So December's coming to a close, and school's starting again on Monday. Oh well, the hols feel rushed to me, been busy going out to eat, meet people, do projects etc etc.

On Xmas day, I went out with Jaslin and sanctuary members like Runex, Denver to Yaki n Yuki for their buffet lunch @ 12pm. Twas a long queue when we arrived, and in the midst of our lunch there was a blackout (yesh, lights out) for about 10 mins or so before the staff restored the power. For some unfathomable reason, the cooker? stove? thingy at our table refused to work properly .. soup base wouldn't boil, gah. But the food was cooked so its ok I think. Mostly enjoyed it, and I think for the next outing we're going to a pub to count down to New Year. Yesterday, I went back to Dr Chen @ Glenagles, four months after my op. After doing an ultrasound for me, he said my uterus seemed fine, and to see him again in 6 months, like whoa. Then, my mum and sis came to meet me from their shopping, and we proceeded to CentrePoint's Eastern Restaurant (tucked away at the basement opposite Parkway Thai) for dinner.

We got the xiao long bao (highly recommended, wins Crystal Jade's), the soup just steams and the meat's juicy n tender; and then my favourite dumpling stuffed with glutinous rice, I don't know what it's called but OMG I love it, one basket is definitely not enough. Then we got Shanghai Noodle Soup with Pork Ribs, I still enjoy this the second time round ^^ There was Double Boiled Chicken Soup, which I thought was a tad too salty but it had a nice aroma; Crab meat Soup Dumpling and Eastern Yi Ping Steamed Dumpling. Honestly, I can't taste any difference in the dumplings =x and we got an extra xiao long bao hehe cos the waitress who took the previous 2 baskets away didn't see another waitress giving us the extra :p For dessert, we had Rice Puff with Red Bean Paste, I recommend this too, it's lovely. This time round however, we didn't get the Shanghai tang yuan with rice wine .. bit bitter. Spent about $70 for the 3 of us, will definitely want to go a third time.

GE wise, my male wizard finally hit expert, now my Bern is left with 1% to expert. And for those still in the Xmas mood, check out this video by our famous GE producer Tokoyoshi:



And that's about all for updates. Ta~

P.S: I miss my Dale
P.S.S: I hope you enjoyed your vacation Ben ^^

Phew. Gotten lazy and forgot to update for a while :p

Ok, I do have valid excuses like projects, homework, dating, outings so .. I guess I'm covered? heh

My tests results came back, did OK for 2, and flunked my Java. Now why am I not surprised .. And there was another Java test which I think I'll do ok, waiting for results to be back.

Anyways, holidays are here! Woot! 2 week term break .. tho I have project meetings and stuff, but I'll try to rush my vets to experts if I can. And tomorrow, my mum's going to KL for a week, because she's the IC in charge of the NUS Shooting Team (they're having their games there) so the onus falls on me to stay home and babysit my siblings. Hell yeah, I love this job. Not gettin' paid for it. I wish I was.

Pics~ Lets see, here's a screenie of my female fighter, Elentari posing with my gorgeous columnimbus shield (yeah like WOOT I own one of the LG series :p)



















Tada, my steel sword that I bought from Sakazaki today ^^ Preping up for Selva, booya~



















DragonFable wise, I've run out of ideas on how to decorate my hallway .. gah I want more Sandsea themed stuff so I can go all out for the Egyptian theme, but my bedroom already features that theme .. and worse, I don't have space for a bathtub T_T I've the bathroom ready, but the bathtub looks retarded with a rubber ducky zz. Ah never mind, I'll take my time decorating.

Come tomorrow, Marvin and I will have been together for hmm, 5 weeks. Time really flies (no kidding) and I'm happiest when I'm with him .. but like, this week, babysitting duty; plus if his mum comes over from Indo for goodness knows how long .. crap. Means we don't see each other for a while .. gah, I hate how things are going, but there's nothing I can do about it.

That's all for the meantime .. and I'd meant to watch Twilight in the cinemas but .. I has watched it online today :p (And nope not from Limewire) Its good to save money yanno? The movie, I think its decent but the director could have done a better job, some parts look fake. And I find it funny, that this book that I read long ago, and went gaga over long ago; is only being recently picked up by my peers, who give Meyer glowing review on their Facebook, Friendster profiles and stuff. Yeah, its actually hillarious to me, but don't feel offended. And anyway, I would never have know about the book if not for SapphireDarkness (SD), my old friend from my EL days who told me. So yeah, happy hols and merry Xmas all!

The previous week was crammed with

*tests
*more tests
*homework
*special moments.

Even with a crazy timetable .. late nights .. long chats on the phone .. I can't keep from being awed by whats happened. To me, to you, to us. I still think everyday's a miracle, because I found someone who keeps me going. Never mind the psychic connection, never mind if we're going full-speed ahead. Heaven only knows how I lived before you came along.

So this coming week, there's

*presentations
*one ICA on Friday

but I'll take things as they come.

<3 my bear. joaquin/katovic/grizzly, all mine !

Astons, Evolution Square.

