One step closer

OK,

Bintan's trip (company retreat) is over. 2 days 1 night over the weekend. Overall it's fun like our telematches and those card games we had, the roulette thingy, phototaking, and hanging around cute little Eunice. =) It will be perfect if the restaurants are installed with air condition... I warn u, its hot like a sauna! You are literally eating (the buffet) and sweating at the same time!

Next, mum's birthday was on Sunday, celebrated with the kids and completed with a full body scrub plus massage on the following day. She totally enjoyed the process and I'm happy to see her happy. =) Probably I shall bring her to pamper herself once in a while.

Guess most of my loyal blog readers know that I am in search of a nest for KK and I.. so after all those hassle of running here and there, meeting up with agents, getting those exorbitant COV etc, we are back to the square one.. thats what KK said - its our affinity with the house... Still remember i mentioned that KK went to thoroughly survey a house on 16 level?.. ya, we will be getting that house. We had signed the option to purchase yesterday, and next thursday we will be meeting up again to "exercise" it.. which means to submit documents to HDB for our first appt... then there's this 2nd appt... so here and there - we will probably be getting the house keys in late feb next year...and from there, we still need to renovate and things like that. Plus, I have to produce marriage cert within 6 months upon getting the keys. A lot of things to be done... 想了就怕。

Anyway, it's a nice start.

Pre-bday gift.

For the first time, Mum had a relaxed day at Nailxpert... Mum didnt go for manicure and pedicure session before.. so I brought her there to enjoy, her first pre bday treatment. As you can see, mum's curious with the bubbling waterbath =)

*yes, the lady next to mum is Vieth. Such a coincidence~!

While mum was doing her treatment on her legs and paraffin on her hands, I was doing spa manicure and pedicure as well.. so no photographs to show how happy mum was~! She liked the massages.

Ok, there she was, blow drying her fingernails and toenails... I was seated at the other corner to dry my nails.. that explained the distance between us..

Tadah~! Done. Pink with glitters on her hands...

Purple with glitters on her feet! hohoho! Mum tried 2 colors. 美美!

We then went to search around for slippers, coz she didnt want to "spoil" the paint... bought that at carrefour for 7.90 only~! cheap~!

Then we rested by going to the foodcourt, sharing a cuppa coffee before dinner, and enjoying leftovers of cookies from subway lunch.

I guess mum really enjoyed her "first in her life" manicure/pedicure treatment~! Will bring her there once in a while then.. I like to see mum being happy. =)

In the end, dear came to meet us for dinner and some grocery shopping, after we travelled down to chinatown to get gold chain for sis's next baby. =) cute car~!

Lethargic

I'm real tired today. Yesterday, or rather today morning around 2.58am, we all woke up with the sudden shouting of bro to ask my niece to stop crying. I dun know what really happened. Only bits and pieces of information fed to me this morning. All I know was shouting, hiting, crying going on outside my room. Dad was frustrated and he went downstairs (which is void deck) to sleep. Mum was up to help with the crying nieces and my SIL. The crazy brother - was at his computer, playing game. I tossed and turned, hoping to sleep.. but my sore throat acted up and my nose became blocked making me difficult to breath. Bo bianz, I got up and took a drowsy medicine - that helped me to go back to sleep around 3.45am..

Today I woke up feeling better - but head still heavy.. no mood, no energy - tough to focus. So here I am, sitting in front of the pc, populating result, bloggin, and sipping ice coffee. it makes me wonder - should I have kids of my own next time?

Will blog about my mum's prelude bday treat next.. unless something else pops up and I have to blog about it. haha

Photos

See this picture. Dun you think it looked like an egg yolk? Well, actually, he (baby inside) is formed from an egg. Oh, not to forget, sperm. Fingers there probably represent the beak of a chick. I drew eyes for him. heh. Nice right?

Anyway, the next picture showed my niece poo-pooing. Yeah, in the doorway between her room and ours, cute eh? Hee... gone were the days where we can use this small little bucket to do our business. heh. Oh, did I mention that the bucket that we used are now passed down for my niece? Not this red one, it's the other bigger one - orange color. (Probably post it up the next round). Cool eh? its 20 over years!



Ok.. the last pic. My little niece who likes to pose as princess or call herself princess from the disney cartoons was actually a witch in disguise probably. heh. I found the pack of lizards that she insisted her dad to buy for her..... and they seems to be planning for their next move. i have to be careful!



I wonder what my niece used to make those lizards listen to her... I think its the poo-poo. ;p

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Things get especially eerie when it comes to the 7th month. Yesterday I went Marina square to catch Final destination 4.. so as usual, before the show, I will visit the ladies to empty my bladder.. So i chose the toilet at the cinema area.. before I even pushed open the door, I already anticipated that something will scare me.. so i slowly opened (to reduce the impact of being "scared") and indeed, there were posters of bloody woman (from the movie blood ties) all over the toilet mirrors! To make things worse, there's not even a single human being in the toilet. I hesitated for 2 seconds but decided to go ahead and wee (thinking of the hassle of going to the other toilets).... Anyway, while i was releasing I was thinking of not to wash my hand! But too bad I had to coz I touched a bit of you-know-what while wiping.. so i walked to the mirror, eyes kept at the flowing water while having a feeling that the poster woman were all staring at me.. I quickly turned back to exit and felt an immediate cold chill down my spine~! I literally ran out of the toilet and KK was there asking - what happened?

I'm really a scaredy cat when it comes to spritual thingy... but not gore and violence. Anyway, the movie isnt that great afterall. 1 popcorn rating.

I spent my weekends with dear.

Sat: Went for my shaker fries (long craving for that!) and then watched movie "The Cove". Guys, this award winning movie is really worth watching. It's not the movie is captured with the "wow" factor, its the documentary movie that shows how greedy and inhuman pple can get. capturing dolphins, selecting dophins, selling dolphins and killing dolphins... I cant tolerate those acts. Damn! 想了就愤怒！

Sun: Went to Sherry's first month celebration, then went JP to get a haversack. We wanted to have ba ku teh for dinner so we drove to the market... but then all stalls closed! Since we are not so hungry, we went home, heated up the braised meat that mum cooked few days ago (braised meat taste nicer when its cooked over a few days!).. I started cooking... instant noodles (dried) and campbell chunky potato soup. heh. easy as 123. unhealthy meal, but we had fun, since there's no one at home. after that, we watched channel5 movie, and he fell asleep at some part of the show. haha. Lame show, but we finished watching and dear went home. I wanted to continue to watch blood diamond.. but was too tired. since i can watch it anytime, I went to ZzzZz..

BUT i'm still tired today!

Naruto Shipuuden.. GREATO~!

I want to watch movie when dear comes back. Haha. I want my nacho cheese.. hee. The final destination has just released and then The Cove - a documentary is also released today. Apparently, its a 92 mins documentary show to see the dark side of some Japanese, who hunts for dolphin meat and usually brand it as whale meat. Cruel. Why couldnt they just eat normal fish? http://www.takepart.com/thecove/

Anyway, my niece has been driving us "crazy". I guess it's all because of the little niece, and she's trying to get attention. Yixin can start throwing tantrums whenever and wherever she wants with no reasons at all.. she'll start to throw her stuff, kicks anywhere and then started crying, howling, coughing and near-puking. We all tried to talk to her nicely..coax her... but giving her more attention only made her cry even longer, even louder.. so we just have to leave her standing there to cry.. although my heart aches, I have no idea on how to what to do as well..

So i guess our neighbours who wont know what's going on, will think that we are abusing our children here.

Anyway, it's Thursday~! Work's been relatively routine and there's nothing much to update.. Dear's out of town and so everyday when I get home, it's dedicated to Naruto.. Ha. Yeah, I've started watching Naruto shipuuden due to the influence of Nat. haha. Exciting!!! I love Gaara~! But~! is he really dead??? Guys who watched Naruto DUN TELL ME ah.. haha.. I'm only just starting to watch. heh.

Emo-ing?

Dear will be coming back this Friday night... real late..

So I will be seeing him on Saturday.. I'm glad he is coming back..

I need a shoulder to lean when I'm tired...

Random Pics

Yesterday's dinner : I took this pic when Yixin was snuggling beside me.. and eating her fav cookie from subway!

My IT guy gave me this.. apparently its "ruby, sapphire and stuffs" on top of the ribbon. hehe. thanks~!

Lunar 7th month

Lunar 7th month today. That means its the hungry ghost festival. The smell of incense and burnt incense paper filled the air. It's raining now... with thunder every now and then..

Dear will be coming back on Sat. I'll be picking him up and then he will be dropping me at ECP coz we're (ex-coll) having a bbq there. Hope that it doesnt rain on that day. hee.

Found a site that I can update my twitter status via mobile. Directly to twitter isnt supported.. so a third party website is required. I can also receive updates of who i'm following via sms (that's what the website stated - and i havent tried it). Everything is free... for as long as I didnt exceed my normal smses provided by my service provider. Cool.

旧爱还是最美

Gone is the thought of using Samsung ultratouch. It's weight slowly turns me off since i got it in April 09. No doubt the phone is still in a good condition, and applications are fine and easy to use...

