After signing the contract with Citibank the day before yesterday, I returned to Mellinia Tower yesterday to summit all the forms to the HR officer. Citibank HR Dep is located in level 33 and they have a very nice view over the bay.

Another one from a different angle.

Unfortunately I will not be working there, I have to take 45mins MRT every morning to Tampines Junction. What am I thinking?

After that I went to Citibank Esplanade Branch to open a staff account and I met this young india lady who was given the same position the day before, so we will be colleagues in the next year at least! She has married with 2 children and her whole family have moved here, including her parents. It is always a nice thing to know more about your future working environment and colleagues beforehand.

The staff bank account application went pretty smoothly. Because I will be a Citibank sfaff soon, I naturally had a conversation with this officer Daniel about how life would be in this company, etc. He asked me whether I had any saving or investment plan and gave some advice to me when he heard no. So as the first contribution to the company that I had not yet started working for, I decided to join a 25yr saving plan. Daniel introduced another speciallist Mr Tng, whose wife happens to be working in Citibank as well and holds the same position as me! This is the second colleague that I have known today, and I haven’t started to work yet! What a wonderful day! It seems that they have some gifts for all the saving plan partispants. I was given two opitions to choose: iPod shuffle or Sony Walkman Mp3. I chose iPod Shuffle, obviously!

I spotted these cute candies on the table there, and I took three of them back. What a kind of “Citibank Sweetness!”.

When I was done there, I went to Republic Plaza for a medical check. Only when did I realized that my day had just started! It took me half an hour to figure out how to get to level 29 and it took another 3 hours to finish all the examation, which includes one hour lunch break! The most astound news is that my vision is only 6/10 now and the doctor recommended glasses! No…I will never wear that piece of shit! I will try to take more care of my eyes and give them more time to rest instead.

I returned home around 4 pm and slept until 8. Then I went to Wuvist’s home after that and that is another long story which I am not going to tell here.

After so many interviews and months of frusration, I finally got a job in Citi Group as Regional Investment & Treasuary Ops Officer. Start to work next monday! Got a lot of form to fill up tonight!

That’s it! I though that I would talk a lot about it, but when it comes, I really don’t have anything to say about it! I prefer to stay calm and enjoy my easy days left before I start to work.

I am shocked by this picture when I was browsing my Picasa galley. Does it remind you of anything? Yes, Quick Look in Leopard(bellow). Apple just makes it better in a real Leopard style.

It was a fake picture about Leopard back in Aug 2006, when no one knows anything about what we would get from Leopard. It was done by Eric Patterson during a fake leopard screenshot contest. I don’t know if Apple copied his idea or not, but in either way, he does have some foresight and creativity!

Beautiful Day

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There’s no room
No space to rent in this town

You’re out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you’re not moving anywhere

You thought you’d found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It’s a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away

You’re on the road
But you’ve got no destination
You’re in the mud
In the maze of her imagination

You love this town
Even if that doesn’t ring true
You’ve been all over
And it’s been all over you

It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
It’s a beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I’m not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I’m not a hopeless case

What you don’t have you don’t need it now
What you don’t know you can feel it somehow
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
Don’t need it now
Was a beautiful day

Can anyone tell me why?

I am not a pet lover, but if the government really thinks that it is not a good idea to leave so many wild cats out there, why don’t they just get them captured and killed? I think that would be better rather than telling people not to feed them.

I don’t like pets for a very simple reason: keeping pets is not the way you should treat animals, no matter what kind of feeling you have on them. If you are an animal lover, don’t you feel guilty for keeping an active life under your control and preventing it to breathing the fresh air of freedom? If you are someone like me who believe biological competition, then I don’t see the difference between pigs and cats, or dogs. So if you are a carnivorous person, meaning you eat certain kind of meat, please don’t be so hysterical when you see other people eating dogs or cats. I won’t treat them any differently unless I see the point of doing so for the sake of my own benefit. So I cannot understand those people who blame Korean for dog eating while they can eat other kind of meat themselves. I am a dog meat lover myself. Let me tell you this: they are delicious!

Btw, where did these wild cats in Singapore come from at the first place?

I saw this in Sheng Siong Supermarket. So are there people who really eat them? I am afraid there are, otherwise they would not put this notice there. O, man! What are they thinking? Do they really think that they are allowed to pick up some nice labelled apples just for a testing? or do they just want to save those few pennies by eating those apples in front of everyone passing by and pretending that they just don’t know it is wrong? That’s why you should never take anything as granted, otherwise people will use it as excuse for their stupid doings.