Yesterday .. I still don't know if it qualifies as a good day, or bad.

Morning, woke at 8.30qm and went cycling with my dad and sis from home all the way to Sembawang to see the bottle tree. It was an .. eh, arduous one :p (I hate slopes) and I didn't want to go, since I'm not a morning person nor do I like to get outdoors when it isn't raining =x

But my mum insisted, so no choice, we had bumpy roads and smooth ones .. met er .. people who had slow reactions (seriously, with 3 bells ringing behind you you'd think to move out of the way, or at least to the side wouldn't you?) But noo, there seemed to be a lot of slow people on the pavements yesterday.

Bottle tree area .. well its just a small bottle tree village just off Jalan Sini Kampung .. just off Sembawang MRT. We saw the bottle tree (me and my sister actually, the rest of my family had been there before) and I hugged the tree! Yay :D It's so big and round, just makes you want to hug it y'know? *pics tomorrow when I get them*

So anyways, after that we cycled to a coffeeshop and had breakfast .. I condemn Yan Yan Braised Duck Rice stall .. the kway chap super CMI! But the food there (nasi lemak, bak kut teh) is all expensive .. $4.50, even for the drinks. But it makes sense to raise the price when you're the only eating area in a ulu area where the only ones likely to go there are joggers or cyclists like we were.

Made it back home in time to bathe and rush out for forum outing with teh trolls! XD Ok so it was just Sinacy, Chukai, 5aaur and me, but I'd also invited my faction mate Marvin along, but more on that later. Anyway, I reached Dhoby Ghaut at around 1pm, then like a silly fool tried to reach Marvin for 15 mins .. after 3 calls he said he just woke up but would be on his way to The Cathy.

Sinacy decided on Astons Specialities for lunch, so the 4 of us walked over there, but not before uh .. very hyper introductions? I think on sin's part at least (he's a cute lil boy when he's not being annoying). Chu liked to mess my hair while 5aaur was uh .. a quiet rock. :p

Waited for an hour or so in the queue outside Astons .. the place is crampy. I got grilled fish with herbs, my side was fries and onion rings ($7.20):



















Chu had his with baked and mashed potato:



















I would say the fish is so-so. 5aaur and sin got steak, Marvin got teriyaki chicken, if I'm not wrong. Hot chocolate ($2.80) was bad, wasn't sweet at all and it tastes of too much powder. Sin stole my fries and onion rings, Marvin abused the poor chili sauce bottle and its really amusing to watch sin struggle with the steak. I know, I sound mean but really its funny =x

The four of us .. outside Evolution Square, a lan shop we went to after lunch:



















We stayed and played games for a while, then the 3 boys had to go off while Marvin stayed behind with me for CW. Then end up because of one joker who really very idiotic and cos some people wanted to do other things when we were supposed to assemble, Rune got mad and stayed mad thru the night, so nobody took part in CW.

Marvin sent me home after, then there were long msn chats .. I think my SENGP test today is gone case .. lack of sleep and tired in all sense of the word so .. yeah.

Whatever the both of you say, I still feel responsible. If I hadn't come up with the idea for outing in the first place, or suggested LAN or whatever nothing would have happened. As it is, i) YES I feel guilty ii) YES I'm aware I was being monopolised .. but tbh no I've no objections with it and iii) YES I know and I should have spent more time with you guys.

*and damn rainy days **damned mozzie bites ***I feel like selling my chars and quitting ****i need to buy kinder bueno later bcos i ran out of stock *****im jumping around SFA's tracklist trying to find a good track to repeat ******java, internet security tests tomorrow but fk it im gonna go nap

Lab fun~

Everytime Tuesdays loom near, I go into an emo mood, sorta. This week, today isn't helped that blues are on me already, so anything more puts me in an in-balance. Anyways, just wanted to share what happened during IT3505 lab today.

We were all logged on HeuCampus cos Mr Lim insisted that he would only take attendance from there, and then he started to pm us:





























































































As you can see .. Lue Song is quite the artist lols. We were playing around with pgp files, following the lecture on Cryptography, then this lab practical was just to test our understanding of the topic. About the beep thing .. we were supposed to hear a beep if the files were encrypted correctly, but nobody was sure how to.

SENGP presentation today .. ok, so last minute work sucks. Everyone knows that. Especially when someone's desktop crashes and I have to be the one who does the ppt slides with input from Notepad, because said someone's laptop has trial version of micro ppt so view is possible but not edit. Which was what I was doing late into the night yesterday,churning out the slides. Then because of timetables clashes, no time to rehearse (for Chris and me) this morning. So kena grill by teacher and can't answer = my fault? Who were the ones who let one whole week pass by without deciding anything and only giving me answers like "We'll discuss and let you know" Hell yeah, end up last minute scramble.

Shucks, 3 tests next week for me, all quizzes. Global Supply Chain ICA1 tomorrow and I'm not fully ready. Someone kill me.

Ok, the Cheese The Chicken I had before:















Chicken cutlets with a generous topping of hot mango sauce and nachos at the side, for deco. And I'm going to treat my sister to this IF she gets 10 and below for her O levels.

