time...scare resource or rare commodity?

Gosh..kinda busy today..I forgot to wish people...
Oh well...Happy Halloween...!! =D

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Went for dinner with the choy family just now...wah lau, Da Jie really knows how to find good food man..and cheap too! hahha...

This place called Canto Wok by Chef Tan...
or was it by chef wong..can't remember...but it's along Joo Chiat...

Simple Cantonese or Chinese dishes...but damn unique lor!!
Fried crisp brinjal with pork floss...sounds weird?? But it was damn nice!! for one who doesn't really take brinjal...this dish was GOOD!
Fried fish skins...Spinach with Salted Eggs...Spare Ribs in Coffee Sauce & Sweet Sour Sauce...Bee Hoon Scallop...Prawn Tofu with Mushrooms...

Thinking about it now makes me lick lick lic my lips still haha..

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Ever been caught in a situation where you dun wanna go out for kopi or dinner with someone but you've rejected them too many times in the past (and the other party is suaning you about your actions so much so....) that you feel obliged to say yes just this once...

I just said yes twice this week...

Now...am kinda regretting it...sighzz
I told myself not to get into such situations...And here I am...faced with two...

TMD...
There are some people whom I's rather just keep a "non-face-to-face" relationship...Just an occassional SMS and an occassional MSN message will do..
But how do I tell a person that?

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Facebook.....oh no.....it has become a daily fix....
I get the sniffles if I don't get on it at least once in the day..and once at night...

Oh no.......junkie to the virtual world....
Arrhhhh!!!

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REalised that starting work at 830am really does make a difference...
It makes me more tired.. ahha...and by the time 1030 comes..
I am usually tired already...kaozz...I used to be able to tahan till 12am or later lor!!

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Oh yah..another thing...

Um, isn't it awkward and strange to make friends through a portal? I mean..there's been a few guys who have left messages saying "Hi, Would like to be your friend. Please add me." in my Facebook account..

zzzzzzz..........am not gonna condemn too much..but but but....
Hmmm? Thought there're better ways to make friends?

monday...

I wonder how som epeople can pack so many things into their life..
Work, bf, friends, language classes, music lessons, gym, yoga...

How ah?
I dun get it how come they have so much energy...Hmm...

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I stopped by a pet shop in suntec this evening...
I was standing at the glass window..feeling like a small child...
Staring at the cages of hamsters sleeping...one piled on top of another...
All breathing in a syncopated motion..
So small..so furry...so CUTE!!!

Wonder if I should get a pair...
It's been a year since Hammie has passed on..
Wonder if I can commit to having to take care of hamsters again...it'll be a committment for 2.5 to 3 years at least... haa..
Somemore shifting house end next year.. hmm mm...

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It was so nice talking to Celia this afternoon.. haha...mostly about her health and her wedding...
She's a pseudo jet-setter now..

From SG to Manila to Beijing to Jakarta..shuttling between these cities or to whatever place her hubby has an on-going project...
A few weeks here, a few months there...gosh..she's seeing the world...and being a tai-tai at home haha...

She'll be back in early December...Catch-up time hopefully...=)
Made a pact to wear T-shirt and shorts and "chill-out" at one of the kopitiams in between my place and her hubby's parents place.. haha...

I miss her entertaining me during work..

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monday blues..
air-con brooke down last night...started leaking water...
Imagine wiping your table and floor at 230am in the morning...

c'est lundi

Things have been...busy.

Gran was discharged last Tuesday. Went back to the nursing home...
4 days later...she was admitted into CGH again. All because of one thing: stubbornness.

She walked on her own. Carrying her waterbottle..wanting to go to a sink to rinse it and then refill it...Fell, landed on her bum.
And now she's bed-ridden with a fractured left hip. Groaning in pain every few minutes.
Going on 92...and she might have to go for a hip replacement op.

We've always nagged at her..threatened her...not to walk on her own.
Now she's finally done it. And she's finally in a situation where we've all been dreading for so long.

She's only stayed at the home for 1.5 weeks in the past month. And we're paying for the full bed there...parents have the intention of pulling her out to save on the cost...and then re-admitting her back in when the op is over..

hmm..

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Went Jeremy's wedding in Hilton on Saturday.

Xian.

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Facebook is getting addictive.

sigh..ok..back to work...

