[[Cinderella's Moments]]

Sunday, July 16, 2006

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I finally bought my first policy yesterday. After much thoughts and discussions, i think i need some form of protections myself. The earth is round and you won't knows exactly what will happen to you the very next moment. I've seen how life comes and goes so quickly within this two years.. Its the very first time that i feel death is constantly ard us.. As a child, we often relate death as an aging problem. You die when u get old and death is seems too far for thoughts. But now, as a twenty-two yr old adult, i view death in another dimension.

Last yr, Shun's brother's incident had really caused an alarming effect. He was still living well (no illness) this moment but got involved in an accident the next. And before i even had time to see him, he left us. Its heart wreaking for any parents to see their child to leave the world before them.

This yr, my aunt was diagnosed with some form of cancer and she passed away within 3 mths from the diagnose. Its so scary. I saw her looking so well during CNY but in 2 mths time she was so thin, frail and bed-ridden. 1 more mth later, she was taken away from us. She left behind her beloved husband and 3 children. She's only 40+.

Death appears more often in my life. I no longer fear death. In dealing with death, I'm a firm-believer of fate. I believe that we will leave when our time is up. All we can do is prepare ourself for death. We have to had enough $$ for our family to live on (though i'm not the breadwinner), enough money for them to pull thru the trauma.

Older generation people detest the idea of discussing death issues when alive. However, i feel that there is absolutely a need to do so. Its a form of preparation and its like how we deal with fire hazards. We had mock fire drills to tell people where to go and wat to do in the course of fire. We should hold the same mentality for death, prepare ourselves from "what-if's" circumstances.

Told my mum abt the insurance and like older generation parents, she thinks that i think too much. I don't blame her but i i'm glad she respected my decision.

Anyway, besides protection, the insurance is an investment linked policy too. It means i'll save 100+ every month and invest it in the funds administered by the co. Value of my investment reflects the market value of the funds. Its part of my long-term financial goal for myself. I think its time for me to plan ahead and i'm glad that i have taken the step to do so.

Bought the policy from my good friend or rather bro - cy. He is my primary sch sch mates cum sec class mate. We knew each other very well and during our rebellious days.. (hahahah) we spent a lot of time together. A grp of us will often go his house after sch to study (or rather to play and have fun), go Seoul Garden for lunch almost every fri, watch upcoming movies at GV Yishun (i remembered that its pretty cheap then), hang ard Woodlands Causeway Pt. Its fond memories that we once shared and it depicts my wonderful secondary sch life.

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Saturday, July 15, 2006

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My life is totally upside down. My biological clock is not working as how it should be. My daily routine looks something like:

10am - wake up and wash up
10.30-12 - watch tv, surf net
12-1 have brunch while surfing net
1-2 preparing for work
2 - 10.30pm WORK
Reach home abt 11pm
Bath, watch tv and surf net till 2 am before i went to bed again...

Its wrong... totally wrong... i shouldn't be sleeping at 2am almost everyday... Though there are off days like Mon and Sun.. i still sleep at 2am everyday... looked so hagged now...

BOSS RESULT
BOSS is the system we have in SMU. Its our bidding system and during the period of bidding, everyone gets stressed up. First round of BOSS result released last mon. I bidded for 5 modules and got 3 out of the 5 mods.. not bad, considering the fact that i got nil course during Boss 1 bid last yr this time. I'm dropping one of the successfully bidded course so that i can bid on other courses.. hopefully i can get all the 3 mods...

Course that i'll be taking this coming term:

Basic melayu (confirmed)
Entrepreneurship Management (confirmed)
Reail Management (Pending)
New Product Development (Pending)
Service Marketing (Pending)

It will be so wonderful if i get the rest of the 3 pending mods. The whole semester will be filled with courses that i really like.. *keeping my fingers crossed for the 3 pending mods*

Shun's Dental Appt
Shun went for dental appt at SGH on wed. I woke up late (due to my 2am sleeping time) and so i met him there at a later time. My first time there at National Dental Center. Doesn't look like a medical center to me. It looks like an ordinary office building.. Anyway, he went there to arrange a date for his extraction of his wisdom tooth. The dental appt turned up to be a rather long process and after going thru 4 dental officers (nurse, dentist, 2 specialist dentists) shun was recommended to undergo a treatment for his jaw. So apart from his wisdom's tooth extraction, he was told that he has a jaw mis-alignment. His jaw is slanted to one side which causes his chin to look slightly slant. The whole treatment include 6-12 mths of braces (to straighten the teeth first) then undergo a surgery (1 mth) to align his jaw back to position and then post surgery braces to be put on for another 6-12 mths. Its quoted to be a duration of 2 yrs but being the pessimistic me, i think it may take 3 yrs or so. And the cost is steep too. $4000 for braces and $3000 for surgery.

