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Finding the importance in life

For a while…I was abit lost…suddenly I dunno whats the meaning and purpose of life after I find my life left only my work.

Yesterday, I made a step forward, this might change my life quite a bit. With some doubt and some concern, I decided to raise my hand and tell the world instead of keeping it to myself

This will keep me busy again, lotsa things to read, to find out, to learn, to share and become a better person.

Recently is weird, I dun work as late as when i was rushing two project for 2 units, but i felt more tired. Is it the content or is it because of the pro-long period making me a bit burn out? In any case, it doesn’t matter, i am learning to put things down, work is not the most important thing in life, there are other more important things. Of course I still want to achieve, but i shall put less pressure on myself, take things easier.

Just finished my Japanese exam, should be able to pass? hopefully^^| really haven’t been hardworking at all but shall continue to revise, to prepare for Intermediate 2 and also for my japan trip in june

Today did some research on it, hee….decided to not to rush around so will not be going to other state like kobe / kyoto / osaka.

Save save save, must have more descipline in saving, read read read need to read more to learn and find out more about you, play play play, wanna play more and more tennis Felt the improvement, its great, i love the feeling of every hit!!!

An enjoyable Saturday! (楽しい土曜日ね)

Today went for my Japanese class in the morning and managed to scrap pass my oral test happy that my listening was pretty ok (or should I say cos the question wasn’t too hard ? ^^|).

After that met up with Xiao Hui san to catch up while having lunch at Yoshinoya! It almost become my regular lunch place every Sat!

Today also splurge on my tennis wear: 1 x Wilson tennis bag (my god, is so my style, how can I not get it right? ^^| hahaha) + 2 x adidas top. Total damage = $39.90 + $55.80!

(日本語: 今日日本語クラスへいきにオラル-テストとリシェニングテストをしにいった。 オラル-とリシェニングテストはあまり難しかった。ですから全部は合格した。そして、xiao hui さんとあいながら、昼ご飯を食べています。昼ご飯後、スポーツの服とかばんを買った。)

Wilson Tennis Bag

On the left is normal sports wear, on the right is a tennis top! (ops preiously type wrongly ^^|||)

At evening also meet my sis at plaza for dinner, then shop around, went arcade only to realise my card have 122 tickets inside for redeem!!! hahaha…got ourselves 1 x mechanical pencil (since mine is super old) + 1 pink eraser cum sharpener ( お姉さん (sis) want it) + bubble … hahaha lame right^^| some childhood memory !

Then went to mac for supper! pianz…super full! Actually we suppose to play tennis today but rain =.= ….so gonna play tml.

(夕方姉と一緒にplazaで晩ご飯を食べた。KFCをたべた^^ それから、買物して、arcade でゲンームをした。嬉しかった! そして、Macで夜ご飯を食べた! お腹がいっぱいね! )

One stupid thing I find about all these tennis booking is …upon rain, must go down personally to reschedule the booking. thats crap! we are in 21st century, we can book and pay online, why can’t you update the booking online? going down is such a trouble and on top of it I can’t prebook the slot I want before I go down~~

Must sleep le..tml morning tennis おやすみ (night)!

I just lose it….

Was too emo today….but sometimes I really felt the chain of event is too =.=

I may not know what I want at the moment but I know what I don’t want. the never ending of such event is really quite demoralising….arggg… a moody afternoon and night. I felt so tired..I just want to sleep…

Different world

When i get into Uni…I felt I step into a different world. In my world, from young, it seems that getting into Uni is something prestidge and very hard to come by. It is such a glory to get into the uni. In my family, parents would be so proud if their children got into uni and graduate from it.

But in Uni, what i see and hear is people telling me … they should have gone overseas uni, what a waste to study local. Little did they know, there are people in this world who fought so hard to come. (not me…frankly speaking, am not really keen in entering uni at first…it was not until I was waiting for the result if i am entering). Nothing wrong with people thinking that way, because people come from different background so I don’t blame/mind people thinking this way, just that because I have seen two side of things I tend to think differently.

