My World My Life

Smurfey Day

2011-09-11T17:34:00.003+08:00

I had a very great day yesterday!
Watched The Smurf and I came out of the cinema a happy man cause they are way too smurfing interesting.
Had Sushi Tei for dinner in the very cozy branch of theirs at Raffles City.
Had delicious dessert in Laurent Bernard Chocolatier at The Pier for some sweet late night treats.
Well spent quite a bomb but I guess it wouldn't harm to do it once in a while. Or maybe I should really start working hard and earn more money to enjoy it everyday!

Counting down to ORD with 40 more days to go! Oct 21 please come fast!

I guess I had a serious habit of procrastination. If I continue to be that way, I might not make it for my exams. Battling hard to win the procrastination bugs. Maybe I need a study buddy to help me!

Today mark the 10th Anniversary of the Sept 11 attack. Hope the families of the victims will continue to live their lives with loves and may the terrorists that harms the innocence be punished by the courage of mankind

Cheers~
*.*"

I'm Falling For You

2011-03-10T21:51:00.003+08:00

Dropping by to update on my diary. Was afraid that I might lost track of what I have been doing currently.

Just got my ACCA results.

F1 Accountant in Business - 74
F2 Management Accounting - 76
F3 Financial Accounting - 60

Yea I passed all three papers! Currently taking another 3 papers which will be twice harder. Thus I will have to work doubly hard this semester! Aiming for at least 60 marks!

I have always been counting down to my ORD days. Left 7 months plus but it feels "so near yet so far". I wanna go on holidays! Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. Friends planning? =D

Can't wait for 2011 to end! I wanna start building my career and take responsibility for my family expenses asap! Wanna give them more money to spend and enjoy. I want to give them a more comfortable life.

When we were very young, during one of the CNY, even when we were very poor, they bought us new clothes without buying for themselves as they doesn't want to disappoint us. My dad was then the sole breadwinner of the house earning only $30-$40 per day and he has to feed 5 mouths. Then he started a small noodle stall. At first, there were very little customer and he almost gave up. But with my mum continuous support, he starts to re-invent his ingredients, the chilli, the soup etc. and business starts to pick up. The hard work and the perseverance that they gave provides me and my siblings a better life.

I found a song which is really nice. It makes my thought run. It is the song that you are currently listening to "I'm Falling For You" by ChesterSee.

Enjoy.

Cheers~
*.*"

Happy Rabbit Year

2011-02-07T23:37:00.003+08:00

Hey friends, Happy Rabbit Year!

I have been recording my life lesser recently as I have too much things to do and too little time. OK sometime I am just plain lazy...

So as usual, this year Lunar New Year was rather the same as last year. For the 1st Day, went to grandma house and catch up with my cousins, aunt and uncle. Some we met only twice or thrice a year. And I take it as a time for us to update one another about our life and not forgetting each other faces. At night, met up with wonderful friends to NewYork NewYork for dinner before proceeding to TheRiverHongBao at the floating platform. It has been a century since I visited this anuual Lunar New Year event. Well I could say nothing really super exciting but its great to immerse in the LNY atmosphere with such crowd.

Happy that there is a course break that week because I can catch up on my studies. Yep CNY period and I still studied on Saturday and Sunday at EXPO. I felt uneasy whenever I didn't revise my work. I guess that is a postive motivator that is pushing me whenever I feel lazy. And I fell in love with the Banana Chocolate at EXPO Coffee bean. And that place, the atmosphere, never fail to give me the concentration that I need.

Also, I have recieved one of my birthday present for this year by my "twin". It is a Meerkat nano-lego. I am associated with Meerkat because of my long neck (they seems to have long neck too when they stand on their hind leg) =D But of course I like Meerkat not because of the similiar length of our neck but because of their spirit. One of my favourite list of animals.

Here is the information about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat

So happy that this Feburary, I have a few mini-stuff that I am looking forward to:

11 Feb: Collecting my new spectacle. Yea a clearer vision finally!
12 Feb: New Year house visiting with Bros and Friends. Long time since I met up with bros and hopefully it is confirm. Planning a night out with Adventurous friends!
21 Feb: ACCA results for my both paper will be announced. Feeling excited yet uneasy =S
26 Feb: NATAS Travel Fair. Hopefully I can catch some good deal to plan for my post ORD trips =D

Cheers~
*.*"

looking forward

2011-01-22T20:22:00.003+08:00

Was shocked when I got my Os Level English result. Got a B3 which was totally out of my expectation. I thought to myself that if I get a C6, I would be glad. A C5 would make me happier.

Something to look forward to in Feburary - Chinese New Year which falls on the 3rd. Can eat my favourite Bah Kwa and go house visiting and gathering with great friends!!

Than on the 21st Feb, results for my 2 ACCA papers will be announced. Hopefully I can get good results for that too!

Found a nice place to study which is at EXPO coffee bean. It really helps to make me concentrate.

I guess my Ah Me life has improved slightly. Have changed to a superior that is more fun, who will do work with you instead of just ordering you around, someone who will listen to you. Thus it somehow motivate me to work better. And glad that I left nine more months to join the working society!

Cheers~
*.*"

不知所措

2011-01-08T00:56:00.004+08:00

这种感觉领人不知所措

就像掉进一门隧道

想要停止

却被深深的吸引住了

隧道的另一端可能是一场空

也可能是一场充满希望的天空

空场令人失望

从满希望的天空令人觉得它配不上

这就是所谓的不知所措

Hello 2011!

2011-01-01T04:39:00.003+08:00

Happy New Year everyone!

2010 was a year where I start to set footprints for my future, thinking seriously about what I want to do for my life and I make a few big decisions to get closer to my aim.

2010 is a year where I got into National Service and do my part for my country and like many others out there, grumbling about what I needed to do to retain my pink IC. But I take this experience as something that I will face in the working society outside after I joined the workforce. And this experience will surely make me more prepared and mentally stronger for it.

2010 is a year where I felt a need and want to spend more time with my family. In the past, I had lesser time for them as tertiary education and ECA ate up most of my time. I'm satisfied with the amount of time spent with them this year. And now, an additional member has joined our family which brings us even much joy.

2010 is a year where I got to know a lot of new friends and at the same time, having great times with my present friends. I'm glad that life is kind enough to have such wonderful people around me, bringing my much laughter and happiness.

Still 2010 is a year that I got fearful for myself.

But 2010 still ends with a blast with a year end trip to Bali which was unforgettable!

Now 2011 has arrived, this are my New Year Resolution:

-Be Healthy
-Pass my ACCA papers
-Increase in my financial knowledge
-Still spend great time with friends and family
-Have another unforgettable trip with friends either to Taiwan, Bangkok or Australia
-Last but not the least, waiting to shout "ORD lo!!"

Cheers~
*.*"

Back from Bali

2010-12-30T20:10:00.005+08:00

Hey, i'm back from Bali. That island was truly fascinating! Our accomodation, The Palm Suite Villa was WOW with a personnal swimming pool! 5 days were really not enough, how I hope we could stay there for a few more days. Indeed it was an unforgettable trip with Duke, Trevor, Amberlyn, Faezah, KaiYan, Zelda, WenQiang, Dinesh and not forgetting Wei Cheng for organizing such a mesmerizing trip. Now i'm thinking of having the next trip because the experiences were really haunting me to go for more overseas trip!

This are the events that we did.

Day 1 - After we touched down at the Airport, we took a 12 seater van, our main transport for the next four days to have our lunch before heading to our accomodation called The Palm Suite Villa at Sanuar. Once we got in, we were WOWed by what we saw. A two-storey bunglow like house with a personnal swimming pool and 3 bedrooms with hugh beds greeted us. The staff were also very nice and friendly. We tooked tons of photos and changed in our swimming gear and jumped into the pool that is seducing us. After that, we changed, had our dinner and head down to legian and indulged in Bali nightlife, a Christmas night.

Day 2 - We went to Tanjong Benoa Beach, famed for it's watersports activities. We did Scuba Diving, Flying fish and Donut Ride. Scuba Diving was addictive. Getting so close to the corals and feeding the marine fishes 6-10 metres under water. Flying Fish was relaxing. It is a ride where you lay down on an inflated boat. A rope is attached to the speedboat and once a certain speed is reached, the boat will fly up and you could have a low ariel view of the boundless sea. Donut ride was fast and exciting! You sit on an inflated boat with a rope attached to the speedboat. The speedboat speeds ahead with full force and made turns. You will fly out the inflated boat if you do not hold on tightly. After that, we proceed to a nature made scenery which I really love alot. It is a blowhole at Nusa Dua. How I wish I have the photos with me so that I can share it. But if you would like to know what is a blowhole, go to google images and google it under Bali Blowhole. In my own terms, it is actually a nature made hole of rock formation at the side of the sea, with gallons of seawater gushing into the hole at an incredible speed and directions. It will hit the rock and formed a splashing water fountain. Truly mesmerizing, with the help of the great sun ray. After that, we did some roadside shopping. You have to slash the price more than 60% if you don't want to be "Cai Tau".

Day 3 - Our main destination is to GitGit Waterfall and It was a 2 and a half hour ride from our villa. On our way there, we dropped by a place which introduce visitors to Coffee, one of the famous product in Indonesia. Tried a few drinks including the famous Premium Luwak Coffee and we also got a chance to see the cute Luwak. We also stopped by a roadside stall that sell pork meat. It was really delicious, thanks to the recommendation by our driver. We also had lunch buffet at a restaurant that has a view of mountains and rice fields below it. Then, we reached the GitGit Waterfall. It was HUGE! We got all wet just trying to get near the waterfall to take some nice photos. But it was really worth it for the long journey ride. While on our way back, we bought some strawberries. We had some local mee goreng and fried rice. It was nice and cheap! Only 7000rupiah per packet. Had a great idea on how we are going to spend our night at the Villa. We decided to dip in the pool while watching DVD that we bought and indulge in the sweet strawberries.

Day 4 - Today, we went for White Water Rafting in the morning. Wasn't as thrilling as the one that I had in Perak but it was rather a ride that was long and relaxing, with the nice beautiful scenery of mini waterfall, tall trees and rock formations. Got the chance to dip and swim in the cool river too. After that, we proceed to Kuta Beach to enjoy the breeze. Then we went to the nearby streets and shopping mall to shop. There was one ridiculous experience that I would like to mention. WeiCheng wanted to buy a Bintang towel. We had asked alot of shop and their initial quoting price was around 80000 rupiah. This shop that we went to, his initial quoting price was a ridiculous 250000rupiah! What a vast difference. In the end, we bought it from another shop for the price of 40000 rupiah. (FYI, S$1 = 6850 Rupiah). Flying fireworks are very common in Bali. We bought some of it and went back to our villa to put it. It was our first time cherographing our own fireworks display and it was an experience.

Day 5 - We decided to go for a relaxing massage in the morning. It was truly a "unique" and "unexpected" experience. Hope next time we can go to a proper one instead but still we did get our massage. Rush back to our villa and prepared for our flight to Singapore.

It was truely an unforgettable trip. How I wish we could stay there longer. Of course, this trip is fun because of the amazing companions! Can we go for another trip soon?

Cheers~
*.*"

I like the feeling

2010-12-20T19:55:00.004+08:00

Another well spent weekend with friends! If every weekend is like this, life would be ridiculous great.

Had a pre christmas celebration with awesome mates at Qi Jun's House. A mini party and gathering. Chilling out and playing through the night with gift exchanges. I got a T-shirt this year, Thanks Kelvin! Reached home at 6am in the morning. Dead tired.

Woke up at noon and got myself prepared. Met up with Kian Aik, Faezah and Denise to MPH bookstore sales held at Singapore EXPO. Got myself 2 books. One of it is "Sellout", it talks about "how three decades of Wall Street greed and government mismanagement destroyed the global financial system." The other book is "The Miracle, The Epic Story Of Asia's Quest For Wealth." It is a book about how some Asia countries economies like South Korea and Singapore able to acheive such high prosperity." Quite cheap at $7 per book. Denise bought an Australian guidebook for me to plan a trip to Australia on the 4th term of 2011. Guess that I must really come up with a plan for it. =D

After that, we went to Coffee bean to chill out for a while before going over to the Mechatronics and Crocs Sales.

When I reached home after that, I followed my family to have vegetarian dinner before proceeding to IKEA and Courts to shop for furniture. I'm excited that my room is going to have a makeover soon! Wonder what it's going to be like. A new sleeping environment and that's going to happen in January!

I still remember vividly when I was in Primary 3, I was crossing the road after finishing my tuition. Than I saw this old lady having difficulty pushing her trolley across the road. The trolley was filled with used boxes. It seems heavy for her small build. At that time, I had learned what is being compassionate and helpful in school. I offered my help to her and bring her stuff to her house which is just opposite the road. In return, she treat me to a lollipop which I declined as I have also learned in school of not anyhow accepting things from strangers. Today, I am glad that I saw this old lady again. She seems as strong as before but with a more prominent hunchback. I bought 2 boxes from her so that I can stuff all my things into it for my room makeover. At the same time, I felt very happy as it seems like I am helping her.

At times, I would think of the sacrifices that my parents made. Like paying for my food, studies and stuff. Giving my the best even when they are struggling financially in the past. But I felt so helpless as I am unable to help them. But I made a promise to myself, to work hard and give them a comfortable life after I join the workforce. Thank you Mummy and Daddy! =D

Bali Bali Bali!

Cheers~
Ricky

Thank you friends =D

2010-12-14T17:36:00.002+08:00

I'm very glad that my exams are over! Had my F2- Management accounting and F3- Financial accounting papers last week. How I prepared for my exams? The day before the main exams, I went back to Temasek Polytechnic and studied from 10am in the morning till 10pm at night. Having short breaks in between for lunch and dinner. Glad that AC gang meet up with me for lunch. I did at least three mock exams paper to make myself more familiar with the type of questions that are going to come out in the exams. Happy that it really helps me alot. Before that I have a lot of uncertainty as it was told that ACCA past exams questions are not released for practice. So the mock exams questions are probably prepared by lecturers who tried their best to remember the exams questions that they have taken and note it down for us to practice.

The next morning, I woke up at 8am and got myself prepared to study again. I tried to stop studying at 12pm as I wanted to make myself relax before taking the exams. Than at 3pm, my exams started.

Hope that all my past effort for the last 6 months will not be wasted. Exam results will be out in Feburary, will be excited for that. Next semester school starts in January again. Same process, same life. But difficulty gonna be a notch higher thus I must work even harder than last semester. And great that for my 2 papers, my colleague is taking it with me. So at least I have someone to ask if I am unfamiliar with the question.

Friday night was out with AC gang again. Went to Simpang Bedok for supper. Didn't realise that their Brownie with vanilla ice cream was really delicious. I will definitely go back there for it again.

Saturday was out with Faezah and Denise to Orchard road to shop around. After that, meet up with the rest of the AC gang at SAF Yatch Club Sembawang, Gallary By The Straits to celebrate Kai Yan's birthday. Price and food are reasonable with a live singing performance and nice seaside atmosphere. It's a very relaxing evening with the companion of the cool sea breeze and great friends. After that, we went to SengKang to chill before heading home.

Sunday was out with Buddies. Caught Next 3 Days with them. A rather slow pace but not a bad plot movie. After that, we head to Teo Heng. It was the worst service that we had met over there. Initially, we booked our room at 7pm. Than I called back again to change it to 8pm as our movie will start late. After that when we reached there at 8pm, they told us that someone has called back to change the time to 1030pm... Maybe some ghost did it. So we decided to go and have our dinner-Ashton first and they gave us a room at 930pm. After dinner is settled and we went back at 930pm, the lady told us to wait till 10pm as she changed our timing and gave us a rather stupid reason like "I scared you guys will not finish your dinner on time so I push back the time for you." Buddies were feeling rather pek chek and start to talk reasons with her. In the end, I think the "boss" saw what happened and gave us a room immediately. It wasn't the service that buddies really care about. It is the honesty of the lady that they want to correct.

So excited that this month is a festive month. Having a festive mood with all those gift exchanges planning and christmas celebration coming up! Not forgetting Bali trip is 11days away!

Glad to have shared my shivers with friends. It makes me feel that there is a channel for me to release it and not being in it alone. Thank you my friends and thank you =D

Cheers~
*.*"

Downy and laughty Weekend

2010-11-29T00:28:00.003+08:00

Have a fulfilled weekend. Except that I screwed up something on Saturday. Hope everything will be ok for them. Blame it on me being complacent. But then what done is done. I need to let go and treat myself better.

