Monday, June 14, 2010

Difference between COMPLETE & FINISH

People say there is no difference between COMPLETE & FINISH.
But there is a difference.
 
When you love the right one you are COMPLETE.
&
When you love the wrong one you are FINISHED!
 

Thursday, June 10, 2010

My 2009 TFSA's Transactions

My 2009 TFSA's Transactions
====================
Jan05  2000.07
Jan09  3000.07
Feb11  (0.14)
Apr16  (5000)
Jun05  2000
Jun 16  (1000)
Jul22  1000
Sep03  1000
Sep21  1000
Oct 1000
 
Opps...  I got my balance over 14 cents at some point, but I quickly fixed it.  This is my own definition of over contribution of 14 cents here.
 
However, the CRA's definition is different from mine. I never know that my withdrawals would not be added back to the limit until the following year.
 
Today, I received a letter from CRA that my total of the excess TFSA amount is $25,000, and I have to pay $250 for the tax penalty.
 
Quite an expensive lesson for me.
 

TFSA account overcontribution

 
Dear Minister,
 
I mistakenly viewed my TFSA account as a regular savings account and were unaware that withdrawals would not be added back to the limit until the following year.
 
I have been very careful to make sure my TFSA balance is not over $5000 in year 2009. I withdrew some money out when I need it, deposited back so that I could benefit from the tax free saving account.
 
Today, I received a letter from CRA that my total of the excess TFSA amount is $25,000, and I have to pay $250 for the tax penalty.
 
The fact is that my account balance didn't get over $5000, and the interest earn from this account was $55.43. I thought I could save money, but now I have to pay $250 tax penalty for my honest mistake.
 
I plead you to to waive my TFSA overcontribution penalty.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

For GPS: Latitude and Longitude of a Point

I learned about this useful stuff to find coordinate on Google map, for GPS and stuff...

Check out this web site,

http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html

Monday, May 17, 2010

Ottawa Police - non emergency

613-236-1222
 
10-137434

Friday, March 26, 2010

F. Flynn Landscaping

R. Flynn Landscaping
 
Interlocking Stone . Garden walls . walkways . Driveways . Patios
 
10 Years+ Experience
 
Free Estimates
Rob Flynn
613-828-6400

CEO Coca Cola speech....its the real thing....this coke has good values in life !!!

 

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

President's Choice email

 

Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 9:27 AM
Subject: RE: e-mail message from lcl site: customer_service_question[000323D6-1010-00000000]

Dear Kian,

 

Thank you for taking the time to write to us.

 

We thoroughly apologize for the alarm and concern caused by the statement of claim filed against Wayne Lord and Bathurst Vans Inc and we will not seek further action.

 

While it is normal legal practice to look for reimbursement, this decision was clearly made without consideration of the specifics of this accident.

 

We would also like to thank all our customers that voiced their concern regarding our decision, allowing us to reconsider our actions.

 

File # 745747

 

Sincerely,

 

Desiree Guerette

Sr. Representative, LCL Customer Relations

Loblaw Companies Limited

This email and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential and/or privileged material and is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed.  If you are not the intended recipient, any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information is prohibited.  If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from all known records.

 

 

From: Kian Goh [mailto:kiangoh@hotmail.com]
Sent: January 9, 2010 3:12 PM
To: CR Email Agent 1
Subject: e-mail message from lcl site: customer_service_question[000323D6-1010-00050162]

 

Hi Loblaws,

 

RE: news on Loblaws bringing up and dropping its lawsuit against the driver of the van involved in a crash that killed seven Bathurst High School basketball players and his wife in January 2008

 

The lawsuit brought up by Loblaws is really a bad move. The President's Choice is as low as it could be.

 

Kian from Ottawa

 

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Smacked children more successful: study

Children who are smacked by their parents may grow up to be happier and more successful than those spared physical discipline, US research suggests.

