Pardon me for the extreme lack of activity in this blog. Busy I was, with countless tasks and stuff. Much had occurred in the past few months. I wished this blog has an auto update feature whereby I just need to plug the USB to my brain.

Something I've learned:

"Love is like a double edged sword. It makes you happy and fortunate, but it can hurt you to the same extent as well." Come to think of it, almost anything can be a double edged sword. You have to learn how to cope with almost anything in life, love is no exception. I need to learn how to be more embracing, understanding and caring. Aza aza fighting!

I'm getting so lazy to blog nowadays. Just look at the number of entries in 2009. Pathetic. Hopefully I find the time and energy to start blogging again.

Aloha! Been such a long time since I last blogged. I just kept delaying and delaying. Just couldn't find the spare time to really sit down and do a proper blog post. Reason why I'm doing it now is because the worse is over for this semester I guess. Yes! The applied corporate finance project, which happens to be an extremely tough one for my team, is finally over. It was almost 2 weeks of daily intensive meetings that stretches till the wee hours. Meal times were always delayed, there wasn't enough sleep and my mind seemed to be cracking under the immense pressure. After the presentation on Thursday morning, my team and I can't help but feel relieved.

Besides being busy with projects, job applications have been of top priority too. Applications to various banks commenced in early September, as I scrambled to juggle them together with my project right after the awesome mid sem trip to Gold Coast. With the project done and job applications coming to an end, it seems like a good time to relax a little and catch up with whatever work I've lost touch with, especially management.

Week 11 is almost here, and it's actually the last 3 weeks of my student life (assuming no more studies thereafter). Come to think of it, I've been studying for 15 years since Primary 1. Now, everything seems to be coming to an end. It's a little bit scary though. People like to complain about studying, and how mugging for exams suck. The truth is, working out there sucks even more. Having done numerous part-time jobs in the past, I know that working life is a chore. The only incentive is the salary that you draw from your job, perhaps satisfaction for those working in industries they are interested in. Being a student has so many advantages. I believe there's an exhaustive list, but the four listed below are the main ones I guess. Strike the whole list off when you start working HAHA!

1. Sleep all you want
2. Slack all you want
3. Play all you want
4. Long holidays

I've always wished to end student life and finish university in Sydney asap, but now, I wish I have another year to go. Ironic? Yes I think so.

Been having lotsa fun during the first 3 weeks of school, didn't really realise that week 4 onwards till the mid semester break was packed with so much work, tests and projects. Busy busy busy. Hopefully I find time to enjoy my last semester here. Is this my last semester? Haha I'm not sure of that myself.

Will update with a proper post soon. :)

4/7: Had golf practice again at NSRCC. My golf really sucked. I think I need like another 100 practice sessions at the driving range to play at the green. Had supper (yes supper again. singapore wad. haha) with Marcus and Xinyan at the famous mee sua at Kembangan. It's not too bad, but slightly overrated I guess.

5/7: Went to old turf city to look at 2nd hand cars. Yea look only la no money to buy :) Good cars can always wait lol, I will be patient. After that went to the sin seh to 'push' my toe. Freaking hurt like hell but worth it cos the toe's 90% recovered now.6/7: Uni mates came over to dad's stall to show support, and we ordered many other hawker fare from other stalls as well. Lunch's a feast, all hail hawker food! Went KC's house to chill and later to Sarah's place for some guitar hero action. Fun! It was raining like mad as we made a mad dash for Jamie's jag.7/7: Attended Xinyan's (thanks for the wonderful meal at Vivocity with your family!) convocation. I think she's offically the first friend of mine that I've attended a convocation. Even though most of the people there were strangers to me, but I can't help but feel happy for all the graduates. There just seemed to be a very positive and joyous atmosphere. Feeling down recently? Attend a friend's convocation and bring a smile to that face of yours. Rushed down to city hall to meet Yusheng and Ivan for tailor fitting, and had supper, yup supper again with Terrence at geylang. 永和豆浆and 牛肉河粉. Shiok to the max. Stomach stretched to the max too~8/7: Met up with the uni mates for supper at ponggol nasi lemak. Standard was a little below average that day, nonetheless still quite tasty haha. Felt extremely guilty after eating the $4+ plate of carbo junk. Proceeded to Ivan's crib to chill after that, I envy his big room!9/7: TPJC day. Met up with jc classmates Dennis, Joycelyn and Wenyang for dinner at Taka's Crystal Jade. My order sorta got mixed up and end up eating the sichuan soup lamian. Abit not that tasty haha not gonna touch that anytime soon. Great catching up with them, been a while since I saw them. A number of them are overseas at the moment, hopefully there will be a gathering at Jerome's place after I go back. Just like the good old days. I miss...

