.:Memories

2009-07-13T21:19:00.002+08:00

Now that I m a little bit less busy at work... Its time to start thinking again.. Look for new and interesting ideas to make my life richer... Pun?!? Shall not elaborate further.. Muz be careful not to cross the line..

Anyway, the avatar idea that we (me and my boi boi) thought of is a failure! Not that its a bad idea.. but its just something way beyond our budget.. well, we all learn from mistakes... so this time, we shall be more practical and start with something simple n less costly.. but yet create the BTE...

Well, the basis of life is simplicity...

2009-07-12T16:11:00.003+08:00

I wan to learn how to play the piano!!! A dream to be able to sit down and play the piano.. A source of enjoyment, relaxation and to vent frustration.. well, playing the piano is definitely better than hitting someone or eating...

Transformers is nice! Ratings given for transfomers from mazagines and newspaper is really bad.. But I thought its a great show.. The only complaint I had is that the different transformers are not distinctive enough to be differentiated while they are fighting, of coz with the exception of Bumble Bee! Well, prob another complaint that most pple would have is that the Fallen is too weak.. But since I am always looking at the plot of the movie instead of the fighting scene, whether the Fallen was too easily defeated din matter much to me...

" I am Optimus Prime"

2009-07-02T20:17:00.002+08:00

Ooo.. it has been months since I last blogged.. well, dats perhaps something good since even myself get bored from my blog..

Nuthing much seems to have happened these few months.. Except getting more and more exhausted.. Other than work is still work... When can I ever get out of this? But dun get me wrong, I am not saying my work is bad.. In fact, I do feel lucky to be able to quit my last job and enter this job.. Nice colleagues, nice boss, what else to ask for?

hmmm.. prob on a daily basis, I am able to write more.. Tata!

2008-10-01T20:25:00.002+08:00

It has been a loooong time since I last blogged.. Well, I am still getting used to the busy work and learning alot of things at the same time... =)

So far, everything had been well (I mean nuthing realli serious has happened) and hope everything will be well...

2008-08-11T20:36:00.002+08:00

It has been quite some time before my last blog... Yuppie.. I haf joined another company le.. *Grinz.. The pace has been relatively fast as compared to the previous one.. which means more work n less play!!!

Hope that my new job will go well... Yoohoo!!

2008-07-23T21:57:00.000+08:00

Had to tender my resignation todae.. a veri difficult task to do.. but gotta go ahead with it.. like wat Kelvin say "juz whack!!!"... so I walked into his room, get him to sign a document first.. pull a chair, sit down.. n started... " i wan to resign.. blah blah blah..." then onli things he said r "not suitable? So nuthing will make u change ur mind?" I answered "yah".. then he said he will tok to HR abt the notice period... n dat ends the whole conversation.. I felt kinda uneasy the whole morning.. like I haf wasted their time, have to make them go thru the trouble of getting a replacement or something along tt line... (but thinkin back.. they haf wasted my time as well..) yup, n so i guess tt ends my career in the company... An end signifies a new start... Hope the nxt will be a good one...

Two men are generously giving out $1m for any info leading to the arrest of Mas Selemat... Wonder how many people are willing to part wif their money for the arrest of a man whu does not haf anithing to do wif their lives... aniway.. i was juz hoping i would come across this guy some day wifout posing any danger to my life.. inform the police.. n get the money.. *Grinz.. That will make mi a millionaire immediately... In primary school, teachers would ask "what would u do if u haf a million dollars?" The answers are so standard back then.. every kid would say the same thing.. "give a portion to my parents, take out some to spend and put the rest into the bank.. oh.. muz donate a portion to charity (i believe kids doesnt wan a significant portion of their money to be donated to charity.. but say tt to prove they are generous)..." Now, if i had a million dollars, i would give my parents a portion, take out a portion to treat my family n frenz, save some in the bank, buy new furniture n the rest for investments.. hmmm.. perhaps a portion for charity (I mean it).. ;)

Liang Chow Wei Liu Jia Ling 's wedding.. Booked the grand hotel, an air plane, a specially made cake ($2600), high security + a 12 carat (!!!) Cartis wedding ring ... wow, his weddingl amount to a total of 7 million.. Juz how rich actors are ?!?

2008-07-21T19:54:00.000+08:00

I m bored... Not much things to do for the day again..!!! I think it's a total waste of the company's money n my time, hiring me to sit down there, doing some self learning n minimal work every day.. well, I believe workload would increase by nxt week (since my mentor going on maternity leave).. but by this time, I shld alreadi be taking over most, if not all, of her work... aniway, i m looking ard my workstation n could hardly see anyone working.. I think this is the time of the yr when all projs are into the more stable stage or almost completed.. so with fewer projs coming in (either due to economic slowdown or the season of the yr).. pple are slacking ard, playing with hp, doing ani other thing which is not job-related...

