LuNaR SeVenTh

it's the last day of the month! tmr can turn the calender again le. hahaha..

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and... such coincidence tt 1st day of aug = 1st day of lunar seventh month.

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ok pple, don stay out too late. better go hm early and sleep early yeah!

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Im really tired......
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cant hold out any longer...
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PoliTics

looks like my blog is becoming more and more like a weekly update than anyting else.

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o well.. @ work, things are getting more and more complicated. or maybe, im the one who's again, thinking too much. i don know if it's consider politics... but..... im juz starting to wonder y are pple telling me things.. it's also strange how im becoming more and more like one of the politicians.. all along, i always listen and seldom comment and even if i do, it'll be something netural.. but now.... o well.. wad is becoming of me??

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like wad i say in the prev prev post, it's time to shut up... but.... hard as i try not to be involved, pple are juz continuing telling me things... i wonder what is the intention.. i wonder if what they said is true.. i wonder who is the real 'gd guy'.. i wonder wad pple thinks...i wonder what is going on.. i wonder..i wonder..

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mmmm... but like wad hubb said, unless i hear it myself, i should remain neutral. but.... if i really hear it myself, then tt person gonna be careful. im never someone who will suffer silently. better watch out..

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o well... see? very politics hor? haii... i'm starting to divert away frm my happy-go-lucky aim. i juz want to go to work at the rite time, slowly do as much as i can,own time own target, and knock off at the rite time. but now, it's somehow getting more and more competitive. "slowly do as much as i can" and "own time own target" no longer stand. now is "do as fast as i can" and "own time management's target". ahahhhhh!!!!!

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okay.. relax relax... i don wanna be bothered by all these nonsense le lar. juz put in the best in doing wad i should do can le rite????????????????????? so.. it's time to STOP WONDERING!!!!

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一切完美

只要包容不完美, 一切就会变得完美

very true..... but how much imperfections can one tolerate??? and to what extent to tolerate?

last time the saying was '世上没有丑人只有懒人'.... now the saying is '世上没有丑人只有穷人'....

it's really interesting to know what the power of money can do.

will there be a day whereby money becomes 无所不能 ???????????

WeEk

as of previous post, on wed, i raised the concerns i had with the 2 superiors. basically, i felt tt my ability and effort werent accurately reflected by the productivity reports. long story, but after the talk, there were some changes made. though it's still not totally fair, but at least, it's fair-er. or rather, i hope it's fair-er. anyway, shall c how it goes. and of cuz, since the changes were being made, i must show some improvements. previously i can say it's not measured fairly, but now, i cant say tt much le. so... i hope i werent slapping my own mouth. but then again, if the result is not gd cuz i really did not perform well, then i got nothing to say. but if the result is not gd cuz of the flaw in the assessment system, then i really cannot diam diam and let it be. it's only right to voice out if it bothers me so much, right? anyway, i have confi in myself. i really think i can perform if it's not due to tt flaw in the system. yup. jiayou.

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on the night tt same day, went durian session with my colleagues. though durian is not gd for me and i really shouldnt be touching any, but... it's the durian season lei..... how not to miss? and so, we went for dinner then durian. lol~ think my dept is lacking in this kind of bonding session. been there for almost a yr le, but i remb only one time whereby an outing was organised. and, tt organiser had left the co le. so i guess, besides him, no one else will bother to organise anything for the whole dept to participate le. it's quite sad actually. i wonder if tt's the norm in companies. i tot it's usual for the whole dept to go for dinner, to go chill out, to r&r... so how come no such activities here? weird... but anyway, within the few of us, we kidda agree on once-a-mth outing after work. lol~ c how it goes ya.

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on fri met up with dear jennifer. one of the very very few jc mates im still in contact with. must really put in effort to retain all these frens whom i've met in the diff phases of my life. they r pple who have grown up with me, who have known me for years... so.... cant let them go. :) coming sunday meeting another batch of jc mates. looking 4ward. last met them was last aug?? lol ~~~~

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@ work, i think it's time to juz keep quiet and work. i think recently, i've been talking too much and making too much comments le. really shouldnt be tt way. afterall, u don knw if wad u say is going to affect anyone, so i tink, i better diam diam and juz listen and not comment.

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UnfariNess

I received unfair treatment at work.

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till the extent tt im sooo fully demoralised and imbalance.

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i am so going to reason it out with the superiors tmr.

