Confessions of a P. T. 30 November, 2009
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I am a public toilet, a very inconsiderate one at that.
I cannot understand how Singapore girls can pee till the toilet seat is drenched in pee. No, it’s not a dribble that probably dripped out while she was cleaning up. It’s definitely PEE ALL OVER ON THE SEAT. And believe it or not, this phenomenon is not only attributed from foreigners who probably are more used to the squatting pans than to toilet seats, but many often, I see pretty ladies, young and old, fashionable and who carry an expensive bag likely. So if these ladies are not the stupid kind, then why can’t they pee DIRECTLY into the bowl, and not OUTSIDE it!?
Fine. I can understand when I see footprints on my clean, white seats. Maybe these girls really prefer to keep their butts off the dunno-used-by-how-many-umpteen people daily, where I believe that the public toilet seat is much much much dirtier than a hawker centre seat or bus seat, after all, it’s bare skin (butt) and bare skin one after another. But but but, can you please be more considerate!? Your shoe prints, carrying dunno-how-many millions of dirt and bacteria from thronging through roads and paths and EVERYWHERE, now passes these germs to my seat, and then to the next unfortunate, poor lady. Pity the next girl…
It doesn’t help that the Singapore OK program, though perhaps has already improved the overall quality of our public toilets, but are still lacking in many ways. Don’t the people behind this program use public toilets at all? Or perhaps they are all of the male gender who cannot appreciate the woes of the female population who butt-to-butt with NUMEROUS strangers every time they need to answer the call of nature? In times of H1N1 pandemic, we ask people to wash their hands frequently, sanitize, and as a good practice, not use your hands to touch your face if you are at a function shaking multiple hands. But what about the poor lady who wishes to sanitize her toilet seat before use? Nope. Toilet seat sanitizers are still a thing NOT-in-Singapore public toilets, and you are definitely better off carrying your own toilet seat sanitizer wipes or disposable toilet seat covers, provided you can even find them easily available on the retail shelves!
I also cannot understand how girls likes to use the toilet cubicle as a phone booth/ music booth, sometimes hogging this public facility all to themselves. I can understand if you have to answer an incoming call while performing a call of nature, but there are some girls who chat or listen to music in the cubicle as if it is indeed a phone booth or a music pavilion…. Even of you dun find the public toilet filthy with all the germs flying around, at least the constant stench of urine should remind you that THIS IS A TOILET AND NOT SOMEWHERE THAT YOU SHOULD BE SEEKING LEISURE FROM!?
My comrade next door, the squatting pan toilet, also has much to say about Singapore users. True, the female genitals may not produce a water sprout as precise as a male (hmm, perhaps the urinal may have some comments on this also, we female toilets wun know, haha), but a splash a good 15cm away from the HUGE pan is too incredible! ………………….. Haiz, we just dunno what to say about this anymore…. It’s no use telling people to treat public toilets as if your home’s, cos they never do, so we will continue to live the fate of an inconsiderate public toilet.
- P. T.
Shopping Panic Attack! Week 26 29 November, 2009
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Panic attack! Time is running out, yet we have not gotten much of baby stuff yet. Gotto buy buy buy very soon, hurry!
Dear1 and Dear2 are really stingy people – we want to get all the baby stuff from the Christmas sale, so we really waited until recently to decide to commit to the purchases. By right, with 4 more months to go, we can still leisurely walk walk see see and buy the stuff, but hey, week 26 is not 6th months, it is in fact already 7 months into the pregnancy! Dear2 got a rude shock when she realised that 26/4 = 6.5, and 6.5 doesn’t mean 6th month of pregnancy, but it actually means that 6.5 months have already passed, and that leaves us at 7th month into the pregnancy. No wonder Dear2 keeps having mathematical errors: 40 – 26 = 14 weeks, which means 3.5 more months to go. With 3.5 months to go, how can you still be in 6th month? Haiz, the 1/3 brain is indeed causing my interpretation skills to deterioate…
Baby kicks are very much more pronounced now, I know cos sometimes, 1 spot will feel very hard, and shortly after, the ‘lump’ will move over to the other side of the tummy. It’s so vivid now that the hand can distinctively feel the hardness, keke… Hmm… It seems that baby is a late sleeper – she usually kicks and pushes more from the afternoons onwards while mummy is typing away after lunch, keke…..