This week is a crucial week..and I just submitted a paper to the GM...
He's notorious for picking at anything and everything. Not a single paper has been approved without going through more than 3-4 drafts..with some oging up to 10 drafts...or so I've been told...

*crosses fingers*

Cowboy is Very Busy

Gosh...Piangzzz..this is a damn cheesy effort to be different...
Never would have imagined Jay Chou..Mr Cool...in such a um...cowboy attire & doing up such a corny video..

His latest album..this song is the Zhu Da Ge...i.e. main song from the album..

*Faints*

You Are A Song In My Heart

Love this song! Enjoy!!
haha...=D

zzz...

Setting:
In the common area of Raffles City Shopping Centre
Outside the Washrooms just next to Aldo

Cast:
Tazzee & Shell

Act 1 Scene 1:
Shell was feeling tired and rubbing her right eye. Left eye was open and it suddenly caught the shape of a familiar figure and face. Shell couldn't be sure since it was a one-eyed assessment of that figure...

(Concurrently)
Tazzee was stretching his arms and yawning, feeling tired from shopping. Evidence of his day's escapades were strewn around him. His eyes suddenly set forth upon a female form. A weird figure that had a one-eye stare on him....

Act 1 Scene 2:
Shell releases her right eye. Tazzee finishes his stretch.
In that 3 seconds that follows, realisation dawns on them!!
"Eh!!!!!!" they both say as Shell approaches Tazzee for a chat.....

Epilogue:
It's always nice when you unexpectedly meet someone you know...while you're outside...
Right Taz? haha...

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Decided to catch a show last minute yesterday...and ended up with a mediocre show "Mr Woodcock" at Great World City..
Other shows were either too late...or left with no good seats..

Tried a nice little restaurant called "Curry Favour" along the road facing SMRT HQ. Dunno what the road name is though ahha...From Capitol Buuilding...you walk straight down towards MPH at Stamford House...

Specialising in japanese curry dishes...with either rice, udon or ramen...
Slightly pricey though...

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Sunday..time to catch up on cleaning..sigh...and grooming...sigh...and other personal matters that I had no time to attaned to during weekdays....sigh....

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It's amazing...Noel found me on Facebook...
My distant cousin's husband..come to think of it..I only see him once a year during CNY!!!

updates.....

Granny has internal bleeding..I got a shock when I heard this piece of news this afternoon.
But apparently, it's much more a controllable issue than if the lumop in her abdomen is a tumour...

So it's a not so good news...but it's still a bette rnews than if it were a tumour...

She's put on medication now to stop the bleeding..and to get a better blood flow through the body...back on solid food now too...
And good news is, she doesn't have to go for any operation whatsoever...

Dad said she looks much better today and can find the strength and energy to talk to them when they were at the hospital..

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I scolded a bunch of kids yesterday when I was visiting gran.
Irritated me too much..Chinese kids creating a din. No parents around.

First time I've ever done such a thing. And man, it felt good. hahah...
But the thing is...it made me feel "auntie" too.. ahha...LOL....

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An analysis was done on the episode I had on Saturday night..
And in conclusion...it was a panic attack...of which the causes are unknown...

All the symptoms were there..
- heart beating faster
- feeling of intense fear
- feeling of losing control
- feeling of "going crazy"
- feeling of being a little disoriented

piangzz...what's happening?
*relax relax* *breathe in, breath out*
*think positive happy thoughts*

Dix-Sept Octobre, Deux Mille Sept

Which means...17th October, 2007.
A year older...a year wiser?

I am officially in my late 20s liao..3 years more and I'll hit the big 3.. haa..
Sure doesn't feel like it..

The usual people, the usual well-wishers...Was touched that Gurmit SMSed me from Australia.. hhaa..
My new colleagues treated me to a bday lunch at NYDC...Gosh, the waitress there even gave me a red balloon.. haha...I had an oreo cheesecake for my birthday cake...
Think it's the tradition amongst this clique to go to NYDC for bithday celebrations...haa..

Dinner was at Waraku with Glenn, Chloe, Jenice, See Soon & Devin...Loads of laughter..one of those rare times where you laught till you can't stop...till you feel yourself turning red and hot.. haha..
Then there was a cake too...haha a sqaure cake..choc cream coating all the sides...and with a cookie monster right smack on the top of the cake... haha..

Lazy to post pics now...will do so later..=)

Year after year passes by so quickly...I look behind me and all I see is an blurred incoherent mass of things...from last october till now...lemme see...

