Bits and Pieces

There are missing bits and pieces around this blog. Fragments of my life gone and unrecorded. Reason? You tell me. Perhaps the magnet of school work, television and WoW pulled me strongly away. Nah......just some excuses...

Well, I need to do some updates. Let me see.

1. Finalise my Phuket 2006 travelog.

2. Up my SHE concert entry.

3. Update my "A Photo A Day" project.

For blog sake, I am watching "The Perfect Housewife" from Channel 70. I simply love my newest SCV Recorder. I no longer plan my life around the SCV schedule! I get to see all the shows regardless of the time they were broadcasted. Back to my show...

Susagage Lips

There will be always be interesting people around me. By interesting, I am just plain implyint that they are rude, obnoxious, devoid of any society-deemed normacy. Simply they are the idiots of our time, bane of the society and speechlessly undescriptable morons.

There was this lady, whom I shall call susagage lips, in my CFA course that fits with the above description of interesting. Miss Susagage Lips (as her name implies, has really thick, but droopy lips. Not the sexy and succulent Shu Qi type, but the stale and lifeless hot-dog type) was very rude. Why?

I do not know what gotten into her. Maybe her PMS? Or maybe some effects from menopause? Or simply she did not derive enough satisfaction from her last night romp. I do not know and do not wish know too. The course instructor was starting the lesson. When Miss Susagage Lips burst out, "Would you please speak up!" I flicked my head around and there I saw it.....the classic moment of Miss Susagage Lips.... she battered her eyelids as if announcing to the world that "Oh please, I am so superior that my Eyelids can teach." And then, her pouting of her susagage lips, as if telling us "Kiss me. I have spoken up for you...all I need for a reward is a tender touch from your lips to my lips." Then she shook her head within a small degree angle, as if she was possessed, only that she shook slower.

Oh well, she could be some Vice-President for all I know.

Mental-note: Bring hot-dogs for her next week.

Too many things

There were so many things that are going now. For one, I will be very busy. Nope, not with the books. But Burning Crusade. The highly anticipated expansion to WoW is finally out. I pre-ordered it and went down to Suntec for the launching party, with the friend of mine. I did not realised that there was a healthy number of Singaporeans WoWing. The feeling of "being home" was when me and the friend of mine started walking from Cityhall MRT station towards Citilink and then to Suntec, because along the way, there were soooooo many people holding on to the latest expansion set. There were something common in everyone of us then, we were the wanders and adventurers in the World of Warcraft.



Upon reaching, the friend of mine went to get a copy of Burning Crusade. How the thing goes is like this, for people who already preordered, we all got a pre-order card.



So we get to exchange the card for the game itself. And to those who did not pre-order, had to pay up at Suntec and also receive the same card. Hence, after the friend of mine paid up (Asiasoft...the distributor and organiser.....was very smart. Those who wanted to buy on the spot had to pay extra for the Pre-paid cards too. I guess they were just trying to get rid of the Pre-paid cards, since it would be cheaper to pay online), we proceeded to QUEUE. The QUEUE was a Long one. I hate QUEUES (except many eons ago, little kenny-boy queued like no tomorrow for the MacDonald Hello Kitty sets). But this QUEUE will lead me to more things to come. THE BURNING CRUSADE...... As I am typing this, my heart already go off to BC le.....M u s t p l a y m o r e.........M u s t l e v e l u p s o o n...........

A Photo A Day......

.......makes my memory stay.

This is a new place for me to document my day to day life. Well, the first week is kind of messy as I did not take a photo of that particular day. Basically it looks fun to able to see your life via a photo and kind of remember what you did on that day. Hmmm.....hope I can faithfully document it......

A new semester and a new hair

The week started with a revelation that I will be starting school. Took some while to remember what is the meaning of "starting school". Basically it is the painful and numbing ordeal to be trapped in an air-conditioned arena. It will be an arena where there will be wars of words, battles of wits, clashes of views and oppositions of opinions.

Somehow I am tired.

Ok. Need a new hair color to brighten my life. Therefore, I met the friend of mine to cut and dye our hair together. I really had no idea WHAT COLOR to dye. Serious. I wanted my old one.

