Pretty? Gonna give these out on Monday to my colleagues. Nothing expensive but just to bring out the Christmas ambiance on the Christmas eve.
Gonna have half day!
*happy happy*

BBQ @ Sam's place. We rushed down to his place after work to get the party started.
Everyone was busy helping out with the preparation of setting fire, food so as to get the bbq started. It was raining cats & dogs initially and thankfully the bbq pits are indoor.


yums, we had our fill and everybody was happy.


Here's all our presents lying under the Christmas tree...


yay! here's my present from seng gin. Lucky he got what I want..


And we din miss the log cake out in this Christmas party!


Looks like the host enjoys eating the cake very much. hahaa


It was fun to have everybody around. =)

randomly browsed through some of the past entries in this blog, felt a little nostalgic..

Today is the post holiday, really feel slack as too many of my colleagues is on leave hence, it's hard to ditch the post holiday mood in office too. Also, there will be another 2 holidays coming up. wahahaa.. Party @ sam's place tonight. He's such a sweet, always taking the initiative to organize such parties for us to bond. Unfortunately, not everybody is easy to please lah.

Anyways, yesterday was a public holiday. CL got managed to get some tickets from ah bao to visit the underwater world and dolphin lagoon. Well, i wont mention much about the underwater world.. cause it would have been much fantastical in the marine world underneath the huge ocean. So DIVING will be a good choice!
My first visit to dolphin lagoon, I don't understand why are dolphins such cutesy? hahaa..it was a pretty short show though.

With $5 each, we settled at the cinema @ suntec watching National Treasure 2 with complimentary of 1 large popcorn, 1 nachos & 2 large lemon tea. GOOD DEAL that is
hard to find.. hahaa.. really worth the $$ except that national treasure 1 is much better den this.
Anyways it was a good day for me. =p

We are having a mini xmas party here @ my work place,

anybody has any idea which place has better pizzas that cater delivery besides
1) PIZZA HUT
2) CANADIAN PIZZA

I found this on the website

Rite Pizza - http://rite-pizza.com/pizza.html
Rocky's Pizza - http://www.rockyspizza.com.sg/
Oishi Pizza - http://www.oishipizza.com/menu.htm
Sarpinos Pizza - http://www.sarpinos.com.sg/
Pizza De France - http://pizzadefrance.com/
Pelican Pizza http://www.pelicanpizza.com.sg/

any feedbacks?
cos i had never tried their pizzas before.
Also, any suggestions on where can I get good food for mini parties?

Sunny Saturday morning, my colleagues and I met up for a 2 hours session of wakeboarding @ Club Punggol Marina. Thanks to IRRC for organizing this activity, hence we only have to pay 20 bucks per person for this exciting activity. Though each of us has only about 15-20 minutes but it was fun fun FUN!!!


Here's the men on the boat...



And the ladies on the boat...



Here's my turn, the instructor was teaching me the fundamentals of how to balance in the water



Arg,I try and try but keep falling to the water..




And, I managed to stand up, oh finally... =D

Beauty lie in the eyes of the beholder

If only my Christmas is on a snow paradise..

Let us anticipate the festive seasons again. There will be about 3 public holidays in the month of December/January.

1. Hari Raya Haji
2. Christmas
3. New Year

WOWs. Thinking about it makes me happy, meaning I will have more personal time to reflect on myself and spending the time with the ones I love. To think about it I felt quite quilty for not able to achieve the resolution I set myself the previous year. Guess I will have to bring it forward to 2008 and hopefully I will achieve it by then.

So what
What have I done in 2007

* Changed job
* Completed a half marathon
* Won a silver medal in river regetta (mixed)
* Completed a full marathon

RIGHT NOW, I want to think of how to spend the last few days of 2007 wisely. Before my nightmare starts in January.

And my office is now undergoing some revamp and soon it will have a new look.

My company has discounts on 2007 year end party at siloso (sentosa). It is selling at $23 each.

sometimes woman instinct is damn accurate, got this feeling i will fail my BTC.. FUCK.
=(
anyway results will be out soon.
hais

The more I read, the sadder i get. Although we do not really know them personally, but it felt as though they are our friends, our team mates, someone whom we knew.
Each time when I recalled their faces, it just felt as though it was yesterday that I last seen them around in kallang. Accepting the fact that losing 5 of the fellow dragon boat mates at the same time is difficult.

They don't deserve this.

too many tragics. so many sad news

been too stressed lately
and probably my hair loss problem is due to this.




how to release stress??
i really need a break soon

it's another fucking unhappy emo night.
it feels like holding on for the sake of it.
why?
im left hanging.
and it feels shit.

and theres nowhere i can release these shits.

show me the light baby.

