Typing with almost closed eyes

So tired so tired so tired.

Did not sleep well last night. I had too much sleep during day time that resulted in having difficulties to fall asleep last night. Tried to rest early but in the end, turning here and there, unable to get to sleep. By the time I slept, next moment was time to wake up.

We had lunch at Vivo City Akashi restaurant as a farewell lunch for our contractors (2 of them leaving). Big group of us. A total of 16 pax including our boss. We finished our lunch at 2.45pm and went back office with a very full and round stomach. Hee hee...

My eyes were so tired and sleepy since morning and became worst after the lunch. Try to tolerate until back home. Now, my eyes are closing soon. Guess tonight, I really have to sleep early.

Tomorrow is 1st work day of the month and my colleague happens to take leave due to she needs to take care of her kid. Teachers Day tomorrow and school closed. Follow in the evening, we are going to watch movie "Final Destination 4" at 7.10pm organised by our company recreation committee. I did not watch the earlier 3 movies hence will be more "curious" to watch this one. Heard that some scenes are rather gross and hope I will not get nightmares after watching. I have a secret weapon to deal with these scenes..... it is ..... close my eyes lor. Ha ha... :P

Looking forward to a better month in September. So fast, it is September. 4 more months and it will be year end liao. Time really don't stop for me. I really have to catch up with time. Time Time Time, wait for me uh!!!

Raining day

Such a good weather to sleep since this morning. It was raining outside and the temperature was just nice for a good sleep. So lazy to wake up...

Did not go out today as my auntie came to our house in the afternoon. She needed help in her project as she is not very good in Microsoft Powerpoint. Her project needs her to do a brochure for advertising a property which she supposes to sell and a flyer to introduce herself to potential buyers.

Initially she intends to just cut and paste those cut outs from other flyers but my sister and I find it not appropriate. We re-do for her using Powerpoint. At last it looks like a real flyer. Hope she can get better marks.

It rained whole day and ended only this evening. Luckily we chose to go to the Kite Festival at West Coast Park yesterday. Otherwise, it will spoil the event as we cannot take nice photographs with the rain. Lucky Lucky.

Tomorrow is another new week. So sad... Not enough rest uh! Hee hee... this is always my remarks for the start of another new week. Hope next week will be a better week than this one. :)

This bar of chocolate was bought from Disneyland. So cute with the prints.

Kite Festival 2009

Woke up late again this morning. Thought of waking up at 10am but in the end, woke up at 11.45am. I had a shock when I first saw the alarm clock showing 1pm but luckily it was a false alarm. That alarm clock is faulty. Otherwise, I will be late...

I met up with 小珠 at Clementi Mrt station at 2.45pm. The Kite Festival 2009 event provided free shuttle bus from the station to the venue. We took the bus at around 3pm and reached there with excitement when we saw so many kites flying up the sky. The weather was good (but hot) and glad that we could take photographs there.

We walked around and took some photographs before the event started at 3.30pm. There were big kites, small kites, medium kites, cartoon kites, cute cute kites and mini kites... Wow wow... this event really drawn a lot of kites lover.

We saw a queue that led to free goodies pack. Initially, we thought the queue was not that long so we just followed the line. But, we soon realised that we had actually jumped queue when there was a break in the line. No choice, we had to pretend we were ignocent and just continued. The bag came with a paper fan, a bottle of mineral water and a small picnic mat. Not bad seah.

Continued our photo takings and the heat was really making us sweating like nobody business. We took a rest at a shelter and enjoyed the breeze from the sea. We heard there were free kites to give away so I asked 小珠 to accompany me to get it. Queued twice for the kites because... I got a white colour kite initially and wanted to have the orange colour one. So... we re-queued. So auntie today. Ha ha...

We had Mcdonald meals for our dinner at Bukit Batok and I reached home with some tiredness due to the afternoon heat. However, did enjoy the outing. :)

Movie time

It's Friday! My happiest working day of the week.

Today my colleague is on leave. Although there were quite a lot of things to cover this evening, I think I am doing well and can cope without any tension. Luckily I had a good rest yesterday. :)

As usual, 小珠 and I watched Friday night movie. Before the movie, we had our dinner at Terra restaurant which we always want to try but no chance. Finally we decided to try it out tonight. To our surprise, this restaurant was running full house and glad that we managed to get a table rather fast. This restaurant is usually not so crowded but do not know why today so special. Maybe people knows we are coming so.... ha ha ha.

We ordered pasta set. Each set comes with soup of the day, main course and dessert. Looks nice right?


