24 hr on Activation
3rd September 2006, Sunday
11.15am into a beautiful, tranquil Sunday morning and my missus is been "activated" to go back to her workplace to check on her problematic machinery...
In fact it was her own choice to make the effort down to the factory in Ang Mo Kio as the entire weekend had been plagued by her colleagues from the night shift haunting our peaceful slumber with relentless phone call to inquire on the solution to fix the niggling problems of the machinery...
Which is why my poor wife hasn't had a good rest from Thursday evening onwards when she was on MC for a medical check-up at Alexandra Hospital for her nose problem...
The "24 hour on Alert" shit is quite chronic that I wonder if being in the army is remotely close to her situation now....
With the fact that we are embarking on a journey of "Two as One", we seriously need to beef up our account and her desire to focus on her sideline requires a hefty monetary backup as well thus she seems to be bonded to this job for the next year or so...but I truly hope she will find greener pastures...at least those with more succulent grass and need not to be activated to be milk round the clock (you do know I am throwing an analogy of a milk cow...hmmm...not a good way to describe my wife...)
We had went through the financial part as I had been wanting to chat with her about since we had decided to go ahead with the Koh Samui Rocky Resorts honeymoon escapade...
So all in all it may cost as around 2K and that is after me able to claim my flexi-benefits ...damn those blood-sucking conniving holiday makers and of course those "ang-moh" with their huge face value of their currency served on the platter for the resorts to suck on...
The Feburary trip to Japan is also on our agenda at the current moment when I realized that the yen has once again fallen in value now around 1.33 in the market but we can get at least 1.35 from our trusty money-changer...
With 2 trips in plan to the land of the rising sun in 2007, we are contemplating in changing a bulk of yen for usage in the future which might be a double-edge sword especially when you are cash tight... but compared to what we had changed a year back... for every 100,000 yen changed, you actually save as much as $200...
Which was why when chatting with Tay-chan and Chan at LT yesterday we all agreed it would be good to change some money now... just a shame that Vincent is now in Japan at the moment if not his stockbroker friend could be able to get us at an even more attractive rate...
Well the weekend has been characterized with the famous "S-11" sign again, so we just have to be sure we are been employed in a long time to come...
Even considering if the forthcoming IMF meeting would require an extra hand...as an "arubaito" there would be a good opportunity to earn some extra cash...
11.15am into a beautiful, tranquil Sunday morning and my missus is been "activated" to go back to her workplace to check on her problematic machinery...
In fact it was her own choice to make the effort down to the factory in Ang Mo Kio as the entire weekend had been plagued by her colleagues from the night shift haunting our peaceful slumber with relentless phone call to inquire on the solution to fix the niggling problems of the machinery...
Which is why my poor wife hasn't had a good rest from Thursday evening onwards when she was on MC for a medical check-up at Alexandra Hospital for her nose problem...
The "24 hour on Alert" shit is quite chronic that I wonder if being in the army is remotely close to her situation now....
With the fact that we are embarking on a journey of "Two as One", we seriously need to beef up our account and her desire to focus on her sideline requires a hefty monetary backup as well thus she seems to be bonded to this job for the next year or so...but I truly hope she will find greener pastures...at least those with more succulent grass and need not to be activated to be milk round the clock (you do know I am throwing an analogy of a milk cow...hmmm...not a good way to describe my wife...)
We had went through the financial part as I had been wanting to chat with her about since we had decided to go ahead with the Koh Samui Rocky Resorts honeymoon escapade...
So all in all it may cost as around 2K and that is after me able to claim my flexi-benefits ...damn those blood-sucking conniving holiday makers and of course those "ang-moh" with their huge face value of their currency served on the platter for the resorts to suck on...
The Feburary trip to Japan is also on our agenda at the current moment when I realized that the yen has once again fallen in value now around 1.33 in the market but we can get at least 1.35 from our trusty money-changer...
With 2 trips in plan to the land of the rising sun in 2007, we are contemplating in changing a bulk of yen for usage in the future which might be a double-edge sword especially when you are cash tight... but compared to what we had changed a year back... for every 100,000 yen changed, you actually save as much as $200...
Which was why when chatting with Tay-chan and Chan at LT yesterday we all agreed it would be good to change some money now... just a shame that Vincent is now in Japan at the moment if not his stockbroker friend could be able to get us at an even more attractive rate...
Well the weekend has been characterized with the famous "S-11" sign again, so we just have to be sure we are been employed in a long time to come...
Even considering if the forthcoming IMF meeting would require an extra hand...as an "arubaito" there would be a good opportunity to earn some extra cash...
Japanese word of the day:アルバイト ~a-ru-ba-i-to~ (Moonlighting) I need not to be Bruce Willis or Cybil Shepard to realise I need more moeny
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