Monday, July 7, 2008

UniSIM Orientation

Went for the sch orientation on Sat, 050708.

Pretty impressed with what they do nowadays for orientation... maybe it's because this is an all-working-adults uni, that's why they don't have things like 'Orientation Groups lead by OGLs'.
In fact, it was just a simple affair during the afternoon from 1pm - 530pm.

There was a goodie bag waiting for me at the registration counter.
A file consisting of some items in it.

There's even a $10 NTUC voucher..

A donut. I wonder why.


SIM notebook


A name card holder. hmm... i shall bring this to office and use it.


The orientation took place in a hall with some activities like simple icebreaker, identity game, lucky draws and etc.
The top prize was the Asus EEEpc, can you believe it?
But alas, it wasn't meant to be mine.... (never was lucky in these lucky draws)

Once the whole event ended, we went out for some refreshments at the Atrium.
There are some fringe activities going on as well.

Got these 2 for free as I had 2 coupons.


Sign up for some HP survey and I got a HP goodies pack.

HP had a booth selling 2 laptop models at student price.
With the kind of specs that they are offering, I was quite tempted to get the high end model at $1649.
The other model is the entry level model at $1299.
The ger was tempted too.
In the end, we both agreed that we don't need to get it yet, hence no impulse buy was done.
Anyway, the offer is until end of 2008, I can still consider... hmm....

After which I went to collect a sch polo tee.


And finally, my course materials.

FYI, I will be going for 4 core modules and 1 core elective this semester.
Not sure if that's really a clever choice but I thought this would be a good time to clear more now than later when I run out of steam or have more projects later on in work.

Had to bring all these back.. it's not very light.


Core Elective - Effective Communication


Business Module - Organisation Behaviour


Business Module - Management


IT Module - Foundations in Modern System Design


IT Module - System Modelling in Object-Oriented Design and Analysis.


Time to start sch soon..
hmm... how will I fare...

Sunday, July 6, 2008

nothing much happened during these few days except..

2nd - 4th July

YUP!! Nothing much happened these few days... just trying to drag myself through these last few days..
feeling easily irritated whenever this idiotic user drops by or with my overseas colleague's constant bombardment...

Decided to move my desk on Thurs and Fri... i m ready to move in on Monday... YEAH.. although i m still stuck to this current job for alittle while more... *just a little while more* but hey.. that's a first step right~?
Shall post a pic once i have arranged everything nicely..

Discovered and dumped alot of items which were hiding in my drawer for the... past 4 years?
It's amazing how many things can you hide in your drawer... haha...

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Friday evening
Went out for a little chill out session at Vivo City..
Do u know how many ppl goes there...?
According to wiki, there are 2,179 parking lots in there....
When i reached there... the number of cars in Q was so much until i can't even squeeze in...
i wondered how long they have been waiting to go in.. i decided to wait since i can't move on...
turn off the engine... waited for 2 or 3 mins.. realised that the carpark was full.. the 2 gantries are not even opening...
then i tot... "y m i waiting? I m not driving u know..." looked ard n try to plot a route in... started the engine again... n with a friendly car's willingness to reverse.. i managed to squeeze my way into the carpark... (hey hey, that's the best thing abt riding..)
Once in, i just went to my usual parking area n stopped there...
When i was walking to meet the ger, i tot "luckily i didn't have side panniers, or else i will still be stuck in that horrible jam with all the cars...". This tot put off my desire to get the side panniers for awhle... only for awhile...

Went to had Hagan daz ice cream because Ben & Jerrys was too crowded and alittle hot...
It has been a long time since i had Hagan daz ice cream...

Ok, this is what I had.
Cookies n Cream



This is called Flower Bosom if i didn't rem wrongly.


I love eating ice-creams... they nv fail to cheer me up whether it's a good day or a bad day... =)

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

1st July

Today is supposed to be the day I moved to the new job...
but.. no... u guess wat?
I kena extra time like those teams during Quarter finals of Euro Cup...

wat to do... when the referee says play on... u play on loh... if not wat? go back to dressing room meh?

extra time nvm leh... somemore got so many things to do... plus... somebody is going on leave...
got to cover that somebody's work too...
well.... that's the real reason y i m still ard...

Monday, June 30, 2008

A fren in need is a fren indeed.. Will you do this for a fren?

Weather for the day: super hot...

Today is supposed to be just a normal sunday like usual...

until the end... (u nv know what's going to crop up, but hey that's life, isn't it?)

