grew rounder and cuter....

yea, our Ms KL (karen luat) said that my face looks rounder and cuter together with my short hair... seems like ive gained bac the weight ive lost when i had flu... ha! but of course! had such good dinners over the weekend and yest added to the list (pontian wanton noodles with extra noodles, and half-priced sushi which wj decided to splurge on)
wat to do, its abt THAT time of the month, and my mouth usually becomes more itchy to munch on food.. :D haha! So perhaps my biggest sin would be gluttony... oh wat the heck! LOL

a dream

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me and wj and several others were in a huge house. this house was opulently decorated, fit for a very powerful family, influential beyond words! somehow we were in this house for a holiday. we were looking and appreciating the grandeur when the ground started shaking and then stopped! we looked at each other, "was this some kind of imagination?!" then the ground shook again and this time, there were cracks forming on the floor!!
"oh no!! its an earthquake!!!" me and wj ran from the room hand in hand, looking for somewhere safe...
the house was breaking apart, with the slabs collapsing about us. There was water splashing out from broken pipes and we continued running for safety...
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i then woke up shivering from the cold, the wind was blowing into my room and freezing me up. i realised the above scenario was a dream... I got up, closed the window, went to the toilet and then settled down to continue my sleep... my alarm rang all too soon and i got up... to a splendid sunrise, the orangey spread across the sky! i thanked God for this wonderful morning :)

over the weekend (Aug 22-23rd)

had loads of fun over the weekend! went over to sh's place in the evening of sat, played mini pool till i'm happy (found myself so used to it that when i went to play normal pool, my aiming real bad.... haha! but of course, my luck still favoured me)
however, had a bad sleep that nite, not only did we sleep late, but i couldn fall asleep cos of wj's hand... haha, and i in turn caused him to lose sleep.... apparently took so long fr me to doze off, i actually heard sh's snoring first... b4 i noe it, its morn and sh was waking us up!! so i think effective sleeping time was only like wat?! 3-4h only!
we had nasi lemak breakfast, i enjoyed the chilli immensely, and then set off for badminton and ball at bukit panjang cc... boy was i shaqed! now i feel the aches and pains throughout my body!
my stamina was bad as usual, but it was fun!
and then wj and me went to mad jack at paradiz centre to celebrate hm's bdae.. the food was disappointing, the portions not matching the price we paid, and it didn taste that nice.... then we walked in circles to look for a pool place, oh boy, it was like further exercise for me and wj.... we were like 2 semi-dead fishes lol
then for dinner, we went to taste paradise @ ion! heard of the place from nancy. She wanted to eat there with her relatives, apparently need to book for a place first....
it was a really nice chinese concept restaurant and pretty high class! the food was of course pricey but really good!! we had like suckling pig and sharks fin soup 2 expensive dishes normally eaten during wedding banquets for me! but this was just a weekly dinner for the family, which i haven officially become a part of this extended family yet, haha! nancy said i was blessed and indeed i felt i was :)
dinners with this family were particularly memorable, not only did i see quarrels happening...bt the food is really good whether home made or outside! haha! (i love food as u can see!)
so overall this weekend was great, awesomely fantastic!

feeling sleepy and thinking of certain office stuff

i think i ate too full this time, so i'm feeling super sleepy! also nancy told me something that got her so emotional, and in fact it kind of grew bigger since augustine also noes abt it... we dun have those kinds of office politics, but we do have small incidents like this... sigh! oh well, its all part and parcel of reactions to certain things as well over-reaction on the part of others... thats y relationships btw ppl can get so complicated... while i comforted nancy, i also feel the need to distance myself from such stuff... and the fact is it could prove to b difficult since it involves the office and i do have a stake in it as well... ah! how to be diplomatic and all that??!! nvrmind, leave my bro to deal with this... :\

yanti gone, the house becomes even quieter

now yanti is gone, so the house will become even quieter, and i'll need to stay more at home to company my mum... and to do dish washing... gone are my nites of coming home from work, waiting for dinner to be served and then plopping myself in front of the tv and waiting to be served with fruits... sighs.... yea in a way i'm spoilt rotten through the many years of having a maid...
this morn as i waited to be served my breakfast for the last time, i feel a sense of melancholy.... i have to make my own breakfast already.... no more waiting... anymore...
and i bade my maid farewell and to take care of herself, and left my house for work....
now at work, i'm also feeling a tad blue... for later, i'll need to go home, home to a quiet house.... a house that now becomes bigger.... and bigger....

