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starting to feel queasy in the stomach - not sure if it's the wedding jitters or plain fatigue. met up with Louis when he arrived on Monday, probably dinner with him and Taeko at the hotel over a good soccer match.

bah, i've got pimples popping out like mini volcanoes now. luckily Argentina's match today against S. Korea brought some relief. haha!

can't wait for the Guo Da Li this Saturday. fingers crossed.

June 08, 2010

On work stress II.

[5:45:43 PM] SF: you made me scare again...

[5:45:57 PM] Cath: oops, sorry

[5:46:11 PM] SF: would die sooner or later...hahahaha

[5:46:17 PM] SF: in the office...

[5:46:29 PM] Cath: oops.

[5:46:38 PM] Cath: i'm sure we will all prefer to die at home from playing mahjong :P

[5:46:49 PM] Cath: a better kind of heart attack

[5:47:03 PM] SF: hahah...wow..you like playing mahjoing also?

[5:47:19 PM] Cath: (nod)

[5:47:41 PM] Cath: but i'm lousy. always pay "school fees"

[5:47:52 PM] SF: hem...sounds good to me...

[5:48:01 PM] Cath: hahaa

[5:51:23 PM] SF: (party)....I would be in SG in Q4...should we...heheheheh

[5:52:00 PM] Cath: haha. i can visualize an evil laughter on ur face now :P

[5:52:38 PM] SF: (devil)

[5:52:48 PM] Cath: haha!

[5:53:13 PM] Cath: the next time u are here, we'll arrange a few lambs for u to "slaughter". but not me. haa.

[5:54:51 PM] SF: ok.....as long as you could get me the scapegoats

[5:54:53 PM] SF: hahahaha

[5:55:22 PM] Cath: we will arrange Raf to seat beside u. BIG GOAT (chuckle)

[5:55:48 PM] SF: ah....what's a good idea...

[5:58:15 PM] Cath: hehe.

June 07, 2010

Counting Down: 3 Weekends

back at work for a week, and finally got my first rest days again over the weekend.

busy busy.

5th June, 2010

spent most of Saturday morning/afternoon catching up on sleep.

we first stopped by IMM to grab the bow-ties for the groomsmen, followed by a filling meal at BK + ShiLin sweet potato snacks. *burrrrp* loitered around a bit more, and Poppy ended up buying a couple of items from Espirit - 2 shirts + 1 pair of pants. nice! after which, failing to find any suspenders, we drove over to Bugis village.

quite a few shops selling suspenders, but Poppy, being the bargain hunter, decided to browse a couple more and finally settled for the ones sold at the 2nd level by a Hong Kong lady. to our surprise, she told us our wedding coincides with her birthday. haha, so random. hung around a bit, then we decided to pop by Haji Lane to while away some time. didn't buy anything, but had a relaxing long walk and some quality time to hold a nice conversation. it's been awhile since we conversed on anything else other than the wedding. i loike. =)

skipped dinner altogether and headed home.

watched TV for a bit and succumbed to the Zzz-monster by 9.30pm.

6th June, 2010

got up earlier today, made a quick breakfast of Ritz bits + cheese + salmon.

i also made a lot of noise to wake Poppy up. =P

relaxed in front of the TV over breakfast, played with Custard, then prepared to meet Mommy and bro. picked them up at Woodlands Central and off we went to JB! had another round of brunch at the local Bah Kut Teh stall (blardy hot!) then drove to the bridal shop.

picked the suits for Poppy, his dad and gramps, and my dad. i also, finally, changed my evening gown from red to champagne. selected our hand bouquet, boutonnière, bridesmaids' corsages and car deco as well. and alas, viewed the pictures taken by them last month. all in all, everything should be ready in another 2 weeks' time and i'll go back for the last trial. Poppy will still have to be there the day before the wedding to pick the flowers and car deco though.

anyhoos, after the selection, we had plenty of time to eat/shop. we were bored of Jusco/Tesco, so we chose to go to City Square instead. it has been a long time since we last went there, indeed! traffic was still bad around that area though.

i'm the biggest 赢家 coz i lugged home 2 pairs of shoes (1 for work, another for wedding. yays!), a bigaroooo pajamas, and a very full tummy. *pats* dinner was at SDS, i cleared my plate of Grilled Chicken Chop with Rice in mushroom sauce, plus Hot Hazelnut Latte, plus a bag of Tempura from ShiLin. i proudly declare that Operation: FMU is still in place (it's Fatten Me Up, in case u're wondering).

sent Mommy and bro home after some grocery shopping, and back to our own nest to work on the schedule for the actual wedding day before the well-deserved sleep.

June 04, 2010

On work stress.

[5:47:03 PM] SF: yeah...

[5:47:05 PM] Cath: thanks.

[5:47:14 PM] Cath: need to be sure. too many heart attacks recently.

[5:47:41 PM] SF: me too...

[5:47:55 PM] SF: I need two more hands and 4 more eyes...

[5:48:04 PM] Cath: become octopus

[5:48:06 PM] Cath: :P

[5:48:14 PM] SF: hahah

[5:50:11 PM] SF: could you divert this customer to sales engineer

[5:50:14 PM] Cath: ok sure.

[5:50:17 PM] SF: thx

[5:52:57 PM] Cath: erm, the smokeping alerts also related to the FW migration?

[5:53:19 PM] SF: to where?

[5:53:28 PM] Cath: the pkt loss is at 100%

[5:53:35 PM] SF: I guess so...

[5:53:46 PM] SF: as this is for the monitoring vlan from SG to HK

[5:54:07 PM] SF: when Eric unplugged the port, I guess nothing can be polled during that moment!

[5:54:11 PM] Cath: ok noted. thanks again.

[5:55:37 PM] SF: but now everything is resumed?

[5:56:09 PM] Cath: still at 100%

[5:56:21 PM] Cath: i just ran the smoke trace. stops after csw2

[6:00:49 PM] Cath: works ok now.

[6:00:54 PM] Cath: everything's back to normal

[6:01:54 PM] SF: ah....you know...my heart is also weak!

[6:02:08 PM] Cath: stay here for 2 years, u become superman!

[6:02:33 PM] Cath: u're one of the few with black hair around in the network team. haha.

[6:05:25 PM] SF: oh...that's why I found some white hairs recently...oh my goodness

[6:06:03 PM] Cath: :P

June 03, 2010

Quick note...

hola, i am still very much alive. for now.

went on a one-week leave. stayed home mostly.

re-played my old Rise of Nations game since i didn't manage to get a StarCraft II Beta invite. blah. ate a lot, slept even more, and spent rest of the time fiddling my new HTC Desire. Poppy paid for it, as my belated birthday gift. =)

wedding's drawing much nearer now and i'm back at work this week, so please expect less updates (not that there's a lot of readers these days, anyway).

back to the topic of android phone.

after some experimenting, here's a list of recommended apps/widgets which i very much love (and cannot live without) :

SMS Popup

self explanatory. thumbs up.

MySettings

one-page access to all the settings for ur phone. nice UI.

Advanced Task Killer

does everything it's supposed to.

note: users have to be careful about killing ur clock/todo apps as it will kill the alarm/reminder service.

Calorie counter by FatSecret

syncs with my account on FatSecret.com for my weight-gain plan/exercise records. what more can i ask for?

Astrid Task/Todo List

works nicely. will be better if it syncs with Google Tasks.

(am currently exploring Jorte which doubles up as a calendar + todo though)

AppBrain Market Sync

more fiddling when i have time. tried the fring app last night with Poppy but i was too sleepy to continue playing... will update again when i have time. till then!

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