日本にいきます!! (Phase 1: Financial Planning)

I've decided to:
1) Go Jippun in Oct.
2) Be there for 15 days.

Initially I was still toying ard with the Jippun idea, being that its kinda way out of budget if I keep buying toys there and that its a whole half month thingy.

That was like, late last yr, beginning this yr.

From then till now, I got a pay raise bundled with a lot more job responsibilities = premature aging = need to get away from it all (for a while). But the 15 days is still kinda big question mark. Hopefully my boss okies it. And that 15 days is going to eat up 10 days of my leave.

Thus my initial plan was to join the folks in Tokyo and shop ard there only. But I got psychoed by an "experienced financial consultant". (WAHHAHAHHAHA)

And so it became 15 days, aka full trip with them ard Jippun.

My budget: SG$5,000 still. Better to budget more.

From now till Oct: 4 months.

Other factors: Course fees ~ -2k, A/R for lappy loan +1.5k, entry-level DSLR (probable, and I wanna learn photography!!) ~ -1k, GSS shopping!! ~ unestimatable.

Assuming I pull out 3k from my current meagre savings...

*calculate calculate*

Target savings per month: SG$800 - SG$1,000.

That shld suffice. IF I have the determination..

Return from Japan, eat grass for abt a week, Oct pay! Wahahha! Scrimp for a month.. BONUS!!! MWAHHAHHAHHAHHHAHHAHA~~~

眼睛累了

今天﹐參與了一項緊急應變演習。

雖說參與﹐其實是名字被拿去填補空位般地放上去。樓下的日值員工們都被動員了﹐也因為是我們的"案件"啦。

完全不好玩。狀況進展得很慢。如果是真的事件發生﹐應該會是完全另一回事。慢得我差點倒頭大睡。

太多表格要填了。填了也不知要幹嗎。反正整天我就是上網看天氣預報﹐風速﹐浪表﹐這些在日常工作/生活中不會與我打交道的東西。然後又被人當成打印機﹐只因為我坐在那兒(我需要LAN Point)。也搞不懂為什麼打印台被安置在策劃部﹐又沒有人看護。

又因為我一大早(比平時早)就出門﹐又在平常塞車的地方被塞了一下(我住在一下樓就會塞車的地方)﹐搞得我準時到(我本來計劃早10分鐘到)﹐進公司就完全石頭化。把筆記型電腦搬到樓上舉行緊急應變演習的會議室﹐聽總長重複整個過程﹐就變成化石了。

整個演習到了4點多才結束。那時的我仿彿完全虛脫般地把我的"資產"搬下樓﹐就愣在那兒。頭腦檔機了。5點又有個"小會議/訓練班"。小=要7點才結束。本想做點工﹐但眼睛累了﹐關機﹐跑人。

昨天去拿了我的眼鏡﹐改過好多了﹐又是免費的。哈哈!

明天是假日﹐但要幫我的"接班人"終結一些系統的東東。看來我又會一開機就做個幾小時了。

各位沒事請約我出去。哈哈

放空中。。。

老闆不在。

桌上擺著剛列出的"To-do list"與一些printouts﹐密密麻麻的數據s。電腦里開著好幾個spreadsheets。

頭腦在放空中。。。

上週幹了什麼好事呢。。

種了棵木棉樹﹐期待木棉花開。洗了那盆水晶s﹐順道割了自己幾劃。繼續淨化我吧。Aquarama﹐ 沒去﹐昏睡了整個禮拜天﹐以至晚上睡不著。

眼鏡﹐拿去重做了。那時配的度數太高﹐遠看還ok。近看就矇了。尤其是看電腦。但我就是配來看電腦的﹐所以沒辦法跑回去重做了。不是那時那位仁兄﹐但這位似乎比較好。問了很多。

原來axis是那個光線的角度。而我的一個horizontal﹐ 一個vertical。怪人就是怪人。

買了NDS﹐那只鳥給了我很多games。一直在玩。買PSP時都沒有這樣瘋。早知道就買NDS了。省那架PSP的錢。

期待著假日。期待著拜五的聚會。期待著動物園。期待著五月天。。

考完咯!!!!

考完咯!!!!

終於..

雖然只是短短的13天, 就好像挨了一兩個月似的.

考試應該是大多數學生的天敵吧. "翻"書翻到黑眼圈都跑出來了. 而我的頭腦, 只是最多512mb 的flash disk thumb drive 罷了. 死背, 我看我背到死都會忘掉大半部份咯. 我是write kok category 的, 所以theory paper 比較容易.

