*touched*

Ok to be frank..i've never really liked kids.
Especially those bunches with running legs that shriek till your eardrums burst.
But never u mind.

So dat dae i was at M's house and we were having our mj session.
M's little niece was there too... *Gulps*
and after the mj ordeal..we were about to leave.
niece was sitting in her little chair getting ready for dinner.
then M said cheekily to me "u don't like kids rite? try carrying her!"
she went on to lift baby out of baby chair.
And then gave me the order of proccedure.

Clap your hands twice and shove them out towards the baby in welcoming motion.
so i followed and then she passed the baby to me.
i clutched her nervously under the armpits and then
"Now what?! Need to use the other hand to support butt right?"
trying to apply my knowledge of carrying rabbits.
hey. it sounds unbelieveable but it's really my first time in my own life carrying a kid.
So aren't u honoured, M's niece..heheh.
then M's mom asked her to give jiejie (aka me) a kiss. She gave me a nice wet one on my fat cheeks. So sweeeet!!!
Oh well...the next moment she decided to scramble back into M's arms...hehe

and she also gave us a hi-5 and a flying kiss. nice one!
thank u M...it was quite a nice experience..maybe they aren't that freaky after all.
Urr..altho' that day on the bus..there was this screaming korean boy who kept screaming into the back of my head.

take a leaf from my book

if ever one dae u should feel unproductive...tink that u haven't been doing an honest dae's work...try This:

grab a tube of autosol and start scrubing those metal knobs around the house.
like me.
i spent half a dae rubbing every shower door, hinge, toilet roll holder, towel bar, shower head in the bathroom.
there's tat Great sense of satisfaction when u see those dull things glitter *Bling**Bling* after tat.
haha.

女人我最大 之 心得 1

造型老师说：

穿衣服时，脖子露出越多，人就看起来越高。
所以长颈鹿都那么高。

不一定说要全身都穿名牌才叫漂亮。能够把名牌和非名牌成功地搭配在一起，那才叫厉害。

peanut butter grouses

i hate being middlewoman. espcially when each have their own stories and expect me to translate to the other.
he dun understand u. u dun understand him.
it's miscommunication tats killing all of us.
but trash out your own problems. and do the fix-it man.
and leave me alone.
i have my own troubles also.

~from ms peanut-butter in the sandwich

penang recollections...

it's general knowledge time! guess wat these sticks are used for??TaDaa! Cracking the shells of 'pang-gang' flowers crab at this seafood restaurant @ bt tambun near penang butterworth some distance awae from my grandma's kampung. YaYYY!!! a few yrs ago when we were there we had these grilled crabs which i could never forget so i wanted them again. But then initially we ordered the wrong cooking method for the flower crabs. i tot "chui" in hokkien means grilled but apparently not. it's steamed. and so the crabs came in soya sauce covered with ginger. nice too but not quite the taste...
So we ordered MORE flower crabs..."pang-gang" please.
they dun use those advanced iron nutcracker tools we use here. neither do u they give u the sticks if you eat steamed or other kinds of saucey crabs. won't wanna get the sticks sticky of cos. hmm..okie the photo doesn't give justice to how nice it tastes... but flower crabs really do taste the best when grilled..the sea-salty sweetness of the flesh just coats your tongue. and u get this 香喷喷 feeling in your mouth lingering after tat! i mean by right steaming is supposed to bring out the freshness in seafood..

but trust me..rubbing a little salt and grilling them over a charcoal fire is the wae to go. i haven't seen grilled crabs anywhere else before tho'.. so guess i can only get then here if i bbq them myself..but then again it ain't easy getting live flower crabs since "flower crabs should be cooked immediately after they are killed"...words of my grandfather always rang when i eat my flower crabs...

erp why am i tokking this wae about food as tho i'm a foodie? uhh not all food lah...i just like gnawing my wae through most edible crustaceans...

on a side note...these are cocoa from the plantation at grandma's kampung...

sqwark sqwark

so i've lost my voice.. *croack* for the past 2 weeks or so.

