Grumpy

Remember the Care Bears? I think there used to be one called Grumpy.

I find strong resemblence between Grumpy and one of my co-workers.

Qn: When one enters the office of another person/s, should the person greet those that are inside? Afterall, it is not like your own office nor home....

Ans: Grumpy shows a totally distrubed face that says "Dun come near ME" even though Grumpy is entering your tuff!

Hope Grumpy cheers up soon!

Pesky Car Thief

Can you imagine driving into a Cashcard operated carpark with NO cashcard??

I normally keep the cashcard in a convenienty yet not obvious place in the car for such uses, lately, the cashcard seems to have a mind of its own, its no longer found where it used to be.

The first time when the cashcard went missing, we thought that it was my bro's doing, cos he's pretty reknown for being forgetful and often displace items around the house. (Although he totally denied it, we still secretly believed that it was him hee...)

When it happened the first time, I was with my mum, we intended to go to the supermarket to do some marketing, faced with non-entry into the car park, we had to reverse awkwardly out of the carpark and headed to another wet-market. Here we were met with another set of trouble, we parked in a open car-park lot right behind the a confectionary shop which we wanted to patronised (I call them GLAM spots, aka glamorous)

We all we had to do was to take a shortcut via the shops to reach the front of the shop.... the moment i stepped foot on to the pavement, I slipped! I was wearing the most trusty trekking boots, Timbys and I slipped! Before I could warn my mother of the slippery floor, I witness her slipping/tumbling/sliding down onto the floor after whacking her shin, elbows and arms on the curb and the car.

*horror*

Its absolutely horrifying to watch a 70yr old lady fall in front of you. I tried my best to run across the slippery CONFECTIONARY floor to get to her.

She was shocked beyond words. She almost wailed out some loud cries, this is when the experience nanny-me come into play... I told her it was nothing, check if she had knocked her head (thankfully NO), check if there was any bleeding (Thankfully NO), check if she can move all her limbs (Thankfully Yes), with that, I got her to settle down and got up on her feet.

This time she was clinging onto me while trying to cross the slippery CONFECTIONARY floor while the owner of the shop next to the confectionary shop told us that countless passerbys have slipped and fell at the same spot.

I definitely did something about it.... read the next story... heh... planning to go to the police post for it as well. *wink*

So the actions of an "innocent" thief of the cashcard can lead the loss of life of an innocent person or maybe even serious injuries.

If there is anyone out there who is reading this and know that of someone who STEALs cashcards. STOP doing IT! YOUR ACTIONS CAN CAUSE A LIFE!

Fortunately, when my SECOND cashcard vanish into the thin air, no one was injured nor hurt, just very very surprised that someone would snoop so low as to prey on their neighbours and fellow Singaporeans. SICKOS!

So from now on, I'll be like those parking attendents, I'll be armed with a bag of coupons and cashcard whenever I want to use the car and will definitely remove them when I leave the car. Pesky Car Theives!

Shadow Does it Again

did anyone ever set up a system for leaving a job?

My shadow in the office out of the blue declared that it was her last day. It was the 31st of Dec, her last day of LEAVE also.

*stunned*

Why did she leave so suddenly? Could have been abused by someone in the office? Unlikely, cos she's not the type that will attract attention *trust me*

Could it be that she's got a better offer that she cannot refuse and had to go immediately? Not really, seems like no one in the industry is employing her...

So what could it REALLY be?

As the day goes by without her.... there are more issues that arises surrounding her, eg. undeclared purchases.

Many moons back, she offered to purchase a product on my behalf stating that she's got "excess" $$ somewhere... so fine, I gave her my orders and they came through, 4months later, the company is still waiting to be paid by HER. Interestingly, she's LEFT, then who is left to pay?? ME!!

Today, a lady from the accounts dept of ANother company called to ask for outstanding payment of up to $1000! Who will get to foot the bill?? I hope its not me....

What I realy wanna say is... whenever someone leaves the job suddenly, it cant be a good thing. For the employer, expect LOTS of follow-up to do; for the co-workers, expect LOTS MORE follow-ups to do. In the end, this Shadow of mine is left with a stinky name that NO one would really want to associate with HER.

anyone interested to SEE what she looks like? HEH..... she's got a blog too... unfortunately it wont be named Shadow... ha ha ha...