We watched movie "Diary of a sex addict". This is a R21 rated movie and the storyline is quite good. It shows how a young lady who is addicted and cannot control her desire, gone through a lot of physical and emotional pain, before she finally knows how she wants to carry on living as what she wants. During the scene showing her intention to commit suicide by jumping down the building, it reminds me of my cousin who had jumped down from a building. It really takes a lot of courage to jump down and that courage is the result of despair that a person holds. Well, nothing can take back his life now and hope he will be happier in another paradise.

Tomorrow, both of us will be going to west coast park that holds the Kite Festival 2009. We are going to take some photographs there and hope the weather will be good.

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A day at home working

Was on leave today but still doing my office work. My colleague who supposed to cover me had taken medical leave. In order not to affect work, I decided to handle myself while at home. In any case, my the other 2 colleagues will be busy and will not be able to cover mine 1oo% which means I need to clear balance stuff tomorrow. Better complete nicely before going back to office tomorrow as I need to prepare myself to cover my colleague who will be taking a day off.

Due to that, I stayed at home to clear my emails without going out. Initially thought of going out to nearby shopping mall to relax myself but... no choice lah.

Just tried to create a blur background photo with photoshop. Last week, I cannot figure out how to do it. Tried again today and I managed to get it. Great! It is still not perfect yet. Shall try few more to get better results. :)

Chestnut cake from Almond Cafe at Ginza, Japan

Same food again???

Today, I had lunch at Vivocity Food Republic. I ordered same Fried chicken hor fun again!!! Am I crazy??? Ha ha ha. This is the 4th time I am eating same food from same stall since last Friday. The stall is there for so long and I tried it only last Friday and get addicted to the taste of the hor fun. Think I will continue eating from this stall whenever I go there now. :)

This afternoon, we had a meeting with our boss to discuss some work issue. There are some changes that boss wants us to do so that we can cut down paperwork. We actually do not want to do that as although we can cut down paperwork and few of our colleagues can do lessor work, I am the only one who will get more work (more monitoring). However, already tell myself that I have to do it since it is boss decision.

However, after discussing it for a while then we realised this meeting does not need to be called for. My boss was telling us a totally different story on his intention of the work simplification. Therefore at the end, no impact on me. Happy uh!!!

I am taking one day leave tomorrow. Need to recuperate (not enough sleep for these 2 weeks). :P

Tired day

Very tired since morning. I slept at almost 3am and woke up at 7am. Just 4 hours of sleep. Not enough uh. Was trying to solve my sister's laptop problem and end up sleeping so late.

Whole day feeling so sleepy. My colleague said that my eyes become one straight line and cannot open wide. Glad that today is a bit relaxing and no additional tiredness add onto me.

Managed to leave office early today at 7.30pm (actually can be 7pm but was digging out some old emails that wasted the 30mins) as I am keen to know what has happened to my sister's laptop.

After exploring, I finally solved the mystery of her DVD CD-Rom auto removal problem. Think she had accidentally click wrong button that caused that to happen. Now left with her slow startup problem. Her data is lessor than mine but her laptop takes longer time to startup. Strange....

Need technical support

Quite a peaceful Monday for me. Not a lot of urgent matters for me to settle hence I could take my own pace to complete all tasks. My blood pressure should be below borderline today. Ha ha...

The only thing that made me panic during evening time was : my email account was locked!!! Luckily my IT colleague was still around and helped me to monitor and unlock it. Otherwise, I cannot read my emails and access to our network. In simple wordings : CANNOT WORK. This will be a disaster for me if it really happens.

Back home, my sister gives me an assignment to be her technical support. Of course I am not an expert but... definitely better than her. Ha ha...

Her laptop has this problem where she cannot locate her DVD CD-Rom drive. After figuring out, it appears that the harddisk drive is automatically removed each time her pc boot up. Strange... Need to find out how to clear this problem. Shall ask for SOS from 小珠. Her IT knowledge is better than mine a lot. Hee hee.

Excursion

Excursion? Yah... excursion!

This word did not appear in my life ever since I left Secondary school days. This is a commonly used word during our school days but not when we are now working.

Reason? Ha ha... because of my niece lor. Today we travelled to my elder sister's house instead of them coming over to ours. We decided to bring my niece to Singapore Science Centre. This really reminded me of my school days when we always had excursions to this popular place.

After spending about 3 hours there, I found that this place is totally revamped and I cannot find traces of those exhibits I saw last time. They are so "high-tech" now. Scary...

