another new beginning

tis the umpteenth time i am having 'new beginnings'. well, as of today, we are going to be under miss fan and miss png's subzone, but still under our beloved PASTOR zhuang! thank God for weiwei's miracle email. hah. cannot imagine wat would have happened without it. haha.

anyway, my first attempt to "ha-la" with the WYZ pple. (boohoo, my lady wawa hairstyle is GONE! i am considering the "add-5cm-to-my-height" hairstyle...)

it's also jairus' birthday celebration @ fish&co, but ironically he aint in the photo. haha.

sure or not...

Your Name Comes From Mercury

You have the gift of gab, and nothing energizes you like good conversation. And it's likely that when you're not talking, you're writing. You love communicating your thoughts. You are also quite studious. You find learning to be both easy and rewarding. You are good at understanding what is being communicated to you. You also know what questions to ask to better clarify things.

What Planet Does Your Name Come From?

a day's meal

breakfast: 1 bowl of laksa
snack: 2 sticks of yakitori
lunch: 1 bowl of laksa (again)
teabreak: 2 chicken wings + 4 IKEA meatballs
dinner: 2 vege bao + 1 bite of the meat bao

can some kind dietitian pls calculate the amount of calories i took on a lazy sunday afternoon? (and also calculate how many hours months of workout i need to burn them off, pls) =s

winterwonderland

Your Soul Is Connected to the Winter

You approach life with a zen-like calm that other people envy. Nothing rattles you. You are smart, thoughtful, and very serious. You don't stress out, but you don't take much lightly. You like to keep to yourself, and you've been called shy - even if you don't consider yourself that way. You prefer a cozy, quiet life filled with ideas, books, and maybe a few friends.

What Season is Your Soul Connected To?

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winter is good. it's cooling, lazy, relaxed. but well, one cant stay in winter all the time yea. look forward to SPRING my frens! it's time to WORK!

GI Joe!

my sis had put up this photo abt the GI Joe movie, and namely about Lee Byung Hun. i was thinking.. wan to put, put some nicer, more mesmerising, more handsome, make-heads-turn kinda pics la.. like this:
but according to her, the half naked pic is more.. ahem.. delicious. enuff said.

btw, the "GI" in GI Joe stands for Government Issue and became a generic term for U.S. soldiers, especially ground forces. something new yea?

one of my self motivating entries

it's the 20th of august and i was casually looking through the bank accounts..

and boy, have my $ increased, and i guess mainly from the wedding. haha! wat a quick way to get rich.

anyway, enough of spending! i shall resolve to spending LESS!
SAVE SAVE SAVE!

“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” ~Frank Hubbard~
p.s. not too sure abt the 'fold it over once' method, but keeping it in your pocket and not spending it definitely works!

stuffs i did on my MC days

perhaps i should pen down wat i did over the 2 days of MC...

• bought a Blackberry, or rather, decided to buy, next July.
• slept.
  
• visited the doctor, of cos, for that sacred piece of paper called the MC.
  
• went for leader's meeting.
• slept.
• sorted out my photos and sent some over to respective people who were constantly chasing for them. zzz.
  
• bought a pair of shoes, hehheh.
• did some grocery shopping.
  
• browsed through new book titles in Borders.
• slept.
• blogged.
  
• ate mcdonald's for dinner, juz the wrap dat's all.
• slept.
  

wat a fruitful good 2 days. and here i am, back at work. oh Lord, pls give me the grace to withstand the storms in the corporate world, namely coming from fellow humans.

and i'm preparing for a great CG tmr. i love you Lord, and W378. =)

to the class of 2009...

CONGRATS! i really admire you guys for taking the step of faith to commit a few months of your life to studying the Word of God.

although many people had asked me, wat do you do after getting the cert.. i've long reckoned that it aint juz all about paper qualifications and where it might bring you to.

anyhow, congrats to AIRDELINE, xueli, peixin, gabriel seow, sen min, etc etc. keke. too many to remember.

and these are the ONLY photos i have from the SOT graduation: the pressie i wrapped for ad, and the sticker album card i made for ad. (all thanks to Jo-ann's BATTERY-LESS camera! zzz.)

*UPDATED (thanx 2 yamyam!)*... our CG's pride and joy!!!

"We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled." ~Bill Watterson~

swim swim swim

let there be light.

how often do you get to fix the lights in your home?

gOOdbye my fren...

yet another farewell party...

cat and i went the extra mile to lug the THREE bottles of heavy things back to the office from ntuc. made me wish that no one actually spotted me dragging plastic bags out from a supermarket during lunch time, something which i've always tot only aunties will do. hah.

anyway, food's really tasty! $150 or so for 12 pax worth of food. there's rice (a must for the typical chinese), teriyaki chicken, breaded fish, salad, curry vegetables... might consider catering such stuffs in future (when i leave?) hah.

and as usual, i always conclude with the same question: when will it be my turn to leave?

count on me singapore!!!! (part 2)

as part of our "love singapore" outing, we headed for our outing in RED!

haha... we spent roughly 5 weeks determining which venue should we head for and 4 hours in the office debating whether to take a bus, cab or train before finally deciding on this!

had a quick bite at the la mian stall. it was cheap and good! for me, it's free. ai si surely! =P

wont mind having another outing... someone organise pleeeeaaasssseeee!

