The cost of being rich

Perhaps its good to know that you will eventually be well remunerated, the definitive path is set in stone unless someone blows it up to a million gazillion pieces and you cant salvage it back. Well, to begin with no one said carving on stone was easy, and the saying "zhi yao you heng xin, tie bang mo chen zhen". The only catch is that no one described how long it tooked and how many hours a day that could be spent on other activities was spent rolling the bar. In a larger sense, how much will i give up to make it, more so do i need to be what i think is a standard of living i always wanted. Putting things into perspective, it sometimes ends with a no. Whilst working in the shipyard has put some good sense of how much it is worth in dollars and cents, it sometimes doesnt make much sense though. 6 days a week, maybe sometimes 7 days a week, with extended hours. Sure if i were a swinging bachelor, I would gladly put in the hours. However, its time to reconsider wat i want in life, or how things will end up in the long run. Its a tough choice, because I don't think its possible at this point to confidently pin point what I want and how much i really want it. The grass is alwasy greener on the other side, take to one side and the other temptation beckons. Although it would be also good to note that being a fence sitter would be the worst case scenerio, cause u can't get the full rewards of either side. haha.

VIP

I just found out that in Year 2 holiday can go for a 3 month Vacation Induction Programme (VIP) or something of this sort which is worth 6 MCs!! Straight SU from UEM not counted into the 12 MCs. This is 3 months which is shorter than the IA of 6 months that will be worth 13 MCs but will eat into the sem time. Since I will be going to JSL to work for 2 month next year, I might as well kill 2 birds with one stone and do the VIP too by extending my attachment by 1 month!!! But this means cannot do special sem. hehe.

Time to start work again!

Right! Exams have just ended about 5 days ago and i can alr feel the impending doom of going to in another 3 days time! So much for a good rest during the hols. Achallie, I can already forsee that i wont be having much holiday time for the next week yrs in uni. Still, the ungodly working hrs is one of the only setbacks of working so far. The latest reporting letter i got spelt out trouble:

"please report to JSPL on 12/05/08 at 0730 hrs, the address is as follow:

Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd

29 Tanjong Kling Road

Singapore 628054"

Now where in the world is that???? I bet its nearer to Malaysia than Orchard. haha.. well whatever, if i could only phatom the adage that the early bird catches the worm, I would gladly wake at 530am. Now tats not a choice, its is a MUST!

Haha. What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger!