HELLO, life!

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

I was reading The New Paper earlier on and I came across this:

SWITCH ON 2009
"This economic crisis doesn't represent a cycle. It represents a reset."
- Mr Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric CEO

In 2008, something happened to the world that you thought only occurred on your computer.
The system crashed. Hung suddenly when all seemed well, then went kaput.
The unthinkable - some good, most bad - happened, in politics, in sports, even to our favourite White Rabbit candy.
It was a painful year, possibly the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
But it also brought flashes of brilliance, bits of joy.
Mostly though, it forced us to hit the reset button, to re-imagine the impossible, re-visit our values and, if the lessons of '08 are heeded, re-boot our lives.
Because for all its heartache, a watershed 2008 may yet make us stronger in all its momentous change.

How has '08 altered our world? We capture the changes in no more than eight pictures to set you thinking about '09...

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It really did set me thinking.
I've made a promise to myself & family that from 2009 onwards, I will work hard for my future - studies & career, and never will I let anyone down.

See you, 2009! :)

9:10 AM

Monday, December 29, 2008

A few weeks ago, I went fishing with Jewelry, Jade, Eeling, Victoria, Guang Yun and Han Leng.
It was a good experience!
My first time fishing, in fact. Hahaha!

Met at Harbour Front.
Han Leng & Victoria drove us to Labrador Park.
While those who knows how to fish were setting up the stuffs,
the rest of us were busy making ourselves sandwiches.

Our luck wasn't with us.
After 2 hours or so, we decided to head to Marina South to continue fishing.
Finally, Jewelry caught the first fish.
Apparently, that was the first and the last fish of the day. HAHAHA. So proud of her!

Dinner at Aljunied.
Headed to Bishan and wanted to go prawning, but it was too crowded.
(Bumped into Kent! Good to see him again. :))
Went to Han Leng's place for PS3 before he send us home. (Thankyou, Mr Tan!)

Alright, peektures up! :)

Till then, ciao!

2:52 PM

Friday, December 26, 2008

Merry Merry Christmas!

It was a day of giving and sharing.
I had fun & felt very much loved on this special day. I hope everyone did feel the same way too.

Over the weekends, I baked a whole lot of cookies for colleagues at SCS and those pretty friends.
In return, I got many pretty stuffs too:
Dove chocolates from Debra (the admin staff),
Chocolate from Amy,
Cupcake-momma cupcake from Irene,
Sweets & Biscuits from Shanghai from Norman, and
Breadou Loaf Cushion from Derek (my OIC).

On the eve of Christmas, work was only till 1pm.
Headed to town right after to meet up with Huiling for lunch and shopping at Carrefour @ PS.
We got a lot of food:
Black pepper & Honey Chicken which we waited for almost an hour,
Cheese sausages,
Sushi,
Tidbits,
Sparkling juice (because we can't find Champagne at Carrefour, HAHAHA),
Pizza from Sarpino(from Kah Hwee), and
Log Cake from Marriott Hotel (from Matthew).

Everyone of us were hyped up for 12am on the eve!
Hurried home from town to get changed into comfy clothes and get all the presents before we head over to JunJie's place.
His mom is really nice that she headed out knowing that we will be heading over to get food for us and did some cooking for the 5 of us. Friendly mum! :D

The fun started upon Matthew's arrival and after we had our late dinner.
This is the event flow:
Dinner,
Gift exchange,
Out along the road for crazy ribbons/bomb bags/sparklers/popping of sparkling juice,
Back into the house for Log Cake (singing along ),
Indian Poker,
Uno,
Drink like mad,
Got drained out,
Falling asleep,
Got drawn on the arm
(Matthew got snowman and pedicure done on his arms/feets/toe nails,
and I got an outline of a butterfly on my arm,
because they wanna match something to my fairy! Hahaha), and
JunJie fell asleep in the toilet for almost 2hours.

On the Christmas Day itself:
Woke up at 4pm,
Lunch prepared by JJ's mum,
Dai-Dee game with the remaining drinks, and
BBQ dinner prepared for us by JJ's mum.

While the rest headed home, I headed to meet up Eric&Co. Went home to get changed and headed to ECP for bowling.

Peektures! :D

Thank you'al for the gifts:
Footspa Massger from Huiling,
Adidas Dedorant set from Kah Hwee,
Cute cupcake candle from Matthew all the way from Japan,
Coach Pouch from Jun Jie all the way from the States,
Apple talking clock from Eric, and
2009 Organiser from Kelvin.

Thanks for those SMSes wishes from Wei Shan, Calvin, Kenny, Andee, Glenn, Sam, Wei Wen, Samuel, Shuling dear, Ping Ding, Gerald, Lin Lin, Samatha, Jason Chia, Willie, Eeling and etc (those i missed out, still much appreciated!).

I really did enjoy myself!

Next, lets look forward to a brand new year, and
welcome 2009 with our widest arm!
:)

3:45 PM

ZoukOut'08

I had fun with the peeps, especially with Lovely Huiling. Have been neglecting her quite a bit due to the workload I have on hand. However, glad that the day came and past by as planned. :) Came across many pretty faces - Precilla, Eunice, Gabriel, Alvin, Mango, Keith, Si Jie, Dominic, etc.

