it has been a gruelling two wks... and i swear it aint gonna get any better... but at least now my focus is on work so i wont be distracted by other stuff... cos i dun have the time nor energy..
sad to say... chapter B1 has reached its conclusion... not every story has a fairytale ending... jus as well... so i wont have more stuff fighting for my limited brain cells which i need desperately for work...
my gym ban was lifted yest... went to attack class.. did mostly the low impact option cos the strain/sprain on the left side of my right foot is still lingering... felt totally unshiok not be in top form.. will be doin hot yoga tmr.. hope some stretching helps...
alrighty it's bed time... gonna be another mad day ahead...
nope its def not marriage.... def not r/s... but time really flies... have been at my current workplace for 4 yrs... it feels jus like not too long ago i was still a freshie our fr uni....
my dear designer had to remind me that i m no longer young when i complained that my foot is still not fully healed from the accident last wk... she told me 你已经不 年轻了bah~~ and now realise i m kinda drifting further and further away from 21 and towards the big 3.. haha
but these 4 yrs though there were ups and downs at work... bosses that drove me nuts... colleagues that made me wanna pull my hair out... but at the end of the day things are still pretty alright and life goes on...
during this time, i have met many good ppl at work or during the course of work... the first 2yrs werent the most rosy but i am glad that i hung on... i guess things are pretty good now (minus the cranky boss)... i do enjoy what i m doin... have a good supervisor who i learnt alot from and she is very patient with me though her occasional antics do drive me nuts..but that is still manageable :) i have good team mates as well~~ so in general i m pretty comfortable where i m...
at this moment, i have no intention to move on i guess.. i value work environment and it has been pretty good the last 4yrs... in terms of job scope i m doin what i wanna do so thats good too... i get to do a variety of things so i wont get bored so easily... the only hazy area is prob career advancement... at this pt i dun really care.. i cant 'fight' with the scholars and high flyers for sure.. cos this is still the public sector... as long as i get satisfaction at work.. the pay is acceptable.. environment is good.. that is good enough for me now... i have no intention of climbing up high on the corporate ladder...
another plus pt is tt i get alot of me time... where i can indulge in all sorta hobbies and stuff i wanna do... at least i feel that my life is pretty balanced right now...
i think somebody here thinks we are obliged to ask her for lunch but i think everyone has the right to choose who they wanna have lunch with...
why izzit that even a daily affair like lunch has found itself on my blog is cos that someone had a "2-min showdown" with us on this.. the stage was set by talking abt punctuality and all... but the real key message that she wanted to put across was that we "sneaked off" for lunch w/o her...
oh plsss... lunch is always a big commotion here... and everyone is sitting so close to each other... well it's not like we will refuse if she ask to have lunch with us... but i jus dun like the fact that she put it across to us like we should ask her... i mean jus come along and be part of the commotion... dun sit down there and expect sth to happen.... like duh..
my dad says as a form of respect we should jus ask... i mean how fake can we get asking someone who we dun exactly wanna lunch with whether she wanna have lunch with us.... i will get bad karma for lying lor... anyway my dad belongs to the lao kok kok era so i almost puke blood talking to him...
i jus think it was a bad move for her to do the showdown... now we are even more reluctant... anyway if she thinks by doin that we will feel guilty... i have to say i dun feel bad nor guilty at all... this is a democratic society can... even my parents cant dictate the way i wanna live my life... so in short, no one can tell me wat to do.. but they can try if they want...
now my mum tells me i shouldnt sew so much.. later poke by the needles then fingers will have many 'holes' and will be rough and blah blah blah...
but really.. i would rather be hurt by the needles knowing that i will be happy and have a great sense of satisfaction at the end of the whole thing.... rather than be hurt by other beings
:)
btw, if anyone has lobang to teach kids handicraft, let me noe! volunteer basis is also good~~
yea the word is "close" else i would prob be in the hospital bed or in a coffin... so wat happened? i was knocked down by a car at the road junction outside my house.. this is a really really horrible junction... many many accidents happened there... there are cars comin in all possible directions and ppl tend to drive very fast along this stretch of road....
