to http://www.zz.sg
not like i'll update any more often there, but this journal is already dead. so please go to zz.sg for updates (if any!) |
Wow. I almost forgot I have a livejournal. isn't it amazing how things can change so much in a year? Mummyhood and work has sapped so much time and energy that there's no regularity in blogging.
see how lah...maybe should start again soon. let's wait till work gets less crazy. |
Happy Valentine's Day!
Little did Hubby know that I arranged to send him something to his office. Heehee... think he was very surprised and happy! I got showers of kisses over MSN. Poor fella has been running around like headless chicken these past 2 weeks, hope this will be able to cheer him up.
We decided that we wanted baby to come out over after CNY so that he'll be a good little golden piggy boy. Hubby bought him a nice silver piedfort coin from Singapore Mint yesterday to commemorate his birth year and hubby thinks that if baby is born as a doggie, the coin is like not matching... so must have baby born as a piggy! Every so often, I'm just telling baby not to come out so soon and to stay inside till CNY!
Wonder if baby will really be born on CNY day 1. Not keen on troubling my gynecologist on CNY, but the cash reward is so tempting! Hahaha... looking forward to meeting my little boy... |
hmmm...decided to install deepest sender into my new acer laptop's firefox browser. maybe this will help me to revive my blog. was thinking of migrating my blog over to my new domain, but haven't gotten around to registering for web hosting yet, so my domain name is just lying there...dead!
very fast har, baby is due this friday. everyone has been asking me if i am very excited and telling me to sms them when i pop. haiyah... on one hand i'm quite excited that i finally get to meet baby, but on the other hand, i know that means the start of a whole new life. also, it's so much more inconvenient for me to move around these days. the stomach gets in the way!
can't wait for CNY holidays to come ley. means that i'm that much closer to meeting the new member of the Lee family. heehee...feeling :  sleepy |
Last weekend was Alpha weekend away at Sofitel. I have to say that it was quite fulfilling with several disappointments and interesting things that i've not seen before. The couple whom I hoped would receive Jesus during the weekend, didn't. Which only goes to show that it's all inn God's timing and we can only sow the seeds within them and watch God work. It was also the first time I have seen so many people being "slain" during the Holy Spirit ministry. Even Hubby was downed when he went to receive healing for his migraine, which miraculously disappeared. It was a good faith restoring experience with lots of food, fellowship and knitting! It was all too tiring tho and both Hubby and I crashed once we reached home.
As I was away on training for the most part of last week, today was my first time back in office in a long long time. Interestingly, I think that I'll actually start blogging more regularly now as the initial wave of busyness has subsided and everything has gone into mind-numbingly-boring-day-passing-me-by mode. Sadly, due to the recent manpower changes, there might be yet another reorg in my division, meaning I might actually be under a new boss. I don't want to get kicked around again for another year for the simple reason that I'll lose my opportunity for promotion to a higher salary grade again. That just plain sucks. I don't like to be slogging my guts out, only to have myself appraised by someone who has just gotten to know me and won't promote me over the rest of the guys in the team who've been there longer.
Plus, with my maternity leave and all, that just means that my chances for promotion are probably slimmer than i'll ever get after giving birth. Hopefully by my next gynae appointment we'll be able to know the sex of Baby and then I can start buying pink or blue rompers and stuff. :D
Yay! Back to work is me. Doing Flash development today. :) |
Haiyah... I need to install Deepest Sender on my laptop so it makes my blogging life so much easier! I need more time when I have squat all to do so it makes me want to blog...
But I'm beginning to get used to not blogging. Very busy with work and personal life lah... so got some shift towards doing other thing/committments and I feel like there's some shifting in priorities in the things that are important to me. Either that or I'm just getting boring and I don't have the urge to scream out my day-to-day life story to the entire cyberspace.
Just another tiny speck in the space of the cyber-universe ... |
Somehow it doesn't seem to be my habit to blog in the morning before I start work. Hubby complained again just the other day that i've stopped blogging.
No motivation to do work ley. The more I look into what I'm doing, the more unfeasible it looks and the more it seems like it should just be left as a concept. Other players already doing something similar what... Feels as though I am just passing my days here. Waiting for something, but dunno waiting for what also. Wish Hubby would just start earning a ton of money and I can stay home and do my beading.