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they better give me reasonable and satisfactory explanations.

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ok..... say till soooo garang......

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let's juz hope i've got enuff courage to voice out my concerns and raise the issues tmr.

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yes. im so gonna confront them tmr!

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enough is enough.

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it's time to stop suffering silently and pitifully !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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it's time to stop all the unjustice!!!!

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it's time to fight for wad i deserve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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met up with ah min and wl tt day... went ate at sakae sushi @ hfc and after tt dessert at bakerzinn. i think we r simply sinning away at barkerzinn.... the amt of choco and suger we consumed... woowahhh! but it's really super shiok lar. nothing beats eating with pple with the same taste buds.. 正所谓, 话不投机半句多,久逢知己千杯少. lol! after indulging ourselves, went chatting outdoors. chatted till 12am plus.. long long time since we did something like tt. if not for the fact tt still gotta wake up early tmr (and fat boy's constant sms niao-ing me for going hm so late, dammit!), i guess we could have chatted till even later.

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ytd did another crazy stunt. went with fat boy to chinatown. went ate the steamboat there. it's tt kind of yuan-yang pot and the 2 soup bases we chose were tom-yum and 麻辣! stunner ~ tom yum is my all-time fave w/o which, steamboating is crap. as for 麻辣, it was hubb's choice as he never tried b4. yummy, no doubt. but the price tt we paid for, besides the $ literally, was this weird feeling in the stomach tt couldnt go away. i think too spicy liao ~ now suffering frm constipation. lol ~

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but tt's not the stunt tt we did. after steamboating, we went ktv frm 9pm-3am! ai sey! i've not been to ktv since v-day and there's this craving to sing. actually, the k-lunch package is most worthy, but hubb couldnt make it cuz of his tuition sessions. night singing is super ex, we wanted to forgo de, cuz initially, the deal was from 9-12am. but after seeing our hestitation, the person offered us 9pm-4am. then the 2 carrot-cakes kenna the trap and accepted the deal. and hence we k like mad.... sang many songs tt i did not try b4. u know... saving the best for the last is not always the rite thing to do. i left many sammi's song at the back, but by the time, im already too sick to sing. in the end, ironically, did not sing many of sammi's song. we sang till the marginal utiltiy is zero or perhaps even negative. i almost fall asleep in the rm! hence, though the package was till 4am, we surrendered at 3am. phew ~ no more such stunts man.. all was quite well, until we went home and the idiotic boy did something tt pisses me off! or rather, it was something tt he DID NOT do tt made me so angry! urghh!!!! u better remb it and no more nxt time as u said it urself !!!

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ok, lastly, should have blogged on this long time ago... anthony's solemnisation! wahahah.. held at marina mandarine hotel. it's really a grand hotel. i guess one of the grandest i went, if not the grandest~

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with the groom
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my dearest uni mates
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the choco cake is simply yumilicious. melts in ur mouth! ask xh!!
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han and me ~

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jas and ah yan

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ah yan and me

ok, i know im xtra.. trying to act like im holding on to some plaque

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the interior of the hotel
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and finally, with the bride and bridegroom.

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congrats anthony! ur starting the nxt phase of ur life. all the very best!!!!!

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and so... who's next??? mm.. and i tot we juz went for each other's 21st bday party not too long ago~~~

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FeeLiNgZ

suffering from depression for the past few days.. suddenly felt the emptiness in me.. also doesnt knoe y... i guess it's job-related.. somehow work is no longer giving me the satisfaction tt i once had. or maybe my expectation is no longer the same.. or maybe im no longer the same.. or maybe i still hasnt got over it. i guess i have stressed myself too much. aiming to hit the targets, aiming to OT excessively... aiming to achieve this and that... till i got myself sick and drained, both mentally and physically. the 2 days mc din really make me feel better. in fact, it kinda got me worse, till i don wanna go back to work anymore. perhaps going on a long break is a gd idea. perhaps i should stop trying to push myself so hard, to stop trying to prove myself so hard. o well.. i don know...shall juz c how..

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some good news to share. i passed my FTT! yeah ~ everything is going juz the way i want it to be. all thanks to the v efficiency learning centre tt hubb intro me. juz a call and the person-in-charged got me a test date, an instructor, the schedule for my lessons etc. woohoo~ tt's the kind of efficiency i want! so, my test date will be on 29 dec (if nothing goes wrong, pray!). 1st lesson will commence on 17 aug. again, if nothing goes wrong, i will be able to get the licence this year as planned ! woohoo! but tt is of cuz, if i don fail the test. i will try hard de !

