Countdown to 2008

GUESS WHICH COUNTDOWN PARTY AM I GOING THIS YEAR???

Who's Lives Are You Going To Change Today?

Let us stop for awhile and remember the true meaning of Christmas shall we... ?


Yes, its a day to celebrate the birth of babay Jesus.
Yes, its the time of the year to show how much you love your friends and family members
Yes, its a great way to boost the country's economy as well as company shares with all the insane spending... Cheers... I thank you if you bought any Apple products... :)


But hey... what better way to celebrate this festive season than to spread joy to those who actually need it? If we can spend a hundred dollars on material gifts, I'm sure it won't hurt to give $50 to children who need pocket money to school... or old grannies who could use a nice meal...right??


Notice that I use the word "WE" - Yes, I've found some charity organisations that we can donate right now at the comfort of your desk. And I am going to put my money where my mouth is and donate to one of the charities listed below... I hope you can join me too!
Merry Christmas!!


Who's Lives Are You Going To Change Today?

The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund
M.I.L.K.
Community Chest
Red Cross Society
The Boys Brigade Singapore
Salvation Army Singapore
Club Rainbow

My Christmas Wish

Do you remember me? I sat upon your knee?

I wrote to you, with childhood fantasies...

Well, I'm all grown up now, can you still help somehow?

I'm not a child, but my heart still can dream...

So here's my lifelong wish, my grown up christmas list...

Not for myself, but for a world in need...

No more lives torn apart,

That wars would never start,

And time would heal all hearts...

Every man would have a friend,

And right would always win,

And love would never end...

This is my grown up christmas list...

As children we believed, the grandest sight to see,

Was something lovely, wrapped beneath our tree...

Well heaven only knows, that packages and bows,

can never heal a hurting human soul...

No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,
And time would heal all hearts...

Every man would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end...

This is my grown up christmas list...

What is this illusion called the innocence of youth...?

Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth...

No more lives torn apart,

That wars would never start,

And time would heal all hearts...

Every man would have a friend,

And right would always win,

And love would never end...

This is my grown up christmas wish, this is my only lifelong wish!

This is my grown up christmas list...

Afternoon delight!

Winsome suddenly appeared at my cubicle yesterday afternoon and exclaimed "come quick!" I was abit stunned and suffering from A.S.S. (afternoon sleepy syndrome) so I was little slow when I asked what for. She didn't give me any other answer except for "You won't regret it! Come! Lock your PC and lets go!"

I just saved my work and went downstairs with her... Where are we going???

We saw Mao waiting for us at the lobby couch with a box in front of her. I'd recognise a Donut box anywhere! Apparently Santa UJ dropped by with a box of yummy donuts!

We quickly dove into the box and as usual... I got the chocolate donut!!!

One giant bite into the soft and yummy choco donut!!! Eh.. how come donut don't have hole?

Some took the salty cheese...

Marl took the sweet cheese...

What a grest treat for a lazy afternoon! Thanks UJ!

Flaky CoCo

OH NO.....! Just when I thought how lucky I was that I didn't get sun burned from Sunday's outing.... I got a rude shock this morning when I was about to slap on some make up.

I'm Flaky!!! Ok... at first I thought that a little moisturiser would do the trick. But when I lightly applied the powder onto my skin... MORE SKIN STARTED PEELING OFF!!! In the end it looked like this....

Sigh... Bo Bian... started peeling off the excess skin with my fingers and this is the best that I can do....

Chio.....hahahaha.....

Must remember to put sun-block lotion in future... even when there isn't much sun!!

Save the cheerleader – Save the world!

For all you fans out there, you know what the title means….

HEROES RULE!

Have you seen the show? Sorry to say that Singapore is only airing the first season, so I have to be very careful not to read anything while surfing the net for photos of the casts. But I wasn't careful enough. I thought that the show has a great range of characters with superpowers in it, but apparently it was only the tip of the iceberg. There are so many more Heroes characters coming up! SO EXCITING… It’s like X-Men, but much more realistic, not as cheesey, and oh so cool.

I’m not gonna list down every character, too many, too loh-soh… You wanna know more, Wikipedia’s info is overwhelming. But beware of spoilers – especially if you are still catching the weekly TV series of season one.

