hee... So happy!

Went for facial at my usual salon earlier. (Which I almost wasn't even able to get a slot. Thanks to the kaisu women who all want to go for a last min facial before the CNY to look pretty! The reception told me they are fully book for the next 2 weeks! -_-" then.. she said "Hmmm.... I can squeeze you in on Wednesday evening, 6.30pm want?" Of course I want! The last time I went for facial was like in early or mid Decemeber! If not take this slot, then all those pores and blackheads and don't know what else will be blocking my face till after CNY! So I got to go coz I've not been there for a long time! Not like some of the other kiasu women go so early lor. If I can, I will go for 1 more say a week before CNY to do a some hydration mask or whitening mask or some other make me look pretty mask lar!)

But this post is not about me doing facial and what the beautician did or say or anything like that. If I really do input all those, can bore you all to sleep. At least that's what she did to me. I dozed off half the time I was there earlier!

But what I really wanted to blog about is this. This little black bag of goodies that I managed to grab before heading home!Well, for you ladies,I'm sure you have no issues guessing what I have inside right?

Yuppers! I got myself these little beauties.Nice? I know the brown looks slightly "lao ah ma" but when I wear it, the colour matches my natural skin tone well, hence I got it. Not that I am lao ah ma ok! I actually fell in love with another pair of white sandal. But the sales refuse to give me a 20% even though their banner says "20% off the 2nd item". SO, I din buy even when she offered me a 10%! Hurmp! I mean come on lor. If a customer wants a 3rd pair of sandals (bearing in mind, already fulfilling the 2 pairs bit) what's wrong with giving a 20% off right?!

So, anyway, she din give me a 20% off so I din get anything more. Just these 2. =) Happy. Now I have heels for work and pumps for work too!

BUT!! I still like that other pair!!! =(

Another Botak story.

Ah Teck annouced to me at 11am this morning, "Aey, I drove today lei, wanna go to that that Botak place?" I was pleased for a few minutes cause I can eat sausage again. Then I remembered, I already have a lunch date with Irene to head for some shopping in the AMK hub! But all is not lost lar, I'm pretty sure, she will be happy to visit Botak since she loves sasuages! So without much thought, I sms her.

True to my 6th sense, she agreed! hahaha... so we happily went to Botak for our lunch!

Are you hungry yet?

My GIANT chicken dog set! Yummylicious!

No other words necessary!

Though Irene and Ah Teck are not familiar with each other, but I say, nothing warms ppl up like good food and laughter! We laughed, chatted and simply enjoyed our food. The wait for the food was quite short too!

And even the weather was beautiful. Sunny and windy. No scorching hot sun yet everything looks bright and cheerful! Nice!

Really had a good lunch with 2 of my close colleagues today! =)

Still shopping mood.

A woman is a woman is a woman. TRUE BLUE! Even when darn broke and all still must shop and buy somethings. =(

Like take today for example. Coz the silly plastic tag containing my identiy card split right up, I had to go to the campus bookstore and get a replacement. Else I will have no peace walking around in campus without that silly dogtag and lanyard. Coz all the doors will be closed to me!

So, in the end, I manage to get this. Blue (which is not my favourite colour)but that silly lanyard is BLUE ma, so not much of a choice got to get a blue shade to match it right? My previous one was clear and in landscape. This time round, I decided to add a dash of colour to it and it shall be in portrait!

Since, I was already in the bookshop, I remembered that I needed an earaser to start the new term with. I have pens, ruler and pencil but no earaser so I needed one. Browse around and was looking for a cheap and reliable one when I finally found it. I also got a box of colourful clips to go with it, for me to hold my notes together when necessary since I have no intention of bringing staple or something like that. I guess, since most of the notes are already given to us, there is no need for staples la.Clips just for the occassional stray pieces of paper that I need to "kiap" together lor.

Actually, I was attracted to the colours rather to the necessity of the clips lar. I mean JUST look at the colour of the clips! Nice right? Cheerful looking too! I should have taken more care when choosing the box earlier and I will make sure there's either more pinks, reds or greens! Instead, I have to get a box that comes with like 10 orange?! BLEH!!!

Anway, I guess, less of my preferred colour will make me treasure it more??

But check out the earser! It's SOLID BLACK! I've never seen an earser in black lei. (Too long no go back to school) but it's hey! EXAM GRADE! hahahaha... And know what, among all the other white, normal ones, this is the cheapest lor.

So being the cheapo that I am, I got it without much thought. =P

But! It's NICE right?!

Girls' best past time.

Sort of a 2-in-1 post....

Saturday
Had an arguement with hubby on Friday night and till now, still not resolve. It's not a serious thing. Just that I simply do not understand why on earth hubby got to go ahead and test my limits time and again.

I've already told him on numerous occassions to NOT do it. And when he attempted to do it, I will step in and make him stop. And after so long, (as long as we've been staying here) it still has not got into his head that it's a "n0-no". Got into an arguement or rather cold war then.

Sat, coz I still had the mad house to contend with, I did not see hubby for the whole day. While hubby attended the wedding between 2 of my god siblings in the afternoon. Then coz I was still upset at him, when he finally sms me about the wedding and also to apologise for last nite, though I was still grouchy, we still arranged dinner.

