Different ppl,Different treatment

Its no secret that every 1 will treat 1 another differently. I may like you better and thus treat you better than the others, of cuz you are subjected to your instincts aso. Afterall who am I to tell you who to like or dislike?

Yest, a director from other dept came and told us that he’s gonna bring us out for lunch today and said he invited the whole dept to go along. I was a bit surprise as he usually do not interact with our dept much except during course of work. But who do not interact with us during course of work? Cuz we are finance, 1 way or another, you gotta come to us de..

I was later told that he intend to bring us to eat Fish porridge.. We were all not keen lo, 1stly, we seldom go for this kind of entertainment lunch with other dept heads. Even within our own dept, its during special occasion then we will have a dept meal..2ndly, how many of us like porridge? Not many it seems, no matter how nice you claim it is, dun like means dun like lo..

Know the best part? Its I came to know previously he took another dept out for lunch too, but they went Hard Rock Café instead. How sweet is that to offer us fish porridge? Damn, it pales in comparison by tinking bout the food lo..Seems like we r 2^nd class citizens like tat, only fit to eat fish porridge…

Not that I am beri keen to go Hard Rock, but the difference in treatment is simply too big to ignore.. given any1, they would aso feel this way de..if you really think finance dept is not worth the treat, den dun treat lo, its  not like we are asking for 1..

Wat I am asking is, if you wanna treat us as a form of encouragement, can you do it properly? At least it should be the same across the board. In this case, you juz make us feel like we are sub-standard. The truth is, we felt that the dept who got the hard rock lunch is the sub-standard dept, thus making us feel even worse..

The funnie thing is all these can be reimbursed thru expense claims de lo, yet he can chose to bring us to eat fish porridge..how politically right is this move?1 of my colleague was still consoling us saying that maybe the porridge is those high class type, costing SGD 15/serving.. Regardless la, the name itself oredi lose out to the Hard Rock brand..whhaha..

The thing is, I didn’t get to go today, boss is requesting a report from my sup and we went early lunch and came bak to do the report..I heard end up they didn’t go too, as it was raining heavily.. maybe is god’s will?whahah I dunoo.

Brain Wrecking

After 3 nights of intensive scrutinizing the various quotations, I finally narrow it down to 3 competitors. Pricings are quite similar, now its base on the workmanship and their attitude. 1 thing to note, I have yet to bargain the price yet as I have not decide on who to pick. I dun wan to bargain thrice. Will juz bargain with the chosen 1.

Looking at the amount of work I requested, I cannot believe my quotations are at least 25K. Its daylight robbery or what? But since the 3 of them quoted similarly, I guess this is what we called market price le lo…

Anyways, many thanks to Hang papa who last min intro his ex-classmate to me and thus giving me 1 more choice. If ever we award the job to him, heheh I will not have to worry bout getting cheated/bully/over-charged by this contractor, cuz Hang Papa says will look out for me…I trust he will do so..hehe

Besides deciding the contractor, I’ve yet to settle for the design of my kitchen..More or less, I noe what I wan..the easiest way out, is to haf the contemporary aka the modern style, which essentially means no style..

But still, I gonna decide on the overall layout of my kitchen. I have some ideas of it. The only good thing about going to a lot of ID/Contractors is that they all give different ideas on the layout and I get to choose which 1 I deem best. Thus, I will gather the ideas and tell them to the chosen 1.

I foresee things are going to be more hectic after I decide on the contractor as I would den need to start choosing the materials, colour of the paints. Not to mentioned the miscellaneous items to be sourced and purchase. Luckily, I foresee that this is gonna be a busy period and put my acca studies on hold. Else, think I would collapse with all these things weighting me down.

Where is Mr Love, 1 might think. He is relaxing in 1 corner, waiting for me to go thru the quotes and select the handful for his final selection. Juz like a big boss. All the liaising are done by me till I find them completed then I will give him the final quotation to go thru.

We have however, went thru 2 rounds of furniture viewing to gauge the funding required. But nothing is concrete at this moment. Besides that, we also went around to view some completed projects of the contractors to see their workmanship.

These, can only be done during our precious wkend where housework, errands, parents visiting took up a big chunk of our time, not to mention the fact that I need catch up on my beauty sleep. It makes our wkend more packed than ever, tiring me out even more than my work days. Its like I’m working 7 days a week non stop.

But for the sake of getting the reno done, I still feel its worth it. After all, its  not every yr u will renovate ur hse, muz as well enjoy the process. Its juz like the days when we planned our wedding, the process will be once in a life time only though for renovation, it can be repeated.

Hopefully when my house is done, I am able to look back and felt proud of the efforts I’ve put in.

Ching Ming Festival...

Its Ching Ming again, you will noe, which the rain coming almost everyday..清明时节雨纷纷。。

This yr, we prayed to my ancestors 1st as dad says he wasnt free in the coming weeks and we cannot afford to drag too long..Its earlier den past yrs, but then I guess this is the praying wks and thus every where was crowded..

The past few yrs, as we went ard 2 wks after actual Ching Ming, thus it was quite empty oredi, to the extend of like no 1 else is praying besides us le..hehhe

The correct way of praying to our ancestors shd be the whole extended family meets and go pray their respect to the ancestors, but in our hse hold, we do it within our own family only, I sometimes suspect no 1 else is praying to my grand parents, eldest uncle and great grandma any more..

