Ha ha ha ha

Halloween



It's pretty hard to believe it's been already a year since I popped over to London with M to visit D & S.

To me, it still feels like a rather recent trip - even though so many other things have happened since then.

Anyway, the scary cookies above are the aftermath of an equally creepy but delicious dinner that was brewed up by S.

Certified

One & a half months of slogging twice a week after work and burning most weekends has finally paid off.

I am now 'Certified'. woo hoo... !
(For those of you who have no idea what I'm going on about, email me.)

I was rather anxious yesterday as two of my colleagues who took the exams with me, had already received their results. One didn't make it.

Obviously that made me very very nervous, and anxious to get home to check my mail. But SingPost decided it would be fun to prolong my distress for another day.

And because we had an office event today, which meant that I would probably only get home much later in the evening, I wasn't going to know my fate until at least 9pm.

As I was getting home, my heart was pounding... "what if"s were running through my head.

I ripped the enveloped and just couldn't help but laugh when I saw the first word of letter...

"Congratulations..."

So what does this mean for me?

Well, the first thing I'm going to do is to claim back my exam fees from my company.

hahaha...yes, I know. I'm damn cheap eh. :P

The rest of the career stuff... well.. I don't really know yet.

I decided to take the certification, not so much because of career development although there definitely would be some advantages, but more so because I wanted to validate that my own body of knowledge was of a certain set standard.

Since starting this job, I've been very blessed to have been mentored by, not one but three very knowledgeable and enthusiastic colleagues (Sc, Em & Sj) from whom I've learnt practically everything about the job. So in a way, this certification is for them too.

Thanks people, I definitely couldn't have done it without you.

So where to next? Well, lets wait and see what unfolds.

:)

Classics

Rolleiflex twin lens reflex

Contax I

Leica M3

The MINOX Classic Camera Collection

Explaining the Financial Crisis


The Financial Crisis, as Explained to My Fourteen-Year-Old Sister
by Kevin Nguyen on October 1, 2008

Economist Kevin Nguyen explains the country’s economic woes to his younger sister, using Pokémon as an analogy. Seriously.

via The Bygone Bureau - A Journal of Modern Thought


In the final analysis, it just boils down to this - Be greedy and you'll be fu*ked sooner or later.