Singapore is famous for variety of good and delicious food.

But there is nothing better than mom’s home cooking.

The food presentation may not be good, but really delicious home cooked food.

I always miss mom’s cooking

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I’ve been following the news on taxi fare hike which starting middle of December 2007. However, I only realize how expensive the taxi fare now, when I took the cab to customer place on the first working day in 2008.

From my past months records, taxi fare from my place at Bukit Merah to Tampines traveling during peak hours, is around $17 to $19, depending on traffic condition. Usually, actual taxi fare is between $15 to $17 plus a fixed $2 peak hour surcharge. The 20+minutes taxi trip cost less than $20.

The receipt shown taxi fare below $20 on a trip on 03 Dec 2007.

Today, the morning taxi trip cost me my company $28.60. Increase more than 40% !.

The killing point is the 35% peak hour surcharge.

I hope my finance dept don’t make much noise when I summiting the taxi reimbursement.

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Wish every one Happy New Year.

May all of your dreams come true in 2008

Finally bring up the server at 19:30, and managed to leave office at 8pm.

Time to celebration .. hurray !!

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Today is last working day of the year, yeah .. it’s New Year Eve.

Our HR Manager has announced that all staff may leave the office after 1.00pm, just like the Christmas Eve.

Most of my colleague has left the office after lunch time, including my manager and bosses.

But, I can’t go, because one IBM Citrix server just crashed this morning. 2 hard drives had failed on the eve of year 2007. This is a 24 X 7 service for a customer in India. WTF!!!

In RAID technology, double disk failures in a 3-disk RAID 5 array is equivalent to TOTAL DISK failure.

The vendor has replaced the failures drives and now RAID 5 rebuild is in progress.

Hopefully, data can be recover from last week backup tape. Otherwise, I have to reinstall the Windows and Citrix from scratch

I don’t want to spend the New Year Eve in office

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This is our last Photo Hunt theme for year 2007.

Since taking part in the weekly Photo Hunting from 24 March, I have contributed 27 pictures (including this last one).

If you’re interested, all the Photo Hunt pictures are here and here.

Okay, back to the last Photo Hunt post in year 2007, the topic is Messy.

In the beginning of this year, we made a big commitment to buy a new house near to central district of Singapore.

Home renovation is messy works, tiles were laid all over the house, painting all the walls, installing new lighting and electrical appliances and many other messy works too.

We engaged a renovation contractor to renovate the new place and let the professional handle all the messy situations.

The contractor has done a good job and we’re really happy living here.

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