Paul's Fulfilling Life

This song best describes how I felt over the last weekend For the 1st time in history, I did not know how I was going to describe what happened on last Saturday that it took me a few days to decide and calm myself down and pen it down in my blog. I had planned a bi-monthly KTV gathering session for the group members. As the usual manager of Partyworld International Building branch was on leave (He is the one that usually take my bookings, wherever I have KTV gatherings), I was asked to contact the branch directly. I decided that besides making a phone call to the branch, I had to make an appearance at the branch to communicate with the supervisor better. It also shows that I am sincere and not playing a fool about this. In the end, I had to go there twice, each time to increase the number of rooms that I had previously booked. It was unfortunate that the supervisor who took in my request misunderstood my request and did not give me the additional room that I requested on my second v...

This happened on Wednesday when I was working halfway when the office PC that I was using suddenly hanged. Knowing my office PC well, I had to reset my PC without letting it shut down and restart by itself as it is a recycled PC that has been previously used by my 2 audit department colleagues before it was passed to me for use. You can imagine how good the PC is. J ust after I press the reset button, I smelt a burning smell. From my experience obtained from working in a computer service co-coordinator some years ago, I knew that most likely the power supply on the CPU was burned. This shocked my colleagues when they smelt the burning smell. I was given a temporary laptop for use for these few days at work. I am not used to it as I am more accustomed to having a CPU with a LCD monitor as my home PC and office PC have wide screen displays, making my work easier. I had to ask from my boss a new CPU as his son was adamant that I use another recycled PC from the secretarial departmen...

My brother and I were invited to a durian feast organised by the Lee Clan Association last weekend by dad. The event was held at Punggol Park at Hougang. It has been a very long time since I have been there. It was also my first time having durians at a park. It was an interesting experience eating durians at the park. I would do it again if there is another chance to do so.  

这两个星期，我都没办法在网络上在找到“百里挑一”的节目。这个中国上海的节目是爸爸妈妈在我为他们订阅了新电信的付费频道后，他们认为这个节目不错，能让我更了解女孩子，以便让我能在与女孩子交往时，比较有话题与她们分享。 这节目我认为会被停播两期的原因，是因为其中有有一位参赛者，在参赛时，与另一位参赛者发展了恋情，后来，在两个月结婚。另一个原因是，最近，在中国，发生一起杀人犯上节目找个伴侣，而被认了出来。 希望这节目能继续播放。

I am sure that most of you have met by hiccups and made mistakes at work. I feel that the most important is to be able to learn from mistakes & not to repeat it again. Working in a professional firm for about 8 years, I do have my fair share of hiccups and mistakes. In fact, at my previous firm, I was called in to my boss’ office and fired at for the mistakes openly in front of everyone. It was really embarrassing to be shamed for my mistakes in front of so many colleagues. This happened again in office this week. Fortunately, the targeted person was not me. The mistake, I personally feel that could be prevented if proper measures and training were in place. I think the worst part for my colleagues was being scolded by the audit partner through the speaker phone. If I were the boss, I would have called them into my office, shut the door and talk to them about their mistakes privately. I would also give them a chance for them to work and repent from their mistakes.

This week, I had the chance to watch 2 movies. The first one was I was asked by Alicia to join her for this movie, which she called along Mandy too. We caught the movie at Plaza Singapura. Our dinner was at Manhattan Fish Market after Alicia said that she did not enjoy food at my first choice, Xin Wang Café. I felt that the movie was not bad. I would give it 3.5 stars out of 5 stars for the movie. The 2nd movie I caught was I was asked by my 2 IRAS volunteer friends, Wendy and Angela to join them for this. Wendy had been bugging me in the past week, to book the tickets, which I did last week and got the best seats. Before the movie, we actually had our lunch at Swensens, where we helped Angela celebrate her birthday, which was on last Sunday. We hope that she enjoyed the mini birthday celebration. The movie was great with great graphics and ending. I would give it 3.5 out of 5 stars. =)

I have managed to get the official photos for the IRAS Volunteer e-filing appreciation ceremony late last week, after some hiccups. As there are in all 263 photos, I have decided that I would put up the Facebook links to the 2 albums that I put up. The links are as follows:- http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150241710054353.323511.611359352 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150241740399353.323522.611359352 Happy viewing !!!

