Little White

This 4-eyed geek needs some strength.

In the meantime though, she also hopes Xiao Bai will find her own ways to settle her issues at hand.

The going will be tough here and there...but there's nothing which can't be talked out.
Give a little, take a little.
Misunderstandings can be cleared. Arguments can be muted.

Going through such occurrences are part and parcel of relationships you should know.
But if things cannot be settled. Then perhaps it's just as well.
If two cannot weather a bout of rain, then what happens when a thunderstorm occurs in the future?

My listening ears are here.
Though I must apologise for the lapses when I'm extremely caught up in work.

Till here for now...
Hugzz from the auntie

Deception of Leave

Am back to office today.

Am beginning to think taking leave is just a form of delusion.
Perhaps a direct result of escapism.
And perhaps, a form of self-denial.

The work is still there.
The deadlines are still there.
The not-so-nice colleague is still there.
The various forces pulling from different directions are still very much there.
And yes, the freaking freezing central air-con is still there.

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Spent 3 days over in Sentosa with the man...
His birthday..32 years of age and looking none the older.

Damn it. At the rate I'm going and at the rate he's going (or not going)...
I'm gonna look older than him very soon.

Spent Monday afternoon taking a dip and swimming a few laps
Went for a run on Tuesday morning...
Felt good to exercise a little after the past few weeks of being unable to..

Did touristy things...took the sky train, went on the luge..
Had a nice dinner at the new atas Sakae restaurant..

Dipped in our own private jacuzzi...sat by the seafront..
Enjoyed the seabreeze at 2am..
Fought with ants..
Cursed the rain on Monday morning..
Ate cheng ting..
Munched on snacks...
Did not manage to get wine so slurped on the only thing we could find...jolly shandy
Snoozed alot...
Listened to music...

Pictures will be coming soon...I hope I have the motivation to post them..;p

For now.
Oh well.
It's back to reality.

OOOOOO!!!!

I have another guest blogger...who has insisted that SHE not be named for the moment.
So I shall call HER the MGB....my mysterious guest blogger.

The topic shall be "TOES"....

My first guest blogger declined to write anything about toes lol...Instead, she said she'll write something about me...or us.
Hmm mm....

Akan datang the submission of both entries...
Hmm mm....

*rubs hands in glee again*

muahahahha

oooi~!

My guest blogger hasn't contributed yet...:(
hahaha..

Word Challenge

HC & I are on a quest to out-do each other on the Facebook game "Word Challenge" haha....

He's going mad..playing during the day and during the night.
I just went up 3 levels above him last night and he went ballistic...

Immediately went to play the game this morning and finallly managed to move a few notches ahead of me...

Lol...he's a mad cow!!!

Ladder Theory

http://www.laddertheory.com/ladderconstruction.htm

Lol...interesting site..
Sent to me by Xiao Bai...

*Rubs Hands in Glee*

Wah shiok!!
Might be getting 2-3 days of telecommuting from 24 to 26 September!!

Lol.....
Cos the roads and many areas around Suntec will be closed/barricaded/blocked due to the F1 race...

Muahaha....
Don't need to go into office...Woot Woot!!!

I is Rubber Band

I is Rubber Band..
I get stretched but I bounce back...
(And um, no side thoughts allowed on this phrase...ahem.)

I woke this morning feeling shitty and breathless.
It was a "Don't-make-me-go-to-work-PLEASE" shit ass morning mood...

But oh well, did the usual rounds and by the time I waltzed through the office doors, I was feeling better.
Sat at my desk and started typing furiously away....

Morning was made that much happier cos I was chatting to Kel whilst doing some work...
Some work which did not need much brain power, hence the ability to juggle a chat with Kel...

Chirpy bird!! That's what I'd call myself today.

Dunno leh, maybe when the stress and work havoc reaches a certain point, you react by turning a little bonkers...Job hazard? Hmm mm..maybe.

Anyhow, my brain synapses seem to have gone into overdrive today haha...
As was HC's. He has been absolutely mad these 2 days...crazy, whacky and nonsensical hahaa.

The brief but extremely fun MSN chat with the C-hole in the afternoon brought many a silly grin onto my face...lol...
And it provided a nice respite...pity it had to end though cos I had to go for a meeting...

And being the chirpy bird today...
All I could do in the meeting was to grin at my boss, present my back to him and say "OOOOO...Shoot me! Shoot me! I want more!!!"
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And so he off he went...firing arrows into me..
Came out of the meeting wounded and bleeding.
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Nabeh KNN.
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I have 5 papers to write now.
4 projects running con-currently.
Of which 3 are headed by me.
I only have 2 hands
And 1 brain.
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God Help Me.
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Oh yah, I forgot.
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I is Rubber Band.
I get stretched but I bounce back!!!

GUEST BLOGGER!!!!

Yay!!! *drum rolls*

TADA!!! I will have a guest blogger soon!!!

Guess who??

It'll be Chloe...!!!

Aka C-hole aka Purpleskies aka Nana aka Cherry!!!

Yay!!!

The Biggest Mistake You Can Make as an Employee

This was extracted from an email advert which I received....

