count down// 2 more days!

my uncle is young rite?

all the things so retro! with the double "喜"..
the cigs and perfumes and toileries..

very traditional, need to have - the cosmetics and comb and mirror.

the tea set for the tea ceremony, and also the lights at the bed to signify lots of offsprings.

self made deco by my aunt to be!

deco at bed post.

sewing machine - a must have during wedding as heard from my mum and grandma.

and they are not excited YET!

no fate with THE jacket

i is pissed.

oh no no no..

i is SUPER PISSED~!

*****

i jus dun want to argue anymore about that jacket. how can i NOT he pissed? after being dragged for so long. in the end i missed the offer. and the jacket COULD NOT be found in sg anymore. i shd have just fucking bought it with no worries of you liking it or not in the first place.


now that the day is approaching, and all of you are busy spending to get all the nice and new clothes, i got NOTHING to gget for the wedding dinner. thanks eh. i have decided to jus dress down all i can. anw i dun throw my own face. i throw YOURS!




P/S: hitsu if you got sick of the jacket PLS!!! sell it to me... can see how desperate i am for it? haha.

xmas faster come!!!

got news from "good fren" that there will be something on at christmas.. i am so happy! looking forward to it definately. *grins

quite touched la cos its planned to "customise" to the "current situation". i really appreciates the effort u and "good fren's dear" made!

and when i say i appreciates, i really do... =)

*****

anw, i was lazy bum and missed lectures this morn. cos stomache and i dun wanna rush myself and make myself feel miserable..

ameline soh called today and i was shocked. didnt expect her to call but wells still picked up the call. she called to tell me.. that my report was well done up. *yays hard work paid off. and that she hope i can give her a soft copy so that she can keep and show as example in the future. i am happy! it was quite a hard work for me to do this report.. cos time was limited, ideas took a long time then flow out and partly was cos i was still not happy at that point of time that some of my work was claimed by others. but well, now i noe i did well for the report, i am happy le. at least my hardwork is paid off. my supp's grading wise, i think it shdn't be a prob. i got confidence. haha. jus pray that everything will be alrites and i can get my A!

pics: randoms for the past week

first day of the sem.. da shoes and the trip down to DG for the tau huay!

meet up with jenn for breakfast..
its been long since we sat down and has a good talk!

some flop pics we took during the JB trip..

last sun.. day out with gary!

been some time we meet k! haha.. was so looking forward to it.. thanks for willingly squeezed out time to spend.. you are the only one who is willing to do so! every one has their buddy.. and i have mine too.. ehhee..

headed town after work to meet and lunch/dinner is at rocky monster. the food is quite nice and filling! after which. we shopped ard at kino and art friend// talked// walked to 欣赏 the christmas and its chill at his home. didnt do much just slacked ard like usual. was chatting with auntie and uncle.. and also ate some cake as its his bro's bdae the day before.. and not forgetting the home videos! haha. kept praying that uncle dun show anything with me inside and luckily i didnt appear. phew~

headed home quite late. and hit the bed immediately..

*****

sent some emails to the colleagues but i reckon gmail is always treated as spam at mica and it takes some time to reach.. huiyu replied today.. charlotte did so last week. but huiyu's email came at the time which i was quite low. and the things she said kind of made sense right now - when things ARE getting confusing and frustrating.

but life's still going to be great! =)

the world is never fair

i dun have the strength to care that much anymore. neither do i feel like explaining.

sometimes, it's hard to be moderate.

when u care too much, people will say you are KPO.
when u care less, they say u dun care tt much anymore.

when u try to probe in, they say you are possessive
when u probe nothing, they ask "are we friends?"

when u r straightforward, they say u are hurtful
when u lie, they say u r not trustworthly.


you see.. this kinda stuff keeps happening.. but when it happens to anyone else, that person is poor thing. that person is pitiful. but when it happens to me? its my fault. cos i am PETTY and get angry easily. why this everything? i have my reasons for all my actions. so please find out all the truth first before any comments is made..

damn the ipp report

submitted my ipp report today! phew.. like finally la.. was at the com for 10 hrs yesterday but then nothing came out.. only finished till half of q2. today deadline so i piah.. 8 plus than finish..

well, i saw "her" report... all the things that i say i wanna put she put all in her report! on top of that she still "claimed ownership" of some of the things that is done by me. sighs. very clever. i shd not have said out what i wanna do la~! but since then, i have nothing to say. all i can say is i have once again learnt to be more wise next time.

what's the use of living when i can't even live the life i want?

sometimes i really hate to have this hobby of blog hopping. i see so many of my friends enjoying their lives but i seem to be so not involve.