My niece was extremely happy today. When she knew we will be going to her house today, she did her homework super fast after her tuition this morning. After she finished, she kept asking her mother when will we be reaching.

She enjoyed her excursion to Singapore Science Centre (though she went there many times liao) and happily dropped a few lines on what she did today on her notebook while waiting for dinner to be served at Hoshi restaurant (IMM). Title is "Did I enjoy". She wrote down what she had for breakfast and lunch, her visit to Singapore Science Centre & what she ordered for dinner tonight. She finished those dishes she chose and really had good appetite. Good girl.

After dinner, she wanted to go to Daiso. As usual, she zoomed in to the section selling erasers (she likes erasers). But this time round, with me around, she bought additional items. Apart from one packet of erasers, she chose origami papers and stickers. I recalled she said to her mother that she has a lot of stickers at home so she wanted to buy a ball i/o stickers at Singapore Science Centre. But now... she bought stickers. Cunning girl... She knows how to prioritise what she can get each time. Hee hee.

Overall, I enjoyed the afternoon spent with her. 2 weeks did not see her and really miss her. Next week she is having her CA exam and will not be coming over to our house. So, we can only see her 2 weeks later. Hope she will do well on her coming exam. Good luck!

PS : Glad to know that Takeru has recovered (sick since one week ago).

Shopping with mum

Today, I woke up late as usual. As my sister went out to watch a drama, I went to Bugis with my mum. Our main intention was to go to the temple for prayer.

After we went to the temple, we decided to eat "Ice". Don't worry... not drugs lah... It is to eat ice with fruits at Ice Monster at Bencoolen Street. This restaurant is a branch of Taiwan popular dessert store chain. We ordered the popular one with Kiwi, Mango and Strawberry fruits + Mango sorbet ice-cream toppings. As both of us do not like milk, we requested to have the dessert without milk. Yummy. As the weather was so hot, after having this dessert made us feel like bathing in a pool of ice water. Ha ha...

As it was still early, we went to Iluma shopping mall. After walking around, we felt not much things to see so we went over to Bugis Junction. My mum wanted to buy a pair of shoe hence we zoomed in to the shoes section. I bought a pair of scholl shoe for her and for myself, I bought a pair of slipper. The price between this two pair of shoes are so extreme. $78 vs $9. Hee hee.

The Proposal

Yup... this is the movie we watched today ~ The Proposal.

This is a comedy movie and it did make me feel happy after watching it. We were laughing all the way and some of the scenes are really that funny until you cannot stop laughing. Very good one and highly recommended to watch it.

Before the show, we had our dinner at restaurant Central located at VivoCity B2. This restaurant is there for so long and it is the first time I dine there. Same as 小珠. We saw the advertisement outside the restaurant for their grill set and I was attracted with the dessert, 杨汁甘露 (hope I spelt it correctly). I've ordered the mixed grill set and 小珠 ordered the fish and chips. The food is not bad. For the dessert, not bad too but we feel that the one at Tung Lok is better.

Overall, still a good Friday for me.

The two sets we ordered

Mixed feeling

Today is Friday. A day I am looking forward to since Monday. However, there is still sad news for my family. News of my cousin's death came to us yesterday. He was at his early 30s and we just knew that he was fallen to his death from 10th storey of his rented unit at 4am. Police classified his death as suicide due to clues revealed that he fell out from kitchen and found no foul play. But my sister and I really think there are more to it. My aunt heard from his girlfriend that he was still keeping in touch with her on MSN night before and playing online games. No sign of suicide at all. Not sure whether his family (father and brothers) will pursue the case. He was cremated today at 6pm. As I am working today and cannot take leave, I cannot send him off. Hope he will rest in peace.

BBQ

Today I left office early at around 6.45pm (actually not that early lah) and took MRT to Tanah Merah station. From there, I took a cab to Safra country club for the BBQ. When I reached, I thought I am the last one and food are ready but surprisingly, my sister and friend were just starting the fire. I have no experience on starting fire so I just helped on miscellaneous things.

Halfway through, raindrops started to come down. Oh dear... hope not heavy rain. Otherwise we have to stop the BBQ. Luckily, just a shortwhile of raindrops coming down and we managed to continue with the BBQ. So sinful, I ate until so full. Just came back from the chalet and had to wash my hair as they are so oily.

I went to 小珠 blog and learn the latest tutorial on colour isolation. So amazing that there are so many ways to edit our photo. Photoshop program is so powerful. Below is my trial copy.

Before


After

Mid week

Wow Wow It's mid week liao. Happy Happy...

