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SIGH!~

2010-05-22T21:30:00.002+08:00

I need to give out a big fat sigh now... And there are tonnes of reasons for it. First of all, revision week's coming to an end. And it seems like there is not much progress at all. I know that this is gonna be like... my 2 last papers the rest of my life? probably? I keep telling myself to really study... for just less than 1 week and then I can really play hard. BUT! Sigh... I just don't have the will power. The drive. I'm doing everything and anything but study. Everything and anything: watching drama, reading k and j pop news, reading world news, doodling in my diary, surfing around fb, staring blankly at the calendar, etc. You name it. Sigh.

Talking about staring blankly at the calendar... That's the second thing to sigh about. Time really flies. I feel really really old and can't control my time now. I agree with Amanda. We're probably getting a lil' too old for study. We kinda lose our focus. For me, I just feel that I no longer have the drive which I used to have so much of back in my Secondary school days. Come to think about it, it's weird how I'm quite a hardcore fan girl now as compared to my days in Secondary school. Shouldn't it be the other way round? Oh well... whatever the case, the fan girl-ing time really came at the wrong time. I should really spend more time with my textbooks, powerpoint slides and more readings... :s Sigh.

In less than a month's time, I would have graduated. With what kind of results, I really don't know. looking at my rate... Sigh. I am not young anymore, I should know what I wanna do and my future route, what I want to do. But it is not the case. My future is a blur. The future is so near yet so blur. Just how short-sighted am I? I think I am almost blind. Sigh. I read about how Taeyang got into YGE. His passion for singing since he was a kid, and how he gave himself a b'day pressie on his 12th b'day. He joined YGE. Sigh... HE, knew that he was gonna become a singer at such a young age, the age when I was suppose to be studying for my PSLE but ended up in front of the TV one day before my papers. x_x Sigh.

I am not trying to find excuse. But I really find it especially difficult to study here. The environment is just not right. Not like there aren't any distractions back at home. Just that, it just feels different. i can't just turn on my study mode *snap* just like that. I really wonder why. And it is really not helping when the marketing and tourism content is not what we have always been studying. It's so dry and biz planning-like in the academic way. Ugh! I totally abhore exams for such modules. Sigh. Not like I have a choice. :( Alrighty, I think I should get going. Hopefully after this 'everything and anything' -- blogging, I will be able to at least concentrate for a lil' and complete my current chapter. x_x

SSSSSSIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~ =============3 <- a long sigh...

Sport's Day - 1

2010-05-14T02:22:00.013+08:00

I was awaken by Val at about 7am on Thursday morning. It's Ascension Day and like what my Title says, it's Sport's Day 1. I had to drag myself out of bed and the day was so cold and wet -- 9 freaking degrees. @_@

We left for the bus stop and the walk/jog there was... brrr.... It wasn't all that bad until after we got on the bus, we started asking people from the events team if we were going to be indoors or outdoors. To our PLEASANT surprise. Weee!~ We entered ourselves into: an outdoor 400m track, 2 basketball courts and 2 small soccer courts. It was crazy. The rain started coming and the rain. OOOOOOOooooooo.... I can never describe how the chill goes deep into the bones. :S

We wished and hoped and wished that it will be cancelled. Well, of course it didn't. Then we hoped and wished and hoped and wished that it will start soon so we can get it over and done with. Well, we started really late of course. My thighs were already aching by then, all the tensing of the muscles from the cold. :x During the long period of weight, we were literally going crazy, complaining and considering a walk over, a hot bowl of wanton mee, a hot bowl of instant noodle, the bed, the blanket, a hot cup of coffee/milo and a book! x_x Janet, Nikko and me were huddling in a thermal blanket most of the time. And when it was nearing our race, Nikko, Marisa, Hany and I were huddling in the blanket beside the track. Well, of course we were super AA and got labelled by Mr. B, the blanket girls + Dr. V just kept laughing whenever he sees us. :s

It was finally our turn to race and from 3 teams, it became 4 teams. How nice. 3 male teams against us, SLA. x_x BUT we did well! We completed the race! Haha... Of course, we finished 1st! ... from the back. :P It's been a really long time since I've ran. How I wish I had my sports shoe. Anyway, it's really no easy to exercise here 'cos of how thin the air is. It was really difficult to breathe and my lungs almost flipped over while I was running. There were so many audiences as all other events had ended. I wanted so much to sprint at the end, but I really... couldn't. Something was wrong with me. Haha... But the IMIs were so nice, they were cheering for me. Despite having suffered so much, think about the opportunity cost: sleeping in on a cold and rainy day + saving on 4 francs transport, I must say that it was a horrible experience. At least one that I will never ever forget unlike my past Sport's Day. Haha...

You can seriously imagine how bad the weather was. Even the guys were freezing their ass off. And seriously, on Sport's Day, who craves for a hot drink? Hasn't it always been cold ice water/gatorade or the super duper cold Milo truck dispenser?

Weather's gonna be bad for quite some time... and Badminton competition's on Saturday. I think I'm going to die. x_x Sigh... at least after I came back, I had a hot bath, a hot bowl of myojo shrimp tamen, surf the net and then off to bed and had a fantastic 4 hour long dreamless nap! Woohooo!~ Love it! <3

You ask about everything except offer your help...

2010-04-26T05:37:00.002+08:00

AH!!! Pissed! Thank god it'll be over soon. I'm almost at my limits now. If I really have a showdown at him... It's too much work and I seriously can't be bothered to entertain people the likes of him. As what my title suggests, seriously this is not the first time. What a perfect gentleMAN! :S

T_T Off to continue my F&B report. Just needed somewhere to do a shout out!

My day just can't get any better... :'(

2010-04-12T22:31:00.002+08:00

Need I say more? FML.

Disney Dreams

2010-04-02T20:44:00.003+08:00

It's been one week since I returned from my trip. It's funny how I have been dreaming of Disneylands. First, was Paris Disneyland and just today, I dreamt of Tokyo Disneyland! Wahaha... how crazy was that!?

My paris Disneyland was quite a normal one, where I dreamt of Donald Duck and Pluto... Haha... One odd thing was that i kept calling DD, Donald and he asked me to call him: Donald Duck. Oh well... Here comes the weird one in Tokyo...

I dreamt that I was with my dad and only had 2 mins left 'cos smthg happened before that (I could hardly remember). So I was running around trying to buy something. I just wanted to buy something with Tokyo Disneyland imprinted on it. So I went to ask the sales assistant what was a more popular & rare item where I could only get it there. I can't remember what she replied but I didn't get anything in the end.

Before I knew, I was running around looking for something. I came across lots of anime characters and I was looking at the time. It was already 1 minute past 1 and I had already exceeded my given 2 minutes. Well, I still continued running and while I was at it, I suddenly thought of getting takoyaki (somehow, I just remembered that it wasn't easy to get since I'm away in Switz). So I was hunting for takoyaki. I asked a girl for directions (in Jap!) Haha... and she directed me. I found the stall and ordered immediately! But! I realised that it was... weird. The takoyaki they have on the stall menu board, 1) spinach takoyaki, 2) something takoyaki and 3) tako takoyaki. Hmm... the takoyaki they were making was huge! like bigger than my 2 fists. After observing the people, I realised that they aren't Japs, but Chinese. So I decided to walk off (yes, without my order :P)

So I was walking round and then someone pointed to the direction behind me and said takoyaki! I turned around and there were so many stalls selling takoyaki look-alikes. It turned out, that, they were all selling russian eggs. Yes, what the hell's russian eggs!? I have no idea but that's what it says on their signboard. Haha... It was hilarious. Oh well, somehow I walked and got lost and bumped into this really tall guy. He raised up his right arm to talk to me and he had Edward Scissorhand's 'hand'. It looked really scary but he was just trying to help me with directions. Haha... After that, something happened but it's all just very blur and I woke up... WITHOUT eating any takoyaki! ah!!! my たこ焼き!〜 :'(

Sigh... it was a crazy dream. probably one of the most ridiculous dreams I have had. Say, 1 out of a zillion? I have tonnes of ridiculous dreams. Very tiring to go to sleep. I wish I can have more dreamless nights!~ Tonight mabbe? :)

Barcelona! The land of the _____!~

2010-03-28T21:30:00.001+08:00

Yes, I'm back from Barcelona. I totally love this trip. Yes, I love Tokyo, Phuket and Hong Kong too. But Barcelona seems to be a combi of everything, western style. :) In the Barcelona, they have pretty architectures, old, gothic style; mosaic, colourful, abstract. As a sucker for architectures, I feel that I have not done justice to Barcelona. The churches!~ Amazing!~ The museums. Omg! The amount of museums they have, it's crazy. I have only entered the Picasso Museum & Chocolate Museum! I only used one free coupon given in the 2 day pass.

Did you know? Chocolate in Europe kinda started in Spain first! How interesting is that? Their chocolates are lovely! Thick and almost bitter but not to bitter for my liking! Perfect! It's nothing like what Starbucks has to offer. The Xchocolata with whipped cream, together with churros! Omg!~ The match! It's like soybean + fried fritters: the more heavenly version. :P Talking about food, how can I forget seafood right? With the Mediterranean sea just overlooking the city!~ Their Paella!~ Tapas!~ Salad with loads of olive oil and mozzarella!~ Grilled Seafood!~ Waffles by the port!~ Creme Brulee!~ Sangria!~ Not to mention, my last day was spent with an overdosage of Sangria!~ Haha! Well, yea, it's sad that I didn't get to try their McDonald's & KFC there... (You don't know how much I miss it) But yet, how can I not eat local food?

I had Sangria by the beach. And I ordered this thing that I thought was bread with mushroom + cheese topping. Guess what? It turned out to be Brinjal. :s Alright, not complaining, it was quite nice, at least I do eat brinjal now... imagine if I didn't. T_T" The Beach was magnificent. It was still a cloudy, windy day and we saw a lady wearing bikini. There were lots of 'sand castles' built up with a touch of creativity. How the sand dragon's nose can fire up, poking plants in them for the sand house's greenery, there's a big sand dog and what i found most amazing was a sand castle built with a lil' fountain and the water was still flowing! To the side, was a lil mountain, with black smoke spiraling up! How amazing is that? There were so much to see by the beach and it just so happened that they were launching Audi A1 by the beach. So I had a ride in the red A1, high speed, drift and going up the slope, sideways. Haha... it was a fun ride!~

Shopping! Haha... I really liked the shopping there although souvenirs were really quite expensive. On top of that, I had to consider how I was to bring them back with my very tight baggage limit. It was really sad 'cos I really missed out a lot. A LOT. Sigh... I bought 2 tops, One from Zara and another from Bershka. Zara is so not cheap there. I saw this lovely spring jacket. It was 70 euros. O_o The other top I got was 10 euros, I really liked it. Apple got one too!~ :) I saw nice stuff at Mango, but didn't get. Sigh... I bought 2 bottoms, one grey skirt and a pair of Jeans. The skirt was from Pull & Bear, Really nice, a lil' short tho @ 10 euros and the Jeans! Highlight of my trip! 40 euros, from Massimo Dutti!~ It was not even on sale! Love it man! Tho the back pocket doesn't look that nice but... I like it. :P

See, isn't it a combi of Tokyo, Phuket & Hong Kong? Haha... I think it was a great experience. Yes, I did lots and lots of homework and most of them actually had gone to waste but I still feel that it's a great trip. Plan for the unplanned. that's what I learnt from this trip. Other than what Barcelona has to offer, I personally feel that it was a good one 'cos I got to meet new friends. I met Daphne, Apple's colleague's friend. She's an avid traveller. So I picked up a lot of things from her. It was just the 2 of us in the day for the first 2 days. Then Xiuhui & her brother came along on Wed where we went to Mt. Tibidabo, Park Guell and the chocolate museum together. A bigger group, there was quite a lot of fun. Daphne left on Thurs so I was left to go explore alone. I really planned my day already but like what I said, plan for the unplanned, expect the unexpected. I met a new friend on my last day there. (This was how my Sangri overload came about) Liz's Californian with pure Spanish blood. It's her first time in Barcelona which I found quite surprising. She was alone so we kinda decided to go into Sagrada Familia together and we ended up spending the whole day together. Haha... yes, with Sangria. She asked me to join her in California soon and she's a decent snowboarder! How cool's that?

On my real last day, the day I was coming back. I felt so so so sad. the day was so great! It's as if it's calling out to me to tour it more. The clear sunny blue sky! Aww man... On top of that, Apple was going back to Singapore. The feeling i had inside me. You can't imagine how much I wanted to be on the same flight as her back to Singapore. The homesickness overwhelmed me. She sent me an sms that brought tears to my eyes. With this, I left Barcelona. I definitely want to be back again. Not so soon. Perhaps when the Familia's close to completion? There's still too much I haven't done, so yes, I'll be back!

Anyway, i came back with quite some Singapore sauces. Laksa paste, curry paste, chicken rice marinade, ba kut teh, sesame oil and 'da hua' soy sauce + Chocolate oreos and pocky!~ Wahaha... love it man. Can't wait to cook them!~ BUT time really flies! there's only 2 more months till school officially ends! I can hardly believe this and there's still so much workload. @_@ I need to readjust myself to school life again! No more holidaying till end May/Jun! Fighting!~

It's been a long long time!~

2010-03-15T06:25:00.002+08:00

It's been a great long time since I have last blogged. I'm blogging now mainly because I have had enough of chapter 3. This will be concluding my Sunday.

I know I need to do well and be consistent with my dissertation. That's what I keep telling myself but there's just too much distractions. This is bad. I need to work harder! On school work! It is really a pain. Somehow, I feel that I have chosen the wrong topic to work on. 'Cos companies doesn't seem to be as helpful as I thought. I've been sending out emails furiously but the replies are usually negative and most ignored me. :( BUT, I must tell myself to press on. Think positive! Law of attraction! :)

Ok, let's go on to something happier! I'm getting out of the Alps-rich Switzerland in less than a week's time! To the land of Tapas, Marco Polo, Zara and many more. Haha... Hoorah! I can't wait man! What's more? I'll be meeting Apple there! Hoorah! x 2 Like what Apple said, I bet we're going to have sleepless nights.... talking to each other all night long! Haha... Been doing research yesterday and a lil' today. The more I read, the more excited I am. Plus, doing most of it alone... It's kind of like my first. Very refreshing indeed. I bet Barcelona's going to be very special place to me. I hope everything goes well. Not perfect but positively well.

Of course, a lot happened in my life but... hmm... yet, there's nothing much to blog about. Like a 'daebak' or something. 'Cos life has just been... like that. The usual. I've one thing that I dunno why I always keep looking forward to. That's language class every Thursday night. Korean's really quite an interesting and challenging language to learn. It's a pity that I don;t take out time to practice every other day. Why I said that I dunno why I look forward to is actually 'cos I already know Mandarin (well enough) and the japanese basics. Hmm... What I can infer from this is that I can really go ahead with taking up Japanese after I go back to Singapore and have enough $$ of course. Since I really have the passion to pick up Japanese. :)

It's career week, there's many many talks we have to attend from Mon to Wed. Plus, gotta work on Chapt 3 and Chapter 2 after meeting my mentor... Hmm... A busy week indeed. I'm glad that I'm only flying on Sun. I think I really need to kick myself and work on my dissertation and get lost in Barcelona. Actually, I think I've already done enough research for the trip. What I really need to do is more like picking up some phrases like... "where is the toilet?" Haha...

it's almost 12am! Gotta wake up early tmr and prob earlier for breakfast. Plus, I think my back and neck's breaking soon since I've been sitting here for almost the whole of my Sunday (meant to be a family day with delicious Singapore delicacies paid for by my Dad). T_T Talking about my dad... Internet here sux! T_T" I guess I won't be blogging till I come back from my trip so... Adios!~ AND... Hola, Barcelona and Manzana!~ (^v^)v

A fine weekend...

2010-02-22T22:02:00.003+08:00

Well it isn't really a fine weekend, weekend. More like a fine Sunday. Cos... it was our first time going out of Lucerne (FINALLY!) >_< ...to the haven of discounted branded goods, Lugano. You cannot imagine how 'cheap' it is. Haha... yes, they are discounted BUT still not very affordable. I ended up buying only 2 items. 1. A pair of black Jeans from Polo RL (Finally I found my pair of black jeans!~) It's really pretty and I must say that it is quite fitting. the length's considered perfect I must say!~ 2. A skirt (black as well) from Pe Pe Jeans. It's really pretty... picked out for me by Ying. :) Ahem... here comes the price: 49 francs (RRP: 210 francs) and 29 francs (RRP: 99 francs) respectively. Wahaha... can you imagine a pair of jeans, cheaper than my Levi's? Heh heh... Well... of course i did see things that I didn't buy. 2 main things on this list too. 1. a Burberry men's crossbody brown leather bag. (It was love at first sight) Really gorgeous (The price too)! Haha... No. 2's a grey jacket from Pe Pe Jeans. Selling at 89 francs. I know it's not cheap but original was 219 francs. BUT winter's almost over and it's not exactly my size. (Quoted from Ying, "the reasons why I should not get it") Sigh...

It was a super tiring day tho... totally k.o.ed as soon as I lay on my bed. This morning was especially funny. How everyone could just come into class without realising that they were actually in the wrong class. Haha... I guess most had a crazy and tiring weekend as well.

The weather's really nice today as well plus lunch was good... delicious fried rice... Everything seems fine except that my roomie's ill! Down with flu... It looks damn bad. Hope it won't worsen 'cos it's quite a long day for her tomorrow. Ge well soon, Val!~ :)

Well, why am I skyping now? I'm feeling lazy of course. Although I told my bro that I'll chiong my work starting from today... ermm.... well... I will! As soon as I end this (I hope) Haha... I was skyping just a while ago, finally, for the first time, with my Ah Ma. Haha... Really nice seeing them all again, including my bro who refuses to login to his Skype. Sigh... Oh well, I finally manage to bug him to give me the photos taken during my departure after what seems aeons... but cos he refuses to go in skype... and connection sux... he ended up uploading the photos on my behalf with no caption, no tags. Oh well... At least his mission is accomplished. Come to think about it... I was reading straits time and there was this article saying that a 90 minutes nap is equivalent to a night's deep sleep (without waking up in between)... So,,, I think I should go try it out. *evil grin* yes, my excuse of taking a nap. :P Good Night World!~

Muahaha... Best lunch since...