Food aside, school work crashing on me. I owe tutorials .. (I feel like giving a heck =x) like Gantt chart for SENGP which I've done but not emailed yet, 3505 lab prac which I honestly don't know i) my group ii) how to do it

And IBM Rational trial is like 2 GB.. if I get that I'll lag til the point I'm gonna literally quit GE .. gonna do that in school tmr.

2 ICAs next week. Uggh.

BRIAN!!!!

bwahaha, your blog NEEDS more work lols. Its literally shouting "I NEED MORE POSTS" Get on it! :p XDXD But I'll still link you (don't murder me)

Anyways. EAIPJ presentation went well .. I think. Dunno why I bother to prepare lil speech notes in the morning. Ms Cher said she likes my presentation style because (direct quote) "Its different from the others. The impression you give me is very steady and calm. You are very sure of what you're trying to say. I can imagine you in a manager position."

>< Yeah, me a manager. ROFL. 1000 years later, maybe. I hate being in an office, uggh.

No NAPFA later, I changed the booking to Monday. Which frees up my time later. Maybe I'll go visit Jas.

Obama for president. Oh man. I still don't like him, even if he was a white guy. Nothing against blacks, just that he can talk, yes, but can he walk the talk? Do what he promises? Oh well, its the Americans who're gonna get the direct impact shortly. I prefer McCain, but ah well, we can all say goodbye to FTAs and such.

GE Updates

First, I finally got a vet ATP and my Edward turned vet a while ago.



















Above: My Elektra posing with my Kanda. This was when I still had a Candlestick =x

Next, my cute pet:
















Hatched it after 3 days ^^ But I only use him sparingly, because pet food is expensive. And like some of you already know, I've broken 3 Hellspit already T_T So now I've been broading for like 2 weeks, but still nobody has a nice rapier to sell me =(

School wise .. omfg I'm so screwed for Entrepreneurship .. my group can't come up with a decent business idea, and if this goes on we'll be super behind the others, haiz. EAIPJ .. I'm doing ok I guess, gonna churn out .aspx pages later.

On Monday, I went for an outing~ Marina Square's Interesting Appetites (<3 the Frankenstein Mudpie)



















Dark choc powder on the top, peppermint and choc icr cream, then a layer of biscuit below, with drizzles of choc fudge, nuts, marshmellows and raisins. And best of all? It only costs $7.90 :)

More pics of the food when I get em.

Stay alive peeps!

GE updates:

My little hime, Hanatsuki, hit vet! Celebratory pic (she's 3rd from left):



















And I must say, my musk is one hot dude. And then I got a Fire Sabre <3~



















Yep, my hawt Elentari posing ^^ Once my white baron hits vet, I'll post moar pics~

School wise .. oh well, same old. Except I have different classes, and thus different groups for 5 projects, so GG me. But its kinda fun, for now. Until all the presentations and what nots start to pile up on me.

*is very happy Dan found a job, even if temp*

**likes Elmo song. pls don't ask why**

***blog song has been on repeat for past few days, but I love it, its from the movie Mr & Mrs Smith and sung by 8mm***

lyrics here, ta for now

My timetable sucks. Major, big time sucks. Uggh. I have different classes from the rest of my peers, I get an hr break a day, more if there's e-lessons. Sometimes I wanna murder the fella who drew up my timetable T_T

On the upside .. I love my Monday and Fridays :D That's TGIM and TGIF for ya :p

Other than that .. got my books settled, my tutorials done (for now) .. the Java EE sounds intimidating. Horrors of horrors, Java! And just when I thought I won't ever see it again in my lifetime. And there's this EAIPJ .. another project module @@ .. and National Education is brainless.

*rants off to bed*

Damned hotmail bug!!

3 days running, and it seems I'm not the only one affected by this hotmail bug that i) doesn't let me read my email, I can only view from the "inbox" link ii) delete unwanted mail, and I'm not even talking about spam.

It's a freaking pain in the a** problem! And judging from the Internet's results, I'm not the only one (why am I not surprised). Hell, I'm being inconvenienced, damnit. I wish Microsoft would friggin solve this problem ASAP.

Next week, back to school .. enough of rotting at home for me. To my readers: if you're PH or SG and know of any job vacancy, ANY kind at all, please leave a comment/msn me! Gracias.

And hon, I promise we'll pull through this whatever it takes.

First, to introduce .. +10 AR3 ATK 40% atkspd 30% Javelin.




















Actually, its my brother's LegoKnight lol, I thought it looked like a javelin so he set up the pose for me XD

Anyways, my mum's bday on the 17th went pretty well, me and my siblings had gone to pick a present for her, and she liked it, so we were relieved all round. My father actually requested for the rose detail on the durian cake:















And prior to that we went to Seoul Garden on Sunday, promptly gorging ourself on the food. I can't complain, I had triple rounds of ice cream, but then there was grilled sotong and stuff, really rocked.

