Food Vs MonEy

alrite.. it's the last day of the month. next wk there's a public holiday. yeah! v happy :) and looking forward to payday. hehe..

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ok.. tt time i mentioned abt me spending too much on food. let me recall wad were the food i ate.. haii..how guilty. last last fri met up cousin mich and had pepper lunch and xingwang for dinner. then the next day on sat, i went eat pepper lunch again with hubb. and ... we were ushered to a 2-person table after we ordered our food. i was aiming at a bigger table when the manager pointed to the 2-seater table. fine...then the food came, and knw wad? the table was not enuff to put the food cuz we actually ordered 3 sets! the manager tot we only 2 person, but he did not knw tt we ordered 3 sets. in the end also had to change to a bigger table, rite? how duh.. and... it was quite weird lorr.. cuz the hotplate was like so darn big.. one in front of me, and the other in front of hubb. then the 3rd one, we placed it beside us as if someone was sitting there. diao.... and.. it was my idea to get an extra set. and in fact, i was the one who ate most out of the 3rd set. i don knw y lorr.. but im so dead addicted to pepper lunch. o man.. im becoming a glutton myself! when did my appetite become so BIG??!!! me myself also feel paisay when there was one hotplate in front of me and another one beside me and i was eating frm the 2 hotplates at the same time. felt like some big fat greedy ass. i bet the pple ard me must be thinking im such a big-eater. diaoo..

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then on monday, hubb came met me after work. went to xingwang to eat the french toast and after tt went to this thai food restaurant at far east to eat. it was like 8 plus going to 9pm le lor.. and we were happily munching on cereal prawns, chicken, claypot taufu and wad's not.wah kaoo.. im so amazing rite?!

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then thurs met up with ah yan and glo and went to this pasta restuarant @ shaw tower. creation's the name of the restaurant. actually quite worth it. $15+ for a soup, drink, pasta and dessert. and the pasta's yummy too. hehe.. but at shaw tower, the one at bugis.. abit the ulu lorr..

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and then last sat, went tried out manhattan @ plaza sing with hubb. not too bad the food. the platter for 2 was like soo darn big lorr.. both of us cannot finish. and the garlic rice... omg.. simply yummy! think tt's gonna be my next craze? hahaha..

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and abt 2 wks ago, we went to this new hk cafe at bugis..wang jiao cafe or something. newly opened de... but.. i wont recommend the food lor...

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yes.. look at the food i ate... and the money i spent on food.. one meal on the average abt $25 ba. not alot... but still.. if $2.50 can make my stomach full, y should i go for $25? but then again.. i've been working hard, wad's with ot, tuition and part-time. so.... not too much to spend a little more on food rite? haii.. don knw y.. i think im getting more and more of a miser. spend little bit also feel the pinch. diaoo..

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but i really should cut down on food le la. maybe once a wk once to "more-ex-food"? haha.. don care la.. don think too much.. as long as i feel like eating, i'll eat. else it's really miserable if after working soo hard, i still cannot get something tt i want.

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and tdy.. i had kfc for lunch. budget for food everyday is $5. totally over budget tdy. boo~ i shall save during the wkdays, and spend during the wkend. yes, tt's the way! mon-fri, eat hawker and foodcourt etc. but sat, ok to eat something more ex. ok, tt shall be the way!

SamMi's ShowMi CoNcErT - 13th Oct 2007

the long-awaited sammi's concert.. mm... actually, it wasnt as great as i thought it would be. she sang the cantonese version for almost all the songs. im not familiar with the cantonese version cuz always listening to the chinese version, so unable to enjoy as much. i tot she'll sing in chinese and spk in chinese, since afterall, not everyone can understand canto in s'pore, but she did not. almost throughout she was using canto.
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and then though we bought the most ex tix.. but we were still sitting quite far away. boohoo.. she came down and shake hand with the audiences lei.. but she did not come to our side. pple bought most ex tic, we also bought the most ex tic... so y the diff in treatment ne?? but there were others who were even further away.. so shall stop complaning.. can only blame ourselves for not buying the tix at the 1st sec it was opened for sale.
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*the audiences*

*the stage*

*sammi!*

*sun yanzi and sammi*


*she's soo charming*

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o.. and then there was no encore. i don knw why.. but nobody bothered to shout "encore" either. i think we assumed tt there will definitely be encore, so nobody bothered to waste the breath. but unexpectedly, there was no encore. we were still sitting and waiting when the stage crew came on and remove the music instruments on stage.