那天玩了那只鳥的NDS中的Brain Age. 我的flash memory還真不賴. 腦袋年齡: 28歲.雖然比實際的老, 不過記錄中全都是4, 50歲的"老"袋s. 有點被gian-ed 到去買NDS了..

考了四張, 不期望拿高分, 及格過關就好. 尤其是accounts, 我根本做不完. Pass 就好..

今天的那張, 題目我看得懂, 只是.. 怎麼沒記得多一點那些題目的答案!?!??! 討厭死我自己了.

如果能看見未來就好了, 就可以看到會出什麼題目. WAHHAHAHAH.

頭腦燒壞了.

對了, 那天剛去開了我的第三個戶口, 在UOB的第一個. 要存錢就要把它secretly stash 起來, 醬才會直線上昇. 順道被說服簽了個Savings Plan. 就醬在銀行待了一個鐘頭多, 還差點連隨Plan附送的Ipod Shuffle 都忘記給我.

好. 既然考完了, 腦袋放空!~

空~ 空~ 空~

等等.. 先做個 Short Term Goal List

1) 把我欠"大姐頭"的那首歌修改一下, 交上去..
2) Re-energize 我的水晶們.
3) 26-27 有Aquarama(or watever) 魚展在Suntec!
4) 6 月2日, 五月天[JUMP離開地球表面]新加坡演唱會2007, 還沒去領票..
5) 是時候學車了..
6) 把那些疊得高高的Business Books lah, novels lah, 讀完.
7) 有時間該繼續裝我的鋼彈們.
8) 看那些在我external hdd裡的動畫& Prison Break

應該沒有了吧..

放空~ 放空~ 放空~

A Night of Meiji

12.08am

As I was staring at the spreadsheet full of Arial font size 8 numbers at 75% and creating bar charts and powerpoint slides to submit to my boss's boss, I reached for my cup of Meiji strawberry milk placed behind my lappy..

I toppled the cup of pink liquid onto the keyboard of my office lappy.

Panic Mode [ON]

MSN-ed my brother on my lappy.

Mwoofy - sucking thumb.. SHIT I SPLIT MILK ON MY OFFICE LAPPY! says:
how arhhh

(bro who has a very long nick) says:
?
how?
LOL

While he was replying, I had:
1) Pulled numerous tissues out from the moomoo tissue cover and lay it over the disaster area, aka the keyboard
2) Got a rag and started cleaning the floor
3) Finished the remaining milk in the cup
4) Got a mop and started mopping my strawberry milk footprint trail
5) Save my working files before the lappy crash on me (which didnt, luckily)

N so he came over, saw my disaster area, and laffed.

@#$%@$#%^$@

After he got his laughter cured by a few smacks n pokes from me, he promptly got his screwdriver and "screwed" the keyboard out, i.e. the individual keys and clean them.

With alcohol. Or rather, some thinner thingy that I use for my cars.

Meanwhile I proceeded with cleaning and dettol-sing the table and the planks, since its like I had to clean one part of the table, might as well clean the whole thing more shiok.


My original table top that was covered for about a yr


The Meiji-ed & Dettolised Daiso planks

Then I heard an uh oh from my bro.

Bad news.

He split some thinner out.

I went back to repacking my stuff back onto the table.

Uh oh again.

My office access card got disfigured by the thinner!! *Freaks out*

Thats US$150! Charge to cost centre though. Just that I hate the hussle.

Thus conclusion for this incident, my table is too small for 2 laptops and a cup of Meiji strawberry milk.

Specky No. 3

The New Specky

This is my BELATED for 8 months bday pressie from AU.

Horrors to Horrors.. My degree went up! Kinda expected from the increased staring at the lappy. But still...


???

How can the axis change so much?

How can astigmatism be DECREASED??

The original case is so super bling bling, and somehow, the boss threw in one of their house cases. wahahhahha.


The Bling Bling Original Case & The Free Case.

Actually, the old specky seems more comfortable. Probably will go and ask abt the axis.


Specky No. 2 (close to 4 yrs old)

Denying the Existence of a Looming Paper

You're a Manager!


What's Your Destiny?

Brought to you by Tickle

I so bossy meh??




You're a Health!


The Feng Shui Test

Brought to you by Tickle

Career blocked?




You're a Outdoors!


