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Earlier in the day...

Guess what was waiting for me when I came home today? Besides my beautiful wife with the bouquet which was delivered to her office earlier... There was a Zara package on the bed. A new shirt for me! Nice! I was looking forward to updating my wardrobe. :-) Today is the actual day of our Wedding Anniversary. Dinner prepared by dear wife was extra delicious. The "Father-and-Son" Dish. How appropriate. ;-p Another surprise after dinner - dessert from Marriott Hotel. A terrific homey way to celebrate our special day. Thank you dear.

The packages arrived! But without my gift note, so here it is: "Eternal Love since 7 September 2008. A little gadget to keep my dear wife company in the next four exciting months!" Dear wife showing the presents. She can't wait to open them. All eyes (erm... well, just mine) on the unveiling of the new gadget. Woooooah..... Tada! Our latest model to endorse the iPad. :-) Power-up. The first time it came to life! This is probably the geekiest present for my wife, ever!

I have not been writing for quite a while. Either my lazy bones had grown bigger or I had been very busy. I think it should be the latter. ;-p Although the frustrations at work and little episode of food poisoning were not documented, there are some events I will definitely want to record down. It has been two years since we exchanged our Wedding vows. 7th of September 2008 was the day we solemnised at Zhou's Kitchen, in Far East Square. This year, we celebrated with dim sum brunch at Meritus Mandarin Pine Court Restaurant . Not the usual candlelight dinner which couples may choose. :-p Nevertheless, it was wonderful. We had century egg porridge to kick off our brunch. The porridge must had been one of the most delicious that I have tried, besides the Tiong Bahru market porridge. Not too salty or bland, not too watery or gooey. It tasted perfect. Other pipping hot dishes followed... We spent a while outside the 35th floor restaurant, enjoying the city view and capturing the unique ...

But I am sure the contents had been to Palo Alto before that... :p After more than one month of waiting, it is finally here - my first VCP certificate. =) It came in a nice folder which is in the new VMWare colour scheme of green. For those who want to try their luck, my VCP ID is 71136 . Buy the first four or last four numbers? Or add the two "1"s and buy "7236"? :p Anyway if the ID is assigned incrementally and represents the number of VCP accredited, that are really many VCP around the world!

Today marks the 5th year since I enrolled in the university of society. Fortunately or not, I am also in the 5th year of my current job. Yes, the same old job for five years. Time to reflect? Still remember my first day of work ...

Microsoft launched the new productivity tools recently. Basically it refers to Office 2010, Visio and SharePoint... My colleagues and I were privileged to attend the launch at Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort (IR). Singapore's 2nd IR was still very much work in progress. This is the panoramic view with the rest of Marina South and the floating platform. Click for image for the bigger picture. On the way to the Sands... It was really early. The Flyer was starting to move lethargically... Workers having the morning brief... aka the first parade. An improvised safety helmet that keeps the scorching sun away as well... Looking out from inside the mall... A close up at the hull of the sky garden... From far the IR looks like a flight deck/hangar with its doors opening. Imagine space crafts from Star Wars landing and taking off. The helix bridge was more like a wind tunnel of sort. Can you imagine Gundam propelling out through it? :p This is Steve Ballmer giving the keynote speech. I ...

While there were plenty of things happening in life, I had been less than diligent in documenting them down. During my absence from this blog, I had met up some of my very good friends, enjoyed my family life, celebrated my birthday and my very best friend's. Yes today is his birthday, Happy Birthday 发发 ! Welcome to the club ! That is, the club of Thirties. And hopefully soon, I will welcome you to the club of married men and... :p That's a story for another day for now. During the Good Friday weekend, I visited the " Treasury of the World " exhibition at Asian Civilisation Museum with my dear wife. The exhibition featured over 400 pieces of Mughal jewellery from the al-Sabah collection, Kuwait. It was assembled over the last four decades by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah and Sheikha Hussahh Sabah al-Salim al-Sabah of Kuwait. It is one of the world's greatest collections of Islamic art. But who are the Mughals? They are the descendants of Timur and Chigis ...