Sunday, September 30, 2007
Top view of the hologram
View from the right
View from the left
My handmade gift to Cha
Within a blink of my eyes, the celebration is over, time passes fast especially for the day which I've been looking forward to for weeks. I was very happy to see Cha at the doorstep with pink roses in his hands yesterday morning. After breakfast, he gave me the first present of the day - a hologram he made himself, it's like a photoboard which presents two different blown-up pictures that we took when viewed from different sides. I remembered these pics were taken last Xmas and at Vivo City early this year. I was quite amazed by this gift as I tot that it was really creative to make a hologram using our pictures! Quid pro quo, I gave him the Renoma bag I've bought for him. From his look, I think he quite likes it lar.. Given his expensive tastes, it's actually not easy to find a bag he likes lo...
As usual, not much activities for the day. We had desserts at NYDC located at Holland Village, after which we parked the car at Central and took train to SunTec and Marina Sq for a walk. The day was fine except Cha had stomach pains and had to diarrhoea twice. Maybe it was the cakes we ate earlier on bah.. But the highlight came when Cha brought me to Dolce Vita at Oriental Hotel for a poolside candlelit dinner.. We had the window seat and tot that the ambience was really great with soft lighting and poolside view. As expected, the food was outrageously expensive and the fish I ordered costs a whopping 50+ bucks lo. As I looked thru the menu, I found that their average pricing for a main course is ard sixty plus, so I decided for quite long before I finally made my choice - Cod Fish with some pepper sauce...The servings were small but luckily their bread servings were quite generous..So we actually stuffed ourselves with more bread to make ourselves full la...haa.. This was also where Cha gave me the second present for the day, a Brilliant Rose necklace. Hee.. actually it was quite close to my guess as I had a feeling Cha will buy me accessories.. It's a heart shaped pendant with a diamond stud in the middle, simple and sweet. Now I can alternate between another necklace Cha bought for me last year liao..haa
Next we adjourned for a drink at their lounge. It was cozy as we had a large sofa seat to ourselves, facing the window with a scenic night view. It was finally my turn to give Cha my handmade gift- a small pillow with embroidered Precious Moments "A Kiss to Build a Dream On". Think he was really surprised as I had told him earlier on that I had no time to make gifts for him =D
All in all, although last nite was a simple celeb, it was enjoyable and I appreciate Cha's time in preparing the gifts for me admist all his mid term tests, projects and his hectic work. Can tell from his tired look last evening that it was quite tough on him and this made the gifts even more meaningful to me (",)
2:22 PM
Thursday, September 27, 2007
A bit stressed now..cuz tomolo I kana note taking duty for my big big big big boss and other big big big big guy from France. What if I cannot catch what they say, their conversation sure revolves ard political topics and I'm not the current affair savvy type lo...I don't even know what is their airport or biggest pier called..die die die...how to take notes for them? To make things worse, there's only three of us, I have to clear my notes with my big big big big boss directly...STRESSED LA...I dun wan my grammer and vocab to be subject to such scrutinity by the big big big big boss lor... Straight after the session, I have to record everything down or else I will surely forget over the weekend de...
But what motivates me to get this over is the coming Sat.. It's our 2nd Anniversary!! So fast, cannot imagine we have been together for more than 700 days liao, just a short distance from 1000th day.. Dunno wat Cha has planned out for that day, quite excited de, it's only one more day away! =D
5:21 PM
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Today is mooncake festival liao, looking forward to a sumptuous dinner this evening.. but not feeling too well this morning le, had diarrhoea and a bad throat. But today late afternoon have a meeting leh, may drag on depending on my dir's pace le... haiz..may not be in time to eat together with my family liao..
Got a pleasant surprise this morning...Cha passed me a pink pearl his dad bought for me in China, quite nice and it's PINK..haa.. quite touched...
Still have a rather weak stomach now, later if got fever will pack up, take mc and go home early for my reunion dinner liao..hehehe
9:13 AM
Friday, September 21, 2007
Have something to complain again... Really stupid one.. Because I'm in charge of my office's fixed assets, turned out that I'm responsible for throwing every single thing here as well. Last mth we have to dispose a few furniture urgently as one of the store room needs to be converted for some other uses, and as we have no space here, we have to get rid of these tables and chairs. These 13 pieces of tables and chairs were actually junk, purchased abt a decade ago, stained, old and has zero net book value liao..Just to throw these 13 pieces of junk, I have to put up a stupid approval to dispose these junk, which I have to include: Background, ie, y we have to throw the items; a list of items stating item description, qty, costs, date of acquition and NBV. This was followed by listing down all the options on how we can throw away and call for quotations from second hand vendors (juz in case my director wants to sell to them then we can sell them fast). Then I have to put up justification why a particular option was chosen and y we din choose the other 3 instead. OK, from an economical point of view, sale to vendor most profitable mah, so I chose this option. Then my director don't want and ask me to ask our"partner agencies" they wan or not, but they all scoffed at me lor, cuz the furniture too old liao... Then my dir say y not we donate to charity... OK lor since he wants to be so charitable, I redrafted my submission for the third time and put up submission for donation. Because of his fussiness, I've spent nearly THREE weeks redrafting and waiting for his approval to throw some stupid junk. Because of him, the customers we serve wasted so much money because he asked his staff do these kind of unproductive work. And because of him, the furniture took ONE MONTH to be disposed off, when it shd only take one week. DAMN. Waste of my time, macham my time not important and only his time is golden, JIAN. I already have so much shit work up my neck and he gave me these stupid work to do, unbelievable...