Anyway, I was thinking of a way to get rid of the phone (but I'm bound by contract) and unexpectedly, I receive a call from sis today and she told me that she wanted to change her phone... I should be angry with sis changing phone all the time.. but this time, the first thing that came to my mind, is - she can use mine if she wants... Of course, the "forever-handphone-changing" sis agreed - coz she also want to have a try in using touch screen phone... ultratouch is a combi. Full touch screen + keypad - for those who arent sure whether touch screen is his/her cup of tea.

The "kanchiong" sis said she can come and collect the phone next sunday... and the "kanchiong" me with the immense thought of getting rid of the handphone quickly transferred all datas to my pc and "tadaaaa~~" I'm back using the old phone I had. Samsung U600. 旧爱还是最美。Light weight, slim touch and easy to use was what it attracted me initially.. Deep down inside, I still feel the love for it. hehee~ I think I wont be changing phone in near future... unless this one fails me. heh

Dear should be reaching Birmingham now.. after a day's flight. Missing him already. I stayed at home to "nua" the whole day lo....

I also started a 12-episode anime this afternoon. hee~

You will be missed

It's really sad to see someone pass away in an accident. My ex colleague -just a 2 days ago - met a mishap in Tioman with her partner (and partner's niece and nephew). Online news didnt state much details.. but I just read the 晚报 and it states that the niece complained about pain in heels around the evening and since it was getting dark, they decided to camp there for the night. Around 3am, it started to rain and I guess waterlevel raised, rushing to the bank.. Her partner was grasping the 2 ladies on each hand, while the nephew got hold of a rock... by that time, it was around 5am.. Current was too strong and the 2 ladies were swept away... The guys survived and trekked about 4 hours out of the forest to the nearest station to report the accident... by 2.30pm, their bodies were found.

Dear Annie, may you rest in peace.. you will be missed.

Company trip.

HR of my company told me that I will be sharing a room with a PRC colleague during the company trip in bintan. Hm.. I dun like the idea...so I decided to ask Gim, to see if she's available to keep me accompany. hee. Well, I called her just now, and she said that she's afraid of not having enough money, plus she's not having enough cash. Sigh. Really hope that she can go.. coz she's really a good buddy. She got to give me an answer by Friday... If she really cant make it, I shall... go to the other rooms and start playing games throughout the night~!

Happy National day

Went to visit Ting and baby sherry yesterday. Managed to take some photos of baby with dear's camera... but now dear is on plane to Penang. Gotta wait for him to come back on Wednesday to load the pictures and pass them to me. hee~~ Baby sherry is soooo cute~! hee~

Before visiting tine, we went for house viewing again yesterday... and both of us like the house.. So we had given them the offer, and hope that they can agree on the price... =) Wish us luck~!

G.I Joe is a really nice show. I recommend that~!

Will be meeting Jul and gang tonight.. coz the "ingrates" forgot my bday.... and needed someone else to remind them (of course not me). So they will be treating me dinner at aston. haha~~ Suntec leh!! Sigh.. of all places.. i wonder why they choose there.. it will be damn crowded when it's time to go home lo..

加油！

Here's a pic that dear manage to take with the focus on the flower, and background blurred with his prosumer. heh. Not bad for fresh beginners eh. he finally got the settings right. Click on the picture for the not shrink-to-fit picture. heh.

All about Tamagotchi

Dear said that I am obsessed with Tamagotchi now. Am I? I'm just excited over a new toy mah. haha.. probably the obsession will die off soon? hee.. (Haha I even go to the extent of joining Tamagotchi forum coz the tamagotchi is in japanese and I needed some help)

Just some story about my Tamagotchi:

I got my tamagotchi on my birthday.. and the first pet i got was a female.. so it grew from Nokotchi (baby) to Sakuramotchi (toddler) to Ichigotchi (bad teen) and Lavuzukintchi (Average adult)

Apparently, different generations (odd and even) will produce different types of Tamagotchi pets.... so that you wont get the same one over and over again and its boring. hehe.. Then from the stage of Toddler to Teen, you have the possibilities to get a good teen or a bad teen.. and from teen to adult, you will have the possibilities of getting a good, average or bad adult... So taking care of the pet - ensuring the happiness and the fullness (health) of your pet will give u different types of tamagotchi.. Of coz, the bad teen/adult will look uglier compared to the good and average ones. hee.

Also, you can raise the pet from adult to senior citizens and then till death... I didnt managed to raise it to tat stage.. and I married off my Tama accidentally (with inbuilt matchmaking session)... boohoo~! So my Tama gave birth to a baby boy and left... Sigh...

Now the baby boy Kinotchi (baby) has grown to Ahirukutchi (toddler).. of course, this time round, I aim to have a good teen and good adult.. so that I can raise til they are senior and then death. No more marriage. The forum also mentioned that senior also can give birth to baby.. but next time lah. haha

Here's the link (if you are interested) to the growth chart of tamagotchi color. hee.

Amateur

These 2 days dear and I had been going around with our new camera to take random shots. The picture on my banner was taken on my bday, the view from Equinox. It's really beautiful. Too bad that i have to shrink to fit the picture up there.. but generally, its nice. =)

I've been busy playing with my tamagotchi color.. hehe. feels like a kid once again.

I'm lazy to post up pics taken on my bday, since dear already posted on FB... but only allow me to view. hee. He said that he is just an amateur and so dun want to 献丑... wait til he master that skill of phototaking... then probably we can upgrade to SLR. haha

7 mins more to the end of my bday.

Formally, I will like to say thanks to:

ZX and YT for the dinner treat at Pizza hut
Vieth and SC for the lunch treat at fish maket SAKURAYA
my company for the gift vouchers
Ju for the mango cake and specialized video clip from little eunice *so touched*
Nana for the beautiful bracelet and clutch bag
Mum for the angbao
Dear for the tamagotchi, dinner and cake

Of course, not to forget friends who have sent me smses and wall messages on facebook.. and emails too.

All I can say its a "normal" birthday for me. Nothing fantastic - but I sure do enjoy myself with great friends and great company.

Dear got his Lumix LX-3. He's as happy as a kid right now. ha.

No wiki-day for femme, no LX-3 day for homme.

No more wiki-day for me on Tuesdays! Boo Hoo! Koby has dedicated my Tuesdays to run FACS and MACS together with ZX. This whole expt usually takes up the whole day. BUT its ok.. better than having nothing to do and sitting in front of the desk.. acting busy. haha.

Anyway, was busy that I was late for my lunch appt with Vieth and SC this afternoon. Sorry~! And, ZX kindly offered to continue for a bit so that I can go off to meet them. Thank you!

Vieth and SC treated me to a Japanese Sushi and Sashimi meal at Village center (fish market SAKURAYA), just along pasir panjang. Fresh salmon and tuna fillets chosen by us and then sliced and served. Yum~!! Potato salad was nice.. as well as the handrolls~! Doubly Yum~! Thank you for the bday lunch treat! Too bad Nana got something on and couldnt join us.. =(

Was supposed to have a viewing for flat after work today.. but then its sorta sold already.. so the viewing was cancelled. Dear then decided to go ahead and buy the Panasonic Lumix LX-3, using the capitaland vouchers we had.. before heading to Funan IT mall, we went to NUH staff canteen to have dinner.. (i was looong craving for the food and teh-peng over there)

To our disappointment, all the shops that we visited told us that the model is sold out.. new batches will only be coming in next month.. i think dear felt like being pushed down from a cliff, shouting... Nooooooooooooo-o-o-o-o-o (echoes on til a loud BANG!). Total disappointment. He intended to buy and use it on my bday.. Too bad. We just gotta wait.

To pull dear back up from the bottom of the cliff, we drove all the way to sunset way to enjoy a scoop of ice-cream.. then he was distracted by the talkings about getting our future house (4 or 5 room flat), marriage and renovation ideas. Good. Ice-cream's done and we headed back.

Dun worry dear. You will definitely get the camera.. at least before your next business trip. heh.

Baby

Baby's back home on Sunday. She will be named as Yiting. =) cute little girl with chubby cheeks. hehe. Just like Yixin when she's just a baby.

House getting crampier.. but we managed to make do with just 2 bedrooms. Baby gotta shift over to our bedroom when everyone's up, and out to work... coz we dun want yixin to "disturb" her little sister. From what I observed yesterday night, Yixin has become naughtier. I guess she's somehow jealous of the little sis, who suddenly gets all the attention. Even others like to say "Dun talk so loud / Dont cry coz you will wake mei mei up" I think she's feeling a bit of imbalance. haha. But of course, me as an aunt to her, gotta make sure she dun feel left out... by spending more time with her... provided she dun make me angry by "destroying" my stuff. After all, I cant get anymore angrier... coz she's just getting attention, and she's just a kid.

Samsung ultratouch

Yixin dropped my phone yesterday. The battery even came off. I didnt scold her... coz afterall, it's a public place and probably, with a tinge bit of feeling - I dun like my phone that much. haha. BUT I have to keep this phone alive due to the take 3 plan from M1 - to return it by the end of 2 years in working condition and then get another one.