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When you were a child, you were programmed from young that someone or something else is responsible for much of your life. Your parents provide you with food and everything you need for growth, survival and happiness.

Unfortunately many people adopt this same mentality when it comes to work. They think that it is the employer's responsibility to take care of them. So many of them wait and wait. They wait for 3 main things:

1. Bosses to send them for training (assume that the boss will know what skills they are lacking);
2. Promotion. Many didn't even know the career path and thought that their title will remain the same until they die. But they expect their salary to increase to 'catch up with inflation' and 'higher standard of living'.
3. Opportunities to come to them. They look around and when their boss assigns them a difficult task, they ask "Why me?" instead of asking "Is that all?"

The starting point of your success in your work is to accept complete responsibility for who you are and everyting that you become. If you want things to change, you must change first.

Sometimes in my seminars I ask the audience this question, "How many of you are self-employed?" Usually fewer than 10% will raise their hands. Then I point out to them that this is a trick question.

Listen here: the biggest mistake you can make is to think that you work for anyone but yourself.

Everyone is self-employed, no matter you are on salary of commission basis.

You are the President of your company. Your company's name is "Me Pte Ltd". Your biggest customer is your employer. Your biggest asset is your mind.

You are in charge. The top 3% in every field treat their company as if it belonged to them. They see themselves as 'self-employed'. They act as if they own the place. When they refer to their company, they use words like "we", "our", "us" and mine".

The average employee, on the other hand, always refers to the company as if it were something seperate and apart from him. They treat it just as a job, with no other meaning and significance.

Mon cours de francais

I have slacked alot in my French.
I need to realign my priorities and objectives.
I need to spend more time revising on the language if I am to advance further.

It's terrible. I've forgotten alot of the tenses which we learnt in the last 6 months.
Argh. But at least I'm not the only one.

5 of us had lunch yesterday just before class...
Cher, Kyne, Eric, Tung Ling and me.
Some sort of a mini gathering to mark the start of a new semster. Our Intermediate 5 semester.
And we all agreed that we're all feeling the heat.

Lol...do or die.
It's a matter of choice and a matter of effort...

So ganbatte to myself and yes, I will work hard...!!!

I hope a half hour or hour each night will do the trick..Hmm mm...

Passion

Passsion hmm...
I really admire those who really are passionate about their "loves" and things they like...

There's Tazzee who can be found in one of the links on the right of the page.
A running fanatic...
www.run-to-live.blogspot.com

It's fantastic how many pairs of running shoes he owns and how many pairs he wears down within a year...
He can tell you which are the best routes to run, how to run properly, which are the best heart-rate monitors around yada yada....

And then, there's Kym. A newbie to blogging...
But a definite passion wielder for watches...his big love in life..apart from his wife-to-be of course lol...
I've just added him to my links as well.
www.kymwatchlog.blogspot.com

This watch lover currently owns around 40 pieces. Some are age-old timeless pieces.
Others are rare finds due to a stoppage in production and yet other pieces he owns are specific finds he trawls the Net for.
A true-blue fan of tickings and "beatings"...of steel straps and leather belts...of little nuts and bolts...of crystals and jewels...

Lol, I'm seriously wondering how much his watch collection is worth lol....

So what is it about the people I admire?
Perhaps it is their unwavering passion for pursuing something they enjoy, something they love...
A hobby which they are passionate about. A love which they are passionate about.

Looking at them, I wonder about myself.
What am I passionate about? Is there a hobby I truly am pasionate about?
Is there something I can lay claim to knowing alot about?
I couldn't think of something specific. In fact, I couldn't think of anything in particular.

Books and reading? That perhaps comes closest as a hobby I have.
But it is still not somethingI am 100% passionate about.

Art and craft? no...
Cooking? and even bigger no...

I am a touch-and-go person. Too easily distracted to sit down to one hobby or one "love".
Which probably explains why I am so amazed that I've stuck to French classes for 1 year and 9 months already. But that is another story altogether...

So what am I passionate about? I don't have an answer for myself.
And I find it somewhat distressing.
Perhaps though, in time to come, I will find something I can lay a claim of "passion" to.

And what are you passionate about?

Bigger Longer Better??

In the wake of the Olympics...
Of which the credo of Faster, Higher, Stronger permeated the minds of many athletes...

I guess another credo of "Bigger? Longer? Better?" occupied the minds of others...

I was reading this article in the Straits Times online archives...I think this was an article a few days ago...

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KUALA LUMPUR - A MALAYSIAN welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to lengthen it before he gets engaged next week went embarrassingly wrong, a news report said on Sunday.

The nut got stuck on his penis following an erection, the Star newspaper said, forcing him to seek help at a hospital in southern Johor state.

Staff from the Sultanah Aminah hospital had to drain some blood from the penis and cut away a top layer of skin before the object could be removed, the newspaper said.

It said the fire and rescue department were also involved in trying to remove the nut from the unnamed welder, who is in his 20s and hoped the nut would weigh down his penis to make it longer.

'The patient is now recovering and we hope to discharge him today (Sunday),' hospital director Daud Abdul Rahim told the Star.

