Post xmas

I like this christmas season... it has been raining these few days... so its cool and chilling. =) I received 2 presents this year.. one from Ying - an estee lauder perfume and body lotion gift set.. and from dear - SK-II facial treatment essence and a burberrys wallet (he got from London when he went UK the other time) Hee~~ little, but expensive gifts. =) Thanks once again!

It's weekend tmr.. nothing much has been planned yet.. probably going to dear house to watch dvds.. hee~ Probably will start going out to shop.. for new year clothes, as well as clothes to wear for my best friend wedding~! Although she stated pink dress.. i still dont think it suits me. haha~ but for my best friend sake, I'll find the most suitable pink dress for me. haha~

Eve

Xmas eve.. half day today. but will be waiting for dear to come and pick me up at 1pm.. We're going to orchard to meet ying.. to collect my christmas gift~! haha~~ Meanwhile Ying wants to go the the Gucci sales and wants to see if I wanna go with her... hm.... later i tempted to get another one how? heehee~~

Dear has Taka vouchers.. probably will go and see see look look if there's any thing that we can get. haha~

Incubation

Yes~! Haha~~ Will be watching Yes man tonight.

now expt incubation period.. so slack a bit lah.

Came back from the yummy xmas lunch at fosters.. portions are small.. but after the 3 courses, the feeling is just right. The dessert was too sweet. Took some pics liao.. so for those peeps who wants to see my jap bosses... you got a chance now. hehee~

Ok times up soon. update again ya.

Went to Ying's dance performance at Republic poly cultural theatre last Sat. Overall the performance was good. I like to watch Ying dance.. and I feel that she was the prettiest on stage.. regardless of the looks and the moves.. all are beautiful.. (dear didnt know how to appreciate this kind of thing.. so he doze of for a bit on the 2nd half of the performance)

There should have a lot of pple on leave right now.. coz it's near xmas.. and holidays... food court was a bit empty and lesser pple... too bad for us, we have to work this week.. but luckily, we have a half day on the eves. =)

Reading journals from just now... blogging allows me to take my attention off a bit, so that i wont strain my eyes reading those small small words.. (i know i can enlarge.. but I didnt. 100% is sufficient)

There's Xmas lunch tmr at Fosters. Looking forward to it. =)

It's Friday

Had a terrible flu yesterday.. but still i have to stay out late, to attend a funeral.. Passed Ting her Xmas gift.. but forgot to pass to Clar.. hm.. gotta meet her another day to do so..

Feeling better today, after a dose of "became" haha~ This medicine always work for me.. though it causes drowsiness... if i got them with me at office, I wont be feeling that terrible yesterday.. (fluid dripping from nose uncontrollably.. eeww~~)

Dear's coming home tonight. =) The weekend's activities are planned. Next week will be Xmas~! Enjoy, everyone!

My Tues

It's been 2 weeks that dear had diligently drove me to and fro work.. in return, he got to eat mum's homecook food everyday. Yesterday he flew off to Taipei.. and so i woke up early today to take train.. never did I expect dad offered to drove me here, since he woked up early too. =)
There's little pple in the office today.. all the japanese had gone to shangri-la hotel for board meeting.. however, we still have work to do.. so no slacking.. haha~

Will be meeting Gim and RJ tonight for dinner... so as to pass him the gift i got from taka last week.

This Thurs will be meeting Jo, for dinner as well as attending Clar's Granny funeral. My condolences to her and family.

This Friday dear will be back home, late.. so we will be meeting on Sat to attend Ying's dance performance at Republic poly! Hee~ This is the 3rd time that I attended Ying's performance.. Loyal supporter!

Sunday may be bringing my niece and all to Terminal 3.. to see bro and the Fabulous 4 from Disney (Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald).. if it's not raining.... We have special family pass usually. haha~!

K.. time for work again.

update

Work's been fine so far.. have been learning a lot from my own unit and other unit.. to the extend that I sometimes forget and mixed up the different methods used for the same kind of work. haa~ it should be better if they have a standard set of method.. just like an SOP? wahaha.

I've been given a project by my supervisor.. which indirectly causes a slight stress on me.. afterall it's been only 1 month plus in my new job.. haven really got the hang of everything.. anyway, it's a good sign that he gave me this responsibility.. =)

Xmas is coming.. been sms-ing my friends for a meet up but either they cant make it or that they didnt get back to me.. so sad..

Anyway, I'm catching a movie later on in the evening and then off we go to meet nana they all at St james. hee~ tata~

Photoblog

I'm doing up a new photoblog. Looks nice to me.. will be in operation next year with combination of this blog. woohoo~!

Emotional day..

Today heard from my colleague that my supervisor has plans to transfer me to their unit.. Coz there's not much work in our unit currently.. so 1 person (which is my partner) should be sufficient.. I'm not resistent about being transferred.. just felt, a bit sad if that's really the case.. afterall I havent finished learning what I'm supposed to do at my current unit.. Somehow I felt being pushed around (although it didnt really happen.. yet) like a spare tyre.

Anyway, besides this, I'm so so upset about my oily hair that i noticed recently.. My hair is somehow immediately oily after wash.. guess it should be the shampoo that i am using currently.. i didnt change brand.. just that the shampoo changed packaging and I wonder if that changes the ingredient inside.. will be doing an "expt" of shampoo on my hair this weekend to see if I can improve on my hair condition.

i accidentally locked dear's pc just now.. saying sorry to him also no use. he got so so angry.. and replied "dun bother me now". I was so sad.. and upset.. afterall, he was the one who asked me to guess the password (and not telling me straight). I felt so wronged. I only want to show him something on the internet, plus testing out his laptop.. things just gone wrong i guess.. I shouldnt be touching his working laptop, and he shouldnt asked me to guess the password (since the account will be locked after several attempts - which apparently i dun know about it). Ok, i wont be touching his laptop from now on... to prevent things from happening again.. i dun like this feeling.. the feeling of heart being squeezed tight.. just like what i am feeling right now when i typed this blog.. he forgave me in the end... but still, I dont feel better.

Right now i just want to put my feelings on hold... need sometime to get better.. goodnight.

Fusion

Today will be a busy day.. I'm lending a hand to another unit coz there's nothing much for me to do too ( i wonder if my supervisor doesnt feel safe letting me work alone, since my lab partner is not around til next week) anyway, there's stuff to do this afternoon. Fusion.

Heard good news from my close friends.. I'm looking for the day that I can see them and meet them up for lunch whenever wanted. haha~!

I saw the video of the white tiger biting the poor cleaner to death yesterday. It's sad to see that.. I'm still thinking about it now.. Sigh.. why did he choose such an innovative yet painful way to kill himself?

Ok.. stop here for now. Going to meet up SC and RJ for lunch today.

Lab partner not around

Yesterday met up with WX, Ruth, Zul and Eric for dinner at IMM. Too bad Gim, Wy, Haz and RJ cant make it.. We'll have another one separately then. =) It's really nice to meet up once in a while.. so that we can chit chat and gossips. hee~~ Took some random pics and posted in FB liao.. Tonight i have another session with the other girls.. Seafood dinner~! Gosh, my wallet will have a hole soon.. plus my cholesterol will be building up..

Just been informed that we have a company holiday on 2nd of Jan... Those admin staff sure have holiday to spend... but for us, those expts cannot be neglected.. hence we may still need to come back and work. who knows.. maybe my good supervisor decide to sacrify himself to come back for us? hee~

My lab partner went for a holiday.. so i have to work with my supervisor. It's not that i dun like to work with him.. just that I feel a bit stress (sometimes) when he is watching me. ha~ I need to get use to it.

Over the weekends

Dear came home last sat.. I thought I was lost on the expressway (which actually I'm not) due to the misleading road signs.. It's not the first time I went airport to fetch dear.. just that I dunno what came to me.. hence I exited Bedok, parked at a petrol station and started flipping my directory... As a taxi actually parked beside me, I might as well ask the uncle on how to go.. which, he did directed me, in a friendly way (although i blocked his taxi a bit but he's not angry). I managed to reach the airport eventually. =)

Anyway, dear came home with unexpected "souveniors" Sigh.. dun wanna talk about it here.. it's embarrassing. wahaha. But i like the newcastle t-shirt he bought for me.. bling bling kind.. I'll upload a pic when i have the time. Plus, he got for me SK-II facial treatment essence from the DFS too.. that's my xmas gift.

So glad that dear's back with me. haha~ this weekend I want to go shopping with him~! but first, there's a ex-lilly gathering tonight at IMM~! enjoy~!

Dear's coming home~

My experimental results showed inconsistency, despite the training i had been thru. Sigh.. so disappointed at myself. I guess i gotta redo the whole experiment next week. (usually the expt will need a whole week to get results.) Sigh... gotta buck up and do better. =)

A friend of mine talked to me on MSN a few days ago.. she's officially hitched and will be inviting me and dear to her wedding dinner next year. =) When asked "when's my turn?" I'll probably reply "thinking of that soon". Haha~~ Getting old now.. better get married before my thoughts go astray. wahaha~

It's friday~! Dear's coming home tmr. Also heard good news about my other ex-colleagues may be joining the pool in biopolis.. cant wait to feel excited for them!