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okay, something interesting to share..... courtesy of ah ji.. lol~

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do not use too much time to think of the qn. ans them asap!

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Very tricky math! Note: This must be done in your head only. Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it :

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Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000> > Now add 10. What is the total?

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Scroll down for answer

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Did you get 5000?

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The correct answer is actually 4100.Don't believe it? Check with your calculator!

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Another interesting one....

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There is a mute person who wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing one's teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself?

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He just has to open his mouth and ask, so simple!

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lol~ one last one.... u'll be stunned..

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Count every ' F ' in the following text:

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FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE

SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI

FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH

THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

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HOW MANY ? WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke. READ IT AGAIN ! Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.

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The brain cannot process 'OF'.

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Incredible or what? Go back and look again!! Anyone who counts all 6 'F's' on the first go is a genius.

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i fell for all 3 questions.... haa.... interesting how the brain works yeah.

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one last findings:

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Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on !!

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Destinated? Or in ConTroL?

on mc for the past 2 days... sore throat, cough, blocked nose, headache................... and...... reluctance to go to work !!

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was playing with little tricia when some thoughts came to my mind. actually, all of us started from the same starting point. be it the whites, the blacks, the chineses, the malays, the indians, the diff nationalities, the diff racials........ all of us... all of us on earth, started off being a little baby. we all started at the same starting pt, but how come each and every one of us has a diff path to take?

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some pple are good at studying. frm young they excel academically and their routes are more or less towards the brighter side. with the scholarships, they become high-fliers and eventually, leaders in their own industries. examples will be pple like our political figures, doctors, lawyers etc. some pple do not excel academically, or maybe do not even possess paper qualifications at all, but they still can earn big bucks. examples will be those v famous hair-stylists, artistes, hawkers etc. some pple r gd looking, then they can become celeb or models or such.. some are not gd looking, but also can become celeb.... most will become commoners like u and me. or at least, me.

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on the darker sides, we have the drug addicts, the rapists, the murderers, the terrorists, the ah lians, the ah bengs, the gangsters, the hopeless.....................

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some pple r rich, some r poor. some r gd looking, some r not. some can excel academically, some cannot. some can excel in life, but some r simply stuck. some r kind, some r evil and wicked. some r healthy, some are unhealthy. some r fat, some r slim. some are smart, some are dumb. some are normal, some are abnormal.

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the pt is.... if all of us started from the same starting point, y then are there so many different destinations and outcomes??? y then are there pple who are on the bright ends, while some are at the dark ends???

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是先天的条件,还是后天的努力??? isit all predestinated??? or issit not?? wad determines wad route one will take??

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looking at tricia, i wonder wad will she be like in future. wil she become someone smart and successful?? or will she be pretty and become famous celeb?? or will she become an ah lian and hooligan? can she control her path? does she have a choice as to which path she wants ? is anyone in control of her path?? if no one is in control, does tt mean, it's destinated???

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can anyone understand wad im trying to say? can anyone get me?? can anyone answer me?

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Sat ~

introducing to all my female frens out there (ie, if you still havent know), the combat rations of our saf guys! long heard how yucky they taste... but then.... how yucky can 'yucky' be right??? and so my dearest boy brought 2 packets back for me to try after his ICT. lol~ according to him, he'll rather eat so-da-pian than the rations. bro was ard when hubb came over ytd, and i showed him the food asking 'doesnt this look familiar?' and the 1st reaction he gave me was 'eeee'... ~ haha ~ issit tt horrible?? let me give my 2 cents worth ~

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very nicely and compactly packed. comes in 2 packets. one is the main pack and one is the side. basically the main pack includes 2 main meals (as the name goes..) and a packet of dessert. the one tt hubb bought back for me was pasta with chicken and glutinous rice with rendang chicken. actually got a menu de.. i guess diff days diff food ba... looked thru it, not too bad one leii.. as for the side pack, consists of biscuits, various drinks satchets, solid fuel, tissue papers etc.
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tt's the chicken pasta! hahahaah.. it's really interesting how they can pack the food into these packets and enhance the shelf lives to a few years.. no plates or wadsoever... juz eat straight from the pack... it's quite creepy to eat directly from the pack... juz feels very weird to eat main course like tt.... and..... it's even creepier to know tt the food was cooked some yrs back~ the tot really spoils the appetite ~

