Thunderstorm

Ya... E classic chinese story by Cao Yu, whereby its famous remembered as
"Oh my god!!! Why it happened to me" Then u will hear thunder clap. haha

Local art group is acting the show. I thinking of going to watch but not scheduled for it. Too bad.

Its about 8 people who had very luan relationship with each other. In the end, 7 dead (i think).

If any of u got the chance, this show is highly recommended

education

EM3 will no longer be in sight. This means... no need to watch "I Not Stupid" liao. hahaa. Hm... dont think i watch before also...

Actually with the system of selecting own subject, will be better in Sec 2.

I wanted to study A Maths in sec sch but result not good thus was posted to technical steam and i failed technical. Funny right... Failed technical yet, pass engineering dipolma.

Anyway, i went to find my pri sch report card and was reading through the remarks which my teachers gave.
I saw something which caught my attention very much...

In Pri 1, music teacher said "mostly accurate in tune and rhythm"
In Pri 2, "able to sight read rhythm"

Bluff ppl 1. hahaa...

But the remarks by Mrs Leong (P6) touched me most.

2nd Seminar: "In whatever you set out to do, do it well. You will feel a sense of satisfaction and achievement for doing something well. Work steadily and conscientiously at all times"

1st Seminar: "Revise work regularly and IMPROVE UR HANDWRITING"

My ex manager had said my handwriting is worse than doctor. Then she started calling me Professor.

Then i need to do something abt me soon. For almost dont know how many decades, i did not listen to Mrs Leong advice to be "Work steadily and conscientiously at all times"

Latest news, China students lazy to write and their parents encourage it.

Pound

I juz paid for my exam fee...
a whopping $315!!!
Juz for 2 pieces of papers... i started to panic already... not because i got no money to pay at month end but e conversion rate is so high!!!

1 year, i need to pay at least 150 in sterling pound (fig has been round down :P )
tat will work out to be about S$450/ yr

If e organisation allowed prepayment, i tell u lor... i dont mind dumping 500 pounds in their account when the rate was 2.8x... which was er... beginning of the year?

now i had to pay 3.09... BIG Difference leh!!!!

tang mei yun oct show

believe most ppl knew of this show already.
anyway there is a newspaper article in the papers today, wanna scan to blog it but its too big for my scanner bed.

http://www.zaobao.com/fk/fk060926_511.html

in e papers, the funny thing abt this article is...
The whole article talks abt TMY but the picture they published is Shi Hui Jun...
Weird right? e only thing i can link its the costume SHJ wore is slightly modern as mentioned in the article. Else... no link

Use ur brain

But on the way back via train, i was thinking...
In a quarrel, if someone said "How could u like tat... Never use ur brains leh" ( my mom used to like to say this to me last time esp when i failed spelling etc)

"Well... with 90% of the brain not in use. Of cos u never use ur brain lah. Not majority mah"

I know... the conclusion is silly. But after u had read this... Juz smile n go to other blogs, ok?

Audit workshop

went for this workshop today.
Cant imagine myself spending 40 hrs per yr to undergo training juz to maintain my license (provided i get it)...
Er... assume a 3hr course will cost me $150... I will spend abt $2,500 for training...

But it doesnt justify lor... Explain y...

I realised that there r quite a few errors in my working. Due to small matters, boss dont highlight to me. Anyway need to do changes from now on.

Compare to 10 yrs ago, audit fee easily ranges from (easy small cases) $1,500 to (big cases with conso) $20,000
However, now fees range from $1,000 to $15,000

But u c lor...
Last time, bosses normally see see look look then sign. Now bosses had to see see think think look look then sign. But their fees getting lesser...

On papers, audit assistant (aa) should get more than accountants. Cos AA checked their works mah. Many accountant tot we command salary of $2k+ but no lor...
i only command $1k+ but need to check accountants' masterpiece and had to finish it within a week or so.

In event that the client kana charged. Accountant can say the accounts had been audited Auditors can push responsibilities to AA lor. Cos AA doing the work. Auditors reviewed wat is written by AA.

I looked at myself and other friends who working as admin clerks. I commanded salary = or < than but my responsibility is much higher than them.

Not fair right?

Anyway, the course lecturer said audit staffs need not only use eyes to look at the entries but also need to use nose to smell any rats.
And... the client only pay abt $1k+ to employ 'rat catcher'...

