Birthday cake

Wow wow... Cake cake... Yummy yummy...

Today is my youngest brother's birthday. He bought a cake to treat us. Strange right? It is the other way round. By right we should buy him a cake. :P

He bought this cake from Polar at airport. Opera cake. Not too bad as it is not too creamy.

I am still on leave today and will be watching movie with 小珠 at Vivo city. Therefore, need to leave home by ard 7pm in order to reach there ard 8 - 8.15pm. As I am at home, 小珠 went to buy the tickets for us. Bought the 9.20pm show for "The Hangover". So far the reviews are good (with 4 pop corns!). Actually I thought if we missed the 7.40pm show (rather full), the next one is at 10pm. However, I did not know that there is one 9.20pm show at GV Max. Lucky lucky. At least we won't miss the last train if we take this timing.

Shall look forward to tonight for the movie.

TGIF :)

Day at home

I am on leave today but going nowhere but stayed at home. Just would like to clear off my leaves so that they will not be forfeited. Although I was working since 10am this morning till 7pm at home, at least I do not have to wake up so early today and can sit at sofa and do my work. However due to long hours sitting, my buttock so pain now. :P

Intended to continue J-drama "Boss". Very interesting story and grow to like it. Keen to know next next crime story etc.

Tomorrow will still be on leave hence I can wake up late again. 小珠， 羡慕我吧？ 哈哈。

No big boss around

3rd day to no big boss day. Everything looks good so far. Not "haunted" by my big boss. To clarify why I stated "big", it is because my direct boss is around. However, he usually will not haunt me as much as my big boss. Count down.... left 2 days to enjoy but I am taking leave tomorrow and the day after, hence make no difference liao.

We had our monthly teleconference with our other offices associates today. Due to big bosses not around, it left with few of us to attend the session. At the end, left with 3 of us and we started to walk around, talk and daydreaming. Of course we mute the phone. Ha ha...

The photograph attached today is taken from our meeting room. Each of our meeting rooms have a theme and will be displayed with an item relating to the room's name. This room's theme is China hence this picture was hanged on the wall. Nice???

Nothing special

Ordinary day today. Nothing special happened. The only good thing is big boss not around! At least I don't have to worry that he suddenly calls me to ask me this or that. Ha ha... One week holiday for us as he is now in Melbourne with his bosses. :P

It becomes a routine for me to post something everyday. Though today nothing much for me to write, I am still trying hard to at least write a few sentences. Lame right?

Just changed my pet's outfit. Summer look. Matched the weather now. Tried to fish something by using a strawberry as bait. In the end, got rubbish. Too stingy liao. :P

Yen

This afternoon, I went to The Arcade @ Shenton Way with 小珠 and Tulip to exchange Japanese yen for our trip next week. Not too bad, we got the rate of 1.525. My target for this trip is below 1.55. It does look like yen rate is dropping but we decided to "lock our position" first. In case it goes up again. Nowadays, the rates are like roller coaster. Cannot predict.

The funny part is, we thought the rate is good at The Arcade. However after we were back in office, my colleague said that the money changer at HarbourFront Centre is offering 1.525 too. Huh... LOL!!!

Crabbie day

Today I stayed at home without stepping out of my house. My niece was not here today so I could watch korean drama "full time".

Before I started the korean drama, I was watching Japan hour at 1pm with my mum at our living room. I was lying on the sofa when suddenly I sensed a shadow. When I switched my view to below our TV set... Oh my god! Mr Crab was looking at me! I shouted that the crab had escaped and my mum quickly asked my dad to come and catch it back to the basket. Phew!!! luckily it "walked" to our living room and not hiding somewhere.

My parents went to the market and bought 4 crabs home. My mum afraid that there isn't enough air for the crabs so opened up the plastic bag inside the basket. Did not expect Mr Crab to leave his family and crawled out. If we did not see it at our living room, we may not even know it is missing until we are cooking it. Ha ha...

This is the 2nd time such incident happened. When we were staying at our old house, same thing happened. But that time, we did not manage to catch back the crab right away. It hid below my grandmother's bed for a day before we realised it had escaped...

