Bored. Totally grounded. Twisted my left wrist. No trades on the market on this turn of the year. Bleugh.

I applied for jobs on jobstreet.com. Mostly related with warehouse or general work. I've given admin assistant some thought but I think I better stay away from that kind of job position because it's chaotic. I had a admin asst in the office when I was in NS and it's quite stressful for me if I was doing his job. Plus I can't really handle those purchasing orders and talk on the phone with external dealers. I believe this window is a good opportunity to find jobs because the students will be going back to their studies and it'll leave a sizeable vacuum in the temp job market. I pray that if a job lobang does come by, it is on the west side of Singapore and the take-home pay is reasonable. I don't see a point working part time(relatively low pay) and still travelling so much.


Don't be too hard on yourself, Jian Chao ! The job will find you and come to you when the time is right. Just be patient.


Church service at CHC was still as rock n roll as before. But I didn't go there for those merry times and songs. I can't say I go there for a chiobu hunt. I went there for Pastor Kong's insightful breakdown of what happened and will happen in my life. I went there because I want to know more and be surer of my inner self. Even though I don't read a Bible and don't really call myself a Christian(like most people out there), what Pastor Kong convened of God's words will mean something for everyone out there who is non-Christian. I actually still don't like the charismatic theme of CHC, all those explicit expression of praying and calling out to God. But I try to let them do their thing. I am always eager and ears wide for the sermon(a lecture based upon scripture or personal experiences) by the Pastor.

Time for bed !

Message of the day : Don't make your own life harder than it already is. Take it easy on yourself.

Y.Y I finally got back from a laughter-filled chalet at Pasir Ris ! I will upload the photos tmr. Wow mum told me dad gave the green light for me to learn driving and asked me to book a date for teeth braces. hmmm... That is a awesome news. What an awesome weekend to match ! Liverpool draw 1-1 with Arsenal. Phew !

I snail mailed my Wings Athletics Club application form ytd from e JP post office. Hope all goes well upon this stepping stone of my life.

Oh my this is too exciting for me. If you've always heard the Great Pyramids were built from boulders pushed up from a big ramp, you should look at this. I quite agreed that the big outside ramp theory is implausible and the inside-out theory could be a fact, with regards to all the tell-tale signs mentioned in the article. Watch the youtube video there while you're at that page.

And this is too much of a resemblance to an alien we usually portrait today.

I made this home video. Period.

I started watching Hana Kimi from mysoju.com 2 days back when I got bored in reading my market notes. I didn't know it was the japanese version of 花样少男少女. The drama on the long list of the website just found me. There were plenty of surprises in the japanese version even though I watched very little parts of the taiwanese version.

i. The main character is actually Oguri Shun( as Sano Izumi), who also played Rui(花泽类） in Hana Yori Dango series.

ii. The girl-turns-boy actress is simply more chio than Ella of the taiwanese drama.

This drama gives me motivation with the part when the promising high jumper Sano exclaimed, " Hard work will always be rewarded." after winning a national competition. It encourages me to continue the body-punishing workout that i'm doing every week in week out. I could connect well with the drama and the emotions of a high jumper, because amateurs can't decipher what we are after. We are very 另类, very different from sprinters and marathoners who mostly go for public glory or individual accomplishment. We(the true hjumpers) just want to feel closer to the sky, closer to what we really want in our hearts.

Suddenly I wanted to do this- to earmark the recent SEA games men's high jump results for top 1,2, 3 spots. Here's what came out after searching the net high and low.

2007 Thailand
1. 2.19m
2. 2.17m
3. 2.15m

2005 Philippines
1. 2.14m
2. 2.11m
3. 2.11m

2003 Vietnam
1. 2.15m
2. 2.10m
3. ???

So my conclusion is that the bronze medal qualification is about 2.10m, which is very hard by Singapore's standard but I CAN TRY TO DO IT !

Today didn't feel under my control. Some bad shit happened on me. No i'm not talking about the slight blocked and runny nose which I did have in the morning and afternoon.

I'm referring to the faulty Mio Tv set-up I have at home. My set-up is a Mio wireless broadband router. I had Mio tv installed a month or so ago which was possible through an additional pair of wireless Aztech Powerline 200mbps adapters. One of the pair is connected to my Mio set-top box (like the Starhub cable tv's) and the other side goes to my Mio router. But then the latter one recently got some problem... So i called Singtel for assistance but they pinpointed down the problem to that Aztech adapter set-up, so they suggest I call Aztech directly as they are just a third-party vendor of the Mio package. I did called them, and they asked me to bring down the pair of adapters to their building at Ubi Road. Hello?! WTF kind of business planning is this? The user is so fking helpless lor !!! Can't they at least send someone over to pick up the faulty pair of adapters LA ?!?!!

Another thing is starting to worry me. My financial situation is abit life-threatening. As I look back in this 2 years, I have spent over 10k in which the shopping list included upright piano($3200), DIY CPU ($1600), PSP Phat ($400), Options Course ($5998), F1 tickets ($248) and some other cheaper items. I feel abit sad for myself now because I'm very tight on my bank pig but I still can afford another US$1300 for my trading account. eq S$2000 +/-.The question I'm asking myself is how long more before my bank defaults on my dwindling account and I am forced to go to work. I've been chatting with many peers and I get quite tongue-twisted when they ask me if I am working, why am i not looking for work? I just repeat to everyone of them that I have some personal business to do right now and I tell them i'm trading options virtual if they ask deeper. I wished I'd tell them I'm purely slacking at home hahaha but nah I can't fight my conscience of degrading myself right now. I am proud of what I'm doing !

I'm still going to stick with my plan of waiting to see how my options trading will go from here. Then I'm definitely going to call Mr Tan from WAC to see if I can join the club as a hjumper. I know I just won't sit at home to rot.

I don't know when I'm going to enter a dentist clinic in Jurong Point to ask for a appointment.
At least I removed some stuffs that are pending action from me. I responded to NTU with attending the Aug 2009 course. There's just too many cons to studying the early term in may/jun.

And some other things on the side:
1. Mum bothering me about learning driving, says she and dad "You want to learn, we will pay for it one..."
2. But I really want to get ceramic white teeth bracing first. I know I can't live with my crowded teeth for the rest of my life. You see the conflict of interests here? I'm asking for something that's 4k instead of going for a sponsored 2k driving course. For alot of instances nowadays, I like to use counter-view to assess my problems. "What can you not live without?"
3. IsPerfect Chalet on 20th. ZZz I have to make the special bacon roll with needle mushroom myself. It's gonna take some culinary skill ! Must thank da jie jie for giving me that treat during one of the family picnic.

