Last day of November

Although nothing significant changes in my daily life, this week is indeed a horrible week for the world…

Chaos in Thailand, terror in India, job cuts everywhere… how are we supposed to be joyful of the upcoming Christmas? :(

There are few major incidents happened in my office this week. But I’m too small to act upon it (alright, call it an excuse). In fact, I don’t even really understand the situation, but everyone seems to be so worried, running here and there and staying late. I myself stayed late because of the guilty feeling of leaving earlier while everyone looked so busy. Haha.

Anyway, it wasn’t a bad decision. Sometimes, they did ask me to help with some stuff =D But I did understand that I was too junior for most of the stuff... the rule simply stated that I don’t have the power and responsibility to do some of the things. Everything looks very fragile in operation team. I once sent out a wrong report to other team… and the aftermath was quite fatal. I realized it only on the next day. Everyone was sending me clarification emails, and I took 2 hours to rectify the situation. Ha, I also get my first warning email through email. “Kindly ensure that the report is right before sending it out”. Thanks team… I learnt my lesson T_T now I felt lucky not to be in charged of higher risk task… I’m still way too careless v_v

Time passed by… and it has been a week with the absence of my two colleagues. I admired the determination of my other colleague, who work restlessly almost everyday to cover the job. She neither came later nor left earlier than me. And knowing that her daughter is ill in hospital, she must be really strong to depress the urge to go back early. It’s lucky that her daughter is getting better now. Being a career woman is definitely not easy huh? I really feel being thrown to the other side of life that I almost never think of.

This Saturday, I went to SITEX at expo. It was so crowded… but I still managed to squeeze my way through and saw some techs stuff. The more I see Mac Book Pro, the more I wonder why I haven’t gotten one yet. What should I do? T_T I can’t just abandon my current notebook too. Something applies to the Lumix camera. Aarrggh, my heart is just too soft when dealing with tech. hahaha.

After a whole day at SITEX, I managed to buy a pair of slipper (Huh?) from the sale at the neighborhood halls. John Little was having a big sale there. The queue was more than 1 hour for a pair of slipper… doesn’t really worth the wait, unless you’re with bunch of good friends who take turn to queue for you (thanks so much fendi, tomy, winson! :p)

We went to Aljunied to have my very first chili crab in Singapore @ No Signboard restaurant. It was OK. The blackpepper crabs taste better :p I ate too much crabs that my friends kept saying that I talk a lot of crabs on the next day T_T


Chili Crab! @ No Signboard


After everything was gone... to the stomach...

This Sunday, I woke up before 6… to help my friends move from CCK to BG. It was early, but I wasn’t felt sleepy. Only after I’m back at home at around 2, I can’t help but to doze off for 3 hours. I got a bit of headache when I woke up, but was quite sure it was because I sleep too much +_+


Wishing you all a pleasant stay!

After a proper dinner, I started to do the very-long-delayed write up. My writing skill is real bad. I focused for the next 3 hours, but still come out with weird write up… aahh.. T_T

Stressed up, I went out to iron my cloth and wrote blog. Now.. must continue with the write up T_T

Welcome, December
ED

School...?

Office has been good. I started to get used to my new seat. My direct boss is back from Japan, but I am now in different office with her… so it didn’t make much difference. She bought the love letter snack from Japan.. as usual, the packaging is very nicee.. I finished it before I realized that I forgot to take a picture of it T_T

This week, the PSLE (Primary School Leaving Examination) result is out. Since almost everyone in my office is married with kids (only 4 are singles), it becomes one of the hottest topics for this week: what is their grades? how many stars they get? how many A’s? who failed? which school they pick? I learnt so much new terms there (ha, kidsSkill++)

Looking at their anxiety, I realized that the PLSE means much more for them, in comparison with the national exam back to my home country. No parent (at least in my hometown) was so worried when it comes to exam result. Same thing, the students themselves didn’t feel much as well. Your exam result is out and u pass. That’s it. (and if you can’t pass, there is always a way to turn the result around :p)

In Singapore, the grade that you get will more or less determine whether you will be in express class or regular class, whether you will be in this school or that school. I feel that it’s really unique in its own way… but might be stressing for the students themselves.