3 jobs. events. projects. liasing with vendors. arguments. laughter. tears. friends. sec sch gatherings. lhub gatherings. bitching. gossipping. chats. food gatherings. alcohol. ice cold beer. uni friends. blogging. quarrels. sadness. frustrations. pure joy. simple happiness. skepticism. disappointment. growth. learnings. travels. jogging. swimming. french. stagnation. listening ears. aunt agony periods. new experiences. fears. hopes. dreams. expectations. stress. warmth. coldness. comprehensions. times of not understanding. sickness. reflections. good health. cheonging. sms-ing. lots and lots of msn-ing. shopping. reading. financial evaluations. frankness. solitude. cooking. hypocrisy. adjustments. transitions. shifts.

xmas is coming....woot!

Gran has been in CGH for about 1.5 weeks already.
Received news this afternoon of a lump in her abdominal area...sent her for scan..
Went down after work again...Just got home not long ago..

Don't know the results yet..,might need to go for op. Don't know what the lump is about too...

It might morbid and maybe a little pessimistic.
But you know...um..am mentally preparing for a not-so-good scenario first..
Anything more than that is a bonus and a relief..

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A friend SMS-ed me just now...

"I was in class...I was thinking of BJs and suddenly I found my thumb somewhere halfway in my mouth..."

Piangzz..how timely...it was kinda sombre and serious in the hospital ward..and suddenly this thing came it...
Had to practice my self control again man...stomach muscles stretched to the max...
Tried so hard to contain my laughter haha...

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I was so cold in office today. I was shivering...a cardigan and a jacket just wasn't enough..
I didn't have anything else already...
Am gonna bring 2 shawls to office tomorrow to act as blankets...

Why do building managements make central aircons so bloody cold???

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Ok, my mini stress buster for the day....
Facebook..bleah.. haha...

then again, don't think it helps alot...
still feeling emo...

oh well, am mentally weaker...

freakshow

T'was a scary night of sleep.
Was disturbed at a point in time.

How so? Hmm mm.
I woke feeling like I was gonna go crazy.
It was not "Gui Ya" or anything.
Or in English, it was not like I was out of breath with a heavy feeling on the chest.

It was just me feeling super kancheong, super freaked out.
I remember heading to the washroom to pee. I remember gulping a few mouthfuls of water.
I remember reciting Hail Mary in my head.
And I remember that the 1st time I tried uttering Hail Mary, I was so freaked I couldn't quite remember the words.

I went back to bed, hid under the covers still feeling like shit.
I think fatigue pulled me back into sleep.

But it was scary. I can't quite describe the feeling I felt.
Something like as if you're on the edge of hysteria, of paranoia, of madness.

I remember experiencing this before, a few months back.
But it was only this year that I've ever experienced anything like this.
Never in my prior years.

Shudders.

more blahs...

It does get unnerving when you're surrounded by
- scholars
- people with Masters
- poeple on the Honours roll
- people who have studied overseas, some in ivy league universities
- people who have been in stat boards for ages they can flatten you with their depth of knowledge

oh well.... =(
haha...i feel small sometimes..I just clam up or I get tongue-tied...

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Not gone for facial for close to 2 months liao...oppss....

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As you can see...I am not trying very hard to work..

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Facebook...am on it...
But am finding it not quite um....interesting as I'd thought...

ok lah...you can smack, poke, bitch-slap, throw a fish, throw a sheep, give a beer virtually to someone on your list...
But um...so?

Hmm mm...Thought it was an age thing...but when I see 30-somethings happily playing with Facebook...I retracted that thought...
Maybe it's just me... haha.
I'm boring..

boliao....

Trust..
Hard to build up..
Easy to shatter..

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It's a little sad.
Alone at home on a Saturday night. No loved ones with me.

Cooked own lunch, own dinner.
Visited gran for about 2 hours this afternoon. Spent the time there bonding with Auntie Molly (also known as my Ah Gor) as well...
Settled some bills, bought some toiletries after the visit..

Am now trying to clear some work. But I think as you can see, I am not achieving much..LOL..

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Clause 1
The next person(s) who ask(s) me, in whichever method, form or context whatsoever, whether in verbal, written, or electronic form, which date or day my ROM will be on, which date or day my wedding dinner will be on, and/or whether I have made any preparations of any sort for anything and everything remotely related to the union of me and waimun, will get it big time, where big time refers to any outburst of any sort and language, whether in verbal, written or electronic form, of which the source is from me.

