december 1

first day of the last month in 2008.
hmm.
nothing special about todae for me i guess. just the same start to the usual boring work week.
Not that i'm complaining. having a job beats not having one at all of cos.
in fact..i'm counting my blessings.
whilst surrounded by all these bad news recently... gloomy economic outlook in 2009...mumbai and bangkok events..and the unfortunate incident of the girl whose bright life was brutally taken away in incredible india...
i dunno. i guess for now..i'm not that looking forward to the new year.

oh. todae also happens to be world aids day. i heard on the radio this morning. and the DJ said that there was someone (i tink i heard also that he had leukaemia or something) and later they discovered that his aids virus had disappeared. so that's a miracle for u. but watever. it just reminded me of the recent aids drama serial they were showing on channel 8. i tink it depicted well the situations and emotional trauma the aids patient and his family had to go thru'. good job chen hanwei and mediacorp.

but i digress.
the series of unfortunate events sparks off tots that we needa treasure those around us. to be more giving. to be less persistent on nitty gritty issues. to learn to forgive and forget. after all..who can guarrantee for sure when's the next time u can talk to your loved ones again? so tell them how much u love and care for them. Loudly.

to my dear fren F: i guess no words from us friends can alleviate the pain u're going through now. but i guess when things hit rock bottom..there will be no other way except up. we'll be behind ya! hope it will be 雨过天晴 soon~

Life's lil' ironies~

someone who's

so near yet so far

so different yet so similar

but i've learnt to cherish

and can no longer be without.

Mr. 555

i dunno wat i've been busy with recently... haven't blogged like since 2mths? or maybe my life has been too mundane. nope that wasn't a complaint..i like routines (most of the time). that includes poupee, facebook, jogging and car-washing.

so ya. many incidents with the new car recently.

Car-washing incident:
1. i was washing the car on thursday. Mr 555 (so named bcos of the license plate on his flashy black mercedes) was already there. he was scrubing hard away at one of his tyres. hmm..i thought. should be at the last stage of washing liao. so anywaes i did mine... splash on the water. scrub. soap. scrub. splash on water. Mr 555 was STILL on that same tyre---scrubing splashing scrubing AT THE SAME tyre. jeez. some lady (dunno wife or maid) came down to look for him and help him a bit to lay the mats in his car..and then i overheard her telling him "if someone asks u how long u take the wash the car..its like 3 daes. 1day to wash the car body..1 day to wash the tyres..and one day for dunno wat". Mr 555 laughed and said "ya nobody washes tyres only i do"

i think he wasted a lot of water on those tyres which are gonna get dirty the moment he drives off.

Carpark incidents:
1. i couldn't find the silly car park at pearl's centre. does it ever exist in the first place? i wish they could mark on the singapore maps where are the entrances to the carparks. they are sometimes not v obvious. sorry to say..but i've been rather sad ever since streetdirectory.com was forced to close down. i tink it was sooo much more helpful with the driving directions and all.

2. i finished off ktv last fri nite at 1am..and then the doors to the people's park centre were closed. can't get to the lift to get to the carpark. Went into 7-11 and asked the cashier if he knew where else i can find another lift. he dunno. so i asked him where's the security guard post. "at the end of the building", he said. Chinatown is not such an exciting place to walk at nite. There were no signs of men in uniforms. Only tired people sleeping by the roadside. Grr..does this mean i have to climb up the ramps for 3 storeys to get to the car. No choice. called my dear and was ranting to him all the way. heheh. And then yay. Saw a couple of security guards stuck behind the glass doors of the building. So i started charades with them on how to go up. and they started shouting instructions through the holes between the glass doors. it was like "walk here, there..blahblahblah" Urr..i'm already halfway in the climb and i'm not gonna climb down and walk elsewhere to find a cargo lift which may not exist lor. So i continued..*pant*

