sometimes i'm really amazed at what a klutz i am. and i'm saying that because...well..i fell down last sat. yup...yet again. one of those really drama slips =(
was on the way out the marina sq cinema on saturday night, and this good samaritan spilled coke down the entire flight of steps of the exit..and it's not like one small patch. it's the ENTIRE flight and he/she managed to spread it across the length of every step. when i saw it, i was thinking omg, ok must be careful when i walk down. and i took this really cautious step, and guess what? yup...my foot slipped..so i tried to brake with my other foot, which also decided to conveniently slip. great.
so i flew and landed on my butt! oh it didn't stop there...i had to slide down the entire flight on my butt..as though it's really fun =S and only stopped when i reached the bottom of the flight. have i mentioned that we were part of the first half of the entire cinema who were on the way out? and that it was full house for that screening? yea so i managed to stop traffic with my graceful fall. and now i have a REALLY bruised butt (i wld post a picture of the bruise, but that'd be an indecent exposure), my arm is aching like mad (suspect that i might have twisted it when i tried to break the fall), and well..basically my entire body is freaking aching. blah!
ah...not to forget that i was wearing this tee that said "LITTLE SUPER HERO GIRL"...super hero my foot siah....
anw, am too lazy to post the tokyo photos, but will do so as soon as i get out of this lazy streak. and also when i've figured out how to do photo collages with my new macbook...hohohohohohohohoho...
Monday, June 02, 2008
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
t-o-k-y-o
konichiwa! guess which country we holiday-ed in, in the end? yupp...japan it is! we only had the time and money to cover one city, so we went to tokyo. from the moment we arrived, till the moment we left, we could not believe that we were actually in tokyo, because it was an extremely last min plan!
anw the entire trip was a blast, but it was really very tiring because we did tons of walking, running and travelling. the places that we managed to cover include - shinjuku (we stayed here), kabuki-cho in shinjuku, tokyo, asakusa, ueno, shibuya, roppongi, hakone, harajuku, akihabara and...DISNEY LAND!! or rather, disney sea =)
the entire japan subway system is friggin confusing. there are like 5 different subway companies, and not all areas are covered by all the 5 companies. the tickets are also hard to figure out, and we had to get our tickets refunded a couple of times because we got the wrong ones. we actually spent more than half an hour on saturday figuring out how to get to our destination.
because the entire trip was so last min, no proper planning was done, hence we spent close to an hour locating our hotel on the first day. and it didn't help that i noted down the wrong train exit, or that we didn't have the address of the hotel, the name of the hotel in jap, or a map of tokyo...HAHA...how kok right? but after we located it, getting around the area was pretty easy.
despite the common belief that if one cannot speak jap, one should not travel to japan alone..we managed to survive there with our wonderful hand signals! after being in japan for just one day, we were already behaving like the japanese...bowing for no rhyme or reason. haha...
Disney sea was absolutely fun! i wanted to go to disneyland initially, but charles' friend, keith (not a joke), recommended that we go to disney sea instead. glad that we heeded his advice, because there were tons of rollercoaster rides there, unlike the kiddy rides in disneyland. the tower of terror was the worst, and my heart almost popped out of my throat from all the screaming! charles went a bit crazy buying snacks from disney sea, and i think he only realised when we were packing..haha! other than that, we didn't have the time to do much shopping, because we were trying to cover as much places as we could.
anw, know how japan is like the capital of porn...well it really is. we went into one of those supposed comic shops, because i wanted to find for this gundam thing that my colleagues wanted, and we found that behind the first row of shelves that contained comic books, the remaing 3/4 of the shop sold porn! and the most disgusting thing was that they sold porno dvds of kids that were 10-12 yrs old. how sick is that?! then there was another floor that sold like hard core porn, and there were tons of shady uncles and geeks hanging around the shelves, scrutinising the dvds that were for sale. omg totally fit the stereotype of perverts, man! this dodgy looking guy even wore really dark shades in the shop, and he walked out with a WHOLE BAG of dvds! *gulp*
ok enough about the porn...now food. ramen is like the common food staple in japan. there can be like 10 ramen shops in one street. i was CRAVING for a hot bowl of ramen on our second night in tokyo, but was quite disappointed when i got a bowl of shou mian with tons of cabbage instead, and charles got this bowl of dry noodles that turned out to be the crispy noodles that we buy at zhi-char stalls here. haha..wtf. then on the third day we had a nice bowl of fatty char siew ramen, and in the night we had ramen again. after that i felt like puking whenever i saw or smelled ramen. hahahhahaha....so we stayed off ramen for the rest of the trip.
ah okay...i'm getting lazy already..shall continue another time with pictures!
anw the entire trip was a blast, but it was really very tiring because we did tons of walking, running and travelling. the places that we managed to cover include - shinjuku (we stayed here), kabuki-cho in shinjuku, tokyo, asakusa, ueno, shibuya, roppongi, hakone, harajuku, akihabara and...DISNEY LAND!! or rather, disney sea =)
the entire japan subway system is friggin confusing. there are like 5 different subway companies, and not all areas are covered by all the 5 companies. the tickets are also hard to figure out, and we had to get our tickets refunded a couple of times because we got the wrong ones. we actually spent more than half an hour on saturday figuring out how to get to our destination.
because the entire trip was so last min, no proper planning was done, hence we spent close to an hour locating our hotel on the first day. and it didn't help that i noted down the wrong train exit, or that we didn't have the address of the hotel, the name of the hotel in jap, or a map of tokyo...HAHA...how kok right? but after we located it, getting around the area was pretty easy.
despite the common belief that if one cannot speak jap, one should not travel to japan alone..we managed to survive there with our wonderful hand signals! after being in japan for just one day, we were already behaving like the japanese...bowing for no rhyme or reason. haha...