And then last Sunday .. my aunt gave birth to meine baby cousin, so on Monday evening me and my mum went down to Gleaneagles Hospital to visit. My poor uncle has been running back and forth from home, so he looks pretty strained, but I'm glad that they're ok, it wasn't an easy birth for my aunt, there were pills and jabs she had to have to keep the baby (thereby delivering the baby gal smoothly). The little one doesn't have a name yet, and I wasn't allowed to take pics, but she's as cute as angels go. My mum was soothing the lil gal while my uncle and aunt had their late dinner, and she caught me looking and asked if I wanted to try carrying the little bundle of joy. I was agreeable, but I think my baby cousin doesn't like me. Barely a min passed while I was trying to hold her correctly, and she was scrunching her face, crying as loud as her lungs would allow T_T (she's quiet as a peep when my mum carries her) She was supposed to be sleeping, but apparently she decided looking around was more fun. We headed home at 8 plus 9pm

And I have decided I love babies when they're not bawling their heads off.

Currently, I'm waiting and praying for a money tree to rain notes onto my lap. Ah well, too late to regret not getting a job now.

And I love my blog song so such, I have it on repeat for about .. 3 days? Yeah :D

Manga! Anime! All teh things I love

and of course, mooncakes ^^

*status: still at home & unemployed. going deaf from mum's nagging zz*

But anyways, I'm currently reading Black Cat, a gunslinging/thriller/supernatural manga. Shades of the underworld, yeah. It's really good, but I'm only up to chapter 78. This one stretches all the way to 185, I've a long way to go. Waiting for updates for Wolf And Spice, Midnight Secretary (I hate cliffhangers), Hanatsuki Hime. Anime wise .. Bleach 186 was scary. Pomg, if Amagai taicho turns out to be Aizen #2 .. GG us. But it looks likes the filler episodes are ending, hurray! Back to Hueco Mundo already, I'm dying for action and I'm sure I'm not the only one. And on D.Gray-man .. whee, 4th Akuma's might in episode 100 coming soon. Even though the manga chapter was good, can't wait to see how they'll do it in the anime.

Last Friday, I went for an outing, meant for Legends SG members. Runex, FrozenFate, SimWorms, me, Jas, Erik and Clement headed for steamboat dinner at Bugis. The food was okay, arrived at 7 plus and ate all the way til 9 plus. After that we adjourned to TCC at Bugis Square for a bit of chit chat and drinks (I love hot chocolate~ but not the whipped cream) and we had to run for the last train hehe. Imagine if we missed it .. all sit at MRT station emo =x

Saturday was spent at Aljunied buying ingredients for making mooncake from Kwong Chong Thye. This year, mum decided to make them again, so I was roped in to help her carry all the stuff back home. We went overboard with the paste, spending $100+ on all that stuff.

From top left: Green tea, lotus paste, mango, white lotus paste. (it should be horizontal but it keeps coming out as vertical)




















As for the other materials, from top-left clockwise: Crisco (in chinese its 板油) very essential for snowskin mooncakes, which is what we made; melon seeds, glutinous rice flours and icing sugar.
















Ok, here's the recipe if you guys wanna do this on your own (set aside a day for this .. backbreaking work tho its easy!)

You need: 225 gm glutinous rice flour, 75 gm Crisco, 200 gm icing sugar, 360 gm ice water (don't go by ml), colouring (we pounded pandan leaves and mixed a bit of water to make the mooncake skin green) and extra cooked glutinous rice flour for dusting. [this portion makes approx 20 mini snowskin mooncakes]

1) Choose the paste of your choice and weigh them at 24gm each (subject to preference, but at least 20gm)
2) Sieve the glutinous rice flour first.
3) Mix the rice flour, crisco and icing sugar evenly. I don't mean pour them together in a lump, do the rice flour and crisco slowly bit by bit, then the icing sugar.
4) When done, make a well in the center of the mixture (think volcano) and pour the ice water slowly, kneading into a dough.
5) Weigh the dough at 20gm each (or more if you want a thicker skin) then wrap with beanpaste.

After that, put the mixture into moulds like so:
















See the dusting of rice flour in the mould? That's so the mixture doesn't stick. Rub some on your hands too, so its easier. Then with the cheek of your palm, press the ball of mixture down firmly, then coat the bottom with a bit of rice flour. Hit the mould on both sides once, then the top, turn it on the side and knock it out onto your palm.

Pics below i) our dining table turned into a war zone ii) the finished "product" - we bought boxes too































Hope you guys enjoyed Mooncake Festival. I certainly did ^^

CW yesterday was uber fun! Joined Legends when they invited me. DF and gang tried to take rio, but phailed, lols. Still looking for a job, still no luck, ah well, if it comes to staying at home throughout this one month .. whee~ But with recent big ticket purchases, my bank account's dwindling =x

Anyhow, last Saturday I went to Tangs to exchange an Elle bag I'd bought for $89. Ended up choosing three bags from MEL, and got myself a watch from Denni as well:
















My bags, and the little bag with my watch below:
















And now, manga. I'm reading 100% Perfect Girl at the moment, waiting for D.Gray-man/Midnight Secretary/Hanatsuki Hime. I wish they'd get the manga/anime uploaded and scanslated faster, so I wouldn't have to wait.

