Congratulations

26th Dec mark a memorable day for my close friend - Limei. It's her wedding day! On the 25th night, I went to Phyllis house to sleep so that early in the morning, both of us could wake each other up as we had to reach the bride house at 5.30am. Hardly slept that night. When I really managed to fall aslp, it's time to wake up.

Reach her house around 5.45am. She was already half way through the makeup. When all the JieMeis had arrived, we started our discussion on the gatecrashing. As we only had 15mins for the sabo session, we didn't planned much. The worse part was the groom was late!! This shorten our "Playing" time even more. Wonder if the groom did it on purpose so he could escape the sabotage. Anyway, we still managed to run through all the games we had planned for him all because he FORGOT to bring along the bouquet of hand flowers! Luckily his house was only about 8mins walk from the bride's. One of his Xiong Di dash back to the house to get the flowers. As per instruction by the bride's mum, without the flowers, he was not allowed to come into the house. Hence we had more time for the gatecrashing session. Mr Groom, we had wanted to let you in, but your Mother-In-Law forbidded it...oops..hahaha..

The day was tiring. In between, the couple went Labrador Park and One Fullerton for photoshoots. Then we went to the couple's new house for the tea ceremony (Groom's side). We had our lunch at their new house at Jurong West. After the lunch, we headed back to the bride's house for another session of tea ceremony (Bride's side). Reach home at 2pm. Took out my contact lens, remove my makeup and storm into bed. Wonder why it was so much more tiring compared to the previous JieMei I had done.

Woke up at 5pm and got ready for the banquet. Phyllis and I had to reach the hotel by 6pm for our reception duty. Guest started flowing in around 7pm. They had a total of 50 tables, but it seems many tables were not totally filled up. First march-in started at around 8.20pm. Marina Mandarin had quite a special presentation of the first dish. The waiters/waitresses actually did a short dance on the stage carrying the plate of cold dish, before presenting it to the guest tables. Thumbs up for that.

Program for the banquet were much pretty normal, with photo montage, cake cutting and toasting, then tables photoshoots followed by shake-hand byebye.

Reach home at around 12am and slept around 1. Now this newly wedd couple is still enjoying their honeymoon in New Zealand when I'm writing this blog. May both of them had a blissful marriage ahead and had a road of happiness forever. ^_^

Mr & Mrs Goh ROM photos.
Mr & Mrs Goh Wedding photos.

Happy 25th Birthday; Happy Dong Zhi!

Today is Hui's birthday. Had a mini celebration with him, together with his family yesterday night. I bought him a 2.5" external HDD with casing and pouch as his birthday present. His birthday cake was a white chocolate mint favour sponge cake. Yummy! I love the taste of mint. Gave me a cool and refreshing sensation. Hmmmm..seems like I bought the cake coz I like it and not because he like it??!!



The Birthday Cake


Hui and his cake


Me and him. The heart shape aga aga was done by his mum. See the gift he's holding in his left hand?? ^_^


Today we went to Orchard to shop for christmas gifts. I was quite surprise that on a weekday afternoon, there were still such a big crowd! Initially, I thought going down to orchard at this noon was a good time as it would not be so pack as compared to the evening, but I was wrong! Seems like many people were also clearing leave just like me. Mummy and Daddy bringing their kids to shop for gifts, teenagers were seen in groups shopping around, ah gong and ah ma bringing their grandchildren out for a walk, couples hand-in-hand chatting away...Walking in between the crowds, squeezing my way through made me wana leave the place asap. Anyway, we left the place with only a receipt in hand. A receipt to collect the log cake on the 24th evening. We ordered a log cake from Bakerzin, to bring over to Hui sister's house for the cosy christmas feast cum gifts exchange on the 24th. Guess we will soon be back to town, into the crowd again to shop for gifts either tmr or Sat.

Today is also the day for Tang Yuan. The elderly always said eat 1 Tang Yuan, you'll be older by one year. Today I had eaten many - one bowl from Hui's house, another bowl from my house. So how many years old am I now??

I'm now on my 8 days long break. Will be back to work on the 29th. Many people ask why don't I used this time to go for a holiday? Well, besides my dear Hui is not able to take so many days of leave like me, $$ is another major issue. Hmmm, how should I spent my long break wisely?? I'm still thinking....

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

A wonderful getaway to Meritus Mandarin Hotel on 3rd-4th Dec. Yes, after celebrating my anniversary there, few weeks later I'm back again. This time with 6 close girlfriends of mine - 5 secondary school friends and 1 cousin. Total guest: 7. Only 1 rule for the gathering: NO GUYS ALLOW!

This Hens' Party was specially organise for our dear Limei who will be getting married on the 26th Dec 2005. Check in at 2pm and only three arrived. As usual, there's always late comers in our group. And for your information, the late do not refer to minutes but in HOURS! There's always tons of reasons for being late.
Pls refer to the following for the timing of the arrival guest:-

Guest 1 and 2: 2pm.
Guest 3: 2.15pm
Guest 4: 4+pm
Guest 5: 6.30pm
Guest 6: 9+pm
Guest 7: 11.30pm

To the others, some guest arrival timing might be ridicules. But to a group of us who have been friends for 11 years, it was totally common!
Anyway, we did had our fun that day. After check-in, we went TAKA Cold Storage to grab some tidbits and drinks. Went to Wheelock NYDC for dinner at around 7+pm(Only applicable to Guest 1-5). Headed back to Cold Storage for a bottle of Vodka.

After the last guest arrived, we started our games and sabo section. We played Heart Attack, Zhong-Ji-Mi-Ma, Bluff, 7-Up and XXX (sorry, not sure what's the name of this game). All our childhood games really brought back many memories. After the wine and Vodka were all finished up, we decided to call it a day as it was already 3++am.

The challenge started...7 girls squeezing into a King size bed! All turning at the same direction towards the right. Not a single space for you to move your body. Due to the drinks, some left the bed for toilet and after they returned, their space was taken. Some managed to squeeze back into the bed while this particular guest prefer to sleep on the sofa instead after realising sofa might be more comfortable afterall. Early morning 7+am, I was awaken by the noise. As expected, complains started around the room on snatching blanket, body numb, cold, no space, etc etc.

Although all of us didnt manage to sleep well, but I truely enjoy every moment we spent that day. It was never easy to bring everybody together unless we had special events like wedding or chalet. Hence that 2 days spent was really a memorable one.

"Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there." - Anonymous

We also chatted alot about our past, present and future.
Past - the times during sec sch
Present - relationship, weddings, job, guys, sex
Future - Babies production!

Gain quite alot of informative stuffs I would say. Thanks to all who contributed..:)
Enough said, here's the photos taken. Enjoy!
Credits to Phyllis for her camera and uploading of the photos.

My Pride

After living in this earth for 24 years, I don't know what the hell am I still here for?
Whenever I want to do something yet I'm not able to achieve it, I feel really depress. I can only blame myself for being so useless! Why can the others do it so well, yet I just can't seems to master the skill?! Work started to get quite monotonous. Things just doesn't seems to go well lately.

In total depression. I want to be alone for these few days.
* Do Not Disturb sign flashing *

Draw-a-pig

You Drew Your Pig:

Toward the middle of the frame, you are a realist.

Facing front, you are direct, enjoy playing devil's advocate and neither fear nor avoid discussions.

With few details, you are emotional and naive, you care little for details and are a risk-taker.

With 4 legs showing, you are secure, stubborn, and stick to your ideals.

The size of the ears indicates how good a listener you are. You are a poor listener.

The length of the tail indicates the quality of your sex life. You have a good sex life.



Draw-a-pig

5th Sweet Year

Yesterday celebrated our 5th Year anni at Meritus Mandarin Hotel. Only check-out this afternoon 3pm. Every year, we make it a point to put in effort to celebrate this special day without fail, no matter how busy we are at work. We also put in extra effort to ensure the other party will get a gift on this special day, so we had something to remembered every year.

This year was a last min preparation of gift for the both of us. We hardly had any time to go search for gift. I did mine only on friday night..took 1/2 day leave just to go search around Singapore, hoping to find something meaningful to give to my other half. Shop for 4hrs+, taking MRT starting from Tampines Mall, then Bugis, Raffles Place, Boon Lay and finally back to Clementi. All I bought was just a bottle!

Came back with no clue of what to place in the bottle. I just like the bottle so much that I went ahead to the cashier to pay without even thinking do I had time for folding stars/love etc into the bottle.

Started walking around my room searching for ideas at 6+pm. 'TING'! Saw something useful hiding at one corner of my room. 'TING', manage to dig out another thing from my sister's drawer. 'TING', 'TING', 'TING'! Alright, all materials were ready.....

1hr passed...Gift was ready in time for tmr to pass it to him..PHEW!

For me, I got a cross-stitch coaster from him. He sewed it himself! For a guy and was his first try, I would think it was quite well done, though the thread used was too thick..hehehe...Nice try Hui! Keep it up..^_^

As for what we did in the hotel, nothing special. Eat, watch TV, sleep and swim. Don't think too complicated..we still do not have the license for that 'S' thing yet..:P

For your viewing pleasure...Our gifts!

uZap Vs Trimax

Bought a uZap on Sat at Osim suntec branch. Was contemplating between Oto Trimax or Osim uZap. After much thoughts and feedback from the salesperson, I have bought the latter. Still trying it out and hope it's really that useful as what the salesperson had said.

