Some Updates

Ahh how time flies, Today is Oct 5th aleady...means wat?
Oct 3- 6th aniversary of my enlistment
Oct 4- 1 yr since i got my driving lic -> i dun need to hang the triangle sign anymore haha

Fast right? very soon my martial status might b "married" also ... ... ...

Can't help but keep thinking of the JW eflat we are getting. Did another comparison wif a similar new flat.found out that it's exactly $13k more expensive... Worth it? err.. frankly speaking at the rate we are gg i think the reno is not worth $13k lor.. somemore i think dd is not happy wif many of the renovations so i think in the end they all have to go... perharps it would be more worthwhile to get a new one... But then now it's too late to think of this now.. Now I am psyching myself that we pay that little bit more because we wan to stay on the "better" side ofthe block(more sunlight ->brighter) and "8" is a lucky number.. watever... dun think of the worthwhile thingy...dunno y no matter wat we always cannot get something cheap... always get something at "normal" price(but usu turn out quite good, hopefully this unit will b the same)..
I think once we decided on something liao then mustn't get distracted and think of others lor..very bad... dun go think of "if i get this other flat, will it be better?" something like tat... waste time and will make urself feel miserable..

HDB launching a new exec condo at Tampines called the "Primere @ Tampines"... Price range from $308k-$450k.. i think everyone was quite hyped up abt this... anyway the price includes aircon and renovations (meaning u gotta accept the developer's renovations)... Did some interesting calculations... if get a unit at middle floor cost abt $379k..if got rebate = $349k
total sum gotta pay a month(including 2.6% interest)=$1220++ a mth. meaning the CPF ordinary acc will have $0 for the next 30yrs...

Worth it? depends on ppl...dd seems to be excited abt the word "condo" ... hmm mabbe she is trying to get her last "C"? mabbe but to be honest, it does not appeal to me...

Been thinking abt th words "dreaming" and "ambitious" also... I think there's also a thin red line between these 2 just like "good" and "bad"... after some tots, finally come out wif some definitions(my own). Dreaming - Think of "wants"(sometimes mateial gains) but not how to achieve it, not being realistic. Ambitious - think of realistic targets and also the plans to achieve it.

also have been thinking whether I am very odd for my age... at present, colleagues of my age group are out enjoying themselves wif massages(decent ones), Karaoke, dancing, clubbing etc (even my elder bro)...as for me? no, nothing mabbe some sports once in a while and most of the time saving $$.. some of my colleagues are also saving $$ lah, but for me it's for marriage, for them it's to get their dream car...
Am I really the odd one out??

New Running Route

Finally the abrasion on my knee cap had recovered to a stage where i can go jogging again haha
Tried a new running route today ... which is abt 2.4km longer than the previous one...

Previous: abt 6km

New: abt 8.4km




took around 28mins to run the 1st route but 45mins to run the 2nd... mabbe it's cos I 1 week nv run liao so quite slow.. anyway i also deliberately controlled my speed today lah cos trying new route mah... the new route quite shiok cos it's like 1 big round compared to the old one which is basically linear. But after come back legs a bit light... mabbe it's cos 1 wk no train liao...
gotta train more...
anyway going to stick to this one 1st... gg to increase the distance to 10km gradually... haha hopefully by the end of this way i will be able to run from my coy back to my home (abt 14km) hehe
Mabbe this would b my "mei mei xin liang" training? kekeke

Another Completed Project

Another one of my completed papercraft project... hehe another panda... Nice?

gg to be assigned to a project soon, dunno how my fellow colleagues are gg to "torture" me... after relaxing for so long(almost 3 mths) dunno can pick up or not... hehe

My neighbour downstairs came up to create some little trouble on Sunday say we purposely create noise for him... Wah in day time leh how can got no noise? u noe lah my house 4+1 guys super active one sure alot of noise (most of the time), somemore got 2 like those high bass music ..but i tot such things are quite common in HDB flats right? mabbe he old liao a little noise also canot tahan so bcome quite eccentric... anyway he complained to HDB liao...so let them investigate lor we didn't purposely make noise to disturb them wat.. the other neighbours can vouch for us...

dd started gg into fengshui lately cos of the impending house... aiyoh actually i am not tat superstitious but i also went to look at some of it...
http://www.geomancy.net/default-spore.php
hmm quite interesting but I am not gg to be obessed with it... mabbe some of the things I can do then do lor (those that can be easily done one) ..but not follow everything strictly lah...see finance more impt...

Utimately i think it's just between the 2 persons lah... in our case: me and dd, i believe that if we can work together united hand in hand, we will b able to overcome all obstacles...

Crushing me

Some big things happened lately...
Recieved a mail on Thursday night from HDB saying that they have approved our application for the JW flat... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Then Friday dd went to took for a China Trip to Yunan Area (Dali, LiJiang...)... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Strange feeling, at one end was feeling happy cos getting a house is always wat I've been thinking of and gg on a tour is something i've never done before, Ive never taken an airplane all my life (too bad there are gg to be 5 VERY BIG lanterns who will b tagging us Grrr dunno whether dd purposely witheld this info when she called me @ NATAS or not)...
at the other, got a feeling of being CRUSHED ...

it's like suddenly there's a HUGE rock being dumped on my shoulders... The money problem comes again... If I spend too much on my tour, will it leave too litte for the house? How am i gg to find so much $$ for the house renovations?
I think I am gg to need around $2000 for the tour(though I hope it could be done within $1000) this is about my 2 months savings and mabbe a year's savings for dd... Haiz

It's doesn't help that dd wans to change this and change that cos she feel that they are "ugly"... If u refer to my earlier post, I already mentioned tat we are buying a repurchased flat sort of same with a resale ... it's about $12k more expensive than a empty unit but the advantage is if u can accept the prev owner's renovations, there's not much to be done already... if u are gg to change everything, for sure, the total cost will add up to be more than the $12k and in that case, u might as well get a empty unit... it's cheaper in tat sense and i think this is wat the HDB staff is trying to tell me earlier when I went to make the flat booking...wat i propose is to build stuffs around the orginal reno so that we can sort of hide the "ugliness"... Of cos I can understand tat everyone wans their home to be the most perfect home for them, but mabbe sometimes we ought to be a bit more realistic and strike some balance...

Sometimes I really admire dd, i think she can spend w/o much qualms, it's totally different for me, whenever I wan to buy something, I need to think of alot of things... Sometimes I really hope I can have the "spend 1st, Think later" attitude ... I only buy things that I really need now(or those dd ask me to buy) ... Perharps it would be better for me to think less don't u think?
I really dunno how to save alot of $$, seriously i dun think i can do it alone... if it's only me saving and dd spending, sooner or later i'll be disgusted again and lose my motivation...
I think it's a MUST tat both of us work together in this area...

Now looking fwd to the Guizhou trip after tat dunno whether we still can have enough $$ or not... haiz


Now for some light hearted events..I've finally completed my "Himeji castle" after slogging it out for almost 5 nites... not ery well done but if u dun look closely u wun find the faults ...


