Google

Monday, December 31, 2007

Last day of Year 2007

I didn’t get to watch Countdown on television this year as we were struggling in the office to get all the orders loaded.

When Roy told us it was the last 10 seconds to 12 midnight, we (Ros, Roy & myself) shouted “10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Happy New Year” at our desks.

And only after we shouted “Happy New Year” , the OAs clapped & shouted same (You can see how tensed our colleagues are at this time)!!!

After that, we have a round of red, white wine, sprinkling juice, photo taking sessions & wishing everyone :

HAPPY NEW YEAR & a great year ahead!!!

Here are the links to our photos :

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Working day

We were back to office today though it is a Sunday… … this is the sorrow of our job.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Happy Moment

Yippy, Mum was discharged from hospital.

Though I have to work today but I am feeling wonderful cos mum is alright!!!

Friday, December 28, 2007

Mild Stroke

“Hello Lilian, your mum has just came to see me & we suspect she is suffering from mild stroke. Please bring her to the hospital immediately.”

OMG, what should I do, what happened? I tried to stay calm but my tears started to roll… nothing is going to happen, mum is alright, I shouldn’t cry in front of her.

I hated the unknown fear of the mild stroke, gave another call to the GP & he explained rhat stroke,is either caused by internal bleeding or a blockage of the blood vessel. If it is a blockage, mum will be able to recover fast & if it is internal bleeding, then this is more serious. Explained same to mum & she looked calm (I know she is stronger than me).

At A&E, mum was sent for ECG & was pushed (on bed) to the consultation area. OMG, my tears rolled again. The waiting time was torturing & Nickson asked, “Mummy, why are you crying?” “Mummy is worried, Mummy is scared, Mummy don’t know what happened to Ah Ma, don’t know if she is ok.”

Finally the doctor came & told me that Mum was alright but they have to admit her for a day to do a CT scan (head)… upon hearing this I started to smile, what a RELIEF!!!

Thanks God, it’s over!!! Mum get well soon!!!

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Lunch with Linda & Marilyn

Finally we met for lunch to celebrate Linda's birthday... ... great food & pretty gals. :)


Tired

Another 4 more days to go … … very tired with the long working hours.

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Merry Christmas???

Received Tai-ge’s Christmas greeting at 4.26am this morning, alamak, why is he not sleeping at this time? Is he having sleepless night just like me?

Woke up at about 8.30am, not sure what to do cos got to get back to office at 2pm - updating my handphone contact list & watching TV at the same time.

Went back to office at 2pm & started to work, work, work & work…left office about 9pm & have to be back to office again at 8.30am. Am I not a hamster on the wheel???

Monday, December 24, 2007

Christmas Party

Our department celebrated Christmas with great food, games & gift exchange.

Link to the photos :
Captured by Marilyn's camera

This is my Christmas wish – a wallet.











And these are the Christmas presents that I received from my colleagues :

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Black Pepper Crab

1. Madelene offered black pepper crackers to me on Friday & told me that it tasted like black pepper crab. I told her, “yes, it has been a long time I have not taken any black pepper crab but having lots of craps at work.” Alan (the temp) heard this & laughed out loud.


2. Was watching a Tamil program on TV yesterday & the hosts were going around Singapore looking for yummy “crabs” – chilli crabs, black pepper crabs, butter crabs etc. I told my kids, it has been a long time I have not eaten any crab.

Here I am eating black pepper crab… … yum yum yum!!! LG bought it & he didn’t know about the above!!! 一切尽在不言中。

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Christmas Presents

These are the presents which I have prepared for my colleagues & friends.

And these are what we received from my sis.

Hari Raya Haji – working day???

Received a call from my teamlead at 12 noon to log on to the system to verify some orders. Aiyo, today is Hari Raya but still have to work. :(

Sunday, December 16, 2007

保佑保佑

今天到寺庙祭拜爸爸,希望爸爸能保佑妈妈的脚不痛,身体健健康康!

Friday, December 14, 2007

TGIF

Wow, this is a very stressful week backing my colleague whom is away for 1 week's leave - I was loaded with orders, queries & meetings. And mum has been complaining that her leg feeling pain & numb. Anyway TGIF... ... next week will be my turn to go on leave... just like my colleague, both of us got to clear our leaves & I'll be back to office on Friday.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Cactus flowers


After a hard day work & saw this little flower smiling widely at me... ... life not that bad after all.

(My kids were wondering what am I doing at the corridor with my handphone camera lights on!)

