The race is at 3pm today and cover a distance of 3.2 KM.  There will be 23 horses in this race and 23 skinny little jockeys, lol.  No disrespect to them though, they are amazing sports persons with strict food diet, exercise and lots of guts too…

To make this Melbourne Cup a bit more interesting, I have decided to put $10 on 2 horses.  Went over to TAB website and checked out the names of horses.  I finally decided on 2 horses, barrier 8 – Drunken Sailor and Fox Hunt in barrier 18.

8 & 18…  Sure win.  That’s what the superstitious Chinese will think.

With a beer in hand and some junk food in the other hand, let the race begin!

Good luck to everyone and most importantly ME!

Cheers.

Working from home is a great idea!

I VPN to my work PC and voila, I was back at work virtually…  You know what I mean, not physically there and still able to work.

Working from home saves me about 2 hours without having to drive to and from work.  I also get to wear my home clothes and feel so comfortable and easy, right at home.  Of course, you have to gain the trust of your boss la…  Who knows what you can get up to when you are home alone? 

So, next time if you can, try asking your boss if you can work from home.  Happy employee = happy work = productive = everyone happy in the end.  No reasonable boss will turn you down.

Cheers.

As for me, with my small and fragile built body, I will stick to easier sport.  Maybe I will take up lawn bowling. 

Planking actually involves someone lying flat on their bellies on any objects, anywhere they can think of.  Obviously, individuals will think of unique places to do this to impress friends or anyone on the Internet.

Sadly there has been a death of a young man in Brisbane.  Apparently the young man fell to his death from an apartment after a failed attempt in planking.  Police suggested that alcohol might be involved in this particular case.

I am so sorry to hear loss of lives by reckless young men attempting silly acts.  Please be responsible and think twice before doing anything that can put yourself or anyone in danger.  We can have fun but please be safe…

Australia is a multi-cultural country and there are so many races living here.  No doubt there is going to be some tension or misunderstanding between us.  Generally we are a bunch of kind and tolerable nation.  Of course as with every other things, there will always be an odd ball here and there. Perception, history and bad experience might caused one to think differently about another race or culture.  Let’s not generalise! A bad apple in the box doesn’t mean the whole box of apples are bad…

Personally I have seen on very very few occasions, unkind words spoken to me because I am not the same kind or race.  No big issue, words cannot hurt me and how I wish those ignorant ‘few’ can open up their narrow mind and see us for who we are…  Again, I must stress, very very few…  I don’t wish to start an uprising here… 

Let’s be fair to everyone, don’t discriminate and let’s live together in harmony…

Channel 7 has coverage of men and women tennis all day and night for this week and next week.  How lucky are we?
I have been watching quite a fair bit as there is not much else I fancy on tele (television).
Federer, Nadal and our own Stosur have been nothing short of amazing to watch.
Even our young Tomic gave Nadal a bit of running after losing 3 straight sets.

Most of the ladies/women matches, you can be sure to hear constant moaning and grunting.  Its blardy loud as well
Man, is it annoying or what?  After a few games, it is really unbearable.  Like they say in hokkien “buay tahan“.
I have to turn down the volume on the tele or my neighbour will start to wonder what we are doing in the house.
No disrespect to these young ladies, they are good looking, athletic and very talented.
However do they have to moan like they are having so much fun?
Not sure what the rule in tennis is for moaning?

For the above reason, I  don’t think I can sit by the courtside to watch and listen to the whole moaning match.  It will drive me mad.

Now I cannot wait to see Federer and Nadal in the final.  Yay!

The New Year’s break from work was terrific.  I managed to sleep in everyday, be at home with the kids, had nice wholesome home-cooked food and of course a few drinks here and there. 
I also have to work a fair bit for the Missus to move her online shop.  Luckily that went smoothly or else I will never hear the end of it.

Talking about online shopping, local retailers are whinging about poor Christmas sales and want the government to impose GST on purchases from overseas website.
Come on Hardly Normal…  Stop being two-faced!  You didn’t complain when you kill off little retailers by forcing them out of business.  Now that you have a bit of competition from cheaper online retailers, you want to get rid of them too!

Its simple with shoppers, whoever offers a cheaper price will get the business.  No fuss.

 Happy New Year and all the best till next year.  Cheers.

I haven’t written much this month.  Lack of ideas and very busy at work are some of the reasons.    Hopefully the new year will be a relaxing one with the family and kids.

Wishing all my readers a very Merry Christmas and very Happy New Year.  Best wishes and best of health to you all.  Weather forecast suggest we may have a White (Snow) Xmas.  You might have to head towards the mountains to get some of the white stuff though.

Today is another bad day going home.  Left work at 4:10pm and got to the freeway in about 40 mins, mind you, only travelled about 5KM.  I thought the worst part was over but was I wrong or what?  Less than one minute on the freeway, the outbound traffic crawled to a stop again…    While shifting between first and second gear, I was thinking there must be some accident somewhere causing all this traffic jam.

After crawling for about 20 mins and another 5 KM later, finally the traffic started flowing nicely again.  Where the traffic started to move smoothly, there were three cars parked on the side of the freeway, apparently monitoring traffic flow.  Why would cars and vehicles slowed down around there?  Were they slowing to see what those cars were doing?  Melburnians must be very curious motorists, or busy bodies. 

The slowing down of traffic at that scene caused a huge backlog at the start of the freeway.  A normal 5 mins journey there took me 20 mins today.  Not happy Jan! 

He was travelling on the highway at 70KM/H and the next thing before he can blink his eyes, a car was in front of him, BANG!  Apparently the other car was involved in a minor accident on the other side of the road, got clipped and the car then went sideways towards my friend.  Both cars were written off and luckily, there was no casualty and no one was seriously hurt.

Today is also Remembrance day, a minute of silence was observed at 11am on the 11th day of November.  Remember to buy a Remembrance poppy to show our respect and honour for the men and women who fought and died in wars.