Today, I attended the first lesson of my Montessori course!
I started on the mathematics module - nothing like the maths I used to do, ok.. This is learning how to teach basics..
Looks like there will be a lot of reading and homework. Have to prepare a resource file full of lesson plans, complete with pictures and captions, make learning materials, do presentations in class, hand in an essay at the end of each module etc..
But it seems quite fun cos it's rather hands-on. Today, I played a child (haha!) three times over! I thought the pace a bit slow but just as well, I should take it slow first, get the hang of it..
Looking forward to next week! =) *hopefully no more sms on work!!*
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Pins and needles
Went to a TCM practitioner recommended by a friend today. Besides describing my usual gastric pains and stomachaches, I had to vividly describe the "scenery" in the toilet bowl *.*
Conclusion: IBS and leaky gut, coupled with 血虚, 湿 on the inside and something about my liver doing OT...
Recommendations: Chew my food properly, cut down on sugars and carbs (sad!), wean off nasal spray and do acupuncture
And the next thing I knew, I was whisked into the next room, scared and unprepared for acupuncture.
"Oh, you'll grow to love it!"
Really..?
I hardly dared to move while she poked the needles into me - calves, tummy, arms, head! During the 30 minutes of resting in the dark, with some heater over my tummy, I dared not sleep in case I tossed and turned.. Soon, I could feel my calves getting numb, and when I tried to wriggle my toes, I could feel the needles near my toes poking at some nerve!
Gaaar!
And then it was done. I collected my medicine and left. Had two packets so far, bitter powdery stuff dissolved in hot water - pretty gross stuff =(
Need to store chocolate :)
Conclusion: IBS and leaky gut, coupled with 血虚, 湿 on the inside and something about my liver doing OT...
Recommendations: Chew my food properly, cut down on sugars and carbs (sad!), wean off nasal spray and do acupuncture
And the next thing I knew, I was whisked into the next room, scared and unprepared for acupuncture.
"Oh, you'll grow to love it!"
Really..?
I hardly dared to move while she poked the needles into me - calves, tummy, arms, head! During the 30 minutes of resting in the dark, with some heater over my tummy, I dared not sleep in case I tossed and turned.. Soon, I could feel my calves getting numb, and when I tried to wriggle my toes, I could feel the needles near my toes poking at some nerve!
Gaaar!
And then it was done. I collected my medicine and left. Had two packets so far, bitter powdery stuff dissolved in hot water - pretty gross stuff =(
Need to store chocolate :)
Thursday, 30 July 2009
Two short trips this year
Ok, this is outdated - we took a day trip to Malacca on 31 May. My impression of Malacca wasn't the best after my first trip some years back but now, I think I will go back again.
We visited Sito's relatives - the house was super 懐かしい, reminding me of the one my paternal grandmother used to work in many years ago. They brought us to a little teahouse for breakfast - mee siam etc, spicy but good - before running some errands. The shopping malls were great and if we had more time, I could have spent some money :p
After lunch at a quaint little place whose name I forgot, Sito's cousins brought us to this Gi Kiat Huay for the yummiest chendol ever, topped with superb gula melaka. I will go back again even if it is just for the chendol!
Then more recently, we went to Surabaya at the height of H1N1. I have not taken a budget airline until 10 July.
Sito: How did you go places in Europe?
mf: KLM, BA, British Midlands, SAS...
Sito: ... How much did you save in those four years?
mf: Discounting the £500 I brought with me, maybe average of £100 a year..?
:p
I know, I'm horrible! But my usage of the internet back then was different I guess.. And somehow, I was horribly disillusioned that STA was the cheapest for students. Maybe so for normal airlines but I could have got budget airlines!
Anyway, the journey was an interesting one. There was no food except for a cold muffin. We kept them. As we touched down, we saw a plane that was quite a wreck on the grass - rather scary but..
Sito: Maybe they keep it for the spare parts..
:p
Then, we got off the plane and walked towards the arrival hall. There was only a handful of shops selling things so no shopping. Before we hit the checkpoints, we had to go through this machine. We were the first ones there and saw that the bags must go under this metal railing that didn't look like a scanner... But we just put through and guess what, the thing sprayed disinfectant on the bags!
And next to the railing was a doorway with a woman standing on the other side. She was speaking in bahasa but she was also pointing so I followed and put my hands into two black holes and pssst!! Then I was waved through and pssst! I was disinfected too!
Singaporeans don't need to be paranoid about H1N1 - other countries are more scared of us!
And along the way, I realised this was the first time I was in Indonesia Indonesia, not an Indonesian island :p
Outside the airport, we quickly found our meet-&-greet. But it took a while to wait for everyone - not too pleasant with smoke and a lot of people - before we got to this school bus - the seats were for tinier butts than ours *.* And it has no luggage compartment..
My seat's recline was spoilt and was almost horizontal if not for our luggage on the seat behind. Sito swapped with me so that I could sit upright but he had to keep his hands up else he had no room!
Hotel should be better...
And it was!
We got our room card from the dance competition organiser - oh yes, that was the purpose of going to Surabaya - and signed in for our number - 52.
Our room at Java Paragon was nice - at the 19th floor so we had a great view. The city looked nice and neat. We had a buffet dinner at the hotel that night instead of going to a welcome party by the organisers.
The competition was held in a convention centre some 30 minutes away, which was a bother. Although our competition was in the afternoon, we thought to make use of the morning practice slot for latin dancers to test the dance floor. So we woke quite early to pack our gear, do my hair :p
Results? We didn't make it past the heats this time. Waltz was slightly better; we went as far as the second round of heats. Oh well, we tried :)
So, we treated ourselves for our hard work with a dinner at Ah Yat, also in the hotel. Yup, we didn't venture out much :p We also had a massage in the hotel - turn this into a mini holiday, yeah!
We left on the third day, which was a very long day.. After checking in, we found the customs chaps on their lunch break, i.e. no one to process our passports! Isn't such work supposed to be rotated by shifts??
Before we left for the airport, we were just talking with some chaps from the studio that the Jetstar flight timings were better compared to SQ - we could get back to Singapore just before dinner time. But unfortunately, our flight was delayed for almost three hours, and the SQ flight took off first!! It was really irritating, cos there were only three shops in the airport! I really appreciate Changi Airport..
Took some photos in our room:
We visited Sito's relatives - the house was super 懐かしい, reminding me of the one my paternal grandmother used to work in many years ago. They brought us to a little teahouse for breakfast - mee siam etc, spicy but good - before running some errands. The shopping malls were great and if we had more time, I could have spent some money :p
After lunch at a quaint little place whose name I forgot, Sito's cousins brought us to this Gi Kiat Huay for the yummiest chendol ever, topped with superb gula melaka. I will go back again even if it is just for the chendol!
Then more recently, we went to Surabaya at the height of H1N1. I have not taken a budget airline until 10 July.