That's about all, prolly won't be updating so soon.

P.S: Saph, Seth, you guys rock! Nice to see you haven't forgotten me, haha. Holler on msn if yall need me ^^

Let's trash this out .. since it had to come to this.

A few FACTS. As known to those who went for the meeting yesterday. Want to twist my words and say, " oh you're trying to pin us down", to which I refer you to this thread here
My reply is same as that on sGe forums, except I have more to add on my own blog.

1) HR had a meeting yesterday, among SG members.
2) Split tables before the meal already. Each to his/her own camp.
3) Hard enough to talk/hear in a public area, much less make self heard. But moja was trying his best, and what did some of you guys on the other end do? Talk, laugh, have your own convo. Already overriding respect and authority.
4) The challenge was from DF. "If IXL in the fac, then I will leave" I asked you was that an ultimatum, you said no. Then what was it other than a clear statement what you're gonna do?

Now, I'll address my thoughts on DF, and your gang.

1) Won't go into detail about what was mentioned during the meeting, but really, DF, you think you did a much better job when you were RL? I never saw any SS about what were the loot, who got the loot, sqd members. Only when asked, then you posted 3 images on Griffon and said, those 3 pictures is more than a thousand words, or something to that effect. So 3 images can cancel out the OTHER images not posted? An excuse to keep quiet aka divert attention from other issues to pacify those people who've been asking for what's theirs? Wow, talk about multitasking.
2) The reason why I raised the issue about your other pilot (the one who doesn't go to outings) is because even if step down as DL, I think its pretty serious if someone as guailan (from what I heard) as your pilot is piloting your account. Your account that as a player was important to HR, as council member as DL as someone who had authority (and we never thought you would abuse it either til you kept quiet on so many raids). Until you showed your true colours yesterday night.
3) Secret meeting after that. Not surprising, since you also had a secret meeting a few days ago prior to yesterday's meeting and got all the RL to step down. Great job! How influential! For someone who said "I will not pull anyone from HR" you have already stepped on your own foot when some followed you. Are more to follow? Think I can guess who will go with my 2 eyes closed.
4) To ah ma. You guys want to show you guys can make it on your own, go ahead. Since you're aflush with GOL loot, orbs and funds, you can do what you like, and nothing much we can do about it.
5) "secure a position in Legends?" In all the factions I've been in, I have yet to contribute anything before I join. Never for DefendeRz, nor ReBeLaTion nor Crusaders nor HR. And that's not about to change. GOL tactics as a bribe? Puh-lease. You think people don't go because they don't know how it works? ZZ. Ask Einwind why he doesn't drop ELN anymore, then.

Bah. Bandying words was never my strong suit, even if I'm blunt about my words.

Below is a slideshow that I created from the 40+ SS from a convo with DF and STW ytd morning. Being awake til 5am is no joke! After meeting was already tired from all the testosterone flying around. But this will save me from repeating things I'm sick of hearing again.

Click here

**SCREAMS AND JUMPS UP AND DOWN**

3 plus am in the morning but who cares? I won!!!! Woot I won the DragonFable House contest for Best Combination Bedroom!! 2000 Dragon coins! *goes nuts being too happy*

Check this out: http://www.dragonfable.com/df-designnotes.asp

Whee I actually beat everyone else! Muhaha :D Dino got an honorable mention (her ign in DF is RANDOM-KID) for the Best Combination - Others Category; she gets DC too.

This was DEFINITELY worth staying up for~ All my hard work .. and look at what Cysero posted Special gratz to valinorian_coe. Hope that grand prize helps with take the sting out of all the time and DC you put into your house!"

I think the forum mods saw my post in the house rating section about spending 2-3 hrs planning and 1k plus DC on designing .. and ny post in the forum after winning: http://forums2.battleon.com/f/tm.asp?m=14463770&mpage=2&key=&#14464265

Of books, movies and .. a haircut heh

Its been 3 weeks since my op, and after endless medication and rest (here and there), I think I'm recovering quite fine. Last week was quite an eventful one for me. On Saturday, after visiting Dr. Chen, I went to Borders and bought a copy of Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child's Book of The Dead at $17.95, after trying to get the ebook to no avail (and being put on the local library's waiting list for months. Yeah, months.) Not even Benny nor Rildiz could find any proper ebook of that, only audio books. I was thrilled to find the only copy on the shelf (Borders should have an alphabetical index for their books!) and promptly completed my first reading late into the night.

