Horrible

Monday was supposed to be a happy day but as it turned out, im not one to enjoy many happy days.

My deal is falling apart and I only got home super late. Was feeling all feverish and cold sweaty all day. Then lau-sai-ed 5 times on Monday night.

Then my email was down the entire of tuesday and that super irritated me. Plus the tummy still wasnt feeling too good.

I went home early and was stopped by an oldish woman at my lift. She walked past me and then turned back and called out to me. I actually was so pissed i turned back and semi-yelled "WHAT?" She gave me a whole sob story on how she needed to replace her left eye and she had no medicine to buy eye drops. My heart softened a little and i gave her $10.

My mum said i shouldnt have given and i guess to some extent i agree but... i dont know. I thought at least someone could have a better day than me with my $10 but i hope i didnt get conned. Shit.

Someone tried to borrow money from me some time back. I refused cos i didnt like the idea of lending money to a friend. She has since not talked to me. I love money but it's sad that the lack of money really changes attitudes and behaviour.

Busy Busy

Phew it has been such a busy week with my management here. It culminated with me presenting at both the Exco and Board meetings on Wednesday and Thursday on our development efforts. I was quite jittery cos the year has been quite slow and the Board always intimidates me. But after a three hour presentation, i felt good, my boss thought it was good. So i rewarded myself with a good meal as well as yogurt before flying off to Hong Kong.

WHAM BHAM Thank you Mdm!

After my little outburst this afternoon, the bank called my finance department that they realised that their boss is meeting my tycoon boss next week. And they dont want my boss to ask their boss about this issue. So they can make an exception this time round and open the bank account first and then fill in the forms.

My goodness, that made me happy but sad also that money and fear means so much to some people.

Lunchie

I had lunch at Marina Square food court.. quite a good view..



Had Qiu Lian ban mian. Reminds me of simpler things in life.

Cheer

Some cheer in my otherwise horrid day.



I think my swing sucks. I'm very irritated and disappointed. I hate it when i dont do things well.

BHAM Again...

As mentioned here, almost three months ago, I was tasked to form an overseas entity.

Three months down the road, things arent moving fast enough on the part of my Singapore bank opening a bank account for us in Indonesia. I have never written to the bankers so they are usually handled by my finance dept. So i dropped the bankers a nasty email today.

Dear Mr X

I’m a little perturbed that it has take taken us so long to open a bank account with your bank. This and the fact that while we are in month number three in the process, we seem to be getting new requests for forms to be filled up.

While we appreciate the necessity of numerous forms, we had hoped that, in the spirit of efficiency and expediency, the requests could have come from the onset, since our directors are located in Singapore, US and Dubai.

Thank you for your kind attention in this and we hope the application can be completed soon.

I’m available to talk on the phone anytime if I can assist in any way.

So incompetent it's scary. *shudder*

Clubbed

Here's a picture of my golf clubs.. I like the white bag..



I hope to be able to get off work on time today so that i can go to the range. I'm not making much progress and I'm very irritated.

Dawn

It was 7am when i reached the office this morning. And dawn was breaking. I hope this week is a good week.

Tripping

As mentioned before, my entire management team is here. I just met my CEO that day but i went back on Saturday too after my golf lessons to sit in on the trainings. I saw him again and he was quite surprised to see me. I thought i scored points already until he said, "Hey Cornball, what are you doing here? Shouldnt you be out signing deals?"

Diao.

Since my President is in Asia, he thought it'd be a good idea for me to bring him go see my clients. So we are going to Hong Kong and Shanghai at the end of the week to hopefully move some of my deals!

MOVE!

Bang!

On top on the blackberry scare, which Keeve oddly give so much publicity on his blog and FB, i came super close to being attacked by bird poop yesterday. I was walking and thought i saw something drop in front of me. It was SO close that i already walked pass the spot in which the poop dropped.

Super heng.



And VERY oddly enough, my car was pelted with bird poop this morning. It never happens cos i never park near the trees at my house carpark. It's so weird man.

WOW!

i consider myself a pretty observant guy. I consider myself a lot of nice things but for the sake of this post, observant is the trait.

I had a dinner appointment after work on Friday. I was checking my mail on my BB as i walk to the car. And as I was early, i stood outside the car as i waited for it to warm up.

My office is at the Suntec area. I was at the Sim Lim Square junction traffic light when i realised my BB isnt where i usually leave it (in the compartment between the front seats).

I tried to re-trace my steps. Hey i was still reading mails as i walked to my car mah... i opened the door.. put the phone at the top of the car, stooped to turn on the ignition..

THE LAST TIME I SAW MY PHONE WAS ON TOP OF MY CAR!!!!!!!

SHIT SHIT SHIT!

I have driven up from my basement carpark, went round the suntec fountain, went up the rocher flyover, then down it, overtook someone.. and now im at the traffic light at Sim Lim.

Damn..how to re-trace my steps? there goes my beloved BB. i thought maybe my phone was STILL at the top. So i checked the right mirror to see if it's safe to open my door. Opened my door.

AND THE PHONE WAS STILL THERE!!! Sitting at the top of my car!

I nonchalantly took it down and entered my car.

I could tell the car on my right edged forward to see me more clearly. I pretended like there was nothing.

I simply cannot believe that after all the driving, it was still alive! The leather backing of my fone acted as an anti-slip surface.

Seriously a miracle man. Im so not kidding about this.

