Happy Birthday Mummy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAREST MUMMY!

Today is a really busy day. Broke my routine of gym today for the Dragonboat race. Hee hee....So exciting!! Our heat was scheduled at 4.50pm today but we arrived at Bedok reservoir much earlier to watch the other heats. As I watched it, I felt more & more nervous. Afterall, this was my very first time taking part in a Dragonboat race, though as a drummer only. But still, I was totally clueless of what's expected of me other then hitting the drum, of course! LPP & I played "scissors, paper, stone" to decide who to drum 1st (since we got 2 race boats). Haha...me being the loser lead the 1st race then.

Unlike the practice boat which I rode on last week, the race boat was much more shallower and lighter. Every little movement by the rowers or the water waves could easily be felt and so for me to sit at the front tip of the boat was pretty scary. What made it even scarier was that i had to sit at an elevated level. Wooo.....I could only cling on tightly to the drum lo. Wahaha....not so much for my life only, but if I got thrown out of the boat during the race (which has never happened so far & I hope I won't be the 1st to create history of it), the team will be disqualified.

So for the race, we'll have to row (leisurely) from the finishing point to the starting point where at the starting point, the drummer (Me!) got to hold on the the buoy the throw it into the water once the horn sounded. Exciting! The minute the horn sounded, I threw the buoy & hitted the drum to give the rowers the beat for their strokes. Nervous nervous..... 800m to go for the race! Finally, we landed in the 4th place in our heat which consisted of 5 boats, clocking a timing of 5.20mins. 2nd boat did even better with a timing of 5.07mins. However, we did not managed to get into the semi-finals which will be held tomorrow. Nevertheless, it was a really good experience :)

After the race, I rushed back home to celebrate my dearest mummy's bday! Hope she stays happy & healthy always!! Love her lots!! After our "traditional" bday song singing & cake cutting, we made our way to De Coder's Cafe @ Bukit Timah for Claudia's bday party. By the time we reached it was pretty late and the group was already playing the games already. Haha... So I made use of this chance to pester LLT to bring me to Waffletown. Wahaha... Wish granted & stomach satisfied. After that back in the cafe for cam-whoring. wahahaa....

So tired now. But it was a really enjoyable day. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MUMMY & CLAUDIA! Good nite everyone :)

Do I look like a terrorist?

I been standing infront of the mirror since I got home today. No no...not that I'm self absorbed in admiring my looks. *PUKE* But rather, I wonder if there's anything wrong with my looks or what caused it to happen for 3 consecutive days.

It really got me a little pissed when my gym bag got checked today, for a 3rd time, within these 3 days. All these 3 days, I was on my way off from work to take the train and the staff at the MRT station was walking towards me as I tapped my ezlink card and entered the gate. Already used to the signals she gave, I knew she wanted to check my bag AGAIN.

Me: "This is the 3rd consecutive day that you are checking my bag. Is there any problem with my bag?"

She just smiled and said, " Just checking lah."

As I routinely, for the 3rd day, placed my bag on her desk and unzipping my bag, I said, " What you are going to see in my bag are going to be what you've seen for the last 2 days!"

I think she felt a little embarassed and so tried to change topic by saying this, "You came from school?"

Me getting a little more pissed off by now said, "I've told you yesterday already. I'm going to gym."

WAHHHHhhhhh!!! I really want to faint already! Can't believe that I'm so sway to get checked by the same lady 3 days in a row!

Swayness aside. Afterall, who else can I blame but my own looks. Maybe just because I look a little tanner, so I resemble MS? Haha!!! Oppz. That's a bad joke.

But I really doubt the efficiency and effectiveness of their spot checks.

1. Checking on the same person for 3 consecutive days. If the problem really lies wih me (my looks, my skin colour, or probably smell of chemicals on me since I work in a lab, etc), I will be more than willing to cooperate with you to go through some questioning or whatsoever.

