Yesterday was the last day of my voluntary work at WSC.. Had lots of fun the past 1 year, and of cos a great sense of achievement to be involved in voluntary work. Its really fun being with the kids.. the day we played games in Ntu, when we went to Mushroom farm together, etc. But honestly, ever since I started work, I've got very little time for myself, and the last few times I've been dragging myself to the sessions. Decided to take a break for now and settle down at work first. As I've mentioned before, staying committed is never easy.. In the future when I can manage my time better, I'll definitely take part in some form of voluntary work again..

My kid made this star for me - Teacher's day and farewell gift.
And a little gift from family service centre..
Such a beautiful cake.. For Melvin.

Laughing Gor 之变節

This show is so nicee!! The cast is so good.. Its already worth it going to the cinema for them - 謝天華, 黃秋生, 吳鎮宇, 黃日華, 曾志偉, 元彪. I'm cant wait to watch it again.. when I find the canto version online.. :)

Had lunch with my uncle today, then he had to rush off to run some errands.. So I bought some fruits and went to sit by the river. Its surprisingly peaceful there, everyone was just standing around, smoking, daydreaming, and there were tourists taking pictures.. Just a street across and the things people do are so different.

If I had a choice, I would still prefer a simple and carefree life.. free from competition, politics, gossips, selfishness, and fake people..

Anyway, Happy Birthday to my Daddy! I love him so much!!! :)

Childhood Memories

I was having a nap on my grandma's bed this afternoon and I saw this..

Looks like some old and worn out soft toy?

Of cos it looks worn out, I think it was already around when I was just a few years old. So its been around for 10over years.. but soft toys wont hang around that long.

Its actually the blanket I've been using since I was a kid! I'll take very long to fold and zip up my blanket everyday but I dun wanna change cos its so cute.

Its amazing how my grandma still keeps alot of our childhood stuffs all over the place.. u just have to be observant to find it.

And coincidentally, there's also my childhood favourite breakfast! Super nicee!!

I treasure my uni frens alot.. cos its really just the few of them. And we've all started work, keeping in touch is difficult, making an effort to arrange and meet up is even harder..

Anyway, ION orchard is irritating. Find it really hard to get to places we want to, or even look for restaurants that we wanna settle down at. But they have nice posters for pics.. so nvm.

Woohoo, I'm blogging from my E71. Cool! You may think I'm outside, but I'm in my room la. Trying out if wireless works. Cool, now I can blog while I'm lying on my bed. This week I'm stationed at tamp instead of raffles, and its like going from heaven to hell. Work till 830 this two nights, so tiring! Tell u all more next time, I wanna go sleep now, gd nite!

I have a simple wish.. hope I can knock off early tmr, cos afterall, its a friday.

Happy friday!

Simple Pleasures

Do you know wat are some of the simple pleasures in life? I read this from my company's magazine and would like to share some. Tell me how many you would like to achieve after you've read. I hope to work towards all of them gradually!

1) Rise Early
Instead of snoozing your alarm so many times, try waking up 10 or 15mins earlier, either do some stretching, sit down to have breakfast, or simply spend some time preparing for the day ahead.

2) Explore and Experience
Dun sit infront of the com for hours. Try some outdoor activities or engage in some fun sport during the weekends or after work. Work towards a healthy lifestyle.

3) Deal with Detractors
Ignore negative people. Surround yourself with positive and supportive people who shares your vision and dreams.

4) Boost your Brain Power
Try things like crossword puzzles, Sudoku etc for good mental workouts. The brain games will increase mental abilities like processing speed and reaction time.

5) Lose an Argument
Instead of winning all the time, seek to understand from a different perspective. You'll be much happier.

6) Start with a Smile
Smiling makes you feel better, relieves stress and can increase efficiency of your immune system. It will also release feel-good chemicals called endorphins into your blood stream to lift your mood.

7) Build an Emergency Fund
Always be prepared for life's uncertainties. Be realistic, start small and find savings plan that fits your lifestyle so you'll have the confidence to face any challenges.