I got the first Twilight book from DAJIEJIE ! 500+ pages and she said it's quite fast reading it. The book of the vampire shall be opened by jian chao tonight!

Here's what you get in your mail when you are the birthday boy at a party of yesterday.


uH HUH I knew something will come surely. But this one stunned me quite a bit lolx.


They all looked prepared to do something, I know !!! Zomg just look at Willy's (evil smiling face,2nd from the left) and Cheng Wai's (right most) after you're done in. Jiesheng(2nd from right) is forever ready to do something candid in his pose...

F.A.C.E.T.H.E.C.R.E.A.M.
It's shiok to have a cooling cream on a hot day. I quite liked that actually !

s19-ers ! Banzai~
DUAHAHA u see someone trying to get fresh with the pink shirt girl? I see one !

Yeah it was really a fresh experience in having the celebrations at the hard rock cafe. I've not been there before and neither have most of my classmates. My classmates let me have fun with them and they taught me to have FUN !!!

Wow look what HSA mailed to me ! A donation record card. The only detail that I was looking out for was the date I first donated ever ! Edmund Lee JC(my gd colleague/buddy in camp) and Lee JC went together on our first visit as well on that occasion. I was a little surprised that transfer cord didn't hurt at all and my blood was flowing out before I know it. Maybe i'm more athletic so the blood flow was unstoppable hehe...You guys should go donate blood if you have the time. It won't hurt at all during the process. The most I got was the initial painkiller injection near the wound which felt like a one-off ant bite. Just think of something beautiful in your life and your blood pack will be fully filled in no time ! I had 2 surgeries in my life before if you didn't know (one on my forehead and on the dislocated elbow) so I thought I might do some good refilling the blood bank from which I spent in the past.

The most funny thing about it was that I got a skin-coloured dressing cloth on my elbow while Edmund enthusiastically asked for the pink colour. He joked that if anyone commented that I went for blood donation, I should reply, “No no no 我去受血，不是去捐血。” I was like HAHAha zomg this is so hilarious!

Some pictures for u visitors out there. I found a superb place to hang my name tag from the Smart Trader course. It's a perfect spot ! I really find that this picture reflects a very positive attitude !

Name tag on my SAFSA trophy !

Next is a shot on my whiteboard. I bought this to put in my camp's office for personal use and brought it back home when I left army. It serves its purpose excellently now !

Planning my Dec 08

Then there's this kitchen bowl of ?Chestnut/Garlic? of some kind placed by my mum in the laundry area. I have no idea what is she trying to do with it. I don't think she's attempting to test the evolution theory that the start of living things came from water*?


*There was an experiment in which a scientist passed continuous electric current through a round flask of water and some methane gas in it over a period of days. The water turned green and he deduced that life on earth could have evolved from water.

I just learned a new word today. Sabbatical- usually means taking a long hiatus/break from your current occupation. In some instances in the past it relates to have a super long break every 7 years.

And oh, everyone thought the Singapore F1 Night Race was superb in sights and sounds right? yeah I totally love it all. But from the technical aspects of it, Ferrari's chief Luca di Montezemolo hates the circuit for its bumpy roads and design. Here's the article. But do note that he said that after his 2 Ferrari drivers failed to bring in any points at all during the first night version of the famous championship. If they got 1,2 spot again, I think he would've simply said something like, "Well the road was abit rough and tight, but we managed to accustomise ourselves to it quick enough and we came out fine." I must agree with him about the technical parts of the track, but hey, it's your own(team) fault that Massa ran off with that fuel hose still attached to his car. DUH !~!

These few days I'm totally hooked on the net doing my trading stuff and surfing the finer parts of the world wide web. I've lost count of how many posts I did over this 2 days alone.

This is my first time watching this mtv of Lion Heart by Smap. Hope you like it as well. Truth is that I only support them because Takuya is in it. But I don't look at him all the time. I'm starting to appreciate them as a band in its entirety. Their SMAPxSMAP variety show was a stunning hit on the japan tv.

I just finished watching SMAPxSMAP dated Dec 1, 2008. I was appalled by their ability to invite some very distinguished American guests to their Bistro variety show. Some star guests include Matt Damon, Harrison Ford and Nicholas Cage. The hosts will usually do a skit related to movies they've done in front of them and every part of it is laughter and more laughter. Sometimes they show funny scenes and stuff like that.

I loved the part where the man who acted as Takuya Kimura's father in Karei Naru Ichizoku came on to the show. He came into the camera and was egged on by the host to give an opening greeting. He hesitated, then the Karei Naru Ichizoku's theme music(it's a very depressed and emotional one) started playing lol....The funny part here is that the father in the japanese drama was one who held a supreme iron fist in his business and family. The whole family and the Japan industry in the drama hates him for that.
Later on, one of the SMAP band member walked out from one side skit-playing as Takuya Kimura of the jap drama.

I better learn Japanese in the near future ! So much great and funny things that I can understand if i mastered Jap !

Human civillisation existed for thousands of years, but even the simplest things still turn up a surprise. Check this out.

http://news.sg.msn.com/oddities/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1829164

I have discovered this revelation today.

When people come together and learn the same things that will potentially make them successful and that what one do with what he learned will not affect another's progress to success, these people tend to be amazing and naturally helpful to each other ! They will only get more successful at a increasingly faster pace.

Yesterday I had great difficulty trying to sleep. Before 9pm I even bid farewell to Liu Yun on msn for the day so that I can have more time trying to get asleep. But I was fully awake all the while until about 4am? Why I know that? Because I simply got out of bed at around 2am to blog about the origin of my interest in piano. I thought it'll be totally cool to do that post in chinese characters fully. That will also help abit in welcoming Chinese language writing and learning into my life. Wouldn't that be great?

So I finished and left the laptop in my room to snooze in peace while I continue to battle the A Monster (if Z Monster is the one making you sleepy, then A Monster will be the one making u awake right? lmaoz !). However the A Monster took coacaine and fought energetically like the recent terrorists in the Mumbai hotels. I make many flips and rolls, and even changed my weapon(pillow) but still flashes of what I learned,seen and heard in the course ytd filled my mind. I thought, zomg zomg I'm so absorbed by what I've been learning recently from the gurus? Then I thought of other possible causes of my strange insomnia ytd night. About 4am+, the EUREKA moment came. I had 3-4 cups of coffee yesterday during the course ! I don't usually drink coffee at all and I drank that much just to keep myself focused during the course. That must be why I couldn't sleep at night!! Geez, last night I felt the back of my brain was as if powered by a faulty D.C supply that wasn't able to shut down. I even felt like it had daylight in that part of the brain. But thank God I was still more energetic than I thought I will become at 7am when it's time to wake up for day 3. No signs of eyebags too ! Co0l !