10/7: Marist day. Had dinner with Shiwei, Dave and Mark at Serangoon Gardens. Been going there quite a couple of times this holiday I wonder why. Initially decided on Sushi Tei but it was way too crowded, thus decided to head to Pow Sing restaurant. Freaking alot of dishes, and therefore was freaking full. I think I'm really testing my stomach's flexibility. Went to Frolicks and woah, the girls they employ really quite pretty leh. Tsk tsk tsk. (Gonna head back soon HAHA!) Had to wait for 5 minutes for the youghurt to harden or something (whatever it means) so we decided to head off, reluctantly for me haha! Had mahjong at Shiwei's house, and lost money as usual zzz. Still love mahjong anyway.

11/7: Attended Marcus' convocation at the same place, NUS Cultural Centre. Experienced the same happy feeling, further intensified this time round, really glad for this buddy of mine. I'm sure he will do well in his property business now. Heaps of people and the slight rain made it a little hard to take nice photos. Finally got the chance to meet Wenyang's girlfriend as well. Good to see that they are very blissful together haha. Marcus' family treated us to buffet dinner at Corpthorne Kings Hotel. I think it was a peranakan buffet, food's pretty delicious, quite a range of variety and most important the Kuehs are freaking freaking nice. I forgot when was the last time I've ate such delicious Nonya Kuehs already. Will definitely head back that for the same buffet! Saw fellow jc classmate Mingsiang graduating too. Congrats!Rushed to the Marist '01 reunion organised by Yongrui at Hotel Rendevous. It was another buffet spread but the food can't be compared to the one earlier on, and I'm pretty damn full at that time so didn't really eat much. Spent most of my time catching up with my long lost friends. We were mainly talking about the pranks and hilarious events that took place in secondary school. It was the definitely the most enjoyable period of my life so far. If only man can go back in time...Can only wish for such a reunion to be organised on a frequent basis haha. Yongrui I hope you read my blog LMAO!

Going for a jog now. Here's to a more healthy life!

黄国俊- 算了

很難撫平, 很難清醒...
現實夢境, 全都是你...
不奢求你, 能動了情, 只願能守護著你.
不敢說, 我能給你什么, 因為在你身旁的不是我...
算了, 一切算了
不管捨不捨得, 都該停了...
既然明白他才是你唯一的愛...
也許真該說 Goodbye...
算了,一切算了, 故事裡的角色, 都已選擇.
你的等待, 他的關懷, 我的無奈
一切都值得
算了........

28/6: Healthy day overall. Had golf in the afternoon with mom and relatives. Really glad that mom is picking up tennis as a hobby/sport. :) Her swing is pretty good too. Finally she is taking some time off to do something other than work. Looking forward to the day when all she does is golfing and high tea sessions. Had tennis with bro, his friend and our fellow neighbour Matthew at night. Having not touched the racquet for almost a year I think, easily made me the lousiest player on court. More practice is needed Federer!!! LOL~30/6: Went down to Silver Strip with Ivan and Lyn, and Lyn's professional advice proved to be really helpful, thanks! Had dinner with the marist lads at this bak kut teh stall near clarke quay mrt. The food is pretty decent but the price is unexpectedly high. Wouldn't pay so much for bak kut teh I guess. We had drinks and finger food over at Brewerkz @ clarke quay, and as usual, hanging out with the marist brothers was fun and enjoyable.1/7: Had lunch with Kc and our new house mate Kaimin at Tampines One's Kim Gary HK cafe. Food was below average though, a tad disppointing given its high reviews. Later on, I went down to Silver Strip tailor again with Ivan and Yu Sheng, and after much deliberation we finally decided on our cloth design and the cutting for the suit and pants. All identical to that of Ivan's! Haha. Went to Zouk later that night with Amer. Ivan and Yusheng called to inform that results for International Banking was out. Didn't want to check it lest it spoils the night. Failed the temperature check at Zouk but passed it after I went to take a cold drink and cool down after a long and hot walk. After getting our stamps we decided to chill at the maccas in Great World City before hitting Zouk again when it's crowded. There I lost to the temptation of checking the results, and luckily, ti gong was overlooking me as usual as I barely managed to secure a distinction average for the module. That certainly helped to set the mood for the night as liquor, sexy babes and loud music took me to Utopia.