Hope all of u out there wont ever encounter such unpleasent character.

Being 30

My reality of being 30 started from the stroke of 12midnight.

My darling, spent one whole entire week preparing for my big day... (dun ask me if he's got any real work work done k? *wink*)

I had to hid inside my bedroom while he prepared the present.... When I finally am allowed to unveil my present, it was a lovely wall mural of my favourite comic strip, yes Peanuts you guess it!

For more than 20months, we've wanted to paint the wall with my favourite comic characters like Linus, Snoopy, Woodstock, Lucy, Charlie Brown, Sally, Peppermint Patty etc... but it seems too distructive for a perfectly flat wall (not denying that lazyness also has a part to play...)

So now, finally, when I hit the big 30, I got my wall of Peanuts! Doesn't sound too matured isnt it? *wide grin*

Yes, the day also started with lots of mini-surprises... I knew I was going to have lunch with some friends, just that I kept guessing them WRonG, hope its not that the guessing-instincts get worn out when you are 30???? *wide eyes*

We ate at the most delicious Jap BBQ resturant in Goodwood Park Hotel, called Shima, its thinly sliced beef, tempura, salmon sashimi..... yummy!

As my presents got unfolded.... one appears to be wrapped up in the most UNIQUE way ha ha ha.... wait till i upload the pic for it... u maybe inspired to wrap like that in the future!

We ate yummy seafood in Ang Mo Kio also, and here... I got fooled again by a notty couple. E sms-ed me mins before we sat down on the table wishing me happy birthday, hence I thought that they wont be the surprise guest at my dinner... but it turns out to be a "tiao hu li shan" divert the attention of a tiger out of its mountain/cave....

We had a late night birthday cake celebration when Mr. Monster and No. 8 came from their other dinner party.... here, I heard the FUnniEsT birthday song being sung, you've got to request Blim to sing for you again...

As the 1st day of being 30 unfolded, the girls got to "exercise" over at the mahjong table while the boy were entertained by the Xbox!

What a day.

My Last Few Mins of Being 29!

Hello world,

yes, I'm officially OLD! For a woman, reaching 30 seems to be a NO NO nightmare.

For the longest time, I've dread being 30! But the harsh reality has to arrive, I have to turn OLD!! Yikes! (yes, I'm still trying to denial the fact that i'm getting older by the min... and suddenly when the clock hits 12midnight....I'll be suddenly be in the 30-35 bracket as in Sex in the City)

So I'm dedicate the last 30mins of my YOUTH to my Blog.

I made extra effort to enjoy my last day of being YOUNG in the 20+ age bracket. I took the day off from work! AT least that was my plan when I applied for leave. Yes I sacrifice ONE day of my precious leave to be enjoyed.... facial, lunch meetings, tea parties, a pleasent non-productive but totally fulfilling day....

BUT the new HOD decided to meet our dept on this very day... very first day of the year that my precious leave was taken. I had a call from his secretary to inform me about the meeting... I cant really tell her that I wont be coming cos i'm on leave cos i'm goin to be 30 the next day and NEEDED to stay away from the cruel working world right?

So I ended up "wasting" my time at work for the meeting.

Well, to be fair, a few good things did get brought up and actioned upon during this meeting... just superbly disappointed that it had to happen on MY LEAVE day!

So... I met up with my KL shopping buddy, S (who is still IN the 20+ bracket *sickening*) for late lunch and we shared a pizza that has an EGG on it! Anyone tried?? Honestly its a refreshing idea with a totally OFF taste. So future gourmets, DUN try it! Cos we'll NEVER order that dish ever again.

Despite the funny yolk pizza, we had a swell time discussing WORLDly issues like how IB was an intensive but great study system, what was the perfect method to match our clothes with our shoes and bags (bags and shoes are very essential & impt *head nodding*), so i guess, it was quite a meaningful lunch appt. =D

Then I headed to look for my 30+ bracket friends....ahhh... this is where the fun starts.

Cyn took a first look at me and asked "u did put on some weight ah?" (a sure sign of being in the 30+ bracket *shaking head* there seems NO escape now is there?)

