Exams coming!

Here it goes again haha... exams are here!

haa blogging in NIE Library when i'm supposed to be studying just seems not right, but too bored and full to study now... no one to push me also today since i'm studying alone.. and the laksa from the canteen doesn't help... my stomach is like a cement mixer now, except now is laksa mixer hahah.. hopefully it get digested fast, otherwise i do not think that i will be able to seat down properly and study...

Haa the environment here is good... with the just right aircon temperature and excellent greenery view=)

till date have completed 2 Accounting paper and 1.5 tax paper... But i haven started a single thing for company law and malay! well guess i'm considered quite fast already as compared to some of my friends, since there is still 8 days to accounting and 11 days to tax and 13 days to company law... and i'm finished! haa

nevertheless i still feel insecure with regards to accounting and absolutely insecure with regards to tax... technically i have completed studying for both subjects and just need to try and attempt lotsa questions for now. but it ain't easy... hmmm think i just gotta keep on going and it will be over soon!

Jia you everybody=)

a little updates.. =)

As usual, i think i will only say that i'm not busy when there is no school haha... so i'm still as bz as usual... but still manageable... as in i still wouldnt die out of overwrk...

Maybe is because i look at things more easily now ba =) there will always be unfinishable work, yupz, and there is slightly more time to study now as the committee stuffs are coming to a small break soon as exams are coming... only thing that is always at the back of my mind is the venue la, still cant get a proper venue for my event... hopefully things will work out...

Come to thing of it, my previous few postings has been of my blunders... so now, one more to add on:

I'm POORER BY 250 bucks recently for nothing... Decided to change to starhub instead on Singtel, so called 1626 to check on the day i cant upgrade my plans... i heard 18 sept correctly... therefore i went to cancel the singtel line... in the end i received a bill of 250 from ST... damn, i didnt realised that e 18th sept is the date for 21 mths upgrd... not 24 mths!

so friends, be cautious to this kinda traps.... don be like me....

yupz... oh ya, just last week i broke my duck! i won at the mj table finally... haa, shan jing, zeren, kai xiang all fell under my hands haha... thanks to luck la, cos i keep getting the flowers and animals.. pure luck, nothing i can say abt it, hope it will stay for long!

has been long since i meet up with nick, SA and edwin also... yupz... hope the exams come fast and go fast....

In bits and pieces

Its a tough week ahead.... Only monday now... hope i can pick up the pieces some how and get thru the week....

Quiz is @ 830!

It was a fine friday morning... Was supposed to go for my tax quiz @ 930. Therefore, i reach school slightly earlier @ abt 840 to sip my morning coffee first and have my bread.

I felt funny why i call my friends and no one pick up to tell me where they are.. Nevertheless i nv think much abt it and continue to watch channel newsasia abt the chaos in burma on the TV in the canteen A.

Until abt 915, oh yes i think i should slowly walk over to the LT first den find a comfortable seat. DOn care abt my friends who may be late ba since they also nv ans my calls and sms....

Outside the LT was exceptionally quiet. No one in sight. Until i open the door of the LT, i thought that there was a lesson going on, and i turn back thinking i'm earli la, still go and disturb other ppl's lesson. But wait, i see a few familiar faces, and i turn back again and asked, is this the tax class???

i hear a few laughter... my heart dropped a bit when i hear the ans. yes this is the tax class. I asked again: huh u all start the quiz already ar? and my heart plunged when i hear the ans... yes we started.

Why start so earlier! nv wait for the late comers... somemore i'm not even late yet. i still thought that only the paper has been distributed but not started yet, until i see some ppl already attempting the paper. dozens of eyes look at me and i look back, still confused... i look back until the tutor came in. i scrambled to find a seat, throw my things down and start on the paper.

He told me," sze wee i can only give you an additional 5 mins after the otherss have stopped.." i could only say ok...

the test started at 840. Supposed to end at 930. i walked into the LT at 920... simple calculations...

in the end i could only skim thru the qns without realli understanding it and write down a mcq ans. luckily its mcq....

in the end i got an additional 10 mins. but i had to spend it amid a chaotic crowd busy discussing abt their papers that they had handled in. How can i concentrate!!! somemore its TAX! no choice la, guess Mr Tan already good enough... who to blame but myself...

Meaning of lfe...

Meaning of life... to make lotsa money? to engage in meaningful activities? hmm.. i think everyone should ask themselves.. if i'm old now and looking back, what would i want my life to be like...

To be always working and rushing here and there? to have a happy family? to have lotsa friends? to have accomplished something great? What is it that i want myself to have done? Now i'm not so sure yet, but as i think back i wouldnt want myself to be like everyone in the rat race...

i don want to be just rushing about... haa as wad vivien said on sat, i think i would want a bit of laid back lifestyle... that's why i think i should not stress myself too much over tutorials that i cant complete. why sacrifice my sleep and health and social life over school work? not that i'm saying i would not care abt anything, just that as long as i have tried my best, and make use of my time wisely, i shouldnt stress and worry myself unduly.

