The extreme weather

If you have been following the news on global weather, you'll notice that those that are in winter now, is colder than ever whereas those in summer, is hotter than it was before. Even in Singapore itself, you'll see thunderstorm at one end and sunlight at the other end of the island at one time. As I'm talking to my Russian colleague who is in town couple of days ago, he mentioned that his colleague back in Russia now, is living in a -35C environment. The extreme of this -35C is that it is not snowing. It's ICY!! Ice everywhere! Imagine everything you touch is cold, imagine living in a refrigerator - a super cold refrigerator instead. I seriously could not imagine that though I've been to places like -5 the max I think. But I think it's not fun at all lah.... So cold....cannot do anything right?

And you know what.........according to the Russian government, all workers are entitled to 28 days of leave per year. 28 days!!! I'll probably take leave during these cold weather and better to hibernate at home lah.

What say u??

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Haiz........just when I'm wearing as thick as I could today to stay warm, the sun is shining as bright as ever.................

Rain and rain.......

EVERYDAY RAIN…….day in day out rain…..It has been such a cold week in Singapore I tell you…………….. Yeah…it’s comfortable but……….it’s cold loh. Good thing for sure is it definitely helps to save my electricity bill this month..yay :) For the first time in local weather, I’m sleeping in long pants without air-con without fan, WITH blanket up till the neck!!
It’s worst than ever in the office. My finger is soooooo cold I can hardly feel it. Funny thing is I have a Japanese colleague in town who thought he could get away from the cold in Japan and have some warm weather here only to find that the office here is as cold as in Japan's weatherHmm…….was wondering if there’s anywhere that sells portable heater here…haha…not to exaggerate but……if this goes on…..I’ll probably need one :)

New Year Resolution?

How does this thing call "New Year Resolution" come about? Nah....to me, you really do not need to wait till new year to have a new resolution right? It's probably a reason for you to escape and delay your "resolution" haha....At least that implies to me :) My so call new year resolution has never worked out after all these years...haha....STOP guessing!! I shall keep you update if it really happens....

While people are all out there admiring the fireworks and counting down to the new year, I had my own way of counting down too. I............ I.........was catching up on a HK TVB series when the clock strike 12am. Yeah yeah....it was kind of bored you may say.....but this series - Golden Faith I just can't stop when I started the 1st episode. It's not a new series but who cares......I like the lead actor...So charming :) I like I like...

Good looking lead actor, pretty actress, perfect couple, nice music..etc..etc....and this is another show that make me shed tears like crazy....hahaha...so silly hor.... but I just like like....heheheI'm a all time fans for TVB series which is the reason why I'm NOT subscribing to SCV cable. Else, I'll be sitting in front of the TV day in day out and won't have other life, which is what is happening in the last one week. Yeah, I completed the 45 series in 1 week! Highest record - 9 hours in a day!!

Multinational department (MND)

Some of you may be aware that I've just switched to work in another company few weeks ago. While I'm still happy and feel contented about my new job, there's also something which I just realized. Not only I'm working in a MNC, I'm also in a MND. My boss is an Australia and my 3 other colleagues at work comprises of 1 Singaporean, 1 chinese US citizen, 1 Russian and me a Malaysian. Another colleague which I'll be working closely with and reporting to the same boss, is in Japan. Yeah....He's a Japs.

That alone, give me lesser chance to speak "sing-lish", which in turn....dun feel so homely loh. Or perhaps.....maybe I'll continue my singlish with them since they are now residing in Singapore hor!!

Cold Christmas

I am freezing cold in the office from day one. 1 long sleeve shirt with a sweater and I'm still feeling....not cold BUT freezing cold!!

I think I need a gloves too.....:)

The long awaited privacy has come

You may be wondering what sort of privacy have I been yearning for all this while and I've finally gotten it?! well well well....... something that I wanted to have in the past 9 months since I join my last company early this year. If you have been following my blog fr the beginning, you noticed how little privacy I have at my workplace. Sitting right in front of a meeting room, sitting closest to the main entrance, sitting face to face with the boss and blah blah blah......

Today.... the 1st day of work in my new company happens to be a good start for me. As expected, 1st day of work usually ended up in reading materials lah, going thru HR policy lah....this and that. But one thing that I'm truly overwhelm is the 1 week old brand new setup unit of my department with new furnitures AND my seating location with total privacy at the corner by the window on a 22nd storey high facing ECP and half of Marina. I no longer need to open the entrance door, no longer need to answer people who's in the meeting room, no longer having my stationaries stolen by people in the meeting room.


