I have so much to pen down in this post. I thought I'd better start now before 11pm for the FA cup semi between Everton and Man U.

It was a long Sunday. But I wasn't showing a long face because it was awesome! I woke up at 7.19am from 7 hours of sleep and rushed my wash up and breakfast so I can digest my food early before I start my training at the stadium at 8.30am. I had to start around that time because my dental appointment was at 11am. I don't like to be late. Basically I did very standard drills and the stomach and back exercises. I think I know what caused my comeback of the shin splint-alike pain. It was the straight-leg boundings. After I did one of them, I immediately felt a small amount pain streaking down my shin. I always knew something was wrong with the S-L boundings because I had improved my stride length tremendously from 17 to 13/14 strides for 30m. But back in the past weeks I didn't know it came from that because the pain came much later. So I thought it was a collective cause by all of the training. Okay then took a bath there and left before 10.30am. Yeah it was abit early when I got to the interchange. So I bought 2 cakes and soy bean drink from Mr Bean!

The dental appointment was the most painful so far. The dentist replaced the wires and some of the teeth really hurt when he loosen and tightened the metal clips for the wire to be set in place. But that's all. I still don't get the pain other people told me about when they had their braces. I had quite some time on my hand so I walked around the new JP area and found myself in the NTUC Xtra. I called Jiawei so that we could meet at the mrt before we meet the girls at Clementi mrt. Then when I was about to leave the supermarket, I saw my parents. Daddy was super generous to shove some pocket money to me.

Okay so we took the train all the way to Toa Payoh. We are actually going to a church friend's house, Maple's, for potluck and movie. I gotta say, I didn't find the train journey that long at all. Maybe because I was busy talking to Rouxin, Sharon and Jiawei. Then we met up with Daniel and Jian Cong at Toa Payoh interchange. Rouxin's cg is really warm and okay for me. It was easy to slip in to their company. And I am full of praises for Maple's cheesecake. It was almost as good as those I've had from cafes. But I always tell people this, I don't eat cheesecake alot. I can't tell what's a good cheesecake and a bad cheesecake. They all taste delicious to me hahaa.. There were about 10 people from their cg and I can almost name them all! We have Maple, Rouxin, Sharon, Kasuri, Yu Ling, Benny, Daniel, Jian Cong, Joseph and another Indian girl. It was a great time because we were laughing out alot on the action movie. Something is terribly wrong with the new movie and the wrong parts distracted my mood for the ending. But the movie should be great in the cinemas when it's out.

Umm that's pretty much the gist of events for me today.

Friday at work was somewhat easier on my mood. Because I felt more superior to others who were doing the same job on that day. It was a special day. On friday, they normally don't work. Or at least, they don't ask me to work. So on that day, there were like 15 or so new temp employees. Another higher ranked Indian lady briefed us, "We asked you all to come today to finish up the stock." So I reckoned that most of the regular temp people who worked mondays to thursdays didn't want to work on the friday, so only me and another quite new guy said okay to work. We had a few interrupting briefings along the way because some of the new ppl picked the stock in the way such that the containers aka toteboxes can't be closed. It isn't really their fault. They had a very insufficient tutorial before the start of work and "Okay you all can start picking." If it wasn't for Rui Xia who was around for the day, I think the new ppl will make a bigger mess out of picking. I took on a picking order for an entire pallet at about 5pm. The quantity was about 2400! I finally finished the last store's totebox without any discrepancies just before 8pm. And my phone was spammed by my dear church friends. It's sooooo distracting and tempting to reply to them but I just left it in my pocket after browsing through the smses. That Indian lady called all of us in again for a debrief. She said those who are not picking at point in time can sign out and leave. Those still picking halfway just finish up and sign out. Then she called out about 8 names from the attendance list and ask them to see her separately. And she ended it by, "All except the names I called out, tomorrow report here by 9am". I totally turned a deaf ear on that. I'm sure she didn't meant me. I've worked monday to friday already. Still want me to work full day on Saturday? Hey next week is my last already please... And I'm lined up for church on saturday wooohH! I did not bother to inform her that I cannot come on saturday. I admit I was being impolite not to inform of my absence and so forth. Thank God I didn't get a call from them pursuing me to go back to work today.