Yup that is never easy in this society whereby everyone will be comparing with one another. Haa now i'm saying this probably because today i don feel like a perfectionist... anyway my perfectionist character is something that i can improve on as well ba... lowering my requirements sometimes... ya i mean sometimes..

yup had a good weekend. Fri night went to meet up my ex chief RNS, ccomms, NO they all... ya realli missed the time we had together during my NS in the navy lar... yeah thanks for the watch! haa really need one... so very happy to get one from them as my bday present...

Saturday night went out with kx and co.. was a fruitful trip as well.. in a sense got to know more abt zr as well...

Notice i never speak abt the day time, cos friday was a full long day for me, and fri evening gotta be the usher for CAC campus concert... SAt morning was my Ippt and sat afternoon back to cac room to do spring cleaning...

Yesterday and today spent time catching up on my tutorials... yup fruitful as well, not that i had completed catching up on everything, just that i think that i had spent my time wisely... i'm contented... so i'm happy... feel like i'm in my own world now, thats why i can be so contented...

Well i hope that i can carry on to be this contented... Sat morning had my ippt... and rain brought me to know of a taxi driver who sent me home.. well he was so happy go lucky.. not that he don have anything to worry abt.. but it's his philosphy of life that impress me... life is short.. really... so we must realli make it a happy life... alot of times, things that we are pursuing are merely nothing impt if we consider carefully...

yup i hope this thought will stay in my mind for a long time... but i noe, sometime soon, reallity will come knocking hard on my head haha... ya today i'm happy maybe is because i had a good night rest last night too... slept at 10pm and couldnt care less ahaha... so i'm fresh today.. how many of my friends has the luxury to slp at 10....

yup another reason could probably be that i just drank a cup of warm milo... the sense of satisfaction is immense... to feel warm and full... to feel contented.... ah... that should be life... = )

好心有好报？？

Last thurs i found a Fossil watch at the FAL, at one of the computer terminal. I wrote a note and my HP number to ask the person to call me if he is looking for his watch...

later in the day, he called and i happily return the watch...

Last Saturday, i was in the FAL again, i used my thumbdrive... and i forgot to pluck it out...

Why was there no note on the terminal for me to call the person who has found my thumbdrive when i went back???

Updates?

Haa Jeremy want a update of my life... Basically 24 hours not enough... Always catching up on tutorials, never ending... plus exco gonna start to be busy already with all the stuffs... plus my project gonna start real soon... oh men...

Gotta try to clear all my backlog by this weekend sia, next week will be just as busy...

Fri going to meet up long long nv met Navy ex-comrades in arms, Sat scheduled to meet Kai xiang and co haha...

Now i feel i got clashes everywhere... clashes of events and things to do.. mY tuitions, my meetings, project, friends, exco investitute(the biggest clash) wad a day to be....

thanks all my friends...

Yeah thanks everyone for ur words of encouragement! Thanks jean, louis, jem, hian yin, clara, lim lin, kx, ja, jia xin and everyone who dropped by to help share the weight a little... and of course the ex-exco quad! yup i ll give it my best shot...

haa ya sometimes indeed i'm stressed, but must clarify, sometimes i'm just being serious, not that stressed. just that my serious look make me appear to be very stress haha.... yup but nevertheless thanks!

A good lunch...

Finally today i have the chance for a good lunch... not that it's sumptous, not that it is in a restaurant, not that it was free...

but that i have the time to finish it slowly and savour the taste of it bit by bit without any rush...

but that i got the chance to slowly sip on my coffee as i wait for the fishball noodles to slowly digest...

but that i got the time to reminise over the happenings in the past few days...

The past few days have been nothing but a rush, didnt even had the chance for a proper meal since friday. especially on saturday, only ate a few of the left over sushi of the contestants as i run from room to room. throwing one sushi down my mouth and rushing off... Den eating some leftover food from the table in the dinner. Not that i'm complaining, but its just part of the experience which i would still choose to have if given a second chance.

Now its time to consider some other stuffs.... to focus on my studies and be studious or to take up a new challenge in another committee. The lure of achieving satisfaction in another committee is great, but the possibility and downside of having a lousy academic result is equally great as well...

What do i do...

Suddenly its all over

Yeah... Finally the night was over... Glad that everything turns out well generally=) Really relieved, but it's like so sudden and its over... haven even got the time to stop and think abt it. It has been a long one year of planning and execution...

Must realli thanks all in the comm who had contributed, realli been glad to have everyone in the comm... Also must really thanks AFTH guys for supporting = ) Really nice of u guys... Has been a memorable night, though i was a bit too tired to show that expression... Kinda touched also

Made alot of friends in both comms... Ya, friendships never come easy, and we should appreciate that and maintain it! lets meet up more haa...

Ya we stayed back in the hotel after the dinner, but i guess most of us were abit too tired to enjoy the night that is left... So next time we meet we must make up for it k!

And today is hj bdae also, Happy Birthday to my good friend =) Stay good haha

me and my itchy butt...

Was supposed to reach home about 10 from work today... but i got an itchy butt and decided to take a bus from park mall to try try.... And now i noe in future mrt is always the fastest to reach my super inconvenient home...

