I was disturbed at 8 am again today. My nephew always cried before going to his nursery school. I wonder how I can handle my kids next time. I think my ears are ultra sensitive. My neighbour will on her TV at 9 am sharp. Everywhere is noise. Fainting.
So today I spent my afternoon napping and playing psp. New game called 300 where you are the King of Spartan and trying to kill anyone who is non Greek. Enemy is Persian.
Den I happen to take my 2nd meal of the day at 4.00pm and watch an old version of Guess Guess Guess. I heard Jacky Wu is going to retire. I think I will miss him cos he is very fast in his jokes but if u were humiliated by him, it feels like your heart being stabbed alot of times.
Nephew Ashton is going to be 2 yr old in April :)
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Interesting article = Treat investing like a marriage from Business Times
SIAS chief DAVID GERALD told students at a recent conference
WHEN I was your age, I was not studying or looking after investments; I was chasing girls. It is a pleasure to be with you because it takes me back many years - it rejuvenates me to meet young minds and young students. I am different from him..
WHEN I was your age, I was not studying or looking after investments; I was chasing girls. It is a pleasure to be with you because it takes me back many years - it rejuvenates me to meet young minds and young students. I am different from him..
It takes me down memory lane because I met my wife in university, and, fortunately, somehow I got a law degree. My mom thought I would not make it. My marriage has lasted 35 years, so the recipe I would recommend to you is a university mate for life.
It was a sound investment for me. I found her in the Arts and Social Sciences faculty, and she has given me good returns. She gave me three sons and a happy life for 35 years. Good returns hahaha..
At your age, I think you should be investing your time wisely. First, get a degree, then a partner, and then look at investments. I know the government has reduced the investing age to 18, but take care; to do well in choosing your partner, you need patience, you need skill, you need intelligence, you need tolerance - and you need the stomach to put up with her. If you do that, then you will pick your investments very wisely. I think I am looking at investments and a partner at the same time -_-''' If you do this well, then you will be a successful investor. Just like a successful marriage, being invested means riding the year's ups and downs of the market, taking a long-term prospects view of your investment. Hmm some of my friends already attached for yrs! They have been investing for so long :) Hope they can get marry soon :)
Monday, March 30, 2009
南拳妈妈 - 下雨天
下雨天了怎么办 我好想你
不敢打给你 我找不到原因
什么失眠的声音
变得好熟悉
沉默的场景 做你的代替
陪我等雨停
The first two sentences are so full of meaning. Oh my..
Chorus:
怎样的雨 怎样的夜
怎样的我能让你更想念
雨要多大
天要多黑 才能够有你的体贴
Just wanting you to love me more. Full of meaning. I am not translating, just that its so full of meaning. Very nice song !
不敢打给你 我找不到原因
什么失眠的声音
变得好熟悉
沉默的场景 做你的代替
陪我等雨停
The first two sentences are so full of meaning. Oh my..
Chorus:
怎样的雨 怎样的夜
怎样的我能让你更想念
雨要多大
天要多黑 才能够有你的体贴
Just wanting you to love me more. Full of meaning. I am not translating, just that its so full of meaning. Very nice song !
End of two quizzes today
Finally, AA304 and AA306 quizzes are over. I have 14 days to study 306 and 1 day for Astro and 5 days for 304. This is the first time I have so many days to study exams. Think I will study less day for AA306 and declare today and tuesday an OFF day. A much needed off day. Been juggling with the Pan competition and quizzes.
Wanted to organise an outing with Jason and Guobin to celebrate our victory but BUSY Guobin has AB214 ! ArggGh. So I think I will either rot at home tomorrow or find some friends to go out. Everybody seems to busy with something after these two quizzes. Guobin has AB214, Jason has his insurance elective, Sijie has his choir (wow).
After the quizzes, GB, Sijie and I went to gym. So I was asking GB, it seems lucky that we didn book tixs beforehand as Jetstar has promotion for air tixs to Taiwan. It costs only $300 to Taiwan tt time. I think during that point of time, we didn imagine we can go Taiwan through the competition. I think for the competition, we can extend our stay after the competition but not sure we can do it as all the details are not confirmed. Den GB come out with his theory, its all fated. Yar, it looks like all fated, I almost wanted to join the competition with Fred and Jason and suddenly GB and Jason are interested to do it together :) Do you believe in FATE ?