Anyway, schooling seems so far away from me now… After 4 months, I can’t remember how to study anymore T_T I have a small reunion with my SCE friends on Saturday (kudos to SCE Alumni Club!) The reunion place was... Singapore Flyer! And with a great 8 course dinner @ Seafood Paradise afterwards. All within the price of $30. Definitely worth it =D


The Signature Creamy Butter Crab served with Chinese Buns

I love Singapore Flyer more than the London Eyes. Singapore just know how to make people feel exclusive. Since it's near christmas, the capsule is decorated with Christmas accesories. Love it :)

Saying goodbye to Helios, our photographer, who get it to another capsule T_T

As usual.. when a bunch of classmate meet.. they gossip XP.. we ate until around 9.30, then took a shuttle bus back to Cityhall… and went back home afterwards.

This Sunday... hmm… just another relaxing Sunday for me. Sleep until 11, lunch at Westmall with Fendi WK and the rest, iron cloth, chat, email friends, blog, and lets end it with a Magadascar movie =D

Coming back home for Christmas,
ED

Flatmate Wanted

After nagged by my parents all these times, I’m thinking of moving out from my home sweet home next year :( This time, my parents gave me strict rules of finding place:
1. Near working location, which means somewhere around Tanjong Pagar
2. Near hawker center and transportation, which means somewhere near MRT.

Those two conditions are actually enough to make me broke T_T haha… adding my own preference to find a single room, I will need to act fast to find a place within budget.

Without further ado… ladies, I’m looking for flatmates~ who want to stay somewhere around Tiong Bahru… moving in around July – August 2009. Please contact me if anyone is interested… =D

…Or the other way round, if anyone is looking for flatmate, please include me in :p haha..

Trying my luck,
ED

Happy Birthday, Che!

I can’t sleep well in these past few days. I woke up before 9, even during weekend! Something is really wrong =.=’

However, it led to my mind wandering for the rest of the day. I kept doing silly things, forgot what I supposed to do, and scribbled through my sentences… even as I’m typing this blog, I have no idea how to start… this is not a good sign ^^;

My routine is back this week… wake up, work, eat, sleep. I felt blessed and sick with my routine at the same time. I think I need to add some ‘spices’ to it, but I haven’t decided what. Work is quite manageable, but I can’t really predict what time I can leave, as it depends on how many trades done for the day… so I can’t really plan anything for evening… hmm… sound like trying to find an excuse for myself XP

Nothing really special in office this week… On Thursday, our director paid us a visit... That’s a nice surprise. He looked fine! And super casual with his shirt and jeans ^^;

On Friday, everybody seemed to be motivated by him and wore so casual as well. Even I wear white jeans XP haha… That day, I moved to office next door. A lot of arguments were flying around regarding the best seat, the Feng Shui, the hassles, etc etc… I can’t help but plug on my earpiece and start to work.. not because I wasn’t interested.. but because I can listen to it all day long and abandon my work. Haha… My seat was quite nice, hidden except from someone behind me.

Friday was the launching day for WoW The Warth of The Lich King. I’m not a fans of gaming (definitely NOT! Can’t even play puzzle bubble), but I follow my colleague to the preorder collection after lunch. It was such a looonngg queue there.. And I can’t help but to take pics :p

The launching of WoW. Can hardly find gal there

At night, Che2 told us that she finally found a new place to stay: Bukit Gombak. Now she is getting nearer to us ^^ glad to hear about it.

Saturday was a full day out. I went to Westmall (after making 4 times way back to home as we forgot to get things), then get a cake for Che2, and went straight to Clementi for the highlight of the day: birthday celebration =D Expected but not predicted by me, all of them (except tatsu and winson who I dragged along) were late T_T but it was a nice delay actually, since everyone gathered at almost the same time, and we can have a great lunch together =D


@ Botak Jones Clementi

I was quite surprised when I saw Inche wearing similar clothing with me. Green and white, top and bottom. We didn’t plan for it at all, really. It was a nice coincidence though :p

The birthday celebration finished at around 2.. then most of us decided to pay a visit to west coast plaza, a new plaza at Clementi area. As normal got-nothing-to-do folks, we walked around, then stopped at Starbucks to talk about current gossip :p


Infront of Christmas Tree - feel like back to school old days ;p

Later at around 5, we went to a classical concert at NUS. We took the free shuttle bus from west coast mall to NUS. The bus driver was sooo nice to stop us at where we supposed to. When I get down from the bus, I felt the sense of achievement.

