Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Quickie Update

long time no post.

training is into 3rd week liaoz. still fun. hectic and crazy. but fun. cmfas exams are next. lotsa studying.

uncle jason came over to visit. family of 6 invaded our house. had to sleep in pa's room. was fun though, them 4 kids.

chun's birthday came and went. she wasn't having a good time at home. hope i cheered her up a tad bit.

peking duck at lao bei jing @ novena is simply fantastic. mouth-watering, sumptuous and delicately delicious. expensive though.

yup. thats about it...update again soon.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Its Only Just Begun

work start liao.

been too tired to blog. the training will be for 2 months and its a 5day week from 9 to 630 each day. quite xiong and very tiring(maybe too long never work liao). but its fun, interesting and most importantly, challenging. each time training begins at 9am, i feel like i'm participating in an episode of the apprentice. the atmosphere is one that feels competitive and cut-throat.

my fellow colleagues are friendly and nice. but somehow you get the feel that everyone is putting out their strongest front for the rest of the class to see. 24 of us in total. because everyone wants to achieve to be the best, earn the most and climb the furthest. everyone looks like they know what they're in for and no one wants to give way for anyone to climb over them. you can see that desire in many of their faces. very ambitious. i like alot. thats exactly how i want it and what i want to face. everyone's very capable, especially in this line, everyone speaks well, carry themselves well and like to draw attention and speak their minds. there arn't many pessimistic people around and if there were the rest of us wouldn't mind the competition being reduced.

the training i do enjoy more than my previous place. maybe its because i'm more interested in what's being taught now, but then again my previous background did help me get the job. still everyone's quite friendly, trainers are nice and handhold you all around, syllabus easy to follow and practical. i can't ask for more.

these are very exciting times and i'm eager to find out how high i can soar and what the furthest possibilities are.

wish me tons of luck!

among other updates, the dear lost here bag while jogging in yio chu kang stadium. dearest all, in future should you go jogging please please please dun ever put your belongings on the grandstand ever again(even if you used to). there are bound to be lockers somewhere.

hope the theiving bastards grow obscene pus-dripping pimples and burn in hell.

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Friday Rant

suffered a severe beating at the hands of the brutal stock market today. i must thank my wonderful buddy novice trader brudder tan for entertaining and exchanging analyses with me the last week...its been fun bro.

haiz.

went to yio chu kang stadium for a jog today. no, i haven't moved house. its that nice sporty stadium that you see when the mrt passes by yio chu kang mrt station. oh you haven't ever been there? hmm its not that bad you know, the people up north actually have running fresh water and their provision shops sell newspapers! some toilets there still don't have toilet paper though. hmph.

joined chun for our planned(may still fail) weekly exercise together. being the nuahster meant i only jogged 4-5 rounds and claim i jogged 6, then walk the next couple of rounds and claim that i was doing sprints. then sneak back to where we put our bags to hide while the dear runs out the last coupla rounds. but hey, got sweat can liao. and sweat i did siah! until underpants also wet. make my backside so itchy.

my holiday has almost ended liaoz. monday start work again. so excited! hope it'll all go well for me in my new place of work. no more bao tohing of where i'm working, at least lidat i can describe my new working life without offending anyone. if you still dunno where i'm working you can erm, ask me in person, or email me or something lah.

ms tiong bock lian is jioing people to go out for dinner this coming sunday as well as go watch the fireworks. dinner will probably be at the esplanade and there's gonna be alot alot alot of people(i kid you not). those who want to come please please please try to join us, we need more people(its not cuz we dun have enuff ppl ok?). just give me or her or someone else whom you think is going(he/she is probably going lah, if not jio him/her too!) a buzz on the mobile about the time and place. or if you're gonna be in the area might as well join us for a brief get-together?

speaking of fireworks, here's a blog that everyone has be recommending to everyone as a must read. funny as shite.

i think someone's really gotta write to the media about that new president that the only hope he has of becoming president is fat hope man. i mean if your previous company has to clarify in our nation builder that you actually weren't good enough, then you really wanna dispute what? and then hyflux comes out and clarifies his short tenure with them(2mths, thats shorter than me in my previous workplace). olivia lum says he's a mere aquiantance when he previously said they were "good friends"? then got lawyer want to sue him somemore. shiok lah, lidat wanna be president?

you ask me to name where nathan used to work for i think hard hard also cannot, but i dun care, i still think nathan has more credibility now. right now this guy has the credibility rivaling that of a pirated dvd from jb lor.

haiz i'm ranting.

okie i'm off to play scrabble online. if anyone wants to play against me(friendly only okie?), do let me know and i will teach you how and where to download the software program(its in one of my links) and even teach you how to cheat online(you're free to cheat against me).