seafood
toy 's' rus
vivo city
k box
weekend chill out

just to name a few.

i jus question myself sometimes. am i really so difficult to hang out with? i don't want to be like last time where all i do is just to complaint. i wanna know why cos when somethings keep happening, i believe it has got a lot to do with me. right?

sianz. H asks me why i work all my weekends off and want to have no life. and i asked him back how to have a life when there is nothing in the first place? dunch wanna waste off those weekends at my grandmother's house anymore watching them mahjong the days away.. so i might as well work.. i do feel fortunate that sometimes H still asks me out.. but well..

now playing: 林俊杰 - 一千年以后

因为在一千年以后

世界早已没有我

没有我的世界，需要一千年以后才会实现吗？
或许在一些人眼里，他们的世界早就已没有我。

time for truth

people, can you all do me a favor? tell me if i am:

1) very thick skin
2) never admit my mistakes
3) fake
4) act innocent
5) act pitiful


so this is what i leave an impression in other people's mind.

*****

just home for a while.. from the JB trip! i is so satisfied with my shou huo. got myself a cap, a tee, CDs, alot of misc items and most importantly, had good food! never fail to report to THAT alley of yummys whenever i go there.. those present were me, herry, jess, ser ser, weihao, junxiong, kang an, ter and sam.

anw, we were really a bunch of sotongs. change currency also will screw up and took wrong amount and all happily go shopping for 4 hours before we realise it. short of like 100+ ringgit and its a real lot! anw, i think i will drop by soon cos i had not get that shoe YET and there still a few items i would like to get. MUAHAHA seems like i have to burn off more week ends to earn more income before i can go in liao la!

I have kept quiet for too long

some thing i hate about the starting of a new sem is always the problems of allocating groups for projects.

cos of conflicts that always arise from previous projects, choosing groups for the coming projects have always been a tough job - will i choose a right partner? will he/she be easy to work with? will have conflict not?

much thanks to my own itchy mouth, i am one of those who suggested for allocation of team instead of us choosing. and guess what? lao tian ye put "US" into the same group! rrrooooaaarrr!!!!

and thus, "someone" started spasming, look frustrated and frown and etc etc and looked as if the end of world has came.. my oh my!


i feel so much like a sinner who cause all these unhappiness in another individual.

please stop attitud-ing me lo. not as if you are the only one who don't want to do project with me. i have always tried to be nice to quietly take all the accusations and be the bad one. even thou people have been saying me not wanting to salvage the friendship and so on, i tried not to agrivate matters by talking to her and make her angry. and what happen in the end? people say i dun care at all. sighs. what should i do?

i don't even know the cause of this conflict. i dun even know what accusations have been made about me. but what can i say?

can someone teach me what to do to satisfy everyone?

kns. pay never increase expense keep on increasing.

Nov 14, 2006
The Straits Times

THE Goods and Services Tax (GST) will go up from 5 to 7 per cent to pay for more government spending to help the lower income. *are they really helped? govt suppose to take care citizens but now we have to pay for our benefit we are righted to have as a citizen. why are there still so many sad stories of people cant getting help and some have to resort to jump mrt tracks? *

Mapping out his government's plan for the next five years and beyond, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday pledged to 'tilt the balance' of public spending in favour of lower-income Singaporeans, who are not benefiting as much as other groups from economic growth.

New social measures include more help in education, housing and health care and more regular Workfare bonuses - a shift from a once-off measure - for the lower-income workers.

To foot the bigger bills, Mr Lee announced two new measures to raise government revenue.

The first is the GST hike, the details and implementation date of which will be revealed in the Budget, on Feb 15 next year.

The second is a plan to spend more of the returns from investing the nation's reserves. Right now, the Government can only spend half of such returns, or 'net investment income', defined to include dividends and interest. The definition will be broadened to include realised capital gains. The move is significant, requiring an amendment to the Constitution and 'working out' details with the Elected President.

In his first speech to the new Parliament and rounding up the debate on the President's Address, Mr Lee sketched out how globalisation had changed the environment for workers and widened the gap between incomes at the top and bottom.

'It's essential for us to tilt the balance in favour of lower income Singaporeans because globalisation is going to strain our social compact. That's why we are doing all this,' he said.

'But I would like to caution members that we should proceed with care...it is a real slippery slope. And many, many social welfare schemes which have ended up in serious trouble have started off with good intentions.''

Mr Lee made a firm pledge that the Government would put in place a comprehensive package to fully offset the impact of the GST hike. It would be weighted in favour of the middle- and lower-income and the elderly needy.

