Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The younger days..

Being stuck in the office for too long deprives me of quality time with the outside world.. I realized I havent been seeing lil kids for quite some time already.. Other than my lil JiaXin.. I seem to miss hearing and seeing lil kids play/scream during weekdays... HAha! I know it sounds weird.. But seriously, I'm so surrounded by adults.. How I wish kids were allowed in offices.. They will definitely add some laughter and colour to the work environment...

Speaking of which, I was flipping through old photo albums few weeks ago.. I chanced upon some really lovely pictures of me (Yes, me... ) when I was very much younger, and smaller.. hee!

At Haw Par Villa.. It was such a hit then........................... =)

Enjoy... Pretty mei mei with fan in hand =)

With my bro at some pillars.. HAha..
How I miss flume rides.. I love those that dive at super fast speed and especially those that will make me super duper wet after that.. hee!

The blur girl with her favourite dried mangoes.. Try spotting the bro in the pic...

Family Pic.. All in... Ah Qi's in mum's tummy then... Still a family picture =)

Oh ya... Did I mention chinese mascots were sooo famous last time? =)

Some other random pics which were just as cute...

I forgot whose birthday it was.. But, the important and amazing thing is, I'm still sucking a pacifier at that age... Shame shame can!

With Bro, posing with the statue/object at ROM.. Not my wedding of course.. HAha...

Me.... Trying on some specs at some supermarket? HAha... Totally suku........... =P

Me and my dearest Grandma... And my super short dress.. Woo~ I wonder why my parents allowed me to wear such a sexy dress out ? Way too short...................... They're liberal I guess... HAha...

Stay tuned to the next post... More cute pictures coming up...

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Happy 43rd Birthday Singapore........

It was Singapore's 43rd Birthday on Saturday....... what a joyous occasion (minus the rain =p) I suddenly got awoken at 715am today... Haiz!! Must be my body clock... Interrupted my lovely beauty sleep.. Eventually went back to lala land and woke up naturally at 1030 =) LOVELY! HAha.. NO WORK =)

Went to AMK hub with mummy... Missed our usual brunches.............. HAha... Loved the slow walks, the lil talks, the nice foodies, the shopping around heartlands and supermarkets.. More please! HAha...

As promised, I managed to whip up something.. Bought some ingredients for my potato salad after brunch... And started making a mess in the kitchen.. HAha... TADAH! WeiShi's first attempt at this... It's relatively simple to prepare.. Mayo must be good! The Japanese mayo is heavenly....... Add some lemon for a tinge of sourness.. diced apples for the extra crunch.. Potato boiled till soft but not mashed.. slices of ham.. Garnish... Mix them altogether... TADAH! As easy as that.. Preparing and cooking is easy.. Cleaning up is boring.. =P


Received positive comments... HAHAHA! =)

What shall I cook next?.................

Then it was off to Bugis.. Met Aunt Beh, lil JiaXin and her mum there... Simply coz Lil Match girl having sale! Listen up girls.. 20% off (min 2 pieces) and additonal 10% off for members.. I spotted a beautiful pink top... and tried it the day before.. This is the classic case of Love at first sight.. I had to get it =P I just had it washed, so no pic of the top....... Haha!

Missed my lil girl......... =) She tied 2 suku but cute pony tail at the top....... had countless bangles ard her arm.. This lil girl is getting hiau le... =P


The first thing she said to me was 'See, I got new shoes..'
This lil girl, alwiz greet me by saying.. 'See, I got new ___...' Haha.. Vv hao lian =P But still as very cute la.. hee.......

Then... It was off to watch the fireworks with Mr Koh! Town was infested with people I tell ya.. Made me realize that alot of Singaporeans do not stay at home to watch live telecast of the parade.. Instead, they like to roam the streets, shopping malls in town, lingering around 1km radius of city hall area....... Terrorize lil girls like me =P HAha........... we walked alot, had our stomachs filled before heading to the spot where we will be watching the fireworks from..

Alot of 'irritating and senseless' road blocks.. making normal routes seemed so much more longer than usual... We walked ard in circles.. practically left our footprints everywhere.. HAha.. Finally reaching our intended spot =)

Thankfully, the slight drizzle stopped.. Settling down on a good spot.. anxiously waiting for the display to begin!

The view then... 730 there about?

Few moments later, sky grew dark...

Busy eating... Subway!

The buildings beside us..

Us... before the fireworks began...
'Pomp pomp pomp'



Such beautiful display.. Too short! Brilliant flashes of light.. illuminating the dark sky.. I want more...

Crowd dispersed.. While we made our way back to Raffles City.. Another long walk! Had Mud Pie at coffee club............... Chocolate Madness! Packed with endorphins.. No wonder I'm happy.. HAha.. Yes, Saturday just went past like that...... Sunday please lenghten your stay here...... =P

Saturday, August 9, 2008

A mystery mail

Daddy passed me a registered letter just now.. It looked like some kinda bank statement from UOB/DBS, from far.. HAha.. Upon closer inspection, I saw this....... 'Photocard Driving Licence'

Woo!! My driving licence has finally arrived lo..............