Could not find a better pic

Yea. Golden orange. I found it very nice, complement my rosy white complexion. But I wanted a new one. The hair stylist recommended brown ash plus light ash as highlight. Hmmm....sounds good.

Then need to bleach my hair first...I got a shock man....I turned into ang mo....



In the end, I was not as pleased with the result. Partly is because except for the tinge of grey grey colour in the front, it was as if I never dye my hair. Just too bad I have good natural brownish hair. But as the day go by, the colour becomes more obvious, hence I did not feel so bad. Imagine paying them to dye back the same colour as my original hair color......Dot DOt dOt....

The first of school was on the 09/01/07, tuesday. It was the lecture for AB311 (Strategic Management) at 1230 hrs. The lesson dragged on. I did not know if I have not conditioned my body and mind to the lecture/study/mind-torture, or I simply did not care. I was not really attentive during the lecture. Well~~to be fair, the lecturer was not speaking English either.

Then went over to CPF building for lunch. I vote it the best Sakae Sushi in Singapore. Finally get to eat good food in a good environment.

After which, me and the friend of mine went to find the MAS Building. I thought I would find it easier. No....I was wrong.

First I headed towards Raffles Place mrt direction. Called up my friend and seeked help. Went back to Temasek House. Then suspected the red building behind Temasek House to be the MAS Building. None-the-less, decided to ask someone to confirm. The someone pointed confidently to Temasek House. ?????? Alright then. I replied that it was the Temasek House. He confidently told me that MAS Building changed name to Temasek House. Fair enough. Me and the friend of mine to find the Singapore CFA Society. NOOOOOOOOO. Don't have. Stupid bugger.

It was actually the red building behind Temasek House. >.<

Then I proceeded to sign up for the CFA course...what an ordeal.....

AND...today is the 25th Wedding Anniversary of my parents.............SOOOOOOO SWEEETTTTT!!!!!!!!!!

Beginning to believe

I am thinking that every alternate friday is a bad day for me. These are those days that you feel grouchy, feel that everything is just wrong and Murphy's Law is your best friend. When even the sunny day will make you grumble that its hurting your eyes and the rainy days make you curse that the clothes will not dry in time. This bad day also meant that wrong things can come and things can go wrong. And when you innocently thought that it may be an isolated case, you are wrong. It comes in a group.

What are the things that can go wrong?

1. Being in the wrong queue.

2. Gotten a lousy network.

3. Stupid contact lens that keeps drying up.

4. Headache.

5. No breakfast.

6. Bad lunch.

7. Too sunny.

8. Too cloudy.

9. Tired and listless.

Well the list goes on, with every fortnight experiencing a new kind of Bad Luck. Perhaps the reason why Bad Luck is starting to like me is because of the cool and good stuff I am getting. (MacBook, SCV DVR-set, 5 crappy MbpS network....) Well, nature has a way to tell me...."Kenneth...enough of Tai Zi Ye's life le!"

Yin and Yang. Balance.

I have decided to name the Bad Luck fridays I am getting.....Fribad.

Welcome to this week's first edition of "Fribad With Tai Zi Ye".

The Fribad started bad. I woke up feeling goggy and extremely tired. My eyes were sore and I simply cannot muster energy to drag myself out. I remembered I had a meeting with a friend of mine. I was really feeling terrible. Then to my horror. There was no breakfast. Sobzzzzzz. I decided to go hungry for the good part of the morning.

Then I turned on my computers and logged on WoW with one. To my horror, I cannot connect it or I got the LAG....It was horrible. The new network was obviously flawed. I called up Singnet and one of the technicians suggested that I use wire instead of wireless. ~~~Faintz~~~

I wanted a wireless environment. And now you are telling me to use LAN cable. Our conversation hit a point when I decided that he was not helping. Wasted effort, wasted telephone fee and wasted saliva.

Then I went out.

The friend of mine went ot cut hair while I shopped at Funan to get a router. What to do? Since the Singnet cannot help me. (btw, as I am blogging this, I saw a guy touching the side of lady's breast and powder-brushing the lady's cleavage, and all these while the lady was smiling and complimenting the guy for his fashion sense). Back to the topic. I was looking around, shopping causally. BUT the stupid contact lens was really dry. It almost fall out and it made my eyes really uncomfortable. Considering that it was the third day wearing them. It spoilt my mood. Totally.

