Living with atavistic feelings

Level up!

2009-10-30T09:59:00.002+08:00

Jac that's so cool of you. you still drop by my blog page. =)

Well, I just realised my last post was on the 10th June.

Time passes like a Shinkansen I guess. It's Halloween eve today and I am thinking if I should creep into the street tmr. lol.. Problem is there's no accomplice and I will be looking like an idiot then... Anyway deciding later. =)

Things happened sporadically during this few months. I couldn't recall everything but there's several events outstand this year.

1) I failed my Basic Theory Test not once but twice! shingz. The coming one is the third time and I'm hoping I could break the curse.

2) I cut my hair into slight bob style one fine day, after tired of staring at the haggard face in the mirror.

3) I'm attending classes, learning French. Over time it's getting harder but I'm loving it. =)

4) I've completed my degree! Yuhoo.

5) This coming November, I will be leading my import team. ole!

Life isn't that bad despite believing I'm still financially in need. lol... Oh tell me how to earn extra $$$$$$$$$$$$$$...................................Boomz...

Nonetheless, whenever I think back of these happenings, I felt god's presence and knew he's paving the path for me. Words can't express my graditude, but thanks anyway.
*B1, are u thinking what I'm thinking...?*

Alrighty, gotta stop though TGIF, I'm still in office. A bientot!

Job Profile in year 2009

2009-06-10T13:42:00.002+08:00

I am still in the same old organization. However, there are several changes to the dept structure. My dept got acquired by an European logistics firm and we became a 4PL to the organization this March.

Well, that's only part of the changes. Me , as well, experienced some job rotation, within the same team (import) sad to say. From operation duties to a compliance role, i.e. data entry. I wondered if it's a downgrade or an enrichment. loll.

This month is the transition period, I have to learn all the compliance stuff as much as possible, although my predecessor seems to be unreluctant to transfer her knowledge to me ( unsure if I'm super sensitive). Well, that's my luck. Nonetheless, nothing's gonna hit me down. Guess, I'll be using my rusty wits and picking up stuff along the way. Jia You!!!!!

To be honest, I'm not very enthusiatic towards my new job profile (it sounds boring) , and don't bear to leave the operation duties to someone else. However, I guess it's time for a change... 3 yrs and still counting, got to improve my working ability. Giving myself 1 yr time to pick up process and compliance stuff. Seems to be rather fresh in this portion. Buck up Mabel! U can do it.

Ok, enough for this post. Cos present facts can never change, incessant is never ending.

Hasta la vista!

I am back!

2009-05-30T14:32:00.002+08:00

Ladies and Gentleman,

Look who's back after 2 years!

As I strolled through my archives, I realised I had a rich creativity in the past. But they ignited my fire in me again. This blog is revived!

I shall continue my story blog after ages...

Mabel,
this blog saviour...

For Fairy and Pig...

2007-02-04T01:51:00.000+08:00

Fairy and Pig,

I have been possessed by the dark side recently.
Hence, I planned to go on a quest to Kapaculu Isle to defeat the evil knight.
Be back on wed... Otherwise, be prepared to fly down to rescue me.
If you guys met up with my enemies and have no idea how to fight it, don't hesitate to use your knight phone to "summon" me out.
I will advise you on the tactics. You can still feel my presence thru knight phone and MagicSummonNote.

So long pals!
Good Luck.
Tigger, signed off...

Re: Apparently this note will not self destruct in 5mins

2007-02-04T01:48:00.000+08:00

MDD (My Dear X)

This note does not self combust.
Anyway, I really can't stand it. Our cubicle is getting more popular.
Now, at this moment... they are having a rave here... sooner or later it will become a regular party. The farmer is gathering all his animals around. Tigger want some peace and I couldn't find the word in the context now. Think it's time to take a break, Tigger not longer be tamed anymore.
By the way, you need not take action on this mail. It is just a grievance letter.

Poor Tigger
Tel: 22-2984-4437 (BA-BYTI-GGER)
Mailto:tigger@XXXXX.com

To Tigger...

2007-02-04T01:39:00.000+08:00

Tigger,

I understand that the world has changed since the change of hands.
7 has set out on the initial quest to move on.. and the 2 jedi knights have left the fellowship...
The Force has weaken since the 2 Jedi knights are gone....
The other 2's allegience is yet to be known... leaving the 3 hobbits (Tigger, Fairy and Pig)...
The 3 of you need to undertake the path to get the 1 ring.. or to help that 1 ring to get back on track to mount Doom...
For the fun that the ring has foreseen may not be a favorable situation but.. u need to bring the ring back to its senses..
And let it feel and know its power..
I hope GolemHOR is not tailing behind and eyeing itself on the ring... u have to keep it safe from IT!
With Great Powers Comes Great Responsibility.... use the ring wisely and it can help you...
May the Force be with you...
Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to keep the team's morale high as you move towards Mount Doom.

Note: This reply should by right self destruct in 5mins. If it fails to self destruct, kindly click the delete button.

February Surprise???

2007-01-25T22:20:00.000+08:00

This Feb is gonna be great for me, 2 days off, Chinese New Year and only 28 days! Hooray... My team will be on holiday too. Zheng Ming's 2 days off and Flora going to BKK in the 2nd week. Hehe... It's a relaxing period for all my team members. However I couldn't slow down my pace because of that... Darn risky for my job...

Deric was flying off to ShangHai for 3.5 years, pretty good position YCH offered him. Damn lucky I think. God bless him... He messaged me in the airport this morning... Hmmm, mentioned about the return of my blog, and then he told me that I can prepare to add something in my blog during Feb. Person in China and still what's he up to? He wouldn't tell me no matter how. Only hinted that the office will prompt me when it happens... shouldn't be a bad thing I suppose, ok what's next...

Mort, Retablissez, Revolute

2007-01-23T23:37:00.000+08:00

Cher Tous,

After this long while, Je suis de retour...

Many things had happened during this period. A series of events that led me to a point of worrying-for-nothing. Nonetheless, there's also happy moments amidst these events.
Made new friend, developed new bonds, people enter and exit my life...
Trying hard to grow wiser though I haven't see any bud yet.
But this new year, I decided to waste no more time. Gonna place all I possess aside and charge like nobody's business, till the day I breakdown...

This year will be the 21st year I'm staying on this Earth and yet I could feel that time is running out... Have no idea where I got this ****ing perception but since I thought of it, I'm gonna root it.

2006-11-19T20:19:00.000+08:00

Salut! Hohohohohohoho...

My simple Jane

2006-11-06T22:02:00.000+08:00

Recently, Jane rejected L and is back with SL. Felt happy for her. To me, I think L is just a passerby in her life. Met up with Jane on Sabado, I really missed her, went to eat bibimbap, lovely... and then she started her love story. Hers was always very interesting and situational. Haha... unlike mine, often prevent them from happening. Despite that, life was good for me, my personal life all filled with excitement. hehe... didn't tell anyone what I'm up to recently... Hehe... anyway it wasn't that special either... Argh, have ta stop here, tempted by all the goodies beside me. hehe...

Frank (III)

2006-10-30T00:43:00.000+08:00

On Friday, for the second time, he asked me out. Hmm, can't remember how long we had known each other but surely it was just a while. A daredevil, haven't even ask me if I'm attached den wanna date me out. Haha...

Anyway he also reminds me of Reggie. Hehe...

Frank (II)

2006-10-24T00:05:00.000+08:00

Chatted with Frank over msn and Sametime after knowing him on the train. How interesting to discover that he resembled one of my poly friends. It's just like HAHA with a HAI.

This particular friend

2006-10-15T03:54:00.000+08:00

I have this partcular friend whom I made not long ago. I felt that he was an interesting person in the start. However, it went overboard. Knew he's friendly but it was too much for me...it's sticky like honey and worst thing, he assumes. Made me think he's not paying attention to my words. How can I like this kind of person. There's times when I said something, he misinterpreted and put words into my mouth, when I saw his blog, I felt like giving him a slap.
More, more more and more. I began to feel very sick of him. Leave me alone now. Less is more.

2006-10-15T03:25:00.000+08:00

Import team bonding is getting stronger. Hard to shake it off now. We had been one for all and all for one this whole week. Ever since last Friday's outing, part of my dull life changed for the better. Zheng Ming has been making my day all the time. It really reminds me of secondary school life.

Speaking bout my secondary school, wonder how's some of my buddies... Didn't really contact them for few weeks. Also dunno how's Wee. Always feel that he's very busy serving army so didn't initiate to contact.

Him

2006-10-15T03:18:00.000+08:00

Thought that there is chance for us to be together.

However, reality hit hard, it was otherwise.

Too ridiculous...

Wanna give up.

Frank

2006-10-15T03:13:00.000+08:00

Strangers...

Standing on the station platform everyday.

Both of us waiting for our train.

Until one day...

He said hi.

Another blog

2006-10-04T23:44:00.000+08:00

Hahaha.. I'm crazy. It's another post. Just recalled what happened in work today, so felt like blogging down.

It was Mark who made my day. Just smiled at him in the morning, later at the pantry he greeted me for the 1st time. In the past, we never talk to each other cos there is no relation nor any liasing with him, until last Friday when I returned him the knife and napkins. Hehe...

Then the day was fine... However I noticed one strange thing. There's a guy sitting in the next cubicle in front of me. He's from the pricing and finance dept. Could hear him talking over the phone everytime, and the voice somehow captivated me. Dunno why I kept taking notice of his presence. He loves to look over at our cubicle everytime he walked out of his premise. In the past he even walk past our cubicle, but now he will walk a big round. Like today, I was walking to the toilet, just nice he was turning out from the pantry, believed he saw me, den immediately he stopped and get a drink from the vending machine until I walked passed him... Hmmm, wondered why is he acting in this way? Dunno what is he avoiding. I really gave him such a bad impression until he have to avoid me mah? hai...I'm so sad...

Recently been communicating with Dino more, more calls and more gibberish. Haha.. Talked from Order status until KFC, and the dish "Buddha jumps over the wall"... haha.. siao liao. For last month end, it's Ko. Called him everyday, several times that we knew each other phone number so well. And when one of us called, we will answered, "ya what?"
Haha... However, I made a big flipflop (think yesterday), mistakened Dino as Ko over the phone. Haha... Until Ko sent me a mail and I felt so dumb. Amazingly, been liasing with the guys everyday but has yet to see them in person. Wondered how they looked like? Saw Ko for the 1st time at last Nippon meeting, pretty good looking. Hehheh.. *smirky smile*

Deric was not at his desk for almost the whole day. Felt abit bad recently cos' been giving him cold shoulders. Would only talk to him on serious work and nothing else...

Festive season

2006-10-04T23:27:00.000+08:00

Wuhoohooo! Hari Raya Puasa and Deepavali are around the corner! Love them so much that I went to the pasa malam to feel the festive atmosphere despite the crowd. Geylang Serai's the best compared to Little India. The pasa malam extended along the whole stretch of Paya Lebar to Geylang Serai. Cool! The food... the clothes... hahha... Did henna on my left hand. A flower pic, simple but nice.

