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August 30, 2008

Last week of August

another week gone.
down with the quartet of sore throat, flu, cough, fever.


Monday 25 Aug
on leave.

planned to catch a show but NeuNeu was really taxed after his night shift on Sunday so we stayed home instead.

my session was with only Valerie as Vannessa was away in camp.


Tuesday 26 Aug
Sel ordered a cake and we celebrated Mary's birthday after my leave on Monday.
thick and rich chocolate cake, with a yummy looking lamb.
don't get it?
it's because Mary had a little lamb
*doh*

was already feeling under the weather prior to that. together with the incense smoke lingering in the air because of the lunar seventh month, the cake was a killer and my sore throat started that very night.


Wednesday 27 Aug
still, i went on course on Wednesday and had an enjoyable day with the rest of the folks.
and with tea-time refreshments such as fried bee hoon, chocolate swiss rolls, curry puffs..

die.

had another short session with Valerie.


Thursday 28 Aug
headed to work as usual the next day, but paid a visit to the doctor during lunch time for some medicine.
was given MC but stayed around in the office to complete some work and left around 4.30pm.

had to cancel my appointment with YC at the last minute and went straight back home.
after watching Wall-E alone, i slept the rest of the time away.


thankfully, NeuNeu was around to drive me around otherwise the week would've been terrible.
after work this morning, i came home and rested almost the entire evening
my bro was hogging the computer anyway. ho hum.

oh yes, i submitted an entry for the Canon contest.
didn't manage to go out and take something decent, so i filtered through the folders and decided to use one taken of Charles at Sentosa and another of Hoochie at Yogyakarta.

i've been itching for a DSLR for some time now, i sure hope i strike
not as if it's lottery, i know
i'm now pinching myself for not running up to the booth (at Comex) when NeuNeu shoved his credit card in my hands to buy that DSLR camera.


anyways, tomorrow NeuNeu and i will be having Dim Sum with his buddies!
yay!

Creative Photography with Canon


Always wanted to live on the wild side?


Ever dreamt of stretching out and flying without wings?



What are you waiting for?
Go on, reach for the sky.

August 24, 2008

Mr. Ma's BIG DAY



an eventful day out with Mr. Ma on his birthday.
we started the day off with lunch at Cross Keys with Liz and Wei.

the couple had toasted pumpkin soup, chicken al fungi and fish & chips, whilst NeuNeu ordered grilled mushrooms and grilled cajun snapper fillet, and i had bruschetta plus cream dory mexican style.

the ambience was great and there was no crowd although it was situated in the heart of town.
the dishes were reasonably priced and extremely well done, especially the bruschetta which was delicious!
let's see if i can "pyscho" NeuNeu to bring me there again tomorrow after movie...

anyway, we caught Death Race at Lido after the meal.
NeuNeu bumped into his Secondary School buddy
and he happily munched on MY salty popcorn. hmpfhh.

after Liz and Wei went off to view the fireworks at Esplanade, we met up with Jason, Elvin and Adrian for a K-session at International Building.
Vincent, Qingli arrived shortly after followed by Angie and Zen.

chitter-chatter, sang non-stop, and finally Vincent brought in the cake just before midnight.
i'm glad everyone loved the White Chocolate Macadamia cake.
but because of its sheer size, (and Adrian already helped to eat 3 - 4 slices) we still weren't able to finish it all up.
u might have guessed by now, the rest of it all ended up...

...on Mr. Ma's face.

we wrapped up just before 2am.
after sending Vincent and his wife home, we headed back to his place and took a good rest in preparation of our JB trip with the guys the following day.


glad that NeuNeu likes my prezzies.
one thing he didn't know...
it took me 3 hours to wrap it all up.
*sweats*


more pix of Mr. Ma's big day

August 23, 2008

Happy Birthday, Mr Ma!

Dear NeuNeu,



Hope u enjoy this special day!


Love,

b.

August 16, 2008

Say Geez...

finally finished uploading the long overdue pictures.

i've also completed the scanning of 3 rolls of film!

geez, i also just realized there's 1 incomplete roll still in the cam...
*slaps forehead*



but anyway, here's the links for snaps:


Central Java Day I
Central Java Day II
Central Java Day III
Central Java Day IV
Central Java Day - Assortment

Bangkok Trip
Eqix Farewell

exhausted

yet another week has passed.

started the National Day by having a good long rest before taking my own sweet time to read the papers over breakfast, then driving out for a long-desired KTV session with NeuNeu.
speaking of which, it's been almost or more than a month since we last visited the KTV.

the rest of the weekend was spent on web-surfing and scanning my film.

