I HAVE to blog about this.. Received it via email from Wayne. Love this joke..

A father passing by his son's bedroom was astonished to
see that his bed was nicely made and everything was picked
up. Then he saw an Envelope, propped up prominently on the
pillow that was addressed to 'Dad.'

With the worst premonition he opened the envelope with
trembling hands and read the letter.

" Dear Dad:

It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm writing you. I
had to elope with my new girlfriend because I wanted to
avoid a scene with Mom and you.

I have been finding real passion with Stacy and she is so nice.

But I knew you would not approve of her because of all her
piercing, tattoos, tight motorcycle clothes and the fact
that she is much older than I am. But it' s not only the
passion ... Dad, she's pregnant.

Stacy said that we will be very happy.

She owns a trailer in the woods and has a stack of firewood
for the whole winter. We share a dream of having many more
children.

Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn't
really hurt anyone. We'll be growing it for ourselves and
trading it with the other people that live nearby for
cocaine and ecstasy.

In the meantime we will pray that science will find a cure
for AIDS so Stacy can get better. She deserves it.

Don't worry Dad. I'm 15 and I know how to take care of myself.

Someday I'm sure that we will be back to visit so that you
can get to know your grandchildren ...

Love, Your Son John

PS.. Dad, none of the above is true. I'm over at Tommy's house.

I Just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in
life than a Report card That's in my center desk drawer.

I love you.

Call me when it's safe to come home."
***********





I FUCKING HATE DOING MOTOR INSURANCE!





CFP CFA or Masters? I probably will be able to decide in half a yr's time from now..
Have finally decided on my course of action.. I have been deluded from the start.. If all goes according to plan, I'll be able to decide in 1/2 yr's time.. wat exactly i will do for the rest of my life (at least in the finance line)..

while mulling over stuff, i had the urge to drop everything to take a course in photography or interior design and do something totally out of finance or something.. I still strongly believe in what I believed in when I joined FA.. But changes need to be made.. not to the co but to the industry as a whole.. when the industry is ready like in Aust, I will probably be back.. and this time, i'm determined.. more so than the last time.. hw do i knw i wldn turn back? cos this time, i felt the same feeling in my heart the day I decided dancing professionally is out of my life..

if all goes according to plan, i will hand each and every of my clients personally to a trusted colleague.. someone who isn't in this line to SELL.. and i have some people to apologise to.. trusted me with much $$ despite knwing i'm new.. they will have to get to know my colleague personally, meet him face to face b4 i leave.. it sad.. but i've decided..

it of cos may not go acc to plan.. afterall, i'm intending to go over to the analyst side where the min qualifications is usually a masters.. but some are looking at deg w experience in financial consulting.. so i might have a chance.. a slight chance..

i put up w a lot of critisism to join FA.. cutting words from frens, family.. looks of contempt.. snide remarks..

i tot that i'd already regretted giving up dancing.. i shld be more steadfast.. and this time i'm not deterred by wat everyone says but i'm disappointed with.. ok let me quote a blogger (probably from an ifa as well..) he says "the state my industry is in makes me very angry" it spells out exactly how i feel..

heard fr a fren fr Citi that banks' PBs are all gonna have fixed pay so as to prevent misselling... he asked me to join him.. but pdts are limited.. no mis selling but is the planning unbiased? no... it will take some time for this scheme to be applied to IFAs.. but then, in every system, no matter how foolproof they look, there are bound to be loopholes and ppl who take advantage of the system...

i probably would continue to write in my finance blog... its heartening to have received positive comments.. i wld continue to write there.. but this time, w nothing for me to gain, perphaps ppl might believe my advices are sincere..

am totally in no mood to wk.. but i guess i'll have to do my best to make sure my clients are all comfortable w my trusted colleague before i leave..

i shed a tear but i learnt a lesson too.. businesses are really not charities.. i was too naive..






what will you be doing on 09/09/2009?





i must be the blurest graduate ever.. after registering at the foyer w sally june jezlin caijun, we were allocated seat numbers.. i was lamenting that i'm not seated close to any of them.. after we were seated in the hall, i didn't notice anything amiss still.. just wondering why there's a guy from class b nxt to me. between wendy and i some more.. *weird* only when i decided to count how many ppl we hav in the class (too bored) from the programme booklet, did i realise i was under the list of distinction holder.. -_-" was super excited and cldn believe my eyes i asked wendy "eh, we grad w dist ah?" wendy also didn't know till the day itself but somehow she knew it earlier than i did. "ya lo ya lo!!!" lol... but i heard that 2 guys in our class was missed out in the list.. there shld rightfully be 11 of us out of abt.. 250 - 280 of us.. but only 9 were in the list but thankfully 10 of us made it on stage.. leaving one angry distinction holder fuming.. if it were me i'll be upset too.. its a once in a lifetime thing... =x kinda feel sorry for him..




wendy and i were pretty nervous.. cos Sherman (one of our lecturers) once told us not to wear heels that are too high since the carpet on stage is much thicker than those on the ground and in the past there have been cases where girls in heels tripped on stage! Thankfully neither of us embarrassed ourselves!

took lotsa photos but the gist shld be those from Eugene's camera.. waiting for sally to send them to me :) most of the pics i took w kel were blur =( ARGH but we might be taking one in the studio since kel hasn't taking HIS grad pics (n years ago? lol)

i badly want to take pics against CBD skyline.. preferably w sunset background too! but can't find kakis... ANY TAKERS BEFORE WE HAVE TO RETURN OUR GOWNS?!?!?!?!?!

lotsa thankies to kel for the cute bear and card.. he promised to give me a bigger one upon completion of my masters.. i'm broadcasting it here so he can't run away from giving me a bigger grad bear! HAHA!!! =p



kel does a great job wrapping prezzies.. i rem in estee lauder the mgr asked me to hlp her wrap x'mas prezzie for some impt ppl (like roland and grace ban!) and i can't wrap prezzie nicely for nuts.. kel helpped me w it and i simply passed them to the mgr w a "NAH! DONE!" wAhahahaha =p

yest was our 499th day together.. kel still keeps tabs on things like this.. i admit defeat.. so happens that we were both free so i decided to finanally give him a 'crab treat' as promised (and procrastinated) months ago.. we went to mellben @ AMK for butter and chili.. BOTH.. super stuffed..



their butter crab is LOVE...
kel,"我哥和我妈吃螃蟹不用弄璋手的。。"
me,"哇！这么厉害！how did they do it?!"
kel,"my bro use chopsticks to pry the crab meat out! Skilled huh?!"
me,"thats power! how abt ur mom? she also doesn't dirty her hands right?"
kel,"ya.. cos my father will remove crab shell for her.."

-_-"