Thursday, November 12, 2009
All in the Comma.
I received an email from a colleague this morning. In it, he was announcing the date for a meeting. In that email, there was this line "please revert your attendance to me, if you are not attending, and state your reason."
I was going to attend the meeting so I figured I needn't reply to the email. Yes, it's probably good manners to reply anyhow but I'm rude ahahah!
Later on in the afternoon, I received an email in which he stated that we have already read the emails but must have been very busy because we have not yet replied to his email.
Although I was feeling like pointing out to him that he only requested for people who are not attending to tell him that they are not attending and their reasons for doing so.... I decided to just tell him a yes or no.
So, with a sentence like "please revert your attendance to me, if you are not attending, and state your reason." do you think he was asking for a reply if you are not attending or a reply either way?
Please leave out the common courtesy parts please lol. I'm uncommon. :D
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I received an email from a colleague this morning. In it, he was announcing the date for a meeting. In that email, there was this line "please revert your attendance to me, if you are not attending, and state your reason."
I was going to attend the meeting so I figured I needn't reply to the email. Yes, it's probably good manners to reply anyhow but I'm rude ahahah!
Later on in the afternoon, I received an email in which he stated that we have already read the emails but must have been very busy because we have not yet replied to his email.
Although I was feeling like pointing out to him that he only requested for people who are not attending to tell him that they are not attending and their reasons for doing so.... I decided to just tell him a yes or no.
So, with a sentence like "please revert your attendance to me, if you are not attending, and state your reason." do you think he was asking for a reply if you are not attending or a reply either way?
Please leave out the common courtesy parts please lol. I'm uncommon. :D
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
What one could do with $160
Well. I've been bitching quite a bit about my impending net pay cut next year due to my workplace offering a new HR scheme to us. Basically we will have to pay full CPF once we move over and there will not be any adjustments to the gross pay. This means that our net pay will decrease.
I calculated and it's gonna be about $160 less a month.
Now what could I do with $160 a month??
64 plates of chicken rice (at $2.50 each) a month.
40 days of transport ($2 per trip, 2 trips a day)
Buy a PSP in 2 months.
Holiday in Japan in 12 months.
Go for 3 buffets a month (estimate $50 per buffet)
Buy 2 new DS games a month. (estimate $70 a game)
Buy a new phone in 2 months. (estimate $300 budget)
Buy 17 Threadless.com tees (at $9 each) a month.
Pay for my Japanese language lessons which currently averages about $140 a month.
Pay for 2 hours of vocal training. (my friend is learning at $70 an hour)
Buy a new PC every year and have money left over.
Top up $68 and buy a Nikon D90 in a year. (based on RRP of $1988)
Top up $48 and buy Nikon D700 in two years. (based on RRP of $3888)
Ok, I think that's enough of delinquency. After all, when I mentioned this, people go "Oh but it;s still your money..... it still goes to you....CPF is good for you.... you can buy house with it.. it saves for your retirement.... 4% interest where else can you get?" So I think we should discuss something a little bit more constructive.
Seriously, they really did tell me 4%. However, I think they have forgotten that Ordinary account only attracts 2.5% atm, although an additional 1% for the first $20k in the ordinary account will be credited to the Special Account.
4% is currently applicable for the Special, Medisave and Retirement Accounts (SMRA). However from 2008, the SMRA interest rate has become a floating rate pegged to the 12 month average yield of the 10 year Singapore Government Securities plus 1%. For the first 3 years , as an interim measure, there is a floor rate of 4%. After 2010 , the floor rate will be 2.5%. This means that the SMRA interest can drop to 2.5% interest. Same as ordinary account.
Next, I really don't see myself buying a home anytime soon. Anyway I don't think I can afford a home in these trying times. Half a million for a HDB?? You must be frigging crazy.
So what am I to do with the extra money in CPF? Invest? You can no longer invest the first 20k in each of your accounts. I have already invested what I can from my CPF but that's money I can't use now. I would love to have a little more 'now can use if I want' money.