Went to Powerhouse with fun buddies. Damn freaking crazy crowd but a great treat for my eyes =X Oh and that is a long time since I stepped into a club. Has to be a good boy =D

Today, celebrated Janice and Yesheng's Birthday at Fish and Co. at ION with wonderful buddies. Haha it was the same place as last year. Had a hearty laughter with all the topics. We should have more of this laughing days!

The only downside for this weekend was I emoed while on the train back to home. ='( How I wish I don't have to worry about such stuff. Well I can't control it, so let fate decide. Give me strength!

Cheers~
*.*"

The great time to chill

2010-11-26T00:11:00.002+08:00

Everytime when I walked pass Starbuck and saw people enjoying a cup of coffee, reading their books and chilling their time off, I felt "wow so wonderful, it must feel wonderful to be able to spend your time so peacefully" and I always wanted to experience it. So I did today. I ordered a cup of refreshing Toffee Nut Latte and accompanied it with the content of Straits Times, Men's Health and my book. The feeling was great as you felt really peaceful-that period of time is fully yours.

And I thought to myself, I have personnal issues that I hope I can find someone to confide, but then I realised that I have limited options. Everyone is busy with their life. But I believe that I can encourage myself to be strong and be the support for myself. Hopefully things will turn better for me. My destiny is not for me to control.

Cheers~
*.*"

Korean War 2?

2010-11-23T20:29:00.005+08:00

Have you heard about the news this afternoon? I thought it was a joke when QiZheng told me that war broke out between North Korea and South Korea. It didn't really become an all out war though. North Korea fired shells at a South Korean island near their border and resulted in loss of live and injuries.

What is Kim Jong il(North korea leader) thinking? Is he really happy to see a war break out in his impoverished country when what they need is to do something about their economy? He should stop wasting his resources in his military but provide more food for his people. I believe that if there is really a war broke out between the two koreans and South korea unite the whole peninsula, more lives will be saved in the long run. North Koreans will be saved from starvation. Relatives can reunite. And everyone can live happily ever after.

Long live South Korea. Just a random note, You have chio people in your country(SNSD, Wondergirls). May you win over the aggressor. The whole democratic world is with you.

Kim Jong il, even a 12 years old kid with just a heart of compassion can be a better leader than you.

Cheers~
*.*"

Passed F1

2010-11-20T23:59:00.004+08:00

I'm so happy today! Cause I went for my ACCA F1-Accountant in Business exam and i'm very elated to say that I passed with marks of 74%! However, I got stressed up by the questions initially. I was thinking real hard for the 1st 10 questions and I am uncertain about my answer and so, this time I thought I am going to fail it already. But subsequently, I got back my momentum and did the question analytically and carefully and got my flying colours result!

Glad that it was a great start. Now I am going to focus on my next 2 papers which will be tested in early December.

Wasn't feeling really well recently. Having constant stiff neck. Blame it on my stupid pillow. Feeling giddy too. Maybe I studied too much? =(

Tomorrow will be a happening day cause i'm am going to watch Harry Potter and it is my nephew 1st Month anniversary!

Cheers~
*.*"

November greeting

2010-11-15T02:49:00.004+08:00

It has been some time since I recorded down my memories. Think i'm quite busy or maybe a bit lazy recently to write anything. But glad that tomorrow, or it should be later that i'm on leave, thus it's a Monday that I don't have to work so there won't be any Monday blues!

Some significant events that happened.

Celebration of Chee Hiang 21st Birthday! As you can see from the picture, one of the present that we bought for him is the green underwear that he is forced to wear. So Kawaii and nice right? He looks extraordinary macho with that garment so must wear more ar =D So we did some mind gaming and stuff and hopefully, it is an unforgettable 21st for him.

Next up, celebrated grandma's birthday. A family gathering and glad that I got the chance to take photos with my grandpa! He don't like to take photos but glad that we managed to make him take with us! I didn't upload the photos cause he didn't wear any shirt. But here is the photo that I took with my grandma and my handsome-to-be-like-me nephew =D Happy 70th Birthday Grandma!

Next up, went on a trip across the bridge with fun cliques recently. We went to City Square and shop around, have good food and watch a movie called MegaMind. A weekend well spent.

So what's up with my life recently?

This week I am very happy cause i'm clearing my leave! Only have to go back on Tuesday and it is a super long resting days! And i'm preparing for my F1 paper- Accountant in Business which is on this coming Saturday. Working hard and hopefully I will get colours with wings result.

One thing i'm sad about is my laptop is officially in a coma. I wanted to reformat it but there's some problem while i'm reformatting and now, I can't even access into the desktop. Have to call the service centre and check with them later =(

I'm so looking forward to Christmas! I can't wait for the Bali trip. The feeling of anticipation is great!

Next semester class timetable is out. Guess if there is no major changes in my decision, I will take the Monday, Wednesday and Friday classes. It will gonna be difficult and hard for next semester and thus I have to work doubly hard. And I guess I can't go for any holiday unless it is a short trip that falls on weekend or it was my study period. =( Hopefully I can pass for my this and next semester so that I can relax and take only 2 subjects for the subsequent semesters.

Oh it's 3am and I am going to sleep.

Cheers~

*.*"

Os is nearing

2010-10-19T00:23:00.002+08:00

Can't wait for this long weekend to come as I am clearing 3 days leave for my O lvl exams! Haven't been touching it for the past few months. Wasn't really confident of getting the results that I have initially set. Priority takes away my time as I needed more time for my ACCA papers. But I will still try it out.

Soon after that, I am going on an overdrive mode to prepare myself for my ACCA papers. No more weekend fun. Hopefully I can resist the temptation.

Someone date me out to study please so that I won't always be tempted by my comfortable bed or the exciting laptop whenever I studied halfway through!

Cheers~
*.*"

the future's not ours to see

2010-10-12T23:02:00.007+08:00

I felt damn shiok just now! I was thinking real hard about one of my accounting questions. And after analysing it for the whole afternoon, I finally managed to figure out the logic and reasons for the concept and it gives me a feeling of invincibility which motivates and gives me confidence to tackle future tough questions. That's the satisfaction that I got from studying and I really enjoy it, although it is rather stressful in the beginning.

After studying ACCA for the last 3 months, I felt that I don't regret choosing this path. Initially, when I studied Fundamentals of Accounting in my Polytechnic days, I was rather rejected to it as I felt that it was a boring job for boring people. And also the initial reasons that I studied ACCA was only because of recommendations from other people- it is not my first choice of study initially (I planned to study Economics and Finance in SIM-RMIT). I only studied it because it has good prospects for my future, not because of my interest.

When i first started, I struggled. I wonder what is the purpose of me studying accounting? Why must I calculate the cost of the process? Why must I debit it and credit it? But then, as time progress, I start to appreciate the concept and analogy of accounting. The importance of the role of an accoutant in an organization. It exceeded my intially expectation of an accountant. And I must say I starts to enjoy the process of studying accounting. Not only it is as unboring as I thought, it exceeded my expectations of gaining some other knowledge in regards to business rather than just doing accounts.

And I would like to thank every people that is around me, especially to my mates that I have got to know in camp. Sometimes, even by chance, we would talk about our future, studies and etc. And the way they see their future, the views on how they learn, really motivates me. Those small burst of adrenaline rush is rather important. I must thank fate for bringing me to meet these people.

Do you think everything is linked and fated? Maybe. I injured my arms when I was in Secondary two. Subsequently, I injured my hand again and again. Now after enlisted into army, I became a keyboard warrior due to my injury and got an office hour job. I met some people which somehow influence me on the path that I took and I ended up studying part-time. So what's my future? Just like the song "Que Sera, Sera" goes, "the future's not ours to see", but I know that the decisions that you take now shape the future of you. And I can sense the firmness of my footing on my path that I have taken. And I hope that all my friends have found theirs too.

Cheers~
*.*"

Life is Sudden

2010-10-06T20:50:00.003+08:00

Life can be so sudden sometimes. Mr Goh Keng Swee, one of our founding fathers, passed away in May. Dr Balaji, one of our Senior Minister, passed away in September. My idol, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, lifetime partner, Mdm Kwa Geok Choo passed away last week. And I just recieved a news that my form teacher of my Secondary 3 class in Ngee Ann Secondary collapsed and passed away suddenly. And I guess he was only at the age of 40 or less? I can still vividly remember him using his monotonous voice(like me), teaching us Physics in the lab even though it is something that happened 7 years ago.

Life can be so sudden, thus we have to cherish every day that we are given, thank god for allowing you to see the next sunrise, and live life to the fullest so that you will have no regrets.

cheers~
*.*"

what's happening

2010-09-26T19:34:00.002+08:00

Some updates about my life.

This weekend, I was a very good boy. I stayed at home most of the time, catching up on my Management Accounting subject knowledge and cleared some doubts about it. Something that somehow affected my heavy heart subconciously for the past few weeks. You know, there is this particular chapter about Process Costing that I was rather blur about. And I was disheartened that I couldn't catch what the lecturer was teaching. So I make it a point to study from topic 1 till the current topic. Finally, I am able to declare that I understand the topics!! Now I just need more practice to make myself familiarize with it.

Now I am going to move on to my Financial Accounting topics. Same situation, I have a topic talking about accrual and prepayment which I have doubts about. It's time to work on it. Gonna work hard!

I don't know if I can pass my O Level that I am retaking. Just got no time to revise on it. ACCA priority is higher but I don't want to waste my money and effort that I had already put in. Gotta take out some time to revise when exam is nearer.

So for the next 3 months, it is exam periods for me. O level is in October, my Accountant in Business paper is in November and my Management and Financial accounting papers are in December.

But something that I really looking forward to is the Bali trip that Wei Cheng is organising in December! Something to look forward after such a fun-plus-work-plus-studies filled year. Time for some self-pampering. Can't wait for the trek to the top of one of the volcano to see the sunrise! The crystal like blue waves hitting onto the soft fine beach with the warmth of mother sun. That is heaven! December please come fast!

And I got my first smart phone - HTC Touch 2. Saw an E-mail promotion for Mindef personnel where you sign a 2-years plan with Starhub and you can get the phone for $0. Since my plan has expired, I decided to went down to town with YeSheng, YongLiang and CheeHiang last Wednesday to get it. Can watch youtube while travelling!

Working life has been rather busy for the past few days as we are shifting to our new office. Well it was rather refreshing to work in a different environment. Time past faster and at least it lifted my mood a little everytime when I go to work as work seems less boring.

In one month time, there will be a new member arriving in my family! I put my hand on my sister's stomach and sometime, I can feel her stomach moving and protruding, like he was using his leg to say hello to me. That was the 1st time I had ever touched a pregnant's stomach and that feeling was amazing! I didn't know that fetal can move so strongly! Take care sis.

Looking forward to next weekend!

Cheers~
*.*"

Haji Long Week End

2010-09-12T20:55:00.004+08:00

This Haji long weekend is very eventful. Enjoyed alot of fun and foods with friends. If life could be like this everyday, it would be so wonderful!

On Friday, met up with campmates to Sentosa Siloso Beach for some chillzout. Weather wasn't that wonderful due to the small drizzle here and there but we still enjoyed ourselves. After that, Leslie suggest to go to his friend's house at Sentosa Cove for some therapy session. It was my first time there and that place was really nice! It would be my dream to own a property there - beautiful seaview and exciting facilities! We picnic at one of the Yatch Dock, filled ourselves with food before getting ourselves into the jacuzzi pool. The massage from the strong spray of water was damn relaxing. After that, we went into the steamroom for some therapatic suana session before taking a cool bath. For a moment, troubles seems to dissipate with the water and heat. It was a truly enjoyable moment.

After that, we proceed on to Marina Square to bowl. But the long waiting list made us came up with another plan and they decided to watch movie while I went to meet up with ACians for dinner at Pizza Hut, at the same time, celebrating Amber's birthday.

Birthday girl with her warm chocolate cake with ice cream

The foods

Pizza Hut food was not bad afterall. Prices are reasonable and taste was rather nice! I tried their new Char-grilled chicken Parchhment and it was nice. When the pasta was served, it was wrapped up in a parchment paper which is thought to keep and enchance the flavour of the food. Someone please date me out to Pizza Hut again!

After some long discussion, we decided to head to East Coast Park's Starbuck to chill. I guess due to the relaxing moment that I had in the afternoon, I succumb to fatigue and took a nap on the table.

On Saturday, I woke up at 2pm (an 11 hours sleep) and felt energetic but with a slight headache. Met up with ACians again and this time is to celebrate Jenna's Birthday. Venue was at The Bark Cafe which is located besides Changi Chapel and Museum.

As usual, food was great. Ambience was good too. But one thing I don't like is they do not serve ice water during weekend! It is just some ice water from our beloved tap water and they don't serve it. This I feel is a very bad service standard. But other than that, everything is fine.

Escargot (snail). Do you dare to try? I don't really like it because it gives me a weird aftertaste. But others love it.

The Birthday Girl

A group photo before we went to Blid Ice Cream Cafe which is located opposite Tampines Police Centre for supper ice cream feast.

I just love ice cream!!

Today, met up with Chee Hiang and Ying Chee and we went National Library to study. Did 2 comprehension question and catch up on some topics for my management accounting subject. After that, we head on to Suntec for the International Food Fare. Ate a Big Crispy Chicken Chop, drank a bubble tea and had Durian and Rum and Raisin Ice Cream from Ice Savoury. After that, we went to Marina Square to continue our studies before heading home.

Food food food. Felt so happy to be surrounded by delicious food. But all this burnt a pocket in my hole =( But money is not a problem. The problem is to be happy and I am happy =D

I have decided to push forward my Accountant in Business paper to November so that I won't have to take all 3 papers together in December. Guess that is the right choice.

Tomorrow back to work again. Looking forward to the next weekend!

Cheers~

*.*"

Say no to Menopause

2010-09-05T21:01:00.002+08:00

Met up with YongLiang, YeSheng and Weizhen to Comex IT fair on Friday night. Didn't have anything in mind that I want to buy. Just go there see see. Of course... you know... what to see see right... Lol. And help sis check out the price of a DSLR Canon Camera.

Saturday night went to Fiona house to play Mahjong with Chee Hiang and YeSheng. Million seconds since I touched a Mahjong tile. Can't wait for more mahjong session cause I start to feel like playing again. Lost $4 to Fiona but I managed to earn it back by eating 1 quarter-packet of her good quality Potatoes Chips, 2 pineapple tarts and an oreo look-alike biscuits cause I was too hungry that night!

And today, had remedial lesson in the afternoon before heading to Bugis to meet Chee Hiang. Why? Because of a freaking KFC Coupon!! I had craving for KFC for some time already and he told me that he had the KFC coupon. So I don't know why, when I heard about it, I was so excited and agreed to meet him up for that fingers lickin' good crispy chickens. After that we gai gai around Illuma and also to the National Library for some wisdom gaining session before heading home. Oh ya, and so coincidental that I got to see 神木與瞳 at Bugis Junction for their autograph session! Just in time to catch them sing 寬恕 before their autograph session starts. That was a very nice song!

Tomorrow its Monday again. So not looking forward to it. But glad that this coming weekend its a long weekend! Seriously, it is really difficult to be with woman who is in the stage of menopause. I mean every small matters can mean so much to them. Take for example, this two incident.

Incident 1: Lets call this person Godzilla. So Godzilla was asking me to help her input some information into a soft copy form. And she was beside me telling me of what to input into that form while I was looking at the computer, trying to find the part where she was explaining about when she suddenly said "Eh Ricky. When i'm talking to you can you look at me not! (in an authoritative tone)". And I was like WTF! I can use my ears to hear what why must I look at you? Somemore I am searching for the part where you are explaining, not that I am looking at some porn picture or what what!

Incident 2: A person was using the photocopier machine and suddenly, the machine was jammed with papers. So I went up to offer my help to solve the problem. Than Godzilla was like busy talking to me while she walks into the storeroom and I was like busy fixing the photocopier when she suddenly shout "EH! RICKY. When I am talking to you can you please listen anot!!" Of course also in an authoritative tone. I replied "Godzilla, I was helping Person A fixing the photocopier eh!!" And she replied "Don't need to help la. They know how to do it themselves. When I'm talking, please blah blah blah..." What is the meaning of "don't need to help and they know how to fix it themselves?" Of course if the machine is working well, I also don't need to help. But the problem is the machine is not working well. And when I am focusing on doing something, she expects that when she talks, we must stop everything that we are doing and give her our 101% attention. Can't the Godzilla wait till we finish our things before giving instruction? Whatsmore, the things aren't really that important.

I guess she can suggest for a new position in the office - Chief Assistant so that no matter where she goes, there will be people following her and when the moment she talks, the person will surely be the 1st to listen to her and write down the instruction before passing it to us. Hey. Not a bad idea right?