Anyway, the phone went black out when i was charging my phone. Couldnt on it. Panic for a while, remove the batt and place it in again... then I was able to switch on the phone. Scary. If this get more frequent, I guess i may have to send it for servicing.

Happy Birthday Nini~!!!

I thought today's weather is cool and I'll have a good start.. but who knows I got a bad start when I was kena stepped while coming up from the mrt escalator and I couldnt find my slipper. Damn. Luckily an auntie who's coming up next saw my "abandoned slipper" and kicked it to me... Somehow the escalator was jammed up because of this. Stupid! Why are the ppl in a rush? Cant they enjoy the cool weather and instead of rushing?

Anyway, just because I'm not as rush today, I gave 2 trains a missed.. Coz i dun wanna be squeezed... but realising time was running short, I went up the 3rd train and it was sooooooooo packed that literally it's body to body contact. Lucky and sadly, it's another auntie infront of me and a plump girl on my right.. Where's all the handsome young man?? haha I can imagine squeezing with them. wohoho.

Today the cleaner auntie reminded me there's solar eclipse in the morning. But now its raining so heavily that I dun think we can see it.

Last but not least, Happy birthday to Nini-chan~! Although you bday celebration was over, but today is the actual day. Hope you can be happy every day and every minute. Miss your smile. Muackz!

ARGH~!

So what if I am being stingy?
So what if keep asking pple to return money to me?
So what if I'm staying with my parents and giving monthly allowance and not RENT?
So what you've been thinking that I've been shirking responsibilities?
So what, So what SO WHAT?

I am not you. You cant control what I think and what I say. Sad to say I AM being misunderstood here. I'm not a saint like you. I cant behave as GENEROUSLY and PERFECT like you think you are

一分钱一分货

Confirmed. The perfume that I bought from Lucky plaza is not of a good quality.

I got Hugo Boss Femme gift set from my colleagues as a birthday gift last year.. The large bottle actually last me til this year, just before my bday again. heh. So I went to buy the same one from lucky plaza this time - Since it was way much cheaper compared to those comestic counters, and DFS. The usual 2 sprays from my first bottle could last me the whole day (although I do have friends saying that they didnt smell any - but its ok, I can smell it. haha). But 2 sprays from the new bottle couldnt even last me half a day. It's really 一分钱一分货。I think next time I will be getting my perfumes from DFS - since dear is always flying around. =)

Time for home soon. Very tired today. Barely keep myself alert.

Dangerous Event

I missed an exit on the way to my sis house. Then i went straight up to upper serangoon road.. somehow i managed to reach potong pasir avenue 1... I went to a carpark and parked.. Then I tried to look through the street directory. No use. I am a map idiot. I'm so silly. Lucky my SIL and Yixin were with me... coz i dun like the feeling of being lost in somewhere alone. haha. So I called my BIL. He knew where am I, just that he didnt know how to explain to me. So he came all the way down and ask me to tail his car... then, I managed to reached there, safely. Was so afraid that suddenly my SIL have contractions then i die liao. haha dunno how to react lo. Coz as I was following the car, I did brake too late for many times... [Also, i'm not really used to my bro's car. first time driving. no good. GTI better. haha]

Journey home was smooth. afterall, it's natural instinct to find the way home.. Now Yixin is sleeping, despite the blasting/deafening music from the indian's wedding at the void deck.

Dear's on the way to Beijing

Changed layout again. Just realised there's a lot of gadgets and stuff to play around in blogger template. Changing layout is so much easier compared to last time.

Dear's on the plane right now to beijing for business trip. Yet yesterday he took the time to send me to WX's wedding dinner and fetch me back home. Thanks dear.

Had an amazing experience for WX's wedding. Not sure why, after having the last dessert dish, I drank some coke and my voice is totally gone. Coarse as a man. Haha. Dear was laughing at the fact that I lost my voice and keep talking and making noises.. Everyone at the table was shocked as well - coz I'm fine and all of a sudden, I couldnt speak properly. haha. MT said there must be some kind of chemical reaction with the dessert and the coke.. haha~~ not sure about that, but I do believe~! Coz I felt something in my throat when I swallow. After a night's rest, i'm ok now. hah. Scary lehz.

Later i'm taking bro's car to sis house. It's Nini's bday celebration today. =)

Wedding dinner tonight.

The expensive hairclip that I bought from a shop in jurong point had it's crystal loose in just 2 weeks, after 2 times of usage. It took me another week or so to went back to the shop to had the crystal fixed. Afraid that the crystals will dropped or become loose again, I didnt use it immediately when I got it fixed.. so I used again last week, and this time the crystals dropped. instead of becoming loose like the first time. Sianz. The hairclip (a small one) cost $16.80.. I'm tired of going to the shop to fixed it again.

Anyway, house hunting is not exactly smooth. The house that we took a liking, thw owner insisted a 20k COV. it's out of our cash budget. So we have to say no, and continue to look for another one. It's a bit sad, for me, coz of the effort that dear put in to scouting the house and the surroundings may just gone to waste. Today there's 2 other viewings at Toh Guan. Wish us luck again. =)

Went to nail expert to do a manicure and pedicure yesterday. Just before we got up into the shop, we saw the first timer promotion package of a spa mani and pedi for 2 sessions for $94.80. It was a good deal and hence i signed up for it... coz I plan to give my mum a "pampering" bday treat this year. So spa for mani and pedi - decided. This leave the sourcing for full body massage and scrub for her. heh.

It's my bday month~~! I'm really going to be broke real soon. Like I mentioned, 4 weddings this month. There's one tonight. Tmr will be going to my niece bday party.... plus, bday month there's extra rebates at Fancl.. so i'm going down to purchase items - which will be another cost! haha. Oh, there's also a GV member 1 for 1 deal for bday members. Shall visit the theatres when dear is back from business trip. - yes he's flying again - this round to beijing =)

House Hunting in progress

Dear and I saw a unit that we mutually like it.. So we (or he) decided to "spy" the surrounding neighbourhood and check on the amenities, the buses that passes the neighbourhood etc... to the extent of, noting down the number of secs the lift took to bring him from ground level to the highest floor. haha.

Yeah, the flat that we are eyeing is at the highest level. We are very afraid of those "heat" that we will be experiencing.. so we went online to search for forums and found more pros then cons to stay at the highest level. So we decided - to give an offer to see if they can accept. =) So if everything really goes well and smooth for the both of us, I can foresee myself getting ROM by this year.

Our HLE approved, and it's amazing to see how much we can loan from HDB. Bro said if we managed to get it approved, that means we can actually get a new flat - why resale? Dear then tell me, by the time the new flats (that we like) are built and ready, he dun think we can get the HLE approved. Further more, resale flats are usually bigger (coz they are older) and spacious. =) Probably the only thing i'm afraid is that we have a slight risk of getting haunt by loansharks... *touchwood* and dear is optimistic saying this is not really possible. Anyway, we will try to survey the area as much as possible. heh.

SY's wedding is today. 7-11. A nice date to remember. Took some photos, but the quality is not that good under dim lightings.. Photos are up in facebook.

We went for house hunting after that.. From the time we started until now, we had seen from very old houses to old houses to quite new ones. It's not that we had viewed a lot of houses... and this is only the 2nd weekend used for house hunting... but currently, we havent found one that's to our liking, that we can go "let's get this house!". Sigh. The factor is usually the COVs, where pple are still wanting 80k cash?? What the hell? Go rob a bank lah~! Now the economy so bad.. and for first timers like us, where got spare cash?? double sigh. Hunting house is really tiring... esp if we narrow our target of interest to only certain areas.. Guess we really have to look at a bigger spectra.. Dear's even more tired. He's the one who's contacting those agents, driving us around.. and getting different papers and select those possible to view ones. Thanks dear for working hard for our future house. I know I am lacking a lot in this area. I will buck up ok? Folks, wish us luck~!

Just reached office not long ago. Went for a medical checkup. Got poke twice for 15mLs of my blood, did some standard measurements and they told me that reports will be sent to my company and house when it's ready.. Although I maintained my weight, I have put on 1.7% fat since last year. hee~~ I wonder where does the fat gone to.. should be my tummy. hehee

Hungry~~~ although light snacks were provided, I dun really have time to sit down and eat. I took a very small piece of sandwich, and a nurse called me in to take ECG.. so I had to gobble up that piece of sandwich. When I done and out, I wanted to take another piece of sandwich, the doc called me in. Sigh. Everything happen so fast there's no break in between for me.. When its done and I thought I can grab another sandwich, the nurse called me to go to another level for xray and then I will leave from there. hmph~~!

So.. what can I have for lunch?

Yesterday we started off viewing flats.. We went to a ~5 yrs flat near bukit gombak MRT station and was very disappointed the the layout. I wonder why HDB designed this kind of awkward-cum-small rooms? Masterbed room is the only room that is square. Small kitchen, small living room and small toilets! Definitely a no no for us.