it started off with tat sore throat which i went to the doc.
no fever and he said "your condition is mild" and then when he asked me anything else i said "can u give me an mc?"
he looked at my patient's card and commented "oh u've been taking quite a bit of mc lately"
OK so i have 2 months ago for a dae and 1 month ago for 2 daes for stomach flu. beats me why i'm so weak this yr...
so wat. we employees are entitled to 14daes of medical leave a yr. u mean cannot use ah?
but i really AM sick wat. my throat was burning me...
and then the "concerned" doc asked me "how many yrs have u worked in the company?" as tho he was worried tat i might incur the wrath of my bosses for too much a disappearing act. Another tell-tale sign tat i was probably a good-for-nothing kiddy worker (read blog entry: halloween)
i dunno why i was so dumb to tell him 3yrs..and then gave him a piece of my mind "i dun take mc if i can OK". then he said ok lah give u one dae off. duhz.
i was so ruffled tat when i took the medicine i told the nurse to tell him off for doubting my work integrity. when i first went to this clinic i already had a feeling that the stoopid doc was the kind who was never empathetic. and i was rite. trust me...i would Never go to this clinic if not for the fact that it's the nearest one from my home where the company recognises the mc.
and he only gave me antibiotics and medicine for running nose. HUH. i never had a single chance of running nose till now lor. he din pre-empt my cough..cos he gave no cough mixture.
bleah.

admittedly i haven't been a good girl tho...went to penang and ate a LOT of heaty stuff..laksa...apong..curry mee..ice kachang... grilled flower crabs *slurp*.. so now after 2 weeks since the mc dae i'm still coughing. and 2 weeks of sleepless nites..cos i always wake up in the middle of the nite to cough. dat dae i even woke up tinking there was an earthquake..but apparently my coughing shook me too much. ha.

but at least i tink i'm recovering now.. *croack* after daes of bland eating...

生命

saw a freaky car accident on my wae to work this early morning..

it was jammed already on the entrance to the expresswae..ok shd be an accident i guess..
spent a long while trying to get into the 3rd lane..and then realised tat 3 lanes were diverting back into the 4th. which means i need to squeeze back to the 4th lane again. sheesh.
and the policeman was waving madly to divert awae traffic from the first lane.
amidst the squeezing i saw.. man lying flat on the ground...white shirt all stained with blood.. a little distance ahead.. a flattened motorcycle. and further ahead.. lorry + van + car caught in a triangular smash. i did not have time to see the others...so i guess the man was the motorcyclist...

i was just 3 lanes awae from the man...so near yet so far...
u dun feel the impact so strongly when u see it on tv...
really 毛骨悚然 and 鸡皮疙瘩...
nothing like witnessing something so gory to remind u of your loved ones..and how 脆弱 life can be...

halloween

it's scary when u can look TOO young.

walked into 2 4D/toto outlets in a dae..and had both aunties asking me
"小妹妹， 你有没有过十八岁？ 有没有带IC?"

and then last weekend..was at IMM looking at this set of furniture for my room while my parents were a distance awae. and then the saleman told me the price, followed by giving me his namecard and ended with this most revolting sentence:
"if you like it..can ask your parents to come back with u"
and then i retorted "i can make my own decision"
to which he replied "oh! dats great!"
i noe he probably tot i'm a spoilt brat who could get anything i wanted ...i buy my stuff with my own hard earned cash~
duhz. like i will buy anything from him even if he gave it to me free.

and these are not the only 2 lone cases.
so there are other pple who always sae how lucky i am dat i look young. i guess i am lucky.
but still...
how about imagining tat pple dun take u for your word bcos u look kiddy?
it's IRRITATING.

sentosa luge

these pictures are long overdue..from the sentosa luge a couple of weeks ago..but they are cute!
the deal: 2luge+skyride and get 1 free!

but after the first luge..u roughly know where all the bends are already..and by the 3rd time..u will agree that the laws of diminishing marginal utility have sunk in...hehee.but still the skyride was nice and breezy..din buy the photo..but stole it off the screen :Pstealing helmets??

decision-time

this is my empty new room -- only one wall has been freshly painted in my chosen colour: Raspberry Sorbet Plain and boring? So it is. i haven't had anything customised for my room.
and so i have a list of items for my room:
1. bed + bedside table
2. table
3. dressing table/turnable dressing wardrobe from scanteak
4. glassdoor cupboard / shelves ?
5. tv?
6. computer?
7. cushy chair?

but i just can't decide wat is good for my rm. hmm...decisions decisions decisions. time to get busy again this weekend... $$$

grumbles

WAT can be more miserable than
1. having an urgent project at hand leading to
1a. stressssss
1b. lethargy from doing OT everydae
1c. blurry eyes from staring too long hours at the computer screen
2. having a sore throat, blocked nose coupled with flu-tiredness but not being able to take mc bcos of 1.
3. not being able to enjoy tv bcos i fall asleep everytime i sit down
4. not being understood ??

