Break

Phew.... sorry for the lack of updates despite this week being week break after exams.
Haha... i was busy digesting Dan Brown & Sidney Sheldon....
So nice to be able to pick up a novel and read
instead of those thick readings

Wanted to do up a new skin but i was too caught up with the reading...
didn't even bother to check my mail... ahahha

Met up with Leng last friday for dinner at AMK Hub...
Ting cldn't make it coz her cuppie was eating her own poo. *shrugzzz*
Jun gotta her endless project to deal with.

my first visit there.. oki lor.. very typical. nothing much there since only 3 levels are open. Enjoy the bitching session with Leng though, something we haven't do for the longest time
Always remember the times we will talk nineteen to the dozen after band practices those days...

Since I tot i was quite free this week, I make it a point to call Irene out. She brought me to Botak Jones at AMK Blk 608.
Authentic American western food stall at a coffee shop that runs like a restaurants.
Uniforms, walkie talkie, syytematic, pleasant & friendly crew & YUMMY-LICIOUS food. The serving was generous, good enough for a starving person yet not too much. For ladies who has a small appetitie, maybe sharing will be a better option. The fries is crispy & coated with chili powder. Hmm...nice.. I had fish & chip. The fish was fresh & juicy. Irene has cajun chicken. Very strong indian spice taste & the meat was quite tough. Not their best I guess.
No photos because i was starving after those waiting. Yes, u've to be patient cos the biz is very good. We reached earlier and managed to avoid the dinner crowd. But a sudden electrical short circuit slowed down their service a little. Still my fish came unaffected. hahaa...

After the shiok meal, she suggested we walk to central to digest. Ended up we got really lost & walked 1 big round along the borders of AMK. It was only when we saw Bishan park then we realised we miss a turn. Hahaha... too engrossed in talking...

she told me about this blog which i told was really funny. Go take a look n see if you all recognise the "zha bor"

Hahah.... =)

真的。。。

太久没有经历考试了。

那种紧张气氛， 双手在冒汗，双脚在颤抖， 呼吸有点急凑， 时不时一直抬头看时间，像拼了老命似的不停的写。 直到听到 ‘Time's Up” 才渐渐冷静下来。
第二天的情况较理想。幸亏自已的应变能力还不错， 已开始适应整个环境。

现在才发现原来这一切是这么变态的！！！

Oh Man! 我还有好一段日子要熬呢。。。祝我好运。

ANGRY

TO: THE VERY OBNOXIOUS, RUDE & BLOODY QA of SBW

DON'T SHOUT OVER THE PHONE,

CAN A NOT?!

Wah lau, I sleepily picked up a phone call just one. It was a female officer from the the receipt bay. Before I can barely figure out what she was saying, a UNCLE just snatch the phone from her and began SHOUTING at me. I have absolutely NO idea what the FREAKING HELL he was trying to say, other than "YOUR INVOICE, YOR INVOICE!"

SIAO ar, who knows what that hell ou are refering to. I generate so many invoices everyday.

i got like really frustrated & my ear drums were very painful. I shouted back (I doubt he thinks I'm shouting, more of like replying since it was still softer than his!)

" YOU DON"T SO LOUD CAN A NOT?! I Don't Understand What You Are Trying to Say!"

He went on, " WHAT YOU DON"T UNDERSTAND?"

"YOU"

Was what i wanted to say, but i didn't. I replied even though I still duno what he want, '' OK OK. I GIVE YOU INVOICE LAH!"

Hang up.

Biangzzz... Fuming Mad leh... i was so shocked initially that I 'swallow' my yawn. Yes, swallow in the sense that the yawn was incomplete and causing my tears to well up. KNS...

Before I was totally calm down, I call my boss cos there was an 2nd line & I thought it was him. Shun bian, kao pek back to him. heehee...

Then conincidentally, Leng came online. So I grumble to her also. hahaa...

Told her i shall go join STA & become their Tua Tao, then SHOUT back.

Ho Ho HO... i'm crazy, I know.

Felt better and calming down after the grumble session.