We then went to another ~11(?) yrs flat. We liked the layout. It's big and spacious, and every room is square. the con is, it's along corridor, so you will keep seeing pple walking pass your house. It's ok, we can shortlist that. hehee

Dear then dropped me at Grand corpthone for ZX's wedding. Ju said that we took too little pics at YT's wedding and so we took more. haha~~ Plus, some of the girls couldnt get the chance to see Koby's wife.. so I was assigned to be the paparazzi for the night. wahahaa. Pictures can be viewed in Facebook. note: She's really beautiful! can't keep my eyes off her. haha. dinner was great, pretty bride, cozy room and table setting.. there's a small hiccup... thats the champage popping - ZD couldnt pop the champage coz it's too tight.. I think they changed 1 bottle for him and still quite difficult.. until pple (including me) shouted "jia you!" and clap hands to encourage him. the whole process took entire 3 mins plus - that is, the march in song was played until it finishes and replayed.. hehee

After the dinner, Dear came to pick me up and we went to watch Ice age 3 at Tiong Bahru Plaza. Nice show~! hee. Funny and cute. I slept around 2plus ytd.

Got up at 10, and I'm off to view more house today. Goodluck to us!

An experience

Yesterday's movie was great. Tranformers Rocks~! Plus the gold class seats, it's perfect.. Big screen and of course, comfortable seats. =) There's sure to be part 3 to this movie, coz megatron and starscream are not dead.

I'm glad to ask dear along for this movie. I can see that he enjoyed watching the show again, coz there's very good sound effect installed in this theater. Funny thing is, he said he wanted to watch again to confirm if the The Arcee twins died in the show, or they were just injured and got out of the script and never showed up again.

Hahaa, he apparently, failed to confirm that and ask me what I think. Dear also failed to notice some parts though he's watching the 2nd time. haha. I think he's very excited after watching the show and while I was driving home along west coast highway, there was a cement mixer in front of us that drove at a very slow speed.. I was like "wah lao, drive so slow!" then he commented "dun drive too near! It's a decepticon!" hahaa.

I managed to reach home and parked the car nicely despite those distractions that I had (chatting and discussing about the movie and the anime of transformers)..

Wiki-day

I did nothing much on the weekends, except to watch transformers part 1 together with dear and helping him with facial mask on saturday, and watching a movie (by keanu Reeves) Street kings by myself on Sunday and doing the mask as well. hee.

Yesterday dear overslept and hence was not able to send me to work. hee. Lucky i smsed him early.. if not i have to take a cab to work like the first time he overslept.

Tonight's watching movie~! Transformers: Revenge of the fallen with my colleagues at Gold Class! Hee. It's consider a welcome and bday celebration organised by our recreation committee to some of our colleagues. 2 Jap bosses back out the last min.. hence we had 2 spare tickets.. they asked around to see who can bring their partner along.. So YT and I agreed.. Dear can actually dun take up the ticket since he watched last week.. but I insisted, coz we promised each other to watch gold class together at vivo, and I dun want to leave him out.

Ok. Today's wiki-day. That's what dear named it, for me. heh. He knew that I always have nothing to do on tues.. and hence instead of a "nothing-to-do" tuesday, he named it wiki-day. Coz there's a tendency of me reading up on random articles at wikipedia, and then sharing information with him after work almost every tuesday. hehe.

I had a bad day start. I got up into the car and started talking about the black dress that was still with him after mum reminded me this morning. I told him about the conversation between me and my mum and I ended my conversation with "tonight you return me". After that, he simply flared up raising his voice at me saying "hana hana! its not that I keep forgetting!".

After that, its pure silent throughout the journey to my workplace. He vent his anger on the car, cutting lanes, braking late. And when I reached, not even a sincere goodbye from him, and he dun even bother to look at me when saying that. No goodbye kiss, for the first time.

Ok, I feeling kinda feeling sad right now.

Anyway, gotta stop thinking of the sadness.. I'll talk about yesterday...
Ok, YT drove her car yesterday and our destination was Bridal studio of ZX's. I am certified a road map idiot.. so dun ever ask me to read map on the spot. I won't be able to help. haha. For me, I always need to plan my route a day in advance, probably draw out a simplified map before going to the destination. heh. The map's not exactly accurate, coz there's a lot of diversion due to road works.. We went around a few circles, going in and out of ERP, before we got to our destination. haha. OK, we'll learn from that.

ZX had a few pieces in mind, just that she didnt know which one to get for her wedding gown. She tried a few and let us see what she had chosen as well. She looked beautiful in some of the dresses. The final decision was to confirm what she had chosen initially. Nice. hehee. Got a glimpse of her wedding gown as well.

Weddings are going on around me. I received another invitation for july 30th, just a day before my bday from my polyfriend. haha. So the total number of weddings i got to attend add up to a total of 4 in july, once every week. Not forgetting i got bday celebrations too. Argh~!!! my wallet is crying~~~~~. haha.

Just changed my blog's background to a more soothing color.. makes it easier to read as well.

It's Friday~! I guess most of the people are looking forward to today. Coz, it'll be weekend next and you can spend some personal time alone / with friends / with your significant other / your family. Guess I'll be catching a movie with dear on the weekend and of course, get my perfume from Lucky plaza. =)

My company is treating (those who are available and interested) to a gold class movie at Vivocity on 30th Jun~! hee~ Transformers: Revenge of the fallen. I've always wanted to try out the gold class of Vivo's after watching the gold class at Great world. Great world's gold class screen is toooooo small. If not, it'll be perfect. haha. Thats why I hope that the screen will be way much bigger in Vivo.... Will keep you guys updated. hehee

This evening will be having dinner and our Haagen-Dazs dessert at Holland V. Thanks to Ju, she gave us a 25% off voucher from Haagen-Dazs and we decided to go for it. Yummy~!

Opps, I suddenly have a craving for teochew porridge... hm...

Very sleepy today.. it's a nothing to do tuesday. I wonder how am i going to survive without any work. I want to sleep.

DEar's going to his ex colleague's wedding dinner today - that means we are not meeting today after work... maybe I will try to use this time to sleep early. heh.

Yesterday's movie I watched is drag me to hell. Dear thinks that it's a lame show, somehow just scarier than scary movies. haha.. For me, I think that the show is a funny horror, where the director injected some slow motion scenes/ eeky scenes to make you laugh or go "eeeewww". You'll understand what I mean when you watched the show. It's not scary... just the sound effects from certain parts makes you jumpy. for a bit.

Land of the lost by Will Ferrer is much better.. a lame guy in a lame show = comedy~! haha. Comedy still suits me the best.

Went kbox yesterday from 11-2pm. heh. It's been a while since i K-ed. I feel that I dun have the power to sing liao lo. wahaha. Anyway, we had a fun time singing and laughing at each other. =p Just a comment - Kbox clementi Room 23 Sucks. The seats were torned and tattered into miserable bits.

We went to sis house in the afternoon. Nini and Ruru were soooo cute! hee~! It's been some time since i last saw them.. feel like hugging and squeezing them reallll tight! hee.. I just like the way they called me.. "ah-yi, ah-yi..." so sweet.

Tonight will be catching a movie with my colleagues. Drag me to hell. Horror/Thriller. I wonder if I will be afraid of old people after i watch the show.

My trip to Phuket/Bangkok

Hi friends, I'm back from my getaway trip to Phuket and Bangkok~! 5 days seems too short~! haha. Ok I shall start recalling the happenings and blog it down here. Pictures will be up on Facebook and shutterfly when I'm free, coz i got loads of mails to clear, update myself with the happenings during the missing times and unpack my luggage.

Let's start from Day 1:

Location: Phuket, Rawai
Weather: Bright and sunny

When we reach the airport, we started off by bargaining the taxi fare and/or the fee for car rental. Ended up we took a taxi, taxi drove us to car rental near hotel resort, we drove off honda jazz and follow the taxi to the hotel.

Cost for taxi:600Baht
Cost for car rental:1200Baht
Petrol:500baht

Hotel: The mangosteen resort and villa
Cost: 170 SGD
Duration of stay: 1 night

Since it's a low season period (coz supposed to have thunderstorm throughout my stay according to weather forecast) there's really no pple/tourists. So we were treated like the royals, free upgrade to a bigger room with personal outdoor jaccuzi. The room oversees the ocean as well.. and were able to see the sun rise too. After we checked in, we went out to explore Phuket, utilizing our rented car to the max- Patong, Chalong Bay, Ao Po Pier, surin beach, kata beach and... i cant remember. haha. Kinda a road trip, and we got a bit lost here and there, but luckily, Phuket's road is easy to drive.. so we always managed to reach our destination, except the Ao Po pier.. where we got really lost in nowhere and we decided to turn back. hehee

We went to central festival, a shopping centre for a walk, before goin to Patong for our dinner at Playhouse (used to known as Sphinx) where we can eat and watch hollywood type of broadway shows. It's only us, watching the show that night. Those glittering and out-of-ordinary clothings (man with tight body suits) that they wore, made me giggle non-stop. But since we are the only ones in the room, I couldnt make it that obvious and I had to resort to pinching myself to stop laughing at them... and the exaggerated moves...

The dinner and the show was expensive.. but since we were there, we had to just go for it. After that, we went back to the hotel, coz driving back takes about 35-40 mins. The streets were poorly lit and we made a few turns before finding our hotel.

