Family Portrait

Finally, after a long 2 years... wah... It's been 2 years since I graduated?!? Gosh... Felt so not long ago. Anyway, after waiting all these time, we  finally had our family portrait taken!!! We took it in April, right after my HK trip, so I was very round as I packed 2 kg in 7 days (which also means I need 7 months to lose those weight, as as of today, I was at the weight before my HK trip, yeap, 7 months). Nevertheless, the pictures are gorgeous, and true to my family's big jolly nature, we had a big jolly photo.

The size looks like a photo frame on the table, but it is actually 40"!!!

My mama's favorite photo!!! As long as my papa is in the photo, it's her fav. Heh heh.

Jia & me, I hate how tall she is beside me. Hmpf!!!

When the guy brought out the photo, I was so stunned when I saw how huge the frame was. It couldn't even get into the car boot! So it stayed in the back seat with us.

We also had dinner at the 天外天鱼头炉 which we had, what else, 鱼头炉 lor. The soup is sweet, but the fish a tad stiff and it wasn't scrapped clean. We also had Hei Zou, Kailan and Fuyong Egg. Not sure if they saw us all big big, the portions they gave us also big big. We struggled to finish the food. My poor mum had to ate my rice coz I couldn't finish and she didn't want to waste the rice. Yeap, my stomach is programmed to take bread more than rice. Weird i know, but I can eat a lot of bread and is fine, but ate too much rice, I'll be stuffed. Had too much rice the other day at Ivin's, so I learnt my lesson, never ever overfill the stomach when it's full.

Now, we just need to wait for Jamie's convocation. =) Jamie, 加油！

Teint Miracle by Lancome

I was offered a free makeover by Lancome after a purchase at the Tangs Orchard. Free one, what's not to take right? Anyway, I think the Lancome MA seemed so sincere in giving me, maybe because I spent quite a moolah the other time. Heh heh. Her name is Linda Tock, very nice.

Anyway, back to the makeover, overall, I like the makeup, but I didn't really like my hairdo coz it didn't match my outfit. But then, I learnt the trick to doing a beehive head. (^_^)Y, can do it myself next time. One can of hairspray and a fine comb do the trick!

Here are the pictures, I looked so Tai Tai lor, that hair, hmm... I still prefer the Bobbi Brown one, where I still looked like myself.

Before Photoshop. Le Au NAtural. The Teint Miracle foundation is really good! My skin looks so dewy, ya?

After PS. Now the face looked like it was cut and paste, ignoring that, it is still good. I wished I wore better outfit.

Took this photo myself. Face and hair a bit oily & sweaty after 2 hrs, but still glowing good. BTW, no double chins!!!

Like this shot. Aren't my eyes seductive? Mu ha ha ha.

Paintball should be called PainBall

I had my first try at Paintball today, by Red Dynasty @ Sembawang. It was very very fun!!! At first, I was in such regret that why on earth did I agree to join the game when I couldn't shoot, couldn't aim, couldn't run. But, by the second round, I was hooked.

Sure, when hit by the paintball, there was a momentarily period which I would shout "Fuck" like a non-stop machine gun, or in this case, the non-stop paintball gun while rubbing the painful area. Then, I had to check whether I was colored with the green paint or not, coz if I was, I would have to run back to homebase and "reload" my life. Else, continue shooting.

I went with my colleagues, and we were all deft at hiding. Seriously, we didn't get very dirty, except for one guy, who was suay lah, coz he was the common target board. And I think I also shoot a lot at him while he was running back to home base to reload, which by right they were safe during these reloading period. As usual, I was kuku about the rules and regulations.

I shall do a rough explanation. It was like a real-life counter-strike. We were divided into terrorist (T) and counter-terrorists (CT) group. And for round one, our objectives were to aim at the opponents' cone, shoot it down, then grab our flag/ Styrofoam brick to the designated area, then we would be declared winners by the marshals, who were the Red Dynasty guys. It was like a warm-up round.

At the second round, there was a change of rule. Instead of just aiming the cones, the T's aim was to "bomb" the CT's helicopter, and the CT had to save one of the guy who was a hostage. This made it really interesting. We strategically assigned roles and the girls, which was me and Rachel, were to cover while the rest saved the hostage. Anyway, the T could only throw the "bomb" (Styrofoam brick) from the bridge, and when he did that, he was basically the target as there was nowhere to hide. So I really had fun, coz whenever the guy came up wanting to throw the Styrofoam, I just shoot. At such close range, I was shiok from the endless triggering!

Last round was Death Match, basically, we just aim and shoot till we ran out of the paintball. It was the most fun because there was no rules.

Enough words, pictures explain more.

Getting ready

This chubby guy here is me. The vest hid my chest lah!

Notice that all the guys wore the old uniform. In a way, we looked really like going for war!

Group photo #1, before the game started

This was taken before the second round, see how sweaty we were!

We already completed all, and the Red Dynasty guys kindly lent us the rifles to pose pictures.

"PainBall!" Actually we shouted Paintball lah.

Act Seh leh!

He kenna on the head

Souvenir of the day. Her OrhCheh "blossomed" a while later.

My Flower.

He's proud of his Crab.

Still showing off. Heh Heh.

I just looked like that, I wasn't unhappy!

See how happy they are. They obviously had good fun targeting someone.

FAILED! Group photo.

Recapping story again.

Playing with iPhone4

Final Group Photo, after a hearty meal

One last one. =)

My Flower finally blossomed! It's uber painful! But heng, I only got this one spot.

Definitely going back to play again!

Complacency

I was a little complacent when I couldn't fit into the dress for it was 3 inches too big. Proof that I indeed shed some weight post PMS.

And then I went on a chocolate binge on Mon and full rice meals on Tuesday.

Dang... 1 more month to go... Must control and maintain my stats now!

I gave up driving & blah blah blah

I came to a realization that I can and will never be able to learn how to drive, after wasting near 4k on lessons, renewal and practical tests. My reaction is always slower, I always forgot to do safety check, I can't gauge,  how to drive like that? The confidence I showed during practice never did shine during tests. Sometimes I think the instructors were just patronizing me. I mean, if I were that ok, how come I not ok during TP? I was already so calm in my last test, yet there were still so many mistakes the tester penalized me.

为何？？？

The older I am, the lousier I get, the stupider I became.

I should just die at 30 years old. I can't imagine what become of me at 40. Oh, old single maid is the best visualization I have.

A disgusting new flash: I think I just detox a 10cm worm out of my body. Damn, what have I been eating? And no wonder I've been feeling so easily hungry lately.

I have a verdict for my fat waist

It's PMS bloat.

I had just endured a 2 month's worth of PMS.

This explained my recent :

1. Tiredness. I was always tired in the office that my PL bought me Vit. B complex. Touched ~~~
2. Crankiness. Scold Jamie Nag Jamie Irritate Jamie
3. Neatness & Cleanliness OCD: Dust Wipe Organize

I felt like I'm finally back to myself, back to my old body. For the past 2 months, all my thoughts were I'm fat, I ate too much, I exercise too less, and I hardly did my bowels. Considering that I only been to my kickboxing twice (I missed 1 lesson), did jogging and stair-climbing 3 weeks ago, I seriously didn't think that aids my weight loss. Granted, I walked a bit more lately than usual, choosing to climb tat irritating half hill than to take a taxi (partially also due to the over spending lah), it still doesn't work out that 2 inches.

The tap is finally turned on today and I really felt like the bloat is gone. Furthermore for the past 1 week plus, I've been very flatulent and did no. 2 several times a day (solid somemore!) which are my cues to the time of the month.

Maybe, the bloat is a collaboration between the 2 mentioned actions above and they were on strike for 2 months.

女人难当啊！

Kickboxing is good

After a 3 months break, it's good to be back in kickboxing, I can really feel the oil inside me melting after an hour of non-stop kicks.

Ok, not exactly an hour non-stop, my 100% reduced to 80% after 20 mins, 60% after another 10 mins, and doing only 20% for the remaining. My instructor is like an energizer bunny kicking at gear 5, really powerhouse!!! We couldn't keep up with her speed and strength. Imagine throwing 3 moves in a second with the oil barrels attaching to my arms. Tiring!

