Paul's Fulfilling Life

  Work It has been a while since I last blogged. I feel glad to say all has been going well on my job front. I am enjoying my new role as a tax supervisor in the firm. It has been great to have supportive bosses and colleagues. It is back to enjoy going to work everyday, although it means transferring 3 buses on my trip to work and vice versa, although the distance seems short on the map, it still takes about 45 minutes to get to work. My favourite route to work will be taking Service 76 from my place to Tai Seng MRT, switching to Service 62 and switching to Service 8, 90 or 151 to get to office. My knowledge of bus routes is helping me a lot in getting me to choose this route. Although it is the shortest, Service 76, is notorious for its long waiting times, so I usually end up taking Service 25, 55 or 132 and switch to Service 62 at Blk 709 or Blk 1 at Hougang Ave 2 or Hougang Ave 3. I tried switching to Service 151 once, but was stuck in a jam at Old Airport Road. This role h...

  It has been a while since I last blogged. I am close to 1.5 months into my new role and really enjoying it. This year, I continued with my service to the community, which is helping the self-employed or people who had issues filing their taxes. I would like to thank the various organisations for supporting me for this project, such as NVPC, NTUC, my friends, Lancaster & Veronica for supporting me with the necessary resources needed for the project. It has been great to have assisted about 90 pax to e-file the taxes of these people with my team of volunteers. Some of you may have known that I was sick for about 2 weeks during the course of this exercise and suggested that I should do lesser sessions from next year. I thought it was a good suggestion as it has always been a challenge to look for volunteers, especially a number of volunteers could not make it at the last minute. Let’s keep this positive vibes going as we head into April. I would like to take the opportunity ...

  It has been a while since I last blogged. The past few months have been rather stressed for me as I underwent an unsuccessful job change, that led me to throw in the towel after 2 months into the job. My mum was wondering if I was the one who is not able to adapt to the new tech in the new working environment.  Most of the colleagues were nice to me in this work place, except that for one, this person had issues to buy food for me when I asked for it. Not that I minded about she not buying food for me, cause if you can't buy for me, the most is that I sit close to the stall that I wish to patronise for the day, get the stallholder to carry the food for me and enjoy the food. The working environment looks okay initially, but as time went by, as you try to get used to the new place, you keep seeing colleagues leaving 1 by 1, including a colleague who was undergoing chemo treatment. In my 2 months there, I have seen 4 colleagues left. This sent an alert to me to check with my c...

  It has been a while since I last blogged. I have thought that a summary of the year has to be done up, like what I have done in the past few years, but settling into my new job was tough. Although I thought I have done alright as in the first month, there was not much complaint from my clients about the way I go about doing my work. I certainly did not expect all to change in my second month after a client complained about the quality of my work to my boss and I got a nasty whacking from her and my work was heavily scrutinized. The remarks that she made, although it was made closed doors were pretty nasty. It made me lose my confidence and it became a drag to go to work, but I must say this team of colleagues have been nice to work with, despite the short time working with them. They have been helping me with my food orders and asking me along for lunch most of the time, not minding that I was differently abled. I always believe that if I am not appreciated here, I would be appre...

  It has been a while since I last blogged, and almost a month since I threw in the towel. I have been recalled back to office for about 2 weeks. Some of my friends and even family members have expressed surprise that I have made the decision, after seemingly able to able to cope with the workload and able to work well with my colleagues. A few of my friends were doubting if I were making the wrong decision on this job change as they felt that my current boss has treated me well in my 1 year plus stint here. I guess this article best describes what I have been going through at the later part of my stint here. https://www.straitstimes.com/business/invest/when-workers-are-put-on-quiet-firing At the initial stage, I could feel that my confidence was slowly coming back. Little did I expect that the other colleague from the associate firm of mine, asked to work from home as he was relocating to Australia. I certainly did not expect his sudden departure, coming so close at towards th...

  It has been a while since I last blogged. I always believe that there are some things that happen for a reason. This COVID-19 pandemic has certainly taught me the need to be nimble and it is really a test of my mental strength and my capability. I have to admit that I may have made some mistakes along the way during this pandemic. However, it is only right to pick up the pieces and move on gingerly at first, before gaining confidence to move steadfastly forward. I believe that I have handled myself well, save for the mistakes that I have made. I am still paying for the mistakes that I have made in the past year. I intend to let this be a good reminder not to commit such mistakes again. I pray hard to have a good end to the year 2022 with a reset of life.

 It has been a while since I last blogged as had been busy with work. I was asked to take on more load by my boss. Not that I am against it, but at least it helped in regaining of my confidence which had been badly damaged in the past year by the multiple changes in my jobs. I hope it stays this way. Volunteer Tax Filing I was glad that the event went well, despite the demand was not as good as anticipated. I was glad that the SG Cares Portal was able to contribute a good number of volunteers for the project. I am thankful for my friend for providing his office space and staff for this project, not forgetting the assistance of several organisations and various important persons in supporting the project despite the high number of COVID-19 cases during that time. I am glad to hear that several volunteers have expressed an interest to continue volunteering for the programme if I decide to continue next year. KTV events Finally after 2 years of waiting, I was glad to resume ktv sessio...