A story far from fairytales

Change!

2011-05-28T11:30:00.001+08:00

Note to all!

After contemplating for many many years, I have decided to move to wordpress!
Too many spams in blogger, limitations of not able to privatise and lock up postes has prompted the move.
Click here to view the new blog.
Will be blogging from there in the future.
Here's the address: http://pamelaloh.wordpress.com/
See ya! =)

Cheers
Pamela

Post GE 2011

2011-05-14T04:13:00.005+08:00

I know probably all my friends are sick and tired of me going on and on about the political scene in Singapore.

Hey, you ought to do a conclusion right? So please allow me to.

I blogged in 2006 during the GE period hoping that someone would contest in my area.
My wish was granted when Reform Party came to contest.

Congratulations to WP for clenching Aljunied GRC as well as Hougang and for the rest of the Singapore belongs to PAP. All parties and candidates put up with a good fight.
Although we have lost GY in the process, we gained 5 potential and credible MPs.
Well, it is politics, you cannot have the best of both world.

Internet, love by most, hated by one.
It offers an awesome communication platform with fast, almost immediate responses.
At least it allows us to see things in different views rather than one-sided reports from the controlled state of media.
It opened our mind to new information we never realise before.
Kudos to the greatest creation, Internet.

Final result of 60.14% to the PAP while the balance of valid votes went to alternatives parties.
I must say I am satisfied with the result.
This is a better representative of the statistics as compared to the last GE for almost half of the constitutes being walked over.
It is a good sign, things are changing gradually, it is a result of us maturing as a society.
You cannot expect a total revolution change of political scene in Singapore.
Most Singaporeans who belongs to the sandwich class living in the comfort zone.
Yes, you do feel the frustrations from the government sometimes but ultimately most times, one would rather fall back on something that they feel comfortable with rather than stepping out of the comfort zone to venture or rather they could need a little more motivation and conviction to change.
A point to note, not everyone is adaptable to changes, risk takers
You also need to consider there will be a portion who are just simply apathetic, whether we like it or not.

I always believe that without competition, people will tend to be complacent.
We were taught to be competitive since young.
They had to rank us, streaming us into different classes base on our gradings. Even in the corporate world, there are strong competitions too, the ultimate benefit the consumers.
If it applies to us, why not the government too?
After all, we are all here to make Singapore into a better place, it will benefit us, the Singaporeans.

From this GE, I think it is very heartening to see Gen-Y people suddenly become so aware of the political scene here, expressing their own views publicly, taking up ownership of Singapore. I am proud of my fellow Singaporeans.

This is a crucial 5 years for Singapore.
Everyone's keeping a close watch on the the ruling party, every wrong move will probably be attacked by most.
It is also the time for WP to prove their worth.
As for other alternative parties, they will become stronger in the next 5 years with credential Singaporeans coming forward I am sure.
The next election will definitely be a more exciting one with all the experiences they gained from this.

Moving forward, let's us all be united as one Singapore.

GE 2011

2011-05-02T02:23:00.007+08:00

With the election day getting closer, things are getting more exciting as each day pass.

With utmost respect I have for MM Lee and the old guards bringing us to where we are today, I am utterly most disappointed and disgusted with his remark which warned the voters of Aljunied that they will regret their decision if they choose to vote for WP.
The respect I have for him is decreasing with such threats. Regret, Repent. Right.
It only proves that he have no confidence in George Yeo and his team to win the GRC that is why he had to resort to this method.

With that, they say politics are dirty business.
Indeed.
Even SM Goh had to stoop low enough to personal attacked on his ex-subordinate. With great vision, I am sure Tan Jee Say's plan is workable, although I would love to ask him a couple of question on the action plans.
I have always respect SM Goh, I think he has done a good job leading Singapore back then but by slamming people only make people who respect him lose respect and it only make him look bad. Bad that we were once led by such leader.
SDP must thank you for the free publicity!

Under PAP's ruling, we became a highly masculine society for we were taught to focus on academic results, numbers, rankings, success, status and staying competitive. We were too driven in these areas so much so that we forgotten to strike a balance between the masculine and feminine side of the society, such as quality of life, showing more compassion for our community, forging of real relationships with people. Money, being number 1, having the highest GDP, status are not the only things worth celebrating about. We forgotten the very basic instinct of life. If only we can all show a little more compassion towards our community, instead of being kiasu and kiasi, we can start to build a more gracious Singapore. A Singapore where each and everyone cared for one another.

The above paragraph was very much inspired by Dr. Vincent Wijeysingha who make great speeches during the rallies. Each time, he inspires me, taught me a little more.

Attended 3 rallies, going for the 4th one tomorrow.
When they said you can only see Singaporeans come together united and patriotic during NDP, i say, the unity and bond are even stronger during the rallies.
That is where you see the passion, the vision and spirit of Singaporeans.

CNY 2011

2011-04-19T21:15:00.001+08:00

I know the next public holiday will be here in 2 days time and here I am posting the CNY entry. Ha....
You know me, the biggest procrastinator of all. =x

CNY Eve

Had reunion dinner at Raffles Country Club with maternal side of the family.

Our 8 course dinner.
Pardon the lousy quality of photos because I forgot to bring out my camera that day.

Getting ready to 捞鱼生.

3.2.1. GO!

Jasmine and Gabriel

Cousin Kenneth.

Jasmine and Aunt Evelyn.

Us!

No, this is not the 全家福 yet.

Ta-dah~ this is the 全家福 minusing away a few who cannot make it to the dinner.

It was a very simple affair. There is no reunion dinner rush like those restaurant with 一场接着一场 kind.
It was nice seeing everybody once again because I am definitely not a regular at Ah Gong's place every Saturday. Heh...

Oh yeah, the wheelchair which Gong Gong sat on was 'borrowed' from NUH because he was admitted the day itself due to some low blood count or something. 4th Aunt went to fetch him from hospital to reunion dinner and send him back at night. He is all well now.
Funny to see how we alight from the car with a wheelchair tagged NUH, as though we steal one from them.

Counted my 2010's CNY red packet. Had a bet with Sicong last year that we could only open this CNY. So there you go.
A few red coloured notes lesser than him. Gr~
I put up with a good fight considering that I had a loss of 'income' last year. Ha..

1st day of CNY

Wore my super red dress from F21.
I wonder when is the next time I have the courage to wear it out again. Ha!

1st stop was to Ah Gong's place in the morning then to paternal side to 拜年.
This year paternal CNY gathering was held at 3rd uncle's place.

2nd 鱼生 for the CNY.

The after-state.

With our little niece, Kylee.
She was no longer the latest addition to the family because Katie came along 2 weeks before CNY.

The random pictures of the cousins.

I ~~complained~~ feedback that I look short in the photo so I insist us taking another one.

Heh.. I stood on a stool. =x

With WanPing.

It's not true that I only have female cousins.
The males are all too shy to take photos!

Had dinner at Grand uncle's place before heading home.
Love dining there every CNY because all my aunts are really great cook!
It runs in the genes of the family because according to my mum, my uncle was a great cook back then.

2nd day of CNY

Paired up a F21 top with a black shorts from Cotton On.

Went Sister's house with parents to visit Matthew and Katie before making my way to BaoXin's place to 拜年.

I was the first to arrive, waiting for the rest.

Moved on to Sicong's place after testing our ban-lat luck for the year.

We, the hardcore gamblers gambling away.
So much so that the whole block power tripped at 3am in the morning, we simply took our our mobiles, turn on the flashlights and continue gambling. Haha...
Amazing aren't we? Lol.

Hardcore enough to gamble for more than 6 hours before making our way to eat breakfast before heading home.

3rd day of CNY

Wore this 12 bucks romper to watch Green Hornet with BaoXin at Jurong Point that evening.

4th day of CNY

Outfit from Cotton On and paired with a scarf I bought from Thailand a year ago.

1st stop was SzeHui's house for lunch prepared by her mum.

The yummy yummy food!

As it was a few days more to SzeYing's birthday, her friends bought her a birthday cake and surprised her.

SzeYing and Poh Mama.

Apart from her friends, Daphne bought her a cake too!

The birthday girl.

Family portraits.

Have you notice how they are looking into different cameras. *tsk*
Case of losing focal point with many cameras flashing in front of them.

SzeYing and friends.

SzeYing and us.

In order to feel her youthfulness, we resort to doing this.

Poh Mama and I with our Agnes B bag.
Good choice!

The 3 ladies in different shades of pink.

Dinner at Daphne's place.

All the spicy food, awesome max!

Thank you for all the delicious food! =)

5th day of CNY

My new outfit to work!

开工大吉.

It's a tradition to invite lion dance to the company.

Went Vivo to meet up with my Tus for our reunion dinner.

Since I was there early, popped down to F21 to try on some clothes. Heh...

Steamboat dinner at Bei Shang Chuan.

Before the feast started!

Rifang stole my fried chicken wing but I don't blame her because one of the job of being a good friend is to share those fats with you! Heehee~

And the feast began.

A group shot of us before we left.

6th day of CNY

Wore my F21 dress to work.
It's clearly big for me, so there is room for expansion! Heehee.... =X

We had our department lou hei lunch.

7th day of CNY

Dinner at Thai Express.

Soft shell crab.

Beef with basil leaves.

Ready to dig in.

9th day of CNY

Layered with a new HVV top and Joop skirt for work.

10th day of CNY

Dress from Agirlslabel, I think I bought it at a pretty good deal. Heh...

Met up with Gabriel and friends for dinner and movie.
Dinner at Cathay's Aston.

Medium rare prime rib eye with house salad and onion rings.

Caught Big Big World and Plaza Singapura before going home.

Erm, yes. That's me.

14th day of CNY

Lou Hei dinner with the department and principals at Seafood Paradise located at Singapore Flyer.

The really yummy food. I enjoyed my dinner very much.

We had a total of 4 tables that day.

The table I was with.

I love how my decent point and shoot camera can perform to such standard.
Ha...

A really old school swing which reminds me of the time I spent at Ah Ma's place when I was younger, the fun I had with my other cousins. Aw~

That's all for my 2011's CNY. Yeah, let's move on to other entries.
In the mean time, I need to battle with 3 papers this semester.
Wish me the best of luck because I know I will need it, a lot of it!
Till then.

In the mean time, more exciting news which I am pretty much into these days is GE2011.
Heh... nomination day on 27 April and polling day falls on 7th May, which is the day of my GM paper. Hate it hate it.
I wish I get to see some good rallies this year. Anybody interested to go along???

Social Media Class 2011

2011-04-11T04:04:00.001+08:00

Definition of Love - Ryan O'connell

2011-04-07T13:18:00.003+08:00

You can stop taking quizzes in Cosmo. Here’s what love really is.

Love is still wanting to hold someone after you climax. After the initial euphoria from the orgasm wears off, you’re replaced with a sense of calm rather than a panic. You don’t want to search for your clothes, scramble to find your keys and figure out the best way to tell them, “See ya later forever!” You’re fine with chilling out in bed with the person and maybe ordering pad thai later.

Love is unattractive. It can expose our worst traits: Jealousy, irrational fears, heated anger; the gang’s all here! While it can bring out compassion and tenderness, it can also make you behave like the ugliest version of yourself. That can be okay for a little while, but love with real longevity should be like a xanax rather than an adderall.

Love is not afraid to be schmaltzy. There’s a reason why the most popular love songs are so lyrically simple. You can drown it in metaphors all you want but love usually boils down to, “You make me so happy. I want to hold your hand. I just want u 2 be mine 4ever!” You can be a 50-year-old linguistics professor at Columbia University and still find something to relate to in a Mariah Carey ballad if you’re in love because the feelings are so universal. It’s humbling, isn’t it? No matter who you are or what your background is, love can reduce you to Mariah Carey mush.

Love is an all-consuming drug. It gives us these natural highs we’ve only read about in books or heard in songs. It’s addictive. It’s what keeps us going to bars, drinking glasses of wine, going to that stupid house party in Bushwick; it’s all for the possibility of finding love. In the wrong hands, love can be dangerous and scary. If someone lacks a healthy foundation, love can kill. All of these crimes you read about in the newspapers are usually linked to passionate love. “I did it because I loved them just…too much.”

Love is not what our parents had. In high school, you never wanted to think about your mother and father having once slept with people in the backseat of cars and feeling warm and happy. That would make it feel less special and young. It would make love have less to do with you when, EXCUSE ME, it has EVERYTHING to do with you.

Love is getting drunk with your significant other at a party and taking a cab home with your bodies intertwined. You feel safest in these moments, the most secure. Entering a social gathering with someone who loves you is the biggest security blanket. People leave the party as a parade of droopy expressions and sad cocktail dresses. But not you. “Sorry guys, I’m in love! I’m taking a car!”

Love is fucking stupid. Love is fucking smart. Love is about betraying yourself, of compromising your ideals for someone else’s approval. That’s actually the bad kind of love, but I guess it all blurs together when you’re young or when you’re old or when you don’t love yourself.

Love is your significant other telling you about their favorite album and then making a point to fall in love with it on your own. Love is wondering why your better half loves certain things. You think you can find remnants of them in their favorite films, books and songs, but you usually can’t.

Love is finding yourself feeling protective over someone else’s well-being Love is being incensed with rage when someone or something has done your lover wrong.
Love is wanting your partner to cum. And if they can’t, just say, “That’s okay. I’m enjoying this.” It might be bullshit, but they’ll be orgasming in the next five minutes. Trust me.

Love isn’t always marriage. Marriage is spending $60,000 so everyone can know that someone loves you. You know what’s certainly not love? Debt. In some cases, love can be divorce.

Love is a back massage, a mindfuck, a hard cock, a pair of perfect breasts, of feeling unashamed about the cellulite on your body. Love is someone giving a shit about you enough to argue. Love is not passive. Love is “Don’t fucking touch me right now.” Love is “Who the FUCK were you talking to?” Love is sometimes hating yourself for a second. Love is hate. Period. Indifference is the real killer of love and the true antithesis.

When love leaves you, you should be lying on your bathroom floor with no resolve. You’re smoking cigarettes in the bathtub and crying about everything bad that’s ever happened.

Love is someone seeing the beauty in you and wanting to bask in it every day all day. Love is not guaranteed. We are not owed love. That’s why when we get it, we know how lucky we are and hold on to it for dear life.

So, yeah. That’s what love is. Anyone know where to get some?

-RYAN O'CONNELL
thoughtcatalog.com/2011/this-is-love

没 EQ 的人

2011-04-03T21:41:00.003+08:00

我难道就没有贡献吗?
对，他们是你的摇钱树.
但是不代表我的存在并不重要.
没有功劳也有点苦劳吧.
我不觉得我 deserve any lesser.

怎么说那段日子我也有一其渡过吧.
他们的辛苦难道我就没有吗?
难道就可以忽略幕后工程吗?
如果你觉得太简单了那么就叫你的宝贝们自己协调全部的东西吧.

我不是要贪你的什么东西, 我也不想.
不要整天以为自己的东西很 highly sought after!
对不起我不是很稀罕.
只不过你怎么给我的感觉就是我是如此的微不足道.
我知道我并不是呢!
我觉得我根本就不被 appreciated.
如果你觉得你靠他们就够了那么就别来吵我吧.

还真是没有 EQ 的人!

miscommunication

2011-03-27T23:25:00.001+08:00

dolphinics says:
bought lv
bought iPad lol

(8)P@mM!3 (8)says:
wah, u damn rich
nvm lah, u can afford

dolphinics says:
eh

(8)P@mM!3 (8)says:
ipad?
ipad2?

dolphinics says:
to burn leh

(8)P@mM!3 (8)says:
huh!?!??!
WTH!
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

December Love! (Part 4)

2011-03-20T23:47:00.001+08:00

Ok, I know I am very very extremely back-dated with all my entries.
However, I am still rather determine to blog them all out.
Just done with 2 project submissions. The last one to go~

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24 December 2010

An impromptu steamboat dinner at Sophia's aunt place with my dearest Alams and Elson.

It's an outdoor steamboat. Spare us the smell from the tappanyaki style.
Accompanied by the swimming pool, christmas tree and TV. <3 src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SUnFl0w3r/2010%20December/xmaseve003.jpg">
The 2 alams preparing.

Wendy and Elson ready to dig in!

We were starving by the time we finish preparing everything.
It wasn't easy considering that we had to practically open all the cupboards multiple times just to find certain pots, utensils, marinating sauces. Ha...
Nonetheless, it was very fun being in the kitchen with my alams.

This is Angel, the indoor dog.
They've got another fierce dog leashed in the backyard which barked and attempt to bite me while I offered it some food. Gr~

Super tired us before Wendy & Elson went back while I stayed over.
After midnight and the home is 路途遥远.

25 December 2010

1st meal on X'mas day.

Lunch at Plaza Singapura because Wendy was doing her roadshow there.

Sophia cannot decide which is better. Hmmmmmmm

These are mine.

After the lunch, rushed home and head out to Jie's house for the 下半场.

The one and only photo of the night.
Jerry claimed this as his 招牌菜 he made for me.

26 December 2010

Dinner with the regular girls at our favourite hangout, Jurong Point.

While waiting for food.
All in spectacles.

Shared an original fish & chips, portuguese chilli crab and a seafood platter to share.

We manage to clear up all the food.

Off we went to Daphne's place to play the new card games she bought.

Cupcakes from Daphne to SzeHui and I.
She's a very efficient baker.

29 December 2010

Took leave and attended Isetan's private sale early that morning with Dawn Jie and 2nd Aunt.
上班都没那么起劲啊!

There was a mad crowd and being such a season shopper, I took the grab and go strategy.

Tried this dress in the fitting room.

I like!!! Sweeeet~
However for a simple sweet dress like this gotta cost me 65 bucks! Not going to part with the money! Heh.

Taking a break at TCC to rest our tired feet.
We were due for morning tea anyway. Haha...

Dawn Jie who was on the phone with Jie and 2nd Aunt.

Cousins!

Ended our shopping at around 2.30pm before moving off for lunch!

Late lunch at Wheelock's The Pasta Shop.
Had their lunch promotion deals.
Hehe.. Thanks Dawn Jie for the treat!

We actually spent hours inside there just chatting until 6pm.
It was a good opportunity catching up with Dawn Jie who came back to Singapore that 2 weeks.

My loots for the day!

Top - Joop
Bottom - Ariel

Top & Bottom - Joop

Blusher - MAC; Pink Swoon

Bag - Agnes B

This is the smaller version in grey.

I wanted to get the grey piece in the bigger size. Unfortunately it was sold out island wide. Therefore I had to settle for the black version instead. Oh well~

I am a very rational shopper!
Love my (almost) annual Isetan shopping spree!

30 December 2010

Had our Tu's X'mas exchange at Art House's Timbre.

Unfortunately Tu Ma was sick so left with the other 4 of us.

Drew lots the previous meet up to determine who are the receiver of our presents.
Budget - $20

Rina with the present she prepared. It was for Xue Mei.

Rifang presenting her gift to Rina.

Xiu Ping's present was for Rifang.

I had to buy present for XiuPing.

The very very coincidental thing is that.... for our previous x'mas exchange, we had the same sender giving to the exact same receiver!
Let's see if it happens again this year! Hahaha.....

Rina had herself a bag organiser!

Rifang with her Khiel's lip balm or something.

XiuPing got herself a necklace, iPhone 4 casing and a belt.

I was tasked to pass this to XueMei and she is the one who bought my present too...so I cannot join in the joy of opening presents with them.

Cheers to our long-lasting friendship!

Some photos of us! Courtesy Canon S95.

Last shot before we left the place.

With the night view of Singapore.

I like what I took!

With the red x'mas tree outside UOB plaza.

Met XueMei the next day at our bus stop after work where she received her present Rina and mine from her.

It was a mobile phone strap with her name on it which Rina bought during her trip to Japan.
Mine was manuka honey! Heh... I've got such an attentive friend! Thank you babe!

31 December 2010

Made my way down to Cathy Ciniplex alone and booked a movie, Meet the Fockers.

Chilling with a good book before the movie.
Sat alone on a aisle seat in the movie theatre so it wasn't as bad as I thought. In fact it was awesome!

Went off to Sophia's aunt's place for our NYE dinner.
Instead of steamboat, we 3 girls were in the kitchen creating the last meal of 2010.
Alright, Wendy and Sophia did the cooking while I washed up lah.

We only started our dinner at 10pm!

We cooked too much that we ended up having to throw quite abit away. How wasteful. =.=

Spent the night sleeping bunking with Sophia and only woke up at 2pm the next day.
The bed must be sooo comfy!

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Anyway, here are the presents I received for X'mas!

Manuka honey - Xuemei; Eyemask - Sophia; A pair of socks - BaoXin; Lancome Miracle perfume - Jie; Necklace - SzeHui; Bag organiser - AiLing.

Thanks everybody for the gifts! =)

Phew~ Finally.. I am done with 2010 entries! OMG~ It actually took me so looong.

Why like that?!

2011-03-10T15:36:00.002+08:00

An online conversation

4th Uncle: Yes. Additional charges apply.

Me: wat additional charges?

4th Uncle: My service and delivery charges.

Me: which is? hahaha. how many %?

4th Uncle: At least 50%

Ah Ma, Si Gu ki who wa! T_T

An online conversation...

2011-03-09T12:12:00.002+08:00

Friend: bikini swimmer is always a bonus in swimming..

Me: i know, then u'll be more motivated to swim?! HAHAHA

Friend: i'm more compelled to swim faster so i can end up swimming towards her and look at drain..lol!

Me: WTH....

15 Tips on How to Talk to Women

2011-02-23T23:36:00.003+08:00

Stumbled across this interesting article.
Can't help but to think, how true.
Ha.. read on!

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Most of us as men are never taught how to talk to women. Because of this many guys go through life without the ability to attract a woman.

A lot of us blame our lack of dating success on looks, money, power, or popularity…. But the truth is if you can learn to talk to a woman, flirt with her, and turn her on… you can attract women.

Now in order for you to understand how to talk to women in a way that attracts them… you must first understand what women find attractive.

To answer this we’ll start in two steps.

Let’s understand:

What do you say that turns women on?

And then…

What do you say that turns women off?

With this approach it will help us gain some understanding of the criteria that is most important.

What type of talk turns women off?

a.) To put it bluntly women are turned off by men who across as “needy.” Most men don’t realize that they are coming across “needy” when talking to a woman. But the woman picks up on it quickly. She can very quickly tell that you’re trying too hard to impress her. When a man tries to impress a woman it actually has the opposite effect. It turns her off.

b.) Women are not attracted to guys that come across as insecure. You can’t talk to women and seem like a nervous wreck and expect her to feel attraction towards you. A woman expects a man to be powerful, confident, and secure with himself. If she senses that you don’t possess those traits she will quickly lose attraction towards you.

c.) Women are turned off by guys who are “boring.” If you’re talking a woman you need to know how to keep the conversation fun. If you continually find yourself facing awkward silences, stuck in boring “interview mode” or talking about mundane topics like the weather… you can be sure that the woman you’re talking to will quickly lose interest.

d.) One of the major factors that will kill a woman’s attraction toward you is displaying a lack of social intelligence. Women are social creatures. And they blindly follow the social “norms.” If a man doesn’t seem aware of what is socially acceptable or “cool” she will quickly dismiss him as being “below” her. An easy way to do display a lack of social intelligence while talking to a woman is to make an inappropriate comment, not take the “cues” she is sending you, or continually tell jokes that no one finds funny.

