himself. We had a small welcome gift, a note clipper, where the man's face was put up and some quotes he given out before. And then, they dressed him up in the Malay traditional costume, the Baju Melayu and suddenly, he looked like a grandpa having his birthday party. Hahaa...



p.s. Thanks to Wan for the fabulous pictures.

You know you have been working too much when all your call history in your phone were your colleagues' numbers.

An ex-colleague cheekily replied to my FB status to change my number. Very funny hor..:P

This week I had been putting almost 14 hours daily into and that left me only 10 hours to myself. 1 hour to commute to work. Left 9. 6 hours for ZZZzz. Potentially left 3 hours for myself. What can I do in that 3 hours left? Watch 1 movie. :(. And that left me with no social life. And I only get to see my housemates potentially like 30 minutes per day if they haven't gone to bed yet, which is very unlikely.

Work's been challenging but being me (read: competitive by nature) cannot lose out to what others perceive (of time and design wise), so I'm going to make this work. Another 14 hours per day for next week I guess.

**I need a holiday**

Not sure in what order the title should be.

Sis just underwent ovarian cyst removal operation last Tuesday. A huge cyst measuring about 5-6cm resided for more than 1 year as she had abdominal pain since over a year ago. After constant nagging from mom, sis went for ultrasound last Saturday and found out about the cyst. Now who says mom's nagging is no good??

I now know that caring and worrying for people you love are more taxing that being sick yourself. Ferrying my family around, making calls and receiving calls, relatives visits and all the waiting were really energy sapping moments. Telling sis that it's going be alright was another way of composing our ownself that it's going to be alright.

Sis discharged from hospital on Thursday and now recuperating at hometown.

Ovarian cyst is so common nowadays that when I asked around my friends and colleagues, some of them had it, removed it or somebody close to them had it. Had our lifestyle changed so much compare with our parents generation that having ovarian cyst now is just like having bad acne breakout?

To good health.