Day 3 Cebu ... Happy Birthday to Me ...

The first greetings I received to my surprise was yesterday from my parents! So nice! I am now 42 and next 12 months? I need to lose 24 kilos. I am now? 92 ... and this means I should target 68. Let's do this!!!

So what did I do today to celebrate? Well, I took the bus down to the city from Movenpick. And it was a challenge. I waited and was surprised to see that it was so full. Lucky thing they could squeeze me in although I was told to go and pay 150R ... and they don't give me receipt ... hmmm ... no negative thoughts, eh?

Anyway I went to the next mall - Ayala and this one was bigger than yesterday's, more modern and seemed more posh but again, it was a mix inside. It did start to drizzle and then poured. So I started at UCC cafe ... enjoying something called Halo Halo cake (local dessert turned into a cake) ... and for lunch I did the food court to try the crab shell and grilled pork ... both were nasty ... sorry ... and finally? I was surprised that today is also Mother Mary's birthday, Tess' daughter's birthday and of course, Jerry's birthday!

Dinner was back to awesome Fiesta ... and tonight I ordered the crispy pata (awesome), springroll (unusual) and pangsit noodles (awesome) ... and only then did I tell CFW it was my birthday. Heh!

All in all, a nice birthday because I am in a different country doing a different thing

Day 2 Cebu ... SM Mall ...

I think the challenge here is that they have the same time zone as Malaysia and Singapore when they are further on the East. Hence, even before 6:00am, the sun has risen bright and shining! The only positive consequence I can see here is that people should actually go to bed early and get up early and get more done. However, people are people and it doesn't seem to be the case. Hehehe!

I went to Shangri-la and have a walk through. It was amazingly huge and beautiful and the breakfast looks so sumptious. Sigh! I do miss a good buffet. Hahaha! Says fat me

After that we hopped on the bus to the city and came to SM. CFW took me to this Chinese restaurant across the road that serves some dimsum and chinese food. It was nice but just normal Chinese food. The mall is quite busy and designed all over the place. However, as I am following CFW, we didn't do much waltzing around and I have yet to taste the local coffee! We did stop at a French bakery for a coffee though. It was nice!

Dinner was at the Italian across the road and that too was another good meal. The starters of broccoli and shrimp was great. The pesto pizza was nice but a bit sad because the pesto was a drop per slice and that's it! Ugh! Finally the spaghetti carbonara had flavour but waaaaaay toooo saltieeeeee!!!

Tomorrow? My birthday! Hehehe!

Cebu, Phils ... Holiday tiiiime!!!

The last time I planned a holiday with my sweetheart, it was in Jul and when the time came, I had flu and my ear got so stuffed up, I had to cancel to avoid a flight ... so this time around ... you can imagine the fear I have ... especially when true to form, early this week, from having recovered from a persistent cough that's been bugging me for the better part of the past 3 months ... I had a bout of sore throat

Now we all know what this means ... sore throat, phlegm and cough, cold and dripping nose and ... fever! In the past, I tried to cut it short by taking meds but in the end it merely prolonged the agony ... so rather than tackle the entire bout ... I got meds for every part of the cycle ... basically allowing it to happen as nature intended and then using the meds to cure each part faster sort of like hurrying along a stray kid ... hehehe ... so hope it works

This morning, I woke up with a drippy nose and it is sooooo annoying because I didn't have anything for it ... and the same was at the airport ... but hey enough about illnesses for one post!

What's new?

Why - Cebu of course. Inspite of having many Filipino good friends since 2000, I have never been here for work or holidays and I am finally heeeeeeeeeere! So excited. The only sad part is that all my Filipino friends are working abroad at this time ... but hey instead of meeting my Filipino friends, I met an old Singaporean friend ... we used to work together in the Maldives

Mr C ... and now I am staying in the Movenpick residences ... hehehhe ... it's an old tower but the view is awesome ... we can see all the way across the two sides of the island ... saw the airport landing and what not ...

And the sea breeze is just so intoxicating ... now if only I was in perfect health ... this would have been perfect ... anyway I am taking it easy ... catching up, chilling, chatting ... we walked out to a local diner with local food (awesome taste) ... and had a good time sitting at the beach chairs until sunset drinking San Miguel Light! Hehehe!

Let's see ... do you want us to mention cuties? Well, at KLIA 2, they were flooded with cuties in uniforms at all three parts of security ... young, slim, nice ass! And as for the Phils side ... the only one that made me stare was the security on duty at the jetty ... I am sure there are more to come ... but it's almost 11:00pm and for once I am trying to sleep early

So good night and sorry this is such a rush especially when I really have so much to share

Re-inventing myself

I am torn ... it has been nearly a year since my last post ... and it's not that I am not keeping up with this blog but rather ... I was indecisive on whether I should be more open or more conspicuous about what I post ... you see, my dilemma is that I want this to be like my real-life diary ... except that to avoid problems later on with friends and family (if I were to type really openly) ... I would use either initials or nicks of people I am describing ... naturally if you know me at each period I am typing you would know who I am talking about ... hahaha ... so the question then becomes do I sanitized my post?

