bleah...

sigh..poor sweetie...1st connecting flight delayed cos of weather conditions...
So he missed his main flight as well...

now he's gotta fly to london instead and wait for a night flight back to SG...and he'll be stuck at Heathrow airport for 6 hours before his flight...

instead of reaching SG at 7am in the morning..he'll be back only at 7pm in the evening...
Hope I can rush down to airport in time tomorrow after work...

wish I could be like Hiro Nakamura of Heroes...
teleport there to hug him...

MILAN~!!! I wanna go there too!!!!

baby just called... =)
wah piangzz!!!! me jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's shopping in the fashion capital of the world now!!! MILAN!!!!
Argh....all the Guccis, LVs, Pradas, Ermenegildo Zegnas, Hermes....
Not that I got the $$ to buy so many of these things lah...but still....
fashion capital of the world leh!!!

Bleah...and he was like...huh so? Milan only wat...
Gosh..*rolls eyes*

anyway..hee...
I got my gucci bag...of cos payable by me when he gets back...
maybe i'll try winking more at him...wonder if it'll help and i'll get a discount from him.. ahhaha...=p

prices increasing.....terrible...

Damn it. Inflation rate was at 3.6% in October alone.
Way higher than what any of the analysts out there predicted.

Tamade. Went to buy my fav snacks from this shop in Tampines Central...prices per piece were up by $0.20!! kaozz....but ordered liao..so no choice but to pay for them...

Super super rising costs of living man....
I am glad I got the house before prices started to go up like now....

And hmm mm...the salary increment I got when I changed a new job..seems to be insignificant now...hm mmm...

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It's official. My apartment is now in existence!
Haa...My flat was "born" on 22nd Nov 2007!

Was on the bus a few week sback and they were building the walls of the 14th floor...
On 22nd nov, when I saw the construction site again...They finally capped the 14th floor...i.e. the finally put the ceiling up...

So ya. my flat is officially in existence liao. ahahha..

Dropped an email to ahboy on Friday...=D

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French is seriously tough this semester...Getting tongue-tied...Getting blur...
Forgetting my vocab...even simple words like big!!

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Had a lovely meet-up with XL & Kym last night...
Dunno why...maybe cos I was thinking to myself..

"Wow, when I got to know the two of them under exceptional circumstances back in 1999...I did not ever expect to be drinking beer and eating chix wings with them 8 years down the road..."

LOL...ok, getting sentimental again...

But wahey!! I'll be XL's "sista" next year...2ndOct 2008 to be exact...=))

And will be Ally's "sista" too in November 2008....

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Xiao Bai...are u still around?

PIANGZZ!

Just got a call...heard my phone ringing and went to take a look...
ID read as "Mun Kitt"..

My jaw dropped...Mun Kitt??? Called wrongly is it? I left LHUB 6 months ago liao leh..

Picked up the call....haha...turned out he really was looking for me...gosh..
Was asking if I still had the soft copy of an analysis that I did for him about a year plus back...
Hahahaa.....turned out that they were discussing something this afternoon..and Zee wanted evidence of something.....something about WSH, a department whose marketing efforts I handled last time..

And I was the one who did the "evidence" last time...Mun Kitt mentioned me in the meeting...so they talked for awhile about me...
And now...they're looking for me!! For that piece of "evidence"....

LOL....I don't think I have it anymore...

my lovely bed...

it's nice to be home before 6pm...Was at SGH for my own medical appointment today...
Not to visit anyone..choi choi choi...
John Thomas was still the same old nice guy... haha..cheerful, smiling and witty...

My next appointment with him is in...2009.....
Good. Means I am kept on his records on a "just-in-case" basis...
I'm up for an MRI scan again in 2009...just to make sure that things are alright...
Apparently this and next year is too early for a scan hmm mm....

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Things are moving along in work.
More things to do...and I'm loving it...

=)

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Ok, quick nap before I have my dinner and watch Heroes! hahaha

Heroes!