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but if you pour it out on a plate, it actually looks okay. juz like normal pastas. the taste also not tt bad lar. juz tt the pasta a little soggy and soft and the chicken too dry ~ but the more u eat... the more 'weird' u feel... i guess i know wad 'yucky' meant le la. but then again, which food will not be yucky if you eat alot of it???? hmmmm ~

maybe try the glutinous rice later. heh~ all in all, not tt bad lar.. juz tt the psychological part a bit hard to overcome. eating something tt has been cooked quite some time back... tt tot is a bit hard to digest. i wonder wad kind and how much preservatives are in there ~~~~~ but really interesting lar.. wad more to expect? got main course, got drinks, got biscuits, even tissues also included.. really v thoughtful le ~

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went watch The Incredible Hulk with hubb ytd... if i remembered correctly, the last movie we watched tog was I am Legend. ha ~ eons years ago yeah? no good movies lately leii.. if not for hubb insistence, i wouldnt want to watch Hulk either. quite a crappy movie... seeing 2 huge monsters fighting ....... haii ~~~~ like i say, im never a fantasy person... too practical and realistic i guess. i can never appreciate movies like Lords of the Rings, Harry Potters, Star Wars etc... the kind tt needs a lot of imagination and v far-fetched from real. unfortunately, most block-busters are tt kind of movies.. i guess i can only go for 小品 like comedies or more 'real' movies ~

watched the movie at cathay cineleisure. usually we will go to GV, but this time round, cuz of the free tix, we went watch at cathay. din realise the wide varieties of munchies tt are sold at cathay. seemed to me cinemas r no longer juz a place to watch a movie. we ordered a pizza which was good enuff to be a meal for 1 person. perhaps, in future, cinemas can also sell chix rice, mee siam, laksa and such so tt u can eat and watch at the same time. ha ~ ok, think too much liao ~

our pizza! brought in to us by the vendors slightly after the movie started. hot and yummy!! it's actually quite big, but the pic made it look small.

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tt's me and my hubb in the cinema! din realise my phone has the flash light function only until recently. to think tt im holding on to the phone for almost a yr le!!! tech-idiot, tt's me. the flash quite powerful yeeah, ultra dark also can capture ~ hiak ~~

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End of Mid-yR

yeah! finally completed the 12th OT for this month! im soo sooo proud of myself ~ woohoo~ but no more 12 days pls.... it's toooooo tiring! on average is 3 days per wk. will die.

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june is coming to an end... we are entering the 3rd quarter of the year! it's juz sooo scary~!!! coming august will be my 1st anniversary with the bank le. omg ~

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really super tired... better slp early, enjoy the wkend, and welcome the new month next wk ~ jiayou!!!!!!!!!

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FaThErs' DaY + DaY Out wiTh TriCia

fathers' day this year was spent at Nana Thai restaurant at Far East Plaza on 14 June. my suggestion to go there... wide variety of food, reasonable prices... i will strongly recommend~
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~the wei da deddy who shaved his hair so tt he can accompany the little gal in the 'hair-growing process'. lol~

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and as mentioned, today im on leave. it's really funny. on days when i have to work, how i hope i can juz sleep on and on and on and ignore the alarm clock. but tdy, when i do not have to work, abt 8+ i woke up already. haii~ wad a waste.
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i think i juz need a job tt will allow me to sleep till 8.30am. no need till too late. 8.30am will be ideal :)

anyway, took the little tricia out today. went to meet ah ji for lunch at her workplace @ harbourfront. ma and soh soh went too. hiak hiak hiak~ settled at dragon gate for dim sum. after tt shopped for a while jiu went home le. fun experience. sis has this carrier tt is something like a school bag. you juz need to secure the baby, and then can carry the baby ard like how you will carry a school bag. can be quite tiring and aching after carrying for a while though. but tricia is suuucchhhh a darling. sooo cooperative. sooooo cuuutteee !!!

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~at the restaurant~

~bleah!~

~see?? she loves me!!!~

~cheeze!~

but it's quite weird lar. cuz i think pple will think tt the baby is mine. i wouldnt want pple to misunderstand and talk behind my back ohhh.. heheh ~

and little tricia can now turn on her own and lie on her belly le. crawling wil be next and slowly, she'll be able to stand and walk le! yeah ~~~ then she'll be more fun to play with le. hiak hiak :)

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GroWinG Up

today is the last day of the june hols. nothing to do with me, doesnt affect me.... but somehow, happened to realise something out of it.

