New Zealand Dream...

My colleague has just cam back from New Zealand for her holiday..
As I am a very kepo person.. I keep bugging her to show me the photos..
Wow.. the pictures are so unreal.. As there are only limited vocabularies available to me..I can only say 3 words:
"WOW!WOW!WOW!"

haha..

The scenery is of stunning beauty...
The spectacular view of the ocean.. the ever changing coast line.. the endless greens.. the peaceful town view.. Everything is so breathtakingly beautiful that I hardly can believe that such heaven ever exists..

I think it is a perfect place to be explored by couples..Hope that I would be able to get a partner soon and make a trip there together....
New Zealand.. Wait for us ah!! Haha..

JLPT4...

JLPT stands for "Japanese Language Proficiency Test"..
There are 4 different levels available for the test..
with level 4 being the most basic level and level 1 the most advaned level..
I am taking the level 4 this year... and it is taking place on 3 Dec..
which is about 2 weeks away from now..

I have taken 90 hours of Japanese lessons in a Japanese language school and it costs me over S$650 for the course fee.. During the first 20 lessons I was quite confident that I will definitely pass the exam.. However after attending the last 10 lessons... I felt a bit frustrated... Especially after my revision this few weeks.. I am even more worried..
The grammer parts are getting confusing and I think I have mixed them all up..
Maybe I should give myself a short break and start the revision all over again..

All the best to me :)

Pathetic life...........

Very sianzzzzzzzzzzzz now...
Just had a team meeting with my lead and other team members this morning to update on next year projects.. Before ending the meeting, there is also an announcement of our departments undergoing restructuring... there might be a lay-off coming soon.. The idea is if the company found that you are redundant and they do not know where to put you in after the restructuring....Well.. then you will be the lucky one to go.. In fact, the name list is at the VP's hand now..

By looking at the situations.. I think it is very high chance that I will be the "lucky" one .. Not that I worry too much ok.. This is the conclusion I came out with after some analysis...

Firstly.. let's see what projects are coming next year.. they are mainly from the regions.. This includes Philiplines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan... with main focus on the Malaysia and Taiwan project...And then we have 4 people in the software teams: colleague A, B, my lead and me..
Now.. let's look at eh project assignment next year:
1. Malaysia and Taiwan Projects -> colleague A (he is my lead's pet and just got increment in June)
2. Philippines and Indonesia project -> colleague B
3. One existing local project which is expected to be completed by end of this year -> me

Did you notice that NO new projects are being assigned to me? And my lead explicitly pointed out that my colleague A will be very busy next year.. I wonder if you have the same question as me now :
"Since colleague A is so busy, why not giving one of his project to me?"

Exactly!! That's the key point... So it is very obvious that who is going to be that "redundant" person next year right??
Ya... I think it's time to have some backup plan now.. sigh...
Why my life is always so pathetic??

有感而发…

有没有试过很任性地要求一样不可能的东西而被拒绝?
有没有试过被拒绝后仍然很任性地坚持?
有没有试过很任性地坚持后不但什么也得不到还被臭骂一顿?
那时候该怎么办呢?
是放手还是继续坚持?
是不舍还是不甘?
前进与后退的时机必须要拿捏得准吧..
该放手的时候还是该放手..
明知道没有结果就不要继续…
不然只会适得其反惹人厌…
人的耐性毕竟有限.. 谁也没有义务容忍你的任性..
任性.. 已经不属于我们这年纪了…

(p/s: 以上言论纯属有感而发.. 与笔者个人遭遇决无关系.. 请勿多做联想.. 哈哈..)

非淡泊无以明志,非宁静无以致远

ＳＪ很喜欢着句话．．　今天也在ＭＳＮ里写了很多遍．．
于是我就去查了查它的由来．．

非淡泊无以明志,非宁静无以致远。”出自诸葛亮54岁时写给他8岁儿子诸葛瞻的《诫子书》。 诸葛草庐中门联：淡泊以明志 宁静而致远 此联出自第37回二顾草庐中。刘、关、张三人跟童子进诸葛草庐，至中门，刘备见门上大书一联。其大意是：不追求名利，生活简单朴素，才能显示出自己的志趣；不追求热闹，心境安宁清静，才能达到远大目标。通过此联揭示了诸葛亮的高尚德操


＜＜诫子篇 ＞＞
夫君子之行，静以修身，俭以养德。非淡泊无以明志，非宁静无以致远。夫学须静也，才须学也，非学无以广才，非志无以成学，淫漫则不能励精，险躁则不能治性，年与时驰，意与日去，遂成枯落，多不接世，悲守穷庐，将复何及!


