Paul's Fulfilling Life

I was asked by my dad to keep my Saturday evening free. The reason was he had signed up for the singing competition organised by the community centre in my area. So therefore, I guess you know by now where my singing genes came from. :) This was the 1st time that I have participated in my community centre’s Chinese New Year dinner. It also meant that I met by my MP for my area, Mr Wee Siew Kim for only the second time since he served his second term in office. His arrival was greeted by the lion dance troupe at 8pm. The dinner was held at Ang Mo Kio Ave 10 at an open air basketball court. It was hard to imagine that the basketball court was able to accommodate 112 tables with 10 guests on each table, and there was still enough space in between the tables for the guests to move around. My table was quite lucky. The whole table of guests won a gift each, describing how the year will turn out for each zodiac sign. The food was not too bad, to my surprise. Maybe we paid $20 per pax...

I just got back from the wake of Qiqi’s granny. I only knew that her granny had passed away when I logged on to Facebook while waiting for my hair to dry as I reached home quite late from class on Wednesday. Just wish to say that “life is short, therefore treasure your loved ones while they are still around.” At the same time, it will be good that if you can devise your financial plan so that your family would not have to suffer when you are no longer around. Just hope that my friend stays strong during this period.

I have been asked by my senior partners to attend this seminar. The cost of the seminar will be borne by the company. It has been a while since I last attended the budget seminar as when I attended the seminar a few years ago, while working at my ex-firm, I had to pay for the seminar myself and I had to take my own annual leave to attend the seminar. http://www.icpas.org.sg/cpe/public/viewSession.aspx?SeminarId=295&IntakeId=37 This year’s Budget, I would term it as a Productivity Budget with finally some reliefs for the people who are physically challenged, like me. My parents will not be able to claim any Qualifying Child Relief for my brother in this year as he is serving his NS, and I won’t qualify for Handicapped Child Relief as I have been working since 2003. But with this change, my parents will be able to claim Handicapped Child Relief, even though I am working.

I had received a refund cheque for something that I bought, but I didn’t want the service later. But the cheque, although issued in my name, may not be able to be cashed. You may wonder why this is so. The company that refunded me the cheque have included my hanyu pinyin name beside my dialect name. I just feel that the issuer of the cheque is so stupid. I wonder why they didn’t check with me what name should be listed on the cheque before they issue the refund. I just hope that the cheque deposit can go through my bank account. Its my money leh!!! I had been busy with one of my major client’s tax provision recently. My manager had given me the opportunity to try it out, while she did another tax provision as it came around the same time as mine. The other provision’s audit was completed by the new auditor as mentioned in a few posts ago. My manager had a frustrating time doing the computation as well. Now, she knows what I mean when I said, “People still have the cheek to compla...

Here are more photos from yesterday’s gathering, courtesy from Qiqi Little Guojun is so not camera shy!!! The Ladies Grp Pic – Karen, Chloe, Rachel, Jas & Belinda The Guys Grp Pic – Jonathan, myself, Yi Feng, Paul Tseng, Yongxiang, CK, Lawrence, Lance, Jue Liang, Albert Thanks gal, hope u had a good time !!!!

Every Chinese New Year, I would usually invite my friends to my place. This is the second year in succession that my mum has approved my guest list and agreed to cook for my friends and allow them have an enjoyable time.   The response for this year’s gathering was extraordinary. I would say it exceeded my expectations. The only disappointment was that my former JC course mates (David, Daryl & Doreen), my invited poly mates (Yvonne , Caifeng, Huiyu , Charles), long time net friends (Grace & Nicole) not able to make it for this gathering. There was a person who flew the aeroplane at me at the last minute, but I guess let’s don’t dwell on it. I would like to thank the following members of the Singing @ K group and the presence of Wai Ling & her family, Mr Tan & her son, Guojun . Lawrence – Chairman of the group - Thanks for the wine Jas – Thanks for your cupcakes Belinda – Thanks for the popiah Candice, Yanling & CK – Thanks for the “Yusheng” Andri...

I was invited to Andrina’s house for a mini KTV session in the afternoon today. One of my friends, YC paid me a visit this morning as he is not able to come for the house gathering that I was going to have tomorrow afternoon at my place. I would like to thank him for giving me a ride to Sembawang MRT as I had to meet Jonathan at the MRT station. Jonathan & I had a quick lunch at MacDonald’s before we went to Andrina’s house. Today was designated as a theme day, as the few of us, including PT, Alex & Jon Ya decided to sing songs with a designated theme from each of us. The categories that we were asked to select were:- Song Title with Numbers Song Lyrics Containing the word Love Love Songs Singing of a song of the opposite gender Songs sung in a concert I had the opportunity to hear and sing this new JJ song. I must say that it is really hard to sing as the pitch is quite high.   I had the opportunit...