HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

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A very very good start to the new year 2010, I won cold hard cash of S$ 1,000!!!

I have extended my maternity leave and will be going back to work officially on 1st March 2010. In the meantime, I was back to the office on the 4th day of Chinese New Year to visit my beloved colleagues in Metso Paper. It is the so called official first day to start work for many companies. Hubby Patrick and 3rd son Bryan were with me as I went back to the office, misses everyone in Metso Paper so much, especially Lay Peng Sis, Janetud, Pow, Ang, Bjorn, Murugan, Tomas, and Nelson (but pity he's on leave). Of course there's other lovely ones like Hwee Lee!

Sis persuaded me to go for the new year lunch with everyone at Hilton, it's there where I striked the S$ 1,000 in the lucky draw pick! Wow, really a very good strike, thank you to every lucky people there and god for letting me strike!!!!

Patrick hubby was still thinking that I'm pulling his leg when I got home and told him I won $$$$... Luckily I could proved him wrong this time.

Back in Action, after a long missing in action

Oh great, I'm finally back after a long absence...

Been really lazy, perhaps it's to do with my carrying an extra load 24 hours a day, coping with my work, studies, and the family. Patrick hubby has been most supportive, driving me to and fro work, and now even twice a week after I finished my studies. With each day, I can feel the load increasing, baby's been most active. There's the sudden kicks or punches that he would be giving me sometimes, the somersaults he's practising around inside me. My other 3 boys have been most curious and fascinating by all the movements they are feeling when they placed their faces or hands on my tummy. It's 27 weeks into my pregnancy, baby's sense of hearing is really sensitive by now. Maybe that's the reason why he's moving exceptionally a lot during the evenings when he hears all the noises from his 3 older brothers. A horrifying discovery, my weights increased to 6kg, oh my god...

Into the module of Labour Economics for my studies now, I'm kind of dragging my given assignments, I got to be picking on my brains soon and start working on them.

The 3 little boys are still as hyper active and noisy as ever, Bryan the youngest have been noticeably really close to Patrick hubby. Acting cute with his two white front teeth smiling sweetly as he constantly sticks around... Christopher the eldest, as usual has all the uncountable homework to deal with each day. Nicholas is doing kind of a good job being a big brother to Bryan recently.

Guess the election is soon to be here, our district's MP Gan Kim Yong has just visited our home with his group of followers. Questions of how long we have stayed here and whether everything's going well around the neighbourhood and our family. I was telling him things are good and so on...

Finally found time to read TODAY newspaper, after a kind of busy day at work in the office. I was reading and reading, when I came across the Prudential advertisement. Then YIPEEeeee!!! I saw that my name's under the list of winners for a set of ASUS eee notebook. My 3rd set of notebooks won so far this year! Patrick hubby thought I was joking with him initially, but then he checked and realised it's for real. But it's kind of a bother since there's going to be like 4 laptops in our house, maybe we should do away with one for sale....

Finally, the prizes arrived....

Appetites & Escapades - Travel and Food Trivia Pursuit

I didn't knew that I had won the 1st Prize in the Grand Lucky Draw, seem to be really fated with SPH recently. First the OMY.sg blogging contest, then the National Day feature of our family, and now the lovely prizes. Actually I have been feeling sad for months after being "dry" of winning anything since winning the laptops in April.

After some checking through what I had won, there's...

- Lowe Alpine Bag Blast 30 ($150+)

- Cityscape Coffee Table Book ($80)

- LX90 Sennheiser earphones ($110)

- Nautica Watch ($160)

- A pair of Zweisel 1872 homemade CLUB champagne flutes ($110)

- Dining and travel vouchers

I have already decided to give the earphones to Ms. Teh Chean Pin, she's my lovely little sister. Been rebellious, naughty and occassionally good. Yes, I know about your little tricks of waiting for your mum to sleep as you sneak to the kitchen making your little tea drink. You have got just too much nasty stuff which I have got hold of, hope you have already confirmed you will be at my home during my confinement as something to keep my mouth shut. Otherwise...

National Day 2009 - Our Family's Excursion

Our family's the lucky winners of Stomp/RazorTV NDP 09 Contest!

I received a email on Friday, 7 August 2009, that my family has been selected to attend the National Day Parade on 9 August 2009, we will be feature on RazorTV and MYPAPER!!! A most overwhelming priceless gift, the 3 boys were buzzing with excitement as I told them the good news.

After some discussion, Journalist Kai Ling from RazorTV confirmed that she will be at my house with her team on 9 August 2009, at 1400 hour. Nervous nervous, our family started some tidying up of the house in anticipation of the visit. Then on Saturday night, Kai Ling confirmed that we will be given 5 more tickets, bringing my total given tickets to 10! Wow, really such wonderful news, my dad, mum, brother, and future sis in law, will all be able to join in the fun! All ten of us are going to take part in the party celebration of Singapore's 44th birthday.

The team was really professional, dedicated, patient, friendly, and yet fun! I was worried they would be freak out with the 3 boys, but luckily they weren't (or at least I think so from the looks of it). Let me introduce you to some of the dedicated SPH staff. We were late as we started off from our home and met with a minor car accident while in Marina Square's carpark. Really felt bad to be making everybody wait at the meeting point.

Reporter from MyPaper, he's quiet, serious in his work and really kind and helpful. We met with a minor car accident as we were at Marina Square, he reserved front row seats for us under the scourching hot sun!! We felt really really bad to be late and making everybody wait.

