Well many of my friends who had been with me since Poly days(2005) know that I'm slow in achieving one particular (mini) milestone in my life. MY driving licence. Yeah even my brothers brag that they have gotten theirs within 3 or what 5 months. Thats how slow I'm acquiring the 2 wheeler or 3 wheeler licence.
Well now with regrets I realise that I need a car so badly. Mind you, that owning one in the course of my job is not a liability but an investment tool. You have one, you ought to have lotsa lotsa business. You see people like my mobile bankers(working partners) seek comfort like you and me. I do sourly regret that I lost out a big time in gaining potential business. WHY??? AS I'm yet to get a freaking DAMN LICENCE.
So there I go, inpatiently started looking for an instructor. Ah-there is one from AceDriving Centre, Mr Michael Tan. As cool his name may sound,I'm relating to the former F1 ACE, that instructorr in on the extreme horror of contrast. Short, SLOW, Kiasi, KIASEE, sleepy, groggy and KIASI again...
As a learner we have to practice good braking habits, gear changing, negotiating speeds along different roads is one of the many acquired skills of handling your vehicle. So when Michael took me, he obviously knows that I've been taking my lessons on and off. So it is assumed that I know how to GOD DAMN drive. Probably all that he needs to do is ensure how smooth I apply my skills. But this man, little dirty man, wanting to milk money, he would ask me to drive for 40km/h. To drive on straight roads that is.
Imagine 40 Km/H- 4th gear is never needed. And another joke is he'll wear his shades, lie back and even doze off... MY $39 dollars !! All wasted by just driving a straight road. In fact maintaining a straight path is tougher than moving in a higher speed. Its like driving Miss Laizy around the sembawang road. And that Miss LAizy imposes authority while sleeping. e.g. when the signboards say 70KM/H, I'll still be driving at 38km/h. Guess what when I accelerate. Miss Daisy would wake up, assumes I didn't know he dozed off and say "Slow down, fast doesn't mean you are good. You have to correct your mistakes by driving slowly" Correct my mistakes? On a straight road? Where on earth is this man from?
So I changed to another instructor. Someone who hardly speaks good English but solid one...
Simple straight forward and is worth paying additional $3. And guess what he told me when I told him of my bad experience . "Oh Michael Tan ah, aiya ask the whole UBI, his car is the slowest car in Singapore." Hmm What a luck...
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Market is worsening- only for the ignorant.
For many years, I've heard of recession, crisis, turmoils etc etc. All the $$ taboo words.
I would be totally ignorant or aloof on this matter. Probably I wouldn't know much. As well as I've not been bitten.
Now, I'm feeling the pinch. Emails flood with advice on why Prudential will not fall to similar fate of our Rival AIA. Customers losing trust with the European/American Companies are now steering their way to Local Insurers. Urgent meetings arise touching issues on how to handle their fears.
Gossips and rumours in the air have the words. That as many as hundreds of financial institutes will follow the similar situation of Merril Lynch or AIA.
Someone predicted once that Singapore will be so affected that some decades later, there would be paupers and homeless citizens. And before that to happen this current crisis would evolve as long as over the next 5 to 15 years. Don't be Surprised.
To tell the truth, I'd felt being in a RUT. Having customers who invested their monies, would they get back what they placed? Esp those who have parted their CPF savings for higher(potential) interests.
I'm tearing within. Today colleagues who are salaried and situated at back end, gleefully walked past me saying "Luckily I'm not in this(my) line"
To sum all up, Am I involved? I beg to differ. Lets wait and see. I now remember my Friendster shoutout I placed long ago. 'Millionaire by 32'. The journey is about to begin now. ITs theme shall be "Have greed when all is Fearing" -(courtesy of Warren Buffet and boss on monday)
Before they(colleagues) realise how it impacts them, its good luck to their ignorance...
I would be totally ignorant or aloof on this matter. Probably I wouldn't know much. As well as I've not been bitten.
Now, I'm feeling the pinch. Emails flood with advice on why Prudential will not fall to similar fate of our Rival AIA. Customers losing trust with the European/American Companies are now steering their way to Local Insurers. Urgent meetings arise touching issues on how to handle their fears.
