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Solemn Morning & Fun Afternoon Of Singing

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I had a long day yesterday, as I woke up at 9am to prepare myself to go to my fellow KTV group’s member, Belinda’s place at Bukit Batok for his dad’s funeral wake. I was there with my KTV group’s fellow organiser, Jonathan Teo. Belinda has been a long time member of the group, having joined the group 2 years back, so as a mark of respect, and the length of the friendship we had, I felt that we had to be there. After visiting the wake, I went to the KTV session organised by Raymond at Jas. Jonathan did not join me for this, as he was suffering from singing fatigue. It was great to see Jas & Alex Lee at the KTV session as it has been a while since I saw them. I was grouped with Jas, John & Andrina for this session. These are some of songs that we sang yesterday. But I guessed my friends really enjoyed the second half of the event as after the dinner, we really opened up and talked almost everything under the sun from my life story to the people that have c...

Dinner with Indonesian Colleagues

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As my colleagues from Indonesia, Ayu & Juleoria will be heading home after their tour of duty here next week. Therefore,I decided to have a farewell dinner with them on Friday. Had wanted to have dinner with them at THE RICE TABLE at International Building but it was fully reserved, so it was lucky that I had a back up plan to bring them to Royal Plaza on Scotts for international buffet. I was a little worried that they would mind the high cost of the buffet dinner, but to my surprise, they didn’t mind and said that one should learn to indulge once a while, rather than work work work. I was hoping that my audit colleagues would have joined us, but sad to say, they were too busy with their work, and Ayu & Juleoria was afraid to ask them along. We shared a lot of about our work, interests, our life and the cultural differences between Singapore & Indonesia. It was good that they enjoyed the food at Royal Plaza On Scotts. I have invited them to Singapore for a fun tr...

Happy Birthday To Wai Ling

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Picture courtesy of EMI Cakes I just wish to take this opportunity to wish my long time net friend cum blogger friend, a Happy birthday today. May what she wishes for come true for her & may our friendship last for as long as we are around. He is one of her favourite singers!!!!

Application To SIATP Approved

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I got this email from the Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professionals last night. We are pleased to inform you that your application to join the Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professionals Limited (SIATP) has been approved. Kindly find appended below your login details: We will inform you to collect your certificate of accreditation in due course. Please do not hesitate to call us at Tel: 6749 8060 or email enquiry@siatp.org.sg if you have further queries. Welcome to SIATP! Be Accredited, ! Be Recognised ! Thank you. Regards, SIATP I have been waiting for this for quite a while. I was a little worried that the application would not be approved. I would like to thank my friends for their congrats through Facebook, MSN & SMS. Paul Lee just received an email that my application to Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professionals as a Accredited Tax Practitioner has been approved. :) Carolyn Nang Ooi L...

My New Specs

The new specs that I have been waiting for was finally ready for collection today, which was a day earlier than promised. The new specs is somehow similar to what I used to wear, with transition lenses. The frame is silver in colour. Let’s hope the new specs will serve me well.

Desmond & Yvonne’s Wedding Dinner

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Paul with the couple for the evening, Desmond & Yvonne I was invited this wedding dinner by Yvonne, who was my poly mate in my days at Ngee Ann Polytechnic. I had been looking forward to it, since I received her Facebook mail to respond to her invite in late July. The dinner was held at Bliss Restaurant at Singapore Expo. I was glad to be seated with Sherry & Kelvin, whom I last met about 2 years ago at their baby shower. This dinner was a great platform to catch up with them. I would like to thank Kelvin for his concern about my search for my Ms Right. I would like to thank Kelvin for the ride home. I feel so bad as the couple stays in Pasir Ris and went out of their way to send me home. We promised to meet up at around my birthday with some of our common friends. I hereby wish Desmond & Yvonne have a happy & blissful marriage!!! 祝你们白头偕老,早生贵子!!!

Eventful Birthday Month for Friends

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Picture courtesy of Angie The Choice This month is an eventful birthday month for some of my friends and my colleagues. Oct 1 – Paul Tseng Oct 6 – Yan Ling Oct 14 – Keith Ong Oct 16 - CK Oct 19 – Stella Wong Oct 21 – Kian How Oct 22 – Lena Chua, Evelyn Ang & Yun Fah Oct 23 – Rene Oct 26 – Malcolm & Tracey Oct 28 – Wai Ling & Peggy Just want to wish these friends of mine, a happy birthday, may whatever they wish for come true for them.

摘星之旅

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I am using the latest Live Writer Version 2011 to blog this entry. Recently my msn account was hacked. I have since undertaken the necessary security measures and just upgraded to Windows Live Essentials, to counter this problem. Thanks Keith for the suggestion. I just completed the drama serial, displayed in the video above. The serial, starring HK TVB A listers, Raymond Lam, Bosco Wong & Liu Song Ren is a great drama about infighting in the family over the family business. I feel that it is a good show and I recommend all of you to watch it.

New Specs For Paul

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I was asked by my optician, Edward to have a look at my revamped spectacles today. Though it has been gold plated, the faded parts were still visible if you looked at it closely. Therefore, I had already decided to do a new pair when I knew that the problem could not be resolved. The new pair of glasses would be quite similar to my old pair. The frame will be in silver, and you guys should be able to see it by 27 Oct. :-)

Update On My Glasses

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I had received a call from my regular optician, Edward about the status of my glasses. The news was bad. The gold plating of the spectacle frame did not work. The lucky part was I had selected 2 frames just in case the gold plating didn’t work. Those who had seen me last two weekends would now know why I look a little different the past 2 weeks or so. I had been using my old glasses, so I look different!

Songs Of Joy Concert

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I was asked by my dad to join him for this concert. It is performed by several choir groups & members of music interest groups. 2 of the groups are actually from my alma mater, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, NP Voice & NP Chinese Orchestra. Since my dad is involved in the one of the group performances, as he is from 海峡合唱团,our tickets were obtained at a subsided price of $13 each person. The performance was held at the Esplanade Concert Hall. My family had missed the 1st & 2nd performance as mum had wanted to save the cost of eating out. It ended up the cost savings was translated to be our cab fare. My dad & my 2 alma mater groups, together with 4 other choir groups performed these 2 songs, which was a surprise, as I had thought that the concert was mostly about 中国名歌。I guessed these two songs were put in to keep the students & youngsters like us awake, in case those songs really put us to sleep. Overall it was a good & enjoyable performance which I enjoyed ...

Praying & Singing Sat

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I had not wanted to go for the weekly prayer session as the weather was so hot yesterday, and I had a mini ktv session with Jonathan Teo, Rachel, Ivy, Ann, Evelyn, Lanny & Wong at the middle of the afternoon. I knew it will be a mad rush since I left the house with my mum at about 11.30am. We took a cab there and prayed for an hour and had lunch at Bedok Interchange Hawker Centre. By the time, I finished my lunch, it was close to 2pm. I hurried to the bus interchange, and saw the Service 16 bus moving out of the bus berth. I glanced and saw that it was my long time bus captain friend, Ricky who used to take me when he drove Service 74 to Ngee Ann Poly. It has been about 3 years since I last met him. He drove the bus back to the berth and allowed me to board the bus. I had a nice time catching up with him about his family. At the same time, I took the opportunity to learn the newly amended route of Service 16, which does not serve the National Stadium & Singapore Indoor Stadiu...

Recent Songs That Kept Me Grooving To KTV Beat

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