Ordeal over?

Finally, the blasted - depressing - stressful - idiotic - damnable ITIPJ is over.

A lot of sweat, blood and tears went into our presentation, which we did our best for. Scott and Lim were relatively ok .. up to our turn to present we were still debugging errors as much as possible. Its over now so I don't want to talk about it .. but, I just want to say that things may happen when you least expect them. And when they happen .. well nobody wanted to it but ah well, to my team: good one, all. And .. I don't know Kelvin as well as the rest of you do but maybe we should give him a treat or something? =x

First thing I did when I got home yesterday was to head for my bed. Of course my mum nagged me to have dinner first, but I was drained, not to mention hurting from my blisters (which still hurt despite the plaster). Was in a relatively bad mood last night, don't know why. Then when I woke at 9 plus pm over dinner my mum told me about an incident that happened to her yesterday while she was on her way home from the doctor's.

Apparently she had gone to Cold Storage to buy some muah chee (the ones in the packets) like this:


















and had bought a little bag for us. Then she happened to pass by this store at the pasar malam near Woodlands MRT which was also selling muah chee from Taiwan, but the biscuit type and not the soft ones. When she went near, the ah pek (in his forties) and a young man (in his 20s with dyed hair) went to attend to her. The old man kept opening packets of muah chee for my mum to try out the flavours, saying "Yi nian yi chi, gan gan chi la, mei shi de. Lai, wo kai gei ni" (in Chinese, meaning that my mum was free to try his goods since this was a once a year thing (CNY) and that it was alright.) So, after trying out a few my mum decided to buy a little bag from them too. But who would have known the ah pek was trying to "kotok" my mum. Once she said she wanted to buy some, he immediately got a huge plastic bag and filled it by the armful with bags and bags of muah chee. My mum gaped at him, saying she didn't want so much. But the ah pek only repeated the same old line "yi nian yi chi" and when he was done weighing he told my mum, "Auntie, 2kg for $36 hor". Then my mum "huh" very loud, and all the other storekeepers nearby all looked at her cos this was early in the morning and she was the only customer around.

When my mum told him she didn't have enough, the ah pek asked to see how much she had in her wallet. When he saw that she had only $7 plus left, the ah pek said in Chinese "Auntie cannot be lar, your wallet so big how can so little money nia" then my mum said she only had this left since she had already bought a bag of muah chee from Cold Storage earlier. Then the ah pek said, "Aiya, Auntie, $20 I give you la, discount can la"The helper demanded to see what she bought, and brazenly OPENED MY MUM'S BAG OF MUAH CHEE AND ATE 2 PACKETS, giving the excuse that he wanted to sample what other stores were selling. While this was going on, the ah pek took the large bag he had filled up, and began pouring out (and I think deliberately) a lot of it til the only flavours left were the common ones like chest nut and red bean; and not the flavours my mum wanted to buy.

In the end he sold 400g of muah chee to my mum. When I finished hearing her story my mood turned worse. Wah lao .. this kind of uncle, want to scam people and some more so unreasonable de. Dirty business tactics sia wtf. Even though my mum says she think the uncle only trying to clear his stock fast. Must report to CASE *grumble*

I feel like going down to the pasar malam @ Causeway Pt and take his picture then post to Stomp sia. Hum chin peng.

After that, went on GE to bring my sis around. She direction sense still cannot make it, but at least I teach her how to read coordinate she can tell me her coor so I can find her lols. Level 13 liao not bad haha. And she happily report to me that she did a lot of quests liao and she knows how to use city guide to travel. T_T Then she tell me she want bellem boxes, I told her I supply the gold pieces but she camp at golden well for me, then split the boxes 30%/70%. Since she don't mind, then I said equips with good stats I will pass her, the rest I keep.

That was last night. This morning, I woke up in a better mood. Maybe cos my mum made pancakes whee~ At the moment in sch for my IB project meeting. Wanna go home early to play GE .. or sleep. See how ba~

My sore throat still bugs me persistently. Drinking more water helps nuts. And the late night cycle still continues.

Today was spent coding and doing report. CRM final lecture was so short. Not even half the cohort turned up and no-one said goodbye to Ms Cheng. Skipped my Econs revision lecture but I don't feel guilty. My grp mates, especially Jess and Grace and Shermin have sacrificed their sleep these past few days to do the compilation, coding, coordinating etc etc.