2/7: Amer stayed over at my place, a norm if we club together. We had our virgin experience @ Fish n Co express in Downtown East. It's sorta the fast food version of Fish n Co. Burger's quite delicious, drinks can't be any different, but the fries suck big time. Evening time came and I made my way to Levina's house for poker and dinner. It was fun and laughter as we played and gobbled hungrily all the various hawker food. Note the hilarious picture of Ivan. As mischievious as a monkey3/7: Helped out at the stall as mom and dad needs to attend to the catering order far out at Tuas. Turned out to be a rather busy matter as queues were forming (think they are curious as to what am I doing at the stall) and luckily I managed to do everything smoothly and calmly. Business has been rather slow recently. Maybe partly is attributed to the H1N1 scare that's every present now. At night was a ktv session with bro, Amer, Raine and Ivan over at Joms in Toa Payoh. It's pretty cheap at $10 for 3 hours with free frow of, I mean free flow of drinks. Pretty updated songs too. We proceeded to supper (I promise no supper in Sydney!) at the prata house along Thomson road. The prata bomb was disappointing, but the constant catwalk of really pretty girls made up for it!

More updates coming soon. In the midst of applying for internships and graduate training programs too. Going back to Sydney real soon. What a short holiday, arghz~

Winter break so far in SG:

26/6: Had dinner with family at Long Beach, East Coast Park. Ordered the usual black pepper crabs, baby squids etc. Freaking delicious. The thought of it is making me hungry now haha! After dinner, went to NSRCC for golf with bro to practice our shots at the driving range. Haven't played any golf since early March and the consequences are severe...I feel as though I don't know how to hit the balls properly anymore haha. More practice needed!




27/6: Met up with some of the marists over at Shiwei's house. Played a little mahjong and as usual the company was great. It's always fun and laughter with them around. We headed to the Hk cafe at Kovan to have supper, or maybe dinner. The amount of food we ordered was crazy. Let the pictures do the talking.

To be continued...posting the pictures is a real hassle!

YEP! I finally bought it. After more than 2 years since it's launch, I've decided it was time to purchase the ps3. Not an easy decision for me to purchase the ps3, given it's expensive price tag and my shallow pockets. On the third day after I'm back in sg, I headed down to Upper Serangoon Shopping Centre with Amer and bought the ps3 from Ah Lim, well known for his competitive prices for computer stuffs.

Tada! Victory pose. Till now, I haven't really utilise the ps3. But the plain look and admiration of it is enough to make me a happy man! :)

Semester 1 2009 passed by in a flash, like literally. It was so freaking fast that we (yusheng and me) did not even do the usual count-down-to-singapore routine. Workload isn't exactly the heaviest this semester, in fact, it was pretty much less compared to the semester 2 2008 (the worst semester ever). It's gonna be a different semester 2 without Yusheng. Certainly not as fun without him around. His presence will certainly be missed without doubt.

Exams were pretty manageable this time. I had quite a lot of time on hand to study for the papers but complacency came and I happily accepted it. Hopefully the audit paper will turn out fine for everyone, as it's the paper that was most unexpectedly tough.

