Seriously Random

It's almost a year since my last post. There are so many changes in the pass 2011 for my life. It's almost like one of turning point in my life which I think it is a fantastic year for me.

In Feb to Mac 2011, my career was so gloomy, donno where can I headed to. Was worry about it, struggling to get something right for myself. But good news come to me when I was in the bottom, I got 2 offer in one shot, which both consider quite good. One offer me a senior exec post and another is a Exce post. I had choose the later choice where I want to challenge someone view on my ability and of course I also feel that the prospect here is better.

After confirm my employment, I had decided to get a new car in Mac 2011 also, it was a Persona, so far so good. Who say national car is not good? I feel it's really a value for money car, fuel consumption is ok, spacious and steady. If you wan to find an affordable car, Proton Persona can be consider.



So, in 9th of May, I join my current company. So far so good, people are nice, job is challenging as what I am liking. Although throughout the tenure since I join got quite a few hit and miss but I still enjoy it. The relationship with colleagues is not up to expected standard yet especially with peers, but I believe with my enthusiasm in building relationship, people will appreciate it. I am happy with the boses, hopefully everything go smoothly and I can get promoted in Mac 2012.

In June 2011, I had pass my CFA level II exam, 2 level in half a year, not bad at all...;-)

In 23rd of July, I had make my biggest decision in my life, I did my proposal to my wife, Huai Ling. With the help of a bunch good friend of mine and her, I successfully to get her to agreed to walk together with me for the rest of our life. Something that I am looking forward to in long time.









At Sept 11, 2011. We had finally walk to another destination (legally but traditionally not yet). We had our Registration of Marriage at Thean Hou Temple. Two of my best friends purposely come from far to attend this, really appreciated that. It is a great memory for both of us.







So move on, in October, I had make another big decision in my life. I had bought a house together with my brother. A landed property as what I always aim for.

It is an exciting year. But I am looking forward to another great year ahead.

So three things must be completed this year:

1. To get promoted;
2. To complete my wedding ceremony (for those glancing through my blog please make your calendar, 24th November 2012 is the date)
3. To pas CFA Level III.

Also wishing everyone Happy Chinese New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai, stay healthy and wealthy always.

Wasting Time

Today was one of those day that i can reach home early and nothing much to do and should take this opportunity to study.. But i just waste the whole night for nothing special..

I know i shouldn't be like this but really dam lazy.. Need motivation...

Need to settle the confusion i have now..

Please give me a clear answer soon... Please.. I don't want to guess and think anymore.. Please finalise....

Again In a Big Junction of Life

Never realised that i had working for about 8 months since I graduated. The time was flying, cant even remember what exactly I have done for this pass 8 months. But I am now again in a big junction. Need to make a move again.

Everything that happen are out of my mind, out of my plans. Had decided to work at least 3 years for this company I am at, but the sudden change in management had change my mind, I have to leave, i dun see any my future there.. But where to? Really no idea..

There is a great opportunity in front of me, i guess I had spoil it.. The opportunity was so close, but unluckily I had meet a bad guy that totally spoil it, it make it so complicated. Hopefully the damage control that I had taken works out.

I am not greedy, I just want to claim what I think I worth for. Hope, hope and hope. Hope everything will go fine. Wish the road that I have choose is correct.

Third Anniversary

It's been 3 years since we are together.... Sweet and happy....

Happy anniversary dear......

Random Updates 1

It's been almost 2 months since I started working. It's not a big challenge for me to cope with the working environment as i was there for 7 month previously. Just now the expectation from them are much higher now but so far still doing good there.

Today is my day never caught any jam since started working, i should be very happy energetic but it's like the other way round. I feel dam tired after reach home and no mood to do any other stuff although i need to study as I had register for the CFA which cause around 3500.. I just feel like dont want to do anything today besides watch TV, listen to music and online.. Just I tell myself, rest is just for me to walk longer... haha.. hope this really work, I need to start my study engine again soon.. The time from the exam getting nearer now.. Haha..

Currently, I work just really because for the sake of money, i just really dont know how long I can live with this, the money is less and working hour is long.. Really hope the time can move faster so that I can get the amount that I wanted now.. I also hope that I can get some job satisfaction by doing some great stuff.. I believe I can, i am someone that always can impress others 1..

Hope the day for me to feel comfortable with my life can reach soon.. I wish to earn enough as soon as possible.. I didn't hope too much but at least no need to live like every month finish, sometime not even enough...