A study found that youngsters smacked up to the age of six did better at school and were more optimistic about their lives than those never hit by their parents.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/6640893/smacked-children-more-successful-study/

Friday, December 11, 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Cobcob 的好朋友Yaya


Cobcob 最好的朋友是 Yaya。在我们家里Daycare,每次五个小朋友一起吃饭时,他们俩总是坐在一起。去公园时妈妈推着小车(鹏鹏弟弟)、拉着绳子带着四个小朋友,两个两个牵着绳子走,Cobcob旁边那位一定是Yaya。

妈妈注意了好几次:当有其他小朋友把玩具从Yaya手中取走,Cobcob就会赶快跟那位小朋友说“这是Yaya玩的”,然后把玩具要回来还给Yaya。

Cobcob最近爱上了Hockey。四个小朋友中只有Yaya肯陪Cobcob玩Hockey。难怪他们会是好朋友。

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

上海百樂門舞廳老闆美麗的女兒

話說民國初年,上海百樂門舞廳老闆美麗的女兒被名流紳士們瘋狂追求。

可是她誰都看不上,只喜歡舞廳內一個樂手。
當二人難分難捨時,她父親卻將她許配給一位駐美大使,她只好傷心的隨夫赴美。

離開前,樂手交給她一塊錢大洋,希望有生之年再相遇時,作為二人的信物。


三十年後,她搭機回國,出機場時,看到一個熟悉的身影,當年的情人在拉三輪車。

坐上車,她眼光泛淚,默默掉淚。就這樣,三輪車直奔百樂門舞廳,一路上兩人沒交談。

到舞廳門口時,她問多少錢?車夫回答:五毛。

她打開珍藏的一塊大洋:這給你。車夫頓了一下,收錢回家。

車夫回到家,看著一塊錢,百感交集,發憤振筆,寫下這世界名曲........


三輪車跑得快,
上面坐個老太太,
要五毛給一塊,
你說奇怪不奇怪?

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Friday, November 13, 2009

Birds hierarchy

 

From: Ben Goh
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 3:45 AM
Subject: (Funny comic) Don't SHIT about your job.

Don't you agree with the attached image?
 
Have a good weekend!

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Lawn Care for a Year: A Monthly Maintenance Schedule for Ottawa

March (snowmelt)
  • Don't walk on soggy cold lawns
  • Remove debris from lawn
  • Inspect for dead patches and determine the cause (insect, disease, salt or mechanical)
  • Inspect for bare and thin areas
  • Sharpen mower blades

April

  • Lightly rake to break up snow mould and to remove loose thatch
  • Apply gypsum to yards in areas where pets have damaged the lawn
  • In salt-damaged areas, aerate, apply gypsum or lime and water deeply in the early morning to flush away the salt
  • Reseed dead patches and over-seed poor areas with a grass seed mix that is suited to the sunlight conditions for each area
  • Perennial rye and fescue grasses are more tolerant of salt than Kentucky bluegrass
  • Consider alternative ground covers and/or different landscaping to prevent future problems
  • Apply corn gluten meal, a natural pre-emergent herbicide if you haven't overseeded.

May

  • Aerate compacted areas of the lawn
  • Remove thatch if it is ½ cm, (¼" or pencil width) in depth
  • Topdress the lawn with organic material, such as compost, or with screened topdressing soil mix.
  • Spot seed and over-seed if you haven't already done so
  • Maintain the lawn at a mowing height of 7-8 cms (3"), leave clippings on the lawn, cut less than 1/3 of blade height each time.
  • Mow when grass is dry
  • Water deeply 2.5 cm (1") every 7-10 days if necessary, in the early morning
  • Fertilizers are not necessary especially if the lawn is treated with corn gluten meal, topdressed, or the clippings are left on the lawn after mowing. If fertilizing, use a balanced fertilizer
  • Hand pull weeds
  • Corn gluten meal reduces weeds and can be applied until the end of May. CGM is also a source of Nitrogen fertilizer. Do not use on areas seeded with grass seed

June

  • As grass growth slows, reduce mowing frequency
  • Monitor and treat for: heat stress, insects and diseases
  • If hot and dry, water the lawn about ½ cm (¼"-1/8"), every few days during the hottest part of the day to reduce heat stress
  • Hand pull weeds
  • Apply the summer treatment of corn gluten meal if needed

July

  • Maintain the lawn at a mowing height of 7-8 cms (3 inches)
  • Monitor and treat for: heat stress, insects and diseases
  • Fertilize with a balanced slow release or organic fertilizer (optional)
  • Water 0.5cm (¼"-1/8"), every few days or let the lawn go dormant (turn brown), don't cut until it recovers after a rain
  • Cut only when necessary
  • Hand pull weeds
  • Sharpen mower blades

