Father Host --> Happy Father's Day

Yesterday Father host received my Father's Day present. It is 6 bottles of Tiger beer, and 1 kg each of chilli sausages and skinned potatoes. Just received his pic. He said he has a long lunch coz he's enjoying the food today.

Just came back from a meet up. On the train home, saw a group of Indian tourists (their skin was quite fair though), mostly aunties and a few uncles. There were 2 empty seats opp me. The aunties rushed in and 2 of them quickly took up the 2 seats. Many of their friend have no seats. So,, they made space in between them so one of their friend can sit. 2 seats for 3 persons.

One of them even pointed at my direction, asking an uncle (from their group) to squeeze and seat in any space along my row. Phew, the uncle didnt do it..

Their builts were semi-obease type and immediately after the 3rd auntie took the seat, the passengers on both side quickly made space for them. A young man on the right stand up after he felt uneasy coz it was really squeezy. After the young men emptied his seat, the ladies quickly asked another friend (an uncle) to occupy the young man's seat. Wah lau,,,3 seats with 4 passengers!! Heng, it was my time to alight without seeing other passenger's expressions.. Cant imagine if their were our "Foreign Talents".

I think their mentality is perhaps, in India, they are used to Not seeing any empty space whether on the seats or standing area since ive watched on tv that Indians even stand along the staircase/doors or even on the top of their trains. They felt such a waste to see empty spots on our trains...so die die must occupy.

worsen local job market

Last sat went out with a customer, K. She had graduated from poly , IT course this year. She said her lecturer is helping graduates to find jobs in related area but all salaries starts from S$12oo. It was really shocking to hear this. I thought such range is for O level holders in admin or sales job. Now, even IT field also offers such low wages. Since K does not like IT jobs, she found a job with NEA (National Environmental Agency) as admin staff, same starting salary too and it is a 6months contract. After that, she dont know what is her fate.

Had durian this evening after dinner...it is the 2nd time i had durians within a week. The first time was last Sat. Sis in law said "the durian seller told me D-24 series will debut this week! I am eagerly waiting". She is a big fan of D-24 durians. Last year, my mum, my bro, my sis in law and me went to Outram park to eat D-24 durians. It was ex but was really worth it. It is king among all the durian range.

Received a surprised sms for a customer today. J send her greetings saying weather is hot and do take care of myself. So sweet of her. Her sis is Alice 88th's regular but not sure if her sis still buys from Alice.

Last night, our "recession proof" customer smsed me from UAE. She was testing if i could receive sms from her coz sometimes she might not be online but have urgent things to inform. She will go to Japan on this Sat for the next 3 weeks, chionging teppei and A9. The hotels she stayed are 5 stars ones..my supplier cant help but asked "her father is an oil baron?" hahaha. I said "perhaps or she has a $ printer at home". This customer said she takes taxis in Japan coz she dont know hw to take train. Train is too slow..she wants to go to the places fast. Not sure if she takes cab from Osaka to Tokyo and then back to Osaka coz she has not heard of JR pass...

Lembek cpf system

See the last chart for a clearer picture.

http://wayangparty.com/?p=10028

Last year, a friend of mine was out of job. She does not want to take up part time jobs and insists on getting a full time job with $ xxxx salary so with combination of her contribution and her employer's contribution, she can use the total sum in her cpf account to pay for her flat (co-own with her brother). I told her isnt it better to find 2 part time jobs, then contribute the full amount yourself rather than waiting for a full time job? She said no, she dont want to lose out on the free $ by employers. Last heard, she got one part time job...

2 days ago met my neighbour on the lift. She is an auntie and she knows i work for my fren and does the online biz. The first thing she asked 'ur fren got give u cpf anot?". I said no. She was soo shocked. I continued by saying 'i save the $ elsewhere that gives me better returns." Aunties loves our cpf system coz must use it to buy hdb flat. Was asking my mum hw much our flat cost when they first bought. it was about 30k. Now can sell for 200k. Appreciation?? If sell the old flat, must pay alot for the next flat..

Last night watched some X Japan live 5/30 in taiwan clips and Yoshiki went to Sichuan's clips. From some videos, can see some Taiwanese fans were openly fliming and taking photos of the live.

A few days ago in our chinese newspaper, there was a report tat our local singer, Liu Yida went to the X Japan live in taiwan and he snapped many photos. He had a brawl with the bouncers. He said he wanted to capture this memory as he is a big X Japan fan. So disgraceful, esp he is an artiste ( a small one) himself. A-Mei and Luo Zhixiang also went to X Japan live. A-Mei wept when the screen show's X Japan's happier time during the song, Without You. Luo Zhixiang said he is a X Japan fan coz he played X Japan songs with his band when he was younger But he does not know the vocalist name,,he only said "hide". Thus, there was a comment saying he came to "cou re nao".

X Japan 5/2 live

Some clear clips of X Japan 5/2 live. Just realised today that i havent been searching for these clips at youtube.

Just realised the announcer announced " Guitarist - Sugizo". I dont remember hearing it though..maybe im too tired after 6hrs under the sun. All i knew was, once i found my seat and put down all my stuffs, the lights went off,,omg,,im soo thankful im in time to catch the opening. However, was surprised it started almost on time (only 30mins late).

Only knew Sugizo became an Official X Japan's member after the live coz Kaori told me. We met outside tokyo dome coz i was soo late by the time i went in the dome. Our original plan was either she came to my seat or i went to her seat.

No photos taken by myself from this live,,my biggest regret (and blunder).

Nontheless, it was an exhilarating live, esp when Toshi first opened his mouth/sang. I am very happy his voice came back. I feel that only Yoshiki, Toshi and Sugizo is enjoying this live.

I dont think i will go to any of X Japan's live anymore coz somehow, even for this live, it is no longer the X Japan that i use to like. This "new" X Japan, is too commercialise for my taste.

Very "scared" of this song, Without You coz the big screen will play X Japan's happier times and make fans think of hide. Many fans cried during this song. I ren..

Taromomo?

This evening my mum yelled from the kitchen "Taromomo! U want some guava?" I cant believe my ears,,Taromomo?!! hahaha. Actually Taromomo sounds nice too,,hahaha. He ate 2 slices of seedless guava.

Last night met with M. She said her friend's Dashchund (hotdogt dogs) gave birth to 4 mini hotdog dogs 8mths ago and gave one of them to our another friend. Mini Dashchunds must be very cute..it is black in colour too. Told Momotaro last night if he needs a new friend,,his younger relative..hahaha

So long didnt blog coz im lazy...cant sleep well since i came back from my trip. I dont know why,,perhaps weather too hot? My eye bags and dark circle ring are popping out...

Read an sms last night around 12.3oam..it's from a customer. She bought a set of diru's guitar pick set 2years ago and haggled for discount. This time round, she wanted some discounts for 2 x japan's goods. Said cant coz tat time is use expensive yen to buy de,,so cant give discount. Well, didnt even give her discount for diru's pick set 2 years ago,,wat makes her think this time round, she will get the discount? She's kinda persistent,,pester till 1.15am..of coz, didnt give her discount. She gave up and said "ok, when can u meet?" She asked about buying from Taobao site,,said i dun have a lobang, she can google coz there are some sites tat does Taobao sprees. She said she dun trust these sites. Finally,,i can sleep at 1.45am..