Tax Tax Tax

The emergency mini budget is out!
Income levy rates will be doubled which means I have to pay double from 1 May onwards :(
Whatever interest I earned for saving my money in the bank is tax at 25% (increase 4% compare to last year)

Is this budget going to help Ireland's current economy? Nobody knows.

The Dinner

I had a full day class today. I almost fell asleep untill my lecturer said that he actually lived in Malaysia for quite a couple of years. He then made a statement "I realised that Ireland corruption is very very very mild!!" Hahaha!!!

Anyway, Nel and I made a simple dinner tonight. I cooked the "tumeric fried chicken". Actually, I did not fried it, I oven-baked the chicken wings. Nel cooked the omelette :)

A complete dinner must come with a dessert. We had ice-cream :D

I'm looking forward for next weekend! We have Good Friday and Easter Monday! 4days off in a roll :)

试用期

昨天，我的同事A被‘炒鱿鱼’了！原因不是经济不好，而是A的试用期到了。说起来还挺残忍的。我的老板认为他的能力不能够胜任这职位。A已经不是第一位了，之前就有一位同事就这样被‘干掉’。

谁错谁对，我还真的搞不懂。A是四大会计公司之一培训出来的。昨天是A的试用期刚满。老板就告诉A不需要拒续。A手头上的工作也这样停了。

有时候觉得老外很假，因为他们老是把 perfect! brilliant! amazing! excellant! 挂在嘴边。
有时候明明就觉得还好，他们就说 marvelous! wonderful!

可是我现在看到的是老板还蛮直接的。像这样的事情就已经发生第三次了。
以前我还在KL上班的时候，也有类似的情况。但是那时候的老板就没有那么直接。他把我的旧同事的试用期延长，长期不给他工作。最后逼到他自己要离职。其实叫他不需要拒续也不必赔钱，毕竟还在试用期期间。我就不知道为何要为难这位同事。

之前的老板， 我认为他做法拖泥带水。
现在的老板， 我又觉得他有点‘绝’！

同样的事情，两种做法。如果是你，你认为那一种方法才对呢？

13hours

I went to bed at 12am and slept till 1pm. 13hours!
I'm feeling a bit dumb now. Just had my brunch.

Ok, I dunno what to write, still a bit blur -_-

Weekend

Nel has been asking what are we going to do on this weekend.

At first, I was thinking maybe we could do a weekend getaway. However, it's a bit late to plan anything. And tickets are expensive!

Anyway, we are going to the National Museum of Ireland tomorrow. We've been staying here for a year and ten months now but we've never been there yet! And best of all, it's free!

Korean BBQ

We had Korean BBQ for dinner last Saturday.

Meet my housemate - Ta Wei. He's from S'pore. Coincidentally, his girlfriend is Nel's hometown friend's sister. What a small world. Anyway, he brought us to this Korean BBQ restaurant. The food is nice!!!

The food is good for a Korean restaurant in Dublin. It might not be the best but it is certainly better than what we expected.

Some friends might have heard my experience with another Korean restaurant in Dublin. It was dreadfully awful. Actually, this particular restaurant is just two doors away from the Korean BBQ restaurant! Let me briefly describe the experiene one more time - they served sushi wrapped with cheese and mixed pepper. Can you imagine that?

Sushi Rice

plus

Cheese

plus

Mixed Peppers

How distasteful is that! Some might suggest that the restaurant is trying to alter the dishes slightly to suit ang moh's taste bud! Fusion? Don't tell me about fusion! I want authentic Korean food!

What I like about the Korean BBQ restaurant which we went last week is the BBQ hotplate is fired by charcoal! The food are definitely tastier.

I gonna return for my birthday dinner this weekend. My birthday has just passed but who cares! So I'll celebrate my birthday at this Korean BBQ restaurant on this coming Saturday :p

It's my birthday

I'm turning 27th today! I'm not sure whether that's a bad news? Oh well, I prefer to take it as a good one. Afterall, at least I'm not 50th :p

Let me see...what I have done during my 26th?
- travelled quite a lot of places
- failed my exams on last June and passed them on last December
- moved to a place much nearer to workplace. Till today, I still couldn't believe it takes only 5mins.
- started to work out at gym
- learnt to surf

OMG! It's only a few items? I suddenly feel like as if I've wasted my 26th!!!

I think I should plan ahead and list down more resolutions in this coming year.


and on the very first day of my 27th, I own my first laptop ever!!!! Thanks to Nel, muackssss!!!

He probably thinks it's a relief since I don't have to use his from now onwards. Haha!