I was happy that I stepped out of the workplace at 8.30pm sharp! That was the time I quoted to Rouxin and Jiawei who was waiting for me in JP for dinner. I had my meal at Bentobox and I met another new friend Sharon! Then we pampered ourselves with haagen dazs ice cream! It was really wonderful with the 4 of us at a square table, in a corner shop of the big big JP. That should be closer to the life I ought to live. Hang out with friends at night !

Wonderful things happened this evening! I received my iBanking device from DBS. That's a surprise because I thought I screwed up my online application for it. The guide said this particular set of numbers on my debit card, but I entered another set. Additionally, I did see that I need to print and mail the application to them for verification. But hey the device came, I was able to remember the pin I chose, completed the iBanking registration and also the premium for my Medishield cover. It was a good load off my back!

Well, quite alot of things happened at work today. I got a warning again from the Indian lady who said my stock picking is slow. But it's all about relativity in smaller numbers! When 4 products divide by 2 min, it may seem like it's taking too long. But if you take 40 items divide by 2min, you think it's super fast. But if between that 40 items, 20 goes to one place and other 20 goes to another place. It's normal speed. And, when we write 1:59-2:01, it means 2 mins to a simple-minded person. But to me, that could mean a range between approximately 1 minute and 3 minutes ! Imagine you start at 1:59:59 and end at 2:01:00. That's 1min 1 sec. If you start at 1:59:00 and ends at 2:01:59, that's 2 mins 59secs. So the margin of difference at the smaller timings may seem to reflect a slow working rate if you see it that way. Finally she and another co-worker gathered all the stock picking ppl for a discussion. Both of them wanted to know why we're so slow and how we can become faster. But we all picking the stock know that it's not possible to pick their targeted 600 stock per hour. It's only possible when you're the only one picking the stock, and all the boxes are empty. That's the ideal situation. But get back down to reality lah!
And finally I told the floor boss "Lao Da" that I'm doing my final week next week.

I still feel bloated! But whatever, I'm going to gym in the morning tomorrow. Then work from 2.30 to 8.30pm.

About the stock and options market, it's getting more ridiculous. 2 days up, 2 days down ! It is probably better if I didn't enter any trades. But I did! 3 put-side positions yesterday when SPY closed higher !

My stomach continued to bloat for the second day. I was disturbed by the fact that I didn't bring my set of medicines to work. But I still managed to hang on for 9 hours till 6pm. I made a miscount in the stock today. I had 1 missing cleanser for the last shop's box on my list. I tried to retrace my work subtly but it was difficult as the boss was monitoring the area personally at one corner and time was drawing near for dismissal.

For the whole time at work, I wanted to tell one of the perm workers that I wish to end my work there tomorrow. But I keep thinking of rejection from them, since it was quite a short notice for quitting the job. So in the end, the scenarios just keep on playing on my mind. I just didn't have the courage to speak to any of them. But tomorrow, I'll tell them that I'm ending my work at the end of next week. Sigh, I need to prepare what to tell them if they ask me why.

I haven't trained since the start of the week. I don't even want to do the stomach/ back exercises. Who knows if it'll make my bloated stomach worse? I definitely won't go down to nyp this week too. But I'll keep doing my shin strengthening exercises.

My family went to Werkz Photography in Bugis for my er jie's graduation shoot. We ended up spending over $1000 for a handful of portraits. I didn't have a good morning because the black shoes I wore actually self-destructed. The rubber soles were coming out like bits of biscuit. I dropped lot of soles at the photography studio!

Then we zipped off to Red Star Restaurant for dim sum. We had to queue for quite a while but it's tantalising and worth the wait. I'm going to catch Harper's Island later on channel 5. But before that, it's time for Aston Villa against Everton match at 8pm!

"Christianity is not about a religion, it's about your relationship with God."
-Rev. Kong Hee

"When you jump high enough, you don't need to worry about the clearance"
Ronnie, Apr 8th.