August

  • As in July, allow grass to go dormant
  • Water deeply in the early morning, 2.5 cm (1 inch) every 7-10 days if a dormant lawn is not acceptable
  • Hand pull weeds
  • Monitor and treat for insects and diseases
  • Maintain mowing height at 7-8 cms

September

  • The fall is the best time to dethatch, aerate and topdress the lawn
  • Over-seed and re-seed weak patches
  • Water deeply in the early morning, 2.5cm (1 inch) every 7-10 days if there is no rain
  • Monitor and treat for insects and diseases
  • Apply a fertilizer low in Nitrogen and higher in Phosphate and Potassium to increase winter hardiness (optional)
  • Hand pull weeds
  • Apply corn gluten meal if not putting down grass seed

October

  • Monitor and treat for insects and diseases
  • Chop fallen leaves with mower and leave up to 0.5cm mulch, compost the remainder if insect and disease free
  • Service lawnmower and sharpen blades
  • Plan to minimize salt damage this winter by applying gypsum to the areas of the lawn normally affected
  • Hand pull weeds
  • Apply corn gluten meal in late October if grass seed was used in September

Sunday, October 4, 2009

看看你在农村叫什么名

看看你在农村叫什么名


据说农村给孩子取个贱名会更养活,根据出生月份和日期看看你是什么吧:

生日中的月份: 1.长 2.栓 3.大 4.来 5.狗 6.守 7.傻 8.福 9屎 10.二 11.胖 12.臭

生日中的具体日期: 1.娟 2.妮3.腿 4.娣 5.球 6.坑 7.年 8.岁 9.娃 10.毛 11.剩
12.姑 13.英14.妹 15.肥 16.霞 17.狗 18.虎 19.花 20.凤 21.定 22.村 .23.蛋 24.妞
25.木26.翠 27.爱28.财 29.石 30.美丽 31.发

比如你是9月9日出生就屎娃

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Good points for Christian fathers

From: Ben Goh
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:39 AM
Subject: Good points for Christian fathers

Dear Tim, Daniel and Kian,
 
Hope all is well, I would like to forward this article that is pretty good for thoughts for us who are Christian fathers, we need some reminders, don't we?  I need to remind myself not to provoke them to wrath but to bring them up in nurture and admonition of the Lord...the verse is in Ephesians 6:4
 
-Ben-

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <info@factsofthematter.org>
Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Subject: This weeks Facts of the Matter
To: ben.ck.goh@gmail.com


"THE FACTS OF THE MATTER"

"A weekly letter of encouragement to business and professional men and women"

September 23, 2009

Good Morning!

DADS, HERE EIGHT WAYS  TO EXASPERATE YOUR CHILDREN:1

If you are a typical dad, you live with a lot of pressure in your work,  and want desperately to prepare your kids for the tough realities of life.  You want them to succeed.  In your world of excellence, discipline, planning and perseverance, it is difficult not come down on your kids when you see them slouching toward mediocrity.  Paul warns us, "Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord (Eph. 6:4)."  The Greek word for exasperate is parogizo, and literally means to anger, enrage, provoke to wrath.  The dictionary adds words like infuriate, madden, frustrate and annoy.  So just how do we do that?  Here are eight ways:

Overprotection.  We smother them by overly restricting them as to what they can do.  We communicate lack of trust in allowing them to do things on their own, by forever challenging their judgment, rather than trusting them. Thus we inhibit their development in learning to make intelligent decisions on their own in keeping with their age and maturity level.  We fail to guide rather than control their wills.  It is intriguing to me that Christ released the disciples to accomplish his will with the simple instructions found in Matthew 28:18-20.  Because he had built his values into their lives, he was able to risk the possibility of their failure by leaving the details to them.

Favoritism.  Isaac favored Esau over Jacob and Rebekah preferred Jacob over Esau.  When parents compare one child with another the results can be devastating.  The less talented one may well become discouraged, bitter, withdrawn and resentful.  Tragically, they will in kind express similar favoritism among their peers.  I Corinthians 12-14 speaks of different giftedness, yet all are precious in God's eyes.  In the parable of the talents (Matt. 25:14-30) it is obvious that not all are equally gifted.  Yet there is no hint that God plays favorites.  Nor should we. 