First X'mas present

This is the first X'mas present that I received this year (from Cynthia)... & the smaller present is for mum.



As requested by Cynthia, I have unwrapped the present & it is a D&G handbag, I don't have to buy handbag for the coming Chinese New Year!!!

Monday, December 10, 2007

Beautiful Girl

Keep hearing my kids singing, "... ... beautiful girl, beautiful girl", anyway I couldn't get hold of the lyrics but I knew I have 1 at home - she is my beautiful girl!!!

(Of course my boys are my handsome boys!!! - otherwise they will be jealous.)

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Balloon painting

Saw this balloon last week when Allyson brought it back from the childcare & was surprised that she painted it with multiply colours today.

When I asked her why 1 section of it was not coloured, she looked at Nickson & asked, "Er-ge, when you want to colour for me?"

(So it was not her painting job...)

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Farewell Deathn0te

We make it in time for the farewell, my Master decided to disband the guild in MapleStory, kind of sad. These are our pictures of the night :











Funtasia@Fort Canning Green

Another outing – family day organized by the company I’m working with. Johnson started to “nag” when I told him we were to leave home at 2pm to attend Funtasia cos he would rather stayed home & played computer games. It was kind of sad, why can’t we leave home happily for all outings???

We arrived at City Hall MRT station to take the shuttle bus to Fort Canning & upon arriving, the kids were saying “huh, this place again?”, this is where we watched “Charlotte’s Web” previously.

We started off by collecting our door gift & we saw a long queue at the Wax Hand store, so we decided to join the queue, aren’t our hands colourful???

The Early Bird draw started at 4pm & I heard my number being called when I was making my left wax hand. I wasn’t paying attention, till the host say “8034, 1st call, 8034 2nd call…”, then I realized it was my number, I ran all the way out to the middle of the field & with my hand being wax & shouted, “it’s me, it’s me, wait wait.” pointing at my waxed hand. The host laughed & said, “oh, you are making wax hand, ok, we will hold on to your gift & you can come back later.” I must have embarrassed myself cos I really don’t know what to do, the wax has dried up on my hand & I felt it was hard. Luckily after soaking in the wax mixture, they are able to removed my “Wax hand” & I went up the stage to collect my gift (a $100 World of Sport Voucher) & took a photo with our Country Manager.

After that, we went to the snack stores & helped ourselves with popcorns, home made ice cream, bbq chicken stay, jumbo otah otah, cheesy hotdogs, honey baked drumlets, fish nuggets, baby coconut drink, tutu kuteh & cup corn. Though it was raining, the kids enjoyed the snacks without any complaints.

The whole afternoon/evening, we were entertained by magical show, belly dance, drumatics, band & fireflys performances. My kids were not interested in the performance so we went to queue for our dinner & luckily the rain stopped at this time. After having our dinner, we started to explore the Games store & won some compasses, glue, liquid paper, etc.

Then Cynthia suggested that we go for face painting but the queue was too long, so I decided to go for airbrush tattoo with Allyson & he chose the butterfly design while I took the rose design. Heehee, once we got our tattoo done, Cynthia is still queuing for the face painting.

So Allyson & myself went over to the Kids’ corner with Oi Lin, Nicole & Natasha to do some crafts while the boys were still at the game store.

As usual no luck for the Grand Draw & the program ended at 8pm sharp.

Friday, December 7, 2007

Allyson is selling her house

Allyson has been reciting these recently, thanks to the advertisement on TV :

没有白疼他

Mum told me, “我没有白疼他。"

I believed Johnson has understood what I have been trying to explain to him about being filial to Grandma cos she is getting old & in order to apologise to Grandma (not in words for his misbehaviour yesterday), he bought a bottle of Mum's favourite Wheatgrass drink for her & telling her that, she has not been drinking this lately.

I felt my kids knew what my mum like & dislike more than me... ...

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Giant Tampines

I planned to bring the kids to Snow City today but it was raining the whole morning, so I decided to bring them (including mum) to Giant Tampines cos I knew mum has never been there.

Johnson was unhappy with the arrangement & he kept complaining about how long we have to wait for the bus, wasting his time, etc. I knew this is the 2nd time I brought them there & he felt that it was boring & it was no difference from going to Shop n Save except taking the shuttle bus. I asked him to put himself in Mum’s shoe, if his son wanted to bring him to a place where he never been to & his grandchildren were unhappy with the arrangement, how would he feel? He told me, it is ok. No, I knew it will not be, if he is at that age now.