Then when the furniture collectors finally come to collect their items today, got this stupid colleague, ASKS my section colleague IN FRONT OF MY DIRECTOR why never pass these furniture to him, he say can put at his place. DAMN IT LA where got space?? Our office space is so tight now lor! Then Dir seems quite angry that I never ask other staff whether anyone wants it... But they want urgent disposal ma, and the furniture so old until I don't believe anyone will want it that kind lor! Think my stupid dir will question me on this. That colleague is really stupid and insensitive too, how can he do it in front of my director when I finally can get these old junk off my hands??? Ultimately insensitive! After this incident, next time even throw a pen also must write approval letter and evaluate options for disposal liao! Might as well let our CEO sign off! Really rigid n idiotic system here, complete waste of my time! To cover my backside everything just follow the law lar!
3:47 PM
Sunday, September 16, 2007
My parents had to attend a wedding lunch reception today so I stayed at home to rot. Juz had maggie mee and watched a 3 hr drama serial, now my eyes are swarming with stars..haa..think I'll catch a nap after this blog le, feel a bit nuar but starting to sian because tomorrow have to begin a new working week again...
Had the hotpot with Pink at Tian Tian HotPot @ Tan Quee Lan Street to celeb Xing's bday on Fri. I remembered I ate many many hotdogs...Ha a bit wasted cuz hotdogs are cheap and I din really eat much meat that day, but it was a fun session and we all had enjoyed ourselves...After Xia had recounted her story, when I got home, I asked Cha why he never gave me the "wing" Hee..It turn outs that he has been wearing it when we had starting going out, but I din notice lor (",) and he was sweet to give me the following day lar, not for me to wear, but rather has encased it for my keeping...=)
So after picking out all the photos at my house on Sat, Cha brought me to this Arabian cafe for desserts, I think it's called "Samar" near Beach Rd that area, I forgot the street name again liao...hmm I realize Arabic desserts and drinks are quite spicey, think I cannot really get used to it...but one of their dessert tastes really nice just like apple strudel...
After that, we walked ard in Marina Sq and made our way to Rendeous Hotel for a sumptuous buffet wor, super nice.. It's a open-air barbecue buffet, with lots of varieties, got stingray, prawn, crayfish, crabs, satay, steak, lamp chop, sotong and my fav, Irish Sausages!!! All BBQ wor.. the dessert also very nice, got ice-cream, nonya Kuay, cakes and the highlight was their durian cake, it's superb! To Cha's utmost delight, there was a super big screen with the soccer match on lo, yesterday is Everton - Man U.. so Cha kept got distracted, HUMPH...but over all, I LOVE THE BBQ BUFFET!!
1:06 PM
Friday, September 14, 2007
It's the end of the week again! It's scary how the weeks fly past lidat and before I know it Monday bluez will start again...Again, so much shit to clear, everyday got different heaps of dung to be cleared, one shit haven cleared, always comes another one... But when Im in office, dunno y the time seems to crawl and how I yearn for 6 pm to come. That's how my life is. Next 2 weeks will also be very shitty and the tot of going back to office after this weekend is totally distressing. But anyway, let's see how it goes...
In another 2 hrs time I will be out of office liao, Hoorayyyy..after work will be meeting Pink for steamboat...wah..mouth starts to water liao..I think it's fun to have a big grp eating hotpot as we can eat more varieties. It's a nice chill out place as well...Hotpot with Cha would not be quite as fun..haha
Second anniversary with Chaa is coming in 2 wks time liao, shit...haven bought the present yet..Don't think I have the time to get it leh.. Anyway we have to start on the second yr anniversary scrapbook liao.. This time the book sure very thick lor, so many photos we have taken, the US trip photos can already bind one book liao... This time round, we will make our own, cuz it's cheaper than buying one..but in the end hor, the materials we bought cost ard the same price lor, but of cuz it's more meaningful if we make it ourselves lar...so today Im bringing my laptop back so that we can start choosing photos tomorrow. Then we'll spread over a few weeks to do the scrapbook, hope it turns out nice lo, given that both Cha and myself are not exactly very talented artists...
But Im curious wat Cha will give me for second anni leh...and again, he just wouldn't tell me anything abt it...And where will we be having our dinner??? Meanwhile I can only look forward to this special day amidst my tiring, shitty work days...
3:45 PM
Monday, September 03, 2007
Was msning Cha this afternoon when we toked abt the Europe tour we've planned for since last yr. Was thinking we can go for a long trip somewhere next July in 08 to celebrate our 1000th day:)
Cha mentioned that it's better to tour Europe in clusters, cuz it 's time efficient and saves costs.
Cluster A: England, France, Belgium and Holland.
Cluster B: Hungary, Vienna(Austria), Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.
Cluster C: Scotlands, Wales, Ireland and England
Cluster D: Spain and Portugal (Better to travel in groups)
Having considered all the options available with Cha, we've finally narrowed down to Cluster B, exluding Hungary. Also, Cha has acceded to my request to include France as well, cuz I think that place is so romantic!! So we'll set aside ard 18 days for the entire trip...
This wld be like a pre-honey moon trip to me and it's my dream to tour there when I'm still young de lor :)
Have to start saving a lot of $$$ and plan for it soon liao, hopefully everything goes as planned and I really get to fulfill this little dream of mine *keep my fingers crossed* =)
5:35 PM
Today is 3rd of Sept...I can still vaguely remember 2 years ago on this day when Cha and I first met. Cha had told me what attracted him most abt me was my chattiness. Was that all???? Humph! Of cuz he discovered other gd qualities abt me la, cannot believe he found me talkative leh.. I'm just trying to be friendly mah...haha..
Anyway I had a great Sat. We had counted down to our 23rd mths together after dinner at a Thai restaturant @ CHIJMES. It's considered a special mth as this is the last one before our second yr together. Time really flies...not before long, I'll be counting down to Xmas and New yr again...But meanwhile I'll still be suffering and complaining...haizzz..SIAN AH!!!!
9:49 AM