One of my gmail account has a storage of 4328MB now, while another account has IMAP support now! It seems that IMAP support is on the way out. But how about the 4328 MB storage? Is it a common practice or just for a fraction of all users?

Some people may say that I would never used out all the storage, so 4328 MB is no different from 2000MB. Well, if you are a Gmail regular user, you may want to take back your words. When I first started to use gmail, I though 2GB is more than enough, but when my usage was up to 1GB, I started to think that 2GB is still a little bit small. So I have this strong believe that there will be one day that I feel 4328MB is still too small.

Update:I am pretty sure that this 4328 MB is not solely due to the Infanity+1 Plan, because according to that plan, my Gmail should only have 2916 MB  as shown bellow:

Ok, I admit that I cannot help myself when I knew that Wuvist got an iPod Touch. So I walked to his home around 12:00(luckily we stay very nearby) and played with this little toy for a while. During which Wuvist had it jailbroken and installed some nice apps. Then we went to Mcdonald’s. After that, I returned home around 3:00am. I don’t want to act like some crazy boy, but I have to say this: iPod Touch is the kind of PDA device that you really want and need! It is freaking cool! Here are some photos that I took using my mobilephone.

So I saw this news in digg: J. K. Rowling at Carnegie Hall Reveals Dumbledore is Gay; Neville Marries Hannah Abbott, and Much More. First of all, I have to say that I am not a big fan of HP and J.K. Rowlilng, so HP guys, don’t judge me on that! My first reaction about this “so called news” is asking myself: Which one is the news? Is it the fact that “J.K. Rowling reveals that Dumbledore is gay! ” or the fact that “Dumbledore is gay.”? They may look like the same, but they are totally different!

For the first one, “J.K.Rowling reveals that Dumbledore is gay!”, it is more like something paparazzi would report and it is more about the author rather than the novel itself. After closing the storyline of HP and settling all dusts down, this once-under-the-spotlight media favourate writer cannot bear the loneliness for staying in the shadow. So she magically “found out”  that Dumbledore is gay and being shocked by this “fact”, she wants to share it with other people(especially the media who have dumped her for a while). This is like the English version of CHA Leung Yung, isn’t it? Do you love this version of news?

Or, by collecting all the clues and hints given in the books, a HP reader, who happens to be the author herself, found out that the author, who happens to be the reader, is hiding some secret in this already closed storyline. Being a big fan of HP herself, she wants to share this piece of speculation with other fans. This one is more about the novel.

No matter which one you like better, it really doesn’t matter that much, does it? Because J.K. Rowling is once again back on the newsline, as an authur, or reader of her own book.

I saw this in the St. Andrew’s Cathedral Welcome Centre. It is the church on top of Cityhall MRT, if you don’t know where it is. God and evolution, this is a very interesting question, and also one of the reason that I don’t buy the Christian belief!

For me, a student brought up and educated in Darwin’s competitive jungle and who studied biology as major, I really don’t think it is a good idea for me to throw all these theories away and believe the Legend of Genesis. Because if I do so, I would feel like denying everything in my past and pretending to believe something that I acctually think is stupid(Sorry, Christian folks, I really don’t have another proper word for this)! And that would be the last thing I want to do! I know it is another kind of religion if you just be obedience to the science and don’t doubt about it at all! And also, there are still scientists who are not buying the concept of evolution, but the bottomline is science makes sence to me, at lease from what I know, both about science and religion! I just don’t think it is a very good idea to have some superman to create this world in seven days including ourselves!

But to some people, God and evolution don’t necessarily contradict with each other, such as Francis S. Collin, who is a leading scientist working on the Human Genome Project, and yet believes in God and even wrote a book called The Language Of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. Here is a interview with Stephen Colbert.

From what he said, 40 percent of working scientists are believers of their personal Gods. That means this is not some kind of rare issue, this is a very common issue faced by the science community as well as our whole society! Even up to now, schools in U.S are still struggling between evolution classes and theology, they just don’t know what they should teach their next generation! It is the worst in U.S, why? maybe because of their deeply rooted religious tradition back to the moment Mayflower landed on America soil.

Religion is a very interest topic! I believe in religious freedom, but that doesn’t stop me saying something about religions that I don’t believe, right? As for my own religion, I used to joked around with my friends with this: “I am an atheist, but ghost scare me to death!”