Finally, yeah, finally… after more than 4 years in Singapore… I finally landed my feet at NUS! Muahahahaa… (I only laugh inside my heart of course). We had a walk there, had a student price mega mac (it was hugee!) then went for the concert. Thanks to fidel, the seat booked was a very great balcony area. We could do cam-whore there without disturbing anyone XP everything was very great… except… erm… of my poor appreciation towards classical music. I dozed off within the next 15 mins. I didn’t really know what happened for the next two hours… only seeing the conductor kept coming in and out, and people can’t stop clapping…


NUS Conservatory of Music Hall

Back to Bukit Batok, it took me less than 2 hours to doze off until the next morning XP

On Sunday… again, I woke up early. Not really have anything to do… just can’t sleep T_T I started my day with a great breakfast (thanks to Tomy’s mum) then replying my friends email, having a huge lunch, watching dark knight, then having another huge dinner and fruit.

Now... just finished ironing cloths and got prepared for tomorrow… time flies.

Btw, I started to get used to my new phone already =D I love my E66.. although some people said that it’s a lousy phone and made me hurt T_T I haven’t used the full function, but I’m happy with the wireless. Will try out the GPS soon :p hahaha…

For everyone who is on exam mood… ganbatte!
ED

A long week

On Monday, I went for the weekly lunch with graduate. We needed to forgo Glen, but we got Paul as replacement :) We went to coffee and toast (my first time there). When I walked inside, I saw…. My ex supervisor from Apple!!! I was so surprise to see him there… lucky that someone already told me that he moved to other company… else I might thought that Apple has moved to Tanjong Pagar. I tried to call him, but my weak voice and the noise just made it went unnoticed. Failed to even say hi to him, I messaged him during my way back home. He agreed for a lunch on next day.

On Tuesday… I got in touch few friends that I thought I will never see anymore. After my supervisor, I got a message from Ha Lien and a call from Loy. It was just so… unbelievable. I knew all of them during my internship at apple, and it was just such a coincidence for all of them to contact me again at the same day, without any particular event. Weird! I also met my CEC committee, Malla and Julian. Again, at the same day. It just felt so nostalgic.

On Wednesday… Another day of staying late at office. I felt like fainting when I dragged my feet out from office. I went for a nice dinner together with moja, then have a guided tour around his office. Only one word to describe his office… AWESOME! The only office that can beat it, the one that I have seen so far, is only Google. His pantry has almost anything I can wish for: various juices, fruits, beer, yogurt, bread, cornflakes, biscuits, snacks, chocolate, everything! Have I mentioned that they have pool and wide screen monitor for wii? And he got double LCD monitor as well! I kept wowing until my friend has to show me the way to go out from the office XP hahaha.. it was really a nice place there… Maybe I can go there every time I need supper.


Heaven in Office

On Thursday… Sab and I went for lunch together with moja and nata. It was a nice catch up, with highlight on the hottest issues around SCE world. Hahaha.. Some are not so good news, but most are great =D really want to congratulate the related parties asap :p

Friday… was the farewell day. I wasn’t in the mood of doing anything. I junked a lot, and seemed to annoy my friend T_T so sorry… After my two routine works (which occupied me less than 2 hours), I started the documentation and porting my stuff to notebook. I did some silly thing during the setup, and I lost all the documentation I did for the day. Sigh. T_T Didn’t manage to redo all the things, as time hit 7 and it was the time for the farewell…

We had a farewell dinner at LPS.. The menu ordered was nice.. but I can’t really enjoy the food. The dinner ended at 10.. we wished him the best of luck… and I really wished that it wont be my last time seeing him… Please pay us a visit k!

On Saturday, I went to Singtel to complain about my tripled bill. They didn’t really have solution for me, but they manage to attract me to get my new E66 (my contact has expired on 22nd 08). Bye $338~ and I’m being tied 2 years to Singtel again. Haha..

After the phone, I went to Suntec, wandering around with Inche and Boly, before going for James Bond at night with the rest. The movie is… OK? As what Helios has told me, it did have some connection to Casino Royale… and I regretted (abit) that I haven’t watch the first movie T_T

Here come Sunday, noting the end of another week. I slept until almost 1… have a nice lunch (thanks to Tomy as the chef), have a suffering pantry cleaning afterwards, then continued with ironing my cloths and playing with my new phone. From outside, E66 looks nice… but the GUI is still questionable so far. I am unable to switch the address book to show both name and number at the same display. I still prefer the user friendliness of my old 6280. Maybe will take some time for me to get use to it.


