Need practise for my upcoming gig so I stayed in the studio until 11plus p.m last night. It was raining heavily and I braved the cold, took the train home for take my well-deserved rest. By the time I got home and bathed, it was nearing midnight and my stomach was really growling. Wah you can't even imagine how hungry I am!! Nowadays I eat a lot to keep up with all the activities - I eat Bee Hoon for breakfast, Noodles for Lunch & Mixed Rice for Dinner. In my entire life, I never had the habit of eating supper. Simply because I am a more avid fan of Sleeping-Dom than Eating-Dom. I figured once I sleep, I won't even feel that I am hungry.... In short, I am a firm believer that SLEEP will bring me more bliss&happiness than EAT.
Last night was on contrary to my usual belief. I was bordering on the line of having Gastric plus it was raining so heavily that the idea of nice French Fries was really hard to shake off. My litmus test is that if I still feel really hungry after changing the cushion covers and daybed cover, I will order MCDONALDS!!!
So we dialled 6777-3777. After getting our details like our address, they informed us of something really ridiculous - they need 90 Grand Minutes to deliver!! 90 Minutes equal 1.5hours equal to eating into my slepping time equal to a silly system equal to lousier-than-Pizza-Hut equal to us deciding to just go downstairs and grab the meal instead of spending $2 extra for delivery and a ridiculous 90 minutes waiting time.
What were they thinking of?? What is so hard to freaking slap two buns together with a piece of meat in between as compared to having to preparing a pizza? Pizza Hut takes 45minutes the most I think and there is just one Pizza Hut outlet in my vincinity compared to three KIASU macdonalds.... Alamak!! Might as well don't advertise the delivery service, save the advertising cost and produce more discount coupons for all of us even better marketing strategy. What gets me off is that a job is done half-farked... It's like: Don't say we not competitive ok? We also got delivery service, some more it's 24-hour. Complain what?? So what if Pizza Hut can deliver in 45minutes. Our burgers are worth waiting for... All prepared with love and tenderness showered on them sprinkled with a dash of classiness. OMG!!
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Investigation
I was assigned a new case of forgery case. The client claimed that she did not sign some of the documents submitted to the company and so I called up the involved party for a interview. However a few days later, my Customer Service Officer emailed me to inform that the client called up to notify us that she was asked by the Complainant (or isit Complainee?) either to retract her complaint or change her statement to say that she had signed those documents but had forgotten!!!
Wah!!!! 其有此理？！！
The very next day, indeed a fax came in from the client to retract her complaint... Haiz!! Attempts to find out more from her by our Customer Service Officer were futile as she declined to reveal much.
天理何在？
Wah!!!! 其有此理？！！
The very next day, indeed a fax came in from the client to retract her complaint... Haiz!! Attempts to find out more from her by our Customer Service Officer were futile as she declined to reveal much.
天理何在？
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Dinner And Dance
My company's Annual Dinner and Dance was just over last night. As usual, I didn't win anything at all in the lucky draw. I guess this is what it means when people say:" What you eat and how much money you have this lifetime is all destined." (In Mandarin direct translation of course). I can't remember the other prizes but the top three prizes:
1ST: $7,500
2ND: $3,500 (I tink or $5,000 I can't recall)
3RD: $2,000
All in cold hard cash!!! Wah wah wah wah wah! The unusual thing is this: Instead of drawing only 3 winners, they draw 6 potential winners. Three of them will get an envelope with the cash stated amount while the other three will be empty envelopes. Now here comes the twist: Each of us them is offered the chance to take $1,000 in turn. This is done not knowing what is inside the envelope. The first round a girl accepted the $1,000. When she opened her envelope, hers was empty. So this means she got something at least. The second round the stake was up to $2,000. So there could be four results if anyone of them accepted: Either the envelope is empty and the person profit $2k: or it could contain the $7,500 and got shortchanged for $5,500, or it could contain $3,500 and got shortchanged for $1,500; or it could contain $2,000 which means the person is not better off or worse off. For this round, a guy accepted the $2,000. And guess what??? His envelope was the top prize with $7,500!!!! Wah, you should see his expression; super banged!!! Anyway, the rest of the results not as high-voltaged as this one, ended up with one person disappointed with an empty envelope out of the six.
And this means another lucky person got drawn for the $7,500. But it's not me..... Why? Why? Why? It was another girl whom I think is really really very lucky lor! Imagine she don't even have to go up and choose what empty or not empty envelope but just got the cash due to other people's misfortune. How lucky can anyone get as compared to her last night?
1ST: $7,500
2ND: $3,500 (I tink or $5,000 I can't recall)
3RD: $2,000
All in cold hard cash!!! Wah wah wah wah wah! The unusual thing is this: Instead of drawing only 3 winners, they draw 6 potential winners. Three of them will get an envelope with the cash stated amount while the other three will be empty envelopes. Now here comes the twist: Each of us them is offered the chance to take $1,000 in turn. This is done not knowing what is inside the envelope. The first round a girl accepted the $1,000. When she opened her envelope, hers was empty. So this means she got something at least. The second round the stake was up to $2,000. So there could be four results if anyone of them accepted: Either the envelope is empty and the person profit $2k: or it could contain the $7,500 and got shortchanged for $5,500, or it could contain $3,500 and got shortchanged for $1,500; or it could contain $2,000 which means the person is not better off or worse off. For this round, a guy accepted the $2,000. And guess what??? His envelope was the top prize with $7,500!!!! Wah, you should see his expression; super banged!!! Anyway, the rest of the results not as high-voltaged as this one, ended up with one person disappointed with an empty envelope out of the six.
And this means another lucky person got drawn for the $7,500. But it's not me..... Why? Why? Why? It was another girl whom I think is really really very lucky lor! Imagine she don't even have to go up and choose what empty or not empty envelope but just got the cash due to other people's misfortune. How lucky can anyone get as compared to her last night?
Monday, November 27, 2006
A realisation
I hadn't been posting up pictures recently and thought my blog looks so boring huh. So today I have decided to put up some pictures. Taken a few months back but since I have time today, I shall let you all see lor.
Pictures of me and Jenny... God, I do miss her a lot when I look at these! Guess I have been so caught up with work and didn't really email her lately since. I wonder how she is getting on with her new flatmate.
We were acting goofy and posing in the restaurant. Luckily for us, there weren't much people around at that time. Most diners have left while we went higher by the minute and kid ourselves silly. It was fun though! Long time since I had such fun except maybe the recent wakeboarding trip I went.
Okie, as you can see, she got pretty high and happy! I hope she's not gonna kill me when I post this picture up... But hey, I looked equally unflattering so Jenny, if you happen to see this, don't complain or shout at me okie?
Pictures of me and Jenny... God, I do miss her a lot when I look at these! Guess I have been so caught up with work and didn't really email her lately since. I wonder how she is getting on with her new flatmate.
We were acting goofy and posing in the restaurant. Luckily for us, there weren't much people around at that time. Most diners have left while we went higher by the minute and kid ourselves silly. It was fun though! Long time since I had such fun except maybe the recent wakeboarding trip I went.
Okie, as you can see, she got pretty high and happy! I hope she's not gonna kill me when I post this picture up... But hey, I looked equally unflattering so Jenny, if you happen to see this, don't complain or shout at me okie?
Friday, November 24, 2006
Can see video or not?
haha. okie esc... u give me your email i will go into my video folder in Youtube and invite you to watch it. However, it highly P&C so for your private viewing only. Haha.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Urrrrrrgh!!!!
I am so fed up with trying to email Maia's Video without success. ROOOOOOOARRRR!!!! Okie, I will load it to Youtube. GRRRRRR!!!!!
Monday, November 13, 2006
My new Work
I feel more settled these days. It's not easy to deal with changes especially when one gets older. My new colleagues are really nice people and easy to talk to. Just that they seldom talk and now that it's my third week that I know why... Everyday there are just so so many things to do!! On the flip side, this means I am juggling quite a lot of things on my plate now but life is all about how you look at it. I like to think that it's enriching to be able to have the chance to expand my expertise and I still get to go off work on quite normal hours around 5plus latest 6pm.
Sometimes I wonder what is it really like to change job to become a full-time housewife? I guess my mum made this occupation looked really breezy with stereotyped inevitable naggy personality. I used to think housewives are naggy because they just want to have some human interaction while working. i mean, what fun is there if there are no co-workers? Talk to the chair? To my surprise, I did some discoveries on my own.