While I agree that putting money into CPF to attract the minimum 2.5% interest is actually a good idea, I would personally like to aim for an investment goal of 5-10% growth. Of course, investment is no sure thing and you can certainly end up being worse off, but then that would have been a choice that I made and I would (probably) have had no one else to blame but myself. Besides that, it would be cash I can readily use on hand.
Or, if I were so inclined, I could use the $160 to buy an savings policy which gives me higher than bank interest rate and gives me a small amount of sum assured in case of contingencies.
At the end of the day, I know that this policy will not change and I will take up this new HR scheme anyway.... I just don't quite like the way that instead of addressing my query and telling me "well that's too bad but we really cannot do anything about it", they decided to go be a nanny and say "CPF is good for you. Shut it."
It even went so far as someone saying "If you are really that hard up that this amount of change in your take home pay constitutes a major financial issue, then you have a problem with your finances."
Yeah I would agree, but that would be MY problem wouldn't it? I certainly do not need other people to start creating financial problems for me when I can do that perfectly fine myself lol.
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Well. I've been bitching quite a bit about my impending net pay cut next year due to my workplace offering a new HR scheme to us. Basically we will have to pay full CPF once we move over and there will not be any adjustments to the gross pay. This means that our net pay will decrease.
I calculated and it's gonna be about $160 less a month.
Now what could I do with $160 a month??
64 plates of chicken rice (at $2.50 each) a month.
40 days of transport ($2 per trip, 2 trips a day)
Buy a PSP in 2 months.
Holiday in Japan in 12 months.
Go for 3 buffets a month (estimate $50 per buffet)
Buy 2 new DS games a month. (estimate $70 a game)
Buy a new phone in 2 months. (estimate $300 budget)
Buy 17 Threadless.com tees (at $9 each) a month.
Pay for my Japanese language lessons which currently averages about $140 a month.
Pay for 2 hours of vocal training. (my friend is learning at $70 an hour)
Buy a new PC every year and have money left over.
Top up $68 and buy a Nikon D90 in a year. (based on RRP of $1988)
Top up $48 and buy Nikon D700 in two years. (based on RRP of $3888)
Ok, I think that's enough of delinquency. After all, when I mentioned this, people go "Oh but it;s still your money..... it still goes to you....CPF is good for you.... you can buy house with it.. it saves for your retirement.... 4% interest where else can you get?" So I think we should discuss something a little bit more constructive.
Seriously, they really did tell me 4%. However, I think they have forgotten that Ordinary account only attracts 2.5% atm, although an additional 1% for the first $20k in the ordinary account will be credited to the Special Account.
4% is currently applicable for the Special, Medisave and Retirement Accounts (SMRA). However from 2008, the SMRA interest rate has become a floating rate pegged to the 12 month average yield of the 10 year Singapore Government Securities plus 1%. For the first 3 years , as an interim measure, there is a floor rate of 4%. After 2010 , the floor rate will be 2.5%. This means that the SMRA interest can drop to 2.5% interest. Same as ordinary account.
Next, I really don't see myself buying a home anytime soon. Anyway I don't think I can afford a home in these trying times. Half a million for a HDB?? You must be frigging crazy.
So what am I to do with the extra money in CPF? Invest? You can no longer invest the first 20k in each of your accounts. I have already invested what I can from my CPF but that's money I can't use now. I would love to have a little more 'now can use if I want' money.
While I agree that putting money into CPF to attract the minimum 2.5% interest is actually a good idea, I would personally like to aim for an investment goal of 5-10% growth. Of course, investment is no sure thing and you can certainly end up being worse off, but then that would have been a choice that I made and I would (probably) have had no one else to blame but myself. Besides that, it would be cash I can readily use on hand.
Or, if I were so inclined, I could use the $160 to buy an savings policy which gives me higher than bank interest rate and gives me a small amount of sum assured in case of contingencies.
At the end of the day, I know that this policy will not change and I will take up this new HR scheme anyway.... I just don't quite like the way that instead of addressing my query and telling me "well that's too bad but we really cannot do anything about it", they decided to go be a nanny and say "CPF is good for you. Shut it."
