Happy 2010

In 2010, I will work hard. I will ace in my job and accept all tasks and challenges assigned to me and treat them as valuable lessons in my life. I will continue to love and treasure my family and all my friends. You have been forgiving in all my lil mistakes and there's no words to tell you how precious you are to me.

I have rested well enough for the past few months. It's time to pick up all my strength again and start the fire. I will continue to engage myself in various hobbies which I love and continue spreading my knowledge to the little kids.

I will want to be more spiritually developed and be more active in the Buddhist youth scene.

Happy 2010 in advance to all of you. May you have a blessed and fulfilling year ahead. Let go of all grudges and unhappiness that you have in 2009. Take away all the happy memories and embrace the upcoming new year.

Join us for the Spiritual Countdown @ Khor Meng San Monastry tonight! There will be food bazzar, performance by youth groups (including me!), movie screening of Little Note by royston tan and the 108 bell resonance at 12am sharp to welcome the new year. Admission is free. See you 9pm @ Venerable Hong Choon Memorial Hall Level 1.

Gum Gum, Stick With Us :)

Xue Hui's Wedding @ Kulai, Malaysia

Ok I'm back. I always hope to spend my xmas in some foreign land where there is snow, god was half kind to me this year by letting me spend my xmas in KULAI, MALAYSIA. Foreign land indeed, but no snow.

Kulai is a very ulu and small town in Johor and basically there is NOTHING there. I absolutely mean it. No big shopping centres, ok I saw a small Tusco somewhere, but other than that, THERE IS NO XMAS ATMOSPHERE.

How pathetic can. But well, since i promised xue hui to attend her wedding 1 year ago, so i must go lah.

There i am, 10am at compass point on X'mas day, waiting for the editor and PR to send us to Malaysia. Im actually quite shock that the PR manager's husband dare to drive his new car into Malaysia with so many car stealing cases. Stay overnight somemore. And he just got his car in October. Wah, I see liao I also worried for his car. Anyway, there's actually a traffic jam at the Tuas causeway, so we reached at 1pm.

Gosh, going overseas with the editor, Kimberley, is WOO! I can't find a term to describe it. It's like every few hours, we ended in some cafe or restaurants. Fun? Torturing? Depending on how u look at it. For me, it just means more exercise when i come back :( damn.

So we had our lunch plus dessert at some nearby eatery before checking in. I had nasi lemak and fu zhu yi mi.

The room is so small, like Hotel81! But ok la, considering we are here to attend wedding and go home, not for vacation. There's only this hotel amongst the 荒山. There aren't any internet connection and there's no towel in my hotel room!!

It's only a two storey hotel and when u board the lift and reach your floor, there's always this "Ding!" sound to tell u that u have reach right. Strangely, it's not "Ding!" sound in this hotel. It came out as the fire alarm ring sound! -.-

When I first board the lift, I got frightened. Thought we were so lucky to get trapped in there. Dumb ass.

I brought only RM50 to Malaysia! How smart, because I think wedding dinner is free food mah, then lunch and the next day breakfast should be enough.

哪里知道！！！

after the nasi lemak lunch just now, we went back hotel to check in. then kim brought me for massage! aromatherapy massage. RM68! knn.

But she paid for me lah. Wahlou eh, sibei painful because they incorporate some 推拿 into the massage. The air con was damn cold (i have already told them to increase the temp) and there was something v embarrassing lah. You see, it's damn cold and i was damn painful that i go ouch ouch ouch for the whole hour. Then suddenly i had running nose. and my 鼻涕 just cannot control itself and drips.

it was dark, and i saw some cushion at the bottom of the bed (i didnt wear specs), and great, my 鼻涕 drips onto the cushion like thing. And it keeps dripping and i cant be bothered. I was thinking, never mind lah, im not going to use that cushion thing.

哪里知道！40 minutes later, she ask me turn over, took the cushion like thing and put it below my head.

原来那个东西是枕头！！ -.-

wahlou, serve me right lor, so i sleep in the wet pillow with my 鼻涕 for the remaining 20 minutes. I was damn amused by myself. great job miss o!