I know if someone were to really try, they can find out who we are i.e. not really anonymous

So where do I go from here? That's why I started a new blog a few months back ... but now, I kept on thinking ... and I left the new blog hanging as well ... and thought some more ... and for now, I  think I will go back to this ...

So let's do this in short bursts, first, okay?

Today is Saturday and I am in Jakarta, Indonesia ... staying at A.M ... nothing significant happened today because I basically hung around my apartment ... I did finally do some housework like laundry, cleaned the balcony and a bit of vacuuming ... but mainly because .. of anticipation ... giving back this apartment to B ... as he wants me to move to another apartment ...

Aside from that, I managed to persuade myself to do miniscule exercise. I know, I know. Lame, right? I simply cannot control my food intake and exercise ... but I HAVE TO BE SERIOUS THIS TIME

I do want, for once in my life, to be fit! Hahahahahahaha! It's true, I was not fat as a kid but was sickly and for some reason, my belly was always a bit flabby even when I was thin ... o and let's not forget my wide hip translates into a big butt ... ugh ... I know, some like a shapely tush ... not me!

What did I eat today then? I went down to lobby's FH for my usual of fried rice with tea ... then around tea time, felt a bit peckish and had a cup noodles ... for dinner it was McD's 2 pieces of fried chicken, fries and coca-cola ...

I did a fair bit of work today though ... like Paku's 2015 budget, write up for Yangon potential, follow up on some accounts etc ... and a nice discussion with JCool ...

And finally, I am back to my art ... the last time I did something decent was 2012 ... the past 2 years I tried but honestly nothing I liked ... so the past few weeks and months I have been having new ideas but I kept them all stewing in my brain ... until I worked out the mechanics mentally ... tonight wasn't great but it wasn't bad either

And now? Well watching tv and typing this - hah! Alright back to TV ... cheers all!

Do I Need Oysters???

Okay ... this post is going to be about libido and what-not so for those of you who frown on such topics, kindly DO NOT read this. You have been cautioned!

So what the heck am I rambling about? L.I.B.I.D.O.

It seems like at the ripe old age of 41 I have been hit by a serious drop in sexual appetite. What am I moaning about? You see, I used to get "s"excited easily and whether I scored or not, a H-job (fast or slow) is a requirement a few times a week

Then suddenly it hit me that of late ... read that as past several months that I can remember ... most nights, even when my mind is thinking how about a little H-job ... I just turn over, grab a book, settled into bed and read. Yup, read!

Or worse yet, when I am with someone in bed, I don't even feel the need to want to do a little lovey-dovey, touchy-feely, kissy-kissy!

Worst yet, just a few months ago, I would be complaining if I am in the same city and my darling is not spending time with me but now? Now I actually tell not to bother even coming, to stay and rest because the truth is ... I am not bothered anymore!!!

ARGH!!!

Does it mean that I am becoming sexually uninterested? Libido issue? Or that my love for my other half is waning? Some serious food for thought here

Even last night, I was half in the mood but decided to "do it" and it took me several hours to build up to a decent "climax" after watching clips of "men in uniform getting it" and stills. Sigh!

So what do I do?

Oysters?

[O yes nothing of significance happened today except me going home from Damansara to the sticks]

Hottie alert!

Well the morning started off like normal ... feeling a bit down actually! Lately with my health the way it is, I am not sure how I can find the energy but I must ... so I guess I will start with eating enough and to heck with losing weight, eh? Hahahaha!

For those wondering, I am about 200 that's TWO FREAKING HUNDRED pounds!

I have never in my life imagined I would be this hulking fat man. And yet, there are those who said I am not that big for my height as it seemed that I am only a bit fat around the stomach and arse! Are they BLIND? I would say blind as a bat but hey bats have radar sensors and they can see the shape of my FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT

Anyway today's big topic is not about me being fat or even the title but rather the shocking TOSHIBA EHDD. I bought a new one less than 2 months ago. A few days ago, it started coughing up problems. When I tried to use the fix function on my laptop, it didn't work and always hang at 43%. Finally today I went to 2 different shops to check and to my utter horror they quoted me a min of RP750k or the price of a new EHDD to try and extract the data from my EHDD. ARGH! What I am annoyed is that it crashed so fast and now giving me a nightmare. I am going to see vendor next week with my warranty and ask them to extract for me and I want to be around when they do it because I have sensitive information inside. So fucking annoying!

