- お腹がいっぱい！ -

あぁ・・・お腹がいっぱい！！今日仕事を終わったら、あたしたち一緒にシンガポールフラヤ近くのレストランへ行くに食べた！わたしたち６人３蟹を食べたよ！！

クリミバターと、チリクラブと、ソルテドエーグ。蟹だけを食べた！怖いいですよね！この写真からあり見えなかったけどさ・・・

あたしたち６人！

楽しかった～

最後の！

- (´･_･`) -

I absolutely got to type this before I sleep. Gosh. Today during dinner I received a phonecall from someone who spoke to me in crisp mandarin who later switched to speaking in broken English. As the background was very noisy and i couldn't figure out what the person was saying, I decided to end the call. Thereafter, my phone kept ringing continuously with different numbers displayed. Thinking it one was one of those scams, i dismissed the calls and left the phone in my bag.

So when I reached home and was preparing for bed, I checked my phone purely out of habit. There I saw a message from one of the numbers that had been calling me all night. Recall I had so many phonecalls from weird numbers so I somehow ignored my phone the whole night for about 3-4 hours? So anyway, this was what the message contained, totally unedited - caps, spelling, punctuation and all.

"DEAR,MS LIM,WE TRY TO CALL YOU CONFORM THE RESERVATION TOMORROW 7+I AT 11。AM。BUT CUT OFF THE LINE!IF DN'T GET ANY RESPONSIBLE,SORRY WILL CANCEL THIS RESERVATION AFTER TONIGHT. THANKS FOR YOUR KINDLY UNDERSTANING!"

I freaked out. Because if they cancelled my reservation, where was I going to bring my family? I was giving my family a treat, you see. And it was 10min to the end of "tonight"!!! I had no way of finding and booking an alternative venue!!!

So I quickly messaged back praying hard that they will not cancel my reservation.

To my utter surprise, I received a reply in less than 10 minutes!!

"MS LIM, THANK YOU SO MUCH! SEE YOU TOMORROW :)。。GD NIGHT TO YOUR S。。。"

Whatever Good Night to My S means, I still cannot figure out. Except that it left my sister in tears after guffawing so hard. We both think that they might be scolding me an Ass for my super-duper late reply.

Nevertheless, I was so thankful for their diligence!!! So I replied apologising for the super late reply and hope to see them tomorrow. To which, I received...

":)。。SI YOU。。"

Well done. Did they just curse me? ("Si" in Hokkien is Die.) Oh wells. Thank God. At least I managed to keep the seats.

Despite the errors in the messages, whether intentional or not, I'm truly impressed by the level of commitment and diligence these workers have. I mean, it was already so late. They could have just ignored me altogether and cancelled my reservation on grounds that I took forever to reply.

THUMBS UP for great service! ^^

- お誕生日おめでとう -

A VERY HAPPY AND BLESSED BIRTHDAY TO MY DARLINGG TWINNIE!!!

Thank you for standing by me for the past 7 years.

Love you lots and lots and lots.

MUACKSS!!

- 疲れた -

Baahhhs. I'm so glad today is FINALLY Friday but the weekends are not here for resting!! At least exceptionally not so for this week because I've to work!!!! ARGHHH!! Full day events for the coming weekends.

I. AM. SAD.

:(

SIGH.

The morale of the team is low because of the gazillion things to be done and the millions of projects many of us are burdened with. Me included *-*

There are a thousand meetings to attend every single day and those stupid covered shoes for meetings are killing my pedicure. ROFL. Cheapskate me is trying to preserve my pedicure for as long as possible considering the amount of money invested in beautifying them *beams*

So I was telling some of my friends and colleagues that pretty nails (fingers and toes) make me happy. Some gave me skeptical looks. Some looked at me like I was a brainless bimbo. Some outrightly told me I sounded like one =.= And one asked me "Such a little thing and it makes you happy?" Seriously, why not?!

