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Monday, January 11, 2010, 11:10 am :

Yay to the new year! Yea, it's a little late for this sentiment for year 2010 is not going away anytime soon so I guess it doesn't matter much, right?

No new year resolutions again - see no point in doing it.

First, I have to spend time conjuring up all the resolutions that I know I will never get about to doing.

Secondly, it seems to be getting more and more impossible to set realistic resolutions so all my past resolutions were like trying to build castles in the air. Not good.

And I think I will be accumulating some sort of bad karma if I keep making resolutions but not keeping to them. So I shall stop.

Oh, but backtracking abit on the subject of resolutions, I think I can afford to make a small, little one. (typical female isn't it? fickle-minded)

To read more books in the year of 2010

Ok la, I know 'more' is quite subjective. It could mean 10 to people who haven't been reading much or 100 to people who reads alot but for now, I think that I am making good progress.

It's only the ~~11th~~ 13th day of year 2010 and I've already read a grand total of - 3 4! (or 4 5? hmm...)

Since I've already made one, I shall now give myself the luxury of making another one! (Boy, am I in a generous mood!)

To record down all the books that I've read in year 2010

Nice leh! So now I can actually remember and keep track of the books I've read so that I don't buy repeated books or try to read them again, unknowingly. And yes, that actually happened. I'd read this particular book so long ago that I don't really remember. And one day I needed a fresh book to start on and I randomly picked THAT book. When I first started reading it, I thought hey everything looks really familiar. Reading further and I realised that I had indeed read that book before. Sigh, the drawback for having too many books.

OK, book titles are as follows:

The Nostradamus Prophesies - Mario Reading (the one with the ambiguous status but am going to include it anyway.)
The Vanished Man - Jeffrey Deaver
The Keeper - Natasha Mostert
The Stone Monkey - Jeffrey Deaver ~~(In progress)~~ (By the time I finish this draft, I have finished the book)
Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell (In progress)

One thing down. Very good.

This is going to be quite a long post because when I couldn't sleep last night, I was sort of inspired to blog about many things. I kept making up sentences in my head but was too lazy to get up and start up my laptop and put them all down. Of course, it doesn't help that it was already probably 3.30am and I was already supposed to sleeping soundly, not having random sentences floating around in my head!

Anyway, it's just into the thirteenth day of the year and I felt like I had done so many things!

We celebrated my grandma's birthday on 3 Jan. Subsequently, went to the David Tao's concert on 8 Jan. However, I forgot that I was supposed to attend a meeting on the same night and had to make some last minute arrangements with another colleague for her to cover me for that night. On that same day, I 'conned' my immediate boss out of 2 unopened durians and we had durians for snacks. I then had my first mahjong session of the year on Saturday and finally some rest on Sunday. Come monday, 11 Jan, I went to RELC to attend a pre-trip briefing with the sister regarding her impending education overseas. Had the Korean food along Thomson Rd that I had been talking about trying forever and was indeed worth my perpetual talk. Tuesday, which was yesterday (the REAL yesterday since I finally finished this post on 13 Jan, Wed), meet the kuku girls for xiaolongbao-steamboat buffet at Crystal Jade at Holland Village.

My goodness. I even feel so busy already as I was typing that whole chunk of stuff out. I guess this will be a fruitful year! Considering a few friends are getting engaged/married, busy busy.

Oh ya, and I totally forgot about future events. Booked tickets to Bangkok in Feb, my first time since my memory although my mum insists otherwise. And the highlight of the month - my Amei concert! I almost forgot that I had to attend the concert on 30 Jan and almost booked tickets to Bangkok on 29 Jan. Luckily we had the 'blessings' of the Procrastination Deity and when I was finally reminded of the concert, we haven't booked the tickets! See, reiterated my view that this is going to be a good year despite Fengshui or whoever else who says that this is a bad Tiger year. BOO!

In the meantime, back to work! (Yes, I actually DO work)

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Thursday, May 21, 2009, 10:50 am :

I feel old. Not literally but mentally.