Exclusions
Existing colleagues are excluded from the clause above for reasons that they do not possess adequate information about me to know what to ask and what not to ask. Parents are excluded from the clause above for reasons that they delivered me into this world and god has decreed that thou shalt not hurt or defy your makers and should respect and love them.

Inclusions
All other person(s) not mentioned specifically in the aforementioned exclusion clause will be bound by Clause 1.

Terms of Agreement
I will endeavour to publish these clauses on the web and from the time that the information is available on the web, the aforementioned conditions are deemed to have taken legal effect and will be binding and effective on anybody and everybody I know, which the exception of those mentioned in the exclusion clause above. I shall have the right to amend the above terms at any time from time to time whatsoever, without prior notice give. Any amendments made to the terms will be published on the web and will supercede any prior versions and will be deemed to be legal and effective from the moment it is on the web.

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Ah crap....Do I sound like a civil servant now?
Statements above are what I need to read through frequently in the course of my work...Of course, what I wrote above is super amateurish and boliao...

More like a feeble attempt to sound "legal-ish".

Try reading 30 pages of such sentences and paragraphs in the actual legal terms and language...
Gosh...it numbs the brain man ahha...

And well in short...to summarise the above boliao stuff...
Bugger off...don't ask me anymore when my wedding will be, when my ROM will be and/or whether I've made any preparations for them. Bleah.

twenty....seven....and....counting....

Count down. 4 more days? haa..lol.
The petty me..this year will be a quiet bday...
Spent last year in Taiwan...Spent 2005's in sgh.

Old liao..but wonder why I place more emphasis on this year's bday?
hmm mm...

early in the morning...

Had an initially frustrating night.
Left office at 710pm. Unexpected meeting that lasted for hours...
Took Ginger's advice and went to St Andrew's Church to take a bus...bad idea.
TMD...Reached Central only at 750pm.

So near..yet so far...

Anyway, whatever frustration dissipated the moment I saw them...haha..
They always that effect on me...Lydia, Ginger, Tricia, Sashi...Dined at Pasta de Waraku and then went over to TCC to chill abit....Ee Hong joined us later...

Left them at 11-plus and went over to Wine Garage to chill with PQ & TH.
As I walked past Brewerkz to get there...gosh...Brewerkz was bloody full ahha...
Had some red wine and just hung around...They closed at 1-plus...

We somehow ended up near TH's place...at a 24-hour kopitiam...
Had bak chor mee before heading home...It wasn't as nice as Blk 85's bak chor mee though haha...

So here I am...refusing to sleep....cos there's no class tomorrow.. haha...

Let's see..agenda for tomorrow...

Settle lunch and some admin matters from home...makan lunch....
Then make way to Gran's place...Then settle my credit card payment...Then buy some toiletries....then back home..Some work stuff to settle and then maybe catch a DVD...

Sigh...the lonely life of a lonely shell...

where are we?

decade after decade..
year after year..
month after month..
week after week..
day after day..
hour after hour..
minute after minute..
second after second..

how much time has passed?
how much time have we wasted?
how much time has slipped us by?
how much time have we turned a blind eye to?

how much more time will pass?
how much more time will we waste?
how much more time will slip us by?
how much more time will we turn a blind eye to?

days of rain
days of wind
days of sun
days of clouds

hours of light
hours of darkness
hours of hope
hours of despair

what did we wish that we could do?
what did we wish that we should have done?

where did we go to?
after all this while..
slipping further into ourselves..
till we're a speck of mite
resting on the bottom of a pit
nary to see the light of day?

sigh...

Did something dumb today.
Rushed out of office to go CGH to visit granny...I must have left my keys behind...

Cos when I got home at 840pm. I was searching frantically for my keys. But they were no where to be found.
Heng...Adrian has a spare set...But I had to wait for him to come home first...waited for 30 mins..he finally came by to pick me up..went over to his place in Pasir Ris...

And by the t ime I got home...It was 935 already...

Sad..missed my Chinese show by half...and missed the amount of time i could have done some chores...

Anyway...I have been absent-minded lately...
And my work is also not up to standard...What happened to the meticulous me?
I used to spot mistakes and correct my own work thoroughly before I even sent anything out...