Understanding these issues, you really can’t blame a woman for not wanting a weak, insecure, socially clueless, boring, or needy man. Ask yourself… do you find these sort of women attractive?

Now let’s talk about…

What type of talk turns women on?

a.) You have to know how to talk to women in a way that brings out her fun, flirty, and playful side. There is asong “Girls Just Want to Have Fun…” and the song is correct. This is especially true if you’re talking to a woman in a bar. She is there to have fun. You must be able to flirt with a woman in a way that makes her feel like she is back on the playground with her childhood crush.

b.) Women are creatures of emotions. You must be able to talk to women in a way that brings on an emotional state within her. You can do this by talking about emotional topics like her passions, childhood, vacations, or any other conversation topics that evoke emotion. It is also helpful to inject emotional words into your conversation when describing something. Instead of saying “it was fun.” Instead say, “my heart was racing with the rush of adrenaline.”

c.) You need to display that you are a socially intelligent man. Women are insanely turned on by men they believe have power, status, and social approval. The great part is that you don’t necessarily have to have any of these. You just have to talk to a woman in the same way that these sort of men would talk to her. You have to talk to her from a place of power, status, and SLIGHT superiority. Women are attracted to men they feel are slightly above them on the social ladder.

d.) You have to talk to her in a way that brings out her sexual side. The fact is, you can be having the greatest conversation in the world about a topic like “health food” but it will rarely lead to attraction. In order to talk to a woman in a way that leads to sexual attraction you must not be scared to talk about things on a more intimate level. This doesn’t mean you talk about sex… but it does mean that you don’t shy away from personal and intimate topics. These are the sort of topics that create rapport and have women start feeling a connection towards you.

The next question is how to talk to women in a way that gets women attracted to you?

Most guys don’t know how to carry a conversation with a woman, or talk to her in a way that makes her feel attraction to you. Most guys just wind up boring women.

I have coached enough men to know that most of them will freeze up in front of a beautiful woman. Or, they will become so nervous that they come across as insecure and boring.

Women expect a man to be able to LEAD a conversation in a fun, flirty, and sexy way. She wants you to be able to make her laugh, smile, and feel safe and secure around you.

In brief, the key to attracting a woman is to talk to her in a way that makes her feel so much fun and enjoyment around you, while slowly letting the sexual tension build, and then being dominant enough to go in for the kiss at the exact moment she is waiting to be kissed.

Ok… so what kind of things would a fun, flirtatious, playful, and sexy conversation contain?

15 Tips for Talking to Women in a Way that Attract Them

1.) You should talk about “emotional” topics like childhood memories, future ambitions, or her passions. These conversation topics will open up her emotional floodgates.

2.) Women want a guy who is not afraid to lead her. While talking to a woman take control of the conversation. Never wait for her to dictate what you’ll be talking about.

3.) Pay attention to the non verbal cues a woman is giving you. If you’re standing too close to her, accidentally spitting when you talk, or making her feel uncomfortable in any way… she will send you hints. Pay attention to them.

4.) Remember this motto “Fun not Funny.” Women are attracted to men who allow them to have fun. Don’t concentrate on having the funniest jokes. Concentrate on showing them the most excitement and enjoyment.

5.) Tease women. One of the easiest ways to take a conversation to a fun and flirty level is to begin to tease women. Think back to your time on the playground. In the world of dating… what worked on the playground is effective all over again.

.) Get intimate with her. Women are turned on by men who are not afraid to take a conversation to a personal, intimate level.

7.) Use things like “cold reads” to turn women on. Women love to hear opinions about themselves. Tell her what you observe about her.

8.) Avoid complimenting a woman too much. Women are turned off by men who come across as “needy.” If you are complimenting a woman too much she will think you’re trying to impress her. Which will have the opposite effect.

9.) If you want to know how to talk to women in a way that doesn’t bore them… Avoid asking too many “interview” style questions. Instead state your opinion about things.

10.) Remember: Statements over questions. Instead of saying “where did you grow up?” Say “You don’t look like you grew up around here.” This allows you to make observations about her and express your personality.

11.) Don’t hide your identity. Don’t be afraid to talk about whatever you’re passionate about.

12.) Never compliment her on her eyes, looks, or body.

13.) Say something that lets her know that you view her in a “sexual” way. If you don’t you run the risk of winding up in the “friend zone.”

14.) Use conversation “games” to keep the mood fun and flirtatious. Games can be anything like “truth or dare” or to less extreme games like the “5 questions game”

15.) Don’t give away your hand so fast. Women like men who are a challenge. If you want to keep a woman’s interest she has to feel like she is slowly winning you over. If she thinks you’re too easy… she’ll lose interest.

The best way to think about how to talk to women is to think about what kind of fun, playful, and sexual conversation you would most enjoy.

Talking to a woman is not difficult. You just need to be aware of what they are turned on by. And what turns them off. Follow the list above and you’ll do just fine.

Source:http://www.tsbmag.com/how-to-talk-to-women/

I've got weird friends (Part 2)

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An online conversation.

Friend: http://www.greatdeals.com.sg/warehouse-sales/triumph-warehouse-sale-2-201102/

Me: i still got bras. i prefer gng to bkk to stock them up!

Friend: i prefer to steal them =x

What type of friends have I made?!

I've got weird friends

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A msn conversation:

Friend says:
Lol
Ok u go do ur ass

(8)P@mM!3 (8)沒有負擔原來也是種負擔 says:
i'm not gng to do my ass!
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Friend says:
Why

(8)P@mM!3 (8)沒有負擔原來也是種負擔 says:
do my ass. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
thanks but no thanks. HAHAHAHA

December Love! (Part 3)

2011-02-19T04:39:00.000+08:00

16 December 2010

Dinner and shopping with WeiQing after work.

Xing Wang Taiwan Cafe @ Citylink.
I love their red tea!

Ready to dig in.

Random shots with the pretty Marina Square dangling lights.
They never change do they?!

17 December 2010

DKSH's D&D at Ochard Hotel.
Thankfully Goh was nice enough to pick me up from my house, so I don't have to look stupid taking a bus or probably I would cab down to crowded Clementi in the cheongsam.
Will be super embarassing I tell you.

Our invitation card in the shape of sword which goes in line with our theme, Kingdom of the East.
As always, I am always impress with the creativity of the fantree club. Ha!

Behind the red light in the vibrant Orchard Road.

With Orchard Hotel's christmas tree!

There's a gingerbread house, not comparable to the one I saw in Hua Hin.

I wore the exact same dress and heels to the exact same place for the same exact event in year 2006 and year 2010!
The only thing different is D&D with 2 different company.
The 2006 theme in Auric was International, so 1 cheongsam fits the 2 theme!

Ok, here's the comparison picture of myself, 4 year apart.
Taken at the same mirror!
Ok, how the hell the the fats creep onto my body within the span of 4 years?! Tsk tsk
Hair was bad 4 years ago, even the cheongsam looked very loose-fitting!
Now, I had to suck in, though I thought I looked kinda curvier. Ha!
Trade off I suppose. Ha!

Sitting at table 20 with the CVS sales team.
They are one group of entertaining people I tell you!

The 8 course dinner.

To replace the shark's fin, they served this Double Boiled Cabbage with Whole Compoy and Mushroom.
I do understand that some are against eating shark's fin but really, can you at least give me a mock shark's fin, replace them with fish maw or whatever, I would very much prefer the starchy ones that allows me to add vinegar and pepper into it.
The food was not overly fantastic, it's Orchard Hotel, what do I expect?
I miss Shangri-la. Aw~

With the CVS Sales team.

Attendees of my table with my boss.
Yes, our table was not filled up meaning extra servings for us! Ha!

The committee behind the whole D&D event.
Kudos to them for every ounce of effort they put in.

Speech by the big bosses, Leonard, Jimmy Neo and this ang mo who's in charge of the technology side.

1st performance of the night was from the technology division, dancing to Super Junior's Sorry Sorry.
It was entertaining.

The key account sales team who dressed according to the theme with the bosses.

Sales people with bosses.

The guy beside me works in the warehouse, to be honest, I do not know his name. Haha..
Point to note, I absolutely hate it when guys put their hands around my waist.
Hello, even if we are friends, so what?
Shoulder is fine, waist is too intimate for my liking.
It make me feels that I'm being 吃豆腐.
Just pretty offended lah.

I conveniently switched over to another table for a while.
A picture with Christina who's part of the product team.

The sexy colleagues dancing to Wonder Girl's Nobody.
Yet another awesome performance.

Here's the best-dressed segment.
It was split into best dress for individuals and tables.

Individual segment.

Table segment.
For once, the table segment has got new winners because I think for the past many years, 来来去去 only that few tables from the few departments keep winning.

More pictures.

Another impressive work done by our in-house graphic designers!
It's like an ordinary Thai Baht right?
It's actually the picture of our CEO because he dress up as the Thai King!
This was actually used for one of the game segment.
The winner who is a 小妹妹 won herself a trip to Thailand for 2 (subjected to approval by immediate boss), incredibly lucky isn't it?

My luck was not that bad last night because I won the 6th prize!
Our top prize was an iPad.

Items from goodie bag.
It's all our 自家的 products.

Ok, this is what my 6th prize was.
A Samsung camera.
I want to sell this, any takers?!
I keep procrastinating to post it on forums to sell.

After D&D, I actually went to West Coast Park for kite flying with Sicong and colleague + wife.
Really, in my cheongsam and high heels walking on the grass patch.
I must be mad. Haha... What's new right?

22 December 2010

Finally met up with WeiShi for our annual gathering at Vivo's Thai Express.

It used to be meeting up at least 3 to 4 times a year to celebrate our birthdays together with XianLiang however as time goes by, we somehow reduce to one meet up per year and I have not seen XianLiang in years! It was either he was sick, had to work or yes, I did miss an outing last year which I organised. Haha....

Ok, I think we should do more than just 1 meet up per year!

Back for a little more

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First up, Happy CNY to everyone out there!
新年快乐恭喜发财身体健康万事如意心想事成年年有余出入平安

I hope your CNY is just as good as mine.
Oh well, come on, it isn't too bad right!?

4 days away from work and studies.
Pure fun catching up with the cousins, playing card games to test out the luck for the upcoming year!

Now, almost half of CNY is gone.
Things will be going back to the usual very very soon.
This is a really tough semester.
2 test next week and I have not even touch any of the books!
Better start on them this Sunday.
Not to mention, the need to juggle 3 projects.
I am drowning.
I need to be discipline and focus!

Work wise, new product person.
Full team on board.
Shall see if things are turning for the better.
Anyhow, it's just a watch and see situation.
Nothing to look forward to. Really.

Still sick.
3rd week already!
Sucks to the max!

Ok, I need to sleep!
Shall update with the very backdated entries when I find some time ok?
Pack pack schedule I have.

Pam, please be a little more DISCIPLINE and stay FOCUS!
Get the toughest semester over and done with for good and you will breeze through the next. You know you will!

I've got a friend who is into a certain kind of fetish

2011-01-31T16:57:00.002+08:00

Online chat:

Mr. Fetish says: I wish I'm peeing at you.

I say: Eek!

15 December 2010 - It's Zoo Day!

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*Caution!: Image heavy entry below.

Took a day leave and off I went to the Zoo with SzeHui, ShiMin and Joyce.
Let me take you through the journey of how the day went.

SzeHui brought along her Doraemon's mosquito repellent patch, 1 for her and 1 for me to keep Mandai's mosquitoes at bay.

Took a bus from CCK to the Zoo.

Zoohoo~
Reached! We were ready to conquer the zoo!

Thanks to ShiMin we got into the Zoo for free! Woot~

Ben & Jerry's signature cow represents our Chinese Zodiac sign (ox).

Entering the zoo, the first ~~animal~~ bird that greeted us were the 羽毛如雪的 parrots.

With an abandon mini lorry as the background that a mosquitoes infested vehicle.

Spot the monkey climbing the trees.

Random shot, SzeHui 真有那明星的风范!

Off we went to visit the Otters! Yumyum!

Aren't they cute?!

It's almost as tall as ShiMin! Ha...

Trying to figure our way.

Some information on the cute little otters.

We could hardly spot them on the ground because they have all gone swimming to cool themselves off at such a scorching weather.

ShiMin and I trying to capture the swimming otters.
ShiMin can even pose while snapping photos, not like me. T_T

Bei Haw!
I kept bugging them that I need to see the white tigers in the zoo!

ShiMin navigating the way, bring us to....

The flamingos.

Past by a restaurant own by this dude.
Ok, not exactly this dude, but his species.

He's famous enough to have a restaurant here.
Where else can you find it except Singapore Zoo?! Ha...

All the random walking.

Cookie Monster!

They're made into crocs!
It cost about 30 bucks per pair and they're in kids size mind you.
Super pricey.

T for Tembusu.

Sawadeka~

Neng Song Sam, Kimchi~

We made it just in time for the 12.30pm rainforest fight back.

Waiting for the show to begin.

They invited this ang moh tourist to get half naked in front of everybody. Ha!

Orangutan climbing to the centre stage.

Opening a big coconut.

Mr. Parrot flew in too.

Next up, they had the cute raccoons

Some birds.

So the show ended and we continued our journey.

We saw elephants being led by their trainers.

Can't help but attempted to snap photos with them as they walked by.

My turn to lead the way.

Ok, I somehow led us to this resting area.
Replenish on the H2O before moving on.

Eh, got a mini zebra-crossing!

The Baboons!
Love them for thir red bottoms. Ha!

The girls just as fascinated as me.

More pictures of them.

Distracted ourselves from the baboons snapping silly photos.

Helped the girls snap photos with baboons. Eh, actually cannot see any in the background. Ooops.
I wanted to take photos with baboons too but they ignored me.

In the end I took this myself lor.
Baboon and me. =p

Seeing how pathetic I was, they offered to help me snap this. With the real ones.

Finally, I saw the Beh Haws
I absolutely love how they look.

So how far can our girls jump?
Just for fun, we actually had videos of us trying to compare the distance we jumped to the distance a full grown tiger can jump.

In a shabby hut, we found SzeHui meditating.

Very serious meditator she is.

She is just so cooperative. Ha!

The Tapir.

Here's a little quiz for you.

(Answer below)
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Now, have you gotten it right?

PALMS!

Lunch time at KFC.
Yum yum!

ShiMin's handmade birthday card to SzeHui.
It is so nicely made!

The journey continues after lunch...

There was a peacock right in front of me, walking like as though it own the road.
Very 潇洒.

Next up, we went for the elephant show where the elephants showcased their skills.
Awesome performance from the elephants!

With the elephant statues.

With the er... I am not too sure what bird is this called. =X

Penguins!

Now everbody, this is known as the Mandai lake.
M for Mandai lake.
I love how it look so serenity.

Just had to take shots with such awesome background!

SzeHui and the giant tortoise.

Guess what? I found my 金龟! :D

Next up, we went to see the snakes.
They are ShiMin's favourite.

Shimin with the cobra, see how happy she is?

180 degree different expression in mine.

The long long journey made me went bonkers!

Lions.

It started raining not long after.

Check out who's that under the umbrella?
Hahaha...

Erm SzeHui, you are not that light to be blown away by the wind.
Yes, she was totally pretending to be blown away! See how she even tiptoed.

With Ah Meng.

ShiMin had her head inside the crocodile's mouth.

Totally horrified by the real one.

Love the carousel at the background.
I have this unexplainable love for carousels.

The spinning one.

Very busy woman.

A very typical classic look of SzeHui. Hahaha...
Bitten by a erm... Dinosaur.

Tortoise.

Checking out the playground.

Sotong SzeHui.

This picture just looks so wrong! Haha!

Now, this is much better!

Me!

There is a mock up of houses back in the 80's?
The fake people inside looks rather eerie that we do not dare to go in.

Goats.

I know you can't really see but those are ponies.

Hamish ShiMin.

Shrub in a giraffe shape.

Erm, the car and I.

We ran out of poses....

I kinda like this one.

Poor Joyce, she had to shelter SzeHui, our navigator in the mini umbrella.

That concluded our trip which ended at 6.30pm.

We were all very good friends because from Mandai, we took bus and train down to NEX and met Daphne for dinner.

Dinner at Paradise Inn.

I told Daphne if she is going to bring us to some eating place that we could get in the west, she's going to be so dead. Ha...

Dishes we ordered, salted veggie with duck soup, salted egg prawns, sweet and sour pork, tofu, spinach with egg and a fried rice.
The food was pretty awesome.

An individual pot of tea.
I think it's really silly because the cup is so small that it could not even fill a mouthful of tea. Then you've to pour like 20 times in order to like drink for half a normal cup of tea. =.=
Just be more practical can?

Daphne's idea.

After dinner we accompanied ShiMin to checkout some clothes.

The girls standing outside the open-concept shop while...

ShiMin checking out the clothes inside.

Decided to call it a day after the unfruitful shopping trip for ShiMin.
It was such a long way home.
As much as the hype about NEX, it's just too far away from home.
I had a great deal of fun that day.
Thank you girls for making it happen! =)

For the umpteenth time...

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the mind keep drifting to the past.

And for the umpteenth time...
I have to remind myself that going forward is the only thing I can do.

Tough life.
Press on~
There will be a pot of gold where the rainbow ends.

Random thought

2011-01-23T00:13:00.004+08:00

There is this perfect plan in mind.
However you know how plan does not conform to reality 99% of the time.

Usually it can only be use as a guideline towards the goal.
Well, at least it provides a kind of action plan rather than not knowing how to get there I suppose.

I have always been a rather safe person, meaning I do not like to take risk.
I never like uncertainties.

Somehow recently I seem to be more open to the idea of risk-taking.
Of course the risks are calculated ones I suppose.
Perhaps it comes with the fact that now that I am 25 (no, not 26 yet. Give me a break, I just celebrated my 25th birthday few months back ok!), youth is slowly slipping away and there are only so much I can do.
It's a now or never.
Nothing (much) to lose anyway.

Imagine taking risk at the age of 35? Assuming I have a family of my own, what are the commitments and implications?

Get what I mean?

Anyhow, there are various routes.
It eventually depends on which route I take.
Plan may be altered accordingly.

I wish I could graduate faster! Ha!

December Love! (Part 2)

2011-01-18T16:37:00.008+08:00

9 December 2010

Met up with ZongYao for dinner at Central.

Decided to go for this, after recommendation by Marcus on my Facebook.
He made it sounds too good to be missed.
That was my 3rd bowl of Ramen in a week, I think I'm such a Ramen fan that I never get sick of it!

Shared this plate of pork's cheek.
Honestly, we were both pretty disappointed with it!
It tasted exactly like those canned ones which we could get from supermarket.

His spicy miso ramen

While I stick with a safe choice, a non-spicy one.
Ordered the shoyu soup base I think.

Last but not least, the tamago test!

Perfect, just the way I like it.
The hard-boiled egg white, that's not too soft and the egg yolk in it's gluey state.
Now, this shall be the in my top of the list along with Marutama.

Digging in!

Somehow we decided that Central was boring enough so off we head to Orchard.
I resist the temptation of stealing some McDonald's french fries. Yay!

With the X'mas tree at Ngee Ann City.

That's about it because we are just boring people who like to roam around town. Ha!

~*~*~*~*~*~

11 December 2010

Had Thai cusine in celebration of SzeHui's 25th birthday at one of the Thai restaurant in Pervis Street.

Our drinks.

The food we shared.
Most of the food we ordered were yum yum!
Olive rice and pandan leave chicken are worth mentioning!

Satisfied us.

Our dearest Daphne ordered SzeHui's blueberry yogurt cake and collected them hours before.

The youngest in the group.
Although most of the time, she don't seems like the youngest.
No, I am not saying she chao lao, just more mature thinking. Ha!

Ok, yes.
Not all time can she maintain the composed, mature image.
The birthday girl has her silly moments too!

Perfect.

A group photo before we left the place.

Just sitting outside the restaurant.

Next up was to Mind Cafe located at Boat Quay.

The guys parked at Central so that explains the photos below.

With Central's X'mas tree.

My typical jump-shot.

Sicong demonstrating the Super Mario jump.

I tried to imitate him.

Sicong 灵魂出窍.

Passing the tunnel.

There we were at Mind Cafe, with the menu presented to us.

Took the unlimited hours package which entitles us to free flow of drinks and tidbits.

Started off by playing this card game whereby the Sheriff has to try to kill all the bad people with the help of the vice-sheriffs who are unknown to everybody and the bad people would have to kill the sheriff and the vice-sheriffs. Not forgetting that a mole exist in the game too.

We played 2 rounds of these.

It was a pretty fun game however I was killed really quickly in the game which left me in boredom to do these...

Cam-whoring. Hahaha... They took far too long to finish the game.

Next up, the sweet couple played a round of chinese chess while we took a break.

Ailing thinking hard.

Anthony thinking of how to counter Ailing.

While they played, nobody was actually paying attention because we were all too busy to get our hands onto our phones.

We ended the games at 2am and called it a night.

~*~*~*~*~*~

12 December 2010

Finally met up with ShiPin after many many months!
We've always been wanting to meet up however due to our busy schedules we finally arranged for one!

Yes, I was late!
I have to admit to it. Ha!

First up was Shopping.
From Wisma to Far East Plaza to Centrepoint.

After that was taking photos along the stretch of beautifully decorated Orchard.

X'mas tree right beside the traffic lights of Visitor Centre crossing to Heeren.

Outside Grand Park Orchard.

The X'mas deco while walking down the street.

Paragon's X'mas tree
I love how it looks, kind of reminds me of Ferrero chocolates!

Finally reaching our destination, Lucky Plaza.
I was craving for Ayam Penyet!

Our dinner.
Yum Yum!
I kinda miss it now. Although I should be thinking about eating it, really.

Kit-Kat bus-stop advertisement.

The ever-vibrant Orchard.

Outside Tangs.
I think they won the best X'mas deco award or something.
No doubt they are the clear winner.
Love how they play with colours to create the kind of bubbly and fantasy effect.

My loots for the day.

Tried these.

Ended up with these.

I had a 50 bucks voucher that expired a month ago and I only realised it then, thankfully the staff allow me to use it on the spot.
Stock-up on all the necessities and topped it up with $4.65.

Phew~

Now, ending the post with one of the pictures I love best.

December Love! (Part 1)

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3 December 2010

Dine at Sapporo Ramen Miharu located at Gallery Hotel.

The menu

Shared this char siew.
It tasted really different from the ones I had in Marutama.
The meat is tougher and no fats.
You can try dipping them in chilli oil because I personally think it tasted pretty good.

Spicy chilli miso ramen which cost $12.50.
I think the chilli taste just overpower everything.
Lesson learnt, never order any spicy ramen for the first time because it will spoil the taste.

