Monday, April 28, 2008
Passed....
Another test result that arrived today was the pre-admission test that i took like 7 weeks ago... and i passed... though the whole lesson lasted for 1 week and the cost of the course was like $500 plus... the result slip appeared to be rather simple... hahhhaha... but anyways... now could apply to change my membership from a provisional one to a full member le ba....hahahahha
Good news for a Monday.... no blues today.... this week is a short week too .... hahah.. with Labour Day - public holiday on a thursday....=)
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Want a simple life
But of cos, there is always someone out there who may continue to suan me for not meeting the KPI and also the likelihood of me continuing to work until i get promoted and incidentally stay on for a few more years.... hahahah....
but nevertheless... i'll meet my own KPI... = )
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Bird's eye view
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Work again
Yesterday, managed to go cycling at East Coast Park and get some sun light.... though the weather was kinda hot, it was still a good time for cycling... feeling the wind in my face and enjoying the music on my zen stone plus... heheh... Haven't relax in a long time lez.. but next week, it;s back to work again....hehz.. getting very sianz...
Monday, March 10, 2008
Ele 1 jap results
Today's lesson ended early today and i managed to get a hair cut.... though the hairdresser did ask if i wanted to do any rebonding... hahah.. but it'll take 2 and 1/2 hrs which i dun think i'll have the time yet... hehz....
Monday, March 03, 2008
Tired
Work has been taking up quite a lot of my time... Feel like i should go for a break/change... though to others, I maybe quite lucky with less stress and problems...cos i don't hold as heavy a portfolio like some others.... I still want to move on and try something different.... though I may have boldly answered during my 1st interview i would say that i would be working at the same firm with maybe time to manage a side business 10 years down the road.... hahahha..... Kinda hard to achieve that i think....
Anyways... reaching the end of my elementary 1 lesson for japanese at Bunka Lang.... next wondering if i should take elementary 2 or should i try to take the placement test and skip the next level... hehz....
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
1st day of a new year!
By the time we got there to have our dinner, it was already 8 pm plus... and when we finally finished dinner. It was already 8.30pm and there was not too many stores open for us to shop around. Anyways, we did not really have any intention to shop around. We just wanted to hang around and chill till after midnight.
Our final destination before we went home was at the coffee bean at Plaza by the Park. While we were chilling at coffee bean, we saw lots of people strolling by heading towards padang or the merlion park where they could get a good location to view the fireworks when the clock strikes 12. In the end, we merely caught a glimpse of the fireworks which weren't part of our itinerary for the night as the previous year we already had a pretty memorable incident when we went to watch the fireworks at the merlion park.
This year, we took NR8 home and the journey was pretty held up by the traffic along clarke quay where there were plenty of party-goers strolling around the roadside waiting to get a cab to go home or head on to their next party destination. While I was on the bus with zx, i thought that i was having a good time listening to music on my mp3, looking at the sights around (at the people - their actions, dressing) and also humming to the tunes... hahahah... i thought that i may have been slightly noisy... hahaha... though zx mentioned that i wasn't....
Though the new year eve hadn't been too exciting, but i still think it's ok.... maybe cause i'm a boring person who kinda enjoys slightly less noise and peaceful ambience... but as i'm blogging first entry... my nose is also quite runny.... As we have ushered in the new year, next huge event coming up would be the Lunar new year due in 5 weeks time... which is gonna be real quick.... I still have to shop around for new year clothes and all... and also time to plan the activities on Lunar New Year holidays... my parents have already booked their holidays in Genting Highland where they would try out their new year luck at the Casino... hahahhaha.....
Probably... i'll try watching a midnight movie show for the first time... heheheh.... kinda sad to say that i haven't watch any midnight show before given my present age.... hahahha....
Haven't made my new year resolution and i still wonder what was my previous resolution... hahahah... but i just hope that i can get a switch in working environment and a better one... where there's less stress... hahhaha.... Next week, i'll start on my jap lessons at Bunka... Can't wait for them to start.... Although this is not my first time learning japanese... but i'm still kinda excited and wonder what to expect.... = )
Hope that i'll have a great year ahead and also to my friends and ppl reading my blog now... hehheheh...
Monday, December 24, 2007
Quick update... X'mas is here again....
This is the 2nd post in the december and it appears to be the final update for the month.
The most recent event was the department's X'mas dinner. The dinner was held at a restaurant somewhere off tanjong pagar, the food was kinda salty and some bland but overall still edible. The atmosphere was pretty interesting and there were a couple of interesting games... but because there were quite a lot of gas, the games played was slightly becoming to be a bit boring... but nevertheless it was still a pretty fun X'mas dinner. One thing to say was that it was the first time that i stayed at the department's X'mas dinner till the end after most of the crowd had left.