Today is rather peaceful and glad that I can leave office at around 7.50pm. We had a mini party at around 6.30pm where everyone started to look for food. Perhaps after the peak hours from 4.30 to 6.30pm, many of us felt so tired and hungry. Luckily we have some cookies from Hong Kong which one of our customer gave to us during their visit.

Tomorrow I have to leave office early and hopefully by 6pm. I am going for a barberque at Safra Tanah Merah. My sister and her friend booked a chalet from Tue to Thu. However, I cannot take leaves so cannot stay at the chalet. Will just join the barberque. If I leave at 6pm, I will only arrive there around 7.30pm. Just nice for the food. Hee hee...

Got some tips from 小珠 on how to do better in my photo editing to create lomo effect. I realised I had followed the wrong instruction when I went throught the online tutorial yesterday. I have done some double editing and missed out some steps too. Blurred liao. Tried today on one of the photo. Rather pleased with it although this is just some simple editing. More to learn. :)

Before


After

New Interest

It seems that now I am getting more and more interested in taking nice photographs. When the picture turns out nice, I am real happy.

I am starting to learn more on lomography and hope that it will help to enhance those photos I have taken. Still on learning stage and seems there are a lot more to learn before I can get the best result.

Tried another photo today. Not the effect I want. It's ok... learn slowly... :)

Before



After

My First Lomo Effect Photo

I just learnt from 小珠 on how to create a lomo effect photo. As I am doing it at home, not really know how to do it best. Just try my luck to see if I can create a different effect photo from my existing photo taken from digital camera. Will try to learn more so that I can do better in future.

Below is the before and after effect. Pass???

Sunday is over

Time flies. It is now night of Sunday. Tomorrow has to go back to work. Sad sad...

Good news is : Boss not around. Travelling! Yippy Yippy!

Today I stayed at home whole day. Woke up late as usual and started to watch some of Naruto episodes which I stopped quite some time ago. Still have a few episodes to go before the latest episode. It's ok... watch them slowly.

My mum cooked my favourite meat balls (prawn + pork) for dinner. Yummy. So nice until I kept eating and was too full to take rice hence skipped it. Naughty and greedy right??? Ha ha...

Ok lah. Shall try to sleep early today. Otherwise, my colleagues will see another panda tomorrow. :P

Great dinner

My father had been hinting to us that his mobile phone is giving problem. Therefore, we decided to go out for dinner tonight and buy a new phone for him.

As usual, the most convenient place for us to go is Tampines. We had our dinner at Tampines 1 foodcourt (Kopitiam). As my sister and mum were not too hungry, we bought fried prawn noodles, sambal sotong and oyster with egg for sharing. Don't play play... These made us very full especially after eating the famous Chendol. I highly recommend this dessert as it is really tasty and price is reasonable. $2 with lots of ingredients. We ordered 2 to share among 4 of us.

Bought 2 phones ultimately. I had a $100 voucher and since the phone we chose was $0 value when we did a 2 year contract renewal, we decided to top up and purchase another phone for my mum. In the end, my parents now own same phone model. Hope they don't get confuse and take the wrong phone. Ha ha...

My sister and I bought a T-shirt each from Uniqlo. Both purple colour but with different design. She likes the one I have but there is no small size for her. Therefore, she can only buy another design. Too bad... ask her to eat more and get fatter. Then can buy the design she likes. Lame right? Ha ha...

Today is Okada's birthday.  Happy birthday to you!

3D

This week is really a very tired week for me. After I am back from Japan trip, I felt so tired and no mood to work. Still in holiday mood!

Just back home after watching movie "Up". We chose to watch the 3D version as we grow to like it very much. The graphics and effects are better. This movie is good and I like its starting. Not much speech but it showed a very heartwarming story of a couple. So sad when Elle passed away. Again... sacrificed some of my tears... The other characters are cute too. Let me feel young again whenever I watch such movies. I love fantasy stuffs and sometime tends to wonder, how nice it is if I can be in the story. Overall, thumbsup for this movie.

Seems 3D is getting popular and there are many upcoming movies. Shall look out for them and watch all of them! Ha ha.

Made up my mind

Today is a good day because no bosses around. Ha ha...

I was so tired and lazy to work after lunch. Thought of "eat snake" for a while in the afternoon but end up still working hard.

Finally, I decided to cut down my time playing facebook games. Therefore, goodbye to Restaurant City, Farm Town and FarmVille. I realised I do not have enough time to do everything so have to sacrifice them.

