Tuesday, November 13, 2007
dad & gran
- 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...
Sunday, November 11, 2007
CGH..SGH...
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
The resort was nice lah...except that the number of flies buzzing around the premises sort of made things abit...hmm ...unpleasant?
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...
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...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Me
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.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
zzzz
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....=)))
Thursday, November 01, 2007
making friends
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
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
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
time...scare resource or rare commodity?
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, October 29, 2007
monday...
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
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*
Sunday, October 21, 2007
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...
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!!!
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
updates.....
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
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.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
xmas is coming....woot!
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...
Sunday, October 14, 2007
freakshow
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.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
more blahs...
- 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....
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.