scrutinizing works and self discovery

have not update my blog of late, being due to the hectic working schedule and in the need of some time for myself to rediscover certain things in my life.
being adjusting may not seems simple, more so to 'adjusted' to a new way of life can be vulnerable sometimes.
Have not seen my other half close to 2 months now and wondering if she is coping fine or otherwise. i really hope she can take this current lifestyle as temporary rather than thinking its gonna be a lifetime things.
I have move most of my dragging past and to be able to recuperate, it seems ages. but it does not stop me from thinking and complaining about the struggle i need to encounter, maybe it is just a way for me to refine something which i am suppose to gain greater mileage later of my life.
I do admit that im a boring person, how much reflections of life can really works for me if things still stagnated as it seems to be but with a more approachable manner can be assume it is in a positive mode.
Closing to year end struggle, have i achieve much for the last 9 months? some mileage, but maybe its seems like a single step from my other half. I can't complain for her rant, as she needs security of course, as well as certain extend of life insurance as we are both reaching the age of marriage, where certain degree of compromise need to be adjusted being in a relationship status.
Im thankful to GOD, for her patient, for her willingness and her struggle for betterment throughout our year plus relationship.
Please allow me to make good use of current moment to enhance what needs to be and through time (again and again i say that), we gonna reach there, the struggle is painful but it will make us treasure more for every effort and time we are not being able to make up, we shall be there wanting each other more.
I love you and GOD bless us
Kenny Chong

My Birthday :)

THE WAY YOU LOVE ME - FAITH HILL

If I could grant
You one wish
I'd wish you could see the way you kiss
Ooh, I love watching you
Baby
When you're driving me crazy

Ooh, I love the way you
Love the way you love me
There's nowhere else I'd rather be
Ooh, to feel the way I feel with your arms around me
I only wish that you could see the way you love me
The way you love

It's not right
It's not fair
What you're missing over there
Someday I'll find a way to show you
Just how lucky I am to know you

Ooh, I love the way you
Love the way you love me
There's nowhere else I'd rather be
Ooh, to feel the way I feel with your arms around me
I only wish that you could see the way you love me
The way you love me

You're the million reasons why
There's love reflecting in my eyes

Ooh, I love the way you
Love the way you love me
There's nowhere else I'd rather be
Ooh, to feel the way I feel with your arms around me
I only wish that you could see the way you love me
The way you love me
The way you love me

Ooh, the way you love me
The way you love me

Now And Then - Blackmore's night

NOW AND THEN
The past is so familiar
But that's why you couldn't stay
Too many ghosts, too many haunted dreams
Beside you were built to find your own way...
But after all these years, I thought we'd still hold on
But when I reach for you and search your eyes
I see you've already gone...
That's OK
I'll be fine
I've got myself, I'll heal in time
But when you leave just remember what we had...
There's more to life than just you
I may cry but I'll make it through
And I know that the sun will shine again
Though I may think of you now and then...
Can't do a thing with ashes
But throw them to the wind...
Though this heart may be in pieces now
You know I'll build it up again and
I'll come back stronger than I ever did before
Just don't turn around when you walk out that door...
That's OK
I'll be fine
I've got myself, I'll heal in time...b ut when you leave just remember what we had...
There's more to life than just you
I may cry but I'll make it through
And even though our stories at the end
I still may think of you now and then...

MICHAEL BUBLE - END OF MAY

Golden haze,
Another morning feels like yesterday.
End of may..
Now you're gone and there's still bills to pay.
And you know it doesn't help to make believe, you're sitting next to me.
...It doesn't help, to make believe that you are right behind me
Saying it's okay.

Longer days,
More time to sit and watch the pendulum sway.
In quiet rage I'm staring at this empty notebook page.
In times like these you feel like you are done with feeling,
You feel you want to stop the pain from healing
Because you feel like you're the only one who's ever felt this way.

Some days in a daze, there's brighter days.
Funny how the feeling never stays,
But I know I'll have to come to terms when I'm awake,
Thinking about you is the icing on the cake.
Makes me realize the fact you're gone for good for goodness sake.

Golden haze, another morning feels like yesterday.
End of may, a year is gone and I still feel this way,
When we meet again I'll ask you how you're doing
And you'll say fine and ask me how I'm doing

And then I'll lie and I'll say ordinary, It's just an ordinary day.

