Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Wednesday - 26th November 2008 (One more month to Chirstmas)


It wasn't so bad a week after all, 无惊无险, it's mid week already. Look at the above cuties, I just received email from xin.sg that I have won them! Wow, to win in this contest, there is spamming involved (the more entries you sent in, the more chances of winning). I actually thought I did not spam much???! Anyway, most probably not much people like the cuties as much as I do.
I love the dog bone crayons and the watch, haha, aren't they cute?
More more prizes for me please!!!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

A very tiring Tuesday *Yawn Yawn*

I am super tired today, my eyelips could not bring themselves to be lifted up today, and I see eyebags! A late Sunday night from attending the Channel 8's 45th anniversary event, following by a company annual dinner last night which ended at about 2200 hours, it proved to be a stress. My face features are showing the after effects symptoms already.

Dinner of 5 tables was held at Orchard Hotel's Lavendar 2 ballroom, with a Chinese wedding going on just at the opposite Orchard Grand Ballroom. Kind of a bad arrangement as the reception is just facing our ballroom and guests are a bit confused as to whether the settings of standing tall tables with peanuts and drinks are for which side of the guests.

The dinner was good, with courses of dishes such as cold dish comprising of tempura prawns / fish cake scallops / baby squids / jelly fish strips / thin slices of tender roasted duck, thick sharks fin soup with big chuncks of crab meat, big fresh scallops on simmered veggies, big dry scallop too on another dish, steamed fish, E-fu noodles and so on. Services were good, our plates were changed after each dish, serving staff were pleasantly polite. One bad point would be the E-fu noodles, it was badly done and soggy with gravy, look really unpleasant.

Another highlight of the night, the lucky draw prizes which were a disappointment. With 18 prizes going from a pair of movie tickets, 4 tickets to the Singapore Flyer, $30 voucher to Ben and Jerry Ice-cream, F&B vouchers to Taiwan Porridge and $250 Starhub vouchers, etc. I am totally thankful that I have won much better prizes elsewhere.

The washroom for the ladies, it was lovely done up and well maintained. We brought along 2 cartons of red wine and they were finished up by our guys, quite a few were tipsy so we guessed most of them would be late in reaching the office the next day. Atmosphere were great, everyone were joyful and enjoying themselves.

Today, I ended up really tiring and hope I don't doze off... must go for more tea and coffee to brace myself up eventhough they don't seem to have any effect in keeping me awake even when I took them before sleep...

Monday, November 24, 2008

Blue Monday!

Oh my god!!!! Monday, and first thing I open up my office email to check, I found I have won a pair of JJ Party's tickets from Our Voice Box which was sent to me on Saturday, 22nd November 2008. The party was on 23rd November 2008, I missed it!

Agrrrrrhhhh.... so sad! What to do, at least I went to attend the Channel 8's 45th anniversary celebration on 23rd November 2008, which was yesterday. Loads of fans from where we were seated at the upper viewing gallery, they were blowing the whistles, screaming, shouting, waving their favourite actors / actresses posters! Lovely high power atmosphere from all their high powered energy... Hubby and I felt young again just by sitting among them.

Yesterday was Sunday, it's been a sort of unlucky encounters with a rather rude uncle in the morning at the NTUC supermart. He was grumbling away that I am blocking him when I was standing in line at the queue right in front of him, oh please, I stabbed him back real hard in response to his english, that if he can't queue, better stay at home and sleep. He was so angry, next I proceed to open my wallet and flash out my stash of gold credit cards as he was paying money and realised he didn't have enough. Then I said loudly, no money then still want to buy things! I was really angry at such rude people whom actually tries to rumble away in english, I sympathise with his wife whom was with him trying to ask him to shut up and have patience.

Over in the evening, at mediacorp, we were queuing to get into the studio. Then 3 aunties suddenly stood next to me and tried to squeeze in with us at the queue, I was really shocked. I stared daggers at them and told them to queue but they ignored. Aggrrr.... perhaps my face display a sign that said, please cut queue when you see me or I will be upset!

But overall, hubby and I were in at the studio and enjoyed the great show put up by all the very capable backstage staff whom were changing the back drops and props at every advertisements! The actresses and actors were ever so lovely and entertaining!

Monday, November 17, 2008

Weekly Updates - Week 47

Today's Monday, the super I don't like it day of the week...
Monday - Unbearable, dragging myself to work day
Tuesday - Teeny itshy bit of feeling better than Monday, still unbearable though
Wednesday - Whole lot better, getting the mood to work already
Thursday - Resigning myself to work already, feeling loads better
Friday - Opps, just when I'm feeling better at work already, I'm looking forward to weekends

Past Saturday have been good, Patrick Hubby suddenly got this weird feeling of doing up a small celebration with good food at home! He decided on fried chicken wings, fishballs, sushi rolls, spring rolls, curry puffs, fried prawn ball, etc... I asked our dear sis Chean Pin to join in the fun! Concidentally, she's suffering from serious loss of blood and stomach cramps since her aunt's visiting her for the month. Poor girl, anywhere I forced her to join in, we picked her up in our car with Bryan before going off to the supermart for mass purchase of all the necessary ingredients...

