This is for you, Shandy Jie Jie

Goodbye Shandy Jie Jie.... you will be fondly remembered in our hearts.

We are proud of you..you have fought the battle well.

We know that you will be kept safe and well in God's Hands...

Xmas Wish

I have had like 1 million xmas wishes in my head every year.

The standard ones are to be thinner, to have better skin and hair, to be happy, more money, more clothes, more shoes, more bags etc...

sometimes, i wish for extra perks like a new MP3, a new laptop, and some other funny toys.

This year, I just wish for her to recover. If there's really Santa in this world, I hope you can bring her health back. If there's Xmas fairy godmother, I wish you can take away her pain and suffering.

Will this X'mas still be Merry?

My Xmas Pressie'2008 from Mr Tham

The much raved phone... Nokia E71.

I must say this is the perfect gift for me this season because my old phone has decided to give up on me after 1 year of abuse and mutilation by its crazy owner..

Its been so long since i used a Nokia.. have onced used it but switched to Sony Erricison for its media qualities.

But i know i wont have any regrets using this Nokia.. in fact, it was so hard to get this model now as the shops are running low on stocks. I went to Great World City yesterday and bought the last box in the shop!!

This phone is a true gem. Its not expensive (cost less than $500), looks good and is a great business phone.
Has excellent messaging functions which i totally need it...

Having such a great time smsing pple now...

But now i got to crack my head on HIS xmas present.....

e Art of Acting Busy

Today, office is soooooo quiet that i swear i reallly realllly can hear a pin drop.

Its scaringly quiet...

I peep at my colleagues screen and hehehe, they are all doing their own personal stuff.
Some are staring into space..
I decided to sign in to blogger to type some rubbish here...well, you know typing loudly on the keyboard will make it look like i am seemingly busy..hehehehe!

During lunch, i attended my 1st Body Movement Class.
Body Movement class is a fusion of Jazz and Hip Hop dance moves..
Not too bad, i must say... I did work out my muscles and the stuff and before i knew it, i was sweating! luckily, they have shower rooms...

Lunch was some tuna sandwich that i DIY at home this morning! Times are bad...haha..so lunch in and eat lesser! On the plus side, it helps me on my Perpertual Weight Loss Plan.
Yes, i am Perpertually on a Diet.....

Tadah!!

Gonna meet Joewe tonight for drinks!! Totally lurrrve that girl!

Job (dis)Satisfaction

Do you feel jaded from the daily routines at work?

Have you ever wonder why? Is it because the job scope is too routine? Is it because you are faced with difficult clients / bosses / colleagues that drives you up the wall?

Or maybe, it just because you can't derive any job satisfaction.... like me..

Imagine looking at a few screens everyday. The numbers on the screen are more often red than green. You get greeted by calls from customers. You hear their depressing voices.. You read depressing reports on the markets. You look at depressing prices day after day.. Seated around you are depressing colleagues. you indirectly cause customers to lose money.

I am getting myself spin into the web of depression. slowly, but surely.

I need to find myself back admist this depressing job environment. But first thing, I need a break. A Holiday to break myself from the depressing aura around me.

3 days more.....

On this coming Thurs, 11th Sept 2008, I will be left alone at home.
I will go work alone, eat dinner alone, watch TV alone and go to bed alone.
Till 13th Sept 2008.
Greg is going away on a company trip. Lucky its only for 3 days.
Cause I am starting to miss him already....

Of Shennigans, SouthPark and Calmness

Last Sat, we visited Christine's place. Went for a swim (that looks more like a 30-min soak) and we had steamboat!
WoohoO!!! Every weekend is almost a steamboat day...i love it!

Anyway, we were watching SouthPark. Seriously speaking, i have never watched Southpark before. But i totally lurve the way they speak.

They have this term : Shennigans, that they use for calling jerks, irritating people etc etc..

Because i have to ineveitably and very unwillingly contact such kind of people everyday, i shall name them as Shennigans too.

This morning, well..a Shennnigan called my office line and irritate the hell out of me again.
I sincerely pray that his d*ck will get chomped off by a fugly fat algae moulding alligator.

Random

I'm sorry for the lack of updates. This is going to be a very random post as there's too many random thoughts running thru my head now.

1. This morning
I only forgot to spray on my perfume this morning, but he forgot about his handphone. -_- win liao lor.
For me, i can work without my hp the whole day, prolly because not many people call me or perhaps i don't have many friends. But Mr Tham can't live without his mobile cum PDA for a single hour.
He says he is going to go home (kim tian) from woodlands to take his hp at around 11am. Then travel 35km up woodlands again. at 6pm, travel 35km down to town again for a meeting. i think we may just chalk up enough mileage points to exchange for some cool stuff by end year.

2. Life Coach
I need one. Any good recommendations?

3. Roller Blading
Am going to take up blading, in addition to swimming and running once a week.
Say Yes to a healthy body and mind.

Our New Baby

Yeah! We finally got our baby!!

She came to us on 13th of July. It was almost love at first sight.