Next event was the shopping trip that i had with zx on saturday, the aim of the shopping though was to shop for x'mas gifts. In the end, i bought a pair of shoes, an anime magazine and received a pair of pants from zx as my birthday present. hahhaha... As for the anime magazine, this time round, i bought the Newtype Romance magazine. There was also a free gift from the magazine which is a plastic book cover with kyou kara maou's picture.... it's kinda small and reminded me of a passport holder..... The shoes that i bought was the pair that i had wanted to buy like a few weeks/month ago cos i like the design but had no shoe size for me then. Since i saw it again at BHG, i decided to buy it... hahahah....
Next few events that happened were the farewell parties of the few colleagues that had left, and there's a few more to come in the coming year as well. hehz... it seems that i'm still only one left in my clique that haven't tendered in and thus unable to fulfill the KPI of the group... hahhaha... Nevertheless, me still trying to find a job before i tender. hahahha... although i'll need to go through 1 peak before i go i guess. hehheh.....
Well, as today's x'mas eve, will be going out with zx in the evening... but wonder what kind of x'mas sights or x'mas mood will be felt... hehhhe...
Saturday, December 01, 2007
New anime magazine
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Finally... jap lessons
At the same time today, me and zx went to the singtel shop near my place to get zx's new phone. After much consideration, zx decided to get sony ericsson's w910i in havana bronze, the one promoted by wang lee hom at the moment and changed his current phone plan to the mio plan. Currently the phone's still at my place charging up... hahhha...
Thursday, November 08, 2007
10 years
I'm still quite stuffed and not to mention on thursday, while on the bag hunt for zx, we had a late lunch at Beach road at around 2... had a bit of long john at 5 and took away 2 KFC cheesy melts for dinner at around 8 plus.... it's again a stomach fulfilling day.... hahahha.. Another surprise i had from zx was that he bought me the fossil watch i had been looking at for maybe the past 2 months... hahah...
here's a pic of it..:

Nice watch design eh?... hehehehe
But me haven't been a nice gf... i din get zx any gift yet.... hehz.... well... i'll make it up to him.... heheeheh...
It's really come a long way... for me and zx to have been together for 10 years already.... it's pretty amazing and our relationship hadn't been all too smooth-sailing.. though friends have always expressed their admiration for our long-lasting relationship... it really takes a lot of effort to maintain... be it tolerating each other's faults and bad habits or having a good time together...
I guess... sometimes it's not always a must to have romantic settings but rather the company and care that one shows whenever the other is in need of care or attention... heheheh Although i do believe that it's always to be in sync with your loved ones, where both persons are pursuing the same philosophy and ideologies in life... it's always easier to communicate thoughts and to seek understanding from each other... probably there'll be less conflicts.... less arguements is always better... hahah.. cause i do believe that whenever we argue... we tend to say those things that we would usually not say and they all end up pretty hurting to the other parties... so no quarrels but more heart to heart talk is better....
While it's quite impossible not to have disagreements... it's always the manner of resolving these disagreements that would either make or break the relationship... so i would advise anyone that is in a relationship to resolve their disagreements in the best way that they can resolve where they can reach a common understanding of what are the differences of expectations by each other....
So, hope everyone else can benefit a bit from my advice... heheeh
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Quick catch up
Another quick catch up on the events in my life so far....
Last week, I attended zx's friend's birthday bbq party at Labrador park. Cos i only knew zx's friend and zx's friends who knew here... i was kind of out of place... not knowing anyone else... so i was pretty quiet. Because it was held at Labrador park, me and zx had to lobang his friend's car to go in. Frankly, if i had to walk out from the park at night... it would have been quite scary... hahahah......
Anyway, though the park may have been quite remote to those who don't drive... there are still quite a few people having bbq in the park, strolling by the seaside with their family... quite a nice relaxing atmosphere.....
And guess what, yesterday i just heard from zx that this friend is going to get married next year... wow... really fast... cos the couple had only got together for abt half a year despite knowing each other for a longer time.... hehehhe....
Friday night was the night where i finally attended jc friends' gathering... i had previously missed the one before due to work committment i think.... seriously i have a bad memory.... and this time round, other than gathering to get-together, we also celebrated Nana's birthday... heheheh.. though it was belated.... Again, it's an update of each other's status and happenings around and to them.... Glad to hear that Nana is seeing someone... and that yun and val have got their tix to watch Jay Chou in concert in Singapore.. and that the ticket sales had been really good... ~80% sold at the priority sale... hahhaha....
This week, zx also confirmed his new job which he will start on 5 Nov.. 2nd week from now.... and since his job is confirmed... we can finally start to plan for the japanese lessons that i've been talking about since i graduated........ since he only has a 5-day work week.... now that everything is in place.... i'm starting to have lots of thinking... about my job/career and where i should start thinking of where to go.....
