Chapter 106

IT’S TIME FOR UPDATE!!!

Wahahahahaha….

Dearies who are having monster exams now…
HANG IN THERE!!! It’s half way through!!
After which will be FUN TIME!!!

Was blog-hopping before this and it seems like everyone is blogging about gaining pounds in this exam period…
Haha… And I’m not of any exception!!!
The sheer determination for a diet plan never fails to give way to PROCRASTINATION!!
HELP!!! I need a shed-some-pounds-overnite pill…
I mean shed-SUPERLOTSOF-pounds-overnite pill…

And stamina… Totally drained!!!
Even panting after I climb the overheadbridge!!! You know how serious this is!!!
(Don’t laugh Kohhuishan!!!)
Oh my goooderness… I seriously miss the *BASELINE!!!* days…
Routine 4km runs, pyramid runs, SUICIDES!!!
Though much dreaded but at least I’m left with no choice but to KEEP FIT!!!

Last Sat, after work which ended pretty early…
I headed home with nothing much to do…
Just laze around and when I suddenly found myself in bed, falling asleep….
I was like,
” Sleeping is such a waste of time and what the hell am I doing in bed….”

WOW!!! WEEET!!!
Can you imagine me saying that to myself…
And you know what!!
I actually jump out of my bed, got changed and went for a RUN!!!
hahahahaha!!! *ahem*
AND….. I actually went GYM-ing after that almost die-d run TOO!!!

*weeWEET**weeWEET*

Even though this happen only once in a PINK moon…
At least there’s the ONCE okay!!!

So morale of the story is…

WEELITING can do it… So can YOU!!!

Hahahah… Okay let’s just stop at this and not go into what I ate for dinner after that…

HAHAHAHA!!!

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Monday!!
It’s a MUST-blog…
I really felt quite proud of myself that day…
After work, I headed to the RHB bank alone to settle my bank loans…
Cause Dad is occupied with work, I’ve to do everything myself…
Was sitting down with the personal banker, quite a nice guy….
Going through the details in the contract…
Understanding all the terms and repayment modes and all the ‘chim-malogy’ cumulative interest thingy…
Haha… I was able to absorb most of the details and explain to my Dad bit-by-bit that night…

Never did I felt this independent before…
From making BIG decisions from the start, to applying for IELTS english test, to sourcing for bank loans, signing contracts, preparing submission of documents after documents…

我真的长大了呢! Haha!!

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Tuesday!!
After work… Went to the bank again to hand in the necessary documents…
But this time round, YY left the office tgt with me so she actually acc me there…
We grabbed a bite at J.Co donuts and just chatted for awhile before heading home…

Hey girl…
We had a fair share of good times together even though it was only for that few months…
*Scissors, paper, stone*, Siglap, buddy-friend-ing… Haha…
Go for what you really want to pursue…
And be responsible for all your decisions…
Ultimately, you choose how you wanna paint your own future=)
Creator. Create your own future.
All e best ya!!

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Wednesday!!
Working-out session with Eugenia after work…
Haha… Been sometime since we last meet up…

Yes right!! keeping fit!!!
But I still can’t control my junk food consumption!!! Haha….
More sessions pls…

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Thursday!!
Had dinner with Mummy at the newly opened Jap foodcourt at Northpoint 2…
The food’s not bad… But the place is small and squeezy and super packed!!!
Went exploring… Haha.. Quite Cool…
AND WHERE IS MY SUBWAY!!!!
CALLING OUT TO NORTHPOINT SHOPPING CENTER MANAGEMENT!!!
PLEASE OPEN ONE OVER HERE!!!!
ELLO!! ELLO!!! CAN YOU HEAR ME!!!
I WANT MY COLD CUT TRIO AND SUBWAY MELT!!!
SHANK YEW YOU!!!

Before we head home,
we saw this very very very kelian de old ah ma selling packet tissue…
So we went forward to buy from her…
I was telling mummy sincerely,

“Mummy…. I will never let you lead this kind of selling tissue life in future…”

She must be feeling like *AISEH!!! HAHA* and she went smiling away…

Then I naughtily jokingly went,

“But I dun mind you go pick cardboard.” HAHAHAHHA….

