Jeffirean Stories
Saturday, July 30, 2005
End of the month!
It has been a torturous month having to play so many roles and deal with all sorts of problems, new and old. Looking backwards to the events in the month, I certainly feel there is still plenty to work on to become a better person. Habits die hard, and people are reluctant to change their images...characters are fixed to a certain extend. Each individual wants to carve out a world of their own.
The relaxing of financing for property buying made me look at some of the upcoming developments. This interesting one is the one at the former Keppel Shipyard, where you live in a condominium by the sea! That sounds cool ah.. In my mind, for reality I can settle for a studio apartment which most probably I will call it my bach-pad, but in my dreams I do want to live on a little island that has only my own house on it. I mentioned it before, it's like the Kame House in Dragonball. You have your own private beach, your own private waters... haha. For the time being, I will stick to looking forward to my new home in Punggol. It makes me feel really exciting...woo... a new place to live in, new lifestyle, new habits!
I certainly lament the recent de-peg of the Malaysian ringgit to the US dollar... urghz. Hopefully the Singapore dollar will appreciate too to counter escalating costs of imports. That's what everyone in Singapore wants, but personally I want it because it means cheaper stuff in Malaysia... haha. Hopefully the ringgit exchange rate stays above 220RM to 1 SGD for the next 2 weeks... haha.
I finally finished an interim compilation of the discounts available in Uni+Vantage. My teammates in SMU are still in the midst of discussing for more... and the NUS/NTU team have yet to renew theirs! I hope they will be at least 50% successful because that will bring the total no of discount outlets to more than 40.. hehe. I will put up the document link here, but please do remember to bring your matriculation card along and if the vendor you are visiting is a service-related merchant, do call in advance to check. I hope when we finish up all the renewal/addition, and when NTU finishes building the website, we will be able to provide you with this season's discounts. Do keep us informed if you have any complaints... feedback, or contacts. Heh. This is the link www.geocities.com/jeffire16/univantage300705.pdf. Ya, this is for all of you, SMU, NUS, NTU friends!! Hope you all like it~~
Oh ya, here's the possible itinerary for my birthday weekend getaway. I hope you can participate in at least the KTV session?
6 Aug 05
*1800hrs - Meet at Woodlands MRT
1815hrs - Leave for the customs
1900hrs - Reach Pelangi Plaza for dinner buffet cum KTV at Red Box (RM30 per pax)
2230hrs - Return to SG for those who don't want to stay in JB
2300hrs - Take a cab to the hotel
*Maybe going earlier or later, pending on any tri-uni Bizcom gathering..
7 Aug 05
1000hrs - Breakfast
1100hrs - Visit the hairsalon at Holiday Plaza
1400hrs - Lunch @ KFC
1500hrs - Shopping.....
1900hrs - Dinner @ our usual market haunt
2100hrs - Go to City Square for any more shop-hunting
2200hrs - Return to SG
I may change to itinerary to extend it to further than JB.. most probably will go Malacca as I find it more relaxing there.
Looking forward~
Jeffire
Acknowledged my existence at
1:20 PM
Monday, July 25, 2005
Saturday was a tiring day rushing from point A to point B. In fact I was up 635am in the morning, ready to go with my parents to work (in order to seize control of the van) I had to be at NUS at 830am, for a long-awaited table tennis game~! Haha. Unfortunately, we had no access to the tables at NUS' Sports and Recreation Centre, but a few options were put forward by the organiser of the game, my previous Artillery Formation team-mate, Dennis Chu. It included NP and Clementi Sports Hall. Eventually NP wasn't available as well, for their tables were all shifted out. We had our breakfast there though, and it had been a long long time since I had such a cheap breakfast, $1.50 for a toast, milo and egg set! Wow. I wish you could get that sort of stuff at SMU, but of course, dream on! Anyway it was my first visit to any polytechnic in Singapore, and yes, I think NP is quite a nice place to study! After breakfast we went to Clementi Sports Hall to play table tennis at a rate of $3.20 per hour (man, that's real expensive). Had a really poor game playing against our ex-captain Mr LKY...as I always concede the control of the game to his topspins... argh. Anyway I do agree that I had improved compared to previous times but still not enough to beat KY. Maybe more practice with the SMU school team will aid a lot, but there hasn't been any practice since the start of the holidays! Oh well, too bad I don't have any regular table tennis khaki (and yes, that reminds me that I miss Dan so much as a table tennis khaki...sadzzzz.. T_T)
I went back home to nap a bit after returning the van to my dad. I sure made a good decision as the trip to JB that followed was the worst I ever experienced. The jam at the Causeway was unexpectedly ridiculous, if not for the poor traffic policeman controlling the traffic there, I guess the public bus (950) I took with Charles , would never have reached the Woodlands Checkpoint, let alone the JB side. Haha. Overall the trip began at 4.50pm and we had our dinner at Ya Wang (Duck King) around 6.30pm, while watching channel 8 news in JB. (hmm, wonder why so) Anyway Ya Wang's duck rice is indeed nice, save for the bony duck meat. I don't like bones! The bill was pretty acceptable, 2 plates of duck rice + 2 glasses of barley drink = RM10. You can't get that in Singapore! The next stop was definitely the indian snack stall under the overhead bridge leading to City Square. You can never miss it. But before that I took Charles on a trail of pasar malam (night market in Malay - hey, my blog has international readers,ok!) where all the food were cooking in the narrow backlane... My mouth was like...drooling? Unfortunately, we couldn't eat there because we just had our meal, and I'm not sure if Charles could handle street food.. haha. Bought 2 large packs of the indian snacks and then off we went to City Square.