Had to call the female officer to confirm with her something. Another person, B, picked up.

B: Hello, STA blah blah blah blah

Me: XXX please

B: i think she is having a briefing now. Can I help you?

Me(in a really diao mood cos this one is so lor soh): Erm... I don't think so. I call back later.

B: Ok. thank you. (Don't get this though, thank me for what? calling back?)

- hang up.

I know i sounded really rude but i just can't help being attitude. Shit, I think I'm stuck to this comfort zone in a bad way. Too sheltered liao.

Hmm... maybe can start to look around after May???

Judging from how my brain works nowadays, i probably will forget this incident by tmr. hahaha...
Throw out - Forget!
That's what i like about blogging.

Cheer (",)

Sidenote: Gotta use abbreviations. After it is govt-own. Scali kanna invited to lim lopi. I didn't say anything bad about the org though?! But must have responsibility lah, like what this guy say here.

ISTJ

ISTJ - "Trustee". Decisiveness in practical affairs. Guardian of time- honored institutions. Dependable. 11.6% of total population.

Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)

Nihon Mura

Celebrated Ting's birthday on Sunday.

Bcos Leng really wanted to try, we went to Nihon Mura @ Revenue House.

Ting almost kill me on our way there cos I direct her the wrong lane!!!
Moral of the story: Don't ask me for directions when I'm SMS-ing. =)

We forgive leng even though she was late cos she was the only one who took public transport. Jun got her "Tchaikowsky". Anyway no one really care.

After Leng narrate her streaks of bad luck occurences, we proceed to the sushi belt.

Other than the $0.99 sushi, which there wasn't much variety, the ala carte stuff wasn't really very fascinating or interesting or worth to begin with.

AND they don't have GYOZA!!! Sianzzzzz

The uncle who took our food tags, dunno is service crew or plumber cos he was wearing this navy blue jumper, has a really attitude face. Spoil my appetite.

Despite the much whoo-haa about this mache-style jap restaurant, I was quite disappointed.
Especially after knowing that Ting went to this superb jap restaurant at East Coast area with superb chawamushi, that meal was merely to fill our stomach solely.

Don't think I'll go there again, maybe other outlets bah. benefits of the doubt.

P/s: i want the Photos!!

Post CNY Part 3

Avaritia (avarice/greed)
Weirdly enough, I didn't really join any gambling table this year. Except for the short mahjong session, which was more like a teaching session. Cos my aunties want to learn how to play 'Tais". Somehow, i no longer get a kick out of gambling. Maybe it's periodic.

Acedia (sloth)
There no time for laziness this yeat at all. Past few years, I'm always nuaing at home during CNY. This year... I have to work hard like nobody's business. Indeed, it's really not of anyone's concern. Work is not stressful, Life is. It doesn't help when exams is like less tahn a month away & u realise u haven't really got anything done! Maybe I've used up my R&R quota for my life. It's pay back time??!

Ira (wrath)
I always get really irritated by my paternal side of relatives. They are like so obnoxious, some are proud, some u just don't like their face & some talk without their brain. This year, surprisingly, it's the maternal side that gets me frustrated. Coz' u get cousin who think they know everything, wants to know everything just becoz' they are graduate??!! They provide information to you when it doesn't concern u & u didn't request for it. they just want ou to know. *shrugzzz* Weird... to think the future generations depend on them... sighhhh...
It's like whatever they do or say, i'll raise my eyebrows & go "Huh?! WTH?"
Hahaha....

Invidia (envy)
Because is me, I rarely envy me relatives. As much as they look very glam on the outside, they seem quite pathetic to me. I'm not being sore, because somehow I always know their hidden stories, there isn't much left to convince me to envy them.
Ok..maybe the fact that they have their own cars & they earn like freaking more than me, they get to travel around & they struck 4D, these are just materialistic wants which I think it's achieveable in the future. ok... Maybe not the 4D part.
Anway, self contend is the word.

Superbia (pride/hubris)
Everyone sees me as a person of pride. I rarely talk, I give black face. Whatever, I'm just attitude lah. period.

sidenote: No photos of any sort this year, like every year.

