Merry Christmas!

Yep, I've been busy the last few weeks and, as I said in my last post, time just flew by so swiftly. I didn't even realize that Christmas is just a few hours from now.

I just got a breather now until tomorrow then it's back to the grind again. I'll try my best to update my posts as soon as I can.

Anyway, from all of us here in our flat in Singapore, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

And the week flies by

I've been so busy , I didn't realize it's been almost a week since I last blogged here. I guess time flies when you're having fun but time flies much faster when you're working hard and under pressure.

Geez, and just like that, the half of the day is over and I'm still knee-deep with undone tasks. Oh well, better get back to work.

Friday Nightout!

After a busy week for both us, Che and I went to Orchard Road just to walk, relax, and give our new digicam a workout! :))

Here are some of the pictures we've taken while strolling down the ever-famous Orchard Road


The light arch along Orchard Road taken while crossing the street.



Taken along the Orchard Road sidewalk...



Dangling Christmas lights from the humongous trees



The Forum mall. Nice entrance!



Standing in front of the Hilton Hotel... Is someone behind me???



Che in front of a Merry Go Round contraption of some sort... :)



Hey! What's that across the street??? It's M&M!!!



Me and the Red M&M



Che and the Red M&M

That's it for this part of the nightout. Check the next post for our dinner! :)

Dinner at NYdC Wheelock

Our Friday nightout would not be complete without dinner! We went to Wheelock, one of the malls here and whoa, did we have a feast! We ate at the NYDC and had one of the best tasting pizzas!

Here's what we had:

Iced Manhattan Mocha - (My drink) Smooth NYdC mahattan Mocha Coffee served chilled with a scoop of Double Chocolate Chip ice cream and whipped cream.



King Tut's Fav - (Che's drink) Classic NYdC cappuccino served chilled with a scoop of Macadamia Nut ice cream, hazelnut syrup and whipped cream.


Bratwurst Jamboree Pizza - Slices of premium German bratwurst sausage with garlic sauce, mushrooms, onions, and mozzarella.



Roasted Chicken Spaghetti - Slices of roasted chicken in spaghetti served with tomato sauce



You've got to try the Bratwurst Jamboree!!! We can't get anough of it! If only it was a lot cheaper, I would have bought another one to bring home! :)

That's me concentrating on the task at hand. Nothing else mattered. It's only me and the plate! hehehe

BTW, the ambiance is nice. It has that typical pizza parlour feel. The staff are nice and very attentive to us, despite the fact that the resto was fully loaded and there are tons more of people lined up outside. (If we had waited five minutes later, we would have been stuck on the line with those other guys!)

It's a must-try.

In case you're interested, here's the contact info:

NYdC Cafe Wheelock
#02-19, 501 Orchard Road
Tel: +65 6736 3253

Blog link updates

I just updated some of the links here in my blog. I added Photrade, del.icio.us, and a couple of Adsense. For some reason, our proxy server here is blocking Technorati. :(

I guess that's one other thing that I have to do when I get home. Aside from getting home as dry as possible (hard downpour as of this writing).

Calm before the storm

Just found out that the reason I haven't received any network tasks since yesterday was because of the fact that the task "assigner" IS on leave since yesterday. He'll be back tomorrow, Thursday. So just how many tasks have been left hanging since Tuesday???

In addition, the big boss sent an email advising to "avoid and hold back any network configuration changes with immediate effect till Friday morning."

So let's see... One bloody network task on Monday, none for Tuesday until Thursday. That means whatever tasks have piled up between Tuesday and Thursday, I'll have to do on Friday!

Ah geez.. Looks like I'll be working hard for my money this Friday...

The Sitex Aftermath

We went to the Singapore Expo last Saturday and Sunday, going around checking for bargains and stuff at both the Sitex Expo and the John Little Sale Expo. We combed through both expos on both days, so you can imagine the pain I have on my two flat feet. :)

So let's see: Che and I have bought a turquoise Cybershot T2, and an HP Pavilion DV6500 Notebook.

We always wanted a digicam since we came here a few months back so I'm happy to see that she's enjoying taking pictures with the new digicam! :) We've been taking pictures of ourselves, our friends, different places in our neighborhood, even the big fat cats roaming around! (Literally, big cats almost twice as fat as the cats around our home in Sucat.) It's a given then that you can expect more pictures from our blogs.

If only we have more time to work on these pictures: I'm the network engineer on duty and Che will be deployed this month to the client site. It'll be challenging but we'll post as much pics as we can. :)

Now on call

Starting yesterday and for the rest of December, I'll be the duty network engineer, which means I'll take charge of all network-related problems and requested changes ( which for the most part, this involves opening of certain ports between VLANs). The emergency hotline was even forwarded to my cellphone.

Too bad for me, my first service request involves a very large project which requires configuration of several different switches. I just finished it today, sometime before lunch. It's currently being checked by the requester. I hope no further problems are encountered so I can close this one out.

Ah well... Here's to hoping for a month of lesser problems! Advanced Merry Christmas!