Think I am lacking in PASSION. interestingly, that is the theme for my event coming up. PASSION being something that is from inside, motivation being external, and PASSION being something that cannot easily be passed on from one person to the next, instead, it must come from within...out of nothingness?
Plus, have not been feeling well lately. Maybe my lethargy has reduced my passion. or maybe my passion was not to be doing anymore coding. I have no desire to make buildings smarter. I just wish there was some job available here that just allows me to liaise with people. Hmm. maybe I should look into purchasing or sales or solution architect. Either that, or I've got to read up more and be some technology evangelist. Haiyah. Somehow I think technology evangelist also need to do some coding. sianz.
OK la. Maybe it's time to move on to something non-technical you think? |
So many things to do! The moving took less than a day but there were a million issues to settle about the network points, phone lines, card access etc etc. super busy lah.
Hubby's bday was on 06 06 06. So, I took him to Restaurant 1827 Thai at Old Parliament house. We ordered the scallop mango salad, coconut cream chicken soup, roast duck curry with caramelised pineapple and grapes, scallop and slipper lobster curry and pandan tiramisu! Every dish was very tasty and I thought they were mostly yummy, but Hubby thinks the scallops were a bit too tasteless. The ambience was FANTASTIC! Beaded curtains, organza, comfy sofa seats and dark red deco. Private and romantic. Also, I "booked" the whole restaurant...we were the only customers! Highly recommended by me for a romantic night out. IT's $40+++ for a set dinner with appetiser/salad, soup, main course/new age curries, dessert & coffee/tea. Quite reasonable for relatively fine dining, I would say.
Hubby is old leow. I got him 1 present to represent every 10 years of his life. Old leow... |
So I "won" a seat for a cooking class by Damien Pignolet! (Thanks to Jie and ZW!) His new book out is called French. Guess who's now got an autographed copy??? hahaha...
So I went down to the Miele academy's kitchen at Winsland House 2 for his cooking class. He was accompanied by his associate Chris, who did the bulk of the preparation and cooking whilst Chef Damien concentrated on pointing out details during preparation and answering questions. Most of the audience seemed to be from the press! They all knew each other! I felt rather left out, macham I'm the only contest "winner"!
He demonstrated how to prepare and cook 4 dishes. During the cooking class, although we were just watching, we even got to sample the 4 dishes that were cooked!! The first one was a Game Terrine. The terrine was moist and flavourful, accompanied by crispy crouton-like bread and a sliver of cornichon. Being used to eating tasty and well seasoned meats, this wasn't a disappointment, but neither was it particularly fantastic. Chef Damien did give some good pointers about charcuterie (which means "cooked meats"). Hubby bought a book called "Professional Charcuterie" which details how to make your own terrines, pates and sausages. Now all we need is the hog's runner skins and the mixer!
The next dish we got to try was the Harbour Prawn Quenelles. Quenelles are kind of like dumplings and are traditionally shaped using 2 spoons. Chef Damien made these with these massively large anchor prawns! They were the length of a small crayfish! He minced up the prawns and blitzed them with some creme fraiche I think. He then proceeded to drop them into a stockpot filled with fish and prawn stock. He also made a bechamel sauce, which he added a bit too much flour in and came out a bit too thick. He then scooped up some of that lovely fish stock and added it into the bechamel sauce, thereby making it in a veloute (velvety) sauce. He then placed the quenelles into a low tray, covered it all up with the fantastic veloute sauce, added Gyuyere cheese on top and stuck it into the oven. When it came out... my goodness... I was practically drooling! When I bit into the quenelle, I wasn't expecting the light and fluffy texture that it had, nor the sweetness of the prawn with perfectly complemented the fragrance of the veloute. The sharp tasting Gyuyere cheese set off a nice contrast and it was all oozy and melted. Ahhh... I wanted seconds...
The 3rd dish was Braised Beef Brisket with Carrots. The beef brisket they used was a side of Wagyu beef. ooooh...expensive stuff! And they used up a whole slab!!! First Chef Damien stuffed the seasoning into little "pockets" that he carved out with his little knife and then fried/grilled it in the pan. Chef Chris then took up the slab that they had been cooking in stock from the oven, cut that up and we got to eat that instead. Chef Damien sliced and sauteed some carrots and served them with the beef. The beef was tender and the sauce was delicious! Wonder if I can achieve the same effect with the normal beef that we get...