2 days of working in NTUC tampinese is enough to ruined my impression of them man. ESPECIALLY their supervisers. NEver work with such mean people ever again! i swear. they are F.U.*.K up.
I dont know how the staff from NTUC can provide good customer service when their higher management level staff do not even know how to practice that to their own people.

Arent NIVEA their clients as well? They forced me to keep their product back to the store when i dont think im told to do so in the 1st place. And when i do this out of good will, they treated me like a 3 yr old kid? they uses sentence like 'Do you understand what I mean?' "I tot I've told you where are the empty boxes before?' "where had the trolley gone? I pushed the trolley for u to keep the product and now where has it gone? (scolding tune)

F**K UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sometimes i wished i can be alittle more demure.
=X

over budget again in just 2 days. horoscope can be damn acccurate for the wrong reason sometimes especially when it is not something very positive. hmm, ok stop it. i dont wan to remind myself again.

i lost my mp3 player. quite sad. it nots the lastes gadget in town nor is it very pretty on the outside but i really like this mp3 alot. cos it stored alot of nice songs and it accompanied me thru the lonely journeys and added some spices to my office life style.
It was also my birthday gift, something which money cant buy cause it just dont mean the same anymore.

right now, i cant afford another mp3 player. hais
=(

women intuition are always quite accurate.
perhaps it is the complexity in them that makes them a little smarter sometimes.
anyways, how much do u think a bungalow at sentosa cove can cost u?
the most expensive unit cost 8.15 million!!!???
i think some people are too too too rich already.....

my hair keeps falling. The amount is unusually lot. scaring me out. im worried that one day you will see me bald headed. would u laugh at me? hopefully it's not a warning sign for anything serious.

love is like a flower.
if not handled with care, eventually it just wilter off..
shortlived for some spieces.

boo.

there's nowhere i can go these days. its all the same old boring place, the same boring things to do. any recommendations? booo..
i am so fat! how can i slim down??
and i signed up for 42km marathon run. can a fat pig like me manage to complete??
its been ages since my relatives and i had a dinner. wells, didnt really enjoy it but i think i better play my part as a grand daughter. be good. havock later!

it mus be the hormones again. giving me the swings.
hate it when i felt like not doing anything, going anywhere.
i dont feel like doing is when i feel like doing that something
How contridiciting.

how sad. it was pouring in the morning, was suppose to go cycling. but i missed it, cos i tot the rain was not going to stop. and it stopped after that. s
sad. is cos i anticipated this activity for afew weeks alrdy!
=/

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we went to this new chill out bar call Timbre last fri. It was recommended by my colleague, she says the pizza is nice with thin crust and lots of cheese.

Too bad we were all to hungry and ate up the pizzas and seafood platter so i din manage to take a picture of the food. Btw, the bar is alfresco and it is sitting under a big tree. It is located somewhere near fort canning park, just opposite SMU.
They have live band, and EIC goes there on every wed. heehee..
actually this place is better den wala, less cramp and more accessible. but the service is not so good for they will chase you out if you do not have a drink on the table. The waiters and waitress will keep asking for orders after they pass u the menu for barely a few mins. that's alil irritating for ppl who takes a longer time to decide what to eat and drink. like me. =x

but afterall.... i give 4 out of 5 stars. =p

we were all too stressed out by work. so we decided to sneak out from our office for some fresh air breathing.










This is wad we found! I'm on the top of the world! (like real) haahahaa...











LOOK! Bt Timah is jus nearby.. heehee













group photo taken by some contractor who were also at the roof top. haaahaa..
now you know how we work hard and play hard.. =p

they always think i am damn childish.
but it's ok, i know i have to accept how others think of me.
what they think of me is not going to affect me..because i know what i am doing

and i totally disagree that going clubs mean u are a bad girl.. that doesnt apply to everybody.