Walked the whole place, talked cock along the way with Serene and Daniel. Anyway, Daniel already started calling me Kitty cos I always make his day. Haha.. If you guys still remembered, Hello Kitty and Daniel.

Finally at the "pit stop" , we settled at Coffee Bean for some drink, again listening to Daniel's life story and building up team rapport for the future. haha...
What a day.

Moon Moon Moon Cake

2006-10-04T22:57:00.000+08:00

* Sucks, getting retarded in using com keyboard and mouse*

Mid autumn festival is nearing, as you guys know, suppliers will send mooncakes to us. After waiting for so long, finally each of them came... There is mooncake from Tung Lok ( nice box), Rendevous, Intercontinental, Ritz Carlton, Amway, expecting a few more. They are all made from different famous places but why? ( with the capital W-H-Y), the forwarders just love to give lotus paste with yolk? The best I tried is with macademia nuts. Where are the other flavours? how about bing pi?

Anyway, had already kept a few for Friday. Planned to eat them, drink a cup of pu er while appreciating the fullmoon after the badminton session. Haha..

Monday blues

2006-10-04T22:37:00.000+08:00

Monday was not a good start for the month.

In the morning, I let both buses drove off in front of me. It's too late to catch them. So I took a cab. Hai... what a waste.

During work, felt that I had achieved nothing for the previous month. My method of doing the report was in big mess, just like my coy, IBM.

Was extremely tied down to my job last few weeks, and out of a sudden, it ended. Happy but clueless...

Got into an evaluation session with Deric for my performance last month. Saddened, felt inferior to him and Darren, dissatisfied but not discouraged. Anyway, was glad to receive Darren's sms from Perth on this same day. Believe he's living a pretty relaxing life there, still having Japanese dinner, while people only get to have home cooked food lor... haha

It was a sad sad situation overall. However, Monday has ended, a new day is born. =)

Less is more

2006-09-25T01:23:00.000+08:00

Recently, I experiencing a phenomena and it made me realised that absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I knew at times when things are crowding me out, it turns me off.
That's when I believe less is more.

2006-09-25T01:17:00.000+08:00

How interesting.
I realised everything in life is like a magnet.
It's divided into north and south pole, i.e. there's one thing and the other against it.

Restless week

2006-09-25T00:42:00.000+08:00

This week has been stressful. With the coy audit nearing, now is the qtr end, and recently I was assigned to do a daily report for Bernard, life became hectic. In fact, it was part of my job responsibility, however Deric been helping me to complete them for the past few months. Now, he handed the responsibility back to me. Amen.

Despite encountering some hiccups for the 1st few days, such as spending almost all the time doing the report, burning off my weekends, staring at the screen intensely for the whole day, skipping lunch for this whole week to complete it, and ultimately led doubts into my mind. The stress level has hit the highest point once again. Felt like a living dead at the end of each day. Unable to be aware of everything that happened around me. The worst thing is that I got lost in time. Yesterday seems like a few days ago.

I suddenly thought, "Is it worth to battle against all odds for my job?, do I deserve them?"
At that moment, doubts are really making me fatigue, mentally.
However, life has to go on, and I believed this little stress is nothing.
What's all these little stress compared to some crisis other people are undergoing?

Missing

2006-09-25T00:39:00.000+08:00

Love my job...
Love my family...
Love my friends...
Love myself...
Love god...

But something's missing...

What can it be?

Obsesion

2006-09-13T00:03:00.000+08:00

Hai, me and cousin are real Gackt-sama's fan-si. Up till now, living for 2 decades plus, I never expect we are still like kiddo whenever we thought of Gackt. Recently, met up with Tetsu got obsessed dressing and acting like Gackt, worse thing is that he even borrowed my makeup kit. Though he don't looked like one, haha, but with a good photographer and editor, it was really a makeover... *smirk*

Here's one picture of his makeover, cool? hmmm, not exactly...hahaha.

Biscuits

2006-09-10T02:49:00.000+08:00

Today, I shall introduce you all 2 type of biscuits.

Meiji's animal biscuit (SGD0.85)

Available in all supermarkets. Cute animal prints. Great for teaching children while enjoying the snacks. However, as usual, they tasted very normal, dry. Hence, not worth to specially buy it.

Taiwan Niu She Bing- Strawberry flavoured (SGD 2.90)

Can't find it anywhere except Lao Zhao Pang at Marina Square level 1 near Giant. LZB sells all traditional taiwanese snacks such as NSB, tai yang bing (sunflower biscuit), feng li shu (pineapple layer cake) and many other biscuits and sweets. However, I love the service of the staffs there. Thumbs up! Can't compare to many shops. Could consider one of the very best I had encountered. Enjoy the introduction of the traditional sweets there, and worth to buy any of their products.

Snacks at Smith Street

2006-09-10T02:28:00.000+08:00

After the trip to Ikea, me and my sis went down to Chinatown for some desserts. As it was rather late, we stopped by at the da pai dang in chinatown. Had Hoover rojak and Ah Balling green tea glutinous balls (tang yuan).

Green Tea Tang Yuan with Peanut Soup

6 balls for SGD2

Tasty and the filling inside is actually green tea flavoured lotus paste, not very sweet too.

Hoover Rojak (SGD3)

As can be seen, the rojak is not watery. Blended perfectly with the big chunks of ingredients. Uncle put the right amount of granted peanut. However, I could only rate it as fine. It could be better if served warm, as in the you tiao is crispy and heated up.

Ikea Swedish Meatballs

2006-09-10T02:17:00.000+08:00

Yuhoo... It's the Ikea Swedish Meatballs. SGD5.80 for 10 balls and some potato. This traditional dish had captured the stomach of mine. Hope it's the same for you. It's great, served with special gravy and a little lingonberry jam. Hehe.. Tasty.

Tiramisu, The Italian way

2006-09-10T02:01:00.000+08:00

Made Tiramisu on Monday and it was a success. Hehe.. Did the italian way.
Here's some pics though it's a bit blur.

RE: Friday Outing~

2006-09-10T00:40:00.000+08:00

Went for KTV on Friday. We had planned it for a few weeks and finally, what a great evening we had. Some of the colleagues couldn't make it, so it's down to Jeanette, Serene, Elyn, Zheng Ming and Me. Deric left halfway and Mun Yue joined us after his gym session.

Went to Maxwell food centre for dinner 1st. I patronised Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice. Heard that it's worth a try and indeed it is. Sedap with no regrets. Hehe... Ate 2 calories laden deep fried sweet potato balls cos lose in a bet. Sucks, but I must say they are nice. :)

Head straight to Party World cos they said it's much cheaper compared to K-box. I'm not sure though... And then the real party began. Hahaha...

As usual, chose all kind of songs. Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, English. At that moment, the word "shy" is taken away from the dictionary. All sang like a pro... Haha... So funny. Jeanette even videoed Zheng Ming when he's singing that Hokkien song, "if I had one million". Haha... So uncle, didn't sounds and looked like someone of his age. Haiyo, how can? Too bad, didn't get to hear Deric sing the Medley by Leo Ku. Love that. The best thing that night is how the import team showed their strong bonding. Serene and Me chose Elva Siao's Ai de Zhu Da Ge, and it is the kind of song where we can stand and rock man.. We simply asked Zheng Ming to dance his breakdance seven and who knows he did and even twice. That song was hot, baby, unbelievable, the bond has gone up a level. Haha. We closed the singing session with "Cha Sao Bao". Haha.

Later, we continued the outing with a durian feast at Geylang. Wahaha. Along the way in the bus, we laughed and joked that some people beside us also joined in. Really cannot tahan our lame jokes. Zheng Ming is a pro in making jokes out of what we speak, cannot stand him. Hahaha... The durians tasted great, we ate 9 and drank coconut juice. Lovely. That uncle gave us a box of the supreme quality durian, "mo shan wang" free. haha gained it. Really different from the rest. Ate, drank, joked, laughed till 2 plus. Damn song. Later, we were too full, so the rest decided to walk me home before they take a cab. And so we walked all the long way back to my house, joking and laughing despite the wee hours and quiet surroundings. We even spotted a couple having intimate moments. Haha...

Well-spent weekend

2006-09-04T01:31:00.000+08:00

Took a day off on Monday. Hehe.. I'm so delighted when I could spend one more day sleeping and waking up late. Now I knew the importance. Haha.. Listening to The Pussycat Dolls, just bought the album today. Didn't really know what makes me buy their album but I think the songs are suitable for some sort of dance and so voila! There it goes...

This weekend was well-utilised. Haha... Didn't really have a good sleep myself despite telling the others to rest well. Haha.. It all started on Thurs, supposedly the last day of month end. Arranged most shipments to be delivered into the warehouse. Also, Jimmy treated me and Deric to B & J's after work. Never knew it was also a grievance session.

Friday, went to COMEX during lunch, saw Zheng Ming's twin brother. Hehe... Actually both of them looks rather different. We still joked that Sally-jie is going to "kan qing", while Serene and I are going to meet our "future husbands". Each one get one of the twins. Haha, xiao1 daoooooo1 (laugh untillllll). Recently, after Zheng Ming joined the dept, he turned the whole group upside down. What a clown. ;)
After work, met LP, Jac and Sal for dinner at Marina Square. Went to buy the ingredients for my Tiramisu. Sal cut her hair, ooh lala.. that was nice!

Saturday, broke my usual sleeping hours for every Saturday. Woke up at noon, cos' going to the picture house for the movie, "barnyard". Fedex's giving free tickets to us. The movie was damn crappy, but worth the watch, made us relax after all. Arrived at Marina South for a short bowling session before going to Tiong Bahru for dinner. Tried the cui gui (shui guo), pretty delicious... That was not the end of day... Later, I went to sing KTV at Parkway... Haha... really chiong that night.
Sunday, went for service. After that, met Steve for lunch. Finally got to try New York New York.Hehe... But to my disappointment, the food was below our expectation. The food menu came out with the normal meals, and some modified ones, like the mushroom cuppacino. Later, we went for pool cos' the bowling alley was fully packed, and so we had to give up bowling.
Steve felt hungry damn fast, he craved for desserts, so we headed to raffles city and settled in Out of the Pan for some crepes. I felt that the crepes wasn't that bad and was filling.

When I got home, got the mood of making some desserts, so I whipped up tiramisu. Hehe... Gonna take pics when I dug into it. ;)

*ZZzzzZZzzz* felt like sleeping le, really tired dunno why, words also type incorrectly. haha...
Will continue the next day.. Hehe..

X-Trail in Changi Broadwalk on 31st July

2006-08-27T00:34:00.000+08:00

Went for the X-trail in Changi Broadwalk. Fun filled activities and people on that day. Really enjoyed myself. Hehe... Got to know ther hoei that day too. =)

A new leaf

2006-08-26T23:50:00.000+08:00

Wahaha... Alright guys, I'm back to normal this week. Hehe..
I admitted that last week was my depression period. I just felt everything was not right. Personal as well as working life...
My family members complained about my social life incessantly...
I felt like a burden to Deric, and useless whenever he asked me work related issue, cos' after so many months I got no improvement, instead my mind got into a coma state.
I believe this is most possibly becos' I got complacent and returned into my safety zone.