Opps...I got myself hooked onto another thing again...
Borrowed "Heroes" from a colleague...

Watched an episode...Just finished it..and it was nice...
Am gonna bathenow and then watch episode 2..haha...

My own hero dropped me an email today! Sent it over at 8am his time..and well...
About 3-plus in the afternoon our time...=D

Will sms him later...it's 10pm now..prolly about 3pm his time...wonder how he's doing in his Zurich office?

Next week is a busy week...Am gonna miss a meeting with people from Oman cos my boss arrowed me to do something else...

Hooked onto Facebook, Heroes, Scrabulous...shit..what else man? hahaha

baby boy

It's our 3.5yrs anni today..

Sent him off yesterday night...was with him at the airport till about 12-plus in the night...or well, morning if you'd like to be precise.
Flight was at 1am..and he reached there at 230pm SG time...13 hours of flight...in Business class...shiok...heard they serve steak for meals...haha...bleah.
My butt will never get a chance to sit in a business class seat I think...

It's -9 degrees now over in Zurich..Hope he's covered up well and not feeling too cold...

So coincidental...while I was typing..he SMS-ed me. haha... =D
Said he's having some sandwiches and salad at a railway station now...said its boring..alot of shops closed cos its sunday.. haha..

Switzerland is 7 hrs behind us by the way....It's 930pm now...means its 230pm over there...

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Just loaded Scrabulous on my Facebook...and am having fun playing it...
Man i love scrabble and boggle...Miss those days of competitive playing where we'd literally lug the scrabble english dictionary around haha...

Now there's no one to play it with me....playing it on Facebook instead.. haha..
Though I'd still prefer to play it on the physical gameboard...
Boggle too...no one!!!

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I've put on 1kg...2 months at IDA and I have put on 1kg...piangzz...
This cannot be the way!!
no no no............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rumbling ramblings

irregular dinners...maybe that's why tonight stomach abit spoilt..
not feeling too good...kinda tired.

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there's been something i have been postponing to do at work..
i dun like liasing with cross-border people...but with the invisible line between countries nowadays...in terms of work...no choice...
guess tomorrow i relaly have to get down to doing it....

i'll need to call this Chinese lady who is based in Australia..and who has a UK boss who is based in Hong Kong..
wah lau..the complications of this issue..Just a simple agreement is taking so long...

and there's $$ issues too for this case..which has yet to be settled...dreading it...bleah...

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cheap thrill..haha.

my dbs platinum is coming! haaa....right after i cancelled about 3 cards cos i dun use them haha..
the boliao me...

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k, heading to bed...
cold...

hope it doesn't rain tomorrow morning...nor night...
aiyah..hope it doesn't rain tomorrow...

zzzzz....

bonne nuit tout le monde....

dad & gran

For the first time in my life:

- I covered my father with a blanket
- I wiped my father's lips with a wet towel
- I held a paper bag for him while he vomitted

Mum spent the whole day in hospital...from 7am till 9pm at night...
Adrian and I went there after work...he was still in the operating theatre...since 1230pm.

Was only wheeled out at 750pm. And went straight into ICU...or rather CCU which stands for Coronary Care Unit...the ICU equivalanent for heart op patients...

Mum just sms-ed me that he looks better already this morning....so at least that's something good....

Heading down again this evening...

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Just received an SMS from DaSao who's in CGH with Gran...
Hip is painful again....All of a sudden...she was fine for the past few days...

Doc sending her for xray again...sigh...

akan datang

15th May 2008. It's confirmed. =)

CGH..SGH...

Spent more than 3 hours in CGH today visiting granny...
Was massaging her feet and calves.. haha...she had a good appetitie today..managed to finish about 80% of her bowl of bee tai bak.

Estimated that she'll prolly spend about 2-3 more weeks in hopsital..wah lau..that's like 2 months in hospital...

Dad's going into SGH tomorrow morning for his heart op...Not sre how long but maybe his stay there will be about a week or so..

Sigh...Tough. Rushing down to SGH after work tomorrow...