Right now, I rather be playing golf, ice skating, enjoying my coffee at coffee bean while reading my investment book or continue knitting the scarf, painting or ani other stuff.. instead of sitting here in office typing this entry in wordpad (we onli haf intranet here, no internet access, unless senior management)... hmmm... talking about leisure, I m thinking of taking up tennis n piano lessons.. Dun intend to be an expert in both.. for tennis, juz wanna be able to play a proper game of tennis.. Wonder how mani lessons tt will take.. for piano, Xinyi offered to teach mi until grade 3 (since she stopped at grade 3).. but likewise, i juz wanna learn how to play the piano.. not interested in all the grades or watsoever... But the biggest problem is.. i onli haf an organ at home, no piano.. which makes it kinda weird if i take up piano lessons..

Guide to investing.. i find this part interesting.. in summary, it says people often find themselves doing the right things but never getting it right becoz they are avoiding the wrong things.. So the author proposed that by doing so, u will never gain that something precious from experience known as "wisdom"... but Mum always ask "y do u wan to make this mistake if u noe that it is going to be a mistake"... haha.. which one makes more sense?

aniway, the author also mentioned about the comfortable sch life and the biggest failures he know are people whu haf never failed.. at this point of time, MJ is glad that she has started stepping into the working society ever since she was 16 yrs old and had met with many failures in life.. hopefully, she has gained some wisdom from all her experiences thus far...

2008-07-19T22:30:00.001+08:00

This entry was written on Thursday, while I was supposed to be buzi working...

Juz attended my convocation last week.. It was a memorable day filled with happiness and excitement as the balloons fall from above and pple throw their mortar boards high up into the air.. Crap!!! haha.. I was pretty neutral thruout the whole event.. no sense of happiness or sadness.. Frankly this commencement was veri unlike those graduation ceremonies during my sec n jc times, where pple hug n cry, sing songs of hope and wishes, tok abt reluctancy to part but yet eager to move on.. In this commencement, it is so different.. I couldnt feel any real or innate feelings coming out from anione.. Even the photo-taking session before n after the cermony.. as i was quietly observing, it is as if pple took pics juz because they wanted get a complete collection of the pple they acquainted in uni life, instead of really wanting to remember the pple or times they spent together... such a pity, I thought..

Aniway, Mei Hui came for my comencement and we took some photos together.. Good frenz last 4eva!!! N a big thanks to Meifang for lending me her camera.. the camera was slim, cool, had the super zoom function and the photo quality is good.. shall consider buying coolpix.. =)

After the ceremony, went for dinner with Ting, Jinfa, Zhiwei, Jiarong and Junhui at ECP Jumbo Seafood Restuarant.. The food was great n the price was reasonable !!! In the past, my extended family used to go Jumbo to celebrate my grandparents birthday ard Jurong area but I dun remember the food there was good... Different branch, different cooks, different taste.. So, the one at ECP is highly recommended by Michelle Ng, sit outside so that u can feel the sea breeze while eating chilli crab.. oh, n order the cereal prawns..

And of coz, I din forget to do some reflections on the 4 yrs of uni life… My uni life had been veri peaceful.. xcept for some jokes I created along the way due to my blur-ness or wateva, nothing big ever happened.. which I dunnoe shld be considered fortunate or not… bonds usually comes in when something happens… so in my case, I dun really feel attached to NUS… the onli thing I could remember during my yr 1 n yr 2 life is that I skipped a lot of lectures.. Yr 4 FYP gotta wear shoes to sch which I hated… so maybe the most interesting part was during my yr 3, doing the 2001 and 3001 proj, dats when I branded Weiyen as the technical ger…Mentality-wise, I think I remained almost the same.. My brain prob stops growing ever since I stepped out of sec sch… so the way I view things remain the same.. Mei Hui always sae I got a weird way of seeing things, from another POV… Junhui says I m a person whu thinks a lot… Shao says I m wise (note: is wise.. not smart).. Some guy commented when RV gers get together, they r childish.. Mature or not, good or bad, wise or not.. I guess it juz depend on situations n how willing r u to accept how a person thinks… Mj says, no one is mature n no one is childish…

Those whu noe me, I never like to study.. its surprising how I can make it to uni.. so one thing good abt uni is the long 3 mths holidays.. and my vacations are usually spent working.. Thus far, I have enjoyed all my vacation jobs, though while I was working, I would complain abt not being able to go out… So in Melioris, I worked with Chiew Ling, together with the game 4k gang n wanling.. it was fun becoz all of us are young.. so generally could clique well.. then in Loreal, I know Jiawei, but sadly, now onli contact once a yr during Christmas.. In UE (my internship), get to noe Ron, Meiling, Mark, Lili n went out for frog porridge at Serangoon at night.. nice nice.. the most enjoyable job is perhaps in GAP.. though it is also the job with the most politics.. GAP really taught mi a lot a lot (both technical and non technical stuff)… n I do miss the pple there, like Yvonne, Clarrisa, Maureen, Wing, Baoshan, Daphen, Veron, Adeline, Naven n the g**s… though will still communicate thru email n sometimes sms-es, but working wif them is different.. I still remember those times when we ordered KFC.. go sushi tel, koka, haf korean cuisines, crystal jade blah blah blah.. n the best thing was I never remembered paying for any of the expensive meals..

Uni frenz.. Before I came into uni.. I din tot that I would make frenz in uni.. I was quite resistant to the idea of making new frenz in uni.. one thing becoz I felt that I have enuff frenz .. secondly, I have always heard pple saying uni pple are terrible.. NOTE: I mean frenz, not acquaintance… but ultimately I m still glad I met a bunch of pple whom I considered frenz… I think that’s the biggest gain in the whole of my uni life….Kelvin n Yongjia…studied tog in the library n CAC room… Elysia, the first person I met … Junhui, I think he is the onli other person (apart from me) whu doesn’t do tutorials in yr 1 in my class… Zhi Wei, my ‘brother’… he got a ‘dao’ face and i onli get to noe him better at end of yr 2… then realize that he’s a veri nice n helpful guy.. not dao at all… then subsequently thru various introductions, get to noe jiarong (the quiet n soft guy) , changsheng (the gangster-lookalike guy) and weiya.. n of coz my sweetheart, Jinfa.. Nuthing to say abt him.. He means everything to me… =)

2008-07-05T11:18:00.003+08:00

3 days of work... Where would I be 1 or 2 yrs away from now? After the chat with Panu (my colleague) yesterday over lunch, there are now 2 paths which I can map out.. One is to continue in cost.. means from corporate cost engineer to project cost engineer to senior cost engineer and finally to cost manager.. Second is to be corporate cost engineer to project cost engineer to planner to project control and finally to project control manager.. Evaluations: 1st route is more specialized, takes lesser time to reach the management level (which means lesser time to get higher pay), no stress throughout, easy job.. But boring, no new challenges, management cap... 2nd route: takes a much longer time to reach management BUT exciting, new challenges..

Which one will I choose?

2008-07-02T21:09:00.002+08:00

First day of work today... damn bored.. I was practically sitting there the whole day from 830am to 600pm (minus away lunch break), doin nuthing..!!! First day of work is always liddat bah.. Hope it gets better..
Aniway, after my first day, I see the impt of going for regular exercise.. Office work = sit whole day = fat!!! n No man, I dun wanna get fat.. so shall be more disciplined n goes for regular exercise.. A good thing I got a bf whu likes to exercise oso.. So we can go swimming or golf-ing or badminton-ing together... erm.. probably gym-ing too.. =)

Tomorrow will be a better day...

2008-07-01T09:40:00.016+08:00

More pics on my Perth trip...

2008-06-30T09:07:00.002+08:00

Made a net loss of a few tens dollars in Euro CUP '08, which ended this morning... But am still glad Spain won the cup instead of Germany though I betted on a draw instead of Spain.. Boo!!! Well, I dun watch soccer so the matches are juz another vehicle to get money, if lucky... World Cup nxt!!!

Starting work on Wed.. Means 2 more days, including todae, to the end of my hols... Thinking back, it has been more than a month since my last paper ended and it juz seems like yesterday... How nice if money could drop from heaven!!! Hope some gods above are reading my blog and answering my prayers... But frankly, pple dun juz work for the money alone... we work for the fulfilment and satisfaction in life too... =)

Things are going to be different... but dun worry.. Mj can do it!!!

2008-06-26T10:00:00.000+08:00

Had a terribly scary nightmare yesterday... Left me awake from 3am to 7am in the morning n a slight headache when I woke up at 9.30am... What do dreams/nightmares tell? Do dream catcher realli works? I hate nightmares...

2008-06-23T10:34:00.000+08:00

Haha.. I think this is a long overdue post... Pictures tell a thousand words.. So here are the photos I took in Perth, my grad trip... =)

More in the nxt entry...

