Bye Bye Ms Ang! Sorry I couldn’t attend your farewell dinner, stupid flu. But I’m sure we’re going to continue meeting up even after you’ve left the company. Will miss your corny remarks during meetings and your telephone calls. Pity we didn’t have much opportunities to work together, but it’s ok, we will have plenty more opportunities to play and eat good food together! More renkon chips? Heehee. And run together. I watched that lovely montage you made, aiyo, so touching. Oh wells. I hope you adapt well to your new workplace and I hope your new colleagues are nice people! Please don’t forget about us ok! We must still meet up! All the best! Zhenting’s Birthday! Is over. Hahaha, and this is a super belated entry on the surprise party we gave her. It was a very last minute decision to surprise her and so, everything else was also done last minute! The birthday present was bought last minute (after much discussions), the cake was bought last minute (just before we went for the dinner) and even the dinner reservations was made last minute (by Monster who very luckily had “connections” with the restaurant. Anyway, after many changes, we finally managed to meet up on Monday. Recognise this famous wheel? We had a long walk from Marina Square to the Singapore Flyer because parking charges at the Flyer was sky-high! Madness. The obligatory shot. Us walking in. We were waiting for Monster’s sms to tell us that the Birthday Girl was in the restaurant. But then we didn’t realise that while we were making a lot of noise outside, the Birthday Girl could be still somewhere around, walking towards the restaurant! Gasp. The horrors! Mad, those 2 behind. Heh. But good shot nonetheless, ‘cos we managed to get everyone in it! Our present for Zhenting. A black cardigan from Esprit. Which I still haven’t seen because it was all wrapped when it came. The cake from Four Leaves. Nice ley! It has like chocolate and biscuits layers. Ms Han getting instructions from Monster. And the rest of us waiting anxiously at Popeyes. Which was opposite the restaurant. How risky!!! We switched tables 4 times! We were so worried that the birthday girl might walk past and see us sitting there! Melvin doesn’t look excited at all. But I was!! Very very excited. And so nervous! I kept thinking, something’s going to go wrong somewhere and she’s going to find out! I was a bundle of nerves at Popeye’s. Gah. Mich looking fierce here. Preparing to light the candles. When we realised that. SHIT WE DON’T HAVE A LIGHTER. So someone suggested we buy one from the gift shop. This being a touristy place, is bound to sell souvenier lighters right! Like Singapore Flyer shaped lighters? No? Yes, we were that desperate. And Monster wasn’t around!! Alamak. Well then, thank god we managed to borrow one from a staff at Popeye’s! And no more photos from the candles light up to the surprise birthday song at the restaurant. Because I was too busy holding the cake, Michelle was too busy trying to keep the wind out, Tze Shuan was too busy trying to keep Karen quiet (yes, we needed one specific person to do that!!) and Melvin, eh, actually I don’t know what he was doing. He lit the candles then I forgot what happened. Too nervous la! By the time we got to the side entrance, half the candles were gone from the strong typhoon-ish coastal winds (blah!) and so we had to light them all over again. Then we crept slowly into the restaurant with the lit up cake. We looked a real funny sight. Just before we could position ourselves behind the birthday girl, Ms Han decided that she should say “Boo!”. Or rather, “Boo.”. No impact lah. There was a momentary awkward silence of 3 seconds, during which I decided to start singing “Happy Birthday”. Me, munching on peanuts and the birthday girl. Bouquet of roses from Monster. Fantastically huge table for the 7 of us. And we’re still wondering how come she didn’t notice something fishy since it was the 2 of them initially. Pink roses! Only 3 not because Monster can’t afford it ok! Apparently Zhenting always chides him for buying a huge bouquet and says it’s a waste of money because after a few days they all wither and die. Oh these fortunate girls. It’s just like how skinny people always lament at how skinny they are and wished they could put on a few more kilos (*eyes Chong*). 