Golfing and Goofing

It seemed like a long time since i blogged but it's really just less than one week. Odd... perhaps time has been moving rather slowly.

For some reason i have been getting up at 6am of late. I just cant sleep. And it's not like i sleep early... mostly abt 12plus or 1am. Odd. So im usually in office by 730am and have been able to quite some time even before other people come in.

Our project in Singapore is commencing soon and my entire corporate team from Atlanta has descended upon Singapore for training for the ground staff. My CEO, President, COO, CAO, all the VPs.. the works. I attended the opener today and ended up staying the entire day. Wasted the entire day today but i was BB-ing all day through man. It was crazy. Today was literally the first day i was introduced as Cornball, Assistant Vice President for Business Development.. quite a surreal feeling cos the person came up to me to introduce herself cos she saw my name in the email trails (must be all the BB-ing i do when im locked outside my office)

Another person even asked if she could give me a hug. It's not like i was super popular but i think these overseas educated people are more physical. I just realised that for every proj we commence, i'll immediately have 300 people wanting to know me. I dont care for the hugs.. i just hope for discounts.

Because my project was close to a mega super duper golf sale, i was able to sneak off to buy some irons, putter and a driver and they even threw in a free bag. The stuff i got were marked down more than 50%!!! Even got free towel. I really like nice fluffy towels. It's like i use more than five a week. Cos i play badminton twice a week right? Each time i usually use two towels cos i perspire like a pig. Then golf lesson on sat, use one. Then midweek golf range one more. Gosh that's six! That's excluding any additional range sessions.

It's Friday tmr.. got some work to do before i head down to my project. Im so glad i got a car really. So mobile.

KTV

It has always been my mum's wish to get a KTV set so that she can sing at home.

I've always procrastinated but i decided enough was enough and bought this system on Friday.



I had a sudden meeting on Friday. I was dressed down on Friday in a blue floral shirt, jeans and white Evisu shoes. I decided to go home and change into something more professional looking.

There was once early in my career that i saw this guy come in for a meeting on Friday dressed in a polo tee which was a tad too big for him, untucked, scrappy jeans and casual shoes. He didnt seem to notice that he was so shabbily dressed but i told myself i'd never look that bad in front of a client again.

Shoes

I remember wanting to blog about this some time back but never did.

I think i have a lot of shoes. i have eight pairs of work shoes, two pairs of casual shoes and one pair of basketball shoes, two pairs of soccer boots, one pair of badminton shoes and now of course golf shoes.

I went for my golf lesson at 8:30am then to badminton at 10:30am. My car had my golfing stuff, badminton stuff and tons of change in attire. Phew.. a sporting lifestyle requires so much equipment it's scary. And i havent even bought my full golf clubs. Im glad i got my car.

Digest-ed

I told my boss that i'm picking up golf and he gave me his copy of Golf Digest. Hee hee..kio dio S$6.50.

Sox also offered me his GD but i didnt get to meet him to take it. I hope he doesnt feel slighted.

Bloody Japs

No wonder my mum doesnt eat Japanese food.

Bubbly!

I received a parcel today. I was quite excited cos I love receiving parcels.



The parcel was filled with bubble wrap. Immediately I wanted to bring it home cos my mum loves to squeeze the bubble wrap. That is, I’m not kidding, the main reason why I’m blogging. I’m bringing the bubble wrap home for my mum.



See? I’ve put them all in this taka paperbag, along with the gummies i bought, which im going to bring home.



The contents of the parcel is actually quite nice too. It’s a velvet box of Luxe Guides.



In it there are Luxe Guides on some of my favourite cities, Shanghai, Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore, Chiang Mai, Phuket (not really). Go google Luxe Guides if you don’t know what they are.

Phew.. What a week

It's 4:30am on Sunday morning and Man U just made little work of Fulham.

I just drank bubble tea before the match and consequently am wide awake. Of course it didnt help that i took a nap from 730 to 1130pm just now. Yawn. It has been a tiring day. Woke up at 7am on Saturday to go for my golf lessons. Then breakfast with my friends. Then i went to the driving range at Marina after that to practice some more. Then i went for two hours of badminton at 2:30pm. By the time i was home at 6pm, my body and hands were aching.

It has been a somewhat draining week at work today. Tiring not so much at work but rather things that happen at the workplace. I'm not trying to be cryptic cos you know i tell you, my intrepid reader, everything. It's just that everything's just quite complicated. And I was just glad that the week was over.

Ive been spending some time at the ranges and sometimes it gives me some time to be alone and think. Most of the time, it gives me aching arms. Golf is such a loner's sport.

Fishing

It's been a quiet week this week.

Left the office at 5:30 on Wednesday to hit some balls at the driving range with my friends. The Marina range is super nearby.

Anyway Sox sent me this.. haha.. quite funny.

Well Said

The soccer season is coming to a crescendo in the next few months with Man U attempting to sweep a historic 5 titles in one season.

With the whatever cup they won in Japan and the Carling Cup they won last night, with seven points from Liverpool and a game at hand and an FA Cup and Champions League best of 16 second round, A. Ferguson says:

"It would be great to think we could do it, but my experience says we could go to Fulham next weekend, there will be a deflected shot off someone's backside and we're out of the FA Cup."

Indeed, a deflected shot on someone's backside would just destroyed things. It always does.

Shoes

I went to do some golf shopping after my first lesson yesterday.

Bought this pair of shoes. Yummy. 50% off. Double yummy.