Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Day The Earth Stood Still is a silly movie despite it appearing mysterious in trailers. Yes, Keanu is eye candy and everything but it doesn't save the movie much less save the earth. Better to spend your money on Twilight hohoho...
I heard a very interesting conversation between 2 ladies behind me while queuing at the toilet a few days ago. They were talking about how you know the person is the one when you see him. One of them was advising the other to in the first place, jot down the qualities she would like in the other half. So that she will always be reminded of the qualities and will know when the person comes along coz quoting her, "you wouldn't know what the person would look like". The other lady said she did meet someone and they got closer and she made the first move only to find out that she's not the person in the guy's heart. The guy has since left Singapore (not a Sporean). Hahah... kaypoh right? That must have been the most interesting toilet conversation I've eavesdropped on, ever.
However, personally, I feel that looking for the perfect one isn't like shopping for groceries whereby you make a list and get the stuff. Criteria will change unless you are really vague and general in your list. There are certain qualities which even though a particular person doesn't possess, you might still be able to accept him. He may not be like a jigsaw puzzle piece whereby he will definitely fit all sides and edges of the other piece of jigsaw (which is yourself). On the other hand, he may possess certain qualities which have never occurred to you that they are that important but you realize that they are special after all.
Serendipity believed today at 10:42 AM
When I was about to withdraw money at Ngee Ann City just now in the evening, I saw someone! I saw someone I don't know personally. Why is it such a strange thing you might ask. Well, that's the third time I've seen her at Ngee Ann City alone! Isn't it strange? She's the girlfriend of one of my ex-colleagues whom I no longer keep in contact with due to a personal reason which is not convenient to be divulge here haha... I've seen her photos before and being someone who can remember faces very well, I knew it was her those times I saw her at Ngee Ann City. From the way she was dressed those 3 times, she didn't seem to be working there. Not in formal attire either that's why she can't be working at one of the office towers.
Isn't it queer?
Serendipity believed today at 10:51 PM
Saturday, December 6, 2008
As usual, it's been such a funny outing. Glad that I decided to go in the end. Who says that meet ups have to involve talking about serious stuff? Life is already filled with so much stress, during rare times of great laughter, I feel that such outings tend to be more memorable. Who says at the end of the day there's nothing to take back from there?
One can take back a lighter heart and mind.
Such things can be more precious.
Serendipity believed today at 2:27 PM
Haven't been exercising for a long time. The last time being the yoga session I've been to 2 weeks back. When I tried skipping (after having stopped for a long long time), I felt like a wobbly piece of lard "-_- So strenuous after just 100 times although before that I did something that's like crutches with a plastic thingie which I bought for $2 from the Arena warehouse sale. That approximately 100 second (abdomen buay tahan after some time, need time I guess).
Xmas is coming!!!! Wanna eat honey baked ham :) Perhaps I should buy 1 whole thing from Cold Storage :P
Serendipity believed today at 6:48 PM
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Instead of passively trying to save and simultaneously actively spending like there's no tomorrow, I've been researching online a couple of banks that offer monthly savings accounts that automatically transfer a specific amount of money each month from the account that the employer banks in the salary. It forces me to save plus it also helps me to keep track of my savings. It's easy to lose track of my expenditure although I have been religiously entering my daily expenditure. However, I've noticed that gradually I'm just entering my expenditures for the sake of doing so and there's still no control over the outflow of money. Psychologically it's easy for one to feel rich when looking at the lump sum in the account when withdrawing. Therefore, this method of saving would be the best. The interest rate is higher, given on a monthly basis and is based on how much money is deposited every month, i.e. there's flexibility. In addition, expenditure can also be curbed because I wouldn't touch the money in there. Only the remaining amount in the basic POSB account is allowed to be to be withdrawn.
It's different from a fixed account because I still have accessing to my own money in times of emergency and there's no tenure period (for a bank like DBS) although there is a 24 month tenure for OCBC so there'll be some kind of a penalty in the case of OCBC if there's early withdrawal @_@.