生在福中不知福。嗨。。 The $2-mil deco. Did I mention which restaurant we were at? It’s Seafood Paradise. Where seafood is exorbitantly priced and the leg of lamb is FABULOUS! MY GOD. My bling-bling camera. Hee hee. Monster Poon is executive wor! Don’t play play. There are no photos of the food because we were too busy eating! Have I told you how heavenly the leg of lamb is? Have I? I have, haven’t I? Group photo! Just us girls. Yeah. Monster and Zhenting, with the spring onions. Wahahaha, don’t you think they ook like spring onions from far? I AM NOT SOUR GRAPES OK. Orhhhhhhh! Vandalism! So poor thing, the birthday girl have to write Happy Birthday to herself. Kua kua kua. AH-HAH! CAUGHT ON FILM! Karen! Pulling her hair! Tsk tsk. This woman will never learn. Wait till it’s too late. Paparazzi-ish photo. Tsk tsk, aiyer, what they doing!?!? Mich and Monster! What an unlikely pair! . . . . . . . . No lah, just kidding, Mich just wants to peek at Monster’s unfinished tattoo. Lastly, Monster’s visit to the dentist. BEFORE (that’s me at the side by the way, cut off because Monster’s fat face is too big!!!) AFTER! Tadah! Teeth whitening plus I gave him a free service of removing that pimple! Teeheehee. And finally, teeth whitening plus pimple-removal plus GOATEE REMOVAL! But I think I merged his double chins together! Dang. Whoopeedoo. I’m off. Yes this post is in English because got no energy to type in Chinese. Bleah. Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:50:18 +0000 嘿嘿！不知不觉已经有两个星期没有新的post了。 Oops. 这两个星期也没什么特别的。。噢！我读了畅销书本，《Tuesdays with Morrie》。真的很棒！还没读完Introduction我就已经被感动了。哈哈哈。真没用哦。因为是本真实的故事，language也用得很简单。没有花俏的big words，只有作者当时和Morrie相处的最后几个星期二所感受到的真挚友谊，感动和温馨。 Morrie真的很勇敢。一直到他要死的那一天，他还是坚持着自己的信念。就是要把握每一天，活出精彩，就算是他只剩下那一个小时，那一分钟。 他一点都不抗拒死亡，因为他知道那是必然的。结果中就会来的。他没有再等死，而是让死亡等他。在他被病魔缠身的那最后几个星期，他活得比任何人都充实。他见了他想要见的人，说了他想说的话，做了他想做的事，一点遗憾都没有。 试问有多少人可以像他一样呢？ 《Tuesdays with Morrie》，大家有机会一定要去读。 还有什么特别的呢？ 噢！新加坡终于如愿以偿，在北京奥运会夺回了奖牌。48年前，陈浩亮为我国争光，48年后，李佳薇，冯天薇和王越古在北京为新加坡在一次夺牌！而且是银牌哦！哇。好开心！ 有公共假期吗？哈哈哈哈。我忘了在哪里听到，如果新加坡真的在这次的奥运会赢回奖牌的话，就会有一天的公共假期！好希望是真的！就下个星期一吧！ 可以吗？ 新车也来了。嘿嘿！等待已久的Mazda 2 终于来了。可惜去领车的那一天，却生病了。感冒，咳嗽又头痛。 天啊。真的好难受。医生又开了一大堆药。 同事的送别回也没得出席。真实不幸。 嗯。。没力气了。吃了药，好想睡觉。不说了。 忍耐。 吃了医生开的胃药，胃开始恢复正常，至少我也放心了。应该是像他所说的，只是gastric flu而已。 幸好。 工作上出了些问题让我觉得很无奈，也很反感。一些我很抱有希望的人，说了一些让我很失望的话。大家都是出来混口饭吃的，为什么要那么斤斤计较呢？又何苦？搞得大家那么不愉快，让我们彼此的关系也变得紧绷。 为什么就不能互相退让一步呢？让大家都好下台。现在这样，很好吗？ 真的搞不懂。 头好痛。真希望可以丢开所有琐碎的问题，放个假。 可惜不行。:( 不谈那些了。 昨天是妈妈的生日。其实星期六时已经替她庆祝了。没什么大势的庆祝，就我们3个人去吃饭。有时候简单就是美。是真的！ 今天心情真的很不好。想到什么都是不好的。整个人觉得很烦躁。 几个星期前，老爸胯下了海口，说要买名牌包给老妈当生日礼物！哈哈！昨天我就陪老妈去买了！下班后就前往乌节路的Gucci。 本来说好是买一个的，可是怎么知道，左挑右选的，还是不知道该买那一个。售货员也一直在旁怂恿。哈哈。好恶毒！ 结果呢？ 两个都买了。真是明智的选择！！！大家掌声鼓励鼓励！ 哇！ 真是对老妈另眼相看。我想信用卡账单来时，我老爸也会另眼相看的。 如果我还有戴眼镜的话，一定会跌破眼镜。 哈哈哈！太夸张了。 Anyways，要祝老妈生日快乐！身体健康！发大财！因为她发财就是我发财！哈哈哈哈哈哈！ Happy Birthday Mummy! 老妈生日那天也是Michelle的生日！ Happy Birthday Michelle！  明天才替她庆祝。要记得带照相机！ 过完这两个人的生日，很快就到Ting的生日了哦！又是一个大头痛！ 该去哪里吃？该送什么？该写什么祝贺词？ Oh wells. 到时候再说吧。 噢，还有，运动鞋坏了！有得花钱买新的了，十月要去跑迷你马拉松，十二月也是。现在才开始练习，都不知道有没有用。哈哈哈哈。 Argh. 现在满脑子里只有。。工作！工作！工作！ 搞得我一个头两个大。 懊恼！好烦。 不管了！走一步看一步。 去睡了。晚安！ 肚子痛？胃痛？ 这整个星期下来，肚子和胃一直都不舒服。 好像要拉肚子，但是赶到厕所时，却又拉不出。。不知道是什么问题。医生朋友说可能是gastric flu, 可是也不可能一个星期也还没有好转啊！ 而且还一直想吐。想打嗝。 害我吃也吃不下，睡也睡不好。每天都很累，因为整个晚上都睡不好。。 开始有点担心，老爸还说最好是去照胃窥镜，以防万一。。 可是我怕！听说会很不舒服的。。。 怎么今年这么多问题啊。。嗨，真是一波未平一波又起。。:( 真的很辛苦。。 不说了。晚安！ 等待。。来了！ 律师信终于来了！好辛苦才等到。 可是既然我的病假是有薪的，所以就没有补偿我那6天的病假咯。真扫兴。 明天就得打个电话给律师行。。然后等他们告诉我赔偿金到底是多少。 好期待。哈哈哈。 还有，陈弟弟小姐，傅花心和陈庆林应该不会有在读我的blog吧。。我喜欢用华语！星期五见！ Ok, Mr Poh just told me that if I stopped blogging in Chinese, he’ll probably understand. Haha. Anyways, I was saying, the lawyer’s letter finally came. Like after 3 months! So I still prefer to blog in Chinese! 最近会比较忙一些。。虽然会有一点辛苦，但是日子会过得比较充实！我喜欢。 最近升职了哦，当然也有加薪啦，一点点多少会有的。呵呵。 噢！今天出席了天理教学院的毕业典礼。终于读完Level 1了。好辛苦才读完。不过一定要撑下去！一定要读完为止。 がんばて！ 真的很佩服那些读到高级班的同学。日文可以说得噼哩啪啦。好棒！ 嗨。 有时候。。真的。。嗨。。有口难言。害怕。如果说。。 嗨。没事。 Alright, Ms Chen Didi, Mr Poh has left a comment in response to yours in the previous post. Please check it out. I’m off. Nights y’all! 右手牵左手。 因为我的左手受伤了。 什么鸟。 昨天和朋友一起去溜冰，开始溜得很慢，因为很久没溜了。后来，一时太自大，自以为已经很会了，就想溜得快一点，结果呢？ 失控。 跌得很严重。 因为受伤后已经是很晚了，所以要等到今天早上才去看铁打医师。一整晚都没办法睡好。。嗨。 医师说，左肘里面的韧带和神经都受伤了，在发炎，所以才会肿。可是幸好不是脱臼，要不然就真的严重了。 医师替我做热敷，推拿还有。。针灸！！ 妈咪！！！我最怕针了。。