charm bracelet

when i flipped through the magazine, this bracelet came across which i adore very much.... it's just so cute. I just can't resist charm bracelet......

As it's LV charm bracelet, i bet it must be very expensive, but it's just very kawaiiiii......

I wish i could own it hehehee.....

I tried to find some pics online, but didn't manage to. so i have to take a pic from magazine :(



Look at how cute the pouche and the stiletto ^^

Best Places to Launch your Career.

One day, i was browsing the business week website and this article caught my attention in the special report section - Best Places to Launch your Career which i would like to share and it's such an interesting piece. ^^

Out of the top 95 best places to launch your career, not a single company is an ad agency. Maybe it's because our industry is more concentrated and more focus where we don't get mixed up with the business industry. That's how i console myself ckckck...

The places to start your careers are dominant by accounting and engineering fields as expected. Sometimes, i'd think How i wish that i was majored in business and at least accounting.
Even I am good at math but i don't have a confident nor like to do all the calculation of assets, billing, revenues, stocks, and etc. As I know that i do not have a business mind and not very interested in this field such as finance, accounting, logistics, supply chain and etc. To me, those are aliens.

Thus, even though my dad never mentioned, i know he would love if one of his kids are studying accounting in order to be able to help him. Indeed none of us are at the end. I know if you're an accountant, you'll never be out of job as you'll survive in every industry and it's desperately needed ckckck... Despite, being an unfilial daughter, with my guts, i picked advertising (my mom warned me of long and hectic working life as what my cousin's situation).

i am very grateful to my parents to let us freely decide what we would like to do in our career without forcing us. There are so many parents out there who did oblige their kids on their career paths.

Well, i have never regretted of studying or taking advertising line. As of today, advertising does take a great role in our life. It is just amazing to see how advertising take such a great role. Even the simpler word of mouth is part of advertising. I still have not changed my point of view and perspective towards advertising. I am so glad that my inspiration is still the same as when i decided to pick advertising.

I always irked by people who humiliate advertising. This reminded me of my 2001 summer courses in art and humanity course where i was surrounded by a group of anti-advertising as well as the associate professor. I thought the class was crazy hehehee..... At that point of time, i felt proud to fight and defense for advertising during the discussion. ^^

Even though there are a lot of misleadings, i still believe the world ain't survive without advertising especially in today's society.

fears....

i don't know if i have been thinking too much or other else.....

i have never fear of getting older as to my principle you learn thru your whole life and gaining experience. Thus, the older you are, the more knowledgeable you are. Thus, i never stop learning and reading as it's the greatest resource and assets.

My birthday is coming end of next month and i fear to turn 1-year-older. Not that i fear of having no partner to stand by me, as this is never been my priorities. i will treat is as nature goes by. It's also not the fear that i'm going to 30 soon in a few years. I found no big deal to turn 30 in today's society as long as you're happy with it.

my greatest fear is like i've been wasting my time as i have not done anything great in my life or have accomplished any amazing thing that i could be proud of or let my parents proud of me. I do not what i should do...

On the other hand, i felt that my memory is getting worse and worsen. My STMs is heavier. I am fear of getting older will reduce my memory capacity, efficiency, effectiveness, and creativity.

I think it's the surrounding suppress and lots of article as how the world and health is getting worse and people encountered so many new diseases. At 20s you could easily had a heart attack, senile dementia, parkinson's, alzhemeir, and etc.

Maybe i should start to worry-free and care-less in my mind and just enjoy whenever you can.

The nanny diaries

On Friday nite, i went to catch a preview of The Nanny Diaries with another group of my colleagues. The show was quite amusing but there is nothing special so i rated ***.
Well, if it ain't Scarlett Johansson, it won't be that great as well.

Well, there is a few things i learnt and it gave a big overview of how upper east side people live. There are always so much controversy around the rich people. Sometimes, i do feel if it is a good choice to marry the rich. There is always sacrificing behind the dazzling glamors.

At the end of the day, i think it's a good story for parents. The moral of the story is to tell the parents to spend more time with their kids when they need their attention the most rather than busying around with nothing especially the homemakers. Kids are the most valuable thing in your life. The time will never turn back. So during their grown up years. it's just great to be by their side. Don't ever come to them once they grown up that you'd like to be closer to them. It's just too late. Why do you want to have kids if you don't think they're your most precious?

Here are some quotes i like from the movies:
- Anna (Scarlett) said,"It takes one village to raise a child in Africa, well it takes only one person to raise a kid in upper east side, 'nanny'".
- One of the rich wives said about her hectic schedule, "even though i don't have a job, i dunn seem to have enough time".

Isn't that amused?

Does anyone know what watch did Scarlett wear in the show? It's a very simple classic watch.

Friday 21st Sep

Well, it seemed that it's hard to not mention about food when you're surrounded by a group of people who just adore and appreciate food. Well, i'm glad to be part of the member.