It even went so far as someone saying "If you are really that hard up that this amount of change in your take home pay constitutes a major financial issue, then you have a problem with your finances."
Yeah I would agree, but that would be MY problem wouldn't it? I certainly do not need other people to start creating financial problems for me when I can do that perfectly fine myself lol.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
New British Council Teaching Awards Requirements!
So I had been interested in getting a Teaching Award from the British Council Singapore.
I even made a nice chart back in June to figure out how much each individual award would potentially cost me and try to plan out the most cost / time effective way to get each award. You can get an award once you get 50 credits in the modules required for the award within 18 months.
For 2010, there are new changes. In fact, the Teaching Award for Adults went up about $700. I'm not sure if I made a mistake in the original chart made in June, because there is an optional course "How to Teach English: Kindergarten" in the Adults list... Oh well, you can see the list made in June here: June's List
Now for the updated list.
The dark blue ones are core modules that must be attended in order to get the award. The light blue ones are optional ones. You can choose to attend any light blue ones in order to make up the 50 credits. I have not included the number of credits each module gives you, but you can work it out through the course fees. $500 = 10 credits, so you need to attend $2500 worth of modules to get an award.
You could also just choose to attend every course and get all the awards.
Please pardon the slight colour mess ups, I can't get the colour to turn out right after it's uploaded to google docs.
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So I had been interested in getting a Teaching Award from the British Council Singapore.
I even made a nice chart back in June to figure out how much each individual award would potentially cost me and try to plan out the most cost / time effective way to get each award. You can get an award once you get 50 credits in the modules required for the award within 18 months.
For 2010, there are new changes. In fact, the Teaching Award for Adults went up about $700. I'm not sure if I made a mistake in the original chart made in June, because there is an optional course "How to Teach English: Kindergarten" in the Adults list... Oh well, you can see the list made in June here: June's List
Now for the updated list.
The dark blue ones are core modules that must be attended in order to get the award. The light blue ones are optional ones. You can choose to attend any light blue ones in order to make up the 50 credits. I have not included the number of credits each module gives you, but you can work it out through the course fees. $500 = 10 credits, so you need to attend $2500 worth of modules to get an award.
You could also just choose to attend every course and get all the awards.
Please pardon the slight colour mess ups, I can't get the colour to turn out right after it's uploaded to google docs.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Crazy Crazy Internet
Aw.. internet's been driving me crazy recently in more ways than one.
First I tried to upgrade my PC's hardware and it ended up quite a sorry situation. Fortunately, it now works. *prays hard*
Initially, my PC wouldn't even boot up. I brought it to a shop and they got it to boot up but when I brought it home, it would either BSOD, or act like it shut down. I just couldn't figure out what went wrong.
A friend insisted that it was a BIOS issue, so I decided to change the HDD while I was at it since I was unable to boot up the PC long enough to back up the data on my original HDDs. After I got another shop to install the HDD and OS for me (the initial shop I went too tried to charge me double the price for HDD, plus he was this naggy uncle who hates AMD), the problem still persisted!! I was totally devastated...... it worked fine at the shop, why not at home?
I brought the PC back to the shop and it worked fine there. The shop suggested changing mouse, or power supply cables. Another friend on mine suggested that it was a power supply problem and suggested I get an UPS. Why so many problems..?? I just want a functioning PC!
This time, after I got it back, it worked fine for a day and started acting up the next...... from then till now... it was ... er.... kinda ok. I hope it stays this way. I want to play FFXI!
Also, I have been having problems with facebook and blogger. Blogger would give me this really messed up dashboard and I would be unable to post blogs (I hardly post blogs nowadays anyway, I plurk a lot more.) and facebook would just totally quit on me. Apparently there's some facebook issue but when I access it on different PCs, sometimes it works on other PCs but just not on mine.
I haven't been playing Mafia Wars, Farmville, Barn Buddy and Restaurant City for quite some time now lol. If you play these games and you are on my facebook, do look out for me yeah?