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i will say i was quite disappointed with the concert. it really wasnt as gd as i tot it would be. but i still like sammi nonetheless. she's special. i don like jolin tt kind of bitchy style, neither do i like rainy/cyndi tt kind of yucky sweetie pie. i juz like sammi.. the cool and no-need-to-do-so-many-小动作 style. juz cool lorr... i like!
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*and of cuz.... there's me and my hubb *

and....... finally..... my glutton fatty boy with his ultra big burger (ultra expensive too!) bought at the stadium counter

GuiLT

was watching this cancer charity show juz now. i think im juz weak. i'll cry whenever the patients came onto screen and narrate their encounters. there was this malay guy whose dad's a cancer patient and he himself has spine prob. then he was saying after deducting the medical fees, all that he has left is $159. well.. i don know if tt's true or juz exaggeration for media effects but then.. i started to feel guilty. he mite not be a true case, but i do believe tt there are many pple out there who are living on v little money everyday.

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there are these pple, who r trying soo hard to make ends meet, who are living on sooo little money everyday. and here i am, spending money like nobody business. pple living on $159, yet i could spend $159 on a meal. suddenly i feel soo guilty. recently, one meal easily cost me $20++... yet pple can survive 10 days on tt $20++. it's like... something meant so little to me, yet to others it meant soo much, soo much. it's time to do some self-reflection. been spending too much on food already. this should not be the way. thou i believe in working hard and doting myself.. but my recent spending on food is juz too much.. cant always be doting myself de rite? haii..

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and i cant help but wonder why is heaven so unfair... working in the bank, i see pple using their credit cards to transact >$10,000. in juz one month, they can spend >$10,000 away. how long will it take a common tom dick or harry to save $10k? yet in juz 30days, they spent it away. it's like... why liddat lar?

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so... wad is life all abt? all are human kinds.. so y the discrepancies? can anyone enlighten me?

FoRcEd DoNaTiOns

juz now went out with cousin mich... ate pepper lunch for dinner...yum yum... but then... it's really really heaty... so sizzling hot.. right from the hot plate... worry abt outbreak nw..... diaoo.... after tt went walk ard then to xingwang @ cineleisure to sit and chat. wanted to find somewhere cosy and can sit v long, but apparently everywhere was packed.

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tdy during lunchtime, colleagues went off to look for seats 1st while i went to the toilet. was walking alone to meet them when this guy came up to me. he was holding this donation bag. out of nowhere, he appeared and specifically "target" me. so bobian, i took out some coins. he was talking abt something while i was digging my coins so i couldnt really catch him. then when i wanted to drop the coins into the bag he said "sorry 小姐,我们真的不可以收 coins 的.最少要十块钱..............." i was like... stunned lorr.. must at least be 10bucks??? super diao... then i used my hand to signal tt i wont be donating.. and the guy sd "真的没有ahhh??".... and he immediately walk off to another "target" when i told him i really dont have...

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wah.... super diaoo..

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it's not tt i dont have lorr..... pls..... don make me sound so pathetic.. but then... y should there be a min sum? i should have juz questioned him.. wad kind of charity is this? charity should be up to individuals de rite? should come frm the heart de rite? give how much also can de rite? every cents also count de rite..so how come min must be ten dollars? it doesnt make sense to me lorr..so there is a price to charity? so charity is juz like all other commodities and can be priced? last time were those pple selling those charity tickets for $2. now $10? seriously $10 is alot lorr. even though it's for charity.. but $10 really abit too much rite? somemore it MUST be AT LEAST $10...wahh... i feel like i was being forced to make donations lor. wad nonsense lorrrr...

VaLuE

bumped into a fren some days ago. some long-ago fren whom i do not really consider we r keeping contact. she clm she lost her phone and hence lost my contact, and so on tt day, i gave her my contact number again. hmm.. tdy i received her call. she said she realised im not in her friendster... then she asked me how's my work, how's everything going on.. then she asked if my bday's coming.. and i told it's actually over. and then she wished me happy belated bday blah blah blah.. and finally, she asked me out. mmmmmm....