'It's not just a GST increase, it's a package which will fully offset the impact of the GST for these groups and begin to strengthen the social safety nets and tilt the balance in favour of the lower income Singaporeans,' he said.

As for the timing, Mr Lee said: 'I think it's better to do this now when the economy is doing well. Then we can manage the adjustments, we have the flexibility to adjust our programmes depending on how things turn out.'

........ (some parts deleted)

The GST was first introduced in 1994, at 3 per cent, and raised to 5 per cent in 2004. Yesterday, Mr Lee said that even at 7 per cent, it is still lower than that in nearly all countries with GST or value-added tax.

Singaporeans enjoyed a 'high quality but cheap government' *not cheap to live in singapore leh. otherwise how people will say can die but cannot get sick in singapore? hhahas*, Mr Lee said. Public spending stands at 14 to 15 per cent of the country's total output, or GDP - among the lowest in the world.

He also made clear that Singapore would not go down the route of Scandinavian countries, with generous welfare funded through high taxes that sap the incentive to work. Singapore would instead stick to its current social model based on wealth creation, self reliance, and individual savings and spending within one's means.

Moving ahead, the Government will work to strengthen the social safety nets to benefit all income groups. How? By building on key pillars of the system - Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings, health care and housing.

The CPF will be enhanced, to help workers earn better long-term returns. There will also be improvements to the 3M schemes through which Singapore pay for health care: Medicare, MediShield and Medifund. Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan will speak on this issue in Parliament today.

And the Government will find ways to help Singaporeans unlock the value of their homes.

Lower-income families will receive extra help. Mr Lee promised 'more Workfare schemes in future', through which low-wage workers get income top-ups.

Such families will also get more support for their children's education and additional housing grants of up to $20,000, with the sum going up over time.

Despite the challenges ahead, Mr Lee urged Singaporeans to also remember to celebrate all that was right about their country. 'Our prospects have never been brighter, our overall environment is positive, our economy is vibrant, our people are well-educated and equipped to excel in a globalised world,' he said.




some responses on straits times interactive:
what to say leh? this morn when i saw the papers i am so shocked. Our government is always saying that our GST is still lower than that in nearly all countries with GST or value-added tax. Which are the countries that the governement is comparing with? Be it the increase in the transportation fee, they will always use this phrase.

They are always using the lower income families as an excuse to increase taxes,etc. What have they really contributed to the lower income families? What have they done for our retirement and medical services? Everything that they said that they will help and provide asssistance are not felt and seen by the public. If the government is seriously helping the lower income families, I believe that I will not see or hear stories about poor people pondering over money matters.

Meaning cost of living are going up again.., why they never intend to increase back our CPF Rate since the economy is going well? So unfair, the government are just increasing our burden to the people.

Spore is a country and not a company therefore dont manage the country like a company.

Why do they have to struggle after the national service, then working up to the age of 40s and they are forced to retire. Whereby our ministers and president can still sit on the high chairs and getting fat salaries and refuse to vacate their seats and also refuse to have a perks cut and pay cut.

I don't see how lowering income tax and increasing GST will help the lower income group. Most of them would be in lower tax bracket and those who earn barely $1000 a month are unlikely to pay income tax and contribute CPF. Increasing GST will impact this income group the most. So, where is the logic?

I hv seen my income change dramatically over the last 10 yrs. Once, I paid income tax for a couple of thousand dollars annually. Now, I don't paid income tax anymore because of globalisation has affected me very badly & now I spend most of my time staying unemployed or under-employed. I do hope that I can get a job & remain employ for a longer period. I do believe that I am not alone in Singapore.

quotes: from mooiness

quoted from mooiness blog. coincidents! it says what is in my heart now - for ipp and the evening spent with herry.


went to dhoby ghaut with herry after school today.. i have a craving for the tau huay at selegie again. haha! but before that, we shopped ard at dhoby exchange and ps. herry got a pair of shoe which i think is worth the buy. cos it looks good on him and he feel comfortable in it. what more to ask for?

cool nite out. i jus hope more of these will come.

back to the school!

wooo~! now in the first lesson of the sem.. lab class la!

erm.. funny. i duno how to describe the feeling but i just felt like that class has fallen apart further. (or is it just me?)

msn: 能不能不要回头？i dun wan u 2 c the solitude in me

sch is starting tml. very mixed feelings.

don't really look forward to sch after all. issit cos i have got too comfortable and used to workplace? i do miss school.. miss my more free time.. but workplace is also more challenging and also its something i really liked to do.. even thou i am still quite a loner either way..

on top of that, there are TONNES of good people at workplace. experience gained. even got a little pay! sighs. i think i am after all not that cut for survival in nyp ba. sick of my life there. its not that i don't like sch life - i damn love it. its jus that there are alot of unforeseen reasons that i couldnt explain here that makes me dread sch so much ba.

i hope tml will be a good day!

but will it be?

the last day.. @ Dsg

not taken at the last day but at the second last.
3 of us had mo qi to wear all black together!