Excited... Please join me in unreveling this 'big' mail...

The front.. HAha.. Happy!

The back... Gg to open it any moment... Exhilarated!

Opened! My letter........... Radiant!

My Licence............ Total Satisfaction! My 2.5K Hard-earned Class 3 Licence................

The weekend is here =) Time to party and paint the town red lo.... Wheeee~

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Counting down to the weekends!

So fast... I'm about to say goodbye to Wednesday.. And it's gonna be Thursday soon... Then! It's Friday....... woohoo! HAha.. I cant wait.. I dont have to report for work this Saturday.. =) Work is piling up... And I seriously feel important in the company =P The thing about working there is that the learning curve is exponential........ Seriously! I think I need to get used to this kinda working life.. It's sooooo challenging.. The fact that I will need to present the corporate overview to my dept head and manager next week, sends chills down my spine.. *help* I'm barely 2 weeks there.........
But, nothing's gonna break my stride =) Though scared, I will learn from my mistakes.. Better learn now than later...

Well, life basically revolves ard breakfast at home (Quality time with parents), work, lunch, work, dinner (My precious time of the day), sleep........... and the cycle continues... It's all about getting used to it, looking at the bright side of things to make working life more worthwhile.. HAha.. Other than that, spending quality time with loved ones is still on top of my list =)

Aniwaes................. work aside...............

National Day is just around the corner.. was chatting with mummy earlier this morning, and got to know that Ah Qi's gg back to sch on friday 5-8pm for National Day celebration.. How fun right??

I so miss those celebrations... I remembered back in those days (now, I sound old...) National Day celcebrations were such big events! We have loads of programmes lined up for the day (usually half).. HAha... From the marching of the diff contingencies, performance by the dance club, some skids? Singing of national day songs.. waving the lil flags in the air while singing...........

After which, we would all go out together.. paint the town red.. watch movies, eat, sing and be merry............. How nice! =)

Aww........ Now, I can only wait for Ah Qi/my kids to tell me what happened during the celebrations.. HAha! Or.......... I can go and be a teacher!... (probable in future) hee.......

Once again, National Day is here again.. It's hard not to notice that Singapore is 43 years old le.. So many retail outlets offering 43% discounts.. HAha... So many flags flying high and proud, tho I see lesser flags hanging outside HDB flats nowadays.. I used to bug my parents to hang.. Now, we dont really bother about it.. opps! National day songs have also become the hottest hits in town =P

Can you still remember every word of the national anthem? HAha....... Dont you dare forget..

Can't wait for the weekends to come... Please.. soon! I so wanna whip something up over the weekends..... hands are itchy... So wanna brunch with mummy, so wanna go watch the fireworks, so wanna wake up late, so wanna do so many things...

So, please........ Saturday, please run faster! =P You're almost there.........



Sunday, August 3, 2008

The past week...

This is an entry which will basically summarise the happenings in this week... Let me recall slowly.. HAha..

Monday: First day of work.. Got ferried by my folks to Serangoon Interchange to take bus 100 to work.. Thankew sooooo much! HAha.. I woke up at 730.. and am thankful to be able to spend quality time with them everyday early in the morn on the way there... =)

Reached on time.. Orientation lasted ard 1.5 hrs, and then I'm led to my office and my cubicle.. HAha.. small department.. Business Development team is lean, with a female business manager who is very nice to me, an intern, a some others.. ard 5/6? Guess what! My mgr's from cedar and AJC too =) but she's 13 years my senior! Pretty mother of a 6 months old baby... HAha..

My Dept Head is a nice boss too.. HAha! His wife works in the same company too, but I hardly see them talk in the company.. Maybe diff dept ba..

So bascially, I was tasked to do a ppt.. Thereafter, read up on the company collaterals, some meetings with bob about what's gg happen during the first 2 weeks..

Lunch was provided everyday.. Thank god for my business mgr.. She keeps me company everyday.. HAha..

Life was sad I tell ya.......... Time crawled..........................

Tuesday: Tasked to do a ppt again.. Presentation to SMU.... Due to a colleague leaving soon, she handed me some work to continue.. That was hell too =P The only thing that I enjoyed most that day was dinner with Mr Koh at Serangoon Garden's Aston Western food! It was fantastic... Please go to his blog to read reviews ya.. HAha.. (Mr Koh, I'm indirectly increasing traffic to your blog... HAha!)

Wednesday: Given more tasks to do, more ppts... Attended a meeting with the sales team and bob.. Discussing about the expansion in Indo... Gosh.. I felt like a sponge... Went home to eat, then went to AMK hub at night to celebrate Mr Koh's passing of the BTT... haha.........

Thursday: Attended another meeting.. It's a presentation to Spring Sg.. Totally opened my eyes... I listened attentively to the presenters.. my goodness.. It felt like BM315.. totally! I tell ya, NBS is good k....... The case studies we did were not useless at all... I'm actually seeing how companies conduct market intelligence research, analysis, alot of things to be done, to actually see a M&A/partnership happen........

Friday: This was a good day, but totally busy... Like a bee... And the best thing? I was alone in the office.......... Whee~ Luxury can... But I was very busy with my stuff, so there wasnt time to feel lonely, as I walked up and down the company to get my task done.. Off to town after work! Woohoo.............................