2. If the suspect is on my big bag, then I think the staff should check more thoroughly instead of just getting me to unzip my bag yet she's not even checking the individual small bags in my gym bag. Anyway, those small bags only hold my running shoes, clothes lah. Nothing hazardous. But can you imagine if it some real terrorist? I think the way their staff check the bag, they can never find anything lor. Even if there is a b***.

So please, if want to check a bag, check it thoroughly and not so haphazardly. Otherwise, it makes me feel insecure to travel on public transport too.

Haiz...so I guess, the best way for me to "escape" from this tomorrow is to carry a small small handbag. Then spray some perfume before I leave office. As for my skin colour, I doubt that I can make any immediate change right now. Probably I should start splattering whitening cream on my face & carry an umbrella out during lunch!

My first attempt!

Today I had my very first try on......

DRAGON BOAT

!!!

It was really fun! LPP & I are supposed to be the drummers for the Kormodos team for the dragonboat race next weekend. So we joined the team for practice at Kallang river today for a preview of it. Hee hee.... Since there wasn't any drums for us to practise on, we had to take turn to sit at the front of the practice boat and count the beats. So whoever that's not doing the beat counting would get a taste of paddling. Oh manz! It was really tiring to paddle. I think my arms & lower back are going to ache tomorrow. How am I going to go for body pump class then? Hmm....

The paddlers in the team are definitely a nice bunch to be with. Being my first time on a dragonboat practice, they were kind & helpful to guide us in the instructions given by the coach. Hee hee...

Yah, probably you are wondering why on earth do I get into this dragonboat team out of a sudden huh? Actually part of the team consists of my colleagues. They were then in need of drummers for their race next week and asked around for suitable (small-sized), interested people, be it with or without drumming experience. So their main criteria was that the drummer has to be LIGHT & SMALL-SIZED! Erhh... actually I'm just SHORT lah, not really light. 4X kg lor! LPP was much lighter than me. But I guessed that they were too kind to reject me, so each of us will drum for a boat in the race, fair & square. Haha...

What's scary was that they told us that since drummer has to be the lightest, we will have to be in bikini or probably a special leather costume which will come with a whip as well. Erhh...sounds very the ... ... In the 1st place, I doubt leather is light lo. Guess they are just trying to scare us off. Haha...

Yah, the race i on this Saturday & Sunday at Bedok reservoir. Be there to support us! Though time unknown yet. Wahaha...

Disappointment

It's been quite a while since I last blog. Oh well, it's not because I'm too busy with work or with my personal life. Life has been boring lately, so I got nothing much to blog about. Haha...

Why is my life boing lately? Cos my work PROJECTS (yes, with the 'S') all just got killed lately & I'm now waiting to start on something new. So now for most of the time, I'm waiting for time to pass. Arghh!! Research can sometimes be really demoralising! Actually I'm neither emotionally nor physically attached to the projects lah. Just wondering why is this disease area so hard to work on. Maybe we just lack luck? Maybe it's the retribution we human are getting from the countless changes (many harms included) we have done to alter nature. Well, only god knows! :)

Anyway, to counter this "boredom" which I've been experiencing lately, the thought of furthering studies has been on my mind. Actually, I always wanna further my studies, but just when to start on it. Finally took some actions, started with emailing profs, checked out the viability with my boss and today, I just checked out the possibility of getting funded with my HR. Disappointed to hear that the quota for funded students is now full anf probably the earliest which there'll be a vacancy is early 2011. OMG! I'll be 29 years old by then. I wouldn't want to embark on a 3-4 years of studies then. Too old for it by then. Sigh...

So right now, I'm still thinking of an alternative to it. Either apply directly to the uni then pray & hope that I'll be offered a scholarship. Though with a much lower stipend, I hope I'm still able to survive then. Alternatively, I'll seek a job change soon bah.

Will just stay positive then! ^_^

June is coming!

Time really flies. Now it's already end of May and very soon we will be half way through 2008. 2 public holidays in May have passed, next PH will be National Day, but that falls on a Saturday, so it doesn't make much difference. Following that will be October 1st, Hari Raya Puasa. WAH!!! That's like 4 odd months down the road!!!! T_T

Well well, although there's no PH to look forward to in the upcoming months, there's definitely something worth feeling excited about.

