Because I'll be Home Alone...

1. Queen’s bread – check
2. Lim Chee Guan’s Ba Kwa – check
3. Variety of instant noodles – check
4. Cabbage & Lettuce - check
5. Pasta – check
6. Biscuits/snacks – check
7. Bird’s nest – check
8. Choc milk - check
   

To buy:
- Ham
- Canned tuna
- Meatballs
- any other stuffs that’ll catch my eye/stomach later

No Jazz Bar for this night out...

. some chicken wrap. lime magarita .

. mud pie @ Coffee Club . drinks .

Met up with the classmates for dinner @ Café Iguana (17th Nov) to discuss about Jolene’s wedding. It doesn’t seem like a right choice as the service was quite bad and the food is pretty normal. Only the margarita is worth the trip there. Like my last visit there, I drank as if I was drinking limejuice; only till I felt the sudden heat then I realize I was half way through my drink while the rest drank only like ¼. Quickly drank lots of water in between my sips to “drown off” any further effect.

After the unsatisfying dinner, Cat suggested going to a Jazz bar @ Boat Quay. I like~ put 2 hands up to agree with the idea. Alas, Jolene wasn’t too keen so we proceeded to Coffee Club to have desserts and drinks…It’s okayyy, Cat and I will go there someday after exams!

Mummy's Bday @ Asia Grand Restaurant

. chandelier . peking duck . bamboo clam .
. spinach tofu . egg tart . duck meat .

. shark’s fin dumpling soup . heart earring (should I get it?? ) .

Date: 18th Nov 07

Thoughts from office...

Colleagues with British accent + talks about their business trip to London in Dec, makes me miss her…Its not helping that Mummy is visiting + touring Europe for a month! (luckily it’s after my exams)

Hmmm…so gonna fill my calendar with outings right after exams…. Jazz bar…Food... Xmas gathering…Jolene’s wedding… New Year…

Telecom Analysis!!!

Aalysis = Figures = Sweat!!!

Most prob she’ll see that it's true, when I told her during the interview that I’m not comfortable with numbers.

Me no like numbers la... rof

A New Environment... again

Yup. I’ve resigned (last day - 9th Nov) even before my probation period is up. All I could say is the work environment and job scope is seriously not something I enjoy doing. And in short, there’s simply no motivation plus I don’t think I share their mission and vision.

It’s my 2nd day @ work today and all I could say is the environment of an MNC is definitely different (better). Anyway, I didn’t really gota chance to have on the job training yet as they’re quite busy with meetings to have a proper handover. Lets see how it goes in the afternoon~

My 1st bouquet of flowers!!

okie, this post was under draft till I just spotted it - supposed to be posted after my Bday!

It was delivered to my office and I had to go to the counter and collect it. NEVER would I imagine it to be sent from Sis and was “trembling” in shock and delight when I saw her name on the card. Haha, she said she wanted it to be special for me therefore she got Zr to arrange it to be sent to my office instead of home. I called Mummy to tell her about it but she sounded cool, Chey… cos Sis called her in the morning already which explains the “Oh is it” attitude. Keke.

Love love love the flowers and surprise! Thank you babe!

p/s: Took about 100 over narcissism photos the next day ...

23rd Birthday!

The day itself was spent @ sch doing our group project BUT I got a surprise cake from Cathleen and Kareen. It was so thoughtful of them to throw in a mini celebration amidst our stressful discussion. Cat insisted on lighting up the candles and even ran up to the 3rd level to borrow!

Again, after reaching home, I continue with my Law assignment and can you believe that I broke my 2am (latest time to hit the bed) rule and slept @ 3.30 am, 12th Nov morning when I’ll be reporting my 1st day of work! Thank god, there was nothing much to do on the 1st day as I was feeling super lethargic and sick (sorethroat)… Too much good food I think ;p .