So anyway, after the massage, WE EAT AGAIN! It's already like 5pm and kim says we can eat light snacks cuz the wedding is at 8pm.

In the end, we ordered sambal mee and baked rice. Great, this is 'light snacks'. -.-

This is the sambal mee, which is supposed to be dry. I didnt take photos of the baked rice, it cannot be eaten. We have concluded that the people here cant cook.

This HK cafe is only 2 day old and they are asking us to fill in the survey and feedback form. And I wrote 1 long page of feedback for them to tell them how to improve their food.

It's really bad, the baked rice's rice is cold and NOT BAKED at all. It's steam!! -.- Horrible.

Went back, bathed and getting ready to go for xue hui's wedding. the restaurant is just 30 steps away from the hotel. In other words, beside the hotel! -.-

Their wedding photo. Awww how sweet! Next time my wedding, I already have in mind which photographer and videographer to look for. hiak hiak hiak, right little red ants!! HAHA

Having wedding on xmas day can be good and bad. Good because easy to remember, bad because people are highly unlikely to turn up. Especially if it's in malaysia!

But there's only the few of us who specially come from singapore lah. there rest of her friends are from different states of msia.

With Kimberley, my editor.

Xue Hui in her white gown, pretty pretty. 穿婚纱的女人永远是最美的。

In actual fact, I only knew her for 2 months before I left Se Xiang Wei, so we aren't that close. But we aren't strangers lah. Im quite surprised that she will invite me, perhaps it's her 2nd job in spore only. but we clique pretty well, so give face lo! :D

Night gown...

I hope the groom treats her well. hmmmmm........ hai....

Us. From the left: PR manager and her hubby. Her kid is in front of me. Very grouchy girl, haha but cute lah, she modeled for many children's magazine and fashion show hor!

Meihong, the designer!

Me! with the cute girl...

The bride and groom.

Kimberley

And jia bin. When i first saw her at the reception, we keep pointing to each other and say you look familiar! but we just cannot recalled where we meet! haha, yuan lai, she is ex writer for o!taste.

Us!

The food at wedding dinner is not nice, hai. The people here really cant cook. Other places in msia, food all v nice.

Ben lai kim wants to eat supper after the wedding. I'm already half dead and still v full, so we went back hotel room. Thank goodness!

Sleeping at 4am the night before and waking up at 10am, travelling so far is real tiring. I lay flat on the bed and can fall asleep anytime. Hai, but the editor was sharing with me her stories and it wasnt very nice to doze off like that.

but im damn tired.

slowly slowly, while she gets heated up and more anxious to share with me her story, the more my eyes closed. so kim talks, while i only answer her after 15 mins, not really knowing what she talk about. but agar agar can guess. Im sorry for being so rude, but im really tired! haha

Then something happened in the middle of the night. we locked our hotel room door before we sleep, i did double check too. Then at 130am in the middle of the night, there were noises outside our hotel room, loud noises and there's actually a kid opening our door!

FREAK OUT totally.

Not me, but kim. Because by that time i was already unconscious! Die, if i travel alone how. PIG! rah

it was only when kim opens the door, and make a loud shhhhhh that woke me up. She then told me what happened and said that she freak out. I acknowledged with a "ORH" and continue sleeping!

sorry, not that i was being unsympathatic or what lah, but i really knock out. I think after that, she continued sharing her story.

while i was in my dreamland....:p

So next morning, we woke up and went for breakfast. I have assam laksa which was horrible again. Then we had some time so we went shopping at tusco.

I haven't used up my money because all the food is paid by kim, including the hotel (RM88!) and the massage. So i spent away my RM50 buying some biscuits home for my family.

We had light snacks AGAIN at tusco - Durian puff and roti prata! Great, light snacks!

Kim bought this bag for me as a gift to wish me 开工大吉, though i m still not sure where am i working! haha. i chose it. time to go mature! haha

The PR manager drove me back home. Thank you. Brushed up before ah yi and i bring ah gong to orchard road to see the xmas lightings! We ate our favourite indonesian bbq chicken at Plaza sing, then slowly walked our way to somerset and orchard. I need to take photos for 313somerset to complete my sianzonline writeup for this month.