Cobby suggest that we go buy the whole DVD set. But… then there would be no more suspense! In fact, I fear I might never leave the house until I finish the whole set. So… better not.

I tried to choose ONE favourite character, but I can’t! So the below would be some of my favourite ones for now…

Claire Bennet

The pretty cheerleader with the power of cellular regeneration. Break her, cut her, burn her, even stab a branch into her skull! Don't worry, she’ll be just fine.

Peter Petrelli

Power mimicry that results in multiple acquired abilities. He just need to be near another superhuman and to possess their powers. So that makes him very powerful indeed.

Hiro Nakamura

The super cute and cheerful nerd who can bend space and time, allowing teleportation, time manipulation, and time travel. Super cool. So far my favourite would be Hiro. The happy go lucky Japanese nerd is so far the most receptive to his powers and is determined to do good with it. To me, that is the most important factor to being a Hero.

Same question, if you have the power to control space and time, what would you do? Would you rob the bank? Or save the world? Honestly, I wouldn’t know how to answer that myself...

Wet Wet Sunday

A roller coaster has less ups and downs then my mood last Sunday morning. Every other minute the weather changes. Rain... Sun... Rain... Sun...





I'm going to the Wet Wet Wild at PasirRis with my sis and some friends. Who knows when will we be having outings like this again? So I was really looking forward to a day of fun in the sun with sis.





We ate at BK before changing in our bathing suits. The rest were abit hesitant into going in, but heck I told them we should just go in! Who knows when the weather's gonna clear up? We're getting wet anyway, so let's just do it. So we had a really great time.





The sky's abit grey and it rained abit, but it feels so good to be drifting on a float while the rain gently falls on your face. Like a light shower. Besides, it only lasted awhile before the sun suddenly decided to show itself and shine like nobody's business. Overall, it was a great day.





My brain kept reminding me that sis is leaving while we were having fun. It's kindda sad, but the outing also gave me some closure in a way. I felt more comfortable with the fact that she's leaving, and that it is a great career opportunity for her.





Of course I will miss her like mad. I'm already missing her now, and I know she will miss us too. Like most asian families, we may not express our feelings openly very much, but I'm sure on the inside, we are both torned and happy for her. And that we love each other very much.





Don't think my wallet's gonna love me much though... Will be visiting Hong Kong very often... :)

Sisters For Life...

Happy Birthday Chernyce!

Went for Gillin's baby girl's 1st birthday party last Saturday. Gillin was a good friend and ex-colleague from Seiyu so a few other people from Seiyu was there too that day. It's been a few months since I've seem them, so apart from the thousands of screaming children at the party, I had a great afternoon at the party.


As usual, I was super blur and thought that the party would start at 4pm. So while I was out with Cobby buying the birthday present, Gillin called me at 1.30pm and asked me if I'm coming to the party. Apparently its from 1pm - 4pm. Oops... so we immediately went down - didn't even have time to wrap the present. Sigh... old already, memory failing me. Haha...


Anyway, the party was great, food was delicious, company was fun and to top it all up, they had the most spectacular cake I've ever seen!!!!







Pretty right!!!! As I've mentioned, there were like a thousand kids there, so naturally there were about 500 parents, and all of us fighting to take picture of the cake. All the while there was this aunty (I think) talking in hokkien at the TOP OF HER VOICE! deaf liao....


The girls love "Dora", so explains the Dora cake and the house filled with Dora balloons... The cake has got everything... figurines, castle, swans in a pond, grass, rainbow, gum candies at the side of the cake, chocolate candy on top, etc. etc. So exciting...

The adorable birthday girl!

With Trenyce, her sister...

Family Photo!

The cake was yummy! The top layer was vanilla, the bottom was chocolate and the middle was a nice layer of blueberry spread. Delicious! I even got a few pieces of the gum candy at the side. Hee hee... lucky!

Princess....

Video-ed the Happy birthday song. Just when we thought the song was over, the little girl (cousin) started singing the chinese version of the birthday song at the top of her voice. Very cute.

So ends my saturday... Oh, by the way, the cake is from Smiling Orchid. Just in case your're wondering... :)

1st Night Driving

Went for my very first night driving lessons last Friday... Was a little nervous prior to the lesson due to all the horror stories that I've heard about how difficult night driving is. So the serene night view of the driving circuit seemed pretty terrifying to me as I waited for class to start.

