Housemate 4
NUS Electrical Eng grad, Indian Malaysian,Asean scholar,25,single.
He's pretty good-looking guy, at least for an Indian. Haha. Oh well, I find him quite knowledgeable of the Chinese culture despite being Indian Malaysian, giving an impression that he is in fact a very sensible person, knowing how to carry himself aptly in different situations.
He really looks into people's eye to show that he's listening and trying to figure out what you are trying to say, pretty attentive guy. He's really totally opposite in terms of disposition if compared to Housemate 1, apparently. He's able to make analyses on people's characteristics and try to talk them out to see if that person would be able to at least realise his/her flaws that might be turning people off, or even offending friends around them insidiously.His intention has always been good-natured. He has his own thinking and a strong backbone, decisions being made would not be swayed easily. That's a good thing, and it has some degree of relevance to my previous entry titled "Mistakes are welcome". Sometimes there's bound to have important decisions to make at one's own discretion, those decisions made, will actually have significant impacts on our life in a later phase. Whenever we don't know, we ask people.People whom we think are experienced, people whom we respect, parents, We listen, then filter off the advice we think is ridiculous and then blend the "filtrate" of the advice with ideas and past experience of our own to try to figure out the best way for the decision to be made. For some people, once having made a decision after all these procedures, they will stay firmly to it. Housemate 4 is such kind of person. He's really a conscientious, remarkable person.
He's good at sports too, likes to play sepak takraw and badminton. Even if he plays sports a lot, he's put on weight(bulan mengambang!haha) because he always eat Nasi Briyani at KPT where the stall owner always give him a lot more rice. Anyway, it seems like it's the best so far when it comes to Nasi Briyani in Singapore. I will try to be at home on Sundays so that we can at least go out for lunch or dinner together since we are all so busy during the weekdays. During then, only we can have men's talk. Once in a while, he will share with us about being liked by colleagues in his company. Haha.
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Monday, December 19, 2005
Housemate Profiling
Housemate 3
NUS Electrical Eng graduate, 26, Malaysian, vegetarian.
"We should use the gas stove to boil water instead of the water heater because its energy consumption is much lower than that of the water heater. With that, our electricity(PUB) bill won't be so high la!"
"According to my few years personal research and awareness, it's not good using plastic bottles whether it's grade 1 or grade 3 or grade 7 since most of these grades will leach its chemical composition with time. The best thing is to use an aluminium bottle, recommended brands are Sigg and Laken".
He is quite chatty, but of course he cannot match the chattiness of Housemate 1. By the way, the things Housemate 3 say sometimes make a lot of sense and logic, whereas Housemate 1 will walk here and there, uttering matters pertaining to his company and some of his stuffs most of which could not be understood. Anyway, he's very popular for his way of being a spendthrift. With him as one of my housemates, there are lotsa things that would not go wasted in a significant way. Really.....in other perspective, he can be viewed as stingy also. I think that he has only a few friends since he's rather sensitive as long as money is concerned. Cannot blame him also, he really intends to have the tuition fee loan fully serviced as soon as possible as the compounding interest increases insidiously.
He had turned to vegetarian meals a couple of years ago because her whole family decided to do so. It was for health reason since poultry and meat seem to have come out with lotsa diseases. Oh well, at least vegetarian meals would cost less and then he can spend less money on food. That's why he looks so thin now. His favourite food, yah for main meals...masala tosai. It's an Indian food, something like mashed potato in a piece of large round thin pancake, with dried chillis and spice, always eaten with curry gravy. Oh well, it also tastes deilcious to me, but it really makes no sense to me seeing him eating that for lunch and dinner for several days. My gosh. Haha.
Anyway, half a year ago, what he said about finding an unfurnished flat was actually the right thing to do before renting this furnished flat that has rather old furniture and electrical appliances. The lower monthly rent for unfurnished flat could lead us to have a surplus fund to buy new furniture and appliances which would still be considered our asset. And should we decide to break away from the pact one year later, those assets could still be sold away and then divided among us. Housemate 2 and I didn't heed his advice because there was only one unfurnished flat that we saw, and its condition seemed to be in a terribly shabby.No choice, so we had to choose one of the furnished flats which the two of us(who were the only two in Singapore) thought the price was the most reasonable to the five of us. So I started to feel that sometimes the things he said although seemed not to make sense to me, will actually sound a indeed right on second thoughts. Points taken and mistake realized.