Keep a lookout @ Yebber. There will be some very special things to look out for. Hee hee... Remember to check it out regularly in June.

Surprise SURprise SURPRISE!!


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Start of Shopping Spree!

Yeah! To mark the start of the shopping season (although I tend to shop all year round. GALS mah! Haha...), I took a break from my usual afternoon gym workout & head down to Expo for a shopping spree. Well, actually I'm usually more of a target shopping person, meaning that I have in mind what I wanna buy, head down to the place, get what I wanted & leave. This time round, it started off with the same concept in mind. I wanted to get an eyecream & decided to check out what the sales have to offer. But guess what? In the end I bagged home about $200 worth of "goodies". Muaahhaha....

Expo was so packed with people today. HUMAN JAM! Cos there were so many sales going on. Adidas, women's apparels sales, food fair, Popular sales & Robinsons sales. Not forgetting that there's also a church service there. Despite the crazy human jam and being all by myself, I was still very excited, trying to squeeze into the halls where the sales were. Started off with the Adidas sales. Still gotta queue up to gain entry into the hall. Before that we even have to deposit our bags but everything was carrid out in a very organised manner. Before you can swarm to check out the bargains, one will be given a very big plastic bag (which looks like a garbage bag) so that you can put whatever you want into the bag then make payment at the cashier. Managed to find 3 tops, out of which 2 were for myself. Hee hee... Good bargain!!!

Having warmed up at the Adidas sales, my next & final stop was Robinsons sales. That's where I intended to get my eye cream. But in the end I bought myself $100++ of things. Wahaha.... Luckily I need to rush to airport, if not I think I'll be more that $200 cheaper. Wahaha....But then, really had a great sense of achievement!!

So happy now!!

That's how women are. :)

Department Teambuilding

Finally it's over! Phew!!!

I've been tasked to be the organiser for today's teambuilding at Sentosa, mainly just gotta work on the activities for the day and BBQ. But that's already a little stressful. I was so afraid that things will go wrong, weather might be bad, etc. Yes yes, I've been praying extremely hard for good weather as most of the activities planned were outdoor. If it really pours, I've only got a big packet of balloons to fall back on. Erhh...well, low budget. So the only alternative Just game which I can think was to blow balloons since there's plentiful in my lab. Wahahaha....

I guess the funniest part was that I actually had a bad dream last nite. Dreamt that the BBQ had not even started at 7pm when I've promised everyone that our teambuilding should end before 7pm. Just remembered that we kept changing BBQ pit in the dream for some reason lah. Luckily it was just a dream. STRESSED manz!

I thought that it would be a much easier task to bring a group of adults out on an "excursion" compared to bringing kids. But I was wrong. The adults were just as hard to manage. One ran off to buy a cup of coffee before we board the Sentosa Express and in the end was denied entry onto the tram (no food & drinks allowed!). So the whole group of us gotta wait for him to finish his drink. Then another two ran out of the train a stop before we reached our station. When it came to games, some simply could not understand basic instructions and rules of the games. In the end, I screamed and shouted until I almost lose my voice.

Luckily te BBQ was more orderly and it finished off at about 6pm. Haha... So my bad dream did not come true! Other then a passing shower when we just arrived at the chalet, the weather was fantastic. Bright & sunny!! And I got tanner again. Haha...

Yeah! On the overall, it was an enjoyable & successful teambuilding. Ended the evening with a beer & chit-chat session with some colls.

Look forward to the next one (paintball I guess) to be organised by my boss. Hee hee....

My first Aquaaerobics class!