If client tat yr good business, we wanna raise our fees for 'more work done and higher risk involved'.
The client will say "Volume the same lah... only i bill them higher invoice only mah. Not fair that u charge me so much higher."

If u raise fees, client dont pay u. then they change auditors without paying u.
If u maintain the fees, u spent more time and more risk but dont earn.
then wat's e point becoming a professional

Dam - war

i reading article tat Marina Barrage will be ready by next yr. This 'inspire' me to write something abt battle at dams.

Dams are use in form of flood control and irrigation purpose. But whatever useful in 1 way, will be harmful in another.

The Marina Barrage is used to separate fresh water and sea water. Overall, i dont see much harm as it is built in low ground.

But compare to those built in China or other part of the world, MB is nothing.

Can u imagine the damage that Three Gorge Dam will cause if its damaged? The entire Yellow River will flood, resulting cities around the River to submerge

Not sure if u know of this Battle of Wei (魏水之战）, Han Xin flooded half of Xiang Yu's army
Battle of Fan Cheng 樊城之戰, Guan Yu flooded 7 armies

I believe troops will be stationed in Three Gorge with missiles to prevent aerial attacks.

ABC Market

tried putting some pic up but failed.
anyway, i went to the juz opened ABC market for lunch as i was out audit for 2 hrs. ya... bo liao...

i found that the new environment is quite nice. Compare to redhill n tiong bahru, its a bit smaller.

back in office, i tried making a survey to c if there r pp knowing where e market is...
sadly among those who answered.. none know...

actually i was quite surprised when a young gal managed to tell me wat's good food is there when i sms her juz while i on my way there.

but its sad tat youngsters forgot / do not know these 'old' names...

ABC market is called ABC market because... ABC last time got a factory there... As for where's e place... go figure out urself...

下元八运

下元八運 is a time reference in feng shui.

Each 運 = 20 yrs. Now we are at 8運 (2004 -2023)

三元：　Divided into 上元，中元，下元．
九運：　上元一二三運，中元四五六運，下元七八九運．　　
Thus its known as 三元九運，Total cycle 180 years

I attended a seminar in end 2003. The master said that due to the change of the time, there will be political unstable round the world. In that year (2004), we also saw a lot of elections, change of govt and prime ministers.

Its said that 2004 is a year for change of govt. Y?
The time line changed causing 'tribulance' in the world + 2004 is a monkey yr. Monkeys r known for '老虎不在，猴子成王' thus politics will change

(that's also y, monkeys and tigers cant get married. hahaa）

If i not wrong, taiwan, US, UK had elections. （juz to name a few)
Tat's e year Mr ah bian retained his chair. In 2004, Mr Lee HL also too sits from Mr Goh

Actually i tot Ma Ying Jiu could took over but sadly...

thailand

was watching yu lou chun when i got the news of Thai coups... ya... 1am... i still yet sleep...

the news was quite a surprise but is expected as many ppl not happy with e govt.
hopefully this wont happen to tw.

anyway ever wonder y NEWS is always spelt as NEWS despite only 1 news?

cos news stands for... North East West South - information from all over the world...
o boy.. i start sneezing again... feel sickening since yesterday...

cake bread

took cake bread this morning.
wat so special abt this cake?

i got to know of it when i start working in Maxwell in my old office. my x-colleages bought 1 for me to test. after which, i became 'addicted' cos its so delicious.

i decided to buy some home. i learnt tat it costs $2.80 ( in 2003).
Well... looks reasonable for a cake bread. so i buy 3 loafs. 1 for grandma, 2 for home.
all the eaters say 'its nice'

in 2004, i left Maxwell for Bugis. When i came back again in 2005, the price rose to $3.20.
End of last yr, it rose to $3.80 due to change of ownership.

I went to buy yesterday... $4.00!!!
Wat has goodwill got to do with consumers?!!!

siao on lecturer

my lecturer very siao on 1 lah...
he added 2 classes this mth, both on fridays. sabo me cant go SL for class.
then he juz added 2 more classes next mth on sunday.

i juz love this type of lecturers... hahaa
then u will hear me complaining tat i sleeping in class again. hahaa

yu lou chun

i juz buy this vcd in aug but no time to watch




found tat this actress look like some1....

suntec

every1 say dont go STC, but hack it lah...
i was ultra bored, so i still went ahead...

guess wat... bo lang a!!!

even carrefour was empty...
i exit via nicoll highway n realise y they did not reconvert the old beach road camp.

plumber

i found that although i am technically trained, i dont know how to repair toilet and choke pipes.

