Yayness!

Today at work is pretty much a senseless day. Cos at the end of work day is dept dinner, "Yay" to Indian food! Though my colleagues lament that I will get sick of it after some time, but nevertheless, I'm still looking forward to delicious Indian cuisines! I figured that it also due to the fact that I didn't have proper recommendations to good Indian food, so I follow the natives now! I'm sure I can't go wrong with that and so far, my hypothesis concurred.
I'll be ending work on time and zooming off to get presents on behalf on my colleagues. Another "Yay" to it as I get to spend money without burning too big a hole in my pocket. Recently I spent like $200 plus over the weekends, madness! I promise to be a thrifty girl... HAHA!
Finally, a last "Yay" with a bang! It's just 1 more day to my trip to Oz! I think I'm much more excited about holidays this time round because I'm officially allowed for a holiday! I guess I took school holidays for granted. No more of that nonsense and I'm going to cherish each and every leave that I'm given.
Dang, this post of mine is really childish. Pardon me cos I'm on a reading spree of diary of a whimpy kid, childish i know but it's really entertaining. So "Yay!"

P.S.: I figured that you guys haven't seen my face in a while. So here's some pictures that I took recently.

Me and My Bike (Ya..Right...)

Camwhoring during a deal, one hand with gun, another one with walkie talkie

Done for the year!

I just submitted my last report for the year, my boss has vetted it and sent it out. So I'm done for the year! Though I still have 2 more working days to my holiday but I smell the holiday aroma already! Sweetness!

So perhaps I shall wrap up what I've done for the year and note down my new year's resolution. Hmm.. but let's recalled what I've written for this year's resolution and see whether I've achieved them.

here's my 4th jan 2010 entry

" simple resolutions for the year....
lose weight
improve my cap
get a decent enough job
travel to a new destination
happiness to all my friends and including myself  "

hmm...seems like i didn't lose weight cos i've been eating more good food than ever. i think i've managed to successfully improved my cap and graduated normally. haha. Job wise, my current job isn't very exciting(lots of regrets!) However, i think it's decent enough...Travelling wise, i've been to cambodia for my YEP trip, several ad-hoc malaysia trip, and lastly my Oz adventure trip! So it's quite a satisfying travelling year. As for my last resolution...I'm a happy girl and i think people around are happy too! =D

Eating and sleeping

I've been spending my recent weekend binging on food, lots of seafood in fact. The rain that always strikes in the evening doesn't helps when there's a need for me to run. Moreover, I bought a bagful of snacks from our neighbouring country cos it's really affordable. I'm stocking up my snack cupboard which means snacks are readily available to me. For the past week, I've been sleeping little due to streaming of videos and movies...reaching home late attributed to late sleeping as I refuse to comprise the amount of hours I needed for my daily tv watching dosage.
Hence, I had a bowl of noodles and laid on the bed at 8pm...the next moment i woke up was 11.30pm already. Took a quick shower, read the papers and continued my sleep...Woke up early enough the next day and had a hearty breakfast. Yet another fat day ahead! Woohoo!
Seems like I'm very vulnerable to breaking my promises when it comes to adhering to my diet regime.

Christmas is arriving sooner than you'll realise...My fav christmas song for the year...It's another song for a change!

爱情就像德士，有时你等他，有时它等你，只要你愿意等爱情就会找到你

=)

Jingle bells...

This Friday will be Odac's annual Xmas gathering. I know it's freakishly early but it's an occasional for us to gather and celebrate this festive period and meanwhile celebrate the end of our exams. Usually this point of time, most of us will be done with our exams in uni but i think it's otherwise for the girls. Most of us have already graduated and being throw into the cruel society.
I was out shopping for Xmas shopping for gift exchange on Friday and i chanced upon lots of cute Xmas gifts. I shan't disclose what I got for my friend as it's supposed to be kept in a suspense. Till Friday k? There's lots of stuff that i want to get for myself but I know that I'm supposed to save money and be a stinge. Nevertheless, i'm going to write a whole list of items that i wanna have for Xmas.
I remembered the days when I was much younger and so guilible that i even wrote a letter to Santa! Seriously, I'm being so foolish! I wrote in to ask for an RC remote toy car. Haha...typically girls will want a barbie doll right? But, I remembered that RC toy car was an "in" thing during my era. You know, the hot wheels ad that keeps looping on kid's central.

