Wish you were here?

Manchester United Asia Tour 2007

wow... saw this at United's homepage.

17 July 07 vs Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan)
20 July 07 vs FC Seoul (Korea)
23 July 07 vs Shenzhen Xiangxue Eisiti FC (Macao)
27 July 07 vs Malaysian XI (@ Kuala Lumpur)

no info for tics yet. considering the KL trip down to catch the Red Devils.

link - http://www.muasiatour2007.com

You have 102 unread mails

Yes 102 emails to clear. This is exactly what was shown on my work email account after some tech error logout thing last friday. Finally able to "re-life" my email account today after lunch, exactly 1 week later and thats a lot to emails to go thru. Practically spent my whole afternoon going through all that load of emails, follow-up, flagging important emails, endless crap.... and of course, with my coffee!

Kinda frustrating clearing those emails and prioritise and sort them out ... DON'T 'CC' ME MAILS THAT ARE NOT OF MY CONCERNS! As if I wanna be in the loop of everything!!!

Guitar Hero II

The games I bought online yesterday from Seow Choon were delivered within the next working day! Great service. I bought Guitar Hero II for PS2 and Oblivion for PS3. Both highly rated games should keep me entertained for quite some time. Time to rock out some tracks from Nirvana and Motley Crue.

Smells like BAD spirit

Was goofing around the net and found this horrible shit. The guitar is out of tune especially the solo part, dun know what the hell the guitarist is doing, vocalist is crap, and the performance is beyond shit. The entire audience is either falling asleep or had a crush on her. I would had shouted YOU SUCK and got out of there within the 1st minute!

Kurt Cobain is going to kill her in her sleep.

Hectic week

Finally, an end to my hectic week. This week has been very busy and lots of multi-tasking. New boss on the job and thus changes almost everything and everything has to be done within a limited time. And I injured my neck and upper left back while carrying some heavy stuffs. Just hope that I can recovery by sunday and prepare for another busy week ahead.

Presentation next tuesday

Oh no, my oxford brookes uni thesis presentation is scheduled next tues eve. It's been a while since I need to do a presentation. In fact, the last presentation (not counting at work) I had to make was during my Ngee Ann times. Presentation at work is so much different coz of different audience and basically just updating ur boss or section and also, they are the people you seen everyday.

I was told that there will be a professional speaker to judge and gives feedback based on the presentation. Stress man! Here what I'm gonna do :

- be early & well dressed
- max 12 slides & max 15 minutes (given criteria)
- bullet points, then talk (lots of words n para = not ok)
- some visual eg. charts for better understanding
- look enthu
- clear projection of voice
- maintain eye contact

and try not to show audience that I'm nervous. Actually there nothing for me to be coz my contents are rather prepared till now, just need some fine tune to perfect it.

Playstation 3 pics...

My Sony Playstation 3 is finally here! Way before the official launch here in Singapore and indeed, I'm a proud owner!

haha cocky face

the contents

glossy & shiny (you can see the reflection of my bookshelves)

standing tall

Poly a 'stupid decision'

You decide.

Source : TODAY newspaper dtd 12 Jan 2007


I'm proud to graduate from Ngee Ann

2007 1st Tutorial

1st tutorial of the year.

Enrolled for the Oxford Brookes University - BSc (Honours) in Applied Accounting while waiting for my Dec 06 exam results. Being a saturday morning class, I was 5 minutes late for the tutorial... Ms Helena Johnson was already lecturing when I got there. This is a brand new challenge for me as this is not the usual modules that I took. I must prepare a research & Analysis Thesis and to do this, lots and lots of research and information gathering have to be done. Its not just study and apply in the exams. Classification of Honours are mostly based on critical evaluation of arguments, evidence and of course, presentation skills. I would really like to be awarded a First Class Honours. Its not all that difficult but its the sheer amount of time that I need to do all that & I have to submit my thesis by 6 Apr 07. Meaning, more hard work and less gaming.

Even the guide is so thick.....