I was already outside the gantry of the Mrt, before i turned back and took the escalator up to the bus stop outside again... Wanted to take either 174 or 502 to boon lay... Had a long long wait before 174 arrives... The bus ride was really bad, even though i had a seat, but its still so uncomfy... Worse.. i drank alot of water before that... the frequent stopping and moving of the bus make me feel like puking also, in the end i took the bus till bukit batok buay tahan already, left the bus, try to walk as steadily as possible to the near by petrol station, not because i wanna puke, but because i needa pee! haha...

Tired from a day work le, after relieving myself i took a cab home-$6 +1.50 for the journey home today... so stupid right, gt a nice ride home by MRT don wan, choose to try out the bus service... serve me right...

Windfall meal from the Great Spore Sale...

Yeah, juz got home after a dinner treat from staffs of Cellini.. the furniture shop that i had been working part time since ORD... Last 2 months had been v good for the co thats why, broke alot of targets and got the incentives... not a bad steam boat@ tiong bahru just that its a bit of ex @ 270 for 8 pax... maybe cos of the fresh prawns and beer ba... anyway i'm not the one paying hahaha so anything is fine!

Before that had tuition with seah cheng again... and even before that went to vivo to catch a movie with JA, SJ, SR, HJ. first time in the theatre of vivo, not bad la juz like the cathay, new and nice. The show disturbia is not bad also, so in the end was quite enjoyable.

Sent SR to JE after that and HJ to JP. Talked along the way... mm... still think that HJ is one friend who noe me well... maybe is cos i'm to easy to understand? or she has the ability to really understand her friends around her well? or just that we can click well haa.. i also donnoe, but i always noe she is someone whom i can talk to la... ya and btw the shirt she bought from thailand is a bit of tight fit lor, still say its too big... but the design is quite nice la, just that i think maybe i don have the physique to show it off well haa

yeah and tml is badminton session with HJ and co! finally got a chance to sweat again... although i think i shd go running to train for IPPT... but hard to get ppl to run together, running alone is super boring...

Friends...

Have been meeting up groups of ppl these past few days... Last saturday went working after that party world with gx, jr and alvin. Den went alvin house to play mah jong with jae also.. has been a long time since i saw him.. still the same on the outside....

sunday was a day of soccer with cousins...

monday another outing with gx and jr to try to look for stuffs to buy la, but its quite hard to find things that we really wan.

Yesterday was a long day with the Ball committee ppl- fitting session @ crocodile, kimage, modelling, meeting. all pack in one day.

just now went to sing k box again.. this time round is with NPCC FOC ppl. haha not much ppl la, juz Zhong yi and Xinni.

Tml meeting sec school friends- SJ, HJ, Sr, JA.

Ppl i haven meet and should meet up: jem and co from AFTH, SA and co from Navy, and also arlene and chief eva from navy as well, and maybe also mj with issac and co haha

Basically that will comprise of ppl from my sec, jc, ns, and uni....

Talking about friends... seems that as we get older and older, it gets harder to make good friends as well.. as lot of times ppl have their own agendas. it can be seen in Uni already... Ppl u noe and ppl u call friends are totally 2 different things. i would say that i know quite a few ppl around, but to really define them as friends maybe yes maybe no... or is it my problem actualli? maybe i haven been accepting ppl as friends readily? maybe i think too much.. ya i think maybe that's the case, maybe is my own personality problem...

How nice it would be if everyone are simpler, and not so complicated... I'm not some one like guo xiang who can be so friendly to everyone even though he don noe the person v well... i guess its gonna be helpful to him in future.. i regard that as a good netwrking skill, he has huge social circle and that is definitely good for him.. sometimes i hope to be as friendly as he do, and be able to talk cock with strangers like any other friends.. but that is jz not me...

Sense of Satisfaction...

Sometimes in order for u to be able to have the drive to continue to do something, u must like the thing that u are doing.. or be able to gain a sense of satisfaction out of it... Thats the thing that i feel i am gaining out of my tuition lessons now...

It feel good to see the boy improving much under ur guidance... sense of achievement... However i'm not sure whether i will be able to get the same amount of satisfaction out of my probable future job as an accountant... gotta see how my professional attachment turns out next year le lor haa... scareli i wouldnt like it so much so tt i decide to do a career switch! v highly likely, but as a cautious person, it would realli take alot for me to make this kinda decision sia...

i had my palm read...

oh ya something interesting... i had my palm read by a person who noes how and i trust... somethings that he said:

1. I'm a stuborn person which i agree
2. if i wan something i will have the determination to get it or get there
3.my lucky number is no1
4. i was a much more confident person in the past, till i was sec 3.
5.i wouldnt have much luck in love haha... but i would still get married, maybe when i'm abt 27 or 28.
6. i would get to travel in my life
7. i would die a foreign land...
8. i wouldnt have much problem in my career
9. i am not good in keeping money, so i need a wife who is good at managing money. I totalli agree with it!

and many more. i asked him why for point 7. he say its juz like that, but he is sure, gurantee plus chop that it will happen. kinda sad to have to die away from my homeland singapore... One ppl, one nation one singapore! haha no choice la, listen lor, unless i choose not to travel for the rest of my life, which seems quite impossible la...

Back from exam...