Life is getting really bored in Singapore. Walking from Marina Square to Suntec, and back to Marina Square again, both of us still could not decide what to do. Went to Starburks for a cuppy and discuss what's the event for the day after getting the uZap.

In the end, went to his house to try out the function of the newly bought equipment. We had instant noodle for dinner to save $$. Stay at his house to watch TV programs until 9+pm and headed to East Coast for rollar blading. Reach home around 12+am.

Think Sunday will be another Nua day at home..sianz...

1 more week to our 5th Anni. Stay tune for more updates next week. ^_^

Yak, Yak, Yak

Visited the dentist yesterday. It has been almost 9 years since I did a check up for my teeth. I'm not afraid to see a doctor if I'm sick, but I'm VERY afraid to see a dentist! Like a small little girl, I told the dentist I'm afraid of the pain and that's why I never did any checkup for my teeth after I left secondary school. She, being a kind lady "pampered" me by keep talking to me so that my mind get distracted. Lying there, I almost fell asleep. Was her "speech" too boring, or I'm just tired? Who cares, before I realise anything, it was done! Did polishing and some fillings for my teeth.

After that went to Hui's house for him to get changed. Nua at his house until 4+pm and went to Marina Square GV to catch a movie - Sneek preview, Doom at 0040. We have about 7hrs before the movie starts! Went Marche at suntec for dinner. Sat there for about 3hrs! Ordered Rosti, Chicken Breast, Pizza, root beer and lastly sweet crepes with Mango plus chocolate topping for dessert! Mmm, the crepes is sooo nice! We talk about anything under the sun for 3hrs! Hmm..didn't know after 5 years of dating, we still have so much to talk....

Left Marche at 9.20pm. Went to Pan Pac hotel to kaypoh around seeing if there were any weddings. There's one at Ocean Ballroom and a company D&D at Pacific ballroom. We sat at the red sofa near the Ocean Ballroom for about 2hrs. Once again, we started our yakking..Alas! What a talkative couple we are!

Finally we were nearer to 12 midnight. Left the hotel at 11.15pm and went to carpark to take our jacket. We presume it should be quite cold in the cinema at this time. Since we still had some time to spare, we went for a 45 mins pool session. Finish the last game at 12.30am and proceed to the cinema.

Review for Doom: Stars: ***
Plot is quite similar to Resident Evil. Scientist did some research and it got out of hand. The chemical reaction started to go wrong in human body and mutated into big creature, going around killing people. Doom and Resident Evil, I would prefer the latter.

Upcoming movie to catch: Harry Porter and the Goblet of Fire (17th Nov) and King Kong (Dec)

My Ideal Relationship

Your Ideal Relationship is Marriage


You've dated enough to know what you want.
And that's marriage - with the right person.
You're serious about settling down some time soon.
Even if you haven't met the person you want to get hitched to!
What's Your Ideal Relationship?

One year from today

Nothing much to comment today. Life as usual. Working and hanging out with Hui and friends.

But I want to comment something down today. One year from today, will my life still be the same? I'm getting jittery of the new chapter I'm entering into 365 days later..

Counting down..365 days..

Finally a meet up

Yesterday was my poly friend, seh choi's birthday. After many many months, someone finally organise an outing, and we finally met up. No one had changed much, still the same old them. Of course if compared to the school days, ALL of us had changed quite a bit. Should I use the word OLD? or MATURED?

Anyway, Hui and me didn't join them for dinner. We went to Kallang Stadium instead after work for the CATS Classified new logo launch event. Quite similar to the 160th yrs Straits Times Anniversary, we need to finish up a jigsaw puzzle where the pieces were located everywhere in the newspaper since 28th Sept till 7th Oct. We were to piece them up, go down to the location, drop them into the lucky draw box and waiting to walk away with $10,000 cash. The traffic was so much better compared to the Straits Times event and crowd was so much smaller.

7.30pm was the lucky draw. The lucky person who been called up to the stage had to memorized a 8 numbers sequence in 30sec (eg Left 8, Right 1, Right 7 etc) . There was a box in the center of the stage with a turnable number pad stick to the front of the box. It was like opening a safe box. The person had to turn the number pad according to what he had memorized. The winner would walk away with the cash if he/she got all the 8 numbers sequence correct. If one person got it wrong, they would continued to draw until it reached the 10th contestant. If all 10 contestants did not managed to open the safe, the 10 of them would have any round of chance.

I'm so all ready for the game and yet I'm just not the lucky one. Each time a person got the combi wrong, the crowd will CHEER! Yes, course that would mean everyone of us down the stage would have a equal chance to be called. A lucky lady, the 10th contestant, had walk away with the 10K. Crowd dispersed looking disappointed. I'm one of them...:p

Rush down to cityhall to meet up with them after the draw. Went to Swensen to have ice-cream. Tge and me pretended to go toilet, but we had actually ordered a ice-cream cake and asked to be delivered to our table, with candles lighted after we finish the main course. Well, hui was the only one having spaggetti. I had fries and others have ice-cream.
The surprise came...Singing, clapping, blowing, cutting, eating..

Left Swensen at 10.30pm as we were chased by the waiter. They were closing for the day. Catch a movie at 11.45pm. Not a really nice show I would say. Rated 5 out of 10 for it - The 40 years old Virgin.

Reach Hui's home around 2+am. Slept at 3+am. Gosh, what a tired Friday!

Many Congratulations

Didn't realise I have not been blogging for one mth plus! Thanks ricky, for reminding! He's definitely my loyal reader. You deserve a Loyalty Reward! Hehe..

Recently another best friend of mine (TGE) just msg me and told me she is getting ROM soon. Look at the following list of my friends ROM/Customary this year:

31st May: Maggie's ROM cum Customary
June: Limei's ROM
18th Sept: Bryan's ROM
28th Nov: Gek Eng's ROM
26th Dec: Limei's Customary
Dec: Karen's ROM

What a wonderful year isn't it? So happy for them to have found their other 1/2 who is willing to spent the rest of their life with.

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Yesterday was discussing about the 7 wonders of the world with Hui's sisters and bro-in-laws. This morning saw a brochure from SingPost on my computer desk saying there is a lucky draw - Grand prize: Trip to ALL 7 wonders over 7 years!

Wow wow...targeting to travel to the 7 wonders by age of 30yrs old, with this year starting from China. But due to budget constraint because of a new "baby" sunny, have to put this trip on hold. How nice if I'm the lucky one to win that grand prize.

China - The Great Wall of China
America - Grand Canyon
Italy - Leaning Tower of Pisa
Australia - Great Barrier Reef
Britain - Stonehenge
India - Taj Mahal
Egypt - Great Pyramids of Giza

177155-4, 1632

For the past 1 year 3 months, you had been sending Hui to and from work without fail. Whenever I don't feel like taking public transport home after work, you were always there to send me home safely in the hands of Hui. During the weekends, I'm already so pampered by you for sending me to every corner of Singapore, without the fear of long distance and time spent taking public transport.

Although at times I hated you for not able to provide me shelter when it's raining, but come to think of it, hiding under the bridge waiting for the rain to stop with you and Hui is kind of romantic.

After we got to know you not long, Hui fell sick and had been coughing for 1yr+ due to the rain which you didn't provide shelter with. But seeing you faithfully accompanied us around Singapore without falling sick, not even once, I had already forgiven you.

On 16th July, you were injured because of a irresponsible driver and his passengers. Hui and my heart bleeded seeing you suffered superficial and perhaps internal injuries. We brought you to see Dr Koon and luckily, he claimed no internal injuries.

We are really reluctant to leave you. But because of that accident, we started to feel our life are at risk with you around. We had came up with a decision. It's cruel to you but we had no choice. We had to find you another owner.

Hui and I will always remember the happy times spent together with you, and 1632 will vividly be remembered in our heart.

Goodbye, Mr Phantom...

Some thoughts

Watched Bewitched today with Hui, his 2nd sis & bro-in-law. Each ticket cost $4 as it was organised by Thomson CC Youth Group community. Hui's colleague was a member of this community, hence we were able to get the tickets. Have to reach Junction 8 by 9am to collect the tickets. Gosh..it was a sunday!! Every sunday, I'm supposed to only wake up at 11++am! Anyway, glad I went. It was quite a funny show and it's good to have a good laugh on an early sunday morning. But spending $9.50 for this show..ermm..I would think it's rather not worth it.

Took this personality test a while ago..
It was so true especially those sentences highlighted in red..
I have something to comment regarding that sentence in purple.
In the very beginning when I was still in Poly, or just started came out working, my aim was to work hard and climb to the very top in a company. Driving a sports car (regardless of whatever brand) in orchard road and everyone will turn their head towards me as I drive pass was the goal I'm going to achieve in the next 5-10 years. very ambitious huh?
However, after seeing through many ups and downs in life as I grew older, this career-minded thinking started to change. A sucessful career woman who manages her subordinates in office well is a worthless woman if she goes home and there's no one to share this joy or woe with. Of course, many people wants the best of both world. But if you can't, and you can only choose btw a bachelorette cum a senior executive in a company to a family (husband and 2 kids) cum a normal rank position job, I would choose the latter...

