Paul's Fulfilling Life

I was asked by Ann to help her plan for a mini KTV session as she would not meeting us for quite a while after next month due to some personal reasons. It ended up that the gathering had an additional 2 birthdays to celebrate as well. Ann had asked me to gather Evelyn, Jonathan, Weng Kiat, Raymond, Ah Liang & Lanny for this mini session. It was unfortunate that Lanny could not join us due to some personal reasons. She has promised to make up for us before she heads back to Malaysia in mid July. From the photos above, you can see whose birthdays we were celebrating. We are heartened by the fact that Jonathan likes the Adidas T-shirt we gave him. It was only yesterday that I knew that Ann and Raymond don’t take strawberry cake. I have to agree that the cake chosen by me was a tad too creamy. Yesterday’s session was really like a retro ktv session as Jonathan said he wanted to sing retro songs and we actually went along with him and kept the song list as retro as possible. The...

This year is my brother’s 23rd birthday. Having bought him a cake as a birthday celebration last year, I decided to do the same for this year. This birthday was special to him as he will be entering NTU to commence his university studies on 1 Aug. I decided to get him a cake from here. I hereby wish my brother all the best in his upcoming studies!!!

Last Sunday, my family were asked to attend my granny’s birthday celebration at his place. My family was asked to get a cake for my granny. In the end, my mum got 2 cakes for the occasion as my extended family has close to 30 people. Paul, as my granny’s favourite grandson and eldest grandson just paid for the 2 cakes, while mum made the choices for the cakes. It was supposed to be a home based birthday celebration but the buffet caterer made a mistake by putting the order for the buffet to be at night. Therefore, my uncle had to use his contacts to find a restaurant to cater for close to 30 of us. In the end, the place of the celebration was at Teochew City Restaurant at Centrepoint. It has been quite a while since we celebrated my granny’s birthday, since she was paralyzed from waist down about 3 years ago after a fall. Although, it was my granny’s birthday, this adorable baby gal became the star of my granny’s birthday celebration. She is my cousin’s daughter, Vera   ...

This is my 7th year attending the ceremony and this year was a special year for me as it was my 2nd time that I know that I will be receiving 2 awards. The 1st time happened in 2007, when I had to receive the award on behalf of the now defunct Contact 123 IT Centre. This year was special as besides the outstanding volunteer award, I had received a commemorative plaque in recognition of my long service to this exercise for the past 7 years. I was there with my mum only. I had wanted to ask my friend along too but she had something on. Receiving my outstanding volunteer award Receiving the commemorative plaque For more photos, and a video on the opening speech by the Deputy Commissioner, please refer to my Facebook Profile.

I feel that communication is important in whatever things you do, no matter whether it is work or BGR or friendship. In the past week, I encountered a few things that made me realise that communication is the key if you want to get things done. My aunt had wanted to introduce a Vietnamese gal to me recently. Apparently her colleague has a cousin who is about 27 or 28 years old. I was under the impression that this gal has been working in Singapore, but after finding out more information from my aunt, I decided not to progress further after discussing with my mum, as we feel that there were many problems that we may have to face. My dad was like rushing me into accepting the gal, which I did not want as I didn’t want to end up like one of my relatives, whose Vietnamese wife ran back home and failed to return. Recently, my work also met by many problems as the auditors have been shoddy in their work, doing it without proper cross referencing, making my job very tough and time consu...

It has been 5 months since I first joined the grassroots as an observer. According to People’s Association, I am required to serve the grassroots as an observer for a year before I am admitted to the organisation as a full fledged member. Yesterday marked the 1st time I participated in a Grassroots event. It was the dinner for our retiring MP, Mr Wee Siew Kim. I have decided to participate in the dinner as Mr Wee had tried to help me in the cheating incident that I suffered about a year ago. He actually helped me to write a letter to help me to clarify the whole legal process that I went through. It was partly because of this I decided to join the grassroots. The dinner was held at the Jalan Kayu Hall at Hwi Yoh CC, which was near my place. The food was alright, although I thought that it was a little steep for the dinner to be charged at $30 but I was just there to show our appreciation to the MP. It was indeed a good experience. =)

I have 2 friends whose birthdays are approaching. For one of them, the birthday gift was also a farewell gift as she has decided to go back to her home country for good, while the other, I must say I regard him as my older brother to me, despite the short time that I knew him. Buying gifts can be a headache sometimes. I was fortunate to have Evelyn & Ann to accompany me to get the gifts. In fact, they were be sharing the birthday cum farewell gift with 3 other friends and myself. First stop, Adidas, where I saw a suitable gift for my older brother. He was telling me that he had too many of his red Liverpool jerseys, therefore I chose something different for him. Ann & Evelyn thought I made a good choice and the price was reasonable too. We actually had wanted to get an Adidas jacket as a farewell gift for the female friend, but the display piece was the last piece. The ladies and I were not comfortable with the fact that it was a display piece. In the end, we decided to...

今早被妈妈从温暖的被窝叫醒。原来，爸爸腰带我们去李氏总会参加他们的端午节的活动。 这是我第一次在爸爸参加李氏总会，成为他们的会员后，我第一次参加李氏总会的活动。 由于天不作美，我们只好电召德士去那里。我想不到的是，端午节的传说原来不只是驱元，还有另外两个不为人知的传说。 我在那里吃了八种不同的粽子，真的好饱啊！！！ 今天真的搜获不少，对端午节有更深的了解。

This entry is to share the bad service that my dad experienced at the Nokia Vivo City yesterday. My dad had purchased a Nokia N8 handphone a few months ago after his Motorola handphone was caught in the rain and rendered unrepairable. He had went to the Nokia Service Centre after realising that he was not able to use several functions that requires the use of the semi-touch screen of the phone. According to my dad’s account, the service centre staff had told him the phone had gone into water again. But according to my dad, he has always placed his handphone in his pocket and had never dropped it into water. If this happens because of my dad’s sweat that has got into the touchscreen phone, does this means that the product designer did not factor in sweat going into the phone. What angered my dad was the staff said that the repair was chargeable despite the product having a product warranty. Having a bad experience with Nokia Service Centre many years back, I have since decided n...

我在我爸爸的介绍下看了这个节目。我觉得这个节目挺有意思。虽然，我并不急于寻找另一半，但是，这节目让我了解现在的女孩子在想什么。 你会发现中国的男女都会在二十多岁开始就想找一个伴侣，我觉得中国电视台在这一点做得非常成功。或许，他们的生活节奏没有新加坡的那么繁重。 我建议大家能观看这个节目。如果你有Singtel MIO TV Channel 36 可以在每个星期六早上十点三十分观看这节目。如果没有Singtel MIO TV，你可以在Youtube 观看这个节目。

I was invited by my fellow volunteer friend, Wendy, who is also a grassroots member at Yio Chu Kang CC to join her at this event organised by the CC. Actually, I was a little apprehensive about this, as I am not a good balloon blower, nor I am good at pumping balloons. I was just there with the hope that I can make new friends. It was interesting to see that a balloon being able to be sculpted into so many interesting objects. But sad to say, my fingers are not that nimble. I was only able to sculpt a puppy with loads of assistance from Wendy’s friend. This event is indeed an eye opener as the trainer who taught us was only a 19 year old ITE student. I think young students nowadays are pretty talented.

My mum and I were given tickets by my dad to enjoy a joint Chinese orchestra concert with the performers from China & SCO last night. It was good to see the best of China & SCO coming together to stage this performance for us, which I truly enjoyed. =)