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2011-02-22T14:23:00.000+08:00

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2011-02-22T14:16:00.000+08:00

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Studying at SPD

2010-12-17T16:02:00.001+08:00

On October, I started to study on a web design course in Society for Physically Disabilities (SPD). It was an unintentional decision. It was because the interviewer encouraged me to further on my studies when I went for the interview. My intention was to find a job which would allow me to earn more money. I have never thought of furthering my studies because I simply have no interest in studying any courses other than accounting course. Most importantly, it does not guarantee that I would be given a job. In the end, I may end up paying up the bank loan and may not get a good job.

On the other hand, I think that it might be a good time to spend since I could not get a proper job and you cannot expect me to stay at home all the time, wasting my time. To be frank, I have one plan which is to set up an online business in future. But I have no idea on where to go about like what stuff I am going to sell and those financial stuffs and I don’t know if it is realistic goal for me.

The social worker told me that the course would be completed within 6 to 9 months. But I think I would probably need 5 months to complete. It is because I have learnt most of the modules in polytechnic already. And I now need to re-learn as I have forgotten some of the stuff. At the same time, I want to learn more in depth and can learn from teacher whenever I encounter problems. There are also some software I did not learn before, like Photoshop and using other CMS like ‘Joomla’. Unlike in polytechnic, the facilitator did not teach much as it is a problem-based learning. That is why I did not have confidence to build a website on my own in the past even though I really wanted to create my own website.

At the same time, I can make many new friends like me. In the past, I only thought that there are not many people with disabilities in Singapore. Maybe it was because I seldom saw them hanging around the street and I have never associated with them before. After I came here, I can see many people with different kinds of disabilities. In here, there are many courses for these people to take and they are trying very hard to learn. Of course, it would depend on their individual’s ability and interest and they will be allocated to the suitable course. There are also some devices made specifically for them to use depending on the type of the disabilities they have. I feel that I am a lot fortunate than them and I must not keep moaning all the time and have any negative thoughts.

Now I have studied the course for about 2 ½ months already and it gives me more confidence to pursue my goals and hopefully, I would be able to create the first website by next year.

Quit job

2010-07-25T23:44:00.000+08:00

Wow! It has been a long time since I updated my blog. I admit that I am getting lazy and do not have any motivation to continue to write my thoughts anymore.

Actually, I have not been working since the first day of this month. Well, I think that I do not have any more patience continuing to do the job anymore. Although my colleagues and my employers are friendly and kind people with a good working environment, basically it can’t be any worse than the stress that I have been given. And to be exact, I simply cannot make it up to their expectation. I knew that if I continue to work in that company, I will not be happy at all and probably, one day I will be sacked. Frankly speaking, the thought of quitting have been in my mind since one year ago and my parents and my friends have been asking me to look for another job. But I simply refused. I told them to give me two years to challenge myself to see if I can cope with the work and expectations. At the same time, I can gain experience. After a long mental struggle, I knew I had to give up and continue to look for another one. Although I knew that it will be difficult for people like me to find jobs outside and have to bear with those people’ scorn looking, I will not regret my decision. I believe I will be able to find a job that I like and I will prove myself one again. Anyway, I also have not been taking break since I started working, so I took this chance to relax myself and think what I want to do in future.

Here, I want to thank my employers for willing to hire me and give many chances for me to prove myself that I can also do the tasks what the normal people do. Also, they always counsel me many times and give me the confidence to do the tasks better. And thank them for giving me so many chances to amend and tolerate me despite making many mistakes in my work.

As for my colleagues, I will always remember you guys for the times that we have spent together, whether it is happy or sad occasions. My colleagues include, uncle ong, aunt Helen, aunt lay choo, aunt xian hua, aunt siri, lay har, xiang lin, xiao xiao, sun jian, bao zhu, cheng min, wang yan, en li, lan ping, wu laing, guo yang, Elton, bin hao, mary, Eugene and Jeremy.

My brother's graduation ceremony

2010-05-29T23:17:00.004+08:00

This Tuesday was the day my brother graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic. As my father has exam on that day, so only my mother and I went to attend his graduation ceremony.

Chinese New Year 2010

2010-02-18T00:08:00.001+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year to all of u! Normally we would eat our dinner with our relatives at my grandma’s house and the place was filled with laughter and joys. But this year, as my grandma is too old to prepare so many dishes, so our family ate our dinner at home. Though the atmosphere would tend to be a little boring, I still enjoy the time when we ate our dinner at one table. It was because normally we would eat our dinner at by ourselves at each corner. After we ate our dinner, we went with my aunt’s family to my grandma’s house. The elders would gives hong baos to the youngsters and we, youngsters, would be very happy to receive the hong baos by them. For our younger generations, we played cards, then we played the sparklers. After that, we played other games and then we went home.

On chu yi, we went to my aunt’s house pai nian first, then we went to our grandma’s house. We took many photos there especially for this year. I really did not know why my relatives took so many photos this year. After that, my family went to Marina Bay to take photos.

On chu er, our family went to Chinese Garden like every year. Sadly, I was not feeling well on that day. That was why I did not have the mood to take photos.

On chu san, my mother, my brother and I went to yi po’s house. It was quite far as they stayed at Woodlands. But for the sake of hong baos, we still went her house pai nian.

Scary "nightmare"

2010-01-24T23:36:00.000+08:00

This week, I nearly have a scare because the doctor told me that I got snake growing which is commonly called in Chinese “生蛇”. On Wednesday, when I was returning home from work, my neck started to get a little pain. At first, I thought maybe because I did not sleep well the previously, so I ignored it. But when I was working on the next day, the red patches getting bigger so I went to clinic after work. So I was told to take medicine and applied cream on my neck. Then I went to take leave the next day and rest at home. It’s been so long since I took leave already until I forget. Anyway, this is the best time to take leave since I haven’t been getting enough rest. Although there was MC given, I still took a leave since I have many leave to clear. Now, my neck are getting better le. Maybe tomorrow I will be fully recovered.

There has been a question that I often think about it, which is why heaven given me so many health problems to me. And each time, it happens to me, I will feel quite scared and do not know how to cope with it. Really, I hope that there will not be any illness happens on me anymore.

Life

2010-01-17T00:08:00.001+08:00

It’s been long time since I updated my blog. I have been busy for the past few weeks. As you all know, I only get to rest on Sunday, and I have been going out with my family on Sunday.

On the New Year that day, I went out with my two wushu friends, Ying Qing and Dao Qiu to watch movie. It has been more than 1 year since we met each other already. Every time they ask me for outing, I would either so busy working or I would be very tired. Sometimes, when I think about it, I would feel so bad about it. I really do not have any choice because my pay is already little le. If I go out with them, I would not able to work OT and make more money. We watched the hottest movie ‘Avantar’ and it was in 3D. I really don’t know why so many people say that this movie is so fantastic, but, when I watched the movie, I fell asleep in the middle of the show. It was really so boring, maybe it was because I could not make up the words what the characters say. In addition, I was not used to watch the movie with the goggle that was given to us. After watching the movie, we went to have our dinner and chat for a while before we went home. Thinking about it, I really miss those days that we had our wushu training together. Although it was tough and tiring, we had a lot of fun and laughers.

Lately, I have been buying many clothes and jeans until I am so broke now. I really cannot imagine that with such a meager salary, how I can survive. That is why I intend to find another job after Chinese New Year.

Life

2009-12-06T23:51:00.000+08:00

I have been busy for the past two weeks and hardly have any time to do my own things. Last week, my mother, brother and I went to hospital to visit my grandma. After visiting her, we went to buy my clothes for Chinese New Year. This time, I bought many clothes and they were very beautiful. I find them worth it because they are cheap. Also, I also bought one laptop at cheap price.

Today, my mother suddenly asked me to go JB. It was because A-ling jie jie did not go so there was an extra sit. It was good to travel there once a week, because first, I can relax myself and second, I would not feel bored.

Went to my friend's birthday party

2009-11-22T00:18:00.000+08:00

Today, it is Daniel’s birthday party. I have been busy for the past few weeks, so I have no time to buy gift for him. At first, I thought of not going to the party because I practically do not know his friends and I am not good at socializing. But after thinking that my friend personally invited me to come, I know I cannot disappoint him. So after work, I went home because I asked my mother to buy gift for my friend. My mother told me something about getting chocolate for my friend. But I took the wrong one and eventually I did not give anything for my friend because I thought that it would be embarrassing to give the chocolate without the wrapper. It has been more than 1 year since we met each other. I find that we have no common topic to talk and I have been alone at the party. Thanks to Daniel that he would come to chat with me occasionally despite many of his friends came.

Going concert

2009-11-01T23:01:00.001+08:00

Yesterday, Michelle took my mother, my cousin and I to my brother’s concert. I specially asked my boss to take one hour earlier to leave. As this was the last time my brother performed for the concert, so I persuade my mother to go and give support to him. (Actually, the concert is free so we go…haha). At first, I thought that I would sleep halfway through the concert but after watching the whole concert, it was quite nice although I really do not understand how it is played to be considered nice. My brother has played six songs for the whole concert; overall, I think he played well. The most surprising scene, is that we saw two celebrities, Zheng Ge Ping and Hong Wei Fang.

What to do?

2009-11-01T22:59:00.000+08:00

Recently, during my work time, I have been having headache because were so many work for me to do. I seriously do not know if those tasks were considered a lot to others but it definitely seems a lot to me. To be truth, I seriously cannot cope it alone by myself or perhaps it is my own problem for not able to manage the time well to complete the tasks that were given to me. Because of these reasons, I kept being scolded by Serene for having poor time management. And I ended up feeling so stressed and fed up that I did not even want to bother my colleagues’ enquiry and ignored them, not wanting to talk to them. I know that it is rude for me to do such a thing but I really need to have a space for myself to think and organize my work. Perhaps it is true that I have a poor time management in my work that I kept telling Serene that I could not cope alone by myself. I also have the urge to tell Serene that I just only want a simple job and not those about managing people. I mean if I cannot even handle my life, how I can manage other people. I practically do not have the confidence in myself and always want others to do things for me.

Oh heavens! Please help me what to do to gain my confidence.

Life

2009-10-11T22:20:00.000+08:00

Last Sunday, I went with my mother to Bugis Junction. I bought a short sleeves working shirt in which I finally saw it after searching for many shops.

Today, my brother, mother and I went to Outram Park. I bought a new watch because the leather of my old watch has torn.

As for my work, I am still busy rushing one of the projects. Everyday is like a racing competition day for me that I hardly can rest a while.

Terrible experience

2009-09-27T22:52:00.002+08:00

Last week, it has been a rushing week for me. It was because my boss wanted me and the other china colleague to complete the 6 rolls by the end of the last week. Unfortunately, it did not turn out smoothly. First, as I heard from the boss that this project was totally new to us and other companies from other countries are also trying to solve the project because there were many problems. Second, it was because of my irresponsibility and indecisiveness that has caused us from not to complete the whole project on time.

On Tuesdays, when I came back to work as it was public holiday on Monday, I and Sun Jian were scolded by Serene thorughout the whole day. She said many things to us and told us not to hide anything from her and if there is any problem encountered in work, we can look for her and not to solve the problem by ourselves or decide the things on our own. At that moment, I did not know why tears were flowing out from my eyes. For such a long time, I could not even remember when the last time was when I cried. It indeed made my heart very hurt and pain because of my irresponsibility, Sun Jian was kana by the boss and Serene, and worse of all, the company has broken its promise to the customers. I was totally stressed and upset on that day and I had to make sure the whole project was completed before I could go on. I felt very guilty about what happened and after that, I apologized to Sun Jian and appreciated her for staying back to help me to complete this whole mess.

Through this terrible experience, I must learn how to coordinate well with my colleagues. If there is any problem arising, I must tell Serene immediately and then we can solve the problem. I must learn to be responsible for my actions and be more confidence in myself.

Yesterday, one of my China colleagues, Xiang Ling, was working her last day. It was because her 2 years contract is going to end soon and she will be going back to China soon. I sincerely wish her good luck. Also, I thanked her for taking great care of me when we went to Malacca and assisted me during work.

Also, I went to Jurong Point with my uncle’s family. I had been wanting to go there as I have never been there before.

Life

2009-09-13T22:54:00.000+08:00

This week, I was totally exhausted because I have been working OT until 8 pm and on Saturday, I worked until 5. Other than doing my work, recently, I have been asked to train one of my colleagues, Bin Hao, to do simple admin job. Although I already knew that he learnt things very slow, so I tried to explain to him step by step so that he can understand. For the simple work like data entry, I explain to him one time and he could do it. Nowadays, it was because I and the other China colleague were so busy, so we asked Bin Hao to help us in cropping the images. I tried to teach him step by step and explain to him in a very simple way but he just could not understand and often asked me for help. I asked him to crop away the borders that we do not want and those good images are to put back in the original folders. And I have to double check his work every time he finished. As a result, these few days, I have been having headache because of this. That is why I am so admired of my boss because he always has the patience to train these people who are slow learners. I guessed I must have a lot of patience in training these people in future.