The fact that my manicure and pedicure are luxury indulges, obviously I derive utility from them if not WHY AM I EVEN SPENDING GOOD MONEY ON IT!!! I go for this to pamper myself and make myself happy. MOREOVER, I don't go every other week. I don't even go every month! I go only when I have special events which is maybe about 3-4 times a year??

Anyway, so one of my colleagues remarked that I could maintain my manicure so well..which was about 10days after I had my nails sooo prettily done (I think I might have a picture of it somewhere I'll post it some other time hahaha) and that was like a curse. The nail polish started dropping off -.-"'

T_T

There I was furiously jabbing my keyboard to complete a report when I saw something flying out. OH MY GOSH. I realised it was a BIG piece of my nail polish that flew out!! So I IM-ed a colleague and the conversation went like this:

I am very upset.

"What happened!!"

My nail polish chipped off.

"Cheyy. Scare me. I thought what happened."

-__-"'

Ok. Fair enough. I made a mountain of a molehill. But I shared my true emotions at that point of time. And then? I was slighted. Sulks.

Okok, I know I know. Some of you might think I'm super childish and all but hey! Little things make me happy and the same little things can make me upset! It only makes sense! Doesn't it?! ROARS!

Anyway, the nail polish started flaking at an increasing speed so basically I had to remove them because I couldn't be attending functions with my chipped nails. They were so ugly and were constant reminders of the imperfections in life.

SIGH.

Which suddenly reminds me of the question that my manager asked me out of the blue just the other day. She asked me if I was a perfectionist because of a certain statement I said.

No, I'm not a perfectionist. But there are certain aspects of my life that I wish for perfection - which reality is often far from so.

AAAHHHH!!! I wish March would end soon. At least I can then say goodbye to 3 projects.

How have you been doing? I hope you're doing fine. If not, take heart to know that you're not the only one. YOU HAVE ME.

Whoots~ ファイート！絶対できるよ！頑張れ！ヨシー！！！

- もう一年・・・ -

今天，心血来潮，想用华语写这张博文。已经好久，好久没用华语地写出我的感想了。

もう一年だ・・・早かったですよね。

这一年过得好快。有一点惊讶，那么快就过了一年了。大了一年...老了一年...思想成熟了许多。前一年的风风雨雨已过了。包袱也该放下了。看到周围的人也因环境的因素，而慢慢的改变，渐渐地成长了。

小时候希望每一年过得比较快，可以过生日，可以快点长大。哈哈...想起来，以前的愿望好天真，好单纯。现在就不同了，如果能回到从前，也不见得是一件坏事。小孩的世界有趣多了！

前一年的跌跌撞撞令我感触到家的温暖。

这一年的成长，我发觉了我许多的缺点，对人带式的方法代有进步。对别人的要求往往不确实地高，所以也常常失望而失落。了解到每个人的中心都不一样。我想的并非跟别人一致。

很感谢身边的朋友们...简单的一则简讯包含了那无限的关怀。至少我知道，在您的心里的小小的角落还有我。这份温馨，很感人。

谢谢。

- わすれちゃったでしょう -

色々なメセージとプレセント、本当にありがとう。

感謝しています。

将来の人生、楽しみです。

- 幸せ -

When things do not seem to be going the way you want it to...

When things feel like it is getting worse day by day...

When things feel like they are crushing you...

Take a deep breath.

When you feel like you can't go on anymore...

When you feel like you no longer find any meaning...

When you feel like dropping all these nonsense...

Close your eyes.

When escape is top in your mind...

When the tears no longer flow...

When you feel no one understands...

Remember there is at least someone who cares.

When me-time is all you want...

When silence is all you need...

When the noise gets too hard to bear...

Believe that you are important to them.

For all of you who are struggling with whatever issues in life, this post is for you.

Take a deep breath. Close your eyes. Remember there is at least someone who cares. Believe that you are important to them.

At least I do.

You are important to me and that's why this post is for you :)