Post exams activities were fun as usual, although it was a little rushed and insufficient I thought. The highlights were ktv, transformers 2, thai food @ thai express, seafood @ fish market and shabu shabu. During the last day, we cleaned up the house till around 430am and bathed and napped till 530, afterwhich we proceeded to the airport to pick up yusheng's family. My flight was 1130am and I had like 1/2 hr of sleep, not including the lack of sleep over the exam period I was like a walking zombie in kingsford airport. Mom told me to wear a mask in the airport and aboard the plane at all times. I wanted to, but the people around me did not wear any at all. Alas I was too paiseh to wear one too. Was surprised and overjoyed when I realised the person sitting next to me was ex-footballer Abaas Saad. What a legend he was, and a pretty chatty and friendly guy too.

By the time I knew it, I am back in Singapore again, into the arms of my family and friends.

*Tried posting pictures twice, took extremely long to upload and POOF! The pictures disappear into Mars or something. Something is wrong with Blogger.

F* pissed off. Cousin Amer's bicycle was stolen by some f* yesterday. Even when the bike is chained, they managed to saw it off or something. And you might think staying in a condo is safe cos of all the guard and security in place etc. Feel very bad and responsible for this case of theft. Amer's bike should be taken care of and kept safely in the first place, and this had to happen.

F* BULLSHIT I would say. This is not the first time things have gone missing at my estate. I lost bicycle seats before, my nike sneakers were stolen, so were my havianas flip flops. What the fuck are these security guards doing? We pay them to lift up the car barriers and to doze off and sleep during night shifts? Might as well put a scarecrow there?

Nvm about the previous items that I've lost, but this time round it's a freaking whole bike. The first thing I'm gonna do when I touch down in sg, go straight to the management and make sure they have a good explanation of how 'adequate' is the present security management, and which security company is being employed so I can bring the issue up to relevant authorities.

Not too sure if the bike has its own unique identity number, but this is the pic of the bike being stolen.I strongly believe in karma. This bunch of thieves, they are doomed. Good luck to them.
*Moderated expletives. Must learn to refrain from them.

Just a quick update...

Just had the worst diarrhea in my life. Think I lao sai-ed around 10 times on the first day. Felt like hell really. Spent 2 days bedridden, there goes my revision time. Luckily towards the end of the second day I'm able to resume some normal daily activities. Suay to get diarrhea, lucky to recover within 2 days.

Been spending my time camping and revising for the final exams at home. It wasn't that productive afterall and I think the spaced-out timetable attributed to my lack of motivation and ever present complacent spirit. First paper's this coming Friday, and the last being on the 23rd of June. Will be flying back home on the 25th of June, will this be the last break of my university life?

Even though I won't be working during the short 3 week winter break, there's plenty of tasks waiting to be completed. Have to really sort out all these tasks and get them settled asap. I'm nearing my graduation date and it is definitely time to start planning what I really should do.

The next update should be after my LAST accounting paper in my university life. Woohoo. Good luck to everyone for their exams. :)

Just added a new link to the section "Worth Visiting".

It's a link to a blogger called Peggy. Out of the countless number of blogs I've read, I thought hers was the most interesting, graphically rich (lotsa fotos) and most importantly, filled with plenty of sincerity, simply organic so to speak (Yu Sheng Et. al.). It's not like the kind of typical wannabe blogs that:

1) Post only glamour shots of themselves, some even resort to using photoshop. I got a shock when I saw Xuesha's real face in "S factor" for instance.

2) Showing off to the whole world what kind of lingerie they just purchased (I'm not complaining but normally you don't show off your undergarments to strangers do you?).

3) Elaborating with pictures the last fine dining meal they just enjoyed (Probably at the expense of some ah sia kia a.k.a. a person of prodigality)

4) Constant whining when partying is of utmost importance and worries seems to be the last item on their agendas.

There are of course other decent bloggers out there that do not fall under the above categories. I will add them in time to come, provided they pass my stringent criteria LOL. Ok just joking. I should be studying now, but I'm blogging instead. Obviously I can't concentrate on revisions for the final exam, and this has been the case for the past 3 days.

HELP! Hopefully the mugging spirit comes back to me soon.

And I thought I will definitely be on the 25th morning flight home. Business society called me up last night regarding the industry peer mentoring program and an interview was scheduled for the following Tuesday.