To conclude, I think she is in the stage of menopause because I went to wiki it and found out that some symptoms really shown in her. My 2 incidents can prove it.

Psychology Symptoms of Menopause:
Anxiety
Irritability
Memory loss (she scared she forget her instruction so die die must say first)
Mood disturbance etc.

Of course to be fair to Godzilla, she has her quality/ies. But the irritation that I got is just like a flies flying around your ear without stopping. If she knows how to be a better person, people will give her respect. But sadly she doesn't. Luckily, this is not long term. I'm so looking forward to my date of quitting!

Cheers~
*.*"

28 Sep 10

2010-08-29T04:20:00.007+08:00

Pardon for my insensitivity.
A joking remarks aren't joking at all.
Even a joker would have it's limits.

So just now, I mean yesterday, met up with campmates to Jason 21st Birthday party at NSRCC. Happy Birthday Jason! Have a wonderful 21st year!

Met up with i-guides after that at Bedok for K session. The room is big and nice!! Went to grab some beancurd for supper after that. But still, i'm feeling hungry now.

We were talking and came to a topic about the previous graduation trip that we had. Was hoping to have a plan for another overseas trip with them. Maybe to Taiwan or South Korea! It would be exciting if the plan really materialise.

And Janice talked about job-holiday which means working in the country while you are travelling. That would be an eye opener I guess. Can't wait for ORD so that I can have my freedom back to do all those ambitious stuff. Counting down to 1 year 1 month 22 days

Cheers~

*.*"

My first leave

2010-08-25T23:59:00.001+08:00

I was on my first leave for the year! And it was an interesting leave day. Had English Oral exam in the afternoon. Guess i'm wasn't really that confident to score good marks for it. Had been rather anxious during the conversation part and so, I have to work extremely hard on my Paper 1 and Paper 2 to score better! Yea I will work hard on that.

After that, met up with Chee Hiang, YeSheng and YongLiang. Went back to TP to have our late lunch. That place just brought back fun memories that we had during our tertiary years. It's almost 1 and a half year since we graduated from TP. Time really flies like a rocket.

After that, we proceed on to E-hub K-box for some K session as weekday membership price is only at $8 nett! I remember the last time that I hold a mic was during my birthday which was 2 months ago, that was long yea?

Had a great rest-day today, especially when it was accompanied by your friends and/or families, doing things that we enjoy. Back to mental war tomorrow!

And a very Happy Birthday to Faezah! Have a magnificent year ahead!

Cheers~
*.*"

Making a Difference

2010-08-23T00:13:00.004+08:00

This weekend was spent with happiness and a tinge of meaning to it. Thanks to Wei Cheng, Saturday was quite a challenging yet meaningful day. So we went to Sunbeam Place with Zel and MinXing with the Mediacorp staffs. Sunbeam Place is under Singapore Children's Society who looks after children that came from abusive or violent families. Thus before we went there, we were told that the children were sometimes violent and they may end up fighting with each other, so we have to be mentally prepared to know how to handle them.

After we reached there, we were seperated into groups. I was paired up with Love 97.2FM radio DJ, 蔡礼莲 to handle this group of 6 boys. Saw YE933 DJ 巫许玛莉 and 987FM DJ Rosalyn Lee too. Some of the kids action are quite scary. Like one kid can suddenly slap the other kid on the face. Or when a kid borrow a thing from another kid, he returns it by throwing back to him. But at least they do listens to our instruction and I try to handle them by being one of their friends, playing and piggyback them when they asked for it.

After drawing their dream castle in the house, we brought them to East Coast Park and they got to build their own mighty sand castle with the help of the professionals Castle Beach! Had a fun time playing the sands!

It was a tiring day, but I made a difference in someone's life that day. And that brings everlasting happiness whenever I did something meaningful. I don't mind going back to help out as volunteers in future if I have the time. It is time to do something for our society.

And for today, met up with Zel, Amber, KianAik, Trevor, Duke and Dorothy in the evening and we went to have Ba Kut Teh at Bugis. After that, we proceeded on to Ah Chew Dessert store. Had my favourite Mango with Pamelo! As usual, delicious!

Cheers~
*.*"

Lucky to be alived

2010-08-14T13:40:00.003+08:00

I'm lucky to be alived! Almost met an accident last night when I was distracted talking to YeSheng while on our way for supper at Rochar for Tau Hua with Chee Hiang and Yong Liang. I was at a cross junction, preparing to turn right but didn't realised that a motorbike and a car was coming on the opposite direction at a fast speed. I pedalled on the accelerator pedal and moved off and both the motorbike and car was horning me. Especially the motorbike which was coming towards me at a faster speed. At that moment, I was prepared to stopped my car but I guess man's natural human instinct acts up in a near crisis that made me step on the pedal. If I did not and instead stopped my car for a mere 1 second, both the motorbike and car would have banged right into me. Would like to sincerely apologise to the rider and driver for risking their lives due to my distraction.

Happy Belated Birthday to my Home - Singapore!

Things I liked about you:

1) The low crime rate which allows me to walk safely on the streets in the middle of the night.
2) The high standard of living which makes us taking things for granted.
3) The variety of foods that I can choose from when i'm hungry! Prata, Satay, Mee Pok, Durians!
4) Proudly one of the countries that is able to change from the status of 3rd world to 1st in less than half a century.
5) The great transportation system. Knowing that I can go from one place to another without much hassle.
6) It's an open society. Where different cultures and races can live harmoniously.
7) Most importantly, it is where my friends and family are, where beautiful memories are created and kept.

CHEERS to Home!
*.*"

interest vs career

2010-08-06T22:57:00.003+08:00

I once had this possessive mindset that interest will win over career. What I mean is that if there is 2 careers for you to choose from, 1 is a job that you are very interested in which pay you a monthly salary of $2000. The other is a job that you don't have an interest in(but don't mind that job) but it give you a better quality of life as it pays you a monthly salary of $3000. Which one will you choose?

In the past, I would have chosen interest over career as I feel that how can someone stay in a job for so long that they have no interest in? Wouldn't it be a torture to do that? But as time goes by, I start to feel that actually, it is not that realistic to think that way.

It is difficult for someone to crave out a very succesful career by doing something that he has an interest in. I say difficult but not impossible because there are still successful examples like world class atheletes. But out of the hundred millions of people who loves swimming, how many actually make it into the olympics or even continental competition? And out of the hundred thousands of atheletes who competes in world competition, how many actually won medals? It may seems that there are a lot of world class atheletes being rich and famous. But if you put that with the porpotion of people who are interested in being a sportsperson, the success rate is actually quite low.

For me, my interest lies in being a PE and Maths teacher as I like to challenge myself in speaking in front of a group of people. It seems scary but it gives you that kick of success when you feel that you have given a good speech and met your objective. I like to get myself involve in organising and planning, be it teaching plans or events. Being able to interact with people and handle different kind of situations everyday, it seems so un-routine and challenging. However, my interest for being a teacher seems shaken as I have other field(less interest) that I wish to get into. Now, I hope that I can be an above average personnel working in accounts field as I personally believe that this career(not seen as interest) can make me become a more successful person.

So which one will you choose? Interest or Career?

Cheers~
*.*"

Weekend @ Bugis

2010-08-03T23:53:00.004+08:00

Caught Aftershock with Bros at illuma Filmgade Cinema during the weekend. A great movie with Chio-Bus to watch especially Zhang Jingchu =D

Had Lenas for dinner at Bugis Junction. It is an Italian concept restaurant. Ordered a plate of Shrimp Pasta served with Aglio Olio Sauce and it was fantastic! The prawn was darn fresh and chewy. We shared the Pizza and it was not bad too - Served hot and crunchy. The restaurant is situated beside Fish and Co.

I feel like leaving this small little island to an unfamiliar place, it would be great if the sea is one of the companion. Need a break cause it's too boring for the routine life and I need something to look forward to so that time will pass faster.

Die liao la! I going to kena cadiovascular disease already. Left 6 hours to sleep =(

Cheers~
*.*"

my first investment

2010-07-30T01:24:00.004+08:00

Work, Study, Lecture, Dota.

That is what I have been doing for this week.

Boring life right?

Today in lecture, one freaking guy who was sitting beside me was reading his newspaper throughout the whole lesson! I salute him. Pro~

And I bought my first investment today! Don't know what kind of courage made me do that. Time for money to work hard for me and I am so happy that I finally made the first step =D

Cheers~
*.*"

Olivia Ong

2010-07-24T02:38:00.006+08:00

Today is my Lucky Day!!

I was camping beside my radio in office waiting to participate in answering a question related to Olivia Ong to get a chance to win YES933 Olivia Ong Campus Concert at NYP. Usually they will ask the question in noon but this time round, I waited for around 3pm and they still have not asked the question. So I thought to myself to give up hope.

Than at around 3 plus, they finally issued the question and I quickly type the message and sent it to them. However, they announce on air that their sms system is currently down, so if we want to win the tickets, we have to call their number to answer the question. I wasn't able to get through but my colleague does! And so he answered the question correctly and we got 2 tickets for the concert!

We are supposed to reach there at 6pm but we knock off at 5pm. So we quickly flag for a cab to my house to change clothes before driving to NYP. It was really damn rush but luckily, we managed to reach there 10 minutes earlier. All this must thank to my fast and safe driving =X

This concert was really great as Cong Qing is really very funny. He was able to bring up the atmosphere easily and we also got the chance to take photos with Olivia Ong!! Woo Hoo~ Here some photos of the concert that I took.

Arghh~ I got an electric shock from her eyes! I shy shy already.

Cong Qing trying to act as Jeanette Aw for once

Pout~

Autograph session

A photo with her! Woo Hoo~

Got her signature!

I got to know Olivia Ong through watching her in YouTube participating in one of the Taiwan Singing Competition Show as a challenger to those contestant. Her voice is really those kind that can really make you very engross in watching her sing. A very beautiful voice that she has. And that is when I get to notice more about her. She is great. Really great!

Her signature!

Gonna dream about her in my sleep already.

Cheers~

*.*"

Life is unpredictable

2010-07-21T12:47:00.003+08:00

While I was driving on a drizzling and wet road to school to attend my lecture, I was listening to radio news. Than they reported that a man, in his 30s was killed while driving when a huge tree falled onto his car. At that time, my hair stand as line of trees were visible on the road that I am driving (which Singapore Road don't right) and was imagining WHAT IF a tree falls onto my car? Life is pretty unpredictable. At this moment you are enjoying your delicious Peking Duck in a restaurant, the next moment you know, you are already dead by choking on it... This taught me to live life to the fullest at the current moment instead of thinking too much into the future. You can have a plan for your future, but a plan of direction instead of a detailed plan of what you want or what you are going to do. Cause you may never know at what circumstances will you leave this realm.

Some people say that life is fragile but some says that life is tough. Pretty contradicting right? Sometimes when I look at those senior citizens, I am rather envy at them because they are able to live till old age. They may have seen enough of this world and have already prepared psychologically for their afterlife. That's just my view though.

Cheers~
*.*"

Blues at work

2010-07-20T00:09:00.006+08:00

This weekend seems to pass so fast. Maybe I played too much till the wee hours which caused me to sleep till noon.

Got a lot of blues at work. Some people is great to talk to but some just pushes your stress level to the point where you feel hatred towards your working environment. Alot of unmotivated news just makes you gloom. Was hoping of some miracle if there is. Lost motivation in working as work seems so routine and boring. I need something to spice up my 8 to 5 life! Maybe adding more chilli to my food will help =D And I sincerely ask for miracles to happen please. Luckily for me, I always have a postive minded brain that allows me to hang on till now.

I want so much to get my hands on Olivia Ong Campus Concert tickets! Loves her sooth and hypnotise voice very much. Yes933 please choose me!! Let me be your Pokemon for now!

On a positive note, I felt so much happier whenever class ended as it seems like I have gained more knowledge. Knowledge that I feel interested in.

And I left 6hrs of sleep right now. Good nite.

Cheers~
*.*"

Last day of World Cup South Africa

2010-07-11T21:25:00.003+08:00

Today is World Cup final between Holland and Spain. So who will win tonight? My prediction is Holland will lift the World Cup although I don't mind whichever team to win as both are going to be 1st time winner.

Friday night, went to Katong Shopping Centre to play Left for Dead 2 with Denise, Duke and Desmond. Wa lau eh! It is rather challenging and very fun to complete one of the map. We tried for more than 1 hour and we still can't win. Feeling the itch to play again cause I want to complete that map!!

Saturday had a great afternoon at Sentosa. Went there with Faezah, Denise, Desmond and Amberlyn. Weather was rather good as it is cloudy with some sprinkle of raindrops although one of my purpose there is to sun tan. We played Monopoly Deal card yet again. Had the delicious Almond Jelly that Faezah made!! Played volleyball and dodge ball. Soak in the cooling sea water when the weather is freaking hot. As always, Sentosa never fail to make my day happy.

After that in the evening, we proceed on to Minds Cafe at SAFRA Tampines to play board game. Chill out with friends are also one of my favourite hobby! Played till 1am before leaving the place.

Today, after touching it 7months ago, I am finally able to hold the Table Tennis Bat again! Went to Changkat Tampines Community Centre to play Table Tennis with Denise, Kian Aik, Desmond, You Er, Duke and Zelda. So fun playing table tennis. It makes me imagine to buy the table for my future dream house! After that, we had dinner at Ashton before heading for home. Next week is badminton day with them!

Everone please enjoy the last day of World Cup South Africa! The next one will be 4 years later at Brazil.

Cheers~
*.*"

Back to School

2010-07-06T20:18:00.004+08:00

Life has been rather busy recently after school officially starts in 1st July. Also, I had a super awesome and magnificient gathering chalet with AC during the weekend!

For those who are interested in taking up ACCA and intending to study in SAA, I would say that the teachers are really professional and fun to listen to. I have fun learning all the things that are taught because it is related to our daily lives. It is great to be back to school although I have to Tahan the tiredness of going school directly after work from 645pm to 1015pm. Have to keep the motivation going!

Over the weekend, had a gathering with AC thanks to Denise for organizing a chalet for us at Downtown East. It has been a very long time since we met up for such great nights BBQing, Talking, Playing and Chilling. Can't wait for the next gathering already! And TaoPok almost scare us to heaven!

And World Cup has reached Semi Final Stage already!

My humble prediction yet again:

Uruguay vs Holland
My prediction: Holland win 3-1
I don't know why for some reason, I hope Holland win this year World Cup.

Germany vs Spain
My Prediction: Spain win 2-1
Holland vs Spain is nicer to watch because both has not been in the finals for very long already

Cheers~
*.*"

Rick's 22nd Birthday

2010-06-28T10:09:00.005+08:00

I'm getting old! =(((

On Friday after work, rush home to change before meeting campmates at The Chevron for KTV. While I was on the train reaching City Hall, I can start to feel the mucus in my nose is flowing down suddenly. Without tissue with me, I use my hand to block my nosetril and typically stay in that position throughout the journey. You can even see abit of it starting to flow between my fingers. As the train is crowded, I couldn't dare to move or do anything. When it reached Jurong East, I was damn relieve and quickly get off the train, rush to a corner and clean myself up. OK. That's gross.

So I met up with my campmates and we proceed to Chevron. Its a nice place. Room is not that small and price is reasonable. Here are some photos on that day.

Me with Han Wei whose birthday is one day later than mine =D

Nice Chill Out

Me with Shone- a new regular specs

With our birthday cards!

Group Photo

After that, went home and met up with Ler, Ow, Mok and Ren. We proceed on to East Coast Park for supper. They bought me an Oreo Cheesecake and sang a birthday song for me! Wahaha! Initially wanted to have some satay but ended up most of the shops were closed and we could only settle for Stingray and drinks. Why East Coast Park Food Centre close so early at 1am during weekend? =((

The next day, met up with the guys below plus Yong Liang who leave for Casino half way through to Sentosa for some tan tan session. So happy that my birthday wish came through which is to be with the Sun Sand and Sea!!

We tanned, we swimmed, we run, we played Monopoly Deal Cards, soccer and Freesbie. Had a great afternoon at Siloso Beach!

After that, we proceed to Vivocity for our dinner at Carls Junior. Saw my Serg and Mdm over there! Such a coincidence.