And I asked GB, did u tell your mum you are going to Taiwan to compete? He said yesh but his mum asked why must go so far, Taiwan to compete? I laughed out loud and said.. GB! your mum must be high tech geek, competition nowadays can be done through internet, do not have to physically go there. It was super funny.
There is one headache thing in my head. We asked chun xu to tag along for Taiwan grad trip so now its quite problematic. Imagine chunxu flying there alone and flying back to Spore alone if we are on different flights. Oh my. . Lets just see how it goes.
Wanted to organise an outing with Jason and Guobin to celebrate our victory but BUSY Guobin has AB214 ! ArggGh. So I think I will either rot at home tomorrow or find some friends to go out. Everybody seems to busy with something after these two quizzes. Guobin has AB214, Jason has his insurance elective, Sijie has his choir (wow).
After the quizzes, GB, Sijie and I went to gym. So I was asking GB, it seems lucky that we didn book tixs beforehand as Jetstar has promotion for air tixs to Taiwan. It costs only $300 to Taiwan tt time. I think during that point of time, we didn imagine we can go Taiwan through the competition. I think for the competition, we can extend our stay after the competition but not sure we can do it as all the details are not confirmed. Den GB come out with his theory, its all fated. Yar, it looks like all fated, I almost wanted to join the competition with Fred and Jason and suddenly GB and Jason are interested to do it together :) Do you believe in FATE ?
And I asked GB, did u tell your mum you are going to Taiwan to compete? He said yesh but his mum asked why must go so far, Taiwan to compete? I laughed out loud and said.. GB! your mum must be high tech geek, competition nowadays can be done through internet, do not have to physically go there. It was super funny.
There is one headache thing in my head. We asked chun xu to tag along for Taiwan grad trip so now its quite problematic. Imagine chunxu flying there alone and flying back to Spore alone if we are on different flights. Oh my. . Lets just see how it goes.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Finally, its over
Yea!! Finally won the Pan Asian game. My group will go to Taiwan and compete with other Asia countries :) Winner can get US10,000. Ka-ching! So now I hope Jason mah and Guobin have the extra cash to go another grad trip since taiwan tickets will be free.
Five grueling weeks of meetings have finally ended and all our hard work are paid off :) Must thank Guobin for coming to my house everyday to do the computation which motivates Jason to come too. Jason's excel spreadsheet is formiable. Haha.
My nephew is always shy to strangers and will run towards to hug my mum when gb and jason come too close to him. At the rate they are coming to my house, my nephew even says bye bye to them at the last few visits. Oh my.. Haha.
Back to study now. I think I will have withdrawl symptoms again.
Anyway I also give some advices to Stephen in Cesim and he came 2nd. Lose the first team by 0.x%. :) Feel so happy for him. I oso help MinQi abit (almost give them wrong info at times) and they are lucky to get come in at 2nd too :) Feel so happy for them. I think I wont get enough of Cesim
Five grueling weeks of meetings have finally ended and all our hard work are paid off :) Must thank Guobin for coming to my house everyday to do the computation which motivates Jason to come too. Jason's excel spreadsheet is formiable. Haha.
My nephew is always shy to strangers and will run towards to hug my mum when gb and jason come too close to him. At the rate they are coming to my house, my nephew even says bye bye to them at the last few visits. Oh my.. Haha.
Back to study now. I think I will have withdrawl symptoms again.
Anyway I also give some advices to Stephen in Cesim and he came 2nd. Lose the first team by 0.x%. :) Feel so happy for him. I oso help MinQi abit (almost give them wrong info at times) and they are lucky to get come in at 2nd too :) Feel so happy for them. I think I wont get enough of Cesim
Friday, March 27, 2009
Pan Asian Round 3 - I dun like SMU groups
This Pan Asian game is about pricing your goods and sell your goods. The store will the highest profit wins the game. It works almost like CESIM which is a game familiar to most NTU yr 3 students now.
Let just see how SMU people works.
SMU groups are losing to NTU groups by a huge margin and so they are thinking of ways to overtake the NTU groups. There is a rule in this game such that if your price is more than the (average pricex1.3), your store will not sell any goods. So from the information which I was given, the 5 SMU groups could have collude together to sell low so that the 3 NTU groups could not sell any. By company law, collusion of price is not allowed and I strongly feel their plot should be exposed and this is not ethical. Explicit collusion is not allowed.
