Under value @ 40 above

& who says that life begins at 40? If you can't find a job, life is coming to a stop then begin. These days even with experience and certification don't mean that you can still find a job when crisis hits. Age is a HUGE factor in times like this. Potential employers are playing the game smart by employing younger ones and lack experience as they are able to train them. Main factor, they come cheap. Why do potential employers dare not put "No age over 40s need apply"word in their hiring advertisements? They are afraid it may come back to haunt them as discrimination and that is what our government esp Ministory of Manpower (MOM) encourage not to do. Government have been stressing and encourage potential employers to hire people after 40 as they may be of great value to their company as they hold years of experience but so what? It is all up the potential employers weather they want to or not. If potential employers don't wish to, can our government punish them for not? Not likely! So why would potential employers want to take that risk of hiring people at their 40s?

Reading this article I felt sorry for the person who have been wasting time going through interviews after interviews in which has already written his fate. It only says one thing, be fearful for yourself that if you are not in your 40s now, you'd be like that when you reach 40s. So Government, how can we all retire at 62 years old now if we are currently facing HUGE problem in getting jobs already at 40 years old?

Changing Point - Fate

& this is called taking your fate into your own hands!

This guy was in the line of oil rigs and now he has made it to become a singer. He even write his own songs when he was 14. Will he become famous, no one knows but one thing is for sure at least he made his dream come through is what counts for.

Congrats Sarver!

Healthiest Kid's Smile Contest - E-mail Address Problem!

So angry! The closing date is 29 Mar 2009 and the advertisement says to send photo to provided e-mail address. The e-mail address also cannot get through. It keeps having send failure. Can someone from mediacorp ensure that e-mail is working before advertising the and get people to send to the e-mail address? What's the point of making people do it if your e-mail isn't working?

http://blogs.mediacorpradio.sg/smile/contest-2/

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Delivery to the following recipients failed.
radiopromo@mediacorp.com.sg

Reporting-MTA: dns;mcsxmb02.mediacorp.grp
Received-From-MTA: dns;mcsxpf03.mediacorp.grp
Arrival-Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:40:03 +0800
Final-Recipient: rfc822;radiopromo@mediacorp.com.sg
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Chinese Ang Pow Paper Lantern

After thinking so long about doing this ang pow paper lantern, I finally get to it. Thanks to the cleaner Auntie from my office who showed me how to do it. I have searched many times on the internet for "how to do chinese ang pow paper lanter" but was unsucessful. Those which have the tutorial wasn't quite clear either or it is too complicated for a beginner like me to follow. I actually did this before the Chinese New Year this year but didn't quite found the time to upload it into my blog until today.

From The Creative Commentor

Rebond my Hair

My hair rebond have all gone since I did it last year. Why? I recently cut my hair short thus cutting all the remaining rebond.

This year didn't quite get to doing another new rebond coz I was doing the hair treatment and was adviced not to do rebond for the time being. However, after cutting my hair short, no more rebond, my hair becomes messy and awful with all the frizzy hair. Even my husband starts to complain that I look like Auntie. Hahhahha..... so no choice, next pay day go to do rebond.

Short hair rebond is also about the same price 100 plus but a bit cheaper though. It ends up that short hair rebond time slightly faster. I am done in 1 1/2 hour. Phew to that! Now my hairs looks much better.

Weird but very SAD Dream

I am one who always belief that dreams have its own interpretation. Sometimes when I go into deep sleep, I would always dream about something as if it were so real.

Yesterday evening, I seem to be channeling someone's sorrow. It was really very sad as I keep crying and stop and then later I cry again. I seem to be crying the whole night and when I wake up, my head seem to be on the heavy side. I don't recall the actual dream and what happened but I felt that the sorrowful cry wasn't me. I felt that I was somehow channeling someone's sorrow. Who? I don't really know. I have never encountered this before and was wondering was it due to the swaroski crystal I was wearing yesterday that have absorbed some energy in which have channel it into me? That I really do not know but only can suspect.

