Every morning, I will have to take the train to work, its a mad rush every morning, rushing to catch the train, rushing to Q up, rushing for a seat (which is usually not available), rushing to get a place in the Q when transferring train, rushing to alight when most of the time, the door will be the most crowded area in the carriage..
Its a nightmare to take our public transport now as compared to when I was young, but what to do? Its my onli way to get to work, bus is out of the question...
Okie, I digress, the thing is, this mornin I witness a scene on the train which leaves me infuriated..There is this PRC lady standing in front of a local old Indian lady who is seated at the reserved seat. As we are reaching JE, suddenly, I saw the PRC lady giving the Indian lady a few kicks, might you, its those kind of angry kicks..
I am not sure wat was she saying as I am listening to my MP3, but they caught the attention of every 1 around them on this early slply morning..I overheard the PRC lady scolding the Indian lady that she placed her leg too far out from her seat and maybe touched her..Thus she gave the Indian lady a few kicks..
She keep scolding the auntie that she dunno how to sit properly blah blah blah...And the old Indian auntie scolded bak in Tamil..I onli can recognised the swearing word that she used (no thanks to my bro)...
You noe I realli feel like going up to th PRC lady a piece of my mind? The Indian lady is pretty old le, and of cuz she want to sit in a more comfortable position, if u r not able to tolerate squeezing in a compact train, take a taxi where you have all the space you wan...Furthermore, isnt your country more compact than ours? Why is that u cannot tolerate the compactness in my country when you all are the plp who keep floodin to my country?? The old Indian auntie is my country man despite her race..
We had got on at the same station, while queuing up, I saw her sneezing twice without covering her mouth, how hygiene is that? And as we board the train, every 1 moved in towards the center of the carriage while she remains near the door which is a more squeezy place, who ask you, would not wan to move in? And of cuz, you will have to suffer the consequences..Had you been more thoughtful to others and move in like us, you would not have encounter the old Indian auntie who is seating nearest to the door..
I am upset that these kind of plp floods to our country, waste our resources and yet treat us as 2nd class citizens who are subjected to their rude behaviours..Singaporeans that I noe of are generally more polite...
Its when you have this kind of encounters that makes you even more angry at the government for "importing" this kind of plp to bully our own country man and yet they are try to justify their doings..
Well, if you have try to take the train at morning rush hour like us for 1 wk, you would have know what u have done to us- the commoners..This is not the Singapore I used to love and know..
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Thursday, 26 April 2012
Playing games..
It's bak to the old days of playing games. Work field like war field..
Last wk, we received an email requesting us to clear the down payments that are outstanding in the system...
I checked and saw that there isn't any of my payments inside and thus ignored the email..since I did not make any payment,it's has nothing to do with me ma..
Deadline was yest, this mornin, we received yet another email saying there is 1 more awaiting clearing. Went in to check and realise I book in the invoice but payment was done by another person..thus this is HER call..
This is our work procedure and every 1 knows tat we are responsible for wat we made payment for..yet this person is not clearing becuz the system is showing my name as the processor but if you check the processor for the payment, it's hers..
Seriously, I could have helped her do the clearing but I did not want to. Simple reason, cuz they tot by asking the accountant to send the official email,I'm obliged to follow instructions blindly as he is of higher authority.
No, I'm not a dog, I'm a well trained finance person who knows better not to take instructions blindly, how to make judgment of everything I do to be in line with the proper procedures..
You can bend the rules if you wan but tat is among urselves onli..I will stick by my principles..same goes to this kind of "Arrowing" games I wun give in to this kind of games..
是我的责任，我一定做，不是我的，我一样也不会做！！
Last wk, we received an email requesting us to clear the down payments that are outstanding in the system...
I checked and saw that there isn't any of my payments inside and thus ignored the email..since I did not make any payment,it's has nothing to do with me ma..
Deadline was yest, this mornin, we received yet another email saying there is 1 more awaiting clearing. Went in to check and realise I book in the invoice but payment was done by another person..thus this is HER call..
This is our work procedure and every 1 knows tat we are responsible for wat we made payment for..yet this person is not clearing becuz the system is showing my name as the processor but if you check the processor for the payment, it's hers..
Seriously, I could have helped her do the clearing but I did not want to. Simple reason, cuz they tot by asking the accountant to send the official email,I'm obliged to follow instructions blindly as he is of higher authority.
No, I'm not a dog, I'm a well trained finance person who knows better not to take instructions blindly, how to make judgment of everything I do to be in line with the proper procedures..
You can bend the rules if you wan but tat is among urselves onli..I will stick by my principles..same goes to this kind of "Arrowing" games I wun give in to this kind of games..
是我的责任，我一定做，不是我的，我一样也不会做！！
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
It has begun...
As mentioned earlier, my dept consists of alot of scary plp.. People who smile in front of you but are armed with a knife waiting to stab you at the 1st chance they've got..
People who try means and way to make things difficult for you,even at the expense of themselves..
People who only care bout they own well being, with every step they take are calculated with the exact benefits they would received..
Anyways, with my leaving, it's bak to
3 pax again..I was commenting that the alliance will soon be forgone and I wonder which 1 will be the targeted 1..
With my observations these days, I finally found the answer..it's pretty obvious...
Suddenly, they are the best of fwens again after giving each other cold shoulder for 2 mths, toilet breaks , small talks, msning, long compo emails,. The familiar scene when I 1st joined..it's all bak now... The alliance had been formed and target haf been secured..
It has begun..
Good luck to u target, but u r juz gettin a taste of ur own medicine only..
People who try means and way to make things difficult for you,even at the expense of themselves..
People who only care bout they own well being, with every step they take are calculated with the exact benefits they would received..
Anyways, with my leaving, it's bak to
3 pax again..I was commenting that the alliance will soon be forgone and I wonder which 1 will be the targeted 1..
