Oasis Board Games! Pictionary!

Pictionary is a damn nice/fun/exciting game to play. Met up the girls to have dinner at liang seah zi char... yun just came back from europe nt long ago and gggoh came back from Philippines too (no, she is not a maid.) she was there on a mission trip, and came back with some pounds shed. mr goh suggests that i go for such trips too, for all the wrong reasons. heh, but that made me think of those days spent in Karimun, Indonesia... where i was there for a week, painting the schools, teaching the students english, telling them everything about Singapore, went trekking and crawling into bat caves (which made me realise that i am really claustrophobic) and so on and so on...

anyway, back to the pictionary game. mich, ru and fen were in one team, me, gggoh and yun another. and so the battle begins! Everyone is geared up to win the game. Pens ready, thinking caps put on and get set....go! we screamed, banged the tables, made a hell lot of noise... and it's interesting to see how different people think differently...

like...for the same thing that we are supposed to draw... there are soooo many different ways you can do it and soooo many different things that your team mates can guess (however inaccurate...) and i was supposed to draw an ice chest. so i drew an ice cube... then i drew a treasure chest like box....but not very effective...so i drew a macho chest. how would you have drawn it?

go try pictionary some day... :)

Batman Begins

Batman begins is really a nice show... esp when batman holds quite some significance for me and mr goh. and christian bale looks great in the batsuit! and this show is definitely 100 times better than mr and mrs smith (and their super over exaggerated invincible action moves, which i must say is quite badly choreographed esp the final shooting scene which made me want to stand up and shoot them dead instead).

went to emerald orchard food court for dinner. well, mr goh ate but i watched. and he had soem ridiculously priced bak kut teh $5! for a bowl of rice and 3 bak kuts. and he made me take a pic of his ridiculous bak kut teh....

went back office to collect stuff from the traffic counters.. the office is like a second home to me now... and i'm pretty glad it's in town...coz i get to meet people i know (sometimes), spoilt for choice when it comes to lunch time, and get to see what's happening in orchard road... (they put up fantastic 4 figures at the traffic junction at Heeren/Mandarin Hotel/Singapore Visitors' Centre/California Fitness over night! so I was quite happy that morning coz it's something colourful to add to my day in office.

overall, it's been a nice weekend... looking forward to the next....

Bumping into one another....

When i was on my way to work from home this morning, i waved to a stranger and smiled at him. No, i wasn't out of my mind.... i think i was more like half awake and thought he resembled a friend who stays near my place... so i gave him a "firm" wave and a bright smile. Only when i was like 5 steps away from him then i realised that it's a case of mistaken identity. so Paisay. Heng he was on the phone. He actually looked behind himself to make sure that i was waving at him n not some other chap. To make things worse, there was only traffic behind him and i could not pretend i was waving to someone behind him.... :(

I bumped into a primary school friend some nights ago. we used to be neighbours when we were still primary school girls. We'll go to school together, have lunch together, play hopscotch, zero point together, loiter ard after school together and go home together. It was nice seeing her after so long and finding out that she is doing well and all. pity we weren't as close as before.

then last night, bumped into another friend, miss xie. well, actually, i bumped(literally) into mr goh when miss xie enthusiastically called my name and i had the shock of my life and blanked out for a milisecond and bumped into mr goh. pleasant surprise.... :)

So i say... it's really nice to bump into friends when you're out. esp friends who hold a dear place in your heart.

Nolstagia

was at Holland V just now...made me realise how long i haven't been there. got some new cafes there which look really nice (must go there again sometime, for some relaxing moments) and there was still the old holland village shopping centre. I used to frequent HV a lot when i was in NJ. kinda like a studying place for me since it was rather near my house...my favourite hunt was starbucks. the smell of coffee keeps me awake and the staff don't really bother you.

was looking for a place to lunch, so went into delifrance and saw groups of acjc students studying there, preparing for their A levels. man.. A levels was like 4 yrs ago for myself!! i feel old.. and i saw the familiar TYS from redspot and what not. and i thought about the times i had to do those stuff and agonize over them. and i thought about my study kakis too.

and i just sat there for the afternoon thinking of all the times i spent at HV. sweet.

