What a Saturday!

This weekend considered to be a very busy & sad one for me.

BUSY - because me & hubby rushed like mad on saturday in order to make for a few places.
First, we after work, rushed to send the car for polish, then took a cab to Suntec for the IT fair, then back to collect our car from Vicom at Sin Ming Road, then to Parent In Law's place to fetch Ayden, then to collect cake, then to Bishan to fetch Mayvis and finally to our last destination of the day - Far East Square!!
We were celebrating my 2nd brother-in-law's b'day at Zhou's Kitchen.

Talking abt IT fair, when we reached Suntec, we could not believe that S'pore is affected by the Financial Crsis. There were so many people there. The whole Suntec was crowded with people.
Of course there must be a reason why we went there. (Not because we like to be squeezed by ppl!)
I wanted to get a desktop for home usage. My present one is very slow and has been used for many years.. Thus, hubby n I decided is time to change a new one.
The fair takes up level 2/4/6 . And we spent at least 4 hrs at level 4!! We didn't hv the chance to go level 6.
There were so many brands and beside PC, I was attracted to something else!!
What is it ? - Is LCD TV.. The prices was so attractive. I nearly wanted to forsake my desktop and in exchange for a 42"LCD TV!!
But after giving a good thought, I decided to say GOODBYE to the LCD TV and continue to source for my desktop.
Finally! We settled for HP! And we paid S$1699 for a 22" LCD monitor, a 2.93GHz Duo processor, 640GB Hard disk space.

SAD - Cos I received a sms from my boss telling me one of ex-colleague from SM had passed away! Was a BIG shock to me.
That colleague of mine was at the age of 42 when he passed away on friday. He was suffering from Lung Cancer.
But feel very curious and cannot understand why someone who don't smoke and lead a healthy lifestyle would get such illness?
I can remember vividly that when I was still in SM, I always see him going round the office on friday evening reminding the rest of the colleagues for the soccer practice on saturday.
He was the "captain" (if I did not remember wrongly). He was the only one that I could see the "fire" in him for soccer in the office. At that time, he was 30 plus.
Heard from an ex-colleague, he contracted this illness on 2007.
He worked as a AD in another M&E company after he left SM.
But FATE chose to "play" with him and decided to take him away in the end.
Somehow I feel very sad for him and also sorry for not able to pay my last respect to him as his funeral was held this morning.
From now on, I cannot hear ppl mentioning abt him anymore in my trade .

Rest in Peace, my friend.
Hope you can find your "new field" for your soccer practice THERE.