Cute jack...
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Sunday, June 25, 2006
Yummy Garlic bread.. Alvin's favourite dish from the set meal.. Its crispy and very deliciously toasted!!
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This is supposedly the cream of mushroom. This is the worst dish of the set meal cos it tastes diluted and it is cooked with chinese mushroom and boiled chicken. Its not creamy at all... And it came with a rather blanc taste.. Terrible soup!
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This is the Sirloin Steak with mulberry sauce that Alvin, Sy and I ordered. I wanted it medium well but it come looking like medium rare...
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10th Anniversary.. Primary school class gathering...
Group pic.. well, its not that we dun wanna arrange ourselves properly but we are bounded by the constraints of the furniture arrangement at the restaurant
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
STRENGTH
True strength comes from within. No one can ever provide that effective and real strength other than oneself. Never expect to have any sort of emotional dependence on anyone in this world, if you are not even able to hold yourself up, and bring yourself through the obstacles in life, No ONE can help you.
People can be there to guide you and to show you the way. To really move yourself thru the haze, you have to get ya ass moving. And b4 you can move ya ass, you need to start feeding ya brain. Stop committing the fundamental attribution error by attributing everything, the way things are and the reason why things happen to someone else. Making yourself a victim, doesnt help and most importantly, it is meaningless.
Know what is real and what is not. Move on. The process is tedious, demoralising but you just have to keep moving. And only when you finally get thru the dark, light will greet. Once you find yourself back, you will have the strength to be with yourself again, you listen to yourself and you act with yourself in mind. At the end of the day, there is only so much that anyone else can advice you or think and tell you what is best for you. Without yourself knowing and loving yourself, you will never know what is the best for yourself and cos you dunno, you cant have.
Everything comes with a pros and cons. How do we know what we really want? Who will give us directions? Are those directions real? True? sincere?
Go back to the self, the inner self and only then will the true happiness be.
People can be there to guide you and to show you the way. To really move yourself thru the haze, you have to get ya ass moving. And b4 you can move ya ass, you need to start feeding ya brain. Stop committing the fundamental attribution error by attributing everything, the way things are and the reason why things happen to someone else. Making yourself a victim, doesnt help and most importantly, it is meaningless.
Know what is real and what is not. Move on. The process is tedious, demoralising but you just have to keep moving. And only when you finally get thru the dark, light will greet. Once you find yourself back, you will have the strength to be with yourself again, you listen to yourself and you act with yourself in mind. At the end of the day, there is only so much that anyone else can advice you or think and tell you what is best for you. Without yourself knowing and loving yourself, you will never know what is the best for yourself and cos you dunno, you cant have.
Everything comes with a pros and cons. How do we know what we really want? Who will give us directions? Are those directions real? True? sincere?
Go back to the self, the inner self and only then will the true happiness be.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Last Sunday after Golf class... We went KBOXing
Our Order: Pathetic Curry chicken with rice that came 1.5hrs after the order was placed. We were starving so badly!!!
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AHAH... WONGSO!!! WO MEN YONG YUAN ZHI CHI NI!!!... Belle, alvin and shiying... supporting our INDO uncle
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I took this pic!!! hhahaah... One try and I manage to squeeze everyone in. Must be all the training i had in bkk!!.
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Thursday, June 15, 2006
A blessing in Disguise
Its been a while since i last blogged. A lot of things happened in between. I was at another turning point of my life. Not just my career, but my personal life too.
Today is the 4th day of my internship. I forgot to announce to all that i got the shipping company internship. Im very very happy here because although i am suppose to be an intern in the finance department, i am actually more of a accounts intern, finance intern cum a HR intern. And the most exciting thing is, im now helping the director with a project. Im really happy and excited that they value me as an intern. Nope, im not there to just photocopy or make coffee.. im given real work... There is also a possible trip i was told.. Well... Im keeping my fingers crossed... Im really tired but I look forward to going to work everyday. I really treasure this opportunity to work hand in hand with the director. He didnt just think that i was an intern and not empower me. AHAHAH...
I feel happy really...
Welll... more work... less life.... Time to start a career....
Today is the 4th day of my internship. I forgot to announce to all that i got the shipping company internship. Im very very happy here because although i am suppose to be an intern in the finance department, i am actually more of a accounts intern, finance intern cum a HR intern. And the most exciting thing is, im now helping the director with a project. Im really happy and excited that they value me as an intern. Nope, im not there to just photocopy or make coffee.. im given real work... There is also a possible trip i was told.. Well... Im keeping my fingers crossed... Im really tired but I look forward to going to work everyday. I really treasure this opportunity to work hand in hand with the director. He didnt just think that i was an intern and not empower me. AHAHAH...