Finally after my mad house the moment I reached office, I called hubby. Also looking forward to seeing him and having a nice dinner together ma, haven't been seeing for the week! Everytime, by the time he's home or I'm home, after bathing, eating, I'm ready to call it a night. Very tired.

BUT! That silly hubby of mine... BLEH! Made me call him 4 times before I even manage to reach him! In a fit of anger, I called off dinner. I rather be wandering in the streets alone than to be facing him now. My goodness! After so long of not seeing each other, and he made me upset last nite and he said dinner yet I had to call so many times before reaching him, (which makes me feel doubly pissed) coz at least he should be waiting for me to call him to tell him I'm done right?! WRONG! He was not waiting for my call! Bleh!!

So pissed. So apparently, he's not so anxious to see me after all! So I went to AMK to just spend my evening. I wanted to get my hair cut desprately, getting too long and I remember that Meron has a salon in the new AMK Hub now so without thinking I went straight there. Hai.. Don't know if it's a wise or silly move. I asked the reception how long it will be before my turn and she said pretty fast. So I waited lor. But that "pretty fast" turned out to be 2 hours when I finally have my hair cut! Gosh!!!! And the worse is, the reception there is darm lousy and I cannot even sms to will the time away! ARGG...

Finally after the super long wait (and there I was thinking, after getting a cut, can go and check out the stores at the Hub!) I needed food. The nearest was actually Mac and I went for that. The Mac had also gone thru renovation lei! Now it has the 'cafe' section added to it and it looks so nice. Cozy and welcoming. Sat down, ate my dinner and people watched. Still early after my dinner and I decided to check out 1 or 2 of those shoe shops I past by on my way earlier.

Wah sey! That shop was crowded lei! I did not expect it to be this packed at close to 10pm on a Saturday especially in heartlands like this. But having said that, I also went in to join in the fun and squeeze with the rest of those already inside.

See what I've got!

Quite cute right? And cheap cheap only. Less than $50 for these! =)

Actually, I saw a few other interesting pairs, but somehow, don't fit my feet and not so nice after putting it on so I only got these.

Reached home and saw a hubby who is enjoying the Malaysia and SG soccer match on TV. =( But anyway, I had a great evening myself. New haircut, new shoes! So off I headed to bed.

Sunday
Morning mass as usual and coz of the tiff, we are still not talking. Hubby did try but I felt it was so unsincere so I ignored it.

Lunch with the rest at AMK S11 and I was thinking of gng to the Hub again to chk out the stores when Emma suggests doing it! hahaa... we are 2 of the same mann!So the 3 of us, (Emma, hubby and me) went to take a look.

Saw a pair of wedges that I like but too bad, they don't have it in my size and ALL the stores were sold out too! Too bad for me then. But not too bad since I've got 2 pairs of shoes yesterday.Thus, we continued on our way.

There's quite a few stroesstores that sells nice clothes. If not for the fact that hubby was with me and that I've already spent a small fortune over the last few weeks on clothings, I think, I could have easily spend a few hundred dollars worth of clothes home! But I did manage to curpb my expenses and all I did was walk away with this.
3/4 pants. Perfect for me to wear to my mom's plc on the 2nd day of CNY. All I need is to pair it with a tank or racer for casual or if I want to appear dressier, then one of those work tops I've got stash away in the cupboard all ready for CNY and the new work year.

This cutie only costs slightly over $20. Cheap mann. Heartlands really is heardland price! And I just noticed this.
While I was pinning for a COACH for so long, I got a COAX(which is the brand of this 3/4 pants I just bought) now. hahaha.... Sounds almost the same. Almost but not quite lor!

Clothes, checked! Bag, checked! Shoes, checked! Cosmestics, checked! Looks like I'm ready for CNY. But the last thing, the AP and notes, I got to remember to ask Godma to exchange for me!

I'm excited about the AMK hub. I like what I saw today. B1, though not fully opened has stores and stores of nice clothings and shoes! Wait till the rest of the main levels (1 to 4) is ready?! I think I can go crazy there! Lunchtimes, will be more often taken in AMK and I'm sure Godma and Cec will be happy to meet me there for lunch more often now! From what I saw last nite and today, it's like a heartland Vivocity!

Can't wait for the rest to be FULLY operational! =P

edited at 11.59 to add: Sort of made up with Hubby already after dinner at my parents' plc earlier.

Finally. It's OVER!!!!

After a worrysome, adrenaline pumping and lots of prayers to the big boss up there, sleepless and late nights, long working hours and days without a decent meal in my stomach... the mad house had finally gone by. Smoothly, nothing earth shattering nor with any much unforseen-able things.

The mad house went on as planned and thank our big boss up there, we did not even faced a lack of student leaders as we orginally had feared we will be facing. We had surpluses of students during all the shifts and especially on Mornings and Saturday! Wow. Good sign for us coz we were not overly taxed. But bad news on the organising committee.. Means that not that much crowd. Sure to get it during the AAR following the end of this mad house!

Mad house is finally gone. And I won't be seeing it till 365 days later, I won't get to think and see and plan and do mad house till 2008!! Yippee!!!