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was listening to the radio ytd and this gal called in and mentioned that she's rushing the holiday homework. then the deejay said in the past, during the hols, he'll also play during the early part of the hols and wait till the last min then cheong the homework. then they both agreed tt 'all students are like tt..'

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true. 谁何尝不是呢? in the past, when i was still a student, there's no planning at all. it doesnt matter how much homework there were, all can wait till last minute. it doesnt matter last min can finish or not, juz wait till last min, tt's it. but now, i know how to plan. FTT is in early July, but i have already started studying for it. becuz i know last min definitely cannot finish. i have learnt how to stagger things out, so tt things tt need to be done are not all sqz together till the v last min, but slowly completed bit by bit.

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when i was young, whenever i cannot remember the spelling words, i will get super worrried and start to cry. whenever i forget to bring something to school eg work books, i start to panic. whenever homework cannot be completed, i start to be stress. whenever i cannot understand wad is being taught, i start to get upset. whenever fren A is closer to fren B than me, i will feel tt fren B is snatching my frens....... it never occur to me tt i can talk and explain to the teachers, i can open my mouth and ask the teachers, i can reason with the teachers.... i can slowly take things one at a time.....and tt all are frens, nothing such as snatching my frens.....

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when i was young, i remembered making donation calls without consulting my parents and for the whole period of time, i was soo worried, unsure of how to fork out the money tt i have donated....

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if you ask me do i want to go back to being a child, i will say no. many envied being a child and hoped they can go back to being a child with nothing to worry abt. but for me.... i really don think so. i think for myself, i have more things to worry abt when i was a child than im now. being a child is too helpless. even forgetting bringing a book can cause anxiety. being a child is too vulnerable. even very small matter can also worry alot.

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i can only say tt i enjoy growing up. i enjoy the autonomous, i enjoy being able to make my own decisions, i enjoy having purchasing power and i enjoy knowing how to handle situations and emotions. i'm now possessing sooo many things tt i did not possess when i was a child. things tt bother me alot when i was a child became a piece of cake. juz like how the mole used to bother me.... now tt im older, juz $150, and my prob was solved.

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im soo glad to be a grown-up. im so glad to feel the maturity in myself growing. many things come with age... and i truly thank myself for growing up ~

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BoReD

hubb is having ICT... it's a bored bored sat at home... actually also not tt bored lar. woke up, ate, study FTT, nap, dinner, tv, net, shower, back to FTT then slp......................... even when slacking, time also passes sooo fast ~

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taking leave on monday. time to take a break.

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anyway.... feeling v down ~ think suffering from PMS again ~ siannnz..

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haiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ~~

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TiReD.....

tdy's supposed to ot de... but too tired... decided not to. actually this mth quite mad, cuz me and colleague actually aiming to ot 12 days which means on average is 3 days per wk. wahhaha ~ super zaii rite?? maybe tt explains my tiredness. but nonetheless, will still work towards the goal. i need the money!!!!!! wahahah ~~~

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think it's time to take some leave and take a break. tot of going away for a while. but where? hmmm...

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BuSy WeeKeNd

wad da hell am i doing here so early in the morning?? i should still be sleeping or sitting on the sofa comfortably watching tv... it's a SAT morning leiiii!!

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but.. no choice.. too many things to do this wkend. later going out with hubb to buy his ICT stuff... then tonite will be father's day dinner... tmr even more busy, 2 weddings to attend. actually 1 is solemnisation @ marina mandarine... the other is wedding dinner @ novotel.. lucky the timing doesnt clash.. go for the solemnisation 1st then after tt to the dinner. i wouldnt want to miss either one! but then... y so qiao on the same day ne???? if diff days then i can enjoy more, no need to rush and can eat more.. hahahhahah.. anyway solemnisation is for my uni fren, anthony.. he's only 2 yrs older?? and already settling down... so scary.. as for the wedding dinner, is for my colleague at work.. all the v best!!!!

