Paul's Fulfilling Life

The recent mishap of Aloysius Phang, who passed away during a training accident in NZ on Wednesday, reminded me of the good and bad days that I had during my NS days, which lasted from Jul 2000 till Jan 2003. The good, was I had met a nice officer, during my days when serving as a clerk in Sembawang Air Base. I was given a lift by him out of camp at one instance. Little did I expect that he actually offered to pick me up from my place to camp every morning, unless he had flying duties. I will always remember his kind deed to me in this lifetime of mine. Next, I was thankful to have met my NS buddy there, who kept a lookout for me when we were in camp during our NS days together. Sadly though, he has since passed away after a battle with illness for about a year 12 years ago. The bad, I prefer not to dwell on it too much, but some of the things that guys will know if they have served NS  that I have faced include, Not able to get early time off to pursue my ACCA qualification at tha...

It has been again a while since I last blogged. It was a busy Dec and Jan for me as some of you who have been reading my blog may have known that it was my birthday in December. I was glad that my friends and family had taken time off their busy schedule to celebrate my birthday for me since the start of Dec. It has been great to catch up with some of them, especially one of my poly mates, whom I have not met in a while. The sad thing was my brother lost his job. Let’s hope he finds another one soon. I know the job market is pretty tough now. My boss has been hinting that there is likely no salary adjustment this year. January has been a unexpected busy month so far as IRAS decided to do away with the IRAS PIN and let tax agent use CorpPass to e-file for their clients without informing the tax agents first. It is fortunate that I am a SIATP member, and managed to get an email that this was going to happen. My manager, who was supposed to be on leave, unexpectedly came back and mana...