I swear from now on, as I'm finally sitting back in my office, after all the hastle and stress, I'm gonna start praying that non of my team members and MYSELF will do the guides and tour route bit for the next year(s)!

Sorry.

Sorry for the lack of updates.

I'm soooooooo busy with the preparations and worrying myself sick over the mad house preparations that I've no time at all to do any updates.

Will be taking a break for the next few days till things have quieten down. But please, meanwhile, if you do check this out, doo pray for a successful and smooth sailing mad house for me.

My mad house is from this coming Thursday till Saturday, 10am to 5.30pm daily. Open to ALL.

See you there if you do come! =)

call yourself educated lor.

Were you taught "never to judge a book by it's cover" from young?

I was.

But apprantely, some of my lecturers or rather one of my lecturer was not taught.

I had eye infection last week and anyone who has had eye infection knows that it will be best to stay OFF contact lens and any eye make up for the next 1 week (at least) to allow the eyes to recover.

Today is the 5th day, also a working day, no choice, already finised all my MC have to go back to work right? So what could I do? I had to go to office in my nerdy specs and also with considerably less make up than usual.

I know I not a pretty babe, so I cannot afford to go to office bareface. So I did apply sunblock and also a thin layer of make up base so that I won't look so pale.

And guess what happened? The lecturer who sits in the next door office, took one glance at me and din even bother to say "Hi" or even "morning" early this morning lor. (Not that I thrive on his "Hi" and "morning" just that it's curtesy ma! Especially when it's first thing in the morning lor!) Then throughout the day, when we bump into each other, he refuse to even acknowledge my pressence lor! SO DAMN RUDE! Call himself a lecturer somemore!!! BLEH! Even when I smile at him coz we pass by each other, he looked away!

Ok lar, I know I look very ugly today but necessary to do this? As though I don't feel bad enough! hurmp!

Not that I am praising myself, but ever since my depute performance as "Miss ISO", almost everytime when he sees me, he will call out to me and try to make small talks lor. And all the time, I'm not very keen to talk to him coz he has an accent and I cannot really understand. I try to avoid him and just get to my destination (usually my office) asap.

So I'm just being friendly as a colleague ok when I smile and acknowledge his pressence. But just coz I don't look good today, he ignored me totally. J-E-R-K! It's not the 1st time this happened. On rare occassions when I'm feeling lazy to dress up, and turn up in specs... he does the same thing.

He's soooooo shallow! I pity his gf/wife/mother/sisters! BLEH!!!!

Call yourself EDUCATED man. My foot!

Weekends but still...

It's the weekends now and I'm still working my ass off the OH details and logistics and planning. *sigh*

OH is really a thankless and shitty job! But the good news is OH is an ANNUAL event. So my misery will end next Saturday! =)

Had to do up the details at home since I was on MC and luckily, manage to complete all in time.

Spent quite sometime working on the files though. Luckily, my colleague is a good sport. Though I was not able to go to office, she emailed me and then also helped me followed up with the rest of the necessary items.

But she sent a wrong file, so she had to go back to office today to retrieve it for me so that I can work on it from home. Then the problem was, I cannot find why on earth the numbers do not tally. Spent a few good hours working on it and still cannot find the root cause! Finally, I got so fed up that I almost wanted to trash that stupid file!! Argg!!

But! My knight in shining armour came to my rescue! He told me to send him the file and within 5 mins, he not only managed to trace where the mistake was and he even managed to get my numbers to tally!!! Woah!! So clever hor!!! I'm just so blessed to have such a clever hubby! To think I spent so long on it that even my mom had to call me and asked if we are going over for dinner! Should have asked hubby for help earlier and then I can get my job done so much earlier and faster!!!!

Anyway.... that's it. Case close. Don't want to think of that anymore. On a happier note, I have new things...

This

YSL Illuminator corrector (especially great for undereyes area)

and....
THIS!!!

Estee Lauder, Lash XL Mascara

I asked Emma to get it for me from Airport and she brought it to CTK today to pass to me. And goodness!!! Can you believe how much I paid for these 2 items? $73 only lor!!!! SOOOOOOO much cheaper! Coz Emma said she got the duo pack for the YSL and it came even cheaper!

If I were to buy it from retail, it would have costs me like $87! The YSL came highly recommended as a concealer and illuminator especially for the undereyes area, that golden tube costs at least $50 in retail ok?! The mascara is what I've been using and I like the effect. So it's worth buying from Airport. I swear, where possible, I SHALL and WILL store up ALL my cosmestics & skincare from airport. Somemore, (not sure if it's true) that airport sizes usually are bigger or if not the shades are slightly different from outside retails lei.

hmmm... if I were to buy the cheapest air ticket just to get into airport to buy all these, would it be worth it still?? Hahahaha....

Happy... happy... work done, new clothes from yesterday and new cosmestics too! =)

But still, there's somethings for me to see to tomorrow when I head back to office. Like, got to arrange for the delivery of mineral water, refreshments over the 3 days of OH. Collect keys to the command centre and set it up. 2 more briefing sessions for the student leaders. A meeting on Tuesday morning. Attendance sheets, maps, tour routes to be printed, collected and distributed. Oh! Also to collect the walkie talkies and to charge it. All's ready for the great show on Thursday then!