I'm gg to re-arrange my room, since i am not sleep inside mabe i will take away my bed so tat the room will be more spacious...
Suffered abrasions to my knee since last week playing soccer till now still not yet recovered ( I swear that I am stronger than them if they play fair and not resort to sly tactics to push me).. haiz 1 wk no go jogging liao...getting fatter n lazier...Knee quickly recover k?

kindness and concern

How should kindness & concern be given? wat are they? how often should they be given?

wat constitutes kindness and concern?
is it the gift of $$? the care and concen shown?

how often should they be given?
constantly? or once in a while?

I think men are by large ungrateful, many a time we take things for just for granted... in the case of kindness and concern, we dun really stand up and take notice of the kindness and good that are always around us, instead when someone shows some once in a while, we will stand up and and take notice of it...
just like the air and water around us, we always expect them to be there, to be clean day in day out... readily available, we never stop for a while to value their existence... not even a single moment

search ourselves, how often do we stop to see what others are doing? very often, a little to u may mean big to them, to lift a burden off someone, means to put the load upon themselves... so is this a show of affection?

so which is a better way to show such affections? perharps it's appropriate to treat someone cold all the while, then once in a while, treat them better perhaps there's a better "contrast" this way and it would be more noticeable...

constantly showing it, people would tend to take it as "natural" just like the sun should rise and set everyday ... nothing special already... tat affection just become "worthless" though in fact, it's much more valueable than anything...just because we treat it as natural, we dun feel anything abt it...

mabbe we should all do it this way, treat someone so-so for majority of the time, then once in a while treat them better perharps it would make u feel more important to that person...don't u think?

Pressing On

I think the last few weeks have seen alot of blog entries by me... mainly focus on 1 topic - impending House haha... very excited cos it's something that I've been thinking abt for a very long time liao to be able to own my very own home... yeah!

Though we haben got the keys yet, but i believe the "deal" is 60-70% through because
1) HDB is trying very hard to sell off JW flats (esp exec)
2) I believe dd and me meet the criteria for them unless they don't wan to approve someone who hav just started on his career ( still shaky). but that's quite impossible, cos i got a fren who applied (and got) a house in SengKang before he started working...

Now then still got alot of issues to settle... to many people, buying a house now is a very rash decision, actually to me also this way... i guess I was pretty much affect by my own desire then tat I did not think as logically and comprehensive as I should. But now since everything is almost concluded, i think it's time to just carry on wif other things...

Main problem is even we have the flat we have no $$ to renovate/furnish it, so it will be just lying there collecting dust, depreciating (mabbe not)...Haiz also can't marry so early too, haben marry how to live in it? marriage need hell lot of $$....

buying a repurchase flat i think the main reason is cos of the previous renovations lor, save $$ mah thus when buy tat time really need to consider living wif some of the "ugly" existing renovations...else just buy a new one and renovate from scratch right? As wat I always said, it would be more expensive to knock down everything and rebuild rather than build up from scratch...

Had a idea abt renting the flat out once we got the keys (not sure whether we can do it or not under HDB ruling)
Logically speaking, it's good because a whole unit can be rented out for $1000 a mth (should have alot of people fighting for this price) and if we rent out for a year we could have extra $12000 (twice the amt of of my savings) for other stuffs...

but then if we rent it out, we cannot slowly build up our little nest... dd and i can't visit it as and when we like... to just walk walk and do some work here and there to "decorate" and furnish the house.
Also the tenant might not take care of the house after returned to us it becomes err... in a different state
it's not very nice to chase the tenant out after a year also(cos if i wan to rent, i would only rent for a year after that gotta start renovations and prepare to move in liao)

Eventful Week

I think last week was a very eventful week for me... mabbe not alot of events happened but a major one really lifted my spirits...

Took up a new hobby papercraft making haha...
it's abit like my model making but it's much cheaper hehe cos u only need to print out the "parts" on paper and assemble them... ho ho
here's a good site if u'll are interested:
http://www.3dpapermodel.com.tw/

some of my completed projects:




Friday
went to view the unit which most likely would be our(me and dd's) new house...
but had a small fight there, cos she was late bcos of her wakeboarding(again) and that made me feel that her attitude towards the house was bad but i think tat is settled...

Saturday:
spent the whole day building my "suzuki swift" model... finally complete it at 12pm so happy then went to sleep...

Sunday:
woke up very early @ around515am cos promised dd to go wif her to eat b'fast then to the terry fox run for hope @ sentosa... dd came to pick me up then we went back to her home to pick her bro up then went eat b'fast together...
Rained throughout the whole event and dd walk the entire distance...
Then we went back to dd's home to take a shower, had lunch and she took a nap... after that I woke her (sort of pester) up cos she said wan to go temple @ waterloo st to pick divine lot for the house... She finally set her mind at ease when she drew a good lot... for me I prefer not to think abt it... sunboi's words of wisdom "sometimes things are best untouched, some stuffs are better to stay unknown"

Wat really perk me up:
dd ask me to put the $1000 she give to me last time (she said for the china trip initially) into our dd's fund... yeah, so happy finally see some contribution from dd, not a lot but at least better than nothing right? hope that there's more to come (though not much hope)... but at least it's a begining... I put $1100 into monkdees UOB acct already ($1000 + $85(from sale of crumpler bag) + $15 top up from me).. now monkdees acct got $6600 liao...
dunno why always cannot save beyond $8000(in fact $7500) always got something to make me spend away... tat time got $7000 then give dd $2300 for car car, then slowly save back till $7500, then give HDB $2000 for option fee... haiz...

this month could have $7800 if i could put my usual $1200 into bank, but then promised dd to go china wif her this december so no choice gotta allocate funds for it...so mabbe this month can only save $400-500 mabbe?

got 2 bday's this mth, my youngest bro and eldest bro..bought a bossini shirt for my youngest bro and a pendant for my elder bro... and a hdd casing for myself...total cost: $18 + $55.90 + $9
$82.90... for personal things...

anyway tat's a slight digression, very happy today so spend alot..(cos of the rain also, can't go to cheap food center) had a $3.20 meal (2 vegies+1meat extortion!), $1.5 green apple juice and $1 for ice milo (tea break) - lunch 1 chk wing , breaded chicken and cheese stick (all from BBQ express) additional for dinner cos i went to BP to save the $$ mah...

dunno why when I am happy I spend alot, when I am not I also spend alot... haiz
must try to save more for house and dd...
nv buy much personal things last mth.. but still end up wif less $$ then expected...

Reflections

Very often people forgot all the good other people did, the only thing they will remember is the bad the others did, or the things they didn't do. In life, many things that are done are not obvious, it's gradually overlook and taken for granted whether it's a person, or a good someone did... it just get forgotten...

I should be getting a house in the near future, some one once asked " how commited are u to the house"? I replied "about 80%" which in fact is quite a conservative answer... Fact is it has always been on my mind ever since we moved into the 2nd/3rd year of my RS. Ever since, i've been working hard to save every penny I can because $$ is the most important thing to make my so-call house dream come through ... I dun dare say that I have done all i could, there are time where I do buy on impulse, but the times that I do think is certainly much more greater than the times I don't

If u'll have been following my blog, I used to have a quite expensive hobby, model building. A scaled plastic model doesn't come cheap, and the paint I have to buy as well... but for the sake of saving money, that have to go...

