Did not go to my mum's stall to help out today. What a naughty girl I am! Feeling kind of guilty. But sometimes, I just love it to have some time to sit at home, do the things I like, breathe in the air from the window. Especially, it has been raining these few days, the air just feel so cool and fresh to me. Haven't been sleeping in air con room since like a week ago. Only when darling came over last night, we had the air con on. Without the air con, it was already cool as though there was the air con. Saw the pizza hut promotion, called them and they told us "Sorry Sir, due to overwhelming response, we are unable to deliver to your area." WTF! This is the first time I heard this. Because it was raining, that's why we decided to order their food. It's not as though it is fantastically nice. I feel that their size of pizza and quality of the pizza has been deterioriating and as well as the amount of ingredients they put on the pizza has been decreasing. If not for the rain, and not for the promotion, I don't think I will call them. So now, darling and I are sitting in front of our laptops feeling kind of hungry. Luckily, I woke up at 1pm today and had an "overdued" breakfast. Otherwise now I am starving already. So now how?! Hai I am feeling hungry and bored... Hmmm... Find something to do and here I am blogging!!!!

This Saturday has been really relaxing, away from the hot hot air of the coffee shop. I wish for many more of such days. Did my christmas wish to hang onto my office christmas's tree. We each have an angel (unknown to us). We have to hang our wish on the tree and our angel will buy our gifts and place on our table secretly. So far only 3 people hang their wish on the tree and our deadline is on 30 Nov. The way they hang their wish is like jus a piece of paper, boring way to do. For me, as many people know, I like my things to stand out. So using this Sat afternoon, I had fun doing ART AND CRAFT again. Rekindle my love for art. Used to love it so much, sit down draw and do stuff. But now, ever since I started working, I realised there's just not enough time for everything. I try to sleep later every night, but I just wouldn't have the energy to do things I like e.g. art and craft, drawing, painting, doing my jewellery bracelets, earrings, necklaces etc. I also used to love to pack my room, but now I actually find it a chore. Hmm, think I gotta get started to pack again. Should go out less so that I spend less. Realised that I have been spending more than what I have ever spent before in my life. $50 just seems so small to me. This is a bad bad perception. By the way USD is falling, hehe, can buy and keep keep hor, when it gets stronger and sell. Haha. but then stupid la!

Alrgight, let me display you my craft work.

The brown string is for it to hang onto the xmas trip. You see this pink ribbon at the back, it's actually a bookmark where I wrote my wish on it and I attached it behind the sock.

A new addition to my farm! This is Pinky. Yes, she flew all the way from U.S to me. Haha. It's from Victoria Secrets. Hehe. And the T-shirt she's wearing is from Victoria Secrets too. Ain't she kewl?! Hee.... :)

The other view of her. Hehe sweet lil' pink dog. Yup... That's all for my weekend, slacking at home, doing some things I like, breathin in cool rainy air. Love such days....

Jiaying dear!! My blog title sure sounds super familiar to you. YES! It's your MSN nick, bleahz. =P To think you put that as your nick. Kaoz! Com'on la, I was just kidding, really. It's all over. I have a sweet and happy family, right darling? Oh no, yue4 miao2 yue4 hei1 already. Let me explain the situation. Long long time ago, I fell in love with this guy who walks like a penguin. He's just really cute. Sings tenor in the choir and has solo parts in performances at Victoria Concert Hall. I am so crazy about him that the entire school knows, even his form teacher. I really didn't mean to let everyone know, but you know how news can spread like hotcakes. Haha, the way I put it, close friends would know who this guy is. Shan't mention names here lest something happens. Let me explain the situation today:

Today, Princess Baby Gracie went to work with her new hairstyle. Let's look at the way she styles her hair...

Upon reaching office, princess baby's colleagues were exclaiming about her hair and say she looks really cute and just like a Japanese. They even made me speak Japanese though they cant understand much of what I said. Anyway, so far, only my mum gave me negative comments about my hair.

My hair is really charcoal black. I am kinda proud of it! Hehe but some of my colleagues were suggesting that I dye it. But seeing Jiaying dear just now, she says need not dye, cos this hairstyle suits black too.