Day 2:

Location: Phuket, Chalong bay
Weather: Bright and sunny

The kind owner dropped us at Chalong bay when we returned the car. Then I realised that we were taking a speedboat to The Racha - A resort on a "deserted" aka Yai Racha island.

Hotel: The Racha
Duration of stay: 2 nights
Cost: 800SGD per night

We boarded the speedboat.. a small one... and the ride took about 30-40mins. Rough ride throughout the journey.. big waves and wind... made me turned blue when i reached the port. Real moody.

The villa was really nice. with an individual pool overseeing the beach and ocean, private jacuzzi, outdoor shower place, external living room with coffee machine - the expensive kind, and a big tv. For our room, it's just beside our private pool and we had a nice view of the beach, and just ten steps away, there's a "balcony" for us to sun tan. The room was built for couples - double shower heads, double basin, double mirrors etc. hee. nice setting.

The resort also had a public infinity pool with beach view, spa facilities, common lobbies, 3-4 makan places, library etc etc. most of the activities are free (coz very ex mah), like snorkeling, snooker, mountain biking, tennis, gym etc, except ATV safari tour and Spa. Forget to mention - the prices for food and spa are charged in an EXORBITANT fee. Sigh. since they are the only ones in that island, we had no choice but to spend.

We laze around enjoying the views and utilising the facilities in the villa itself during the afternoon, until dear asked me if I wanted a surprise. Of course I do, and hence I was asked to stay in the living room, while he prepare himself in the bedroom. After a while, a paper was slotted through the small opening on the floor asking me to go back to my room. I went back was surprise to see my black dress on the bed! Besides it, there's another note to ask me to meet dear at the library, and telling me to spray the insect repellent before going out.

I went out (and nearly fell) coz it's already dark. I walked to the library and saw dear in his shirt and pants upstairs (at the library). I went up and he presented a bouquet of flowers (45 roses) and brought me to the restaurant. The restaurant waiters then guided us up to the roof top of the library, where there's a table set up in the centre. A candlelight fine dining with a view of the infinity pool and beach - just the 2 of us.

5 course dinner ended with a waitress coming up bringing a gift with her. Then dear told me that 5th June 09 was the exact date that we have been together for 2000 days. He asked me to open the gift and it was a LV coin purse.. but i didnt realised that there's a ring inside. He then took the ring, got down on one knee and popped the question. =) I agreed and when he placed the ring to my finger.. then i realised... how come no rock? wahaha.. Then he explained to me saying that the one he ordered from US is not ready yet. Hence he gotta get a temporary stand in. haha. Silly. Then, 2 guys from the bar came up to us with their guitars and sang "Now and forever" by Richard Marx. Romantic lo.. hehe.

Day 3:

Laze around again (thats the point of getaway), until evening where we witness 2 females getting married by the sunset beach. Sweet. Ya 2 females from singapore. after that we went for a body scrub and while we were heading back to the room, the waitress of the restaurant actually tell us to stay around, coz there'll be fire works shooting from the mountain, firecrackers and the kongming lantern thingy. So we stayed, ordered a complimentary drink from the bar and sat at the beach. The fireworks were beautiful.=)

Day 4:

Got up early coz we need to catch the first speedboat out to the main island at 9am. Coz we were going to bangkok to shop~!

Location: Bangkok
Hotel: Arnoma Hotel
Cost: 120SGD
Duration: 1 night
Taxi: ~600baht.

Rest for a bit after checked in, and off we went to Isetan to get the wacoal bijoux bra for sis, and myself. wahaha. Nice. Got some some panties for my nieces from little wacoal too. After we had dinner, we went to the night market for a walk and then to platinum. I got some clothes and some babies one and then the shops started to close (around 7pm). sianz. I managed to cover only the basement and level one. Hence I decided to come back the very minute it opened the next day. heh.

Day 5:

Shopped til I dropped. I got a total of 12 tops, 3 shorts, 1 covered shoes, 3 accessories, loads of makan stuff for my family, sunglasses, belts.. and dear got his polo tees, tees, 3/4 pants, luggage, slippers and food as well. We had a lot of time left.. but we were too tired to continue and we got most of the stuff we wanted and.. we were running low on cash too. hehee. so we headed to the airport early to avoid traffic jam during rush hour and had dinner over at the airport. =) Home sweet home at 1.30am.. and slept at 2am... then... gotta work.

Thats all. more or less. hee.

Exact amt spend.. have to wait til we sum up everything. heh.

Ah choo~! God bless me.

Oh no, I'm having a runny nose right now. Kept sneezing~! Must have caught a cold last night.. Thunderstorm eh?

I just popped a pill 15 mins ago. Drowsy formula. Hope that I can get well soon.. I dun want to fall sick on the eve of my holiday~!

Last weekend's summary

Friday:
Van and I didnt really have the mood to work. Was actually looking forward to YT & YD's wedding... So, when the time struck 5.30pm, both of us rush to the restroom, had a quick shower, put on make up and then "woosh" down to meet my bf, who gracefully accepted the request of sending us to the wedding at Marina Mandarin (and of course, catching a movie by himself and waited for me til dinner was over to send me home- thanks ah~!).

The wedding was fun.. Took pictures with my uni-cum-poly friends, my colleagues, and of course, the bride. hee~ YT's simply gorgeous that night. I guess all brides do yeah? hee. I felt happy for her..coz all her stress for preparations are finally over.

Saturday:
Went to town on sat, coz we thinking of getting a tripod stand, scrabble and some polo-t. We went to best denki, coz dear had slightly over 150 bucks worth of points to redeem before this month end.. We looked at the tripod and it's real expensive. Wanted to get a webcam for my lappy, so that i can have a video conference with Dear when he's at overseas trip.. but then its like... expensive too.. So end up we got nothing from there.. just hope that before the month end, we have some ideas on what to get.

Anyway, we managed to buy a scrabble travel pack at a 10% discount (+another 10% off if paid by AMEX) at Taka departmental store. Yeah~! it's cool, coz the tiles are clipped on the board (wont move around) and we can temporary close it, get down planes/trains/buses and resume the game later without the fear that the tiles will come off~! hee. We had fun playing with the game when we got home that night.. to the extend of going west coast plaza starbucks, brought a dictionary along and started the game, enjoying ice-blended choco drinks, aircon and the game. heh. (met ting's mum and family and they were surprised that I'm spending my time there.. playing scrabble. hehe)

Oh ya, not to forget, we went chinatown to get those cheap daily groceries.. and we saw a tripod stand that cost only 25 bucks~! it's much more cheaper than what we saw at best denki~! so we bought it... for our upcoming phuket trip. hee.

Sunday:
Laze around most of the time until its time for me to attend del's wedding at M hotel. Dinner was ok just that the service of the waiters were not that great. 1 thing I want to say again, Del was specially beautiful on her wedding day... probably back in attachment days in LNUS, she wasnt wearing makeup.. so when i saw her yesterday was like "wow~!" hee~~

Today:
Having typical monday blues.. not enough sleep.. but its OK~! Since i'm on leave from wednesday afternoon onwards. hee.

Office talk.

haha.. guess what, Joe just helped to change some of the damn slow pcs RAM from 512Mb to 1Gb. .. (I'm having one of those). Anyway, performance not optimal but at least it's faster~! ha. I also asked him to upgrade my firefox from version 1 to the current one. Yes~! Although the flash player remains outdated (a lot of FB applications cannot see) but still, it's way much better now~! haha. Thanks a lot~!

I really looked forward to my Phuket/Bangkok trip next week.. after working for like, 7 months in this sorta new job, it’s definitely a must to getaway. To enjoy and relax. Was mentioning at my facebook status – “routine lab work makes me feel stupid”.. I can’t imagine that my so-call “passion” for lab work has gone down tremendously. Haha.

Gone were the days in LNUS.. busy, political issues, backstabbing, badmouthing, gossiping, grievances… it’s all bad stuffs.. but I sorta enjoy and missing it. Wahaha. That’s usually the common topics at tea and lunch breaks. Despite those negative feelings from the upper management, I can still survive – with the co-encouragement from my dear colleagues last time. At least, that adds “colors” to the job, squeezing out brain juice to come up with plans, SOPs, and most importantly – tackling those upper management pple.. or rather, saving energy to gossip, to complain, and to eat snake.

Anyway, back to the main topic. I’m going to phuket - free and easy.. so anyone knows where’s a good place to go? I have absolutely no idea. Like makan places and shopping? Or somewhere the scenery’s soooo nice that I should not miss it? Please tell me by leaving a message somewhere, either here or in Facebook or sms me. Thanks a lot for the help. Hee~

Disturbed

Can you imagine I went to bed at 10.15pm, toss and turn for exactly 1 hour and couldnt sleep, hot and sweaty, I went to take a cold shower at 11.15pm, and went back to bed after that.
I'm so tired right now.

How I wish I'm with Dear in New Zealand right now. He was saying yesterday that it's only 10dC plus over there. Cold.

