yum.. yum...
made these mealboxes in the morning with
my mum and grandma... we are a great team, everything was pick-and-roll in perfect timings.... i'm so proud of us....
however, uncle andy was even better, he marinated and baked the chickens with his specially formulated sauce... YUMMY!!
was arranging my closet when i found my long-lost KOF gloves and bandana... happen to see a digital camera and i thought," heck, why not?"
after i searched deeper into the closet, i found the portrait which i posed for in 1997... so long ago....would have forgotten all about this portrait if i didn't find it...
nicely done..... this was in 1997... almost 10 yrs ago...haha...
a week has passed.. disappointed at myself for not doing the things i had planned to do AGAIN... shucks!
did not get her any present, nor get her any cards...just a short sentence of birthday greetings... pathetic.... perhaps this is all i could do...
finally got my pink ic on the 18th.. got to experience my FIRST no-worries wkend in 2 yrs... dun have to worry about forgetting to return back to camp.... all i need to think about was, "what am i going to do tmr when i wake up?"
have been helping my mum with her catering service recently...it's not that i dun wanna find a job outside, but i feel that since she needs someone to help her cook and deliver along with my dad, i can jolly well fit in and solve their problems... the sad thing is that i do not get paid, but this is how my family works and this is how i've been brought up... so this is probably the reason why i never take money matters into heart...
i've seen pple who are very calculative and would argue or quarrel over 50 cents or $1, eventually ruining the friendship... deep down i feel that it is stupid, however, i still gotta respect it becos everyone was brought up differently....
went to watch Lee Hom's concert last night with ks, chris and her bf...(the concert was AWESOME! it just so happens that chris and her bf was there to watch the concert too)... then met up with the rest of our cliques and had a pretty lengthy chat at the esplanade...i am probably guilty of being their party-pooper cos i had to leave just when they decided to go for a late night supper.... was told later after i left that they abandoned supper and ended the gathering. Makes me wonder if it is really my fault...(oops!)
didn't meet up with cherry today as planned cos i realise i couldn't accompany her long enough for shopping( had to celebrate my grandma's birthday), thus we decided to meet another day...
we had a very sumptuous steamboat dinner and we had 2 ice-cream cakes for dessert.. uncle andy made them specially for grandma's birthday(1 is grandma's favourite yam ice-cream, another is chocolate peanut buttercup! yum! yum!). Next up is grandpa's birthday, can't wait to see what ice-cream cake we'll be having...
Alright!!! Arsenal really made my week with their splendid performance against Reading(probably becos i was wearing the jersey all day long?)...it's been a while since i see a 4-0 scoreline from arsenal ever since the last game at highbury against wigan... i still long for the days during their unbeaten season when they always thrash their opponentswith 3 to 4 goals within half an hour... i hope such days would come more often soon....
anyway, i'm glad that this wk, i do not have the MONDAY BLUES anymore!! haha...
in the middle of the night....
been sleeping very very late and waking up very late in the day for this past 1 wk...can't remember when i started to behave this way but i know i have to get rid of this habit asap and start to live like a normal person.... spent 1 day today at home but still wasn't able to clean up the whole house.... too much things to do and i can't find a place to start...perhaps i should start with the big duffer bag of army equipments which i brought back from camp 2 days ago... the bag was lying in the center of the house for 2 days and i've yet to do something about it....it's only a matter of time before my mum starts to pay her full attention to it....she has been pretty busy with her buffet caterings and thus, our hse is in a real mess....(usually she's the one who tidies the place but now she has no time for it)... therefore, i guess it is time for me to contribute my area-cleaning skills that i've learnt during my BMT times... and i guess the best time is probably later during the day, after helping her out at a wedding buffet at the Church of Saint Michael...
oops...i think i only have like 1 hour left of sleep...gotta crash... ZZzzzzz......
Back From Genting...
yoo hoo! just came back from genting this morning(about 1.30am).. fortunately my parents decided to fetch me back, if not i'll have difficulty going home cos i only have ringgits with me...(canot take cab..haha)
anyway, i went on a 3D 2N trip to the Genting Highland with my sec sch fren, chinghui...aka rachelle( used-to-be rachael, duno why she change, but i prefer calling her by her chinese name) and her fellow colleagues working in the company, AMWAY. This trip there is actually to attend their 25th anniversary seminar and the great leaders in the company will be giving their successful stories and tips so that the newer and inexperienced members like my fren will try to follow and succeed. At first when she approached me, i was kinda rejective.. cos i reckoned that attending such seminars will be long and boring, and i haven't attended long lectures/seminars for 2 long yrs( ever since serving the army)... well, the seminars were indeed long, but not really boring...the speakers were mostly humorous and has great abilities to crack jokes.. i did not doze off though, but at times, there were some lapses of concentration and inability to focus clearly due to the long hours of sitting down and listening.. There were chances to dance too(haha) before they start the seminar and after the short breaks...so the general experience was quite fun...
