This Month Is Broke...

Seriously I don't really calculate what I have spent for the month. This is because of plain laziness, plus and all the Excel spreadsheets that I created for accounting purpose during New Year was just not updated because it was simply forgotten and became an archived file in the PC.

However, though I don't really keep an expense account, I can still know when I am running out of money, like this month of June...

The large sum of money in medical fees. I visited the Chinese Sensei more than twice during May/June for my hand, and literally donated around 30 bucks, each time 10 dollars I think. Following that, I went to see my family doctor again to check out my knees, without getting any satisfying results, I paid 27 bucks for consultation and a healthy dose of painkillers which I did not start taking. The next 2 days, I went over to see the 5-dollars doctor, the company panel doctor and was finally, after 4 months, referred to an osteopath.
So simple maths tells that I have spent a total of 62 bucks just on consultation, and of course some useless medication. If I were to include the 68 bucks of glucosamine that I'd spent after getting advise from doctor that my cartilage is likely to be worn... I'd spent 130 bucks!

But, that's not the end of my woes, starting July, I may be going regularly to the osteopath, and, even before I met him/her, I already knew the consultation fees is a whopping 85 bucks as advise by the panel doctor. This is not including any other x-rays examinations or medication prescriptions; in another words, I have to pay 85 bucks entrance fees just to see the doctor's face and listen to the oh 'golden' words of advice (literally golden because is god-damn expensive!!).

Luckily luckiliy, thanks to my dearest HR personnel (who sadly is quitting) advised that the company does cover 80% of the consultation fees. If not... cannot imagine.

Medishield? CPF? Insurance? Based on the tip of the iceberg that I am seeing, I can now understand why there are people going broke after being hospitialised, they may be covered by Medishield, or maybe insurance, but that is never going to be enough... Just consultation already costs a bomb, just imagine hosptialisation and surgery!

In anyway, I do hope that this draggy kneecap problem can recover asap, if not, not only I will have to spend ever more $$ on consultation, I will also have to give up jogging and badminton... so sianz!

Happy 62th Birthday To Aung San Suu Kyi

Photo taken today on 19th June 2007, Singapore.
Today renews memories of forgotten Burma's democracy and strongly urges the international commitee to put their focus again on the world's most repressive regime and the country's democrat's fight.

If she falls, it will not only show Burma's failure on the fight of democracy, but also failure of the international commitee part to help a country's democracy.

Saturday de Performance

I was rather worried that I may make some mistakes during my performance, especially when I know that we only practiced twice or thrice for the past 3 weeks...

果然... I really made a mistake on the actual performance. Haiz..

I missed out the last bar and went right into the first bar again when my mates are still hitting their last... I was like.. oh shit! I played wrongly!! I think it really showed in my face, because I was frantically looking at my mate and trying to catch back the beat again... I only managed to do do that after missing 7 bars totally and hitting all the wrong beats...

Luckily I still managed to catch the last beat and ended together, if not, I think I am going to drown myself in the nearest drain liao.. sigh...

Overall the performance on Saturday was good, except for this which I feel is a total failure... The piece never really went wrong during my practice period leh.. then how come liddat?? A bit sianz. But never, I tell myself, just have to remember and do better the next time...


The next will not come so soon, and I was thinking of maybe just stopping for a few months and recuperate from my injuries and really go for some serious treatment. Age is catching up... haha..















This is a photo of my drum mates during training in Japan. Our teacher is Hayashida-san (3rd from the left, the only guy)

Job Hunting Woes

It's time to change job le... After seeing 3 quitting this month and 1, my dearest partner, quitting the next month, I feel that maybe is time for me to move on. Afterall, the salary is still less-than-expected even after the increment this year.

Also, this job has turned into a less than satisfactory job for me. The bulk of email requiring system support and help desk based, plus limitation for further developments of the system
made me feel there is also no further developments for me in this job. So, time to look for a new one, even though the people and the boss here are much better than all my previous jobs.

I think I am again facing a career dilemma: should I continue current job as a business process analyst or venture into other fields related to logistics? Seriously, I have been thinking of the question while combing through webpages from jobsdb etc. etc. and I have not been able to come to a conclusion till now. This is alarming as I still cannot decide the career path to advance.

Seriously, after looking at most logistics related jobs seems really quite boring... for the N time of my life, I start to think why I did I choose logistics in the first place.. sigh. Too late to regret
now.

Hopefully, I will be able to find something that I have the passion to work for life. I guess is everyone's dream too. Then again, reality... So what if the job market is really good now, there are still people who cannot find something they like or cannot get the job they want.

In anyway, looking forward Saturday's recruit for some new job opportunities...

Online jobs portal:
- http://www.monster.com.sg
- http://www.jobsdb.com
- http://www.jobscentral.com.sg
- http://www.st701.com.sg

**PS: please let me know if you have other good recommendations. Personally, I quite like st701.com.sg. ;)