My wish list
1) diary of the wimpy kid collection
2) mp3 player (ipod nano or sony's) --i've been eyeing these 2 gadgets for the longest time ever
3) swimming suit
4) running shoes -- i just glued my shoes' sole
5) new handphone, probably the lowest on my priority list since my lao pok phone is still functioning pretty well
6) another holiday!

So it's the season to be jolly...falla..lala..lala..la.la! Do take a walk down orchard road, i personally think that this year's christmas lights are pretty!

Day 14 — Someone you’ve drifted away from

People whom i drifted away from are probably my primary school friends and jc classmates. I guess we sort of drifted off due to difference in schools. Various reasons lah.

The whole 30 days of letter thing is getting more and more intimating..So I've decided to temporary put a stop to it, until I find some guts to write about it again.

Holidays

I know I'm being utterly useless when I'm typing this. I'm looking forwards to the weekends everyday. And counting down to my holiday in 22 days. Gosh..Seems like this year isn't a very productive year for me. I'm disappointed with myself in the year 2010.

Sticking to my regime before the year comes to an end

I promise to...
(1) Exercise at least twice a week
(2) Eat lesser and healthier food, it's going to be tough but i must!
(3) Stop buying shoes even when it's freaking cheap
(4) Apply my sunblock regularly
(5) Read daily
(6) Stop staying up late becos of tv and internet and sleeping more. Have at least 7hours of sleep a day.
(7) Smile daily. =)

Day 13 — Someone you wish could forgive you

I can't remember doing anything bad that requires forgiveness from someone. I'm still wrecking my heads to type something out for this entry. Next please!

Meeting up

I miss some of my frenz..call me out k?

Day 12 — The person you hate most/caused you a lot of pain

If that particular person caused you a lot of pain..why bother typing it out and publishing it? It's not therapeutic to me..So that's all for day 12 entry!

Day 11 — A Deceased person you wish you could talk to

Argh..this letter entry thingy is getting more and more intimate. There's a particular deceased person I wished I could talk to. However, it's going to be kept private. Probably for the longest time ever.. Nevertheless, I'm going to try complete this 30 letter day entry. It will be nice to flip through them a year later on.

Day 10 — Someone you don’t talk to as much as you’d like to

Hmm..this is really a tough nut to crack. But I guess it'll be my grandma I supposed. Language has been a great barrier between us. Despite us staying under the same roof, we hardly talked. I guess it's also my lack luster effort in trying to learn my canto properly.
Day 10 and counting on..typing lesser and lesser after each entry.

Day 9 — Someone you wish you could meet

Someone I wish I could meet would be some freaking rich guy/girl that can lend me money to start up a business. Losing money won't be an issue to that person and even if I lost the money, I'm willing to take a very long time to return the money back. Meanwhile, I'd also like to know more about the person who loan me the money, most preferred person will be someone who's running a business as well. At the same time, I can learn from him/her.

It's already my day 9 entry and it's getting a little boring already.

Learning something new

Hmm...I've got a little dilemma here. My colleagues were so amazed with the long fingers that I have. This isn't the first time someone complimenting on the long fingers that I've equipped with. I shouldn't allow for my long fingers to waste right? Besides using it to type on the keyboard more quickly, I figured that it should be put into better use right? Currently, I'm quite into jubeat. If you aren't aware, it's some 4 X 4 cube like machine that you'll see at almost every arcade. It's a relatively new game brought to you from the makers of bemania. It tests my psycho motor skills of tapping my fingers on the 16 squares. I think i really enjoy playing tapping musical games. Before this jubeat craze, i was into beatmania. Hmm...should i start learning the keyboard?
However, my friends approached me for tennis as well. I'm keen in that as well. I'm more an outdoor person and have been wanting to learn it for ages. I know some of you may comment that you can pick up tennis yourself. But, from the many times I've tried to. It's not possible! Tennis isn't a sport that one can self master, the whacking strokes are distinctively different. I guess it's also probably due to the fact that I'm more accustomed to badminton strokes so i tend to whack the ball up high rather that far.
How now brown cow. Tennis will require a racquet, music will require a keyboard. Decisions, decisions...