Sito: How did you go places in Europe?
mf: KLM, BA, British Midlands, SAS...
Sito: ... How much did you save in those four years?
mf: Discounting the £500 I brought with me, maybe average of £100 a year..?
:p
I know, I'm horrible! But my usage of the internet back then was different I guess.. And somehow, I was horribly disillusioned that STA was the cheapest for students. Maybe so for normal airlines but I could have got budget airlines!
Anyway, the journey was an interesting one. There was no food except for a cold muffin. We kept them. As we touched down, we saw a plane that was quite a wreck on the grass - rather scary but..
Sito: Maybe they keep it for the spare parts..
:p
Then, we got off the plane and walked towards the arrival hall. There was only a handful of shops selling things so no shopping. Before we hit the checkpoints, we had to go through this machine. We were the first ones there and saw that the bags must go under this metal railing that didn't look like a scanner... But we just put through and guess what, the thing sprayed disinfectant on the bags!
And next to the railing was a doorway with a woman standing on the other side. She was speaking in bahasa but she was also pointing so I followed and put my hands into two black holes and pssst!! Then I was waved through and pssst! I was disinfected too!
Singaporeans don't need to be paranoid about H1N1 - other countries are more scared of us!
And along the way, I realised this was the first time I was in Indonesia Indonesia, not an Indonesian island :p
Outside the airport, we quickly found our meet-&-greet. But it took a while to wait for everyone - not too pleasant with smoke and a lot of people - before we got to this school bus - the seats were for tinier butts than ours *.* And it has no luggage compartment..
My seat's recline was spoilt and was almost horizontal if not for our luggage on the seat behind. Sito swapped with me so that I could sit upright but he had to keep his hands up else he had no room!
Hotel should be better...
And it was!
We got our room card from the dance competition organiser - oh yes, that was the purpose of going to Surabaya - and signed in for our number - 52.
Our room at Java Paragon was nice - at the 19th floor so we had a great view. The city looked nice and neat. We had a buffet dinner at the hotel that night instead of going to a welcome party by the organisers.
The competition was held in a convention centre some 30 minutes away, which was a bother. Although our competition was in the afternoon, we thought to make use of the morning practice slot for latin dancers to test the dance floor. So we woke quite early to pack our gear, do my hair :p
Results? We didn't make it past the heats this time. Waltz was slightly better; we went as far as the second round of heats. Oh well, we tried :)
So, we treated ourselves for our hard work with a dinner at Ah Yat, also in the hotel. Yup, we didn't venture out much :p We also had a massage in the hotel - turn this into a mini holiday, yeah!
We left on the third day, which was a very long day.. After checking in, we found the customs chaps on their lunch break, i.e. no one to process our passports! Isn't such work supposed to be rotated by shifts??
Before we left for the airport, we were just talking with some chaps from the studio that the Jetstar flight timings were better compared to SQ - we could get back to Singapore just before dinner time. But unfortunately, our flight was delayed for almost three hours, and the SQ flight took off first!! It was really irritating, cos there were only three shops in the airport! I really appreciate Changi Airport..
Took some photos in our room:
Sunday, 26 July 2009
It's starting to end..
Feeling happier now, and not lest because I am 99 days to the end of my bond :)
Checked my bond after reading a link a friend posted on facebook: http://s-pores.com/2009/07/once-bonded
I wouldn't say I agree with the entire article - each is a different experience, I suppose.
Some time along the course of my university - I think it was after my "huh-what's-happening" mid-term internship at MICA or then-MITA -, I did wonder if I had made the right choice when I was 19. How the hell would a kid know that she wanted a job in the civil service? And this was a fluffy girl, mind you..
But I turned 23, graduation year, and I realised I still had not figured out what I wanted to do with my life. Might as well go with the flow - follow through with the decision I made four years earlier, choose something interesting and perhaps I might like it..?
So one thing led to another, and eventually my last post. After many months of thinking and agonising, I'm glad that I have finally decided it is time to move on (soon).
Just the other day, Sito asked me if I wanted to be a housewife. No, I don't. I want to be a stay-at-home mum! :p That's different from a housewife ok.. I want to be with our kids when they're young, and at the same time, be able to do some freelance work from home so that I can have an income to support Mother and buy presents for my family.
So I put to action some plans that started brewing about a year ago.
Firstly, I found a short course on translation. But the course date was postponed a number of times. On Friday, I finally got a notification that it would start in September :) And yesterday, I finally signed up for a diploma in Montessori education after much research into the various schools and courses.
My plans are slowly falling into place :))
It's interesting how we can change. As a child, I had imagined myself strutting down Raffles Place purposefully, black suit and all. You know, having a better life than my parents. By my late teens, that had gone out of the window. I was - still am - rather meek and didn't think of any big things. I told a friend then that 我胸无大志 - and I told another that 我手上有一颗 (痣) :p Moving on to university was then a natural thing to do after JC; I didn't think about where that might then lead to. I didn't think, period.
So it is quite significant that I have taken those two important steps forward - for once, I thought, and I planned for them to happen :)
And it so happens that Sito also started acting on his plans in the past week. So both of us have new goals to work towards - we are happy! :)
Checked my bond after reading a link a friend posted on facebook: http://s-pores.com/2009/07/once-bonded
I wouldn't say I agree with the entire article - each is a different experience, I suppose.
Some time along the course of my university - I think it was after my "huh-what's-happening" mid-term internship at MICA or then-MITA -, I did wonder if I had made the right choice when I was 19. How the hell would a kid know that she wanted a job in the civil service? And this was a fluffy girl, mind you..
But I turned 23, graduation year, and I realised I still had not figured out what I wanted to do with my life. Might as well go with the flow - follow through with the decision I made four years earlier, choose something interesting and perhaps I might like it..?
So one thing led to another, and eventually my last post. After many months of thinking and agonising, I'm glad that I have finally decided it is time to move on (soon).
Just the other day, Sito asked me if I wanted to be a housewife. No, I don't. I want to be a stay-at-home mum! :p That's different from a housewife ok.. I want to be with our kids when they're young, and at the same time, be able to do some freelance work from home so that I can have an income to support Mother and buy presents for my family.
So I put to action some plans that started brewing about a year ago.
Firstly, I found a short course on translation. But the course date was postponed a number of times. On Friday, I finally got a notification that it would start in September :) And yesterday, I finally signed up for a diploma in Montessori education after much research into the various schools and courses.
My plans are slowly falling into place :))
It's interesting how we can change. As a child, I had imagined myself strutting down Raffles Place purposefully, black suit and all. You know, having a better life than my parents. By my late teens, that had gone out of the window. I was - still am - rather meek and didn't think of any big things. I told a friend then that 我胸无大志 - and I told another that 我手上有一颗 (痣) :p Moving on to university was then a natural thing to do after JC; I didn't think about where that might then lead to. I didn't think, period.