Happy Mother's Day, mama

I know how much i have disappointed you,
For you looking up towards my well being,
my rocky journey of life,
You forgo lot of good things in life,
just to make sure that i am doing good in life,
you confront our relative when i fail badly,
when i don't even think hard for all my bad deed,
for all the silly mistakes that i have made,
you ensure brothers and sisters reached me,
even though i am drifting apart,
you savage and behold this family after daddy's passing,
for all you think about is the love for us and for me,
sometimes, i just know i do not know how to express myself to others,
which is so true, as you know i am a very introvert person when it comes to meeting people,
how much you have protected me for whoever I am, for whatever situation i am embroiled into,
i caused you much pain and sorrow, as sometimes I admit I am rebellious and stubborn,
throughout everything, I am really sorry if i hurt you deep,
I learned along this journey of life, sometimes it is just that i am really sad and do not know how to confront you for many things in life,
I keep things by myself and i do not know how to tell,
the reason for this blog is one of the way or another tell and express many things that have lingers in my mind, that sometimes you find hard to understand what i want to do in life,
failure has certainly makes me a little lost in my direction of life,
the consequences of the failure has certainly degrading my morale and spirit of pursuance, yet i am pursuing further, for i know, journey of life does not end just of a battle, i pledge to continue more battle, my aim is to win a war, for what i think losing battles is nothing more than to lose a war,
I am making up of my past half decade, doing something which i am still uphold with it, this time, I am more cautious, and towards everything i come across,
I do not know if time allows me to share our journey, but rest assure for one thing,
I am upholding daddy's surname, and i cannot afford more time and money to repeat the same mistake,
I am walking the path of right, I leave the rocky experience behind and vow to do it better,
I never assure you because i can never know what beholds the path I am going through, leading me towards the light or towards the dark tunnel, I hold faith to you and late daddy, that i am walking towards the light path,

OF ALL, I AM DEEP HEARTEDLY SAYING TO YOU MAMA, I AM SORRY, I MAKE YOU UNHAPPY, LET ME PROVE TO YOU, I AM A CHANGED PERSON; FOR BETTERMENT AND I TRUTHFULLY PRAY YOU HAVE THE GREATEST HEALTH TO SEE YOUR SON AS A NOBLE MAN AND YOU HAVE DO A GREAT JOB IN BRINGING UP THE BUBBLY 5 OF US A TRULY NOBLE MAN AND WOMAN OF THIS COMMUNITY WORLD!

LOVE YOU ALOT AND FOREVER ALWAYS,

KOOK PHONG

A journey to Phnom Penh, Cambodia 21082010 (Part 1)

According to Wiki,
Phnom Penh is the capital and largest city of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Mekong River, Phnom Penh has been the national capital since the French colonized Cambodia, and has grown to become the nation's center of economic and industrial activities, as well as the center of security, politics, economics, cultural heritage, and diplomacy of Cambodia.
Once known as the “Pearl of Asia”, it was considered one of the loveliest French-built cities in Indochina in the 1920s. Phnom Penh, along with Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, are significant global and domestic tourist destinations for Cambodia. Founded in 1434, the city is noted for its beautiful and historical architecture and attractions. There are a number of surviving French colonial buildings scattered along the grand boulevards.
Situated on the banks of the Tonlé Sap, Mekong and Bassac rivers, the Phnom Penh metropolitan area is home to more than 2 million of Cambodia’s population of over 14 million. The city is the wealthiest and most populous city in Cambodia and is home to the country’s political hub.



My second visit to Phnom Penh together with Kathy, the capital city of Cambodia was never short of new exploration and experience. Besides the foods and the historical architecture of the French Colonial building, we are also immense by a strong influence of Thai architectural significance of this city. Our first transit point was at the Bavet-Moc Bai checkpoint, where we travel from HCM city to this border town of Vietnam-Cambodia that takes us about 2 hours ride from Pham Ngu Lao St.From there, we have to take another stop @ a small town near Chau Doc where we have to cross the river.This small town where we are bound to meet lots of peddler selling their goods. Here is wat we were offered:

The living condition of the hardcore poor really touched our heart and truly remind us to be grateful and appreciate things that we have around us. As we know child labour is a common scene in this part of the world, we really ponder how the kids at this age suppose to be at school in my own country where here there are wandering around looking for more income and food to sustain their daily living....

As we reach the out pit stop around the city, heaps of TOYOTA's car can be seen around being it the Camry, Vios, to upper range Ninja King, making it as though we are in the Toyota City!
I was wondering how the heck this city can be cramped with vast of luxury cars whereby another layer of community is barely making ends meet at the vicinity suburban area!
We come to know the reality from our TUK TUK english speaking local (khmer), that likely most of the car here can sometime be smuggled in from neigbouring country of Thailand, and some from as far as America and Canada,and selling it to the locals middle income at a real dirt cheap price than offered in the America Continent!! NO wonder, those bugger can easily flashing their big huge luxury car around the town; (Some even have no car plate number on it).

After checking in to our hotel, we go straight towards the ROyal Palace area for our first local delights, known to most traveller to cambodia, a trip will not be complete without trying out their ever famous dish of AMOK (USD5), a green curry gravvy of chicken/beef or seafood, the vegetable spring roll (USD3), and Mango Salad (USD3)....of course not forgetting the famous Angkor beer (USD1.50), :)
We love the clear and not so spicy mushroom soup (USD5) too..