when u have 1+2+3+4.

yawnz..i really need to tink about my break next week to motivate me for this wk. but then again...no one has mentioned tat i will be having time-off next week yet leh.
my brain is frizzled.
haiz. there better be.

wedding dinner

my dear fren enwm had sent us her handmade wedding invitation card to her wedding dinner in KL. i wanted to go for her wedding of cos! but the harsh realities of life like $$$ and work overload were bogging me down. well well..at least rabbit reminded me tat this was once in a lifetime..and we won't wanna miss it.
so i bought our air tics and happily applied for leave with my mgr.
just then...my director rang me from US saying the project was urgent and asked me to put in my best effort - aka more OT please.
Sheesh. *guilt*
Then heck.
i already booked the airtics liao leh.

urm...okie i kinda knew the flight to KL was short..but this short?!! after the plane flew to the right altitude and the airstewardess distributed the drinks (note: only drinks..no food!) ...the pilot said it was time to descend liao...haha...
when we reached the KLIA they had this taxi booth at the airport..u can tell them where u wanna go..then they tell u how much and print out the ticket for u (with your destination on it). wow..i was secretly quite impressed...bcos this means tat no haggling with the taxi driver. transportation was like my next biggest worry..after safety.

and so all timing was on target and we checked into the hotel at around 6pm... hm..the dinner's at 7. decided tat we would bathe change and make-up..and be fashionably late for the dinner. reached the ballroom vicinity around 730..urm..and who was tat we hear in the distance?
hehehe... yesh it was our dear bride waiting outside the ballroom for the march-in already... urm..which also means tat we are quite late liao.haha. so m'sia wedding dinners are more punctual than sg ones. Oh well...but it was fate wasn't it? if we had not been so late..we would have missed this precious moment of taking this photo with her liao.
wedding dinner fare was much the same... wedding souvenirs were these choc cakes which i usually dun eat. but hungry us had them for breakfast the following morning...
and some photos of our dear couple on stage...
sat was gathering-cum-shopping dae.. th was so kind to give us a lift to sunway pyramid shopping centre..and lend us his wife for the afternoon. hehe. yesh..and sunway pyramid is big..like vivo city..took us a dae to cover all the levels...
chendol and apong-balik for our tea...at the same time..th met up with us again. me and rabbit showed off our solid sony cybershot...which kinda influenced them to get a similar one for their trip the next dae. haha..i hope sony reads this and gives us a reward for advertising their product... altho it had been such a killer busy and hectic week for me after coming back..i'm just so glad tat i had gone for the dinner... if i hadn't..and looked back on it yrs later...i probably would have kicked myself for giving myself excuses for not attending. money would not be able to buy me back the time to attend your wedding again. it felt really great to be able to see u happily married woman! i din have any photo of u on my blog previously...so this entry is especially for u!

many things--

--i did this weekend.

there was a list of tasks i wanted to complete..so i decided to take leave on fri. felt a tad guilty when i boarded the bus to town on fri afternoon...cos i tot most pple should be still working hard in office. i was so wrong. EVeryone else was out in town. duhz.

wanted to get a digicam from the comex exhibition..and tot that it should be less crowded on a fri.. yeah. SLightly less crowded. But anywae..i got my purchase done. Yay. Finally. No more blurry photos liao! heheh. Also went to chk out again the bedroom furniture i was tinking of getting. And in the evening..my dear fren N treated me to a free movie "no reservations"...

on sat...had an appt with the ID to do proper measurements for the new place. and i've decided which room i wanted. at least..now we've kinda decided on someone to fix up the new home. No more decision-making for some time..i don't like to make decisions.

on sun... Ra-ta-too-ee!!! yay...been waiting all week for this man. Noticed why the theatre in the pic was so empty? cos we reached the place bright and early...heee..wah..wat can i sae..the movie was superb. the food was great. the seats were comfy. the blanket was so 香喷喷. And just like Ego the food critic..who was so touched when he ate the ratatouille tat reminded him of his mom's cooking..tat he dropped his pen with such a majestic clang (haha!)...the seat (with the uplifted leg portion) and blanket made me feel like i'm really at home...curling up like a prawn in the sofa... yeah. in a nutshell...no matter wat we do or eat..aren't we all just looking for tat familiar feeling of home~ Managed to snap a picture of the seafood chowder served before the show. yummy-looking *slurp* i usually hate chowders cos they taste too milky and powdery..but this was nicely smooth. with bits of seafood in every mouthful. the pot of earl grey was nicely fragrant too. after tat i couldn't see my food (fish and choc cake) during the show liao..but they were yummy too.