NUS Electrical Eng graduate, 26, Malaysian, vegetarian.
"We should use the gas stove to boil water instead of the water heater because its energy consumption is much lower than that of the water heater. With that, our electricity(PUB) bill won't be so high la!"
"According to my few years personal research and awareness, it's not good using plastic bottles whether it's grade 1 or grade 3 or grade 7 since most of these grades will leach its chemical composition with time. The best thing is to use an aluminium bottle, recommended brands are Sigg and Laken".
He is quite chatty, but of course he cannot match the chattiness of Housemate 1. By the way, the things Housemate 3 say sometimes make a lot of sense and logic, whereas Housemate 1 will walk here and there, uttering matters pertaining to his company and some of his stuffs most of which could not be understood. Anyway, he's very popular for his way of being a spendthrift. With him as one of my housemates, there are lotsa things that would not go wasted in a significant way. Really.....in other perspective, he can be viewed as stingy also. I think that he has only a few friends since he's rather sensitive as long as money is concerned. Cannot blame him also, he really intends to have the tuition fee loan fully serviced as soon as possible as the compounding interest increases insidiously.
He had turned to vegetarian meals a couple of years ago because her whole family decided to do so. It was for health reason since poultry and meat seem to have come out with lotsa diseases. Oh well, at least vegetarian meals would cost less and then he can spend less money on food. That's why he looks so thin now. His favourite food, yah for main meals...masala tosai. It's an Indian food, something like mashed potato in a piece of large round thin pancake, with dried chillis and spice, always eaten with curry gravy. Oh well, it also tastes deilcious to me, but it really makes no sense to me seeing him eating that for lunch and dinner for several days. My gosh. Haha.
Anyway, half a year ago, what he said about finding an unfurnished flat was actually the right thing to do before renting this furnished flat that has rather old furniture and electrical appliances. The lower monthly rent for unfurnished flat could lead us to have a surplus fund to buy new furniture and appliances which would still be considered our asset. And should we decide to break away from the pact one year later, those assets could still be sold away and then divided among us. Housemate 2 and I didn't heed his advice because there was only one unfurnished flat that we saw, and its condition seemed to be in a terribly shabby.No choice, so we had to choose one of the furnished flats which the two of us(who were the only two in Singapore) thought the price was the most reasonable to the five of us. So I started to feel that sometimes the things he said although seemed not to make sense to me, will actually sound a indeed right on second thoughts. Points taken and mistake realized.
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Housemate Profiling
Housemate 2
NUS Electrical Eng graduate, Malaysian, 24.
He comes from the same state that I do, so there are whole lotsa things we have in common. It's just sad that he doesn't know how to deal with the opposite sex as good as i do. Haha. Just kidding. He's friendly and not a tinge of snobbishness will seem to gleam from his face. It was probably due to the fact that he was in a boys' school from primary school until pre-university level then only causing him struggling to mix well with girls. Willing to spend the money if he thinks it's really worth spending. When it comes to finance, apparently he doesn't seem to be handling it well because he uses half of his salary to service his tuition fee loan which can be actually paid at a minimal monthly instalment amount of $100. That's like penny wise, pound foolish. In fact, despite knowing this proverb, he doesn't really practise it even though he preaches it. I feel that those money could have been saved so that an early investment could take place. I know there are bound to be people who try not to minimise the compounding interest being incurred. However, it's also important that we should save some money for rainy days at least. Treats his family very well, especially when I told him that the things we do must be value-adding. If one continues to slog through work in his life, that's really not the way. There are many relationships in our life we have to take care of. Parents, siblings, BGR, friends, colleagues,business partners etc. Along the line, we gotto take some relationship with friends seriously, since it's rather taxing to treat every friend you know well. The circle of friends are the widest, it has the largest subset of the entire circle of relationship considering that one is not significantly anti-social. I told him that, our parents are really ageing. And we are still very young. Why would we want to avoid paying more interest rate rather than paying less the monthly loan installment and send home more money with that?We all know that our parents are not well-off,not to say poor and my parents had retired some years ago. It's for sure that they can still survive with their hard-earned money already. The tuition fee loan that we owed the bank, it can be slowly repaid after all, the highest priority should be reset to the well-being of our parents.