I wanna thank Jess for doing the payment part for me. Really didn't know how to validate the fields required, so sorry. And also Grace and Shermin, for their help.

10.21pm now, as I blog. The others I saw in school today are either on their way home or already home. After this week is over I think we all need to de-stress. And because of my whacked schedule lately I haven't talked to my hon, if at all. I miss him like crazy =x

But I'm also very proud of him for getting 8th place in the top 10 winners for this event.
Way to go hon~ I look forward to watching the video you made. ^^

P.S: Winston if you ka jiao my sis I will not forgive joo.

supa .. KO~

KO-ed by a few things.

Was rushing for my IB and ITIPJ during the weekends. But, my Payment page still doesn't work. So came back to school today and froze *insert body part* while doing my pages first in the lab and then moved to Disc Room 505 to continue.

And my hotmail seems to be bugged. Recipients don't get my email nor attachments =x So, have to resort to msn.

And I've sore throat since last Saturday when I ate too much muah chee (the Japanese ones in the little packets). Think I'm coming down with something. And I had Surf n Turf for lunch. Trust me to choose something fried to aggravate my throat =x

And I saw the girls in sch. Like, o_0 wat r dey doing o_0

Winston added to my headache while I was debugging. We were talking about my sis (who just started GE) and then moved on to sec sch subjects. And he had to go on and on about chemistry T_T My biggest nightmare next to VStudio. Bleh. What's so nice about chem anyway? Physics ftw!!

Chemistry is still my Achilles heel. The logic eludes me til today.

Look like its another "pia" session today. Noooo~

Having 3 presentations later on. SENGP at 12pm, Econs at 10am and CRM at 3pm.

My CRM group stayed back at school til about 9pm to finish the slides and report, sans the leader who couldn't have chosen a better time to fall sick. And who did not pick up calls. >.<

Rehearsing took us a while too .. and I managed to spare a bit of time for my ITIPJ. The images are still not appearing but everything else works fine.

Missed quite a few Econs project meetings .. if I could Kage Bunshin I would attend but ah well, as I've said it IS a drag.

Next week, other than ITIPJ presentation, we have Biz Com presentation too .. this time individual speech on charity. Ho hum.

Off to crash .. late nights are rather prevalent now huh. Or should I say mornings. Ciao.

All I will say for XML is ..

I know I will flunk the module. Nuff said.

For today ..

• MR down to exam paper.
• Waking up at 6am makes you a walking zombie trying to stay awake.
• The school seriously needs more plugs.
• We need portable chairs when stranded with no lab.
  
• Scored 75/100 for my Biz Com ICA2.
• Econs is getting to be a drag. I want the project over. Faster. And the exam too.
• I forgot how to delete things from database for ITIPJ.
• Someone bomb my school pls.
• Projects make people (mad/moody/upset/tired/irritated/stressed).
  
• And lastly, I need an organizer. Like, seriously.
  

Crazy Week

If I thought last week was worse .. this week is worser. Yeah, there's a word called worser.

Anyway, a breakdown of events:

XML practical test tomorrow on Web Services

Wednesday

• SENGP revision lec
• MR presentation
• no MR/SENGP lectures tho
  

Thursday

CRM project meeting. No CRM tut tho

Friday

• Econs presentation
• SENGP test
  

Next Monday

ITIPJ presentation =x Noooooo~

I'm royally screwed 10 ways from Sunday T_T. Luckily I'm done with my part for the research, except IB's research on Dubai. And the homepage for ITIPJ. Ho hum. In the meantime, gonna need to chiong for tests.

Dropped by at my grandma's place to meet up with my mum at Chong Pang. The neighbour's little girl came over to say hi to my grandma:




















I got a haircut!!!