So it is quite significant that I have taken those two important steps forward - for once, I thought, and I planned for them to happen :)
And it so happens that Sito also started acting on his plans in the past week. So both of us have new goals to work towards - we are happy! :)
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
人在江湖，身不由己?
These words - with the question mark - came into my mind this morning as I walked to the hawker centre. I cannot remember exactly why now but it was related to work.
Perhaps a premonition, cos I got a lot of shit from emails when I logged on. And at 10.30 am, I sat in for some interviews with potential recruits. When the last interviewee started talking about work-life balance etc, I had a most awful thought: I hate my life.
This wasn't the first time I had this thought. But I would always catch myself and tell myself that no, I don't hate my life; I just hate work.
But this morning, it took me a while to rationalise my thoughts that what I really hated was my working life, not life itself.
I wrote that I felt like crying earlier due to work. It happened again a few months later and I succumbed. I'm now feeling like it's going to happen again if I'm not careful =(
We're headed for Hokkaido for a holiday next month - I'm looking forward to it but I also dread the accumulated emails waiting for me ever so patiently in my inbox..
Still remember my horror after a much needed two-week break in Japan in September 2007 - I had a good time in Japan away from work only to return to a mad house of work. My question: is the trade-off necessary? Shouldn't my leave be real leave?
Related this to Kel et al over dinner and drinks one day after that. Moh said I was hardworking; Kel said I wasn't - I just worked hard.. 知我者也! Of course if given a choice, I wouldn't be working hard hence I am not hardworking!!
This evening, I sms CY and Kel about hating my working life - glad they understood. And Kel said something funny, that usually he would send that kind of msg to me instead :p Threw up all my unhappiness about work to Yan over dinner too. And as I write this, I'm feeling better.. So let me continue..
Some time ago, I was trying to analyse such negative emotions - unhappiness, stress, feeling hassled, dissatisfaction, even resentment. I realised that I had lost motivation to work because I ceased to see meaning in it when my life was negatively affected by my work.
There was this time when I was asking a colleague for urgent inputs but she was away from office with her children - school holidays.
mf: Meeting is tomorrow am =(
She: And my kids will only be this age today and never again.
What could I say? I have no case. But that really hit home. Because I suddenly understood that for every day that I worked and worked, my every today has been lost. When I turned 28 last year, I realised that the previous year kind of just suddenly disappeared; déjà vu when I turned 29 this year - time flies when you're happy; time disappears when you're busy.
I still remember that for a very long time, before Sg Day 2007, I was still very enthusiastic about work. I would wake at 6.30am to reach office before 8am, and while I loved the weekends, I actually looked forward to getting work done during the workweek. After Sg Day 2007, I was tired out by the work trip and never fully recovered. Things just went downhill from there.
Now, I quite dread Mondays and throughout the workweek, I am just looking forward to the weekend and praying hard that there won't be a need to work over the weekend. In fact, during those really tough days last year, I went to work with only one thought: to finish work and head back to bed, hopefully earlier than 3am the previous night.
But at least it was meaningful work last year. There were concrete, visible deliverables. I downloaded our lovely campaign banners off CNA website, I cut out and kept the posters in newspaper - they are testament to my blood and sweat.
Now, my job scope has changed - the main thing is quantitative research and I really don't like crunching numbers, nevermind my degree!
I should really leave this job. What has it done to me? I want my life and family to be the top priority but I have realised that whenever I have work, I would feel so obliged to do it that I neglect my life, my real self. It's a bit scary, to be honest.
Actually, why do people work?
a) For survival;
b) To contribute to something;
c) For money / fame; or
d) No reason, just a natural thing to work when you have a degree?
Re (a), I'm in a way working to support myself and Mother. But I can do that with any job.
Re (b), contribute to what? I'm happy to be able to contribute to people around me - be a listening ear when they need me, bring joy and laughter to those around me. I don't need to contribute to bigger causes.
Re (c), is it worth working so hard to put your kids through the best college only to miss everything else about life? When I die, I want to remember times actually spent with my loved ones, not how I managed to provide for my loved ones albeit not being there.
Re (d), colleague was just saying how we could be bound by our degree. Cos of it, we aim to do something that does justice to it. Why can't I take a degree just for interest? Must it lead to work that justifies the learning?
I have been thinking about leaving my job. But there are various considerations. I do understand that these are not the worst working hours, compared to lawyers, bankers etc. While I also cannot compare remuneration with these jobs, mine is honestly sufficient to raise a family well if Sito and I continue working. And the benefits and flexibility are really good - I can take leave easily, accumulated work notwithstanding.
Practical things aside, I feel attached to the organisation cos I had a hand in setting it up - on paper and right down to the renovation! And I really like the people here. I have had fond memories of tough times when only team spirit and good cheer fuelled us. This place has also given me a lot of opportunities for professional and personal development. I have very good and understanding bosses. The leadership is strong and the way we work is, in my opinion, considerably more efficient than some other organisations I have heard of. It is overall a very good working environment.
I just cannot stand the work itself.
So, I was imagining, right there in the interview room, that I would be very sad to leave this place. But right there in the interview room, I finally came to the conclusion that I must leave. The question is when.
After the interviews, the first thing I did was to do a rough calculation of how much bond I had remaining - in monetary terms: about $10,000. Not a big sum but why should I pay to quit? :p And in any case, I had unfinished business - to record institutional knowledge so that I can leave with peace of mind.
In the meantime, I refuse to be a martyr to work! I will have a life that is not just work!!
Tomorrow, I am going to the gym at 6pm - not lest of office blackout (due to renovation) at that time..!
Perhaps a premonition, cos I got a lot of shit from emails when I logged on. And at 10.30 am, I sat in for some interviews with potential recruits. When the last interviewee started talking about work-life balance etc, I had a most awful thought: I hate my life.
This wasn't the first time I had this thought. But I would always catch myself and tell myself that no, I don't hate my life; I just hate work.
But this morning, it took me a while to rationalise my thoughts that what I really hated was my working life, not life itself.
I wrote that I felt like crying earlier due to work. It happened again a few months later and I succumbed. I'm now feeling like it's going to happen again if I'm not careful =(
We're headed for Hokkaido for a holiday next month - I'm looking forward to it but I also dread the accumulated emails waiting for me ever so patiently in my inbox..
Still remember my horror after a much needed two-week break in Japan in September 2007 - I had a good time in Japan away from work only to return to a mad house of work. My question: is the trade-off necessary? Shouldn't my leave be real leave?
Related this to Kel et al over dinner and drinks one day after that. Moh said I was hardworking; Kel said I wasn't - I just worked hard.. 知我者也! Of course if given a choice, I wouldn't be working hard hence I am not hardworking!!
This evening, I sms CY and Kel about hating my working life - glad they understood. And Kel said something funny, that usually he would send that kind of msg to me instead :p Threw up all my unhappiness about work to Yan over dinner too. And as I write this, I'm feeling better.. So let me continue..