Oh and there was one incident which happened. While we were walking out of the Tram at Vivocity, this Phillipino guy(i guess) who was waiting for us stopped us and shout at YS and he said "Don't Puse!" and demanded an apology from him. However, it was the guy who pushed YS first while boarding the Tram over at Sentosa. So CH was down there saying "Oi you push people first still say people push you...etc" and continued the bombard. The guy got abit infuriated and when we meet again at the Escalator, he demanded a fight with me saying "Come Outside. 1 v 1!" before his wife pull hiim to the escalator. I guess that he pick on me is because throughout the whole incident, I was "diaoing" him all the way.

Hey Come'on. Your size is like one of the family member of Nutty Professor and you are trying to fight someone half the size of you? If you want to fight, please have the face and courage to pick someone of your own size. Furthermore, Singapore is not a place for you to show your babaric ways. Also, I pity you to pick a fight in front of your kids. Hope when your son grow up, it won't have the genes of yours if not, you shall personally sent him off to jail.

While waiting for YL to meet us at Vivo, we went to Toys R Us to walk walk. Back to childhood and we tried catching each other balls with the help of the Giappers.

After that, we went off to Neverland. My first time to neveland and it was a nice place. There are live performance and live world cup too!

My Football Birthday cake!

Blow

Being Saboed to go up on stage. Fwak!

Thanks everyone for their well wishes and company! And thanks Iguides for the chio Nike Bag!

I have a Happy 22nd =DD

Cheers~

*.*"

Dinesh 21st Birthday Party

2010-06-20T22:32:00.002+08:00

Whao. Its the 20th of June already! Time for this month flies really fast. Maybe its because of last week which I called "holiday week" as i'm my own chief in office. Night classes starting in 2 weeks time and i'm excited for it. I guess its good to be back as a student right? Pressure will be on myself to achieve good results so I will have to study not only hard, but harder and smarter! So for the next 2 weeks, i'm gonna relax and enjoy as much as I can.

Yesterday went to Dinesh 21st Birthday Party. Got the chance to play mahjong again which I had not done for the past few months. And I guess we all regreted making Dinesh so drunk. We have to restrain, or maybe help him kiss Desmond. We have to carry him down from the room to the toilet and he had to sit in there for more than 30minutes to vomit. And glad that he is able to fell asleep after that. Most importantly, everone had fun and alot of laughter. After that, we played Hold'em Poker, Blackjack and In Between using chips before heading home in the early morning. Happy 21st Birthday Neh!

Counting down to 2nd July because its AC reunion chalet!

Cheers~
*.*"

Betting not my cup of tea

2010-06-16T20:28:00.003+08:00

This year World Cup give me a mathematics equation for Singaporeans and it is, World Cup = Betting.

Everyone around me is analysing which teams to side on, discussing who will be the winner. An even more intersting is even for stock market, the volume of trades have been lower than normal and analyst say it is due to traders focusing more on the green fields. I read it from Straits Times and it seems so funny.

I'm glad that that I didn't bet on this year World Cup. The prediction from my previous post prove that my prediction sucks. And I would rather use money for other investment.

This week is a very great week. It is a stressless and carefree week thanks to my superior taking overseas leave! Have a lot of time in my disposal to learn and do the things that I want. This week don't blink so fast please! =D

And it is a shock to know that our famous shopping streets had been in the water today. A rare sight in Singapore.

Cheers~
*.*"

World Cup 2010-South Africa

2010-06-11T22:53:00.007+08:00

Today is the best day that I had in office! Imagine 4 guys in an office without any law... The results will be a lot of crap, laughter, stomachache and stressless mood! That's the way life should be! Why must we limit ourselves to be so stressful in life right? If only the law could allow us to be in this way everyday, that would be great. It will surely create a very lively, bubbly and full of smiles environment. Of course all this should not compromise the productivity that we should have. If only the law could understand...

And today, I would like to wish Hui San, Qi Jun and Qi Zheng a very Happy Birthday!!

I know a woman's age is a secret so I wouldn't say how old is she. So Happy 22nd Birthday HS!
And the twins Qi Jun/Zheng, one is my poly mate and the other is my camp mate(fate is so miraculous right), Happy 21st Birthday!!

And nothing is more important than being Happy. So I would like to wish them full of happiness in the year ahead!

World cup came already!
Here is my humble prediction for some matches:

Uruguay vs France
My Pick: France win
Reason: France just look too good to lose to Uruguay.

Korea vs Greece
My Pick: Draw
Reason: I always like Asian team to win because it will prove that not only the ang mohs is good at chasing a ball. However, don't underestimate Greece.

England vs USA
My Pick: England
Reason: I'm one of EPL fan so I have no choice but to pick England. However, they seems to be half-hearted.

Brazil vs Korea DPR
My Pick: Brazil
Reason: The sambas are famous for their beautiful game. And I just hate North Korea leader for bringing so many hardship to their people!

My pick for the 3 eventual winner: Spain or Argentina or England

If you want to bet, always follow this rules: The Ball Is Round

Cheers~
*.*"

Patience

2010-06-10T21:55:00.005+08:00

Patience does wonder today.

I am supposed to leave office at 530pm today. But than, at 445pm, I recieved a call from my superior and she asked me to stay till 6pm as she is going for some discussion and afraid that she might have some documentation that she may forget to bring. So I am like a backup to her where anything she forget to bring, I will have to fax it over to her.

Normally in this kind of situation, people will be cursing and swearing but for me, I didn't. Thinking of not wanting to waste any time, I decided to go gym which is just 5 level below my office. Thus I changed into my PT attire, put on my running shoes and wrote a note:

I pasted it on the door, locked it and hit the gym straight away.

What I am trying to say here is that if you don't like something (who like to stayback right?) and can't do anything about it, stop complaining, be patience and think of how you can make something out of nothing.

I learned not to complain to heaven or hell. I learned to be more open and accept all kinds of situation, even if it is something that you dislike. I learned to have more patience and slowed down my pace. And I am learning to continue to remind myself to stay in this positive manners cause it makes me feel happier! =D

I attended a Wealth Management Talk organised by my unit yesterday and it fuels the burning passion that I already had for investment. However, what's holding me back is my reluctant of taking the first step into it as I always feel that I don't have adequate knowledge and skills for it. But I guess no matter what, I have to take that first step to make things work.

I guess i'm going to open a trading account, splash some capital as my tuition fee, play with it and at the same time, read more financial books to be more financial literate. Can't wait for my course to start so that I can learn faster!

I wanna go to the Forex/Options Preview tomorrow but i'm afraid cause I scared I know nothing about it. I'm want to go to the Financial Management Game this Saturday. Hopefully they will send me the details tomorrow!

Cheers~

*.*"

Let us be slow

2010-06-07T20:29:00.003+08:00

How I wish I could live in Denmark for a year so that I can enjoy their cold short sunlight days in winter where sunrise comes around at only 9am and set at 430pm, and also their cooling long sunlight days in summer where the sun rise at a very early 4am and set at only 10pm!! Imagine you are sleeping with the sun still shining on your backside... That is really a different experience!

And guess what? Denmark has been voted the happiest place in the world for year 2006 to 2008. They are a large welfare state with the world 's highest level of income equality. Shops close after 5pm and the pace in that country seems so peaceful.

The pace in Singapore is way too fast that people feels stressful. Yes stress do provide results-We are a rich country and enjoys a very high standard of living. But stress makes people lose their cool easily. They become less courteous, narrow minded by only pursueing for materialism, don't give a second look to the things that is around them and everyday seems like living in a battlefield for them. And when did you see a person is worryless? Everyday you see your parents worry about finances. You see people worry about their exams. You see teens worrying about ways to get an itouch. Even our clean country is worried that we are not courteous enough. Well you see, our society shaped us into a mind that wants to pursue and excel in a lot of things at the same time. This in turn diverse our attention into getting the things that we want and in return, causes mental draining.

Bring yourselves back to 50 years ago where you are still living in a kampong. Where food cost just a few cents and playing marbles and hopscotch give you so much happiness. A simple thing can simply make you happy. But now, our society has too much temptation to satisfy our different needs and wants that we always can't have enough of it.

I wonder will Singapore one day be like Denmark, to be voted one of the happiest country in the world.

On Saturday, we celebrated QiJun's be-early 21st Birthday. Seems like everybody getting older and older. Well again, you just feel like the days have been passing so fast that in the blink of an eye, another year has past. Well that the results of a fast-paced country. Other than that, I have start playing a lot of DOTA with bros and friends online. It has become a mild addiction that I have to make it a point by restricting myself to only play on times where my friends are playing.

And the mood in office is getting more and more excited I guess because there are going to have major changes in my working environment. Crossing my finger on the fate of my 1 and 1 quarter years of ah-mi life.

Cheers~
*.*"

Headache Blues

2010-05-31T21:33:00.009+08:00

Digestive Photos: Pulau Ubin Camping Trip
Date: 29/05/10 to 30/05/10

So we took the ferry and set foot on the 50s-60s facade island at the north-east of Singapore

The colourful Tua Pek Kong flags greeted us as there were some offerings going on in this kampong island

After we left our items back at the HSBC volunteer Centre, we marched on to Chek Jawa

After a long walk of around 30minutes, we finally reached our destination

The view from the Chek Jawa Tower

I'm emoing

After Chek Jawa, we proceed on to our campsite(Jelutong), with the jackfruit that Kaiyan plucked during our way back

Pitching the eight-man-tent

Pitch Pitch Pitch

Done with the tent pitchers

A mini campfire that we set up

Burn with the companion of sweet potatoes

Filed cooking time!

Eat and cook...

Cook and eat...

Delicious spicy drumsticks!

I'm one of the chef!

Teamwork and bonding at work

Enjoying the foodies!

Back to the natural way of cooking

Playing with sparkles after our delicious dinner

The secretive and beautiful orangy moon that accompanied us throughout the night

Time for some card games!

Shiny stars that made the sky picturesque

Playing Monopoly Deal Cards while the rest fell into their dreamland

A last photo to mark our time in Ubin

Ferry back to mainland Singapore after such a wonderful 18hours

Thanks and goodbye to Pulau Ubin for being such a great host!

Had formation outing today at Singapore Discovery Centre. We watched 2 movies, first was 3D Shrek 3 and then followed by 3D Sea Monster. Shrek was OK, but 3D Sea Monster was totally a sleeping beauty movie. Having a bad headache now and so tonight i'm gonna turn in early.

Finally, Singapore beat China in Table Tennis after 19 years to win the World Table Tennis Championship! I'm so elated when I saw the news and although it had nothing to do with me, but I am just patriotic towards my country! Some people may say that it is still a "China vs China" competition, and thus Singaporeans doesn't have to be proud about it. However, I beg to differ. In my opinion, I think that our forefathers also come from different parts of the world like China and India. They plant their roots in Singapore seeking for opportunities. And aren't all this current foreign talents are in the situation of our forefathers once in? Unless they decides to wipe off their backside, turn thier back on the opportunities that Singapore gave them and go back to their native countries, that I had nothing to say. But now, printed on their shirts are still the crescent and 5 stars.

Cheers~

*.*"

Never Boring Companion

2010-05-30T09:44:00.003+08:00

Weekend is flying off again.

Thursday night, went to Bedok 85 for Dinner with Denise, HuiSan and Amberlyn. Ordered Ba Chor Me, Stingray, Chicken Wing and Or Dan. Had a good night chatting and indulging in delicious foodies.

On Friday, met up with Ler for a rushed lunch at Mcdonald as we were almost late for the Mcvalue Lunch. Mcdonald introducing Mcvalue Lunch set meals during weekend is great because it makes people willing to buy, and i'm one of them. After that, we had a rare event of going to Tampines Stadium to have a run. Can't believe that Ler actually wanted to start training and guess this is the 1st time in years that we actually done something related to sport. OK maybe i'm just exaggerating. Met up again with Ter and Ren in the evening for some talk cock session.

Yesterday, which is a Saturday, I woke up in the morning and met up with KianAik to the market to buy ingredients for the egg sandwiches that we are going to make for the Pulau Ubin camping trip. After that, met up with the rest at Changi Village at around 2pm plus and we heads to Ubin, which our objective were to relive the good old days that we once had.

It was a really fun day with the companion of the never boring friends! Once we reached there, our first stop was to trek to Chek Jawa. We decided not to cycle as we want to do something that is different for the past- trekking on foot in Pulau Ubin. We said Hello to the crab and mudskipper, occasionally greetings the Blangahdeshi who is clearing and containing the oil spill from the recent ship collision off Singapore's coast. Went up to the tall tower and enjoy the scenery of Chek Jawa from a bird's eye view.

After that, we decided to head back to campsite and on the way, we tried our best to plucked a jackfruit from one of the trees but it turned out to be unripe. We set up camp at Jelutong beach, build basha and set fire for field cooking for our dinner. The food was really great- chicken drumstick, soups, the sandwiches that KianAik and I made, Instant noodles, Chicken cubes, pure mashed potatoes and assorted fruits dessert which put a full stop for our stomachs. It was very special to have the chance to occasionally be able to experience living in the "wild", cooking in a not so usual methods with the companion of wonderful friends.

After that, we played with some sparkles before heading to the hut to play the "Werewolves" game. Had some laughter before they turned in at around 2am plus. WenQiang, Denise, HuiSan and I decided to go to the basketball court to play the Monopoly Deal Card that I bought. Had a few rounds and I dozed off on the hard ground at around 4am plus.

We woke up at around 630am, break camp and heads back to Singapore. Had our breakfast at Changi Village before heading home.

Tomorrow is Monday again. Luckily, there is a Formation outing to Singapore Discovery Centre for some movies session which means no work!! Looking forward to next weekend lo!

Cheers~
*.*"

I'm no Mt Everest

2010-05-24T21:46:00.007+08:00

I'm not an Everest, so stop climbing over me! I know i'm once short, but since then I have grown taller. Really tall, so please don't climb over my head. If not, before you reach, I will smack your backside and bring you all the way down to base camp!

I just don't want to feel "My job is my job. Your job is my job".

Arhhh! Speaking of Mt Everest, I just saw the Yahoo news that a 13-years-old kid actually broke the world record of being the youngest person ever to reach the summit!

Whao, when I was 13, i'm just a 1.45meter kid in school, being joke around as a shorty, short wintermelon, dwarf and all kinds of shorties mean words that you can ever think about, playing soccer, playing basketball, let the book study me and without even a dream of my own. And here, this kid from America actually fulfilled one of his greatest dreams that many people dreamt about, some even pay it for thier lives.

This prove that if your have dreams, and have determination in fulfilling it, one day, no matter how long it will take, it will eventually be fulfilled. So let me have my own determination, and prove to myself that this is true!

Once I enter the workforce and start earning money, I will also want to go mountaineering, and scuba diving, go on an annual long vacation to visit the world wonders, swim with the Dolphin, sit on a grassy plateau counting the stars, maybe a "not once in a lifetime" sky diving and enjoy what I enjoyed. Just fantasizing the future makes me excited!

Hopefully my life is not too short to finish all this!

Can't wait for this long weekend to come!

On a random note, I just enjoyed a plate of Black Pepper Crab!! My digestive system is burning hot and guess in no time, it gonna come out from my ****.

Cheers~
*.*"

Men/Boy's Night

2010-05-23T01:59:00.004+08:00

Now I understand what it means by blood is thicker than water. Although it is not real blood, but it is a bond that is forged strong through so many years. A mixture of ingredients like trust, chemistry and understanding that makes it so thick.

We went to visit Lam today in the evening. Hope you are resting well and be as cheerful as you are with the smile that always brightens up people.

After that, thinking of where to go, we finally decided on Balestial Ba Kut Teh. It really don't kill to pay more for the pork ribs part rather than the other parts as it is tastier! Had a fulfilling dinner before heading to Bugis for some gai gai and shop shop. After that, we moved on to Parklane for some lan gaming session. Long time no play DOTA already!

After the game, we proceed on to have Rochar Tau Hwa for supper before heading back home.

A great Men/Boy's Night!

Cheers~

*.*"

Great Night Out at Arab St

2010-05-22T01:46:00.004+08:00

Had quite an exotic dinner today. Have you ever tried Lebanese Food before? Yes I did it for the first time today. We went to this restaurant situated at Bussorah Street, which is a street behind Arab Street. First, I would like to comment that this is the first time that I have been to Arab Street and my first impression is "WOW". So this can be such a great place to have a good night out to chill. With pubs lining beside the street, tempting restaurants and eateries and undiminishing crowds, this place just attracts your soul.

So we went to this restaurant called Beirut, Lebanese fine dining cuisine. With the furniture and props of the restaurant, it just makes you feels right in Lebanon. We had a great appetizer which is somekind of dough bread which we had to dip it into a very unique sauce. That dish is really highly recommended and I always wanted to ask for more. For main course, their Chef recommendations dish is really great, especially the grilled lamb, the spices did a really good job at covering the weird smell of the lamb. I had a grilled chicken in Lebanese style which is not bad too.

