Toto, 4D, Horse Betting, Soccer Betting and now Casinos

How different are they from each other? All involves money, luck, judgement and gives a certain degree of excitement.


Just came across this site about Families Against the Casino Threat in Singapore. Their petition letter as quoted below.



The President
Republic of Singapore


Dear Mr President,


As the head and/or concerned member of my family, I am against any proposal to set up a casino in Singapore.


I do not want families to be raised in an environment that approves and endorses gambling. Gambling for whatever reason, is not a value to be embraced.


I respectfully request that as Head of the State of Singapore, you will advise our government to reject any plan to allow a casino in Singapore.


Thank you sir, for your kind attention.


The undersigned.


My thought is, it’s the parent’s responsibility to teach the child that gambling is bad. Not the government.

just another little developer

Bleah. Crystal reports is newbie-unfriendly. Hong Kong trainers can’t help me
much. I am the key person of this project so if clients don’t like it, I’m too
be blamed. This is by far, the first unenjoyable project I’m assigned to (as if
there’s other people to assign it to).


This project is a fruity mix of technologies, not much helpful
training provided, lots of business concepts/terms my technical
brain have difficulty comprehending.


Anyway, tomorrow’s the presentation of this CRM program to our client. I will
be present during the meeting with the big guys. Can’t wait to get this over
with.

People are strange creatures

I bet you’ve heard this a thousand times on human beings being strange creatures. We behave differently depending on the circumstances.


Anyway, I’m pissed and stressed. Boss is pushing me around to rush this project I’m on. Firstly, this CRM program requires ASP.NET, C#, VB6 knowledge to customize. I have little exposure to these 3. Even though I’m comfortable working with new languages, I still need time to learn more about them. And time is what we don’t have.


May stop blogging for a week. The deadline is next Thursday for there’s a demo for our client next Friday. The demonstration is supposed to be today but the client had some stuff so it got postponed to a week later.


Busy busy busy…

Hong Kong – Day 4

Ahhhhh, today’s topic is damn confusing. Can’t wait to get back home. Did some shopping yesterday at HMV. Bought some DVDs and a Nirvana audio CD. Cheap. Bought an old Japanese movie for $15HKD, “The Last Emperor” at $20HKD.

By the way, there are Giordano stores everywhere!

5pm: Waiting for my flight back to Singapore. I’m at a lounge at the Hong Kong International Airport. Only for people with exclusive privileges (my boss). The snacks and food are free. Even the Hagen Daz ice cream and a variety of alcoholic drinks. I’m gonna keep this short as the keyboard is noisy and disturbing the others. My flight’s at 6 and I expect to reach home by 10pm.

Gonna go grab some ice cream now.