10th Treatment @ Yun Nam

Ok.. this is the last treatment. It sure has improve alot and all is not wasted! So my next five treatments will be once a month. This will be a good time for my pocket money to try to recover for my this expense ;)

Resting Day Tomorrow - Fun Day

School holidays now! As usual school holidays I would take leave to spent some quality time with my children.

This time plan to go Zoo and Sentosa. My husband have the corporate Zoo tickets and Sentosa has promotion going on. So bring my two kids to enjoy and also save money. Especially, the Sentosa trip, pay for two adults entry to some of the places and the two kids get to enter for free. I am aiming for the Underwater trip as that is especially the expensive one and also a main attraction in Sentosa.

The Sentosa trip was awesome!

I like the Luge Ride although I must say that the equipment wasn't in very good condition though as several times I can't get it to move or was it becoz I and my girl sit together too heavy? Hahhhaaa... We took the ride all the way down to another area. I wasn't sure how to walk back up so I took the skyride. I didn't want to take the skyride at first coz it is scary.

From The Creative Commentor

After finished with the luge ride we ended up in another area which I am not sure where it is. The ticket we bought for the luge ride included the skyride. Was it Phew? DAMN! It was HIGH ! I took it sky ride with my girl and we were both very scared when it move up even higher. It was like 20 storey building .. I think.. I didn't care to look coz I closed my eyes and so did my girl. It was a mistake to take this but we haven't a choice as I don't know how to go back up.

From The Creative Commentor

As for the zoo trip, we visit quite a few animals. We didn't quite get to take the boat trip as it was raining heavily with thunder and the boat trip was suspended. We didn't even take the tram as my husband say we couldn't see anything coz the cover from the rain. I also didn't rent the
TINY XPLORER which I thought I can put my son in and drag him while we go from station. It cost $15.00. Lucky I didn't coz it rained and if I did, I have to drag it back. Phew!

Our last stop at the zoo was the KidzWorld where my son took the

Carousel Ride#
At Rainforest Kidzworld
Timing
Cost
9.00am - 5.00pm
S$4.00 per person (adults welcome)

And I have a good picture of him on the ride. Thanks to the photographer and it cost me $18.00 to buy that photo. However, it was worth it coz it came from a good camera ;)

My girl took the

Pony Ride#
At Rainforest Kidzworld
Timing
Cost
10.00am - 5.00pm
S$6.00 per person

Sad that didn't have one picture of that from the photographer as he walked away. If not I would buy one too for my girl. It seems so unfair now ;(!

Finally, after we had our lunch at KFC, as usual pack with people and difficult to find seats. Lucky I grab one at a good time someone was leaving. Hehehhee...

Lunch over, my girl hit to the SPLASH pool and knock herself out WET! My son dare not coz so many kids there. So he landed up playing the slide in the playground near the splash pool. Then Thunder came and we all have to clear the area.

From The Creative Commentor

Pay Cut Announcement - effective this Month

My company have announced last month 25 Feb 09 that there will be a pay cut from Mar 09. I haven't quite added the entry here. So you can see that budget is even tighter then ever. The bright side is that at least I still have a job so can't complain. Besides, the percentage of cut isn't that of a great yet as compared to across other regions.

So... heard that more news will come in Jun 09. What news? May be further reduction again may be retrenchment ... don't really know yet and everything is vague right now. However, take each day as it is.. with a job. Let the good or bad news come later.

X-company comparison

I noticed even I sometimes do it but don't seem to be healthy.

So this jerk have this problem too! He likes to do comparison too, to his x-company and he is a manager somemore. It just leaves impression that since you treasure your x-company so much why are you still here? Go back to your x-company lah since so good!

I came to realize that it is not good to do that as it just makes you so grown attached to the x-company in which you are telling people you can't let go. Just this year not long, I have let go my x-company image in my head and moved on to where I am now. No doubt it is much better then having to cling on to the past.