My primary target of the day was optical shops and hair salons. The prices were pretty fine for salons, but I felt it was still too much. RM100+ for a hairdye? Hmm.. walked a few shops to let Charles see what City Square offers. Essentially it's a Singaporean look-alike shopping mall. I think if you are not there for the street wear or the cineplex, you are better off elsewhere. Oh, but don't miss the pizza restaurant on the 4th floor. It's pretty nice.
After touring the place, I was contemplating whether to go Holiday Plaza (or in Malaysian terms, Plaza Holiday) or Plaza Pelangi. The shuttle bus service linking Plaza Pelangi was gone... so I decided to go Holiday Plaza because if the guys wanted to go JB for karaoke, Plaza Pelangi will be the place to go - the famous Red Box is there. Holiday Plaza is like the Sim Lim Square for hair salons! So many of them on the top floor~ Now which one to choose will be a headache. I manage to get a quotation at a optical shop on level 1 for my kind of contact lenses, RM60 for the astigmatism kind, woo.. my astigmatism is really high and making spectacles cost a bomb! However I will want to make a nice new pair of spectacles because I can't be in contact lenses all the time. By the way, the normal kind of contact lenses for myopic people cost RM45 per box at that shop. And yep, I guess I will be there again on a weekday before my birthday to order my contact lenses and if there are no big events on 6 Aug, I should be spending a memorable weekend there. Anybody interested to join me? I will be aiming departure in the night though because there may be a tri-university Bizcom gathering... Sunday morning should be okie if we depart early, because I presume the National Day long weekend (if you take leave on Monday) will see many people getting out of Singapore (pretty ironic, right?) to recharge their batteries quickly as the next public holiday is a long long wait till Nov.
We got back home around 1030pm for there was a little jam on the causeway itself on the way back. Nothing much to report on the return trip but I guess quite a handful of people were staring at me... a big fat orange! I mean I was dressed in orange, my t-shirt, my knee-length shorts, and my lovable slip-ons! Haha. My slip-ons are always attracting weird stares... I don't know why but probably they shouldn't be on my feet ba?! (Like I bother..) I bought them in JB too during our OG trip last Dec.
Sunday was a super boring day, but as expected, the young chaps asked me for a pratice session of football, so I went down to play at the street soccer court. Wasn't feeling good at all, as my fitness levels have since plummeted from the time the school holidays ended for them. Anyway these days I don't have the luxury to run because of the stupid weather... if I had a threadmil like Joyce I would be real happy! (but then, it wouldn't fit into my tiny home.) There was a group of challengers after 2 of the chaps left, and they were pretty lousy and yet arrogant. We beat them easily with some slick teamwork, but there was this guy who was totally in yellow, Brazilian jersey and carried a CBF bag (CBF refers to the football association in Brazil). He was very quick and played quite strong, but we were pretty drained out because it was already 630pm and we were actually there from 330pm onwards. Gave him the opportunity to run circles around me without even 1 successful tackle...haha. Eventually I realised that it does really takes plenty of mental strength to carry on playing... I really lack that sort of mental strength now.
After the soccer session I played a little bit of old games, Nintendo games that we played when we were real young, on my PS2. Wahaha. This Chip-n-Dale game that I once played in the past was actually pretty easy, and I managed to get to the last stage only to be 'game over-ed' there because the last king was too difficult to beat. Haha. I'm real lousy when it comes to playing games! My parents soon then returned and I had tons of administration work to do. Had to file documents for my dad's workshop, prepare pay slips, prepare cheques and stuff. We still have yet to do up a proper accounts book! I am really unsure of how accounting for sole proprietorship should go, I guess I will need a textbook soon! Anyway I finished all those stuff at 230am in the morning...
This morning I was at Compass Point to meet my potential insurance agent for my dad's workshop. She taught me many things about insurance for SMEs, and stuff like that. I was quite surprised that she said she was dabbling in golf at the driving range after I mentioned I worked in a golf travel agency! Woo.. that's like, wow, even insurance agents have the time to play golf? Haha.
Woo... you finally reached the end of this blog entry! Shiok right?
Longwinded
Jeffire
Acknowledged my existence at
8:09 PM
Friday, July 22, 2005
This post was really unexpected.
Okie, this marks the 4th PUBLIC APOLOGY I have to make. It's aimed towards my colleagues.
SORRY.
Since I have added "Everyone to forget about the old me" as one of my birthday wishes, I sincerely feel that there is a need to clear the invisible glass that is separating me from my colleagues (MY, Eugene, Sharen) Also, even though HY and KB had already left, this goes out to them as well. I have already spoken to HY over MSN regarding this and obtained her advice.