It's the holidays, so im abit late in my writeup. sorry yuanhong! :(

i have received many msn msgs from not-very-close friends telling me congrats that i got this job, congrats i got that job, congrats i went for a job interview blah blah blah. It's real scary, considering i never share in details about any of my job offers nor interview in my blog and only tell like 2 or 3 person on earth. And even people who are close to me aren't aware where did i go and what did i do. And when I ask how they knew, it's from another not-very-close peers, and the link was very far.

it's kinda scary. News spread very fast. Too fast. I don't even know how it reach them. And please lor, it's not some presidential job or anything. And i havent accept anything! so nothing to congrats lah!

Ok that's all for the msia trip. N i haven't blog about the xmas eve. haha. that's way too many photos.

Last interview tomolo, i hope that hirer don't hire me in 3 minutes again, i will go bongus.

time to hit the sack now and to the gym tomolo.

回顾2009年：青春是回首的时候好

2009年，很快就要结束了。这一年好像经历了很多风雨，也是刚踏入人生的另一个起点。回顾一下20大经典吧：

1.

1月份刚搬进宿舍，决定为最后学期好好拼搏。


2.

到老人院做义工，和他们度过了快乐的情人节，也了解了人生的可贵。


3.

进行了紧锣密鼓的FYP拍摄。重拍、重剪、重改，每一天都在打战，在剪辑室里度过了很多个无眠的夜晚。

最后终于结束了，final product呈现上去。

Oral Presentation 也算为FYP画上句点。

4.

上了3门表演课程。到现在，我还不知道我是怎么能应付这么多课！

5.

结束了大学生涯，我不要再动书本了！

6.

New Zealand的毕业旅行因为h1n1泡汤。不过我还是很想去。

7.

去了很多Food Outings。

8.

买了DSLR。



9.

生日

10.

Renena结束了。

11.

Jo Mei 来新加坡！

12.

Evelyn出车祸。

13.

和Andrew一起举办Badminton Challenge

14.

毕业典礼

15.

到日本参加conference

16.

做了SRMC，虽然只是短暂的3个月，还是很感激大家给我的肯定和信任。

17.

也参与了Yuan Hong《闲人尚线》。

18.

买了iphone。

还有许许多多和你们一起的回忆，一起建造的梦想、说过的话、做过的事、吃过的每一餐等等，铭记在心。

19.

妈妈生病了，也因为如此辞职了。没有办法像以往一起逛街，没有办法一起到处吃。现在对于金钱方面必须谨慎一点。也希望她能振作。

20.

最后一个，我希望保留一点隐私。我不希望他只是一直站在外面观看我人生的过客，也希望我的人生有他的痕迹。所以这是只属于彼此的回忆。

青春在手的时候，不会觉得它有多好。可是回首的时候却比当时好，因为当时所有的不好已经被时间滤洗掉，只留下那些最单纯最美好的记忆。

我会油然想起年轻的时候你流过的稚拙的眼泪，想起已经没有来往的曾经好得可以一起睡觉一起洗澡一起哭哭笑笑无话不说的朋友，想起曾经那么卑微痴傻地爱着的那个人，却从来得不到他的青睐，心中的那份酸涩岂是可以一一说与人听的？

这些都是青春。

当青春的日子风捲云散，我会怀念当时的自己。青春年少的日子，哭泣是因为无助和气愤，就连那几根拼命往脸上擦眼泪的手指头好像也带着几分可怜的傻气。当青春消失时，哭泣常常是因为尝到了真正的痛苦与无奈。

我的青春还在，我不想让它流白，很努力去了解“活在当下”的含义。我还是会怀念在学校单纯的时光。我还是会为了一些在意的事傻傻地哭。这是女生特有的权利。

其实我知道我已经很幸运了。一直都有好友的身旁，一直都有阿姨无微不至的呵护，其实我知道我已经很幸运了。因为有他们，我的人生才那么精彩。

merry christmas

i love being the santa today!

After the interview and dinner with Adeline on Friday, I had a serious tummyache. I thought I was overly excited and anxious about the job offer on Friday that let me in that state but apparently it wasn't.

Or perhaps it was the constipation that causes my stomach to be heavy or Im opening my mouth when I sleep which causes stomach flu of some sort. Ok, it's nonsense.