Saturday: Sad, very sad... Coz I had to work... 4 hrs... sian! the only thing that motivated me to work were the activities after work.. HAha! I was alone again... Coz my manager was on MC, and the intern came last week so he dun have to come this week.. It shall be my turn next week =)

I felt liberated at 1pm! Mr Koh picked me up and we went off to EXPO.. It was packed with ppl coz Natas fair was there.. But that wasnt our main objective... It was the food fair! Woohoo... FOOD =)

Bought my fav hot n spicy fishball, toufu and vege.... and oyster meesua, otah prata.. HAha.. and a Yam dessert! It was fantastic!! Eat eat and eat.............. Samples oso take.. shamelessly but happily! HAha..............

Then it was off to orchard area... shopped ard the area before meeting feli and gang for feli's advanced bdae celebration........ =)

Dinner was at waraku at cuppage! Great food.. But no pictures.... coz we were too busy eating...

Then we adjourned to Dempsy Road for some chilling..... Went to the pub/club called Hacienda... Packed with Ang Mohs... Drink, catching up, people watch, enjoying the company and night breeze... I was dead tired by then... but I enjoyed every min of it... Then it was time to go home.. I was dead tired........ KO at ard 3am? coz my hair took ages to dry.............

My Iced Latte....

With the IKEA table lamp.. HAha..

Sunday: Brunched with Daddy, Ah Qi and bro at Queensway area... Coz Ah Qi wanted to buy her sports shoes... Ate at Alexandra food centre, and had the nice avocado drink! =) Headed for home after buying her shoes.. HAha! I took the car for a spin near my place.. Woooo~ of coz with daddy and Ah Qi in the car.. Im slowly getting used to driving auto cars! HAha..

Then went over to kallang leisure park with Mr Koh in the late aftn.. There was a bike fest over there.. Where many bikes were proudly displayed.. I do not know much abt bikes, but it was interesting knowing more about them...

What made it more interesting was that I spotted a vvvvv cute lil boy in a pro kids' bike suit and a vvvv cute mini bike...... And the more amazing thing was, he looks so cute, so fair, and so shuai!! Like mini Jay Chou can................. HAHA!

Look how cute he is... So small, but in pro suit.. With his bike.. HAha..

Inching closer to this xiao shuai ge... HAha..


Secretly took another shot of him..


Up close! Cute right???? My goodness.. If I have a daughter, I will reserve him for her.. HAha! =P I felt like a creepy big sister preying on some small boy...

While Mr Koh was attentively admiring the stunts and bikes, I was watching kids around me playing and fooling ard, and it was just as enjoyable.. Their innocence, carefree-ness, the way they speak/talk.. Made me wonder how I behaved when I was a kid...

Sunday went past just like that... Working makes me treasure weekends so much more! not that I dun treasure them in the past.. HAha.. Oh wells............ It's another week....... *smile*

Convo Ball

Convo Ball was held over at Fullerton Hotel on the 26th July, Saturday... The ball had a name, called 'La Vie De Vegas'... A casino-themed one.. HAha.. Initially all the drift girls wanted to dress up as bunnies, but I think due to busy work schedules, it's hard to plan and shop together for casino-themed clothes.. Haha.. So... Basically, most of the girls dressed like they are going for a normal prom.. Girls dressed like princesses, guys like princes? HAha...

Me? I didnt bother to buy a new dress coz I'm tight on budget and I find it quite a hassle to doll up.. HAha.. Lazy~

So, I wore a dress which the girls got me on my 21st birthday.. Which means this is the first time I wore that dress.. But as it was quite loose at the bust area, dearest mummy got it tightened for me.. HAha.. I was black that day.. Black dress, stockings, pumps... and a red clutch =) Off and ready to go..
First few pictures of the day.. With Mr Koh outside the toilet at Fullerton =) My camera can set time and date wor.. HAha!
Took alot of pictures.. Courtesy of Feli's and Shiyou's cameras..
With Songqin.. My accounting and BM324 project mate =)

With Cynthia.. My Secondary school mate.. HAha.. classmates in Sec 1!

With Say Inn....
With Cheryl.. My Primary School classmate and project mate.. HAha!
Yeah... Floor got gold.. =P
PPG!
Nice Shot!
With Evelyn, Say Inn, Hui Wen and Huiren =) Pretty ladies...

Then we entered the ballroom......... With these on the table..


A very random shot =)With Angie (Lim)... HAha.. using her vv pro camera!...


The cedarians...
Team Drift.. HAha..

Group Shot.......
My favourite dish of the dinner: Strawberry Pudding! It was good I tell ya =)

With Alex! Finally, this man is soooo busy organising this whole event... running here and there.. hard to grab a shot with him.. Will alwiz rem the CAAS intern days =) HAha!

Final shots outside Fullerton while waiting for Angie.. HAha.. Tired! Went back home soon after the dinner ended, while PPG and the rest headed for some clubbing.. HAha...

I enjoyed the dinner... It was once in a lifetime.. La Vie De Vegas......... =)