yx wunders whether gv can actually profit much from these movie dinners. in a wae..yeah not really..cos there weren't many seats in the cinema and the food was quality+quantity...some pple pay even more for restaurant food alone liao... hmm..but it was all worthwhile for me..and i loved every bit of it. so there we go...my eventful weekend =)

foul mood

this morning i took the same lift as usual to work..except todae feeling super lousy.
me and another colleague working on the same floor (but i dunno who she is as usual but saw once or twice) went in.
sometimes there will be last min pple who make a 100m sprint towards the lift just when the door is about to close.
todae there was.
feeling sour already..i couldn't be bothered to lift my hand to open the door. tot the colleague in the lift would press the door open for the sprinter. BUt she din..she pressed close instead.
so i decided to punch 'open' at the same time i saw the sprinter lunge towards the outside lift door button.
she managed to get in.. looking sour too. without a word of thanks. they tot they managed to come in bcos they sprinted.

after the sprinter got to her destination floor..there was only me and the colleague left again. she gave me a smile..which i could not decipher was a sheepish smile or a frenly smile. i give her the benefit of the doubt..and i returned with a weak smile. Sorry to the colleague..whoever u might be. i tink i look a tad dao. but i was feeling in aboslutely too trashy a mood to want to look frenly.

that crazy little thing i do...

First. i wanted to chup tickets for my long anticipated movie by booking in advance at cathay. Searched thru' the whole pile of timeslots online...but seems like none of them is going to be shown at my favourite The Grand Cathay theatre. U noe..the biggest theatre inside the cathay cineplex at dhoby ghaut..and has 8seats by the side instead of the usual 2 or 4.

so i waited... and surfed... and then i came upon the gv website..where i found this. And this was the deal:
1 Pair of gold class tickets
2 Sets of french dinners (soup, main, dessert, drink)
Freebie john little shopper bag

Sounded amazing doesn't it? watch your food on screen..and get to eat them too..haha. and the most amazing thingy? 120 shining dollars!
so i was considering..hehe. But tat time they only had the sat timeslot which was apparently sold out liao! HuH?? u mean there were so many more remy-fans than me out there?
anywaez..the next dae i went back to gv website again..and wahaha..they added a sun timeslot. Woah~
after discussing with my trusty movie-partner who surprisingly din mind going..yesh tat crazy thing i do was to go and book the tics. yesh okie...it was kinda ex..but some pple spend even more money on their food alone rite. Yay!! then i realised..how come they removed the words about the freebie bag?! tat was one of the reasons why i booked it! emailed gv..and they replied a few daes later tat they are gonna replace it with other premiums. haiz. my bag. no doubt this sounds ex to u...but when i went back to the gv website again todae..all the tics were sold out liao! after 3daes only...wah.

And then?
just received an email that i won tickets for the movie preview from a contest i saw on the today newspaper. to tink tat i won the tics after i just bought the ex gold class ones!! i guess it's just my fate with the show..Muahahaha... oh well..i can give the tics to my sis. and yay* i haven't won anything for a long time liao.. >pleased<

the video player

woah cool~

the little things in life...

some small things are hard to come by...but good to find.
gee...and was i lucky todae?! heh.
yeps.
meet my favourite animal around the neighbourhood...

---Snailey--- regretfully tho...i stepped on one of his fellow mates once.
on dat dreadful nite... i ought to have kept my eyes on my pavement... but i din.
*crr-ack...crum---ble...splat" the sound was unmistakably snail-like. can't be a fruit dat i stepped on.
and no matter how remorseful i am...it was already flattened to a pulp..
so the moral of the story is that we Must always keep our eyes on the pavements near the pavilion..and the jogging tracks...esp at nite! they just like to walk around too much...even tho' they are slooooow....

anywae..i spotted snailey while he was out on his morning exercise routine.. a walk around the pavement before returning to his homely grassss.....
as goes the saying...凡走过 必留下足迹...hehee...

Over HERE please...