2010-02-12T07:21:00.005+08:00

Of course, I have never ending stuff to blog about BUT as you can ALL see, my main aim of blogging IS... *ta-dah!* My lunch today! Omg... the thought of it makes me drool...

So, what did I have for lunch? If you are slow enough (to not notice my photos on fb) then... here's what I had...

Muahaha... 烧肉！果条！粥！Omg! The soya sauce for the roasted pork... The porridge is delicious, as always. And for Dessert... Creamy almond jelly! Wah... Totally great man! I ate till I was so full & happy. Money makes the world go round and good food makes my day!~ I was totally happy for the rest of my day! Haha... I love the Asian chef la... <3

Well... we were all hoping that their be leftovers (as always) for dinner. It turned out that there weren't any, at all. Sigh... I had to eat the lamb. Kinda made me sick. Good thing there were almond jellies... Otherwise... the taste of lamb in my mouth... Eewww... :s

After dinner, I was running late for my language class. Ok, I WAS late. I love the class la... It's a small class, comfortable number of people. A 1 & half hour class: Korean, Mandarin & Japanese. I like the class. It's something I'm sure I will be looking forward to. See. Interest in something VELi VELI THE important. I'm quite sure I won't feel the same towards German or French. Spanish... maybe. It's said that we'll be getting our books next week! How cool, seems like it's going to be official!~ Wee!~

Last but not least... I've been hooked onto a song since 2 days ago... BoA's new album, IDENTITY called "Is this love". This is for all the people who are in love out there (Not on purpose). :) I hope there'll be a MV for this... Otherwise, a live performance will be great too!~ Haha... I've suddenly become a fan of BoA. Mich! All your fault!

It is...

2010-02-11T00:24:00.002+08:00

It is... so cold today.

It is... snowing heavily outside.

It is... a quiet day. (At least it is, for me)

It is... a constructive day.

It is... so far away from home.

It is... a good news for me to look forward to the coming of the next semester.

It is... a very yummy biscuit. (Julie's peanut butter)

It is... it is.. it is... Sigh...

Boredom...

2010-02-08T23:17:00.002+08:00

Well... It's not lke I'm very free cos there are actually lots and lots of work pending... Been doing research over the past few hours but I just can't find anything good! Ugh... How annoying...

Wll, I foresee a lot of time alone like now... 'cos my dearest roomie has finally decided to take up German. :) Yes, I'm H-A-P-P-Y for you, Val. :) 1 more hour till your class ends. Hmm... Since, I'm here, lemme just blog about my weekend.

Nothing extremely happening. Just lots of games, late nights and not to forget, Ice Skating!~

From Fri to Sun... Seriously... We were just playing Monopoly Deal, Bridge, Big Two, Old Maid/Donkey, Speed/Snap/Stress, Heart Attack, Jenga (i think that's about it). Totally reminds me of all those post exam games back in Pri/Sec school. Haha... On the first night, we were into hardcore Monopoly... played till 4am in the morning. Wahaha... That's the first night Vanessa played and got addicted to Monopoly Deal. It's crazy. Then, on the second night, we were just into Bridge. It's been so long since I played that I couldn't remember a thing. Haha... ok, I'll just admit, I'm old... I can't even think properly while playing snap anymore. I used to be so good at it. Ahem.. ok, USED to. Sigh... Just like how I once knew how to ice skate but on Saturday, I couldn't at all once I stepped into the skating ring...

Yup, I fell. ...3 times. Sigh... My Ankle area's bruised and of course, my butt too. Ouch. On Sat night, the lactic acid was killing me. I thought that I wouldn't be able to walk properly the following day. Haha... Somehow, it kinda reminds me of my Badminton training days... It was so much worse.. It's scary. I can't imagine how I pulled through 5 years of training every week. @_@ But still, I miss Secondary school days. Not as much as I miss S'pore food now tho... >_< Some kind soul please send smthg over... Otah sounds good... Laksa, Hokkien Mee, KFC Egg Tart, Mee Rebus, Beef Noodle, Char Siew Rice, OMG!~ >_<

Ok, I shall eat chocolates... This is the only thing that consoles me. It's the land of chocolates. I won't get sick of chocolates. Really. I still go all high when I see new chocolate flavors and go crazy at the chocolate section, my wallet wrestling with my inner chocolate craving. Haha... Seriouly, I love chocolate. But somehow, I've come to a realisation that I love S'pore food a lot more than chocolates. O_O Surprised? I'm surprised myself too but I think I'm able to live my life without chocolates but not without S'pore food. I think. Mabbe it's the craving for Singapore food that's so overwhelming now. I may say otherwise like... as soon as I touchdown in Singapore. Hee... >_<

Alrighty! I think I'd better get back to research!~ Hope I'll come back and update the blog more regularly! Oh yes! DONNA's heading to Tokyo tomorrow! After some 1 week in Hokkaido? Omg! DON! I'm so jealous! :s I wonder if Big Bang's in Tokyo now... Ah!!! >_< Tokyo! Seriously! I'm SO gg there within the next 5 years! Waha! Going off!~ \(^_^)/

The Rain, Cherry Tomatoes, Macbook & Me...

2010-02-05T23:42:00.002+08:00

Just woke up from a short nap (all alone in the room :( - my roomie dumped me)... Hmm... How time flies... It's already been more than a month since I came here.

Thinking back, some 2 years ago, Joan, Apple & I were dining together at Marche, Vivocity. Joan was just telling Apple & I about this course. Then, I thought, I'd never apply for this course. Now, I'm seated on my bed, in my room, right smack in the middle of Switzerland, middle of Europe, far far away from Singapore. Sigh... Life certainly is unpredictable huh? Just like how one <3 meets another <3. :P (ahem...)

Well, like I mentioned, I just woke up from a nap. It's a Fri and there's no class. So, why ami I not out?

I spent ahem... 55.50 francs yesterday. Well... It wan't planned... It just so happened that JUST when we were about to head back, a phone call came & we decided to go n have some thai food for dinner. Yes, 30 francs for my dinner. >_< But I was so satisfied & the craving was kinda gone so... I guess it's all worth it? 4 dishes, a rice & a drink. I'll just buy less chocolates. :P Other than that, I also bought chewing gum, a long purple hoodie, 2 pairs of leggings and shared a heineken at Roadhouse.

Well, while I was happily out in town, I forgot all about our project meeting. I can't believe that I forgot all about it. Sigh... my memory fails me so much! No, no, no, no, NO! Hmm...

I'm getting really lazy to blog so no pictures this time... How I wish I have as much time as when I was in China. I could really blog every other day and go on pet society & visit every single house. Sigh... Time... where are you? I wanted blog about something else but I can't remember what. Well... I should just end here!~

Yummy Cherry Tomatoes!~

Cheerios!~ I'm looking fwd to a great weekend!~ <3

2nd Sunday has gone by...

2010-01-12T17:30:00.004+08:00

Well... As mentioned in the title, it's already my second Tuesday since I arrived. We kinda spent the entire weekend doing up our dissertation proposal. It was giving us such a headache. It snowed over the weekend BUT we couldn't go out to play. The snow's melting now and it doesn't seem like it will snow (according to my weather widget) despite the cloudy weather. Well... It says that it'll rain tmr... oh dear... Will it still snow?? I hope it will! *prays hard*

Haven't attended many classes yet so it feels quite alright now. But I know that workload will just start piling up. Yesterday was our first Marketing class. Hmm... We had our first random grouping and till now, I have yet to meet them. >_<>_<

Well, this Fri, we have no class so we're planning to go out after lunch... It'll be 7 in S'pore... SO! I don't think I can Skype with the gorgeouses who are going to Amanda's to have a sleeplover. >_<>

Well, nothing much has happened in my life... Well... mabbe just today, my tummy doesn't seem to feel too well, having a little of headache? N a bad hair day... :P No worries, I'll get through... They are all not very serious. Hmm... I'm so bored... I'm actually waiting for lunch to come but it's only 1041h right now... :s hould I start waching IRIS? Hmm... *ponders*

Alrighty... I guess I should end here with a very nice photo taken by Ying Ying, the great photographer... >_<

Taken in front of my school!~ :)

First Sunday & Orientation 1...

2010-01-05T03:06:00.001+08:00

On our first Sunday in Luzern... The class went to the city to get our necessities. Val & I too had a shopping list but it ended up being quite useless because we just didn't have he heart to spend it on them. Things like tissue box, hand soap, etc. They were necessities but not exactly a necessity. Oh well... We'll live without it. In the end we spent about 5 CHF for our bus trip & bought a 0.3 CHF bottle of weird tasting water. Sigh... Since we didn't want to waste the expensive bus fare... We continued walking round the city till we were just in time to catch the 5pm bus. By about 4pm... the sun was setting and the weather really started to get really really cold. Brrr... Everyone was freezing & we could hardly take it. We took quite a number of photos!~

At about 9pm, I got news from Steph & John that several classmates got really sick... running a fever, diarrhea & vomiting. It sounded realy bad. Michelle even got sent to the hospital! Till today, although they all turned up for orientation, I could tell that they are definitely still not well... I really hope that everyone will get well soon. God bless!~

For the first orientation... There were quite a number of talks and stuff... I guess I have been sleeping for too long... I got really tired at some point n my eyelids just felt so heavy... Oh dear... I better work something out before class officially starts. During the intro session for the first half of our cohort ('cos we got split into 2 grps), there were people from Singapore (of course), South Korea (Kyaah... Big Bang!), Macau, Hong Kong, Russia, US & Malaysia. Haha... Come to think about it... where are the Japs?? :P After the session, it started snowing so we decided to go n play with the snow after school. After much delay, we finally went out at about 5pm... It was kinda dark already but as it was still snowing, it wasn't as cold as yesterday night. The sun was setting so there were still streaks of reddish orange, which I was unable to really capture... Oh well... But we (Yingying, Val, Pam, Chris, Emma, Steph, Emma, Hany & me) had a snow fight... Hany even made snow angel! I wanna make one too but I was not wearing something waterproof. DAMN! It was really cute! :)

Then... I finally managed to skype with my cousin, uncle & aunt!~ :) Haha... it was 1am for them... So my cousin had to wake my aunt up... :p Really nice to see them... ;P Alrighty!~ I should get going... Tired... Going to bed... Omg... I've been so guai over the past few days... sleeping before 11pm, waking up at 7am, not watching korean variety show... sigh... I wanna watch FO & BB's performances! >_< Byeeeeeee........~ <3

Sorry... lazy to rotate...

Welcome to Luzern, Switzerland!~

2010-01-03T14:32:00.006+08:00

It's my first Sunday in Luzern. Woke up at about 7am from my bro's sweet sms. Well... and i woke with quite puffy eyes & lips... throat hurts a lil' too. Val's still asleep. Really hope that my snoring didn't keep her awake last night 'cos i went to bed first and fell asleep within seconds.

Ok, Luzern!~ We got welcomed by snow on our way from the airport to the school... Had a welcome drink and yummy croissant, a mini snow fight, got allocated to our rooms, unpacked for a lil', changed and went off for brunch. Lunch was not bad. Had spaghetti, their so called rosti which appeared to be hashbrown & sausages. After which, we were off on a campus & city tour. Other than the campus' magnificent view... it's not fantastic school but at least it's small & cosy :)

Ok something more exciting now... The city tour!~ On our bus trip there... (Bus No. 21) I saw so many buildings... all so nice and well built!~ Kinda reminds me of the German houses in Qingdao & the houses on logcakes... :) The city's really cold... the wind's stronger there but really pretty!~ It looks like a lil' city to me... but at least the city's wireless! Haha... So cool ya?

There's a church in the city... (I'll visit it someday), Mac's, BK, Starbucks (I'm gonna miss pure choc) Body Shop... & H&M!~ Hoorah!~ They were having a sale when we were walking pass it. It's said that 60% of the visitors to Luzern are Asians... O_O (Don! Come here quick... be part of the 60%)

Eh... What else do I wanna talk about? Yes, the cleaning of OUR rm... Haha... We cleaned our room... unpacked and all... Got me really sleepy tho... But we finally finished and it was almost past dinner time so we went for dinner in the canteen. Well... they had only chicken curry, rice & bee hoon left. At least they had rice... So i took rice with chicken curry... I must say... the cook's not anyone close to being an Asian. We went back to the room and washed up... ( the toilet light's retarded, mabbe i shld say the design of the toilet isn't gd? 'Cos the light has got motion sensor...) then off to see the stars at ard 8pm. It's so dark and clear here that... It's just so... Superb. The moon's even bigger here and oh so round and bright. The sky's so clear that you can see the gradient of the moon's "colour" (the uneven surface of the moon) PLUS it was hanging beside the mountain & above the lake. The moonlight shining upon the lake's surface, sigh... not smthg that my stupid camera can capture so... It's etched deep in my memory. :) It's really like scenes you'll only read of from descriptive novels. >_<

Yea... that's kinda about wraps it all... Finally, to Gwen Yip: I heard that Jaela likes my b'day pressie for her!~ Yay!~ So happy to hear that from mummy!~

N now... for the photos...

In the midst of the above, Tania doing the <3>

On our way to the school, onboard the bus...

Started snowing...

View right in front of the school...

During the city tour...

Snow drop fell on Val's hair, our attempt to take photo of the snow flake structure...

Hello...

2009-03-01T20:15:00.003+08:00

It's been some time since I updated... Will be gg to Sales & Marketing department tmr... Sigh... for a week. I wonder what I'll be doing there... anw, only 19 more days! I can do it!~

Oh ya, I was just reading the straits times... N... the merlion got hit by lightning?! The rain in S'pore must be super duper heavy for this to happen! Hmm... lightning... rain... I hardly see them here... I'm doing well... N hopefully I can confirm soon with everyone my flight n all... Ah... HOME!~

My stomach's growling... am waiting for Val to return... nothing much to write... ok, more like... there's a lot to write but i'm really lazy to do it so... I shall end here... here's a pic of poor merlion which got hit... taken from straitstimes.com:

B-A-C-K!!!

2009-02-24T16:00:00.003+08:00

Well, i'm back at work... the same old things for another week n I'll be gg to Sales & marketing to learn the art of another form of stoning. Not that I want to stone but the hotel has been rather quiet... Oh well... Tmr, Val & I will be attending the FO dinner... Haha... I'm really hungry now!

Anw, the trip sucked... It just rained and rained and kept raining... totally spoilt our trip... I mean, we cld've done a lot more... seriously! :s Altho I dun have as much photos as compared to the Qingdao trip, we still do have interesting photos... I think I'll post them up on facebook instead. Really dunno how to blog n jhave no mood to blog... What I really want to blog IS...

That I lost abt 600 SGD at Shanghai! Freaking hell! I really really can't rmb when n how I lost it la... N i'm stupid enough to only realise at abt midnight, just when I was abt to turn in! How stupid am I!? Tell me! Sux shit lor... I tried to be calm when I found out that it wasn't there, went to the reception to ask but it was nowhere to be found! Ugh! I then started to cry n had to wake Val up from her slumber. :s I called to try to make a police report... but their efficiency rocks big time!

I called 110 and rtold the operator that i lost my purse n wld like to make a police report. She asked where I lost it, i said i dunno... she said smthg that she can't help me then... cos i dunno where i lost it... then i asked her wat she meant... she freaking gave me attitude until i told her tat i'm staying at Fuzhou Road, she said she'll direct my call to the bund's police branch just like tat n the call was directed. Then a policeman answered, asked me for my details, i told him everything then said i'm staying at Fuzhou Road... then he said... "hmm... i'll give u another police post's address 'cos we're not in charge of the area. The address is... xxx... lemme check the exact address..." (i was on hold for quite some time) "why dun u try calling tis no.?" Ok, fine, i called. Nobody picked up, I called the b***h operator again... to redirect my call... she didn't even say another word and redirected my call again. I then told the policeman that I called earlier but no one answered. THEN guess wat he said? "oh, then u can just come down to my police branch. You can come over now or tmr to make ur report but i's recommend u to make it tmr." What the hell lor, I seriously think that he was just pure lazy! 2am, at the police station, he was doing EVERYTHING so slowly... sigh... seriously! I've had enough!

I really feel sad about losing tat much money but everyone has been telling me tat at least it's only cash and I didn't get hurt and tat it cld be 破财挡宰... oh well... i'm sure the person may need the cash more than me... :s the person better use it wisely! if not... sigh... such a waste...

Sigh... 37 more mins till i knock off... hungry... I shall end here then... 24 more DAYS!
byeeeeeeeeeeeeee!~

Will Be Away For A Week...

2009-02-16T09:14:00.003+08:00

Yup, u guessed it. I'm going on a one week trip to Suzhou, Hangzhou n Shanghai! Wahaha... But my throat hearts... cos I had steamboat on Fri and again, yesterday... Too heaty I guess... :s Yes, I'll drink more water... >_<

Yay! I'm so excited for the trip... Am suppose to knock off at 1300hr today BUT i haven't asked my manager yet... How fun is this? *sigh* Yay! Will be seeing Yingying & Meiqing, Yongcheng & SH gang, my uncle... wahaha... I'll be bringing my laptop so feel free to email me. I'll try to check it daily... Eh... guess I'll just end here... Wee~!

32 more days!~ (omg, when I return, I'll have only 25 more days!!!)

Bad day, Unlucky day. U name it.

2009-02-09T10:43:00.002+08:00

Sigh... woke up yest morning with weird tummy... n it was aching for the whole day... I tot it was gastric... Went to bed at ard 0030hr n felt really bloated. Then, the real thing came. At ard 2am, diarrhea, 5am, diarrhea again. 7am, again. 10am, again. N till now, I dunno how many times alr. Lost count. Sigh... My only off day this mth besides the one set aside for our trip. I really hope I'll be able to work tmr! Orh man! This totally sux! Humph... I'll try to go n work on my report... Sigh...

Procrastinating

2009-02-07T23:16:00.003+08:00

Haha... Not like I have a lot of time... just tat I am willing to do everything and anything BUT report! Argh... Anw, I'm here cao I want to side track from the report so I shall not tok abt it here. Haha...