i had the right of way... green man still on... i am always very cautious when i cross the road at this junction.. so i kept looking over my shoulders to see if the cars slowed down... the last time i looked over my shoulder, they were inching forward...den when i turned to look again, the car came charging at me...
good thing the car wasnt flying in from a distance.. cos b4 the traffic light turns red again... cars will be rushing to make that right turn and sometimes they will "fly" thru... at another traffic light i have seen when the red light is on, green man on for a few secs already... suddenly u see a car 'flying' thru from dunno where...it is quite scary...
i was lucky to escape with bruises, abrasions and a mild sprain on my right foot... and lucky i wasnt wearing my usual shorts and flip flops after yoga class.. else my foot would have gotten it bad...i think my trusty aldo heels took quite abit of the 'injury'...
i was so close to reaching the pavement on the other side... cant imagine if the guy had not break in time...i might have been run over by the car.. the thing i fear most is to die in a road accident... now i look out the window and see the cars zooming pass... if the guy and stepped on his accelerator abit more... the story might have ended in a diff way...
this is the first time in my entire life that i sat in an ambulance and i dun wanna sit in one ever again... and hospitals esp the A&E always feels scary... its cold and i dread seeing ppl who are injured...
it is dangerous to drive in singapore and worse to be a pedestrian here... cos there are alot of impatient drivers ard anyway i m jus glad to be alive...
11:23PM - "SHOPPING IS CHEAPER THAN SEEING A PSYCHIATRIST"
went to haji lane with angie on sat after work stuff at mb.. and we managed to shop like almost 2hrs in that one lane! that is one of my fav shopping places cos it is away fr the crowd... and the ambience is really great.. esp the decor my dream is to own a vintage design inspired shop selling all the quaint stuff and one corner will be a cosy place for ppl to have tea and cupcakes/cookies... ahhh... when will it ever happen...
anyway, my loot for that day! 4 items for less than $140 ;)
had a cookie baking class at my place today cos one of my colleague wanted to learn ... since i planned to bake anyway, i invited the gals over including their kids, hubby partner etc...
one thing abt the comms family is everyone is quite close knitted... and we know each other's hubby, bf, kids.. (the team happen to be all women by the way).. whenever there are gatherings... invitation is always extended to the whole family... i think it is nice and u wont have ppl needing to run off to take care of kids or worry husband dun like they go out for too long or sticky bfs etc... i really welcome gatherings like this... the more the merrier right? :)
we had a little helper Kimberly... a very talkative and witty little gal... she made us laugh non stop esp during dinner with all her unexpected kids talk... hehe... very amusing
the kitchen was a little chaotic at first with 'flying' flour and uncoordinated hands... hahah but once everyone got used to their roles in the "production line" things went smoothly ... hee... overall it was great fun :D
unfortunately tonight we only had 3/5 of the bimbo club hope the next round we will have all the bimbos!
so chairbimbo, bimbo member and bimbo treasurer had steamboat at Hey Hey Hotpot at Paradiz.. being the bimbo us, we agreed to pay extra so tt we could have shark bone soup base... high in collagen or sth.. haha.. anyway, it is suppose to be good... love the soup, it was really yummy and it was healthy cos we ate lotsa veg...
bimbo member jus came back from taiwan (where she had to endure a not so happening travel companion)..lucky for me i had a really pleasant 15days with Ker during our Europe trip last yr... sometimes similar expectations and stuff are impt on trips else u will end up wanting to kill each other..
so sweet of bimbo member to get me this lucky charm.. i m gonna carry it with me and i m sure it will oso help me to ward off the 'cockroaches' :D
you are a 饭桶, rice is your staple.. u jus cant do w/o it you totally dislike all vege esp those tt are green you hate queueing up for stuff you like beef rendang you love jap food...esp sashimi your two fav hobbies: soccer and mahjong
i told myself to close the chapter... but well.. i jus couldnt silly isnt it? aloof as i try to be... deep down inside the stuff u say.. the things u do.. they seem to matter... your presence online or offline brings me laughter.. as long as u do not turn 'cold'... i m pretty contented if things remain as they are now...
became in house model again for an ad... cos we din really like the shots proposed by the design agency... so my colleague suggested that we took our own...
photographer was my colleague oso... haha... while we were taking the shot, my colleague forgot to turn on the flash and we got this shot... with some minor touch up...
on the way home from gym, on bus 86... i was sitting on the seat behind the driver... and u noe these days with the new bus orientation, that seat shrank by half so essentially tt seat can now only fit 1.5 adult rather than the usual 2 adults...