This is the 13 bucks rich miso pork flavoured with fried garlic oil.
Honestly, I prefer this one better.
Love the taste of the fried garlic. Ahh!

Now, for the most important criteria in my judging of good ramens.
The tamagos!
Unfortunately, my egg got drowned inside my spicy miso so did not take any photos of it.
Anyway, that is not the point.
The point is... the tamago failed my test.
No doubt the egg white is soft however the egg yolk is not soft enough.
Can be better I think.

Went exploring Robertson Quay to Mohammad Sultan area before settling down at TCC to chill.

Love the hanging basket seats.
I kept swinging the whole night. =.=

The little X'mas tree to lift up the Christmas spirit along with the Christmas songs.

5 December 2010

My first half marathon race day!

Prior to that, I had bad thoughts about missing out the run because I would sleep until my usual Sunday waking hours which is around noon.

I set 4-5 alarms at intervals and mind you, each alarm comes with 6 minutes snooze.
Yes, I am kiasu because I am really afraid I could not wake up.

I was suppose to have an early night before however I still went out for movie at Jurong Point with Daphne, AiLing, BaoXin, Anthony and Sicong.
Well, the girls were suppose to do their 10km run the next day however just as expected they paid the money, took the goodie bags and spent quality time with their beds.

Even my one and only half marathon partner, Soo Hui also decided to back out last minute.
What's up people?!
What happen to the enthusiasm upon signing up?!

Probably I was too nervous and worried, I ended up sleeping from 2.30am to 4.30am, not to mention I was interrupted by 2 phonecalls!

Anyhow I manage to wake up right on time, make my way to Clementi, take the train which brought me to Harbour Front station.

At Vivo's toilet.
I had to take a picture of myself in the toilet.
Kind of pathetic I know.

For the first time, the half marathon race starts from Sentosa.
I think of all the 3 categories, my route the most interesting one.

At the starting point.
Although the race started at 6.30am, everybody was taking their own sweet time walking to the starting point.
I only began the race at 6.40am.

Pardon some of the lousy pictures below because I took them while running, trying not to waste too much time you see. Ha!

Along the way, I spotted a Pokemon!
Can you imagine, running 21km in a Pokemon suit.
I hope the person did not suffer from heat stroke.
No joke I tell you!

Ran past the Siloso Beach.

Into the USS I ran.

I kinda like this picture.

They have got the mascots all around so some of the runners actually queued and take photos with them.
In order not to waste time queuing to take photos with them, I took photos of them instead.

Pussy cat from Shrek.
Don't you just love the adorable pussy cat?

Penguin from Madagascar.
No, I do not know the guy in the photo, he just happened to be there when I depressed the button.

I wanna move it move it~
Hippo from Madagascar!
I don't know the 2 guys either.

People who are in front of me....

Roller-coaster which is the main attraction in USS have been under maintenance for the longest time.

The 7km mark.
Manage to get one of the motivators to help me take a photo of myself.
I know I looked pretty terrible, many more km to go!

Took this while going up the flyover to ECP.
The crowd below was at their 11th km with a drink and gel station nearby.

By the time I was here, it was a test of endurance as my legs and feet started to ache.
It pain was more bearable when I run rather than walk however my stamina could only take me that far.

On the sheares bridge.

The people of all categories merge together.

Under the scorching hot sun.

This is around the Esplanade area I think.

Can you spot Fullerton Hotel? Nearing the ending point!

Alright, I made it!
21km in 3 hours and 1 min.
1 min off my targeted time.
Hey, I survived!

Met Daji after the race hence the photo!

On our way to City Hall MRT, there was this man standing at a corner with many gigantic white balls and markers asking people to write their new year wishes on the balls.
Those are the white balls which is use as part of the decoration along Singapore River.

Grabbed Daji to write our wishes on them!

Here's mine!

Made Daji wrote his too.
Are you curious what he wrote?!

There you go! Ha!

X'mas tree located at Citilink.

Had Fei Xiong at Clementi before home sweet home.
Yes, I actually spent time alone with Daji without going insane although he did attempt to drive me to the point at times! Ha!

7 December 2010

Met up with Sylvia for shopping after work.
Haven't seen her since the JI outing in February.
Gosh~

To my favourite store in Somerset 313!

After months of hunting, I finally found the exact same dress in the outlet!
I laid my eyes on this ever since I first saw in online months ago!
Can't believe my luck!
However they ran out of the S size so I had to make do with the M one.

I was extremely tempted with this trench top.
It was really comfy to the max and it was the last piece!
Luckily for me, I manage to stop myself in time to purchase this. Ha!

After going through 4 stories of F21, New Look and Cotton On, we finally had our dinner at the basement.

I ordered this
The dish and ramen came in a set.

Sylvia's.

Apart from the eggs, it tasted pretty alright.
You got to lower your expectation on a more affordable bowl of ramen yeah?

Ready to dig in.

We were the last customers for the day.
It was so pressurising because everybody was eyeing at you when you eat, especially when you're a slow eater like me!

Anyhow, I had a good time doing retail therapy!
Let's go for another shopping trip the soonest.

Novmber Fun (Part 2)

2011-01-05T20:12:00.000+08:00

22 November 2010

Finally met ZongYao at Vivo after 2 long years.
It was good to see him back although my first natural and rather rude reaction to him were opened my eyes wide and ask, "What happen to you?!?!?!" upon seeing the ballooned him.
Hahaha... Australia definitely has been treating you good.

Dinner at Central.

Mine, cannot remember what is it call but it his really spicy and shiok!

His 鱼片米粉.

We shared this fried intestine, yumyum!

I am so glad to have my shopping companion back in town because off we went shopping after dinner, to my favourite store. =)

Trying on some outfit.
Can you guess which one I picked in the end?!

The very 1st X'mas tree for Christmas!
Yes, the same old tree which Vivo puts on display every year since its opening.
Still...

Must take photo with it.
Trying to collect as many photographs with the X'mas deco as possible.

Kor is too conscious of his size to be photographed that night. Haha...

Picked this piece after recommendation by the shopping buddy.
Now you know why I enjoy shopping with him. Haha...

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25 November 2010

Caught Megamind at Vivo after work.
Pretty nice movie I must say.
I am easily entertained.

My 2 movie companion, WeiQing and Rhino.

Had our dinner after the movie.

Sushi Tei that is.

Sashimi salad for me! Prior to that, I smuggled in a subway sandwich to the cinema.
Gosh~ imagine the calories! Well, at least those are healthy food, in a way. Ha!

The food that was shared between the 2 of them.

26 November 2010

Met up with the poly girls.
Although I have been hanging out with Daphne and Ailing on regular basis but not Saran & Yiwen.

View from Orchard Central while waiting...
Excuse me, who says point and shoot camera cannot do awesome pictures??
I quite like this. ha!

It was not an easy task finding a place to have our dinner because the restaurants were either too crowded, out of budget or the food are not to our liking.
We did silly things like drawing lots (all thanks to Daphne's idea), walk round and round before deciding to just settle for this Japanese Raman place, Tonkichi.

The food were so-so, not fantastic.
I had raman, it was edible only lor

Spent the next couple of hours eating and catching up with one another.

A group photo to end the night.

30 November 2010

It's been a while since I last met up with my Tu family.

This time round, we have got full attendance!

Dinner was at Wheelock Place's Sakae Sushi.

A picture of Rina and I, both sporting fringe and black top.

Dessert at NYDC which was just next door.

Totally yum yum and sinfulicious!
Thanks to Rina's voucher, we actually paid the price of 1 while uterlising the voucher for another.

There was this really cute baby sitting on the next table the father.
The huge innocent eyes simply melt us.

A photo together to sign off the night.

Using Rifang's Canon S95, taking Ion's X'mas tree that is just across the street.
I absolutely love the effect of the camera.
It looked so Hong Kong I think.

3 of us camwhored right outside the entrance to Wheelock on the rainy night.
Completely sold by S95! Sheesh~

Embracing 2011

2011-01-02T15:30:00.003+08:00

First of all, Happy New Year to you. =)

Time to review the old resolutions and make the new ones.

Let's see if I accomplished any.
2010 Resolutions:

1) Be a more giving person for I hardly give but always take.
Well, I can't say I am any more giving than before. In some way, I feel that I did try to. Not always, sometimes. There is still room for improvement.

2) Continue to do well in my studies.
Decent grades, I know I can do better without all those unnecessary distractions. Still, I have done the best I could given the situations.

3) Work harder and better at work.
Work harder, yes. However harder != better.
Better, as in probably the implications of everything but in some other aspects, at least I don't think so.

4) Travel out of the country.
Erm.. the furthest I went is... JB. Counted right?! So yes! Hahahaha!

5) Take part in half marathon run.
Checked, checked, checked!
SCMS half marathon, I did it!

Score: 3.5/5
Not too bad at all!

Now here are the new ones

2011 Resolutions!

1) Decent grades to finish off my final year.

2) Be a little more organise, say bye to messy tables.

3) A trip to Down Under.

4) Another half-marathon run.

5) Be more forgiving, more considerate, more patient, nicer, basically to reach the state of being genuinely happy. (Been there, done that, I hope I can do it more frequently that's all.)

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What I can look forward to in this new year,

Health:
Let's hope I still be in pink of health, no major illness or any mishap please. Perhaps a miracle that my foot will heal by itself! Ha! (Am I asking for too much?!)

Work:
Company shifting to Penjuru, definitely not my top location but do I have a choice?! Initial plan is to stay until I finish my studies or at least at my final semester. Somehow due to many external influences, it is forcing me to modify my plan.

I was lost a while ago, intending to use this one year to find my calling... but not anymore because I have a better idea of what I want now. In this new year, I hope I would be able to at least move towards that direction. Of course it may change over time but at least for now, the idea remains.

Study:
My final year. Please let it be a smooth one, let me graduate in time. I need to, not young anymore.

Love:
Nothing to bring forward except another year closer to buying an HDB flat alone. =.= It's not about me being picky, it's about having the right feelings and the so many of my ridiculous aspects. Starting the year anew, I am ready to see what is in store for me.

Family:
Nothing more than 建康平安 I could ask for. No major illness for everyone.

Welcoming another 小生命 into the family. Katie, baby Katie that is. Looking forward to her arrival. I am sure she will charm everybody just as much as her elder brother, Matthew.

Friends:
Let's keep things as it is. Keep the old and make the new please.

General:
I hope 2011 would be a better year than 2010.
Smooth-sailing please, not ready to face that many challenges just yet.

Having some plans in mind, work towards them.
I hope I will be able to achieve them.
Keep the discipline and remain focus, these are all I need.

I am ready for the year.
Bring it on!

Concluding 2010

2010-12-31T01:08:00.016+08:00

It's the time of the year again to look back and review the past year.

Let's see the highlights for 2010.

Always a spectator of fireworks, never thought I would have the chance to play with them.
It was an awesome experience I had in JB.

The mahjong craze also started earlier this year... Weekends filled with mahjong, mahjong and more mahjong...

A 1st time participant of Sundown 10km Marathon in May with the timing of 1:16 hour.
Not fantastic result however it was good experience running without worrying about the sun dehydrating me any further.
Organiser ought to improve their venue and logistic issues because it is putting me off joining anymore Sundown Marathons.

Discovered the joy of Gmarket.

All decked in Gmarket loots.

My first paid concert ever that set me back by 228 bucks.
You may think I am extravagant but hey, I am not somebody who frequent concerts.
I am pretty lucky to secure the tickets because the tickets were in great demand!
I am glad I caught his concert although he not was in his top-notch performance.

3rd Shape Run.
The 2nd 10km run I took part in 2010.
Finished the race in 1:20hr, that is the price to pay of not training.
Not joining anymore Shape Run unless I can run for free, the registration fee is getting more and more exorbitant!

Attended my first paid musical, December Rain.
I truly enjoyed myself throughout the show.
I am glad I caught it, Kit Chen is terrific!

2nd Standchart Marathon, except that this is my first time running half marathon instead of my usual 10km.
Completed the race in 3:01 hour.
1 minute off my targeted time however there is still this sense of achievement! =)
It was an incredible experience running the 21km route!

Re-visit the zoo with SzeHui, ShiMin and Joyce.
It was a great day!

Won the 6th prize during D&D.
Yay for winning something!

Spent the last afternoon of 2010 enjoying a good book at Cafe Indulgence before the catching The Fockers at The Cathy alone.

Last time I would be totally put off and horrified by the idea of dining and watching a movie alone but over the past year, that was what I always wanted to do but did not.
I am glad I manage to do it before the year end.
It was actually quite fun just being in your own world.
Would love to do these occasionally.
Just hope I don't turn out to be a loner.

Ended the last few hours of 2010 with my dearest Sophia, Wendy, Elson and JianMing. (No, Elson and JianMing are not my dearest. Hahahahaha!)
It was fun messing around in the kitchen with the girls.
Counted down together with the television alone while Sophia was outside sending them off. Aw~
No fancy parties, no squeezing with the crowd, just a pure and simple get together, that is heart-warming enough. Thanks for having me over FHSS! =)

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Health:
Except for the stomach flu and problematic foot, most of the time I am in the pink of health.

Work:
Hmmmm... I survived another 12 months at work. It's like fighting in a war zone everyday. Seen many left and many new faces. Many readapting. I really don't know how I manage to cope with everyday happenings. I am thankful for the helpful colleagues.I seems to have lost the motivation day by day.

Study:
Done with my 2nd year. I know I have not been working as hard as my first (year). I managed to scrape through quite a few. I had decent grades. I am really thankful for all the support I received.

Love:
There were some of those ding-ding-dong-dongs and allow me to add a little boomz. At the end of 2010, everything is at square zero. Mind you, it's not even square one. It should be a good sign isn't it?! We are perhaps in control of our own destiny, somehow. Call it Fate.

Family:
Another year together. I am glad everyone is 建康 and 平安. There are nothing more I could ask for. Matthew being the abundance of joy in the family. Even the cousins adore him. He is quite a charmer.

Friends:
I am still as thankful as ever for every single one of them. They are the ones that keep me sane and filled my life with so much joy and laughters. Friends that would go an extra mile for me. Friends whom I know I can count on despite not being in frequent contact. Friends who I reconnect with. Friends, these are all my friends. I am blessed.

General:
There are some ups and downs but nothing too major.
I used to think I had a good plan,how could I let external forces slipped off my mind.

Keep up with my passion for running, for the adrenaline rush and calories burning.
Manage to bring the weight down by 4kg.
Not a bad achievement because I started the year fat, got even fatter in the middle of the year. Haha... Fat in my context, not yours.
Now I can dig out all the pretty clothes I own and wear them without looking like a ba zang. =P

I had this amazing conversation which just totally wake me up from my idea. The other X number of people tried to do so for the longest time but to no avail.
Thanks for doing so. Really.

Behaving in my typical self, please accept my apologies if I had unintentionally hurt you.

2010 Key Learning: Communication
Misunderstandings and assumptions take place without proper communications which often result in disasters.
The kind of communications does not come to me naturally.

Sometimes communication helps to save the unwanted situation.
Although sometimes it cannot salvage anything, at least it brings the intended message across to the other party. Put the mind at peace.
There are times communications help one to see better, clearer. Leading one to find the answer from deep within, search for other alternatives or reaching enlightenment.
Proven and tested.

There are times I just do not communicate anymore because it has reached a point that even if i do, is it going to make any difference? Don't even see a point of doing that anymore. Given up.

Still, I should keep the communications tool in mind for the upcoming year.

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Most importantly, I survived the year and I am truly thankful for everything, the good and bad. I made it through and so have you! =)

November Fun (Part 1)

2010-12-29T00:16:00.008+08:00

*Caution*: Image heavy entry because I am trying to cramp partial of November activities into an entry. Bear with me!

6 November 2010

Met up with Wendy at Ngee Ann City's Kinokuniya because I felt like getting a couple of books to keep me busy during my (school) holiday.

Settled for Coffee Club Express just beside Kinokuniya for our very late tea break.

Our drinks

We shared this Mexican snack.

Updated each other with the recent happenings of our lives.

Shortly after our tea break, joined Wendy and her friends at Tampopo.

Shared this fried tofu with beef with a bowl of rice.
Saw that chilli padi on top of the tofu? It was indeed.... HOT to the max!

Me and our food.
Covering the whatsapp conversation I was having with Sophia on Wendy's BB as it cannot be exposed! Ha!

Parted with Wendy's friend and met up with Sophia right after.
With all the yada yada, Wendy left while I spent some time chilling with Sophia at Atrium@Orchard.

It was a rainy night, felt good sitting on the comfy velvet chairs catching up, having a good chat over drinks.

My purchases for the day.
All thanks to Wendy's friend, cheapo me got these books at 10% discount from Kinokuniya.
It still mount up to 100 bucks but well, they enhance my knowledge unlike my usual apparels purchases. =p

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12 November 2010

Wore my new F21 tier top to work.

Steamboat dinner with colleagues.
Herbert, Jeffrey, Yunjie, Huiwen and Liz.
To be honest, the 5 names above, I swear it was the 1st time I spoke to the girls and got to really know their names
It was also meant to be a farewell dinner for Liz.

Yes, I don't seems to socialise much with other departments.
Blame my endless work and..... oh well. BAH!

Steamboat at this restaurant in the Liang Seah area recommended by Jeffrey.

The 馒头s there are pretty good. Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside with condense milk! Yum!

Dessert at 记得吃 after dinner.
Yes, we actually had stomach for desserts after a really full dinner.

Ok, no pictures of the colleagues because I forgotten to take photos!
I was interrupted with some work related phone calls at that hour which took my mind of snapping pictures! Bah~

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13 November 2010

It's an early birthday celebration for AiLing.

Original plan for the day: Cycling in the east and dinner in the west.

That explains the super casual outfit.

We were suppose to meet 2pm at Bedok Central for lunch.
However everybody from Anthony's car were LATE for half hour.
Yes, I was early once again, all thanks to my neighbour. Ha!
(Cannot claim credit because everyone knows I am not a punctual person!)

While we were on our way to East Coast Park, there was a change on plan in Anthony's car because Daphne somehow manage to talk them out of cycling and they went to do their own activities while the rest of us continued with the original plan.

We were ready to GO!

After we traveled some distance, we had to turn back because it started to drizzle. =.=
We somehow managed to meet up with Zeming along the way.

When we reached the bicycle kiosk, the sky was all clear again.
Left Sicong and Zeming to fly their kites while SzeHui, Daji and I continued with our cycling.

Emo kia with his kite.

This was taken by Daji!
I think Little Twin Stars are his favourite after Hello Kitty.

Parked ourselves at this jetty.(Nope, this is not Bedok jetty, this is further up.)

Incredible views.

Daji attempted to capture the moments with his good old trusty SE810i.

Took some photos before u-turning back because we were kind of late.

Poor Daji had a fall while trying to answer Sicong's phonecall.

After cycling, we traveled all the way back to West Coast for Ju Shin Jung Korean Charcoal BBQ Restaurant as per our birthday girl request.
We had a private room all to ourselves! Whee~

Some of the dishes we had.
Too overwhelmed with all the food that I did not manage to take everything.

Before we knew it, the whole table was filled up with dishes and more dishes!
Actually they are mainly 小菜s.
Imagine if 1 person has 5 different dish for different stuff, there are 9 of us which makes it 45 dishes on the table at one go. Scary~
I do pity the person who washed the dishes.

After dinner...

Sicong, who looks totally contented.

Anthony just looked as though he passed out from drinking too much alcohol.

The birthday girl and I.

The birthday girl has a boyfriend that camwhore too!

The cake we got from Cheesecake Cafe at Siglap.

Birthday girl with her sweet boyfriend.

The girls!

Zeming and Sicong looked like the bodyguard or something. Ha!

"An Zua?!"
I like this, this is funny!

Ok, Daji clearly enjoyed the attention SzeHui showered at him.

The guys are not much into taking photos so just random ones from us girls.

Last one from us before we left for West Coast Recreational Centre.

We went to bowl.

That was Sicong's 背影.
There was a video of him bowled but I am too lazy to upload it.
Not that his bowling is fantastic, just funny.

I was the 2nd in place during the 1st game.
I am never good at bowling.
The more I bowl, the lesser is my score.

After we bowled, we head to the pool parlour where the rest played their pool while I sat on the chair contented with watching the TV.

It was a healthy day with different kind of sports, at least we got away from mahjonging.
However we concluded that mahjong is a cheaper form of alternative.

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20 November 2010

Dinner at Somerset 313 with the FOC peeps at...

Silly me was not warned that I cannot consume alcohol or chinese medication on the day of my IPL.
In the end I could only 眼睁睁的 watched others drink beer while I had fruit juice.

While waiting for our food to arrive.

Food that is shared between 6 of us.
It was more than enough because we even offered them to the others.

Group photo before Weimin left while we went for our 下半场.

Adam looked so 陶醉 sitting on Aaron's lap.
Their feelings for each other are mutual.

After dinner, we moved on to this pub at Emerald Hill.

The mocktails Weiqing and I ordered.
She had Shirley Temple while I had Virgin Lime Magarita.

The 'cover' on top of our glasses were actually coasters.
There is a reason why we need to use it to cover our drinks.

November babies - 3478.
Unfortunately our dearest no.3 would not make it that day so we used a coaster to replace her. Aw~

We were having peanut fight whole night long.

The ultimate was to throw it into somebody's top and press the peanut shell on their skin. *Ouch*

The guys were very sly because they pretended that they wanted to help us take photos...

Then they threw peanut shells at us!

Classic picture of Adam and the flying peanut shells!

Now you know why we needed the coaster to 'protect' our drinks from the peanut shells.
One ended up in Chee How's drink. Oooops. =X

Adam, our number 1 target!

KaiXiang and Adam busy deshelling the peanuts because we had a mission!

Chee How who is happy to be left out of the peanut fight.

We had a surprise for Kok came straight after this work.

Peanut shells all over him as a form of welcome.
I think he was rather overwhelmed.

Still attacking.

That is the only place you can get to litter openly!
We had to refill our peanut bowls umpteenth times!

Before we left, take a look at the mess we created!
We had such awesome fun just having peanut fight.

A group photo of us all.

A picture of Orchard X'mas lights up to end of the post. =)

My birthday celebrations

2010-12-20T00:34:00.009+08:00

4 November 2010

Celebrated my birthday on the actual date with the kakis I met up most in year 2010 right after my last paper!

Being the birthday girl, I get to choose where I want to dine!

Aburiya, located at Robertson Quay.

It was a really long walk down to Robertson Quay.
We had to walk past Central and Clark Quay before reaching our destination.
Daphne was nagging and nagging at me. =X

From my style, you could have guessed I came up with a theme and ~~force~~ made everybody dressed up to it.
Right, it was suppose to be a geeky birthday.
Too much of mugging for the exams make me goes bonkers!

See how game everybody were.

Daji could not keep his hands off my octopus. *tsk*

The food arrived after a while.

