Its not everyday you get to see old friends. I usually don't warm up to friends I haven't seen for ages easily, but I was in a good mood so everything was pretty cool.
We got a BBQ going on at an old classmate's house. Seemed that everyone was doing quite well. It was nice to know even the ultra bimbo back in my class was doing pure chemistry in NUS, mixing random chemicals in the lab everyday. Probably so she can find the best anti-aging chemical for her skin or the like.
Yay! RV rules. Good to see old faces once in a while. It's a BAD thing to forget old friends. Sinful.
Everyone's working hard for their degree, or working part time for half a year before starting school in July. Everyone except me. But I'm going to be a lobo till then and I'm not changing my mind. So there. Hmph.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Friday, December 7, 2007
Decisions
Life's always about making decisions.
And I have one BIG decision to make.
Its Dec 07. I'll be starting school in Aug 08. Honestly, I don't give a shit about school, its just the fact that I'll meet new people that's making me WANT to go to school.
I need money to go to Japan in Apr->May 08, which means I'll need $4000. If you're wondering why the HELL I need so much money, that's cos I'll probably stay in Japan for 3 weeks. BUT, I have no money with me right now. My savings have been completely depleted.
That's how sad a bugger I am.
Now, I have 2 options.
1. Go find more tuition jobs, which means I'll have to take up a few more students and even a midnight shift job to supplement my income. I'll need to earn $1500 every month from Jan - Apr. $500 for expenses every month meaning I'll have $4000 in savings just before I leave Singapore. And I will have to continue even when I come back from Japan because I will have no money in the bank again.
2. Bug my dad to give me a couple thousand bucks so I can open the DAMNED forex trading account. And make sure I earn enough to cover my expenses, and fund my japan trip, and still have leftover just in case. But that'll add unnecessary stress to my trading, and that's never a good thing.
You know what? I'll never go for option 1 because I am a LOBO and I'm proud of it.
Next.
List of Stuff I need to do. (You don't have to read this. Its personal anyway.)
1. Get a Debit card so I can finally wire money over to the States.
2. Cancel my stupid TCC account. I have money hidden in it but the staff will probably glare at me when I tell them I want all my money back.
3. Buy the damned air ticket before all the cheap tickets disappear.
4. Get my IC and Proof of Residence scanned into photo format for submission.
5. Get money from my dad.
6. Buy another 19" widescreen monitor.
And I have one BIG decision to make.
Its Dec 07. I'll be starting school in Aug 08. Honestly, I don't give a shit about school, its just the fact that I'll meet new people that's making me WANT to go to school.
I need money to go to Japan in Apr->May 08, which means I'll need $4000. If you're wondering why the HELL I need so much money, that's cos I'll probably stay in Japan for 3 weeks. BUT, I have no money with me right now. My savings have been completely depleted.
That's how sad a bugger I am.
Now, I have 2 options.
1. Go find more tuition jobs, which means I'll have to take up a few more students and even a midnight shift job to supplement my income. I'll need to earn $1500 every month from Jan - Apr. $500 for expenses every month meaning I'll have $4000 in savings just before I leave Singapore. And I will have to continue even when I come back from Japan because I will have no money in the bank again.
2. Bug my dad to give me a couple thousand bucks so I can open the DAMNED forex trading account. And make sure I earn enough to cover my expenses, and fund my japan trip, and still have leftover just in case. But that'll add unnecessary stress to my trading, and that's never a good thing.
You know what? I'll never go for option 1 because I am a LOBO and I'm proud of it.
Next.
List of Stuff I need to do. (You don't have to read this. Its personal anyway.)
1. Get a Debit card so I can finally wire money over to the States.
2. Cancel my stupid TCC account. I have money hidden in it but the staff will probably glare at me when I tell them I want all my money back.
3. Buy the damned air ticket before all the cheap tickets disappear.
4. Get my IC and Proof of Residence scanned into photo format for submission.
5. Get money from my dad.
6. Buy another 19" widescreen monitor.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Rant
Well. This isn't exactly a rant, but since I couldn't find any other better word, lets just call it a rant.
Its 7:13am now. I'm never ever up this early, and if you're wondering why I happen to be blogging now is because I just reached home. Trading class ended at 12:30am last night (or rather, today), and I was kinda reluctant to take a taxi home. I took a taxi home the last 3 lessons and I finally came to the conclusion that it is waaay too expensive. $24 bucks?!! That's like EZLINK $$ for 2 weeks!! So I decided to take the cab to the nearest 24-hour Macdonalds instead. Paid the cab driver $6.50 after he dropped me off at Liang Court. Man, midnight surcharges are crazy.