Career Interest Inventory

Brought to you by Tickle

Gimme the sun baby!




You're a Achievement!


Is Work Wearing You Out?

Brought to you by Tickle

Hmm..




You're a Reading Memory!


The Memory Test

Brought to you by Tickle

Wahhhh.. not bad..




You're a Cheerful!


The Color Test

Brought to you by Tickle

=.=" feeling sleepy is more like it.




You're a Gentle Protector!


The Values Test

Brought to you by Tickle

Gentle arh..




You're a Reflective!


What Shapes Your Personality?

Brought to you by Tickle

Reflective arhh..




You're Phoenix!


What's Your Goddess Identity?

Brought to you by Tickle




When it comes to email, you're an Entertainer


What's Your Email Personality?

Brought to you by Tickle




You're a Correspondence Technician!


Which Executive Are You?

Brought to you by Tickle




You're likely to find fame and fortune in the Natural World


What's Your Fame and Fortune?

Brought to you by Tickle




You're a Total Med!


Are You a Natural Leader?

Brought to you by Tickle

Kronos

Taken with E65

Meet Kronos, a stow-away from some bar and landed in my arms.

Y Kronos? Click here to find out more.

It jus happened to be that we were talking abt kronosaurus, and it's kinda like an ancient crocodile, seal, penguin, whale cross. So.. Kronos.

Dun ask me what my bro was doing. These were by him.











I think my big cow doesnt have a name. So does the 2 small ones.. Hmm.. No wait. I think the small ones have names already.

King Kow.

HAHHAHHAHHAHA

2007 1st paper, retail therapy, & sewing button

I've been punching the keyboard too much. Its freaking tough to write 3 hours CONTINUOUSLY with very tense muscles and stressed brain.

*salonpas-ed*

Its my 1st paper. I've been studying (the study guide) rigorously since saturday, spending hours at KAP. No I HATE KAP. I rather go SIM.

Just that I dun wanna die of hunger in SIM and princess wanna study his bridging papers at KAP.

Marketing paper. With as much confidence I can muster, I think I can pass lah. I have confidence in the marketing research question, although whether I answered to the point, or if my scribbles are legible enuff, is another question. I pretty much lumped the whole marketing research chapter in those 3 pages.

I can almost answer the rest of the questions, even thou we are only required to choose 4 out of 8. Just that the question that I can answer are all parts of a question, not the full question.

Ansoff came out, not accompanied by BCG as always, but with brand development model & international product promotion model. I can answer a whole question Ansoff and BCG but not brand development and the other model.

Indonesia vs Japan. I wrote a lot of factors, hopefully some of them are related.

Product Life Cycle. Ok. Y is it not so applicable in real life. So-so.

Thats one paper down. 3 hours. Almost lost my right hand. So much for marketing.

In a state of "shock", went for some retail therapy. "Some"..

I spent $325. 170 on new formal work clothes. I'm being a loyal supporter of G2000 and Dano already. 35 on a new bag, the old Billabong looks too rugged. The rest on Meow's belated bday present.

Eh.. my bday present for last yr really got forfeited??

Tried the Uzumaki icecream thingy. Not fantastic for $3.50.

And I had a tough time trying to sew a "double-sided" button on my sleeve. Looked high and low b4 I found the original spare buttons and conceptualised a while to get the sewing going.

Oh. I wanna make a new pair of specs. This old one the alignment kinda out already... I wanna look nerdy!! wahhahhha

crap talk.

IQ 126

39 qns in 40 min. I rushed thru n did in 14 min. The last 10 question was anyhow clicked. My brain gave up on me.

http://www.iqtest.dk/main.swf

My Comprehension went on Vacation

A re-enacted sms sequence to the best of my knowledge.

Meow Meow:"Reached liao? I'm hungry.."
Moo Moo:"At rr's place only. Can u call bird? I got her missed call..."
Meow Meow:"RR say she not coming. Her sis got feeling like want to give birth liao.. So she staying with her in case."
Moo Moo:"Huh.. Got feeling wanna give birth like dat? Pengz.. Wat a description.."
Meow Meow:"Ya lah. She say like wanna give birth liao means wanna give birth liao lah.. How I noe.. I nvr give birth b4.."
Moo Moo:"=.=""

My comprehension was.. RR not coming.. Cos her sis in pain, like wanna give birth like dat.. so she stay behind in case..