As for today, my family and Michelle went to Comex IT Fair. I specially went there to buy a Ipod as I always wanted. It was a good bargain because a 160GB ipod only sold at $388.

Life

2009-09-07T00:05:00.000+08:00

This week, it was quite busy for me. It was because we need to get the project done by this Friday. Although throughout the whole week, I kept getting scolding, fortunately, we completed the whole project by Thursday.

Today, we celebrated my brother’s birthday. My father bought a cake for him. After that, my mother and I went to Tiong Bahru Plaza. While my mother went to shop for her clothes, I went to look around the shop. After a while, we went to take a bus. While we were crossing the road, suddenly I heard a loud bang. I was wondering what was happening. When I turned my head to my right, I realized that there was an accident. There was a car crashing into another car. Luckily, there was no one hurt in this accident.

Life

2009-08-30T22:34:00.000+08:00

Tired…tired n tired! This whole week, I have been working OT until 8pm. I totally could not take it that everyday like either go to work or go home to sleep. I hardly have the energy to watch tv shows. Plus, the new project was to be done finished within 4 months. Actually, the whole project is quite easy to do but we need to us OCR, which is a slow software, to do the processing. It was so slow that we have to let the computer run 24/7 from Friday to tomorrow. Let’s pray that the process will be finished when I come tomorrow.

Today, my mother and I went to Somerset. We had wanted to go early but it was raining. After that, we went to ION Orchard which was just recently opened. The shopping centre was quite nice and big that we hardly can find the way through inside the shopping centre.

My 22th birthday

2009-08-23T21:35:00.002+08:00

Last Sunday, my family celebrated my 22th birthday in advance. Just like before, they bought a cake only. On Friday, it was my birthday. I felt a little bit sad because none of my friends remember my birthday as no one called or sms me to wish me. Only my cousin remembered me.

As for my work, I have been working OT for the past few days. My company was rushing a project and expected it to be done within a few months. It was a new project and it was easy to me except that it takes quite a long time to complete the whole process. It looks like these few weeks, I will be working OT. Also, I find it strange that, I was so tired for the past few days but I will automatically woke up in the midnight and I cannot get into sleep anymore.

Malacca trip 2009

2009-08-16T23:17:00.000+08:00

Last Saturday, my colleagues and I went to Malacca. It has been long time since I need to wake up so early. I woke up at 5 and went to meet my colleagues at the MRT control station before we went together to the bus pick-up point. This was the first time I went on a trip on my own without my family. Naturally, I felt so uncomfortable and nervous and so my trip to Malacca begins here.

First day

As there was a jam, so we reached the custom a little bit late. After we cleared the immigrant checkpoint, we went to a small village to have our breakfast. At that time, it was almost going to 12. We had nasi lemak and their local food there…I forgot what the local food called. After that, we went to see how the potato is being planted, how the fertilizer is made and after that what the fertilizer is used for. It was quite boring for me as I had no interest in those types of things.
After that, we went to see how the noodles were made in a factory. It was quite interesting to know that the workers actually sit on the pole and then stand up to make the noodles. But of course, it will be quite tired.

Next, we went to Rong Cheng Restaurant to have our lunch. And this was where I hate to go to. It was because I did not know how to get the food myself and I will feel embarrassed. I hate to let people see the weakness side of me. Luckily, my four China colleagues took turns to get the food for me.

After lunch, we went to Yo Yo to buy the local products. I bought some tibits, cuttlefish and others. I felt a little bit stupid because I did not know what to buy. Not long after, we went to a farm to have our afternoon tea.

After that, we went to Malacca and reached the hotel around 4.30pm. There were 6 of us and so we 2 persons shared one room. We were asked to put in our bags and rested for a while before we went to have our dinner.

As we were on the bus to have our dinner, the tour guide told us quite many interesting stuffs like “Why there will always be a massive jam in Malacca?”, “How the trishaw pullers react when they see people are being robbed?” and etc. As for our dinner, we ate the nyona dishes at the Nyona Restaurant. The food was quite nice except that they were a little bit spicy.

After dinner, we went to walk around Dunkern Street. We went to 三叔公 to buy tibits. And then, we have our own time to shop around the market. After that, we went back to hotel and rest. I had wanted to play poker card with my colleagues but they were too tired. So, I could only play with my male colleagues, Elton. At around 12.30, I went to sleep.

Second day

I woke up at 8 and went to have our breakfast. After that, we packed our things and checked out the hotel. Then we went to see the Nyona Museum. At the Nyona Museum there, the spokesperson told us how the Nyona family came about, what their culture are for marriage and the tools they used for eating. This was where I find the trip most interesting part. After that, we walked across the street to shop around.

After that, we had our free time to shop around the Shopping Mall. For us, as my colleagues wanted to eat famous chicken rice, so we asked the tour guide to take us to the place. Elton went to queue and we went to三叔公 to drink the coffee. As the queue was so long, so we decided not to eat and we went to shop. After shopping for 1 hour, it was time for us to go home.
As it was national day, so we took our pledge on the bus. And so we reached Singapore at 9.30 pm.

Overall, I think that this trip is meaningful as I learnt many new things. But one thing I do not like is that the four China girls kept taking care of us and worried about us and asking us to follow them. I hear that the boss asked them to take care of us. I hope that next time, I will be able to go to another place.

Life

2009-08-02T23:11:00.001+08:00

This whole, I have been worrying about not getting the passport on time. Then if that happens, I will not be able to go to Malacca. Luckily, I have received the letter on Thursday that I could collect my passport. So yesterday, I went with my father to collect the passport. Anyway, yesterday, I was also no need to go to work because of the renovation. After that, I went with my mother to Outram Park. I bought a Bermuda and a wax. As for today, I went with my mother to Queensway shopping Centre to buy a jeans and a pair of new shoes.

2009-07-25T23:52:00.000+08:00

This Monday, my boss asked me whether if I wanted to go to Malacca for two days after the National Day. So I thought since I have never been there before, so I agreed. Anyway, the other four China colleagues will also be coming. And he also asked me if I was able to take care one of my guy colleague if he came. It was because all the China colleagues are girls and I am the only guy so I said ok.

And because of this, I need to go to renew my passport today in which I had to take ½ day leave. When I went there, the officer said that I had to go there personally again to collect the new passport. I really hate to take leave because I do not like the feeling of being away from the office and then come back to work. Maybe I am just too responsible for my work, like what others say “workaholic”.

As for my work, I am getting tired of it. It is because of the stress given to me. Sometimes, I would feel afraid to approach Serene because she has the kind of fierce looks. All my colleagues have the same kind of feeling because she would scold at us whenever we make little mistakes. And also I have so many things to do, so I don’t know which work does first. Wait, if I do this first, she will ask me why I do not do that first. So this is the reason why I am feeling tired and afraid for all these month. I am not saying bad things about her but I just wanted to get it off my chest. I understand her reasons for scolding us because she wants to do the best in whatever we do. Just like my boss always say, does not let others look down on us and prove that, we, handicapped people will also be able to do the same things as normal people.

Today, I went to play with Roy very early as I do not need to work. I bought the ping pong net and use it when we played.

Life

2009-07-19T22:06:00.001+08:00

Last Sunday, Kun Yi Yi went to Singapore and stayed at our house for five days. I did not go out with her and my mother on Sunday because I wanted to rest and I knew that my aunt always went out shopping for many hours.

On Wednesday, my aunt and my family went to Jack’s Place to have our dinner. This was the first time my family went there. I looked at the menu but I did not know what to eat. As my brother had something on, so he left first without eating dinner. In the end, my aunt chose the lemon fish chips for me. Also, this was the first time I ate the snails and the lamb chop. I think I was not used to eating those weird stuff because I nearly wanted to throw up. After that, we went walk around the Anchor Point there.

Recently, I borrowed a book from my uncle. It has 100 ways to teach people on how to motivate others. Find this book particularly useful.

As for my work, I have been assigned to do the printing the plans as the uncle who does the job has applied for leave. That means I have to do one more task. Also, on Wednesday, I was asked to show the auditor about the company’s stock. I was so nervous then. Luckily, one of my colleagues helped me to entertain the auditor and explained to her about the some stocks. From this experience, I learnt how to deal with the questions that are being asked by the auditor. I believe that I will do better in future.

IQ test

2009-07-11T23:48:00.002+08:00

Free-IQTest.net - Free IQ Test

Haha! I never expected my IQ would be so high. And according to the IQ guide, I am considered gifted. Actually, my first time doing this test, my IQ score is 131. But because I never saved the code, so I redo again.

Life

2009-07-05T00:20:00.001+08:00

It has been quite a while since I wrote a blog. It is because it is like nothing to share with u guys. Recently, there has not been overtime for me because there is lesser work to do. So it is quite relaxing for me. I started to get used to the working life and the stress and the pressure given by others and myself like emotionless to me now. But of course, when it comes to learning new things in the work, I will automatically feel the pressure. Like recently, I have been asked to do the stock taking. At first, I thought it will be like a peanut to me, like count the number of things only. But I never expected that actually it takes a lot of time and effort to count them, especially when the items are small or put in many places. Frankly speaking, they never teach me anything on how to do the stock-taking so I do not really know how to do. But the biggest problem is that I do not recognize most the item’s name and where the items or machines put. Anyway, I now roughly know the names and the places the items are being put. And now, I have to wait for the auditor to come to check the financial year.

Today, I went with my mother to City Hall. We have not gone out for so long. We bought many things and I paid for the most of the things. Just now, I withdrew the money which is for the next month. I bought one pair of working shoe and now I still got a lot of things to buy. But one problem is that I have no money. I guess I have to wait for the next month to buy the things I want.

Life

2009-06-07T23:44:00.000+08:00

Ah! My life is totally boring. Everyday is like doing the same old stuff. Totally hate this kind of life.

Yesterday, I went for a hair cut and then went to play with my cousin. As for today, my mother, bro and I went to the market to eat. The market was just opened on Tuesday. I was not used to the new market, like a little bit weird and like those familiar faces like disappear le. We had the chao tow keuy there. And then I and my mother went to Outram Park. I bought one T-shirt there and my mother went to buy some silk. Long time never go out le. I really like to go out but somehow, I feel very scared especially when I am alone. I really do not know to overcome this fear.

Just now, when I watched those disabled and mentally disabled people performing on the stage, I feel that they are very brave. If it was me, I would probably be feeling nervous and make mistakes. I always tell myself to learn from those people and not to run away from reality. If they can do it, why I cannot? But whenever I want to do something, somewhere in my heart will stop me. I really hate to make a mess out of myself and most importantly, I really mind how others look at me. It’s been so many years already, and I still could not go out of this reality. I wonder how much time it will take before I can really accept the reality and be happy. Maybe it would be not too long or maybe it will never happen.

Life

2009-05-24T22:38:00.000+08:00

This Monday, I went to the Sembcorp Pte Ltd again. It was quite relaxed to go out during office hours as it can be very stressed staying in the company.

On Friday, I was told by Serene that there would be more work for me to do and to learn in future. And the family will slowly teach me the work that is more towards business. I was quite happy to hear that as you guys know that my interest is doing work that is relating to business or accounting. At the same time, I am also afraid that I could not cope well with so many tasks given. Yu Kiong, U can do it! Jia You!!!

Life

2009-05-17T23:12:00.000+08:00

This Monday, Yong yi yi and San San went to Singapore again. They went her to do the documents for San San’s further studies. I love to eat the noodles and the butter bread from Brunei. It’s a pity that Singapore does not sell so I had to pester my mother to ask yi yi to buy for us. Nowadays, I do not know why I am getting tired often and sleep earlier so I do not get the chance to mingle with them. Plus, I do not like to go out with others and have dinner with them.

But on Thursday, my parents, I and they went to the Hong Kong Cuisine to have our dinner. Normally, we are not allowed to go through there if we want to take a short cut to Anchorpoint Shopping Centre. This was the first time my family ate there. It was so funny that we do not know what to order, in the end, we anyhow ordered. I ordered the pork chop rice. I was so surprised to see the bowl was so big when the rice is being served. Anyway, the food was ok only. After the dinner, we went to walk walk and I left earlier because I wanted to catch the drama series.

And so they went back on Friday’s morning.

2009-05-09T23:30:00.000+08:00

Today, as it is public holiday, I did not have to go to work. In the afternoon, I went with my mother to IKEA after we had our lunch as I suggested. It was because I long time never go out le. After that, I went to play with Roy.

At night, my father bought a cake for my mother to celebrate Mother’s Day. Then my brother bought a necklace for my mother in which I pay for it.

