2006 Part 1

Song: Ring Ring Ring by S.H.E on Channel 56

Finally, I am free to do a review on 2006.

Let's have a summary of my financial status for 2006. It's very different from what i used to experience.

Jan - Mar -------> Internship (Almost eat grass everyday and has to depend on loan to survive)

Apr - Jun -------> Freelance Account Executive (Earn a lot, enough to buy good clothing and able to enjoy life in HK like an Emperor)

Jul - Sep -------> Professional Mahjong Player (Basically is Eat, Sleep, Play MJ, but still survive well with the money earned before that)

Oct - Dec -------> SAF personnel (Life as a recruit is bloody poor, cause we enjoy ourself a lot during weekend)

January - March:

Life as a Intern is very interesting. Especially when you get to learn a lot of things and when you actually get to do what you will be doing in the future. I think I am fortunate among all the 3 interns (Azny & Cheryl) who went there. I get to involve in different kinds of portfolio. Best of all, I get to travel for free! Went to Thailand twice and almost went to Beijing (But I gave up the chance to Cheryl). When I went to Thailand, I was in bankrupt mode. Had to loan money from benefactor. Must really thank her for lending me the money especially when I told her very last min. Anyway, the first trip, I was informed at the very last minute. I had only about 7 hours to prepare only. The first trip i stayed at Thailand for less than 24 hours. I am the first Singapore friend of Chairat to stay in his new house. I also get to experience the power of SLK. The day I went over also happens to be his parents wedding anniversary. Haha... The 2nd trip was in less than a week's time. Bt this time round, I stayed longer. Although I could actually stayed longer, but I did not because I want to watch TV. =x I still remember the previous trip before I left, I send a sms to Chairat "The next time I see you, probably will be at Changi Airport."

29 Jan 2006

Everyone manage to save 5 cents as my birthday falls on the 1st day of Chinese New Year, so they wished me Happy Birthday and Happy New Year on the same SMS. Haha...
Didn't do anything special since it is on Chinese New Year. This Chinese New Year I was so poor and so busy that I did not even buy any new clothings.

April - June

Life being a freelancer is different from being an Intern. I had to deal with clients directly and the responsibility is different. My workload increase a lot, but I get to learn more things. During my freelancing period, I had interns working under me. What a change! From an intern to someone managing interns. Haha... The interns were really bad. They can go *ninja* during working hours and prepares to leave before work ends. Some of them were really bad that they don't even know how to use a photocopy machine! During my freelancing period, I was in charge of one of the product by myself with some help from my bosses occasionally. I had to chase everyone all the time as the client is chasing me all the time too. But felt a sense of achievement when the promotional product came out. I had collected some of them and put it on display in my room.

14 June - 21 June

I was still in the office doing courier service on 13 June, yet to pack my stuffs, yet to change money, yet to prepare everything other then got my hair cut and dyed.
My mum was scolding for leaving everything till the very last minute. By the way, I went there without any money from myself. Got a loan from Judy(My boss), Azny and Mum. The pay had not yet arrived and I had no savings from previous month as I had used up all the money to book hotel and air tickets. I think the it was a well deserved trip for me as I had been working very hard for the past 3 months. All the late nights till 3am for the expenses of this trip. Actually, I think non of us told our parents who we are travelling with cause there's 1 girl and 2 guy in the group.


For the 1st two days, someone told Linda that she doesn't seems like she is overseas as she still uses my laptop to get online. The next fewdays all of us tried to reframe from using the internet and uses the laptop solely for storing the images we took.

For the whole trip, we uses 2 camera, 2 camera phone, 3 256mb memory card and number of photos we shoot during the trip was: 1811 photos & video = 1.25gb

The total amount of money I spent over there is about $2000 including air tix and hotel, relativly more than them as I paid the bill for the Jumbo meal which cost SGD$288. It's about the whole of my one month's pay. So it's like:

Unlimited hours of working ---> One Month's pay ---> Expenses for Hong Kong trip ---> 8 days 8 nights of Fun and Laughter

I think it's a trip that I will never forget for the whole of my life!

Jul - Dec:

To be continued most likely next week, unless I don't feel lazy later...