I promised my fren i shall help her do some advertising for her newly opened online shopping website. MUAK. Urm..okie maybe only a handful patronising souls read my website..but who noes..maybe Some rich taitai might chance upon this and decide to snap up all their stuff!

And in the true spirit of online shopping..here's my own review of the website first..heheh~

Bags and accessories are their main feature for the time being. set in a comfy pinky wallpapered background...it's pleasing on the eyes..and the options are simple and clearcut. pics of the goods are displayed neatly and i Like this. hate it when pics and words are all over the place... Personally i like the bags..they are sweet and cute..and more so bcos i like floral stuff. haha. Although it might be a good idea to show suggestions on wat kinda clothes match the bags..so tat customers can find out more waes to carry off the stuff? for now..good start..and may your business 蒸蒸日上.
check out their website for yourselves pple... MUAK

gonez

all i wanted was a simple innocent job. get my hay(hair) rebonded and trimmed.
first i made an appt with the salon..only to find out tat my usual hairdresser had left.
UrghZ. and i dun even noe where she went.
Still made an appt bcos i had my hair package with the salon..no choice.

Went down to the salon...and met the new hairdresser. Looks fine altho her fingers smelt cigarettey. i tink i liked my previous hairdresser cos she always looked fashionably nice. it feels safer to leave my hay in the hands of one who looks good herself.
but nm...shes gone liao..wat can i sae.
so tried to exchange a rebond with my existing package so i dun have to pay any $$$. managed to strike a deal..dunno good or bad i just want to strike the deal and get my hair done.
and the other girl who promotes packages...comes and psycho me.
yep..wats new rite.
said tat i din strike a good deal with the hairdresser...cos she could have given me this and tat instead. but not v nice to sae in front of hairdresser cos hairdresser will earn less. said she dropped me hints liao. HUH.
so she saes she owes me a favour and will give me an free additional treatment. duhz. like i haven't heard enough of such stories.
then tries to butter me up by ranting about my cute cheeks (which i found irritating after i've heard it from her for at least 10 times)
finally she reaches the true topic...something about trading my remaining 4 turns and top up a bit more (the figure wasn't like a bit more to me lor) and get 20more turns. i din really listen.
she rattles on.
and starts to whine about how long i haven't come to the salon.
i reply flatly "need to work...dun work how to give u money"
she rattles on while i concentrate on my magazines.

felt miserable cos the assistant was tugging my hair real hard when she was kiapping my hair. and insisted tat i dun move my head. i noe the physics phrase: action and reaction. but did she expect me to use the same force to pull my head in the opposite direction to her kiappers? i dun wanna end up looking like charlie brown. =(
and then the haircut was only a few snippets which cost like 20packets of rice?! and i just realised tat the wae they added up the rebond+haircut...actually they din give me any discount at all. they just blow up the figures to their advantage. cheaters.
i promise my hair i'll find a nicer hairdresser for u.

yummy+fond memories

Some time ago...my fren A brought me to one of her fav ice-cream shops at wheelock place...
Tucked into the wall between 2 major restaurants was a small icecream stall.

haato


Both of us shared a double-scoop cup: green tea and lychee sorbet.
YummY!! *slurp*
Green tea had a great blend of green tea bitter and creamy sweetness. Lychee sorbet was nicely light with fresh bits of lychee flesh inside. The 2 made a good combo.
yesh i noe i hardly compliment food. AND now i'm actually describing them as tho i'm a food host!?! >groanz..wat is happening<

So yesterdae when yx suggested ice-cream after dinner (yesh he hardly mentions icecream)..i decided tat i had to show him THIS shop.
Boring me ordered my 2scoop cone green tea and lychee sorbet again ^greedy^
yx had a 2scoop chocolate banana and mango.
everything was pleasant overall..altho i still preferred my good ol' combination..hehe.

Decided to find out if it had its own website. It did! haato
And then i was reading its history...said it was formerly known as Gelato di Crema at Liang Court.
OH!
Flashbacks of me hanging around a Gelato-something icecream stall outside the then Daimaru supermarket at Liang Court when i was still a kid. And I would order the watermelon sorbet icecream diligently every week when i tagged along with my parents on their weekend trip to the supermarket. after we shifted house..we hardly went back to liang court for grocery shopping..and i soon forgot about my fav gelato icecream...my hunch tells me that the Gelato they wrote in their website..must be the gelato i knew so well when i was young..hehe.
now it's all coming back to me..fond memories of my childhood. yumyum

yummy+cute

The view while sitting on the first-class seat on the 2nd deck of the double decker bus --- happie chipsmore chocolate chip waiting to hug meee...