On Friday, my colleague Elvina was suddenly in a very good mood on having a nice lunch. Probably it's a friday and she started to get relaxed. At 11+ am, she started msn me to ask me where we should go for lunch and even said she would like to eat something nice other than our regular places.

I told her we got to travel a bit for a nice food and she said she didn't mind as long as it's not too expensive. My regular lunch buddies went down to town (Orchard) for Kyushu fair and i decided not to join them. So i told Elvina, there is one western restaurant with affordable set lunch we could try out at Tanjung Pagar but i couldn't recall the name but it's always featured in 8Days. Not that i trusted 8Days review as usually it's inaccurate. However, i don't mind trying.

Unfortunately, none of us could recall the name nor finding the magazine, so 7 of us ended up at New Harbor which is also a western along the stretch of Tj Pagar (bridal salons). Well, it's affordable and the food portion was quite huge. The food was quite delicious and nice and also because we're hungry. The best is there is no GST and service charge ckckck....



Another highlight is one of the restaurant owner (i guess), said if one of us are Mediacorp artiste hehehe..... (then we we giggling we don't want to be recognized MCS artistes but HK actress ckckck....)

Aside to that, Elvina had even planned for the tea. Starhub happened to give each of us a chinese cup with fruit tea for the midautumn festival. So Elvina came up with having a tea with mooncake during our tea time.
By the time we finished our lunch, it's almost 2:30pm so she said let's postpone the tea ceremony to 5pm. She obliged us to join her hehehehe.......

Because some of us had to attend SMA (sg media awards) @ Ritz Carlton and all of us know the food are suck, so they said they might want to eat sth before they headed to the event.
Side track - The highlight of the event is we won the media agency of the year woohooo....... hurray......

At 5pm, Elvina started to take all the cups to wash and made tea. After that she started to offer all varieties of mooncakes hehehee.... Well i didn't eat the mooncake but i drank the tea which is not that fancy. The taste of the tea was even worst when it's cold. ckckck....

Elvina and Joey did mention that we should light up some lanterns next Wednesday. I think this idea is because we received numerous email said that HK & TW offices will be closed on Wed and Thu to celebrate the mid-autumn festival while we have to work here......

Well, it's just a nice relaxing friday.

wat a hectic week 2...

If you read my previous post, you'd know i had a hectic saturday morning. The weather was so hot that sun was glaring with no grace.

I was sweating and just want to quickly return home to sit in an aircon room.

Almost reaching home, i witnessed an accident @ Shangrila. There was a CRV coming out and a mini lorry turned in. The lorry just hit the mid (front and mid door) of the car on the passenger site. CRV was an caucasian (think he's either oz or europeans with heavy accent - was with my ipod so didn't really pay attention) with his sgan wife (but doesn't look like SPG, indeed she looked well mannered). Lorry is an indian.

Then the caucasian came down and started to scold and said it's lorry's fault and kept repeating that it's all nonsense, don't talk nonsense, you're rubbish and etc. The wife is even fiercer by saying all the same thing as her husband and even speak in malay to argue. The lorry driver just kept quiet.

To my point of view, it's a both parties fault, so both have to be responsible. But they just blame it to the lorry driver. I'm not sure if they're taking advantage of him. Well, i had no right to say. Generally, as a human being, it's just natural for us not to admit the mistake during accident unless you're under certain circumstances. Still, i think the way the couple scolded is a bit too much. Since the accident already happened just call the police, it isn't necessary to curse. i felt pity for the lorry driver.

Well, the highlight of the story is just started, i decided to leave and one auntie passed by and asked what had happened so i explained and then she ask me to check out the license plate of the lorry and i told her. After that, she said don't bother, let's go to buy lottery in mandarin. She even asked me twice hahahhahaaha.... isn't it hillarious?

Oh yeah, it's sgans practice, when there is an accident, the first thing you pay attention is to check out the license plate and hope to strike lottery. Not sure if the number did turn out in the lottery ckckck.....

To think about it, i should had taken a picture....

wat a hectic week 1...

I don't know what i've done for the past week. It seems that i had accomplished nothing but created more trouble to clean up.....

During my part time job as desk receptionist in dorm, i had seen numerous check out of spare key as most of the time, they just left their keys. I was quite proud of myself as i just borrow the spare key for once during my 4-year-stay in the dorm.

Unfortunately within the past 4 days in the week, i had forgotten my keys twice. Luckily, i had a savior as my mom afraid that i would forgot my house keys so she attached one key with my cousin.

It all started on wednesday when i went to pick up mooncakes from Shangrila with my colleagues. To be smart and calculative, i brought my home keys so that i could drop the mooncake @ home directly without bringing it back to office as my apt is just next door. Once i returned to the office, i left the key on my desk and it became messy with all the papers piles.

