Happy New Year!

How did we spend our New Year eve?

Both aiai and me had the chance to get invited to the Sky Symphony Countdown 2008 at Jewel Box, Mt Faber. It was an event organized by Canon Singapore and 7.30pm, we had the limo taxi waiting for us right at our doorstep and he drove us to the Habourfront where we took a cable car ride to Mt Faber.

Before entering into the Jewel Box, we even had a couple shot taken by the photographer, how cool was that!? But I still havent get my picture from them yet. Must get it from my Canon sales exec.

The food was good but I only managed to have a mouthful of the desert, my favourite yam paste and then we were told to go to the Kingdom Garden to watch the fireworks display by the world's tallest artificle Christmas tree.

The display lasted around 10mins and we took a cable car back to the Habourfront and then the limo taxi to get back home.

A brand new year has started and we wish everyone a Happy & Prosperous 2008 !

The best country club in Singapore?

Starting membership cost was just $15K and after 6months, the membership fee has increased to 75K and raising - 1 Degree 15, Sentosa Cove. Its one of the best club in Singapore which the fee has tripled in less than a year. If you are one of the members, congratulations!

Our dear Cindy is one of them whom purchased the membership in June and paid 35K for it. She would have doubed her investment if she wants to sell it now.

Anyway, she had invited Aaron, aiai and myself to her club to the fitness centre, dinner at the Latitude as well as to have a dip in the pool. At night, the whole place was so beautifully light-up.

Zaino DIY Workshop #2

Its my 2nd round conducting the Zaino workshop at HYCARE! Its better than the previous one, I guess. Partly its because its not the first anymore and I was more confidence in myself.

We had people like Welbo, Budi, Jeff joining us this time. Taking Jeff's as our demo car and it was really a problematic car as it had lots of swirl & water marks all over. After the Zaino session, his car shined like a superstar.

Xmas BBQ Party

Food, food and more food. Seems like food is never enough during the festival seasons. We had chicken wings, sotongs, lots of scallops, fried mee siam, satay and lots lots more.

The BBQ was held at Mike & Lydia's new condo at Sun Plaza which they just moved in recently.

And of coz, the happiest person of the evening would be Isis whom had presents more than anyone there.

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Clara Wedding Day

Clara - my former IT Colleague, programmer, and we worked together in Sumitomo Bakelite and when I first knew her, she was only 20. And now, she is getting married.

I was invited to be Jimmy & Clara Wedding Photographer for the day. I was there at Clara's house at 6am together with Roger (videographer) getting ready for all the make up session.

The day was long and thank goodness there wasnt any downpour. The weather was perfect for an outdoor shooting which the wedded couple decided to go to Robertson Walk to have some shoots.

After all the tea ceremonies, I went back home without even taking the lunch buffet at their parents' place. I went straight to bed. Oh boy, how to tahan part II (the dinner banquet) when I only had 4hrs of sleep? So, slept for another 1hr or so, got up and get changed and ready for the dinner.

Dinner was held at Hilton and parking there was tough. But I was there early so waited for merely 10mins and I got a good lot.

Met up alot of ex colleagues there night and had a good catch up sessions.

Dinner ended ard 11pm and went straight back home.

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Alison's little birthday celebration

It was just one of those evenings where 5 of us had our regular dinner & movie gathering. It was also to celebrate our dear Alison's birthday and so we had our little party at Secrect Receipt's at Marina Square followed by the movie 'National Treasure'.

Xmas Shopping

After our mini Zaino session with at Rodz's new condo. Together with Deck, Jonz & Rodz, we went to check out the limited editional U1 Sinn1 Watch at Hour Glass, Taka. The masterpiece was listed $3000 but it was all sold out.

Deck, our poison master, kept asking me to get the U2 or the next coming Limited Edition version. I am now deciding to get this for my Xmas present or just call it a miss.

Whitford Xmas Lunch

Its our yearly event in Whitford here to gather together at the main office to feast and exchange gifts among the colleagues.

This year, we had so much food and wine but yet, nothing stopped me from taking pictures with my colleagues.



Everybody had something from their partners to buy a gift (min $15) but my partner just forgot about it and I did not get any present this year (sob sob sob).

Anyway, we all had a great time!








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VAGSG Annual D&D 2007

Here we closed our chapter for 2007 with a bang. We held our 6th D&D at the Night Safari's Ulu Ulu Court and we had 50+ Vagsg members as well as our sponsors turned up for the event. The event went very well & organized. Everyone enjoyed the company, the food and of coz, those slide shows Jon had put up. It was so nicely done up and I seriously am considering to buy a Mac book now. hehee..

15Dec is also the day which I annouced the stepping down of my Administrator role in Vagsg. It really was a long time and I wanted to make this change because I believe the new blood will drive the team further and I need a break too. 5yrs of Vagsg Admin and now, I am going to sit back and relac.

So, what are the new changes in placed for VAGSG? We should see...

Asia Pacific Manager Meeting 07

That does explain the silence of the 'Karsoon Blog' ya? Together with other 16 managers and our 3 directors, we flew to Zhuhai (珠海) for our AP Manager Meeting which started from 4Dec and ended on 7Dec. Not just having those boring presentations and meetings, kudos to Mr Heng (GM of our Jiangmen Plant) and our 3 directors (APMC) whom came out with such an interesting agenda and programs for our 4day events in Zhuhai.

Day1 was just free and easy. Took almost full day of travelling from Spore to Zhuhai where we flew to HK and took a ferry to the terminal of 九州港 and another of 1hr20min of car ride to our hotel at Ocean Spring Resort.

Day2 was still lots of fun filled with city tour and sight seeing. Check out my fokti site for some interesting photos.

Day3 was a real intensed session where we brought up 16 critical issues to address amoung all the managers. It did get very personal but that was the whole idea of our directors. We resolved them one by one in a very structured matter and came out with a monitoring progress plan.

Day4 was kinda like a quick wrap-up session and then we all had to take a long travelling journey back to Singapore.

My conclusion and contributed to the meeting was indeed was a very successful and fruitful meeting. Its one of its kind for such a meeting held among the AP. Good to bring out all the teething issues of our daily operations and resolve them constructively and then follow up by a progress plan.

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Zaino till your heart content

1Dec Saturday mark the opening of our Zaino DIY @ HYCARE shop. We had gathered around 20 people to come and attend the free workshop which I conducted. It was a 3hr session which I covered product introduction, car washing, claybar, zaino application till buffing. The response was good and most of them find that Zaino is still one of the product that gives the most wet look, longest lasting shine and best of all, very affortable.

AC69 was so excited about the product and he bought the Z5-pro combo kit and zaino right away.

Do watch out for our next coming workshop session.

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