Someone exclaimed that I am a very anti-social guy, cos I always dun follow my fellow frens to do wat youngsters always do, Go karaoke, pub, disco watever ... in fact i hardly go out wif them until they dun really ask me out anymore, just going out cost $$, so my socialisation is kept as minimal as possible.

"Everyone have to own an levis jeans", an ad once said, but I don't, i can't say I dun wan one, I've never worn a levis jean, man studio shirts or anything that costs more than $50. Look into my clothes cupboard to verify, there are all cheap stuffs, even most of the tshirts are 2-3yrs old...although such stuffs are well within my means (esp now) ... but i am still not gg to do it...

conscientiously, i've taken pains to ensure my monthly spendings does not exceed $360 a mth so tat I can comfortablely save $1200 ++ every month. it's not simple, considering my transport alone cost around $100, and another $50 for hp bills, leaves me with just around $200 every month for food and personal stuffs... have to make sure I spend less than $3 every afternoon.

not to mention all the stuffs every guy wans, cars, credit cards and other ex entertainment... did i go for it? if there was no commitment from me, with the level of my savings, I am quite certain I can easily go for a car and live a more interesting and entertaining life at the expense of little or no savings at all...

For wat purpose, do I constantly nag? to incur people's wraft?
How often have I been given empty promises? Though I HATE empty talks, most of the time I overlook them and took all the $$ savings upon myself, frankly it has not been all smooth sailing...

Graduation trips? Almost all my frens have went on holiday either before or after graduation? me? I NEVER went anywhere at all... wat for again?

how many times have I resisted investing in a new computer? people around me have all started using PCI-E, 533/800FSB, DDR-RAM, sata hdd.... even sec school students are using more powerful computers, some have even changed 2x.. sometimes I really want to change the computer seeing the yellowish casing of mine... I am still stuck wif my SDRAM, 133FSB n my 4x AGP... even my bros outside are using newer computers... Haiz

my shoes have started to open it's mouth to "talk" but i did not go for a new one, instead i bought a $2 contact glue to "zipped" up it's mouth... wat's all these for?


Digicams, $400(coolpix), another $300 (ixus) and then $600 (and more) for SLR... all these was done while i was still in NTU, no income at all.... all the pennies are slowly saved from where? from the allowance(except for the SLR) I get frm my mum every week. this does not include the $10/20s for meals etc...All these from $200 a month...

I admit that I am a poor lover, I dunno how to sweet talk, or do romantic things, but I am 99.99% commited to dd... look through the whole blog history... I am not a very great person, neither can i boast of great looks nor achievements. But I am doing all I can to save the most amt of $$ in the least possible time... this is my commitment, I am not NATO (No Action Talk Only), neither do I talk alot abt wat I am doing... but sometimes I think i need to speak up more so that others would start to notice me more before they judge me.

All these are not commitments?

one of my female frens asked me why am i doing most of the savings, y dun I just go out and enjoy like the rest out there... but can i simply heck care? common sense would tell u the consequences.. think again perharps I should enjoy myself more, i've been living this lifestyle for so long, mabbe with some difference others could more easily see the contrast?

my present life is indeed boring, it revolves around my family, my work and dd only perharps it really time for me to change my lifestyle...


Now i am seriously contemplating looking for a PT job where I could work at nights and weekends... just to generate more income.. but I dun think my job would permit me to do so...

sometimes all a guy wan is to be recognised and appreciated, he doesn't need much fanfare or praises... if u dun doubt him it's enough

1st entry into parking idiot yeah!

captured a toyota Corolla altis in a(actually 3) motorcycle lots, saw that pic was quite interesting so sent to http://parkingidiots.blogspot.com/ ... and it just got posted haha
will keep a lookout for more of such pics ... yeah yeah

Once Bitten meant twice shy?

Suppose to meet dd to view the unit today, little do i noe she went to wakeboard again. And u noe wat? she is LATE again.... she was suppose to pick me up to go to the unit together, because I sneaked out of office... not through proper channels->still on probation, no leave to take. Grrh... in the end i had to spend $9.90 to take cab n rush there from office... very risky cos i might b spotted taking cab, and that will send tongues wagging, that's why i suggest dd come fetch me... reduce the risk..

I was VERY ANGRY then, not because she was late or wat, but because i just dunno wat she's thinking in her brain, if made promise, MUST keep it... else DON'T make at all... I am sure many people dun wan to hear empty promises...
Anyway I also find it hard to deceive myself that WAKEBOARDING is more any more important than house viewing... I dun mind taking a risk just to see the unit...
Frankly speaking, I am starting to dislike the WAKEBOARDING thing. I don't see any fun in it..

firstly, it's boring, -> u hold on to a string and let the boat pull u ... u just try to keep balance
costly, pls this type of "sport", u need a boatman, boat and the gear... will NEVER be cheap
USELESS, i don't see how this can qualify as a sport, trying to keep ur balance is a sport? then u might as well try to balance on a giant ball, more effective right?

anyway i was so angry just now that i was contemplating the idea of withdrawing the application. dd's attitude, it seems to be that she uninterested like tat... wan to buy also she but looking at her lax attitude, i m very worried tat in the end, i will b the only one keeping the whole idea afloat. rather hurt now then b sorry later... though she promised that she will help me make the house work but u see from today's episode her promises to me are seldom fufilled...

There are many tivial things (to me) that i can compromise but not important things...

1st time during the application i can excuse, but i told her sternly that time liao that this is not the right attitude, nv did i noe she will repeat this again.


My views:
If want house then play less, else just continue to play forget abt the house
Promise people only things u can do it don't make promises u can't keep
Plan before u act/speak
When u are in the wrong, don't act/speak as if u are right, it just make people more angry
so difficult to say "sorry" than to speak harshly meh?
Get ur priorities clear, decide on wat's more important and wat's not
Show some remorse when u noe u are wrong... and not try to defend urself wif funny logics

worse, the stupid HDB agent is 45mins late... Grrr... wanted to tell her off, but then later think deeper, she will be handling the "defects" for us so had to give her some "face" and spare her now...

The whole house thingy is making me so tired....so much things to think, so much things to decide

Tell off dd just now, dunno whether she can LISTEN or not... Need to sit down and trash out many things, find out wat she wants and not waste anybody's time, effort and money...
else i really dunno wat to do... really very very very tired already...

went to geylang after that, just to eat wif my colleagues lah...cos some of them gg Germany for training soon...had dim sum, beef hor fan, tou hua and you tiao and bitter guilin gao... all in small portions... nice to eat leh...then jalan jalan there a while come back liao...
took some pics of the place...