HOWEVER, haha, this week, I intended to turn over a new leaf. *wink*
Someone and something had motivated me to change for the better. With time, the cat is starting to look for new stuff. Yes, with time...
During my life as a student, I didn't know how fast light years are. But I realised that time is really very essential to me now.
Time = Money , but money may not = time.

Hai, Gackt's songs are so nice...

Questions, doubts, troubles, I ponder...

2006-08-16T00:00:00.000+08:00

Recently someone asked me what is the age limit I set for my other partner. Hmmm, this, I have no idea. I never thought of it before. Perhaps not too old I think, but can these be prevented when one really encounter such situation?
Speaking of that, remembered Deric asked if I ever consider Zheng ming... I just laughed it off.
Perhaps, love is not a priority for me, at least for now. It's easy for me to fall in love and easy to fall out too.
Anyway, got in contact with a guy I met not long ago. Been exchanging emails ever since he gave me the video on the changi broadwalk event. Ha.. It makes me feel like I'm making a pen pal. Ha.. So near yet so far... Pretty fun! Today, he sent me a video on the fireworks but was damn blur. However, it's the sincerity that counts. =) Hey, BTW he's also from SP maritime. Been sailing for NOL for several years, and now he's back in SP to complete his competency course.

Recently, I felt like a cat without its curiosity. I can't explain but this feeling is choking me up. It's a bit like bottling all emotions inside me. Today, finally someone noticed and asked me what's up, I looked troubled. And I was like.. I Dunno what's happening to me, I dunno if I'm troubled so I'm alright. =) But the more I think about this question, the more I feel depress.. Sucks man... Thinking something out of nothing... Ha...
After that, I really felt like breaking down, but I didn't...
Every thing comes with a reason, and sadly, I have none.
There is no reason for me to cry. I just can't think it out why am I so sad?

Could it be something related to the hoo-ha my family made and I'm the attn person?
Becos' at that very moment, I was controlling all my emotions. I told myself to remain calm and accept the fact they said no matter how, although I felt like bursting out all my opinions but I didn't. I knew it will aggravate the situation if I did. Hai.. I just gave many deep breathe... Haha.. Looks like I am eligible to join the zen clan. Haha... Enough said, going to sleep. =) Hasta la vista...

5th August 2006

2006-08-07T23:38:00.000+08:00

Unknowingly woke up at 2 plus in the afternoon, probably becos I slept at 5am the previous night. Haha... What to do, watch TV all night.

When I woke up, cooked myself some lunch... Used whatever I had in the fridge... and Voila!

Not trying to sell my product, but frankly, it taste great! Hehe...

Slacked for almost the whole day. In the evening, treated Deric to supper. Went to Hong Kong Cafe @ East Coast Road. Damn crowded but somehow managed to get the indoor seats. The good thing about this cafe is that it opens from 6pm to 5am. Haha... Even it's in the late night, the crowd increases...

Ordered yuan yang (too thick, not smooth), si mud nai cha (stocking milk tea), mango pudding ( best!), sesame glutinous ball in almond cream (hmmm, the creamy almond taste like creamy mushroom soup thiough.) Haha... H.K Bo lo bun (just like normal bread with butter) , however the best is the french toast with banana.. (marvellous!, the bread was coated with egg, fried till light golden brown, inside was banana filling... we had a choice to pour maple syrup onto the brown cube... lovely! overall taste like goreng pisang). hehe... too bad no photos otherwise, sure to drool.... hehe...

The Asian Kitchen @ Marina Square

2006-08-07T23:28:00.000+08:00

Gave my mum and sis a lunch treat after celebrating CHC 17th anniversary , on 6 Aug '06.
Btw, was not tired despite having 3.5hrs of sleep the previous nite, thanks to Deric. =) Was glad that de hui gave me a pink "love letter"(and so he called it, haha, actually it was a vcd on the X-trail in Changi Broadwalk) at the stadium. Haha.. Sent him an email as an appreciation and this guy ar... so happy that he literally kisses me on his reply. Haha.. so interesting..

Anyway, great time was spent in indoor stadium, then I decided to bring mum and sis to Marina Square for good food. However, in the end, we "green vegetable" ended in a restaurant called The Asian Kitchen, which serves vietnam, chinese food. How fusion but ma ma tae ( so so in cantonese)...

Dan Dan Noodle, (peanut taste soup)

Viet Beef Stew with rice

Rice Paper Roll

Zha Jiang Noodle (Not bad, but not too good either)

Welcome to my Desk...

2006-08-05T00:22:00.000+08:00

Grabbed the chance when no one's back from lunch, took some photos of my second crib this afternoon. Hehe... A little messy, but you wouldn't care when there's other stuff to concern for. Hohoho...

The bag which Liping bought for my b'day present... The human shaped ring holder from Jac is actually hidden behind the bag. Haha.. Planned to re-decorate my pin board.. hehe

The other side of the L-shaped desk, my tp and desktop, interchangable or both at a time... Haha...

My mini and giant thinkpad =)

A coffee a day, makes my sense awake.

Forever friends bears from friend, Steve for my b'day present. The "E" is somewhere at home... haha... Flower clips sponsored by Mun Yue, that he bought also from Thailand. Becos' of the M.A.B, Deric calls me Mab on and off.. Haha..

Billy Bonker

2006-08-05T00:04:00.000+08:00

It's all sweets, sweets, sweets this season!!!

Caramelized sesame candy... Made by saya...

Mini Belgium Chocs. Promotional price : SGD1.95 @ Watsons, worth the cheap price despite the country of origin. Saw the big box in airport, cost 10 over bucks.

Hershey's Mallow Blast, chocolate coated marshmallow with orange filling... Nice but a little sweet. Best accompanied with tea! Available in NTUC...

Warning!!!!

2006-08-04T22:55:00.000+08:00

*Warning* : The following photos portray images unsuitable for dieters. We regret to inform that Living with Atavistic feelings.com is not liable for any annoyance or temptation caused. Enjoy with caution. We thank you for the co-operation. =)

*No animals, instead humans are harm during the experiment. Besides, pockets are burnt, but unfortunately fats are not.

Living with Atavistic feelings.com presents...

Japanese Snacks...

Green tea caramel corn crackers. =)

White n strawberry choco... Kawaii!

Have a break, have a Kit Kat! This taste very refreshing! Fragrant fruity smell. I tasted banana & melon.

Pucca sweet potato. Out of all the snacks, I insist on prewarning all, do not try this at home, or even any other places. It tastes very very weird.

Pocky Pineapple flavour (limited edition). Taste to be advised... But it looks good right? hehe

Chelsea Butter Scotch. Packaging is so psychedelic. Oishii-ne, once you start you can't stop.

Lotte Chocolate Pie! All time favourites

New Fran Blueberry & cassis flavour

Mini Ice Cream

Mun Yue bought this from Thailand, 10 baht only. Hehe... It's thai salad flavour. In fact it's available in some place in sg too. Hmmm, salty but interesting packaging...

Drawings

2006-08-02T20:13:00.000+08:00

Got nothing to do yesterday after work. Hence, I rummaged through my stuff and happened to find these drawings that I drew long ago...

27 July 2006

2006-07-27T21:00:00.000+08:00

Upgrade my PC to a Think Pad for work today. Deric insisted on giving me the TP for shipment tracking. Hai, you think it's good? No way! There are of cos' pros and cons for this notebook.

1stly, my PC is a pentium 4 and this "seems-good-tp" is only pentium 3. Slow poke... How can a fast learner use a slow com? Haha...

2ndly, it's not wireless, need a telephone wire to get access into internet. Deric initiated to change with me but forget it, how would he bear to leave his tp just like this. Haha.

3rdly, got to re-update programs into the new tp, many superseded files. Sucks, my printer connection, scanner, lotus note... F***ing troublesome.

4thly, if there is a need, may even need to bring the tp home. (however, don think I am so lucky)

5th, 3kg heavy tp and the bag looks damn bulky and ugly.

Though there are pros...

1stly, feel damn song when typing.

2ndly, portable, can bring anywhere around the office, to meetings etc... But don think I'm at that level to do that either.

Basically, that's it for pros. Haha, pathetically lesser than cons. However hope I get use to it as soon as possible. And I know I will. *wink* ;)

Music

2006-07-27T20:39:00.000+08:00

Wanted to learn how to play a guitar, but suay suay the 1st string of the guitar snapped, secondly I can't seems to get the right tuning for the guitar. Seems easy but in fact you really dunno de. Haha... Got the chords for "Zombie", and if I got to play like a pro next time (wait long long), will try something from Guns N Roses, the best is "Stairway to heaven" by Led Zeppelin. Haha... Got inspired by their great music. Think that you all should listen to some of their songs such as Stairway to heaven (Led Zeppelin), Sweet child o' mine, Don't Cry and November rain (GNR). Worth to listen...

Waraku Restaurant

2006-07-26T21:32:00.000+08:00

Developed this craving for Japanese products recently. Went to Meidi-ya for jap products spree. Die die also must eat japanese food that weekend. Went to Waraku East Coast with Deric, but the queue was damn long. Got 7 to 8 person in front of us, so we went all the way to Marina square. Fortunately, it was worth the trip. Even though there's 2 of us, but we, hungry pangs ordered more dishes than some people who went in a group. Ordered as if nobody's business. Haha...

Warm Sake and Macha Soba

Japanese Pizza (Forgot the jap name)

One word: Fantastic

Soyu Ramen

The ramen taste ok, the soup base was a little bland, think will be trying the pork ramen, might be better. Oiishi-desu

Yakitori

Tasty bites of big chunks of chicken. ;)

Butter Hotate

It's like hotplate. Taste western, the buttery taste with a tinge of lemon but taste as good for most people I believe. Hehe.. Really nice! Recommended!

23 July 2006 Friday

2006-07-22T13:42:00.000+08:00

Felt tired when I woke up yesterday. Wanted to skip work but somehow I reminded myself that this is not school days, can't miss anyhow. Haha..

Again I started another day of work. Work wasn't boring but perhaps the OTs have been making me tired despite sleeping earlier than before. No choice, who says I wanted to reduce the amount of stuff pending. Haha...

Anyway, I got excited on thurs when Patrick announced that they will be organising fieldtrips to the forwarders' facilities and ports to observe their operations. Only certain people will be chosen. Ho ho ho... My eyes got widen after stoning thorough the meeting. Hehe.. Might got to see how they collect the goods from the FTZ and declare permit at the custom. I believe it will be a good experience. I wanna go...

During lunch, Monica and me agreed to chiong all the way till 630pm and knock off. Both of us thought that with the stuff on hand, we could leave early that day. Who knows, things are otherwise, Monica was caught up with few sudden shipments and I got delayed by my damn month-end report and some emails to sent. hai... at least i got to leave at 710pm, earlier than usual.

Who knows when I left, met Bernard, the dept's former manager, not much of liasing with him now but he would approach the imports for DD shipment. Enquire from me 3, 4 times on shipments, and found out he was damn lazy to search the answer for himself. Hai...

Funny thing is that I believe he treats me like a "god", could memorise the status of hundreds of orders. In fact, it was just a coincident that I happened to remember that shipment. Haha... Monica and me were laughing on this incident. haha...

