How to write a resignation letter

Short but not formal....



A bit formal.....



Formal One......



Or this one ?

3D mock-up of my future house

Here are some of the pictures that my interior designer had came up with. Mainly quite satisfied but still there will be some changes here and there.



Living Room: We already bought a sofa in Grey fabric so the opposing wall might have a freshier color instead to contrast.





Dining Room: I loved the red theme but this gotta go too as we were too rush and bought two black dining chairs. So the color gotta accommodate the chairs instead.







Kitchen: Plain and simple. Might add in an extended island if actual space permits. Color should be something brighter. Maybe red for the bottom and white + tempered glass on top.





Bedroom: Neither of us took the blue color well. The space above the bed also seemed rather plain. This will undergo a complete overhaul. Gotta wait and see what the designer could come back with.





Shower area: Our bedroom is a merger of two rooms. This is the extended area which holds the shower area and also a walk-in wardrobe. Quite ok with this portion.





Basin: Right next to the toilet is the basin. We migrated it out of the toilet. This ain't gonna get HDB approval so if anyone also has this idea, be prepared to knock it away when you are selling the house.







Walk-in Wardrobe: And finally on the other side would be the wardrobe. I think I will eventually only get the small little corner at the side. The rest will be dominated by my wife's burgeoning clothes collection.

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Chief Happiness Officer

Came across this website as it appeared on my blog's AutoRoll.

This guy basically devotes his time on how to attain work-happiness.

He even has a book on this and it's Free if you read it from the website.

I'm still running through the chapters but it has been interesting so far.

More items added

Renovation still haven't start and already we have added the following items, sitting in some warehouse now.

Dining table (chairs not included)


Dining chair x 2 (The other side be a platform seat)


L-shaped sofa (We had wanted red leather but decided to cut the cost)


And a coffee table to match (This is my personal favorite buy. Almost changed to a full glass one)


That's about all. Plus a bed frame that I don't have the picture for. I guess the rest of the stuff (mainly appliances) could wait till a later time.

Sponsors would very much be appreciated. ;)

Happiness @ Work

Excerpts:

Choose to Be Happy at Work

Happiness is largely a choice. I can hear many of you arguing with me, but it's true. You can choose to be happy at work. Sound simple? Yes. But, simplicity is often profoundly difficult to put into action. I wish all of you had the best employer in the world, but, face it, you may not. So, think positively about your work. Dwell on the aspects of your work you like. Avoid negative people and gossip. Find coworkers you like and enjoy and spend your time with them. Your choices at work largely define your experience. You can choose to be happy at work.

From Susan M. Heathfield, (About.com)

For the full article, head to this link.

Bedroom set

If there's one thing I've learned from all the sourcing of home furnishing, it is that being patient would really pay off.

We'd been too rushy and bought a bedroom set for my mum's room from the new Novena showroom a week ago. There wasn't much range to choose from and somehow the idea of trying somewhere else didn't strike me.

So we bought something like this, part of their White Collection.




Well, the one we bought were a little nicer. And it includes a vanity table set and a sliding door wardrobe. It cost $1,888. The stool (for the vanity table) and one more side table(it came with one only) were only given to us after much persuasion(especially the latter one)

And yesterday we dropped by Star Furniture at Toh Guan Road.

I saw this:



With a price tag of $1,499. And the stool plus the extra side table is listed in the package. Trust me, it looks much better than it does in this picture.

I'm beginning to wonder what other stuffs I might have overpaid for.

So I'm quite glad that I wasn't mesmerize again when I saw this nice sofa set that carried an after discount price of $2600.



The one I wanted to get is in brown. So as to match the same color coffee table that I had bought impulsively a week ago. Now I gotta based my new house design and color AROUND the furniture.

Doesn't seemed very intelligent.

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Think before you lend

My wife and i had some dispute quite some time ago. She loaned someone money. This someone is a person whom I personally felt had total disregard for money given her lavish lifestyle.



And I believe it was also achieved because all her husband salary goes into her account. She in turn would give him a paltry allowance a day to get by. (Poor man if you ask me, pun no intended)



Despite that, she gets into debt and all(albeit she is not the cause of it).



Still, it didn't gel well for me when my wife told me she loaned money to her. She defended her decision and I'm so pleased a week ago when I could tell her in her face, " I TOLD YOU SO!"



For those who know me well, I'm not a lender. Conversely I try not to borrow from people too. Unless you need it for an urgent medical fee, you can go to GE Money.



And based on my understanding, the lender in this instance had exhausted nearly all possible avenues. GE Money, loan shark and apparently all my colleagues.



Actually I'm still okay up till this point, until I came to know that she would be going on a trip to Bangkok with her husband. On borrowed money no less.



Correct me if I'm wrong but I assume a typical person in debt would be scrimping here and there to repay off his/her debt. Not go to Bangkok on a shopping trip.



Then again, I have a friend who used to be in a lot of debt. He told me he is already owing banks $20k. An amount he can't clear. So it doesn't matter even if the debt balloon to $40k. He still couldn't clear it.



From that perspective, I can understand. Which also make me more pissed that my wife is a victim here.



Oh well. I guessed $200 is a small price to pay to see the person behind the veil.

There are not stupid questions, only stupid people

One of my ex-classmate remarked this in class when another of them was asking the lecturer a question that has answer written all over it.

I like the way he puts it and it still stick with me till today.

My personal patience with stupid people is very low. But luck has it that I have the chance to meet so many of them at work and in school.

But it could never beat the stupid people in your personal life. The kind that replacement of them might involve huge amount of money.

You could change work, you could swap project mates but not so easy for this.

And if you have the luck to meet those with double standards, NATO(No action, Talk Only) and a brain that could barely fit into the size of a peanut shell, it makes me very glad

That I'm not alone in such predicament.

It also make me become a firmer believer of palmistry. As I always had pretty short Life line. Now II can more or less understand why.

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