Twins

My brother came home and passed me some letters addressed to me. Opened one of them and it was a birthday card from my insurance agent. When I looked at the 2nd letter, I kind of thinking why the envelopes were the same from the 1st one. Well... it could be christmas card since it is a norm for my insurance agent to send to me yearly.

However, a surprise!!! It's another birthday card. Hee hee hee... Twins uh although the designs are different. My agent so blur meh??? Or could it be one of them should be meant for my sister?
Our birthday is just one day apart. Maybe hor...

Glad to receive 2 wishing cards and I hope that my wishes will all come true. What wish??? Don't know yet. Shall think of them before my birthday. :)

"Multi tasking" at home

Oh one day passed so fast. Back home at 10pm and saw my niece watching TV program quietly at the sofa. I thought she was sleeping or playing games since it was so quiet when I reached home.

My niece staying at our house for 2 nights. She went to National Library and National Museum today with my mum and younger sister. It was raining hence did not go for swimming which was their original plan.

Played Mario Kart with her for a while and I continued with my K drama today. No J drama as I had finished all latest episodes of the 7 dramas and 3 animes I am following. Today shall concentrate on 2 K dramas. I think my multi tasking skill is good leh.

Guess I will not see my niece tomorrow night since my elder sister will be fetching her home in the evening. She was been asked to go to sleep early at 11pm by my sister. She was asking my sister why so early tonight. Yesterday went to bed at 12 midnight leh but was still being asked to sleep... :)

J Drama day

Today, I was busy catching up with J dramas. There were so many new episodes this week which I did not have time to watch them. My niece came rather late today hence I had the time to complete them before she came.

Now I am looking forward to those new episodes. The story is now so exciting and I want to know what will happen in the upcoming episodes...

So fast that weekend is coming to an end. Tomorrow is start of another week. How come so fast leh???

Dinner at TCC ~ T3

Went to T3 for dinner with Tulip and 小珠. We decided to dine at T3 TCC. Surprisingly, the cafe was not crowded when we reached at around 6.30pm. However, queue started to form after we sat down. Lucky uh.

We ordered 3 main course and shared. Could try a bit of each. Added a platter for sharing and also ordered 2 pieces of cakes after we finished our food. Terrible ah... After finishing up the cakes, we continued to order the spicy chicken wings that I was eyeing. Could not resist and ordered it. Sinful uh... Well, happy can liao. Haha...

We chatted a lot and gossiping. During weekdays, not much time to sit down and relax plus gossiping. A session like that is needed for me to forget about any worries etc. Glad to be able to find some time to do that.

Our sinful dinner :

Vivocity

Ever since changed job and moved out of HarbourFront area, me and my colleagues missed Vivocity. We decided to go there for lunch today as recently, we try to get out of office area to relax ourselves. I think it is working well for me. My mood is better than the past 2 days after "running away" from office for lunch elsewhere.

We ate at Carl's Junior and I did not eat there for quite some time. Previously, always have chance to dine there before or after our movie session on every Friday.

Watched movie tonight and "Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt 1" was good. No more quidditch games, Howarts, Diagon alley etc. It was rather "dark" scenes where involved mostly on the 3 main characters and the enemies. The 3 casts acted well and I find the story was good. Was frightened a few times but was "fun". Ha ha...

Yet to read the last book and I will find time to read it now. Pt 2 coming up next year around Jun. Now eager to know the end of story. Knew that ending was good and will wrap up the whole 7 books story well. Have been chasing all the movies for 10 years and a bit sad that no more Harry Potter from 2012 onwards.

Dinner at Shi Lin. Oysters mee sua. Yummy!

Anchorpoint

This afternoon, we went to Anchorpoint for our lunch. Just wanted to get away from office area to relax ourselves. One of my colleague suggested this place and we all agreed.

Wow... the shopping mall changed a lot. Last time I went there should be 4 - 5 years ago. It all changed...

We had our lunch at the foodcourt. Shared few dishes and rice with 小珠. We could not resist the sambal sotong. The dishes were nice. We ordered sambal sotong, vegetables and black pepper chicken. Yummy!!! I finished the whole plate of rice. The curry sauce was good too that made me could not resist but to finish all the rice.

After that, we took a walk around the mall and had coffee (I had tea) at Ya Kun cafe before heading back to office.