I did not manage to take down pictures of all the food, was too hungry already.
I am not sure what they order but we had salads, beef stews, kimchi soup all these which do not require us to charcoal grilled them with the little stove provided.
We also had the beef cubes, fresh scallops, fresh prawns, pork cheek etc.
It tasted really yummy except that I think we kind of overcooked the beef so it was a little hard to chew off.
38 bucks per pax, sure is a little expensive but then, it's really nice leh.

Presenting to you....

My dearest geek friends!

After we paid the bills, we head to the colourful bridge that is just right outside the restaurant.

Acting nerds again with our spectacles.

Party blower and the mask in a couple of pictures above, courtesy of neighbour. =)

Took photos with each and everyone of the dearest friends.

With Daphne.
Thanks for organising the whole dinner for me.
Appreciate. =)

With SzeHui.
Thanks for getting the birthday cake for me and letting me hold them on my hands occasionally when you guys were too engross in your own stuff. Ha...

With BaoXin.
Thanks for celebrating with me in your most geeky self and the Happy Birthday sweets from Sticky!

With AiLing.
Thanks for celebrating with me and hey, great (scorpio) minds think alike!
Decked in red checks. Ha!

With Anthony.
Thanks for driving us to Alif and appreciate much with your effort to wear your sweater in additional to your checkered shirt.
I know you were in discomfort with the layers of clothes!
Thanks for not wearing your usual working attire (read: cargo pants with sport shoes! Ha!)

With Daji.
Thanks for celebrating my day with me but no thanks to bugging me to lend you my octopus. Ha!

With Sicong.
Thank you neighbour for coming down in your fatty potter specs and the special gift that contributes to my obsession!

Poor Sicong, apart from being our Ahmad, he has a new role as Maria too.
Hahahaha...

The endearing couple. =)

Random shots at the bridge.

Szehui helped me take this 2 shots.
A candid and a more normal one.
It's hard to see me dressed in long sleeves because I am afraid of the humid weather.
Bought it from F21 sale awhile ago and it is because of this top that inspires me to have a geek theme, else I will probably keep this piece in my cupboard for a long long time.

Putting our best foot forward.
Only Anthony and Sicong put their left foot forward.
Aw~ How they make such a great pair! *scandal alert*

While we were walking from Robertson Quay to Liang Court...

Failed attempt of jump shot by the guys.

Perfect!

I have no idea what SzeHui was trying to do.
I think she wanted to take a couple of 诗情画意 pictures without looking into the camera.
As you can see, she failed badly. Hahaha...

In the fatty potter specs.

Do not ask me why my friends did not want to celebrate my birthday in the restaurant but choose to carry the cake in their hands and walked all the way to Liang court and celebrate with me just outside the Streets Hong Kong Cafe. *shrug*

So they sing a song for me loud and clear in the open, attracting all the unwanted attention of the patrons inside the restaurant and other passer-bys.
Doing the usual make wish, blow candle, cut cake yada yada.

I think I haven't been a good friend to them because they're out to get me with the leftovers of the cake. *tsk*
All surrounding me, ready to attack, leaving me with nowhere to run!

I tried to siam here siam there and the leftover cake eventually landed on my shirt before tumbling down to my leg then the ground. Haha...

Head off to Alif, our favourite muslim food hangout @ Bukit Gombak after pondering for pretty long where to go next.

After filling up the stomachs again, all of us except for Daji went to Sicong's house for our usual activity, Mahjong!
Me being the birthday girl was made to sit throughout the entire game while they each played 2 rounds.

Luckily lady luck was on my side!

Won $16.60 in total.
Thanks guys!

Sticky and the legendary string string from Baoxin and Sicong respectively.

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5 November 2010

Dug this out from my cupboard, got myself dressed and got myself out of the house in the fastest speed.

Dinner was at Millenia Walk's Outback Steakhouse.

Starving me.

The usual brown bread they served.

Tasteful potato soup with generous ingredients.

The mains.
Realy, they seems to mixed up the medium rare and medium mains steaks.
Complimentary sides because they gave the wrong sides.

Ready to dig in!

I'm a steak lover.
Thanks for the birthday treat although we have to agree Shashlik still offers the best steaks at reasonable price.
So when are we having Lawry?! Haha...

I swear I was reluctant to go home that night....because I came home to this.

The whole house painted in just a day.
I had to unpack all my things which I packed into carton boxes the day before.

Really, next time if I've got my own house, I will minimize the things I keep out in open. I will build cupboards everywhere!
Save myself the trouble of packing and unpacking unnecessarily and minimize the contact between dust and my things.
Really, at least make the cleaning process easier.
Then no walk-in wardrobe for me in this case. =(
Oh well, all these coming from a lazy person. =P

Escapade

2010-12-13T20:28:00.006+08:00

Haven't been travelling to anywhere this year.
JB is not counted!

I need a break from everything badly.
Sadly, truth to be told, I am nothing but a poor (part-time) student.
All the hard-earned money goes into financing my studies, leaving none for travelling.
Cannot wait to finish school so as to use the money for travelling.

I am determine to go Australia next year.

Get myself away from the bustling city, get some fresh air, rest and relax.
Please please please don't disappoint me.
This is the only thing that keep me going, although the trip will probably take place a year later.
I want a getaway.

I want to walk by the riverbank with a cup of hot chocolate in hand, watch autumn leaves fall onto the ground.
有种凄凉的美.

I want stroll down uneven roads in some European countries in boots.

Study the architectures, soak myself in the laid-back culture.

Go trekking and enjoy the greatest gift from Mother Nature.
Fill my lungs with unpolluted air.

I want to wake up to a 瞭望无际的大海.
Breathe in the oxygen that has a tinge of salt from the sea, feel the cool breeze against my face and wearing a thin cardigan with both my hands rubbing my arms for some warmth.

Sit by the sea side and watch the sun set with a tinge of 不舍得.
无与伦比的美丽.

Stay in a villa in Maldives, appreciating the serenity.
One with a private pool so I can go skinny dipping.

Pamper myself with spa treatment follow by a dip in jacuzzi to relax.
It would be good if I am soaking in 温泉 during the cold winter too. The feeling would be awesome!

I want to visit London Eye.
Having the bird's eye view, 看那繁华的城市.

Romancing in metropolitan Paris, spotting the iconic landmark, Eiffel Tower as the sun set.

Catch the 10 minutes spectacular lights up for every hour when the sky turns dark.
How could I not climb up the magnificent tower if given a chance to?

12 more days to Christmas.
I wish for nothing but a white Christmas.
Complete with snow falling from the sky, thick layer of clothes, snowman, snow fight and everybody gathering around a fireplace to keep ourselves warm on Silent Night.

It's nice to dream a little isn't it?
I may not be able to fulfill everything listed here but 在我有生之年 hopefully I would be able to fulfill some.
Just got to hang on for another year!

October - The month of mugging

2010-12-11T01:39:00.001+08:00

As I was mugging so there were just pretty much of random stuff of my daily life.

3 October 2010

Lunch with Alam Sistaz at Central's Marutama.

I was super duper late so they had to camwhore while waiting for me to finish my lunch.
Till date, that is the place with the BEST ramen ever!
I <3>char siew, fried garlic, soup base and chilli paste!
I have turn myself into a ramen fanatic!

Took a bus to Somerset 313 after lunch.
How could I ever resist not stepping into the largest Forever 21 outlet in Singapore!

Tried on this 40 bucks dress in Size S!
I saw it on sale a month back on the F21 website.
As always, by the time I wanted to order, it ran out of my size!
Gr~
Anyway the size S is still too big lah

I just had to camwhore in it.
I kinda regretted not getting it. Aw~

My Gmarket heels was killing me despite lathering my feet with Footglide.
女人啊, ai sui mai mia!

Sat down at B.M.C for coffee to chill and to catch up.
It's been a while since I last met my 2 dearest Alams!

Our drinks.

Unhealthy french fries that we shared.

We still love the camera this much after many many years!
I remembered how we spent a night sitting at a corner in Scotts Coffeebean and camwhored with silly poses 5 years ago.
I miss those days very much!

Kudos to our friendships!

Almost die-ed when I walked all the way from Somerset to Ion for...

Right.. ice-creams!
Have always wanted to try this.

It was pretty good, I enjoyed it ~~along with the complimentary fats!~~.
I have a habit of eating ice-cream cone from the bottom end then suck the ice-cream from there.

Added more calories with Clementi's Rojak before home sweet home.

11 October 2010

Just felt like having a different look and to make myself feels better during the mugging period, I went to rebond my hair and cut my fringe the day before.

Took this in the office. It was rather flat back then.

15 October 2010

Another impromptu dinner at New York New York.
We are boring people because we ended up ordering the same old food, Aglio Olio.
However this time, we tried a different dessert!

Brownie with a scoop of ice-cream.
Sinful to max but it was so goooood! *grinz*

17 October 2010

I <3 the geeky look.

21 October 2010

2 days after my stomach flu that is.
Oh, did I mention, I dropped 2 kg since then and I am kind of maintaining them right now?! Ha!
I had not eaten anything much that day so I was starving like mad!

Had Cheese Gratin at Liang Court's Saizeriya.

It was a very bad move, the cheese made my stomach rather uneasy!
I should stop being a glutton!

22 October 2010

F21 loots arrived！

Kaypoh me tried on Cindy's dress.

25 October 2010

Took half day leave to mug because I had a paper the next day.

Right, the thing I did when I reached home was to... er... to do my favourite thing!
*blush*

This was what I wore to work.
The Gmarket top which I wore for the first time.

Ah Bu passed me a top from Korea which her friend is selling online because she felt it was too young for her.
Oh, by the way she is a very hip grandmother! Ha!

Front view

Back view

It's a pretty nice top however it seems a little small for me.
I shall perhaps pass it to my cousins who will not 倒塌 the top like I do. =P

26 October 2010

I went to dig out my dearest Octopus specially for my exams!

The must have of my exams.
Only when I am desperate enough which I usually do at least once per semester, then I will go to Ahmad for some blessings!

28 October 2010

Found my Prestige polo-tee bearing my name.
Somehow decided to wear it for my exam that day.
Yes, I think I look so not my style.

I swear I was busy hiding the 'npsu' at the back collar of the polo-tee.
Hey, it's been many years since I last wore it.
Being part of the Prestige committee was one of the fun thing I did back in Polytechnic.
I wonder if they still have the Prestige programme now, I very much doubt so.

29 October 2010

TGIF.

Wore my new top from F21, does not come cheap but worth every penny in my opinion.

Met Sicong for lunch at Vivo's Bakerzin.
Bad bad choice.

We had executive lunch sets.

Starter.

Really, this aglio olio 很难吃.
Sicong's pizza tasted so good that made my food looked even worse!
T_T

I forgot the bad service I had there with Daphne and SzeHui last year!
Apparently their service did not even improve a wee bit.
So disappointing. =(

~*~*~*~*~*~

So I guess that just summarise up the whole of my October 2010!
Moving on to the November entries.
Watch out for them!

2 October 2010 - FOC Nightout

2010-12-06T20:35:00.007+08:00

It's been a while since we had an FOC gathering.
Thanks to Jolene, Adam and Yong Tat for organising.

The early-comers.
Ok, fine. I was not exactly on time but hey, I was not too late either!

With the FOC peeps, I am never their match when it comes to lateness.
*tsk*

Dinner at Central's Watami

Sophia and my drinks.
My dinner set and cheesecake shared between Sophia and Adam.
Way too troublesome to take pictures of what 9 (i think) of us are having.

After dinner, Turtle and his gf went tian mi mi and Sophia 重色轻友的 left us.
Walked to Clark Quay and landed our butts in Highlanders.

A round of white wine for all.

Thank you Boss!
Of course we did pay Adam back after that lah.

Red wine for the guys and beer for us ladies.

Not before long, others came to join us in for a bit.

Did not manage to take photo with Aaron and gf.

After the live band at Highlander, the night was still young!
7 of us squeezed ourselves into one car and left for St. James!

Coincidentally met Shaun while queuing outside Power House.
FOC reunion photo. Ha...

The queue to Power House was so long that we gave up half way and went into another one instead.

Music was not our type, we ended up camwhoring before making our way out again.

In Boiler Room.

Got ourselves 2 jugs to share before we head back to Power House at around 2am if I still remember correctly.
I for high from the drinks there. =.=
Low alcohol tolerance level I have.

Manage to get ourselves into Power House really late.
By the time, they were playing trance music instead of the usual R&B.

We were near the podium, busy bioing girls who were dancing on top with really short skirts.
Unfortunately, it was so dark that there was nothing to see. Oh well, our cheapthrills. =S
Jeremy just had to pose with them on the background in the last picture. *tsk*

We barely stayed in Power House for more than an hour before deciding to call it a night.
Blame the music.

It was always nothing but fun hanging out with the FOC peeps.
We always do what we are good at - PLAY! Heh.. =P

Last bit of September

2010-12-05T13:45:00.003+08:00

24 September 2010

Serene's last day in the company so we went Bosses for her farewell lunch.

Some random food, of course we ordered more than that.
Just that no photo-taking were allowed.
Dumb rule!

A group photo of us before heading back to the office.

That evening, I had a super impromptu dinner at West Coast Plaza.
I am in love with New York New York's Aglio Olio.
Awesome, just simply delicious!

Shared this fried banana served with ice-cream chocolate fudge.
Pretty good, not to mention, sinful too. Ha...

30 September

Tried this out in office toilet.
It is Shayne's, she brought to the office in hope to sell it to one of us.
Heh.. long sleeves, so not me can!
I look weird in it. not to mention it's a little too big on me. Ha!

Mid Week Daze

2010-12-01T23:46:00.004+08:00

This week of work spells H-E-C-T-I-C.
1 person doing 3 peoples' work because Shayne and Josephine are on leave.
Everything also being arrowed at me.
Let the week end fast please.
It's not helping with the frequent stormy weather! =X
Help~
Let's hope I survive it smoothly and swee swee.
Well, looking at the brighter side 3/5 of the work week is over!

Results will be out tomorrow.
May Ti Gong bo bee that I get at least a credit for the 3 modules!
I am guaranteed at least credits even if I have a 50% pass for exams.
Anything on top of that is a bonus but please please please don't let me fail any.
*pray*
I promise I will be back to thank 孔子 if I pass them all!

Finally, gotten my Polar watch.
Thanks guys. You know who you are!
It's been a while since I get so enthusiastic to go running.
Please do not let it rain tomorrow evening and let me knock off on the dot!

1st half marathon run this Sunday.
Well, at least there's one thing I can strike off from my 2010 resolution!
Cannot recall other resolutions I've made with enthusiasm 11 months ago right now.
But hey, at least can complete 1 not bad liao hor *self consolation*

10 September 2010 - Happy Birthday

2010-11-27T21:47:00.005+08:00

An advance birthday mini celebration.

Ma Maison at Central.
Made reservation days before unfortunately we still had to wait even though we arrived early.
Thank goodness to the reservation else we would probably have to wait longer.

I love the cozy ambience overlooking Clark Quay.

Random shots before the food arrived.

Escargots for appetizers.
They were delicious!

I had this omelette rice with beef thingy
It did tasted a little salty in my opinion.

Green Tea that comes in a pot to share.

Birthday boy had his Tonkatsu dinner set which was not bad at all.

Our table number.

A scoop of Sesame ice-cream that comes with the Tonkatsu set.

Which I proudly claim as mine! Heehe...

Other random shots before we left the place.

I booked for tickets to watch Grown Up 2 days before.
Silly me!
I did not realise I had booked the wrong day, I actually booked for previous day and when we wanted to enter the cinema, we were denied entry.
That was when I realise my mistake!
The best part was, over at the cinema, the previous day was the last day they screened Grown Up so which means we cannot even change the timing.
Bad~
Thank goodness the manager was nice enough to let us pick another show.
After analysing all the choices available, we ended up catching Going the Distance.
Yes, it was the show I watched previous day after Sicong's birthday dinner.

Never once in my whole entire life watched the same show in the cinema.
Especially when I had to watched it in 2 consecutive days!
Gosh~
Well, my silliness brought this upon myself, who am I to blame anyway.

Anyway, the day ended well lah I suppose.

Quote

2010-11-26T07:54:00.002+08:00

I believe that everything happen for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go.
Things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they are right.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

~Marilyn Monroe

Updates from me

2010-11-24T21:22:00.002+08:00

Hello!

SCMS is in 10 days time.
My stamina still sucks to the max.
I need to train more. *roar*
However I am down with flu and sore throat now.

I hate sore throats because it makes me don't feel like talking.
You know I am such a chatterbox right?!

Work is as busy as ever because people are going on leaves.
So many things to learn, so many things to complete.
I still owe my boss 1001 things.
Can you please stab me?!

I also got leaves to clear but what's the point of taking and end up sleeping at home?!

Ok, popped a little yellow pill a while ago.
Drowiness is kicking in already.
Shall go do some reading before letting the medicine to knock me out.

Before I leave, in case you miss the youtube video I posted on facebook, here it is.

It was the team building day our department with our principals had in late April at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel.
Deep Impact was engaged to organise, it was Fun and we did learn a lot too.

Can you spot me?!

9 September 2010 - Sicong's Surprise Birthday Celebration

2010-11-21T16:11:00.005+08:00

The last working day for the week all thanks to the Hari Raya Puasa the next day!
We had planned all this weeks before making Sicong think that it was just a casual dinner gathering.
Ok, the surprised birthday was 8 days earlier because that was the only day all of us were available!

We arranged for steamboat dinner at J-Pot located at Vivo.

Well, I was a little early so I popped down to my favourite store in town, F21 to check out some clothes!

3 apparels I just had to try out.
I love the 1st and 3rd piece.
Unfortunately, there was no longer any size S available for the 1st piece and I just refuse to buy the 3rd one at 35 bucks! (Which I ended up ordering the same piece with different design online paying slightly lesser than the physical store! I absolutely adore the piece lah.)

Anyhow, checking out F21 store made me kind of late for the dinner. Heh...
However I need to point out, I am not the latest!

The attendees of the night!

Zeming, our official photographer for the dinner.

While waiting for the food to arrive.

When the food was served and us busy putting the raw food into the pots.

The sliced fresh grouper.
I almost attempted to consume in sashimi style. =X

I just had to take a picture of this mushroom basket.
I have a similar one sitting in the office which I use to put all my stationery.

As the unsuspected birthday boy went to his car to take his portable charger, we asked the service staff to bring us the cake.

Cake from Awfully Chocolate.
Yes, that's right, 2 big and 7 small candles.

We were all set waiting for Sicong to came back.

Daji and his cheap thrill pretending it was his birthday. =.=

The service staff was really attentive because she knew our intention of giving Sicong a surprise, she actually informed us when she saw Sicong walking back to the restaurant!

Lighting up the candles, preparing for his arrival.

Surprise~~~~~
The very 1st moment of the normal look.

Ok, I guess he got a little surprised!

The birthday boy as we did the usual singing of birthday song, him making a wish and cutting cake.

String of attempts to take group photos...

Candid ones...

Here comes the proper one.

Finally! after so many attempts.

I really like this one for we looked pretty natural there! Power of DSLR. Hahaha.
We were trying to force Sicong (who is of total resistance) to put this head together with Daji (the very willing party!)

Random shots before we parted.

Daphne, Zeming and Kathleen to meet colleagues @ St. James.
AiLing and Anthony go 甜蜜蜜
The rest of us, SzeHui, BaoXin Sicong, Daji and I went to watch Going The Distance in the cinema.

It was an awesome show!
Romance comedy is so my kind of show.
Heart Drew Barrymore! =)

That 变态 in the lift when we were helping SzeHui to pick up a few things to bring back home from office.

We are a bunch of people who refused to go home to have an early lights out so in the end we decided to head down to Marina Barrage for some kite flying experience.

Our first time there.

Incredible night view.

I attempted to fly the kite.

Never once in 9 months of knowing Daji did I find him so 认真 before. Haha...

BaoXin actually got the kite flying high up there.

I looked really really tired out.

SzeHui who is enjoying herself.

We only got the small kite flying high up while the huge octopus which Sicong brought could not even make it up mid air after many attempts.

It started drizzling after a while.
Since then, I have concluded that kite flying and Sicong just do not go well with each other.
Everytime he attempt to fly the kite, the place will end up raining or something.
The curse!

Still refusing to go home, we went down to Mustafa instead!
Ok, that was my first time there so I was as fascinated as ever!

SzeHui with the HUGE Chupachup!

I want a yellow luggage!!!
I want to go travel! *pout*

I am not a huge fan of soft toys for they only take up spaces, collecting dust, not to mention mostly expensive so it's practially useless to me.
However when I see the Chip and Dale soft toy I had this strong urge to buy them!
The smaller version lah, the one resting on my shoulders.
Luckily I didn't. Phew~
Always practical. Haha...

Daji with a polar bear on his back.

I was clearly being bo liao there.

Bought a couple of biscuits from Mustafa and that concludes the whole night!
It's been a while since we enjoyed ourselves that much because we were too overwhelm with work.
It feels good to just hang out with friends for occasions or not.

Into September

2010-11-18T00:12:00.001+08:00

2 September 2010

Uni friends outing to Sentosa on a weekday after work.
Why were we so happening?!
That is because we were there for project!
Well, we had to check out Song of the Sea (SOS, as we named) for our Service Quality project.
Thank goodness for RenQi's free entry to Sentosa and passes to SOS!
Well, we were a little late for the show. =X

The show was ok, with the lights effect, fireworks and water sprays.
Was not exactly impressed lah.
Thank goodness we scored not too bad for the assignment. Haha...

Deciding where to go after the performance.

A photo of us with Oscar, the main character who has a store that sells all SOS merchandise.
We actually added this photo together with the assignment to prove we've been there! Haha...

Travelled to Tanjong Beach and settled for this really awesome place for some drinks.

Mine, cannot remember what was it. The only thing I can remember was that it tasted kind of weird.

The ambience was good. I think we were the only customers there.
It was by the sea, with a swimming pool and there were beds that allows you to lie on it, looking at the stars up above.
Awesome place lah!

Could be the very relaxing ambience with the combination of alcohol made Paul opened up to us. Haha....

3 September

Tu's TGIF dinner at Vivo's King Louis.

Right, there was only 4 of us instead of the usual 5 because our dearest Tu Mianyi actually forgot our date! =.=

The food we ordered.

Salad

2 main.

Portion just right for the 3 of us as Rina decided to have dessert instead.

We are looooong due for another outing.
However our dearest Organiser is not doing her job now!
*Tsk*

4 September

Outfit of the day.

Took a bus to Millenia Walk from SIM after school
Massive jam and a starving me.

Dinner at Keisuke Tokyo.
I whined quite a bit before we got ourselves seated.
Never keep me in hunger! Hahaha...

Ramens.
Topped with seasoned egg on mine!

Ready to dig in!
Despite the hunger, I still have to take a photo.

FAIL!
So disappointed with the egg.

Conclusion: Marutama still wins! Woot~ =P

Took a walk after dinner.

It's amazing they even build a field on that floating platform.

At helix, overlooking MBS hotel.

Covered the whole MBS area before home sweet home.