But shiok! I felt less bloated already.

Looking forward to my next lesson!

My waistline is getting wider than my bustline - part 2

To no avail, the bottom is still wider than the top. Shit.

But the walk up the hill today seemed to ease my bloat.

I wonder is I could walk them everyday, just half the hill and I'm way past zen mode.

I guess endurance is the key.

Assaulted

My poor tummy was assaulted mercilessly by Miss Gwee.She had a fun time rubbing them, but I didn't enjoy. I think I will enjoy the rubbing on the tummy if I'm a puppy.

Miss Gwee, I'll get my revenge!!! You wait!!! ( ~ o ^ )Y

I'm removing the cbox. Too many spammers.

Elbow knocked sense into me

I was elbow-knocked this morning by a guy when the bus suddenly swerved. I was in pain. I that I was so pissed off by his non-apologetic manner that I just glared at him while rubbing my tortured back while his back faced me.

Very duhz, I know. Absolutely no use at all.

So I was complaining to my colleagues, and so one of them asked, "Why didn't you confront him?"

That slapped me up and I pondered, why did I lack the gut to ask him for a sorry? I'm the victim here, ya?

As I reenact the scene in my head, I realized I was actually worried of showing my anger in front of strangers. So strange, isn't it? We could lash all the emotions on our closest that we see everyday, yet we could hide our tempers on people who won't see a second time. Shouldn't it be the other way round?

Why care about what other strangers are thinking when we don't even spare a thought of what our family and friends are thinking of our actions?

Hmm, I guess that's what we called kinship and friendship, coz there's no barrier and we showed our truest selves, instead of pretending whom we are not in front of strangers.

Like how I shrieked and jumped away from the lizard that my colleague kindly informed me not to step on. Totally lost my cool again. But it showed how much I don't care what they think.

Heh.

I'm mad worried

I feel like my left ear is going deaf soon coz I've been hearing buzzing almost everyday.

My waistline is still huge despite not eating much, I cut down on my rice le!

I hardly feel hungry and when I am, I feel full after 2 bites.

I'm panting like an old cow.

It all feel so deja vu, seemed like it happened in 2007 when I could go on for a day with only breakfast. Gonna do detox for this week, crap.

My sis is a joker too.

Mum told me that the same Auntie C has been pestering her for an answer whether both Jia and me are attached. And Jia gave a really ultimate answer, "Aiyo, tell her to stop asking lah! There isn't even a 色狼！"

I do not have their levels.

My mum is a joker

Those who know my mum will know that she is someone with an incredible sense of humor. She could give really out-of-the-box answers.

When I was going uni and staying in hostel, Auntie D, a family friend was saying that it was a little dangerous for 2 girls to stay alone in school, even though it is a school. So my mum, told her: "Oh, then I'll ask her to stay with a guy lor, can protect her!" Totally disregarding the auntie's exact worry.

Recently, Auntie C had been calling my mum and she always exclaimed that my mum is a bundle of energy, coz she could go work, come home work some more and then watch Korea drama without a rest. And she she will always ask the same thing to my mum: "Do you always take chicken essence?"

Sick of her nonsense, my mum gave her nonsense. Without batting an eyelid, she replied in hokkien, "Bo lah, wo jiak peh hoon!" (No lah, I eat heroin!)

My waistline is getting wider than my bustline.

Really need to stop putting food into my mouth.

Over Clothes

Ever since I made the beautiful marriage of Forever21.com and Vpost, I had been shipping clothes every 3 months or so. Up till Sunday, I was browsing clothes as usual, and getting opinions from Jamie.

Jamie then told me something she heard from my parent's conversation: Why Qiqi (me) keep buying clothes?

Struck me like a bat on the head and woke me up. They were right, why do I buy so many clothes?

The clothes I bought, only a few I would start it. Those I don't wear, I kept thinking that I would wear it once I had the chance or save it for a special occasion, and usually they are dresses and skirts. So far, only 2 skirts were broken into. -_-|||

This could link to how my Ah-ma used to keep our new clothes for the "special occasions", you know. I inherited this habit. Not that it is a bad habit, but it is bad when I still have new clothes stacking from 2 years ago.

And ever since I started working, the urge to"must own this item" becomes bigger. From simple tops to elaborated dress, from backpack to shoulder bags, ballet flats to high heels, even the facial products, fill more than 1 drawer. I will even spend that certain amount to get the freebie. I'm really getting out of hand.

So, I told myself, I must not buy any more stuffs till end of the year. Coz I don't have any more space to stash them already.

I'm getting very very lazy...

Procrastinate too much...

Think far less...

I guess I'm just waiting for some huge to happen before I start writing like I used to be...

Had my wisdom tooth extraction on my left cheek in July, MC one week, shiok beyond words. Can't remember much funny details le. Except that I still went for a farewell dinner on Thursday despite my swollen gum. Oh, I had a total of 2 or 3 LA shots coz I was feeling the pain even before the dentist was sewing my gum back. Popped 2 painkillers when went home and slept like a pig. Face swollen like a pig too. Could bite and eat normally on the right side when I woke up, which is good coz mum cooked good food! =)

Got new eyebrows. =) Nice is nice, but a bit too expensive... should have for free ointment. I'm such a sucker.

Bought far too many things, shoes, clothes, bags... Forever21.com, I hate you! But I love you more!

Got 2 huge ass acne in 2 months... I guess something went wrong in my beauty regime... Oh! I didn't remove my makeup properly... Shit... Got a huge ass scar on my face now, not obvious, but irritating.

Work still nothing new... Bestie jokingly advised me to change job since nothing much (she meant guys) to see there (mean further prospects). Duhz... she's planning to get married in 2 years time! Gosh.

I can't lie and I don't know how. Seriously. All I wanted was to avoid appearing too chiong going out with Bestie after on mc yesterday), so I said to my colleagues whom I was on the same wayy that I just wanted to pay some service which I didn't manage to get to yesterday, which is true. When Bestie called, I silly answered, "You reached already ah?" So Colleagues A and B knew I was going out, I further made situation worse when Colleague-A asked why don't I meet her in Yishun since we both stayed there. I answered, Yishun was boring. This kinda overthrew my first reason that I wanted to clear payment and made me seemed like a liar and an MC queen. I meeting her in AMK was because I really wanted to make payment and there was a roadshow!!!

Lousy Liar Me!

Ok dok!

Monday Blues

So not in the mood for work...

Could I get any more embarassing?

Being the only girl in the team has its perks, but also has the shitty situation. Despite all my efforts to be as graceful as possible, I've already gave dirty jokes, snorted during nap, burped after meals and heck, dig my nose (with tissue) behind their backs (literally) so that they don't see.

Just when I thought my stunts are all out, bare nakedly shown them all the ungirly things a girl could do, I displayed the ultimate: showing the most girly stuff.

I was chatting with 2 of them while waiting to go for lunch, so I was preparing my pockets to stuff the tissue, phone and money pouch in. As I dig my left side pocket, I felt the slim silhouette of a used tissue and thought I could use it to wipe table later. As I was drawing it out, I decided to check how clean it was first, maybe it could go another round on my face, you know, don't use too many tissues mah.

When I took it out, somehow, it turned out to be a pantyliner, and staring straight at my colleagues' faces.

I think one took a chance at the pantyliner, and bought Toto.

It didn't work.

The black short didn't work its charm. Because I did too badly liao.

2 immediate fails.

Driving Lessons

There is this urban legend about driving test, that women tend to pass the test easily if they show a bit of cleavage, wear short skirts or dress sexily, coz the testers are lecherous.

Back in the poly days, I thought this was a myth created by a certain MCP who was upset that women were driving cars, which in the old past, only men could drive. Maybe he had lost a bet with a gal who proved him wrong, that gals couldn't drive. Hence, he made up this myth to be spiteful and that women were lousy drivers. Hmm, I was quite a mild feminist then.