Day 8 — Your favorite internet friend

Okay. There's 2 ways to go about when writing this post. Is friend a humane or non-humane item? Cos i guess my favourite internet friend will either be PPStream or Facebook. Haha. Joke aside, I think I'll write it in a proper manner.
I guess I've got  2 good internet friends, namely XXI and XXII. haha! Names are not disclosed but if they happen to read it, they'll know it's them.
I guess XXI is the only person(with the exception of xiao hua, cos she's from china) who types chinese to me. It's really fun to type chinese on msn. It's like speaking in chinese in your daily life. It's a chore to type chinese on msn coz you'll need to ping the han yu pin yin up. Nevertheless, some stuff are more tie qie to write it in chinese. We'll spend stupid moments just typing chinese all day long. haha. Not to mention, I enjoy looking at chinese nicks this fellow has.
As for XXII, i've got no idea why but I can chat endless hours with that fellow. We'd like share new music videos found in youtube. Then when either of us sees something interesting, we'll share. I remember spending my weekends typing profusely on msn. It's seems more fun than chatting on the phone! At the same time I can do my own stuff and wait for the orange light on msn to blink blink and blink! We seldom meet each other, but I thought msn is a good channel to rekindle with friends like that. I still msn XXII when i'm at work to reduce boredom.
cheers to internet!

Day 7 — Your Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush

I think I don't really want to dwell on about this topic. Nevertheless, I think my exs gave me a fair bit of enjoy during the courtship period. Not to forget the pain that they inflicted as well..Bitter or sweet it has become a bittersweet memory.

Day 6 — A stranger

Okay. This is damn weird cos I've got no idea what to write to a stranger. I guess I'm pretty weary about strangers. Seriously, I've got nothing to write. Oh yes...I stereotype people in order to judge and sieve out the people who i'll hang out with. I know this is bad judgement. Sorry.

There's a fine line between being strangers and being friend.
Case 1: We were very good friends who slowly drifted off. Times changes, lesser communication between each other. Sooner than we'd realise, we become strangers.
Case 2: We're total strangers and bumped into each other during a very unusual occasion. Immediately we hit it off well and met up more regularly. Eventually, we may become the bestest of friends.

So..are you a friend or a stranger to me?

Sentosa Luge

Had fun over the deepavali holidays though i didn't get to go to PJ for dim sum. Nevertheless, Singapore is fun still. Will update when I received my camera cable, i hope it's on the ship now...

Day 5 - Your Dreams

My dream will be to open a tze cha stall. Many people have been asking me why haven't i started to learn cooking etc. Finding a job related to this industry etc etc. I guess I pretty much still hesitating to go into what kind of business. One point of time, I was thinking of a nasi lemak stall. But now I'm more keen in having a dim sum stall. I realised that the dim sum culture here in Singapore is dull and boring. I am very keen in setting up a business as I know I hate people telling me what to do etc and stuff. Next, I like lots of freedom and autonomy on my side. Currently I'm working as an engineer. My job is pretty desk bound which is something that I didn't really like. I'd very much prefer working on site, talking to different people, managing them. It's a pity that I like the industry that I'm in but not the position that I'm offered. Kindda felt that I'm tricked into the post, haha. Generating reports and doing some fundamental analysis isn't my cup of tea. Hence, it's just a job for me now. As for now, I'll try to enjoy life through my other little activities in life and save up as much money to invest in my future dream. Not forgetting to continue to travel around as much as possible! Seeing the world and seeing myself...

Be generous with your praises!

The bus uncle service was excellent. So I decided to commend him! I hope he received praises from his bosses!

Reply letter from SMRT

Our Ref: BS-CM-1011-0030


Dear Ms Teo,

Thank you for kind compliment.

On your behalf, we will extend your appreciation to the service leader
for bus service 173.

Once again, we would like to thank you for your commendation and we wish
you a pleasant day.

Yours sincerely,
XXXX
Customer Relations
SMRT Corporation Ltd

(name crossed out due to privacy issues)

Day 4 — Your sibling (or closest relative)

Sorry for not writing my letters regularly. So here's one. My sibling is a pig. Yeah, everyone should know about it. She's 6 years younger than me and darn irritating. She's very messy with her stuff and keeps buying cute boxes to dump in her diferent items. Her handwriting is so puny and you need to squint your eyes so hard to read it. The worst thing is that she uses my stuff without my permission. I don't know what can I say to compliment her. Ah! I know, she tells me what's the latest trend in teenagers now. So at least I constantly feel young and as updated as those young punks out there. Like at scape there's this shop whereby they have buffet service in which you pay a fixed price and try to squeeze in the many items you like into a basket. Meanwhile, she's a pig even though she was born in a year of cock.