I was webcaming with my cousin, niece, nephew and aunt just now... It was so happening la... Gwen's frens were all present. It was kinda weird. My lil' Jaela played some violin 'noise' for me... Haha... At least she got the right posture and managed to play some sound... :) N my lil' Kieran can walk super steadily now... run even! Haha... He's SO cute la... Uber cute! He was running around... and roar-ing at the same time. Ran from right to left, 'roar', run from left to right, 'ROAR'! Haha... Yes, that's my nieces and nephew for u.

Gor called me at work today... Haha... told me tat he dreamt of me! He dreamt that I was back! Lol... I told him that it's cause he missed me too much and he laughed. Oh well, he also told me that my Ah Gong's health's deteriorating... Sigh... If I'm not wrong, my Ah Gong's ard 94 or 96 alr, plus he loves to eat those preserved sausages so he's liver's deteriorating. Sigh... life. What can I say? I just hope that it's not painful and he won't have to suffer much. :s

Val and I went to our RO, HR Dept. today to ask if we can push forward our attachment end date from 22 to 20th Mar... N yes, we can! So I'll be home 2 days earlier... Not sure if we'll be gg to Beijing yet... Too much things to do. Will most prob decide after we're back from Shanghai... :P Sigh... time really flies... It's already 11.25pm! Sigh... It's Sunday tmr but it nvr feels like one... Oh well, Not like I have a lot of Sundays more to come... Hee hee... :>

AND... I just found out smthg! Fran got her license in Aug!? *Gasp* I nvr knew that!? Sigh... *shakes head* Sounds like Fran, Don, Manda, Sam & Dei had an enjoyable Fri... Sigh... I'm so jealous... Right now, I'm craving for................. BK Mushroom Swiss Burger! Sigh... Going off to bed... :( Nite! :(

At Work

2009-02-05T16:12:00.002+08:00

Just came back yest. Started work today. It's been like... decades since I last blogged! Oh well... It has been a great week for me... Went on a short trip n stuff... Kinda gotta rush into out report now... After the report's submitted, I'll see how I can blog abt my trip to Qingdao & Jinan... Cos it's just too much to blog abt. Not to forget, I had to shower with cold freezing water! OMG... That was a totally... sucky... experience! The thought of it freezes me deep into my bones :S

As what the title says, I'm at work now... :P 45 more mins till I knock off. Sigh... I've so much to do! N I'm hungry... Sigh... gotta eat dinner alone today cos Val's working afternoon shift... :S I'm feeling so lazy to eat... Well, the 9th (Mon), Don,Geri & Fran will be making a trip to my hse... For what? Haha... To pass me the whole load of stuff incl. my pressie & a lot of stuff... I'm really wondering what my pressie is... sigh... Oh well... I've ard one and a half mth more till I see that big bag of stuff!~ I SO can't wait! >_<

Hmm... I can't think of anything else to blog about other than the trip... So I guess I'll just end here then! Btw, I've been doing well, survived 4 mths here alr... Just gotta pull through this period till the submission of the report which is till the 13th & Val n I will be able to fly! From then on, EVERYTHING will be very fast n before I noe it, I'll be home! Bye for now! :)

Jason Mraz!~

2009-01-28T22:40:00.004+08:00

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! NNNNNNNNNNoooooooooooooooooo!~~~ *echos*

Sigh... Jason Mraz LIVE in SGP! Wat the hell! On freaking 5th Mar and it was sold out almost instantly! Sigh... No fate... No fate at all... :( Well, at least I'm glad that I went to Maroon 5's last year... But still!? Sigh... :( Sigh... (x 10000000000) I first saw it on sistic's website... But once I saw 5th Mar... I knew that there's no hope alr... Manda then saw my msn nick: NO!~ I wanna go! Jason Mraz live in S'pore! Dammit! >_< N told me tat it was sold out within ard an hr. Sigh... I asked Mich abt it... N Pearl just 'Jiawen!!' me and told me she just realised tat Jason Mraz's coming to S'pore but by the time she checked, there were already no tix. :(

Orh man! Sigh... So, here I am... bathing myself with his songs... except that I can't find his first album in my laptop. Sigh... At least I have it in my mp3. Well, I love his second album too! OMG! So sad... Such 'fortune' I have... I hope he comes again... N next time, hopefully i'll noe abt it way in advance and be able to make it for the concert (not stuck in China or smthg like now)!

Anw, here are some photos which I said I wanted to post up... Did try again the following day but still cldn't upload...

Shot I secretly took of Val while she was preparing for the cust.'s hotpot!

Pretty pretty flowers at the Front Desk, 水仙 (smells really good)

Ta-Dah~! See that? It's a stack of neatly stacked up PIG'S TROTTERS on sale!

The 'oh, so very cute' moo moo (牛牛)! It was love at first sight~
[The next 2 days I went back, it was stolen :( ]

Here's wat Joyce wanted to see... Me in the cheongsam. Haha... I can't believe I'm posting this up!

I've a lot more to post... BUT! It'll have to wait... Anw, Val's parents came over today! Hoorah! :)

:S

2009-01-22T20:36:00.003+08:00

The wind's whistling through the windows and the cold air creeping through the window seam... Urgh... The feeling of cold air at my feet even when the heater in the room's at it's max. I, can really feel winter... crazy cold winter. Sigh... yes, the temperature has began to drop today... Actually, last night was already very cold...

Sigh... at times, I really feel like just staying cooped up in the room just like that. Well, mabbe cos I'm tired, mabbe cos my brain refuses to function, mabbe, mabbe... sigh... I dun even noe. I'm kinda getting mixed feelings right now. :( It's been a long journey... 107 days alr........ omg!? i have 58 more days! 1/3 more! Argh... I can't wait for 9 Feb to come. Hope I'll feel better with one thing less to worry about, not to forget our trip, uni application + homesick, etc.

It's papa's b'day tmr! Haha... Happy B'day papa!~ Hope u'll have a great b'day ahead! >_<>

Hmm? It's 9.10pm... y's Val still not back? T_T Anw, I worked OT yest... all the way till 0130hrs!? Yes... to help out in a prize presentation yest and contractual stuff tis morning... :S So so so very tired. :( I'm not going to blog abt wat happened... Dun want to blog about the unhappies... Sigh... y's LJ blocked! I want to post up my friends only post! Urgh! Y?! Y?! Why block this that n everything! Sux big time! AHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! x_x

Kk... nothing much alr! Val's back! yay!~ :> Anw, here's the photo of wat I wore yest. since Joyce requested... Here you go! (Can't upload :s will do it tmr then... Sigh.)

Happy 22!~

2009-01-17T00:35:00.007+08:00

N so... how did I spend my first b'day oveseas?

Hmm... basically, I woke up at around 0830hr after sms-es filled with b'day wishes came flooding in. Layed in bed till 9am (yes yes, I'm a pig) n got up. Went online, called home. It has been weeks since I last heard from my aunt. Sigh... So glad to hear her voice! >_< Drank Campbell's mushroom soup & ate biscuits with peanut butter, Msn-ed and internet sms pple to thank them. Once again, thank you all for ur b'day wishes! :) Got lazy but still went down for lunch at ard 1230hr. To my surprise, I had company for lunch today! Not Val but Anna (Front Desk) & a Russian lady. It was kinda awkward but I listened... well, the convo was quite interesting just tat I didn't noe who the parties were. :P

At ard 1330hr, I left to watch the hotel's CNY celebration which was filled with programmes. Dances, skits, etc, etc, etc. Some of the performances were really great! Like the Front Office's tap dance, a few of the singing performances, SPA's aerobics dance, skits. Though I didn't understand some but it was enjoyable. In between the performance, there are some lucky draws, starting from the 6th prize, 20 winners... Haha... N guess what? I was one of them!? That's why I said 'b'day gal, b'day luck' (if u've noticed my msn personal msg)! Hee...

Our Exec. Mgr, Mr Mok Conducting the 3rd prize's (i think) computer draw

Our GM, Mr Lee Conducting the 2nd prize's computer draw
(Claiming that he won't choose a F&B staff 'cos they won too many. But out of the 3 draws, the last winner was still from F&B. Haha...)

Marks the end of the show...

I went back to the room after the show while everyone went to Four Seasons to dine. Haha... After Val told me that all the mgmt level personnel was wearing the FS's uniform & stuff... I really regretted for not going! >_< Haha... but Val took photos... at least I still got to see... Sigh... Anw, after Val came back, we left for our bullfrog hotpot! Wee!~ Ordered 2 jin of 牛蛙，土豆片，白菜，金针菇，豆皮 & 2 bottles of 600ml Taishan beer (didn't finish :P). The total bill was 95RMB la... So ex! It was Val's treat! Thanks Val! I truly had a great dinner! ^_^ Went to the convenient store, 统一银座. We initially wanted to buy ice-cream to eat (though we were freezing) but they didn't sell so I bought lemon, biscuits, kirin milk tea, a shower cloth instead. Very random, I noe. Haha...

Employees dining at the restaurant...

(from left): Mr Wan, Mr Lee & Mr Mok

(from left): Zhang zong, Val, Lily(our RO) & Chef Li

Mgr Chen of Finance! Wahaha...

Mgr Yu (Hsekeeping), Val and Mgr Zhao (Front Office)

Our Dinner!

Made our way back to the hotel (freezing our asses off), showered, went online and called Manda. Haha... wished her happy b'day and then they started singing a b'day song, first in Eng then in Mandarin. Lol... I so wasn't expecting that! Thanks gorgeouses! :) I truly miss all the gatherings and b'day celebration. Sigh... how much have I been missing?

After Val came out from the shower, we started taking some photos... to be more precise, retarded photos! Wahaha... Yea... tat's kinda about it... Enjoy the photos!~ (Can't upload :( Will post them up tmr instead then... Sigh... )

Delicious egg roll Owen brought back from home! Yum yum!~

Our Tidbits corner! Wahaha!~ >_<

Not to forget those in the fridge...

Taking retarded photos with our tidbits!

Paper Val's holding says: "Val's Convenient Store"

Ahhh!~ *Chomps* Eats the whole packet of biscuits!

Happy B'day To Me!~

2009-01-15T23:39:00.003+08:00

Haha... Yes, I'm 2-2! Sigh... N Manda turned 2-2 yesterday... Happy B'day to you Manda! :) Hope u'll enjoy ur dinner at Timber later on today! N THANKS A BUNCH FOR UR PRESSIE! Haha... Guess how I first came in contact with your parcel?

I was tired, went back into the office to rest, sat down, chatting with my colleague. Then, another colleague came in with a stack of newspaper n the parcel strangled on top with rafiah string. The top right hand corner peeked out at me. Haha... You can see from the photo what exactlt caught my attention... I stood up immediately and went to look for the recipient name... You know, just in case it isn't mine. BUT... Ta-dah! It's mine, with Manda's handwriting scribbled all over. Haha... I was really really bored than... the mail really perked me up! Thx Manda! :) The card's really pretty n the biscuit tins~... SO CUTE! Haha... Limited ed some more! Btw, Wat's with the Mrs Ah Seng, huh?!

SO what was it that caught my attention?...

Highlight below:
Well, of course it's the stamp. Tho it's the electric tram one, i tot of the rickshaw stamp at first sight! Wahaha... (SGD9.60 worth of stamps!?)

Tmr, the hotel will be holding an Employees' meeting at 0830hr (I'm off tmr >_<), CNY performance at 1330hr and dinner at 1600-1645hr (batch 1) & 1645-1730hr (batch 2). Sigh... But Val n I will be gg to eat bullfrog steamboat tmr! Hehe... Yum yum... Very sweet of her to rmb and plan a dinner. She even wanted to get me a box of kitkat(hello kitty tin pack). Haha... Thanks Val! N all the rest, for ur well wishes! 64 more days!~

Hmm... that's abt it... below r some photos...

Our favourite KFC burger (New Orleans)... N the egg tart here's......... *speechless*
Mamamia~
We just ate it again for dinner! Hee...

Me in the Hsekeeping Leader uniform...

Me in the SPA uniform...
(I think this is one of the nicest uniform)

Yea!~ Tat's all... I'll take more photos tmr n post up tmr! Hopefully, tmr... :p

Winter~

2009-01-14T21:51:00.004+08:00

Hmm... It's been a while since I last blogged... Hee hee... feeling lazy... Well, I've always been feeling lazy...

Anw, I'm now at Front Office. Wk 2. Concierge. I was at Switchboard last week & will be at Biz Centre next week before going to Front Desk. The pple are great... but just that there's nothing to do... All I do is just stand ard, walk ard and sit ard. Sigh... Of course, I do observe n learn stuff... It can really be quite interesting to stand there and observe the happenings ard. :> LIKE, guests like to look for female staff. Even when the first table's the first n nearest desk, they dun approach it cos it's a male staff. REALLY!

Just checked my last post of current update... Realised that I didn't blog abt my attachment at laundry & spa too! haha... well... actually, after mu 2nd day at laundry, i fell ill n recovered only tis wk. Well, kinda recovered... Just tat the lobby's too cold n i've been sneezing more often these days...

Hmm... Dun feel like blogging abt attachment now... Hmm... After ard 14 weeks here, I'm beginning to miss home again... :s Sigh... I noe tat not soon from now, time will just fly by. But, I feel like gg home. I miss my room. I miss being able to tell when's wkend. I miss my aunt. I miss everyone. I miss shopping, like really shopping. I miss being able to sms my frens not having to think twice abt cost. I miss home cooked food. I miss going out to eat every Sunday. I miss not having to think so much abt everything. I miss watching movies. I miss the food! Ah!~ I wants them ALL!~ :'( BUT no worries, I'm FINE... Not crying or anything... Pple here are great so i'm doing well.. really... Just can't wait to go travelling with Val n her parents!

Anw, it's really cold now... Hasn't snowed yet... Doesn't really seem like it will even when Hong Kong's weather went down to -1 degree on Mon and Thai has just experienced one of their coldest time since dunno when. Sigh... the world's gg crazy cos of our survival.

Haha... our 2 juniors are shooting qns at me... I shall get going then! Will update soon! :) 66 More days!~

Weighed myself last week...

2009-01-08T21:07:00.003+08:00

I put on weight!~

2kg added!

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!~

I'm officially 47kg & counting...!

BE HAPPY! ^_^ *pinches my cheeks*

Happy B'day...

2009-01-06T21:59:00.004+08:00

My Dearest JAELA! U r 4~! Hoorah! Ah yi misses you SO much! >_<

Study hard and all the best for your violin class! You can teach your ah yi some basics when ah yi comes home! :> Love you lots!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY~!

Hello... How Many More Days?

2009-01-04T11:20:00.002+08:00

77 More Days to 23 Mar!~

As promised...

2009-01-01T20:29:00.008+08:00

...here are the photos!

Here's wat I ate on Sun nite 'cos Val went for FO dinner... Nissin Noodles, Tom Yum Flavour! Super Duper D-E-L-IIIIIIIIIIII-cious la!~

Here's the pic for Sat nite's dinner!

From left: Changying, Me, Hewen and Fengjuan (Rachael)

My delicious claypot rice! Yum yum!

Me tucking in! ...

... Us tucking in! (See the 3 Korean Guys behind? They are our long-term guests)

US taking a grp photo! (As u can see, the waitress is a bad, bad photographer)

I went to their hostel for a lil' after dinner...

Here's the corn they forced me to eat (a lil' hard to chew but tastes like glutinous rice)

Them, caught in the act eating sweet corn!

Here's smthg the chinese rest. chef made... with some sort of flour!?

OUR SUNDAY!

Me with the pearl tea set...

Here's the rest. a.k.a. cafe!

Came back for dinner...

Some shrimp roll which is not fresh! Feel so cheated... >_<"

THIS, is 卤鸡翅! Very yummy la... Tastes quite.... S'pore! ^_^v

My Mushroom Chicken Spaghetti... & Borstche Soup (diluted)
Sigh... I miss pasta mania... v_v

Entertainment Time!

Here's only a few of what we spotted in the menu...

OUR New Year's Eve!~

CHEERS!~ To our loneliness!

Our dinner... left: bull frog, right: fish
(there's another soup which I forgot to take a pic of cos it took forever to come)

Moving on...

Val & Desmond... singing duet! NICE!~

The THR33 of us!

Val n Me, n her obssessed heart shaped wallpaper~!

That's All Folks!~ Have a Great 2009 Ahead!

Happy New Year... Welcome 2009!

2008-12-31T22:35:00.005+08:00

Helllllllooooooooooooo......... This will be my last post of the year! Sigh... seriously, where have my time gone to? Oh well... To everyone out there, Happy New Year, pull your ear! :P

taken from... obviously, google... (it's so cute!)

Jaela's starting her music class on Fri and turning 4, F-O-U-R on Tues! Haha... I feel SO very old... :s Not only is Jaela older, Kieran's older too... Just look at this picture! It looks like I haven't seen him for more than 3 months already... Sigh... Kids indeed grows fast... *shakes head*

Look at his teeth! What a laughter! >_<

Hmm... I actually have a lot to blog but dun have the time time time... Sigh... There's a report due on Fri... AHHHH!!! *runs around screaming*

Ok, bit by bit... Last Sat, we went out for dinner with the Four Seasons colleagues.

Last Sun, we woke up in the morning for BF then left for the KTV at around 1030h only to find that it won't be opened until 12 noon!? So, we walked n walked n walked n discovered... a western restaurant cum cafe! It's quite a nice place! So we had a drink there. Hot pearl milk tea! Yum yum! :) We left for the KTV at ard 1230h n sang for 3 straight hours. With not much places to go, we decided to go to the arcade. We played the 'throw ball' game, basketball, initial d 3, house of the dead n taiko game. All for just 10 RMB! Wahaha... For dinner, we went back to the restaurant cum cafe we discovered, named 'yuan yuan yuan'.

Today, Desmond came over to climb Mt. Tai. As I'm working, only Val accompanied him up. After I knocked off from work, n they returned from their tiring but eventful trip, washed up n prepared, we left for the KTV place only to find that the electrical power along that street was down. Half the street was affected n yes, THE KTV was affected. Sigh... So we went to look for a place n found this restaurant called 刘家菜馆. Hmm... what did we order? 水煮鱼， some fried 牛蛙 (wasn't as good as the hot-pot one we had), 泰山三美汤 & 2 bottles of Qingdao Beer. Other than the fact that it's spicy, it was a good meal. All for only 99 RMB. :) After our meal, the electrical power still wasn't up so we went to another KTV, 百乐门 which we've never been to. It just 2 levels above the arcade place. Sang for an hour plus then headed to the tain station. (They can really sing very well!) With that, that's our day, kinda. Sigh... tat's not JUST our day... It's our LAST day of 2008!?

