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My New Favorite Barber: QB House
June 25th, 2008. Published under Daily Journal. 4 Comments.
I never enjoy having haircut. The main reason is that I hate waiting. Waiting to be served and waiting while being served. Except, perhaps, if you go to a not so popular barber/salon, at least you won’t find a long queue. For that reason, I usually went for a haircut maybe only once in three months or so.
Actually, it’s been more than three months since I cut my hair, hence yesterday, I asked a colleague of mine whether he knew a good, cheap, and fast barber/salon. Spontaneously he told me that I should go to QB House, and I could find it in almost every big mall in Singapore. He said they charged only 10 SGD for 10 minutes haircut. What?? Okay 10 SGD is reasonable, actually there are cheaper ones here, but 10 minutes?
On the way to my client’s office today, I saw an advertisement board saying a QB House outlet was there at Bugis Junction Mall, #B1-20. That’s great, since I worked at the very next door. So just now I decided to go there for a quick haircut. I found it beside the food court.
When I came, a man greeted me and spoke to me in Chinese language — which I didn’t quite understand despite the fact that I have a Chinese bloodline. He quickly got it and told me — in English — to insert a piece of S$ 10 to a ticket machine. Then I was asked to bring the ticket to a female hairdresser who then quickly prepared everything.
She politely asked about the style I wanted before starting to cut my hair. She took her tools from a microwave-like container, to keep things sterile they said. She worked really fast, yet carefully and paid attentions to details too. She also used some kind of vacuum cleaner to suck the scattered hair on my head. They used only new combs for customers.
I didn’t really count, but judging that I only managed to hear two pop songs played there, and the time I needed to go there and back to my office was not more than 15 minutes, I am sure they really kept their 10 minutes promise. Did I mention they gave the new combs to the customers for free? Although this won’t do any good for me since I never comb my hair, but their swiftness and quality of service is pretty impressing. Now I know where to go next time when I need another haircut.
7 x 7 Things You (Don’t) Know About Me
April 27th, 2008. Published under Daily Journal, Games, Hobbies, Movies. 4 Comments.
In order to respect Carla who tagged me, twice; and to respect my sweetheart who asked me to write my things quite a while ago, I decided to write this post.
Okay, not all of those sentences are true, but the latest. In fact, I am quite bored, I want to write something, but I don’t know where to start since I haven’t write anything for a long, long time, so I guess this is a good material to help me start.
If you have noticed the title, it’s a bit different from what others have done, it says 7 things, not 8 things. That’s because I like the number 7. The items will be listed in alphabetical order. So, without further ado, let’s bring the list on.
7 Things I am Passionate About
Computer and video games- Food
- Information and computer technology
- Movies
- My family
- My sweetheart
- Mystery
7 Books I Have Read Recently
Bible- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture — Martin Fowler
- Ruler of the Land (comic)
- Shanao Yoshitsune (comic)
- The Data Warehouse Toolkit — Ralph Kimball et al.
- The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit — Ralph Kimball et al.
- The Pragmatic Programmer — Andrew Hunt et al.
7 Things I Want to Do Before I Die
Live a pleasant life before God.- Marry her and have a couple of sweet kids and several grandkids.
- Satisfy my parents’ needs both materially and spiritually.
- Start and grow my own company, preferably a game studio.
- Stay (not just visit) in Surabaya, Jakarta, Singapore, UK, and USA.
- Take my family to visit at least one country in each continent on earth, well perhaps except Antarctica.
- Write a book and publish it.
7 Things I Have Learnt in These Past Years
God does work in mysterious ways.- Google is one of my best friend.
- Humans are full of surprises.
- No limits in learning.
- Promises and commitments are easy to make but difficult to keep.
- Sometimes, even the predictable is unpredictable.
- True love does exist.
7 Things That Attract Me to My Best Friends
- Common interests
- Kindness
- Sincerity
- Can’t think of anything else, I guess I am not too demanding of my friends :p
7 Songs That I Can Listen to Over and Over Again
Because of You — Kelly Clarkson- Dragostea Din Tei — O-Zone
- Du Qing (White Snake Legend Closing Theme Song) — Gao Sheng Mei
- I Need Some Sleep — Eels
- Most Christian praise and worship songs
- Qian Nian Deng Yi Hui (White Snake Legend Opening Theme Song) — Gao Sheng Mei
- Suteki da ne (Final Fantasy X Theme Song) — Ritsuki Nakano (Rikki)
7 Things I Say Often
Amen- Buzz, dah makan?, dah tidur?, lagi apa?, love you, miss you (only to her)
- Damn, shoot, sial, what the…
- Double kill, monster kill, triplle kill, killing spree, owning (mimicking the narrator of DOTA)
- Edan, gundul, sinting (meaning: crazy)
- Hehe
- Oh ya? Masak? Mosok? (meaning: really?)
Gathering at Felix’s Wedding
November 23rd, 2007. Published under Daily Journal. No Comments.
The day before yesterday, November 21, I attended Felix Harianto’s wedding party at Shangri-la Hotel. He is my ex-classmate from SMUK Santo Paulus Jember. It was Wednesday, so it’s rather odd since most people pick weekends as their wedding days. But Felix told me earlier in an online chatting session that he chose the day because it was the anniversary. Plus, the cost for renting the place is cheaper than weekends.
The event started at 7pm, but I came to early at around 6pm. Fortunately I came with my lovely Martha so it was not a problem to kill some time. We came straight from our offices since it was an ordinary work day.
The wedding place was so well decorated. There was plenty of food. Although at first only a few people came, later that night the room was crowded. There are no special events though. No dances, no bouquet toss, and even, sadly, no photo sessions. Felix did ask me to take some pictures when I was about to go home. But his wife dragged him somewhere else and it was late already, so that didn’t happen.
The party was also a small gathering with my old friends who currently live in Jakarta: Alan, Benny, Indra Setiawan, Kwok Siong, Susanto, and Yananta Muslie. Unfortunately, Handoko couldn’t make it there because he was sick. It has been almost ten years since I last saw them. Some didn’t change much while some others I hardly recognized. Here are my small updates on their info:
Alan
This skinny fellow lives, surprisingly, near my place at Kelapa Gading. He greeted me first that night when he came with her girl friend.
Benny and Kwok Siong
They currently worked together at Sunter area. Benny looked the same like I last saw him at high school, but that’s not the case with Kwok Siong who got fatter and rounder face.
Indra Setiawan
He was one of my best buddies back then. Unlike the others, I already met Indra in Jakarta last year when I was looking for a boarding house at Kelapa Gading. He came with his girlfriend later that night. Currently, he worked as a sales for a chemical company in Cibitung.
Susanto
“Wanna buy some computers, Den?” that was his first reaction when I met him. Apparently, he sells computers. He also didn’t change much in appearance.
Yananta Muslie
This was another best friend of mine in high school. Living at Serang, Banten, he turns out to be a successful player in the lumber business. He is married and will soon be a father since his wife has been being pregnant for about seven months.
That’s all for now. Until next time guys.
Congratulation to the newly married couple: Felix and Delly.
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