That's all for now. I'm getting dizzy just typing and thinking about that sleepless experience. I'm going to do some homework for the US market opening later on. Cya sss !

今晚又是睡不着。满脑子都是对个种自己生活上的感想，这过去几天中经过的重大的人生转劣点。明天一早九点还要到唐人街区上第三天的投资课程呢！最可笑的是明天还是公共假期啊！

但首先，我要说说我对钢琴的兴趣是从哪来的。
就在念裕廊初院第二年头时，我班的 Cheng Wai 同学在一次 大课后在钢琴上秀了两手。有一首曲子是我超爱的，也就是 Final Fantasy X 中最受欢迎的 To Zanarkand。至从那一天，那一刻起，我决定要让自己学会它（To Zanarkand)。每当我知道或看到 Cheng Wai 要去弹琴时，我也会跟去。但很遗憾的，他并没有在我接二连三的请求后教我。我记得他的理由是一，他没有曲子的琴谱应为是想旧同学学的。二，这曲子不容易，得要时常练习。他也没有办法经常现身来教我。

不久后，我买了一架66键的电子钢琴。普通钢琴有88键。To Zanarkand 的高低音超出66键钢琴可发出的琴音。我勤练了一大半,才发现这点。

进兵了十个月一天后,大日子来了。我用多年存下的钱,到了一家钢琴还售店的货舱选了一家二十多琴年的 Yamaha U1 钢琴.我有调查过,旧钢琴有比较优美和深厚的声音。为不人知的秘密是,我试弹了舱里的一些钢琴后就在老板娘的建议下定了那架U1。我承认我有店冲动,有点志在必得的心态.不过我有上网查了旧U1 的价钱, $3200 还算买得过去。

目前,我已经学会了原钢琴班的 To Zanarkand。好大的满足感哦！钢琴不但为我家的客厅增添了许多黑色的独特装饰气氛，也让我发现自己心中内在对钢琴的兴趣。

Cheers ! Week 6 of AA training has ended on a punctual note. Neat ! Only trouble I felt was the slight recurrence of shin splint. But not worries since I will enjoy a longer rest weekend as I'll be at the course till tuesday. Man, those people dun rest on festive days? 8th is Hari Raya Haji ! Finally tomorrow I am going to meet the options guru Mirriam who will fly into the country just to give this batch its lectures.

Cheersx2 ! I pulled myself out of bed at 7am. I was hoping to catch my dream car brand on Primetime Morning on CNA at the 6.30am timeslot but it later said the preview is at around 9.15am. The nicest looking Ferraris in Singapore are the 360 Modena and F430 F1.

360 Modena (Saw a second hand selling for S$388,000 only !)

F430 F1

It's funny to know that I support Mclaren Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and yet adores Ferrari cars. We're talking about a young man and car brand here ! You can't put the two types on a balance scale !

Ytd while I was waiting for the lift after getting my lunch downstairs, 2 law enforcers were escorted out a Malay teenage with his hands cuffed behind his back out of the lift. What a shameful sight.

These days, it's getting more fun at the piano. I'm now breezing through the opening version of To Zanarkand. That's the piece played when everyone sat down around a fire at the Zanarkand Ruins. I'm still doing my best trying to finish Eyes on Me.

Test posting from hotmail

Nov 30th 2008.
 
Attended 2 big events today. One was a malay wedding whom the bride is the godsister of my cousin Anddy. It was really an eye-opener because I saw how the newly wedded couple had guests doing their own individual dance in front of their wedding stage to greet them. All the dancers were males though. It seems the males have to learn it some point in their Muslim life. The venue was a short walk from my house so Anddy knocked on my door around 12pm and 5(er jie, daddy, da gu gu and gong gong) of us went.
 
The second occasion was actually a BBQ session at ECP(37 D pit). It was organised by our Raub neighbours(Qin Qin and her sisters) so I tagged along with my jie jies and da gu gu and mikoo. We first drove over to their house(rented from one of my distant ah yi whose from Raub as well. It was a bigger surprise. Their apartment is the old fashion flat in Bt Merah where you have spiral staircases at the back of the block. And they live on the fifth floor ! The way up to their door is one-way cramped stairs. No lifts uh huh. I'm not looking down on their living conditions at all here, I'm just purely awed. The rest is just makan makan and talk talk. We had trouble burning up the charcoal I brought from home because it's not been used for far too long. So I called da jie to buy some from the 7-eleven and the new pack did the job. I'm going to make some of the food da jie always make for picnic nowadays- the bacon roll with needle mushrooms. It rox !
 
nOw
Chelsea against Arsenal EPL match !
 
 
neXt in the week
The options course will start on Saturday. I will try my best to pull back my wake-up time from 10am to 6.30am since I have to get to Chinatown for the 4 days by 9am.

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I've done it again. Made some virtual money from buying Citigroup call options. Basically I bought 4 contracts in 24 Nov for $1.090 each. The stock rose sharply today and i sold 2 of them for $1.750. That is a profit of $132 before commission fees. 60% profit :) The other 2 contracts are still gaining value and i've made a trailing stop of 0.15 for them. Right now they're 80%+ in profits :)

Date	Action	Qty	Symbol	Description	Price	Commission	Net Amount
11/28/2008	Sell To Close	2	.CAQ	C JAN 2009 7.5 Call	$1.750	$14.95	$335.04
11/24/2008	Buy To Open	4	.CAQ	C JAN 2009 7.5 Call	$1.090	$14.95	($450.95)

*The last 2 contracts of Citigroup triggered off the stop loss.

11/28/2008

Sell To Close

2

.CAQ

C JAN 2009 7.5 Call

$1.960

$14.95

$377.04

Total % profit from all 4 contracts of Citigroup : 70.2%

Actual profits = [(1.96x2+1.75x2)-1.09x4] x 100= $306

I must admit I am playing with gut feeling. I'm gambling on the options through the news but it's good practice learning how Optionsxpress works. I hope I can sail through the training course because I already know a great deal of information about options trading. But I will cut the smug attitude during the course.

Will be away for a bslc section bbq at Roger Look's hse in the evening. Wah biang Yio Chu Kang nia. No other plans for today :)

My cousin got into Normal (T) stream. Oh well... I hope that brat matures up himself properly without learning how to smoke and do gang fights. His mum called to ask me if I could give Suzana the digital keyboard I had in my room. I happily said yes.