On August 25, another young man in Kuala Lumpur had tried to increase his sexual prowess by slipping a steel ring around his penis, forcing the fire department to cut off the ring after doctors were unable to remove it, the newspaper said. -- AFP

jiemei jiemei

Jiemei on October 2nd.
Jiemei on November 15th

After the above...I would have been a jiemei for 4 times liao...
Hmm...hope there's no quota for such things...haa...

Quotable Quote?

天下乌鸦一般黑！

Lol, this phrase was muttered by my boss during the weekly team meeting yesterday afternoon...

Literally means "All the crows in the world are black"

I think he meant to say something to the effect of...people of the same "pattern" and characteristics will behave in a certain manner...

Hmm mm...

aiyah!!

遭糕！！ 我肥了！！

着么办？？？

裤子和裙子都紧了！！ 手臂也粗了！！
希望只是水涨。。。hmm mm..

Of Punctures & Pumps

Had dinner with Mr Bull yesterday...Been quite awhile since I had dinner with him.
Since before I went to Paris I think, which would make it sometime back in June.

Just before we parted, he told me I’d changed.. haha.
Said I seem more subdued, a little deflated...
Somewhat like a tyre having a small puncture and air was slowly flowing out…
Mentioned that the energy and cheerfulness he saw earlier in the year somehow seem to have gone into hiding haha…

Yah man!! I feel it too!! Haha…

My reply to him was “Get me a pump lor…And pump me up.”

And then I froze. Oh shit, that just sounded extremely lewd….
Kept a straight face and hoped his straight mind wouldn’t think of anything else hahaha……lol...

=(

It's only 1030am.
And I have made so many mistakes at work already.

Argh. 2 of which relate to external parties.

Sigh. My brain is out of sorts this morning.
Hope it gets better later on.

The Southern Ridges

It was rise and shine early on Saturday morning...

Bathed and got ready to go out...Ended up waiting for the man to pick me...

Did some housework in the meantime...

Voila, he finally came...went for brunch...

Then popped by Granny's place for a visit...Stayed there for about an hour
Brought her to pee, watched her have lunch, brought her to poo...

And then it was off to the Southern Ridges..!!

We started walking at 12:45pm...with the sun way up high in the sky...

I was out of breath for the first 0.5-0.8km.

Reason being it was super hilly...

And the only way forward was to climb flights and flights of stairs...

And as you can tell....the man obviously wasn't interested in pics...lol...

And then before I knew it...

Ehhh???? I was at the top of Mount Faber already!!

Forgive me for the um...wanna-be scenic picture...
Singapore lah...
What else (beside HDB flats) is there to capture that is more iconic and representative of our SG landscape??

Walked past Jewel Box and went on downhill...
Realised that one of the poubs where we had our first few dates was being demolished....zzz...

Walked by lots of foliage...and saw some weird ones here & there..

Including this one below...with reddish tendrils growing out of the leaf stalks...

A little creepy if you saw a whole bush of it...and not just a tiny branch in the pic below...

And on towards the Henderson Waves...
There was a little park-like clearing just before bridge they call the Henderson Waves...
And right smack in a very obvious place was this cute little sign...
Check out Point Number 5...
"Please do not engage in acts that would cause discomfort to other users
How succinct can they be man??? LOL.....
Part of the Henderson Waves

More of the Waves...

ME!

It really amazes me the signs these people come up with.
What the hell does this mean man????

Ok, but these signs I can definitely understand...

Not that I saw any monkeys though...
Quite disappointed! Thought I'd get the chance to see some of my cousins....
And maybe spend some bonding time with them...hmm mm...;p

One of the last portions of the walk before we made a U-turn to go back to the car...
This is called the Forest Walk...
And yes, the heights made my knees go weak at some point....

And last but not least...what better way to celebrate our 6km walk in 2h15mins...
By having a sinful sinful meal of course haha...
I was too busy tucking into my chicken rice to bother about taking a picture of his Mee Goreng!!
Hehehee.....
And oh yah, It's Monday...And my calves are still aching....
Gosh....

Brother Lawrence!!

It's really funny..
But I seem to have that little bit more fate with Lawrence than with others..

In the past 3-4 months, I've met him coincidentally on the streets about 4-5 times!
Sometimes with Tina, and sometimes alone (but on the way to meet Tina haha)...

And voila, I was walking past Suntec Tower 1 just now on the way to City Hall MRT...
When someone called out to me..and hey, it was him & Tina!
Both sitting on one of the benches just outside Tower One and just having a chat...

It was dark, almost 8pm already and I hardly would expect anyone to call out to me haha..

But am happy for them!! They just got a flat!
A little steep price-wise but the flat's just in between both sets of parents.
All within walking distance!! How cool is that man!!

It's really funny how I seem to be always updated on their house-hunting expeditions..
Really happy for them..:)ROM-ing on 28 Dec this year..

I still remember those rare times when me & him would have a chat about their relationship..
How he had some problems..how he didn't know how to tell her some things...

Things have panned out well and dandy for them now...
And I'm happy for this matchmaker of mine..;p

Oh well, if not for him hmm mm..prolly me & the man wouldn't have met? haha...