Work is fun~!

Forgot to mentioned that my company bbq this weekend was cancelled due to poor response. Initially I was hesitating of whether to turn up after picking up dear from the airport, or just give it a miss (anti-social a bit).. I actually wanted to go but then I chose dear over work. haha~~ but now, I'm sorta glad that I heard the news that it was cancelled and postpone til further notice. hee~

Was asked to go for a steamboat session at Vieth's house tmr. great. Another gathering. I like it. haha~ So that I wont distant from my ex colleagues cum friends... then nana sent another email to me asking to go for another steamboat on a friday and clubbing on a sat.. seems like we're having fun eh. haha~

I wonder when dear will be going off to Taiwan for business again on Dec.. if the day falls on the day i have dinner or the clubbing day (which i told nana that i will go unless there's unforeseen circumstances).. then i have to give up the gathering session... hee~ Sorry ah~~ like "zhong se qing you" but then you guys have to think leh.. after kk changed job, he will be travelling frequently.. so have to accompany him to airport.. =)

Just hope that India's situation will be better.. coz I heard that dear needs to go there for business early next year too.

This morning when bro came back from work, he took a internet cable for me to link up my Vaio to the router. Finally i can conclude, I can be online for as long as I want to, without getting feared that the connection will break off. Apparently there's something wrong with my Vaios network card. Cannot sense my own router, but able to see the others (neighbours). Anyway, thanks bro.

Monday without blues.

I always managed to finish my work around this time, which is good. Kept having miss calls in the morning.. I dun have the habit of bringing handphone with me when I'm out in the lab doing expt.. So for those ppl who smsed me and I took a while to reply, you'll know that I'm in the lab and will only reply you during my breaks, or lunch time.

Speaking of lunch, I had free lunch today.. thanks. Company welcome treat (with combination of birthday treats) I'm into my 4th week and everything seems to be fine. I am enjoying myself, although busy.

Like i mentioned, I went "shopping" last Sat.. Bought refill compact foundation and a liquid foundation (trying out), Kose black mask, shampoo, deodorants etc. haha~! All cheap cheap~! I still have a shopping list to fulfill...like

• SK-II facial treatment essence
• a new pair of shoes
• new organiser for 2009 from Kinokuniya (only there sells nice jap organisers.)
• new handphone.. (maybe)
• Diamond earstuds (2 pairs, maybe)
• bag organiser...etc

Anyone wanting to get me Xmas present can choose from the list. wahaha.. those "maybes" will have to be in my list til I am prepared to spend the money.. afterall they are the "wants".

I'm looking forward to this weekend for dear to be back.. I really need a car wash before fetching dear from airport.. coz it's full of birdshits and stains.. (I tried cleaning off but they're really stubborn) I also wonder what kind of souveniors he will get for me (I hope he remembers... coz i told him to get me some souvenior, like fridge magnet or something, everytime he visits a new country or state)

Oh ya, will be getting my pay on the 25th. Not use to this.. coz my previous one paid us on the 1st... now like my savings are depleting.. and I still have credit card bills to clear.. Next month worse, i have an annual insurance premium to pay (excluding those monthly ones) Argh~! I want to earn more money~! PSB please bank in my money for the previous module soon!

Friday night.

My meeting yesterday with Ying and Kun is shifted to tonight. =) At least, I have something to do this friday night, instead of staying at home. Mum now has baby-chan to look after (they came back from Malaysia) so i dun have to worry about mum staying home alone.

Anyway, it's been my 3rd week into my new job. Everything seems ok.. everyday's busy.. I just tabulated a graph and showed my supervisor, he said that the expts that I ran is to see how well i can control my "techniques". Apparently compared to the first time, my technique of "seeding" has improved..my supervisor (a man with a few words - coz his english is not that good) sorta praised me for my improvement. Good. heh.

My colleague asked me to go blading. I agreed initially coz there are several pple going.. but now it has turn out to be only a couple and i.. 3 person like very strange leh.. so i ask her to rearrange another day where more pple can turn up. =)

So, I'll plan to go grocery shopping with mum tmr. =) Chinatown ba. Cheap. Shall look up at the street directory on "how to go there" heeh~

Also, i'm planning to finish watching another 6 espisodes of anime. =)

888th post

I'm learning new things at work almost everyday.. which is good. I'm still enjoying myself.. Getting independent. =)

Yesterday I went to visit Vieth.. She seems ok after the operation. Athough i knew that she doesnt like to drink those essence of chicken sorta thing, I still brought half a dozen for her.. (hoping that she can drink it coz from my sincerity) Anyway, it's my mum who insisted too.. My mum dotes on Vieth too.. although they only met for a few times. I think its the numerous times that vieth passed her baby items to us too =)

Yesterday night i saw a familiar card teared into pieces in the rubbish bin. I took it up and realised that mum threw away our birthday card to her.. many many years ago... I fixed it up and the cover read "Happy birthday and I love you"... inside wrote "we will listen to your advice and be a good children" Tears welled up.. I dunno why i'm so emo ytd.. I asked mum why she threw it away.. she replied saying that she thought its a very old piece of drawing paper.. she said she doesnt even realised wat's that about. I'm very sad..i brushed my teeth and went straight to bed.. and cried. I knew mum didnt do it on purpose.. but still i remember that was an expensive card, money from piggy bank combined with sis and bro, we got this card together.. memories. Words that i cant describe.. the only time when we shared $ to get a gift for mummy... I cried myself to sleep.. Arent I silly?

Today while i was walking towards the train station, i looked up to my kitchen window and saw mum standing there waving goodbye to me.. Again, it's been such a long time since i last saw this gesture.. i was touched.. tears welled up once again.. But i controlled myself...

I wonder why am i so emotional these 2 days.. I want to share this with dear dear but he is not around.. how i wish that time can pass quickly for dear to come back..

Mummy and family, I love you all so much. I treasure each and every moment for us to be together.

I got my phone back!

I got back my samsung phone today. =) They changed the LCD for me.. now the sliding motion is like.. a bit lose.. but anyway, i'm just glad that my phone is back with me now.. I love my phone~!

2 weeks of work had past.. everything seems to be more stable now.. a lot of things to be learnt.. and now i already got the hang of doing cell culture... Had a talk with my supervisor and he said that he will give me more responsibility when I become familiar with everything. haa~ Stress.. Coz i'm afraid that i may need to take some time to remember all those expt protocols by heart.

Dear's gone for a week.. 2 more weeks before he's back.. i wrote down a lot of movies that i wanted to watch.. so when he comes back, he will have to watch with me.. even if it is not showing on cinemas, there's always rental or.. streaming. haha~

Will be visiting Vieth tmr.. coz she had a spinal operation.. slipped disc i think. Hope she takes care of herself from now onwards.

Part time work at PSB has ended. Finally, but i hope its temporary. Got time to rest more at night. Awaiting payment only. No more tedious markings of those lab reports and quizzes.

Alrighty.. seems like I'm quite free today. Revert back the blogskins to the template ones provided by blogger. Simple and nice. Time do some cleaning up. Ciao~!

Sick.

Today's work is done. Fast and chop. It's good in a sense that, I'm not feeling well today... or rather, I've been feeling sick (fluctuating fever, cough and block nose) since last friday. Now I even got upper backache, and I cant look up to the ceiling/sky.

I asked my HR about taking mc.. she said she doesnt agree on workers taking MC during probation period, unless it's really serious. Gosh. I'll still go to the doctor after work today. I'd popped 4 panadols up til now and I'm still feverish. I even pasted "koyok" to ease my aching. Dear, dun worry about me if you read this post. I'll be fine soon. =)

Although finished work, having nothing to do is tough keeping awake, especially in my state.. hm... what shall i do?

Short update.

It's really nice to hear that dear has reached UK safe and sound. Just to update my dear, I did those things that you asked me to : returned your library book, collected your repaired air purifier and pumped 95 petrol.

I still have car washing.. but that leave til the next weekend.. hee~

Take care dear

2 weeks of work has over... i have learnt a lot of things... brushing up my calculations of cells density etc etc. haha~ Aseptic techniques is a must. very strict to prevent any contamination. 70% alcohol is now my best friend in lab. Whatever procedure i'm doing, I'll have it sprayed not only to my gloves, it's up till my forearms. =) Those allergic to alcohol cannot work in my lab.
There are still a lot of things to learn. Totally different from LNUS. I'm glad that I made a change.

Dear flew off to Birmingham yesterday for 3 weeks training.. for his new job. I dun feel sad all this while.. only when the time when he asked me to go off (not seeing him going into the departure hall) then i fill a tinge of sadness flowing through. I'm going to miss him.. and I am missing him right now.

I drove back alone from T2 to my house. LOng journey it seems, without dear around. I safely reached home, and parked my car. haha~ (some of my close friends know how i "feared" parking car)

he'll be back on 29 nov... anxiously waiting. take care over there dear. it's really cold over there.