Visited my ex company today. Bought alot of Christmas presents for everyone, including teachers, staffs and even the cleaning aunty and security uncle. It was fun buying presents, when you know that they appreciate your effort and be thankful. So it was a long lunch with the whole bunch of ex-colleagues, practically the whole office people because we had small headcount. Listening to their grumblings, complaints and every interesting stories.

As usual, working there is like a new story everyday because every case is a special one -.-

But of course, there were alot of major changes. I am glad that the Foundation Degree Program which I was working on day and night for months has been approved and students are now more able to communicate in English (thanks to the supportive language school), write better thesis and be more serious in their work.

At least all my hard work paid off :)

I am so happy to see those students and teachers and we just hug each other like some old friends. And they will just share with me every single details of their life, which is not enough to cover in one afternoon. But im so happy for some of them, who have found love or new directions in life. And some hooligans who used to give me problems has now become so polite.

Unfortunately, the lady who took over me has been asked to leave due to her poor performance in work. I didn't have much contact with her except for the day when I hand over. But many teachers and students has complained to me and boss has asked me to go back there.

But well, im sorry. once decision is made, i won't turn back. i felt sorry for the messiness now, but since when is the school not messy. haha. just that i felt sad that she didn't do a good job. Afterall, academics is the most crucial department in the school.

And some directors have been asked to leave too. With new leaders taking over, and probably a new academic structure and a new premise in March next year.

Well, well. All that being said, I hope the school is turning for the better and sometimes, when talking to my ex colleagues, it makes me feel glad that I m now a audience to the whole mess, instead of the one who needs to clear it and work overtime everyday. :)

Finally met my dear Evelyn for dinner today at Hairloom and Caramel Cafe. Didn't finish the salad and the spaghetti. Hope she loves the xmas gift I bought :)

So glad to know that she is doing well and graduating soon. Evelyn is the one who will always give me support and assurance in anything and everything. And even though we don't meet that often, she takes an effort to read my blog to keep her updated. Appreciate it. I will keep this blog alive.

She's a great listener and def a great friend :) Thanks love for sparing time out today. Please meet up before your operation k. I miss your mum too :)

Although it seems like going for interview is nothing to me, but I'm actually pretty nervous about tomorrow's one. I work hard during the writing test, and I really put in my best. Now that it's passed and now comes the interview. So near to the end, but wonder if i will ever reach it. Plus, i just dyed my hair blonde and I'm really scared that it will affect my performance tomorrow.

I have been diligently reading on the company's website and researching on every aspect of the business. I hope that it won't be tough one tomorrow. The PICO one still leaves me nightmare. :(

I really hope I will get it. If not, oh well, it will be the previous job offer.

I WANT TO TRY THESE TWO RESTAURANTs!

I WANT TO TRY THIS RAW KITCHEN BAR!

Raw Kitchen Bar

276 Upper Bukit Timah road

Firestation

Tel: 6467 3987

Website: http://www.rawkitchenbar.com

AND I ALSO WANT TO TRY THIS CASA VERDE RESTAURANT!

1 Cluny Road

(Visitor Centre) Singapore Botanical Gardens

Tel: +65 6467 7326

My xmas wishhhhh...

I promised my student that i will draw a Santa Claus for her the next lesson. So here I am, spending my Sunday afternoon drawing at home! -.-


Okay fine, i should stop disgracing myself. but make a guess what do i want to eat! haha, it's pretty simple isn't it? The crab is so cute! LOL

我不傻，只是有时选择装傻。

因为在乎、在意，所以选择把自己放在卑微的后头。

不要等我发威，

应该会很难收场。

My amusing interview

My interview today was AMUSING.

Started interview at 10.40am, the manager ask for my resume, certificates and my written work. But she never flip my resume and certificates at all.

The first thing she noticed, was the two magazines that I brought to show her. And this is our conversation:

She:"Oh! So you work for XXX before?"

Me:"Yes, for a year."

Then I showed her one of the food review which I wrote for the restaurant.

She:"Great! You are hired!"

She stood up to shook my hand. Im like wtf?

Our conversation didn't last for more than 3 minutes!

