chu3

Chu 3

My goodness. Its chu3 liao. Meaning school will starts tml. How? I'm still in a festive mood. I haven't finished bai nian or gamble. They should extent the holidays to the whole of this week. Going back to school really sux.

Oh well. Should be doing my snowballing school stuff now and not slack nw. But now is still chu 3. The rest of the stuff can put on hold first. Some recaps:

chu 1: went over to grandma's place to bai nian. there's lot of relatives that i haven't seen for ages but still, we need some ice-breaker session. the grown-ups just engaged in their conservation while the youths are stoning there. just waiting for things to happen. afterall i meet most of my relatives during important occasions so aren't really close. haha.
After that, i went over to sk's hse to gamble. the gathering of my sec sch frenx. lose money but xiao aci bu qu, da cai bu ru right?

chu 2: sleeping half of my day away. Too tired frm the nite gambling. Didm't do much for the day apart frm gamble again. Haha. this time round is mahjong. lucky this time round i won money. quite heng.

chu3: my jc clique came knocking on my door. had a great time sharing juicy news and updates of their lives. time may be short so cherish the moment. after which we went over to yz's hse, mr goh's hse and finally my dear Xl's hse. her hse is really damm big sia. just like a si wai tao yuan. haha. when you settled down in sg, i must pay u more visit. *evil smile. haha.

That's all. An unusual email for all of you to see:


At 09:46 PM 13/01/2006, you wrote:
>excuse me, can we shift our exam time one day earlieron Feburary 13th? it
>is valentine's day on Feburary 14th.
>thanks for regard!
>happy new year and best wishes!
>
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> > Dear Corporate Finance students,
> >
> > The exam for 333302 Corporate Finance will be held on:
> >
> > TUESDAY 14TH FEBRUARY at 9.30AM with 15 minutes reading time
commencing at
> > 9:15 am. It is a 3 hour exam.
> >
> >>EXAM VENUE
> >>
> >>The venue is a hotel called: Arrow on Swanston, 488 Swanston Street,
> >>Carlton (corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets).
> >>Several conference rooms will be where the exams will be sat, which holds
> >>250-300 students at one time.?At this stage, we do not have any more
> >>information as to which rooms are being used. Student Administration will
> >>advise departments from the 1st February, wand we will then advise you of
> >>the exact arrangement.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dr Sean Pinder
> > Department of Finance
> > University of Melbourne
> > Victoria?3010
> > Australia

Subject: Re: Corproate Finance exam
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Date:牋?Mon, January 16, 2006 9:54 am
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>>excuse me, can we shift our exam time one day earlieron Feburary 13th? it
>>is valentine's day on Feburary 14th.
>>thanks for regard!
>>happy new year and best wishes!


Dear Li,

This is such an important question that I felt that it would be important
to answer to all students who may be affected by the very serious
predicament of an exam being held on the morning of Valentines Day. Hence:

Dear all students (and especially those who may be romantically involved
with another),

In setting the exam date for corporate finance I thought long and hard
about the impact of it coinciding with Valentines Day. Would exam
preparation be affected by shopping for perfume, flowers or the latest
Anthony Callea cd? What about young lovers who planned on meeting for an
early morning latte, a sugar-coated biscotti and a sharing of the Age's
Epicure section at Brunetti's? Isn't life hard enough without having all
the joy of the international day of lovers taken away by some cold-hearted
academic eager to finish the exam period off and get to his summer chalet
in Dromana? For who was I to stand in the way of young love, for wasn't I
also young once?