Post CNY Part 2

Gula (gluttony)

Contrary to the common belief that CNY is always associated with good food, i seemed to be either plagued by awful meals or starving my way this new year. To start with was the "收工桌" treat from Boss on the last workday before CNY. Went to this beijing cusine restaurant in Joo Chiat 菜根香 or 菜香根? Cannot remember.

Ordered 3dishes but gave additional free soup, free salad & free Yu Sheng. Too much. Their signature dish, Double Flavoured Fish Head took a long time to come. By then we already finish the kebah & brinjal in spicy sauce plus the above mentioned. Not to mentioned the fish head was bigger than my face! (My face is considered very broad leh!) In the end, was forced to ta-bao 1/2 of it back even though it sux pretty bad. Very salty & the fish wasn't really fresh & thawed properly.

Mum tasted it and being a very traditional thirfty lady she is, she decided to keep it for lunch next day. Here is the amazing part - dunno what she did when she re-heat the fishhead the next day. it actually taste better. maybe she added some of her 妈妈的味道?! (FYI - Not saliva or sweat ok!)

Reunion was one of the better meals I had cos was personally invloved mah... hahah!

CNY 1st day gathering at my place - was too tired from the preparation the whole day that I ended eating bascially nothing. To be in a stuffy kitchen that produces really good food (personal standard) doesn't really increase one's appetite.

2nd day gathering at my cousin's new place, The Shaughnessy. It seems that my eyesight is really bad cos I though it was Shanghainess all along. hahaha! Dinner was prepared my auntie, not bad but I like 吃不饱 cos it seems like there were more people than food! Minmin is the happiest lah.. food is not her priority. The fact that she can swim like nobody's business & sua-ku-ily thrills her. (The pool is directly in front of the living room. ) Apparantly, the neighbours also like her lor cos she got invited to a girl's birthday party the next day. So jealous o_o"

I went back to work to find out the it was President's Day in the States. So bascially just nua for 1/2 day. Then walk to my another cousin new home. I just picked up a $20 Chandoney at 7-11 & everyone look at me like I'm very high class. Diao.... Anyway I got Qi to take a $15 cab ride & we left like 3/4hr after she arrived. Think she almost killed me with her eyes for tua-ing her. what to do, food not nice, people there also not nice. I pampered myself with a box of pineapple tarts that night. Ho hO Ho!

8th day: I can kicked myself for agreeing to the dinner by Auntie K. At PS's 老北京. What's up with the beijing cusine this new year. It's 难吃的咯!!! All the taste are so extreme! Braised meat too salty, shark's fin soup too sour, dumplings too bland. Luckily I can siam for not eating cos I was too busy attending Princess Jamie. We were sort of entertained by this 变脸 大师？！He only paced up & down twice than retreat un-glamorously into the kitchen door.

Ho Ho Ho.. Mum is the funny one. she replicate the vegetables and dumplings in her own style yesterday & of course way much nicer. My mum's way of challenging herself. =)

Sidenote: I think CNY is a very unhealthy period. Despite the fact that I've restrained from gorging, control the intake capacity. I still get tummy upset. bleh... my system is all messed up.
Till now, i still can't digest properly. Sigh.....

Mcdees

Look what i received in my mail today
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Qi & I were thinking if this is a typical templated kind of mail... got this possibility.

The situation was this:
I was quite excited about the bagel with omelette thingy. So I suggested to Qi we shall share a breakfast meal on monday morning with the coupon where we can get a burger foc.
BUT the manager who served us was SO SO SO attitude. Give us sian sian look, forget Qi's order. Remind him again, give her sausage mcmuffin instead of sausage mcmuffin with egg. Usually, i'll let it go. BUT because it was a MONDAY Morning, I really 的very 不爽！So i went to their website & feedback. By yesterday, I already forgot everything. So this email really was a surprise. I thought with the Marx Weber's Bureaucracy theory & Macdonaldisation, it might be a few weeks or months before they reply.
Actually I was worried they might give me like $100 Mcdees voucher (yes... worried cos I dunno what to do with it) so I actually contemplated quite long before hitting the 'submit' key. Chey...
Sidenote: Nothingto do with the manager but the bagel was disappointing.