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Baby's flying off to Switzerland on the 18th..will be there for a whole week...Zurich first for bout 2 days then Lugano for the rest of the trip...He'll be popping by Milan for awhile too..It's about 30mins by train from Lugano....
Bleah...I wanna go too!!!!!!! No fair!! He gets to go such nice places for his official trips!!!

Offered to help me buy Gucci bag.. haha...but chey...on my own expense hahha....=p

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The ROM date is almost set........
Just pending some internal discussions.......

port dickson

Came back from Port Dickson yesterday night...Gosh..journey there took about 7 hours...and journey back about 7 hours too cos there wasn't much of a jam..zzzz...

The resort was nice lah...except that the number of flies buzzing around the premises sort of made things abit...hmm ...unpleasant?

There were some flies in our room too...difficult to get rid of them so well...let's just say we had some guests bunking in with us throughout our 2 nights there...

We stayed in a premium water chalet...we were sleeping just above the water...you can hear the waves at night sometimes.......And it's my first time sleeping in a 4-poster bed..=D...

Oh yah!! The shower's open-air haha...bathing al fresco...a new experience...Some pics below...

The 4-poster bed...

The open-air shower..part 1

The open-air shower..part 2..from a diff angle. Note the pebble flooring...therapeutic!! Bamboo curtain by the side. And if you peep over the ledge on the right of the shower, you can see the sea below you...to the left of the shower was the bathtub...HUGE washroom area is all I can say haha...

The bathtub...the tub was abit small though

Bleah..the pic turned out too dark...but well...hope you can still see some of the water chalets standing on pillars just above the water's edge...

Muahaha...thought I would not get the chance to trael so much this year...turned out that I left the country on more occassions compared to last year! But only to nearby destinations though...Can I squeeze in a trip for December? It's in the works...but I gotta check out my leave first...newbie..not much leave for now...

Me

Took a quiz on FaceBook just now...and I am quite amazed at how true it turned out to be...

TEMPERAMENT
Idealist
You are the quintessential dreamer - spending more time thinking about the possibilities that the world holds for you, rather than your reality. You don't settle for anything less than what you truly desire and you work very hard. You tend to live in every place except the present - you are prone to daydreaming about the future and re-thinking the choices you made in the past. Sometimes you get overly caught up in your thoughts.

INTERESTS
Simple
You are continually pursuing a simpler and less complicated life - you don't allow yourself to fall victim to all of the "should do's" that society continually bombards you with. You are thoughtful about your life choices and think in terms of yourself, others and the world in which we live. You have a great sense that we are part of something much bigger and we must be good to others, if we want others and the world to be good to us.

AMUSEMENT
Thoughtful
You are easily stressed out and overwhelmed - you need to take care of yourself first and foremost. Because you tend to be self reflective, you know your limits quite well and must remember to not exceed those limits. When you overwhelm your life with obligations and responsibilities, you tend to shut down and go into yourself even further. Take some time to find your serenity and kick back your feet.

PASSION
Emotional
For you passion is less about romance and sex - it's more about friendship and family. Strong emotional bonds and connections are your passion and your pleasure. You always let your loved ones know how much you love, respect and admire them. You do this through kind words, loving actions and simple gestures. You count your blessings each day and express your love openly. You expect the same from others.

zzzz

Was at Alison's house last Saturday night..
MJ for 7 hours...got home around 530am and was surprisingly awake..
I mean I was tired..but my mind could still function and I wasn't like a zombie...

Some beer and red wine...some sheperd's pie and some salad...while playing MJ...
Wow...

Luck was good...Zimo-ed on alot of occassions ahhaa...=))
Overall winner woohoo!!

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Just got back from Desaru a few hours ago.

2D1N trip...company offsite...overall quite okay..Just that the floor lamp in my room and the TV were both spoilt...
The resort we stayed in was where I stayed in last year as well.