Today my mood was as bad as the weather. I was supposed to go for the competition at 2pm, but it rained so heavily before that. I left house at 2.50pm and got there just before Ronnie did his jumps. He started with a tall height and managed a second place with 2.01m! Another guy with a Raffles shirt won the event. I must say his arch was awesome. I also met up and chatted a little with Mr Tham. I knew he was there. For the last moments I was there, a 400m race for males was going on. Some audience behind me commented something about the fastest runner who's a Tanglin guy. Wow I'm proud of that!

But what got my mood foul was that with my current job which ends at 7.30pm every monday to thursday, I can't meet Ronnie at NYP. I will have to train on my own with paper workouts from him. What added to the bad feeling was that my involvement in church is getting deeper and eating into my time. I don't really like that. It's giving me alot of pressure. Plus the Medishield cover need to top-up before 13 april. And practical driving lessons need to shift them to night or weekends. Aiyo!

I walked so much today.

During noon I headed to BBDC for a final theory practice then the real final theory test. I passed ! My heart just beat so much faster when I was about to click the "End Test" button to receive my result. But I knew God was there with me every step of the way. I could have got all the tricky questions for the test. Then I took shuttle bus to Gombak MRT. The 4th All-Comers competition was all live and going on at the stadium. I'm going to visit Ronnie at the competition tomorrow! Hey I better get my camera and phone charged.

Next stop was CHC ! I felt so sick during the seemingly draining sermon. But all ceremonies have to end somehow. Then I took off to the stadium for training. Thank God again that my shins didn't give me trouble. I walked back to the square hoping that I still can withdraw some money from ATM to feed my wallet. But lol I'm down to 1-digit. My financial breakout haven't come yet. It will come. So I walked past CHC to the bus stop for 179. And still walk some more from the bus interchange back home.

Here is a food for thought.
Should this world have a HIV vaccine?

This is a very good question to ask, in my opinion. I say yes, because innocent children around the world are getting AIDS from their parents, for example Africa. Some ordinary people around the world also desperately need it because they have families to support and the list goes on.

But on the other side of the scale, I have an equally strong opposition stance. No because, it may add to the problems of the AIDS problem in poor countries because greedy merchants will hoard all the precious supplies of this HIV vaccine and attempt to control the market themselves.

And all those men and women alike who fall into lust and affair temptation will have fun on the bed more often than not without protection. Why? Because there's no worries of getting HIV, or sexually transmitted dieseases for that matter. If HIV vaccines are available at pharmacies and 7-eleven stores, people will buy them instead of condoms. These people don't deserved to be saved by the vaccine.

AIDS is not like a flu. Flu will not lead to death, but AIDS will. It will be a life-saver. So the price tag for the HIV vaccine must be exorbitant. It's a life-saver. Then again it bring us back to my point on the dealing of the vaccine across the global market. Greedy traders will want to take profit from this lucrative but life-saving drug.

It is a double-edged sword, as much as the invention of guns. We use guns for many purposes, mainly to protect, deter and counter offense. But look again. What good has it done? If there was no guns in this world, there is significantly less violence to think about. Countries won't have to compete in the arms race to protect their lands against possible threats. All these defence budgets from every single country could be used to fulfil a better part of mankind.

So I ask of your opinion, do you want a discovery of HIV vaccine?

What a joke!? This afternoon someone from achievecareers called and offered me a $6/hr filing job in Outram which lasts for 3 months. I rejected with, "Abit too far. Yeah." Then just minutes ago my "special" agent from recruitexpress called me with another job offer. This one's in Joo Koon for $5.50 per hour for 1 week. Stocktaking, picking and packing. I am flabbergasted by what I've just did. I exchanged a job with higher pay and longer period with ease of travelling. OMG. But still I thank God for giving me something to do. I was really really bored today. I trained under the scorching hot sun this morning. Then rest of the day up till now, I'm still playing forex lol. It's so fun following the market and waiting to pounce on trade opportunities.