I went over to Watson to grab a drink. Hopefully by hydrating my body, the contact lens will get some moisture.

And this world is full of strange people. A lady was ahead of me in the queue. She bought 3 packs of toothpaste and they costed S$12.75. Woe be on me, just because I was behind her.

This lady SLOWLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY opened up her bag. And SLOWLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY searched for her wallet. Then SLOWLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY pinch her wallet open. She SLOWLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY browse through her American 100 dollar notes. 4 S$10 notes, a few S$50 and other S$2 and S$5. She SLOWLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY took her time to come up with a best combination to pay for her stuff. S$12.75. Seriously, can't she just take a S$10 and a S$5 and pay? Noooooooo, it was a VERY TOUGH decision for her. It took some time for her to decide on a S$10. And she SLOWLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY decided between the 4 S$10 notes. Then she SLOWLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY returned her wallet back into the bag. Then she SLOWLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY scooped out a handful of coins and started to match and mix and mix and match the S$2.75. All these while I am so confused about the true meaning of life. Just for one pathetic bottle of mineral water.

Me and the friend of mine have agreed to meet at the entrance of Funan. I had to confirm with him earlier because my dear Handphone WAS REALLY LOW ON BATTERY. Crap man, I just charged it overnight and I did not use it that intensively for the day. Things really go bad. And it go worse!

So I was kind of worried that the friend of mine misunderstand the sms and instead wait at the escalator entrance to the second floor of Funan. After making sure that the friend of mine was not at the entrance, I proceeded to walk to the escalator entrance. This escalator entrance overlooks the traffic junction. By right I would have seen him coming over from the cityhall mrt station side. By left, I did not. I missed him. He too did not see me. Great.......

After dinner and a ice-cream, I need to go home to ward off the bad luck............

Till again next episode of "Fribad with Tai Zi Ye"........

Had a great dinner

Gathered the guys for a makan, but SB got to head off to Malacca. Hence the 3 of us decided to meet up at cityhall mrt station. There I was, ever so eager to meet them, hop onto the mrt and onwards to cityhall I go. As the mrt approached the station, I was all fired up and ready for battle. It was 6.45pm, the height of the peak hour. Where many will wall up the station door and resist those exiting's futile effort at exiting. I was ready. I kept my head-phones and my book. Positioned my bag right in front of me, to prevent a direct frontal attack. I waited patiently as the door opened.

Surprise surprise. The people outside actually queued behind the yellow queuing line. I thought I exited the wrong station. Thought I was at Taipei or something.

CY brought us to a steam-boat store. It was air-conditioned and the food was GREAT. Although it was steam-boat, the soup was good. For the first time, I actually drank from the steam-boat. The chicken rice, I mean the rice that is those hainan chicken rice one, taste authentic. CY ordered another plate of Sweet and Sour Pork. I fainted. It was super duper good.

No food left on the table le......

And its really budget. Its those kind of food where its cheap and good and comforty.

True to our budget outing, we went over to Raffles City's food court for chill out. We exchanged stories of our lives and then we parted at the mrt station.

At this point, a sense of "Singaporeans are changing for the better" still lingered within. BUT........



There were three seats in front of me (just imagine that the Indian lady is invisible). To the left, were two bags sitting on the seat. To the right, one bag was sleeping on the seat. There was this inconsiderate lady sitting right at the centre (strategically blocked by this Indian lady). There were so many of the people without seats. They were staring hungrily and angrily at the lady and her three seats. Suddenly, I realised that I am back in Singapore. Hurray!!

And I plogged my head back to my ever-captivating book.............until........



Great....I missed my station by TWO STOPS. My concentration level is improving.............

Strange Thoughts about the Traffic Lights

I was stuck at the traffic junction. Being stuck, I was impatient to wait. Being me, I kept hitting the pedestrian button at the traffic light. It was a magical button. I really believe that the pedestrian traffic lights will change to green magically, if I hit the button a lot of times. Its kind of a psychological therapy, knowing that I am doing something to lessen my waiting time.