My birthday was just over but I no longer have the excitement that I used to have when I was younger. Now I understand how the older people feel when they say that birthdays are just another day in their lives. Birthday had also became another day for me, although I like to bug some people for presents, just for the fun of it.

I still came to work on my birthday, unlike many who would take leave on their birthdays. My rationale is very simple. What if someone decides to give me a gift or a treat and I'm not around to accept it?? Hah. Anyway that did happen. 2 colleagues bought me lunch. The bosses bought cakes for the May babies. And people complimented my heels, but that is not exactly the point.

Dinner was with my family and the bf, eating crabs. No other activities after that. No longer as happening as before. I think it gets tiring after some time too. I wonder how lh keeps up her lifestyle. Now, I think that time is always not enough for me to do my stuff, and its not even constructive stuff.

On another note, I've discovered why I don't really dress up much when I go out. (I seem to be making quite a few discoveries these days) So, on my birthday, my dad came to fetch me and my mum for dinner. But prior to that, we made a detour back home because my dad said I should go back home and change into something more comfortable. I was in a dress and heels and I decided that I should go home and change into shorts and t-shirt. Well, I think that pretty much explains that vanity is not really in the genes.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 8:31 am :

It has been quite some time since I had a really eventful weekend.

Sunday was IT fair day. It was some time since the last time I went to the IT fair actually with the intention of getting something. Well, not exactly me who was buying, it was my uncle but it comes down to the same thing. So, he bought a desktop under a rather small budget of $800, with no help from me of course. My way of buying things is "Woah so pretty! Woah so cheap for the prettiness. Buy!" In the end, it was the bf who can effectively work around the budget and get something relatively good for the price.

Commenting on the crowd at Suntec, it was madness. To make matters worse, it started pouring in the afternoon! Everyone just cramped themselves inside the building, obstructing every possible route to anywhere. I can only say thankfully my aunty has the foresight to take a bus from Dhoby Ghaut, if not we will be one of those who gets stuck in Citylink as the shutter shuts on the people going to Suntec from that way.

Saturday makes me feel that I really do not have enough time. How was I supposed to meet cw and gang for birthday celebration lunch at Changi Village Hotel then go meet lh and the rest for dinner and movie and mahjong after that? But being the super-woman I am, I managed to do that! And even made it for IT fair the next day :)

Some time since I last uploaded photos and added some colour and images to my blog. Some photos here. I've chosen the best few so as not to tarnish their reputation of "allowing diners to feel one with nature; overlooking lush greenery". Anyway, their selection of buffet dishes were rather limited and not exactly very appetizing. And it is not very often that people finish all the dishes from the buffet but I suspect we actually did. Let's just say that I will most probably not go back again for the buffet.

The birthday boy! I didn't stop him from eating his chicken wing, it was cw.

His birthday card that was partially ruined by jy as he used something from a cake to represent his signature. See something brownish at the bottom right place on the fence?

So, on Friday I went to a show. I am tempted to call it a play but it is not exactly one. More of a one-man show. Comedy.

This year marks a difference in my choice of shows to attend. Previously there was Breakout which was a dance comedy. Now there is Defending the Caveman which is also a comedy and a one-man show at that. And before I forget, there was Avenue Q too which was more like a satire than a comedy but still funny. As compared to the shows that I used to go to like Phantom of the Opera and The Forbidden City (to name a few), I guess the genre is kinda different.

Oh, and it marks me going back to the DBS Arts Centre after 4 years and the last time I was there, it was for a children show in which I wrote a report review on. Right, I know that it is not exactly the best material to use as a report that will be graded but hey, there was nothing else at that season (or more like we missed the shows that season) and me and a friend had not much choices.

Anyway, the theme of Defending the Caveman is a rather interesting and prevalent one. Like the relations between men and women and how they relate to different things differently. It is kind of hard to go into details of what the actor said but the idea was that since everyone originated from the cavemen times (so to speak), whatever men and women are today is just an evolution of their instincts and jobs in the past.

