Here's My Story

I was on the way to meet Mr Skanky, the Wild Sarawakian and 2 other friends when I saw this: What?? In public?!

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...rant from me lol. Ok, not totally but most of it :-) So big boss was here for a week. Now, I do agree with some people, who know her personally, that she's a nice lady but in my opinion that doesn't mean she's a good big boss. I know my boss and she discussed staffing issue but I've yet to check with him the status. I've set my own internal deadline of October this year to get 2 more staff. We'll see. It's so stressful at work. Struggled with inept clients, struggled with colleagues from other departments, struggled with red tapes, struggled with bewildering request from government officers, struggled to fulfill obligations especially to nice and good people. Also struggled to get decent amount of studying done but well, that's partly my own doing I supposed. On the bright side, I still continue to have good clients and colleagues, within and outside the department and for that, I'm really grateful. Which is more so why I have to try my best...

JOE: I put you out of business. You're entitled to hate me. KATHLEEN: I don't hate you ... JOE: But you'll never forgive me. Like Elizabeth. KATHLEEN: Who? JOE: Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. She was too proud ... KATHLEEN: I thought you hated Pride and Prejudice. JOE: ... or was she too prejudiced and Mr. Darcy too proud? I can never remember. It wasn't personal ... KATHLEEN: ...it was business. What is that supposed to mean? I am so sick of that. All it means is it's not personal to you, but it's personal to me, it's personal to a lot of people. *Shrugs helplessly* What's wrong with personal anyway? JOE: Nothing. KATHLEEN: I mean, whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal. - from the movie "You've Got Mail" 1998, starring Tom Hanks (Joe) and Meg Ryan (Katheleen)

...deranged?

A friend of mine was scammed off S$30 due to his kind heart. Someone approached him saying that he has lost his wallet and gave what appear to be valid reasons as to why he needed that amount of money to get home etc. The scammer promised to give it back. Now, my friend didn't think too far but instead just lend him the money and gave him his phone number. That was like more than a month ago. Lesson learned. However, I came across a good quote about such scam (don't know who said this): "If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again,It was probably worth it." So true.

Continuing from previous post : Firstly, many people believed that they don't need this because "My company covers". Yes but are you married to your company? Will your company take care of you for life? Will you stay with the company forever? No, right? "Chey, it's ok what. I'll get it after I retire lor. No big deal". It's a huge deal! By the time you retire, how sure you are that you have not experienced high blood pressure, diabetes, gastritis, been hospitalised for whatever reason, etc. Besides the pain of disclosing all these in your proposal (trust me, it's really frustrating), your premium may skyrocket with loadings. At worse, you may be denied insurance. Also, how about when you're in between jobs? There's no coverage, right? In addition, generally private companies, even the MNCs, provide reimbursement up to a certain limit only and often than not it is based on the lowest ward at a government hospital. "It's ok...

These belong to a couple I know. Not sure whether they still remember they have these. Not even sure whether they'll ever use them again at the same time in future. How can a couple who have been together for decades, been through much hardship (not only financially) and found a few years of golden happiness but only to start fracturing now? It's so sad.

Life Insurance Articles , originally uploaded by prov1112004 . Bah. Gastric yet again in the middle of the night. Been going on for past week or so already. I better see the doctor again for medication. Anyway, I've been thinking of writing a brief guide, especially for family and friends, on how to determine what life insurance you need and its relative priority between different coverage. The best person you should ask would be an independent financial advisor (not agents who are tied to only an insurance company) who is competent and truly have your interest at heart...which I admit is very difficult to find. The next best thing is to educate yourself and DIY. The type of coverage everyone should consider are as follows: (1) Hospitalisation & Surgical ("H&S") (2) Disability Income ("DI") (3) Critical Illness ("CI") (4) Total and Permanent Disability ("TPD") (5) Death (6) Partial Disability The key to determining whethe...

Llyod: *Laughed hysterically* Me: *???* You ok? What's so funny? Llyod: Look at the sign lah. Me: So? Wet floor lor. Good what, warn people mah. Llyod: It's so wet that the sign need to be tied Me: *???* Huh? So? Llyod: So it won't slip and fall mah *burst into another fit of laughter* Me: *Laughed*