Like I say, we are also late in going to pray, but it seems like no 1 else did b4 us, as their tombs are not cleaned up..I mean, you cannot be praying onli and dun do some hse keeping rite?

Anyways, its not up to me to meddle in this kind of matter, my duty is go every yr to pay my respescts to my ancestors, hoping they will bless us with harmony and good health..Though sometimes, I will ponder, are they still ard to bless us or they had move on to reincarnted?

This kind of things are 信则灵，不信则不灵。。。But I really do believe my ancestors are giving us their blessings and keeping us in check...Do you believe???

March Babies bday 2012

This yr, we had a later celebrations den usual. Reason being, dear dear is hafing classes and I was out of the country for a wk prior to my bday..

But then, since its our annual gathering during this period, hook or crook, we have to squeeze out some time to meet up..

As dear dear & I both injured our legs, we decided to haf dinner at a restuarant and stayed there for the whole nite chatting..I think the staff there were abit impatient towards us, as we onli ordered 1 starters to share and a main course each. There after, we juz sat there & chat & keep asking for water refill..heheh...not tat we cared too..I mean, we did order food rite?

Us with the pressies

This yr, we got veri excited over the topic of Yiyi's wedding which is in the middle of the yr..We were planning our duties, luffin at e silly ideas that each of us came out, gave nick names as per the duties we were assigned to..whahha and of cuz not to mentioned the ideas to bully the groom..

And we aso discussed how the 3 of us can cooperate on the actual day, our outfit which yiyi offered to buy, the arrangement for the day as its gonna be a full day event..Man, we were excited...Its been 3 yrs since my wedding and we looked forward to this 1, especially I get to join the fun as part of the sisters instead of the bride who haf to sit still and behave herself...Whahhaah Finally its yiyi's turn..and hopefully in the upcoming years, would be Dear Dear's and Partner's turn too..hehehe

The only grp photo of the nite with my dearest sisters

As we were too caught up with the discussion, we forgot to pose for mosre photos, thus this is 1 of the least photos we took during our gathering, but it had been a great night out with my sisters and I look forward to Yiyi's big day where we will witness our sister getting hitched to the love of her life and live happily ever after :)

The candid shot

Displacement

It has been a week since I fell down and injured my foot..A week later, I am still limping and need Mr Love to send and fetch me from work everyday..

I try not to walk ard too much still when working how can u avoid walking? Finally I went for a second opinion today at Cindy's recommendation as I wasnt walking properly..

Went to the clinic that Cindy recommended today and the doctor told me that my joints are displaced after my fall..The 1st sinseh I went to did not tell me this...Instead, he did some tuina for me and send me home with some external medicine to apply on the injured part..

This doc told me I shd not have done the tuina as it will worsen my condition which it did..There are some swelling at the toe and ankle though not serious..But as the joints are not bak in place yet, I am not able to recover..

He then skillfully used some bandaged to wrapped my toe and proceed to push the joints back in place..It was bloody painfully, but after that, my toe felt more relax..He did the same with my ankle, pushing it back to place but nt without pain..

I can walk ard better now, but still the doc recommend me not to walk too much...I am prepared to go back to work tmr but am not going to walk ard as much as possible.. Hopefully I can recover with after this wkend so that Mr Love can slp in later and I can walk ard as much as I like...

那些年，那些事，那些回忆。。

Watched 那些年，我们一起追的女孩 on my flight back to Singapore..I noe this show has been pretty popular but I juz didnt find the time to go download it to watch and wasnt planning to..Juz nice that the inflight is showing this show and there is no other good show to watch so juz nice lo...

It was a really good movie to be frank, given that I seldom watched Chinese movies..It was a touching movie, though end up the male and female lead did not get together, it is touching to see the director recounting his teenage memories of the gal he liked and wooed..

How many of us have these memories?I am sure every 1 have..Be it whether u are secretly admiring the other person or is your past love..Although in the end, you did not end up together, but knowing that the other person is getting on well, will make you feel happie for them..

To be reminded of those years, those silly things we do juz to get the other party's attention brings bak fond memories...Its a care free period, the period I missed most duing my growing up years...

I am at a different stage of my life now, and watching this show, brings me back to those days, those happie days..Am realli happie tat I caught the show and those who haven show go see..Try not to catch the China version as they cut quite alot of scenes and changed some of the lines..hehe..

那些年，你们又有那些回忆呢？？

Haf u ever...

Haf u ever passed by a place which brought bak memories which are sweet and yet sad at the same time?I juz did..

Was meeting up with my sisters today for dinner and was early for our date, thus decided to walk ard abit..and I came upon this shop..for no apparent reason, I stepped into it without myself knowing..

Was drawn to this particular section where once happie memories were created yet it reminded me of the non existence friendship now..

It's kinda sad to be reminded in this way, stood there for awhile recalling the good old days but when sadness suddenly took over the fond memories, I walked away as far as I could..

Not sure why my memories are being stirred up today..maybe juz maybe I'm being emotional..