To make it to layman terms, imagine all your supermarkets collude (NTUC, SHOP N SAVE, SHENG SIONG), they started to collude to charge high price to the customers. However, in the game, SMU groups collude to charge low prices. I am very disappointed with the SMU ppl. It had just wasted my 3 hours to think what to do in Round 4.
Fortunately, the system still allows all the NTU groups to sell but i cant figure why we are allowed to sell thou. However, I am still worried I could not sell any next round. See the picture for my details. They used to sell at different prices at $40 to $52 at round 2. You can see 4 SMU groups sell at 13 dollars and one group sells $16 at round 3. Enlarged version of Round 3. Its clear that they set low prices purposely.
Let just see how SMU people works.
SMU groups are losing to NTU groups by a huge margin and so they are thinking of ways to overtake the NTU groups. There is a rule in this game such that if your price is more than the (average pricex1.3), your store will not sell any goods. So from the information which I was given, the 5 SMU groups could have collude together to sell low so that the 3 NTU groups could not sell any. By company law, collusion of price is not allowed and I strongly feel their plot should be exposed and this is not ethical. Explicit collusion is not allowed.
To make it to layman terms, imagine all your supermarkets collude (NTUC, SHOP N SAVE, SHENG SIONG), they started to collude to charge high price to the customers. However, in the game, SMU groups collude to charge low prices. I am very disappointed with the SMU ppl. It had just wasted my 3 hours to think what to do in Round 4.
Fortunately, the system still allows all the NTU groups to sell but i cant figure why we are allowed to sell thou. However, I am still worried I could not sell any next round. See the picture for my details. They used to sell at different prices at $40 to $52 at round 2. You can see 4 SMU groups sell at 13 dollars and one group sells $16 at round 3. Enlarged version of Round 3. Its clear that they set low prices purposely.
Please take note that this is a personal observation and would not bear any responsibility for any misrepresentation. Please read with a skeptical mind.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Liverpool
I have been waiting for a Premier league title since primary 3. That is like 15 yrs.. Oh my.. But if they dun win, I will still wait for the day we lift up the trophy. A Champions league medal in 2005 already satisfied me :)
Pan Asian Finals Round 1
Round 1 is over. Tomorrow 26/3/2009 6.00pm will be Round 2. The final consists of 3 NTU teams and 5 SMU teams
Here are the Round 1 results:
My team 1st :)
Leading by a huge lead that boils down to luck.
The top 3 teams are all NTU! Rox on! Is total cool shit.
WE trash SMU ppl again!!
Now left round 2, 3, and 4. Really hope I can win it.
Here are the Round 1 results:
My team 1st :)
Leading by a huge lead that boils down to luck.
The top 3 teams are all NTU! Rox on! Is total cool shit.
WE trash SMU ppl again!!
Now left round 2, 3, and 4. Really hope I can win it.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Pan Asian Finals!!!
Finally the game for this round ended.
Result has came out. Top 2 teams are NTU groups and the 3rd and 4th teams are from SMU. All top 4 teams will combine from another group of top 4 to compete in the grand finals of Pan Asian. The winner of the these 8 teams will go to Taiwan free to compete with other countries!
NTU roxs. We trashed SMU teams on their face! woohoo.. The rivalry between both schools will never die off. Like Man U Vs Liverpool.
My team's results so far from in this game Vs SMUs.
Round 1 - 2nd
Round 2 - 5th oh my.. :(
Round 3 - 2nd
Round 4 - 1st
In the end Overall 1st !!!
We have make it this far now and I believe the top teams' capabilities should be around the same. The winner could either boil down to the least mistake made and a stroke of luck or real competitive advantage. Super exciting. I cant study AA306, AA304 and Astro quiz. Results doesn matter to me in this sem anyway.
Result has came out. Top 2 teams are NTU groups and the 3rd and 4th teams are from SMU. All top 4 teams will combine from another group of top 4 to compete in the grand finals of Pan Asian. The winner of the these 8 teams will go to Taiwan free to compete with other countries!
NTU roxs. We trashed SMU teams on their face! woohoo.. The rivalry between both schools will never die off. Like Man U Vs Liverpool.
My team's results so far from in this game Vs SMUs.
