cheers for civil servant

Civil servants in Singapore will be receiving good bonuses this year as announced recently. And a new thing has been introduced; "Growth bonus". Grow what leh? Babies? Haha! According to the report, its country's economic growth. Read story here.

With inflation setting in, more money will certainly come in handy. But what about those non-civil service people? Its been a long long time since I had a 2.5 months bonus. Think it was somewhere in 2000 or 2001, when I was a civil servant myself. Ahh.. the good old days!


So, what will you be getting this year end? For me, I know what I'm getting.... more work...

today

Had the opportunity to go to Republic Poly. Such a big place! Haha, can fight with NTU. But feels like a bit barren. Not enough greenaries!

Looked around for abit before heading to the nearest foodcourt cum canteen for lunch. Had chicken chop (can choose fries, mashed potato, rice or spaghetti) and it comes with soup. Food is definitely worse than NTU! The soup had flour bits floating in it and is very very salty! The chicken chop is cold! But then, for $3.50... can't really complain so much, right?


lunch @RP canteen

Indeed, am thankful for all the years in NTU and for all the good good canteens around! For Canteen One's chap chye peng, soya chicken noodles, spring chicken from western food stall, for Canteen 4's pepper chicken with rice, for Canteen 2's Malay food stall with the 'mao mao' chicken wing, for Canteen 3's zhi char, Canteen B's chicken rice and many many more!

After lunch, went back to office via taxi after dropping WL at the data center. The taxi then went into a tunnel.


tunnel pic


And then passed by the Singapore Flyer (sounds like a gigantic piece of paper!)


tiny Singapore Flyer


Then of course, back to office.


office lor

my bestfriend

Adeline


My best friend is in town today. We had dinner with Lily and Joan. All of us were classmates since primary and secondary school days. But Adeline and I went way back before then. We were friends since kindergarten. Haha, yupz.. a big part of my childhood were spent with her.

christmas has arrived

The decorations that is...


every mall must haves.. Christmas tree!



some house..

Location: Causeway Point

down

Jialatz la...
With the financial market not doing so well nowadays, my fund value also go down down down... -2.72% liao... so sad la... quick quick bounce back up up up!

a little note

just a little note
to let you know
off on a holiday
that's where i'll go

"How can we find you?"
if you really want to know...
dun call me, i'll call you (when i get back)
ho ho ho!

tatarah not LUB, instead it became HUB

Hahaha, from the previous LUB (lowest unique bid), tatarah.com.sg has decided to go HUB (highest unique bid). Actually, its kinda like expected.

From previous observation, most ppl will bid very very low.. starting from $0.01, if everyone were to bid sequentially and uniquely, $0.01 to $1 will need at least 100 bidders (but 100 bidders for processing fee of $1, will give you $100 only). And for some of the more expensive items like Gucci handbag etc, some of the bidders actually placed a bid of like $500 but of course, the lowest bid will win, and usually the lowest unique bid are all less than a dollar. And because the website actually have quite a number of items that you can bid for, that would further dilute the number of bidders per item (unless the item is really really hot, like a car or PSP etc).

So, logically, one would go for HUB. Looking at S'porean mentality, perhaps the technique will go something like this:

Item retail price: $260
Processing fee: $1
Maximum bid: $130
Likely bid: 129.99 <-- if this is unique, then it sure is the highest one


So customer is still happy because can get <50% off retail price.

purple

Dark Purple

To others, you seem a bit dark, mysterious, and moody. In truth, you are just a very unique person who doesn't care what others think. And you really enjoy your offbeat interests and friends. You've decided that life is about living for yourself - simple as that.

What Color Purple Are You?

french name generator

for some strange reason:

Your French Name is:

Amélie Grangers

What's Your French Name?

personality

You Are An ESFJ

The Caregiver You are sympathetic and caring, putting friends and family first. A creature of habit, you prefer routines and have trouble with change. You love being in groups - whether you're helping people or working on a project. You are good at listening, laughing, and bringing out the best in people. In love, you value harmony and mutual understanding. You will apologize or give someone the benefit of the doubt, if it means getting over a fight sooner. At work, you are good at building relationships and connecting with people. You would make a great nurse, social worker, or teacher. How you see yourself: Organized, dependable, co-operative When other people don't get you, they see you as: Opinionated, critical, and know-it-all

What's Your Personality Type?

happy deepavali

dear friends, have a happy deepavali~

agent

If anyone is looking for contacts to help in investment stuffs, you can get the contact from me.

oh

saw the sms only this morning
meeting has been postponed
oh well, back to sleep then

tired

Dead tired by now.

Tomorrow gotta wake up early 'coz need to be at the school before 730am.. and the school, is in Marine Parade!

stiff (sprained?) neck

This morning, don't know what happened. I woke up (albeit a little too quickly) and I heard this 'crack' sound. And after that, couldn't move my neck without feeling pain.

Sigh.. the perils of being old...

tatarah

I'm sure most of you would have already heard of tatarah by now. It's plastered all over the MRT, also appeared in Today to announce the winner of the first draw where the winner successfully bidded a car for only $0.23 etc. It works based on LUB (lowest unique bid).

Its like TOTO where everyone will have to pay a processing fee and no matter whether they get or dun get the item, this processing fee is non-refundable. For myself, I bidded for a Nintendo DS Lite(processing fee is $1). Unfortunately, didn't manage to get it as mine although is unique, it wasn't the lowest bidding price. I've counted there were about 245 bids. And the retail price for the NDSL is about there.. plus minus some. So, it would seem like everyone is buying the winner a present *lol*

Unfortunately, the server is down for these 2 days as they're upgrading their bandwidth as mentioned in their website notice.

Quite fun to play, so if you're interested.. may yours be the winning lub!