bad experience at natas fair. we were about to make payment when the staff told us that they'd made a mistake on the pricing, and the pkg that we'd wanted to sign up for is in fact, more expensive than what they had initally quoted us.

wtf. wasted my time listening to the itinery. wasted my time making enquiries. wasted my time that could have been spent listening to other packages. made me happy and in the end left me disappointed. urgh!

i juz knew that there wouldnt be such good deals around!

apple holidays/eu holidays. im still thinking if i should lodge an official complaint.

sheer irresponsibility and ignorance to misrepresent and give customers the wrong information!

grrrrrr.

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lunar 7th month has ended! i've refrained from jogging at nite due to the 7th month, now can resume liao. great. well, not being superstitious, but sometimes, somethings are better to be believed than not rite?

and.. i had a fall while jogging this afternn... booohooo... so painful.... :(

i seldom fall down *touched wood*. one bad fall in sec school during a football game had left me with a fractured left arm that will never ever be able to touch my left shoulder again. one fall for bus chasing that left me with bruises on both kneecaps that will never recover. and now this. shucks.

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sunday was spent at natas as said earlier. sat was spent 'chasing star'. hahz, not chase lah, but juz went to take a look at how tavia yeung looks like in real person

she was in sg on sat endorsing sorella products

small and long face. probably only 3/4 of a normal face. and i thought she looks quite artificial and mannequin-like. mm.

then sat nite was to the annual 7th month dinner. mum bid a sack of 25kg rice and a wooden fish while hubb bid a money bag coin bank. lucky lucky huat huat ahh!

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back to work tmr. but juz 1 day before it's holiday again! yeah yeahhh yeahhhhh....

if only this happens every week.. :)

you know how in life, the more you want something to happen, the more it will not happen?

and... as always said ... 希望越大失望越大.....

so i really should stop hoping that something will happen....

and then.... maybe .. it will just happen

haha.

平常心, pls.

WeeKend

met up with ex-colleagues on fri nite for thai steamboat at golden mile complex. the food is not bad, but it's non buffet. and, there's no tomyum soup. as mentioned, steamboating without tomyum soup is total crap. :(

and the staff were quite rude and the service was quite bad. so, it's not a recommended place to steamboat unless u really want to have the 'feel' that u are steamboating in thailand. lol.  and one bad thing about steamboating, is the smell that u bring with you after that! really stinky! esp the hair... the smell like 'trapped' in your hair like that.. eeks.

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sat was spent in suntec/marina. tried out this jap restaurant in marina sq - all about curry.

spot the mistake

the food is not too bad and the pricing is quite reasonable. notice most of the staff are foreign workers and when i asked one of them for tabasco sauce, she totally cannot understand what i was asking for and she asked if i was asking for tomato sauce. when i elaborate further that it's something hot, she asked if it is chilli powder that im asking for  -_-''

 i've got nothing against foreign workers, but i think it's really really bad if the staff cannot even understand simple requests from customers, and i can get super irritated at that. there was once when i asked for drinks, all that person can say is 可乐. when i asked if there's drink A, she said isit 可乐? when i asked if there's drink B, she asked isit 可乐? really what the.....

and... the most classic.. there was once i asked if there's root beer. and the reply - in chinese - was 'no root beer, but got tiger beer, heineken beer...'.

-_-''

till now, im still wondering if she's trying to joke with me, or she really thought root beer is a kind of beer.

haiz. real sad. why is our country becoming like that? really more and more unlike singapore. flooded... with... ***ahemmm****

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after dinner, had bowling at marina sq. im quite into bowling lately.. and i was soo on form ytd! lol.. usually i will score about 70+ points. but ytd, i scored >100pts in both games! in the 1st game, i was levelled with hubb. but in the 2nd game, i acutally won him!! hahahaha

darn proud lah. but 3rd game, i went back to 80+ points. keke. inconsistent. well, will practice more de. bowling is such fun game! :)

HK Day VII

last day.. macau back to hk. breakfast was at macdonald. apparently the shops at senado sq werent open yet.. so had to settle for mac.

views from the ferry terminal. like i said, it was really a miscalculation. we should have just flew back from macau, rather than having to take the ferry back to hk again.......

becuz the flight was in the evening while we were already back in hk in the afternn, i specially booked a room to place our barangs-barangs and at least a place to rest. the room is in mirador mansion and it cost only $29/night.

but it turned out much smaller than i had expected. i suspect, after knowing that we needed the room only to put our stuff, the person gave us a much smaller room. think this room is only for 1pax. imagaine the 4 of us with our barangs! the door can hardly close!!!

after leaving our barangs in the pea-big room, we went for lunch.

and hubb had his duck thigh again.....

it was drizzling the whole day... the folks went back to the room to rest... and me and hubb went to another cha-can-ting after deciding that the room can no way acoomodate the 4 of us.

and then.... it's time to leave ~

all in all, the trip did not turn out quite the way i had wanted it to be. and the folks did not enjoy as much as i had wanted them to be. in conclusion,

1) hk is not a place for elderly on a free & easy trip.

2) no more free & easy trip for my folks. they need E.A.S.Y T.R.A.N.S.P.O.R.T (probably except places where we can self-drive like aussie .. or where cabs are dirt cheap and we can always travel by cabs)

:)

NaTioNaL DaY 2011

happy birthday singapore!

will always be proud to be a singaporean! will always love singapore! (ie... until a point when singapore is no longer like singapore. if u get wad i mean)

and shucks. with the arrival of national day, it also means the end of my break! grrr. 6 days went by just like that!

i seriously havent rest enough!!!!

hahz. very greedy huh.

well well well. back to work again tmr.

shouldnt be greedy.

i've rested enough (self-pyschoing)

time to go back to battle.

and...... these 6days... i did nothing related to job searching.

haiz. i deserve wad im getting now.

since i've done nothing to change it.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Make a good guess what is that?

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im on leave!!! all the way until after national day! hahaahhaa.

yesss!!!

met up with jc mates last friday. had dinner at sun & moon @ wheelock.

my waygu beef sukiyaki.. mmm... i still prefer the beef sukiyaki at ichiban sushi. all time fav there!

this gathering was organised by bee. it's quite rare for her to be the one organising, so when i saw her sms, i already told hubb that there must be something that she wanna tell us.

and true enough... she's pregnant!! my first female friend to get married.. and now my first female friend to enter motherhood!!! gosh! tot we were just cheong-ing for our a-levels not that long ago??!  

with bee, the mama soon to be.

with bee and her husband

hubb and jon

so happy for her. heard zh is getting married soon too. tiannn ahhh..... dont admit old also cannot liao.. gone were the days when we were all in uniforms and mugging away. well... not as if i do mug... but... yeah... long gone were those days.. **nostalgia*

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july was  an extremely fast month. it just weeezed past. so now, 1st day of aug. good, 2 public hols to look forward to!!!!

was at mbs that day and happened to see the ndp rehearsal.

im really impressed with my photography skill :)

think the firework this year is really spectacular. it's coming from almost everywhere! cant catch them all... 

and that day.... the heli flew past my block....

cool huh

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been really tired these days. so much so that i din even want to go out last wkend. yeah, i stayed home both on sat and sun. really too tired liao. and im soo moody at work. it's not that period of the month, but im still moody.. haii.. looks like i really do need a break soon.

who doesnt? all pple around me are going on leaves and im the stupid one who's always around to do the covering.

how balance and sane can one be when most of the time, she's covering others and she's drowning herself with the work of others?!

wtf~