唉．．知易行难．．　谈何容易啊．．

当你孤单你会想起谁..

“当你孤单你会想起谁.. 你想不想找个人来陪..
你的快乐伤悲..只有我能体会..
让我来陪你走一回…”

你是否还记得这首歌?
这应该是我中学时代的歌曲吧…
好像有一点年代久远叻.. 哈哈..
虽然已经很久了.. 我却一直记得它..

你有孤单的时候吗? 当你孤单时你又会想起谁呢?

Dying career.....

Sigh.. Today is Friday..
And Friday is supposed to be beautiful..
However I just can't help to sigh early in the morning..

You know every morning when I step into the office I need to think very hard what I should do to pass my day.. I wondered if I am too efficient or the company's business is so bad that I do not have any critical project at hand.. Well.. there is one very critical one which involved co-development with my HongKee vendor.. but the core part is developed by him and I am just doing some compilation and bugs fixing.. Mmm... to me this type of job is really chicken feed lor..

One of the things I always do in the office now is updating my blog.. you can see that I published quite a number of articles in my blog for the past 2 weeks.. All these are done in the office.. as I have no internet access at home..

Without having to say.. everybody knows that it is time for me to look for a new job now.. well.. another thing I always do in the office early in the morning now is job searching.. The process is very easy.. All I need to do is to open my mailbox, read the jobs being posted to me everyday by JobsDB and JobStreets, reading the job description and click on the "Quick Apply" button to apply for the job I am interested in... I find that it brings even more fun reading the jobs description than doing my normal chores in the office.. hoho... However, I still doubt the effectiveness of using this "Quick Apply" button.. Anyway, I am just testing the market while waiting for my year end bonus in January..

However, I seriously hoped that I would be able to find a job that bring me a lot of money and job satisfactions.. So my frens.. please pray for me.. I would give you a BIG BIG treat if I managed to get one.. Thanks.. hehe..

谢谢你.. 我的朋友..

每个人都会有烦恼的时候..
那时朋友就会告诉你说:

”哎呀… 你不要想那么多啦...”

可是我很想问.. 是不是你不去想.. 日子久了就真的自然会没事了呢?
我是一个死心眼的人.. 不容易看得开..
于是朋友劝久了也觉得没有意思…
干脆不理我算了…

对不起.. 我也不想这样.. 可是性格使然…
也许这就是我注定会失败的原因吧…
但是请不要对我灰心..
我会尝试不去想太多..希望有一天真的会雨过天晴..
谢谢你...

唉…消费税..

昨天总理在总结国会报告上提出政府有意再次调高消费税..
第一次实施消费税是在1994年.. 当时的税收是3%..
在2004年, 消费税提高至5%...
明年, 也就是2007年, 消费税即将再次上调到7%...

天啊!今年可说是”步步高升”的一年…什么都涨价..
先是汽油价格高居不下, 导致交通业者以运作成本上升为由纷纷调高车资..
接着水电费也跟着涨价…再来就是咖啡和糖…
当我们这些老百姓还在调整自己的生活脚步以应付这”一波未平一波又起”的物价飙升时…
现在又得迎接这额外的2%消费税… 日子该怎么过下去啊..

政府说调高消费税的原因是要增加国家收入以帮助低收入家庭并缩短贫富差距..
但是不符和政府所谓”低收入家庭”定义得人不见得就过得很充裕..
我相信有许多人都和我一样是徘徊在”低收入家庭”定义边缘的..
每个月的支出与收入其实只是刚好取得平衡.. 根本没有什么剩余的储蓄…
不管是谁以任何理由涨价.. 对我们来说都是负担…
低收入者能够得到政府协助, 高收入者能应付自如..
那我们这些不高不低,不上不下的小市民又该如何自处呢?
看来这地方是很难呆下去了...还是趁早存多点钱...然后回家去..