With my observations these days, I finally found the answer..it's pretty obvious...
Suddenly, they are the best of fwens again after giving each other cold shoulder for 2 mths, toilet breaks , small talks, msning, long compo emails,. The familiar scene when I 1st joined..it's all bak now... The alliance had been formed and target haf been secured..
It has begun..
Good luck to u target, but u r juz gettin a taste of ur own medicine only..
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Of bedding & Sofa
Okie, its 2 more items off my list for the newly renovated hse...
After much discussions, we decided to get our sofa & bed from Sea horse..Initially, we did check out Sealy & similar brands but found the prices to be out of our budget..3K for a mattress which will give u a free bed frame..whahah cannot la, too ex le..Im used to my 300bucks mattress tat served me well for the past 4 yrs..hehehe
Where sofa is concern, we seriously dunno what design to get, and we r nt intending to get something branded...know wat? even a 3 seater frm Ikea costs 500buckss..tok about high cost..On top of it, my livin room is pretty spacious, thus I would require a 3+2 to fill up the space...
1 fine day as I was walking about, I saw this on sale sofa on display in Seahorse..Its 629 for a 4 seater, and is those kind of L-shaped sofa..Looks quite big aso, juz nice to place in my living room..My "Auntieness" acts up and went in to enquire more...Then, I saw their bed frame which is aso on discount..whahhaah 天助我也！！
But as Mr Love haven view the items yet, I didnt dare to make the decision..Also, the sales asst haven an attitude problem, thus decided to go where else..So yest, we went to the outlet in PS..The sales there is quite helpful, as the shop is pretty crowded while we were there, we waited patiently for him to be free up...End up buying their mattress too @600bucks, its still consider ex to us, but we decided that we shd spend abit more on mattress..
Mr Love is aso agreeable to buy the sofa and voila! we placed the order yest and confirmed the delivery date oredi..Yeah!!!2 more items down le, my shoulders are getting lighter...so happie :)
After much discussions, we decided to get our sofa & bed from Sea horse..Initially, we did check out Sealy & similar brands but found the prices to be out of our budget..3K for a mattress which will give u a free bed frame..whahah cannot la, too ex le..Im used to my 300bucks mattress tat served me well for the past 4 yrs..hehehe
Where sofa is concern, we seriously dunno what design to get, and we r nt intending to get something branded...know wat? even a 3 seater frm Ikea costs 500buckss..tok about high cost..On top of it, my livin room is pretty spacious, thus I would require a 3+2 to fill up the space...
1 fine day as I was walking about, I saw this on sale sofa on display in Seahorse..Its 629 for a 4 seater, and is those kind of L-shaped sofa..Looks quite big aso, juz nice to place in my living room..My "Auntieness" acts up and went in to enquire more...Then, I saw their bed frame which is aso on discount..whahhaah 天助我也！！
But as Mr Love haven view the items yet, I didnt dare to make the decision..Also, the sales asst haven an attitude problem, thus decided to go where else..So yest, we went to the outlet in PS..The sales there is quite helpful, as the shop is pretty crowded while we were there, we waited patiently for him to be free up...End up buying their mattress too @600bucks, its still consider ex to us, but we decided that we shd spend abit more on mattress..
Mr Love is aso agreeable to buy the sofa and voila! we placed the order yest and confirmed the delivery date oredi..Yeah!!!2 more items down le, my shoulders are getting lighter...so happie :)
Sunday, 22 April 2012
A step forward..
After the not so nice wedding last nite, we woke up early today to meet our contractor who promises to bring us to view the tiles..It was a viewing appt in the 1st place as we did not have any ideas on the renovations..But the turn of events forced us to act FAST..
In a matter of a wk, we decided wat colour we wan our kitchen cabinets to be, the walls' colour, wat brand of bed n sofa to buy, and the basic layout of the bigger items in our living/ MBR...
So today, its not a viewing appt, its in fact a choosing appt le. Told hubs we need decide the colour of the tiles and overall concept so that the contractor can work on it..
Luckily the warehse is juz behind our estate, we got there early and the contractor is oredi waiting for us, he got a sales to walk ard with us while going ard the show room, while we inform him of the colour we wan for the cabinets...We took photos from Ikea..hehehe...
Base on our cabinets colour, we choose a more earthly feel tiles for our kitchen floor, and they advised us to get white for the wall tiles as it will bring out the colours of the cabinets, took his advice and choose a marble white tile..
Next, is the common toilet, to further add on to the kitchen colour, we opt for brown in the common toilet, and again, to pair with white so as no to darken the over all feel..For MBR toilet, we choose grey..Both of us prefer darker colours as it is easier to maintain or so we hope..hehhee..
The choosing of tiles took ard an hr, and we settled all the neccesary procedures, now all we have to do is to wait for them to give us a draft drawing to allow us to visualise the overall feel of the colour combinations..
Next, we brought the contractor to our hse for a final viewing before we finalised the details of our renovations..Any costs he needs to add in, will have to be added..And he gave us suggestions on our lightings..
Because we are retaining the false ceilings or watever you called it, thus we have limited choices. But our contractor told us that he can seal the current lighting and open some new holes for us to insert a more modern square lights which will brighten up the living room..Although its extra cost, we are willing to pay as we are not happy with the current lightings...
Next, we went to shop for the bathroom accessories, and brought sinks/toilet bowls/ taps/shower sets etc etc. The price they quote are pretty reasonable, throw in a bit of discount too..I think we will not be able to get it had we walked in to buy on our own..
Lastly are the lightings..Seriously, we do not have the time to shop ard, and we wanted simple lightings onli, thus he brought us again to a shop in JE to shop...The prices are quite okie, and we settle all the lights in half an hr..I think the contractor are quite pleased with us, a morning onli and we brought nearly all the stuff we need..
