Uh. I'm feeling abit faint-headed after my first big virtual profit from forex came in. A whooping $485.09 from the USD/JPY. Thank you thank you :P :)

I had driving in the first slot of the timetable at 8am. I did better and had much more confidence than last lesson. But I made a more grave mistake. I had my left signal on, was planning to turn at the junction. But I thought I was heading forward. Luckily my instructor hit his brakes. But I don't think he realised I never thought of doing that left turn. I just switched off. Of course I switched off. I covered so much distance in my lesson today ok!? We went out of bbdc, then the instructor swop seats with me. Then we drove afew rounds in Bukit Batok, then roamed through CCK once which passed my Aunt's house. Then Jurong East, then back to the old market place near my old house in Jurong West Street 42. Then back to Jurong East and BBDC.

I was actually planning to do some speedwork and run-ins with my spikes at the stadium. But as I rode toward the stadium, I thought maybe it was closed for S.L match or something. And it really was closed! In the end I went back to the fitness corner near my house for stomach/back exercises. Tmr morning will be a gd time to train again.

I'm back to learning Forex trading, because the options market is really illiquid right now. Nothing much I can trade there. Training was fine just now.

I found some really awesome radio stations on iTunes. They are Playdio, Soundic Radio, Classic FM. Playdio and Soundic Radio play tracks from Sweden !

Now is the indoor season for high jumpers around the world. At the top of the is Ivan Ukhov with the world leading 2.40m. Linus Thornblad lines up second with 2.36m.
I am in love with the music of this video featuring him doing a backflip over a bar set at 1.80m.

All i can say is that Russians are world-beating high jumpers. When they shine, they take the competitions by storm.
Ivan Ukhov also got drunk previously and attempted a jump. See video below.

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.