I can't say that i did not pick up anything from the long seminars becos i was reminded of the many moral values which we chinese always emphasized on... values like loyalty, fillial piety and trust. According to the speakers, these moral values are actually the CORE values driving the organisation.. and it's simple values like these which form up the common successful formula in AMWAY. It was truly an enriching trip..
However, after going for the sales marketing plan talk and a bit of consideration plus some discussions with my family, i feel that now is not yet the time for me to get involved...That is becos I've got my path all sorted out during my last few months in the army, i took time to think about where i should go after i am discharged from the army and i am proud to say that i have a direction... though it is easy for one to have directions, it is the ability to stay motivated and determined to see myself through the path that is much more important, thus i can foresee myself having a hard time in Australia...
Therefore, i think that MLM is a pretty interesting and creative way of doing business and i think that for a business-idiot like me, i'll need plenty more time to learn about how it works before i really get myself involved....
met my fren willie today.. went to his workplace to take a look at what he's doing together with his good fren bryan, also studied in the same course as us... must say i am really surprised to see another fren of mine, richard there too..
the place he's working in is pretty "nice" actually... the air smells great(cos he's into aroma-medical) and the pple there are friendly and highly enthusiastic to make any newcomers comfortable... i had been told from my fellow frenz that he's into network marketting which actually annoys them, causing them to "disown" him, but after what i've seen today, i can understand the reason behind that and i hope my other frenz are able to understand one simple thing...
What actually defines network marketting? is it just plain getting pple to join the "club" as members or to buy products from them and try to sell it off to other pple while using them at the same time? I am not one who is knowledgable enough to define whether the business that willie is involved in, is network marketting or not, but, seriously to me, does it matter? I can understand that my other frenz got annoyed by these network marketeers becos of their enthusiasm and unwilling to give up on those pple who decline to join them. But then again, it's just another type of business which is legal to operate in singapore. Since it is legal, why boycott the staff?
the thing i wish for my frenz to understand is that, as much as any of u do not like the way network marketting works, it is just another form of business opportunity. There is no right or wrong in the world of business, though some may question the business ethnics but that's beside the point. The point is that, if pple think that if they have a fren in this business, they should stay away from him/her lest they start "psycho-ing" them to join them, then to me, they are in the wrong.
To me, i do not really care what business my frenz are involved in.. as long as they are legal and that they're exchanging hard work for $$... i do not judge my frenz based on their jobs, but rather on their personality and character through long periods of time.. Willie MAY have been involved in a business which i might not agree on, but i still treat him the same way i used to treat him when we were in poly, and he totally understands how i feel towards his job and himself, that i treat him and his job as 2 DIFFERENT issues... i may not like his job but i do like him as a friend i knew since poly yr 2... i can't say that we've been thru tough times together(which we didn't) but i can say that he's someone i can TRUST.
therefore, i really hope those frenz who treated him differently, can open up your hearts once again and welcome him back as our fren, becos i'm really saddened by the way things has turned out for us...
YEAH! it's finally OCTOBER... and i have just 17 days left in the army... can't wait to leave the full-time green uniform and being a student again!! but then...i do miss the army life too cos i must say during these 2 yrs and 2 months, i never had any other worries other than doing my job well in the army...now that i'm gonna leave this army life, i must learn to get back on my feet again and start planning for my daily activities... becos there ain't anymore First Parades/Roll-call/Last Parade and Routine Orders.... so..it's back to being on my own now just like before i enlisted...(that's why i always say signing on is dull becos their future are all planned for them... nothing much for them to think about other than doing their job well)
went bowling with chris/vincent/clement/benny and other fellow DCP students at our used-to-be favourite haunt, SPGG(Singapore Polytechnic Graduates' Guild) last wk and we had a really fun time together exploring this place again...found some changes but we're still able to reminisce the old times...it's almost 2 and a half yrs since we've graduated...really miss the poly times...
anyway, i turn out to be the Individual Champion(among this small grp of us) and my grp is the Group Champion!!!(thx to benny too for his wonderful stats) haha... however, all the prizes are just chocolates and i got a personal Ferrero Rocher all by myself!! yeah~
had a really fun time with them.... wonder if they'll organise such similar competition again~hee!