Gossips and rumours in the air have the words. That as many as hundreds of financial institutes will follow the similar situation of Merril Lynch or AIA.
Someone predicted once that Singapore will be so affected that some decades later, there would be paupers and homeless citizens. And before that to happen this current crisis would evolve as long as over the next 5 to 15 years. Don't be Surprised.
To tell the truth, I'd felt being in a RUT. Having customers who invested their monies, would they get back what they placed? Esp those who have parted their CPF savings for higher(potential) interests.
I'm tearing within. Today colleagues who are salaried and situated at back end, gleefully walked past me saying "Luckily I'm not in this(my) line"
To sum all up, Am I involved? I beg to differ. Lets wait and see. I now remember my Friendster shoutout I placed long ago. 'Millionaire by 32'. The journey is about to begin now. ITs theme shall be "Have greed when all is Fearing" -(courtesy of Warren Buffet and boss on monday)
Before they(colleagues) realise how it impacts them, its good luck to their ignorance...
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Yeah feeling rebelious since yesterday...
Personal Daily Horoscope of Sunday, 14 September 2008
for Nty, born 19 October 1982
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A bit wild
Weak, transient effect: This morning the quality of time arouses an independent and rebellious spirit in you. You are inclined to do exactly the opposite of what someone suggests and to reject whatever others say simply because they said it. For the same reasons you are impatient with restraints, duties and responsibilities. There is a great need to be free and to do something very different, maybe even a little bit wild. You have a strong craving for excitement with this influence, and you may act in ways that you would never consider in a more sober mood. This could be either good or bad, of course, depending on how conservative you usually are and how unusual or outrageous the action. For some people this can be a very liberating influence. For others it is a bit too much.
For the past few days, Freedom and excitement has been ringing my mind...
Lets see what else is in store in for future seeking the above mentioned...
for Nty, born 19 October 1982
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A bit wild
Weak, transient effect: This morning the quality of time arouses an independent and rebellious spirit in you. You are inclined to do exactly the opposite of what someone suggests and to reject whatever others say simply because they said it. For the same reasons you are impatient with restraints, duties and responsibilities. There is a great need to be free and to do something very different, maybe even a little bit wild. You have a strong craving for excitement with this influence, and you may act in ways that you would never consider in a more sober mood. This could be either good or bad, of course, depending on how conservative you usually are and how unusual or outrageous the action. For some people this can be a very liberating influence. For others it is a bit too much.
For the past few days, Freedom and excitement has been ringing my mind...
Lets see what else is in store in for future seeking the above mentioned...
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Becoming Jane, Becoming Real
Today was an empty Saturday as usual. This has been happening quite a while. Enjoying my weekends off. My mind was clearly recalling last Sunday in PD Trip. The heat, aggression, competition, blue blacks and many more. That will be exploited in full details the next time.
Today as I wished for a long time, I've finally caught BECOMING JANE. A classic based on the famous Jane Austen. The writer, creator and inspirant of Pride and Prejudice & also the movie Kandu Kondein Kandu Kondein.
Mr Tom Lefroy, an impudent, impertinent and a man with no reputation falls in love with the writer Jane who is poor and penniless. Both have no evident financial means to get united and start a family. So in the end they would be separated for a practical reason.
To them the reality is that, Marriage can never, to the purest of hearts and minds, occur between two people without affection. So they eloped. But the conclusion was contradicting. In the case of Jane, who was penniless and ready to let go off everything for him wakes up to a sad reality behind Tom and leaves him. For he was a highly depended man who had many mouths to feed. Therafter she stayed single till her short life ended.
In reality, Money isn't everything. But sadly Everything is Money.
It paths your life. Work for it till you never be devoid of it in life.
Solid movie..truly LOVED it...
Luckily I didn't catch it when I was on my flight back from London. Else I would be between two strange male passengers sniffing off with flooded eyes. Because the last scene really caught me.
As it is for Jane, Affection and Attraction too are my ultimate decider to marry. Not money. Yet again, the reality is...