" Your view on yourself:
You are intelligent, honest and sweet. You are friendly to everybody and don't like conflict. Because you're so cheerful and fun people are naturally attracted to you and like to talk to you.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:
You like to flirt and behave seductively. The opposite sex finds this very attractive, and that's why you'll always have admirers hanging off your arms. But how serious are you about choosing someone to be in a relationship with?

Your views on education
Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:
You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:
Success in your career is not the most important thing in life. You are content with what you have and think that being with someone you love is more than spending all of your precious time just working.

What are you most afraid of:
You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.

Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve. "

The fear finally came true

Last Sat, Strait Times was having it's 160th Anniversary carnival at East Coast Park. If you had follow the newspaper closely since 1st July, you would probably knew about the riddle game and winning a Mazda 6. Hui and I woke up early in the morning to go down to ECP to drop the riddle coupon into the lucky draw box hoping to win a car back.All coupon have to be collected before 11.30am or it would considered to be void for the lucky draw.....

Along the ECP expressway turning towards East Coast Parkway, our nightmare happened. Due to the overwhelming respond, exit 10A was totally jam with cars. The advantage of having a bike was that it was able to squeeze through during traffic jam. As the cars were very near to each other, Hui took the road shoulder. While the bike was still in motion at low speed, this nissan sunny car driver let his passenger to get out of the car in the expressway, hoping to walk to East Coast Park by using the road shoulder so that they could drop the coupon into the box before 11.30am. Without checking if there were oncoming vehicle, the back seat passenger opened the car door and hit right at our bike which caused us to fall.

Bike fallen to the curb, Hui and me fell into the bushes at the side of the road shoulder. Blood and bruises were found on our legs. Luckily, there were no head injuries as it was bushes and not concrete walls! Both party were at fault. But I would think that driver was in a bigger trouble. We had offend traffic rules but they not only offend traffic rules, they had cause injuries to third party due to their carelessness!

No ambulance nor police were involved. We settled it privately. Hui had lodge a accident report with IDAC. We have decided not to pay for each other damages. But ofcourse, we suffered heavier damage (bike + injuries) compared to that driver, where only the car door was dented, and no injuries at all to that 3 person seating comfortably in the car!

Hui had bruises on his leg and chest, and knocked his chin which was now swollen. He had seen a doctor and done his xray. Hopefully no internal injuries.
As for me, I "won" a pig trotter leg at the Straits Times 160th Anniversary!

Many people around us always said we shouldn't have a bike as our transport because it's dangerous. Car is Tie Bao Ren. Motor is Ren Bao Tie. In Hui's opinion, as long as the driver is safe and dun speed, nothing will happen. Well, the fear in everyone's heart had finally happened. After this accident, both of us not only suffered external injuries, but also internal fear. Hui felt guilty for causing my injuries. After persuasion from Hui's siblings and serious calculation of our money, we have decided to sell away the bike and get a car........

The Battle Begins

A busy and sicky life for the past week. Out of my previous company and getting to settle down in my new company. Was in a bad shape on my first day of work on 30th June. Must had caught the virus from my sister. Been coughing badly and plus the changing of my body alarm system (to wake up 6.30am!!), made me beaten by the virus and had yet again, became ill.

Orientation on my first day was simply simple. Doing a checklist with the HR, explaining about the company structure, introducing me to my buddy which he would bring me around the office and introducing my new colleagues to me. My finance users are a friendly bunch of people. So are my IT mates and manager. Guess that's quite important as they are my supporting pillars when I'm under extreme stress.

Only got my T42 thinkpad after lunch. So the whole morning was quite free and started to "admire" my surrounding. Had my own cubicle with two documents tray, 3 cabinets(with lock) for putting my stuffs, one open shelf for files, my name tag stating 'Shara Wong' attach to my cubicle, my personal cisco IP phone with my name logon, a super comfy chair with high backrest and adjustable armrest. Most impt, my office have window!! Though the blind is always down, but i can see sun shining in through the holes bringing in warmth for the day! Well, my previous project site do not have window, hence not knowing if it's shining or raining outside. 2 person had to squeeze in 1 table with 2 desktop and files. Can you imagine that? Scrolling your mouse have to be done in a small action or you might knock into the hand beside you. Everyone was seated so close to one another that you could hear clearly what that person was talking on the phone although he was seated 5 person away from you. Bags have to put on the floor as there are simple no space for cabinets...

Started my first wkend work last sat. Hated it extremely when I'm so sick, yet have to come back to office! It was finance month end cum quarter end closing. Being the IT personnel, I had to be there as well. Guess I should have started work AFTER their closing!

I'm recovering from my bad cough and terrible running noise after seeing the doctor. This wkend shall enjoy myself thoroughly to compensate for what I've miss for the past weekend! War of the world.....here I come....

Recovering...

She was discharged yesterday at 2+pm. Doctor said it was gastric flu and virus infection. The main problem that causes such pain might be due to the diarrhoea pills that she ate. It had stop the diarrhoae and vomitting, but it actually increased the gastric pain. The doctor said usually they do not recommend patients to eat pills to stop the diarrhoea as it will go away after running to the toilet for a few times.
Doctor also mention that the virus would subsides by itself few days later and therefore she could go home and rest. MC was given till 26th June. She will be back to work on 27th June, Mon.
Thanks for all the concerns from you, guys! She is now fine and resting at home.

Heartache

"Hello, ur sis now at changi hospital a&e under observation...". This msg came to me evening at 6.15pm. Without hesitation, I log off my PC and took a cab down from TTSH to CGH.

When i went into the observation room, she was lying in bed like a 'scrimp' and crying. The pain must be killing her. Seeing her suffering in this manner, tears started rolling down my cheeks too. At 7+pm, the doctor told my sis bf and I that she had to be admitted.

All the pain started on Mon afternoon where she got food poisoning and took 1/2 day MC to see doctor. Today, she was suppose to rest at home after all the diarrhoea and vomitting on Mon. Instead, she went back to work at 10+am. Around 2+pm, she could bear no futher the pain in her stomach that her colleagues had to sent her to hospital. Her bf rushed down to the hospital at 3+pm and they were at A&E all the way till I came to know about the news. The doctor had prescribed her first round of medicine which didn't take any effect at all. The pain was really killing her. Hence, second dose of stronger medicine and she was in observation room until 7+pm. The doctor came the 3rd time and decided she should be admitted.

I wanted to break this news to my parents only after I went home, but mum had been trying to reach my sis and me since 7+pm. In the end, sis bf told my mum the bad news. Worrying was all we could do as even the doctor couldn't seems to find out the actual problem that caused the pain! We'll have to wait until tomorrow for the scanning and result....

A Fruitful Week

Last whole week was exciting, fun and healthy.

On monday, I made a decision which had been bothering me for almost one month. I had tendered! In the morning, I went to my new company and signed the letter of appt. In the evening, I tendered my resignation letter to the project manager. My last day of service with the current company is 29th June. Will be starting work in the new company on 30th June. No break in between as there is simply no time for that. :(
So what made me decided to leave Accenture, which consider one of the top few MNC company and join another company. Well, many factors contribute to that and I really hope I did not made the wrong move.

On Tues, my first time being a Jie Mei. It was fun! Though I did not had enough sleep the day before, but all was worth it. From early morning 7.30am, the groom came to pick the bride and the Jie Meis were there blocking at the door, the tea ceramony, to the solemnization at the temple by Ming Yi Fa Shi, and finally the banquet at Conrad hotel, all went smoothly as planned. Reach home at 12+am. Super tired!

On Wed, took MC and rest the whole day at home.

On Thur, went rock climbing with Hui, his 2 sisters and their hubby. It was my first time there. Looking at those small grips that stuck onto that 3 story huge walls, or people call it rock...whatever.... I started to think twice of climbing it! With my strengthless hand, am I sure I could handle it?? After learning the skill of tieing the rope, I was going to start my first ROCK CLIMBING! UP...UP..UP...I've pass level one. There were many different type of wall for climbers to conquer and of course, the difficulty increases for each type of wall. UP..UP...UP...I've pass level two. UP...UP..DROP! Oops...strength to the limit. I drop after about 1/4 up level 3. Tried another smaller wall (but difficulty level is higher than those 3 story wall) before we left the place for dinner. Hmm..never thought I could climb two 3-story wall at first try. IMO, I would think it's not bad already. But compare to the other 5 person I went with..ermmm...okie, I'm consider the worst..:P

On Fri, as usual, went to work and head straight home after work. Hand was aching after the "execise" yesterday!

On Sat, nua at home till 6+pm and went to Changi Airport for dinner with Hui.

On Sunday, went for body checkup at Eunos sent by my new company. I'm suppose to pass the medical checkup before I'm consider officially recruited. After the checkup, went to Toa Payoh KBox with hui and his siblings. We started singing from 2pm to 7pm. Had dinner at Swensen and head back home after that.

Reach home at 9+pm. I didnt let Hui go off. He was to come in the house together with me and face my mum! For what?? Well, mum saw us in the morning riding off with bike from the window! My mum ask my sister if Hui was riding a bike. My sis act blur and deny everything! She then msg to warn me about this. I was thinking since we were hiding so hard all along, might as well let everyone know about it. Then I need not continue to be pinocchio when facing my mum! Afterall, Hui's parents also knew about this matter. We have decided to face the storm together!.............

