Thursday, August 31, 2006
sleepy...
so sleepy today... lack of sleep n horrid rainy day... normally like rainy days, but last evening's downpour was really scary coz that was lotsa thunder n lightning n me had to walk under all those tall trees along the way to the bus stop... doesnt feel any safer at the bus stop coz u could feel the lightning n thunder ard u n on top of that must make sure u dun get splashed by stupid buses n car passing by...
didnt get to sleep till 2am++ coz had to explain to dad abt his insurance claim. he so suay, onli bought the car for less than 2mths n it got hit n scratched by a lorry at the parking lot at defu... dunno y he has to go there coz dat area got so many lorries going in n out... took so long to convince dad that he cant juz go any repair shop due to a clause in his insurance n had to explain to him abt wat details to get. in addition, matt n i had to try all ways to transfer his photos fr his handphone to matt's palm then to pc n print out... so all this drag till 2am...
the demage
so stone rite now.. some more planning to go comex today after work with colleagues to source for new digicam, ink cartridge, cd-r etc... long day ahead...
9:35 AM star light star bright... Y
Sunday, August 27, 2006
random shots...
random shots of what i have done in the past week besides lots of work n ot n getting sick fr eatting vegetarian mutton curry n having to miss up on karaoke coz i hv no voice ;p
budget terminal 200806
went to sent bro n jo off for a 1wk trip to krabi/bangkok at the new budget terminal. the terminal was really basic n there was onli 1 restaurant, hans in the arrival/departure hall n no other shops, not even a mama shop/bookstore... all the other shops were inside the check in area...thot that the airport was highly under utilised n am not sure whether they could actually keep airport fees low for the budget airline at the rate it is going...
free shuttle bus ride to budget terminal fr t2
check in counters n mostly empty terminal
hans restaurant in the far end
friday nite # raffles mrt
was on half day on fri to run "errands" n pop by to see company doc at raffles...was on my way hm when i noticed they were hving free public performances by groups at the open area in front of raffles mrt... seems that they were hving a series of such performances for a few fri nites... straw mats were placed on the grass patches for pple to sit n little clappers were given out to the audience... there were salsa performances by a dance sch, singing by a new local female singer n a play by another group which i didnt stay on to look...
salsa dancers
performance by new sg singer, genie
sat nite @ loyang tua pek kong
went for dinner with parents at changi hawker centre. haven gone there in a while n was really surprised how pack it was... ate lotsa stuff which i was not supposed to like, chicken chop, chilli bbq sting ray, fried oyster egg, cold sugar cane drink ;p... went for a walk at the new ferry terminal, regret not bringing my camera along to take pics... they had tis new pathway that stretches along the coastline but we didnt venture too far coz dad cant really walk too far... thot of bringing pups along for a run next time coz there werent much pple...
went off to loyang tua pek kong temple to pray.. seems that they were preparing for celebrations of an indian god the next day so the place for decorated up abit. they even had 2 full size banana trees which had a bunch of bananas each cut up n tied to the temple. some pics i took with my handphone...
temple all decorated
indian devotees coming all dressed up for prayers
preparation for ceremony
the famous stone which pple swear that they can see 4d numbers if you stared hard n long
mum n dad in the crowd
12:00 PM star light star bright... Y
Saturday, August 12, 2006
fireworks festival 06
decided to go watch the fireworks display again today. went on the 1st day with my ex-jap class kakis but onli watched fr marina coz by the time we manage to find a place to hv dinner n actually finished dinner, it was 8plus. luckily there was a open air platform outside the restaurant so we could actually juz stand ard to watch. h/r the view there was blocked by a few tall trees n we couldnt really see the lower fireworks... didnt manage to take picz then coz had no tripod n no pt trying coz required to keep absolutely still when taking nite shots...
tried to get rachel to go but she was not feeling well and was lazy to go round finding pple as crazy as me who would go park myself on the bridge linking esplanade n the merlion for nearly 4hrs without moving ard n going to the loo ;p esplanade (day time)
esplanade (nite time)
went to city hall area to shop ard at 3plus b4 proceeding to find a place to park myself at 5plus... was hoping to get a good place maybe in the middle of the bridge or somewhere in front of esplanade for easy access. h/r the seats along the stretch in front of esplanade was fully taken up n there were families hving picnics... proceeded onto the bridge to find a spot to no avail until i nearly reached the other end where the merlion was. found an empty spot beside a rubbish bin ;p...parked myself next to family n sat on the floor in front of the railing... brought along mags, a novel and mp3 to entertain myself for the 3hrs... was abit paiseh to bring out my tripod coz there was one whole stretch of veri pro photographers with veri pro looking camera on veri pro looking tripods... swear i'm gonna get one of those when i can afford then even though i was nvr well versed in photography ;p.. didnt hv dinner coz was afraid i had to go to the loo...