Haha... Anyway, regarding my work, i cleaned the toilet yesterday and wiped the lobby walls, etc. cos I'm attached to PA (Public Area) on Mon & Tues. As for today n tmr, I'm with the laundry dept n lastly, Fri, Sat & Sun, I'll be with SPA. Then, Hoorah, it'll mark our 3 months here! 6 wks Western Rest. + 3 wks Chinese Rest. + 3 wks Hsekeeping = 9wks (3 mths!) Hoorah! >_<

Well, as usual, I'm VERY lazy to post up the pictures SO... I'll do it tmr... :s ==> My New Year Resolution: To... (hmm...) not be lazy? :P

Oh ya, Manda, Jean, I received your X'mas cards... Thx... Love u lots! <3

HMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........?

2008-12-23T10:56:00.002+08:00

88 More Days to 22nd Mar!

I seriously miss you all a lot! x_x

11th Sunday!

2008-12-21T16:51:00.010+08:00

Today!
It our 11th Sunday here and guess what? It snowed today! Haha... At first, when I went out, the wind was SO strong that I first thought it was dust. Then it struck me that it was snowing! Haha... yea, stupid me... But it was a very light one and YES, it's SUPER DUPER COLD! Brrrrrr......... Oh, n guess wat I had for lunch today? Dumplings as in 水饺 'cos it's 'dong ji' (冬季) today! Yea... I ate like around 20+ of them... >_< style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255); font-weight: bold;">

Yup... N tat's the route I've to walk when I go to work!

Yesterday...
Yesterday was quite a day... woke up at 7.30am, went down for breakfast and met Owen at 9.10am. Headed to the bus stop which was a few streets down (it was cold), took the bus and we were on our way to 'tian ting le yuan' 天庭乐园'! Haha... As what I had expected, there weren't much fun rides... at least, they dun seem safe. Oh well... the entrance fee's only 10RMB and the scenery was good so I guess it isn't all that bad. :)

The bus...

Walking towards the theme park...

...passed by the train tracks...
(It reminded me of the place where the Holocaust occured :P)

The theme park...

See that lil' pool of water at the side? It's kinda frozen... N it's super cloudy...

One of the rides... Looks quite old hur? It's only 3-4years old
(reminds me of Final Destination...)

Taking pics while walking up the slope...

The two of us!

Me & Owen...

Val & Owen...

Me, Owen & Val!

The 2 of us taking photos while walking down the slope...

The 2 of us taking RETARDED photos while walking down the slope

Me & the pretties scenery...

The pretties scenery... ...

... ... with us in it!

Afterwhich, we headed towards Owen's (also our mentor, audrey & many) University. It was nice to look at their dorms, class and students. :)

The food street leading towards the back door of the uni...

here's just one small part of the school...

We went back to the hotel and rested for 2 hours and had instant noodles for lunch. We were really tired but still went out at 2.15pm to the new arcade which opened just ard 1 wk ago! The plc's woah! Love~! :> 0.50RMB per token and they have lots and lots of new machines! OMG! *Ahem* So new that they don't even have Street Fighter vs Capcom. Sigh... Well, we played basketball, Initial D 3, Hse of the Dead and this throw ball touch screen thingy where u have to throw the ball to aim for specific images on the screen. LOL... It was so tiring! Good excercise I must say. :>

Last but not least, at 4+, we headed to this restaurant for hotpot... It's nice but really heaty and tiring to eat... Haha... We ate till 6pm n it was SO cold on our way back... Brrr...

Ordered 豆腐皮, 土豆片, 肥牛肉片 & cabbage with seafood sauce and chrysanthemum tea!
(Yummy! It was only 80RMB, SGD 20)

Eeyore's Day Out
Yeah, that was the end of our off day... N there's one thing I forgot to blog about. Last Monday, Eeyore went missing! ah!!! *runs around looking for Eeyore* I only found out at night when I was going to bed. The following day, Val dragged out the bed for me and told Owen about it. So he called the laundry pple to ask and guess what? Eeyore was indeed there! It got dragged all the way there with the linens (they change our bed linens every Monday)... Sigh... N according to Val, they described Eeyore as: big head, big ears, looks like hippopotamus??? Haha... Rite... But everyone who noes abt Eeyore thought that it belongs to Val... Haha... But she told them that it was mine. >_<

Bye!~

Chambermaid Dayzzzzzzzzzz.......

2008-12-17T20:36:00.005+08:00

Ta-Da!~ I'm officially a chambermaid today cos I really started making beds and replenishing toiletries, etc. Haha... Though it's tiring, it's actually quite fun. I would say, it's a great experience. The 'da jie' whom I followed around today was really nice and she taught me quite a lot about making the beds and asked me to rest. Today passed quite fast 'cos it was busy busy busy the whole of today... just kept cleaning room after room non-stop. :)

N so, here's a pic of the FIRST bed I made... guess which is the one I made! :>
(Of course, I made it with some help...)

N here's a pic of the scenery from one of the rooms... ^_^

Sigh... My silly brother messaged me at 0538hr in the morning: "wen kor miss u la, faster come back yeah =D" Sigh... I almost cried la... But thanks... at least I noe that there's always somebody missing me... (*ahem* unlike the heartless Joyce)

O ya! We went to eat bullfrog hotpot yest! It's super nice, spicy and tender! Haha... The 'soup' of the hotpot's simply oil. Chilli oil. Haha... but very flavourful. There's tis lil' black ball-ie thing tat looks like black pepper but it's actually 花椒. If you get lucky and happen to bite it... ... CONGRATS! U'll feel numb and it taste sourish and mintish... The feeling REALLY sux... >_< Other than bullfrog, we allso ordered cabbage, potato slices (very very nice!) and instant noodle. Haha... It was really smthg new to me and Owen treated us. Yummy!

Last but not least............... Happy B'day Don! U r 2-1~! ^_^

Yea... I guess tat's abt it... Will update you all again! <3 Take care!

10th Sunday!

2008-12-14T21:29:00.004+08:00

Yea, u got it... it's our 10th Sunday here!~

Nothing much actually... Just woke up at 0830hr (Slept at ard 0200hr)... Washed up and got ready for BF! :> After that, we made our way to 金桥服装广场 again. Bought some *ahem* souvenirs. By the time we finished walking round and round and round the shopping mall, it was still early N we had no where else we wanted to go... SO we decided to go cut our hair... Haha... yea. Just like that. Here's a pic of me in my new hair cut... i went to trim my eyebrows too! (I feel weird though...)

(i doubt you all can tell the difference)

After which, we went to eat. Though it was only ard 1630hr, we were already starving so... off we went! N here are what we ordered...

The claypot rice at the top's Val's (I can't rmb wat it's called), the green veggie in the middle (it's sadly overcooked) & the plate of rice at the bottom's mine - 牛肉盖饭 (there's tonnes of onions carrot and green capsicum but it's really fragrant and the sauce's a lil' sweet, very special)

Ta-dah!~ Finished them in record time! (N yes, u can see the big pile of onions left on my plate... to think that i've actually ate some!)

We stopped by the 'mini-mart' downstairs to grab some tid-bits and face mask before making our way back to the hotel. It so wasn't funny walking back to the hotel with the cold wind slapping into our faces and temperature at 0 degrees! Brrrrrrrrr...... >_<

After I came back, I webcam-ed with the pple at home......................... ONLY to find that they were having lotus soup, fried chicken wings, carrot cake, for dinner and had minced pork porridge for lunch. Sigh... they still had 'dao huay zui' 豆花水 too! Urgh...~ x_x

Here are some pics I screencapped:

My cousin showing me her bro's trophy for the day... 1st?! haha... there's only 2 pple taking part in the motor competition?

Here's a pic of the 'champion' n his sis trying to do her very own 'multi-shots' :)

I asked to take a look at my room only to find that it has officially become a warehouse... Sigh... AND... I SO MISS MY ROOM! Here's a super blurred pic of the view from my rm... Sigh... how nice... Suntec... Raffles City... Shopping... Food...~ AHHhh!~

Hmm... I shall end here then.................. taa taa!~

paperworkz..........

2008-12-13T14:54:00.007+08:00

Lol... I just had a retarded session with Val... Dun think I need to say much... Just look how retarded we can go... -->

Here are some of the stuff that the very talented 'da jie' made for us a while ago when I was still working there...

a 'scarecrow'...

...put together with these 3 parts!

N here are what we just did with it a while ago... :P

5 gals holding hands...

...7 gals holding hands! :)

ooo... it's snowing...

...with x'mas trees!

a phone?...

"喂喂？" :>

Look what's on the mirror...

Ta-dah!~ somebody's getting married!

Haha... yes, we're retarded... we haven't decided on whether we wanna remove them yet, we'll decide tmr... LOL! Btw, all the above were hand made by the da jie... all she did was tear here and there... YES, as well as the word pasted on the mirror! Really impressive hur? :>

Anw, here's me in my uniform... since it's my last day... it's time to post up...

AND... Here's the top I mentioned about, that it was in the wash... i'd say it's quite pretty... almost wanted to get the black one but... haha... I rmbed val's constant drilling that I shld buy some other colours... After I bought it, I realised that I have a lot of greens as well... haha... oh well...
That's kinda abt it... off tmr... will be expecting calls from Jie and Gor! Wahh!~ Must rmb to charge my phone tonight... Alright... Going to do some laundry!~ Byeee!

Miss..........

2008-12-11T22:30:00.006+08:00

Hmmmmmmmmm............... I miss..............

My bed
Home
My family members
Frens
Rotting at home
Shopping
FOOD -> Meiji milk, chocs, chips, etc. hokkien mee, prawn mee, chicken rice, fried rice, beef noodle, lor mee, yu pian, fast foods (MOS, BK, non-oily Macs, Original KFC), so much more n not to forget............ HOME COOKED FOOD (Soups, Steamed fish, AH~!)

Y, oh y can't I get them here? >_<
....................Great, just when I'm abt to post, Don just told me that she's going to eat after eights choc.......... Don, I swear I'll kill u someday! For tempting me........ :'(

Ah!~

2008-12-09T21:57:00.006+08:00

First, we moved room again! Hoorah! 2 levels up this time... Had to move all our assets up... it was so tiring... but we packed in record time... at least that's how I feel. No worries... they only sealed off certain levels due to the off peak season now that's why we had to shift. According to them, the least we'll be staying here will be ard a month and the longest, probably around 3 months? SO, we'll most probably have to move again... n by then, i'm quite sure that we'll have a lot more stuff... Eeks! x_x Btw, below are the pics of the salon where we moved to the last time due to full occupancy...

The door's on the extreme right side, those are the massage chairs...
...and our clothes piling on top of it...

From this view, you can see the chair with basin which can be used to wash hair...

Yes, our clothes piled on it and the lil' entrance that leads to the bedroom and bathroom...

The toilet (which made me feel like it's abandoned)

My bed n u can see behind, that there's smthg covered with white cloth...
Yes, those bags of stuff? Those are all our junk food, *ahem* food reserves... :)

Second, we went singing today again! 8 RMB an hour, we sang for 2 hours... Btw, it's 8RMB an hour regardless of how many pple there are... for afternoon timing la... Super cheap ya? To think that we paid 64RMB the last time... >_<>_<

Us, in the Karaoke room...

Me! I think I was singing 'That thing you do'

Val, posing for my cam!

Me at the rest.That's our food! (As you can see, I was so hungry that I started on my T-bone alr.)
That's Val's unagi rice pot

All in all, my set which costs 69RMB before disc., incl. This T-bone with apple salad at the side, rice........ the coffee and chips above.......
N this soup with that delicious bread... (Tell me how full I was!?)
We ordered another fries btw... >_<

Third, I've been eating a lot yest and today. Yes, before dinner, I had lunch at the buffet rest. today. Tho we didn't take much real food, I had a plate-ful of cakes, pies and mochi looking things. Yes, I mean a plate-ful! Haha... then the da jie asked us if we wanted some new dumplings... 野菜 filling... So we did... it was really nice but I ended up really full! Yesterday... Haha... yesterday... I went to the canteen for both lunch and dinner, tho I didn't eat a lot but still, I ate. So, cos I didn't eat much for 'dinner' which was at 4.30, I decided to go down to eat at the rest. (after I got Val's msg: 去啦！dumb dumb). Well, I didn't eat a lot, a lot but I had cakes, cos I haven't ate it for like... 5 days alr... hee hee... (But I only failed to eat the cakes once) After that, I stayed there to chat with them and left off at ard 11pm with Mandy to the front desk, where Val was, 'cos she msged me tat she was hungry and felt like eating kfc then the next msg, asking me if I wanted to go out to eat dumplings... Well, since tmr's an off day, I tot, why not? and followed. I ordered shrimps with minced meat dumpling, small bowl... Gosh... the small bowl is so not small! there were, i think ard 10 dumplings? OMG, I almost died-ed... Yea, not to forget, I ate some tidbits during my break... Oh well, it's not like I'll be eating a lot the next 4 days...

Fourth, Don's B'day party: I was dying, waiting for the time to crawl to 8.30pm. I was SO hoping that I cld knock off early but... no... Sigh... that evening, there were only ONE table with ONE cust., ordering ONE dish with ONE bowl of rice and ONE bottle of beer. Sigh... Oh well, after I told the supervisor that I was leaving... I literally flew back to the room, turned on my laptop, changed, removed my make-up and *poof* I was online... msged Don and then... we were on Skype. Lol... I felt SO weird... But it was really good to see everyone... Haha... Tho we were webcaming, I cld hardly tok to them cos it was really noisy n they just kept turning 'me' round and round... Haha...

Don opening her lovely pressie...

Tania and Joyce!

Them, saying a chaotic goodbye... Haha... (Dun kill me for posting this Tania... >_<)

A group photo of us... Gosh... This looks SO weird!

Fifth, my brave Jaela's doing fine now... :) So cute, my cousin told me that when she was on the hospital bed, she told her tat popo n gong gong's coming to visit Jaela. Guess wat she asked? "What about ah yi?" Aww... I wld love to be there! But I manage to webcam with her n she's doing fine now. :) N her lil' bro. reponds to his name when I call him over skype... Haha... so cute la...

Sixth, Manda's gg to Tokyo on the 28th. Don's gg next mth? & Fran's gg to Hokkaido... Who else? >_< Sigh... I wanna go too!~

Yay! After 3 days... This post is finally completed! *whew*

X'mas lighting...

2008-12-04T14:54:00.006+08:00

Haha... While we were having our convo yest, Geri reminded me abt the X'mas lighting ceremony. It was on 20 November. Well... Nothing much to tok abt... N... a picture paints a thousand words so... here goes...

Preparation! Our pro make-up artist for the night!

Goes the same for the guys... LOL!

Yea!

N so, our performance begins............

"We Wish You a Merry X'mas"

"平安夜" (Silent Night)

"White X'mas"
(Gosh... look at the crowd!)

"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"

Yea! End of performance!

Photo taking time!

Me, Val and our lovely mentor, Bessie :)

Four Seasons Carol Members
Me & Shall

N of course, the 2 of us!

Me!

Haha... this cute lil' kid was standing in front of us during our full dress rehearsal... So cute that she made me smile throughout the whole rehearsal!

With that, i rushed back to the room, removed my eyeshadow and went to work... Sigh... I thought I had to rush to work cos everyone'll be gg there for dinner after the lighting ceremony. What i found out was, they had it all covered, didn't expect me to return so soon. Oh well, anw, went ard serving the pple and they cld all recognise me... It was SO embarassing... All I cld say was, "thank you"... >_< N so... that was my eventful day!

My off day yest...

2008-12-04T13:16:00.005+08:00

I think yest's off day was the second most fulfilling day we've had here. What did we do? Hee... Here's what our day was like...

Crawled out of bed at 0820hr, washed up, dressed up and prepared all the things. Intended to leave at 0900hr but as usual, we dragged a lil' here n there and ended up leaving for BF at ard 0910hr. We went down to the restaurant to have BF, the usual cereal with milk, my chinese pao with green bean filling and 麻团. Oh, we had wanton too! It's not bad... :)

Afterwhich, we left for 神州大厦 to get our router. Got it at 60RMB. I also got a earphone with speaker at only 22RMB! Though the earplug thingy's kinda big but it works. :) We then made our way to 四海广场 cos we heard that things are cheap there. Val bought 2 really nice scarves, I bought a top (it's in the wash now). There's really a lot of things there... lots and lots of scarves, boots and what's not. If I didn't already have 4 scarves, I wld've bought another one.

Lots and lots of boots....

...and lots and lots of scarves and what's not.

Went back to the hotel to put down the stuff and tried if the router works... It works! Hoorah! >_< Ate some tidbits cos we were really hungry. Met our front desk colleague at 2pm and made our way to 天外村. It started to drizzle for a lil throughout our trip. We haven't been to the inner of the plc, only the perimeter... so we realised that it's REALLY beautiful! Haha... You can look at the pics... or mabbe it's just cos of who's in the photo la... Hee... I'm kidding!

I'm sure u've seen this before, somewhere in my blog...
(Btw, each pillar represents one king)

Here's smthg for u, Jean and Manda...
(Taken on the bridge)

The bamboos in the garden
(pple carved their names like a year or so ago)

A lil' bridge in the garden...

Lots of maple trees... N look how HUGE the leaves are!?
(I wonder if there's maple syrup... mmmmmm... :>)

Super duper huge dam...
(You'll see the water it contains later)

Owen, Me and Val...

Val and I sitting on the huge rock!

There... tat's the water the huge dam contains
(People were swimming in it and Owen said that every year, students die in them 'cos they failed to warm-up before swimming... Sigh...)

This pic really reminds me of one I took at Alisan, Taiwan.

At ard 4+, we went back to the hotel rm again, only to find out that our RO need us to help her edit some stuff she translated. Well, we asked to hand up today instead... You should really see what we are to edit! Anw, we rested for a lil' then went off again for the third time for dinner. We were really starving! Val brough me to eat Sichuan cuisine. We ordered a 酸菜鱼 and 2 bowls of rice. You must be thinking... "that's it?" Well... you may wanna see how SMALL the portion is...

It's really huge!