Over at the supermart, we went round with our trolley sourcing high and low for the ingredients. We lugged all the stuff home, with Chean Pin still suffering from her yucky symptons. Me and hubby proceeded with the necessary preparation once we reached home, we got Chean Pin to relax in our room with the kids screaming and jumping around her. Hubby decided to warm a bottle of chicken essence to give to her in case she faint, we still cannot figure out why she's so skinny. Whenever she goes out with our family, my 3 sons look overfed whenever they are standing together... people must be gossiping we are horrible dad and mum whom gave all the good foods to our sons while the daughter is deprive of good food and works like a cinderella at home!! She's alarmingly skinny to the bones, you could practically snap her hand in two like a stick.

Hubby was really good today, he took care of all the frying stuff while Chean Pin and I settle the sushi roll stuff. We had luncheon meat cut into strips / japanese cucumber / tuna / carrot strips / egg / etc. Chean Pin did most of the rolling up while I was in charge of the cutting part. I got her to pack some home for her dad and mum.

Finishing with the cooking, hubby proceeded to do food presentation, ensuring all food were arranged nicely on plates before laying them on the table. The kids were excited and started to gather around, we proceeded to gobble up the food. Great day, relaxing at home with your lovely family members round a table of piping hot food.

Chean Pin had to be packed off home at about 1830hours since she's not staying due to her visiting aunt! No choice, hubby and I drove her back home after we stopped over at Salvation Army's Family Thrift Store. Tons of stuff there and first time we visited, hubby is wary of that place which might be filled with fleas since most of the stuff are donated by people. But I assure him that the stuff are cleaned up properly and we are just going to take a look. Many stuff there, imagine a knee lenght winter jacket with lovely fur trimmings around the cap area, going only for S$30!!! Wow!

Sunday, lazy lazy stay at home day, hubby and I only went out of the house to buy breakfast. And in the evening, when we decided to go pack dinner home, the car wouldn't start! Agrhhh! Hubby was in a really foul mood, we proceeded to walk to the market and he grumbled away about what could be the problem and how is he going to be absence from work when it's a Monday the next day.... But by the time we are having dinner, he's starting to feel better, and he decided to apply for leave to stay home so the car technician guy could drop by to check on the car.

(The next morning....) technician came to check, luckily it's only the battery problem and not some costly faults! *sigh of relief*

Friday, November 14, 2008

Back on my feet after a war against Fever!

Yes, I'm recovering well enough in time for the weekends... though I still have a little throbbing headache someplace in my brain. Hope this wasn't as a result of perhaps my brain being burnt from all the high fevers going on.
It's been a rather uneventful week saved for little glintchy stuff... How many times in our life must we meet with poor souls whom doesn't have the slightest ashamed of themself stuff? I was on the train this morning and as usual, it's packed like sandines, irritating people with huge ugly bags shoving into other people and acting as if "It's only right"! Hubby was on reservist for 2 weeks and I have been taking the train to and fro work (back to days of the "before we have a car").
I was lucky I managed to get a seat when someone seated near where I was standing, alighted. And on two mornings, I encountered a lady shouting away "Please move to the centre". I looked and trust me, she's most probably blind or desperately in need of a pair of thick thick glasses, the train's practically filled with people right to the brim of the door and she's asking people to move to the centre of the train so she could get herself in. I can understand and forgive the train driver when he made announcement since there are cases where people just leave the train empty in some areas and love to stand next to the door and even in geniune cases of "packed sandines" trains, the poor driver can't possibly see for himself. But the lady is definitely unforgiveable, totally authorising and rude from the loud command of her voice, she should do self reflection on this. This morning, I overheard a little girl's voice saying just the same stuff. Perhaps her mother lost her voice from shouting the past few days and this is her daughter assisting her now...

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Good and Bad things come together

This week started off good enough, except by Monday afternoon, I was getting all cold and freezing in the office. I thought the airconditioner was on too strongly, but my bosses were all feeling warm. That was when I knew I was sick, freezing and trembling away, with a terrible margarine throbbing away in my head... I forced myself home on the mrt, travelling through the neverending 14 mrt stations before getting off and walked in a blurry state home for 15 minutes.
Hubby packed me off to the doctor that evening, the 3 kids follow suit as they were down with flu too. All 4 of us at our usual family clinic, I actually asked the doctor once whether he's considering giving our family a membership card for the countless times we have actually seen him. Doctor declare me at 39.5 degrees high fever, I felt totally wasted and awful. The fever came and go, I would be shivering with cold under a thick blanket one moment and the next I would be sweating away, this cycle went on for a few times till this morning. Now, I'm still feeling goggy, perhaps from the effect of taking nothing except for a piece of bread and water since Monday...