police arriving early to control the crowd
linkway to merlion was block off for a pte function by the organisers, onli pple with invitation were allowed in by the time it got to 8plus, the group of us sitted were surrounded by others n the walkway on the whole bridge was packed. stood up ard 8.30 to position my tripod n cammy n stood till 9 coz the pple behind me kept closing up. show started quite promptly at 9... was busy trying to take pics most of the time n catch the show. unfortunately pics didnt turn out nice n sharp... must really get a new cammy!!
bum boats n ferry which were booked for the event. ard 10 of them gathered when the fireworks were abt to start
thot the 1st show by team italy seem nice coz there seemed to be more variety n bigger fireworks... but anyway, was there to experience the atmosphere...
yeah~~ fireworks
finale (horrid shot, i know) after the show, was trapped on the bridge for nearly an hr n it took me an hr plus plus to get to the mrt fr the bridge! halfway thru decided to go to the loo coz citylink was really jammed at the escalator near godiva... onli managed to reach hm ard 11plus ;p
11:50 PM star light star bright... Y
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1:40 AM star light star bright... Y
muar trip 090806
had to go back to muar, my dad's hm town, for my grandma's 1st yr death anniversary prayers on national day... set off at 10plus in the morning with the uncles... slept my way thru like a log until our 1st pit stop at yong peng for fishball noodles n some kuay tasting biscuit...
reached muar itself ard 1 plus. wld be camping at an aunts hse so rested for a while b4 nagging my parents to go to the onli mall there. will mostly buy cute things n chinese novels n mags there coz they r really cheap but was really tame this time round partly wasnt much to buy n had really little time as usual.
dinner at the usual hawker centre but found that it had recently revamped. it was unusually clean now but think the food standard has dropped n less variety available. sort of miss the old feel which reminded me of the really old hawker centres in sg which i used to go with my family when we were really young. hawker centre with new roof, used to be open air
so much cleaner..
spent the rest of the evening folding joss papers n turned in pretty early coz there werent much to do there at nite. bought some dvds but there werent any dvd players in my relatives' hms ;p
was woken up ard 6plus by the crazy relatives n cousins who had nothing better to do. was dragged out of the hse to go buy joss papers, hv breakfast n a chicken for prayers ;p... along the way, stopped at the way to buy biscuits n goodies fr the famous biscuit shop there. we were the 1st customers there. the shop was supposed to be opened at 9 but it was ready for business at 8.10... as usual bought lotsa local pdts for friends, neighbours, colleagues etc...
the famous biscuit shop
early morning market scene
had to back at the hse by 9 for prayers but the priest apparently lost his way n in addition had left his hse late so ended up reaching onli at 10... sat ard while the relatives busied themselves with cooking... ceremony itself was much shorter than expected. less than an hr. ate the food prepared for lunch, didnt had much coz they didnt look appetizing. ended up ordering mac home delivery with the younger cousins, speaking of which took nearly 2 hrs to deliver the orders ;p
the spread
left the hse to pick up some more things b4 leaving to visit the other aunt's hse at 2... left for sg at ard 4 n reached sg ard 6plus, luckily no jams at the checkpts...
12:30 AM star light star bright... Y
Friday, August 11, 2006
D&D
had our d&d early this yr last thurs... theme tis yr was national day, pretty lame rite?! had to either wear red & white or in ethnic costumes... decided not to be insane to turn up in half red n half white, chose a white cardi with red embroidery which i oredi had...
we were given 1hr early release. while some chose to go hm to change, we stayed behind to change in the office n touch up while waiting for our transport. the warehouse pple had arrange for a private bus to pick us up fr the office @ 6 thus saving us the trouble of getting there ourselves coz once again the committee managed to choose one of the most ulu places in sg ;p
thot we were early but b y the time we got there, most of the tables were taken up n we had abit of prob finding 2 tables. there 4 groups of pple fr each of the companies on stage playing some pre party early bird games when we reached. sat ard to chope seats fr my colleagues fr the other division.
everything started quite promptly at 7, dinner was buffet style, mostly western. not totally great but slightly better than last yr's... thot that the entertainment this yr was horrid coz they ended up spending much less on engaging event planning companies, onli 1 dj n 1 amature mc who couldnt bring the spirits up at all. tink our crazy drunk warehouse guys were the one who "entertained" the crowd instead... but one highlight was the lucky draw prizes were pretty gd this yr, cash prizes for top 3, heard it was 700 for 1st n 400 for 2nd... but my group didnt stay long enough for the draw coz everyone was trying to get hm coz there was work the next day. luckily our names were called in the end too ;p dinner
games were lame, 1st they had the singing competition whereby 2 tables were given the same national day songs such as count on me singapore, stand up for singapore etc... our group got rasa sayang. none of us except our malay colleague rina knew the tune for the whole song so we onli managed to sing the chorus while she sang solo for the other parts... obviously didnt win lah
our solo singer ;p
camwhoring on stage :P the next was "the most..." games, i.e. the mc would not say what she actually wants but pple can volunteer to go on stage whereby she would annouce what she wants. for eg, she said she was looking for the "longest..."there were pple going on stage with ribbons, necklace etc but it turned out she wanted to find the one with the longest right index finger... lame rite? tink the last game was miss universe whereby guys are being dressed up n made up but we had gone off by then coz felt that it was getting quite cheesy n boring...