除非是拿来挤痘痘的那种。哈哈！ 还好医师的功夫了得，不只没有痛，根本都没感觉！怕什么！ 现在肘肿得像个猪手。啊，难看死了。 而且还很痛。。不能自己洗头，连穿衣服（尤其是扣内衣最有问题）都有问题。。 衰。真是衰。。 去看戏不是好咯。。溜什么鸟冰啊？ 他妈的。 今年真是犯太岁犯的严重。。 星期天。晴。 一早起来，习惯性地启动电脑。。查电邮。 看了过后怎么觉得，他们都把我当透明的。 和他们，我总觉得自己是透明的。。我想是我们有缘无份吧。。虽然都闹在一起也快有10年了吧。。可是我从来没有觉得我是他们的一分子。。永远都觉得自己只是观众或旁观者而已。。而这种感觉真是不好受。。 噢。怎么搞的。一大早就说这些丧气的话。。 昨晚。哦。不对。应该是今天凌晨。。看了吴宇森的新片，《赤壁》。 还不错！可是3个小时，坐得我屁股都扁了！ 突然有一股冲动想阅读所有《三国演义》的书籍。。可是一想到全都是华文字就觉得好懒哦。 啊！好闷哦。。 一个星期当中最讨厌的就是星期天。。虽然可以睡迟一些，但是醒来后却没事做! 哎呀，其实是有的啦。。日文考试是两天后。。而我一点都还没碰到。。惨了。。 有没有人想去东海岸喝杯咖啡啊？ 天啊。真是闷荒了。 哎，不说了。该去楼下“现身”了。 离曼谷还有9天。。离澳门还有50天！！哎哟我的妈呀。好久啊！！ 受不了。 Protected: 有够衰的。。 This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: 飞乐时空 XIV 上个星期参加了“飞乐时空-XIV”在 IMM Garden Plaza 所举行的半决赛。　 我当然不是参赛者啦。。　我只是代唱。 Lester 很好心，想给我机会表现，可是我想我对不起大家了。。 临去前，真的好紧张，手脚一直在发抖，在冒汗。。哎，真没用。。 真佩服那些歌手，可以面对上千，上万的观众。。　我呢，台下也不过最多５０名观众。。其中还有老爸老妈。。我却严重的stage fright了。 虽然我们的歌没进大决赛，但是要知道，能够从９０首参赛作品中，被选入进半决赛，已经算不错了吧。。而且还是Karen第一次写歌哦！ 不错不错！ 没有多少照片，只有以上那几张。。 那天的天气真的热死了！！可是，不到一下，却又下起倾盆大雨。。真是奇怪。。 虽然没进大决赛，有点小失望，但是，没关系！！明年再接再厉吧！ 我们一起加油！ 真的要谢谢老爸老妈陪我到西边那么远的地方，支持我。。还有，要谢谢Karen和Terence对我那么的有信心，真是对不起你们。。 我想我还是呆在录音室吧。。 嗨。。 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:36:46 +0000 Watched 4 movies over the last 2 weekends. All nice! I ish bored. Time to study for Jap. *pulls hair out* Fish Reflexology at The Underwater World I’m so sorry this post came sooooo long after. Was really too tired and lazy to edit the photos. *guilty*  Anyway, here they are now! After we checked out and all, Ms Ang suggested we go get bitten by fishes because Ms Lee wanted to try it! So the 3 of us trooped down to The Underwater “Parking super expensive” World for our first reflexology session!   It was just plain torturous the first 10 minutes. We didn’t dare to put our legs in because the fishes looked damn hungry! When our feet hovered over the water, they immediately swam towards us! It’s like they can smell it or something! “Quick, you guys, food’s coming!” We took a good 5 minutes to decide if we were going to put our legs in. I think the staff was quite amused with us. When we finally put it in, MY GOD THE FEELING WAS DAMN WEIRD! It’s like shocks of electric current running through my legs! And those little fishies were hungry! All I can say is, we were so damn tickled, we couldn’t stop laughing. By the time we got used to that weird sensation, our 20 minutes was up! Argh. The package came with 20 minutes of fish reflexology and 20 minutes of foot massage. Not a bad deal I say, since it’s such a novel idea. Really effective actually, because after that our legs felt really smooth! And it lasted for a while, say one week? Go try it if you haven’t. If Sentosa is too far for you, try the one at Kenko Spa at The Singapore Flyer. The price I’m guessing should be the same. Alright, I’m off! Collecting my bag later! Woohoo! Home Alone! My parents have gone off to China! Again! And I’m home alone until Thursday. Wah laos. But the good thing is, I’m going Bag Shopping on Dad’s account! Wahahahaha! And I’m promoted to MD of my dad’s company! No, I’m just kidding. Hahahaha, acting MD lah ok, because I’m supposed to be jaga-ing the office. Blah. Super boring, but at least I can study for my Jap paper which is like, 10 days awayyyy. Oh, and I probably should blog properly. Last proper post was 10 days ago.   And he don’t allow me to drive his Merc!!! Although I have the key…. Shhhhhh. Ok, I’m off. Weekend Stay at Amara Sanctuary, Sentosa To celebrate (Mdm) Lee Worn Jiun’s birthday, we checked into Amara Santuary for a weekend! And I shall not talk too much and let the pictures do the talking. The room’s really pretty, but of course it has to be, it costs $750/night. Ha. Initially it was a party of about 12, then they all left, leaving me with Serene and the birthday girl! 3 of us in a one room villa! Shiok man. We even got free breakfast! The package came with breakfast for 2, but when we checked out, they didn’t charge us for the 3rd pax, and we didn’t have the heart to tell them. So thanks, Amara! Right. I’m sleepy. Ja! Part 2 coming up next. My first time at Fish Reflexology! 冲动 - 萧亚轩 作曲：黎沸辉 填词：葛大为．