When I was waiting for the lift, he caught up with me. Hai, thought I could be alone after work yesterday. We chatted all the way home, from personal to industry level topics.
Funny thing is when I asked him where he alight from the MRT station, he said he will stop at Tampines and then head to Kembangan. Think he all the while mistaken Tanah Merah as Tampines. Haha... I got to know that he knew Willy Wong. He also went to SP for some talks by Menlo and happened to see one of the supply chain lecturers. Bernard can't remember his name but he described him as one who looks like a boy. Haha.. wonder who is he referring to. haha.. Eddie or Tang?

Went Meidi-ya later, finally could release my urge on these Japanese products. It was like sweeping the whole snacks section, also I bought Miso, noodles and curry. Hehe... So guo ying... Wah.... Will start my new season of food reviews as soon as I tried the snacks. hehe....

Young means limitation

2006-07-16T18:12:00.000+08:00

Reached home about 2 plus in the morning yesterday. It wasn't as late as previous weeks but it seems my mum is starting to question my whereabout. She's suspecting who I'm with. Sucks, so?, don't even know what's the problem here.
Hai, ok, fine... However, my mum just feel that it shouldn't be in that way. Hai, Relationship.. Relationship and still Relationship issue...
Mum thinks I'm still young (not even 21), in fact, it applies the same to my elder sis. However, yesterday's focus was on me. Wo sian yi ban( sian halfway...). She doesn't want me to have a boyfriend. Alright, she win this time, could understand what she thinks, no choice, parents seems to know what is bad and good for you, at least most of them are.
Hmmm, perhaps, true enough I'm not going to have a boyfriend, I'm going to have 2,3,4 boyfriends at a go, so that she wouldn't worry about my future. Hahaha...

Pirates of the Caribbean 2

2006-07-15T14:57:00.000+08:00

Wahahaha, rush to watch the pirates on Thursday after work at Marina. Great great show! Funny, lovely, action pack all in one. And dude, the movie mentioned Singapore twice. Felt so honoured as a singaporean for the 1st time. Haha... WTH...

I love Captain Jack Sparrow, his marvellous acting, that seduction scene made me grinned from ear to ear, (cos' I dare not laugh out in front of some people). Haha... and the kissing part completed eveything until Elizabeth cuffed him... Ohhh... ;<

But overall, I could consider the movie to be great, though it's a bit open-ended for the ending... becos' this will then link it to the 3rd part of the movie. Hooray!

Outwit, Outplay and Outlast

2006-07-15T14:35:00.000+08:00

Hmmm, it seems like things at work is getting more and more interesting. I predicted a new alliance is going to be form in our import side. However, it also depends... depends who will be joining us soon.

Things have been rather unpredictable, there is rumours that the local knight is leaving, though his departure does not directly affect us, his and our country are affiliated. haha...
But as for now, our import side is still like a fortress. haha...
However, when even our knight is also leaving, we princesses will entitle the power to fight the battle until the new person joins ( and he gonna be good). Haha... =)

Job reshuffle...

2006-07-11T22:57:00.000+08:00

Today, Deric started to reshuffle the job scope for importation. I was rather sad. Hai... in the end, I anyhow chose shipment tracking, a dumb job that does not get to learn anything. It's only more operational and "live" in that sense. Gotto know the situation of the orders and gotto liase with external people, that's it. In fact, these are some of the reasons I chose this part of the importation. Dunno la.

Documentation wise is passed on to Serene. It is the vital part for all logistics job, however I wondered if I was too dumb to give her this part? A bit dilemma as for now. See how ba, may discuss with her again, probably share some stuff from her portion. It seems like I do not want to share any piece of the cake with everyone. So selfish rite? Wanna do all by myself, but if I really do, I will kay tio (choke). Haha.

Serene just officially became a part of import team and I heard that a new person will be coming in. Wonder if it's a guy or girl? But it seems there is a high possibility of getting a girl, what's more a degree holder to hold this beng kia position. I'm not bias against this person, however, if I'm that girl, I would think my qualification could worth a more challenging job.
Worst thing is that Deric claimed this girl is pretty with a nice figure too, Patrick seems to like her. Haha...

What Deric said just saddened me a bit. Me and Serene also belong to his team man, got a beautiful candidate on hold, then wanna push us aside. WTF, but forget it, I'm not there to entertain them anyway.

Recently after PeiXi's departure, been very very busy, everyday's been doing OT, dunno even know what the fucking day today is. I was asking myself if I'm slow, bad time management or really lots of stuff to complete. Haha...

Told my sis the whole story. Haha... Really long man.

Anyway, I have faith in what is planned for me. No worries, and just live life to my fullest. Lalala.

WTH

2006-07-11T00:01:00.000+08:00

What the hair! Haha...
I realised how long my hair was before I cut. Haha... But nevermind, hair grows n maybe I'll consider to keep it long, real long, n den i'll snip my fringe short, damn short. Hehe...

Before
After

Graduation Ceremony 2006

2006-07-10T23:18:00.000+08:00

Graduation Ceremony on the 6th July 2006, was great. Other than hundreds of photographs taken, everyone brought back precious memories home. I wouldn't say much about the ceremony cos' we know best. *Wink*

Some pictures taken...

Irene, Gurdip, Sal, Kathy
Irene n JQ
Sp, Jq, Lp, Sal n Raine

Me n Sp
Lp, Sal n Willy Wong

Miszah n Me

Jac n Me

Me n Sp

A Shadow

Erm, not quite sure what's behind

Goth

oh, me a cradle-snatcher???

2006-07-10T22:04:00.000+08:00

Hmmm, been wondering what will my love-life in the future be?

What leads me to think of that? Aku tatauhu, but I always got this feeling I'll be a cradle-snatcher in the future. Haha...

And perhaps the worst thing to everyone is that... ... if I happened to meet a handsome GIRL, I'll take it. Even my mum knows what kind of people I like. Wahaha... But all of my girl friends don't u worry, I wouldn't do anything to u de. Hahaha... Sounds like a les rite? No worries. Haha...

Anyway, back to graduation ceremony... Spotted Joe with his new hairstyle. So glay!!! Hmm, probably more gackt ba. Haha but anyway, just love it. Much better than before, and now got this manly look. I'm melting... Haha... However, recently, I noticed a guy with a similar hairstyle and looked more glayish than Joe. Saw him today on the bus again. Kept looking at him... Cos' long time didn't see good looking guys liao. Haha... WTF, I'm such a pitiful gal in a dept where there's no handsome guys to look at. Hai, lol!

Btw, FYI, Sp, u are also a pretty boy. Very suitable to dress visual kei or J-rock. *wink* Interesting thing is after looking at the graduation videos and photos, my sis claimed that in fact, you looked good wor. Haha... So what do you think of urself? Hahaha. Erhem, don't be too yaya papaya.. *smirk*

Love this pic

2006-07-10T21:45:00.000+08:00

Met Wee for breakfast on Thurs before rushing to my graduation...
And he caught me with this expression. Haha...

Sugar is sweet...

2006-07-10T21:24:00.000+08:00

I'm chewing Merci Dark cream again. Oishii-ne... :) Never know that Merci chocs can be that nice. Heard from people that they taste not as good to other kinds of chocs, however, it changed my perception after trying it yesterday. The mini individual stick packaging is so convenient too.
Anyway, what I would like to say is that chocs is sweet, so is the pic I took with my sweet dad. Haha.... So bo link rite? FYI, he said to me, " you looked very different today." Wahaha... Getting sweeter and sweeter uh...

Just uploaded the graduation photos. So guys, just tell me if you want the exact size photo of yours. In addition, couldn't show all of you the video but might burn to disc for you.
It costs...nothing... cos' such memorable memories are priceless. ;)

Giraffe Restaurant and Bar on 1st July

2006-07-02T18:50:00.000+08:00

Had a 3 hours lunch ( 115 to 415pm) with Steve @ the Giraffe Restaurant and Bar yesterday, 1st July. It was a great experience to dine there. Btw, believed many people are not familiar with this restaurant. It was situated in Istana Park, opposite Istana and Plaza Singapura.

3 Reasons to dine there:-

1. Great Ambience

It was surrounded by nature, trees, trees and trees... If you are to dine al fresco (like us), beware of a fly. Haha. We spotted that, however I treated it like we're in South Africa. Haha... The indoor was great too, cool but you may not be able to enjoy the breeze (a bit hot in the afternoon) and the nature scenery as much. There is dining tables and sofas. So nice!!! A must go place. The afternoon was not crowded, in fact there was only an ang moh couple when we reached there. Haha... The whole place became ours!!! Yuhooo...

Too sunny out there but nice seats

special area for group dining ( pic far back)

Our dining area

Unique fan which revolves as the fan propellers turn

2. Reasonable Price

3. Large serving portion

When it comes to good food, aha, I don't care how much calories I'll be consuming. Hehe.. Our fun-filled afternoon was accompanied by large serving food... (no wonder we spent 3 hours there) haha.. Other than the food, the serving dish was extremely huge, just look at the pictures and you'll know.

However, when there's pros, there's cons. The food menu shows limited variety. They are categorizes by the kind of food, e.g. Breakfast and Brunch, starters, Main Dish (seafood, poultry, meat, vegetarian), dessert, drinks and side dish. The sub categories of the main dish only comprises 4 to 5 dishes. The restaurant serves a fusion of Asian, European and African kind of cuisine.

We ordered the following dishes (according to the sequence) :-

Dilmah's Earl Grey

SGD 5.90 per pot/person

Nachos

SGD 10.90

Alrite, though everything looks nice, but this is one dish that I discourage all to try. The cheese got hardened when cold and they will stick the nachos together and make them sloggy. How could nachos be not crispy? Yucks... Had a hard time pulling and eating...

Rib eye (nice beef! thick and juicy)

SGD 28.90

Seville chicken with paella and chorizo

SGD 19.90

Rather wet, but the chicken is tender, the chorizo taste like chinese sausage. There is a buttery taste, believe they placed lot of butter on the pan to prevent burnt and rice sticking to it. But the taste turned out good. There is some char around the pan side, reminds me of claypot.

Brownies

SGD 6.90

Warm brownie, with cookie and cream ice cream, crispy sesame thins and chocolate sauce. :)

Malva pudding

SGD 6.90

Traditional South Africa dessert with chocolate ice cream and splash of Jack Daniels. Nice, warm pudding, chewy, not fuffy. Mascarpone and chocolate sauce. Crispy caramised sesame candy. ;)

The Giraffe Restaurant and Bar is a place great for chilling, especially with a group of friends. The place is spacious and somehow could bring you away from the bustling city into a place of serenity. :) I recommend this place to ya all, worth to dine in.

Hence I shall give it 4.5 stars!!!!

Bratz???

2006-07-02T18:40:00.000+08:00

Steve yesterday claimed that my pictures (dated 10 June) looked like Bratz ( the scary version). Haha.. Great! It means I had successfully created a new image of myself. Hooray!

IBM's Pride month

2006-07-02T18:24:00.000+08:00

June, last month, was IBM's pride month. It was a period for the GLBT group to "celebrate". GLBT= Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders..
It was the 1st time I heard a company supports such thing. I thought this category of people will be outcasted by the others, however it was otherwise in IBM. Felt happy for the GLBT group in IBM.