Finally I finished the korean drama "强敌" by 11.45pm. The ending is a bit not clear but at least is a good one lah. My parents watching korean drama "Boys over Flowers" and they cannot finish it tonight as there are still many episodes to go. They are being drawn by the characters and the story. Perhaps because they did not watch the Japanese and Taiwanese version hence eager to know the story. For me, I had watched both versions and therefore is a little bit not so eager to finish the whole series. Slowly lah... :P

Tomorrow back to work. So sian... Don't feel like going back. Still think 2 days break is still not enough. Guess many people will agree with me.

SSS - What does it stand for???

SSS ~ guess what it means...

Ha ha .... can't get it?

It is Saturday Short Shopping! My own invention. Lame right?

I went to Chinatown with my mum and sister. Took some photos of the blue sky on our way there. Can't resist the nice blue colour. The cloud looked nice too. What a good weather.

We parked our car at Hong Lim Complex and walked over to the popular porridge store "长城粥" for our early dinner. Defined "early" because it was 5.45pm at that time. We were very hungry at that time as we did not have our lunch and ate a little for breakfast only. To our surprise, it was not crowded and still had many empty tables for us to choose our seats. Guess I was too hungry that I forgot to do my photographing of the food we ordered. :P

After the dinner, we went over to OG for the "Aircon". We were so hot after eating the hot piping porridge and worst still, there was no aircon there. Initially we were still ok, but as soon as we finished our food, we started to feel hot and sweating. Phew... need to sacrifice for good food.

Finally I decided to buy a luggage to replace my existing one which was rather old and can give way anytime. Since it was almost 50% cheaper, I bought it since it looks ok to me. Usual price is $298 and now it costs $149. Although I am looking for Samsonite or Delsey luggages initially, I decided to try this Hush Puppies brand. I will still look for one Samsonite luggage since I intend to trade in my old luggage. That is too heavy for me and has become white elephant many years ago. I only used it twice for my long trips to USA and Europe.

Before we went home, we dropped by at this "记得吃" Hong Kong desert store. I orderd the mango with pamelo as usual. Tastes good...

That ends my SSS. :)

The day I am waiting for

It's here, it's here. Friday Friday.

Since morning, I was waiting for evening to come because we watching "Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince". The movie started at 8pm and though we were not late to collect our tickets from organiser, I was stucked with calls due to work. In the end, had no choice but to get my another colleague to help me out.

After watching the movie, I am satisfied with it. Of course, the book can described more details on the story but it is not bad that the movie can cover most important parts well. Now, I shall start to read the last book. Bought it for quite some time but did not start reading it. Looking forward for the last movie that may be launched next year.

Overall, it is a very good week for me. Enjoyed most of the days.

Two more weeks and I will be flying to Tokyo. So excited...

Friday approaching!!!

Tomorrow is Friday! TGIF!

Am looking forward to Friday as I am watching "Harry Potter 6" in the evening. This time round, we bought subsidized tickets from our company. Hence will be watching the movie together with many of our colleagues & their family members.

Today we had lunch at Tung Lok restaurant at Vivo City. We had 3 project team colleagues from London here for 2 weeks and this lunch was an appreciation for everyone's effort to make the meetings go smoothly. Initially we booked restaurant at Raffles Hotel but due to lack of cars and their meeting over run, we decided to change venue.

Did not take photos on the dishes we ordered (a bit pai sei to take photos in front of so many people) hence managed to take just the drink that I had ordered. Very nice fruit juice that made up of lemon, pineapple and vegetables. The colour was a bit too greeny and this scared off our London colleagues. They dare not order. My boss suddenly called me and said "this drink colour match your blouse". I looked on what I was wearing and BINGO! Its true. Hee hee...

Managed to fix a few deals for my colleague today while she was on business trip to KL. At least I not doing nothing in office. :)

Well, tonight I will not watch any Korean or Japanese drama as I am a bit tired. Shall now try to see if I can log in to Restaurant City in Facebook and just want to buy the ingredients. Today has Kiwi fruit in the marketplace and I need to buy some in order to level up my menu.

