My Online Diary

Throwback to a few weeks back 9 January is a day which I should have bring along a book with me. but I didnt.  I thought I will be returning back to office after the site visit but I was wrong. In fact, next time I should bring a book to whereever I go so that regardless where I am going, at least I will still be able to have something to do when I am free. (there's more that I have written on my book regarding my reflection on my new workplace but I guess that is for a later post.) Flash forward till today, I stopped bringing books to anywhere cause I don't really read them and they are additional weight which I have to carry around. What I do instead is to carry my non camera phone around so that I can at least be able to surf the net and communicate with people through messaging apps such as whatsapp, telegram, wechat, line and etc.  The remaining time is spent watching the workers work, dozing off, singing songs and walking back and forth. Ri...

4th day of Chinese New Year and I am back at work ! I was given an option to either work or forced to take leave until next week. Since I have just started work in this company and have yet gotten my confirmation,  I don't have any annual leave so, no choice just work. I'm not even celebrating Chinese New Year this year anyway. But I actually semi regret not taking leave today cause I am sososo tired and I keep on dozing off. I should have taken leave to continue to nua at home. Anyway the company given us 2 days of leave ahead of cny. but I kinda just blew it off without doing much things. Throwback of the past few days; 23 Jan, I went to meet my brother from my previous company for lunch. I promised him that I will treat him before I leave but I didnt managed to treat him as he is needed on site the very day. Hence the treat has been delayed till now. Went to Mr Prata to have lunch. We ordered Chicken Fried Rice, Seared Salmon, Spring Chic...

Woke up really early today as I was thirsty and also I had a lot of things in my mind So after waking up, I decided to use the computer. By using the computer, I realised that it has been a long time since I put in effort in keeping my online diary alive ... Keeping this online diary a ME space which I can refer to and count on retracing my thoughts at that time. (My memory is getting worse each day.) and.... I started with updating my webtoons list! The first and the last time I actually updated it was in 11 November 2018. Thats like 1+ years ago. (In fact same for the other pages. But it's the first page ..) Now that I've updated it, my next plan is to change the layout of this page. I realized it since last year that the mobile version of this page looks different and weird looking. but I didn't really look into it since I hadn't been using the computer for a long time. Oh, I also decided to remove twitter from this page since I am...

It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life  For me... And I'm feeling good !!! Well 2020 is here and today is the second day of the new year which marks the first working day of 2020. It's so sad that the holiday just ended like that. It felt like I haven't enjoy much of the holiday. And once again, I've been wasting too much time watching videos instead of doing what I want to be doing.  Well, we just have to endure another 3 weeks for the next big holiday which I can't celebrate this year. Though I am unable to celebrate this year, but I am still looking forward to it. Instead of going out visiting, I'll be able to spend the time resting and spend the time researching and learning more stuff (And that is if I don't waste my time like how I did usually) It's 11.17pm now and I'm feeling really tired.  Been dozing off at work so I guess it means I have to start sleeping earlier. I'll be back with another meaningless post soon. See ...

2 days more till the new year !  And it is time for a goal review!  The goals which I have set for myself at the start of the year are as follows ; 1.Plan a short trip / staycation with my partner before May this year 2. 每个月要主动带伴侣出门一次  3. Practice the music sheet from Lindsey and be able to play it well by April 2019 Apparently, I have gave up all my goals before the end of the year because 1. My partner doesn't want us to spend money on short trip / staycation 2. I'm going out w my partner almost every day for dinner that planning one every month to somewhere special is making us feel tired. especially when we also have other commitments. Eg: friends, family & interest group.  I only gave up on this goal after August so I completed at least 50% of my goal But I would say that even if I have not completed 100%, I have already achieved the results that I wanted.  3. I don't have a violin at my partner house and I don't want to bring mine over cause I don't wa...

The weather for the past week and the following days to come is so cold that I don't even need to on air con at night !  But it makes me feel like staying at home all day as I do not want to be out in the wet weather. But then again I really have no choice since I had to work for money. :( So, recently I'm looking into how I can get passive income so that I can rest a little.  With the weather like that, I have to start bathing the moment I reach home. Otherwise the water will get colder later into the night. (Partner's house has no water heater) Can't wait for next week when Christmas comes so that I can have a day of rest in the mid week. It has been almost 2months since I've started my new job. I definitely learnt different things within this 2 months but I feel that I didn't do many of the job well. At first when I started the job, I was hoping that I will be able to perform well and hopefully get a pay raise after I get through the probation period. But as ...