Trip to Sim Lim

Went to Sim Lim square yesterday ..cos dd's uncle wanted to buy a new PC... seems that he change PC mroe freq than me hehe anyway i was in the area to collect my "digimate III" ...it's a portable HDD casing with a card reader which is very handy when u go overseas cos memory cards got limits mah and cannot bring too many(ma fan)
I saw one at Yahoo! auctions selling $70, and PPCP (online camera shop) selling $75 while i bought mine at $55.90 also at a online shop but i gotta go there collect... then i went "tour" around sim lim found a shop willing to sell at $65, mabbe with abit more bargain can get @ $60... grrri tot i bought cheaply...but not too cheap also haiz...

anyway back to the sim lim square tour, found that i am quite "outdated" in terms of computer technology n equipment... i m still using SDRAM, 133 FSB, now already got 800FSB, PCIE blah blah blah and so many casings...quite tempted to upgrade my computer to these newer ones...
nvm gotta bear with it... the time i move house will b the time i upgrade my computer unless my computer chose to die before it sees the new hse hehe

something(i think it's a grain of sand) got into my eye, tried getting it out with many methods but failed..slept with "it" until this morn... think it just got "flushed" out, so uncomfy!..

my digimate III

New Chair

Yeah got a new chair, a 2nd hand office chair... too bad it's red in color but it's bigger than i expected... haha looks kinda odd in my room cos already very cramp, now with this big chair even more cramp haha... anyway for $20 it's a very good buy orginal price i think it's more than $80 for this type of chair...
as long as it's worth the $$ i dun mind 2nd hand stuffs hehe
mummy scold me say why i always like to buy 2nd hand stuffs... daddy defended me saying that it's a virtue that i noe how to save $$ haha... oh ya daddy fetch me n new chair back... and he nv scold me for making him come all the way to pick me up(at depot rd)... hehe
brother even boasted that $20 is ex, cos he nv buy chairs before, wait till he started buying his own stuffs...
big chair so comfortable... arghhhh....

some pics of the chair:

Paranoid DD

today dd dropped me a bombshell after reading her fren's blog on new hse, like house "unclean" lah etc... I mean such things should have been considered BEFORE deciding to book the house and not after booking right? aiyoh then again, it's the wakeboarding fault again(her whole mind must have been thinking abt the wakeboarding thingy so other issues just passed her by), looking back i agree that it have been a rash decision...
If u look at my earlier blog entry, I spent many hours on friday night thinking about the history, whether the loc of house is good, whether it's too big for us blah blah blah before i finally decided to press ahead... i think by then it's abt 2am liao hehe then saturday i left at 7am to toa payoh already...
I mean it would have been much better had dd n I met to trash out such issues instead of leaving me thinking alone about it... like wat i said "it's a gamble", and i have decided to take it... if for watever reasons, the house is not good, then it's my fate... can't blame anyone...
afterall i belive that i am not tat evil (but not tat good either) to receive such retributions, i still believe god is fair.
anyway i still hope that everything will turn out fine, and i believe too that we are not that unlucky...

seriously i dun think the unit could b huanted... cos i notice that the other floors are occupied, i mean it's common sense right? if the unit below or above u is huanted would u still dare to live there?

*anyway u look at it this way, those ppl who buy new flats also cannot visit their unit before booking right? Hope this whole thing won't turn out to be a $2000 lesson...
pray pray

Bro's Rabbits

Some pics of my bro's rabbits, boy they sure eat alot...

New house=New $$ Woes?

Was quite unhappy today cos of a few incidents

1) dd not wif me at HDB to listen to stuffs which i feel are very important to us, not exactly angry cos of her abscence but more bcos of the reason she is absent.

2) tried to called her many times to explain the situation, n discuss (hey i m no MCP, i discuss) but no1 pick up the phone. Then again was not happy cos i feel she should b quite attentive to the news frm my side.

Finally i made the decision after overcoming a few worries (some yet to overcome)

1) Reason why previous owner abandon flat? huanted? unlucky? - overcame
2) State of flat? - overcame
3) Too big/ex for us? - should n manageable lah

The biggest worry is dd's attitute, cos i m not sure whether this is one of her "3min heat", I see some worrying signs in her:

1)Not knowing her priorities - (1) n (2) frm her choice of choosing to go wake boarding 2)Still wilful n Playful instead of HDB

3) Commitment level - not really sure of her commitment level, cos a flat is BIG investment till now actually i dun see much "commitment"
from her

4) Intolerance - not very open to ideas and flaults of others. eg. i waited an hr
sitting at the kerb at expo so backside ache, went walk
around, kena scolding by her for not picking up her calls. Yah
n i haben even started scolding her for not picking up my calls
at the much more t important time (n bis) tis morning and
making me wait 1hr w/o any info at all, and all this while this
idiot me sit down there thinking that she was packing her
stuffs while she ate wif her boss (don't she every feel guilty?)

Thinking of it now, i can't help but feel that the flat was abit of the rash decision, though if got it would b a good thing. Now hoping dd can tweak her mindset n be more open and willing to accept ideals (not b so defensive, mabbe abit more trustworthy would b good) ...


getting a bit tired liao, slept only 3-4hrs yesterday night, mainly thinking abt what might go wrong... later realise that i shouldn't think tat way, should think of how it might go right

Today @ HDB Hub

Went HDB early this morning to apply for a executive-flat in JW under the WIS ... the whole process was a breeze... guess now all that's left are those leftovers haha... went yesterday night to view the unit but couldn't enter... but could see that there was some renovation done..

dd very bad, went wakeboarding leaving me alone to do all these... there are many schemes/procedures that i think will need her to be around... for example, there's a $20k grant for low income families which i think we can qualify but then need to produce marriage cert on the day when getting keys somemore need to produce alot of documents also... then in the end nv applied for tat scheme cos dun think can get registered within 3 mths n quite troublesome to dig out all the documents (not help when dd's not around)...

then went inside to tok to the lady abt the selection, think the info is quite important for both of us... since the flat was bought in 1999 meaning it's 7 yrs old liao... wanted to inform dd abt this n get her opinion but then she nv pick up also and if dun like the flat, and wan to change gotta reapply again and pay $2000 ...grrrr then in the end i just took the gamble... hope it paid off
i think it's quite cheap for an exec, $280k... but dunno whether it will b too big for us or not leh... hehe

now all the procedures are done, waiting for the HDB to see if they will approve our applications... Maybe this blk 628 #08-394 JW st 65 would b our new home?

Now thinking of it, everything is like accelerated leh... suddenly apply hse, then gotta register marriage... dunno whether ready or not? need alot of $$ for all these.. anyway I will b really happy if we can get the hse, cos then we can slowly decorate our hse and in abt 2-3yrs time(hopefully) it will b ready for us...

The most worrying thing would b the $$ prob... dunno whether got enuff $$ for all the house stuffs... and dunno whether dd would "tone" down a bit and start to b on the ground... and start putting more attention n resources into the house... cos it's a big house.. i dun think i can do it alone wif my only my effort ..so i think it's critical time to realise the importance of teamwork...

Hopefully everything will work out fine, the house can get, dun need much renovations and can get enuff $$...

Why everyone bullys me?

Why does it seems that everyone wans to bully me?

In school:

during projects, i do work, others copied mine to submit...

Do FYP, delegate work but no output in the end, i ended up doing most of the things

At Home:

I became sick on saturday, fever, whole body was lethargic still being asked to cycle to Post Office to get Phone book (while my brothers slept/play computer games)


Whenever something breaks down, i gotta repair it(the others don't care) and if I don't i will b scolded as being selfish and dun wan to contribute to family

Anything tat comes to contributing $$, i gotta contribute, if i dun i will b scolded again



how comes it's seems like when i am kind-hearted to help, people take me for granted.. after a while, they get used to the help and when i dun rendered any help I m bad...why is it so hard to please everyone?

i've decided to go on a hol in dec, boss please dun stop me...