The last was Eve's chocolate cake, which was a flourless chocolate cake. The middle was meant to sink in after baking and Chef Damien proceeded to prod and press down the middle of it cause it wasn't sinking fast enough. He then spooned some chocolate mousse into it, dusted the top with cocoa powder and sprinkled chocolate shavings on the top. Heavenly! The texture of the cake was light and spongy, like a chiffon cake! Completely unlike all the heavy chocolate cakes that I've been baking! I can't wait to try this recipe!
Then I managed to get my autograph from Chef Damien. He's a really nice and funny guy and kept encouraging us to ask him questions related to cooking during the class. Very amiable chap!
I hope Jamie Oliver comes to Singapore too. Maybe Penguin can entice him with our Laksa & Chilli Crab & Skate Wings with Sambal Chilli! |
i'm at the airport now waiting for my flight back home. i can't wait to go back! i've spent too long in BKK already although i loved the shopping, the food and the hotel. however, all that is causing a massive pimple outbreak on my face!! NOOOOOOooooOOoo... must be all the tom yum soup and the chillied stuffs.
must blog about all the stuff i did here b4 i forget.
friday morning, hubby and i flew into BKK and managed to grab a cabby down to Novotel Siam Square. We tried to get Di and Kiwi but weren't successful so we went awandering on our own in the Siam Square area. high tea/dinner was at this jappy restaurant called Zen at Siam Centre and we headed over to pantip plaza for pirated DVDs. ended up at this place called Big C and bought seaweed and crispy pork as well as bottles and bottles of water! Headed back to the hotel and had dinner at Siam Paragon's foodie court. Tired and nursing painful feet after half a day's worth of shopping, hubby and I went for foot reflexology at Lek Massage. This was pretty spa-y zen-looking place across the road from our hotel. hubby enjoyed the foot reflexology immensely and so did I! We finally managed to hook up with Di and Kiwi to meet up the next day. Headed back to the room for Stepford Wives and some well-deserved sleep.
The next day was Chatuchak Day! it was my first time in the weekend market and i had no idea how large it was! it started out muggy and hot and i wasn't too proficient at bargaining but i managed to get by. ended up buying loads of stuff, including cheap t-shirts, cheap skirts, cheap pillows, cheap shirts for hubby, cheap tops and all sorts of other cheap stuff! even cheap rose quartz! hubby and i kept losing di and kiwi cause we were apt to wander off on our own. the puppies were so adorable! there was this tiny one that looked a bit foxy and pawed at the glass at me, seeming to say "Take me home!" (it did that to kiwi too) SO CUTE! eventually, hubby and i completely lost kiwi and di and we decided to meet up at siam BTS station later that day. thank goodness i left my mobile with di and kiwi incase we got separated, but i'm expected a super-duper bomb on my phone bill this month! realised that hubby and I had shopped from 9.30am to 5.30pm! thankfully our feet weren't *that* sore, in part i think to the foot massage we had the day before. we dumped our purchases and took quick showers to wash off all the sweat and dirt of the day. boy, was there lots of sweat and dirt! dinner was at Coca steamboat restaurant and dessert was at Chocoholic, this lovely cafe with vintage lampshades and a delicate, classy sort of feel to it. (I da pao-ed one of their strawberry cupcakes to bring back to sg. it's sitting in a box next to me now!) More foot reflexology followed. We wanted to try a different massage parlour, but it seemed that Lek was having real good business, which probably meant that they were the best! (or they looked the least dodgy) so we ended up going to Lek again.
Sunday arrived, bearing more shopping for hubby and I at Mahboonkrong or MBK for short. We rushed around madly and had lunch at this japanese teppanyaki place called Oishi Teppanyaki. I ended up getting a blister from all that rushing around and whilst hubby got himself his last massage of the trip, i stayed in the room packing and preparing. so good wife hor?? =) after hubby left, i took a long hot bath with this bath tea packet that i brought along but didn't use. i unthinkingly left it on the bathtub and went out to meet di and kiwi at MBK. bought some photo frames at the Loft on the way to MBK. di and i den went crazy at the little stalls outside MBK. kiwi so patiently helped us to carry our bags! we ended up at zen for dinner (again!) and then proceeded for more thai massage. went back up to my room and discovered (horror or horrors!) that the bath packet had left a dark yellow stain on the white bathtub! in the shape of a kogepan's head!! no amount of scrubbing seemed to remove it and then i started to panic. i prayed and hoped that they wouldn't notice it, so i tried to cover the stain with the soap dish. to no avail, can still see abit of the kogepan's chin, so i gave up and went to sleep.