In the past, the men hunted therefore they had to be focussed on only ONE task and do it good. The women were then gatherers who had to be aware of their surroundings all the time and bring home all the different fruits or vegetables that they can find, in a group. So, this basis segregation of tasks served as a~~n excuse~~ reason why men can't multi-task and why women likes to do shopping and gather around in groups. Well, I guess there is some stand to this reasoning but hey, I found out that I identified with the men's traits more than the women's. Except the multi-tasking part of course.

I throw my things around the house, though I sort of know where I threw them. I sometimes throw my wet towel on the bed and forget to bring it back to the bathroom and would get an earful from my mum. I sort of negotiate my way of situations so that I can do the bare minimum. I hate shopping. So, with all these traits of mine, I hereby suspect that the bf is gay. :)

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Monday, March 02, 2009, 12:38 am :

So, my blog was down for a few days because the creator of the template has exceeded his/her bandwidth and I wasn't in the mood to do something about it until today.
Well, it was quite an easy problem to solve actually but it just all boils down to laziness.

Hmm, I have been away from this blog for so so long that it has been severely neglected. Just a rundown on events from the previous weeks when I had gone 'missing'.

I went for the Korean comedy dance-show "Breakout" on its last night of show and its a totally different genre of performance from those that I usually go to. I usually either go for plays, concerts or musicals but this is a totally different experience. And that being a comedy makes it even more different. Anyway, the plot and the actors made the whole experience really fun and interesting and I was laughing away most of time, as with all others in the Esplanade Theatre. So, I went with my sister, aunt and my cousin and my aunt and cousin was like totally fascinated by the whole venue and the performance. According to my aunt, he was already gesturing around in the bus, trying to imitate those performers and their dance moves from the show. He even told my aunt to bring him if they were going to have a sequel.

Moving on, we finally had a belated birthday dinner with kutu and gang. We had initially decided to go to Little India nearby for the French food but when we reached the place, alas it was closed on Mondays!! Having no choice, alternate dining option was at Mohammad Sultan.

So our initial plan of going to Mustafa to buy a garland for kutu was foiled as we didn't even got near to Mustafa! And we got the silly woman a gift, which I think was extremely useless, and she loves it to bits. No prize for guessing but it was some Hello Kitty thingy that didn't exactly cost cheap. And I think her birthday resolution was to turn me into a Hello Kitty fan just like herself, mx and pr. I will NEVER succumb to such nonsensical pressure!! NEVER! Especially not from kutu who will not turn against my wishes, for fear of losing my love. Heh!

Next! (Bear with me as I am trying to cram 3 weeks worth of activities into 1 post. You are free to leave if you think I am getting too long-winded ;))

On Friday, I attended a conference conducted by the Tax Academy of Singapore talking about the recent changes in Budget 2009. After that conference, which I ~~fell asleep~~ got a little distracted by Zhou Gong, I seriously wonder how people sit through all these and emerge fully awake and attest to having paid attention to everything! On the other hand, it made me even more aware of the fact that an Arts student should not try to understand Business, more so Tax. Haha.

Well, at least something redeeming happened at night. 2 of the academic colleagues gave a treat at Pearl River Restaurant at Suntec for their promotion. So, the whole office of 25 trooped down to Suntec for dinner after work. It was ala carte buffet and I'm sure all the big eaters in my school were very very happily eating to their hearts' content.

Just as I thought that, hey I got a free dinner, I fell sick subsequently. -_-"
Not exactly a very good way to enjoy my weekend. After the dinner, I got a sore throat, Saturday the runny nose came visiting and on Sunday I was sneezing away. So, I got an MC on Monday. BUT, although I was on MC, somehow there were still so many things for me to do. On that day itself, I went to renew my passport at the post office, went to the bank to close an account and went to another bank to deposit the money then went back home to see my sister studying in the kitchen.

Oh, digressing a little here. The sister has taken to studying in the kitchen as she claims that it was very quiet and no distractions (except from food I guess). So whenever my mum wants to go into the kitchen, she just sort of tip-toe into the kitchen and creep out silently.