Alright, back to the main story. Because princess needs to get rechargeable batteries, and her beloved was telling her that Jurong Point Self Fix store is having a sale for rechargeable batteries and thus, at the very last minute, she emailed Jiaying dear to ask her to accompany her to Jurong Point.

We had dinner at Long John Silvers which I haven't had for like probably a year?! During dinner, couldn't remember what we were ranting on and I suddenly mentioned "him" (yes, the same him I mentioned earlier.) Then, I was saying aiya, that day see him on the bus, he didn't see me wasted and I also mentioned about if can see him, I will be happy because he's very cute. Not because I still crush on him ok? That was like 8 years ago. Bleahz.

After dinner, we were heading to Watsons to look for some things. Then whilst walking there, something happened in a matter of seconds. Jiaying stopped suddenly because she saw her colleague and started a short chat like 3 secs. I looked in front, this guy just got off the escalator and walking towards the exit of Jurong Point, he looked at me and I don't know why I happened to turn to look at him, and then he looked back and he waved to me and I smiled and said hi and waved back. At this time, Jiaying was talking to her colleague and I interrupted and called Jiaying super loudly telling her I saw him. Walauz, just talked about it during dinner only. KNS! Haha got so heng anot. Then my spirits became very high and I was so happy talking about him. Hehe. Mmm.. bought milk and off we went home le.

Tmr's gonna be quite a long day ahead... Gotta hit the beds now! Byebye...

Took half day today because I had my last Jap exam just now. I had listening, dictation and Kanji test together in an hour. Did quite well I guess. Confirm passed! Hehe. Anyway, after work today, I head down for a haircut! Yes, my unmanageable hair finally had its trimming. Now, I looked so different. Brother says not very nice. Xiaoqi says not bad (maybe she's scared to hurt me, hehe. No la don't worry.) Alright, let you all see first la, otherwise you all got giraffe necks le. Hehe...

Took this while waiting for the train to Bugis. So how is it? Yes, it's the messy style but I like it after the hairstylist styled it for me. It really looked like I permed my hair but I did not. So when I wash my hair, all the style would be gone. Now, I am thinking whether I should style my hair to work or no. I am afraid people, as in my colleagues, cannot accept it. What do you think?

Here's another one....

This is the last one. Did not really take a lot of photos because as you know how crowded City Hall MRT station is, and I only took this three and many people were already looking at me. Overall, I am satisfied with my hair. I can leave it straight on days I don't want to style and I can style it on days when I wake up early. 2 - 3 months later, I should be going back for a perm as the stylist don't agree with me rebonding it as my hair has little volume. The only way to increase the hair's volume is to perm it. Rebonding it will only cost my hair to look even lesser.

Upon reaching Bugis went to walk around cos it was still early for me to sit down and do my revision. Happily walked into Watsons and saw the Foot Spa Massager which I wanted to buy for a long time. Finally bought it after my exam cos Henry was there to fetch me home. Thanks, Hen Hen! (By the way, he hates it when I call him that.) Came home, tried, working perfectly. I hope to be able to continue to do it everyday, though I might get lazy eventually. But I have got severe cracked heels. Nothing works for me! If this goes on, I think I have to visit a doctor. Cos' it's really painful at times of the day. I think it gets too dry in air-con rooms and then it starts to have a painful sensation. I think if it really does not work by soaking my feet and putting on moisturizer everyday, I will have to visit a doctor to get it "cured".

After that, went to TCC to sit down and do my revision. Feeling hungry, I ordered a club sandwich and a Mint-Choc Frappe. Club sandwich wasn't as fantastic. The Mint-Choc Frappe was only so-so to me. Hmm then finally Qiqi came and we revised a short while and went for our exam. Nice and lovely Tuesday for me. I love haircuts and hairdos once again. Think I am going to spend a lot on my hair again.

Was on the train to Jurong Point just now to meet Zhiyun for a short dinner. When the train reached Chinese Garden, I saw this...

Suspicious articles. Look at that black bag! Potential BOMB! I initially thought it belonged to the lady with the Cold Storage carrier.