I feel happy really...
Welll... more work... less life.... Time to start a career....
Monday, June 05, 2006
Im addicted to "min Jiang Kueh"
I have been eating this delicious peanut pancake, aka, "MIN JIANG KUEH" almost everyday. I just love the peanut and the texture of the kueh. It gives me a very "homely" feeling and i really enjoy chewing it after a meal. ITs like a desert item.
I think i have got to monitor my weight. At the rate that im indulging in all these singaporean cuisines... all these cheap and readily available food... Im so gonna grow fat.
Cravings... endless cravings...
ALrighty,
Today, Im thinking of getting myself a guide to interview tips. I have had interviews with 4 companies since i came back and well... it was 1 phone and 3 face to face. Out of the 3, only 1 was really professionally conducted. My last face to face interview was ridiculous cos we were interrupted halfway by a phonecall and after the phone call, the interviewer did not bother to even check where we have stopped and he just told me he will call me again. He wasnt professional about it at all. And well, he is the finance + HR person of the company. How can anyone be in charge of two such positions. He obviously did not look at my resume at all cos he was reading it as the interview went on. And he out of the 3 questions he asked me, 2 was about why i chose finance and marketing as my majors. I mean 2 questions of the same kind. Well, i met about 3 other SMU friends at the interview. We were all discussing about what he asked and said after the interview and well, imagine this, he introduced himself to me, told me his name and position and explained the jobscope, the next 2 candidates didnt know his name at all cos he must have thought that he has already introduced himself but that was only to me cos i was the first candidate. He told them things which he didnt tell me and basically... all three of us got different information. BLur sotong!!
Phone interview was nice.. i guess cos the lady, my fav guangzhou lady is a really nice HR manager. Too bad, its over. A lost opportunity.
The other 2 interview. The bank one is really very professionally done. Im going to complile some of the questions she ask and then prepare them for my next interview. This is my first interview for a finance position. WEll, i didnt get the internship but the experience stays with me.
The interview with the hotel... Hmm... its obvious how much these company value their people from the way interviews are conducted. I feel like im going for a cheap labour job interview than a internship interview.
Im really looking forward to taking my summer courses under SK. I wanna do my corporate finance and services marketing. So i will be left with 3.5 in my last sem. And i can take on one more additional course. If possible, i would want to take one more finance elective(most probaby equity) instead of spanish or french. I realise doing a double major reduces my expertise in either major simply because im clearing less courses in each major when i do a double.
I took fixed income, did some on options and derivatives in bangkok and will be taking corp finance and corp reporting. So i guess i would need equity to make my finance major more complete. I was told by my seniors to do portfolio management too. But sigh... I cant possibly do so many courses.
I think i have blabbered enough about my thoughts for the day.
TIme to get my ass moving to have some real work done.
I think i have got to monitor my weight. At the rate that im indulging in all these singaporean cuisines... all these cheap and readily available food... Im so gonna grow fat.
Cravings... endless cravings...
ALrighty,
Today, Im thinking of getting myself a guide to interview tips. I have had interviews with 4 companies since i came back and well... it was 1 phone and 3 face to face. Out of the 3, only 1 was really professionally conducted. My last face to face interview was ridiculous cos we were interrupted halfway by a phonecall and after the phone call, the interviewer did not bother to even check where we have stopped and he just told me he will call me again. He wasnt professional about it at all. And well, he is the finance + HR person of the company. How can anyone be in charge of two such positions. He obviously did not look at my resume at all cos he was reading it as the interview went on. And he out of the 3 questions he asked me, 2 was about why i chose finance and marketing as my majors. I mean 2 questions of the same kind. Well, i met about 3 other SMU friends at the interview. We were all discussing about what he asked and said after the interview and well, imagine this, he introduced himself to me, told me his name and position and explained the jobscope, the next 2 candidates didnt know his name at all cos he must have thought that he has already introduced himself but that was only to me cos i was the first candidate. He told them things which he didnt tell me and basically... all three of us got different information. BLur sotong!!
Phone interview was nice.. i guess cos the lady, my fav guangzhou lady is a really nice HR manager. Too bad, its over. A lost opportunity.
The other 2 interview. The bank one is really very professionally done. Im going to complile some of the questions she ask and then prepare them for my next interview. This is my first interview for a finance position. WEll, i didnt get the internship but the experience stays with me.
The interview with the hotel... Hmm... its obvious how much these company value their people from the way interviews are conducted. I feel like im going for a cheap labour job interview than a internship interview.
Im really looking forward to taking my summer courses under SK. I wanna do my corporate finance and services marketing. So i will be left with 3.5 in my last sem. And i can take on one more additional course. If possible, i would want to take one more finance elective(most probaby equity) instead of spanish or french. I realise doing a double major reduces my expertise in either major simply because im clearing less courses in each major when i do a double.