...N there were tons of bones
(I got pricked... it was painful :( )

After dinner, we left for 中百百货 which is just down the road. Looked at clothes, Val bought a lovely dress after much contemplation... Haha... I tried on some turtlenecks but they just don't fit so we went off the the supermarket. Wee!~ Bought cup noodles, biscuits, chips, cereal drink, fanta grape, orange juice and coke (comes with free tupperware). Spent ard 120RMB. They were really heavy... and we walked out of the shopping mall only to find that it was raining. Well, at least there was a cab just in front of us.

That was kinda our day... reached the room at ard 1945pm, surfed the net, I chatted with Geri and Don on Skype. Haha... So fun! At ard 2330hr, when I was about to turn in, Val realised that we forgot about the editing of the translation thingy... So we rushed through it and yea... It was interesting... There... Then it was goodnight for us cos we were so tired~.

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2008-12-01T14:13:00.002+08:00

HAPPY B'DAY FRAN! U r 21! Wee!~
Welcome back to S'pore Geri! have a good holiday!
Rest well Jaela! Ah yi shall give you a kiss... *muacks* You have been a brave girl... :)
I'm off on Wed! Hoorah!
Hmm... I think that's abt it... have yet to post some entries on 2 major events... will try to do it tonight!

Singapore Singapore Singapore...

2008-11-29T15:41:00.003+08:00

Haha... Just a random post about how much I love S'pore after staying here for almost 2 months here. Although Singapore is small, smaller then this city, there's so much more. It's like a 3-in-1 packet of coffee, except that Singapore is a million and 1-in-1 type.

At least there's all kinds of food there from all over the world, there's a lot more non-smoking areas, the place is so much cleaner and last but not least, that's where I grew up and my family and friends are at. After coming here, I really feel that I'm lucky to be a Singaporean. Haha... sound so patriotic suddenly.

Haha... Manda showed me these articles...
S'pore 4th best to invest in despite the bad economy now & S'pore being ranked the 16th most ex shopping plc in the world!:

Hmm... Gor and Ah Ma are at Genting now... so lucky. It's been like how long since I've been there... Y r pple traveling now when I'm here? I wanna go too! Sigh...

Anw, my dearest Jaela's going for her eye operation on Monday! Wishing her all the best and that there'll be fast recovery! Ganbatte Jaela! I'll hear about it during my break on Monday! Haha... talking about this pair of brother and sister, my aunt told me that Jaela wants to stand up peeing like her didi AND, Kieran wants to sit down and pee like his jiejie... Sigh... I wonder if I should even be laughing... LOL!

Anw, I'm getting by now... Cos I'm looking at it from a more positive point of view! I'm looking more forward to work now 'cos with everyday gone, it also means that I'm another day closer to home! Hoorah! I'm counting down the days to Dec 15 cos 1) it's pay day! 2) i'm going to housekeeping, 3) it's almost x'mas, 4) it's almost 2009!, 5) I dunno... but december sounds fun to me. :) mabbe it's cos i've been having too much sch hols so it feels very holiday like...

Kk... I gotta go n prepare for work! Love you all! Tc! *hugs* Oh ya... I've been dreaming so much about myself being back in S'pore... Dreaming too much can be really tiring. *Whew*

Trip to Jinan...

2008-11-27T20:49:00.009+08:00

Woke up at around 7.15am today... *yawns* had breakfast and left for the train station. We arrived the station at 8.53am only to find that there were no more train tix. So, Audrey thought that we should take a bus. N so, we did. It was quite an enjoyable trip. Managed to see quite some scenery but we got tired along the second half of the journey and fell asleep for a little.

Arrived at the place......... It was SO cold! Windy... Haha... Our first stop, 'bao tu quan'........ (We took a bus there, wat an experience) It's a place where the 'pond's' filled with water oozing out from under the soil. Natural spring water of some sorts. A pretty place but not worth the 40RMB for entrance. I'll do a more detailed intro with the photos later.

We then walked past Jinan's 'shi zheng fu' where there's a shopping place at the basement (there's an aweful story about it). Stopped for a little at Crowne Plaza n Huier showed us ard level 1. It's a really nice and upscale hotel. :) Would have loved to see more of it but had to rush of for lunch 'cos Audrey's friend was waiting for us.

(wrote the above part yesterday. Shall continue today...)

We went to some forgot-wat's-the name to shop. Really a lot of stuff... but the company wasn't shopping friendly SO we didn't buy much. In fact we bought only a couple of things. :( The Wal-Mart's like China Wal-Mart. Sigh... we were seriously expecting more imported brands but it's just like any supermarkets we have here. Disappointing. Sigh...

I bought a pouch & redoxon. Think tat's abt it... It was a tiring trip tho... Slept in the bus on the way there and on the way back. It was already dark when we were leaving Jinan at ard 5.30... after i woke up due to the bumby road, I looked out of the window n saw many stars..... sigh... long journey, cold, dark enough to see so many stars... it made me think of my journeys to m'sia with my dad n bro... Sigh...

With that, I shall end here with photos... nothing much to blog abt the Jinan trip anw. So here u go!

Jinan's 'bao tu quan' east gate
(Val, Me and Huier... Dun we all look fair? Lol)

Val & I beside the tree of friendship!

Audrey, Val, stone, me and Huier

Taking photos with the bald trees which looks so fake that it looks clean and smooth

Some emperor wrote it
(Noting that they've been here)

Nice background... not anything significant

The very clear spring water...Here's a photo of 'our shadows' taking photo of the names of the springs here
(listed are 72 of the more popular springs)

Their 'guang chang' it marks the center of Jinan

I love this pic! Pretty city of Jinan!

Lobby of Guihe Crowne Plaza Hotel

It's kind of like a food street. Really nice...

I love the old buildings...

The 'restaurant' we went for lunch...

my lunch, 'hong shao niu rou' claypot n soup tat's a bit like 'mi hun kueh'

Bye bye, in the bus leaving Jinan

Tired, yet again...

2008-11-25T13:49:00.003+08:00

Dunno y.. am feeling very sleepy and bloated with air in my tummy... u noe, the kind where u feel like puking but it's actually just too much air inside?

Hmm... yesterday was my first day at the Chinese restaurant. Yet again, pple started asking the same old qns... how big's s'pore, is s'pore nicer or here? where are u staying? how much is ur pay? u like us? can u understand us? when did u learn Mandarin? So in which year are you at ur university? How old are you? How much is ur air tix? Did u pay for it? Where do u wash ur clothes? Is S'pore cold? Etc. Etc. Etc. I kinda alr have the script for all my replies alr... and i tell them everything and anything...

Hmm... I'm working at the Chinese restaurant's 'lobby' now. So I'm not going t serve in the room. Whew? I wonder... Anw, there's lots of dining etiquettes here tat's really differen from Singapore! One, they smoke like chain smokers. And according to local rule, u have to change the ashtray if there's 3 butts in the tray. N u dun just change it like tat. u take 2 ashtrays, use one to cover the dirty one, remove them together and replace it with the other one. Well... not like S'pore allows pple to smoke in the restaurant... Thank god... I'm loving S'pore more! N, they drink beers like alcoholics. Well, in S'pore, they do drink but usually one or 2 bottle... But over here, 3 person can drink over 10 bottles. the thing is, u keep opening until they ask u to stop. In S'pore, you open only when they ask u to.

Anw, I met our NP senior yest. The way he speaks... I was like... "cannot cannot, he's definitely S'porean, must ask him." So I asked and he replied, "yes... are you?". Well, he asked "are you" as if he didn't mean to ask cos he highly doubt that i'm S'porean. (I dun blame him, really. U'll doubt it when u see me in my new uniform. I really blend in!) I replied yes, etc, from NP and he told me that he was from there a long long time ago. Glad to have met yet another S'porean. :) He doesn't look THAT old btw. Prob. just 27ish?

Hmm... I'm off on Thurs. my supervisor say I can off anytime I want as long as they are not short handed. Finally, Val & I can plan our schedules together! So, I took off on Thurs cos Val said she wants to make a trip to Jinan! Hoorah! Shopping! Sigh... I noe i noe, I'm broke... Tat's y i'm trying to decide whether to withdraw or go to the bank to change money. HMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............??? I'll think abt it.

Btw, my timing for Chinese restaurant goes like this: report at 0950hr (0850hr on Fridays) - 1330hr then report back to work at 1650hr - 2030hr (or even 2130hr depending on crowd).

Yea, so now, u noe when to contact me... Hmm... Val's back early and gg out with her colleagues... I'm so green with envy... Oh wel... 3 weeks 3 WEEKS!

Btw, don called me yesterday... I think we toked for 1 hr 30 mins. ard there... Super long... But also very glad to hear from her... On Sunday morning, ard 1am, was toking to Edwin & vincent... haha... toked for I think an hr plus too... Nice catching up. :) Sigh... Btw, I dreamt that I was home... Sigh... the feeling... so warm and cosy and oh, so familiar! Haha... I think I haven't blogged for quite some time alr... cos have been rather busy with interim report. At least for now can take a lil' break before starting on the next report. Sigh... I miss my colleagues at the western restaurant too! Sigh... No photos for now... feeling really lazy... :P byeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

Tmr..............

2008-11-23T02:27:00.003+08:00

I'm off today... going to the Chinese restaurant on Mon! Which is tmr... Everyone says that it is tiring... Sigh... Gotta go n change my uniform tomorrow. Other than that I guess I'll most probably be spending my time on the interim. Gotta finish off eveything by tmr! Kyah! I just talked over the phone with edwin & Vincent. Seems like they are doing quite well. On their way to DINNER now cos they missed the dinner time at the staff canteen.

Just when I'm starting Chinese Restaurant on Mon, gor's also starting his exams on Mon so ALL THE BEST GOR! You can do it! Eh... ok la... It's late & Val's sleeping I shall go to bed so I won't disturb her. Night!

Fighting with...

2008-11-20T00:21:00.002+08:00

Haha... I just had a lil' duel with a tiny cockroach looking thing. To kill or not to kill? I killed it in the end... Haha... Wow... how brave of me? Not that I had a choice. Val's asleep n i needed the toilet. I think it took me 15 minutes from trying to decide to kill it to killing and disposing it. Haha... i used their yellow pages to kill it. It just stuck there and I didn't want to risk seeing the feelers move so i looked away, grabbed a scissors and cut the page away. Oh no! What am I to tell the hsekeeping da jie tmr? >_< anw, it's a 2007/2008 issue. it's gonna be outdated soon.

My nose is blocked and at the same time, running like a tap. Oh gosh... it feels like crap! Oh well, I'm sure I'll feel better soon. Just common flu, sore throat & cough. Tmr's kind of like a big day 'cos it's the hotel's lighting ceremony! N yes, after weeks and weeks of practice, tmr's one of the big days! We'll take a pic of ourselves in the pyjamas looking costume probably tmr. I hope my throat and nose won't give me any trouble tmr! Imagine holding a tissue while singing??? Btw, the costume's really thin! I so think that it'll make me sick-er!

I made an error at the restaurant just now! Sigh... I told this UK guy that the sirloin he ordered is imported. Sigh... u noe, translation. It was suppose to be --> the local sirloin's out of stocks so they'll use the imported one which is of a higher price! Sigh... In the end, my captain told me that he can remove the service charge. So I went to him, apologised to him, n told him abt the removal of the service charge. He looked at how much the service charge was, then told me not to worry, he doesn't want to remove the service charge. I guess he didn't want to get me into trouble cos they knew that I was new, and am from S'pore. So... I'm lucky to have met them. He ended the convo. with, "we all learn". Thanks Mr. Nice Guy! Sigh... But today just wasn't really my day. I've been feeling kinda groggy all day... I SO hope it won't happen tmr cos there's gonna be many VIPs dining in after the lighting ceremony! >_<

Sigh... at this rate, i doubt i can complete my interim report in time! AHhhh!!!! Sigh... Btw, we'll be here for an additional week. So now, our attachment's from 22 to 23 wks. Well, not that I mind. Since I'm already here, what's another week? Though Steph, I may not be able to come back in time for your 22nd... :(

Last but not least, the hotel just distributed daily neccessities to their employees. It's called "发福利". There's a lux soap bar, a shampoo, a hand cream, toilet papers and washing powder. I seriously dun think we need them... At least, not so much. I'll take a photo of them and post it up tmr (if i'm feeling better). For now, I shall go to bed... really really drowsy tho the last time I took my med was ard 1.30pm. Nite! (Hmm... I wonder wat time I'll wake up later... )

Sigh...

2008-11-18T14:01:00.002+08:00

Am suppose to be working on the interim report but I really have got no idea what to write about! I'm so sleepy and cold... Think I'm falling sick. This is bad. So bad! AHHH!

Anw, It's Edwin's B'day today! Happy B'day!

I had a super nice dream today... Dreamt that my aunt came over w/o informing me... Sigh... So nice to have her around. The dream's setting was such that our room was old and bed was rundown. But after she came with all her pots and pans and culinary skills, everything's just perfect! Sigh... I really miss her! I guess it's really true that when u fall sick during winter, u think of home.

Oh... it snowed today! This morning while I was fast asleep. Val msged me then my colleague told me about it too. The temperature is officially going down down and under zero! The snow was just a light one... It was super sunny after that. It still is... N I'm glad. The pple here are really nice, asking me to wear more, telling me what to get and the price range, etc. Sigh... I'm so not ready to leave this restaurant for Chinese restarant!

Oh well... I'm still doing fine, besides the fact that Val and I are quite broke. I guess we'll survive. :) Gotta go prepare for work! Tata~!

HAPPY B'DAY!

2008-11-17T10:49:00.004+08:00

Wishing both Bernard & Tania a very Happy B'day! Sigh... N Don's trying to create a b'day email invitation now which I can never attend and will be here freezing my ass off. Sigh... That goes without saying, Fran's b'day too!

Anw, I mentioned that I wanted to blog about Sat's fruitful trip yesterday but I got tired so here's it. Woke up at around 8.30am to have Mac's breakfast. Hmm... For 20RMB, there's only 2 hotcakes with 1 sausage. Isn't it 3 normally? Anw, it wasn't good. The butter wasn't nice. The pancake wasn't hot. The pancake was oily. N the pancake wasn't fully cooked so it's kind of 'nua' inside. Sigh... I miss S'pore's hotcakes now.

Afterwhich, we went shopping. Bought a scarf, meiji 28 blocks dark choc! Hmm... wat else? Can't think but yea... did some shopping for a down jacket and finally found one that I like. It's ex tho. :( Sigh... After walking here and there, there and here, we rushed back to the hotel for the X'mas class. It wasn't all that bad. At least I was awake... ('Cos on Fri, i attended the class straight after my nap and my GM & Asst. Exec. Mgr. kept asking me to smile... Sigh... How was I to smile when I was so dead tired working 5 days of continuous 'D' shift? I tried but my mouth kept twitching :s). Yea, afterwhich, we went to our RO and talked over issues like the dept. schedules and learning contents. Oh, n we're getting our pay today! Wee~!

At around 5.45pm, we went to the buffet restaurant to have dinner (it was alr full dark btw). I really ate a lot... the cakes... ah~! Heh... Left the hotel at around 6.50pm? then went to the KTV nearby. paid 64RMB for 2 hrs and extended for another half an hour. Haha... The other rooms were really high but with only the 2 of us, it's really quite hard to be high. At around 9.38pm, just went I wanted to sing 'How Could An Angel Break My Heart', they stopped the thing. Irritating... Oh well... we returned to the hotel soon after. Since I had to wake up at 5.30am the following day, I went to bed almost immediately after bathing and washing up.

Yea, so that was our Saturday. :) n here are the photos:

My Hotcakes and Val's oily sausage McMuffin
(I forgot to mention the ugly looking hotcakes too & Val's Muffin edge was 'chao tar')

Val & I in the KTV room...

...yes, it's huge considering that there's only 2 of us.
(They ran out of small rooms)

Here's the selection screen & TV
(Playing on the TV's Sammi's 808 :))

Just one more thing... This is wat the bakery dept. in my current kitchen made...

It's made with biscuits, honey, preservatives and many others...
(lazy to rotate so pls tilt ur head to the left)

My favourite Santa amongst the many...

That's all folks! :)

Tmr's my off day (no full stop) --> BUT...

2008-11-16T12:29:00.003+08:00

Sigh.......... YES, tmr's my day off... BUT, we have x'mas choir rehearsal from 3.30 to 7pm!?
AH!~ I dun want! This just sux... to the core. Sigh... I think I haven't been resting enough... there's like big pimples popping out here and there over the past 2 weeks. :( This is bad... I dun rmb having big as in BIG pimples before. >_< So pain and fugly! Life sux... it really does... But the lighting ceremony's coming soon so, we can do it!

Btw, I'll be going to the Chinese Restaurant on Mon, 24th Nov! Gosh... i'm so scared la... my colleague told me, "dun say u scared, if it's any of us, we'll be scared too." So, go figure how bad it is... BUT, the good news is, Val and I will only be there for 2 weeks! Hoorah! I just pulled thro the 'D' shift and today's the last day. After 1 wk of 'break' (considering x'mas practice), I'll have to pull thro for another 2 wks. Hopefully things are better than what I've been hearing from everyone. N I meant EVERYONE! Sigh...

Btw, Kieran, my one and only dearest nephew, Happy Belated 1st B'day!
Last but not least, Edwin & Vincent's at Hefei now! Hoorah! We shall plan our schedules soon to meet up! Kk... I shall get going... gonna take a nap. I'll update again about our fruitful off day yest. later... I'm SO gonna stay up tonite!

Low Chinese Esteem Weird Man Who keeps Complaining

2008-11-14T15:18:00.004+08:00

This morning, I saw a weird man complaining to my colleague, mentioning something along this line. "Foreigners don't have to pay before they eat but I have to." N threw 100RMB at my colleague. (FYI, the first morning crowd today was populated by Japanese.) Then nvm, he asked me to get black tea for him. So I went to get. But the labels weren't up yet so I didn't noe which was which. I tried to make a lucky guess but I guess I weren't so lucky. I got coffee. Then I moved on to get black tea, served him and said in Mandarin, "this is your coffee". He had the smirky single 'laugh'. Then he was saying that I served too many foreigners and poured too much coffee that I told him it's coffee. RIDICULOUS rite? To think about it makes me mad! Pls! If they are foreigners, you don't tell them coffee in Mandarin. You say it in English, The freaking int'l language! Hell! If they are Jap, I wld've told them kohi! How freaking stupid is he? Weird...