Also, I pre-ordered Stephanie Meyer's Breaking Dawn, which I will collect tomorrow after work; supposedly I'll get 25% discount off the retail price if I pre-order. I can't wait! Below is the convo I had with Elodin, my old friend from EL over in the U.S:













His font is a wee bit small, sorry if you have to squint to read, basically he says Kim (his gf) is reading BD already .. and I am so awfully jealous! Dang. But no matter, tomorrow night I will be one happy fan :D

Fast forward to this week - I've been trying to get the mp3 for this particular D.Gray-man theme from Episode 93 entitled "The 14th's Song/Musician by Yumi Moitora". So far, fans are going gaga over this particular piano piece (because ITS AWESOME and it really is) and like them, I've managed to source out the MIDI files, Benny helped me with the music sheets (I haven't gotten around to tinkering on the piano yet but I will soon) and a yummy-licious pic of Kanda <3~












Whee he's alive! I know that from the manga but still .. Kanda to Lavi: "Baka-usagi!" is teh lols

Just yesterday, we had another HR outing! Who went: Jaslin, Clement, Erik, Qing Wei (Vongola), Joseph (uthinkleh), Shaun (Onggy), Spinelli, Jerry, Stephanie (Arielite), Francis (cyctoo) together with some Legends members, whose names I forgot already. Anyway, the plan was to have dinner first then watch The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor at Marina Square. But it was a Saturday, plus NDP preview was going on, so it took a while before we found seats for 18 at The Cafe Cartel. (I think the Legends people had some private agreement to wear black .. all or-lulu at their table ROFL)

I shared St. Louis Pork Ribs with Jaslin (very big portion, very value-for-money and yummy!), and the boys had some Crispy Platter or something. We wanted a waffle ice cream for dessert but were too full to eat anything more. After that, the movie .. I won't give spoilers away for those who haven't watched, but it's decent even with a tad too much CGI effects, still worth watching. But the O'Connells' speaking Chinese cannot make it and the yetis .. twas a bad idea to put it in the movie, methinks. Maybe I shall catch My Sassy Girlfriend (the U.S remake of the Korean original) and Space Chimps next, if time and my wallet permits.

And then today, cycled with my parents to Marsiling, where I had ba chor mee for breakfast before heading to the hair saloon. 5 hours later, I emerged from the saloon with a 'soft' rebond done and my hair neater .. but I think the time was worth it, because Lily, the hairdresser who attended to me was very detailed and she really did a great job with my hair.

Phew, lengthy blog post. Off for a nap before dinner and CW at 8pm. Ciao~

July's nearing an end .. finally managed to vet my rio today, with Oznola's help, 76 Diamond Coupons and endless hours in Skullic.
















And then, here's what my house on DragonFable looks like:











































Contest submission: Living Room and Bedroom (got my sis to help me with the later)




























Hopefully I'll be among the winners .. or if I'm lucky, win the top prize of 2k dragon coins .. :D

What transpired on Thurs 10 July

5.30am. Woke, and then left the house at 6.40 with my parents. The hospital had called me the night before to remind me that I had to fast from 12pm onwards, so I couldn't have breakfast.

Upon reaching, we went to Gleneagles's Admission counter, whereupon the lady asked us to go to the counter @ 7th floor, where the day-wards were since we had already done pre-admission the week before. After going through the admin stuff, I was taken to Ward 208 to wait for my turn. Shortly after I'd settled down, a nurse came in and taped my wrist with a band, helped me into e dressing gown and I had a nap til about 10.50am, when they came for me in a stretcher to bring me down to the operating theatre.

My parents were stopped at the doors, they allowed only my mum to go in with me, because she was the one who had signed the consent form for my op (since I'm under 21) ; and with a pat on my hand she went out. I was made to wait in a little room just outside the OT, because Dr Chen wasn't finished with the earlier patient yet. 11am stretched to 11.30am, and while I was waiting in darkness the nurse chatted with me briefly, then the Anesthesia Master injected me with a medicine that supposedly "helps to calm your nerves" o_0 according to him.

But calm my nerves it certainly did not. I was getting fidgety under the blankets, if a tad nervous about the decision I made to go through with it. Around 11.35am, they wheeled the previous patient out, and me in. While the nurse hooked me up to various contraptions, the AM injected a whole syringe of thick, milky liquid into the tube on my left hand. Immediately, a growing numbness and pain overwhelmed me and I went KO.

When next I woke, it was 1.05pm, and I had been in the recovery ward for an hour after the operation. The pain didn't register at first; I was preoccupied with calling my mum to let her know it was over. Once they wheeled me all the way back to the ward, I started feeling nauseous and dizzy. For the rest of the day, til 8pm when I was discharged from my ward, I was reduced to lying in bed, taking painkillers and napping through the haze that accompanied the nausea. The one bread that I ate in the evening (since the entire day) made me vomit whatever I had consumed.

At about 10.15pm, we were finally able to see Mr Chen at his clinic after waiting for 2 hours. The rest of the day through Sunday was spent resting, spacing out all my med, taking my meals etc .. in short nothing interesting. 3 days hospitalisation leave .. I'll be back to work on Thursday and hopefully better after everything. To those who asked after me, thanks a lot, and thanks Jaslin for visiting me while I was hospitalised (though I wasn't in any fit state to talk much).

Just 2 poems

Dialogue of a kiss

Him: Time stopped for
that moment
I damned reason
and kissed
you.

Her: Heart pounding
I threw away
my pride
just to answer
your kiss

The Op.