She:"I let you celebrate xmas first, see you on 5 Jan!"

Throughout the whole session, Im stunned. I just sit there and HUH at every word she said. LOL.

Me:"HUH, wait wait! There aren't other applicants for this post?"

She:"Yes there is. I looked through a whole lot of resumes and I only ask u to come for interview. I know what I want."

stunned again. Im sure NTU careerhub has given her quite a number of candidates.

Then we started some casual chat where she told me it's a very casual working environment here. And the place has just been renovated and this is a new team and there will be more brands coming up next year so it's gona be busy. Bosses are fine and casual, especially blah blah blah.

Me:"Oh u mean the yandao?!"

She:"Oh you know him hor! HAHA, he yandao meh? I will tell him this, he will sure hire you immediately."

Me:"-_-!!"

Everything happened too fast. too fast, too fast. and by 10.50am, i was out of the office. My aunty thought I kena chased out of the office. LOL

o_O

Damn amused.

Why do i always meet such gao xiao people. Why is my interview also so gao xiao one! hello normal earthlings, please come out and say hi to me.

*****

Christmas is coming, I shall not torture my students. So I made xmas card with little corliss today. I taught her how to write "妈妈", i cut the xmas card design while she will colour and write in the greetings.

See her so serious at work. Do my work also never so serious lor! "白云" write 3 weeks still cannot remember. Just got scolded from me! RAH!

She still cant really control her hands and her 比划, that's why abit messy. But it will get better, im sure :)

Close up of what she is writing!

Oh they didn't lock the gate and as i enter the house, their stupid big brown guard dog ran v fast towards me and i just screamed. WAHLOU EH, I thought Im going to get bitten. Stupid dog, see me for 3 years liao still want to bite me! RAH

Her mummy like my hair! whee! :D

Look at her, look at her! Doesnt she resemble somebody?! YES YES! SHARLENE! My sec 5 student! OMG! the 酒窝 and her smile all the same man! GOSH, why do i always have students who are so sharlene-like! LOL

讨厌，她的酒窝那么漂亮。我嫉妒！

This girl really know how to take photo. She very fast sit beside me, put her head beside me and smile innocently which im still like finding my iphone. so cute *pinch*

i call her 宝贝 most of the time.

But when she doesn't know how to write "白云", i will 联名带姓 scream at her!

Yes im nasty. :x

My new haircut

安啦！安啦！我只是剪一个头发，染了一个比较亮的颜色。我并没有想不开，剪成张惠妹的A-mite，也没有发疯把头发漂白。没有特别的喜欢，也不会特别不喜欢，现在只是担心头发的颜色会不会太亮，影响面试表现。不过基本上样子看起来算乖乖女吧，头发没有爆炸。

毕竟头发黑了那么久，忽然间照镜子看到bright bright的头，有点不习惯。其实我还蛮喜欢发型师帮我剪个酷短头。需要一点时间学会怎么style这个发型。

剪完头发后，我就来到这里：

猜猜我在哪里？！

Grand Hyatt Hotel，为 sianzonline 下一期情人节篇review他们的spa! 天啊，我真的来了，还花了酒店$465，免费做了他们的spa。我真的相信天下没有白吃的午餐，没有把这篇写好我就完蛋了。

暂时放下工作不谈，请跟我一起欣赏他们那的美景，幻想自己舒服地躺在床上享受按摩，然后躺在那石缸里泡澡，让一片片的玫瑰花瓣慢慢落下。。。

这是一份很奢侈却非常特别的情人节礼物。:)

这是一个奢华的一周。几天前去了 inagiku@fairmont 吃了一顿$406的日本晚餐，我真的差点当场窒息。以为他开玩笑说要请我，没想到我真的坐在里头吃着这么昂贵的日本餐！

这盘 sashimi 已经$60。哦，我要晕了！~

还有日本烧烤，点了套餐，包括：虾、鱼、牛肉等，我忘了。因为眼里只有在吃钞票的感觉。

幸好他有折扣卡，50%折扣。可是，总额还是得还$200++，我的天啊！

Thank you Andrew :)

p/s 我有一个超坏的预感：我写不完！:(:(