Rreally lazy recently waking up from naps (1-2hours) and then sleep again. Been repeatedly continuing this routine for 2 weeks and I really ought to do something before school starts again...

Life isn't good for me this week, but I've to really trust god will pull me through ultimately. Its often true when articles said " You only know what you've until you're about to lose them" have to start restraining myself from giving promises recklessly and using harsh words when I don't even mean 1/5 of what I've said. Come to think, dad and mom dotes me too much to the point that I always achieve something I want ultimately and that, I'm used to hearing my mom lashing at us harsh words since young she didn't mean it too either. Perhaps, we should really reflect on our individual character and definitely not act in a moment of impulsiveness. I wished I'll be able to change all this bad habits and behaviour.. sigh.

But setting aside all this, I really had a good weekend. Went out and had dinner together as a family for the longest time ever since my mom and dad wasn't in really good terms. Bought the groupon coupons for Mookata, sort of thai steamboat with grilling for 19.90$ (2pax usual price 39.90)

Super filling and I thought it was really worth it. Guys can check it at Yummy Mookata and groupon for their discounts.


Yum yum..... really love their fresh prawn especially fish roes! this look like wannabe wanton that squeeze out all the fish roes inside the layer of fish paste skin. Really yummy cause you get to bite the fish roes and tasting the soup. Not forgetting their incredible service standards that really give my hats off. They brought extra plates, ices and they are really humble! Had to trouble them to cut and bring lots of extras to our table, but no doubt we're their biggest customer of the day haha.



haha my chio mom!! Can't wait for my best friend's graduation as well as my own/  last lap of polytechnic and I can't express how grateful I am to a bunch of great mentor tutors, bizcom teacher who fought for As in our class and got it (believing that we're not to be look down because we're in hybrid course), a great course coodinator that recommended me to be intern for microsoft as well as a bunch of wonderful colleagues. I must say i've live my life fullest last year & definitely this year hopefully :) Thank you Jesus. :)

"Though days may be dull, it will not remain forever........ Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

Birthday surprise dated back in April and now i'm blogging about it haha......... planned this entire surprise for 2 months, what to buy, what to decorate, which place will be good to book and etc. Decided to book Miramar hotel, just across the iconic Singapore river for a vacation stay.

Can't remember what is the deal like, but I paid $172 for 2 person breakfast with the hotel room. The room was clean, well furnished and comes with two couple bathtub romp wear. Part of the reason why I decided to book this hotel was because there's sort of like a pin board for me to do up my decorations (the photographs of his family, friends and me plus the self-cut "happy birthday dear")


The light bulbs are brought from taobao $6plus (shipping fee cost half of the item cost) which i feel was pretty worth it. Totally freaked out when the lights suddenly fickled and dim out when I tried to plug it in to the power socket. Thank god it revived or I'll be super disappointed.

Throughout the entire surprise the little boy was happily smiling watching the videos while unwrapping each present slowly. Contented to see him so happy :') Spend the entire night watching channel 8 dramas (haha again!) and went to sleep for early breakfast/ must say the breakfast is really good, chef personally cook scramble eggs, omelette with ham, cheese mushroom, noodles and pretty much variety.


Happy 20th birthday dear! Hope you enjoyed this special day.

Before the local university applications start, I was so confident that I'm going overseas to pursue my studies at either UK or Australia. So I went down to various education fairs and IDP education- FYI IDP is sort of like a study oversea consultant where they will brief you on various oversea schools and how to secure a spot by ensuring you submit your school's testimonials, grades and your particulars. Actually I don't think all this matters as long as you've the money to study.

But after getting both acceptance to University of Melbourne and University of Queensland (both bachelor of Commerce), I was confused. I need to be mentally prepared that I'll be carrying a study debt of $104,000-$107,000 excluding my living allowance and expenses. What's worse is that, that doesn't guarantee you with a job here/good pay once you fly back here. Based on what i heard, there are companies that offer graduates with $2,100 but that isn't attractive at all because diplomas in Singapore are gradually hitting the mark of $2,000 according to st.jobs. It doesn't seem feasible to enjoy first than to suffer later because I would want to have a stable income support for my family. Really can't imagine myself paying for overseas debt (amount to total $150,000) at the same time dreaming of getting a car, a proper house to stay and paying all government taxes like water bills, electricity etc. My parents are getting old......urgh so selfish of me to do so.

However if I accept to study abroad, I will definitely be faster than my peers who are about to study in university. My bachelor degree will take 2.5 years, exempted 0.5 years of modules that I've previously taken back in poly. University of Queensland offer the same number of years and the study fees unfortunately the same as well. But I know that business was definitely something I'm interested in, based on the modules that I scored extremely well e.g. International business, Management principals.


So back to the local universities (which my parents still prefer me to), gotten acceptance to SMU Information Management System by luck and grades. I honestly don't think i cut for the interview because my system design was a flop. Everyone was presenting in most technical way from how users will prompt the web application by using drop down list and having an administration portal to administer the bookings, the comments from customers, but I explained the entire design randomly with business tactics on how to attract customers to book rooms in the website. Embarrassment. Truth to be told, SMU is known for it's muggish elite kind-of the students and I'm really afraid that I won't be able to survive in such competitiveness. Having Saturdays and Sundays to spend in school for the rest of 4 years is crazy......As for NTU, I guessed my admission to FASS- Sociology and Public Global and Public Affairs was unsuccessful which explains why I received interview call from NIE to be a Chinese teacher for primary school. The only concern was the bond with ministry of education and of course, the kids don't benefit from a teacher like me. I'm still young to confirm my path as a teacher......

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oh god what should I do. I'm really skeptical about my future and I'm not given the choice I really want for. "When life gives you lemon, you made lemonade right?" But i don't want to squeeze lemon for the rest of my life, but here I am tied up with choices..


Regardless, I'm really thankful that with a mere GPA of 3.62 I am able to secure at least a university spot in various schools, locally and overseas. Can't thank enough how much my Microsoft internship pulled up my grades as well as the wonderful business tutors that coached us well. As well as IT project supervisors with exception of 1 haha (won't mention who) for supervision. It's amazing how I survived through 3 years of poly and this will mark the last lap of education of my life.

Pray and hope from the best from god.