Anyway, the kids bought lots of their favourite tidbits & they have a good time munching them after that.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Enchanted

"Enchanted”- is the 2nd movie I watched with my kids & mum. Everyone were excited prior to the screening. It started with cartoon then into real life & the “Princess” was beautiful… I believed every girl would dream of being a Princess including my little girl. Have I ever dreamed of being a Princess??? I really can’t remember, I knew I’m Cinderella without a fairy godmother.

After the movie, we went Pizza Hut for early dinner cos mum & my kids loved pizza. No matter what they love or like, I’ll try to fulfill their wish.

Hope all of you have a good time though it was raining non-stop today!!!

I knew Allyson enjoyed herself!!!

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Princess Shervelle

Received these photos from Linda today :


太可爱了!

Monday, December 3, 2007

No time for Mapling

I find myself having less & less time to play Maple Story or in fact I have lost interest in the game. It seemed like it was getting harder & harder to level up & my kids were into other games like Get Amped, Wolf Team, Pokemon, Neopets, etc.

The Guild I used to join has 30+ people but now left with 11, the Guild leader suggested we disbanded the guild & invite us to join his friend's guild. Most of the people I knew have left, perhaps for other games & some left cos their accounts have been hacked by others.

Memories of Maple -

In Ellina, travelling to Orbis :




In AquaRoad Safe Town with Crimson Balrog :


In Leafre :

From Leafre travelling to Orbis :

At the Wedding Palace :


I went to the Fireworks recently but unable to capture a picture of it in time as there were lots of monsters appeared & we are supposed to hunt them down.

White hairs!!!

OMG, I found several white hairs on my head!!! How how how??? I'm ageing...poor eye sight & with white hairs.

Positive thinking :
My eyesight is getting worst cos I read alot & I'm getting wiser with silver strings (智慧的象征)on my head!!!

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Busy & sleepy day

See I'm awake at 7am cos Randson has class at 9am.

We went to Giant Tampines for some shopping (actually just to get a phone) then we were back home about 3pm (sleeping time again)!!!

Woke up at 5pm to get ready for the wedding dinner, LG was back at this time. We left home at about 6.15pm & I was puzzled why so early??? Dinner only started at 7.30pm. True enough, highways were jammed, including Orchard Road. We reached Orchard Parade Hotel at about 7.45pm & were glad to see all my aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces & nephews (some of them was the first time I see them). There are too many of us around, don't think our kids will get to know each other as my mum has 1 eldest brother & 10 sisters. My uncle has 2 sons while the rest of aunts on average each has 3 kids & each of these cousins might have 2 - 4 kids. OMG, I'm not good in Maths...furthermore, some of my nieces or nephews were about my age & some were already married & have kids. We are such a big family
I drank quite alot of red wine & feel tipsy but I'm alright (blaming the waitress for refilling my glass too frequently)!!! And the dinner ended at about 11pm, the roads were jammed again, but we have a good look at the Christmas decorations along Orchard Road (how come this year's decoration is the same throughout the long stretch of road???).

Home Sweet Home

I'm home but can't get to sleep... mind has been too active!!! Got to get up at 7am tomorrow...how???

Friday, November 30, 2007

Still in office

I'm still in office, another hour to go before we can leave for home (hopefully we can go home on time, 2359).

Life is not easy... ... very angry, very happy all within the day!!!

Happy cos we have lots of food (greedy pig).
Angry because ... ... you you & you ... ... hiaz, give up!!! Who ask you to be Mentor???

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Attitude?

Wow, some people really got attitude one leh… 静狗咬死人!!!

Work late

I hated to work late (another 1 more day to go)... ...

1. Allyson had fever since Sunday & mum brought her for review yesterday & was advised to do a blood test if fever does not subside by Friday. - I can't be by her side!!!

2. Randson complained that his cheek is painful again - oh no, it was swollen & hopefully not mumps again. - I can't monitor this cos I have to work, work, work.

3. I can't have my dinner at the right time, I only get to eat when I reached home at 9pm or 10pm or even later. - No one buy dinner cos no transport (partly to save $ also)!!!

4. Too much work, too stress - non-stop of munching in the office especially with Low around, chocolates, cakes, biscuits, crackers, etc!!!



We (Low, Latha & me) went to JL Mega Sales during lunchtime & we bought these to decorate our workstation, preparing for Christmas!!! (Trying very hard to fight the monthend stress)