It was.. Birdy called RR, told her her sis (aka Birdy's sis) wanna give birth liao like dat.. so she not coming for kopi.

........

........

WAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHHAA..

Work too much.. u get stoned at nites.

6681 to E65

6681 -> E65

Bought a new phone. Even thou 6681 is still surviving well with 3 more months to fully depreciate.

Just that my bro's contract ended, and he used mine the other time to buy his phone, so dat gaves me the chance for the new phone.

I'm a candy bar phone person, simply bcos its simple. This slider is giving me the pains while sms-ing. Still not used to it yet.

Althou it kinda feels pro to use the phone on calls. But pros seldom use sliders. Or at least those at my place. I see candy bars most of the times.

Well, those at my place aint concerned abt fashion or wat-so-ever. They carry deuter or brandless haversacks for laptops. :P

Back to the phone, hm.. cos mine's an m1 phone but I'm a singtel subscriber, its kinda irritating when u're trying to connect to somewhere n they keep linking to the m1 access point. Needa switch it to wifi mode.

No games, other than golf, which requires downloading from the catalogue. No radio, althou I dun use it. The camera is not auto, and without an easy to access key at the side. The menu buttons are too small. blah blah.

Now I'm kinda wondering y i bought this phone.

Ok lah. Its good.. its good.. The wifi is good..

Wait till i explore it further.

Self Endorsed Workaholic

yeahhh..

Its 1.42 am.

My office lappy is on. I'm trying to organise my stuff.

I'm a workaholic.

Laughter & Lemon-ed Day

頭有點痛..

笑太多了..

真的有點把一整個月的laughter quota 在兩個小時裡給笑完了.

痛.. 痛.. 痛..

就因為被sabo明天去打公司的桌球比賽, 今天就和幾位同事去"練習"一下. 都是一些愛鬧的人, 搞得笑料百出. 應該多找他們出來玩. 公司所推廣的work-life balance應該就是這樣吧. (只不過那個work也應該balance out 吧)

染了頭髮後, 照鏡子時臉色看起來真有點蒼白. 總之就是有點說不出的不一樣. (雖然那些看我久了的人都不是很驚訝我的"新"髮色, 就像我老媽根本都沒唸我說又亂花錢. 不知是沒察覺還是懶得過問.)

今天, 穿了比較formal的服裝, 因為我被拉去見客戶. 怎知卻被取笑了一整天. 真的, 真的, 真的那麼像嗎? 自己的部門還不用緊, 雖然最酸的檸檬在那. 殘的是連樓上不大認識我/她的人都在討論我們是不是同一個人. 嘩.. 醬我不是又看到幾年後的自己. 有點擔當不起.

其實.. 我覺得.. 一點都不像..

有的可能只是seh有點像罷了.

Well, 跟5千年前是一家人也有點關係.

Idea to 寫歌了...

這份新的工作會和她有經常的接觸. 最好是不要再在她的面前說我是她的Mini版了. 尷尬死了.

說到新的職位. 快兩個月了, 還在適應中. 太多, 太亂, 又有點一個人在摸索 (都說我是dao gia 了.也沒辦法, 我們是new kid on the block.). 開會經常被打岔, 有時會想叫他們DIAMMMMM.. LISTEN TO ME! 天啊..幾時才能穩住陣腳...

上面12號才給我template. 我把它breakdown 醬你們才能更了解. 還說我給他們不夠時間. 20八仙加減應該挺容易的嘛.. 還會有一輪修改的... dun be so gan chiong..

很想砍人...

哎呀! 頭又痛了...

New table

After 1 mth plus of procrastinating, I finally moved my butt out of my cosy area to a super cold and lizard galore corner.

Actually, I dun see the real need to change table, other than my current boss doesnt wanna walk so far to look for me.

My new table is like.. less than 20 metres away.



=.=" right.

The only good thing is.. its neater (cos i cleared all the old stuff n packed into 2 boxes under my table) and bigger space (cos the 2 drawer cabinets are pushed to the back and not restrainted by the cubicle).


New Work Area


Working on 2 screens

Cool Calmness

cool (kl) KEY

ADJECTIVE:
cool·er , cool·est
Neither warm nor very cold; moderately cold: fresh, cool water; a cool autumn evening.
Giving or suggesting relief from heat: a cool breeze; a cool blouse.
Marked by calm self-control: a cool negotiator.
Marked by indifference, disdain, or dislike; unfriendly or unresponsive: a cool greeting; was cool to the idea of higher taxes.