Interesting thing is that they sent eveyone on this event and we could even subcribe to be their EAGLES member. I signed up unintentionally, thought that the button would link us to another site. In the end, it got triggered and viola, now I'm part of the eagle's team. Haha... Was informed that there will be a gathering in August. Hehe.. Can't wait to see what's there for them... If possible, I would like to attend this interesting gathering. Haha..

Where is my dear Gackt?

2006-07-02T18:17:00.000+08:00

Where is my dear Gackt gone to? Hai, it's been few months since I last heard his news... Though I'm not a die-hard fan of him but please don't die... Don't fade away from the scene... Misses you so so much...

Secrets can kill

2006-06-29T00:47:00.000+08:00

Life was still fine at work. Got to know more things that happened around the environment.

Indeed people got closer when they share secrets. Last Saturday, went to play Pool after going out with Wanlin and Jac. Found out something about a colleague. Haha. Discovered that she and a guy secretly went steady for a year plus. Good choice, handsome, young, clever (double masters and straight As), rich... No comments.

She told me to keep mum and will do the same for mine. Hmmm... Not really worry about myself in fact. Up to now, I'm certain no one knows about my personal stuff, however what dear Mun Yue said on the train just now alerted me to be more cautious on my actions. Haha...

Anyway, realised Mun Yue is a very interesting person. Very new age, healthy living kind of guy. Sally called him Miss Ching and you know why. Hahaha...

Half day @ Kimage

2006-06-29T00:09:00.000+08:00

I finally got my personal hairstylist. Trimmed my hair on Monday, 26-06-2006.

Anyway, met a guy @ Kimage, Lloyd, M's friend. Haha... Quite an interesting encounter.

While I am still waiting for M to finish her exams, I met him. Since both of us already made eye-contact, I jus' smile back as a form of friendliness. Who knows, he came over, striked a conversation and started touching my hair. haha, felt like a guinea pig. I didn't mind as I know it is their nature to touch people's hair. Later, he asked me to be his bunding model and we exchanged numbers.

Lloyd wanted to blow dry my hair, in the end, I approached Miya for help. Was a bit confused at that moment. Haha, however, he came over and again kept talking to me and even trimmed off my spilt hairs.
And then.... When I told him I wasn't good at taking care of my hair, he indirectly asked me for a date, and that we could discuss that over coffee, and said since both of us are single, a date should be all fine. Haha...

Later, when I left Kimage, M called and told me that in fact Lloyd was filrting with me. But she encouraged me to get to know him cos' of many many reasons. Haha.. I knew it all along. However that was rather scary, I wasn't prepared for such thing to happen that day. Woo...

Told my mum and sis about Lloyd, my sis even asked me to make friends with him. Wa lau...

Peach flower luck

2006-06-21T23:20:00.000+08:00

Haha... So how's this direct translation, sounds good ya? Haha. Anyway, just feel like blogging on this topic.

Recently, I have noticed a trend in this typical type of luck. It's either you have it all at once, or you have none. Just take my girlfriend for instance, she was caught by this peach flower luck recently. Though she was encountering problems with her beau, at the same time, 2 other guys confessed to her. Oo la la... Now she was in great dilemma. This may sound good to some girls but otherwise to the others. Haha... Could understand her feeling, too complex to decide, problem is... we can't step on 2 boats with a leg. It's almost impossible. Haha... In fact, I have encountered such problem recently, some people are treating me unusually. Haha... However, somehow I have this weird mentality that such problem exist to distract me. Haha... Strange man.

Anyway, fyi, I am Single. ;)
However, unavailable. Thank you. :)

To sin with love

2006-06-21T23:00:00.000+08:00

If having a chocolate bar is sinful. What is this to all of you? Haha...

Welcome to the delectable Chocolate Buffet @ The Fullerton Hotel, 16th June 2006.

2006-06-13T23:58:00.000+08:00

Steve just entered into NS last friday. Time passes fast... Hope he performs his commando duties well in there. Serve the nation, die for it... Opps, sure kena "dog" by him. Haha.
Steve, don't worry, 2 years will be filled of fun and enjoyment. Just don't join the Geylang gang is enough. Hehe..

To cut or not to cut...

2006-06-13T23:28:00.000+08:00

Haha, won won, what I meant by my actual hair is this... Hehe... *wink*

I know this is scary but it was meant to be, in other words I did it on purpose. Haha... Lalala...

Hai, however, I believed this might be the end period of my long hair for this moment. Promised my hairstylist friend to be her examination model. I have 25% of getting my hair cut. Haha.. Can't really bear to cut my hair short but I still decided to be a dare devil. Haha... That's why I tied my hair to see what's the effect of short hair on me. I supposed on the graduation day, all of you will get to see my new hairstyle!

Pictures taken with my Creative divi 525D

2006-06-10T15:22:00.000+08:00

The Great Singapore Sales

2006-06-10T15:03:00.000+08:00

It's the GSS period! Gals, are you making a whole lot of shopping list? haha

Went to Bugis midnight shopping sales yesterday, 9 June, with Monica. My 1st time going out with a female colleague. She jio me inpromptu and I song song agreed too. Haha... It was also the 1st time I felt the GSS was really useful, the sales was real too. Haha.. In the past, GSS to me, was just a official shopping period announced by STB, but not now anymore, it was a time to have good bargains. Haha...

During the last day of the PC fair @ Suntec, 4 June, bought a creative divi 525D @ SGD 340. Bought already 1GB SD card @ SGD 33.20. Damn worth it. Hehe, at that moment then realised how precious my hardearned money is. Heart damn pained, but tried not to think about it now.

Yesterday was also my 1st time to expose the naked me (with underwear intacted of cos') to a stranger. Haha, cos' me and Monica shared the fitting room. She don't feel strange, and me suddenly don't feel awkwards taking off clothes in front of someone too. Haha.. It became so so natural. At the end of the day, I only bought a thick belt while she bought 2 dresses @ GG<5 and a skirt at fashion lab. Believed she spend about SGD 260 that night. Haha...

X-men on 3rd June 2006

2006-06-10T14:22:00.000+08:00

Went to watch X-men on Saturday at PS. Booked 7pm, almost full house.
The show was pretty nice, humorous too (which was something I didn't expect).
I was told that there was a last short scene at the end of the movie, after the cast and credits.
Knew that Professor Xavier didn't perish, in fact he telepathed his sense and thoughts to the sick patient shown in the TV. :)

Later in the night, hop onto Deric's bike to dou feng. We actually rode to east coast for dinner cum supper but he suddenly thought of taking me to visit poly marina, and so we detoured to west coast. haha, crazy right, from the end to another end of Singapore. Bike ride at night is damn song... With the night breeze blown towards you, the speed of the bike, especially when we are on the highway, not much vehicles on the road ( cos' it's bout one plus)... Got a different feeling compared to driving when we passed PSA, we are just so exposed, no wonder some people love riding a bike. Reached home bout 2am thanks to D. He forgot to send me home, and instead he drove back to his place. too late for him to realise, haha...

2006-06-10T14:02:00.000+08:00

It was raining...
There was no one around, just the both of us...
I gently pressed that part of your body, you lighted up...
Suddenly fell the urge of hearing you speak.
Sensually turned you on...
Oh my god, who knows...
One part of you got defunct.
Why...
It became so so soft...
Why do you wanna make my life so miserable...
Oh why?...

Hey dudes, love it? so what are you thinking now? haha
Nice descriptions ya?
Come on, do you think I'm such a horny person? haha
In fact, I was referring to my computer, and my right speaker broke down. Hehe...

Chaos

2006-06-02T23:08:00.000+08:00

There have been a revolution in my dept recently. It's actually rather minor, but the mgmt just make it as loud as possible, esp Pat. Perhaps my dept is too united that they wanted to separate us. Pat told some of them that Tom wanted to transfer 2 people out and 2 in from either ISC or another division in Kaki Bukit. What the fuck. I hoped I'm not one of them. God bless me and everyone in the dept, hope the mgmt dissolve this issue.

Pat told me that they are also hiring one more person for import. Believe it's a male this time. Could take the place of Darren. Haha... Hope it's a good good looking young guy. Best is early 20s and is single. Haha... Perhaps could ask Pat to add in extra requirements to the job position. Hehe.

Initially there is a male model who went for this interview for my current position, luckily at that time Deric needed a female. Lucky me.

2006-06-02T22:26:00.000+08:00

Thought of a way to play punk on Pat but most importantly is to find the equipment. I don't really see them nowadays but if I happened to come across, I will sure buy it. Haha. Greedy people ends up being punk with. aha.

Ah kor just asked me for a ride on his racer bike, he still in warehouse. Wa lau, so pia. Timing wrong sia, called me out at this hour when I haven even bathe and was so so tired that I didn't went to the PC fair with my colleagues. Told him next time, anyway wanna try the trill of motor ride at nite.

It's not my money but I feel for Steve

2006-06-02T21:59:00.000+08:00

Steve lost $500 yesterday. Oh my god... When I heard that, I just feel the pain for him. $500 leh, gone in a night jus like that. I'm sure all of u will crash if u r the one losing this sum of money. It just sucks.

Anyway, thought of a place to give him a treat.

Steve, u wanna chinese restaurant rite? How about Dian Xiao Er? Didn't go there before, have ya? Alrite, if u happened to read my blog tmr, good for you. Haha... Shall contact you on sat to confirm the time. Probably around lunch to late afternoon on sun. Hope I can make it. Haha.... See ya and don think too much on the loss.

Heng Heng

2006-06-02T21:56:00.000+08:00

Mum apologised to me that she totally forgot to buy the 4D on wed. I told her it's ok, and this means that it's fated if the numbers really come out. Haha. In the end, true enough, they didn't came out. What a heng suay situation. Haha.

2006-05-30T22:16:00.000+08:00

I wanna learn guitar, wanna learn cantonese. Ngaw seh teng, um seh gong. Haha

2006-05-30T22:12:00.000+08:00

Mum didn't help me to buy 4D today. Oh my.

Saturday night---Da Vinci Code

2006-05-28T18:34:00.000+08:00

Went to watch Da Vinci Code yesterday night. Planned to watch it with Yew Wee but most cinemas were fully booked last Saturday afternoon. Too bad we had to cancel our plans. Until now, still no news from him, WTH.

Deric called me to check my progress on Friday. Sucks, felt so lost and messed up for the report. Daily report sent to all big boss late, in the end kana complained by Bernard ( who was on leave). Thought he wouldn't care since he was on a half day leave but it was otherwise. Totally useless, no excuse even though I'm still at the 'teething' stage. What the fuck. Deric was right that I am still attempting to consolidate all pieces of info to get the one big picture. Hai, hope tomorrow will be a new day.
Anyway, told him I'm not confident in my work. He gave advice and promised to accompany me to DVC.

We met on Saturday after he finished his exams. He wondered if he had read the wrong topic cos' what he studied didn't came out. Got a feeling that he might fail. Unfortunately, what is done cannot be undone so there's no choice. God bless him... However, believed D will pass cos' he's a smart guy. haha...