12th Nov - Jolene bought 2 slices of belated Bdaycake for me today! Haha, sweet classmates I’ve got :)

Birthday Lunch @ Lei Garden

Invited Lx and Hr to join us for lunch @ Lei Garden and we ordered the set lunch plus some ala carte dim sum. The gals were so sweet to get me a “surprise” cake. I kind of suspected them getting one as Hr said she’ll be late and will call Lx for the directions to reach the restaurant.

. crystal vege pau . xiao long pau . prawns . har kau .
. lotus & peanut soup . pork . spinach . eefu noodles . pumkin & yam dim sum . complimentary rice balls . sesame filling (i like~) . choc cake .

Lei Garden was also nice to provide complimentary dessert of tang yuan and a Bday card. They even helped to pack the remaining cake in separate boxes for us to bring home. Their service never fails to amaze me and Mummy is planning to celebrate Grandma’s Bday there in Dec as Grandma hinted to have it in a restaurant this year.. keke so cute of her. Anyway, we’re always ready to bring her out for celebration just that sometimes she isn’t too keen to dine out. After lunch, we headed to Thos B at Raffles City to hang out and gossip before heading home in the evening to rush out my Law assignment…

“她有小动作的”

It’s kind of scary when someone sees through you. Little actions made by me are being noticed - such as my eyes turning to look down whenever someone whom I’m not very close to talks to me and I disagree etc.

And the thing is I’m not very close to her…(though I see her 5/7 days a week)

Waking up to a familiar smell and sight

Gai xi mee & nasi lemak are our 2 fav meals from AMK market since 10 yrs back. A decade later, we still crave to have them for brekkie and it was really sweet of Mummy to went down to get it during the weekend.

. Still lovin it! .

New post soon...

Oh great! Finally, I can view write a new post on my PC! Anyway, more updates soon. Life's busy with sch proj with datelines due one after another... But Mummy thinks otherwise though- busy sleeping :x

p/s: I yearn for a holiday!!! But no $$ and annual leave :(

Day of New Food…. But not of my taste :(

Went to Amoy Market for lunch and tried the Hakka Thunder Tea Rice aka Lei Cha Fan as I’ve heard Sis raved about it previously. Tried a little portion of the tea and I knew it was not my taste of liking. In the end, I ate the rice filled with veges only while looking at those nicely steamed white chicken hanging @ the stall beside my seat.

I was lucky in a way that I had “vegetarian” lunch as my dinner was pork and more pork! The couple picked us up @ Tanjong Pagar and we headed to Bugis for Xiao Long Baos @ Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant. It’s a Shanghainese restaurant - similar to Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao. What we ordered could put me off xiao long baos for a few months. Can you imagine all we had was different kind of xiao long baos (2 kindsof mushrooms, shrimp, vege, normal pork, crab meat, crab roe) and the famous Big Xiao Long Bao which requires you to use a straw to suck up the “soup”. Unfortunately, this big one is with crab roe and the taste was not of my liking again. It tasted too “seafoody” which was weird as I’ve always liked seafood (crabs, prawns). Perhaps the thought of me being allergic to shrimps has put me off. Anyway, this dinner of steamed dumplings cost me $25. That’s a total of $125 worth of dumplings we had!

Next stop, next month: HooHa! (Westend) Yeah! At least I know I’ll like the food there (think Fish & Chips!!) Wonder how they’ll split the bill though if they order the steak :x

How Suay…

Is it because my eight character clashes with my current company? I’ve been ill since the 2nd week I joined. Headache, wisdom tooth removal, and now rashes?!

Red spots surfaced on my feet, hands and scattered in some parts of my body since Saturday evening. At 1st, Mum scared me saying that it might be measles. After visiting the doc, he said prima facie, it might be food (shrimp) allergy. Was it the small shrimps in the fried rice that causes the outbreak? I was never allergic to prawns but the doc say that our body changes and allergies will occur anytime in our life. Hopefully, with the medicine he gave, the rash will disappear by Wednesday :(

I lost my Wisdom...

tooth I mean.. 2 of it. It all started with a toothache around my wisdom tooth and after a dental checkup, the dentist, whose attitude puts me off warned me sternly that I’ve to remove it. I understand that I’ll need to remove it else the pain will still come back. But can’t he sound friendly instead of lecturing me…

Anyway, went to the TPY polyclinic yesterday morning to get a referral letter.. Ah… the doctor is so much nicer. Sadly, NDC could only slot me in for a consultation next Tuesday. Afraid that the swelling would worsen, I decided to walk-in for registration and was prepared to wait for 2-3 hours before my turn.