黎沸辉 很感激 这城市拥挤的交通 让你我 还能多相处几分钟 人潮中 怕失散所以轻轻拉你的手 一刻不放松 不放松 忍不住 想要爱你的冲动 不确定你属于我 会有点寂寞 你给的幸福 在我心中自由走动 抚平我每一个伤口 忍不住 想要吻你的冲动 不确定我的执着 能让你感动 我只能相信自己感受 不怕失落 关于你的一切 我想要比谁都懂 我的心 是被你设定的闹钟 提醒我 想你的时间不够用 为什么 平淡的事情现在忽然生动 是你改变我 你改变我 忍不住 想要爱你的冲动 不确定你属于我 会有点寂寞 你给的幸福 在我心中自由走动 抚平我每一个伤口 忍不住 想要吻你的冲动 不确定我的执着 能让你感动 我只能相信自己感受 不怕失落 关于你的一切 我想要比谁都懂 你是情人还是朋友 还没勇气想得太多 你的世界如此辽阔 我会在哪个角落 忍不住 想要爱你的冲动 不确定你属于我 会有点寂寞 你给的幸福 在我心中自由走动 抚平我每一个伤口 忍不住 想要吻你的冲动 不确定我的执着 能让你感动 我只能相信自己感受 不怕失落 关于你的一切 我想要比谁都懂 Got Carried Away By Awesome-ness into Narnia-Land. Watched 3 movies in the last three weeks. Amazing, I rarely watch that many movies. First was The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. It was quite a nice show, expected ending but the young actors were all worth their salt. The company had organised it as our annual movie time thing, so I watched it for free. I didn’t watch Part 1, so was lost throughout most of the show, and it didn’t help that I was sitting with people who haven’t watched Part 1 either! But like I said, it was a good show, beautiful scenary, and having Azlan to save the day. And then it was time for some awesomeness with the gang. Hilarious like mad lah, this show. I laughed throughout the movie. But we watched the show like really late at night, the 11.40pm one, so I fell asleep nearing the end where it was all serious talking. Still good though. Great show to catch if you’re looking for some laughs. Finally, caught SATC with Karen the other day. Two words. Long show. It’s nearly 2.5 hours. But worth every minute. Maybe it’s because I didn’t watch the serial and only caught the movie, so I didn’t have anything to compare with. There were a lot of fantastic looking outfits, lots of tear-jerking moments, lots of heart-warming laughter and that gorgeous, dream-like walk-in. Shall not give the details away, go catch it yourself. Right, now I shall go think about what I should wear tomorrow. Looooooooong day tomorrow. Gosh. So you’ve heard of Puss in Boots. But what about Pig in Boots? Meet Cinders, named after Cinderella and her magic glass slippers, the pig who wears little booties! Isn’t she adorable! I saw the newsclip while waiting for the doctor today. So cute lah! She was tottering around in the mud and kicking up mud in the process. And why you may ask, is a pig wearing wellington boots? They’re supposed to love the mud right? Well, apparently this little piggy has mysophobia, which is, the fear of dirt! Imagine that! When Cinders arrived at the farmyard with her brothers and sisters, who immediately got themselves acquainted with the mud, little Cinders stood by the side and watched. The owners were at a loss, but they thought she was afraid of the dirt. So remembering they had 4 miniature wellies in their office, they put them on for her and there she is now! Happily trottering around in the mud. Couldn’t believe it when I saw it on TV. I thought it was just a joke! Hahahaha. But it’s super cute lah. The Longest Saturday Ever It was the longest and worst 1/2 day for me. And I’m so glad it’s over. 4 day work week next week, a spa session (courtesy of Mummy) on Thursday and a birthday chalet at Amara Sentosa on Saturday. Yoho! But I’ve to first get through 2 meetings and a submission. Help! HTC? Sony Ericsson? HTC Touch? OR Sony Ericsson P1i? Both have WiFi (apparently), both are smart phones. HTC - Pros 1. Will display short note of events for the day. 2. Looks more stylo-milo as compared to the business looking P1i. 3. No keypad. 4. Interface looks sleeker than the P1i. 5. Comes in 4 colours as compared to P1i’s one single colour. 6. Running on Windows. HTC - Cons 1. No keypad. 2. Camera only 2 megapixels as compared to P1i. 3. Not so high confidence in the brand. For me lah. Sony Ericsson - Pros 1. High confidence in the brand, ever since using the K800i, I’ve been a Sony Erisson fan. 2. Got keypad, but looks like it’ll take a while to get used to. 3. Camera 3.2 megapixels, cool! 4. Quite compact, it’s actually thin. Sony Ericsson - Cons 1. Cannot display events for the day. 2. Interface not as nice as HTC’s. 3. Looks so business-like. ************************************************************************* I’m buggered by the 2 megapixel camera on HTC, but actually I have a 8.1 megapixel T20, so I don’t know what I’m whining about. Although I’m not too sure if I’m happy with the 100% touchscreen point. Ever