Was in a crazy mood the other day so i ended up with a bagful of Crabtree & Evelyn stuff AND a big hole in my pockets.. Thanks Tina, for the trouble of meeting me and passing me the mailing thing..

The emails are getting on my nerves lately.. when you're a few emails away from 700 and spent most of your waking hours trapped in the office facing the com and corresponding with people you'd rather not be in contact for the rest of your life, you'll feel like doing something out of the ordinary. something outrageous. serious. my mngr was saying we should just tug at the plug so the com wont work.. my colleague was saying we should just spend 5 minutes with our index finger on the 'Delete' key. i think we should just pack up and go home for a good rest.

i go to work daily bright and sunny and return home long after the sun sets. it's crazy, but i felt as if i've sold my soul for cash.

The funniest thing is, i received a super belated Xmas gift. i was sort of given the gift 6 months back but it came recently.. i guess that IS my birthday prezzie too.. whatever it is, i'm grateful, for being given the trust and freedom.. thanks Dad! you're the best!

I've forgotten how fun it is to say what i want, do what i like, be who i am.

Thanks to everyone in ODIN. I'm grateful for the chance to relive what i've missed out as a freshie last year..

Back from Kukup. It's a lovely backward place.. totally what i imagined the 1960s to be.. Exactly how i think my parents lived when they were young..

They have a population of approx 1000 and you cant see any young women there.. we were joking that my cousin, my sis and i were the oldest single women in the entire kukup.

houses above water.. the place is without a spec of dust. serious. i walked about the entire day and find my feet still clean.. and i still cant get past using the toilet where everything goes straight into the mud below. i prefer modern facilities where i dont see where those stuff go.. lolx..

the seafood there is fresh. superb.

ate sea mantis.. for goodness sake, i didnt even know it exists.. and it tastes much like crab meat..

i made a new friend there.. a cute little boy we called didi and ltr on xiao jun.. lolx..

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i am a mahjong idiot.. i know nuts about the rules.. but i guess it's beginner's luck.. i won 5 times in a row.. that's when my little cousin, another super noobz came and break my luck.. and for that round, the first few tiles we discarded were all 'super tiles'..

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that's a harry potter lightning shot.
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reliving the childhood experiences.. blowing bubbles, running about the place, playing together..

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beautiful lilies with the dirty mud and unwanted fishing nets behind..

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failed magic.. lolx..

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this is how the entire village looks like at 9,10 pm.. the night is still young but the pple are all sound asleep.. they have to wake up at 4 to fish..

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money eating chips.. cool~ u shld see them read the papers.. lolx.. like some pro..

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toilet left to rot...

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ahem~ i can ride u know..

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the place is comfortable.. it felt like a visit to my grandparent's place.. sleep well, eat well and slack well. what more can i ask for?
love walking about the place under the sun amazed at stuff that the locals cant even be bothered about. things like the monkeys, rats, mudskippers, crabs, ongoing renovations, TOILETS, bicycles, rubbish etc... yes, even rubbish!

we were shocked, when the lady threw the entire POT of steamboat soup over the foyer latch onto the mud below, it doesnt matter coz the tide is coming in.. we stopped doing what we were doing at that point in time, until my cousin commented that the poor mudskipper living just below where the lady emptied the soup is pronounced dead.

and my lovely cuzzies.. the things they say... made my trip a memorable one. and i left that place with a different kind of mood than i expected.. woke up at 0630 this morning and sat outside the house with a cup of milo, enjoying the rain and wind, looking at the pple getting about their daily activities. no worries, no stress.

life really should be like that.

That's from Jo's photobook of our trip to Taipei. yup. that was exactly how we felt that night..

life should be like that.

i missed the trip. i missed OTOT R&R activities.. i missed chatting with friends about the insignificant and/or the important things in life..


was chatting with another temp staff and she was telling me about her not able to understand why her friend suffers from bruises on her left arm after joining archery.. i was thinking.. oh my god.. that sounds familiar lor.. and i missed shooting.. serious. camp is coming.. but before that i'll be back from kukup.. just one last day to a break from the 600 emails i face daily.

Wedding aftermath

First wedding invitation to a friend's wedding in my near-21 years of youth.
Congratulations to Candy and MF.. and many thanks for inviting..