Wooo! Blogger mobile app have a new layout ( from a few months ago ) And I think it looked so much better than the previous one. Didn't explore much of the app yet. I'm just submitting blog posts only. Let's move on to my life cause you know, I haven't really tried exploring the app hence I got nothing to talk about it.  Now that I switch job, I have to wake up earlier as the working hours 8.30am-5.30pm instead of 9am-6pm I used to think 30minute isn't a very long time... But it actually is !  Now I reach home at 6pm and is able to finish showering eating (take away at home / nearby home) and playing royal chaos by 9+ 10!  I will even have time to blog every day if I don't spend them on going out to inconvenient places to have dinner / hanging out with friends and family. But well, spending time with friends and family is important so you guys just got to wait for my update. (I'm pretty sure nobody really reads my lengthy posts anyway) Back to talking about ...

Yesterday, I started my second full time job. The HR in this company was so much better than my previous company.  Everything was prepared beforehand. You don't have to wait for IT access/ for people to set up the computer system. They also prepared some common stationaries on my table. Everything is good so far except that I haven't see the person who is supposed to guide me.  He will be away for 2 weeks.  (I wonder why they keep asking me to join earlier. Maybe should have stick to my original plan of starting on 4 November instead.) Expanding company. Not much people in the office yet.  There are so many things to compare to my previous company. Not much of a bad thing. The only thing that bothers me is that I can hear the sound of airplane flying every now and then. It's loud and noisy and my office is super quiet. There are things that I definitely will miss about my first job environment, culture and people. BUT I really have to leave the job environment. ...

Goal for the year : To bring partner out for a date on my own accord monthly I initially thought that it would be quite easy since there are at 28 or more days in a month. But I guess it is still quite a challenge as I have to work even on Saturdays. Dinner dates seems to be the most convenient for me. However, my partner usually end work earlier than me. So partner will end up buying food back for us / initiate our dinner location.  As I have to work half day on Saturdays, the moment I reach home after work, I don't want to leave the house anymore.  On certain weekends, I'll also meet my friends out together with partner. Hence we couldn't have our date together. Ultimately,  it seems like I'm getting back to my lazy days. Month of September, I didn't initiate any dates with my partner. My partner did initiate one though (Many if you include dinner dates) The rest of the time, I initiated going out w my family & friends. But we will...

Goal for the year: To bring my partner out for a date monthly. As I mentioned on Goal Review 5/6, I did not go out on a date with my partner on July hence failing the goal. What I did however is to bring my partner out on 2 dates on August. Had a dinner date as usual. At Bugis plus after work! We had curry rice at CoCo Ichibanya I think the food there is not bad! My partner didn't really like the place as the table is a little bit too small.  After dinner, we went to shop at uniqlo! Bought a few shirt for my partner <3 (Oh but the shirts are still inside the plastic bag beside the wardrobe.) Next, we went to Tampines iSteaks for dinner on Saturday. We reached the place at around 5.45 to have early dinner. Thankfully, the dinner crowd have not arrived yet otherwise we would have been stuck outside queuing. Food is awesome as usual. We had ordered a Mushroom soup,  1 450g NZ Striploin (Medium rare) and a chicken steak. Parmesan Asp...

Back in June I mentioned that I will be writing the below topics 1. What to bring / do on a trip 2. What to prepare for BBQ / camping 3. What to expect after coming back from a week long leave (when you work in a small company) 4. Thoughts and reflection about work. 5. Plans for the future 6. Goal review 7. Royal Chaos It's September now and I only did 1 which is the goal review. Procrastination at its best. V.V I think I should just continue to post daily and touch on those topics as and when I remember. Procrastination is the number 1 thing that kills. I want to be able to complete many things in a day but I am always tempted to procrastinate. Nowadays I always try to tell myself that if I finish one item completely, I will have one less thing to do and more time for myself. But I haven't been able to finish most things completely :( Started reusing Trello to set up a to do list because 1. It is time efficient Typing is faster than writing it down. No need ...

I haven't been posting for a long time. Not sure if anyone is still following. Anyway, it's August now and I haven't done my goal review for June and July Goal of the year is to  Bring my partner out for a date monthly. For June, We went for a classic movie date. Although my partner and I have been together for 4 years, but I think we only went to the Cinema for around 5 times as we think that it is a waste of money to go and watch it in the Cinema. Well, the reason why I proposed catching a movie is because I'm lazy to plan for a date and also,  I really wanted to watch Aladdin!  (I didn't watch the old version so I will not be comparing the two. If you need any comparison, you can always search it on YouTube. There are so many of them!) Anyway, to me, the movie was great!  Sound track is awesome.  (Though I think the sound track sounds better on earpiece than in cinemas) My personal song ranking A Whole New World Speech...

This June had been a busy month for me which explains why I haven't been posting for quite sometime. There are so many things I want to write about but I only have a little time. So I shall just jolt down what I was planning to write about 1. What to bring / do on a trip 2. What to prepare for BBQ / camping 3. What to expect after coming back from a week long leave (when you work in a small company) 4. Thoughts and reflection about work. 5. Plans for the future 6. Goal review 7. Royal Chaos Will be starting to work on the articles this week. Hopefully I will have enough strength to write a post by tomorrow.