Ok so I was happily alone at Liang Court enjoying my Ultra-Large Ice Lemon Tea at about 1.30am. I was looking through the notes and pretty much oblivious to the throngs of clubbers invading my sanctuary. The cheek! They probably came from MOS since the last time I clubbed I too died at about 3am and dropped by to have a midnight snack. By the time I realised it, there were probably about 15 groups of weird looking guys and girls who had on 1 year's worth of makeup. It was about 3.30am. It got so noisy I could hear them through my ultra-cool-noise-cancelling-earphones-from-korea. Okay so they aren't that powerful after all. Anyway Mac was so crowded nearly all the seats were taken, and I really looked out of place.
"What's this weirdo doing here all alone in Mac with a whole stack of notes with funny graphs all over?"
"Mind your own business fat-head. Go back to MOS, get an arm or two chopped off, before dying a horrible death from drug abuse."
That would probably how the conversation would have went if I had the guts. Luckily for them I'm a pretty nice person so I continued with sorting out the overload of information from the trading class earlier.
Came 4.30am. By now both my eyelids were starting to grow heavy. So I threw all my trading stuff back into my bag and took out A JAPANESE BOOK. YAY! Finally free from mundane graphs. Of course I got owned by some of the kanji but I still continued with it anyway, pretending to be enjoying myself. I didn't want to fall asleep amongst these clubbers who were waiting for the first train back home anyway. TMD. Got $$ club, no $$ take taxi go back home. #$%^@& Disturb me for what.
Youths nowadays really have to start thinking of their own future. Life isn't always about fun. Clubbing IS detrimental to one's well-being, and certainly screws with your ear-drums as well. You lose your sense of orientation with all the loud music going on, and you wouldn't even know if you got touched. I'm not saying its bad. It's just pointless.
I just turned 20 three days ago. I realized I haven't really achieved anything the past year or so, NS really took up too much of my time. But at least I made fair headway in two of my pursuits. In fact, the only two pursuits in my life right now and probably will remain so for a long time. No prizes for getting them right.
Trading.
Trading will take precedence over everything in my life right now. I'm at a very important point of my life right now, its something that I'm willing to give up everything else just to be the best trader I can be. People tend to have a extremely negative opinion of the stock market after the numerous stories of people losing their life savings overnight. But who do these people lose their money to? The disciplined traders who has his game plan ready and knows how to keep his emotions in check. I belong to my shifu's 11th batch, and its hard to deny how successful his students have become. I really really hate to admit when someone's better than me. I grew up having the thinking that I was better than most people (in more ways than 1). Sorry if I sound arrogant. I'm just being honest, really. So when someone comes along and kicks my ass in something I thought I was really good at, I really hate to swallow humble pie and admit that "Ok. You're way better than me. Show me what you have to offer. " Conrad's probably one of the very few people I'll ever laud praises upon without restraint. Man, he totally kicks ass in the market. Hm, as a teacher he does come across as a bit arrogant but I suppose someone of his caliber has the bragging rights. I have to be really focused if I want to be a confident trader by the time I turn 23.
Japanese Language
Ok. So I took the JLPT2 three days ago. Pretty uneventful. It was difficult but not BIAAAN TAI as some of the other examinees would have called it. It's expected that the exam will get harder year after year. I'll get my JLPT1 next year and that's a promise to myself. I will have no idea how to cope though. JLPT1 looks like it'll kick my ass pretty hard, and I cant afford to take the examination HOPING that i'll pass. I'll be starting school in August so I'm thinking of starting preparation a little earlier than usual. Why the rush? So I can get stupid JLPT behind my back and start concentrating on what really counts - the ability to speak fluently. (I'm talking about tetsu's standard. Anything less than that doesn't count) I'm giving myself another 3 years. That is, by the time I turn 23. I don't think its out of my reach, and at the rate I'm improving I might just get there earlier than I expect. Unless of course I start making oodles of cash from trading and I chuck Japanese out of my priorities.
I don't care even if I graduate with the shittiest BBA in the whole of SMU. I don't even care if my friends tell me I'm screwed up in the head. I can't be bothered even if my parents start screaming at me to start studying to pull up my GPA. I'll probably scrape through with average grades like how I always used to.
I just want my JLPT1. And oodles of cash from trading. Which basically means I can lobo everyday at home and claim that I'm a retiree at age 23.
One thing's for sure. I do like studying my charts and japanese.
I never liked studying english, chinese, math and science back in school anyway.
A very honest post don't you think so?
Nice start to my 20th year on Planet Earth.
Its 7:13am now. I'm never ever up this early, and if you're wondering why I happen to be blogging now is because I just reached home. Trading class ended at 12:30am last night (or rather, today), and I was kinda reluctant to take a taxi home. I took a taxi home the last 3 lessons and I finally came to the conclusion that it is waaay too expensive. $24 bucks?!! That's like EZLINK $$ for 2 weeks!! So I decided to take the cab to the nearest 24-hour Macdonalds instead. Paid the cab driver $6.50 after he dropped me off at Liang Court. Man, midnight surcharges are crazy.