Life

2009-05-08T23:07:00.000+08:00

These few weeks, I have been sleeping quite early, about 10 plus. I usually will watch the 10 pm drama in the Channel U but lately, the show was rather boring so I did not watch.

For my work, there was another new colleague joining us on Wednesday. I have not really talked to her. As usual, I was quite busy and hardly have any time to rest.

As for my grandma, she finally discharged from hospital today. I have not really been to see her but I heard that she is now ok.

By the way, I just finished watching the China movie “画皮”. It was quite interesting as I like to watch how those demons and human got into the love and how some of them fighting.

Life

2009-05-02T22:40:00.002+08:00

Yesterday, I went with Roy for haircut. After that, I went with my mother to Anchorpoint for window shopping. It was unusual for so many people going there for shopping. Then, I went to play with Roy and had a great fun playing ping pong balls with him. Now I am having pain all over my body and my neck somehow hurt whenever I turned my face on my right side.

As for my work, I now am getting used to it and there are more projects coming on. I hope that there will be more overtime for me because since the projects coming for about one month, I only did a little overtime work. Another good new is that Uncle Ong finally came back to work today after two month’s of recuperating at hospital and home.

Recently, I have finished watching the Taiwan idol drama “Bu Liang Xiao Hua”. It was quite funny and I particularly like the character who is Jiang Xiao Hua. She was very funny, whether it was her action or her speaking.

Oh ya! Yesterday, I watched the movie “The accuracy of the death” online. The movie was about how a death god took a person’ life when the person’s life is up. It is good to know about what the death god is thinking and how he choose who to die.

Visiting my grandma

2009-04-19T21:32:00.000+08:00

I have not been blogging for the past two weeks le. It was because there is nothing to write. Today, I went with my parents to visit my grandma. This is my first time going there. My grandma has been doing exercises in the hospital which is located at the Bukit Batok. I could see that my grandma is doing well at there and I hope that she will be able to get well soon.

After staying there for a while, we went to the West Mall. My mother has been “psychoing” me to buy new T-shirts for working. So in order to stop her from nagging, I bought 2 T-shirts and a pant. These 2 shirts are quite nice and I like their design very much when I saw them. And all these things have cost me quite a lot and still got two weeks left before this month ends. Now I need to use the money which was for the next month. I guess I need to save on my lunch for these two weeks le.

As for my work, there was a new colleague coming to work for two weeks le.

Life

2009-04-05T22:42:00.001+08:00

This week, my two aunties went back to Brunei respectively. As for my grandma, she was sent to the exercise centre where she does her exercises there until her leg recovers. So far, I never visit her for two weeks le. As for my work, this whole week is totally fine to me. Also, I finally finish watching “The legend of the condor heroes” and now like nothing to watch anymore.
I have been wondering on how I can do to make more money. It is because now I have to save up the money aside for my brother’s university fees and the money is deducted from my bank every month to pay back the poly fees.

Life

2009-03-29T22:49:00.001+08:00

Today, I watched the DVD “Condor Heroes” in the afternoon. Then, our family and 2 yi yi went to Orchard Road to have our dinner. We ate the Thai food which was quite nice. After that, we went to shop around there. I realized that not many people go there because in the past, we usually need to queue up at the restaurant before it was our turn. Perhaps it is due to the economic crisis bah.

Life

2009-03-28T23:14:00.000+08:00

This week, 2 of my yi yi went to Singapore. Lei yi yi came on Wednesday and Yong yi yi came today. I have realized that many relatives came to Singapore for this year. It is good to have relatives coming because my family has not been able to go back to Brunei. One reason is that we simply do not have the time but the main reason because of the financial problems.

As for my grandma, our relatives might consider sending her to the nursing home. It was because the doctor said that even if my grandma recovers, her legs might not be able to walk again.

As for my work, this Thursday, I went to BCA to retrieve information. Recently, many colleagues told me that they do not want to work anymore. So I am somehow being affected by them.

Yesterday, I went out with my two colleagues after work. We went to IMM. This was the first time I went there. We went there for window shopping and my colleague treated me 1 cup of strawberry ice cream. After walking there for a while, we went home.

Today, I had wanted to withdraw money from ATM but the machine spoiled. This month, I had overspent my budget and I had no money anymore. But luckily, there were still other machines. I went for haircut and after that, I went to play table tennis with cousin. It happened that there were 3 China guys who joined us for the game.

Life

2009-03-21T23:36:00.001+08:00

Last Sunday, my whole family went to hospital to visit my grandma. She was sleeping throughout the time we stayed at there. And she had no appetite to eat.

After staying there for a while, we took bus to the IT Fair. The place was crowded with so many people and we need to squeeze through the crowd. Come to think of it, it is funny. Though the economic is not good, there are still many people come there. Anyway, we went there to help my cousin to buy a laptop but in the end, we did not buy because the laptop he wanted has sold finished.

After that, we went to have our lunch and my mother said that she wanted to go to OG. At that time, I somehow felt a little bit unwell so I told them I wanted to go home by myself. So we went to MRT station. To my surprise, the way to the MRT was blocked because there were too many people. So we had to find another way to get to the MRT station but after trying so many ways before we finally reached the MRT station. This is the first time I encounter this situation.

As for this week, I was quite feeling unwell throughout the week. I was like no mood and energy to work. And I went to see doctor on Wednesday and I took leave on Thursday. I think mostly because of the work and the stress that had been put on me, I cannot take it and finally, I got sick.

Work

2009-03-14T23:13:00.000+08:00

Nowadays, in my work, I am getting less enthusiasm and like so sian. It is because I always get scolding from Serene whenever I do my work. I think that I have really tried hard to do the best in everything I do, but there is always something she will pick on. Not that she don’t like me or what, I think she wanted me to check in everything that I have done. Just like she always tells us, their customers are their rice bowl, so they had to make sure everything they do are accurate. Sometimes, I feel that I am not suitable to do the work because I don’t like to mix with people. As a result, I always do thing on my own and do not tell my colleagues or Serene about the problems that I have encountered. Although I get along with my colleagues well, I can’t seem to tell them where I stop my work or what they should.

I feel like quitting my work but cannot because of my condition, it is hard to find job. Some more, now got the economic crisis. I think I will need to continue to work until one day, I cannot tolerate, perhaps that time, I will quit bah.

Life

2009-03-14T22:36:00.000+08:00

Las Thursday, one of my Brunei cousins went to Singapore and stayed with us. We always called him Baby kor kor. We have not really met each other for more than ten year except last time when we went back to Brunei and went to his house for a while. He is now doing IT job and this time, his company sent him to Singapore to study for just a few days.

Then last Sunday, I accompanied him to Sim Lim Square because he wanted to know how much the PSP costs in Singapore. Then we ate our lunch nearby there and we went to Novena to buy his ticket home.

Also on Sunday, Yong Yi Yi and San San came to Singapore. They came here to do their passport documents because San San will be going to Canada for further studies. He had wanted to come to Singapore to study but because the registration for poly has already ended and he needs to wait for another year, so he had no choice but to go to Canada.

Life

2009-03-08T22:26:00.001+08:00

For this week, there have been several events happening.

First, it was my grandma. On Monday, I heard that she accidentally fell down in the house. She was sent to hospital immediately and the doctor said that my grandma has broken the legs bones. And she was sent to ICU room. I have not really gone to visit her until yesterday. She could not eat any food but have to rely on the tube machine to give her energy.

Second, Uncle Ong, one of my colleagues was also admitted to hospital. The doctor discovered that there was something inside his liver and had to undergo operation. My colleagues and I went to the hospital yesterday to visit him. He told us that he already had his operation the day before and he is fine now. He told us that he would be able to discharge on the coming Wednesday.

Third, there was a new colleague coming to work as the filming operator. I don’t really know her name as I have never actually talked to her. One of her hands is like bend backwards and she had to depend on only the other hand to do the work. I was quite impressed by her determination despite her condition.

Hope that my grandma will be recover soon and Uncle Ong will be able to come to work soon.

Life

2009-02-28T23:27:00.001+08:00

ARGH!!! I am so boring nowadays. I also don’t know why I get easily feel bored even though I was quite tired after working the whole day. Perhaps it is because I do not have anybody to talk to except my family.

I have been watching “射雕英雄傳” with my brother. I have not seen the show before so I borrowed the DVD from my uncle. It was so nice and the moment I watched the first episode, I was attracted by the story plot and the characters inside the show. And I can’t help but to chase the show now and then. Now we have already finished half of it within two weeks.

I heard from my brother that there are 3 parts. First, it is ‘射雕英雄傳’, then ‘神雕侠女’ and ‘倚天屠龙记’. Now I can’t wait to finish watching the show before going to watch ‘神雕侠女’. Although I have seen the last 2, but I just wanted to see one more time.

Life

2009-02-21T23:49:00.000+08:00

On Tuesday, I was told to go to the Sembcorp Company by myself. It was because there were too many papers in the factory and my boss wanted to destroy them. And I was told to watch if the papers were properly destroyed. When I reached there, the driver who transported the papers in the lorry haven’t arrived, so I had to wait for a while in the company there. Soon, the driver came and drove me to the place where the papers were being destroyed. And I had to wait there for so long because there were also some people waiting for their turns. Finally, it was my turn and they took me to a room whereby I could see fully the whole process on how the papers were being destroyed. At I first, I thought that the papers would either burned or slicing. But to my surprise, they only just throw the papers batch by batch into one big container. And the whole process took one hour.

Haix…today is not a really day for me. It was because I made quite a few mistakes in my work and I was quite disappointed with myself.

life

2009-02-15T21:59:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, I went out with my mother and second aunt. We went to OG because my second aunt wanted to buy the facial products. At the same time, I also had nothing to do at home, so I came out for a walk.

Also at night, we celebrated my mother’s birthday at home. As usual, we bought a cake.

No overtime for a moment

2009-02-13T23:27:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, Serene told me that I was not needed to do overtime for a moment. It was not only for me, but also for all my colleagues. It was because their company’s financial budget has tightened and all the projects have come to an end. And they need to bid for the next project before we went back to work overtime. At the same time, they could not buy the film which was needed to film the newspapers and the books, so there was not really much work for us to do. So these few days, I was quite relaxed. Luckily, the company did not mention about any retrenchment. If not, we will sure die.

Hope that the company will be able to bid successfully for the project so that we can earn more money.

Also, I finally able to rest tomorrow because there is no overtime.

Stress

2009-02-08T00:26:00.000+08:00

STRESS!!! Everyday, I got many tasks to do and it seemed that no matter how fast I do, I would never finish my work. Sometimes, the work was too much that I would tend to become nervous and kept making mistakes. Also, sometimes, I would get scolding. I know that I must be concentrating on my work and be critical in everything that I do but there was simply too much work. The work is like 2 persons’ job which is all done by me. I guess that if the tasks are given to a normal person, he would have done better and faster than me. And also, one of my colleagues, who is sitting beside me, kept disturbing me by asking me a question over and over again. I guess he was afraid that he would get a scolding too bah.

Recently, I also learnt many new things like preparing labels for books, printing the building plan and etc.

My goal for now is to be concentrate in my work and make lesser mistakes. I shall not give up.

Chu er 09

2009-01-31T21:57:00.008+08:00

As for the second day of the Chinese New Year, we went to the Botanic Garden. My mother has wanted to go to the Botanic Garden for several years already during Chinese New Year. But every year, we went to Marina Bay. So this year, we decided to go there and also, I have never been there before. We had wanted to go cinema to watch movie but my parents suddenly said that they did not want to go, so we decided not to go and went home.

Chu yi 09 part 2

2009-01-28T00:22:00.003+08:00

After we went to Sentosa, we went home. Not long after that, the China jie jie, went to our house. She brought her younger kid whom we have not seen him before. After that, we and my uncle’s family went to gu gu’s house to eat.

Chu yi 09 part 1

2009-01-27T23:08:00.009+08:00

Yesterday, Pei Pei jie jie’s family went to our house pai nian in the morning. After that, we went to gu gu’s house before we went to my grandma’s house. After sitting there for a while, we went to Sentosa as usual. The place was crowded with many people and we need to queue for a long time. We took many photos but it seems that this year, the flower decorations are not as beautiful as before.

CNY eve 09

2009-01-26T23:43:00.007+08:00

Yesterday, my family went to Bugis. The atmosphere there was filled with Chinese New Year feeling. We went to the temple to pray. After that, we went to eat the wanton mee for our lunch. Then we went to OG for a while before we went to Bugis Junction. I bought a handbag for my mother, a necklace for myself. We also took neoprints and I treated my family to the mango ice and red beans ice.

As for our New Year eve, it was different from the previous years whereby we will eat our dinner at our grandma’s house. But this year, our family just ate a simple meal by ourselves. It was because my grandma was getting older and she hardly had any energy to prepare the food.

