Happy and contented. :)

I'm so looking forward to this year. Here's the list for my first quarter of 2012. :)

• Parents in law coming down this sat (and probably return on monday - dear will be leaving with them by car)
• I'm going Penang alone on plane, returning on 1st Feb
• Lasik surgery on 2nd Feb
• CNY ex PLR gathering on 4th Feb
• Basic japanese class starts on 4th Feb
• Family day (Complimentary from company) to Universal studios on the 18th Feb
• Valentines day and our ROM 2nd anniversary
• Poly friend's wedding in Mar
• Probably heading for US conference at end of Mar to early Apr
• Secondary school friend's wedding in Apr

What a fun quarter to begin my 2012!

2nd week of 2012

It's 2nd week into 2012. Done my company health screening and I am still maintaining the same weight I had 8 years ago. However, there's a slight increase in the fat percentage. haha. My tummy is getting rounder by the fats accumulated. ;p

Done my lasik pre-assessment last week at Shinagawa. Finally took the step and went for it. Been hesitating for a while. My lasik appt will be early next month. I cant really imagine how I will feel and react, without any eye aids to see clearly. I'm excited, and scared at the same time. It's definitely not because of vainity that I went for lasik (I think I look better in specs), but the convenience.

My boss encouraged me to go on a US conference this coming April. I'm happy but I'm stressed as well. I am so so worried that I can't bring back useful information that can help in my work. It's a major conference and I can feel that they will be having high expectations. I'll be talking to my boss next week, to discuss more about this.

Happy new year!

Happy new year to everyone! It's 2012! Everything's pretty much the same.. just that the unlucky me got sick on my company off days and til today, I'm still having cough and block nose. Sigh. Mum suggested me to go for TCM and 调养 my body.. I think I really should go for it. Seems like I'm attracting viruses recently. =( I want to get well soon as chinese new year is around the corner and I still want to eat those delicious CNY goodies! haha~~

I decided to pick up japanese language once again, and this time round, my hubby is going to learn with me. :) With a partner in class, I guess studying will be a little easier.

Gonna start work tmr. Sian TTM!!

Post Christmas

I had received 3 other gifts for christmas this year, apart from the 2 that were mentioned in the earlier post.

So, I had a pack of Famous Amos Cookies from dear ZX,

3D stitch iphone casing from Kk's Sister.. (and it's enormous after I fixed it. Haha)

And last but not least, a tissue box cover from my sister. :)

So far, that concludes my 2011 christmas! :)

Christmas is near!

Christmas week! I'm already in holiday mood. Who isn't! Haha.

My first Xmas gift is from Ju. Handmade with lotsa love. (I had finished it up! So Yummy!)

The other Xmas gift I've got was TWG Moroccan mint tea from my company + $50 bucks resort world voucher!

Hm.. will I be having more gifts? haha~!

Feverish

Not feeling exactly well right now. Fever came back and I didnt have my panadol with me. Had been on MC for the past 2 days. Virus infection (again) causing the on and off rise of body temperature. Just that this time round, accompanying the fever was not sore throat nor runny nose, but is giddiness - low Bp and headache.

I have always had this low Bp issues.. and only recently (past 2 years) it became more frequent. i'm not anemic by the way. I didnt see it as a huge issue, only just a few months ago, when i made the decision to start a family. The doctor say there's no medication to bring up blood pressure, and the only thing that I can do is to rest more whenever those giddy episodes hit. Plus, try not to have sudden movement (how is that possible??)

Anyway, I will try to have more light and healthy food. (Notice I didnt mention to start exercising. Haha!) I think pple with low bp cant exercise much. So the little effort that I made was to stop taking the shuttle bus up every morning. Every steps i made counts.

The last party

Time for another entry!

Last Friday we had an ex-colleagues gathering with our Jap bosses. Dinner was at Brozeit in vivocity and it was nice. After that, was a party in St James. Our main objective was to expose Dr M (a middle age man) to clubbing experience in Singapore. He had heard about this place many times and had always wanted to experience it himself. Thus, the nice ladies like us decided to fulfill his wish and organised it. :)

They had too much of a drink-I think. We had 2 hard liquors, and a few shots. Before that, they were already having beers during the dinner! In the end, Dr M couldnt walk straight. Koby was already crazy, hugging Wilson, dancing and shouting and talking non-stop, talking nonsense etc etc. 真是失态! Haha~!

Overall, it was a nice experience. Too bad Nat and Shir couldnt join us this time round. But rest assure that there will be another round, probably just a dinner gathering, a more quiet place so that we can chat and talk with ease.

Work issues

I have a little time today and instead of doing paperwork, I decided to blog. :)

The new young girl in the company has issues with the seniors... a.k.a ZX and I. She made a lot of small mistakes and she even tried to perform tasks she had never done before.. and, without asking and consulting the other first. Though the mistakes are negligible or some were prevented, I still had to feedback to ZX, her mentor. Urm, so, I don't exactly know how to put it.. but is it 自做聪明？ Or just simply because she felt that it was an easy task and thus go ahead and did it. She is always full of excuses and reasoning.. and even if she really did make mistake and when we pointed out, she simply nodded and acknowledge "ok" without feeling a tad of apologetic. Is this the work attitude of a new age kid?