N just now, a guy asked for a glove... to peel prawns. YES! A freaking glove to peel Freaking prawns! OMG! He just came back from UK but his English still isn't good. According to him, he's been there for 3-4yrs alr... N he asked for my freaking contact number... Call me stupid... I gave him my email add! Omg! I can't believe that I gave him my email add! I must have been crazy!

Yay! I pulled thro today! I'm off on Sat and Mon! Hoorah!~ See you all again! Going for Mac's breakfast tmr morning... Hoorah! hope I can wake up... >_< If I dun, Val's gonna kick me up.

To all my loved ones...

2008-11-14T12:22:00.002+08:00

Boo! I just added a Jap song... to the right... Wish by Sowelu. Yup, it's form d.gray man... A really nice song, n here's the translation.

How many forms of love
are there in this world?
Everybody is holding on
to different things living in this world

Family and friends and
companions with the same goal
Because of everyone
thats why I am here today

Always been important side
He learned the old unawares

It is lonely
to live only for yourself
Since I was born into this world
Everybody have to say good-bye
So I hope to bring you
countless smiles

Since watching things when I was little
New things
have already been granted
I lay in them

As time goes by
Though all eyes
are changed and broken,
Memory is intact

The stars that were found in the dark
Still glow in the mind

Because my pain
I want to tell
The billions of people I meet
Everybody have to say good-bye
That's why meekly
I want to smile a lot

In a limited time
What can be done
No matter how tragic or tough it gets
It will turn into happiness in the end
Definitely…

Everybody needs somebody's love
Love is necessary
Because being loved by things can let you smile again
Everybody wants to be happy
I pray for
your happiness as I sing

Btw, I'm off tmr! Hoorah! N it's pay day tmr! Hoorah! N it's my last 'd' shift on Sun! Hoorah! n it's my day off again on Mon! Hoorah! N it was drizzling! Brrr... Love you all lots!

Ello!

2008-11-12T11:29:00.004+08:00

Having my break now... It was 2 degrees out there this morning... Brr... Am eating green tea pocky now... Yes, POCKY! Wahaha... Anw, the cream's so hard, as if i just took them out from the fridge. Go figure how cold the room is. I didn't even want to get out of my oh, so very warm bed this morning! >_< I'm doing fine. Dun worry. Just wanted to let you all know that we are back in our small but cosy and comfy room. :) Hoorah! I shall upload the photos which I failed to previously...

Ta-Dah! They have Kirin & Glico stuff here! N it's within walking distance!

See that?! They sell dog meat... packed!

They sell Tangyuan too! But can't cook so didn't buy.
(Spot Jackie Chan!)

Shops just outside the hotel... Take a look at the English words
(which doesn't make any sense)
[Here's for you Jean]Some Sichuan Tortilla wrap...
(It's not spicy but tongue numbing)
In front of the government hse and that's one of Taishan's neighbour behind.

My colleague's hostel
(Yes, they are making a video of her hoola-hooping)
[Reminds me of Anna :)]

Korean Feast! It was a real feast! Ordered too much...
(Beef Hotpot... Really delicious :))

Ok... There's more but I shall stop here. going to the restaurant for lunch... ALONE! Sigh... Wanted to eat instant noodles but my colleague asked me not to. Oh well... Btw, I bought a sweater yest... I'm SO gonna get scoldings from some people... It's made of rabbit fur! Really soft and fluffy... Plus... It works better than wool to keep me warm so... I bought it... It's ard SGD50. >_< Kk... gg off! BYEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Oh, btw, Edwin and Vincent, Congrats! flying off on Sat midnight! Wahaha... Can't wait to meet up with you all. Meanwhile, everyone, there seem to be a flu bug going round so take mre Vit Cs and drink more water, eat well and rest well!

Thanks to all!

2008-11-10T13:03:00.002+08:00

I really appreciate all of your kind words, cheering me on when I'm down. Gosh... I really really love all of you! My family and friends... As what Jean said, it's only when we are away from home, then only will we know how much more we had and eventually, appreciate and cherish it more. It's Val and my off day tmr! I'm definitely gonna sleep in, knowing what a piggy I am. But over the past few days, I haven't been sleeping comfortably 'cos it's really dry here. Once I lie down on bed, my nose will be blocked. So gotta breathe thro my mouth then my throat will be dry and I'll start coughing. Sigh...

I just checked the weather forecast on Yahoo! Weather... Guess what? It's freaking 3 degree celsius out there! N it's forecasted to rain/snow this Fri! AH!!! Not prepared! SO not prepared! >__< *Runs frantically around* I'm kinda excited tho... Hee hee...

Hmm... gotta go take my nap... I'll just load the pics I took over the week... enjoy!

Great... it's not loading... can't upload... will do it later tonight then! i can't wait! meeting Jie and Manda & Jean online tonite! Wahaha! N during dinner tonight, the Jap guy whom I mentioned, the one whom can speak English well, will be bringing 2 Jap colleagues over to the restaurant for dinner! haha.... He actually asked if I'm working tonight. He wants to intro them to me. So weird ah? But at least I have smthg to look forward to tonight. N not to forget, Val will be coming over for dinner! hoorah! What a wonderful Mon! Just hope everything will be just as nice the rest of the day! Or mabbe, rest of the attachment period! Hoorah! See u all tonight!

Emo-ing

2008-11-08T22:53:00.003+08:00

Sigh... we kinda got 'kicked' out of our nice and cosy hotel room... Am in a windowless place now... Yes, windowless. I think it'll drive anyone crazy if one were to stay too long in a place like this. Ahem... There's hungry mosquitossss too.

Just webcam-ed with my darlings... Haha... Here's pics of my nephew! Cute lil' Kieran!

"Hi! I'm handsome Kieran"

"Hi! I'm cool boy, Kieran"

"Hi! I'm jumping Kieran"
(Lol... he was kinda jumping up and down... SO cute la!)

Sigh... Been really really tired, giving eng lesson or going for x'mas choir class in between my odd shift. So, I skipped today. Felt kinda bad but it was good rest. At least I'm feeling more awake as compared to yesterday. As I've said, I'm emo-ing. Sigh... I really really really am feeling homesick! It's really bad... Gor msged me while I was working just now and I felt like crying. 2 guests whom I served before asked if I felt home sick. I felt like crying. I saw the moon, thought of how it'll look like and who is looking at the moon too in Singapore, felt like crying. After web-caming just now, my aunt was saying bye to me and be 'guai', AGAIN, I felt like crying. And now, while typing all these, I feel like crying. Sigh...

BUT! This is the time I really really love Val! She's super strong la... I dun think she's cried before. Tho she's missing home as well now... but she cheers me up. "Qi si wo le" Haha... Thanks Val, I'm so so so thankful that u r here with me! <3 Haha... We'll be able to pull through this period together! Ganbatte! Eh... Korean's: Aja?

Kk... laptop batt's almost low... I shall stop here then... To all of you reading this, TC, I'll most prob see u latest, Mon nite? Cos I'm off on Tues! Hoorah! I SO can't wait... Last but not least, I miss YOU ALL!

Off!

2008-11-05T11:58:00.003+08:00

It's Wednesday, our off day and our singing class day. We're kinda creating dance steps for the song, "Santa Caus Is Coming To Town". How I wish Peggy's here! Ahhhhh........ So tough! We've been laughing at ourselves! LOL! Sigh... Gotta go back to 'creating' dance steps soon SO, just a quick update for now. Met a Jap guest who studied in Hawaii, a couple from Pakistan celebrating their anniversary (so sweet!), n a couple who was quarreling over something which according to my colleague, about abortion. Hmm... The Jap guest has a she toy poodle. REALLY REALLY cute... he showed me the pic! Ahh! I want one too! >_<

Anw, I just felt like posting this pic... Really cute pic of my niece! :> N her bro who's turning 1 on the 15th just knew how to stand on his own! AND I MISSED IT! AHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh! I wanna see him stand! He waved to me goodbye over skype just a few days ago! SO cute la... N my niece wanted to see my Eeyore (my SWEET smelling Eeyore). :> Haha... here's the pic of my cute niece! Btw, jie, can I have a nice pic of the 2 of them?

My Kawaii Jaela!

ahhhhhh... 'D' shift!

2008-11-03T11:56:00.002+08:00

I bet you all can't guess wat my title's abt! Sigh... I just found out yest. that I'll be working D shift starting today over the next 2 weeks. It means, 0630-1100hr and then, go back to work at 1730-2130hr! (Btw, I was working 1500-2300hr yest.) Yea, I'm dead tired now... Tho it may seem that I have a 6 and half hours break, it's not really the case COS, I have x'mas singing classes on Mon, Wed and Fri and for other days over this and next wk, I'm giving English training to my fellow colleagues. Singing classes' from 1530-1630hr and training's from 1500-1600hr. So, it also means that I don't get to FREAKING MISS work! AHhhh... BUT nvm, I can do this! I'm sure I'll be able to pull thro this! Just like how I endured climbing the humongous, full-of-steps mountain! For now, I shall look forward to Kieran's FIRST B'day! Hoorah! Sigh... So for these 2 wks, there's gonna be a lot less blogging. No much life in this kinda shift but this is life. Ain't it ironic?

Tired... SO tired... Btw, I met a guy from Moscow today. Gosh... His eyes... They were green. So light a green and so clear! Woah! Super nice la! Urgh... my throats's feeling... :s U noe, the kind of after effect from eating too salty? Yea... I just had the saltiest lamb soup I've ever tasted. The flavour's not too bad. Just that it's too salty AND there's no meat ONLY kidney, coagulated blood and smthg tat looks like intestine. Tried the first 2 but not the last... Nothing I shld mention about, just........... they can't be eaten. >_< So I'm down-ing a lot of water right now...

Hmm... nothing much to blog about, just hope Val will go down for dinner over the next 2 wks and not eat too much instant noodles. I know you are reading this Val. Haha... I hope to see you at the restaurant every night! Pls give me smthg to look forward to! N I hope that I won't be eating too much instant noodles too. Kind of easy, kind of hard. I'll see. Kk... gotta go prepare for the English training! U all tc and I'll most prob blog on Wed, which is my off day! :)

Yet another off day gone...

2008-11-01T22:57:00.004+08:00

Hmm... Woke up at ard 11am today... More like Val woke up at 11am today. But I was really tired... So I just continued lying in bed while she was cleaning up. After she was done, she woke me up... N I told her tat I dreamt of our room having a kitchen. complete with pots. I was so happy (in my dream). Sigh... I then told her that I can't get up cos Eeeyore was sleeping on me. Haha... She said that I was retarded. :s

Anw, we woke up, changed, and went to the buffet rest. again, for lunch. Lunch was good bt I kept dropping things, like yest. First, was the deep-fried glutinous rice ball. Another was the Cheese cake (manage to catch it with my plate). Sigh... Just what was with me today? We had a long chat with the cashier and my acting captain then went back to our room to find some actions for our X'mas song, "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town". Val was very efficient. She managed to find them. Not that I didn't do anything. There was only 1 internet cable thingy so... Haha... :P

Before going to the X'mas choir class, we went to change our dirty uniforms for clean ones. Today's choir class was... funny. I think it's 'cos Val n I were very restless. Sleepy after a full stomach... It's not an easy thing. Haha... then the front desk manager, michael, was there. He's not part of the singing class but... Haha... Anw, he started msging val n I. but Val didn't bring her phone. I, on the other hand, were having problems replying in Chinese so Val did it. :> It was really weird cos, he was just 3m away from us? Haha... We cld see all the facial expressions upon seeing our replies. :>

Then we went to have dinner after waiting some 30 mins? for the hsekeeper to come and take a look at our safe deposit box as it wasn't working. We got our money out and walked to our intended destination. (Sigh... feeling REALLY BROKE) Here's what I had for dinner! All for just 116RMB, two dinner sets. Mine's 48RMB, so cheap la...

Here's my steak, complete with a cream soup (it sux), buttered bread, spaghetti, fruit salad and red wine from yantai.
(There's lots of onions under and around my steak, it's oily too, as if it's free)

Val and I. It's a singing chair! Super fun and comfy! :)

Me on the swinging chair...

Here's what i've been forgetting to blog abt! I received a letter from the sunny island on Thur! Wahaha... I was SO happy! I could tell who it was from after looking at the handwriting. So her la... Haha... it came with a hp strap tat says "best pals!" in front and "Wen & Joyce" behind. Hee... Here's a pic of it... i'm sure many can see me grinning during the process when I first received the letter till I finished reading the letter and stared at the hp strap. Thanks Jie! Haha... But it wld've been great if u cld sneak me some pocky! fran will do too! Sigh... Meiji! Ah! Toking abt Meiji, guess wat WE found yest?

Ta-Dah! Meiji Yan Yan! At least better than nothing...
(Hope it tastes just as good!)

And here's the letter that made my day... Sigh... It may be just a simple, random letter but... Wah! So happy la! Thanks Joyce! Gosh... I love you!

Haha... Btw, according to Val, it seems like they had problems locating the owner of this letter, me. They (I dunno who) asked Val's colleague if she knew who Jiawen is. She knew. N I dunno her. Seems like she's been just as curious abt me as she was abt Val. So she asked Val abt me. Oh well... at least the leeter didn't get into the trash. Sigh... snail mail... Snail mails always makes my day... EXCEPT! EXCEPT for my bills AND results slip. Haha... Kk... Gotta go to bed alr... Val's alr in bed. (She was snoring... heh)

It's Sat! Also my off day! Hoorah!

2008-10-31T23:50:00.007+08:00

Wow... I've been blogging everyday... until now. Haha... Feeling a lil' lazy alr. Hmm... Didn't do much over the past few days, there's interesting customers but... Really lazy to type about it. Hmm... ok, mabbe just one.

There's a cute 'ang moh' this morning. Sigh... he was sitting at Area B but I was in charge of Area A. Hmm... What made me notice him was, he was wearing a pair of board shorts while I was freezing my ass of. Ok, it wasn't all that cold today but still... board shorts?! Haha... Anw, he had two shiny ear studs on both ears and a tattoo on one of his calf, a human face of some sorts. prettiness. Mabbe that's y he was wearing shorts? Oh, anway, after seeing him, I just thought of Nat instantly. Haha... Definitely her type. My colleague then told me that he's been around for quite some time already. Oh well... He left before I could catch another glimpse of him so I might not even recognise him again. Haha...

Hmm... Yingying and Meiqing's both at Suzhou alr! They are stying in the hotel too! Hoorah! Their room's like more spacious than our's la... Haha... BUT I'm not complaining! So happy for them tho... :) Finally, they are here in China-land after so much waiting!

Next, I shall tok abt our dinner and... umm... tea? Haha... we had 'guo qiao mian' (cross bridge noodle) Haha... it's really interesting. It's like a mini hotpot. but there's a step by step thing as to what you should add first, etc. Some of the ingredients are ham, veggie, preserved veggie, quail's egg, sliced meat, spring onions, chicken drumlet and of course, the noodle that's made with rice. It's really not bad but not all that filling. BUT, after having had super filling buffets over the past few nights, I guess it's fine. Btw, the 'Da Jie' at the dumpling station said I've lost weight... My colleague said that too... Sigh... Die! Cannot retain enough fats to hibernate during winter. >_<

Haha... After adding the ingredients into the hot soup....

Ta-Dah! Here's the cross bridge noodle! (过桥面)
Tsk tsk... Tea after dinner! Haha... Yes, That's my coffee!
(The bag on the right's egg roll. The bag on the left contains Sinagpore Mi Jiang Gao, smthg and red date cake?) They are really nice. All for just ard S$1-2?

Sigh... Dunno what's happening to me today... Or mabbe I shld say yest (Fri). I broke a spoon, scalded myself, hmm... what else? i can't rmb. I'm sure there's more. Oh, my captain told me that the x'mas choir lesson's cancelled but I heard, '今天有唱诗班' so I tot he was just reminding me so that I will leave at the right time since it's spring cleaning day today. After I left, telling another captain, I bumped into the HR guy and he told me that it's cancelled. Crap la... only then did I realise that my cpatain was trying to tell me '今天没有唱诗班'! Sigh... It's not the first time that I heard him wrongly alr la... How stupid can I get? Sigh... *shakes head*

Though it's val and my off day tmr, we've to go for x'mas choir class. Sigh... We originally wanted to go to Dai Temple. BUT! Seems like the plan needs to be rescheduled. :( Haha... My post's long again! I just have a bad habit not knowing how to start but once I start, I can just go on and on and on and on... like forever. Trust me, if I want, i can flood my own blog such that u will never wish to read it again. :)

Oh yes, Happy Belated Halloween to you all... When I was knocking off, I saw a chef trying hard to carve out a skull like face out of a small pumpkin while refering to a pirate like skull w.o a patch! Haha... So fun... Anw, It's Hello Kitty's B'day today! Hoorah! And Edith's tmr! One day after Hello Kitty... I'll always rmb... Wahaha...

Indifference...

2008-10-28T12:34:00.004+08:00

Ah............ TIRED... Wanna sleep... :( Though I woke up at 11am... Ah... tmr morning shift! Oh well... After today, I'll be able to survive the week w/o instant noodle... Hoorah! Not that I mind eating it... That's y I'm making a lil' game out of it... 'See how long I can break my record of not eating instant noodle' game.

As I've mentioned, since I've finished my report, I shall blog about my Sunday. Hmm... after my breakfast, we were doing our report. Got tired and decided to go out at around 4pm. First, we left for Shen Zhou Da Sha to get my web cam. It's really cute and costs less than SGD20. I also got a MS card reader at around SGD3. It's not exactly cheap, the MS card reader, but no choice. I can't bluetooth things into my lappie only out of my lappie. Weird irritating shit.

We got hungry, yes, really early. (We're so used to their early meal hours!) So we went to 'Tu Da Li', Korean restaurant for our dinner. Here's what we ate. The big plate of veggie there's salty but tastes alright with rice. Somehow, the veggie with rice reminded me of home. :( Sigh...

Yes, that's the veggie. And the one beside it's the overcooked squid :s

Here's the Beancurd Kimchi Soup I ordered. (It isn't good. It's good only cos it's hot.)