Disney sea was absolutely fun! i wanted to go to disneyland initially, but charles' friend, keith (not a joke), recommended that we go to disney sea instead. glad that we heeded his advice, because there were tons of rollercoaster rides there, unlike the kiddy rides in disneyland. the tower of terror was the worst, and my heart almost popped out of my throat from all the screaming! charles went a bit crazy buying snacks from disney sea, and i think he only realised when we were packing..haha! other than that, we didn't have the time to do much shopping, because we were trying to cover as much places as we could.
anw, know how japan is like the capital of porn...well it really is. we went into one of those supposed comic shops, because i wanted to find for this gundam thing that my colleagues wanted, and we found that behind the first row of shelves that contained comic books, the remaing 3/4 of the shop sold porn! and the most disgusting thing was that they sold porno dvds of kids that were 10-12 yrs old. how sick is that?! then there was another floor that sold like hard core porn, and there were tons of shady uncles and geeks hanging around the shelves, scrutinising the dvds that were for sale. omg totally fit the stereotype of perverts, man! this dodgy looking guy even wore really dark shades in the shop, and he walked out with a WHOLE BAG of dvds! *gulp*
ok enough about the porn...now food. ramen is like the common food staple in japan. there can be like 10 ramen shops in one street. i was CRAVING for a hot bowl of ramen on our second night in tokyo, but was quite disappointed when i got a bowl of shou mian with tons of cabbage instead, and charles got this bowl of dry noodles that turned out to be the crispy noodles that we buy at zhi-char stalls here. haha..wtf. then on the third day we had a nice bowl of fatty char siew ramen, and in the night we had ramen again. after that i felt like puking whenever i saw or smelled ramen. hahahhahaha....so we stayed off ramen for the rest of the trip.
ah okay...i'm getting lazy already..shall continue another time with pictures!
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
i think there's some connection between my family and this whole Elias thing.......even our new house has something to do with it. anyway wow...now i know that my new house has a heritage architecture in it! how cool.........
Sea View condo comes with a piece of local history
By VINCENT WEE
RESIDENTS of Wheelock Properties' new The Sea View condominium will be able to take pride in the fact that they have a classic piece of Singapore's history in their estate.
Conservation work on the stately Neo-classical style bungalow off Amber Road formerly known as Pavilion has been completed, Wheelock said in a press release yesterday. Pavilion was built in the early 1900s and was owned by the Elias family, an established Jewish family at the time. The bungalow was gazetted for conservation in 2004.
The developer spent $1.3 million on conservation, retrofitting and furnishing the 5,000 sq ft double-storey clubhouse which will house two games rooms, a multi-purpose room with a pantry and a function room.
The extensive work done includes both the external and internal structure. Some key features include a panoramic 12-panel stained glass above the grand entrance and cast iron railing on the verandahs of both floors.
'We volunteered to conserve the house as we felt that it was worth preserving a piece of history. The architecture of the house is seen as key to the charming character of the Amber Road/Katong area,' explained Wheelock Properties (Singapore) director Tan Bee Khim.
Wheelock has also invested almost $500,000 on two art installations at the clubhouse. Both works by renowned local artist Kumari Nahappan spell life and energy for the space and provide visual focal points and vibrant colour contrast to the seamless landscape of water and greenery.
Sea View condo comes with a piece of local history
By VINCENT WEE
RESIDENTS of Wheelock Properties' new The Sea View condominium will be able to take pride in the fact that they have a classic piece of Singapore's history in their estate.
Conservation work on the stately Neo-classical style bungalow off Amber Road formerly known as Pavilion has been completed, Wheelock said in a press release yesterday. Pavilion was built in the early 1900s and was owned by the Elias family, an established Jewish family at the time. The bungalow was gazetted for conservation in 2004.
The developer spent $1.3 million on conservation, retrofitting and furnishing the 5,000 sq ft double-storey clubhouse which will house two games rooms, a multi-purpose room with a pantry and a function room.
The extensive work done includes both the external and internal structure. Some key features include a panoramic 12-panel stained glass above the grand entrance and cast iron railing on the verandahs of both floors.
'We volunteered to conserve the house as we felt that it was worth preserving a piece of history. The architecture of the house is seen as key to the charming character of the Amber Road/Katong area,' explained Wheelock Properties (Singapore) director Tan Bee Khim.
Wheelock has also invested almost $500,000 on two art installations at the clubhouse. Both works by renowned local artist Kumari Nahappan spell life and energy for the space and provide visual focal points and vibrant colour contrast to the seamless landscape of water and greenery.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Tragic holiday planning tale
i can't help it, i just have to share my very tragic holiday planning tale with everyone...
about a month back, a few of us decided to go to port dickson for this dj tiesto gig and some beach party thing. but then along the way, everybody had something on and so it got cancelled.
then i remembered that i was still on probation and so it's not right to take leave during this period, hence i gave up the idea of going on a holiday.
but then the days passed, and i took on this really shitty project that drove me insane, and i decided to screw the world, and just apply for leave, regardless of whether my appraisal in 2 mths time will be like shit..and guess what? my leave got approved! woohoo!
so then i started thinking of places to go to..and the first place i thought of was...bali.
after much consideration, i've decided that i should spend that amount of money, going to a destination that i've never been to. hence i settled on chiang mai or koh samui.
so a VERY excited me...went to check out the airfares, hotel, weather etc. only to find out that the fligths to chiang mai were fully booked, and the only one available was by thai airways , which costs $600+++ well...no way am i going to pay tt much money to go to thailand! so then i checked out koh samui. the tix were equally expensive, but to add on to that, the weather forecast showed that there's gonna be thunderstorm everyday.