woke up the next morning and headed over to training hotel for my course. i didn't like my trainer, but i have no choice but to be nice to him, cause he's my only tech support for this product that i'm learning. he reminded me so much of my ex-boss at N30z. class ended early and i rushed to the airport to pick up Mom. Mom was quite shocked to see me there cause she thought she would have to go to the airport on her own and she was already at the counter trying to get a 700 baht limo taxi. thank goodness I picked her up! Brought her for a walkabout the siam square area and had a very spicy dinner at this place called Yum Sap at MBK. they overcharged me by 50 baht and i created a mini scene cause they didn't really understand what I was talking about. most of the shops were closed but I rather enjoyed walking around with her.
I feel that during this trip, i managed to spend more time with my mom. it's amazing how after a while, my mom didn't look all that scary anymore, but she was just this lonely woman who wanted some attention. i'm glad that she came to join me in thailand, even though I wasn't all too keen on her coming over at first. Hope that she's finally seen how i've grown up. she kept commenting: "Last time i bring you go walk walk. now you bring me go walk walk. I'm so glad I came". I resolve to be nicer to my mom in future and try to spend more time with her.
anyway, the next day was spent at training again and mom and I somehow ended up at MBK, having dinner at Yum Sap again. so embarrasing. I half thought that they didn't want to serve us cause of what happened the day before. this time, mom and i ate till we couldn't take the chilli anymore and left the odd veges behind. wanted to go for massage but got hooked on a young (and still so cute) Heath Ledger on star movies. I think it was "10 things I hate about you".
[insert more training and complaints about the trainer here]. brought mom to Big C for grocery shopping. she was so pleased and we bought packets and packets of seaweed, crispy pork and curry paste. by the time we brought everything back and headed out for dinner, most eateries were closed so we da pao-ed tom yum puffs and cakes from secret recipe, and oddly enough, takoyaki, back to the hotel. half a tom yum puff later, I was full. though I must admit that the tom yum puff is really nice! more foot reflexology with a reluctant mom.
[insert more comments about how I don't like trainer here]. my course ended slightly early today and i reached back to find a sleeping mom. i started packing up my stuff into the luggage, coz mom kept worrying about how everything was going to fit. i managed to find space for everything and shifted some of mom's load into my suitcase. thanks be to considerate hubby who brought all my shopping home first to clear space for mom's shopping! did all the last minute shopping at MBK, Loft and dinner was at Coca. Mom enjoyed the steamboat immensely! she kept commenting how we should have eaten this on the first day (I wanted to bring her, but she was telling me about how she just had steamboat the night before...) I was very happy that she was pleased with dinner and I headed for thai massage with hot compress while she stayed in the hotel room and worried about the packing.
it was a short day of training just to wrap up and yummy buffet lunch at the atrium. whiled most of the day away online before I left for the airport. can't wait for my flight home!! |
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Apr. 12th, 2006 @ 05:43 pm
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And in an attempt to blog as regularly as before, here I am.
I spent the morning in Raffles Convention Centre looking at embedded PC boards. Thankfully lunch was provided, including my favourite tomato, bean and basil pesto cream soup. I love seminars/conferences/events at RCC!! The food is decently good and that soup is just plain yummy!
Had to come back to do up somemore testing this afrvo before my big presentation to the bosses tomorrow. was quite nervous about saying the wrong thing, but i guess it was allayed slightly after listening to a colleague make disparaging comments about a particular boss that i wanted to impress. not so scared anymore.
spent yesterday going through the prayer path at church. it was an very enlightening and interesting experience, which involved me doodling my hurts, dropping my worries into a pail of water, lighting a candle to pray for someone, trampling on sand in an attempt to leave my legacy behind and planting mung /soy beans into dirt. pretty fun actually, and very peaceful.
looking forward to massive shopping in BKK! |
I managed to do 4 graves this weekend. My dad's, Hubby's grandparents and uncle. I put pretty purple and blue flowers at his grave and I was quite pleased with myself. but i turned to look at the grave next to his and it was decked out in gorgeous white and yellow tulips with lovely clay figurines. hmm.
had dinner with hubby and purple (who were rushing another project deadline) at coral village bistro. purple calls it the "shan hu hai" place. poor purple had strict dietary requirements after her appendectomy and couldn't eat anything except the fish beehoon soup! I indulged in the Viet style black pepper tang hoon. Nice!
