Jeffirean Stories
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
I'm at Guiqiang's place now with his blessings of lending me the use of his computer for a couple of hours as my computer is down with the CPU (microprocessor) damaged. It will take a long time for me to get online again. Sigh. This have to come at this time. I have so many things to say but so little time to tell you on this little personal space of mine.
I have uploaded new photos to my albums so please feel free to take a look at them.
Lastly, as a friend, can you take a look at my auction and help me evaluate my decision of selling it after only 3 months of getting it at $500?
http://page.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/sg/auction/87559900?aucview=0x30
My sincerest appreciation to all who have been pointing directions for me.
Regards
Jeffire
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9:06 PM
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Hello
I need some way to make an income in exchange for my time and energy. What should I do?
Today I just lost the table tennis match to the President of the SMU TT Club. All the quarterfinalists were members of the school team. Sadz...looks like need to take another year to train for a breakthrough.
These few days were pretty meaningless for I had not done anything constructive to myself. I am now lost in a forest...point me a direction.
Wed evening was a nerve wrecking day as I was at a home party where they taught us how to do facial masks. Interestingly the whitening effect was significant! I didn't like it that much, but the girls sure looked much nicer...haha. After the training I sent Bernice and her boyfriend back. It was quite awkward...I hope I am not being viewed as a third party...
Well, do give me a buzz soon if you have any good idea for a capitalless business...I have one though, but I need some Accounting expertise. It's like we will help anyone who wants to know how they have been spending their money and want to cut their expenditure for a small fee. No selling of financial products or what, just tips and ways to cut expenditure and possibly, earn more money. What do you think about the idea?
Broke
Jeffire
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1:36 AM
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Yo
Been wanting to write this for a long time....Before that, let me pray for the stressed out souls in SMU and also other friends...I dedicate F.I.R's Fly Away to you all~!!!! Hope you guys can be like what the lyrics say:
Fly away
不管留下了多少眼泪
坚持下去的动力还在
Nothing I will be afraid
Fly away
不管未来有多困难
我仍然能感觉心跳还在
Nothing I will be afraid
Hehz, back to the serious stuff. Ok I was saying I wanted to write about my principles/laws in life and how i stick by them..
Jeffire's Laws
1. Never believe entirely what others say.
2. Always fulfil all promises, be it on or offline, late or punctual.
3. Never forget a praise or a positive comment.
4. Never forget girls who have been alone with me.
5. Always bring something on a first visit to people's place unless the guy is much richer than me.
6. Never forget important birthdays of friends and family.
7. Never say 'I love you' to anyone unless the other person says it to me.
8. Don't speak unless necessary. Never gossip about other people unless the person is worth speaking ill of.
9. Never forget to return all favours and make people owe me instead.
10. Remember to prove all critics wrong and make them regret their words.
Jeffire has been always described as weird. Somehow people say the things I think of are out of the world. Well, look at the 10 laws...do they make me any different from you?
Homework not done yet but still remains nonchalant.
Jeffire
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1:50 AM
Monday, September 20, 2004
Another week has passed..
Been bleeding on the betting front. Guess my mathematics have all gone haywire even though on Friday I finally understood my Normal Distributions...Never knew how to really tackle the questions since JC, which explains why did I get a C instead of the A everyone expected... oh well, only myself to be blamed.
Yet the week was pretty interesting. Finally attended table tennis training in school. Met some friends there, and concluded that none of the people training there except the vice-captain could play. One silly thing was that I had no idea where were all my bats and couldn't find them at home, so I was playing with a 10yr old Double Happiness bat there. If there is some super being out there, please tell me where are they. And well Dan, if you want my bat you better cough up some cash for it, or else return it to me. Haha. What a way to embarass people... Of course it's not that bad, since we are long time friends, just that we have been too busy to remember about it. Hmm..
After that I was at Music Interactive Club (MIC)'s Handover Ceremony. Realised that none of them can really sing a good tune, but hoping it's due to nervousness. Their reception was good, I had food, drinks, a free cd and a performance...haha. Enjoyed it very much, just a bit disappointed with the singing by the club exco members...sigh.
Saturday was arrow flying day... before I left home I took the initiative to check my email only to find that a sudden request from my Bizcom SCS bosses. Decided to go to school to solve it once and for all, only to get the return mail that the data wasn't enough. I guess next time I need them to state specifically what sort of information they wanted. After that I went to Tsu Ching at Chinatown for the Vegetarian Food Fair preparation with my shoddy piece of work - a comic strip that was extracted from the website www.themeatrix.com . Then spent some time being assigned more work that needed to be completed by Tue. Yet what I hated was that I needed to go Chinatown again to compile the stuff. Why can't they do it in school instead? Sigh.