Oh man juz had the exam this morning... didnt feel good abt it... although i noe i will pass, but it's sure to be a black and white one... no colours.. sian... no choice, wad's done cannot be undone...

oh ya so a few pictures from my recent SOC? haha senior orientation camp

And also from the family gathering dinner! All the brothers...

Recently Jem( my blog follower haha) actualli ask me to write more abt my feelings into the blog and not juz wad happened in my life... he says that it will sure make things more interesting.. haa, ya i agree... but quite funny to write all u feel inside.. ya but i will seriousli consider jem! And thanks Jem for all his efforts in helping me get more ppl to come for the dinner and dance... He seems more gan jiong than me. but thats good!

FOC...

Oooo... juz got back from the NTU Npcc Foc haha... so tired... yesterday also went out of camp for e family treat by er gu zhang! haa hope he strike 4d more...

Anyway it was a fun 3 days making new friends... but now i'm begining to dread wad ll be comin for the next week... exam on thurs for my special sem and i had not even finish studying the first lect notes... sianszzz.z plus next week needa go do convo.. realli need to study hard soon..

ya ll update with pictures soon...

Today is friday...

Yesterday was quite a day... had the usual special sem lessons until 330. Originally had nothing to do until meng sms me tt he is back from brunei. haa, so we arranged something to do-Badminton...

Play badminton with sian, hao and meng from 4 to 6 before rushin home to had a shower before going for tuition. during the day, nicolas also asked to play MJ, which i agreed readily haha... it will be after the tuition lesson. the lesson started at 7, but i left Seah cheng's hse @ 10... haa but not 3 hr is tuition la, had to borrow his home com to do last min reg for my electives, so in the end i left his home quite late... onli den did i realised i had not had my dinner.. luckily there is a malay stall below is hse which is still open. i paid 3 dollars for a mee goreng with onli cabbage, mee, fish cake and alot of their chilli sauce... oh man... there is simply no other ingredients! wad the... i'm not asking for pork lo, but at least put some shredded chichken or shrimps la... not to mention prawns... 3 dollars is so ex la...

but i got no choice la, cos gotta rush to nick hse... playing with SA, nick and his gf.... don ask me the result at the end of the game.... something realli wrong with my luck.... i can sense it with the kinda tiles i pick... but i juz donnoe why..
after that i sent SA to his hall and reach home abt 2 am...

This morning still went for the long-planned k lunch with min yan and daniel and shan jing haha... i overslept and was late la.. but in the end it was a good singing session... cos we got good singers! haha

I knew tt after the session all of us are going some where... but i didnt noe it's so coincidental tt all of us are going bugis except min yan haha... SJ going dere to meet some gal haha for some snacks kinda meetup... Daniel meet the ah zi i think to buy something.. onli MY got her appt at night, so she has no choice but deicided to make her way home and come out again @ night.. stupid right haha oops...

For me i needa go Bugis SI MA LU GUAN YIN temple la... u muz be thinking i wanna pray for change of luck right.. but my main motive is to huan shen la... cos i prayed before exams, and i also gt quite satisfactory results, so no matter wad needa go back and huan shen haa... so shun bian pray for a better luck also la, so next mj i will see if it is effective not! hehe

got home @ 4plus and decided i needa go for a run, so jio meng out la... actualli wanted to plan for cousin supper tonight... but seems tt everyone gt something.. now its getting hardere and harder to organise something for the cousins man.... everyone is so bz, esp after they start working... Sunday soccer also, few can make it now... sad... hope we can get an outing real soon!

Help me get some life!

Oh man, think i realli need to add some spice into my life... So far my life has been quite routine already....

Mon: special sem elective 930 to 1130 and130 to 330. den tuition 7-830

Tuesday: sometimes do some comm stuffs

Wed: Special sem PA course 930-1230. Maybe go swim with SA after that. 730-9 tuition

Thurs is exactly the same as monday!

Fri: Sometimes got a bit free time, and some times zo bo? also donnoe how i spend it....

Sat and Sun?: Cellini....

Oh man i hope for some sunday soccer realli.... cant take it anymore sia...

This is the life tt i planned before the holiday... now i seem to be regretting it... or is it i am nv satisfied? i think the latter is more accurate... i don like to have nothing to do one leh... but now everyday got something to do i also complain boring... hard to satisfy right... i totally agree...

Think i shd get out of spore ba... friends all going abroad this holiday... some already went and come back and went and come back twice! wth.... seriously i shd consider doing something...

Tiring day @ work... Cellini + Zouk

had a damn long day yesterday.... worked in cellini from 12 to 7 like that.. haa asked to be released earlier so that i can rush to zouk... first time working in such an environment so donnoe wad to expect also...

actualli was dere as a rep from citibank la, juz to introduce some new system whereby payment is done thru finger scanning.. so not exactli zouk employee haha, but the counter is the lobby area la...

it's quite cool dere, gotta see alot of different ppl.. and i must say there are alot of pretty gals... with all kinda fancyful clothings la... but for me these kinda outing once in a while is okie la, ask me to be dere every day think i cant take it la.. plus its full of ppl smoking.... wondering why? even though smoking is banned inside already.... it's not banned outside! ahhaa tts why everyone smoking outside at the lobby dere....

finished work at 1 am den i went inside to take a look la... mm.. okie la nothing much special, loud music and alot of ppl dancing... perhaps i'm not high on alcohol tts why? haa...

