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Now there are more reasons to shop, cos GREAT SINGAPORE SALE starts ytd. Wahaa haa. I want to drag dear to go shopping with me.
Bought a long term savings plan from Prudential few days ago, actually this few weeks were in the midst of discussing the various plans with the financial advisers, Andrew & Juliana, recommened to me by ling. They were friendly ppl, so cute & so bubbly.. Bought a savings plan which i will save $100 every month for the next 25 years & then by tat time (25 years later) i'm able to get the lump sum + interest. There are another plan which he introduced to me but the min savings every month is $200 & it involves investments. Not to say tat investments are no gd but i have a very negative mind abt investment plans. Like.. investments sure gg to lose $ & things like tat but i do trust tat he is a gd adviser who gives gd advices. And at this pt of time my only focus is on savings & not investments & i think it's gd to start off with savings first rather than jumping into savings & investment straight away. I dun think anyone who sign up for savings plan for the first time would start with an investment plan first, maybe for those very adventurous ones but not for me. I prefer to take the secure route first untill i'm comfortable with investments, maybe 2 or 3 years later. Tat's y after all the dicussions i choose the savings plan over the savings cum investment plan.
This afternoon, met eileen & ling for the career seminar featuring Adam Khoo at paya lebar. We were invited to the seminar by our financial advisers & i should say the seminar was a fruitful one. Short introduction of Adam Khoo for those who don't know him: an entrepreneur, a best selling author & a trainer. An honours degree in Business Adminstration from NUS & a self-made millionarie by the age of 26. He owns & runs 3 different companies himself.
This is what i get to know from the seminar & i belong to.. OF COURSE the 95% group, i wish, hope, prefer, would like to be successful but was nv successful. Majority of the ppl belong to the 95% group, want to be successful but no action taken. But it's hard cos success does not come by chance.5% of the ppl are committed to succeed(They must succeed & do whatever it takes to be successful) 95% of the ppl wish, hope, prefer, would like to be successfulPpl live for their Dreams & Goals. But from the start i dun have any golas in life, wat i wanna be 10 or 20 years down the road tat's y i'm struck in a job which i have no passion in. I need Aspirations!! It's quite scary to not know wat u are living for.. I really hope i won't stay long in my current job, i dun wan to fall into the comfort zone & then become so relucant to move on. I want to be a teacher, tat's my ambition from young. I really hope i can pass my re-take eng 'O' levels well so tat i could apply for the teacher position. Orals are in aug & written paper in nov but i feel tat time is running out & i haven't been doing much to improve my eng. Haiz..Finally finish reading Digital Fortress, took me sooo long to finish the book. A thick book with alot of description on the characters & places. Came across this word 'Without Wax' in the book afew times & have seen ppl using it but dun know wat's the meaning of it.' In ancient days, the spanish sculptors who made mistakes while carving expensive marble often patched their flaws with the aid of melted beeswax - 'cera' . A statue that had no flaws & required no patching was known as a 'sculpture sin cera' or a 'sculpture without wax'. The pharse eventually came to mean anything honest or true' The english word ' sincere' evolved from the spanish sin cera - 'Without Wax' (extracted from 'Digita Fortress' - Dan Brown)
.... so Without Wax simply means 'Sincere'
It seems like everyone is gg on a holiday, bro is gg to Tioman tml while mum is gg to Beijing next week. Arrrg! When is my next holidays coming up?