2008-06-16T18:50:00.001+08:00

Tired tired tired... haf been exercising a lot, but seems to put on some weight though... Input Greater than output... Haf to output more... =)

Went for golf todae to try out my new golf set... hmmm.. my new set is realli a bit heavy so gotta practise more to get used to the weight... By the way, Fairway Club has pretty good deal with 100 balls for onli $1.80 + can use the bathing facilities there... *Grinz... shall go there more often in the recent weeks b4 I found a job... Golf is realli not an easy game n needs a lot of practise.. good practices I would say... but the good thing abt golf is that one can practise alone in the driving range (though can be a bit boring)... and can be a good way to let out frustration since hitting the ball is better than hitting a person..

Aniway, I am still jobless... Hope can get a job soon n can start saving for a bright future.. =)

2008-06-12T22:31:00.000+08:00

Watched Sex n the City at Vivocity on Tuesday... Tot that the show was not too bad.. But a bit draggy in the middle part... I guess most gers will enjoy watching the show, compared to guys, since the movie tells the stories of 4 different gers n naturally their reactions n thinkings feel much closer to gers... Aniway, I like movies with happy endings and this movie has a happy ending.. Carrie got married to Big.. Miranda got re-united with her hubby... Charlotte got a newborn baby... n Samantha got away with "I love you but I love myself more..." Sweet!!! Ever Thine, Ever Mine, Ever Ours....

Wednesday, woke up in the morning to play golf with my sisters n bf.. We went to Mandai golf course (call the executive golf course).. Unfortunately, it was raining in the morning n we had to spent 2 hrs in the driving range b4 we went to the course proper with the wet n muddy ground... but Fortunately, becoz it was a rainy day, the weather was good.. At least the sun din come out until we finish the game.. =).. Playing on the golf course itself is a lot more interesting than playing in the driving range.. prob coz there's a target n objective.. so wun be hitting aimlessly in any direction without moving much (like in the driving range)
After the game, went to my bf's house to play mahjung before going to my sis's house for tennis.. Tiring day!!!

Thurs.. went to haf a game of badminton with my bf, ting n zhiwei at yck sports complex... hmm.. from my performance, realli feel that I haf grown old le.. Not as energetic as b4.. By the way, the toilet was veri big and spacious... !!!
After that, Junhui joined us for lunch at the japanese restaurant "Nikon Musa" (I think so).. the one that sells sushi at 99 cents per plate.. we treated Ting ting since it was her bdae yest.. come to think of it.. another year where my clique din celebrate Ting Ting's bdae.. Muz try to organise something for her nxt year...
Nxt, we went to my bf's house for mahjung.. Zhiwei got incredibly good tiles n won $20++.. N Junhui was the main loser.. Hope Junhui doesnt dream of 3 bamboo tonight.. haha.. Good game!!!

2008-06-07T12:30:00.000+08:00

Dear dear wrote me a veri sweet letter yesterday... So sweet that I feel like hugging him all nite long.. =)

Aniway, he did mention about our future n tt we shld start our planning soon le.. Yup, I totally agree with him... I went for an interview for the position of cost engineer yesterday with Wheeler Foster.. In the midst of the interview, we digress abit and tok abt the standard of living in Singapore... By the way, the whole interview was more like a chat than a formal proper interview... We were tokking abt how easy it is to live in Singapore and how hard it is to live a comfortable life in Singapore... So, coming back to the point, since mi n dear dear both wan comfortable life n we are both not from rich families, we will haf to depend on ourselves and work hard... =) I believe that's the case for most graduates in Singapore.. So, stop playing n start planning !!!

Oh, by the way, I juz realize the comments box is missing.. will try to code it soon, but not too sure how to do it... Anione can help?

Dinner

2008-06-04T23:12:00.000+08:00

Juz came back from a dinner with ting ting n weiya... Planned to haf coffee with meihui n ting in the afternoon before meeting weiya for dinner.. But well, meihui has something on last minute.. so ended up with a dinner n coffee with ting n weiya.. Haha.. all these are unimportant details... Aniway, it has been a long time since the last time I went out with Weiya.. Still find her a nice ger to tok to...

Fate has brought us together in one way or another... Throughout the night, We tok about how we met and our first impression of one another... We tok about the funny incidents and laughed about them.. We tok about the people we knew and commented on each of them.. We tok about the times spent in NUS n realized we haf grown old... All the moments spent together will soon become memories...

Will all these memories stay deeply etched in my mind or gradually fade away with time?

New Start, New Beginning

2008-06-02T11:58:00.000+08:00

I have decided to change to blogger instead since the old xanga is giving me a lot of problems. But, this blogger isnt any better. Perhaps I am juz not good at coding.

A New start, A New Beginning...