After that, my gu gu’s family and we went to grandma’s house. We went to get ang baos from my relatives and then we just sat there chatting, playing cards and doing nothing else. I felt like CNY is getting boring that I had no common topics with them. After sitting there for a while, we, the four old kids went downstairs to play light sparklers. At the same time, we played some childish games.

Disappointed

2009-01-24T22:42:00.000+08:00

Recently, I have been feeling tired and sleepy after working for the whole day. So I have not been online for quite few days le.

Yesterday, I was very upset by the incident that I have met. I was told to go down to BCA by myself so I went to take MRT. As I wanted the receipt, so after I bought the single trip ticket, I went to the Passenger Service there asking for the receipt. I was not sure whether the staff could understand what I wanted. The staff came out from the control room and went to the ticket machine there and inserted my ticket into the machine. I thought that he was going to give a receipt for me. But in the end, he only gave me a dollar. So I told him that this was not what I wanted and I repeatedly told him that I wanted a receipt. So I wrote on one piece of paper saying that I wanted a receipt. But the other staff told me that they did not have the receipt and shouted at me, telling me to go away. At the same, one person from the queue asked me to go away. I was so upset and felt unfair because not only I have wasted $1.40 which I haven’t used, also because of my condition, that I was not able to express myself clearly. I really disappointed with the staff there and really hate myself. I confirm in future, I would not go to that MRT station to buy ticket anymore.

Weekends

2009-01-11T22:55:00.003+08:00

Today, my mother, bro and I went to my yi po’s house. It was because my mother wanted to bring some stuffs to her. So we went to the Woodlands Shopping Centre first to shop and ate Mac’ Donald. After that, we went to take the bus. As we seldom went to yi po’s house, we got onto the bus and it seemed that the bus was not going to our destination at first. Eventually, we finally reached her house.

We have not seen each other for quite a few months and my uncle, who is one year older than me, is now on the NS. I heard from him that he was able to go home every day and need to report the next day. It seems that the army life is quite relaxed now but I think it is only for some army departments bah.

We sat there for a while before yi po, my uncle and we went to Choa Chu Kang. I have never gone to Choa Chu Kang before. We went there to shop a while. My mother psycho me to buy a new wallet so I bought it. After that, we went home.

Resolution 2009

2009-01-04T23:20:00.002+08:00

Haha…it’s been a few days and I have not written my resolution.

My resolution for this year is:
- the world is peaceful and there would be no disaster or disease coming out
- My family would be healthy and always stay happy
- Do well in my job and of course, the best thing would be increase my salary
- Share my family’ financial burden
- Spend time with my family. As for my friends, I do not know if we would contact each other in future
-Build up my confidence
-Save $10000

Watch the fireworks

2009-01-04T17:12:00.002+08:00

Yesterday, after I got off from my work, I took Roy for a haircut. After that, I went to play with him. Then my uncle told me that they were going to watch the fireworks which was at the Outram Park there and asked me if I wanted to go. So I agreed as I never watch the fireworks before in Singapore.

I remember I used to watch the fireworks when I was in Brunei, where my relatives would light up the firecrackers and fireworks during Chinese New Year. But it was so long le and I hardly had memory of the fireworks.

So my uncle, aunt, Roy and I went to Outram Park after we had our dinner. When we reached there, we thought that the celebration had ended because the lion dancers were sitting on the road and resting. But my uncle said that the celebration only started at 9. So we went to shop around the shops first. The place was too crowded that we need to push our way because the some of the ways were being blocked. We went to see those Chinese New Year stuff.

As the time was coming to 9, we quickly went to see the performance and the fireworks. The place was too crowded that we hardly can find a place to watch the “live” performance. We could only watch the performance through the 2 small screens. After the performance ended, the fireworks were being lightened up and the shapes of the fireworks were shown in the sky. At the same time, there were smokes being spread around that we hardly could open our eyes to see. At first, I thought that the sound would be loud but it seems ok to me. As soon as the fireworks finished, on the other side, the firecrackers are being lightened up for a while.

Soon, the event has ended and many people went off. I think most people went there just because they wanted to watch the fireworks like us. As we went back home, the lion dancers were walking one round and many people went to touch them to bring good luck.

Resolution results

2008-12-31T23:59:00.002+08:00

Today is the last day of the year le. Looking back at my resolution for this year, I only fulfill some of them.

ü Finish FYP in time and be able to graduate (FYP got a B and graduated in March)

ü Wish my family and friends have a healthy body and do well in their jobs and studies (My family are fine except that ah ma was hospitalized for about 1 month plus. As for my friends, I don’t know if they got a good job for the girls and for the guys, good luck for your army life)

üû Find a good job (I seriously don’t know whether this job is considered good but at least I am happy and learning many things)

üû Earn as much money as possible to share my family's burden (Haix…I only started working in Sep and used the money to lighten up my family’s burden. Haha…until now, I still haven’t give my parents money since I started working)

üû Spend more time with my family and friends (Other than working, I almost spend all my time with my family. As for friends, I have not been contacting them for a long time. I think I only went out with my friends less than five times ba for this year)

û Be a confident man and overcome my fear (I think I am not confident yet though I have been working for 4 months le)

üû Making more new friends and going out with them and not keep cooping myself at home (My new friends are probably all my colleagues bah and I have been going out with my family instead of friends)

û Save $10000 by 2008 (Still a lot far from this target)

Watch The Twilight

2008-12-28T22:47:00.001+08:00

Yesterday, I went to my grandma’s house to play with Roy and I stayed there until 8. It was because my whole family was out. My parents went to watch the Fong Fei Fei’s concert and she was my father’s idol since he was young. This was the first time he went to her concert and able to see the real person. And of course, my brother went for his concert performance. I had wanted to go with Roy to watch his concert, but we did not really know how to get to the place. In fact, I did not really want to go, because I did not know how to appreciate the concert and probably, in the end, I may fall asleep during the performance.

Today, my brother and I went to watch the movie “The Twilight”. At first, I thought that the movie would be very interesting like the Harry Potter movie. And my brother told me that the story was about the vampires and it was the best selling book for the year. But in the end, the movie was a little bit dry and boring although, there were some exciting scenes towards the end of the show. And I was looking forward for those scary scenes but there were none.

Also, there was no subtitle showing on the screen which makes me hard to understand as I am not really used to the American’s speaking. But, at least, I understand about 60% of the things they were saying and understood the whole story. I heard that the movie got many seasons just like Harry Potter. Hope that next season would be much better.

A blind girl's painful lesson

2008-12-27T22:33:00.003+08:00

I came across one article and I find it meaningful. So I would like to share with you guys.

Many of you will agree with me if I describe life as an odyssey – one that comprises both short trips and long haul adventures representing the various legs of our journeys.
Some people view the days of their lives in chronological order while others see life as a series of episode vignettes.

Then there are those people who see their professional pit stops as benchmarks to measure their career progression.

Whichever way you choose to classify them, every experience contributes something significant to our lives.

Regardless of whether these incidents are positive or negative, enjoyable or painful, fleeting or prolonged, it is important to remember what we have gone through and how we perceived ourselves.

We can lead fruitful lives only by appreciating these precious milestones.

I know people who went from rags to riches, only to forget where they had come from.

For instance, there are some who boast of being self made millionaires, failing to acknowledge those who have been instrumental to their success.

I firmly believe that no man is an island.

Unless you are a hermit living in a remote mountain somewhere in Timbuktu, the people around you, and your relationships with them, make you who you are.

There is a story about a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She detested everyone except her loving boyfriend, who was always there for her.

One day, she turned to him and said: “If only I could see the world, I will marry you.”

It wasn’t long before someone donated a pair of eyes to her.

When the bandages came off, she was finally able to see everyone, including her boyfriend.

He asked her: “Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?”

The girl looked at him and saw that he was blind, just like she was before.

She had not expected that and the thought of looking at his closed eyelids for the rest of her life totally turned her off.

Her boyfriend left in tears. Days later, he wrote her a note saying: “Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.”

This story illustrates how selfish – knowingly or otherwise – we can sometimes be.

It shows that we can easily forget where we came from. We often take our friends and loved ones for granted, even though they’ve helped us through the most trying times.

You can take the story as either a reality check or a gentle reminder, but always remember: It’s important to embrace a selfless outlook, and to never forget what it was like before.

Only then can we appreciate the existing relationships that we have.

Life

2008-12-25T23:36:00.000+08:00

Merry Christmas!!!

Yesterday, my boss treated us KFC and pizza during lunchtime so we did not need to go out to buy. Haha…luckily he treated us. If not, I will have to go on diet for the next few days. It was because I realized that I almost used up all my money any will soon become broke le. Hope that I will get my pay soon. Also, we were told to go off earlier and I did not need to stay back for overtime. I was so happy because it has been long time since I went back at my normal hours.

Today, I went for a hair cut. Then in the afternoon, my mother, bro and I went to Outram Park. My brother bought a new watch…I think it’s pretty cool. Then we went to OG. I bought some stationery for office use. We had intended to go to Bugis after that, but my mother was not feeling well, so we went home.

Anyway, my brother will be having a concert performance on this Saturday. And I am looking for someone to go with me but I keep cannot find.

Father's birthday 2008

2008-12-25T00:05:00.002+08:00

Yesterday, we celebrated my father’s birthday. My mother bought him a cake as usual.

Life

2008-12-21T22:36:00.000+08:00

Today, Roy asked me to watch movie but I promised my mother to accompany her to go to Bugis Junction. So I rejected and asked my brother to go with him. As the movie they watched was in the afternoon, so my mother, brother and I went to Queensway first. We wanted to see if there was any new clothes arrived. Although the new clothes were put up there in the shop, I just could not find the clothes that I like. In the end, I only bought a jean from that shop and my brother bought most of his clothes from there. Then I wanted to go to other shops to see and finally, I took a like on one shirt and bought it. Then we went back home.

After we reached home, my mother suddenly said that she did not want to go out already. And so I ended up staying at home and in the end, my brother and he went to watch the movie “Bolt”.

Also, I realized that I have been spending a lot of money on this month. I think I nearly spent about 1 thousand on the items. I guess that I confirm cannot save $10000 for this year.

Went to cash studio

2008-12-20T22:27:00.002+08:00

Today, I went with my brother and my two cousins to cash studio. I had agreed to treat them as I promised. But they still have to fork out a little money each. Haha…you could say that I am stingy…only a few dollars. My brother they all had wanted to meet me at 3.30 at Orchard MRT control station. But it was because I was asked to finish my work first before I could get off from my work. And my brother had already booked the room from 4 to 7. So in the end, I went to meet them at 4++ and we went together to K-studio. I had never been there before and I think the environment is quite comfortable. So we started to enjoy ourselves by singing songs one after another and everyone got their turns to sing.

At one time, the whole room suddenly blacked out. At first, we thought WJ had accidentally tripped off the wire. But it wasn’t. All the other rooms also were facing the same situation. After a while, the room went back to normal and we started our ‘live’ performance. My cousins and my brother kept saying that I did not sing but I really sang. Maybe my voice just did not come out loud. But never mind, at least we enjoyed ourselves.

Hope that next time, we will organize more outings as it is already so hard for us to meet together especially, each of us has our stuffs to do.

Watching the Cape No.7

2008-12-14T23:22:00.000+08:00

Today, my mother, my brother and I went to watch the movie “Cape No.7” with the free tickets. I seen the news reporting that the movie was Taiwan’s best selling movie this year and I was curious so many people went to watch the movie. We went to Tiong Bahru to watch the movie. The show was indeed a nice movie and it was worth it. The show was showing how the local band in the Taiwan has slowly form their band and play music for their performance. I was attracted by the two songs that the male actor sang. It was too high that makes me feel like to get high and sing the songs. Also, I was deeply touched by a Japanese man, who was already passed away, wrote the letters to his wife when he was boarding the ship. In his letters, he mentioned that in not to make his wife unhappy, he decided to go away. Of course, in the movie itself, there were some funny scenes.

After watching the movie, my mother went to buy her CNY clothes and then we went home.

life

2008-12-14T00:38:00.003+08:00

This week, I was busy as usual at my work. Occasionally, I will make some mistakes in my work because there were too many tasks for me to that I hardly had any time to rest. Thanks to my colleagues, who noticed the mistakes and told me about the mistakes. I guessed that I must try to do things carefully in future.

Yesterday, I went to BCA to get the data. At first, I thought that I would need to stay at there for at least 3 hours because last time, I waited at there before finish downloading. But I only waited for 5 minutes and finished downloading the data and to think that, I went all the way there and going back for about 1 hour++.

