Meeting LYT

After sending off Serene, Jonathan malcom and chai ann from airport on the 4th of May, I drove to sunny garden to pick her up. Over the phone, I can hear clearly her Chinese accent, I would say a very light one. 

As she appearing from the door step, she was wearing black and a bit of make up. My first impression was, she has grown to a mature lady already. 

However, she still maintain her walking traits. swinging her hands more than normal and her head tilting downwards.

The moment she get onto my car, we started to talk about where to go. The common things that we shared was, we had not eaten our lunch. So immediately, we changed our plan from a drink to a late lunch. 

We went to Party play in Lintas Square, my first visit to the restaurant. it was a unique cosy western restaurant. I ordered braised lamb with chunky fries while she had her pasta and Vanila milk shake. Then, our catch up session begins. The good thing about hanging out with Aeries is that we can talk about anything. We talked about life partners, on-line business, holidays, sickness and family. The entire catch up session last for about 4 hours. I didn't expect that we had so much to talk about.

After our catch up session, I drop her off back to her house, before she opens the door, I unfasten my seat belt and went over to hug her. The hug was longer than my normal hug and it was very strong too. I guess she had some tears in her eyes too. The impulsive feeling is so strong. She then open the door and walk back to his home. I wave good bye to her and drove home on my own. 

J

Post Holiday Syndrome

It is exactly a week after my long holiday in Sabah 2013.

I slept until 4pm today, maybe is to recharge myself thoroughly after a long week at work and also some of the fatigues I had during my trip in Sabah. Play and no rest.

I spent my time with myself, catching up with myself in Macdonald's at Bishan for the remaining hours of the day. Reading some articles magazines and lounging all by myself.

Sometimes i would say is time wasting, but to me this is pretty much essential before settling myself in Singapore hectic lifestyle again.

Lastly,I called my mum and wished her happy mother's day. we talked about holidays and chatted a while about the restaurant they went for celebration just now. A quick little catch up between mother and son.

x

Kota kinabalu climbing trip 2013

After a brief discussion with Alan regarding our trip to KK 2013: Our tentative itinerary will be as follow: 

27/4
Place: KK
Stay: KK 

28/4
Place: Padas River
Transport: Wave hunter
Stay: Kota Kinabalu
Note: We gathered in Likas bus station around 530 in the morning and followed the bus to Beaufort to catch the train to Padas river, we reached Beaufort river around 745 and took a quick meal at a nearby restaurant. We then took the train to Padas river. We chatted, teased and had fun in the train. We reach the starting point around noon, and after a short briefing, we were putting on our gears and head off to water rafting. Our guide of the day was called King Kong, he has the most experience among all guide and we were lucky to have him on board with us. He let us jump into the river and have fun with the yellow chilly water. I guess the rafting last for about 45 minutes. After the end of our rafting, we have to carry our raft with bare feet on hot stones back to the train station. I guess now I know how Mr King Kong got all his beautiful muscle. 

The water rafting is tiring but awesome! 

29/4
Place Mount Kinabalu (TImpohon Trail)
Transport: NIL
Stay Labanrata
Note: We started to leave KK around 6 o clock in the morning, reached Kinabalu park, the foothill of mount Kinablau around 9. We got our self registered and started our climb around 0930am. I gave most of my stuff to the porter; I carry only bottles, puncho and a bit of chocolate. The weather is perfect for the climb. I felt so lucky to have such a good weather. We reached Pendant Hut, Accommodation for TORQ, around 3pm. We were probably the last group to reached pendant hut. I guess, we have got too many monkey business during the climb. Thinking back, all the stories shared and people met. Time spent is well worth it! We took tons of profile pictures during the climb to pendant hut. 

After reaching pendant hut around 3, showered and settled down. We attended the briefing for the via ferrata by a few mountain guides there. The briefing last for about an hour. After the briefing, we went for our dinner and then our sleep. preparing for our 2nd part of the climb the next morning. 

