Paul's Fulfilling Life

The meetup with Angela, Xiuling & Jia Jie was pre arranged about a month back. It was meant to be a casual meetup but it was turned into a lively meetup as Xiuling wanted to do a Christmas gift exchange. In the spirit of Christmas giving & sharing, we agreed to her plan. As we have been close friends for quite a while, I decided to give them a personal gift as well, after Angela told me that she would be getting individual gifts for us as well a gift for gift exchange. I guess no matter the monetary value of  the value of the gift, the value of our friendship is more important. As the Chinese saying goes, 礼轻情义重。 First up was lunch, followed by movie, walking with dinosaurs. The main draw was the KTV session at Teo Heng KTV at Sembawang Shopping Centre as it was decided that we will do our gift exchange at our maiden KTV session together. This session also marked my 2 firsts, my 1st visit to Teo Heng KTV & my 1st time singing with the gals. I must say that it was fun s...

Despite being a year older everytime when it comes to December, I still look forward to celebrate my birthday. It was more so this year as my work is not as smooth flowing as it appears to be, so the celebration was a welcome distraction. Volunteers Christmas Gathering cum Gift Exchange A birthday celebration surprise that really caught me by surprise as I really did not see it coming as I have told them I do not wish to turn the gathering into a personal birthday celebration. I would like to thank Jasmine for planning my surprise. =) Birthday KTV A self planned birthday ktv for my group of singing friends who loves singing. Thanks to all who bought gifts for me and those who came for this celebration. It was nice catching up with some of you who I have not seen for quite a while. It was nice to celebrate my birthday with Steven too. =) Celebration with my family It has been a while since I celebrated my birthday with my family. I brought them to Sakae Sushi for dinner. They b...

This planned way in advance gathering finally took place on 13 Dec, Friday. I was  glad that we managed to gather 10 volunteers for the gathering. It was supposed to be a Christmas gift exchange cum dinner gathering but it inadvertently became my birthday celebration as well as some of the volunteers who knew that it was my birthday gave me a surprise towards the end of the dinner. I would like to thank my birthday surprise planner, Jasmine for the birthday surprise and all the other volunteers for paying for my birthday dinner. Till we meet again after the Chinese New Year holidays!!!

I had been rather busy with my work recently as there was the Corporate Tax deadlines on 30 Nov & 15 Dec to meet. The last thing I need was the shooting of arrows that were to come from my other department colleagues or co-workers that my department colleagues were very free and doing nothing when we are all busy with work and the best part, our paymaster believes all these crap. This made me realise that I needed to start planning for myself, having spent close to 6 years of my working life here. My parents are against the idea of me changing a job, when everything is tried & tested and my pay has been alright. After a test out at the market, which left me saddened by the fact that there are still companies who looks down on people with physical disabilities despite the fact that our Government has been saying that companies should adopt fair employment practices. The good thing that is keeping me going is my manager & fellow co-workers have been fantastic to me and th...