damn. then charles suggested hong kong, which took me by surprise. because i never imagined that he would ever suggest going to my fav country in the world. hence i went to check out all the hotel prices and air tix and all were available! couldn't believe my luck at tt pt in time. but...there's always a but isn't it?! hobz told me that peach told her...that she just experienced a typhoon on saturday while she was there. so this morning i smsed peach (who is still in HK by the way) , and she said yea there was a typhoon level 3, and the local news just reported that it's gonna get worse over the next few days. oh yay yay yipee yay!
knnbccb more like it. i had to think like mad of another destination and finally settled on TOKYO! sounds damn fun ya?! so ok was all excited abt it, but cldn't get a confirmation on the flights that were available, and some certain organisation has some stupid rigid leave application system that requires very fixed dates for going overseas. you know how sometimes the rest of us can just pretend tt we are on MC or like say we miss the plane or something and take an extra day of leave at the last min? well this particular organisation doesn't allow it, so tokyo was out of the qn, and we finally decided on bangkok :( the place i dislike the most after our friendly neighbours.
so 5D4N in bangkok it was until.........my colleague told me that her mom just returned from bangkok and the weather right now is 40degrees, and when it's not like a desert, there's thunderstorm.
eh WTF...enough already or not?! if it's not the flight, it's the hotel, if it's not the hotel it's the weather. wth.......and i thought going on a holiday was supposed to be relaxing!
about a month back, a few of us decided to go to port dickson for this dj tiesto gig and some beach party thing. but then along the way, everybody had something on and so it got cancelled.
then i remembered that i was still on probation and so it's not right to take leave during this period, hence i gave up the idea of going on a holiday.
but then the days passed, and i took on this really shitty project that drove me insane, and i decided to screw the world, and just apply for leave, regardless of whether my appraisal in 2 mths time will be like shit..and guess what? my leave got approved! woohoo!
so then i started thinking of places to go to..and the first place i thought of was...bali.
after much consideration, i've decided that i should spend that amount of money, going to a destination that i've never been to. hence i settled on chiang mai or koh samui.
so a VERY excited me...went to check out the airfares, hotel, weather etc. only to find out that the fligths to chiang mai were fully booked, and the only one available was by thai airways , which costs $600+++ well...no way am i going to pay tt much money to go to thailand! so then i checked out koh samui. the tix were equally expensive, but to add on to that, the weather forecast showed that there's gonna be thunderstorm everyday.
damn. then charles suggested hong kong, which took me by surprise. because i never imagined that he would ever suggest going to my fav country in the world. hence i went to check out all the hotel prices and air tix and all were available! couldn't believe my luck at tt pt in time. but...there's always a but isn't it?! hobz told me that peach told her...that she just experienced a typhoon on saturday while she was there. so this morning i smsed peach (who is still in HK by the way) , and she said yea there was a typhoon level 3, and the local news just reported that it's gonna get worse over the next few days. oh yay yay yipee yay!
knnbccb more like it. i had to think like mad of another destination and finally settled on TOKYO! sounds damn fun ya?! so ok was all excited abt it, but cldn't get a confirmation on the flights that were available, and some certain organisation has some stupid rigid leave application system that requires very fixed dates for going overseas. you know how sometimes the rest of us can just pretend tt we are on MC or like say we miss the plane or something and take an extra day of leave at the last min? well this particular organisation doesn't allow it, so tokyo was out of the qn, and we finally decided on bangkok :( the place i dislike the most after our friendly neighbours.
so 5D4N in bangkok it was until.........my colleague told me that her mom just returned from bangkok and the weather right now is 40degrees, and when it's not like a desert, there's thunderstorm.
eh WTF...enough already or not?! if it's not the flight, it's the hotel, if it's not the hotel it's the weather. wth.......and i thought going on a holiday was supposed to be relaxing!
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Phone Scam
just got a recorded msg in mandarin on my office phone. supposedly it's a recorded msg from the high court that i have been charged for some offence, and the msg asked me to press 1 to listen to charges, or 9 to speak to an operator.
as i hate speaking to operators...i pressed 1 but the phone went silent, and then the msg repeated itself again, and so i hung up.
then i mass emailed my flens, and peach replied with "Eh don't press. Bluff ppl one..."
apparently this is some phone scam. it tells the person that he/she has been charged by the high court,and then informs the person of the amt that he/she needs to pay. and then after that the person needs to key in their acct number -_-" and it's circulating around my office, because van got it too.
anw, i must say this scam sucks because....
1) i had to listen to the msg 3 times before i understood what the person was saying
2) what if the person who picks up the phone doesn't understand mandarin?
3) the "press 1 to listen to the msg, or 9 to speak to an operator" function does not even work
4) the con-men sure aren't getting any money out of this office, because everyone here eats potatoe (jia kantang) so no one will get what the hell the msg is abt
5) who the hell knows what gao ji fa ting is?!
losers..........
as i hate speaking to operators...i pressed 1 but the phone went silent, and then the msg repeated itself again, and so i hung up.
then i mass emailed my flens, and peach replied with "Eh don't press. Bluff ppl one..."
apparently this is some phone scam. it tells the person that he/she has been charged by the high court,and then informs the person of the amt that he/she needs to pay. and then after that the person needs to key in their acct number -_-" and it's circulating around my office, because van got it too.
anw, i must say this scam sucks because....
1) i had to listen to the msg 3 times before i understood what the person was saying
2) what if the person who picks up the phone doesn't understand mandarin?