Woman at work

That's me at workdesk. time was probably 745pm and it was a saturday. was alone in the office coz my colleague has got a gathering to attend to and one of my surveyors worked an extra half hour so i gotta wait for her. The table was pretty neat when i first started working....but somehow or rather, it's very messy now. I shall keep a mental note to keep everything clean and neat.

watching american idol(repeat) in mr goh's room now. i must say carrie has power lungs but she sounds really strained and off key some times. thought bo did better. but oh well. she won. and what's with the dawg man?

tired...tmr still gotta work man... and big boss is back from tokyo! no more eating snake...

Happening saturday

It was quite a happening saturday and i'm back in the office today on a sunday to meet the surveyors and pass them stuff. anyway, last night was quite fun filled. finished work at 8 and went liang seah zi char to have dinner with mr goh since we were both very hungry and didn't want to go anywhere far. so there goes the planned romantic dinner for the night. shopped around bugis after that but didn't manage to get anything. we were arguing over what kind of office wear is appropriate to buy for work. he insists i shld get like shirts but i told him that don't have to be so formal and can get some nice blouses instead. so, i've decided to do my own shopping today without him. :)

met Hianzee at hotel intercontinental! and the funny thing was, we were both there to use the hotel toilet. *grins* It's nice bumping into friends when you're out. coz i feel like, there's some kind of fate thing involved, if you know what i mean. not those arranged kind of outing, but just there and then we meet and have a pleasant surprise. ;) serendipity.

went to geylang to have supper after that with jem, eric, mw and ty. was rather concussed then but felt that i shouldn't waste my saturday away. Not that i enjoyed the company very much or that i was hungry but most importantly, coz i want to spend time with mr goh.

I guess when you're working, you'll really start to prioritise and decide how to put ur free time to the best use.

Lesson number 2.

The Great Singapore Sale

It's been a hectic week for me. Thought i was going to have a 4 day work 1st initially but surprise surprise, I have to work over the weekend too coz of the Sg Sale proj my company is doing for STB. not that I am complaining. I really enjoy what i am doing right now... and i've yet to get sick of it. managing the proj has been fun so far. I get to visit most of the shopping malls in sg and i know which shops are having the most discounts and so on and so forth. Done some window shopping too and probably will go and do some real shopping later before the temp workers get back to the office.

so now, i'm just chilling out in the office. listening to the music which karsten has in his ipod. Real chill out songs. the room seemed colder when he started playing them and i just felt like having a cup of hot cocoa to go along.

finally met up with mr goh after a hectic week. but i did the most stupid thing. See, he offered to fetch me to work today coz he said he'll be going back to hall to collect some stuff and will drop by to bring me to work and go fix the comp after that. Happened that he woke up late and could only pick me up to work. and i have to be in the office by 12pm coz the temp workers will be coming by to collect their materials. so when mr goh reached my place at 11 40, i screamed at him. Well, not exactly scream...but my tone was obviously not very nice. and i regretted the moment i said that. we haven't met for a week and that is the first thing i have to do to him. So, mr goh... i'm really sorry for screaming at you this morning. I guess i was pressed for time coz i thought the people will come in on time. but surprise surprise, they were late as usual. so heck, i'd rather show more care and concern towards people i love than towards my work.

First lesson learnt from working. time to do some shopping now. :)

Revenge is sweet

Papa roach attacked me and my mother this morning while we were having breakfast in the coffee shop. I screamed so loudly that the hdb dwellers might have mistaken that for a fire alarm. :) grins. no wonder revenge is sweet. papa roach must be glad that he made a fool out of me.

will be starting my first day of work tmr. hopefully everything goes well. the lower right part of my eye has been twitching for the past 3 days. anyone can tell me what that means?

do u believe in karma?

i've always believed in karma. what goes around comes around. If you treat people nice, other people will treat u nice. if you don't treat people nice, u'd probably meet your match someday. but who can be sure that it's all due to karma and not just a thing about meeting the wrong people and having a lousy day? some people are nice to everyone, have done nothing wrong, never sha ren fang huo and yet they too have their worst days. not to mention those who have done evil and still live. yeah...you get my point. so how many people can really prove that karma exists?