Unreasonable expectations.  That is, we push our children beyond reasonable bounds.  Nothing the child does measures up to our expectations.  How many parents have I observed who fantasize the accomplishment their own unfulfilled dreams through their child's athletic or academic success.  I remember our son Wes, striking out all three times at bat in Little League.  When the game was over he jumped into the car, and I asked him, "Did you have fun?" And, "Did you give it your best shot?"  His answers to both questions was "Yes."   With that I said, "Hey, let's go get some ice cream!"

Withholding compliments.  I remember as a 14 year old winning several contests in selling newspaper subscriptions.  My father's response, "Well, the newspaper business is kind of a second rate affair."  Kids can be angered by this kind of discouragement.  When children are forever told what is wrong rather than what is right, they lose hope and begin to believe that they are incapable of doing anything right.  Both Titus and Philemon were great encouragers: " God, who encourages those who are discouraged, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus… I myself have gained much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because your kindness has so often refreshed the hearts of God's people  (2 Cor. 7:6; Phil. 1:7)."  Surely we must do the same with our children.

Rejection.  We're talking here about selfish parents living for themselves, and viewing their children as an intrusion on their lives.  In time the children will reciprocate that rejection, viewing their ageing parents as an intrusion on their lives.  A careful study of Psalm 112 gives us a beautiful picture of children as a wonderful, integral part of the family.

Demanding an unrealistic pace.  We must allow kids to develop at their normal pace.  And we have to let them act like kids, which at times will appear childish to us.  While writing this "Facts," I had to call my 7 year old grandson and apologize to him for coming down hard on him last night while in the car.  Hey, he was just acting like a normal high energy kid!

Manipulating with love.  That is, dishing out love when they perform and withholding it when they don't.  The message they get is that love is conditional, based on achievement.  Consider Christ's unconditional love: "God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us ( Rom. 5:8)."  Christ is our standard here!

Physical and verbal abuse.  Gentleness is a fruit of the spirit.  How easy it is to be harsh with your children, both verbally and physically.  Sarcasm and put downs, come all to easily.  Love "looks for a way of being constructive (I Cor. 13:4 Phil. Trans.)."   (See Pro. 22:15; 23:13 ; 29:15)

1 Key ideas adapted from The MacArthur New Testament Commentary


My prayer is that you are having a great week!

R. Dwight Hill

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Thoughts from Man's heart

Thoughts from Man's heart  

Thought 1

When we are born, our mothers get the compliments and the flowers.
When we are married, our brides get the presents and the publicity.
When we die, our widows get the life insurance.
What do women want to be liberated from?



Thought 2


The average man's life consists of:
Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going,
Forty years of having his wife ask the same question;
and at the end, the mourners wondering too where he is going.



Thought 3  


Everyone in the wedding ceremony was watching the radiant bride as her father escorted her down the aisle to give away to the groom. They reached the altar and the waiting groom;  the bride kissed her father and placed something in his hand. Everyone in the room was wondering what was given to the father by the bride..

The father could feel the suspense in the air and all eyes were on him to divulge the secret and say something. So he announced :

'Ladies and Gentlemen.  Today is the luckiest day of my life ...'   Then he raised his hands with what his daughter gave him and continued,  'My daughter finally,  finally returned my Credit Card to me.'

The whole audience including the priest started laughing . . . . .   But not the poor Groom ! ! !
                                                                                       
 

Thought 4


A Man was walking down a street when he heard a voice from behind,  'If you take one more step, a brick will fall down on your head and kill you.'

The man stopped and a big brick fell right in front of him. The man was astonished.  He went on, and after a while he was going to cross the road. Once again the voice shouted,  'Stop !  Stand still !  If you take one more step a car will run over you, and you will die.'

The man did as he was instructed,  just as a car came careening around the corner, barely missing him.  The man asked. 'Who are you?'

'I am your guardian angel,' the voice answered.

'Oh, yeah?'  the man said  'And where the
Hell were you when I got married?'