8) Find Time to Meditate
Quiet time alone helps to relax and bring calmness to the body.

9) Retire Early
With a sound investment portfolio and a well-thought out plan, this is achievable.

This aside, all of us should also have things to make ourself happy. I derive alot of pleasure from watching my dramas and catching Moses on twitter! Finally discovered the good of twitter!

Wanna share this nice song by Rod Stewart.. been listening to it recently. Move to 3.30 to listen to 'Its a heartache'.

Hey how's everyone? I'm here to say, ITS FRIDAY!!!!

I'm doing great at work, didnt learn much yet, just abit here and there. Work aside, I really like my environment and the colleagues. They're very happening, we've been celebrating birthdays this week and been eating cakes. Yesterday was my big boss' birthday, we gave him a surprise, together with the tampines colleagues through video conference. It was really heartwarming. Today we're having some gathering too, shall blog about it soon..

Today is special.. at 12.34pm and 56sec, the time and date forms 12.34.56 07/08/09.

Enjoy the looong weekend!

The new phase

Last week was quite an important one cos I had my convo on monday, and the next day I officially started work. It marks the beginning of a new phase of my life..

I didnt had much to do at work for the first week, but so far the colleagues are quite nice and easy to get along with. I hope it stays that way..

Caught up with Jy and rah tonight.. realised T3 is quite a nice place to shop and chill, and its so near our place!

Hahaha, the smile of the year!
Damn good at acting busy.

My precious weekend is gone just like that.. update soon when I'm free!

Breakfast Day

We went to eat dim sum this morning.. I'm so shag cos didnt have time to nap since then. I'm getting worried about adjusting to working life and having to wake up at 7am everyday.
I'm missing the char siew bao already, its so soft!

I realise we all look damn tired! Seldom wake up so early to eat breakfast you see.

Starting to miss you guys.. I wonder when we'll get to meet again.

This week we're all gonna be busy with different things..

To Mich, all the best as Ms Sam and have fun at MS.

To Yan and Ws, good luck for the competition and enjoy the trip!

To Aud, Mel and Harris, have fun in HK!

The rest just take care yar! :)

Congrats to Sy, she graduate already! Then on convo day she'll graduate again.. so kiasu.

So we went to have steak to celebrate and catch up, it was great!

We were going to Bugis to have dinner, Mo and his extremely cool signature is still there.

July birthday girls!

All of a sudden it feels like there are so many couples in the clique.. If the other few also start bringing their partners along, it would be great! Then all I have is Mich, and all Mich have is me! Check out Mich's blog to see wat we were doing when we were left out!

From this pic, can you see which pair is going to 'teng teng teng teng' soon?

Something is wrong with me this few days.. been eating little, sleeping little and doing silly things. When I was going to take a train, I start to dig for my keys instead of my ezlink card from my bag. When I'm at the lift reaching home, I'll start looking for my ez-link card instead of my keys. My mind and actions cant seem to coordinate. When I wanna do A, I'll end up doing B, C or D. Then I'll take quite a while to realise and recall. Is this some pre-first work blues? Probably it is, cos I'm stressed, anxious, nervous, yet excited and looking forward to work.

Anyway I just wanna show off this la. :)

Moses in SG (2)

You know wat? I can watch this video a million times!

When you have an idol, this is wat happens. Initially you fall for him/her due to some reasons, and you'll be doing all you can to find out more about this person. Then 2 things can happen, either you start to realise he's actually just a ok/sucky person, or in my case, you just keep discovering the wonderful traits of this person. I can watch this a million times not because we're looking at some super handsome 20+ guys. He's just a 38year-old guy, who have recently put on alot of weight (he should be around 200pounds now), but in the video I see him doing all he can to make the fans happy when we don't actually need all this. Fans will be happy without him doing anything, but he goes down stage to shake hands, give high fives, sign autograph and stand up high for fans to see him. If you've never been a fan, you wont know how much these gestures mean to us. It made me think of an article I read about him saying if his autograph or taking a pic with someone can make the person happy for very long, he doesnt mind doing it. Dunno if any of the idols out there thinks and does this, I'm so happy mine does. He said it and I really see him doing it. (I'm still thinking about him stopping to sign the autograph for me)

He's such a nice person I cant stop liking him!!!