As you know blog, I can't really sleep these few weeks. Been up awake till 2am +. So many thoughts flowed through my mind and I had some dreams too. One significant thought to note was I had a plan or idea to help my aunts/uncles invest in options trading. They'll pass me money to pool and I'll trade options on their behalf. I believe God has given me such a comfortable and fortunate life so that I can pass on the happiness to others close to me. Regarding donating to charity[when and if i made it rich], I was not sure if I would donate so much because it would seem wrong if you help the charities more instead of your own family.

Another encounter was a dream and a goal. I imagined myself getting a hjump bronze medal in SEA Games. So I decided to give to Tanglin and ask them to frame it up so as to inspire the students in achieving their dreams and goals. I also saw myself on stage giving a motivational talk during assembly where the student emcee/s would ask me questions. Somewhere along that part, I announced I would donate half a million dollars to the school.

2 funny and 1 wicked joke.

Funny 1
I bumped onto the satellite telecast of Survivor: Gabon at 3.30pm. I starting watching when they have begun talking who to vote for in the tribal council. So this guy, Bob was sent to the exile island before and couldn't find the hidden immunity idol. So he creatively made one out of materials he found there and kept a secret about him finding anything. Randy comes along to discuss with him who to vote and both thought Randy might be in risk tonight. So Bob hands over his fake idol to Randy and he happily showed it to the host when the survivors were asked to show their hidden idol if they want to. I was giggling out loud ! I loved the way host Jeff Probst stood before the voting box and said, "The rules of Survivors state, that if a hidden immunity idol is played, then the votes casted against that person will not count and the person with the next highest number of votes will be voted out." The host paused for a moment, and revealed while holding the pathetically minature handicraft, "This is not a hidden immunity idol." Randy turned from a grin to a silent and visibly stunned look.

Funny 2
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Wicked 1 [THIS IS MADDNESS]
My er jie got my mega mac meal from JP and I was checking if there's really 4 patties in it as on tv. AND WHAT THE FUCK ?! I GOT A BIG MAC IN A MEGA MAC BOX ?! You [Macdonald's] have got to be kidding me... First the Wasabi Fillet-o-Fish with no fillet inside. Now THIS!??! Who is exactly working the burgers and why isn't there process checks!? Btw, that Wasabi FAIl delivery came from the Yuan Ching outlet.

As predicted I slept past my phone alarm at 8.30am and woke up at 10am. My biological clock is getting screwed. I work my body out almost everyday and I don't take afternoon naps. But I just can't sleep early. I went to West Coast Recreational Centre for 3 games of bowling with liu yun. I was still okay with my scores of 95 and 113 in the first two games, but the third game I swapped from first bowler to second bowler and I just did not perform at all. The highlight of the day was definitely that hook strike which I was trying to demostrate how the pros hook the ball. It was a strike indeed.

Then took 143 to the new West Coast Plaza. So new, it's almost empty and squeaking clean. We toured around and I found my way to a shelf in Cold Storage that has Uncle Toby's Muesli Bars ! I bought the yoghurt flavour. I don't really like the oats sticking to my teeth alot in this flavour. I also bought Gatorade Lemon-Lime Powder and M&Ms Crispy. We walked on somemore, and settled our dinner at BBQ Chicken on the 3rd floor. The Korean Charboiled Chicken I ordered was really yummy and Q. Then we went our own ways. Took the bus 30 home ! I finished the M&Ms onboard ! I used to take 30 from Boon Lay interchange alot to Tanglin. For 4 years, I was late only once because the bus appeared late in the morning. Luckily I didn't get detention or some shit.

I've withdrawn $500 for my part of the agreement that I'll pay for new 40" SAMSUNG LCD TV my dad bought. It costs us $2319 from Harvey Norman.

The workout fever has caught on ! I thought I'd just skip today's training and do it tomorrow. But I still went down at 8.20pm and completed it before 9.30pm ! Tonight was really sweating it out ! I'll go down to JJ tomorrow afternoon. I know I can't wake up early tomorrow. Plus, they might stop people from entering the school due to A levels. That's all I have for u blog.

Tuesday night. I couldn't sleep. Upgraded my blog. I was skeptical at first about the gadgets idea that comes with the new blogging version. But it's neater and easier to edit the html codes behind this personal web space now. The friends list is also trimmed. Those offline and downed sites are now removed.

I don't think I can wake up tmr at 8+ for a breakfast and go for the AA training at 9am +. The timetable says week 4 is done on tues wed and thurs. I did it this afternoon and it was hell for my legs. The intensity increment was significant. I was immediately thinking how I'm going to do the same thing for wed and thurs.

I was really mad when I couldn't find my Uncle Toby's Muesli Bars (Forest Fruits) when I wanted it badly before i went down for the workouts. Er jie said she ate one. Did I really eat the other 5 from the pack of 6? I want MORE MORE MORE !

I just couldn't sleep early this whole week since I left army... I intentionally turned to bed sometimes before 9 and like now, fully awake and rolling with really sleepy eyes.
So I decided to check out the recent IVP results, but I only found '07.
The high jump event is less competitive than the A boys(JC) level.
From 1st to 8th in the IVP, we have
1. 1.91m
2. 1.80m
3. 1.80m
4. 1.80m
5. 1.75m
6. 1.75m
7. 1.70m
8. 1.70m

If I stick on with my conditioning plan, I should be able to hold up my name in the lower of the 8s when i compete in my IVP debut.

I caught an inspiring article from Uncle Sha, the familiar face of local track and field.


We all have dreams and what do you do when that dream of yours is deferred

Do you quit or do you comeback stronger, faster and bigger?

We all are capable of great things, so never ever give up on your dreams

Danny Glover narrates this powerful Nike ad, with lines straight from a Langston Hughes poem, “A Dream Deferred”

" What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?"

Sunday, 4.30pm.
On my way to Stadium @ Jurong West for some speedwork.
When I left it and headed home on a different route, I met Ben Quek on a tiny pink scooter ! I wonder what's he doing in Jurong ! Gf's house? or relatives' hse?

	Your BMI is 19.5.

You have a low risk of getting heart disease and diabetes. Your BMI is within the healthy range of 18.5 to 22.9 .