It's been many weeks into the Alpha course that hubby and i are attending and we're going for the alpha weekend away soon! I must say that I can feel God making many changes in my life (and i noe star will be very pleased to hear this). I'm praying with more conviction and my faith is growing, in part due to hubby who keeps calling me "woman of little faith". Hearing this from a new Christian just makes me feel ashamed.
Everything is looking good on the work front. Except the boss and his quirkiness. I have yet to get used to that. :P
Till the next time when I actually can find the time to blog. Back to work is me! ;)listening to: Fountains of Wayne! |
because i've been neglecting it. hubby asked me why i haven't been updating recently. it's not the lack of time, but somehow the priority of updating my LJ has been pushed right to the back. Now that i've gotten used to my new colleagues, i must say that i rather enjoy their company. it's amazing how I can wake myself up at 8 in the morning everyday now and stay alert throughout the day. i used to only be able to wake up properly at 9. i think it's the mental stimulation that keeps me awake and i like it! i actually feel productive.
spent half my day at an oracle identity management seminar. my colleague, upon hearing it, asked me if i was schizo and needed help finding out who i was. ie: identity crisis. it is interesting how all the big players are pushing for identity management. Sun, IBM, CA, Microsft and Oracle are all pushing hard for it. I reckon it must make up some big part of the SOA buzzword thing that everyone seems to be spouting these days.
Heading off to Thailand for 1 week next Friday. Shopping and food, here I come! I can't wait!! |
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yayyyy!!! at long last, this bundle of shit that has been placed upon me can be placed upon someone else. Praise be to the Lord for giving me the patience to go through with the handover and thanks be to Him who has released me from all the suffering! =) |
Recently I have been having more interaction with my new colleagues and I realise that I should be wary of some of them.
Not to say that they are bad people, but honestly I cannot tell if they are joking or being serious. And my oversensitivity doesn't help either. When it comes down to working with them, I feel that I should shut up and play my cards close to my chest. Maybe i need more time to get used to them and this bothers me. I don't want to feel like a replacement to my predecessor and neither do I want to be compared to her.
After working for almost 3 years now, I am finally feeling the office politics around me and I don't like it. But I guess I must learn how to play the game, or die trying. Really hope that my boss is big enough to shield me. feeling :  contemplative listening to: Run rabbit junk - GITS OST |
...once they realise that you are soon getting a transfer. the grouchy grumps who sits near my cubicle actually smiled at me today! he must be in real need of manpower cause he wanted to know if my transfer was permanent. when i told him that it wasn't, he then smiled at me! he must know that i'm shifting my cubicle soon and he won't have to put up with my dreadful singing!
WEF 1 April, I no longer belong with the cows and what happens in China is none of my business!
I realised that I have really not blogged for a very long time. This is becuz I've been waaay too busy lately.
My appraisal this year seems quite promising. My boss actually told me that I have the qualities to make a good project manager! hee, am quite pleased about that, as well as the fact that the people who he sought opinions for my appraisal from sang praises of me and gave generally good comments. Now, if only I could get them to raise my salary!
I can't believe i'm still at the office. leaving soon... i'll leave just after I finish this portion of my never ending coding.... |
I was testing the google page creator and i came up with this!
http://szelin107.googlepages.com/home
That's the home page. now, if only i had the time to do something useful with pugling.com. =( |
Friday was our gin gang's chillout session at heeren. First, we had too much to eat at marche. Then, we adjourned to NYDC for drinks and dessert, where we sprung a belated birthday brownie surprise on YY. We didn't celebrate YY's birdday cause we were all unaware and no one remembered! Poor YY! Mrs CL whipped out her makeup kit n proceeded to show me how to glue my eyelids so that I could have double eyelids! It was a spectacular failure and i'm thankful i didn't go for the double eyelid surgery my mom kept wanted to send me for.
Anyways, I learnt how to curl (hubby keeps saying crimp) my eyelashes and apply mascara! The mascara was very good! It was waterproof and i had difficulty getting rid of it, so i had no choice but to sleep with it on! I wanted to buy one so Mrs CL and I hunted for it but couldn't find it! Darnz.. it must really b very good!