A jerk manager by the name Desm

Ok... he is a Anti - Singapore Air Force (SAF). He criticize how rigid SAF is and how stupid their procedures is. This wasn't the first time he have critized. The last time he mentioned how his friends from SAF is blah blah blah.... nothing good came out of his mouth but saying how no initiative they have and as if he have plenty in him. So I did tell him off one time.

Today, a colleague mentioned that he have a better form then the one I have created and how the form in which I created and I quote "is so SAF". So much for a Singapore Citizen. It is people like him we call traitor. See when there is war in Singapore. He will not be the first to fight for his country but to bail. & did I mentioned that I was once an SAF, comment like this really pissed me off as it is directed at me. I cried after that coz I was so overwhelmed by his idiotic comments. Anyway, lucky my boss didn't agree to change and little did he know that most of the information in the form was given by my boss. I just add the in betweens like the company logo. Joke on him! Not only that, he can't even locate the file.

Sigh and someone told me that we are family. People like him, I'd rather not call him as a family as he is RUDE and family don't hurt one another. Anyway, he is a joke!

Again another stupid Taxi Driver on the road!

My story goes like that.

I went to visit a colleague at SGH yesterday and after the visit, I thought that taking a taxi would get me home faster. However, I end up frastred with the taxi driver. What happend was I hop on the taxi and told him where I am heading. He told me that taking the AYE to clementi is the shortest way. So I said ok. I know that at that time is heavy traffic becoz it was off office hours everyone trying to get home too. When the taxi was approaching AYE, I noticed the EMS system indicates massive jam but the taxi driver still took that instead of suggesting to change the route instead. I told him massive jam (hinting him) and he can only tell me "yeah.. it is like that... peak hours." Ok ... then the jam starts to get longer and the meter keeps running instead of changing lanes to keep moving and get me to my destination, he tail gates the slow lane. This continue quite awhile. We passed the Upper Bukit Timah exit and again I thought he would exit and take another route. Still, he continue with the jam and the meter continue to run up. On several occassion I want to get down in the expressway and also tell him to go Upper Bukit Timah road and drop me at the nearest MRT. But I continue with the journey and BKE came up. Finally, he took the BKE but now the meter also up to 20 bucks ++ not including the 35% peak hour charges yet. I was so pissed! I wanted to call the taxi company and complain. I know that the taxi company won't do anything much for me as this seems to the "Service" of Singapore these days.

This taxi driver took me for an idiot for not knowing the road. For those who are going to take taxi, better know the road and show the taxi driver where to go and don't let the taxi string your nose and trick you into running the meter up so that you pay for the fare so that he can knock off early for the day.

Week 1 Potty Project: Procure the Right Tools

Use this list as a guide to start shopping for the toileting tools your toddler needs to begin the potty-training process.

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Recycle Centre

I am a huge support of sending items to recycle centre to recycle!

There is this service here that comes to block houses to collect recycle items which include old clothes and etc. They will provide you a green plastic bag. They even have schedule that comes to the block to collect the stuff. I have been donating old clothes of mine and my babies clothes to them for quite sometime. However, last weekend when it was their schedule to come to my area where I stay to pick up recycle items, I was pissed off! What happened was that I did ask them if they collect shoes and they replied saying that they do. So I placed all the baby shoes which are still wearable inside the green plastic bag together with the old clothes and have it placed outside my house for their contractor to collect. Little did I know that later my husband out of the blue mentioned to me that he saw some baby shoes at the stairway and was wondering who threw it there. I don't know if it were their contractor who threw there but it were, I hope this people will be punished by God for choosing stuff to recycle. They should have check the stuff and return back to me instead of toss it away. What a waste. This is the last time ever I am going give them stuff. I'd rather get my husband drive to YMCA and donate to them. Disappointed with them! For this reason, I would rather do donation to overseas as I know they would appreciate it more then Singaporeans does.

7th Treatment - Yun Nam

Same thing just that I have cut my hair today. So not much to udpate