New Year Resolutions?

This year, I'm not gonna spend 30 mins - 1hr to pen down my resolutions. Why? Coz its just useless. Its basically pretty much the same copy and paste minus here add there from last year's list. I'm just as lazy as the next guy when it comes to sitting down and making a list.

The problem with having resolutions is basically telling myself that I have 12 mths to accomplish and it seems a long time for that matter. This time, anything worth doing, I'm gonna action on it immediately. This year, I'm having many transition periods and many serious decision makings to ponder upon for eg. leaving the force in couple of months time, straight into accountancy field or to further studies first after completing ACCA, etc.

Whatever it is, this year is gonna to a whole new change. For instance, I've a just fully renovated my room and furnishings are bout 90% completed to kick start 2007. Now I'm just short of an air-con and a Playstation 3!

Death Note : The Last Name

Watched this today and I must say, its good. Rather impressed with the way the writers managed to compress the whole manga into just 2 movies. Very well written & directed. I'm not going to detail what happens in the movie here, you just have to watch it to really appreciated it. Btw, if those of you did not catch the one movie, I suggest you buy or rent the first one just to catch up coz the initial part of this sequel was just a really fast flashback together with Dani California by RHCP.

I really like the "2nd Kira" Misa Amane portrayed by Erika Toda. She's so beautiful and cute and always dressed in Gothic Lolita style.In this movie, her love for Light is so faithful and pure to even willing to die for Light. But sadly, she is just being used by Light in the mind games between Light and L. Some parts of the movie is really unexpected. Overall, this is a rather good movie as compared to the first.

If I happen to be the beneficiary of a Death Note, that will be awesome. I'll definitely use it. But I think having that "power" may ultimately overpower me, which I think, will not be a good ending. Maybe that's what the writers want to put across to the audience.

Kill Responsibly.

Aaron, I'm so jealous

Time passes rather slow and kinda slack being the 'first' working day of week & 0f course, the last working week of year 2006. Everybody was talking bout how they spend their Christmas blah blah blah. Mine was pretty much boring; out for bout half a day and spend the rest of the day at home, still sorting out my room stuffs. Still in the process of renovating and furnishing my room.

Anyway... so most of my colleagues were talking bout Christmas stuffs and Aaron must have been the best recipient of all gifts : Xbox 360 & a laptop! Damn jealous!

None of my wishlist got fulfilled. But I may have been too greedy.

- PS3 (was wishing my dad got me a parallel import from US/JPN thus saving me to buy during the launch come Mar 7)

- MacBook Pro

- Stylish speaker dock unit for my iPod

- 4GB memory stick for my PSP


Guess Aaron must be playing his new Xbox 360 right now...

Little Cute Terror

School's out and Lyon is staying over for couple of days. Gonna entertain & pamper this little guy!

Early morning impromptu photoshoot....

Big time pre-Xmas spam!

Unbelievable! My gmail is being spamed in the "Inbox" above and beyond the fact that the "Spam" was already loaded with 40 shitty junks!

Can't believe I'm gonna spend at least 20 minutes to sort out these irregularities....

Worst exams ever

Exams finally over but there wasn't any sign of relief this sitting at all. I totally screwed up both my papers and this was one of my worst exam sitting in my entire education phase. I was always very confident for my exams and seriously, this sitting is such a shocker for me. IMO, was kinda unfair papers for Advanced Audit n Advanced Taxaxtion, time was a constant factor and 3 hours for these 2 modules is seriously not enough. Or maybe I was weak in these area, I don't know.

My mind's a mess, very demoralised. Or maybe that was the pressure of taking ACCA level 3 modules. I always pictured myself clearing all ACCA modules at the very 1st attempt... well, at least up to level 2 modules. Had couple of friends who always admired that I could always clear these professional papers 1st time while they had to cope with some setbacks at level 2 modules. I guess this time, this exam sitting really set me back.