Nice day...

Today is a happy day for me... why? cos there are nothing to be sad about haha... Went for my PA course in the morning 9 plus.. quite interesting today cos we had mock interviews and we see how our peers perform under simulated conditions like a real interview...

After that went for lunch with no-gf-SA haha... and i decided that the van is dirty enough... heng SA help me out otherwise think it will take damn long to wash alone... actualli he wanted to have a tan.. luckily there was sun at the porch, so we washed the van half-naked, washing while tanning..

den abt 1 plus we went for a swim juz across my hse, plus tan again...

made our way to queensway after that.. wanted to get a leather shoe, but ended up buying a tee shirt haha... i saw one that i think is nice(not easy to get one i like) but it's selling at 79 bucks man... at queensway.. and i don even recognise the brand la.. so decided that i shd go down town see if there is any better options before committing...

SA also broswed for his sneakers la, but again... money is the stumbling block haha...

By the time i reach home also 7 pm le... tired sia.... soon after i received an sms from Jem to go play pool at the usual place haha... ON ar.... had a few games with jem and his bro and now i juz got home again....

mm... seems like i did quite alot of things today... good... i like it this way.. although quite tirin, but at least i feel i nv waste e day away...

ya one thing i wanted to do today but haven... wash my toilet... its much over due le... guess i realli gotta wash it soon ahha....

Pale in comparison...

Had wanted to blog more about my "interesting life" in S'pore until i read Kai Xiang's blog... He's certainly enjoying his time in USA... and wad am i doing here!!! here's the link to his blog.. juz take a look at the photos it's more worthwhile for ur time spent den looking thru my blog haha... http://carltoneoz.multiply.com/photos

why why why....

Bowling...

I got a wake up call early in the morning @ 9.30 from ah gong... actually not that early also la.. he was alone @ his usual hunt... CDANS Bowling alley just across swiss cottage sec... haa ask if anyone wanna accompany him...

haa... in the end only got me, so i made my way down, luckily got van at home... in the end i lost all the games... we shared a terminal with two other young punks... initially they were there and seems amused by ah gong's posture as he bowl.. but slowly i can see their amazement as ah gong hit out a few strikes each time... haha... although i was no where near ah gong, but still proud of it..

luckily ah gong called, otherwise donnoe till wad time i'm gonna sleep... such a waste of time to slp the morning away.. but everytime i told myself to wake up early the next day, i failed... haa unless got lessons la den no choice... even so, i will also lai chuang till the v last min den wake up one.. that's bad... show my lack of discipline and determination man.... hope i can achiece my goal of zhao shui zhao qi one day.... it will be good if i can slp @ 11pm and wake up @ 8 or even 7 plus in the morning... haha but think i can only dream of it... hehe

going tuition soon... and i juz remembered my leather shoe is spoilt! shit... tml need to wear to work... how ar still cant find one satisfactory and up to my expectation one leh.. don wanna anyhow buy also...

Worst defeat ever...

Just sufffer e worst defeat ever in my life on the mahjong table... think i have been playing mj for at least 3 years plus le ba... today is the first time i cleared all my chips even before the first round ended...

Luckily we onli play 20 cents 40 cents... if it is with ah sian they all... i would have lost 300 dollars... but today is also bad enough although i only lost 30 dollars...

think i havent been winning for quite some time le.. plus haven't been v lucky recently also...

guess i need a change of luck...

time to slp now...

Happy 77th

Oh Sat is a great day cos it's my ah gong bdae.... haha... before that went to k lunch with a few of my cousins... it has been awhile since i last went... okie ahah quite enjoyable... But after that v tired also donnoe why...

Den went to Jase's Condo across the road from Lot1. The usual function room... Still early and few ppl had arrived, therefore a few of us cousins went to seat by the pool side to talk... talked abt lotsa stuffs... e.g. how things are different now when u grow older... u no longer enjoy the simple joy and laughter that we once enjoyed... things in our family etc etc....

Later in the night we sang the song and presented our presents to ah gong... that was the climax... everyone was just happy...We made a scrapbook for ah gong, inside is every grandchildren's wishes for him... 31 in total... and later we sat down with him and ah ying read out every single wishes to him... haha he must be super touched la... here's wad i wrote...