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actually even with so many things on, i also don need to wake up so early de rite? the darn thing is.... i was the 'secretary' for the last dept meeting and now, i have to churn out tt bloody minutes!!! argghh ~ how suay... juz when my wkends r full of programs, im stuck with a report.. when im sooo free on wkends, i got nothing to do. wad irony.. worse still, i still have a whole lot to read up on my FTT.... only 2.5wks left.. considering whether to defer it or not.. i don wanna go unprepared.. "when u go unprepared, u are prepared to fail"... wah, lihai ba..?

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anyway, should have used office time to do the minutes.. but.. too engrossed in hitting the targets le.. so no choice, have to bring home to do.. haii... really don like the idea of having my personal time eaten up by work stuff.. i guess im not cut-out to be a nu qiang ren.. or rather, the pay doesnt justify. o well, im digressing.. every meeting will change secretary, it'll be a long time till it's my turn again. so, doesnt matter. juz once in a loooong while... should not complain so much over such small issue.

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ok.. going to eat breakfast 1st b4 i start on the minutes. hope can finish it soon. the meeting was last wk monday... gonna churn it out soon else the bosses will be questioning me le! cannot let tt happen!!!!!

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o yeah, and tis busy wkend is gonna make me missed the zhong yi da ge da and the finals for the wei wo du zhun.. though the latter will have repeat (and no guarantee tt i'll get to watch), but the former no more repeat le!! argghh, y are all gd programmes sqz in this wekend????

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SeeiNg

tdy went eat with hubb at the hawker centre @ chinatown... sitting at the table beside us was an uncle with a young lady. didnt occur to me.. but hubb said he should be those peh-peh with nothing but cpf $ and time. anyway.. it din bother me.. so we juz ordered the food and eat lorr..

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halfway thru the meal, a man suddenly walked towards tt couple. i noticed the man cux he was sitting at the table in front of me all the while. he wasnt anything special, so i tot he juz sat there to take a rest, until he walked over to the couple. and..... he actually asked the couple if he could have the food tt was leftover by them. actually, there really wasnt any leftovers, juz a little bit of horfun left. and he went over to ask if he could have tt bit of food.... at tt pt of time, my tears juz rolled down..... no joke, no exaggeration, no drama... really, my tears juz rolled...

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the peh-peh said there's no more food left. then he told the man to go order the horfun and he'll pay for it.. the man happily went... when the food came, he again asked the peh-peh if he could have tt left-over horfun. the young lady passed the plate over and the man gladly mixed the leftover horfun with the newly cooked horfun and ate. then i overheard the peh-peh asking the man where he came from.. the man then sd he's from indonesia and they started to spk in malay.....

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then, juz b4 the peh-peh left, he gave the man a $10 note. the man then took the other plate tt they left behind and tried to see if there's any meat left.. and the whole plate of horfun, he ate till not a bit left...

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many feelings....feel v sad for the man. he's maybe abt 50+? quite tall, quite gd-built. not shabbily dressed, but can see his outfit is quite old. i saw the desperation in him. after thinking for a while, i tot he mite be a cheat, going ard cheating pple to treat them food.. but then again, he alr got the fresh horfun, y bother to eat the leftovers by strangers? at tt pt, i think he's truly hungry and no $. he's also a human being, with pride and dignity... but yet.. he had to go tt low, to ask pple for leftover food... to eat pple's leftover... i really feel vvvv sad... y is this happening? some pple can have all the luxuries in the world... while some pple cant even afford a single meal... and had to eat food tt is abandoned by total strangers.....

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for those who directly ask pple for $$, they may be cheats. but for the man, i truly feel sorry. 1stly, he did not ask for $. 2ndly, he did not ask for anything except for the food which pple dont want. hence, i think, he's not cheat. wanted to buy him a drink... but did not.. wanted to give him $... but did not... wanted to give him the 2 MARS bar in my bag... but did not... haiii.... im such a failure.. dont even have the guts to help pple...

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as for the peh-peh.. i really admire him. hubb said he got alot of $ wad... true.. but.... so wad? have alot of $ doesnt mean he has to spend on a total stranger rite? i think the peh-peh v magnamious. though small money, but can really c if a person is a person with heart or not... kudos to the peh-peh!

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as for the poor man.. all the v best to him... actually, i also don know wad is he doing in singapore or wad he can do in singapore.. haiii....