*the polaroids! (my hair looks fake... zz.)*

count on me singapore!!!!

60 signs that you're a singaporean
(www.talkingcock.com)

1. Thanks to SMS, you have an extra large thumb.
2. Tks 2 SMS, u oso dun no how 2 spel n e mor.
3. You pat MRT and bus seats to cool them before you sit down.
4. At lunch, you start discussing what to eat for dinner.
5. Your wedding photos include shots of you dressed up like Louis XIV, Michael Jackson, or Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic.
6. When speaking to foreigners, you somehow feel a need to adopt an accent. (If you’re a DJ, this happens even when you’re not speaking to foreigners.)
7. You won’t raise your voice to protest policies, but you’ll raise your fists to whack someone over Hello Kitty.
8. You’re forever talking about businesses you want to set up but will probably never get around to starting.
9. You don’t know ¾ of the people attending your wedding.
10. You separate food into 2 basic groups: ‘heaty’ and ‘cooling’.
11. You’re never completely sure how many times you’ve sung the second verse of the National Anthem.
12. You think that what makes you ‘married’ is not the legal registration but whether you’ve thrown a 12 course dinner.
13. You marry for the real estate breaks.
14. You have kids for the tax advantages.
15. You move to where you want your child to go to school.
16. You feel you can’t walk around naked in your own flat.
17. You force your children to take Speech & Drama classes, but pray they won’t wind up in Arts later on.
18. You suddenly realize you’re very interested in biotech - just like you suddenly realized three years ago that you were very interested in e-commerce, and before that, engineering, and before that, medicine and law.
19. You think being an entrepreneur is setting up a bubble tea/Portuguese egg tart/gao luck/porridge shop right next to an existing bubble tea/Portuguese egg tart/gao luck/porridge shop.
20. You think people are inconsiderate when they don’t leave their table immediately after eating at the food court but think you have every right to take 25 bites to finish the last red bean in your ice kachang.
21. You find it impossible to make suggestions without drawing a fishbone chart first.
22. If you’re a guy, whenever you get together with your guy friends, you invariably trade army stories.
23. If you’re a girl, whenever you get together with your girl friends, you invariably trade stories about how your stupid guy friends are forever trading army stories.
24. You think the most important sporting event in Singapore this year was David Beckham switching from Manchester United to Real Madrid.
25. You somehow feel that food tastes better when eaten by a longkang.
26. It actually makes a difference to you being called an ‘NSMan’ rather than a ‘Reservist’.
27. You’ve eaten more times at the Esplanade than you’ve actually seen shows there.
28. You need campaigns to tell you how to be courteous, to flush toilets, have sex, etc.
29. When you visit the Zoo, you wonder what the animals taste like.
30. You feel the urge to add the suffix ‘-polis’ to everything, viz. Biopolis, Airtropolis, Fusionopolis, Entrepolis, etc.
31. You always feel oddly hungry at 11 pm, and are willing to drive to far away places for supper.
32. You meet in hotels a lot.
33. Your children have a rudimentary knowledge of Tagalog or Bahasa Indonesia.
34. You work at McDonald’s when you’re old rather than young.
35. You’ll gladly spend $50,000 on a car, but will go to great lengths to save a few bucks on ERP charges or even a few cents on a parking coupon.
36. Pork floss and mayonnaise on bread is a completely natural combination to you.
37. If you’re pregnant, you have the strange ability to make people on the MRT fall asleep instantly.
38. You ask for the bill by miming a signing movement.
39. You’ve started referring to foreign employees as ‘talent’ instead of ‘expatriates’.
40. At the dinner table, you’re always discussing which other food places serve better versions of what you’re eating.
41. You copy down licence plate numbers of cars involved in accidents.
42. You think your boyfriend doesn’t really love you unless he gives you part of his liver.
43. During sales, you book hotel rooms near malls to enable you to shop more efficiently.
44. You pronounce the letter ‘R’ as ‘ah-rer’ and the letter ‘H’ as ‘haytch’.
45. No matter how old you are, you keep associating people with their secondary schools. (alternative: No matter how old you are, you secretly need to know what other people got for their PSLE, O levels and A levels.)
46. You’re always on a quest for the definitive version of your favourite local dish.
47. When you explain things to people, you keep (a) using alphabets, and (b) speaking in point form.
48. You believe that you can generate ‘creativity’ through rules and committees.
49. You ‘chope’ a seat by placing a packet of tissues on the chair.
50. You’re very forthright with your criticisms of the Gahmen, unless there’s a chance they might actually hear you.
51. You diligently track the whereabouts of your favourite hawkers, i.e..you know that the famous Tiong Bahru Bao is now in Jurong, the famous Outram Char Kuay Teow is now in Hong Lim Centre and the famous Lau Hock Kien Hokkien mee from the old Lau Pa Sat is now at Beach Road.
52. Your mother probably can’t speak your ‘mother tongue’.
53. You’d rather drink your own pee than pay someone more for water.
54. You secretly find that the best part of the Speak Good English Movement is hearing the Singlish bits in their ads.
55. You have an automatic sensor in your head which categorizes people you meet into stayer/ quitter, cosmopolitan/heartlander, normal/ express/ gifted, etc.
56. You think we’re living in a modern, sophisticated country even when our leaders still insist on wearing their school uniforms.
57. You wish your constituency is in a walkover, because otherwise it’s damn ‘leceh’.
58. During elections, you decide that there is no credible opposition even though you don’t know the name of the opposition candidate in your constituency.
59. You think having a constitution is like the condition you get when you don’t eat enough fibre.
60. You can never quite remember what “the core values” of Singaporeans are.