Today is Ben & Jerry's free cone day! The good thing is that I'm on half day today. Yeah!!! But this is my last half day to be cleared for the remaining leave from last year. Really gotta be careful on how I spend my leave in the remaining months since I plan to visit Ah Ma at San Francisco in December. Yes!!! Really can't wait till then! :)

Yeah, back to my half day of leave today. Sadly, I didn't managed to get any free cone today. I made a trip down to Suntec City after taking a nice afternoon nap. Ermm...well, I wasn't there specially for the free cone lah, but was there for a swim & to try out the aqua-aerobics class at my gym. I was expecting to see long queues outside Carrfour (which happened last year) with people queueing for their free cones yet I saw no one giving out free cones! Not even at the B & J shop. Later did I realise that the free giveaway was only available at selected outlets. Disappointing! Nevertheless, I still went off for my swim, happily. :)

Oh yeah! Did some leisure swim at the pool, relax abit and waited for the aqua-aerobics class to commence. Haha!!! Finally!!! I always wanted to try it but didn't get the chance to. I was so excited!!

The class started off with some basic warm-up exercises in the water. It still appeared easy then. As the class progressed, oh manz, it's pretty tedious. Especially when you see the instructress going through the motions so fast and effortless at the surface (while we were in the water), it seemed like there's no way to catch up with her. Later part of the class, she used the "noodle", which is a long rod-shaped float that is used as a resistance in water. I kept floating upwards when I use it while others managed to stay in water. OMG! So malu!!! I wonder if it's my technique or really like the instructress said, that I'm ligher than the "noodle" in water. Haha....

Anyway, it was a fun session. So hungry & tired after the class.

Start of of running regime!

As usual, on my way to work this morning, I took out my earpiece so that I can connect it to my hp to listen to radio (yeah, Class 95! :)). But somehow, the wires of the earpiece got tangled up and I ended up spending my entire train journey to work attempting to untangle it. In the end, it just worsened, and the knot got even harder to untie. I think I did it with so my frustration and strength that part of the rubber even came off, exposing the wire inside (the greenish part in the pic). Sigh...eventually, I gave up undoing the mess.

I think there's no way to salvage the earpiece unless I cut off part of it to undo the knot. Haiz... Anyone with a spare earpiece?? I don't think I can survive my gruelling 45mins of train journey in the morning without Class 95. LLT, come back soon! I know you can save me!! Haha....

Anyway, without it, I still got my ipod. But i just prefer radio in the morning rather than just songs after songs with mp3.

Finally had a good jog in the evening and I completed 4km! hee hee... Well, it's time to start on my jogging regime since I've just signed up for 2 marathons - Shape run in July and SBR in August. Will be running 10km for each event. Siao liao!! Gotta run on a more regular basis now! I shall run in my dreams now! Wahahaha....

MayDay ROCKS!!!!

To be true, I'm a big big fan of Mayday. I love most of their songs as their music is fantastic & the lyrics of their songs are always quite meaningful.

I almost didn't want to attend their concert this year as I've attended their previous concert at Expo last year which was supposed to be pretty much similar to this year's. Last year's theme was "JUMP!" (away from Earth) while this time round was "Down to earth". Glad that I've made the right decision to attend their concert again this year. Hee hee....

Compared to last year's concert, this time round, the stage was done in a very innovative way. Other than the usual main stage, there were two runways which led to another smaller temporary movable stage. There were also more interaction between the singers & their fans in this way as those sitting near the runway got to "touch" their idols. Haha... Although I'm not one of those lucky ones (coz mine was not the top-priced tix. Haha), I still got a very close view of the band members when they came to the movable stage. Then I went crazy snapping pics of them. Wahahaa.....

They managed to make the crowd really high after their 6th or 7th song where they sang their more popular songs. I sreamed & sang until my voice almost go hoarse too. Wahaha.... It was so fun & enjoyable! :)

Most parts of the concert turned out to be much more better than last year's. However, I think that the choices of songs for last year's concert were much better than this time. I wasn't familar with a few songs sung this year and somehow, at certain points, it just didn't bring the mood of the concert to the peak.

Anyway, I'm just looking forward to Mayday's upcoming album now.

And yes, Mayday, YOU ROCK!!! :)

Two days of leave!

I got 2.5 day of leave to be cleared before it gets forfeited in May. Having too little leave (only a standard 15 days a year!) really requires a careful planning of leave taking. Initially, I planned for a week-long holiday next week since Labour day is on Thurs & Fri is co's holiday. But last min had to change plan & ended up clearing my 2 days of leave yesterday & today. Hee hee...

Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day and we made the right choice of bringing Oscar out to Sentosa. He was very excited to see us dressed up & packing his bag of barang barang (yes! He knows that's his bag!!) and he just kept following me around the house when I carried his bag. Yah, he knew that we would not bring his bag out without him. Smart dog! Hee hee.....

On our journey to Sentosa, he just wouldn't stop looking out of the windscreen of the car, wondering where we were bringing him to. As we approached the Sentosa beach, he somehow knew that we were reaching our destination & kept whining. Finally, we reached the beach nd he went all crazy, running around and erhh....urinating around, trying to mark his territories. Yah, small trees, big trees, lamp post & even at a shade where people had placed their belongings at. Such a cute, naughty dog! Take one look of him enjoying the breeze at the nice sandy beach:

Surprisingly, the sea was very blue yesterday and it just didn't look like Sentosa. Haha...

Lazy Oscar tried to hide escape from the sun by hiding under the wooden benches. In the end, we gotta drag him out. So funny. Haha....

It was a lovely weekday afternoon spent at Sentosa. We were pretty lucky to spot Michelle Chia, Thomas Ong & Julian Hee shooting at the beach too. :)

However, on my way home, I had gastric pain out of a sudden. Really sudden coz I've been eating quite abit since morning and my one & only gastric pain record was during my JC days. I wondered why it happened this time. I took a nap when I got home and halfway through my nap, I felt something on my bed. It was Oscar! I guess he must have felt bored coz no one was playing with him. He put his favourite ball ball on the bed and wanted me to play with him. He climbed onto the bed & licked me before getting off the bed & waited for me to throw the ball for him to catch. It was so sweet of him to give me a lick first. Hee hee....

Thank goodness, the pain was gone after a rest. Hee hee....So all these rounded up my 1st day of leave. :)

Today was a much more relaxed day after a day out in the sun yesterday. It started off with dim sum lunch at Ah Yat (shall be reviewed soon!) followed by a lame movie, "Harold & Kumar" before hitting the gym for pump & combat. Then home sweet home.

Gotta be back for work tmr!

Well, still got half a day of leave to be cleared on next Tuesday. It coincides with Ben & Jerry free cone day! Yeah!! Probably I should go & queue for a cone? Or maybe one cone after another?? Wahahahaa.....

Lunch with Yebber & Chalet

Today I gave the gym class a miss since there's a lunch gathering with Yebber & fellow Yebber Ambassadors. Hee hee... It was a nice lunch at Laguna National Golf and Country Club. Haha... again, lots of pictures of FOOD were taken. Luckily, we still managed to take some pics of we people. Haha... Really thank Yebber for the lunch! :)

After lunch, I went off to Aloha Loyang chalet to meet my uni frds for a gathering. Haha...this gathering was a little different from our previous gathering as every one of them brought their partners along. A big gathering! It was definitely an enjoyable get-together filled lots of laughter during the dinner & games. Haha...although at first i thought that it's somehow weird & would not be that fun without barbeque at chalet but it turned out to be quite well with delivered cooked food. Yeah, we ordered the "golden pillow", which actually consisted of curry chicken kept in a big loaf of bread. Actually it was quite nice :) As for games, the most tiring one was probably the "maffias & spy", where you gotta find out who were the maffias by deciding on the reliability of what each player said. Tired tired!! But it was fun! Hee hee....

Thank goodness that I don't have to travel all the way home on my own back from loyang. Thanks to WL & bf for giving me a lift. Hee hee....

*Yawn* Really gotta sleep now. Hope to go for a jog before gym tmr!! :)

Tree Planting

Yeah, today was my co's community day. Theme for this year - Tree Planting!!!

But the activity did not start until afternoon. In other words, I still gotta work in the morning. Sigh...anyway, on my usual way to work, I received a call from Ah ma! Oh well, Ah ma is a nickname given to one of my uni friends, she not my real ah ma (grandmother), ok? Haha....