ppl with varying degrees of temper

yeah different ppl have different degrees of temper, i must say i have seen sh's one today... although nt the full one, but i cringe... somehow the atmosphere got soured up and boy was i taken aback by the tsunami like change... of course thats nt to say that she was in the wrong, in fact i guess no one was... its just that there was this need to be careful in one's speech and blah blah, unfortunately in this society, we dun live as hermits, we are all interactive and dependent on responses and reactions to one another... so yea.... we have to be tactful lest we ruffle the nerves of others' oh well...
kudos to those who can still straight talk and in spite of knowing that they might get into trouble, but are unafraid to step on others' toes :)

having 3 days with the flu

my 3 days of mc became like an extended national day holiday :) and passed so quickly! for one, i slept like a baby, my days become like nites and nites still the same... my sleeping pattern was altered and i had so much sleep tat i was energized by the time this week began! haha!
so i'm bac in office and tomoro will be going down with thye to arrow communications :) gambatte girl!!

my late entry for 1st august

we had a great time on 1st august! we had kayaking in the morn followed by k-ing at scarlet city @ ang mo kio and then sweet spring for light dinner :D we took so many pictures and had a rowdy time. i'll just put a few photos of our activities below...(food pictures taken by our dear jumhie)





the yam stick covered with sugar, a tad too sweet
nevertheless, it was good combination, not oily!








strawberry mango snow ice, which was disappointing
for nancy, vince and karen. look at the lack of jams!!






our green tea and red bean snow ice! the green tea was subtle and red bean sweet
a perfect combination i would say!





the chicken feet we ate at sweet spring,
the sauce and all... look at it!!







the sesame paste, peanut-coated ah balling, woohoo!
soft and yet chewy, mmm....











this was the kayaking, 6 of us (kamrul and nancy didn join in, but kamrul did join in for this pic, daisy missing!) as u can see we were wet, due to gian's evil plan (running us down and splashing water in a bid to get us all wet, no one spared) lol however lim (his partner) was the wettest.. haha!

and this was the brown room of scarlet city, all of us squeezed together to take a series of pictures, using vince's camera.. "10,9,8,7....3,2,1 flash!" ) so there u have it :)

as i travel in the car....

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stop it! my mind screams to the one speaking. From my perspective, firing ppl should wait till they prove incompetent, not just because they act weird or take MC often. Of course look out for those with excuses not to work. however, wat can i say? i can only listen and feel slightly uncomfortable. uncomfortable with the fact that in the business world cannot allow for compassion? also the fact that my friendships may be in jeopardy? stop telling me things already! i'm kinda sick....
of course nothing is permanent, how come i dun seem to grasp this fact?? perhaps one can get too comfortable with life when it is so plain-sailing. When things finally come to an end, i think i would feel sad... sad to see ppl leaving and having to adapt to the loneliness once again...
mayb i am too over-reliant on my frens... their eventual absence from my life weighs heavily in my mind.. and the number of photos with smiling faces just too many to be counted. wat are the things left behind, it can only be photos as well as those past happy memories....
no wonder this saying rings in my ear through and through, "cherish the happy moments, and everyone around u"
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truth....

yea, i was annoyed with wj, or rather with wat he said abt me saying if i cant do it, then i definitely cant... tats true ive heard of all the sayings from inspirational books and the like, but i just cant help it! telling myself i can do it, but failing to do and eventually giving up is all part of me... ya shutting off my potential watever it is called.... i noe everyone will advise and give examples as to how i can be who i wan to be... but seriously i will just get angry, not with the person but at myself... for being a weakling and easily pushed around and give up without a good fight etc... nevertheless, its all part of my self defenses or walls around me, which can make it inaccessible for anyone, including wj.
as they always say "truth hurts..." so my angry reaction is a reflection of that i guess...