1 colleague says that she can tell that baby is a girl, cos mummy’s nose is larger now; another colleague says confirm is girl cos mummy likes to eat sweet stuff more than savory foods now. Haha, what’s the scientific explanation behind these observations!?
During the week, Dear2 was also experiencing water shortage. Lethargyness and moodiness at work was making Dear2 so xian that she doesn’t want to drink water, in the office or at home. Feet became swollen, and Dear1 even commented that Dear2′s skin feels bad to the touch….
On Thur and Fri, Dear2 even experienced such severe hip pain that she can barely stand while showering. Usually as long as the body weight is not rested on the pain side, which is the right hip, then it’s still bearable. This week’s pain is so excruciating that just the act of standing itself may cause winching pain. Huhuhu, we really dunno what is the cause of it…..
Finally finally comes the much anticipated weekends, yeah. At 3pm on the dot on Sat, we drove our OPC car and headed for the Taime warehouse sale directly. It was really a nerve-wrecking Sat afternoon, cos the sale had started on Thur, but we absolutely had no chance of visiting on Thur and Fri as by the time our OPC can come out at 7pm, and by the time we reach Chai Chee Industrial Park, the opening hours will long be over… And so, it was a now-or-never to catch de sale before it ends at 7pm on Sat. Luckily the Capella stroller which we wanted was still in stock, with a 20% discount some more, haha. We grabbed a few more items including the ABC mats, swaddle me blanket and stroller fan, and went home with a total loot costing less that the original price of the stroller. It was really like ‘buy a stroller and get everything else free’, haha.
On Sun, it was sterilizer hunting at Orchard Road. After a wedding lunch, we walked up to Plaza Singapore to check out the Carrefour, Mothercare, and Aussino, and walked back down to OG Orchard and Metro at Paragon. The Metro was especially disappointing – the baby section comprises of a miserable Mothercare section and a few more shelves, so it has none of the cot and sterilizer that we want. :( By the time we finished Metro, the 3 hours walk was costing Dear2 such severe feet ache and hunger, so it was home for dinner fast!!
A very tiring week and weekend, and there’s still a lot of things to buy. :(
- Dear2
Bargain baby shopping 28 November, 2009
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Yesterday was a public holiday (Hari Raya Haji) and long weekend so we decided to go shopping and bargain hunting for baby stuffs. We had a few goals in mind, namely baby cot and steam sterilizer. But before I get to the day’s chase, let’s take a look at the events leading up to the day.
This is the Shears Premium Wooden Cot that we were interested in. The free activity mat and bean sprout pillow is in the cot.
Baby cot first. 2 weeks ago, we visited Metro at Causeway Point and saw this Shears Premium Wooden Cot going at $189 (usual $499 from Palmax website), comes with free mattress, an activity mat and a bean sprout pillow. At that time, we had not started looking at cots but we knew that the normal price of baby cots start at around $300. This cot was quite a pleasant surprise, and we both liked it for its price and no-frills design. It is not convertible to a child bed which suited our intentions as we did not want a convertible cot anyway. An older child can just sleep on a mattress on the floor; the cot will remain as a cot for younger siblings to use. But, we weren’t ready to commit just yet, we wanted to look around for more options.
After more browsing, we decided yes, the Shears cot is what we want. In the following weekend, we went to Orchard to check out the many storewide 20% discounts to see if there were any good buys. We chance upon the same baby cot going for $169 at OG with only free mattress. Hmm… Pay extra $20 for activity mat and bean sprout pillow? Bean sprout pillow itself is easily $10. Moreover, at Metro, we can earn linkpoints at 6% returns. So the final decision was to purchase the cot at Metro. We walked over to Metro Paragon only to discover that the cot wasn’t available at the Paragon branch. So no choice, we had to visit another Metro branch then.
This is the Pigeon Rapid Steam Sterilizer that we eventually bought.
Sterilizer. We first spotted the Pigeon Rapid Steam Sterilizer going at a discounted price of $95 (usual $125) at Kids Mall (IMM) a few weeks back. At that time, we also recalled seeing a packaged deal somewhere with the Rapid Steam Sterilizer, Starter kit, and 1 other item which we forgot, selling at $130 something. We decided to look around first to see which is a better package.
