310107- Friendship Renewed !
Hello Mum !! Muark ! ...its 0100am now......its the last day of January...I want to share with you something...I just came back from a dinner with a friend. Its a nice and cosy place at Punggol Park- Bliss Cafe... The table where we sat overlooked a huge pond..the breeze was nice and a bit chilling due to the weather...the story goes 3 years back.....with this lady...
Her name starts with N....her nick is butterfly....I noticed her 3 years back when we were associates with Belair....it was more of an business acquiantance rather than a friend...as we belong to the same group, we started to chat about the business and of course our plans to go to Philippines...we din really keep in touch except for sending her sms on her birthday...that went on for 3 years....until now...
When I came back from my holiday trip, I bought gifts for some of my close friends and I bought one for her too...I guess that was also the intention to ask her out for coffee or dinner after such a long time of not catching up....hmm..any emotional attachment to her ? well..yes initially and no...now and in the future as she is already happily married...
We met at 7pm and had a few red wines and a good salad....the conversation just started and we just talk and talk and talk...we had really a few good laughs when we touched on certain topics and trust me mum..that laughter was infectious...we turned around and see if anyone was wondering what happened to these two person...:) She is a pisces and I am a libra..I dunno why it felt just so comfortable talking to her...was it affection ? It was in the past but not now...in any case, we shared and talk about our lives, our stories, our work, our businesses...by the time we realised it, its 10pm....she told me that she will be my wedding planner ...haha..U bear witness to this okie....~ wink wink ~
Close friends are so hard to come by Mum....its friendship like this that keeps us going in this crazy world...I am so so glad that we catch each other up for drinks amidst our busy schedule....When I stood outside our home window just now..I wonder when was the last time I really laugh my heart out...I am visiting you soon Mum...Take care..love you always...
270107- You raised me up !
Gooooood Morning Mum !!!! its 0830am....I am already up and running...While I was lying in bed....I remembered the times when you had to drag me up from bed during school days..haha...it was kind of warm feeling when I think about it...You usually wakes up at 5am to boil water, to prepare breakfast for me before shoooing me downstairs to wait for my school bus....everyone was wondering where is the little boy's mum because at that time, I was just a little kid....You know I had to be independent enough to do things on my own...you trained me !!! :) I am already supporting a 5 room flat myself / cooking / laundry / house keeping /...its tough but I am managing.....I will be going for my weekly regular swim before meeting the relatives tonite to discuss our CNY gathering function...see ya...Love you Mum ! and Oh Yes....Today is Granny's Birthday !!!!!!!! Please bless her with good health and humour for many more years to come !!
230107- My Best Manager Kelly Yap !
Mum, I just bought lunch back...mee goreng ! :p been extremely busy with work....rushing for reports to be generated...Guess who I saw when I went to our canteen to buy food ? I met Kelly Yap....one of my ops manager when I was with Compaq...One of the nicest manager that I worked for during all my years of employment in different companies...I remembered when I first applied for Compaq supervisory position without any IT background, she recruited me based on my customer service experience in mobile one...I learned a lot from her as well as my best friend and colleague Rani.....people come and go in our life but its people like them that leaves footprint in my life...
220107- I love you Mum ! You left all the good memories for me !
Mum, last night I brought your memorial picture back to Punggol. Our home..This coming 1st March 07, will be the 2nd year that you left me. I brought your memorial back as we are selling our hougang place, the last date to vacate the place is beginning of Mar 07. I am still finding a good and cool place for your picture to be kept, probably in my wardrobe together with the special urn where I kept some fragments of your ash. I was helping Ah Yi pack some of the utensils in our hougang house when we realised that all these years, the china designed glasswares that Ah Yi gave you is still wrapped in newspaper. You kept most of them in perfect condition..You literally did not use it at all ! There were so many things in those boxes that I din knew it existed ! All the memories floods back and I cried looking at it...I still cannot bring myself to believe that you are gone....I found 2 pictures...I can literally feel you beside me looking at it...
