the traveholic is going on yet another trip! this time, to krabi!

oooohhh.. i want to stand in the waters and have the fishes swim up to me. ahh.. i would think it's a week of bliss.

the countdown begins - 68 days.

hmmm... till then, there are loads to be accomplished.

came across this via peanut_toes...

totally revived my fading memories that I had of my school. the demolished school that's no longer in existence today. i remembered that study area, the st john room, the octagon garden in the middle of the classrooms, the technical block and the science labs! the science labs where i usually hide under the table to snack away. the art room.. the classrooms..

gawd. am so glad someone actually made of video of this. judging from the dates, they are one year my junior! :)







i missed the schooling days. 13 years after graduation, i can still sing the school song without missing any lyrics. gawd. i wish i could go back to that old building, that holds so much memories for me.

the new building is beautiful, but other than the school hall that's preserved as it is, everything else has changed. it's so sad.

how many more years would it take for me to forget how every little corner or nook of the school looked like? or how i vandalised the tables, and walls when i was still studying there?

those were the days. the happy days.

i'm sure those the phs folks that are reading my blog would agree with me.

and i am still typing away at my office desk. ok. I must admit there were 1.5 hours or so where i couldn't concentrate at all and spent some time surfing around and doing christmas shopping online!

somehow, i tend to work a lot better at night and i am right awake!

i want to continue the momentum and keep typing away because i am the most productive right this moment. the office is quiet and calm, the rain is pitter pattering outside and making soothing music against the window panes. bliss. i love the office this way.

but but. the boy has already called several times and asked me when i am going to go home. =( and i do not want to lug my computer back home cos i think it's a total waste of time.

1. i'll go into lazing mode over the weekends and when i am in the comfort of my room, it just not conducive for work.
2. lugging my laptop back and fro on public transport is a chore and bad for my back/arms.
3. i have a wedding dinner to attend, have to make a trip to town to collect the wedding bands (yay! its finally ready) and go hotel shopping (again) in the next 2 days.

all that, minus the time for eating, sleeping, bathing and resting.. there's not much left of the weekend huh?

i better go. if not, the phone might just ring again. have a good weekend people. i'm in an extremely good mood today!

i have loads to do and i am feeling damn lazy now. especially since im plonked in my bed, hugging my plushies and just chilling.

the full day of shoot really tires me. i can imagine how bad it is for my talents, because they were still on the set when i left... i couldn't concentrate on my other work at the set and since it's down to the last shot and my boss told me to leave and rest for the day.

usually, i shun off taxi drivers' attempt to make small talk.. but interestingly, i enjoyed the ride home today. and i came home with some wise words.

if you want to know the character of a guy, observe the way he drives

i tell you, i totally agree with my hands and legs up in the air! some experiences can be extremely terrifying!

hee hee.

it's been a while since i blogged about my lunches. I remembered that i used to do it frequently when i was still in the f&b industry, because that was what my life revolve around all the time, and nice lunches was the norm.

these days, nice lunches are reduced to birthday celebrations or special occasions.

we celebrated eyleen's birthday 3 weeks back. what was supposed to be a seafood feast became a last minute change of plans as the promotion was over. so, we headed to the next best choice in the area - charlie's corner @ Changi.







very interestingly, we all had different food choices except a duplication of the seafood platter for 2 of the folks. could you guess which is my lunch?

*whispers softly* the steak! the steak!

the food is average, but the service was bad. the crew was a bit blur and because we ordered set lunches and drinks, the server has failed to inform that my set lunch comes with a drink and eventually, omitted it entirely from the set. i remembered only when my meal almost ended but i requested for the drink nonetheless. if i hadn't recalled, i would have been cheated of my drink! i must say the boss' service was good though, so i guess more staff training is required for a better experience.

because of the distance to travel that far, i doubt i'll be back there again. I'll choose the flowercrab in the hawker next door anytime if I had to travel that far!

these days, there hasn't been much adventure in my life and food is usually the focus. some weeks back, i caught up with andy & cindy for dinner at rider's cafe on 16 Oct... (what?! its been that long?)

our food.


our salad. I forgot what salad it is. argh. it happens when u blog about it so long after.


my lamb.


andy's fish (with some tangerine/orange flavoured sauce)


cindy's hugeass burger


our chocolate cake!


am so predictable when it comes to food. it's either the steak or the lamb or pasta for me all the time. and when its desserts, chocolate always wins! LOL.

