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  Seth 11:51 pm on January 26, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  

  Wow what a crazy year!

  When I was 21 years old, I -

  • ORDed from the army
  • Took a job that paid less than $4 an hour
  • Got rejected from all three local universities
  • Took a job that paid $8 an hour
  • Came out to my parents
  • Got contracted as a financial planner and became officially self-employed
  • Bought my own life insurance
  • Fell in love with Thai because of The Love of Siam
  • Got my first, own non-Apple computer
  • Got my first 5-figure pay cheque
  • Won a company award
  • Became “boss” of 3 part-timers

  And now, 22 is the age life really begins!

   

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  A bunch of gold coins

  Seth 2:48 am on December 17, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: money (10)

  So remember this little thing about dollar coins I started almost 4 months back? I disregarded the $2 note thing after the first few days, since I was getting dollar coins almost every day.

  Anyway, here’s what I have so far!

  

  $189!

  That works out to $50 per month since I still have about more than a week to a full 4-month period. Fifty bucks just on coins alone – not too shabby.

  I’m going to embark on something different soon.

   
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  Milestone

  Seth 2:43 am on November 18, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  

  Wow, has it been six months since all of this craziness begun? Half a year! I can’t really wrap my head around how fast time has passed.

  I guess it is quite pleasant to be able to annotate this milestone by closing the biggest deal I’ve had since joining this industry. Very satisfying indeed, and I do hope I can maintain this to end the year beautifully and start the next one with momentum.

  Through the ups and downs of working life, I guess it is really important to have colleagues who push each other on, and I’m lucky to have such great colleagues as friends.

  Here’s to another great six months and beyond!

   
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    Janice Koh 9:46 pm on November 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    lols, can’t wait to acknowledge it.
    you’re welcome!!! D
    haas.

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  HP EliteBook 2730P

  Seth 1:06 am on October 11, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: table

  After five years of being a Mac user, this is my first PC in a long time. I just got the HP EliteBook 2730P simply because I needed a tablet and Apple isn’t delivering one. Rumors point at a tablet running a stripped down OS, and it just doesn’t cut it. I need full OS support, and thus I have crossed over to the dark side and am using Vista on a regular basis now.

  Vista’s not that bad, I guess.. Just not that good.

  

  Might be a market too niche for Apple to get into, but tablet PCs have their uses and they are especially useful in my work. Also, it’s strangely addictive to just scribble nonsense on the screen.

  A worthy purchase I made two days ago. Besides, it has pretty much earned back its cost!

   
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  The Love of Siam

  Seth 1:21 am on October 6, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Love of Siam

  Tong: So, Mew, how have you been?

  Mew: Fine. Playing my music is fun.

  Tong: But you are alone. Aren’t you lonely?

  Mew: Frighteningly lonely.

  Tong: What do you mean? “Frighteningly lonely”?

  Mew: It’s like when we were younger, we were so lonely because we didn’t have alot of friends. And now that we are grown up, loneliness seems, just so much worse.

  Tong: Why is it so bad for you?

  Mew: I don’t know how to explain it. It started during the summer when I was in 8th Grade. Papa took grandma somewhere for several days. And the day when she came back…

  It’s not easy at all, because the longer my grandma is gone the more I miss her.

  So I have one question:
  If we can love someone so much, how will we be able to handle it the one day when we are separated? And, if being separated is a part of life, and you know about separation well, is it possible Tong, that we can love someone and never be afraid of losing them? At the same time, I was also wondering. Is it possible that, we can live our entire life without loving anyone at all?

  That’s my loneliness. I have lived with it now for 5 years, I know just how bad loneliness feels. I fear it will continue to get worse.

  Tong: Mew… (reaches out arm towards Mew)

  Mew: (leans towards Tong)