i like this comic (above) copyright of jeroen of www.kartoen.beI'm popping the bottle and pouring some champagne to celebrate my 50th posting on Blogger.com!
"...i've received some encouraging comments from those who have dropped by and read my blog and I would really like to thank them for taking the time to read the stuff I've written here. Someone complimented me a couple of days ago about how well written this blog is. I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart, but I believe that there's much more room for improvement and I will keep improving myself..."
Here I am sitting in my 20th storey cubicle in Wisma Genting while staring out of the window at a gloomy Friday afternoon. It's 2:40pm now, I'm counting down another 1 hour and 20 minutes till 4pm when I am finally go home. Today is dress down and leave early day, a day everyone looks forward to like the highlight of the week.
And as I ponder upon my activities for the coming weekend, the long term planner in me is busy at work scheming in the backgroud on what I should be doing in the long run to escape the monotony of the daily grind I go through as described above.
After chasing him for 17 days for the monthly rental due to me, yesterday I finally got him on the phone only to hear him say that he'll be staying till the middle of march before moving out. Initially he said he would not be paying me any more rental cos he wanna use up his 2 months deposit paid to me initially, then it got me pondering... stay for 2.5 months more but, 2 months deposit and won't be paying me anymore rental. Something not right here somewhere, so I texted him back and told him that he should be paying me another half month rental. Unless he will move out by the end of february.
He replied saying "No problem, I'll move out at the end of feb". So here I am left in sort of a quandary.
I have just been staying in my current place for about 2 and a half months only and although it's an old dodgy place full of rats and cockroaches and lizards, but I'm slowly getting the hang of staying here. It's really convenient and peaceful. On one hand, I wouldn't mind staying put where I am for a couple of years before I move to another place, and on the other hand, I've got my own apartment, which I have to pay roughly a thousand bucks every month for which is going to be vacant in another 1.5 months.
Another thing which is bugging me is, I recently came across this MBA program in Communications and PR from Limkokwing University which caught my interest. I was seriously contemplating MBA programs during the first half of 2007 but after landing this job, the plan slowly took a back seat as I didn't really have much time to do anything else after the grind of the 9-6 I was putting myself to for the past 6 months.
Now that I'm kinda settled down here plus the office move from Pulau Indah (Westport) to Wisma Genting in the middle of the city, I am left with alot more time to pursue whatever I had put on KIV before, and one of them included my MBA plan.
I remember telling my friend SK in Penang back in 2006 that one of my 2007 new year's resolutions was to embark in a MBA program. Look at how time flies? It's 2008 already, exactly 14 months after I shared with someone my new years plans for the past year, I'm yet to fulfill it!
Maybe the main obstacle back then was my financial situation. Not that it has improved dramatically now, I'm still broke as hell. While the funds from my EPF will help out a little and inch me a little bit closer to my dream, I still have to work my butt off to find the other 60-70% of funds to pay for the program fees.
So right now what I'm contemplating is, should I move in to stay in my own apartment in March or sell it off and use whatever money I can from it to upgrade myself with an MBA degree so that in the long term, my job prospects would be better and (possibly) I could aim to buy a much bigger house or drive a much bigger car because of the opportunities it presents me.
Not that I'm complaining about my situation now, but I will be turning 31 this year and I don't want myself to be stuck in a dead-end job with no prospects for the next 10-20 years whining about missed opportunities and watching my friends and peers wheeze by me in their flashy BMWs and Mercedez Benz talking about how successful their lives has become and me ending up snuggled cosily in the 'Middle class' cradle thanking my lucky stars to be alive and talking about how I made do with less to put my kids through school and university.
On a lighter note, this is my 50th post on blogger! I'm giving myself a pat on the back, maybe not so much for a job well done, more towards for being able (and consistent) enough to write 50 entries from 2006 till today. I know some of the entries are short, some are only pictures and a little message, some are nonsense and a little humour, but most of it are close to my heart, and I guess this one is no different either.
Thanks to blogs we get to express what we tend to keep deep inside us. If not for writing in them, we'll all probably be walking time-bombs just inching closer to blowing up cos we are unable to express our feelings.
Till next time! Thanks for reading and visiting my site...
"...i've received some encouraging comments from those who have dropped by and read my blog and I would really like to thank them for taking the time to read the stuff I've written here. Someone complimented me a couple of days ago about how well written this blog is. I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart, but I believe that there's much more room for improvement and I will keep improving myself..."
Here I am sitting in my 20th storey cubicle in Wisma Genting while staring out of the window at a gloomy Friday afternoon. It's 2:40pm now, I'm counting down another 1 hour and 20 minutes till 4pm when I am finally go home. Today is dress down and leave early day, a day everyone looks forward to like the highlight of the week.
And as I ponder upon my activities for the coming weekend, the long term planner in me is busy at work scheming in the backgroud on what I should be doing in the long run to escape the monotony of the daily grind I go through as described above.
After chasing him for 17 days for the monthly rental due to me, yesterday I finally got him on the phone only to hear him say that he'll be staying till the middle of march before moving out. Initially he said he would not be paying me any more rental cos he wanna use up his 2 months deposit paid to me initially, then it got me pondering... stay for 2.5 months more but, 2 months deposit and won't be paying me anymore rental. Something not right here somewhere, so I texted him back and told him that he should be paying me another half month rental. Unless he will move out by the end of february.
He replied saying "No problem, I'll move out at the end of feb". So here I am left in sort of a quandary.
I have just been staying in my current place for about 2 and a half months only and although it's an old dodgy place full of rats and cockroaches and lizards, but I'm slowly getting the hang of staying here. It's really convenient and peaceful. On one hand, I wouldn't mind staying put where I am for a couple of years before I move to another place, and on the other hand, I've got my own apartment, which I have to pay roughly a thousand bucks every month for which is going to be vacant in another 1.5 months.
Another thing which is bugging me is, I recently came across this MBA program in Communications and PR from Limkokwing University which caught my interest. I was seriously contemplating MBA programs during the first half of 2007 but after landing this job, the plan slowly took a back seat as I didn't really have much time to do anything else after the grind of the 9-6 I was putting myself to for the past 6 months.
Now that I'm kinda settled down here plus the office move from Pulau Indah (Westport) to Wisma Genting in the middle of the city, I am left with alot more time to pursue whatever I had put on KIV before, and one of them included my MBA plan.
I remember telling my friend SK in Penang back in 2006 that one of my 2007 new year's resolutions was to embark in a MBA program. Look at how time flies? It's 2008 already, exactly 14 months after I shared with someone my new years plans for the past year, I'm yet to fulfill it!
Maybe the main obstacle back then was my financial situation. Not that it has improved dramatically now, I'm still broke as hell. While the funds from my EPF will help out a little and inch me a little bit closer to my dream, I still have to work my butt off to find the other 60-70% of funds to pay for the program fees.
So right now what I'm contemplating is, should I move in to stay in my own apartment in March or sell it off and use whatever money I can from it to upgrade myself with an MBA degree so that in the long term, my job prospects would be better and (possibly) I could aim to buy a much bigger house or drive a much bigger car because of the opportunities it presents me.
Not that I'm complaining about my situation now, but I will be turning 31 this year and I don't want myself to be stuck in a dead-end job with no prospects for the next 10-20 years whining about missed opportunities and watching my friends and peers wheeze by me in their flashy BMWs and Mercedez Benz talking about how successful their lives has become and me ending up snuggled cosily in the 'Middle class' cradle thanking my lucky stars to be alive and talking about how I made do with less to put my kids through school and university.
On a lighter note, this is my 50th post on blogger! I'm giving myself a pat on the back, maybe not so much for a job well done, more towards for being able (and consistent) enough to write 50 entries from 2006 till today. I know some of the entries are short, some are only pictures and a little message, some are nonsense and a little humour, but most of it are close to my heart, and I guess this one is no different either.
Thanks to blogs we get to express what we tend to keep deep inside us. If not for writing in them, we'll all probably be walking time-bombs just inching closer to blowing up cos we are unable to express our feelings.
Till next time! Thanks for reading and visiting my site...