Contented

So happy. I ate

Fried chicken wing
Muah Chee
Fishballs
Cotton Candy
Macdonald's ice cream cone

as my dinner. *burps*

It's Friday~! Finally~! Will be catching a movie tonight.. Night at the museum. hee. Dear's leaving for new zealand at tmr evening. yes. again. He's always flying around.. so.. is it good or bad? Rest assure that up til now, I didnt complain to him that he's not having enough time with me. haha. At least he scheduled the flight to be back on next Thurs, so that he can send me to YT's wedding dinner on Friday and accompany me to Del's wedding on Sun. hee.

Just today.

A SBS bus broke now on a 2 lane road somewhere at a junction near my house. It usually takes about 1 min (by car) to go out of my carpark to reach the junction.. and today - it took approx 20 mins. See the big difference? haha

Of course, I'm late for work. Reached office and clocked in about 8.43am. First time. I cant stand the red word "LATE" reflected on my screen whenever i logged in to my ioffice. Sianz. haha. Lucky dear did a "damage control" by "speeding" with his powerful GTi.. muahaha. Exciting ride today as well. heh.

Anyway, it's a nothing-to-do tuesday.. so late is ok. wahaha. Continue to read a journal that Koby passed to me last week.. was diligently reading until he went on leave on friday and Sat.. so my brain went on leave as well. Today he's back (from Japan - why no home quarantine???), I have to switch on my working brain again..

The new scholl foot & nail cream that i bought seems to be working (i've been consistently applying the cream for 3 days) and my heels are definitely better now...

Meeting ex colleagues for lunch later on. =)

Watching movie tonight too.

Dear got a cranberry juice for me this morning.. coz he knew that cranberries good for women. hee. so sweet.

Weekend summary

Dear came back from India last Sat. I met up with Ying at JP2 before dear came to pick me up after his rest.

Ying and I went around JP2.. and I'm just like a tour guide introducing JP2 to her. haha. I dun frequent JP2 often... but that's Ying's first time there. hee~ We went walking around to find a hair clip to clip our fringes.. We saw nice but expensive ones at the first shop... hence we decided to walk around to see other choices.. In the end, we went back to the first shop. It's really quality that we were looking for. The crystals were brighter and designs were nicer.. in the end we got a total of 4 hairclips for a whooping ~80 dollars~! I never got such an expensive hairclips before.. but since I like it, I will treasure it. haha. Oh, we can return to the shop to get free replacements of crystals if our crystals happened to drop out due to wear and tear. thats good. heh.

Sunday - went to Far east plaza to get a dress for YT's wedding dinner. I have limited number of dresses.. so no harm buying lah. Time to be more feminine liao. hehee. I went into a shop - with only me as the customer, I tried on a lot of dresses.. in the end, I only got 1. A black dress, with the length just right. It's only 22 bucks~! cheap and nice. heh.

Forgot to mention, dear wanted to eat the famous ba chor mee at Crawford link before going to far east.. and he spent an hour queuing before getting the food.. and I spent an hour sitting down, waiting for food. Sigh. Dear said, due to the long waiting time.. no matter what, I must say that the ba chor mee is NICE~! hee.

We head back home early after getting the dress and using our Anderson 10 dollar vouchers for a couple vondue.... so that I can catch the last episode of the condor heroes. hehee. after that, watch the last bit of Monsters Inc on channel 5 and thats all for our day.

By the way, I created a facebook account for dear. hehe.

A nothing-to-do Tuesday.

Was asleep when dear called me yesterday. haha. Didnt expect his call and hence was fast asleep.. he will call again tonight. haha. Hope he will call me at the right time lo.. not when I am somewhere in dreamland. hee.

I think he wants to share his experience with me in INDIA lo. In the first place, the plane was full of indians... and at the point of touch down, he already sense the dust and smell.. Hope he is coping over there.. He mentioned that he has 4 internal flights to take within 5 days. Practically he's flying everyday. Plus the hot weather over there.. can die from heat stroke leh (40dC).

Later will be going out for lunch. heh. YT has only 5 bucks with her.. so going Holland drive to makan will definitely be much cheaper. Porridge + fruits < $5. haha. Want to lend her money but she just insists she doesnt want to borrow. hehe. Good. Got backbone. wahaha

Looking at the calendar, it will only be 3 weeks to my holiday in phuket and bangkok. Really looking forward to a break lo. hehee. It's been a year since I last went for a holiday.

2 weeks later will be Adel's and YT's wedding dinner.. which will definitely cost me a bomb. The month of May is really a high maintenance one.

Pretty flowers

SL bought for us soap flowers from O2 skin. hee~ She said that they looked colorful and hence decided to get all the colors~!

Lavender: Kal
Yellow: Nic
Red: ZX
Green: Gly
Pink: Gin
Blue: Me.

Thanks once again to SL~!

Fish Spa

Went for a pre-celebration of mother's day today~! hee. Took mum to sentosa today for a fish spa package, including a foot reflexology and a shoulder massage. The fish spa is ticklish~!!! It gets better after a while. I guess KK's feet is really dirty lo.. a lot of fish swam over to his side~! hahaa. The foot reflex was average, and the head and shoulder massage felt good. Guess what, that auntie that did the massages for me was Linda Ho. hahaha. The pictures are up in facebook.. check out the name tag... or you can click on the link to the pics on the right column. Oh ya, took mum to the underwater world. Her first and the last time bah. I wont go there again. Expensive, small and CROWDED. It's flooded with - indians. Even at the dolphin lagoon, the place was literally flooded with indians. Who say singaporeans are kiasu? if you are there, you can see how they cut queue, how they bump pple etc etc. Irritating. Worst than those chinese from you-know-where.

Dinner was at Vivo, the nonya and baba restaurant. There food was good. Will visit them again to try the curry fish head. hee~

Review

Recently I bought an OPI cuticle avoplex cuticle oil on-the-go (with attached brush) at Far east shopping center. Being free and having nothing to do today, I went to do an online search. Guess what, it is cheaper to buy it online. Singapore site free shipment. Sigh. Felt being cheated. wahaha. Plus, the oil seems to become gel-like lo. Difficult to press out.. like kena stuck. Low grade item I must have gotten. (it's not like I dun use it for a long period of time.. i use every 2 days still can clot~! Ridiculous~!)

This evening

Met Ting yesterday to have dinner and she gave me this:



A wristlet from Victoria's secret~! Thanks a lot~! I've been wanting to get a wristlet for sometime liao..although its a bit small, but I still like it~! Thank you~! *Muackz*



Here's a picture of doraemon... haha. we took it in Iluma shopping center.. arcade area. Just before we watched Taken.



Can you see KK inside the mouth of doraemon? haha~



Then we got our..... VW GTi~!!! cool. Here's only the picture of the car key.. haha.. will post pictures of the car when I have them.





I also got a jean and perry memory pillow at plaza sing. gonna use it tonight. heh. hope i have a better sleep tonight, without any sores or shoulder aches.

I am forgotten -讲讲就算了。

Talked to YT online just a moment ago. She forwarded an email to me sent to the molecular team by our supervisor. After reading it, I felt a bit demoralised. I felt just like an abandon kid. I was in LD unit and currently I'm in fusion unit. I was rotated to the current unit months ago. The 4 of us were supposed to be rotating between 2 units - thats the initial plan, with the supervisor in the loop. Now after reading the mail, seems like I am permanently in the fusion unit now.

It's not like I dislike the work.. I am fine being in whichever unit as long as ZX, YT and VH are with me. however, sometimes its like you are eating plain bread for sooo long and sometimes you just want to add some flavor to it. That's why the idea of rotation came in. I'm disappointed in my supervisor for the way he handle things..

Sigh. Anyway, it's just the sudden rush of emotions. I'll be a happy girl tmr. hehee. 讲讲就算了。

Tired but a Happy Monday

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling very uncomfortable. I was having a nightmare i guess.. Now my neck and shoulders are very very sore.. Sigh.. I need a massage...

Then I overslept 15 mins. Was not late for work coz i did my normal preparations in turbo speed and not draggy.. hee~ lucky my mum got up early today and woke me up. Hm.. this new handphone of mine has this alarm-clock-vibrations-too-soft issue.. i guess i have to increase the volume of the alarm, since i cant do anything to the vibrations. heh.

Took leave on wed.. and we will be getting our new car on Wed~! hee.. Driving the new car to catch a movie. cool~! Excited~!

Now waiting for the pc in the lab to be connected to LAN, so that we can process the results and proceed to the next cell culturing.. Stupid PC+network.

Done with stuff in the lab. Was joking and sharing the "those were the days" in the lab with the girls. so farnie lo... never knew that YT can be so wild. wahaha... laugh til i teared.

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Did I mentioned that there's a pond with kois just right outside my office building? It's a nice place to laze around, and to take a break off work.. Getting a teh-peng from the foodcourt, or ice-cream from 7-11 or muffins from the bakin boys, sitting with my friends and chat/gossip a bit. hehee~



This is a pic of my desk. See the crampiness? No place for files, for my munchies my barang barang, no phone too. haha. it's actually only 80cm long. Worse then my study desk at home. It doesnt even have space underneath for a drawer to put my stuffs.. and my drawer is somewhere at the back of my office.. and yeah, i have to walk there, like how you put your bags in locker when you go clubbing or swimming. That's why I dont even bother to use that. My bag is always on the floor, kena stepped by myself lo. haha. It's only now that I use the bag hanger to hook it... Oh ya, forget to mention, the CPU is under my desk. Lagi worse. Takes up space too.. but 1 benefit, I use it as a foot stool lo. wahaha.



