Cash for all adult Singaporeans
» $800 if you earn $24,000 or less a year and live in a four-room or smaller HDB flat
» $600 if you earn more than $24,000 and live in a four-room or smaller HDB flat; or if you earn $24,000 or less and live in a five-room or larger HDB flat
» $400 if you earn more than $24,000 and live in a five-room or larger HDB flat
» $200 if you live in a landed home or if the annual value of your home is more than $10,000
Total: $1.4 billion, When: May 1, 2006

Workfare bonus for low-income workers aged 40 or older
» 3 months’ pay if you earn $400 or less a month
» $1,200 if you earn $401 to $900 monthly
» $800 if you earn $901 to $1,200 monthly
» $400 if you earn $1,201 to $1,500 monthly
Total: $400 million, When: May 1, 2006 and May 1, 2007

CPF top-ups for the elderly
If you are 50 to 59 years old:
» $600 if you live in a four-room or smaller HDB flat
» $400 if you live in a five-room or larger HDB flat
» $100 if you live in a landed property or large private property
If you are 60 or older:
» $800 if you live in a four-room or smaller HDB flat
» $600 if you live in a five-room or larger HDB flat
» $200 if you live in a landed property or large private property
Total: $500 million, When: May 1, 2006

Bonus for NSmen
» $400 if you are a former NSman
» $100 if you are a full-time or active NSman
» $300 when your NS training cycle ends
Total: $200 million, When: May 1, 2006 and when your training cycle ends

Rebates for HDB residents
» $200 utilities, four months service and conservancy (S&C) rebates, and three months rental waiver if you live in a one-room HDB flat
» $200 utilities, three months S&C rebates, and 1 1/2 months rental waiver if you live in a two-room HDB flat
» $100 utilities and two months S&C rebates if you live in a three-room HDB flat
» $80 utilities and 1 1/2 months S&C rebates if you live in a four-room HDB flat
» $60 utilities and 1/2 month S&C rebates if you live in a five-room HDB flat
Total: $60 million

Looking forward to the next computer exhibition. =)

IT Show 2006
Date: 9th March 2006 to 12th March 2006
Time: 12pm to 9pm
Location: Level 3, Level 4 (Halls 401 - 404) and Level 6 (Halls 601 - 603)

Belated Valentine’s Day wishes to all. Heez~

I have been too tired to write the card the nite before, so i practically drafted everything in the office. And sorry my dear, by accident i found out that you are sending me flowers to the office. Erm… No more surprises liao. Instead, my neck stretches till very very long becoz my flowers haven€„¢t arrive till like 4.30pm. Still gana suan by my boss “The florist must be very busy”. Duh~ (-.-’”)

To avoid the human crowd after work, i left my workplace on the dot for dinner. Dinner at Outback Restaurant, Millennia Walk. The food has never disappointed us. The soup is superb, the side and main dish are awesome. But just because of that special day, I feel that the restaurant is over-crowded with couples. We are one of them who they earn the money from. It become so not romantic, no privacy.

After dinner, we exchanged presents at the Sky Garden at Suntec. Other than the card and flowers, I have got something special €œ a customise ez-link card with our photo. Lester also bought a card holder to put the ez-link card and 2 $10 notes. Becoz I often left my handphone and wallet with him and forget to collect at the end of the day. So he has specially prepared these for my emergency use. Practical and thoughtful~ I have another heart-shaped pastry from Lester€„¢s mum. Yum yum~

New Executive Secretary
Geraldine is the new secretary for Richard. Finally~ He won’t yell at me or Fanny liao. But this gal is far too friendly and extrovert, makes me feel rather uneasy. It just make me think: are you really that friendly and sincere?

On Friday, went to my cousin’s birthday dinnet at Marina Square’s Yuki Yaki. The food there is so much better compared to what I eat 3 years ago. At least now the food is self-service and the DIY ice-cream is free flow. Last time, they used to serve you plate-by-plate even though it is buffet. And the ice cream cost like $2+ per cup. Time have changed. LOL

On Saturday, went to mom€„¢s friend house for our last Lunar New Year Visiting. In the evening, met up with Suqin, Laily, Serene, Kee Yong, Jackie aka Wayne for dinner. Ate Fish and Co. As LiXiang and Serene was tired, Suqin got something on, we disbanded quite early.

Today, went to Sim Lim Square to buy my graphics card, PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 Pro. It suppose to be Pro, but they overclock to the X800 XT instead. It cost $488 and I bought it from Cybermind. I wanted to NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS. But according to Ban Leong (the distributor for most of the graphics card) it is 100% sold out in Singapore. Thus no choice have to settle for the next best and within the budget.

Going to watch Fun With Dick and Jane later at GV Jurong Point.