bus rides are getting so exciting these daes...wheeeee~~~

小气大财神 之 冷笑话 1

有一个患有精神病的人住在某精神病院里。
有一天， 病人坐在公园里的小凳子上埋头苦干地写东西。
护士走了过来，看到病人在忙着写啊写的，就问他：“你在做什么?”
病人回答：“我在写一封信给自己。”
护士心想， 哇。他还会给自己写信，不错嘛。
然后，护士就很关心地问他：“那么，信里的内容有写些什么呢？”

病人瞪了她一眼，
很生气地说：“你神经病啊！我都还没有收到信，怎么会知道？！？”

*嘿嘿*...

stinky boy

Yesterdae while i was walking home from the carpark...i passed by a stretch of yellow bougainvilleas. U noe how other pple always sae tat we only treasure the things when we lose or are about to lose them. Maybe a certain sense of nostalgia whenever i'm walking around our area these daes. i've even switched to jogging within the estate instead of jogging outside nowadaes...Trying to soak up every possible view of the home compound in all angles..and get them imprinted in my peabrain before they become rubble...hmm. =I

But anywae there was this stinky, probably around 10yr-old fat boy...welding a stick in one hand. and then with a swift flick of his puggy stubby arms...he whacks the shrub and hits a bunch of flowers off their heads. and then splash! a pool of yellows landing on the ground. urghz! i would have wanted to curse and swear. OK i din swear. but i was hoping that if he had a transformer toy..it shall fall to a horrible death and shatter into a thousand pieces. stoopid fat boy! he was obviously oblivious of me glaring at him..for he went about his stinky wae..trying to gather yet another stick. oh well...Wat does he noe about the plant taking darn long..and how much photosynthesis..before its flowers could grow to tat yellow state rite?...and it only took him a second to kill it. i mean...yeeshh...the flowers' gonna drop off sooner or later..but still he made them die an earlier untimed death. stoopid fat boy!

oh man..my heart really went out to the poor gardener who must have painstakingly planted the bougainvillea from a tiny plant to a slightly decent shrub tat it is todae. i tink tat our stingy managment probably doesn't quite provide a lot of funds to import huge flowering plants..so some of the small plants must have been grown from scratch...by a friendly initiative of the gardener. Deeply appreciated by ellie. and dats why i'm calling u names now..stoopid fat boy! Yesh..i'm a botany freak.

Can someone tell me...

...why doctors give drowsy flu medicine without an mc? this is some wierd question i have been asking myself since i was a kid... hah. And even if they do issue one..it usually covers one dae only... then wat about the rest of the daes tat we have to continue taking the flu medicine? so i gather it's either eat the medicine and fall asleep at work...or dun eat the medicine and feel miserable to death at work.

Fortunately i din really need the mc this time. it's just my ringing ears. Woke up on mon morning..and suddenly "woo...woooh..wooo" in my left ear. and stayed tat wae ...yah it's still woo-ing now... So everything seems just plain noisy..and i hear echoes..or undertones when pple tok..and the engines of passing cars become super irritating. mom said she had those ringing ears before too...it's like hearing construction piling all dae long~ oh man.
On the flip side..yesh... the first time i truly appreciated the tranquility in office...it's quiet enough not to pick up any echoes..so there's no woo-ing sound and i'm feel tat i'm normal once again... But once i step out of office space... every sound suddenly becomes amplified! the doc doesn't quite noe wats wrong with my ears..she said the passageway is clear all the wae to the eardrums. She's guessing that it might be mucus stuck in the pipe linking the nose and the ear..Or maybe inflammation along the pipe too. Dats how i ended up with anti-inflammation tablets and flu pills. Gotta eat them up and see if it solves the problem. But not to worry...i'll be sure to eat the flu pills at the end of the dae..cos industrious bee-me won't wanna plop snoring awae in office...

and before ringing ears dae..round-faced ellie spotted these favourite sunflowers at changi airport... nice*

Meanie mouths...

Yesterday out of fustration at work..i punched out the entry below.
And after typing it i felt a lot better. Tot maybe i was being too sensitive about things.
Then i related the story to a couple of frens.. and they all commented tat the mouths below were meanies. So i've decided not to leave this a draft anymore and publish it. Ha.