Monday to Thursday were torturous with the bare-minimum amount of time left for sleeping.
Monday and Thursday were reserved for Vannessa and Valerie, then i met YC for dinner on Tuesday, Vicki on Wednesday.

Vicki and i were at the Tangs Bazaar held at Suntec City convention.
we went crazy and burnt big holes in our pockets with perfumes, skincare etc etc.
i knocked off earlier that day, so i headed to Funan with my colleague, YS, first before making my way to Suntec on foot (and in heels).
my legs ached like mad after the day's expedition in town.


anyways, i participated in the first spree with the girls in the office.
i've heard so much about their spree-tecular ventures monthly.
i think trying not to bust my monthly budgets would be a problem from now!


finally had some time to rest on Friday, before going for my half day of work today.
and after his night shift, NeuNeu was really nice and came by to fetch me home.
had our lunches then slept the rest of the afternoon away.

the poor thing left for work after dinner, so here i am trying to update before i start scanning my film and go by Vannessa & Valerie's tomorrow.


the first two weeks at work hadn't been easy and was definitely nothing close to "Honeymoon".
i sure hope i can pull through it after a while.

August 11, 2008

Update: August Wk 1

a rundown of the events and happenings in the previous weeks…

FRIDAY 01 Aug
Movie The Book of Revelation at The Cathay with Hoochie.
Headed to Tangs afterwards and bumped into my brother and his friend.
LOL.


SATURDAY 02 Aug
Pre-employment check at Shenton Medical, Tg Pagar.
NeuNeu came by to pick me up after that and we had dim-sum feast at Red Star (红星) in Chinatown.
Then we met our Taiwanese visitors Mrs Yang and Yunyu at the Esplanade. We went by Bugis, Suntec and then back to Esplanade again.
Headed home for some rest and had our dinners before we drove to Tampines Mall for the movie <> with Mommy and Bro.
Later in the night, we had supper at Bedok 85 with Vincent, Qingli, Alex and Bro. We got Bro to drive us home coz he has gotten his license after a single attempt!
And since then, he has driven us on numerous occasions.
Congrats, bugger!


SUNDAY 03 Aug
Had our hairdressing session at Kenny’s in the afternoon.
After our session, we headed home, packed some stuff and went out to meet another Taiwanese friend, Paul, and his daughter. We went over to Old Airport Road for some local delights including Rojak, Satay, Fried Carrot Cake, BBQ wings. Paul also joined us when we drove back to Bugis to meet Angie and Zen at 来来 café for some Taiwanese food (how ironic…). Anyway, the café serves really nice Pig’s Trotters, Egg Tofu and Hot Choc.

The nightmarish part of the night was the DURIAN SESSION!

And we hit home after browsing some car decals and stuff.


MONDAY 04 Aug
New week, new job.
Went around the new office and mingled with some of my new colleagues.
There was even a complimentary lunch held that afternoon at the Boardroom with our AVP.

Had my first tuition session later in the evening after work, with Vanessa and Valerie. And NeuNeu came by to send me home after class.


TUESDAY 05 Aug
NeuNeu sent me to work, but almost drove me to my old office in Ayer Rajah!

The rest of the week went by in a flash - lunching everyday at various locations in the vicinity with my colleagues, 2 more tuition sessions, and very much trying to get used to office hours pattern.


And today’s a new day of the week!
This week’s packed with more work, tuition sessions and 2 dinner dates – one with YC and another with Aly.


PS: I’ve scanned 2 out of 4 rolls of film for the photos taken in Java last month. I believe I should be able to finish it up by this weekend.Yay.

August 08, 2008

Slipshod Update

i made a draft of what to write but guess what...
i left it in the office.

pats myself on the back and mumbles "well done".


all in all, it's a mixed week of good-bad-relaxed-stressed-busy-slack moments.

adapting to the new environment, new job, new working hours, new people.

a stark contrast to the jobs but of coz each is good in its own way.


okays, brain not working.

don't know what to type now.

can't remember much details for the past week either.


hopefully i'll figure it out, then i'll update sometime over the weekend.


BUT first, i must finish scanning my film, pick my favorite-test and get Hoochie to pass it to Desmond for his B&W film workshop.
AND then, i must catch up on the episodes of Honey & Clover 蜂蜜幸运草.

AND then, i must buck up on my exercise routine (i missed 2 weeks because of the traveling).



AND then, and then, and then... i think i go sleep first.

08/08/08 TOTO Draw No: 2351

before i blog about anything else...
here's the hot topic that of the night:

08/08/08
TOTO Draw No: 2351


Fri 08/08/08 Draw No:2351
Winning Numbers
14 17 19 21 25 38

Additional Number
34