To cut the story short, I want to put down here, why I don't pick up as many calls as each of you do.
1. I have been told I'm a backup to all of you, like Eugene, even before he was promoted to IT Executive. However I presumed my order was lower than his because I've got more experience picking calls up and therefore I should pick up more calls than him at least. And that I did.
2. I think you all are getting paid FULL TIME and yet why should I be picking calls when you guys are in your private conversations, and I was not.
3. I think you guys need to pick up more calls to be better exposed and therefore improve the way you handle them. Of course this is definitely a wrong thinking of mine because although I'm more experienced, it doesn't mean you are not as good.
4. I was given a seat without the voice recorder and to pick up calls I had to move to another seat, which I couldn't, as I had to answer emails and draft other documents.
Despite all these reasons, I find that, indeed I have to discard my 'i'm very busy and you are not' attitude because while I'm very busy, I'm not really busy with my work which pays me my salary. I'm busy with a ton of other stuff, school, home and friends... which is why now I'm declaring that you are all right to think I'm at fault, and therefore, construct an invisible glass panel to separate me from all of you.
Yet, I was really saddened by the way you all think. If this job wasn't so interesting, I would have resigned long ago, just because I am truly jealous of all of you. You are all one bunch and I'm separated, alone. If you can imagine you are the one being locked out of nearly everything, and if you can imagine that it's even more painful to be looking at you smiling at me, yet saying bad things without telling me...
If you think I was trying very hard to impress, yes, I was, because I wanted to do this job very much. You could ask Fiona what did I say in the intereview. I agreed to do a part-time job without the security of being awarded the full-time one because I wanted to do this very much. I could have taken another full time job for the month of May, Jun and earned double of what I could have earned working here. I even waited 18 days to begin this job. That was how much I wanted to secure this because I knew it will definitely be very much of use to me.
I'm typing this while my hands tremble...
No matter who do I talk to, I always try to be myself. It is a lesson long ago taught to me by Jinqi, by Jason, by Yingzie... I don't treat people differently because my philosophy is to reflect what people do to you, less the bad stuff. For example, if you were late for an appointment with me, I will be late also for once because you were late. However, if after that I were to be late, I will do some other thing in return for you to compensate you on the time. This is the way I live. If my 7seas brothers treat me to dinner, I will do something else in return because sometimes they don't want to accept my return treats. There are many subtle things I do, but many people don't notice because they take it for granted. (I don't mean my 7seas brothers here though, because we have a really great brotherhood) That is also why I demand the very basic courtesy of 'thank you', and stuff like that. I am seriously very "calculative" because I project that my life will be half of yours and that I have many things to accomplish and you don't even know what you want to do.
That's where I'm different from most of you.
It doesn't matter if I make the whole world hate me just by being so bloody frank and inflexible and 'attitude', because like what my 7seas brother proved to me, as time goes by, you will find that you have improved because I didn't bother to help you. It is of utmost importance that most of you learn to pick yourselves up independently. Even if you think that I have helped you alot, it wasn't because I wanted you to be thankful to me, to like me or what, it was because I felt I had a duty to. I don't need whoever's liking, whoever's acceptance, whoever's approval to live. I do what I want, if you don't like it, JUST TELL ME.
Never say bad things to the whole group behind my back. It hurts me very much as much as putting 3 real kitchen knifes into my back. Whenever I say something bad about you, I will always balance it with something good. It's not because I think you will be angry, but because I think we should never remember others for their weaknesses but for their strengths. I know people don't really like how I can analyse their thinking until they find themselves mentally defenceless, but come on, a fault means a fault. Admit it and get moving on. Unfortunately sometimes it's also a double edged sword because I end up assuming. And that is a very wrongful thing to do. I do try my best to "confirm", though.
Once again, I want to say sorry for being so unhelpful to my colleagues and I have to reiterate, the paragraphs after "....trembling.." is for everyone who reads this, not targetting anyone in particular.
Big brother Jinki said I was a very hard-to-get-near guy at first,
but now he says i'm just really different from normal people that it takes much more effort to know me.
3rd brother Alex said I was always too frank,
but now he understands my idea of 'honesty is the best policy'.
4th brother Kenneth said I liked to criticise others for their faults,
but now I make sure he sees that I crticise myself much more. (diaozz, rite)
5th brother Kevin said I was too proud of myself, I'm still quite proud too, but now he knows I acknowledge others' strengths too.
6th brother Junkai said I was merciless with my words, but now he says i'm much more polished with my mouth now.
It took 2 years for them to realise so. I really have to say a big thank you to them for making me a better person.
Emotionally charged
Jeffire
Acknowledged my existence at
9:20 PM
Thursday, July 21, 2005
The toto prize is now $5,000,000!!! I will finally strike off the goal on my left bar. Heh. Oh ya, I added another bar to the sidebar and this is for the girls to read. Hmm...but if guys fit the bill, then okie lor, guy also can, hahaha. Are you guys laughing?