败犬女王

败犬： 简单说，就是30岁以上，高收入、高学历、事业成功，但无感情归宿的女性。这种说法源自日本女作家酒井顺子的散文集《败犬的远吠》，探讨未婚女性及其生活，认定年过三十的未婚女性，无论事业上多有成就、在职场叱咤风云，只要未婚就是人生战场上的一只败犬。这本书引发日本社会热烈讨论，“败犬”一词广获关注。　

女王： 对于女王的定义就很丰富了，包括认为女人婚后仍要继续工作；一个人吃饭、逛街、看电影也没关系；厌恶大男人主义；不会对男生撒娇、什么都自己来。只要你年龄在25至40岁间、未婚，符合以上选项，女强人也可以是败犬女王。　

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so weird, how come the term 败犬 den? defeated dog???

perseid meteor shower

The night sky will sparkle with "falling stars" on Tuesday and Wednesday as Earth passes through a trail of dusty debris from the Swift-Tuttle Comet.

i wonder if i can see it? ok, i'm in one of my romanticism moods again. lalala~!

fringe: the new series

Fringe: an American science fiction television series which follows an FBI Fringe Division team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security. The team uses unorthodox "fringe" science and FBI investigative techniques to investigate "the Pattern", a series of unexplained, often ghastly occurrences which are occurring all over the world. The show has been described as a cross between The X-Files, Altered States, The Twilight Zone, and Dark Angel.

verdict:
compared to the "Desperate Housewives" series, this is more exciting, less harder to comprehend, albeit the decrease in level of bitchiness and catfights. a must watch!

i've...

1. put up a 5.0m by 4.0m huge curtain. 4.0m being the height.
2. sung the Pledge at 8.22pm in the car, thanks to 933FM for the song. =)
3. cooked maggi mee using the dry stove for the first time.
4. swam in a swimming pool with water that's not certified ok yet. zzz.

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yea, this week's gonna be better.

i am tired of organising meet ups, dinners, and the like. and getting "can't make it", "too busy", "spending time with bf/gf/family/the tuition kid/the dog/etc" as 'reasons'. SO i've decided to let the rest do the planning. and viola~, i'll juz show up! (well even so, i'll prolly show up if there's ample notice of such meetings, NOT last minute stuffs)

i am tired of going around, finding out about the lives of people whom are supposedly under my charge. well, if they have something to say, come to me, not me snooping around trying to find out whether you are satisfied with my level of care and concern.

enuff said. IT'S A BRAND NEW WEEK! tis week's gonna be better.

it's a tough week

dun u ever wonder how come day in day out, u are at the mercy of delusively deranged bosses?

dun u ever wonder how come people around you scream out for attention all the time? so much so it's almost close to demanding for it.

have anyone spared a thought for me? *sigh*

thou shalt not worry

S.T.O.P!

Specify your worries
Take action on your worries
Offer up a prayer to God
Place your trust in God

on AWEsome co-workers

Have you ever had people whom you work with who never fail to leave you in awe?

You know, the kind who will never fail to dig every slightest opportunity to ‘delegate’ their work to you. And of cos, they are also the very persons who will ceremonially say “YES” and “OK” to any comments/suggestions given by the Almighty boss, sometimes faster than you can mutter ‘wow’ under your breath.

Well, I do come across a couple or more of such people. It’s indeed a constant struggle trying to convince myself to think that they exist in my life to strengthen my virtues. And to decide whether to stoop to their (low) level to act like them. Perhaps not.

And it definitely does not help a single bit to know that there is a nonetheless patronizing (less than almighty) boss who will condone such behavior as if it is perfectly normal. His/her moods change like the seasons, and I don’t mean the four seasons; more like the menstrual cycle season, once a month, sometimes weekly if the cycle is unpredictable.

Welcome to the real world my friend. The real world where people awe you all the time. Live it. Love it.