i really ought to find better titles for my posts. seriously, 3am?
anyhooooooo, i managed to land myself as the Top Agent in my category for the month of June for my branch, so you know what that means?
that means i get to eat! and i heard my boss is treating lunch at equinox tomorrow… ooh yummy! congrats me! pat on the back for job well done! let’s do a repeat for next month!
i bet you are wondering why i am awake at 3am on a tuesday morning, when i have a test to go to at 9.30am.. well that’s because at 11pm, i was awaken by a phone call that greatly disturbs me.. more like disappointing and i cant get it out of my head. but i guess this is just one of my challenges as a financial planner. =(
on a totally unrelated news, i failed two of my license exams last week, and looks like i got to go back to the books again. i didnt want to make such a big brahaha over the fact i was taking the exams because i was expecting to fail anyway. i didnt really study.. no in fact i did study, but the topic was too dry and i couldnt get it into my head. but now, i’m gonna go at it with a different approach. i’m gonna go at it with confidence! yes, but now back to the big words and thick books. why cant i be studying murder instead? i’m pretty good at solving murder mysteries.
baaaaaaaaaaaah, i still feel down from the call.
let’s rewind to sunday. the feeling i felt in the morning when all was shiny and happy again. and chi peng, dunno if you read this, but if you do.. sorry for not replying you on facebook earlier. there’s some weird shit going on my facebook.. i’m allright hunn, not emo, just had a bad saturday night, but am allright now. but if you want to make me feel waaaaaaay better, maybe you can pop by my office again for green tea! maybe next week. this week i busy.
9th august coming soon.. oh no, i’m not talking about national day. i’m talking about hairus’s birthday where as he puts it “the day where everyone is celebrating my birthday.” he honestly thinks he is the only one who was born that day, sheesh. and what can i do for him? actually here’s a question i want to throw to all of you. what would you honestly get for a guy? some of my guy friends when i ask recommend an arai helmet (i got a helmet for him last year, at which upon receiving the new helmet, he immediately threw away his old helmet, and arai not arai, cheap or expensive, a helmet is still a helmet, so it has been kindly scratched out of my list. if anyone should get a helmet, its me because my helmet (actually it is his, but because i am the only one that dons it, i HOPE, it is mine) is not in good shape. the visor comes off by itself and it is very very dangerous.)because he rides, a watch (what’s the thing with guys and watches anyway? a watch is a watch, does it matter if its g-shock or casio or what’s the brand with the funny 7-up man? snatch?snap? i forgot. the shop used to be at HMV. oh yeah swatch!), a wallet with $100 for good luck (i think my friend was being very serious with this one), a raincoat (i am seriously contemplating that…. so he cannot complain he cant go out with me/pick me up if it rains hehehhehehehe) and the best one (and i think hairus will kiss and hug my guy friend for this) sponsor his class 2 licence then get him a ducati streetfighter/get him a car of his choice.
speaking of ducati streetfighter, that bike is the sex! seriously, if you watch most movies that have nice bikes, you see that most of them use that ducati streetfighter or any ducati for that matter. i am number four, the girl rides a ducati, i robot, will smith rode a ducati, beastly, alex pettyfer rode a ducati.. i tell you ducati is the sex! and there is this very gentlemanly italian guy i know who also has a ducati………………
and i was telling hairus once, that if eventually i become a successful agent, and he marries me, part of his wedding gifts that i’ll give him is a key to a ducati streetfighter, and when we get married that bike will be parked right next to our dais. HEHEHEHE. yeah yeah yeah, i am a dreamer, but hey if you can dream it, you can do it!
but i digress.
anyway, i thought of getting him a DSLR, i’ve been talking about that for a long time now, cause he does enjoy photography and he takes good pictures, but which dslr should i get? there’s so many… i read reviews saying that for beginners Nikon d3100 is good, then some say canon is always better and blablablablabla.. too many words. i dont understand. too technical. plus so expensive. i’m on a budget too you know.
and where to go for a nice dinner? i thought of fullerton boat house, so we can watch the fireworks, but lo and behold! it’s already booked for that night! grrrrrrr, plans gone.
well, apparently talking about hairus birthday plans worked, i’m getting sleepy.
if any of you reading this have any kind suggestions as to what anyone can do for a 30year old male who has no preferences except not to spend a lot of money on him plus doesnt want to get drunk or even drink on his birthday and does not like anything that has to do with sushi and teriyaki sauce (this man does not share my love for anything japanese except anime and japanese porn (KIDDING!)), please do tell.
till next time and earlier nights,
much love,
xoxo Shid.
