...kevin's y...

...kevin threw me a question of why sales people are likely to know how to dress well, eat well, live well and knows how to enjoy life as it is and they are able to carry themselves well and are image conscious people. he said, generally ler, those in sales are more self aware of how they carry themselves. and they are quite a big spender as well. yes, not all sales people, but generally speaking, most of them. lets not relate to work or that they are sales people. why do the people with these traits are generally into sales? my answer to him, its the expression of individual inspiration...

...imagine touching beauty...

...magical models...

...i had a very long chat with one of my models yesterday. on our way to our destination, we chalked up a heart2heart conversation. somehow this heart2heart chat came to the part of the missing sparks as related by another model of mine. what is it that is missing? where have all the sparks gone? and of course after much talking about it, 3 of my models have finally agreed to a coffee session to perform some magic to revive back the sparks. what shall be our first step? i really am lost.

then met up with an ex-colleague for dinner at princess town near 101!. its was pretty interesting to meet up with these 2 fren over dinner. we talked on the good memories together, hanging out together, working and stressing out together. our team was good. good people. good friendship bonded. and we all still miss each other very much...

...models...

...here are some of the models of iitc. not many people would pose for the camera. but these people did or rather they did not know. this is a compilation of some of the nice shots i got with the eos300 and lumix.fz5. beautiful models. beautiful scenery. nice camera. sands between my toes. relaxing time. good breakaway.

...happy birthday fred...

...happy birthday fred...

its farnee how we got to know each other; connected through a bubble gum story. and how the friendship blossomed into something great. fred, i wish u have a rockin' time ahead with tonnes of fun, excitement and wealth to go along. next year go trip ok!...

...sands between my toes...

...this is a picture of our recent company trip. 3d2n sands between my toes. nice place. exciting adventures. cool surroundings. i had a great time playing with the camera. took thousands of pictures. pictures of nice potraits and beautiful smiles. i did not get my relaxed time out, but a fun time. will post up more photos later...

...giic...

...new project kickoff meeting with genting-inti international college. completed a 3-in-1 job today : projeck kickoff, best business practice and system deployment. had lunch in awana genting on uncle lim's account completed installation of eduversal. its good now that i got the hands-on of eduversal installation; though only using the wizard and a quite useless manual, and lots of guidance from the experts in the office thru Y! where these guys tolerated with the hiccups and laughed over the matter, but the feeling of doing it and hands-on it does make a difference. one thing i learned - in situation like these, laugh it out and be jolly over it. chances are if things goes well, where else can we learn.

and should be back there next week again to complete the installation process of ecm. wakakaz. another chance to go genting again...

...150706...

...i am so looking forward for the trip next week. 3d2n to a resort far away from kayel. ah yes, sands between my toes again. this time is gonna be a pure relaxation. truly white sands between my toes and breeze blowing my hair. but my choleric nature wont let me stop. i want to take this opportunity to bring the people of iitc back together. to re-ignite the passion. to find back the missing link. to bring back the glory days of iitc used to be. this is the opportunity. this is the chance. these two weeks have been really hectic. july15 deadline is so gonna make me remember for the rest of my life...

...two sleepless nite...

...i didnt really sleep on wed nite and thu nite. barely taken any food or water. wed nite was helping with data migration stuff, cleaning the data and did not sleep at all. come thu nite was in ciast till midnite, stuck in the hot room and mosquitoes infected room doing data migration. just the 3 of us, forcing ourselves to stay awake to get it done and get it over with. fanning the two of them while they write the scripts, having some bites of biscuits and justea to quench the hot surroundings. we were all indeed stressed. werntien started singing ala hacken lee. calvin enjoying the singing and me trying very hard to make them feel comfortable. it was hard.

yes, tms deadline has finally arrived. 15th july and we have to get it done, superfast. after which, penalty. tht was why we were all cooking up some soup in the hot oven. the next morning, without dinner the nite before and no breakfast, i arrived office at 7am; after leaving ciast at midnite and fetching calvin back to office to take his car.

meeting in putrajaya at 9. i was trembling. eyes red. hands shaking. sweating. couldnt laugh much. even more so when zuraka&rostam brought alot of documents in to the meeting and all i have was a 8-page report i prepared the nite before. i was so scared. i was seriously feeling down. and i don know what will my fate be next. will i be shot down again? i am so seriously tensed up. kns msg the nite before and thank goodness he messaged. we chatted for a while and he brought me back to the world of good merits and good aspiration. my mind was focused on the good side now and projecting good energy to all the users. and yes, the meeting ended with a high note of relieved and tms warranty starts 16th july. this is good news, at least for now...

...just the 3 of us...

...trimmed my hair as kns suggested me to do. i have not cut them since like last christmas. wash my car so that it looks cleaner and whiter than loon's. cut my fingernails. its been months since i cut them. skipped lunch. drank 2 cans of coke. and whole day thinking of getting a new phone.

i had a pretty interesting chat with a sanguine phelgmatic good fren today. being a choleric melancholic me, somehow i notice how both of us can work well together. both having a complimentary blend makes us even better as a team to get things done. by joining force, we have all the 4 personality type and that for sure will be a good combination. we support each other to make things work.

then somehow, our conversation becomes of dh. of all the 20+ episodes, i only remembered one scene. the scene where lynette's kids was so into where babies come, etc. and she had a hard time explaining to them. and u knw her strategy of handling the situation? well what she said was something so true. not about the part about saying disgusting stuff to make the feel scared, but her other strategy. i think that was the coolest strategy.

ok, a picture taken at my table. so messy. and you can see 2 incovar pics taken in fgs beside my blue bottle. with my tms team. calvin, werntien and kim (his last day of internship). and then there were 3 of us...

