Once Upon a.. Getting my Brain Fried

"There is good in you. I can see it."

"Rumpelstiltskin!"

"I will get my son. And I will have vengeance."

I think I have been getting an overdose of Once Upon A Time.

So sleepy.. yet so addicted.

And I'll sleep happily ever after this brog entry for the next 7 hours.

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New Year is Coming...

Egad.

Just 2 months to go!

Pulse check.
In this year.. Have you been Naughty or Nice?
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Paws-to-Ponder: Be Useful, Be Yourself

My Dream is not to win against anybody.
I only want to be a Useful Person.

These are the words I have always believed, but sometimes lose sight of.

I will live by my beliefs, day on day, year on year. And I'll be most happy doing so.

Be happy today too, my cyber peers.
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Cheesecake had a Bad Day

"Alone I face this world of dangers. 
No one to trust, every face a stranger's.

The demon who hovers above wants me for his meal. 
I attempt escape and subsequently keel.

Now at the edge of my world I have arrived to meet. 
The Great Baker in the sky I will eventually greet."

-- Last words from Cheesecake, left sitting exposed to Jimmy Johnny the Fly.
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Doggie-bag It: Rather Lovin' OCBC iBanking

I've been playing with my OCBC ibbanking page today. Being a girl who's really bad with managing my dollars and cents, the features on the ibanking portal are really helpful for me.

No doubt about it, OCBC's ibanking portal has the best 'human touch' to it. This is in comparison with previous ibanking accounts that I held with DBS and UOB. 

I don't get paid for this article.

All the regular features (fund transfer, bill payment, account opening) aside, my favourite feature would be the one on Goal Setting. You start by categorizing your goal, naming it and defining the amount required, then you go into details like whether you have a deadline for it. If you do, then the system calculates your minimum required savings per month to your cause. If you don't, you can play around with the amount of savings you can actually afford and the system derives the date that you will meet your goal.

Personally I've always had a few goals that I know I need to save up for. But because I'm not the disciplined sort, I tend to set aside whatevers I have remaining at the end of the pay-cycle month as general savings, and then I lose sight of how the individual causes should be carved out from this sum.

With OCBC's Goal Setting feature I've now added my individual goals as pockets of funds on to my homepage. I've set rules to direct my monthly pay to the different pockets so no goal gets forgotten. 

Also when I login to my homepage I get to see my total pool of money, split by savings that I carved out against my free cash. This is a very good summary because I can easily know my splurge limits. It is also helpful that credit card transactions that I've chalked up on my OCBC cards are displayed on the same page so I can monitor in case of over-spend.

All in all, you can tell that OCBC had put a lot of thought into making their ibanking portal useful and user friendly, all in the customer's perspective. With the relevant information displayed upfront, it makes people reminded of their saving and spending habits. 

I think the portal worked for me. That's why it deserves a shoutout!
For those out there (like me) who are bad at managing your money, you can probably give OCBC a go. :)
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Very Pensive

An emotional stirrup from reading recent social news. 

As I am resting here in my air-con room on my comfy bed and soaking up the relief, there are others on this same land living day-to-day without hope for tomorrow. Bad living conditions, no dignity, no skills and energy to make things better.

Not knowing what to do today, not knowing if tomorrow will be any different. Everyday sitting and watching the lifeless walls. Watching the sun rise up and go down again. 
"What can I do? Nothing I do even matters anymore."

Life without hope, without love, is really not a life at all.
Having no passion to live, whiling away today and tomorrow, is a dreadful waste of life.

I wish everyone could see that there is always hope, there is always something you can do.
Life is so precious, we must make it worthwhile.
Be strong, get a grip, and hang in there!

How can I save the world? How can I make myself useful?
Time to reflect.

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Achievement.. (cough) Unlocked!

"The pain in Sprain stays mainly in the strain."

Ow I think I sprained my rib from all that incessant coughing.
Cooties.. They're still here!

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