My eyes did not see the number of mistakes my work had this morning..
What a letdown...simple stuff...so many typos...Feb became Jan. Gosh...........

Kinda disappointing.
Not the kind of work I would expect of myself...

Sad...

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Gran..was admitted into CGH on Saturday....for cough n asthma...
More like wheezing...

Not sure if she'll be discharged tomorrow...was wheezing again just now....

J'attend

I wait...
For...

So many things...

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Question comes back again.

Guitar or Keyboard?
PQ jioing me to take up guitar...But I have a feeling my fingers are not too suited for strings..hahha

Ahboy is keen on keyboard...but dun think he has the time to commit also...

How ah? =(

For One More Day

A novel by Mitch Albom
Lovely read...Written in a way that is so much his style..simple words, simple sentences...
Yet so very thought-provoking...so much like his "Fove People You Meet In Heaven" and "Tuesdays With Morrie"
All his books have made me weep..haha..

He brings up feelings, thoughts, emotions which all of us take for granted...and which all of us somehow or other over the years...tend to disregard and keep hidden...

One lovely line from the last page of this book:
"One day spent with someone you love can change everything."

Another para:
"I believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above the swirling waters, and sometimes, that means that you will never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't."

Yet another one:
"There's a story behind everything. How a picture got onto a wall. How a scar got onto your face. Sometimes the stories are simple and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story because hers is where your begins."

A love story about familial ties..especially between a mother and a son...
Written in first person narrative...

There was concept highlighted in there..The narrator had a list..split into two columns...
Each column was headed by the following titles:
1) Times My Mother Stood Up For Me
2) Times I Did Not Stand Up For My Mother

(2) far outweighed (1)....

I thought about it myself...and I think my own situation is similar too...
I believe alot of others would face a similar thing too...

Why does love tend to be taken for granted so often?
Love of any kind...friendship, spousal, parental, sibling love, familial love...

Food for thought...

Friday night

My tolerance for alcohol is diminishing haha..
I think I can hold my liquor average-ly..(is there such a word??) haha..
But my stomach can't anymore...

New colleagues & I were having red wine in office after work...
2-3 glasses...the wine was disappointing though haa....
Popped by Velvet after that...not Velvet Dragon..Velvet Underground...=)

My citibank card was put to good use...free entry for citibank card holders before 12am...heh.
Took a few more glasses of drink..was ok..high but ok...

Got home..and my stomach gave...

Slept, got up witha splitting headache and my stomach gave again...twice...
Was trying to retch silently in the loo...
When you have an observant mom, you'll learn how to do things discreetly too.. haha..essential "survival" skills... aha...

Popped a pill before I had my lunch..best thing was...kaozz...she cooked laksa yesterday...super spicy...I thought I couldn't make it to finish the bowl she plopped in front of me...
Bopian..kept a straight face and took it real slowly ahha...

Managed to survive the lunch...and well..things got better after that.. haha..

Guess I lacked discipline again...
Having fun at the expense of my stomach..no go no go...

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School was super boring yesterday...French Grammar really sucks man.. ahha..
In the English language...the past is the past...and you just use the past tense...

Piangzz French has the recent past, the past past and the very long ago past...

Har? How do we know when to use what?? we lamented to the Bruno our teacher...

You have to feel the language and you will know in time to come...I give you about one year to know it at the tip of your fingertips...Bruno replied, smiling all the while..

*Groans* was the reply he got from the whole class...

There was a VCD, DVD vendor in school yesterday..and they were selling it real cheap!!!
$2 for a VCD, $4 to $10 for a DVD...
Bought 3 French movies and 1 jap movie...for a total of $16 bucks.. haha
The good English movies were all snapped up liao by the time I went down to have a look..

No class next Saturday cos it's Hari Raya...Parents not around as well...
But Ahboy has a wedding to go to....bleah...

Blast to the Past

Ahboy & I popped by Sunset Way yesterday...the new stretch of eateries were quite interesting..
Imagine having a pool & chill-out place in your neighbourhood...
Take the lift downstairs, cross a little road, and there you have it.. ahha..

There were various restaurants there..Chinese steamboat & grill buffet, a pasta place, a Jap restaurant, a New Zealand ice-cream shop, a meat grill place, etc..
The whole place was packed..Managed to get seats in the Chinese steamboat place...