Then gals, who are home econ trained during lower sec or upper sec, dont know how to do cooking, despite knowing / liking to eat that food.

its funny right?

ya i know... if my toilet chokes, my future wife will come to me and say

Wife:"Beng! Dont sit there read newspaper,go repair toilet"
Me, using hp: "Hello Dad, can come my house"
Wife: " U study technical in sec sch, engineering in poly. Yet u need to call plumber. U not shame meh"

sha sheng

expecting me to blog IMF right?
nah...
i dont understand it much also...

anyway i KILLED a cockroach!!!
tat baby cockroach was running at the chair beside me while i eating. So i decided to step on it. n it smashed...

i not going to sit on tat chair liao.

Effect of economy to daily life

i not going to do a compo actually...

but today's topic is TRANSPORT!!!

YES!!! Our transport fare going to rise again!!!
E Council postponed the result to Oct due to 'still gathering some facts'.
BUT hm... the announcement was somewhere in March.

Cant link? Something happened in April. hehee

Adult fares going to rise by 1 - 3 cents wef 1/10/06. Yah... Children's day...

How come i dont see any rise in my pay...

Wat? U asking me wat stocks to buy?
USe ur brain lah...
Taxi, train and bus lor.

smile sg

every1 should know this slogon. But i felt it look silly.

when visitors came via airport, they are quite pleased n happy to see e big boards hanging on the side.

but could u imagine their reaction if they knew tat its actually a slogon by PM.
hehee looks funny...

if u happened to go airport, i think u will feel very welcome also though.

taiwan

by right, i should b heading for tw this 2 weeks as forcasted earlier. however, it is going to b postponed again as usual. so sian

i forgotten about my make up classes in sept which is supposed to be very packed til at least abt mid sept. our result is released only in mid aug, then we are given 1 week to register for classes. i tot i might had failed the test as its quite difficult but i forgot to make plans if i pass...

hahaha... ppl said always prepare for the worst but no1 said prepared for the best.

so, i need to rechannel my funds lor. no $ for tw at the moment.

u think my blog will stop here? Neh...

Looking at tw now, with Shi Mingde leading a strength of 950,000 ppl sitting outside the president palace, i was quite sad tat i dont go...

Hey, its a something rare to c so many ppl sitting there doing nothing u know...
it shows tat life in tw can b so bo liao also. hahaa
and ah bian still got thing to go Tai Nan temple to visit.

but after hearing so many ppl talking how fun it is to go tw, i dying to go there again...
Sigh...

Food Festival

Went Expo for Food Festive...
As i approaching the hall, i found tat i only got $2 in my wallet... Yeah... i very poor 1...

I walked all the way to Hall 2 to draw money from ATM but the machine is EMPTY!!!

COW!!! Where got pp go food fest with $2...
Wat to do? After scrolling for a while, head home lor...

cat

i placed my track pants into my bag this morning as its Friday - SL day
As i about to leave house, i then remember its 8th... Lecturer had added 1 more class for us...
I slackly repack my bag... Sian...

We took a break last week and i was 'hunger' to polish my sheng duan which i think i still look like a rock / tree / watever tat is stationery.

On my way home, i saw this poor thing...

So? Wat's so poor abt it...
Notice its hind leg... its limping...

Poor thing...

Sorrie hor. i know how a bit of massage but not tui gu (push bone) hor...

slave

i think i had been a working slave...

even since i start working, i yet taken any leave for holiday...

2003 - i got no leave as i was a temp staff for whole yr
2004 - found new job
2005 - change job. but i use my leave for work.
2006 - only got 3 days leave in dec. sigh...

Young Prince

Hooray...
The Jap Imperial family finally got a young prince to succeed the throne!!!

thank u

first i had to thank all those who msg, msn, sms me today.

to my surprise, the first msg tat came in is from MK!!! cos i dont expect her to remember.

seconds later, sms pic came in from an alumni committee member, Junfeng.

1st call came in at 1pm from zhiyi, my assistant treasurer, whom i asked her to make me a song but she failed.