Cross my fingers that I can get in soon. Have been trying for pass 30mins.

Busy evening

Just back from office. Today I thought I can relax for a day but it happened that my colleague was on medical leave and I need to cover her work. Lucky for me that I managed to clear my own work before busy hour from 4.30pm. Glad that I could fixed a few deals on her behalf. "Got rice to eat" today! Hee hee.

I am rather guilty that I ate a lot today. Ordered "Ban Mian" at Food Republic during lunch and although I did not finish the noodles, I drank almost the whole bowl of soup. One of our colleague bought some tea snacks from Beard Papa and I ate the puff. So guilty so guilty... Now I am full of guilt. Still feeling so bloated... To greedy liao to eat so much.

So angry uh. I keep having problem logging into Restaurant City game in Facebook. Not sure if it is due to too many people accessing the game or is due to my pc. My monitoring shows that I usually can connect to the game only around 12 midnight. Does it mean it is due to high traffic??? So sad...

Oh yah, a total eclipse of the sun was visible within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. Amazing sight and too bad, we cannot see it in Singapore. Really envy those people that could watch this once in a lifetime amazing sight. The previous such long eclipse happened 300 over years ago and the next one will be another 100 over years later.

Finally Its Over

My sister is attending 2 days course and need to be in office before 9am. As I slept late last night, I decided not to follow her to office (we go to office together everyday). Although the course starts at 9am, she wants to be in office at around 8.30am. I don't think I can wake up half an hour earlier in order to reach office early. Therefore, I rather take my own transport. Hee hee.

Before I reached office building, I quickly made a call to our IT dept. My network id was locked yesterday and I could not sync my emails to my phone. Hence, need IT dept staff to unlock for me. As I did not want to waste time waiting, I called before I reached office so that my id will be ready for use once I on my pc.

We went for rather early lunch today. My colleague asked if we wanted to go over to Seah Im hawker centre since we did not go there for quite some time liao. The food there is nice and cheap. The only bad thing is ~~ VERY HOT!!! NO AIRCON!!! Anyway, we still proceed to the hawker centre. Chose seats at one corner so that it will be cooler. I ordered nasi lemak today. Just $3 and enough for me to last for many many hours. Yummy.

Evening was busy time for me as I had to cover work for my colleague. However, its finally over!!! My colleague coming back office tomorrow and I can relax a bit again. But, my another colleague is making a day trip to KL on Thurs and I have to cover her. Just a day break for me tomorrow. Must fully enjoy the one day break. Actually ok lah... They also cover my work when I am on leave. I just say say only... to make myself feels useful. Ha ha...

PS : Photo showing new outfit for my pet in Pet Society. きれいね。

Beginning of a week

How time flies. It's Monday again. I hate Monday as it is another long week to go.

Glad that first half of the day passed smoothly. Nothing big happening and it was time for lunch. Today's lunch in big group. Total 9 of us including my boss. My colleague mentioned about Yoshinoya and asking if the food is nice. When my boss heard it, he said ok we shall go there.

Majority of us ordered their promotion set. For me, I chose the unagi set. Looks good right? As we had 9 sets, the staff offered to serve the food to us instead of us waiting at the counter and collect food ourselves. I think partly they do not want us to cause a long queue that will scare other customers away. Hee hee...

After lunch I went to Canon shop to redeem memory cards for my boss who bought 5 cameras. He told me to go to Vivo City canon shop near the GV cinema. I blur blur followed his instruction. In the end, the collection is actually at my office building first level Canon shop!

Second half of the day passed rather peacefully too. Not much emails coming in so I could do my paperwork slowly. Finished my work rather early today. Longing to have such day everyday. Cross my fingers. But... tomorrow sure cannot enjoy such relaxing mood because my colleague is on leave and I need to cover her. So now... longing for Wednesday to come so that I can try to enjoy relaxing day again. Hope my dream will come true... :)

No to coffee

Just mentioned that my stomach was ok last night and it happened!!! I had stomach upset before going to sleep at 3.30am!!! Conclusion is... still no to coffee I think.