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and tdy, went to cut hair. wanted to trim the damaged ends only ... but tt damn woman juz ka-cha my hair w/o anybody biz...! so darn pissed.. i din want so short de... tt woman.. don even bother to ask me.. juz cut and tt's it... arrghh!!!!! there goes my hair which i tried soooo hard to grow.. haiiiiiiiiiiiii

JaPaN DaY 6 & 7 - 16/4/08 & 17/4/08

finally reached the last 2 days of the japan trip. last 2nd day was to disneyland. b4 going, sis kept telling me how fun the disneyland in tokyo is, and perhaps cuz of tt, my expectation was v high. and hence, i will say, im actually quite disappointed when i experienced it myself.

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i will say, it's more or less the same as the one in HK. the themes also quite the same... many said the one in HK is not comparable... but i don feel so leii.. i think it's the same. or maybe, it's not the 1st visit, hence not as fascinated... and as always, the 1st experience will always be more special. hence maybe tt affected my judgement. i think it's a wrong choice to go disneyland. should have gone disneysea instead. the one and only in the world. i still think the guide purposely 'coax' us to go to land instead of sea.... i guess it's easier to bring all of us to the same place and fetch all of us from the same place, rather than some at land, some at sea. o well... wadever.. hopefully next time still got chance then can visit sea.
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basically we only took 2 rides.. the queue is juz toooooo long. queue till soooo sian... we should have used the fast pass once we reached. by the time we decided to use the fast pass, it's still too late le....
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one of the rides tt we rode.. generally the rides are quite kiddish. luckily we tried one thrilling de..but the queuing part is more than enuff to stop us from riding other rides le... so super long..

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the various themes...

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photos with the characters.. many are too hot.. cant even have a chance to go near.. so mostly took with those ulu characters.. better than nothing.. lol~ *

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played this shooting game... cousin esmond is real gd at tt.. marksman.. won us many souvenirs.. tt's us with our score cards.. im the lousiest. neber my flair in shooting games..
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the v beautiful tulips...
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the yummy lunch in disneyland... it's neber easy to order when u cannot communicate with the pple...

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look at the neatly arranged prams.. i wonder y japan is facing the problem of decreasing birth rates.. there are soo many young parents with >1 kids! it seemed to us tt japanese marry early and give birth early and usually, it's more than 1 kid.. if so, how then can there be decreasing birth rates? perhaps, this is only a small part tt we see. afterall, it's in disneyland tt we saw this phenomenon. if we dont see kids, then i think disneyland can close shop liaooo..

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did not manage to catch the fireworks..in summary, nothing v impressive with the tokyo disneyland. to me, it's the same as the one in HK. maybe the one in HK is better.. i think communication plays a v big part.. if u cannot understand the language, it's really v hard to enjoy... so maybe tt's y i think i still prefer the one in HK..

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last day nothing much le. we were brought to this shopping mall to do some last min shopping.. tt's my last lunch in japan.. even the food courts in shopping malls use the vending machine system. u dont order from human beings but from machines.. then they will hand u this device tt is like an alarm clock. when the device sounds, then u go back and collect ur food.. stunned. ~

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our tour guide in japan. someone who always 'warn' us to be on time, to go only straight in and straight out and not turn else we'll definitely lost our way, someone who can be quite crude and too straightforward at times. many complained against him.. but i guess.. i can understand his stress and pressure. ours was a v big grp, with one on wheelchair, and one with walking stick. the itinery was v packed. like wad he said, to us, the itinery is a schedule, but to him and the company, the itinery is a contract. if he fails to deliver wad is in the itinery, we have every right to lodge complains and seek compensation. so seriously, we cant blame him for rushing us, for giving us so little time, for over-emphasizing on being on-time and dont lost our ways etc.. i used to think being a tour guide is fun.. but if u really think deeper, i guess it's one of the worse jobs ever. salut to all tour leaders! o, and i really thank him when we bought the new luggage and had some prob with the luggage. went to the salesperson and as usally, communication broke down! he was the one who helped run in and out of the shop to see how to solve the prob.. can see tt he really did try to help. on tt note, i think he's afterall, quite a nice person.

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the dinner on board.. tt egg was actually the dessert. something like agar agar. interesting ~

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finally back in singapore!

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in summary, i will say i really did not enjoy alot becuz of the many reasons, said or unsaid. basically bought nothing except food, a pair of shoes, and some small souvnirs. am quite glad to come back to singapore at tt pt of time actually. anyway, think it will be quite some time b4 i can travel to japan again le.. so ex.. my bonus almost all gone in this trip.. see how ba.. hopefully the next time i go, i can have a better experience. :)

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