The day was spent at Suntec, Singapore Garden Festival. After walking and enjoying the scenery for a few hours, a certain plant caught my eye, its on sale and for wat its worth, i paid 15 bucks for it. Here are some of its characteristics after researching about the first "live" plant I've gotten, another sign that i've aged (plants are alive instead of fake)

- If your plant is growing in a terrarium, you will have to provide it's food. The plant will consume 2 or 3 flies each month. You can also purchase small crickets at a local pet shop as food. Dead flies and insects may be used, provided that they died of natural causes and not by poisons. ( i know this gives most of it away, but the last sentence "provided that they died of natural causes and not by poisons" totally justifies it)

- Add sunlight slowly, over the course of a few days, to prevent sunburn

- Never, never, never feed your plant hamburger. The fat content in burger will be fatal to your plant..

- Artificially springing the trap, (poking it with your finger), drains the plant's energy. If this is done too often, the trap head will become less sensitive and possibly die.

tadah....


















Pretty, simply unique

posted by ikaira @ 4:27 AM, ,


TGIF
Friday, July 25, 2008

Thank God Its Friday...

After Friday, it'll be Saturday and finally Sunday. and Sunday, its soccer day.

So by the end of this day, i would have lasted my 1/12 wks in the job. Learned quite abit but not really useful to the life i want to lead or the job i want to hold. things to know and understand? maybe.

when its 12/12 wks, and then wat.

better start knocking on doors.

posted by ikaira @ 3:57 AM, ,


4 days before and 4 days after
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

4 days before i started my job, i thought it dosen matter wat kind of job i work, as long as the pay is gd, the non-working hours would be a blast, cos it'll be reimbursed by the money earned during working hours.

4 days after i started the job, i realized im really just in it for the money, not to mention the 2 hrs lunch break, the "boss-dosen-care-if-ur-late mindset", the 15 click to work distance, one expressway to work.

posted by ikaira @ 10:37 PM, ,


Whats the most constant thing in life........... Change
Friday, July 18, 2008

posted by ikaira @ 11:32 PM, ,


the agent just called, i'll be signing my contract this friday and will be starting my employment next mon for a 3 mths contract. after job hunting for so long im finally getting my ass to earn money.

no doubt bumming is great, it feels great too, waking up without worries, waking up becos i want to wake up(to catch xiao yu er and hua wu cue)... so much so much about it... instead of the alarm forcing me to wake up so that i wun be late to report at work.

and thats why i still aspire to bum.

posted by ikaira @ 2:23 AM, ,


i just finished a game of dota and im already bored, nowadays even dota dosen satisfy me.

and before dota, i was out prawning, and even that dosen make me feel happy, not that its not fun, it sure is fun but just not enough to keep it going for the night or without the adrenaline / kick it used to have.

im sure dota and prawning haven not changed any bit, its all just me, but i cant help but feel this way

in fact, the thing that keeps me wanting to wake up on scheudle is chinese drama serials aired on channel 8 from 2.30pm - 4.30pm, how sad is that.

and after the daily drama serials, i play a game of dota, have dinner either at school or nearby and start my night classes.

after that i come home feeling either i wasted my 4 bucks of petrol or gd thing i went cos this topic should be in the exam

and knowing that i wun be able to qualify for a degree with distinction makes lessons all the more mundane. i feel less wanting to copy notes or take down every single detail cos it dosen really matter when the back of my mind tells me i will still graduate just like any other one with or without hardwork, so why work harder, a degree is still a degree, nothing more, nothing less

and since ord, i kinda feel u dun actually need to study so hard to actually make it big, and i dun aim for the sky either. but it was gd ns was boring and i signed up for the night classes cos im forced to finish it having 4 more mths to go, if ns was interesting, I might have postponed my bachelor studies.

that basically sums up my current mood and I really cant wait for the degree to finish where i can finally see the money

posted by ikaira @ 2:54 AM, ,


kelly finally confirmed that i'm still required for work, and tentitively starting at end of july. great, another source of income. btw, i've signed up as a tuition teacher to help out my neighbour and the first lesson starts this sat. yet another source of income.

cant wait for the degree to be out, maybe then will i finally see the money.

cant wait to see how my 401 account works out.

posted by ikaira @ 4:00 AM, ,


recently i met one of my sec sch badminton senior, hes currently with hsbc as a financial planner, he is literally a financial planner, who helps to plan ur finance, like how to make u reach ur goal when ur 55, how to take certain steps when rules kick in, like cpf at 55, or medishield or how to invest yada yada.

its not those typical insurance salesperson that we got so used to seeing on the streets where they just sell for the commission, for the money.

i think this line of work is interesting, maybe i can consider somewhere down the road.

posted by ikaira @ 3:35 AM, ,


its 1st of july, meaning school has started and its the end of the fantastic bummer's life. and being so accustomed to enjoying life, i skipped the first lesson, the thought of having to travel 1.5hrs to and fro, spreading over 50+ km was merely the start of the devil's talk. not to mention the higher petrol prices. more demoralizing was missing out on a game of mahjong followed by a movie trip.

shit, i've gotten to used to this life where you wake up not by the alarm clock and do watever you really wanna do becos theres nothing that forces you to do this shit or that, maybe one.... money.

this led me to branch further, actually being a tuition teacher is quite nice, raking in 3-4k per mth, you dun have work stress, and can minus travelling, slp more, wake up late yada yada.

some ppl dream to become an investor, doctor, lawyer entrepreneur, can i dream to be a bummer?

maybe thats the most definitive reason for the diploma and bachelor. earn enough to be able to bum without financial restrictions

i aspire to bum, that sounds nice ain it.

posted by ikaira @ 3:02 AM, ,