We were unable to find the 3-in-1 package anymore, so the promotion had probably ended. We decided to get the sterilizer at $95 at Metro to earn the additional linkpoints. But alas, Metro Paragon didn’t have it. So the decision was to visit Metro at Causeway Point to get both the cot and the sterilizer. Since Woodlands is rather far away for us to travel to after work on weekdays, we decided to go there during the long weekend instead. During the week itself, we passed by Kids Mall and Giant (both at IMM) and noticed that the sterilizer was selling at the usual $125. Was the promotion over? Did we missed it? Meanwhile, Tom & Stephanie (Westmall) was still selling it at $95. Hopefully, the promotion will still be ongoing at Metro.
So came the big day yesterday. We decided to visit Metro @ City Square Mall instead of Causeway Point to buy our stuffs, partly also to check out the new shopping centre in town. But it was a disappointment. Metro there was pretty small and didn’t have either of the items we wanted. However, the kind staff at Metro offered to phone the Causeway Point branch to check on the availability of the sterilizer for us. Luckily, there was 1 last piece at Metro Causeway point. We quickly reserved it and would visit Causeway Point later that day to purchase the item. Heng ah.
6 baby shirts for just $10 from Shen Kwong Trading, sooooo cheap!
Side track a bit, we visited Shen Kwong Trading at Bugis since we were already in the area to see what we can pick up. Shen Kwong Trading is a local distributor of baby clothes so we can get very good prices if we purchased from the shop directly. Its location was a bit hard to find as it is on the inner row of shops at block 269C opposite the Guan Yin Temple. Wandering aimlessly, we happened to spot this shop next to the public toilet with half closed doors. There was a stroller in front of it and a MTB just stepped out from inside. We peeped inside to see shelves and shelves and shelves of baby clothes and essentials linens. They were closing soon, hence the half closed doors. We quickly went in and picked out 6 baby shirts, 6 long bath towels, and 12 square face towels for just $21! Fantastically cheap! We’ll definitely be back to get more. From what we heard, they’re opened Mon-Sat, until 6pm.
Back to the chase, we drove all the way to Causeway Point to buy the Shears cot and Pigeon sterilizer which we had reserved earlier. It turned out that the discount on the sterilizer had already ended on 13 Nov and shops that still sell at the discounted price were clearing the stock from that promotional batch of sterilizers. We were lucky to still be able to get one on 27 Nov (2 weeks after promotion ended). Our total cost for these 2 items were $189 + $95 = $284. We purchased $280 worth of Metro vouchers and earned 2520 linkpoints, wow! That’s 2520 / 150 = $16.80 worth of linkpoints claimable at NTUC. Moreover, our purchase entitled us to redeem a free 2010 Sesame Street calendar and a Sesame Street umbrella. What a shopping trip, yeah!
So, what is the moral of the story? Yes, we made quite significant savings. But we’ve also stressed ourselves unnecessarily over the past 2 weeks trying to hunt down the best deals in town. We’ve also spent a fair amount of petrol travelling here and there, and also car park charges. Luckily, most of our trips were multi-purpose trips (such as attending weddings) such that we achieve multiple objectives per outing, thereby reducing our petrol/car park expenses per objective. The point here is that, we need to weigh the benefits of bargain hunting. If the savings is not significant, then it probably isn’t worth the effort making a dedicated trip there. So here are a few of our rules of thumb.
Bargain hunt only for big items that preferably gives savings of $20 or more. Also, string together multiple bargain items to buy on the same route to maximize the returns on travelling cost and time. Next, know the current prices of items well so that you know what is a good deal and what isn’t. And, Internet is your friend, check out the many websites that track promotions and discounts around Singapore and read discussion forums where users constantly update one another on sale events.
Lastly, contribute back to the community by sharing with others (through forums or blog posts) about great bargains and tips to stretch the dollar further. :D
-Dear1
OPC Calculations 26 November, 2009
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Ok, I’m in a mathematical mood today so I’m going to test out the 
Let 
Let us consider the PARF of a normal plated car at each year within the lifespan of the COE of 10 years. For simplicity, we will consider integer number of years 
For an OPC, the 17000 rebate is deducted first from the COE, then from the OMV. Let us assume that 
Next, we substitute 
This equation shows us that if 
This means that OPC owners who got their COE at prices lower than 17000 do not enjoy the full 17000 rebate by virtue of the fact that they will receive a lesser amount when their car is scrapped. In the worse case scenario, the OPC owner will receive only 8500 in rebate if their COE is zero or near zero (i.e. $2 COE in Nov 08).