After dinner, we went to another cafe which serves great dessert!! The decoration of the cafe is of Middle Eastern style. We were sitted on the mats around this square table with the semi-enclosed space only for us, a very unique chill out place! The cafe is famous for their custard and I really like the vanilla ice cream custard as it smells really fragrant. My Caramel Custard Delight is also very smooth and tasty!

So today I had enjoyed great food and a wonderful night out!

Cheers~
*.*"

Time off granted!

2010-05-20T20:57:00.006+08:00

I'm so happy that my 30minutes time off from work has been approved by my head! This means that I can attend my classes on time which will be starting in July! Woot~ A load off my mind! Can't wait to collect my textbook to start studying. Guess next week gonna go down and collect it.

At the same time, I have recieved a letter from SIM RMIT university telling me that I have been accepted into the course(Degree in Econs and Finance) which I applied for weeks ago. But I reluctantly threw the letter away as I have other aims and direction in my life already.

Work load for this week has been heavier as my colleague is on MC. But i'm glad that I survived it through as compared to the previous one which makes me struggle. This at least shows that I have improved in managing my time! Wahaha. And so looking forward to tomorrow cause it is HOLY FRIDAY and also because that it is a Dessert Day with AC!

Cheers~
*.*"

Don't worry be happy

2010-05-18T23:36:00.009+08:00

If you are worrying,

the

will still continue to SPIN

STOP WORRYING!!

Cheers~
*.*"

Not alone

2010-05-16T20:37:00.006+08:00

Digestion: Duke's 21st Birthday

The Birthday Man!

Doing some lose fat's exercise after eating so much

Scissors Paper Stone

Using the polar bear camera to take photo- Polar ride

Cool eh!

Is it really that difficult to find back my old self? The life that I once enjoyed? Yes. Time has passed. People have changed.

But I am glad that I am still enjoying my life, but the difference is, now there are more situation to deal with. I guess that is the price for growing older and older. And I am happy that I am not alone to deal with all this problems. And no one should ever be alone.

Goodbye my weekend! Hello Monday! Looking forward to next weekend lo!

Cheers~

*.*"

Duke, Happy Birthday

2010-05-16T02:12:00.012+08:00

Digestion once again!

Celebrating my colleague(yellow shirt) birthday at Marina Barrage last week

My colleagues and the ORDed guy on the far right is my ex-upper study

Why sometimes, when words are being said in such a way, it builds up rages in me? Is it that I am too sensitive or maybe it is just the character of that? But I thought usually I am not a sensitive person? Or is it because there is already a "rejection" feeling in me, so when things are said in such a mean way, the rejection kicks in? I have tried again and again to brush it off but then, the sarcasm just didnt stop. Just like the chinese saying goes "If a tiger don't show it true colors, you treat it as a sick cat." Something like being climbed over the head. So the only way to prevent it is to reduce the chance of hearing it. And yes that is what I am going to do.

Thinking of what I did last night, indeed I do feel that I am stupid. I am in a state of drunkness when I am not. But hearing what is said makes me feel less stupid. The ultimate choice is in you unless you tell me that you don't have a mind that makes decision? Don't you feel that it is plain stupid when you are doing something that you yourself think is not right but still, continue doing it while at the same time, blaming others for the wrong doing? That is really something that can make people laugh out loud.

I can't stay in my nonchalent attitude anymore. So be it if i'm being hated. Don't be a destroyer of my good mood. Don't ruin my status of being carefree. Stay away from me the further the better.

Hopefully, whatever that is shown is not just for some circus, if not it shows how degrading one is.

Am I over reacting?

Last night, went to Duke's chalet for a sleepover. Many happenings which I hope I don't remember and slept intermittently. So when I reached home this morning, while reading the newspaper, I started to feel lethargic and fell asleep. Woke up at 4 plus to meet up with the rest to Duke's chalet. Had some nice laughter before going off for some supper. Weather was as still as a standing pole- no wind at all and that means hot hot hot... Like me!! =DD

Duke, Happy R21 Birthday!

I read the newspaper and found this line quite interesting by Dr Goh Keng Swee, our late Deputy Prime Minister- "the only way to avoid mistakes are not to do anything. And that... will be the ultimate mistake."

Woot~ So happy for Ler that he got his dream job! Congrats bro! Next time, you know, if I go Sentosa, and I play money money, can help help right? =DD

Again, hope that the Pulau Ubin stayover plan, which we hope could bring us back to the golden days that we used to be, be fulfilled!

Cheers~
*.*"

the stupidest thing

2010-05-13T21:39:00.003+08:00

I am going to crap about the stupidiest thing that I had done two weeks ago.

So my colleague and I went off 10minutes earlier. Than while I was at the bus stop, my superior called my handphone as she can't get through the office line. So she realised that we left early and decided to punish us by giving us do extra duty.

I was real angry at that time because I think sometimes, rules are really ridiculous. Rules are dead, but human are flexible. When you have completed everything that is in your hand, to leave 10minutes earlier is it something that is too much? I mean if you are efficient, if you have produce results, if you hae done your job well, and just because you did not leave on the dot(10minutes only leh), you get punished.

So after hanging up the phone, I was really angry and I messaged to my other colleague telling him about how I feel. However, rage was building in me and my mind was in a state of haywire, after I typed finish the message, I thought I sent it to my friend but I actually sent it to my superior!

So that is what happened and currently, the dust has settled. Well I know I have been in the wrong for leaving 10minutes earlier, but are we treated differently? Just because we are of different class, we need to follow rule by rule, book by book. Take for example, you have finish the job that is in your hand, everyone has left the office and there are only you with 10minutes to your actual knock off time, just because they say your knock off time is that time, you have to wait there, doing nothing for 10minutes before you can leave. Because we are of different class, we don't have to right to be flexible in our job. And I was wondering for those who are regulars, do they also TOTALLY follow the rules? Well I dare to say no, because I have seen it with my own eyes, and heard it with my own ears.

In the end, after some awkwardness and nagging, it is settled without any punishment.

Some people may say that because this is meelee-theory, so you have to follow the rules, follow the instruction because this is basic discipline. But if you follow redundantly, follow instruction that is incorrrect, is that still called discipline? And just because this is meelee-theory, as a "2nd class", we don't even have the rights to voice out our opinion? Just because we are of "2nd class", our basic welfare can be taken for granted?

rules are dead, the mind is flexible.

I would like to conclude that it is not what the rules are nor the stuff that you do is difficult, it is the people whom you work with makes your life difficult, the more so that he/she is your superior.

That's the end of my Stupid Story.

Today, I went for medical appointment and was given a day of medical leave. So I went to apply for my classes after that! But the sad thing is I have to go down again to collect the textbook which they have not finish printing yet =( The reason for me to study so hard is hopefully in the future, I can get a better job, so that it could give me, my parents and my family a better life. It is time to repay my parents for their hardwork in bringing us up through so many hardship.

The good news that I am talking about recently is- I am going to be an Uncle soon! Woo Hoo~

And TGIF tomorrow! Double Woo Hoo~

Cheers~
*.*"

recent highlights

2010-05-12T20:14:00.003+08:00

I spent my weekend going to Marina Barrage to picnic and fly kite with my colleague after the Sentosa trip with bros for a really short sun sea sand session, both celebrating Darren's Birthday and my colleague Birthday. And I went to ION Orchard with Denise and Amber on Sunday and it is nice catching up with them after so long. Hope to meet up more often and also with everyone! Hope the Chalet that we wanted will materialise cause I miss everyone's laughter!!

My life has been rather smooth for the past week which means good. Looking forward to all the birthdays that are coming up as it means a reason for friends to meet up and have some fun!

And would like to thank mum for fulfilling my craving of Satay! She bought me to East Coast Park for Satay when I said I wanted it last night. We also had the "need to queue" Satay Bee Hoon, BBQ chicken and a full coconut.

And I am going to apply for my course already! Study here I come!

Cheers~
*.*"

My 1st Off Day

2010-05-05T23:08:00.005+08:00

Some photos to digest before I start crapping.

Dated: 01/05/10, Saturday

The Birthday Girl

Fly kite in the night is wonderful!

Dated: 02/05/10, Sunday

Monopoly Deal Card!

Today is my off day! Glad that I had spent it to the fullest with buddy.

Morning went to settle some of my personnal stuff. After that, Long pang Ler to his camp to get his stuff. That ass is going to ORD like next month and I could feel my jealousy running! Mine is coming soon too!! After you have read finish this line, I am 5seconds nearer to ORD! WooHoo~! Wish him all the best in finding his dream job!

After that, he accompanied me to CPA buiding to register for my course. A bit disappointed that i'm unable to complete my registration as the enrolment for the classes have not yet started. never mind, shall go there again next week to complete it.

We have no idea of where to go, thus we proceed back to my house and we played Monopoly Deal card before going for our lunch. After that, we went to Tampines Mall and Tampines 1 to gai gai and settled down at Mcdonald for some cool ice cream to lower down our body heat due to the bloody hot weather while continueing playing Monopoly Deal Card before heading home.

Had dinner at Kim Gary and some shopping!

That sums up my day. Tomorrow going back to work and I am so happy that Friday is coming again!!

Good Night!

Cheers~

*.*"

Anxiety weekend

2010-05-02T23:35:00.003+08:00

Friday was one of the stupidest day in my life! And it somehow affected my weekend mood as I constantly has those kind of anxiety feeling. Shall talk about the stupid stuff that I did once the dust is settled as I don't want it to heighten my anxiety. Meeting up with friends, with their company, their words of encouragement and their perspective view, it gives me a rush of courage and bravery to face the fear that I had for the next 3days which is D-day. Just now, I realised that the reason for the anxiety feeling is because I hang on to it, thinking that it will destroy my life. But then, I think again and found out that it is just a life of 1year and 5months. Not fogetting to remind myself that "Human just have to take things more lightly and openly to live more happily".

So Friday night, I slept early as I don't want myself to think too much and I also had a mild headache.

Saturday, we had a surprised birthday celebration for YingChee at Marina Barrage. It was a planned event with her another group of friends that is suggested by her CheeHiang who is holding guns in Thailand currently. So we had a mini picnic and had a fun night flying kite which was ended when the string broke by the cut of others' kite. Luckily, we still manage to retrieve our kite as it landed just nice around the vicinity of Marina Barrage.

After that, we went to Cathay and caught a midnight movie- Ironman 2. Well, due to the late night, I went in and out of sleep in the first 15minutes of the show as there are a lot of dialogue. But after that, the show caught my attention because of its' plot. Overall, the movie was not a bad one but only if it could be more exciting. For example, it would be better if the baddie can do more damage or make him more difficult to die. Or there could be more enemy troops which will trigger the American army to be deployed and cause an all out confrontation. I would give it a rating of 3.2 out of 5.

Sunday, woke up at 11am but then went back to sleep. And I manage to complete another book that was borrowed from one of my officer. The book is called Blink and it is about "the ability of our unconscious mind; mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information. It shows how a snap judgement can be far more effective than a cautious decision. " It gives some example like how an art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it's a fake and a fire-fighter suddenly senses he has to get out of a blazing building to prevent disaster. Quite an interesting book but some part of it is a bit draggy though.

After that, met up with the rest and we went to YingChee house for her birthday celebration! Had lots of food and I bought my Monopoly Deal Cards along. Finally got the chance to play and know the rule of it. It was a very nice card game for chilling and if time permits, I don't mind playing it all night! I am always and will always be a Monopoly fanatics!

I had a great weekend and hope everyone does! Once again, Happy Birthday YingChee!!

Cheers~

*.*"

New Skin

2010-04-29T22:09:00.004+08:00

I'm suppose to study but have been using my time to change a new skin.
Want to have a skin that is bright that can brighten up my spirit rather than the previous black skin with the stickman that looks like a stick. So here I have, a beachy skin! Don't know why, i'm just excited about the beach! Of course not because of the bikini babes. It may be one of the reasons =x but also because of the waves, the warmth, the nature, the carefreeness and the salty refreshing smell of the air!
It has been long since I went back to my "paradise".
When can I go there again?
Don't get me a present, just grant me my birthday wish!! =D

So happy that I learn something new today. Learned how to make youtube video auto play! HTML is great =D

OK. I shall stop crapping and go take a nice warm bath and do my homework after that. And TGIF(Thank God Its Friday) tomorrow!! Long weekend due to Monday being an off day as Labour Day falls on Saturday!!

Cheers~
*.*"

Work

2010-04-28T18:32:00.004+08:00

People often say that being a clerk is the best job, but I beg to differ. Yes, with the 8am-530pm working hours, sitting in the office enjoying the air-con, talking cock in the office and stirring kopi do sound interesting. However, after going through for just 4months, what I can say is that it is not as easy as what you think.

Being a clerk is a mental draining job. Office politics are like a great movie playing daily. Some people treat you as a "second class citizen" if you have nothing on the front of your chest. What worse is that you have a leader that doesn't care about your welfare(even entitlement has to be controlled now), always nag around you like a buzzing bee and sounds so demanding and rude. Everyday, you have to be mentally prepared of what you are going to be bombard once you step into the office. Depends on your luck, if the person is on good mood, you are lucky. If she is on the bad side, be prepared for hell. If you are faced in this kind of situation, what can you do about it? As a personnel who doesn't have any authority other than human rights, I guess you only have one rule to follow- suck thump.

I guess it all boils down to leader. If you have a good leader which care about your welfare and well being, life would be so much better in your environment. Seriously, there is really a shortage of good leader in clerk job. If there is, there won't be so much people complaining about them in the internal forums, maybe external forums if I can find them later on. There also won't be so many clerk around you that is complaining. Tell me, where are all the motherly people out there!?!

Some positive things that I can take out from this is that it can build up your mental stress and being able to adapt to different kind of situation easily. I believe that the working environment our that is far more worst. So take this current situation as a training ground. Well it is just endurance for a period of time and that's it, right?

An interesting story about SAF.
In the year 2007, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's Son 2LT Li Hongyi was charged by military law for complaining without adhering to the chain of command when making his complaint. If you are interested, do follow the link and read it. They also have the actual complain email that he sends.

http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/07/pms-sons-email-saga-a-heartening-development-for-singapore/

Cheers~
*.*"

Unit Anniversary, Bon Voyage

2010-04-24T03:40:00.003+08:00

I woke up in the morning today with a funny dream. The dream was actually a continuous from a previous dream which I once forgot. So here is the story of my dream.

First dream: I dreamt that HuiSan, WeiCheng and Amber were in a Malaysia plane, flying from Malaysia back to Singapore, meeting us for a holiday. Than while the plane was flying, there was some trouble with it and it crashes into the sea and sad to say, all three of them were... ...

Second dream: We(most of the AC) were sitting at a coffeeshop round table and I was missing the three of them. So I was talking inside my heart saying: "If the presence of the three of you is here, please move the chair in front me." And to my surprise, the chair really slide about 5cm and I am the only one who saw it. And I was so elated that I told everyone around me that their presence is with us. So to prove to them that what i'm talking is true, I talk loudly to the air, "If the presence of you guys are here, please move the chair!" This time round, the chair slide at a fast speed towards me and it proves about their presence.

After that, I am able to see the three of them sitting at another table with Zelda, and she was talking with them. I quickly went over to the table and sat down so that other people(strangers walking past who cannot see them) will think that Zelda is talking to me instead of to the air or herself. But once I sat down, I can't see the three of them anymore, and I talk to them anyway and pretended that i'm talking to Zelda. After that, I woke up from my dream.

And to prevent myself from forgetting this rather weird dream, I quickly wrote it down on a piece of paper and went back to sleep. That is why the story of my dream is still so vivid in my mind.

As today our unit is celebrating its 7th Anniversary, we are not required to go to work but instead, we have an outing at Sengkang open field for some kite flying sesson and a chalet cum BBQ session in the evening. Thus I woke up at 12pm, got myself prepared, ate Mcdonalds for my branch(breakfast + lunch) and proceed to Sengkang. We are required to decorate our kite and try to make it fly as high as possible. Weather was rather hot today but I did enjoy myself. My team even won for the most creative kite and I won myself a magnetic game set!

After the kite flying session, we proceed on to the chalet at Costa Sand Pasir Ris. It was a BBQ session but didn't really got a chance to eat the food. Was playing more with the soccerball and running around like mad dog. But it was a good sweaty fun workout.

Taking photo with three of the ORD personnel! My day will come in 1 year 5 months 3weeks and 4days!! Yes it will definitely come!!

