another added advantage of working here is i get to eat free ice cream. had B&J strawberry cheesecake the day before and magnum mini double caramel y'day in office. i think i must be crazy to be eating ice cream in such cold weather. but i actually felt warm out of the sudden on both days that i ate the ice cream, which was the reason why i ate them. yum yum...but shldn't eat too much or else will gain weight...


magnum mini double caramel- 1st time eating this flavour...not bad....


at my work stn (recept) eating the ice cream. dat's the tv on the left of my bg...

on the whole, i enjoyed the job here becoz of the nice environment and nice colleagues...

alrite, dat's all for now...haven been up to much other than working...

just had a small bowl of bird's nest which my mum cooked for a few hrs. the bird's nest was bought by my father some time in July when he went for a short hols with his frens in m'asia. he said the bird's nest was slightly cheaper than in SG so he bought it for us. i haven't had bird's nest in such a long time that i had forgotten how it taste like...haha...i can't even rmb when was the last time i had bird's nest, i juz knew it was very very long ago. perhaps when i was still in upper pri or lower sec?

anw, had been sorting out the mp3s in my HDD. renamed the mp3s and the artists so that it will reflect the singer and song nicely when i import into iTunes and sync into my ipod. then dl different media converter to try out converting my rmvb dramas into my ipod. finally found one converter which can convert the video for me and won't leave a prompt msg there asking me to buy the product and the webbie there in the middle of my converted video. anw, i'm really so happy with my ipod nano...coz can watch video on the go now...

Went shopping with my cousins and aunt at far east on Sat for my cousin's sec sch prom nite. Her theme is so cool- Twilight. Went to many shops to look for dresses for her and she tried on so many diff dresses and finally found one she liked and looked nice in, then went to get her footwear to match her dress. She couldn't find any accessories though...after shopping at far east, we came back to JP to have our dinner and also to continue shop for a while more after dinner b4 we went home. Had Subway Chicken and Bacon sandwich meal. So nice. Anw was seated outside the Subway outlet because there wasn't any seats left in the shop. Was happily eating away at my sandwich when I noticed a few people from 2nd storey looking down at some roadshow that was at the level I'm at. There was nice music playing at the roadshow. Decided to check out the roadshow when we finished our dinner.

When we reached the roadshow booth, discovered it was NuBox having a promotion. Such a coincidence that I have been having the tots to buy an ipod lately again (p/s: a few mths back alr started thinking). The price of the ipod nano was actually the normal price. Just that there was a promo price for the accessories pack @ $19 worth $77 which includes a casing, a screen protector and the travel charger. Finally after a while of pondering if I shld buy, with Wynne keep telling me to buy if I really want to, I decided to buy it. Hence bought the 16GB model @ $288, plus accessories pack, spent a total of $307. Wynne helped me choose my ipod colour- Green and also my casing. Actually felt like getting a white casing becoz it is nice, but then I always have qualms abt getting white colour product. So in the end decided to get a red casing instead. Anw, for convenience purposes, I asked the salesgirl to stick the screen protector for me. After sticking on the screen protector, told her to put the ipod n side the casing for me. The salesgirl and another salesboy commented that my ipod and casing combi looks like Xmas tree. Haha...Indeed it really looks lke Xmas tree wor. Haha...Then I made a joke that it is red apple (initially suggested by Wynne) and green apple (suggested by me). Lol...


My red and green apple...lol...really looks like Xmas tree isn't it?

Now exploring how to use iTunes and also trying to convert video to mpeg4 format for my ipod. New user of apple product, can't blame me for not knowing how to use. Have to get used to the program. Haha...

Anw, I'm feeling so happy that I've finally got myself an ipod nano.

After MIA for so long due to exams, finally a post! Relieved that exams were finally over on Thur! The exams were really tough this sem...Really do not wish to get back my results so soon! Shall play hard all the way till before the results are released! I hope there will be quadruple miracles for me this sem! Absolutely need miracles to survive this sem!

Anw, had so much fun y'day with frens at the Forest Adventure! Juz a few hrs on the elements have tired myself out so much. Now my body is aching and sore! But fun day! Enjoyed every moment of the activity! But i guess such things will only go for it once in a lifetime? Yeah, highly likely. Perhaps if my poly frens wanna plan an outing there as gathering, I'll follow too except that this time round, I'll be their photog!