Some bug bit me on my sole in the bus.
Itchy to the max!
Took it a few days before the itch and bump went away. T_T
Can anybody get so suay to get bitten like this in a bus or not?

7 September

Random me, in one of my working outfit.
Can see I looked pretty tired after a long day of work and school.
Oh, FAT too!

OSIM

2010-11-15T21:57:00.002+08:00

Life is a trade off between instant pleasure or long term reward.

温岚 - 口袋

This song is in a minor key!
This song has been stuck in my head for no reason since the morning.

Share some songs I like from 苏打绿

十年一刻

Catchy!

无眠

It gives me a very soothing effect.

Here is the more original version, in 闽南语.

Just as addicted to this version!

Enjoy~

Rumbling Thoughts

2010-11-14T19:39:00.003+08:00

As much as I wish I could turn back time, I know I can't.

We chose the path we walk. No right no wrong.
Just a matter of different decisions leading to different outcomes.

We have to look ahead.

To be honest, I have lost my way.
Looking ahead, I can only see darkness.

I hate the way it is now but I suppose I just need to keep walking.
I know I have got other paths but honestly, do I want to?

There are many habitual behaviour.
Sometime habits are just so hard to quit.

It was OK one moment, it seems not another.

Blame the rainy weather and lazy Sunday for making me feel so emo.
Or it could be the PMS. *shrug*

I wish to getaway.

August Random Happenings

2010-11-11T22:19:00.005+08:00

Ok, I ought to catch up blogging on all the activities.
I am always 2-3 months lag behind since beginning of this year.
I will try my best to blog until those recent ones this holiday season ok?

Anyhow..... finishing off August random stuff.

25 August 2010

During the break of one of the boring lectures, we 3 girls could not resist the temptation of cup corn!
We had to add butter and salt mixing it ourselves.
Blame us for being too greedy because we added too much butter and salt so it was not as tasty as it smells. *Shrug*

27 August 2010

托 my temp girl, Carys 的福 as it was her last day, we went to this West End restaurant which was located at the stretch of pubs and restaurants along Pasir Panjang.

Ordered this chicken set which I cannot remember the name.
Honestly, it sucks.
My other colleague's food seems to tasted better than mine.
Just my luck lah.

Carys was really sweet and thoughtful because she actually baked us cookies and wrote us a personalised message each.
It was awesome having her around the department!

We took some photos with Carys camera before she left.
Unfortunately she have yet send or upload to facebook.
It's been 2.5 months! That woman. *Tsk* Haha...

29 August 2010

Cousin Jasmine's 21st birthday.
Although it was her birthday, I had not taken any photos with her!

Here are some with my other cousins and newphew.

Yup, the one on the extreme right photo toddler is also my cousin!

Janice is definitely turning into a fine young pretty lady.

Hard to coax that little boy to wear the mask and hat because he kept wanting to take them off.

30-31 August 2010

17 mosquito bites in the span of half an hour while working.
Is it even worth it?

The next day...

I had this blue black on my thigh because I was carrying the heavy metal stands with the support of my thigh.
Is it even worth it?

The only consolation I got was that there was no screwed up on my part.
That is it. Oh right.

Pictures and Youtube

2010-11-11T00:35:00.003+08:00

Often enough, do you wish that technology are so advanced enough.
Spare me from the unnecessary time wastage.

Clear-minded. Chill.
Not that it matters anymore.
Whatever. Haha...

It has to come from within.

I am 25, it's just the damn number.
10 years more to buy HDB! NoOoOoOo!

Addicted to:

Quarter-century Reflection

2010-11-07T01:29:00.002+08:00

Exam's over. So is my birthday.
Stepped right into the 2nd quarter of a century.

The 1st 2 papers were pretty alright but I swear the last paper was a killer.
Please please please allow me to bang all my birthday luck on that paper to ensure a pass.
I have pretty bad feeling about that paper.
Anyhow, what's done is done.

I never really expect myself to face this quarter-century crisis.
Well, it just seems that things just fall perfectly (not) together that I shall term it as quarter-century crisis.
I thought I would have a pretty easy year but apparently not.
It just seems that everything is just not smooth-sailing recently.
My context of everything could be micro in your perspective but macro in mine because I am seeing it this way.
I know I cannot sit down here and whine about how unfair life is.
It is not going to get me anywhere except probably more depress.

Looking back, I think I have change.
Not for the better or for any worse.
Just change.

Last time, I used to believe in fairy tales.
I used to live in my own sheltered naive world.
Perhaps I am not to blame the fact that I was studying full time back then not even holding any part-time jobs.
So much hope, dreams and fantasies for the future.

As I joined the work force right after graduation, I was forced to grow up quickly.
Face the cruel complex world.
Slowly, the hope, dreams and fantasies started to fade.
Initially when I realised things are not what I thought they were, I got upset.
I simply did not understand why things worked this way, it was hard accept the truth that was thrown to me right at the face.
Then it came to a point that I got numb to all these, conditioned myself to accept the ways of life.
I may get 无奈 but that was only this much I felt.

Out I threw my thoughts of fairy tales, prince charming sweeping me off my feet.
Now when I think about it, All fairy tales I read when I was young are craps!
Reality sets in, I start to get more realistic.
I used to be more of a dreamer.

Rather than saying I was just being practical, why not say I am not someone who do not have the courage to chase after my dreams. (Ok, though some are really WAY unrealistic!)
It's sad how we actually conditioned ourselves to blend in instead of being different.
Not that it is a bad thing because there is 2 sides to every coin.
I could argue with or against the point but let's not go there.
Well, that's life that I've grown to accept.

I can sense the change in me, a gradual one.
It comes to this point that I realise it is not enough.
I should start taking things more seriously.
I am already 25, what have I been doing the past few years?!

In conclusion, I have learnt how to condition myself to accept the way of life in this complex world. I should start taking actions, live out of my comfort zone. I need to grow up!

Very belated August entry.

2010-10-31T10:30:00.000+08:00

Caught December Rain starring Kit Chan on 13 August 2010 at Esplanade Theatre.
It is the 2nd time I actually attended musical there.
Ok, my first paid one alright! Ha...

Remembered watching this musical on a video many many years ago when Jie borrowed it from her friend during her JC days.
I remembered the theme song from the musical since the very day I watched it.

Jumped upon the chance to catch the musical when I heard it on the radio.
I knew I just had to watch it!

The view from where I was sitting, category 2 tickets.
Perhaps next time I would go for category 1 tickets if I ever step into the theatre again.
Just a little too far and did I mention the noisy kids behind us.

Sat together with Jie and Zeming.
Hai Xing sat at the last row of the same section alone because she only decided to go for the concert like a day before!

During the intermission, Zeming told this bunch of kids nearby off for being really rude to talk while the musical was on going.
What was worse is that the teacher who sat behind denied that her students were noisy when so many pair of ears heard them.
Really.. the teacher, not very professional. *tsk*

Zeming, Jie and Hai Xing

After the musical, Hai Xing and I purchased the December Rain CD queuing up waiting to get it autograph.

There sat Kit Chan and another 2 male lead.

Heh.... I got my cd signed!

Jie, me and my little niece.

We approached 梁文福 who was one of the producer for the musical for autograph.
I only realised recently that he actually received a doctorate!
People is Dr. Liang Wen Fu ok! Ha!

A picture with us.

The 4 of us with a really huge poster!

Then after was supper at Rocher Tao Huay before home sweet home.

This version has a slightly different ending as the 1996 production.
Still I enjoyed it.
Ok, I think I am starting to get more and more 有文化 already.

The signed CD cover.
The soundtrack is really really awesome max!

On 23rd August 2010, A Monday.
Daphne, Sicong and me suffering Monday Blues.

Koi, Dinner at Chinatown Market and Once Upon a Time.

Daphne and I.

Sicong.

I think hanging out with the 2 of them so often is slowly making me an NFL too. Sucks.... Hahaha...

Feels good just opening up the heart and be real for once.

2010-10-28T21:46:00.006+08:00

Often we were so caught up with all the things around us, superficial things.
It is so much so that we forgotten about what really matters to us.

To be honest to oneself, being real is not as easy as I thought it would be.
Why? Because we fear the truth or because we are in the state of denial?
Perhaps we are not ready to face up to it?
When you are ready to face it up, you can be in for a surprise of how things really are.

All the while I learn about effective communication (I think I took an IS on this and yes, together with Marketing Communication this semester), I did not think too much about it until now.
Communication is the key to many things. Communications with oneself and with others.
How it can bring messages across, how one able to express oneself.
I am not saying about those surface, superficial level communications but rather those on a deeper level.
It feels good to put messages across and made oneself known.
Come what may.

Sometimes it's scary when one actually rediscover oneself on a deeper level.
Scary in my context for I am not sure if anyone out there can get as ugly as me. Hahaha...
For once, 我很诚实的面对着我自己, I discover this really ugly girl behind the mask she has been living in.
I realise how my life simply do not align at all.
I knew that it did not align, just that I had never see it as this bad.
I am kind of ashame of myself, of the real me.
What happen along the way?
Of course these are the disgusted moments of mine.
However it is good to see the real self once in a while. Maybe to do some self-check and in hope to rectify.

In the midst of revealing the true self, there comes to a point there you come face to face with all the negative energy.
No matter how positive one can get, there is always this negative thoughts and feelings.
It is always just a battle between the angel (positive) v.s devil (negative).
Nobody can get away with this, it's just a matter of conquering the devil or be a slave to it.
For me, I prefer to quarantine it at a cold dark cellar however occasionally he does sneak out once a while.

Case of when (time).
Time got the better out of me.
That comes with other external and internal influences.
Blame the exams I am mugging for sounding so marketing now. Haha...

It's just been a very very long time since I have been so true to myself.
Not easy task I tell you.

For once in a long time, I had never felt so genuinely happy in a way.
Not the WOW! I am TRULY HAPPY kind but maybe happiness comes from within that I just want to be nice to people, that kind! It's rare, trust me. Bearing in mind that it is not even for karma sake. Haha!

I am not suppose to be in the right state of mind to even go rediscover myself in the midst of my exams but I did. =.=
It better not screw my papers up. Hahaha...

This post probably just serve as a purpose to.... let myself know how brave I am to face up to myself if I were to ever revisit this entry again. I really deserve a pat on the shoulder! Hahaha....

Perseverance will be paid off... right?

2010-10-26T18:47:00.003+08:00

Just done with the 1st paper (Marketing Communication) of this semester.
2 more papers to go!

Cramped 11 damn lectures in the span of 3.5 days.
Now my brain is so overloaded with MC information. =.=
You know what is the disgusting part? While I was reading some part of MC, I was thinking about all the work I am suppose to do in office!
See, the problem of able to find the linkage between what you study and work.

Now, please please allow me to push all the MC information into a little dusty corner of my brain so that I can concentrate on reading up on SQ later.
I am in need of the space and connectivity!

I have so many things that I want to blog!
Cannot afford the time right now!
=(

Anyhow, sharing a song with you guys. Ha...
莫文蔚 - 外面的天气
Original Singer was 齐秦.

Time for dinner and back to the books again!

My sick diary

2010-10-21T23:45:00.010+08:00

How come everytime (fine,twice) towards the end year exam period, I will get some illness?

Caught stomach flu 2 days ago.
Woke up at 4am in the morning to vomit.

The 1st time, I successfully made it to the toilet and vomit.
Out came the half digested fillet-o-fish and the fries. (Too much details? Haha! I will swear off McDonalds for the time being. Heh!)
Anyhow, it was totally disgusting!

There is this natural instinct that all mums possessed, Mummy actually woke up to check on me.
I'm just amazed by her!
She is like so zhun to know something must have happen to me, not just another going to the toilet to pee kind.

Then after, she was nagging and scolding me for all the late nights and skipping of meals... as all mothers, she kept going on and on and on and on.
Anyhow, she fed me some water then off to bed we went.

The 2nd time it happened was within the next 15 minutes.
This time, I could not make it to the toilet in time thus things got a little messy.
I spilled mostly the water all the way from one end of the kitchen all the way to the other end then to the toilet.
Again, Mummy woke up.
Despite the fact that she too wasn't feeling too well, she decided to feed me some 五塔药粉 and after I attempted to clear the major mess I created, she decided to do the whole cleaning up of the kitchen for me knowing that I was already pretty seh.

I swear Mummy is the sweetest Mummy (at that moment! Muahahahaha!)
I felt extremely bad for her to clean up the mess I had created at 4 damn a.m!
Although she was still nagging at all, I suddenly can feel the love and concern she had for me! Hahahahaha....
I was really touched by her gesture lah.
Like hello, I am already almost 25 and there I still need my mum to clean up after me!

Before the dawn break, she's constantly checking on me, rubbing medicated oil for me.

When the clinic opened, she made 2 trips down just for me.
1 time was to take the queue number, another was to accompany me down to see the doctor knowing that I probably could not make it there on my own.
Super suay because it was drizzling during the short walk to the clinic.
Mummy opened the umbrella for me and I offered to share it with her but she did not want to take up my offer despite her not feeling well too.

When doctor said that I should maybe try to drink some soya milk, after leaving the clinic, she immediately went to a nearby provision shop to get half a dozen packet just for me!

Luckily Mummy was on leave that day so she was able to take care of me.
Even though she had to go and see her 中医 in the late morning, I knew she was rather worried about leaving me alone at home.

She cooked porridge for my lunch, nagged at me to eat, nagged at me to take medication. When I mentioned that I want to drink some barley water, she immediately went to make some for me too!

Basically for the whole day, she was just nagging, scolding me and taking care of me for the medication literally knock me out!

As the next day she had to return to work, she was also afraid that I had nothing to eat for lunch therefore she cooked porridge that early morning so that her daughter would not starve to death.

In the middle of the night, somehow I woke up just in time to see her come into my room and placed her hand over my forehead just to make sure the fever went away.
Aw~

This afternoon, she even called me and asked if I'll be back for dinner.
Usually when I said no, she will sound a little pissed however today she sounds really alright, she even asked if I am feeling ok.
Hahaha.... That's my Mummy for you!

Despite staying clear of all the unhealthy food, I caved in this evening because I was starving!
I had this really cheesy baked rice so I guess it messed up my stomach once again!
Oh well~
I am having this horrible feeling once again! =X

The whole purpose of this lengthy entry is not to emphasize how sick I was but to remind myself that Mummy does love and care a lot about me.
Even though she is not feeling well herself, she still put my health in front of hers.
Although throughout the whole process she continued to nag and scold me, that is just her nature lah

Most days I just think she is quite 烦 and most of the time we do not see eye to eye.
Some days we do not even interact at all because by the time I wake up, she will probably be doing her morning exercise downstairs and by the time I reached home at night she would be preparing for bed or sometimes even asleep already.
Even on weekends, I should maybe just pull away from my laptop for a while just for some interaction time. I can do that to Matthew how come I cannot do that to Mummy?
I should be a little more tolerant, show her more care and concern.
Shower her with the love she deserve. 重点 is to be a little more 听话 and bear with her nagging and scolding for this is her nature. Hahahaha.... =X

Papa is not mentioned in this post doesn't mean he made no contribution. He had the 功劳 to buy my breakfasts and dinners for both days knowing that there are pretty limited food I can eat. Although he can be quite sarcastic at times. Muahahaha...

I doubt Mummy would ever read this but still I want to say..谢谢 Mummy! Really really appreciate all the things she had done for me!

Some stuff to share

2010-10-17T16:00:00.000+08:00

The truth behind the breakup lines. Haha...

Well note this down. You will need this some day :D

Which one are you?

Leaving you with this last one.

Exams are drawing near

2010-10-16T02:46:00.002+08:00

Let's see, 10 days to hell (1st paper), then will be staying there for 9 days until the end of exams.
3.5 days of heaven (0.5 because last paper ends at 4.30pm) and comes the long holidays before coming back to reality which is of no difference from hell (work).
Year end, busiest time of all.
It's just a cycle isn't it?

Papers on 26, 28 October and 4 November.
Right, last paper on my birthday (assuming you remembers it's my birthday).
Heh.... Just like of how my primary school days.
If you think that I am so suay, let me tell you, lucky stars will be shining down on me simply because it's my birthday! =)
2 sides to every coin. Always on the positive side.

I very much hope to ace these exams.
I do not want to repeat any modules because I do not wish to invest another 1.3k in RMIT.
*Tsk* Cheapo me. =P
Wah, I am still pretty positive now.
Wait till the day before my exam you will see me having a panic attack then start becoming so negative.
Haha... Typical drama Pam.
Enjoy the good days while they last.

Test of endurance!
I wish I can go out and play instead of disciplining myself to focus on revision. =(
The warm weather is not making the studying any easier.
I want to go check out Somerset 313, Forever 21!
I NEED to find that buckled dress.

My table has a mountain range of books, papers, magazines and other kuchi kurang barangs.
Wardrobe is filled to the max! No more hanging space on the rack.
I NEED to clear my wardrobe!
1st, let me get done and over with exams before doing other 闲杂事.

I should head to bed and sleep till 自然醒.
Totally deserve the beauty sleep before embarking into another revision day.
Extremely lagging behind, especially when you're studying with people who are not working for this period of them. Lagi more stress because they could accomplished much more than me.
Yup, the kiasu side pops up once again.
Cannot lah, I don't want to fail this semester leh 1.3k remember? =P

1 August 2010 - Daphne's 26th Birthday

2010-10-13T23:02:00.000+08:00

We celebrated Daphne's birthday 9 days earlier because we are all bumble bees!

Anthony suggested Nando's at Bugis for late birthday lunch.

While queuing.

Finally got ourselves seated after waiting more than an hour.

Ms Poh helped me take down notes that I can include into this service encounter report I had to submit as part of my SQ assignment.
It's obvious enough that their service pissed us off.

The food we ordered to share.

Random pictures...

Cleared the plates pretty fast because we were all starving!

Overall, the service there sucks. Rude and unfriendly staff.
SzeHui commented that the food was not up to standard.
Oh well, the Nando's queuing madness will died down one day if they did not improve on the food and service level. Boo!

Walked across the bridge from Parco Bugis to Iluma.

Walking...

Outside this Japanese Italian sort of restaurant at the ground floor of Iluma.
We were deciding if we should settle ourselves there.
In the end we did! =)

Random photos while we girls went to the toilet.

Girls shot!

With Anthony in the picture.

Sze Hui ordered one for herself.
I think she looks really good in this photo! Ha!

Here comes the highlight! (we have a 小丸子 at the background.)

Close-up

The really gigantic mug of ice-cream filled with cornflakes, chocolate cake, pudding and fruits.

Busy poking the happy birthday candles on the fruits.
Kudos to Sicong for getting them.

The final product.

Our 寿星婆 for the day with her very innovative ice-cream birthday cake!
It is still a birthday cake because it has got a slice of chocolate cake on it!

See the HAPPY BDAY candles?
The honeydew skin was too short that we had to shorten the Happy Birthday message too.

See the cornflakes?
We were trying our best to empty it into our stomachs.

Emptied!
It is amazing how we shared this huge mug of ice-cream between the 6 of us (minus Sze Hui and Sicong who ordered one on their own.)
To be honest, ice-cream was not fantastic, it just probably looks interesting only. Ha.....

We were trying our very best to finish it up.

Random pictures...

You know how I love Sze Hui for her very expressive expression.

This is my blog so I am at least entitled to have just a collage of myself right?!

Heh.. I <3 DSLR!

A group photo of us all.

Although it is just a simple birthday gathering, I hope my 情人 still enjoys it and the presents yeah? =)

I did a 大头贴 for us! Heh... Love it!
I am not bo liao hor, this is call effort ok!

31 July 2010

2010-10-07T01:29:00.001+08:00

Had family lunch at Pu Tien to celebrate Mama's birthday!
It was the actual day itself!

Jie's treat!
Yay! =)

After lunch...

The grandparents with Matthew.

Dear nephew and I doing the '1' pose because he heard his mum counting 1,2,3 before pressing down the shutter!

After lunch, I went shopping with Mummy at Daiso.
My god, my mama had to walk every single aisle in order not to miss out on anything!
We spent good hours inside Daiso, I cannot imagine if you're at Daiso IMM. Haha...
Nonetheless, it was good fun.

Settled down at Tom Tom's for tea break. Heh...

Ordered a toast to share

A green tea shake for myself and coffee for mama.

After biding goodbye to Mummy who wants to do more shopping at Giant, met up with ZeMing.

We were on a mission, or rather missions.
We were out to get birthday presents!
Ok, main aim was to buy Daphne's birthday present, then I 顺便 bought birthday presents for other August and September babies. Heh!

It was a pretty fast shopping trip before settling ourselves at Watami for dinner.
My first time there! Call me sua ku.

Point and Shoot
v.s
DSLR

I had this cold ramen, it was rather yummy.
Ok, it's making me hungry now. =S

Zeming's dinner.

Cannot remember what is this, but it tasted pretty good too.

Muahaha.. dig in!

Leaving Watami.

Next stop was Wisma Food Republic because Zeming wanted to take some photos.
No, not photos of me but since I am there, why not. HAHA...

My shopping buys! No, most were not for me.. sadly. =(

Feeling warm and stuffy with the spotlight. Haha..

Handprint on the glass panel.
Luckily it was not the 7th month yet. Heh..

Walked past Louis Vuitton.

Spot me walking past Louis Vuitton and Chanel.
Yeah, no money so can only walk outside, not inside. Heh. =P

Settled down at Timbre for the evening.

Zeming had lychee martini while I had a cocktail which I cannot remember the name.

We spied on this girl who came in and 喝闷酒, maybe could be a fight with the boyfriend hor?
Kaypoh us. Ooops! =X

Shot of the bridge before calling it a night.

Here are the things I bought!

Birthday present: Perfume with body gel from TBS.

Hand cream for Jie.

These are for Daphne. Iphone covers upon her request.

Yet another birthday present: David Off's classic with body gel.
I love the smell of David Off.

A pair of slipper for the office comfort wear.
Many occasions I ALMOST ran off to catch the bus without changing back into my heels.
It was this comfy!

Blue shorts from Nichii at 50% discount, paid 15 bucks for it.

Other random stuff like my 90 cents worth of eraser from Muji (yes, Muji's eraser is really works magic), TBS concealer and plasters for my feet.

Shiok, very long never walked into physical stores to make purchases.
I love taking many shopping bags in my hands, retail therapy. =)
Don't you just love shopping in every forms?

R.I.P Mdm Kwa Geok Choo

2010-10-04T23:27:00.007+08:00

Those fairytales I used to believe in were long abandon years ago.
I stopped believing in happily ever after stories, they are evil to poison a child's mind.

Now I think MM Lee and late Mrs Lee love story prove fairy tale do exist.
Of course nobody says the 63 years of being in a marriage is always smooth sailing still, they held on together through the thicks and thins.
How many are able to look so loving when they are at their ripe old age?
Ever after in fairy tale also needs an ending.
Although the fairy tale has ended with Mrs Lee's departure, the love never will.

I must admit, I do think MM Lee was indeed a handsome young man back then. Ha..
From the videos/interviews I saw/read, most with him laughing, it was different from the impression I had of him, the strict no-nonsense man. He actually has a sense of humour! Perhaps all these comes along when he is slowly letting go of responsibilities. All these years of hardship he had shouldered. Tough.