Will go more often in future since this place is near our office and with our usual lunch hour at around 1 plus, the food court is not crowded and easy to get seats. :)

Tomorrow we are going to watch Harry Potter finale part 1. Looking forward to it.

Tired

Too tired today and did not have strength to think of today's event. Shall take rest now after a long day... 2 more days to go... zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Yummy Wanton Mee

Wow... I had a very good lunch today. Not restaurant food but hawker. We went to Clementi Hawker centre for lunch as my colleague said that the renovation had completed.

Reached there at around 1.30pm and glad that we could get seats easily. I was choosing whether to eat the porridge or wanton mee. Finally, chose wanton mee as I could not resist it. Not every stall wanton mee is nice. This one is with black sauce and I like this type.

It did not disappoint me. The wanton mee was real good. Will eat again if there is chance. I think we were too stressed and started to order a lot of side dishes. My colleague went to order the famous Koi bubble tea which took almost 45mins from ordering till collection. I had a sip of the honey red tea with pearl which my colleague ordered. Not bad.

Did not leave office early and managed to clear some misc paperwork. Pray hard no interruption tomorrow morning so that I can clear some more paperwork. Want to go home early tomorrow!

Go home earlier today

Finally!!! I managed to get out of office by 8.30pm. It was not because I had finished my work but due to I would like to get home earlier by taking my colleague's car home.

I knew that if I did not follow her, I will stuck in office till late hours again. Perhaps I need to push myself more to leave office earlier and not to stay late which is unhealthy.

Was glad that I have more time today at home and I must keep it up.

Mario Kart

Fortunately, my headache cured when I woke up this morning.

Played Mario Kart with my niece. Racing mode hence we were shouting while competing. My brother joined too (3 nds in wireless mode). In the end, we kept losing to our niece as she were so good in this game.

My sister wanted to play and took over my brother's nds. In the end, she was the loser as she could not catch how to use the power she got and did not use them. Hee hee...

Initially, my niece said she wanted to stay overnite but when she knew that we were all be going to work tomorrow, she said she will be boring so wanted to go home. My younger sister will take leave on Tuesday and will fetch her to our house tomorrow to stay for one night. Too bad... I cannot take leave. Otherwise can bring her to shop around.

Pain

Today, my headache still yet to subside. It started from yesterday and thought that it will be ok after a night's rest. However, today it is still there.

This made me unable to really sit up straight and kept lying on the sofa. Took paracetamol and it helped for a few hours. After that, the pain comes back again. Hopefully it will be cured tomorrow.

In the end, did not go out today.

Good News

This evening, a sudden joyous claps and hurrays surrounded the office. A very good piece of news heard after waiting for 2 months. It really boosts our morale. To celebrate it, few of our colleagues went for drinks at The Queen and Mangosteen @ VivoCity. My boss asked us to join them and we went there quite late at 9pm after clearing our work.

This was my second time there and I liked the fries and chicken wings. Ordered mocktail which is Lychee Mint recommended by the staff. It was nice. As I did not eat much, I went to Haagen Dazs with 小珠. Ordered one 3 scoop ice-cream with almond flakes and cookie. A nice dessert to celebrate end of Friday and welcome Saturday. :P

Tomorrow can wake up late late...

Dessert at Haagen Dazs :

Chicken Rice

This afternoon, our boss drove us to Mei Ling street for lunch. As it was already 2pm, we did not have high hope to have chicken rice from the famous stall. Usually at that hour, all the chickens were sold.

To our surprised, we still saw 3 chickens hanging in the stall waiting for us. Hahaha... One of them was eaten by us. Believed it was due to start of school holidays and parents went for trips by saving one day leave for Hari Raya Haji. That was why we managed to have the chicken. It still tastes good. Not many chicken rice stall serves chickens which are tender and nice.

As usual, came home late today. Luckily is... tomorrow its Friday!!! Can take a rest again.

Out for shopping

It's holiday today and I woke up rather "early" at 10.30pm . Slept at 3am after clearing some of office work. Knowing today is holiday and I should be going out, I decided to finish my work first. Work and play later concept...

My sister suggested Marina Square Mall and we proceeded there by cab at around 2.30pm. After walking around the mall, we found ourselves ended up rather boring as there were nothing nice for us to shop. Perhaps we had nothing in our mind to buy and hence we moved to Suntec City. Walked around for a while and moved over to Raffles City shopping mall.