Then the next moment, she PIAK MY BACK SUPER LOUD and stared at me with a you-dare-hurh kind of expression…

HAHAHA… Quite funny…
Joking only larh… I swear I wun let my parents lead this kind of life de lorh…
Haha….

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Friday!!!
It’s a happening, motivating, satisfying Interview day today…
The number of interviewees turning up for interview today was indeed record-breaking the whole time I am here….
Juice by Cerrin… 2hours plus NON-STOP interviewing!!! *clapclaps*
Haha… No time for weewee in the loo even…
Just let the number of application forms seen below do all the talking….

Interesting interviewees today…
One that left a great impact on me and a SUPER GREAT impact on Cerrin…
Haha… was a very poor thing guy with his 4year old sister…
Hopefully we can really find some means to help him out…. =)

After work, acc Cerrin to get her tix at Lavender…
Then it was dinner at Blue Jazz…
We had a good laugh over alot of kiddy things… HAHAHA!!!

Clifton came over to join us…
Plans for xmas coming up…
SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN!!!!

CAN’T WAIT FOR THE END OF 08!!! wEeEeEt!!!

DECEMBER HAPPENINGS!!!
*JC peeps ZOO outing, Beach Volley @ Sentosa… (Midst of organizing=D)
*PAINTBALL!!
*YX Bdae Bash
*Dearest Koh’s Birthday!!! (heh… haha… )
*Chua Kit BDAE!!!
*lao Woo belated 19th!! haha…
*Llab10 Annual General Meeting
*Xmas Celebration!
*RMIT enrolment briefing
*Cousin’s wedding dinner
*Shopping shopping and more shopping for school next year.. *wink*
*Daddy’s birthday

Chapter 105

RANDOM POST ALERT!!

COM CRASHED! INTERNET DOWN!!!
For the past few days…

Until Didi exhibits his ‘mechanical’ skills as he always does…
Dismantling the CPU and plucking wires in and out…

AND POOF!!!

The CPU EXPLODED!!!!

haha… not so kua zhang larh…
Just that there’s a loud BOOM! n there were sparks…

Kor came back and they brought the stuff for servicing…
Haha… Finally… Our computer is back… Alive and kicking!!

So… It had been working and home and working and home…
Lun and Shan where are you guys!!!!
Stop hiding!!! Come out now!!

I’m feeling super duper bad…
Been missing work for TWO days due to stupid reasons…
Invalid and irresponsible reasons…
But I cant bring myself to leave things as it is at home…
Shucks… Importance is overtaking responsibility…
I hate to balance… Neither way is the right way…

Study loan is under processing…
Hopefully the bank hasten their pace in processing so I can be in time for my first payment…
If not… Say goodbye to my savings… =(

One and a half more months to go…
AND school is starting for me!!! WAHAHAHA…
2009 is coming… Come fast… I want to leave 08 behind…

Every year, there’s bound to be something significant to remember…
Something that you will go HEY… that’s the year….

Secondary school times was NETBALL NETBALL NETBALL…
haha… The AI Netball Team!!!

JC times was 2406 and my SOLID clique of friends…

2008… Certainly it has got to be the PVI-ians!!!
If it wasn’t for the company, the fun, the people and the happenings…
I wouldn’t be able to set my mind aside from time to time, away from those down periods…
When everyone is back in school…
When everyone is asking Hey, why aren’t you studying now…
Oh.. Cause I couldn’t get in…
When everyone is talking about UNI life during meetups and gatherings…
I could only sit and listen…

Their company made me felt at ease…
Cause I dun have to worry about putting up a fake front which is really tiring…
And NO… I’m not taking them for granted just because I’m seeking an alternative zone…
I totally treasure the times with them cause they are sincere in their words…
They were there to listen when things are going wrong…
They were the ones who taught me about thinking far, long term goals…
And what I really want in life…

When I first stepped in…
I realised my own positivity was so small… PEANUTS!! small ones… haha…
There’s so much to learn, so much to absorb…
So much is needed to accomplish big things…
They really made me see alot of light bulbs the whole time I was here…
*DING!!* *ding!!* *DING!!*

haha… You guys know who you are=)
Thanx so muchie…
You guys were the ones to light up my darkest moments this year…
And I really appreciate that alot=)
Looking forward to a HAPPENING YEAR END!!

JUICE!!

Chapter 104

HELLO WORLD!!