3) the "press 1 to listen to the msg, or 9 to speak to an operator" function does not even work
4) the con-men sure aren't getting any money out of this office, because everyone here eats potatoe (jia kantang) so no one will get what the hell the msg is abt
5) who the hell knows what gao ji fa ting is?!
losers..........
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY!
oh boy! oh boy! it's that time of the year again...and i spent one whole day in the office not playing a single prank. i think i started to suffer from pranks-withdrawal symptoms..so i went around scouting for a victim.
guess who was the lucky one this year?? my business director...HAHA!
but it was a lousy prank...and i gave one part of it away..sheesh...
i locked his bag in his drawer and hid the keys, and his keyboard in the cabinet and hid the keys too.
unfortunately he came back and headed straight to the drawers (which he usually doesn't use) coz he was looking for this namecard that was in the drawers. so e senior account manager had to tell him where the keys were...and where his keyboard was.
then she laughed so hard he had to calm her down, but he didn't realise that his bag was missing.
and i had to walk into the office with a big grin on my face and ask if he found his bag...bah!
fortunately he was quite amused...i always knew ang mohs could take jokes better than us asians..haha! and also wished him happy april fools day with loads of love from the acct director, senior acct manager and myself! *snort*
guess who was the lucky one this year?? my business director...HAHA!
but it was a lousy prank...and i gave one part of it away..sheesh...
i locked his bag in his drawer and hid the keys, and his keyboard in the cabinet and hid the keys too.
unfortunately he came back and headed straight to the drawers (which he usually doesn't use) coz he was looking for this namecard that was in the drawers. so e senior account manager had to tell him where the keys were...and where his keyboard was.
then she laughed so hard he had to calm her down, but he didn't realise that his bag was missing.
and i had to walk into the office with a big grin on my face and ask if he found his bag...bah!
fortunately he was quite amused...i always knew ang mohs could take jokes better than us asians..haha! and also wished him happy april fools day with loads of love from the acct director, senior acct manager and myself! *snort*
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
i am peace loving....i am peace loving....i am peace loving...i am peace loving...i have to be peace loving....i have to be peace loving...i have to be peace loving...i must be peace loving...i must be peace loving....I MUST BE PEACE LOVING!!
i am good natured...i am good natured...i am good natured...i have to be good natured...i have to be good natured...i have to be good natured...i must be good natured...i must be good natured...I MUST BE GOOD NATURED!!!
ok..time to slp
i am good natured...i am good natured...i am good natured...i have to be good natured...i have to be good natured...i have to be good natured...i must be good natured...i must be good natured...I MUST BE GOOD NATURED!!!
ok..time to slp
Monday, March 10, 2008
ever noticed how boys have the tendency to watch tv with their mouths open? i discovered this yrs ago when i was watching tv with my cousins, and my male cousin was watching with his mouth wide open, whereas us girls had our mouths shut. yrs later in jc and uni, i realised this was really true, because the guys always had their mouths open when they were watching tv.
and to prove my point, please take a look at the pic below. the guys were watching soccer at winebar 2 weeks back...and ALL OF THEM had their mouths opened..haha! i just had to take a picture of them
photos from our (zzzzzzzzzzz) zouk outings...snort
other events that i've gone for, and things i've been up to:
- airshow (display was pretty good, but everything else was just DAMN BAD)
- mosaic festival - broken social scene concert
- steamboat last weekend
- work, work, work
Monday, February 11, 2008
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR TO ALL!!! Hope your ang pao collection has been fruitful so far..and may you win tons of money if you're a gambling addict!
i don't really know how my collection is so far, because my family has this practice of opening our ang paos on the 15th day of the new year. am absolutely stuffed, and if there had been any plans of losing weight...well erm...i must say it's gonna be even harder now!
nothing else to blog about...some pics and a video from my company's AGM that was held at The Arena 2 weeks back. everyone had to dress in 70s costume and erm...i can't believe how onz everybody was..99% of the people turned up in something retro...and the guest entertainer was Kumar who was friggin hilarious...
my fav pic is the one right smack in the middle with van van...because that's the only pic where i don't look fat, and don't look like a mama bird! the ppl at the bottom right of the entire collage are my team mates..they dressed up as a 70s sports team. if you are wondering why i'm not dressed like them...erm...haha it's a looooooooooooooooooooong story which i can't be bothered to tell! anw..they looked friggin hilarious, and i dunno why they weren't nominated for the "best dressed" award.
and this is my fav dance of the night..this guy dressed up as a microwave (erm...i dunno in what way is that retro..) and he was called up on stage to take part in every single performance!
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Just found this clip in my laptop. It was taken some time ago, when peach, hil and i went to pasir ris park to hang out.
There was this saucer looking thing in the playground that hil said was very fun, and we all tried. and omg, it's damn freaking scary. you can tell how scary it is, by how peach is hanging on for her dear life! hil is lying in tt manner because she tried to run on the thing like a hamster to make it move (what a kok!), but slipped and hence she's like tt...haha!
There was this saucer looking thing in the playground that hil said was very fun, and we all tried. and omg, it's damn freaking scary. you can tell how scary it is, by how peach is hanging on for her dear life! hil is lying in tt manner because she tried to run on the thing like a hamster to make it move (what a kok!), but slipped and hence she's like tt...haha!