And so the week ends yet again but without much excitement.
But nonetheless i still had such a great week and received such a great boost to my ego i feel i can do just about anything.. I can even scream i’m the king of the world!
There’s three parts to this post, part uno would be a summary of my work, part dos is my foodie experience, and lastly would be my jumbled up random thoughts. So feel free to scroll down and skip to whichever one you want to skip to!
As i was saying, this part i am going to dedicate to work. Oh just so you know, i am going to try and move this blog to become more themed and slightly more systematic.. By being themed is i am going to talk mostly about foodie experiences or places experience or things experience and by way of systematic is by performing an overall update for the week.. I just found out being the slowpoke i am, that i can actually tag my posts! And the reason why i am doing these themes is because me and hairus or me and my friends, we go to plenty of nice places, food places and we check out some nice things and we are really into gadgets sometimes so it’d be nice to give our two cents worth! Heck, i couldnt make it as an investigative journalist but i sure can try to make my words come alive! Plus, in an effort to make my life slightly more structured, i am going to try to organise my life in every aspect and even this blog i’m trying to make changes by making weekly summaries. But if i dont deliver my promise on the weekly summaries and themes, i said i’ll try right? Heheh.
Anyway , i digress. Back to work related. You know i was watching the rookie motogp competition the other day as well as the rugby league and a thought came to me. By the way if you’re feeling impressed that i was watching motogp or rugby, dont. I dont watch them, in fact i was coerced to watch them because mi amor wants to watch them and i wanted to spend time with him and all of that equals i too have to watch. But i learn something. These players, they always have a ritual.. For example rugby, before the guy kicks the ball into the field, he jogs backwards a few steps, turn three times, touch the grass, pause a little, do a quick heel click while jumping and then proceed to kick the ball and it usually always lands where he wants it to. Or the motogp guy who talks to his bike before riding it or go on the bike from his ride side or something.. These people have ritual. And what i have learned is that i actually have a lucky ritual too.. I realised that everytime i close a case, i dont drink the night before or stay up late. And that before the meeting i do not eat, i stay hungry. And that right before the appointment, i do not smoke. And then somehow, the case gets closed without a hitch. As compared to my last case where i didnt follow this through (i actually had a drinking session two nights in a row the day before the appointment) and the case has been postponed.. Grrrr.. Maybe its nothing but this is actually a work in progress, maybe more to a theory in progress, if my theory is right, i’m going to stick to a pre-close ritual man!
On saturday, me and hairus went to eat at skinny pizza at wheelock place. I’ve heard and read great reviews about it and i have been pushing hairus to bring me there to eat and every month when we get our pay we usually would proceed to eat some place we’ve never eaten before as a form of treat for us. This is how i see it though, if you were to ask him he would say its cause he was forced to. =)
Anyway, the service at skinny pizza is great! Its a small cozy place and affordable prices between $18 to $30 for a pizza and pasta and the sides are around $6-$9 and lookout for discounts and special promotions.
We had the squid ink pizza, the chicken sausage ( there is 1metre, 0.5m, 0.25m), hanisaa prawns and truffle fries. Ordinarily eating food that much would make me full, no? But i wasnt. You know why? Okay, i know its called skinny pizza, as the name suggests it would be thin crust pizza and j’adore thin crust! But when we were seated down, we were informed that the crust is more like papadam.. I thought to myself why not.. And then it arrived, and i was a bit disappointed.. Nice is nice but pizzas should be bread and cheese, if there’s no dough there should at least be cheese! All pizzas must have cheese! But my squid ink got no cheese! I have no qualms with the rest, but i just dont like the pizza at skinny pizza… I know i know there are other flavours that had cheese on them but my assumption was all the pizza had cheese! You know the sort, the stringy, melted cheese that doesnt seem to end…. Yumyumyum! But mine had no cheese! Grrrrr..