However, I myself is a live testament to that myth today. No, I hadn't pass the test, but I had a better lesson for once. Showing some skin really helped a little.

I had been getting this really stern instructor for my driving lessons, probably because I didn't book one and he wasn't booked by others due to his infamous temper. As much as I'm quite tolerant, his nonchalant voice and hardly audible pronunciation pissed me off sometimes, and very often, I couldn't quite catch his instructions, so I needed him to repeat. And very often, he would raise his voice, and when correcting my mistakes, his tone wasn't very nice too.

Today, I was hoping that I wouldn't get him as my instructor, but as you all know, we all probably knew what we didn't want was going to happen and that's why we prayed. I had not had any practice since my last driving test 2 months ago, so I was mentally prepared to be grilled badly by him.

Surprisingly, while he still had that nonchalant and hardly audible voice, he wasn't stern today. Either he is in a bloody good mood, or my mistakes were less "fatal" or it's my black shorts.

Maybe, his bad temper was what I imaginatively conjured up when I drove really badly and today, I drove quite well, minus the lane change, speed control and parking.

Still, hope the black short works its charm on the tester tomorrow.

My mum

Well, she is always proud that whatever she wished came true. Like,

She had been thinking of having new bed for me, yeap, we got it free.

She was thinking some mushroom balls for dinner, and soon, her boss gave her a lot of packets.

She had been wishing for a sponge for washing big bottle, I bought it without knowing she wanted.

So that day, she was telling how she got things she wished for, I asked her, why don't you wish for son-in-laws?

She just retorted, "不可能的咯！"

...

Finally, a girl is joining my team!!!

Can't wait to start gossip club with her. LOL.

yeah!!!!! new "boyfriend"!!!!

Dear Lenovo

We had a happy and peaceful 5 years relationship, well, not exactly peaceful, but you've been through the ups and downs of my uni life, stand by me during my tough fyp and the sucky period of my first job. I'm really sorry that you getting older, hence couldn't meet up to my high level of energy drive. There were so many things I want to try, but because of your slowness, I wasn't inspired or motivated to do.

Toshiba really fare better in that department, as he's younger. We may have ended this, but I truly believe that you are my best friend, wh

Saving Gaia

Woah! Only after I searched for this vid, only then I realised how abstract this clip was. The three of them represent the tree, the water and the atmosphere, with the kid as the earth.



When we first saw the vid on TV, because it displayed a dark and deep sense, and there was this parellism which they started with "What if, 如果..." We were like so engrossed in watching. When it came to the end, my Dad growled,

"如果我是炒票， 你会怎么办？"

-_-|||

I must have discipline...

to start wearing my new clothes.

The stack of new clothes is getting higher and higher.

Did a rough inventory, I still have clothes bought a few years ago, not worn! So horrible...

And just minutes ago, I ordered my 3rd batch of clothes from Faith21 again...

And within the past 2 months, excluding my HK trip loot, I bought like 2 pair of new shoes, 3 tops, and 4 bottoms...

I am so jialat... Must wear them!

Lizardry!!!

Just when it couldn't get more funnier, Miss Ng had to remind me that, I quote her: "The lizard must be screaming: Let! Mee! Ouut!!!"

Since when does asking for home address equivalent to sending red bomb?

YQ sought my help to consolidate our home addresses so that she could send the baby's full month cakes to us. The first thought that came to XL's, Ivy's, and Teh Ni's mind when I asked them for their addresses was they thought I was getting married.

Excuse me, I don't have a boyfriend to intro to them, so how could I be getting married? Like what I told Ivy, i would screaming into their phones if I were to don the white gown anytime soon.

I foresee the next 10 years their ears would be spared.

I didn't know Goh Keng Swee...

Only to realize the amazing things he'd done for Singapore via the news lately... So ashamed of myself...

Well, RIP, Founding Father...

My inner spinster is screaming again...

Damn... My gal friends all are getting married.

It's just me and a few left to party...

I salute the Supernatural Scriptwriters!

They did such good twist! Now the story is right where both Sam and Dean are saying a big fat NO to Michael and Lucifer to being their vessels. So episode 19 was about other gods from other religions kidnapping them, hoping to use them as chips to restore world peace. But of course, they ain't Lucifer's match and Mercury (Hermes) contacted Lucifer to their location. Lucifer killed them with a flick of his finger, and so Gabriel came to save them. Knowing he wasn't a match to Lucifer, he left Sam and Dean a tape containing an alternative solution, and that is to kick Lucifer back to his cage, using the four horsemen rings.

Isn't this brilliant? I tot the show would end up God coming to help leh!

Just one little error, they mentioned that only an angel can kill an angel, but so far Dean killed Zachariah, and Kali was able to kill Gabriel too, although with a fake knife lah, but Gabriel end up "dead" leh. But yet again, there were justifications, as Dean said partial Yes to Michael and maybe for that brief period, he could kill Zachariah. And as for Kali, Gabriel was binded to Kali by a blood spell, so is that why she could kill him?

And those gods are involved in complicated love relationship some more... duhz...

Star Award 2010 is giving out pork again, and kelong somemore!

As much as I laughed my heart out watching SA Part 1 on Sunday, most of the time was at their stupidity and lack of eloquence.

I felt so disappointed that Auntie Lucy didn't win the Most Popular Female Character, all because Dennis Chew didn't have a fan club! Jeanette Aw's fans really went all the way out lor, same for Nat Ho's. A bit unfair, but anyway, Star Awards is purely entertainment, most importantly we know Auntie Lucy is more popular! Heck, Yao Jianhong is just a typical day Mulan, and Aw acted so unnaturally can? Especially the part where she was a hostess and seriously, even if you are morally upright, the tone and action do not have to be super slow-mo lor. All my goosebumps came out when I watched the part which she poured the liquor and talked to the inspector. Brr...

Still, thought the award was specially created for Auntie Lucy coz Dennis Chew acted so well and there was a lot of hype. Chey, in the end, they still leave the best pork part to their own people.

Fine, I just plainly doesn't like Aw, can? I also don't like many others also.

• Ann Kok's tits can't squeeze into the small dress, this is her another classic look that people will talk for years.

• Joanne Peh is politically correct, while DYT got mo shui, hence they bagged the Media's Favourite awards. Actually, Mediacorp got too much money to spare so they created this title to make more awards.
  

• Patricia Mok really got nothing to show, and she's so fair that I tot her chest has a nude fabric covering it, oh, that's her real chest. (I can't even use the word cleavage here!) Fann Wong won her by a little bit, both their cup size and fairness.
  

• I quite like those skits, coz they are so brainless and predictable that I laughed before even they even reached the hit point. Altho we don't know the inside jokes, it was still quite entertaining.
  

• How come didn't see Zoe Tay?
  

Quote from my colleague: "Jeanette is a very good actress, she's so good that she also act outside her roles."

More jokes this Sat...

I'm back!!!

E'nuff sa(i)d.

Hong Kong!!!

It's been 10 years (I dunno why I keep thinking it was 8 years) since I last sat on a plane. The last one was to HK too.

此行旧地重游， 格外兴奋！

Shall shower you all with lots of photos! =)

I'm such an idiot

I'd been such an idiot today.

First, I thought I was gonna be in bad luck today when a black kitten ran across my path.

Secondly, i really thought I was unlucky when I was being tasked to clear some stuff at main office, courtesy of last Fri's event. But main office is nearer to home, so no complaints.

Thirdly, I stupidly asked my kindhearted colleague whether the box containing the cookies were still in his car! He waited for me, kept for me, and all I did was asking whether the cookies were okay? Gosh, slapped me please.

Lastly, I annoyed the same kindhearted colleague by asking him to cover something for me. And when he said, there was no need to, I sort of pushed the "blame" stating that the other colleague asked me to check.

What the hell, I seriously have no brain to think about the whole situation! I stupidly followed some unofficial orders! Not that it was bad, one was actually beneficial to me, but because of this good one, that was why I was told to do some covering. As a matter of fact, if I had think through the whole situation, read the sms instruction carefully, there was no mentioning of covering.