I found a job that I dont really have the time to sit at my desk to surf net. ha~ not like now lah. Coz the expts for my training had ended today.. haha~ I still have to continue from my previous post.. but i dun have the time to do that at home. Even now I'm sneakily typing this post.. soft and gently on the keys.. coz my keyboard is the old type.. producing loud clicking sound whenever a key is pressed.. Sigh.. so sneaky til my hands are tired trying to keep those typing sound to a minimum. haha~

Work wise, everything's fine. Information overloaded I can say. It takes time for me to get familiarise with all the techniques.. Aseptic techniques..

This week is also the final week of class.. n i have a consecutive of 3 nights in a row. I do hope that the students will finish their expts fast so that i can quickly get home and rest. beauty sleep is impt for aging ladies. wahaha.

This weekend dear's flying off to UK. Will definitely miss him a lot..

Alrighty, I shall continue my part 2 of my previous post when i have the time. =)

Part 1.

I was late yesterday for my first day of work. 5 mins la. Not serious. The train in the morning are da*n cramp lo.. I think I really need to learn the art of squeezing.. I dun mind being squashed up right in front of the door.. coz afterall I only have 2 stops Dover - which the door opens at the other side.. and then buona vista... and it's my stop. haha~

Long post this gonna be.. so be prepared.

Current company have ioffice - an application to monitor work online... plus, a place where you need to clock in and out when you step into the office and leave home at the end of the day. Very typical jap company. Time orientated. Near to Zero pple come in later than 8.30am.. Very discipline.. nobody leaves before 5.30pm.. not even on the dot.. I have to get used to this new culture. Afterall I come from a US culture company..

I have my own desk. A 1metre square table. Small indeed.. but at least i have room for my legs.. Chair.. is normal rolling chair, velvet material.. and the backing like giving way anytime soon. haha~ not like my comfy ex-leather big armchair... I have to throw away my cushion that i brought back from my ex company liao.. forget about bringing it to my new place. We have an open concept office.. all staff in a room.. everybody whispers and talk softly... or not talking at all.. I cant get use to this. I used to face a wall full of my decorative postcards etc.. but now.. i have another person sitting opposite me. yeah, there's not even a divider.. so i cant stare blank that obvious, I cant close my eyes and rest.. and coz open concept, I cant surf net.. Talking about online.. my pc is as slow as a SNAIL.. Worse than my PIII that i threw away..gotta be REALLY patient.

We have a large window.. good.. but too glaring when the sun is up and shining bright.. makes pple sleepy. haha~ Warm environment.. as in temperature. haha~ just nice. Dun have to bring jacket to work.

Lab coat and shoes provided. Gotta change the shoes just before going into the lab. That means, no dress code at all! Hahaa~ but its ok.. have to stay obedient for a while first... just wait til... after my probation period~!

My handphone spoilt on the first day of work~! You know, first day is usually boring.. i wanted to bring out my hp to sms others to waste my time.. but SPOILT. D*mn lo. haha~ lucky still under warranty.. so I'll bring it to service this weekend.. gotta borrow K750i from brother as temp phone.

I'm really tired of typing.. haha. so will continue part 2 tmr.

Expensive specs.

It's been raining since yesterday night.. nice weather to sleep in.. haah~ nothing much to do today.. so i guess i will start marking those prelabs and results sheets from yesterday's class.

Yesterday brought dear to the sushi place Steve's and guys went for my farewell.. Dear likes it.. just that it's really all rice.. so we got full after a while.. haha~

We went to make a pair of specs for the both of us.. hoping that we can start our new job with our new specs, new images. haha~ but then no difference lah.. all specs looked the same, unless we go for something daring and loud which really differ from what we wearing now.... the conservative me decided to get something "safer", a similar design to what i'm wearing now... just that it's black, half-frame with a visible logo "b" at the side... yeah.. i got a branded specs from agnes b.. and it's cost me about $239 jus for the frame.. without lens. (lucky we got amex card - 10% discount). Oh no... i'm getting brand conscious... i can only collect the specs on next thurs/fri... so i cant really start my job with new specs. haha

ok. thats all for now. tata

Last Day

Today's my last day of work. Great. Sense of relief. I received gifts from my friends and colleagues. I liked them. Those will be useful for my next workplace... A nice nice stain glass pencil holder, a cute cute guardian angel and a exclusively unique piere cardin pen. Thanks all. Thanks for all the nice memories.. making my 5 years in LNUS a nice one... hope to keep in contact!

Pics will be uploaded soon.. I'm having a week's break before my new job.

Summary for dear's bday

This year dear's got the most expensive and most number of presents for his birthday from me. heh. Stingy me has thought it over.. as long as he enjoys / like it, money isnt much an issue (of course, the price must be reasonable too lah.)

I got him:
a 750ml nike water bottle
a one night romantic stay at siloso beach resort roof top suite including a 3 course dinner
an adidas sweater
a smash watch (not very ex coz he's only using it for jogging)
a braun buffel coin purse

So that's 5 presents in total!!! Spent up to 4 digits liao.. but i guess still cant compare with what he had given me... one sony vaio laptop can easy win all.. hm...

Anyway, 5 days left to my one week break... before starting on the new job.. looking forward!

Mini Farewell session

Hi ho, uploaded the pictures from siloso beach resort. Feel free to take a look! I got a mini farewell session from the CRU today.. Some sandwiches and eclairs kinda puffs... I like the farewell card most. heh.

Siloso Beach Resort

Sat I went out early to get what I intended to get for dear's birthday, before meeting him up for lunch (after his work at Suntec convention). After lunch, we went to look around.. at laptops.. esp Sony ones.. coz he's getting one for his next job.. He already decided on getting the SR series.. with a HP laserjet printer. Good. He has a lot of brand new "toys" to play around with. =) I'm envious.

We then went to Sentosa Siloso Beach Resort.. (and he thought we were going to Shangri-la...), checked in.. Once we opened the door, we were welcome by rose petals and balloons on the floor.. and then the "Happy Birthday" wordings on the bed.. and of course, we started taking pictures. I guess Sat was the day when dear spontaneously allow me to take a lot of pictures for him. haha~ He's touched. We had the 3 course dinner meal in the room.. and it taste great.. we also have the roof top jacuzzi. =) I took the scrub i bought from Batam and scrub for dear... I think these 2 days he will feel that he had the smoothest back out of his adult year. wahaha.

Sunday besides that complimentary breaksfast, our room also had complimentary 4 cans of soft drinks..(where initially we thought it costs money until we asked for the price list).. Plus we had complimentary 3 day pass for going in and out of sentosa via the monorail! Too bad we only used that on Sunday to get to vivo and had our lunch and bought a toy (for myself).. because afterall we had to get back our car which was still in the resort. Initially i thought of giving it to others who might have the chance to fully utilise the 3 day pass.. but dear said that we could keep the tickets as a keepsake. hee~

I think thats about all. sorta brief summary. I enjoyed myself during the stay at the beach resort. Friendly staff and nice environment with dear around. Words cant describe all.. and hence.. pictures~~~ which will be up most probably tonight. heh.

WEdnesday

Ytd my niece went to NUH to see a doc.. she has been having a fever on Monday, and ytd she was vomiting and complaining of stomach pain. We have no choice but to bring her to see a doc around 11.30pm plus... i hate all the naggings that my parents (esp my dad's) stupid. Cant he stay quiet during that commotion.. Baby was already crying and yet he was like yelling words at us.. (worse still, he kept yelling the same sentence... like a spoil CD player).. Anyway, baby-chan is fine now.. and resting at home..

Changing subject, dear will be changing job soon. He nxt job will be a home base one.. but need to travel a lot lah. hm.. guess what, the first rxn is saying "good for you~! plus, I can have your car~!" wahaaha.. I'm so bad.. He will be shouldering heavier responsibility for the new job.. as he is the sole contact person located in Singapore. Just hope that he wont be too stressed up for the new job... and one more thing that i envy.... his pay will be double mine...hmph..

One more thing, I was supposed to keep dear's pre-birthday celebration a secret til this sat... but the a slip of my tongue when my sister-in-law asked me whether i can attend baby-chan's pre birthday celebration this weekend.. oopps... So too bad that i cant go... but i promise baby-chan that I'll spend more time with her on her actual day! like bringing her go walk walk!

Ok.. time for some other stuff. haha.. There's class tonight.

Pictures up!

Hi blog readers, here's a short update : The link to the pictures for Batam Spa Trip is now up~!

Back log post.

Gim, Na, Vi and I met at 8 plus on Saturday morning at harbourfront Mac, all ready to board the ferry to Batam.. my very first batam spa trip experience. Was looking forward when we first booked the slots.. heh.

Reached there at 10am plus (batam time), checked in (but could only get into the room around 2pm), went to Nagoya town to "shop" a bit.. and ate A&W!!! How i missed the root beer float~! After that we walked around and the girls all bought (cheap but from a classy shop) Nail polishes... Since the mall didnt sell anything much that could catch our eye (plus they really overpriced), we might as well go to the hypermart to get tidbits for the night~! At the hypermart, we got a lot DIY spa scrub which is recommended by Na's cousin ( I got the most - 7 bottles : to give to friends) and I also got Tomato flavored potato chips for mum and dear =) After that, we rushed back to the resort and had our spa....