Though my stomach was still a little queasy from the Friday night before...
But the more I ate.. haha the more I felt better...The soup was just so-so though..No lah, in fact, it was utterly tasteless haha...

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After dinner...we went to do something which I'd always wanted to do since a few years back...
But never had the chance to...

We went to visit NTU.. haha...abit boliao lah...But I miss those days alot.. haha..
And we got lost mid-way..But we finally got there...and our first stop was at Hall One...

I didn't quite know what to expect..Maybe I thought I'd see new structures or new things added here and there...
But when I stepped out of the car...I felt like as if I'd been transported back to 6-7 years ago..
Everything was still the same..
From the paint colours, to the badminton courts, to the laundry rooms, to the bike stands, to the way the name tags were put up in each door's plastic holder...
Even right down to the numerous slippers each room had...

Visited my old block..saw some people BBQ-ing there...Walked over to Hall 5 abit...showed ahboy around..
Went back to the car and drove around..Saw lots of new school blocks...saw Hall 6, Hall 8, Nanyang Lake, my school The Nanyang Business School, Yunnan Garden, NIE, etc.. ahaha...went up to the President's Lodge too.. haha..

Gave HB a call when I was at Hall One..but I forgot, he, Mao & Seng have already stopped staying in Hall One since the start of this semester...

Left in about45mins to an hour..
Oh well, memories..

it's thursday already??? man that's fast!!!

Woot! 830am today again! hahaha...
Cheep cheep thrill hor? hahaha...

Ok, things are starting to come in already...There's work to do...
Must change gear abit....from 1st gear to 1.5 gear...hah..

oh tmd. boss just stopped by. dunno if he saw me blogging....

okok.....go do work!!

tada!!!

kaozz...I am so early today..I reached office at 830am sharp....
Bad thing is I am soo woozy....hahaha

Good hting is that I met my HR in the lift...hiakzz!! Evidence that I am on time ok....
It's 850am now...and I am the only in my department who has arrived...even my admin lady is not here yet!! piangzz. hahhaa...

Ok, off to read up on some stuff liaozzzz.....

zzzzz *yawn*

p/s: ai xin chicken burger made my mom today..munching on it now.. haha

tews-dae!!

Suli MSN-ed me this afternoon...sigh..She & CK are off..Just this Saturday past...
Think she cried alot over the weekend...

Don't know how much I can help this cousin of mine except to lend a listening ear and some comforting words...
Think this one lasted about 2 years or slightly less?

Oh...hope she finds a guy who will treasure her as much as she treasures him...
And hope she gets over CK soon...

She kept saying no one wants her, that she's not smart, not pretty, not sociable, not outoging, dunno how to interact...Sigh..=(
So very wrong..I think she's pretty & sociable...and I think most guys will like her...

Oh well...time heals...

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I am being stalked...By a guy who was my printer when I was still in Achieve.
He's been calling me at least 2-3 times everweek eversince I started at IDA.
98% of the time, I don't pick up or I miss the call..

He called me yesterday. It was a missed call. And he left me a dumb voicemail.
"Hello Michelle ah? This is XXX ah. Bye Bye."

???????!!!!!

And today....he gave me 3 missed calls.

Wah lau eh.

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Was chatting with Ah kok this morning...apparently he & Ah San have been prowling lots of auto workshops...and "zheng-ing" their cars.
For the uninitiated, it means modifying their cars...

According to him..his car now has a body kit, dunno-what grill, spoiler, special illum clock, side mirror blinkers and a whole host of other things that I can't remember.. ahha..

Think it has cost more than $3K liao...

Men...*rolls eyes*

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I feel like an invalid at work...
There are issues cropping up..But I can't do much to help them out. Cos my knowledge of the industry and of the whole system & processes is still too raw to be of much help...

Bleah... =(

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I will be at Velvet this Friday with a bunch of new colleagues...abit awkward to go but oh well..
Taking it as a bonding session.

Anybody keen?
I will be there around 1030-1100pm...

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Meeting Patricia for lunch this Friday!! =))
I like her..she's turned out to be a wonderful pal...and somehow..she's been my career consultant.. haha..lol...Guess fate brought us back together after a hiatus of 4.5 years of no contact and I think no recollection that each other existed in the first place.. ahhah lol...

Meeting Yan Bin next Tuesday for lunch!!
My mighty French classmate who sadly is not taking classes this semester...

