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
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Saturday, September 02, 2006
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
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 $$...
dd very bad, went wakeboarding leaving me alone to do all these... there are many schemes/procedures that i think will need her to be around... for example, there's a $20k grant for low income families which i think we can qualify but then need to produce marriage cert on the day when getting keys somemore need to produce alot of documents also... then in the end nv applied for tat scheme cos dun think can get registered within 3 mths n quite troublesome to dig out all the documents (not help when dd's not around)...
then went inside to tok to the lady abt the selection, think the info is quite important for both of us... since the flat was bought in 1999 meaning it's 7 yrs old liao... wanted to inform dd abt this n get her opinion but then she nv pick up also and if dun like the flat, and wan to change gotta reapply again and pay $2000 ...grrrr then in the end i just took the gamble... hope it paid off
i think it's quite cheap for an exec, $280k... but dunno whether it will b too big for us or not leh... hehe
now all the procedures are done, waiting for the HDB to see if they will approve our applications... Maybe this blk 628 #08-394 JW st 65 would b our new home?
Now thinking of it, everything is like accelerated leh... suddenly apply hse, then gotta register marriage... dunno whether ready or not? need alot of $$ 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 $$...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Why everyone bullys me?
Why does it seems that everyone wans to bully me?
In school:
during projects, i do work, others copied mine to submit...
Do FYP, delegate work but no output in the end, i ended up doing most of the things
At Home:
I became sick on saturday, fever, whole body was lethargic still being asked to cycle to Post Office to get Phone book (while my brothers slept/play computer games)
Whenever something breaks down, i gotta repair it(the others don't care) and if I don't i will b scolded as being selfish and dun wan to contribute to family
Anything tat comes to contributing $$, 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...
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 $$, i gotta contribute, if i dun i will b scolded again
how comes it's seems like when i am kind-hearted to help, people take me for granted.. after a while, they get used to the help and when i dun rendered any help I m bad...why is it so hard to please everyone?
i've decided to go on a hol in dec, boss please dun stop me...
Monday, August 28, 2006
Big house, small house; Good Loc,Bad Loc
HDB started balloting it's unsold flats at Tanglin Halt recently, dd and i also went to join in the crowd... price of flat is abt $260k-$320k for the 4rm flats... abit steep if u ask me... it's even more expensive than a exec flat in JW...
comparison between blk 628-630 JW n 4rm queenstown:
JW Queenstown
size: 130 sq m 85-90 sq m
Price: $260k-270k $264k-320k
Amentities: many, but quite far west established
not easily assessible assessible
far away frm town near town
so the debate is to live in establish estate n pay more $$ 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 $$ dumped into these costly sports...
Now i am not saying cannot do all these sports, it's good actually but just in moderation and understand that if u really wan a hse, u hav to b commited n stay commited,...sometimes need to adjust our lifestyle n habits n make some scarifices...
To maintain a house and a family requires commitment from both parties... not just one...
Until both of us are commited n focus only then can we work it out...
I m already commited in pursing these goals, already dreamt of shopping for sofas, beds etc... and buying a dry cabinet to put our photography stuffs in liao... but until dd figure out wat she really wants now and sets her prority right, all these can only b dreams....
comparison between blk 628-630 JW n 4rm queenstown:
JW Queenstown
size: 130 sq m 85-90 sq m
Price: $260k-270k $264k-320k
Amentities: many, but quite far west established
not easily assessible assessible
far away frm town near town
so the debate is to live in establish estate n pay more $$ 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 $$ dumped into these costly sports...
Now i am not saying cannot do all these sports, it's good actually but just in moderation and understand that if u really wan a hse, u hav to b commited n stay commited,...sometimes need to adjust our lifestyle n habits n make some scarifices...
To maintain a house and a family requires commitment from both parties... not just one...
Until both of us are commited n focus only then can we work it out...
I m already commited in pursing these goals, already dreamt of shopping for sofas, beds etc... and buying a dry cabinet to put our photography stuffs in liao... but until dd figure out wat she really wants now and sets her prority right, all these can only b dreams....
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Hoo Ho got the vaccum
After coming several NTUCs finally managed to get the "auto wet dry vacuum cleaner" dd wanted
A recap...
Tues night->Lot1 NTUC, wed Afternoon->JE NTUC, Wed Evening->Sheng siong->Bukit Panjang NTUC
finally got it at bukit panjang, only 4 sets left
Oh ya payday on thursday, deposited another $1200 into UOB acct...so happy UOB acct is growing again... however it's quite slow (dunno whether got way to speed it up or not)...
Must start to distribute $$ 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
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
Sunday, August 20, 2006
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...
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...
Friday, August 18, 2006
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...
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...
Friday, August 11, 2006
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
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
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
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...
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...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
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?
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?
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Saturday, July 22, 2006
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
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
Thursday, July 20, 2006
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...
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...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
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
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
Saturday, July 15, 2006
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...
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...
Friday, July 14, 2006
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...
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...
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