Thus, at 9:30 pm, i happily went home with my colleagues on a cab. Not until i reached home and searching for the key to scan the door, i realized i had left the key in the office. Actually, i had a six sense telling me i forgot something and i thought it was my cell. I even checked it out but never realize it's my key.

I called my cousin to ask for the spare key and she said she need to check and if couldn't find she would drop me off to the office. Thus, i walked to her house and we mutually agreed seemed that my uncle took the key. We went to my aunt house and they were overseas and couldn't find it so my cousin called her mom and she said it might be at the bowl on the aisle rack, if it's not there then she wouldn't know. At the end, we manage to find it.

After that, on the way she dropped me home, we realized my cousin in law's dad passed away and we had to attend the wake as the crem is on next day morning. So we went home to take some cash and went for the wake. I ended up reaching home at 1 am and didn't get to sleep till 2am. As expected, the next day i was stoned and carrying panda eyes.

Yesterday morning, i was supposed to go to bank to help my mom run some errands. Thanks for Standard Chartered Scotts branch which catered the non working people office hours (M-F: 9:30-04:30, S: 09:30-11:30), i had to be there latest by 11:15am. As i was quite tiring, i didn't wake up till 10:30am. It was also due to my cell's alarm didn't rang. Coz i turn off the alarm for weekend during rumi's visit and forgot to set it again.

I was rushing and prepared myself to rush to the bank. When i came down, i realized i wear an uncomfy sandal so would like to change, and realized that i left my key. This is a bad time, as both keys are with me. Luckily the security has an access to my floor so that i can get back my key and rushed to the bank.

During my 3 years in SG, i had never forgotten to bring my keys whenever i go, i even laughed at my younger bro when he stick a post-it-note on his door to remind him of wat to do. I bet i had to follow his step now.

This morning during the dimsum session, i quickly return the spare key to my cousin.... ckckck....

betray my principle...

A few days ago, i just blogged of not to eat so much food after so many dining out for the past few weeks. Last Wednesday, we bought a farewell lunch for our colleague who is leaving for Beijing. However, it ended only 3 of us were available that day so we ended up having lunch for 3 instead of 7. Well, we went to her fave restaurant 'Warung Lele'. Actually for the past months, we have been visiting quite a few times, i should say it's one of most authentic indonesia restaurant in SG. Somemore, it's affordable ^^. We always go there during lunch time.

Reason behind we chose the restaurant, b/c our colleague, JT afraid she won't have such a nice lunch in Beijing (You haven't heard all the things she has to gone through in Beijing plus wicked us who always scared her about the stuff in Beijing... ckckck.....)

Unlike other restaurants, Warung Lele has never failed its quality of food. It's still the best. We ordered 4 dishes, and whenever we are there, it's always ala carte instead of their set menu. The food presentation is not something that will amaze, but the taste is just delicious....

You could check out their website @ Warung Lele

My recommendation: kankung tauco, sambal kankung, cumi bakar, pecer lele, gurami goreng, lele bakar, ayam bakar santan.

MCS New TV Season Presentation

It's the time of the year again. Today, we attended an event by MCS to update us on the upcoming and 2008 programs on local terrestial channels - 5, 8, U. Finally, it's back to Swissotel.
As last year they tried to be different and hip by holding the event @ one of the pub in newly open St. James Power Station. It turned out to be a disaster with a very unorganized. I think MCS did realize it and they decided to return to their old places where people are more comfortable with it.

We were late for the event and we missed the highlight on Ch 8, well it's not because i'm dying to watch it, it is just for the sake of our job which will help us know better on the upcoming programs. There was a bit twist this year as usually Ch 8 (the most popular channel) was always at the last part, but they put it at the first part. I think maybe to ensure the agencies and clients to come on time. So we learnt our lesson ckckck....

How i wish i am attending TVB Sales Presentation instead of MCS one phew....... it's a huge gap.

Well to entice the crowds for applause, the host Adrian Pang was said, "I guess the audiences are too stunned that they even forgot to claps". ckckck.....

The highlight of the show is always comes from Patricia Mok, she is such a good and daring comedian. ^^

On the other hand, during the interim there were winners of reality singing shows performed (i think it's Project Superstar and Superband) which were the worst session of the event. Basically, i just think that i am abusing my ears. I was wondering of the quality of the show as the winners are quite bad and desperately seeking attention. If they can make it, i guess many others could make it up there.

Feasting in a-non-festive-season

Recent continuous visits of buddies had resulted in a non-stop feasting for me. Well, there is nothing much to do in sg beside the gourmet parade. Most of the times, there are too many food to try and gobble down yet too little time and limited space for your stomach.

Reminded me of our last company incentive trip in Tokyo. As some of us were not extend due to some circumstances, thus we had a food and shopping tour within one day. Thinking of the amount of food we had eaten was just amazed. Moreover, the meal just continue one after another within a day.

