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Yeah!!! I made it...

Yeah... managed to keep my expenditures under control, shows my planning is quite ok hehe
from my last payday till now only spent only $304 hehe... haha even though during the last month I bought 3 G2000($19x3=$57) shirts n went to underwater world($38)...

Hope every month will turn out to b like last month and savings will b on track... haha
must continue to work hard, b disciplined n save... hei sho hei sho

Are all parents like that?

Quite pissed off with some of the remarks made by my parents yesterday but i managed to keep my calm and let the storm passed... the story goes like this...

My parents bought a house in Muar Malaysia just before I was born so the house is almost 30 years old already lah... now they are considering selling the house because it's quite a chore colleting rent... As u know lah, the house old liao and never renovate all these year so a bit rundown... so my mum's auntie suggest she repaint the house (and made some renovation) so that it won't look that old and rundown and easier to sell...

My "resourceful" mother then suggested we go back to muar and repaint the house ourselves... yah just me and her... so u can guess at the end of the day it will be only me that will be doing the painting... so immediately i shot back: "6 hrs (3 to go there, 3 to come back) trip just to do painting?, u must be crazy " ... I mean there must be a better way right? like hiring some workers in M'sia to paint the house, somemore painting the whole house, can't finished in 1-2 days right?...

Then my parents got angry and started making scarastic remarks...

my mum:
says that i dun wan to go back cos i wan to be wif my dd over the weekends...

my dad:
says very angry that I am "zhi li pa wai" meaning I only help others ( referring to dd) and wun help the family , unfillial blah blah blah... very nan ting (hard to swallow words) .. somemore say if next time my own hse need help he also wun help...then fine lor i seldom depend on him anyway (except for $$ hehe) Grrrh...

I was quite pissed off then ... wat I said is wrong meh? make a trip to Msia just to do painting? come on lah I am not as free as last time leh... I am already working leh like tat rush here rush there not tired meh? very stupid right to go all the way there to do painting? ...

I pei my dd got wrong meh? I only pei my dd one day a week... alot meh? I feel it's very little liao but can't help it (cos of my laziness and the rising transport cost haha)... I don't think when they are PT that time, they only meet each other once a week lor... (dunno how to say themselves)... anyway I think tat's a valid reason also wat...if got hol then mabbe still can negotiate...repainting not that important that have to be done straightaway right?

The most piss-off thing that I find abt them is that they cannot accept rejection... they never take into consideration how I tried to help them when I can... and when I reject their request they immediately shoot words back at me... Who help them do spring cleaning? who help them run errands? everything they say I must say "Yes" meh? I cannot say "No" when I got no time or really dun think it's necessary? I must do watever they wan then is fillial ah? pls lor I wun do that...

Or mabbe it's cos I am too sui pian that's why they take me for granted... almost everything gonna come to me...

Some of my present tots..

Saw my neighbour's daughter and her husband in the lift just now... he daughter is only 1 yr older than me but already happily married (i presume) and wif a 1 yr old baby already...Such bliss.... found out frm my mum tat she is staying wif her husband's family at Yishun..Hmmm so not so good after all haha cos they haben have their own hse yet... but then saw that they are holding on to a yellow booklet which I think is the sales brochure for the JE and JW walk-in selection... so they are planning to buy a hse in JW/JE also... hehe just like me and dd...haiz but no more flats for us....gotta wait for next batch

sometimes I ponder whether it's more difficult to be a man or a woman in singapore(especially)..
For women:
Cast the physiological stuffs aside, sometimes I feel tat they succumb too easily to peer pressure and temptation especially those flowery talks (too bad I haben mastered it after so many years, my talks are all thorny haha, dd must be real sad).. other stuffs leave it to women to comment themselves haha

For Man:
they have to handle their family and their wives or at least future wife... Now the society is all abt money , after graduation u gotta pay this loan, that loan.. and have to handle the tricky relationship between their family and their girlfriends... Very often it's not wat we wan to do then we can do.. they are just too many implications...take for instance, a marriage proposal.. to some it may seem to be just the affair between the bride and the groom but some "old-fashioned" n stubborn parents dun see it tat way even in this 21th century... go ROM too early, they say u are desperate or they suspect something is already wriggling inside the girl. too late, the girl (and her family) will not be happy... sometimes it's really hard to satisfy both parties.. and the matter is made worse by both sides being not understanding, and the men is sandwiched in the middle...Don't listen to parents, u are unfillial, do listen to gf, she say u dun love her... Haiz... tat's the same case wif the allowance thingy now working got added responsibility and burdens, situation now is more shaky given that the guy have just started working and a yet-to-be confirmed staff so u can say he only got 1/2 a C so how to marry?...