Day 3 — Your parents

K..Sensitive topic. My parents are people whom I'll tell everyone that they don't care about me. However, everyone around me tells me that they give me lots of autonomy. I guess it's due to my upbringing when I was very young. At a tender age of primary 3 I took a mrt train alone, all the way from Bukit Batok to Novena station. I was taught to be independent and do things on my own. Had to wash my own shoes, wash my plates after eating my dinner, iron my clothes. Even had to do housework at times and i dread it.
Financially, i handled it upon myself too. I try not to ask money from my parents as I'm pretty shy about it. I took whatever my parents gave me and topped up on my own if i felt that i needed more. Ever since after A levels, I stopped taking pocket money from my parents. I believed that I'm capable of providing for myself through part time work.
My parents took the effort to speak english and chinese to me. My mom realised that it's important to know both languages and realised that I don't speak enough chinese. Thus, i speak to my dad in Chinese and my mother in English. It turned out that eventually i became more well versed in Chinese than in English. That I've got to attribute it to Channel 8 tv shows. As for my lousy English, I attribute to my my mom's broken English (and my lacklustre effort in trying to improve it).
The biggest thing that I'm grateful towards my parents is that they give me full autonomy in whatever I do. No curfews, no limits. I make every single decision by myself. Next thing will be that they help me with washing of my clothes and cooking of dinner at times, it's important k! I've loads of things to do and this help me take a little time off so I can indulge in tv watching.

Day 2 — Your Crush

Crushes are people whom you fantasied to be with be usually won't worked out with. So I don't consider my boyfriends, be it old or current one, crushes. I remember having crushes during my secondary school daze whereby bgr in my school was quite an "in" thing. It's nice to have a very good boy friend to have out after school and gather 'awss' from your classmates. However, I consider those a fantasy. I remember writing a journal entry for my crushes. Reading back then, i seemed to be quite serious over them! Really amusing! I think the most recent crush I had was before my current boyfriend. Hence, it's during my uni days. I guess I had a pretty good impression of this guy but I pretty much know that we won't end up together. Yah, we didn't even get close even though we see each other quite often. It didn't lasted very long because I more pre-occupied with other stuff rather than thinking about him. Crushes aren't meant to be serious anyway.. Thanks to all these guys who gave me pretty impressions!

Day 1 - Your Best Friend

Kay..this first letter is rather dumb and self explanatory. Yet again, I guess friends definitely need some form of recognition for their good efforts right? Haha. Those who knows me well enough should know that I've got 3 good friends. Drats, feeling so weird to spell out their names. Becca, Man Jun and Ziqi named in alphabetical order and in no accordance of favourisms towards anyone of them. For Bec, we first met each other during our primary school days already. She's my fellow Chinese tuition mate. Yes, you're not reading it wrongly, I used to have Chinese tuition. Hmm..but it's weird, I don't remember my Chinese being that bad. As for Zq, got to know her from sec 1 onwards. That girl with the zuai look..Lastly will be Man Jun, got to know her during leadership training camp. She was in the same group as me and both of us clicked really well. Then on, i introduced her to our gang. Seems like from secondary onwards, the 3 of us just stuck together. The main bonding that initially bec,zq and i had was npcc. We're known as the powerpuff girls. Yes, i know it's damn childish but come on' it's the name given by our seniors. It's a pretty awesome name because we're really strong girls who could do almost anything and even better than the guys. Not that I'm trying to exaggerate or anything but it's true! I guess our independent and sporty vibes in us just clicks. Even though we didn't go on to the same jc or poly, we make an effort to try to meet up regularly and update each other. It's quite surprising that we can just pour out our nonsense depsite not meeting for a long time. We just want to share our thoughts and experience with one another. Counting back from secondary 1 till now, it's been 10 years of friendship and cheers to further 10 years on. Now that we've all graduated from school (except bec who will be graduating at the end of year), and moved on to the working society. I guess the next phase of our life will be career, marriage and so on so for. Cheers to 10 years of friendship!

super old photo, when we were super young..

30 letters..

I read this on my friend's blog then i thought it'll be good to start this letter writing thing myself as well. I thought that it'll be good to pen down these memories and read them again probably 10 years later. Laughing at all the foolish things that i've typed. Then again, all these silly writing are part and parcel of my growing up process. Though it says a letter a day, but think i'll try to speed things up. If anyone is reading my blog still...enjoy and grow with me!