ryan says:
still got go chiong with the rest ??
qijia* says:
not so much
qijia* says:
i go chill out more often now
ryan says:
chill out ?? where ?
qijia* says:
pubs n cafes
ryan says:
now "guai" girl liao huh?
qijia* says:
i have always been guai
ryan says:
but the impression was not like that
qijia* says:
didnt u know that?
qijia* says:
haahaa, becos u only saw the surface.
ryan says:
cos that's all you have
ryan says:
haha
qijia* says:
dats wad u tot so.
ryan says:
really ... ??
ryan says:
then tell me what's beyond the surface ...
qijia* says:
nvm, theres nth to say
ryan says:
see ... you can't even defend yourself ...
qijia* says:
i dont need to defend myself
qijia* says:
i know it myself is all it matters
qijia* says:
i guess i was playful mah.
qijia* says:
everybody deserve some childhood rite
ryan says:
it's not a guess ... it's a fact
ryan says:
your childhood really stretch that long huh
ryan says:
kiddin la
qijia* says:
haaha..
ryan says:
i can see that you had a change ...
qijia* says:
and gg clubbing doesnt mean u are a bad girl. sucha misconception
ryan says:
please ....
ryan says:
it's the character after your foot toches the dance floor
ryan says:
*touches
qijia* says:
everyone has their wild side.
ryan says:
i think that's the only side you have ...
ryan says:
haha
qijia* says:
haa
qijia* says:
oh really
qijia* says:
ok, maybe im really dat swallow.
qijia* says:
but its ok
qijia* says:
haahaa, im still young to discover more things
ryan says:
but ... in the end you still get out from your childhood life
ryan says:
true true ...
ryan says:
it's the matter of time
ryan says:
look at you now ....
ryan says:
people changed ....
ryan says:
you know what you want in life...
qijia* says:
i think i really chgned lah
qijia* says:
no more so playful anymore
ryan says:
changed for better or worse ?? haha
qijia* says:
er
qijia* says:
worst, haahaaa
qijia* says:
no life leh
ryan says:
no life ??
ryan says:
how come ?? i thought you say you were enjoying it ...
ryan says:
life is so full of challenges
qijia* says:
enjoying it, but.... not so much as last time
ryan says:
even you fall ... that's a challenge too...
qijia* says:
hannor.
ryan says:
what's the difference ??
ryan says:
between last time and now ?
qijia* says:
huge difference
qijia* says:
haahaa
ryan says:
like ??
qijia* says:
erms
qijia* says:
office is like ur 2nd home.
qijia* says:
haaa, and i see computer more den i see my family.
qijia* says:
and frens
qijia* says:
after work, go home.
qijia* says:
and slp.
qijia* says:
haaahaa
ryan says:
but why are you doing all these for ?
qijia* says:
dats becos i wanna earn my own $$
qijia* says:
spend my own $$

21km checked.
looking forward to 42km standard charted marathon run, though running 21km is very tiring already. but people always look for more challenging things right?
won't life be boring without challenges?

my work is piling up like a MOUNTAIN
yet i'm here blogging.
HAHAAHA
i think i'm crazy
STRESSSSS but not so stresssss..........

I DIDNT TRAIN FOR AHM.
-shrugs-

i'm quite hooked up with beer lately, especially hoegarden
my all time favourite!
wee!
and EIC too.
=x
wAhahahahhs...

qijia* says: haa
qijia* says: not out yet?
..TLC.. says: no i wait till you offline then i rush out and go hide in a dark corner
qijia* says: haahaa
qijia* says:i think u will jus have to wait and wait
qijia* says: cos im not gg anymore
..TLC.. says: tsk tsk pang seh your friends ah
qijia* says: vice versa
..TLC.. says: both pang seh each other
qijia* says: no
qijia* says: is my fren pang seh me
qijia* says: u waiting robin to pick u up isit?
qijia* says: haahaa
..TLC.. says: so your friend pang seh you then you dont wanna go already?
qijia* says: yes.
qijia* says: i dont wan to go alone thats the last thing i will do on wed nite.
qijia* says: =p
..TLC.. says: i think it'll be fun tonight, you were quite keen on going last week but didnt go either anyway so why not tonight
qijia* says:
haahaa
qijia* says:
wells.. how can mambo night be fun without my fav khaki ard?

to feel guilty or not to? for flying kite (as usual)
can form the kite flying team =x (lame, as usual)

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Throw out nonessential numbers.This includes age, weight and height.
Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.

2. Keep only cheerful friends.
The grouches pull you down. (keep this In mind if you are one of those grouches;)

3. Keep learning:
Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
whatever. Never let the brain get idle.
"An idle mind is the devil's workshop."
And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and Lots of time with HIM/HER.

6. The tears happen:
Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourself. LIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love:

Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health:

If it is good, preserve it.
I f it is unstable, improve it.
If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.



9. Don't take guilt trips.

Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

i'm crazy! i've actually signed up for 42km marathon run.
do join me if u're crazy as well.
early bird registration ends today!

http://www.singaporemarathon.com/en/regs/

and so u can see, the photos are so redish today, yes, we are having a National Day Celebration today.
This was how i spent my day today, busy preparing the food items for our booth.
the response was quite gd.
we imported all the nice nice food frm external vendors like rocher tau hui, swissroll, soon kueh, BBQ chicken rice frm PS etc...
and our booth was creatively designed by our pretty izan. (btw, she is the cute siao char bo one in white) =)
Generally, everything was fill with joy and laughters.
but tiring. =x
anyways.
i really wan to see the fire works at esplanade tmr. haahaa.