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Eski

after all the whining for the last coupla months about how much i wanted to check out the newest bar in town - eski bar - i finally got to see it. we went to the one at tanjong pagar, supposedly the original.

boy was i disappointed.

it was really really small and cramp, like the size of a cargo container(maybe even the container's bigger) and even still its divided into 2 parts, the chilly part that's like 1-2 degrees celcius and the normal chill out behind(with aircon of course).

the chilly part was a good touch and seems like the reason why everyone was popping by. wednesday night between 9-11pm we were there and there weren't more than 20 people in the bar at any one time. maybe wednesday nights are its most unhappening nights.

you can see your breath while you talk in the chilly room. and cuz it was really cold, wearing the normal shirt and pants was definitely insufficient. though they offer parka jackets for free...and if you bring your own you actually get discounts off drinks. but its so small you can feel the waitresses eyes on you 24/7(maybe cuz we were the only patrons in the bar at times!).

that was the good part.

the chill out portion was even smaller though its furnished to look bigger than it really was. we had a nice little seat near the exit of the chilly room. drinks weren't cheap(guess you pay for the chiller), $12 for a tiger/heineken and $14 for an erdinger and up, $40 for a jug a house pour.

the biggest downsides were firstly, the service sucked big time. the only waitress in the bloody chill outt room had her vampire eyes fixated on us almost the whole time, as if we were gonna run of with their heaviest bar stool. i mean hello, we aren't on television lor! and then every now and then, and i mean a VERY frequent(4-5min) now and then, she would take two steps right to the side of our table and lift our beer bottles to see if they were empty. i mean, wah lao eh, eager beaver siah! i like to sip slowly slowly can? and she did it so damn many times it kinda pissed us all off.

secondly, this is one of the few bars i know where you are charged the 10% service charge(what service?), the 5% gst, and the 1% dunno-what charge. wah lao what a rip-off, our order of 2 tiger and 1 erdinger(menu total would have been $38) came up to $45. wah lao. i dun remember many other pubs charging all these charges for drinks and house pours. isn't it supposed to be a single nett charge? i'm not in a bloody restaurant you know. hmph.

thirdly, the toilet sucks big time. its like the last corner of the bar. last last last corner inside inside tiny tiny little cubicle. i mean its so damn small, that after you close and lock the toilet door(its unisex), you STILL can't stand in front of the toilet bowl to pee because there is no space. so the furthest you can stnad is at a 45degree angle by the toilet bowl.

and the best part of all?! because there is no push button flush, the flush can only be activated by sensor. oh dear! how? you can't stand in front to activate the sensor in the first place?! soooo, there is a little note there that tells the user to place his hand in front of the sensor for 10 seconds after he has peed. such brilliance! i never could have thought of that. only saving grace? the tap is automatic sensor too.

haha.

the insensitive irony of the sanitory sensor.

so in the end as we were about to leave we took our still-got-abit-left beer bottles(to spite that lousy waitress) with us to the chilly part and hung out for awhile to see how long we could hang around in that cold.

think we didn't last 10minutes in that freaking freezer. brrr.

in all, i'm proud to say i've been here, done this, dun think i'll come back again. and i'm not speaking for myself here.

once bitten, twice shy.

on a better note, it was a good meeting for myself, steph, june and jeff. haven't met up in a really long time and each of us had our stories to tell of whatever we've been up to. jeff was with dbs and doing pretty good, steph's our sole survivor and june's working in borders. kewl.

'twas fun i say.

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this age guesser is so precise! darn i was hoping for an 18 or 19...haiz...there goes my young-at-heart status. but hey! i chose sponge bob square pants for the first question!





You Are 26 Years Old



26





Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.

13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.

20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!

40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.


Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Happy Birthday Singapore!

today chun and i watched the ndp at my place. i think i missed last year's parade on tv so was kinda looking forward to watching it this time around. i'm definitely not keen about that new dance that rui en and taufik are coaxing every mother's son to do but the song isnt too bad.

but today's show all the performers looked like they were lip-synching? yes?

the ndp was really nice to watch. i always enjoy them. makes me feel so patriotic and all and i love to sing along to all those songs since primary school, sing majulah singapura(think i almost forgot some of the words liao), recite the pledge...

aiyah but now they combine a few selected singapore songs into a short medley...haiz. dun have one nation one people one singapore, or the one that starts with "there was a time when people said that singapore wun make it..." remember that one? or count on me singapore! also dun have right? what about last year's we will get there?

actually i think watching the ndp makes me pity the people who have gotta stand on parade siah, gotta stand at attention and wait for the ministers, prime minister, president, then sing malay songs, chinese songs, indian songs, then english songs and still cannot go yet! sibeh xiong!

the mobile column also very long never watch liao. i liked it alot. all the lousy tanks and canons that we have. i think they have been driving the same vehicles(sans modifications in the early days) since our independence. nonetheless i like to watch armoured vehicles and weapons roll over our roads - as long as they're ours.

big thank you to ma and pa for buying boon tong kee back for us to enjoy! while we watch the parade uninterrupted.

all in all it was a good show. i think the crowds at yishun, tampines, jurong east, marina all fully enjoyed themselves. goodness even wave also can wave into some dunno what lousy record. pity the marina people for the long walk to the mrt though.

and guess what flew by our house today?


eh, even at home also got live ndp showcase, dun pray pray hor. chinook leh, wah lao. Posted by Picasa

Our Bus Is Coming

this is our lame attempt over the weekend to see who had a better "i think our bus is coming" look at a busstop off bras basah road. as you can see the guy behind us thinks we're completely off our blocks!

weekend was fun!

sprained ankle nevermind still can go out to town and have tons of fun. charlie and the chocolate factory was really good and entertaining. maybe its the midnight show.maybe its cuz i watched the futurama spoof(the one about slurm) one too many times at home.


our attempt to see who has got the 'i think our bus is coming' look.  Posted by Picasa

so who do you think looks more convincing? me right?! Posted by Picasa

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Sprained Ankle

sprained ankle while balling yesterday. damn xianz. damn irritating. think saturday was damn jinxed. out of the 14 of us about half of the lot had injuries. mostly sprains. some say its cuz its the 7th month liaoz. haiz xianz leh lousy ankle. now gotta recoup fast enough to play by next saturday again. hate ankle injuries.

hwi kiat posted a typical friday conversation. long live all novice SGX day traders!!! this is an insight into what we will be messaging each other in 40-50 years time.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Soliloquy

so·lil·o·quy (sə-lĭl'ə-kwē)
n., pl. -quies.

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
A specific speech or piece of writing in this form of discourse.
The act of speaking to oneself.
[Late Latin sōliloquium : Latin sōlus, alone + Latin loquī, to speak.]

soliloquy, the speech by a character in a literary composition, usually a play, delivered while the speaker is either alone addressing the audience directly or the other actors are silent. It is most commonly used to reveal the innermost concerns or thoughts of the speaker, thus pointing up the drama of internal conflict, as in Richard III's opening speech, “Now is the winter of our discontent.” The form was quite popular in Elizabethan drama, notably in the plays of Shakespeare. The soliloquy may also act simply as a vehicle for information about absent characters or events occurring at some other time or place. In the modern theater the soliloquy has tended to disappear completely, although experimentations in its use were attempted by such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, who sought through the soliloquy to achieve a greater psychological realism.

The noun soliloquy has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: speech you make to yourself
Synonym: monologue

Meaning #2: a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections

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i'm bored
how bored?
very bored.
poor little me.
bored bored bored.
very very bored.
bores boring bored.
am i really that bored?
i'm bored.

on a more interesting note, i found out that krispy kreme is really a us and canadian product and NOT a malaysian-almost-every-'c'-must-use-'k' product in their looks-really-interesting-but-totally-isn't extremely uninteresting website.

oh. and its raining cats and dogs.

*sigh*

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Repeat Last 4

counting down the days before i start work again. been sleeping in and enjoying life the last week or so. damn nuah. so nuah that my daily routine is becoming just that - a strict routine.

wake up,
turn on computer,
check into my phillip securities account,
look at stock prices,
check into refco fx account,
buy a couple of lots,
go outside read newspapers,
parents come home with food,
eat food,
brush teeth,
wash face,
back at comp,
turn on scrabble program,
search for latest stock analyses,
monitor stocks,
monitor fx movements,
play scrabble,
read stock analyses,
repeat last 4,
repeat last 4,
repeat last 4,
repeat last 4,
repeat last 4,
repeat last 4,
repeat last 4,
repeat last 4,
repeat last 4,
repeat last 4,
5pm market closes,
get ready to go out for program of the day.

wah sad life siah.