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for a fren who never gave me a call to chat before .. for a fren whom during her bday, i sms to wish her happy bday but no one ever reply... for a fren who doesnt keep my hp number for wadever reasons.. for a fren whom i do not and she does not have me in msn... for a fren who doesnt even rem my bday.... i will be ultra surprise if i received her call out of the blue.

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tt is provided if i do not know wad she's doing now on tt day we bumped.

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like all other financial planners, she sd they r different frm insurance agents and she wants to meet up to lemme knw more abt their job scopes.

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mmm.. prev i was offered such job openings as well. and i told myself tt if i ever take up such a job, i will never look for pple whom i never bother to look for b4. i mean.. i will really really feel v paisay if i never bother to contact pple, but when i need their help, i contact them. hmm..

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and it doesnt really feel gd to knw tt pple only remembers u when they want to get something out of u.

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but i guess.. the stress and demand frm the job will fight all the "paisay-ness". i do understand la.. it's ultra impt for them to meet targets and stuff. no deals = no income.. maybe she went through alot of mental struggle and took alot of courage to give me tt call.

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but.. i still cannot deny tt i do feel a little disappointed to knw tt im only remembered when im of usefulness.

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mmmmmmmmmmm....

"DebT"

im soo sorry pple.. for making your eyes suffer for the past few days... was going thru and trying all the backgrd.. but none seemed to be gd. i did not really settle for tt backgrd, but somehow, the com became v slow and i was too tired to continue, so i juz shut off, leaving the backgrd like tt. heheh.. now much better le ba? hehe..

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ok.. these few days.. been giving treats... treated ma and pa 2x (cost me over $200!). then treated soh soh. then ian chow, my ex-boss. and uncle lek, the colleague who gave me a top for my bday. all the "ren-qing" debt more or less settled le ba? hasnt got a chance to treat sis, bro-in-law, and bro though. time to organise a family dinner. been quite a long time since we had one outside. but then, maybe next mth ba.. cuz this mth's budget almost hit liao. hahahha... sad, isnt it? but then it's a relief to knw tt pple whom i owe treats r being attended to and tt all the major expenses like monthly household contributions and hp bills alr settled. phew! load off my mind.

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on sat went to sammi cheng's concert. will blog abt tt later. now tired liao lol~

o.. and im so dead worried nw. cuz tt day.. i was curious on surfing the net using my phone and so, i actually tried going to the net using the hp. gosh... i wonder how much tt will cost me. i sincerely do not know tt it's gonna be ex. i remembered i couldnt really reach the webpage. but the searching took a long time. will they charge me? o man... last mth's hp bill alr exceeded my "expected amt to pay for hp bill". don tell me this mth also the same?! ahhhhhhhhhhh... maybe i should juz go back to my good old "totally-no-special-functions" nokia phone. im soo dead meat. i remembered reading on the papers tt one guy got charged for over thousands or hundreds of dollars cuz he surfed something tt is 1GB. shit.. i hope i will not faint upon seeing the bill. shit! shit! shit!

ProDucTiViTy RePorT

sian, the productivity report for sep came out alr. and... i did not perform as gd as i tot. and among the 3 of us, i was the last. wad the... i sincerely tot my results will be quite gd de... in the end.. haii.. rather disappointed.

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or rather.. im bu fu qi. frm the report, i think my performance is better than them lorr.. but how come.. the overall, final percentage, im lower lei? time to analyse how they arrived at the final score and what are the impt factors. must improve on those factors tt carry heavy weightages and which are within my control. i must jiayou jiayou jiayou!

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and... i suspect they played punk lorr.. as in.. did something to enhance their productivity. but im not v sure. but if they really did.. then i think it's super unfair lor. i work hard, did ot, yet did not perform as well as them cuz i law-by-law never play punk. wad the... but then again, 公道自在人心... if they really played punk, sure someone will discover and expose them ya?? and somehow, the results will show tt they played punk and did not follow the procedures, rite? tt's wad i always believe.. but then.. if tt is really the case, then how come their performace still better than me ne? it's an undeniable fact. they really did better than me. y lei?

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so.. maybe i should juz stop being 循规蹈矩.maybe i should juz follow wad they do. do it the smart way, rite? if u cant beat them, join them! ya.. tt's the way.