The dinner was held at ACT 1, the ballroom i like the most in the whole of Mandarin.
It was a cheery but quiet affair. There wasn't much yum-senging and no yelling crying kids running about the place. Their friends were surprisingly well-mannered- for a wedding. No one had glasses after glasses of alcohol, maybe except my table. Suz was a drinker. serious. i lost count of the number of glasses of beer AND red wine she drank.

I love weddings.. this happy occasion where people get together with well-wishes for the couple who has already vow to stay together for good and for bad..

Had a little too much to drink.. went home on a high, only to find that my queen-sized bed has shrunk. reduced to this pathetic single bed. my room is roomier now, if that's what you want to hear. and under the effects of alcohol, my sleep wasn't disturbed lest some back ache and neck ache this morning. I've gotten used to sleeping on big bed for years.. now that i am reverting to a single bed, i wonder just how long it will take me to get used to the limited space again. Seems like we are always resistant to change, especially if everything has been fine and smooth all along..

and that little boy was so cute last night.. he came over to me before he left to give me a hug.. and they were saying he will grow up to be someone females must be wary of.. lolx.. maybe. but as of now, he's cute.

my dad came to fetch me last night.. and my mom asked if i want to drive.. i felt like, but you'll never know what will happen IF i did that.. i felt fine, but my reaction time was slow. so slow reflex on a wols person like me is exactly what a to-be-accident lacks..

Meeting up with the poly peeps tonight.. will definitely have a good time. to ensure my work and social life is balanced.

half the day to myself

spent half the day in the office and the rest of the day away from the com, endless phone calls, yelling irritating corporate clients, boss, and the organization.
not racing against time, but rather flowing with it.. haven had such luxury time since i started work.. and the fact that i'm contented with this short break makes me wonder if i am really pushing myself too hard..

for an 'ultimate slacker' like me, as quoted from jess; this amount of work is ideal to change my over-indulgence lifestyle.. and this change brings about vitamin M, which is exactly what everyone needs..

made some new friends at work, which makes me very happy.. being able to get along with people whom you face 6 days a week, 8 hours a day, is extremely important to my well-being.. coz i see them more often than i do my family.. and dont we all love the feeling of working together towards a common goal??

the same hate hate relationships we have with:
1) our boss, the almighty Lee
2) the other departments which are obsessed with the new art of Taichi
3) those bugger agents
4) the i-am-your-corporate-client-you-owe-me-a-living kinda pple
5) i-dunno-anything-can-your-department-help OTHER department pple
6) one of the 3 out of the 10 who is yet to be diagnosed to be suffering from mental illness according to statistics
7) the canteen auntie/ new cook/ new-and-old dishes

and before i forget,
8) the aircon which is forever PMS-ing.. even after a repair..

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and my manager FINALLY notices how much some other pet is slacking.. for the same amount of time, i am doing stuff 5 times faster, or more. and why is that so, coz i dont listen to mp3 while working, i dont go on endless smoking and toilet breaks, i dont turn up at work late and stretch my lunch hour.. i am sure every penny i earn is well deserved. i dont want others to label me like they do my other course mates.. so i am standing by my beliefs, doing what i know best.

and that's more than enough, for me.

I've sold my soul to the organisation, if you haven realize it.

I'm trying hard to clock in OTs so that i can clear my poly tuition fees by the end of this vacation. This means emptying my savings and not splurging on stuff this season. If i can repay whatever i owe by this year, i know that I'll have time-buffer for my uni tuition fees and the next couple of years will be smoother and easier.

Colleagues are starting to question why I'm working when i should be outside partying and having the time of my life. They say that office job and OTs are for people with no life, for boring people. yeap. i do agree. and i belong to that group. seriously, i cant take all the put-things-off-wait-till-tomorrow attitude when stuff concerns money. I cant seem to understand why people can buy on credit, then let the interests roll.. I am the old age Asian. I am uncomfortable with debts.


Overhead the DJ discussing on the family topic on the morning show.

When is the last time you had a meal with your family or relatives?

I'm glad my answer is at least weekly.. and i'm kinda surprised some pple never communicate with their parents or siblings. i mean, if you dont talk and trust your family totally, who should you turn to? i find it comfortable chatting with my mom at home over dinner, or when she is getting about the household chores. she knows what i'm doing outside and i know exactly how she feels about what i think or do. it's a 2-way thing. and i like this feeling if bonding.. and when there is trust and absolute faith, i get lots of freedom, and i really mean it.

the strength of a chain is at its weakest link and we work hard to increase the tenacity of each link.

Have half a day to myself tomorrow. will make the best of it.