Hui's owning a bike was no longer a secret to anyone now...It was a relief to the both of us!
Give us more time ba...we will own a car when the time is right!

"...I now pronounce you two Man and Wife..."

With the above sentence, my dear limei has finally change her status from single to married. 16th May 2005 marked the day of her new life chapter - The wife of Mr Goh Keh Wee. This couple knew each other since sec school but they started dating only in yr 2000. Flashing back, the times when the guy would call the gal and they could chat for few hrs, came to fetch her for supper at night together with her sister, keep dragging day by day and still couldn't get the guts to reveal that he actually like her, etc etc.....till date, they have signed off on that doted line that they would pass their entire life to each other till both shall live.

Looking at the couple posing away for photos after the 5-10mins solemnization, my heart was filled with nothing but blessing. Isn't it such a sweet thing that a couple is able to reach this stage? I have some friends who are just not into marriage. Marriage to them seems like a burden and they would lose all their freedom. But when all ur surrounding friends started to build their family and u are still in ur freedom, by that time will you start to feel something is missing in ur life? Will u be green with envy? Hmm...

In about 1.5 more weeks, another couple will be walking down the aisle together and pronounce as husband and wife. My greatest congratulations to Maggie & Chuan and also Mr & Mrs Goh.
May a road of happiness follow the both of you forever!

Dinner & Dance photos

I've uploaded the photos for the D&D. Pls find it under the 'Photos' section.
Pic 1-40 are my colleagues. Pic 41-75 are Hui's. And ofcoz the last 3 pic is me and him..Yes, we only took 3 pictures together during the D&D..haha...

There are actually much more photos taken but I've only upload part of it. If I were to upload everything, think it will get too bored..

On that day, Hui's project won 2 awards while mine only manage to get 1. Hmm..at least better than some projects who got none right..:)

Enjoy the photos.....and also the song ^_^...

Lyrics can be found when you click on the song title under the media player.

After 4.5 Sweet Years ...

Continued . . .

Up along the expressway, I fell asleep in the car. Eyes were half open half closed. "Pasir Panjang Road" was the first signboard I saw when I finally manage to clear my blurred vision. Ask Hui where were we going, he just replied "Just go to sleep. I'll wake you up when we've reached". I continued to close my eyes, but my mind was already awake.

The car was reversing and came to a stop. I knew we had reached. Eyes opened, we were at Mt Faber.

*Door opened*. He got down first...

He pop up at the car door on my side with a bouquet of my favourite blue roses.....

He proposed to me on this special day where he was wearing a suit and I'm wearing a gown. It was 7th May 2005 ard 2am. It happened to be my sis's birthday too.
He said some touching and mushy "scripts" which I'm not going to reveal here. More detail of the proposal would also be kept as a secret between him and me.
And my reply to him was . . . . .



















We left the place with the diamond ring seated perfectly on my left 4th finger...

Accenture Awards 2005

D&D finally ended. After 2mths of practice, everything turns out fine and the audience enjoy the musical play....

At 5+pm, we started to get dress into our gown and put on makeup in our individual team room.(Rooms were book for the green beans as changing room). We went down to the ballroom at ard 7.30pm for the cocktail receptions. We took many photos with our project mates and whoever that we found familiar. Crowd started to storm in at ard 8pm. Everyone was seated at 8.30pm. The director of Accenture Singapore began his opening speech at 8.45pm. We had to leave our seats right after the speech ended to prepare for our musical. Hence we didnt get to eat the first dish and subsequent ones. Feeling so hungry at that time. We went back to our room to change into our costume and hurried back to the backstage.

Speeches, presenting of awards, blah blah blah...we were waiting at the backstage for almost 1hr! Darmn! We should have ate the first 2 dishes before starting our preparation! Anyway, at around 10pm, Glen Ong (host for the night) then announce the start of the green bean muscial play. Everyone by that time was already feeling hungry and sleepy at the back stage.

My team dancing ended at around 10.25pm. When we finish our part of dance, we went back to the room to get dress to our gown AGAIN and went back to our seats for the remaining dishes. By that time, about 5-6 dishes were already served...

After the play, we proceed to the talentime. 3 contestants were competing for $1000 cash! 2 sang solo and the 3rd is a team of a guy and gal. Judges are the spectators and we were to vote through dropping pin pong ball into the respective boxes. The contestant with the most balls will walk away with the cash! *drum roll*......The duet pair won!

D&D ended ard 12am. Ballroom turned into a Salsa dance floor after the dinner. Photoshots were snapping away non-stop. Me and Hui left the hotel at around 1+am. We sent one of my friend home as she is staying just few blks away from Hui.
After she drop off....nope, me and hui didnt went home... I was suppose to go to his house to sleep and I tot after sending my friend home, we would head straight back to his house. But Hui had something up in his sleeves. So we turn out from the carpark and was back at the expressway..............

So where did we go and what did we do??

To be continued . . .

PS: Photos will be up after I compile them from the different cameras.

What Age Do You Act?

Haha...I'm only 21 years old at heart...

You Are 21 Years Old

21 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

Bad Bad Bad

Today had our so call full dress rehearsal. Once again, we got cheated for bringing our clothes without wearing it! Everytime when they ask us to bring our costume, we didnt get to wear it at all. Then what's the point of bringing?? To add more weight to our bags??

Today rehearsal was the first time to gather ALL the green beans and do a performance altogether. Usually on the sat, we just split into different groups and practice on our own. Today, all the teams gather in one room and we did a full rehearsal. It was absolutely bad! The choir do not know what they suppose to sing and couldn't catch up with the song as they dun even know when to start singing. The music for the slow dance got edited (slower by couple of beats) without telling the slow dance members, hence they couldnt dance along with the music. The main lead was in Bangkok for 2 weeks, hence got a temporary substitute which she dun even know where she shld stand and wasted alot of time. The acting team was not bad, but due to techincal issue, the last part couldnt get perform. The blocking was not done properly hence instead of 3 fast dance, we reduce to 2 due to the insufficient space on stage. To summarise, well..the title says all.

Buffet lunch was catered for us. There's an audition today for talentime. The finalist will be singing on stage during the D&D. Winner will walk away with $1000 cash. There are suppose to be 6 contestants. 2 backout, left 4. Do we still need to audition?? All the 4 will definitely get into the final. One of the judge (ACN staff) ended the audition with "..... All the contestants did very well. You guys have such talent, why the F*** are you still staying in ACN....". Totally agree!

Today bought many things during shopping in the noon. I finally bought my gown at Daniel Yam for the D&D...*heartache*.....Will I get to wear it second time?? I don't think so...
Today was a tiring day..wkend always seems to pass so fast. Next week I'll be so busy..Dateline for my enhancement is near. Got to finish my coding asap, but I DUNO HOW TO DO! No training provided and just throw me the shit work. It's time to sent the R*****.

A healthy lifestlye

My sis just came back yesterday after having training at US for 3wks. Today I finally pull myself out of the house to go jogging with my sis. Jog 2.4KM without stopping. Had an apple for dinner. After abt 1.5yrs++, I finally went back to my execise again. Still rem the last time I went consistantly jogging was before I work at Starhub which was ard Aug 2003. Haa, quite long ago right??!! After I started work, just dun have the motivation anymore. Everyday reach home, I'm too tired to get out of the house again.

My life shall change from today onwards! For the start, I shall jog for a shorter distance. As times goes by, the distance will be longer and longer...I need to go back to the healthy lifestlye. Not only to slim down, but also to keep fit and increase my immune system. But how long will this last? Hmm..I hope it'll at least last till next yr! ;)

A new PC

I have finally replace my antique PC on sunday. Went to Sim Lim with seh choi and hui. Bought my hardware parts from the shop call Dignity. It was on the 4th floor near the escalator. The boss have quoted me quite a good price. This is because seh choi knew the boss as he have been recommending many friends to buy from that shop.
Bought motherboard, P4 3.0 with HT Tech, 2 Kingston 256mb ram, Seagte 80G SATA HDD, Casing tower, Nvidia Geforce FX5200 128MB graphic card, keyboard + optical mouse + sub woofer speaker (FOC) for $863.

Reach home ard 1+pm and we started our DIY session. Hui fixing the hardware and seh choi in charge of installation of OS & software. Me?? Hahaha, was busy wiping my computer table. It was so dusty. Learnt quite abit of hardware installation from the guys. Especially the fragile processor! Just one pin break and there goes a few hundreds bucks!

To award the two guys, I made linguine pasta for dinner. Cream of chicken soup and bbq chickens were the side dish for that day. Rating from the guys are quite good. But maybe that's because they dun wana disappt me??! I find the pasta sauce quite tasteless. It was too salty at first and I added in water. Hmmm, maybe I added too much. But the sauce is not watery, infact it was still quite thick despite that amt of water I added in. Shall try again next time. The sauce was from the brand Domlio -Cream of Vegetable and Garlic.

By 8+pm, everything was done. Seh choi and hui went off together. Hui's house was having bbq. I did not attend because next day have to work and I need to clear up the mess. And I think for the mean time, it's better I stay away from Hougang. Why?? Maggie, you shld know...hehe.. For the others, hmmm..it's a secret. Haha..