*I posted the pics isant it true that picture paints a thousand words?
uh. maybe it feels more like chinese new year instead. haahaaahaa

it's a season of love
everybody is blissfully in love now..

sweets.

just came back from site inspection.
went to sunset way area... seen alot of different landed properties
the really new and nice ones make me want to own such property too
however, when i see the bad condition with only 1 storey, i will think.. "tsk tsk, waste land lah.. go get a renovation can??"

my cab went pass ngee ann and suddenly i miss np's bubble tea..
lol......

We ordered Nasi Briyani set for lunch. Beside the briyani it comes with many many items like a brownie, a cherry cake, a cream puff, a teh tarik, orange, grapes, rock melon and a mango pudding. All these for $6.50.
Quite a good deal huh. Very fattening though.

Hope i dont get motion sickness and puked on cab as i'll be going for site inspection later. My first time going out from office.

Today is WEDNESDAY!!
i'm craving for zouk again......
but im hitting the gym later, to relieve stresss...
hahahaa..
well, exercising is my only entertain for now..

ding dong!
6:15pm, time to knock off!
It's really a struggle to work here, esp when work is piling up and when both of my colleagues are leaving soon, and it simply mean I have to take over their work. It's indeed stressful to cope as I am still very unfamiliar with the work and there is so much to learn, I'm doing a job that requires 3 people to do. wth right? With the increase of property prices, we have to do reviews on the properties.My teacher is going to another team in 2 days time. I doubt she has the time to pass all her knowledge to me. I'm really grateful that she has been very patient with my slow learning skill.
I have to keep up the pace soon, as i'm really afraid that my performance is poor. I dont want to see myself as a lousy worker!!

Ok, enough abt work..
i'm going home to slp!

more photos to come.........

frustrations came upon me soon after i arrived
I feel like i'm living with expectations and it's suffocating me
sometimes i just wish to put everything aside and lead life simply like ever before

My 4 days of phuket trip was crazy & fun. It was indeed a stress-free trip where i have nothing to think and worry about. That's what i really love about it and of course it is the company who has created such excitement. Too much for me to say, too many hilarious stuff to laugh about.
I would'nt mind if i can extend my stay for another few more days man.
ok, i shall upload some pictures soon.

what would you do to help a friend who suffer from anorexic?
last night, i went to gym with a colleague and she told me aboutt her past. she has been suffering from anorexic and lost 20++ kg within a month. I was quite impressed by the weight loss however i felt it was really really unhealthy for her to torture herself like that. She tried different ways of slimming like take slimming pills and digging of food out from her throat, exercising like climbing to the 19th floor daily and walked from ECP to Orchard?? Going on fruits diet consistently for 1 month.

During the gym session she looked so pale and i think she almost gonna faint as she didn't had any proper meal throughout the day. She's like quite slim now but dunno why she feel so FAT whenever she look at the mirror..

maybe i should just say this is a common problem among the ladies.
who wouldn't want a perfect figure that look like a hour glass?

and im feeling freaking stressed out by work. 3rd week of work and still feeling kinda lost here. I think i cant finish my work cause it seems to be piling and soon i will be taking over my colleague's pile of work! oh no. maybe i slacked too much. hurhur.
i've tried out the gym today. quite decent not the best though. at least its FREE. haahaa and its jus 15 flrs away from my work desk.

i think im joinig army half marathon! woos

this place is cursed cursed CURSED!!
i'm cursed with the sleeping spell. I am feeling sleeping all the time.
everyday after lunch, i would spend about 1 hour trying to wake myself and do work. hahaha.
and wad the fuck is wrong with me for the past few days? i'm getting the sleeping deficiency illness. SO DEPRIEVED from SLEEPING.

anyways, my phuket trip is coming! starting to feel the excitment already. though, it would be lovely if we can go diving instead. but its freaking expensive, abt 1k. nvm, none of my friends would be interested to go. hahahaa.

im hitting the gym tmr during lunch break! woo.. (thats the only thing i am proud)
my colleague is crazy about losing weight, hopefully i get influence by her. This place is sucha dull place to work under. oh well, wad to do? everywhere is boring to me! haa..