Anw, since the exams ended till current, 2.5 days has passed. Other than sleeping, and Forest Adventure y'day, have been either TVing on the cable or Channel 8, or dramaing on my ext HDD output either thru my TV or my lappy. casual and relaxed indeed!

Recently saw this movie preview of the April Bride in GV while waiting to enter the cinema hall...Dunno why I have a special liking for tear-jerkers. Decided to find out more on this movie. Realised that this is actually a movie adaptation of a real story...There was actually a documentary show featuring the female protagonist- Chie Nagashima （千惠）, based on her wish to create awareness of breast cancer to young women. The documentary featured interviews of Chie, her father, her boyfriend, friends and other family members. It featured how she discovered her cancer, the treatment stage and her life during the treatment, her life during the remission stage, her relapse and all the way till her passing. The documentary quite often mentioned Chie assuring family and friends that she would recover, and asked them not to worry about her. Throughout the battle with her disease, Chie showed her bravery, her optimism and her passion for life. It really touched my heart and left me tearing when she passed away. Left me wondering how life can be so cruel to a young lady of 24 years of age with such passion for life. More importantly, it once again proved to me how deadly cancer can be.

Shall share the documentary with all out there who wasn't aware of this story.

Yoohoo! Had an extremely fun time with my cousins at KBox Clementi y'day! Lol...Definitely the most fun K-session I ever had so far. Did so many crazy things y'day. And it all started off with me filming my cousins...then the idea developed into filimg the 3 of us in the vidz, of us singing songs and doing actions...All for our memories sake in future! Haha...Really had fun watching the vidz after I uploaded into my lappy y'day nite...Sing till my voice hoarse and throat hurts...Haha...Luckily i bought a bottle of honey aloe vera to drink at the herbal shop at JP2. Really helped my throat alot!

P/S: As a promise I made to my cousins for not uploading the pics, no pics will be uploaded.

Wynne, THANKS for coming over to my house to teach me all the relevant things I need to know! Love ya!!! *muacks* U can really become my personal image consultant and personal photographer. U look damn pro when taking the photos for me juz now! U shld go try freelance photog job! Save up for those professional cams k? U shld be able to do freelance photog nxt time...I think rather cool job lehx...Anw, thanks for d time spent shopping with me and popping over to help juz now! Hehe...I feel so blessed to have such a nice and wonderful younger cousin! Let's be cousin again nxt lifetime k? But nxt time, u haf to be my older cousin...Lol...Alritee, i sound so mushy...Maybe u r right man, i'm getting more and more mushy...

Anyway, some of the pics taken by the great photog Wynne juz now:

The pics were all taken in my mum's rm...Hence pls dun mind d bg...

Why do I find and feel a big part of my life missing? Deep down, I've always felt this emptiness in my life...I feel I've missed out on many activities which a teenager shld have tried during sec sch life...And once time has passed, I juz can't seem to catch up on those missed times...Coz of awkwardness i'll feel doing those activities which i've missed out last time? Feel so horrible deep down...Young age yet don't feel young at all...Wants a life yet dunno how to start getting one...Wanna break free of myself yet can't seem to break free of myself...Wanna think less yet unable to do so...Juz check out the messy lines on my palm and you can tell how plentiful and messy my thoughts are...

It's raining outside now and I feel like gg down to get myself drenched in the rain...To wake myself up and drag me out of the emoing...All along, i've always wanted to find a peaceful place where I can allow myself to sit down & think through things or juz relax in the sereneness...Wanna find this place soon. Really need to relax my overworked brain once in a while in sereneness...