Finally today, it seems like Blogger has decided to give me a break and let me post. Actually I am still typing this out so as of now I am hoping that it posts. However, you are reading this, so it obviously got posted.
Been pretty busy these few months. Not even had time to catch up with friends (not that I'm one to always catch up with friends anyway). National Day's over, it was fun but I didn't get my actual day tickets ( *angry!* ), someone took 2 of my team's funpacks and refused to be contacted so I think he is playing punk, and we haven't heard about additional offs to be given.... oh well.... At least it's over.
Also stopped standing in for my colleague at her workplace. Another guy took over. It was like crazy trying to run that place.... in the midst of the H1N1 craze and incoming audits in someplace I was new at, it was absolutely bat shit crazy. Kept running late for my Japanese classes and I actually missed quite a few of them. Now I'm quite sian about attending classes because it's a little harder to understand things now too.
Not all's been nasty stuff though. Last Sunday, I performed with the JCS Choir at the 39th Japanese Cultural Festival. I guess that finally puts a little credit to a post I did last year or so which listed what I wished I could do. Singing in a performance was in there somewhere I think. Although it's not quite what I wanted, it was definitely an exhilarating opportunity for me. In fact, it felt good to be in the group! You have immunity lol!
I guess we did well enough on Sunday. It was a concert with several performing groups and we sang five songs. The following are versions of the songs that we did on Sunday. These versions are the same as (or very close to) the version we did. Quality excepted lah... These people probably did better than us lol.
少年时代 Shounen Jidai
千の風になって Sen no Kaze ni Natte
Not quite how we sang it, but it's the closest I can find.
This is the original
手紙 Tegami: The Japanese Association's Ladies Choir who was performing at the same concert actually did this song as well, but they did it a tad more classically. My friend says that she preferred our rendition of Tegami. Yay!!!
This is the original
遠い日の歌 Tooi Hi no Uta
春に Haru ni
I especially like Tegami and Sen no Kaze ni Natte. Well, Haru ni too, but the first two feels so meaningful to me. Unfortunately Tegami is quite difficult to sing!
I also asked one of my choir friend about her voice lessons. She told me about the price and it's $70 an hour..... WHOOOOOOO! OUCH.
That's at least $280 a month... and maybe it is more expensive!!!!
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Aw.. internet's been driving me crazy recently in more ways than one.
First I tried to upgrade my PC's hardware and it ended up quite a sorry situation. Fortunately, it now works. *prays hard*
Initially, my PC wouldn't even boot up. I brought it to a shop and they got it to boot up but when I brought it home, it would either BSOD, or act like it shut down. I just couldn't figure out what went wrong.
A friend insisted that it was a BIOS issue, so I decided to change the HDD while I was at it since I was unable to boot up the PC long enough to back up the data on my original HDDs. After I got another shop to install the HDD and OS for me (the initial shop I went too tried to charge me double the price for HDD, plus he was this naggy uncle who hates AMD), the problem still persisted!! I was totally devastated...... it worked fine at the shop, why not at home?
I brought the PC back to the shop and it worked fine there. The shop suggested changing mouse, or power supply cables. Another friend on mine suggested that it was a power supply problem and suggested I get an UPS. Why so many problems..?? I just want a functioning PC!
This time, after I got it back, it worked fine for a day and started acting up the next...... from then till now... it was ... er.... kinda ok. I hope it stays this way. I want to play FFXI!
Also, I have been having problems with facebook and blogger. Blogger would give me this really messed up dashboard and I would be unable to post blogs (I hardly post blogs nowadays anyway, I plurk a lot more.) and facebook would just totally quit on me. Apparently there's some facebook issue but when I access it on different PCs, sometimes it works on other PCs but just not on mine.
I haven't been playing Mafia Wars, Farmville, Barn Buddy and Restaurant City for quite some time now lol. If you play these games and you are on my facebook, do look out for me yeah?
