Personal Mission Statement

The following points are my personal mission statement for my life from today on wards. These mission statements are to make myself working towards someone I wanted to be in the long run. 

• I will be loving and proactive in building and maintaining my relationships with family and friends. 

• I will always act with integrity and never compromise with honesty, so that it may be said that I am a person who stands for what is just and right. 

• I will look after my health by regularly exercising and eating well. 

• I will treat money as my servant, not as my master. I will seek financial independence over time. My wants will be subject to my needs and means. I will spend less than I earn and regularly save and invest part of my income.

• When times are tough, I will remember there are still countless reasons I have to be thankful. As such, I will give something back to the community, via donation and volunteering, so that those less fortunate receive a helping hand.

Typical work day schedule

0500-0545- Wake up and get ready.

0545-0745- Commute/Read/Email/Text

0745-0830- Breakfast/Strategy (Setting goals, plan for the day/week/month/year)

0830-1000- Work on the most brain consuming task

1000-1200- Meeting/Site walk

1200-1300- Lunch

1300-1500- Meeting and team work

1500-1700- Personal tasks and project

1700-1830- Commute back to Novena

1830-2000- Personal time/dinner

2000-2200- Work on personal project and strategy

2200-2230- Personal development

2230-0500- Sleep

Trip Planning

Pre trip

• Planning and budgeting
• Check air ticket via sky scanner
• Check airbnb for accommodation, or bookings for hotel.
• Check credit card points and air miles
• Plan all activities by creating a spread sheet to capture all the expenses and places to see and things to do. 
• Check youtube video for the places and things to do. ( there are so many vlog nowadays)
• Visa requirement- Check with the embassy
• Leave Application- which is critical 
• Travel insurance- Check if is applicable
• Check passport expiry date
• Power adapter

Pre Flight

• Packing for the trip- http://www.tripresource.com/beforeyougo.htm
• Prepare extra luggage/clothes
• Book transportation to Airport
• Print all confirmation for flight ticket, hotel accommodation
• Map to be printed out
• Download Ulmon, Navigation and Google Map
• Download Trip Advisor city guide
• Download itinerary
• Make sure all address of POI are saved in google map or navigation

During Trip

• Ensure all devices are charged
• Petty cash 

Post Trip

• Photo to be compiled
• Write a journal of what we have learned and seen
• Check our budget and compile the itinerary. 

Personal Trainer at California Fitness at a bargain

After my trip from US, I gained a few kilos and decided to engage a personal trainer to assist me to boost my ever low metabolism rate.

 I managed to get a SGD90++/hour personal trainer at SGD70++ /hour.

On top of that, with my negotiation skills I have learned in the past, I also managed to get one free lesson.

Although this course is expensive, but I hope with proper guidance and training, this would become a lifelong education for me for my health. It will be parked under self improvement and better living cost in my budget.

After a brief analysis of my body conditions, my PT explained to me that I need to improve my metabolism rate which is currently at around 1600++. This is way below the normal men should have and is contributing to my weight gain recently after stop working out for a while.

I will have twice a week training for the coming four months. First 2 months will be body conditioning, meaning to prepare my muscle for the fat burning which will be in the second phase of the training.

My ultimate goal:

1. To burn away 16kg of fats
2. Body fat at around 12%
3. Metabolism rate to reach 2300
4. Lose 10kg of water
5. Hip-waist ratio of 0.86

September goal setting and review

I need a system to be more organised in my monthly posting. To track my goals and things I have done. This will be the format below. 