For only $8.80 at a saloon in Chong Pang. Then after me she got a haircut too ^^

That's about all for today. Oh, enjoy this video that Dan got me to watch:

Shopping! And my bro's b-day

Finished school at 2.30pm today, and we went down to Far East Plaza at Orchard and had our lunch at Cavaya Restaurant .. its just a normal eating place and not a real restaurant per se. Started on our mystery shopping at 4.40pm proper (we ended up shopping and browsing more) .. and it only took us around an hour to complete. The rest of the time was spent shopping. Regina and Huiqi got themselves a bag each at tomatoCan, while Faizah bought a grey dress for $10 at those roadside stores. Then we went into Zara, where I saw this lovely white top:




















I wanted to get it but its so expensive! $60 omg .. then I tried another shirt on:




















This is what the words say. Hon, you reading this? ^^




















Got home at 7pm, just in time to go out with my family to Vista Point to have dinner to celebrate my little bro's b-day. We ordered Sambal Chicken, Buttered Sotong, Prawns with oatmeal, Sambal French Beans and Hotplate Toufu, and Lotus Soup. I swear me and my sister felt like mum who were 3 months pregnant. And when we came home we got a small cake for him:















Happy 10th b-day Ah di! Haha, sorry I didn't get you a prezzie :p

Ta for now.

updates

Wrapped things up at 8.30 om for that day.

Wed-Thurs:
Had my Biz Com mock interview. Updated my pic >>> Waited outside for my turn with the rest of my classmates, and mine was impromptu because right up to 10 mins before me I was still looking through my IB notes. Hmm .. I felt it was quite ok, Miss Anne didn't really ask too many hard qns, so the interview went smoothly for me. IB test later was .. eh, needless to say, I phailed. Moi gonna cry ..

Going out with my CRM group to Suntec City later for our project, Mystery Shopping. Woots ^^

Last night, I had to endure hours of lousy internet connection. Again. *haiz* One of these days I shall really sue Singtel. RAWR. Anyway, Dan got a bit tipsy from beer + rum while we were chatting on YIM. Then about 1 plus am, I went online and we talked a bit before going on webcam. Then I saw him on webcam .. omg .. I was like, kawaii~

Is it possible to fall more in love? lols

My boy roxxors meh life. Wee~

Stressed

Freezing my bum off in the library atm. Making notes for IB ICA tomorrow .. 7 chapters OMG

I'm already tired from 3 chapters of note making =x

Gonna meet Clara n the group later to finish up Marketing Research project.

And, Biz Com job interview tmr also. God bless me man.

I wanna go home~

On Thursday .. after school we're gonna go "mystery shopping" for CRM ICA 3. On Friday .. I don't know .. but I'll happily TGIF if I can go home straight after school.

Next week .. every day we have ICAs/tests/presentations. From Mon til Fri.

MY GOD.

Someone kill me pls =x

To meh readers

Gud morlengs butties!

If chiu are nt from my sch/class ..

I warn chiu nao!

No spam my tagbox! Or i kick chiu ghost lao pa sar

Moi ish dun rikes peepur spamming meh box!

*dont know what I'm saying? check out EDMWers*

P.S: Esp those from HR.

Black Angus RAID @ One Fullerton

Full details below. ^^

Pictures courtesy of Winston, our pro photographer. Siao declined to have his pic taken.

5.40pm saw me and Winston making our way to One Fullerton as the others were coming together in a group. By 6.30pm, the rest had arrived (John and Francis would arrive later):



Us at Black Angus. From right to left in a loop:

Valkrin (Eliza), Ophelilia (Michelle), JuzAngel (Jaslin), Viv (Adrian), Viv's GF (Vivian), Viv's sister (Fiona), Xen and his wife, ZmojaZz (Raymond)

The couples:



ZmojaZz and his wife, Ophelilia (Raymond and Michelle) Surprisingly she's glowingly beautiful, you wouldn't guess she'd just had her baby gal not too long ago



from right to left:

Viv, his sister and his gf (Adrian, Vivian and Fiona)



Xen and his wife, LaMonarque

We ordered the Wagon Wheel Combo Platter to start with, then different variants of fish and beef, with drinks and soup to top it off. (not gonna post pics of the steaks, they look the same to me) Eating, chatting, enjoying the atmosphere took up most of our time til 8.30pm, where we called for the bill (a whooping $491.50) and headed to Funan IT Mall's IAH Games cafe to play GE in their respective cars. Jaslin had to bring Purplestorm coz he wasn't familiar with the place.