Yay Yay!!!!!

Event of the year - Finale

Tah Dah ~~~~~~~~~~~~







FINALLY...........It's over! Being the 1st timer, it's already a great sense of achievement though my timing was....kinda lousy :P (1hr 20mins). Indeed, when u are in a race, as much body strength as you need, mental strength is equally important. An inner strength that motivates and keeps you going. Anyway, am glad it's over and the medal................ as long as you finished the race, be it in 1hr or 3 hrs, you'll still get it. So...not really a big deal lah. They should limit it to only those who finished within certain period of time hor......then people can work harder to get it mah. But then, people like me.... may not stand a chance to have it :)

I was sms-ing Damon, my colleague to see how is he doing. (He's doing the full 42Km for the 1st time). The first thing he told me was.. "The pain is TERRIBLE, but still completed the race". I then asked what's his timing. The reply was.........."7+ hours"!!!!!! Oh my goodness, it must be really a torturing experience both physically and mentally. Imangine running for 7+ hours, tat is from 6am to 1+pm. Consider luckly of not suffering from heat stroke man. I'll think I'll be landed in hospital if I'm in his position. JC another fren of mine, who has been training real hard and participated quite a number of marathons completed in 4+ hours. These people are a "superman" to me. Nevertheless, being in such event for the first time and seeing how these professionals run, I think it's really a great sense of achievement to those who finishes the 42km no matter what your timing is.

WELL DONE PEOPLE!!!!!!!

Event of the year - Part 2

Dec 4 2005 - The Greatest Race on Earth will take place in Singapore, where thousands of people will gather together for one goal.......the challenge of their life, to reach the finishing line. It's The Greatest Race on Earth because it's unique, it's ambitious and it's a huge achievement for anyone to even cross the finish line.

And me.......in 12 hours time (it's 5pm now), I'll be crawling out from the comfort of my bed to join this once in MY lifetime event. Though I'm just participating as a quarter marathon fun runner & being the first timer, I've started to feel the excitement, the "gan cheong-ness" in me.
My colleague have been saying to me "very gan cheong leh....so scared....if cannot finish the 10km mark how?? " I always console her AND myself.....that we'll sure finish....it's a matter of time yeah.....

Do you know what is this? Make a guesss...............




Some of you may know but for some as "suaku" as me, you never know. If not I've seen JC wore it before, I have no idea what is it man..... It's call a championchip. An electronic device that registers your race route from start to finish line. It works by locking your time when you step on the electric timing mat at the start and end lines. So high tech hor! Erm....so how to attached this thingie with you? It's supposed to be tied together with you shoe using your shoelace or whatever string. So.......I'm gonna spend the next couple of minutes figuring out how to go about doing that....:)

A brand new life......

Some of you might have know that I'm in a new job for just slightly more than half a year. It was kind of a confusing yet exciting experience cuz I have been in my previous job for the last 5 years. Having to leave your good old colleagues, the comfort of your seats where you've seated for the past years and the reputation(good one of course) that you had in the company wasn't a good experience at all. And when you're in a brand new job, you face new colleagues (which you would not know what sort of creatures are they), new boss, new environment, having to adapt everything from head to toe all over again. Excited yet feeling insecure.

While I have already establish the comfort level in my new place here.....it's happening AGAIN!!! Yeah yeah......I'm moving to another job AGAIN. Not because it's not a good place here but it's probably the pull factor is quite strong. I hate to go thru the same experience again of having to adapt to new environment all over again. And the only thing that I'll surely miss is the good colleagues that I have in JSA....Guys and gals....those who are in JSA, you know who u are......:)

I have not reached to the level where I think I can take the job as a retirement job, but at the same time, I do not want to go thru the pain to adapt to new things so often....Hai yah.....hard to please.......hard to satisfy.........HOW like that??

A380 Airbus

Check this super huge BIG MAC cum Whopper A380 Airbus that arrived in S'pore last Weds. The one and only double deck aircraft that can hold up to 555 seats!! I noticed that on that particular day, everywhere else was rather quiet during lunch hour. Those crowd in the usual hangout lunch places was disappear until I was told that the airbus is in town!

