Retail Therapy

After a whole 9 days of training (for work), I decided to pamper myself with some retail therapy. Met up with Piggy at Tampines in the afternoon. We thought it will be a good idea to check out the malls there, which apparently went through quite a lot of revamp over the years.

The once all-time-favourite hangout place during JC days... We started reminiscing the old days...

"Hah? You mean the BK is gone? Now change to Old xxxxx Kee???!!!!"

"Ah? What happened to Kenny Rxxxxx?"

"2 foodcourts in 1 mall? Siao ah?"

"OMG! Where is the printing shop where we had our class T-shirts printed? How come become LJS?"

Darn. I feel so OLD already.

Parted with Piggy around 6pm and guess what? The shopping bug got me and I decided to head down to Parkway for more therapy!

Wow... I am so glad I went because... GOT PASAR MALAM THERE! Muahaha. Haven't been to a pasar malam for a long time already sia. My favourite Taiwanese sausages, chicken wings and Ramly Burgers, here I come! Ehem, at this moment, how hard I had worked out at the gym last night did not matter anymore. Now, it is stomach over mind... hah.

Oh oh oh, and there was a pyjamas stall selling cheap yet not cheap looking pyjamas! Oh man... this pasar malam should have come before my pyjamas party mah!

More shopping as I ventured further to explore the shopping centre. WOW... sale here, sale there, sale everywhere!!! Things are not looking too good for my wallet indeed. Heh heh.

My conquests of the day:
A demin skirt,
A part of shoes,
A small birthday gift,
A top for work,
A pair of pants,
A set of pyjamas,
6 pairs of ankle socks and
1 working cum gym bag (which was bought with the help of Piggy at Robinsons some days ago).

Total damage to wallet: S$180. (I am so glad my Mum doesn't read my blog.)

It's another sleepless night.

I feel sad. I know why I feel sad. I hoped I could cry my heart out so I'll feel better, but my tear ducts doesn't seem to budge. This is making me very miserable indeed.

Farm Visit

I've been indulging myself so much in Mind Cafe that for once, me and my 姐妹s agreed it was time to try something new over the weekend. Well, splurging our youth and money at Mind Cafe every week wasn't that helpful in improving, or rather, REMOVING our singelton statuses at all. Heh.

So, Piggy came up with a real cool suggestion... A farm visit! Wow... time to get our green fingers working! Maybe we could grow strawberries, papayas, cabbages or some Cai Xin!

Here we go!

The more than an hour long journey all the way from the east of the island to the west did not dampen our spirits at all. I should feel kinda ashamed as I blog about this, but without this farm visit, I would never have known how the Lot 1 Shopping Centre at Choa Chu Kang looked like. Hahaha.

We took the shuttle bus from Choa Chu Kang interchange direct to our destination-- Farmart. Oh, for those of you who are interested to visit, take note that the shuttle bus is not FREE oh... Single trip fare is S$0.50 per person. The three of us almost embarassed ourselves by trying to get a 霸王 ride.

So... how did the expediation turn out in the end? Let the pictures speak for themselves...

Ehem, the empty spaces in the mini-bus depicts how "ulu" Farmart is. (In fact, we are the only people on the bus, other than the driver, of course.)


Nice shuttle bus... could be better utilised actually.


Corny Signage


They have prawn fishing ponds here...


What got PP so "terrified"?


Zoomed in to show how "terrified" she was...



HE!!! (Or she? Seriously, I have no idea...)


More Goats! More Smell! Less PP...


Very Eager Ra-ra(s).


A very self- absorbed Ra-ra.


My mum might find this view nostalgic.


There is a rather nice place to chill out where they serve food and wines (mainly from Australia). The restaurant dons on great lighting after the sun sets. It could have been rather romantic, but well, I went with Piggy and PP... not to forget the occassional smell from our dear friends the wind carried from the barn just 100 metres away.

Conclusion: Nice place to get in touch with a little man made nature. You might be able to retrieve some lost childhood jostling for the animals attention with toddlers and pre-schoolers.

I'm supposed to be working, but I just can't seem to get my "engine" started on work. My mood's especially dampened when I saw the emails I got from the significant people in my organisation, and that includes my big boss. As usual, she can't wait to jump onto the bandwagon to question me. Well, I figured that she merely wants to show the entire world that she has totally nothing to do with all the screw-ups.

Sigh. I really wish I could just drop everything and go. No more life-threatening emails, no more late hours in the office, no more disgusting "neighbour" at work.