*chase the monday blues away please!

my day started with a tuna sandwich and a hot coffee from Hans. GREAT!
hahaa.. I've been wanting to fall asleep during work cause my office is just damn quiet and it feels like a ghost town sometimes. Each of us is isolated in one big cubicle of our own. Nobody knows what's nobody doing. Seriously, I've noticed quite a few stats board with offices like this. But I heard they gonna revamp our office, making it look brighter and livier, heard the new colours for the partitions will be bright yellow and orange? wow.
i think gov is just too rich lah..
oh, btw there's a gym ard. But I have yet take a good look at it.
ok, i'm going back to work now!

here i am blogging in my office. Wondering if i will receive any warning letter from the IT Dept. haa, really scared. They are quite strict here with the using of internet. Cant even access to my hotmail account. WHAT IS THIS?!! LOUSY! =D
how i miss MSN CHAT.
We have already reached the mid year, so far what i have accomplished NOTHING except changing a second job. So how's job? It's a very typical office job, nothing exciting. Alot of administrative stuff to do. Sometimes to do some site visiting. They say you will do the site visit in the cab. So can u imagine, u sit in the cab for 3-4 hrs and do the inspection on cab? And the fact is there are a few hundreds of inspections to do each time.
3 years is not a very long time i think.
=)

you only care abt for how u feel but u dont care abt my feelings.
action speak louder den words, but u showed me none for this 2 days.
esp when im so sick. all u care is ur insecurities.
i came to sch and wad u did was showing a black face, and blame me for being so sick when the fact was i only got sicker when i came to sch.
u dont care abt wad i've done for u. u only think abt wad u have done for me.
i guess u will never be assured no matter what i do.

they say
"people only appreciate things they cant get however they stop appreciating the things after they got it."

after reading thru the blog, i realised that i've neglected someone dearly..
how can i be so ignorant abt her feelings..
arg. damnn!!

my 2nd last day at work.
everybody is wishing me well. they gonna give me a farewell party tmr. how nice.
alot of reporters came today all becos of this big shot frm taiwan is here to tour around the sea. he is the well known politician in Taiwan, Ma Jin Tao. And i got to see him! oh gosh. he looks kinda handsome for his age.

oh, i had a good feast last night, seoul garden steamboat buffet! I guess many of you hasnt been there for a long time already right.

hahaha..

i started peeling, looks damn gross lah
wtf wtf wtf!!

they say:

failure is better then regret.

but den again, how many a time have u not make a decision that u regretted. how many times u try to succeed yet it didnt make it?

i failed and i regretted.
so many times already.
if only i can turn back the time.
what would i choose to do?

a surge of emptiness within, what exactly am i fighting for?
so lost at times.
suddenly things that used to excite me dont seem to share the same effect anymore.

or isit just me?

happy friday!!
it's weekend again..:)
lovedddddd it.
anyways, im going to my new company to sign appointment letter later.
new environment, having mixed feelings right now.
wondering how's life gonna be like in gov sect. heard lotsa bad comments abt it.
one bad thing abt working here is dat im being isolated all the times and i find myself kinda anti-social these days. so it got me really worried having to mixed around.

but i love the sea. i really cant bare to leave this place where i can look at the sea everyday! ppl here are nice my manager are nice too. tell me, which manager will allow his employee to watch hana kimi during office hours? =X

i really hope i have made the right decision by moving on..

the feeling of talking to a friend whom u've lost touched for a few years is GREAT.
i guess its fated.
how we met, how was this friendship developed. those were the funny days..
wellls...
good things are shortlived..

i realised in every stage of life, u are alway not the only person who is experiencing. somehow, somebody frm somewhere is experiencing the same or have experienced it before.

so now the question is back to me again. part time or full time? i have 4 more days to think about it.

time is running short, im left with only 3 weeks to prepare this. Being appointed as the Fire Safety Manager is no joke. Responsibilty inculdes conducting of fire drill at MSP.
heh, does this remind u of the annoying fire alarm bell ringgggggggggg when u were in pri and sec school? and that the joy of missing ur 20mins of ur class time because of this drill? And now I have to conduct this drill for this building, having to evacuate all the people here in MSP. I'm sure it would be a good experience as its my first time doing this.
Are you interested to participate as well? haahaa!

have u ever felt so devastated and all u want to do is to run away? i am at a lost.

if only i know how to handle all these situations.

im feeling miserably helpless..
really hate these...
u said try again, what happens after we try again and again and again..
will things jus go on and on...
sighs*
-too much of something is bad in mind-

what would u do when nothing seems to interest u anymore?

ok. i've got a bike.. now dat i've got a 'new' bike. i can go cycling ard already.
seems like im too lazy to go on roller blading, jogging, gyming recently. so, cycling would be something new to my routine.
wave and say hi the next time u see me on roads k.

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It's thick toast from TOAST BOX. yummy.
thanks to dear ziling whom gave us the surprise
heehee.. =)