Fact: Singapore has 4 billionaires amongst its 4 million-strong local population.
I could be the 5th. I'll then give out a huge amount of my fortune for charity, education and trusts, building of sports facilities in Singapore and nurturing local sports talent and the list goes on as I like. :) Nites.

Life felt stagnant at home. I started thinking more and more about money. How am I going to get the funds needed for my trading account when thinkorswim starts to accept Singaporean registration? Geez.

There are only 2 things that weigh on my balance. Training for HJ vs working for money to fund my account.
For one, I don't wish to procrastinate my training for HJ. I want to do well for it. The more I wait to train, the more the time horizon seems to dwindle for me as an athlete. This is something I cannot live without. I would die with regrets if I don't attempt to try to see how high I can go. It is my top priority, so to speak.
Then on the other hand of the scale, I need money to trade options! There is really no way I can work again after I enter NTU. Actually, thinking about this in specific, I can do without trading for now. The market is still choppy and I might get my fingers burnt easily. But if a rather good job deal comes along, then I don't mind training and working on the job. :)

Okay. Thank you Lord. After typing the pros and cons, I am witnessing the scale tipping on one obvious side. I promise I will train to my very best.

And something interesting happened tonight. Dad, mum and er jie was in the living room as I walked to them. Daddy was on the floor flipping newspapers. Then mum was saying Daddy wants to buy a condo for investment. My eyes just lit up. ! Actually it isn't a condo. It's some kind of 5 room (DBSS) executive apartment in Bishan that is almost like a condo. Comes with furniture. Except without the wall-up and personal facilities. The advertisement said the prices start from S$550k. And we're going to to showroom tomorrow. Hmmm I don't know how rich my dad is. But he probably thinks it's time to spend some of the money that's collecting up in the bank lol. It is probably great to live in Bishan for a while and come back to Jurong. Just like a vacation ! hahaha.

I had my braces set in this afternoon ! Actually it's technically yesterday afternoon since its past 12am already. Everything fine. It's just that I had a difficult time eating my rice-based dinner just now. I totally could not bite the food with my front teeth.

I got a missed call from Mr Melvin Tan during evening. I contacted him back and we talked on how I can proceed with my training and who to look for. And yeah it's Ronnie whom I'm gonna to train with. NYP is where my journey begins...

My dad got a HP 2133 from an online seller for $420. It's a silver mini notebook. There are some annoying problems in it so right now I'm setting it all up back to normal, sweet and fast. But it doesn't come with a cd drive. I'm quite shocked. If I bought a new music CD I can't play it on the mini notebook lol..Nor can I watch a dvd on lol...zzzz...

I almost lost all hopes on my new LG Secret phone when the pc syncing software it came with seemed to be full of problems. You can't use that single PC Suite II program to transfer your songs, files and photos all in the same window. That damned PC Suite II can only transfer songs. For files, I need to activate "Mass Storage" within the phone connectivity setting. Then for photos that I took with the camera itself I need to activate "Pictbridge" first before connecting the USB cable. Luckily I got it around the stupid PC Suite II software. If not I will feel absolutely disappointed. They don't even provide a professional solution to all our problems for LG phone ! The corporate LG website is not useful to its phone users. It's like when you bought a new Ferrari, and the accessory controls are so difficult to use that you don't even know how to get the right cabin temperature going. And then the Ferrari company don't provide you with a solution. That's how it's like. Thank God that I know how to deal with this nice-on-the-outside-but-bad-on-the-software phone.

I just came back from my second practical driving lesson. So far so good.
And here's some pictures of the plant I grew around the time I had my 8 teeth removed. I took the buds home from outside my workplace in Tuas. That was in January 09. I wanted them to accompany me through the days when I have braces :) It's fun watering them every morning and seeing them grow up so fast ! I love those 2 flower pots I bought from Daiso store in Vivocity. The white pot with wings stays lifted in my living room and the bamboo flower pot is right beside me in my room. Their growth is so sensitive to sun exposure that you can see the difference caused by one pot receiving more sunlight that the other.