Double Mishaps

It was a usual day at work. I hopped on to a cab at around 10.15pm from my office and was complaining on the phone to Steph about a lousy decision the Emperor has just made. Talking about that lousy decision, I'm still sore about it, but not gonna digress because I wanna be really focused here.

Going back, I was yakking and yakking to Steph until I sensed something wrong... my cab was running fast on the expressway until I heard some strange noises and it started slowing down. I turned to look at my cabby and saw that he had turned white. He stammered and asked, "Miss, can.. can... can.. you see... see see... that.. that.. that.. woman in white in the middle of the road?"

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hahaha. Okies, sorray. I'm joking. Can't help but try to be funny... kekeke.


Anyway, that was not what happened lah. Muahaha.

Alright, my cab was running fast on the expressway until I heard some strange noises. And my cab started slowing down (all these still stand) but what happened next was not a ghostly encounter. Rather, my cab broke down. Well well well, all of you might go "Chey!" right? Cuse me, may I do a poll, how many would see having your cab break down in the middle of the expressway in the middle of the night as a usual encounter (of course unless compared to a ghostly one lah)? Damn. I swear I sweared.

Thankfully, my cabby was nice enough to hail another on-coming cab on the expressway, and this other cabby was also nice enough to pull over. Cabby 1 told me that he could handle it, so I happily (may I reinforce- HAPPILY) hopped on to Cab 2. To further reinforce, I HAPPILY told Steph over the phone that I saved $6! Because I did not pay Cab 1. Woohoo~ There I was, happily in Cab 2, happily home, happily contented with saving $6 and as I HAPPILY start to prepare to pay Cab 2 (I was reaching my place)....


WHERE THE HELL IS MY LAPTOP?


Oh my God. Till today, as I look back and blog about this, I can't believe my stupidity and carelessness man. I left my laptop in Cab 1 (and if you remember, this was the cab which I had happily saved my SIX dollars on)

Shucks. The next logical thing to do was to go back and look for Cab 1, in Cab 2. I thought Cab 1 should be still stuck on the expressway waiting for the tow truck, so, it would just be a back and forth kinda thing. Yep, my worst nightmare came true when I failed to find Cab 1 along the expressway where it had broken down earlier. "Damn, don't tell me tow truck so fast come hor..." I thought.

NOW, this spate of events is really driving me crazy. First my cab broke down, then I luckily hopped on to another cab without my company laptop, and now Cab 1 is gone, together with my laptop! All within 20- 30 minutes! Bloody hell.

Luckily, Cab driver 2 could remember which company Cab 1 was from, and I immediately called and narrated this rather absurd happening to the customer service officer. She probably had heard more absurd stories, I must say, she doesn't sound surprised at all.

The night finally ended when I managed to find Cab 1 (turned out he had forcefully drove his cab to a more deserted area where there was less traffic, or so he claimed) and retrieved my laptop via Cab 3.

And, I paid Cab 1 the $6, which was the meter fare until it broke down.

Sigh.

Fare from Wonderland until Cab 1 broke down: $6,
Fare from TPE till home (including round trip to look for Cab 1 at TPE) on Cab 2: $12.60.
Fare from home to deserted road to pick up laptop from Cab 1: $11.20.
Lesson learnt: PRICELESS.

UPDATES: END MAY TO NOW

Looks like I have a lot of updating to do...

So many things have happened over the past few months. Looking back, I realised how much I have to update on.

Well, be prepared for a rather long entry... Not in chronological order though.

(1) Promotion at work- Beg Aug
Got my first promotion of my lifetime in Aug. Emmm... the excitement's worn off already, but still, I'm glad my hard work and committment is recognised.

(2) Fell in and Out of Love- Jan to Aug
Well, not exactly in love I would say, but I had a crush on someone and would say that everything between us went rather well at the beginning but the same old unfortunate ending happened as it always did. It was probably just wishful thinking of my part. Even though it didn't end the way I wished it would, wonderful memories worth treasuring still remained. Damn, I am one optimistic girl.

(3) Hongkong Trip- End May

I spent like 2 hours trying to load all my pictures and getting them to be the right size and guess what? I am losing my patience with PhotoBucket! So slow leh! I give up. Will update more on this trip over the weekend.

(4) Farewell to "n" Colleagues- Jun to Aug
4 colleagues from my department had left after I came back from Hongkong. Sigh. There was a merger between my department and another. Well, as expected, this change brought about more farewell lunches. 4 more colleagues went. And another one to go. Damn. These farewell lunches are becoming a weekly event. Nevertheless, I am happy for all those who left for greener pasture. All the best to all of them!