Serendipity believed today at 4:41 AM
Saturday, November 29, 2008
I found out yesterday how easily available picture books on Christmas are from the library. Browsing at a shelf could get me 1 or 2 books just like that. Phew... finally settled that for the low- budget Xmas Party for the kids. Hope they will enjoy it though since there were those in certain committees who put in a lot of effort in thinking up activities. Come to think of it, I've never been to a Christmas party when I was little. I remember that my bro's friend once had an extra ticket and the mum generously asked my bro to go. Instead his friend's younger bro didn't get to go! Wahaha.... I was so so envious then coz he could play games at the community centre and brought back goodies with him too. I had to try to persuade him to give me some, which he did, although unwillingly :D
I still feel that I was overprotected when I was a child. However, would I have done as well then if I wasn't so sheltered? During the previous primary school gathering, a friend remarked that I was so guai1 and would never hang out after school to play at the playground. That got me thinking and I guess she was right. Just surprised that she remembered. She lived at the block opposite mine and from what I could recall, she didn't hang around either *puzzled* She was one of the top in PSLE by the way.
However, I could remember vividly that I did a naughty thing once. An enrichment programme on Phonics was cancelled and instead of going home, I went with my friends to a playground behind the school. We played blind mice. Haha... I felt so guilty after that for hiding it from my parents who never found out about it too.
Primary school days were kind of fun and it was sort of an easy part of my education life. I took things for granted because I didn't have any real difficulties in my school work, just that I started to dislike Chinese as I moved on to upper primary and had to have tuition in Primary 6. The tutor being the eldest brother of one of my bro's friends. Found him quite cocky. He sounded apppalled when he found out I didn't know how to use the strokes of Chinese characters to search the dictionary (school didn't teach us either!). I felt so small then and kind of ashamed of myself. Come to think of it, I didn't have to feel that way right? Since my mum's msian (she can speak but cannot write Chinese words) and my dad is English educated. Didn't feel that he really helped me much. In fact, he would ask me to do assessment books while he was here and whenever he had to go to the toilet, I would sneak a peek at the answers at the back of the book and wrote them on my thigh or memorise the MCQ answers. I was smart enough not to quickly copy down all the answers rightaway or he would have found it strange why I could do everything so quickly! Wahahaha!!! Cunning right?
If I could copy answers when doing assessment books and still get an "A" for my PSLE, doesn't it prove that it wasn't him or the tuition that actually helped me? Buwahaha... Even for my "O" levels, my Maths tutor advised me not to retake after getting a B3. He pointed out that having merit for oral might be the reason for getting B3 and oral couldn't be taken again too. My determination made me decide to go for it again. This time sure that I could memorise all the Chinese words and their meanings better. I got A2 in the end and he had to swallow his words.
This personal Maths tutor is someone I will never forget. He never failed to encourage me and his words always made so much sense. Unfortunately, I have lost his contact number. It would be good to be able to meet up.
Serendipity believed today at 12:47 PM
It's so tragic to hear from the news at 10pm that the Singaporean hostage held in Mumbai had been killed. Only 28 years old, just older by merely 3 years and had to suffer immense fear even up to the moment of her death. Plus dying in a foreign land (which she's only supposed to be at for 1 night) all alone.
Terrorists are causing so much trouble all these years that I believe many people are sick and tired of the shit that they are stirring up in various parts of the world. Holy war? My foot. People killing people just to try to get their message across. Nothing can be more dumb than that. What are these people trying to prove anyway? Killing without logic at all. If their target was initially the westerners, how did this Sporean fit in? Even the Thais don't hurt tourists in their protests no matter how unhappy they are. That I guess deserves some form of respect. In a way. Tourists there are allowed in leave the country in whatever way they want to.
I think the world should end man. I think the chapter on Revelation in the Bible should come true like... now? This place is insane. People are so sinful that even if there's such a thing as a next life, their suffering then wouldn't be able to pay back these senseless killings. But if it's heaven and hell we are talking about, no prizes for guessing which route will be taken. Bon voyage~~
Holy war? Holy shit more like it.
Serendipity believed today at 2:25 AM