Round 1 - 2nd
Round 2 - 5th oh my.. :(
Round 3 - 2nd
Round 4 - 1st
In the end Overall 1st !!!
We have make it this far now and I believe the top teams' capabilities should be around the same. The winner could either boil down to the least mistake made and a stroke of luck or real competitive advantage. Super exciting. I cant study AA306, AA304 and Astro quiz. Results doesn matter to me in this sem anyway.
Friday, March 20, 2009
The Perfect Cut 10pm show
I watched this show for one full hour. It has been a long time since I sit down to watch television a local episode. The last one should be Little Nyonya which I only catch the last episode. Life is busy!
The last episode of Perfect Cut was full of philosophy. I couldn't really catch what Thomas Ong said but its something like applaud will dies off, trophy put away to dust. It almost like telling me not to pursue success blindly and be contented. Woah.
And Michelle Xie said to Wind, 'Thomas Ong (Alex Tan) is not because he is the first, he is the ONLY one'. Woah. Very mind blowing. Love is still very abstract to me.
Oh didn't mention that Thomas Ong used to be my idol. I remembered I put poster of him last time. He is 40 yrs old now but look like 30 yrs old. I cant imagine how I look at 30 yrs old. Thinking of tt, its only 6 more years to go!
Anyway, today I refused to pick up my phone while watching tv, so my mum at the age of 59 runs down the stairs to pick it up (she can pick the phone upstairs but duno why she dun wan to do it). Wahaha I feel happy because seeing my mum runs means she is healthy! Again, I wondered can I run so fast next time. Must go to gym or exercise more often den :)
The last episode of Perfect Cut was full of philosophy. I couldn't really catch what Thomas Ong said but its something like applaud will dies off, trophy put away to dust. It almost like telling me not to pursue success blindly and be contented. Woah.
And Michelle Xie said to Wind, 'Thomas Ong (Alex Tan) is not because he is the first, he is the ONLY one'. Woah. Very mind blowing. Love is still very abstract to me.
Oh didn't mention that Thomas Ong used to be my idol. I remembered I put poster of him last time. He is 40 yrs old now but look like 30 yrs old. I cant imagine how I look at 30 yrs old. Thinking of tt, its only 6 more years to go!
Anyway, today I refused to pick up my phone while watching tv, so my mum at the age of 59 runs down the stairs to pick it up (she can pick the phone upstairs but duno why she dun wan to do it). Wahaha I feel happy because seeing my mum runs means she is healthy! Again, I wondered can I run so fast next time. Must go to gym or exercise more often den :)
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
2nd round of Pan Asian starts today!
This time round, there will be four teams from smu and four teams of ntu groups to compete. Top 4 will get to the finals and the winner will get to go to Taiwan for free. So there is no reward for being second :(
So gb and jason came to my house today and my room now has a whiteboard to draw all the conclusions. Feel like a tutor when holding the marker. Hehe. Jason also thinks its good training too. He has ambition to be a secondary school teacher which I think is a serious waste of talent. We should be doing substantive analytical checks and discover some fraud and make a name for ourselves! Hahahaha.
So gb and jason came to my house today and my room now has a whiteboard to draw all the conclusions. Feel like a tutor when holding the marker. Hehe. Jason also thinks its good training too. He has ambition to be a secondary school teacher which I think is a serious waste of talent. We should be doing substantive analytical checks and discover some fraud and make a name for ourselves! Hahahaha.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Round one of Pan asian
Yea.. managed to get through round 1 of Pan Asian. Two more weeks and it will be the end.
Tomorrow will be my last presentation in NTU. AA304 seminar 15..
Tomorrow will be my last presentation in NTU. AA304 seminar 15..
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Semi retirement..
Kpmg asked me to work on 1 October. This mean I will rest for 5 months. Oh my.. Really scratching my head. I wont feel like working any part time job. It will be 6 - 7 dollars per hour. Maybe I will give tuition again for this period. POA will be a viable subject :)
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
2 more weeks to tooth implant
I will get my tooth implant tomorrow. Thats a super long wait. Going to spend another 1k for the next trip. Faints. Total amount of money spent on my teeth = 2.8k for braces + 400 for retainers + 3.7k for implants + root canal treatment for $400 = 7.3k. I think i need to smile more to slowly depreciate this huge sum of money.
