Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Monday, December 24, 2007
Who's Lives Are You Going To Change Today?
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
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...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Afternoon delight!
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...
Flaky CoCo
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!!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Save the cheerleader – Save the world!
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...
Monday, December 10, 2007
Wet Wet Sunday
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... :)
Happy Birthday Chernyce!
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...
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
Friday, December 7, 2007
Random Photos
Ghost town....
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?
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...
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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 |
Broke...
Monday, December 3, 2007
Silly Sunday
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.
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Now you see him...
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
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.
Mom works her magic on the babies...
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...!