Some time ago, I was trying to analyse such negative emotions - unhappiness, stress, feeling hassled, dissatisfaction, even resentment. I realised that I had lost motivation to work because I ceased to see meaning in it when my life was negatively affected by my work.
There was this time when I was asking a colleague for urgent inputs but she was away from office with her children - school holidays.
mf: Meeting is tomorrow am =(
She: And my kids will only be this age today and never again.
What could I say? I have no case. But that really hit home. Because I suddenly understood that for every day that I worked and worked, my every today has been lost. When I turned 28 last year, I realised that the previous year kind of just suddenly disappeared; déjà vu when I turned 29 this year - time flies when you're happy; time disappears when you're busy.
I still remember that for a very long time, before Sg Day 2007, I was still very enthusiastic about work. I would wake at 6.30am to reach office before 8am, and while I loved the weekends, I actually looked forward to getting work done during the workweek. After Sg Day 2007, I was tired out by the work trip and never fully recovered. Things just went downhill from there.
Now, I quite dread Mondays and throughout the workweek, I am just looking forward to the weekend and praying hard that there won't be a need to work over the weekend. In fact, during those really tough days last year, I went to work with only one thought: to finish work and head back to bed, hopefully earlier than 3am the previous night.
But at least it was meaningful work last year. There were concrete, visible deliverables. I downloaded our lovely campaign banners off CNA website, I cut out and kept the posters in newspaper - they are testament to my blood and sweat.
Now, my job scope has changed - the main thing is quantitative research and I really don't like crunching numbers, nevermind my degree!
I should really leave this job. What has it done to me? I want my life and family to be the top priority but I have realised that whenever I have work, I would feel so obliged to do it that I neglect my life, my real self. It's a bit scary, to be honest.
Actually, why do people work?
a) For survival;
b) To contribute to something;
c) For money / fame; or
d) No reason, just a natural thing to work when you have a degree?
Re (a), I'm in a way working to support myself and Mother. But I can do that with any job.
Re (b), contribute to what? I'm happy to be able to contribute to people around me - be a listening ear when they need me, bring joy and laughter to those around me. I don't need to contribute to bigger causes.
Re (c), is it worth working so hard to put your kids through the best college only to miss everything else about life? When I die, I want to remember times actually spent with my loved ones, not how I managed to provide for my loved ones albeit not being there.
Re (d), colleague was just saying how we could be bound by our degree. Cos of it, we aim to do something that does justice to it. Why can't I take a degree just for interest? Must it lead to work that justifies the learning?
I have been thinking about leaving my job. But there are various considerations. I do understand that these are not the worst working hours, compared to lawyers, bankers etc. While I also cannot compare remuneration with these jobs, mine is honestly sufficient to raise a family well if Sito and I continue working. And the benefits and flexibility are really good - I can take leave easily, accumulated work notwithstanding.
Practical things aside, I feel attached to the organisation cos I had a hand in setting it up - on paper and right down to the renovation! And I really like the people here. I have had fond memories of tough times when only team spirit and good cheer fuelled us. This place has also given me a lot of opportunities for professional and personal development. I have very good and understanding bosses. The leadership is strong and the way we work is, in my opinion, considerably more efficient than some other organisations I have heard of. It is overall a very good working environment.
I just cannot stand the work itself.
So, I was imagining, right there in the interview room, that I would be very sad to leave this place. But right there in the interview room, I finally came to the conclusion that I must leave. The question is when.
After the interviews, the first thing I did was to do a rough calculation of how much bond I had remaining - in monetary terms: about $10,000. Not a big sum but why should I pay to quit? :p And in any case, I had unfinished business - to record institutional knowledge so that I can leave with peace of mind.
In the meantime, I refuse to be a martyr to work! I will have a life that is not just work!!
Tomorrow, I am going to the gym at 6pm - not lest of office blackout (due to renovation) at that time..!
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
First of July
Just as yesterday marked the end of half of 2009, today marks the start of the march towards the end of the year.
And I've decided that if I cannot think of a suitable title, I'll just use the date :p
Just a few randoms...
1)
Last night, I heard a loud thud and the next thing I knew, MZ was screaming that someone splashed paint on our door! I went out and saw a small splash of red - I wondered what caused that loud sound... Anyway, I called the police.
While waiting, YQ called our neighbour from upstairs - it was his ex-tenant who owed loansharks money! I just saw the O$P$ and the door number the other day, at the stairs.. Nowadays the loansharks are either blur or, more likely, employing a new tactic - stress thy neighbour!! Just a couple of months back, my next-door neighbour got the same thing...
When the police arrived, I thought YQ handled it pretty well so I went back to sleep... Think they took some pictures and gave YQ some instructions..
2)
I was in the office the other day. A colleague said bye and I was the last one in the office. Shortly, I heard the door bell ring. Did she forget something? I hit the release button but no one came in... So I went out of the glass door to the wooden door with that bell, opened it and found nobody! Then I realised that for someone to ring that bell, he/she had to get through the locked door before that!
I had all rights to freak out!
After calming myself down on the way back to my desk, making sure that the doors closed behind me, I lasted barely 15 minutes (not bad already!) before I hurriedly packed my things and left =(
Asked security guards if they went to checked 14th floor - not yet.. But they mentioned a girl went by. Maybe it was my colleague? But no! I asked the next day =(
This was different from the last time when I walked into the lift lobby and heard a loud yelp from the stairwell - had such a huge scare I fled to the toilet! Then I realised it should be a workman from another level - sounded like it..
Anyway, today I left shortly after the second last chap left...
How? Like this how to work in office at night?! =( I don't like to work at home at night...
3)
Because I like to watch dramas and anime at night! :p
Finished Macross Frontier recently. (That's why I can blog now :p) Can't get the song Seikan Hikou out of my head - it's really nice!!
4)
Update on an earlier post - put back a bit of weight but surprisingly, it kind of remained steady for the past three weeks. Quite happy :)
5)
I proposed to do X at work, twice. Didn't go through. Then someone who was n pay grades above me suggested X - or some form of it.
*ding ding ding* I self-assessed that my CEP wasn't too bad after all!
Then the next day, someone who was N pay grades above me suggested Y. Hey, I said that just a week ago!
*ding ding ding* I think my CEP just went through the roof! Woohoo!
I have decided that I should put my brains to better use - I shall strive to be a Montessori teacher :)
6)
And finally, can someone tell me why Mother, aged 63 and who doesn't know English, would tell me one night that Prison Break was getting exciting?? I don't even know what the show is about! *.*
And I've decided that if I cannot think of a suitable title, I'll just use the date :p
Just a few randoms...
1)
Last night, I heard a loud thud and the next thing I knew, MZ was screaming that someone splashed paint on our door! I went out and saw a small splash of red - I wondered what caused that loud sound... Anyway, I called the police.