Me with the tissue
(which you have to pay 1RMB when you use it. I only saw it after I used it.)
Val & I @ the Restaurant!

We walked along 'cai yuan jie' again. Did some window shopping and finally, opposite 'zhong bai shopping centre', we went into Metersbowne. Val bought a lovely white top (I love the button) and I bought a jacket at ard SGD55. It's really comfy. Will look crazy wearing it in S'pore tho but it's comfy! Sigh... but there goess the 300RMB which I just took out from my safe deposit box. We're really getting poorer by the day. :( AH!!! No more shopping till 2 wks later. :(

Yest, my F&B Manager who has always looked stern and serious came to me and ask what is 'ying jun' in English. I couldn't help it. BUT I just smiled and said 'handsome'. I tried to write on my palm, the spelling but he took out his lil' notebook (which everyone seems to have) and tried to write down as I enunciated each alpha to him. There was either some oral or aural problems he wrote 'm' when i said 'n' and somthg else when i sad 'd'. I decided to write instead. Haha... He was so cute... he just stared at the word and started to say the word. And had the look that says, 'at the back of his head, he's going to tell his wife just how handsome he is.' Wahaha...

Oh... this reminded me of something. There was a German couple last night. The guy was quite good looking and the lady had very nice facial features. Sharp. Anw, that wasn't it. They were standing in front of the "steamboat" plc where the raw veggies and others are displayed. You are suppose to pick what you want in your soup (Spicy or not). So I told them how it works. Then the guy pointed at something that's chocolatey-looking. He whispered to the lady, meant for me to hear I guess, cos if not, he wld've spoken German. "So you put chocolate in the soup and... chocolate soup?" HAHA! I didn't LOL... I replied, "No, no... That's not chocolate. It's pig's blood (I later found out that it'a goat's blood)." They stared at me. I repeated "Pig's blood" again, slower this time, "pig'ssss Blooood". The lady repeated after me, "blood, pig's blood" with a tinge of disgust in her eyes. The guy finally got it and said "pig's blood" and looked at the chocolatey-looking thing which was actually coagulated goat's blood. Oh well... It's China here. I dun mind eating tho. I mean, I've eaten before (Pig's blood). It just tastes like tofu... But my aunt told me it's not good cos of the special thing they use for the coagulation process.

Oh ya... I'm suppose to plan a English training schedule for them. Twice a week, around 30 mins per lesson? Gotta plan out then submit to my 'handsome' manager for approval. Haha... So I think I better get down to doing it now. Ah! One last thing. What's 香草 ice cream flavour? It's definitely Vanilla rite? I mean... IT IS VANILLA. IT'S SO not 'Herb' ice cream. And what's 'sweet daheon'? It's simply just yam, or taro. Sigh... Sigh... I really dunno what to say... (there's a story behind this...)

Alritey! Bye! 30mins more till I have to go prepare for work! >_< LOL, it's another long post and 'ding dong', the hsekeeper's here.

Here's the super long limo we saw while walking along 'cai yuan jie'

Yummy breakfast!

2008-10-27T13:36:00.003+08:00

Eh... Kinda rushing for time... So I shall just blog on my big breakfast experiment today!

Haha... Was trying to find how long it takes to make hard boiled egg. In the end, Mich told me 7 mins. I had to pour water in THRICE cos it was still soft. But after the third time, it was STILL soft. Sigh... You can see here, the oh, so yummy egg yolk swimming amidst the whites.

There's only one word I can use to discribe the above pic: FAILURE
Oh well... I'm sure I can do better the next time. Though it may not look good, it tastes great!

Thanks to Val's delicious tomato and Jap Mayo to the rescue! Wahaha... Jap Mayo... Now, I wish I brought the big bottle one... It tastes great with JUST anything!

(don't u just see the halo above it?)
*ding* Jap Mayo, the Angel!

Muahaha... I'll blog about yesterday when I get back later at night. I've a test later... this is bad... Gotta go start preparing for work! Byee!

So what if there's no Deepavali here? Humph

2008-10-26T11:27:00.007+08:00

Hiya! Off for 2 days but seems like I nvr really did anything constructive. Woke up at ard 1130hr yest. Oh n guess wat? I lost my departure card! Freaking irritating! I was looking high and low for it... Tried looking every possible damn plcs but to no avail. :( My mentor said that she'll help me call the airport to ask about it. I really really hope that it'll be alright... I dun wanna go to jail! >_< (Haha...)

Was just slacking the whole first half of the day, waiting for Val's return, (to play with me). Went to have dinner then to Ginza's supermarket. We spent around 120RMB spending on all the what's not. Oh yes! I found the 'House' brand Japanese curry! But we dun have rice cooker to cook rice for it... So... Sigh... Afterwhich, we went in search for my water bottle. Finally found it and it was Tupperware brand! Haha... Guess what it's called in Chinese? Here's it: 特百惠 So weird rite? It's so not Tupperware! I bought it at 38RMB which is ard S$8. Like quite cheap ah?(Haha... Val's stomach keeps growling, she's munching on seaweed and her favourite 'wang wang' biscuit now.) You can see my bottle here... I was deciding on which colour to get. Blue or black. Guess what I got in the end? Hee... BLACK. Well, since it's translucent it's more like grey but it's black.
Just when we were almost, almost going back, I received a call from my mentor. ?! *gasp* She asked where we were, what time we are going back then asked us if want to go and sing karaoke now, with her and the GM at the hotel's karaoke lounge! ( She knew that we originally wanted to go today). Sigh... I asked Val, and she said 'anything'. So it's for me to decide. Thinking that it wasn't nice to reject the invitation, I said yes. I almost died!

So, we went. My first song, I sang Sammi's 'Try Again'. Sigh... how I wish Joyce was there. I love singing with her! Sang other songs, like 'Sleeping Child' by MLTR (they didn't have Paint My Love), 'Yan Lei Cheng Shi' by Sefanie Sun, etc. They were all great singers. The GM, the Directors, my mentor and of course, Val. (Yes, Val, I love your singing *cheers*) We really really felt like taking photos then but thought that it was quite inappropriate so we missed our chance. By the time I went to bed, it was 2am!?

Woke up at 0824hr today. Val was still soundly asleep so I decided not to wake her up. But she managed to wake up in time for us to catch breakfast, 10 mins to 9am. Today's breakfast is one of the happiest one I've had, not that I've had many breakfasts here but I left the restaurant feeling sated. I had cocoa pops and cornflakes with hot milk, bread with butter, bread with CHEESE, soya bean milk [it was tasteless so I added brown sugar, it wasn't bad after that but sigh, no sugar syrup... :( ] Had sushi as well, I love the vinegar and rice! Mm... So much calcium today la... Love it! been missing dairy products for so damn long alr la! Sigh... Milk... Meiji... Urgh... Can I have any, ANY meiji stuff? If anyone can bring it to me at this instance, I'll just love you to death! Sigh... N I just had to come across this THING yesterday while 'window/screen' shopping online.
Gotta go do my report now... Plus there's a test I think I mentioned before, tmr! Sigh... and X'mas choir tmr... Hmm... Wish me luck k?

Before I go off, here are some other pics I took today as well as the past weeks. Keep forgetting to upload. N since Edwin has requested more pics, I'll try as much as possible to add pics more often. :)

Pics of white lilies, taken at our hotel's very own flower shop
(Pretty pretty, Don, it reminded me of Kaori Yuki!)

Here's a pic of the 'jia bing' we ordered at the roadside. It's delicious!
(Can't eat often though)
The thing the spotlight's shining on's said to be 'ma la rou chuan' (麻辣肉串)

The Chinese soup I drink when I go down to the buffet restaurant for lunch/dinner
(It's pork rib soup base and varies with radish, winter melon (my fav.) & corn) Yum! ^_^
The things we saw at the supermarket yesterday:

They are mini pumpkins! So cute la!
Here's the extra gigantic Durian!
(I think that that's ONE seed. Btw, this is North of China, where do they get their Durians from? Isn't it like a tropical fruit?)
Btw, they dun smell of strong 'pungent' durian. :s
Last but not least, Ta-dah! Some worm-y stuff.
(there are 2 types.If I'm not wrong, one of them is cricket)
Dun you dare ask if we bought them! We didn't!
Tat's all... Byyyyeeeeeeeee! \(^_^)/

My Five Factor Personality Profile

2008-10-25T00:31:00.006+08:00

Oh yes... Forgot, Don wants me to post up my results on my '5 factor personality profile'. Here's it, lemme noe how true you all find it. :)

Extroversion:

You have low extroversion.
You are quiet and reserved in most social situations.
A low key, laid back lifestyle is important to you.
You tend to bond slowly, over time, with one or two people.

Conscientiousness:

You have medium conscientiousness.
You're generally good at balancing work and play.
When you need to buckle down, you can usually get tasks done.
But you've been known to goof off when you know you can get away with it.

Agreeableness:

You have high agreeableness.
You are easy to get along with, and you value harmony highly.
Helpful and generous, you are willing to compromise with almost anyone.
You give people the benefit of the doubt and don't mind giving someone a second chance.

Neuroticism:

You have medium neuroticism.
You're generally cool and collected, but sometimes you do panic.
Little worries or problems can consume you, draining your energy.
Your life is pretty smooth, but there's a few emotional bumps you'd like to get rid of.

Openness to experience:

Your openness to new experiences is medium.
You are generally broad minded when it come to new things.
But if something crosses a moral line, there's no way you'll approve of it.
You are suspicious of anything too wacky, though you do still consider creativity a virtue.

Guess what? Our dearest friend, Kalp, just asked "u in china for holiday?". Lol.

More convo. with her. She's damn cute la...

Met a Fellow Singaporean! ^_^

2008-10-24T23:46:00.002+08:00

Yes, I met a Singaporean today! Actually, I met 3 BUT... Sigh... it's story telling time.

I was helping a gentleman and lady clear their table. Seems like they came for a biz conference. They were talking quite intensely, I could kinda tell, u know, this very distinct Singaporean English. After she mentioned DBS Bank, I gathered my courage and asked them, "May I know where you're from?". They ignored me, kinda, she just said, "yea, you can clear them" or some sort like that. I was like, forget it. Oh well... you know, not very friendly people so what for converse with them?

Then after some time, I moved to the table beside them, to clear their stuff. One guy was asking the guy opposite him, "was it MIDA from Singapore or something like that?". After I heard it, I was like, "are you all from Singapore?". The guy who spoke replied me, saying that he's from Singapore but not the other 3. He then asked me which part of Singapore? I was like, huh? What which part? ??? Haha... funny la... Then he finally got it, he asked, oh, you're Singaporean? O_0 Haha... I still dun really understand what he was trying to ask tho. He then asked what I was doing here, which school I'm from, how i find this city, etc. I was damn happy tho. Cos, I really never expected to meet Singaporeans here. So I ended with a "nice meeting you". >_< felt so at home for a minute... Hee...

Oh yes, this morning, I met another Jap old couple. I went to the old lady and cleared her tablewares. Then asked, "nihon-jin desuka?", the usual. :) She then replied, yes and asked if I am too. Haha... No, I do not speak good jap. It's just the old jap ladies' mindset. Then I told him that I'm not. Then she started talking a lot, I tried really hard to catch and what I could decipher from her speedy jap speech was, something like, asking me to study Jap hard, that it's impt./useful, continue to work hard, etc. While she was talking, she was patting my forearm. Very cute and motherly. Haha... And while the whole convo. took plc, the old man was just sitting on his seat, looking at the both of us with pleasant gentle eyes. So cute la... Sigh... I should have brought my Jap book over to study!

Hmm... There's the irritating serveat lady, damn irritating. U can ask me if u want to noe abt her. N I'll tell u only if i feel like it. Haha...

Nothing much la... Didn't eat instant noodle today... YAY! Oh ya... Is nissin cup noodles sold in Singapore affected? Pls tell me NO! I mean, there's Laksa and Tom Yum flavour. I highly doubt it's made in Japan. Even if it's affected, dun tell me, only tell me if it's not affected. Cos I'm NOT, NEVER, REFUSE to dump my 2 precious Nissin cup noodles! Sigh... just what on earth is happening? Can't eat Julie's biscuit, no Khong Guan, suspicious milk products and now, NISSIN JAPAN cup noodles! Like, JAPAN?! Sigh... 50,000, it's no joke lor... >_< Damn, shld've brought Myojo over instead. Haha...

Oh ya, many of you would have noticed, I've a shoutbox. Do use it. Val helped me with it. Haha... She said that there's no fees required but a service charge of 50rmb, "very cheap". That's what she said la... Haha...

Ah! One more thing, walnut's in season now! They use it in their cakes and there's walnut pie. Woah! Super nice la! N they dun have pineapple here, I found out after they asked if I noe how to make Singapore Sling. Haha... Toking abt Singapore Sling, I drank it on my flight here. It induces sleep cos it kept me warm. Well, $300 more for SQ and the pouch they gave includes toothbrush and toothpaste and socks. The pouch says: Givenchy, for SIA, smthg like that... So ya... How branded can SIA get? Sigh... Gd nite!

One more morning shift...!

2008-10-23T18:36:00.002+08:00

Yea! Tmr's the last shift work. ..........for the week. Hoorah!

Anw, this morning's breakfast was quite fun... Met a lot of foreigners. American, German, Japanese and some other s whom I didn't talk to. Sigh... Somehow, it seems like Val and I are the only 2 Singaporean in this city. Ok, back to the back topic -- fun. It's funny how all the conversation goes. First, the American from LA. I asked where he was from. Then, he replied, "Los Angeles and you? China?" T_T" of course, I didn't show that face... I replied that I'm from Singapore, here for an internship, etc. Told him how much I like this place, the mountains and all, 'cos you don't see it in Singapore (Bukit Timah HILL?). Then he replied, "yea, it's along the coastline, etc." Inside, I was thinking, "coastline? It's like an island!" Oh well, I didn't bother explaining. He then asked what's Singapore's native language and I told him English. He told me that he never knew. Well, he gained one knowledge from me for the day. :)

Next, a German lady. I told her that Singapore's smaller than Tai'an city. She didn't believe it. Haha... So I asked her to wiki it. Haha... She then asked if I've climbed the mountain behind us. I told her about our LITTLE adventure. She decided to take a cable car or bus up. Good move!

I'll skip the other Germans. Last but not least, the three cute Japs. I offered the lady a straw 'cos she hadn't taken one for her yoghurt. Tho she didn't speak, from her body language, you can just tell it's the oh, so polite jap-like "language". So I asked, "nihon-jin desuka?". She smiled and replied, "hai". Then she went on to ask if I'm a Jap too. Haha... Of course, I replied that I'm a Singaporean. Hmm... I look like a China girl, Japanese girl... What else? Anyway, almost straight after she left, an old man came to me to ask me how to eat the fresh date and longan. They were SO VERY cute. The fresh date, I told him, "hai, tabemasu". But there's seed and I didn't want him to choke and yet, I didn't know how to say "seed" in jap. So I tried my very best and told him, "kore, chioto, eto... ringo desu". What I was trying to say was, "it's a little like, eh... apple". i think he took me as, it's a mini apple? Oh well, I did my job, they didn't choke. Next, the longan. I didn't noe how to say "peel" in jap. So I took the longan from him and started peeling. If only I could've captured his reaction to my peeling. He was so... Surprised. Haha... Cute guy there. :) When I went to clear their plates, they were pointing at the seeds, telling me that it was delicious and thank you. Haha...

Val will only be back in 3 hours' time. Sigh... What should I eat? Not very hungry actually. Oh well, I guess I'll just have cup noodles. Anw, I'm going to the restaurant tmr so... yea, not so bad I guess. haven't really been eating cup noodles. Need to go and buy eggs soon so that we can have a more nutritious cup noodle. Anw, cup noodles here's called 'fang bian mian' (方便面). Listening to Maroon 5 now... Sigh... love them... makes me feel at home! "That someday it would lead me back to you. That someday it will lead me back to you... " *sings*

Food here...

2008-10-22T11:44:00.005+08:00

Well, I shall intro u all to the food I eat here. I think I've mentioned that it's salty... but it isn't so... not exactly. On the meter gauge of saltiness, 0 to 10, it can be like 0 or 10, mostly. I haven't got a chance to take a pic of how my canteen food looks. But they usually consists of pickles (super salty), vegetables with meat, vegetables (can be found in EVERY meal), rice (they have yummy rice), 'man tou' and porridge (congee, 'xiao mi zhou', etc. [which is just... blend]). Yea, tat's abt it. No water to go with... So my intake of water here's actually quite low... (Not gd!)

I've dined at KFC, which I mentioned, wasn't very nice. A local fast food chain, Dico's, like mos burger and it's not bad. TODAY, we had lunch at McDonald's! Well, it wasn't fantastic but that's the one and only Mac's we have here in this city which is slightly bigger than S'pore. N along Orchard alone, we already have like, what? at least 5 Mac's? Sigh... Here's a pic of our lunch...

Yea, we ordered McSpicy and it is indeed Spicy. A tad spicier than the one in S'pore. But... It's not as good 'cos it's not juicy AT ALL! Sigh... Well, the fries are good though. EVEN w/o chili. *grumbles* the fast food here dun provide chili! Can u imagine?! Sigh...

Here's another pic of what I ate the first few days when we got here. Our mentor treated us. It's some 'xiang cai bing' (fragrant vegetable wrap). It's really fragrant... not too bad, but the smell's a lil' ...acquired to my liking.

Sigh... after this post, I'll only be online after... 4pm tmr? Sigh... can't wait man! Oh yes, I had a bad bad nightmare this morning! I was caught eating by the AGM while I was working! I was trying SO hard to swallow, u noe, to destroy evidence (hee hee). But I cldn't. In the end I just kept apologising la... It was bad. Super bad. Not like it'll ever happen. But the dream scares me. >_<

Yesterday, while I was online with Jie and she told me that she went to have some claypot fish head at Chinatown... Then dessert at my favourite dessert plc! Sigh... Sesame paste, Peanut paste, Almond paste... w/ Aboling! WAHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! N guess what Joyce emailed me?! Sigh................................

BEEF NOODLES @ AMK HUB! >_<

She finished it! :'(
(See the other bowl? Hmm... wonder which BF she went to eat with. heh heh)

Last but not least, to Mrs Raikonen, I didn't get to go to Shanghai to watch the race. But congrats! Kimi got 3rd! Haha... Lewis Hamilton's like on the front page of the local newspaper "China Daily". U an see it here:

Haha... tat's abt it for today! The hsekeeper's here! Byyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeee!