I took fixed income, did some on options and derivatives in bangkok and will be taking corp finance and corp reporting. So i guess i would need equity to make my finance major more complete. I was told by my seniors to do portfolio management too. But sigh... I cant possibly do so many courses.
I think i have blabbered enough about my thoughts for the day.
TIme to get my ass moving to have some real work done.
An insight from "blink"
I have been trying to finish this book ever since i came back but because this book requires a fair bit of thinking as I read, i havent been able to concentrate much on the book these days. I feel that i need to read it at home, when i have uninterupted attention and also, when im not so tired.
Just to share this little insight from the book on how many market research measuring consumer behaviour on products that are very new and different actually fail. And this failure is due to the fact that consumers tend to be shock upon being exposed to something very different, it doesnt mean that they hate the new TV programs or the chair with that very unusual design when result of market research showed unfavorable numbers for these products. But the truth is, consumers are just shock and need time to adjust to something they have never seen or experienced. That doesnt mean that the idea or product is not going to work.
I believe that this is applicable to our everyday life too. Being resistent to change is natural and it is not natural for someone who is without the necessary expertise and knowledge to immediately be receptive to new ideas, or at least, to judge and say whether something is going to work or not.
The book also cited examples on how many hard core fans of coke insist that they can tell the difference between pepsi and coke. Most of them will get it right if they were given just 2 test cups, one pepsi and one coke to differentiate. However, in a triangle test, when they were told that they have to identify which is the cola that is in 2 out of the 3 cups, 90% of the people got it wrong. They think that they are the expert in the area but they are not really equipped with the skill. I suppose this is why we are all constantly learning and trying to become better in a certain field of study or interest. This is because without the necessary knowledge and expertise, inaccurate perceptions will hinder decision making related to that field of topic.
We always rely on our own set of thinking, subconscious thinking to get make snap decisions and sometimes to just "know" about certain things. However, such subconsious thinking may not be right. They are useful at times, yet they are also the very set of thinking tools that fail us.
I will try to finish this book ASAP. Cos there are many books waiting on the shelf...
I have been going thru multiple stages of uncertainty ever since i came back from BKK. The emotional roller coaster and the need to give up something i have really wanted to do is something i dun think many people care, much less understand. It doesnt matter. This is my life anyway. Good or bad, at least i know i tried.
A very important lesson from bkk: No matter what happens, i know that i can still lead my life happily. Despite all obstacles, pressures, if i wanna be happy, nothing can stop me. And IT IS possible to stay happy. Cos i did it over there.
When you really love someone or something, do you hold or let go?
Just to share this little insight from the book on how many market research measuring consumer behaviour on products that are very new and different actually fail. And this failure is due to the fact that consumers tend to be shock upon being exposed to something very different, it doesnt mean that they hate the new TV programs or the chair with that very unusual design when result of market research showed unfavorable numbers for these products. But the truth is, consumers are just shock and need time to adjust to something they have never seen or experienced. That doesnt mean that the idea or product is not going to work.
I believe that this is applicable to our everyday life too. Being resistent to change is natural and it is not natural for someone who is without the necessary expertise and knowledge to immediately be receptive to new ideas, or at least, to judge and say whether something is going to work or not.
The book also cited examples on how many hard core fans of coke insist that they can tell the difference between pepsi and coke. Most of them will get it right if they were given just 2 test cups, one pepsi and one coke to differentiate. However, in a triangle test, when they were told that they have to identify which is the cola that is in 2 out of the 3 cups, 90% of the people got it wrong. They think that they are the expert in the area but they are not really equipped with the skill. I suppose this is why we are all constantly learning and trying to become better in a certain field of study or interest. This is because without the necessary knowledge and expertise, inaccurate perceptions will hinder decision making related to that field of topic.
We always rely on our own set of thinking, subconscious thinking to get make snap decisions and sometimes to just "know" about certain things. However, such subconsious thinking may not be right. They are useful at times, yet they are also the very set of thinking tools that fail us.
I will try to finish this book ASAP. Cos there are many books waiting on the shelf...
I have been going thru multiple stages of uncertainty ever since i came back from BKK. The emotional roller coaster and the need to give up something i have really wanted to do is something i dun think many people care, much less understand. It doesnt matter. This is my life anyway. Good or bad, at least i know i tried.
A very important lesson from bkk: No matter what happens, i know that i can still lead my life happily. Despite all obstacles, pressures, if i wanna be happy, nothing can stop me. And IT IS possible to stay happy. Cos i did it over there.
When you really love someone or something, do you hold or let go?
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