I remembered the cabinet that we had ....it has been with us for 30 over years..this is where you kept all your stuffs....I din want to just throw away..I have a lot of memories with this cabinet..so I seek Sanny's help to move it to Punggol. Its just outside our home...A part of the memories that I grew up with and I would like to keep it with me still.....Love you Mum !
Your grandson Jordan... ..the one that you dotes so much...the one that calls me every friday to ask me if I had taken my dinner..the one that asked me yesterday why I am bringing your memorial picture back to Punggol...the one that always tells me he misses " Buo Buo " You will be proud of him....He is 5 yrs old now... I miss you Mum !
140107 - 8:16pm - She steals from you and us..I have hatred for her but I will forgive her!
Mum, I will never forget what happened today at Hougang. It was so saddening and so upsetting. I went back to see what are the things to bring back to Punggol and guess what I saw ? I found out that Ah Di has packed all our home stuffs in her luggage including all the bowls, a few of my samsonite bags, your favourite stuffs, hankerchiefs and so much more that it pains me to know that after so many years of working for us, she actually steal from us !!! When Ah Yi told me previously that she suspect that Ah Di is stealing from us, I din believe her cos I trust that Ah Di is not that kind of person. Today's event hurts me so much, Mum.....She cried during your wake, she promised you that she will take care of Granny till her last day, who would ever have thought that she steals from us, steals your things and ship it back to Indonesia !! Ah Yi told me that she has shipped 2 big boxes back to Indonesia already.
I strongly believed that some of your missing jewelleries, ang pows that Ah Yi gave you, she already shipped it back to Indonesia and to think that I treated her like one of our family member. To think that I helped her get a handphone, to think that I bought her birthday present for her and she did such a thing to our family !! You treated her well and yet she reciprocated by stealing your things after you passed away !!
I am so upset Mum ! She even dare to say in front of me when I was searching through her luggage that these are the things that you gave her !! I swear upon God that you would never give your favourite things away just like that....you treasure the things that people give to you and will never give it away !
She is such an disappointment ! We cant terminate her contract as we were afraid that Granny may not get used to a new maid, moreover she knows Granny's living habits and it would be tough to engage a new maid and retrain her again...
She will get her retribution one day Mum....I can be sure of that....I am sure God will punish her, all the more because she is a christian and faithfully going to Church every sunday but behind our back, she does such immoral things...
I am so so upset....
140107 - Our nest egg of investments..A bold decision taken...
Mum, I have something to share with you but I know that where ever you are, you already knew about it, its on my conscience all these while by not writing it. I have my reasons why and after 1.5 yrs, I would like to dictate it here.
3 years ago, one of my good friend Amanda and her hubby migrated to Canada to do property investment. I was given an opportunity to join them but I was undecided and eventually did not go. We kept in touch from time to time and the initial stage of settling down was tough for her but her family stuck through it. Time flies, 2 years down the road, they are now "landlord" of several properties in Canada. How they did it, I shall not detailed here but it was through hardwork and persistency. Amanda flew back to Singapore and came back with a business proposal for property investments in Canada, Toronto.
Together with our good friend CK, my banker friend from OCBC, we sat through a few rounds of presentation with her and saw the potential of the property rental market in Canada. We were presented with an opportunity to earn rental income from oversea market.
Though Amanda is our good friend, the sum of $ involved was quite substantial. We looked at the returns and told ourselves that we will never be able to get this kind of returns in Singapore even if we put it in fixed deposit.
I discussed with my banker friend CK and listened to his perspective on the business proposal and after many meetings, and skype discussion, together we invested. I took out the fixed deposit from the bank account and took my first plunge into the property rental market.
From then on, there was no turning back, Amanda secured 3 properties for us , 1 of which I co-invested with CK and since then, we have been receiving monthly rental income that far far exceeds the interest being given by the local banks. If there's were anyone in the world that I should trust, Amanda is one of them...
