:: CNY is coming! ::

15 Jan Tue
Supposed to have PRC meeting after work, but it was postponed, or rather, cancelled. my dad then called to ask me to go to Beach Rd for dinner. had claypot rice. i never liked claypot rice. so tough to chew and smells burnt. i dun like burnt offerings. i dun like toast either.

16 Jan Wed
Had a meeting with Raffles clients.. learnt a lot through the meeting, regarding eDM (e-direct mailers), you know, the kinda thing you receive in your email when you enter your email add in the If you wish to receive latest offers and updates box.

felt more drawn towards.. advertising design rather than web. hmm.. in the wrong company? think so. started to surf the net for eDM designs for inspiration, ended up surfing for local design firms. hmm.. after i get my bonus, and then see how. i think my butt has been stuck in my seat for too long. felt as if there weren't any other design companies around (until i started to surf the web in that direction) also starting to feel frustrated abt my job (my colleagues, some current projects, my boss, employee benefits etc)

anyway. after the meeting it was lunch time. went to Raffles City Shopping basement, hoping to find some good food. bumped into kwek, who was reluctantly going for lunch with some friends. (oops!) i ended up buying Chippy's British Takeaway deep fried chicken cutlet in Cheesy curry.. yummm.. also bought Strawberry & Cream frappe from Gloria Jean's. i needed coffee actually, but couldn't resist the name of Strawberry & Cream.

after work i went to Chinatown Point to shop. bought 3 bottoms. China brand, but looks ok leh. the last time i bought made-in-china bottoms the buttons (ornaments) all started to drop out one by one. trying to refrain myself from wearing them before CNY!!

17 Jan Thur
went to watch I Am Legend after work. $6 at Cathay!! haha very scary wor.. i was hiding behind my jacket most of the time.

18 Jan Fri
Bought a Panasonic tripod stand for my camera for $36 and went around Chinatown taking photos.


Chinatown Point


Yay! Singapore is going somewhere in advertising!! This is projection media. COOL~


What other festive season can you find a long queue for BBQ PORK!


Can you tell that he's really still? (Hint: Everyone else is moving!)


Hmm Mickey Mouse & Friends for Chinese New Year. Brought to you by Hong Kong Disneyland maybe. (taken with use of tripod stand)


How can a CNY photoshoot go without taking the busy streets of Chinatown? Not so many people yet. At least there's still walking space now.





19 Jan Sat
woke up earlier than last week for my eTrial. but still late. haha.. took bus, and it took me an hour to get to CDC. really. i booked 2 hours session but could only take one. next time i will not book early morning sessions. i am so not a morning person, especially now at night i try to catch an episode of Heroes. hee.. i'm at episode 19 of Season 1 now.

Had brunch with my mom at Hougang and then went home to rest for a while before going for cell grp.

We had dinner at Adam Rd food centre and then went to Ben's house to watch Little Miss Sunshine.

20 Jan Sun
Combined service. had breakfast with parents at coffeeshop. cell grp went to AV for lunch. AV... makes u think of AVocado.

went to play with Servio hehe.. he was showing us his toys lor.. so cute. i like watching kids respond to questions, find it marvellous. watched The Rabbit-proof Fence. interesting..

had dinner with my parents at Kovan Kobayashi. then went to The Next Phaze to watch some people perform. one of the guys look like one of my poly friends. cute. ;)

24 Jan Thur
this whole week very uneventful. haha.. Other than visiting Chinatown with my parents and buying toiletries on Tue.. nothing much.

after work i went to Kadaloor (bet u dunno where it is!) to do waxing. hhaahaha.. honestly i can't stand my leg hair since i was young lor.. finally PLUCKED up the courage to go for waxing. :P the ..beautician has a lot of certificates hung on the wall, helping me feel that i can trust her to do a good job. boy, it was definitely painful and took more than an hour! after that my skin had red patches, but by now it's ok already. i dun feel hairless or naked (i felt that when i shaved the first time). cuz there's still fine hairs and i'm FINE with them there.

i also tried a self-heating face mask by Garnier that was on offer in Watson's. very fun, really feels warm, until i entered my parent's aircon room to use their bathroom. lol. i think it works, as a deep cleanser. seems to have removed my blackheads.

Gosh i am becoming so vain.

25 Jan Fri
everyday i get pissed by my colleagues over silly mistakes. haiz. So blur and careless! got the cheek to ask my client to let him know if he missed any important detail, after i told him to CHECK through. and another thing, my client told him to download some pics, and he didn't even bother to ask what they are for!!! he didn't even tell me about them, that my client had told him to download (i was supposed to use them). argh!! i really need to cool down..