Right now my no1 priority is to save as much as I can... hopefully can get a house as soon as 1 become available... and to do that I will need help from dd... wif my own strength, the effect is meagre there is only so much I can do and save... if I do get a hse, i wan to make sure it doesn't stay a white elephant for a long time... I wan to stay in it asap so I will need tons of money to make my little dream happen... some of my colleagues are comtemplating buying a car... with my present salary I think I can afford a car also not a OPC but a normal car... i can't say that I m not tempted (u should see the MRT commuters in the morning rush hrs and how I sweat like hell every morning...phew) but I think I can't cos if I do tat all my planned savings would go into the "mouth" of the car, i would have nothing left for my little hse... so now must save save save then can have a chance to own my little hse... however saving itself is a hard thing.. sometimes there are something(eg..computer,etc...) tat broke down and needed replacements or u see that nice nice MP3/MP4 player tat u LOVED very much and swoosh away goes ur hard-earned money... it really breaks the momentum...

Heard alot of "horror" stories frm the seniors in my coy... how hard work it is to be a software engineer, gotta work late into the nights (but no OT pay), only the super smart survives blah blah blah... dunno whether I have made the correct choice to be a software engineer or not.. but my interest is definitely in writing codes and some electronics hardware work(so I guess this work kinda suit my interest)... dunno interest can be turned into $$?

BTW, one of my colleagues broke the bond and decides to leave the company (and join another one which he claims he have much more interest in the job) and he gotta pay $11k ... he's 21 this year an indian national.. think he too young thus still very fickle-minded... dunno how he going to find $11k to pay the coy... haiz that's the price to pay for being indecisive i think

Not-so-good saturday

Today not very good for me,... my default windowsXP theme suddenly disappear then I loaded up with the classic windows theme, the gray window2000 one... then no matter wat I do I still can't get it back ... Grrr... I think I kena some virus... wasted almost an hr restarting and starting the computer...

In the end, gotta do a system restore to get my orginal windows theme back...
but in the process I lost some of the files which I installed after the system restore... oh well at least I got my theme back...

wanted to buy another G2000 shirt, the gray one which dd said is nice... didn't buy it at Tiong Bahru cos they dun have my size at that outlet... somemore my mum made a mistake and told me that this shirt cannot be ironed straight...grr so dun really dare to invest but in the end even if I wan to they dun have my size.... but the problem is I dunno which outlet has my size... search internet also can't find all the numbers for the outlet... gotta ask one by one meh? tedious...

sighz think just give up the idea lor...

Double Whammy

Haiz hit a double whammy today, very unlucky...
1st of all, didn't get the zoo pass cos lost the ballot...
2nd, can't get tickets to "pirates of the carribean" cos the only seats available are those at the front... grr...

But then managed to get a shirt at G2000 at $19 ... hehe now I can be a potato(cos the shirt is potato color)... but both my dd n mum say nice so guess being a potato is not tat bad.. haha

My other fren went to Siemens for interview today... well he managed to clear the "test" easily cos of my help (i told him abt the qns so tat he can prepare beforehand) but dunno whether he will be accepted or not... if he's accepted means another $500 if he's confirmed haha

Did something good also yesterday.. managed to help me frens get additional convocation tickets hehe...

Yeah! I finally got my own namecard...haha 1st time now I feel more like a working professional hehe
3rd week at siemensVDO adapting fine I guess, I think mainly cos there are many new employees so we sort of got a small little gang hehe and not so marginalised by the cold reception of our seniors (cos they are real busy lah not like us so free)

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why everyone seems to be so rich nowadays while I am so poor...
sad... sad...

Additions to the NTU family in Siemens

Heard that one of my fren will be joining Siemens in the coming weeks and another have managed to secure an interview... By right i should be happy right? cos if they are confirmed I MAY get a referral fee of $500 for each head... somemore it means that the NTU family in siemens will be growing.. but I say may cos I dunno if this scheme applies to "unconfirmed" staffs like me... haiz...

Anyway I dunno but sometimes I find it hard to work wif someone who likes to brag about his achievements... (like my elder bro...) no doubt u noe some staffs but sometimes I dun really like the way they say it across lor... sounds very arrogant to me and I dun really fancy arrogant and braggards haha... anyway I can't choose my colleagues so no choice lor...

anyway I think my attitude today when speaking to my fren was quite bad cos I was having a headache and the weather is quite warm... (it doesn't help that he's asking some stupid qns that I can't find any ans for it eg. how come u reach home so fast? why didn't meet ur gf today?) .. very sorry for tat attitude...

Also have been thinking abt dd and me also... how we can "click" together... now I got a tot, tat is our character makes us "interdependent". For me when I wan to make decisions, I would like a 2nd or 3rd opinion and then analyse them before making decisions, u can say I am indecisive but I always think it's better to get a 2nd opinion to help in making more correct (and better) decisions... For me my 2nd n 3rd opinion comes frm dd haha (she should noe I always consult her even the color and make of my shirts ) usually I always wan her to acompany me to buy such stuffs for the abovementioned reason hehe but she always very uninterested... haha She is more decisive than me lah (but doesn't mean she always make correct decision)... somemore if anything happen can push the blame to her mah haha... just joking...

And becos I am a more logical person while she is more impulsive I think I am her nemesis hehe I help keep her bad habits in check( if I can see it and she lets me) so in this sense we are mutally dependent hehe