Please God, do let this mega event be a success! Bless all the staff and students to co-operate with each other and that this event be a success!
Amen!

Haven't been lazing...

Though I was on MC for yesterday and today, I swear I have not been lazing and doing nothing at home.

Just yesterday alone, I must have chalk up at least 1 hour of call time on my HP! I called back office and office also called me and via the email and phone calls, I managed to clear yesterday's work.

And today, was also a busy time for me too!

Early morning, after brunch, hubby and I made our way to Uni SIM to collect my course notes and books and whatever else there is.

Then the plan was to then go to this ulu place somewhere in Jurong to collect the PC and then head for home. But after collecting my items, I realise that I'm in NP already! And they are having their OH today!!!

So. w/o anyone telling me, I made myself into a spy.

I went round, well not really round la.

Just walked around and then asked some questions. Not that I am totally a spy. I also did it for my youngest sis's sake since she is waiting for her results. Hai... but after speaking to those involve... I really think besides engg, there is no where else she can go to lor.

Anway, since we were carrying so many papper boxes of Uni SIM, we din have the energy to go too far. Since I was going to take 4 modules, I had 4 boxes! And the joke is, there was only 1 small book and 2 pieces of paper in 1 of the boxes! Gosh.

In the end, we asked for 1 BIG box and we squeeze 2 small boxes into it. Looking at the amout of books just for next sem.... I have a strong feeling that I'm gonna neglet this blog very soon.Back to NP OH, I like the uniform of the staff and students. Basically same design and colour but students in round neck Tees and staff in polos. Nice! Team spirit. Gave me the impression that the staff are more like friends rather than like staff.

Finally, after spending a long time there and after collecting these...

For my sis... doubt she'll read it anyway.

we made our way to this ulu place... something "penjuru". Collected the desktop and we had to call a cab to bring us home. The cabby also got lost while trying to look for us!

So, the first thing we did when we came home was to ... install and set up the desktop. Not bad looking after all for a free gift hor?

Good! hubby will not use my labby anymore. =) And I can have my labby ALL to myself now!

Bad timing

I'm on MC for today and tml.

Lousy timing! Argg!!

With the OH next week, I'm down with conjunctivities.. argg!!! Looking like a walking oil drum now with all those eye drops and eye cream.

Feeling better but can feel eyes getting tired if I'm on the PC screen for a long time. Glasses are all greesy with the cream on my lashes and brushing against the lens.

Still working from home though on MC.

Hai.. No choice la.. If don't rush it out in time, then next week gonna be an even madder house!

Almost had to redo!

Got A FEW calls from my purchasing officers telling me that my documents are ready that I had to go and sign and of course follow up. After being chased to do so since last week, this morning, I finally had the time to go down to do it.

And then this afternoon, I got a few frantic calls from the same lady saying that she cannot find my documents and if I've already found it!

Gosh! My heart sank. If that piece of paper is lost, that means I got to re-do the whole process. Get all the signatureS again and then also to wait and hope that it is not too late.

But thankfully, mercifully, the papers are found! Thank GOD! So I don't have to redo anything.

And the whole of this morning, I was busy editing alignment and lines for excel sheets containing all the students information for OH. *Sigh* I really stare so hard till I can feel my eyes watering. And even after the mass sms sent out, only about 60 or so turned up for the briefing conducted earlier.

We need MORE MORE MORE people to help!

Who is this?

Can recognise who this is?
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Yups. Moi!

My profile silhouette done at Uni SIM weeks ago.

Oops.. The bug has got me

After the huge success of shopping yesterday. Today I felt a void. A void that seems to be able to be filled with shopping and more shopping.

I just feel like hitting the streets again and filled my chest of drawers with more new things that I can use over the new year. Things like, I don't know, cosmestics, skincare? Opps! These should be DAILY products! Not even close to "things that I can use over the new year."

But when faced with the price tags that comes with my latest whims...plus, I'm not billed yet for my expenses yesterday nor for the previous month... and also the fact that my insurance bills are due next month.

I think I better hold my horses in spending even more more more on clothes, shoes, bags, skincare, cosmestics or even accessories!

Orh! But I still gave in to tempatition a few days ago when I went for my facial. My facial is in Toa Payoh and there's always many small stalls selling accessories. I've already lost count of the number of earrings I've bought from there!

Anyway, the point is, we are going a retro theme wedding this coming Saturday. I've got my clothes ready. But no accessories to match it and I got this when I went for facial.

So I guess with this now, hopefully, I can blend into the 'retro theme'.

But then even if I don't I still have 1) a new top 2) new earrings.

=)

I just LOVE new things!

Shop. ShOp. SHOP!

Woo Hoo!!!

Met Godma early today for shopping and lunch. And judging from my tone, needless me to say much lor.

2 small bags of my loot... Not much you may say...

But wait...

Wanna see my loot(s) for the day?

Ta DAH!!! REVEALED!

Tops, Jacket and Skirt from Iora in Wisma Skirts from eZen in Isetan Wisma!

Guess how much all these costs me? About, or rather less than $240 lei!