BMI (kg/m2) (for adults)	Risk of Heart Disease and Diabetes
27.5 and above	High Risk
23.0 – 27.4	Moderate Risk
18.5 – 22.9	Low Risk (healthy range)
Less than 18.5	Risk of nutritional deficiency diseases and osteoporosis

I felt so helpless today. I went down to Fortune Centre in Bugis to do an installment payment for the options course. Turns out, I need a credit card for that ! So the lady tried to swipe my card multiple times for the balance amount but the maximum she could was S$1k. Now I have to ask my sis to lend me her credit card. It's probably time for me to get my own card.
It's scary for me. Going to an office in 11th storey. A not-yet-20yo kid taking on the corporate working area. All these big and lonely decisions about the stockmarket course. I'd wish someone could lend me a hand on this journey to financial freedom. I wonder what's other guys who just ord-ed doing. I hope I'm right about this course and prepared enough to extract money from the stockmarket losers. If not, I've got nothing.

Here's a song to broadcast my feelings.

Too much love will kill you - Queen

I'm just the pieces of the man I used to be
Too many bitter tears are raining down on me
I'm far away from home
And I've been facing this alone
For much too long
I feel like no-one ever told the truth to me
About growing up and what a struggle it would be
In my tangled state of mind
I've been looking back to find
Where I went wrong

Too much love will kill you
If you can't make up your mind
Torn between the lover
And the love you leave behind
You're headed for disaster
cos you never read the signs
Too much love will kill you
Every time

I'm just the shadow of the man I used to be
And it seems like there's no way out of this for me
I used to bring you sunshine
Now all I ever do is bring you down
How would it be if you were standing in my shoes
Can't you see that its impossible to choose
No there's no making sense of it
Every way I go I'm bound to lose

Too much love will kill you
Just as sure as none at all
It'll drain the power that's in you
Make you plead and scream and crawl
And the pain will make you crazy
You're the victim of your crime
Too much love will kill you
Every time

Too much love will kill you
It'll make your life a lie
Yes, too much love will kill you
And you wont understand why
You'd give your life, you'd sell your soul
But here it comes again
Too much love will kill you
In the end...
In the end.

Week 3 day 2 was done today. It rained after I went into JJ so I had to improvise by using a thin mattress behind LT 5 for my workouts. I never stopped massaging my legs in between workouts just now !
Only until now, I realised I read the workout instructions for the step-ups wrongly. It said 2x15. I always did 15 in a set. But to think about it, isn't one leg going to get an extra rep? So I did 4 sets of 15 lunges indoor in place of the 2x15 step ups. I almost crashed out in the last set of that.Managed to do a few sets of flexibility exercises to strengthen my core muscles.

Now I'm going to show you the Swede who will keep the flame burning for his country in hjump- Linus Thörnblad. In this video I uploaded, he's got the "SEY" factor. Gotta thank the skilled cameraman in focusing on the bouncing crossbar at the right time. And YEAH ! You can jump with a sleepy hairstyle if you want to. I will look out for this Swede after the departure of Staffan and Holm.

-Finian

Right now I'm training 3 times a week for hjump while waiting for my options course to start on 9 dec. The course is gonna make me quite poor, but I will see how it will work out for me in trading the stockmarket before I try and look for a part-time job next year.

Btw, I hope the sky u see above ur ship is not as scary as the one on my blog. hahas. Hope all is well for u.

Today's timetable:
Played the piano quite a bit after I woke up and re-watched Pride featuring Kimura and Yuko Takeuchi. Within 1 hour I'll be on my way back to JJ again. I want to wear my Lewis cap but the sun isn't big enough. In fact the dimmed sky signals an oncoming rainfall.

I fished something out from Lynn's blog... It goes something like, "...Anyone wanna contribute to my laptop fund? I'm looking at MacAir coz it's light, very light, and very very light..."

I will always remember Lynn for her funny jokes !

My colleague in office, Keng Sen(biggest size guy), asked me what will I do on the day after I ORD. My mind was a blank. But now, I have to be at home after lunch because a new LCD TV is coming.
Going library to return books.
And I've decided to give Mr Tan a call abt joining WAC. Tks Ronnie.
If I wake up early enough then it's basketball to get my legs jumping. Going library to return books.

Ay ay ! Finished serving the country today. Damned it did everyone who ord on the same day went off earlier than me? I'm destined for working extra hard...

It felt great giving her the present on Friday evening of Nov 7. A sense of accomplishment for a man much more than donating blood (which i did a week ago
).
A month ago I had asked her when was her birthday. Vaguely but truly, it was Nov 10. That evening was humid and warm as I waited for her at the control station in Clementi. She was late but it didn't matter to me at all. I was more than willing to wait, because in return I met a stunning picture-perfect girl who would look ordinary from far. No more glasses, and no more braces which was a huge surprise for me. We talked a little before I laid the item of the day on her hands.

The whole "present" thing was a roller coaster ride of feelings. First I decided to make a present. A swamp of setbacks but I had time on my side. Then next was how to get her to meet me. Over a meal or just meet together. Last was what do I say to her when I finally see her? I haven't seen her for 3 years. I guessed I turned out really okay in the end.

Like how Edmund puts it, "Way to go man !"

Today was the end of AA week 2.
Nothing worth mentioning except that I wore a pair of racers to train. My Mizuno Aero Wave is not at home ! And, during the first week my thighs and hips would leave a burning sensation. But this week I felt normal.
I jumped for the basketball rim and i'm short 5-7cm. It is the closest I've ever got to it. I'm well on my way to grabbing it.

Haha look at 2:16 of the clip where the Ferrari garage finally got the twist of the news.
I'm going to try that on Edmund in office on Monday. Going to hug him deep deep and cheer. Then I'll stop abruptly and say, "Huh Massa not world champion?"
We are so going to laugh our asses off...

Lewis Hamilton - The youngest driver to win the F1 championship on 2 Nov 2008 at age of 23 and 300 days. I think I can wear my Mclaren Lewis Hamilton cap around more often now. I don't agree with the media's grunts that Lewis is all arrogant. There is just a pinch more of extra determination and burning desire in him as a young and ambitious driver. Others perceive him the negative way but I like him that way. Let them say whatever they want, the all-time favourite Ferrari drivers didn't win. That's it. I am definitely going back to the local Gran Prix again in '09. But it's hard to decide which grandstand.

F1 Trivia:
Lewis Hamilton set himself on a path to Formula One when he introduced himself to McLaren team boss Ron Dennis at the 1995 Autosport Awards. The nine year-old from Tewin, Hertfordshire, walked up to Dennis, asked for his autograph and then said: “Hi. I’m Lewis Hamilton. I won the British Championship and one day I want to be racing your cars.” He was only 10 years old back then.

Do what you loved as a kid.