With grim resolve, steely determination, a stiff upper lip, a hand of fate,
a nose for trouble, a tennis elbow and an eye for detail I put forward my
claim on behalf of the lovestruck to the Grand Poobah of exam timetabling:
"He-who-must-not-be-named-but-who-enjoys-setting-exams-for-large-classes-late-in-the-exam-period-so-as-to-frustrate-lecturers-in-charge".
In his infinite wisdom he replied:

"But Sean, what of our students of Italian, Chinese or Brazilian origin?
For surely you know that in ancient Rome it was the festival of Lupercus,
the god of fertility that was celebrated by young lovers on the 15th (not
the 14th) of February. In China, Valentines day is superceded by "The Night
of Sevens" (being the 7th day of the 7th month of the lunar calender) and
in Brazil, June 12th marks the date of celebrating "Dia dos Namorados"
(lit. "Day of the enamored", or "Boyfriend's/Girlfriend's Day"). Surely my
friend, you are not suggesting that we alienate young lovers from each of
these other important members of the university community?"?[Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine's_Day]

So, with head bowed and with great contrition I apologised to
"He-who-must-not etc" for interrupting his musings on whether to set the
next lot of the exams under the clocks at Flinders Street Station, in the
Great Southern Stand at the MCG or in the roundabout on the corner of
Elizabeth street and Royal Parade and returned to my office.

Students, and (specifically Li) know this: I fought law and the law won,
you have to know when to hold and know when to fold them, love is a
battlefield. Now it is up to you to put it behind you, to show that true
love can't be beaten by a three hour exam, even with an additional 15
minutes reading time.

Study hard friends.

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IT's CNY

IT's CNY

Finally CNY. Quite a long holiday this year considering the fact that holidays includes chu3 too. Just back frm watching "Fearless' with yz n jeff. Quite a show worth watching. This movie is themed jet lee's last martial act movie. Action-packed show. But the storyline is kinda what u expect. If you want to know then go and watch the show lor.

Guess that most ppl should be still awake now. Legends have this story abt one should not sleep early on cny eve cos this will help to prolong your parents' lifespan. But then it's just a supersition. You can choose not to believe it. Some ppl should be either at chinatown, gambling, out with friends or meetin zhou gong. Whaha. Well hope everyone will enjoy this few days and HUAT when gambling.

Just meet up with jh to get some stuff. Nice catching up with him. Even though im not very close to him, but there's still quite a lot of things to catch up like uni life, life in 21SA back then and the workload in uni now. Well how times flies manz. Before we knew it we are already in the year of Sparky. (I duno how the year of DOG become sparky, can someone pls enlighten me?)

And once again i encounter another problem ytd. When i shop for stuff, they dont have my size again. So suay. i rem me encountering this problem many many times liao. So most of the time i ended up with my 2nd choice purchase or nth at all. Sad right?

Yz just reminded me that there's a long march on chu3. haha. Long march is a practice whereby we go house to house to collect hongbaos. I forgot when this practice is born. But i tink im the one who came up with this term. Speaking of the joy of receiving. Lol.

Though this shd be a happy start, but my dear reb has fallen sick. You better take care and abstrain yourself from unhealthy food. This year is supposed to be quite a good year for 'TIGERS'. Those in the year of RAT, PIG and OX should enjoy goof fortune. But this year isnt a good year for DRAGOn. Wonder how true is it?

Oh well now im wide awake. Must be the afternoon nap i took just now. Nth much to do now also. i shall post some pics to liven up my blog.

The story goes:
Venue: Northvale
Objective: To help someone exericise.

Me getting ready for the battle of the century.

I'm all geared up. Can you all see the tennis ball?

Will be making a twisted serve. haha.

See the tennis ball? The ball becomes ovalish instead of round.

Amazing right? Lol.

With that move well-executed, my opponent has no choice but to let me perfect an ACE shot.

I'm in such a serious posture you know.

The pretty photographer and the forever shuai me of cos.

An extraordinary day at tennis court.

Mr. 81

Mr. 81

Oh my goodness. Kobe Bryant just scored 81 pts in a match against Raptors. Is he really that good or raptors too cui liao? Years back he was touted as jordan's successor but till now he still can't emulate the greatness of jordan who has won 6 championsip rings. Well perhaps im biased against kobe but i don't think he's that good. He may be enjoying a fine run of form at the moment but this is at the expense of his teamates. Basketball should be a team game and this incident has reflected how selfish kobe is. He took on the scoring load, making his teamates look so medicore. I won't want to be in such a team. From my perception, he has looked down on his teamates who i tink are decent players. Just because he has won championship before doesn't give him to right to look down on his average teammates. So is he a hero?