终于有好消息了！！！我哥找到工作了！！！下个星期二就开工了。。。我的家人和我都不用再烦了。。。真的是好开心。。。希望从此之后，他做的任何事都顺顺利利。。。

Due to my paternal side cousin getting married this Sunday, yesterday I asked my biao mei, Wynne and another poly fren, Veron to accompany me to JP to shop for clothes and accessories. Had such a fun time shopping yesterday though it was tiring. Reached JP with Wynne at around 12.50pm while waiting for Veron to join us. Then Veron arrived exactly at 1pm. Started our shopping for the day. Wynne and Veron sure enjoy dolling me up! They were so excited to see me wearing dress and I can understand why of coz...They were also very happy to see me trying on other clothes which I usually dun wear (though I actually tried very few clothes only). Then we were off to look for accessories for me and after looking around at a few shops, finally found a necklace which I liked very much and bought it. After a few hours of shopping, we decided to take a break and dined at Billby Bombers. Ordered a chicken dish, a burger and Chocolate Fondue. Not a bad meal. All of us felt so full after the meal. Were chatting while waiting for our food to come and continued chatting at BB even after we finished our food. Always liked such chatting sessions with friends or family. Makes me feel so relaxed. Can you believe it?!?! Wynne and Veron actually became friends through me about 2 years back. And they always never fail to gang up to "bully"/tease me whenever the 3 of us go out together. Haiz...But what can I do? One is my dearest cousin, one is my best friend. So I can only endure the "bullying"/teasing...Haha...I made myself sound so victimized by them...Actually I also "bully"/tease them alot...In fact, this is our form of communication...Lol...So I guess it's revenge time for them...Light-hearted and fun "bullying"/teasing is certainly enjoyable to all 3 of us...Of coz, you can only do such things to people who can take jokes lehx...Else u'll end up offending the whole world!

Anyway, realised I have side-tracked...Haha...We finally finished our shopping at nearly 9pm or slightly after...As all 3 of us stay in the same area, we took the same bus home and continued joking on the way home. Really an enjoyable shopping trip!

Wynne and Veron, thanks a million for shopping with me and being my image consultants for the day!!! Thoroughly enjoyed the shopping trip with both of you! We shall go out to have a wild time together again soon! I know both of you are extremely looking forward to it! :p

MIA for almost a mth...My acct here is gathering dust and cobwebs le...

Aug'09 had been a bz month...Scheduled assignments/tests were the PM Test 1 which coincidentally falls on my bdae, next up was the dateline for HMT group paper, followed by the BF test, and finally the dateline for the ER individual paper. And in the midst of chionging the assignments and tests, my wai gong (maternal grandpa) passed away on the Sat b4 the HMT grp paper dateline. Thank god my grp has more or less finished the paper and was tying up the loose ends. Really got to thank Garcia and HuiQi for their understanding shown for my situation then. Thanks! As for my BF test, thanks to my procrastination, I did not manage to finish revising so did not manage to try out those extra qns or tutorial qns given. So I think I did a bad job of the test...Hopefully can pass d paper and I'll be damn happy. The ER paper was the worst. Procrastination again set in and I wasn't really in the mood or shld I say the drive to complete it. So only started writing 2-3 days b4 dateline. So really did a very bad job of it. Luckily got a few friends encouraging me and helping me along the way to completion of the paper. You know who you are so I shan't announce your name(s) here. Thanks alot! I also gotta thank my Dad who agreed to bike me down to campus to submit the ER paper, otherwise I'll be late in my submission. Thanks Dad!

After the assignments/tests in Aug ended, I felt so relieved and ended up slacking till now, even though I have the PM Test 2 on the 9 Sep (Wed) and up till now, still haven studied much for it. There's also a 2nd HMT individual assignment dateline on the 24 Sep, which I totally haven started on. And I've been dramaing so much recently rather than revising my schoolwork and working on the assignment. Alrite, I feel so guilty and ashamed of myself but I can't help it as I totally do not have the mood and drive to chiong for my studies currently. And exams is less than 2 months away. I'm so dead.

Enough about studies, recently have been dramaing 命中注定我爱你 online. Initially was watching it on Channel U but have missed out some episodes plus I'm eager to know the ending...I know I'm already far behind others in watching this drama as others would have finished watching this drama long ago when it came out. Fyi, I seldom/almost dun watch Taiwanese idol dramas, Korean dramas and Jap dramas. My first love is HK dramas which already can get me so addicted and use up alot of my leisure time to watch them. Hence I've decided not to add on to my addiction of dramaing by watching other categories of dramas. However, I muz agree that 命中 is an addictive drama and it's damn funny and nice. It has quite a fair share of light-hearted plot and heavy-hearted plot. Watched till I cried when Chen Xinyi had a miscarriage. The theme songs and subtheme songs in the drama are very nice and meaningful as well. The 2 subtheme songs used in the drama during the episodes really match the feel they wanna bring to the audience. I never know that humans can be treated as 'Post-it' but now I know. Really sympathise with Chen Xinyi who is forever always so forgiving and giving to others. So happy about the happy ending. I guess such happy endings only happen in dramas. 