30/4
Place Mount Kinabalu (Ferrata/ Mesilau)
Transport: Amazing Borneo
Stay: Kota Kinabalu
Note: Woke up around 1.30am, brushed my teeth, had my breakfast and started our ascend to low's peak through the low's peak summit trail. We were the 1st group to reach low's peak, around 5.05am. Waiting for about 50 minutes for the sun rise and then left low's peak for the via ferrata starting point near sayap sayap. Upon reaching the starting point, All I can see is that we were all standing at the edge of the mountain, all I can see is only clear blue skies, sun, rock and abit of green. The low's peak circuit is divided into 3 sections, 1st- Vertical drop, 2nd- non ferrata route( jungle trekking) 3rd section- Walk the TORQ. 

Beautiful weather for the via ferrata. Felt so blessed! 

Unfortunately, ting ting couldn't make it for the ferrata with us. I guess this will be a stepping stone for us to go another level in rock climbing in the future. I am looking forward to it already. 

1/5
Place: Tip of Borneo
Transport: Own transport
Stay: Kota Kinabalu
Note: After water rafting and mt kinabalu, we decided to go for something easy, travelling for a few hours to the tip of borneo to catch the sunset seems to be a good idea. Tip of borneo, is like the cape of good hope of sabah, we have South china sea on the left and Sulu Sea on our right. The mood is just right, and the journey was filled with laughters! 

Again, the weather is amazing, we also met an interesting ang mo look-a-like there who work in Tommy's resort. he elaborated some of the most interesting things happened in Tip of Borneo, i.e: Sea gulls putting up a shows, thousand and thousand of stars, millions and millions of shrimps migrating and of course the crystal clear sea. 

I wish I could speak as good as him. :) 

2/5/
Place : Pulau Tiga (one of spot chosen as a settings for Survivors)
Transport : Own
Stay: Pulau Tiga Resort
Note: We drove to Kuala Penyu around 7 o clock in the morning, we took a speed boat to the survival island around 1045am. We checked in around 11 something and had our lunch there in the pulau tiga resort around 12 noon. After our lunch, we trek a while to the volcanic mud area and dip inside for hours. We took a few pictures and shared some laughters too. 

After dipping in the volcanic mud, we went back to the sea and had a quick swim to clean off all the mud on our body. We continued to have fun with volleyball and Frisbee. We had our dinner around 730pm and went for a karaoke and pool session.

3/5
Place : Pulau Tiga (chilll and relax)
Transport: Own
Stay: Kota Kinabalu
Note: After our breakfast, we went to snake island and a sand pit. The guide, caught a snake in snake island and showed it to us. I think I took a few pictures with the snake. it was rather a relaxing day. We went the Jarrod & Rawlin at night to chill and catch up with each other. I guess, we shared quite a lot of our love experience during the session. Knowing ourselves more.

4/5
Place: Kota kinablu
Transport: TBC
Stay KK
Note: Last day of our trip, we went to have breakfast at kuo min restaurant in sunny garden. We tried to make it a relaxing one just to mark an end to our trip. I sent them off to the airport around 2pm. I miss them so much even though we were staying in the same place, Singapore. I guess, saying good byes are just not my forte. 

This is my Sabah trip 2013. We have got Chai ann, Serene, Jonathan, CCY, Kok Tien, Vuiseng, Alan Chang, Ting Ting, Shea Yeung and Cindy. 

Looking forward for another trip to somewhere! xD 

Friday night @ Acid bar

I changed all my outfit, stepping onto the treadmill, ran for about 4 minutes and my phone rang. it was Shannon, a good friend of mine who recently on his low.He said " come join us in acid bar"

Without hesitation, I stopped running, had shower, changed my cloth and head straight to Somerset.

Upon arriving alley bar, I saw sandy, choi mei's friend with Shannon. Just the both of them. I felt slightly awkward in the beginning as I was like crushing into a date or something. Only after a few rounds of SOL, I feel right a bit. hahaha.

Somehow, I like the place, it was relaxing and comfortable. The ambiance, laughters, beautiful ladies and some ice cold beers most importantly.

Ken joined us around 11 o clock. we then had some chicken wings in acid bar. I talked about work stuff with Ken quite a lot. Being a colleague and a friend. We talked about almost everything. It was a good night!