3pm, a call came in from the guy who asked if i kana accident after i wished him happy birthday, wilson. sickening right...

then i started doing dingdong things with 3 replies. special thanks to mx, kenneth n shixia

end my day, with msg from zhiyi's sister, zhilan, who is my sec sch classmate and lisa, my penpal. But lisa call me while i having class

unexpected email from taiheng who is in US came in after midnight

Hm... Total got 10 msgs...
well... actually i only expect 4 at most...

Anyway, THANKS FOR REMEMBERING!!!

a few ppl asked y i dont take leave to rest.
But wat's e point of taking leave with no1 to accompany n had to go for study at night.


So wat i got for myself?

these lor..

survey

Pen and Sword, which u prefer?

dvd player

i received e full ver of the missing of "Beggar and Rich Gal" disc 11 and was cutting the show so that i can link to disc 10 and 12 til 2am last night.

This morning, i woke up around 9am and tried to copy the my dvd. But it seems that there is something wrong with the format. I downloaded a few programs from the net which can convert mpeg to dat. This is because i tot the vcd normally are in this format, i should b able to watch via the dvd player in this format.

After spending 4 hours converting the file, i am able to play via computer. (which is already possible since i switch on the computer this morning.)

I wanted to test watch via my lcd-vcd-dvd player. To my dismay, it cant play!!!

OMG, i wasted almost 6 hours (converting n dl programs) doing nothing!!!

Finally at 4pm, i quit liao. i sms a friend of mine.
Tat guy told me tat u can only disc copy vcd/dvd but not redo ur own cd!

Wah Piang... I got a 'state of e art' computer but i dont have the technology to do such things... Wat's e point of spending a few K on computer? I spent almost $2k juz to buy this junk for my birthday present last yr...

Teacher Day

Well, there is a few type of teachers which i dont like.

1 Punctuality -
This teacher having timing problem. He will start class at 7 when the time table state 6.45. Then he will end the lesson at 9.30 while timetable states 9.45. Well, normally, ppl r happy.

But there is a classmate who suddenly ask "can go on a bit more?" He replied "I need to look after kids, my wife is away"

Heloo... U late liao still want to go home early. N u give such crap reason. I not going to study in ur sch liao lor...

2 Dont know how to teach -
My Sec 3 - 4 Chinese teacher dont know how to teach 1 lor. Thus i failed my Chinese.
She will play the cd the whole day and she dont know how to control the class.

Anyway,
I would like to thank my Sec 3 - 4 Form Teacher, Ms Kwa Bee Hoon, for her guidance. She helped all her students to clear geography class and her teaching method is special. Her notes for e entire course was thick!!! 2 fat files

The sch started this "School Teacher idol" competition and she won it every yr... (every yr win not sian meh? hahaa)
Found tat i dont have her photo. Too bad.

I once joked abt her name during an outdoor tour. We went to do some heritage visit. Then i saw a book on Baby-names.
I asked her "Teacher, ur Chinese name is Mi Fen, is it?"
Dont ask for the result. Kana 'slapped'

Comex cum inspection

Went Comex after received news tat class is cancelled.
Well, i was of a bit relieved as i was quite busy these 2 weeks. Hardly got time for myself. Can imagine, after work, having class for 4 of the 5 weekdays.

I planned to go Comex on Sat or Sun but Sat is booked by Alumni gathering and Home Team Acaemdy Open House. But i yet decide which to go. As usual, none of my friends interested in these. So i going alone thus i can change timing or plans depending on my happiness.

I intend to go Comex again after i do some camera research, but provided i happy with the model else wait cos i temporary not required.

i was 'petrolling' an estate after my purchase in Comex today. Bought some photo papers to test and ink for my printer.

I saw this table which look funny to me.
Its a 8 Gua table but the side are uneven. Weirdo... Wonder who design.
Tomorrow i then blog abt teachers

lift spoilt

my office lift spoilt...
There r only 2 lifts in my level, Lift 3 is shut down at pm. Lift 4 doesnt come to my level.

then 1 of the lift spoilt.
i watched the working lift going downstair. COW!!! it stopped at every level!
when it reached level 1, it already took 5 min.

I was urgent to go class, decided to go down the 12 storeys of stairs.
Dizzy...

by the time i reached ground floor, the lift is only at level 6. omg...