30 Aug 2007 : H9

CC bought a H9. Never thought he would buy a SLR-like H9 since he was eyeing at Sony Alpha which is SLR. He finally settled down with a H9.

CC has preferance for Sony, mainly due to our previous experience with the DSC-S70.

We were yet to try out more shots on this new toy.

29 Aug 2007 : Carabao with colleagues

We had a great time in Carabao.

28 Aug 2007 : Lean 6 sigma

PL attended 6 sigma course for champions these 2 days. It was conducted by inhouse 6 sigma master black belt. Kind of difficult to digest those statistics but the concept could be captured.

The interesting parts were the catapult competition on variability and also the stick sticker game. Through a game, attitude and attribute could be identified.

Lean 6 sigma is not a new concept. But many people applied these without giving it a name. A systematic ways to approach lean 6 sigma is easily written, but in real life, many people fail to do it due to many factors.

Some good notations captured :
1. Correlation between 2 variables does not mean there is a cause and effect relationship
2. Not until the ending point, we do not know who the winner is
3. Regression - cause and effect relationship, but need to beware of the scatter plot

Interesting !

24 Aug 2007 : 2nd half off

Initially, PL was taking 2nd day off for an appointment. Since the appointment was cancelled, she took this opportunity to have a leisure to shop in Pelangi mall.

Nowadays, the purse could be emptied off buying things for little CY.
CY : 5 rompers + stroller hook + feeding bowl with cover

Then, we had a "dine-in". PL has not cooked for the family during week days for months. It was a simple meal being prepared, though. This was the consequence of PL spent too much time browsing on the wagon in the shopping mall.

23 Aug 2007 : Busy

Another busy day for PL.

She came back earlier to refresh.

CC was also back earlier.

21 Aug 2007 : Initial visit

Yeah.. we got it done...

Although with some observations, we were almost there for certification. Would like to extend my gratitude to those that from other sites that came over last few months to help and guide those GREEN committee.

And the external auditor, laick who came for the initial visit provided us lots of guidance towards the certification.

Now, it is time to close the outstanding items as many as possible.

19 Aug 2007 : Danga Bay again

We have a quiet morning.

After fetching PL back from yoga, we stayed at home, sleeping, playing with little CY, reading paper, surfing net...

We were thinking to go to Danga Bay at 2pm but little CY fell into his sweet dream, probably due to the cool weather with rain pouring down.

By the time we got off our car at the street mall, it was 5.30pm. PL insisted going there for an evening because she was attracted to the shops and restaurants over there. She did not have opportunities to have a better look on that area.

We had our dinner at cafe Cowboy.

After the dinner, we checked out the stalls set up by tents outside the street mall. Again, PL got little CY 2 rompers and 1 t-shirt to fill up more space in his wardrobe.

It was indeed a great place to hang around.

18 Aug 2007 : Dinner at Todak 海番村

Morning
PL skipped yoga class because she was back late last night and planned to go to office in the morning. It would be kind of too exhausted to go for Yoga without sufficient sleep.
CC accompanied little CY for the whole morning, including bathing him and soothing him to sleep.

Afternoon
PL was not feeling well. Her head was heavy that she had a 1 hour nap. Still, she ended up with one panadol. Little CY dozed off at 3.30pm in his play ground and woke up at 5pm, just 30 min before CC was back from his swim.

Evening
We met up with our future neighbour for dinner. Till now, PL was not able to recognize the route to Todak Seafood Restaurant (Orang Asli) 海番村. The restaurant was built on wooden stilt. Sembawang shipyard was just across the Johor straits and could be seen clearly. It was always good to have more people to be in a table. The order was placed for black pepper crab, Indonesian prawn, boiled gong gong, butter squid, vegetable, fried mee and 5 pieces of buns. PL's favourite was the buns. We should have ordered the curry power crab which was best to go with the buns. But, no harm trying new dishes.

Little CY greeted those little girls at adjacent tables, smiled to our neighbours (only to the mother and grandmother, not the little boy) but ignored the little boy. Guess he was only attracted to opposite gender.

CC & Wong chatted on share market and business. Wong was part of SG.

Same old qeustion popped up : When would we move ?
Other questions to be considered : finding a new nanny ? or sending little CY to the same nanny but need a detour every morning ?

Anyhow, we ended up with a full stomach.

16 Aug 2007 : Infected !!!

Recieved an msn friend's message, PL clicked open it. Alas ! It was an infected file. Since then, the msn went crazy. Thus, please do not click open any files that sent out by PL if it looked suspicious. We were now uninstalling the MSN and in progress of cleaning up.

12 Aug 2007 : Rainy day

It was raining when CC picked up PL after her facial.

PL went shopping for a longer hour because little CY was sound asleep when PL called home. It was so difficult to resist on buying the pant and the 2 blouses after trying them up in the fitting room. This was indeed the cons after slimming down.

She also bought little CY some "hard" books. He has been running his hands on PL's magazines and also newspaper.

PL was eyeing at those mooncake in Season's & Lavender's. After second thought, she decided that she would wait for another week or more to grab some back home.

On our way back, we was stuck a while in front of JJ. Many people (some with umbrellas !) and cars were at the road side. Our eyes followed the crowd and finally locked into the sight of a terrace which caught fire. Hopefully, the rain helped. The house was almost burned off, just left 20-30% that was not in a smoky condition. Well, CC focused on the road that PL had a better look. If not, we would be one that being cursed by the drivers at the back, like we grumbled about those cars in front...

Rain started to pour...Raining cats and dogs....Good time to ZzZZzz....

03 Aug 2007 : Cleaner environment

So, here was the result after 2 weeks of first vacuuming and continuous purification....

03 Aug 2007 : Seminar

PL went for a seminar on last Friday.

It was a beneficial seminar with the information gained. Besides, Persada is a decent place for a seminar or an event to be held. If the event came with Pan Pacific's buffet lunch, it was worthwhile to be alerted throughout the seminar even the topics were dry. However, both the topics were interesting and the food was marvellous.