亲爱的阿公，

你就像天上的太阳在我们生活里给我们阳光也只润大地,

在夜里你就像月亮，而我们就像天上的星星陪伴着你

希望你能永远像天上的太阳在我们的生活里发光发热

也能像天上的月亮永远陪伴着这一群可爱的星星。

我们爱你阿公。

世界上伟大的人。

that's the best i can remember... mushy right... but i dare to say its wad we all feel... why be afraid of mushyness? better to say it when the person is still around right... 阿公你最棒！

yeah......

haa, received an email juz now from Crocodile representative.. wondering wad i doing with crocodile? haa clinched a deal with them for my committee to sponsor formal wear for the guys during the dinner and dance! haa it pays to persevere... Originally she said that they are nt going to take up the deal, but after some pestering from me, guess they are moved by my sincerity la=)

now having a small break from my special sem lesson.. gottta go for tuition soon at 5pm den after that gtta come back sch again for committee meeting... gonna be a long day...

tml again gt 2 tuition lessons haa...

den it will be the much looked forwarded to sat! my ah gong birthday celebration... before that in the afternoon going to have a small k lunch session with a few of my cousins.. yeah ahaha....

still got a resume and cover letter to write for my PA course.. but nt gonna care abt it for now haha... plus still got a 10% test coming up on monday sia... haha wait and see la...

next time i will remember...

woke up in the afternoon today 130pm(after a late morning MJ session that ended onli at 4am) and the weather was wonderful! wad a bright sunny day... decided to ask SA out for a swim and get some tan...

we went for lunch at canteen 11 and decided to ask nic out also, in the end we managed to get to the swimming complex oppostite my hse at onli 4 plus haa... as i was waiting at the lift lobby i saw a familiar notice dere... "SWIMMING COMPLEX CLOSED EVERY TUESDAY FOR MAINTENANCE" shit! haha i forgot all abt it.. in the end Nic drove us to jurong east. I advised him to put more parking coupons after my experiences dere haha, but he simply refuse to take my golden words...

Serve him right to be 10 dollars poorer hehehe i v bad right...

Boring few days....

it has been a boring few days for me...







I went to take a ferry on wed again! there is the sea breeze, the "beach" and many people.. But this time round its not to tioman.. but to the once so familiar island that most guys gotta spend abt 2 months of their life in. PULAU TEKONG...







Went dere for my bro passing out parade which now they seems to be calling it the graduation ceremony. Everything there seems quite the same... and tears actualli flowed down my cheeks on that day...







Not that i'm touched... juz that i was bored to tears haha... spend like 2hrs waiting over there for the parade to start man. But the few hours spent dere allowed me to reminise my BMT days haha... not bad la..


After getting out of tekong went to my parent's shop and packed up for a family dinner w/o my elder bro. (coincidentally he went tioman also with his friends). has been sometime since we realli have a proper family dinner. last time when we lived at bukit panjang we will still go the le kou fu makan. but maybe because we have grown up, therefore these chances are less ba...


Yesterday went school to help Henni in the calling for sponsorship and after that went to teach tuition. such a convenience to have a car to drive around haha since my bro not ard these few days...


Oh and late last night i passed the badminton net to Jem, wah such an envy.. he is always full of activities... plus he got his own business to handle and to be occupied with la... He told me that i shouldnt stay at home all the time... should get a life man.. don wait for ppl to call me out and i shd take initiatives some times... mm... food for thought haha...

ya i got try to get ppl la... e.g. for my cousins singing session.. but most ppl are working man or NS... so hard to organise sometime... also i got the tuition assignments to do haiz... Next week special sem starting le... goning back to semi school life soon.. donoe shd be happy or sad... one thing is it will keep me occupied... but den i starting to feel more and more that i have no life le.... come on some one save me pls...

gonna go tuition again tonight... realli no life sia... =(

Cup of Tea...

i like to be at the coffeeshop drinking my tea or coffee and reminise wad had happened or just watch ppl pass by or work... such an enjoyment...

And as i was sipping this cuppa tea i thought thru wad had happened the past week... and i start to regret missing the chance to make another new friend over at tioman... now it seems all too late, unless there is really fate, i guess my chance is gone.. twice i had the chance, but i nv grab it... there isnt any clues for me to find and start with... there was no name, no phone number, no address no nothing... just too late...

can only blame myself...

1st day of Hangover....

Woke up in the morning to a different experience... no sea breeze.. no beach view... no buffet breakfast... no more spore gal's glance... and this is called hangover...

went down to get the papers and took my usual cup of lipton plus bread...the usual kinda news on the papers.. so boring, no interesting tv shows also in the morning..juz some repeated telecasts of dramas.. wad a way to start my first day of the week...

after checking on my emails and soccer news, there is nothing much for me to do already and so i can only blog... blog abt my sianness....

programmes for the rest of the day- go out buy lunch, wait for fan repairman to come repair my ceiling fan in the room, go out teach tuition at 5pm...

i wonder how my other cousins are coping haha... probably working already...

Tioman Tioman....

ooO juz got back from my 3d2n trip from our neighbouring country.... Wad a nice experience.. although there wasnt exactly alot of things to do at tioman, but it was this nothing-to-do-ness tt allow us to really relax and do nothing much!

Woke up at 5am on the first day and got to golden mile at 6am as instructed by the tour agency. In the end we only boarded the bus at 7 and started on a long and tiring coach ride to our first stop- Tanjong Gemok. We reached there at ard 1145 on the note that the agency told us we will be able to board the ferry at 12. But to our horror, the ppl dere said tt it has been "delayed" till 2 pm. Seriously I sense something fishy at this moment. this is because it appears that we had already been allocated the 2pm ferry ride all along, the agency just lied to us abt the 12pm ride... But we can do nothing much also since we are alr stuck dere. therefore we went for our lunch first and waited patiently till 2pm...

when the ferry arrived, we were quite excited but decided not to rush since the seats are all allocated on the ticket stubs.. therefore we queued like obedient singaporeans until we discovered horror no.2, the seats allocated are just for show haha...