"
Just when the place is rid of poison-ivy-mouthed N..other potential evil mouths loom the place. Or in that sense..in cultivation.

So 2 daes ago..i wore my blue turqoise skirt with pretty shoes.
And yest i wore my half-length pinstriped pants.
>>flashback: the last time i wore the same pants..the same person who tokked about my skirt asked me "going for a bbq ah?"<<
Dun they read the Today newspapers? It's ok nowadaes to wear such midlength pants..as long as it's of pants material. And mine definitely is.
And todae i wore my green apron like skirt.

i was walking out to get my lunchbox..and met 2 of my male colleagues back from their lunch. Shorter saes "wah ellie..wearing skirt todae ah?" (ellie rolls eye). Then Taller followed behind and mumbled to Shorter "yah lor..getting more hiao"
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i had a good mind to run back and make my retort. but my slower sarcastic mind could not come up with an immediate comment and by then my legs had already carried me out of the area to get my lunchbox.

OH. SO jeans are the A+ dress code..and everything else BOOS. And then the jeans must match with the dullest tshirt. Cannot have anything fanciful on top. Jeans are not even the formal attire for work in the first place lor.

No wonder my sis said tat male engineers are borrr---(yawn)---ring. i totally disagree..they are boring with a smelly mouth to beat. i rem i had a female engneer fren who told me a similar incident. The weather's so hot these daes..would prefer not to wear jeans if given a choice. And i do! But they dun.. if they like..they could try wearing a skirt too. And wats the big deal about wearing a skirt...normal girl wat.

And so wat if they do read this? Could learn how to respect pple and their dress sense. And use their big brain before sprouting off. Hmph.
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Good Ol' Philosophy

Still remember that 14yrs ago..while in sec 2..we had a subject called Philosophy. Dat was conducted in a small stuffy corner on the 2nd floor of our sch gym..and overlooking the entire gym. --Just to digress...yesh~ this yr is my 10-yr anniversary from my sec sch graduation. no prizes for guessing this author's age accurately--
AS if the words of our philosophy teacher were not boring enough (i tink i will never forget tat she speaks sentences in the following fashion: "this example...is a...fine example...of boredom in our modern...................................age". i remember i was terribly irritated because she could never finish up the last word of each sentence in pace)...the room was equipped with a tiny wall-fan...all out to test our awakeness-threshold levels...
and we always had to bring along an A4 sized little red photocopied book of philosophy stories and sentences...from which we had to go through the sentences and dish out thought-provoking (more sleep indudcing!!) discussions.
up till now...i still dunno wat lessons i learnt from these..i mean my sec sch curriculum was full of quirky courses and unexaminable subjects. but these 2 sentences i always strangely remember. maybe cos they are somehow so duh..but yet so true.

All cats are animals.
But Not
All animals are cats.

Beats me wat i shd be learning from these.

But todae someone asked me why i dressed nicely (aka in skirt and pretty shoes) to work dat same dae. "Going out ah?" Usually clad in jeans and normal top. I briefly waved him off and said tat i just felt like wearing..no particular reason. And anywae the weather was so hot..i couldn't bear having my jeans sticking to my legs so i picked out a poor skirt which i haven't showered my attention on for a loong time. the pretty shoes were just meant to match the skirt. I think he didn't believe bcos he said something else which i din bother listening. haha~

so on my ride home..i suddenly recalled these lessons..and 举一反三...i can come up with philosophy sentences of my own too.

She who is going on a date* must dress nicely.
But Not
She who dresses nicely must be going on a date*.
*date can refer to frens' gathering..not only going out with bf lah

Yeah..so this goes out to U...anyone of U...who may tink tat All pple only dress up to please Other pple. Heh.

The Stuffed rabbit...

is how i am feeling like right now.

After 2 giant meals on sun and mon..and probably more to come.
cos relatives are in town..and we have to go around munching bits off the island.
can't help feeling a tad miserable..am so used to eating a spoonful of rice + lotsa veggies for dinner...dat these meals are excessive to me..
and i always end up looking like some pregnant woman after every meal (feel like one too..back aches can't stand up straight!)...u could pay me a buck to see this 奇观~
not forgetting tat i always feel a tremendous sense of guilt if i overeat too.

i noe it ain't right and i outta be fortunate and glad dat i can have all the food tat i ever want..as compared to the poor folks being sold as slaves .. just to digress..have u ever wondered that maybe the branded pair of sports shoes on your feet was made by some poor skinny kid slave driven by some ferocious man with a whip? haiz.
oh well..but still..dats no reason for me to finish up all the food on the table.

