weekends just seems to pass much faster now. after meeting ups with friends, classmates... we all realised sth - topics changed and so do our habits. after we work! no more pon-ning, no off days... we all slp earlier, as much as we can. and weekends are even more precious now I guess?

ytd met up with my JC classmates and saw some of them since after X amt of time. hearing them talk abt sch is... weird. Somehow its only 3 mths since I graduated but sch life seems so much more distant.

finally able to upload pictures, and at what a good time. people... if you are hungry, and there's no food available like in the next 1/2 hr, pls skip the rest of this post. Don't say I didn't warn you! *winks

potential short trip coming up this November! :D woots. I'm so excited about it. Most likely Chiangmai cos its cheaper and more worthwhile the 'short' weekend. its really short, just 4 days. so cant go too far anyway, and chiangmai fits the bill for a laidback... relaxed place. and the weather is nice too! not to mention thai baht is so affordable. wahaha!

recently Jer & I got this chicken wing craze. We kp trying chicken wings that look nice when we see them at any stall. I just had my 4th chicken wing this week :X let's hope it wont add up to my waistline that fast eh?

oh. oh. my boss is going to Cambodia for a business trip, but I wont be tagging along. I'm hoping when he is gone (Fri-Sun somewhere in Sept) I wont have to report to work for the friday. WAHAHAHA.

yeah I know, totally random updates... :P am trying to make the best out of my worklife balance.

booooring weekend! but it also means i have some quiet time to myself and my books. slacking. resting. and hopefully doing something gd for my body like jogging?

(but its sat evening and I haven't done any jogging yet)

this week has been rather slack at work and I welcomed it cos the last few weeks were awfully busy. in fact, i got off early on thurs n fri becos there was nothing much for me. wahahaha.

but SH cant be happy for too long, the work is coming in the next few weeks... 2 franchising projects, 2 grants, and trade show at suntec...

讲钱伤感情

god, i really do wonder what's wrong with my blogger... damn. I cant post pictures here! so its all gonna be text for now guys. cos I'm reluctant to give up this blog, there's always errors loading the page ):

anyway... work has been rather busy for me. Lots of cabbing around to meetings etc cos boss & I have to work separately for quite a few occasions. I spent almost 200 bucks on cab fares already. Luckily I can claim, if not, imagine the large hole it'll burn in my pocket? :P

because of my recent cabbing experience, I came across some friendly taxi uncles whom were real nice to me. Most of them chat with you during the ride, and when knowing I'm a recent grad, they wished me luck to my first job etc. There was even an uncle who charged me $13 for a $13.80 ride and said 'take the money to buy a coffee ya?' even though I told him earlier I could claim the cab fare. he refused to take the rest of the cab fare from me even though i have exact change.

and yesterday... was an adventurous day. I found a ginger kitten downstairs. and since I know how much Jer and his sisters want a kitten (they had tried to adopt once and almost got it) I called Jer to dble chk, and quickly caught the kitten and ran up to my place. hahaha. I was on my way to work ok! had a fun time settling it down at my place, then his... playing and observing it.

being a kitten, Mika (tt's her name), is naturally VERY curious and playful. In the short few hours I let her out of the box, she found many things and papers to play with, and she even charmed the socks off my parents (they kp playing with her even though they kp saying its troublesome to have a kitten at home). Her fave slping spot was under my coffee table. where she broke out of the box and crawled back to slp when I tried to put her inside to meet Jer. and her fave playing corner was my brother's computer table, where there was a jungle of wires (it caught tangled while playing and I let her struggle for a while b4 letting her out :P) and a corner for her play with the papers and everything.

her favourite 'toy' is papers... any piece, any size. someday I'll record a video of her. but! jer's parents are not v keen about it, so we don't really know how long it will stay with them, like is it permanent...

life is definitely much more 'fulfilling' this week given that I was practically up to my neck since last week. and now that the interns are officially gone, SH is alooooooone in the office. I don't mind that actually. more quiet. 'me' time. I just dont like lunch time now, cos its hard to eat alone - how to get seats?

and guess what, somehow i think its my IE at home having prob with loading pics cos I can see the pretty little icon sitting at the top of the panel. so I wonder wad's wrong. hmm.

am looking fwd to my WEEKENDS. I need this break. I hope I do not have to bring back any work. Friday is dinner with minshan, and prolly hanging out with Jer during the weekend. and Monday no work. woohoo!

