Two days before and after 2010...

I had wanted to write my entries. I have tonnes to want to pen down; but somehow, whenever I really sit down in front of the comp and my Word document, nothing comes to mind. Blank. No idea what I want to write about.

Had done an entry to round up 2009, but never get to really finish penning it. It was halfway through. I'll publish it when I'm done with it.  Or rather, if I ever get done with it.

Had wanted to do an entry to welcome 2010, but never even got started!

Oh boy… lazy me...

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30 December 2009
Met Serene for shopping in Orchard at 1 pm in the afternoon. It was an efficient day because we both knew we only had three hours. In those three hours, we had a quick but yummy lunch at Char Chan Teng, Serene bought a white blouse from Zara. Serene also bought her body cream from Crabtree and her hand cream from Loccitaine. Thereafter, we began our bag boutique shopping, during which I finally got myself a Gucci wallet ~ kind sponsorship from Serene and Cheryl as my birthday gift! Serene went to check out again her S$4,000 plus Chanel bag, and we rounded off with her buying a Tiffany ring!

Met Yanshan at Toa Payoh to do some grocery shopping before heading to Yanling’s house. And wah, it was tough trying to find a toilet at Toa Payoh. We walked up and down, searching for one to no avail! Bought apple strudel, ice cream, Yakult and coffee and waited for Raymond to pick us up.

Finally visited Yanling and Guoqing at their love nest at Varsity Park. Oh boy, their apartment is huge lor. Even the entire development is huge ~ according to Yanshan and Raymond who went to explore, while I stayed behind to do a bit of catching up with Yanling.

Maybe it is because their apartment is on the ground floor, it has a chalet feel with the garden porch in front, and her bedroom faces the garden. But somehow, I just thought it was a bit exposed. She always has to draw her curtains lor…

But the lovely couple decided to rent the apartment out, the moment they manage to find a HDB flat near my cousin-in-law’s shop in Jurong West. The passive rental income would form part of their family planning schedule, and such that my cousin does not have to work. Awww… She’s going to be 名副其实的少奶奶!

With Yanshan at the couch! The blue blue cousins gang!

Busy preparing for dinner...

Home-cooked dinner by Yanling!  Yummy!

31 December 2009
Supposed to have a countdown gathering with Vernice and gang. But somehow, communication went haywire somehow along the way, with no one planning or confirming anything. And when someone said she’ll check some stuff and get back, she never did.

Long story cut short, the entire saga just made me so super pissed off, such that in the end, after I vented my frustrations on poor David who totally had no idea what was going on and who incurred my wrath, I decided to just keep quiet and wait for someone to take charge ~ which was finally done at about 6.15 pm.

But because it was already really very last minute, we decided to just had a simple dinner and catch a movie, and then play everything by ear.

Vernice, who seemed to be totally oblivious to the “chaos” she created, did not join and sent us all a sms telling us she would be at Labrador Park and asked if we wanted to join her. And yes, my eyes were rolling, and Ron and Mich were like “oopsie daisee”…

After watching The Treasure Hunter, which totally sucked (sorry Bloss and Butter, but your Jay Chou really… erm… can’t act.) with lousy acting and no story line, somehow, suddenly, mahjong was on the plan and off we went to Mich’s ex-colleague’s house to play mahjong.

And yes, so we had our mini countdown at the Mahjong table. Huat ah!

Oh, and I ran into my students! Or rather, I missed them in the toilet but ran into their mother who was waiting outside for them. 

I had actually secretly planned and hoped to be back home cos I had wanted to see the live fireworks from Johor! I still miss the heart-shaped fireworks! Awww… sweet!

Anyhow, was also supposed to meet David back at my place to go for supper after his countdown party with his friends and after I had seen my fireworks; but too bad, MJ took longer than usual, and he had to try figure out the exact meeting location in his not-so-sober state.

And in the end, we did not go for supper (or rather breakfast), but just headed straight home, cos we were all too tired from the MJ ~ except Ron who kept asking about breakfast. That was about 5.15 am.

And I remembered thinking to myself that I could still join Agnes and her friends at East Coast to catch sunrise. The break of dawn on the first day of 2010! But I was honestly too groggy then. But Agnes was sweet enough to send me a MMS of the sunrise! Nice!