Credits to seh choi for the lorry tranport to and fro from home to sim lim and back plus the installation of the pc. Credits to hui for ....ermmm....everything you have done for me.....*blush*

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On sat, as usual, had my green bean dance rehearsal. Nothing special, just keep practising and practising. They have decided to change the costume for the performance from formal wear to casual wear. Yippy!! Still havent decide what to wear during the D&D. Rumours spreading that it must be LONG evening gowns for the ladies and black TUXEDO for the guys. Hope it's really rumours. It will be a waste of $$ to buy a long gown as I'm sure I'm only gona wear it once. At least if it's just a cocktail dress, I can still wear it during hui's sis wedding in May.

Anyone have evening gown to loan??? ^_^

Happy Birthday To Peiyi

Just came back from dinner. Phyllis, Peiyi, Limei and I went to Clementi for dinner to celebrate Peiyi's bday. Jenny drop by for awhile and she had to rush for her tuition. Peiyi bday is 11th April. We had to celebrate for her so early is because today is the only day majority can make it until Monday (her bday).

Nothing special, had food at a Jap store, chit chatted and then all splitted for home. Though it's a simple one, at least we put in effort to have a mini gathering on everyone's bday. It's the thoughts that count, isnt it?

Last sat, we had our rehearsal for the green bean event. We learnt more dance steps. One complete dance is out. We had 2 more to go. Time is too tight. How can we remember so many dance by 6th May when we only had rehearsal every Sat??!

Hmmm...Hui, you shall see how we embarrassed ourself on that night. As your dear is also up there performing, pls do not laugh too loud huh! And also do not tell ur project mates that the one dancing most horribly is ur gf! Dun make me 'malu' ah!

This coming sat, we'll have to bring our costume to let the crew personnel review. 1 set of formal wear, 1 set of beach wear and also matching shoes for the clothing. So troublesome!! Shall pack my stuff tmr night after back from outing with my polymates.

Specially dedicated to the 1 still struggling in office now

I know it's tough for the past 1 mth.
You didn't have enough sleep for many consecutive days.
Please take care of your health and drink more water.
Without my consent, you are not allow to fall sick!
Every night thinking of you riding home when you are so tired, I just can't help worrying.
There are always disturbing calls from the company asking if you are going back to the office when I finally have some time with you during the wkend.
I believe these days will be over pretty soon and you will become a stronger person.
Ganbatte Ne!

LIFE'S STRUGGLES
...
"A man found a cocoon of an emperor moth. He took it home so that he
could watch the moth come out of the cocoon. On the day a small opening
appeared, he sat and watched the moth for several hours as the moth
struggled to force the body through that little hole.

The moth seemed to be stuck and appeared to have stopped making progress.
It seemed as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.
The man, in his kindness, decided to help the moth; so he took a pair of scissors
and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The moth then emerged
easily. But its body was swollen and small, its wings wrinkled and
shriveled. The man continued to watch the moth because he expected that,
at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to and able to
support the body, which would contract in time.

Neither happened! In fact, the little moth spent the rest of its life crawling
around with a small, swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.
The man in his kindness and haste did not understand that the struggle required
for the moth to get through the tiny opening was necessary to force fluid from the
body of the moth into its wings so that it would be ready for flight upon achieving
its freedom from the cocoon. Freedom and flight would only come after the
struggle. By depriving the moth of a struggle, he deprived the moth of health.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through
our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as
what we could have been. Give every opportunity a chance, leave no room for
regrets, and don't forget the power in the struggle."

Gender of my brain

Your Brain is 80.00% Female, 20.00% Male

Your brain leans female You think with your heart, not your head Sweet and considerate, you are a giver But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!

What Gender Is Your Brain?

Hmmm...I think its 80% true for me. :)

Too bored!

Today is a public holiday and why am I still sitting infront of the PC at this time?? Hai...hui is back at work today. We dun meet during wkdays anymore. Sometimes find it hard to discuss something with him as he is usually in the office when he calls during wkday night. I'm also in the IT line, so I can understand how life is when a project is close to going live. Hai...Is this a good industry to work in??!!

Just got my new LCD monitor. As least now I can see colorful pictures instead of only one tone (blue) with my old CRT monitor. I've change a new layout for the blog. My third layout! Give comments pls? My colleague says the previous was so pink. Well, I did that during Valentine's day period, so wanted something that look sweet. Now Feb is over, it's back to the reality.

This layout suits my mood now. Wanted so much to get out of singapore and throw all my work aside. Go to a beach resort and have my spa. I need a good massage. Same goes for hui. He really need a good break, a well-deserve break!

Green Bean Vs Bean Sprout

My company is having its D&D in May. Every year, there will be a Green Bean event where all new employees employed within a specified date period will be involve in performing something during the D&D. Well, my conversion does not fall within that specified period, hence was not involve for this year event. However, most of my colleagues in NHG was involve. My colleagues kept persuading that I should join them this year so that we can 'malu' together. They also said that if I join next year, I'll be the bean sprout among the green bean! Hmmm....through persistant persuasion from them, I finally made up my mind to be a green bean so that I would not be alone with strangers next year if I'm still in this company.

Last sat they had their first briefing. I was not there because I had only made the decision yesterday. So today, I attended the first rehersal. There are 4 parts in the musical play: Acting, Singing, Dancing and Video Taking. All my friends joined the Dancing. Well, needless to say where I had chose to go to right?

There are few parts in Dancing. Group 1 (Slow and fast dance). Group 2 (broadway dancing). I was in the former. For slow dance, they need 2 girls and 2 guys. The girl must be small in size as there are some "flip and carry" stunts. Phew, I was not chosen...Slow dance was not my type. In addition, that also means less body contact if I'm not involve in slow dance, so my ears can be spared from a pool of Hui's theory on Man and Woman! Imagine myself doing ballet dancing with the 'Tian Er Hu' posture??!! *shake head*. I was involve in the fast dance..Something more hip hop and aerobics kind of dancing. In Group 1, everyone will be involve with 3 separate dance. So the 4 person will be dancing 1 slow and 2 fast, and the others will be 3 fast.

Today we just had our first round of simple easy dance steps. More to come as the D&D date is getting nearer. It was quite fun though embarrassing.

Reach home around 3pm. Hui today is working whole day. Took a 2 hrs nap and wake up for dinner. Meeting Hui and Seh Choi soon for supper and movie (Hitch). Guess you readers must be pretty interested about the elements of the musical play right? Well, I shall not let the cat out of the bag so soon! Will feed you guys bit by bit. That'll keep you readers consistantly coming back to my blog! Hehehehehe....^_^

Life will never be the same again

There will be another company joining us next week in TTSH B2 and we had a new seating arrangement so as to accomodate the new group of people. Heard they are from Siemens company and is helping NHG on another project.

The only group of people affected by the new seating arrangement are those seating in the middle and last row. I happened to be in the middle row. I'm having the heaven seat currently. Situated in a corner with Shirley, no one can easily see what we're doing unless they walk past a long stretch of people to reach our seat. Those seating in the middle row are a bunch of funny people and they make me see some light when I'm stuck in a darkness.

Next week onwards, life will be different. Today is Shirley last day with ACN. I'll have no one to bicker with me anymore during office hours. Worse is I'll be shifting to a seat where everyone can easily see what I'll be doing. This means a major decrease in surfing of net. Another minus point..The new group of colleagues near me are those work more, talk less kind....So, I'll have to keep my mouth shut and work more! Life is so boring without chit chatting during office hours right?! hai...Life will never be the same again........:(

The Scarlet - a boutique hotel

On sat (12/3), we went as plan to The Scarlet hotel. Reach the place at abt 1.45pm. We were greeted by a dracula look-a-like male staff. The hotel was decorated in a way that it look like a dracula's mansion. Black and Red are the primary color of the hotel. Staffs are wearing costume(actually it's their uniform) that look like dracula and the female staffs put on black lipstick. Indians and Malays forms the majority and I could hardly see chinese staffs there. But I must admit it was indeed a vivacious, bold and sensuous hotel. Very different from the others I went so far. It do deserve a rating of a 5-star hotel. Just by the service and the uniqueness of the design and layout..*thumps up*

We were escorted right to our doorstep by a female "dracula". She briefly went through what and where are the restaurants and facilities they have. Before she open our room door, she actually press the doorbell first. Hmmm, never know they do follow such traditional practice.

Okie, after she left us alone and greeted gdbye, I started exploring around the room. It was smaller than what I expected despite it was already the premium room!
Well, it was built above shop houses, can't expect it to be too big anyway.

Rested awhile in the room and off we went to Suntec. It's a mistake to go there. Because of the IT fair, it was so crowded like nobody business! Everywhere you go bound to knock into someone. I wanted to get a LCD monitor to replace the faulty one. Hoping to get a good deal at the fair.But looking at the crowd, we turn and walk out of the hall before heading in too deep. We have decided to come back tmr morning instead.

Hui suggested The Soup Restaurant for dinner but as both of us are coughing, it would be better if we avoid chicken. Samshui chicken was their speciality dish so if you are not going to have that, you might as well not go in. Just by drinking their soup is not filling enough. Hence, we had our dinner at Yu Jiang Zhuang.