On the other hand, I can't deny that the music wasn't as good as last year's. Heard that many famous DJs weren't spinning that night. I hope there will still be ZoukOut'09! Teeheehee! :D

23rd Dec @ 12am!
Happy Birthday! :)
(P.S./ my fringe is horrible. i'm gonna get a haircut later on after work. argh!)

10:15 AM

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

I need more sleep!

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I'm looking forward to ZoukOut'08!
I'm gonna rock the whole beach down. HAHAHA!

Time to knock off! :)

5:45 PM

Friday, December 05, 2008

I have been feeling happy. :) :) :) :) :)

ONE
I received a reply from my sweetheart regarding an issue after waiting impatiently for a day after I emailed her. Indeed, I was relieved! I'm grateful to have met you during this journey in life... I'll cherish you!

TWO
I'm thankful for how supportive are my parents when I shared with them about my dreams & goals in life within the next few years. I believe with them around, nothing will go wrong!

THREE
Thank God for sending pretty people to me! I've been getting a bigger picture of how wonderful life can be. Without these people, I would not know which direction should I go and definitely, I wouldn't know where will I be now.

On the other hand, it was rather demoralizing when I failed my test yesterday. Yes, my driving test, yet again. It was my second attempt, but of course way better than my first attempt. Perhaps my third attempt will be a charm! I won't give up!

I'm feeling really bored now at work. There's nothing for me to work on, other than reading those super lengthy documentations. :( To add to this really boring department, I heard that from next week onwards, I will have to work OT! I don't know how much more are they going to pay me. I reckon it will be a lot. Worse of all, maybe I will just have my OT hours converted to Time-Off! You can kill me if they are gonna do that to me. An intern like me is already under-paid! :(

On a lighter note, I can't wait to go into the workforce society and face those upcoming challanges. I believe - Time = Effort, & we will be able to show results when time & effort is being put together. I will have my dream list up... I will achieve them one at a time.

While typing this entry, I have already put a few pieces of Deloba biscuit into my mouth. MY BAD!

And finally, TGIFriday!
Dressed down - tank top & jeans with sandals.
I'm gonna meet those happy people later on talking about achievements & life. Ciao!

10:24 AM

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

So far so good! :) Attachment has been all right with the peeps around. Took the shelter bus to IMM for lunch and goodies shopping! We should do this more often to kill time. Haha! Even the train ride from home to work every morning seems good! Rusyda will board the train from Bishan, I will board from Ang Mo Kio and Yi Si at Admiralty. Aida & Raymond will meet us at Jurong East. And every morning chats with Rusyda makes my day! She will laugh along with me. Thanks, sweets! :)

Guess what? Yesterday, I didn't had any Monday blues! Time passed by so fast that before we know, it was time to pack up and leave the office. I want everyday to be like that! But today is exceptional! I finished what was given to me before lunch time, thus I had the rest of the time to just read up some documentations. Being me, I utilise my time well - I came to update this little space! Hahaha.

I will wrap up everything in Beijing!

Here's a few pictures of my room where Victoria & I sleep in.

Once you entered the room.
The cupboard and cabinet.

We joined the bed together.

My area!
Bingxi&classmates' gift.
Azmi&Ruz's gift - ZoukOut'07 pictures.
Thank you'al! :)

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Happy Valley Theme Park

Some of the rides.

The guys!

The ladies!

Not everyone went. Those who weren't interested went ahead with their shopping at other places.

The night view is aweasome!

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Zoo

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Last night at BiTC

Bin Bin! 斌斌！

The guys that took part in the joint concert of NYP & BiTC.

Li Xin! Sweet looking girl.

Grace! Favourite :)
She has helped us a lot since Batch 1 from NYP @ BiTC.
Thanks girl :)

Alex & Li Xin

HAHAHA. I didn't know Alex will be so shy!

Han Leng & (i forgot their names. Hahaha!)

Shi Jie! My partner for the finale performance.

James & Li Xin.

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Beijing International Airport @ 5am on the 20th Nov

James & our luggages

Grace & Jewelry

Wen Kai (Jewelry always get his name wrong as Kai Wen! HAHAHA.)

LENG LENG! HAHA.

Reuben!

Myself! Coming homeeeeeeeeee :)

Clarin & Sophia!

+ Jewelry sweets & Leng Leng!

童校长！

On the plane.

Very china looking! Hahaha.
& thanks to Richard who went back to Gu Luo to get this cap for me when I was busy with project. :)

I'm glad to be coming home! :)

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KBox @ Cine on 21st Nov
After my final presentation and all the handling down of project stuffs in school, I went down to town to meet up with Wei Shan & the lovelies at Cine for dinner and a singing session.

Glenn!

Lin Lin's challenge from Glenn.

2 love birds! Kenneth & Sharon.

Lin Lin & Pek Fong

Glenn & me!

All the girls :)

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Sports Champ @ NYP on 22nd Nov
After all the good food in Beijing, I feel really fat. When I was running, I could feel that my tummy is really flabby. I must burn away all the winter fatsssss! Anyhow, the Captains Ball match was good! We (MD2) got into the Top 3, but couldn't continue due to the rain. It was postponed to the following weekend, but many of us couldn't make it due to work/commitments, thus our team just walk over. However, it isn't about the prize! It's the journey.. While we were having the match, it was all laughters and joy! It was really good! :)

Tommy & Aida