After the BBQ session, I went to White Sand Mall to have dinner with some of my unit mates. After finish eating my Sliced Fish Rice, I recieved Dorothy message that Desmond is flying off to Thailand for training and ask me whether I want to join them to send him off. That was a real surprise as I didn't know that they will be flying off in about 2hrs time. I quickly rush home, took a quick bath and meet up with them. QiJun and CheeHiang were also flying off to Thailand as they are from the same company as Desmond.

Hey buddies, just endure for 3weeks and all shit will be over!! ENDURE!!

Here's a Bon Voyange photo.

After sending them home, went to KianAik's house to chill for a while before going home.

So today was a rather fun and interesting day!!

Cheers~

*.*"

Self motivation!

2010-04-19T22:19:00.003+08:00

Every decision that I do is like a steping stone on an ocean.

Placing it one by one, moving forward and hopefully, one day, I will see the lush greenary of land up ahead. And I know that if I continue to work hard, motivate myself, be determined and continue the drive that I had, one day I will finally see it.

(Just some self motivation words for myself)

I believe that motivating oneself is important.

Once, I was talking with this two successful entrepreneur, and they told me this:

"When you were young, did your parents tried so hard to persuade you to study but you thought, "why must I study?" So in the end, you didn't put enough effort in it?

Now, because you understand that gaining knowledge is important, Being well educated is about having a better future, a better life(though not 100% correct), thus you will start to put in effort in your studies."

What they are trying to say here is that no matter how hard you try to persuade someone to do something, if the person doesn't know the rationel behind it, or the person doesn't really taste the bitterness of it, they will never make an effort to motivate themselves to do it.

The two entrepreneur also told me this:

"If you want good results, you have to "psycho" yourself. You will have to control over your life rather than being controlled by it. All this came to your own mindset, your own talking to the brain. If you can talk yourself out to do the things that are right, than even the most difficult and pressurize time will be endured. For example, when you are already tired from running 4.8km and there are still 5km towards the finishing line, psycho yourself that you can go further by any means... You will be surprised by how far you can go." Self motivation will not only brings you far, but further.

Recently got a really good news! I am damn happy after hearing it but still can't say it now. My well wishes really came true!

I wanna wait, but it's an insane thought.

Cheers~
*.*"

Mugg

2010-04-18T22:20:00.004+08:00

So weekend has been fruitful I guess.
Met up with Zel and we went to have a delicious breakfast at KFC.
Finally got to eat KFC a.m meal after craving it for so long.
Ate waffle with scramble egg set meal that is accompanied by a cup of hot kopi.
Waffle was fluffy and it opens up your appetite, not forgetting the wonderful Portuguese egg tart and Honey biscuit!

Went back to TP after so long.
Really miss the wonders that I had at that beautiful place.
This time, went to Business school to study and revise.
The quality environment really made my study progress.
No distraction from my TV or computer.
And I got to complete more than 30 question!
Went for our late lunch opposite school and I ate the ever unforgetting Ashton.
Went back to school to mug till night.
And Kian Aik met up with us.
Went to the popular food center-Bedok BLK 85.
Had Bar Chor Mee and Or Lua!

Haiyo. Tomorrow gonna go back to camp.
Why must weekend always past so fast?
Some consolation is that Tuesday i'm gonna go for dispatch, Thursday gonna go for Medical Appointment and Friday there is a half-day event.
That means that this week work won't be that routine which is great.
And I will be looking forward towards the next weekend which also means ORD is at least 0.000001 inch nearer!
Hopefully things will be smooth sailing and no news will be reported as no news equal good news!

Cheers~
*.*"

Dear Friends

2010-04-09T00:37:00.004+08:00

Looks can be decieving
Even for a carefree person, it can mean sucide
Even for a cheerful personality, it can show sorrow inside

I'm working towards being carefree,
living everyday happily.
Smile like its free,
but any idea what is running inside me?

Nope. Nobody knows.
Only I know myself well enough.
Only I can control my own decision.
Only I will do silly stuff which is overpowered by depression.

But i'm glad that if i'm going to fall,
I am blessed with friends to break it.
Likewise, my Dear Friends,
you are blessed too.

This unfortunate event made me realised
not to be ignorant to the people around you.
You may think that they are surrounding you right now,
but what if an uneventful news shock you and realise that one of them is gone?
You will regret for a certain of reasons even if that person is not that close to you.

He was my secondary school classmate,
He was the funny person who chased me around the school and dislocated my elbow
He was so "guai lan"
He was the person that amazed me with the tune "suteki da ne" with the piano
He was my room mate during a trip to Genting Highland
He was one of the gamblers during CNY
If only I don't have to use the word "was"

It is a waste
It is really a waste
It brought tears to the people that love him
It brought sourness to the people that know him

The road will naturally come to an end
So why must you do it unnaturely?
If you dare to even face death,
what other challenges are you afraid to face?
So please don't be silly anymore
It's not worth it

Your departure brings back those ignorant memories that seems significant now
May the one that you left stay strong
and may you have no regrets

Dear Friends, if you are feeling down, do open up.
Don't get overpowered by your wrongful emotions at one point of your life and make a wrongful moves
because even one wrong moves can also means the end.
Hope is everywhere
so don't give up.

And I will always be around

Cheers~
*.*"

Rest well

2010-04-07T19:48:00.004+08:00

You are SILLY
You are STUPID
You are DUMB
I so hope that you could hear my shout
If I could talk to you more when you walk past me in camp instead of Hi and Bye..
If you would open up your mind,
Life will still have hope
If only I could say Cherish Life to you again...
Hope that you have found the peace in your life
Rest well

Life is full of wonders,
if you make wonders
Cherish Life

Maybe that is what Determination means

2010-04-04T01:35:00.002+08:00

Is that what Determination means?

I have been trying to study chapter by chapter everyday. And when I did not complete my task for the day, I will have a sense of "incompleteness" in my heart. Is this the so called drive of Determination? Hopefully, all this drives will not die down and which will allow me to achieve my study, health, financial and social goals. Hopefully, my hard work will pay off. I will believe this phrase for now "You Reap What You Sow".

So the whole afternoon of today was a Home Alone Day. Did manage to finish 3 chapter of my assesment book. Met up with AC for an auction dinner at Sengkang. Someone actually bid $30k for a god sculpture! I will be the next one in 5years time=D Food was nice! One thing I realise is that most of my friends around me are deciding and making a choice for their future, either going for further study or looking for a job that they want. Well, it is a decision phrase that everyone has to go through and hopefully, everyone will ultimately reach their goals!

Cheers~

*.*"

Explain or digest?

2010-03-31T22:29:00.002+08:00

I'm confused regarding what I should do when a situation arise.

If a stuation arise, would you make a stand to defend yourself or look at the problem and digest it?

I am the person who will choose the latter because I feel that if I can digest it and the situation can die down and goes off, I doesn't have to waste so much energy to think about it. But it makes me feel that I have let myself down by not trying to speak up for myself. And in the first palace, I am not very good in explaining.

Maybe it is time that I sould master the skill of analytic explaining so that when situation arise, I can choose what to do.

Cheers~
*.*"

Human just have to look at things more lightly and openly to live more happily

2010-03-29T20:13:00.004+08:00

Today, I went to gym and sweat like a running tap because the whole building was out of air condition. So I guess we were roasted inside out from the morning to the afternoon before the shower came and somehow, cool the temperature.

Dad didn't come and fetch me home today and so, I used the public transport. It is always good to take a bus as I just have to plug in my ear piece, absorbing the essence of the music and let my thoughts wander- into the feeling that is inside me.

There is always an uneasy feeling building inside me. The unknown future; the wants that you are afraid of not getting; the unwants that you are afraid of getting. And all this leads to stress, depression, anxiety. But then, a phrase pop up in my mind, "Human just have to look at things more lightly and openly to live more happily." Yup, I guess it is true. You don't have to haggle over stuff that spoils your day or stubborn about something that makes you mad. Take for example, my office environment seems to be warm and friendly on the outside but raging and boiling on the inside (or maybe I just think too much) and the future seems bleak ( my guess or maybe not). And how I diffuse this feeling is by telling myself that no matter what it comes, just take it as I just have to live through for 2 years, wipes my backside and walk off. I always encourage myself to gain and learn everything that I can, build up my confidence and stress level in this hostile environment and hopefully by the end of the day, I have grown stronger mentally which can make me a better person on the outside working world. So everything can be seen lightly if you are willing to let your mental take control of the situations.

The music that was played in my ears somehow brought me back to the good old days. For example, "Lucky" brought me back to the days in adventure Club, executing the training plans on every Thursday or having a great chilling bonding session in a Chalet. You just feel that it will be so great if everyone put down everything that is in their hands right now and come out and have some wonderful days like before. But time don't flow backwards, so we just have to create more of this moment to have more of this great memories.

Talking of friends, I feel that i'm not a good friend in terms of my character or emotions. Likewise, I may see others' flaws too. But what do you call someone that you only know about his merits but not his faults? I called it friendly instead of friends. By being friendly, you tried to show only the good but hide the bad. But for true friends, you don't have to hide. You will be your genuine self and control your bad emotions by the advise of your friends. And I am very grateful to fate that I have some very funny, amusing, wild, exciting, wonderful, tenderloving friends! I believe that the best day with my friends would be during a starry night, sitting on a floor mat that is on top of a lush grasspatch, with wind blowing through our hair that has already turned white, watching our grandchildren running around, catching one another while talking about the boomzy great old days!

I guess I have talked a lot which is enough for submission as my composition. A bus ride really makes me think a lot. But it is a good thought =D

Cheers~
*.*"

25hrs a day- I hope

2010-03-24T00:27:00.004+08:00

Saturday was supposed to go Sentosa to tan with Iguides but was cancelled due to the horrible weather. So plan was cancelled and we decided to go and have some movie session. But due to the overwheming response of the movies that we want to watch, it was cancelled again. Went for dinner and after that, went for some shopping at ION Orchard. Went to Borders to read some books before heading to QiJun house for some PS3 session. Played Guitar Hero and it was fun especially being the drummer!! Went home at arond 5am and slept like a pig.

Sunday was a great meet up with ex-colleagues from Adidas. Was late due to the sleep less night. We went to MINDS Cafe at Boat Quay. Was fun playing the boardgame and I enjoyed TABOO alot! We went to Suntec food fare to have some nice food and shop around Carrefour before heading home. Eat like a pig.

I need more time!!

24hrs a day,

9hrs of work,

7hrs of sleep,

2hrs of travelling,

6hrs of eat, shit, fitness, and prepare to sleep.

No time to go out gai gai on weekdays.

Need to enjoy fully on weekend right now if not no chance in the future.

It would be very good if there are more than 24hrs a day.

Need to have a time management plan to fully utilise my time.

But a hectic day makes you alive though.

Cheers~

*.*"

WILLPOWER

2010-03-17T23:08:00.002+08:00

My life needs a fix and i'm working hard on it
If life is that simple, it would be enjoyable
But if life isn't that hard, it will be tasteless
Fix it, patch it and make it happen
All I need is WILLPOWER

Cheers~
*.*"

IT Fair weekend

2010-03-14T22:41:00.004+08:00

Woohahahahaha!!

The thought of going back to office tomorrow makes me mad.

So Friday was half a day at work cause my colleagues and I went for a Charity Carnival at Gombak Camp. You just have to spent $10 for the carnival ticket and you are able to leave your office at 11am so why not right? So we reached the camp at 1pm, have some food and games and left at 2pm. So my colleague and I decided to join in the crowd at IT Fair. Was wowed by the Sony 3D soccer match.

TP letter finally came. But sad to say that when I read the letter, it reads, "Due to the overwhelming response, we are unable to offer you a place...". That was sad but it just makes me want to aim higher.

Saturday was a busy day. I typically went around the shophouses near my house to find the 21 birthday presents for WeiZheng. After that went to WZ house for his 21st Birthday. It was a fun day but would like to apologise to someone. Cause due to my insensitivity, I made it a bad day for her.

After the birthday party, AC and I proceed to Teo Heng for KTV session.

And today, met up with friends to IT fair again to squeeze with the crowd. And I typically ate 6 scoops of Hageen Daz ice cream because I have two $5 gift voucher given by WZ during his birthday celebration.

It was a productive weekend afterall.

Shit, i'm addicted to SimCity 4. NVM. Treat it as a compliment for a tired day of work.

Cheers~

*.*"

No scare

2010-03-10T19:47:00.004+08:00

Got a scare yesterday.

Was chosen for NDP parade this year as "Orderly".

Guess it is to do admin and logistic work and at the same time, have to march during the parade too.

Got the chance to wear No 1!!

And got the chance to do something different.

But was afraid that I don't have time for my study cause study is my priority this year.

So today, I recieved good news that someone has replaced me!!

No need to bother too much about time constrain anymore!!

Recently, got the chance to read another book.

It is by our grandfather Mr Lee Kuan Yew: From Third World to First.

The book was left in the office to wither.

Feeling bored, I took it up to read.

I guess this book somehow inspired me.

Like how his great vision foresee the future.

How he deals with the serious problems that we faced in the past.

And some quotes that he uses are very interesting.

Reading almost one third of the 700 plus pages.

I admit that i'm patrotic =D

Everyday when i got home, I am always excited for the mailbox.

When will the letter come that tells me whether I got in for my course or not?

Need it as soon as possible to plan my timetable.
Need it as soon as possible to see whether it will clash with my family trip to Hong Kong.

Postman please please don't be lazy.

Aim to excel~

Cheers~

*.*"

Longer weekend

2010-03-08T01:06:00.006+08:00

I have been living in the day longer for this weekend.

Spent Friday night pubbing at Boat Quay with I guides.
After that played China man at one of their house.
Drink till morning and went to Mc for breakfast.
Bused home after that. Took a bath and went to meet up with AC.
Went to Sentosa again!!
And weather was really freaking hot.
You can feel that it is not the usual normal heat.
It is something like scorching heat with no wind.
But I still managed to take a 30mins-45mins of nap on the bed of sand.
Really tired from the sleepless night.
We spent most of our time dipping in the sea and playing cards.
After that, went to Expo for an after CNY dinner appreciation organised by the Lion and Dragon Dance Association.
Won a small ang bao at the lucky draw segment and Mum won a Microwave oven.
Dinner was quite interesting.
Went home took a bath and it was already 1am.
Slept straight away after that cause I was freaking tired that I can't even control my eyes.
Woke up at around 1130pm and got prepared to meet up wth Yesheng.
Went to Downtown East to meet up with the rest of I-guides and head to the chalet after that.
Spent the whole day playing Werewolves game, five ten fifteen twenty, combi ten game and doing pumping as forfeit.
Got to know the different usuage of died and dead.

-You are dead.
-You have died.

Ok. English is complicated.
Tomorrow is the registration for private candidate for O lvls!!

It was such a wonderful weekend and now I am complaining about Monday blues again.

Cheers~
*.*"

Thank God

2010-03-04T23:17:00.005+08:00

Thank God! Thank God! Thank God!
Thank God! Thank God! Thank God!
Thank God! Thank God! Thank God!

The slacking job in the morning,
The surprise news in the afternoon,
The nice unit outing at zhuo's kitchen high tea buffet in mid-noon,
The great time with Family for a movie- Being Human in the night,

Made my day!!

But I was F&#!ed for saying "nothing"
Unencouraging to talk to me when you don't understand my words

Cheers~
*.*"

Hear my prayers

2010-03-02T19:17:00.003+08:00

I don't want a good results anymore.
I don't want anything anymore.
I just want you to have a good health.

I pray to god. Please.

Time is always not enough with great companion

2010-02-28T22:31:00.004+08:00

I'm tired.
Just got back from Lion and Dragon Dance Troupe.
That sums up the last day of my Chinese New Year.
It was fun today.
Got to catch up with people that I have lost contact.
And CNY this year has been quite special
because i'm involve in the Lion and Dragon Dance Troupe
which I have not been for the past 5 years I guess..
Or maybe more?

Yesterday went house to house visiting with AC.
First stop is to Amber's house,
than to my house.
After that to WeiZhen's House,
than to Dinesh's house
and finally to Dor's house.
Have a lot of great food, mahjong session and played a new game which is quite fun.
Time is always not enough with great companion!!
It was a great day yesterday.

And here comes Monday again. Haizzz.

Weather has been freaking scary lately.
Even for a sun lover like me also scared of it.
Everytime when I reached home I am as sticky as a sticker.
But I still want to go Sentosa this weekend!!

Another earthquake.
Another Tsunami.
Just hope mother earth can have more mercy this time round.

Stay Focus!!