A closer look...


An even closer look! Super like a POTENTIAL BOMB! Maybe we should inform the MRT Captain. Hehe. Upon reaching Boon Lay Station, I saw this lady walked up from some other seats that weren't near this baggage to pick up her article. Beware... Haha...

Now, below is a story I would like to tell with regards to the little animals in my farm:

My farm has this couple pigs... They looked for food and water from this red well everyday. They lived very happily.

One unlucky day...

Came Mr Chicken Big (Chicken Little's father, I suppose). This was a disaster. He had a weird beak and a crazy PINK tie on his neck. I seriously wonder his wife's taste of fashion. Eeeks.... By the way, the couple pigs disliked him and ostracized him because of his weird fashion sense.

One bad day, Mr Chicken Big sat onto the couple pigs' food and water well and began to place his "deposits" into the well. This really made the pigs furious! They went round the farm telling everyone but no one believed. Luckily~~~~

Our cutie brother bear who was on his way home after shopping for Christmas pressies became the pigs' witness!

TADA! Childish baby's story. Hehe but I was creative. BleahZ~

Just talked about it yesterday, it's out today!!!!!!! Can you imagine how tempted I was to want to walk in and say "I'll take one of this!" Damn, but it is kind of pricey to me at this moment, and you know how sickening it can be when you bought the phone the moment it's out and suddenly in a matter of months, the price dropped steeply. You really want to stab your heart at that moment. Well, after all I have said, you can probably decipher that I did not buy the phone. Hehe, maybe Santa Claus will buy for me (*KokZ* In my Dreams...)

Anyway, today is Japanese Oral Exam, Qiqi decided to give it a miss as she wasn't feeling too well. Made my way there from darling's place after a splendid nasi lemak breakfast. Hee. Reached there feeling all so hot due to the weather and I was like perspiring all over. Signed in on my attendance and was given 2 pieces of paper to fill in my name and pass it to the oral invigilators when I walk into the room later. Last year, we had to sit in the classroom to wait for our numbers to be called. After I filled in the 2 pieces of paper with my particulars, the man said "Ok, you go into this room." In my mind I was like "HUH! I have yet to settle and cool myself down leh. Kaoz." Nevertheless, took a deep breath and walked in. It was over in less than 3 mins. I anticipated all the questions and my answers came out as though I did not need any time to think about them. Hee. Anyway, I am glad it's over. One more lap to go next Tuesday, Dictation, Kanji and Listening. Listening is what I fear most. Quite hard to differentiate certain sounds. Wish me luck, people!

On a brighter note, KL trip is booked and settled! Hurray! It's something I will absolutely look forward too. And on the magazine yesterday, I saw that the period we will be there, they have the Malaysia Mega Sale going on. I wonder if this would affect the prices of shoes, clothes, cosmetics and undies?! Hehe, because I am going there to buy all these. Please wish me luck in buying shoes. I always find new shoes but they are either the last pair (which is the one on display) or they do not have any more pairs with my size. I swear this time round I will buy the shoes I like the moment I see and ask if they had my size. Otherwise I will end up walking to all Vincci shoe shops in KL. In case you dont already know, I am a FANATIC for their shoes. Their Singapore's and JB's collection is nothing compared to the KL's collection. I want to buy many many shoes!!!!!! Hehe. And, I am curbing my temptation to buy any moisturizers in Singapore to try my luck if I could get it at a cheaper price in KL. Yay!!! KL, here we come!

Yes, pink pink pink.... I am ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE with PINK!

And now, the back.... Marvellous and the specifications is good! It's 3G, has a 3 megapixel camera and also a VGA camera for video calls. It has both infra-red and bluetooth... OMG! I must lay my hands on this toy. Can it not come out so soon yet? I have not reached my savings target, after reaching the target, I will then set aside money for this. How abt my Sony T-10?? Do I have to do away with it? Sigh, pink is my weakness.