Meeting Diana sometime next week for lunch too!!
Haha..she's at the next tower from me...WEird...I didn't jio her for lunch when we were in the same office at LHUB...and now..I am asking her out for lunch...when we're ex-colleagues...

The world's a funny place ain't it? heh...

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Yikes...same thing again....845 pm liao!!
Gotta go shower and watch my 9pm show!!!

Tata!

hee hee!

Before I forget..

Happy Children's Day!!!!

wheeee!!!!!

My interview with the weekly publication The Edge is out!!
hahah...cheap thrill perhaps but but but!! Hey!
It's the first time ever that I am quoted in a publication widely read by CEOs & other high level people...

*beams*

For those of you who read this publication...Check out pages 20-22 about the Gen Y working executives...Hee...it's listed there as Michelle Sng, a Gen Y-er who works at Achieve...

Well um, sad to say, at the time of the publication's release that is technically not a true fact anymore... ahhaha...
More like a Gen Y-er who WORKED at Achieve.. hahaha.....

And oh gosh, of all people, Candy was the one who SMS-ed me in the morning to tell me about the article...
I was like ah?? Candy???
She reads The Edge one meh??? Simply can't imagine haha...=p

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Time flies babe...2008 is almost here!

Chloe's SMS reply to me...How true how true...
I initially told her..."Eh, gosh, I have left LHUB for close to 5 months liao leh! So fast!"

Seems the older you get, the faster time flies...
The older you get, the more blurry each chapter of your life becomes.. haha...

And now come to think of it...Glenn has left LHUB for more than a year!! hahaa...

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I am getting nostalgic and sentimental again...

Maybe cos I am in my birthday month liao...Yet another cycle begins...yet another year has passed...yet another candle added to my cake...yet more lines added to the corners of my eyes...So fast...too fast...

And damn, when will people stop asking me this question: "So when are you getting married??"

Mum is asking, aunts & uncles are asking. Even Adrian & Mei are asking...they have stopped cos I gave them irritated looks each time they ask.
Friends are asking. Hell, even when they drop me Friendster messages, that's what they ask??!!

Bleah...I also want to get married..but flat not ready then how???
Stop asking me okay...*exasperated*... ahhaa....

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Shit, ok..845 liao.
Need to go bathe..then watch the 9pm show....woohoo!!

Chen Han Wei..Old liao but still cool~!! haha...
15 years ago I watched his show...15 years later I am still watching his shows.. ahhaa...

Let's Talk About Sex Baby...

Ok, let's not call it Fatal Attraction nor Love at First Sight nor even Lust at First Sight...
For lack of a milder or more common term, perchance let me just term it as hmm mm.... "Connectivity"??

Yeah...maybe that's the word to use.

Have you ever met the eyes of a member of the opposite sex and felt an extreme connectivity to that person?
I am not just referring to the ladies over here...I am referring to everyone in general...

Have you ever caught the gaze of a member of the opposite gender and in that instant of time, felt as if you knew him or her since eons ago?
And in that same instant of time, a wonderful sizzle runs through you? Little zaps of electricity...
A little shocking to the senses, a little strange and yet, wondrous and very appealing?

So much so that though you become fearful for a second and look away for that little bit...
But then your curiosity gets the better of you and you turn back again..hoping to catch that gaze again...
Hoping to experience those little ripples of sensations again?

And if you do catch that gaze again, you get bolder now and hold those eyes to your own for a tad longer...
Pretty soon, a hint of a smile touches the ends of your lips...and then......

AW MAN...i know, so cliched...But hey, cliches are born out of truths and experiences, are they not? Haha..

I have met nary but a few guys who just with their eyes & smile & demeanour, manage to send hot flushes through me.. Hahaa...one of them..yeps would be Ahboy...
Another is an ex-bf...for those who are wondering...No, it is definitely not Red Biscuit.

One is a good friend, a brother...haha and another well...is a colleague...heh!
There you go...4 guys who managed to give me "zaps"....only 4 in my lifetime of um, 27 years? ahaha...Man, that's little...ahha...

Do you remember your first crushes? Fo you remember your first kiss?
Do you remember the first time you held hands with your other half? And I am not talking about primary school or kindergarten where you are forced to hold hands with your partner haha...
Do you remember your first bf or gf?

Somehow I thought back to all these things when I was on my way home just now...
Boliao? Oh well...Just a plain old girl who clings to past memories abit too much at times.. haha...