Was also watching Burning Flame 3 episodes here and there...Did not finish watching the full drama though but has watched the ending le. Not a bad drama but this series is more on love story than the elements of fire-fighting. Wong Hei (王喜) is the reason I liked Burning Flame series. He always brings alive his role in the series. This time round, he portrayed very well the pros and cons of his role's stubborness (执着). Stubborness can be both a strength and weakness depending on how you use it and view it. Nevertheless, I learned smth from his role in this series, 'Out of difficulties make miracles'.

To conclude 命中 got me developing so many kinds of complicated emotions and thoughts. Enlightened me on some stuff, got me daydreaming on some and left me wondering on some. Burning Flame 3 also taught me learning to let go is important. Really like this type of feelings I get from dramaing...Always learn smth from dramas and get me thinking on some stuff from dramas but yet at the same time I feel so relaxed and entertained by dramas as the "thinking" part is far less taxing on me psychologically compared to the reality.

The 1st thing I did the moment time struck 0000h of 12 Aug, was to wish my younger cousin who happens to share the same bdae as I, a "Happy Bdae", following which I also received his well-wishes in return...That's how I started my 12 Aug and of coz wishes from a few friends who really waited and sent me bdae wishes on the dot at 12am. Thanks!

Anway, sad to say for the past 20 odd years, my bdae is always near CAs or happen to bump into test dates...So this year, it's not surprising to have a Prices & Markets (PM) test on my bdae as well...Juz blame it on my luck to be born at such a date? Haha...As this Aug is a rather crucial period in my uni life so far due to 2 tests and 2 assignments datelines all in the same month, there wasn't any celebration for me...Anyway, since young, I also do not have the habit of celebrating bdaes in my family. Hence I don't really mind even if I dun get any celebrations at all...All I asked for is a peaceful bdae without any "special" events/things to spoil it. However in recent years, I had the habit of celebrating my parents bdae with them by buying them a cake. Cld be due to I had my own savings from my daily allowance and also in the last 2 years, had been working and was earning. But even then, my family still doen't have the habit of celebrating my bdae with me too with the exception of today, 12 Aug 2009. Today my mum bought me a bdae cake. My uni frens bought me a slice of Oreo Cheesecake too...


Cake from mum


Oreo Cheesecake from Jas, Garcia, Yumei and HuiQi...Finally I lighted a candle to go with this cake when I'm back home...

And I made 2  wishes today becoz I had 2 cakes....Both were the same wish...I wish...I wish....*hey, it's a secret known only to myself*...haha...

It was a wonderful morning last Thursday. For close to 20 years since my family shifted over to my current residence, I hadn't have the chance to see such a beautiful sunrise from my residence. I was washing my hands at the sink in my kitchen when I noticed the reflection of the morning sun on my kitchen wall. The reflection caught my attention so much that I felt I had to see the morning sun in the sky for myself. I'm glad I did or I would have missed such a wonderful sight of nature. The beautiful morning sun definitely made my day. I immediately ran to my room for my camera phone to snap a few pictures of the beautiful sunrise. Tried my best to take a few good shots of the beautiful sun. I shall share the 2 best photos which I had captured of the morning sun that morning.


Reflection of the morning sun on my kitchen wall which caught my attention


Taken from my kitchen's window

Don't you agree it's beautiful?

On Friday, rushed down to Ngee Ann City after class to meet my Soleil's pioneer comm for a gathering after around 1 yr since our last gathering. Though Derwin is not involved in Soleil last time, he came to join our gathering as well as he's back from Aus and has nothing much to do so I suggested to Dora to ask him along too since he knows all of us in the comm as well. Had a Dim Sum lunch at Nan Bei Imperial Treasure, afterwhich we proceeded to Orchard Central for a look. Went to check out the rock wall at Orchard Central...As usual, Dora is so attracted by the Via Ferrata offered by BorderX that she suggested that we go for it on the spot even though we are all not properly attired for the climb...Hence she suggested we go back there another day for the climb. Anyway, we stayed there for quite a while watching this guy who was taking quite a long time to climb the Via Ferrata. Next we went to Ben&Jerry for ice cream. Haha. Took some pics at the B&J restaurant.  Enjoy the pics:

Introducing the dish Merlionster Roar to you

For the dish, we are allowed to choose 6 flavours, with 3 diff toppings...For toppings, we chose waffle, brownie and chocolate...For flavours, we chose chunky monkey, strawberry cheesecake, strawberry, chocolate mint, coffee coffee buzz buzz buzz and mango mango sorbet.