With issues piling up, we encouraged ZX to talk to her in meeting room. I think she took it personally and wanted koby to be in during the talk. Ok fine. They did the talk last friday evening. Right now, situation has turn ugly. Since yesterday she's basically not talking to either ZX or me, except work. she's hiding her feelings. She's detaching from the team. She wants to go solo. ZX and I don't like this feeling. We are a team and we interact. Irregardless of personal or work problems. Other new colleagues in the team are perfectly fine. She's the only one that we have difficulty. Her attitude towards us changed drastically and she claimed that she didnt change. Even Koby noticed her change in attitude and he doesnt know how to handle the new girl too.

I don't like this. I feel like shouting at her to wake her up.

The long awaited weekend!

- Dear's coming home tmr
- Nieces coming over to stayover
- Visiting ex-colleague's few months old baby
- Switching my mobile telco

:)

享用晚餐后的感想。。。

今天的晚餐我吃的很开心。我当初决定回来PLR是正确的。和 ZX, Dr M, Nat-san 的对话当中没有约束， 没有礼节， 轻松自在。大家都开开心心的，感觉真好！:)

Free and Easy weekend

My pictures taken in Japan is now up in FB! Finally! Actually I had uploaded it 2 days ago. Uploading the pictures in high resolution was a painful process! I tried several times and it hang on me at the last few pictures.. thus I had to upload them batches by batches til it's done. Anyway, I will like to share 2 pictures today.

Cutie pie Yiting

And handsome prince Yi Ze.

When I have time...

Still remember the transition time when the lab had only me and ZX, BSCs were more than enough to use. Right now, with the increase in number of staff, we have to "chope" the BSCs like choping seats during lunch. Since my primary focus is not on cell culturing, I can't complain much but to wait for my turn.

So with the free time now, I shall do some blogging!

First thing first, the lazy me still have not upload the pictures I took in Japan trip. Haha. Briefly scanned through the pictures and seems like the quality of the pictures are not too good... hm.. is it my skills getting lousier? It can't be coz I'm using auto mode! So maybe is the LX-3. hahaha~!

Oh ya! I have to mention that my little nephew is born on the 6th November! The cutesy little boy! I'm so so happy to hear the good news on that day.. but as I were helping out my friend's wedding as a Jie Mei, I couldnt be there to see him. But I'm glad that 7th Nov was a holiday and we had the whole day to visit my sister-in-law. :)

Kk and I bought a 2nd hand PS3 game - Dynasty Warrior 7 on monday and since then we were hooked on the game everynight. Haha~! I just enjoyed this hack and slash game! Just that playing this game made me feel exhausted everyday when I come to work... haha.. 

It's friday! Will be having a nice dinner later with dear before heading home and continue with the gaming. ;)

Back from holiday

Hello~~ I'm back from Holiday~~!! How I miss my dear right now. His flying schedule is jam packed til end of this year! He's in Australia right now and will be heading off to NZ next, coming back on Sat... So for readers who are waiting for my pictures on FB, I have to wait for him to come back for the compilation.

Til then~!

Heading off to Tokyo

I'm flying tmr to Tokyo! Yup, I'm tagging along with my hubby for biz trip. A total of 7 days including the two days of work for him. Planned a lot of places to go and visit. I'm so proud of myself, finishing the itinerary in 2 days, just one week plus ahead of the flight date. :) I realised that the places to visit covers mostly shopping area! Haha. Now yen is stronger than 2 years ago.. Guess things will be much more expensive! I'm so excited!! I'm meeting Shirly up for dinner too!

My Random Sunday

We were attracted to this 2 cars after we had our breakfast on yesterday morning. A bride and groom bridal car. They were not really that fanciful, but then it's creative.

Then we did house work together for a while before heading to mum's home and bring all the little children to Toyrus at vivocity to choose their birthday gift. :)

Sorry~ only took 1 picture with the upcoming birthday girl - Felicia. :) (Yixin got her belated birthday present and she was sooo busy playing with the hair care set) (I got a strawberry shortcake figurine for Melissa since she is a very good girl with mostly full marks for all her spelling tests)

That's all for a tiring sunday with the kids!

15th Oct 2011

A few days before, we got ourselves a vacuum cleaner as our first year anniversary gift for our home and for each other. Used it already and we both like it. Rowenta silent force! Powerful and really quiet!

Then came the important day. 15th Oct. Yesterday's expenses was on me, since I didnt have any surprise for my dear on his birthday. I'm so bad and guilty!

We went to catch a movie "The Thing" at Lido after breakfast, walked around orchard til it was time for dinner. We settled our dinner at a jap restaurant named Watami in Ion and then off we went home for a heart to heart talk.