Cheers~
*.*"

Independent

2010-02-24T20:54:00.003+08:00

I want to be more INDEPENDENT
So that I can learn more and thus improve faster.
Even if I were to fall,
I can get a lesson out of it and still get up and stand firm on my two feets.

Time not to have the mindset of dependent.
Time to move out of my comfort zone.

Today the only 2 things that excite me is when I:
1) got to know how to change my office printer ink by trail and error when no one taught me.
2) saw a mail in my mailbox and excitedly went to open it, only to find out that it is not the one that I have been waiting for.

Run today has deproved. Guess it was the post-illness syndrome.

One last thing, I found out that having enough sleep really make one feels great. Time to sleep early again.

Cheers~
*.*"

Dead fish

2010-02-23T22:07:00.004+08:00

Feeling dead tired today.
Had to drag myself out of bed this morning.
The reason may be having too much fun?
Or maybe eat too much?
Or the illness is still looming inside me?
Or maybe I just doesn't have enough sleep?

No No No!! I don't like to feel tired.
I don't want to not have the motivation to do my work.
I don't want to have heavy eyes everytime.
I don't want to feel giddy.

I want to feel refresh!!
I want to feel active!!
I want to feel motivated!!

Think it's time for more sleep.
Good night.

Cheers~
*.*"

Last day of enjoyment

2010-02-22T12:42:00.002+08:00

Went to see my Dermatologist again.
And again, have to wake up early in the morning to queue up.
Given an additional 2more medication for my face.
Now more complex because day and night have different cream.
No choice no choice who ask me want to have a handsome handsome face =O

Hitting the gym later on and watching Little Big Soldier at night!
Tomorrow gonna be the start of working day and have to commit myself to study.
English comprehension, composition, oral, mathematics etc.
Guess have to come up with a timetable.

Don't know what thing makes me so excited for this year Singapore Budget.
Time to see how our government allocate our money.

Cheers~
*.*"

don't be the slave of money

2010-02-21T02:25:00.004+08:00

Don't treat money so seriously,
If not you will become the slave of money.
When you die, you can't take it away.
What is only with you is your experience,
your good deeds and your sins.

The wise words from my mum when I ask her to take CathayPacific instead of SIA to Hong Kong because it is $200 cheaper. She is planning to go during May period and her main destination is Ngong Ping, the place where it sits the Giant Buddha. I may accompany and be her tour guide but have to see whether I got selected into my Diploma course and whether it will clash with the timetable not.

Feeling a lot better from my illness.
Went to Ler's house to Pai Nian today.
Played Mahjong but still lose.
No luck no luck.

Tomorrow going Wild Wild Wet with Cousin.

Cheers~
*.*"

Allergic Rhinitis

2010-02-19T23:36:00.004+08:00

The virus got me.
Went to CGH last night to see Doctor.
Was diagnosed with Allergic Rhinitis- irritation and inflammation of some internal areas of the nose.
Cause pain in my nose and throat.
Feeling feverish in the morning.
Rest at home the whole day because I got MC!!
Hopefully tomorrow will recover and be as active as a Monkey again!!

Left 2 days to enjoy before i'm back to my books.

Cheers~
*.*"

Feeling guilty because of flying aeroplane

2010-02-18T01:51:00.005+08:00

Was feeling so so so so guilty today. Yesterday after tonning for a night a Darren's house, I went straight to help out in the Lion Dance troupe without any sleep. After that, have plans to go to Qi Jun house at night to pai nian at around 7pm, so I requested to leave at around 3pm and they agreed. Planning to go home took a nap before going to QiJun house but when I reached home, mum ask me whether want to accompany her for dinner not and I agreed. So we went to Jack's Place. After dinner and when I reached home, it is only 530pm. So I decided to take an hour nap before going to QiJun's house. And I even messaged YeSheng that I will meet him first before we went to QiJun house together.

And who %$^king know that either is my alarm clock is not working or i'm too tired that I slept till 4am. When I woke up, I saw that the sky was already dark and I thought that I am late and I quickly rush to my phone. To my horror, I am not late but %*king late when I saw the time in it with 6 miss call... And the story goes on from there...

This is the 1st time that I really put aeroplane till like that. I mean I rarely put aeroplane but this is something that really makes me feel so guilty.

Sorry Yesheng Stacey and QiJun!!

Just came back from Fiona house. We played Mahjong and Blackjack. And as usual, it's always great to meet up with friends.

I feel so flabby from all those CNY snacks. Time to hit the gym.

Cheers~
*.*"

Powerful of words

2010-02-16T06:48:00.003+08:00

Words are so Powerful
It can make a sentence so beautiful
Yet it can make it so disgustful
So before you try to form a sentence,
Think before you form

Just came back from Darren house. Played Mahjong, "Bud luck", 4 cards, and the more interesting Texas Poker. In total, I lost 11bucks=(

See how strong am I. Going Lion Dance later on without any sleep. Woot~

Cheers~
*.*"

On the 2nd Day of CNY

2010-02-15T22:20:00.003+08:00

People always say that Chinese New Year is getting more and more boring as they feel that the "atmosphere" is gone compared to the olden days where it is more happening and fun. But for me, I feel that "atmosphere" is created by yourself. If you want a happening Chinese New Year, plan for it the way you want it to be. Likewise for other special days itself.

And this year, I spent my 2nd day of Chinese New Year getting involve in Lion Dance. I went to help out as they are short handed of people. Going house to house to perform Lion Dance. I help out by playing the "QIANG". Dunno what is it but it just give out the " QIANG QIANG QIANG" sound. Tomorrow gonna be another day helping out.

And such a coincidence that this year Chinese New Year is on the same day as Valentine's Day. Heard this is the 1st time in 57 years? Couldn't really remember the year.

Our soul is a half,
Constantly looking for the other-half,
When two halves match,
That is the so called- Soul Partner.
And I think...

Once again, would like to wish everyone a Happy RARRRING Year and Happy Lovers Day!!

Going to Darren house to "Pai Nian" lo!!

Cheers~
*.*"

Gong Xi Tiger Year

2010-02-13T21:37:00.003+08:00

Kong Xi Fa Cai!! Gong Xi Gong Xi!!

Happy New Year Eve!!

Went to Rebel with AC last night. How I wish I could drink! It has since been a long time that I got toxicated by alcohol. Miss that feeling but I just can't drink. Haizzzzz. Music wasn't that great compared to the last visit but still, it was jst great to be with friends =D

And guess what. I slept at 530am. Woke up at 1030am and went to grandma Yishun house to pass her the seafood. Than went back home and fall asleep at 12pm. Woke up at 2pm and eat my chicken rice. Than fall asleep again at 230pm. Woke up at 6pm and went to grandma house for reunion dinner. So I have alot alot of sleep on New Year Eve! Guess it is a good thing because I didn't own my sleep during the new year which I hope, during the Tiger Year, I will always sleep till full full.

Here, I wish every a very fun and enjoyable Tiger New Year. Wishing everyone a healthy, wealthy Tiger Year!

Cheers~
*.*"

Routine work

2010-02-10T22:10:00.002+08:00

I'm going to sleep soon after I finish my illegal stuff.
And I can't believe that Friday is coming!! After tomorrow, it will be a half day celebration in camp and it will be a long holiday!! I just love holidays, who doesn't?

I have to constantly remind myself not to rush. I Have to take things slowly. I can't wait to see what's ahead of me but I have to take a step by a step to see it. Hopefully, everything goes smoothly.

Rebelday is on this Friday!! It is always such a joy to be able to meet up with friends! Weekdays have always been routine work-study, work, gym, run, sleep which is somewhat monotonous. Time for some fun!!

And with the routine work, I guess my time has been managed well. It is actually quite fun to put in effort and try to reach for your goals instead of having routine work and idleing which is somewhat meaningless and wasting time.

And I am satisfied with my current life. But I know that it can be more colourful and interesting- if I could meet up my fun and outrageous friends more often?? =D Have to plan my time well when more things start to move into my life.

Have to sleep already. Bye Bye Wednesday and Hello Thursday!!

Cheers~
*.*"

Take care my dear friend

2010-02-07T20:21:00.004+08:00

Take care my dear friend. See you real soon!

-Went for K session on Friday night
-Went to Bugis to shop for New Year clothes with Bro on Satuday afternoon. Bought a Berm and a Polo-T
-At night we went to Faezah house to chill and we were knock out and only went home in the morning
-Went to cut my hair this morning at Snip Avenue. Damn *&^% cause before they open their door at 10am, already got people waiting outside and i'm one of them =P Got a shitty hairstyle today but always comfort myself by saying "this angle looks nice" LOL
-Spring cleaned my drawer in the afternoon after I fell asleep for 2hrs
-Went to airport to send Faezah off to Australia. We had popeye and photos

Now I know why people doesn't like to go for send off. Like what Zel says, it is infectious.

I hate Monday but it is great that this is New Year week!!

Cheers~
*.*"

The climb

2010-02-05T18:13:00.005+08:00

I can almost see it,
That dream i'm dreaming but,
Theres a voice inside my head saying,
You'll never reach it.
Every step i'm taking,
Every moves I make feels,
Lost with no direction,
My faith is shaking but I,
Got to keep trying,
Got to keep my head held high.

There's always gonna be another mountain,
I'm always gonna wanna make it move,
Always gonna be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you gonna have to lose.
Aint about how fast I get there,
Aint about whats waiting on the other side..
Its the climb.

The struggles Im facing,
The chances I'm taking,
Sometimes thy knock me down but,
No, Im not breaking.
I may not know it,
But these are the moments that,
Im gonna remember most, yeah,
Just got to keep going and I,
I got to be strong,
Just keep pushing on..

The climb by Miley Cyrus

I am addicted to The Climb! Really like the lyrics alot.
Sometime when songs make you feels like there is a connection, like the song is saying about how you are feeling right now, you fell in love with it.
And yea, I think this song is similiar to how I feels right now.

Cheers~
*.*"

Tag reply

2010-02-04T18:52:00.002+08:00

Reply to tag:

*.*">pw: I accept the views. But I can't accept people who give their views like they are totally right and I am totally wrong. That they feel I am stupid to make the decision and I should listen to their views. That is why I am annoyed. The right way of giving a person views is by telling the person about his/her stand, and if the reciever still disagree with him/her, he/she will still listen to the other person view with an open heart and why he will think that way. And not insisting that his/her stand is correct and make the reciever feel like he is so stupid to choose the other path.

*.*">Faezah: Yea thanks Fae. I like ur that line "Nobody know you better than yourself" =D

Wet Blanket

2010-02-03T22:52:00.002+08:00

In this world, people always have different views. For example, one person said that A is good while B is bad. Another person said that B is good while A is bad.

But it bothers mean because everyone is asking.

I'm in a situation where I wanted both A and B. But people ask me why I waste time to go take A while another person tell me why I waste time to take B. Than if that is the case, wouldn't I be wasting my time to take both A and B if both are correct? Than I should just listen and follow both sides and stay in my comfort zone right?

But I have my own views and beliefs. I'm also a 21year old boy with a thought. My own thought which tells me what is should and what is shouldn't. And I stand on my own beliefs because I know what I want, what I can get out from both A and B. And I am sure I have thoughts of the subjects more than anyone else does.

Yes. I like people to give me their views, their opinions so that I can improve on myself. But the way they give their opinion is in a demoralising way, in a way which is called "Wet Blanket". I stand on my beliefs because people can't justify a good reason for me to think otherwise. You can say that I am stubborn that I don't take in your advice, but aren't you stubborn to take in my views too?

It is good that opinions and views are given, but it must be in a way where the person won't feel that he is stupid. You can disagree with me. But you can't disagree to an extent where you feel that the person is stupid for not listening to your views. You can't blame him. If I should feel that way too, I will feel that you are stupid because you don't take in my views.

Sorry for writing this because it gets fustrating. Its like I have high hope for it but people are dragging my hope down. That shouldn't be the case.

Hopefully, I still want advises on my choice but I sincerely hope that it is not words of "wet blanket". You may not agree with me, but do still encourage me. And thanks for friends who still encourage me=D

But I would also like to thank for the words of "Wet Blanket" because I will use it as a motivation to work harder and prove it.

I should be sleeping by now. But i'm just annoyed.

(I should do what I want to do, what I feel I should do, what I think is right to do)

(This post is not discouraging Mr Ricky friend from giving him advices. He still love to listen to his friend. But he want his friends to also look at both sides, even if they disagree with him, they will still support and encourage him)

Cheers~
*.*"

Goals and determination change your lifestyle

2010-02-03T20:28:00.004+08:00

I realise that a person with goals, if he is determined to achieve it, will somehow change the way he live his life.

Although I set my goals not long ago, I start to feel changes in my life already. And what I can do now is to maintain my stamina and don't let this motivation dies down. And I know it never will =D

I guess I have to sleep by 10pm tonight. Hopefully the latest by 1030pm.... Ya hopefully... Cause I have to reach Kranji camp by 8am tomorrow for an Admin Test. Yes. Heard it, even an admin assistant has to sit for a test!!

I guess today i'm wasn't in a very good mood because I felt fustrated at certain point. Sorry for the unnecessary fustration.

Went for a run just now. Maintained my best timing but hope that I can improve again. Gonna analyse abit of English before going to sleep. So I guess I have no time for TV anymore. Thus i'm officially divorcing it. HOPEFULLY you don't come out with any interesting or nice TV program hor!! I do not want to get addicted PLEASEEE.

I have to be more productive with my time! Bye.

Cheers~
*.*"

Personnal beliefs

2010-02-02T19:28:00.006+08:00

Personnal beliefs make a person strong. It makes a person firm on his beliefs.

I still stand firmly on my beliefs after weighing the pros and cons.

Thanks for the encouragement, it will drive me to prove harder!

Cheers~
*.*"

Road to my Goal

2010-02-01T22:49:00.005+08:00

I have a dream, a goal that feels so strong. I have never want something so badly in my life.
I think it's because it is something that will change my life. Something that I will enjoy. Something that will drive me to greater heights.

But the road to this goal is never easy. Because the road ahead is foggy. I may put on a better pair of shoes to walk this road, but I may never know whether there is a dead end ahead. What I can do now is to constantly train my stamina, put on better shoes and eventually walk out of this foggy road.

Uncertainty is in me. But it is more adventurous this way. I have to improve on myself, and hopefully my improvement will bring me to my goal.

Even if I do my best but still end up in a dead end, there will always be another way.

I have to do my best even if it didnt help to achieve my goal, because I have to prove to myself that I can do it.

I have to do my best, and see where can my best brings me to.

To my goal?
To my dreams?
To a road that is fruitful?

We shall see.

Even if I failed to reach, I know I have done my best. And I know my best will bring me to somewhere else.
I know that I won, And I have won and that is Myself.
I know that I have proven to myself that I too can do it.

And we shall see.

Cheers~
*.*"

(Recently have been thinking about what I want for my life. Alot of thoughts running through my mind. Thoughts on how can I achieve it. Thoughts on "what if"... Alot of uncertainty. I know I can't rush through things, I can't rush to see what is for me in the future. But I know what is the future that I want. And what can I do now is to build on my future. And hopefully, my effort will pay off. And I know somehow it will =D)

Yet another weekend

2010-02-01T00:30:00.005+08:00

Saturday was a great Sunny day out with AC to Sentosa again. Suntanned, swim, buried, tree climbed, volleyballed. Watched Tooth Fairy after that. Not a bad movie. Its a fulfilling day but would be extra great if we can have a longer time to chat chat.

Went Malaysia with mum today for Foot reflexology and to Aunt's place too. Played Medal of Honour 4 on cousin's computer. It was fun but having a great headache after that because of the graphic I think. And we wasted around 2hrs to go there and come back because of the jam at the causeway. And because of the shortage of white card, we doesn't have to use it. That reason was the shittest reason man. If we can don't use it now, why can't we just don't use it? It was such a hassle everytime when you have to write to get into Malaysia and also, I guess millions of tree will be killed for the printing of millions of white card.

Weekend ended yet again. Monday quicky come so that weekend can quickly come again!

Cheers~
*.*"

Part time study!

2010-01-29T20:07:00.004+08:00

Another conversation and incident makes me fell deep into my thought again.

~People will work hard for you if they feel you treasure them.

Yea. I applied for the Specialist Diploma in Accounting and Finance already. Hope that I can be accepted. Happy that I can study something which I am intersted in and I can be more financial literate. And I guess it was a pretty random decision.
I was in the office when my friend told me that he is going to study the course that is recommended by his the other friend. And when I heard the name of the course, I got interested but decided not to take it as I want to concentrate on my retaking of Os level subjects. But at night, when I went for a dinner with my mum, I asked her if I were to go study for that course what is her suggestion as I can't forget about the course. And she enocuraged me to go for it if I am really interested in it. I decided to rethink again so that I can ask around my friend for their suggestion. But when I reached home, I on my computer and went to research about the course again and the subjects really interest me. And while waiting for my friends suggestion, I straight away went and apply for it. A decision made just in 12hrs...

