Fast & Efficient Deal!

Close a deal today! I was sleeping late today when a phone call woke me up. Some guy called asking if my Creative mp3 player was still available and of course I replied yes and freshen up immediately! Finally someone wanted to buy my mp3 player. Was rather worried that I can't sell it off after I bought my iPod. Anyway, this guy sounds rather sincere and interested so after explaining some details to him, he arranged to meet up at City Hall at around 3pm.

Sold for S$350

The quality of the pic i posted on Yahoo auction did me much favour! So we met up at City Hall Starbucks and the deal was settled in less than 10 minutes! He played around for a while and paid me cash as he was very satisfied with what he saw. (coz honestly speaking, my player was in a very good condition!) Now I'm gonna close the bid on my Yahoo Auction account...

Friday da 13th = fun

Ok not exacty fun during the day coz of work, etc... had to sit thru' a rather unpleasant meeting in the morning. Another unfruitful day of work, at least, for my point of view. Anyway, manage to have some decent fun of soccer in the early evening as we kick-off small Teo's testimonial match. It has been months since we had soccer on friday evening. But too bad small Teo can't score leh... I kept passing him the ball so that he had chance to score on his last match with us coz he's leaving for other work opportunities elsewhere.

Anyway, kinda rush after the soccer game... Garry had to drove me home to shower n get change for our steamboat dinner at Marina South. Yan is back from Hong Kong for only bout 2 weeks and we're glad to invite him into our midst for the dinner.

JJ had actually no intention of joining us for the dinner but ultimately came, after I persuaded him to and being " pressured" by the rest. He has been feeling kinda depressed due to some problems... so I had to keep telling him to relax and enjoy our company and to have fun for the rest of the night. We had actually plan to get him drunk but as I guess we decided not to do that.

Hongkie boy Yan is only back for 2 weeks, so gotta treasure him.... Look at him! Sleepy or seductive?

we were drunk....

da group

another group pic

new boy, old boy

1st day of class

Today, or rather Thurs 12 Jan, my 1st day of my new ACCA 2.5 Financial Reporting module. It's back to the same old days of hectic work + study schedule....hard to adjust back my mentality especially after all the fun since Christmas, New Year and the the coming Chinese New Year. Anyway, the day started of with rain (damn! has been raining for the past 1 week already leh...) then on to some normal work stuffs and thankfully a rather short meeting in the late afternoon, so I can make it to class earlier today. Ha ha and today suppose to meet Trish for dinner before class coz she's now taking ACCA in the same school as me. But that ever-blur Trish forgotten to brought her mobile and thus we didn't make it for dinner.

Class size this module was rather small as compared to previous modules so I can manage to pay more attention instead of looking at the ladies.... ha ha. Lecturer started out telling us we have 146 days to exams! What a way to inaugurate the 1st class....no comments. I must say this module will be another tough one to conquer so my aim this time round is to attend every single lectures (I manage to do that last year... yeah!) Lots of Financial Standards (bout 28 of them!) to learn and apply throughout the whole module n the exams. Lecturer was able to capture the class's attention throughout and make it interesting though.

ok class ends.

then what?

wait at the lobby for Trish lor... she appears with some friends after her Law class and as usual, smile then talk talk talk.... actually I'm rather tired today but nevertheless accompany her home hor. I've just finish reading 17 pages of notes and now gonna zzz liao so gotta long day tml. Oh ya tml after work, my section is going to Marina South for steamboat dinner. Should be fun. Better standby my camera coz I'm going to make someone drunk tml!!! Oh by the way, Yan is back from Hong Kong yesterday but only for 2 weeks and he promise he'll join us for the dinner. Should be fun. Should be fun.

another new toy > the new iPod video 60GB

ok i admit i bought a quite a lot of tech gadgets this year - 1st, the Sharp 26" LCD TV, then Sony PSP, then Sony Cybershot T-5 and lastly the iPod (which I'm very proud of) that i bought today!

I suddenly have this crazy urge to get the new iPod video 60GB after my vacation and have been checking the net for details of it and bam! I bought 1 today! Actually, my big boss gave us an incentive half day off from work this afternoon around 1pm and the the 1st thing I did after I got home was to check the net for the features of the new iPod video. That's when I made up my mind and rush down to Sim Lim Square to purchase the iPod Video 60GB (Black). Oh I also bought and installed the screen protector film to protect my new toy and those rubber-like skin for my iPod.