The story begins like all other stories: One fine bright cheery Sunday morning (not too long ago), I woke up after a good night's rest. I decided to make my husband breakfast so that he can sleep in abit more. So I brought my ass down to NTUC and bought ingredients. Then I decided to buy extra ingredients either to cook dinner the next day or dinner the very same day. After much sweat and jumping away from splattering oil, I managed to serve up a delicious platter of brunch - consisting of ham, tomatoes, french toast, mushrooms, baked beans and asparagus!! He kissed me for being such a fantastic person on Sunday... Hahah! I thought I did great too. By the time I washed up it was about 1pm. Phew! I read a book on my bed, relaxed a bit, danced a bit and then lo and behold!!!! It's time to prepare dinner! It was at this point that I suddenly feel like I understand a little of what my mum has gone through. It's like I barely sat down to rest and the very next minute, I had to gear up for prep work again. It's quite a chore to think of what to cook so that I can buy the correct ingredients and the best perfect timing to start cooking is when by the time family member comes home (in my case is by the time he woke up from his nap), all the three dishes are already cooked and still warm and ready to be eaten. Quite a challenge to control the timing lei!
As I was firing away instructions for him to prep the table for dinner to be served amoidst all my sweat (again!), there's this deja vu feeling that; hey I sound exactly like my mum! NAGGY to infinity and beyond.... And I get totally confused who's getting the last laugh. Cos for sure I am not the one, hee hee.
Sometimes I wonder what is it really like to change job to become a full-time housewife? I guess my mum made this occupation looked really breezy with stereotyped inevitable naggy personality. I used to think housewives are naggy because they just want to have some human interaction while working. i mean, what fun is there if there are no co-workers? Talk to the chair? To my surprise, I did some discoveries on my own.
The story begins like all other stories: One fine bright cheery Sunday morning (not too long ago), I woke up after a good night's rest. I decided to make my husband breakfast so that he can sleep in abit more. So I brought my ass down to NTUC and bought ingredients. Then I decided to buy extra ingredients either to cook dinner the next day or dinner the very same day. After much sweat and jumping away from splattering oil, I managed to serve up a delicious platter of brunch - consisting of ham, tomatoes, french toast, mushrooms, baked beans and asparagus!! He kissed me for being such a fantastic person on Sunday... Hahah! I thought I did great too. By the time I washed up it was about 1pm. Phew! I read a book on my bed, relaxed a bit, danced a bit and then lo and behold!!!! It's time to prepare dinner! It was at this point that I suddenly feel like I understand a little of what my mum has gone through. It's like I barely sat down to rest and the very next minute, I had to gear up for prep work again. It's quite a chore to think of what to cook so that I can buy the correct ingredients and the best perfect timing to start cooking is when by the time family member comes home (in my case is by the time he woke up from his nap), all the three dishes are already cooked and still warm and ready to be eaten. Quite a challenge to control the timing lei!
As I was firing away instructions for him to prep the table for dinner to be served amoidst all my sweat (again!), there's this deja vu feeling that; hey I sound exactly like my mum! NAGGY to infinity and beyond.... And I get totally confused who's getting the last laugh. Cos for sure I am not the one, hee hee.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Dancer
I am so excited and happy!!!! My bellydancing school just emailed me that I am selected to embark on their intensive training programme. Below was the email sent out for the details of the audition:
Want to be part of BDD dance team? Here’s your opportunity. We are looking for new dancers.
The selection is based on your dance techniques, grace, musicality and creativity. Selected candidates will be offered a pre-dancer contract with intensive dance training. They will be trained to perform for all types of events and audience.
Auditions are only applicable for Bellydance Discovery students.
You will be required to present 2 dance pieces
1) Middle Eastern (Classical/ Fusion)
2) Any form of dance (Modern, Hip hop, Jazz, Chinese, Ballet, Bellydance & etc)
You will be required to dance at least 2 minutes of your dance choreography. It is not a problem if you can’t dance to the full choreography.
Please read the followings rules and regulations to follow. Thank you.
1) Each of you will be allocated max. 10-15mins so please DO NOT be late.
2) Music CD shall be handed over only during audition (at Studio mini) before you dance.
