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After swimming at One George Street Fitness First Plus, I decided to discover the places around. I believe the Raffles Place MRT is quite nearby, taking the UOB Plaza as the landmark. So, I walked through to the Raffles Place. Dropped by the river side for a slight feel of night breeze and take some shots.

I like this place a lot. The scenery is quite peaceful and relaxing, apart from quite a few people sitting around enjoying the night, chatting, having their packed dinner, or even small picnic with friends.

Along the stretch of this small round of river which leads to Esplanade, there are lots of cafes and restaurants.

And from the first picture above, you can see the Fullerton Hotel from near. It has a nice landscape.

From time to time, you will see boats passing by carrying tourists around the river. Maybe I shall try this out one day. I have not tried it though till today eventhough I have lived here for more than 1 year.

So, after sat down for awhile and finished with the shots, I continue my journey back home. So, there goes my Thursday night out. I feel I shall swim more nowadays, at least twice a week to have a total body workout since I am only doing Body Combat and very little of weight training.

Received some performance bonus this month, was so lucky to get this for this first time in the history of the company. But, I gotta move on pretty soon to improve my experience and get more challenges.

TGIF People!

written by surfnux

Communication is really important. Every communication whether it is understandable or not, will depends on how we deliver it. Different person will have different way of understanding things. For example, if we were to teach a novice user on how to configure a router, we couldn’t insert all the complicated technical terms while communicating with them. They might not get what we are trying to tell at all.

The same when we are talking to a pro or an expert in something, if we are telling them in lay man terms, some will think that we are looking down on them.

Identifying the person we are communicating with through e-mail is not easy. Especially when we do not know whom that person is. This is then resulted in Miscommunication. Which I mostly faced at times.

Slowly, we will learn how to communicate with some people through trial and errors and experiences. Laying it out in the e-mail reply is sometimes can be a problem too.

What I faced is:
1. When writing the e-mail with too much details and elaboration, people don’t seem to read it and in the end misunderstood the message.
2. When writing the e-mail briefly and straight forward, people also don’t seem to understand it as it was too direct and their way of understanding might tell them another thing.

Well, shall try better next time and get through a method of delivering the right information in the right way to the right person.

Just some light rantings about work.

written by surfnux

Being a regular user of Sendspace - Send Big Files the Easy Way, up to max 300 MB, I came across their good feature of Sendspace Wizard.

All you have to do is download this Sendspace Wizard and install it on your PC. The next step is to register an account with Sendspace.

After all done, run the application, configure your username and password into it and you can start uploading all the way direct from the application without having to go to the webpage anymore. And tell you what, the files you uploaded will still be shown in the application and the link will still be available and you can extract the link anytime you need it.

Not sure about how long it will be available yet though. Perhaps its got to do with their Terms and Conditions.

Click here to download the Wizard and found out more. The application is available for 3 platforms: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The great thing is that it is Ads free…

What’s more to be a registered users?

As a registered user, you can track and edit the files you upload, earn Free Max points and recover your file’s download links.

And as a premium users, you can download files direct from the Wizard application as well.

Go and try it out today. You will find it very useful if you are using file upload regularly and you do not have a private file server on the web available.

No hassle with this, its easy.

Some news about Yahoo! Mail. Its has gone unlimited now. Login to your Yahoo! Mail and find out now. Notice the storage meter is broken into pieces. (actually it has been going unlimited for quite sometimes).

written by surfnux

After sometime not having Fish & Co., on one of the Friday nite dinner, we went for one newly opened branch at Paragon, Singapore. The layout is nice and fun. As usual, the one I missed the most is the Seafood Platter. So, after found a friend who wanted to share that Seafood platter for two, we go for it. Yummy.

Sorry that the picture was taken when we almost had it half as we are already too hungry.

For drinks, I planned for Cola Tonic, but a friend ordered something unique (forgotten the name), and the waiter reminded that this is a 1 litre drink. So, we decided to share it again. It was a mixture of few fruits with ice. Yummy, but taste a bit weird due to the mixture.

Seafood platter is always my favourite. Till the next time having it.

written by surfnux \\ tags: Singapore’s F&B

Another fabulous food product from Indonesia. This is by Orang Tua (short term: OT).

Presents you: Kaya King

There are two flavours that I bought for trial: Honey Roasted Peanuts and Garlic Roasted Peanuts.

Both flavours are awesome. Its like once you pop them into your mouth, you can never stop popping for the others till the whole packet is empty.

Honey Roasted flavour is kinda sweet and a little bit salty.

Garlic Roasted flavour is salty and has a nice smell.

Both are nice. I should get more when I go back to Indonesia.

Below is the advertorial quote from Kaya King (quoted from www.ot.co.id):

KayaKing

Sayangi jantung, perbanyaklah makan kacang tanah!

Kacang tanah (Arachys hypogeta) termasuk kategori makanan diet yang telah dipertimbangkan secara matang sangat cocok sebagai ”suplemen” kesehatan bagi mereka yang senantiasa melengkapi hidangan hariannya dengan makanan sumber lemak.

Bersama Kayaking, kacang lezat yang terbuat dari kacang tanah pilihan dan berkualitas kini dapat Anda nikmati kapan saja dan dimana saja!

Bengong…. Kayaking dong!!!!

Translation from the advertisment:

Love your heart, consume more peanuts!

Peanuts (Arachys hypogeta) is one of food categorized for diet which has been analysed to be suitable for health supplement for those who consumed fatty foods daily.

With “KayaKing”, delicious peanuts which is processed from selected and quality peanuts, can not be enjoyed anytime anywhere!

Feeling blank… KayaKing Dongg!! (Dong is one of Indonesian language’s slang word which means to persuade)

written by surfnux \\ tags: IndoFood