What a way to start year 2006 with all my tech toys! I always believe you gotta work hard, study hard and play(+ enjoy) hard!

Even the packing is so slim & sexy!

oooh...

Now, I'm going to sell/auction off my Creative Zen 20GB. Anyone interested?

Arsenal was Pathetic!

I was an Arsenal fan for that mere 2 hrs hoping the Gunners would give Chelsea something for Christmas but the former was just playing badly at home! Arsenal lost 2-0 to Chelsea for the last time they played them at Highbury. Was hoping Arsenal can help my Man Utd to close the points gap but given their performance and the terrible mistake by Lauren that awarded Chelsea the 2nd goal & cost the Gunners the match,.....disappointed.

Talking point 1 : Van Persie's goal should not be ruled offside!
Talking point 2 : Essien should had been sent off!

Arsenal's title race is definately over...Let's see what my beloved Man Utd can do to mount a serious title race.

Some thoughts after exams

Exams over! Managed to sit thru' the 3hr Financial Manage & Control paper from 3 to 6pm. Don't really felt relieved after all. Maybe because the paper is so F tough! June 05 passing rate was only 37%, what bout Dec 05? I don't know... Seriously, the paper is tough and i doubt i can struggle through. Kinda low morale now after giving all that I could n knowing it could all turn out to be disastrous when the result are out come Feb 06.

Gimme a pistol so that I can play Russian Roulette with myself.

International Seafood Buffet @ Marina Sqaure

ah.... so tired, only slept for a few hours after watching that disappointing Man Utd match (still very disappointed). Took a cab down to Marina Square coz I woke up late but when I reach the restaurant bout 12 pm, the receptionist wouldn't let me in coz reservation was for 1pm! Called Garry up and he said the whole bunch of them are on their way, will be late. Screw you dude! Why tell us to be there at 12 when all u guys are coming at 1pm!?

Then ah Kong and Yeo appear, also being told the same timing crap! So the 3 of us went to look at some world cup jerseys, wander and shop around the mall until those late assholes appear. Anyway....

the restaurant looks kinda posh, located at level 3, Pariss International Seafood Buffet. Rather posh lah, good food and different variety of them.

JJ sucking on some weird seafood

Shankar always likes to disturb JJ even outside work

the ever-mischievous monkey

It was all fun during the long lunch from 1pm+ till 3+ especially after I haven been back at work for a week due to my exam period. Rather gd break for me since I've been home for the past few days stressing myself for next wed's paper (for crying out loud). Shankar and Garry kept telling me what happen when I wasn't around, how Prem (the ass clown) always screw up the task and how I should 'takan' them when I'm back... ha ha. Oh, and Garry bought the new Nokia N70 phone. *envy envy*

ya ya showing off ur new N70 in front of me!

So jealous of Garry coz ''my mum bought me one...'' should be an early X'mas gift from Mummy. I actually tried out his phone and compare some shots taken from his N70 n my K750 (both phones offer 2 Mega Pixel) both shots taken also not bad lah... mine looks brighter n Garry's N70 also looks gd coz larger phone screen mah... arrr tech geeks!

But once again, my Sony PSP stole the limelight as the guys are having a ''break'' before officiating the 2nd half of the buffet.

desperate Prem watching while Shankar had a go on my PSP

Prem is not going to and I will never let him touch my PSP! I just wish I can control myself not to whack him later....

the guys watching some video clips off the PSP...isn't it cool?

bossman Mr Tharma being presented the plug

Not to forget, Tharma is leaving us for some better pasture elsewhere after all these years of contribution to our section. Wish him all da best in his future endeavours!

you're welcome!

Last shot of the day...Garry giving us a ride and a finger before we left for our own agenda.

Aiyoh, so tired today. Think I'm not going to do my revision liao, I need a good sleep then I'll study harder tomorrow onwards.