Xuan has mentioned that she had read somewhere that the next 2 years will be a tight period for employers.. i.e. the job demand is higher than the labour supply.. and so the conclusion would be... for the next 2 years..it's going to be a job-hopping year i think... turnover would be high or higher than usual for the companies.... And so, at this point, i'm feeling sian of what i'm doing and precisely i feel sian and there's a huge premonition of the amount of shit coming... i'm thinking whether i should try to get another job... but when and what... i'm still confused..... hehz....
Saturday, October 13, 2007
update again....
Let's start with the most recent news.
Today had been a shopping for gift day where me and zx had to search for a birthday gift for his university friend. His friend had invited us to a birthday bbq to be held on next saturday and at Labrador park. Since we couldn't attend the bbq without bringing anything, we had to get her a gift. As zx isn't exactly very close friend with her, we had some trouble thinking of what to get for her... so in the end, we decided to get her a pair of earrings... We had tried many places to get a pair of nice earrings that is not too cheap or too expensive to present as a gift... At the end of the day, after wondering from Orchard to Bugis, we finally got the gift...hahhah... As it's Hari Raya, there was sale at the department store. At the same time when we got the gift for the friend, i also managed to get myself a new ring..hahaha....
During the training on thurs and friday, i heard from xb that he got a girlfriend whom he was going out for about 2 months le... what a shock! hahahah... afterall, for what i know, he hadn't made many moves to court the girl whom he appreciated during university days...hahha.... but nevertheless, it's good news.... just had a brief description that his girlfriend was a colleague from another unit... but since we did not have much time during training to talk... all the usual interview questions whenever a new couple was formed had to be withheld to the next gathering we will plan to have... hahaha.... wonder how long we'll take to arrange the gathering...hehehe...
Work wise... it's been the same.. and on another note, two of my colleagues had officially left the firm. And next week, there'll be another departure... hehz.....
Well, will update again soon... Back to work... hehz
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Relaxing Saturday
We first started off having lunch at the Burger King at East coast before we decided to rent our bicycles... the bicycles at the bicycle shop that we rented from appeared to have been upgraded with new bikes... though it was the weekend, but we have noted that usually saturday afternoons, there is generally less crowd and more space to cycle freely and not having too many people or cyclists around... a good timing for cycling amateurs to try out their bikes.... hehhehe....
After the hot and sweaty cycling trip under the sun for 2 hours, we proceeded to Parkway Parade to look for a potential present.... one of the few presents in consideration was to get zx's sister a wallet or a bag.... in the end, we settled on a bag from united colors of benetton... a bag which i thot was quite ok in design be it for work or shopping... the bag is black in colour and the aunty had nicely helped to wrapped the present up.... the bag was bought at 20% discount since the department store was having a sale in celebration for the coming hari raya puasa....
While shopping for the present, i also kept a look-out for the shoes that i wanted to get... 1 pair of covered shoes for work and another pair for friday or casual events.... in the end, i managed to get the last pair for the design i wanted.... i've been telling zx and he had witnessed my suayness in my shopping trips for shoes..... i had either been not able to get the size of the shoe design that i wanted or the pair was the last pair on display pair which i rarely would want... but this time round, the last pair seemed to be in rather good condition and since it's been quite a while since i found a not so bad design shoe... i bought them....
Thursday, October 04, 2007
New hair colour
Another thing noted today was that my dvds that i've ordered online was shipped today... and so i'll expect their arrivals in weeks to come... yeah...... can't wait to get it soon.... And on another note, the pre-order for Kinki Kid's new alblum which contains dvd of their 10th year anniversary concert is out of stock... which i almost intended to order cos of the footage of the 10th year anniversary concert... hehz... so there's no chance... unless there's new stock for it... but again... don't think it'll be cheap... hahahha...
Oh yar.. and i was just wondering when my youngest brother will come back from his military training in taiwan... hope he manages to get some gashapons for me.. .hahahahh...
Sunday, September 30, 2007
New craze online
Have tried out playing the applications... it seems quite fun... think i especially like the scissors, paper, stone application where i get to challenge and be challenged by friends.... almost like we're face to face playing the childhood game.... it's pretty fun... though the replies may not be always spontaneous... but it's still kinda fun.... So, anyone who have received my invites... do come and join the network... hhahhahah
Sunday, September 23, 2007
First online purchase
But after looking around for sometime, i couldn't find the recent tours for Ageha and Thanks... so i decided to get these online... Though my brother was going to Taiwan for NS training... he couldn't buy back any cds/dvds... so couldn't really get him to help me look and buy.... that's why i decided to get them online.... i knew that it wouldn't be cheap, afterall the dvds are direct imports from Japan... plus the shipping charges... dun think i should reveal the total amounts i paid... I told zx about and apparently his reponse was why would i spend so much money on somethings that are not entirely useful....