Yeah, she's been in Boston for her attachment since last Sept and this was the first time that I got a call from her. What a pleasant surprise early in the morning. Hee hee....

Yeah, got to discuss abit about our plan to explore California either in August or end of the year. Hope things go as plan. But gotta survive some 18hrs of flight. OMG! My longest flight so far was the one to Turkey which took 10+hrs. Hope to confirm o the details for the trip soon. I'm so excited!! Hee hee....

Oh, back to the trees. Yah, we were pretty lucky that the afternoon was bright and sunny after the heavy rain in the morning. It was so funny to see my colleagues drying their socks in the oven, and some used the heat guns in the lab to blow dry their wet shoes in the morning. Haha....

We reached Changi connector park around 1.30pm and after the regional head gave his speech, off we went to the tree planting site to witness the planting of the 1st 2 trees by all the division heads. Finally, it was our turn! We had been splitted up into 4 groups to plant the trees at different parts of the park & I belonged to the yellow team. 5 other colleagues & I got the spade & shovel before starting to dig the ground. Haha...very soon after, we planted 3 trees!!! Haha...that's was fun! Here's one of our little tree.....

The event soon ended with some refeshments followed by a closing speech by my director. Hope to go back some day to look at the trees which I have planted. Well, that's provided that I can recognise them. Haha....

We will ROCK YOU!

Wednesday evening is always a day which we'll usually take a break from gym. Yeah, our body needs a break from all the workout as well. Haha.... So what's up for the evening??

Hmm....

Hmm...hmm....

Orhhh!!!


On impulse (sort of), we decided to grab 2 tickets to watch the musical, 'We will ROCK you"! Yah, it's really my 1st time to buy a musical ticket and the next moment, we are sitting in the theatre. Well, in a way, the feeling is just so different from buying a movie ticket then go into a movie theatre to watch a show. Probably it's the price of a musical ticket which will make you plan & think twice before deciding whether to watch it. Haha...in this case, we bought a pair of cat 2 tickets ($120 each, thanks for the treat too!) & then we are in for a ROCK Nite!

Halfway through the concert, we did a "self-upgrading" of seats to the cat 1 seats ($140 for each ticket!) since there were many seats left empty in the cat 1 area. Haha....but based on what we have observed, those from other lower-priced categories have been upgraded to better seats as well since the area which they should occupy originally was empty for the nite. Aiyah, if that's really th case, we should have gotten ourselves cheaper tickets so that we could still get the upgrade. Anyway, the lesson learnt is to watch musical on a weekday, where price is lower & audience group is smaller and of ocurse to get cheap cheap tickets then pray hard for seats ypgrade. Haha.... Gonna practise these next time!

On the overall, I quite like the way the musical has been put up. Their dance and singing were fabulous! But of course for this musical, it involved lesser fanciful props. Unlike the previous musicals, 'Phantom of the Opera' and 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', which I have attended last year. Nevertheless, the performance was still done very well by the great actors, actresses and dancers. Yeah! Furthermore, they even added in some "local flavours" in their script to make it more interesting.

Feel so much like dancing after the musical. Rock Rock ROCK!!

Family Day!

Yesterday was a happy day for me & for my family as well. Finally, we have our family gathering again and again, it was organised by me. But anyway, so long as everyone's happy, I don't mind organising it every time. Hee hee....

Well, dad's birthday falls on April 16th. Wish him a very happy birthday in advanced! Yeah, so for yesterday evening, my family & of course LLT went out to celebrate dad's birthday. Wah, had a hard time deciding on where to bring my family to for dinner. Since it's a rare chance that my family gathers for dinner nowadays, I was really afraid to choose a dining place which they might not like. After some thoughts, I decided to bring my family the Plaza Market Cafe for buffet since my parents have been quite keen on goig fo one(erh...though they are not really big eaters!).