I proudly exclaim that i can.

this morning, i killed a baby cockroach the first thing in the morning when i went to brush my teeth. I was feeling proud of it since i've always feared such creepy crawlies and have never ever attempted to kill them myself. But given this morning's circumstances, I had no choice but to kill the baby cockroach. if not, it will grow into a big cockcroach and come back to huant me again. so, again, i felt proud of myself to overcome my fear. machiam like those participants in Fear Factor.

about half an hour ago, i got my retribution. Apparently, Mama cockcroach found out that i murdered baby cockcroach and plotted to kill me by tonight. So, it waited until mr goh left the room for dinner, when i was alone in the room, when the door was conveniently open, when i was unarmed, unaware and totally not prepared for the attack that it was about to launch on me. THEN it spreaded its horrifying wings and, like a kamikaze pilot, flew at high speed towards my face. I truly believe that if it was to land on my face at that instant, i would really be dead. Fortunately, (i believe i have done some good deeds too) I heard the flapping of its wings (yes, it was that loud) and in a milisecond, i jumped out of the sofa and ran towards the edge of the room. The room is not very big, so i was still in close proximity with the avenger. I screamed, naturally. and to those people who were unfortunate to hear my screams, i apologise.

so with the killer instinct in me, i decided to kill the Mama cockcroach too. not so easy as i thought. and it cleverly went into hiding, traumatising me for another 30 minutes or more before mr goh came to the rescue and found its hiding place. During the period when i was alone, i felt really alone, helpless and i thought of baby cockcroach.

now, i'm thinking of mama cockcroach and brave mr goh. I just hope karma is not all that true all the time.

"ah men"

what does your birthday mean?

http://www.blogthings.com/whatdoesyourbirthdatemeanquiz
try this...recommended by huiru. quite accurate for me. haha

Your Birthdate: March 30
Your birthday on the 30th day of the month shows individual self-expression is necessary for your happiness. You tend to have a good way of expressing yourself with words, certainly in a manner that is clear and understandable. You have a good chance of success in fields requiring skill with words. You can be very dramatic in your presentation and you may be a good actor or a natural mimic. You have a vivid imagination that can assist you in becoming a good writer or story-teller. Strong in your opinions, you always tend to think you are on the right side of an issue. There may be a tendency to scatter your energies and have a lot of loose ends in your work. You may have significant artistic talent and be very creative.

humans eat everything and anything....

went to chinatown to have tian ji zhou (aka frog's leg porridge) over the weekend. I think the location is extremely strategic. directly opposite CK departmental store which allows the customers to have a cool breeze of air-conditioning before going to the hot, steamy coffeeshop. and it's located at a busy junction, so the people walking by never stops. they basically flood the area every minute. :)

before we went there, we were actually at bugis and i had my first bite of the rotiboy bun. The magic of a single, soft, crispy, hot bun. hm...yummy! and my sandals broke coz mr. goh ALWAYS step on my feet. anyways, i had to buy a pair of sandals on the spot and went x:odus to get a pair of pretty slippers! it's called trina sandals or something...yah... x:odus actually names its different series of sandals....actually wanted to get a pair of flip flops with a dragonfly on it..looks really pretty but impractical. :( confirm the dragonfly will drop out. still remembered the starfish sandals the sweetie girls got me for my birthday. think i'm a sucker for pretty sandals! x:odus has really preeeetty shoes... check it out.

then with my new sandals....we walked. and walked. and walked. from bugis...to arab street...to bras basah (where we took a short break) to city hall...to boat quay ....and finally...somehow, we reached chinatown. phew. practising for the big walk (competitive category) this weekend.