I brought all these upon myself. Grr... Kindhearted colleague may not take it to heart, but the thought of myself, once again, doing a stupid stunt, makes me ponder, what the hell I studied so much if I can't even analyze a simple situation!

Oh man... I really need to focus!!!

I didn't even catch a simple joke until 3 seconds later. -_-|||

My job

More or less easing into the job, but sometimes I still hate it for being internet-less.

Been helping out with the recent upgrading's upgrading, can't help feeling "the more I know the suckier it is..."

Maybe Boss is just joking about the sucky part.

It's a small world part 3

My poly/uni/hall friend's girlfriend is my secondary school friend's sister and now she lives 4 blocks away from me.

Saw them while I got off at Yishun Stadium today, Friend called my name as my specs were fogged out, couldn't see him. And his gf is super tall lor, you mei you. Envy~~~

Perfect Match

I find Ryan Reynolds really cute after watching The Proposal. He has these love-sick puppy eyes that kinda melt girls' heart.

So I googled about him and found a heartbreaking fact: He's married to Scarlett Johansson!!!

Oh my... His wife is sexy goddess can?

Inadequate

Never felt myself so inadequately before.

When I was in primary school... I never knew what pressure is...

When I was in secondary school, I shouldered a lot of expectations which I couldn't achieve till Sec. 4

When I was in polytechnic, everything came so easily for me.

When I was in uni, I finally understand that hard work really pays off.

Now that I'm working... maybe it was a subconcious thought that I'm not meant for big things, I just couldn't wrap my head on the things I'm doing now. This is way beyond what I expect and I really doubt I could get my hands on it. This is so ironic, coz my previous job scope, I thought it was way below my level that I should have done.

Now that something bigger comes along, but I just couldn't stuff myself into it...

I need more focus...

Busy Week

I had events to attend after work everyday since coming back from Chinese New Year break...

Monday: Coussie's 21st
Tuesday: Jamie's SS tall
Thursday: Poly Dinner
Fri: Company Dinner

Since start of 2010, my project had been very busy, recently with an issue coming up which was so critical that team lead activated a lot of help. Finally, we saw some light and solved parts of it, or at least, remove those arrows pointing at the team. I didn't help a lot, or rather didn't help at all, then kenna suaned by team lead that I helped him make coffee. -_-||| Ok... he's joking lah... Maybe he didn't want me to feel too bad either...

Today's dinner, I must say it was quite successful except that I didn't win anything though. Sitting with so many seniors and bossess and being the only girl, did feel a little out of way but, thankfully, somehow barrier between the bosses and me broke a little. A very good sign... I should stop being shy in front of them. They can't eat me up! Why so scared right? And I should just do my job well so that the fear in me will go away, no bad conscience mah, hor?

To a better and fruitful March!!!

The Face Shop

For the longest time, I am a huge fan of TFS products. I truly love it!

There is this gel eye patch, which makes my under eyes felt really good, especially after chilling them in the fridge!!! Absolutely love them and dutifully follow the instructions, "Put them on for 30-40 mins". Although the patches were rather thick, it gave a good weight to lay on.

Until one TFS SA taught me the trick, after putting on the eyes, placed them on the cheeks, near the lips, to fully utilize the essence. The first night I tried, I fell asleep with the patches on my face.

The next morning, my cheeks felt exceptionally good, it didn't felt too taut or dry. Gel was either absorbed by the skin or evaporated in the air, I believe the former. As I peeled the patches, I found that they felt a lot thinner! Then it hit upon me, the layer of plastic had been the gel all along and I always taught it was just the texture of the patch! This horrific truth left me calculating how much essence I wasted in my previous 3 packs, as I always threw them away after the 40mins and the gel was clearly still had a lot!!!

Xim tia~~~

Interaction Dinner

So... had this dinner last Thursday. Food was nice, games so-so, gifts not bad.

I was called up to play a game when I had to dress up a guy as bikini babe. There were a total of 4 guys fighting for the "Bikini Babe" title. In such games, balloons are an inevitable. So I volunteered to blow the balloons, and the first one, I gave a moderate size, and my dress-up guy enlightened me that in such games, the bigger the better. So the other one was humongous. But I couldn't untie the knot of the first one, so he had unbalance "boobs". There were two paper plates which we attached as the bikini, and then I stuffed a lot of toilet papers in the small "boob".

When the MC asked, how come he had 2 boobs size, this is what I answered:

"Coz he only had money to do one side, so the other side had to wait! That's why put toilet paper to balance."

The crowd laughed.

Oh, I also nicknamed my dress-up guy as "Wonder Woman". "Wonder Girl" would have been more trendy hor...

As usual, embarassing things just happened to me

New PM came, so when Boss was telling us to gather for an intro, I was drinking water and so, a few drops dripped off my lips and I used the back of my hands to rub them off. Then, the new PM chose this moment to intro himself to me first (I was on his right, so naturally, right to left) and extended his handshake. I quickly rubbed my hand dry using my sweater then offer my handshake too. I saw my Boss stole a smile. So paiseh... never had I once behaved properly in front of him.

When I was signing out the passes after work, one of the young boys guarding the post shouted out my name, with the other name shouting "You sure anot?" The former shouted "Of course, I saw her IC!" and they proceeded to sing "是不是这样的夜晚你才会这样的想起我"。I wasn't sure if my colleagues in the car heard them or not, if they did, very paiseh lor. Paiseh coz those hot-blooded males were teasing someone with boobs. Really wanted to show them the finger but I couldn't, all I could do was show them the darn black face when we drove out the gate.

Seriously...

The Bui Family

Min min addressed me as Bui Bui the other day and this sparked off a bui naming convention for my family.

Dad - Bui
Mum - Ah Bui
Me- Bui Bui
Jia - Dua Bui
Min - Mini Bui

Very funny lor... It was cute when min said the Bui word, not condescending at all, but it sounds so different when we said it. Ha ha.

How's your CNY?

Heh, slept far too late on Chu Xi, that I missed the yearly chance to play mahjong with my Daddy... Well... till next time then... Chu Yi was busy, as with the usual years, preparing and cooking for my relatives... They came pretty late this year, with the first group came at 5pm.

Oh, I had a new niece! Heh, born on Vday 0000, but my cousin poor thing la, had to stay in hospital for three days...

Chu Er went 2 places visiting, saw the same group of relatives plus a few meet yearly ones... Well... Stick close to the usual clique and crapped the night. Before we went round 2 visiting, we watched the Percy Jackson movie. Min kept insisting a lot of the parts were copied from Harry Potter, I would say many ideas are similar, but not exactly copied.

Must say had pretty good luck at poker and mahjong, heh.... Won when I least expected. Played a game just now with Jia, mum and her friend. I only won three times, yet I was the biggest winner. At my biggest win, which I was waiting to pon a Bai Ban or normal Three Circles. Bai Ban hadn't appeared at all and Three Circles left 2. Thinking that I wouldn't win, I acted and I was revealing the tile slowly, so when I reached for it, sneaking a peek as I moved my thumb up. I was just trying to be drama-mama but least I expect, I got a Bai Ban and this increase my fold!!! I won and it was a full fold (man tai) lor, so darn adrenalin rush for me. I think this made up for my almost win at 4D, I bought 2628, it opened 2528 as starter on Sat lor. Sianz wor.

Por Bee more luck leh!

Happy CNY Eve's Eve

1) No work till wed next week
2) Bought my jadore, smell good!!!!!!!
3) Been good and fold clothes, iron the rest tmr
4) finally make my CNY lanterns
5) F21 clothes arrive, although 2 are a tad too loose
6) hooters lunch so-so, but damn happy meeting those 8 months amk colleagues, saw boss's boss, dunno how to say hi tho... -_-||| boss-struck
7) met yilin thrice within 100 metres radius after saying bye
8) minmin let me scrub her head (as in i dun have to force/scold/drag her to bathroom)
9) minmin gave me her very cute hp pouch

=)

Bday Surprises!

