1 more to go

finally the day has came.
everything has to end n everything will end in another 14hours time when i step out of that exam hall.
i don't want to think how i will fare for this exam. i just want to go out n enjoy myself, enjoy my bdae, enjoy my holiday and enjoy my precious time with my dear as she will be busy with her work in dec.
my dear say i have became rounder (hope my english is correct) and i guess it's really time to do something about my fats during this dec.
too much studying is no good. this is my take-away for this semester.
i will do a final review of my sem when i get my results though i don't know when is that.

read a lot of the dragon boaters' accident. even though i don't know them personally, i felt sad for them because they are dedicated sportsmen who have a great future ahead. each of them have their own qualities, talent n knowledge that will see them go far in life. these are the people i admire. just hope that we could all learn from this lesson and prevent such accident from happening again.

hope tmr will be a better day for all. world peace and everyone living happily. no death, no quarrel, no stock crash etc.

it's WAR time

in about another 12 hrs more, i will officially step into the exam war zone.
it's going to be a tough war tt will last until 28 nov.
i had trained hard for this war, so hopefully things turn out fine.
anyway, i knew i had tried my best alr.
yup, so bring it on man

nowadays,schools engage in very interesting form of fund-raiser for their own sch.
today, some students came to sell ice-cream at my doorsteps, claiming tt it's to raise funds for their school. the ice-cream costs $15, thou i din get to c what's the ice-cream like as i was in my room. i thought moe has being giving schools a lot of money? the education budget has always being v significant as u can see from the hundreds of scholarships that moe gives out every yr. it's almost like the scholarship money is free. then again, i realised that there has being an increased number of charity shows recently for different charitable organisations.

somehow, all these episodes of events made me think that the world lacks money. everyone needs money. while i do understand that charitable organisations need money to maintain their existence so that they can help needy people. but i guess there's a limit to how much they would need and i certainly do not hope that these charitable organisations have too much cash in their banks which they don't really need (ie it's just spare cash)

this made me thought of the Ren Ci hospital case. thou i m not very sure about the details, if i m not mistaken, the hospital made some interest-free loans to 3rd party. i hope i got my facts wrong. but if im right, i really questioned the need to raise so much money for Ren Ci annually. is it to help the patients, or to allow the hospital to make interest free loans to 3rd parties?

it was also reported on the New Paper (if i din remember wrongly)that there's this beggar at Waterloo St who can collect up to a few hundreds bucks per day from the public. This is what i called excessive donation.

i guess im pretty apprehensive abt how donations. if i were to donate money to anyone, i have to be convinced that they really need my money to survive on a daily basis.

i saw the China Premier on the news. he looks quite friendly. tt's just a comment.

lastly, b4 i go to bed. this is my 198th blog. my aim is to write my 200th blog on 28 nov to mark the last day of my exam war. haha

time to slp liao.

wish me lucks for my exam later. i think i need quite a bit of luck

knowledge is scary

i was studying tax law today n it suddenly dawned upon me how scary a knowledgeable person could be.
there's no denying that the world is v knowledge-based nowadays. like what one of my gang (thou i cant remember who) said: one of the reason y tuition is so well paid is because there's a transfer of knowledge. n this is just a simple eg to show how much people value knowledge. u can also see that as the top organisations use top remuneration package to get the talents they want.

when u have more knowledge than the person next to u, u r always at an advantage n u can manipulate the situation to ur advantage, simply because u noe more than that person. n of course, tt is based on the assumption that the person is able to apply his knowledge to his benefits.

a lawyer can manipulate his way ard the way better than a normal person. an accountant can read the financial statements better n avoid being cheated by those companies who put up false accounts etc.

knowledge is really scary when u have it n when u put it to devastating effect, exploiting it to the fullest, at the advantage of others.

knowledge is also the way out of poverty n bring u up the social ladder.

okie, enough abt knowledge. let's talk abt cars.

i have sort of decided that i will be satisfy with just a honda civic. cos it's quite a stylish car, with decent performance, decent leg space for everyone, doesn't cause u a bomb at ard 80k. it's quite scary to think abt spending 200k plus to get a car. this is esp so when i m going to b trained as an accountant, when i know that depreciation of the car is crazy, u can hardly get any tax benefit for buying car (not when the govt is discouraging people from buying car) and most prob u can get better returns from investing the extra 120k if u just buy a honda civic.

if ur annual rate of return is 10%, that's alr a cool 12k, enough for u to fly the 1st class suite on A380 (if i m not wrong) or a decent holiday in europe.

so here's a pict of my 'realistic' car



then again, if i really have too much too much cash that i don't know how to spend,
i dun mind the following 2 cars.

mercedes slk


bmw 6 convertible


that's all for today.

back to my books. i wan to b a 'scary' person =)