(this aunty was lurking ard)
aunty: 可以坐吗？
me: 可以, 如果你挤的进就坐lo
honestly i wasnt trying to be rude but it jus came out of my mouth naturally... i was being honest wat...
and den she really squeeze in... but after a few bus- stops i think she reckon that it was quite uncomfortable so she stood up
i dun really have much patience... so used my way to dig out his thots... commitment-phobia and lack of being proactive seems to be the prob which he doesnt seem to wanna try to do anything abt... and he does harbour the thought of an open r/s for a period of time
i dun deny that i used to be extremely commitment- phobic... but the possibility of an open r/s ... i really dun think so....i mean wats the point...
well at least i have cleared my doubts and ca close this chapter... if he is happy he way he is now.. i m happy for him :) frens we still will be~
3:08PM - NEW YR EVE CELEBRATION @ CHANGI BEACH CLUB
i kinda figured that i probably have no plans on nye cos i dun fancy squeezing with the crowd and neither do i wanna get gropped everywhere.. so a few mths ago, i agreed to go with my parents to their club for the nye celebration... since they are paying for it anyway...
the theme was EBONY & IVORY.. pretty easy to dress up
since we were early, we decided to take some shots at the beach..
although the crowd was made up mostly of the older folks.. but i can tell u that most of them are def more on den some of the young ppl i noe... every song tt the dj or the live band was playing.. someone will be on the dance floor...be it line dancing, chacha or jus grooving... it was awesome.. and finally a real social dance setting for me to dance :)
see the uncle in red? he is already 74 and full of energy! i had a few chacha dances with him that nite it was totally awesome!! at one pt he was debating with me whether "Sway" is chacha or rhumba... hahah i told him chacha for sure! uncle Ray can really groove i cant rhumba.. ahha..
he complimented that i could follow his lead really well and told my dad that i have some natural talent in dance... haha.. well at least my parents now noe that the money i have spent on dancing aint goin to waste ;)
and the best way to start the new yr? i actually won the 1st prize for the lucky draw!! like in my entire life this has to be the first time i won sth in a lucky draw and it was first prizeeeee!!!!!
i got $500 ntuc + $500 capital land mall vouchers.. the wardrobe has been cleared to accomodate more new stuff!! weee...
it could have all been a misunderstanding due to fb sometimes being unstable and removing frens from your list..
i might have wronged that person and called him petty... i have linked up with him again but it will stay as that.. that chapter in 2009 will remain a memory and will not be revisited
the comms gals gave me a treat at Aoba at Ion... the ramen was pretty yummy :)
and the end of the day, they surprised me with an ice-cream cake fr marvelous cream.. its strawberry shortcake!! yumzzz
in the evening, i had a great hot yoga session with bimbo member followed by a nice dinner at crystal jade...
on new yr eve, i finally met Jas for lunch!! She gave me a treat at Les Amis... it was totally awesomeee... i would highly recommend the set lunch there... as always i had a very relaxing lunch :D
so this pretty sum up the bday celebrations for 2009.. thanks for all the gifts and all the love ppl!!
i have been doin lotsa shopping this mth... both online and offline that i dun wanna look at my expenditure excel sheet :p i mean there are so many sales goin on... like how can me aka chairbimbo not live by the club's motto?
i m gonna spend this weekend throwing out my old clothes so that my new clothes can see daylight... have always been reluctant to throw away the old stuff cos i couldnt bear to do it... i have to put my foot down and get rid of them!
on an unrelated note.... this wk has been suay... first i had migraine and last nite i had diarrhoea... went in and out of the loo 8 times :S my butt almost split... (-_-)lll
tired