Well despite the food we ate in Tokyo, i never regretted it as i have tasted the freshest sashimi ever in my life. It just melted in your mouth and yet sashimi is so cheap @ tsukiji market. Another highlight is the aburi (broil sashimi). Maybe someday, i should blog about the restaurants we visited. I thought i won't be doing the same thing again till my next visit in Tokyo. However, history repeat by itself.

Now, to talk about the food, i really feel sick. I just wish that i can have sandwich or salad for the next few weeks. I have eaten too much of local fare and slightly felt sick on it even though i know they're delicious. Suddenly, i just lost my appetite. For the past few weeks, i have visited so many outlets to hunt for food non stop.

Here are the outlets that i have been visited for the past 2 weeks. I bet after reading you will understand what i am trying to say though: Garuda @ Vivo and Cairnhill, Warung Lele, Boon Tong Kee, Brussel Sprouts, Food Republic @ Wisma, Jumbo @ Riverside Point, Chinatown food street market, Sun with Moon, Tiong Bahru Cze Char, Modesto, Ajishan ramen, Jalan Sultan Prawn Mee, East Ocean Teo Chew Restaurant.

Somemore, next week i am going to jakarta to attend my colleague's wedding. I will fly there on Thurs aft and return on Sunday. That mean i will hunt some javanese food to eat while i'm in town. ckckck......

I have decided to readjust my diets once i return from there.

Afterall, despite all the feasting, i will still continue to eat all of the food again once i recuperate.... I just love the chemistry and fusion of the food created.

Mon Piglet

With Mon's settled down in SG, we got to meet each other more especially since she started to work. Of course also due to our college's friends visit in town.

As usual, we went crazy again. First, we gossiping and bitching about our life, relationship, basically everything that we could talk about. ckckck....

Anyone who knew us that even though we are from Indonesia but there is a gap within us as she is from Central Java and speak Javanese while I'm from Medan and speak hokkien. So both of our Indonesian are not good and quite mixed up. Whenever we talk, basically just mixed the language and didn't understand each other like chicken and duck .... The amazing part is both claim we speak proper indonesian and try to convince each other hahahaha... isn't that kewl.... I think any indo who saw us communicating will be quite amazed.....

There are just too much miscommunication (due to the slangs) we have with each other that always turned out to be jokes......

Recently, when she wanted to ask me if one of our friends' fiance is pretty or not by asking "cakap?" (is she pretty), however i thought that she ask me if i talk to the fiance coz we're in the midst of discussing someone's fiance. then i said "yeh, gue ada cakap ama dia" (yes i did talk to her). then she asked, "sama aku, mana lebih cakap?" (who is prettier compared to her) then i started to realize that the "cakap" she implies is pretty instead of talking......

Well, there are tonnes of this stories between me and her. it's just like 1001 stories in arabian nites.......

Tae-chan's visit 2

Today, i got off early to meet Tae-chan at Chinatown and brought her along to explore. Even though it's a short stay, she did enjoy it. She mention how nice sgans are. She said compared to TW and Korea, it's quite different. She said when she went to Korea, people are so rude and nasty and the hospitality was quite bad. She could sense that they hate Japanese.

We're supposed to eat chicken rice at Boon Tong Kee but at the end there wasn't enough time, so we ended up having dinner at the street market in Chinatown. Afterwards, we went to eat durians.

According to her it's the highlight of the trip. She lovedddddd it. She said she had heard a lot of negative reviews and opinions from the others that it's so stinky so she would like to try it. I'm so glad that she loved it coz not a lot of people love to eat durian some can't even endure the smell. If she dislike it, i have to end up gobble durian by my own coz Mon is having a sore throat.

But i guess for Japanese, if they can eat nato, they can eat durian as well. ckckck.....

Well, during our gathering on sunday, we discussed that most of the times, people tend to dislike durian due to its stinky smell. Well in fact it did smell stinky when you're not eating it. Generally, 90% will like durian once they tasted it, the smell just turn good heheheeh.....

We did discuss why people still dislike durian after they tasted it, it was due to the durian they ate was not good enough. How to consider good? in my point of view, it really caters to your own taste. Myself prefer indonesian durians over Thailand ones.


We managed to catch up a bit and afterwards, i accompany back to hotel before she headed to airport.

Since the ticket from NRT-SIN is only about $300 via SIA, so we ask her to visit more often and the next time she could stay at my place instead of hotel.

She has promised she will come again next year. So see ya next year...

down down down 2...

Continued from my moody, stoned, dazed.... It's Sunday nite i still haven't recuperate from my down down down mood. In fact, i felt more stress when i think of Monday is coming.

Even though i had a great time during weekends, i still feel something is lacking. When i was taking shower, suddenly i felt a sense of emptiness. I don't what is it that lack of. Definitely not the lonely feel but there is something indescribable.

Meeting my college's friends again revived me of the olden days and resulted me to think of a lot of things including my life and future..... i felt like i am in middle of nowhere yet helpless. Nobody is out there to give me advices....