Then when i get into a big company to work (is not an MNC but is the first time i work in company of such size excluding KFC of course). People here are also from very good background, I won’t say I know all, but see…in my world people above age of 40…I hardly know anyone that get to study alot. From young, I always have the impression that for my parents generation, completing secondary is an amazing thing already. But here…I see people of that generation who are graduates or even master. what a great contrast…in comparison to those that hardly have any studies…struggle to brought up their children? And worst the cycle have the tendency to just continue … forming the proverty cycle.

When I was young, taking a plane seems so impossible, when people start having computer, my parents just manage to get a Hi-Fi from some windfall $$. A credit card seems to wow also….but now, in my circle, i see everyone armed with so many cards. A graduate seems so wow and rare in my neighbour sch, in my poly, in my family…now I felt u throw a stone u probably would just hit one.

I am a lucky one … to come from such background yet able to pursue my interest, fly overseas and experience lots of things. I thanks the friend who inspire me to believe that even with such  background I can still pursue what I want and the family that allow me to be so 任性 。Thus I always believe in working for things u want. However, there are times when things stuck me and I am helpless about the situation also. So before you start thinking your life is not that fantastic or you have a hard life…think again, there are many more out there with a harder life.

Suddenly I remembered this…

when i was 14-16 years old, i worked at KFC for $3.50 / hour, earning $17.50 / day.

Then when I completed my secondary sch, I worked at UOB data entry for $5 (or was it $5.50?) per hour.

Then in poly, i worked at sushi restaurant for $6 / hour  i think. And highest was $7 / hour for telemarketing but this period was quite jia lat because I worked 2 job, 7.45am – 4.45 => polyclinic ursherer followed by telemarketing at night 7-10pm.

Then after I grad from poly I was earning a mere $1300 / month … which after a year it was only $1400 / month. Now thinking back, am really serverly underpaid ^^|…

Then in uni, I got much better pay with my ex boss being very nice to me:

It starts off with $70 / day, but that time I worked 2 job again, so can only work 3 days / week, so my boss decided to tempt me and give me $100 / day for the 4th and 5th I work in a week…so guess what? Being me, i worked all 5 days, and worked my the other job every night and during weekend trying to hit the bare minimum target as well.

this goes on for about 2 months, almost “died” during this period, then when sch started i got $10 / hr … slowly it became $11 / hour -> $12 / hour and finally by the end of 3 years when i left the company my hourly rate was $15 / hour. which is pretty decent! In fact, there was a period of time when my pay was higher than what i am getting now! Thats why i felt so grateful to my ex boss and hope his company can pick up from the bad economy and start to do well again man!

In between I also worked many random things…and pay wise it was always about $5-$6….so thinking back….what seemed alot back then seems so little now…how ironic things can be at times…

very sleep…nite…

A super broke month

On monday, I just went to pay up my study allowance loan in full……..thats freaking $7200! So I am super super broke now =.=

Just checked my bank account…I haven’t gave my mum monthly allowance yet, housing loan kicked in…gosh…a very short month~

Must survive for the next 25 days with $400…but anyway, with the upfront $7200 payup, i saved on 4.75% interest per annual. Though one might argue that I can gain more by investing, but the fact is I just don’t like to pay interest / have liability at all!

Offsite

Last weekend went for company offsite, sometimes I am just amaze how things piece together when all of us doesn’t have much time to plan / work on the offsite. Of course we did our part, but it is really alot of play by the ear and on the stop decision making.

Great experience in organising all these. Previous unit set me experience in organising for group size of 30 plus, now i am set for planning for group size of about 60. Happy that it turn out pretty fun.

Very sleepy le..need to go and koon….waiting up at 8:45 am for the 9am semi final between Justine Henin and Kim Clister! The belgium titan clashes!!! OMg…been waiting for these 2 to meet for quite some time! Allez!