While waiting, YQ called our neighbour from upstairs - it was his ex-tenant who owed loansharks money! I just saw the O$P$ and the door number the other day, at the stairs.. Nowadays the loansharks are either blur or, more likely, employing a new tactic - stress thy neighbour!! Just a couple of months back, my next-door neighbour got the same thing...
When the police arrived, I thought YQ handled it pretty well so I went back to sleep... Think they took some pictures and gave YQ some instructions..
2)
I was in the office the other day. A colleague said bye and I was the last one in the office. Shortly, I heard the door bell ring. Did she forget something? I hit the release button but no one came in... So I went out of the glass door to the wooden door with that bell, opened it and found nobody! Then I realised that for someone to ring that bell, he/she had to get through the locked door before that!
I had all rights to freak out!
After calming myself down on the way back to my desk, making sure that the doors closed behind me, I lasted barely 15 minutes (not bad already!) before I hurriedly packed my things and left =(
Asked security guards if they went to checked 14th floor - not yet.. But they mentioned a girl went by. Maybe it was my colleague? But no! I asked the next day =(
This was different from the last time when I walked into the lift lobby and heard a loud yelp from the stairwell - had such a huge scare I fled to the toilet! Then I realised it should be a workman from another level - sounded like it..
Anyway, today I left shortly after the second last chap left...
How? Like this how to work in office at night?! =( I don't like to work at home at night...
3)
Because I like to watch dramas and anime at night! :p
Finished Macross Frontier recently. (That's why I can blog now :p) Can't get the song Seikan Hikou out of my head - it's really nice!!
4)
Update on an earlier post - put back a bit of weight but surprisingly, it kind of remained steady for the past three weeks. Quite happy :)
5)
I proposed to do X at work, twice. Didn't go through. Then someone who was n pay grades above me suggested X - or some form of it.
*ding ding ding* I self-assessed that my CEP wasn't too bad after all!
Then the next day, someone who was N pay grades above me suggested Y. Hey, I said that just a week ago!
*ding ding ding* I think my CEP just went through the roof! Woohoo!
I have decided that I should put my brains to better use - I shall strive to be a Montessori teacher :)
6)
And finally, can someone tell me why Mother, aged 63 and who doesn't know English, would tell me one night that Prison Break was getting exciting?? I don't even know what the show is about! *.*
Friday, 19 June 2009
The luxury of being able to laze in bed
There was a time when my wake-up call on weekend mornings was: "Do you want to go out this pm? Do you? Do you? Yes? Now wake up and do work!"
So one day, when I woke up naturally without alarm clocks, and the first thing I saw was my pink mosquito net, I was so full of bliss and gratefulness that I reached out for my Pinky and snapped some pictures :)
I woke up seeing this:
Sunshine outside!
(White thing at bottom of photo = Eeyore! The boy was relegated to the chair that morning *.*)
I lazed with some sun shining in..
Zzzz...
(ok, pretending :p)
I was playing with Meh and Sheep..
They are so cute!
I am happy :)
Side story of my 20-year-old pyjamas..! I love my old yellow pyjamas! They've accompanied me through childhood until now. While I didn't bring them to Oxford, they remained my faithful pyjamas every summer, keeping me cool at night - and many Saturdays and Sundays when I spent entire days in my pyjamas!
The fabric has become very thin. Some time this year, it got torn. For a while, I was so worried that Mother would throw them away.. But she didn't :) But the pyjamas continued to suffer more tears :( I think I will retire them after this hot season..
So one day, when I woke up naturally without alarm clocks, and the first thing I saw was my pink mosquito net, I was so full of bliss and gratefulness that I reached out for my Pinky and snapped some pictures :)
I woke up seeing this:
Sunshine outside!
(White thing at bottom of photo = Eeyore! The boy was relegated to the chair that morning *.*)
I lazed with some sun shining in..
Zzzz...
(ok, pretending :p)
I was playing with Meh and Sheep..
They are so cute!
I am happy :)
Side story of my 20-year-old pyjamas..! I love my old yellow pyjamas! They've accompanied me through childhood until now. While I didn't bring them to Oxford, they remained my faithful pyjamas every summer, keeping me cool at night - and many Saturdays and Sundays when I spent entire days in my pyjamas!
The fabric has become very thin. Some time this year, it got torn. For a while, I was so worried that Mother would throw them away.. But she didn't :) But the pyjamas continued to suffer more tears :( I think I will retire them after this hot season..
Monday, 8 June 2009
Light as a feather..?
But a feather came off painfully from some bird, right?!
My story:
- Went for a massage yesterday. The boss said I lost weight.
- Went to get juice this morning - haven't had juice for a couple of weeks. Alice said I lost weight.
- Just now at gym, I weighed myself cos I took a short hiatus from gym. I'm now 2kg from my desired weight! Not 5kg!
I admit I'm super happy that I've lost weight. I mean, I don't lose weight easily!
But it wasn't pleasant the way I lost weight - involuntarily...
An older story:
I had nachos for dinner one day and hurt the gums above my last remaining wisdom tooth. After the surface healed and it healed quickly, it suddenly started to hurt again one week later. I thought it must have developed into an ulcer..
It took me a week of Bonjela that didn't work and a week of semi liquid food cos I could hardly open my mouth wide enough for rice before I went to the dentist.
"I don't see any ulcer. But you've got an infection!"
*.*
Great, with antibiotics, I couldn't even drink milk when I got hungry! (something like we're not supposed to drink milk when taking antibiotics..)
It took about a week before I could open my mouth enough to have rice..
I WAS STARVING FOR RICE!
I do like fish beehoon.. But I had varying quality of fish beehoon from yummy at Amoy to so-so in various foodcourts.. That first mouthful of rice after two weeks was heavenly.. Ahhh...
But of course, I thought I had an ulcer so the ulcerous genes in me decided to have some fun - Ulcer #1 appeared under my tongue just as the infection was healing =(
It was painful but I could eat most foods so long as they were soft and not salty or spicy, which was pretty sad, right?!
And when that was about to heal in one week, Ulcer #2 reared its ugly head on the tip of my tongue =(((
No more food that could get stuck between my teeth cos the tongue was on strike!
Amid all these, I went from sweet stuff almost every other day to zilch (almost.. had smooth icecream!) in four weeks! I think that's the main contributing factor to the weight loss :p
But guess what? Today, I had seven pieces of Tim Tam cookies!!! Happy now =)
My story:
- Went for a massage yesterday. The boss said I lost weight.
- Went to get juice this morning - haven't had juice for a couple of weeks. Alice said I lost weight.
- Just now at gym, I weighed myself cos I took a short hiatus from gym. I'm now 2kg from my desired weight! Not 5kg!
I admit I'm super happy that I've lost weight. I mean, I don't lose weight easily!
But it wasn't pleasant the way I lost weight - involuntarily...