Day 1 — Your Best Friend
Day 2 — Your Crush
Day 3 — Your parents
Day 4 — Your sibling (or closest relative)
Day 5 — Your dreams
Day 6 — A stranger
Day 7 — Your Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush
Day 8 — Your favorite internet friend
Day 9 — Someone you wish you could meet
Day 10 — Someone you don’t talk to as much as you’d like to
Day 11 — A Deceased person you wish you could talk to
Day 12 — The person you hate most/caused you a lot of pain
Day 13 — Someone you wish could forgive you
Day 14 — Someone you’ve drifted away from
Day 15 — The person you miss the most
Day 16 — Someone that’s not in your state/country
Day 17 — Someone from your childhood
Day 18 — The person that you wish you could be
Day 19 — Someone that pesters your mind—good or bad
Day 20 — The one that broke your heart the hardest
Day 21 — Someone you judged by their first impression
Day 22 — Someone you want to give a second chance to
Day 23 — The last person you kissed
Day 24 — The person that gave you your favorite memory
Day 25 — The person you know that is going through the worst of times
Day 26 — The last person you made a pinky promise to
Day 27 — The friendliest person you knew for only one day
Day 28 — Someone that changed your life
Day 29 — The person that you want tell everything to, but too afraid to
Day 30 — Your reflection in the mirror

Holidays of 2010..

Since the year will be ending soon, though it's only october! i shall count the number of days whereby i'm overseas. I vividly remember counting my holidays last year as well, though this year will pale in comparision, but nevertheless, some holidays are better than none!

First up, new year, Malacca trip, 1 day, eve and the eve of eve don't count at year 2010. Guys who know me that i haven't been celebrating new years in Singapore. I remembered the first time spending new year overseas was during year 1, 19 year old at a Kelong in Sibu island. Hence, i haven't been spending new years in singapore for 4 years already. Sticking closely to this weird habit of mine, i insist on going overseas during new year period even though holidaying at this period will be at cut throat prices. Next, going to Malacca again, but with a different group of people, 3 days. New country, Cambodia! 19 days added. Following up, batam 1 day. Then on, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia for 3 days. My latest trip, diving at Tioman for 3 days. If I'm heading somewhere again during Deepavali holiday, it'll be another 3 days (not tabulated in my holiday list). Lastly will be my trip to Australia, so excited about it! Adding another 12 days to it. My actual aussie trip will be longer, but remember i'm only counting my holidays for year 2010. In total, I've got 42 days of holiday! Whee...Think it's a feat despite my tight financial ability.

Next year's holidays will be considerably less, unless my company decided me to send me overseas of which i seriously doubt so! I will not hesitate to clear all the 18 days of leave that I'm granted of! Most importantly, i must go trek at a new place. I haven't trekked at any new mountains or hills this year, utterly disappointed! However, this year seemed to be a diving year for me. I shall go up and higher next year!

Sheesh, my post is damn childish, can't take it or the singlish way of saying, 'buay tahan'.

How much sleep do you need?

Can't believe that i slept at about 10.30pm yesterday night! I must be really tired from inhaling all the smog from Sumatra. I guess my sleeping habits have been rather consistent. I wake up at 6.20am and sleep at about 12am latest. If it's friday, I'll tend to sleep slightly later but if i've got a deal early tomorrow, i'll still sleep much later. Coz it's friday! Hah! Anyway, i read a report that sleeping too little will cause weight gain. So it's time to get more sleep! 7hours at least! Let's work towards my aim of slimming down. Seems like all my running isn't helping. Another noteworthy point, why doesn't my company allow napping in office! It's 45 more min to end of work. Slack day today as garmen will be on long leave tomorrow onwards. Happy happy.

Last point to note, it's my piggy sister's birthday today. 20/10/2010 good for her. Anyway, Happy Birthday and hope you'll grow taller. (Even though I know it's quite unattainable, nonetheless, a wish with very good intentions!)

Life's been pretty good so far....

other than the fact that i got quite sick recently. being sick = cannot excercise = become fat. i'm recovering quite well already so it's time for more jogging!
other than the fact that KIA cerato is changed to Honda city. the brake paddle is much more stiff and the idling engine is much noiser! hmm...should we change to Mitshubishi lancer instead? Decisions decisions...
other than the fact that work is rather boring. however, i'm pretty much enjoying the much time i have to surf online and to even blog.
other than the fact that one of my kid has decided to temporary stop tuition coz it's the holidays...no student = no extra income
other than the fact that i lost money in mahjong and became the biggest loser. initially was the biggest winner, then turned loser. gosh.

otherwise, life's been pretty good so far...