I do have some work to clear b4 I leave the office. but I feel like just slacking. stop procrastinating if you wanna enjoy ur Wed evening work-free gal!

I MIGHT chg to this address: but the url was giving me a headache, dunno what to put...

http://bluehavens87.livejournal.com/

i think my IE is having prob. Blogger & FB are appearing weird to me and I'm the only one facing the prob. this week at work has been... hectic.

first came the part abt the unfair expectations. I think my boss, being busier this period, came to expect too much from me. and when I can't give what he expects, he sorta expressed it thru one email and one sms that were enuff to make me damn upset & disappointed. which explains my previous post. He has all the while been a nice boss, so I think he was too impatient. come on... somethings can't come to me as simply as 'putting on my thinking cap' because of the fact that I am undertrained and inexperienced...

but well, havent really got the chance to talk to him. I expect we may do it next week, since all the interns are gone and there's only me left. got praised today by the client for my writing... so even though I was dead beat from working late last night and waking up damn early in the morning... I was happy. somehow it managed to make up a little bit for all the negativity this earlier in the week (:

委屈

not sure if you would say this is a much-awaited day. but offically convocated today! (: mum and brother came and didn't got my dad to take leave for this. many photos with my dear uncle paul who volunteered, months ago, to take pictures for me at my convocation. only today did I know that he dotes on me becos he didn't have a daughter. two sons. I always tot it was because I happen to be spending alot of time at the shop with him and my uncle.

and guess what, he's not even my blood-related uncle. so it makes it even more significant for me that he takes time out of his busy schedule to help me. and today he said he wants to come down to my place again to take a full family portrait.... awww. I am seriously touched by his kind gestures.

and... there was one person I would loooove to see at the ceremony but he wasn't there. cos again, leave. haha. jer's leave is very precious cos he needs it to study for his exam. its ok! I will go to his convocation :D

*unable to post pics due to some blogger error. will post again!

the boyfriend is away in KL and will be back today! he is missed! (:

the accident prone me is back to experiencing a serious of knocks and falls. or if you wanna call it a streak of bad luck.

for some unknown reason, i mysteriously fell quite badly outside the clinic across JP. while accompanying him there. and to remind myself how silly and careless I was. I took pics of my injuries. please don't fall again like that. the inconvenience and possible scars are not welcomed!



and if you noticed, the pictures of the two hands... are actually one hand - my right. jer & i still cant figure out how I managed to hurt both sides in ONE fall. lol. honestly... I sometimes nd to limp around cos certain angles make my wound damn alot. and the big bruise on my left leg is damn ugly. it doesn't help that my right knee's injury hasn't harden yet... so I am fragile now!

I said series right? cos I just hit my head hard on the kitchen cabinet. my mum opened to make tea for us. and usually i lower my head to avoid it. today?

I walked right into it without knowing.

I dunno why~!

happy happy
been playing around with photoscape and my webcam at work... so far so gd for my job :D thks u guys for ur concern!




the bouquet for our first (:

muffins!

had a sudden urge to make sth this afternn. was just browsing online while waiting for boss to come back (yeah, this week is a bit boring) and I ran out of things to satisfy my 'online window shopping'. so I was flipping thru old mails, deleting, re-reading... when I saw an old recipe an ex-colleague sent me.

hey... why not look at recipes?

that triggered sth.

felt this sudden urge to make a non-bake cake, or muffins! decided to make choc chip banana muffin cos (wanna guess?) this is one of jer's favourite combi. and I felt like making sth to 'reciprocate' his yummy potato salad.

after work I immediately went to JP to get all my ingredients. and voila... after dinner, I baked two rounds to finish my batch of muffins. they were easy to make and tasted great (: I'm hoping to improve the recipe by adding more bananas.

woots. hope there are many more baking like this to come!

its been a year

the last weekend was a special one and it started on friday evening... jer's mum picked him up at work cos they were using the car that day and also came to pick me at my office as well, since it was on the way.

he said he want to get sth at the market and was acting all weird when we ask him what did he want to buy.

'nothing la'

usually I accompany him out of the car to get the stuff, but that day he say I don't have to come.

okayyyyyy.

actually I guessed. and I was right about it (:

I'm having problems uploading the photo, but yes... he bought me another bouquet. the silly boy asked me if I tot he forgot.

all in all... the weekend together was great. gd food, mahjong, movies and we slacked away most of our sunday together. right now Jer is making his potato salad, and he said he will still send it over even though I told him not to, since its late.

