I'm not alone

I've never seen anyone else with triangular-shaped nostrils.

Till yesterday on the MRT, when I saw an auntie from China.

Voila. I'm not the only one with strangely-shaped nostrils.

*yum*

I have a perpetual love affair....

With chicken wings....

Grilled preferably.
Without batter.

Fresh Blood

A new colleague just came in.
Oh well, he's not entirely new. He was with my company previously but left about 3 years ago, had a stint outside but was still in the same industry and now he's back again.

New colleague, new dynamics again.

He's a smart smart guy..Hope he injects new directions to the way the compan is run.
And hope I can learn more things from him.

bleah

Clumsiness brings you...

A 1.5inch scratch on the side of your knee.

Sigh

What else do you do to help a staff learn?
What more can you do to change the attitude of a staff?

Me: *explains what she needs to do to amend a document*
Me: You get it or not?
Her: *nods*
Her: Ok, heh. I ask mei mei (a temp staff) to help me.
Me: Why everytime ask her to do YOUR things? You need to try then you can learn mah. Then next time when she’s not around already then how? Who’s going to help you do?
Her: Heh. Orh thanks. *walks off*

There's Something Strange In the Neighbourhood

- pimple outbreak
- tiredness
- aching back
- aching feet
- bloatedness

something’s coming…

more GRUMbles

In a foul mood.

Is this Murphy's Law? When you're on leave, your boss finds you through calls and SMS-es. But when you're in office, there's nary a sound from him???

WTH?

Street Drummer

Just using normal pails and stuff...
Quite cool..Makes me wish I had some sort of musical talent in me...
But I think I've nary a shred ahahhaa...enjoy the vid!

:(

I'm upset.
I won't get the chance to go on a safari tour afterall.

And so much so for having taken 3 vaccination jabs and 1 oral vaccine. And endured 2 days of having a sore upper left arm.

I'm not going to Nairobi afterall. :(

Some friggin islamist insurgency millitant group originating from Somalia issued a video statement threatening to bomb the US Embassy and our meeting venue. But didn't say when. Still for safety and security reasons, alot of people are pulling out of the meeting.......alot of those foreigners I'm familiar with are not going too....The US, Australia and UK State Travel Departments have issued travel advisories against travel to Nairobi.

Upsetting...sigh.
It's been a dream since young to visit the safari....:(

Oh well.
I'm putting more hope on the conference in Brussels coming up in June.
*crosses fingers*

Je n'aime pas les boutons!

Which translates t "I hate pimples!"

Having a bad breakout…probably because of…

- that time of the month drawing near
- all the junk food consumed during CNY gatherings and festivities
- that hair cream which I was instructed to use after perming
- general skin sensitivity

early morning grumbles

There are times when I should just mind my own business. I can’t help but voice things out when there’s something dumb and inefficient I see going on.

But whatever lah. This small voice of a small manager is easily dismissed by a Senior Manager. So I’ll just curse at her silently and wish that she f*cks off.

Dans La Cuisine

When I have kids of my own, regardless of whether they are sons or daughters, I’ll make sure they at least have some level of competency in the kitchen.

I think it’s essential. And yes, I do thank my mum for making me to learn and help out in the kitchen when I was younger.

Mothers...

My mum still talks to me like I'm a child at times or like as if I don't know anything...
Nag here nag there...sigh...

Are all mothers like this?

Requiem for a Dream - Clint Mansell

I like this song...Power.

Earful

Everybody needs a listening ear from time to time.

Maybe we spend a considerable time during our youth being listening ears to others, especially the older folks. When we get older, we ourselves want more air-time. We pounce on unsuspecting younger people…and so the cycle continues.

Everybody needs a listening ear from time to time.

Some people listen better than others. Some talk better than others. And others just see better than others. So what are you? Or which are you? I think I’m the former. Some people talk, without listening to themselves. Some people talk, without listening to others and it ends up as a one-man tirade.

Everybody needs a listening ear from time to time.

Be it for grouses, happy things, sad stuff, general chat or nonsensical things...

爱心 Cookies

Ok, so they don't really look like choc cookies, but at least the taste and fragrance is there haha.

I should have sprinkled some choc chips on the cookies before sending them off into the oven....:)

They ended up looking more like oatmeal cookies. ;p

Voila, the finished product...:)

Spent at least 3.5 hours after work trying to get everything done up nicely.

No points for guessing who was the recipient of the gift...hehe.

I love the ribbons!!! White, lilac and silver...

Meteor Garden

It all started with K playing Harlem Yu's song one night. "Qing Fei De Yi".

The main theme song from the all-too famous Taiwanese drama "Meteor Garden" from all those years back. I think it was almost 6-7 years back. Or was it more? I really can't remember!

The song brought back memories of that show.
Before I knew it. And before I could stop myself. I started watching the show again.

This is probably my 3rd time watching the whole show.

I am surprisingly still hooked to it. I wonder why.

It still evokes a certain sense of yearning in me. I still swoon over Jerry Yen.
I still like Barbie Hsu. I still think she's sweet looking and very much like an Asian barbie doll.

I still get touched at the same scenes, get irked by the same scenes and get emotional at the same scenes as when I watched the show last time.

Hmm.....;p

Fivers

I went through an exercise about 4 years back. It was a strange campaign. A little self-centered some may say, but maybe also a process of understanding yourself better too.

Then, I went around bugging a few close friends to each give ma a set of 5 words. 5 words which, in their opinion, best describes me.

I think it’d be cool to go through this again. For posterity, for fun, for more understanding.

Purpleskies was one of them who had to go through my incessant bugging back in 2006. ;p Poor thing.

But oh well, she’ll need to go through it again. Yes, my darling, you’re reading this and you have the CNY holidays to prepare the 5 words. Will ask you next week haha. ;p

I was looking through my past entries from 2006. And I came across 5 words from Glenn.
Hormonal, Emphathetic, Lively, Linguist and Sensible.
After 4 years, looking at these 4 words, I’ve come to realize that some still hold true and one or two might be a little inaccurate already.

So what would be your 5 words to describe me now?

wth

It is said that in the Year of the Tiger, the tiger and the monkey will be at extreme loggerheads.

How nice.

I am surrounded by tigers.

Mother. Boss. K's Dad. K's bro-in-law.

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"You don't antagonise me, I don't antagonise you." She said.

"Fine. You don't step in my way, I don't step in yours. The former happens 95 times more than the latter anyway." I replied.

That was a few weeks ago.

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Voila. And we had the first argument of the year.

Over a hot pan of yam cake.

Sheesh.

Waves

Ok, I don't really look good in pics.... haha...

But here you go...big waves...can't be really clearly seen though..hmm

Didn't do massive curls