(5) My 25th Birthday- July
I would have so much to blog about on this day. But since I didn't and it's long over and I've lost all the true emotions I've felt on that day... I'll have to wait for next year then. Shucks. This will teach me a lesson for not updating my blog real time. Argh!

Thanks to all friends and family for all the well wishes! Muacks!

Ex-Boss- Hei Hei, I forgot to wish u Happy Birthday last week. Happy Belated Birthday!
Davis- Oops, sorry I had the football fever and forgot ur Birthday. Happy Belated Birthday to you!
Shannen- Happy birthday Zol Zol, let me be the last to wish you and may God bless you with every good thing in the coming year!
Woodi- Erh, today your birthday right? Happy Bday ah.
Soo- .... not forgetting to wish u a very Happy Birthday!
Jess- Happy Birthday! Stay young and cheerful always!
Ivy- Happie Birthday 2 u! All the best in the coming year! Cheers~
Xiaoqi- Happy Birthday to you! 25 lor, be happy and wish you find your tall dark and handsome soon.
Sharon- Happy Birthday Mei! May happiness and good health be with u always.
Yazid- Happy Birthday Cio Bu! May u grow wiser and get a golden tortorise soon.
Boss- Congratulations!!!
nO- Happy Birthday to dearest Zol Zol...! May ur long list of wishes come true soonest. Stay happy, bubbly, healthy and positive k? Enjoy this special day... Hugz*
Youngest Aunt- Happy Birthday to you.
Ms Sng- Happy Birthday to you!!!
Pongpia- Happy burfdae! May your prince charming be galloping towards your way and knock on ur door real soon. Have a great day ahead. World peace.
Sokkee- Hey gal, Happy Birthday! As you delight in the Lord, He will grant you the desires of your heart... Enjoy ur day off...
Piggy- It's past midnight now, let me wish you Happy Birthday once again! May happiness follow u always.
Jinghui- Hi there, Happy Birthday! May all your wishes come true!
Lilin - Happy Birthday! Have a good time tomorrow!


Well, I hope I've not missed out anything. Will keep up with more real time updates.

Hot Yoga- Very Hot Sia!

Ever heard of hot yoga? I had a go at it on Monday at Bikram Yoga in Cityhall. Check out their website at http://www.bikramyoga.com/.

I only have a piece of advice for all first timers- VERY HOT SIA!

Wah lau... I must say, it was the most traumatic experience since I started working. Never have I felt so physically challenged. Hot Yoga, as its name suggests, meant doing Yoga in a hot room at 40 degrees celsius. Imagine doing all the "stunts" in a sauna room. Just 15 mins into the class, I felt dizzy and nauseous already. Imagine, the entire class was to last for 90 donkey minutes! *faintz*

Anyway, I did what I could, so as not to waste the walk in rate of $40. Every 5 mins, I would sit down and rested like 10 mins. I only felt that I was breathing and alive through the 10 mins breaks. As soon as I stood up, I started blacking out. Basically, I couldn't even stand properly, not to mention doing any "stunts". Well, I'm not a very flexible person to start off with.

It only adds on to my pain that my instructor spoke with a real strong Indian accent. "Frenchman, Frenchman. Look at the Frenchman. " he spoke. I thought, "Where got Angmoh in my class? Siao ah? Only 4 students mah, 1, 2, 3, 4... all Chinese leh... don't tell me he saw someone whom I didn't see hor..." It was when he frantically pointed to the mirror in front that I realised that,

FRENCHMAN= FRONT MIRROR!

Argh.. as if I pek chek enough. Tamade.

The entire 90 mins was like eternal hell. For the first time in my life, I thought I was going to die (Okie, apart from the ordeal 10 years ago where I was stuck with a 6 hour hill trek with no water). By the time the class ended, I was an entire wreck. Messy hair, dizzy head, overwhelming nauseousness and wobbly legs. What the hell.

Most pathetically, after everything, I failed to lose any weight, did not feel healthier, still couldn't sleep well at night and, now my entire body's aching!

No more hot yoga for me.

I've had the best hashbrowns for breakfast today. Woohoo~

I just don't understand why you have to talk to me in circles. If you have anything that you are so f***ing unhappy about, have the guts to tell me straight in the face. IF, the situation would remain status quo even after your tremendous efforts to rephrase words into hidden meanings then in circles, probably you wanna consider shutting up?