Having an airport pass that can access to the airside is definitely an advantages in this case. Without hesitation, a whole bunch of us in the office marshal in to the airside. Without us making any effort to look for the fleet, the tail of it was huuuugggggeeeee enough to caught my attention from far. As we go closer and closer, oh my goodness!!!!! IT was sooooooo huge!!! Travellers, airport staff were standing right close to the fleet from the transit area admiring it. Now I know where all those people gone to during lunch hour. Check out the photos here. You notice how small the man is compare to the super jumbo airbus?

Creatures Again!

It seems that after my last postings, I got more attacks from those little creatures. First, it suddenly appears out of no where when I opened up the piano chair trying to grab a book. As it was dark in color, it was nicely camouflage by the color of my piano. Imagine if I did not open up the chair cover and sat on that little creature!!!!! I would have fainted........

Yesterday morning, again I spotted another lizard right inside my kitchen sink!! Urgh!!! I think the lizard got shock too....:) So I was like.....ok...leave me alone and I'll leave you alone. I ended washing my sandwich knife in the toilet. 12 hours later when I'm back home, it's still in there!!! I decided to give that little creature another 12 hours hoping that it will disappear by then. It did not!!!! I woke up this morning and it's still there!! Oh no!!!....... I was reluctant to do anything and I seriously do not know what to do man...... I think the lizard is sick lah....else why stay in the sink one whole day, without food some more leh. Well, I can't possibly leave it for another 24 hours. I NEED TO USE THE SINK! I grab the insecticide, and spray and spray and spray on it. You wouldn't have imagine how I spray it, knowing that I dun even dare to go near it. I stood up on a chair and from a distance and spray it hard on it!! Think I used up almost 1/3 of the insecticide...heehee...It responded a while and stopped. I think it's really weak by then. It can't even climb out of the sink. While he's struggling from the toxic and watching it's body turn from cream color to black, I'm also struggling what to do next. I have all kinds of silly thoughts. Shall I drown it first and scoop it up? To cut the story short, I ended up using a bamboo stick, tied up with an unwanted scoop (so that it's long enough for me to keep a distance from it mah), hold it on my left hand, on my right hand is another bamboo stick to push it to the scoop. That scooping process itself took me almost 10 mins leh. So "geli" u know!!! Next, throw it in the bin loh.

Haiz...... so that's the ultimate event of the day for me. I would never have done that if I'm not staying alone. BL, my ex-colleague is another interesting guy. He told me that he once had a lizard that shit on the same spot. He then stick a piece of paper on that same spot and sometimes even put rice grains on it! He ended up having a toilet trained lizard!! I was like......"whatz up man.." Can come to my place and bring some home to rear.

Muahahahaha.......

I hate lizards

As far as I know, most people (ladies out there esp) tend to get more irritated or rather "scared" of cockcroaches more than lizards. I'm the opposite, rather extreme one. I can't even bring myself to "shoo" them away using a broom or whatsoever. Very scared leh......It all started when I was still young where I got "attack" by lizards a couple of times. These little creatures will suddenly jump on to my body while I'm opening the letter box or even when I'm scooping rice from the rice cooker!! Everytime when the lizard appear right in front of me, I'll shout for my dad and he will always come to my rescue without fail. Thanks dad!.... He will then take a rubber band and shoot it right on the lizard. Once it got hit and fall on the ground, my dad will use his bare hand to pick it up and guess what's next....... he'll feed the lizard to our one and only insects eating fish. Yea....we had a fish that eats creatures like lizards, toad...etc....Sounds very yeakie right? At times my dad even ask me "any lizards around? the fish has not eaten for days!!". Of course we do have other decents fishes like gold fish...etc As we're staying right up in a hill and next to a mini forest with empty land front and back of the house back then, little creatures like this are very common. Scorpions, snakes, centepede are our frequent visitors within our house compound.

Coming back to where I am now, for whatever reason, I'm seeing lizards wondering around my house this couple of days. I feel irritated by it and my dad is not around to rescue me :( As what I observed, and from the sizes of it, I think these family of 3 is building their own home in my home!!!! wahhhhhhhhhh HELP!!!!! how?how?how? Hopefully they will stay away from me for at least the next 2 weeks....by then....my dad will be here visiting me...... :)

Hard to pleased.........

This entire week is indeed like a "honeymoon" week for me. For most of us who is not taking leave and going to work on Mon, Wed and Fri, it was as if it's a Friday every day. The thing about us is that when there's no holiday...... we'll ended up making comments like "haiz....so sianz...... no holiday". But when there's holiday and even 2 days off in a week, we'll make comments like "haiz....very sian hor.....work one day, off the next day. How I wish the whole week is off". Haiz..... no holiday complain, got holiday also complain... what to do?? Perhaps, not having to worry about financially tide and with plenty of free time in hand for holiday would be ideal.....hehee :)

I'm back!