人都是口是心非 选择权已经在你手上了 但做出的选择与心里的选择是不一致的 Oh why oh why are you so fickle minded~ oh why oh why you are this way ? 因为不管事情的大小都有太多人事物需要考虑 心里想要/做的的事 不敢轻易的说出来 不敢去尝试 不敢轻易答应/ 做出选择 怕被人占便宜 怕别人不认同 怕别人的目光 怕会被收控制 怕尽力...

It has been a very unproductive week cause I am physically very tired although I didn't do much things. Work was hectic! Both my site supervisor are on leave and I am left to liaise with the worker leader which I can't really communicate well with. Some contractors are MIA while some contractors are really nice and help us a lot in order for us to meet the deadlines. Still the dark times are not yet over. There are still a lot more work to be done at this site although we are supposed to be close to completion. One of my site supervisor will be back tomorrow... So I will have less thing on my plate to think about. Now what is left of the project is to ensure that the subcontractor get back to me with the schedules so that I can arrange work and ensure that work can be completed on time. Next week (tomorrow) I will have to focus on another project which has started (but we have yet to do anything) Hopefully I can get most of the paperwork done so that site can proceed w...

Selamat Hari Raya! Felt like nowadays I am only posting on Holidays + a few days after holidays. But I guess it is not really the case. Heheh ! Today is really just a day for me to laze around. Like all the other holidays, I didn't complete what I planned to do today. In fact, I even back out from one of my plans. (Flying my family aeroplane) Stayed on the bed for more than half the day as I was really tired... Also, I feel happy spending time on my own (as no one is at home) Watched shokugenki (food wars) on Netflix Listened and watched a few YouTube videos. Played the violin for awhile. Time flies when it is a public holiday. Soon it is time for dinner. And now, it's almost the next day. Got lots of work to rush tomorrow since I didn't touch them today. I don't think I will have the energy to continue working on them when I reach my partner's place later.

Disclaimer : This post is badly written cause I just wanted to write about phone plans lol. Earlier today, M1 made a big change! it replaced all of its mobile plans with only 2 base plans. 1 SIM only plan and the other is comes with handset. I actually don't want to spend much on phone / phone number hence, I'm only looking at the SIM only plan.  It's $25/Month for 30GB, *1000Mins + 1000 SMS*, Free flow weekend data, Free caller ID, unlimited free calls to 3 M1 numbers and unlimited music streaming on Spotify Looks really worth it! I mean after all most plans out there are offering 200minutes + 200 smses. But wait! It doesn't indicate free incoming and that's probably why they give you 1000mins + 1000 sms So if you need to call / answer the phone a lot, then it is probably not very worth for you to get this plan. However 30GB.. That's really a lot of data! You can switch to using whatsapp for calls if there isn't enough talktime. Thi...

As Vesak day falls on a Sunday, Monday becomes a public holiday! Spent the whole day being at my parents home which is something I haven't done for a long time. A day spent on myself after a long time. Plan for the holiday was 1. Finish up the office work I've leftover from Saturday as I went to site. 2. To go out and have a run / a swim with my sister 3. To go out and buy measuring tape 4. To Practice violin 5. To complete my mobile games 6. To clear the kitchen But I ended up lazing until 10+ Went out for lunch with my mom, niece and nephew. Played the claw machine with my niece (didn't want to spend much on it. Luckily we got a toy on our 3rd try.) She keep saying that she wants to play cause she saw people play and get the plushie. Total money spent on the claw machine : $4 (I put in 2x$2 to change for the token.) Now that I think about it, I should have sell the token to someone else for a dollar ! Buy food back for my sister. Watched videos Played ...

今年的生日跟往年一样 没拿假日 同样去上班 不同的是 一整天在工地度过 不同的是； 公司安排每个人去工地附近的咖啡店一起吃午餐 公司的每个人都来了 吃完午餐后回去工地的办公室  陪同六个同样在五月出生的同事一起庆生 庆生后 又要前往工地 (我从另一个工地过来这个工地庆生) 六点放工 约了伴侣吃晚餐 (是我订位 约TA的 ) 所以那算是我五月主动带我伴侣出门 晚餐内容会PO 在下个 Goal Review 吃完了已经有一点玩了 由于一整天在工地, 已经很疲倦了 所以回家梳洗后就去睡了 伴侣送我的礼物我也没有仔细地去看 (在餐馆已经看过了) 其实我也并不需要礼物啦 我说过不需要 可是TA还是买了 开心但是觉得有点浪费钱 毕竟TA也在存钱买自己想要的东西.

People are often scared to ask questions as they are afraid that the other party will think that their questions are stupid or that they might not get the answer that they want. For me, I feel that it is always better to ask for what you want. You will learn better that way instead of assuming things. By asking, you will unlock possibilities which you have never known. If you assume that the person will never give in your demands if you asked... Then you will never get what you want.