An older story:
I had nachos for dinner one day and hurt the gums above my last remaining wisdom tooth. After the surface healed and it healed quickly, it suddenly started to hurt again one week later. I thought it must have developed into an ulcer..
It took me a week of Bonjela that didn't work and a week of semi liquid food cos I could hardly open my mouth wide enough for rice before I went to the dentist.
"I don't see any ulcer. But you've got an infection!"
*.*
Great, with antibiotics, I couldn't even drink milk when I got hungry! (something like we're not supposed to drink milk when taking antibiotics..)
It took about a week before I could open my mouth enough to have rice..
I WAS STARVING FOR RICE!
I do like fish beehoon.. But I had varying quality of fish beehoon from yummy at Amoy to so-so in various foodcourts.. That first mouthful of rice after two weeks was heavenly.. Ahhh...
But of course, I thought I had an ulcer so the ulcerous genes in me decided to have some fun - Ulcer #1 appeared under my tongue just as the infection was healing =(
It was painful but I could eat most foods so long as they were soft and not salty or spicy, which was pretty sad, right?!
And when that was about to heal in one week, Ulcer #2 reared its ugly head on the tip of my tongue =(((
No more food that could get stuck between my teeth cos the tongue was on strike!
Amid all these, I went from sweet stuff almost every other day to zilch (almost.. had smooth icecream!) in four weeks! I think that's the main contributing factor to the weight loss :p
But guess what? Today, I had seven pieces of Tim Tam cookies!!! Happy now =)
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Introducing..
Mr and Mrs Smith Sito (Jr)!
(There was a joke about how I would find a guy with whom I would fight and make up - like that funny scene in that movie :p)
We started with this:
(Photo was taken when we got reunited with the sign, which was stored in J's car for some months..)
And today, we signed the papers :)
Sito's mum was his witness, and CY mine - cos Mother said she couldn't see clearly enough to sign.. In fact, she was thinking of not going for our ROM at all! I made her go :p
Quite funny - the solemniser remembered me from MCYS days! She was in HQ when I was there.. How coincidental.. Oh, another coincident was that last Friday 29 May 2009, we went to ROM for a statutory declaration of our age and marital status etc. I was also at ROM that day five years ago as witness for Jo!
So after a quick chitchatting with the solemniser, we went through the ceremony - vows, exchange of rings, signing the certificate etc.. And we were pronounced husband and wife :)
I couldn't describe the feeling then - it was kind of surreal... We were just saying last night that we were not feeling terribly excited about today; there were other things to be more excited about, like our new home, living together (no shooting our house down!) etc.. Yet, I could now hardly remember what was said at the ceremony.. I guess excitement and perhaps nerves finally kicked in then - I felt like, we're here :)
Couple of photos after the ceremony..
Act cute! Sito used to play here in his primary school days - when this pavilion thing was relatively much bigger..
And this is my 好姐妹!
As it was early, we had drinks at TCC before ending up at Peach Garden@33 for a yummy dinner - more joined us:
The thing about having our ROM before the wedding dinner, and indeed, before our place is ready, was that after that, we went home separately with our parents *.*
So Sito is asleep now cos he has to work tomorrow - I'm taking leave :)
Was thinking of going to bed too but being OCD, I will list a timeline of what has happened so far:
New home
So, one moment we were all excited about getting married after the proposal. The next moment, we were discussing living arrangements. Happened to meet up with Jo one day and we thought we would find a flat in Holland V area.
10 Jan 2009
We spent an afternoon visiting apartments in the area - 11 flats in three hours! By the next week, we got the place *happy*
24 Jan 2009
Very quickly, we got ourselves into a huge debt - signed our home loan and exercised our option to purchase. I'm amazed at our efficiency. Of course, Sito's mum was a key driver :p
9 Mar 2009
That was our first appointment at HDB. We thought, luckily we got agent around cos we were almost late and honestly quite clueless where to go to, what to do :p
4 May 2009
Keys fell into our hands! Officially, that is.. We actually went for a "second viewing" the day before and got a set of keys. On actual handover, we weren't even there!
10 May 2009
Got the uncle to see the fengshui of the flat. Generally good :)
As of yesterday
Got three quotes for renovation - we need a complete overhaul. Yesterday saw a piece of recent work by one of them. Rather disappointed as it looked pretty unexciting despite him saying it was nice. So we may go for Jo's ID.. See how..
Actual day
That means the date of the traditional tea ceremony and wedding dinner. Didn't make ROM coincide cos this date was not, um, mathematically nice to me :p
But it was a good date by fengshui standards. After we got dates from Jin Zi Long, we found that hotels were all booked for our dates (or required a huge minimum number of tables!)
14 Feb 2009
After countless emails and a recce trip to Sentosa, we finally signed a deal with Legends.
14 Mar 2009
Took some time to recce almost the entire stretch of Tanjong Pagar Road over a few lunch hours.. Finally got La Belle - nice people there :) The dress I wore today was from them. The make-up was nice too - I like :) The hairdo was lovely! But it took some four washes to get rid of the gunk *.*
21 Mar 2009
Things kind of slowly fell into place. We got a freelance photographer who would be teaming up with another for 10 hours of photography - quite happy with that :)
Others
There are a number of things to be done, like photo shoot, choosing gowns, invitations etc.. Sounds like quite a lot but well, I guess we'll get to them in time..
More updates later!
(There was a joke about how I would find a guy with whom I would fight and make up - like that funny scene in that movie :p)
We started with this:
(Photo was taken when we got reunited with the sign, which was stored in J's car for some months..)
And today, we signed the papers :)
Sito's mum was his witness, and CY mine - cos Mother said she couldn't see clearly enough to sign.. In fact, she was thinking of not going for our ROM at all! I made her go :p
Quite funny - the solemniser remembered me from MCYS days! She was in HQ when I was there.. How coincidental.. Oh, another coincident was that last Friday 29 May 2009, we went to ROM for a statutory declaration of our age and marital status etc. I was also at ROM that day five years ago as witness for Jo!
So after a quick chitchatting with the solemniser, we went through the ceremony - vows, exchange of rings, signing the certificate etc.. And we were pronounced husband and wife :)
I couldn't describe the feeling then - it was kind of surreal... We were just saying last night that we were not feeling terribly excited about today; there were other things to be more excited about, like our new home, living together (no shooting our house down!) etc.. Yet, I could now hardly remember what was said at the ceremony.. I guess excitement and perhaps nerves finally kicked in then - I felt like, we're here :)
Couple of photos after the ceremony..
Act cute! Sito used to play here in his primary school days - when this pavilion thing was relatively much bigger..
And this is my 好姐妹!
As it was early, we had drinks at TCC before ending up at Peach Garden@33 for a yummy dinner - more joined us:
The thing about having our ROM before the wedding dinner, and indeed, before our place is ready, was that after that, we went home separately with our parents *.*
So Sito is asleep now cos he has to work tomorrow - I'm taking leave :)
Was thinking of going to bed too but being OCD, I will list a timeline of what has happened so far:
New home
So, one moment we were all excited about getting married after the proposal. The next moment, we were discussing living arrangements. Happened to meet up with Jo one day and we thought we would find a flat in Holland V area.