But I tell myself the day will be very soon cause I can do it. Be confident and work smart, I can get it done soon.

Finally - I got a Job

It was so long I didn't post something up here...
I am not busy at all, just that I have no mood at all for the pass 2 month. Everyday look into the the job website to search for job... Day by day, i had attended 13 interview and no 1 appreciate my talent....

Maybe I cant give up the actuarial works that I wanted to do since form 5... But finally because no company that wanna me to do that, I choose to give up, choose to go some place that people think that I am suitable for it.. I am sure that I can excel in this place...

The decision had been, so there will no regret for that. What I will do next is really excel in the job that I have now and to be excel in my future career and life.

Good luck to everyone that is still looking for job.. You are not without ability, just that you are lack of luck and opportunity, the time for you to get what you will be soon.

"If you cant get what you want now, the better is waiting for you next."

Lack of Passion on Study

This is final semester of my University Life.. I really wanted to graduate with first class but don't know why suddenly lose out my interest on study. I didn't feel scared even the exam is tomorrow. Really cant figure out a strong reason on it.

Wanted to be a qualify actuary as soon as possible.. But don't have the passion to study.. How i going to succeed? Really confusing.. Really no mood to take the exam. Damm terrible feel. Haih...

How to regain energy? Only 4 weeks left.. How? I must make myself tough so that I can pass my UM final exam very well to get 1st class honour..

I must make sure myself can continue study after I finish my degree.. I must be tough.. Tough Tough Tough!!!

The day I fail MLC

I really never taught that i cant pass MLC, i really never taught that i'll fail.
I work so hard for about 1 and half months, i ignore my dear, i ignore my housemate, i ignore my coursemate, i almost dun care about everthing beside studying.. I just want to do good.. but why i fail? I really donno y...

But it make me really rethink should i go into this line of working.. Should I? I dun know? This is my second time fail the exam.. MFE, the first time, i cant blame anything because i really didn't prepare well... But why? Why i did my best i still fail?

Am i suitable to be an actuary? It's time for me to think... To really think of what i should do when i graduate.. Have to really think and think and think... Good luck, Neo..

Maybe this is good.. Donno.. But it give me chance to think...

Morning Exersice

5th day of the year... What i had done so far, i think i have done nothing, besides lepaking and watching TVB series.. I can't think of anything that is useful...

But what make me glad is i manage to wake 2 consecutive day in the morning to do some exercise.. Wake up at 6.20 is really tough, but after half an hour of jog and walk it really make me feel happy and energetic..

I'll try my best to continue this habit since i have spent money for a new sport shoes (but i think this is not my main reason, i know i'm slightly obese now, so have to do some sport to maintain healthy). I'll try to keep up this habit at least until i graduate because this is the time that i still able to control my time...

Exercise, exercise, exercise... Yeah!!!

BMW 5 Series vs Jaguar

I went to Alor Star last weekend to attend my gf's brother wedding.. Do you know what had happen?

I drive all the way from KL to Alor Star and the first time i drove a Toyota VIOS like my own car (actually is my gf's brother car) there. It is much more faster and stable compare what i have previously drive (proton saga and wira). It was nice and comfortable. I was quite happy with it. But what surprised me is I suddenly being appointed as the wedding car driver. It was a big shock cause I need to drive a BMW 5 series. A quite new 5 series which cause more than RM400k.

I was excited but nervous as well because this is my first time to drive a such luxurious car and it is not mine... Scary.. There's no chance for me to test drive, when I first put my feet onto the car, mission started. Most of the features in the car are more advance compare to normal car. I don even know how to adjust my seat to my fitted driving position. But, the feeling of driving the 5 series was so good.. The car was so stable and so smooth. It was a really good experience.

"The BMW 5 series"




What further make me crazy is the 5 series is only the secondary wedding car, the primary wedding car where the bride and groom sitting is a XJ type Jaguar car which is slightly expensive compare to the 5 series. I never taught that i need to drive the car until the next day after the wedding. I need to help them to send back the car to the owner. Again, excited and nervous.. 2 luxurious car in 2 days... Wow.. The Jaguar was pretty especially with the Jaguar signage.. It was stable and smooth. It is really big different between a luxurious car and a normal car. It's worth to get such car if they are more fuel efficient.