In the evening, we do drop at one of the largest and only City Casino Hotel in Phnom Penh, the NAGAWORLD (said to be owned by Singaporean company), where we are immense by the grandeur entrance and the glittering LED light ushering visitors and locals for its hive of outdoor activities and street play not to mention visitors who are here for their luck in gambling.
Apart from that, the hotel offers varieties of restaurant to choose from and a after dark hype lounge with mostly filled foreigners of different nations.
Yeap, we love the chandelier being hung on feature celing and wall of motif leaf made out of C&C cut-out gold-coated plate, brilliant idea. Kudos to the designer.:)

WHERE WERE YOU- ALAN JACKSON

Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day
Out in the yard with your wife and children
Working on some stage in LA
Did you stand there in shock at the site of
That black smoke rising against that blue sky
Did you shout out in anger
In fear for your neighbor
Or did you just sit down and cry

Did you weep for the children
Who lost their dear loved ones
And pray for the ones who don't know
Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble
And sob for the ones left below

Did you burst out in pride
For the red white and blue
The heroes who died just doing what they do
Did you look up to heaven for some kind of answer
And look at yourself to what really matters

I'm just a singer of simple songs
I'm not a real political man
I watch CNN but I'm not sure I can tell you
The difference in Iraq and Iran
But I know Jesus and I talk to God
And I remember this from when I was young
Faith hope and love are some good things he gave us
And the greatest is love

Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day
Teaching a class full of innocent children
Driving down some cold interstate
Did you feel guilty cause you're a survivor
In a crowded room did you feel alone
Did you call up your mother and tell her you love her
Did you dust off that bible at home
Did you open your eyes and hope it never happened
Close your eyes and not go to sleep
Did you notice the sunset the first time in ages
Speak with some stranger on the street
Did you lay down at night and think of tomorrow
Go out and buy you a gun
Did you turn off that violent old movie you're watching
And turn on "I Love Lucy" reruns
Did you go to a church and hold hands with some stranger
Stand in line and give your own blood
Did you just stay home and cling tight to your family
Thank God you had somebody to love

I'm just a singer of simple songs
I'm not a real political man
I watch CNN but I'm not sure I can tell you
The difference in Iraq and Iran
But I know Jesus and I talk to God

And I remember this from when I was young
Faith hope and love are some good things he gave us
And the greatest is love

I'm just a singer of simple songs
I'm not a real political man
I watch CNN but I'm not sure I can tell you
The difference in Iraq and Iran
But I know Jesus and I talk to God
And I remember this from when I was young
Faith hope and love are some good things he gave us
And the greatest is love

The greatest is love
The greatest is love

Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day

overdose wif works

this use to be my blog of daily dosage when i starts off my business venture......life, oh life...

overdose wif works

RIO OST, Jamie Foxx- Fly Love

Sweet Tune from RIO OST, by Jamie Foxx, Have not watch the movie, hope to watch it soon

Happy Easter!!!

                                                Happy Easter Day!!!
May the Lord's blessing and love be upon all of Christian faith


For making myself relevant in this world, i pledge myself to regularly update my blog, focused on matters about design, architecture, construction, traveling and its implication towards MY living mentally, physically and emotionally; past, present and future.
It has been part of my life since my college life and until today, how much things has happen and what brings me to who I am today.
I have directly involve in a lot of projects matters of interior fit-out works, i.arch, on and off, architecture scope of works but sadly, i have not pen down a single description about every project i have kick start and complete (oso those not complete), the records are all jumbled in a 320GB HDD,where every single project from scratch to completion is hand written in lots of my old-school note pad, most technical works are in the form of soft copy, being my habits of saving multiplier file of works with no upkeep and sorting.
Hopefully from there, i shall be able to remind myself what is so wrong about me and my work as well as self progress in every single project; what do i pick up from there and how should i improve myself from getting nowhere..

MARVELOUS ARCHi-work by none other than MOshie Shafdie;

A splendid view towards the Marina Bay Sands project by Moshie Safdie, (http://www.msafdie.com/),
really stunned by his piece smack right in the frontier of Marina Bay in Singapore.

Credit should also be given to ARUP Assoc. whom is also the main Engineer for this project.
Walter Gropius once said that 'Architecture begin when Engineering ends''; the interpretation somehow makes me ponder the truth behind this quote, many of todays's skyscraper and mega constructions undeniably required major involvement of Engineers expertise to evolve and eradicate architect's strokes of line.

Hopefully for my next visit, i shall be able to go up to the swimming pool deck overlooking the city of Singapore

Lily Allen; by VEVO

Love this video; by VEVO

SOUL...

Its been awhile since my last entry for this blog.....been souless for sometime....think gonna make it come alive again.......more entry on daily dosage, of my travel, my acquintance and so forth....