xmas 2006

Yeah once again it is the season of giving! Merry Xmas everyone! Well I started celebrating xmas last Thurs.

It was dinner at Jap Dining Sun with poly friends including bfs.
Wanted to go to Sun With Moon but it was fully booked, so they got us a table here.

There is our exchanged pressies, all wrapped beautifully. In the end wynne and me got each other pressies and same goes for Denise and Jiahui.

And there is the four of us for a group photo.

Oh I received a very special pressie from Jiahui - a handmade calender! Thanks gal, we love it very much!

I like this pic best!

Saturday was dim sum lunch with uni friends at Imperial Nan Bei Restaurant.

Group photo again before we start to attack the food. The dim sum is good! And the price is reasonable. Each of us paid less than 20 bucks.

There is Jina with Jiahui. Jina is back from Sydney on a 2 weeks break. We only get to see her once a year. Sob Sob. We went for abit of shopping after the heavy lunch in order for our food to digested. Then we settled down at Starbucks for some coffee to rest our tired legs.

Me with Jiahui

Me and Diana

Xmas eve was spend at my sis's friend house for dinner, games and drink.

The spread of food on the table. Each of us have to prepare something. For me and sis, it was fried chicken wings and mush potatoes (without the gravy). Haha!

Me and sis

Me and Dear trying to be funny

Gal's group photo

Group photo

Xmas is almost gone and next awaiting holiday is NEW YEAR DAY! Yeah!

work + green horn

I just off the phone with my uni friends. I am suppose to meet them for dinner tonight (going for korean food at Chinatown) but due to work commitments (yes again!), I am stuck in the office trying to clear up my work which kept piling up. I thought things will get better this month but dont know why there is still so much quotes to do. Why the shops cant stop renovating, now is the christmas period leh! Sigh! Other than new quotes, there are still completed projects which I need to sort out for the variation works and a thick file of subcontractor's invoices which I need to certify. Subcontractors had been calling me quite frequently these days, asking me whether I have certify their payment already or not. I always felt quilty putting off the work as indirectly I am delaying their payment. Sigh.

The new guy started work last fri but...he is really green horn, fresh out of the uni, totally unfamilar with interior works. I had a hard time explaining how to do invoicing, getting the subcontractors to quote, doing variation works. Guess it will take him quite awhile to absorb and understand what I am teaching him. *God bless me*

moisturise

Whose feet are those?? Is mine! And why am I wearing socks in the house when Singapore does not have winter? Haha! I just slapped on some lotion to moisturise and smoothen my feet!

Sis brought back the Bath & Body Works body cream from US including the pair of socks. The smell of the lotion is great, with lavender scent. Smells good!
She also bought me a tube of hand lotion and the smell is identical to The Body Shop's White Musk.

Tokidoki + Goodies

Yes! My sis is finally back from her US trip, therefore my long awaited Tokidoki Paradiso Mamma Mia bag is here!! Yippe!
Too happy for words already! But my pocket will burn a hole very soon...

Sis also brought some pocky sticks home. She got them in Narita airport while on her transit back to Singapore. There is milk chocolate, green tea and white chocolate flavour. Just eaten the green tea ones and they are yummy!

star dancer

Here is the new gal - star dancer! Love her ash colour hair. Looks so soft!

But I am not getting her...sigh. Got other commitments. Need to save as much as possible. Sigh... Got more pics from Jueline's blog.

Her star dancer is such a sweetie! When can I start to pamper myself again...

paradiso

Yippe! I am a happy gal now. I finally own a LSS tokidoki bag! It is the new winter collection! Yesterday I just received a sms from my sis that she have helped me get the bag in LA. Hehe! But I have to wait till 2 weeks later to get my hands on it as she just reached LA yesterday. Haha!

Actually I wanted to get a Coach bag as it is cheaper in US but after scanning throught the website, I couldnt find anything I like. So I decide to get LSS as I think it will suits me better and sis also agrees with me on that. Coach is too formal for me. Haha!

TTS + upgrading

Yesterday I went TTS to visit ZX. He seems to be recovering well as compared to Monday when my other friends went to visit him. Last Monday he was not happy to see them, telling his gf very 'fan'. So JH and D went off after 10mins. Yesterday, ZX was okay. He talked alot but abit senseless. He kept mentioning about 雪山 and 真字. But at least he talked more now and can read magazine and recognize people. I guess in a couple of weeks time, he will be able to discharge from hospital.

On friday, my house started the upgrading of the toilets - changing of the water pipe, replacing with uPVC pipes, redoing the whole toilet. So there is what my kitchen and toilet look like now...

In the middle is the make shift toilet with no HOT WATER!

The floor of the toilet have to be rescreed and waterproofed before laying of new tiles

Right now, everywhere is dust and we have to wear slippers around the house (except for the rooms). Worst of all is there is not hot water to bath with. Cant boil any water. Such a torture! Sigh! Still got 8 more days to endure before the whole thing is done.

八跨新闻 + mitch albom + last day

Guess what!! I saw Stefanie Sun at Millenia Walk last night and she was holding hand with a guy, I guess that is her bf. But I did not get to see her full face as she was walking with her head bend, maybe she doesnt want people to recognise her. Being a celebrity is tough, not much personal life at all. The paparazzi are always around, invading into their privacy. Because I keep looking at SS, I fail to notice the guy, I have no idea how he look like... ;P

I was having coffee with the gals and JH mentioned that she just finish reading "the five people you meet in heaven" by mitch albom. I have that book!! But I did not finish reading that. Therefore when I am back home, I went to fish out the book and started reading it. The story started about how an old man died in an accident. Hopefully I am able to finish the book this time round.

Today is my colleague's last day at work. Time passed so fast since the day he gave his resignation letter. Just went through with him the projects which I need to take over. Sigh! Work is going to be tough starting from next week, I have in hand 7 projects to run! God bless me!

questions

Yesterday 2 people asked me some weird questions...

Q1 - In the morning when I was taking the lift up to the office, there is another lady in the lift with me. I recognise her, her office is also in the same level as mine. Out of the blue, she asked me whether I am doing sales. I said no and in the back of my mind I was thinking do I look like I am doing sales when I was dressing down with just jeans, a black T-shirt and sandals. I am really curious why she asked me that question.

Q2 - At night around 8plus my boss called me in the office. As my colleague is leaving end of the week, my boss was asking me about the status for the recruitment of the new qs. As it is now towards the end of the year, there are not much applicants and so far I only interviewed 2 people. Then my boss asked me, "why not I pay you more then you do all by yourself?" #$%^&*@ Of course I did not say yes to his suggestion. How on earth am I going to do 2 person's workload??!! I am not superwoman. Now I really have to pray hard that there will be more applicants. :(

death note

Me and jackson went to catch "Death Note" last night. It was quite an interesting movie. The storyline followed quite closely to the manga except that Light is a high school student in the manga rather than an uni law student in the movie. Towards the end of the movie, there is a twist of plot and the movie ended with Light wanting to join in the Investigating Unit. So there is will be a part 2 coming up and of course I will be watching it to know what the twist of the plot will lead us to.

I enjoyed the show very much and it seems like the trend now is to produce shows from manga, just like "Gong" which was a huge success. I find the manga shows are very witty and funny and the storyline is rather unusual, something different from the usual TV dramas and movie.

Looking forward to part 2...