My career
Contrary to popular belief, I don't intend to kill monsters for a living (although I would very much love to do so).
Instead, I've found a more innovative, though rather tiring way, of earning money - going around Singapore collecting ang pows and getting free meals from others during Chinese New Year.
Saturday 1900h 12th Feb, 2005
Prof. Teoh, my FYP supervisor, invited personnel from at least 4 different labs (on the Bioengineering corridor) to his house for Chinese New Year cum 50th birthday celebration. Though I was late for about 20 minutes, I have to hand it to Kuan Ming for making a guest star appearance almost an hour later.
But let's not dwell too much on the mistakes of others
The catered food was quite good (and most probably quite expensive as well) and there was tiramisu served at the end. The tiramisu was excellent, but this is not a food review, so I shall leave out the details.
Prof. Teoh shared with us his life experiences and stories, as well as his hobby, which is collecting biographies of handicapped people. It's actually a sharing session, so most of us were not paying much attention.
Group photo taken at Prof. Teoh's house
Jeremy (seated, extreme right) wasn't looking at some babe. There's 2 photographers taking photos simultaneously and most of us were confused as to who to look at 1st.
Sunday 1200h 11th Feb, 2005
Finally found Karen's unit in the HDB flat. Thankfully, I didn't had to backtrack too much while looking for it. I was the only one visiting her that early, Bryan, Yap and Danny were coming later in the afternoon.
Karen's youngest sister, Cai Pei, opened the door for me and greeted me happily. But she had to add a "ni3 zhang3 gao1 le4!" as well..... I thought I'd only get such remarks from elders (she's only about 8 years old). Cai Luan, the 2nd youngest sister, was busy baking Valentine's Day cookies for her friends in the kitchen, but she came out to greet me nonetheless. Karen was still bathing when I arrived.
After going around the place to greet everyone in the family, Cai Pei immediately grabbed my hand and dragged me along to play with her. She really seemed to enjoy my company. In fact, she was so reluctant to let me go when I had to leave for Cheryl's place at 2 pm that I stayed for another half an hour.
Although I went over by myself, it was still quite fun to be able to play with Cai Pei, help Cai Luan bake her cookies, do some idle chit-chat with Karen, observe Karen and Cai Luan argue over how to bake cookies properly.....hardly a boring moment. They had a brother too (2nd eldest in the family) but I forgot his name
I left the place with more ang pows than expected (because Karen's dad invited friends over at the same time and they gave me ang pows as well
) and 2 Valentine's Day cookies (although I sampled a few while helping to bake them, but hey, I should put my Quality Engineering skills to good use).
Sunday 1500h 11th Feb, 2005
Arrived at Cheryl's place after 15 minutes of walking in the hot hot sun. I had only been there twice previously and was surprised I still managed to remember how to get there. I ate my takeaway lunch at her place (consisting of a da4 bao1 and glutinous chicken rice), and everyone said that I looked very pathetic eating such fare on the 5th day of the Chinese New Year. Blame it on the host for not providing any food
Cheryl's parents did get a fruit cake for all of us (Christopher, Loo, Kara and of course Cheryl), sort of a birthday cake for ren2 ri4. Very thoughtful of them. Pity it didn't rub off Cheryl.
Sunday 1700h 11th Feb, 2005
Rendezvous with Dengli at Kara's place. Kara's house is HUGE . It's HUGE enough for 4 families to live inside. Actually there are 4 families living inside.
Her family members were warm and friendly too. Her mom was constantly making sure we felt at home and her brother mixed in with us quite easily. Christopher finished 1/5 of a jar of her pineapple tarts. If I wasn't having sore throat that day, I would have finished even more.
We spent the rest of the day playing her board games, mahjong, Uno Stacko, and before we left, we took pictures of her brother's 3-D jigsaw puzzles. 1st time I've saw a 3-D jigsaw and boy are they impressive. There was the NASA space shuttle, the Eiffel Tower, the Titanic...to name a few. They look like pretty big models, only difference is that one can easily tell they were build from pieces of jigsaw.
Great people, great games, great food, great house. Correction, HUGE house. It was certainly great to be able to visit Kara on Chinese New Year.
Cash Flow Statement for the year 2005
Analysis indicates that net cash flow has increased by approximately 20 %.
All the house visits I did has really paid off.
Instead, I've found a more innovative, though rather tiring way, of earning money - going around Singapore collecting ang pows and getting free meals from others during Chinese New Year.
