Diversifying Ruined

As usual, I arrived at the MRT at 8.20am today. I waited for another 10min when I decided to give Wendy a call if she is reaching. To my alarmed, she had just woke up. She told me her alarm failed on her. I did some googling and found that some other Prada phone users are also experiencing this problem that sometimes the alarm would stop working and have to reboot the phone. First, its the camera mode which will hang at times, now its the alarm malfunctioning. Hopefully the engineers will get it sorted out when we send it for repair this Saturday at their Vivo outlet.

Yesterday I left my workplace at around 6.45pm to wait for Li Ling to off work. She has been assigned to audit another company which is at Republic Plaza, near my workplace. We can travel to work, have lunch and go home together! The aircon at UOB Plaza 1 switch off at 6.30pm, I supposed this is in their policy. To add on, their aircon temperature during office hours is super and I really mean super cold! I can still feel the coldness even with my windbreaker on. Now I am contemplating whether to retrieve my winter wear. However, with the aircon switched off after office hours, it get a bit of stuffy and warm after 15min, wonder how can those workaholics able to work till late night. Why aren't they considering increasing the temperature by one or two degrees and extend the aircon hours by 1 or 2 hours? I reckon the power consumption is more efficient in this case.

Anyway, I have our first team lunch today at one of the Jap restaurant. I ordered a Bento set which cost $25. It consists of sashimi, tempura, cod, water melon and rice. Its worth the money, enough said. Will bring my lao dear to go one of these days. After the lunch, we went over to some place for some dessert. Not really a dessert guy, I left most of it to the rest. Anyway I find them too sweety for my liking. The ice-cream is nice though. All in all, the whole team lunch cost roughly $200, fully paid by our super nice VP and AVP.

After work, I met up with Wendy before proceeding to Bishan to have dinner with my family. Ordered my favourite Volcano Ramen. A typical bowl comes with 3 cha siew, however this time round, I had 6 of them! 3 of them came from Wendy who find it a bit disgusting to her liking.

Met up with Patrick, Amos and my dear during lunch today at Chevron House. I ordered the tempura rice, 2 words, it sucks. Nevertheless, the conversation was great throughout with topics ranging from our future studies to ten years back during our secondary school days.

After the initial usual catch-up conversation with one another, we chat about our future studies. I realised that a lot of Singaporeans or rather my friends around me has not really think and plan for their future yet. Not because they do not want to, its because they do not know what they want to achieve. I guess this has got something to do with our Singapore education system where Singaporeans are taught to study, get a job and get paid. This is too traditional and no longer valid because more and more people are able to get into a University, be it local or foreign. We are not taught on how to make full use of our individual unique talent when young and to train and improve on it. Instead, we are taught to "diversify" our talents across many areas. Relates this to a soccer player. Comparing a striker with a powerful and accurate right foot but a normal left foot with another striker with an above average right and left foot, which one would you choose? Note: With the former's ability, the striker has a higher percentage of scoring whenever the chance is given.

We then move on to chat about our Secondary School life. We could not figure who was our 2nd and 3rd 'O' Level students and was Wendy a monitor before in SGS? Do drop me a msg if you have clues :)

Oh ya, just before we were about to go back, I was pretty surprised that Amos got an iPhone. It cost him about SGD$730. He was looking for a leather case for it and could not find any affordable ones in Singapore. Luckily he met me because I have lobang for iPhone Cases & Accessories.

Celebrated my mum's 47th Birthday few weeks ago. Have our dinner at one of AMK Hub's restaurant. After which we went home to cut the cake.

As usual on a CNY Eve, Wendy and I have to "pao tai" for CNY Reunion Dinner at her house then my house.

Luckily for this year, her family's dinner started quite early at around 6.15pm whereas my family's dinner commenced at 10pm. We need time to digest before going for another round you know? :)

Today marks the 2 years anniversary of me and Wendy. As usual, there were many ups and downs for these 2 years. Many things seems to happen to us that appears long time ago. But I am glad that we managed to pull it through everytime. Thanks dear!

Relationship is not just about love and spending time with each other. Perhaps it is for those who are younger. However, as we grow up, we need to think and start planning for our future. This can be child's planning such as the commitment and teaching we want to impair to our child; financial planning such as wedding expenses, child's expenses, child's education, retirement planning; insurance planning such as getting a family insurance to protect our love ones.

Forgive me for all the bad things I have did to you in the past. It was never meant to begin with. As we continue our journey together, lets motivate and show each other higher level of patience. I love you lao dear :)

Eugene Fu aka Ah Fu Ge did a video for her girlfriend as this coming Valentine's Day Gift. He also submitted the video for a Valentine's Day competition.

A week of work has passed, I am employed by UOB through a agency working as their software tester plus some admin stuff. Been pretty relax for the 1st week. But I forsee that workloads will start piling up after CNY, especially in March. Managed to finished my "Fire your stock analyst" within 5 days. Will be returning it this weekend as I do not want to delay till CNY period which by then it will expire.

I still have 2 more books that I want to borrow but I will put them on hold first as there will not be much time to read during the first few days of CNY. Luckily, I still have another magazine called "Q Magazine" to accompany me for at least a week. And I am still waiting for Li Ling's Bloomberg magazine for the month of Feb! heee

Wendy was down with flu, a bit of fever, throat infection, bloated tummy etc. She was to see a doctor at Raffles Medical (FOC, medical benefit for Deloitte's employees) and managed to get 2 days of MC for Thursday and Friday (long weekend!).

Wendy went for her CNY shopping spree yesterday and bought some shoes and dress. She met me after my work and we went to PS to collect her dress. At the same time, I went to get some of the ingredients for the cabonara pasta this Sunday. Then we decided to have our dinner at this basement's Wang cafe (whatever). $4.80 set including "Tea Leaf Rice with Teriyaki Chicken" and a cup of tea. Wendy said its so so only but I think its nice.