After that, we then went to casino in MBS and gambled for a while. It was a quick and exciting one. Imagine I was slightly tipsy at the time we were gambling.

Overall a good and exciting night!

Lowsai @ Singapore

It was a quick one, too a train to join them at Marina bay sands on 13/4/2013. There were Kah Chun, Rainy, Kah Chun's girlfriend, shannon, lowsai and charles. By the time I reached there, they finished their dinner already. I guess I am rather too late for the meal.I shared the story of my story about encountering gay  to them, and they seems really enjoyed it. I guess the next time they see me, GAY would probably be the 1st  that would popped into their mind. After leaving DTF,   We then walked around MBS, and Kah Chun wanted to go SKY Park with his GF. We then separated, Kachun and his gf to Skypark, and the remaining of us would head to coffee bean bistro for a cup of coffee. Me for a meal of course.

We then sat down and continue our talking/catching up/ gossiping session. It was a cool and relaxing one. It has been quite a while since our last catch up during the Formula 1 race in Singapore last year. It seems like time flies man. I somehow couldn't imagine that it was so long ago since our last meeting.

However, after our coffee bean session, we went straight to Kim Tian road for a round of beer, Another awesome night for a few friends to gather together for a while.

Bona @ Singapore

Friday night- 930pm, took a taxi from Taiseng to Jalan Besar Swee Choon. Three of us, Anthony, Bona and Myself sat at the back of swee choon and started our annual catch up session immediately. haha

I forgotten what we talk about that night, but it was a fun one. After the meal, we went to Mustafa to shop around. I end up buying more things than bona that night in mustafa. Along the shopping period, we catch up with each other too.

After the meal, we went off to BLISS, a contemporary bar, sells red wine and some finger food. We had a bottle of red, and chat our way through. It was a good night.

On our next meeting on sunday, we went to Art Science Museum together with Fannie, bona's friend and kok tien. It was an art exhibition by Nathan Sawaya an lego artist. The exhibition is interesting and eye opening. After the exhibition, we walked towards garden by the bay and sat down there until 8 O clock to watch light show at the supertree in Gardens by the bay. It was mind soothing and I almost slept during the show.... Enjoyed myself utterly!

After the show, Kok tien decided to leave us and we had our meals in Coffee bean Bistro in Marina Bay Sands.

I guess that is all for our gathering this time around. Looking forward for a next one!

Easter Sunday @ Serene's place

It was a long weekend for people in Singapore, although I had to work during holiday, but our group organised a hang out session at serene's place on Sunday. After the property fair at orchard hotel at 10am Sunday. I went straight to Serene's place as CCY just got back from Kelantan for a short trip, and brought some delicacy from Kelantan as usual. It was 31 March 2013. Easter Sunday!

Not just that he brought the meal back from Kelantan for us, he started preparing on his own in serene's kitchen. How touching to have such a wonderful friend that would thought of us while he is back home. If I would like to compare myself to him, I think I am a selfish bastard.

That afternoon, we had Satay, Special rice, Curry fish and some fresh vegetables. I forgotten how many juicy and tender satay I had, all I remember now is that my scale did not go west after all the gym session these days.

After our lunch, we hang around at serene's place and serene's dad started to share property knowledge to us. Until today, I am very grateful to have a mentor in property to teach us how to invest in a property. Serene's dad started to invest during his university years England. He bought a council house for a few thousand pound and rent it out to students.At that time, he started to collect some rental income already.  According to serene's dad, that is when he understand the importance of investing. Although he started off with his parent's money, he had been investing since then.

He then moved on to Australia, he bought a unit in Australia after selling off the property in UK. I guess, I should have recorded down what he had told us that day. Somehow, It seems that I had forgotten part of the stories already.

After sharing his life experience with property, we started to talk about property in JB Malaysia. He advised us not to buy any service apartment in JB at the moment due to the over supply of property in the coming years. His consultancy firm dealt with 10k ++ units at the moment, I guess he has some of the insights on properties in JB. He advised us to buy a old home with land, but this could only be done with quite a large amount of capital. Unless a few of us pool the capital to buy the home as investment.