Sun morning was the best morning since school start as I went to Waseda Shibuya High School in West Coast/Clementi. It was their 14th School Festival. Had a great time with 2 members from the Japanese Appreciation Club. We went around playing stall games (which I sucked badly at) and they had a picture taken of themselves clad in the japanese school uniform. I was reluctant to change into the uniform because I felt it was nothing special. I preferred the older design where they had black mandarin collared shirts and black pants.. but this one was more westernised, blazer, tie and all. The female uniform was much nicer though. Oh ya, one of the best thing was that I saw plenty of pretty japanese girls and cool-looking guys! Woo~~~ kawaii!!! Anyway the regret was that we didn't manage to buy any of the food there to eat because it was too crowded (sold out)...hehe. Ask me more about the event if you want to know more!
Had a buffet just now which sucked. $33+++! I wasn't paying though, thank god. It's Paramount Restaurant near Katong / Parkway Parade. The service was fantastic but the food sucked. Sigh. It's very difficult to find super service in Singapore! What a waste...
I need a revamp of my life! I hope week 6 passes quickly with no big issues then I can look forward to exam week with peace in my mind. The extra time will be utilised to revamp my room and tidy up the current mess... too many stuff around.
Like to mention special thanks to Yenmei who had been chatting with me late in the morning about all sorts of stuff on life and work. She's absolutely a fantastic friend to have although she claims that she is the 'vice president of the blur club'. Oh whatever. And of course my brother Jinki...still feels like he's really around in Singapore, ready to listen to our problems and views all the time despite the fact that he's really in Australia working hard for himself and the people in his life.
How I wish I will be like him...less self centred and more people-oriented.
Prays for money to drop from the sky
Jeffire
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1:35 AM
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Yawnz
It's been only 4 days since the last entry but life feels like it was many years ago. Many things happened in the busiest weekend I've ever had since school started. And to think that these 4 days I have grown so much. Let see what did I learn and where can I do better. Of course again this will go chronologically.
Sat was the LTB presentation. The team got together early in the morning, and we continued our preparation for the presentation. I was assigned to do the last session on visualising the end of the project. Of course I put it as "Success Visualisation", and my chart was only 4 points long. The powerpoint I did wasn't utilised in the end because our presentation was too long, with the video taking 4mins. A few hours of time gone wasted because the team didn't even look at any of it. Sadz. However I must say we certainly did a good job as in the end we got a prize for being the best 6 teams..Yeah!
After the presentation I hanged around in school checking email and replying them, and preparing my SCS stuff. I stayed in school because I was going for night cycling~ yeah...one more goal achieved. What was memorable was the real long distance we went and the super downslope near Maris Stella High. What was unmemorable was the stupid bike I've got in the first phase. It couldn't gear up! So I was desperately pushing my legs down to hold on to the super light pedal. In the end what culminated was that I sped too close to the guy in front of me (because of the downslope and the low gear) and jammed suddenly without checking behind (no rear mirror mah :P), causing the guy behind me to crash and fall. Luckily he only had a bruise..phew. After the next stop I managed to change to a better bike and the whole trip was pretty smooth. It was very exciting and I look forward to the real thing where I will be leading a team of 8 cyclists! Hee. Hope nothing bad will happen this time, especially most likely my teammates would be my OG people.