Since my mum encourage me to go for it,
Since I am intersted in the subjects,
Since I can at least learn something and upgrade myself while working for Serve And F***-off
Since I can improve on my financial literate which is something that I want

So why not?

Yea. And a reminder to myself: Put in my best in whatever things that I am going to achieved. I don't want to have any regret because of not putting in my best.

So I think after I applied for retaking of Os lvl subjects as a private candidate, I am going to manage my time well and put in my best in my studies. And getting a good results for both is my ultimate goal for Year2010.

Cheers~
*.*"

Being finacially literate

2010-01-28T19:11:00.005+08:00

I think I am used to the routine work already. Although everyday was the same, it gets more and more intersting when you get to know more and more people. It gets more and more easier when you learn more and more stuff.

It feels great to know that you get to drink Milo with cornflakes every morning!! Delicious~

I have a strong urge that I will apply for the Specialist Diploma in Accounting and Finance. At least I get more financially literate which I guess, will somehow help me in the future. So I guess that if I really applied for it, it will gonna be a busy year for me. With this to cope, retaking Os lvl and commitment to sports will make me a busy boy. And this time round, I will tell myself to give in my best to whatever I am going to do.

~If you miss happy moments, why not create more happy moments =D

Cheers~
*.*"

Retaking Os

2010-01-25T19:27:00.002+08:00

I have decided to retake my O lvl English and Mathematics.

My mum gave me the confidence to take it. She said that even if I take it and didn't achieve what I want in the end, but if I put in my 101% effort into it, it is an accomplishment itself.

Yea bring it on!
Working hard for my future!

Cheers~
*.*"

I love Sun Sea Sand

2010-01-25T01:16:00.002+08:00

Sentosa Sentosa I love Sentosa!!
I love the beach
I love the Sea
I love the Sand
I love the sun
I just love it!!
Hope next week can go there again.

Yesterday when to Sentosa with AC. Now back is having some pain pain because I think got slight burnt. It really nice chilling out at the beach. Haha!!

At night went to a dinner at a temple. Eat till full full and went to my sis house to sleep. Woke up at around 11am and drove home and had lunch. Wanted to watch TV but ended up falling asleep. till 4plus. Yep. My Sunday was a sleepy day. Woke up and met up the rest at Tampines Swimming Complex to get some "dipping in the water time". We played pool catching but ended up being catch by them. Than we went to Hougang mall and met up with Dorothy to have KFC fot dinner before they head to Lan shop to play L4D2.

That sums up my fabulous weekend!

Ricky's note of the week: Currently, there are alot of things which I hope that I can achieve but I am afraid that it wont come true. And I know that is not a correct mindset because I can't be afraid to achieve what I want. I need to change my mindset into something positive by giving in my maximum effort in order to achieve what I want. I cant be disheartened even before the game has started because it will mean that I have lost half of it already. Yea. Giving my best to achieve what I want!!

Cheers~
*.*"

Starts the New Year with a bang!!

2010-01-17T13:42:00.004+08:00

I started the New Year with a big BANG!! And i'm serious it is a really BANG! Because I bang my car into someone's car along Ubi Avenue after I drive back home from camp. And it all thanks to a Taxi that was in the bus lane that just cut in front of the someone's car when it saw SBS personnal taking photos of cars that are in the bus lane. And so that someone's car make a sudden brake and I followed too closely and BANGGGGGG. That is how the bang bang came from.

I was stunned in my car at first. Don't know what to expect as this is my first and last time in an accident. Than I get down of my car when I saw the female driver got down too. She also doesn't know what to do and so she called her dad. I also don't know what to do than I saw her calling her dad and so, I realised that I should also call my dad.

While waiting for our dad to come down, a towing truck came very quickly and wanted to bring our cars to his repair shop. The lady was good enough to tell me not to let that guy settle as he will charge a very high fee Because he will bring the car to repair an repair this and repair that even if the parts are not spoilt so as to earn more. Also, he will claim my car insurance which in the future, will cost even more because of the accident. So it is not good for the guy to handle.

After our dad arrive, we settled the issue among ourselves by asking the person to go to my dad's friend workshop for repair.

I can consider to be Lucky already. My car was still drivable and no one was injured.
Lucky!!- "Do you hear me, talking to you, across the water across the deep blue ocean under the open sky oh my..."

Yesterday met up with iguides clique and we went window shopping for New Year clothes. After that, went to Teo Heng for KTV!
Later gonna go swimming with AC clique!

I need to scrimp and save already! Need to see how much I can save because I wanna go for the Taiwan trip because of the farmstay!!

Another huge disaster
Falling on today
Mother Earth shake
While the building came
People's trap
People tears
People run
People's dead
People ask why
People sigh
The world came
Gave a pat
You are not alone
Cause we care

Haiti stand Strong

Cheers~
*.*"

back to TP

2010-01-10T19:53:00.005+08:00

1 week of not blogging and i'm back!! Not been busying doing anything lately but there is just nothing to blog about. Guess everything is fine currently. And I guess even more that everything is always fine=D Monday to Friday same routine of work. Friday went to Teo Heng for some KTV session with AC.
Yesterday went back to TP as an Alumni and they are having open house. Feel youth again with all those mass dance and Jam and Hope. Oh ya. Forgot that i'm always youthful.

Ok. I don't know why I have always been self-complimenting myself but it just feels artificially good? WAHAHAHA. I think that I have come to this level where everytime when there is something that is not going my way, I will take a deep breath and told myself that "it is just a small problem. Don't have to think so much." And everything will be gone. At least for that period of time. Maybe that is what "Don't worry Be Happy" means =D

Just finish researching on Taipei and I found that this place is really nice!! http://www.cingjing.gov.tw/
It is a farmstay in Taiwan up in the mountains and I think that the place is great!! Imagine that you get to chase the sheep around, star gaze high up in the mountains with the chill wind blowing... How great!! Hope I can go because I really wish to experience farmstay one day!!

Another week is starting...

Cheers~
*.*"

Alvin and Chipminks, Chipettes

2010-01-03T22:33:00.002+08:00

Just watched Alvin and the Chipmunks cum Chipettes! It was like what Faezah say, it is not about the movie, it's about the Chipmunks and Chipettes. Yea. They are really cute till I get so interested. Song that they sing was nice too! 3.8/5.

Wish time could stop
To run away
And be back in a better person
What is in the mind is crime
What is going through it is wrong
It has been there the whole day
Need a hole
To be inside and stop thinking
Need a hole
To get away
It may be a regret
Maybe that is better than what it should be

Cheers~
*.*"

Marina Barrage chill out and des birthday

2010-01-03T01:13:00.002+08:00

Wake up in the morning and went to Faezah house to do some baking. We baked Eclair pastry and fried nuggets for the pot luck to Desmond 21st Birthday at Marina Barrage. Haha. Happy Birthday beearly Desmond! Know you always want to go Yangtze to watch movie now you can le=D Happy Birthday and have a cheering year ahead!!

While Eclair wasnt as smooth as we thought but it was still edible I guess. Lol. Next time gonna try baking something else. Baking is fun.

Met the rest of the AC during evening time. It was a good chill out time and place. Watching the sunset. The amount of kites flying in the sky, the bright round moon and glitzing star, listening to our music, the shining city skyline and not forgetting picnic food and picnic groundsheet!! It was really relaxing till I slept at the groundsheet for dunno how long.

I wanna go Marina Barrage for another chill out time!!

Cheers~
*.*"

Happy New Year 2010

2010-01-01T16:46:00.003+08:00

Happy New Year!!

2009 was now a past tense. Now enjoying the present tense and looking forward towards the future tense!

Well, 2009 is an average year for me, I gained some, I lose some. Hoping 2010 would be a great year for everyone! A new year, a new beginning!!

Here's my year 2010 resolution:

1) Learn more about investment
2) Feed my bank account more food to prepare me for my future backpacking trip to Australia
3) Join and complete a 42km marathon
4) Stay fit, keep fit, being healthy
5) Have a cheerful and smiling year!!

This year new year was spent at Sentosa Siloso Beach Party. Well, I would say I did enjoy it but it was abit boring because I didnt get to dance till shiok shiok because the music wasn't to my liking. But it was a great celebration with all of my friends!

Cheers and a Happy New Year!! =D
*.*"

AVATAR movie is great

2009-12-30T19:12:00.004+08:00

AVATAR 3D movie was really really NICE!! I enjoyed every part of the 3hrs movie! The animation, the world that the Director created was truely AMAZING!! People say that he is a genius and I guess it is true. It just makes you get deep into the movie. I don't mind becoming AVATAR because their lifestyle is just so cool even without computer or electronics stuff in it. Having a "USB hair" to connect to the nature, the animals... Just imagine you can fly around on ur personal birdie or dance in the glowing floor and surroundings, swimming near the waterfall all day long... Whao that would be my dream lifestyle too=D It is a movie that I don't mind to watch a 2nd or a third time. And I guess the 3D effect really make the movie more wonderful!! Haha. Waiting for the DVD to be out!! 4.8/5

At least this few days, working has been more meaningful because I got something to do

Going for a run later on although I do feel tired. Must motivate myself!

Tomorrow Siloso Beach Party!! Let our hair drop although mine is very short!!

Cheers~
*.*"

Time for some meaning

2009-12-28T22:24:00.003+08:00

Haha. Thanks to my 8am-5pm NS life during weekdays, I can only do meaningful stuff during the evening. OK. Not saying that my NS life is not meaningful, what I can say is that it is a job that can really make me snore. And it is not just a small snore, it is really a LOUD SNORE!! Haha. I'm just bored to death inside. Now currently still on a learning period and thus, there is really nothing much for me to do and what I do is to see other people do and then they teach me how to do. And if they nothing to do, I also nothing to do. So if I nothing to do(typically 6hrs out of the 9hrs), I will read read newspaper, read read my book-Rich Dad Poor Dad: Guide to investing(Yea. One of my New Year resolution for next year is to know more about investment), go to MINDEF intranet to see see their forum, go for breakfast break tea break toilet break. And I think that if I become an old bird already, my life will still be ZZZ. I need outdoor!! I need exercise!! I need to be under the sun!! I need to move around cause I am once a hyper-active kid!! But guess I just have to Lan Lan Suck Thump and endure through this 1year and 10month and I will try my best to get the best out of it!!

And because of this unheathly job of sitting the whole day in the air-con room, I have decided to discipline myself into exercising. I have decided to hit the gym every Monday and Friday and went for a run every Wednesday. I guess this will be the motivation for me for the next 22months and I believe it will be meaningful=D If anyone of you interested in joining me for gym and/or run, do call me=DD

Tomorrow gonna watch Avatar 3D!!
And New Year Eve gonna go to the Siloso Beach Party!!

All this small little events/gathering/fun just makes you excited and looking forward everyday!!

Cheers~
*.*"

Merry Christmas 2009

2009-12-25T23:46:00.002+08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

What I like about christmas is exchanging present. It give you a feeling of secretive when you recieve a present, not knowing what is underneath the wrapping paper. And it was just fun. And it was interesting that today, christmas is clebrated by alot of other religion.

Now I am going to tell something that I did when I was young. Don't laugh after you read it.

I remember when I was, I think during primary 1. It was christmas eve and I really believe that there is Santa Clause in the world. So it was around night and I was at home and I really hope to recieve a present from Santa. So what I do is that I place a small brown table facing the window at my living room. Than I place a few of the christmas card that I recieved(one of it is those that once you open, a christmas music will be played) on the table. And with torchlight on(trying to attract Santa attention) and a personal white socks too. Hoping that Santa will come my house and place a present inside my socks or on the table, I went to sleep. When I woke up the next morning and went to the living room with an excited feeling, I was surprised and abit sad that the table was folded back to its original place and the stuff that I put on top of it was kept on the table. I guess it was my mum who came back from work and kept it. Now when I was recalling back this incidence, I feel that I was quite naive in the past but it was fun=D

Went to ren house with ler, aw, mok and sy during christmas eve for our christmas countdown and celebration. We ordered pizza for our dinner and played some poker card, mahjong and gift exchange before going to Tampines Mall for Cinema. Watched Bodyguards and Assassin. Personally, I like the show. It is something about history and it was great to see the stories of heroes that deserve our respect. Although the front part was abit draggy, the back of the movie give us some high waves. Overall, 3.5/5.

Today woke up in the afternoon and went to QiJun house for our celebration. Do another gift exchange and played PS3 beofre heading to Balestier for dinner with family. It is just great that family is involved this year.

Merry Chrismas once again!!

Cheers
*.*"

KL trip-17 to 20 dec

2009-12-20T18:27:00.001+08:00

Got back from Kuala Lumpur!

The 2nd time that I have been to KL. KL is a good place to stay for around 3-4days and anything more than that will be a 3 big Z and 3 small z- ZZZzzz. It's not that I didn't like the place but it just that the fun thing over there can only last for that amount of days. And the place lack basic facilities.

We took a train from Johor to KL in the night because the ticket price is much more cheaper compared to taking it in Tanjong Pagar train station. Train ride was quite an experience and got tortured at the same time by playing cards. Reached KL in the morning at around 630am. We had our breakfast at Mcdonald before proceeding to our first destination which is Sunway Lagoon. We got there by train and bus. One thing I like about travelling is to experience the live of the people over there like taking their public transport system and etc.

Sunway Lagoon was fun because I just love theme park. We got to try All-Terrain Vehicle(ATV) which was interesting. We also tried the flying fox which was great with all the cute kids in the pool trying to splash water on you while you are up that hanging and flying on the rope. And it was the 1st time that I took a 360degree pirate ship which was really exciting! Water theme park was great too but was sad that we wouldnt able to try the water slides as it is very crowded and we lazy to queue. After that, we settle our dinner at the Pyramid mall Manhatten fish market. Have a hearty meal because there is a Buy 3 get 1 free meal and we ordered quite alot and shared. Got to try different variety of fish and flavours in a day! Took a cab down to our guest house after that.

Malaysia Cab was really terrible!! Alot of cabbie don't use their meter so before you get on the taxi you have to request them to on and follow their meter. If they dont want, you can only find another cab which is willing to follow the meter to your destination.

Our guest house was not bad. Situated near the town area of Malaysia. It is cheap and clean although the room is small. But the staff there is friendly and I like the whole feel of the guest house. It is called Tropical guest house and it is really "Tropical". At the gate, there stood a gate that was made and decorated with dried long leaves and grass. And once you step in, there are bamboo shoot that act as a floor mat. The place is also decorated with pebbles and wooden furniture which give you a really comfortable and nature feel.

We check in and put our bag before going out and wander in the street at around 11pm and we end our night at around 2am.

Woke up at 730am and prepare ourself and we went to Petronas Tower. Initially wanted to get to the top of tower but we can't get the ticket so we just slack and shop around the shopping mall. We had our lunch at a nice Portuguese restaurant before cabbing to Time Square for a 2and half hour shopping spree. After the 2 and half hour, was sad that I couldn't get the thing that I wanted and we do not have enough time anymore, so we proceed to our next destination which is Petaling Street which is a night market. After the night market, it was already 820pm and we rushed our way back to our guest house to collect our bag and rush to the train station to catch our train back to Singapore which is at 935pm. Lucky we are able to make it at 930pm but everyone was sweating when we got into the train because we was walking very fast.

In the train, we decided to stop at Johor instead of Singapore so that we can go to City Square for more shopping as we still have cash to spare. And we reached Johor at around 6am. So we went to have our breakfast at a really sucky restaurant(similar to Singapore Ya Kun). imagine your half boiled egg is half raw egg... We played tai-dee, bluff and murderer to waste time before the shopping mall open which is at around 1030am. Shop around and was glad that I could get the stuff that I wanted and we got back to Singapore in the late afternoon.

It was a great cheap getaway to Malaysia!! We spent around S$80 for our 1 night accomodation and all our transportation including the return train ride from Singapore to Malaysia. And I bought around 535RM and I came back with only 10sen. Cool.

I am very sleepy right now and I haven't unpack my bag and pack my bag for tomorrow. Tomorrow gonna report back for NS. Got in Paya Lebar Airbase as an Admin Assistant. Was really happy about the location but somewhat not excited about the job scope as it is a boring but slack job I think. Gonna go carry my feet to pack my stuff and go orh orh liao.

Cheers~
*.*"