Money is my biggest contradicting object of desire... Lest hope Love Shan't be...
Today as I wished for a long time, I've finally caught BECOMING JANE. A classic based on the famous Jane Austen. The writer, creator and inspirant of Pride and Prejudice & also the movie Kandu Kondein Kandu Kondein.
Mr Tom Lefroy, an impudent, impertinent and a man with no reputation falls in love with the writer Jane who is poor and penniless. Both have no evident financial means to get united and start a family. So in the end they would be separated for a practical reason.
To them the reality is that, Marriage can never, to the purest of hearts and minds, occur between two people without affection. So they eloped. But the conclusion was contradicting. In the case of Jane, who was penniless and ready to let go off everything for him wakes up to a sad reality behind Tom and leaves him. For he was a highly depended man who had many mouths to feed. Therafter she stayed single till her short life ended.
In reality, Money isn't everything. But sadly Everything is Money.
It paths your life. Work for it till you never be devoid of it in life.
Solid movie..truly LOVED it...
Luckily I didn't catch it when I was on my flight back from London. Else I would be between two strange male passengers sniffing off with flooded eyes. Because the last scene really caught me.
As it is for Jane, Affection and Attraction too are my ultimate decider to marry. Not money. Yet again, the reality is...
Money is my biggest contradicting object of desire... Lest hope Love Shan't be...
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Dazzle to Mezzle...
There are songs That are worth umpteen listens...
Here are some of my alltime selection...
Here are some of my alltime selection...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
PD Trip...
PD Trip is an highlight of the year for many.
A trip that is yearly for some of the few
A trip that may bring painful memory for that some of the fews
A trip that was planned to unite/foster new relations
A trip that has gotten some to be firmer about existing relations
A trip that brought me to be Rugged with No Reservations
Enough Said...
Well Lets look at the sight and sightings of the trip...
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Well here are some pics that aren't avail on the above link
A trip that is yearly for some of the few
A trip that may bring painful memory for that some of the fews
A trip that was planned to unite/foster new relations
A trip that has gotten some to be firmer about existing relations
A trip that brought me to be Rugged with No Reservations
Enough Said...
Well Lets look at the sight and sightings of the trip...
click me
Well here are some pics that aren't avail on the above link
Monday, September 1, 2008
Astrology
Yesterday I was chatting with Jeena. I wish I didn't open that book of astrology and offered her some help of mine.
From the year of 2005 to 2006, I was addicted to this subject. It was a calling. My deep desires to understand the human relations and our minds were fast and raging. I'll remember doing intensive reaserches, that see me through without food but just coffee and cigarrettes.
Drawing these 9 blocks, intepreting my natal charts, finding out why humans behave in such manner thrilled me than none other. Understanding each and every exaltations and detriments of planets. To the extent that I would go to temple not to pray to Vinayagar, Murugan or anyone else but to the 9 planets that are located at the corner of the temple.
My reason being simple. I didn't believe that powers are recieved by just praying. Therefore we don't get our energies by offering the favourite foods and particular colored silk towels to the 9 planets. Our bodies are in need of such energies. When we give offerings to such planets it is equivalent to welcoming their good effects(minusung their negative energies) into our lives, bodies and minds.
Well to cite a popular example, would be where many would offer black sesame seeds on Saturday to cool off Saneeswaran(Planet Saturn)- just to evade from his miseries.
Likewise I would do such but not to him. To the planet Venus. It would be offering of white towels and jasmine and saying her mantra. Now this is what I meant of praying-my style. True enough things did paid off. With its fair share of ups and downs. I been to places which I would only dreamt of. I saw the greek Goddess of Venus-Milo. Its not miracle but believing that overpowering ourselves with these planets.
One of my most highly read about planet would be the moon planet.
It depicts the most detailed story line of every individual. In my life I just wish that there is this one Moon that will never show up in my life. The taurus moon-Rohini nakshatra. It reeks the extremes in my life. An astrologer once told me that in my life Rohini would be my worse lover and enemy. For now I believe that my sagas with these natives of that nakshtra has ended.