Great, just my luck. There must be about close to a hundered instructors at the school, and yet I'm "lucky" enough to get the same instructor I had a few weeks back.

No offence, but I just don't like this instructor as he likes to "sell" his private teaching services. Students can actually choose to stick to the same instructor every lessons at a small fee, but I don't find a need, so it's a little awkward to indirectly reject him again. Besides, even if I want to have a fixed instructor, it won't be him. Hahahaha... so mean right...

Anyway, other then that, the lesson was great! It's not as dark as other people said it would be. Streets of Singapore are pretty well lit.. :)

When the lesson was about to end, we were driving back to the school when a grey Honda overtook me and stopped in front of my car at the traffic junction. Then I realised that it's Cobby coming to fetch me! How cool is that!? Both of us on the road, driving! I told my instructor that it's my hubby in front and then I flashed Cobby with the headlights. Hahaha.... he later told me that he was wondering why was a L plate car was flashing him. Confused my poor Cobby until I told him that it was me! Hehehe...

So ends my 1st night lesson. It's ok, but seriously, I was so sleepy during the lesson! I kept yawning... (discreetly so that the instructor won't see) But I guess I do need to learn some night lesons, so I'll just plan one once in awhile. Enough. Tired sia....

Random Photos

Rainbow! So lucky right...

I like the clouds... kind of reminds me of fluffy cotton candy...

Cobby enjoying a freshly baked egg tart on a weekend

Our plants in the early morning sun...

Don't you think that it looks like the tree is wearing a skirt??

This is so cute! I didn't even know that aquatic plants have flowers! Suddenly one day it pop out a pretty purple flower!

Drew this before Winsome went on her honeymoon...

Ghost town....

Whoo Hoo~! Finally it's Friday! Wanted to take MC and stay home but unfortunately, I wasn't sick! Sigh, too bad for me....

PA dateline was over so there was a sudden hush in the whole company... Guess they have fought their way through and now the rest is up to the bosses to appraise them...

Super no mood to work today! Added bonus ~ both bosses are on leave!! Hahaha! 没政府！(NO GOVERNMENT!) Hmm if UJ were still here we would have gone out to clementi or railmall for a long lunch.. :P

Was surfing the net abit until I realise something. Its already 8.30am and it's still super quiet... So I left my seat to take a peek around...

Hello..?

Most of the managers on leave... is that a cricket I hear?

So quiet....not even a ghost around...

AHHHHHHHHHH GHOST...!!!!

Hahaha... that just a Somesome... arriving at office 1 minute before office hour. It's a miracle I say, our late princess arriving so early... everybody go buy 4D ok? 0712 sure win...

Beautiful day...

Gazing outside the pantry window as usual ~ Sigh everybody on leave, why am I still here? So boring...

Later Somesome going for farewell lunch with Doreamon so I'm gonna go meet up some good friends for lunch. Me, Myself and I. Long time never meet up with them already. Looking forward to lunchtime and the end of the week!

Good... I'm Female - Mostly

Took a little test just now and this is the result.

Your Brain is 60% Female, 40% Male

Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female You are both sensitive and savvy Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve

What Gender Is Your Brain?

Broke...

Money spent on driving lessons - as at 4 December 2007:

$1,136.66

I don't think I can change job until I get my licence... -_-"

Silly Sunday

I woke up at 7am because I had a driving lesson at 8am. The first thing that pop into my head was the inevitable truth. I'm losing my sister. Tears flooded my vision again. Poor Cobby was so worried about me. He kept asking me what's wrong since last night but I can't talk about it. Or else I'm going to have a breakdown. So I wipe away my tears and washed up.


Driving lesson was not too good. I wore a new pair of sandals and it turned out to be too thick and stiff so I couldn't get use to controlling the accelerator with it. I requested to take off my shoes and regretted it more as I've never drove barefoot before! Worse, the instructor that day was very strict and by-the-book. So he tries to train me to do a complete safety check almost everytime we make a turn.


Check rear-view mirror, check side mirror and check blind spot.
Stop at stop line.
Not so fast at the humps.
Don't signal so early.
blah blah blah.....


I know he's intent was good as he explained that during the test this would be how the tester check. But he got me all stressed up! It didn't help that I havn't had a single drop of coffee yet and I'm starving without having breakfast. Plus the not so smooth driving due to my foot wear, not a very impressive day.