Laid out, strapped
cold table
with sharp steel
on naked flesh

Will it hurt
I wonder
if I will
scream when
I wake up.

Just 2 poems I composed lately. The first, don't ask me where I got my inspiration from, the sencond is rather obvious. And til now I'm still not that scared as I'll undoubtedly be on that day.

My poor Dan's been swamped by paper work by his cousin. I swear that one's a slave driver. But at least I know he still cares about me. Having a whole ton of problems getting GE to install properly on my laptop .. GG.

kilos .. eek!

Last Sat, my older cousin's wedding reception at the Fishing Village at Khatib, where we had a 10 course dinner.

Then on Sun, buffet at Yaki and Yuki @ Marina Square - for our HR outing. Because I'm lazy, I won't post pics. Instead, here's a video by our silent (and deadly) cameraman, Luthirien. Michelle and Jerry weren't captured because they had to go off early. We had several rounds of eating throughout 1-5pm.



Piling on the kilos .. uggh. And my op has been shifted to 10th July.

Due for an op.

Been having a slew of health related problems lately. First, the nose bleed which gave me a shock at work, had to take a day's MC.

But before I get to the main issue .. had lunch with Jaslin yesterday at the Korean stall at Chevron House. Then on my way home after work, met up (very impromptu) with Jerry, Adrian and his siter Fiona, Tim, Jaslin and ah ma for dinner. Initial plan was to go to TCC @ Orchard, ended up at Moku Moku, a Japanese style eatery at Far East Plaza. Will post the pics when I get them.

Today afternoon 1.30pm, went to Gleneagles Hospital with my mum to see Dr Christopher Chen for an appointment. After the nurse asked me a few qns about my medical history, we waited for a few mins before being admitted in. To cut things short .. after the scan (which hurt) he told me that I had slight thickening of my uterus, I had blood clots in my womb (which was just like what Ying Chuan told me) and my left ovary was in an "abnormal position". The medical term for my condition is called Endometrosis (for more info click here). The symptoms are much like what my mum had, except her was more serious so her womb had to be removed. But, Dr Chen says this kind of condition is not hereditary, which is a small consolation.

So basically, to "clean up" these clots, I would have to go for day surgery, where 2 keyholes would be made. The cost is like .. including the doctor and hospital side, about 10k plus o_0 Booked a half day ward for 3rd July, so I have the rest of the weekend to rest. I'm SO not anticipating myself being on the operating table .. but what can I do? Better to get this resolved faster than wait, delay .. and lead to more complications.

So peeps, not just ladies, do take care of your health ya?

First off, pics.















Mine and Dino's dessert, ice cream topped with various stuff (me) ice kachang with stuff below (hers) at Seoul Garden the week before. She loved her yam, I loved my choc chip ice cream with mint .. ain't had it for years.















2pcs Crispy chicken set at Changi Airport's Terminal 3's Popeyes last Saturday when my mum, brother and I sent my old maid off home. I liked the chicken, but found it a bit too oily .. and the bread .. a wee bit on the salty side, tho my mum said the butter made it taste good. Ps: Things are expensive there .. 6+ to 7+ per set .. not counting the side (biscuits)

I know I've been lazy. Yeah, last update was on 3rd June -_- But I've still been busy. Work is good, well I still make small mistakes here and there but I'm getting better. Then just yesterday I started on a different job .. checking files. Ayup, which means I have my own cubicle for now .. til they decide to change my job scope again. So now I only do counter work when I'm covering for my colleagues during lunch time.

Bought 2 muffins today, from Raffles Xchange. They're nice, airy affairs, the banana almond was good but the double chocolate chip really sucked. Come Friday, HR's gonna have a fac outing again .. and I'm looking forward to it. I think I really need a break.

And I would rant about the new maid .. cept some have already heard my woes. Oh well lols.

Had dinner at Seoul Garden last Saturday, brought my sis along. Spin's treat, cos he found a new job.

I'm into my 2nd week, and the feedback is I've to be faster. Mr Chua came to visit, as did Scott Jones last week.

The rest, I'll blog another time.

Day #1 at OCBC

Uggh.

My first, and final word on the first day. After waiting for the guys to arrive, we reached there promptly and went up to the HR Division on the 40th floor after exchanging our ICs for temp passes. Me, Faizah, Dao Li and Liang An were posted to CSC on the 12th floor. Shu Min and Saihah went over to the East Block while Huiqi went to the 13th floor on her own; Si Hui went to 7th floor.

My department is .. mostly female, with about 3/4 guys around. After being shown a cubicle for us to stew in, so to speak, I waited for a bit before Chao Yoon, my Team Manager for the Admin Team showed me around the office; introducing me to some of the staff, showing me where the pantry and ladies was.

After that, I was promptly "dumped" at the counter to assist the 2 staff there, Phoebe and Edweena with their work. Basically I'll be stuck doing sai kang but its better than nothing. For the rest of the afternoon, I was taught the basic day-to-day operations of CSC. Had to learn what turnover time was .. was reminded to have completeness (follow-thru), punctuality, blah blah. Also made friends with the people who delivered letters and packages to us .. one thing I haven't got the hang of is knowing who sits where. Its not so much a problem about identity since the staff have name tags at their cubicle but .. it is a bit hard to remember the seating arrangement on the first day.