NUS Electrical Eng graduate, Malaysian, 24.
He comes from the same state that I do, so there are whole lotsa things we have in common. It's just sad that he doesn't know how to deal with the opposite sex as good as i do. Haha. Just kidding. He's friendly and not a tinge of snobbishness will seem to gleam from his face. It was probably due to the fact that he was in a boys' school from primary school until pre-university level then only causing him struggling to mix well with girls. Willing to spend the money if he thinks it's really worth spending. When it comes to finance, apparently he doesn't seem to be handling it well because he uses half of his salary to service his tuition fee loan which can be actually paid at a minimal monthly instalment amount of $100. That's like penny wise, pound foolish. In fact, despite knowing this proverb, he doesn't really practise it even though he preaches it. I feel that those money could have been saved so that an early investment could take place. I know there are bound to be people who try not to minimise the compounding interest being incurred. However, it's also important that we should save some money for rainy days at least. Treats his family very well, especially when I told him that the things we do must be value-adding. If one continues to slog through work in his life, that's really not the way. There are many relationships in our life we have to take care of. Parents, siblings, BGR, friends, colleagues,business partners etc. Along the line, we gotto take some relationship with friends seriously, since it's rather taxing to treat every friend you know well. The circle of friends are the widest, it has the largest subset of the entire circle of relationship considering that one is not significantly anti-social. I told him that, our parents are really ageing. And we are still very young. Why would we want to avoid paying more interest rate rather than paying less the monthly loan installment and send home more money with that?We all know that our parents are not well-off,not to say poor and my parents had retired some years ago. It's for sure that they can still survive with their hard-earned money already. The tuition fee loan that we owed the bank, it can be slowly repaid after all, the highest priority should be reset to the well-being of our parents.
Friday, December 16, 2005
Housemate Profiling
Housemate 1
NUS Electrical Eng graduate, Malaysian, 24. Asean Scholarship Holder, employee.
Always trust people easily, likes to talk non-stop, especially when the clock strikes 12am, it's for sure that he is in the living room, changing all our topic of conversations to a topic of his own, which usually expectedly leads to matters pertaining to his company. Everyone will be left puzzled over what he will be saying, as he expects us to know the stuffs. Always talk about his matters, seldom listens to what people are trying to tell him. I guess his mother's the only person who listens to his endless blabberings. Nevertheless, he's a good guy. Just that he's too cheerful. And too talkative. In conclusion, he's one housemate one should never want to stay with. Haha.
NUS Electrical Eng graduate, Malaysian, 24. Asean Scholarship Holder, employee.
Always trust people easily, likes to talk non-stop, especially when the clock strikes 12am, it's for sure that he is in the living room, changing all our topic of conversations to a topic of his own, which usually expectedly leads to matters pertaining to his company. Everyone will be left puzzled over what he will be saying, as he expects us to know the stuffs. Always talk about his matters, seldom listens to what people are trying to tell him. I guess his mother's the only person who listens to his endless blabberings. Nevertheless, he's a good guy. Just that he's too cheerful. And too talkative. In conclusion, he's one housemate one should never want to stay with. Haha.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Dare to be Simple
Are you game enough to be simple? And is complacency always associated to negativism and backwardness?Peer pressure, as it always is, turns out to be a key factor to a self-induced drive to change or improve ourselves so that the standard of life could be heightened. Well, that could prove to be beneficial since we all yearn to have a life of comfort and luxury if possible. But in the first place, have we ever considered that we are ready to bring ourselves out of comfort zone? Yes, I'm talking about comfort zone again and again. But in fact it's rather pervasive in the society that more often than not we feel very secure in the circle of comfort zone and anything that is trying to displace us off the zone seems to be considered a threat rather than a challenge. Being complacent can be good or bad, by all means should be decided by that particular person himself, whether he feels that he doesn't need all those changes and wants to continue with the things he normally does. To be frank, I'm more on the side where complacency governs more. In other words, I am often not audacious enough to take risk. Whether it is a calculated risk or not, for the time being, I cannot indulge myself in any other form of investment. Yeah, haha, it's about investment again as well.