After our property sharing session at serene's place, we went off for a basketball session near serene's place. With serene's dad being the MVP of the court, the basketball session became very intense and fun. I guess we were all shocked to see how serene's dad scored most of the points.

After our basketball session, tun zheng, serene's brother prepared mexican meal for us. We had banana leaf grilled chicken, cactus salad, and some pork soup. It was a warming dinner, to be able to dine with Yeo family on Easter Sunday.

Vero/Phaedra @ Singapore

It started off with meal at Metz in Marina Square, where my annual catch up session with vero begins. Steven, Vero's boyfriend is with us too.

We talked about things that is happening around us, people and shared some laughters.

Shannon joined us for awhile, with his trapezium egg tarts from Chinatown and Lao Ban Dou Jiang, both which Vero craved for. 

We went to Parco near marina square to shop for awhile and then go straight to Mellben in Ang mo kio for crab. The queue is like one and a half hours and is about 50 dollar per person. I have forgotten what we had that night, but the meal is decent and the atmosphere is good. I enjoyed catching up with Vero and Steven. 

After the following week, Shannon text me that Phaedra is in Singapore. We met up in TWG in ION Orchard. Shannon and Phaedra really know how to pamper themselves. I met two ex ttss too. Andy and Syiing. 

We then moved on to a Nanbantei Japanese Restaurant in Far East Plaza near Orchard for our dinner. The dinner place is very crowded and cosy. Waiters and waitresses are very friendly. Andy lead the conversation for the night, and we shared quite a lot of laughters too. It was rather fun to think back some of the legendary people in our secondary school. 

After our dinner, we went to Taboo, a gay bar near outram park. This is not a joke, I somehow paid a huge amount of money to a Gay Club. Damn! I must say the only reason why I step in the gay bar is because Phaedra wants to explore the bar in Singapore. Period!

It was quite intimidating at the beginning, but after the alcohol kicked in, everything seems to be less awkward. damn. I sounded gay! I am saying hanging out within our own circle of friends in a gay club. Where did you think of? lol 

I grabbed Phaedra for a few photos to prove my identify. Thinking back, it was rather hilarious to think that I am chasing Phaedra around in a club.This is rather embarrassing! 

Moving on- Property sharing session at serene's place and a meal with Joann.

Weekend 31/3/2013

For this week, there are a few things I need to achieve.

1. I have to change my diet. Although I exercised in the morning but having heavy meal in the afternoon is a waste of effort. I will have to control my appetite from today onwards. 
2. To go to gym at least 3 times a week. 
3. To spend at least one hour studying to study basic financial terms. I.e. at least I can read the balance sheet, Profit & Loss account and cash flow of a company.
4. To plan what I want to do exactly in April by the end of this week
5. To read "How they started Global Brand." by David Lester
6. To reduce my coffee session to once at work.

My short term goal 2013

I would like to review my personal goal this year. 

1. To manage USD 30K investment portfolio by the end of 2013. Why? because I think is important to be brave and have part of my assets in the market for me to learn and grow.
2. To have a passive income of at least 2.2 percent monthly. Why? So that I could learn on how to be financially free and spend more time with things and people I love. 
3. To reduce my body fat from 23% to 17%. Why? So that I could dress up and be more confident. 
4. To be able to give a speech or pitch an idea in front of a crowd without fear. 
5. To attend at least 4 seminars. 

I will copy and update this post regularly from time to time. Just to see how far I am from my goal. 

9/3-19/3/2013

My last post was on 8/3/2013, couldn't believe that it was like 2 weeks ago already. Quite a lot of things happened during that past two weeks. Let's do a brief recap.

From 9/3/2013, I went back to KK for 2 nights for my Grandma's wake, the trip was very short and I believe I had massive homesick by the time I flew back to Singapore, the feelings were strongest when the aeroplane is taking off from KKIA. Looking at the familiar island from above ground reminds me of home.

On 15/3/2013, I attended company dinner at Marriott hotel Orchard at 8pm. It was a small gathering buffett dinner at Marriott Cafe. It was good to have all the colleagues gather together and share some information together like a big family. I guess, as a site personnel in Boustead Project, company event like this is really important for me to bond with my colleagues, as the time I spent in the office is less than a day per month.