I am thankful for good trusted friends like them who is willing to share opportunities like this, at the same time, I would also like to confess that you would "never never" agree to make such an investment but when I looked at our property investment in Malacca that you did with Uncle Heng, I was upset that it was a bad investment, till todate, we havent even gotten a decent returns on investment.
Amanda presented an opportunity that I could not refuse.
1 year down the road, here is the monthly returns that Amanda is remitting to CK and me. Its capital protected and at the end of the contract, I can either redraw the full capital invested or continue with the investment on an revised rental returns.
Mum, the reason why for 1 yr, I did not blog this down is because I wanted to show you a full year returns of investment figure.
You have always advocate thrift through out your life and its a value that I will always hold close to my heart. The properties on hand are all our investments and we do not hold any ownership of them. This year, CK and I are looking at reinvesting our funds into a ownership of one property.
Please give me your blessings and guidance whenever you are.
130107- Your beautiful pictures..
Dearest Mum, its coming 2 years that you left me....last week when I went back to hougang to pack some of the things to be brought back to Punggol, there was a huge collections of old pictures of your wedding pictures and you in your younger days !! You looked so gorgeous and beautiful in your wedding gown .. Mum! I mean you looked even beautiful without wearing that gown :)
You even kept some of the old pictures of me..I was surprised to find those..thought I lost it for good..so you were the one that was keeping it....I am trying to scan all of it and keep it in an online storage...will let you know when its up....
040107- A different Xmas..
Mum, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ! Time flies, another year has passed....coming March 07 will be the 2nd year that you have left me....I just came back from oversea yesterday....It was a very different Xmas that I spend...
What's my resolution for 2007 ? As usual, people will start to "recycle" their new year resolutions that they have written down the year before....I cant recall when was the last time that I did mine but this year is going to be different. I have resolve to implement small plans in my life to achieve my 2 yrs mega plan...and I seek your blessings and guidance...I will update you soon Mum ! Love you !
Hello Mum !! Muark ! ...its 0100am now......its the last day of January...I want to share with you something...I just came back from a dinner with a friend. Its a nice and cosy place at Punggol Park- Bliss Cafe... The table where we sat overlooked a huge pond..the breeze was nice and a bit chilling due to the weather...the story goes 3 years back.....with this lady...
Her name starts with N....her nick is butterfly....I noticed her 3 years back when we were associates with Belair....it was more of an business acquiantance rather than a friend...as we belong to the same group, we started to chat about the business and of course our plans to go to Philippines...we din really keep in touch except for sending her sms on her birthday...that went on for 3 years....until now...
When I came back from my holiday trip, I bought gifts for some of my close friends and I bought one for her too...I guess that was also the intention to ask her out for coffee or dinner after such a long time of not catching up....hmm..any emotional attachment to her ? well..yes initially and no...now and in the future as she is already happily married...
We met at 7pm and had a few red wines and a good salad....the conversation just started and we just talk and talk and talk...we had really a few good laughs when we touched on certain topics and trust me mum..that laughter was infectious...we turned around and see if anyone was wondering what happened to these two person...:) She is a pisces and I am a libra..I dunno why it felt just so comfortable talking to her...was it affection ? It was in the past but not now...in any case, we shared and talk about our lives, our stories, our work, our businesses...by the time we realised it, its 10pm....she told me that she will be my wedding planner ...haha..U bear witness to this okie....~ wink wink ~
Close friends are so hard to come by Mum....its friendship like this that keeps us going in this crazy world...I am so so glad that we catch each other up for drinks amidst our busy schedule....When I stood outside our home window just now..I wonder when was the last time I really laugh my heart out...I am visiting you soon Mum...Take care..love you always...
270107- You raised me up !