Went to Robinson to buy socks for my dad and we decided to go for early dinner to avoid the crowd. Same old place ~ Sushi Tei which my mum preferred. Initially we wanted to order the grilled lobsters but when we were told that the seasonal price had just increased to $60 - $70 from $40 - $$50 each, we decided not to order them. My mum was lucky to eat it at $42!!! My dad was rather disappointed but we promised to order it again next time when the price is more reasonable.

Ended up, we ordered one big prawn each to replace with the lobsters. A pair costs $20. No lobsters, big prawns also good. Hahaha...



With the few hours of shopping, I found myself more relax. Of course lah, one day holiday not enough. Needs more uh. Bought M&M dark chocolates from The Cocoa Trees and shall enjoy them slowly. A way to make me happy is to eat chocolates. :P

Missed my target again

I thought I could go home earlier this evening but my target was not reachable when last minute there were so many deals done which I need to follow up with paper work. While I was busy doing my work, I was interrupted for about 45mins to settle some issue with Finance dept. Thanks to my colleague who managed to leave office earlier today and ended with me settling on behalf of her. Must claim back my time from her. Haha...

Luckily we did not plan to watch movie tonight. Initially I thought of going for another movie but really lucky that we did not. Otherwise, I may have wasted the tickets as I could not leave office at all until 10.30pm.

Tomorrow is holiday hence I can take a rest. Re-start my engine on Thursday.... Enjoy my holiday first. :P

Why I am always stuck with something???

This morning, I thought I could have a peaceful day to do my work slowly. However, still had a lot of things "popping out" and ended myself clearing them one by one. By the time I realised the time, it was almost 2pm and we "forgot" to go for our lunch.

My boss was asking us if we were ready for lunch and we went to C-Jade express together as a team. I ordered the same steam rice with mushroom and chicken. This time round, I did not order the set as I will be super full after eating whole set. I made a right choice this time.

Continued with work but still unable to finish what I planned to do today. Shall continue tomorrow and looking forward towards tomorrow evening as Wednesday will be a public holiday which I can take a rest again.

Looking for a better day tomorrow. :)

Blur Queen

This morning, I took my old laptop out to do some housekeeping. It had been 3 months since I last used this laptop. Thought of clearing unnecessary data so that in case I want to pass to my aunt or god niece, it will be easier.

However, I found that I could not log in with the password I thought it should be. I realised that I had changed the password to something easy for my sister to remember since her laptop had some problem and sent for repair few months ago. In the end, spent almost 30mins figuring out the correct password but with no luck.

Still could not stand myself forgetting the password, I started to try my luck again in the afternoon. My niece joined the "fun" and tried keying words she liked. I told her I will try myself as she would not know any of those "potential" passwords. However, miracle appeared. After my niece keyed in some characters, I managed to log in. Asked her what did she key and the password was what I had tried earlier on. Did not understand why it did not work earlier. Strange lei.

I quickly reset the password to the same one I am using for my new laptop. Better play safe uh.

Indoor

Woke up late and found that my parents preparing to go out to attend a wedding lunch. My sister came home after going for a walkaton at Padang. It was almost 12 noon and I had a long sleep last night. A good long sleep.

Initially thought of going out with my mum for lunch and shopping if my sister was not around. However, since she was going out, I was lazy too hence stayed at home watching TV programs, surf net. My sister was too tired to go out.

Usually we will go out for dinner on Saturday. However, my dad had to go and fetched the workers back to their shop, he bought dinner for us. Had satay and mixed 五香 for dinner. I am so full now.

Hope I can have more rest again tomorrow and starts another new week in a happier mood. :)

** Not having good mood this week as there were so many chasers etc and made me unable to fully utilise my time on more important stuffs.

Its movie time

After 2 weeks break, it's our usual movie time again today. My mood today was good as it is Friday and there were not many people chasing after me for docs, problems etc today. Hope this will continue and that will of course make me happier. :)

Our show was at 9.10pm. As we were still very full, we did not know what to eat for dinner. I suggested just to have desserts but.... we left office rather late hence no time to eat anything. Went to 7 Eleven to see anything to buy for munching but no preference hence buy nothing.

Watched "Unstoppable" and it was a real good thriller. I did not feel such nervous and thrills for long time and this show really made me so excited throughout the whole show. The sound effect made it so "real" as if I was in the train. Good one and really worth to watch. No regrets.