To be honest, we are quite decisive when comes to making decisions...Once we tink its okie, we didnt bother to shop ard more, also, its tiring...After viewing so many thing in a single morning, we are overwhelmed with the various designs so much so that I find them identical...
The thing is, we are going for comtemporary style, meaning to say, everything keep simple..whahah..Thus we juz go for the simple designs, nothing fancy..Thus, the costs are lower too..Hehehe idea rite??
Although the contractor might have some commission for bringing us to the shops to buy the accessories, but it realli saved us the timing of going ard shoppin...With 3wks away from the start of renovations, its essential for us to get ready all the require stuff...
Well, it shd be more or less settled le..took a big load off my shoulders..Ohh, it reminds me, we have not go thru the materials for our cabinets & wardrobe..heheh..Well, I think we will wait for next wk le...
In a matter of a wk, we decided wat colour we wan our kitchen cabinets to be, the walls' colour, wat brand of bed n sofa to buy, and the basic layout of the bigger items in our living/ MBR...
So today, its not a viewing appt, its in fact a choosing appt le. Told hubs we need decide the colour of the tiles and overall concept so that the contractor can work on it..
Luckily the warehse is juz behind our estate, we got there early and the contractor is oredi waiting for us, he got a sales to walk ard with us while going ard the show room, while we inform him of the colour we wan for the cabinets...We took photos from Ikea..hehehe...
Base on our cabinets colour, we choose a more earthly feel tiles for our kitchen floor, and they advised us to get white for the wall tiles as it will bring out the colours of the cabinets, took his advice and choose a marble white tile..
Next, is the common toilet, to further add on to the kitchen colour, we opt for brown in the common toilet, and again, to pair with white so as no to darken the over all feel..For MBR toilet, we choose grey..Both of us prefer darker colours as it is easier to maintain or so we hope..hehhee..
The choosing of tiles took ard an hr, and we settled all the neccesary procedures, now all we have to do is to wait for them to give us a draft drawing to allow us to visualise the overall feel of the colour combinations..
Next, we brought the contractor to our hse for a final viewing before we finalised the details of our renovations..Any costs he needs to add in, will have to be added..And he gave us suggestions on our lightings..
Because we are retaining the false ceilings or watever you called it, thus we have limited choices. But our contractor told us that he can seal the current lighting and open some new holes for us to insert a more modern square lights which will brighten up the living room..Although its extra cost, we are willing to pay as we are not happy with the current lightings...
Next, we went to shop for the bathroom accessories, and brought sinks/toilet bowls/ taps/shower sets etc etc. The price they quote are pretty reasonable, throw in a bit of discount too..I think we will not be able to get it had we walked in to buy on our own..
Lastly are the lightings..Seriously, we do not have the time to shop ard, and we wanted simple lightings onli, thus he brought us again to a shop in JE to shop...The prices are quite okie, and we settle all the lights in half an hr..I think the contractor are quite pleased with us, a morning onli and we brought nearly all the stuff we need..
To be honest, we are quite decisive when comes to making decisions...Once we tink its okie, we didnt bother to shop ard more, also, its tiring...After viewing so many thing in a single morning, we are overwhelmed with the various designs so much so that I find them identical...
The thing is, we are going for comtemporary style, meaning to say, everything keep simple..whahah..Thus we juz go for the simple designs, nothing fancy..Thus, the costs are lower too..Hehehe idea rite??
Although the contractor might have some commission for bringing us to the shops to buy the accessories, but it realli saved us the timing of going ard shoppin...With 3wks away from the start of renovations, its essential for us to get ready all the require stuff...
Well, it shd be more or less settled le..took a big load off my shoulders..Ohh, it reminds me, we have not go thru the materials for our cabinets & wardrobe..heheh..Well, I think we will wait for next wk le...
Friday, 20 April 2012
Packing away...
As the renovation day draws near, I need to start packing as in NOW!!!The thing is, 4 yrs ago, when we shifted in, we juz brought 1 luggage each of clothes..4 yrs down the road, the room is full of things, not to mentioned, half the storeroom and part of my living room..
Damn, how did we accumulate so much things in juz 4 yrs?Even my wardrobe is threatening to burst any time soon..But but, I remember doing clean springing every yr, throwing away unwanted stuff and giving away clothes that I outgrown..
Anyhow, the packing has started..With Ah yi saving boxes for me frm her shop (Thanks Ah yi!!)I can slowly start to pack b4 moving the boxes to the room tat is not affected by the renovations once my tenants shift out...
Juz the 2 book shelfs alone, I packed 3boxes, plus a box of plastic contaniners tat I "saved"over the yrs..I reckon they will come in useful on I haf my own kitchen..Lucky for us, if not me onli, we didnt overhaul the whole hse, thus I am able to store things in the 2 rooms..MBR, study room are down, along with the toilets & kitchen..But store things in kitchen & living room?heheh...Ohhh I still have my trusty store room, which is essentially a war zone, with my tenants removing their things..I still realli dare to go look inside..
Well, store room can wait till they move where I have a few days of leave b4 moving on to my new job...Agggrrrr all the packing and spring cleaning....
Damn, how did we accumulate so much things in juz 4 yrs?Even my wardrobe is threatening to burst any time soon..But but, I remember doing clean springing every yr, throwing away unwanted stuff and giving away clothes that I outgrown..
Anyhow, the packing has started..With Ah yi saving boxes for me frm her shop (Thanks Ah yi!!)I can slowly start to pack b4 moving the boxes to the room tat is not affected by the renovations once my tenants shift out...
Juz the 2 book shelfs alone, I packed 3boxes, plus a box of plastic contaniners tat I "saved"over the yrs..I reckon they will come in useful on I haf my own kitchen..Lucky for us, if not me onli, we didnt overhaul the whole hse, thus I am able to store things in the 2 rooms..MBR, study room are down, along with the toilets & kitchen..But store things in kitchen & living room?heheh...Ohhh I still have my trusty store room, which is essentially a war zone, with my tenants removing their things..I still realli dare to go look inside..