Mrs Lee is able to hold the fort so as MM Lee could helped to shape Singapore to where we are now.
She is a role model for every female in every aspect.
I am really impressed with her capabilities, especially back in those days where the average education level (especially for women) received were not as high.
I wonder how she juggled looking after the welfare of the family, work, attending social functions and assisting MM Lee in his course of work.
Definitely not easy for a woman but she managed them so well.
She is really one modern woman who never lose her roots and culture despite receiving Westernise education.

Somehow it made me realise, while we women are striving for equality, it is not about the battling of the sexes, rather how we can compliment men.
It is not about who is winning, more of coming up with a better solution together.
I wish I could learn something from her.

Yes, her departure is a great loss to the country, not just her family.

She is a part of our history.
Goodbye Mrs Lee, our founding mother.

I hope MM Lee's health gets better.
Many many blessed years ahead.

Click on the link to read the full transcript of Lee Kuan Yew’s interview with Seth Mydans (New York Times).

...

2010-09-30T01:01:00.001+08:00

Just a couple of quotes for you to think about.

Rather true isn't it?

Often we find ourselves doing this...

Although it being this way, what is most important is not about reaching the destination, rather the process of getting there.
If it is enjoyable, or it makes you discover new things, learn new things... why not?

Bits of July

2010-09-25T12:54:00.005+08:00

24 July 2010

Had a primary school class gathering at West Coast Plaza.
Call us boring people. Heh.. Most of us stay around this estate all our lives, not counting those who've moved elsewhere. Ha..

Huiqing was the 1st to arrived at 6.30pm, she was nice enough to get there early in hope to get a table for 11 of us at West C'oz Cafe.
I think the timing set by Melvin our organiser was 7pm but I reached at 7.20pm. Heh.. So typical of Pam but I am definitely not the latest!

As YuJing had another appointment at the later part of the night, she could not stay and have dinner with us, so we took a girls took a photo before she left.

Unfortunately, we only got ourselves seated at 8pm.
We were all starving by then!

The food galore.

They were nice enough to hold the plates of food for me to take photos as some dishes were placed at the other side of the table which was unreachable to me.

After dinner, the one group photo together before Ee Haw left.

Coincidentally, it was Yih Chao's birthday that day!

We shared a birthday cake for him.

Seated outside coffee bean.
Spent some time walking down the memory lane.
It was fun!

Some photos...

Yih Chao, our birthday boy.

It was an enjoyable night made possible by Melvin once again. Heh...
Good to see the old friends again.

25 July 2010

Despite the few hours of sleep, woke up at 5am for Shape Run.
The 3rd time participating.

This year the starting point was at concourse there instead of the usual marina area.

At the starting point, before the race starts.

The couple.

Us with driver. Heh..

a 自恋 picture of me before the 10km run!

Brunch at Red Star before Anthony sent us home.

Whether you train or not really makes a difference I swear.
There was no stamina on my part and probably the fatigue kicked in too.
That was like my worst timing ever!
Bumped into Xin Yi on the way too. Heh..
I thought the 10km could never end.

With this, hopefully it's a lesson learnt.
No last minute training for my Standard Chartered run at the end of the year.
Not to mention, it's like double of the distance. 21km, can somebody kill me?
Geh kiang lor. When it is all over than I will feel the sense of accomplishment I guess.

Random

Can you spot the moon above?

Peranakan cuisine for dinner.
It was nice for a change. Love the decorations there, still the ngoh hiong still cannot beat Ah Ma's.

Seeing things in a new perspective

2010-09-25T12:29:00.004+08:00

Read the below interview from Siao's fb which was linked from CNA forum.

Some, rather most organizations reject his CV today because he has changed jobs frequently (10 in 14 years). My friend, the ˜job hopper™ (referred here as Mr. JH), does not mind it. well he does not need to mind it at all. Having worked full-time with 10 employer companies in just 14 years gives Mr. JH the relaxing edge that most of the ˜company loyal™ employees are struggling for today. Today, Mr. JH too is laid off like some other 14-15 year experienced guys " the difference being the latter have just worked in 2-3 organizations in the same number of years. Here are the excerpts of an interview with Mr. JH:

Q: Why have you changed 10 jobs in 14 years?

A: To get financially sound and stable before getting laid off the second time.

Q: So you knew you would be laid off in the year 2009?

A: Well I was laid off first in the year 2002 due to the first global economic slowdown. I had not got a full-time job before January 2003 when the economy started looking up; so I had struggled for almost a year without job and with compromises.

Q: Which number of job was that?
A: That was my third job.

Q: So from Jan 2003 to Jan 2009, in 6 years, you have changed 8 jobs to make the count as 10 jobs in 14 years?

A: I had no other option. In my first 8 years of professional life, I had worked only for 2 organizations thinking that jobs are deserved after lot of hard work and one should stay with an employer company to justify the saying ˜employer loyalty™. But I was an *censored*.

Q: Why do you say so?

A: My salary in the first 8 years went up only marginally. I could not save enough and also, I had thought that I had a ˜permanent™ job, so I need not worry about ˜what will I do if I lose my job™. I could never imagine losing a job because of economic slowdown and not because of my performance. That was January 2002.

Q: Can you brief on what happened between January 2003 and 2009.

A: Well, I had learnt my lessons of being ˜company loyal™ and not ˜money earning and saving loyal™. But then you can save enough only when you earn enough. So I shifted my loyalty towards money making and saving " I changed 8 jobs in 6 years assuring all my interviewers about my stability.

Q: So you lied to your interviewers; you had already planned to change the job for which you were being interviewed on a particular day?

A: Yes, you can change jobs only when the market is up and companies are hiring. You tell me " can I get a job now because of the slowdown? No. So one should change jobs for higher salaries only when the market is up because that is the only time when companies hire and can afford the expected salaries.

Q: What have you gained by doing such things?

A: That's the question I was waiting for. In Jan 2003, I had a fixed salary (without variables) of say Rs. X p.a. In January 2009, my salary was 8X. So assuming my salary was Rs.3 lakh p.a. in Jan 2003, my last drawn salary in Jan 2009 was Rs.24 lakh p.a. (without variable). I never bothered about variable as I had no intention to stay for 1 year and go through the appraisal process to wait for the company to give me a hike.

Q: So you decided on your own hike?

A: Yes, in 2003, I could see the slowdown coming again in future like it had happened in 2001-02. Though I was not sure by when the next slowdown would come, I was pretty sure I wanted a ˜debt-free™ life before being laid off again. So I planned my hike targets on a yearly basis without waiting for the year to complete.

Q: So are you debt-free now?

A: Yes, I earned so much by virtue of job changes for money and spent so little that today I have a loan free 2 BR flat (1200 sq.. feet) plus a loan free big car without bothering about any EMIs. I am laid off too but I do not complain at all. If I have laid off companies for money, it is OK if a company lays me off because of lack of money.

Q: Who is complaining?

A: All those guys who are not getting a job to pay their EMIs off are complaining. They had made fun of me saying I am a job hopper and do not have any company loyalty. Now I ask them what they gained by their company loyalty; they too are laid off like me and pass comments to me " why will you bother about us, you are already debt-free. They were still in the bracket of 12-14 lakh p.a. when they were laid off.

Q: What is your advice to professionals?

A: Like Narayan Murthy had said " love your job and not your company because you never know when your company will stop loving you. In the same lines, love yourself and your family needs more than the company's needs. Companies can keep coming and going; family will always remain the same. Make money for yourself first and simultaneously make money for the company, not the other way around.

Q: What is your biggest pain point with companies?

A: When a company does well, its CEO will address the entire company saying, ˜well done guys, it is YOUR company, keep up the hard work, I am with you. But when the slowdown happens and the company does not do so well, the same CEO will say, It is MY company and to save the company, I have to take tough decisions including asking people to go. So think about your financial stability first; when you get laid off, your kids will complain to you and not your boss.

It make me see job hopping as not a bad thing afterall still, hopping in less than a year creates a perception that you are not a reliable person a company can count on. Well, in order to get hired you need to create the impression that you are there to stay right? Of course there is no intention to stay in a company for 10 over years still, you need to work on a reasonable period before leaving to make your resume looks better?

"Love your job and not your company because you never know when your company will stop loving you."
Very true. Now, stop selling the youth to the company.
Everyone is just a salaried worker.
Go when there are opportunities out there.
Of course you have to weigh the pros and cons because it may be a shit job out there waiting for you to clear. Are you ready to clear them?

Into the 3rd job and the theory is proven to be right.
I cannot imagine where will I be if I am still stuck in my 1st job.

人不为己天诛地灭.

23 July 2010 - Jay Chou World Tour Live in Singapore 2010

2010-09-19T22:12:00.001+08:00

My first ever paid concert.

We were lucky to be able to get hold of the tickets.
All thanks to Sze Hui and her friend of course. =)

Since I am not much of a concert goer, naturally I will get the most expensive ticket because it's Jay Chou! Hahaha...

There was such a huge crowd from Stadium station to Kallang Leisure Park to Singapore Indoor Stadium.
My god... took us such a long time to buy food for 8 of us. The network in the area could not support large crowds of people trying to make phone calls. Even Singtel. T_T

Anyhow we got seated at 8.20pm. It was almost full house.

When the lights dimmed down, anticipating his performance, we just had to take some photos before it starts. Janet helped us bought the light stick before the concert started! YAY~ =)

Janet and Daphne.
Janet is a huge fan of 杰伦 too! Why Daphne was there simply because of peer pressure. =.=

RenJie and SzeYing.

Janet and I.

Finally, the concert kicked start at 8.30pm.

The King himself.

The huge projector screen was just right above our right side.

Jay Chou on a treadmill singing 威廉城堡...

Guess what, he had this huge ass screen just right across him with flashing all the lyrics.
It's as good as him singing KTV!
Really, I am not impressed somehow.

Jay Chou with his 小师妹, 袁咏玲 with a duet of 黑色幽默.

How can he do a concert without a piano.
It's pink by the way. Can he bring in a yellow piano next?

Jay and I took a picture together!
Can you spot him at the back? Heh!

Ok, Janet and I took a photo with him behind us. Hahaha.. Cheap thrills.

爸,我回来了.
So apart from KTV, he gave me MTV too. Perfecto~
Please remind me to stay at home and sing to his songs, watch his MTV ok?

Screaming crowd.

Ok, this was the best part of the whole concert because we all rushed down to the front from our seats. I was like less than 1 metre away from him!
Lucky Janet got to shake his hands!
It's tough to multi-task taking photos, trying to get his attention and getting him to shake my hands. Oh well~

Encore~

天地下没有不散的宴席.
That was the end of the concert.
Perhaps he could wait to get his ass back to MBS to try his luck again! Heh~

Some photos before we left the place.

To be honest, I feel the show was kinda disappointing.
I am not the only one who felt this way.
Could it be the high expectations? I don't know.
There seems to be a problem with the sound system. There were some parts that was a little too loud than it should have been.
Somehow I think he lacks the sincerity too because I could really prefer if he come out and thank everybody himself rather than using a video to do it.
Hello, it's like he play the exact same video for concerts everywhere else too.
Save his energy from thanking everybody who've supported him.

Whatever it is, he is still 世上最吊的周杰伦!
Yes, I am a sucker for talent boy like him. Muahahahahaha.
Hey, at least I was being very objective in my opinion, not blindly saying it is good just because I am a Jay Chou's fan.

Speaking of that, I have yet receive the recording! Can someone pass it to me?

From NYT

2010-09-14T23:57:00.008+08:00

Days of Reflection for Man Who Defined Singapore

MM Lee, our prominent political figure was interviewed by New Yorks Times.
I know he was in his 80s but never did I realised he is already 87 (Same age as my grandfather) and his wife was actually 2 years older than him! I did not know 姐弟恋 was popular back then.

He is still a very sharp man despite his age where most are in retirement stage, probably a little senile and maybe with illness too, that is if they do live till that age.

His wife had stroke the same time as Ah ma.
Although Ah ma eventually lost her battle, it is good to know Mrs Lee still has her spirit to fight on. (All thanks to the excellent doctors of course)
Stroke is a long time illness, not only is it stressful on the patient, it is mentally and emotionally stressful for the loved ones as well.
The man who braved through the stormy political days does have his weak moments.
He still has a human afterall.

Their love for each other was something that really touch me.
Look at the divorce rates, you wonder how can a couple stay so lovey-dovey for 50 years.
Definitely not easy, even in my grandparents times, divorce rate was low probably because it was considered a taboo, bring shame to the family.
Some stick together not because of love or maybe it was because of love however as times goes by it probably turn into more like a habit rather than love.
It may be for the sake of not tearing up a family.
It really make them a sweet couple to standby each other for so long.
I think Mrs Lee is a very successful woman herself, standing by her man accepting his busy schedule and those uncertain days of Singapore.

“I’m not saying that everything I did was right,” he said, “but everything I did was for an honorable purpose. I had to do some nasty things, locking fellows up without trial.”

Maybe he is just seeing the big picture while most were looking too micro.

MM Lee seems to have take things in his stride.
He is like a strong pillar that holds all Singaporeans together.
You know, one day when he is gone I know we will still be in good hands at least for the next 10 years to come for he has lay a strong foundation. (unless some buggers decided to come and create political unrest.)
However it is like losing a strong pillar, mental support.
I hope the day never comes.

I wish both MM Lee and wife blessed with good health in many years to come.

Just popping in...

2010-09-11T19:56:00.003+08:00

Pimples are breaking hell on my face.
I think I am too highly stressed and lack of sleep.
Gosh, please not that be another round of seasonal attack.
I cannot handle it now, I am not young anymore.

Have been busy as usual.
Sometimes the lack of motivation.
The ups and downs that make life real.
The occasional indulgence.
The more than occasional outburst.
Whatever all those emotions are, that's me.
I seems to have lose the ability to dig deep down inside of me to search for those raw feelings.
Anyway, why should I try to search for the inner me when reality is so depressing enough. Haha....

There are just so much things I want to blog, not just photos however when I am at the New Post page, I seems to forgotten whatever I want to blog.
No inspiration and blame the lousy memory of mine.

Oh yeah, let me tell you a story.
Once upon a time, there was this village of happy people.
The villagers had to do rain checks everyday.

A good day was when the sun is out.
Children played balls in the fields, bathed by the river and adults singing while doing their farming.
Sometimes it was light drizzle, sometimes heavy rain and other times bad thunder storm that could lead to flooding etc..
One moment a scorching hot sun shining down, the next moment came thunderstorm without warning.
The villagers livelihood depended on the weather.
They were so sick and tired of the ever-changing weather.
When there were thunderstorms, the villagers were the suay ones as the heavy raindrops were like arrows shooting into them and the only thing they could do was to endure and live everyday as it was.
Those lucky ones were those who manage to bring their families over to a more civilised village and each time the lucky ones moves out the 村长 would try to recruit other people into the vacant houses....
Ok, end of story... (for now. hahaha.. wait till I have more inspiration ok?)

I have not been running as frequently as the past few weeks.
Getting lazier and weekday nights are filled with classes.
I had not stepped onto that regular weighing machine to do a weight check.
Anyhow,

Ok, weight is not the answer to everything.

I can really make do with an escape from reality sometimes.
I cannot wait to finish up the assignments and exams!

Endurance test!
15 months (Optimal result: 19 months)
Gosh...

IR on consecutive Saturdays

2010-08-31T00:05:00.002+08:00

10 July 2010 (Saturday)

Caught Despicable Me with BaoXin at Marina before having an early dinner at Waraku because I was starving!

I had ramen while BaoXin had curry chicken udon and we got a pork omelette to share.
The ramen was not too bad except it's hard-boiled eggs instead of those seasoned more traditional type and the pork omelette was a total cheat of money in our opinion. Haha... It has like tons of cabbage down under the omelette.

Us tucking into our food.

After dinner, being very random people we decided to go 甜蜜蜜 at Helix bridge and MBS.

Walked past the floating platform area.

As we were walking through the Youth Olympic Park.

To off to the Helix bridge we stepped onto for the first time.

The view from the very initial few steps of Helix bridge.

There was only 'a's and 't's on the floor and I have absolutely no idea why.

Photo taken with my Canon Ixus 860.
Heh, love this photo because it oversees my all time favourite Fullerton Hotel.
Awesome skyscrapers too!

On the pathway besides Helix.

Shadows, just you and me.

Camped ourselves at Helix bridge while waiting for fireworks because there was a NDP rehearsal.

Just a photo I captured of the fireworks just doesn't justify how pretty they are.
Took video of it as well but too lazy to upload. Ha...

Next we strolled to MBS, past the outside of the Casino to get into the shopping area.

Anybody tried sitting on the sampans here?

Shopped around a little exploring the whole MBS, from the shopping mall to the hotel.
Incredibly awesome.
I want to get on to the sky park some day.
Wine and dine and some splashing in the pool perhaps. Heh...

Spotted a huge outdoor area that we could get the Germany v.s Uraguay match however we were many hours too early.

In the end, the insane us walked all the way back to Marina Square, settled for McDonalds to waste our time away.

Was clearing out all the soccer bets I kept inside my wristlet.
Now, you know how suay I was with my betting.
I bet with my heart, not my mind! Haha!

After resting our sore and tired feets at McDonalds, there we went again back to MBS.
It was an extremely long walk there!

While walking....

So finally we found ourselves to the open area at MBS again.

Here we sat waiting for Sicong and Daji to arrive.
Coincidentally, thanks to the power for facebook, realised YuSoon, WeiRen and SianBoon had intentions to head there to watch the match too.
So there we sat together watching, screaming, cheering and jeering the whole match.
I think that was like one of the best matches in this year World Cup.

The carpark cost a bloody... 18 bucks if I remember correctly.
Madness~

17 July 2010

After the previous week at MBS, was spontaneous enough to go RWS the next since I have not been there before.

This is practically the MUST TAKE with Universal globe when you visit RWS isn't it?

If I've known earlier, should have enquired about purchasing tickets to USS!

Love the bluish lightings.
Reminds me of my 1st self bought Nokia 8210! My God... Hahahaha....Classic!

Pretty feather-like waterfall.

That's me! Yeah.

Do they have some kind of show at certain timing here?

Found in one of the hotels.

Obscene statues. Eeek... I was made to pose with them. T_T
I was downright embarrassed.

Pretty light fixtures above. :)

The 'M' for Men and 'W' for Women to differentiate the restrooms.

Ditch the typical ugly yellow sign! Even the Caution sign looks so atas in a place like this!

My sign! =D
Found this along with other meeting rooms name after horoscopes in one of other hotels while randomly walking around or rather, we got kind of lost roaming around!

Alighted at Siloso Beach station via the train.

There was this long zig zag walkway leading up....

this... erm there was nothing much there actually.

Somehow it was not as happening as I expected at night so we headed back to mainland and settled for Brotzeit at Vivo.

Beer for winding down

Potato wedges for snacking.

Chilling out on a Saturday with beer is bliss :) not to the beer belly! :(

18 July 2010

Casual outfit on a lazy Sunday.

Let the positive energy flow......

2010-08-27T01:05:00.004+08:00

Life is moving along on a fast track, almost as fast as the bullet train. =p

2nd assignment for this semester due on Saturday.
Left with my part and we are all done and many more assignments to complete then after! Heh...

School is alright for now.
I am trying to be a little more diligent and discipline than the previous semester.
You know how everything gets you once you are tight on deadlines?
No guarantee that I will not snap. Haha!

Work is what that seems to get me today and for the next few working days for sure.
With all the manual work, I feel like a coolie myself!
Extremely tight on the deadlines with a couple that are already out of the timeline and some parts out of my control. =x
Hopefully everything will work themselves out.
I need to chill and whine less over situations that I cannot change.
Hey, whine less only hor, I still need an outlet for my frustration alright! Haha...

I do hope the Dove launch would be a banging success!
So friends, please do your part by contributing to the sales by purchasing Dove chocolates ok?
The new Dove singles are awesome! You just have to try them! Hehe. =D

I think I am getting kind of season to the mounting stress. Is it good or bad?! =/
Although the whole feeling sucks however I seems to be a little more able to cope and a little more positive than before!
Just like the phrase "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
It seems kind of true.
Let's hope I get through this tough period soon.
Everything will eventually work out. It has to be!
I got to stop being like an old grumpy woman lah!

Endure endure and endure!
Focus, focus and focus!
Discipline, discipline and discipline!
加油, 加油 and more 加油!

Now, let me take the positive energy to bed and start the Friday afresh because it's going to be a busy day with work and assignment!

Sky is the only limit...

...

2010-08-22T23:13:00.004+08:00

Awesome pair of stockings and shoes, of course the slim and legs made it look so delicious!
I am loving the combination!

A little of July

2010-08-17T01:11:00.003+08:00

I think I have been rather inactive in blogging recently. Only updating of events with photos and a bit of stuff here and there.
I have been so busy!
Into the second month of the school term. Things would get a lot busier with all the deadlines coming up.
Plus the convenience of twitter makes me blog lesser than I should.

Anyhow let me just update on a few things that happen in the month of July ok?
I am still in the midst of editing photos in between probably typing a few things for my assignments and watching movies when I had the time at night.

1 July 2010

It was a totally spontaneous dinner at Vivo with colleagues, Herbert & Jeffrey.

The soup base was really shiok because we had double the spiciness with Tom Yam and Kim Chi not forgetting the endless instant noodles.

2 July 2010

There was a Brazil v.s Netherlands match so I especially went down to St. James sports bar to support the Brazil team by wearing yellow!

Anyhow I think I might be the suay God luck strike once again because Brazil lost to Netherlands. T_T
You don't want to know how work up I was when they were eliminated! T_T
I was close to crying leh.

Sense my frustration?!

Despite the disappointment, I just had to 自恋 for a moment. Heh...

3 July 2010

Dinner at Italiannies located at Triple One Somerset.
It was the first time I realised the existence of the building, it is just located behind Somerset 313.

Fresh bread with a plate of olive oil and vinegar.
It taste pretty good.

The starter, salad.
I did something way too embarrassing!
See the 2 sticks by the side? I don't know what has gotten over me that I thought it was a pair of wooden chopsticks and I actually went to pick it up only to be informed that they are biscuit sticks.
Kill me please, I am so utterly embarrassed with myself!
Then again, doing embarrassing things are my forte leh.

Drinks.

Main course of spaghetti with meatballs.

Me enjoying my food.

Maybe because there was not a lot of people there that is why the staff were especially attentive to every table.
Thumbs up for the food and service. =)

Went Uniqlo to check out the jeans because I could hardly fit into my current pair anymore. =(

Anyhow I am still scouting, I take forever to buy a pair of decent jeans. Ha...

4 July 2010

Decided to try Tampopo's Ramen for a change.
Still think Marutama's Ramen is the best I had tasted so far.

5 things I love about Singapore

2010-08-10T20:45:00.005+08:00

1) Our beautiful well planned city landscape. The view is breathtaking, it reminds me how far Singapore has come.

