the china price

done with fixing global finance. it's much a macroeconomics book. good for those with a sound understanding of economics. statistical. not a bad book but i think more for the scholastic readers. most of the time i plug in to music while i read on the trains. for this book, i needed to concentrate to think through what was written and i couldn't even have music in my ears.

for suggestion for the publisher if they do another edition of this book - widen the spacing please? it will help make reading more comfortable.

this new book is soooo timely. i book-dropped the fixing global finance today and this book came in the afternoon. and being kiasu of having some time lapse between the time i finish this book and going onto the next, i have made reservation for a new book which should come by next week. woohoo!

best thing about this book? it's paperback. hahaha!

strange me, i feel invigorated with the reading. can't wait to start on this.

impetus to study

a sudden surge of envy came over me today. seeing local uni grads have such an edge made me feel unjust and tempted to enroll myself into a local uni too.

i wish i could have done so for my masters back then..but local unis claimed they don't recognise acca. sigh. one of my regrets in life is not having the chance to study in a local uni.

i kept scrolling through the sponsorship pages on our intranet. i could try asking for a scholarship, but also being mentally prepared of a likely 2.5years bond. i stopped short though, because i know my bosses are not pro-education.

keeping my fingers crossed, no hiccups to my oct block leave.

friends are posting photos of tokyo marathon. i miss that run soooo much. i wish i can do that run again.

time to read my book and lie in bed. run run tmr morning!

weekend done

it's been quite a fruitful weekend.

finished 2 months' of accounts for mummy.

handed my part time job over to the new lady. the rush this morning affirmed that stopping this job is the right thing to do. won't have to gobble down my sunday breakfast no more!

ran mr this morning. did circuit on sat evening. feeling healthy!

japanese curry attempt was flunked! it ended tasty neither like japanese curry nor chinese curry. blame it on the lousy recipe! hahaha!

never throw away a pair of chaco sandals. stupid tricia threw it away when it could have helped save us 20% on new pairs! arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! so angry with myself. dearie needs a pair for his upcoming camp, so heck the 20% discount. i'm going to get it for him.

visited ling with mummy and dearie today. glad she's doing well after delivering max! he's so tall for a 2 weeks' old!

haven't done much of the reading i intended. oops!

why are the prices of the handsets not coming down? why don't they release some new phones soon? so i can lay my hands on a new hp!

time to watch a tv show and get an early night. back to work tomorrow.

next weekend will be good! dearie's bringing me to movies! =D

new book fix

yay! the book from the library is here!

this is my new read for next week..maybe for the weekend too!

being book-less can be soooo aimless! i don't know where to look at in the mrt. i can literally feel my brain coming to a halt. not good!

something to read keeps my mind stimulated. =)

cycle coe

one of the biggest contributors to the ever rising inflation in singapore is the price of cars.

we read cpi is up 4.8%. last round of coe prices jumped too. we don't need to read the tarot cards to see coe prices staying elevated for the near future. there's a whole slew of rants on coe prices hurting the middle class.

i think we seriously need to rethink our lifestyles. is there a better way to commute to work? i wish i have the option of cycling to work, but i have scoured my entire building to only find one toilet that has a shower. i think more can be done to encourage people to find alternative ways to get to work.

it has to be a paradigm shift in mindset. First, stop lamenting and whining, because that doesn't solve the problem. Second, it's about understanding what are the daily things we do adding towards the environment as a whole. look at the drastic climate change we are already experiencing. try taking a deep breathe in cities like beijing and hongkong. what kind of a world have we created at our convenience? Third, corporations must stop thinking it's all about profit. it's not. what are they doing at the expense of our future generations?

so we ask, how much can we do as it's just an effort of one or few. but imagine if everyone start being more conscientious of what goes into the environment and does abit. then the impact will be great.

should i write to the big big boss and start asking him to do more for staff who are keen to find alternative ways to get to work? afterall, we pride ourselves with the many green projects we do, don't we? haha

ongoing efforts

with our ongoing efforts to improve ourselves, dearie and i took up a new challenge - learning and re-learning chinese.

john has kindly loaned dearie a K2 chinese textbook, which he has embarked on saturday. i was pretty appalled how difficult chinese is for the children these days, i didn't remember chinese being so tough back in my kindy years.

for me, being the cheapo i always am, will be attempting to do my own reading instead of enrolling for the chinese business courses earlier planned. i think cost is one factor and not having a friend to go with can make it quite lonely.

hence, i resolved to start reading My Paper on a daily basis, as it has a fairly short chinese section, which i deem manageable for my snail-pace chinese reading. in effort to be more environmentally friendly, i am going to read the e-version (though the toggling of the page is proving to be such a nuisance).