Finally today, it seems like Blogger has decided to give me a break and let me post. Actually I am still typing this out so as of now I am hoping that it posts. However, you are reading this, so it obviously got posted.
Been pretty busy these few months. Not even had time to catch up with friends (not that I'm one to always catch up with friends anyway). National Day's over, it was fun but I didn't get my actual day tickets ( *angry!* ), someone took 2 of my team's funpacks and refused to be contacted so I think he is playing punk, and we haven't heard about additional offs to be given.... oh well.... At least it's over.
Also stopped standing in for my colleague at her workplace. Another guy took over. It was like crazy trying to run that place.... in the midst of the H1N1 craze and incoming audits in someplace I was new at, it was absolutely bat shit crazy. Kept running late for my Japanese classes and I actually missed quite a few of them. Now I'm quite sian about attending classes because it's a little harder to understand things now too.
Not all's been nasty stuff though. Last Sunday, I performed with the JCS Choir at the 39th Japanese Cultural Festival. I guess that finally puts a little credit to a post I did last year or so which listed what I wished I could do. Singing in a performance was in there somewhere I think. Although it's not quite what I wanted, it was definitely an exhilarating opportunity for me. In fact, it felt good to be in the group! You have immunity lol!
I guess we did well enough on Sunday. It was a concert with several performing groups and we sang five songs. The following are versions of the songs that we did on Sunday. These versions are the same as (or very close to) the version we did. Quality excepted lah... These people probably did better than us lol.
少年时代 Shounen Jidai
千の風になって Sen no Kaze ni Natte
Not quite how we sang it, but it's the closest I can find.
This is the original
手紙 Tegami: The Japanese Association's Ladies Choir who was performing at the same concert actually did this song as well, but they did it a tad more classically. My friend says that she preferred our rendition of Tegami. Yay!!!
This is the original
遠い日の歌 Tooi Hi no Uta
春に Haru ni
I especially like Tegami and Sen no Kaze ni Natte. Well, Haru ni too, but the first two feels so meaningful to me. Unfortunately Tegami is quite difficult to sing!
I also asked one of my choir friend about her voice lessons. She told me about the price and it's $70 an hour..... WHOOOOOOO! OUCH.
That's at least $280 a month... and maybe it is more expensive!!!!
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Blogger Problem
I was trying to blog the previous post when I realised that there was a curious issue. I had first noticed it when trying to view my friend's blog. The top little line on top that usually has your username and dashboard options were not viewable.
However when I went to another friend's blog, it was ok. So I figured it wasn't really a problem. However, on my blog it happened again.
Ok, I can deal with some aesthetic issues. As long as I can blog, I don't mind. After all, I hadn't blogged for a long time so it might have had something to do with my inactivity. Who knows?
Anyway, I logged in to blog and.... I realised that I could not see any of the formatting options!
NooOoOoOoooOOOO!
So I was about to give up on posting (as I simply was not gonna post an unformatted blog) when I came across this thread on blogger.
Seems like it's a Singnet problem!! What the heck....... Anyway, I skimmed through it and there were a few rather techie solutions like adjusting proxy settings. I was rather reluctant to do that.... when I came across a solution that says "press CTRL and F5 to refresh the page without caching".
I gave it a try and... it works!! So now I can format my post.... but that line on top of my blog page is still showing gibberish.
So once again..
PRESS CTRL+F5 !!
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I was trying to blog the previous post when I realised that there was a curious issue. I had first noticed it when trying to view my friend's blog. The top little line on top that usually has your username and dashboard options were not viewable.
However when I went to another friend's blog, it was ok. So I figured it wasn't really a problem. However, on my blog it happened again.
Ok, I can deal with some aesthetic issues. As long as I can blog, I don't mind. After all, I hadn't blogged for a long time so it might have had something to do with my inactivity. Who knows?
Anyway, I logged in to blog and.... I realised that I could not see any of the formatting options!
NooOoOoOoooOOOO!
So I was about to give up on posting (as I simply was not gonna post an unformatted blog) when I came across this thread on blogger.