Suddenly, i am afraid that all the moments i have had and gone through would be wiped out from my memory. The time i have had gone through is unable to repeat or happen in the future again. Is this what we called insecure? Maybe i'm really in my mid 20s crisis.. or is it i have been thinking too much or it is the pressure from surroundings....

At this point of time, i couldn't see my future clearly and i don't have a clear objective or even know what i would like to do... I am just scared to step further. I feel that i'm loss... i don't even there to think of what i would be in the next 10 years. I just couldn't see myself...

Maybe i have been listening to too much of jazz recently, will that affect my mood? I've been listening to Emi Fujita, Michael Buble, Vienna Tang and Peter Grant. Particularly on Michael Buble, he makes me more in love to jazzzzz......

Maybe i should stop listening to this down tunes so that i can recuperate faster..... well there is one song which i would like to share (well it's quite a depress one, so get prepared) but it's such a good piece by Gary Jules - 'Mad World'

How i wish we could turn back time or to freeze the time....

Taeko's

This year, i have a lot of friends visited especially from MSU. Maybe it's a good year for traveling or SG Tourism just did their job so well ^^

Earlier, Elvi and Adi were in town followed by Angie's after her SEA tour. Last week was Rumi. This week is an unexpected visit from Tae-chan ^^

It's been long time since we last met, i think it was 5 years ago, well she hasn't changed much. It's just great to see her again. She was still as gentle and nice as she used to be. Last nite, i met her and Tomoya for dinner. She loves spicy food and we couldn't get a table at Strait Kitchen, thus we ended up at Garuda @ Cairnhill (I prefer Garuda @ Vivo city). Well, we catched up a lot and revived on our olden days @ MSU.

It was so sweet of her that she even bought me a gift. I was quite stunned....



Today, we went for chili crab lunch @ Jumbo - Riverside point and i found the food was not bad. it's my first time at Riverside Point Jumbo. Mon also joined us for lunch as well. After lunch, Taeko and Tomoya headed to Sentosa.

Mon and myself spent time @ Central Mall Starbucks to catch up. We had a long chit chat. It's been so long since we had this moment after we graduated. It's just remind me of our days @ MSU. The errands we did together during u-days were just amazing. We had marathon of movies, cookings, studying, gossiping, and etc. I still remember how hard to wake her up especially on weekends. Feels like returning to college days.... how i wish time could turn back...

First view of Changi Airport T3

On Aug 31st, we went for a site recce (site visit) on soon to be launch Changi Airport Terminal 3.
Even though it will inaugurate on Jan 09th, the only confirmed airline is long haul SIA flights (above 6 hours). Hooray, finally the new terminal is not restricted to only SQ.

However, 3 months countdown, the airlines have not yet finalized on their shifting due to the complicated logistics and blah blah blah. But several airlines have indicated their interest such as Qatar, Korean Air, British Airways, shoot i couldn't remember anyway it's ok ckckck.....

Well the new sites was built environmental friendly by using the solar lighting system and the best part is the overview of departure hall to the baggage pick up area. The part i like the most is their baggage picking area which is in a very soothing mood. Well, it's not because it has palm tree as i have seen palm tree in other int'l airports such as Orlando.

Overall, the airport was just normal, there is nothing extremely nice it's just similar to the T1, T2. My disappointment is the restrooms, as they are still unimproved, still wet and the hygiene was not a concern yet. How could you have an int'l standard airport but you don't have a cover seat?

Also, i don't really like the color of the seats in the waiting areas, it is just too blend and got this Malay look color.

Well, one of the fun parts is we got to travel around and stepped into unfinished PPS lounge and get to see the dock for A380.....

T3 is actually connected to T1 in foot distance as well as the skytrain. Due to the long terminal, there is actually skytrain ride to transfer to boarding gate as well.

This is an amazing sign where you can find on the chair. SG has never fail its personality. Known as fine city, they will remember to put this sign that if you ever sit, sleep, or jump on the chair, you'll be fined of $1,000. Please note the airport is not yet launched, maybe it's warning for us who go for site visit and the construction workers hehehee....

You could check out T3 site recce to visualize the new terminal.

At least the government will call it as T3 instead of the other terminal where it's named budget terminal hahahaha....

earthquake

Not sure is this is part of global warming reactions from earth, recently there seems to be more and more natural disaster happened around the world. The earth day concert didn't seem to help as the clean up turned out to be disaster.

Recently IDN has been hit by a few rounds of earthquake, which might be part of volcano eruptions? It has impacted SG as we could felt the tremor here. It's the second time since the beginning of the year. it is a bit weird that you experience 2 earthquakes in sg within 9 months.

Located slightly above the equator line in tropical country, sg does not get to experience a lot of natural disaster until recently. I've always wondered with such a small island if there is natural disaster, will the country last?