we were supposed to meet up on friday, but andy was sick, i was bogged down with work and a bad headache. and guess what?! i think we must meet up soon because i dreamt this afternoon that we 3 went on a holiday to hong kong! hilarious, because it sounds like a super impossible mission. it was a fun dream nonetheless. i want to go holiday!!

shucks. i suddenly remembered that I was supposed to plan for a batam cable skiing trip. argh. my weekends looked damn packed in the next 2 months. =(

year end be gone soon!

the boy has gone overseas again, and the weekend alone has been great for me. I caught up with my sleep debt and have been sleeping BOTH saturday and sunday away!

so, it's been eat, sleep, eat, sleep, eat, sleep.. except that i went for the company bowling competition (finals) yesterday.

the competition went quite bad. for me at least. must be the fact that I don't really know my team mates (at all), and it took me a while to warm up to them. our last game was the best with a team score of 655 (avg of 164/pax). if only we had played consistently like our 3rd game.

oh wells. it was quite a bit of fun nonetheless.

visited zazoom & clarie bear after the games at her house, and claire was so sweet looking! she's the first baby addition to the team.. next up, a boy is coming!!




The baby was sleeping the entire time when we were there, and we managed to catch a few glimpse of her sticking out her tongue at us in her sleep! despite the din that we were mx was making, she didnt wake up at all.. but turned grumpy face in her sleep.



too cute!

I am fighting the zzz monster and losing! Struggling to keep my eyes open but my brain seems to be shutting down.

this was the view that greeted me when i checked in on thursday night. and this was the view that I had wanted to blog about.


the night scene


2 mornings later


it was beautiful and i wished i had more time to enjoy the hotel.

and my eyes are shutting. the body's screaming murder but I still had to drag it out of the bed and the house and trudge to work.

i dread about the upcoming 2 months. I am so so swamped with major activities that's happening all at the same time. I seriously have NO idea how I'll be able to get through it all, and i'm praying that i'll do fine, survive, get enough sleep, be less stressed and at the end of it all, emerge with a smile and a pat on my back.

but you know what? that's a little bit of wishful thinking on my part, because seriously.. there are just too many (big) projects coming my way and a lot of my colleagues are going on leave because they have no more windows to clear. even my bosses seemed worried.

the weekend has been packed, with much related to work, and minimal rest with all the on-goings.

der and me also managed to pop by 2 hotels for wedding shows yesterday, got our bridal package settled and also, bought ourselves a bed. Woohooo!! a trip to krabi (for photoshoot) is in the works!!

it's my bad that I haven't had the time nor energy to jot down the details of the preparation but i'll try to make an effort.

having said that, we blew quite a bit of our savings and we have to start saving from scratch once again. why are weddings such an expensive affair here?!

my aunt told me that my cousin got married for just $2000 (wedding bands included) in the states! and do you know? their culture has it that the bride would have to pay for the wedding!

what a stark difference it is from our chinese culture, although these days we have evolved and i believe most couples share the cost of the wedding.

i need a fatter pay cheque. anyone has got part-time jobs or any jobs to recommend?

and feeling damn silly. because i took a picture of the gorgeous view here. and i was going to post onto my blog when i realised that I didnt have a card reader with me, and i am using my office laptop and not my net book.

:(

Ok. need to eat dinner now and then.. the overnight nightmare begins.. and the full day event ahead. shucks.

ok. gotta go!

or rather, sitting. I am yet again the last (wo)man left in the office. for the dunno-how-many-nights in a row.

this is depressing.

my arm is over-worked because it started to numb about 30 mins back! Help! i need my hand/fingers to type still!

anyone popping over tomorrow evening?

it's the yearly "green" event yet again. I had fond memories since i attended that last year during my first week at work.

wow. has it been a year?

i don't know what's worse. coming home at past 11pm everyday for the past week or knowing the fact that it's just gonna get worse in the following weeks.

and i'll be missing my sleep this thursday. and my bed as well. won't be coming home. *sigh*

sometimes, i wish i had an easier job. am mindless admin post or something.

20 days after my vacation, i have ONE conclusion.

the postcards that i posted from cape point = lost.

been waiting for them to show up for the longest time, and they didn't. *sigh* it must have been the stamps. or maybe its that red box that didnt say "postbox".