Some random pics taken with my phone:


Weishan- our pretty President for 1st Soleil Comm


Dora and Derwin pouting ~~lol~~


Dora on the phone...looks like a biz woman...was joking with Junius that shld photoshop this photo and change her attire into formal attire...


Dora busy doing up  the settings for the camera function in her phone


Weishan and Dora


Me and Junius

Now for some group photos:




The soft toy is from the B&J restaurant. It is placed on one of the chairs of the garden style tea table which was set up near the entrance of the restaurant.

Alright, that's all for now on the updates of the gathering...

I think no one will believe what crazy thing I did today. Went to Kidz Amaze at Safra Jurong with 4 of my uni friends and 2 of my poly friends today. Haha...Imagine 7 big-sized children (adults) playing in the 3 storey high maze playground with very young kids. Haha...It was fun nevertheless...Enjoyed myself thoroughly with my friends. I can't believe I've actually missed out such fun when I was still a kid...I think I've really missed out on alot of stuffs during my childhood and youth days. Time really waits for no one. Once you have passed a phase in your life, you will never be able to find it back again. Hence really must cherish the chance if you get to relive a phase in life which you have already passed and missed last time. To me, reliving a phase in life which has long passed me takes courage. Today, I had the honour of reliving my childhood with my friends and I'm really glad I chose to do it. At least now I wun have to tell others again that I've never tried this activity before.

Finally after 12 days of work with the finance dept and 1 1/2 days for HR, I've got the chance to post smth about work now...This is because everyday after work, I'm so dead tired that I always fell asleep on the sofa. Anyway, I've been lucky to be invited to my company's TGIF event @ Eltoro Bar on the Friday, 26 Jun, of course by my friend, Cindy and another very nice colleague from HR dept- Mas when I temped there 2 yrs ago...Frankly speaking, when they asked me to attend the event, I had my qualms and worries as I'm just a temp, hence I do not know if I'm really allowed to attend the event. I was finally persuaded into attending the event when both assured me that it was totally fine and no one would know that I'm a temp...Moreover, they said since I'm temp-ing at my company and carrying their staff pass (though a temp one), I'm also entitled to attend the event...Kinda make sense too lah...It's not as if they bothered to check if I'm temp, contract or perm staff. Haha...So I attended the event with Cindy and Mas. Ordered Margarita and felt slightly giddy after a few sips, though according to Cindy, the bartender who prepared the drink had diluted the drink such that the alcohol level wasn't much...Guess my body reacted slightly strongly to low level of alchohol because I seldom drink, plus I was hungry as I hadn't had my dinner when I took the few sips...I definitely felt better once they served the finger food and I ate some. Anyway, when I reached Eltoro Bar with Cindy and Mas, there was already performers on stage though it was still rather early as the event had just started for a few minutes. It was still rather empty as most staffs from all offices in SG hadn't arrived. What surprised me was the performers were my company's staffs from the other office and they really performed very well, very much like professional singers, guitarists and drummers. Anyway, a few photos taken @ Eltoro Bar:


Eltoro Bar, board beside entrance to the 2nd level


Margarita


From left: Me, Cindy

Hmm, on 2nd thoughts shan't post the other pics as I haven got the permission from my colleagues to display the pics with them in it.

Yesterday evening,  went to IMM with my family to take my bro's grad family shoot.  Smile until my face almost cramped...The photographer used and did funny actions to make us laugh or rather smile for the camera...Nevertheless it's quite a fun session...While waiting for our turn to take the photos in the room, we were beside the dressing table bz snapping pictures with my phone...











The photos were all taken at the same spot beside the dressing table area as there was a sign in the studio that states no phototaking allowed in the premises. So we were busy snapping pictures only in that area where there wasn't any of the staffs around to stop us from phototaking. I think grad family photo shoot is fun...Though it's expensive, but it's definitely gd to go for one to leave behind a great memory.