I dun know if he is undergoing this treatment but i think he wants himself to look nicer too. The decision is his. Whatever he chose, i'll be by his side to support him however, the thought of surgery turned me off.. Too scary.. hahaha.. but if he choose to do so, we would be braces couple.. hohoho.. Shall ask my dentist the braces cost for Shun cos you need to queue for 2-3 yrs before its ur turn to undergo braces treatment with singapore dental center. That's long.... though u save a few hundreds (quite a lot) but u are wasting time!!! and i mean waiting time for your turn as well as long-waiting appt time. The whole process for an appt at govt medical center is so so so long.. i can't imagine i have to wait everytime i visit my dentist for braces adjustment. Its too troublesome.. or maybe i'm too impatience.. hahaha..

Meeting with Ann
After the dental appt, we went down to City Hall to meet Ann. Since we are early, we walked ard Raffles City and by chance, we saw the MPH store having a 30% discount STOREWIDE. (By the time u read this post, i'm sorry to say that the sale has ended.) Only MPH Raffles city has that sale cos its a relocation sale. They will shift to their new premises at basement one. Looked ard and we found the Rich Dad,Poor Dad book and its priced at the cheapest price that we had seen. After discount is $12.45. Thats cheaper than wat Popular sells. So we bought the first part and second part of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. NICE book. I only read the first chpt but i'll get my hands on it soon (till shun finish with the book first)

Met Ann at Sakae @ Dining at City Link next. One comment - SUCKS. The three of us ordered 3 different ramen. When the ramen came, it looked impressive at first. The whole presentation was good but after tasting it, i dun really like the taste. they taste rather different from what other Sakae Sushi offers. And all ramen taste the SAME or rather is the same. For instance, i ordered the fried chicken ramen (forgot wat its called in jap) and Ann orderd Tempura ramen. We each received the same bowl of ramen with the difference being having a small tiny plate of tempura for ann and a small tiny plate of fried chicken (only a pathetic small 3 piece chicken) for me. Something good abt there is that the computer system is workable. hahahaha.. cos often we had problem using the computer system that they have in Sakae.

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

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Shopping day today....

Went Orchard today with Shun and i get myself a pair of Mango jeans at only $37... hohohohoh... its a rare find.. Wanted to purchase Levis jeans but i can't seem to find one that fits well on me.. Those discounted jeans are mainly guy's... so unfair.. anyway, shun got himself a Levis jeans at $99 (usual price @ 159.90) I think its 501 but there are designs of torn patches on the jeans and it looks cool.. definately a good buy.. We bought a bag from Trendy Zone too.. Actually its for shun.. his new sch bag.. hahhaa.. Had lunch at Orchard Swensen's and discovered that they have a few new dishes. Shun tried their Salmon and mushroom pasta.. tasted not too bad.. i like salmon.. I had pepper seafood pasta (i think its this name).. Felt that the food were too salty.. or i should said its too heavily flavoured.. anyway, swensen's weekday lunch comes with desert, drinks and soup. Usually we will be served ice cream as desert but today we were served lime flavoured ice cream topped with cherry and pineapple at the bottom. But it doesn't taste like ice cream.. i think its ice ball.. anyway, its too sour for consumption and thats explain the untouched desert left behind by most patrons. Ate four leaves bread at their cafe cum bakery at OG Orchard. Four leaves breads are so tasty.. Fresh and nice.. And they have mini breads that's sold at 5 @ $2.40 (i think is either 2.40 or 2.50)

Went Bugis on Saturday.. And Bugis Street is so crowded and some stuffs are really cheap... Shun bought 2 very nice tees at only $15. Nice designs.. Singapore offers MORE and CHEAPER guy's clothes.

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Thursday, July 06, 2006

[[Taiwan Pic]]

Some of my taiwan's pic.. click on the cube to enlarge the individual picture to have a better view..