The spa was a bit disorganised... I shant talk about the bad experience that popped up here and there... anyway, first we were separated (2 by 2) and we went to have our full body scrub, then full body massage, shower, aromatherapy bath, shower again and back to the resort. =) and ya, we saw our partner's naked body. wahaha~ i'm shy initially..but after that we got used to it.. whahaha

We went back to the room and have a proper shower to remove the massage oil remnants.. then we went downstairs for our dinner (pizza)... and we went back into the room to play games... scrabble, uno, and poker. We had a fun time...=)

Sunday morning we went to have our breakfast, took some pictures at the pools, went back to the room again to take pics, play games again (with forfeit).. and it was raining real heavy.. we checked out at 12noon, hang around in the hotel lobby and played scrabble again while waiting for the shuttle bus to the ferry terminal...

Thats my brief (yet long)description to my batam spa experience.. I only spent S$30 bucks there. afterall i enjoy the fun and company and the scrub~! Relax enough and time for work again... Pictures will be up soon!

Happy Children 's Day

Tmr and Fri I have lab classes.. looking at the first practical, I think I wont be able to go back on time for the practicals.. plus, with those worksheets and results to go through and mark them... hm....

LUCKILY, for those important dates this month.. there's no classes on.. which is good~! I'm gonna enjoy myself with the upcoming spa trip to batam this weekend.. with Gim, Vi, Na. =) Then next weekend I have another small stayover at a preplanned ______ for my dear's pre-birthday celebration.. in addition, there's also no class on dear's actual birthday~! Hm.. gotta plan a bit..

My last working day is approaching... exactly 20 more days... Although i do look forward to my new job... but I still feel a tinge of sadness... afterall, I'm here for a reasonable amt of years. haa~ feelings of attachment.. to things like my desk, the carefree days etc... not forgetting my wonderful colleagues cum friends. =)

Yesterday

I was still feeling excited after my first lab demo yesterday til I couldnt fall asleep.. the lab ended at 10 plus...

When I first get to the lab, I looked for my module's lab tech and she started to go through some of the things that I need to know... She gave me demo's list (and ans) and said to go around to see if the students were doing properly... well, I am still new.. so I couldnt really answer the questions that they post... only to go back to the lecturer and lab tech, understand and go back to the students... hm... i have to buck up~!

Anyway, I got 2 stacks of worksheets and lab results to mark... Gotta enjoy being a "teacher"!

Ferrari

Yesterday's F1 Race is a disappointment to dear.. For the Ferrari Team of course... Massa and Raikkonen... Sigh...

Excited

I'm really really looking forward to Monday's lesson. So excited. I got the name list of the students too.. and there are 3 pple that I know.. out of a 100 over students.. No wonder they need 3 lab demos. haah~ Oh ya, one of the pple that i know in the class was actually my kindergarten, primary, secondary and poly school friend!~ even now he is in PSB. wahaha~ too bad that we did not contact after secondary school.... so meeting him next Monday probably we'll be like strangers.

I'm going to dig out my notes on Sat for the first lab lesson.. i have to be a good demo... (so that i can have more assignments in future). Although i didnt take this module, i think some of my modules did touch a bit here and there lah.. getting prepared is better than none. =) Gotta bring my own (dirty) lab coat as well.. heh.

I received email from PSB... saying that I have to mark the students work and lab reports.. and then send the marks back to her to collate. =) I wonder if marking is a tough job? Worst still, grading... rest assure, I dun have biasness in me... so those who knew me... maintaining a good relationship to get answers from me is a no no ah.. wahahaa~~ *evil grin*

I'm thinking too much. As usual. I have great imagination. Tonight's there's F1. yeah!

It's only Tuesday

I'm so so sleepy.. can barely keep my eyes open haha~ Currently I am accompanying a vendor to do commissioning for some equipments.. hence to keep myself busy and awake, I have to blog.

Ok... right now, I'm feeling happy.. Coz I got myself a part time job.. Dun worry for my colleagues reading this post... this part time job is really out of normal office hours.. and hence it wont affect.. and dun have any clashes on confidentially, conflicts of interests and things like that. Just that when it comes to days when you guys want to have a dinner session after work.. i have to see if it clashes with my part time work or not.

I guess those reading this post will want to know what part time job am I taking right? haha~ Well, I'm going back to PSB as a lab demonstrator~! Good~! I'm actually looking forward to it. I already got my first assignment.. let's hope everything works out fine..

There are also friends who asked me why am i working so hard? Like 2 jobs? Hm.. all i can say is, who can reject money? wahaha~ Taking consideration that my next job had this huge paycut, I dun think I can reject too.. Furthermore.. i always got nothing to do when i get home from work except to eat and watch tv and sometimes anime, manga etc... I can learn and earn when I work part time too~! 2 birds with 1 stone! Best part, it's not a tiring job, and it's not everyday.. and it's well paid! hee~

ok.. blogging about this makes me feeling excited once again, looking forward to start the part time job next monday. haha~ I'm feeling more awake now! Will have a tea break later on.. need some caffeine.. must enjoy the coffee from the real coffee beans from my current company... I cant enjoy it in future~!

Long post

Last Thursday Gim & I went to GC asia (Game convention) at Suntec City.. As it's a Thurs, there was no crowd at all.. we took time to look around.. watching pple played games, esp Wii and the new Wii fit. haha~ Gim was very tempted to get one for herself too.. But of course, she will need to have a discussion with her bro first... We were also invited to play games on the Xbox but we rejected coz dun want to "malu" ourselves (However, we did touch on some DS lite and some PC games.)

Friday we had a ex-colleagues gathering...JY,SC,PY,JT,VT and me... there's suppose to have HC, but she couldnt make it at the last minute due to company function. hmph.. probably next time ba!~. We had fun talking and singing.. hahaa~ We were on the oldies topics... recalling those 80s and 90s hit songs...

Not enough, Sat we (JY,PY,WX,JT and me) went to KTV!~ sang from 2-7pm.. makan and then off to St James the Boiler Room~! hah~ Drank a bit and then I got really really sleepy... hence I texted dear to come and fetch me home. Thanks dear for coming~~~!

Sunday, I went to Waseda Shibuya Senior High School for their annual school festival.. Interesting~! I havent been to one yet.. and Gim brought me to experience it.. I was wondering if those school festivals will look like those in the animes and mangas... and indeed~! Classes were converted into individual gamings / events stations... I can say that they are really really creative and took a lot of time for the preparations! Props, gifts and the booklet were fantastic! Although I am a bit overage, I can say I enjoyed myself playing some games and visiting their classrooms.. There's also a voting booth to say which class performed the best... and we voted for the class that acted on Hana Yori Dango (part 2) and the haunted Hospital. wahaha~ I was scared of entering the haunted hospital initially... but upon entering... Gim was the one screaming and running away from the zombies~! It's a bit scary and gross.. but I still can "protect" Gim. haa~ she had wobbly feet after that.. and she also said that she closed her eyes for a bit while in there... no wonder she grabbed my hand and run aimlessly making me banged on to the wall! haha~

Anyway, if i have the chance, I'll definitely go again. It's open to public. Too bad I didnt brought my camera along.. so had to use my mobile's camera... not a good quality.. here's some pics

To view more, you can click on "my pictures"

Last but not least, I'm all alone in the lab today. Vic on EL and the rest of the technicians on course.

September

My Loyal Fan told me that my link to my birthday pictures are not linked properly.. it's now edited. =)

Gim's on leave today.. celebrating her friend's bday. haa~ it's good to be young... anyway, I also have programs lined up for me all the way from Thurs to Sunday. =)

Finally my training guide and the other flowchart are more or less done (sent to pple for review) and just those editing parts... it's Sept now... Counting down the days til I joined my new company.. I am eagerly wanting to learn new skills..

Like I mentioned in facebook, I'm sorta wasting my time in my current company... protocols and studies are delayed.. hence, the lull period is making all of us demoralised... other CRTs n nurses are able to find courses to attend during this period.. but for me.. a person hanging nowhere, just have to deal with this lazy, lull period myself.

Tsk.

39 Days and counting down

Finished reading fruit baskets manga. *touched* The ending is far far different from the anime that I watched few years ago... =)

Mooncakes mooncakes and more mooncakes.. although delicious, I'm sorta getting tired of eating.. even though it states that the flavors are different... Currently I want to finish up the D24 snowskin durian mooncakes that dear bought for us yesterday night~! woot~!

Sent out some sms-es and emails yesterday to update friends about my recent happenings... Finally had the time to upload my graduation photos into facebook (and there's a link on my blog to access..)

Today's Thurs.. draagy week... counting down....39 days left in LNUS.