Lets have a look at D office:

DesignSingapore Council.. the entrance.

me in my make shift office.. kapo space from the meeting room..

my messy table..

doing newspaper cutting for our archives!

still the colorful windows.. view from office.

surprises came early in the morn when i reach office.. wendy and ying ying got breakfast for us! i am so touched..

da cakes are from cedele!

got ma fav walnut carrot cake some more!

p/s: da story of cedele cake.
my first contact with this walnut carrot cake is at dr milton's bdae when they got it for him. super nice and i keep telling ying ying and wendy. and they remembered! =)

surprise package on table when we reach office..

let you see who its from but not the message for me. haha!

andrea got something for me too!

even thou i knew that they had something for us, i was still quite moved la. got a little bit emo.. but still i am very happy! the small farewell party.. even dr milton came la! he so busy still come.. i really appreciate all that they had did for us!

alot of makan! ying ying and wendy busiest..
thanx!

discussion on how to eat those kuehs..
still say can see if there is peranakan blood in that person if they know how to eat it!

elaine i think she is the organiser.. she is cutting the cake for us!

woohoo~! do i have to explain more?

so long.. good bye..
i will miss this place where i spent 11 wonderful weeks..
i will miss this place lots!

remember KAKA?

presenting to you..

KAKA!

woohoo~! got bring back alot of memories not? haa.. it brought back alot of mine! i still remember when i was young i use to buy it at the mama shop outside my sch SECRETLY cos i would be scolded if i am found skipping lunchs for these todbits la~

used to be 20c per pack.. but now i got it only $3.50 for a packet of 50s! uncle cheated our money for a long time.. T_T

anw, my re-discovery of kaka started some time last month, when ting bought a big pack of it to work to share with us! i am so happy to see it again after so many donkey years! and so i started bugging her to tell me where she got it.

after some "bribery" of kopi and other snacks, i was told it is at Bedok sheng song supermarket.. so the very far la! but luckily she's going there to meet her hubby and baby.. so i headed to BEDOK with her! that area was actually my "old territory".. lived there for 13 years not for nothing de ok! haha.. she soon left and i am thrown there alone on my expedition to rediscover KAKA<<< style="text-align: center;">*****

it was HERRY's bdae yesterday.. how can i not celebrate for my BEST BRO IN POLY!!!!


gathered some of us for a meal and chill out for cake. me and herr both had the feeling somehow its like not complete cos some peeps arent there.. well.. thats another story to be told next time.. anw we had pepper lunch!


went to this cafe at the level two or three of cine.. the 24 hour one.. and we cut cake!

those who are buay on ones.. left after this.. but me and herr, jess and dil went on to walk ard before settling at MOS burger and talk.. all the way till 11!

HAPPY BDAE HERRY!!! I HOPE U LIKE EVERYTHING THAT IS PREPARED!!!

*****

its our lucky day today. jus as we are about to leave MICA in a few day's time.. we're just in time for the FIRE DRILL! bad day la! for the whole of 3 months here i have not worn so formal like today.. didnt fold up sleeve.. nice nice.. and they drill us!!

stressed in the morning due to adn conference (yes conf ended but not the stress yet) so i went over to hitsu's place to chill for a sec.. and then we heard the alarm! tot what happen, when her colleagues say we have to get down soon or else we will b e too slow and "up stairs" will email us.. haa.. but still, i dilly dally back to my office where all of us there still dun really feel like moving.. thinking someone jus accidentally activated it.. till the PA system start to shoo us to the field downstairs.. i think its like the 3rd time the alarm sounded then we started to move.. got fire Dsg people sure first kena one.. haa~!

*****

complaint time again.. sighs.. still the adn conference la.. PAN PAC HOTEL JUST CANNOT MAKE IT! i wonder how they handled the IMF period seriously.. here i am jus making a booking for 15 people they also can mess up until so jia lat..

1) error in my booking dates.
all of my bookings are short of one day! and only make known 4 days before those peeps arrive!!! panic panic. i dunno how huiyu solve this prob in the end, i dunno if they upgraded their rooms, they jus suck.