The happiest people in the world are not those who have no problems,
but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect.

Big house, small house; Good Loc,Bad Loc

HDB started balloting it's unsold flats at Tanglin Halt recently, dd and i also went to join in the crowd... price of flat is abt $260k-$320k for the 4rm flats... abit steep if u ask me... it's even more expensive than a exec flat in JW...

comparison between blk 628-630 JW n 4rm queenstown:

JW Queenstown

size: 130 sq m 85-90 sq m

Price: $260k-270k $264k-320k

Amentities: many, but quite far west established
not easily assessible assessible
far away frm town near town


so the debate is to live in establish estate n pay more $$ nearer to many amentities or live futher away frm town , more comfortably? difficult choice ...

However my view is this is not the crux of the prob... to b honest, i m very keen to get a hse... but i m not sure abt dd.. i really dunno her level of commitment...cos a house is a SUPER BIG commitment, I really cannot do it by myself... and here i DON'T mean CPF monies... i mean REAL HARD CASH.... cos if we are gg to have a house of cos we wan to move in ASAP right? cannot leave it lying there collect dust, like a white elephant... that's not right isn't it? renovations, furniture, electrical applicances blah blah blah cannot b paid off by CPF... what about the monthly utilities bill, the groceries bills? all these must be taken into consideration...cannot expect me to pay for EVERYTHING bah right? how long is that gg to take me? 5yrs at least...my most optimistic estimation...
But everytime i touch on this topic, she becomes defensive n unhappy, i m not asking for much lor not even 1/2 the amt i trying to save a mth...mabbe 20% would b ok even...


I blive a home is for 2 person so both must contribute to take ownership (NOT CPF!!!)... i don't mind paying majority, but not ALL... tat's a bit too far fetched...

Although dd keep saying wan to buy hse but seriously i dun see much action frm her... except for her new hobby: wakeboarding... which is another quite expensive sport... now she wants to learn diving... requirements nv end... She says i m not into that type of sports, but one thing i dunno she understands or not tat is I can go wakeboard, surf board watever board, dive etc... if i wan but wat does tat all end up to? NO HOUSE, NO BANQUET,NO HONEYMOON,NOTHING... cos why? all $$ dumped into these costly sports...

Now i am not saying cannot do all these sports, it's good actually but just in moderation and understand that if u really wan a hse, u hav to b commited n stay commited,...sometimes need to adjust our lifestyle n habits n make some scarifices...
To maintain a house and a family requires commitment from both parties... not just one...

Until both of us are commited n focus only then can we work it out...

I m already commited in pursing these goals, already dreamt of shopping for sofas, beds etc... and buying a dry cabinet to put our photography stuffs in liao... but until dd figure out wat she really wants now and sets her prority right, all these can only b dreams....

fallen sick already, very lethagic, try taking a paranormal pic haha 1st try....wif old nikon 885



also tried panning shots wif my camera phone(while waiting for bus to go dd's hse).. frankly speaking the effects are quite good leh... hehe

Hoo Ho got the vaccum

After coming several NTUCs finally managed to get the "auto wet dry vacuum cleaner" dd wanted

A recap...

Tues night->Lot1 NTUC, wed Afternoon->JE NTUC, Wed Evening->Sheng siong->Bukit Panjang NTUC

finally got it at bukit panjang, only 4 sets left





Oh ya payday on thursday, deposited another $1200 into UOB acct...so happy UOB acct is growing again... however it's quite slow (dunno whether got way to speed it up or not)...
Must start to distribute $$ again.... $300 to parents, $40 personal expenses, $30 for ezylink card blah blah blah...

Got our (dd n my) 1st camera back, the nikon e885 now at my house, abit old n slow, but still great fun to play wif... now snapping almost anything tat i feel is nice... snap snap snap... kekeke

Nicks'

Rather worried on saturday when dd nv contact me cos she was suppose to b back on friday evening... usually she will contact me when she come back from overseas...send me SMS like "dd i back liao" or something like tat... mabbe she was too tired to send ... but i think i did sms her on friday evening but she nv replied tat's why i bcame worried anyway she replied on saturday... but she was busy enjoying her wakeboarding session that she 4got her dd... haiz... sometimes I think our gender should swap...she should b a guy n I a gal... looks like our personalities are like tat...

I am still suffering from the meat overdose from this morning Bak Kut Teh...(dd should noe) ... wah so full, so guilty...

Been thinking of our new nick for quite some time.. seems tat I made a mistake in the whole construction...
Some explanation:
"Monkdees" is the name i tot up.. it's actually the merger of "monkey", which both of us belong and "Dees", cos we call dds mah.. "dd" = "deardear"
However monkeys are pronounced "Mon" + "Keys" and not "monk" + "eys" .. so the correct word for "monkdees" should be "mondees" so which one sounds nicer? the orginal one? or the new one w/o the "K"? think they should have the same pronounciation...

Updates

Getting busier by the day... looks like can't much time to blog real soon...Here are some updates

Went to the Singapore zoo on sunday wif dd... well paid for the tickets ourselves ..who needs the zoo pass ... :P
Have quite a lot of fun there and took a lot of pictures, basically it's more of a photography trip... hehe almost forgot abt the time... haha Picture wise some don't turn out that good lah...mainly because of poor photographers ... hehe (still "L" photographers leh) + the strong afternoon sunlight... woo nvm will improve next time... many are not bad though... haha

The whole week dd not around cos she left for Bintan... Kinda missed her though... really hope for the next sunday to come faster then can see her again and cuddle her again (kinda mushy hor).....
Then boss started "pressurising" us abt the "project" he gave to us... Well kinda unfair to us cos we are still undergoing the training program and can't spare much time during office hours to do that project... anyhow only 3 out of abt 15 of us doing the project... cos only those new guys from IS department doing and I m one of them... I think boss's intention is to see us work OT... lotsa OTs cos most ppl in my dept are doing that... rushing projects, no choice haha..for us we always leave at 530pm sharp... well i think soon we will have to work late liao ... but then i will try not work work late on tues,thurs and sunday... cos tues ,thurs i go running... sunday gotta accompany dd... going back on sunday is a strict no-no for me.. haha
Well kinda tough going now.. cos the software is a entire new thing for me... and there's no 1 free to teach us... it's not help by the fact that our equipment are either "borrowed" from us or just missing... Haiz i think boss have a big expectation of us..but guess we gotta disappoint him liao sorry boss...

last but not least, there are 2 new addition to my family haha... my bro brought back 2 rabbits according to him,his fren's rabbits gave birth too many so give my bro 2...so cute... hope they dun stink ... my bro say they are the minature species...

The new addition to my family...

DrAt, failed again

Failed to get the complimentary zoo pass again... grrh...
wanted to go there to test our new lens... kekeke
4 person applied for it , there are 2 zoo pass so got 50% chance tat i will get it but then failed...
looks like my luck is damn bad... should i try again? sometimes i feel just forget it lah... pay for the trip myself (if we wan), always cannot get the pass, somemore abit paiseh seems like a regular at the balloting exercise liao .. hehe

SOS!!! MY PC is DYING!