Well, store room can wait till they move where I have a few days of leave b4 moving on to my new job...Agggrrrr all the packing and spring cleaning....
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| My Macdonald Cups..1 box 1st..haven finish packing the others.. |
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| Hello Kitty... |
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| 小叮当 zodiac signs, minus the pig which I didnt manage to buy... |
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| Evidence of 宅女。。1st box of my story books..Yet to pack the others.. |
Thursday, 19 April 2012
A good beginning or so I hoped..
Went for 1st day training @ new co...Met my soon be to colleagues and spent a day with them learnin the crew allotments..It's not easy, with so much reports to pull and do and submit..No wonder they told me, this is a senior position, the other new staff will solely be handling the invoices and processing them..
I do hope, I can pick up as soon as I can and then move on to the reporting for financing part..
From what I see, the colleagues are pretty friendly, at least frm wat I can see la..1st impressions do count u noe..Unlike some plp, they dun even give me a good 1st impression..heheh..
Well, its a good start or at least I hope..if things remains this way, i think this would be a better evironment than current 1..But I would count my chickies b4 they hatched..heheeh wish me luck peeps...
I do hope, I can pick up as soon as I can and then move on to the reporting for financing part..
From what I see, the colleagues are pretty friendly, at least frm wat I can see la..1st impressions do count u noe..Unlike some plp, they dun even give me a good 1st impression..heheh..
Well, its a good start or at least I hope..if things remains this way, i think this would be a better evironment than current 1..But I would count my chickies b4 they hatched..heheeh wish me luck peeps...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
On the roll..
Following my resignation, another milestone in my life will be my hse renovations. I actually planned to have it done in mid-july but since my tenants are moving out in end apr, we decided to bring it forward to mid-may which is 1mth away from now..
Lucky for us, our contractor haf the time slot to slot us in even though the date has been brought forward by 2 mths..
With this, meaning to say I gotta start packing now, clothes/things to bring to MIL hse for our 2 mths stay there, things to be put into box and store in the unaffected rooms, funitures tat need to be discard. Also, need to organised abit b4 the contractors come in..
All these seems abit rush, abit overwhlemed..A new job on the way, hse is undergoing renovations...I am abit stressed out. We had not chose the various tiles for wall & floor, the kitchen cabinets design & colour, the wall paint colour, the lightings, the toilet/kitchen accessories etc etc.
We also have not tot of how to place the funitures, whether the sofa is gonna have a right or left L shape, how to do up our new study room...Whahha All the small finer details, omg...now that I am blogging, it suddenly strikes me that we are not prepared at all!!!!
Mr Love say, we will take 1 step at a time, when the time comes for us to decide, den we juz decide like tat lo, no need to keep harping on the details which we cannot make up our mind now..
Seriously, I'm blessed with a husband who is of the total opposite of me...I get excited over small things, fret over unknown issues, stress over undone tings, all these, he can take in his stride..He would calm me down whenever I hyper ventilate making tings abit easy sometimes.
And of cuz, the issue of moving to my mil's hse for 2 mths..As most of you know, I am not the world's most good temper woman, am lazy and always slp in late, always try to wriggle my way out of the hse work...hehee..I seriously do know how I am gonna survived 2 mths there..God, please bless me with good luck, hopefully my parents in law will give me n tolerate abit more..hehe
Lucky for us, our contractor haf the time slot to slot us in even though the date has been brought forward by 2 mths..
With this, meaning to say I gotta start packing now, clothes/things to bring to MIL hse for our 2 mths stay there, things to be put into box and store in the unaffected rooms, funitures tat need to be discard. Also, need to organised abit b4 the contractors come in..
All these seems abit rush, abit overwhlemed..A new job on the way, hse is undergoing renovations...I am abit stressed out. We had not chose the various tiles for wall & floor, the kitchen cabinets design & colour, the wall paint colour, the lightings, the toilet/kitchen accessories etc etc.
We also have not tot of how to place the funitures, whether the sofa is gonna have a right or left L shape, how to do up our new study room...Whahha All the small finer details, omg...now that I am blogging, it suddenly strikes me that we are not prepared at all!!!!
Mr Love say, we will take 1 step at a time, when the time comes for us to decide, den we juz decide like tat lo, no need to keep harping on the details which we cannot make up our mind now..
Seriously, I'm blessed with a husband who is of the total opposite of me...I get excited over small things, fret over unknown issues, stress over undone tings, all these, he can take in his stride..He would calm me down whenever I hyper ventilate making tings abit easy sometimes.
And of cuz, the issue of moving to my mil's hse for 2 mths..As most of you know, I am not the world's most good temper woman, am lazy and always slp in late, always try to wriggle my way out of the hse work...hehee..I seriously do know how I am gonna survived 2 mths there..God, please bless me with good luck, hopefully my parents in law will give me n tolerate abit more..hehe
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Fated
A week ago, I've got a phone call which puzzles me..Its a call for invitation to interview for an Accounts Executive position with a ship management company. I did not pick up the call as I tot it is 1 of Citibank/HSBC/DBS calls.
Later tat nite, when I checked my mail, I realised their HR had gone 1 step further by emailing me asking whether I am interested to go for an interview. Curious, I asked her that despite me not sending any resumes recently, how did she manage to get my contacts?
It turns out that I have previously applied to this company a yr & half ago and they had kept my information in their database, thus they decided to try and see whether I am interested to give a try or not.
I considered it for a while and decided to go for an interview. Afterall, I have nothing to lose from my end, and yes, I am keen to have a change of environment with the kind of shit plp I faced during work everyday. Thing is, I neber realli took action to find a new job as I tot the market is not as optimistic as before. I couldnt realli bear to take a pay cut..Besides, my current company pays me realli well for my position and with me holding an irrelevant diploma with a half completed ACCA cert.
