2010-Looking Back

never thought I would write about something so newspapery = the year in review.

these days very lethargic no energy little motivation to do many things..it is true that feeling a bit jaded (kind of been there done that)..or maybe a "PO" angle to look at it is being "more focused"..well that is a 1/2 full or 1/2 empty thingy.

what about 2010?

I did two 1/2marathons 21.1km Sundown May29,2010 (2hrs 33mins) & Standchart Marathon Singapore Dec5, 2010 (2hrs 50 mins). I am doing weekly runs with a good friend and doing 3x10km/week runs with reasonable comfort and feeling good after runs (did 10km this morning & on wednesday and 8km on Monday since I came back on Dec25 night)...

I spend lots of time with old RI classmates/schoolmates, rediscovering old friendship, hearing expose' from ancient times gone by (I was sleeping mostly through RI days), played mahjong first time in my life, couple of tennis games (should do more tennis) and a bit too much dining (should do more coffee 功夫茶 red wine like what Chai Seng suggested) but managing my weight ok with 30km/week runs & 1 meal a day...

and not forgetting watch world cup together at Temasek Club and semi & final @ MBS (Marina Bay Sands)..watched F1 at Pit Straight suite courtesy of Chong Lee..got invited to tapas and fine dining by by home chef friend Wang Junwei who is discovering new things everyday from sous vide 70degC vaccum cooking to 36hrs ice filtration consomme to black garlic..Kum Fei coming back to visit his son mum & nephew wedding and we having sungei road laksa & turtle soup at jln berseh hawker centre.

A few of us got together to work on some social project which may begin to take shape and hopefully can see some result in 2011. quite a good team really, a few of us RI friends and a few 13-15yrs our junior and they in turn work up a partnership with a younger team of 26 year olds with Stanford degree..

and I got to visit my eldest brother 永俊 in Shantou Chenghai 汕头澄海. though I invited him, his wife and daughter to stay with me for 1 month in 1995, I don't think much about them after that other than the usual occasional letters etc..this time over 22-25dec I got to know them a bit more in depth, the 2 nephews, their wives, son (1st year communications technology in Guangzhou No2 Agricultural unviersity) & daughters, my niece, her hubby (a graduate from Qing Hua University) and their daughter my other grandniece..and a bit more understanding of the ordinary folks life in a utterly corrupt system to the base level - counterpoint to the macroscopic successes that make China the economic powerhouse of the 21st century which no doubt pragmaticly improve the lots/lifes of 100millions people than any empty ideological calls of "democracy" - intellectual snobs' ideology more important than real improvement, real freedom/rights to property, employment etc for 100milions people?

also got to sort out some of W3's investments and to rebalance some personal ones...

2010 is over tonight, looking forward to welcome 2011!

cynicism, negativity & cyber propagation

the minority speak loudest and cynicism & negativity get recycled and regurgitated in cyberworld..partisan, whatever the other guy say or do is wrong, unable to share, rejoice & feel proud of their country & people who contributed real effort for betterment of the world & of the human spirit, sport excellence..Obama tried to refocus America & the world "yes you can" but he is being drown out by minority controlled senate & wall street pseudo capitalist vested interest & media..we live in a pluralistic world..democracy is the free market contest of ideas & will prevail...

Fire & Water

fire

self destruct

pockets of short-lived brilliance ignite 10,000 years of torched history

mankind's fading footprint in the shifting sand of time,

or is every spark a moment in eternity?

water

indestructible permanence

an unstoppable force against which there is no immovable object

is forever a timeless omnipresence

or an exercise in futility?