Got surprised that he was already at blk 57 when he called me. haha, so gotta hurry. haha. Both hungry-pangs went for pig organ soup near Jalan Besar, (it was one of the best POS in singapore and so people said. extra bonus to it cos' the soup can be refill.)

Drove to PS cos' we thought there will be seats in the evening. When we reached there, sucks, left midnight show. We left for Tampines mall. Hai, we buried our own grave. The queue is extremely long that it reached outside Ajisan and the timeslot left only 1230. Hahaha, I was laughing at myself, how foolish to go to neighbouring town on that day, at that hour. We ended up with no choice since we wanted to watch no matter how. Haha. Strange, it's been one week and there's still so many ppl. Both of us came up with 2 conclusion= GSS and sch holiday; neighbouring town. Haha.. Guess all of you should know who came up with the latter. Hehe.

Had 3 more hours to spend so we went Mohamed Sultan to rackie. To our surprise, there's no queue or human traffic at the pubs. By right, on a Sat and at the hour should have long queue. In the end, we ended walking along all the pubs along UE mall to Zouk and back to UE mall. crazy. Heard some songs his band recorded, haha, I have no comment on the vocalist cos' it s***s. Nice guitar strumming on his part.

Spend most of our time in the car that day until the whole body numb. Hahaha. Stopped at East Coast before going back to Tampines JIT for the movie. Damn adverts, time stated at 1230 but ads spent 20 more mins, so the exact time of the movie started about 1am. Connie called twice during the show, didn't dare to pick up, msged her, luckily didn't get scolding. Phew.

The seat was damn uncomfortable, no headrest and one of the armrest occupied by this "considerate" friend. So in fact there's no r&r thruout the movie. Haha.

The movie came out fine, the story was rather direct and hastened, however I saw no climax, hai. Fortunately I read the whole book, so I could understand more or less. I believed it will be damn complicated when people don't know what the holy grail or the priory of sion is. In fact, I was a little confused. Was enlightened by D when he explained to me the relation between the last scene and the bible. Realised it was one of the most vital part that Dan wanted to portray to the readers.

Damn it, reached home at 4am, need to wake up at 8 plus. However that superman need not sleep, still went supper with friend after sending me home, didn't sleep and continued working when I went for my service @ 10am today. Haha, he so piah, I became so stress. haha.

2006-05-20T02:36:00.000+08:00

Have I changed?

A thursday evening -- 11 May 2006

2006-05-14T22:20:00.000+08:00

Thursday was the 1st time I went dinner with my colleague. Initially there's 3 of us, Deric, Alann and me to go makan. In the end, Alann stubbornly insisted on finishing his work. Hence, we left without him. I requested to go Bugis cos' thought of looking at some shoes, however I dropped my shopping plan cos' it was so inconvenient to shop with a guy. He drove from our workplace to Bugis. I was damn comfortable in the car that I don't really want to get off. Haha.

When we reached there, I can't really decide what to eat, Fish n Co or Sakae Sushi. Thus, we did a coin flipping to decide. Hai, always like that... We ate @ Frog Sushi, chatted, joked throughout our dinner. The jokes from him are super lame, for e.g...

Q: what is the name of the longest knife?
A: Tu Long Dao ( too long knife)

There are many more but blogging in could not bring out the coldness. Haha.

Finished our dinner at around 10. Initially thought of going back though the night is still young and there's endless stuff to chat about, but there's really no place to go. Went back to his car, supposed he will drive me home. Who knows, he thought the same, so we both decided to go for a drink. Hehe... We went to the previous youth flying club for wine. The place is located near Dempsy Road and somewhere behind Botanical Garden. Forget the name of the place but the ambience was good cos' it's 180 degree different from BQ or CQ.

The wine cellar showcases a wide variety of wine, but I chose to stick to French to play safe. Damn it, I still thought the French variety was limited, until I realized the cellar allocated one more corner for the French wine. Haha...Who knows Deric also blindly follow me. WTH...

I chose a Chateau Roc De Segur 2001, it's a Bordeaux red, just to play safe cos' I knew the region produces many good wine. Haha... What an amateur. Haha...

Aha, Deric let me test the wine, and I told him irregardless of testing, we still have to accept it. haha. However, I didn't expect the wine to turn out rather good. It's young (cos' approx.5 years), the tannin is low, not too round cos' it's young and the alcoholic vol is only 12%. For me is absolutely good cos' it's easy to drink and not get drunk.
Haha.. Dangerous for the driver to get tispy too rite?

The wine is accompanied with crackers and cheese. Yummy! Chatted for long, from top to bottom. Exchanging each others' life philosophy. ( Though I'm only 2 decades old but when it comes to this topic, I have plenty to discuss about. Haha...) Just love to do that cos' you feel great when both in fact share the same beliefs.

We chatted till the bar closed, at that moment it's about 12 plus. Haha... Both of us finished the whole bottle of wine ( means I drank half of it), what an achievement! Surprisingly I'm not drunk, Yuhoo! cos' I usually confine myself to 2 glasses otherwise I really couldn't take it. Haha.

Mum called in the middle of our conversation, damn it, I expected the worst she will say, fortunately she just ask me to go back early. Phew...

In the end, got back home at 1, mum and sis also just reached home. Haha...

Habits 2

2006-05-14T21:51:00.000+08:00

Today's topic is sight.

The 1st impression of a person or thing is being judge by their appearances.

That is why people use "Love at 1st sight" for a reason. They don't use "love at 1st sentence" or "love at 1st word".

I believe the appearance of something is vital. Me, like many others, just couldn't shoo this "beautiful" temptation away.

I love beautiful things, irregardless of living or non-living. It brings nice feeling to the eyes and even our mind. :)

Bad Habit 1

2006-05-10T22:46:00.000+08:00

This period is my bad habits exhibition. The theme is senses. Today I shall talk about smell.

So what's about smell? Basically, I love nice smell. Haha, lame, everybody love it too. However, I love to make myself smell good and I expect people to do the same. Sometimes, I will sniff people standing near me (not obvious though), especially when they applied fragances. Haha...

Fragance made me feel good towards that individual. Currently, I'm mesmerised by a smell from someone. It just made me feel so nice. The person is... ... ... saya. Haha, Chance can last for a long time. I can clearly smell my own smell for the whole day since 24 April 2006. Haha. Alrite, I'm not so self-obsessed, in fact since Darren is gone, Deric became his replacement. Better smell cos' the smoking smell isn't that heavy, wonder what fragrance he used, it's kinda new to me. ;) sniff sniff sniff like a dog...

Surprise surprise!

2006-05-10T21:43:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was a surprising day. Haha.. In fact it was my birthday. Was really delighted cos' many of my friends did not forget my birthday, even Shirlena (haven seen her for a year since last ITP) hehe.. but that was not all. Haha

I never expect all my colleagues knew about it. I didn't tell anyone except Pei xi, and so... ... u know... and then all know about it. hoho... However I didn't really know they knew until lunch time.

Initially Pei xi, monica and me just thought of going Quest for lunch. Then Deric and Alann wanted to join us and to eat something better. In the end, he thought of Swensen's @ airport. We took Deric's car there. I thought it's a manager's treat but somehow hohoho... it was my birthday treat. cos when all of us finished our meal, the waitress brought a bowl of ice creams with a candle. So surprise! Thanks Pei xi so much, love her, smooch. Haha.. Purposely requested them to sing the birthday song in cantonese. Haha, in the end Deric bao ka liao.

That was not all. When we went back to the office and I left my desk to learn something from Pei Xi, the lunch group placed a cake from Spinelli coffee on my desk, plus a hello panda and a hi-chew grapes. Oh my, my heart almost melted. of cos' I approached each and everyone to thanks them. :) so nice of them.

Today, Mun yue gave a bird sticker that has my birthdate on it. I pinned it on my board. Hehe. Haiyo, Pei Xi and Monica were not here today. In the end, the cubicle left me alone. Lonely, I'm so lonely, nothing to do, just studied what Pei Xi loaned me. Deric briefed me on the company's overview as well as the duties that our department is doing. What the fu**, I felt like an idiot cos' whatever he asked me, I know nuts, so malu. Hai...

Anyway, recieved Steve's postcard and birthday card today. Haha they came simultanously... Gracias, Merci, Danke, Grazie, obrigado, xie xie, arigato, terimah kasih and thanks. :)

Passion for dance

2006-05-08T23:29:00.000+08:00

Discovered Deric's great passion for dance today. Haha.. We just happened to talk about boardway musicals, then we mentioned about dance. Are you thinking about hip hop, modern ballet? Nope doc. It's social dance... Haha. Many people classify this dance as one for old people. Haha..

Got to know that he knew 5 dances, mostly latin american, cool. Just love people who dances latin. Never expect him to dance in the office ( of cos' within our cubicle). haha... Waiting for him to lend me those dance movies. hehe..

Today saw the dancing programme on ch5, "so u think u can dance" or something like that. Damn nice, just love those hip hop. One of the couples danced salsa, woah! Really sal-sa (xiao sa). Haha...

Anyway, PAP won Jln Besar area yesterday night. Gotta wait 5 more years for the extra country bonus. hai.

Listening...

2006-05-08T23:28:00.000+08:00

I'm listening to Gravity from Fly to the Sky. Just love k-song.

Sucks man

2006-05-04T22:15:00.000+08:00

It's been almost 2 weeks since I started working, but sucks man. Not the work or people, but the administrative stuff. Almost 2 weeks and haven't got my own password and email account. Deric sent the application to the India call centre but rejected due to certain f**king issue which we also don't know. Guess the "supplied chain" broke in India. Hence, might be getting it next week.

Patrick said it's very strange, already 2 weeks and not yet ready. Saya must wait for so long to get to see the world. damn slow. Haha.. Think now Tom ( the bigger boss) is helping to solve this matter.

Hmmm... Yes! Tmr's Friday. Shopping time. Shop for my second home (my cosy office space). Gonna go PS to run an errant too.

Wonder if I could take my election leave on the 15th? Haha... Then that will be a long long weekend. Haha... Btw today, stoned in my chair and mind entered into the 4th dimension for 3 times. Haha. Damn sleepy and monotonous doing the verification work, but no choice, who says it's part of my job.

Hey, guess what is the meaning of this entry?

The conclusion is... Who says IBM is technologically efficient? Haha.

Cabaret

2006-05-04T22:10:00.000+08:00

Intended to watch Cabaret. Wonder if time allows. But before that, let's see what kind of seats they have.

Erm... Hello

2006-05-02T22:00:00.000+08:00

Guess what I'm doing now?

I'm performing multi-tasking; eating orange from Valencia, blogging, msn-ing, researching what the hell "Risk of Loss" means. I'm struck with the ROL and must find the definite meaning otherwise I will feel very uncomfortable. Haha.

Today, Pei Xi was telling me that I do not need to go an extra mile to revise the work I learned everyday. I will generally pick up the skills as time passes. Hmmm, indeed many people told me that but I felt like a slowpoke. Perhaps I'm a little impatient in that sense. Haha... Looks like the Taurean is up to its mischief. Gotta slow down my charge, otherwise the fire on the matchstick burns off. Haha... Anyway, I changed my priority in life and Swee Poh said I'm "hua xing" but close friends will know what kind of people I am, it wasn't good, yet I'm not a bad person either. Haha, how ironic.