Back to me being sick. Despite having a MC for Monday, I still had to go back to work on Tuesday, still sniffling away and feeling miserable. I was telling my colleagues in the office that I was back to spread the germs. I want to make everyone suffer together with me! Muahahaha. And I did sort of manage to spread it to someone! My neighbour! Around Thursday, he said he felt feverish and sick and when he went back to measure his temperature, he was running a fever. Heh. Someone to feel as miserable as me!

Okok, I think patience is running low but hey, the patient bird gets the worm right? :)

Last of the update post, Saturday UniSIM Open House.

Well, we were rostered for duties on Saturday for the open house. So basically, we had to stand around our individual schools' booth and try to sell our programmes, so to speak. I was telling some of my colleagues that we must take on the surname of "Wang" on that day itself because we had to 老王卖瓜.

Anyway, we had to tell potential students more about our programmes and ~~con~~ persuade them to come join us in UniSIM. We are one big happy family!

So, after talking to students for one whole day, I found out that I really quite enjoy such jobs. Interacting and talking to people on an ad-hoc basis and more of talking nonsense to them. Although it is really quite tiring and the programme briefing that I was in-charge of had an overwhelming number of people surging into the LT and me trying to entertain everyone of them, while feeling really really warm and wishing that I had 8 tentacles just like an octopus.

With all that over, me, cw and jy happily went to Carrefour for their Midnight Sale. So in the end, I came back with a new TV-plug-in console game with 30 in-built games and 2 packets of bacon., because my sister promised to cook bacon for me as long as I buy it. :)

This is an absurdly long post and I am not aspiring to be one of those who update their blog regularly but with mundane things, like what they did everyday. So, this is it.

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Tuesday, January 06, 2009, 3:46 pm :

I survived Pulau Ubin! and more...

Yay. I survived Pulau Ubin on a healing sprained foot and 4 hours of sleep. The strange thing was that I said "I survived Pulau Ubin" as my facebook status and an application friend asked me where was Pulau Ubin and if it was tough to survive it... -_-" I guess sometimes exaggeration gets taken a bit too seriously.

I love this sign. It looks creepy.

And I love the sky-clouds there.

And I love this tree. It looks surreally out of place.

Their love-hate r/s.

Saturday was grandma's 79th birthday and we went to a restaurant in Tiong Bahru Plaza for dinner. According to wisely, the restaurant is moving out soon, not that I'm bothered much by that; the food was only average. Oh, and through this dinner then I realised that I do not have that bad shaky hands after all! All the photos I took were clear but all the rest taken by others were blurred. -_-" I guess anti-shake don't work for really shaky hands after all.

寿桃, compliments of the restaurant.

Sunday was Mayday's free outdoor concert at Stadium Green, which was packed. There were even people who queued overnight just go to be right in front. It seriously makes no sense because it is a very big area and even when we only reached at 6+pm, by the time we got into the field, we can still see everything clearly from the back.

Monday was their autograph session which was also packed. Seriously, I never knew that there were THAT many fanatic fans of Mayday around! I guess there must be some free event in order to find that out. Well, all the photos here are not exactly top quality but make do k..

Oh, and my phone is spoilt. I can't hear the other party over a call but at least I can still send and receive messages. Since I was having blocked ear these days, I even made my sister confirm that it was really my phone that was spoilt but not my ear that is deaf. Fortunately (for my ear but not my phone), she also can't hear the other party over the phone. So I'm convinced that it is a sign telling me to get a new phone! And I got myself this phone.

It's pretty but I don't really like the screen inside, it's kinda small. And the colour selection is next to non-existent. There was only Black available. And the worse part was I walked around AMK looking for this phone but there was only ONE store in the entire area that still have stock for this phone and they have only ONE piece of it left. Seriously, is this phone really that hot that everyone has grabbed one, or is it so lousy that the stores don't even want to bring in much of it? That is a question left to be answered by myself. Time will tell.

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Friday, August 08, 2008, 10:00 am :

xr bdae

I have backlagging in my blogging these days. I think working has not done wonders to me. It has made me fatter and lazier. What can be worse than that? That shall be the reason I would give when I want to stop working.