Ok so I was happily alone at Liang Court enjoying my Ultra-Large Ice Lemon Tea at about 1.30am. I was looking through the notes and pretty much oblivious to the throngs of clubbers invading my sanctuary. The cheek! They probably came from MOS since the last time I clubbed I too died at about 3am and dropped by to have a midnight snack. By the time I realised it, there were probably about 15 groups of weird looking guys and girls who had on 1 year's worth of makeup. It was about 3.30am. It got so noisy I could hear them through my ultra-cool-noise-cancelling-earphones-from-korea. Okay so they aren't that powerful after all. Anyway Mac was so crowded nearly all the seats were taken, and I really looked out of place.
"What's this weirdo doing here all alone in Mac with a whole stack of notes with funny graphs all over?"
"Mind your own business fat-head. Go back to MOS, get an arm or two chopped off, before dying a horrible death from drug abuse."
That would probably how the conversation would have went if I had the guts. Luckily for them I'm a pretty nice person so I continued with sorting out the overload of information from the trading class earlier.
Came 4.30am. By now both my eyelids were starting to grow heavy. So I threw all my trading stuff back into my bag and took out A JAPANESE BOOK. YAY! Finally free from mundane graphs. Of course I got owned by some of the kanji but I still continued with it anyway, pretending to be enjoying myself. I didn't want to fall asleep amongst these clubbers who were waiting for the first train back home anyway. TMD. Got $$ club, no $$ take taxi go back home. #$%^@& Disturb me for what.
Youths nowadays really have to start thinking of their own future. Life isn't always about fun. Clubbing IS detrimental to one's well-being, and certainly screws with your ear-drums as well. You lose your sense of orientation with all the loud music going on, and you wouldn't even know if you got touched. I'm not saying its bad. It's just pointless.
I just turned 20 three days ago. I realized I haven't really achieved anything the past year or so, NS really took up too much of my time. But at least I made fair headway in two of my pursuits. In fact, the only two pursuits in my life right now and probably will remain so for a long time. No prizes for getting them right.
Trading.
Trading will take precedence over everything in my life right now. I'm at a very important point of my life right now, its something that I'm willing to give up everything else just to be the best trader I can be. People tend to have a extremely negative opinion of the stock market after the numerous stories of people losing their life savings overnight. But who do these people lose their money to? The disciplined traders who has his game plan ready and knows how to keep his emotions in check. I belong to my shifu's 11th batch, and its hard to deny how successful his students have become. I really really hate to admit when someone's better than me. I grew up having the thinking that I was better than most people (in more ways than 1). Sorry if I sound arrogant. I'm just being honest, really. So when someone comes along and kicks my ass in something I thought I was really good at, I really hate to swallow humble pie and admit that "Ok. You're way better than me. Show me what you have to offer. " Conrad's probably one of the very few people I'll ever laud praises upon without restraint. Man, he totally kicks ass in the market. Hm, as a teacher he does come across as a bit arrogant but I suppose someone of his caliber has the bragging rights. I have to be really focused if I want to be a confident trader by the time I turn 23.
Japanese Language
Ok. So I took the JLPT2 three days ago. Pretty uneventful. It was difficult but not BIAAAN TAI as some of the other examinees would have called it. It's expected that the exam will get harder year after year. I'll get my JLPT1 next year and that's a promise to myself. I will have no idea how to cope though. JLPT1 looks like it'll kick my ass pretty hard, and I cant afford to take the examination HOPING that i'll pass. I'll be starting school in August so I'm thinking of starting preparation a little earlier than usual. Why the rush? So I can get stupid JLPT behind my back and start concentrating on what really counts - the ability to speak fluently. (I'm talking about tetsu's standard. Anything less than that doesn't count) I'm giving myself another 3 years. That is, by the time I turn 23. I don't think its out of my reach, and at the rate I'm improving I might just get there earlier than I expect. Unless of course I start making oodles of cash from trading and I chuck Japanese out of my priorities.
I don't care even if I graduate with the shittiest BBA in the whole of SMU. I don't even care if my friends tell me I'm screwed up in the head. I can't be bothered even if my parents start screaming at me to start studying to pull up my GPA. I'll probably scrape through with average grades like how I always used to.
I just want my JLPT1. And oodles of cash from trading. Which basically means I can lobo everyday at home and claim that I'm a retiree at age 23.
One thing's for sure. I do like studying my charts and japanese.
I never liked studying english, chinese, math and science back in school anyway.
A very honest post don't you think so?
Nice start to my 20th year on Planet Earth.
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