Extracted from Yahoo Education

Yeahh.. dats like the most common word for me. C.O.O.L aka DAO!!

WAhahhaa..

Really arh?

I suppose that's the impression when
1) U do not know me
2) I'm not smiling
3) I'm not laffing like some ah siao
4) hmm.....

My colleague was IM-ing, "Eh I salute u. For ur coolness. Boss shld learn from u."

My std reply, "Har?"

Hahhaha. I had a super panicky boss btw. Thus with all the process rollouts, stuff cramming my inbox, meetings till 9pm talking non-valuable stuff, I seem like the cool little mountain stream, setting her own pace, while my boss looks like he just got hit by a tsunami.

N my new girl (actually she's older than me. by abt 8 yrs), is another gan chiong character. Reports always got stuck then panic. Makes me worry if she'll panic till cry. Hmm..

My pet phrase is becoming,"Slowly lah, mai gan chiong.. panic oso no use."

Hahaha.

Probably its my upbringing. Probably its my 8 yrs stint as basketball player. Probably its my ex-boss. Probably probably.

On a sidenote, I went for a haircut, and I dun wanna layer it = the hairdresser cant do anything till it grows out = I needa tolerate the kiao-ness. So.. I DYED my hair AGAIN! Impulsively. After like 2 yrs of blackness. Does that count as cool or??

加快速度會漏掉 顯微細節

放慢腳步, 看一下周遭吧..

累是...

累是...

.. 你睡倒在電腦前.

.. 當你包睡七小時以後, 還想再閉上眼睛,奔回周公的懷抱.

.. 在開會時偷睡了幾下.

.. 從早上九點開會開到晚上九點. 四個不同的會議, 原本的工作都沒時間做了.

.. 在開會時, 打字打到手酸. (我不是秘書, 可是我打字可能比秘書快上五倍. 早晚我會把我的title從Business Analyst 換去Meeting Analyst.)

.. 整天面對電腦數據, 近視/散光有點加深的感覺.

.. 回到家還要面對數據.. (老爸丟了一疊他想投資的公司的金融報告給我分析.. 通常我都會草草了事..因為實在懶得看0123456789這些"好朋友"們了.)

.. 忘了今天是星期幾, 幾號.

.. 實在沒有想翻開課堂筆記的意願.

.. 黑眼圈快要在我眼睛週圍烙個印了.

.. 眼睛越來越小, 眼袋越來越浮腫.

.. 時間過得比時鐘裡的秒針還快.

.. 心裡有很大的鴻志, 但行動不支持. (我想讀Masters!! 可是BSc 都還沒拿到就想醬遠..)

.. 花無聊的時間博累的意思. 能睡又不睡.

"禽兽"老师

Click here

她就是我的"禽兽"老师。。那个女的啦。

至于为什么叫她"禽兽"。

我忘了。。

我只知道不是我开始的，我也不会直接叫她"禽兽"。

很像只有猫猫会这样叫她。忘记Roar Roar(Ehhh.. ur chinese "name" is wat arh?) 有没有这样叫。

Anyway， 她刚从NIE出来就被派到我们这班"死鬼"(另一位老师这样称呼我们的，其实她似乎称呼所有的学生"死鬼"咯)。赚到的当然是我们。而她呢。。该说是幸运得到我们的磨炼，还是不幸碰到这群小鬼，把她的血都吐完。

禽兽，是因为我们当时在学这个词，还是突发奇想。。。

忘了。

射手 [挑战100 No. 10]

手痒...

射手

改编自阿沁 [梵谷的左耳]

作词：阿沁　作曲：阿沁　编曲：Martin Ting
改编词: 你可曾

金黄色弓箭 黑暗中闪耀
天真的以为 丘比特忘了他的誓言　

含糊的语言 没人听得见
接受与推卸 一日之中 翻覆地演变　

谁拿起武装配备 谁拉起他的弓箭
谁又躲在角落边 静静的等著 好戏上演

我像瞎了眼的射手 误闯你的战斗
拼命想要逃走 引来矛头
这是糊涂虫的结局 踏进乱箭射区
刺穿我的心里 应声倒地　

你是准确的神射手 轻易被你射中
压著我的伤口 不知所措　
仿佛忘了时间溜走 走不出这阴谋
双手还在颤抖 左闪右躲

我像瞎了眼的射手 误闯你的战斗
准确的神射手 非你莫属