10 Jan 2009
We spent an afternoon visiting apartments in the area - 11 flats in three hours! By the next week, we got the place *happy*
24 Jan 2009
Very quickly, we got ourselves into a huge debt - signed our home loan and exercised our option to purchase. I'm amazed at our efficiency. Of course, Sito's mum was a key driver :p
9 Mar 2009
That was our first appointment at HDB. We thought, luckily we got agent around cos we were almost late and honestly quite clueless where to go to, what to do :p
4 May 2009
Keys fell into our hands! Officially, that is.. We actually went for a "second viewing" the day before and got a set of keys. On actual handover, we weren't even there!
10 May 2009
Got the uncle to see the fengshui of the flat. Generally good :)
As of yesterday
Got three quotes for renovation - we need a complete overhaul. Yesterday saw a piece of recent work by one of them. Rather disappointed as it looked pretty unexciting despite him saying it was nice. So we may go for Jo's ID.. See how..
Actual day
That means the date of the traditional tea ceremony and wedding dinner. Didn't make ROM coincide cos this date was not, um, mathematically nice to me :p
But it was a good date by fengshui standards. After we got dates from Jin Zi Long, we found that hotels were all booked for our dates (or required a huge minimum number of tables!)
14 Feb 2009
After countless emails and a recce trip to Sentosa, we finally signed a deal with Legends.
14 Mar 2009
Took some time to recce almost the entire stretch of Tanjong Pagar Road over a few lunch hours.. Finally got La Belle - nice people there :) The dress I wore today was from them. The make-up was nice too - I like :) The hairdo was lovely! But it took some four washes to get rid of the gunk *.*
21 Mar 2009
Things kind of slowly fell into place. We got a freelance photographer who would be teaming up with another for 10 hours of photography - quite happy with that :)
Others
There are a number of things to be done, like photo shoot, choosing gowns, invitations etc.. Sounds like quite a lot but well, I guess we'll get to them in time..
More updates later!
Thursday, 28 May 2009
Basically, I'm writing this because I suddenly remember..
..that I was in a meeting the other day, and I couldn't help counting the number of times the presenter said "basically".. Double-digit count within a couple of sentences!
Some other words commonly used are "actually" and "really". And I'm not absolutely sure that the usage is correct all the time..
Honestly, before I started work, I've never heard or - yes, I'm guilty at times too - used these words so much.. I must be more aware of my language.. Surely we can be more creative than that?
But how some people use the word "ever" is hardly creativity; it is just wrong - yup, I harped on that before..
Of course there are the usual jargons like one of Sito's "favourites": incentivise :p I forgive this since it is jargon...
Now, go to bed, sleepy mf with ulcer on tongue...
1 Jun 2009
This came to me in the middle of this afternoon - after the release of "O" levels results one year, possibly when I was in Sec 3 or 4, our principal got in a couple of top students to share their success factors with the assembly and to somehow inspire us. I remember thinking, even back then, that all their sentences were punctuated with "basically" and I didn't want to be like them.. Some inspiration..
Some other words commonly used are "actually" and "really". And I'm not absolutely sure that the usage is correct all the time..
Honestly, before I started work, I've never heard or - yes, I'm guilty at times too - used these words so much.. I must be more aware of my language.. Surely we can be more creative than that?
But how some people use the word "ever" is hardly creativity; it is just wrong - yup, I harped on that before..
Of course there are the usual jargons like one of Sito's "favourites": incentivise :p I forgive this since it is jargon...
Now, go to bed, sleepy mf with ulcer on tongue...
1 Jun 2009
This came to me in the middle of this afternoon - after the release of "O" levels results one year, possibly when I was in Sec 3 or 4, our principal got in a couple of top students to share their success factors with the assembly and to somehow inspire us. I remember thinking, even back then, that all their sentences were punctuated with "basically" and I didn't want to be like them.. Some inspiration..
Sunday, 24 May 2009
Rice and music are good for body and soul
For about three hours and a half, I was repeating: 肉.. 米.. 叶.. 绳子
And randomly: 肉掉了！
It's bah zang time again! :)
Didn't talk much otherwise. Mostly, Mother was updating me on various gossips about my neighbours.. My strategy? Just keep quiet *_*
But at one point I had to answer - I think Grams somehow let slip that I went to visit my other grandmother in the home before. So Mother asked me if that was true, without telling me who told her but she mentioned Grams in the next sentence so... She asked why I didn't tell her - was it because I was afraid she might scold me for visiting her? Um, I used time as my excuse - forgot when, forgot why, forgot everything! :p
Not quite happy with this year's work. The leaves were lousy! They kept breaking up! And the arrangement was crap - the fat leaves were all together and the thin ones were all together, making it difficult to dig for complementing leaves. Then Mother kept nagging me to use less meat cos bah zang could turn out too dry since she didn't use much oil for the meat. And in the same breath, she would complain that there would be too much left over meat...!
Mother counted 121 bah zangs - a square number, I like :p Will be distributing about half of them. They're all of different sizes :p and with different proportions of rice and meat :p but hope they're all sufficiently yummy - I'll try later for dinner :)
My ulcers seem to be finally healing. I still had milk for breakfast before making the bah zangs but I was so hungry by 11am that I had to chew on some bread - overdue since yesterday but it looked fine! My tongue was a bit raw but felt better after some water.
I decided I must have rice for lunch - so got Yan out for lunch. I had sushi! It was soooo good I went orgasmic at the conveyor belt counter table!
Some people stay away from rice but I realise I cannot. How to when rice is super good - on its own, with vinegar, with togarashi, stirred or baked with cheese, in onigiri, under raw fish, drenched in chilli con carne or curry sauce etc... But I scrapped past the ulcers while having rice so I bought some liang teh - less sugar, no doubt - to keep the ulcers in check.
And tonight, I shall finally put on my retainers - haven't used them for some three weeks in case they hurt my gum infection and subsequent ulcers. I hope my teeth are not too out of shape yet =(
Wanted to blog this last night but it was 3am - yesterday, I discovered a whole new world of music - music from games!
Sito got tickets for the Asian premiere of "Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy". It was a huge gathering of otakus! I was in the company of three of them, Mr Sito included! But I'm a geek in a skirt so we're quits :p Nobuo Uematsu was at the show too and he was so cute! Like Super Mario :)
I'm not one for orchestra and chorus but this was nice with scenes from the games that matched the pieces. And I was surprised a couple of tunes and some scenes and even names of the characters were familiar to me! But Melodies of Life was not in the repertoire - I really like that song.