b4 we left, found one of my colleagues wasted in the toilet apparently for a veri long time. wasnt sure how long she was there by herself b4 someone found her. in the end they had to get 2 of the guys to come in to drag her out n one had to help n drive her car back to her hse for her.
11:50 PM star light star bright... Y
Sunday, August 06, 2006
pat's bday...
celebrated pat's bday in advance, actually it was his lunar bday also, last weekend coz he n jo are going to thailand for a week on the actual. went to this new lerk thai restaurant which replaced the magicwok chinese-thai restaurant on level 2.
lerk thai, white sands
the new restaurant was much nicer, both in atmosphere n service... it was rally nicely deco n there werent any food smells which i absolutely hate... must really praise them for their excellent service attitude. mgr was nice enough to get another table to shift coz we needed a 7 seater n there were lotsa 6 seaters ard so he got them to shift to another table so dat we din need to wait too long...
waiters were attentive to cust needs coz when matt had to return hm to help pat check on his his bike n din come back for a long while after the food were served. they offered to take back the rice n serve it hot again when he returns. he also came back with a huge pile of rice, which jo ordered to sabo matt, n tink deliberately gave an even bigger portion. could see the waiter giggling away while the rest of us had a good laugh...
nice experience there so most prob wld go there again :)
12:15 PM star light star bright... Y
cycy's rom 210706
didnt manage to blog abt cycy's rom till now coz stupid pc spoilt... bro manage to temp borrow a spare part fr his friend so was able to revive it ;p
back to cycy's rom, it was on a friday... had planned to take half day leave coz mth end closing but since they shifted closing backwards again, decided to take full day instead coz rachel took full day also... it wld be abit rush if i went down fr work coz her timing was ard 1plus...
met up with both of them at tm where cycy picked up her flowers, her hubby picked us up from there with cycy's meimei n her bf for her make up n hair at the bridal studio. while cycy was getting her make up down, we sat ard taking pics n hving a picnic while her hubby went back to pic up the parents to fort canning 1st b4 coming back again when cycy is done to pick us up again. 
it wasnt veri crowded at rom dat day coz maybe it wasnt those specially auspicious day. little q n they onli had one room opened at the ground floor. tink the rooms upstairs are much nicer and spacious... the rom officer or whateva they are called looked abit scary coz she looked so serious compared to the other one i saw... btw, cycy's meimei had a surprise photographer come in to take pics so me didnt manage have much oppotunity to take much pics in case i block or hold up the pro ;p... there were 13 of us in total, mostly family of the groom n another couple friend of the groom... short ceremony n we were out pretty soon..
as tradition, went ard the hill to take pics but the others were as keen in taking picz so they hung ard near the base while me followed the couple, the photographer n the video person, cycy's meimei's bf, ard to take pics... but they didnt take as much pics as we did the last time... partly good coz weather ws terribly hot n everyone was melting~~
cycy n hubby
ended the day with dim sum buffet at china sq where me n rachel spent much of the time entertaining ourselves while the couple entertained the other friend n parents...even though it was buffet style, felt variety abit lacking, thot yum cha at chinatown had much more for their ala-cart buffet ;p
dim sums :P
12:01 PM star light star bright... Y
Thursday, August 03, 2006
job search...
finally got down to "revamping" my 4 yr old resume n cover letter... hv been dreading to do it coz veri tired aft wk to tink on weekdays n lazy during wkends ;p...
last straw came when i heard colleague here leaving hence high prob they will dump work to me coz i used to do part of it... some more yr end audit soon, wanna skip....
but alas, stupid pc at hm crash liao, dunno wat part spoil, trying to get bro to repair it asap... meanwhile secretly sending in office, know not suppose to but no choice liao, desperate!!
manage to send out only 2 yesterday nite n 1 replied today... so scary~~ some more its accounts ap again... was really desperate so apply for accounts position as well... as much as i hate accts, i'm more desperate to leave tis company. moreover pay is alot better but strangely, it requires shift work in accordance to the diff time zones which the bank trades with... suppose to go interview tomolo aft work... so scared~~
12:40 PM star light star bright... Y