Monday, January 14, 2008
man...i haven't blogged since i got back from bali. it seems like one million years ago since i went to bali.
christmas came and went, and it's already 2008. time sure flies real quickly!
i'm still in the same job, and i enjoy the work but still hate working life. i'm still constantly broke, and i'm still as lazy as ever. nothing much has changed. haha!
anw..i went to shanghai and hangzhou at the end of december 2007, and erm there's nothing about that place that i wanna gush about (unlike hil the china-chick who loves shanghai to the bottom of her heart..ha!). shanghai's like singapore and our neighbouring country mixed together, but 1000 times bigger in size. the traffic there is hideous, the people speak at an extraordinary volume and their manners are...erm...damn good...NOT!
hangzhou had a nice and super huge lake that i could barely see due to the extremely bad weather - rain and fog all the time. we spent christmas and christmas eve (which also happened to be my birthday!) there. there was ZERO christmas celebration in hangzhou, and for my bday celebration,we had the KFC family bucket. haha...but i'm definitely more satisfied with it than the christmas buffet dinner that shangri-la had to offer...which would have cost about 800sgd. if i was turning 50 years old last yr,i would have definitely accepted my dad's offer to have tt dinner :P
anw, i have yet to upload my shanghai photos on my laptop...so here are pics from other celebrations.
christmas came and went, and it's already 2008. time sure flies real quickly!
i'm still in the same job, and i enjoy the work but still hate working life. i'm still constantly broke, and i'm still as lazy as ever. nothing much has changed. haha!
anw..i went to shanghai and hangzhou at the end of december 2007, and erm there's nothing about that place that i wanna gush about (unlike hil the china-chick who loves shanghai to the bottom of her heart..ha!). shanghai's like singapore and our neighbouring country mixed together, but 1000 times bigger in size. the traffic there is hideous, the people speak at an extraordinary volume and their manners are...erm...damn good...NOT!
hangzhou had a nice and super huge lake that i could barely see due to the extremely bad weather - rain and fog all the time. we spent christmas and christmas eve (which also happened to be my birthday!) there. there was ZERO christmas celebration in hangzhou, and for my bday celebration,we had the KFC family bucket. haha...but i'm definitely more satisfied with it than the christmas buffet dinner that shangri-la had to offer...which would have cost about 800sgd. if i was turning 50 years old last yr,i would have definitely accepted my dad's offer to have tt dinner :P
anw, i have yet to upload my shanghai photos on my laptop...so here are pics from other celebrations.
my early bday celebration at the majestic restaurant in new majestic hotel...the food was super good! thank you for the wonderful dinner...thank you girls for the wonderful suprise (which my mom kinda spoilt), and thanks hil for the dinner recommendation!
erm..i was too caught up with gobbling my food down, hence i forgot to take pics..but the main reason why i didn't take pics was, i didn't want to look like a suaku. we had abalone, foie gras, sharks fin and all that high cholesterol delicious food. remnants of my mango pudding with black glutinous rice dessert can be found at the bottom left corner of the collage..ha!
also...pls say hi to our new friend hogbob!
new year's count down was at zouk. surprisingly there wasn't any crowd, and erm the music was quite zzzz...i was bored by i think 1am. but i dunno why i stayed till 3 plus and only reached home ard 5am??
oh! did i mention that i'm still in the office? and now i am going home...
Monday, December 03, 2007
BALI
selamat malam! i am back from bali! it's nice to be home, but it's definitely nicer to be there :) anw, the trip was damn fun, and the bunch of us did a hell lot of activities, which by the way were very expensive. haha..but it was worth it :) oh alright...i only took part in ONE, but that's a great achievement for me since i am absolutely not a sport fanatic and i usually don't take part in water sports. things that we did during this trip include:
Surfing 101 
White-Water Rafting..."maybe sometimes later there's a boom-boom (collision of the raft into the rocks).." - as said by our guide.....the last pic at the bottom right is of the 4m plunge that we took 
the flying fish that didn't fly very high...and this is the day when i was the designated photographer 
Jet Skiing 
the human fishes...
dinner at hard rock cafe bali
their last surfing attempt!
- surf
- white-water rafting
- flying fish
- jet skiing
- diving
- spa
- massage
- foot reflexology
- pedicure
- eat
- sleep
- get sun burn
and out of all the sports activities, i only took part in white-water rafting...haha...lazy to blog any further..all i can say is that, my sun burn is damn bad and i'm shedding skin like a snake now! photos time :D
Surfing 101 
White-Water Rafting..."maybe sometimes later there's a boom-boom (collision of the raft into the rocks).." - as said by our guide.....the last pic at the bottom right is of the 4m plunge that we took 
the flying fish that didn't fly very high...and this is the day when i was the designated photographer 
Jet Skiing 
the human fishes...
dinner at hard rock cafe bali
their last surfing attempt!Saturday, November 24, 2007
the middle child sydrome has been a particularly hot topic among my colleagues and i these days. and guess what?! i am a middle child! and i agree that i am slightly aloof at times. went to google it just now and this is what i found....
"The middle or second born child or children often have the sense of not belonging. They fight to receive attention from parents and others because they feel many times they are being ignored or dubbed off as being the same as another sibling. Being in the middle a child can feel insecure. The middle child often lacks drive and looks for direction from the first born child. Sometimes a middle child feels out of place because they are not over achievers and like to go with the flow of things.