Have been rushing for my NTU admission portfolio the last few days. Too much to “put up a good show”. I was rushing to Paradiz Centre to get my portfolio wire-binded on Thursday. Go to the ATM to withdraw cash, took the card but forget the money. Only when i reached Paradiz Center by cab, i discover my cash are gone. I still own the taxi driver money. Stewpig~ Next time don’t talk on the phone when you are withdrawing money. Arghh…

Thanks to Pei Jun, Lester’s secondary school classmate, we manage to navigate through the buildings to the admission office. And i would say, you can’t reach the blocks by the buses in the school. You still have to walk. And it is complicated. Hahahaha~

Had my company’s Chinese New Year dinner at Fort Canning Hill, The Legends. The food was so so, but the games are fun. We really fight all our way to win the games. But the prize is cheap-skate. (-.-’”)

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Yesterday went to an OCBC dinner together with my mom at Grand Shanghai. The food for that day is kind of lousy but the activities organize for us is quite cool, there is cartoon sketch, Chinese fan painting and photo taking with a trishaw. My mom did a Chinese fan painting and both of us was queuing for the cartoon sketch while they have the lucky draw session. To my amaze, when they call out 8833, I couldn’t believe my ears, my mom’s lucky draw coupon has won the 1st prize. It is all the Chinese zodiac characters gold plated together with a Martell Cordon Bleu.

Personally I don’t believe in lucky draw till yesterday.

Fearless
Caught this action flick on the 2nd day of Lunar New Year. I must say that this is indeed the best Jet Li movie after so many years. I still think he is more suitable for those “Wu Xia” movie rather than those modern day type of fighting movie. It is also touching towards the end of the movie. This movie is based on a true story.

I Not Stupid Too
Jack Neo’s latest movie. Although most of his movies are quite average, but this movie is a must watched because this movie portray a very real life situation between kids these days and their parents, how they communicate and how their parents interpret them. It is funny but at the same time very very touching. Saw some of the guys with watery eyes after watching the movie.

Parents Back From China
My parents and brother came back yesterday from China, after spending almost a week there.

Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is coming, so what did you get for your the other half? Remember don’t get caught if you are planning a surprise for him/her. Be very careful on what you do. I got caught =(

Chinese New Year
Pay the usual visit to the relatives’ house during the Chinese New Year. Except that 3 of us (siblings) gathered to Mr Yuan’s house. Hee~ It’s been long time I have seen him after his retirement. Anyway, great visits and had a lot to catch up.

University
I have enrolled for NUS and NTU this year. Will need to prepare my portfolio and a short video of about myself and send them in by this Friday for the design course i am opting in NTU. Still thinking of other schools like NAFA. But will be going to their open house 9 to 11 February 2006.

World Skills Competition
Remembered i participated in the World Skills Competition 2004. But never seen my certificate of participation. Somehow when you grow older, your memory is deteriorating, badly for me. Both Serene and I forgot whether the certificate is sent to us or we have to collect at ITE Dover. Search through the WWW and found the Sponsorship Manager for the WSC 2006. Kiasu me, wrote an email and left a voice message, for him to direct me to somebody whom i should be speaking to. Very effective of them, I have received calls from the ITE, to collect the certificates after office hours. Damn touch~ Later go buy card to express my appreciation. Kekeke~

Portable Hard Drive
Decided to buy a portable hard drive because i have a massive collection of my artwork since work. Good time to keep portfolio. Actually, it is not right to make a duplicate of the work here, as you know, the owner is still the company who employs you. Since I have not submit any resignation letter, i decided to take my time to copy.

Laily Birthday
Ms Bong, Happy 23rd Birthday to you. I wonder have i provide the correct address to SingPost. Anyway, there is no indication that the sender is me, so just let you know what’s inside. It is a sheet of customized stamps. Got photos of me, you, serene and qin taken during the poly times. SingPost stamp (on the left) and the photo (on the right) makes a valid stamp, so you can post them out together with your mails. But i bet you wont. Hahaha~ See if it reaches this week, then you can show us during this Saturday?

Image Zoo
Got a freelance deal, to draw icons for this stock image company. Getting rather restless at work and decided to give it a try with the freelancing. Dateline is near, still struggling. Hahaha~

WordPress 2.01 was release 2 days ago. They had fixed about 114 bugs.

Some of the fixes/improvements:
» You can now specify an upload directory, and whether to use date-based storage or not.
» Caching has been fixed under certain PHP enviroments.
» Permalinks have been fixed for weird enviroments as well.
» XML-RPC uploading works.
» Compatibility with older versions of PHP.
» Several WYSIWYG fixes and cleanups.
» Imports now use much less memory.
» Now works with MySQL 5.0 in strict mode.