1. Health
1. Diet
1. Eat less carbohydrates, no more soda, half the portion during dinner. 
2. No more food after 8pm
3. Less sugary drink and food.
2. Exercise
1. Going to badminton session with serene this coming 21/9/2014.
3. To go gym
1. Pack my gym wear and trainers to work at least twice a week
2. Myself
1. Apply PR
2. Apply driving license
3. To be more focus and organised
4. To settle my Singpass by end of September
5. Book a date with MOM for my PR application by End of September 2014.
6. To be more organised
1. To write things down
2. To have schedule and goals
3. Don't procrastinate
4. Label your storage area, sort all the storage area
5. De-clutter regularly
6. Keep only what I need
7. Delegate responsibilities
8. Work Hard
7. To read at least one book a month
1. Book of the month- 7 habits of highly
3. Finance
1. Invest in technology companies- Dig into Baidu, Alibaba and Google
2. Property investment in US. Check three areas mentioned in the magazine
3. To monitor property in Sabah. Contact more sales person
4. To keep track of my credit card bills. 
4. Career
1. Ended spiting art project
2. To search for more jobs
3. To have 5 minutes for planning work
4. Write down to do list for everyday
5. Relationship
1. Wedding plan
1. Start searching for the engagement ring, got contact from Angela, will contact him by end of September
2. Research into photo shoot session by end of September
3. Prepare a budget sheet for wedding by end of September
4. Jenny will be looking into the wedding cost in Hong Kong while I will look into the one in KK
5. To search for a photo shoot session in KK. Photographer in KK. 
6. Search for areas suitable or common for couples for photo shooting.
7. Understand more about travelling and also photo shooting. 
2. To spend quality time together.
3. To set a common goal with Jenny.
6. Family
1. Visit home in Mid October.
2. Spent more time with family
3. Call parents at least once a week
4. To discuss more about moving to somewhere else. So far we got Singapore, Australia and Canada.
7. Business
1. To study airbnb. Spend two hours a week
2. To search for Dell laptop at around $249 by end of October
3. To update website and promote website
4. To search for property in US from realty trac.com
8. Travel
1. Going to Bangkok 1st week of October 2014.
2. To prepare an itinerary for my Trip to US. list down all the goods and bad stuff happened during the trip, and create a system for travelling in the future. From packing, things to bring, places to go, sheets to have, apps to have before the trip, during and after the trip. I need a system to be organised accordingly. 
3. To be more creative
4. To travel to Philippines by 2016
5. To move away from my comfort zone.

US Trip 30/8/2014- 5/9/2014 Simplified

Day 1 (30/8/2014) Los Angeles

Arrived Los Angeles-

Took a bus to downtown and checked in to our Airbnb apartment

After checking in, took a shower,

We walked around the down town area and travel by bus to Hollywood Boulevard,

Took a 2 hours guided tour to Beverley Hills and Hollywood for about 30 dollar for two.

Had dinner in Woodfire restaurant BBQ at Hollywood Boulevard. 

Day 2 (31/8/2014) Grand Canyon

Woke up early in the morning and catch our tour bus from china town to our 3 days 2 night trip in Las Vegas and Grand Canyon.

We had lunch at in and out burger, a typical American burger chain store.

Upon arriving to hualaipai Ranch, we was checked into a cosy hut, and went to Grand Canyon, eagle point to take some photos.

After our photo shooting session, we then went back to the Ranch and have our dinner. It was yummy bbq ribs.

After our dinner, we all went back to our hut, and joined back the crowd for the camp fire

We saw a few shooting stars that night. 

Day 3 (Grand Canyon and Las Vegas)

We woke up at about 6am and watched the Sunrise

Helicopter trip

River cruise

Buffet Chinese

Las Vegas

                Bellagio

                Venetian

                Bally

Jubilee show

Night tour, Fremont street

Harrah’s, Mirage Volcano

Chipotle

Day 4 Las Vegas and Los Angeles

Macdonald’s Brekfast,

Pictu and selfie.

Slot machine

M & M Cactus garden

Outlet, in and out burge

Chow Mein, Mexican Rise

Walmart

Day 5 LA- San Francisco

LA- SFO,

Pick up car/Breakfast @ local table

Santa Monica Beach

Fish & Chip surf beach lunch

Santa Barbara

Los Olivos-Wine tasting, Mountain and Lake

Vineyard, Stole a grape and took pictures

Sanluis

San Jose Italian dinner, gas and is rough

Checked in SFO, bought Shampoo

  

Day 6 4/9/2014, SFO

Twin Peak, Park and Golden gate bridge

Macdonald Breakfast

Wholefood market

Golden gate bridge park

Lombert Street

Coit Tower

Mo’s Grill (Angus burger and Huge salad)

China Town

Pier 39

Fisherman’s wharf

Bay Bridge

Beverley Marina- Walked the pier.

Stanford University and had dinner at starbucks

Museum at Stanford university

Visited google campus and linked-in

Day 7 (5/9/2014, SFO)

Fly back to Singapore via SIA