Being a middle child would mean they are loners. They really don’t like to latch on to a person in a relationship, there fore they have trouble keeping one due to lack of interest. Not liking to take the limelight for anything, they are not over achievers and just simply work enough work to get by, and typically that goes with school as well as a career. They are however very artistic and creative. If forced to use abilities they will work well, but do not work well under pressure. They often start several projects but rarely keep focused long enough to finish a project. The best career move for a middle child would be along the lines of using their creative. Going into a writing or journalism career, and into a career that they could freely express themselves would be good. Anything that would have hours that are flexible, and projects that frequently changed would be good for a middle born child. Since relationships are not of high importance to a middle child, often times they are alone. However, the best possible match for a middle child would be a last born."
all in bold are traits that i think i possess or show sometimes. the career thing is especially true, because i find that i tend to enjoy doing various projects with different content rather than do the same old things all the time. as for the loner bit, tt is quite true too. my colleagues were saying tt the middle child are pretty temperamental, coz sometimes they are very friendly, and other times they tend to be extremely anti-social. and yes...i go through that too. like sometimes i am friends with the world but other times i get irritated with everyone and i just keep to myself. :S
the reason i brought that up is because...i suddenly realised that the past few days i have bee extremely irritated with the whole world, and whenever i am sitting with a grp of ppl i am usually not paying attention to what the ppl are saying or i just don't know what to reply even though i'm paying attention. like all of a sudden, i'm a complete social retard.
one of the biggest things that pissed me off yesterday is how people don't answer their phones, OR...don't call back when they see a missed call! ok..sometimes i don't call ppl back either BUT if i get anything more than 2 missed calls from the same person, or 2 missed calls from the same grp of ppl or 2 missed calls and various msg...i think i get the idea that it's slightly important that i respond regardless of how important or unimportant the matter might be.
since i am on the topic of responding to people... i must also mention that i HATE it when people do not answer other's calls or sms, and the reason why they don't answer is because they are too busy having fun or because they are with their other half (or maybe they are not having fun, i don't care), and then when they have problems (especially when they have problems with their other half) they suddenly remember tt their friends exist and they call their friends at weird hours of the night and expect people to answer their calls and listen to them. wtf.
some people might say "that's what friends are for...to support each other through difficult times". ya sure...i will certainly support u through difficult times, ONLY IF you remember that we exist during your la-dee-da times. if not, just wait and see what kinda shitty attitude u're gonna get from me. and i don't think i am alone in thinking this way...i know of many who think like me too.
remember how last time i had a "currently listening to"? this time i must have a "mood"
mood: >_< downright pissed
"The middle or second born child or children often have the sense of not belonging. They fight to receive attention from parents and others because they feel many times they are being ignored or dubbed off as being the same as another sibling. Being in the middle a child can feel insecure. The middle child often lacks drive and looks for direction from the first born child. Sometimes a middle child feels out of place because they are not over achievers and like to go with the flow of things.
Being a middle child would mean they are loners. They really don’t like to latch on to a person in a relationship, there fore they have trouble keeping one due to lack of interest. Not liking to take the limelight for anything, they are not over achievers and just simply work enough work to get by, and typically that goes with school as well as a career. They are however very artistic and creative. If forced to use abilities they will work well, but do not work well under pressure. They often start several projects but rarely keep focused long enough to finish a project. The best career move for a middle child would be along the lines of using their creative. Going into a writing or journalism career, and into a career that they could freely express themselves would be good. Anything that would have hours that are flexible, and projects that frequently changed would be good for a middle born child. Since relationships are not of high importance to a middle child, often times they are alone. However, the best possible match for a middle child would be a last born."
all in bold are traits that i think i possess or show sometimes. the career thing is especially true, because i find that i tend to enjoy doing various projects with different content rather than do the same old things all the time. as for the loner bit, tt is quite true too. my colleagues were saying tt the middle child are pretty temperamental, coz sometimes they are very friendly, and other times they tend to be extremely anti-social. and yes...i go through that too. like sometimes i am friends with the world but other times i get irritated with everyone and i just keep to myself. :S
the reason i brought that up is because...i suddenly realised that the past few days i have bee extremely irritated with the whole world, and whenever i am sitting with a grp of ppl i am usually not paying attention to what the ppl are saying or i just don't know what to reply even though i'm paying attention. like all of a sudden, i'm a complete social retard.
one of the biggest things that pissed me off yesterday is how people don't answer their phones, OR...don't call back when they see a missed call! ok..sometimes i don't call ppl back either BUT if i get anything more than 2 missed calls from the same person, or 2 missed calls from the same grp of ppl or 2 missed calls and various msg...i think i get the idea that it's slightly important that i respond regardless of how important or unimportant the matter might be.
since i am on the topic of responding to people... i must also mention that i HATE it when people do not answer other's calls or sms, and the reason why they don't answer is because they are too busy having fun or because they are with their other half (or maybe they are not having fun, i don't care), and then when they have problems (especially when they have problems with their other half) they suddenly remember tt their friends exist and they call their friends at weird hours of the night and expect people to answer their calls and listen to them. wtf.
some people might say "that's what friends are for...to support each other through difficult times". ya sure...i will certainly support u through difficult times, ONLY IF you remember that we exist during your la-dee-da times. if not, just wait and see what kinda shitty attitude u're gonna get from me. and i don't think i am alone in thinking this way...i know of many who think like me too.
remember how last time i had a "currently listening to"? this time i must have a "mood"
mood: >_< downright pissed
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
all things random
happy halloween!
today, a very muscular guy walked around the office wearing a transformers headgear that had an in-built voice changer and various lines that optimus prime said recorded in it. he carried a basket of sweets and approached everyone and said "jiak tng mai?" (do u want sweet?)...and his voice came out like a robot. then someone showed a video of the previous year's staff retreat with all the ppl doing funny dances and charlene turned to me and said "we are surrounded by crazy people........now u know why u feel so comfortable here...". to which i laughed and replied "yup :)". ten seconds later, i faced her and said "ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT I AM CRAZY?????", and she replied "YUP! :)"...idiot.
have i ever mentioned that the cleaning auntie is the luckiest woman on earth? everywhere she walks all the staff will greet her and smile to her. she's even more popular than the MD!
oh...HAPPY BIRTHDAY HORSIE!
ok. back to my game.
today, a very muscular guy walked around the office wearing a transformers headgear that had an in-built voice changer and various lines that optimus prime said recorded in it. he carried a basket of sweets and approached everyone and said "jiak tng mai?" (do u want sweet?)...and his voice came out like a robot. then someone showed a video of the previous year's staff retreat with all the ppl doing funny dances and charlene turned to me and said "we are surrounded by crazy people........now u know why u feel so comfortable here...". to which i laughed and replied "yup :)". ten seconds later, i faced her and said "ARE YOU IMPLYING THAT I AM CRAZY?????", and she replied "YUP! :)"...idiot.
have i ever mentioned that the cleaning auntie is the luckiest woman on earth? everywhere she walks all the staff will greet her and smile to her. she's even more popular than the MD!
oh...HAPPY BIRTHDAY HORSIE!
ok. back to my game.