Hopefully we can both keep this up, because knowing how to read, write and comprehend chinese is an asset in the coming decade at least.

I'm doing a little research on the S-Reits as part of work now. Pretty interesting to go through all the results and presentation slides from all the S-Reits. Should I stay on in the Reits industry? If yes, should i do the CMFAS reits management paper? after so long, i'm still circling around this.

Not reading any book at the moment. sent an inquiry to check on my reit book that was suppose to come.

running has been on a slackened mode. something inside of me says i should be more disciplined about it but i guess that's not of much importance for dearie for now. it is hard for me to ask for more than what i am already given.

alright..back to reading. ought to give my cv some botox as well, spruce it up a little. =)

nothing to read

completed a gift to my children during the morning mrt trip to work. a good book! recommended to dearie so i'm not returning it as yet.

i finished all the cpa mags and newspapers i have. nothing to read for now. i'm not really in the mood for a japanese writer's book for now.

anything good worth the read? hmm.

one done!

catch me if you can done!

proceeding to next on the list. i can start on it tonight while waiting for dearie to come home from his desaru feasting trip.

keep it going tricia!

still tossing on what courses to do this year.. shd i do the cmfas paper?

books in queue

a gift to my children is here! that's fast!

alright. game plan for tricia.

60 pages more of catch me if you can. to complete by this evening's trip home.

85 pages of a gift to my children. to complete by end of this week. if i'm diligent, i might be able to finish it by Fri morning.

2 old edition of CPA Singapore mags. thrown off to next week! that's what i call prioritising!

love simply

Yesterday was valentine's day. Ours was a quiet one. dearie ran the 8km with me, as we chatted along at smell-flower pace. We had home cooked porridge, something light enough for his inflammed throat.

While i jokingly grilled him for my flowers and candle light dinner, i thought about what does having those represent love.

i have learnt that love is expressed in simple ways. actions that need not be amplified into distorted proportions. small ways that reaches the heart more than fanciful ones that entertain the crowd. i am just glad to have him. when i have a hectic day at work, i know he will pat me and i can fall asleep soundly in his arms. that to me is loving simply.

all in line..one by one

i've put in 2 loans from the company's library..which i reckon will take a while to reach me. in the mean time i'm almost half way through 'catch me if you can'. this will be the next.

subsequent to that, i've given myself a challenge to read up all the books on reits i can find in the company's library. personal challenge for myself and also to prep myself before i decide if i should do the cmfas exam on reits management. this should keep me busy for a while!

catch me a better next read

done with the wind up bird chronicle. took another 3 wks to complete this as well. the Japanese writers i have been reading have a peculiar way of story telling. i get lost sometimes, like when i was watching the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. it makes one go, " huh? what?...wow, that's a good one."

i'm onto a simpler book, catch me if you can. i read that the book was not written by Frank Abagnale Jr himself and this book contains a tad bit of exaggeration which serves its entertainment purpose.

i haven't got many other books i want to read. been looking for the e version of 1q84 but found none. at the same time i think i've got enough of the strange prose form for a while..thought i could move on to something more mainstream.

something about the cultural revolution might make an interesting read next. let's see what i can find.

run for something

bel, yenling and i discussed about the possibility of doing the taroko gorge marathon in taiwan, coming nov.

it's good to have something to train towards. hope we can get things to fall into place. i haven't ran a marathon in 2 years! it'll be challenging to start training for one.

running with the gals make me feel sorry how my speed and endurance has degraded over time. i can't seem to catch up with them these days, often left behind. i try to take it in stride, follow my own pace and run my own race. but i'm hoping i won't be the slowest among us in the coming marathon! (which i think i'll most probably be)

i've decided to give up my part time job. i can definitely use more time given a more hectic full time job now. lesser income so that will mean i've got to be more cautious in my spending. may not all be a bad thing.