since using the LG Viewty, I’ve been rather turned off SMS-ing because it’s sometimes quite difficult to tap the right keys. And I can’t do it while driving (of course I don’t do it all the time, only when waiting for the traffic lights to change) because I have to look at whether I’m tapping the right keys. Well, then again, if I can get used to the LG Viewty, I can get used to any other phone. So I think I’ll get the P1i. Even though it doesn’t display the events I have for the day, that’s a major setback. But still, I’d rather have an SE than a HTC. Anyday. Ok, I’m getting the P1i! Yay! Once the $$ gets into my account. Teehee. *post note - maybe I should just wait and see how cheap the iphone will be when it comes. ha. PRUDENCE! and all purchasing plans are shelved until further notice. blah. Shopaholic Unleashed. Dad and I went shopping today. And he brought his chequebook along. Teehee. He’s finally decided to get the Mazda 2. Seeing that the Sunny was close to breathing its last, he decided that it was better that we sell it before it completely breaks down and then it won’t be worth a single penny. Manufacturing date will be in July and estimated date of delivery will be in September! Just in time for my birthday. Eh. Presenting to you, World Car of the Year, 2008. It beat giants like the Mercedes C-class, Ford’s Mondeo and even Audi’s A5 coupe (!), just to name a few.   The pictures just doesn’t do the car justice. Heh. The selected colour is crystal pearl white. Or something like that. Basically white lah. But with a pearly sheen.   The interior of the car. Quite chio right! The dashboard lights up in orange! Cass the Oranger’s favouritest colour. When you’re back, I give you a ride k! The dealer threw in 2-tone full leather seats (which I think everyone gets lah, so no big deal, just a gimmick. Blah.) in Tan and Black, so it’ll like a vroom-vroom spockar (aka sportscar)!! Complete with 3M dust trapping car mats, 6 CD player, 6 airbags(!), sports rim and free set of solar films for the windows. Plus. As a special bonus, I requested for a handheld vacuum cleaner. Wahahahaha. I think it’s the weirdest request the dealer ever got. Wahahahahaha. And it has to be at least Black and Decker. I mean, I won’t want it to break down after using it for just a couple of times right. Ooh and lookie what’s coming on Friday! Ma’ heartshaped coin purse! One of the girls at work has a cousin working at Gucci South Africa, so she could get Gucci staff at 30% off! In Euros! Like woooot! So it’s going for $320 here but I’m only going to be paying $240! I think. Can’t really remember. After car-shopping, Mummy and I went shopping, bought a top and a pair of shoes.  It’s a splendid buy from Mondo. Only $9.90! Cheap lahhhh! Wahahahahaha! Love the bright, cheery colour. Bought lots of random items this weekend, I’m so going broke even before the bonus payout is in my bank account. Blah. Anyhoos, the quantum for the payout will be announced really soon, like tomorrow or Tuesday. Ahhhhh, I can’t wait!!!! I should start planning how I’m going to spend my monehhhh! Yeahhhh! Alright, I’m off to la-la land. Ja! The evaluation For those considering LASIK, you must first know that NOT everyone is suitable for LASIK. There are conditions / criteria that you must fulfill before you’re considered for LASIK. 1. Your cornea must be thick enough. Using INTRALASE (an equipment that cuts the cornea flap with laser instead of using a blade) to cut your cornea at a precise 100 microns, plus up to 122 microns for 1000 degrees blind bats like myself, you need to have at least a residual bed of cornea worth 250 microns. So if you had 500 microns worth of cornea in the first place, after deducting 100microns for the flap plus 122 microns for your myopia, you still have 268 microns, which means, yes, you may consider LASIK. Provided you fulfill the other  criteria! 