Hehe as you realised, this is a new blogskin. Though simple, but I love the colours on it. Soothing to the eyes. Apart from the new blogskin, you see a new chat box! I did not continue using tagboard as I realised there's this irritating thing about CPanel, which I know nuts about and which I simply hate, because it just keeps popping out asking you for username and password. Totally irritating but probably because I don't know what it is. So I switched back to what I use to use in Xanga - Chatterbox. Hehe. Seems much user friendly to me at least. And then you will also see some columns on the left with "Construction in Progress", that's basically because I am tired now and I have no idea what to put into these columns. Let me know if you all have any ideas what to put there. It's also partly because my knowledge of html codes is only minimal. Hehe.. Alright, away from this, some happy things to update about. Not that I found a new job la! Not so fast one la find job. Hee... But read on!

10 Nov was a happy day! A long awaited day for 4 of us to meet up, including our other halves. Hehe, the BBQ was successful! Yay, except for ordering too much food and the mosquitoes, hehe everything was great and perfect! The good thing abt getting our other halves there is when we are having fun taking photos, they can be clearing up the mess and packing up everything. Yay! Alright, let the photos do the talking....

Look at the yummy food. The otah tasted good but the look of it is like watery watery kind. Did not quite look edible. And my dear qiqi had tummy ache the next day and she kind of put the blame on the otah. Hehe. The chicken wings were not too bad, but I believe I make better marinated wings. Satay was also not too bad, but I prefer satay club's one. Hehe. Hotdogs just tasted like hotdogs. Keke...

The three of us.. This was before Pei Pei came. And the 2 fingers were supposed to be satay la. Just that we were too laxy to walk there and get two sticks of satay to pose for the photo taking.

This looked so much like the butter was already in Jiaying's mouth. OMG!!!! But it wasn't k? Nice pose, girl!!! Hehe.. Don't worry, tho you eat so much butter, we still LOVE you!!!

This is only one-tenth of what Pei Pei eat. She ate the most chicken wings that nite... Jiaying, how can you lose to Pei Pei? I tot you said that you only eat satay and chicken wings?! How come you ate so little? So disappointed!!!

The sticky, oily and smelly us...

Our mess....

Now this is what we called LEPROSY HOTDOGS courtesy of Ms Shum Jiaying...

Ashley-san and Otouto-san (younger brother) AKA Jiaying's O... Hehe...

Now, back to the childhood days of playing with sparkles. We all don't understand how come we are so in love with playing sparkles when we were young, now it seemed totally NO fun at all. Hehe...

Now, we caused haze in Singapore. PSI reading at that time was 300 and public holiday was declared the next day...
Now... the different different photos we took........

We all looked ugly and spastic in this photo...

Puffer fish pose.. Qiqi, do we look like your puffer fish???

Now... Some artistic shots of the sparkles we played with....

Beautiful.......

Artistic shot..... Pretty!!

I tot this pic looked quite pretty......

Oops... I havent mentioned that these are taken in the clubhouse~

Another nice one..

Now the last pic... Am too lazy to do a collage but ended up uploading one by one takes relatively long time man!!! Yup, that's all for now. Really miss you gals already.... Looking forward to our steamboat. Shall we go for satay at Lau Pat Sat?? Say 29th Nov? After eat, we shall go home cos next day is Friday~ We need our beauty sleep. Let me know ya... Tatas...

Just when I thought everything has been smooth sailing in my work, especially when I have gotten use to waking up, going to work, coming home, sleep, kind of aimless life, a question from my small boss, J, had left such a great impact on me. I question if I am unable to hold my emotions well, but I realised that I have yet to learn to treat what others said as "wind". I guess the next skill to master in the university of working life is to treat unwanted and unwelcomed remarks as though they were just farting into the air and polluting the air. The problem of working is always politics. Since the day I saw my allocation of reports, I realised the tense situation of politics in my small little department of 14 people, including 2 bosses. I saw an unfair distribution of workload. This is fine for me because I saw this as gaining more experience in each and every report they ask me to do, whereas the rest of my colleagues were like in this department for 6 years and more, they would have gotten to try everything at a shot.