But seriously, I dunno how sane I can stayed here...And so, I decided to go ahead for the interview, asking for a 10% pay increase and then wait and see what is their offer.To my surprise, they offered me the job with my expected pay..I was over the moon, its like abit surreal as I tot the expected pay was abit out of the range given my qualifications, but I guess oil & gas industry realli pays better..
I wait for a few days for the contract to be ready after they had offered me the job and finally, I got the official offer letter today..All these seems to be fate, just like I am not looking actively for a job and this offer came along becuz of the resume I send in last yr. Just as I am telling myself, I am not taking a pay cut and decided to ask for a higher pay, they are willing to do so for my position, Just as I could not stand the shits in my office, I am given a chance to get out of it.
I am realli grateful for this chance given as this position is a higher level as compared to my current 1 with more exposure in the finance dept. Also, it's a brand new start to get away from the witches I faced everyday at work, not knowing when its gonna be my turn to be sabo by them.
I hope that the colleagues here are much better than this current 1 but seriously wat can be worst den the current situation? Its 1 of the worst colleagues I ever met in my working life..
I thank god for the chance and will cherish it. Hopefully, I would be able to soar to the higher skies here. Wish me luck peeps..Gonna tender tmr ;)
Later tat nite, when I checked my mail, I realised their HR had gone 1 step further by emailing me asking whether I am interested to go for an interview. Curious, I asked her that despite me not sending any resumes recently, how did she manage to get my contacts?
It turns out that I have previously applied to this company a yr & half ago and they had kept my information in their database, thus they decided to try and see whether I am interested to give a try or not.
I considered it for a while and decided to go for an interview. Afterall, I have nothing to lose from my end, and yes, I am keen to have a change of environment with the kind of shit plp I faced during work everyday. Thing is, I neber realli took action to find a new job as I tot the market is not as optimistic as before. I couldnt realli bear to take a pay cut..Besides, my current company pays me realli well for my position and with me holding an irrelevant diploma with a half completed ACCA cert.
But seriously, I dunno how sane I can stayed here...And so, I decided to go ahead for the interview, asking for a 10% pay increase and then wait and see what is their offer.To my surprise, they offered me the job with my expected pay..I was over the moon, its like abit surreal as I tot the expected pay was abit out of the range given my qualifications, but I guess oil & gas industry realli pays better..
I wait for a few days for the contract to be ready after they had offered me the job and finally, I got the official offer letter today..All these seems to be fate, just like I am not looking actively for a job and this offer came along becuz of the resume I send in last yr. Just as I am telling myself, I am not taking a pay cut and decided to ask for a higher pay, they are willing to do so for my position, Just as I could not stand the shits in my office, I am given a chance to get out of it.
I am realli grateful for this chance given as this position is a higher level as compared to my current 1 with more exposure in the finance dept. Also, it's a brand new start to get away from the witches I faced everyday at work, not knowing when its gonna be my turn to be sabo by them.
I hope that the colleagues here are much better than this current 1 but seriously wat can be worst den the current situation? Its 1 of the worst colleagues I ever met in my working life..
I thank god for the chance and will cherish it. Hopefully, I would be able to soar to the higher skies here. Wish me luck peeps..Gonna tender tmr ;)
Monday, 9 April 2012
Miracle water not wonder water...
Just now, while giving hubs the daily hug before going for my shower, I joked to him tat I can feel his buttocks sagging..
He immediately retort " Den later after I have taken my shower, you pass me your SK II miracle water for me to apply lo, then it will lift up my buttocks like ur face..."
Thanks leh, Mr Love, its miracle water, not wonder water lo..besides, how can you compare ur buttocks to my face?? &^&^#%^*(*$&#
He immediately retort " Den later after I have taken my shower, you pass me your SK II miracle water for me to apply lo, then it will lift up my buttocks like ur face..."
Thanks leh, Mr Love, its miracle water, not wonder water lo..besides, how can you compare ur buttocks to my face?? &^&^#%^*(*$&#
Sunday, 8 April 2012
Outing to JPO
Made an impromptu decision to visit JPO yest and thus went bak to Kluang with mummy before leaving early at 3pm so as to find our way to JPO..Seriously I dunno which exit to take and also the correct way there but I remebering seeing some road signs along the xpressway, thus decided to take the risk.
As soon as we entered the xpressway, it started raining heavily and visibility was low..I was not able to see any road signs as I was concentrating in helping Mr Love to watch out for the traffic. Its pretty dangerous to be on the xpressway on a raining day and there are a handful of plp still driving at high speed. Luckily, Mr Love is a careful and safe driver and he slowed down quite alot to make us feel at ease..
We did not see any signs along the way den by the time we realised, we are nearing the petrol station near to Tuas checkpoint. Went in to refill the petrol as we are giving up of the tots of going there. But I decided to give it a shot by asking the fruits vendor they way to JPO and aso whether it is possible for us to make a u-turn and not going into Spore.
He was helpful enuff to tell us to the which exit to take to JPO and how to make an u-turn here. We are suppose to take the lorry lane of the toll and informed the staff we are intending to make an u-turn and then tapped our TouchnGo card. After which, they will issue us a receipt with our car plate number. Then we got to cut 4 lanes and make the u-turn. Lucky traffic was little at that time, else we might not be able to make the u-turn. Then after we u-turned, we went to the lorry lane again to get a refund of the monies as we are not travelling back to Spore.
Base on the uncle's instruction, we took Exit 304 (Senai) and drove on before seeing the JPO juz at our left side. There is another exit that we took to exit to JPO and then drove the long way in. The location is quite ulu I shd say, as there are no other establishments besides the JPO. As it was raining heavily, we let mummy get off the at pick up area and instructed her to stay there and wait for us.Then Mr Love and I set off to park the car further away.