On Saturday, 16/3/2013 while working half way through, I received a call from Uncle Guan, a relative of mine in New Zealand, who is transiting with his family after my grandma's funeral service. I met up with him, my aunty and Ephraim, my younger cousin. I became a tour guide and brought them to Marche in Somerset for a quick meal, travelled along orchard road, MRT to Chinatown and finally back to Terminal 3.
I am glad, that we were able to catch up with each other after awhile. Guan asked me to encourage Ephraim to get an education in Civil Engineering field. However, I think Ephraim himself is not really interested with civil engineering and is interested with Chefing & Hospitality instead. I wasn't surprised, and I didn't insist on the civil engineering course to him. As I believe Ephraim is mature enough to decide what he really wants in the future.

After a light catch up, I took taxi straight to north bridge, famous fish head steamboat to meet Chai Ann, Serene, Ken and CCY. By the time I reached, it was about 0930pm, and they had finished their meal. We sat in the restaurant for awhile and decided to go for a second round in a exquisite bar near by in beach road. I had forgotten the name of the restaurant by the time I am writing this post, but it was a cosy bar. I liked their interior design.

On Sunday, 17/3/2013. I decided to have a breakfast with Calvin Tsen and Anthony, as Calvin is going to New Zealand for a period of time in early April. After a long hour brunch in Macdonalds, Chian Yee suggested to come to their place as they will prepare some Thai food for me. It was some sort of refreshing mee hon. I don't know exactly the name of the dish, but the companion and catch up session with them make all the feeling right and the name of the dish doesn't matter. Having said, the food is good quality.

After our light meal, we decided to play some badminton in open area near their place in Bishan. The game was fun, especially when we need to consider the wind direction and people, especially hot chicks looking at us. Zen and Yi Tsin, Calvin's sister joined us for the badminton session. After the badminton session, we were tired and hungry. We decided to go for some light meal in the nearest Indian restaurant to resume our catch up session.

After that, we went back Calvin's place for awhile and continued our chat. And around 8pm. They brought me to the nearest tze char from the place, it was tasty and dead cheap. I had dinner with Anthony, Tsen and Chian Yee. After the dinner, I should have went back home but I end up in Tsen's place instead.

I stayed there for awhile and went off around 1130. What a Sunday.

On Monday, 18/3/2013- My mum's birthday. I sent her a text in the morning, " Happy Birthday Mum, Love" and my brother arranged a dinner with my family to celebrate my  mum's birthday in her favourite restaurant. I guess, I am getting used to celebrate birthdays abroad. Missing her so much now.

At night, after work, I attended the VIOS gathering in Outram. I spoke to a few stock analysts, full time investor and also remisier for Phillips securities. The knowledge that I have gathered from that night was priceless. After all the research they have all done, they just shared willingly that night. I am impressed with how eager they are to impart their skills and knowledge to others.

After the gathering, serene and ccy sold some options on the spot, I think is a company related to gold. After that, serene, ccy, Jonathan and I were celebrating our options sold in hawker centre nearby.

After that, we "kidnapped" serene to Clark Quay, went to TCC @ clark quay and celebrated her birthday. Two celebrations in one night. After our light celebration, we decided to go for G-Max, it was an impromptu  and exciting one.

Grandma

My grandma passed away on 8/3/2013. I was told by my cousin this morning while I am on my way to work .

A sudden urge of crying,i can feel both my eyes filled with tears. Fading memories flashed in my mind reminds me how powerful my grandma used to be. She is one of the strongest women at her age I have met in my entire life. She could controls the WONG family. Especially her beloved son & daughters. She somehow has this special power in herself to arrange things in the entire family. Sometimes, my father do have to attend what they call a family meeting. It is amazing how she has got so much power within the family tree. 

There are things I would like to write down on this blog is the time I spent with her when I was in Sabah. 

Every Saturday, she will go to her favourite salon in Sinsuran. Sometimes, I would basically become her Chauffeur for half a day. Basically to fetch her from my uncle's place and drop her in her favourite salon. I guess she would like to present her self at her best in church. Apart from that, she could catch up with some of her friends, who were in the salon as well. I guess my grandma is bringing the trend. She is rather influential. 