I have been asked to take charge of a charity golf event for my company. Wow. Do you think you will be able to get such a task if you were to go on internship? I certainly hope we will be able to clinch this deal. Yep, anyway the details I won't be able to disclose but I can tell you it's gonna be fun doing this! Whatever the case is, there is many things to learn, and I'm ready to increase what I have already learnt relevant to my experience in running a golf tournament. I think my army colleagues will feel the same... Aloy, GJ, Kenny, etc. Haha. However this time it will be less pressurising, I think.
Tue was a weird day for me as I was alone in the office after 7pm till 11pm. It reminded me of the days I were in army, although this time the setting was at least 100x more relaxed and yeah, I was in control of things here and there. There was MSN to use, there was real work to do, there was food to eat, drinks to drink. The only irritating was the shaking building that we were in, yes SHAKING. I am not sure why it shakes, it could be due to the nearby constructions, it could be due to the indoor air-conditiong unit (a huge one). I hope nothing happens. And guess what, now I know how to translate Korean into English using the alphabet-romanisation! But i have no interest in Korea except the food....and i dun mean kimchi.. haha. I've got a Korea travel guide, so if you like to read you can borrow from me.
Uni+Vantage has progressed further with the signing up of more companies, primarily beauty and hair salons! Haha. I am sure you all, students of NUS, NTU and SMU will be happy to hear about it. Do help us by patronising these places and use your matriculation card. As for where are the places, we will keep you updated real soon.
I've been getting hungry easily these days because I haven't been able to eat at home.. I missed home cooked food so much! Life sucks when you don't get to use the kitchen.. sigh. I was quite tempted to borrow a cookbook to expand my culinary abilities but that had to give way to interior design, one of my favourite topics...
Finally, it's my turn to post birthday wishes. It's like some of my friends have already posted theirs (Baoqin and MY) so how can I lose to them... hahaha. Okie These also have been posted on the left side bar...
Suddenly, I realised that I have a very deep hatred for this world. I hate nearly everything in this world and also nearly everyone. This is because I equal hatred to the absence of love, ie, since there is nothing to love, then there is everything to hate. While I have an embedded hatred for many things, I don't necessary have a revengeful mind, nor violent acts are on my mind. I hate them but I dun want to destroy them. Hatred cannot be destroyed, it can only be converted, because it's a form of energy. Love and hatred all form one energy which I call 'desire'. We cannot get rid of any desire in our mind because it is the energy that drives life. Without love or hatred, there wouldn't be any life after all. Of course this point is very debatable, because people all see things in different ways.
Like I care.
Neverending Misfortune
Jeffire
Acknowledged my existence at
1:10 AM
Sunday, July 17, 2005
These days have been terrible...although interesting. Maybe I should start with today.
I had a super long meeting with my Music Interactive Club (MIC) people. I am in charge of sponsorship matters in the club while I am also in the sub-comm for the monthly lunch concert. We had our meeting in Pacific Cafe, which was very expensive and we couldn't have lunch as we had to wait for latecomers...aiz. I managed to clinch a new deal (a hairdressing salon at Capitol Building) for the Uni+Vantage scheme on the same day too! Hahaha. Hope I manage to get Kbox too...which will be a big achievement! I'm trying to catch Poh Kim too, although they seem to be hiding..
I found that Suntec's parking was really cheap if you compare to the other buildings around the city area, $1.05 for the first 2hrs on weekends (7am - 12am), PHs, while on weekdays it's the same rate for the first 3hrs before 5pm and after that it's the same as the above. Haha. However you must be warned that it's pretty packed on the weekends after 2pm... maybe cannot even find a slot!
As some of you know if you do read my comments board before I passworded the site to prevent 'comment vandalism', there's this 'vandal' playing a hide-and-seek game with me. Yet after I posted in the last comment board that I am gonna report the person to the authorities, this person, okie, as usual let's provide a codename, say DHL, emailed me to apologise to me using a lycos account with no hint whoever he/she is. In the email exchange I offered to forgive DHL as I thought he/she was really sincere by apologising immediately. However I'm still super curious about who DHL is and what does he/she wants. Frankly, if DHL is one of my guy friends, I would want him to treat me to lunch! Otherwise if DHL is a girl, then I will want her to COOK me lunch. Wahahaha. Sounds good for a punishment ah...what if it's an alien leh...? Maybe I will treat the alien to a laksa lunch lor...think aliens wouldn't like laksa....too hot. hahaha.
On Fri night the 7seas finally met together and this time we had Eileen and Liguang together as well. Jinki brought along Catherine, and so the 2 couples were happily chatting in my van while I ferried them from point to point to fetch the guys up...Alex mistook the date and was still resting at home! So had to drive 3 rounds instead of my planned 2. But eventually for the sake of Junkai and Catherine+Jinki, we had supper at BLK600+ Jurong West, one of the favourite nightspots for the NTU chaps. If I din recall wrongly, Bon lives near that area too. Wonder if I should had asked him down to join us as he know Jinki as well... Hmm the supper was short and we didn't really eat much. Had some fries and milo while Kevin devoured a bowl of bak chor mee and Alex ate kueh.. haha. Sounds like a very light supper hor. We had lotsa fun taking photos(when JK post them up I will put up one or two here for your viewing pleasure..hehe) Jinki will be flying back to Australia to continue the new school term so our next 7sea full force gathering would be in Dec! Unfortunately, with our busy schedules as the new term begins in 2-3weeks time, maybe the rest of the 7seas brothers may not even meet up lor... most likely there should be 1 birthday celebration in between and then the rest all postponed to year end.. haha. Dun worry! We will still catchup on MSN, and yesh, I look forward to challenging Eileen in Solitaire Showdown.