Meeting Expectations

Sometimes when you gives this amount of attention to this person and you do hope that the person is able to return you with the equal amount of it, or maybe surpassing it. However, we all know that this won't occur. Using the conservation of energy law, all energy in a system has to be conserved, no energy can be created or destroyed. However, we also know that some form of energy may be lost to the surrounding, example to friction, heat, sound etc. I guess this works the same in life as well. When you put in this amount of effort into your work, hoping in turn that you'll do well, have a good future blah blah. But money, peers, indugles, tempetations are the factors that drain away the effort that you're putting in.

The thing is that people or perharps yourself have expectations on oneself, in order to meet these expectations, you gonna put in some efforts. And as of what I've mentioned above, that energy will be drained away due to several factors, we need to give in more effort. Some people lament that to avoid disspointment is to expect less, i beg to differ. Why can't just someone put in more effort?

Listening this song brings back fond memories..

卢广仲 - Nice To Meet You

我就在淡水河的旁边
我看着太阳慢慢不见
每天一到了这个时候
我会在回家的公车上面

就快要爱上了淡水
除了雨下不停的冬天
不管未来会在哪一边 都还是会想念

不能忘记的有大一开学的那天
还有一起去过的海边
你说人生要疯狂几遍
我都懂 只是习惯比较早点睡
绕着操场一圈圈 时间过了一年又一年
我要忍着眼泪的说 很高兴能认识你yeah
我最亲爱亲爱的同学

我还在淡水河的旁边
这里的风景有些改变
但我还是沿着河边走
才发现我们认识那么久

天知道我有多爱淡水
除了雨下不停的冬天
不管未来会在哪一边 都还是会想念

不能忘记的有遇见你的那一天
还有熬夜到天亮的冒险
人生就是要疯狂几遍
我都懂 但是能不能健康一点
绕着操场一圈圈 时间过了一年又一年
我要忍着眼泪的说 很高兴能认识你yeah
我最亲爱亲爱的同学

不能忘记的有大一开学的那天
还有一起去过的海边
你说人生要疯狂几遍
我都懂 只是习惯比较早睡~
绕着操场一圈圈 时间过了一年又一年
我要忍着眼泪的说 很高兴能认识你yeah
我最亲爱亲爱的同学

时间能不能永远停在 这边

I wonder..

i wonder sometimes why do i like to pack up my schedule. i guess i'm just kiasu, wanna do everything and anything.

anyway, on a random note, me and xl is helping my colleague with courting a girl. so we are always advising him stuff on r/s issues. it's quite fun to bitch about such stuff and fancy my 30 year old colleague blushing whenever we talks about his girl. in fact, i would highly recommend any girl to my fellow colleague coz i really thinks that he'll make a good boyfriend and husband! he's patient, meticulous, soft spoken and yet a little lame. i think if he was in better health, all the girls will be queuing a line to him. talking on about this, we'd give suggestions on presents to buy for the girl (her birthday is approaching). he was making a card for her! how sweet is that! i totally like guys who puts efforts into making gifts for someone. sometime we would also discuss about marriage proposal and plans...blah. hmm..i think i've got fetish for soft-spoken guys! hee....

人身有多少十年？

工作了三个月已足以让我领悟到许多。。我的下一步该往哪走呢？既然我还很年轻，我因该去闯一闯。还是这只是一时冲动的想法呢？我通常是个很果断的人，这次真的让我很懊恼。还是走一步看一步吧。

i need someone who likes me more than he likes himself.

A day without boss 2 + happy children's day!

boss isn't around today so i happily whizzed into the office late. with a bad hangover from yesterday. was quite glad that i didn't drink more, else think it'd be worst. not forgetting i've got tuition after work today as well!

surfed net whole day coz boss isn't around. nothing much to do also.
ended work yesterday at 5pm and went to meet dolph for dinner at alexandar. dinned at bali thai, ambience was nice but the natural atmosphere gave rised to lots of mozzie. the food wasn't that fantastic as well. i think thai express was better. later on, went to st james' bellini room to celebrate ian's birthday. utterly glad that it was happy hour on a boring thursday. drank a lot and the music was nice. nice to see ian and jean dancing to the live band. it's been quite a while since i drank and joined live music (think the last time was at wala wala, which is like months ago)... happy n relaxed!

hangover at work today..totally no mood to work. i'm recalling how much i drank yesterday.

half a pint of heineken at bali thai
standard glass of voldka cranberry at st james
(i think) 2 glasses of moet chandon champagne
2.5 glass of belvedere voldka with mixer

hmm..seems like my alcohol level dropped quite a bit.

i'm drinking plain water and green tea now..

last but not at least: happy childrens' day to all (there's a child in everyone!)