I actually have a trauma now. That friend of mine called me again but I didn't accept his call. Actually, strictly speaking, he's a just an acquaintance with whom I worked as a part-times as extras in a MTV shooting a year ago. I went to his Christmas party last year, and then that's about it. It was until he told me that he joined an investment company, then only I felt that something fishy will be unleashed sooner or later. He didn't have the proper work ethics, and the fact that I've been rejecting his calls should make him realize that his way of doing things so far is not right. He can't be bugging me every week. It's really outrageous. But on a lighter note, I didn't want to tell him straight in the face. So I started not to accept his calls. After all, before all these, I'd already let him know clearly my stand and I told him nicely that I didn't want any meet-up if it's regarding the investment schemes that his company is selling.
A father. A baby boy.A baby pram.A pair of Adidas shoes. A chuckle. There goes a long journey, for which the innocence dissipates into thin air as one grows up. Everything being around you has its cause and consequence so that it ended up to be there for you to see. Look with your heart, not only with your eyes. Observe and infer. Sometimes you just have to judge the book by its cover so as to make life not so complicated. The associated superficiality might be the way of life if one decides to live life ordinarily. It is not wrong to be different. Neither it is to choose the simple way out.
I actually have a trauma now. That friend of mine called me again but I didn't accept his call. Actually, strictly speaking, he's a just an acquaintance with whom I worked as a part-times as extras in a MTV shooting a year ago. I went to his Christmas party last year, and then that's about it. It was until he told me that he joined an investment company, then only I felt that something fishy will be unleashed sooner or later. He didn't have the proper work ethics, and the fact that I've been rejecting his calls should make him realize that his way of doing things so far is not right. He can't be bugging me every week. It's really outrageous. But on a lighter note, I didn't want to tell him straight in the face. So I started not to accept his calls. After all, before all these, I'd already let him know clearly my stand and I told him nicely that I didn't want any meet-up if it's regarding the investment schemes that his company is selling.
A father. A baby boy.A baby pram.A pair of Adidas shoes. A chuckle. There goes a long journey, for which the innocence dissipates into thin air as one grows up. Everything being around you has its cause and consequence so that it ended up to be there for you to see. Look with your heart, not only with your eyes. Observe and infer. Sometimes you just have to judge the book by its cover so as to make life not so complicated. The associated superficiality might be the way of life if one decides to live life ordinarily. It is not wrong to be different. Neither it is to choose the simple way out.
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Abstinence from Materialism
There are plenty of investment schemes available in the market, and all the agents are more than willing to provide you with the best explanation and information just to do your business. But when you already have a loan to service, then you had better think twice before even arranging to meet with the agents. Sometimes, we think hard to see which area we can invest in so that it can make our money work harder, but then again, I have my doubts. Even though I'm already engaged on a life-long investment-linked life policy with AIA, I am pretty sure that if I were to buy any additional investment plans. So far I got a call from IPP Investment and OCBC-Great Eastern Life each, and both of the staffs were actually asking me to meet them up to discuss over my financial needs and plannings. Anyway, I rejected them. I am no longer financially capable of any further investment for the time being, so I didn't want to waste our times and resources should there be any meet-up. Yah what. Oh ya, I actually severed ties with a friend of mine because he kept on ringing me up to ask if I'm free to meet him up for similar thing. But I didn't like the way he asked me, over a period of a three months, he was quite persistent in coaxing me into listening to him about his company and its investment schemes. Heck, I really got no time for that, I have a 6-day week job and then I am pretty uninterested in meeting him if he just wants to talk about that. So I didn't delete his phone number on my hp, in fact I even saved his office number. Do you know why is that so? Because when he's calling me, I will know that it's him who's calling so I will straight away ignore his calls. I don't want this to happen, but right now I just don't like his voice at all.
Yeah, abstinence from materialism, I know it's very very tough. If one has less wants, then it's for sure that he can save more. But some money is meant to be spent as long as convenience is concerned. That's a premium you pay for convenience. With extra convenience, comes comfort. And when you pay more money for extra convenience, you save less money. Then you will end up with less money savings for rainy days. Paradoxically, with the extra convenience, you may have leading a high life, with good level of comfort, and thus there's a possibility that your efficiency in doing an assignment will be higher.For work wise, that would lead to a promotion and then a payrise?Haha yeah, this is kinda vague and all based on possibilities without substantiated research. Life is not complicated actually, if you know how to carry yourself well. I am still in the process of abstaining myself from unnecessary material wants. Yeah, the latest gizmo that is. If I save enough money every month, abstaining myself from buying these gadgets, one or two year down the road then I can consider a housing investment in Malaysia, for which the place would be somewhere as near to my house as possible. That'd be in Klang Valley. Let's see how then.