Speaking of that, my first try at the MSN game, Solitaire Showdown saw me losing to MY by 90+cards on Fri nite too...grrr... how could i lose.. haha. Guess i'm getting dumber over the days..dumber!
Friday was a pretty short day as I got home to rest. The farewell for HY and KB were not very flashy, teary sort, but indeed, it was really an enjoyable experience trying to get to know them. I actually managed to change my impression of HY from 'troublesome' to 'bearable' in the short 4 days in the week as we began to exchange more words. (wahaha, she's gonna whack me!) Den about KB, KB's actually David's hallmate! The world is so small man..... haha. I never had a bad impression of her anyway, since she's quite an understanding and easy-going person. Maybe I should write just one entry to introduce my colleagues and talk more about them to you in my own views... but that's for the next time.
Thursday was a very tiring day for I was late for work by nearing 40mins and I stayed back in the office for an extra 2hrs. Haha. I don't mind since the office is really a very nice place to hang around in, less the super freezing aircon at times. After that I went to fetch my mother and found out that my cousin Daniel was living in my aunt's place for the time being. He was adding friends in friendsters and he was like copying down all the nice pictures he saw in others' picture albums..weird... but looking at him, it reminded me how time flies! Just 10years ago he was a toddler being taken care by us, but today he's a fine young lad (had a slightly bad influence by his gangster-wannabe brother though)... well... wait till my youngest cousins all grow up.... i will feel more like an uncle..
Oh yeah so that concludes the events in the one week, and that means it's nearer to my birthday! wahahhaa. MY put up a wishlist for her bdae on MSN oredi despite it being in DEC... kiasu.. but I will follow suit and put up mine here soon! Gotta be very detailed about it because it will require quite alot of help from all of you, my friends...... wahahahhaa. Exciting sia!
So.. finally we have reached the end! Whatever unhappiness there was, it should have been erased... oh but i still can't imagine what's gonna happen from that greedy bugger...
my schedule for the next week is all booked except weekday mornings, sat late afternoons and sundays. that's because i will be working full time from 2-11pm! You will see me more often on MSN though.. so dun hesistate to ask me to play MSN games with you! wahhaahaha.
Prays for the best
Jeffire
Acknowledged my existence at
12:44 AM
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Bubbly OooOOoOOOOoOOOoooooOOOOO Bubbles!!
These days have been pretty slow moving, especially when school work has taken a super slag due to the stupid email system which has been like kinda dead for days. I have tons of emails to send and update ppl....sigh!!!
NKF has been embroiled into some troublesome matter regarding the misuse of funds...And they have sued the newspaper for splashin out their dirty linen... wahaaha. i suppose they are gonna review the way they collect donations and of course i feel that they should cut down on the no of shows required...i noe many ppl need help, but the richest dun donate cos they dun have time to watch tv, and the poorest hasn't enough to eat. Anyway I'm a monthly donater! I donate $9 every month, $6 to NKF and $3 to community chest. Wonder if I should cut it. Of course not. I mean it's the bare minimum I can do for them. Imagine one day I get as sick as them, without the help, should i die off painfully just because i could not afford medication? That's cruel...very cruel.
However, many modern illnesses are acquired from poor habits and these are all actually preventable. Just that many people don't make the effort to do so....sigh. Maybe in the future we could give subsidies to people based on how much they work on maintaining good health! Like you know, car insurance premiums fall as you pass each year without accidents? Maybe if you took less than a certain no of MCs, you could have a lower medishield premium or health insurance premium ba... Ironically, although I have collected less than 10 MCs in the past 20 years, my insurance premium is more expensive with my inherited illness. Damn...
My brother went for his ligament surgery and stayed in the hospital for a day... pretty small bed for a big sized guy like him. haha. Now he's back home... will be at home for some months.. wonder how he can survive man... i know i dun wan to stay at home for so long so i never went for the operation... haha. Stupid hor..
It's 3 weeks more to my birthday... a good thing that happened is that I have been awarded with the full time job and it's permanent afternoon shift! Wooo....every morning can go exercise le.. maybe by my birthday i won't change so much but should still be better than last yr... hehe. At least happier... yeah.
That day when I was singing this song 说不出的告别 (Unspeakable Goodbye) at the MRT, I saw XYZ and her bf! Irony is that I could say goodbye so I guess I have got over the things pretty well... was actually smiling as I took the train. Like yes, another chapter over, another chapter to start soon. I think this song is really niceeeeeeeee~~have oredi sent to many many people le....haha.