The title of this blog have also been the message on my MSN for quite some time liao...
My PC keeps hanging... dunno whether it's a windows problem or the whole system or just the graphics card problem...

it will hang itself after a while, and when i tried to restart it it just wun budge... then i had to switch off the power and on it again and hopefully it will startup... I get the error say a "drawing operation failed to complete" tat's wat causing the "hang"

so is my graphics card causing problems? or my old computer is dying? keep hanging so annoying... grrh... and it had to happen at a time like this when I have no $$... sobsob

just now nearly wan to buy a 2nd hand graphics card...inno3d GForce 5500 256MB for $50 but then what happens if it's not the graphics card that is causing the prob? it's the MB or windows? then i will end up wif 2 graphics card... how how?

wat should I do? buy new system? change graphics card?

Computer, pls dun die...

DD's Gift

Got a present from dd... HurraY!!!

Long time no get present liao...a few mths liao I think hehe....so happy



If u are wondering wat this is.. it's a name card holder... haha cute right?

Nice Old Song

Meaningful Lyrics, nice animation...

too small?

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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)

........ ....... .......

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

Did I?

Heard many instances of my frens getting a better starting pay than me... Haiz.. now a bit begining to wonder whether I've made the correct choice to becoming a software engineer, or more specifically a firmware one... According to him, we can make much more by becoming a project manager.. or moving into project management cos the pay should be higher over there and u dun have to crack ur brains like mad like when u are a developer on a project... Anyway for me now, I dun think my interest is in management lor... no doubt it's a possiblity tat we may get into it..but I think for now my interest lies in development...
But in some sense he is right, now we are debt ridden by the study loan, so hack care the nature of the job, as long as it pays alot who cares... like DSTA, but according to some "deserters" , the job at DSTA sucks...
I dunno why but the more I think of it I feel that my fren's view is abit simple-minded lor... Give u more $$ of cos ask u to work harder/more lah right? which coy will be so good to pay u alot of $$ to slack around? wif more $$, means also more responsibilities. Things in life is not tat simple right? U are clever but ur employers are also not stupid...makes sense?

Who won't want to have a very high pay? at the same time I also want a job that interests me..
To tell u the truth when I heard that people got more than $3000 tarting pay, I also a bit sad/disappointed cos I would say damn why can't I get so much? I think I decided too early, forfieted my chance too soon..

Anyway I think siemens VDO is a good place for me to learn alot of things... like whether I am suitable for this line, good enough? competent enough...? Anyway I am contented wif my current life, current job... to be content is bliss right? just think that although my pay is not the highest but it's also not the lowest.. however, I think it would b better if we had some OT pay kekeke

"RnD Software Engineer" stills sounds more appealing to me haha

Survived 1 Week...

My coy: Siemens VDO

So much things happened during the last week... Last weekend super unlucky, damaged dd's sunshine while trying to squeeze through a pillar... so sad there goes one of my new year aspiration... No excuse all my fault for trying to be clever.. anyway it has "recovered" but the "hospitalisation n treatment fee" is not cheap ... anyway I bore all of it a guy gotta b responsible mah...(so now super poor haiz) buy 4D (3 numbers) also never win any money..super unlucky right?

Anyway started work at Siemens VDO on monday...went through the orientation blah blah blah where each dept head(or delegate) describes his/her dept in some details..Lectures for morning to evening (10am-530pm) this went on for 3 days...monday to wednesday..also went around meeting some of the staffs there also...mainly managers lah... haha Staff there numbered about 270

then 2 days thursday to friday attended the Compatibility Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) course (for those who dunno wat this is, this is a standard process model lah, suppose to mak industry process more standardized and achieve more efficiency )..lagi worse the course so dry, 2 whole days just study on that one... Wah!!! so sleepy...Anyway in the end still dun quite get wat the instructor is talking about haha

Anyway I am going to be an RnD Software engineer haha... I can say that this is quite close to my ideal job liao cos I like low level programming but if can gimme abit more of electronics then it would be best... haha
Found out that as RnD engineer I can't be slack already..heard that there's gg to be tight schedules for projects which means lotsa OTs... so in fact $2700 isn't alot.. And alot of frightening news from seniors like slow advancement, loads, little increment and bonus of work blah blah blah...
I believe there really is a compromise between a job u like and the benefits lor.. like if I go semicon industry I think I can get more pay but that won't be a job I like..I like RnD and RnD sector means u gonna work super hard else the "RnD" for waT? Relax aNd u Die haha...
My new boss err... not much interaction wif him yet..but my impression of him is that he is a stern and no-nonsense man... dunno whether I am gg to have a hard time under him or not...
I dunno whether I am his 1st choice candidate or not cos he only selected 2 mabbe he dun get enuff people that's why he got no choice then select me? haha dunno lah anyway get in liao then dun care lor...just do my best and see how...

Dilemma..Sighzzz

Went to visit the JW showflat at JW st 93 today ... to tell u the truth , really quite like the flat and the environment... especially where u can just look out of the window and see the lush greenry of the field at the sports complex just beside the apartment. somemore it's near to the would-be-completed pioneer MRT... meaning transport will be fairly easy. Thought that JW would be quite low in demand... cos of the "ulu-ness" of the place but I was wrong...

Called HDB today to enquire (actually planned to go down wif dd on saturday to enquire).. Oh my gosh heard from HDB that there are already 1400 applications for the 1000+ odd flats there (397 5rm + 400++ exec) drat...sure alot of applicants gonna aim for the flats near the stadium....think our chance is quite slim...

Anyway I do have mixed feelings abt this purchase... on one hand i do really like the apartments, but on the other I found that if we booked now we would get the keys in about 6 months time... not in 2008! on the other hand this is not very ideal cos what would people think? I haben start work buy hse? haben even worked a year buy hse? career still have not stablised buy hse? all these require lotsa planning...wat if I get "discontinued" or siemensVDO pulled out of Singapore the next year? how would my poor dd finance the flat alone? cos when u get the keys, u will have to start paying liao...

buy govt exec? Viable option but they are not popular... Big yes they are but do we need it? NO I think we don't cos the 5 room i think is big enough already... if there are only 2 of us in the flat..I do think that it's a little too big, cleaning would be a nightmare... govt exec? it would be even bigger...lagi worse..somemore the price....super ex...around 300K means abt $1200 a mth for 30yrs! judging by our present salary our CPF ordinary acct would have $0 in it for 30 years... Nah that's too expensive I feel...

Anyway dd and I have decided to try our luck... just go take a queue number at HDB... if can't get a unit this time, then I guess we gotta wait a while longer... anyway I think we aren't tat ready financially for a hse in the near future... At most we will just take a resale flat lor...
but prime areas, exec flats I think too extravagant for us, personally I feel....

Moving On? Ready Yet?

Just learnt that HDB is having a Walk in Selection (WIS) for Jurong West (JW). dd and I are quite excited upon learning this cos we think that JW should be a nice place to live in the future. Think we most probably would "book" a flat there lor...