20.30.40…

不知道你还记不记得有一部名为<<20.30.40>>的电影?
讲述的是三个不同年龄层的女人的故事..
主演的三位女演员分别是李心洁,刘若英以及张艾嘉..

我们家里也住着3个女人…
昨天早上我在家里和我的房东和室友聊天..
才发现原来我们也是分别属于20,30, 40岁..
我是20岁的代表,而我的室友和房东则分别是30与40岁..
当然我们的生活并没有如电影般的精彩..
我们都是单身, 没有男朋友..
日常作息正常.. 没有什么高潮迭起..

在聊天的当儿,我偶然抬头看见房东在客厅里供奉的观音肖像..
突然有一个想法.. 那就是…
“怎么我现在住在尼姑庵吗? 难道这就是所谓的姑婆屋？”
啊!!! 不要啦…
这念头真的有点可怕…看来我真的要摆一摆桃花阵..
希望那可怕的想法不会成真.. 我还是很想把自己嫁出去的..

读到这里.. 亲爱的看官们.. 有什么好的对像的话..
记得关照关照哦!! ;-)

超级无敌败家女!!!

糟了!糟了!!!
刚才小算了上个月和前个月的开支..
惊然发现这两个月的支出都超出了我的月入...
惨了啦....

其实我都知道这几个月的花费多得吓人..
可是真正算一算才知道那数目的可怕..
接下来几个月要好好计划计划..
收身养性.. 存一点钱..
不然就得坐吃山空了..

好无聊哦.........

最近日子过得很平淡...
每天就是上下班, 回家...
几乎没有什么社交生活可言...

下班回家后就只能窝在小小的房间里...
朋友都各忙各的... 要找个一起逛街吃饭的人也不容易..
电视上播映的节目也不太能吸引我的注意..
平时也没有培养什么特别的兴趣...
唯一喜欢做的就是聊天.. 但是现在连聊天也不知道要找谁..
生活过得百无聊赖... 好无趣...
没有目标, 没有寄托...
谁来搭救我啊.....

What a sleepy day........

Aiyo.. what the hell am I doing..
I am so sleepy today... Until I can hardly open my eyes in the office..

Why am I so tired? What have I been doing for the past few days?
Well.. Last Saturday it was my company's D&D...
I reached home about 1:30am in the midnight and only managed to go to bed at 3am..
But I was not able to sleep well... Remembered I mentioned about the IBS before?
It was giving me trouble again on that night..
I woke up at 6am to go to the toilet (very unwillingly..).. and went back to sleep again..
At 9am I woke up cos of the stomach cramp and went to the toilet again..
This time.. I was not able to go back to sleep...

From then on... it seems that I am not able to recover from the sleepiness..
Oh no.... when can I reveover?

Zzzzzzzzzzzz.................

共勉之…

最近身边很多朋友都被派出国工干..
Michelle明天到英国五天, WC很可能会到高雄工作三个星期, LH有机会到美国去却拒绝了, DJ即将在11月中到英国去出差..
看来现在是出国工作的旺季嘛..怎么都没轮到我呢?

其实我也不是没有出过差..
想当年我的第一分工作, 我曾经到菲律宾三次, 也曾经到过德国..
刚换来这份工作是也曾被派到香港去..
当时朋友们都很羡慕我.. (有吗??)
现在已经过了一年多了, 我都没机会到国外出差…
现在该换我来羡慕他们了.. 嘿嘿..

SJ每次都会很看不开的说怎么人家都这么好命..
为什么他都没有这种机会…
曾经我也和他一样会这么想..
可是现在不会了..
别人怎么样是别人的事.. 他们的成就与机会是靠自己的努力换来的..
而我们只需要努力做好自己的本份就可以了…
真的不必太在意别人的成就.. 没得比较的..

正所谓风水轮流转.. 总有一天你也会有证明你自己的机会的..
所以就耐心的等吧.. 趁这段期间好好充电..
等机会到的时候就能够发光,发热…给别人好看..
哈哈..