During lunch yesterday, my colleague say I became a superwoman of the department, this is true. I know how to do almost each officer's reports, so whenever who goes on leave, I will cover that person. How dumb and aimless and useless I felt! Nevertheless, I see it as gaining experience. It's perfectly fine with me. Work to me has been a breeze although sometimes I meet with nasty colleagues from other departments who just simply refused to give you what you want and give you attitude somemore so as to prevent you from calling them again asking for what you want. Sometimes I do meet with relatively difficult questions about my reports which I have no idea how to answer them, so I had to seek help from my colleagues. Thankfully, they were all very helpful. My work so far has minimal mistakes (com' on, who doesn't make any mistakes? I even spotted my boss's mistake and told her on the spot) and my reports has never been late for one day. It is always sent out promptly on the deadline. So everything was fine, I thought.

Yesterday morning, J said she wanted to talk to me abt work, so we walked into another room to talk. However, the room was being used by someone so we had to wait till the afternoon. I thank God this did not happen in the morning. After the talk, I sank right away into depression, frustration and irritation. In the afternoon after lunch, J called me in again. This time round there was no escape. A good start she made by asking me how's my transit from uni life to working life. The following just caused me to change my mood as though the weather changes:

J: K (my big boss) realised that you have been going home on the dot at 630pm with the girls (support staff) everyday. She would like to find out why as the other officers are staying till quite late and you are not staying. Is it because you have nothing to do or is there any other reasons like your Jap class?

I: Sometimes it's due to Jap class, the other times is because I take abt 1.5hrs to get home, so when I am home it's already 8pm, after dinner and taking a bath, it's 9pm and I only have 1 - 2 hours with my family, which I treasure a lot. (In my mind, I was like HR did not say I have to work late because everyone works late!)

J: Oh we thought you had nothing much to do and since the officers had quite a lot of backlogs as they are very busy, maybe you can help to clear them. (In my mind, why should I? It's their work. They are just good at pretending and dragging the day. The number of reports they hold are nowhere near mine. I hold about 15 reports ok? Just admit I am efficient and the rest of your workers are just showing you that they are hardworking.)

I: OK!

From then on, whatever was conversed I don't remember as my head had flames being seen. And my reply to whatever she said later on was OK. And when she asked if I had any questions, I felt so much like asking, why must I work late? But I said NO right into her face. *Pissed*

My mentality here is that it does not mean that the others work late, I have to work late. Com' on la, I realised how slow the others are, they practically stare into the screen as though they are thinking about something, but in actual fact, they are just slacking. Like what J said earlier, you have to work hard but also work smart, I so much wanted to tell her I work smart, so I can go home at 630. There are a few days I stayed till almost 8pm last month, why did they not mention. FUCK! People always remember the "bad" things so to speak, but they forgot when you were good.

Wild thoughts were in my mind, I realised how I can no longer stay in this company whereby they are only paying me mediocre amount and they expect me to work late and then they are no claims for meals and transport, because even if you work late, in order to claim, you need your boss's signature, but she won't sign. So why should we help the company to save money? We have our entitlement. This is crap! Female bosses! Anyway J mentioned that K wanted to know, but I bet both of them are in it together. I msged a friend to ask her to recommend me into the company she's working at. She got a shock! Haha. But I am serious, I don't see why I should work so hard for people like J and K. K, especially, whenever you enter her room, she's on the SGX website monitoring her shares or reading story book or watching VCDs. Why should I work so hard for such a boss who only knows how to delegate duties to us with her enjoying her maybe 5 digit pay watching VCDs in office. Naturally, they without a family (not married) and only watching VCDs in office, can stay till 9pm. Let me watch VCDs in office, I can stay till the next day.

But I just wanna say I find them unreasonable which is why makes me so pissed off. It is not that people complain to you that I have lots of errors in my report. It is also not that my reports were never handed in on time. If I manage to finish my work nicely, and I have no outstanding tasks, why should I stay later than 630pm?! Find me a job someone!