E66 - Welcome Screen

The phone took my whole day. After dinner and a chat with my sister, now is the time for… Casino Royale =D Credit to Helios for the movie :)

Looking forward to next week…
ED

My (Future) Gadgets

I have decided on what I’m going to have for the next few years!

Mobile Phone: Nokia E66

Reasons:
- GPS!
- Phone contract has expired
- Most importantly: current phone is begging for retirement

Digital Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3

Reasons:
- Wide angle!
- Amazing Settings- 10.1 Mega Pixels
- Most importantly: tested and recommended by credible photographer :p

Note Book: Apple MacBook Pro 17-Inch

Reasons:
- Do you have a reason not to?
- Where elegance meets performance
- Most importantly: It looks cool! XP (although most people say it looks geeky on gal ^^;)

They are ordered according to the difficulty to get (in term of the $$$) hahaha.. I'll just keep the list to three first.

Now... let's work hard to earn and get them all T_T
ED

Welcome, Nov...

This week is so different… there was only 4 working days, but so many things happened. It made me so tired, both physically and mentally, even worse than my first week of adjusting back to Singapore.

On Tuesday, I went to work as usual. There was nothing much, except myself struggling to absorb all the information as much as possible. I went home at 8 and felt tired.

On Wednesday, my colleague taught me a new process… and they put me to be in charged of it as soon as they finished teaching. “So happen” that day was the day where the volume of the process got tripled… and I stayed until 11 without finishing even half of my work. I went home and worked again until 3am.

On Thursday, I needed to reach office earlier to pass them my work. I thought that I will pass a pleasant afternoon, but I was definitely wrong. We faced a lot of problem… and 3 of the 5 problems were due to my failure to warn them earlier about the possible risk, despite of my job to do the exposure check. I think they must hate me to the core… I didn’t do it on purpose, definitely. I was overloaded with all the information given, was too tired with the long working hours, which lead me to check on the wrong field instead. I know that shouldn’t be an excuse for doing the mistakes though… so I just tried to accept the consequence. Lesson learnt along the way =) I tried to go back earlier and did my PMO until 2am.

On Friday, I did another handful of mistakes (I’m not proud of it), some almost caused the bank to pay 3M for the interest rate. Everything was pretty bad but under control, not until I received the most shocking news of the month…

Our director resigned.

He resigned. The one who interviewed me, who accepted me, who said hi to me even before I started to work, who invited me to Townhall presentation, who fought for our benefit in graduate program, who asked us to claim for warm cloths, who always told jokes, who always brought food, who had become such a fabulous mentor, who had been working for 12.5 years.

I lost my composure when Kelvin first told me about it. I felt like I almost cried when he announced it during the farewell lunch. All these months, there were only 2 lunches together with him so far… Once was to welcome us. Now is to bid farewell to him. Wasn’t this too cruel?

It was so dishearten when I heard that he never planned to leave the company this way. At night after work, I felt unmotivated… I had dinner at somewhere near office (only by then I realized that day was Halloween), went home, and tried to accept the reality… I slept at 3, still on unbelieving mode of what happen this week. How easy can someone life change.

On Saturday morning, I went to visit Lily sis at Bedok. I felt bad of looking sleepy in front of her T_T she treated me lunch, brewed tea for me, and drove me to Bugis. She was so kind to me… so were her sons. I felt much more relax after meeting her. At Bugis, I went to pray and have some chat with friend. Afterwards, I went to Jess B’day party. Although the members weren’t completed, it was joyous to be together.


@Boon Lay with cute short hair lady beside me :p

We chat aloott.. from latest gossip until the current turmoil financial situation. I reached back home only at 12… and slept at almost 3.. (again =.=) There were quite a lot of ‘exciting’ things happening at our house.. Started from fridge broke down, washing machine can’t dispose water, stove can’t fire, internet can’t work… all thing seems to come together as one :S

On Sunday, I woke up at 12… Just when I’m holding my phone, my dad called. We talked for around half hour... a nice way to start my Sunday ^^ haha… afterwards, I ordered new gas tube, went showered, brought lunch, then relaxing for a while, before embracing another challenging week ahead…

Another month passes by,
ED