So fast, christmas is approaching. Saw advertisements in newspaper promoting christmas ornaments, clothing etc. I will make a trip to Orchard Road to experience this joyous festive.

2010 going to end and second half of the year has a great change in my career. I hope the my new career will be smooth and allows me to work happily, peacefully and fully utilize my past experiences. :)

加油!

One more day to go

A week full of stress to clear my work and finally left with one more day to go. Yippy!!

Had bought tomorrow's movie tickets by internet booking today so that we need not make a trip to Vivocity purposely. Just paid for extra $0.50 each for the booking fee.

Initially wanted to leave office early to buy the tickets but ended up going home late again since there was no need to rush to Vivocity.

Anyway, tomorrow definitely not staying late like this whole week. That is why I must make a point to go for movies on Friday. It makes me leave office early. :P

Boss coming back soon... Stress again uh as he surely will ask us to do a lot of things... From overseas, he already sent emails to us daily to act on this, act on that...

Lunch out of office area

This morning, I thought I could do my work as planned but I did not make it because of continuous chaser phone calls from customers. Our Finance dept colleague was not too helpful and had to change the way they used to do. Hope that will help us from getting so many chasers from our customers. Spent the whole morning handling such stuffs. So inefficient...

Told my colleagues that I wanted to get out of our office area for lunch. That will give me a breathing space by getting away for a while. My colleague drove few of us to West Coast hawker centre and I had minced pork noodle. The food was quite good and we all enjoyed our lunch. Chit chatting made us felt more relax.

Afternoon was busy as usual and in the end, few of us went home late again. Felt so bad for 小珠 as today was her birthday and yet had to stay late with us. She had been working late since first day of work... Must change our working hours to go home earlier from tomorrow onwards. Keep my fingers crossed that I can meet this target.

Vegetarian food

This afternoon, I had vegetarian bee hoon for lunch. It was very nice and I will buy from same stall again in future. The portion was rather big and I still felt full during evening time. Worth for money. Just $3 only.

We had intention to go home earlier today but due to a long report to send to our boss, we ended up leaving office only at 10.15pm. Our target for tomorrow is 8pm. I told my colleague that we have to set earlier target as our timing is always elastic. Target 8pm, go home at 9pm. So we have to set at 7pm and go home at 8pm. :P

Not a good time keeper

Monday again. So sad that need to go to work again.

Good news was once again, 小珠 and I will be colleagues again. Bad news was... she could not go home early on her first day of work... because of me!!! Recently we have many internal problems to solve and that wasted a lot of our precious time. Had been working late for the past 2 weeks. I must ensure this be changed by this week.

I can never be a good time keeper. Always have elastic timing. Something happened today that supports that. My watch was automatic type hence I had to wind to today's date since it stopped moving over the long weekends.

Was filling up some forms and realised something was not right. After figuring some time, I realised the date was funny. Wrote as 9 Nov but in actual fact, today was 8 Nov. I tried to find out why I kept writing wrong date... Finally I found the mystery. My watch was reflecting as 9 Nov and that was where I picked up the date to fill up those forms. Aiyoh... why I so blurred this morning.

Now I was feeling so full. Just had mee sua for dinner (or supper) with my colleagues. A bit regret to eat that... Sure becomes fatter and fatter. Eat Sit Sleep. Must stop this ESS!!!

Noise pollution uh

I spent some time to do my office work late last night until about 2am in the morning. Would like to clear them while my mind was clear and today my niece was coming so would like to spend more time with her.

Was surprised that my god nieces were here too. Since they were here, I did not have to entertain my niece as the 3 girls played on their own. Therefore, I had time to watch my favourite Sunday programme "Japan Hour". After finishing, we went to Tampines as I need to collect my blouse. Need to buy clothing for my god niece who is going to Taipei this coming Friday.

In the end, spent some $$ buying 3 pieces of blouse from Bega. They have sale now which is cheap so buy lor... Women are like dat... Ha ha ha...

With the 3 of the little ones around, our house was so noisy. Real noise pollution but at least we did not feel so bored at home.