Of course, there are other factors to be considered such as the actual sale price of the car, the interest rate, amount of loan to take, length of loan, etc. This is only a very simplified calculation to find out the maximum and minimum rebates an OPC owner can get. Yes, in times of high COE, you get the maximum savings, but you might also end up paying more in absolute terms becos of the higher cost of the car and interest payable on loan amount. It’s like buying a brand-less backpack at full price of $20 or a designer brand backpack at 70% off the usual price of $1000. Sure, you saved $700 but you also just spent an extra (300-20=) $280 more than just getting the brand-less one.
Lastly, typing
-Dear1
Self-repaired my DS 24 November, 2009
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If you remember, I received my DS as a birthday present from Dear2 in 2007. It was really fantastic. I’ve always always wanted one of those handheld games since I can’t remember how young I was. As such, I have treasured this gift very much both because it was something that I really wanted and because it was a gift from Dear2.
For the past nearly 2 years, my DS seldom left my backpack as I carried my backpack to school everyday. I’ll always play it while travelling on the bus or train. Sometimes, Dear2 and I would challenge each other to a game of Mario Kart or Tetris when we’re travelling together. I can get pretty exciting. At home, we also play Animal Crossing with each other, visiting each other’s town and bring new furniture. We really had fun with our DS.
But unfortunately, my DS was dropped twice. I can vividly remember both times. Once at night, I left my DS on the bedside table, and I unknowingly threw my arm around while asleep and swept the DS onto the floor. Sad. That was the last time I left my DS on the bedside table. Nowadays, it goes under the bed if I was playing DS just before bedtime. The other time, I left it under my pillow, and in a similar fashion, I swung my arm under my pillow to cuddle up into a cosy sleeping position and swept the DS from under the pillow onto the floor. Sigh. Under the bed is the safest place for a DS to be.
I think it was during one of those drops that the lower screen started spoiling. The screen produced a yellow tint and discoloured everything. Soon, the resolution started reducing and I would see missing horizontal lines and vertical lines. I would say the resolution reduced to about 1/4 the max. There were no dead pixels however. Some time after that, the screen started flickering up and down, but it would stabilize after some ‘warming up’ so I was still able to play my games. Things took a turn for the worse and the lower screen gave up completely and wouldn’t even light up. I would turn to playing GBA games becos they only used 1 screen and my top screen is still working perfectly. This whole deterioration process spanned over about 6 months or so. But it was clear, I needed to get my DS repaired.
I brought my DS to a repair shop and asked for a quotation. It was going to cost about $30 or more for parts and labour and I would need to leave my DS there overnight. Hmm… I certainly do not want to leave my precious DS with some stranger overnight. So I began looking for new alternatives. I turned to my favourite DS accessories website – Dealextreme.
I also looked up some DS repair videos on Youtube to get an understanding of how DS works and how do I go about disassembling it. Surprisingly, I found this video of a young girl, probably about 10 years old, give a demonstration of how to replace the lower screen for the DS. So I thought, if she can do it, so can I. I ordered all the parts that I needed from Dealextreme – a replacement lower screen, a trigram screwdriver, a replacement touchscreen (just for good measure although my touchscreen isn’t spoilt), and a set of screen protector (because my lower screen protector was already badly scratched). The total cost was about $20, and since Dealextreme owed me $7 from a previous transaction, I paid only $13 for this shipment.
The actual instructional video that I followed to repair my DS.
The parts arrived last week after some delay and I sat down to repair my DS right away. Following the instructional video found on Youtube, I disassembled my DS and replaced the lower screen as well as the touch screen. All this took about 1 hour to complete for a complete first timer like me (don’t understand why the repair shops require the whole night to do it). At this stage, I suddenly became a bit skeptical. Maybe it wasn’t the screen that was spoilt. Maybe it was one of the video processors in charge of rendering the lower screen that was faulty. Then I would have wasted money buying all these replacement parts. Too late, I just have to turn on the power to find out.
Yes! It works! It was indeed a faulty lower screen. Haha.
I quickly applied on the new screen protector and began playing my DS again. I miss those DS games, GBA games can be a bit stale. My lower screen hasn’t looked this gorgeous for so long. I realized how much rubbish resolution and eye strain I’ve been putting up with for the past how many months. Getting replacement parts is this cheap and self-repairing is this easy. I should have done it a long time ago. Damn procrastination. #@*%!