"Jaguar - XJ-Type"


2 cars, 2 different luxurious car in 2 days, a life time experience. I never taught that I have the chance to drive such luxurious car in this young age. I am looking forward to the future to own some car like this. Perhaps not BMW, but Mercedes maybe.. Not sure yet, everything still dream. If you dream of something, you must work hard for it, so I promise to myself to work hard and achieve whatever i dream for.

p/s: Me personally feel that the 5 series is better than jaguar in terms of driving feeling. But the outlook, 5 series is more suitable for young people and the jaguar is more to businessman.

D.I.N

What is "DIN", DIN mean do it neoself.. This is something create by my girl friend so i decided to use it as my post title this time since it is quite interesting. What have i done myself???

Err...

I had prepare a birthday celebration for my dear all by my own. Present and food were mostly handmade.. I have planned for this long long time ago.. I wish to give her some surprise which i think it is hard to achieve when we started our working life as we are very busy with work everyday where we dun have much time for ourselves.

I have spent about 2 day for the celebration's preparation. I started of with buying all the tools and ingredient which is needed for present and also the food. Then i started of by making a gift box which use to put in the dress that i choose for her that going to wear in her brother wedding. I have no experience at all on doing this but luckily i manage to finish it off nicely although there is some slightly defect which is not visible..

"On the process of making the box"


"Complete Product - hope she like it, i spend about 4 hour for it"


After that i do some bookmark which i use it as the decoration for the birthday / Christmas card for her. Here are my product.

"Front of the bookmark"

"Back of the bookmark"


Then on the second day i started of with making "tong yuen" which is one of my dear favorite dessert and she miss the home. So i try to make some as to full fill part of her thirst of missing home. The "tong yuen" was average. Not flavorful enough and also not colourful enough. But at least not too bad and she said got some similarity to her home taste. Hehe.



Then the most scary part is here - Cooking. Although this is not the 1st time i cook but i know i cant do mistake this time cause it is for so important day. I start of with the mashed potato. It was not a hard dish, just that i don have the blended machine so everything have to by hand and the silly part is how to control the taste. Luckily, everything go fine with the comment better than KFC mashed potato. Haha.. What a compliment..



After the mashed potato, it come to main dishes, aglio pasta with mushroom pork chop. I had try to cook this once before which is not so successful, i learn this form my brother (i mean the pasta). But this time the taste were turn superb, i never taught that i can cook up to this standard (my own taste only but it might not turn out the same to you). The pork chop was average as i don have the hammer for make the meat to be soft, i just the knife, so it is slightly hard. But still at an acceptable level.

"The main dish"


"My hardwork turn out to be like this"



Also i have buy her a small cake - chocolate durian by "A slice form Heaven" which taste extremely good. (Also my own review)


It was really a great experience for me. I never taught that i have such a talent on preparing food and making some handicraft. But i can tell that i really dun have such talent, just that my heart bring the way. I believe that love is really powerful, it can drive people crazy but it also bring people power, enjoy the love and utilise the power.




Also wishing everyone have a great and blessing Christmas. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Nice long Weekend

It has been long that i never have a such relax and comfortable weekend.. Just relax and without thinking about anything besides where to go and what to eat.. Haha.. But this kind of lifestyle cannot continue for too long cause need to prepare for new challenge lo.. New semester and the last one, must strive hard so that i can get 1st class, last preliminary SOA paper (the book is damm thick le, not even look at the 1st page yet), chinese new year coming soon, need to go for job hunting, learning to put a step on to sthe stock market, etc, etc.. So much need to do.. So i must utilise my last few day of holiday to build up my mood for all this... Wow, a busy half year but looking forward to it cause new life is approaching soon, more challenges is awaiting...

Back to what i have did on this weekend.. After my last day of working on thursday, i go straight to my gf birthday party which prepare by her course mate (although her birthday is on next tuesday but due to their test next week so have to make it early).. They go to a place call the Sphere which located at Bangsar South, a new commercial complex, it is very near to Pantai Hillpark area. The building is nice and quite a lot of restaurant there.. They decided to go to a restaurant call Tappers where their mainly sell hainanese food such as hainanese chicken chop, bread etc..


"Tappers environment"


"Brownies from Secret Recipes but is out from miss communication between me and Joyce"




"Huai Ling's course mate"

Some of the Sphere environment, there's some simple but nice decoration there.