Chinese Name: 落地生根
Known English Name: Mexican Hat Plant
Latin Species Name: Bryophyllum crenatodaigremontianum


And I went to Harry's bar in Chinatown to watch Liverpool vs Manchester United. There were 6 of us. Steven, Tay, Effendi, Terence and ??.. forgot his name.. Steven asked me which goal I liked best after the 4-1 thrashing of man u. It has to be the last goal which was the lob shot from Dossena. That magical goal simply left the once-so-unbeatable Van Der Sar stunned and froze at his feet.

The more I tried to find jobs online, the more I wanted to give up the whole idea and train myself for hjump. That's what I love. That's what I don't mind to do every single day.

I went further into checking out the LG Secret KF750 phone on the web. I was totally swept away by its exclusive phone webpage at http://secret.lgmobile.com/uk/en/.
Speechless. Stunning. Sensational.

2 good news!

i) I got a call from my special agent from Recruit Express this afternoon when i was taking a nap. It was a job for a production line. It will start tomorrow and lasts till this Friday. The pay... hmmm... God will tell me not think too much about the pay. It's more like a job test for me.

ii) I have done my phone reviews and decided on LG Secret as my next phone, since my contract is ending.

Good game. I had a fantastic time with my soccer mates at a quiet clementi street soccer court this morning. Was supposed to go to the beach after 3pm (well, my family car can only move out after 3) but the whole of Singapore was shivering under the waving rain.

I'm still mugging my html/css book. I just got to page 475 out of 658. And that's 475 pages in 4 days. Zomg. But i really clicked with this book.

So what the next plan for this blog? I'm going to contain my HJ site in this blog. Most likely using the tab system.

I have quite a packed week ahead. G0d please bless me and keep me safe.

I have to much to write about, but i'm going to type in down fast and sweet.

4th Mar marks the first day that i have driven a car. Actually I didn't expect to be learning how to drive on the 1st practical lesson. But I still learned it anyway. I had some difficulty maintaining the accelerator pedal because it is too damn soft. Even my right piano pedal is harder. I also tend to steer the car too early when doing a turn, as pointed out by the instructor. I really like him alot. He is the kind of people who makes you feel comfortable and good. He praised my control of the clutch. :) That is great motivation because he stressed that good control of the clutch will allow me to learn how to drive properly even faster. Thank God my prayers were heard.

5th Mar was the day my dentist put on 6 rubber bands into my 4 2nd pre-molar teeths to force out a gap to prepare for putting the braces. Dajiejie says the pain will come tomorrow. One thing went wrong. The Q&M dental clinic at Boon Lay MRT does not do Damon 3 braces ! And they can't do followups on Damon 3 braces as well. So I'm getting my dajiejie to seek her Queenstown clinic for a discount so I can get my Damon 3 braces there instead. What a pity that I had to find other places for that self-ligating braces. Because I really like the receptionist at the Boon Lay MRT clinic. Not because she's chio or what, don't get me wrong. I just feel like she's like the adult version of Yuko in JJ. Smiles always and with a cheerful personality. It's rare to find people who makes you feel comfortable interacting with them.

All in all, I feel energised today. Especially when I applied for a handful of promising job positions on jobstreet.com. Some of them were located in west area, some even at Joo Koon. If I can get a job by this month I would thank God one more time. These days, my routine starts at 9am plus. After breakfast I'll practise the piano. I did good today. I can play Eyes on Me, Melodies Of Life, To Zanarkand, River Flows In You and Blue Mind till the end of each score. Before I advance through Canon in C, I would like to memorise all the previous scores first. So that leaves Close to You only, if you don't count Sundial Dreams because I didn't finish it till the end the first time.

Me, myself: Amazing stuff you got there Jian Chao ! The colour hues are very matching !

JC: Yeah thanks. A couple of things inspired me. My idol Staffan, there up there yeah. The height markings by the side was an idea copied from another SWE jumper's website. www.scholm.com. And the brown colour idea came from the running tracks of the stadium.

Me, myself: So what do you like best and hate most about your new changes?

JC: I love the snapshot of Staffan clearing the bar at 2.30m. In actual fact he did clear that one. I hate the white line gap on the right side of that main photo. But well, I tried my best ! So yay !