:: Happy New Year 2008! ::

haha overdue post.

19 Dec Wed
Haha forgot to mention.. met up with clients for lunch at Peach Garden Restaurant Novena~! Their treat, for my one-and-a-half years of hard work for their company monthly edms! =) food is good.


that's like Wasabi prawn in a(n edible) basket.

and then HK the next day.

27 Dec Thur
Not much work to do.. Clients on leave. Lalala~
Went to Bernice's wedding dinner after work.

everybody started strolling in and the aunties were chatting loudly while she and the groom were saying their vows and all that la, so rude!


Nice place though.

30 Dec Sun
After service went to Serangoon market for lunch with cell grp, and then went to Compass Point to buy present for the gift exchange later. And bought 3 CDs!!! wahaha...


Falalala~ Post-Christmas shopping at Metro =)

Took a short nap and asked my dad to send me to Jeremy's place for our cell group Christmas gathering. Dinner was not bad! Except that it's too spicy. Played some games and then we had our gift exchange.

After that we went up to Jem's place to have dessert and to chat. went home about 12+am.. Jem was driving and Xiao Quan helped to keep him awake. haha..

31 Dec Mon
Late, very late for work! OMG. woke up about 10am. wahlaoz. Thank God my boss was not in. I changed bag and didn't bring my office keys. wah sianz.

Wasn't able to stay back cuz i was on duty for Watchnight service. My sister's friends came from Phuket and brought some stuff for me. But i was unable to meet them despite trying to arrange last minute. Went home, had dinner with my dad and then went to church.

5,4,3,2,1...Happy New Year 2008!!

went to Bedok for supper with cell grp, and then went to Jem's hse to hang out.

1 Jan Tue
Holiday!!! whee~~~ Haha went home in the morning! Slept for about 3 hours before waking up for brunch with my parents. Went home to sleep some more. Supposed to go play mahjong with Judy, but i pang-seh-ed her.. Tired sia. Had dinner with mom at Suki Sushi at Punggol Plaza!!! and then took bus to Compass Point to meet Judy and Carl for more food at Swensen's. =) hahaha.. played some arcade games at Timezone and then went to see motorbike with them somewhere in Sengkang. Cool... i wanna learn to ride motorbike and buy a scooter!!

2 Jan Wed
Cut hair near my workplace after work. Decided to quickly cut before prices rise during Chinese New Year period. Felt inspired to cut like weiting and serene's style. And very sian of my current hairstyle. Also went to buy hair dye to colour my own hair after that. Not very obvious leh. =x

3 Jan Thur
I actually bought bedsheets from Metro and finally I unwrapped it to use! =) my dad fell sick so he had to sleep in my sis' room, so i moved back to my room (i went there for a few days cuz i washed my bedsheets and didn't have time to put the new one on.)


4 Jan Fri
Asked weiting to come over to my workplace, cuz there's been 2 kittens who kept meowing very loudly near my office, very poor things. i also dunno how to care for them.

We went for dinner first at 2nd floor of my office building, Hong Lim Complex. I actually seldom eat there during lunch, cuz it's always packed. No point going down for lunch early because there are always people.

We played with the kittens for 3 whole hours. =) they kept mewing very loudly, but we managed to calm them down a few minutes in between and they fell asleep, between our thighs!!! so cute!!!



Sorry it looks obscene but ...it's warm enough for them to find comfort. awwww....


7 Jan Mon
Went to watch movie with Diana and Elisa. National Treasure 2. Nice!! Very cool and funny. After that Diana and I took bus to airport to meet the cell group to welcome Jieling back. I decided to go home on the last bus, because the next day i gotta work, and after work i gotta go for prayer meeting. The bus doesn't stop at my bus stop, so i had to walk 3 bus stops home. Tired~ yawns.

Weiting went to my workplace to take the kittens to SPCA.. won't be seeing them around anymore, but at least they would be better off there (or anywhere else).

8 Jan Tue
Prayer meeting after work. Not bad, a lot of youths turned up.

9 Jan Wed
woo~ happening week man. out the whole week, today went to Novena after work. very busy at work actually. my colleagues are supposed to finish a website by today, while i was supposed to help edit the graphics. Only left office about 7.10pm. Supposed to meet Bat at 7pm at Novena, to get stuff from him from my sis. She bought bags and bikini for me from Bangkok =) After that went to Revenue House to meet ting. Went to the Hong Kong Cafe nearby for dinner. wooo~ 2 of us shared some dim sum and noodles. nice =) then we went up to her office to chill out. such a nice place!!!!! feel very inspired to do up my room leh hehe. also feel very inspired to move out so i can redecorate my "own house". woohoo~

i very scared to go home late cuz cab fares is ex man. also scared to wake up (too) late for work. managed to catch the train home. =)

10 Jan Thur
after work went to Boat Quay to meet Wilson, who's back from Australia for a holiday. Actually we're not very close friends la, so was a little not sure what we're gonna chat about. But he's really nice to talk to la. From religion to politics to future plans..