2. Your eyes must not be too dry. There are no stitches involved in LASIK, so even though your cornea is cut to form a flap, the doc’s not going to stitch it back to the rest of your eyeball (duh!), so as soon as the laser-ing is done, the flap is placed back onto your eye and the healing process begins! If you were to have chronic dry eyes, the flap is not going to have an easy time healing since the environment is so dry and it might even dry up on its own. Which is why they prescribe so much eye drops and instructed us to put some lubricating eye drops once every 15 minutes for 2 hours after the surgery and once every half an hour following that. 3. Astigmatism or not? I heard astigmatism plays a part too, but I just can’t remember now. Apparently if your astigmatism is too high, chances of rebound are very high!  Ok, now the evaluation. First they do an eye test, just a simplified one where you take of your glasses and read off the chart. Plus in this room, they will test your eye pressure and you have to look at this house thing through a machine and it’s to test your degrees digitally. Second you go into another room to do another eye test, this time they do a thorough eye test with all the matching of lenses and all. Very long process. Argh. Third, you go to room with 2 machines which will check your cornea thickness. I assume. And then finally, after all that’s done, you’ll wait in the consultation room for Doc to evaluate your test results. Afterwhich he will announce whether you are eligible for LASIK. If you are, he’ll also recommend Intralase, tissue-saving or whatever else. If you are not, then he’ll probably recommend lens implant, which is a more complicated procedure and involves general anaesthesia plus hospital stay. Ok, that’s all folks. Will be back to update about the op itself! Bye bye speckies! You’ve served me well for the last 16 years. But now I don’t need you anymore, I’m going to give you to someone who needs you more. Goodbye speckies! May you serve your new owner well! Note: Will post the details of the evaluation + ops when I’m back from my review. Counting Down… Oh. My. God. It’s coming. The day is coming. To face to the red blinking light. Can. I. Start. Freaking. Out. Now. 6 more days. Ahhhhhh. Watching my last movie on Saturday. Going for my last buffet on Sunday. From 3rd June, there will be two periods. B.L. and A.L. Just like B.C. and A.D. Wahahahahaha. I’m mad. Come on! Give a little!   (Click on link - it’s a shortcut for all you lazy bums.) I’m sure everyone has heard of the massive quake that struck the Sichuan province in China and the devasting cyclone which hit Myanmar earlier. If you haven’t contributed already, it’s about time. I’m a late bloomer myself, since I didn’t follow the news so closely. When I logged into iBanking the other day, I realised we could do an online donation. (Forgive me if I sound ’sua ku’.) So if you’ve put of doing your part because you don’t have a chequebook or find it too much of a hassle to bring cash to the Red Cross Society, you have no excuses now because you can now do it at home and at anytime of the day! For the ill informed (like myself), here’s how. 1. Log in to your iBanking account and click on “Bill Payment”. 2. At the “Bill Payment” page, select either (or both) Red Cross China Earthquake and/or Red Cross Myanmar Cyclone then “Submit”. 3. You’ll then be brought to this page where you should fill in the following details: Account to pay from, amount to pay and consumer reference number, which is your mobile number. Then “Submit”. 4. It will proceed to a confirmation page, showing the details which you’ve entered just now. Check and make sure everything’s correct. And click “Confirm”. 5. The next page will be the confirmation page, showing that your transaction is complete. There! You’re all done. You don’t have to donate much, whatever amount you donate, it’s a difference made to the lives of  those suffering at the disaster struck location. Do your part today! SUN Bistro @ NUS The monster bought a car recently (!) and after he collected his car (!) we bugged him to drive us around. Hee hee. Well, apparently, he was going to get a Suzuki Swift but turns out the Swift is a ridiculously overpriced 1.3l hatchback, which is definitely not worth the money you’re paying. So in the end, they bought a Nissan Sunny (same as mine and vastly different from the Swift, haha) manual instead. Which, by the way, is not a very smart choice either because it’s a gas guzzler. Tsk tsk. And with the prices of petrol increasing, day by