Personal

Went to several places after exam and I am actually quite lazy to blog and update pictures on it. But feel free to visit chip ying's blog for Terminal 3 Open House visit photos and my friendster photos to view more photos (http://www.friendster.com/charleneyang).

Celebrated dear's birthday @ Lawry's The Prime Rib, Paragon. Photos can be found in my friendster photos or facebook photo album :) Feel free to check out those photos!

Created a Facebook account and wanted to play with it to see why so many of my friends are so addicted to it. Personally I don't really like facebook. Too many stuffs too messy for me :) Personal opinion.

I want to watch Good Luck Chunk, The Warloads (booked by johnny), National Treasure 2 (booked by serene jie) and Alvin and the Chipmunk (booked by chip ying).

Know the importance of getting a Life Insurance

Many people will try to shun away from financial advisors when they know that their friends is working as a financial advisor. Usually what I will hear is "I have already got everything", or "I don't have money". But, many times I have not even said anything. Looking at the article below, I was wondering whether the breadwinner did get any life insurance. If yes, is her sum assured enough for the family to have a comfortable life? Many people think that insurance agents or financial advisors only want to earn money and hence keep asking them to buy this buy that, pay premiums. But in the end, we are trying to ensure such sad things don't happen. A family losing a breadwinner has caused a very big impact and having an additional financial burden makes it worst.

So, next time don't shun away from financial advisors. To me, it is a meaningful career as we are helping people to build wealth as well as providing protection for themselves,their family and their loved ones.

extracted from Straits Times 14th Dec

Car crash kills family's sole breadwinner
by Carolyn Quek

SHE was the family's sole breadwinner but on Thursday morning, 29-year-old Rachel Quek lost her life in a tragic car accident which left two others injured.

The human resource professional died about nine hours after a car driven by her boyfriend, Mr Chiang Kwok Wai, rammed into a tree in a suspected drink driving case.

Ms Quek was in the backseat of the blue Suzuki Swift. The couple's friend, Mr Tay Huay Kia, was also in the car.

It was travelling along Bedok North Avenue 4 on Wednesday at around 11pm when it skidded.

It mounted the road kerb and went through a wire fence before ramming into the tree. The impact wrecked the car so badly that the Singapore Civil Defence Force took 15 minutes to extricate all three, who were taken to Changi General hospital.

Mr Chiang, 30, suffered light injuries and was discharged on Friday.

However, both passengers suffered serious facial and head injuries. While 30-year-old Mr Tay is still in intensive care, Miss Quek succumbed to her injuries at about 8.30am on Thursday.

The Straits Times understands that all three had got together after work, and Mr Chiang, who works in the finance industry, was driving the other two home.

Miss Quek's 24-year-old brother, Xi Wie, explained at her wake on Friday that she was the only income earner after their shipyard technician father died suddenly six years ago from a lung illness.

He has just graduated from Nanyang Technological University.

Am I suppose to tolerate NTU's mistake again and again?

I received this email today, exactly 1 week after our enrollment date. Wow, how "efficient" can they be. I was not really bothered by the first paragraph but rather the 2nd paragraph sentence stating that "Please note that ES103 will only be offered to students who are already in the minor in education studies programme."

I am not very happy about it because before the module registration we students actually spent quite some time browsing through every module and look through the subject content before we make a decision. As you can see from the image below, under content of this module, this module is categorized under Unrestricted Elective which means, anyone can take this module. Secondly, under the module description below there is NO indication stating that this module is only offered to students who are already in the minor.


I am okay that this module is only offered to minor students BUT can NTU please be more professional in your work? If it is a module only offered to minor students then please state so at the remarks area or indicate at the subject content clearly. The reason why I am angry this time round is because this is NOT the first time I have received such an email from NTU, after our registration. How many times am I suppose to tolerate NTU's negligence? It actually created a lot of problems to the students as the student have to re-shuffle their module choices again! This is actually wasting the student's time.

Like I have said, this is not the FIRST time NTU does that, in fact many of my classmates faces the same thing over and over again for the past semesters we have spent in NTU. Below is another email image my classmate have received last semester (as you can see from the data on the top right hand corner). In the end, my classmates have to choose other elective modules instead and wasted a lot of time in front of the computer to look for other alternative modules AGAIN.


What we students wanted is not have this kind of STUNS again and again every semester. It's not as if we are hard up to get that particular module. If we are not allowed to take a particular module or if there is a pre-requisite, simply state so. Sending this kind of URGENT emails and apologizing for any inconvenience caused every semester is not going to solve problems.

Am I or rather NTU students suppose to tolerate all these irritating problems created by NTU staffs?