Dinner was fun, where we chatted and laughed alot as we ate. Also, we took lots of pics. Hee hee.... After dinner, took my parents on a nice stroll around cityhall area. Yeah, took lots of pics at the Esplanade, with the Sg Flyer in the background, the Merlion, etc. Haha....took some funny pics too. Felt so much like a tourist in Sg. Haha....Little did we realised that time passed so fast then and it was almost midnite when we left the place. So tired by the time we got home & we still gotta work today. Yah, I guess that explained why I got a bad runny nose today. Lousy me! But I still think it's worth it, for all those fun we had yesterday. Hee hee.... Just hope I'll recover after a good sleep tonite.

I should sleep early then. Gd nite & sweet dreams! zzzZZZZzzzzZZZZzzzzz

Choir Concert

In support of my dearest ex-tutee, Lakshmi, I purchased 2 tickets to watch her choir performance tonight. Hee Hee....

The concert was held at Victoria Concert Hall. Well, it's been a couple of years since I last attended a concert there. Yeah, the concerts I've attended recently were held either at the Singapore Indoor Stadium or Expo Hall. Well, to be true, those were the pop song concerts. Haha... Unlike this time round, a choir concert!

The concert started off with an interesting song, "One a Twenty", sung by the choir. So why do I say that this song is interesting? Basically, the piece was done in a way which requires it to be partly spoken and partly sung close to pitch. A pretty lively song to start with as well. To make the concert a little more interesting, there was a guest performance by another choir group and the concert was ended with a grand finale of Disney movie magic. Basically, the finale was very much like the High School Musical. Lots of singing and dancing. Interesting!

Besides the concert, we ended up getting quite interested in how the teenagers nowadays dress. Well, I guess they've tried to dress in their very best for the evening. However, many just ended making themselves look weird. Hmm...in a way, I do think that teenage years is an awkward period where you are "neither here nor there" (no longer kids but not adults yet) and have not much idea on how to dress appropriately. Looking at the teenagers who have attended the concert, I started to ponder how I look like when I was about their age. Well, ermm, some 10+ years back? Was I like them back then?? Haha....Looking back at my pictures taken back in those days, OMG! Can't believe that's me. The silly-looking me! Haha....

Bad morning but I got New Snowball!

This morning there was a train disruption again! I was happily sleeping on the train then when the train stalled at Yew Tee. I opened my eyes to check my surrounding and heard the PA system informing passengers to alight the train and go via the train towards Marina Bay to reach our destination. Erhhhh.... I work at Buona vista & I was already at Yew Tee then yet I need to take towards Marina bay again??!!

Not willing to do that, I decided to try out my luck by taking the one & only bus outside Yew Tee MRT which brought me to CCK, in hope thatbe some there'll be some buses there which will bring me to Buona vista or at least somewhere near my work place. Went over to CCK MRT to check on the situation 1st, and I realised that an accident had occurred at CCK. So many policemen & paramedics around then. The MRT station was just as chaotic as Yew Tee and I'm just like a fugitive trying to get out of the place. Only other way out was to board a bus from CCK interchange to get out of the place. Well, sadly, only one bus was available and it would bring me to Jurong East. But queue for the bus was super duper long. Two fully-packed buses left & I was still nowhere near the front of the queue. After waiting for a good half hour or so, we were informed that the train service had resumed. So happy then!!! FINALLY!!!

But again, there was some miscommunication. I managed to board a train but due to some miscommunication, we were made to alight from the train then again told that the same train could be boarded again. There I saw a very ungentleman-ly guy who dashed for the seat & squeezed a lady out of the seat. Singaporean guys! Sigh....

Finally finally!! I managed to reach my office just before 10am. I was dead tired by then.
Just then, I spotted a box containing a mini snowball on my desk. Addressed to 'Gou Gou', which is me. I was totally delighted! Hee hee.... the snowball even comes with a melody of "You are my sunshine" when you press the base of it. Like it so much! Really thank Jo for it. I guess she knew of my previously broken snowball so bought another one for me. So nice of her!!!

Here it is, Da Dang!!!