Yeah, abstinence from materialism, I know it's very very tough. If one has less wants, then it's for sure that he can save more. But some money is meant to be spent as long as convenience is concerned. That's a premium you pay for convenience. With extra convenience, comes comfort. And when you pay more money for extra convenience, you save less money. Then you will end up with less money savings for rainy days. Paradoxically, with the extra convenience, you may have leading a high life, with good level of comfort, and thus there's a possibility that your efficiency in doing an assignment will be higher.For work wise, that would lead to a promotion and then a payrise?Haha yeah, this is kinda vague and all based on possibilities without substantiated research. Life is not complicated actually, if you know how to carry yourself well. I am still in the process of abstaining myself from unnecessary material wants. Yeah, the latest gizmo that is. If I save enough money every month, abstaining myself from buying these gadgets, one or two year down the road then I can consider a housing investment in Malaysia, for which the place would be somewhere as near to my house as possible. That'd be in Klang Valley. Let's see how then.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Islandwide Broadband Access
Cool! Will it ever gonna happen in near future?I think it's quite possible. I hope at least in the MRT, there'll be free broadband coverage. The availailbility of Wi-Fi in handphones, notebook computers, PDAs nowadays really gonna trigger the demand for islandwide broadband access. I always bring my laptop to work, and I feel that there are more and more people owning at least one considering the fact that the prices are getting cheaper due to extremely heated competition.
Baby Nephew
This is Mich's baby nephew(cousin's son). I hope that when he grows up, he would not mind me posting his photo, at least this is not his nude photo after all. Haha. His rooster hairstyle seems to be trimmed, in fact it's naturally like that. Haha. Pretty and cute baby !
Friday, December 09, 2005
Flabbergasted at the Drawings
I have been looking at the 2rvg construction drawings for the past few days, and today has been the worst so far. I'm totally puzzled by the drawings especially when it comes to the slab markings. Darn confusing, I have to see it again and again. I feel rather taken aback by my work performance this week.
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Mistakes are welcome
Saw three black cats at different times and places today. Loves them all, they had the same level of friendliness, came to me when being called. So cute.
My current mood now is overprotective, but I won't be elaborating further about it here. A tinge of cynicism also creeps in as well. It's not that I don't want to trust people easily, just that humans are becoming rather difficult to fathom. I hope that it's not me who's actually complicating things and inducing a more difficult life to live, but there should a standard of life one should maintain so as to put different things in the right perspective to your own expectations, not to be in a position of being pushed around after a slight persuasion. There have been countless of times that in my intuitive feelings, I think I am always right in doing certain things. To certain extent, it reflects selfishness. Yeah, it really does. But, it feels better since you believe in what you think is right. Even if you make mistakes along the way, it's those mistakes that bring your maturity to a higher level. In other words, you need to have mistakes in order to realize the importance of doing things right. MISTAKES are vital in life? Yes, yes, but it doesn't mean that you purposely go and commit mistakes. Perhaps in a way, it's a type of self-consolation for losers. Haha. Society tolerates mistakes? It depends on the whole organisation. As least for the company that I'm working in, mistakes are tolerated and welcomed, as long as you are willing to face them, and take remarks of criticism(from boss and senior staffs) as a form of challenge to ensure that it's not gonna recur in near future. It can be done easily if you set your mentality to the right mode. Oh it depends on your level of comfort zone. Yeah, I always talk about comfort zone. Whether in work relationship, friendship, boy-girl relationship, and even in family, the intensities of the comfort zone level differ unexpectedly. On the whole, the default comfort zone level is that family comfort zone being the highest and work relationship being the lowest or least intense.
I am sleepy, guess I'll stop here.