Went back to the hotel at around 7+pm. Bubble bath time! Apple flavour bubble bath from Bodyshop. It was so relaxing....the new flats nowadays is just too small to accomodate a bathtub! Guess I can only do it in hotel even if I have got my own house next time. :(

Sun (13/2), had our breakfast at the Desire restaurant. I would rate 3 out of 5 for the breakfast. It was just average to me, but the appearance does look appealing.
Check-out at 12pm. Headed towards Suntec again hoping the crowd would be much smaller compared to yesterday. Indeed, it was. We manage to walk around the hall quite easily. After a long long decision, finally decide to purchase this silver 17" Samsung LCD monitor @ $499. Specification was quite good. BUT...things just doesn't seems to be the way it is! They only left black color, silver is out of stock!!Argghhhh....finally manage to persuade myself on the $$ matter and with great hope that this time, I'll be able to get a LCD monitor home, I was disappointed again..........*sobsob*

We left the place and went to sim lim, with the determination of getting a monitor back. Sim lim seems to be highly promoting Phillip instead of Samsung. The same model I saw at simlim is selling at a higher price. Phillip is my alternative but the price is higher than Samsung although they have the similar spec. Feeling disappointed yet again, I headed home emtpy handed.

At night, sister msg me stating her friend has lobang for buying Phillip 17" LCD monitor @ $488. What a coincidence! Without much hesitation, I replied 'Ok'.

Still waiting for my LCD to arrive. After LCD, it's high time to change my whole hardware! It's all about $$$ again!...Anyone got lobang?

A celebration with Pills!

I was having very bad cramp on tues midnight. It was so pain that I can hardly sleep! I flip and turn in bed till the sun rises. Enduring the pain, I went to work. In the afternoon, started to have block nose, feeling abit giddy. Continue working and knock off at 5.30pm sharp! Reach home, bathe and pop to bed, cover blanket and watch TV. 10+pm I was fast aslp.

Next morning(10/3) wake up, the head was spinning badly. Had running noise and slight cough. I knew I was sick. Tested my temperature, it was 37.9 degree celsius. I waited till 8.45am then went down to visit the clinic. The clinic opens at 9am. I was the 8th person there and waited for 1hr!! Almost fainted at the clinic man! *Ting Dong*....calling for num 218. It was finally my turn!

I told the doctor what's my illness and the bad cramp that night. She ask me to lie down and check on my tummy, at the same time taking my temperature. Ok, it have gone up by 1 degree, its 38 degree c. now. Guess what, the doctor ask me something which shocks me.
Doctor Chong: Are you married?
Patient: No.
Doctor Chong: Do you have intercourse?
Patient: No!!
( Well, for a normal thinking, even if I have, I will also deny since my status is still single).....BUT...I'm still telling the truth lor...ans is NO!

Doctor Chong explained that usually when a lady have menstrual, body resistence will be lower, hence easier to catch virus from people around you, and will fall sick easily. It's common to have cramp for the first 1 or 2 days. But if it carrys on for 1wk, then will need to have a body checkup.
She gave me pills for fever, running nose, pain killer and cough syrup + a 2 days MC! She ask me to come back if the pains still goes on......

Went home, ate a piece of bread, took my medicine and lie flat on the bed. The whole day I was awake for few mins to take my medicine and str back to bed to slp. Whole body was so weak like jelly!
It was only hui msg me at 6+pm asking if I had knock off then I told him I was on MC. He's so busy at work now, just dun wana bother him with such thgs. :)

Slept the whole day, fever was gone, wash up myself and meet Phyllis, Peiyi, Limei at blk 328 for claypot rice at 6.50pm. We had earlier plan this dinner gathering to celebrate jenny and my bday. How bad if the 2 birthday girls are not ard right? Then this dinner will deficts its purpose. And Jenny had tuition that day, she cant make it. So if I cant make it too, then......anyway, its been along time since I meet them...and it's just downstairs, so I think I shld make a trip there.

I just drank a can of soya bean while they have their dinner. I just had no appetite. We sat there for 1hr+, chit chatting away, discussing abt marriage stuff. Limei is getting married this yr. ROM on 16th May, banquet on 26th Dec. When we get older, the topic we talk are also different.
In sec, we will be discussing which singer is good now, which guy from which class like our class girls, who to team with in project etc. In poly, we will talk abt which guy in which class is yandao, A wana woos B, A & B are together, exams, projects etc. When we just step into working life, will talk abt how work is so different from sch, wana go back to study, complain abt boss, abt work etc. And now.........marriage. And after marriage?? Will we be discussing abt sex and babies??

Reach home, sleep at 10+pm again. Next morning(11/3) I went back to work altho I had 2 days MC. The aircon is just so cold. I didnt had breakfast and lunch. Endure till 5.30pm and left the office and head str home. Took my fever med and lie in bed. hui say he will arrive at 8pm. So we waited for him to cut cake. He arrive 10 mins early. Nothing special at all, just cut cake, eat cake and went back to watch TV. As a person gets older, really dun have the mood for any celebration. Its just a normal day to me.

My next timing for medication is 12am. hui say he wanted to feed me before he goes home. *touched*. So we are in our room watching tv....and gradually, I fell aslp....11.45pm, was awaken by a birthday greeting sms. 12.05am, he fed me and made me drink plenty of water. Abt 12.15am, I sent him out to the door and then str head to bed again......

Today (sat, 12/3), I'm feeling so much better, but no voice to talk. Going ahead as what was plan. A belated birthday getaway at scarlet hotel. Update you readers more when I get back....Meanwhile, enjoy reading...^_^

Pictures!

Pictures for CNY & V Day are up. Please find them under the 'Photos' section.
Enjoy!

Show you guys/gals a pic taken with my german friend..:)

5th Valentine With Him

Some couples who had been dated for many yrs do not celebrate this day anymore as they find it nothing special to them. But to us, this mark another year that we had pass and still togther as a loving couple.

This year, we had a cheaper valentine celebration. We've booked a 2D1N chalet at Downtown East from 13th - 14th Feb at just $89. No friends, no family members. Just the two of us having a peace and quiet day togther.

13th Feb: He arrived at 2pm at my house to pick me up as well as help me pack my clothes.hee..just feel like being pampered for this day. Left my house at abt 2.45pm and head towards pasir ris. Reaches ard 3.30pm and check-in. Our room was on the 2nd floor with a balcony, fridge and microwave. It was slightly bigger than the one I usually go to.

After unpacking, we get change to our swimming costume and went for a 2hr swim. The pool was pack with kids. Hard to swim in laps as the kids are all over the pool. So we just chit chat, swim a few laps, then head back to our room.

Had our bath and went for dinner at 7pm. We had candlelight dinner at Fisherman Village - Singa Fiesta. Chicken Chop, Calamari, ice lemon tea was what we've ordered. Wanted to have some alchohol but hui was driving so we intend to skip that. It was breezy that night. Food was delicious. The baked potato was simply delicious. I Love It! Ambience was very good. Saw many couples around us with some behaving quite intimate.Woooo....

We took some pictures, sat there enjoy the atmosphere and chit chatting away. We finally had some time together with just the both of us under such environment since we both got into a "Hell" company! Left the place ard 8+pm and head to White Sand for a walk. Wanted to get some alcoholic drinks but the NTUC didnt had much choices. We bought our breakfast for tmr and head back to Downtown East Cheers to buy instead.

Hooch and Jack Daniel's Whiskey Cola was the bottle we picked. Wanted to have wine actually (Shutter Home - White Zinfendal) but think bottle was too big for the both of us. We just wanted to have some drink, but not drunk! Shops are mostly closed at this time ard 10pm. I was late for my moose cake from emicakes shop. It was closed by the time we went back to the chalet. So no cakes for my breakfast. :(

We had the drinks in our room, snap some pictures away before heading to bed..Alarm was set at 7.45am to go for an early swim the next morning..........

*RING*, my hp alarm sounded..hui went to stop the alarm. Haa..nope, we didnt wake up after that for the swim, instead two pigs was still found lying in bed till 10am!
We woke up, had our bath and prepared our breakfast. Sunshine Softmeal Garlic Bread was what we bought from the NTUC. Had our breakfast, pack our stuffs, took some final pictures and out we go to the recept for check-out.

We went to play pool after we check-out at Downtown East. It was having a promo:
Mon-Thur before 4pm @ $2.80/hr. It was the cheapest we went so far. Played 5 rounds for abt 1hr 15mins before heading back home.

14th Feb: Reach my house at abt 3pm to unpack and change into something nice and went out again. It's the actual day, dun expect to find me rotting at home right? If not, my leave will be wasted again! Went to clementi central optical shop. Hui wanted to make a pair of new glasses. Me and mum went with him, with me helping to choose and mum for her bargaining power! He got a very gd deal. The glasses I pick for him comes with 2 tap-on sunglass lens. So you can wear the spectacles but also treat it as a sunglass when u put on the sunglass lens with just a magnetic tap-on to the spectacles frame. Hmm..hard to explain, show you the pics once he got the specs. :)

After that, we went to suntec while mum continue her grocesery. Hui wanted to buy leather shoe for his work, so I accompany him to shop ard. Couldnt find what he like, in the end, went back to one of the shoe shop at clementi central and bought from there. Had our dinner at Kopitiam, then went back to my house. Hui left my hse ard 10.30pm. I went to bed at 10.45pm.=D

That's how my Valentine's Day ended this yr.
No gifts (both duno what to buy anymore), No roses (I dun wan coz too expensive), No 5-star hotel (Wanted to save the $ for holiday), No expensive dinner (Couldnt decide on a place)..Nothing..
Just a simple yet memorable one.
Pictures will be up soon. Stay Tune!

