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So small! 

Words can't describe my latest baby.

Its so small, so cute, so handy...wah lao...

Bought it for half normal price(should've ordered a couple more sets) and its been well worth it so far. Okie so the manual and instructions are all in Japanese but what the hey its not too hard to fiddle around with.

Christmas pressie for myself. How apt...

*gush*

Serendipity

I think I used this title for a blog entry once. I suppose its appropriate for this current entry too.

Without it I wouldn't imagine any other way that I could possibly catch up with my good friends from way back when.

Without it I wouldn't feel the impetus to blog immediately upon arrival home.

I am blessed.

So there I was after my tiring(and somewhat fruitless, but warranting another story) roadshow, had met up with June for a brief chat and get the Border's postcard from her, I was hungry and alone.

Was walking around deciding what I should eat and really couldn't decide. Then I came across this Jap outlet called Pepper Lunch which looked like the least crowded of all shops in Orchard Road. I figure if an outlet has a name with 'Lunch' in it, no one would have it for dinner.

If anyone's eaten at either the Taka or Shaw outlets, you'd realise that you have to order your food first and then go find your seat. So I ordered my pepper beef rice(extremely salty) and headed to my allocated seat, which was a counter seat since I was terrbly alone.

And lo and behold who was there seating beside my allocated seat? It was Steven and Amy! Waaaah. Super surprised. They also just ordered their food and they were seating right beside me! If its not pure coincidence and chance then I know not what to say.

*Nothing to say*

Then we chatted lor. In Amy's words, both Steven and my maturity level suddenly dropped back to 10yr old kids level. We are, afterall, a very potent combination. Steven going to be a pilot(really really!), Amy still teaching.

I learnt from them that the movie Pride and Prejudice is good, and Aeon Flux is fuck shite. Then again they thought Chicken Little was good. Brrrr....

I also learnt that when you want your friends to stop teasing you just start selling them investments or insurance. Insurance especially works wonders.

I also learnt that friends who have seen you gamble in Genting will never, ever, buy investments from you.

I also learnt that everyone has barely any time to catch up with one another anymore. Work is ever consuming. So both of them are damn lucky they are so free for each other now. Eh?

It's wonderful to have such moments when you least expect it. Chancing upon a couple of good friends and catching up with the old days albeit over oily food and drinks.

We are a lucky bunch blessed with the grace of serendipity.

November, O'Yeah?

I gotta say November's been a good month. Worked hell hard and its should be worth it. Hopefully December will be just as good if not better. Though judging from the last coupla days I'll be lucky if I just scrape past my threshold.

Haven't been doing much other than work lately.

The weekend was great. Worked the usually halfday banking hours and then whisked off to VJC for basketball. After almost a three month layoff from the regular game I still can mix it up with the best. Not bad for an old bag like myself. But was too tired to do anything else thereafter. Thankfully the girlfriend bothered to come over to enjoy a good french movie(The Chorus).

Sunday was another nuah day(my offdays are more often than not nuah), spent the afternoon crooning at K-box(bloody cheap K-lunch package), then shopped around till late. At night was another movie night at home, this time a rerun of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Brilliant show. I won't need any of those treatment what with my lousy memory hehe.

*sneezed*

Am sick. The flu. Getting better already though.

Spend alot of time in office these days. I wonder if my life is gonna be like that from now on? Where will I be a year on? What will I be doing? The same thing? Hmm...I really wonder.

I still have dreams of earning my first million before I'm thirty. How? I dunno but I only have four more years to go and I'm not even 10% on my way there. Even with my super high-risk mega portfolio of investments I'm really not flying towards the million-dollar mark as yet.

*sigh*

So anyway selling investments and insurance is fun and fulfilling. Its all that I've ever envisioned myself doing, and more! Housing loans and servicing though, on the other hand, are a total bitch. Very extra work and very tediously unrewarding.

Life is dandy. And good. Now if only I strike Toto...

I.R.O.N.Y.

I really only need you.

IRONY is when you sell insurance to a Prudential advisor.

Thats been done.

I'm Still Alive

Yes I am.

Just busy cheonging while there's money to make that's all.

An Excellent Movie

An Excellent Movie 

If you missed out on today's totally excellent exciting happening ultra-fun hall 8 alumni gathering to sentosa, wah lan eh, you missed out on alot siah!!!

Haha.

Okie so the attendence wasn't like the whole world(which everyone claims I told them!), but we had a larger than expected crowd nonetheless! 13 people in all! That's not bad if you consider that the whole idea was hatch two nights before while driving chun home and wondering what we can do on this public holiday.

So there we were playing beach volleyball(I bought this ultra cool Adidas beach volleyball for only $29) in the hot sand. The sun was unusually hot today and we all walked away super duper roasted. Lots of bikini babes, hot hunks and erm..pet dogs(real ones!). Heck, we even saw Tay Ping Hui, Ix Shen and Ericia Lee lor! Think they were filming something there.

So it was a nice outing in all, good to meet up with everyone after so long never talk cock. Its always like old times again when we meet up and talk cock. Even the jokes are the same but we still laugh like we heard them for the first time.

Afterthat we even went to Macs at Harbourfront for a super gossip session! Haha. So baguah everyone getting themselves updated from everyone else! Haha.