My current mood now is overprotective, but I won't be elaborating further about it here. A tinge of cynicism also creeps in as well. It's not that I don't want to trust people easily, just that humans are becoming rather difficult to fathom. I hope that it's not me who's actually complicating things and inducing a more difficult life to live, but there should a standard of life one should maintain so as to put different things in the right perspective to your own expectations, not to be in a position of being pushed around after a slight persuasion. There have been countless of times that in my intuitive feelings, I think I am always right in doing certain things. To certain extent, it reflects selfishness. Yeah, it really does. But, it feels better since you believe in what you think is right. Even if you make mistakes along the way, it's those mistakes that bring your maturity to a higher level. In other words, you need to have mistakes in order to realize the importance of doing things right. MISTAKES are vital in life? Yes, yes, but it doesn't mean that you purposely go and commit mistakes. Perhaps in a way, it's a type of self-consolation for losers. Haha. Society tolerates mistakes? It depends on the whole organisation. As least for the company that I'm working in, mistakes are tolerated and welcomed, as long as you are willing to face them, and take remarks of criticism(from boss and senior staffs) as a form of challenge to ensure that it's not gonna recur in near future. It can be done easily if you set your mentality to the right mode. Oh it depends on your level of comfort zone. Yeah, I always talk about comfort zone. Whether in work relationship, friendship, boy-girl relationship, and even in family, the intensities of the comfort zone level differ unexpectedly. On the whole, the default comfort zone level is that family comfort zone being the highest and work relationship being the lowest or least intense.
I am sleepy, guess I'll stop here.
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
From rmvb format to VCD format
I did some conversions of a drama that I just downloaded not long ago, from rmvb to VCD format through a software by the name of WinAVI Converter(for which I managed to crack) and it ended up with a lot of dead pixels. I hope that it's just some settings that need to be adjusted in that software as I don't want to go and search for another software. Due to my small HDD space(40GB), so while having the file converted completely, I actually straight away delete the original file. I only came to know the bad quality after converting until and up to episode 12, and now I gotto redownload the serial drama from episode 1-12. Luckily, the the downloading rate is fast enough now.
By the way, I am gonna boycott the Fried Hor Fun stall located at Pek Kio Food Centre. The stall name is Tong Siew Hor Fun. I was made to wait for my order of Fried Hor Fun for half an hour then only be told that they had been just frying rice for other customers,some of whom even ordered after I did. The obasan boss was suggesting me to order for Fried Rice instead, but after waiting for so long that I was so frustrated that my appetite was gone. The way they were doing things and the service they rendered to me were absolutely bad considering the fact that I had been the stall's customer for two times(not including this time, since I cancelled the order eventually!!). I walked away from the food centre without eating anything else. REally kanasai!
By the way, I am gonna boycott the Fried Hor Fun stall located at Pek Kio Food Centre. The stall name is Tong Siew Hor Fun. I was made to wait for my order of Fried Hor Fun for half an hour then only be told that they had been just frying rice for other customers,some of whom even ordered after I did. The obasan boss was suggesting me to order for Fried Rice instead, but after waiting for so long that I was so frustrated that my appetite was gone. The way they were doing things and the service they rendered to me were absolutely bad considering the fact that I had been the stall's customer for two times(not including this time, since I cancelled the order eventually!!). I walked away from the food centre without eating anything else. REally kanasai!
Monday, December 05, 2005
Downpour at Somerset
Can you actually believe that I'm seated at five foot way now making an entry here?Haha, oh well, due to the heavy downpour started during almost towards the end of my lunch break!~I didn't bring along my umbrella, as I thought that it wouldn't rain. Only my laptop. Yeah, I could not go out for lunch leaving it at the site office. There are so many foreign workers working at the site that I risk having it stolen if I were to do that. I'm leaning my back against the glass wall of Fair Price, with SPC petrol station across the road. And there are people walking back and forth along the five foot way, waiting for the rain to stop. And people coming in and out from the Toto shop on my left and people withdrawing money from ATM on the right. So, guess where I am now?Haha...ok that's a bit hard, probably I'll tell you another clue. I'm at Killiney Road. Haha..you can even see the stairs leading to the entrance of Lee Wei Song School Of Music. Probably if you travel around this area often, you should be able to guess where I am now. Haha. Yeah, this is a mo liu entry, but there's no choice as I'm just trying whether I could go online at this spot or not. And of course it turns out to be yes.
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