Even its a long wkend and being a Sat, I muz say the crowd is not heavy there. Maybe because its raining and not many wants to travel but we are quite comfortable walking ard without having to squeeze with others there. Went ard visiting some random shops that we saw as we did not know wat are the brands available here..
Then Mummy declared tat she is famished and wanted dinner. Then we went to the food court there. The stalls in the food court are all halal thus the food is not like our typical chinese cooking. Nevertheless, they have quite a big selection of food..
After dinner, we went to Coach. Mummy wanted to compare the prices with the 1s we saw in the HK outlet. I muz admit, they have a bigger selection here as compared to HK though the price is somehow similar..Its actually much cheaper than SG but if you are a frequent shopper on deluxe mall like me buying from online sellers or haf fwens who helped you buy from US (like me too!) you would have scorned at the ridiculous pricing of the bags here...We saw the sling bag that Fang helped me buy back from US and its 2times of the price I paid...
We walked around more before making our way to City Chain as Mr Love is very into watches. He was interested in 1 of the Premium series for Seiko but didnt get it in the end..We were there for quite long as he took a long while trying out the watches.
Then we went Nike as he is interested in buying some running shoes. Didnt manage to see any thing he like when we were in HK..The selection here is also much more as compared to the 2 outlets we visited in HK. Prices were comparable too given our stronger SGD. He did saw some thing he fancied but wanted to walk ard more..
We then went to Guess, Gap,G2000, then finally to Adidas where we excitedly pose for a photo outside as we were wearing couple adidas jersey today...Again, the selection here is much more than their HK counterparts and on top of it, they are having a mega sale.
There is an additional 10% for 1 item, 20% for 2 items and 30% for 3items or more..
Mummy found the jersey bro juz brought for more than half price here and smmore its all his size. She nearly flipped lo...Still, she brought 1 more for him and also a jacket tat I chose where I think he will love..Mr Love found 1 pair of shoes to his liking and asked to try out, but then its too tight for him and its the last pair. We then walked ard hoping to get another item to be eligible for the 30% discount.
Mummy found 1 bright shocking pink t-shirt and asked me to try it on. I did and decided to buy, thus we are now able to get the 30% discount..yayyy...Just as we are going to pay, Mr Love suddenly saw another pair of shoe from the corner of his eyes..He tried and found it to be fitting and its the last pair and on a special discount price of SGD38. No more further discount is allow for this pair of shoe though but he is happie enuff to get it as the pricing is already quite good..
All in all, we spent nearly 2 hrs here and by the time we are done here, its oredi 7.30pm. Decided to go get the crepe mummy wanted to eat early on before wrapping up this shopping trip but along the way, I found Levis...hehehe Went in and shopped ard..There a promotion if you get 2 pairs, theres an additional 10% discount, a 15% discount for more than 3 items..Mummy asked us to wait for Mr Duabui brother to come as he is aso keen to buy jeans. This way, we can all get the 15% discount. Even before the discount, the price here is quite okie. Its RM 125 here while I brought mine at SGD 110 for the same pair of jeans..Its maybe out of season but who cares? I find all jeans to be similar..hehe
We then went to buy the crepe to share. End up buying onli 1 as the serving is huge!! The 3 of us shared 1 as we made our way back to the car..On the way there, I saw the security guards patrolling the car park..Quite happie as its like an additional step to make us feel at ease of parking our car there for a prolong period..
Shall go there again when Mr Duabui brother is bak..hehehe
As soon as we entered the xpressway, it started raining heavily and visibility was low..I was not able to see any road signs as I was concentrating in helping Mr Love to watch out for the traffic. Its pretty dangerous to be on the xpressway on a raining day and there are a handful of plp still driving at high speed. Luckily, Mr Love is a careful and safe driver and he slowed down quite alot to make us feel at ease..
We did not see any signs along the way den by the time we realised, we are nearing the petrol station near to Tuas checkpoint. Went in to refill the petrol as we are giving up of the tots of going there. But I decided to give it a shot by asking the fruits vendor they way to JPO and aso whether it is possible for us to make a u-turn and not going into Spore.
He was helpful enuff to tell us to the which exit to take to JPO and how to make an u-turn here. We are suppose to take the lorry lane of the toll and informed the staff we are intending to make an u-turn and then tapped our TouchnGo card. After which, they will issue us a receipt with our car plate number. Then we got to cut 4 lanes and make the u-turn. Lucky traffic was little at that time, else we might not be able to make the u-turn. Then after we u-turned, we went to the lorry lane again to get a refund of the monies as we are not travelling back to Spore.
Base on the uncle's instruction, we took Exit 304 (Senai) and drove on before seeing the JPO juz at our left side. There is another exit that we took to exit to JPO and then drove the long way in. The location is quite ulu I shd say, as there are no other establishments besides the JPO. As it was raining heavily, we let mummy get off the at pick up area and instructed her to stay there and wait for us.Then Mr Love and I set off to park the car further away.
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| Its a raining day.. |
Then Mummy declared tat she is famished and wanted dinner. Then we went to the food court there. The stalls in the food court are all halal thus the food is not like our typical chinese cooking. Nevertheless, they have quite a big selection of food..
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| Food court |
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| Things we ordered |
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| Kan Cheong Mummy going to Coach |
Then we went Nike as he is interested in buying some running shoes. Didnt manage to see any thing he like when we were in HK..The selection here is also much more as compared to the 2 outlets we visited in HK. Prices were comparable too given our stronger SGD. He did saw some thing he fancied but wanted to walk ard more..
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| Nike... |
There is an additional 10% for 1 item, 20% for 2 items and 30% for 3items or more..