Gong Xi Fa Cai; Hong Bao Na Lai

8th Feb
Work ended at 12pm this day. Reaches home ard 1+pm, get change and help mum with the reunion dinner which started abt 5+pm. After that, meet my German friend and hui to He Pan to watch fireworks. We walk around for a little while before heading to 'The Cheese Prata' for my fav cheese prata and teh tarik. Sent him back to his hotel after the supper before I headed back to my cosy bed. After sending me home, hui went to pick his auntie up at the temple. Poor dear, got to be chaffeur and sent his auntie and friends home first before he can go home. He reach home at 4+am and slept at 5+am!

9th Feb
As usual for every yr, went to temple first for praying, then head to Kor Poh house to bai nian. After that went to ah ma house. All other relatives will gather at ah ma hse. So just stay at one place, ang bao will keep coming in..hehe..had lunch at ah ma hse, stay there rot abt 2hrs, then meet hui at 4.30pm at bugis. Meet my german friend at 5.30pm for dinner. Most of the shops are close, nothing much to eat, brought him to Raffles hotel - Empire Cafe for some local delights. I had Crayfish Hor Fan, hui ate laksa and friend had Nasi Lemak. Both of us (Me & german friend)was fighting to foot the bill. I was smarter. While he went to the restroom, I called for the bill and pay it first. Total bill came up to $70. 3 of us went back to his hotel to collect his luggage and head towards Changi Airport. Reaches there ard 9+pm. Had desserts at the food court (this time he pay for it), chit chat awhile and we separated. This marks the end of his 5D4N stay in Singapore, and also my part timing as a tour guide.

10th Feb
Nothing special this day, wake up in the morning to help mum with the lunch coz relatives will be coming my house for lunch and majong session. Hui came to my house to bai nian at ard 5pm. Then we went to my ahma house and stayed for steam boat with my uncles and aunties. Left the place at ard 7.30pm and head towards hui house to bai nian and steam boat AGAIN! Reaches home ard 1+am.

11th/12th Feb
11th was a bored day. Took leave and just rot at home.
12th went to Phyllis house to bai nian and had a 1hr+ majong session to ease my itchy hand. Hui came to pick me up at Phyllis hse at 12.30pm to go his ahma house bai nian. Left his ahma hse at abt 2+pm, went to he pan for photoshots then to suntec for a walk. Had dinner at the food court, then went to hui house after dinner to watch SCV while waiting to meet up with his father, uncle and cousins to go Loyang Tua Bei Gong bai bai. His cousin and me was born in the yr of rooster. (1969 & 1981). Hui bought a golden egg from the temple as a gift for us. It was quite nice, when u open it, one side was engrave with a yuan bao, the other with a rooster with the word "Jin Ji Bao Xi".

New Year, New Clothes, New Shoe, New Blog Layout

I've finally got my shoe at U.R.S!!
Went to one of the branch last week, the sales person told me they dun have my size. Wanted them to call to other branch to check, the more senior sales asst told me this shoe size 6 no more stock for ALL the branches. I was disappt. Tried other alternatives, but nothing catch my eye. Just when I thought I would ended up wearing old shoe during CNY, I finally manage to bought it at citylink branch! Just happen to be there, hence try my luck see if they really run out of stock for my size. NO, they didnt! So happy when they came out of the storeroom holding a new pair of my desired shoe. Without hestitating, I bought it!

Wonder izzit the sales person words cant be trusted or izzit they had new stock coming in. Hmmm, anyway just an advice to everyone: If the person says that other branch do not have the stock (without even calling to other branch to enquire), pls go to other branch personally to check it out!

Now, I've new shoe to match my new clothes. And to add on, I've change my blog layout too. I'm now all ready for the new year!

Happy Lunar New Year & A Romantic Valentine's Day To Everyone!

One Day Tour Guide

I've a friend from germany who had touch down Singapore on the 4th Feb and leaving on the 9th Feb. Me and hui met up with him yest to bring him around Singapore. We meet at 1.30pm at bugis junction, coz his hotel was near bugis.

First destination: Chinatown. It was not as crowded as I thought. Maybe coz it's still early. We had lunch at Maxwell food centre. Hanainese Chicken Rice was the food I recommended. It had a long queue. After trying the dish, he told me "Now I know why the queue is so long. It's simply delicious!". We then treated him Ice Kachang and Grass Jelly Longan for desserts. The ice kachang was not very nice in appearance I think. Wrong choice. But he did ate it happily. Guess it was because it's his first time.

After the meal, we brought him to Chinatown Heritage Centre (Yuan Mao Guan) to let him take a look of the history of Chinatown. He was amazed about the rich cultural history of old chinatown and learn about the livings of our settlers who had live in the dark and cramped quarters of typical Chinatown shophouses! Before we went in, some other tourist were reading the book about our Mr Lee Kuan Yew. I told abt this truely S'pore idol of us. To my surprise, he can tell him "Oh ya, and now his son had taken over his place, right?"..wow..Mr Lee have spread his name to even Germany!
After walking around Chinatown, we drove him to Mt Faber. He was fascinated when he saw the view. Through the binoculars (have to insert $1 inorder to see), he saw many islands on the sea. Sentosa - a must go for tourist. After taking some pictures, we went on to Labrador Park. There's this place there where you'll able to see another sea view and the jetty. We told him this place is famous for couple as it's quiet and dark at night..hehe..

Time is around 5+pm. We decided to head towards Pasir Ris Fisherman Village for early dinner so that there wld be ample time before going for supper. On the journey to the very East of S'pore, he sat in the car quietly enjoying the view. When we pass by changi,something caught his attn and he break the silence - A SIA plane had just taken off. Oh, he was a co-pilot at Lufthasan(Germany airline). So he always got very excited he saw planes! Then hui got curious and started asking "How do planes fly?" He explained the physics theory which I couldnt undertand, so think I'm not going to write the ans down. It's the guys talk. :)

We reach Pasir Ris ard 6pm.We ordered Satay, chicken wings, Salad You Tiao, BBQ sambal stingray and thai coconut drinks. He told me he had not eaten any of them before and all was very nice. Well, thats why we called it Local Food!We sat there enjoy the sea breeze, chit chat awhile before heading to Esplanade for night view. Reach there around 7+pm. Through his face, can see he really like the place. To singaporean, I would think its nothing special. But to tourist, guess it's really beautiful to them. He took some pictures and stand there awhile to enjoy the sceneric view.

We then took him to the riverboat ride. It was also my first time for the ride..I always thought such ride can only attract tourist coz it's expensive and not worth it. But no choice, we had to accompany him. 30 mins boat ride at the Singapore River; passes under the bridge, pass thru boat quay and clarke quay, then back to merlion again...$12 for adult, $6 for children. After the ride, I still stick to my thought..:p

Time is abt 9+pm. Geylang Tau Hua was the last place we would go. Hui explain to him that geylang is our s'pore red light district. He reply "no wonder so many red decorations". Haha...u think he really so naive?? Dun get mistaken, he knew what that means!Quite a lot of ppl there and there was a slight jam. We manage to find a seat and ordered 3 bowl of tau hua and tau hua jui (soya bean drink). Curious was the expression on his face. "What's this"?? "It's a kind of dessert made from soya bean, a yellow colored bean", I replied.He tried the first scope. His eyes widen and gave a Mmmmmm sound. Needless to say, we knew the ans if it taste good or bad.;)...He say it was very easy to eat, it just slide down the throat. Haa..I totally agree...Geylang Tau Hua, my all time favourite!

After the desserts, hui suggested driving him around geylang. Not many girls are out for "business" yet. Only manage to see a few. Just turn few rounds into the small road and we are out of the place heading back to bugis. In the car, he told us germany had red light district too and Hamburg is the famous one. The ladies had to wear so little even in winter just to make a living.They dun stand outside the alley like ours here, instead they stand by the road side waiting for cars to stop. Poor girls...

Reaches his hotel at ard 10.30pm. We ended the day with handskake, many greatful thank you, gdnight and gdbyes...
I'm not meeting him today as I need to help mum with household chores. He'll be going orchard rd, sentosa and night safari today. Hope he'll had a great time. Tmr after work might meet him for dinner. Headache, where else can I bring him....think think think....

Ling Zhi Vegetarian Restuarant

Our enhancement team had a lunch outing today at Liat Tower (Far East Square). As one of our colleague is a vegetarian, we decided to choose a vegetarian restuarant. Ling Zhi, one of TungLok group, was the place we went. A high-end place but sells great food. Highly recommended for those who like Vege food.
I seldom go to a vege place for a meal. This lunch was a great one! The food is simply delicious! Some dishes really taste like meat! Think the nicest was the satay. It was a stick of combination of slices of mushroom, chestnut,capsicum (cant rem anymore). The peanut sauce..Mmmmm...
We had a total of abt 6-7 dishes plus a vegetarian 'Lou Hei'. Bill came up to about $200+. One of the dish cost $44! The captain says this dish only sells during CNY. It was a special one. Total of 3 layers, each with different type of cooking. Top layer was fried, second layer was stir fry, third was steam (i think). We had to finish one layer before moving to the next. Then we still joke around saying this is a game. Have to clear round 1 before moving to the next stage!
This meal was treated by the 3 team lead. Me and the other 3 juniors just sat there and enjoy the pre CNY team lunch..:)

Incapable Consultants Everywhere!