Feelings

WY's last day today.. went around becoming her camerawoman. Hope that her pictures turn out ok.. hee~ It's sad to see pple go.. (although I'm leaving too) I'll definitely miss her... jokes, advices, girl's chat... probably it's only recently that we are getting closer to each other.. like I always say, pple tend to treasure friends when they are leaving... it's very difficult to find someone who can clique. I'll treasure them all...

I met up with a friend that i made during my secondary school.. SK. He's from another school and we were introduced by another girl... it's been a loooooooong time (for years i think) since we last we met up... so we went to sing K. haha~~ with Gim (she's also craving for KTV~!).. throughout the singing session although we didnt talk much (except singing/listening), at least i can see that he is getting on life as usual, with not much changes.. pple will go through ups and downs... and I hope that when my friends are feeling down, please know that there are always friends out there to share with your problems.. although not much help, moral support and listening ear / shoulders to lend.... shall be of no prob for me....it is ok that I am not the one that you share your happiness and joy... as long as I know that my friends are all well, I am happy for them.

Hanbun no Tsuki

Watched a short anime series (6 episodes) yesterday. hanbun no tsuki ga nobura sora. something like that.. It was about a guy who met a seriously ill girl (heart problem) from young, during his stay in hospital for contracting hep A i think... As the girl is a loner, she doesnt have any friends... a friendly nurse than introduce the guy to the girl and the story started... Typical love story.. where the guy slowly opens up the girl's heart... both falling in love with each other.. in the end, they got together despite the fact that the girl might die anytime soon.. and they got married. :) Nice~! Short and sweet~!

Yoz

I finished reading Samurai deeper kyo manga last thurs. Nice. Planning to watch the anime series when I finished the Fruits basket manga. =)

Yesterday attending dear's friend church wedding and dinner. I can say that the cost for getting all those fanciful things done up must have cost a bomb... ha~ Grand leh.. they kept emphasizing on the "brothers" team which was made up from the guy's boss n colleagues i think... driving 9 jaguars to pick up the bride.. Anyway, in general, the wedding was good. The bubbly girl and the quiet boy got married. Congrats and have a happy n blissful marriage~!

Today dear will be showing his penang friend around Sg.. but i think it's more of shopping lah. hehe~ As for me, I'll be meeting up with my 2 other friends to sing K~!

One more day

Received a package from PSB yesterday. Then sent me a transcript~! Inside, there's a letter, saying that to commend on my results they enclose a free transcript with the award listed... Da*n. I ordered my transcript online some time ago.. and I paid a total of AUD$25~~ should have waited for a while.. didnt know that I will have a free one. So now, i have 2 copies of original transcript, with only a sentence difference.

First time I drove to work today. Never knew that the valet parking is so "hot".. reached exactly around 8.30am and it's FULL.. just now i went all the way to kent ridge wing to get the day parking ticket for 8 bucks... still worth it considering i have to park for full 9 hours plus a bit.

Dear will be coming back tmr. Hope to see him soon.=)

Interview postponed

It's been a while since I worked morning shift at 7am.. and it's today and tmr. hee~ I had trouble sleeping well since ytd night.. kept waking up now and then... coz I'm afraid that I might oversleep... but the worry is unneccessary.. now I have problem keeping myself awake. haha~

The person who wants me to go interview for the part time job had smsed me ytd.. saying that he needs to change the timing which was supposed to be today. Well, I guess it's fine, since I dun really need to have the part time job... it can be said that part time job will be my ECA. haha~ having said that I really hope that I can have that job.. so that I can keep in touch with all my friends and lecturers who are still currently studying hee~ You know, my next work will be a having a huge paycut.. so having a part time job to fill up the gap sounds good too. haha

Waiting for dear to come back from china/hong kong this week..

TaDaaa~~~~

I can officially announce that I found a new job~! hee. I sent out numerous resumes and in the end I only got rejected due to the 3 months notice period.. BUT luckily, I still manage to find one... Its been 5 years and a few months in LNUS... and since I graduated, I need to move on.. to some place that is more suitable for me. Not that I am exactly sure what is suitable.. but as long as I have my aims and motivation, I guess I'll be fine.

I'll be moving on to a research company in Biopolis in end of Oct (so friends who are working there, lets meet up for lunch~!)..not clinical research like what I am doing currently.. its those kind of immunology research.. Wet lab is always interesting to me.. seeing cells under microscope etc.. that's why I chose to study science ever since I was a kid. =) When I got this new job offer... i was struggling with the $$ or the interest... coz the next company I'm joining is not for a better pay.. (rather a paycut - and mind you, it's quite a lot!) and of course, the benefits cannot be compared to my current one.. but luckily.. interest is more important to me... hence despite all those negative influences.. i decided to go ahead and take up the job. After all.. my nxt "supervisor" has voice out to wait for my notice period (initially was 3 months) to end~! Wonderful~! Where can you find such a nice company? They also say that I am a suitable candidate and they are willing to put on hold the experiment til I start work~! Woot~! One more plus point... my "supervisor" is a young (cool) Jap guy~!

Path

Finished watching another anime series. Black Cat. Nice drawings~! Kuro-sama kawaii~~!

Heh. Anyway, went to Kal's bday celebration at SAF chalet.. A bit ulu lah.. difficult to find a parking lot.. hence we gotta park all the way back beside changi village hotel... plus, it was raining the whole day... I'm glad that Kal's able the start the fire anyway... with an umbrella. Felt so bad that we were just sitting around eating. haha~ Kal, being the bday girl, had to run around serving food to others.. Sorry ah~~ Coz too many pple liao.. we shy shy mah... We waited til the cake was cut.. but still didnt get to meet Nic.

Tmr will be another working week.. Since the day that I decided my path.... Everyday seems to be different.. It's a change... I'm going to make myself enjoying every moment.

Roarr~!

Completed another PSP RPG yesterday. Tales of the world: Radiant Mythology. Nice~! Still have 2 more games to go.. but I guess not so fast.. since I'm starting to watch animes again. heh..

Spent my whole Sunday watching 26 episodes Tokyo Underground... Typical story plot.. but I just enjoyed watching =)

Need to return my regalia tmr... hope that the pictures were well taken.. Nic and Gin~! Where's the pictures~!

Hope I'll receive phonecalls for interview. I'm hunting now.

Congrats to myself~!

Yesterday was an enjoyable night. I was informed that I'm an prize winner when I went to get registered.... I'm surprised but not sure what prize I was getting...

Anyway, the presentation ceremony proceeded as we went up the stage with a small token of appreciation (leather cardholder with Uni logo) and shake hands with the chancellor... there's the bachelor of science, commerce and MBAs graduates.. and the ceremony was actually quite short due to the small number of graduates... (We are the first batch of graduated from B.Sc.) After all that, they gave prizes to the "winners".. and I think there were 5 given off... 3 from MBB, 1 from Genetics and 1 from pharm science... Only 1 girl and I were present for the prize... I'm so proud of myself. Got an "extra" certificate to indicate "best student in pharm science course" and $500 Aus dollars... So happy~! [My hardwork in studying pays off] Thanks mum for the chicken essence supplies every now and then.. thanks baby chan for all the goodluck kisses before all my exams.. thanks everyone that contributed every now and then.. wahaha

Took some pics.. but will wait for Nic's / Gin's to send to me.. collate then upload here... hm... after I uploaded the pics from my camera, i realised that my camera man yesterday didnt do really a good job. hahaa~ a LOT of blurry pictures.... but anyway, thanks for the effort. =)
I even got the chance to take picture with the nobel prize winner, Prof Barry marshall (holding his precious nobel prize medal..haa~~) and the head for our life science school... 1 of which will be in the uwa newsletter.. which i hope will be sent to us or uploaded in the uwa website...

Congratulations once again to myself~! *pats my own back*

Graduation

Tonight's the day. Haha~ Took half day and hence going off in an hour's time... Still need to iron the regalia, the new white shirt that I got and the pants i'm wearing later on... Mum said she'll help me with it provided that babychan sleeps in the afternoon.

Damn.. my right eye a bit swollen. later on still have to take picture lo... must be retribution la... coz i cursed someone yesterday... Argh~!

My health havent been feeling 100% lately... kept falling sick, getting (mild) flus and slight fever. Gosh.. i wonder if it is the virus that lingers around in my office... maybe someday gotta disinfect the whole place with 100% alcohol lo... My office is too too cold to work in.. like torturing... but it is this kind of environment that allows viruses and bacteria to live longer and thrive... Sigh... right now I'm wearing a normal sweater PLUS a winter fleece jacket over it.... it's a bit over.. but at least, I dont shiver.

My colleague told me that he/she's leaving... found a job. Sadz. another one leaving soon. Everytime I know about pple leaving, I'll think... when's my turn? haha~

Tuesday

I went to collect my regalia... it's emerald green for B.Sc. Normal B.Sc doesnt have the mortar board to wear... which means no "hat" to throw. hahaa~ the rafflestudio really knows how to do business lo..." lao gan" is the word I can use to describe them.