This morning, I came in to the office, switched on my computer and found the Rednano Laptop Skin which comes free, have arrived and I can collect it anytime... then Xin.sg dropped email to informed that I have won a pair of Concert passes to Y2J 神木与瞳 for this coming Saturday 15 Nov 2008 performance at the Lunar Asian Fusion Bar! Coming in to my blog site, lovely Quachee told me that I have been choosen to win Ken Lyen's CD!

Thank you to all whom actually tries making me feel better eventhough I'm feeling rotton from all the fever and cold stuff...

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Madagascar - Escape to Africa

Are you an adult whom watches cartoon?

Then you have to catch hold of MADAGASCAR - ESCAPE TO AFRICA!

The movie is wonderfully done up and plotted, I was at the preview over in Cineleisure last night having won a pair of tickets to it. The official release date of the movie would be 13th November 2008.

Hubby brought along Christopher and Bryan to fetch me from work before we proceeded to Cineleisure for dinner before the movie's showtime at 7:45pm. There was only a pair of tickets, so I have decided to shop around with Bryan while Christopher is accompanied by his dad. I was hanging around outside after they have gone in, and the lovely organisation actually still have leftover tickets since some winners did not show up. I was kindly offered to go in with Bryan. Thank you, lovely lady with the sweet smile and kind heart.

We were blessed to be in the theatre, the cartoon movie was wonderful. Adults and children were all immersed in the movie! There were laughter, the movie managed to tickle the funny bones of both adults and kids. My sons actually love it, the seatings at Cineleisure was so comfortable and spacious.

All the animal characters in the movie was so lively and funny, we ended up loving all of them. There are movies which only capture the hearts of the children, yet this movie cleverly capture the hearts of both young and old.

My Applauses, complete with my hubby whom would give a cartoon the miss, yet he loves this movie too! Our kids are now singing "Move it, Move it"! Haha!!!!

Got watch it, it's really good movie.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Year 2008 - Two months to Year End Countdown

Have you ever sit back and reflect on the daily stuff that might have happened to you or people surrounding you? Most probably, we haven't, I myself for one am already so busy with juggling a full day work and getting back home in the evening to spend the bit of the time with my kids... Why the hell would I care about reflecting back on past incidents?

Everyday news reports, television dramas, things happening around us...

As year 2008 approaches to an end soon in less than 2 months' time, occassionally, thoughts have been creeping and crawling from somewhere deep of my mind.

1. Eversince I started my working life after school, I have been "FORSAKING" my friends. This is even more true when I started my family, I found myself with neither the heart nor the strength to make time for my friends.

2. I'm growing old, the clock is ticking away and I realised that I haven't been going for regular facials!! OMG! That's really horrifying, I would looking like a forty years old by the time I reached thirty years of age (which is soon)?

3. I found myself behaving like an army officer back at home, shouting commands and discipling my kids in a loud unladylike voice?!! More OMGssss....

4. I found myself dressing more like an auntie at home when I'm not working, just think, t-shirts and shorts most of the times!!! Ugly color fainting t-shirts!

5. I found my eyes shagging and getting smaller, while the eyebags are like growing in sizes!
Arggghhhh!

6. My S$300 plus hair cut once every two months are decreasing and I'm getting lazy to keep lengthy hair!

7. I have been guilty of not exercising at all for at least 4 years! My only exercising would be walking to and fro home & MRT Station, standing for 14 MRT stops in between home and office, that is if hubby doesn't drive me. Other exercise routine would be walking while
shopping and marketing... okay okay, I know whoever is reading this now, are shaking your head in disbelief!

8. The uncountable number of times I have cursed at drivers in another vehicles for the sudden swering of their vehicles, their tailgating my vehicle and many more.

9. The uncountable number of times I have been grumbling about evil colleagues in the office! Trust me, I am forced into this, from the many little unbearable stuff they are doing, I have tried my best to ignore and ignore.

10. The fact that I always felt that my money is never enough! Why does the lottery luck always goes to other people while I'm filthy poor?

11. I have been dropping my handphone countless times, and it's protesting by shutting itself from me whenever it's sulking. And the worse part, it's still a year before my mobile's contract is due for an upgrade in order to get a new phone that doesn't sulk.

12. The goldfishes I have been rearing, are dying and dying as I replaced them. Why can't I just get goldfishes that last and grows up to be like the huge fat babies as in the aquarium shop?

Are you still reading up to this point? If you are still reading this, I really appreciate your patience in letting me pour my fustrations onto you. Think I have much more than this, but rain is not working that good now...

I need to be doing more reflections.....................

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