Yet, a friend of mine postulate that hitting the button once is enough. Repeated hitting will reset the machine, thus elongating the waiting time. However, the issue is that if I hit the button once. Then another fellow, who did not realise that I have hit it, go over and press the button. Then another guy comes over and not realising that the button has been pressed, and go over to hit the button. And so on. Thus, the traffic light will be resetting again and again. Thus the waiting time will be as of the pre-designated one, rendering the system useless.

Of course, the system can be just a phony. Placed there to placate the fuming individuals, since the waiting time is relatively short, pressing the button will result in an immaterial decrease in waiting time (if indeed the system works). Hence, the best alternative will be putting a button there for show, so that waiting individuals will have something to do and a shimmering hope that the waiting time can be significantly decreased.

Although, the friend of mine has demostrated once and again that repeated hitting of button will not render a significant decrease in waiting time and that one hit of the button in fact seem to generate a more positive result, none-the-less, I firmly take my stand that Einstein is correct. The theory of relativity.

By repeatedly hitting the button, our brain is pre-occupied with the action of hitting and the generation of feel-good hormones that the wait time has decreased, thus taking our attention away from feeling the pain of waiting. Thus, "reducing" the wait-time in total relativity. On the other hand, hitting the button once will lengthen the waiting time in total relativity, because, our brain will be pre-occupied with the fact that the light is still red. Thus causing the brain to generate negative feelings and invertably, increasing the wait time.

Thank you. This thesis will be submited to the annual Nobel Prize.

A Lot of TTDs

There are many things on my mind now. It is as if I woken up to a ton of THINGS TO DO. Some of them are pure procrastinated TTD, so I can't really complain much. There are important TTD and there are necessary TTD, the problem is that it is hard to differentiate between them. Some necessary TTD is not as important as the important TTD, while some important TTD are not there necessary.

For a starter, I need to call up Starhub to request for a change of SCV-box. My box was spoilt. There were sparks and the ZeeZeeZee sound. I was dry on television for the past few days, so much so that I had to seek refudge in my friend's house just to watch shows. On top of the replacement, I decided to get the latest DVR-set. It can record shows that I designate. This is great. As their advertising tag-line goes, I do need to plan my life around the television any more.

The next on the list is my poor MacBook. It somehow refused to wake up. Called up the Apple help-line and was directed to the Alexandra outlet. Very near my house. Going there in one hour time.

Then I called up the Singapore CFA to request for more information. The problem I am most concerned with is the accreditation. Most probably for the next 2 years, I will be an auditor and CFA does not accredit auditors. Maybe I will try for the Affiliate instead of an Associate. But the weekly classes are really expensive, need to discuss with my friend if she is willing to take up the weekly class.

Just up-graded my Internet connection. Apparently it was faster, because the loading time has decreased significantly, even when I am using Flickr. I need to double confirm if Singnet has indeed activated the new connection speed.

My contact lens supply is drying up and I need to get another year's worth. I wanted to take daily contacts, but heard that for my degree, it will be darn darn darn darn expensive.

And the annual pain in the arse IPPT. I have booked it on the end this month. Therefore......I need to work out regularly. Really need to run and exercise.

Its a great start to a great year. ZzzzzzzZZzzzzz.........

A New Year

Although 01/01/07 is just another date on the calendar, to many people it represents a new start to their lives. To me, it is a day where our languidness and invigorates itself. A lot of things is going through my mind as the seconds count down to 2007. For a start, 2007 will see me relinquishing my role as a student and taking on more responsibilities as a full-fledged adult. Like a hatchling maturing into an eagle, all really to fly out to heavens above.

There are many things to look forward. For a starter, the new semester. There will be new people to meet, new modules to kill me and new things to learn. I really treasure all the last moments of this semester.....

Then for the next part of the year, there will be another ICT. ~~shudders~~

And of course, embracing a new environment in Ernst and Young.

Pretty much, it will be an eventful year and a year that will see me grow up. Yet, there are many things that I wish that I can hold on really tight, like schooling and my youth. I feel so old. Old as in not anymore young. Meaning that I can't really laze around and do nothing. This is the price to pay for growing up. And of course, people will give me the weird stare should I start to talk about cartoons. :(....and need to reduce on my cuteness....-_-```

Very well, I love all beginnings. The smell of freshness and tenderness, afterall I am born in spring.