After that, she would buy a few biscuits from a nearby bakery shop and bring home for tea time. She always buy some for me. despite I am rather overweight that period of time. Occasionally, she would give me some pocket money for driving her around in the morning. Sometimes, we would go to some coffee shop, sit down and enjoy a quick lunch together. My favourite Kon Lau Mee with her near Damai would be a nice place to have our lunch. After lunch, I would drop her off, and will see her around again at night. 

Every Saturday, we would bring her out for a dinner, this has become our weekly ritual, and my parents would bring her to her favourite restaurant in KK for a meal. there, we always talk about interesting stories of life. 

I guess, these are part of the stories, that I would like to record it down at the moment. 

RIP grandma.Love you. x

March Tuesday

I wake up at 6am, realising that I accidentally slept at 11 yesterday. I showered, packed and went off to Gym in Novena. Today will be my 1st day to go gym before my working time. I am still working on the habit of waking up early in the morning. :) 

Although it feels good, but it needs a lot of discipline to sleep earlier @ night. 

After gym, I went to pamper myself with a Traditional Set breakfast in Kopitiam for SGD 2.00. The breakfast and the view are awesome. 

After a long day at work, I was invited by my sub-contractor to attend a dinner in Akanoya@ orchard parade hotel near Tanglin Mall. Most of the servers/waiter & waitresses are Japanese. There are three huge table in the entire restaurant. Every table is about 10- 15 people and the seats are arranged as such is surrounding the cooking area. The food wasn't that fantastic but the ambiance is good. Apart from the patron, the place really feel like is in Japan. 

During the dinner, it was really nice to hear good comments and feedbacks from sub-contractors regarding my performance at work.

Work aside, the dinner lasted for about 2 hours and we drank most of the time. 

I guess the best dish I would say for Akanoya would be the Wagyu Beef, the meat literally melted in my mouth. 

Monthly expenses March 2013

I am readjusting my monthly expenses after trial and testing for the last two months as follow:

1. Rent- 17%
2. Groceries-10%
3. Entertainment and Eating out- 14%
4. Saving & investment- 50%
5. Telephone- 5%
6. Transport 4%

Referring to my previous blog, I have basically increased 4% on my entertainment and eating out. I think this would help on my social life. :) 

Homework not IQ

I read an article from Financial Times Guide Value Investing and would like to do a brief summary on how Warren Buffett and Charles Munger would do in order to identify which stock to invest: 

1. read annual reports of not just the company which we are interested but the annual reports of the competitors as well compared to the industry and personal research. 
2. Meet and talk with people from the industry
3. Favourable long-term prospects
4. Operated by honest and competent people
5. A business I understand
6. Available at a very attractive price

Starting slowly. :)

Post Chinese New Year Week

Highlights of the week:- 

1. Ken found a new place in Sengkang, he will be staying close to Chai Ann & Serene. I sincerely hope him all the best in his pursue of his career in Singapore. 
2. Pet ranger's interim business proposal presentation with AGF- Hard work, but amazingly fun. 
3. Authority visit to my work site, very time consuming.
4. Catch up with Caren in Marche Somerset. Drank 1.5 pint and got abit tipsy. :)
5. Celebrated Ken's birthday with Anthony in Bliss Restaurant in AMK. It wasn't a proper one as we were busy with our preparation of our presentation. 
6. Started to use google hangout for the 1st time. This is to try out if we could manage to catch up virtually.
7. Met Cary & Yuyen in their apartment near Novena. A nice catch up session with Yuyen and Cary. A lovely couple. Looking forward to see them soon. 
8. Met Amos in Coffee club near H&M in Somerset. It was a short catch up session with Amos, but wasn't too bad. 
9. Sold my first options. it is part of the learning experience. 

As for coming week, I guess I deserve a more relaxing week. I guess some boring books would be good enough to clear my head off. x

Wine List 2013- 18/2/2013

This is a wine list from my brother's friend in Australia- 

1. Dutschke Gods Hills Road Shiraz- $25
2. Browns of Padthaway carbernet sauvignon- $25
3. Dutschke Willow Bend ( Blend)-$20
4. Laughing Jacks Shiraz-$20

YUM.