I had to pinch my tummy area and show her the evidence that she was looking for... YES its confirmed! When you turn 30, your tummy just suddenly grows OVERNIGHT and put you right in the age bracket where you belong even though you may totally not look like you are 30... but your tummy tells the truth! =....(

Instead, she welcomed me with open arms into her world (of the 30 bracket) hee...

looking at her and her warmth with people around her, it doesnt seem so bad to be older eh? Its the relationships that you build with people that counts at the end of the day and NOT the age... HEE *cool*

Then we called the Otterman and wriggled him into our favourite passtime together, COFFEE break at good ole Spinellis. He was resistant for a while but broke loose after Cyn's reverse psychology tactics... hee... (see another advantage of being older is you get WISER... you learn how to deal with different people effectively, Yahoo to being 30)

Just for background, the coffeebreaks that we have usually will bring us to dinner breaks to supper breaks and thankfully we havent had one that brought us to dawn-breakfast breaks hee... Cos the 30+ system kinda get exhausted at the Cinderella timing.... (now I dun remember having problems with staying up late when I was in the 10+ bracket...)

So we started our coffeebreak at about 10mins to Five. Feeling excited about my blog, I told them about it.... Cyn being the non-net-surfer, asked what is a blog? So Otterman got really excited and shared about the different blogs that he came across, including how he used the blog to coordinate efforts for Boxing Day's Tidal Wave episode.

Then Z joined the group followed by Dr.L and the group just cannot stop talking and talking and talking, so its a good sign, at least people in the 30 bracket got GREAT jaw muscles! I'm proud to join this group because it means.... I've got a strong jaw! ha ha ha...

okay last 2mins of my 29 life...

3 things i love most of my 20+ life

1. Having the financial freedom to engage in new activities like scuba diving, Holidays, SHOPPING!

2. Having met Ad (my hubby) and getting a place of our own *heavenly* being independent (which actually means having to foot ALL the household bills on our own, deciding what to cook & eat EVERY single DINNER, cleaning the WHOLE entire house, laudry, ironing, etc etc....)

3. Learning to take a step back at life and take a 2nd look at it. (some people call it being Wiser, I strongly AGREE with them hee...)

bye bye 29...

The Return of the SBK

Yes, the horrible truth is out. My SaBoKing at work has returned, after 3 weeks of peace... the disruption has begun.

Can you expect someone who was away for 3 weeks to know exactly what is happening inside an office?

Day One: He returned with vengence as my shadow (who has since left) has left behind a whole load of unfinished work and not all properly accounted for. So my SBK decided to take stock of ALL the different items that he deems fit... and conveniently hides them away... It seems like this world in the office just revolves around him and the shadow. The rest of us in the office has got NO rights or access to the items??

Totaly no regards for the rest of the folks in the office.... horrible!

That gave me a heart attack as I was sure that I just did my own stock take of a very very expensive item in the office, we had to stinge while using it, so I painstaking portioned them out nicely and placed them in a common place so that everyone can have access to it... RESPONSIBLY!

But no... SBK decides that He is in control the moment he steps into the office. Honestly I dun give a shit.... cos I'm a transitional staff here anyway... but just dun take things AWAY which others have been USING and more so... have been PAYING for it!

Day Two: SBK decides to clean up shadow's work desk and also hide away things again... this time items that rightfully belongs to "HIM" and his team. Unfortunately, one of MY items looks exactly like one of their team-mate's item... and hence he has also succuessfully hide it away....

Now, How do I TAKE back what is rightfully MINE?? Our boss is in the office.. heh... shall I use this opportunity?? What will you do?

*puzzled*

Yahoo Dr. Morbid is coming BaCk!

Its great to hear from Dr. Morbid almost daily about their work in Galle. First msg from him sounded extremely gloomy. Told us that the state of destruction was far worse than reported or seen on television.

When the tsunami news first hit the papers, I refused to read or look at them because its already widely covered on the television sets, every channel seems to be giving some figures on the magnitude of its destruction. However, when Dr. Morbid volunteered for his mission. I grew hungry for news on Galle area, I wanted to find out more about that place and its people there.