About 8 more joined us at McDonald's eventually (playing GE was scrapped) for chit-chatting. Drinks was on moja! :D But I was full from my meal so I didn't drink anything:



From right to left, in a loop:

Valkrin (Eliza), Xen's wife, Xen, Granaldo (partially hidden), SoulFate, Ophelilia (Michelle), Viv's sister (Fiona), Viv's GF (Vivian), Viv (Adrian), madjerk, ZmojaZz (Raymond), JuzAngel (Jaslin), PurpleStorm (Wei Long)

The boys against the wall: (from right to left)
Guitoo (John), cyctoo (Francis), HouseOfLou (Gerald)

We wrapped things up around 10 pm plus, and went home. Fun and good! Wouldn't mind having another outing like this. ^^

Teaser!!

Ytd happily went out for dinner. Then, mood kena spoiled by Yan Zheng. WTFBBQ.

I FKING HATE MARKET RESEARCH. BUT I HATE SURVEY FORMS MORE.

Will post complete details once I get all the pics from Winston.

Meanwhile, some teaser pics:




















Me at home.




















The menu's front page. See that huge juicy piece of steak? Too bad i can't eat beef =x















Black Angus @ One Fullerton.
















My meal: Fish Fritters (fish fillet with coleslaw) I loved the fries but couldn't finish it coz I had too much iced lemon tea.

Today was really .. draining.

Met up with Winston and Jaslin for lunch at 1.30pm, where they tried out Gecko's fares. We sat there talking about everything under the sun, then at 3 plus pm we decided to go visit Guitoo (Jon) at NCS, but got drenched on the way there coz it was pouring.

He came out to meet us and we sat at the cafeteria with our drinks (I got choc, Jas lemonade?) on him :D. Made a move at about 4 plus, and caught a cab to AMK Hub. Reached at 5pm, then we two gals went browsing for clothes, but didn't end up buying anything.

Then, a detour to The Spectacle Hut. The lady at the counter greeted us, and measured my eyes' degree. Only 500 plus in my right eye (tot it was higher? =x) and 300 plus for my left. She showed us a few brands of contact lenses and asked me which one I wanted. They were having a promotion, so a box of I-Shine (which I choose) cost $17 instead of $38. But, if I bought 2 boxes, she would teach me how to put them on and remove them for free.

Not having much choice, I took nearly 2 solid hours trying to wear a pair, then taking them out, and repeating the process. Once. I feel like I'm .. I dunno, hopeless? Or maybe useless .. Jaslin took/put her on with ease while I was blinking like mad whenever the lenses went near my eyes. Not to mention tearing. Bleh. Anyway, I met my mum with my bro on their way to the park when I was arriving home. To cut it short, I'm glad she didn't scream at me or anything. She just said that next time I wanted to do smth like that, I should let her know first.

Ending off with a pic:

Will be going with Winston to AMK Hub to get my contact lenses. But first, he wants lunch @ NYP lols. Let's see who gets mi lu first haha

Today's Customer Relationship Management Call Centre ICA was .. nerve wracking. To me at least, and I was the last person called. Ms Cheung's qns came hard and fast, the rest before me couldn't cope with it too. No wonder they said that all they could say was "sorry" repeatedly. Some of them did very well I think, she gave comments like, "I like your attitude" to Gerald XD and to Thomas she said that he would make a very good call centre staff in future.

As for me, she said I was calm (o_0), which was good. But, I had to speak up louder =x Kaka, gonna have to work on that.

Off to do my ITIPJ part of the report .. but before I leave, here's a few screenshots me and Dan took in-game today:







Currently using the second one for my wallpaper ^^

Ta for now.

Gonna get my contact lenses on Friday. Meanwhile, various projects are still ongoing. And rainy nights and days are cold ..

but I have my honey pot with me. So I have nothing to fear.

Mahal kita, Dan.

I think ..

Its going to be a crazy 2 weeks. Crammed with projects, ICAs and tests. Actually it's already crazy.

But I think I can cope with it.

And I think ..

maybe I WILL get contact lenses. And try to get used to them. And wear them for Saturday.

And I think ..

I'm in love. I think. :D

~he's the sweetest guy on earth~

Went cycling with my dad to have breakfast today, from our house all the way to Blk 123 Yishun Avenue 5. Been a long time since I last went out just with my dad.