3. Parked at westmall to meet A for dinner. Nicely parked. Came back to pickup the car after dinner. N saw. this 7seater plastered into the butt of i30.
&#^%*(&^*#$
Snapped pics and took down the license plate.
and then big burly foreigner came along with his whole family. so it was him.
confronted him "eh wat are u doing?"
he said oh i din noe your car was there...and i tink he really din noe. otherwise i cannot figure out why he would leave his car in that state and go for dinner.
he reversed out (finally) so that i could check.
initially i only saw a small dot of black paint. urghz. if i were to collect damages from him then it's like too much trouble. ok lah
"U drive carefully next time!"
he apologised and then left. and then A was looking from the side and said "urr..it looks slightly dented"
urghhzzz...
and then. i forgot to take down his contact no. Stewpid.
ok la..it wasnt that obvious. but Still.
and i already parked way away from the parking white line and he could still overshot so much. or maybe his driving habits are that stop only when u hit something.
Just my luck. Hope his 7seater gets bulldozed over..Mr xxx. (i needa get the license plate no. from A).

The Double EE

i was tinking about this again while i was jogging just now. my sis sent me a link to this exercise article the other dae...i forgot the link already. but i remember the 2 golden lines which i quote the author--
Eat for weight management.
Exercise for joy.

Hmm.
Talking about food for your thoughts. hehe.
Oh well.

Some of us might beg to differ with this school of thought.
Eat for joy.
Exercise for weight managenent.

For me...
Eat for weight management.
Exercise for weight management.
Love for joy.

WHY??!

are there certain days that u just start off rotten and then nothing good seems to be happening for the whole dae...

so i woke up todae with a headache... and groggy though i slept early last nite.
and then there was the traffic jam all the wae from home to office.
and then i tried to park the car but ended up too near to the pillar and the rubber thingy attached to the car door came off. so i had to spend like 20min trying to find a way to hook that thingy back on. just when my mom reminded me to be careful about the car cos we're gonna trade it in soon. Urghz. stuff like that always happens..murphy's law~
and then my boss rushed in..wundering if i finished my work. and i said i sent it in yesterdae..but he couldn't find the email. and when he finally did..he asked me why the wrong subject title was used. then he said..."it's ok..i'll send it out again"

#$%^#&$^%#$^$#&^%%#$

HUH. like it's my fault! should have asked the more senior one who submitted the project. duh.

and then my pimple on my nose just kept ballooning up. despite all my corrective measures. so i'm rudolph again.

STOP!

stop tat rain!

well..actually i do like the rain sometimes. i like dat it's nice and cool when i go to bed. and i like the pittar-patter on the rooftop when i'm at work.

but all that wetness throughout the past week has been damaging my exercise routine.

so no jogging along the pavements and no swimming. and yesh i'm still scared of trying the treadmill in the gym. haha.

urghz.

so i feel my cheeks are bloating up again. storing food in there for a disaster. probably getting enough to survive an earthquake..typhoon..hurricane..landslide..blahblah.

and my chin! my double chin!

but oh well..actually no amount of jogging is going to significantly reduce tat flub on my face..u noe dat. i noe dat. everyone noes dat. but still... every effort counts i guess.

so there..i'm keeping my fingers (and toes) crossed for fine weather this evening.

*Hanging out the japanese teru teru bozu*

i sae...

when the going gets tough...ellie gets going.

'nuff said~

google.com.sg

check out the google webby todae and it's got this todae!!! Yayyy...my favourite bunny! *muacks*

i din noe wat was the occasion for peter rabbit and mr. mcgregor to appear todae..so i clicked and voila~ it's beatrix potter's bdae todae http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter

she was one great gal..oh yeah.