However thinking harder into it I can't help but feel abit anxious. I must admit that i really want to have a little cosy "nest" with my dd(future wife) . but there seeems to be a few questions unanswered and a few problems that we need to over come.

Firstly is the lifestyle changes.
1) If we marry we will be living on our own, no longer will we have our our parents washing our clothes for us, nor cook for us.

2) For the first time we will be looking after ourselves and wun have the company of our family.

Are we ready for this? To me I think I should be able to adapt fairly quickly because afterall I've been looking after myself for 5.5 days a week when I was in army(I am a stay-in personel) so looking after myself should be ok for me though I must admit that I am a bit lazy at times haha. For dd I am not sure, but I believe that she can also adapt but mabbe she needs a longer duration of time than me...

Secondly is the $$ problem
We will need to pay all the bills ourselves, Utilities bills, food, etc... Can we do it ourselves?
We won't have our dad paying the utility bills and other stuffs.
I think without dd's income , mine alone will be quite tough... Not forgetting that we still need to save up some $$ even though we are married and have a house... just for any "rainy days" I think it's even more essential to save up when u start your own family.... because u never know what will happen tomorrow...

Marriage Meaning - Sunboi's perception

Well in laymen terms the meaning of marriage is that 2 person want to be together for the rest of their life, to take care and look after one another. To me marriage should be built on mutal trust, understanding and mutual encouragement for each other. A strictly no-no is threats, threats will severly hard the marriage relationship. Saying things like "if u don't do this, then u will not get this", or "if you don't do according to my wishes, then u will get this from me" these are all examples of threats... sounds good?

In the modern society, marriage involves the 2 parties as well as their parents afterall when the 2 parties get married, their family will become related by law..(that's why called in-laws). Thus we get a lot of strange ideas from parents when their child are getting married. Go against their wishes, u will be branded "unfillial", love wife, don't love parents liao and vice-versa. The children is usually sandwiched between the wishes of their sprouse and their parents. In this case, mutual understanding of each other comes in. We must know that many a times, we do many things not in accordance with our wishes, we have to consider other people views and many other factors, somethings cannot say wan to do then can do... It requires intensive planning and commitment towards the "destination".

Just think, when a guy just started working and he tells his parents or his gf's parents that he wants to get married..what will the parents think? Putting on the shoes of the parents, will they think this way? "Wah haven't got career wan to marry, where got the $$? Desperate izzit?
or "Good marry good, faster marry not enough $$, get from us". Generally which response will the majority of parents give?

If in this situation, sprouses(future) dunno how to encourage and understand each other's predicatment then how can these 2 live together? How can they handle the future life challenges together? Before marriage is He and She but after marriage is We... They definitely need the support from each other...Only together can they advance and overcome all problems.

If no $$ to...

buy BMW then buy Kia/Perodua lah
buy big house then live in HDB and smaller house lah
go big resturant eat then eat at hawker center lah
go far and exotic places for holiday then settle for somewhere near lor
wear designer clothes then wear cheaper brands lor
open 20 tables to invite people to wedding then just order less lah those unimportant one heck care (all cos of the "face" problem)



A temporary setback is not the end of the world, as long as we are willing to work hard there will always be a way out.

Moving on to next stage...

Hurray, yesterday found out that I've passed all my modules haha, though results are not that good but I think as long as I can pass and graduate, I'm happy liao... it's been a long and hard 3 years at NTU... glad that it's all going to end soon. Anyway I think your academic results are for you to ge a job, for the manager to decide he's going to take another look at you. but since lucky me gotta job already so I guess results are not that important to me already haha...

Anyway moving into the next stage of my life - work, I am actually quite nervous and excited. There are many uncertainties ahead like...
Will I be a good software engineer?
Will I be able to complete my tasks?
Will my job be boring?
Will I get nasty colleagues?
Will I adapt to the working environment quickly?
Will my pay be enough to support myself and at the same time save for pongx4??

Whatever it is I will try my best at my new job...certainly hope that I have made the correct choice...Thinking back, I think I am a very lucky guy...A Good relationship with a good dd(though I still think she spends $$ a bit too much), found a job relatively fast and with a reasonable pay... I think I am contented already...

Sunboi's Job Hunting Chronicles

Job hunting begins around 1 mth before the end of the semester(end of exams) which is around April, as sunboi is poor, he can't afford to go holiday (furthermore no one to go with him), so he has to start looking for work ASAP.

Number companies applied: 5
Total resumes sent(online): countless
Average number of resumes per company: 3

Application status:

Companies: Status

1) ST Electronics (info-comm sys) AMK job offer
2) Siemens VDO job offer (accepted)
3) HP shortlisted, 1st interview
4) ST Electronics (info-comm sys) JE shortlisted, 1st interview
5) Philips Electronics KIV

List will get updated once news comes in hehe

Finally, One Job Offer!!! Yeah!!!

Today very unexpectedly I received a call from ST Electronics (info Comm system, AMK) that they are offering me the position of a Software engineer with them... yeah at least got 1 coy that wans me so I am very happy., Though I am still considering their offer (promised to get back to them by Mon) mainly cos it's more of an IT job(I still prefer firmware cos it's software /w hardware) but if no other offers come along then I think i will have to accept this one... only thing is I am not sure whether I will be able to do the job...but nevermind... so happy, I called my dd niang zi the moment I put down the phone, haha cos I wan to discuss wif me...she is my dd niang zi mah hehe
Hmph.. my elder bro still say(to my mum) that my kou chai ( talking skills or watever u call tat) is not good tat's why the coys never call but at least I got 1 job offer yeah!!! so can sort of shut him up a little. Though I am still habouring hopes of going into siemens VDO (cos it's more firmware) but I think the chances are slim lor haiz...Look at the number of applicants then... some got master's degree somemore...
In some sense my bro is right, I dun feel at ease about "boasting" about myself which is the thing that I must do in interviews... tat I lose to him hands down... cos I really dun know how to promote myself... I only speak the truth and try to move people with my sincerity and honesty..tat's why I try to be as honest about myself to the interviewers as possible...
Oh Ya another thing my kou chai not good but at least I got a dd who have stuck with me through thick and thin (dunno true or not) for 7 long hard years already so I still win him...haha
Yeah !!! happy happy...

Some Tots

Just finished watching "惡作劇之吻 ", actually this is suppose to be a light hearted comedy but it still contains some touching scenes... The story goes like this.
This little gal "Xiang Qing (Ariel Lin)" was mermerised by a guy while she is in Pre U (JC in Singapore). This guy "Zhi Shu" is both clever and good in sports...so he's the idol of all young gals. so one day, Xiang qing plucked up her courage and handed Zhi Shu her love letter but was ridiculed by him and other students. Then by a stroke of coincidence, mild earthquake (2 on the richter scale) make her house collasped and she have to move into Zhi Shu's house, it turns out that their 2 dads are good friends.
Throughout her stay in Zhi Shu's house she began to know more about Zhi Shu and vice versa. Though Zhi Shu always make fun of her and tease her with un forgiving words but she still love him as much as before, unwavering. I guess making fun of each other and quarreling is their way of communication and it makes Zhi Shu open up. He became "more human" according to him. Little did he know that bit by bit, he is begining to love Xiang Qing.
Finally the story end with both of them happily married...so happy ...Happy ending... not like the 天外飛仙 / Tian Wai Fei Xian when the 2 of them is still seperated although the ending give a hint that they might be reunited...