2) Stability in terms of politically, financially and security. We have great leaders especially far-sighted pioneers like MM Lee and Dr Goh Keng Swee who really make Singapore where we are now. Singapore is 99.9% safe that I am sure I am not the only one that is taking it for granted already.

3) Implementation of CPF. I know some may disagree because government takes 20% of our pay every month and do their investments, blah blah blah and giving us 4% interest where they earn much more. Look, how many of you can actually save to ensure that you still have a large sum of money for retirement? Yes, there are people who can do that, but there are many out there who somehow are just not able to. CPF is there to provide us with an extra monetary security. Think about it, if it's not for CPF, it's not just 7% GST and we will ended up heavily taxed by IRAS because we need to support the old and penniless people or worse, those useless bums who roams around all day long even though they are physically abled. It's a win-win situation here.

4) Our kiasuism. It's because of this, that makes us number 1 again and again.

5) Without natural resources, we successfully transform ourselves from a 3rd world country to a 1st world country in a short span of 20 over years.

Oh boy, aren't you proud to be a Singaporean?

Heh.. I am so patriotic.

One year and counting

2010-08-04T00:48:00.002+08:00

As of now I'm typing the entry, it is already 4 August however I shall backdate the entry to 3 August for a reason.

3 August 2009 was the very first reporting day to my current company.
Therefore, on 3 August 2010 it makes me a year old in the company.

Although it's only a year.. it was full of ups and downs.
There were many changes.
I am lucky I am able to adapt to them.
At least I know this is the stepping stone to the future I want.

To be honest, there are a few times I really did feel like calling it quit however you and I know that I do need a source of income to support my studies and my living expenditures.

The tough periods were the times when project deadlines and exams were nearing. I could get so emotional, helpless and cannot cope.
The feeling sucks and the devil in me is telling that I am going to experience that for another 3 times at least.

I do have a wonderful bunch of colleagues, they make life a lot better. =)

At least I did not get myself drown (for now), I am still a survivor!

In the month of June......

2010-08-02T23:53:00.004+08:00

2 June 2010 (Wednesday)

Always been wanting to dine in at Sakuraya Fish Mart but never had the chance to when it was located at Village Centre off Pasir Panjang.
Fortunately, they relocate to West Coast Plaza which cut the distance between me and Sakuraya by half!

So this was what I had for dinner after a terrible day at work.
My comfort food of the day, fresh sashimi.

With that few dishes, it was rather pricey.
Oh well, quality over quantity.

3 June 2010 (Thursday)

Random meet up with RiFang at Vivo after work.

We were in the mood for some shopping so we went into random shops to shop.

Ok, I am into checks lately.

After dinner at Carls Junior, we went Forever 21.

I ended up buying the exact same dress as RiFang and a white tank that was a little too big for me because we just had to make use of the GSS special discount! Typical Singaporeans. Haha...
Also got myself a mouse for my laptop.

So this is how the yellow tube looks like on me.
I upgraded myself to a 'M'! T_T

6 June 2010 (Sunday)

Met up with AiLing, BaoXin and Sicong to cycle at ECP.
We cycled from E2 carpark all the way to the end of Changi Beach where there was a roundabout and back.
I almost die-ed on the way back.

Anyhow, AiLing and I were welcomed with these views upon reaching the end of Changi Beach.
Pardon my suaku-ness, it was the 1st time I went there.

A few shots of us before u-turning back.
Oh yeah, the top I wore was the top I bought from F21 that few days ago.

Can you spot BaoXin???

I like the tall trees beside the path there.
It very much reminds me of fairytale.

Last shot before catching up with the gang for a loooong ride back to the kiosk.

Had our dinner at Old Airport Road hawker centre.
No pictures because we were famished!
AiLing demanded me to cancel my order for grilled sambalstringray and sambal sotong which BaoXin was so looking forward to.
I would love to head there for some local delights soon.

8 June 2010 (Tuesday)

Popped by to Sicong's place after work to collect my loots from him.

I think I was his biggest customer of that order.
Let's see what have I ordered this time round.

A white cotton blazer.
I like it because it looks fitting on me!

The back view of the blazer has pleats which makes it really feminine.

A pretty sweet dress with bubble hem. Heh...

Black lacy dress which I accessorise with a necklace I bought from the previous round of order.

The black lacy dress was the reason why I bought the white blazer.
You do need to find other apparels to mix and match with right?

Last but not least... my fringe. Heh...
I have not master the hard of wearing it without a hair band.
Oh well.

9 June 2010 (Wednesday)

Head towards Novena after work.

Dinner was at Ichiban.
The dinner was a-okay.

It may be an opportunity however it does not mean I have to make use of every opportunity right?
I just got to pick the right ones.
Well, if there is a perfect combo in 天时地利人和, no reason why I should hesitate.

13 June 2010 (Sunday)

Wore this outfit to meet FHSS and Alam Sista in town.

I missed out lots of actions!

Desserts for dinner at Cafe Cartel.

16 June 2010 (Wednesday)

I did not realise my company distribute this brand until that fateful day.
Bought Rimmel London at dirt cheap price. Heh!

View from my kitchen window in the evening when I return from work.

18 June 2010 (Friday)

TGIF!
Blazer was brought back from office as it was due for a wash.

Caught Germany v.s Serbia match at McDonalds with Sicong.
Oh boy, I think I was the happiest girl in the whole McDonalds because Serbia beat Germany by 1-0.
Shiok!

19 June 2010 (Saturday)

Off to Science Centre I went with Daphne, SzeHui, AiLing, Anthony & Sicong for Pixar.

A photo with our president. Heh...
Oh yeah I wore my wig with hairband that day!

Daphne brought her niece along too. Heh..

There was a special Michael Jackson impersonate showcase that afternoon.
We managed to get the tickets to watch the show for free.

The impersonator sang and dance to MJ's hits.

Brave Anthony who decided to give it a go at the electric shock chair.

Then we went to visit some other areas of Science Centre.

FYI.

Paul's cousin, bottled octopus.

A teeny weeny bat.

Tested out the face detection machine and tried different scenes. Heh..

McDonald's at Science Centre showcased the happy meal premiums that they launched over the years.
Spotted some that were my 童年回忆.

Met up with the Uni groupmates for dinner at Yishun....
Yes... I went that far for steamboat dinner.

The place recommended by Paul.

We had the herbal chicken along with a sour and spicy soup base which looked friendly on the outside but really powerful when you drank it. Shiok!

No pictures for the rest of the night because by the time I remembered.. it was all too late. Ha...

Thanks to the guys for the treat! Ha.. Victory is sweeeet. Ha...

26 June 2010 (Saturday)

Sicong delivered my gmarket loots to me!
Yes, 2nd batch within the month. =.=

Picked up 3 pairs of earring.
2 simple ones for everyday wear and a kick-ass heart-shaped pair.

A huay huay dress

A long checkered top.

I think I've start to cut down on my Gmarket purchases!
I need to start saving up!!!
Now, poison ivy, don't come poison me anymore!

27 June 2010 (Sunday)

Belated Father's Day dinner at West Coast Plaza.

Right, it was 店小二 we went.
It was my first trip to the restaurant!

The set dinner we ordered.

30 June 2010 (Wednesday)

Dinner treat at The Sail @ Marina from principal.

Rocks . Urban Grill + Bar was the restaurant we had dinner in.
We had this private area to ourselves.

The view from where we were.
Dinner was arrange to start from 7pm.
Gillian and I waited from bright sky until the sun disappear before the others arrived.
In total, we waited for 1.5 hours before we start eating.
I almost die-ed. T_T

Our starters.

The main courses and desserts we ordered.
I liked Twice-Cooked Kurobuta Pork Cutlet (middle row, 3rd pic from left), it was really tender and good.
The 2 desserts were really disappointing.

I ordered a medium rare 350g 50-day grain fed Australian beef.
The beef was a little bloody inside! Heavenly!
However the portion was a little too huge for me to stomach it.

A group photo before we start on our mains.

On 1 side of the table sat Theresa, Carol, Jennifer & Gillian.
It was also like a little kind of farewell to Jennifer & Gillian.

The DK team.

Parting shot with everybody in the photo!

Overall, it was a nice dinner experience and I so conclude, please bring me to eat zi zha any day! I don't think I can ever be a tai tai all my life. T_T
I really enjoy the service they gave.
They gave us enough privacy yet able to cater to our needs, although the restaurant closed at 10.30pm (I think), they did not chase of even hint us that they're closing.
They just let us be until we were done.
Really pai seh about it.
See! This is what I call excellent service quality!

Popping In

2010-07-22T00:14:00.002+08:00

So many things I would like to blog about however time does not seems to permit.
There are just so many things to get started on, things I should be doing and things I would want to do.
Time to get my brain running to do some serious work.

Iphone 4 landing on sunny island on 30th July.
I am so dying to get my hands on it yet skeptical at the same time.

Suitcases packed neatly with every gap filled nicely.
If only life is this perfectto!

Leaving you with this.

Kind of true don't you agree? ;)

Goodbye World Cup, Hello School!

2010-07-15T00:53:00.003+08:00

Now that we've the new Champion for the World Cup, the one whole month of soccer fever is soon fading away.
Congrats Spain!

I thought I would have post World Cup blues as I had 4 years ago.
Surprisingly, everything seems to go back on track rather smoothly.
Maybe that is because I have got my lessons to thank.
It exhaust all the energy I have.

Anyway, Thomas the Octopus had predicted wrongly.
Perhaps I wasn't trying hard enough to support Spain in hope that it will jinx them. Haha...
Whatever it is, I am pretty interested to check out Spain Premier Leagues. Ha...
Let's see if time permits, but then again.. I never like to watch one whole season because it is just too long for me to follow.
We shall see!

After paying the 4K school fee, life is hitting the fast track once again juggling work and school.
This is not going to be an easy semester.
Pamela Loh, please be more focus and discipline!
Gambatte!

World Cup 2010 Final Prediction!

2010-07-10T03:15:00.009+08:00

Because of the World Cup, Paul the Octopus has gain for himself soaring popularity for his accurate prediction of the winning teams.
Now he even has a wiki page all to himself!
That amazing lucky dude!

Remember me? I am Thomas, (the last 'official' name I could remember my owner gave me) the lucky charm of my owner, Pam!
Yes, I have always been by her side to bless her for the past 10 years and will continue doing so!
Basically, I have been approximately 99% reliable lah, I only 失手 a couple of times.
Anyway, I am here to predict the the World Cup 2010 champion winner.

Could it be Spain?!

They have got David Villa, that ah beng and he can't be stopped!
Netted in 5 goals in this World Cup.
Spain, the Euro Cup champion, can they dominate the field once again and climb their way to the top?

Or could it be Netherlands?!

3rd time reaching the World Cup Finals, will the Oranje be 3rd time lucky to be named the champion winner?!
The all rounder mid-fielder, Wesley Sneijder, is on par with David Villa sitting on top of the Top Scorer list.
Will he be able to able to beat Villa to be the Top Scorer of this World Cup?

It is not an easy decision...

Now now, who would be crowned as the champion?

Netherlands ar?

Hmmmmmmmm..... Let me think....

Spain leh?

*thinking hard*

Sitting on the fence...

Alamak Headache lah!
How huh?

*After 15 minutes*

*After half an hour*

*After 45 minutes*

*After 1 hour*

Finally, I have made my choice!

Yes, Netherlands it shall be! They are going to win the cup!

Ladies and Gentlemen, please cheer loudly for your World Cup 2010 champion!
*Play Queen's We are the Champions song in the background*

P/S: Although I've predicted that Netherlands will win the World Cup, my silly owner is still rooting for Spain. =P

Good Luck!

*Disclaimer*
The above is solely based on Thomas, the octopus prediction. He will not hold any responsibility and liablity if Spain wins the Cup or the monetary lost in betting.

Steamy

2010-07-05T22:59:00.002+08:00

One of the worst cab ride ever.
Spare me the lecture and give me some peace.
Not pleasant at all definitely.
Somehow after that we manage to get through the next few hours having decent conversations.

I feel so fake.
Suddenly I have to put on this friendly mask and go yada yada with people.
EEK~
Don't pretend to get friendly with me you are not sincere at all.
I don't appreciate it. N.E.V.E.R!

~*~*~*~*~*~

I absolutely do not appreciate it when you tried bringing me down makes you feel superior.
Purposely, or not.

As much as your remarks are just as casual as mine, that was a very brainless one.
也许对你来说是如此的不重要但是我却不以为然.

Furiously pissed.

*Cool down, cool down*

Consolidated May Entries

2010-07-05T00:53:00.004+08:00

BEWARE! Tons of photos ahead!

5 May 2010 (Wednesday)

Took the last paper of the 3rd semester in the afternoon.
That was the one and only paper I had some confidence in.

There was a mini celebration for Paul after the exam whose birthday was just a day before.

1 candle to represent 27 years of age. Heh!

Paul, the birthday boy.

With us, his groupmates.

A group photo, can you see our sense of relieve that the horrid exams are over!

After the mini celebration, headed down to town for my well-deserved dinner!

Dinner was at Shashlik, the place for indulgence of steak for me.

I think I am getting as Taurus as Daphne because I am not needing the menu and the stuff we ordered are like the exact same old dishes for the past 2 visits.

The complimentary bread that just came right out from the oven.

Their signature borsch soup with the generous serving of sour cream which tasted as good as ever.

The to-die-for chateaubriand which comes from the best part of a cow.

Ok, I cannot wait to dig in to the savoury dinner.

I am missing the chateaubriand already.
Aw~

8 May 2010 (Saturday)

Headed back to office on Saturday to do some work.
The whole office was so stuffed up because the central aircon does not operates on Saturday.
Gone are the days we could 'borrow' the air-con from Boss's room.
Her room is just toooo far away from us now.

After sourcing around the office, I ~~koped~~ borrowed the table fan from my colleague and so the fan worked its magic on me while I worked away.
MY saviour of the day.

Just before I left the office, I moved to my permanent cubicle.

The front view.

Side view.

The overview of my cubicle.
The neatest it has ever been.
I mean it is not as though it is a far cry from this, just that it has cluster of papers everywhere, food adding to the collection at the corner, yada yada yada...
You get the idea?
Aiyah, it is definitely not as messy as it was on the 4th floor.

14 May 2010 (Friday)

An evening with my dearest Tus.
We have been soooo busy with our own lifes that it takes us months to meet up.
It's unlike last time when we would meet up every birthdays and once a month or two meetup.

Dinner was at Outback.

Just love the awesome brown bread.
I was too hungry in the end to finish taking pictures of all the food.
Anyway, I had this sizzling plate of beef that is on the bottom left. I ordered the beef to be medium rare. It was a bad move as it was on a sizzling plate, by the time the plate finish sizzling (haha..), the medium rare steak has turned into well done. =.=

Rifang and I begin our meals first as we were starving away!

Next up, we moved on to Millenia walk'S TCC for a drink.

We are thankful for data plans and Facebooks which kept us entertained the whole chilling session.
Updating ourselves with the happenings on others. Ha...
We had fun didn't we?

We don't seems to be as enthusiastic into cam-whoring as last time.
Signs of growing ~~old~~ up!

A parting shot with my dearest before calling it a day.

15 May 2010 (Saturday)

Met up with Daphne, BaoXin for a day in town.
We belong to people of the West and we are not keeping up with the rapid and everchanging happening Orchard.

We practically covered the whole of Orchard before SzeHui joined us for dinner at Ippudo before making our way to Vivo.

Sitting by the open area overlooking RWS with them drinking Max Brenner. (Paroniod me was on some acid-akaline diet at that point of time hence no chocolate for me!)

The blurry picture of RWS.
It was hard capturing the shot due to insufficient lights and the unstable hands.

BaoXin, Daphne, SzeHui and I enjoying the sea breeze.

We were waiting for time to pass us by so as to catch the train to Tiong Bahru Plaza for the movie, Back-up Plan.

One last shot before we left the place.

The back-up plan acted by Jennifer Lopez was really funny!
It totally cracked me up!
Good choice of movie

My purchase of the day!

Charles & Keith purple velvet bag which I think is really pretty but others seems to think otherwise. Heh... Bought it at half the price (25 bucks) all thanks to Daphne's 10% Charles & Keith card as well as my $20 somerset 313 voucher!
A cup lid for the cup in the office and foot glide hopefully to make blisters stay far away from me.

19 May 2010 (Wednesday)

I had my Smoked Salmon with Rosti attack, I just had to make my way to Marche to satisfy the crave badly.

Our table lamp.

Smoked Salmon with Rosti & Pasta.

Somehow I felt that the one at Somerset 313 seems to taste better. Oh well, I'm so hard to please!

22 May 2010 (Saturday)

Lollipopbestie's floral romper together with Agneselle's clutch bag in Tiffany. (Ok, to be honest, the colour is duller than Tiffany)

Where did I went that day?
Hmmmm.... collected Sundown Marathon race pack, thai food for dinner and mahjonged until the wee hours.
Right.. no photos for everything else because I forgot to bring my camera out. Heh...

25 May 2010 (Tuesday)

Department dinner with ~~Principal~~ Suppliers at 四川豆花 @ Top of UOB Plaza.

The dishes were really really fantastic!
I especially love was the Chong Qing Diced Chicken with Spicy Chilli (Top, most left picture).
It is really not for those who cannot take spicy food. If you do consume spicy food, this really challenge your taste bud! Shiok factor, 5/5!
The desserts we ordered were really yummy too!

We took a total of 3 tables and we were the noisiest of all!

Table 1

Table 2

Table 3

The night sceneries I took from the 60th floor where we were.

I really love this photo that overlook MBS.

This one is nice too! I think this is to the direction of Orchard Road?! Cannot remember. Heh...

A group shot with everybody.
~~Principal~~Supplier, Boss, Sales and Product team.

27 May 2010 (Thursday)

Saizeriya for dinner.

My first time eating escargot, I never thought I was brave enough to swallow one. Ha... It was pretty alright I guess.
How can I give the spicy drumlets a miss.
Their Tiramisu was pretty good stuff too!

Ok, My growling stomach is craving for Saizeriya already.
Sucks!:(

29 May 2010 (Saturday)

Anthony, our unofficial Ahmad for the Sundown Marathon.
Thank you! =)

While waiting for the rest for their toilet break before the start of the race.

How come I look so tired even before the race began?!

We started the race 5 minutes after gunned time and we still had the 闲情 to take photos. Heh...

So after these, we started running the 10km race.
After an hour plus, we completed the race safely.

While waiting for the rest to show up, we took photo of ourselves with our medals.

SzeYing.

Me.

Daphne.

SzeHui.

The sisters.

Daphne, SzeHui and I.

SzeYing and her friends.

Then AiLing arrived.

Together with Anthony.

Daphne and I with our free icecream wrapped in bread.
We were pretty surprised when we found out that we did not need to pay any cents to the uncles of those mobile ice-cream stalls that was all around the premises.
~~gian peng~~ Starving us.

Together with all the girls who participated!

Attempted to take with the Sundown board behind us but due to the insufficient of lights and you know how limited phone camera can do....

We had some trouble trying to get out from the Changi area because there were roadblocks.
Managed to get out of the area and off to Bedok85 we went.... for some mini feast. =X

Completed the 10km in 1:16:51.
Definitely not please with myself.
6 mins off my ideal timing, considering that the road was easy flat ground and the sun was down.
Shaved off less than a minute from last year's SCMS.
Sucks!

31 May 2010 (Monday)

Dinner at Ma.Maison located at Central with Regina, Cindy and Josephine.

All thanks to the ladies nite promotion which offers us 20% discount.

Jo was stuck in a bad traffic jam so we 3 girls proceed with our orders first.

The table lamp in tainted glass.

We oversee Clarke Quay area.

Our food arrived not too long.
The Katsu curry rice was abit too salty for my liking， hamburger steak was pretty good and so is the omelette!

Regina's boyfriend came to join us for dinner.

Josephine, Pamela, Cindy and Regina.

Good choice of place for dinner, I would love to come back here again!

Parted with Regina and boyfriend before we embark on our journey to Clark Quay to chill.

Since it was near the world cup season, there were huge figurines of 4 England players.

Us with my most well-liked England player, Steven Gerrard.

Settled ourselves at Nectarie.

With our drinks.

Desserts to share.

It was pretty enjoyable meeting up with the girls! =)

Finally! I am done with all the May entries!
It's such a long blog post! My God!
I am going to bed already.
Have yourself a good week ahead!

Signing off with picture of me. =P

T_T

2010-07-03T03:26:00.002+08:00

I am so upset!
Brazil is out of World Cup 2010 for good.
All thanks to the orangy Netherland.
Gr~~~~~

I thought they had a good chance of winning the cup and add another star to their badge.
Unfortunately they were booted out at the Quarterfinal.
=(

Watched the game at St. James with Shayne, Cindy and friends and bump into a few colleagues too....
The atmosphere at the sports bar was good!
I was practically screaming throughout the whole match (Especially the 2nd half)!
Pure madness.
With a few glasses of beer and tons of screaming, my voice is now a little hoarse.
With all the late nights and stuff, I have gt a couple of ulcers on my tongue.
Sigh~

Now Netherland is classified in the same category as Germany liao.
BOO!
My hate list.
Yes, I'm a sore loser!

Japan lost to Paraguay in the penalty shoot-out.
Sigh~

I think my last World Cup curse is back again.
Sucks big time!

I am too lazy to update my blog recently.
Too much of a life right now with World Cup and other stuff.

New semester next week.
Start of a new busy semester.
Just another 1.5 more years to go!
Got to 加油 man!

My eyes are closing!
Good night world!

How sweet

2010-06-28T00:40:00.001+08:00

Da Ji 对我最好了....

Aw~

Grumble Rumbles

2010-06-25T03:21:00.004+08:00

Sometimes you just got to learn how to stand up for yourself.

Because ultimately when shits happen, people starts to tai-chi around and make it looks as though it is your fault.

I used to take whatever blames that comes my way in fact I will end up agreeing with whatever fault they did pin pointed out.

But you know, they are just looking for someone to shoulder it and I took it up readily!

WTF.

So now, just listen to whatever yada they say, there is no need to be guilty about the mistakes because I know it is not my fault anyway.

Expect me to know my stuff, please know yours first.

Never mind, just not shiok only lah.

Rant finish and I am done with the issue.

Just feel proud that I have kinda stand up for myself though I could do a better job. Ha...

2nd group matches

2010-06-21T22:52:00.002+08:00

Tonight's the last night for 2nd group matches for all teams.

Let's do a highlight review for some of the 2nd matches.

France v.s Mexico: 0-2

Although I did not watch the match but.... what happen to the World Cup 2006 1st runner-up!

Nicolas Anelka was sent back home and the rest of the french team decided to protest by not training.

Even though they might not agree with whatever their coach had done but still they had to be professional about it! It was a total disgrace!

They are so packing their bag and head back home.... =S

Argentina v.s Korea Republic: 4-1

Korea Republic put up with a good fight unfortunately Argentina was way too strong for them.

Their next match is with Nigeria. I hope for a win or at least a draw for the match and Argentina beats Greece so that they could proceed to the round of 16.