Ok, let's talk about yesterday. ha. Went to Nana's house after work for a shower and makeover session, to get ready for the partying at St James yesterday.

The main motive of Nana was to help me with my eyes... so I took a shower, put on light makeup, and she started her work.. I tried to take the pictures of before and after.. but then after loading the pics in my lappy, the pictures are very blurry.. so i decided not to put them up here. After all, the effect of putting on fake lashes are quite good. I'm just not used to heavy eyelids... hence i feel that my eyes are going to close anytime. haha. plus putting on contact lenses after a gap of so many years... i need time to get use. one thing for sure, removing eye makeup was a chore.

Overall at st james was enjoyable. watching how Allan lose to WX in the games.. haha. So silly. They left early around 12.. but they already drank a lot liao. EL stayed behind and then got so high lo.. SY and WX also maxed out liao. wahaha. Gim was like social butterfly, going tables to tables.. I think she either met her friends, or she's just high too. wahaha. Gim's sis+ husband+friends were there as well lo. what a crowded night.

Reached home about 3 plus.. slept around 3.40am. Tired.

*Deep sigh*

I want to do something. I want to work. Seems like there's really nothing to do. Probably research on something online.. but what? I dun have a clear guide or an objective.. So I cant start.

Want to play games - Office PC too slow.

Want to chat online - can, but have to make the browser sooo small and not noticeable.

Want to read magazines - No no. Too obvious that I'm slacking..

Want to snack? - I'm snacking too much and right now, food is at the top of my oesophagus.

Best method to waste time at current - Toilet-ing. Haha. It takes about 100 steps from my desk to the ladies.. Do business regardless of big or small, wash hand thoroughly according to the handwash guidelines, stand in front of the dryer to blow dry my hands.. and walked to the mirror and start tidying outfit and hair.. then takes about 100 steps back to my desk. Great. Do everything slow and steady. 10 mins gone. wahhaha

Guess what, I just realised that my desk is very dusty.. hence, time to clean up desk~!

Done. What's next? Washing water bath. Argh~ I dun want a job like this~! Might as well go and be an ISS cleaner lo. "Auntie ah~ I come join u. Where's the uniform ah?"

Ongoings

I'm glad that Baby-chan's ulcers were due to "heatiness" and not HFMD, coz we monitored her over the weekend and she was better each day, instead of developing those symptoms that the doc asked us to watch out for. She's now able to eat and sleep, and of course, play and shout.. heh. I like this healthy cute baby-chan.

Yesterday I went to Orchard to meet Nana. She got her stella Mc. perfume and I checked out the price of my hugo boss femme. Cheap. It's at lucky plaza - dollars and scent. Will get it when my bottle finishes.=)

We walked around somehow aimlessly in Taka (but going into shoes and clothes shop) but didnt manage to get anything. Just when we were munching (nana having her late lunch), we then decided to go and get contact lenses. (by the way, we also went to Blvgari and Cartier - too look for any possible wedding bands.. haha~! I know that's too early but just see see only~! Cartier - 1300+ per ring and Blvgari - 1100+ per ring) and LV, Gucci to see what's new in store. It's only with Nana that I dare to walk into those expensive shops. dunno why. wahaha.

Back to contact lenses, we popped into a shop "Alexis" and they were having a promotion for 1 day acuvue moist. 5+1 for 285 bucks, hence Nana decided to share with me so that I dun have to get so much - just in case I'm not suitable (Thanks~!).

We then walked to Far east to continue shopping around... and in the end, we got to a shop and the shop sells korea/jap/taiwan girls stuff.. Nana bought the liquid-eyeliner-cum-glue for fake lashes, plus the glue remover for that. hehe. I bought an OPI cuticle oil on the go. (Tube with attached brushes so that I can squeeze and use it whenever needed - Convenient!) Nice~!

Dinner was at Shaw, when Nana had her munchies from Long John Silver and I had my Subway sandwich.. After that, we went home. =)

This thurs we're going st james again for a post celebration to WY's wedding... nana asked me to go her house after work, so that she can do her eye makeup + fake lashes for me.. and of course, it's time to use my newly bought contact lenses~!

August Rush

Watched August Rush and Kungfu Panda at dear's house just now.

August Rush is a beautiful show. It's touching. It's sweet. It's a happy ending.

Episodes

The whole family didnt had a good rest yesterday. Yixin was crying the whole night every now and then. Running a fever, saying "嘴巴痛痛，肚子痛痛，牙齿痛痛。" She couldn't get herself to sleep... and the same goes for us as well. I'm worried about her. She has had fever before, but not to the extend of not sleeping and not eating.

They just went to the doctor this morning and yet to return. I hope everything is fine.

I cant believe that my brother values the computer more than Yixin's health. 10 mins before going to the doctor, he switched on the PC and started his Tribal war game.. when MY and Yixin were standing at the gate waiting for bro to open the door, he just replied "wait for a while. very fast". 3 mins gone and both of them were still standing at the gate waiting. I was angry and said " i think you better go and see the doc yourself. No point waiting for him". Indeed, MY brought yixin to the doc, saying she will wait for bro downstairs.

Another 5 mins gone and bro was still on the PC. Mum was very angry with him for valuing the online game more than anything else. After all our nagging, he then start to shutdown the PC. Sigh.

Ok. They just came back. doctor said Yixin has 2 big ulcers at the back of the mouth. We have to monitor now to see if it is just pure heatiness or really HFMD. Coz usually HFMD will be full blown after 2 days, with red patches and more ulcers. If the ulcers are gone after 2 days, then it's just pure heatiness.

I'll be going to dear's house later, packing lunch for him and then watch movies with him before he flies off in the night to Birmingham.

I dun have a good night rest. Was woken up by my niece at around 4.30am. she puked twice coz she's not feeling well. POor girl. She was running a fever... hope by this morning when she wakes up she'll be fine. I asked mum to monitor her whether she has signs of dengue or HFMD, coz recently there were cases of dengue fever in our area (to the extend that the MP Arthur Fong came down personally door to door to tell us to be vigilant, and gave us the covers for holes to hold the bamboo). Just to be safe then sorry, it's better to take note of my niece, rather then thinking it's a normal fever or cold.

I'm planning to take mum out on the 9th May to sentosa for mother's day. Was utterly bored in office the past days and hence got the ample time to think and plan on where to bring mum. It's been some time since i last took mum out... (i know mum likes the fountain of wealth in Suntec and wants to go there again. haha) but i decided to take her for the Fish Spa~! hee. The package includes a foot reflexology session and head+shoulder massage.. Since she likes massaging, I shall bring her there for a try.. and a "surprise". But first of all, i have to call and make an appt. Hope that there's slot for 3 pax~!

Waiting for hair to dry now... Reached home around 10 plus from dinner with my colleagues. We went to big "O" for dinner and dessert. JS brought her little cutie pie along... so cute~~ felt like pinching her cheeks.. but then i managed not to. wahaha. I enjoyed the car ride to wheelock, when she sang her fav song "oh my". Looking forward to more makan outings~!

Work done. There's nothing to do again. Sianz.

Just realised a bad point on my new phone. The battery talk time is only 1.8hrs~! Thats terrible eh. imagine a fully charged phone and i start calling my best friend, chats and then 1.8hr later the phone is dead. Thats the shortest talktime among all my phones lo. I realised this coz I charged my phone yesterday evening and this morning the phone dropped to 2 bars (full bar is 5). Imagine the phone is on standby while i'm asleep leh.. how can the batt drop so fast?
I'm going to monitor the duration of the battery life. Coz I wanna see if it's the battery problem or the phone problem.

Meeting friends up for dinner around my house this evening.

Dear's coming back home too. =)

Heaven and Hell.. (not in terms of work)

Never thought that there's actually boring times in my current company. I used to think that research (lab) work will be busy like hell.. but no. Recalling those times in my previous company, during those lull periods like now, my gang were sure to be occupied with long tea breaks, or, watching videos/listening to CDs, munching snacks, chit chatting as well as playing online games in our own private office. That was heaven~~. hee. Cant find another job that is this good. just imagine... lab tech also have own office leh~~ So peeps who are still in Lilly, cherish the free time you guys have over there... coz if you come to the outside world, you cant expect the same.

Ok, just an update of what I did over the weekends...