Saturday night was the Alpha introductory dinner. The food was quite good and I rather enjoyed the video. I've enrolled myself for the Alpha course. Is anyone else interested? |
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First I go from TS to BS and now i'm going back to TS again. I just wish they'd stop changing my boss. My appraisal this year will be done up by three of my bosses. Every direct supervisor that I have been under must appraise me and this year, there were THREE of them. THREE! I wonder what kind of impression i left with each of my 3 bosses... |
Happy Valentine's Day!
Wishing all a happy valentine's day! There was a jazz performance at the Bistro area today for our D&D publicity and I went around selling flowers! The jazz performance was a nice touch and brought a romantic atmosphere to our office. Plus, one of our committee members bought the whole committee roses! I choped a purple one. teeheehee.
Hope everyone's Valentine's Day is as wonderfully pleasing! |
<font size="2">... for pots! hubby and i were looking around for a particular type of pot and we finally found it on saturday while shopping! heehee... am very pleased. we used it immediately to cook dinner and dinner was delicious! what an amazing pot!
Hubby and I also took part in Centrepoint's tianpo perfect fit challenge. The idea was to try on a pair of "Hearts-on-Fire" rings and if they fit the couple's fingers perfectly, they'd get to keep them! However, there were 10 pairs to choose from and you could only try 1 pair! Sad to say, we didn't win it. The rings were too big for our fingers. Oops. Guess hubby and I are not a perfect fit! lolx. On hindsight tho, the rings were quite thick and ugly. Even hubby commented that if we won them, we'd just sell them back to the jewellers or something.
Valentine's Day is coming up and I haven't gotten hubby anything! He's not making it easier by telling me that I don't have to buy him anything. it's upsetting cause he knows that i'll get him something but he DOESN'T WANNA GIVE ME ANY CLUE! GRRRR... i'll probably end up buying him something impractical that he doesn't use!! ARGHS~!</font> |
Everyone seems to be quitting their jobs. Two people have already been head hunted by other companies while another is quitting to be a housewife for a year! It must be because its just after the year end bonus and festive season or something. I would also like to quit my job... once I win the $10mil TOTO draw. =)
This $10mil TOTO thing has gotten some of my colleagues in a frenzy. They've been betting heavily on TOTO and 4D after having struck 1st prize recently. I should tell them to stop buying leow. After all, I'm the one who's gonna win the $10M! muahahaha... |
"DJs from 7 radio stations will compete in the 70-Hour Gag challenge by maintaining their silence and communicate with listeners only through written notes, sms and moblogging - all while being housed inside a Gag Room specially created for them."
but my blog silence is not related to this! see, there was a death in the hubby's family over the first few days of CNY and immediately our red garments were exchanged for mourning togs and nice relatives for annoying ones. this meant no TV, no radio, almost no PCs and internet (except for work related purposes), little sleep and lots of folding of incense paper. I learnt to fold a lotus flower out of incense paper (my crowning achievement this new year, apart from finding an excuse not to give out ang pows this year and next year). this is the second death in the family over the chinese new year period that I have experienced! so CNY sucks big time! mama flo's pineapple tarts are still with me (uneaten) but i dunno if still can eat anot. hehheh...
interestingly, i have just signed up for friendster (yah... i know i'm really behind the times) in an attempt to look for someone i've lost contact with for at least 3 years. So if anyone knows of KlifeR's whereabouts, pls let me know!
hubby and I watched many movies over the weekend, including fearless and deuce bigalow. fearless is good. go watch it!
ok. back to work is me (after a 1 week break!)
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Hubby and I just finished watching Kim Sam Soon yesterday. It's such an enjoying show, i wish there was part 2! actually, i don't care if there's part 2 or not. I'm just hoping that the cute korean guy acts in more shows for me to watch! he's so droolsome! lolx... hubby pointed out that he's got some zits on his face. heh. i reckon hubby's a little jealous cause I keep ignoring hubby to watch samsoon and keep telling hubby that hyun bin is so cute!
ok. i better stop gushing.
*swoons*
guess who has food tasting to go to today?? free dinner! *rubs hands in glee* |
The people who are telling me what to do are on leave these coming weeks, which means slacker days at work for me. My gastritis which landed me an MC yesterday so I could go home and catch up on lost sleep but not be able to eat much.