Its a simple party but Huai Ling enjoy it very much. Special thanks to Joyce and Kok Wai (Huai Ling's best friends)

On Friday morning, the 1st day of holiday, i wake up around 7am, without brushing teeth, i go straight to the pasar pagi in sentosa cause i wanted to cook this weekend.. I spend about half an hour there and i manage to get stuff that enough to cook for 2 days.. Haha.. I start of my 1st day meal with dry scallop with pork porridge.. It taste quite nice but compare to what my mum cook, the standard were still low.. The porridge is for my breakfast and lunch with Huai Ling.. Huai Ling was studying in my house this few day so i like become a maid, i take care every single meal of her and help her to do everything she ask me to do.. Haha.. But enjoying la...

After few hour of study, Huai Ling feel very boring already then we decided to go out for a walk, at first we plan to go Tropicana City but half way there we suddenly change our mind that we should go to the Curve there.. And finally we did something shopping there and finally Huai Ling manage to get her CNY clothes there. She feel very happy with the clothes.. Btw, i manage to get 1 t-Shirt also.

After that, i come back home and cook my dinner. The dishes that i cook on fri night were fry pork chop, Hong Kong kai lan and steam egg. I think this is the 1st time i cook so successful without any mistake on cooking..

A weekend without any worry is really nice, when i wake on the second day, i straight think of what to cook only.. The i decided to fry noodles for lunch and cook some dishes for night.

It was nice and great weekend.. Love it and appreciate it very much.. I am still enjoying my nice Sunday now.. Have recharge my energy enough.. Need to strive hard again lo..

2nd Annivesary

It had been 2 year that me and Ling together.. There are a lot of occasion happen along this 2 year. There's good and bad memory but all of this have strengthening our relationship further. This is my first love and i never taught that love can be so sweet and happy.. I enjoy every moment that we have together although there's quarrel here and there.

In my opinion, to maintain a relationship, both party must really contribute into it. Especially during quarrel, 1 party must always take initiative to end it although you feel that the other one is wrong cause during quarrel, people will loss their rational and cannot react accordingly. Therefor, try to cool down the quarrel first and find chance to correct whatever is wrong after that cause people can listen and think when the are calm. I am not can this apply to everyone but it really work well for me.

So far I really enjoying this relation and I know it can be maintained until the end of our life..

Let's talk about our celebration. Actually it is not a really well plan cause my dear had been so tension due the final exam for MBBS is around the corner, hence I plan to take her for a good dinner and possibly a movie if she want. But it turn out only the dinner cause she was having headache but it is really a great dinner. Special thanks to my brother who help me to arrange such a great meal on my affordable price.


Starter - bread with olive oil and vinegar


Dear's drink - Lychee Martini


Special prepare by my brother for me, drought Guinness stout


Awesome seafood soup - one of best soup that I have ever drink


Main course - Spaghetti with lamb cutlet


Desert - chocolate muse and apple ?? (donno the exact name)


Me and my dear with the main course


Holding hand


My brother and I

It was a great great night.. I enjoy so much and I hope there will much more occasion like this. I am sure it will be. Also, I wish everyone can find their true love and enjoy their live..

Love can make people happy and energetic if both work for it. Love hard and you can enjoy the benefit. ^.^

Working

I started working only on the second day after my final exam, I still not regain back my energy after about 2 month of non stop studying for non stop test, UM final exam and SOA professional exam. It is really tough time for me, but I think I manage to do the exam. It might not be excellance but I already do my best. I statisfy with it.

But unfortunately, I might hurt a lot of people feeling during this period. When I get back to home, i like become a dull which only know to open the book and study. No communication, only at very seldom time, I open my laptop to surf net. I think i have lose out some close friend during this period, we are still friend but not as close as previously. This is the saddest part of my preparation. Sorry to those i have hurt and hope we can get the chance to rebuild our relationship.

Ok, back to the topic - working. Initially, i plan not to work during this term break cause i know this might be the last long holiday before i entering the adult world. However, the situation not allow me to take the break. I need the money. Haha...

About my job, i'm working in an interior design firm where this is the forth time that i with them. Truely say, the pay is really not bad, while the job scope also consider easy. But, maybe it is more to the secreterial job, it really hard to make me feel interested on it. I start to feel bored even on the first day, but due to some circumstances, i'll still make myself to go there everyday and perform the best that i can. But, what is the best here is i still can enjoy making mistake without too much of blame but this will be last time in my life cause i going to leave the student life soon and have to face everthing by myself.

I think i have write too much already, too many words. I'll try to improve in my next post to make it more interesting.. But, i don have much talent in designing.. But learning is a route for growing, so will still try work for it...