First they said that the rental for the gown is 30 bucks.. but you have to pay a deposit for 150 dollars just in case you did something to the gown la.. refundable deposit, that is.. then they tell you that no photographers will be allowed on the aisle and hence there's professional ppl will take your individual shot and the group photo for you, put in the a folder and sells you 90 bucks. Of course, if you agree to buy the photos, you dun have to pay the money, just subtract off from the deposit.. so now, I'm left with 60 bucks refundable deposit.

Then they bring you to the room to get the gown... I got a M size gown just because I'm too tall. Sianz. imagine wearing a big size gown with this thin thin body.. wahaha~ After settling the gown, the guy bring me to a small corner and explained the promotion package for family photo... so if I take the package for family photo, I'll get free individual shots. haha~ then the promotion price now is 280 bucks.. WAH~! Then the guy said he'll give me the option to take up or not... so he wrote a receipt to MINUS off the 60 bucks refundable deposit remainder and said that i have to make up my mind in 2 days.. If I choose to take up the photo package, I'll just have to keep the receipt and go back within a year to take the pics. if not, I'll have to return the receipt to them and they'll pay me back the deposit - 60 bucks.

So I ponder and think and I still cant make up my mind while even searching for the white long sleeve shirt around bugis... to find a shirt that catches my attention is really difficult... furthermore I'm talkin about white long sleeve shirt..sianz.

So I got home and told mum about the happenings... then she made a small comment that made me go.... "woo swee~! I should have think of that and dun have to think so much~!" Haha she said casually "dou mei you mao zi dai, hai pai shen me zhao!" (dun have a hat to wear take what photo!" Really is "yi yan jing xing meng zhong ren"... I decided not to take the family photo regardless of how much they persuade me.. coz there's definitely a day where I'll wear a graduation gown again.. of course, with a mortar board a.k.a hat. wahahaa~

Monday

Batam trip confirmed. More or less la. haven pay $$ only. With vi, gim and na on Oct. =) looking forward. hope that the spa is great~! Never been to one before.

This week's the audit week. So there isnt much activity going around.. just meetings, meetings and more meetings.

This evening I'm going to collect my regalia.. haven got that long sleeve white shirt to go along. Sigh~ tried looking for one yesterday.. but seems like a plain long sleeve white shirt is difficult to find nowadays. Found a pair of shoes that sis wore last year for her graduation.. i think the shoes doesnt really fit her.. so she left it at my house (wore it only once so it's still new).. and i dun have to buy one again. Just pray that the shoes doesnt give way la. hahaa~ Wednesday will be the "graduation" at NTUC centre.

Will be going to Kal's bday celebration at the changi chalet near the end of Aug. =)

Activities activities and more activities!~ Woot!

Last but not least... I hope that my dear friend will get over her ex sooner.. I just cant bear to see her crying and sobbing whenever she thinks about him. Still remember long long time ago (secondary school times)... there's was once that I told her, "I cant really help/console/solve your problem... but at the very least, I'm able to cry with you." Jia you my dear friend. You can do it.

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to you my dear friend... I've understand and know that you have been through a lot... Just want to say that although I'm not a friend that's always be with you when you are down, rest assure that you are still the number 1 friend I will think of whenever things happen (happy or sad) to me.... as you know, I'm the kind of passive sort.... so if there's really anything that I can do... accompany you... Give me a call and I'll always be there.

MC

I really caught a cold.. came home from work just now and took mc. Still having sniffy nose despite the medication. hope tmr will be better.

Ah~~Choo!

I think that I had caught a cold. I've been sneezing a lot since I woke up.. Terrible.

Got 2 blisters on my soles. One on each foot. Sianz. Due to the walking I had yesterday with the wrong pair of shoes. Now I cant even walk properly. haha~ like a duck or something, avoiding walking in a position that will press on the blisters. Overall, i'm still glad that I walked home from work... of course, with Gim lah... guess that I always try out new things when I'm with her.. she always agree to do silly things with me. =)

Gim ah, she always plan to do a lot of things with me.... like going to hortpark to walk... going to Zoo and night safari etc.... I'm just like a big sister to her, bringing her to places that she always wanted to go.. or never go before. =) which is good somehow.. coz i longed to have a sibling that i can take care of.

Alright. movie tonight. Mummy 3.

Pre- Actual bday celebration

Ok, time for me to backdate a little.. birthday pre and actual celebration pictures. =)

There's post birthday celebration last saturday..but no pictures... and another one coming up.. with SC and some other colleagues. hahaa.. This is how i'm gonna mark my official mid-twenties. hee~

Starting off, the usual 4 girls (Ping, Me, Sen, Ting)... my friends pre-celebrate my bday with me on 26th Jul. We went marina sq and suntec. So sweet~!

Then I treat my family to a Pizza dinner for my birthday again on 27th Jul~!

We all went home for "cake cutting ceremony" after the dinner..but bro met his buddies and started chatting with buddies at the void deck... so we go ahead without him.. ya, as usual, dad was not around.

Nini came running to me as I was about the cut the cake.. hence I carried her and took a picture with her...look at her, she's aiming for the cake. Cute~!

Then on my actual day, Gim bought me a kawaii cake! The other CRTs got me a strawberry cheesecake too. =) Thanks guys.

Took pictures with Na and Vi...

Then with Gim... =)

And here come's the evening time, when kk brought me to dinner at absolutehaven at selegie... a mock candlelight dinner. haha

The candlelight in between us...

The starters... came the deep fried buffalo wings with a personal spicy rating of 4/5~! if you eat one you wont feel much.. but imagine eating more than that~! [got a burning as* the next day. haha~!]

The next starter is the puree mushroom soup for me. =) not bad.. a bit bland.. thats why when they served the soup, they brought the salt and pepper along.

Nice salt and pepper bottle.

My main course... chicken roulade... not that bad la.. small portion as you can see, but i still cant finish that, coz the starters already made me full..

As for him, he had the cod fish thing... with a small piece of soft shell crab.. and I prefer the fish to the chicken...

I ended my day with another cake cutting in the car with kk alone.. this year I cut 3 cakes in total =) hope all my wishes will come true~

Nini Chan bday

back from hiatus mode.

Yesterday was my big day. Haha~ officially mid-twenties. =) Receive lots of wishes and some gifts. Nice.. All all those usable kind of things, which is good~! However since I'm lagging behind on my entries, I shall start off with my niece 2nd birthday celebration! I'll post up the rest another day lah. haha

My niece bday was on 22 Jul. =)

Posing for before her birthday song... she is 2 but she only know how to show 3 fingers..

Posing properly....

Pictures with all the children present.. baby chan is in there too~~

Eating cake time~!

Last but not least~! Us~!

Hellboy 2 x 2

Finished watching Lovely Complex manga and anime~~ Nice~!

Watching Hellboy 2 tonight. Again. This is the first time I ever watch a movie twice. Not due to the movie is great.. just because of unforeseen circumstances. hah.

Cookies

Dad changed a new van. from toyota lite ace with a few years lifespan (to scraping) to another 2nd hand hyundai grace i think. ha~ Havent got the chance to sit in it.. or maybe test drive a bit when time allows. hee~

Went to watch Red cliff on Sat. nice show. They had injected some humor into Zhuge Liang's role. haa. Funny.

Bought lots of tidbits from Daiso yesterday at IMM. hee~ Will be getting diabetes or cavities if I cannot control myself in indulging with sweets.

Enjoying my famous amos cookies~!

from then til now

I'm so so tired. As usual. Hah. there isnt a day that I dont complain of tiredness. I'm getting bored by myself.

ok, updates from my previous post, my new sofa arrived and everything looks good and comfortable. Been lazing around on my sofa playing psp (FFVII Crisis core) and reading mangas. Nice~!

Also, i've been working 7.30am shifts the whole week.. barely can hold my eyes open... Watched Hancock this week and bought a Fancl T zone clear essence to try out... hope that it can control the oil secretion. haha.. it better work.. coz it's an expensive product.

Today its friday. No plans for tonight. Only for tmr. hee~ catching a movie again. Red cliffe. =) Oh ya, I want to go shopping too~! saw that pants my colleague bought from mango. nice. KK wants to go Topman and buy more shirts for work.. (coz he liked the one I bought for him the other time)

One "old" subject called me "shanshan" again this morning, loud. embarrassing. I could feel my hair stand. haha~ I replied with just a smile and sorta ignored him, doing my work.

Ok, speaking of work, need to go and do some now.

???

My so-call "graduation ceremony" (not official one coz we are not going to get our certificates on that day. Just a motion to let us have a feel of wearing graduation gown, taking pictures, throwing the hats etc etc. haha~) is going to be held on 13th Aug. What I dont like is, it's a weekday (wednesday) and I have to take half day leave for it, coz we have to be early.

It's been 2 months since I finished studying.. all the while I have been doing what i like.. playing games, watching animes etc. Currently I'm watching Shakugan no Shana.. not bad~! Meanwhile, Gim lent me comics to read too... lovely complex. Nice nice too~! haha~!

Yesterday my sofa has been removed... currently my living room looks empty... coz around 1 to 3, my new sofa will be delivered. heh. I wonder how well can it fit into my living room.