Due to the short hours sleep for past few days during my trip, I am still feeling tired and have panda eyes. With my size, really look like a panda now. Ha ha ha...

Back to work

Finally back to work today after the weekend + holiday break. Really hope for longer breaks.

Managed to clear my work and be home by 10pm. Thought of sorting out my photos which I had transferred from camera to pc but am rather tired so decided to postpone. Perhaps to wait till I combined all photos taken by Tulip, 小珠 and myself before doing the sorting out. Lazy girl right?

My dad's phone is not working properly and has hinted us that he needs to have a new one. Since I have a $100 voucher from M1, will buy one for him this weekend. Shopping again on this Saturday. Hope not to spend too much $$$. :)

Back home safely

Hello.... I'm back! This ends my 5 days 3 nights holiday in Tokyo. What a short one...

We had late dinner yesterday and ended up sleeping at 2.45am. Went to the same restaurant as we were too tired to look for another one that open till late hours and also partly due to the food there is so nice and of reasonable price. The most happiest part is... we managed to eat the seasonal honeydew that were sold out on previous 2 nights. We ordered 2 pieces and they were soooooo sweet. Yummy.

Our flight was at 11.30am and arrived Changi airport at around 5pm which was ahead of the eta (5.40pm). I was carrying a big big bag of titbits. Did some last minute shopping at Narita airport hence my bag had grown fatter and heavier. Tried some of the cakes I bought and they were nice. Next time I know I can buy them again.

Finished unpacking and washed my clothing immediately. Managed to store my titbits in proper place too (else my mum will scream at the mess). After settling down, I started to read my emails so that I can clear them before I am back in office tomorrow. Do not want to be too blur on what's happening. Just cleared them and now I am in the mid of transferring my photos to pc. Also at the same time, playing my facebook games. Multi-tasking! I suddenly remember that I yet to take dinner. Ha ha....

Early this morning (5.07am), there was an earthquake measured magtitude of 6.4 at Shizuoka. This was felt in Tokyo too. I woke up at 5am (need to catch bus to airport at 7am) and was showering halfway when I felt giddy and cannot stand properly. First thought was, am I too hungry that I am feeling weak and giddy??? But after few seconds, I was sure that this was not the case because I saw the hanger swinging quite vigorously. I guessed it should be an earthquake and tried to stabalised myself before continuing my shower and be out of the bathroom asap. Luckily it was a minor one in Tokyo and there was no need for evacuation.

I better rest early today so that I will not become a zombie tomorrow in office. :)

Fish cake from Sendai bought at Narita airport



Cake bought from Narita airport



Potato chip that I like. Cannot find in Singapore.

Disneyland - World of Fantasy

Today we went to Tokyo disneyland. A place where all adults will turn to kids. A world full of fantansy.

However, it really disappointed us when we got to know that it was raining outside before we stepped out of the hotel. We prayed hard that the rain will stop when we reached the resort. It did stopped for a while when we reached the resort but started to rain for hours before it stopped at around 3pm.

We were all wet as the rain was rather heavy. Thank goodness that it stopped just before the parade started. Otherwise, the parade will be cancelled which we will definitely be very very very disappointed.

We took quite a number of rides and the most exciting one is Space Mountain. I took the ride once during my trip to USA about 10 years ago. Although I went to Disneyland twice in the recent years, I had no chance to take. Either it was under maintainance or the queue was too long. Finally I was able to take the ride again. Such an exciting and thrilling ride.

As 小珠 and myself went to take the Winnie the Pooh ride, we missed the early part of the night parade. However, still glad that we managed to catch the second half. Tulip managed to watch the full parade as she was not feeling well and decided not to take the ride with us. She was afraid she will be a merlion (vomiting).

The day passed so fast and we ended our fantasy day after buying some souvenirs and left the resort. I bought a Winnie the Pooh Popcorn bucket home.

We had our dinner at the same restaurant again (3 days in a row) and finally we managed to eat the honeydew. They were so sweet and juicy. No regrets liao. Today we had our dinner at a very late hour. Tomorrow still have to wake up early to catch our airport limousine bus to Narita airport. Before going back to hotel, we went to the nearby convenient shop (Am/Pm) and I bought some cakes home. It looked ordinary but it really taste good.

How I wish we can have more days in Tokyo. Not enough. Not enough.

Arrived Disneyland


Toilet sign


Curry rice for lunch

Day parade


Night parade


Titbits bought in Disneyland


Disney line train


Dinner tonight. New dish : Fried chicken and Honeydew


Banana flavour chocolate and cake bought at Am/Pm store