Wake up rather early today as my niece will be coming over to our house. Don't want her to see me still sleeping like a pig when she arrives. I woke up at 11am and although it considers late for many people, for me who slept at 4am is consider very early liao.

Felt so good after the haircut yesterday. Just afraid my fringe will grow too fast and touch my eyes before my trip to Japan next month. Fringe fringe be good hor.... don't grow so fast...

I bought lollipop for my niece last week and today, she asked my father to buy lollipops for her when they went to the mama shop near my house. She chose apple flavor for me and strawberry for herself. This little girl, she still remember I like apple flavor as we were playing paper scissor stone just to decide who should take apple flavor last week.

While I am typing now, it rains. Hope it can cool down the temperature a bit. Rather hot this few days.

How I spend this Saturday

Woke up very late this morning. Just... before 12 noon. Cool man... Ha ha...

I have haircut appointment at 3pm. My sister drove me to Plaza Singapore and went shopping with my mother around Orchard area. For me, I spent 4 hrs in the salon as I need to colour and cut my hair. Sat there for so many hours until my back so pain.

There was Japanese fair at the 1st floor of PS. Happened to see the chef cutting a tuna fish. Not those very big fish but it was consider big if you compared to normal fish we usually see in the market.
My mum and sis came to join me at PS and we had our dinner at the food court. We bought Kway Chap, Fried dumpling and springroll. Yummy...

We walked to the newly opened shopping mall, Orchard Central, at opposite Centrepoint. Many shops are still renovating and we just walk around to take a look since we were near there. We went to the 11th floor and could see a different view of Orchard road.

This shopping mall design is very unique. It gives me a feeling that we are not in Singapore. As many of the shops are not open yet, it is a little bit confusing there. Perhaps I will go there again after most of the shops are open. Before heading to pick up car, we had some drinks at Coffeebean cafe. I decided to order Iceblended mocha coffee since we will be heading home straight after the drink. I tends to have stomach upset after drinking coffee but strange, I am perfectly ok till now. Recovered???

There is this interesting piece of artwork there. Very big shoe isn't it? The lady is too tall for me to capture the whole scrupture.

Sleepy zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Can I still lie on my bed for a little while more? This was what I asked myself when I woke up this morning. I was so sleepy and tired. But the answer is NO!!!

Dragged myself to wake up and bath with my eyes closed. Don't feel like opening them as they are like glued up. :P

Today while driving passed Singapore Flyer. I took another closer picture as the weather was better hence it was a clearer view.

I was rather relax this morning as there were not many emails coming in. Went to ABC market (near Ikea Alexandra) and finally got a chance to eat wantan mee. It has been a very long time since I eat this. The stall we went to is selling at a very cheap price. $2!!! We decided to order additional chicken and mushroom which costs $3. Still cheap.....

After lunch, I thought I can do my paperwork slowly but unfortunately, a lot of adhoc stuffs need to be handled hence I ended up became busy and cannot finish my work early.

Finally finished my work at around 9.10pm and I headed to have dinner with 小珠 at Long John Silver. Luckily not very crowded there and we managed to have our dinner without long wait. Today no movie as we had already watch it yesterday. Just happen that no good movie with good timing for today hence we did not watch another one.

Back home now and my zzzz bugs still pestering me. Think cannot stay too late tonight. Tomorrow I am going for my hair do at 3pm. However, I will still surf net for a while and play my facebook games before retiring. That is my usual routine. :)

TGFC

Very unusual Thursday.... There were not many emails coming in and therefore, I had more time doing my paperwork. Good for me as I did not have to rush for my work.

We had lunch with our big boss today at Xi Yan restaurant. Unlike the 12 course dinner we had few months ago, today lunch had only 6 courses. We could not finish the food previously therefore my colleague chose this simpler set today. The food was not bad and I chose my seat with this pottery cup. Each cup is unique there. There are a few paintings there and I took a photo on 2 of them.

Due to my carelessness yesterday, we had to watch "Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs" today at 9.15pm. This is the 1st time we watching 3D effect movie. Before the movie, we went to Banquet for our dinner as I suddenly craved for the fish soup noodle. Very satisfied with dinner tonight.