1 January 2010
Slept at 7 am and was woken up by mum at 8:30 am because I misplaced her keys and she couldn’t find it. Zzzz…

Met the PPGs at Butter’s place at 1:30 pm. Had mahjong again! I think I’m going to puke mahjong very soon, especially when the girls are actually contemplating a mahjoing camp! And we are supposed to be “uncontactable” with mobile phones switched off and stuff. As Butter puts it, we’ll reach mahjong nirvana soon… What the…

But Bloss and Butter would not be in town for the next few days.  Bloss would be in Batam and Butter in Hong Kong.  I miss them already... So used to yakking with them almost every day!! Gosh... Both refused to tell me when they will be back because they say I always MIA too, and go travel without telling them.  So they say must let me have a taste of my own medicine wor! haha - We all burst out laughing when Bloss said "Sekaly when we are back, she MIA again and we can't find her instead!"

Had a very sumptuous seafood dinner. The chilies and salted egg crabs were so super sinful!

Rounded the night with 30 minutes of KTV with Jenny and gang, before heading to the games café to play board games! Fun! Wanted to ask John to join since the games café was within walking distance from his house, but he only returned my sms just before I was getting ready to go to bed! **faintz** Slept at 3 am.. Zzzz..

2 January 2010
Had tuition in the morning and realised to my horror that I wore the wrong contact lens for my left eye. As a result, my left eye could not see really properly. Sigh… My student had a good laugh over it and joked that I must take note not to run into glass doors. Duh…

Went to register for my dance class. Will be having my dance class twice a week starting next week! I miss my dance classes ~ booty exotic and exotic dance!

Met Ann-marie for shopping and movies. Bought a little pearl ring which I like to bits, at least for now! And I love the chipmunks, especially Theodore and Simon! Awww… so cute.

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When I'm just blabbering, it's very obvious because I am going to end this entry very abruptly.  I would be very surprised if you actually have read the entire entry and make it to this last sentence! heee...

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如何说起

有好多话想说，但不知如何说起。。。
心中百感交集，也不知如何说起。。。

尽在不言中对有些事来说,不一定是好事。。。

Langkawi Trip ~ 6-9 June 2009

A long overdue entry post on my Langkawi trip... This was a trip which had the few of us scrambling making several last minute decisions - and at times, I would be wondering why I agreed to go in the first place... things that went wrong were mostly communication problems such as...

1) A commented that the air tics were bought wrongly and hence, we ended up paying S$20-30 more.  It's only S$20-30 more.  No one was complaining and A was just informing.  But B, who volunteered to book the air tickets, was obviously offended and became rather defensive. 

2) Everyone wanted to have a say in the kind of accomm they wanted to stay in.  That is too dirty.  This is too far.  The rooms don't look comfy. etc etc.. Why don't we get a suite so that everyone can stay together instead of two rooms?  Which option is cheaper? bla bla bla...and in the end, by the time we decided on one, it was not available anymore and we realised that there were not many options left. 

3) Even the kind of car that we were to rent also became a small issue.  A preferred to drive a manual car.  B was upset that we kept mentioning to leave the driving to A, and no one remembers that he can drive too, and when A offered B to drive, B said he's not that confident in manual car...

4) N the worst thing that made me roll my eyes was that A sms-ed everyone to change more money so that we could pay the hotel in cash, and still could say "Lucky I tell everyone - cos no one thought of it.  Otherwise, everyone is just going to bring a couple of hundreds for daily expenses..."  And honestly, I had question marks written all over my face. HUH? I could not understand why we could not pay the hotel by credit card and must carry so much cash with us.  Luckily, before I could start screaming , B (who still was sane, called me and asked why must bring so much cash) offered to pay by his credit card first. 

But all in all, I guess it was just the hassle and logistics of planning for a trip.  We still enjoy one another's company and everything went well and it was fun during the trip . 

The days were spent exploring the island, while the nights were spent chatting, playing games and being real naughty (heh heh)...

Welcome to Langkawi sign at the airport!

The plane was just behind us...  For some reason, Vern kept thinking we took JetStar instead of AirAsia...

The iconic eagle at Langkawi (@ Eagle Square) of course must pose for a group picture!

The cafe opposite our hotel which we thought was quite cool!

Our breakfast! Yummy, right?

The boats for island hopping. It was rather difficult for the gals to get onto and off the boat, actually.  At one point, Vern was kinda stuck on the boat and had no idea how to get off the boat - even with the guys trying to hold her.  Quite a farnie sight though... But after a few times getting on and off, we kinda learnt the trick - and by the last trip, none of the gals needed the guys' help.

We reached one of the islands!

The green padi field we saw when we were on the road.  We liked it so much, we actually stopped by the roadside to take photos and look at the cows that were nearby.  Typical sua-gu city gals and boys... 