just kidding...... :)

food connoisseur...hm...delicious! and special thanks to the photographer who made the food (and myself) look good too. on the other hand, i must admit my photography skills are quite lousy. (look at picture below)

Yeah...this is the one which i took. no nicely placed food, no posing for the camera, no nothing. But do check out the poster in the background. *grins*

Sweeties United :)

amos the famous who vacuumed the poor hamster

damsel in distress

it's been a while... had quite a packed weekend. eventful i guess. first was the sweeties meeting which i mentioned. then was the sia interview the next day. here's a lowdown about what happened on saturday morning...

mr goh volunteered to chauffeur me to changi sia training centre. really appreciate that, gave me moral support too! and the interview was at a ghostly hour of 0840, haven't woke up before the sun does for such a long time! so there i was, together with like hundred plus other girls, starry eyed, all hoping for a chance to be one of the icons of singapore. machiam like american idols, seriously.

so we were divided into groups of ten for the first round of the interview. made a few friends and one of them was a st nicks cum NJ cum NTU senior! (whom i have nvr seen b4, vanessa's batch) the world is really small. she was really nice, and this was her second time for the interview (she got through 2nd round btw). so 1st round.... i was the first to be asked to give a brief intro about myself. i fumbled, mumbled and probably made a mess. those who spoke after me were detailed, confident and obviously so much better prepared than me. so i thought, that's it... 1st round will kenna kick out already.

10 min later, a man came into the room and said, " only two of you are selected in this group. for those whose name are not called, thank you for coming. the two selected pls follow me to another room." TWO! what are my chances... but i was lucky enough to be given a second chance! :) so i was determined to do much better for the one to one interview later. i was determined to speak confidently and not fumble. but i was disappointed. i guess even more so since i was not given the reason why i wasn't chosen. i thought i performed better at the second interview but obviously not good enough. so for the entire day, i felt inadequate. my ego was thoroughly trashed and i kept wondering what was wrong with myself.

thanks to all my friends who made me feel special again. :) i think i should be happy that i managed to get to the second round too. shows that at least i look somehow like a probable SIA girl. i think i will try again after i've gained some working experience. perhaps i'd be better prepared and equipped for it.

anyways, went out to town after that. met up with the hall people. dinner at marches. went to kbox lounge to chill out. quite a nice place leh. got live band there singing soothing chinese/eng pop. got espn showing also (good for guys who are bored by the male singers) and also a small pool table. those which u dong two 1 dollar coins inside one (good for amatuer players like me). and watched Kingdom of Heaven. quite a boring show, though controversial subject.

Then came mothers' day. had a good time with mum, bro, sis and the kids. we found out that amos vacuumed his hamster the very same day! poor hamster! axel(the elder bro) was vacuuming the floor and when he was done, he wanted to go turn off the main power. Then, famous amos went to vacuum the hamster. i believe he must be very amused when he saw the hamster being sucked towards the tube and i am sure he never meant to suck it in. but it did went in. So...the two boys were traumatised and cried. and my sis scolded them too. we had a good laugh over it. I guess me and my brother have to be blamed somehow coz whenever they stayed over and we vacuumed the floor, we would try to suck their skin also. and it was really amusing.... heh.

when i was small... i aspired to be a sia girl and my mum bought me the chinatown kebaya

chomp chomp chomp

I had a lovely evening. :) met up with the sweeties for dinner at chomp chomp to celebrate mich's and zee's bday! the food was nice! and i actually finished a gigantic jug of sugar cane juice! it was really gigantic man....machiam those jugs of alcohol sold in clubs. i have no idea why i was so thirsty too. then went to brownbox for lotsa coffee and cakes. totally sinful but blissful at the same time.

and we've decided to meet up more regularly! yeah! and the long awaited hotel stay is finally going to be realised soon. it's amazing how we always nvr run out of topics to talk about during sweeties outings. an overnight stay would be excellent for pillow talk! can't wait....

sweeties, pls upload the pictures soon!!

Food Glorious Food!