Darn.

I know it's a good thing to be selected for an interview, but I was all set to fly home this winter (half expecting my application to be rejected). Reunion with family and friends, getting a new hair cut and dye at Supercuts, tailoring a business suit, getting the ps3 (and finally touching my LCD tv which was bought on my behalf by my bro and cousin Amer), paying my respects to my grandpa on 15th Jul etc etc etc... Now I'm thrown back into a state of dilemma.

Decision decision decision.

On a happy note, a close friend of mine just got attached recently. That brings the tally to 2 this year. First was Daniel, and now it's Yongrui. Way to go bros. When is my turn ar?????????????

Finally, the dreaded projects are over. Spent lotsa effort and time on it, till the point that I'm quite behind schedule for the final's revisions. Hopefully can get a decent grade for both the projects!

Exam timetable is out too, and this time round I'm ending rather late. Urgh, gonna miss the Bangkok trip with mom and relatives. No cheap clothing, spicy tom yum and massages for me! Damn sad la. Anyone wants to go BKK in July? Haha. 台北 also can!! Anyway, this sem is the first sem that I do not have the strong urge to fly back. Keep wondering why is this so.

1) Last year of uni liao
2) Expensive air ticket
3) Used to sydney life (scary thought)

Anyway, it's 99.9% probability that I'm flying back. That 0.01% lies in the industry peer mentoring which is more than likely catered to aussie residents. Not too sure what my plans are. Definitely do not want to nua at home everyday. Anyone up for a short trip overseas let me know ya.

Darn the dust that's accumulating in my blog is as thick as 3 inches.

Dr Dust Clearing Expense xxx
Cr Accumulated Dust xxx

Lame. Anyway, been busy the past few weeks preparing for mid-semester tests and the normal catching up on school work. Bro and addie came over for hols, stayed for slightly over a week and bunked at our place. I was happy that they came, as it's the first time I have family visiting me over in Sydney. Sadly I couldn't entertain and bring them around as much as I was in the midst of the mid-sem tests mentioned earlier on. I hope they enjoyed themselves, though I felt I could be a better host. Also, thanks to a special friend who helped me brainstorm where I could actually bring my bro and addie around, although they didn't really cover many places haha.

Thought I could relax and chill a little after the crazy tests, but here I am slogging and losing sleep over 2 projects that are gonna be due real soon. After this 2 projects, it will be gearing up for the upcoming finals and playing catch up on work. Where can I find time to play? It's always the case in every single uni semesters, where I tell myself I have to really find time to put work aside and enjoy uni life. As in REALLY enjoying uni life.

Exams are around a month away, which means I'm also around a month away from true home sweet home, but there's a catch. Buddy Ivan and I had decided to apply for a mentoring program where students will be placed under a mentor who is working in the accounting or finance industry. I would think it's sort of like a mini-internship, as one would learn the ropes from the mentor for around six weeks (during the winter break, June-July). It would be great if we get the heads up, but that would also mean that we won't get to go back Singapore.

Dilemma isn't it. One side of us wish we can get the opportunity, one side of us wants to go back home. Who likes staying way from family anyway. Let fate decide ba. :)

Freaking irritated by the mosquitoes that buzz around your ear during the night. Since when did Sydney has so many mosquitoes to being with??? Anyway just posting some random pics...

On the coach to London Heathrow...end of the Europe trip. :(

My europe buddy Zhida...Scary tunnel in the cityA rare estate model of the Chrysler 300cBuddy Yusheng finally got his favourite Louis Vuitton Epi Leather Billfold walletYusheng and I attending a corporate networking session at Hilton Sydney.Patronised this new restaurant called Abang Sam, Kc's nasi gorengMy nasi lemak, the chicken was half raw btw.Luckily there was this wonderful Teh-Tarik. Soccer kakisGuess what is this???

Seems to be lacking the motivation to study lately. Concentration level is low and easily distracted. Work is piling up and the troublesome projects certainly didn't help at all. Urgh...Sometimes I really feel like I should just aim for a Pass grade, and totally enjoy my uni life...