I'm sick of all your childish efforts to place your intented messages into strings of unintelligible words. If it has ever crossed your bloody minute and rusty brain that I am just another sweet little lamb who shudders and suffers in silence against your verbal insults, YOU ARE SO WRONG!

I sincerely hope you fall into a smelly drain.

I've been missing a bit on blogging because I was "busy" settling some emotional issues at work. Don't wanna talk about it much here. Will cause too much of controversy.

It's kinda hard and there were umpteen times when I just feel like giving up. But, everytime I turn to backing out and surrendering, my inner voice would go, "No! Don't fall into the traps of such callous people!" The more I think about it, the more advices I get from close friends, I just got more determined to fight back.

Arghhhhh.... I'm thinking about my golden turtle again.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Recommendation for the week...

AZABU SABO JAPANESE RESTAURANT AT MARINA SQUARE LEVEL 1
(located next to Billy Bombers' and MacDonalds)

I came this restaurant like 3 weeks ago, after a hearty dinner (FYI, all my dinners are hearty) with Piggy. We were exploring the newly opened area of the shopping centre when Piggy commented that there was this restaurant with a lousy name called "SABO". Sabo as in Sabo King, you know. Hahaha. Curiously, we checked it out and...

WOW! The first thing I saw was the ice -kachang like strawberry sundae in the display window... Woooo....

We both stood in front of the display and went like "Oh, I like this!", "This one looks good!", "What's this?", "Next time I come, I wanna order this, this, this and THIS!"

We vowed to try it out one day...

And ta-da! On the day of Munich, we happily prepared (this time, with an empty stomach) for Sabo.

I ordered a minced beef and vegetable rice with omelette soup while Piggy had the teriyaki chicken bento. Wow... the food looks as good as it looks! Piggy commented, though, that the bento was too shallow, so guys, or frens with bigger appetities, you might wanna consider alternatives.

The minced beef and vegetable rice was absolutely delicious, imagine 梅菜扣肉 on rice.... Omelette was em, not that fantastic though. I had expected it to have some kinda filling or watsoever, but nah, just plain omelette in soup.

For dessert, we shared a vanilla ice-cream on sweet potato with green tea. Heavenly... who would have expected that the combination of sweet potato with ice-cream would be so great? Cold, milky vanilla ice-cream on a semi-warm sweet potato croquette, topped with a bit of green tea syrup. An unforgettable experience.

Last but not least, I have to specially say, the lady boss (I speculated she was because she was the only one around not in uniform, serving customers) is a 气质美女! (Soo, take note. Dunno if she's taken though, so good luck!)

Since that visit, I've become addicted to that place. I went back a second time the following week, this time armed with my new baby- Canon IXUS 60! Woohoo~ You all are in luck! Here's what was ordered this time...

MAIN COURSES








DESSERTS







Before anyone starts entertaining wild thoughts, I didn't order all these for myself loh! Went with 2 other pple lah! *Cold stare*

Anyway, I heard from one of my colleagues that this restaurant came from Taiwan. No wonder! (for the fusion between Chinese and Japanese.)

You all gotta check it out! No eat also must go see the 气质美女老板娘...

A Friend's Visit

Being a friendly and helpful Aunty, my mummy volunteered as a nanny to her colleague's bunny while the whole family went for a holiday in Australia.

Being the daughter of the friendly and helpful Aunty, I was given the sacred task of ensuring that our guest was well taken care of, because our nice, friendly and helpful Aunty forgot that she has to go to work?

Initially, we wanted to put the 2 bunnies together, (a gentle reminder that I too own, not by any coincidence watsoever, a rabbit.) but, the over-friendliness of dear Rara shoke our little friend a bit.

Me and mummy decided to separate the 2 of them. After all, I don't want risk:

1. having Rara develop any kinda feelings during his short stay here and be left lovelorn when kaypoh Aunty's colleague collects him back later.
2. having our dear cute bunny friend became a victim of rape.

It's not such a good move to separate them, I soon realised. Feeding time became hectic time. Being a hospitable host, I decided to feed our guest first.

Alright, let me see...
Diet: Green vegetables.

Huh? Just green vegetables ah? God, he doesn't take carrots? No pellets? No bananas??? Hmm.. easy to feed sia. I watched him munch up the leaves with great pleasure.. So cute! Per my usual practice for feeding Rara, I wanted to pull out the stalk after he finished the leaves BUT, he went on to munch up all! Including the stalk! Alamak! What a good little boy! No food wastage at all. Totally not like Rara. Her machine gun mouth automatically stops the moment she detects end of leave and beginning of stalk. I'm beginning to like him...

