BCA Award 2009

I used to marvel at the perspective views of the buildings when they are flashed right in front of me...I usually see more of these perspectives when I attended formal dinner or events, where these buildings will be bragged to the whole audience.

Anw, last night I was at BCA Awards 2009 ceremony, which is dubbed as the Oscar ceremony of the construction industry...an event where you witness hundred of awards being given out to the developers, architects, consultants, contractors, and quantity surveyors...I still 'wow-ed' when I saw the slides showing all the achievements, with buildings standing straight in a more sustainable manner, with all the 'Green' thing being highly promoted right now...but I was not as enthusiastic as last time because deep inside my heart, I know well the struggle and the hardship that each of us has to go through for these achievements to materialize...we really sacrifice our blood, sweat, and tears for the buildings that you see standing right in front of u...All these achievements are supposed to serve as a motivation, right? but to me the whole process of bringing these architectural and engineering masterpieces into life is enough to kill any motivation that comes with it...

You should be able to guess where i stand in this industry...I'm at the borderline...one of my feet is still within the industry, while another one is roaming around to find a more suitable industry,haha...

oh btw, my company won the Gold Class for Built Environment Leadership Awards...and my colleague, after being shown the plague by our MD, stupidly asked, "Is this really made of Gold?" haha....And the theme of this year's award is really 'Green, green, green...' that even the noodle that's served during the dinner is the green color spinach noodle,hahahah....

I have been wanting to visit these places but havent had the chance to do so:
- Henderson wave
- Marina Barrage
- Singapore Botanical Garden
- JB ( one-day shopping trip)
Anyone visiting these places, ask me along k? haha...

Btw, i dunno why i always envy those friends who can travel somewhere with their loved one, hmmm...when will i have the chance to do so ah?

I was so excited when I checked out SilkAir website yesterday and I found out that there's a promotional price to fly back home...It only costs S$328 (incl. taxes)...that's like half of the price that i normally pay. I called home to inform my parents that I'm going home!!! hahaha...if nothing drastic happen from now till my birthday, then I think i'll pack my bag and fly home on my birthday!

My hometown

Suddenly I feel so proud when I saw my hometown being featured in The Straits Times today...Below is the excerpt of the article:


Climate change: 100m S-E Asians at risk

Death of marine life will bring poverty, instability to region, warns WWF
MANADO (INDONESIA): - About 100 million people risk losing their homes and livelihoods unless drastic steps are taken to protect South-east Asia's biologically diverse coral reefs, which could be wiped out in coming decades because of climate change, a report said yesterday.

The Coral Triangle - which spans Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Timor Leste - is home to more than half the world's coral reefs and 35 per cent of coral reef fish species, making the area a linchpin for ocean life.

If carbon emissions are not cut by 25 per cent to 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, higher ocean temperatures could kill off vast marine ecosystems and half the fish in them, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

If that came to pass, 100 million people earning a living off the sea could be forced to leave inundated coastlines and find new jobs, the group warned.

The WWF presented its 220-page study as ministers and officials from over 70 countries gather in the Indonesian city of Manado, Sulawesi, for the World Ocean Conference, the first global meeting on the relationship between oceans and climate change.

I have a couple of friends, who have visited my hometown for diving...and they went there without knowing that the lovely place that they visited is my hometown!!! hahaha...so now you know how 'active' I have been promoting my own hometown...I have never dived there...I didnt know how to dive...I have never even tried snorkeling there...When I visited some of the resorts, I felt that they have been over-promoted...they are not as nice as what has been portrayed in the advertisements, but I always wonder,"Why every SilkAir flight that i took is always packed with tourists?" They came all the way from Europe and the USA just to visit my hometown...and everytime I check in for my flight at the airport, I always overhear the tourists' conversation on how beautiful the underwater world is...What a shame! We, the locals tend to take things for granted...

Btw, the World Ocean Conference has inflicted some inconvenience to the locals right now...My dad told me that since this is the first time Manado is hosting a huge international event, there have been many rules being imposed in order to ensure that everything goes smoothly. The most interesting one is the rule that only allows cars with the plate number ending with an odd number to travel on the odd days, and cars with the plate number ending with an even number to travel on the even days! This aims to ease the traffic jam in the city,hahaha....The cars in my house both end with an odd number! So my mum has to call her friend to pick her up today simply because she wants to go to the salon, hahaha....

Oh I havent been blogging for ages...not because that I have no more complaints about work but it's just that I have started to learn to stop complaining publicly and accept everything as a reality of life,haha...and I have been busy doing 'something'...Hopefully what i have decided to do is the right decision for me!