I guessed our trip was quite unique, because people usually go to Langkawi to nua at the beach.  Our group, on the other hand, decided to visit all the atas villa hotels on the island- one after another - until I lost count, and then have drinks there... Because the weather was damn hot, we have refreshing fruit juice almost every day! 

The 2nd photo was at Datai, in which a prince was seated supposedly just a table from us.  Anyway, the waiter there was quite friendly and chatted with us throughout our time there.  But everyone was surprised when he asked for my number when we were leaving.  I thought he would never call anyway, so I stoopidly just gave, in which I was being scolded by the guys in the car. But, who knows?  He called me just a few days ago, which was like - almost five months down the road, and said he wondered when he can see all our faces again (huh?) and he missed all our faces! (huh again?) Freaky.

The guys had a game of pool, while the gals (or rather, me, cos the gals had a game therafter too) just waited. What's new? More than one group of friends had tried to teach me, but I'm like forever "catch no balls"... hahaha..

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Think there's really nothing much or things to wah about on the Langkawi island... it's really nua-ing, and enjoying a slower pace of life.  So it was good that we still enjoy one another's company and we didn't end up in cats' and dogs' fight!  We are trying to plan for another short trip early next year again, so let's see how the logistics will go this time round again...
 
Alrighty, next up on the post should be the also long-overdue Malacca trip with the girls! =)  Hope the blog works well then...

女人心语录III

I had wanted to do two photo posts on my Langkawi and Malacca trips which are long overdue... But I can't seem to access certain pages of my blog account... Sigh... So in the end, I ended up doodling and penning, so here goes...

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女人是个喜欢被人捧在手心里的动物。 所以，小时后，先是父母的掌上明珠(手)。 长大后，希望是她所爱的男人的心肝宝贝(心)。

女人始终是个感性的动物。无论一个女人多么能干，多么坚强，多么聪明地不让自己的情绪写在脸上；遇到打从心里自己紧张的事情，就会芳心大乱，失去平时的思考和办事能力，根本不知如何是好。 这也许就是女人和男人的不同吧！

有些女人很喜欢钻牛角尖；又或许是太习惯胡思乱想。 结果，明明是一件很简单或不以为然的事情，却因自己的左思右想，越是苦恼，头脑就越乱；然后满脑子就多出了很多莫名其妙的可能性。就这样， 把自己的精神弄得非常紧绷， 对周围的事和人都多了一份猜疑心。

又有些女人，喜欢骗自己。喜欢活在自己从小编的童话故事里。 明明发现了一些伤透了心的事情，却找了好多理由去安抚自己。 久而久之，就这样，自己就不知不觉地相信自己编造的美丽谎言。 也许，骗自己是想让自己好过一点。

有些男人会觉得他身边的女人很烦。 整天在他耳边啰里啰唆，唠叨个不停，好像什么芝麻绿豆的事情都能拿出来讲。 其实， 换个角度想想。 有个女人在你身边唠哩唠叨，其实，也是一种幸福。 一个女人会像一只打不死的蚊子在你耳边嗡嗡叫，连你打个喷嚏都问长问短， 是因为你对她非常重要。 如果她不爱你了，即使看到你跌得头破血流，她最多只会说四个字“自己保重”，也不会再多问一句，也不会再多一丝的怜悯。

My FYP!

Came across by accident the final year project I did with two John's in my final year in Uni! And that was when Singapore's telco market finally liberalised, with StarHub entering the market with a bang and created lotsa of hoo ha... and suddenly, everyone was seeing seas of red, orange and green everywhere....

http://repository.ntu.edu.sg/handle/10356/11512

Those days were fun! Gosh... We actually graduated in Year 2001... Oh man... We are old...

Brought back some fond memories, especially when Mr Ong tried to make his computer station at home as cosy for me as possible ~ by surrounding me with teddy bears and soft toys (how weird!) ~ when I was typing the report, while the two guys went to explore the powerful home theatre system! ... ... and how I was so upset with Mr Ng cos he always just wanted to zzz instead of working on the project, and seemingly just all talk and no action... But as usual, I was so easily pacified by Mr Ng...

And Prof Wan was my favourite professor ~ he's just so damn smart!  I simply love Strategic Business Management ~ such that I gate-crashed his tutorial classes even though he wasn't my tutor!  And I could still remember how he taught us to work around the loop holes of the banking system in Singapore and be able to flee away with $$$ undetected - or at least, undetected for quite a long while! Gosh...

And Prof Hooi too!  With his cute lttle bow tie every lecture, and telling us that's his trademark, and that's how he stands out from competition.  Because Marketing is all about differentiating and positioning, isn't it? 

Awww... Ahh.. school days are still the best... If only we can turn back the clock...