Today, I had wanted to watch movie with my cousin and my brother after my work. It was because my yi yi was given many free movie tickets when she bought things. And so she gave us all of them. My brother and I had wanted to watch “Bolt”, “Body of lies” but either I cannot make it as the ticket could only be used before five, or my cousin cannot meet the requirement as he has not reached the required age. And so my brother told me that there was no movie and so we agreed to go to Vivo City with my mother. Just now, my cousin told me that actually we could see the “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” but it was too late. Haix…my brother did not tell me about the movie as he already watched the movie.

And so my mother, my brother and I went to Vivo City. This was the first I went there for shopping because the last few times going there was just passed by only. The shopping centre was so huge and crowded. I had wanted to go there to buy CNY clothes but I just could not find suitable clothes. After that, I kept persuaded my mother to go out of the shopping centre to see the scenery.

My relatives came to Singapore

2008-12-08T23:28:00.000+08:00

On Wednesday, my relatives came to Singapore. I have never seen most of them for quite long, almost 4 years le since last time I went back to Brunei. Especially for my cousins, they have grown much and one of my biao di even taller than me le. I remember one of my cousins was about a few months old when I saw her and she is now already 5 years old le. Wow…so fast. And of course, my three yi yi, their looks never change much.

When they came here to sleep, the room was packed will all the luggage that it was hard for us to walk around. I had hardly mixed with for the first few days because I did not know what to talk to them and I felt like so strange with them. Also, I had to go to work and did not have any chance to mix with them. Fortunately, I got off day on weekends and today is a public holiday that I did not need to sleep earlier that I had the chance to chat with them.

Also, my yi yi brought their home-made pastries to us and they were so yummy. One of my yi yi also made the “mu shu kueh” at our house. I heard from my mother said that two of my cousins is going to marry next year. Good luck to them!!!

Today, my relatives have taken a morning flight to Brunei. I do not know when we will be able to meet again as they went back this time. Also, my mother and I went to Queensway Shopping Centre to buy clothes for Chinese New Year. I had wanted to buy two clothes but there wasn’t any nice clothes so in the end, I only bought one T-shirt.

Work

2008-12-08T16:51:00.001+08:00

This week was a busy week for me because I have taken over Aunt Dolly’s work. On Monday, Aunt Dolly told me that she will be the last day she worked and she told me that if I any questions to ask her, so I asked her about the things I was not sure.

On Tuesday, as this was my first time doing her work all by me, I sometimes would feel helpless. I did not what should be done first and what should I do next. It was because I have so many tasks to do and handle and all these things have made me feel so stressed and feel like out of breath. Thanks to my fellow colleagues and the boss’ family, who have been guiding me and taught me how to do the work whenever I feel lost. Now, after working for one week, I am now getting the hang of it and I realized that it was not difficult at all. I am glad that the boss has given me a chance to prove me that I am actually can do the work just like normal people. And this gives me a little confidence and I believe that I can do more challenging tasks in future.

Last Sunday, my mother and I went to Funan IT mall to buy the ink for the printer. After that, we went to City Hall to shop around because my mother wanted to see if there was any thing to shop, then she would be able to know if she wanted to bring my relatives there. It has been a long time that I went there and so many shops have changed. After that, I suggested that we should go to Suntec City as my mother has never been there before but my mother said that it was too far and so we dropped the idea of going there.

Also, the sofa that I bought was delivered to my house on Tuesday. I feel that having such a big sofa have taken up almost half of the space. It was so comfortable that I feel like sleeping on the sofa.

Work

2008-11-29T23:29:00.000+08:00

This week, I have been checking the building plans because the scanning machine somehow was not working properly and I have finished all the things that I was needed to do. So I went upstairs to check the plans while one of my China colleagues, Sun Jian, printed the plans out. There were many sheets of the building plans and I had to check one sheet by one sheet to make sure that the drawings were correct and they had to be clear. It was quite an easy job and need to be very careful…if not, I will be getting a scold. Nowadays, I am getting along with my colleagues and we will be joking with each other and chat. I feel that I am happy to be in the company though sometimes, I will still feel a little isolated as I like to be alone.

Also, yesterday, I was chatting with Uncle Ong during lunch. I then found out that my boss started the company about 20 years ago and he had been doing all the tasks alone over the years. Until 2 years ago, then he started to earn money and started to employ workers. Wow…I thought that the uncle and aunties had been working for over 10 years. It seemed that I was wrong.

Also, I had received my third salary. At first, I thought that this month’s salary would be quite a lot because I worked OT. But it seemed that the salary was only a little more than previous month. But never mind, I will still trying my best to learn as much things as possible.

Bought a new sofa

2008-11-29T00:00:00.000+08:00

Last Saturday, after I came back from my work, I went to the furniture shop near NTUC to meet my parents. It was because I have promised my mother that I would fork out my money to buy a new sofa earlier on. Also, my mother and I already agreed to buy the sofa in IKEA, in which I think that one was nicer. But my father did not want to go IKEA so eventually; we picked a sofa which I think it was a little too big that it hardly can match our 3-room flat. What to do…already bought already and I kept complaining that the sofa was not suitable and kept asking her to change. And also I had wanted to buy the sofa after my mother’s relatives went back to Brunei because they would be coming to Singapore on next Tuesday. All together, there were 9 relatives who would be staying at our house for whole one week. Guessed that it would be so squeezy!!! The sofa would be delivered on next Tuesday.

After that, I went to play Chinese chess with my cousin.

Also, I have not been going out for one whole month le. Everyday…work…work…work and on Sunday, stay at home resting. What a boring life I had led…Haix…don’t know ask who to go out. So lonely and boring… I guessed that I am destined to be a loner for the whole life!

Need to do overtime in future

2008-11-21T23:57:00.002+08:00

Argh…I was so tired for the past few days. It was because from this Tuesday onwards, I would need to do overtime for the working days. Not only that, I need to work on Saturday also…so sad…there goes one of my weekends.

On Monday, Serene asked me if I want to work OT and also come back on weekends to work. So I said yes but I only agreed to work one more hour than usual normal hours for every day. It would be impossible for me to work any longer than 1 hour because I am the most enthusiastic tv audience. And on Saturday, I only agreed to work 6 hours. Initially, I did not like the idea of working in Saturday because I want to rest. But for the sake of the money, I reluctantly agreed to it. I later heard from the boss's son that the company was actually getting many projects to do and they have no enough manpower, that why, they asked me to do overtime.

On Tuesday, the boss’s son drove me to the Net trust company to register something. He accompanied me to go up to the company and told me to get the things done by myself. I was quite scared initially, but at least I got the things done. Then the person there gave me a disc and thumb drive. When I gave them to Serene, she asked me what the items for and I could only say “I don’t know” to her. I don’t know why I am always could not get the things right and I always feel so blur and lost that I tend to forget to ask what the items for. Next time, I must really be calm and must ask the person.

And this week, Aunt Dolly continued to teach me many things and she was starting to let me to do the things by myself. I have never imagined that her work was so much but to be honest, they are so easy once you start to get the hang of it. I guessed that I am in a situation where one person does about 2 to 3 person’s job. I have so many places to go, many work to do and of course I have less time for my family. Although I am still unclear about some of the tasks like what paper put where or don’t know where the folder is, I find that I really learnt so many things. And I think this will be helpful to my work or business (if I have).

Ok…I need to sleep le…cos tmr I still need to get up to work…haix.

Taking over Aunt Dolly's duties

2008-11-15T00:47:00.001+08:00

Wow…this week has really been a mentally tired for me because I will be taking over Aunt Dolly’s duties next month. As she would be leaving, so Aunt Dolly needs to teach me all the things within the remaining week.

At first, I was quite shocked when the boss’s daughter told me the news on Wednesday and I was told not to leak out the news to others yet. So these few days, Aunt Dolly taught me on how to do different calculations for different newspapers like English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil. To be exact, it covers all Singapore newspapers. Of course, I am still unsure of the calculations now.
After that, she taught me where to take the newspapers, prepare different types of labels and to take note of things like public holiday or weekend. Most importantly, I need to coordinate all my colleagues’ work which is quite stressful.

Then also, she taught me on the BCA like J series and SC series. And next, it is the scanning the images of KK’s hospital like what I normally do for my work. Between, the boss’s daughter asked me to check the images for the BCA. Not to forget, I was to go down to BCA to transfer images to hard disk every week. And also, do my favourite accounting.

All these work has made me feel so wore out and stressed and I guessed that I must try to learn finish all the things before Aunt is leaving. I wish that the one who is taking over her duties is not me. Haha…don’t know if this was called promoting or not. Most important…if my salary would be increased.

My grandma

2008-11-08T23:18:00.001+08:00

For this week, my ah ma’s condition were sometimes good and sometimes bad. When I went to hospital, my grandma ate a little bit and after that, she kept sleeping on the bed, not wanting to talk with us. Sometimes, she looked a little blur, kept mumbling to us which we did not know what she was talking. At that time, she seemed ok to me but Jovin told me that ah ma seemed a little bit weird. And she was worried about her and she had a hunch that something was not right. But I did not believe her so I did not really put her words in my heart.

Then on Thursday, something bad really happened. When I came home from work, my dad told me that my grandma nearly cannot survive in the morning. My ah ma’s hands and legs were so cold at that time. And when people called, she did not respond. But after the doctor’s rescue, my grandma’s life was saved. When I heard it, I was so shocked. I was really regretful not to believe what Jovin has told me and felt guilty not to visit her everyday. I always try to find excuses for not going to visit ah ma.

Then yesterday, I went to visit ah ma and Jovin was feeding her with porridge. She looked ok but a little bit blur, always asking weird questions. After a while, she continued to sleep and so my family and my uncle’s family were chatting.

As for today, she was still the same as yesterday. She asked weird questions that we also did not know how to answer her.

Hope that ah ma will be fine and get out of hospital cos I think that she was in hospital for about 1 month le.

Work

2008-11-08T01:04:00.000+08:00

This week has been exciting week for me, especially in my work. It was because I finally can touch on other tasks rather than those “irritating” newspaper. At the same time, my workload is getting heavier. But I am sure that I was more than happy than getting upset.

On Tuesday, my boss and his son took me to URA which is located at Tanjong Pagar. I was expected to go there twice a week to transfer those data to the hard disk in the morning. After that, I will go to work and take the data to my boss’s son.

Then on Wednesday, the lady boss asked me to go over to the other side of the factory. She told me that I will be learning to key in the invoices into the computer. And one lady (I believe she is a staff there, because I never see her before) taught me how to use the accounting software. I was excited as this was the thing that I always wanted to do since young…only that I could not get into the accountancy course last time because I accidentally study the wrong subject which pulled my O’ level grade and the subject was accounting. She only taught me half an hour only and I finished learning because I think it is too easy for me.

Then yesterday, I was asked to key in all the company’s invoices. At first, I made a lot of mistakes and I have been asking the lady boss questions. But after quite a while, I became used to it and felt happier as I was keying in the invoices…haha…I must be siao le.

But today, I finished keying in the invoices quite fast and went back to do the same old jobs.

Weekend

2008-11-02T22:10:00.005+08:00

Yesterday, my mother, brother and I went together with my cousin’s family to hospital. My ah ma was still the same. After staying there for quite a while, all of us went to Queensway shopping centre except Jovin, who wanted to accompany my grandma a little while more. My cousin, Roy, wanted to buy new clothes so we recommended him the shop we used to go. After buying clothes for him, I went to buy a pair of slipper and a pair of working shoes. Although I was quite heartbroken (my this month’s expenses have gone half already), I was quite happy to buy the stuff. After that, we waited for Jovin to come before we went home. After that, as usual, I went to play with my cousin.

As for today, my mother and I went to hospital. My mother had wanted to go with my cousin’s family, but somehow they forgot to call us. So we kept waiting for them before we decided to go to the hospital by ourselves. Today, ah ma was quite ok, started to eat a few mouthful spoon of porridge and vomited little phlegm. After a while, my cousin’s family went to the grandma’s house and so my mother and I stayed back to look after my grandma. Then my grandma was sleeping and we were so bored and started to sleep also. After staying for two hours, we went back, leaving my grandma alone.

Also, just now, my wushu friend, Marilyn, smsed me that there will be a wushu chalet at the end of this Nov. I am still thinking whether to go or not because I feel very strange and scared as I have not met up with my wushu friends (except Ying Qing, Ah Yong and some juniors) since I graduated from poly.

Wao! the bird is so big...

My grandma end her life?

2008-11-01T23:16:00.000+08:00

This week is a horrible and mentally tired for me. It was because I was sick…coughing and sneezing a lot…almost used up more than a roll of toilet paper…my nose became red. Some more, I still need to go to work because I did not want to take leave…actually I seriously do not know whether there was any medical leave to be taken…haha. I also do not like to take medicine if I were to go to work or outside because whenever I take the medicine, perhaps the effects are too strong for me that I do not have strength to do things and my hands will shake more often. I seriously do not like the sick side of me and that makes me feel even more scared of getting sick in the future…think it would be even worse than now when my parents would not be around and I need to take care of myself.