Went to Orchard then Bugis with Jac, Theresa and Li Ping yesterday. I felt a oh-so-long-time-no-see feeling. Hai, really missed everyone. Life is just friendless without friends. Haha.. Lame sia... haha.. reminded me of the lame riddle, how do u call a lame prawn? Ans: Lame sia.

Chatted with LP in PastaMania for few hours but I just didn't feel that time passes that quick. Haha.. Got to know what many other friends are doing... wuwuwu... *smirk*

Jackie gave me my early b'day present. Aha! Super artistic, just love it, especially the ring holder. Brought to office today and prepare to let it face the world. haha

hey guys! let's meet again for nydc this time... ;)

Btw, realised the real meaning of a word few days ago.

"Assume" is the word I realised.

What's so special about it? Frankly, there's nothing special but hey people, do not simply use this word when you don't know the actual meaning. Haha... Because... when you use this word, you are basically making an ass out of you and me... haha.. get it? no? Right, so simply spell the word 'assume'.

A-S-S-U-M-E, hence, making an ASS out of U and ME. Haha... So next time do not use "assume" but you can use "presume". Haha...

Xiao Mei Mei @ work, Part 3

2006-04-29T01:24:00.000+08:00

Wonder why the title is xiao mei mei @ work?

Reason: I'm the youngest of all that Darren and Deric call me Xiao mei mei. haha..

This is my 5th day working and my last day guided by Darren. Hai... Today I asked Darren if it's his last day. He said, "technically yes, why? miss me huh?"
Haha...

Things are going pretty moderate today. Updated the War room report, emailed the software tracking. Till 4pm, then Darren taught me on the DD (Direct delivery) stuff.

We girls went to lunch with the "three musketeer". It was rather fun, talking lame jokes, basically all from Deric. They talked about their NS days. Haha, again now then I realised that everything was brought up by Deric, Alann was the background effect. Darren was sitting opposite to me, smoking, laughing along but didn't say a word. Damn quiet.

Got to say that from the observation I made (though only a few days but it's sufficient), Darren seems to be more mature than Deric, in terms of voice, way of speaking and behaviour. Hmmm... Now then I realised how immature ( in many ways) Deric can be. Tsk tsk tsk...

Oh yes, I gave Darren the gratitude card and choc before I left office. Haha... was looking for the right time but it seems that he spend his whole day in the war room. haha. Luckily before I left, Deric reminded me to get the phone password from Darren. I went back to the room with all the stuff, asked him for the pw, and by the way handed him the things. Initially wondered if it's too exaggerated, but I don't want to regret not doing it so I just followed NIKE's slogan.

A bit pai seh cos' Jeannette was present, but I dare to say it was a win-win situation between me and Darren. I happy, he also happy. Haha... Just felt that it was a way of showing gratitude. ;)

After then, I went home happily! Lalala...

Xiao mei mei @ work, part 2

2006-04-27T21:01:00.000+08:00

Today sucks. All things seems to be fine apparently. I think I'm having too high hopes on myself despite all of them ask me to take my time. However, despite their advise and thru my experience, I know they still hope that I could learn almost everything by this week, as Darren is leaving. This is human behavioural, I know it best. haha.. Anyway, I clarified most of the stuff for the war room report and shipment tracking today.

My god, the Chance eau de toliette is damn overpowering and lasting. I could still smell it.

Asked Darren what he usually does at work, to get a brief understanding on what I will be doing soon. Basically, tracking of shipments, liasing with suppliers and customers. However in the end, it's down to establishing a good rapport with the suppliers. U help, they help. Haha.. I heard that I might most probably be handling with more documentation stuff ( pei xi's job). Love the way he speaks, very tactful and cautious, wise sia. Darren last day work, intended to give him a card and choc tmr. :p Who's says I like him... ... ... ... haha...

Hai, got to work extremely hard these few weeks. I just feel that I can't stop. No wonder someone told me that he's worry that once I started working, I will turn into a workaholic. haha..

Today, I went to lunch with Monica, Pei xi and Evelyn. Chatted a bit but some of the jargons they used and job cases they encountered, I couldn't really understand. Just sit there and listen. haha.. Hope my relationship with the colleagues can get better. Just hope for the good 1st.

Xiao mei mei @ work

2006-04-27T00:21:00.000+08:00

I am trying as hard to learn as much from Darren( a la mentor). It's my 3rd day and things are progressing rather slow (to what I feel). Not becos' he teaches slow, but I learn slow. Damn, now I wondered if I'm still a fast learner as what I told them.

Today been doing the war room report the whole day when u actually need to update twice daily. sucks man, in the end of the comparison, what a huge discrepancy between mine and his. haha.

Alrite, I shan't be so discouraged, told myself never have too high hopes on saya, cos' I had tasted the fell before. It's not delicious. So now, I'll just absorb as much Darren can teach me. Even got my notebook ready. :p

Speaking about my mentor, hai, I will be an independent survivor after he leave for Australia this end of month. *sob* I felt like a little kid without a guardian = Struggling, though Deric and Pei Xi can guide me. Imagine when Pei Xi also leave in end of June, hmmm, of cos I'll be more experienced in my job, but I believe they might hire one more person. hehe...

Darren is a good mentor. Real good I feel. Willing to transfer his knowledge to me. Nice guy, rather good looking, stable and sensible though might show a little too-relax-attitude, hehe. However he has no choice either, otherwise he will get reprimand by Deric. Haha.
Strange, though it's only 3 days, but got use to his 'smell'. Perhaps we shared the same desk. haha.. I'm really like a baby. He smokes but somehow, it smells so nice. Feels the urge of sniffing him, some people will know I'm like that, weird.
Ho la ho la, people don't get the wrong idea, he's happily engaged though still young. I just look up to him as an advisor cum mentor. Someone whom I really admire. Hehe...

2 more days to go solo.

Mucho Gracias

2006-04-21T14:40:00.000+08:00

God, thank you so much.

Thanks everyone who prayed for me, cos I finally got it.

I like this song

2006-04-21T01:44:00.000+08:00

Was in This Fashion @ Paya Labar today. Heard lee hom sang this very familiar song. Went home and check it out. Yes, indeed it's called "I want to spend my lifetime loving you" by Marc Anthony and Tina Arena. It was a soundtrack for the Mask of Zorro. Was told that there is a spanish version. Oh...spanish.... I was also searching for the spanish version of a song that Marc sang with J lo. Not very sure but think it's called "escapemonos", or something like that. Saw their MV and fall in love with that song too. :)

Goodies Review doce- Malan la mian @ Expo

2006-04-21T00:55:00.000+08:00

It's another Sunday after service, 16-04-06, went to have lunch @ Malan noodle restaurant with Mum and Karrin. The Easter production was good, at least up to good standard.

Ordered Shanghai soup dumpling, Shredded pork noodle, beef brisket noodle, spicy mango prawn roll and homemade sour plum tea. The noodle is not too ex, @ SGD 5.60 a bowl. The la mian was not bad and not sticky. Mum said the zha jiang mian is too salty. I believed all zha jiang mian brings a bit saltiness.

My beef brisket tastes beefy, especially the gravy. I wondered why? Perhaps all the nutrients have immersed into it. Haha.. The xiao long tang bao does not have the hua tiao jiu taste, however the tang zi is too little. Hai.

The mango prawn roll wasn't that bad, dry not oily, however I had tried the best @ Golden Boat dim sum restaurant @ Marina Square. ( Will be blogging it next time). The roll isn't really cylinder shape. It's rectangular shape. Hmmm.

The tea brings out sour plum plus very chinese tea aroma. I believed that they soaked the sour plum in pu er. Haha.. Taste fine for me, at least I'm a chinese tea drinker.

Goodies review once- Macau Express @ Expo

2006-04-21T00:08:00.000+08:00

Written on 18-04-06, 12.30pm, Tue.
Mabel Chua
Appointed writer for Living with atavistic feelings

Last last Sunday, I mentioned going to Macau Express @ Expo for lunch with my mum. Rmb?
My mum ordered a Macau Fried Dry Hor Fun. She said the hor fun is very normal. We could even find better ones somewhere. True enough, I tried some of hers, it's usual cze char style with some char siew taste, which brings sweetness to the dish.
The ingredients were pathetic, got a prawn, a luncheon meat, a few pieces of chinese sausage, some veggies and that's it. Yes! that's it while it costs SGD 7.90. I gonna give it 3 hmmms as it is saved by the smooth and chewy feeling of the hor fun. :)

I ordered a baked beef steak spaghetti. Hmmm, some big chunks of veggies such as boiled potato, cauliflower, carrot, french beans. A bit hard though and of cos', there is finely sliced beef. The dish is served with some melted cheese over the beef steak. A bit weird to me, like east meet west. Furthermore, looks are deceiving, the appearance looked firm but when I chewed them, nah, it's not even springy. It's overcooked till soft. Quite disappointing though the gravy got a bit of the curry taste which is rather appetizing. The beef are thinly sliced so they are tender. However, I thought I tasted pork. Haha..

It's about 1am when Steve called, so it's about 11pm at his place.

*Cont* We ordered 2 beverage. Mum said the coffee isn't thick enough, definitely lose to Ya kun coffee. I felt my yuan yang milk tea isn't "hiong" (aromatic) enough. Haha. The milk covers the tea taste. Hai.

We also ordered this salted Bacalhau, SGD 1.20 / pc. At 1st, we didn't know what the hell is that. There's no link between the word and picture menu. Haha.. We realised the bacalhau is potato croquette. True enough the bacalhau is salty. The outer layer is flaky instead of crispy. Wondered if it is because the croquette is cold. There is a heavy peppery taste. The croquette contains some spring onions, chives and fats bits I supposed. hehe. For the peppery and flaky reasons, I'm giving the salted Bacalhau 2.5 hmmms.

Munching on a cool cucumber

2006-04-20T23:33:00.000+08:00

Hi guys, guess what I'm doing now?

I'm munching on a cucumber. Haha..

Chatted on msn with Miszah and Jac just now. Jac is jobless like me, Miszah is working but wondering if she should further her studies in NUS. Lucky fellow, though she might have to go through a certain dilemma. However irregardless of working or studying, wish her all the best.

SP told me she treated a patient today. A guy from airforce army, as plane tech. Haha... Both hit off well. Haha... So she asked for his no. and the guy in the end gave her his msn, email, and hp no. Haha.. Ooh la la, what a generous offer.

These few weeks have been the best weeks for a glutton. Btw, my new nick is called glutton. Thanks to all the cravings and free time (jobless for almost 2 months) that made me piled up a few more pounds. I think I'll have to retreat back to my cave for the time being.

I thought since Qi Xing is gone for this moment, I could take a break from good food. It's all deception, haha. More food have since threw themselves into my embrace and the glutton couldn't help but indulge. Argh, I couldn't stand it anymore. Have to take a break from those real good food (calories-laden food). Btw, wondering why Qi Xing doesn't blog now. Why uh?

