I live my life

simply dun understand why pple kbkp abt their life rather than action to make their life better off.

like as though the more you whine, it will ever get better...

I am a zebra, its either a yes or a no, I can't live in the grey, it makes me uncomfortable.

Call me a control freak, I care less.
Ask and you shall get it, if I don't, I invent one. You probably can't take my behaviour, call me self-centered, but hey, why should I subject myself to your so called righteousness, when you don't even have the answer. I'm not going to sit and wait for things to happen. I take the initiative. I make the first move.

This is my life, I dictate how I should live it. I don't live in your shadow. Even if I fail, its ok, I fall and start again. Take it as an experience and move on, no point dwelling over, its not going to make it go away.

我就是我

the greatest challenge is when your love ones comes into place, thats another story.

I is back....

....to the Lion City.

The Land of Smile didn't changed much, pple are still pretty much smiling... heehee....

The apartment is great!!! worth the $$$

The massage is good only that when they attempt to fold me into half from the back, for a moment, I thought I was flexible, but am afraid not, damn painful sia...

I shall attempt to upload the pix, unless I grew too lazy hohoho...

need I gather the pix from The MAN's antique camera, but first I must figure how to....

after....

....months of chanting.... I'm going for a H.O.L.I.D.A.Y !!!!

nothing to far, nothing not familar...back to the land of smile....

leaving in 24hrs.

ha! I can't believe myyself calling my counterparts asking for work related info so that I can checked out over there....

The MAN is also checking out some work related stuff. sheeeh....

feels good to channel my energy to work. Happy when I accomplish.

well, at least its our first trip together, something new to discover... bad/good? *dunno*

....We won the match! suck it you red devil hahaha.....

1/4 into 2009, thats fast

gone through the unexpected totally made me a stronger.

hey pple, life still goes on as long as you are breathing the air you are polluting...

we are killing ourselves...embrace...

my pre-bday surprise

its indeed an experience at every turn :)

cooking

my every satisfied customer.


swept everything into his tumtum!

The pre-packed cooking mix is the greatest invension! Buy the ingredients and throw everything into the frying pan, and walah, you get delicious, yummy food.

Who say you can't dine lavishly in bad times?

*wave*

I didn't disapper... I'm just very very busy with Christmas Promotion.

This year we have yummy yummy good deals for your Christmas dinner... Be sure to grab a copy of the catalogue. :)

pain pain

my wisdom tooth attack again! *cry*

on the other note, iPhone is hitting store next Friday. :)

learning new things, ramdom & lovey stuff

I was away for fresh beginning training for 2 days. More sort of orientation for newbies. Started off with the boring organization chart, vision, mission etc. The afternoon session was much more interesting. Elites from different department shared with us their fields of experties. How to identify syndicate, food safety rules, housekeeping, how to identify fresh food (useful for a wife-to-be like me *smile*).

Oh by the way, I just shot my first commercial. so exciting! I played of the character for the commercial, so lets see how many of you can recognize me.

THE Man finished his first paper and we went shopping since I finished training early. We bought a pair of rings, nice nice.

And the NDP fireworks was nice. We caught it at Singapore Flyers, nice nice.

shhh!

THE Man is having his exam this month! Do Not Disturb!

on another note, I'm 1 month old in the new place! :)

i'm sick :(

romance in the air

The Man surprised me with cable car dining. Food was surprisingly good, the view was nice, and the company was the most precious.

被心爱的人疼爱是最幸福
你让我觉得我是被天神眷顾
是被天使捧在手心羞羞
感觉上我好像16岁的小女生初恋
因为你我开始学习如何当个女朋友
有从来没有地举动
开始为将来计划
每天都好开心
就算是争论，也拼命地解决
看到你为将来拼命，深深感动我
我们是属于彼此，谁也不能没有谁

happenings of the past weeks...

I know its been a while since I was last in action. Much things had happened.

I left off with studying hard for my last 2 papers. Exam was quite ok, except I forgotten some points during the paper, but whats new. Results were out yesterday, and I scored 1 distinction and 1 credit. :) Finally a distinction in my bag.