共勉之…

I hate "IBS"

My tummy has been giving me problems for the whole week..
Since Monday, I have been going to toilet more frequent than usual..
About 5 times a day. ..but it was not diarrhea.. however nor was it normal..
I thought that this was because I had taken too much fruits on the previous day..
So I didn't really care about it..

However, the condition didn't improve for the next few days..
And my sleep is affected.. Every morning I am waken up by stomach cramp..
Then I began to suspect something is really wrong..because I was still facing constipation the previous week..

Then I remembered about this term "Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)".. and I start searching the internet for more information... And below is the information I extracted from http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/ibs_ez/#6

Symptoms:

1. crampy pain in the stomach area (abdomen)
2. painful diarrhea or constipation
3. swollen or bloated abdomen
4. the feeling that you have not finished a bowel movement

Some foods make IBS worse:

• fatty foods like french fries
• milk products like cheese or ice cream
• chocolate
• alcohol
• caffeine (found in coffee and some sodas)
• carbonated drinks like soda

The article also mentioned that

"Emotional stress will not cause a person to develop IBS. But if you already have IBS, stress can trigger symptoms."

Hmm.. By looking at the information above, I believe that all along I am having the IBS problem...And I am drinking coffee every morning this week for my breakfast..And recently I faced some stress which might have triggered the symptoms...

(Haha SJ, you must be thinking "Pls lah, what stress you have? We all know you are very 'eng' ok.."OK lor.. I am being stressed for nothing :p )

But I am not going to seek a doctor's help as the ariticle also mentioned that

"IBS has no cure, but you can do things to relieve symptoms. Treatment may involve

1. diet changes
2. medicine
3. stress relief "

So I think I am just going to relief my stress and change my diet a bit to improve the condition..

So... bye bye coffee, bye bye fries, bye bye ice cream.. Btw, I just drank coffee again this morning.. hehe .. :P

”Many”的由来

和我熟络的朋友都叫我”Many”.. 叫着叫着也就习惯了..
可是知道这名字来历的应该没几个人吧..
现在就让我来说说关于这个绰号的由来吧..

想当年小妹我应该是在念小学五年级吧..
学校每年都会举办英语讲故事比赛..
而我很荣幸的成为班上其中一位代表..
于是家父就亲自为我挑选了一则简单易背的故事..
故事是这样开始的..

“Many many years ago, there is a …”

由于当时的英语老师非常重视这场比赛..
每一节英语课都会让参赛代表到讲台上练习..
于是在那段期间, 我每天都重复着
“Many many years ago…”
时间久了,同学就干脆叫我”Many”..
好了.. 报告完毕.. 就是这么简单..
谢谢!!!

Penny的“淡水河边”

Penny 终于又发专辑了..
那天偶然从收音机里听到了专辑的主打歌曲” 淡水河边”..
其中副歌部分非常有感觉..

一向以来Penny的词曲都能带给我一些感动..
她写的词并不华丽, 却很实在..
不需要特意卖弄文采也能让人感动..
(其实我听歌都是先听曲, 如果觉得好听才会注意歌词,所以曲的好听程度就不用说了)

“我很狼狽的 將我的臉偷偷收起了
我很浪費的 將你的好通通放開了

我很慚愧的 將你的手交給他了
我懷疑我能做什麼
當我頹廢的難過著

我很狼狽的 將我的眼静静閉上了
我很浪費的 將你的話通通忘記了
我很慚愧的 將你的未來讓給他了
你能夠為我做什麼
比我快樂
因為我值得.....”

请列举单身的十大好处

这两天突然开窍, 开始享受单身贵族的乐趣:
1. 逛街看电影不必配合别人的时间
2. 爱买什么样的衣服就买怎样的衣服
3. 钱爱怎么花就怎么花
4. 不想化妆就不化,没人在旁边唠叨
5. 每个月节省70巴仙的电话费
6. 想吃就吃,没人嫌你发胖
7. 不想运动就不去, 没人逼你去
8. 没人批评和限制交朋友的自由
9. 不会有人一直在旁拿你和别人比较
10.只需要照顾自己, 烦恼也减少了一半