F#@%$^(* disappointed

I'm so f*beep*ink disappointed that Man Utd totally screwed up and crashed out of the champions league and totally out of Europe! This is so frustrating coz not even a UEFA cup placing. F%#k!! Started off well with a goal by Paul Scholes in the 6th minute and then bout 10 mins later, disaster struck! Benfica equalised with a superb diving header by their Geovanni and then they went off to lead 2-1 and finally won the game and proceed onto competition. a dissapointed Alan Smith & Paul Scholes

But what pissed me off was the 2nd half time wasting tactics by Benfica. You can see players fell, rolled in pain when there was any real contact or just a slight one. At one point one of the defender actually walk up immediately after being stretchered out! And in the dying moments bout 80+ mins, the Benfica goalkeeper made a big issue out of nothing, claiming being injured after a knock! I'm not going continue bitching bout how Benfica players were but reality was, Man Utd crashes out. m really disappointed...

Damn, I don't feel like carrying on my revision...no morale liao. Gonna sleep now coz later still have to attend a lunch gathering @ Marina Square.

so disappointed...

More time pls...

So damn tired.... 6.30am liao. Whole nite never sleep, good thing that I'm playing 98.7fm in the background and had a little chocolate ice-cream break around 4am to keep me awake.

8 more days to days to exams still halfway thru' my preparation.... time is not on my side leh! This thursday still have a flight outing at Marina, so half day gone & Fri another anniversary thingy going on, another half day....tried to escape the thursday lunch cum outing but boss call me up n ''convince'' me, therefore no choice but to attend. (Pardon me but...I'm on leave. You approved my leave, remember?)

Think I'm going to study another 3 hrs till bout 9am + then sleep for 4 hrs before whacking hard for the exams.

What to do? still young.... gotta work to finance my degree.... it this what they call prime stage of being a young adult?

Cash outflow...

I'm so busy recently that I've no time to clear my in-tray, couple of mails to follow up, pay bills etc. While going through my in-tray, saw this ACCA mail lying there & realised it was a notification for my annual subscription for 2006....good thing i saw that because I actually forgotten all bout it! This is to maintain my yearly student subscription for ACCA global register. So I log on and pay online lor.

UK£59 leh.... today's spot rate is 1 GBP = 2.92730 SGD that means I'm paying SGD$172.711 loh! Wah lau... and this is just the UK thingy. I still have to pay the S'pore ICPAS same annual thingy SGD$120. Simple maths : total = SGD$272.11. Burned! This is just to maintain my name in the UK and S'pore student register.

Waaahh, I'm really being @#*^ this time. On wait, still have to pay my mobile, SCV and maxonline bills altogether... On yah still need to transfer $225 to Wenguang later to the year end retreat at M'sia. Jialaat...today really ganna burned deep deep....

Good Morning!

Surprising I'm not very tired or sleepy after studying though the nite. Morning air just smells better + the sky is beautiful (see the photo below, no bluf you). Finally my body clock adjusted after 2 days to that of an owl or nightwatcher or whatever. Pre-exam routine. Trying to following my planned timetable during my study leave :

9.00 am to 3.00 pm ~ zzzzz
3.00 pm to 3.30 pm ~ "10 more minutes lah.." (lazy buffer sleep & getting up)
3.30 pm to 4.30 pm ~ slack, play, newspaper, food,tv,etc.
4.30 pm to 6.30 pm ~ light revision
6.30 pm to 7.30 pm ~ jogging (really helps to de-stress)
8.oopm to 10.00pm ~ TV + enjoy time
10.oopm to 7.00am ~ intensive revision, practise exam qns (with many small breaks to perk me on!)

Brain rather " jammed" now.... whole night just practising on working capital management & investment appraisals. Don't know how many I gonna cope in the exam hall....very time constraint-ing paper.

Think my Straits Times arrived liao. ok now... I shall have corn flacks with milk + Straits Time then zzzzz. Good Morning!

Morning has broken

break liao...getting brighter every second

studying throughout the night

Weird names of Canadian Towns and Cities

Someone sent me this.

Some Weird names of Canadian Towns and Cities

1. Dildo, Newfoundland
2. Come-By-Chance, Newfoundland
3. Goobies, Newfoundland
4. Crapaud, Prince Edward Island
5. Climax, Saskatchewan
6. Brothel, Saskatchewan
7. Willydong, Alberta
8. Seemmen River, BC
9. Hadashville, Manitoba
10. Middlesex, Ontario


No offense to Canadians out there but this is rather amusing.

so stressed

aaarrrr! so damn stressed ah! getting nearer to the exams n i'm not even 50% prepared! i'm so f**ked!


my ''notice board''

exam venue - Expo Hall 2

ultimate goal

some calculations on working capital management

hope it works...