When we managed to get onboard, we need to endure another 1.5 hrs ride... so tired of all the travelling man.. juz wanna get to the place fast haa... it reminded me of a comment by the coach driver( u wan fast take aeroplane lo...) althought the ferry ride is boring, but we managed to take some pictures on the deck...

By the time we reach dere it was already late afternoon and we are all tired from the travelling. but it's nice to noe the resort is quite comfortable.(except that the water heater is not working) Programmes for the first day ended with a evening dip into the water, our dinner, exploring the surrounding area, booking for our snorkeling trip, pool, chilling out in the open and enjoying satay plus stingray....

Day 2 is an exciting one... we set off for our breakfast early in the morning in anticipation of our snorkeling trip! oh and i also met a s'pore gal at the breakfast area... we exchanged a few glances at each other, i think she noes i was looking at her, and i noe she was looking at me also haha(perhaps its because there isnt very much ppl of abt our age over dere ba)... but she's a xiao mei mei la, probably oldest abt 18 years old? tts why it just stopped there... she's always with her parents as well tts why... nv mix ard...

Snorkeling was fun! we took a boat out to the area and enjoyed the surrounding with fishes all around u.. the experience was great and it was beautiful... the corals are not that outstanding though, i guess it would have been even more beautiful a few years back.. tts why we shd protect the environ...

After the snorkelling we were all exhausted but not sunburnt(thks to banana boat). In the end we had a nap while my little cousins hone their skills at the pool table.... the aunty and uncles played their never boring game of LABI as usual haha. At night we also had a cuppa or more than that of red wine.. now i think i'm slowly more able to appreciate red wine than those vodka and wadever haa...

Day 3 morning i saw her at the breakfast table again.. as usual glances were exhanged and nothing happened haa... maybe one day i will see her in spore... maybe i will make a new friend den haha

After our breakfast we sat at the table and listen as our aunty and uncles talked abt their childhood stories and how our parent's life were last time... It's always sweet to look back at your past experience and laugh at it... Even more interesting for us the later generation to hear abt it....

i managed to shop for2 tee shirt and a bermuda shorts from the souveiner shop haha... nothing much to buy over there... We also plucked 5 coconuts from the tree outside our room to savour the juice haha... just do it the primitive way(smash in on the floor) when u do not have a chopper haa...

The return trip is the most sian one... got onto ferry at abt 12noon and reach causeway at only abt 7, after that we each took a cab home from woodlands.. and i'm still suffering from abit of hangover man... but i quite enjoyed the trip....

Do i look like i'm 25 years old?

Had been looking for tuition assignments to do for 2 weeks le... And these few days have been suddenly flooded with agencies calling in. In the end i accepted an assignment to teach a sec 1 student maths and science. It will be good if it just end here... the catch is that i have been asked to pose as a graduate full time tutor..

Just a day before the assignment.. now i'm starting to feel bad... the initial promised of a slightly higher pay doesnt seems so attractive after all... Just found out that it is actually not that high also. Money is not the issue i'm bothered with actually. It is the issue of having to lie to the parent about my actual identity.. what if they demand to see my Ic? die... and i'm supposed to lie throughout the whole period of assignment? tough.... it's just against my principle.. feel so bad...

Just hope the parents wouldnt mind...

What a blunder….

Next time when anyone is going to book for movies tickets online should really pay careful attention to the timing they are going to book… seriously I think that Cathay should start printing their timings using 24 hrs format… Otherwise… People like me may just take 3.00 a.m. as 3.00 p.m.

In the end it was an unforgettable experience, watching Pirates in the middle of the night. Sacrificing sleep is one thing, having the original pre-planned programs for the next day all messed up is another.

In the end me, Jun An, Zeren and Shan Jing had to meet up at 3am to watch the pirates. We nearly had a second blunder when we went into the wrong theatre showing the same show and we thought that we were late for the show. In the end we managed to realize that we walked into the wrong theatre. Thanks god…

It was tiring enough to reach home at 7 am in the morning. And worse I got to help my dad deliver sacks of rice and daily necessities to a couple of temple and home. After a look and strenuous morning as a “coolie” I managed to reach home at 2 pm for some sleep before going out again with HJ and co to sing! Haha… quite enjoyable.. however it was a real long long day… no one to blame… I will be more careful next time! = )

Customers are not Kings…

Saw an article in Today’s newspaper with regards to a commotion that happened in a certain bank. The issue was that one of the bank’s customer officer attended to a man who seemed lost and wandering about without first attending to the lady who was supposed to be next in queue. The lady made a din out of it and embarrassed the bank officer. Why is this happening? I got my fair share of ugly Singaporean customers while working in the sales and service line.

Why can’t we be more gracious? Many complain that Singapore’s service sector is performing poorly and we need to improve on it. However I think that in order for our services to be improved, the attitudes of the customers should also be looked into. I do not like to enter into a confrontation. It is always better to settle things in an amicable way. Are we too demanding as customers? I guess so. Singaporeans expect too much. The everyday life is already stressful and tiring enough. Why make it worse for people? It will be such a wonderful thing to do if we can brighten up somebody’s day.