The foods that i ate...

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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

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i'm so bored at home... Alone at home somemore... so sian... Shun is doing his duty at Tekong and he is very very busy doing his work now and for the whole night... i dun dare to call him cos i'm interrupting his work and he won't be happy with me too.. The way he spoke to me makes me feel that he is blaming me for all these shits that he has to go through. Reason being i complained that he spent most of his weekend (last month) doing duty and so he specially converted his LAST duty (this duty) to weekdays. And weekdays duty are more demanding cos weekend you dun have big shots bossing u ard and you can slack all day.

He is like complaning to me abt the workload and seems to be indirectly blaming me for all these... i feel so pissed off...

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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

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Went for a temo job interview yesterday at hotel Royal Plaza on Scotts. Yes, its the hotel situated opposite Far East Plaza, beside the Duty Free Shop. Its just a temp HR admin and i have to wear formal. Argghhhh... Anyway, the staff entrance and their various offices (HR, engineering etc) was a schocking sight... so colourful.. feel like entering a childcare center when i walked along the passageway... hahaha.. anyway, job scope is rather simple.. and they provide meals for me.. not bad ah.. hopefully i get the job. The only bad pt is that i have to wear covered court shoe... Yeeeeeeeee... hate that man.. my poor feet is gonna suffer...

My mum and dad will be going to a 3D2N trip to genting and KL tonight. I wanted to go initially but i dun think its appropriate for me to take off from work again cos i have been taking offs for my Taiwan trip last month.. hee hee.. and the fact that i MAY get a day time job also affects my decision... Anyway, i'm planning for a trip this Dec.. maybe taiwan again.. hee hee or somewhere near like Batam or Msia.. oh yah, i happened to see a few items that i had bought in Taiwan selling here in singapore. and the price sold here is twice as expensive as the Taiwan's price.

I went Kbox with my mum, aunty and shun yesterday. Its a last min suggestion. Shun drove me and mum to Serangoon to pick my aunt and we headed for Jurong Entertainment Center for kbox. Had K lunch there and since yesterday was a school holiday (Youth Day), the whole place was crowded with kids, kids, and more kids... Wanna had 2 rooms (then we can sing our songs while my mum and aunt can sing theirs) but there wasn't much rooms available and if we really wanna have two, it will be quite far apart.. so in the end, we got 1 room. Its a rather big room. think its for 8 ppl.. The service for the day was damn bad.... They had not enough crews to cope with the massive crowd... Students nowadays are so rich... sing ktv at such young age.. Y isn't there Kbox when i'm in sec sch???

Waited for very long for our klunch. We had a choice of chicken rice or Mee Pok. I'm a bit shocked cos i expect Klunch to be a set lunch like what i used to have in Marine Square. Maybe cos Juring is in the suburban, they offer food that are slightly different from Marina Sq. And its also the first time that i have to pay way way way way before my time is up. Usually we will only get the bill at ard the last hr of our session but this time round, we were asked to pay even before we had our food... And we had to use the phone and call to place our order and to repeatedly request the food to be served faster... they are really short-handed... Worse thing is we ordered 3 chicken rice and 1 Mee Pok but we ended up being served 1 Mee pok, 2 Chicken rice and 1 nasi bryani. The reason for the Nasi Bryani is that they had not enough chicken rice... oh man.. but whats comforting is that the bill turned up to be rather cheap. only $33.76 for 4 pax. Thats rather cheap..

After kbox, we went IMM. I missed going to IMM when i'm still studying in SP. Since graduation, i have not went IMM. IMM have a makeover and they are still undergoing more upgrading. Its better to shop there now. Bought food from the Shilin snack outlet. The "dan bing" reminds me of the days in Taiwan... I miss their food.. espcially "dan bing" and "mian xian"...

Went Daiso and Giant. Bought $100+ at Giant.

Then off we go for dinner at Serangoon Chomp Chomp... Ate oyster omelette, satay, hokkien prawn noodles, sting ray, chicken wings, char kuey and sugarcane juice. Super full after that. Sent my aunt home and then we went Toa Payoh to collect my mum's new spec. The spec is cool man, the lens will change shade when its exposed to sunlight and becomes a sunglass... cool yeah.. and its frame is also very cool.. i wanna get new specs too...

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