The Farmer

when the chips are down...someone shoved me with a metaphor...

he said "designers are like farmers".

And then i came up with the rest of the story myself...
If designers are like farmers in the agricultural supply chain. then test engrs must be the QC who ensures that the food supplies are ok for consumption; marketing and sales pple would be the traders and retailers respectively at the other end of the chain.
So..it starts with the farmer at the start of the chain..who ploughs and sows to give us rice..or vege..watever farmer u choose to have.
after we get the rice...QC folks would need to go through the batches of rice and make sure that there are no bad nuts in them.
then we have the traders who act like middlemen between the farmers and retailers....supplying the goods to the retailers..ensuring that the flow of food supply goes without a glitch.
and at the end..the retailers are probaly the supermarkets..big hypermarts or small mama-shops...they are the ones who have the final interface with the customers and are obviously the ones who gather direct feedback from the customers too.

One dae..Mr X went to get a packet of rice. and then he discovers to his horror.. that there's a hole in the bag and a black pea in it.
he runs back to the shop and asks Mr Retailer "there's something terribly wrong with the rice! i can't eat this!! how can there be a pea in the rice! i paid for rice..not peas! explain!"
Mr Retailer only said "beats me"
and ding dongs it to Mr Trader who ding dongs it back Mr QC who just ding dongs it back to Mr Farmer.
But Mr Farmer doesn't know either. Simply bcos his farm only grows rice..not peas. he, of cos, had no idea how peas got into the bag in the first place. Moreover...all along, the previous bags of rice had turned out ok...
maybe a pea had fallen into the bag during packaging? maybe a rat chewed its wae into the bag bringing a pea into it? maybe here..maybe there...
But so wat. everyone else is standing in a row..pointing fingers at the farmer..and expecting him to fix the fault..without lifting a finger to help (dats cos all the fingers are busy pointing at the farmer..where got finger left to help leh)...
For he's the one who planted the rice.
And somehow most of us have forgotten that Mr Farmer is at the crux of the supply chain. If he stops growing rice..we have no rice.
And most of the time...he's paid the lowest of them all. Paradox.

Lovely...

When man has New toy, man wants to spend much time with New toy.
And so does ellie...the one eager beaver set out again to contribute to her new blog.

Me had a wonderful gathering w frens on mon... And much honoured am i..cos it was after all a 'mondae-blues' mondae..so everyone shd be hard at work and unwilling to come out for dinner. BUT they did..such big a face they gave me i guess u could see my cheeks stretch from holland v to orchard rd (yah lets not be too kuazhang so i din put pasir ris to boon lay)...hehe~

Ooo...thanks for the bdae meal...gals (and accompanying guy)! it also seemed appropriate tat i would like to tink of it as our mini 10yr-anniversary frenship gathering tho...heheh..Aye time flies *flap* *flap*... it's heartwarming to tink tat altho' i may not have 10000 frens..i still have a handful to count on...
And look wat else i managed to dig out--- An age-old meal photo at swensens from 1999! i hope the subjects dun mind...but hey...everyone looks the same (prettier of cos...heh)...right down to the table arrangement! just so cute to look back at old photos once in a while...

A new space...

Ah...tadaa... a new blog space!
hehe---
i kinda like the presentation of this blogging website...looks like it provides quite some GUI..engineers like gui i tink...hoho. i also want my blog to be more of a photoblog..after all ...a picture paints a thousand words leh. Who likes to read lines and lines of continuous prose...me don't like to read books for one thing..=Þ

And my bloglink tells everyone how to pronounce my name accurately..please dun call me ee-lee anymore...

So testing testing..and i'm going to put up first photos of a recent trip to a freebie place~~~lalala...
there we go...haw par villa! doesn't it look grand from the entrance..but oh well..actually not really once u get to walk around the whole place...i mean u can't expect much since it's not collecting entrance fees..where got so much $$$ for maintenance rite. takes a lot of time and effort to repaint the statues every now and then also...
And there's my trusty companion and me advertising for tiger balm with our sumo-wrestler bodyguards... how many of us actually remember tat there were so many cute statues at haw par villa??
ok and to round it all up...this shall be my moral of the dae... see! 刻苦耐劳 and i managed to complete my v first blog entry liao...hehe.