Reached home around 8am the next morning...slept till 1pm and then woke up to find that my mother was still cooking lunch. I had to wait while getting ready to go out to queue for Jeff Chang's autograph. Hahahaha. I'm already 21 and as a guy why am I doing this? Well, finally I can spend sometime for my ownself, and since 1997 when I first heard his Meng Xiang (Dreams) that song, it has been a 7 year affair listening to his ballads. I am also quite mistaken by people who think I'm trying to imitate him because my name is "Jeffire" and I do sing like him. However like I said, it's a misunderstanding. The name "Jeff-fire" came from the game booklet of "Secret of Mana"and my liking for fire magic...and why I sing like him is just because when I sang one of his songs while walking home with my secondary school buddies one day, Dan said it sounded nice, so from then on I realised I should learn how to sing better...so from who? Of course from Jeff Chang lor. His voice is great rite? Incidentally my 'dou yin' (vibra) was learnt from singing Jacky Cheung's songs. Hahaha...so hope this clears up some wrong ideas around. Oh ya, I managed to grab 3 autographed "Xia Yi Ge Yong Yuan" (The Next Forever) album and will be giving out 2 of them! Hehe. They will be for my 2 friends in SMU...haha
After the autograph session I went to Perlini Silver to check out why the shop was full the last time I walked past (but it was empty when I walked in), then bought a ring for my mother who said she wanted a pair of wedding rings for my dad as well. Since I couldn't afford (and I doubt there were male rings in Perlini Silver, if there is please enlighten me) both rings, I got one for my mother whose birthday was on 12 Sep! Haha. When I gave it to her she was so happy as she herself had forgotten it was her birthday! Hee..she also said she wouldn't bear to wear it...ah... well guess she may wear it when she goes for special events ba..
This brings me to the birthday celebration at Subing's home.. heh. On my way there while I was crossing the road there was someone waving frantically on a vehicle right in front of the white line...oh it was Jane! Luckily I did take a look closely as usually I wouldn't bother. Maybe it's the chemistry between us~ Haha. I managed to get a free ride from her boyfriend...and then met the other councilmates. Boss, Daniel (and gf), Adrian(boss' bf), and Chew Peng...so it was like only I was the single and available person there, wahaha, but that's nothing la. We were stuck at Macdonald for a while as we wrote on Jane's selfmade birthday card (for orders please do contact me because she's really veri good at it, though it's not veri professional looking, it's really nicely made) for Subing. After that Subing's bf came to bring us to Subing's home, which was a long long walk away. ZT was there earlier than us. Woo... so the councillors had a brief update on each other's life while we ate the food. Subing's mum is a good cook man! I didn't eat much though, cos the shirt I wore was abit tight...haha.
Had to leave early as the last segment of the day was given to my OG people. They had dinner at Cafe Cartel in Suntec, which I couldn't go due to the birthday celebration. I was halfway to Suntec on the bus when Tim told me to go Lucky Plaza instead. I got that shortly afterwards and we had a good time taking photos rather than playing pool. Haha. Anyway the photos will be up later when I have more time, but Celine said she very shy to show her face...hmm let me ponder about it further....my OG these bunch of girls all very pretty wan..haha...are you guys waiting eagerly?
The weekend was gone but Mon there was a group reflection. If you read till now, I thank you for the effort because what happened on Mon made a huge impact on me. It was pretty negative though, because my LTB group hammered me for my past undesirable acts for being late, for being not participative, for giving late opinion, and nobody told me I did anything good. I actually wanted to cry, but I felt I needed to defend myself instead. Yet seriously as I reflect on it, they were all right. My punctuality has always been questioned through the past 10yrs since I left primary school. The way I give opinions had been very negative to other people, and perhaps offended many of them, which resulted in today's non effective opinion giving. Army life was better when the guys had something in common, but I had nothing in common with my LTB team. What they all do and like were entirely different from me. Anyway what I realised is that I need to change to work better with other people. Despite all the differences, I cannot expect others to change to accomodate me because the world isn't about me myself only. I really want to thank my LTB group for giving the tight slap I so much have needed/wanted over the recent few years. Most people were too kind hearted to me. Like my seven seas brothers, who initially had to put up with my unnecessary antics. Why am I such a failure today is my reluctance to change and follow others. I still believe now I needn't follow others, but I have changed my mind that I need to change too. (see i've learnt so fast..hee) I need to change the way I do things. I cannot expect others to know how I work, without telling them. I cannot expect others to understand me by observing me only. I always observe other people to know them better but never open my mouth to talk to them. I cannot think that others will like me as long as I treat them nicely, because people need time to know me better before warming up to me. And to be frank, I always wanted to stop and chat to the people I meet in school, outside etc but I end up just waving and walking away quickly. I'm a sad sad soul.
Brothers, friends, schoolmates, most of the people I know have no time to hear my troubles. Should I still wait for them to ask me or should I tell them that I need some advice? Can you help me to find the direction I should go?
Luckily I have this blog, luckily Bernice has been telling me to think positively. Otherwise I will have just packed my bags and left the world. I am seriously sick of the world, sick of Singapore and sick of the mundane stuff in my everyday life. I'm sick of being nice to people because when I need someone to listen to me, nobody bothers. I'm sicks of being a new me already. I want to revert to the old me, hot minded, hot blooded, hot mouthed, and hot at action. My name is Jeffire, Jeff on FIRE!