She's dark, or rather black in fact.

She can run really fast if she wants to, though we prefer to control her.

She is quite a noisy baby but we will be doing something about the noise.

She is maintenance -friendly and easy on consumption.

We are now in the midst of shopping accesorries for her. We love to shop for her and dress her up..We take pride in her looks and ensure she is clean and shiny all day..

She is our new pride of joy.

A Black Honda Intergra.

Taking it for granted

We tend to take many things for granted.
Family, friends, health , job etc etc...

Recently, someone close to us discovered she has stage 3 cancer.
It was unexpected. She is young, active and a happy-go-lucky person.
Of course, we are all sure that she will fight it with a brave heart and win it hands down。

And it dawned on me that throughout all this while, I have been complaining of many things in life.
The many mundane and insignificant things in life.

And i have been taking my health for granted all the time, at times abusing my body with unhealthy stuff.

I don't wish to stop only when something bad happens, and i wish you won't too. Let's stop taking it for granted. Treasure whatever you have now because you can lose it anytime.

happy meal

remember how a trip to Mac will brighten up your day when you was just a child?

food, i thought is always something comforting to a otherwise dull day.
Isn't thats why we love chocolates so much?

the sight of your fav dish, the smell of the fragrance, the taste of the freshest ingredients, as u dig your teeth into every mouthful, do you actually feel much better after a good happy meal?

I used to. In fact, whenever i feel down, i just try to compensate it with a happy breakfast or lunch so that i will have a better day.

However, I no longer can now.

I wonder why.
These few days, I have been arguing a lot with Greg. I have distant myself from everyone around me. I am no longer funny nor happy.

I often try to self-medicate by indulging myself in that sinful large chunk of chocolate cake, or by eating my favourite food.
But yet, nowadays i still can't derive pleasure or feel happy after a happy meal.

I wish I am not like this too. I have been feeling so down that even I hate myself now. I hate myself for being such kind of a person. I hate myself for not trying hard enough to change for the better. I hate myself that after these few years, I am still the same old me.

Bad habits never die. Its so true for me.

我的雨天。

今天的我，非常不开心。
我尝试让自己开心起来，但心里总是觉得酸酸的。好像在跟可恶的怪兽作战。

我今天特别船牛角尖。把每一句话，都看得很严重。

突然，我觉得好陌生。在这个繁忙的都市里，我好孤单。也很寂寞。
完全是心灵的感觉。

我看见了笑容。听到了欢笑。但我觉得好虚伪。

好想拿半天假，一个人坐在一间小小间的咖啡厅。好好的思考一下。
或者，设么也不去像好好的享受咖啡的芳香.
但最后，我还是没有。

午餐时间， 我去剪了头发。
似乎好像要剪掉所有的不开心。

你能体量我的雨天吗？

adding a new member to the family

ashley is born.

javier is born.

looking at them, i am starting to have some motherly instincts. :P

i can only say i am more or less ready for one.
though i still need to overcome the fear of labour pain.. hahaha...

a beery fun afternoon

One of our fav hangouts on a lazy sat afternoon.

Having beer @ Brewerkz..
The cool breeze, the warm sun, the cold beer.
The thought-provoking conversations, the bitching of mundane work, the lame jokes.
The joy of having good friends around.

picture provided is courtesy of Mr Joseph Lim.

The Good Friday Long Weekend

Suddenly felt like having a blog of our own too. After Joseph and Jolene. :)

Having married now for almost 6 months, i thought it will be cool if our families can check out this blog to know what our daily lives and weekends are like. who we spent it with, what did we do and so on... :)

This weekend is the Good Friday Long weekend.

On Thurs night, I had a good chat with Claudia after work at Superfamous. On work of course. But nonetheless, enjoyed talking to her and ranting about some of the irks we face at work.
Then, rushed home to cook a simple dinner for Mr Tham and Jolene. Joelene contributed 2 nice bottles of Pinot Noir and Merlot.
We watched The Mist and 1408 while muching the one of its kind's linda's famous chicken wings and baked potatos.

and as usual, i zonked out on the sofa just before the 2 Jos left.

Wanted to go to Red Star to eat dim sum with Mr Tham and Esther on Fri for brunch, but the Queue was not worth the wait. So sad. :(

I think its rather surreal.. the place. A very old block of flats. A tinge of urine smell around the lift landings and stairways. Yet you walk past quite a number of people among the quiet estate. Families, couples, children.. You just know that they are also going for Red Star.

Dinner was at Oji by Hanabi @ Vivo with the Jos again.
Food Rating: 3 stars
Service Rating: 1 star
Ambience: 4 star
Dinner Buffet is $50 per pax for weekends.
p.s: Worth trying if you have a serious craving for Jap food only. :P

We decided to drive to Keppel Bridge , The Prive.
It spells AWESOME.
The dockyards, the private yachts, the apartments @ Carribean, the sound of sea waves, the lighted sky, the number of expensive cars we passed that night.

and the gap between the very very rich and the poor widens more by each minute.