I may want to learn macromedia or java after I ORD to create some images representative of my luv for jumping !

Went to the army dental at 1330h. It was just a check if my teeth are intact. 1min only. Then went to BK for a Mushroom Swiss Tendergrill set.

Planning to run to JJC after 4.30pm for the second week's training ! I'm not hoping to be able to play the piano after that cos the LT5 should've closed.

I'm on leave today ! And I realised, on Friday 31st too !
A big part of early today was used up in preparing the birthday present digitally. I've burned it out and waiting for my sister's effort.

Jogged to JJC at 4 pm. Half dead and breathless when I reached the gates. As usual, everywhere around the track was full of activities. I am glad I completed the 1st week of AA training without giving up. I thank you Lord for that. LT 5 was opened and empty while I was there. But I heard from the door someone was playing the piano already. I finished my workouts and saw a group come out. And the handyman followed them out to lock the doors. Damn ! NO WORRIES ! I can always come back another day.
I was looking from left to right all the time during my workout breaks. I felt that I never left JJC at all. I fancy being back in the school again. The teachers might have quitted, the classmates long gone, but the lonely and warm memories I had of the school were still as fresh as it was inked yesterday.

Mel, click here if you see this post. The next better thing for FFVII fans to relive the game?

If you're wondering what I've been doing in the previous 48 hours, I'm viewing Lost Season 2. It really got alot more exciting toward the last few episodes. Going to Season 3 tomorrow. Also racking my brain how to present a birthday gift to a gal in my sec sch class. I felt if I keep thinking about it, I might just forget about the whole thing. But on the other side of thought, how am I going to live past Nov 10 this year without having her received my present...Heck I'll think of getting the item done first. Whether she'll like/receive it or not is secondary.

Second Day of AA will be on tomorrow's morning. It will be at the fitness corner near Mel's hse. Later at night I'll join Edmund and Steven at Chinatown for a Liverpool-Chelsea showdown. Even though I'm a Reds fan, I don't think my side's gonna win against Chelsea with the current situation of both clubs and the unbeaten Chelsea home venue. A draw would be satisfying.

I did good today. Learned almost up to a page of Eyes on Me. I'm doing it the hard way this time. No alphabets written on it. Just see and play.

Also started on the AA training again. Since I have a 5 day weekend. I can do a week's of AA every other day! I jogged to the Jurong West Stadium and stayed next to the hjump pit. Hey ! The crossbar and stands are inside ! When I'm alot of weeks into the AA, I'll ask for the lock's key to drill some techniques. Didn't see any ppl I know... Got plenty of walkers and runners.

For the couple of days I've been having abdominal pains. It occurs mainly at the stomach area. But it isn't the stomach that's hurting. The pain streaks randomly around that area, sometimes hitting me just below the lowest of the right rib bone.

Mum just handed me a plate of fresh and brightly coloured grapes ! They were soo00O firm and sweet ! Sometimes I dreamt I had a vineyard or apple plantation and walking through it to pick and eat them. Who knows what future brings?



God put the notebook on auto-pilot.
The pages for me flipped freely, and no ink was from Him.
It was all me.
He was merely lending a guiding hand to hold it open.

Wut da hell. why is the last few weeks so damn slow !?!?!? I want to get the hell out of the "fence" !! I tried my hands on the piano just before I blogged. Damn it. my hands were like a ball of meat. With the surging rain and the TV at my back, I wasn't into it at all. I'm on leave tmr AND the day after Deepavali. 5 day weekend is going to make me rot beyond recognition.

The other day, I hopped to Staffan's webpage. He hung his jumping spikes in July alr ! 32 years old. Plenty of memories to last him a lifetime. Been through 2 summer olympic games and countless sporting events around the world. He's like a traveller ! I can travel like that too, either by a bankload of money or super legs.

Every day I go to office I can't escape the word ORD in my face. Then some random people keep asking me what i'm going to do after army. wad uni? wad course? Why dun sign on?? ARghhh!

I'm not sure when i'm going to call Wings Club to register with them.

Banzai ! I started a new game of FFVII on my psp. Seriously uber cartoon. I'll play through these mario-like graphics to find out why it mesmerized some die-hard fans of FF whom I know.

I relinked Lynn. I thought I lost her in the last old blog site she used. And now she's back. She's quite a unique happy-go-lucky girl. When she gets into her fun frenzy you better not get sucked in too much hahahhs. And she's the reason why I gravitate towards God and Christianity. Even though I don't go to CHC after her first invitation, I still hold great respect for God. He always saves me when I'm in "that" trouble. He knows what I'm talking about, because I always thanked Him in after that.

And Yuko-chan !!! How we met...Purely me chasing skirts. Me and Howe Wai was from the same OG in JJC 1st 3 months. So we would meet together every morning at a table, sometimes with Stanley Goon and Jessica and the occasional Lihong and Zhao Qing. Howe Wai was watching a couple of girls, ogling if you prefer. After the initial 3 months the Tanglinians drifted apart further, but we both continued to confide in each other about girl-seeing. Howe Wai really liked a girl, Yuko. Infactuation basically. But somehow I wanted to beat him to knowing Yuko first. I can't remember how I first got contacted with her, by searching in Friendster maybe.
We chatted more and more over MSN. I often see her during CCA days too at the PE block where she'll do her TKD. Amazing how people meet?

I'll be a little greedy now again. Learning Sundial Dreams and Eyes on Me. My ears got kinda bored practising the former one.

I always thought I wanted to play a song each from FFVII to FFX.
FFIX and FFX down. 2 more to go !

I reached home after 8pm today. Call me foolish for working my bones out when i'm going to ORD soon. But I don't want to worry too much in the next morning.

My piano got tuned today ! It's now much sharper in its rich tone. Then most of today I just hogged the computer on my optionsxpress account to test the virtual account to improve my knowledge about trading options.

I have even more exciting scenes captured on Sunday. Watch this same post for updates.

YAY ! Jay's new album, Capricorn-魔杰座 is coming out on October 9, 2008. Listen to 稻香, one of the singles in his new album here. Or here to the youtube video.
I did a check of my Jay Chou albums. I have all songs from the 8 existing albums, 1 EP version and the 8th Dimension Live Concert.I went to The One concert which showed on 11th & 12th January 2003. Still have pictures taken then during the concert. But as for the original album copies, I have only less one copy, that is the Qi Li Xiang. Quite sure it's in my sister's Cheverolet Aveo 5.