Anyway i have decided to no longer be a patron of that pizza establishment unless i am going there for the pasta and the meter long sausage (hehehehe), but no sirree, no pizza for me!
Btw, because of this, i have decided to make it pizza of the month month, where i will scour around singapore for great pizza! So far spizza tops my list! Next stop is that pizzeria at marina bay sands!
Oh lastly.. I am sure you are aware that stars have nicknames where the public take the first syllable of the man’s name and join them with the last few syllables of the woman’s name like brad pitt and angelina is brangelina, zac efron and vanessa hudgens would be zanessa… If i were to follow social conformity, i and hairus would be haishidah or haishid. Andy and wati would be anti. Hans and hanis would be hanis. Harminder and sarafeen would be harmafeen… What would be your couple name? =)
Till next time,
Much love
Xoxo shid.
goooooood morning singapore!
it’s a beautiful raining monday isnt it? i just love waking up to rain.. you know people love waking up to sunshine, but they dont really give rain much credit, rain waters the plant naturally, rain fills up our reservoirs, rain cleans up our atmosphere, environment, rain keep the temperature down and best of all rain just have that certain scent that makes me smile, and i so adore playing in the rain!
but now is not the story about me playing in the rain, here is the story on how my monday is going to be.
as you all know, my job is very flexible, and as much as my boss wants me to go to the office, i usually try to work from home for three reasons: a) i do not wish to waste ezlink/cabfare to go to the office to do paperwork or make calls that i can do from home (it’s called save money!) b) more often than not, when i can make an appointment i try to them close to home or at least home accessible (meaning to say, there’s a straight bus back home, there’s a train back to home, yadda yadda yadda) and c) it’s always so fun, and create much envy in people when i log to msn and they ask me “not working today?” and my reply “i’m working from home.”
i know i know, it’s much more professional if i do things at the office, if i call at the office.. and to my defence i do go in to the office, when my forms are out, when i have a meeting, when i need to meet a client in the area, when i need to print, when i submit case, when i need to discuss a case.. oh and when its payday. HEH. (i’m joking on the last part.)
so anyway, today, before i made my calls i decided that i was going to go google that article on wednesday about the minimum sum in cpf is going to increase from $125 000 to $131 000, and i was going to print that article. Now if you dont know what the minimum sum scheme in cpf is all about, basically what it means is, you cant withdraw any balances in your cpf when you reach 55 if you dont have $131 000 set aside in your retirement account. which means to say you must have more than $131 000 in your cpf account in order for you to partially withdraw some of the balances. and this amount $131 000 is bound to increase. so my advice to all of you and any of you out there working and with some money in your cpf, run down to your nearest financial planner (ahem ahem cough cough me! cough cough) and go invest your cpf, because you gonna have to work five jobs in order to reach that kind of money in your cpf, (it’s that or you work for the govt) and why not make your cpf money work for you? i’m not saying this because i am a financial planner, i’m saying this cause its the truth, everyone want to earn their profits, everyone want to feel their cpf money, i can help you do that. but i digress.
so anyway, i was googling the word when my letter v got stuck (i seriously dunno how, it’s a laptop, how can the letters on the keyboard on my laptop get stuck) and the word that appear was vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv.
and do you know what happens when you actually google this word?
it actually gives you search results for facebook!
FACEBOOK IS EVERYWHERE!
by golly! i know i shouldnt be shocked, but it’s seriously taking over the search engines, in everything i search, in anything i search, there’s bound to be at least one facebook related result. and thus i am going to make it my quest from this day on to find a topic that will not have a facebook related search result! even if it means to the end of time! (too much of a stretch, but yes, i will make it my quest!)
… right after i find that article and make my calls for today. (i think my boss might be reading. if so, hi boss! i’m really working hard! =) )
till next time, enjoy your coooool monday folks!
much love,
xoxo, Shid.