I'm now in the office. Don't feel like reading the func specs. Just wana blog down all my complains!! I need to release stress & anger!!

In this company, mostly those who are working are the programmers and low level ppl. So what are the consultants here doing?? Going upstairs for Starburkes coffee, online doing e-shopping, on the phone talking about personal stuffs, chit chatting with other consultants and laughing away, arrowing ppl to do their job! Yes, they are highly-paid for doing such things!! It's so unfair right?

I've got arrowed again for doing another abap report from my team lead! This is because I have some free time till the UAT for my enhancement program. UAT starts 17th Feb. this new report got to hand in end of feb. During the UAT, bound to have many issues from users and I'm the only programmer for that program. So means I need to handle the IT part while my team lead(consultant) will only do the talking. And with this new report, which is so chim...u think I'll be able to finish by end of feb, when next wk is CNY- many off days, UAT starts 15th feb-11 mar plus every wk i need go back main office twice to help another mgr to handle another task???? There's only one ME!!

And this consultant still have the cheek to say "Even myself is not sure how the BMU procedure is. So you got to find out urself to do this report." What can I say? I'm just a low-level employee...:(

The following is another story which I gona help my colleague blog!
She's not any better than me! Her ehancement part only have 2 person as well- Team lead (consultant) and herself (programmer). She have many difficult programs to code too. The start-off of the enhancement was delay for months. But the deadline of the enhancement was not extend! Her team lead can still tell her he got nothing much to do, while my friend is busy coding away. He promise to add in more programmers to help her with the programs, but in the end, my friend ended up coding ALL of them.

I did help her out with two reports to ease a small part of her burden. She's still left with abt 3-4 major programs. Two weeks left...Her team lead is not giving any help, but keep adding more stuffs for her, so he can happily go starburkes for coffee and taking many leaves to go back KL. My friend, getting a senior programmer pay, is doing programming stuffs cum consultants stuffs(writing func spec and process flow) cum support. Can she finish the coding?? God knows.

I know these type of scenrios does happen to many other companys as well. but just dun understand, life is just so unfair!!
Hoping hui will earn tons of $$$...
I'm beginning to dream of myself being a tai tai.....
driving a blue mazda 6 on the way to orchard for lunch with my friends, going for shopping spree, buying branded clothes for hui and myself, high-tea at hotel with friend, discuss with friend which hairdo, makeup is better, meet up for gym session, gossiping away abt anything under the sun......

*Piak*...Ok, I'm awake from my day dream. Going lunch soon...Hai....

Spring Cleaning

CNY is just round the corner. Usually near this date, I will find one day to stay at home and clear up the stuffs in my room. Today hui was in camp for reservist. So it's the best time for me to guai guai stay at home and clear up my bedroom before mum go nag nag nag again..
Woke up at 10+am. Nua in bed till 11+am, get up brush my teeth, had my lunch, watch tv....started the spring cleaning at 2pm. First thing to start off was my bed head glass window. Previously I had 12 Hello Kitty soft toys displayed in the glass window. This yr, I've decided to keep all of them and redecorate that area. So this yr, how and what have I decided to decorate it with?? well...pic as follows:




The top layer which I called it 'Shunhui & Shara's Corner' (Intend to do a banner soon), display all the stuffs that he did or brought for me for the past 4yrs+, and also stuffs that we did or brought together. The bottom layer are more of my personal stuffs.

Can you believe it, just by cleaning that 2 layers of stuff spent me 3hrs+! Another 2hrs was spent wiping my bedhead, dig out some new photos to replace the old ones, clearing up the rubbish, washing whatever stuff that are dirty etc etc..

After resting awhile, 7+pm went to bathe before going out with mum to central for dinner and helping her to carry things from NTUC. Reach home was already 10+pm. What a tiring wkend to spent. Tmr hui will bookout from camp. Think he'll pull me to go execise again which was never successful coz I'm just too lazy for that. I can shop the whole day without getting tired, with him complaining of walking too much. But I just can't go for a jog which will only take me 30mins.....hmmm....well...woman's nature...can't blame me for that too...:p

I need motivation!

Fat, Fat, Fat! Looking at the mirror again and again, just hated the way I am now!
I really need execise..but I dun have the motivation to continuously do it! I always say I must go for jogging later, but in the end, I was found lying in bed watching TV!
How?? How to make oneself be motivated to do something? Hmm, will $$ help me?? Sign up for some areobic or other classes. I bet no matter how, I'll drag myself to be there cause I have already paid for the lesson. It'll be a waste of $ if I did not attend. How abt that??
Execise, Execise, Execise! To lose at least 3-4kg, tone up my flabby arms, flatten my tummy...that'll be my latest goal now. :(

A piece of thought

I was on msn with one of my colleague/friend who have been roll-off from my current project to another project. She was complaining on how bad the 'S' project is, compared to 'N' project (My current project). Before she roll-off, the people in 'N' project was like congratulating her for able to rolloff so early coz 'N' project was not a good place to stay in! Lousy management, lousy system, lousy working hours, so its a blessing to be able to rolloff! But..it was also because she had a chance to be at another project that she realise 'N' project infact was a better place to work in. This is beacause 'S' project had even lousier managment, lousier system and in time to come...maybe lousier working hrs too!

That's human nature! We are always complaining about things, and when we are given a chance to try another thing, then we'll realise the former is better. But, its too late to regret coz time can nvr turn back.

I was talking on msn with another friend too and she was in a decision on whether to quit her current job or continue staying there. She was very unhappy with her job now cause of politics issue and her colleagues are treating her badly. However, pressure from her parents and bf make her in a dilema if she shld tolerate all the nosense and continue working or to quit and get another job, with the possibility of unemployed for a few mths. But if she found another new job, will she find that infact, the former place wld be a better place to work with?

So if the current situation is not that bad, should we be contented with what we have?
But.. if we dun try, how will we know if the former or latter is better? Dilema right? That's life!

Typical Singaporean!

Yest hui and I went to Chinatown to watch the start up of the lightings and fire crackers. It was a nightmare!! I reach the place at ard 4+pm, went for a early dinner at maxwell food centre, because I knew by the time the whole thing finish, it shld be quite late. After the dinner, went to walk around and reach the stage area ard 5.30pm.
We got quite a good view to watch the fire crackers as we are quite early. The fire crackers supposedly shld start at 7pm. We waited and waited..the crowd was getting bigger. Can't stand some ppl, they came late, and still keep squeezing inorder to get to the front! Then what's the purpose of standing there early!
At ard 6.30pm, some tcs ppl from Liang Jia Ban(Jack Neo's team) arrived. Then the commotion happened!
Infront of me were 2 aunties and a uncle carrying a child. They started to quarral due to pushing issues. They started off scolding in mandarin and then turn to english..
Then...due to the big crowd, one of the jewellery store owner complain to the police that the crowd are pushing their closed glass door and might break it..the police had no choice but to move the railings more to the front so that the crowd is able to see more clearly, and also not to obstruct the entrance of the jewellery shop.
BUT, the exciting part happened..the people standing in the very front objected of moving the railings more towards the front coz they are afraid the ppl behind will keep pushing them to the front and they might fall. Especially coz there are many kids standing in front. However, the police assure them it wun happen...in the end...well...the behind really started pushing and everyone was screaming around. Me and hui was then being push to the back!I've wasted 1.5hrs standing there grabbing a good view and when the show was going to start, there goes my view. I was blk by all the tall ppl! Luckily still manage to peep thru some "holes" to watch the firecrackers. Then the ppl started complaining abt the police, saying : "How will the singaporean listen to them!! If they listen, then they are not singaporean liao!!" ... I just laugh to myself!
After the crackers went off, going back to the carpark was a headache too! The crowd just stop there!! No one was moving!! Behind keep pushing!! Ppl are quarraling!! OMG!!! What a scene!!
After we manage to get to the carpark, to get out of the place was the only thing in my mind.
We headed to the Cheese prata shop for our supper near pasir panjang road @ ard 10pm. Reach home at 12+am. This will be my first and last time to go for such event at chinatown!

Happy Bday To Daddy & Phyllis

This is my first blog. Hmm, what shld I say?? Well, today is my daddy's bday, as well as my good friend Phyllis bday. What a coincidence right? both of their bday falls on the same day, but ofcoz, the age difference is big!
I bought a cake from Breadtalk. Going collect it @5.30pm after I knock off. The cake has a nice name. It's call 'Mango Talk'. And yest we had dinner with Phyllis and Peiyi. I also bought a mango cake for Phyllis too! BUT..the cake is much "bigger" than what I bought today! It's a mango mousse cake from emicakes shop...Mmmm...I LOVE the mousse cakes there!! It's simply delicious!!:Þ
15 more mins to knock off time. Hui will only join me at my house after he knock off which is about 8pm by the time he reaches my house. Lucky he got his own tranport. If not, from payar lebar to Clementi, Gosh!