Last year on my birthday, I received a nasty surprised call.

This year, I received a surprised winning gift from cozycot!

Nice... =) I had wrote those reviews with no idea that I was participating the draw. Jia had picked up the gift for me, other than the main one, there were a lot of other samples too.

Think I can save 6 months' worth of money for face cream.

A day where everything is so wrong...

1. I frightened my driving instructor by almost turning into the incoming lane. The lane was empty, so I gong gong aimed for the lane.
   



2. I frightened my yoga instructor when my leg flipped at his pull, which I guessed almost slapping him. Well, I could sense my face distorted into somebody else when he assisted me to do this pose. 是痛的咯！
   


3. I was such a bitch. I didn't know why I said I wasn't heavy enough when I could just say I'm shy and no time commitment. I further added insult to injury when I mentioned I wasn't big enough for the cast of a mini tv series (what the director mentioned to me). I was totally behaving like those irritating sec school classmates of mine who were skinny like monkeys yet they still screamed FAT during weigh-in!!!! Gosh! I must have really annoyed them. Urgh... But maybe, I subconsciously enjoyed this brief moment of being the "小只" coz back in my world, I'm the fat one. Kaoz, such a bitch I am...totally disregard their feelings at that instant. They were so nice and friendly!!! One lady was actually a customer turned helper today itself! That's how nice they are! Maybe I'm just being over sensitive. Am I? Urgh, I hate this need for constant assurance. And I'm totally digressing for Point 3. Erica and friends, please don't take it too hard to heart. =(

Bought one top and one dress from BAB, totally loving it. LOL, I had only wanted to see the denim vest.
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Finally remembered one funny stuff during work. We were discussing some random topics when it came to beer, and how they different they tasted in SG and in other countries for a local brand. So, colleague K1 mentioned he didn't understand why beer was so popular, so K2 said something very classic:

"Well, with beer, comes peanut and sex!"

K1 and K2 have same name, hence it was an inside joke one tat one was the angel and the other was the devil, especially the way they spoke. Not difficult to see who is which right?

Disclaimer: Both are very very very nice guys.

Too many happy events

Been thinking of blogging the interesting things, but I forgot them when I reached home.

Tons of stuffs to do.

Sadly, flea market is cancelled. Haiz...

Maybe, more updates after CNY bah... gonna dig my memory bank...

Happ Birthday to Myself

=)

what the ...

As much as I like the movie Avatar, I still don't understand why they must rename something real into something fake?

I can accept it if they added the extra name, but not officially change it!

The original names, 金龟岩”、“天桥遗墩”、“南天一柱”, are so much nicer!!!

Why? Why? Why must make it official!

Hallelujah Mountains just so sound wrong in China.

Haiz...

Dun feel like working tomorrow.

Giordano

After 12 years old, I had never been more exhilarated than today in Giordano.

I fit into a size 32 pants! In the past, only half on my leg in the pants and I will tearing them out.

They finally doing some bigger cuts!

Became a life-time member today at giordano and TS, but they dun issue cards! Whatever, next time I go anywhere, I will just say dunno and make them check. Ha.

Too many memberships.

DD Pig

Offensive? In what way?

Then how come there's the dog? Coz we don't eat dog-meat?

Obviously being halal certified doesn't mean they understand the real meaning of halal.

And I'm going to get the DD Pig.

Sam, Interrupted

This episode is awesome!!! Twist with a twist!

So, Sam and Dean once again back into their monster killings spree and this time it was in a mental hospital. As usual, the plot went on to how they had to find the real monster was, which was killing the patients there by sucking their brain dry and then made it as if they died from suicide.

As wirh their usual gags, there were 2 main doctors which were kind of suspicious, from the way I perceived, but ended up, they are neither! One was just a figment of Dean's imagination, and the other doctor was, well, a doctor.

Anyway, now I'm clueless who is the real demon. Really got me.

Flabbulous N Fatastic

I just snagged this domain name at http://flabbulous-n-fatastic.blogspot.com

One tiny step to becoming my own boss. =)

But then, still not sure what to do with it. Ha ha... and this name already like half decided what I have to do.

See how it goes.

Honesty is not the best policy at work

I had a presentation last Tuesday. t was so like my FYP presentation!

I was still struggling for that last few lines of code before 9am. But at least they worked!

Anyway, at the end of the presentation, my direct manager gave me a few comments. In a gist, I'm too honest for my own good. Ha ha exactly the same stuff as my moderator had said during my fyp presentation. Basically, I was digging a grave hole for myself.

Presentation skills sucks too much. No need to point my own mistakes.

Avatar

So, I watched Avatar, twice.

Twice, I was deeply moved by the story (a bit old-fashioned love story and warrior fighting) and fascinated by the visual effects.

Twice, I can't help but wonder, this movie contains a little racism. The actors and actresses portraying the Na'vi are mostly Africa American, except the Eytukan who is an American Indian of the Cherokee Nation. Their similarities? Well, they all used to dance around a fire wearing little clothings, like the Na'vi. And the human who infiltrated Pandora are all, well, whites!

Twice, I wondered, how come Neytiri suddenly spoke perfect American accent English in times of sorrow. "You mean you know this will happen?" was so different accented from "I trusted you" which came later.

Other than these two annoying parts, Avatar ultimately still won my unfaithuful vote for being the movie of the year. Weirdly, I am deeply infatuated with the world of Pandora, in love with the Na'vi and head over heels with the language. =D

The storyline of Avatar, is in fact, all within expectation, at least within my expectation. I could roughly guess what will happen. Not sure if the director deliberately left the tracks for us to guess. Maybe, sometimes it is the most common thing that drive the most unexpected results. Avatar contains a lot of stories and meanings to convey. One, we should protect our Mother Nature, stop abusing her! Two, war is bad, war brings casualties, war does not result in a win-win situation, in fact, lose-lose. Three, human are a selfish bunch of aliens, who only thought of their own benefits, and who don't see with their hearts.

I had a colleague hiam Avatar hiam until I wondered why he so worked up for. But he had a few interesting modern theories on Avatar.

1. You get the prettiest chick and the envies of others if you have a flashier car. Jake became a Turok Matok and everyone worship him, because he has the best car on Pandora.
   
2. The Pandora is like one huge server and the Na'vi has these tails which they upload and download information. Like an RJ45.
3. The Na'vi are more primitive than human because they had this system so well-planned systems that could survive for many many years that they do not need upgrades.

Haiz... Male Engineers!

I deserved it

I had so much time to prepare, why did I still throw myself into such a shit pit.

My bosses were kind enough not to point out what a disaster I am.

A better result on the 19th! Zene Hasey! Tsun Hasey!

If only I channel the energy to learn Na'vi to doing my PHP.

Conclusion

My recent posts are a bit, hmm, how should I put it, way over emotional.

Conclusion: the dreaded period is coming... So Feels like Crap (FLC) lah!

I wonder if I can show professionalism during a period like this.

Crap...

Exfoliation is good for the skin! Stress is not.

It's been ages since I dutifully exfoliate and slapped my face with sheet masks or overnight cream. I finally exfoliate my face, and what a huge difference it made! It looked radiant!

Where is the auntie I saw in the mirror this morning?

Ah... Missed my facial last week, shall booked another timing soon...

I love pampers!

Was on MC today, and it struck me that I always get sick panic attacks whenever I felt stressed and completely incompetent at work. I had headache when I woke up this morning, the really annoying and refused to go away so I rolled back into my bed instead, and called in sick.

All along, I tot it was because my gastric problem, which gave me tension headache. It wasn't until the doctor asked me if my work is stressed, then I realized the root of problem.

While I'm not yet really stressed by the work yet, coming soon anyway, I was actually stressed by the environment. I'm new to the team despite having a job for 8 months, which I was practically self study most of the time. The mock project we did for 2 months I had almost zero involvement till the last minute, when the leading was on MC. I really had it free and easy, and I tried to keep up with my readings.