Well I hope not all Rohinis would engrave such impacts. Good to know that our funky Jeena is not of such... HaHaHa...
Just a tip. I've learnt that Astrology should be a guideline. To understand ourselves better. But not to blindly imply their predictions as mentioned by some paid expert. In the Gita, it is once said that one who understands himself is equal to understanding the world itself.
Its all within ourselves.
From the year of 2005 to 2006, I was addicted to this subject. It was a calling. My deep desires to understand the human relations and our minds were fast and raging. I'll remember doing intensive reaserches, that see me through without food but just coffee and cigarrettes.
Drawing these 9 blocks, intepreting my natal charts, finding out why humans behave in such manner thrilled me than none other. Understanding each and every exaltations and detriments of planets. To the extent that I would go to temple not to pray to Vinayagar, Murugan or anyone else but to the 9 planets that are located at the corner of the temple.
My reason being simple. I didn't believe that powers are recieved by just praying. Therefore we don't get our energies by offering the favourite foods and particular colored silk towels to the 9 planets. Our bodies are in need of such energies. When we give offerings to such planets it is equivalent to welcoming their good effects(minusung their negative energies) into our lives, bodies and minds.
Well to cite a popular example, would be where many would offer black sesame seeds on Saturday to cool off Saneeswaran(Planet Saturn)- just to evade from his miseries.
Likewise I would do such but not to him. To the planet Venus. It would be offering of white towels and jasmine and saying her mantra. Now this is what I meant of praying-my style. True enough things did paid off. With its fair share of ups and downs. I been to places which I would only dreamt of. I saw the greek Goddess of Venus-Milo. Its not miracle but believing that overpowering ourselves with these planets.
One of my most highly read about planet would be the moon planet.
It depicts the most detailed story line of every individual. In my life I just wish that there is this one Moon that will never show up in my life. The taurus moon-Rohini nakshatra. It reeks the extremes in my life. An astrologer once told me that in my life Rohini would be my worse lover and enemy. For now I believe that my sagas with these natives of that nakshtra has ended.
Well I hope not all Rohinis would engrave such impacts. Good to know that our funky Jeena is not of such... HaHaHa...
Just a tip. I've learnt that Astrology should be a guideline. To understand ourselves better. But not to blindly imply their predictions as mentioned by some paid expert. In the Gita, it is once said that one who understands himself is equal to understanding the world itself.
Its all within ourselves.
Law of Attraction
I'm a victim of law of attraction.
My mind needs space to recover.
Well one of my uncle got into a forklift accident. His leg was trapped beneath a giant forked wheel. His left leg is now bandaged with gauzes and cloth that sizes up his foot up 2 notches.
He is my fave. So to speak I'm his fave and he's always so proud of me. But he's in the hospital. And I hate to go to hospitals. These are places of negative energy. My mind just get too restless and seeks some entertainment without any thought.
But ask me to go bowling, hang out late nights with the people, eat expensive coca steamboat...I will.
Cos my mind is full of need for recreation, entertainment, and lotsa lotsa fun.
And the PD trip is one that I've been fondly waiting for. Speak of Law of Attraction.
Guess what..
I'm getting ready reluctantly to visit him. But now hooked to Trisha's Akkam Pakkam song...
My mind needs space to recover.
Well one of my uncle got into a forklift accident. His leg was trapped beneath a giant forked wheel. His left leg is now bandaged with gauzes and cloth that sizes up his foot up 2 notches.
He is my fave. So to speak I'm his fave and he's always so proud of me. But he's in the hospital. And I hate to go to hospitals. These are places of negative energy. My mind just get too restless and seeks some entertainment without any thought.
But ask me to go bowling, hang out late nights with the people, eat expensive coca steamboat...I will.
Cos my mind is full of need for recreation, entertainment, and lotsa lotsa fun.
And the PD trip is one that I've been fondly waiting for. Speak of Law of Attraction.
Guess what..
I'm getting ready reluctantly to visit him. But now hooked to Trisha's Akkam Pakkam song...
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