Well this has triggered my thinking cap. In this society, there's definitely disparity in terms of abilities. To go for individual glory or team glory, that's your call. But one should see what situation one is in. For eg, i dun like ppl who try to act smart or xu wei. If you are good, just say so. Don't need to act humble. If you got no ability to speak of, pls do not fooled the others. You no need to put down others down just to cheng tuo yourself.

Capricorn

Capricorn

A man in this Zodiac will has a pair of round big beautiful eyes, a nice structure jaw line. He is a good listener and can understand everything easily and clearly. He can guess what you will say before you even say it. He often shakes his head or touches his hair. He is a big built, but he will tend to have a small ear. He tends to have a darker shade of hair and eyes' colour. He will likely have a short and strong neck, broad shoulder,muscular, strong hands and grips. He has a shorter fingers compare to the man of the same size and sameheight in the other zodiac. His hands can work well at the same time can protect and care for his woman.

His height will be proportional to his weight. He will walk firmly and always take a big long step. As he walkshe will look around in caution with no disturbance from his problems at present or in the past. He likes to watch things built with fascinate and wonder about how it is done, so you could see him watching aconstruction site and not get bored.

It is his luck that he hardly has to chase after woman. They always come themselves without his invitation. Helikes to treat his guest in his house than visiting his guest at their house. He does not like to be a centre ofattention, so if you need his help, you have to look up for him. He lives his life in stability and simplicity. Everydecision made are already "Sure" and carefully thought out. He will not do what he has been asked to do if heis not interested in doing it. He acts casually but in reality, he always doing things seriously.

He loves peaceful and quiet environment so in his free time, he will stay at home instead of going out andlook for adventure. He loves nature and dreams of a nice and quiet house with lots of trees, or he may dreamof a house in a beautiful countryside.

He will let you have freedoms and watching you in a distance. If you are over doing something, he will let youknow by his icy cold look. He is the perfect lover in the entire Zodiac for nothing he will not do for his love one.He won't allow people to laugh at him or think he is a joker, so he will spent for himself luxury for what it is worth.

He likes neat and well dressed woman, so do not be a slop if you are dating this guy. If you do that he willloose his face. He is the romantic type who would dance with you under the moon light.

Love will make him shines and you will see it in his face. He will not say it out loud, you have to know it yourself.

My horoscope: courtesy from Ada. Well don't take it seriously since some of the stuff mentioned isn't true. So who wants to read their own horoscope?

New template

New template

Finally changed my template. Nice ornot? Not nice also must say nice hor. Anyway seldom blog nowadays cos there's quite a lot of stuff to be done and don't really feel like blogging. Finally the weather has changed for the better and the sun had decided to stop skiving. The sun had been taking MC for the past few weeks lor. Time for the sun to do more work. This also means that i can swim and play tennis due to this favourable weather. Shiok right? Defintely better than raining whole day long.

So what have i been up to lately? Just a small recap. Been doing canvassing AKA karang guni for the past 2 weekends. The first was at sengkang and can you believe it that it rained the whole day? Everyone who was involved in it was drenched and a few of us fallen sick. Whay a day to do karang guni. After that week, we did another karang guni at sembawang. The weather was good but my dear kc put me in her grp. Well for this karang guni thing right, we are divided into groups and each group are supposed to collect old newspapers or clothing from the blocks allocated. But strangly im involved in several grps all thankx to kc n rh. haha. Must special mention both of your names. Dont worry. No grudge. Afterall it is more like a bonding session instead of canvassing since the money earned is quite pathetic. To those in main comm: what will life be w/o these few enthu, loving, adorable subcommers? Haha.

Also, there was this morning that something drama happened. I took a train to boon lay mrt. Then guessed what happened? There was this lady who got up from her seat and knocked against my elblow. Upon the impact, she fall back to her seat and and lying there. For a second, I was stunned. I thought she concussed from the impact and i wanted to help her up. But before i could help her, she got up herself. Then i just apologise to her even though im not in a wrong but it wont hurt to apologize right? What a morning to begin with. The moral of story: Look before you get up from your seat. Don't be so engrossed in your own world.