Stresssssss........

Stress #1

I felt the tremors from Sumatra's earthquake this noon.
Initially, i thought i was getting giddy because i was so DAMN hungry until my stomach growled.
Then someone i don't know but know my lady boss came knocking the door & say, " U all better leave now. Something really not right with this building. it's shaking, it's going to collapse!"
Already feeling sick from hunger, so when my boss say go down, I foolishly grabbed my entire bag with me.
No 1 except those of the same wing came down. After 10mins later, we all went back.

Everything remains unchanged except that i became the laughing stock. The kiasu-kiasi one who brought her big bag down. Great... how nice!

Seriously speaking, i was wandering did we over-react or other people just don't have the sense of emergency or 危机感 whatever you call it.
The tremors can be just a beginning phenomenon in Singapore. According to the theory of Plate Tectonics, it is very possible that Singapore may shift to the plate boundaries where volcanoes are formed & where earthquakes occurs. Before we know it, we are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Maybe by then , people will start to be aware of 危机感. it's definitely not the feeling when you can't squeeze into the Great Singpore Sale.

Stress #2

Exams is 2 weeks away & i'm only half done technically speaking.
With the study group meetings on 2 evenings + 1 day away at Ipoh on sat + a lunch sppointment on sunday... i feel so POWER-less.
There's basically no time at all. Thankfully my job allow me to settle some personal stuffs during office hours, like blogging (heehee), research & print readings out & sort out some discussions over emails.
I just realised my exam period coincides with the girls' birthday. That ought to teach me a lesson to prepare (for exams) earlier rather than feeling so kan cheong now. I thought i started really early but perhaps wasn't consistent enough.
Shit, I'm really in a dire situation. My hair is falling at exponential rate.
Nothing worse than this: WHITE HAIR!!!
Qi was so calm when she pluck the strand of white hair off my hair on 大年初一 while i was shrieking all over.
Sux... my maternal grandma never even had a strand of white hair when she passed away at 74. I'm only 22. Sianz... must be those years of hair dye-ing + perming + re-bonding 搞得鬼， 还是我真的老了。

Stressssssssssss.....

2 more weeks to go....

Things to do after exam: (1 week)
- Go dentist
- Go optician for new specs
- Get Irene before she might leave for study exchange in Japan
- Read/buy "1984" by George Orwell
- Change blog skin.

Post-CNY Part 1

This entry has been collecting dust in the draft folder. Wanted to throw everything out but seems a liitle overwhelming so I'm going to break it down. Bear with me.

It's been only 10 N days since my last entry yet I feel that it seems long ago. I save quite of couple of drafts inside my handphone though. i realised I must try to remember occurences of my daily life. Sometimes, i don't have the vaguest collection of what i did before. Arghhh... age catching up...

Anyway, this entry suppose to be Post-CNY. Unlike past years where I chose to be a inactive/passive participant of the gatherings, this year i was slightly pro-active. Not that i take the initiative to join any conversation, instead I just listen intently to various conversations within 2m radius. Wah... in the end found out so many shocking gossips that can be categorised.

Luxuria (lust) Uncle A, forties, widower with 3 kids got a PRC girlfriend who is 7years my seniors. The age gap is not a concen but it is like so damn bloody obvious that all elements are present except true feelings. The word 'Love" is so out of context to them, at least from my point of view. Well, perople take advantage of people. It's human nature. The only difference being is it a win-win sitaution for both parties or it's just one-sided stupidity?! Judging from the fact that A has to borrow $ for unknown reason, the answer is obvious. Some guys think with their lower head, you can't really blame them. =p
Oh ya... I think i can blackmail my cousins with all their embarrassed stuff, all collected just by sitting besides the aunties, i.e their mothers.
Oh shit... i wonder what will mum say. o_o'''

to be continued...