Gary Cao Ge 曹格- 兩隻戀人

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曹格 兩隻戀人

Accidental Headlines

This is so FUNNY, it is actually good

Include your children when baking cookies

Tyhoons rips through cemetery, hundreds dead

Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers

Drunks get 9 months in violin case

Iraqi head seeks arms

Panda mating fails. Veterinarian takes over

Teacher strikes idle kids

Local high school dropouts cut in half

Miners refuse to work after death

Juvenile court to try shooting defendant

War dims hope for peace

If strike isn't settled quickly, it may last a while

New study of obesity looks for larger test group

Bankers, Insurance agents, Financial Consultants, Property agents

Who are they? Can you differentiate these professions? I see people working in the above professions as motivated individuals, knowing what they want in life, striving ahead in their career. Well, after I finished my degree (am waiting for the resutls), I should not idle around. Set another goal for myslef. Get the certificate for property selling in Singapore.

I see insurance agents as very motivated few, they grab their friends and relatives and hopefully branch out from the network. To expand their clientele. I think persuading my friends and relatives to buy insurance from me is very hard.

I had talked to a Financial Consultant who liken himself to be a strategist. Saying that I could be his "king". If I needed to buy an apartment (going into war), he will set out a strategy (information gathering and market survey) for me, before engaging the generals (bankers, property agents and lawyers) to fight the war. Wow, with this analogy, I wonder how much he will charge. I was ALMOST brainwashed.

Banker: I like this profession. My friend who is working in a local bank (I not say which), actually has a database of customers to follow up on and he is not self-employed. He has a basic salary on top of commission from selling investments and policies. Yes, banks are branching out to selling insurance policies and traditional insurance companies are coming out to link their policies with investments.

Coming back into the picture. A banker, to me is a more secure and comfortable position to be in. Having a database of customer (people who have back accounts) and even walk-in customers. I say I'm shy of going out and approach new people.

So much sales talk from these professions, sometimes they give me goose bumps, forever talking about financial security, wealth management, getting out of the rat race.

SO much for this interesting band of profession. I say if you liken yourself to be a strategist, you will become one. You are what you think you are.

Touching Korean MV

Kiss - Because I am a girl


Though I do not understand korean, I came across this MV. It is very touching, some people even claimed they cry everytime they watch this. Treat this as a short movie.

HK marathon 07 photos

Photos courtesy of photographers from marathon-photos.com



From left clockwise: 21707 enjoying the glory, the run and the weather. ; running with my running buddy, Jackie; Running histerically with a 'Singapore' towel (from a particular national day parade); "Come on, Let's GO! enough of posing for the camera"

To resolve the myth that the Hongkong marathon is a uphill task. Indeed it is, but the slopes are kind. It is gradual slopes all the way, and not so taxing to your calves as you would imagine it to be. After all, the Hongkong marathon is runnable. Take heart.

Good luck to Jackie for his biathlon this coming weekend. You are going for it alone this weekend, but this is not your first one. Complete it.

Hong Kong marathon versus Singapore Marathon

Singapore marathon (Island race)

Name: Standard Chartered Singapore marathon 2006
Enrollment fee: about SGD40
Climate: Humid and participants have to beat the heat
Waterpoint: every 2 km
Supplements along the race: Bananas
Sports Sponsor: Adidas
Rewards for finishing: A finisher medal, finisher Tee and a Sense of Achievement
Series: 2006/07 series


Hongkong marathon (Harbour Race)

Name: Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon 2007
Enrollment fee: HKD440, about SGD88 (for registration 2 days before the marathon)
Climate: Winter in Hongkong about 18 - 23 degree celsius
Waterpoint: every 5 km
Supplements along the race: Bananas, pears and chocolate (kitkat)
Sports Sponsor: New Balance
Rewards for finishing: A Sense of Achievement
Series: 2006/07

Space of time between each Standard Chartered Marathon: 6 weeks.

Hong Kong Food Paradise

From left, clockwise: Sandwich with bacon and egg, an ornament pretending to be a woshing well in a shopping mall, fried rice with prawns and egg with hongkong styled lemon tea, signages asking people not to throw coins into the ornament: screaming: "I'm not a wishing well."

Hong Kong Sightseeing

From left, clockwise: Victoria Harbour by night and day, people taking pictures on the slopes of Lan Kwai Fong and caution sign on the roads of Mongkok.


Come to think of it. I was in Hong Kong for 3 times.

2003 - with Lisa, Beatrice, Jackie
2005 - with Yiwen
2007 - with Jackie for the marathon

If this trend is prominent enough, the next time I will appear in the streets of Mongkok... it will be in 2009. Yeah. I love HongKong. Food and shopping paradise.

Completing the Hong Kong Marathon

Caption: from left, clockwise, 0630, Media Bus along Tsim Sha Tsui, the starting point of the HK marathon, 1245, Jackie and I after completing the HK marathon, 1255 scouts attending to the baggage collection center, Wan Chai Sports Stadium, 1255 baggage collection center.

Marathon Day 4 March 2007, its the 11th Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon and I'm part of this event. Marathon has a new name now: Endurance Sport. It was about 21 degree celsius and a cool climate for a Singaporean. 2 Singaporeans went and conquered the marathon.

A sense of achievement.

Back in SG..

It was a fanatic distribution of local HK wife cakes, egg tarts, preserved egg mooncakes to 7 family of my relatives..Man...gotta buy so many bags when I came back..

Of course, I came back with loads of pictures, shopping, new experience, a sense of achievement!..But back to reality, got to go back to work tommorrow, so got to sleep now.

Sign off with a new personal best timing of 4hours and 31 minutes..

Gearing up to go

Packed my bags and ready to go. Got my air tickets and hotel reservations ready, even got travel insurance. What's left is the positive attitude to bring to Hong Kong.

Man, if I can get my hands on a computer in HK, I will post some entries. Going to catch a wink now and waking up at 5.30. 8.05am flight on Cathay Pacific Airways CX710. Coming back via 16.00 flight on Cathy Pacific Airways CX711.

Sign off now. God Bless.