When my boss is not around..

since he's not around, i shall do a little blogging since i havent been updating my blog. work life has been pretty boring so far. i'm constantly trying to make my life more interesting and fufiling by injecting more fun elements into it.

teaching tuition, going for combat deals, meeting friends are some of the little fun things that i have. recently got back from diving trip from tioman! got my advance diving qualification! i'm able to dive up to 30m. whee! night dive wasn't that scary that i thought it would be. think about 1 month ago, i went to petaling jaya for the long weekend. drove down the north-south highway at a whooping speed of 160++km/h is madness. shopping and eating at PJ was very fun as well. especially the tim sum i had in PJ..it's shiok! did a half marathon like 2 weeks back.. so life is pretty exciting week after week.

the next upcoming big thing will be my australia trip! just booked my tickets to australia to visit ck. really excited over it. i will be visiting cairns,melbourne, sydney and brisbane. hopefully it wouldn't be that tiring. it'll be a flying and driving trip.

next up, i'm going to list the stuff that i want to buy in a month's time. i was reading readers' digest, in order to not give in to impluse purchase, you should list down the items that you intent to get. look at the list in a month's time and you may realised that you don't need the item anymore. okay, so here i am listing the stuff that i wanna buy.

1) camera + underwater casing (lost my camera, dumb me)
2) 60L bagpack (just want the orange tatonka that i was eyeing for!)
3) running shoes (my less than 1 month old shoe was stolen!)
4) slippers (for office use, even though i have 2 pairs of it already)
5) dye hair (hair condition is getting better so possible to dye it!)
6) mp3 player (time for a change!)
7) swim suit
8) body balm (love the smell!)

seems like i've got lots to buy.. can't wait for my birthday!

feeling weird to be talking to 2 guys tonight

Now, here am I very bored at my place. There’s basically nothing for me to do except read read and read more. 1.5 months into the job and idling around. I can’t imagine myself working for the next 1.5 year. It’s a pretty desk-bounded job. Definitely for closer friends of mine will know that this isn’t the kindda job I’m looking for. I wanna basked out in the sun with my helmet..Get hot and sweaty..Mix around with foreign labourers. Writing design reports all day long isn’t what I’m looking for.
Day after day, I’m trying to convince myself that I’m learning something new everyday. However, everyday in the office seems to be a chore. Lacking in job satisfaction and challenge is bad…bringing my motivation level down each day.
I seriously wonder how long can I sustain this one..
Another, more noteworthy point is that I’ve signed up as a volunteer with a rather special organization. Hope I’ll get it! At least there’s something interesting for me to look forward to after the end of each day.

havent been blogging for quite awhile. i have started on a new chapter in my life..the working phase of life. student am i no more... so i've decided to note down notable events of my daily life. hopefully i'll perserve and keep on blogging for keepsake memories.

i realized that i haven't been blogging that often on my new blog. i guess coz i'm just too acquaintaned with my old blog and leaving it seemed impossible. oh dear...i'm having feelings for an inanimate object. meanwhile, i think i shall be more proactive and update my blog more regularly.

my boyfriend is like Kia

k. I’m not trying to promote KIA cars here but it’s sort of a comparison of my boyfriend to KIA.
as you know my boyfriend is pretty much a car lover and a huge fan of Mercedes. he could go on and on to rave about the amazing gadgets that Mercedes have. something like the air cons, the leg space..sometimes i get so jealous that i think he loves Mercedes more than me. i onced questioned him to choose between driving in germany’s autobahn and driving a mercedes in singapore. guess what..he chose the latter.
i used to have this perception that korean cars are very much inferior compared to european cars. it’s like korean cars’ quality are just next to china’s production. however, travelling more on a Kia has definitely changed my perception of Kia cars. k, this post is with regards to Kia’s cerato. it has a continental car design and i love the electronic car control system. plus it’s 2L engine is reasonable for singapore roads and i love it’s light steering wheel. it’s like over expectations of a typical korean cars.
to why my boyfriend is a resemblance of Kia, i’ve got this silly analogy. most girls will typical choose a mercedes as their partners. coz they have the money and nice exterior look. more importantly, it’s the branding and status that mercedes carries with them. but i chose a Kia because of it’s economical value and similar quality that it has to a mercedes. what it maybe lacks is it’s branding.
and if you read through straitstimes car of the year 2009, the Kia cerato forte is ranked at 3rd! just a level below the expensive e-class. it’s a no-brainer for e-class to be in the ranking, but for a Kia to be in this ranking means something right?
driving my kia which has a strong engine, continental car design and good steering wheels priced much lower without forgoing on quality. it is why i like him. =)

what am i up to?