Alright, my next few blogs are on the goodies reviews, it's on the gorgeous HK or Chinese cuisine @ Expo. hehe.. Btw, wondering what should I have for dinner tmr? Chinese, western, korean, or just pepper lunch? Yew wee sure shoo me off. haha.. Dude, you are so fussy. Why not just stop by at Chinatown? Haha..

A word from Mabel

2006-04-20T01:02:00.000+08:00

Hey guys! Long time no see, I miss ya, so give me a hug!

Sorry guys, if you have been waiting for the goodies reviews, you would have to wait a little longer, though I got my draft but I'm lazy to blog in. Been suffering from headaches these few days, even now. :(

Maybe you all would like to know my situation for this while. In fact I'm jobless for this whole month, living off my own savings. Sucking up dry sooner or later. Haven't got reply from NTU, but anyway I intended not to go uni now, perhaps 1 to 2 years later, or till I earned enough expenses and it's time to go. haha..

Only started to look for a job this week, but it's super effective through agency. I just went online to register for "Adecco". Got a reply from the people there within an hour. I was surprised. Haha.. So now the lazy me is depending on Adecco to seek a suitable job for me. haha..

Btw went to IBM for an interview today. Pretty relax, no stress and I loved the place. Was confident as compared to my previous me. No one piece, or half a piece when talking. haha..
However, it really goes down to the interviewers' decision.
I'm not pinning too much hope that I will be shortlisted as there is still a few more candidates. Hehe... One more thing, I think I really cork up in the situation question part. Argh... Will get a reply on Monday, if not, will seek for Adecco. Haha..

Hey guys, think we might not be meeting up this time due to all ur busy schedules (not mine of cos), but if you chance to read my blog, hope you could also update me with your happenings. :)
Lalala... So long till we meet again. Hasta la vista!

The one behind the scene

2006-04-20T00:57:00.000+08:00

So god, please tell me, what do you have in mind for me?

Hope you could bless me getting into IBM. :)

Love you...

Headache

2006-04-20T00:53:00.000+08:00

I'm weak, I'm dying... I'm getting incessant headache these few days.

*Crawling on the floor*

No more why.

Looks can be deceiving...

2006-04-10T19:33:00.000+08:00

I realised looks can be very deceiving, or may I say that why some people look stunning sometimes is becos' they style and make-up their face, irregardless of both genders. They just look plain or even terrifying (cos' it's 180 degrees different). Of cos' there are many beautiful people in the world too. Too bad it wasn't la muchacha que derrite.

Confession of a melting queen

2006-04-10T18:49:00.000+08:00

It's raining pretty much during this period. I wondered if it's because Rain~Bi is coming? Haha.. Nuh, just being lame. People told me it's the monsoonal season now. Hmmm. How blue. It's raining and I cannot help it but melt.

Yesterday was a sleepy day. Accompanied my mum to service but I almost dozed off during Pastor Tan's preaching. Perhaps it's the 1st time listening to his preach, but he reminded me of my lecture days. Sleepy... Haha... My mum and sis said he's actually very good, funny and energetic. I hope so... *yawn* Haha...

Went to Macau Express @ the expo for lunch with mum. She wanna try the food there. Believed the food have this 'HK Cha Can Teng' style. I'm not saying much about it. If you all wanna know, just check it out my Goodies Review once-Macau Express. :)

Strangely, I couldn't speak what I planned to say. Have been wanting to have a good conversation with my mum. Believed this is the best moment when there's one familiar around either. :) However, we talked about other things but not what I wanted to say. Couldn't understand why is it so difficult to speak up. Hehe... After we finished, we headed straight to the MRT station. Still the time isn't right. When we are at the platform waiting, phew... I confessed everything from before to now... Blah blah blah blah blah.... I don't give a damn at that moment, cos' I realised that whenever we tried to talk, aha! We got into this big disagreement. I just wonder if it's the generation gap or sometimes we just don't get it. That's why I tried not to talk much to her now. So surprisingly, she just listened and gave her own opinion, perhaps she had nothing to say either. Haha... Hmmm, after speaking to her, I felt lifted. Feel real good. :)

Goodies review diez- Jing Jing Dessert House n Lan Zhou La Mian

2006-04-10T01:15:00.000+08:00

At Jing Jing

Hi, I'm slightly crazy by now. Have to reach the back of my brains to search for information. Yup, on the same day, 02-04-06, me and Star continued our Makan quest. We wanted dessert. I thought of traditional chinese dessert but I decided to give it a miss as I had been eating them recently. Mum cooked them almost everyday for a period. Haha... In the end, I thought of the dessert house which sells 101 type of desserts. Decided to go for it despite getting neg comments of that place from my mum. Damn, should have listen to her.

The 101 desserts store is Jing Jing Dessert House @ 36 Temple Street #01-02. To be simple, it's just situated in Chinatown, along the shop houses. Sure can be found if you're a street-wise. ;)

How disappointed it turned out to be. All the 101 desserts looked relatively similar, just some changes here and there. Sucks man, decieved us innocent consumers who innocently know it only through word of mouth.

I ordered a wheat grass jelly with soursop pulp. Actually, it wasn't that bad. The jelly was not sweet, as the sweetness came from the soursop. Wonder did they add any syrup to the fruit? I hope not. But it's pretty nice. However, it's not special and we could actually prepare them at home, fuss free. Moreover, it costs SGD 4.

Star ordered blueberry sorbet. It tasted like crashed ice with milk and blueberry artificial colouring. Haha.. Yucks that's the worst SGD 5 sorbet I ever tasted. Oh so crashed ice. Haha...

I'm not really going to talk more about it. It just sucks and it's not recommended to go there. Never...

I'm gonna give my jelly 1.5 hmmms, and a hmmm for sorbet.

We settled our dinner in Chinatown. Hmm... Star was well- informed ya... Brought me to this place blocked by those "da pai dang". The food shop is called Lan Zhou La Mian @ no.19 Smith Street. Passed there ample times but just never thought of patronising becos' of the oh so plain decor.

I was full then, so Star ordered a Zha jiang mian and 1 long of xiao long tang bao. All noodles are pulled by a master, shifu. I really can't control myself but to steal a portion of the noodle from star. It's really appealing that time. The zha jiang mian was a bit sticky, and slightly hard to chew. However, the flavour is rounded ( haha, talk as if it's wine). It is not very salty, despite Star commented the opposite. I'll give it a 3.5 hmmms, can't really feel the taste of the noodle when I'm full but it's a confirmation that I'll be back there. :)

The xiao long tang bao comes in 8 pcs for SGD 6. Greedy me wanted to try the taste and in the end, I ate 4 of those. Haha.. Pretty nice, juicy. The good thing is that the skin does not tear when taken from the leaves, hence the soup is properly immersed inside the skin. Haha.. Nice... However, when you suck the soup, it tasted more like hua tiao jiu, believed that they put a lot. 1stly for the juicy taste, 2ndly, to cover all smell of those meat, might be overnight meat, who knows? The tang bao reminded me of mum's colleague's jiao zi. Taste the same in fact. That is why I feel that it's not that fantastic. That's why I'm giving it a 3.5 hmmms too.Cos' I'm craving to go back and try them again. Haha...

Goodies review nueve- Casuarina Curry Restaurant

2006-04-10T00:07:00.000+08:00

On 02-04-06, last Domingo, Me and one of my makan kakis, Star, went for Makan trip. This time Star brought me to a place called Casuarina Curry Restaurant, previously known as the Prata Shop. It's at 126 Casuarina Rd, somewhere near Upper Thomson Road, take bus 163 from Toa Payoh interchange is the most hassle free method to reach the place, remember to drop after Yio Chu Kang.

I believed the restaurant is more like a family-styled place. Restaurant? More like a stuffy eatery. Haha.. The place where we sat, table 26, is one hot place. Despite having a fan there, it's still suay, it wasn't switched on when we're there, and we weren't aware of it either. Two idiots.

I read through the webby night before, somehow got the idea of what to order. And so, we ordered a kosong prata (2.5 hmmms), a egg n onion(4 hmmms), a cheese (2 hmmms), a chicken masala (3 hmmms becos' of the chix tenderness), a teh-chino (2 hmmms cos' too milk) and a kopi-chino ice (3 hmmms, coffee taste). We weren't full so a mutton murtabak (3 hmmms, filling but is minced mutton, little mutton too, different from the restaurant in Little India) was added to the list (not in picture). Haha...

Alright, I admitted that I was deceived by the description on the webby telling me that the teh-chino is a refreshing beverage tastes of local Indian tea but with a cappuccino twist. Aha! I ordered and it turned out to be Lipton tea plus milk. If I knew, I would have ordered Teh Tarik.
The pratas are crispy and not that oily compared to some places, real good. However, I expected the same stuff in many other places. Perhaps the prata's flour is not too thick, that's why when it gets a little colder, it's still easy to tear apart. The best I ever tried is the egg n onion prata. Nice and filling, however, it's not as delicious when dipped in the curry gravy.
The chicken masala curry is rather salty, but the chicken is quite tender. Don't really recommend this to you all.
The cheese prata taste too salty and the cheese slice is the main culprit. Yucks, despite not tasting any cheesy smell. Thought of complaining it like Zhang Zhiyi in the Visa advert, but considering the aftermath, I decided not too. :)

The prices here are rather reasonable. Think we spend less than SGD20, forgot to ask Star if they charge 16% consumer tax. It was filling and worth trying if only you are fine with the ulu place. :)

Goodies review ocho- Suntory Sukkiri Orange

2006-04-09T23:16:00.000+08:00

Yes dudes and dudettes, if you did noticed, this is the 3rd goodies entry I wrote. Yup, all at once because I had tasted all these goodies several days ago and I didn't blog them. Haha..

Alright, this time, I'm gonna introduce you all to Suntory Sukkiri Orange, in english is Suntory Nacchan orange pet bottle orange drink. Qixing bought this drink in Meidi-ya on last Sunday (Think I'm right). Asked me to pick a bottle of Japanese drink (I wondered why local cannot meh?) In the end, I chose this bottle. Longed for it, but couldn't bear to buy it. Why? cos' it's SGD 3.70. Sorry Qixing, I didn't meant to chop your vegetable head *... it's just that the inner me is up to mischief. :) But still I'm so so happy that you gave the bottle to me. Yuhoo... However, I believed it will be short-lived cos' I discovered some 'scars' on its body this morning. Oh.. short lived....

Let's get down to business. Indeed, the drink lifted up the information on its bottle. Sha tang bu shi yong, wu zhao se, chun shui shi yong (english translation= no sugar added, no colouring and filtrated water is used.) Qixing and I felt the drink tasted like orange taste and water. It's not sweet, rather good for health. Nothing more I could say, just taste like very diluted orange syrup we prepare during BBQ at East Coast Park. Haha... Go figure it out.

Hmmm.. I'm gonna give it 2.5 hmmms, think it's very deceiving despite the oh- not- sweet-so diluted drink, the orange drink contains 35kcal per 100ml. The whole bottle is 500ml, so figure it yourselves again.

* Chop vegetable head is a Hokkien term meaning... Argh, couldn't explain in words, if anyone don't know, just ask me personally. :)