The last earthquake was on last wednesday which was part of impact from West Sumatra earthquake that it was actually affected to India, Pakistan, etc. Well, there was no major injured or serious case in SG. Compared to the previous one, this time we did evacuate from our office building.

I still remembered the first earthquake in the beginning of the year, our building management asked us to remain in our office until further notice. how scary would that be? Others had already evacuated from the building ckckck.....

Well indeed, on wednesday at first i thought i was having headache or it's just another normal vibrations we felt occasionally from our cubicle. but the trembling was getting faster and we started to check with each other and decided it's an earthquake. Most have left the office in our department so a few of us started to pack to head home. a good excuse to get off early ^^.

When we went out, actually everybody was going home or evacuating the building. Despite using the stairs, we still took lift, isn't that amazing of how daring we are. With our lazy character, we decide 30th floor is too much hehehee...... The better part is we still took subway to go home heheehe....

The next day, i felt it again sligthly before 8am when i got off from my shower, it lasted for more than a minute and the trembled was quite fast.

According to paper, we could actually sense more in central which is my home and office located at CBDs.

Luckily, there wasn't any major injured this time compare to the previous earthquakes in our region.

an unexpected gift

Last week, during my friend visit, she brought an unexpected gift which is a watch from Swatch. I was quite surprise and thankful of it.

The theme of the watch is winter snow. The idea behind it was because that i am afraid of sun and dislike the hot weather. yet i still stay in sg, the tropical country. what am i doing here... by wearing the watch will remind me of winter, hopefully it will cool me down and prevent me to be melted. She just know me so well. How thoughtful.....


I like the watch very much as i have been thinking of getting a new watch just for fun. I have a habit of collecting swatch watches and i just love it very much. With its good quality and affordable price, it is very much worthed.

The amazing part is i haven't been buying any original swatch for so long. the last plastic watch i had was back in my 21st b-day and my last purchase of watch from swatch was back in end of 2005 for my brother which is an irony type. i don't even know that the design of the case has actually changed. It caters to protect the watch better compared to the previous case.

Thanks rumi for such a thoughtful gift. Even though i have a lot of them, i will still cherish this as it has such a meaningful idea behind it.

female

Females, if you ask if we carry more responsibility, i'd say yes and even our shoulder is smaller than Males, we have more responsibilities, yet a lot of restrictions and limitations.

Today, when i watched a drama, the guy actually share his point of view of Females in generally which i found quite interesting.
According to him, we are the most vicious, vengeance, wicked, jealous creature in the world. No other can beat us on it.

Is that real?

Maybe it's, that's why old folks say don't ever step on women's feet or you'll regret.

relationship 2 ....

I have been thinking much lately, maybe that's why that i have been very active in blogging to express my thoughts. I don't know why suddenly i've been thinking a lot, not sure if it's the 20s crisis. Is there such thing as late 20s crisis? I bet others who read will curse me what on earth that you're on late 20s crisis stage. ckckck...

I've been thinking about friendship. There are just so many things around our circle of life which is unexplainable. Throughout the stage of our life, we will always get acquaintance with new people and turned to friends. Thus, we will get to know different people from all over the places with different characteristics and personalities in different phases.

There are people that you just can't click as there are no chemistry, but there are people that you'll just click to it since the first day you met. It's like you have a close friend and distant friend or what you so call roommate or housemate category friend. There are also a bunch of pig and dog friends. ckckck..... Usually, we will define in good and close friend or just friend or even an acquaintance. ehehehee.....

The friends we grew up with from kindergarten are different gangs from the one we know in college. By the time we start to work, we will get to know different gang which is our colleagues. As we spend most of our time with them, naturally we just become friends. Did you ever think that they are actually like our family as we spend more time with them than our own family. On average, we spent more time in office which practically supposed to be our main home instead of second home. I'm also glad that i clicked well with my office gang. ^^

Every gang has different lifestyle, naturally we will play different roles depends on which gang we hang out with. i am quite amazing to the way of our interactions. At least for me, when i hang out with my high school friends (which practically we have known each since kindergarten or primary school) and college friends, we will discuss about different thing as there are different point of views and each of us will adapt to it. When it comes to your colleagues, it's another different story and situation. We're just happy to gather around and bitching on others. ckckck...

But the most important thing is how you balance yourself and play the role in different clans. Another crucial thing is not to mixed up your clans as it will crash (it's not a good journey that you'd like to experience).

Getting older makes me more cherished on friendship especially at current stage. you will hardly get to know new friends other than your working environment. Don't get me wrong that i
dislike my work clan. In fact, they are the gang that i hang out a lot with and enjoyed a lot. I care for them. i think it's because we share the same background and life hehehee..... Hanging out with them will just diminished our stress.......

It's just different from when you're in college. You'll get to know so many friends where all your variety of clans started. At this current stage, when you get to know a new friend, you will tend to cherish more. Some might afraid of getting hurt and didn't receive what they expect in return. Well, it's not an investment, and we didn't expect high ROI here. My principle is to burst out and never regret about it as long as you know you have done your best.