Considering that I have a jacket, 3 tops and 3 skirts, a grand total of 7 pieces, I think that price is quite reasonable! I think the best deal were the 2 skirts from zZen, that 2 pieces costs me less than $40! Woo hoo..

Looks like I'm all geared up for the CNY already. Check out ALL the clothings I've bought so far!

Bottoms: 1 hand made by Tri, 5 working pieces & 1 casual.

Tops: 4 racers, 1 tee, 5 working blouses, 1 blouse from Godma, 1 shrug and 1 jacket.

All I need now is SOME pairs of shoes, maybe a bag? And definately a haircut. Then I'm ALL ready for CNY!

Yay!!

Oh! Did I add that I became an Iora member right away after buying all those?! My loot was already $203 and includes Godma's. Thank God, Tri was a member of Iora and we managed to get a 10% discount. Else, it would have costs us more!

Finally after such a wondering 2 hour, we were both famished, and we headed to Taka, a restaurant that serves Hong Kong cuisine. We went to try that.

Gosh!! The food, the waiters, the wait. Everything is horrible! We had to wait like 20 mins for our food while people who came in later got it earlier than us. And their food was soooo overprice! I ordered a "Four Treasures Noodle soup" and in the end, I got 3 fishballs (Not even 4 treasures mann!) and 2 yong tau foo things + seaweed! The noodles soup was sooo salty! Argg.. And it costs me $5.50! I felt sooo cheated of my $! The dessert is can eat kind only. Not even nice and it's $5 for that as well. And, HELLO! Both items are CHEF's RECOMMENDATION! *Bleh* Some kind of Chef's Recommendation!

My goodness!! I swear, this will be my first and last time in going to this restaurant!

Feeling highly unsatisfied with our lunch, we had cookie chou (something like Beard papa) and we were both soooo happy afterwards! The noodles really sucks. BIG time.

Went over to Tangs too but din manage to get anything but I was so tempted by the sausagges and I can't stop myself. I bought one and munch on it when Godma left me to go to Novena and I waited for hubby.

The rest of the day... can be read at OUR blog.

Yay!! I'm so happy... lots of new clothes! hahaa

Revenge?

After such a horrible and expensive breakfast yesterday. Look at what I decided my $4 will go towards!Lasi Lemak! And this only costs me HALF of what I paid for the pretz and milk!

But truth be told. Not very nice lor. The wing was soggy and the fish was too hard. And yes, early in the morning, I can't stomach such a heavy meal and I left about half of the rice untouched.

Oh well... But still better than paying $4+ for a box of pretz and milk right?!

I kena robbed!

I swear, this will be the last time that I get anything from Cheers in campus!

The things here are soooo expensive!

Guess, how much this pack of Pretz and HL milk costs me?

$4.35!!!

Gosh. It's almost daylight robbery! Argg!! And I kena robbed lor!

Wah lauz! $4+ for just this ok!! I could have eaten a FULL breakfast in one of the canteens or even a more substential meal in MacDonalds! kaoz! And when will they learn to price tagged their products and put proper labels? This box of prets costs at full $3.50 placed between 2 labels that say $1.00 and $1.50 lor! Never would I expect the cost to be twice that amount right?!

I swear, I won't buy anything more than a pack of milk from them anymore.

Daylight robbery!

The ONLY one consolation that I can give myself is that there are 4 individually packed of 8 sticks and 4 green hearts on the box. WELL DONE!

Lousy Day.

A lousy day today. Will be making a bitching entry. Shoo! if you don't want me to affect your mood.

First, I was super late for work today. Bus came at 8.40pm? And by the time I walked into campus, it was like 2 mins to 9am and who did I bump into? Chua GP! Bumped right into him cannot avoid lor. So no choice, got to talk. Talked about the EW meeting later on in the afternoon. Then I told him, I will be gng to Uni SIM. He was very nice and he volunteered to fetch me to class everyday if he needs to lei! Nice hor?!

But, I feel pai sey to trouble him also la... Director lei! Me small fry... haha.. But he was nice lar, I must say.

Had a meeting with a new vendor, they wanted to show me some new items they had. Took an hour of my time! Hai...

Another meeting in the afternoon for the EW. Hengz. Our team decided to stay in Oct instead of pushing to May. Thank God for that. Rather short meeting, but I sort of reached the lowest of my energy level for today.

Just when I felt I had to settled down and just closed myself off from the world, I got a call from my mom. Telling me, to call and cancel her line coz my sis lost her prepaid SIM card. And this is important coz now all prepaids are registered. *sigh* And she cannot tell me if it's starhub, singtel or M1 lor. I got to trial and error. Called Singtel, customer care and damn it, called thru twice and kena hang up twice! Only on the 3rd try did I manage to speak to their officer. Then, guess what? The no is not listed there. ARGG!!! Called starhub next. And went thru the "please press 1," enough times to make me mad and finally got thru to the officer.

And coz it's registered, now, got to make a trip dw to starhub to de-register PERSONALLY! WAH LAU eh!!!!

Felt so pissed off, I called my sis and scolded her! TMD! Just what is her problem? She had to take my mom's hp and then change SIM card in a taxi and lost it? She has her own HP, must take others and then lost it! ARGG!!! This sis of mine is driving me crazy!