Grr.. am upset. very upset.

p.s: my cammie's not doing this picture justice!

got ourselves a souvenir for last night's trip. thought it was a nice picture taken. it was expensive, but a small price to pay for a night of memories.

well, since we got in at half price of the actual ticket, i'll just take it that we paid full price for the entrance and got this for free.

i likely!

and nope. this is not about the safari adventures in south africa, but in our Singapore's own safari, the singapore night safari.

for the entire month of Oct, night safari has transformed their fridays and saturdays experience with the theme of halloween. i think it's the 3rd year running, but I havent had the chance to check it out.

This year, der and me planned a trip to the safari. armed with the discount coupons we got from his sister, we were all set to go!

nothing quite prepared me for the experience. at the gates, there were throngs of people! the park opens at 7.30pm and when we reached at 7.15pm, the gates were flooded, the queues for the tickets were horrendous, and the park is packed to the brim with people, and there are a lot of people dressed for the occasion.

we were lucky because der sister decided to pop by and with her help (she's a zoo staff), we cut the horrendous queues to get our tickets. still, that took us 30 mins and can you imagine if we had to queue on our own?!


the horrendous queues! it feels like the entire world is here!

der & me were joking about the crowd. who would want to go to zouk when the whole world seemed to be at the zoo! it's so happening and packed!

this year, the halloween theme had a fairytale theme to it, and there were princesses, super heroes and characters like wizard of oz roaming about the park with an eerie feel to them. i must say the talents were really quite good and for a moment, i felt like i was in disneyland!

( read the halloween spoilers here. ONLY for folks that are not planning to go! )

so, would you be keen?

it's friday and i could breathe the weekend air already!

it's been a gruelling week thus far, with some intensive work and daily 2hr conference calls. I'm almost calling in dead. I am so so tired and my brains are so fried that all that i could do after work was play mindless facebook games and sleep.

I cannot wait for tomorrow because the boy and me planned quite a bit of activities.

and hopefully, i find the time to load up the pictures. the pictures. i was moaning earlier this week because when i tried to transfer some pictures to my hard disk, my system went into an auto reboot and i lost my entire year of pictures for 2007. and that is the ONLY backup i have.

any idea on how to retrieve that lost data? I believe this is what has happened.

> cut pictures > pictures in 'virtual clipboard' > system reboot (system updates) > clipboard cleared > pictures gone.

=(

I tried to google and there are some undelete software that could work, but i haven't had the time to try. Anyone has any suggestions on how I can retrieve all those pictures? or anyone has had a similar experience?

help much appreciated!

just remembered a little joke that made me smile this morning.

it happened during the car washing trip in JB.

we didn't have a lot of ringgit and it was too late to go to the money changer's. I had RM$200 and was wondering if it was sufficient for the lok lok meal for 3, car wash and the petrol refuelling for 2 cars, and agnes said, "no worries, i got Rm$100!"

and so we went, and after filling our stomach with lok lok, here's what happened!

A: I'll pay. i got Rm$100.
C: Don't be silly, let me pay. i have more money
A: It's ok. It's ok.
C: ok. fine.
(waits with agnes for guy to give us our attention and tell us the bill)
C: *spots a different coloured note in agnes' hands* hey! why your RM$100 looks different from mine?
A: is it?
C: *shows my rm$100* OMG!! you are holding the thai baht!
A: *stares at note and burst out laughing*

this girl, she's super hilarious. I have no idea how she got her RM and baht mixed up together and folded together. so, when she saw the $10 wrapping the $100, she thought she had enough ringgit to scrape through the outing.

turns out, she's the poorest amongst the 3 of us!

kevin and me had a really good laugh the entire night. now that i think of it, it's quite quite funny!

perks up the start of my working day.

other things makes me a happy girl too..

like how my locally-grown tomato plants are sprouting fast and tall.. and they are now all taller than me!



I just planted the seeds from ONE tomato and my corridor is filled with them now, all taller than i am, needing much support to hold them up.

they are fruiting!



funny how there are like dozens and dozens of flowers blooming, but only ONE became a fruit thus far. wonders if the soil has enough nutrition.

my hk tomato plant is growing well too! Though not as tall, it has grown into a sturdy bush, and the tomatoes are popping out too.



note the big difference in the leaves and the shape of the tomatoes? I am looking forward to the day where i no longer have to buy cherry tomatoes and can pluck them off my corridor when i feel like eating them, or to make salad.

ahhh.. savings!

I think i want to go buy that plum tomatoes that taste really good from cold storage and try growing them. gosh, think i sound like an auntie now.

think of farmville or barn buddy in real life. that's quite a game huh? :)