Credits to Hoetian84 from Youtube.

Thank you so much.

There's this person that I've been wanting to thank for so long. Its gonna sound weird, but she's like someone put into my life to be there to solve my problems, help me think of solutions, tell me things that I dunno, remind me about things that I'll forget etc. The list goes on.. (She even saved my life a few times, buying medicine for me whenever I fall sick in hall.)

We went through a difficult but fun time during fyp, learnt alot from our prof, and got to know a fabulous friend through her. Just when I thought its the end of it when we graduated, she was there to give me a helping hand again when I remained jobless. Recommended me to apply for the bank she's working at, gave me alot of advice, gave me alot of encouragement when I go for interviews, and now.. I'm finally employed!!

Hey sy, told u that I owe you a meal.. But I know I owe you more than that.. Will just say a thank you first, then we can discuss how I can repay the rest slowly ok? Yeah we're colleagues now! :D

Moses in SG (1)

Just got back from seeing Moses! still very excited about it, cos he's a fabulous guy! Didnt get to go up stage, but he stood right in front of me for a even longer time than if I were to go up stage.. YEAH! Was just trying my luck by stretching out his pic and a marker, and he took it to sign for me. Clever Mich gave me a marker without ink, so he stood there so long poking the marker, and waited for us to pass him another one, isnt he great? Wanna put up some pics, but need to get them from Jy cos mine were very blur. Shall do it tmr cos I have a very important interview tmr morning.. Yeah we're going to see him again tmr!! :D

Thats him holding my book, signing for me!

Dogs and Cats

All of you should know I'm afraid of cats. I just realised, I'm afraid of dogs too. One of my tuition kid's neighbour has a dog, and each time I go for tuition, the dog will keep barking and barking. Its quite scary cos the bark is extremely loud, and the dog's head is always out of the gate. I checked with my kid already, she says the dog can actually squeeze its way out of the gate. Now I have the phobia of walking past people's house cos I'm afraid dogs would come forcing their head out the gate.

My neighbour has quite alot of visitors at her house.. the funny thing is, all her friends seem to have dogs. There was once I was going home, a dog started barking at me from her house. Today, I was going to bring an umbrella to my dad at compass point, the moment I opened my door, 2dogs were at my neighbour's gate, barking like mad. I thought its ok cos I dun think they could get out of the house so I came out. When I turned to leave, one of the dog was standing right in front of me! scare the hell out of me. And all the aunties were busy playing mahjong no one came to stop the dog. The dog almost followed me into the lift loh. I was shivering like mad when I got into the lift, damn it. The whole day, when my bro, my mum came back, the dogs barked like crazy. So irritating.. but I'm finally relieved now, cos I saw them leave just now. yes I was stalking them, made sure I saw the dogs go into the lift.. Finally have some peace now. Please dun come again, I dun like the both of you.

HOPE

Its nice to have hope.. but if its followed by disappointment, I'll rather not have it.

Been looking for a job for 2months plus.. been to a few interviews, but it always results in disappointment. Having 2interviews next week, I'm telling myself not to have too much hope, just do my best and hope for the best.

And my lip! Thought it would get well after I eat the chinese medicine, but its still very dry now. Dunno wat to do.. Took me great pain to finish those medicine cos it was extremely smelly I wanna puke each time I drink it. Had to drink 3times a day for 4 consecutive days. And after taking the medicine, I'll keep having diarrhoea. My lip felt so much better on the 2nd or 3rd day, but I was so weak from the diarrhoea. I've stopped eating Mac, Mos, chips and fried food, just bread, porridge and fish soup everyday. Wat else can I do?

Been listening to alot of MJ's songs.. Damn nice!! Billie Jean, Black or White, Smooth Criminal and Heal the World rocks!