About Jay Chou, I would say he filled in a big part of Chinese with R&B music in our world today, especially in Asia. And I've been listening to him since the "mumbling words" days in his second album release. I was only entering Sec 2 then. I asked around my friends in class if they heard about Jay Chou. All they showed me is a shaking head. Then months later the guys and girls started mentioning him. Jay gave me the first and fresh melody in my life. I really want to thank him for releasing albums every single year. (Don't believe? Click here to his Wiki data) It keeps the hype and momentum going healthily for him and his fans. Many thanks to his main songwriter Fang Wen Shan too.

I went into the Circuit Park before Edmund reached City Hall 20minutes later. The Aston Martin race was going on already. There were Singtel Singapore F1 merchandise stalls and F1 Team Merchandise stalls. Both types are frequently mobbed by F1 tourists and locals.
Just a few seconds after taking the shot above, a group of entertainers paraded behind me. A handful of females and 1 male groupie. The guy keep muttering words like " C'mon let's have some love. Yeah" and "How're you enjoying it? Smashing, aren't they?(referring to his female counterparts)"

Day 2 : Practice Session 3 and Qualifying Session.

Pole Position-F. Massa

P2- L. Hamilton

P3- K. Räikkönen

The qualifying rounds were absolutely exciting last night.

Here's how the qualifying works. Now F1 GP has 20 cars racing ( less 2 since the Super Aguri team quitted early in this 2008 season).

All cars hit the track one after another for 20mins to get their best timings. Top 15 gets through to the next round. Slowest 5 in this 1st round will sit at the last 5 spots of the actual race's starting grid.

2nd round lasts 15mins and will start after a short break from the 1st round. Top 10 in this round will advance to the final and 3rd round of qualifying. The slowest 5 in this round will be placed from 11th-15th spot on the starting grid.

The 3rd round is the same as previous Q. rounds. Whoever is fastest in this final round will be on the pole position at the start of the race.

One point to notes is that the qualifying rounds don't give credit to whoever that gets the fastest lap timings. A driver would need to get consistent fast timings in Round 1 and 2 to make it to the final 3rd Round to be able to fight for the pole position.

If you crashed or failed to survive it back to the pit lane after the round is up, you will be placed at the starting grid as the slowest spot of the round. E.g you failed to finish(Fernando Alonso was the unlucky one) in Round 2, you will be starting as the 15th spot, as would normally the slowest driver in Q. Round 2 will get.

F. Alonso was 6th fastest in the 1st round. Then his car's fuel supply failed him at the turn in front of our grandstand during the 2nd round of qualifying.

Here he retreats to the back of our Bay Grandstand.

I went to the ground level behind and below our grandstand.

Here's the unobstructed view behind the support paddock.

Then I got to the middle of the stairs and took some more pictures from the stairs opening.

Around the stairs area.

Hamilton zipping through underneath the grandstand tunnel.You can probably guess from the picture below how many people actually went on Saturday.


Another random shot.

Here's a quick report on my trip to the Marina Bay Circuit yesterday. At 7pm sharp, the track lights had come to live. Somewhere near us(Bay Grandstand aka the NDP grandstand) the first F1 car started revving down the road from its pit lane. We know because we saw it on the big screen in front of us and the thunderous engine roared somewhere else within the city area. About a minute later, the purring of more car engines got louder as the cars raced down the Marina Bay Street Circuit. Without any asking, everyone in our grandstand rose from their seats in unison to welcome the first F1 car into our sights, and through new grounds of the under-grandstand pass.


This Singapore F1 Gran Prix has made numerous "First". One of them which relates to our grandstand is the unique never before seen pass underneath the grandstand. I am glad I bought Edmund and myself a seat in the Bay Grandstand. There were several spots around the grandstand that I was able to capture the cars in action. The most obvious option the audience chose is the front where the cars are about to make a left turn beneath us. There were alot of people with D/SLR cameras getting shots up close, so much so that the ushers and police were trying to herd them to the side end of the stands.


Look at the above picture. If the car went straight ahead and missed the left turn into the grandstand, the driver would've found himself in a tight dead end. A handful of drivers drove right ahead. From what we can hear, it's like a dragon flying down the track and groans when it gets into the dead end. For Mark Webber in the early rounds of the 1st Practice Session, he missed the turn and crashed into the barrier of the turn. Here his car is waiting to be picked up.


Second spot was in the middle of the granstand, the level where the toilets are. It is extremely loud in there because of the echoeing effect. You can survive without ear plugs up at your seats, but it's a must when the cars pass below your feet here.


The third spot I tried was at the very top and back part of the seats. At this point you can see the cars turn out of the grandstand.


Today I will move off the grandstand and down to the track side behind it. From there I am able to capture the car coming straight at me and another nearby spot I can capture the back of the cars.

still quite bent on quitting maple. but I realised I got some threads still going on in the forums. Gotta be fair to other users. I hope to sell off the asura dagger at 10m(c/0) or more, then buy back another dragon's tail and scroll the hell out of it with 60% and 10%. NO MORE DAMNED CURSED SCROLLS. I still got 2 more times of 24hr exp to use in my cash shop. So I need to finish that off too before the deadline.

That should put my game to an end on a good note for now. I need a maple break !

Ya Ta ! Under 50 days to ORD ! Days after quitting maple feels more objective for me already. No more sticking my face in front of the screen playing a 2d game.
I helped to make "jiao zi" today ! But my fillings were small compared to mum's 'cos i can't put so much "liao" into 1 dough piece and mould it with my hands. I probably made about 1/3 of them. Also helped in rolling the dough and cutting circular shapes out of them.

Dad tried to setup the Mio modem this afternoon but we all got stuck real bad. We only found out that the user/password we used was wrong late in the evening. In actual fact, dad changed the password years ago from the unusual default password. Everything's fixed up already-the main comp in the master bedroom, this laptop i'm using now, and the desktop in my sister's room.
Otsukare(good work) !

I'm taking a quiz on military.discovery.com to find out what kind of gun I am. So...I'm a....

You are an Uzi!

Who doesn’t love an Uzi? The compact, yet powerful Uzi is a favorite of special forces and elite soldiers. When John Hinckley tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan, one of the secret service agents pulled an Uzi out of a briefcase to defend the president.

My comments:
I especially hate this type of guns ! Looks so short and possibly unstable aiming. I realised there's Discovery Channel websites to check out on the web. I've always loved science channels and archaeological shows even though I've never got Cable at home.