Well, Jinqi said it was troublesome to read my blog because of the password thingy... and said whoever want to comment wat, let them comment... but Sirong said can monitor the comments thingy, so I decided to take off the barrier and then perhaps, when the vandalism comes in I just need to clean things up.. As long as my friends are not affected, I think it will be acceptable..
Ms Beautifuk gave a thumbs down review of NYDC. Do read it....she's really a good writer.
More good food to recommend.. okie. It's a bit troublesome but if you can get to Whampoa food centre, try the Singapore Hokkien Mee, rojak, and popiah there..hehe. I think the most important thing is to buy the cakes at a small stall at the far end...her cakes are niceeee!! The walnut cake is fabulous~~hehehe.
Oh ya, today was Eugene(in blue)'s birthday celebration! The photo I will post one up later, but they all praised me for buying a nice cake! Woohoo!! It's the 3rd praise I've got in 3 months!! The chocolate classico I bought was from Four Leaves and it was pretty nice except for the decoration...tot it would have been nicer if they put some sweeter fruit rather than the super sour raspberry! hahaha. but the chocolate was indeed niceeeeeeeee.... the other food i din eat because i tot it was really not enough for everyone, so in the end, ate a piece of pizza and cake only =) wahhaa. i'm not going to lose track of my weight loss plan...
Okie.... Friday got Sentosa outing with the 7seas....but nobody can join me to go...diaoz... can someone ke lian ke lian wo and join meeeeeeeee.........i wan chio bu to go.. (joking) anyone will do la.. desperate. Think shud be driving in there...Den at nite got supper.. Kev wants supper and I managed to catch Eileen... while I may not be able to eat much.. la kopi is always welcomed.. Tomorrow I also going kopi with Chris and the army chaps... no time to join their K Lunch... sadzzzzzzz...i want to try some new songs!! hahaha. show off...yesh i'm a show off!!
I miss Dan, Jason, Pius, ZB and Nigel man... wonder what they are busy with these days... not much time to talk to them... Haaaaaaaaaaaaa......
Now that I clinched the full time job I can't go Tioman on my birthday! Think I will go JB or somewhere nearby on Sat to shop, enjoy foot massage (how to enjoy pain?!) and eat.....haha. And also to come back looking different! Yay!! When I look different I will want to talk to girls on the street.. haha. These days already noticed like many girls and guys stare at me... ya I know i'm very weird but mabbe still can stir up a chat... hehe.
Unspeakable Relief
Jeffire
Acknowledged my existence at
11:02 PM
Sunday, July 10, 2005
*I updated my sidebar...nothing much.
Many people said to me if I be myself, there will bound to be somebody who will like me...but how much does one understand oneself? Sometimes we don't really understand what we do, because emotions sway our logic, and other times logic defies our emotions. How much control have we got over ourselves?
Many times we get the wrong idea by looking things at the surface and sometimes being very informative is worse than being ignorant. If I was ignorant, I would have been much happy these days...sigh. Can you erase my memory..or at least erode it with something new?
Anyway, I'm tired thinking about it so I'll tell you some stuff that happened over the weekend..
First one is, Harbour City Restaurant at PSA Building sucks man. Dun go there for the ala carte buffet.
Second one is, Laguna National the chalet is damn luxurious! Except that they have some 'xiao qiangs' (cockroaches) around.. man, if they get it cleaned up it would be near to perfect. The rooms are huge, the living room, bedroom and bathrom but of course it is expensive..haha.
Third one is, I missed meeting my 7seas.. sigh. And I spent so much money..sigh sigh... And I played a real bad soccer game today...stupid shorts that kept threatened to fall... sigh sigh sigh..somemore it's play with other people lor... spoil my name...sigh sigh sigh sigh..
Fourth one is, Fri I had dinner with Charles at Swee Kee (Ka Soh) Fish-Head Noodle restaurant at Amoy St. The fish head noodle is so so but check out the pork ribs and the hor fun... very niceeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! the pork ribs is more like pork chop.. no bones wan... and it's very veri very veri nice!! but also veri exp....T_T
Finally, this is my 180th post!! Will I hit 200 posts by the 2nd birthday of this blog?? Hmm.. surely I will overshoot it...yesh.. cos i'm juz a bloody whinery oobaka.
A sucky day
Jeffire
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9:36 PM
Thursday, July 07, 2005
YAWNZZZZZZ...I just had 3.5hrs of sleep and now I'm still at the office, waiting for time to pass as we have a big client in the office and I'm required to help fill the tables. It leaves a better impression I guess.
Yesterday's discussion with Wing Tai was a disaster that I did not manage to witness. This was due to the stupid, inconsiderate people of NUS. I mean, even there was no space for me to sit in at the meeting, why can't they just call me and tell me (i can see them from my seat anyway) and I could have gone for a shopping session at Kinokuniya or somewhere instead of wasting my time trying to find out where the hell they are seated (first time meeting the NUS / NTU reps). They were dressed pretty casually, and it seemed like they were not very sure about the whole discount program...arghz. If we get Wingtai in the scheme I'm sure many people will definitely know our discount scheme and will use the discounts we have fought so hard to get for them...G2000, U2, Topshop, Yoshinoya, Fox.. all these brands I'm sure all of you will like to have some discounts rite...They dialled me after the discussion and I was very unhappy with them. I was already very unhappy with NTU in the first case, and the incident did nothing to improve my impression of them. How unprofessional they can get!