Met an old coursemate of mine, she's with IBM and then I found out, she's resigning soon, to stay home to look after her 4 month old BB, we got married at about the same time. Now, I'm feeling envious! Gosh!!! Already a mommy of a BB girl and staying home to look after BB.

Just feel so down. I'm not sure if it's the mad house, the meetings, the work, the impending studies, my idiotic sis and her actions or my mom, who just calls me and expects me to solve her problems. Or is it that I'm envious of my coursemate. I don't know. All I know is that, I'm sinking deeper and deeper into this moodiness, this depression, this grouciness, this general, everything-is-horrible-moment.

Checked my SIM account and there was an annoucement, lecturer told us to install a ccertain software before the 1st class and bring our labby to school. GREAT! I have not even got my books, materials, instructions has come in. Just oh-so-perfect isn't it?!

I know, I cannot face coming home and I may just lash out at hubby, took a walk at J8 after work earlier and it somewhat made me feel better.

I was searching for a key pouch and also a pouch for my MP3 player. Din get the keys pouch but manage to get this instead. Then saw the push cart full of people and healthy nuts. Went to take a closer look and walked away $10 poorer but armed with 3 bagfuls of HEALTHY snacks!I bought a pack of cranberries, apricots and also guava slices. At least if I snack, it will be healthier right? But I decided to spoil it by having fried chicken for dinner. I needed some comfort food and went for that.

Seriously, I have no idea just what is troubling me lor. Just feeling damn depressed. And when I tried to check my SIM account again, I realised I cannot log in.

What else can be more prefect to this?! ARGG!!!

THE orientation.

I guess this post is pretty out dated by now. But I was so shell shocked by the news/speech/briefing that the lecturer made, I was completely turned off from even putting it into words and worse of all to blog about it. It makes it even more difficult to avoid by blogging.

I spent the whole day in Uni SIM on Saturday. Morning, was the case study workshop, which was not that bad. Lecture and some brain storming and some simple exercises. Not bad. Then was the orientation proper.

My HOD addressed us and that's where I went into shock.

HOD: Well, as biz students, there will not be exams for some modules.
me: *YAY*
HOD: Will be either individual or group projects to replace the exams.
me: *hmm... not so bad, need good partners in this case.*
HOD: For the projects, you will need to submit a report, powerpoint presentation and a presentation.
me: *wah sey.... but not that bad lar, can handle*
HOD: I will want a 8 min video clip of yourself doing the presentation, complete with lightings, video and voice.
me: *OMGoodness!!!Where to get the equipment to do that 8 min video?!*

And my dear friends and readers, is WHAT I am darn stress over lor! If you know me, usually I'm not that jitterly over presentations.

But this 8 min video thing is freaking me out. Gosh!! Where am I supposed to find a camera crew to shoot me doing THAT presentation? Complete with lightings, voice editing and goodness knows what else?

Then there was the cumulative GPA scoring system. Simply put, each sem got to get at least a a 2.0. Which means a 'C', which is a 50 marks over 100 (passing grade is 40) for each module. Well, you can say 50 over 100 is nothing what, it's the min passing grade. But I look at it this way, there must be a reason why, they put the passing grade as 40. Means it's not that easy to get 50 all the time lor!

If getting that 'C' is not that tough, then listen to this, by the end of first sem, if I don't get an average GPA of 2.0, I will get a blessed warning letter from HOD. Then end of second sem, still no GPA of 2.0, then I will get another blessed warning letter from DEAN. By the third sem, still no 2.0 in sight, congrulate me then, I'm outta of the school!

This average GPA is acheived by adding all the points I got, divide by the number of exams I have taken. Each grade is worth a few points. 'D' is worth 1, 'C' is worth 2 so on and so forth with 5 being the highest. So imagine lor, even if I scape 2 'C's and a 'D' in my first sem, my CGPA is still less than 2!!! I should say, as long as I get a 'D' anywhere and no sight of any 'B' then I will be facing that blessed warning letter!

Am I jumping the gun?

Officially a student once again

After such a long time, I'm finally back to the days of assignments, mugging, exams, presentations & nerve wracking waiting-for-results kind of days.

Had a 2 hour seminar on "case studies" the professor is from don't know where. I cannot remember and he shared with us, how to go about tackling cases and to answer them. Went thru a video and a story case. I think I shd be able to do this. About half of his model answers were in my list when he went thru the thing at the end of the session. I think I shd be ok.

Had lunch and then was the Orientation proper. Registrationn starts at 1.30pm and by the time we went to join the queue, there were lots of people. But there were also some fringe events, where we can choose from 2 out of the Neo print, Profile Silhouette, Rainbow calligraphy, Hand Wax, SuDoKu, Kachang Puteh stall to redeem from our 1st class boarding pass. I joined the shortest queue which was the kachang puteh and then since still had 1 more of those cupons, joined the silhouette queue.

The silhouette lady is good! Within minutes, she had my profile out!

After all the boring introduction of the various heads and DEANS, my HOD addressed us. *SIGH*

He gave me such a stressful time after his speech... I don't even have mood to update now... another time ba..