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Sianzz, it's time to meet up with my gangs of tutorials. I'm lagging behind school work but still enjoying life. Somemore next wk is CNY liao. Time for hongbaos and CNY marathon. xl rem to contact me when you arrived back in sg. And rh, you enjoyed your life in aussie and we will help you to take your hongbaos. Hope that i will ahve a windfall this year. Whaha.

A season of bdays

A season of Bdays

omg, didn't know I never update this blog for so long liao. There's lots of stuff to be done lately. To name a few, canvassing, meet-ups and gatherings.

Have a belated-bday celebration at bukit panjang plaza again. Thankx to lcm for arranging this. Felt so loved. Haha. Anyway bukit panjang plaza had changed quite a lot. Now there's lots of stuff there. You ppl shd check out the place when you are free.

Some updates of me.
Chilling at holland V with chris,wl and des. Thankx for the bday treat. This journey has been made possible by our very own mazda 3 owner, mr ong weilun.

On the 6th, received some surpises. Didn't expect shuqin to give me a bday present. Afterall i didn't know her that well. Surprise no.2 : presents n card frm lecture grp clique. Didnt know that they know my bday sia. Thought this year no1 will rem since i keep it a low-key event. Appreciate all the efforts.

Then after lessons, i spend the rest of the day wif reb. Nth fanciful but we managed to finish a cake. Unbelievable right? My stomach so full until the extent that i couldn't eat anymore despite my greediness. Haha.

Meet up with another army frenx for another bday celebration. This time round is at changing appetite at marina sq. My first visit there and i tink the food is so so only. Appreciate the efforts for organising this.

Went for canvassing on sun at sengkang. It rained the whole day, can you believe it? That's my first visit to sengkang and lucky ada's fren had a shorter route frm cck to sengkang. Sengkang is sooo far. Did some karang guni at there but i was wet most of the times. The rain jus refused to stop and we are at the mercy of the weather. Hope that the coming sun canvassing the rain will stop.

Anyway i have some reflections. In a relationship, it's always gd to show appreciation and to be appreciated. Some ppl tends to be carried by other events in their life and tends to neglect the close fren ard them. Some ppl tend to be closer to the frenx they made in new environment instead of making efforts to maintain the relationship with old frenx. Some ppl dun even know how to 'zuo ren' and this will only make the efforts of the peers ard them to be unappreciated.

Oh well that's some reflections and for this yr, it seems to be my bday everyday. Thankx to my frenx for the treats and the gifts. Really appreciated this.

2006

2006

What am i blogging at such an unearthly hour? I just reach back home not long ago and nw waiting for hair to dry. 2005 had ended with a bang but 2006 has begin with sorrow. When i need cab that time, there wasn't any cab in sight. To make things worst, all cab companies phone lines are engaged. How to go home like that? I want to spend money also cannot. There's lots of cabs out there in the streets but to my dismay, all is either on call or busy. What the hell! What are all the phone operators doing? And Comfort which is supposed to have the largest fleets of cabs is not doing its job well either. Arghhh. Normally i can just flag a cab anytime i want. What a bad start in 2006! What is life w/o a car? Damn bad experience with cabs. Anyway in the end i managed to flag a cab to get home. Life is so funny.

Enough of my complaints. Just have my countdown at indoor stadium. There's a ABC beer countdown party over there and I'm supposed to help out with the things there. Unique way of countdown right? Don't ask me for my salary cos every sweat i perspired goes to foc fund. Noble right?

Actually the job is quite slack. After doing some manual work, the foc gang went to skive. We went to go and watch the concert instead. Haha.The guests for the night are all chinese singers. Dick and cowboy, wang jie and grasshoppers. They used to be very popular but now, i doubt ppl still rem them. However some of their songs still remain the all time favourite. Anymore lobang for concert helpers? I want!!! The money is good and i get to skive and see celebrities too. Perhaps there's helpers needed in the upcoming sun yanzi's concert?