Now as I officially entered into the team, immediately, I felt a great disparity between me and my teammates. Firstly, they all guys lah. Secondly, what they know and understand scares me. Nope, not because they are very experienced. I mean there's this one guy I observed, he's been there for a year I think but I could see the seniors loved him every bit. He's smart, he's hardworking, and he's totally can be depended on. Even though I do not understand the system yet, but I do know he's handling quite a major task now. My 2 weeks there, never once did I see him taking a nap! Power!

And I practically screwed up my first task (the web system) with the laptop and I almost caused them to lose 6 years worth of data, thankfully, we managed to revert the system back. If a simple task I can't do it well, I think I will really jinxed the major system sooner or later lor.

While I clicked OK with the guys whom were with me at main office during the audit, it wasn't with the others. I do want to join in their conversations, I want to crack jokes, I want to laugh with them, but there's the fear and irritating thought "She's so lame" inside my head and stuffed my opening mouth with it. There is this constant awkwardness lingering above us.

Even when I tried a conversation with one, it started and ended with a cold full stop.

This is so J&J all over again!!! I hate it and don't want it to be like this!

When they were discussing the system which I had absolutely zero idea what they talking about, I could feel an adrenalin rush in me, coz this system is like so cool but difficult. Despite how many times I told some people I won't be staying for long (I had no motivations during the first 8 months!), now that I had a peek into the project, I kinda loved it. Of course, maybe before I started screwing everyone with my sotongness and then hate myself for being so lousy and then moved onto the next job and then repeat the whole cycle again.

Maybe I'm a little impatient, I'm just 2 weeks in that place.

Give myself more time.

Feeling Flabbulous and Fatastic again

I looked into the mirror, and instead of seeing a healthy 25 (going 26) lady... I saw a severely obese, lack of luster, dark-skinned obasan.

Flipping through the photos in FB made it worse... I looked so good 5 years ago! Fat I may be , but I looked good.

Now, I looked so hideous! And I finally understand the true faces behind the very well painted masks I saw on the street! Do away with the ugliness!

I should really start doing something about my face and body. It's time to exercise again! Exercise is good, for the body and mind.

Should really start jogging, since my colleague dropped me off at stadium almost everyday. I love to jog at stadium, because I can count the number of rounds I run and multiply it to get the distance. Plus there are no exhaust from the cars! I shall not let the tiredness from work deter my routine. Be firm!!!

Thinking of going back to my kickboxing. Miss them dearly... Any takers?

NATO again... mu ha ha ha.

Motivating myself with DietGal... She lost half of her original size, dammit! So can I!

New Year Resolutions

Lol, my last new year resolution was in 2007!

That's like 2 years ago!

Setting up new year resolutions again.. bit of same old things really. But 2010 kind of mark a new start, especially with a new job (officially it was 8 months ago, but technically, I'm only starting now, being posted to project site and learning things all over again.) Plus, I'm going to be 26 soon, should really start to achieve some things.

1. Lose weight! I lost 3 kgs last year, bounced back 2 kg tho during the last week because of overeating, but my swimming really toughen up my flabby a little bit. Now I walked also tired and panting leh, really must cut down my extra kilos already.
2. Be diligent. I still owe my boss the website which was due last year last day. Must chope chope finish already lah. Considering the lack of internet resources in the office, I shall diligently do my research at home.
3. Manage my finance, control them! Spend too much last year lah, My savings is so pitiful. Going HK in April somemore.
4. Be more responsible in anything I do I say. Too many empty promises/threats (to Jamie) last year.
   
5. Be nice to everyone, especially my family. Last year, my temper flared up too easily. Small things also annoyed.

Things I shall complete/start in 2010.

1. Run a small 5 km marathon by this year. Gotta start training already I guess.
   
2. Do more charity. Be it donation or volunteer work.
3. Upgrade my IT skills and knowledge. Master course maybe?
4. Pick up a new skill. I learnt Jap, Driving and Swimming. Maybe Dancing?
   
5. Start a small business online, not sure what I am going to sell yet. Thinking of handicrafts.

Ok lah. I have exactly 363 days to see how much I can accomplish.

So, how's ur Xmas and NYE?

Xmas I went out with Diyumi, NYE I at home clearing things.

Very sianz... a lot of work, but not motivated to do....

Coming CNY, more stuffs to do... This year is the comeback of SQ Chinese Lanterns!

Didn't make them since 2004? 2005?

Itchy hands again... Been designing them and conceptualizing them inside my brains... thinking of making a mini one coz my ang pow very big, if make the normal sure super huge...

Jialat.. bad old habit coming back... I.e. doing low priority stuffs over high priority... :P

See how lah.

Looong Weekend

Not good.

Apart from gaining weight, I also gaining laziness.

How to work like that?

Nua like sai like that...

Laziness concluded from the amount of blog posts I have for Dec... 4 grand posts. Maybe one more before 2009 finish.

Gosh. Think I have to be thick skin and ask my boss to extend my website deadline tmr/later.

Up in the west

Apart from my Uni internship, all my work places had always been in the west.

From Buona Vista, to the farther Boon Lay, then Jurong East in my last job, all are in the west. The current AMK location is temporary, the actual project location is at Bukit Panjang/Gombak (Both location seemed applicable), and how I rolled my eyes when I first knew where I was supposed to work. From what I see, the location gets nearer to north each time (by MRT tracks).

Maybe this is a subtle sign my next job will be somewhere in Woodlands?

Will be going to BP to officially start work tomorrow, I knew the day will come, but can't help but feeling a little sad to leave the AMK colleagues whom I got along so well in the past 8 months. And despite being in AMK for the past 8 months, friends and colleagues still got a shock and asked why so fast (to go project location).

Well, I would say it was very sudden, just a call and I was due to go. I had expected to go down sometime next year.

Anyway, I hope the guys there will be happy to see me lah, the mysterious girl who didn't show up for 8 months. LOL. I always secretly thought my DVP put me there to soften the environment, as the team is made up of guys only. But, I must prove my worth!

Like my fav song 子曰 goes：

搞不懂就问人
搞得懂就答人
没有人懂还可以问神

如以why为本体
表现在具体的生活上
come on everybody一起来

要懂得推理要心存怀疑
要充满好奇要钜细靡遗
要打破砂锅问到底

Busy fooling around with Satio

Can't be helped, too many ways to play it.

Battle of the Sexes

Had a mahjong session with my colleagues on Friday night. It was a battle of the sexes, Yishun Ladies V.S Bishan Boys.

After 2 - 3 hours of friendly battle, the Yishun Ladies, having home ground benefits, won a total of $2.80.

It seems not so cost effective to play for $3 for 3 hours, but we had the fun and laughter. Too many funny quotes. I pity Edmund who's my 下家， coz he could only 靠自己 as I always discard lousy tiles. He's also the funny one.

Funny quotes
Edmund:

• Siqi 的 pong 有杀气！
• 赢30cents, 输60cents, Haiz... 抽屉都 kang kang liao
  
• Mae 被我喂到很饱 （Mae: Ya lor, 爱死你了！）
• 我慢，还没pong, Siqi 就抓牌，结果每次can only pong second round
  

Me:

• To Edmund's empty drawer: Aiyah, 你是赢小小的， *pause, but 输多多！

I feel happy for others when they spend money

Ha ha, it is very true literally.

Went shopping Miss Kim last Saturday, she got herself a pretty lacy dress and a pair of pretty shoes. The dress was really very pretty and I found a matchy lacy shoes, but Miss Kim scared it would be lace-overdose, so she got herself a the crocodile print black/white heels instead, which matched almost everything. I myself was tempted to buy the croc heels, but I didn't succumb to the temptation of getting a totally want-shoe, so I stuck to looking for my white heels to match my dress to wear for the coming cousin's wedding, which I did. I also finally found a pair of aviator sunglasses (my first pair) which doesn't hang being stuck on my fat face. The thing is, I cannot smile too brightly else the sunglasses will be dangling off the nose. If only I had a sharper nose. =( Miss Kim was amused when I wore it and chanting "Eh! I really like this very much leh!"

