Roger's Rant…

Much to my amazement as I watched Channel News Asia this morning, this is truly a unique marriage proposal!

The boyfriend of an air hostess traveled on the same flight where she’s working and proposed marriage to her in mid-air!!!

Amidst the shock and initial embarrassment, she accepted his romantic love in the midst of the seventh heavens Details of this unique marriage proposal are at http://goo.gl/a6N78 If you have any opinion, please leave your comments.

Here are some coming events from 19th to 23rd January 2011 which might be of interest to you:

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Probably due to the change in weather – as everyone says – I was down with a bout of flu right after coming back from Beijing…

I literally slept almost non-stop for 36 hours straight!

Anyway, that concluded 2010 and things are getting exciting in 2011 even though it’s just two weeks into a brand new year.

Last week was a crazy week for me as Channel News Asia did a filming at my office at Waterloo Centre. We were given only 2 days’ notice to fill the room for a talk by Leny Painan (CEO of Wonderful Minds Pte Ltd) ! Thank GOD more than 30 people showed up at short notice.

It was a great show and fine display of her public speaking skills as she educated the audience on Dermatoglyphics analysis which means finger print analysis. Many parents found this to be intriguing and want to invest just a few hundred dollars to discover where the strengths of their children lie.

Plus, our WIN WIN networking event is picking up steam as we rolled out our very first session just last week. The participants were happy with meeting new people in a cozy manner as well as learned much useful information from the speaker who shared many patterns of share investment.

All in all, we are having more and more events every week. In fact, we already had 8 activities for this week alone! (See my next post.)

A cold winter in Beijing, China in December 2010

Traveling for the last time in 2010, we went to Beijing for a weeklong holiday.

To the locals, it was probably not so cold, but to me — a Singaporean who is exposed to an all year round warm temperature of about 30 deg C — it was a harsh cold winter!

When we landed at midnite a week ago, it was -6 degree C – a chilling announcement to me

Anyway, we have much fun savoring and sampling lots of Chinese food and specialty over here…

One of my favorite that I strongly recommend that you try out is the Beijing duck at ‘Ya Wang’ (literally translated as ‘Duck King’)

During this holiday, we deliberately took a rather slow pace, doing a mix of eating, shopping and a little sightseeing while catching up with some reading at the same time (I managed to finish 2.5 books while I’m here).

The climb at Great Wall of China at Badaling — where we were driven up in a private car about 1.5 hours away from Beijing — was a memorable outing. It was fun eating a Chinese mandarin while sitting at the steps of the one of the seven wonders of the world!

TIP: Wear very good walking shoes and you’ll thank your shoes after that. There’s long flights of uneven steps which can be challenging to both your sense of balance as well as your fitness

The other notable place we visited was the Palace Museum that led towards the Tian An Men Square. It was an amazing experience walking through the palace where the heavenly kings once lived which is nearly one kilometer long!

Emerging through the last ‘Wu Men’ gate of the palace and then going up Tian An Men and looking over the panoramic view of the Tian An Men Square is yet another great experience, followed by watching the guards lower the flag together with a gathering crowd of onlookers at sunset.

Last but not least, the shopping districts of Wangfujing and Xi Dan were ultra modernistic to say the least. In contrast, the cafes and ‘hutong’ sidewalks at Hou Hai is worth our afternoon visit.

It was a great Winter experience in Beijing for us. And now… it’s time to plan for our travels in 2011

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Well what I really like best in life is to have a cup of coffee in a cafe and read and… write (that’s where all my emails come from LOL).

However, there’s one thing I hate most when I’m having coffee alone…

No, it’s NOT:

…having no one to talk to

…getting bored (how can you get bored these days with SMS & Facebook?)

…having no one to share food (though I love to have a variety rather than just ordering a single dish)

No… no… no…

… it’s not all those.

It is when I’m in the midst of doing work on my laptop that nature calls

On occasions, I’ll just tell someone sitting across me to watch my laptop while I go and ease myself but most of the time, I will pack up my laptop in my bag (and then leave a book and my spectacles on the table to reserve it) and carry to the washroom. What a hassle!

Well…

What would you do when you’re alone? I love to hear from you – please leave your comments… thanks

Thank GOD for this restful – and yet restless – day…

Though it’s Hari Raya – a public holiday here in Singapore (and Malaysia) – somehow I got caught up with catching up with emails and outstanding work before they become urgent.

Anyway, still, it’s a wonderful day… at least I could work and rest at my own pace. (In fact, I spent time on one of my favorite past-times, that is, to browse around Borders book store which I ended up buying three business books costing more than a hundred bucks. Hmm… this habit is getting to be pretty expensive.)

And then…

… as I got on Facebook a little while ago, I stumbled upon a post by Ian Goh, an old friend, who posted a Youtube video of an old song:

Have You Seen The Rain?

This song, though performed by Rod Stewart (not CCR, the original group) is a beautiful and rhythmic rendition of vocal chords and strumming guitars. It brought back lots of memories as it brought me down memory lane of eons ago.

In those days during my childhood, my close friend and neighbour (another Roger) would always drop by my place without notice and we will start to strum the guitar and began to sing. And this is also his favorite song! How BLESSED we were to grow up with beautiful hits like this by pop giants of the 70’s like Bee Gees, Carpenters, ABBA, Air Supply, Lobo, etc. (Wherever was the King of Pop? Michael Jackson was just a kid growing up in those days!)

Well, it’s good to be reminded of them good old days

Oh yes, I almost forgotten about James Taylor, Carole King, Deep Purple, Don MacClean, Rod Stewart, Elton John and so many of those famous songwriters, singers and pop groups. I believe this is a golden era of the pop genre that will never be forgotten by future generations and I’m so glad to be part of it.

I wish you a Happy Holiday!

Roger Loh @Singapore Pavilion

Two nights ago, I visited the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China…

… the place is just HUGE!!!

I wish I have an entire month to visit each and every pavilion leisurely but that obviously is not the case.

With what little time we have, we breezed through Portugal, Denmark, Finland and Turkey…

And since there’s simply no way we can visit any more, we decided to walk around the vicinity and take some pictures of the pavilions at night. Frankly, some of them are stunningly nice!

Australia

Brunei

Cambodia

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

Greece

Indonesia

Ireland

Latvia

Malaysia

New Zealand

Norway

Philippines

Singapore

Sweden

Thailand

Turkey

Ukraine

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Now that I’m in Shanghai, China for the World Expo 2010, it looks like I’m updating this blog only when I travel…

… but it’s NEVER intended to be this way.

Things just got too much and over my head.

Before I share a fascinating ‘coincidence’

Well -

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