Today at work, apart from being asked to stay back to fill the gaps (i dun mind, actually), my boss brought me to Jurong Country Club to see the golf manager and the golfing concierge. Apart from them, I also met the GM of the club! Wow. Theygave us their namecards, even though my other colleague and I were just employees of the company. Nice rite? I had to write on mine because it was printed blank in the name, designation section. I wonder if there will be a way to do a direct printing onto the card without doing all the cutting and sticking. Maybe I will get a sticker print to do so. I ought to have brought my SMU namecard too, and perhaps I could have gotten more lobangs.. haha. I'm just so inexperienced when it comes to such business, high-life kinda stuff.
My boss's birthday is coming this Sun but he's giving us a treat at Laguna National Golf and Country Club! Haha. The dinner is on Sat evening, but I have to go to my grandpa's birthday celebration dinner at PSA Building too. So I will only be able to join them for ktv.. sigh. In any case, I will get to eat quite alot since it's gonna be at the restaurants and this mean, yeah, bad news for my plans. Maybe I won't be able to succeed in transforming into a totally new person but I guess I will change slowly during this half of the year. A new school, an increased job scope at work and CCA and new responsibilities (maintaining Uni+Vantage, running MIC stuff, table tennis admin, etc) are new challenges I look forward to, and whether it's a new me, or an old me, I still will need to deal with them accordingly.
Monday I had a meeting in school with Eric Yap, the director of Echo Music. The local music scene seems to be quite vibrant nowadays, with music schools and publishers sprouting. Who would have heard of Play Music if there wasn't Ocean, Joi..? Who would have know the Lee brothers if there wasn't Stefanie Sun, likewise for Ocean Butterfly (Ah-Du) and the many other music companies. I was briefly inside the industry during my stint with Canyon Music, as a vocal trainee. Eventually what happened to the company I had no idea but they were embroiled in a commercial case and it caused me to cease my relations with the industry. Oh well, Echo Music has a few interesting courses available and I'm kinda tempted to join them, for example the song writing course (with a basic keyboarding course inside). I can easily swirl and twirl new tunes but I have really no idea how to put them into notes and chords for others to reproduce or to use... haha. I think i'm pretty good at writing lyrics too, as Joyce and Siaoying will know, given my frequent mockery of some songs.. haha. oOPS.
How I hope everyday will be less troublesome... but looking at the results it makes me happy that i'm doing something that not every business student in any of the 3 universities can do. I'm a golfing concierge, a customer service officer, a sponsorship manager, an operations officer, an administrator, a butler and yes a student. Many people will think that I'm pretty mad to give school a lower priority but guess what, i already found a job and a long lasting one. Why would I want to study hard and start again in another company in 4 yrs time? I'm not sure what will I become in the future, I may be still here, or could be elsewhere, but I know this is the way to go. I will get to know more and more people, learn more and more things, experience more and more happenings, and this is what I think will bring me nearer to the dreams I hold.
Don't be shocked if you read Forbes magazine in 2015 and find my name in the world rich and young list! hahaha. (fat hope rite..) But just one thing, every dream is worth working hard for, and it's the journey that counts, not the results. Yes, and everyone of you reading this will also be just as successful or even more if you understand these.
Warmest Regards
Jeffire
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4:35 PM
Monday, July 04, 2005
I just had barely 4hours of sleep...in additional to a stupid nightmare which I'm not going to remember.
Overall I had a very enjoyable week, meeting up with many different people and doing lotsa different things..
Thu - I had a interesting day where I rushed up and down Singapore, fetching my parents to work, driving to Tanjong Pagar and left the van at the HDB carpark where the market was. My mother made a mistake when she put the coupons, as she thought the rate was $1 per hour when it was double. However everything was fine after I finished work. Had a long walk from Robinson Rd to Colleyer Quay where Hitachi Tower was. I was on despatch for my boss to American Express. Saw lotsa interesting sights along the way. In the afternoon I was in school at the Arts and Culture Fraternity booth, selling the art and culture clubs to the freshmen. It was boring since it was more like an introduction opportunity rather than a selling session. When Vivace 05 comes we will sell harder, I guess. At night I went to see Jinki at home but nearly got a playful bite from his dog, Lucky. I wasn't very much affected though. In all it was a pretty short chat we had for my dad came to fetch me home. As much as I wanted to stay longer, I was just too tired. Nonetheless it was a good catch-up. Jinki has changed slightly over the past few months, and it seems he looks tired with all the intense competition in school and stuff like that. As a natural leader, and a charmer, and also being attached, brings plenty of responsibilities that not any normal person can handle. I guess time will see the making of a better person, with the trials and challenges that loom ahead.