Hey there!

2008-10-21T13:12:00.004+08:00

1 more week till the submission of our next report! N I haven't even started! Oh well, at least I'm off this Sat & Sun. :) Hopefully Val can be off this weekend too then we can go KTV!

Went to the restaurant to have lunch today. Very full now... feel like sleeping la... Haha... But in ard 30 mins' time, gotta go prepare for work alr. Oh... Guess wat? There's smthg on my lil' toe... it's a lil' swollen. Hurts like mad la! Shall show u... just took pic of it.

OUCH! >_<

Hmm... I actually had some more things to upload but stupid, stupid msn's server thingy's down... So... another time I guess... Tonight's gonna be a busy one for me. Cos there's an event and we're expecting ard 190 guests to dine in. Ah! Well, I guess it's better than having lil' guests so I'm not really complaining (only my feet are).

Oh ya... yest, there was a German who was dining at ard 9+ till 10+. After I offered to clear his plate for him, he asked for coffee. U shld've seen his face. He was trying to enunciate clearly "co-ffee". Guess i blend in too well in that uniform and bun... so he tried to make it so that I can understand better. Haha... After I showed that I understood (of course) he relaxed and told me that he wanted his coffee black. Oh, n I told him that there'll be extra charges, n he said "ya, sure". Seriously, the Weterners can be really easy to serve at times (many times)!

Guess I shall just end here for now... Sigh... tired... so sleepy... :S

It's our 2nd Monday here!

2008-10-20T11:52:00.005+08:00

It's almost 2 weeks since we've arrived! Really did quite a no. of crazy things. Like yesterday was the craziest! Working afternoon shift later... But before that, gotta go for a briefing, at 3pm. Guess what the briefing's about? I bet I forgot to inform everyone... >_<

Here's what I'm lunching on... It's actually quite nice, Some Japanese Ramen flavour. Guess I can go n buy more of this and oreo! :>
Hmm... I think that's about it... Nothing much to blog about today. I will be working afternoon for the next 2 days too then mornings on thurs and fri. Finally, ta-dah! Off on Sat and Sun! Hoorah! I guess this week will fly pretty fast. Meanwhile, u all tc k? Going off... Bye!

--> Haha... this auntie just came to housekeep our room and asked if we always eat instant noodles cos she always see it when she cleans our room. N told me it's unhealthy... Hmm... I noe that too but... I can't cook and I'm oh, so lazy to go down to the staff canteen alone. I'll consider again when I get my 'fan kar' (rice card). :P

A Crazzy Crazy Sunday!

2008-10-19T22:43:00.006+08:00

Yes, yes, it's been a totally crazy Sunday for me (& of course, Val too). Nothing beats this -- Climbing Mt. Taishan (This was what I forgot in my previous post). It's totally and utterly tiring! We went to the train station to pick Jeremy & Hui Er up at ard 9.30pm and set off to 'Tian Wai Chun', hoping that we could take a bus up to the mid mountain, 'Zhong Tian Men'. But guess wat? The buses only starts their service at 12+, 1am! SO, we decided not to wait and headed to 'Hong Men' (Red Gate), and that also means that we'll be climbing from the very foot of the mountain! !!!

Alrite, we started climbing at 11pm due to some delays at the tix counter. 'Cos Val & I didn't bring our student card, there were some complications. But we started so ya. From bottom to 'Zhong Tian Men', we took about 1 and a half, 2hrs. We were already tired then but the worst have yet to come. We climbed and climbed, stop n rested, clmbed and felt like crying, stopped and felt like resting there forever, climbed and felt like my legs will give way anytime...

It was hell... But hell of an achievement as well. It was a job well done for all of us. Jeremy was our motivator. Hui Er was our photographer. They were both great to have. W/o them, I doubt Val n I will ever be able to make it all the way up n down and achieve what we have achieved.

After we came back to the hotel, I bathed and rested a while in bed. A call from home, a call which I've been waiting for since the day I've arrived. Was so glad to hear from all of them, even Jaela, tho I only heard her say "I Don't want" (to talk to her Ah Yi) at the background. :( She only wants to webcam with me, 'cos according to her, it's more fun. Oh well. At around 11.30am, we went down to Four Seasons to eat buffett (we treated them to welcome them here). At arond 12+, we made our way to the train stn only to find out that the tix fo the day was sold out. They took a bus back in the end.

We went back to our room n slept at 2, woke up not too long ago, at 9pm, mainly 'cos I received a call from my Gu Jie. After that, I went to wash up n here I am. Oh, guess what our dinner was?

Ta-Dah!
I had campbell soup with pasta and Val had Milo
(The Oreo tastes surprisingly nicer here)

What I feel now is, tired. Really tired. My legs aren't really aching YET. It's so sore that the muscles are still tight. But when tmr comes, we die. >_< style="text-align: center;">Val & I at 'Zhong Tian Men', resting to the fullest (almost)

The Sun Viewing Platform, look at the Crazy amount of people
(n tat's not just it!)

The pic we took while waiting patientlt waiting for sunrise
(The sunrise that never happened, we were freezing like mad!)
This is the legendary "deadly steps" of the mountain! (Hoorah!)
N this is the last flight of stairs of the 'Shi Ba Pan' (It's crazy!)
Below are the pretty scenaries...

(Spot the Sun!)
(Spot the moon!)

Tired...

2008-10-18T16:04:00.003+08:00

Kinda got back from work an hour ago. Knocked off at 2320hr yesterday. Nothing much, bathed, dried my hair, spread moisturiser all over, sleep (went to bed at 0000hr [record time!]). Haha... Yes, very boring. But work was fine last night. Actually, work's fine everyday. It's my shoe which I have a problem with. :s Over these few days, there's some event over at the grand ballroom and they are mostly elderly participants of Guangdong. Haha... So many of them are so surprised/amused that I could understand them and speak a little. Just a little. Heh.

Woke up at 6am this morning. Went to work, nothing much again. (Hmm... Val's been in the toilet for quite some time already... silence... Mabbe she dropped into the toilet bowl...??). Jeremy and partner will be coming over from Jinan at about 2100hr later. Then we'll go and climb the mountain behind our hotel and watch the sunrise. :> (Ok, she's showering now.) So, it's going to be a tiring day for me tomorrow and I'm already tired today. Oh well... I'm off tmr and mon's afternoon shift!

Hmm... I wanted to type about something else... But... I forgot! :s Humph... Alrite then... I shall stop here. Will continue if I rmb later! BBBBBYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Oh... Here's me in my uniform... Yes, I look tired, I noe that.
Last of all, It's my dearest Aunt's B'day tmr... Sigh... Can't celebrate with her. But still, Happy B'day! Love you lots and missing you lots too!

I think my body clock won...

2008-10-17T10:42:00.003+08:00

Haha... I kinda couldn't sleep the whole night. Woke up a dozen times. I don't think I ever fell into a deep sleep at all. Plus, at around 9.30am just now, the housekeeping person came. She knocked and called out, then came in. I stirred awake to the opening door and shocked the housekeeping lady... Haha... never my intention but I found it quite embarrassed just now.

So... I'm here online now, blogging, hoping that time wouldn't pass too fast! Sigh... Am thinking of what I should eat actually. I kinda had a slight gastric yesterday so I better eat something before it comes again. Sigh x 2.

Oh yes, while I was really bored yesterday, I made a picture of Kieran with the help of photofunia.com. Here's it. Isn't it nice?
Oh yes... I can't remember if I've ever mentioned before but when the people here saw my photo in my resume, they thought that I actually look like Stefanie Sun. So over here, inside them, they kinda think that, "oh, so you are the one who looks like Stefanie Sun." Yea... it's not like they are the first to say but... Gosh... Do I look like SO many people? No, I dun think so. I'm me. Just me. :) It was really quite embarrassing especially there was once when I got introduced to the FO manager and he asked me, "so you are the one which looks like Stefanie Sun?" What I replied was, "I think so." Sigh... Dunno what else to blog... So I guess I'll just end here!

Orientation Day - 2

2008-10-16T21:43:00.004+08:00

Well, it's just as my title suggests, it's orientation day 2 today. Well, nothing much, just that during the 'training', we went through the hotel's cultural knowledge, situation analysis and English lesson. It wasn't really a lesson, just went through some important 'need to know' words and phrases. And don't be surprised, their English are really not bad! However, I realised that their English language's more to the American English side. We also met quite a few people (as in, talked to them today). One of them's really pretty! Hee... will take a pic of her if I get a chance when I see her at the reservations department. Btw, her name's Zhang Ji Wa. Pretty lady, very air stewardess look. Oh ya... I'll be having a test on 27 October mainly on the hotel's products and English. N yes, the test will be in Chinese characters. >_<>_< Hee... I know, I know, a lot of junk food. But I need them. Ok, we need them! Oh... see the box of sugar? It's for my tea! (which I'm drinking now) Sigh... I want my Milkmaid condensed milk... Or my Meiji milk! Sigh... talking about Meiji... Sigh... I want my Fran, Banana Chocolate, etc. Great... N I still have so much of it in my cupboard and fridge. Should've just brought them all!

Val just went to bed. She gotta report to work at 0650hr tmr. I'm working afternoon shift tmr. N tat's like 1430hr to 2300hr. Sigh... It's spring cleaning tmr. So I think it'll be a lil' more tiring tmr. Hmm... You Weng Gor's leaving for KL tmr... Have fun & bon voyage! So from tmr on, there will only be 2 people home. Sigh. N it's mum's b'day on Sunday! Well, at least jie will be home with the 2 lil' darlings to celebrate with her. :)

Lol... It's been one long post again. Tho as usual, I have a lot more to type, I shall just end here. Tc everyone... I think I'll most probably be MIA tmr so ya... It's either I wake up late or wake up early to blog. I wonder which will win? Me wanting to sleep in vs. my body clock... Hmm... Listening to L'Arc en Ciel now... Sigh... they are as good to listen as always! Songs to relax to. >_<

Wednesday, 15/10

2008-10-15T17:52:00.007+08:00

Orientation – Day 1

Today’s orientation… Had a more than 2 hrs break so we went back to the hotel room for lunch. N, u guessed it, Instant noodles! Yay! Haha…Yay... Mine's the 'can be found in Singapore' brand (right side)!

Nothing much happened during the first half. Just did some brief intro of the hotel, mgmt team, etc. Then we went to walk around the hotel again. Sigh… the hotel’s huge and will always be, for me. It’s a wonder how those places connects and end up side by side. There are 5 meeting rooms, ball rooms, etc. Their names are so confusing! Urgh! But the people attending today’s orientation were new, just like us, n they were from many different dept. so it’s good to know them. BUT… The fire prevention/ precaution training was really emotionally tiring. One, it’s all in Chinese. Two, we couldn’t really catch what was said so we kinda blanked off at some parts. Well, people did fall asleep. It was weird ‘cos you could just feel the tiredness emitting from us all. Well, day 1’s over… So… yay!

Yesterday –

We really went on a shopping spree yesterday after lunch. To our surprise, we really walked a lot n got some really good buys! We lunched at the hotel’s restaurant yesterday and there was this chocolate cake which was… Ooooooooooooo… superb! Small it may be, it was good and satisfying (I’m quite sure I could finish all… perhaps I can eat them all tonight if they have it) Hee… As u can see below, it’s the one above. The bottom one’s blueberry cheesecake.

Ok, back to shopping. We went to Ginza, as I’ve mentioned, but there wasn’t much to last the many hours we had to spare. And so, we decided to roam around randomly. We were headed to nowhere but still managed to buy quite a number of stuff on our way. The street where we roamed around, which we found out, was called ‘cai yuan’ road. Quite a nice place to wonder about J We ended up at another popular shopping spot which is called ‘zhong bai bai huo gong si’. I saw this really nice cardigan. When I first saw it from afar, I told Val, “wait!”. Walked towards it, tried to check the price, thought about how much it is, stared at it again, asked Val for her opinion, stared at it yet again, then finally listened to Val – I went to try it on. Ta-dah! I tried the black one, the green one, the grey one then looked at the purple one AND I finally decided on the BLACK one (of course).

This is the one! (Sorry, forgot to rotate)

Oh… N before that, we went to this fast food restaurant called ‘Disco’s’. It’s not bad… except that they dun have chili sauce, only chili powder. :s Mine the one wrapped in the paper-ish thingy. It’s some double pepper rice burger. Very similar to our Mos Burger but the rice here’s nicer. Gosh… Mos Burger! I want my Teriyaki Chicken Burger w/o Onions, Fish Burger w/o onions, Yakiniku Rice Burger, Shrimp Cutlet Burger, Iced Milk Tea with 3 milks, Corn Soup, complete with their fat fries and Japanese mayo! Wah! >_<

Lastly, Happy B'day to Wai Wah and my dearest Brother! Sorry Gor, it's my 2nd time not being able to celebrate your B'day with you. But no matter what, still, I hope you'll have a wonderful one without me... Miss you much! :)

Yay! Off tmr! (with val)

2008-10-13T19:56:00.000+08:00

Ta-dah! Yes, u heard me... I'm off tmr! Going to Taian City's version of Ginza tmr... N of course, sleeping late today n waking up even later tmr! Muahaha... Finally!

Well... there's not much crowd today so somehow, it was even more tiring due to all the standing ard. Haha... Guess wat? pple have been asking me if I'm from South, like Guangdong. Lol... Well, I AM from South since S'pore's South of China and... since my dad's Canto, I guess I'm somehow from there... Somehow la... Oh well...

Anw, we kinda had dinner at this wanton noodle plc. Here's the pic...

It's really quite a big bowl. there's like 7 wantons and guess how much a bowl costs? Mine's pork with prawn, only 10RMB! Val's chicken with mushroom and it's only 7RMB. We didn't finish it in the end.

By the time we 'finished' dinner, we walked to this park called 'dragon well park' ok, tat's my own translation. It's called 龙潭花园. At least that's wat I think the characters are. It's a really nice plc! So it seems. Cos altho it was only 6.30pm, it was alr quite dark. As you can see in the photo below... It was really cold too! So cold that I could feel the pain in my ears! Brr...
If u look carefully, u can see some figures and pillars. Haha... Kk... Don's going to bed. I shall end here for her sake. Oh well, Val's gonna use the internet anw so... Hope I'll not be lazy to blog tmr! Yea! Pig day for me tmr! Nite everyonesssssssssss........... Oyasumi!

1st Sunday...

2008-10-12T20:04:00.000+08:00

Sigh... Just bathed and having dinner now. Cup noodles... Oh well... Not like I dun like to eat cup noodles but my brother just called and my dad told me that my bro, grandma, auntie and him are having fish head curry for dinner... Sigh... Not that I really love fish head curry also... But... fish head curry vs seafood instant noodle. Pick one.

Now that my dad & bro have called, who I really want to hear from is my aunt... Sigh... :'( But again, I'm quite afraid that I'll cry when I hear a voice. Oh well... this shows how much I miss her.

Oh... guess what? Many things happened this morning! One, two chinese locals asked if I was from Singapore. I stupidly said yes and he started asking me things like how long it takes to go to Singapore, how long I've been here, blah and finally, asked if I can leave my no. behind so that they can look for me when they are there... Like... huh? I just quickly looked for help but 'nobody' was ard. In the end, he at least offered me a choice, saying that if it's inconvenient then just say. So i apologised and told him that it's inconvenient, turned 180 degrees and walked away briskly with my heart thumping... :s weird.

Another incident was when this guy was asking for smthg. All I could hear was, 'quail' I was like quail? Inside me I was like... "u mean quail as in quail egg?" Haha... N guess what? in the end, it's actually chopsticks. Go figure. If my colleague didn't come to my aid, I would most probably start climbing trees to look for quail's egg. Ok, just kidding.

Brr... it's getting colder by the day. I can feel it! N i guess also partly 'cos of the weather, I've been waking up with swollen eyes, tho it's better today N dry hands, mainly due to the drying of cutleries? I guess. Alrite... I think I'll nvr have nothing to write everyday. there's so much that I'm lazy or so much so that I dunno how to write so yea... if u wanna noe more, can always catch me online or email me. :> Love u all lots! Gd nite!

Upon Tania's request...

2008-10-12T18:21:00.003+08:00

Haha... upon Tania's request, here are more pics of our room...

Photos Time!

2008-10-12T17:58:00.001+08:00

Our beds... Guess which is mine? :>

The hotel! It's really pretty! Mt. Taishan's just behind...

Val and I on our way to some Lotus Supercentre. Really brave of us. Below is the pic we took on our way there. behind us's Mt. Taishan.

Pretty pretty sky...

Our dinner yesterday. There wasn't chilli and it wasn't very fantastic too... :( But... KFC... Great!

Our food stock.............. Haha... There are more in the fridge (Yakult!)... Plus instant noodles...

Kk... I'll upload more when I can be bothered... TC!

Ok... Here are the pics... Finally!

2008-10-11T21:48:00.000+08:00

Hey pple... I'm back here... Sigh... technical errors AGAIN! gosh... I'll try again tmr... :( Gotta go n bathe alr. :( See ya tmr at ard 4pm!

Change of blog

2008-10-09T13:37:00.000+08:00

Sorry... redirect again... I just rmbed that i had an old blog... http://blog.sanriotown.com/ath3na:hellokitty.com

Hello!

2008-10-09T10:42:00.000+08:00

Life's fine here... Am staying at the hotel... N the hotel's gorgeous! One of the nicest hotel I've ever visited. :) will take lots of photos and show u all! But gotta wait a while more...

Thanks to those who took out their precious time to send me off! I really appreciate it! The cards and all! Haha... I still cried in the end... N from what i noe, I was the one who started all the crying... Sigh... Just how emo can I get?

Well... As wat Val wished at the airport, upon the Coffee Bean Double Chocolate Muffin, I am blessed to share her b'day wish with her and that is that we're both staying in the hotel room! There's nothing more I can ask for. Really!

Hmm... Alrite then... I shall stop here... better get going 'cos we have to make a trip to the western restaurant at 11.30am... Will post up the photos later and update u pple more!!! Byeeeeeeeeeeee!

Boo!

2008-10-09T10:37:00.001+08:00

Hey! Testing testingszzzzzzzzzz..........

W3N