*sigh*

what a day..

Damn it. This is the 3rd try I'm making of the SAME entry!!!

And to be honest, I'm dead tired! I left the office at 20 mins to 8pm.. though it is not late late late, it's late for me lei coz I'm a leave on the dot kind of person ma. Wah Lau.. Mad house mad house mad house!

Stayed back just to do the tour routes for the 1st day of the mad house. And still not completed coz not all the details are in. So got to do what I can for the time being.

But to be honest, it wasn't that bad lar, coz I've been doing this for the past 3, 4 years so kind of know what's going to happen and how to go about doing it already just that the meeting ended at 5pm and then had an informal meeting with boss and din get to start work till much later too.

But I guess, it's fair. Coz during lunch, I went to Paragon to collect my SMRT citibank card, walked around for a while and also had lunch at this outlet selling fish and chips at Taka. I've never notice this outlet before and I was attracted by the smell and went for that as lunch!

Fisherios served fish and chips in different ways. There was quite a few to choose from but I got the "special of the day" and it was ALL fried stuff.

But too much fried stuff, even for a 'fried' person like me, I cannot handle it. There was fried fish, fried prawns patty, fried prawn and even fried crayfish topped off everything with fries! My goodness... Too much. Too much.

I left almost all the fries untouched. =S such a waste of food.

The whole meal includes a soft drink, either a soup or salad together with all those fried things and it's quite reasonable, I feel. About $16 in all.

But then again, it's not even in a restaurant or even cafe, just a small corner with tiny chairs and tiny table tops to put the plate of food and eat. Well, not that 'reasonable' after all lar. But this is the first time, that I actually sat down to eat in one of these shops in Taka. Hahah... I'm now attracted by the suassage store that is behind this fish store. The suassage looks good and big and juicy! haha... Definately want to go and try.

Din manage to get anything, but I was suddenly craving for the Taiwan mochi and I bought a pack.

Quite expensive lei. That few mochi costs me $3, half of which I ate when I was in office doing OT!

Today is a card-y day. I got my SMRT card. I was mailed my Best Denki card + OCBC Denki card. Just 1 day and I had 3 cards.

I need a bigger card holder.

Oh! oh!! I went too look at the COACH again... and NICE lor! I like the small card holder, the wristlet AND the HOBO!!!

Another shopping trip in the making...

Woo YOO!!!

I have another date with my kaki for shopping on 6 Jan! This time with my sure-to-buy-something-Godma!! Yay!!!

I can't wait! =)

On a good and happier and thank God mode, finally, I'm making some leeway into the hugmoungous task of OH07! Settled the $$$, even did an excel list capturing the expenses. Did the paperwork for refreshment and walkie talkies which are way much easier than I thought it will be. Coz all use last year's reference. Refreshment is easy, can count. But I thought the walkie talkies will be problematic but my nice purchaser told me can re-order. Wah!!! Thank God man! No need to call quotes or anything. Direct order! Yay!!!

Then the talks part, need confirmation for the venues. Tours, I can finally start work on it tomorrow coz more details have come in.

All in all, making some progress into this event. Thank GOD!

*phew*

=)

Guess what?

Godma came back from Austrlia on 28 Dec and along came my pressies too! =) She bought a few things for me lei! So happy!

Got 2 tops.

A halter neck and spaghetti. The spaghetti is from "Crossroads" the halter a local brand. Nice not? I like. Come to think of it, the halter abit 'retro' with the 'flower power' isn't it... I think I can pass that off as 'retro'.

The spaghetti is meant as Christmas pressie and the halter is the pressie that she got me from her trip. She got me a pokka dotta dress too but size is wrong, so gave it to someone else. Sad lei! I was kind of looking forward to that dress coz I've never own a pokka dotta anything before and I absoultely trust Godma's taste! =(

Along with the clothes, came a big big bag of "Nougat" is assorted flavours. So pai sey lei. I asked Godma to help me buy and then in the end, she din want to take $$. So instead of just 2 tops, I got a big pack of Nougat as part of the pressies too.

There's many flavours lei. I haven't open though. Can slowly enjoy it. =) There's the "orignal crunchy", "golden boronia", "cappuccino crunchy" and even "green tea crunchy!" in this pack! Woah... I think I'm gonna have a good time just munching on all these!

Must guard it well, if not, later Hubby steal all and leave non for me! ha!! But he can share with me, if not I will grow too fat to fit into those 2 nice tops!

And!!! Godma helped me get the 6-in-1 lips gloss from Estee from Airport. Yay!!! Cheaper than retail. But the packaging is also different, it does not come in the box, rather just a plastic casing.

According to the sales, 1 of the colours is not available in retails... Let me see which it is. Hmmm.... All the colours seem to be different lei!

Where got same lar.

But nevertheless, I still like the shades in this pack. Very dainty looking. Hahaha.. Too bad the mascara is out of stock if not I can save more!

I thought the Estee logo is fasten by buttons. But hey. It's magnets! Ok, call me "sua ku" lor. But I really quite impressed ma. No wonder they charged so high prices! hahaha..