I made pineapple tarts on sunday. too much work for too little tarts =(
mama flo: i didn't see boonie today. If i did, i would offer him a tart. ;) |
... today.
For some odd reason, I think that all my bosses hate me.
Hmm. I have to be PMSing today. :(
PS: Boonie's wearing blue as usual.
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...can be found here! I think I married one! Despite Hubby's tries to be funky and cool, I know deep down inside, he's just a checkered-shirt-wearing geek. (I know, cause i just cleared out his closet for CNY...) |
[ tara|yn ] says:
my new shoes giving me blisters.
Leonard says:
what new shoes heels?
[ tara|yn ] says:
no. flats.
[ tara|yn ] says:
just that i have an infected big toe
[ tara|yn ] says:
cause i tried to remove the painful bit of ingrown toenail and it got infected
[ tara|yn ] says:
so when i walk with the shoe, it presses down on the infected area and hurts!
Leonard says:
omg
Leonard says:
go for surgery?
[ tara|yn ] says:
and to not let the shoe press on the infected area, i walk differently, resulting in my foot moving up and down in the shoe, thereby creating a blister.
[ tara|yn ] says:
and altho i've put a plaster on the blister, there's already water in the blister and so it hurts regardless
Leonard says:
walk like a cowboy
[ tara|yn ] says:
and when i try to walk normally, it relieves the pain off my heel but it pushes my big toenail into the infected area of my big toe
[ tara|yn ] says:
thereby expelling more liquid pus...
Leonard says:
yucks
Leonard says:
it sounds gross
[ tara|yn ] says:
yes. i have disgusting feet
[ tara|yn ] says:
i'm surprised u managed to sit through me describing it in such graphic detail with telling me to stop.
Leonard says:
it's alrite
Leonard says:
am used to it
Leonard says:
lucky u are married
Leonard's a really good friend. :) |
.. when I see so many comments about my blog entry! I feel loved! lolx...
i actually have no concrete idea about saturday except that we might want potluck instead of cooking. Hubby's Uni mate is getting married that afternoon and so that leaves us little time to prepare. not to mention the fact that my RGS gang is gathering on friday and i'm in charge of food! i guess i could just figure out a bit more food for saturday...if the gin gang wants a BBQ that is... and of course, the agenda for the day should be munchkin, mahjong and dai-di!
Had farewell dinner for CW at crystal jade yesterday with HQ. it was really nice, the 3 of us together again bitching about work. Poor HQ is the PM, Admin, Developer & Helpdesk of her project!
argh! i forgot to return my rentals to Video-Ezy!! Grr... |
...is useless. So hubby comes back bearing all these computer parts to fix up his poor fizzled-out PC and effectively MESSES UP THE ROOM AGAIN. after I spent the whole afternoon clearing the bags and bags of stuff and there's just MORE bags and bags of stuff! sigh. This is only 1 room. imagine what it'll be like cleaning up a WHOLE FLAT? *shudder* which reminds me, hubby, don't forget to sort out your old clothes tonight.
has everyone done up their spring cleaning for the new year? I haven't quite yet. (no thanks to the ever growing mess! ok. i have to admit that i do contribute to it a little.) There's still old clothes to get rid of and to "ban nian huo"! at least hubby and I got all our CNY clothes and shoe shopping done over the weekend. Hubby is very pleased with his new pair of ugly CROCS. he can't wait to wear them! and he keeps gloating that I can't fit crocs sizes properly. my feet are too big for the small size and too small for the medium! grr... I was quite looking forward to procuring a pair to replace my birkenstooks which have gone mouldy. see what happens when u buy $6 birkenstooks from thailand instead of the real Birkenstocks? Will Gin be a darling and help me to buy another pair when she does to BKK, I wonder?? hehheh...
So I bought some covered toe shoes from that shop at marina square that flo and I were at the other day. buying covered toe shoes are a big deal for me, because I normally don't fit into ANY covered toe shoes properly. they end up giving me blisters everytime. but these 2 pairs seems quite comfortable and promising. At worst, i'll be walking around on CNY with blisters :( not my ideal way to start the new year tho!
Haven't gone down to chinatown to soak up the atmosphere yet! i'm thinking of organising a get-together for the LS gin gang this Saturday so I guess there's no chance of me going to chinatown this week! And, i haven't tasted bah kwa for quite some time now! *drool* now, all i have to do is find one day to take leave and bake pineapple tarts! |
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