On Monday, it was Deepavali’s day so I did not need to work and at the same time, I can rest. I watched the Jap movie “10 promises to the dog” with my brother and my mother at home (actually my brother watched it before and my mother occasionally watched a bit only.) The movie was quite touching and meaningful because before the mother was going to die, she told her daughter to fulfill the 10 promises to the dog no matter what happens. But as the girl grew up, she began to drift apart from the dog and ignored the dog. In the end, when the dog was going to die, the girl started to realize that it was too late and regret that she did not fulfill the promises and so the dog died in the end.

As for my ah ma, I have not really gone to see her for 4 days because I simply had not the mood to see her because I was sick…do not know if this is consider unfilial or not. I heard from Jovin that she was still the same…not really eating much and keep vomiting saliva. I think it is her physiological problem bah because she kept thinking of vomiting whenever she sees food or drinks.

And yesterday, it was even worse. I met my uncle in the mrt station and we went to the hospital. When we reached there, my third uncle, aunt and Jovin were there. I did not really know what happened, just curious why so many were there suddenly and heard them keep persuading ah ma not to think negatively and quickly eat food so as to recover faster. Then later, Jovin asked me to go outside and tell me that just now, ah ma was actually trying to end her own life by biting her own tongue and there was blood flowing. Luckily, Jovin discovered and quickly stopped it and called my uncle and my aunt to go there. When I heard about it, I was so shocked. I guessed that she perhaps cannot endure the pain that she need to take, but most importantly, is that she was too lonely and she did not want to trouble us so she chose to take this path. So Jia you, ah ma!!! We always behind u and support u!!! After that, my third uncle, aunt and I went home. My uncle had wanted to drive us home but Yong Zhen gor gor told my aunt that he will be driving us home so we took his car home.

As for my work, my boss and his family were back on Thursday. Argh!!! We were so relaxed for the past few days and now, we need to buck up…haha. They bought us some local food from Shen Zhen and a magnetic clip. I thought they were going to America only, but they also went to Shen Zhen. The food was quite yummmmy!!!

Life

2008-10-25T23:27:00.001+08:00

Haix…I have a feeling that I am going to become sick again. It is because I now keep having running nose and having a sore throat. I guessed it was because I have not been resting enough recently ba.

This week was still a tiring week for me. I also did not know why I was so tired. Every time my friends, my family or cousins ask me why I get easily so tired, I do not know how to answer, I just say that I am tired loh. I think it is because I inherited Hepatitis B from my mother that would make a person feel tired easily.

On Tuesday, I had wanted to visit my grandma at first but because it was raining so I told Jovin that I did not want to go. But later, I decided to go with Jovin and my uncle and we took the shuttle bus to the hospital. My grandma was still the same, not feeling like eating something and would vomit sometimes.

On Friday, I went to the hospital by myself because Jovin had something on. When I reached there, I saw my cousin; Pei Pei jie jie was there. She was having a conversation with a nurse about my grandma’s condition. After a while, my uncle came. Then the nurse told them that if my grandma continued to go hungry, then the nurse would have to force her to take food. But then she really did not feel like eating, then the nurse suggested that maybe she would like to drink milk that would provide her nutrient and energy. Then also, when we were there, my grandma did not feel like to talk and she kept sleeping. I guessed because she was too tired le.

Then my uncle told my cousin and me to go home first because we also had nothing to do. We went to the Anchor Point first because my cousin had to buy something and food. After that, we went to my house because she needed to take my two little “naughty” nephews going home.

Today, I took Roy to cut hair. Then after that, I bought food for my brother and me for lunch. Then I went to my grandma’s house. Roy and I had wanted to watch the Jap movie “L change the world” but after 10 min, the disc somehow cannot proceed on so we went to play as usual.

Recently, there was a new Jap movie “20th century boys” showing on the cinema. The trailer shown like very exciting and like it is worth it to see the movie. I am still thinking whether I should go and watch the movie.

Ok…I now go and watch the hot shot le…haha…

My grandma hospitalisation

2008-10-19T21:50:00.001+08:00

On Thursday also, my grandma was admitted to hospital because she was not well. She had no appetite for more than a month and vomited occasionally so my uncle took her to hospital. I had wanted to visit her but I was too tired. After hospitalization, things were looking the same, no appetite.

On Friday, I had wanted to go hospital after I came back from my work because Jovin sms me that she would be going to hospital at about 2. So I waited for the shuttle bus but Jovin said that she had already returned to home. So I went to her house first because I was sure that if I were to going alone to visit my grandma, I sure did not know what to talk to her and how to take care of her. Then I and Jovin’s family went to hospital to visit my grandma. When I saw her, I could see that she aged quite a lot and had to endure all the pain. Some more, she was a little blurred and like did not know what happened.

All these had make think quite a lot, why people need to go through many sufferings and pain. The most important thing is that when people see the patients or their love ones going through all the sufferings or pain, they could not do to ease their sufferings or do anything, they only can give them moral support and show concern.

Also, yesterday, I wanted to go online but my laptop kept cannot connect to internet and I was so frustrated after so many tries.

Yesterday, my brother, mother and I went to visit my grandma. When we reached there, my uncle’s family and Ah Pao Soh were there. My grandma was still looking the same as before. We were there for about 1 hour and we went home. Then I went to my grandma’s house as usual.
Today, as normal, my mother, father and I went to visit grandma first. But this time, my cousin drove us to the hospital. My grandpa were there looking after her when we reached there. My grandma was still the same…no appetite and vomited. Then my uncle’s family went to visit after some time. Then after a while, they left and my brother went to hospital. After that, we went to eat lunch, leaving my grandpa to take care of her. As I was very hungry, my mother bought a curry puff first. Then we went home.

Tiring week

2008-10-18T21:36:00.001+08:00

This week has been so tiring for me. I also do not know what the reason is. I guess because of my work ba. It was because the film machine has created many troubles for me and it was stopping me from doing my work very fast. And I had to make sure all the images are clear and they are in good shapes. But things were not going smoothly for me because many images were either too blurred or too dark, and even worse, was that some of their borders were cut off. So I had to rewind back to the distorted newspaper images to scan a better one and all this had to take me quite a lot of time. So in the end, I was quite frustrated with the machine and myself. I guessed I give myself a lot of pressure le.

Also, my boss and his family will be going overseas for holidays next. Maybe I can start to relax…haha…just joking.

On Tuesday, Jovin and I went to NTUC to buy diapers for my grandma. When I saw Jovin, one of her eyes was swollen and she also did not know what caused the problem. Anyways, take care hor…

On Thursday, my mother went to hospital for check up. So the day before, she had to do all the things that her doctor instructed her to do such as only can eat porridge for the day and drink some medicine. When I went back from home, she was quite tired and had no energy to do things.

Life

2008-10-12T22:54:00.001+08:00

This week, there has no exciting event for me and life has been good for me. As for my work, it was as usual. Except that my brother went to his school music camp on Tuesday and has just come back yesterday only. It was so strange that I was not feeling lonely this time at home. Perhaps it was because I was too tired for work and had no time to think about it.

And also, this Friday, my colleagues and I went out to the food court for lunch. This was the first time that so many colleagues had lunch with me because there was one hour break.

For my weekends, I did not go out. As usual, I went for haircut and then went to my grandma’s house yesterday. And today, I went to NTUC with my mother and jogged in the afternoon.

Recently, there was one entertainment show, Life transformer, which was broadcasted this Monday. I find the show was quite touching and make me realized that there are actually so many pitiful people out there which seriously need our help. And the two hosts and the volunteer tried their best to clean up the people’s flat and also bought new things for them and of course, to help the woman find jobs. Hope that the show will really helps those people to overcome their financial difficulties for the long term. Wah…I think I like promoting the show…haha…

Also, I have been watching the Taiwan idol show, Hot shot, online. It was really funny and make me wanted to play basketball.

Life can be so happy

2008-10-10T23:59:00.000+08:00

I always have one question in my mind. Why people seldom satisfy with the things they have? Especially, in Singapore, people almost complain everything. Actually, life can be simple and I wish that I can do it also.

Like for example, in the third world countries, people are satisfied if they were given some food to eat everyday and they will be happy.

Or maybe we can do some good deeds like helping those people with low self-esteem to regain their confidence in life. We can help to donate some necessities like food and old furniture to the poor people and even books to those kids. Also, we can try to help those people with illness or disabilities to find a job. But most importantly, is to let these people know that there are actually people out there caring for them so that they will feel the warmth.

Actually, I thought of helping out in those old folk homes, doing some community work in the past. But I scared that I am not up to the tasks that are being given to me. Haha…

Went Alexandra Canal Linear Park

2008-10-05T23:58:00.000+08:00

Wah…another week has passed…need to start work tomorrow.

As for today, my mother and I went to IKEA to shop. It was raining and we had to take umbrella and I nearly fell down a couple of times because the floor was quite slippery. After that, we went home. At about 5, I went for jogging. But as I walking along the stadium, it seemed that there was an event going on. So I thought about going to the place where Kelvin told me that he went there for jogging. As I was walking there, I saw Kelvin and his father also went there. So I followed them secretly and saw them going to a part. The funny part was that I pretended to walk the opposite direction because I dared not to go up to say hi to them. Then when I was thinking of going home, I saw Kelvin wave hands to me and so I pretended that I accidentally saw them and joined them for jogging.

The place is called Alexandra Canal Linear Park in which I had never heard before. So I asked them to run first while I later then run. We ran quite far because Kelvin said that they would normally run to the place near Great wall there and then ran back. Of course, I did not run to the Great wall there because my stamina was not good. But at least, I ran from Queenstown NTUC to about Redhill there. This was the first time I ran so far and this was a new experience for me. And there were quite a number of people jogging there. After running to the Redhill there, I walked back and occasionally jog back to find Kelvin. They were doing the exercising as there were quite a few exercising equipments like raising the arms, exercised the legs and train your waists. And of course, I tried them all and it was quite tiring after that. Then we went home.

Overall, I think that the place was quite nice and I hope to go there and jog. But it would be boring and a little bit scared jogging alone. Next time, I must try to psycho someone to go there with me to jog. HaHa…

Watching King Kong

2008-10-05T23:50:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, my mother did not want to go out so I stayed at home watching the movie “King Kong”. At first, I thought that the whole movie would have the King Kong appeared for most of the time. Then I realized that it was only appearing at the later part of the movie. The movie was quite thrilling and mysterious as you will never know what was going for the next moment.

What made me surprised about the movie was that there were many extinct creatures appearing in the movie like dinosaurs and those animals that made me feel the creeps. And of course, the most warming part was the King Kong who went all out to protect a woman which it loves from those creatures. And finally, the King Kong died because of protecting his love ones and it was killed by the police. Overall, I think that the movie was quite touching and exciting.

After that, I went to my grandma’s house to play with my cousin. And it seemed that my grandma was still feeling a little bit unwell and I did not know how to help her. Then, I went to play table-tennis with my cousin. He was quite good at playing the table-tennis and I did not know how to counter his attack. I guess that I must try to work on it and play well.

My first Salary

2008-10-02T00:14:00.001+08:00

This week has been going fast for me because I finally got one holiday since I started working last month. It was still the same for me to go to work.

Yesterday, one of my colleagues, Aunt Dolly, told us that there was someone committing suicide across her houses. I was so shocked and she still told us that her brother actually went down to see the body. Oh my gosh! Also, yesterday, I finally received my first salary. When the boss gave me the cheque, he told me that he raised my salary by $50 because of my well performance. And he said that all my colleagues were paid less than my salary and told me that this job was a stepping stone for me. I was quite happy then because I got $600. But when I went back home and took a look at my cheque, actually I only got $400++ because the other sum of money went to the cpf. Although I was upset after knowing that I only able to spend such a little sum of money, I was sure that if I do not continue to do this job, then there is only one way out. That is to find another job or die…either way. After sharing this thought with my mother and Jovin, I decided not to care about the pay first and continue to do well in this job.

Today, as it was Hari Raya for Malays, I have one day off and my mother does not need to look after my nephews. So my mother and I went to Somerset for shopping. It was so crowded when we wanted to board the Mrt and we had to wait for another train. And we squeezed into the train and I hardly had any space to move around. Both of us have not been to Somerset for so long that we went to the wrong place at first. Then we went to the Robinsons and walked around. The things there was really so expensive that I think only those high class people can afford to buy the stuff there. My mother wanted to ask me to buy a new leather shoe but we did not know how to choose. And some more the price for the shoe is about half of my salary. Then I also bought two T-shirts with my own money. Then we went home after walking for a while.