Shall continue to watch some J dramas tonight and will try to rest early tonight. So fast... holiday ends. Now look forward to 17 Nov for another holiday. Just that it will not be a long weekend since it falls on a Wed. But better than nothing. :P

Enjoyable dinner at Crowne Plaza Changi

Rest at home till afternoon, watching J-dramas. Meeting time at T3 was 6pm so I left house at 6.15pm. So bad... I missed the bus to airport by just few steps away from the bus stop. I decided not to run to catch the bus because I was at the overhead bridge and was too dangerous to run down the stairs. Hence, I had to wait for another 15mins for the next bus. Luckily I managed to reach meeting place on time.

Met up with Tulip and 小珠. We shopped for short while before heading to Azur restaurant at Crowne Plaza Changi. The spread was good and we aimed for the seafood. There were lobsters, long legs crab (just the leg parts), oysters, clams, scallops, prawns etc. Enjoyed the seafood, sashimi and desserts.

We ate and rest for chatting when our stomach were too full. Continued after some rest. Eat rest talk all the way. We spent almost 4 hours in the restaurant. Worth while for the price we spent there. Today specially dined at this place to celebrate 小珠's birthday.

Will come another time as it was a good place to eat and chit chatting. :)

Foodie day

Slept rather late and had to wake up at 9.30am this morning. Alarm rang at 9.30am but I managed to wake up only 30mins later. After shower, done some office stuff and got prepared to leave house for our lunch at Senki Japanese restaurant at Killiney Road. As it was raining plus time was running out, we took a cab there.

Arrived at 11.45am and we were their first customers. Set down and started to order the food. As it was ala carte buffet, we ordered some first so that the food will not turn cold so fast. Their servings were very fast and all the dishes were piping hot. For a buffet lunch, the food was consider of good quality. As usual, our stomach could not fill too much food so we ordered small portion for each one. At least we wanted to have more varieties and each had some portion to eat.

After one hour and 15 mins, we could not eat anymore and left the restaurant. Walked to Ngee Ann City and shopped there. Not much things to buy and we walked over to Wisma Atrium before going to Ion. At Wisma Atrium, went to Porter boutique and quite like few of them. Shall pamper myself to one of them end of this year. Treat as my own Christmas present for working "hard" this year. :P

Bought donuts from Dunkin Donuts in case we were hungry during night time (we have no intention to eat dinner as we were still full at around 6pm). In the end, we did not eat the donuts... Shall let my brother eat as dinner.

Overall, I felt happy today with so much good food. :)

Our lunch :


Our intended dinner :


Bearie Christmas trees in Takashimaya Dept store :

Finally a day before long weekend

Today was tough as usual but good news is tomorrow is holiday and we will be able to enjoy a long weekend.

Will have good lunch tomorrow and I think we will continue to shop at Orchard area since lunch venue is near Somerset MRT. Hope I can get something tomorrow. Seems craving to buy things as spending money really can de-stressed. Haha...

No movies today as I knew I can't make it since there were piles of work to do...

Hope I have a good weekend this week. :)

Watch anime to relax

First 3 days of the week were per busy for me. Had to handle own stuff, worried about handover of work to our temp guy from our colleague who is leaving us tomorrow and tied up with "no value" paperwork.

24hrs is indeed not enough... Only way to make myself happier is to look forward to the long weekend. My sister had make reservation in Senki Japanese Restaurant for ala-carte buffet lunch on Friday. Hope it will be nice as I want to eat more more!!!

Just to make myself feel more relaxing, I decided to watch one episode of anime after this. Although my eyes are tired but... I want to relax!!!

Mini gathering

This afternoon, I had a mini gathering with my ex-colleagues. We went to Bugis temple for praying and had lunch at one of the nearby cafeteria.

We chit chat during the lunch and it was so good that as if all of us were still in same company. Another ex-colleague of ours joined us too. She is now working in Orchard area.

Glad to have this gathering. Hope we can have it more often. :)

Still tired after weekend rest

Today I am still feeling tired. Not enough rest over the weekend. Or... it could be I was overly tired for the whole of last week that made me still feeling so tired even I have longer sleep on Sat and Sun. Guess sleep cannot be accumulated and do it at one shot. No shortcut...

Was equally busy today and still loaded with paperwork. When can these be taken away ???

Had to clear my work hence left office at 10pm with my colleague. I had done a big mistake on one of my excel file that caused me to re-check and re-do my data keying as the file was over-written by recurring cell entry. Luckily there were just 10 over tabs involved. Stupid mistake and I must ensure I will not do it again.