Saturday 1900h 12th Feb, 2005
Prof. Teoh, my FYP supervisor, invited personnel from at least 4 different labs (on the Bioengineering corridor) to his house for Chinese New Year cum 50th birthday celebration. Though I was late for about 20 minutes, I have to hand it to Kuan Ming for making a guest star appearance almost an hour later.
But let's not dwell too much on the mistakes of others
The catered food was quite good (and most probably quite expensive as well) and there was tiramisu served at the end. The tiramisu was excellent, but this is not a food review, so I shall leave out the details.
Prof. Teoh shared with us his life experiences and stories, as well as his hobby, which is collecting biographies of handicapped people. It's actually a sharing session, so most of us were not paying much attention.
Group photo taken at Prof. Teoh's house
Jeremy (seated, extreme right) wasn't looking at some babe. There's 2 photographers taking photos simultaneously and most of us were confused as to who to look at 1st.
Sunday 1200h 11th Feb, 2005
Finally found Karen's unit in the HDB flat. Thankfully, I didn't had to backtrack too much while looking for it. I was the only one visiting her that early, Bryan, Yap and Danny were coming later in the afternoon.
Karen's youngest sister, Cai Pei, opened the door for me and greeted me happily. But she had to add a "ni3 zhang3 gao1 le4!" as well..... I thought I'd only get such remarks from elders (she's only about 8 years old). Cai Luan, the 2nd youngest sister, was busy baking Valentine's Day cookies for her friends in the kitchen, but she came out to greet me nonetheless. Karen was still bathing when I arrived.
After going around the place to greet everyone in the family, Cai Pei immediately grabbed my hand and dragged me along to play with her. She really seemed to enjoy my company. In fact, she was so reluctant to let me go when I had to leave for Cheryl's place at 2 pm that I stayed for another half an hour.
Although I went over by myself, it was still quite fun to be able to play with Cai Pei, help Cai Luan bake her cookies, do some idle chit-chat with Karen, observe Karen and Cai Luan argue over how to bake cookies properly.....hardly a boring moment. They had a brother too (2nd eldest in the family) but I forgot his name
I left the place with more ang pows than expected (because Karen's dad invited friends over at the same time and they gave me ang pows as well
) and 2 Valentine's Day cookies (although I sampled a few while helping to bake them, but hey, I should put my Quality Engineering skills to good use).Sunday 1500h 11th Feb, 2005
Arrived at Cheryl's place after 15 minutes of walking in the hot hot sun. I had only been there twice previously and was surprised I still managed to remember how to get there. I ate my takeaway lunch at her place (consisting of a da4 bao1 and glutinous chicken rice), and everyone said that I looked very pathetic eating such fare on the 5th day of the Chinese New Year. Blame it on the host for not providing any food
Cheryl's parents did get a fruit cake for all of us (Christopher, Loo, Kara and of course Cheryl), sort of a birthday cake for ren2 ri4. Very thoughtful of them. Pity it didn't rub off Cheryl.
Sunday 1700h 11th Feb, 2005
Rendezvous with Dengli at Kara's place. Kara's house is HUGE . It's HUGE enough for 4 families to live inside. Actually there are 4 families living inside.
Her family members were warm and friendly too. Her mom was constantly making sure we felt at home and her brother mixed in with us quite easily. Christopher finished 1/5 of a jar of her pineapple tarts. If I wasn't having sore throat that day, I would have finished even more.
We spent the rest of the day playing her board games, mahjong, Uno Stacko, and before we left, we took pictures of her brother's 3-D jigsaw puzzles. 1st time I've saw a 3-D jigsaw and boy are they impressive. There was the NASA space shuttle, the Eiffel Tower, the Titanic...to name a few. They look like pretty big models, only difference is that one can easily tell they were build from pieces of jigsaw.
Great people, great games, great food, great house. Correction, HUGE house. It was certainly great to be able to visit Kara on Chinese New Year.
Cash Flow Statement for the year 2005
Analysis indicates that net cash flow has increased by approximately 20 %.
All the house visits I did has really paid off.
posted by Tengkia | 10:05 pm
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sounds like u have earn quite a bit of hongbao money... since u have earned so much.. muz share mah.. juz treat mi to soft shell crab can liaoz!!! :)
i oso want! my ang bao money shrunk this year leh.. *show pitiful eyes*
HCl: I treated you to soft shell crab this afternoon already =P
demon: you have V day bao but I don't. Good enough to offset your shrunk ang bao money
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I sms Huimin to ask if I could visit her while I was in the area, but all she cared about was to eat her squashed cake and didn't reply me till 2330 h. How boh sim can one get.....
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