Seems like it's a Singnet problem!! What the heck....... Anyway, I skimmed through it and there were a few rather techie solutions like adjusting proxy settings. I was rather reluctant to do that.... when I came across a solution that says "press CTRL and F5 to refresh the page without caching".
I gave it a try and... it works!! So now I can format my post.... but that line on top of my blog page is still showing gibberish.
So once again..
PRESS CTRL+F5 !!
Improving Taxi Ridership
Recently, there had been a couple of articles on the taxi companies having campaigns to encourage people to take taxis more often. This seems rather odd to me since they had raised fares dramatically back in 2007. One would naturally assume that with increased fares, there would be lesser people willing to take taxis. Now they are spending money on campaigns to encourage taxi ridership?
I think that it is worth encouraging people to take taxis, because I am assuming that people who are likely to take taxis are the ones who are likely to buy cars. Assuming that these people found that taking taxis are no longer economical as compared to buying their own car, they would rather go buy their own car. This means that there would be one more car on the road.
A taxi is different, assuming that 20% (rough estimate based on the 80/20 rule) of the people who take taxis are likely to buy their own car and further assuming that a taxi has 10 passengers a day... then we have 2 people per taxi who would otherwise have bought a car.
So how do we encourage people to take taxis? Lucky Draws? Loyalty points? Lower fares? I think that lowering fares is the most direct way to do it. In fact, if we use the 80/20 rule again... assuming that fares are reduced substantially, we would possibly see a 20% reduction in the number of private vehicles on the road.
However, I would not know if this result is desired in the big picture of the people who plan such things.
Also, if taxi fares were to be reduced, it goes without saying that taxi rental for the taxi drivers should be reduced as well.
I say, cut the campaigns and cut the fares.
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Recently, there had been a couple of articles on the taxi companies having campaigns to encourage people to take taxis more often. This seems rather odd to me since they had raised fares dramatically back in 2007. One would naturally assume that with increased fares, there would be lesser people willing to take taxis. Now they are spending money on campaigns to encourage taxi ridership?
I think that it is worth encouraging people to take taxis, because I am assuming that people who are likely to take taxis are the ones who are likely to buy cars. Assuming that these people found that taking taxis are no longer economical as compared to buying their own car, they would rather go buy their own car. This means that there would be one more car on the road.
A taxi is different, assuming that 20% (rough estimate based on the 80/20 rule) of the people who take taxis are likely to buy their own car and further assuming that a taxi has 10 passengers a day... then we have 2 people per taxi who would otherwise have bought a car.
So how do we encourage people to take taxis? Lucky Draws? Loyalty points? Lower fares? I think that lowering fares is the most direct way to do it. In fact, if we use the 80/20 rule again... assuming that fares are reduced substantially, we would possibly see a 20% reduction in the number of private vehicles on the road.
However, I would not know if this result is desired in the big picture of the people who plan such things.
Also, if taxi fares were to be reduced, it goes without saying that taxi rental for the taxi drivers should be reduced as well.
I say, cut the campaigns and cut the fares.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
British Council Teaching Award
I had been thinking of getting some certification in teaching English for a long time. Right now I'm also contemplating whether I should really take up the B.A. in Translation and Interpretation offered by SIM. My main concern is that my Chinese grades were never that good. I can read and speak but writing sucks.
I wanted to get a CELTA, but I wasn't sure if I could tough it out and the course schedule doesn't fit my schedule. So I wrote in and British Council suggested that I try the Teaching Awards. It's modular so you can just pick whichever modules you like and go for the relevant awards.
I decided to make a chart so that I can see the module spread a little bit more easily.
Since I have already made it, I shall share it with you... if you are so inclined to click on the link.
Silverelf's British Council (Singapore) Teaching Awards Chart
Gonna cost a pretty penny and take up quite some time too!! I currently have Japanese to deal with so I don't think I will take up the Teaching Awards anytime soon.
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I had been thinking of getting some certification in teaching English for a long time. Right now I'm also contemplating whether I should really take up the B.A. in Translation and Interpretation offered by SIM. My main concern is that my Chinese grades were never that good. I can read and speak but writing sucks.