Went for a seafood lunch today at a place 30mins away from the hotel and it turned out tobe the same exact one I went to last year with ahboy on our roadtrip...how coincidental..piangzz...

Some bonding with some of the new colleagues..Some mahjong again...Hee...

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Ok, lemme go get a small dose of Facebook before I go settle wiht my other things..

Oh...A day's work tomorrow...and it's Port Dickson on Thursday morning!!
muahahhaa....=)))

making friends

Bleah..maybe I am out of touch...
But is it really the trend now to get to know people through the Net?
That is um...abit impersonal is it not?

Oh well...digital era...and I work for an Infocomm organisation now..
I must learn to embrace the "techy-ness" of the digital age...

Haha...I think one way I am embracing it is via Facebook? ahhaha..Is that counted??

heee.....=p

Perhaps...going through the virtual highway is an easier way to take that first step to know someone...It's not face-to-face...
The virtual distance almost always gives one an added sense of confidence and a greater dash of "dare".
And oh well...it saves time? haha...

Hmm mm...

je suis tres fatiguee

Spent about 1.5hrs in CGH just now..
Think I've been going to CGH for at least 2-3 times a week for the past 4 weeks..

Next week, most of the days I'll be out of town..hope Gran gets discharged then...
Cos Dad's going for his heart op on the 12th of Nov..at SGH
If she's still in CGH...then on the week of the 12th....I'll be shuttling between CGH, home, work and also SGH...

I am tired.

Gran looked worse today than on Tuesday after her op.
Think on Tuesday the anaesthetic was still mililng about in her...And full effects were felt since yesterday...She's on diapers now...

The nurses were changing her just now..poor thing...They had to shif ther around and outside of the drawn curtains, we could hear her groaning from within...

Even the administration of the antibiotics was a torture to watch...
I dunno what you call that thing. The needle that is kept in your vein for the purpose of a drip...

The anti-bio had to be injected through there...Fuck lor, the bloody syringe full of anti-bio was damn huge...The nurse was slowly injecting it into Gran...
I could feel for her...cos I went through that 2 years ago...and I know how uncomfortable it can be in the beginning...and once the liquid medicine goes into your vein...it starts to burn...

Sigh.

And yeah..time is extremely short these days..
Work, friends, family, bf, self...

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I had an encouraging day at work today..

People have told me that the GM is quite picky about papers being submitted to him...be it suggestions or proposals, information papers or policy papers, things have to be prim and proper before handing it over for him to see...

I have heard stories of how he threw papers back to people with notes written inside covering most pages...his illegible handwriting full of corrections and other suggestions of how to improve the paper...Or even his corrections of other people's English, grammar and choice of words used... ahhaa

And yes, I have also heard of stories of how he scolded people in the past...right in front of others...

He sounds like a monster I know haha...but that is what people told me...Though apparently he has toned down alot...

I personally find him ok..quite nice if you bother to talk to him...and if you give a listening ear to him...I've actually been through a scolding/nagging session before....
And it's highly stressful when you're in that situation...though I can also understand that he's doing it for the good of the work processes or the business.

Ok, I have digressed...

I had an encouraging day...and I was smiling to myself in the afternoon...
Because..a paper that I submitted to him last Friday..came back to me today via his PA..
There was a sticky note inside...and it said:

"Michelle. Good work. Please prepare final copy for my signing."

A simple curt combination of 10 words. But woohoo!
It felt good.. haha...cos there was not a single correction except for a date that I typed wrongly.. hehe..Wrote October instead of November.

Boost of encouragement considering this is my first official paper to him since I started work. Haha....I will work hard.

Yes I will~!!

Shit, come to think of it....I have another paper to write tomorrow...bleah.. haha...
Writing official memos and or proposals and/or operational process papers or business scheme papers....
Is really actually a tough thing...cos it forces you to think through everything and every angle..Every single process and detail...You gotta cover your own ass, and cover every possible loop hole...

Cause once you submit the paper...you gotta defend yourself when the bosses or Board Members throw you questions...

~*Ganbatte*~
=D