Took us about 15 mins to reach, and we ordered kway chap. Snapped this quick pic when my dad was making his order:
















We waited for like 20 mins before our food came. Considering I haven't eaten kway chap for years .. I was disappointed, to be honest. The pig innards didn't taste salty enough, and the soup wasn't that thick to be good tho the colour was dark. *sigh*

Some of my ongoing projects are about done halfway, which I think is good. Speaking of projects, I admit I'm pretty fed up with one of my group mates for my Econs project. We met up on last Sat, and it was agreed that they'd send their parts to me for compiling by Friday. When the day came, I got their parts except for one gal's. Heard from them she was not feeling well so I said we wouldn't meet up later for discussion on the skit, but it would be pushed to next Wed. And I even sent some materials to her to help her along with her part.

She had one WHOLE week to do hers. Even if she couldn't find some figures, she could at least sent the completed parts to me first. Even if she was not feeling well she could at least give some notice that she'd checked her email/hp. Nary a peep from her til today when I got sick of waiting and called her hp. No reply. Sent a sms, she said she was left with the graphs.

I'm really sick and tired of this. There's only so much I can spoon-feed you with figures and stuff, the rest is up to you to do ON YOUR OWN.

Just like the guides/links I post. Information that is already there, some bloody idiots cant be bothered to go and READ, worse still those who did read have to repeatedly answer their qns. Which is annoying beyond hell. So I don't see the point of doing anything anymore. My efforts is just wasted on a bunch of blockheads.

FED UP.

Compiled my econs ppt slides together with the rest. Still waiting for one more member to send me her part.

This is what I had for lunch:
















The Grinning Gecko's Surf and Turf (fish n chips with roasted chicken) for $4 with the drink ^^

And I took 6 hours to finish compiling the hard copy results of our survey for MR research. Wooo I got supa work satisfaction man. Or rather, satisfaction of a job done. :D

Now I can go play to my heart's content~

Our next fac outing's gonna be at Black Angus @ One Fullerton for dinner on 12 Jan ^^

Since got someone sponsoring me, my name's in the attendance list already hehe

I don't really care for beef, but I went to see their menu (no pics) and I've got my eye on:

i) Grilled jumbo prawns
ii) Seafood combo (Shiok ar!!)
iii) Breaded mushroom
iv) Big Mountain Chocolate Fudge Cake (sinfullll~)

they all sound yummy :D

and im suppossed to be the 'official' reporter for the event. So, I'll be taking pics of our VIPs, members, food etc etc and posting them on my blog and maybe on our faction forum too.

Sch-wise .. as usual, its hustle bustle once again as I adapt myself to the lessons of DOOOMMM, waking up early etc. These days I haven't the energy to do much =x But at least I've finished my part for my Mkt Research, and also Econs .. just chasing my other grp mates to send their ppt slides to me.

Ge-wise .. elem is soo fun :D Esp Elemental Strife. So cool, the effects. Now I'll just see if I can buy a vet musk or wiz to experiment with.

Ta for now.

Exclusive update :D

New photo on profile :D >>>

Was the first to arrive at Clarke Quay MRT, waited a bit for Jaslin(JuzAngel) and Ximen (TheCool) to reach, after that, we met up with i-forgot-his-name =x (Guailan) and headed to the Burger King nearby for dinner. Shortly after Winston (Spinelli) reached. I got BK chicken while they got BK Fish. Halfway through the meal, Jerry (Siao) came with his cousin and had dinner with us. We talked and ate til about 8pm, midway i-also-forgot-his-name =x AhPow and his gf Vee Vien made an appearance and then we started walking down to Lunar.

Since Hong (Shineforce) only reserved 2 tables for us, the 7 of us had to share, the ladies sitting and the guys standing. (but they asked me for my IC =x do I look below 18 T_T) So, for the 7 of us to get in without paying for the entrance fee, we had to order 2 premium bottles. Martell, with Coke and green tea as the mixers. Then the live band started performing at 9 plus, by that time people were already streaming into the pub. Susu (Emer), DeusAngelus and his gf, and Ximen's friends popped by. Raymond (ZmojaZz) our Faction Leader said he would come, but in the end didn't coz his baby girl was crying. o_0

Time flew by chatting, drinking, listening to the music, watching vidoes .. playing games .. then at 12am I left for home, and reached home about 1.30am.

Off to bed now, but here's some pics before I go (didn't manage to get pics of us, too dark inside)
top - my shoes ^^ bottom - a pic of me ^^