Next, I want the mascara, Lash XL, the YSL concealer which is priced at $52 in retails! My goodnes! Then... maybe the reduce fats cream of Clarins... I think that's about it FOR NOW.

hahaha...

WOMEN!!! No end to the cosmestics, shoes, clothes, bags, accessories! =.=

First day of work ended with....

First day of work after a long break and I think I more or less settled what I've penned down last night.

Not too bad a day I will say.

Finally more infor has come in for the OH07 and I can start work on it soon. Tomorrow. 2 meetings are being lined up, 1 for Friday, afternoon for OH07 and the other on Monday, afternoon for the EW07.

Gosh... 2 big events one after the other! How am I gonna manage that coupled with exams?? I really have no idea how!

Anyway, work aside, my day ended on a jolly mood! Tri and I went town shopping after work!! Made plans to meet in Taka, B2 and then we went for dinner at this pasta joint, I cannot remember the name now, but it's opposite MOS Burger. My first time in there.

The pasta was not too bad. I had the Bekin Duck pasta and Tri had the Laksa Seafood pasta. We shared an Oriendal Shrimp Salad too. These 2 pasta are the 'new' ones so we tried that. We got the salad coz the picture looks nice.. hahaha..

My pasta was abit too salty and oily for my liking but other than that not too bad. Tri's pasta had a tad too much coconut milk in it I feel. Anyway, I'm not a laksa kind of person so cannot give too much comments. The salad.. hmm... it's very simple. Just some halfed shrimps, veggies and pour chili over it. Not much mango taste as the menu says I should be tasting lei. Can do only la. Hmm... will go back but will try their gratins this time. haha.. cheese, cheese and MORE cheese!!! hahaha.. But I like their glasses. Quite unique. There's 2 groves for you to place your fingers while holding the glass.After such a good dinner, we went to walk around. Checked out Fashion Lab, Taka and other stores for clothes for the coming new year. Can't get anything. Even check out cosmestics. But still nothing. I almost wanted to get the YSL concealer but on second thoughts hold back. Since 1) I can get better discounts in TANGS with my Citibank cards or in ROBINSONS with my OCBC card
2) I heard that I can get up to 20% off if I get from TANGS coz a friend of a colleague's sister is working there
3) Emma is gng to HK 2 weeks later, can ask her to get from airport!!
with all these possibilities for me to save $$ why should I go and buy it now right?! hahaha... Again, the cheapskate at work here.

We also went to my newest addiction, COACH to check out their collection. MY GOODNESS!!! The HOBO that I like actually costs a freaking $1155!!! The smaller SOHO costs almost $700!!! SOOOO expensive! But I still like it lei... haha.. In addition to the bags, I saw the wristlets and also aimmed another card & key holder. Gosh... so many I want to buy.. how? how? how??? And each and every item is at least $100. =(

Finally, we decided to go home and was on the way to the MRT station and just as I was desparing that we did not buy anything, we passed by Pepper Plus. She Tri found a bag and I wanted her opinions on a skirt I was aiming and showed her. Without showing her, I know it will not do. Bleh!! Very ugly. So din buy it. But she showed me the bag and I kinda like it too. So end up, we each bought one. Mine is black, her's white.

Finally! Managed to get something from our night out! Happy! Go shopping must buy something then shiok. If not, darn sian.

And since we stay soo near to each other (across the street) we practically went home together. The whole time chatting and catching up!

Fact of the day: First day of work and I'm asked twice "when am I having reproducing" -_-" I wish I can wear a banner on my forhead that says "After my degree" or maybe I should just change my nick to "planning for BB in year 2010".

And this is NOT funny. Don't let me know you are laughing, giggling or even smiling!

Edited on 4 Jan, 9.30am. The name of the restaurant is indeed "Pasta Cafe" thanks to Irene who lead me to look at the receipt. *Bang head* Should have thought of looking at the receipt for the name right?! *Faint*

Last day of holiday.

Today is the last day of my long holiday. 2006 has crept by and 2007 has already made it's way ANNOUNCED and proudly will stay for the next 1 year before giving way to 2008.

Feeling slightly dejected and sad that I'm starting work tomorrow, will be slogging for the Open House which is exactly 22 days away! And believe me, NO work has been done, no prepartions, NOTHING!!!

Not that I am lazy and din do work, it's really I have NO information to work on! My area of work depends on other people to give me where their "attraction" point is, depend on them to give me student leaders, give me what they want the student leaders to walk, talk, do! But I have nothing of all these.

*GROANS*

22 more days and it's THE show. How?? I cannot believe it, not even been back to office and I'm already thinking and freaking out.

But, I have thought of what I can do for tomorrow.
1. Clear emails
2. Clear table
3. Do up PR forms for refreshment & walkie talkie (that is, if the estates guy is back.)
4. Call up Uni SIM and enquire about a) my timetable and b) supposedly orientation on 6 Jan?

hmmm.... I think that's more or less for tomorrow. Unless something more exciting comes up during work.

Speaking of which, I hope that I have more information for me to work on. If not, I think I can really really peng san from next week onwards in office.

And 1 more thing, I is very very V-E-R-Y heng that my first lesson is tentatively set on 29 Jan, which is thankfully, mercyfully AFTER the blessed Open House!