Hopefully with this repair, my DS would last me another few years. Playing DS together with Dear2 is really fun. Although Dear2 always beats me at the Tetris Push challenge but I just enjoy playing together with Dear2. :D
-Dear1
Taime Warehouse Sale 22 November, 2009
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Our loot from the Taime Warehouse Sale – The biggest buy is the Capella stroller at the back, still in box. :D
Taime Pte Ltd held a warehouse sale just a few days ago, 19-21 Nov 09. It was a Thursday to Saturday, and it was in Bedok. So the best time for us to visit the sale was on Saturday, and that’s exactly what we did.
We took our OPC car out promptly at 3pm on Saturday and drove all the way to Bedok. We stopped by Baby Kingdom first to check out the prices to keep ourselves current with prices. We have been eyeing this particular stroller for some time now and had already more or less decided on the Capella S705 2009 model with the 5-point harness. Baby Kingdom quoted us $350 at best from the usual price of $369. After looking around a bit more, we left for Taime which is just a stone’s throw away across the PIE.
Wow. Taime warehouse sale was great! The major brands there were Capella, Chicco and Lucky Baby. There was at least a 20% discount for most items, 30% and 40% for some other. Some items were nett price which also featured substantial savings.
Our total bill at Taime, what a steal! We should have bought more…
We went directly to the Capella section and found the stroller going at 20% discount! That’s definitely the cheapest price in town, we bought it without a second thought. We also bought some other baby items that were on sale, including some foam play mats, a rubber cot sheet, nail clippers for baby, swaddleme, and a stroller clip fan. The final total price was less than $369, which made us felt as if we bought the Capella S705 at normal price and got everything else for free. Haha…
We left Taime warehouse and got lost in the private residential area. Hahaha… Luckily, we managed to find our way out after about 10 minutes of roaming. We went over to Blk 704 nearby to try out the Xiong-ge chicken rice that was featured on Buzzing Cashier 2. We went there before the last time we visited Baby Kingdom but the long queue turned us away. Luckily, this time there was no queue and we got our chicken rice immediately. Not bad, the chicken rice is quite tasty. But is it worth 1 hour queuing time, probably not.
Next, we set off to the United Square Baby Fair organised by Motherhood magazine. We arrived at 6.50pm, just before the start of the baby bottles giveaway event. We quickly joined the queue to get our free bottle, and also get our free sample copy of Motherhood magazine. The bottle was quite cute looking with 2 cute giraffes printed on it. But the quality of the material used to make the bottle was quite dubious looking that made us decided that we’ll not use it for baby but will instead put it in our display cabinet. Dear2 also didn’t like the idea that both the top and the bottom of the bottle can be unscrewed.
We shopped around United Square further and found this shop Mums & Babes that is having this bottle exchange program. Trade in any old baby bottle and get to buy a new 5oz Medela bottle for $6.90 (UP $10.90). We knew that the 3 5oz Medela bottle set costs $31.50 (before 15% off) at Baby Kingdom, which meant that each bottle would cost (31.50×0.85/3=) $8.925. $6.90 sounds good enough. Now, where can we find an old baby bottle to trade in at a time like this? Hmm… Oh wait, we did have a bottle in our possession. Hehehe… And so, we traded in our free gift bottle we collected just earlier and bought the Medela bottle at the discounted price. Yeah.
So that’s it for our eventful shopping Saturday. We’re glad that we’re finally buying all the baby stuffs (and all at fantastic offers too!) and getting ready for our baby’s arrival. Dear2 has been somewhat stressed lately about our ill-prepared-ness. I suppose Dear2′s mummy instinct is starting to kick in. Gee… Hope that this shopping spree of ours did calm Dear2 down a little.
Also, our car really did improve our lives and brought us much convenience. I couldn’t imagine us going to so many places if we didn’t have a car. Not to mention carrying so much shopping loot home. The stroller alone took up most of our boot space, can’t imagine us taking public transport with it. Dear2 is also having some hip pains which made long bus and MRT rides a difficult thing for her. Glad that we bought our car in time for Dear2′s pregnancy.
There’s still much more shopping to be done, hopefully we can get everything at good prices. Today, we’re going to Mothercare to get some toys at 15% discount, and going to OG to take a look at their 20% storewide sale, and going to visit Aussino 50% discount Baby Fair again, and probably drop by Metro to see if we can earn the 6% rebates worth of linkpoints. You see, we can use our Passion Card to earn 9 linkpoints for every $1 spent, and 150 linkpoints can be exchanged for $1 at NTUC for grocery shopping, so that’s 6%. :D
Hooray to year end festive shopping season!