Okay now we come to the cutie part. As you know, Indo is full of thin/ skinny/ slim dudes in uniforms (satpam). Well today's hottie isn't one of them. I was at the restaurant to review some work for a new client and then they ushered me downstairs saying that the vendor has arrived for the software demonstration. Now I am not expecting anything much because it is IT and like Finance, they tend to be geeks who are like me - FAT! Okay, I won't go there again but anyway here we have 2 young (at least they look young below 30) Chinese dudes who speak fluent Indo so I guess they must be local. One guy is doing the demo and the other guy doing the business end and I am guessing he is the boss. He is the one I was immediately WHAMMED with. Hehehe!

When I walked in, he was of average height, slightly wavy hair, nice features with hint of pimples when younger and a hot hot hot bod! He was slim with potential stomach bulge in future if not careful but now? Wow! And his butt in those brown pants?!?!?! Woof! He made brown pants look good. Hehehe! I kept on checking him out and his pronounciation? It sounded as if he was educated overseas for a long spell the way he rolled the words out. So sexy! What a turn on! Sigh! I managed to get his name card though but found nothing on the web. ARGH! Jap ... you are so cute for me!

Anyway, that's it for me tonight. Feeling so incredibly sleepy. I am really hoping this health problem gets resolved fast yeah?

Good night!

Flu ... again?

What is flu? At the ripe old age of 41, I must admit I always thought that flu came in a package of 4 illnesses ie sore throat, block nose, cough with phlegm and fever. And anyway, this is the normal cycle, right? Even if you detect it early and you go to physician, usually, for me anyway, what it does is merely delay the cycle and the fever will still come before it goes backwards of the cycle to get better. So perhaps it is better to wait for the fever to hit before going to a physician?

Anyway, I was on the mend after being down for the past like 10 days but thanks to this morning's early waking up (one round at 4:00am and finally around 6:30am), I felt my throat a wee bit raw and I have been hacking up phlegm. In addition, my head has a few sore points like insufficient sleep kind of issue ... sigh!

Sorry if you feel this particular blog entry is not revealing but hey this is my blog and I am keeping this like a diary filled with my ramblings, okay?

Other than this, I had a decent morning, actually?

I went for the ID meeting at Jl Gunawarman and met a potential new client. I managed to get them to go to lunch with me at Publico restaurant and used the opportunity to sell my services. They are interested and she asked for my contact details. She even hinted at fees and said she will discuss further with her husband and see if we can meet up to talk more later. So I am keeping fingers crossed here. Something positive albeit small opportunity is always good!

Next is that finally everyone I wrote to for the Johor project? Everyone replied in the positive. So I know it's a matter of negotiation now to get a good deal for my client. If I am lucky, we can close the deal fast probably by next month before Christmas. And if the client is happy, maybe will recruit me for the next stage of the project, eh? Hehehe! Again, keeping fingers crossed

The downer?

My new HDD that I have been using for only about a month actually crashed on me. I tried to use auto-repair but it got stuck at 43%. I managed to copy out the business folders before it totally died off more or less. I am hoping I can find someone who can fix it so I can retrieve the rest of my files. It's annoying because I am almost finished with my writing! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pixoto + 1

Today on Facebook I saw someone posted that they won this week's challenge on something called Pixoto ... so here I am clicking it and creating my own account and uploaded over the past 12 hours ... 4 photos ... damn ... what is it with me and this need to be recognized, eh? Hehehehehehehe!

Hope I at least get a decent rating and not just get kicked out within 12 hours ... my first 2 photos got "paused" as I lost so many "duels" with other photos ... I was shocked that my Dubai photo with the beautiful orange sands were not getting votes ... sigh!

I had a look at some of the photos and you can clearly see that while beautiful some of it is soooo doctored to the point it is not realistic. So why bother, right?

Okay.

The + 1 is because after FB linking, I decided to meet this chef as he was an old acquaintance of R-Pie ... Thai chef mate of mine ... and turns out he is quite a nice chap from Malaysia ... he is here for past 6 months working as a chef ... we went to Le Grandeur where he started ... and to my surprise the food is soooooooooooooo yummy ... we had the staple of siu mai, some green type with light sauce and Chinese pancake ... then he ordered the siew yoke and I had wan than mee ... all yummy! He also called over the restaurant manager, a Chinese Singaporean who has been in Jkt since the 90s and actually saw the riots!

Other than that, it's been a quiet day as far as business and work goes. I worked on my book and did some sketching. I am going to take it easy until end Dec and Jan onwards is where I start working on SOPs and what-not

Currently, what I have on outstanding?

1. Spa college

2. Lombok development

3. Retail group - new and I really hope can take off!

Okay - that's it for me for this day! Goodnight cyberfriends!