Weekend

2008-09-28T22:57:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, my whole family went to the nearby shopping center, Queensway Shopping Centre. My brother wanted to buy a new spectacle as his spectacle has spoilt for 3 years and my mother has been promising him to buy a new one but she kept delaying for so long. When my brother went to check his eye, I took one spectacle and wore. Wah…I looked like so si wen…haha…pai lei. And we three actually watched how my father persuaded the shop owner to lower down his price. I have never known that my father is actually so pro when it comes to killing the price and I am starting to admire my father. Then we went to shop around and my mother bought some clothes for me and my brother. Wah…so Kiasu…still got 4 month before Chinese New Year arrive…we already bought some…haha.

After that, I went to my grandma’s house to play with Wei Jian. I was so impressed of him, because his exams was tomorrow and he still had time to play with me. He was watching the show “Mind ur language” in the internet. My uncle said the show was nice but I don’t think so. It was because I don’t like to watch the English show. Then while Wei Jian and I were playing the Chinese Chess, I heard my aunt was saying to him that Jovin was actually earning about $200++ for working 2 days. At that time, after hearing about these words, I suddenly felt that I was so useless. I work for a month, only earn about $500 but she worked for only 2 days, her salary is half of mine. I did not know why I suddenly had this thought.

Today, my mother and I went to Tiong Bahru. She bought me 2 working T-shirt and then she also bought herself a dress. Haha…it seems that every time I went to Tiong Bahru, there are surely got new shops opening. After that, we went home and went to Ntuc. I also went to jog as normal.

Dilemma

2008-09-27T15:07:00.000+08:00

So troubled now…the god must be kidding me. There are jobs keep coming to me now and then when I have a job. So funny!!! Last week, it was the agent and now my cousin has helped me find a job yesterday. I did not know whether I should accept the job or not. In the end, I rejected the job. I do not know if I make the right decision. One has a better pay but surely, there are more stress and my current one only little pay. But I think I am at least feeling happy now with the current job and I do not ask for very much. And also, I will feel very bad and a little bit disappointed if I quit now because I only barely working for a month. And I am now starting to get along with my colleagues and we talk and joke around. If the jobs are offering one month earlier, I will surely take the offer as it offers more pay…haha.

This Monday, after work, I went out with Jovin for a walk. I had wanted to share my troubles with her but in the end, I did not talk about it and she ended up sharing troubles with me.

Just now, I went to my grandma’s house to watch the movie “Money not enough 2” with my uncle and his family. The show was a little bit funny at the front part and it was so touching at the back part of the show. Nearer to the ending part, the family had to decide whether to use the blood to save the grandma or the granddaughter. In the end, the grandma decided to give up on her life and use the blood to save her granddaughter.

And also, today, the F1 race has started...so cool...but I don't think I am going to watch...cos not interested...haha...just writing for fun.

And this week, nothing really exciting happens but my work is getting more and more. Haha…

Weekend

2008-09-22T14:23:00.000+08:00

Again…Again…n…Again…Yesterday, my mother and I went to OG again. This was the fifth or sixth time that we went to OG this month. I was getting a little bit sian and I have been asking my mother to go to a different place. We went to Bugis because my mother wanted to exchange her OG points with things. Also, the China Jie Jie who was my neighbour last time, asked my mother to go out with her. And so we went first because my mother wanted to shop around the stalls and my mother bought me a new bag.

New Bag!!! Nice mah!!!

We waited for the China Jie Jie for quite a long time before she came. She was with her two China friends and so we went to shop and see things around. Actually, my mother wanted to go out with them because she wanted to make OG card by combining their receipt. So typical of Singaporean…I guessed my mother really a real Singaporean…So Kiasu…haha. After that, we went off first. Then I went to my grandma’s house to play with my cousin, at the same time, to see my grandma. I heard that she was feeling unwell these few days.

Today, I woke up quite late because I was quite tired and has not been resting well. Also, my mother went to grandma’s house to take care of her first. Then I also went there because I did not want my mother to feel bored and alone. After a while, we went back. I also went to jog. It has been quite a long time I did not jog le…about 1 month…still the same…but I was running slower and slower.

That’all…

Work

2008-09-19T15:22:00.000+08:00

ARGH!!! So tired…I have been working for half a month le. There were more and more tasks for me to do and I have been seriously learning from the boss’s daughter and my colleagues. Today, the daughter told me that she was going to train me in all the other areas like scanning the newspaper and producing newspapers using machines and etc. When I heard it, I was quite surprised and my headache was getting worse. It means that in future, there will be many tasks for me to do that would make quite exhausted. But I think that it is a good thing for me to learn as much as possible. Probably, one day, when I learnt finished, I can go out to do this type of job or went to the printing business. Now I am starting to talk a little bit with my colleagues le. At least I got said hello to them.

Personally, I am going to give me half a year to 1 year to continue to do this current job. It is because I think that this is a new experience for me and I wish to learn as many things as possible. At the same, I need to build up more confidence in me and to learn to communicate to people because I think that I am weak in the communication area. The most important thing, is that there is less stress and at the same, I have some goals to work towards.

I will preserve to the end…

In the mean time, yesterday, I think that there was a call from the PJ Human Resource. But I did not pick up the phone because I was working. I don’t know whether if there was any job available because I did not call the company back.

And also, I had sore throat this week and I have seen the doctor le. I think because last week, I went out everyday and did not have enough rest. When I was working, I was quite tired and occasionally, cough can been heard. Now I am fine le.

Haha…that’s all. Too tired le…

Busy weekend

2008-09-15T13:36:00.000+08:00

On Friday, there was a call from the agency which Ying Qing recommended me called me for an interview. And of course, I told the person that I did not have any job currently and agreed for the interview. But as I was walking home from work, I was thinking maybe that I should not go for the interview as she mentioned that she need to see how good my typing skill is and I know that I can only type about 10 to 15 words per minute. So I called her back, wanted to tell her that I don’t want the job le but she said never mind and asked me just go for the interview.

And so on Saturday morning, I went for the interview. The company was so hard to find even though there was a map for me to see and asking people for the company. Then I called the person for the location and I reached the company. OMG!!! There was no name that was printed outside of the company and the place was so small. No wonder I took a lot time finding the place. The name was printed in the second floor and I was asked to fill the form. Then after that, I went home. I was quite puzzled that why the person did not ask me any questions or test me on the typing skills. Maybe the person realized my condition and then she did not want waste time interviewing me.

After I went home, I went out with my mum and Michelle to Outram Park. Michelle need to buy the BBQ pork as she would be going back to Brunei for 1 month. Then we walked for about 3 hrs and then we went back. Wei Jian and I went for haircut and then I went to his house to play Chinese chess. I was very tired then and would like to for a sleep…haha.

Then today, my mum, brother and I went to Bugis for shopping. I have not been to Bugis Junction for quite a long time le. I have something very funny to share. As we were going out from the Bugis mrt, my mother asked us to see a guy. The guy did not wear his pant properly and his “pi gu” can be seen clearly. We laughed and I was wondering why the person did not realized that he did not wear the pant properly. Then we shopped for quite a while. Then my brother went to take us to eat the mango pudding. He said that he wanted to treat us but eventually, my mother paid for the mango pudding. Then we went home.

Getting used to the job

2008-09-15T13:35:00.000+08:00

This week has been going very fast for me. I have been working for the whole five days and I was getting used to the job le. At the same time, it also means that the work is getting boring because the whole process repeats and repeats. For the relationship with the colleagues, it was still the same; we did not talk much with each other. In my heart, I always want to build up a friendly relationship with them but I do not know why the people that I met most do not get too close to me. Maybe they don’t know how to communicate with me or maybe they think that I don’t like to talk to people. Seriously, I also find myself very hard to communicate with others because of my speech problem. In the past and of course now, I often answered people not more than 3 words when I need to answer in English.

Also, the boss also told me that if I get a better job out there, I can leave anytime. But I think that until this moment, I don’t want to leave because I still have many things to learn. And also, I told the boss that I would like to learn some accounting like those transaction invoices and he said that he would arrange for his wife to teach me.

Bro's and Jovin's b'day 2008

2008-09-14T03:18:00.000+08:00

This week, there were two persons’ birthdays. One was my brother and the other was Jovin. On Monday, we celebrated my brother birthday and we bought him a cake. This year, he turned to 18 le...can do many things legally...haha. We celebrated his birthday quite late, around 11++. It was because my brother went out with his sec friends for celebration. And guess what…my brother had three birthday cakes this year because different groups of people celebrated his birthday. Guess that he really has many friends. Of course, he received many presents loh.

Blue berry cake

My family

Say Cheese!!!

For Jovin’s birthday, I just sent her birthday wishes. That’s all.

Finally working

2008-09-05T15:15:00.000+08:00

Finally, I have started working on Wednesday. At first, I thought that I was needed to do programming as part of my work. But, it seemed that I was wrong. When I went to work first day, I was feeling a little bit nervous and worried. When I reached there, I looked for the young boss because I thought that he was the one who gave me work to do. Instead, he took me to another place which is also the same company. When we reached there, I was told to wait for someone to give me work to do. Inside the room, I could see there were about 7 to 8 people. Some of them had some disabilities also and they were working as good as normal person. Each of them had different tasks to do. Some do bar-coding scanning, data entry, making newspapers and many others.

So Serene, who is the boss’s daughter, asked me to see her how she did the scanning using computer. The whole process was particularly boring. First, I was needed to put the film onto the scanner operator and to let the machine run so that the newspapers that were scanned were captured inside the computer. U know what, the newspaper was actually from 1929…so long ago. Then I was supposed to do the scanning twice for each film as the first time, was to see if the film went smoothly. Then the second time, I was supposed to write down the images that were scanned on which particular date and sorted it out. It was because at the later part, I was supposed to transfer the data into another computer and finally converted them into a pdf file. It was quite a boring and tiring process because just for the scanning one film, it took more than 3 hrs. Then if some data was missing when converting into the pdf file, I need to go back to do the film scanning again because the company expected 100% accuracy. Just like today, I nearly went mad because I kept cannot find the missing data for more than 4 hrs plus the machine kept hanging.

Now I was very tired le, also back pain. Imagine that I need to stare at the PC for the whole day. During lunchtime, I went out with uncle, auntie Dolly and Bin Hao. The lunch was about 30 minutes so we have to eat very fast. Also we did not chat very much and I realized that the colleagues at there do not speak much just like me. That is why I feel weird, not getting used to such a quiet environment.

I will hang on!!! Jia You!!!

IT Fairs

2008-09-01T14:36:00.000+08:00

It has been more than a week that I have not been blogging. It was still the same for me to live such a boring and relaxing week. But in the coming Wednesday, I finally have a job and at the same time, I can learn and spend my time fulfilling. Now I still don’t know if I am able to do the job. Haix…

Yesterday, it was my brother’s concert. He has been asking my parents and me to go and see his concert. But we simply did not want to go. One of the reasons is we do not have money to buy the tickets. I know that he was upset that we did not go and support his concert. But most importantly, we did not know how to enjoy the music and if we fall asleep during the concert, it will be too paiseh.

Today, Ying Qing, Ah Yong and I went to the IT Fairs that was in the Suntec City. I have not been to Suntec City for more than a year since last time; I worked at there as taxi surveyor. So when my friends asked me to lead the way, I said ok loh. At one time, we went wrong way and I was so paiseh. In the end, they lead the way. Then we went to Carrefour to look for Lister, my junior and we went to eat first before going to the IT Fairs.

When we reached the IT Fairs, the whole place was crowded with people. There was hardly any space for us to walk. So we just pushed our ways through the place. So I went to buy a new earpiece since my old earpiece seemed like going to spoil. I did not know what the brands are or the functions and I did not care about it. I just asked my friends whether this earpiece was good or not, and I just bought it. Then somehow, Lister left as he needed to go back to Carrefour to work. Then one of Ying Qing’s friends came to find him and we continued to walk around. And Ying Qing and his friends went to buy their things. And I and Ah Yong went to relax and we were too tired after walking. Soon, they bought finished their things and we went to buy food to fill up our stomach. Then we went home.

Interview

2008-08-22T15:35:00.000+08:00

On Monday, I went to the Micrographics Company that was in Commonwealth for the interview. Francis, the staff from the Bizlink Centre, waited for me and we went to the company. Then the boss from the company interviewed me and at the same time, he asked me about my medical condition and Francis told him. Then he went on asking for my qualifications and asked me if I liked computer or not. Of course, I said yes to him loh although I don’t like the jobs that has to do with programming.

It was because I find that the programming languages that I learnt are quite basic and I hate programming because it makes my brain quite tired as I have to keep thinking about how to solve or write. After that, the boss said that in future, I would work for his son and not him. And he said that he would try me out for about 3 days first and I would be working on the 3rd Sept as a programmer. And the salary is $550 per month. And he asked me to bring my FYP to his son and my O’ level result the next day.