Monday, October 22, 2007
KNNBCCB!
wah lau..this has to be the shittiest day ever in history man!
firstly...it's a MONDAY! damn bloody sian coz of monday blues and all right? nvm..i woke up and it was raining heavily..even more sian..coz i wish i cld continue to sleep. nvm...then my freaking hair refuses to cooperate with me, and my freaking per-neh-sonic ionic straightener dies on me, so now i have a bad hair day. tt's like double whammy already.
i thought i'd make the day better by outsmarting the weather and all by wearing shorts and birks..but my mom and sis say tt i shld wear my slippers coz my birks will spoil in the rain, which is actually a good pt, but just because i am irritated now..i choose to blame them for not letting me wear my birks..haha! so i put on my OLD black havainas, and guess what happens? tt's right...i SLIP AND FALL while walking to my office. KNNBCCB! and my slipper broke! @$#*!$!&!$^
and of course i had to fall right in the middle of the cbd...at the pedestrian crossing where the whole world can see me fall. let me describe how it happened....
as i was crossing from the AIA building to the hong leong finance building....i was thinking to myself..hah! this time i beat the freaking rain coz i have an umbrella! so i cooly opened my brolly and walked towards the junction, and as i stretched out my left leg...it slipped right under me and gave way..and i end up kneeling on the road..machiam praying to the hong leong finance building! and because i tried to use my right leg to break the fall...my slippers gave way! so then i had to limp across the road with a barefoot and slipper in hand....basket. talk about being glamorous mannnnnn......
then i had to spend like eternity standing outside the hong leong building changing into my birks and cleaning my freaking wound and hands so that i could continue with the dreaded journey to the office, when actually i wld rather turn back and head home. so the maluation does not end here. as i was cleaning my freaking wounds...the indian security guard of the building opens the door of the building and asks me..."u fell down ah? alamak.."..to which i replied..."ya ..but it's okay..thanks"..and then i walk off. at this pt...i realise tt...fuck..i was standing infront of the freaking tinted door..which happens to be the door to the customer service area of the building..hence the whole freaking world in there saw me fall down/change my slippers/clean my wound etc...yayyy....like i can be any more of a dick head.... :(
and that sums up my shitty morning...now i have to go and shit. i hope tt reduces the shittiness of the rest of the day :(
firstly...it's a MONDAY! damn bloody sian coz of monday blues and all right? nvm..i woke up and it was raining heavily..even more sian..coz i wish i cld continue to sleep. nvm...then my freaking hair refuses to cooperate with me, and my freaking per-neh-sonic ionic straightener dies on me, so now i have a bad hair day. tt's like double whammy already.
i thought i'd make the day better by outsmarting the weather and all by wearing shorts and birks..but my mom and sis say tt i shld wear my slippers coz my birks will spoil in the rain, which is actually a good pt, but just because i am irritated now..i choose to blame them for not letting me wear my birks..haha! so i put on my OLD black havainas, and guess what happens? tt's right...i SLIP AND FALL while walking to my office. KNNBCCB! and my slipper broke! @$#*!$!&!$^
and of course i had to fall right in the middle of the cbd...at the pedestrian crossing where the whole world can see me fall. let me describe how it happened....
as i was crossing from the AIA building to the hong leong finance building....i was thinking to myself..hah! this time i beat the freaking rain coz i have an umbrella! so i cooly opened my brolly and walked towards the junction, and as i stretched out my left leg...it slipped right under me and gave way..and i end up kneeling on the road..machiam praying to the hong leong finance building! and because i tried to use my right leg to break the fall...my slippers gave way! so then i had to limp across the road with a barefoot and slipper in hand....basket. talk about being glamorous mannnnnn......
then i had to spend like eternity standing outside the hong leong building changing into my birks and cleaning my freaking wound and hands so that i could continue with the dreaded journey to the office, when actually i wld rather turn back and head home. so the maluation does not end here. as i was cleaning my freaking wounds...the indian security guard of the building opens the door of the building and asks me..."u fell down ah? alamak.."..to which i replied..."ya ..but it's okay..thanks"..and then i walk off. at this pt...i realise tt...fuck..i was standing infront of the freaking tinted door..which happens to be the door to the customer service area of the building..hence the whole freaking world in there saw me fall down/change my slippers/clean my wound etc...yayyy....like i can be any more of a dick head.... :(
and that sums up my shitty morning...now i have to go and shit. i hope tt reduces the shittiness of the rest of the day :(
just to gross everyone out..and just coz sulin wanted to see it....here's a pic
Sunday, October 14, 2007
my law abiding immune system
apart from being an extremely law abiding citizen, i have recently discovered that my immune system is law abiding too. the reason i say this is because, as long as i have anything more than ONE beer, i will throw everything up. yup, that also means that i drank 2 beers on friday night and i puked it all out when i got home. haha! but mannnn..i never felt any better! oh i forgot to mention that i erm...LS-ed too...hahah...fark..so i am law abiding because the law says that if u were to drive after drinking, the limit is ONE beer. and i am always the designated driver when we go clubbing, hence my immune system has set it's limit to ONE beer! *snort*
caught resident evil with a bunch of people last night. wah lau, it is downright violent, gross and ermm...all that stuff that makes you want to close your eyes throughout the entire movie! after that we went to the arcade to play those stupid games where you have to control the ufo looking device to catch the toy. i swear that machine is rigged into making you waste money. we caught the bloody toy a million times but it always drops before it reaches the basket..BAH!