I'm finally back to blogging after weeks silence. Hmmm.....where do I start now....Too many things happening. After my recent trip back to KL last week, I'm full of sentiments now. Before I knew it, a church friend of mine whom I last seen was still in secondary school few years back, is now a father of a 2 year old girl.

My nephew and niece have grown up so much......I feel......"old"....:( So what does that tells? That time is flying by like a speed of light without you realizing it.

2 more days to Peter Pan

Yay! 2 more days and I'll be entering into the Esplanade Theatre for Peter Pan. This is going to be the 2nd time I'm entering into the glamourous theatre. The first was a gift from my ex-company MD to catch "Ma-Ma Mia". Maybe I'm a bit "sua-ku" but just by entering into the theatre be it whether you enjoy the show or not, is already an eye opening experience. This time round to Peter Pan.......it's also FOC....hahahaha!!! It happen that my company is doing some promo together with the organizer of Peter Pan, so we're all given a free ticket each....muahahahah.

Hmm.......I'm looking for sponsor to Quidam.....anybody?

My home PC is playing trick on me!!! I can’t update my blog from my home PC?!?!?!? It says “Page cannot be display”. Oh no!! Why why why!?!?!? It has been like that for the past few days and all I can do is……to update during office hour :)

I spoke to KH, my walking IT directory cum real time knowledge base guru about this problem that’s bugging me. Here’s our conversation :

ST: I can’t update my blog from my home pc leh…. Strange thing I can update other people’s blog which I have access to.

KH: You see….. your PC do not want you to blog too often

ST: Then I’ll have to blog during office hour already loh

KH: That’s what blogging is all about…..

What’s up with these people?!?!

I usually did my grocery cum marketing shopping at NTUC near by my place. As results of trying to stock up groceries at one go, I ended up with both hands holding a numbers of big plastic bags from NTUC. As what a normal person would do, I’m sure you wanted to walk fast and quickly reach home right? There’s this group of aunties stood around the shopping area distributing pamphlet and they are trying to distribute it to me. I’m sure the full loads on both my hands are obvious enough to tell them that I’ve no hands to take their pamphlet. Yet………. They come straight to me and hand out the pamphlet right in front of me so much so that I really have to walk past the pamphlet that touches my body….. Aiyoh….Not that I want to be rude but can’t they see that I have no hands?!??!!?

On a separate occasion, while I was jogging round my neighbourhood, I pass by a mini food fair. I think my jog is not that slow till it gives peolple the impression that I’m just strolling loh…. This 2 malay young chap came to me (while I was jogging towards them looking sweaty ok), came to me and ask….. “mam…would you like to taste on this and that?”…… What’s up with this people siah?!?!?!!?

Event of the Year

I did something which I consider extraordinary (well...at least for me but for some ppl, it's just peanuts) over the weekend. I...........(****drum roll*****)........ signed up for the year end Singapore MARATHON run organized by Standard Chartered. Yeah right! Tell me about it. But hold on hold on.... I really did signed up ....only for a 10km run, not the full 42km ok!! I can die, if not I'll be bedridden....hahahah.

It all happen one day when we had a chat in the office and the guys who are already training for the full run was talking about it. I asked my other female colleague if they intend to participate for the 10km and true enough...she is looking for kakis to join her too! So........to cut the story short....that's how I ended up signing up in the competition. I do hesitate a while and not that really confident if I can finish it....but well.....its a matter of time..... Try to take it as a fun run rather than stressing myself huh........

Ok.....Wish me luck.....2 more months to go!!! I'm excited....:)

Feast of the week

It has been a week full of eating and eating and makan and makan for me. First, I had a sumptious lunch at a Thai restaurant to so call "celebrate" the post system migration in our company. On the same day, I had buffet dinner to farewell Orielle together with Linus and JC. Next, I had 3 heavy meal yesterday!!!! Mcdonald breakfast, HK La Mien with Calvin for lunch and a BBQ dinner with my colleagues. Urgh!!!! I felt as if all my hard work running for hours in the past few weeks has gone down the drain juz in a day...OH NO!!!!!! :(

Haiz.....so guilty now leh......I'm going to (eh....it should be I MUST) work extra hard this coming week.