Had really expensive dinner at ...err.. one of the restaurants there. Then we went over to Jazz @ Southbridge for some drinks. Missed the Happy Hour. oww... oh yah forgot to explain how i got to know him. I think it's through Wanling, his smoking kaki during poly year 1 sem 1 (he quit DMD after 1 sem). Yeah, i almost forgot that he smokes.

He had to fetch his friend at the airport, so we left at 10.30pm. He offered to send me home by cab on the way. =)

11 Jan Fri
not very motivated to work cuz... i haven't received my bonus for 2007 still! Do I not deserve it or what!!!

went to meet Yun, Belly, Bec, and Kwek at Vivocity. Had dinner at Hog's Breath Cafe and then dessert (ice cream fondue) at Haagen Dazs. Wah u can imagine my expenditure for the week. Belly was going to fly off to France for exchange. hmm~ uni students nowadays.. shiok sia. Kwek sent all of us home =) of cuz everytime they'd be going, "ah niao why u live in a place where no birds lay egg?!?!" lol. hope to be able to drive soon so i won't have to trouble people to send me home!

12 Jan Sat
Woke up almost late for my driving E-trial. it's a... something like mock test for my Basic Theory Test end Jan. took cab to Comfort driving Centre in Ubi =( that's $7.20 wasted.

Out of 6 test papers i failed 3 and passed 3. 84% 84% 82% 94% 94% 90%. Passing mark is 90%. wahlaoz. Suddenly not very confident of passing my BTT already.

Wanted to take bus 87 back, but i then realised i left my ez-link card in another bag (that's the trouble of changing bags) so i paid by coins. i think i really wasn't thinking - it was only 10am. i alighted at Hougang, and walked all the way home from there. Took me about an hour. And blisters on both feet. =( felt really stupid. Enjoyed the walk home at first, but after a while my feet hurt and i felt damn sian cuz i was walking home not by choice anymore.

When i went home i almost wanted to notify Tricia that i can't help out as runner for the 3-on-3 Bball later. But decided to go in case they're shorthanded. Maybe most people didn't notice but i was limping. =(

Of cuz the SAJC BASKETBALL team won the finals la~ our church people not so zai lor hahahhaa.. =P

Went to Crawford lane for dinner. I had only enough money for the meal. Badly overspent this week!

went home to sleep while the rest still went to Jeffrey's place for boardgames. But i didn't sleep immediately after i reached home la. Ironed my clothes.

13 Jan Sun
Had breakfast with my parents near church. Left the house earlier than them but reached much later, cuz i missed the LRT and MRT; i was still limping. Because of my blisters i had been walking in a weird way to avoid causing more pain, and so I hurt other parts of my legs. =(

Lunch at Mac's with half my cell grp. The other half were having chicken rice. -.-" we tried to hurry the cell grp to move off for lunch, but it doesn't work, it causes us to split up.

went back to church for cell group meeting, to talk about our future.. and then i blanked out and started to tear when it was my turn to share. shit. felt really tensed up and so embarrassed and couldn't stop myself. argh.

managed to calm down.. and then we went to Ben & Jerry's at The Cathay to watch Jem and Matthias perform.

After that went home. It was pouring VERY HEAVILY. my mom refused to go out for dinner and i refuse to buy back for her. hahah.. my dad offered to buy back for us. i accidentally complained about the food when i realise i shldn't be complaining. =x watched Aliens vs Predator. Anyone interested in Part 2 in theatres now?

Packed my room and got rid of some magazines. Some as in, very little, compared to the stacks of magazines i bought. =P

14 Jan Mon
PMS day 2. Woke up and my dad asked me to go for breakfast. He drove me to work, but he decided to go by Defu Lane that area. Passed by Comfort Driving Centre -.-" and then we had breakfast at some lousy place. Heh. Asked my dad to help me pick up something from the Post Office delivered to me on Sat but no one was at home.

Really very pissed at work. Haiz. Prayed that God will help me find joy. Really felt like i was going to die of high blood pressure or something.

Ended work at 8.30pm, sinced I promised some clients that i will show them something by today. Oh well. by then i was looking forward to going home, to open the parcel from Asian Geographic. =)


And then.. on the train home i saw a cute guy. Saw him before... felt myself blushing and was trying to control myself from smiling to myself lol. =D Maybe that's the joy i was praying for. Haha.