Fri - I went to Joyce's home for a mahjong cum BBQ session as I wanted to go visit her to see how her leg was. However she seemed pretty fine, throttling up and down her home trying to convince people to bid for the same classes as her for the upcoming term. I had a boring time playing mahjong with her RGS friends for they were newbies and more interested in making fun of each other... It was also a funny day as the sweltering heat forced me into requesting for a bath at her home, even it was my first visit. Haha. Thank god her parents are very kind and generous people.
After the mahjong I met some more new friends like BQ, ZH, Anna and Weiling, who were Joyce's colleagues during her short stint this holiday. They were all very interesting characters, and I shared a great night having the BBQ with them, Joyce's parents and some relatives. It was definitely a great decision to go, although I must regret that Huiling wasn't around to join the fun. It's fated I guess, for in the beginning it was Huiling's request for a mahjong session on Fri, and being the ace coordinator for mahjong sessions I offered my help and was counter-offered with Joyce's BBQ. Good begets good then. Now to mention the food... it was just overwhelming... so much! The sting-ray and chicken were marinated very uniquely by Joyce's father, who took a day's leave to work hard at home for Joyce's mini-party. We also had beehoon, satay, otah, mashmallows, sweet potatoes and hotdogs, etc. Surprisingly, there isn't crabstick for the first time.. haha. I enjoyed particularly the part when I fanned the flames...it was a good workout for my arms haha. And I had free fanning from behind by Joyce's mother, Weiling and Anna.. thanks a million! Well, in all it was a great effort from Joyce's parents and I certainly hope she appreciates it and stay good and healthy...
Sat - The food that was eaten the day before was a great catalyst for an exercise day. Went for some soccer training and a jog alone... then it was a frantic rush to get someone to join me for the the SMU musical, Anything Goes. Eventually I had Winston to join me and it was a stupid rush as I saw the wrong bus no and boarded the wrong bus. Yet we were still on time as we took a cab.. haha. Met Peimin and Meiqi at the musical but didn't introduce them to Winston because as usual, I think people should self-intro to show how enthusiastic they are when meeting new people...wahaha. But Winston was lamenting that I should had introduced the girls to her. My apologies then. The musical was pretty exciting...in short the show was about a voyage to London from Singapore on the ship H.M.S (her majesty's ship). The main female leads sang pretty well and one of them who acted as a Chinese showgirl, Soh May Hua, outshoned with her flamboyant and sexy cheongsam...woo. Anyway I went to the musical in support for Xiaoxiang, who was in the symphony band that was providing the musical accompaniment. Surprisingly, Winston' buddy was the keyboardist and he wasn't a SMU student at all! He was a scholar going to Stamford University! After the musical we were all super hungry and tired for we took a long walk from NAFA Bencoolen St to City Hall Mrt, so we ate DINNER at my place. I was then scheduled to go meet Kevin and Jinki for prata, but I forgot that my van keys were with my father and there goes my night transport... sigh! I have to apologise for my last minute withdrawal...(anyway that's rare, isn't it?)
Sunday - The morning was pretty fine where I woke up on time and then went to Tampines for a SCS meeting which was very fulfiling but disappointing for the attendance was lesser than predicted. After that I went back home and prepared for the soccer game at NUS. It was a long trip there, but I enjoyed myself very much. Apart from playing much better than the past, it was a good workout and meetup with Weijian, Aston and co. I made very few mistakes, and did a very good job scoring 3 or 4 goals (i can't remember exactly) and had 2 assists. The most important thing was that I made very few mistakes and were much faster than before... yay!
After the soccer it was a long walk to the bus stop as I agreed on the spot to go dinner with Aston and Zhong, to TPY. Upon reaching TPY it was a even longer walk to the coffeeshop where we were looking forward to curry fish head, only to find it closed for the day... sigh. Yongqing was drove then suggested we go Jalan Besar for curry vegetable rice...(die die also must have curry..) so we took a 10min drive then and since there wasn't parking lots around, we parked quite a distance away and yeah, more walking. The stall was the famous Scissors Curry Vegetable rice, located diagonally opposite Jalan Besar Plaza. Yep, do patronise the stall if you are around the area, but do beware of the queue. It's opened from 1130am - 33oam. And also do patronise the dim sum stall, Swee Choon, 2 streets down along Jalan Besar towards Sim Lim Square. It's only opened in the evening though, therefore I didn't have the chance to try it when my office was situated in that area...
After the dinner they suggested to play WE.. and we played till like 1+ in the morning, trying out the Asian teams against giants like France and Brazil and Argentina on a 3/4 player mode. (ie 3/4 of us on the same team). Eventually our winning games were, Japan beat France 1-0, Japan beat Brazil 6-2, Japan beat Argentina 2-1, Korea beat France 2-1 and other games we lost. On a personal challenge I lost to Aston 4-1 (Man U vs Ajax), lost to Yongqing 1-0 (AC Milan vs Ajax) and beat Zhong 1-0 (Liverpool vs Ajax). My standards have fallen very much...! Or should I say they have improved very much.
Well, this entry seems pretty long... it's still a long way from being a new me, especially regarding my weight and shape issue...curse it. I guess I will stay relaxed for the time being...since there's no point changing myself anymore...nobody to change for.
Yawnzzzzzz
Jeffire
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10:53 AM