I've been making plans to move on from my current job. Instead of diversity, I would like to be more job focus, so back into the job serch scene again. Chances upon this adver, and got the offer after the first round. I guessed my portfolio was a great marketing tool. The package was good, but the best deal is that its food related and my office is only 5mins away from my home :)

I kept my resignation on a low profile side, coz I dun see the need of telling anyone at the HQ, beside my CMO. This is one thing about my office, news travel like a lightning even though you specifically indicated that you want to keep it a low profile. True enough, people start to call and ask me about it. Worse, colleagues who had long left the org got winds about it. I took it like a pinch of salt.

My team at the CMO threw me a farewell lunch, booze session and sing K session. I really missed them. We had team spirit, its a joy working with them. I received so many well wishes and gift from them.

Yummy cupcakes from my techs

Its a 3mth mark for The Man and me. We originally planned for a romantic getaway, but things happened, there were some arguement and tears, but we got over it. I surprised him with a Love Diary. Its a visual presentation of how we met, the places we have been to, my attempts at cooking for him, movies we had watched and the list goes on. Every month we give each other small surprises, its our little way of showing our love.

I had a good 10 days break and I had a To-Do list planned out. I unearthed the tresure I hid in my cabinet and packed them. I had been busy at work and didn't had time to pack my room. Had to KIV them and atten to them when I had time. By doing so I also stopped mama from nagging, because when she can't see them, she wouldn't nag. It was good old memories looking at the year book during sch days, I even found the autograph book during my pri sch days. Can imagine how much rubbish I kept inside my cabinets. So all in all, I packed my clothes department, education department, work department, accessories department includes earrings, necklaces, bags, make ups, shoes and magazines. Suddenly the whole world seems so neat and organized. There are so much empty spaces, time to go shopping!

I got to spend quality time with my parents, something which lacked off coz of work commitements. Mama and I went shopping. Didn't really bought things, coz Princess Fayth was with us, we had to run after her. Either she is a good sprinter or I'm getting old.

I'm 1 week old at my new office. Shockness! Just the HQ alone, the human capacity is at least 50 times my previous CMO. There were a few business units housed under 1 building. I tried to remember as many names as possible during the introduction session. My session with the CEO is both rewarding and task orientated. He specifically listed down the goals. Challenges ahead of the team. I have 2 more colleagues in my team compared to the last one, but each had their own brands to take care of. The brand that I need to take care of is more upmarket, the profile of the customer is very different from my past experiences, so a lot of homework is needed.

awaits the new challenges ahead....

study time

my room is pathetic!

I don't have a proper table to study. I have to make use of that small tiny computer table, coz half of it is occupied by my mini hifi which I'm not using since mp3 is in town, but its still functioning well in good condition, so its a waste to discard, and Daddy bought it for me, so the more I can't dump it just like that...have to seek permission.

but exam round the corner, and I HAVE to study, but without a table, how?

I tried using the dining table in the kitchen. Bad idea coz I'm surrounded with food. There are temptations EVERYWHERE! Ice-cream, chips, chocolate....

I tried using the mahjong table, again bad idea coz 1) its too huge to fit into my room 2) I'm too lazy to carry it from the guest room, up the stairs and into my room and 3) my hands get itchy, I start thinking about 大三元 and 五台自摸$20 instead of global marketing and intergrated marketing communications.... -_-|||

In the end, I found a folded table, size just right to fit into my room. I settled down, and then... Princess came in with her school bag (its actually my iora shopping bag, with all her Barney colouring materials "姑姑, I want to study"

She is at the stage of learning, like when she saw me using the highlighter, she follows and "highlight" Barney's face.

bangs to my sleep... spare me...

I have weird neighbours, beside Mr. Romanticus, we have new members added to the list.

I'm not trying to be over sensitve and imaginative...

Whoever is living directly above my room, either they have vigorous sex every night, or he/she is a stomp retiree, or there is an angry, violent ghost living up there..

for the past 6 months, every night I hear loud bangs, hitting against the walls and floor, knockings and etc. And apparently the last owner shifted out 6 months back...