-=period=-

Hmm.. today last minute decided to want to meet darling for a nice dinner. Been having a headache the entire day due to this report whereby almost all the submission teams make error every month. I thank God it's a monthly report, not daily or weekly, or I would have been hated by the entire bank, calling them to tell them abt the mistakes they make, how it should actually be. But entirely it's not my division/department's responsibility to check. Our role is to consolidate. However, after we consol and send it out to the final division who needs the report for other reporting purposes, whenever they find an error, they call me instead of calling the submission units. So you see it's a vicious cycle whereby if I don't check and merely consol and submit, the fault comes back to me again. If I check before I submit, I just feel so fed up with the people who are doing the report. They jus simply don't give a damn! I always send emails to remind them that this report is for the Singapore government, please be mindful of the accuracy of the report. And so, one day has passed, I have yet to clear all the mistakes, yet to call them to tell them cos' they just simply don't pick up the phone. Hai. It's really taxing on the brain ya. This is the only report whereby you will face so many problems to deal with. I even have to come them down to my department for a lesson on this report. What the!

Work aside. Been to Suntec tonight. Reached earlier than darling so went to walk around. Saw a new section in Suntec, it's called e-life@Suntec. It's like Funan, just a mini version of Funan, whereby they have several IT stores. I seldom visit such stores, so when darling called me, he asked me how come I went to patronize such stores. Hehe, but for my camera sake, I really went and walked into such stores and looked at cameras. Went to look at my 1st choice: Sony T-50...

This is Sony T-50, I simply love the red one. It's named Seductive Red.

A close up of the Seductive Red Sony T-50. And now, it's features:

The special thing abt this T-50 is it's 3 inch Touch Screen. However, to me, it happens to be its weakness. Been to see it, feel it and use it today. It's slightly thicker than Sony T-10. And the touch screen is bad as it leaves lots of fingerprints on the screen. Also, as it does not have any buttons on the side to rotate between functions, the moment the touch screen loses it's sensitivity, I would say that the camera is gone. I believe it would cost quite a lot to repair such a function. So I decided to look on for another choice. Anyway, the Seductive Red isn't as Seductive as it seems on the picture. It looks slightly dull to me though.

By the way, this is how it looks when you push down the protective cover for the lens. They use a special lens called Carl Zeiss lens. It's not like the usual lens whereby when you zoom, it will move in and out. This one zooms without us being able to see it moving in and out.

Now, onto my next choice: Sony T-10. This is supposed to be pink in colour but to me, on this picture, the pink doesn't really look pink and it doesn't really look nice. Anyway, I did not see a sample of this pink camera in the store but I saw the pearl white and also the black one. The features of this includes:

The difference with T-50 is that this is a 2.5 inch screen, not touch-screen which I feel more secure in buying it. Overall, I quite like it, jus that I have yet to see the pink camera. Hmm, now this is my 1st choice. Any comments? Darling says Xiaxue uses this as well, and her pictures are all so nice. But I am just afraid that her photos always turn out well because she does editing to her photos before uploading them, however, I am the lazy kind who just want to shoot and shoot for memories and even when I upload on the blog, I would not do any form of editing. Anyway, it's my 1st choice for now, until something better comes along.

And then, I wana say I don't have a second choice, third choice etc. Haha, there is only this Sony T-10 on my mind. Was looking at Canon Ixus 65, but it's only 6 megapixels plus the design is just like any other digital camera. I want something special. So I have to continue looking.

Now to my bed... ZzzZZZZzzZZZzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZ

Oops... I forgot to mention abt dinner at Sizzler. Hehe been 7 yrs since I last went there. The salad bar is just so fantastic! And I love the spicy chicken I had. Yummy. *Slurps* Good nite!

Wah.. been so long since I last updated. Only realised now. Got so much I wana update but due to my spoilt camera, no photos can be taken and thus, makes me too lazy to update already. I am in the process of finding out what's wrong with my camera, and if it's too expensive to repair, I will be getting a new one. Anyone has any to recommend? This time round, I will buy a sleek camera, i.e. light and easy to carry around with lesser functions compared to this one I have currently. This Dec, I will be going to PC show to look at cameras~ Been a year since I have been there, since darling quitted his previous job. Haha. :) I need a camera desperately. Feels so sad... Shan't rant on anymore. Hope I get my new camera soon. 1 month more to go!!!

-= I want a new cam cam. I want a new cam cam. I want a new cam cam.=-