I’m here to announced a good news…
Finally after months of tense and complicated and tough and lonely decisions made…

I’ve been offered a place in SIM-RMIT Bach of Business (Mgmt) programme!!!

Finally a load off my chest… Wahahahaha….
I could seriously hear my own heart thumping when dad left me in suspense over the phone…

School’s gonna start on 5th Jan next year…

I’M GOING TO SCHOOL EVERYONE…

Gna join in the UNI-LIFE gang like finally….

So what if it’s SIM…
So what if the cert is not that recognised…
I’m studying what I like…
And I believe that is the only reliable source of MOTIVATION to handle tough uni life…

BUT!!!!

I’m freaking super stressed now over the school fees…
I wanna cry can!!!
But I can’t…. This is the consequence of my own choice…
And I have to face it… Coz I MADE THAT CHOICE…

Not talking about being unable to get a loan here or anything like that…

I’m talking about the consequence I have to face after graduation…
Yes! 3 years from now…
So why bother get so worked up and stressed…

It’s about thinking far…
The future…
And making plans before I start struggling over the repayment modes after graduation…

Let me just break down my situation…

I’m getting a loan from RHB BANK…
Under my dad’s name… Coz I’m still under 21 years of age…

The total course fees payable for entire 3 year course is $31,843.20
(this excludes the exam fees and membership fees and materials for study)

So we’re gonna take up a loan of $35,000…

Under the standard repayment option,
it is a basic scheme where Dad is supposed to pay by monthly installment (principal and interest) once the loan is disbursed…

Which also means…
Upon receiving the loan Dad have to start paying to the bank a certain sum of money every month for 120 months, that is 10 FREAKING YEARS!!!

For a gross loan of $35,000 and a 4.68% interest…
For 1 month, the amt to pay the bank is $366.

So let’s do some calculations here…

1 month – $366
120months – $366 x 120 = $43,920

And this also goes to say…
I’m in debt of $43,920 to my Daddy upon graduation…

$43,920!!!!! That’s ALOT OF MONEY CAN….

Dad is okay with all the loans and stuff…
I’m just super worried about my future…

$43,920 deficit… And I’m 23 years of age then…

Say the MOST i could go the moment I stepped out to work…
Repaying $500 every month…
This is possible only when I’m earning more than $2k per month…
All my expenditure and allowance and stuff… Oh my gooderness…
Can I go live in an island???

Okay…
$500 per month.
$43,920 / $500 = 87.84 months to fully clear my study fees

87.84 / 12 = that’s freaking 7.5 years!!!

By then I’m 30 years of age…
And my current balance is ZERO!!!!

What’s gonna happen to my long-term goals…
My car… My 1st million… Haha… Okay abit over…
Shhh…. but that’s really my long term goal okay….

Seriously fretting over this issue…
Cause I know this is not the kind of life I wanna live next time,
in debt for my study fees till the age of 30!!

But what am I gonna do about it….

Robabank??
Go some ulu kuku place and be a queen there??
HAHAHA… What shit….

I made this choice…
So I’ve to face this consequence…
I don’t regret… But what I need now is a direction…

A plan to make things better for myself in the future…

I don’t think I’m thinking too much…
Being prepared… That’s what should be the case….

MONEY MONEY!!! DROP FROM SKY BAH!!! hahahaha….

Chapter 103

BIG WALK 2008 – Sunday 02 Nov 2008

Presenting to you the BIG WALKERS… LiJie, Cerrin, Clifton n ME!!

The night before was spent at Lun’s place with ShiHui and Ant…
Didn’t slept the whole night and headed for this event on Sunday morning…
Exciting upon reaching Suntec to see the area packed with big walkers…

ALOT of people you know!!!

We hustle and bulldozed our way thru the crowd…
And POOF!!! 1km down!!

Having Fun along the way… We reached the Marina Barage…

Haha… Juice by us we got onto the free feeder bus really fast…
Headed back to suntec to collect goodie bag…
After which Clifton drove us to Tiong Bahru for lunch…

Haha… And it was still MORNING OKAY!!!
We were thinking where to go after that…
In the end we settled for CYCLING at East Coast…

Clifton and his stupid bike hollow seat joke…
And his poncho friend…
HAHAHA… made us all laugh like crazy…

Even though we were feeling a little tired already…
We sat down and played some games at the stone table…
Soon it started raining…
And it’s HOME SWEET HOME!!!

Healthy and Fun and Exciting day out with the guys…
Looking forward for the upcoming Botanic Picnic!!!
Wahahahaha..

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NOVEMBER!! NOVEMBER!! NOVEMBER!!

Positive result = IT SHOULD BE THE CASE

So I expected a no-feeling kind of hweeling….
Relieved instead of ecstatic…
2 weeks!!!

Hahaa… Okay… PAY DAY!!! wahahahaha…
Getting excited over earning money and having fun are few ways of drifting myself away from what I was expected to be doing during this time of the year…
Haha… Brought Mummy and didi to makan sushi today…
Bought him a headphone I promised to buy fer him after his exam too…

Work can get quite boring when it comes to being alone in the office…
Haha…. That makes Interview days even FUN-ner… Lolxzxz
*PORM* hahahah… (inside joke)

Today’s interview was HAPPENING!!!
I really felt a KICK man…
The office line was really hot… haha.. hotline… okay not funny…
Busy but satisfying….
We’re into the growing period!!!

Let’s ROCK AND ROW AND FLIP AND TURN THE BOAT LIKE CRAZY…
It’s been quite some time #05-00A seriously made some NOISE…
So… PVI peeps whoever is gna see this…

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Share your similarities… Celebrate your differences…
You need togetherness because you don’t always win.
You need togetherness because you need to hang in there and pull through together…

There is only one end of year 2008 in a lifetime…
We control how we want it to end…
Start your engine!!! *VROOM!!!*
Together we steer towards a common destination!!!

Chapter 102

Hey world…
It’s the end of yet another week…
Marching into the month of November…
It also meant the answer to whether I’m going back to school will be reveal real soon…

Tense?? Excited?? Maybe…
But I’m quite confident the result will be positive…
Let’s hope this is really the case…
I’ve already tried all means to increase this probability…
So… Just try your best, Let Guan-Yin-Ma do the rest… *wink*

I seriously made no plans if things were to turn out otherwise…
I have no more optimism to face another disappointment anymore… So…

It has been 2 weeks since my last entry… Haha…
Let me try to recall…

Last Sunday…
Meetup with the JC friends…
Partyworld was first… Followed by a lunch get together…
And then Lun’s place for mahjong…
ShiHui came along and we had zi-char for dinner… CEREAL PRAWNS!!!

Shall not go into the teeny weeny details.. haha…
PAINTBALL soon!!! wahahahaha…

Gastric flu monster came knocking at my door this week…
Hell!!! But I survived!!! WeeEeT…

TanLiJie finally turned 18 on Wed… Haha…
Thur nite the girls headed for dinner and a chilling session together…
The whole thing was quite hilarious…

There’s me, Sam, Lulu, YX, Lijie…
We went chilling out at an open area near esplanade…
So… Sam was staring real hard at this little black thing that camouflage itself in the gravel…
Hahahaha… And when it started to dash it’s way through…
Screams from Sam simply made the rest scream along and jump around…
Even when some are oblivious to what is happening…
Hahaha… Super funny…

And it didn’t happen for only once… But twice… Lolxzx…
It’s really amazing how fate can bring all strangers together…
Different school, different age, different interests, coming from different areas of Singapore…
If not for PVI, we would past each other as total strangers…
Let alone sitting down together to chill for hours…

Photos up soon…

Yesterday was Halloween!!
Nite out with PVI peeps to Laguna…
Reached home at close to 3am…
Close shave… *Phew*

There’s supposed to be volleyball today with the JC gang…
But I kinda overslept and it was kinda cancelled oso.. Haha…

Gna get ready soon for BBQ at my cousin’s place today….
Some Halloween get together… Hahah…

Oh… And call me a BIG WALKER tmr!!! hahahaha…
Totally excited… We’re heading for the Big Walk tmr…
Me, clifton, Lijie and Cerrin… Let’s have some fun…

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On a lighter note…
Had a dilemma over FUN vs DISCIPLINE…

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”

How true…
Some may say…. Then why obey rules!!

Why would I feel restricted…
Why did I feel I’m not myself…
Why did I feel uncomfortable…
Why is there this little voice that says… You don’t belong here…