Under Jia's sai nai plea, I went shopping with her at Northpoint, to my utmost displeasure. I was really ungroom to the max, but since it was within 1km distance, fine lor, go shopping. Jia whacked a grand total of $300 on 1 dress, 1 top (I picked one!), 1 crop jacket, 1 pair of shoes and 2 bras (which took the SA 15 mins and searched the whole shop for her, lol). When she was trying the dress, she tried to visualize how she looked like when matched with a cardigan (dress was sleeveless), which totally did no respect for the dress as it has a very unique front. So I grabbed both the sides of the cardigan and dragged it to her back so that it looked like a shrug, and voila, it looked amazingly good. I am so proud of myself. I really should work as a personal shopper leh! Then when she was trying out the crop jacket, she threw her stuff all on me like I'm a maid leh... well, it amused the SA lor, coz my face was totally sibeh chao. Anyway, I just need to accumulate another $112 then I can become member already.

Well, after shopping consecutively on 2 weekends, somehow it depleted my shopping energy, that I was totally in no mood to shop today. Went to a private sale at Woodlands, but then hor, I don't enjoy as there was a lot of people, they all knew each other so I felt a bit left out, and it was a little hot and stuffy. Rather buy them through online where at least there was an element of surprise expectation. Shall leave this to another blog of how I really feel.

I went Causeway point later, saw the lacy heels again and I was tempted to buy it myself, as it seemed to match one my top which I just bought (waiting for it to arrive, from F21.) But then I think I want to KIV first lah. Went to cut my hair instead, as I was fed up with it already. Got myself a bang fringe, and the new haircut made me felt very recharged. =) And also felt like dressing up again -> totally sianz to do makeup for work last week.

Been wearing those comfy old polo tees and neglected those nice tops that I bought, must really packed old clothes to one corner liao, else those clothes I bought will never get a chance to see daylight, just the back of my wardrobe.

After writing all these, shopping mood is back. Ha ha.

Good Samaritan or Sabohritan?

In my company, there is this weird culture of not pressing the lift for others. Not that we engineers are a bunch of jerks, it is just the culture, it is more of "monkey see monkey do". So today, while I was waiting for the lift, I reminded myself that I must press the "door open" button so that people can stream in without getting kiap by the lift door.

There weren't a lot of us, just me and 3 other guys waiting for the door. So, I was the first one to get inside, so I pressed the button to keep the door open. But very soon, the door was closing and the guy was halfway in only, then I quickly hit the button a few more times, but the door was adamant on closing, but luckily, the guy had already hopped in.

So while the lift was traveling up, as per usual, we all looked at the ground, looked the door, looked at the posters. There was a manager from my unit but we didn't greet each other anyway. So as I stoned looking at the buttons, I realised, I had been pressing at the "door closed" button.

No wonder the door closed so fast.

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Jamie got lucky!

She found $1, got a $15 cheque from the Flame of the Forest publishing coz they picked her story (which Jia and me edited a thousand times and still not happy with it coz it was too plagarize but she won anyway) and she managed to squeeze into upper EM2, which really took out burden off. Her class focus more on Maths and Science coz their English too powerful already. Apparently due to her distinction in English New South Wales paper.

Heng ah.

Baby Arm Floats

I went for my breast-stroke swimming lesson earlier. After swimming almost 20 laps, I was kpkb how my arms were aching yet I'm dying to tone them.

There was this other lady, somehow misheard it and thought I said I wanted to put baby arm floats so that my arms wouldn't ache.

"No lah, my floats are natual one!", I replied, raise my arms and shook the "floats".

No money no problem or no money sure got problem?

Got news that a cousin a year my junior is getting married.

She an N' level grad, works as cashier. Her partner is a car mechanic.

This got me thinking.

I noticed (well, actually the govt did the stats too) that people with higher qualifications married at later age. It's like the more papers you have, the later you marry.

My theory is, because we used the time to study instead of pak tor, so we ended up dating later. So more papers qualification = more time spent = less time for dates.

Then, when you have higher qualifications, you have higher expectations, and this applies so exceptionally true for women. Maybe only 20% of the females I know don't have such criteria.

Another thought, we always felt that we need money to get marry, we need even more money for marriage life, worse if you have kids. My colleagues and I did some assumptions calculations, if we really scrimp, $3000 seems to be enough, but then is better if there's double income lah, more elastic when it comes to financial planning.

So, back to my cousin, I think their incomes add up to <$3000, so, what prompted them to marry? Why do they want to marry? The first image that came to my mind when I knew she's getting married was a scene of a mother nagging at the father of his low income while 3 kids are wailing on the floor. Heck, I don't even visualising romance at their proposal.

Kaoz, spinster thoughts at work again.

Anyway, I think higher qualification grads are planning too far ahead, assuming the problems that had yet to be real, and hence throwing away potential chances at their own love life. Well, it can't be helped, the higher education taught us to assume, plan ahead and avoid mistakes.

But for lower education, mistakes are meant to be learnt, so it's alright to make them. And thinking far ahead has never been their way of life, I mean, to put it bluntly, "I am only O'level grad, what can I do, at most cashier all my life". It's like they think in present tense only.

Seriously sometimes I think education screwed us badly, and backfire on gahmen's plan on more elites in the future. You know, more degree holders get married = more brainier kids? I see more divorce rates and angsty kids.

Real work makes me sick

Literally.

I was tasked to do a small web system for our internal project team. So today I was looking at the code and deciding how I wanted to do it.

I had to view the code in Notepad, which really strained my eyes. Tried to rest my eyes, but to no avail.

At knocking off time, my coordinators asked if I was ready to go with them. When I looked up from the computer screen, and told them to wait for me to pack my bag, both of them went, "Alamak, why you looked so pale!"

FYI, I hardly looked pale, even when I was very sick. So if I'm pale, this kinda implied that I was really tired out by my task.

But then, I am happy that I got some real thing to do, and "bad thoughts" just stay away.

NC16, M18, R21

The conversation between me and my colleagues has gone from PG, to M18 and recently R21. Boredom really drives us nuts.

Case #1: M18
So, we were having our lunch and 2 colleagues ate extra much than usual, we teased them about having second puberty. Then, Colleague A started asking whether our breasts hurt during that period, and all of us went stunned for a moment and started laughing.

“You mean guy or girl?” someone asked. (Can’t remember was it me or the others who asked)

Colleague A: “Guy. One of sec school mate had breast pain, and we loved pushing and thumping him on his chest.”

At this point, I was secretly thinking, he was the one but he used a classmate as shield. Maybe the others were secretly thinking like this too. LOL.

Anyway, we started engaging in a debate on how guy can feel pain there, but Colleague B mentioned that it was possible for men to have breast cancer, why not breast pain blah blah blah the anatomy of guy’s chest.

Then, Colleague C burst out saying to Colleague A, “Eh, later we must go toilet take off your clothes and check liao.”

Wah ha ha.

*We googled, and quote from ehow.com: Nearly all girls and some boys experience breast pain during puberty

Case#2: R21
Colleague S bought a bunch of bananas after lunch and asked if we want some. Those naughty ones started teasing, "Your banana, don't want lah. Too dark liao." LOL, S is very dark. Anyway, they started joking about the length of the bananas, and then somehow it lead to the "action". So I spontaneously grabbed one, and did the "action". All of them stunned, then burst out laughing, coz it was so unlike me to do such kind of acts, but they thought it was hilarious. After all the laughing, Colleague M pointed out to me that I got the anatomy wrong. Confused, I asked how wrong. Oh, turned out that I "grabbed" the wrong way round, and hence, instead of moving up and down from the top, I was doing it from the bottom.

"Paiseh lah, aku no experience. Learn from online, didn't observe carefully."

Felt like an idiot

You know, those colorful file dividers that comes with a content page? Well, I never used the content page, preferring to write it on the tab itself.

And so today, I was tasked to do some filing, using the dividers. My instinct was to write the labels on the tab, but I realized I was to use the labeling machine and paste them in the content page. So I only wrote one wrong tab, and then waiting for further instructions from the person.