I can imagine him scrubbing the potatoes, boiling, cutting, mixing & conjuring up that potato salad.

its so fast that it's been a year, and I am proud to say we are rock solid. and this is a different feeling from b4.

so ya... every little thing we do together. every date I return home from, feeling happy from the evening... I am thankful for all the twists & turns that led us to be together.

yep. I've been going on and on, about how it wasn't easy for us to start. and it's true! but everything is worth it

thank you, for everything (:

Lessons learnt from my 1st day as a consultant

Like I told some of you:

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, especially if I was to be out with my boss to meet client. Due to 'unforeseen circumstances', I only had my lunch at 2pm. I was damn hungry by then. lol. lucky my breakfast was filling and lasted me longer.

but then, also expect the unexpected. there can be last minute meetings added to ur agenda cos e.g. the client is leaving town tml and won't be back until 2 mths later (this is a real case, lol) :S

I am expecting myself to be running about like my boss when I am to meet them myself. gosh. cabs cabs & cabs?

and yes, I'm working now. boss is away and I am only joining in a meeting in the afternoon. right now? reading up for me!

*cheers

是不是拥有了就不会珍惜?

met my boss and colleagues today for lunch and the signing of our agreements. in a hurry we forgot to sign it, lol. cos my boss was rushing elsewhere to meet a client. its a smaller co than I expected it to be, like abt 6, 7 employees? but nevertheless, they seemed nice to work with. I think my boss is quite approachable and friendly. Throughout the entire lunch he poured tea, scooped the porridge, initiated conversations, etc. Left a gd impression on me - the kind of boss I want to work for!

they bought a laptop for me at the IT fair last wkend and I love it to bits. its an acer aspire 4810T. having used my fujitsu since I bought it in yr 1, I've never updated myself on the kind of laptops available in the market. It claims to have 8hrs+ battery life (we shall see) and an eco-friendly product. You know what, I'm totally amazed by the eco-friendliness of the product. I expect a long charge on the battery, like all new electronic gadgets. but this one took less than 1/2 hour ok! haha. cool.

boss told me to report to work at 9.30am next mon, and not the stipulated 9am, yay! :P

shopping in town was much better than expected. Melanie & me had half expected ourselves to go back empty handed and we were quite disappointed. shoe-shopping at Far East was VERY unsuccessful. both of us wanted the same thing actually, but in different height. simple black heels. mine for work and hers for a ball.

but gosh, either there were no sizes for her or its too pointy/tall etc for me. we even went to Charles & Keith at Wisma to try our luck. and guess what, there's a crazy sale and it was jam packed with alot of people. naturally, you would expect regular sizes like ours to be -> out of stock.

sooooo... after much painstaking efforts, we made our way to Heerens and we finally got our stuff there. woo! And I even for myself a simple black shirt to match with my bottoms.

we met Jer for dinner at Chinatown... and I must say its a damn sinful dinner man. No pics for ytd cos my bro took the cam for his zoo trip. But we had raw fish slices, porridge, yam cake, bak chor mee for dinner. and dessert was the 杨枝甘露 at temple st. WOO. we shared everything tog, but its still... sinful :P

been super engrossed in online shopping. at US and Taiwan spree sites. Gosh... Singapore isn't as fashionable or updated in trends. by now we all know Bugis, Far East etc... whatever you find there, most likely you can find similar stuff like maybe few shops down the row... or maybe its from some HK or TW spree. I guess I can't expect too much cos we are too small huh.

I got some stuff for work at this site called 東京著衣. mainly for work. but I gotta wait patiently for them! so I just spend alot alot of time online, browsing... choosing... shortlisting... and since I'm limited by budget now. even if I can't buy, I'm happy just to see. hahaha. so when I get my pay I know what kind of stuff I can get or go for... woo~ here's a look at my buys!








bought the top only... had a hard time deciding between the colours!



plan for tml: the girlfriend is shopping with the sister. haha. Jer's whole family except him & his eldest sis (by that I mean, the 'eldest, younger sis') cos they both are quite occupied with work now. Melanie was trying to psycho me to stayover so we can all watch movie & cook sth nice tog. I thought of that too, weeks ago! but then jer is like working these two days, and got stuff back in camp. so no pt if its just us gals... but still! tml is a day to look fwd to... woo~!