3) If you need costume change from 1st dance to 2nd dance, please let us know and we will call in the next participant for 1st dance audition before your 2nd dance item
4) If you have a dance partner, please inform your dance partner to be ready in advance. (Note : your dance partner will not be part of the audited dancer)
5) There will be a short interview session right after you have presented your 2nd dance item. This interview session shall be part of Questions and Answers sessions so if have doubts about our Dancers’ Contract & expectation, feel free to ask during the interview session.
I still don't really know what the contract entails. Nor did I expect to be chosen as I changed one part of my cheoreography 15minutes prior to my alloted time. Some more I missed some of the steps during the audition which I pretended I didn't make and plastered a silly smile across my face to continue with the rest of the dance. Aiyah, zhong er yan zi, I think I was really really nervous.
But I am so so happy now!!
Want to be part of BDD dance team? Here’s your opportunity. We are looking for new dancers.
The selection is based on your dance techniques, grace, musicality and creativity. Selected candidates will be offered a pre-dancer contract with intensive dance training. They will be trained to perform for all types of events and audience.
Auditions are only applicable for Bellydance Discovery students.
You will be required to present 2 dance pieces
1) Middle Eastern (Classical/ Fusion)
2) Any form of dance (Modern, Hip hop, Jazz, Chinese, Ballet, Bellydance & etc)
You will be required to dance at least 2 minutes of your dance choreography. It is not a problem if you can’t dance to the full choreography.
Please read the followings rules and regulations to follow. Thank you.
1) Each of you will be allocated max. 10-15mins so please DO NOT be late.
2) Music CD shall be handed over only during audition (at Studio mini) before you dance.
3) If you need costume change from 1st dance to 2nd dance, please let us know and we will call in the next participant for 1st dance audition before your 2nd dance item
4) If you have a dance partner, please inform your dance partner to be ready in advance. (Note : your dance partner will not be part of the audited dancer)
5) There will be a short interview session right after you have presented your 2nd dance item. This interview session shall be part of Questions and Answers sessions so if have doubts about our Dancers’ Contract & expectation, feel free to ask during the interview session.
I still don't really know what the contract entails. Nor did I expect to be chosen as I changed one part of my cheoreography 15minutes prior to my alloted time. Some more I missed some of the steps during the audition which I pretended I didn't make and plastered a silly smile across my face to continue with the rest of the dance. Aiyah, zhong er yan zi, I think I was really really nervous.
But I am so so happy now!!
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Silent All these Years
I just bought a Sun Yanzi CD!!
For somebody who seldom listen to Chinese songs; it's actually quite rare to find me buying one. I fell in love with one of her songs during her concert; the one I caught during my Taipei trip. The title is "Silent All these Years"... Probably most of you know this song. It's an old track in fact. The lyrics are surprisely candid and cynical. The best sentence I like goes something like this:" You got a girl who can think really deep thoughts. But what is so great about really deep thoughts."
I pondered really hard on this one. I still am pondering.
For somebody who seldom listen to Chinese songs; it's actually quite rare to find me buying one. I fell in love with one of her songs during her concert; the one I caught during my Taipei trip. The title is "Silent All these Years"... Probably most of you know this song. It's an old track in fact. The lyrics are surprisely candid and cynical. The best sentence I like goes something like this:" You got a girl who can think really deep thoughts. But what is so great about really deep thoughts."
I pondered really hard on this one. I still am pondering.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Surviving a Disaster
Last month I was so busy with perfecting my moves for Arabian Nites 06 and only now is it possible for me type this. The other day I received an email from Mary. She was explaining to me how busy she was that she didn't had the time to go for Arabain Nites. And the most important, rather shocking news she had? That she was in and out of the hospital visiting her friend who just came out of a 10-day coma.
Apparently while windsurfing she was struck by LIGHTNING (gasp!). Her heart stopped beating for 15 minutes. It's a miracle she survived. M-I-R-A-C-L-E... A simple word. Often over-used. But you truly understand the power of this word only when it happens.
Apparently while windsurfing she was struck by LIGHTNING (gasp!). Her heart stopped beating for 15 minutes. It's a miracle she survived. M-I-R-A-C-L-E... A simple word. Often over-used. But you truly understand the power of this word only when it happens.
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