Okie. End of our outing liaoz.

Then the excellent movie began...

Okie lah, no movie, but as drama as an exciting action movie maybe.

Leon offered to drive a few of us home. Namely Corrinne, Hwi Kiat, Thomas, Chun and myself. Along the way heading towards the ECP we started hearing this really loud grinding noise coming from below our van. It became so loud that in the end Leon had to stop the van and Hwi Kiat had to get out to check...

...then we found that we had a flat tyre!

Wah!

So exciting! First time we get the chance to change a flat tyre!!!

So as you can see in the pix, there we were changing the spare tyre!!!

SO EXCITING!

The triangle that we put about 25m away caused abit of traffic problems, but think lucky we put it there lah, else some errant driver might've crashed into us. And to add to all the excitement, there was a ton of mosquitoes! All cos Leon stopped beside a huge drain. Wah xianz. Means we had to work fast because we were getting bitten left right and centre(even my butt)! Sibeh alot alot of mosquito bites. Hahaha.

In the end we took about half an hour(first 1 minute was panic) to get everything settle. So zhai!!! Hahaha, then we drove to Shell in Siglap and celebrated with Minute Maid's lemonade!!!

So that basically summed up my Deepavali.

And this one especially for Mr Tan "I keep repeating myself" Hwi Kiat,

Little known to those 6 graduates, thee flat tyre incident would only be the beginning of their adventures....

Sales Is Tough As Egg

Okie, I dunno how many times you'll hear me telling you this, but yeah, sales is definitely tough as shite. And believe me I can harp on this sordid fact till the cows come home.

I've been busting my ass for the last 3 weeks since I was finally thrown onto ground zero to walk my talk. Everything they said about this job is true and more. I hardly knock off before 9pm and if I do its because I've got training elsewhere. My poor calves shoulders and thighs have hardly seen the sun all week man. Then everyday gotta worry about hitting my targets and closing whatever sales we can close.

Last weekend I had my first day off(sunday) and before that I realised that I had worked 13 consecutive days. Wah seh.

K lah enough of demoralizing shite. I mean I did choose this path afterall so who am I to complain?

If there's any good side to it all its that I'm not regretting my decision to jump on the sales wagon...yet. The money's not too bad either. I get lotsa freebies. And I save alot of money because I've got no time to do anything else.

My branch manager is also really a chump. Somewhat encouraging(in a weird masochistic way), and even helps out wherever he can, notably at point of closure of sales. And a really good and effective coach too I gotta say. So wheh he ask me to stay back to teleconsult I really can't refuse. Afterall if I hit threshold this month its 'cause of all his help, encouragement and coaching lah...and I'm almost there liaoz...

Haiz.

Last weekend was a great weekend spent with the girlfriend. Been neglecting her quite alot due to work constraints, and we sure as hell spent it like we were making up for all that absence! Hehe. We watched a movie, went for an early morning jog(8am), breakfast at siglap, k-lunch, played pool, the works...

Oh yeah, and watched Flight Plan. Its...erm...okie lah. Its not lousy enough for me to tell you not to watch it, and yet its not good enough to warrant a really strong recommendation to cath it either. So you go decide whether you wanna catch it or not. But I know everyone wants to find out what really happened to Jodie Foster's daughter because the trailer was what enticed me to catch the show too(okie so the gf wanted to watch it also), but I shan't spoil it for those of you who wanna catch it. If you really wanna know and don't wanna waste $19 on a good weekend, then ask me lor. Haha.

Hopefully will have at least the next few sundays off. Anyone wanna catch me in action on any given sunday can just drop by the branch at Orchard @ Somerset.

Bleahz.

Luck

Luck

Luck is when Opportunity meets Preparation.

Stressed

Haiz...

Life as a salesman is indeed tough. Maybe even tougher than I thought.

Hardly any time for my other things.

Always rushing like mad.

And I've got absolutely no life.

And things might actually get worse...

*sigh*

My New Handphone

My New Handphone 

Happy.

Just bought my business phone. Its the latest Sony Ericsson K300i! For all my business needs and usage. Cheap too!

Got camera, video recording, addictive java games, music dj, scheduler, and lotsa other rubbish. All for $38. Wah.

Training's in its final week. Next week onwards its gonna be slogging for sales liaoz. Haiz. Anybody got anything that they need insurance, investment or home loans or what from my place just gimme a buzz hor. Hehe.

Erm. Oh yah, if you're wondering what's my biz number, its 3907 X 17 X 81 X 18.

Ha.

Watched Corpse Bride over the weekend. Wah lao, its helluva good siah(pardon pun). Really niiiiiiiiiiiccccccccceeeeeeeee!!!! I would recommend it to the whole wide world but everyone will just doubt me. Humph. Sure its a tad predictable, but everything else's so good there's nothing(hardly any) not to like about it! Haha. If you liked Nightmare Before Christmas and anything Jim Henson then this show is so super for you lor!! *gush gush*

Oh yah and brudder Redtail, we really gotta get together some time(where we dun have to force each other to drink so much alcohol or dance so much) to exercise or something. I think I have a belly liaoz. Big one. Dun pray pray.

Alumni soccer would be a terrrific idea. But who else would be onz?