BlaCk FriDaY

On friday, early in the morning, my head came over and asked me over to her desk for a talk. mm... and i tot it was some good news.. but apparently it's not lor.. she was asking how come so late le, i still hasnt logged into the system to start work. diaooo...... every morning, i wil do the waivers and stuff b4 i start work for the day.. but friday, she suddenly came over and ask. and the worse thing was, guess wad was i doing when she came over and asked me over? i was smsing lorrrr.... *** faint****

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all the while i was doing waivers. juz b4 i start, i wanna reply a sms... and juz at this mmt, she came over.. haii.. so suay ... when i was busy at work, she doesnt come over. juz when i was smsing, she saw everything. boo ~ real bad impression.

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at 1st i was v disturbed. wad wld she tink? she must be thinking im a dead slacker. and y she only asked me lei. is it my performance not gd? but later, it was a consolation to knw tt she did not only question me. a few others she also questioned. but apparently, she purposely came over to ask me over for a talk while for the others, i think she only shun bian asked them when they happened to walk pass her. does it mean anything? does it mean im more problematic, tt's y she had to personally come over to talk to me? haii.. time to watch my backside and work harder liao.

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tdy, sunday, finally a day when i do not need to work. hmm staying at home can rest, but it also means wasting time and not earning money. cuz at home also nothing to do. anw, for this mth, i'll be working alternate sundays. nw am contamplating whether to work on the 3rd sunday when initially i told them i don wanna work.

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anw, took this chance to take pa and ma out for dinner. treated them to mouth restaurant at chinatown point. none of us tried b4.. and yep, the food's great. and... hehe.. took pic of this grandest dish for the day..

~双头鲍鱼~simply yummy~

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actually i was expecting something bigger. one small piece alr took up abt half the cost of the whole meal. but once in a while, is ok la. hopefully there will be one day, when i am financially strong enuff to treat each of my family member to one. yes, one each. hahahaa.. ok.. that aim will be my motivation to work harder!

ThE NeW CoLLeAgUe

i dont knw when he came.
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maybe a few days ago... but.... i only noticed him tdy.
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he's sooo extraordinary.
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tt blue denime jacket..
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tt kind of 眼神...
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the kind of attitude....
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man...
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and....... he smokes...... in the office..
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simply attitude!
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tt's my new colleague. he's simply gorgeous, isnt he??

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JuVeNiLe DeLinQuEnTz

was on the bus way home today when i met these 2 "cannot-make-it" teens. 2 guys, sitting on the seat in front of me. they looked like sec 2 or 3s.... but their behaviour were worse than a pri sch kid.

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they were punching each other and playing ard. not really punching, but that kind of playful punching. then kept using vulgar language. kept pushing and kicking. and when one of the guys wanted to alight, the other guy purposely blocked his way and the guy who kenna blocked stood on the seat in the attempt to get his way out! literally stood on the seat lor!

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it's simply omg lor.these acts.. i only remembered seeing pri sch kids doing. and kids also wont play till their extent lor. and they r not kids lor! man... it's terrible. i think a monkey can behave better than the 2 of them. totally no shame at all. they simply do not know how ugly they looked in the eyes of normal pple like me.

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tt day was on the bus when i saw this ah lian. she's yet another one. so young yet the behaviour was.... totally omg. acting like some hooligan, spouting vulgar language, kicking and beating the ah bengs frens ard. a gal lei.. o man.. and the way she talked.. aiyohhhhhhhhhhhh.......................

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i feel really sad for these teens out there. isnt there anyone to tell them wad's right and wad's wrong, wad should be done and wad should not? doesnt the sch teach them anything? doesnt their family teach them anything? these lost souls... they r really pathetic.

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or maybe im the off one. it's generation gap. tt's how the teens behave these days and im too old to understand. but i will be very worried if our future generations are made up of pple like tt. haii.. don know wad to say..

LaSt QuaTeR

it's october! woo.. entering the last quarter of the yr le. it's daaaaarrrrnnnnnn FAST!!!!

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tmr a new colleague will be coming. heard juz graduated frm poly de. haii.. juz grad frm poly.. so should be ard 19 or 20 yrs old? kao... so fast and i lose my "youngest-in-the-dept" status. arggh!

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last time, im always the youngest and the "xiao-mei-mei"... nw...somehow, there will always be someone younger. juz like at JUST .. so many temp staff who r younger than me. my turn to call pple "xiao-mei".... boohoo~ not fun !! I DON LIKE THAT!

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2 more wks to sammi cheng's concert. hehe.. great anticipation!