Who knows a fren got puntured tire and is stranded at petrol station..

so.. i went back home.. took my tire repair kit.. send the ger home first... n went down to look for my fren...

lucky the punture wasn't too huge... could be saved with my tire repair kit.. so there i was... trying out the repair kit for the first time... HAHA... he was my guinea pig.. and he tot i was an expert with such stuff...

it's ok... we all learn and grow... so patched the tire (it wasn't that difficult wat) and had a really good laugh during the process...
Once it's patched up, off we went for a teh session... caught up with each other's life.. haven seen each other in a while..
think it was like wat..? 1 yr since we last had teh together??

it was just like the gd ol days... spending our time at the usual Al a-meens..
we had no $.. just banking on each other to scrap pass the days.. tok cok n sing song the nite away... (really missed those days..)

2 hrs just passed and I wanted to go back to catch the Euro 08 final...

the score now is Spain 1 Germany 0...
who will win the Euro Cup !??!
I can't decide...

Saturday, June 28, 2008

$5000 poorer today

oh no... its the time of the month again...

who says pay day is always a good thing....

don't u know that pay day == pay ur bills day

together with the uni bills... comes up to ard 5k...

damn.. n i forgot the bonus mth is next mth... -.-"'

aiyo... now got to dig into my reserves to clear the bill this mth first...

have yet to get the claims sign off yet.. the boss is so busy this mth..

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R you ready for another Romance of the 3 kingdoms movie?
This time round it's named Red Cliff Part 1. (does that mean there will be more to come?)

I have always enjoyed anything related with the 3 kingdoms, be it serial drama, movies or games..

so how will this fare compared to the by Andy Lau.

Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Family day on 16 - 17th August 08

ok... It's family day again... time to bring your family out on a weekend to relax..

fully sponsored by the company..

so this means i can bring the ger for the 3rd family day together... free trip just go loh.. haha...
2006 - Bintan Lagoon Resort (Indonesia)
2007 - Pulai Springs Resort (Johor, Msia)

so where r we heading to this time round....??

BATAM.... it's back to Indonesia again... (is this like a loop.. next yr msia again?)
we will be staying at HolidayInn Batam
From the website, it looks not bad...
Not that i am expecting alot from it... after going through 2 family days.. i can understand why alot of people don really like to go for family day...

For me... i am just hoping that the place looks nice.. give me a nice room... n some good food...
maybe some activities that i can do.. or maybe some shopping for the ger
that's all... simple as that... 2D1N leh.. wat can u do with so many competitors?

it is always very messy trying to co-ordinate few hundred people (includ family members) for such trips... the rooms, transport (land, sea, land again)... normally it will cock up 1 lah...
so forgive them ok..? haha !!

but last yr was really bad sia...
the place suck... because there's nothing to do there.. except to play golf or to swim with your kids.. some activities were organised by the committee but with too many ppl around.. it is nv gonna be your turn...
So what did i do? i still rem ok... becos it was so simple..
- reach there, check in, n eat lunch... food sux...
- stay in the room n watch tv the whole afternoon cos it rained.. besides, there's nothing to do anyway
- came out for dinner, eat some lousy dinner, drank with my colleagues (limited barrels, damn it). It was sucky.. so go back room to watch tv again...
- woke up next morning, eat lousy breakfast... sibei tulanz already... so went home after that.. lucky i rode there.. so we just packed up and rode back home...

this time round, i hope that 2 of us can have a good time.. no cock ups... n enjoyable... (ok ok... at least give me something nice to eat can??)
if not want to go home also cannot ah ~~~~
then i will $@#@#$ KPKB again on Monday morning...

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Just some random stuff for the day

Weather for the day: Cloudy.

Just 3 more days left before I leave the current job.
Decided to drop an email to the most important/frequent colleagues that I worked with, informing them that I will be leaving in July.

The replies that I've got made me a little sad that I am leaving.
1 of the most important behavior that you need in this job is to make sure you have good relationship with your colleagues/customer and i m pretty sure that i have this. (base on all the reviews that i had)
Together with this, what makes it enjoyable is the interaction with many types of people.

Next step is a more backend job with lesser interaction with users...

how far can I go from here...??
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Petrol prices increased (what's new?)
for the 13th time since last july... i wonder wat's wrong.. keeps on going up... someone pls kill the oil traders...
just when i started to pump locally after msia's 40% increase in petrol prices.. sg up their price again... a 95 octane costs $2.236 a litre now...

haii.. wat should i do...
a full tank costs S$39 (after a 8% discount) vs S$21.86 in msia (after exchange rate)
15 mins at a petrol station in sg vs 1.5 - 2 hrs going to/fro JB vs 1.5 hrs to/fro 2nd link
S$0 savings vs S$14.50 savings in JB vs S$7.40 in 2nd link...

what will u do...??
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alright... back to the euro semi final... Germany vs Turkey...
has been 2 days without soccer... been slping earlier... back to the upside down life again...

who will win...??