And so the next day, I went to the company. The boss’s wife told me that their son had urgent matter to do and I waited for about 45 min there. Then the boss’s wife saw me that I had nothing to do and took me to the other side of the company where the workers were working. She asked me to learn from the workers there and there were about 5 workers. One of the staff was typing the IC no. from the invoice and checking if the IC no. was tally with the IC no. that was in the computer. Then one of the staff asked me to type in some data and at the same time, I was needed to print out the data. It was quite an easy and relaxing job to me. At that moment, I had one thought in my mind. That was to ask the boss if I could do this type of job.

But I did not have the courage to ask because I had promised to do the programmer job. So after working for one hour, I was asked to go back to the company. The boss’s son saw my project and I explained to him how the project worked. Then he said ok and I was to work on the 3rd Sept as his family need to go overseas next week. I did not know if I was able to do the project I was asked to do because it seemed more complicated than I expected it to be. And I only learnt the basic programming and not the advanced type. But I guessed I have to wait until that day. If I really cannot do, I might just quit.

Let’s hope that things will go smoothly for me at that time.

My 21st birthday

2008-08-22T14:35:00.000+08:00

Today is my 21st birthday. Daniel is the first one to wish me followed by Jovin and Wei Jian. Yesterday, I was quite surprised and happy when Daniel chatted with me online, saying that he bought one present for me. Thanks man, Daniel!!!

I woke up quite early in this morning because my father wanted to take me to the Immigrant Centre there for oath-taking. I heard from my mother that the officer there was quite stern at that time when she got the Singapore citizenship. That was why I was quite worried. So we went there and we waited for about 1 hour before it was my turn. So we went inside to the room and the staff asked me to read the pledge. And so it took me quite fast to read the pledge and we went to Bugis for a pray.

Then we went back and at about 4pm, my mother and my brother went to bring the cake from the shop at the downstairs. My mother actually had told the baker to make a key shaped cake. It was because my parents said that normally when people reach 21, they will make this type of cake. I also don’t know why. Then my family and my two little nephews celebrated my birthday at home. My parents also bought me a necklace that has a key around it.

Wah...so big...Key-shaped cake

Say cheese!!!

Singapore earned a silver medal

2008-08-21T15:12:00.000+08:00

On Sunday, the gold medal game for the women team table tennis between Singapore and China was too thrilling and enjoyable. Although the Singaporean team felt that they were unable to beat the world strongest China team, the players continued to play the game seriously and fight them until the end of the game. Although it was very tough for Singaporean team to beat the China team, their fighting spirit was shown throughout the whole game. And of course the result is: China vs Singapore – 3-0. But at least, the Singapore has earned a silver medal and I am happy to see the achievement. I hope that in the remaining few days, the Singapore team would be able to win another medal.

Singapore GO GO GO!!!

Unexpected day

2008-08-16T15:38:00.000+08:00

Wednesday was an unexpected day for me. It was because Ying Qing messaged me that he got lobang in RP and asked me to send my resume to them. Also on the same day, the staff from the Bizlink Centre had helped to find two jobs. I remember last time when my father and I went to the Bizlink Centre for help was about three months ago. I thought that the staff had forgotten to help me to find jobs since he offered me one job last time and he has not contacted me. The two jobs that he offered, the pay was quite low. One is being the scanner operator; the pay is about $500/mth. The other is being the IT staff or cashier, the pay is about $750/mth.

Yesterday, I went to the Sunbyrd Corporation which is at the Bugis there for the interview. I had hard time finding the place and I reached there a half hour earlier. When I entered the shop, the place is like those shops who rented the computer for people to use. I was to fill up the form and I was surprised to see the staff from the Bizlink Centre to be there. At the same time, there was also another guy who came to interview. During the interview, the boss explained to me all the stuff that I need to know. He also told me that I was not suitable to be the cashier and told me that I could do the IT stuff. But currently, there was no vacancy for IT staff and in future, if they need any IT staff, he would contact me. So I guessed that it was unsuccessful interview. The other interview was at the next Monday.

Also on yesterday, the staff from RP called me that there was a temp logistics job. But after that, another staff from RP called me what job would I want and asked me my qualifications. But after that, there was no reply from them.

Singapore historic moments in Beijing Olympics 2008

2008-08-15T15:38:00.000+08:00

Today is an historical moment for the Singapore. It is because the women team table tennis has smoothly proceeded to the final round which would be competing with the strongest country, China. This is the first time that Singapore wins the first medal in Olympics for the past 48 years since last time; Singapore won a silver medal in 1960.

Today, the game for semi final round between Korea and Singapore was very intense. And Singaporean player has put up a great performance. At first, when I watched the first game between the two countries, I was quite relaxed. And Singapore won the first game. When it came to the second game, I was quite emotional and very tense as the points for the two countries are very close for many times. I could see that the Korean player was playing defensive and it was difficult for Singaporean player to win the game. And so Korea won the second and the fourth game. And the Singapore won the third game. By the time when it came to the fifth game, the players was quite worn out and very stressed. At one point of the moment, the judge interrupted the game by introduced a rule, saying that if the either player won the games by one point when the point comes to 13 first, that mean the player won. And so the Korean player made a mistake in the final game and Singapore won the game. To be honest, I have never thought that such a game could make me feel so intense and so exciting. Also, I believe it was the longest game ever if I am not wrong…3 hrs++.

Lastly, I hope that Singapore will win over the China on Sunday and win the gold medal.

Singapore 43rd birthday

2008-08-10T14:26:00.000+08:00

Today, is the 43th birthday for Singapore. This is the first time that the national day is organized at the Marina Bay. At first, I thought that the programs are just like the past National day programs which are always the same. But after seeing the show, I realized that it is quite unique as there are some performers performed on the water. And the programs are quite different and fresh from the programs in the past. And the national day song for this year is quite meaningful and nice song.

Anyways, Happy birthday to Singapore.

Beijing Olympics games 2008

2008-08-10T14:23:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was the Beijing Olympics opening day. China was the first Asia Chinese country that was given the honour to organize such a grand Olympics. Before the day Beijing Olympics starts, many China people were queuing up to buy the tickets so that they can watch the live games and at the same time, they wanted to keep the memory of the China being the first Chinese country that organizes the Olympics.

Yesterday, when I watched the Beijing Olympics start, many sportsmen coming from all over the world were holding their country flag as the host announced their individual country. I realized that there were many countries in which I don’t know yet. Personally, I seldom watch the sports show as the tv does not telecast those sport games. But I like to watch the football, badminton and the ping pong matches. And this time, Singapore has sent out so many sportsmen to participate for this Olympics games. So I believe that Singapore will put up a great performance and wish that Singapore will win as many medals as possible.

I guess that for this coming two weeks, I will be spending most of the time watching the Olympics show.

Singapore, GO GO GO!!!

Life

2008-08-04T15:40:00.000+08:00

This week has been a boring week for me. I had hardly found any suitable job whether it is online or from the newspaper nowadays. I am still waiting for my father to take me to the community center to find the minister to help me to find jobs. Haix…my father has been kind of busy and he said that we can only look for the minister at night.

Also, this week, my little nephew, Yi Yi, was staying at our home for 3 days. It was because my cousin and his family were sick so they left him at our house. By leaving Yi Yi at our house for the whole day, it can be said that there are advantages and disadvantages. Although I don’t know why kids would become more active at night than during the day, such that they make a lot of noise and running all around while we are watching tv, it is quite enjoyable to see kids playing around that the house become more lively.

Went out with my friends

2008-07-28T15:45:00.000+08:00

Haix, I am still having nothing to do at home for the past few days. I really don’t know whether the heaven wants me to rest at home or torture me that I could not find the suitable job for nearly about 6 months le.

About the flash project, I have sent the project to Michelle’s friends last Thursday and asked him for help. But since then, I still have not received the project from him. Anyways, the free trial for my Flash program has already expired and I uninstalled and reinstalled again, but I still cannot open up the program.

Also this Wednesday, Daniel asked me to go out. We have not seen each other for about 2 months le and even when we were online; we seldom see each other online at the same time. We went to Queensway for a walk, and then Ikea and finally the Anchor Point. He has been quite busy with his FYP recently and finally we went to the market to eat. Of course, only he ate the dinner and I accompanied him only, just looking at him eating…haha. Then we went home.

Then yesterday, I, Ying Qing, Ah Yong, Chin ling and one other friend (who I don’t know, friend for Wu Fang) went to watch the movie “The Dark Knight”. I had wanted not to watch at first, but I think we have not contacted each other for about 2 months le. We had agreed to meet at the mrt station at 12.30. But after I board the train, YQ messaged me that he would be late. And also when I reached the mrt station, I found that it was only 12 o’clock and about 40 minutes later, Ah Yong reached le. Then we chatted and we waited for about another 40 minutes before we decided to go cinileisure there, waiting for others to come. Soon, the rest came and we went to watch the movie.

The movie was so scary for some parts and it was exciting and the story plot has some twisting part. You would never know what the next moment is going to be for the story. And one thing to mention, is about the joker. He has a great mind, in planning all the things. And I saw the news, the real actor for the joker had died after he finished take part in the movie.

After we watching the movie, we went to shop around and we went home.

Life

2008-07-18T14:05:00.000+08:00

These few days have been like the normal days, nothing unusual or excited things happen. At first, I did not really want to play DS for pokemon pearl version because I am getting sick of the game. Since I had nothing to do at home, so I started to play the game on last Thursday. As I was playing the game, I became addicted to the game and had wanted to finish playing the game.
On last Friday night, my brother asked me if I wanted to watch the Japanese movie ’10 promises to my dog’. But I did not want and asked him to download the movie in future as I did not really want to waste money on movie. So my brother asked his friend and Michelle to go and watch the movie on last Saturday.

On this Monday, I watched the news and found out that the Ming Yi Fa Si had actually found guilty of embezzling funds and the donations made by the public. I was quite shocked to hear this news as I always saw him looking so sincere and helping the old folks by doing the risk performance during the charity program.

This Wednesday, Jovin asked me to accompany her to go Ikea as she wanted to take pictures for her projects. Also, Michelle had asked her friend or teacher to help me in the Flash.

Life

2008-07-10T15:23:00.000+08:00

These few days are just like the normal days. I have been staying at home and occasionally trying to read books on Flash, trying to figure out how they work and work on my laptop.

I also read on one Chinese book halfway through. It was bought by my brother when he was sec 2 as his teacher told him to do so. The book is about the life of one handicapped Japanese person overcome the odds. When the person was born, he did not have legs, hands and he could only sit on the wheelchair whenever he needed to do things. Although he was not like normal person, his parents did not despise him or have any complaints. They treated him as though he was a normal person and gave him things that he needs just like others. His parents let him study in a normal school and support him in whatever he wanted to do. He also did many impossible tasks during his school life. Like he went to mountain climbing during the school excursions, joined the basketball team as cca, went swimming, running the sport complex with his bottoms and many other impossible tasks. He always have the determination to do the things that he wanted to do without thinking his physical condition and he always looks optimistic. From his books, I really learnt many things that whether the person is normal or handicapped person, as long as you want to do something, you can do it.

My father came back on last Sunday and he bought many things for us. He bought food from China in which I don’t really like it. He bought jackets and clothes for us and friends.

Interview

2008-07-03T15:06:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, one company called me that there was an interview in the afternoon. So I went to the company. At first, I was not sure whether I was in the correct place when I reached there as the building looks so “ulu”. Then I called the person again to confirm the place and I went up.

When I stepped out from the lift, I could see the place looks like so old. Then the person asked me to fill up the form. Then I was taken to see the boss. Then he said that he actually does not mind about my condition, the most important thing is able to type the things faster as being a data entry clerk does not need to speak much. He told me to wait for his news as there were other interviewees. I still do not know whether I will get the job or not. Hope it would be good news.

And there is one thing I am very troubled with is the application form. Whenever I was told to fill up the form, there is one column which is about the health. I always do not know whether I am considered a disabled person or not. I always wrote that I only had problem with my speech. I do not know whether it was correct or not.

Trying out the flash

2008-07-03T14:54:00.000+08:00

Last few days, I was still trying out how to do the project using flash but I could not seem to figure it out. Although I managed to produce some parts of the project, I could not seem to figure out the most important part. I read through the books that I have borrowed, but I could not find the things that I wanted.

Then on Saturday, I went to look for Roy for help as I thought that maybe he learnt already, but he said that he had not learnt it yet. As a result, we did not do anything in the end. I am getting slack and started to give up le as I really do not know how to do the project.

Then last Thursday, Gabriel Kor Kor smsed me that his friend got other assignment for me to do. So I went online and he told me that I was needed to prepare something like lecture notes. So I agreed and he told me that he would discuss with me the next day on how the things should do. The next day, I went online and waited for him to discuss with me but he never come online.

Also, on Sunday, my father went to China with his friends to study Chinese medicine for a week.