We were slightly late for the show but luckily did not miss the trailers. All trailers were for new shows coming up in 3D. Will definitely watch them. I highly recommending "Ice Age - Dawn of the Dinosaurs" is a must-see movie. It was full of laughter and the characters were so funny. Worth for the 10 bucks we paid each for the 3D effect. I love 3D now.

Took train and reached home at 12.20am. My parents and sister are all asleep. Poor me... alone with no one to talk to. Ha ha... just kidding. How can I be lonely when I have my pc. Ooops... lame uh! :)

Eventful day

This morning it rained again. Such a good weather to sleep but I had to wake up and go to work. So sad.... How I wish I can continue to lie on my bed and sleep.

My sister decided to drive to office direct instead of parking her car near Serangoon MRT and take train to office. Along the way, took a picture of Singapore Flyer. Bad luck today that it rained and ended up we reached office later than usual due to the heavy traffic from Marine Parade till Keppel Road. Better luck when we managed to find a parking lot at the Seah Im hawker centre carpark. Just $4 for full day parking. :)

Our company has organised subsidised movie tickets for Harry Potter. As the timing is around 8pm next friday, we decided to purchase the tickets. Most of the time, it is around 7 to 7.15pm which is too rush for me as my work can only end at around 7pm daily. Therefore, queued up for the tickets during lunch time.

Had early lunch today at the newly opened foodcourt at HarbourFront centre. Ordered laksa today. Sinful but don't care liao. Once in a while lah. It seems like only 小珠 and me can take the food there. All my other colleagues complaining that the food not nice there. Maybe we are not as choosy them on food. Many times when they said food is not nice, both of us don't think it is that bad.

We had a good laughed when one of our colleague Tulip said that her friend had bought a 8kg laptop that costs $4000 plus. Wow!!! Her friend can carry a laptop around which weighed more that 1 packet of rice!!! In the end, it was actually around 4kg (8-9 pounds). Must be she didn't pay phone bills and message got distorted and she thought it is 8kg. Ha ha...

Went to buy tickets for Friday (Ice Age 3). We rushed over to the cinema just before 10pm and managed to buy on time. As it was rather rush, I forgot if I did mention we wanted to have the 3D show. Hence walked back to ask the staff and luckily, it was that show at 9.15pm. I have the habit of reading out the date and time of the show time each time after tickets purchase. Oh my god! We bought the wrong tickets for Thursday!!! Luckily we have nothing on tomorrow night and can still watch the movie. Otherwise... don't know how to settle the tickets. I was so blurred because I was the one talking to the staff. So Sotong today.

After purchasing the tickets, dropped by Bakezin and bought 2 pieces of chocolate amer cake. Intention was to buy the whole cake which is having 50% discount this month but sold out as it was rather late. Therefore buy 2 pieces and still enjoyed the 50% discount. Very worth it.

My laptop just went for migration and now I cannot get into facebook so often in office. Don't play play uh. They can be tracked by our IT people. Brought home my laptop to ensure it can work before weekends. However, got stuck and cannot turn proxy off (in order to connect to emails at home). Luckily, my IT colleague was online while I surfing net using home pc and managed to get some help. In the end, it was because I yet to connect to wireless!!! Pai Sei uh......

Full of unusual events today right?

Yawn...

Yawn..... so tired today. Slept at 4am and woke up late at almost 12noon.

Surf net after taking brunch and was so impatient because I could not logged in to Facebook games due to website doing maintenance.

Went to Raffles City for dinner with my parents and sister. Guess what??? We went to eat Sushi Tei again. But today, a bit disappointed as the sashimi was not really nice today. Maybe the fishes caught were not that good.

Bought donuts from J.CO. Yum yum... so nice. Still full now so cannot eat them. Whenever I saw donuts, I will think of the donuts from Mister Donut in Japan. Will definitely eat them again next month when I am in Tokyo.

When we were out of the carpark, realised it was raining so heavily outside. Wow... luckily we did not dine at East Coast Park. Otherwise, we will be wet. Strange that it rained today. However, I welcome rain as it will cool down the temperature.

But.... my poor sister. She just washed her car this morning and now it rained.