One of Dr. Morbid's comments was, most of the people in the area had no shoes to wear. Looking at my Vincci collection, I felt so guilty... here I am with a few dozen of pretty shoes, there they were barefooted. What would have been the best shoe for them?

Nonetheless, its great to know that Dr. Morbid and his team of fellow medical folks has tended to over 2800 injured and sick while they were there for about 10days.

Good Job Folks!

SurpRise For Eve

Today is Eve's Birthday... and her hubby Blim had a surprise planned for her while she has totally no clue of what is happening. *evil grin*

Since its a friday, everyone has to go to work rite? So, the surprise was for her to turn up in Swensons with 7 friends waiting for her. hee...

The fun part was planning what to say or shout or sing when she first sees us. But the horrible part was the waiting....

Since she had no clue that there's a huge batch of starving people waiting for her at a resturant, she took her time to do some shopping along Orchard Road.... The dinner was supposed to be at 7.30pm... guess what time did we see our Birthday Gal?? 9.30pm!

By 9pm, we all cannot resist but ordered some finger food which quickly got snapped up, poor FQ, he had to revisit his chicken bones thrice until we forced him to take the 2nd last prawn fritters or wanton in his words...

The birthday gal was suppose to bypass the main door queue and come in via the rear entrance... So Blim Blim told her that since its her Birthday, she'll get a table immediately, no queues needed. That kinda got into her system.... Blim took a while to persuade her to enter Swensons "illegally"... Thank God for that else we wont get to see our dinner!

Eve got a loud Happy Birthday song sung as she approached us.... and her eye balls nearly fell out of the socket.... hee... *surprised EVE*

Did u hear Vincci Calling me?

heartbroken, we left Pelangi for dinner and headed towards City Plaza in the hope of finding some CNY goodies. As the escalator rose up to the first level... Gigantic VINCCI signs lighted up on my face!

HoW can I say NO to Vincci?

And I return home happy with another conquest :-D

Vincci revisited

Did I mentioned that I still have some unfinished business with Vincci?

My girlfrens told me that the VNC here doesnt seem to sell the SAME type of shoes as their counterparts across the causeway... WHY???

I cannot believe my ears, I have to check it out for myself.

So I drove across the causeway, lagging my "willing" hubby along, armed with total disbelief and reached the 1st Vincci stop at Pelangi. I scanned the whole shop twice for my MUST-HAVE shoes. They only have the green canvas cross strip shoe, where is the purple elegant lady-like one?? *disappointed*

There is my size for the green canvas shoe!! Yipee! *thrilled* I even asked the sales person to get me a much larger size for my fren S remember? We were the bitter duo without the GREEN CANVAS shoe unlike YL....

Happy to try on the shoe and paraded around the entire shop with it on me, my pretty feet... and guess what?? I wasn't sure if it was an overdose of shoe-shopping in KL, or was it that the shoe doesn't quite look the same again, or was my feet has changed to a different shape... the shoe just didn't look as pretty on me anymore! *Sob* *sob*

After much deliberation.... I had to let it go.... i cannot withstand having a pair of Vincci that doesnt seem to fit on my feet.

*sad*

Goodbye Dory Forever

today marks a sad day.

Our favourite pet fish Dory is found dead, lifeless lying at the bottom of the fish tank.

We suspect that its the black Domino Clark Clown fish who is responsible for Dory's death. Domino is growing bigger each day while the rest of the fishy community remains at about the same size. We can see Domino's dominance over other fish as it darts into other's territory.

Shall we punish Domino for Dory's death by capturing it and sending it to confinement? For a week? A month? Can we train a fish not to kill?

In memory of Dory...we'll not be eating any fish for the rest of the week.
(but we dun normally eat fish unless we absolutely have to...=p)

K box King

The year started with a BAND for us.

After the NY eve mass in church, our band members put up a performance for the congregation. Feastive mood was in the air with Mr. K-Box King performing many earwax dripping songs. One of our favourites was when he sang "i am willing" by Faye Wong in mandarin... woah... he was totally emotional about the song boy....

Tickled by the singing... we were almost tempted to carry on the night at K Box!! 4hour blocks of singing... should we repeat the "torn-ing" of Christmas eve?? On second thoughts.... we better not....

So when is the great date for K-Box?? I must go dig up all my music cds and start practising!! =P