Quitted Maplestory on September 19, 2008. Cause of retirement : Unfair scrolling experience.
Uninstalled every shit files related to Msea, less the screenshots I took with the guild.
Everyone around me will be glad I quitted this addiction to an endless game like this. I especially hate putting things to chance (like scrolling). FUCK THAT SHIT. I'd rather look at stock charts all day. At least stockmarket can grow my wealth. And 1 advice if you're trying to come into investing. Don't go for those 40% growth in 10 years if you follow my system in stocks investing. FUCK THAT TOO. Imagine you have S$1000 now. Do you want to see it grow to S$1400 in 2018 ? I want three more zeros behind it.

Similarities behind the self-made wealthy people
1. BURNING DESIRE

Today's off for me !
Maple maple, piano piano.
boomed my dt last night, gonna do another one tonight.
Started learning Sundial Dreams on the piano. It was relatively easy because the score repeats itself alot. Easy to work with both hands as well.

My saturday started at 10am with a Wealth Mentors seminar at Amara Hotel in Tanjong Pagar. Everything was great about the seminar and it was more than enough to convince me to sign up for their mentor program on the spot. I paid down a deposit and will pay the rest by instalments over 24 months. It must be a good sign from God. Because I noticed they were using optionsxpress as their coaching website and I already have an account from optionsxpress(but zero dollar capital inside for now! >.<)
Edmund told me he went for the seminar years back and it was conducted by a pui pui male. For this one I went, it was a pleasant looking lady who's already a mum. Can't see that from her figure really.

After all that dream-catching moments, I was set to watch Boys Over Flowers at The Cathay. WTF is wrong with me? I saw the both the box office attendants' name tags(Malay names) on the table before I was served, and I asked, "1 ticket for Hana Yori Dango." She replied a "Huh" and I said the same order again until when her second and louder "HUH?" shook me to reality. Inside my head was something like, "HEY WTF man...They don't know the japanese name for the movie la fk!" Daniel was going to be very late so I had to watch it alone but he eventually hopped across my seat about 40mins into the movie.

Phoebus Chan here performing Minami Piece of Sena. Kimura Takuya played the piano piece in his competition in the drama Long Vacation. "Kimura" was a avid pianist who wanted to do well, but a girl interrupted his life one day and he finds it harder and harder to play with more affection because he had too much relationships in his life after that. But he won the competition with this piece because he played with his heart to show how much he cared about Minami.


*Phoebus said in Cantonese, "I played it until it spoilt :) :)" after he rehit the missed note.

I'm going to clean my room tonight ! Kept getting blocked nose due to dustmite when i sleep in the room.

I just hopped to many friends' blogs to look at what's going on in their lives.

Yong Zen stepping into army on 10th Sept ! WOah ! Like Takuya says it, "~~Yeap. The time has come !~"Shawn's going for the "island life" in sept too.

The girls...Having fun in universities...oH crap I'm going to be like 2 years their juniors! Back to *lil brother again !
*I was almost always the youngest in class with DOB 13 dec.

For one girl, she morphed into some hot goddess ! Yup i'm talking about Kaini ! I wun forget the farnie and good times we had as a track team under Tham Tham. Those were also tough times, but also life experiences. Thank God for filling me with that wonderful part in my life. I've been tracking Kaini in her modelling career, or rather by chance...Found out by accidentally that she was one of the 44 Grid Girls for Singapore F1. But seriously, it was so not you in that grid girl video. Camera frights i supposed hahah. Inside her blog was a video about how Singapore's Rich could be getting richer but leaving behind the poor to only get poorer. Then the plentiful captures of frail grandmas doing the rounds in hawker centers and walkways to hawk their tissue papers miserably. One thing I can't stand is the idea of grandmas going out to the streets to peddle their goods or scourge the back alleys for re saleable paper boxes.

Don't ask me why I never buy their tissue papers when i see them since I said I pity their plight. I'll think of an answer for that question with a big part of my lifetime. I will give up my seat to an elderly though, that's for sure. My cousins are VERY very different from my perspective and respect for elderly. They, for one, take my grandfather for granted. My er jie shares my view too, but she always shoot me back the question, "Why don't you teach them?" You know, I'm not those kind of good'O cousin who cares about other things/people that much unless it does matter directly to him. On another hand, I can't blame my cousins for having such disrespect to elders. They have a different heretical background and poorer quality of teachings.

Conclusion: I probably love myself too much that it affects my feelings for other people and things.

Heys nette, I got a place in NTU mechanical engineering.

Yesterday, I re-made my investment site after that last host server crashed on me. All my investing progress will be documented there.

I also tried my hands on Google Chrome last night. It was a neat explorer until bugs started to appear. I typed in a website url and i found a similar one under its history list and click on it. But it just won't get to the website. I pressed on the HOME button and it just didn't budge. I gave up after that. The website tabs were flushed too high up to the top of my screen and it didn't feel comfortable for me. One good point it had was it can display the playpark forums proportionately instead of expanding the thread box side-ways like Firefox did.
It's still beta version so I'll wait for a better version.

How should I spend my last 64 days of army? I'm getting more and more restless lately bcos I can't wait to get out of my 1yr10mth army stint ! I will probably work out twice a week for a toned body to prepare myself for Wings Club. I find it too premature to join them with a set of weak muscles. No face too. That should keep my mind off counting the days left.
I'm still the same old me. Talk more than action. I'm trying to change that.
From what I think, great opportunities pass u by when you don't act upon it. Many times, I see a friend on the road but he/she didn't see me, I don't dare/bother to chat them up. But those occurences are just too fast, like flashes of light. Maybe, just maybe I didn't want to engage it badly enough.

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Jeffrey is doing duty with me today and we chatted alot about money, investing, life. He acknowledges that I have a bright future. Heh, thanks dude. Day in and out, almost all the thoughts in my mind are about how great I can become in time to come. JYJY to both of us in trading.
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I really fancy the idea of signing up for SCV sport channel group. That way, I can watch BPL and F1 plus national geographic and discovery channel on my TV. ^^No more poor live streamings from free internet sources. But too bad the time wasn't ripe during the last Comex fair. I wasn't making a steady income to finance the monthly S$50 subscription fee. And I didn't have so much time at home to watch so much cable TV.
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I wonder if JJ is open to public on Sunday. I know I can sneak in with a JJ t-shirt on Saturdays :P There's a baby grand piano in LT 5 ! Again, to reiterate that baby piano was a superb place for me to unwind after school(and during school) even though I wasn't so good in playing it heheh... I've memorised Melodies of Life but the last few parts need some practising.
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Pics from Finian's sending ceremony. He'll be back on Dec 20. Just in time for Christmas. And I got so elated when I met Dian Xue when I was touring the ship. Glad that he came over from his family and greeted me. ^Friends Forever !^