 

 

Overall, it was not a fantastic day. However, the fact that I am able to be with my love one is more than I can ask for. We were worried for a second that, when we look back next time and could not recall on what we did on our first year anniversary. But with logical thinking set in, we don't really need to spend money to make it so memorable. As long as we are always together, always so loving and sweet,  putting in effort in every single thing we do, having a normal anniversary does not matter at all.

I am so glad that I'm married to this man.

Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday to my dearest~!

This saturday will be my first year wedding anniversary, as well as my hubby's birthday. How time flies. It's been a year! Of course there is still a looonngggg way to go! This post is dedicated to my dear husband, who has been doting on me and giving his 100% to me, and to our marriage.

My hub is a home based worker, and with his parent company n distributors in different timezones, he is actually able to wake up a little later, coz there's no rush for him to take public transport and to rush to work. However, my hub chose to adjust the alarm clock just 15 mins later then me, getting up and preparing Milo (or some other drinks) for me every weekday morning - minus off some lazy days, days he is on biz trip and days he is sick. How sweet is that? He even washes the cup for me when I'm in a hurry, or simply when I'm lazy. After i leave the house, he will fold the blankets if he remembers, and he did it most of time. :)

This guy of mine shares my household work with me too. He will iron all clothes including mine every fortnightly. He will mop or sweep the floor almost every alternate week(when i ask him to). He will clean the bathroom's shower screen when I demanded him, and he will always be the one to bring out the rubbish to the main rubbish chute. :)

He gives me house fund every month without fail and pays for all the expenses regardless of meals and home bills. He packs food back for me when I'm lazy to get changed. He took care of me when I am on MCs. He even notices what my likes and wants are, and then "pop" me a surprise gift on special occasions. He is very good at managing finances and I always feel safe with him to be in charge of finances.

He listens to my complains and whines, he encourages me and gives me support whenever I needed him. He even came all the way to meet me near office areas in days where I have menses and I forgot to bring pads. He helps me to rub my belly with Ru Yi Oil on days I had got colic.

Last but not least, he respects me and loves me for who I am. Thank you dear for being with me. Happy anniversary and happy birthday!

Adapting to the old, yet new environment...

Started work again yesterday.. I had overviews on the projects that were assigned to members of my team. I was of course, been assigned to a few tasks too. I was immediately sent to action, as though I never had left.

With the "high" turnover this year, a lot of things are different. No more khakis to joke around and even work allocation is different, style of management is different. I'm so not use to this.

2 more days

I met up with my ex boss last Tues to express my interest in returning to the company. He agreed straight away and he text me the next morning to tell me that i can return anytime. Immediately in the afternoon, the HR called me and talked to me. Shortly after, my supervisor sent an email to me saying that he was really happy to be able to work with me once again. I feel so blessed to have my bosses being so appreciative. I'm so loving them!

The next day, my HR called me again and told me to start work next Monday. It's really fast eh~!!! Haha. I negotiated a bit and I am able to start working on Wed. During my lazing-around-days... i procrastinated on doing the housework.. now with the deadline given, I need to complete my housework asap. haha~!

For my return, everything will remain as status quo... I also heard that I will be sitting next to my supervisor... hm.. though i don't have the luxury of big space compared to where i was seated previously, I do quite like sitting away from KNS.. not to forget, I will be sitting beside ZX! wahaha~! Also, due to the the increase in number of new staff, all the new lappies (including the one I used before) were all distributed... that means I have to use the dinosaur desktop! haha~! It should be fine lah. I'm gonna use ex-ju's pc, and the IT guy told me he had uninstalled all unnecessary programs to make it respond faster. I like to type on traditional keyboard~!

Okie dokie, time to pen off. Til then~!

Into my 3rd week of rest.

I went Penang last week to visit my PIL and also ate the must-haves delicacy of Penang, namely duck egg char kuey teow （鸭蛋炒果条）, Rojak and Penang Laksa. =)

Returned on Friday afternoon just in time to rest a bit and then head for Gina's wedding dinner at goodwood park hotel. It was a nice dinner except that I had indigestion after that and kept puking for the rest of the night as well as the following day. Probably I ate too much! Haha, such a waste! Right now, I'm back to the healthy me and I'm planning on the meals to cook for the rest this week.

Yesterday I visited Bro's new DBSS flat at Ang Mo Kio Park Central. The environment and location are very nice, just that the flat is a tad too small. Can you actually believe that the toilet is bigger than the kitchen? To see is to believe, and yes, it is true! I think I wont have the mood to cook if my kitchen is that small. The bay windows and 2 balconies are a waste of space... BUT if everything is a little bigger, it would have be a perfect home, a condo-design flat. 

Anyway, to sum up this post, this week will be the start of me being a full time housewife. Going marketing later. Aiyo, so embarrassing! hahaaha! Cheerios!