Gooooood Morning Mum !!!! its 0830am....I am already up and running...While I was lying in bed....I remembered the times when you had to drag me up from bed during school days..haha...it was kind of warm feeling when I think about it...You usually wakes up at 5am to boil water, to prepare breakfast for me before shoooing me downstairs to wait for my school bus....everyone was wondering where is the little boy's mum because at that time, I was just a little kid....You know I had to be independent enough to do things on my own...you trained me !!! :) I am already supporting a 5 room flat myself / cooking / laundry / house keeping /...its tough but I am managing.....I will be going for my weekly regular swim before meeting the relatives tonite to discuss our CNY gathering function...see ya...Love you Mum ! and Oh Yes....Today is Granny's Birthday !!!!!!!! Please bless her with good health and humour for many more years to come !!
230107- My Best Manager Kelly Yap !
Mum, I just bought lunch back...mee goreng ! :p been extremely busy with work....rushing for reports to be generated...Guess who I saw when I went to our canteen to buy food ? I met Kelly Yap....one of my ops manager when I was with Compaq...One of the nicest manager that I worked for during all my years of employment in different companies...I remembered when I first applied for Compaq supervisory position without any IT background, she recruited me based on my customer service experience in mobile one...I learned a lot from her as well as my best friend and colleague Rani.....people come and go in our life but its people like them that leaves footprint in my life...
220107- I love you Mum ! You left all the good memories for me !
Mum, last night I brought your memorial picture back to Punggol. Our home..This coming 1st March 07, will be the 2nd year that you left me. I brought your memorial back as we are selling our hougang place, the last date to vacate the place is beginning of Mar 07. I am still finding a good and cool place for your picture to be kept, probably in my wardrobe together with the special urn where I kept some fragments of your ash. I was helping Ah Yi pack some of the utensils in our hougang house when we realised that all these years, the china designed glasswares that Ah Yi gave you is still wrapped in newspaper. You kept most of them in perfect condition..You literally did not use it at all ! There were so many things in those boxes that I din knew it existed ! All the memories floods back and I cried looking at it...I still cannot bring myself to believe that you are gone....I found 2 pictures...I can literally feel you beside me looking at it...
I remembered the cabinet that we had ....it has been with us for 30 over years..this is where you kept all your stuffs....I din want to just throw away..I have a lot of memories with this cabinet..so I seek Sanny's help to move it to Punggol. Its just outside our home...A part of the memories that I grew up with and I would like to keep it with me still.....Love you Mum !
Your grandson Jordan... ..the one that you dotes so much...the one that calls me every friday to ask me if I had taken my dinner..the one that asked me yesterday why I am bringing your memorial picture back to Punggol...the one that always tells me he misses " Buo Buo " You will be proud of him....He is 5 yrs old now... I miss you Mum !
140107 - 8:16pm - She steals from you and us..I have hatred for her but I will forgive her!
Mum, I will never forget what happened today at Hougang. It was so saddening and so upsetting. I went back to see what are the things to bring back to Punggol and guess what I saw ? I found out that Ah Di has packed all our home stuffs in her luggage including all the bowls, a few of my samsonite bags, your favourite stuffs, hankerchiefs and so much more that it pains me to know that after so many years of working for us, she actually steal from us !!! When Ah Yi told me previously that she suspect that Ah Di is stealing from us, I din believe her cos I trust that Ah Di is not that kind of person. Today's event hurts me so much, Mum.....She cried during your wake, she promised you that she will take care of Granny till her last day, who would ever have thought that she steals from us, steals your things and ship it back to Indonesia !! Ah Yi told me that she has shipped 2 big boxes back to Indonesia already.
I strongly believed that some of your missing jewelleries, ang pows that Ah Yi gave you, she already shipped it back to Indonesia and to think that I treated her like one of our family member. To think that I helped her get a handphone, to think that I bought her birthday present for her and she did such a thing to our family !! You treated her well and yet she reciprocated by stealing your things after you passed away !!
I am so upset Mum ! She even dare to say in front of me when I was searching through her luggage that these are the things that you gave her !! I swear upon God that you would never give your favourite things away just like that....you treasure the things that people give to you and will never give it away !