As we turn older, time is more precious than ever. Despite of the clans, every moment is a quality of time to me.

K-box on Friday

Last nite after got off from work at 9+, my colleagues asked me to join them at Karaoke at Marina Square as they were having so much fun there. At first, i was a bit reluctant but i finally went there where they had started for a few hours and enjoy the buffet.

I didn't get to eat as the buffet had closed so my stomach was filled up with the white wines... ckckck.....

This was only my 3rd or 4th time to Karaoke as i didn't get to go as much. Probably all my friends around me listen to different tunes and in sg, there ain't much choices of canto pop. Well,
i prefer Party World over K-box as they have more selection of songs with better quality.

Indeed, the amazing thing is i don't know that the karaoke nowadays are so high tech, it's all computerized. When i stepped in, i felt myself dumbfounded with the machine... ckckck....

I didn't get to sing as the place doesn't have a lot of canto songs but i did enjoy the session and they all sing hip hop, rock, rap songs which is quite fun and the songs varied in mandarin, canto, english, and even hokkien.

I think the purpose of going K is not to show how well you do, but to relax and to craze around. A few of them are very good at it with their expressions and dance which brought sparks to the session.

Some of the songs we picked was to target of one of our colleagues who is soon leaving for Beijing and we try to sing the song to chase her out, or tell her how much we miss her, and etc. It was just fun. I did had a good time. ^^ Thanks.

dumb, dumbfounded, or daze...

I've always said if i stay in the industry longer, my life will be shorter or i will end up having heart attack or high blood pressure. Needless to mention the countless joke and stupidity i had encountered during my 3 years working.

I just feel like sharing today when i called one of the media owner to request for media kit and she agreed to send via email and requested for my email address where i spelled it out for her. I don't know if the phone is not clear or is it because it's friday where she already switched off. Maybe she is simply dumbfounded or daze....

I kept repeating my first letter of my first name is V V V V as victory for several times and she mentioned b at the beginning and changed to G, where on earth is gictory..... I've always thought victory is the best example to pronounce V. Maybe i should start to change to another word to describe 'V'.

Follow what they said... can die arhh......... ckckck...

moody, stoned, sleepy....

Since i returned to work, i have been feeling very moody, down, and stoned........ I seemed to be blurred and hardly concentrated on finishing one thing. My mind just went blank and i ended daydreaming all the time.

Getting older had made me feel worsen when i don't get enough sleep of at least 8 hours a day. I started to feel cranky. At nite, i refuse to sleep and in daytime i'm sleepy and dazed....

During the tea time today, a media owner brought us Bakerz inn cakes which i ate a bit and it did make me feel better. However, the effect did not last long..... feeling down down down again...

Maybe i should start to eat something sweet to neutralize my mood. I am trying to limit myself on eating as i have been whacking on food for the past week during my friend's visit. Just now, i received a message for tomorrow's lunch appointment to meet one of our college friends from Tokyo.
Phew... another feast session.

I have not yet even recuperate..... arghhhhhhhharghhhhhhhhh

Sitting at the office at 7:15 pm where most of my colleagues had left for outing made me felt more disgusting on my own. Thanks to the piles of work from my clients...... :((((( which i had to skip an event held at dempsey today.

Another reason was also due to the music in my ipod playlist was quite sad (all of sudden, the singers were sound depressed) which makes me harder to recuperate my moods........

I just need any advise of how to get rid of my down down down mood................

back at work

recently i took leave to spend time with my buddy who visited me for the past week. 2 days return to work, i still felt stoned......

but today when i receive a comment from my client, i don't know whether i should accept as complimentary or oblige but i know my client are just in good mood and being nice to me :)))))
i decided to take it an achievement and token of compliment from my client. this makes me feel much more better ckckck.......

close to 3 years of working in singapore, i barely take leave and spend a day doing nothing but browse to the downtown especially on monday and tuesday. Practically, my leave is just too precious where i can't afford to waste but to maximize the utilization by traveling overseas or either going home.

Speaking of going home which i haven't been for the past two years and my mom has been quite demanding recently. I think it's because their regular visit to singapore has minimize my homesick and with many years of living overseas has made me used to it. Plus, the air ticket does not justify it. Somemore, the place i live now is indeed one of our home sweet homes.
Frankly speaking, if you ask me to stay in my hometown, i don't think i will survive.

back to my topic (i realize i love to gone off tracked... heheheheh.... pardon me for this....), when i was at orchard rd on monday i just felt so great that i don't have to wake up early on monday blue to get ready for work. During lunch time, i don't have to rush and squeeze in order to finish my lunch and return to office quickly. I felt relaxed just walking down orchard road and doing nothing. i started to feel pity for those working adults hehehee..... (quite wicked... ^^) i should say 'shiokkk...' (as what sgan means of awesome...)