It may seem like something for the people in the service industry to do; however I beg to differ. People at the receiving end of the service can play their part as well. Who doesn’t want to have a happy day? We should all give and take sometimes. That’s my philosophy. Will it take a piece of flesh off you to wait for 5 more minutes? Will it make u happier at the end of the day to shout and express your anger at someone? We should do more to make everyone’s day brighter! What goes around comes around.

What a FEAT i achieved today...

Cool... i juz decided that i should maybe start a blog today... 兴血来朝... is this the correct spelling? or wordings? haa my chinese realli cmi... So sorry to 陈老师.. Hope she wouldnt and most prob she wouldnt read this... Such an embarrassment as a higher chinese student haa...

Oh to jusify my title for today... i wiped and cleaned... let me count... 15 doors and 2 metal gates (front and back gate, back gate is full of bird shit)! damn shag la... it took me more than 2 hours... frankly i'm more tired cleaning the doors den going to gym(has been trying to train and soup up a bit for IPPT)...

Living in a big house is really no luxury, esp if u do not have a maid at home... Many a times my friends come to my house and exclaimed wad a big house u live in... so good life ar... frankli its not so good as it seems... 3 storey terrace is not as big as some bungalows, but den the upkeeping can kill...

When i was younger(abt sec3) i was so excited that my dad is comtemplating buying a terrace... some of my cousins are also moving in the same direction... i was thinking wah seh, it will look so good man... now i think otherwise... the house is a drain on one's financial. every month's payment is already bigger than many ppl's money take home pay. u can imagine. My parents slog every day to make ends meet. every year they work at least 355 days... less than 10 days of off day... what a life... although i try to broach the subject of downsizing so that they can live a more comfortable and relaxed life( go on holidays... have been years since they last left singapore for a proper holi), since there are only 5 ppl in the family and we do not need such a big house... esp when most of the time the house is left empty when every one goes out... but each time i try to bring up the subject, my dad shoot it down like some super marksman... he can go be a sniper if he sign on..... (cash savings from not having to pay HDB on e season parking of 2 vehichles? the future financial benefits of owning a freehold property? the hassle of having to shift house? or just pride?)

seriousli i hold to be able to earn more money sooner so that maybe i can help to employ a maid at home, and also have enough money to convince them that they do not have to work so hard anymore...

Not sure how we appear in the eye of our relatives.. everyone noes that my parents are slogging one of the hardest... and not appearing at their stall to help out during their busiest period doesnt help... i really has no interest in selling incense paper, joss sticks or those materials used for praying... i do not like to just sit at e stall and wait for ppl to come buy the stuffs... too boring for me... another reason is that i feel that it makes more economical sense for me to bring in money by working in another company then to be employed by my own parents and taking from the money they earn... at least i try my best to make myself as self sufficient as possible...

talking abt part time work... hopefully coming june and july will two fruitful months! juz received a possible tuition assignment for sec 4 accounts once a week... tues wed and thurs will be my special sem! taking up electricity for modern society and also Professional Attachment Training( hope to be able to do my intern in Shang Hai!) and i also hope to land another job for one of the bank for every tues to sat 9pm to 1am... seriously this job will fit into my schedule so well... i can work at night and study in the day and also give tuition.. the rest of the day i can hv my own time also! that's the best case senario i'm hoping for haha... i cant laid back and do nothing.. that's juz so not me! i will go crazy...

i realli wanna make good use of all the time.. but hopefully it will not be too draining.. life is short.. esp when i noe and seriously feel that i'm not one who will have a long life.. i muz make good e time i have while i'm healthy... maybe i'm juz pessimistic or paronia( however u spell it) but i really got a sixth sense that i'm may get some scary disease.. i have zoom down to 3... Alzeimer, Parkinson, or Renal failure...

my reasoning:

1) Alzemier- i have a seriously bad memory.. u can ask my friend who has witnessed or observed it... sheng(LEON), sheng an and maybe shan jing... i can forget abt something that i asked before juz after a short while... there are many other instances....

2) Parkinson disease- Nerve system disease, one of the symptons is shaky hands or uncontrollable muscle.. how difficult is it to snap a photo? had this experience with KX and co outside liquid kitchen and trying to take a picture of everyone... i tried for 5 or 6 times and each time the picture turn out blurry... my friends tot some prob with e cam... another friend tried to take another pic and it turns out well... seriously i got shaky hands..

3) Renal disease- my grandma has it... and i think it runs in the family... doesnt help when i can feel my back kidney area to have some tingling feeling many a times....

haha, so that sums it all.. its a long long blog... looking forward to thurs outing at vivo to check out singapore sales, pirates of the carribean, and perhaps to sing KBOX! not forgetting i need to help my father in the morning to deliver sacks of rice and daily neccessities to various homes in singapore...( who says i'm not helping) deliberately kept the morning free for it.... doing good deals realli help.. good karma do exist... will talk more abt it next time! haa time to shower after sweating it out while wiping the numerous doors!

take care all my friends...