oh dear, i haven’t been updating. i guess coz i can’t think of anything interesting to post up. so the big question, what have i been doing?
well…basically school has started and i’m only taking 2 modules plus my slack FYP. you can imagine how free my timetable will be. since i currently only have 2 tuition kid which only takes up my time during the evenings. my day times are basically very free..leaving me with nothing to do. hence, this calls for a job. yeah..recently gotten myself a part time job teaching IT. yes yes..technology. basically robotics, things which i’ve got some experience in but not very good at it though.
so life now revolves around, robotics work, combat, tuition, school and not forgetting my dear. =)

fire rabbit in tiger year

was walking around popular and browse through the predictions of my chinese zodiac for the upcoming tiger year. seems like all is well for the fire rabbit me! initially, i just skimmed through the book to know my outlook for the year. as i read more, i realised that the book’s explanation for the ox year was so true for me. read through more and saw more happy stuff… such as rabbit is compatible with the rat. reading stuff that makes you happy and delighted do make you want to continue to read more.
people are usually like that..read stuff to please themselves. it isn’t a bad thing afterall..whether all these predictions will come true or not. it provides you with a glimpse of hope and a tinge of happiness. moreover, i’m the sort of person whose quite ban tang and gets paranoid over bad luck omen, reading through good outlook for the year ahead sure brightens me up.
i’ve read my predictions for the year, have you read yours?

random poem at night

suddenly thought of this in the middle of the night…
studying is like shitting. you feel so constipated and disgusted.
after you’re done shitting, you graduate and get your toilet paper.
the toilet paper is used to cover your ass..
dang..things that i think at night!

new year's resolution

was looking through the list of resolution that i set for last year… i guess i sort of modified my resolution however achieving the same result. as for this year, with my last semester in school and in turn moving onto the real society will mean alot to me.
simple resolutions for the year
lose weight – i’ve been tipping off the scale by alot eversince i’ve returned back from europe. singapore food isn’t helping at all when it’s much cheaper and more yummy!
improve my cap – thankfully i did good enough for last semester and this semester will mean to maintain it so that my toilet paper looks decent enough to cover my ass
get a decent enough job – kay. this explains much of my great reluctance to enter into the work society. i don’t aspire to get a job that pays good remuneration and having a good reputation. all i need is a job with prospects and lots of training…being a greenhorn into the workforce i need lots of ammunition to survive in the rat race so when i’m armed with more skills, i’m able to better protect myself. haha..sound like i’m out for war. but i’ve heard enough of office politics and hopefully i’ll be able to handle all these nonsense.
travel to a new destination - still contemplating plans for my graduation trip. seeking for khaki to travel and destination to go too. longing to escape from my sheltered home to seek for adventure!
happiness to all my friends and including myself - may all the singles find their true one and all couples last..simply put ‘never allow sadness to haunt you and happiness to follow you’
i’ve make my new year’s resolution, have you made yours?

happy new year and i've shifted blog! to those who want to continue to peek into my inner life. do ask me personally for my new blog address!

a year has past by and what have you done over this year?

i recall whatever i've done this year through my notebook. my notebook which notes down the activities i do and places i've gone to. the tattered and torn book has been through thick and thin with me this year. be it good times or bad times. this year indeed has been a fruitful travelling year whereby i spent 68 days holidaying. when i mean holidaying implies going overseas from eindhoven/singapore and relaxing to have fun. this is a substantial number i supposed.

sep experience...

being away from home does help me put things back in perspective. being away from home made my life much easier..and with the beauty of foreign land get rids of the boredom that i always lament back in singapore. more importantly, i've learnt to take things on stride and do things on my own. not that i'm not independent but i'm more open and daring to just dive into something without much hesitation.

project life in school..

this semester has been so different such that there's a great reduction in examination and increase amount in project work. i've had my fair share of capable and redundant groupmates. the difference in which my grades are assess made me to change the way and style i do things. thankfully everything went well eventually and i'm glad i made through it

working...

i decreased my working load as there's no need for me to earn that much money. this time round, i work for passion and enjoyment rather than for a living. moreover, i've got an increasing job which enables me to know more youngsters. so i guess working isnt a chore afterall but rather a past time for me.

there's much of ups and downs in this year and overall i guess i had a smooth year for me. be it in studying, working or personal relationship life...as i've been mentioning this on various post. i'm a happy girl and truely is... so i guess my main new years resolution will be to have a happier new year!