She is such an disappointment ! We cant terminate her contract as we were afraid that Granny may not get used to a new maid, moreover she knows Granny's living habits and it would be tough to engage a new maid and retrain her again...
She will get her retribution one day Mum....I can be sure of that....I am sure God will punish her, all the more because she is a christian and faithfully going to Church every sunday but behind our back, she does such immoral things...
I am so so upset....
140107 - Our nest egg of investments..A bold decision taken...
Mum, I have something to share with you but I know that where ever you are, you already knew about it, its on my conscience all these while by not writing it. I have my reasons why and after 1.5 yrs, I would like to dictate it here.
3 years ago, one of my good friend Amanda and her hubby migrated to Canada to do property investment. I was given an opportunity to join them but I was undecided and eventually did not go. We kept in touch from time to time and the initial stage of settling down was tough for her but her family stuck through it. Time flies, 2 years down the road, they are now "landlord" of several properties in Canada. How they did it, I shall not detailed here but it was through hardwork and persistency. Amanda flew back to Singapore and came back with a business proposal for property investments in Canada, Toronto.
Together with our good friend CK, my banker friend from OCBC, we sat through a few rounds of presentation with her and saw the potential of the property rental market in Canada. We were presented with an opportunity to earn rental income from oversea market.
Though Amanda is our good friend, the sum of $ involved was quite substantial. We looked at the returns and told ourselves that we will never be able to get this kind of returns in Singapore even if we put it in fixed deposit.
I discussed with my banker friend CK and listened to his perspective on the business proposal and after many meetings, and skype discussion, together we invested. I took out the fixed deposit from the bank account and took my first plunge into the property rental market.
From then on, there was no turning back, Amanda secured 3 properties for us , 1 of which I co-invested with CK and since then, we have been receiving monthly rental income that far far exceeds the interest being given by the local banks. If there's were anyone in the world that I should trust, Amanda is one of them...
I am thankful for good trusted friends like them who is willing to share opportunities like this, at the same time, I would also like to confess that you would "never never" agree to make such an investment but when I looked at our property investment in Malacca that you did with Uncle Heng, I was upset that it was a bad investment, till todate, we havent even gotten a decent returns on investment.
Amanda presented an opportunity that I could not refuse.
1 year down the road, here is the monthly returns that Amanda is remitting to CK and me. Its capital protected and at the end of the contract, I can either redraw the full capital invested or continue with the investment on an revised rental returns.
Mum, the reason why for 1 yr, I did not blog this down is because I wanted to show you a full year returns of investment figure.
You have always advocate thrift through out your life and its a value that I will always hold close to my heart. The properties on hand are all our investments and we do not hold any ownership of them. This year, CK and I are looking at reinvesting our funds into a ownership of one property.
Please give me your blessings and guidance whenever you are.
130107- Your beautiful pictures..
Dearest Mum, its coming 2 years that you left me....last week when I went back to hougang to pack some of the things to be brought back to Punggol, there was a huge collections of old pictures of your wedding pictures and you in your younger days !! You looked so gorgeous and beautiful in your wedding gown .. Mum! I mean you looked even beautiful without wearing that gown :)
You even kept some of the old pictures of me..I was surprised to find those..thought I lost it for good..so you were the one that was keeping it....I am trying to scan all of it and keep it in an online storage...will let you know when its up....
040107- A different Xmas..
Mum, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ! Time flies, another year has passed....coming March 07 will be the 2nd year that you have left me....I just came back from oversea yesterday....It was a very different Xmas that I spend...
What's my resolution for 2007 ? As usual, people will start to "recycle" their new year resolutions that they have written down the year before....I cant recall when was the last time that I did mine but this year is going to be different. I have resolve to implement small plans in my life to achieve my 2 yrs mega plan...and I seek your blessings and guidance...I will update you soon Mum ! Love you !
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