We went to some coffee shop near Balastier for breakfast after the lesson as we wanted to buy some paint. I don't think I've been there before. It's so nice and peaceful there in the morning! So we bought our paint and went back home. We didn't want to have a heavy lunch so we picked up some ingredients and made Hawaiian Pizza for lunch! It's fast, (10mins and it's ready) super easy to make and it's sooooo delicious! Definitely will do it again.


We painted the two walls in the dining area and it turned out abit darker then the way I envisioned it. I was abit worried initially, but I grew to like it more and more as I looked at it. If feels very nice and comfortable. Then later in the evening, I realise something.


The walls are the exact same colour as my towels! I demostrated to Cobby my ninja camouflague skills by hiding behind the towel and Cobby was so impressed that he wanted to try too.

Check it out...

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Now you see him...

Hey! Where did Cobby go?

Kindda reminds me of the silly vending machine skirt...

I felt so much better after some laughs with Cobby. I still feel sad whenever I think about sis, but I'm glad that Cobby would always be there by my side and make me laugh when I'm feeling down. Thanks Cobby~!

Unexpected Saturday

It started out to be a relaxing day. Sleeping late, prata for breakfast and maybe a little shopping at Orchard in the afternoon. Then my sis called in the late afternoon and ask us if we want to have steamboat dinner at my sis's brother in-law's home.


I thought that it's the usual dinner and mahjong session, so I suggest that we eat dinner, hang out for ONE game and go jalan jalan at Orchard as planned. I was surprised that my parents were going too but then again, I just thought that sis want to have a family dinner, that's all.

Look at all the food...!

Sis preparing even more food...

Mom works her magic on the babies...

What a great spread and we were all tucking into the steaming hot food when sis suddenly stood up and said that she had something to announce. My first thought was that she was going to have a baby.


Boy was I wrong...


She said that she has been promoted and that she would be posted to Hong Kong.


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Other than the children making noises and the bubbling of the steamboat, there was a moment of silence as we absorbed in the news. She blabbled on about how she should be going over in January and she's given an apartment and how this is a great opportunity for her. She also tried to sugar-coat the news abit on how she can work a FEW YEARS there, resign and come back with a great boost to her resume. Dad was supportive as ever, he agrees that it is a great opportunity and she made a right choice to go. Everybody else just went back to their dinner, chatting as if nothing has happened. Me, I was just stunned.


Err... am I the only one that is hearing this?? She's moving to another country!


I honestly didn't know how to respond to the news. I suddenly lost all appetite, along with my ability to laugh at the jokes dad was cracking. She's leaving! My mind was blank except for that voice that kept repeating the words in my brain. She's leaving! I stopped talking, cause I don't know what to say or feel.


I felt so angry that she could decide to just leave her family and life here and go to another country. Yet, I feel happy for her because career wise, this is good news. But most of all, I felt an atmost sense of grief. The last time I felt this way, Connie was leaving me. I left the dinner table early and sat in the living area. After dinner Sis tried to engage in a conversation with me, asking me if I've watched Bee movie, offering me a candy, as if she didn't just announced that she's moving to another country. I just mumbled some reply but I cannot speak or even look at her due to all the emotions that was bubbling inside of me. After a short while I suggested to Cobby that we go off early and offered to drive my parents home. I didn't say goodbye to the people. I just can't stand it.


As we were driving my parents home, in the darkness of the car, tears started falling down as the voice in my head spoke.


I'm losing my sister...


No more bored phone calls in the afternoon, no more ktv sessions with her, no more shopping outings with her, no more staying over at her place, sleeping in the same bed, no more breakfast outings on weekends. No more! She would be miles away and seeing her would require a plane ticket and who knows when will we see her? Every few months? Few times a year? Once a year? This is not a temporary posting ok. She will be there until she decided to quit her job and come back. Who knows when would that be? Will she have become a stranger by then? How many milestones in my life would she have missed?


My brother and I had drifted apart so I was very close to my sister. Now that she's decided to leave, I feel as if I'm losing the only sibling I have. I'm going to miss her so much!


Only one month left before she departs. There's nothing that I can do to stop her from leaving.


Help! I'm losing my sister...!