 

Side note: 

I got off from work about 6pm yesterday, after an internal audit for quality in my work place which took me about 4-5 hours, I was pretty exhausted. 

Ken came straight from Changi Airport to fetch me from my workplace and we went back to my place. After we settled down in my place, we then went to Soup Restaurant in AMK Hub. It was a place where I am comfortable with. We ordered a package deal for 2 pax and we started our catch up session. It was really nice to meet Ken, and I am looking forward to see him around Singapore in the future. After our meal, we went to orchard to meet up with Amos, he was on transit from KK to perth, for a round of drinks, desserts and some catch up session.When we reached coffee club in Somerset- Anthony, Choi Mei, Ocean and Ah Taur are all there already. While Amos and Suan, a lady who accompanied Amos to buy CD nearby joined the table later in the night. As I was rather overwhelmed to be able to meet two friends in one night, I ordered Te Kairanga Sauvignon Blanc to mark this wonderful short reunion in TCC at Orchard yesterday. 

17/2/2013

1am- 4am- conducted research for US stock online, investigated herbalife stock.I was very interested into the stock but unfortunately Herbalife is not within my circle of competent. I somehow cannot imagine myself buying more of its stock when the price is falling. I decided to let go and continue my sleep. 

0939am- My phone buzzed, saw CCY message saying to postpone our meeting with the market team to 1030am. Great, I overslept! Rushed my way through to Bishan for meetup .  

1030-1315 Reached Bishan Food courst, had a quick breakfast, which cost me about 3 dollar and had some light catch up with Anthony and CCY, without wasting any time we started off with our discussion regarding PR market team for our interim presentation with AGF in March 2013. 

1315-1513- We hurried ourselves to Serangoon NEX. To join our legal team, Serene and Jonathan. We had our quick lunch in Burger King and continued with our discussion, mainly on how to tackle Anthony Teo, partnership, pilot and our funding.

1600-1820- badminton session with Serene, CCY and Jonathan. Awesome session. had fun and done serious workout. This badminton session was organised by jonathan and is my 1st badminton session in 2013. 

1820-2030- Dinner at boon keng food court, went to CCY place's to collect the sleeping bag from CCY. However, I lost CCY's sleeping bag on my way home as my bag was overloaded with stuff. I.e. Badminton racket, laptop, wire, books and shirts, etc. Went to NTUC in AMK to buy a new sleeping bag as Ken will be sleeping over tomorrow. 

2030-2330- Room cleaning and clearing. This was like an annual affair. I have forgotten when I have done the last room cleaning. 

2330-1230am

Showered, and wind down, guess my body deserve a good sleep now. 

I will leave my ironing session to Monday night. I guess I am too exhausted now. Good night! 

Weekend 17/2/2013

Post Chinese New Year- 

1. To sort out all money matters
2. To reply Newton Circus
3. To resume my badminton session on this coming Sunday.
4. To attend Mr Neo's open house. 
5. To GYM at least twice a week. .
6. To rest sufficiently
7. To resume my reading session- FT Value Investing.
8. To edit and amend PR video as per SPCA's request
9. To call Anthony, the pet mobile owner
10. Reply to Lilian- saying that we are ready for meeting up with SCORE
11. To discuss with fatty regarding state land authority approval.
12. Valentines day? Maybe next year. 

Chinese New Year 2013 @ Singapore

I will briefly describe my chinese new year celebration in singapore 2013.

This year, my parents and my younger brother came Singapore to celebrate CNY with me. 

We went around Singapore to eat, hang out, spent time together and catch up with ourselves. I really enjoyed myself these few days. A true quality time spent with my family. I somehow believe that the ties between us when we were away from KK seems to be stronger as we do not have any other commitments. 

It was a special Chinese new year celebration for me this year as this would be the first year I celebrated with my family in Singapore with mild dengue fever. By the time I wrote this post, I have well recovered. I guess readers will not need to worry. :) 

That is all for my simple chinese new celebration with my Family in singapore 2013.. 

Looking forward for our family gathering in April. :) 

Love