And because of this online purchase, i've been to the post office to make my 1st foreign money order... although i have a credit card, i didn't really want to utilise it.... hahhahaha... and i wanted to try something different.... it was quite an experience for me... though it will take longer and i anticipate that i will receive my purchase at least 3 weeks later... but i thought it's pretty ok.... anyways, now just waiting to get my goods....
Below are the pics of the dvds that i'm waiting to get:
Friday, September 21, 2007
Going peers??
This has been stirring up commotion amongst my peers.... We all understand that it is not really easy to continue to work in this environment and that it is one of the most high turnover jobs in the work industry, i think..... But anyways, close friends have been saying that currently the job market has been good and that it's a good chance to get a good job without getting much pay cut.. I think it's not wrong to keep a look-out for better jobs out there.... but it's a matter of whether i can meet with a job that i would like to do.... Seriously, i have been thinking of leaving my job... but as i still dont' have a specific direction to go into... it's even harder to focus on job finding... hahahha....
This week had been a busy week where i had to do 2 work shifts, in the day being my current plotted engagement and at night to clear my previous engagement.... hehz... and i din manage to catch any of the shows that i wanted to watch e.g. Top model and Built for disaster.....
Hehz... just hope that next week will be a better week ne.....
Friday, September 14, 2007
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Redang
It all started from the coach ride beginning at Golden Mile Complex at 10.30pm... it was the beginning of a long road trip to reach Pulau Redang. We're staying at Laguna Redang which is not a bad resort... with quite a lot of facilities and maybe slightly pricier than other resorts...but still cheaper than Berjaya i think.... There is travelling season to get to Redang where the waters are not so choppy and the resorts are in operation: the no-go season is from i think October till March....
Anyway, Pulau Redang is made famous i think by the Chinese Movie by Richie Yen and Sammi Cheng. And at the resort, there was a dedicated channel that airs the movie 24/7 non-stop.... Me and ZX were pretty amazed that at our 2 nights stay that we managed to catch the ending of the show 7 times.... hahhaha... talk about repeats.
Here's a pic of the famous shop that the movie was shot in:
The shop is now turned into the only convenience store selling snacks, drinks and also souvenirs for visitors to buy home.
The scenery and the surroundings are definitely very beautiful.
Here's a pic of the beach in front of the Laguna resort - the resort we stayed at:
Ain't the water clear and blue!!! Can't find it here in SG.... hahhaha...
Here's another pic of the waters!
After travelling on the coach from 10.30pm to next day morn's 9am, we finally reach the jetty where we had to transfer to a ferry to make our way to the resort/ Pulau Redang which takes about 45mins.
On Redang island, there are quite a number of resorts situated in various but mainly on the outskirts near to the beach area. Snorkeling and diving are one of activities that all visitors should try out. Me and ZX did one snorkeling trip at the marine park where there are lots of fish and also corals... It was pretty sad that i did have any equipment with me that i can bring my digital camera into the waters to take pictures of the marine life. As we all had to wear life jackets and the waters are not so deep, even those who don't know how to swim can also enjoy snorkeling... Everyday, there are 2 sessions of snorkeling trip: 1 beginning at 9am and the other beginning at 2pm. The afternoon session is snorkeling in the open sea whilst the one in the morning is a trip to the marine park. But before we go to the marine park, we need to pay 5 ringgit for the marine park conservation fee.
Here's the side view of the front of the resort where i stayed:
The resort provides buffet - style meals from breakfast to dinner. And on alternate nights, bbq food eg bbqed fishes, chicken and etc is served. And i think the food served is actually not bad. One cute thing i noted is that during lunch and dinner time, seats will be allocated to the guests so that everyone gets a seat and do not have to worry about needing to chop seats and stuff.... the staff there will help to clear the dishes away just like those buffet restaurants in SG..... Fish is a big attraction so they are always one of the fastest dishes to run out of supplies.
Here's a pic of the dining area, located on the second floor:
Here's a pic taken from the dinning area of the beach front at evening time:
The weather is pretty good and has nice cool breezes in the evening... There's also live band performances on the beach front entertaining guests who are dining at the bar. The performers were quite talented and belted out songs of various languages from chinese, hokkien, japanese to english songs.
On the beach resort, there are lots of visitors and also lots who wore bikinis for suntanning. I,too, brought my newly bought bikini to Redang so that i can have a good tan... but since i didn't really suntan for long... i did not really get very dark.... but i was kinda nervous when i wore on bikini on the beach and in the swimming pool..... but i guess maybe its because the surrounding guests were mainly wearing bikinis regardless of their figures that i manage to gather my courage to wear my bikini in public... hahhaha...
To conclude, it was an enjoyable place to be at, perfect for relaxation... but maybe 2 nights stay is slightly short and 3 nights may have been a better choice... Probably, in future, may go there again with ZX for another trip at Redang. But the only thing that's not so attractive maybe the long bus journey.... hahahha