Went to Robinsons after dinner. Chanced upon a sale - WMF pots and pans! We like this brand cos it's made up of our initials, heh! So we took a look - quite a lot of discounts! Being an auntie, I was rather tempted but decided I would go read up on it first. And today Yan told me it was good stuff. The auntie inside me 在蠢蠢欲动...
How? I'm hardly hungry but I'm dreaming of the bah zangs hanging on a bamboo pole in the kitchen, separated from my devilish arms by a wall and barely 20 steps.. Oooh I'm such a glutton! But I have been deprived of rice for a while! I give myself another 20min :)
And randomly: 肉掉了！
It's bah zang time again! :)
Didn't talk much otherwise. Mostly, Mother was updating me on various gossips about my neighbours.. My strategy? Just keep quiet *_*
But at one point I had to answer - I think Grams somehow let slip that I went to visit my other grandmother in the home before. So Mother asked me if that was true, without telling me who told her but she mentioned Grams in the next sentence so... She asked why I didn't tell her - was it because I was afraid she might scold me for visiting her? Um, I used time as my excuse - forgot when, forgot why, forgot everything! :p
Not quite happy with this year's work. The leaves were lousy! They kept breaking up! And the arrangement was crap - the fat leaves were all together and the thin ones were all together, making it difficult to dig for complementing leaves. Then Mother kept nagging me to use less meat cos bah zang could turn out too dry since she didn't use much oil for the meat. And in the same breath, she would complain that there would be too much left over meat...!
Mother counted 121 bah zangs - a square number, I like :p Will be distributing about half of them. They're all of different sizes :p and with different proportions of rice and meat :p but hope they're all sufficiently yummy - I'll try later for dinner :)
My ulcers seem to be finally healing. I still had milk for breakfast before making the bah zangs but I was so hungry by 11am that I had to chew on some bread - overdue since yesterday but it looked fine! My tongue was a bit raw but felt better after some water.
I decided I must have rice for lunch - so got Yan out for lunch. I had sushi! It was soooo good I went orgasmic at the conveyor belt counter table!
Some people stay away from rice but I realise I cannot. How to when rice is super good - on its own, with vinegar, with togarashi, stirred or baked with cheese, in onigiri, under raw fish, drenched in chilli con carne or curry sauce etc... But I scrapped past the ulcers while having rice so I bought some liang teh - less sugar, no doubt - to keep the ulcers in check.
And tonight, I shall finally put on my retainers - haven't used them for some three weeks in case they hurt my gum infection and subsequent ulcers. I hope my teeth are not too out of shape yet =(
Wanted to blog this last night but it was 3am - yesterday, I discovered a whole new world of music - music from games!
Sito got tickets for the Asian premiere of "Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy". It was a huge gathering of otakus! I was in the company of three of them, Mr Sito included! But I'm a geek in a skirt so we're quits :p Nobuo Uematsu was at the show too and he was so cute! Like Super Mario :)
I'm not one for orchestra and chorus but this was nice with scenes from the games that matched the pieces. And I was surprised a couple of tunes and some scenes and even names of the characters were familiar to me! But Melodies of Life was not in the repertoire - I really like that song.
Went to Robinsons after dinner. Chanced upon a sale - WMF pots and pans! We like this brand cos it's made up of our initials, heh! So we took a look - quite a lot of discounts! Being an auntie, I was rather tempted but decided I would go read up on it first. And today Yan told me it was good stuff. The auntie inside me 在蠢蠢欲动...
How? I'm hardly hungry but I'm dreaming of the bah zangs hanging on a bamboo pole in the kitchen, separated from my devilish arms by a wall and barely 20 steps.. Oooh I'm such a glutton! But I have been deprived of rice for a while! I give myself another 20min :)
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Lazy Sunday, lovely Sunday
Yesterday we went to NJ's 40th anniversary dinner, held in no other place but the school hall...
They were taking photos of each batch until the 1990s, when batches from the decade went up for a combined picture. Will post if I get it!
Oh, I wore a red dress and Sito wore a (blue) striped shirt. Does the combi remind you - if you're a good old NJCian - of anything? Answer is at the end of an old post.
Anyway, it's Sunday!
Dear Yan just came back from the UK so we met for breakfast this morning - at Macs :) She has put on some weight! Well, as did I during my studies - so much so that Sito (yes!) looked at me and said, "Food in Oxford must be very cheap!" But the weight will be gone in a bit..
We talked so much! And suddenly, six hours had passed! So we had lunch :p
I'm going to laze the rest of the afternoon away, rest my feet, rest my mind, rest my ulcer so that I can get through another work week... I'm looking forward to the next weekend already! :)
They were taking photos of each batch until the 1990s, when batches from the decade went up for a combined picture. Will post if I get it!
Oh, I wore a red dress and Sito wore a (blue) striped shirt. Does the combi remind you - if you're a good old NJCian - of anything? Answer is at the end of an old post.
Anyway, it's Sunday!
Dear Yan just came back from the UK so we met for breakfast this morning - at Macs :) She has put on some weight! Well, as did I during my studies - so much so that Sito (yes!) looked at me and said, "Food in Oxford must be very cheap!" But the weight will be gone in a bit..
We talked so much! And suddenly, six hours had passed! So we had lunch :p
I'm going to laze the rest of the afternoon away, rest my feet, rest my mind, rest my ulcer so that I can get through another work week... I'm looking forward to the next weekend already! :)
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Who's "auntie"?
After gym today, I headed straight for the fish soup stall. I was going to say "Auntie, 米粉汤!" when I caught myself and said "老板，米粉汤!" instead.
The "auntie" was maybe in her 30s. I'm only a few years away, not young enough to call her "auntie" already! Same thing for Alice at the juice stall. I just call her by name cos she looks so young despite being in her 40s.
So I was there slurping my fish soup (random: I lost a piece of fish cos I dropped it!) and thinking about how so many people were "aunties" and "uncles" to me just not that long ago. And I was the little girl around.
Now, I'm 29, and at the median age in office. And friends' kids are starting to address me as "auntie" already.
Guess I don't mind but it is just odd to realise that I seem to have moved into another generation... And I don't feel it!
I also realise that this is the nth time I'm talking about age here this year. A manifestation of my subconscious as I advance towards to the big THREE? *.*
The "auntie" was maybe in her 30s. I'm only a few years away, not young enough to call her "auntie" already! Same thing for Alice at the juice stall. I just call her by name cos she looks so young despite being in her 40s.
So I was there slurping my fish soup (random: I lost a piece of fish cos I dropped it!) and thinking about how so many people were "aunties" and "uncles" to me just not that long ago. And I was the little girl around.
Now, I'm 29, and at the median age in office. And friends' kids are starting to address me as "auntie" already.
Guess I don't mind but it is just odd to realise that I seem to have moved into another generation... And I don't feel it!
I also realise that this is the nth time I'm talking about age here this year. A manifestation of my subconscious as I advance towards to the big THREE? *.*
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