Red alert

finally i was sick of studying n i decided to go for a run cos i felt fat.
can feel the fat ard my waist n i dun like that feeling
i ran for 30mins. hrm, mayb i sld say i jogged for 30mins
n i declared that i felt like dying.
my knees were like jelly, i cant walk straight, i had a bad stitch, my breathing wasn't smooth
nothing was gd abt the run, except that it woke me up n told me that if i continue to neglect my fitness, i can kiss my $200 (i don't dare to dream of $400 now) gdbye come dec when i take my ippt again.
as i was running, i saw some kids. n i concluded that kids nowadays r really suffering from obese problems. lost count of how many 'not so slim' kids i saw as i was running.
i used to b like them n i will b like them if i don't start to get my fitness back.
i guess it's not too difficult to allocate 1 hr every other day (if not everyday) for some exercise, just to maintain some decent fitness so that i have a decent fitness level come 28 nov when i start my devil training.
decided that i don't want to work full time (ie 5 days a wk 8 hrs a day) during my dec holiday. want to get my fitness, my abs n my muscles back and also to spend some time at home. i want to go back to nuh to volunteer n start going back for my tkd trg. it's also time tt i start to really contribute to ksaa. so i guess i have enough things to keep me occupy in dec. however, if anyone has those part time job lobang, like being a promoter etc for a few days, pls jio me k. i don't mind earning abit of pocket money
okie, time to go bath n back to my books

1st review of the current semester

this blog was inspired by kaiwei. haha, so i shall dedicate this blog to him.
i guess my semester didn't start off as well n smooth as i wished to, with regards to the modules i wish to take.
n the tax module is officially the hardest module i have taken thus far in ntu. it's tougher than IT, thou i m expecting more than a B for my tax simply bcos everyone is struggling together with me. haha, so the playing field is level, unlike IT.
ab214 (business communication) is gd n i sld get a decent result for that module. think i have done enuf to earn an A for tt module.
this is the sem where i got all B n B+ for my project/assignment. but i guess i m expecting those grades, esp the 'B' for my accounting II project. i knew it wasn't well done right from the start. in fact, i still don't have a clear idea of how i sld approach the project, so i guess a 'B' was reasonable.

this sem is really v xiong academically so much so that i have really neglected the non-academic aspects of my life. i din go for my taekwondo training for the whole sem, i don't think i have contributed alot to my keppel committee as much as i have wished to. i din really manage to go back to nuh cos there's only me n zhichao n carn really do alot of things. it's partly due to our terrible sch workload, which simply clash with our volunteering timeslot.

on a side note, i will be submitting my application form for local exchange to smu for next sem. hopefully i can get a slot. im quite looking forward to it n getting out of ntu for a while. hopefully, the different culture in smu can complement my learning in ntu n make me a better person overall.

i wish i was god

i just read the new paper (the fri issue).
i saw the news abt 3 uk tourists refusing to give a trishaw driver his due reward for bringing the 3 of them from 1 place to another. in fact, according to the article, the tourists made the driver looked like a beggar n they claimed that the driver was slow.however tt was understandable as it was 1 person carrying 3 persons on a trishaw.
up to now, the 3 tourists had not paid up the 15 bucks due to the trishaw driver.
how i wished then, i was god, then i can make sure that the 3 tourists got their own deserts and i will definitely make them learn their lesson in a painful n unforgettable manner. it's simply a disgrace to bully an old uncle who is just trying his best to earn a decent living. having money doesn't give u the right to bully the poor. how i wish spore govt can stand up n fight for the rights of such poor people bully by the foreigners or that there's a law in spore tt allows us to deal with such f*** up people. yet, having said so much, i guess it's not realistic for spore govt to tell uk govt to get the 3 f***er to pay up or to enact any relevant law.
hence i wish i am god.

recently, some other f***er urinated in my block's lift and it made the lift stink like mad. the town council put up a notice to discourage people from urinating in the lift. honestly speaking, i don't think tt's a gd deterence. if fact, i can foresee someone trying to challenge the town council's notice by urinating in the lift soon.

on another occasion, there was this guy who smoke in the lift.n my thoughts were if there's a sign tt tell people u will get fined for smoking in a lift, but there's no people going ard trying to get those who smoke in the lift, den y bother to put up those 'fine' signs??

that's when i wish i am god. i would make the person licked his urine off the floor of the lift and also shut the smoker in the lift until he finished inhaling all the second-hand smoke he created in the lift.

how i wish i am god.

i doubt being an mp would be able to solve such small issues that many of us faced on frequently. perhaps being an mp can solve. i certainly hope so.

we simply need to make this world a more considerate place to live in. the sad fact is that as we advanced and be more educated, we become more selfish n tend to think abt ourselves first.