Finally, i understand love to take leave on certain days but just to stay in sg and shop around.

On the other hand, i was wondering there are quite a lot of people who are on the streets as well, where they might be the rich tai-tais, expats or tourists........

I wish i could have more of this opportunity coming along.....

phew, i will not have any more leave after a wedding trip im going to attend end of the month in jkt. For the rest of the year, i will sit straight in my cubicle to continue daydreaming.

deroll

Well, last week i was calling Citibank - phone banking to cancel the e-statement which i accidentally sign on when i was browsing statement on the internet.

So after a few rounds of talk, the reps told me that they will proceed to deroll the statement and it might take a few days blah blah...... As i was in the office and didn't pay full attention so i thought there are things i need to explain before they could cancel for me so i was asking the question and she kept mentioning about 'deroll' which finally i got wat she meant was she has managed to cancel the e-statement for me.

So, basically i learnt a new Singlish - deroll, isn't it amazing? ckckck.....

relationship...

Basically, the idea of writing this piece is inspired by recent visit of my best buddy.

How do we define 'relationship'? it doesn't have to be defined in dating couple as it can be within family, friends. Basically, it's an interaction within our circle of life.

What i'm trying to describe in this piece is an inexplicable feeling of the relationship in our circle. A lot consider me as a loner as i'm perfectly fine to live by myself. In fact, i like the idea of staying at home in days without even step out unless necessary.

However, whenever my family or friends are visiting, i'd get very excited and awaiting for the day to come. Soon after when it's time for their departure, i will feel down. It seems like so fast. I dislike the feeling when i return home from work, there was simply no one home to greet me. Suddenly, the home is all by myself again. Thus, i will need time to recuperate my feeling.

It was perfectly fine when i'm by my own all the time. I would not have missed anyone when i don't see them, however i missed them badly once i see them.

The same things apply when i'm overseas to visit my families, friends. I definetely understand there is not any continuous feast. At least when you're traveling overseas, the down feeling would last only on your returning flight. As once you're back in town, your life will just back to normal busy day.

I just don't know how to explain this thing like what we've always been told there are many things around where there is not any scientific proof or evidence. Despite, it's just hard to control or get rid of this feeling. It's just like how our brain works.

As i'm writing this page, i've been thinking are there others who share the same feeling as me. Maybe this is the feeling everyone encounters when they lost someone.

branding name cards

We received new name cards from our company's new branding positioning. However they printed my name wrongly :((((( Not exactly to be wrong but they just showed my full name which i already mentioned since the first day i joined the company that to omit my middle name. So i brought it to the secretary to reprint my cards to avoid confuses.

I don't think i have the obligation to inform everyone on my middle name.

On the other hand, speaking on the design was quite nice. I quite like how the back and front design is actually connected when you put two cards together. Maybe that's call integrated. hehehehe....

On the other hand, i found name cards has contributed to the global warming as we are wasting boxes of old name cards. Not to mention on the cost, but it is kind of a waste whenever we are receiving new name cards either due to rebranding, promoted, etc. Worst, they don't recycle our own name cards.

ratings on movies watched last week

Movies watched in the past week:

Premonition - **
Hairspray - ****
Ratatouille - ***** (watching for 2nd time)

DVDs watched in the past week:
My Super Ex-GF - *
Death Note 1 & 2 - ****
You, Me, and Dupree - ***
Because I said so - *** (watching for 2nd time)

ipod touche

Well, last week was a crucial for ipod fans like me where we were dying hard to know the result of press conference. My friend and I were even joke on staying awake till mid of the nite to wait for the news ckckck.....

Indeed, the rumor was correct with the new ipod touch. Good website for comparison of all ranges of ipod @ http://www.ilounge.com

Even though the ipod is kewl, the one down side is the size of the hdd. With the video compatibility, 16gb is simply not enough. i bet Steve will release a larger hdd so i think i should wait as my current ipod was barely a year.

My friend quote ipod touch as a beauty with looks but brainless (sounds like bimbo - a pretty lady with no brain - IQ or EQ) ckckck.....

barbarian and gentlemen

Well, how do you define if you are a gentleman or a barbarian? Yesterday, for an instance during lunch time, i felt like i was secluded in barbarian area. This has been quite weird. I thought i have adapted to the city after almost 3 years. However, recently complaint has been aroused. Back to the story, it's about 3 OLs having lunch in one of the market hawker center in crowded lunch hour.
We know it's a rush hour and we do show some respect to each other and to give ways... however a bunch of guys in the market was practically have never learnt 'etiquettes'. Trying to find a spot for lunch was horrible enough when the guys just don't give way and in fact trying to bump you even though you're carrying your food. I started to understand why we should appreciate the gentleman attitude from caucasians....

This city would be great if they learnt how to give ways and be more gentle or even say sorry when you accidentally bump into someone.