The best Asia team where we could place our hope on.

Germany v.s Serbia: 0-1

Way to go underdog!

Ok, I think I am the happiest person in West Coast McDonalds when Serbia won

Everybody expected Germany to win but they did not! Woot~

I am an anti-Germany person.

Though they got a penalty kick from a handball in penalty area, Serbia's goalkeeper manage to keep Germany from scoring throughout the whole match.

Good match, good match!

England v.s Algeria: 0-0

Very disappointing match from England.

They are not performing up to standard.

I could see Steven Gerrald trying very hard with Frank Lampard... but still... things did not work out.

Rooney the looney was daydreaming during the game!

Though I am not a total fan of England, I do hope they will not get eliminated.

Netherland v.s Japan: 1-0

Did not catch the match because I was having steamboat at this TV-less place. T__T

However I heard Japan put up with a good fight!

Let's hope Japan would beat Denmark in the next match to proceed to the next stage.

Italy v.s New Zealand: 1-1

Did not follow the match closely but then again... what happen to our world champion?!

Brazil v.s Ivory Coast: 3-1

I thought they match was a good one.

Brazil was on form and things are shining their way until.... 85th minute when Kaka was booked for a foul.

Then things worsen at the 88th minute with another yellow card to Kaka to something there was not his fault at all!

"It was a totally unjustified dismissal, he was fouled and yet he was punished. The player who commits the foul escapes the yellow card, I have to congratulate him for that," said Dunga.

Fine, if you say it's a fair trade, then disallow the 2nd goal scored by Luis Fabiano and bring Kaka back onto the field.

The referee was really lousy!

Although they are guaranteed a spot into the next 16 teams.

Not shiok about the whole match lor.

Ivory Coast players are a bunch of actors.... Pui

Portugal v.s Korea DPR: 7-0

Korea DPR was being trashed badly!

Sucks... I thought they would be in top form just like the 1st match against Brazil.

They put up with a good fight on the 1st half of the match however you can see that they lost all the hope on the 2nd half.

A little trivia, the Korea DPR's goalkeeper for the match was originally a striker.

We kept joking about them being gunshot when they pack up to return back to N.Korea.

I really felt bad for them.

They trained behind their closed door all thanks to their great leader, Uncle Kim.

How to get the exposure to gain the experiences?

It's really unfair how come the striker who scored the goal against Brazil only earned 34 bucks per week while players elsewhere earn millions.

That is the difference.

Uncle Kim will never wake up from his ideas, he enjoyed seeing his people suffer, that sadist!

Spain v.s Honduras

The last game for 2nd group match is about to kick off in 1.5 hours time.

Shall not stay up to watch.

Hopefully the underdog would win? Hehe...

Miracles could happen.

From tomorrow onwards, the last group matches will be played in the span of a week.

Got my schedule all planned out!

Continue my World Cup Fever~~~

疑惑

2010-06-20T00:33:00.003+08:00

到底多少才算足够?
又是何时该喊停?
人的底线有多深?
而定力又能坚持多久?

偶尔看起来微不足道的小事对我来说却是如此的大如宇宙.

最后..... 还是败给你, 不是吗?

World Cup Fever

2010-06-15T20:12:00.003+08:00

4 years once a month long World Cup has just began last Friday.
Did not subscribe to the cable channel for the whole World Cup season.
Sucks.
Honestly, I kind of regret.
I have to make do with lousy online streaming and going down to McDonald for a good video quality matches.

Oh well, I am such a hard-core World Cup fan!
Honestly, watching matches outside with a bunch of people are fun!
You get to soak up in the atmosphere.
Everybody's eyes will be glued to the TV screen and cheering when the players put a goal into the net.

Thank God West Coast McDonald's near my house.

It seems as though my social life is now put on hold because I just have to be there to catch all the exciting matches!

Ivory Coast v.s Portugal starting in a while's time.
Brazil v.s North Korea at 2.30am later.
I am so going to watch the latter match.

I would love to see how Brazil trash North Korea.
Hahaha...
Seriously, I wonder why did North Korea even take part in the World Cup when they're a communist country which closes their door to the outside world, refuse globalisation.
Isn't World Cup exposing them to the outside REAL world?

Ok, I got to head off to bed now so as to wake up for the 2.30am match later.
Bye!

April's Adventure

2010-06-13T11:46:00.008+08:00

1st April 2010

Eve of Good Friday, chilling out after work and I know I have grow fatter because I could hardly fit into this bao ba zhang dress anymore. T_____T
I need to shed off the excess fats... which is like a lot... =x

7th April 2010

It was the day after my boss's birthday so one of the pet shop boys (HAHA...) 亲手做了一个 durian cake for our boss.

I am really impress as all the baking and decoration done by him alone.

The belated birthday boss with her cake.

A group photo with the rest of the team who were still inside the office.

Met Zeming for dinner at Liang Court to get my cards from him.

The dinner place.

The food we ate.
I dig the spicy drumlets, it is as good as those Pizza Hut ones!
Best of all, the food are really delicious and extremely affordable!

Us with our main.

A photo of my bursting bag. =.=

10th April 2010

Attended Lifang's 儿子, Nicholas's 1st birthday at their place right after work on a Saturday.

Hanging around the playground just right outside the house.

Nicholas's birthday cake.

The happy family.

三代同堂.

With us and poor Nicholas was getting restless with all the group shots.

I think Daphne was trying to stop me from doing something?
I don't know. Ha..

Ge Xiong and the girlfriend whom we met for the first time.

After the celebration, headed off to Sicong's place with AiLing and Daphne for mahjong session.I won I think. Ha...

18 April 2010

Matthew came over on a fine Sunday.
Brought him out to play bubbles which he love.

Tried to make him pose for me....

Attempt 1.

Attempt 2.

He was due for a haircut.

23rd April 2010

There was a sales conference at Grand Copthorne Waterfront so the department was shut down for the whole day just for this event.

The sales conference was in the morning before our morning teabreak.

The wide selections of food.

Lunch was at the buffet at the main hall.

1st serving.

2nd serving.

Last serving.

It was a very rushed lunch. Hardly get to enjoy the food.

After lunch was our team-building session.
It was all fun and games.
Did learn quite a bit through the games.
It was fun knowing how people play the games. (Which includes myself which kind of shock people. Hahaha... =x)

Our stomachs were very well taken care of the whole day with a break for afternoon tea.

I left after the team-building session in the evening without joining the rest for dinner.
Had to revise for the exam which took place the week after. Not left with much time.

25 April 2010

Woke up bright and early on Sunday morning.
Was suppose to meet Shayne for breakfast before going back to office for stocktake and shifting of department.for
Unfortunately, she overslept and I decided to head down the stairs alone instead.

2 half-boiled egg and a toast in the morning.

Stocktake was completed pretty fast that morning.
Then after, we went to assist others who came back to shift the whole department.

Look at the amount of things we've thrown from our office!

This was how our old premises turn out to be when we went in to take a look. It looks totally different from how it used to be when we were working there.
Everything just changed in 2 days.

That was my initial workstation and without a table top. =.=
The table top was in-the-making in Malaysia.
Brought 8 cartons of things up with me.

While everybody was busy unpacking and organising their stuff, there I was...

resting my leg on the pedestal waiting for the stocktake report to be churned and there was nothing much I can do besides waiting.

Anyway, an additional day of Annual Leave was credited because of stocktake. Ha!

29th April 2010

Collected my very first batch of G-market stuff from Sicong.
Damn excited since that was the first time we all placed order with G-market.

Show you my loots.

A mini dress or rather a long top in chiffon.

A pair of pinkish nude flats which was rather tight for my comfort so in the end, I passed it on to my Mama as her feet are smaller than mine.

Last but not least, a boring pair of black pointed kitten heels.
Well, this is to replace my spoiled pair which I wore to work almost daily.
It's a staple which fits me nicely.

That's all for my month of April folks!
Now, the entries will be even slower than before because everything just has to make way for the 4 years once World Cup.
How could I miss it right?

Random happenings in March (Part 2)

2010-06-05T19:07:00.007+08:00

1X March 2010
We headed down to Ippudo at Mandarin Gallery to celebrate Zeming's birthday a day before the actual day.
There seems rather common to have long queues outside and they do not allow reservation.

Checking out Bonitochico latest launch on Zeming's iPhone while queuing.
Stupid E72 has problems loading pictures. Not enough memory I think.
Anyway, I commented on a dress right there and then! Ha....

The birthday boy bought himself a Nikon DLSR as a birthday gift and that was the star of the night.
We were all snapping away. Hahaha.....
Check out the awesome pictures below, mostly are from the DSLR while the rest were taken with my humble Ixus860IS. (It has got to be humble in front of a DSLR man, in fact, it felt so small....)

While we were still waiting for our turn.

Even though all 6 of us were present, we still waited very very long before we got ourselves seated.

The impressively beautiful chandelier hanging from the ceiling.

The random shots...

Then... finally we were ushered to our seats... we were playing around while waiting for the food to arrive.

Daji and I taking photo of each other taking photo. =.=

Daphne trying to act pro. Ha....

Daji, Daphne's BFF because he is a hello kitty lover!
Well, he begged me not to post this photo up on the condition that he will help me with my assignment....
Oh well. Haha.... =x

The attendees...

Ramens we ordered.
The flavoured egg were pretty good that day and on the subsequent visits, the flavoured egg were not even comparable to Marutama's.

Ready to dig in!

A shot outside Ippudo.

View from level 2 of Mandarin Gallery.

We settled at McDonald's for a little celebration with Zeming.

Daji and his another BFF... He has way too many BFFs.... or is Ronadl McDonald his gay partner instead? Ha.... =x

Rive Mango cake.... I always love Rive's Mango Cake.... No cream, just mango and cake.

The birthday boy.... 27th years old birthday boy.
I think the birthday boy's 人缘 not very good because nobody wants to take photo with him.
I think I'm like the nicest because I took photos with him! (Think Karma! Haha...)

Did you realise, how come I'm so expressive at the back while his expression mostly stayed the same? Haha.... I got rubber face... Aw~

Anyway, WZM.. hope you did enjoyed a simple dinner and celebration with us (and your DSLR). Hahaha....

21 March 2010

I bought the necklace so many years ago from Taiwan Yahoo and I finally wore it out for the first time!

29 March 2010

I had the sudden crave for Smoked Salmon Rosti so it was immediately satisfied that evening. Heh...
When I want to eat, I need to eat!
Right..... Haha... to be honest, I somehow prefer the one at 313 instead.

30 March 2010

Right after DC lecture, we celebrated Teck Hong's birthday with chocolate cake Wingz bought from....

Right, Wingz claimed they bake delicious cakes.
Ok, it's tasted not bad!

2 big and 4 small candles for our birthday boy.

Teck Hong with his girlfriend who would patiently wait for him until lectures ends on most days.

Birthday boy with his girlfriend as well as his project mates.

六月三日, 心情晴朗

2010-06-03T23:38:00.003+08:00

今天是丰收上个学期种下的果实.

不知是因为侥幸还是调整了分数
所以才会拿到如此的成绩单
也许是因为分数的调整吧.
因为不可能侥幸的只有我一个.
哈哈哈哈.....

又劲升了一级保持多一条后路.
不过这次我并没有全力以赴.
是课业帮助了我. (我曾认为那是会害我的一环)
谢天谢地.
也很庆幸组员们个个都通过了这次的考验.

为了‘奖励’自己 *咳*借口*咳*, 今天放工后的行程多加了一个购物计划.
自从发现网络的便利, 已经好久好久没有好好的在购物商场好好血拼一反了!
真是爽啊....尤其是有一个很好的搭档.

呵呵, 下个学期最好是好好努力的奋斗.

希望没什么让我跳跳的事发生吧.

心灵是脆弱的....不能承受打击呢.

如果一切顺利, 只需多三个学期!

加油吧倩!

晴天霹雳

2010-06-02T22:12:00.005+08:00

原以为今天会是风和日丽的一天
原以为今天我会是快乐的....
但是在我刚要吃一份丰盛的早餐时我美好的一天晴天霹雳了.
一通电话就算了, 来了两通!

结果还要劳师动众, 真是的!
自己跳就够了, 干嘛让大家和你一起跳呢.
我知道运动是好的但是过于运动可是对身心没益处啊!
说实在, that's so uncool!

这一切也成为一种推动力, 就算是一个没有结果的结果最少我特到那一霎那的痛快.
不要再只是说说而已.

谢谢那些无时无刻都在听我牢骚的朋友们.
也许你们虽然是听得厌倦了但是还是在硬着头皮的在应酬我, 很抱歉.
也许你们觉得我的生活如此的'精彩',抱着听我讲故事的心态.
最少让我发完牢骚我气也会消一些.
当我的朋友可真不容易啊!
辛苦你们了!

真的, 再撑下去我的寿命将会缩短, 血压升高, 然后.....
Oooops..... 太过 dramatic 了.

别说了！

明天是我的 doom day.
神啊! 救救我吧!
虽然已经有心里准备了, 但是谁真的想要有那样的结局嘛.
现在说什么做什么都一事无扑了.

但是就是有忐忑不安的心情.

Oh my 天啊.........

嗨~

2010-05-26T23:03:00.002+08:00

元卫觉醒 - 鸵鸟

弦子 - 你是你的

愛你愛的多忐忑
想想你似乎也從不曉得
翻開了舊日的相冊
才發現你的表情並不深刻

愛你愛的多苦澀
卻沒想過到底值不值得
當你就這樣說不要了
我突然明白了遊戲裡的角色

你要你的快樂你選擇你的選擇
我只是個陪你瘋了一場短暫狂歡的過客
你要你的快樂你是絕對自由的
我只能在你離開後發現你從來不是我的

愛你愛的多苦澀
卻沒想過到底值不值得
當你就這樣說不要了
我突然明白了遊戲裡的角色

你要你的快樂你選擇你的選擇
我只是個陪你瘋了一場短暫狂歡的過客
你要你的快樂你是絕對自由的
我只能在你離開後發現你從來不是我的

你要你的快樂你選擇你的選擇
我只是個陪你瘋了一場短暫狂歡的過客
你要你的快樂你是絕對自由的
我只能在你離開後發現你從來不是我的
在我為你付出一切之後發現你是你自己的

记佳松 & 潘伟柏 - 同一种遗憾

剩下我們坐在岸邊看著她越走越遠
白色星星迎著海面沙灘好遠

而她的心去了哪裡我們都無能為力
是誰的手能牽她回來

Does she know? Don't think so
愛上了同一個遺憾恍然明白那時候
為何要對彼此為難
Tell me she knows I don't think so
我們都不屬於她的愛不能重來的傷害
我們都學會了釋懷

兩個朋友一個最愛不可能有的未來
只是結局卻讓我們如此意外 Yeah ~
她的決定終於坦白開了玩笑的安排

怪誰的錯 ( 誰的錯 ) 我們都 ( 我們都 ) 失敗 ( 失敗 ) ( NO NO NO NO .... )
Does she know? Don't think so
愛上了同一個遺憾恍然明白那時候為何要對彼此為難
Tell me she knows I don't think so
我們都不屬於她的愛不能重來的傷害
而我們學會了釋懷 wo ~ oh ~

Does she know? Don't think so
愛上了同一個遺憾恍然明白那時候為何要對彼此為難
Tell me she knows I don't think so
我們都不屬於她的愛不能重來的傷害
而我們學會了釋懷

Farewell Dr Goh Keng Swee

2010-05-24T22:54:00.004+08:00

Watched the state funeral of our late co-founding father of Singapore, Dr Goh Keng Swee over Channel News Asia on Sunday.
As the younger generation of Singaporean, I was totally clueless who is he when I heard his passing over the radio's news flash on 14th May 2010.
Surfed Channel News Asia for the latest update.
I am ashamed that I could not even recall we had such a great leader upon seeing his photo.

You can't really blame me because somehow from the Modern Singapore History we learnt during Secondary 2 did not mention major decisions he made to help build Singapore.
Partly is also because he retired before I was born, so I had no way of knowing as nobody emphasize on his great contribution towards building Singapore.

>As what our Mentor Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew mentioned, he (Dr. Goh Keng Swee) is a thinker while he (Mr Lee Kuan Yew) is the executer.
Maybe that is why he preferred to be away from the limelight and let MM Lee take the lead.

After reading the newspapers and watching the TV to see the significant contributions he made to Singapore, how compassionate, selfless, motivating, thrifty, foresighted, it made me feel so small. Now, that is the difference between an ordinary commoner and a great leader.
There are so many values we fellow Singaporeans could learn from.
We, the younger generations are slowly forgetting how tough the older generation fought to get us from a 3rd world country to a 1st world country in just 20 years.
Because we did not went through the hardships ourselves, we tend to take things for granted.
Only when you have been through the toughest then you will learn how to appreciate.

The man I truly respect, MM Lee made his eulogy.

I was moved by the eulogy made by the grand-niece.

I must say she is really calm and stable when she made the eulogy.

Without our outstanding early leaders with their foresightedness and their fighting spirits, we would not be be where we are today.
The fruits we enjoyed today are through their effort.
So, be grateful, appreciative, a little more compassionate and bring the values from generations to the next.

Quote from Dr Goh Keng Swee's Grandson:
"Be reliable and responsible person. A person others can count on to do a good job, whether if it is successful."

Random happenings in March

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4 March 2010

Another project meeting, this time at Orchard's TCC.

Speaking of the project, I am so glad we manage to pass the assignment.

There is a good chance of not repeating the module. The module which I really hates!

Us with our dinner before kicking start the discussion.

After this shot, we really did get down to work.

It was a pretty fruitful session.

5 March 2010

Mahjong session at Sicong's place.

$8.40 was all I won.

That was my highest winning till date.

6 March 2010

Supper at the boot of Sicong's car after Alice in Wonderland movie in 3D version.

The movie is not worth the money, somehow not just my kind of show.

Anyhow we wanted to settle down at Rochor's Dao Huay shop for supper, unfortunately the place was filled with people so we ended up eating at the boot of the car. =.=

7 March 2010

Woke up bright and early.

Fine, not that bright and early but 9am is counted early on a Sunday.

Wore my red spectacles and off to Kranji I met Daphne and BaoXin.

Traveled across the causeway where our regular Ahmad, ZeMing picked us up.

Off we head to Holiday Plaza to collect our spectacles.

While we were there, I was pretty tempted to get myself a pair of proper shades.

So I ended up trying so many.

I cannot decide which want to get.

As usual, I just want something cheap and good. Haha...

Most of them were either looks weird on me or just too out of budget.

In the end I settle for this pair of AX shades for less than 100 SGD.

Pretty good deal I would say. =)

After the collection of spectacles and purchasing of shades (for Daphne and I), ZeMing dropped us off at City Square for our lunch and do our own shopping as he had to rush back to Singapore to attend some events.

Apologies to take up a huge chunk of your time as we did not realise your busy schedule.

We were pretty much on our own at City Square.

1st stop was to grab late lunch at Kim Gary. (Yes, we are the taurus people. =.=)

Our lunch, ok, the half eaten dish on the bottom left was mine.

I was too hungry that I ate them up before taking photo of it.

See that half eating chicken wing there? Hahahahahaha......

Here's us with our new spectacles.

Walked and shopped a little in the mall before calling it a day.

BaoXin was so keen to try out her transition lens. Unfortunately by the time we got out of the mall, the sun is long gone. So there was nothing much she can test. Ha... Ooops. =x

Me with my new spectacles. The new spetacles which I promised myself to wear for at least a week to get the money worth. Hahaha...

My buys of the day.

delivious Secret Receipes cheesecakes at half of the price you can get in Singapore, my spectacles, pencil eyeliner from Etude which was having discount then and my Olay night cream, Avene cleanser with my Majolica Majorca eyeliner recommended by Renqi and Wentao.

Can you imagine, this is how thick my spectacle is!

I am such a geek! T____T

Lasik is the way to go... soon. The soonest would be after I complete my studies at least.

So many things I want to do, so little money. Sucks.

12 March 2010

A department lunch at Anchor Point's Zhou's Kitchen.

It was a informal so-call farewell lunch for my former reporting boss.

She was being transferred to another department.

Look at the amount of food we ordered.

Anyway, I do love Zhou Kitchen's food. They tasted really good.

As usual, with my boss around, we overordered.

She would very much need a food controller. Hahaha...

A group photo together before heading back to office on a TGIF.

(psst... prove that I kept my promise to myself! I wore my spectacles ok!)

13 March 2010

Had a project meeting that day at Wentao's place and there I was with my spectacles.

14 March 2010

Just to prove my promise once again....

Can see that I really did put on the not-needed extra pounds from the photo. Boohoo~~~

I love the HVV top I wore. =)

Ok, abrupt ending.

I am starting to feel the Monday blues now! =(

It's going to be a busy week.

I am not looking forward to it.

So many things to deal with.

Sucks...Gone are my 2 weeks of slacking.

Good luck to me!

Randomise

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I have been looking at my last December Bangkok & Hua Hin trip blog entries.

It make me miss travelling sooooo much! =(

Just as I made up my mind to check out Malaysia Airline website today, the return ticket had to jack up.

Sucks.

Never mind, just not fated.

Not checking anymore.

Period.

Pay me to go over if you like. Hahaha.

But I still really really hope to travel leh. =(

I want to inject some adventure into my life.

Aw~

21km Standard Chartered run? Anyone keen for it?

No 42.125km for me! In 2 years time perhaps!

时间太多闯出来的

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好不容易从忙碌的生活松懈了下来, 这不就是我想要的吗?

但是怎么好想少了些什么, 感觉到一些空虚似的, 忽然间不知所措.

忙得时候不只工作上需要加班, 工作压力大，就连课业, 考试也繁重了起来.

忙起来全部东西都接二连三的往我的方向抛.

现在好啦, 不忙的时候什么都没啦.

真奇怪.

那时的我不时很期待这刻的降临吗?

但是现在却觉得好像人生好无方向.

我到底是怎么啦!!!

因为有了这些多余的时间, 心似乎也开始沉浸了下来..

也开始想许多事....不知怎么了, 忽然间有一种透不过气的感觉, 很不好受.

就是有一种想要逃的念头, 逃到一个没人能找到我的地方.

就是那么出自自然的我.

但是........ 与其说有现实的约束, 不如说我也许没那份勇气?

从前那个愉快的我怎么不见了.

是谁把那个我给绑架去了?

仿佛有一种让我承受不了的无形压力.
我只想要回到过去. 找回那个我.

那时的我明明就好好的嘛, 怎么把自己搞成这样子呢?

经过高人(Hahaha, i don't know man!) 的指点的迷津, 我好多了.

也许你不知道该说什么好, 就是说你心里面的看法, 但是这一切已经足够了.

是的, 你说的我还有一些我还没去思考的.

等我有时间和这个闲情再说吧. 哈哈!

无论如何, 谢谢!

我不止是一只小绵羊（哈哈哈哈...)，我还是只鸵鸟.

不说了. 现在感觉好点了.

请别问我这以上的言论, 我不想发言. 谢了! =)