This person, saw my writing on the tab, immediately showed disdain and chided, "Why you write there? Use the machine!"

"I know..." I replied, nonchalantly.

"Secondary school got do before what, you dunno meh? You print the label, then paste them"

TNND, secondary school I used to write in on the tab, coz the content page not enough and it was far less efficient. It was much faster for me to search by browsing the tabs, nothing wrong what. Why must he sound like he's teaching a primary school kid how to do filing?

If I wasn't the only female (newbie) left in the office, I wouldn't be doing this. The trend had always been the slim girls' work. Well, I'm not complaining that I didn't get to do the sai kang that time, what I meant is I'm doing the sai kang now coz no more girls.

Bloody hell.

Top Secret

Our office is bustling with work, well, at least for those with 2A clearance. Security audit is coming and many staff were deployed to assist with this audit, to ensure there is no discrepancies in the information, and all were logged down properly. Those without clearance can't touch the files.

So, a colleague was doing some checks and packing up before knocking off, and he asked us, "还有没有Top Secret 的东西 or information？"

I answered, "有，我的三围lor!"

LOL.

不拉不相识

There's a lot of ways of making friends, and in one Chinese saying, "不打不相识" which means from an exchange of blows friendship grows. Well for me was from an exchange of zip friendship grows.

There is this tiny lady who was the secretary of our Com VP. Both of us hardly made small talks as she is always busy. Today, in her midst of her busy phone conversation, I saw that her zipper was undone and I could see her rose colour undie. I immediately stood behind her and signal the other secretary who was in front of Tiny, to tell Tiny that it was undone. As I don't really know her,I don't dare to just zip it up for her, so I stood behind her and protect her rear view. So this other secretary told me to just zip it.

Tiny turned around and looked at me in shock. At this moment, she was already putting the phone down. Then, the other secretary told her why I did that. Tiny turned into a tiny tomato. Her face was so red!

And that's how we started talking.

Apparently, the guys saw it but I think because they don't want to admit they saw it (is kind of like admitting they chikopek), so we (the girls) weren't inform out of courtesy that Tiny's zip was undone until I saw it. (There were a total of 4 woman in the office, 2 were in front of Tiny and I was back facing Tiny, so we really didn't see it until I turned back.)

Well, it seemed that Tiny is a klutzy lady who always had embarrassing mishaps, so it was just like one of her another days. LOL.

My Idol Has a Son!!!

I was so appalled by the news: Jimmy Lin had a son!!!

I was so into him when I was young, coz he was so cute, and never mind the fact he couldn't sing very well. I bought his album, I cut out news that was about him, I followed his every movie, I bought every photo I could find of him until the age of 13, when I stopped. But then, my heart still skipped when I saw news about him!

Until today, my heart almost stopped.

He announced he had a son! And in the photo, he doesn't look like 35!!! Seriously, what a handsome father! *Drools*

Aww... and his fiancee was younger than me! 24! They were together for 5 years! OMFG!

When I was gaga about him from aged 7-12, I used to fantasize being his wife (come on, who doesn't do that at that age about their idol?) Then I would always secretly direct the scene which he would say "I'm too old for you" and I would look at him lovingly and answer "Age is not a problem". Very cliche, I know, but that was what the shows were all about in that period!

Now, at age 25, I do think 10 years gap isn't that big. Haiz, I missed the chance leh!

Another secret thought: I had wanted to lose weight, go work in in his record company, hopefully I would meet him and fall in love with him. LOL.

Still, as his fickle-minded fan, I wished him all the best and may he and kelly (his fiancee) had more kids in the future.

Maths

Was dealing with Jamie's math an hour ago. The question goes like this:

A teacher has a certain amount of money. If she buy 4 balls, she need $3 more. If she buy 3 balls, she will have extra $4. What is the amount of money she has?

Jamie was very certain that her method worked, and she was teaching me how (eh, this part is weird coz I was supposed to help her with this question as she claimed she dunno how to do) and I couldn't really quite get her method, which goes like this:

$/ball ----- $ for 4 balls ----- (+$3) ----- $ for 3 balls ----- (-$4) ----- ok?
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1 --------------- $4 ---------------- $7 ------------ $3 ------------ (-$1) --------x
2 --------------- $8 ---------------- $11 ----------- $6 ------------- $2 ---------x
3 --------------- $12 --------------- $15 ----------- $9 ------------- $5 ---------x
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etc.

She got the answer as $22, while I did exactly the same method, I got $25. Neither one of us refused to admit the other party has the correct answer, Jamie was very confident and I was indignant that a 10 yo could get it correct.

So Jia intervened, so that we wouldn't have a tie.

The best part? She gave a totally different theory: the maths question is set wrongly.

In the end, it took a combined effort of Jia and me to solve it simultaneously, and the answer was indeed $25. Seriously, I wasted 15 minutes doing the trial-and-error method while I could solve it within 5 minutes using simultaneous equations.

Brain is getting rusty indeed.

P/S: I also got Jamie to edit the grammar error. The teacher was a she and later become a he. Had to add an S to it. Ha ha.

My obsession with neatness extend to Jamie's Chinese compo, almost had to got her to rewrite the whole thing coz sentence structure was too long-winded, too many repetitive words and super untidy!!!

She said "Oh Shit" immediately when Mum threatened her she won't get to go holiday in Dec and have to stuck with me if she can't complete her homework.

Ha, I'm her nemesis.

Dangerous when alone

I think I mentioned before, I am very dangerous when alone. There's no limit to what I buy.

And today, I survived! I didn't buy anything!

I alighted at Yishun Interchange today as I wanted to talk to my office buddy a while more. Both of us are the same kind of people, and we clicked exceptionally well, even tough she looked a bit haughty when I first saw her.

Anyway, she meeting her mother at Northpoint, so we talked all the way; from the time we boarded the bus to the terminal.

When I alighted, a big signboard greeted me in beautiful pink! SASA!

Buddy just laughed and told me not to buy anything (she knew my weakness), and I jokingly replied, "Won't lah, no spare cash. " No-Spare-Cash joke shall leave to some other day to blog about. Or had I talked about it before?

I happily stepped into SASA, browsing at the items. Many times, I wanted to drop an item into the basket, but I endured. Well, SASA's promotion wasn't very enticing, so I left. Turning into the new extension, more discounts await: Beauty Language Sale! The Loreal Anti Frizz Serum was just that close to being my possession, but well, I still have the sample and seriously, 7ml can last me for quite some time. =)

Then I continued to my favourite shop: The Face Shop! Wah... it doesn't matter if they have sale or not, I love their products, pretty packaging! I was surrounded by beautiful products, huge temptation! Keeping my hands straightly in the pockets, I checked out some products, compare the prices, making a mental note of what to buy when my current product finished. This thought perked me up.

I left Northpoint, with my wallet unharmed. Heh. So proud of myself.

Finally, my 1000th post!

I thought I would reach this number last year, but I was too demoralized in my last job to blog anything.

To add joy to this rather nonsensical occasion, I'm back to 78kg! It's been 4 years since I last saw this number on my bathroom scale. It was full of trepidation when I stepped on the scale just now, as I just gobbled my dinner (rice less, veggie a lot) and ice cream at 9.30pm.

3 cheers for myself! Hee...

I think I weigh 78kg in the day time too.

Factors taken into consideration:

1. We usually weight lighter at night, so, if I weigh 78kg after a a satisfying dinner, technically, I weigh 77kg on an empty stomach.
2. And so, assuming that I weigh myself with an empty stomach in the morning, which we usually weigh heavier, giving a little allowance, I still weigh 78kg. Right?

Tmr must control my food intake.

Jamie suaned me as a one-week jogger. K lor, tmr jog for her to see, hmpf!

Motivation

A few new "passengers" enjoyed my blog, especially those old posts. Very motivated to start writing frequently. Lot of ideas running up and down already.

But, it's 1.30am now, and I am super tired. See if I could sneak a few blog posts preview at work tomorrow, or rather later. =)

I really have a super lots of things to blog which I didn't. Time to dig those memories out.