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| Adidas Factory store |
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| Adidas couple outside Adidas shop |
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| Mr Duabui panda's Jacket-RM189 before 30% discount |
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| Mr DuaBui Panda's jersey-RM105 before 30% discount |
All in all, we spent nearly 2 hrs here and by the time we are done here, its oredi 7.30pm. Decided to go get the crepe mummy wanted to eat early on before wrapping up this shopping trip but along the way, I found Levis...hehehe Went in and shopped ard..There a promotion if you get 2 pairs, theres an additional 10% discount, a 15% discount for more than 3 items..Mummy asked us to wait for Mr Duabui brother to come as he is aso keen to buy jeans. This way, we can all get the 15% discount. Even before the discount, the price here is quite okie. Its RM 125 here while I brought mine at SGD 110 for the same pair of jeans..Its maybe out of season but who cares? I find all jeans to be similar..hehe
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| Camwhoring time... |
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| Not sure whether we haf this in SG or not..Its quite tasty |
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| The Big ass crepe |
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| Bye Bye JPO..see u soon |
Friday, 6 April 2012
煮抄来咯-Clementi
Was tinking of where to haf dinner and decided to go check out 煮抄来咯 series in XinMsn..Heheh went thru a few epidodes before selecting this zhi chaz store in Clementi..
Wanted to ask mummy along, but didnt in the end as Mr Love wanted to go shop for hp after tat..He scared mummy will nag at him..heheh..So didnt ask her along..
As there was onli 2 of us, we onli ordered 3 dishes..Presenting the dishes we ordered:
1). 3 colour spinach
This dish is served hot..and has a soup based..When it was served, Mr Love's 1st question to me is whether this is a soup dish or veggie dish..Hehehe I liked this dish, cuz it served the purpose of having some soup to go with the rice and having the veggie inside, thus I need not order 1 more soup..
3 colour egg consist of egg, century egg and salted egg.I had eaten this dish where else, but its a bit different from wat is served here. Here, the white is the salted egg whites instead of egg white and the yellow is the egg yolk instead of salted egg yolk.. Although different, but the taste is as good...
The serving is aso pretty generous, enuff for 3 pax..We didnt manage to finish the soup but had quite a nice time drinking it while it is hot..Pricing for this dish is SGD8 which is quite reasonable.
2). Sambal pork chop
We usually dun realli like to eat pork as it is not as tender as chickie but this dish is different. I do not know how to chef manage to cook it in such a way that it is tender. The sauce on it taste fragrant maybe cause it is sambal..Even if you have a low tolerance towards spicy food, I think you should be able to eat this dish..
There are around 8 pcs of pork here, also enuff for 3 pax, but sharing it between the 2 of us allow us to eat more :) The price for this dish is SGD10.
3). Salted egg prawn
There are quite a few dishes there they cooked in salted egg. Prawns, scallops, sotong. And Mr Love chose prawns. We both loved salted egg stuff..This is 1 the 1st time we tried prawns cooked in salted egg.
The batter is deep fried too super crispy and its not as oily as I imagined. You can still hear the cruching sound as you bite into the prawn. Also, although it is cooked in salted egg, its not very salty. You can also smell the fragrance of salted egg. There are also quite a bit of crispy bites served along with the dish and we were happie to indulge in the crispy bites..
Again, this is best to eat when served hot, which deep fried food dun taste nice when served hot? hehe..The prawns they used are huge & succulent..And they are so fresh and deeply fried till you can eat the shell along with it...
There are 7 pcs served in total and costs SGD 15.
In total, we spent SGD34 and 2 pax and is considered quite reasonable. Given the quality and quantity of the food, it is definitely worth the price. We went there ard 6pm and there was quite a few big tables of customers there. Service, however was pretty fast. Food we ordered are in small serving and there are also medium and large. Those who are going in bigger grp can consider ordering the bigger portion.
Wanted to ask mummy along, but didnt in the end as Mr Love wanted to go shop for hp after tat..He scared mummy will nag at him..heheh..So didnt ask her along..
As there was onli 2 of us, we onli ordered 3 dishes..Presenting the dishes we ordered:
1). 3 colour spinach
3 colour egg consist of egg, century egg and salted egg.I had eaten this dish where else, but its a bit different from wat is served here. Here, the white is the salted egg whites instead of egg white and the yellow is the egg yolk instead of salted egg yolk.. Although different, but the taste is as good...
The serving is aso pretty generous, enuff for 3 pax..We didnt manage to finish the soup but had quite a nice time drinking it while it is hot..Pricing for this dish is SGD8 which is quite reasonable.
2). Sambal pork chop
This dish recommended in the show. Thus we ordered this to try instead of our usual prawn sauce chickie. Didnt regret. It is not very spicy by my standards though this is named sambal pork chop
We usually dun realli like to eat pork as it is not as tender as chickie but this dish is different. I do not know how to chef manage to cook it in such a way that it is tender. The sauce on it taste fragrant maybe cause it is sambal..Even if you have a low tolerance towards spicy food, I think you should be able to eat this dish..
There are around 8 pcs of pork here, also enuff for 3 pax, but sharing it between the 2 of us allow us to eat more :) The price for this dish is SGD10.
3). Salted egg prawn
The batter is deep fried too super crispy and its not as oily as I imagined. You can still hear the cruching sound as you bite into the prawn. Also, although it is cooked in salted egg, its not very salty. You can also smell the fragrance of salted egg. There are also quite a bit of crispy bites served along with the dish and we were happie to indulge in the crispy bites..
Again, this is best to eat when served hot, which deep fried food dun taste nice when served hot? hehe..The prawns they used are huge & succulent..And they are so fresh and deeply fried till you can eat the shell along with it...
There are 7 pcs served in total and costs SGD 15.
In total, we spent SGD34 and 2 pax and is considered quite reasonable. Given the quality and quantity of the food, it is definitely worth the price. We went there ard 6pm and there was quite a few big tables of customers there. Service, however was pretty fast. Food we ordered are in small serving and there are also medium and large. Those who are going in bigger grp can consider ordering the bigger portion.