...25-7...

...7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 24, 25…

in 1994 i started my university life being a snob and egoistic maniac with the air of a pj-born boy. i was remarked by daniel, a senior not to be such a snob and be part of the family. and indeed his words changed my life. two years later, i was introduced to incovar by carol. that was way back in 1996. incovar re-enforce daniel’s remarked on me and 10 years later, 20 camps afterwards i was known as bapa incovar – father of incovar.

ten years is indeed a very long time. my involvement in incovar has only been in the programme team and later leading the entire team as an executive committee in the main board of bgf. taking a step further, being the father has brought me even further to, thailand, singapore, korea and taiwan as the consultant of experiential learning camp and character development for youth. now holding the position as assistant secretariat general for youth development under the umbrella of wfby, i am indeed honored. gaining an honorary membership to the ybat under the royal patronage of thailand is indeed the highest recognition.

to my family, incovar means i have late nights meeting twice a week. to my colleagues, incovar means i will be taking 4 days of leave a year to somewhere nobody knows. to my close friends, incovar means my passion my life. and to my fellow incovarians, incovar means family. i have grown in this family, from a little naïve programmer to a programme coordinator to the executive committee and now bapa incovar. today, everyone calls me bapa incovar. cheeonn no longer exists. and now i have the tepuk bapa incovar.

incovarians are all over the world. we have more than a thousand incovarians around the world, from malaysia to australia, thailand, korea, india, japan and china. being the father has its ups and downs. to support such a big family needs a lot of passion and commitment. a lot of love, care and compassion. a lot of the incovar spirit to keep you going. a lot of support from each other.

living incovar means living a balance life. this is the life i chose. this is the path i take. and this is my inspiration.

...because at incovar we inspire ...

...we.inspire...

the 25th INCOVAR Dhamma Camp came to an end with a high note of inspiration. keep up the spirit. keep up the inspiration. keep up the energy level. INCOVAR is all about you guys. its all about your experience. its all about what makes us special.

because at incovar, we inspire.

...because @ incovar we inspire...

...i was so stressed out from work. i had to cancel my first day of the camp to rush back to work. stuck in the server room with wern tien whole day. i missed my session with keng yan which he planned for me. i missed dinner and breakfast twice during the camp. i ate very little. seriously, i was really hungry. i was totally stress out from compiling videos, writing scripts and controlling crowd. i was really exhausted. and yet i have the most wonderful time in my life. 25idc has given me so many great memories and kept my energy level going and makes me feel motivated. it brought back to life the meaning of incovar again. i was alive again.

clarity of truth, charity of joy. silver jublilee celebration. a simple camp with enormous love. i had a confusing time trying to adjust myself and to a group name which was named after me. suddenly i heard everyone calling onn onn team. and i tot fred was calling me. doh me. then everyone shouted we are onn onn but not chee onn. how on earth do they associate onnonn team name with chee onn.

i brought kirk to the camp, knowing very well that he will be able to inject alot of fun, humour and excitement. with him around, the camp will not be dull and boring. indeed, with him came along a whole package of fun and gila gila gang, and all the kelompok in his room, they can say anything to everything. nite chat with these guys brings me back to my younger days. it was fun being their bapa incovar there. never in my life i have heard so many cheers before, from tepuk leng chai, to tepuk leng lui, comes tepuk bapak pulak. hahaha, referring to me, bapa incovar. and then there were tepuk baby! walioa these people.

incovar we inspire. hahaha. i made everyone say that in a very farnee, different and original method. i went round with my camera recording everyone, asking them to pose and do some original incovar we inspire. the response was gengz. with a pyramid formation style to leng lui soft pose and a hand twist. wow these guys are very the gengz. when they see me with a camera, automatically they will pose, smile and say incovar we inspire. hmm, at least we made a permanent mark in their mind that @ incovar, we inspire.

ruben came to the camp. i invited him over to check us out. and indeed he came all the way from cheras. thks ruben. it was great having u there. we talked alot of stuff that nite. seems like we were long lost fren and kept chatting up with conversation. anyway, ruben slept over and left the next morning. hahaha, didnt really check out the people also in the camp.

our 25th silver jubilee celebration was indeed memorable. 25th camp and still growing and continue to inspire the people around the world. alex ended the camp with a very high note of the ever inspiring incovar. mj laughing all the way. fred was fred. kns and elsf presence were wonderful. qm's arrangement very structured until i didn get much food. programmers were a whole lot of stressful and made me tensed. but fred was there. publicity team working in and out preparing for the silver jubilee. and i was just their bapa. complaining alot!!!

i had a great time. first time, i didnt have a role. i was not the exco. not the programmers. i was just there as their bapa incovar. it just felt so great. and it dawned on me that, hei i am way pass thirty and i am still with the young ones. maybe that is what kept me looking young. heck, calvin my new colleague said i am 26! being the assistant secretariat general for youth development, fully given the authority to plan and execute plans for youth development, not only in malaysia but the world i feel glad to be given this opportunity to serve. incovar will go regional. incovar will reach out to the world. and i will be there to make it happen. and truly...

...because @ incovar, we inspire...