In the midst of feeding our friend, the terror on the other side of the house started protesting. I hear her stampings of her foot, scratching of partitions, and aggressive lifting and dropping of her cage door. Damn. A hungry and jealous rabbit is not to be trifled with.

I quickly shoved one big stalk of vegetables into good little bunny friend's cage and went on to "serve" the little princess. As usual, feeding her was a time consuming and tiring event. You gotta keep your hands still, for she cannot tolerate hovering carrots and vegetables. You can't leave her to eat on her own, for she only eats with family around.

Well, you might think that it's no big deal feeding just 2 rabbits, but what happens if the nice and cute bunny friend's vegetables dropped out of his cage? Shit. I had to soothe and calm my Rara down, run 10-12 metres over to the other side to "recover" the fallen leaves and run all the way back to attend to princess. And just after settling down back with Rara, our bunny friend's vegetable's dropped again! Tamade. I did the thru and fro like "n" times. Boy was I panting and sweating from it all.

That's not all. Our cute little bunny friend took on the characteristics of a domestic rabbit really well. He scringes at the slightest bit of sound and would start hiding in the corner of his cage thereafter. I kept my decibel index at a whole year low point for the entire day. I swear, I almost made it to the Guniness World of Records.

Munich

Went to catch Munich yesterday. Not too bad, was better than what I had expected. No bumpy camera scenes and no excessive conversations and bloodshed. Good.

Munich (pronounced as "Miu Nick", not "Moo Nudge") is a place in Germany, not the name of somebody. Haha.

I find it rather intriguing though, that, they had Chinese subtitles whenever the actors and actresses spoke in English, and when they turned to Hebrew, there were no subtitles! No wonder I left the cinema with a sense of incompleteness. Duh.

Overall moral of the story- 冤冤相报何时了.

It's been a really long long time since I felt soooooo tired. I went all goggly at 6pm last evening, a result of not having slept a wink the night before. I used to be able to "thon" for 2 nights in a row... for chalets especially. Age must be really catching up.

It's kinda an irony that, the times where we spent never-ending hours slogging our guts out is before retirement, and studies have shown and proven that old people do not need much sleep. Too much work and deprived of sleep during younger days, no work and cannot sleep when we're grey.. What the hell??

I realised that nowadays, I blog with plenty of "I"s. "I" this, "I" that... This could only mean one thing... I'm turning into a self centred freak! Argh...

OR,

My life revolves about nothing else but myself. But, that's sounds logical. Of course MY life revolves about ME. If not, then WHO?

It's all a contradiction again. I'm confused again. I'm confusing my readers again.

This entry is so incoherent that I've decided to stop.

Somehow, I find myself turning to blogging during my "waiting-to-consolidate-other-pple's-report-and-nothing-to-do-meanwhile" times. Shucks. Looking at the number of times I blogged for the past month, GOODNESS! What a whole lot of time wasted. My youth, my youth, MY YOUTH!!! Gone with the lalang... tamade.

Well, the good news is, you people see more of my crap here.

Again, Again, Again!!!

I woke up in pain this morning...

by a familiar pulsing sensation...


MY TOE!!!

It glared back hard at me, red and swollen by the side.

Damn. In-growth toe nail again.

Tamade. Why always me???

I'm starting my exercise regime and is looking for friends to join a gym with me. Anyone interested?

Also intend to try Japanese language classes. Any recommendations of good and cheap schools? Anyone interested to join with me too?

Leave a message or call/ sms me at my mobile if you interested, k?

I was looking through my archives of songs just now and saw our song. I realised I hadn't played it since you left. Rather, I realised I was afraid to play it, lest it brought back disappointment and hurt.

At this moment, images of me typing a "hi", then deleting it and then closing the conversation window altogether during the times you came online starting flashing. Maybe it was harder for me to let go than I thought. Silly me!

I am going for my first Townhall today!

So happy. It'll be like a half day off for me, since tea starts at 2.30pm. Yay yay yay!

It's been almost 8 months since I got my blue citzenship but I've been deprived of our quarterly townhall for the previous 2 times. This time, nothing can stop me! I am keeping my fingers crossed...

I hope to take some pictures this time. Realised that this blog has been pictureless for so long. And I feel so damn handicapped sia. Pictures just can say so much more than words sometimes. Argh! I still cannot upload from my phone. Damn, I gotta broaden my network, seriously.