阿宅。。
Recently, as I was fillin up a questionnaire and came across the "Hobbies", I suddenly realised I dun haf much...Racking my brains to come out with some thing, these are wat I wrote, "Reading, Knitting, doing jigsaw puzzle, travelling".. Beri boring stuff but beri true...
What I didnt write are " Watching tv, watching serials on net, listening to music, surfing net to research on next travel destination/cooking/renovations/latest miu miu bags.." whahhaha..These are exactly wat I do in my free time..
My favourite way of passing time now is to watch the HK serials or catch up on the past CSI series on my lappie and knitting my half complete scarf..Yesh, I am still knitting it..Stopped for quite a while but recently pick it up again..Progress is slow but at least is progressing...
I've came to realise that I do not fancy going to shopping now, dun like to be in the crowd, dun like to need to dress nicer cuz going to town..I'm always in my t-shirt, shorts, slippers,specs with hair tie up...No make up, no contact lenses, no accessories..
Once in a veri veri blue moon, I will do so, but then I will feel tired half way dollin up and then will neglect the behind process depending on when I got tired..hehehe..
Man, I've become so home bounded now that I shocked myself even...When my hse gets renovated by Aug this yr, I think I'm gonna struck at hm even more so that I can try out cooking for the 2 of us as we r sick of eating outside food.I am oredi researching on those simple menus to start with...hehehhe..
Now, if you excuse me, I am going bak to my CSI season 12 & my knitting..haf a good Good Friday every 1...
What I didnt write are " Watching tv, watching serials on net, listening to music, surfing net to research on next travel destination/cooking/renovations/latest miu miu bags.." whahhaha..These are exactly wat I do in my free time..
My favourite way of passing time now is to watch the HK serials or catch up on the past CSI series on my lappie and knitting my half complete scarf..Yesh, I am still knitting it..Stopped for quite a while but recently pick it up again..Progress is slow but at least is progressing...
I've came to realise that I do not fancy going to shopping now, dun like to be in the crowd, dun like to need to dress nicer cuz going to town..I'm always in my t-shirt, shorts, slippers,specs with hair tie up...No make up, no contact lenses, no accessories..
Once in a veri veri blue moon, I will do so, but then I will feel tired half way dollin up and then will neglect the behind process depending on when I got tired..hehehe..
Man, I've become so home bounded now that I shocked myself even...When my hse gets renovated by Aug this yr, I think I'm gonna struck at hm even more so that I can try out cooking for the 2 of us as we r sick of eating outside food.I am oredi researching on those simple menus to start with...hehehhe..
Now, if you excuse me, I am going bak to my CSI season 12 & my knitting..haf a good Good Friday every 1...
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Bad things come in pairs
There is a chinese saying “好事成双” but yesterday what happen to me was “坏事成双”
1stly, I fell again in the morning while on my way out. For no apparent reason, I juz slipped and fall and hurt my oredi injured foot again.. Nice, and it aggravates the old injuries..Now, I am walking with a limp AGAIN! FML!!!
Juz as I tot I can go bak to work today even with the leg injury, my air con rained on us last night at 11pm...AGAIN!!!The other time when we have this problem, we brought in the air con repair man to check and he told us its becuz the piping in the MBR toilet are tilted.
Went to check on it yest but it is okie and we could nt figured out wat is wrong. Afterall, I do regularly ask them to come service my aircon...And the weather is so hot recently,we tried to slp with the fan switched on to the fullest, but could not fell aslp.
End up, hubs went back to switch on the air con although knowing it will leak again and we placed towels and pail there to hold the water. It did not worked out well as the dripping sound keeps me up all night. I dunno bout hubs but I guessed he did not slp well too.
The sound is driving me crazy, juz like when I read bout the POW torture where the japanese drip a drop of water into a pail every min and make the POW listened to it eventually going bonkers..Well, this is the exact same feeling I have last nite..
I woke up at 4am to switch to the fan and Hubs started to toss & turn. Lucky its near dawn and the temperature is lower and the room had been cooled by the aircon for 3 hrs...Finally can get some decent slp...
As I am typing this entry, I am waiting for the repairman to come and hopefully they can get it fixed..Cannot imagine goin thru another nite of having no aircon... Pampered, arent we?
1stly, I fell again in the morning while on my way out. For no apparent reason, I juz slipped and fall and hurt my oredi injured foot again.. Nice, and it aggravates the old injuries..Now, I am walking with a limp AGAIN! FML!!!
Juz as I tot I can go bak to work today even with the leg injury, my air con rained on us last night at 11pm...AGAIN!!!The other time when we have this problem, we brought in the air con repair man to check and he told us its becuz the piping in the MBR toilet are tilted.
Went to check on it yest but it is okie and we could nt figured out wat is wrong. Afterall, I do regularly ask them to come service my aircon...And the weather is so hot recently,we tried to slp with the fan switched on to the fullest, but could not fell aslp.
End up, hubs went back to switch on the air con although knowing it will leak again and we placed towels and pail there to hold the water. It did not worked out well as the dripping sound keeps me up all night. I dunno bout hubs but I guessed he did not slp well too.
The sound is driving me crazy, juz like when I read bout the POW torture where the japanese drip a drop of water into a pail every min and make the POW listened to it eventually going bonkers..Well, this is the exact same feeling I have last nite..
I woke up at 4am to switch to the fan and Hubs started to toss & turn. Lucky its near dawn and the temperature is lower and the room had been cooled by the aircon for 3 hrs...Finally can get some decent slp...
As I am typing this entry, I am waiting for the repairman to come and hopefully they can get it fixed..Cannot imagine goin thru another nite of having no aircon... Pampered, arent we?
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