So touching... the xiang qing make the ai xing bian dang for zhishu... sobsob
suddenly the xiang qing reminds me of my dd... also have puffy cheeks hehe

Exposed!

Haha after dunno how many months of "cold war" with my younger brother, my mum finally notice it ... yeah and I got scolded for it... seems to her that it's all my fault ... oh well my fault than my fault...

The one thing I hate most is smug and arrogant people who thinks they noe everything and this is why I am so pissed off wif my youngest bro. He scolds everyone and thinks that everyone is ignorant and he noes everything... all good advice fell on deaf years and u get called "names", not nice ones and sometimes vulgar ones from him. Well I am not going to admit defeat and start talking to him 1st. He's gg to talk to me 1st then I will cease war.. I dun think i am in the wrong. He must be taught a lesson for his arrogance. Speaking to him 1st will only raise his level of arrogance and makes him think he's right and the whole cycle is gg to repeat dunno how many times...

I don't need anything from him anyway, and I can't stand talking to an arrogant person...so rather than quarrel wif him and make myself cheap. I rather not tok to him, in tat way can save my saliva and time. The least I can expect from him is respect to his brother, if I can't get that kind of respect then sorry man., dun expect me to show any to u...u've been pampered long enuff

3rd Interview at HP...

Went for a interview in HP on Friday.. actually kena asked alot of very difficult questions by a indian engineer... he ask me to write codes, explain concepts and he keep rubbing in to show that he's good... Ya ya I know he's good lah but no need to show off right? I am only a fresh graduate, yeah FRESH and he's been working on tat area for dunno how many donkey years, wat he wanted to proved was tat he's better than me... Ok u (indian engineer) won... Gimme a year of on-the-job training and I bet I can answer all the questions u post to me haha

anyway i think my chances of that job is slim lah cos of the treatment I got, luckily there are 2 more engineers beside the indian who kept reminding him that I am a FRESH graduate... else sure kena bombed like hell. I dunno if that's the way to conduct interview and the 1st interview somemore... keep putting u down? keep showing that u are better? Oh well I am like "begging" for a job so no choice lor ... haha anyway I dun habour any hatred for the indian engineer lah... he gave me a good interview experience haha... so I noe wat I can expect for the next...

Aftermath of 2 interviews

Starting to look for jobs... so far my luck have been quite good.. managed to get called up for 2 interviews, ok lah mabbe not a big number but I will strive to increase this number hehe

1st one I went to is Singapore Technologies Electronics (info comm sys) to be a software engineer... Asked me some technical stuffs but most of it is just like a chit-chat session. Little pressure during the entire session...whole session lasted for about 30 minutes

2nd one went to Siemens VDO at Ayer Rajah Cresent to be interviewed as a software/firmware engineer. 1st time there only, tot it's gg to be another chitchat session then the 1st thing I have to do is to take a test in C. Kaoz long time no touch C liao leh furthermore so manyt things on pointers, structures the stuffs I hate most... buang abit but the theory questions I think I got most of them correct lor ... then the manager came in, marked the papers and started to interview me...asked me alot of stuffs even give me a scenerio and ask me to describe/design a system... the whole thing lasted more than 2hrs..I reached there at 6pm, went out at 8++ pm... super long interview....

Women, so difficult to forlon

I think women are quite hard to understand... they usually have double standards...
I think my mum is a good example...

As a mum:
she thinks gals should foot their own bills when they go out with her sons.
she tells her son not to give in to the gal too often else the gal will take advantage of her son
As a gal:
she things it's gentlemanly for a guy to foot a gal's bill...
she hopes that her bf/hubby/watever will listen to her always....


contraditing right?

Not so nice weekend for Driving

Last weekend was a long weekend: fri sat and sun off so got fri and sun to drive around...
Too bad kena horned a few times... most of the time not my fault but some are mine

Fri:

incident 1:
was at the roundabout at suntec city, there aI gave way to a taxi (cos his bonnet already out wat) within the roundabout..then there was this mazda(I think) just came out to the roundabout behind me...give a long loud horn, so impatient cannot wait a while ah? afterall all road users should be courteous and give way whenever possible right? how this stupid driver passed his theory test? or rather he must have been too busy looking right(cos he trying to enter the roundabout mah) then when the right is clear he just shoot out never look infront (I was in front) ... why got such impatient drivers?

incident 2:
was moving in the left lane along AYE nearing telok blangah exit then there was this slow moving dump truck so I change to the outer lane to overtake it... Far away got a green Matrix (at the outer lane) moving at very fast speed then cos ours is picanto mah, small car cannot accelerate fast enough than that stupid matrix began to tailgate me and keep flashing his high beam at though to say "shoo shoo" I think at that time I was not too slow either mabbe about 80-85km/h already

Sun:

incident 3:
was moving towards farrer road, got alot of road works, there cos of the MRT line. Then got this lane merging lane(watever, u'll understand can liao)... then this taxi was to the left of me(and behind) i was at the right so we both were at the lane merging lane mah... so common sense he should let me go 1st right? cos I am in front and also to the right... but he die die wan to squeeze in front from the left and HORNED ...grrh anyway I heck care his horning ... just keep moving... hehe I think this incident I also got fault lah...cos I just "assume" the taxi will give way to me and I didn't notice that taxi was moving very fast behind me (and trying to cut in) also...


incident 4:
I was trying to turn right at a uncontrolled junction, then there was alot of vehicles parked at the side of the road... so as a cautious person I slowing inch out mah then this stupid taxi(again) horned grrrhh...

incident 5:
was moving towards PIE at the left lane, then was trying to overtake a vehicle so move to the outer lane... nv saw this car(dunno wat model) at 1st glance, then went out kena horned lor... hehe this one is my fault lah cos I check my spots quite hastely so nv notice tat car I think he also moving quite fast lor...

incident 6:
At bt Merah area, got this pickup/van stop because of a bus stopping then he just try to turn out into my lane then I have to take evasive action and horn it to avoid brushing against it...

I must strive to hav "0" horning, though will be quite difficult, some drivers are horn-happy one anyhow horn ppl one...so just have to be more careful lor...wat to do?
5 more months, then can remove P-plate liao counting... counting...

Nice Song

JOSH GROBAN
You Raise Me Up

When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up… To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up… To more than I can be.

There is no life – no life without its hunger;
Each restless heart beats so imperfectly;
But when you come and I am filled with wonder,
Sometimes, I think I glimpse eternity.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up… To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up… To more than I can be.

FTT and song

Uploaded Flash Final Theory Test: See it here...

Think can't post songs here else kena caught hehe...

One beautiful phase to share

In Chinese dunno can read or not...


虽然沒有经过大风大浪刻苦相思
但却都深爱着对方
爱情是来得这么自然
表面平淡如水其实细水长流
一点一滴的爱意溶入在
取笑捉弄追逐打闹之中
虽然沒有砰然心动的感觉
却别有温馨浪漫
这样的爱不是最完美的吗


Like applicable to my dd and I hor? last time we also like to "fight" haha