A group photo for the memories!!! From left: Weng Kiat, myself, Evelyn, Lanny, Jonathan & Jue Liang Our farewell gift for Lanny, A Nike jacket & a photo frame containing the photos we took during the CNY Gathering at my house earlier this year. This outing was supposed to have happened 2 Saturdays ago, together with the birthday celebrations of Jonathan & Raymond, but Lanny was not able to make it as her family was on a short whirlwind trip to Singapore, therefore the date was fixed by her to meet up yesterday as she would be heading home to KL next Sunday. It is unfortunate that Ann & Raymond were not able to join us due to their work commitments. The 1st part of the celebration was the KTV session. Although Lanny’s voice was not in a good condition yesterday (she has been down with a bad sore throat for the past two weeks), she still came by to sing with us. We really appreciate that. The session kicked off with Lanny, myself, Jonathan & Jue Liang ta...

Photo courtesy of Stephanie’s IPhone, which she whatsapp to me on receiving the hamper My friend, Stephanie just became a mum about two weeks ago. As her friend, I am happy for her, having attended her wedding about three years ago. I actually got to know her through my long time blogger friend, Wai Ling, who introduced Stephanie & her hubby, Andy to me when we met up for lunch during my birthday about 4 years ago. From then on, like what people say, the rest is history. Our friendship just bloomed. I decided to order a hamper for her family in celebration of the occasion. I chose to do it online with Noel Gifts. It has been a while, since I last got a hamper from them. In fact, the last time I ordered a hamper from them was for Wai Ling’s boy, Guojun. The boy is already going to be 3 years old & his mum is going to be second time mummy soon. I hope Stephanie will find the gift useful for herself & her baby boy.

I was rather surprised that this show that I put up on Facebook to share with my friends garnered an unexpected response from Gonnie & Lance. Gonnie actually requested me to put up past episodes after watching the kindergarten teacher get married in this episode. I was rather surprised that a couple could get married after 2 months of courtship. Especially when after viewing the previous episodes, you will come to know that she is really good at talking. Not many guys can outtalk her. Hopefully the author does not get selected anytime soon, otherwise we would not have much fun on the show. =)

The molar tooth that had given me countless visits to the dentist since my NS days finally given way last night. Surprisingly, I didn’t feel any pain when the tooth gave way. Perhaps it was due to the good fillings done up by the dentist who attended to me 4 years ago. I decided to take half day leave to see the dentist to see what he says about the condition. The dentist told me what I had predicted. My molar tooth had lost its crown and have to be extracted. I asked for more time to consider for this operation as I am not in pain at the moment. The reasons why I am taking some time to think about this is because:- I am not worried about the cost of the extraction. I am more concerned about the cost of the implants / bridges to cover up the hole. My teeth are already quite big and my mum is of the view that removing the molar without implanting a new implant would give my teeth more space, since it’s a molar at the back of the mouth. My busy work schedule has also bee...

You can see that I have not been blogging so much about the bad stuffs that I encountered in my current job since I joined this company 3 years & 4 months ago. The reasons for this, is ever since that two auditors, who caused some problems in my job by not providing the assistance that I need left the company. In fact, one of them was asked to leave due to low productivity. The other reason is my interest in the job is fuelled by my bosses’ words that they feel that I am a capable worker that they feel that they can impart their wealth of knowledge to me. They have not disappointed me as I feel that I am still learning new things, despite being in the taxation industry for close to 8 years. Besides that, they have been supportive in my application for admission to the Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professionals. If they had not supported my application, I guessed I would be at a loss as to where I am heading as I know that I was losing confidence in the ACCA qualification. ...