Screw that! I gave my best shot (though I was really thinking I could pass these 2 papers) and there nothing much I could do now. Christmas is round the corner, I will go out tomorrow and fully utilised my leave, have fun, do some shopping and suck up all the festival joy before returning back to office.

PS3 Launch Party

Damn I so wish to be in NYC right now coz its the launch party of Playstation 3 ! Have to wait till March 07 when Sony launches PS3 here in Singapore and it seems so long.... can't wait. Will be getting the 60GB version and probably these games :

- Resistance: Fall of Man (have u seen the video preview @ Gamespot yet? amazing!)
- Tony Hawk Project 8
- Metal Gear Solid
- Ridge Racer 7
- Genji , maybe?

so what if its a little pricey? hey its the next gen power console! And the idea of linking up my PSP with PS3 (which i dont know wat gonna happen) should be great. So far, I've reading up and there's hasn't been any probs or bugs in the first batch of PS3.

Damn desperate for a PS3 right now... and link it up online via its network and pimp! But I wouldn't be so crazy to buy it off ebay. Seriously the prices are still rocketing right now. The last I checked on ebay, it would cost bout S$2.6K?! It's just not worth getting it online coz with this amount, I could have refurnish my room, which I am after my exams. And talking bout exams, I'm so tired right now.... have a 6 hrs advance audit revision class today.

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I'm tired.
Reached office on time.
Boss sick - he took mc.
Ha ha.
Completed lots of tasks.
No boss down my neck.
More productive.
Listened to a colleague's problem.
Gave him some words of wisdom.
And some rubbish.
He smiled.
Cleared lots of work mails.
2 meetings on 1st Nov.
Ganna secretary for one.
Rush to class after work.
No PSP.
Just my iPod - Slipknot, Trivium, Silverstein, video podcast, can't remember.
Audit class.
Richardson lectured.
Audit Reports - unqualified, unmodified, emphasis of matter, material, pervasive, FRS, criminal case, civil case, adverse, disclaimer, Tom Cruise, etc.
James was late.
Crowded bus home.
A packet of Mee Goreng for dinner.
Deposit money returned by colleague.
Saw some ah bengs.
4 bengs crowd around 1 who was withdrawing money.
Scums of the society.
Dinner = supper.
No time to eat after work & before class.
Eat while watching Friends DVD.
Season 7, Episode 18.
Check gmail.
Type this shit.
Drink coffee.
Prepare to sleep.
Happy Halloween.
Trick or Treat.
Too old for that.

Clowns @ work

In developing countries, there is a saying : the rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer. If I can just amend this phrase to my current situation, it'll be : those who never work gets away with all the benefits, those who work gets more work and shit.

Un-professionalism!

Definition of unprofessional :
1. at variance with or contrary to professional standards or ethics; not befitting members of a profession, as language, behavior, or conduct.

2. not done with professional competence, as a play staged or an opera performed by amateurs; amateurish.

Both are well suited to what I've experienced over the recent past months. My morale is so badly affected at work that I see no point in what I do. The office is a joke, a stageplay filled with slipknot-masked people, and the politics is so damaging. Morale is a very sensitive issue and once morale is affected, it is very difficult to recover from it. Different treatment displayed towards some assclown is clearly sensed.

Oh, today was supposed to be my day-off arranged upon last week because intially, the day-off was to be on 17 Oct (my birthday). But it was decided that the work on 17 Oct was "so bloody important" that it have to postponed to today. But wait, change of plan last minute (as always) I had to forfeit my planned & agreed upon belated birthday day-off today just so that someone senior can take leave today?! Hmm... didn't see that coming.

" teamwork is defined as, a lot of people doing what I say "

Everything is a misrepresentation. I'm not going to elaborate much coz its no point. Just be glad that I'm counting down to leaving this "family" soon.

"we know that this is a problem, but the mgt is not going to discuss it with the people"

Special Delivery : - by air

got this today, so proud of myself, manage to complete till ACCA part 2 (all 1 attempt) within 1.5 yr while doing it part time, next target : complete the final part 3 asap.