day.. Sigh. Anyway, I also lamented to him about how he has not given us a treat before (tsk, tsk) with his pay and all of us have! Hahaha, obviously he could not stand my taunting (or nagging) any longer and thus we ended up at SUN Bistro at (very far away) NUS! Aiyo, this monster drive very scary-ly. Cursing and swearing, cutting across lanes, speeding(!) and what-have-yous. But we arrived at NUS safely anyways, so I shan’t complain. We were greeted by a very friendly manager-looking person (I assume) whom the monster knows (from the same F&B company, by the way, which meant we received VIP treatment, hahaha) personally and who brought us the menus. Had a look through and monster recommended some nice dishes. Basically we didn’t order. The monster ordered everything. Took some photos while waiting for the food to arrive. The furniture in the restaurant is very nice! They look very classy and the red panels at the back stand out very well from the otherwise muted look of the chairs and carpet. A splash of colour, something different! This is our seating area. Plush arm chairs and cushion seats. Very comfortable! I had an armchair to myself! Hee hee. Then the starters started to arrive altogether! That’s the Hearthy Platter to Share with potato sticks, cheese sticks, salmon nuggets, wontons and drumlets. However, I found this dish mediocre because they taste like those frozen bites you can get at the supermarket. The accompanying Thai chilli sauce was good tho. Next up, the Shrimp Paste Chicken winglets. Crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside. This is the Soup of the Day, which the monster says is Soup of the Days because it’s ALWAYS the Soup of the Day. Hahahahaha. It’s damn good though, so I’m not complaining. The garlic bread was good too. Crispy and the garlic seasoning was just right. The last of the starters, Caesar Salad. Fresh Romaine lettuce, smoked duck, bacon bits, croutons, cheese and quail eggs. Yummy goodness in a bowl! The serving counter. On the left is the kitchen and on the right, VIP rooms for private functions. When we went that day, the rooms were packed with diners celebrating Mothers’ Day in advance. Cool. There were these fabulously tall chairs too if you can see. They look really cool. But actually I think it would be quite uncomfortable to be sitting in them. While we were still trying to finish the starters (so many!), the mains arrived. This is the Mediterranean Chicken Roulade, which Kun Yuan ordered. Kun Yuan is Zhenting’s brother, who joined us for dinner that day. And whom Karen called as Chun Yuan. Hahahahaha. The US Black Angus Ribeye steak which was perfect! I ordered mine in medium well and it turned out damn good. The beef was tender and juicy, not too thick but “solid” enough for you to feel it in your mouth. Sauce was well done too, not too salty, just nice! And the accompanying asparagus and baby carrots were fresh! Although I would think that boiling the baby carrots for a while would have made it a 10/10. Potato wedges were crispy on the outside, sprinkled with spices and “squashy” on the inside. You know how some wedges are empty on the inside? These are solid potato wedges. Yum! And this is Karen’s Deep Ocean Catch Seafood with fresh prawns, squid and garlic mashed potato. The presentation’s great right? Like some atas fine dining restaurant like that. With that splosh of sauce at the side. Haha. Took more photos while waiting for our desserts. We happily thought that the monster went to the kitchen to order for us, but turns out he went to chit chat with the chefs. Uh. So we were waiting for nothing! -_-”  Little Miss Chatterbox and Fat Person. I’m so going to get karma for this. I keep saying Karen is fat. Hahahahaha. I’m getting fat too. Time to eat less and walk more! Karen’s wearing the tee I got for her from Bangkok! In case you couldn’t see the words clearly. Funny right! And that is the photo that appears when she calls or when I try to call her. Hahahahaha. And yours truly, me. Wearing specs because I was preparing for the evaluation (2 days after the dinner) and that’s the brother’s hand. Finally the desserts arrived! We had the American cheesecake. Very good! Creamy but just nice. And the presentation