840th post

Today is my 5th year in my company... the exact date when I first stepped into this company as a perm staff...

Still remember 5 years ago, we had an "open concept" lab.. that means, there's no segregation of wet and dry area... guess what, I was seated next to the backup freezer and my back was facing the 2 main big freezers.. did I mentioned that my desk was a makeshift table? Small and hidden behind those centrifuges.. haha~

Then I saw the changes in the lab.. as the freezers are giving out too much noise pollution, there's this plan to build an office, to separate the wet and dry area, and to protect our ears from getting damaged. haha~ then I had my window seat.. sometimes when I had nothing betta to do, I'll look out of the window and watched the expressway, pple crossing overhead bridges and the clouds and sky and the rain... nice..

Then our lab expanded.. we had this new lab.. I had to shift over to be in charge of the 2nd lab... this room now I'm sitting in is small.. my desk is small.. everything is small.. worst still, with no windows... I'm not able to see if it's sunny or raining..sadz...

Come to think of it, I have see pple come and go these 5 years.. some lost contact, some still contacting.. some became my good friends and some become my buddies... My friend once told me that friendship wont last long if they are/were your colleagues.. but for my case, i dun think so.. if you think he/she is a friend worth keeping, definitely you can go all out to making an effort to meet, no matter where the person is, and how busy the person is..

I still keep in contact with an ex-colleague who is now staying overseas.. still meeting up frequently for dinners for a few ex-colleagues.. and there's a buddy that I kept meeting him up everynow and then.

thats the summary of my fifth year.

Dolls~!

Went to the Comics and Toy convention at Suntec convention hall on Sat... saw that banner along orchard road some days ago and so we decided to go ahead and visit that evening at at adhoc timing after the movie "wanted"... Since we were there late, those events were already over... so we went walking around and I saw Kawaii dolls~~~ they were just like "popped" out of mangas~! and those blythe dolls too~! Rozen maiden whole set~! Thats really really cool and it's an expensive hobby.... A lot of pple were taking picts.. and I didnt bring my camera along... so wat i can do was to use my mobile camera.. Here's some of the pics it's blur lo.. but no choice...

These 2 dolls were my personal favorite. Cool~!

I watched the Euro2008 Finals this morning. *yawnz* and can you imagine I took half day morning for this. haa~ I never imagine myself staying up so late to watch a soccer match. Spain won Germany~! 1-0. Never knew that my hunch was so accurate. haa~

Zzzz

Yesterday I heard the song "you raise me up" by Connie Talbot in a CD shop. I heard of her songs long ago, when this little girl participated in "Britain's got talent" show.. every time I hear her songs, goosebumps can be seen on my arms.. her sweet angelic voice really touches a lot of pple... I must get my hand on her songs.

mental block

Met our locum CRT and one of my poly friend at cine yesterday. Apparently my friend was in the same theatre~! Such a coincidence.. Get Smart is a funny show... watch it if you a in need for a laugh. haa~

Tired tired.. plus lazy too.. Thurs already.. I've been clearing my email since I logged on to my desktop.. the percentage is showing warning signs. haha~ gotta clear before I cant send out any emails.

baby-chan has stopped calling me "ku-ku" for 2 days liao... sadz.. dunno why leh.. had been trying to make her call me but she's just stubborn.

yoz...its me again.

watching movie tonight. Get smart.

It's irritating to keep having pop ups for my website. Anyone knows how to clear that? Is it because of the chat box or the statcounter? Sianz.

Gotta do something now.

post syndrome

Tired. I guess I watched too much Heroes in a shot. I had a nightmare yesterday... and it was about people with supernatural powers kidnapping us (by the way, i cant remember who are the "us"), and on the way someone tried to kill us and everyone was dead... I'm the only survivor... at that instant, the baddies brought out a small generator (you know the generator that Stark used in replacement of his heart in Ironman? Thats the one.) and want to place it in my body... that's when I heard a gunshot and I was awake. Alarm clock was ringing. Had a headache when i got up... now its getting better..

Points

Today's Zul's bday~! Happy Birthday to you and many happy returns~!

Gim's on leave today. her sis getting ROM today. Congratulations~! Did I mentioned that her sis was my acquaintance from Kindergarten and Primary school? Although we dun communicate much, overall, she's a nice and quiet girl back then.. and i guess she still is. hee~

Finished watching Heroes Season 1 yesterday night... will continue with season 2 probably tonight.

The new lab freezer's here... Cant really stand the noise.. even with my office door closed. I think I need to earphones.. or those noise cancelling headphone. haahaa~ the BOSE headphone I mentioned 2 posts before... guess wat, they cost $699 USD. Gosh.. that's very very expensive.

Getting in love and getting out of love... it's happening every now and then... As for me, I think i'm stuck in between.

free time

Changed my skin. again. this doll image isnt exactly sharp. but overall its still pretty.

Spent these 2 days at home, chiong-ing heroes. catching up with wat i missed. I have plenty of time right now. I need to use it wisely...

Random~~

Right now i'm blogging using a 32-inch LCD as monitor... cool~~ haha~~ listening to songs using the noise cancellation BOSE headphone.. doubly cool~~!

Later going to watch The Incredible Hulk at downtown east. =) Nice Nice~! A good friday with good hair day~!

these 3 days

Thursday.
Changed the 5 gallons of water dispenser since no one was around to help me... thirsty, and I cant wait.
Having lab meeting today.

Yesterday
Unofficial first piano theory lesson by Glo. Interesting.
*****
Met up with Kal to borrow her labcoat and then passed to RJ.
Thanks Kal. I'd told him to take care of the labcoat and washed it b4 passing back to you~! =)Had a little chat with RJ and seems that he really enjoyed working at the new place.
He was saying like a frog coming out from the bottom of a well.. a lot of new things to learn.. After hearing that, I do envy him.. coz i know, I cant (cross my own $ barrier) be a lab tech that cultures cell lines, although i love to learn all those techniques.
I was just telling Gim the other day.. to earn more money, you need to go higher up.. and then the higher you go, the more deskbound you will be...
*Sigh*

The day before yesterday.
Jeff's bday and we bought a card for him.
Supposed to be LJ's last working day... but seems like he had been called back to help us out for 1 or 2 days in July.

Summary

Went C. Ave 4 to have dinner last friday. As usual, Gim was late~! Shouldnt believe in her that she'll be on time. ha. all 3 of us kena mosquito bites while waiting for her...In the end, she had to treat us...as her punishment

we took a bus to Holland V, wanted to chill out and watch Euro.. but too bad... none (among those we went to ask) was playing the games.. so we headed down to Pasir Panjang, asked around, and found a small bar playing it. We got the first class seats, right in front of the television. ha.. We betted on the the first kickoff and the winning team... and I was drunk at the end of the first game.

Had a terrible cough.. sooo bad that I couldnt sleep at night.. for a consecutive of 2 nights... I wonder if i should go to the doctor and get some medicine.. i slept at 1am yesterday and I was on bed at 11.30am.. the cough is really bad.

by the way, I went to watch "The happening" on Sat evening... the movie - 2 stars... so not recommended at all. There were some gross scenes and so.. we did wonder if tat show's really PG? ha~

Last but not least, bro sent me to work today. Didnt realise it's so early until i reached my working place... 7.09am.... slacking around, it's 7.30am now. official working time.

There's a dinner tonight.. with the "old birds" haha~ I hope I have the appetite~!

Online shopping

Having itch throat for a while now.. still suppressing it... am afraid that it may become full blown and i'll lose my voice. haa~ was planning a ktv session soon you know. heh

I happen to came across a online website that sells quite cheap clothes.. intend to buy and so we are gathering pple to make it up to 15 pcs.. wholesale mah.. so no choice... this is the website.. free advert for them hah~ www.cleocat-fashion.com. We are short of 3 more pcs to make it up to 15.... so still waiting for "preys". haha~ There's another website that my colleague recommends... thats a bit more ex but I can buy just 1 piece.. great. I've got 1 in mind. =)

Was doing up the CRT training guide the whole day yesterday.. trying to figure out how to put those words and paragraphs to its simplest form.. so that pple will read and can refer.... guess i definitely need more time to complete.

Jul and I volunteered to help out in a flea market at Tanglin Mall in Jul... those earnings will go directly to orphans and those children in need. =) Melrose home.. ya, actually we were being approached.. but doing charity, I wont resist. hee~

Working afternoon shift

Its been 3 hours since i started work.. Vic put me on a wrong shift... suppose to end at 11pm today.. but then it's extended to 12am. First time I ever worked so late... but once in a while... it's.. good. haha~ no one to worry.. like right now, i'm listening to songs and blogging~! haa~ Next round of sample will only starts at 8.30pm... i'm going to have dumpling for dinner.. Mum prepared for me this afternoon, and an apple =) yum yum... guess later i'll try drinking the expired green tea. haahaa~

Gaming wise, i reached the final boss liao.. guess i will complete tmr, provided that baby chan wont disturb. haha~

Story book time!~

Feelings

It was a sad day yesterday. RJ's last day of work. As usual, it's always painful to see someone dear to me leave... then i thought about SC, HC and Haz.... I do really miss them around here... so much so that I teared yesterday night. my heart's heavy... I nearly teared when RJ sent me back home yesterday, esp he said that's the last ride...*sob sob*.....