**Update**
Later, I heard that it was a suspected suicide at CCK MRT & the 40+ years old man died in the accident. Sigh...I really wonder why lately there's so many cases of suicide on MRT platform? probably it's the easiest & faster way of suicide. But It's definitely the most painful & disgusting way to die. I saw pics of it before it really looked gruesome. Furthermore, it caused so my disruption to people's life & probably gonna be hated & cursed by some of them. Don't you agree with me?

Quarter life Crisis?

This morning, a few colleagues & I gathered (we are sort of the older gang in our lab, either in terms of age or experience. wahaha) in a corner of the lab, not so much to gossip but to talk about our plan for the future. Hmm...future in the current job seems bleak, unless I don't mind staying as a RA for the rest of my life. But the thing is I do mind. I don't wish to be the one doing all the experiments yet not always clear of what I am doing, why I am doing and for who I am doing the things for. I don't want to be stuck at the bottom of the flat hierarchy forever and fighting for all the little things which means nothing to me yet are the only things which can be used to so-called prove my ability in the company. It's just makes me a tired at times.

To many of us, now the work just seems so monotonous & everyday we are just waiting for lunch, then at 5.30pm, time to knock off. Then wait for monthly pay-day. I don't know if it's my current project or after staying on the job for almost 4 years now which makes me feel a little demoralised and lost now. Hope this feeling go away soon.

Anyway, I've also started to take some actions on my plans for the future. Still hope to future studies. Well, just submitted a proposal to my boss & I'm now waiting for a reply. Hope it's a positive one! :) If not, I guess it's probably time to move on to elsewhere.

Yebber has turned ONE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YEBBER!

I'm proud to be part of the Yebber community and also one of the chosen Yebber Ambassadors (as you can see there's this orange badge on the left hand side of my blog. Hee hee...). Yes! I've just participated in the fun-filled Yebber's 1st anniversary party at Mint Museum last night. And yes, this is infact my second visit to the Mint Museum. This was my second visit to the place. It's definitely a great place to visit not just for the kids but adults as well.

Since I was still on my week-long leave, I managed to arrive earlier at 5+pm to help Claudia & the rest of the Yebber team to get prepared for the evening's event We could just see the ultra-stressed up Claudia running around the museum setting things up and making sure that each & every of us knew our duties for the evening. Bobo, Zihui & I were tasked to be the receptionists for the evening. Hee hee.....

Finally, at around 7pm, guests began to arrive and the 3 of us were busy taking their attendance, giving out programme sheet, bingo tickets, noise-makers, filling out lucky draw "coupons" and of course, directing the guests. At 8pm, with most of the guests arrived, we were ready to kick off the event for the evening. Polarbear was the emcee for the night and the series of activities was started off with a speech given by one of the founders of Yebber, Darren, followed by the still-very-nervous Claudia. Finally!! We know how the word 'Yebber' came about, why Yebber was born & who are the three funny men who started Yebber. Hee hee.... Following the speeches was a short video clip with interviews of the Yebber Ambassadors (Me!! ME!!! *shy*)

Not just that, there were even Bingo game & lucky draw to get the guests involved for the evening. But me, no luck in either of them. *Sob sob* Nevertheless, being able to participate in the party had already brought alot of joy to me. Not to forget that each of us bagged home a goodie bag with magazines & vouchers! Hee hee....

Yes yes!! How can I forget one of the most important thing. Food!!! Food was served in buffet style, with a good variety. The food was good. We had fresh greens, spaghetti, parmesan crusted chicken, seafood platter and wild mushrooms, tomato checca & salmon bruschetta. After which, we had some mini cakes for dessert. Yummy!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the organising team at Yebber for the event and of course a big congratulation to them for the success of the event.

Hope to celebrate future Yebber birthdays!!!

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There I went & here I'm back!

After 5 days 4 nights in Bangkok, I'm back here in Sg! That's so fast manz!!! Nevertheless, I'm still on leave today & tomorrow and I got my weekends!!!

Yeah,bought alot of things from Bangkok. Could have gotten more stuff but my luggage was too full for me to squeeze in any more stuff. Shall update real soon! Got 1100++ photos to go through. So crazy manz!!!