is as usual, well done! And that’s the Chocolate Truffle. Which is not very nice. Bleargh. The texture is like chocolate pudding gone wrong. And the whipped cream lao hong. Not nice! Anyhoos, we discovered a fusball (foosball?) machine above the restaurant while looking for the Ladies. Hahhahaha, we ended having a ball of a time (pun intended) until we nearly didn’t want to go back down. When we got back to the table, we told the guys about it and they were like, “Ok, let’s go and play!” The games are FOC of course, it’s a club house thing. Oh, the bill came up to nearly $200! Wah, scary. But we ordered quite a lot and there were 5 of us. The monster had 50% off because the restaurant belongs to the same company that he’s working for, so yeah, staff discount! It was a good meal, so paying $100 for the 5 of us was quite worth it! So if you’re in the vicinity, go try it out! STUPID LAH! Wah lao, damn sian. I FORGOT TO BOOK MY MAKE UP LESSON AT TENRIKYO! Shit. Argh! And Monday’s a Public Holiday, so they aren’t open! Meaning, Tuesday I can’t go for make up! Aiyah. Stupid. Deal or no deal? So. I went for the appointment. I passed! 544 microns. Now the deal is. 2nd, 3rd, 4th June? Or July? That’s one. My father offered me a deal. Do my Masters in Singapore and get a new car (of my choice) or do my Masters in Australia (or another country) and get stuck with this Sunny forever. Ha. I’m already thinking of which car I want. BUT. I wonder sometimes, why do I allow myself to be bound by this liability. These pieces of metal which eventually will be of no value at all. Sigh. The convenience of travel wins handsdown. I no longer am able to tolerate crowded MRT rides (with buggers who REFUSE to move to the centre of the cabin, what, got ghost there is it?), having to take a bus to the MRT station (the bus stop’s really far away) and cab fares are getting more and more expensive. BUT. I hate having to wait for parking lots, traffic jams, ERPs everywhere and I can’t sleep on long journeys! Damn it. I wonder if I can talk my father into getting this for me. Hahahahaha. Although the percentage of success is urm, 0.00001%. Well, one can always dream, right? Oh did I mention, I drove into my father’s rear bumper while parking the car. In front of my house. Ok I’m off. I’m finding it harder and harder to talk to some people. Distance? Me? I don’t know. *shrugs* Next post will be the treat from the monster himself at SUN Bistro! Look out for it! 虽然我愿意 - 伍家辉 请让我靠近你轻轻对你说 别让我每个夜为你受折磨 是多么不容易才默默放手 为了我就当作这次为了我 别让我因为你被回忆折磨 而空气凝结了我们的脸孔 我别无选择 就算我们之间有什么问题 依然想念着你 虽然被放弃 虽然我愿意 就算我们之间有什么难题 黑夜我还想着你 心碎人孤寂 虽然我愿意 再让我靠近你轻轻对你说 当我说我要你从此好好过 是真的否则我怎么肯放手 为了我就当作这次为了我 赐给我你现在幸福的笑容 别让恨冻结了我们的脸孔 请你做选择 就算我们之间有什么问题 依然想念着你 虽然被放弃 虽然我愿意 就算我们之间有什么难题 黑夜我还想着你 心碎人孤寂 虽然我愿意 心碎人孤寂 虽然我愿意 就算我们之间有什么问题 依然想念着你 虽然被放弃 虽然我愿意 就算我们之间有什么难题 黑夜我还想着你 心碎人孤寂 虽然我愿意 (心还想着你) 500 microns and counting. No kidding. Sick! Can you believe it!? Get well soon man! I need 500 microns. How do I grow 500 microns? Can I grow 500 microns? Hmm? I know I’m probably not making sense but yeah. Nothing’s confirmed and I don’t want to jinx it. The countdown begins again. One week. Gosh, it’s a long wait. To Do List Graduation photo Long over due I know, but I had such a hard time trying to find a studio with my Uni’s gown. Blah. But I’ve finally found one which is reasonably priced + has my Uni’s gown + includes make up. Yay-ness! Now I just have to make an appointment with them. Change rehab appointment on Saturday I think I’ll change it to a weekday afternoon, if not I’ll have to take leave specially to go for the session. Damn the traffic accident. Blahh. Go BAG-SHOPPING! We just had a flea market stall this weekend. I cleared out most of my bags, tops and bottoms. Yay-hoo!!! So it’s time to buy new ones! Hee hee. The Evaluation on Tuesday Ahhhh! It’s comingggg. I’m really, really, really worried. Many, many, many what-ifs. Mothers’ Day It’s just around the corner! I should probably start looking around for a present. Maybe an Agnѐs B (which, incidentally, is pronounced as : Ahn-NYAS Buh, not Ag-ness Bee) tote bag which I can borrow some time. Hahahaha. And by the way, Yves Saint Laurent is pronounced as Eev Sahn Lor-UHN. Cool huh. Alright. I’m off. I’m bushed. Ja!