Anyway, lets hope tat i can get use to not having those dear friends with me (everyday at work when they were here)... Meet ups still occur frequently for SC and me actually... just that Haz and HC are a bit busy with their new work environment.. so just have to get the right chance ba. As for RJ, I guess we are already buddies... although wont be seeing him much, I'll make a point to contact him every now and then. haa~

Ok~! Onz for work now! Yoshie~!

Summary for today

kena scolding by the lady boss for that delivery of biohazard hood thingy...
had our CRU meeting outdoors... a teambuilding day... at LY's condo
had our little farewell session for RJ, and his last working day is tmr~
had dinner at imm.

Its raining its pouring

Yesterday bro came back from his reservist for a few hours coz he passed his IPPT.. on the first day of his book in, his bag went missing.. he then reported and the officers there conducted a mass search and caught the "thief". Bro said that that guy was handcuffed and sent dunno to where la. Luckily most of the things were retrieved.. but some were missing and he got to buy them again.

This morning rained heavily.. its been so so long since there's a heavy rain.. Dad drove me and da sao to work~! =) hee~ happy happy... yesterday dad drove me to work too~! coz i set the alarm clock wrongly and woke up late.... =p Thanks dad.

baby chan has fallen sick.. poor thing. she got runny nose and cough.. and i guess she couldnt sleep well at night... baby chan, get well soon k?

oh ya, Jul has been asking me to sign up at yamaha school to take piano lessons. i am very very tempted.. but then i'm afraid i dun have the patience to complete.. plus, i think i am retarded in finger movements... how how? should i go? seems like i have to join little children with their lessons. haha~

Weekend

Friday was a happy one.. firstly, dad drove me to work... then CRTs went to Arts faculty in NUS for lunch *Yummie~!* and i completed revamping (well, more or less) my company's website. *Sense of acheivement* Considering I'm still green on html, plus, there's no software for me to do up the website.. purely source codes and microsoft word... IT doesnt allow me to install any software to aid me. boo~~

Went to sis place for a stayover yesterday... new house new environment... not that bad..felt comfortable... and was thinking, when will i have my own? Anyway, I enjoy myself playing around with my kawaii nieces~!

Went to topman and got kk a shirt.. sale sale sale~! extra 10% off for UOB card holder. nice.

Tmr's working day! Let's hope next week be fun! hee~

Cycling~

I'm nervous when i rented a bicycle at east coast park today... after all.. its been a decade or more i had handled a bicycle.. haha~ i vaguely remembered i had tried cycling when i was young. haa~ Anyway... 10 bucks for 2 hours.. after a bit of wobbly here and there as a refresher course... i now declare that i know how to cycle~!!! Well, of course there's still time when i couldnt control very well.. but wellz.. at least i know the basics. haha~ Kal~~ let's go for cycling some time~! hee~ but to tell the truth, I'm really tired now.. hee~~

Time for watching TV and gaming later~!

Hot Hot Hot~! Weather is really hot nowadays~~

Went for a steamboat session at beach road there with colleagues last friday.. i brought a camera but didnt use in the end. ha~ overall, it was a nice gathering, talking and gossiping (as usual), updating each other with daily work happenings... and SC n Vieth contributed some ghost stories.

Ytd went to watch Accuracy of Death with Jul and her friends at The Cathay... not that fantastic though... i guess we all went to watch that just because of Takeshi... its draggy initially without any climax.... it gets just a little bit better in the end.. but still without climax. haahaa~ should watch DVD for this.

Today going out again with Jul later. haha~ this time is to get some farewell gifts for the 3 guys. Their time's near. So "she bu de".

Update for pics

There's nothing much to do here in office today. finally a day off and i can spend sometime on my own. haha~

Anyway, uploaded some albums and the links to the pictures are on the right hand column.. I didnt upload those i took in bangkok.. coz i'm waiting for my sis to send hers to me so that i can compile them together.

Right now.... i'm alone in this cold office.. where all the others are over the other lab.. listening to my mp3... emotions welling.. haa~

Tmr will be a better day.. we are planning to go for steamboat. =)

Sleeeeeepy~~

Hey pple, i'm back from Bangkok~~! Didnt really have the time and energy to update my trip.. anyway, here's what happened...

Got back on Monday night.. got home around 12.30am and slept at 2am.. next day gotta work morning shift.. tired and shiong lo... didnt have the time to load the photos from my camera... afterall, it's a shopping trip, didnt really took a lot of pictures.

ok~~ continue later... i need to upload the pictures =) and some items i bought for myself~ hee~~

This afternoon

Going to bangkok this afternoon.. weather forecast says there will be scattered thunderstorms these few days when i'm there... oh no... but then if i'm in indoors.. i guess should be no prob lah. Pray for me guys.. that the rain wont be affecting my shopping mood.

Quote of the day

"This is individual responsibility"

This is so so true in my company... when everything is well and smooth, work should be done individually and responsibly.. and when there's a mistake for us, the "commoners", there are NO excuses for failed individual responsibility.

However, this is not true for those favourite pets, coz they have this sentence:

"When individual responsibility fails, there's always teamwork to rely on."

When this so call individual responsiblity fails, they will say there should be teamwork, helping each other, so that mistakes can be avoided... so what's the point for having individual responsibility in the first place, when you are going to shield that fav pet from getting shot?

Conclusion: be a pet or leave your company.

New Stuff

I got 2 new toys today.

A gift to pamper myself.. after 2.5 years of intensive studying, paying school fees all by myself, scrimping and saving.... I need a reward... the 2nd watch i ever bought for myself... =) it's a men watch by the way. haha~ a little too big for my skinny wrist.. but then i still love it~!

the 2nd gift is my very very advance bday gift from kk... Western digital passport.. an external harddisk, 160 gb. =)

Saturday afternoon.

I'm going to Bangkok next weekend =) Batam trip planned was postpone though.. coz all the spa packages are fully booked. Will find another day in June =)

I want to go KTV~! but then that will be after i'm back la.. so will be calling you girls up. =)

I want to go learn cycling~! haah~ i think i know how to cycling when i'm young.. but now.. i have to get the feeling back... who knows, i may need those skills to go learn bike license. ya. that's my plan. =) Anyone wants to join me in learning? hee~

I cant sleep yesterday night... tossing and turning on bed when its around 1.40am already. Kept thinking about a colleague who has a job offer else where already... think of us as a trio.. now it's turning down to two..sigh~

Anyway, it's nice to hear that pple around me are planning to get married.. of course, not that early for me lah. haha~ will keep this updated..if there's any.

It's over~!

I had my final final exam yesterday. No more classes, no more tutorials, no more labs, no more late nights for rushing assignments and reports. Relieved. Happy.

What am i going to do next?

DragonFly

First of all, new start of the week. I welcome LJ and Glo to come to work part time in my company =) hee~ They were both attachment students.. and I'm glad to see them once again~! hee~

Last Sat went dragonfly with some of my colleagues... and I think i'm the one who drank the most... not sure why, probably because I know someone will be there to look after me. heh.. indeed, Nana was the one to hold on to me, coz i couldnt walk straight anymore, and keep me accompany til my BF came to fetch me. haa~ i was sober.. just high and couldnt walk straight. =) it's fun, watching those live bands performing. (Sly was there too~! He's so petite. haha~). I got a hangover yesterday.. funny nose and sleepiness... popped a pill and I'm fine now...

It's fun. I dont mind going clubbing again. =)

Today

Gotta specially go down to henderson to hand in my ethics assignment today. Sianz.

Watch Three kingdoms on Sat. Seriously, it got me interested in reading up more on three kingdoms..Shu, Wu and Wei... I actually played dynasty warriors on PS2 and PSP... without knowing who's who.. ha~ Will find sometime after my exam to read up. =) Interest never starts too late. =)

Watch the bucket list on Sun. It's a nice show. Although deaths was expected, I still teared in the end. It was touching... and I can imagine myself to be the one terminally ill.. and i can put myself into their family's shoes.. sadz.

Took some photographs at my cousin's wedding 2 weeks ago. Will update once i feel like it. haa~

Friday

It was not easy attend a farewell session for a very close colleague... I had known Hazel for 5 years... and she was the one who brought the "hugging" western culture into the company... she welcomes everyone with a hug and she comforts everyone with her hugs..

I'll definitly miss her hugs.. but I'm sure Friday's "hugs" were not the last.. and we gave each other a goodbye kiss too =p. Hee~ We agreed to meet up frequently, update each other with our happenings.

Anyway, we didnt take much pictures.. or rather, this is the only one that Vic took for us using his mobile. The rest of the pics are just cupcakes cupcakes and more cupcakes. haha~

Each of us had a cup cake from Prima Deli.

And, the cupcakes with cute decorations...