I wanted to get a CELTA, but I wasn't sure if I could tough it out and the course schedule doesn't fit my schedule. So I wrote in and British Council suggested that I try the Teaching Awards. It's modular so you can just pick whichever modules you like and go for the relevant awards.
I decided to make a chart so that I can see the module spread a little bit more easily.
Since I have already made it, I shall share it with you... if you are so inclined to click on the link.
Silverelf's British Council (Singapore) Teaching Awards Chart
Gonna cost a pretty penny and take up quite some time too!! I currently have Japanese to deal with so I don't think I will take up the Teaching Awards anytime soon.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Blue
I tried blogging about my trip to Chaozhou but it was rather eventful. The post would disappear and stuff and by the third time, I just plain gave up.
Well, the trip was quite cool. I didn't really go to many pretty places or stuff, but I rather enjoyed it. I stayed at my relative's place and I'm telling you, everything was taken care of. I felt so spoiled. The weather was cool (my parents kept saying it'd be hot). We had tea (chinese tea, in case you were thinking otherwise) EVERYWHERE. In case you don't know, us Teochews are like addicted to tea. Tea flows in our blood.
Except that I have a friend who is the combination of the greatest tea drinkers in the East and the West and she is allergic to Tea. Hmmm.
Never figured that I had so many relatives. It's almost scary, because I am not used to having many relatives. I don't even mix with any relatives here in Singapore.
I kinda skipped out on the DORSCON orange period. I was overseas for the duration of that. When I came back it was Yellow. H1N1 has almost everyone in a mess, but I guess we won't really know if teh current SARS procedures are effective against H1N1. Do we really think that we can keep H1N1 out? H1N1 will happen to us and it already did.
Yesterday I went to the airport and someone mentioned that I should be careful, in case I get H1N1 from the airport. I should think that the greatest chance of getting H1N1 will be from the MRT which is packed like sardines almost the whole day, and not the airport which is relative airy (not a pun).
Work wise, getting pissed. Ask me in person or over MSN if you wanna know. Would love to blog about it but it goes against what I advise people. Maybe it'll work out tomorrow. And I'll stop being pissed.
Getting emo! Anyway I have exams for the next three days and I'm supposd to be studying for it.... but uhm..... I hadn't. lol. Typical.
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I tried blogging about my trip to Chaozhou but it was rather eventful. The post would disappear and stuff and by the third time, I just plain gave up.
Well, the trip was quite cool. I didn't really go to many pretty places or stuff, but I rather enjoyed it. I stayed at my relative's place and I'm telling you, everything was taken care of. I felt so spoiled. The weather was cool (my parents kept saying it'd be hot). We had tea (chinese tea, in case you were thinking otherwise) EVERYWHERE. In case you don't know, us Teochews are like addicted to tea. Tea flows in our blood.
Except that I have a friend who is the combination of the greatest tea drinkers in the East and the West and she is allergic to Tea. Hmmm.
Never figured that I had so many relatives. It's almost scary, because I am not used to having many relatives. I don't even mix with any relatives here in Singapore.
I kinda skipped out on the DORSCON orange period. I was overseas for the duration of that. When I came back it was Yellow. H1N1 has almost everyone in a mess, but I guess we won't really know if teh current SARS procedures are effective against H1N1. Do we really think that we can keep H1N1 out? H1N1 will happen to us and it already did.
Yesterday I went to the airport and someone mentioned that I should be careful, in case I get H1N1 from the airport. I should think that the greatest chance of getting H1N1 will be from the MRT which is packed like sardines almost the whole day, and not the airport which is relative airy (not a pun).
Work wise, getting pissed. Ask me in person or over MSN if you wanna know. Would love to blog about it but it goes against what I advise people. Maybe it'll work out tomorrow. And I'll stop being pissed.
Getting emo! Anyway I have exams for the next three days and I'm supposd to be studying for it.... but uhm..... I hadn't. lol. Typical.