Fiery
Jeffire
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Friday, September 10, 2004
Friday nite!
Been staying back in school till the library chases me out everyday this week. Trying to do alot of work, but still only manage to do that much. I still have yet to enter the data into the database, still have yet to do alot of other work. However the crunch week is over, as I have no lessons on Mon and Tue~! Yeah. I will still have to be in school though. This is a good chance to clear off these low priority work once and for all.
Meanwhile this weekend is fully subscribed. Will be in school from 8am tomorrow till late afternoon, 4-5pm I guess. It's a show-and-tell presentation for my leadership & team-building module. After that I guess I will just stay in school to do the database till the night cycling starts at 7pm. Hehz, another 'goal' strike! Gotta find new targets to fill up the 'Current Goals' section. Anyway Sun I will be at J8 in the afternoon for Jeff Chang's autography session! The new album is fabulous... I hope you people can try find the song and listen. I love the second song most... Next time got chance I try to sing for you to listen...hee. After the autograph session I will proceed to look for Dan, and then to my councilmate's home in the evening for her 21st birthday celebration. It's been so long since I last saw the councillors. Hope everyone is doing fine...And finally the weekend should end with an outing with my OG mates. Been healing the rift lately, and I'm really very happy to be saying hello and chatting with them although we all are very busy. The short 1-2min hi, how are you, bye chat is still as treasurable as ever. I really appreciate it. Heh, for the first time I have received invitation from 5 different parties on the same day for Sep 11. What sort of special day is this? However had to push them all away due to the night cycling and the presentation. Sigh. How I wished I could go KTV with my army mates, attend Jane (my council best partner)'s birthday celebration, attend LB's bbq session (with Bernice), go Hotel Phoenix to eat buffet with the guys, or just stay at home to watch soccer. Hai. So many wants and so little time.
I got my new specs and they look weird on me. I suppose next time for special events I will wear them. Soon when I save enough money I will go JB to get those contacts for once. Never seen myself clearly without specs before..haha.
Finally sold the Xbox! Through some trade and sale, I managed to get $255 for it, and that's 77% of the original price(which I didn't pay a single cent for). Not bad I guess, for the first offer I've got from those buy old handphone/Xbox shop was only a measly $100. Another lesson learnt in business trading.
Hope this weekend will end in great style and next week will begin with a clear mind~ I enjoy working and being stressed out in school although I have a fear for making the professors angry for my late submissions of assignments and missing lessons here and there (2 lectures oredi). Hee, yet please keep in mind I'm in SMU not to get what honours degree but to learn how to do business.
Good luck to all of you and hope you guys look forward to being busy as well. That's what life is all about, keeping yourself occupied with meaningful tasks~
Regards
Jeffire
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10:01 PM
Sunday, September 05, 2004
今日は日本語で日記を書く。。。分からない人は後の英語の説明を見てください。
今週は一番急がしかただ。色々な作業やプロジェクトや自分の事で、時間がなくなります。皆さんは僕で心配されて、すまん。 何もできない僕はこれから一生懸命頑張ります。新しいの僕を見せさせて!
今朝はサッカーしました。中学の友達が会った。でも話の機会が少しなりました。皆は以前と違って、もう誰でも遠くなりました。残念だ。今日はゴール1つも取られなくて、アシストは三つだ。実力がどんどん悪くなりました。。。
来週も急がしくても、僕の生活はつまらなくなろうと思う。それがだめだよ!大学の友達は少しだから、必ずたくさん人々を知たくて、新しいの冒険一緒に行くぜ!
Today I will write in Japanese...those who cannot understand please see the English explanation below.
This week was a very busy one. Different homework, projects and personal stuff , that I no longer have time. Must had made everyone worried, my apologies. A 'cannot-make-it' Jeffire will start from now to put his whole life on working hard! I will make you see a new me!
This morning I played soccer. Met some secondary school classmates coincidentally, but there wasn't much of a chance to talk around. Everyone has changed so much, already have drifted so far from any of them. Regrettably, I didn't score a single goal today but I got 3 assists to my name. Becoming lousy very quickly...
Although next week seems to be busy, I feel that life is becoming boring. That is unacceptable! As I don't have much friends in university, I want to know more people and go on a new adventure with them!
Regards
Jeffire
PS: A new photo album called SMU Geekout! Bash has been added to my photo album.
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