I told kor and he thought I was imagining things...until last week when he was gaming in my room till late (yah I slept like a dead log, and he still didn't get the hint of me sleeping) he heard that too...

lately the noise is getting worse...middle of the night like 3, 4am, when 老娘 is in zzz-land, suddenly there is this loud bang, and I jumped out of bed...

will the "being" walked through the floor and appear right on top of me? (picture the girl in Xmen 2)....

reactions

Theres a myraid of commercials shown on tv everyday and we are attracted to some of them. Like the catchy UOB Ladies Card tagline "The Men don't get it" or Heinz tomato sauce.

Kids reaction towards what they see are the most direct and real. Like whenever Cold Storage's commercial is aired, Princess will go "You got the whole world in your hand x times" and she will say cow cow, milk etc...

When Gatsby new deodorant commercial, the catchy jiggle never fails to attract Princess's attention, and she will say "eeekk, shame shame, never wear clothes!"

heehee....

you are my sunshine....no2

The Man's little encouragement for my prep for exam :)

I'm gonna have a long break after my papers, will be engaged in a major love project for The Man.

Update later...

200km

We have been doing quite a fair bit of travelling around Singapore partly because we stayed in the extreme east and west of Singapore and also, having stayed in Spore for the past 25 years, I haven't been to a lot of places in Spore, and thus some of our partor venue includes the uncommon partor places...

We went to Labrador Park and Jurong Hill yesterday night.

Labrador Park is an oasis of tranquility and natural wonder. The park offers a picturesque view of the sea. We found a nice place called Moon Ladder, which is now shortlisted for our ROM venue (kinda early, but never too early to do some research)

The Man drove to the Jurong Hill, the place where he would visit when he was vexed. At Jurong Hill, there were a couple of landmark trees as they were planted by our foreign visitors like Queen Elizabeth, The Duke of some English places, the late Suharto etc...

The tower at Jurong Hill overlooked Jurong Island. There were a lot of weird looking structures. The Man said that these are oil refinery. He recalled that he used to drive into the Island and test the limit of the car. Its like Fast and Furious live before your eyes. Of course, all the drifting and speeding stopped when the checkpoint was built after the 911 incident.

We also passed by Esso Mobile Oil Refinery. All the ladders and weird looking structure look more like Hykiel's lab. The air was filthy, no wonder people living there behaved weirdly, oops sorry! No offense.

Singapore, a little red dot of the map, but yet theres so many places that I've never been to. The Man promised that we will visit these places one by one, and when we are old and recalled the past, we accompanied each other. :)

first attempt to cook a decent meal

few weeks back, The Man and his colleagues booked a weekend chalet for a family getaway...

We had the unit to ourselves the first night. I decided to surprise him with a good breakfast and lunch.

Its kinda big deal for me, since I don't really know how to cook. My home economics knowledge was down the drain after I finished my Os.

Being a food junkie, I recalled all the images and taste of the food I had before and try to piece everything together.

There isn't a proper kitchen to work with, the only "cooking" area was a small little corner beside the sink. The electric cooker we used for steamboat last night came in quite handy. Luckily it was non-stick, the cooking was without much hassel.

Presenting
爱心早餐 (sunnyside up, french toast, bacon, cheese hotdog and fresh milk)


I firgured out that there will be quite a fair bit of food left over from steamboat so I made claypot noodles minus the claypot.

Its kinda easy, like cooking instand noodles, but I used ikan bilis for the soup base. When the water boiled, threw everything in. Once everything is cooked, I poured in the eggs.

I asked The Man to prep the tables and when I served the noodles, this was the setting...



Its kinda yummy! And of coz The Man finished all the food.

Lately I developed the love for cooking (probably under the influence of Xuan's blog post, but mostly The Man rarely get to taste home cooked food). I experienced mixed feelings of joy, satisfaction and achievement, especially cooking for someone you love, the happiness is doubled :)

For someone who don't even know how to operate a washing machine, I think its kinda achievement. Love do really change a person.

....Upcoming, my attempt for dinner. *smile*

sometimes its better not to take short cut

coz you pissed people off. Remember what seem innocent and harmless are the ones who will kill you...