Anyway, some photos below. Most are from xianrong's birthday (which was eons ago) and some other random photos.

Birthdays must have presents right?? That is the gift box in which the presents were.

And food! How would he dare to return from Japan without buying any food for us??
But I actually thought that this was a jigsaw puzzle. Can't blame me right? It DOES look like a wrapped up jigsaw puzzle..

Attempting to open the titbits for us to eat. He must have not been very willing, judging from his expression.Food! Japanese stuffs are real cute. The packaging are beyond words. Not to mention delicious too. Snack that looked like a chick, supposedly.
And he bought other snacks too. There were delicious chocolates and the one here is corn chocolate. You must be thinking wth, corn choc?? But its surprisingly good.
Those holding the choc must be secretly trying to snatch it away from each other when I finished taking the photo.
That's the present. The thing on the table, not the girl. You are supposed to balance everything on that board that rests on a ball. And she had succeeded after many tries in putting almost all on top of the board, with one last one in her hands.
I told her to pose for a photo because I am sure when the last one goes, everything will fall. And I was right. Heh.
This is the other present. Well, it works the same way, just that instead of stacking Snow White, her Prince Charming, the 7 dwarves and poison apples, you are supposed to stack spikes on the porcupine.
Everyone having fun/fascination over the presents/toys. Trying.
Still trying.
And move on to the next one.
On a final update for that, XR claims that he had completed both and can stack EVERYTHING atop of the board/porcupine. I've yet to seen it so I don't believe it. I'll make him bring everything out one day and stack it right infront of me, then I'll take photo and believe it!

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Some random photos.

My grandfather has this really cool ring. It's a puzzle ring. There are 4 bands and in order to get it intact again, you got to piece it back, like some mind-twisting puzzle.
This was taken before I dismantled the piece, and I've yet to piece it back. :(

Some time back, owl and I went to Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. It was his first time there, can you believe it... Anyway, these are our dinner for that night.

While waiting for the food.

Marcaroni with cheese and chicken and bread. First few mouthful was good until I got sick of the marcaroni.

Fish and Chips for him. How boring can one get. Heh.

On a final note, it is National Day again tomorrow. Unfortunately, it falls on a Saturday. The leave is credited to my annual leave, which I still can't take because of the silly probation period.
Well, either case, HAPPY NATIONAL DAY!
And today is the start of the Beijing Olympics too. :)

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Friday, July 11, 2008, 9:24 am :

Yesterday was the graduation day for me. Honestly speaking, it is quite a chore. I got to prepare this, prepare that. If not for my parents wanting to go, I think I would not have went.

And coincidentally, it was my dad's birthday yesterday too! So, it was a great birthday present for him, one which he had paid for, an investment he said. Heh.

Well, he was happy but my mum claimed she was not. Because...

She is a fake graduate. -_-"""

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Sunday, June 08, 2008, 9:27 pm :

Dinner at Carnivore was a totally different experience. A scary one. It really made me feel like a carnivore and now I understand why is it that real carnivores eat their catch over a span of a few days, because if they try to finish all in a day, I'm sure they will puke!

The food that was on our plates was so much and it was all meat and of course, we could not finish them. I actually felt a little guilty for not finishing my food but it was really beyond my eating ability. Even a half-carnivore like me sort of gave up on meat for today and yesterday's supper.

Anyway, it was supposed to be a belated birthday celebration for me, and of course there would be presents! Mx went to Shanghai and bought us each a notebook and a pair of earrings. And the girls shared to buy another present for me, a cantaloupe (a honeydew-like melon, to be put simply). When I told my parents they bought me that, their first reaction was, "They so cheapo?!?" But of course, they were not. You can never imagine how much it costs. I shall reveal it in the next entry, with the photo of the melon. =)

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Thursday, October 25, 2007, 11:11 pm :

Found out that I have lots of photos and stuff. So I figured that maybe I'll upload some of them up so that if one day my laptop decides to crash or something, there will still be a place where I have some of the photos.

Enlarge this to read. It's real funny.