2) run after us asking us to pay.
worse of all, right in front of the guests! on the last day, i was at the hotel in the morn with only andrea there "assisting" me to gather those peeps.. huiyu is at ya kun already so its only me who is there to incharge.. jus as we were abt to board the coach ( and half and hr late) the came and ask one of the delegate to pay for his room. IN FRONT OF everyone! wa laoz disgrace us only lo! cos the arrangement is that we are suppose to pay for him already and sudden wanna ask him pay. and they are like "you are not leaving till you pay".. pissed pissed pissed!

3) charge the wrong person.
guess whats even "bad-der"? they charge some of the key persons when they are not suppose to be paying!!! all of them jus pay and didnt tell us.. i think they are also embaressed to do so.. only when hong kong peeps asked us then we know! worse, the guy from guangzhou doesnt know he is charged! they charge him thru the credit card details he gave when he is booking the room to secure the room.. freak rite! charge liao then will inform, what nonsense!

i cannot take it anymore. they are just stressing me. i shall not further bad mouth them.

i think they are out to screw my attachment at the very last week and waste all my efforts from the start!!! gee. bad. dun go that hotel anymore. =(

youtube: I want a lecturer like this too!

NTU lecturer shares funny teaching feedback survey results..

a must watch!

on ADNC2006... (part 2)

BUSY is the only word that i can describe the last week. of cos, not forgetting TIRED and SICK. so sorry for peeps coming here and not seeing new posts on my " sua ku " expedition out with Design Singapore.. i shall be less sua ku and blog about what quite happened!

31102006 - Tues

second day of the conference. some more coordinating job but this is still ok, not the busiest part YET. lunch's suppose to be back at the not-so-nice public buffet so i decided to give it a miss. wanted to walk ard before grabbing some fast food when huiyu reminded me abt the lunch session with those speakers for the workshop tml. (restaurant also booked by me [",] ) only one of us supp to go so i decided to offer this opportunity to andrea for exposure but she seems to be scared in EVERYTHING that she has to do.

i think she wanted to go but no want to be alone. indecisiveness in the end caused wasted time on the tight schedule we already have. in the end very malu. cos i got frustrated cos i need to wait for them to go before i can leave mah. and i started to get a LITTLE unhappy in my tone to her. cos she is simply WASTING TIME. in the end huiyu asked both of us to go. so embarassing! like i am stayin and jus waiting for her to ask me to go!

sighs la! i dunno lo.. sometimes my "rushess" to finish some things jus give people the wrong impression of me!!! angers angers. but anw, the food there is really nice!! nice ambience too!

high up at level 37th.

still waiting for the guest to come. my colleague huiyu, andrea, my Deputy Director aaron.

the food is irresistable!!!

the lunch dragged till quite long and ended like at 3. after that i have to rush back to office to burn all the slides thru the conference for the delegates. STUPID! cos alot of cock ups! i have to rush here and there and run ard like a crazy idiot!

master copy of the slides damaged. have to get those events people to come pass me the slides. in the end i nearly missed the night event at the museum! supp to be there at abt 6 but 730 liao i still in office. with only one cd burned!!! =X

luckily i still manage to go to museum on time.. jus that the cds are pushed to the next day to be burned..

our event is at the new part of the museum there. the glass dome de basement. cool rite???


01112006 - Wed

morn is back at office for the cds. havent been back here properly for a few days and i am missing it badly! haa. chatted with eliz whike burning the discs.. certainly helped to kill alot of time!

at abt noon took the cds down to pan pac where the workshop is.. and settled it quite quickly while making arrangements for the night.. opening of the 20/20 exhibitions!

brought back fresh from london! still in crates to give the idea that design is fast moving and there arent even enough time to unpack them! *as heard from the curator Jackson, one of the guy on the star hub ad at dhoby ghaut mrt!

very eye opener.. cos i might not have known this event if not for interning here at Dsg! up next is the dinner at no sign board.

the coconut cost 4 bucks! but really nice.. juice cooling and alot of flesh!!

02112006 - Thur

fwah~! by this day whole person is like withered up liao! super tired! cos all the early mornings and late nites killing me! last nite the dinner at no signboard is nice but no really have appetite! thou the chili crab and cereal prawn is sedap!

the un-well feeling continued today. another early day to be at the hotel early to gather the people and bring them to ya kun at far east square - a place i have no concepts at all! previos experience at this place is only to come here to get the ndp tic.. and so its quite messy! with the stupid hotel to screw up at this time too with some billing probs we are likee behind time for 45mins in the schedule!


very tired, thus the lack of pics for today. we went to a nice restaurant at novena garden there.. and also after that ti Siemens VDO to see their design dept.. not forgetting the Asian Civlisation Museum!


and so this marks the end of the major project i did thru my attachment here at Dsg. no regrets, cos i noe i did my best. so cheers!