-Dear1
Pampering Each Other 19 November, 2009
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Just last weekend, we went shopping at IMM. We strolled past the Levi Strauss shop and they were having this $39.90 each for a min purchase of 2 jeans promotion plus an additional 5% discount for Citibank credit cards. Sounds like a good deal! But Dear1 current has about 5 pairs of jeans, 2 of which were recently bought (iirc, it was Nov 08). Yes, 1 year old jeans is considered new to me. So despite a number of my jeans shrinking in size due to a recent change in washing powder brands (read: Dear1 is getting fatter), I didn’t even consider the promotion for a moment. After all, why buy new jeans when I still have 5 (barely) wearable pairs? Save money.
That’s the way with Dear1. Dear1 is an engineer by training and by personality. Dear1 doesn’t see the need to spend money on clothes or keeping up with fashion. Dear1 gets his tops and polo-ts from event gifts. Dear1 gets a new pair of running shoes only when the current pair begins to let water seep in from the soles. Dear1 is just extremely stingy when it comes to spending on clothings.
(On a side note, Dear1 likes to spend on new handphone, new camera, new LEGO, new board games… U get the idea.)
So frequently, Dear2 needs to step in and renew Dear1′s wardrobe. Dear2 needs to convince Dear1 that he needs new pairs of jean cos he can’t fit into the current ones anymore. Dear2 needs to convince Dear1 that he doesn’t have enough pairs of socks and that some of them already have holes in them. Dear2 needs to convince Dear1 that superglue can no longer hold his only pair of sandals together so it’s time to get a new pair. Dear2 needs to convince Dear1 that a good pair of sandals cannot be bought for less than $10.
Dear2 has a lot of convincing to do. And it doesn’t help that Dear1 gets pretty defensive when it comes to the topic of buying new apparels.
But Dear1 isn’t stingy of all apparels in general. Dear1 just doesn’t like to buy clothes for himself. Dear1 enjoys spending on nice clothes for Dear2 and for baby. Dear1 is absolutely delighted to see Dear2 dressed prettily everyday. Dear1 very much want to buy a designer winter coat for Dear2 so that she would look trendy in our overseas photos.
The same can be said about food as well. Dear1 likes to eat 3 vege + rice = $1.60 for lunch at the school canteen. But Dear1 also likes to bring Dear2 to dine at Ichiban Sushi, Swensens or maybe just Mos Burger. And more often than not, it is Dear2 who thinks that dining out at restaurants is too expensive.
The point is, that at least for Dear1 and Dear2, we like to pamper each other. We like to spend a bit of time, money and effort to make the lifestyles of each other better. And in doing so, sometimes we don’t pamper ourselves. But that’s only becos its much more gratifying to pamper each other.
So, let’s pamper each other more, dear. I’ll let you buy new clothes for me, and you let me treat you to better dinners. After all, allowing our significant other to pamper ourselves is also a way of pampering them.
We bought the jeans. :D
-Dear1
One and a Half more Months to end of 2009 18 November, 2009
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It’s mid November already, when stores are starting to put up their Christmas decorations and shoppers are coming out onto the streets of Orchard Road to view the Christmas lightings or just to get into the festive mood (we can all do with some nice mood now, don’t we, after the past year’s of economic downturn and grimy employment conditions).
But hey, this also means that you have only 1.5 more months till the end of the year to accomplish those goals that you have set out to achieve earlier this year! Remember those things called New Year Resolutions!?
Dear1 and Dear2 reviewed our 2009 New Year Resolutions during the Penang trip, aka, our ‘retreat’, and discovered that there are still some things not done yet. Of course, the whole point about making new year resolutions does not mean that you have to ‘die die’ stick to them, because circumstance do change along the course of the year. Rather, these goals, if still applicable till now, are not yet done, or worse still, had long been forgotten already, remind yourself that you have something that you want to achieve, so, BETTER GET YOUR BUTT MOVING AND WORK ON IT NOW.
Working hard for something does not only begin on 1 January and ends when the clock strike 12 on 31 December, so even until the last day or 2009, don’t give up on your dreams and goals, but continue to work hard and reach for them. As this Chinese saying goes, 人因梦想而伟大, so 加油, 加油, 加油!!
- Dear2