Life by the Hills

it's been one week living it up by the hills...time flies~ (faster pleassseee)
everything has been Nice so far...except for these changes:

1. i refrain from getting out of the place if i'm car-less. otherwise i tink i'll try to meet my frens at the nearest mall within walking distance. good thingy a lot of frens are westerners now..heh.
bcos i can't see the stoopid faint yellow nos. on the smrt buses.
i recount the last 2 incidents i took public tpt out from my new home.
The first time...i was taking the bus at nite. And so being me, i couldn't see the nos. clearly and sometimes i wait for other pple at the busstop to flag the bus. But it was desserted dat nite. So by the time i managed to figure out and flag..the bus zoomed past me. Plus there were many feet-biting ants at the busstop. Then i gave up and flagged a cab.
The second time was yesterday..and i was running late and having the phobia from the previous incident..i tot might as well. I took a cab.
hehe.

2. i switched my exercise routine from jogging to swimming. which means new swimwear and goggles and possibly a swimming cap? i haven't swam in a long while...i kinda hate wat chlorine does to my hair. but anywaes i guess i gotta chk out a nice route to jog somedae..in the meantime..nm. =P Dumbbells are still a must tho..altho they haven't been moved over from the king yet.

Otherwise i'm pretty much adaptable~

surprise* surprise*

i looooooooooove surprises.
oh well..who doesn't?
they are good to come by...but hard to find.
which leads me to tink that low (or no) expectations will bring us to surprises. if we expect something to be done..naturally we'll be in waiting and never be surprised...
of cos..it also takes a good deal of effort on the part of the one giving the surprise...

And so i will..or as much possible...be less demanding of those around me~ and to be more appreciative at the same time.

anyhows..thank u D for the wunderful surprise~ woohoo.

goodbye king's road...

we are really moving house next fri.. !
after talking about renovations and moving stuffs bit by bit over the past half a yr or so...this time its final.
we're having those professional movers to bring over the big items.. and with tat we're set to stay there after...
next wed my dad will bring our ICs to convert to the new address. he saes the date symbolises the new unit no. exactly so he MUST do it on tat dae.. trust him to be sooo creative =Þ

from being a king to moving by the hillside... a new place means starting anew.
A Fresh new beginning.
i'm looking forward to the new chapter in my life. :-)

home-grown orchids~

this is my mom's first successful attempt at growing orchids!

check them out...heh the last time she was so excited she accidentally pulled off the head before it could bloom... and now we are seeing at least 3 in full bloom...haha~ orchids ain't easy to grow...

this is the first orchid that's bloomed... and this's the second one...

Very nice~

phew..luckily all of them are 美女...this webby is way cool~~~

tata 6280

when the down navigation button of my beloved hp spoilt...i switched to using the up button all the wae..adding plenty of shortcuts so tat i dun have to press a lot of buttons to get wat i want. so that it could still continue being by my side...
until yest.
no indication bars for the network signal...no words "M1-3GSM"
i tot of nothing..just turned on the hp..turn on again and bochup.
then i couldn't send out sms..and realised i could not call out/call in.

if it were other things i could still live with it. but can't call or sms?! u can hardly call it a handphone anymore ba!
and so.. goodbye my love...我的爱人---再见~~~
lucky thing my parents have a habit of getting $0 handphones whenever they can upgrade..so there's a spare hp to use for now..

*twiddle thumbs*... waiting for the right handphone to come along now...

dear squirrel...

dear squirrel...

todae while i was jogging..i found u lying on your side by the roadside. initially i tot it was a log..but when i discovered it was u..i squeaked and ran off. jogging awae...i was worried that u might be flattened by a car or stepped on...so i went back to look for u.. there u were..peacefully lying with your paws in a praying position...i called out to u..."sshh! sshh!" but u din make any signs of scampering awae..so i tot u were most probably dead.
i used a twig to prod u to the side of the road...so that u would be safe from trouble.. your tummy was still soft..and there were no flies/ants over u... somehow i was reminded of stuffed animals in the roald dahl's short story "The Landlady".. And then i decided maybe it's even better to move u over to the grass patch since most of us return to the ground when we are dead meat too... so i found another twig and chop-sticked u under the tree..since that shd be your favourite spot and ought to be your forever resting ground...
please bless my (fluff)fren...mimi also the squirrel... with an abundant and never-ending supply of pumkins... and me the winner of the hongbao toto draw on thur... =)