If implant look sucks = impairment straight..
Fred told me he went to whiten his teeth for $500 and he had two implants and done braces before. Seem like he is worse off than me but his teeth is damn white!
If implant look sucks = impairment straight..
Fred told me he went to whiten his teeth for $500 and he had two implants and done braces before. Seem like he is worse off than me but his teeth is damn white!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
All about you - Odds :)
Referring to my previous post about Pan Asian game. My mind is all about getting better odds to win the rounds. Ya, I am addicted to this game. I will wait anxiously for the result that came out everyday at 6.30pm and call Jason and GB to talk about my findings. They dun sound excited but I think they are concerned about the results. Or is it my one sided thinking?
So I was worried that Jason and Gb will burnt out due to so many trials, I decided to key the numbers my own. I think quite tiring to keep coming to my house just for trials and they kinda agree to my idea of relaxing in trials and work hard during real rounds.
Back to odds topic. I think I am full of funny ideas. Today, I was super tired, 630am wake up so I desperately need a train seat cos NTU is so far. So, I went to the back of train and aim for those students with uniform which I know will alight at Hougang. I saw the badge Holy Innocents so I just act cool and stand in front of her.. haha. Yea and I get the seat to sit to outram park.
So some people were wondering how to invest in stocks. To get better odds, you have to read up, discuss with knowledgeable friends (preferably ppl who dun use technical analysis), avoid those obvious untouchables like high P/e ratios, avoid no track record of profits. I think I will stop here as people will get bored if I continue :)
Cheers to getting better odds in life!
So I was worried that Jason and Gb will burnt out due to so many trials, I decided to key the numbers my own. I think quite tiring to keep coming to my house just for trials and they kinda agree to my idea of relaxing in trials and work hard during real rounds.
Back to odds topic. I think I am full of funny ideas. Today, I was super tired, 630am wake up so I desperately need a train seat cos NTU is so far. So, I went to the back of train and aim for those students with uniform which I know will alight at Hougang. I saw the badge Holy Innocents so I just act cool and stand in front of her.. haha. Yea and I get the seat to sit to outram park.
So some people were wondering how to invest in stocks. To get better odds, you have to read up, discuss with knowledgeable friends (preferably ppl who dun use technical analysis), avoid those obvious untouchables like high P/e ratios, avoid no track record of profits. I think I will stop here as people will get bored if I continue :)
Cheers to getting better odds in life!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Changing passwords of my accounts
Today, I woke up quite early due to renovation noise. With so much time, I started to think a lot again. As I started using internet since Primary 6, like 12 yrs ago, my passwords all look noob and very prone to hacking attack. My old passwords were prone to dictionary attack so decided to change all to random and multiple alphanumeric passwords.
So while I was changing, starting to realize it is easy to change the password and this could really wreak havoc your accounts. Imagine I dun have control over my msn, facebook, and my poems accounts anymore. Lucky, internet banking has two factor identification :)
Just a random post :)
So while I was changing, starting to realize it is easy to change the password and this could really wreak havoc your accounts. Imagine I dun have control over my msn, facebook, and my poems accounts anymore. Lucky, internet banking has two factor identification :)
Just a random post :)
Monday, March 2, 2009
All about Pan Asian
I was busy with the Pan Asian competition which is almost cesim like but in different format. The system is crap in a way that the prof miscommunicate with the Taiwan software ppl. So, my group has to keep refreshing the website to wait for result so as to start a new round. Lots of time are wasted !! Now is trial 2 round 3 already. One more trial left this week. I asked gb are you burnt out by PAN? And he said yes. He is quite poor thing because he has to accomdate us and come to my house because Jason stays two bus stops away from me and Boon Keng Mcdonalds prove to be a place not conducive for PAN. So, I think I will just key in my numbers in trial 2 round 4 :)
Den I was quite confident to at least pass first round but i jus read something on the website. There are 4 models in this game!! It means that the whole thing will be dynamic and will keep changing to other models as it progressed. So its almost like no point guessing. So now is to hope we can pass the Real round one next week. Wish me luck!
Den I was quite confident to at least pass first round but i jus read something on the website. There are 4 models in this game!! It means that the whole thing will be dynamic and will keep changing to other models as it progressed. So its almost like no point guessing. So now is to hope we can pass the Real round one next week. Wish me luck!
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