Had a super quick lunch @ the cafeteria before rushing back to make sure that I don’t miss my number as they’ll call me in whenever the doctor has an empty slot. Was so lucky to have waited around only 45 mins for my turn. The doctor even apologized for letting me wait (though mine was a walk-in registration). He asked several questions before getting my X-ray done. After seeing the X ray, he asked if I wanted to do the extraction today ?! I was like “You mean now? Here?!

Through a friend’s recommendation, I actually had a doctor in mind to do my extraction; therefore I was hesitating whether I should let him do my extraction. Several thoughts filled my mind “Is he new? He looks young? What if he’s using me as a practicing patient?

After some consideration, I gave a firm reply “Ok, I’ll do it today”

He proceeded to ask the nurse to get the necessary tools and while waiting, a female beside my cubicle was practically “moaning” away as she was in pain. I asked the doc what’s she’s doing and he said scaling. She scared the hell out of me as I wonder if she’s doing extraction!

There was no drilling involved for me as it was a simple extraction. The injection of anesthesia was slightly painful (perhaps my pain threshold has increased due to the weekly facial extraction) Haha! Lots of pressure could be felt when he was pulling the tooth out but I didn’t even realized that it was out until he told me. Within 30 mins, both tooth (upper and lower left) was out, area cleaned and stitched.

It was a pretty good experience after all especially when the doctor and nurse are friendly and nice. He even called last night to make sure that everything was fine and answered my queries. Thumbs up for NDC! Oh, I won’t hesitate to remove my 2 other wisdom tooth too when necessary ;p

Quick updates

- Sis left for London on Wednesday. Surprisingly, she didn’t cry! Haha neither did I. Perhaps there were too many people around that kept her busy talking too. Anyway hope that she’ll get used to living there. Can’t wait to visit her there soon!

- Got back my results! Kindda disappointed with it though as I’ve spent 2 weeks studying for it. 2 Distinctions and 1 Credit. Was hoping to get high distinction for CB… but well… will try harder for the coming semester!

The End is a Start of a New Beginning!

Finally, the 1st semester exams are over! Headed over to Grandma’s place after the last paper for Sister’s farewell dinner as she is heading to London for study + work for 3 whole years!!! What will I do without my bitching partner/ wardrobe/makeup sharer?! :(

New work, new office, new colleagues…

2 weeks before I start my new job, I spoke to Ann and learnt that she was really unhappy with the new job. She even said that she regretted the decision to quit. Seriously, I was affected by what she said and kept having negative thoughts. However, I told myself that working in a new environment is never easy, therefore I shouldn’t make any verdict before experiencing it myself.

Being a new team all together, there were a lot of stuffs that we do not know and there were many backlogs to clear. Let’s see how it goes after my 3 months probation…

What I did during my 2 weeks “break”

• Sleep
• Eat
• Mugging for exams
• Watch TV
• Cut/rebond/color hair
• Quick shopping @ J8

How times flies.. 2 weeks of the above and its time to hit the exam hall...

*Yawnz*

I've been like getting 5 hours of sleep per day since Monday and though the weekend is here, I’ll be so tied with our marketing project to have a good rest.

Sunday will be a long day @ the CC to finish up the project…

I know I’m loved when:

- She (Sis) went down to Chinatown to buy Lim Chee Guan’s ba kwa

- She (Mummy) cooked chicken slices with ginger

- He (Daddy) waited till 8.30pm to buy my favourite char siew pau from Crystal Jade.

All these when I mentioned that I FEEL like eating it… keke

*blush* I heart my Family!