Kena arrow by one of them when I couldn't remember my 3rd person to bring a file to sat. The word "corporate" itself stresses me, uggh. Went for lunch at BK today, have made up my mind to go and explore more places for lunch .. BK's prices is daylight robbery.

Tired, but at least I know I have something to do everyday. 3 months .. I wonder how long I can take it. Oh, and I have NO internet access AT ALL. The intranet is only available after I sign forms requesting for access. Pfft. OMG no laptop .. I'm dying, I tell ya.

I'm tired! Even if I DO get some hours of sleep . . argh .. I'm turning into a zombie or something that needs A LOT of sleep.

Anyway, updates lets see .. ok I'm posted to OCBC's Commercial Services Centre at Raffles for my IPP lasting 3 months, and I'm to report there on Monday 8.45pm .. Goin down on Saturday to get my bearings so I won't be late or anything on Monday.

And nothing much, except I've this song for repeat for a day now, don't ask me why I like it



Pain - Jimmy Eat World

I don't feel the way I've ever felt.
I know.
Gonna smile and not get worried.
I try but it shows.

Anyone can make what I have built.
And better now
Anyone can find the same white pills.
It takes my pain away.

It's a lie. A kiss with opened eyes.
And she's not breathing back.
Anything but bother me.
(It takes my pain away)
Never mind these are hurried times.
Oh oh oh
I can't let it bother me.

I never thought I'd walk away from you.
I did.
But it's a false sense of accomplishment.
Every time I quit

Anyone can see my every flaw.
It isn't hard.
Anyone can say they're above this all.
It takes my pain away.

It's a lie. A kiss with opened eyes.
And she's not breathing back.
Anything but bother me.
(It takes my pain away)
Never mind these are hurried times.
Oh oh oh
I can't let it bother me.

I can't let it bother me.

It takes my pain away.

It's a lie. A kiss with opened eyes.
And she's not breathing back.
Anything but bother me.
(It takes my pain away)
Never mind these are hurried times.
Oh oh oh
I can't let it bother me

Takes my pain,
takes my pain,
takes my pain away!

HK Cafe PART 2

Tons of food, so I wanted to put em seperately. Ok, to start off, this is what we ordered while waiting for Gerald and Jaslin to arrive, Har Gao (shrimp dumpling) and Siew Mai















My milo dinosaur (whee at last I got to try it, and the cup is so cute)
















Then I ordered a main dish, because if you only order dim sum you'll get hungry real quick. I decided to get their HK Wanton Mee (dry) that Clement recommended, while Spin got the soup version. I really really love the fried wanton, its crispy and manages not to leave a cloying aftertaste in the mouth, and not too oily as well.















Clement (madjerk) got French Toast (the size is like, whoa)




















Gerald got pork chop spaghetti (to me its so-so, I could have this at home)




















On my second round, I got shrimp wrapped in beancurd skin. This wasn't really nice, it was much too oily and the skin was rather hard to chew through















Jaslin and me shared Japanese rice mochi with red bean paste and vanilla ice cream for dessert. I LOVE the mochi to bits, its OISHI!! And it looks too cute to be eaten lols
















But the real highlight of the meal was the Mango Snow that we ordered. I don't have the pic but its colossal, and we couldn't finish it =x On the way home I got this from Jaslin (its supposed to be a Thai snack and I don't know the name either, at first I thought it was some delicate toy because it looked so real! Then Jas said it could be eaten) Cute isn't it?















Spent about $15 plus total on the food .. went home feeling bloated but otherwise happy

That's about it as far as posts go, probably won't update again soon.

Birthday Updates .. and HK Cafe PART 1

My chocolate sponge birthday cake from Polar - before
















And after. I commented that it was like weps that were +10 and my sis agreed lol. Geez, finding parellels among GE and real life @@
















And then, there was an impromptu arrangement to go out to HK Cafe @ Kovan on Sunday 1pm for a belated bday celebration. Jas, Spin, Gerald and Clement turned up, which was quite ok. From the outside:















The inside view. Its cozy! I love the setting <3
















And after we were done with our meal I opened my prezzie that Jaslin passed to me, a cute little voodoo doll keychain and a handy fan:




















Thanks jie, I love it ^^

Gonna put all the food we had in PART 2

This bugger spoiled my mood

I'd been having the IOF bug for days, where I don't get the loading screen when I run to it, my chars get stuck, then when I dc from it it takes like 10 mins before I can login again. Being sick of Skull, I decided to go and try IOF today, to see if I still had the bug.

This faggot called Deepsie who was w/o a faction was killing my sqd mates. When I went to ress them, he/she targeted me, and me only. Repeatedly killed me even when I ran, used soul crystal to ress myself, then this biatch would be back again to kill me.







































































Because of him/her my mood is spoiled. He/she has earned my eternal hate