Friday:
Went to JP to meet dear for dinner.. but never to know that the guy that's selling his car to dear had the time to meet him.. so dear went back home and borrowed a car from his friend. A manual car. haha. Lancer. Too chio already - black car with red body kit. Typical malaysian ah beng's car. haha.. no choice. all his roommate's cars are manual one.. so dear had to try driving one.. not too bad for him lah... always just nice engine stalls when he was in the carpark slot. wahaha. Back to the topic, we went to the condo to meet the guy, paid him the deposit and we will be getting the car from him on the first week of May ba.. coz dear will not be around til end of this month.. Yeah~! Hope that his loan gets approved lo. Then we drove to eat stingray.. and after that, it's my turn to drive back home. Scary~! That's my first time driving a manual car after passing for 2 years~! But afterall, I still remember lah. no engine stall for me. I manage to park the car too. *proud*. In the end, when we got out of the car, dear dropped my phone and my water bottle, got them both scarred.

Sat:
I mentioned in my previous post it's a R and R day. until dear came and we were both complaining about the heat and off we went for dinner at IMM. =)

Sun:
Another sunny day. Went for a late lunch with mum and to NTUC to get my fav cookies (for office). Then I went to meet Sis at Toa Payoh hub and get my new PHONE~! hee. Samsung ultratouch S8300. Nice. Full touch screen with a slide out keypad when you just feel like using it. hee~ Cool. Good for busy pple on-the-go, without having to look at the onscreen keypad. Still new to this phone.. will be loading music (as ringtones) and Pics (wallpaper) tonight when i get home. heh. Dear's not around, but i'm busy.

Today is R&R day. Rest and relax.

Got up in the morning at around 9.30am, laze around, did a spa scrub, then a face mask, took a nap, got up, ate something, dear came and then we went IMM for a walk and dinner... and now, back home watching tv.

Everything will be perfect if the weather is not so HOT. Summer days eh.

Dear's now on the way to airport. Melbourne and sydney.. then UK.. although dear said that he's going there for work and he's very stress... but I still want to say.... "I'm so envious.. and I wanna go~!"

I'm tired.. Today's friday. The dinner supposed to be tonight is postpone til further notice. So tonight i will meet kk for a date, with the start of the "commoners" life without a car. haha~

A lot of things ran through my mind yesterday. Family, friends, work etc. It's really tough making choices and making decisions. Sometimes I just feel like running away, running away to somewhere far, to cool myself down, to keep my objectives clear. hm.. since I cant run away far, all I can do is to stay at home this 2 days over the weekend, to think of what I should do next.

Just done with company lunch. (Welcome plus bday celebrations). The pizzas and the cake is not enough for me lo. haha. Went down to get muffins. hee~ Will heat it up later after labwork to savour it. wahaha. yum yum~!

Anyway, dear's going away for a business trip again. on and off till the end of Apr.. I have the nights spared for my friends then. haha.

Goodbye mazda, beautiful babe.

"The 2nd last day to seeing the Mazda 3". - That's what dear reminded me yesterday. Today is the day where the car will be passed to the car dealer. KK has sold his car... and the next car (we are still looking) will be OUR car. haha. I will chip in a little (to cover the transfer fees), and then he will have to pay the rest.. so.. that makes me part of the owner liao. wahaha.

It's been years with this mazda 3.. we had our happy and sad times in there. We used it for countless times such as day to day activities, bdays, celebrations, anniversaries etc.. This car had been through ups and downs itself... and its still serving good. It's a little sad to see it go.. but "new one wont come unless the old one goes" right?

Goodbye beautiful babe.. You will be missed.

Random

Menses are painful. it's been a while since I had it soooo painful that I need to take painkillers. What makes it worst, I forgot to bring pads with me. Lucky my dear colleague has painkillers and spare pads to give it to me. haha.

Anyway, seems like WY's wedding havent ended~! every brothers and sisters are still talking about it... the montage, the photos etc. Everything is so well planned and enjoyable~ Hm.. i'll have to aim for this kind of wedding the next time. =)

Good news for dear about the red GTI he is aiming. haha. Good news for me too.. I will have the chance to drive a new (yet old) car. haha. Happy happy~!

I'm back from JB ytd. hee

I really enjoyed myself there. We went in on Sat and it was raining real heavily...luckily that didnt dampen our mood. We reached there just in time for dinner.. I really loved the suite that she booked for us at grand paragon hotel. Must really cost her a bomb. There's a big living room and small kitchen area, and 2 big bedrooms and 2 bathroom. every room there's LCD tv attached to the wall. Nice.

After dinner, we went to KTV just 1 level above our room. The KTV room was huge~! It can contain about 20 plus pple. Hee~ The brothers all could sing really well eh. Too many pple liao.. cant remember all their names. hence we attached names to pple like "the liu qing yun lookalike" and Lee hom - a guy who can sing Leehom's song very well. hehee. I was labelled as Zhang Huimei. haha. so paiseh lo... but proud lah. that means I can sing well too. heehee

The gatecrashing game went smoothly. and the videography man was really full of ideas, making the whole event fun and enjoyable. The dinner was fun - as the brothers and sisters gotta pair up and march in first, and then step aside, opening a pathway to let the bride and bridegroom to pass.. meanwhile showering rose petals on them. hee. The dinner was good too. hee. I loved the MV that they did for mark and hazel. hee~

Thanks to the both of them for letting us enjoy the event soooo much. It really paid off for the time and effort both of them put into. Thanks for the big angbao and the privilege for being a sister as well~!

I really cut short a lot of things that happened, focusing on just the happy things.. Lazy to blog lah. The whole weekend would be perfect if not for the police and snatch thief thingy that occurred on separate days. Just be warned for those travelling to JB, please be careful of your personal belongings.

Good Friday, Good night.

I worked today. worked on a good friday. It's nice once in a while, where my favourite colleagues were the only ones in the office - no one else.

I packed subway for all of us before going to work.. and YT bought each of us 3 curry puffs. I cant finish lo... I dun take breakfast usually... but i ate one, since it smells realllly nice. hehe. thanks ah.

After work, dear and I went PS and then cathay in hope that we can get at least side seats for the movies.. but no luck. First row is definitely a no no. haha. Hence we walked around, sat down and chat over dinner. hee.

There's a lot of things running through my mind these 2 days.. ya, what else but financial thingy happening in my family... and some other things. haha. I'm not going to post it out here.. just want to say that I have to look at things positively... and just, dun care anymore.

Going to JB tmr. haven really "packed" what I need during the 1 day stay.. makeup, dresses and some other small miscellaneous items. I'm so tired right now... but I will just hang on for another 30 mins to go and pack them.

Good night.

swelling..

I woke up in the middle of the night feeling a sharp pain in my right eye. I rub it gently (real gently) and then it started tearing. lots of tear. I kept wiping off the tear, did reiki to my eye and went back to sleep.

I got up in the morning and couldnt open my right eye~! So painful. I quickly used eyedrops to wash, then I looked in the mirror to see a disgusting sight. the membrane (translucent white) was all swollen! (looked like it's going to burst if i poke it). I rested for a while, took my shower and the swell subsided a bit. Hence, I dressed up and was going to work.. (but i'm still feeling discomfort whenever i blinked my eyes). I took my bag and went downstairs and dear was waiting for me. Then I showed him the eye and he took me to see a doc.

Waited for quite a while before the patient before me came out. Was given MC and antibiotic ointment - which is darn difficult to be applied.. and now I'm resting at home. Will rest my eyes for a bit after i finish this post.

damn. I already had small eyes. and now? even smaller lo.

woohoo~!

It is rare that all the Japanese aka big bosses are all away for the rest of this week from today. No government~!

My weekend ended so fast...

Sat:

Went to the market and NTUC to get ingredients for making rojak. hee. Dear got the rojak paste from Penang and wanted us to try it. It's really tasty~! We had some leftovers of fruits.. hence we left it til Sunday for 2nd round. heh. Then around evening time, dear, mum and I sat down at the dining table and drank Choya. relaxing~! Mum and my face turned red after drinking. Our family is really sensitive towards alcohol..

Sun:

Went out early in the afternoon to volkswagon showroom to view the newly launched Golf. It's raining cats and dogs lo.. but volkswagon was nice enough to have their staff holding umbrella under the rain and shelter us whenever there's a car coming in to view the cars. Poor staff.. most of them were drenched. We approached the staff for test driving.. and I sat behind. Dear was not use to continental car.. wiper and signal were switched. haha. (and it's still drizzling at that time). I felt uncomfortable as dear stepped on the brake too hard.. or rather, the brake was new.. hence very sensitive. made me wanna puke if test driving any longer. haha

Thoughts

Continuing frm the previous post, I did tried reiki on my bf.. but then he didnt feel anything. Yesterday i tried again on his back, he felt numbness. haha. Somehow, i kept asking for feedback from the pple that i did reiki.. somehow, it's a kinda reassurance that this thing works.

I have a lasik pre-evaluation on 18th April. Initially it's with Na and PY.. but Nana had some pre-existing conditions and after some advice from her friends, she decided to not go for it. So left me and PY. Never did I thought that PY also back out.. so left me alone. Sigh.

Tonight meeting my ex-colleagues for a gathering. =) Seems like I'm spending a lot recently. Haha. Like my friends said, I have the spending power already (not to forget, peer influence). Plus, keeping track of how much I earned and how much I save is indeed a risk. A risk in overspending, having a mindset that I still have remainings. In addition, having the mindset that this amount can be earned just in a X amount of month. What to do? I cant control myself~!