Kai Ling, the journalist from RazorTV, cheerful, friendly and always taking care of our needs. We got all nervous whenever she started interviewing us camera shy creatures, nevertheless, we still tried our best... hope we weren't too boring though

The dedicated camera lady, pretty, cheerful, warm, and all. The camera sure looks heavy, but she's forever on the go with it, so professional and uncomplaining.

Mr. Kumar, the video man, he's really dedicated and professional. The video recorder looks really heavy, yet, he's always attached to it. A ever so cheerful, warm, friendly man.

Our family had great fun with the SPH team, they were really wonderfully dedicated to their professional. We salute them with deep appreciation, as they were busy throughout the day following us from home till the end of the event.

A huge THANK YOU!

Toshiba Satellite M300

Wow, another pretty notebook won, it's the Toshiba Satellite M300!

Patrick hubby said a courier man phoned him today, that there is a delivery for him. And soon after that, the notebook was delivered to his office. At first, hubby was asking me about it, but I told him I had no idea since there's no letter or email prior to the delivery. He told me it's most probably a scam. I checked back, it's actually a contest we have entered over in MTV Switch Contest, we actually won the 1st prize!!!!!!! YIPEEEEeeeeee! Our green tip proposal has won for ourselves a Energy-efficient notebook powered by Intel@Centrino 2 Processor.

Now we have the Lenovo and Toshiba babies... Thank you to God for his generosity!

Opened up the packaging which is a normal looking carton box protecting the contents. Inside lays the Toshiba M300, it's cool! The keyboard's shiny and glossy, the overall design is just tech savy.

Patrick hubby said we are going to keep both laptops, the Lenovo S10 goes to Christopher our eldest boy.

My Lenovo IdeaPad S10 Skin Design Picked!

I'm so happy, delighted, proud, and everything sweet. The organiser of the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 Skin Design competition, has picked me as the Amateur Category winner!

It's a really timely gift, I was just thinking of getting a laptop for Christopher and I'm informed that I'm one of the winner. Lenovo called me on my mobile to get me to send them my NRIC copy to verify my identity. Then, I'm dropped a email the next day to inform that my design has been picked! Yipee!!!! I'm honestly delighted.

Patrick hubby told me I must have interpreted wrongly, my prize must be a laptop skin, not a laptop. I told him it's true, the organiser told me my unit is brand new and a white set. I was hoping it would come in the skin I have designed, but they told me it's not included. Nevermind, I'm just as overjoy!

I'm going to try to collect the prize next week...

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!!!

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!

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...

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.

WINNER of the 60" LG LCD TV

Winner of an LG 60" Full HD Plasma TV is ........

Nicholas Yap

Congratulations!!When I called Nicholas, he couldn't believe he won the humongous TV. I was expecting 'ultra high' reaction but there was none. *disappointed*Nicholas explained that he has never won anything in hs life, even at his company's Annual Dinner & Dance, so he doesn't know how to react. hahaha......

3 other consolation prizes will be given to the following contestants for their correct answers to the NHB posts. Each wins a one-year Individual Pass (worth S$60) sponsored by National Heritage Board.

Cavin Song

sweetots

The Young Businessman

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The so very lucky winner of the grand 60" LG LCD Television set is out!! WOW!! Congrats to Nicholas Yap, he is sure one lucky guy. And he's an accidental reader of EastCoastLife's blog, out of the 383 entries received for the contest.

I have been very lucky too!! :) I'm the proud winner for the 3 consolation prizes!!! YIPEE!!! I have won a 1-Year Individual Pass sponsored by the National Heritage Board which is worth S$60.00!

For more details and exciting articles by blogger EastCoastLife, do visit her blog page.

LG 60 Inches LCD TV

Folks, let's countdown to the closing of the LG's contest set up by Ms. EastCoastLife for the grand 60 inches LCD TV set!! How many of you here have posted your entry to her? I just mailed out mine this morning, hope it reaches her without going MIA (missing in action).

Let's see, maybe I can dream about winning it...

I would be pinching myself to see if I'm dreaming, I would be running to hubby with the good news and he would be saying it's another scam, just like the time I told him I won a pair of Formula One tickets. Only my 3 little sons would be asking me how big is 60 inches, what is it like and so on... at least, there's the 3 little imps to humor me at times when I desperately need someone to.

Let's see, I have won some stuff recently:-

i) Movie Tickets
ii) Survivor Kit by a Cable TV Show
iii) A pair of Padang Grandstand Tickets to the Singapore Formula One 2008
iv) S$200 Takashimaya shopping vouchers from AIP Survey

Perhaps my luck would be good enough to win more stuff? In this economic downturn, it really helps to supplement my family which comprises of 3 little boys. Trust me, they wolf down food like there's no tomorrow, perhaps they thought their mum and dad are money printing machines? haha! Okay, just trying to make you laugh. But trust me, my 3 little boys are like little ants and they are hyper sensitive to food and knows when I'm opening the fridge or cupboards for food. :)

News Update

Friday, finally another day before the weekends, the favourite day of the week.

Our family was kind of busy last week, we had a great 2 nights stay at Hilton Hotel's executive room. The kids were simply excited. Each night costs S$1,050++ during the F1 period, if boss hadn't been unable to make it, I would never have to chance to afford such expensive accommodation in my life time.

I won a pair of Padang Grandstand tickets, but decided to get it off since I am not really a great fan of the event.

It's been busy weekends as my parent's house are undergoing new coats of paint, so I have been working my arm / neck / body muscle very hard. Could hardly lift my arms at all after each weekends of painting the walls and ceilings. Finally, 3 rooms were completed, next would be the living room, the balcony... *tiring*

More updates would be in place soon...