and today, cootie and i went to shop for a microwave and hot water flask for his home. we spent a damn long time deciding on which microwave to get, and finally we got this quite ugly sharp one, which was supposed to be $131, but when the cashier scanned the price tag, she said it's $99. what a steal!
then we went blading and cycling in the evening. i felt like i brought a little boy to the park..shant' explain why though. my legs are aching now coz at some point of our exercise, i had to lug a cow along with my bike...and below's a pic of the cow..
for once i can gladly say that this was a weekend well spent :)
caught resident evil with a bunch of people last night. wah lau, it is downright violent, gross and ermm...all that stuff that makes you want to close your eyes throughout the entire movie! after that we went to the arcade to play those stupid games where you have to control the ufo looking device to catch the toy. i swear that machine is rigged into making you waste money. we caught the bloody toy a million times but it always drops before it reaches the basket..BAH!
and today, cootie and i went to shop for a microwave and hot water flask for his home. we spent a damn long time deciding on which microwave to get, and finally we got this quite ugly sharp one, which was supposed to be $131, but when the cashier scanned the price tag, she said it's $99. what a steal!
then we went blading and cycling in the evening. i felt like i brought a little boy to the park..shant' explain why though. my legs are aching now coz at some point of our exercise, i had to lug a cow along with my bike...and below's a pic of the cow..
for once i can gladly say that this was a weekend well spent :)
Monday, October 08, 2007
new experiences
- nintendo wii - suffered from severe muscle aches after some intense boxing
- hed kandi bar - i like the decor and the music
did i mention that
I AM NO LONGER UNEMPLOYED??????????
haha...damn boh liao right? sorry, couldn't control myself. anyway some interesting things that i have spotted in my office............
i walked into the toilet, and noticed that the toilet roll dispenser is called SCOTT. Before there was only scottex, now there's SCOTT! i always knew our dear friend scott was a toilet roll in his last life *snigger*.
the hand dryer in the toilet is the old school stiebel eltron one..reminds me of my kindergarten days. i will always associate those hand dryers with those in st paul.
my entire office uses ibm desktops/laptops...seems like there's no escaping from ibm for me. but i have to admit that i love their laptops, albeit the oh biang design. it's how zhai!? i'm using the new t60 now...shiok la...
there are a lot of odd looking rooms in the office, so i have been walking around like a tourist the whole of today, amusing myself with the things that i find.
ok...back to stonning. first week of work is always the most zzzz...i really suck at pretending that i'm busy :(
Thursday, September 27, 2007
the bionic woman. the mighty dustball and the great revamp
after my great trip to the far north, i went to holland village to meet sulin for lunch. the route for 95 changed and i almost ended up at that petrol station further off holland v. thankfully i wasn't day-dreaming for once..haha!
went to ikea with peach after tt to buy "furniture" for the great revamp of her room, and then went back to her house to put the stuff together. indeed, peach is a bionic woman!
we bought one of those racks with the baskets and had to fix them together. i spent a good 10 mins hammering like mad to get the bars to join together, but all it took peach was two big whacks and she did it! what a man she is indeed!
anw..here's a headsup for hil. please bring a mask and socks on saturday for the great cleanup, because chances of getting attacked by the mighty dustball in peach's room is really pretty high! i left her house with a red eye and incessant sneezing! if possible...bring a full body suit that u can wear to protect urself...ha!
went to ikea with peach after tt to buy "furniture" for the great revamp of her room, and then went back to her house to put the stuff together. indeed, peach is a bionic woman!
we bought one of those racks with the baskets and had to fix them together. i spent a good 10 mins hammering like mad to get the bars to join together, but all it took peach was two big whacks and she did it! what a man she is indeed!
anw..here's a headsup for hil. please bring a mask and socks on saturday for the great cleanup, because chances of getting attacked by the mighty dustball in peach's room is really pretty high! i left her house with a red eye and incessant sneezing! if possible...bring a full body suit that u can wear to protect urself...ha!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
what i did in the past 3 days:
- spend the entire saturday in sentosa
- sleep the entire sunday away
- spend the entire day in suntec city today
what i wanted to do and accomplished:
- buy donuts from the donut factory
- buy donuts without having to queue (biggest accomplisment!)
- try the steak sandwich at the tuckshop (droolz...)
what i wanted to do but didn't accomplish:
- ride the luge
- cook dinner for charles
- bake charles a birthday cake
what i didn't want to do, but did in the end:
- get a tan/sunburn
Sunday, September 23, 2007
to all VINTAGE lovers
if you can't read what's written on the image...here's what it says..."SUITE STUFF presents:
Hepburn, Humphrey and the Old Wardrobe...A Vintage Event
peddling the wares of DustBunny, 60 nicholson, Que Sara, Philo's and Purse Snickety
29th September 2007, Saturday
1200h-2100h
53a Haji Lane
6396 6902/9295 2239"
Please drop by if you are interested, or if need some new place to shop, or if you just have damn a lot of time and nothing to do!
p.s. 60 nicholson belongs to my sis and her friends :)
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