We survived the so called "end of world" on 21/12/12 and came close to end of 2012. It has been an eventful year for me.
Finally got down to our asses to renovate our hse this yr after 4 yrs of staying in the run down state.
Got a new job by chance when the HR called me up for an interview 1yr after I send in my CV, of cuz with a healthy pay rise.
Tried staying with my in laws for the 1st time after 4yrs of marriage and am secretly glad that I do have my own hse afterall. Its not they are not good, lets juz say every 1 has their own habits and I am not exactly the most submissive daughter in law in the world. Its best to go hm weekly for chit chat sessions.
Found out I was pregnant in the midst of renovating my hse and during my probation.
My bestie was aso pregnant ard the same time with me, so double the joy!!
Our world came crashing down when my water bag broke for no reason 14wks into my pregnancy and gyne advised us to let bb go.
Found a new connection to Mr Love during my recovery for miscarriage.
Took 3 wks off work to mourn for my loss, though no longer mourning, I can sometimes feel the pain. I guess there is no way I can forget this 1st child of mine which I neber got the chance(and badly) wan to meet.
For 1st time in our 4yrs married life, we need to run the whole household, which means we need to gorceries shop for household items for the whole hse, but not 1 room. We need to clean up the whole hse too, previously its only a room. But it aso meant that we have more space for oursleves. Living room, kitchen, study room etc. I get to decorate my hse the way 1 want, yayyyyy...
I went to a chinese sinseh for the 1st time in my life and took chinese medicine dilligently for 4mths in hope of getting my body back in good health.
The above pretty much sums up my 2012. Though its not a great year for me, I thank god for blessing us with XB for the short 4 mths, brought out the loving and caring side of hubs that I neber noe which in turns bring us closer. BB or not, we are more loving than before. I thank god for blessing my family members, keeping them safe and sound. I thank god for blesssing me with a job with good colleagues, who had beeen every supportive throughout my most darkest time. I thank god for letting me noe those who care and those who doesnt, letting me noe who I should cherish and love. I thank god for letting me noe how difficult it is for a woman to br a mum and makes me treasure my mum more. Lastly, I thank god for not ending the world on 21/12/12 thus giving me a chance to able to continue to enjoy my life and live it to the fullest.
Looking forward to 2013, may it be a good yr. Cheers.
Daisypath Anniversary tickers
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
一起去旅行的伴
My initial plan of doing to Taiwan in Jan13 has been delayed due to non approval of leave as mentioned previously.Thus, we decided to postpone to Mar which coincides with my bday and our ROM anniversary.
And recently, we found out that 2013's March holidays has been pushed back by 1 wk, starting from 16th. Wonderful news, it means that I get to travel during my bday instead of having to wait 1 more wk. We try not to travel during sch holidays as it will equate to higher air and hotel costs.
To visit Taiwan in March is not wat we want initially as it will be warmer as compared to Jan. But then there's a good ting about Mar which is spring and the flowers will be in blossom. Also though not as cold, the weather should be cooling.
I will also get to see calla lilies finally. They will be in full blossom frm Mar to May. I have always wanted to see them but then hubs is not keen to go in Mar if given a choice, if not for the non approval, we would have gone there in Jan.
This marks our 3rd trip to Taiwan, the 1st 2, we onli venture ard Taipei. This time, I'm getting bolder, planning to visit Tai Chung and Yilan. Had already started planning for the trip as it takes time to research due as its a free & easy trip. Hubs would totally rely on me for the directions.
Despite going there twice oredi, I found that we have not covered most of Taipei and this time, I will put in the places that we have not visit. Its not easy planning as I have to take into account the travel routes and also the different hotel costs for different timing.
The onli regretful for the change of departure time is that the scarf that I have knitted will nt come in handy in Mar due to the warm weather. I do hope that someday, we will visit countries during winter and get to don on the matching scarf that I have took so much effort to knit.
Back to my research now :)
And recently, we found out that 2013's March holidays has been pushed back by 1 wk, starting from 16th. Wonderful news, it means that I get to travel during my bday instead of having to wait 1 more wk. We try not to travel during sch holidays as it will equate to higher air and hotel costs.
To visit Taiwan in March is not wat we want initially as it will be warmer as compared to Jan. But then there's a good ting about Mar which is spring and the flowers will be in blossom. Also though not as cold, the weather should be cooling.
I will also get to see calla lilies finally. They will be in full blossom frm Mar to May. I have always wanted to see them but then hubs is not keen to go in Mar if given a choice, if not for the non approval, we would have gone there in Jan.
This marks our 3rd trip to Taiwan, the 1st 2, we onli venture ard Taipei. This time, I'm getting bolder, planning to visit Tai Chung and Yilan. Had already started planning for the trip as it takes time to research due as its a free & easy trip. Hubs would totally rely on me for the directions.
Despite going there twice oredi, I found that we have not covered most of Taipei and this time, I will put in the places that we have not visit. Its not easy planning as I have to take into account the travel routes and also the different hotel costs for different timing.
The onli regretful for the change of departure time is that the scarf that I have knitted will nt come in handy in Mar due to the warm weather. I do hope that someday, we will visit countries during winter and get to don on the matching scarf that I have took so much effort to knit.
Back to my research now :)
Sunday, 23 December 2012
Reunion
Attended wedding of hubs' cousin in Hilton. Being closest to them, hubs was extra happie as we got prepared to go down. To him, its as good as seeing his sister getting married.
Usually, the cousins will onli come together during big events like CNY, birthdays or weddings. Though we did not get to see each other much, they will still pretty friendly towards us. As hubs is more reserved, they will usually tok and joke with me more.
His cousin had arranged to have a photograph booth there and let the guests to take some photos to keep as a memo. We took with her parents b4 going the banquet. Half way thru the banquet, the younger cousins told us to all gathe outside as they want to a photo with all cousins inside.
Some of them had arrived later than others, thus onli half way thru the dinner we were able to gather all together outside. It was funnie to see every 1 trying to squeeze together for the photo. The cousins gang had grown with some married and some with partners. We juz wan to keep a memo of the good memories we had at the wedding, reminding us that we were 1 big family.
Then it came to a time when they decided to take the female and males alone. I was the onli sister in law there while all the other gals were related cousins. Yet, they will happie to include me into the photo despite me joining their family 4yrs ago onli. Most of them called me jie jie instead of sao sao, guess they are not use or dunno the correct way of addressing me.
I dun mind though, as I can truly felt their acceptance of me. They even arranged to go for a mid night movie after the dinner but hubs & I gave it a pass as we had oredi watched it.
It was a happie catching up with them, seeing some that we had not seen for a long time. Till the next time all, it will be CNY and this yr, you kids will have 1 more angbao to give while I will have 1 ang bao less to give..whahahah...
Usually, the cousins will onli come together during big events like CNY, birthdays or weddings. Though we did not get to see each other much, they will still pretty friendly towards us. As hubs is more reserved, they will usually tok and joke with me more.
His cousin had arranged to have a photograph booth there and let the guests to take some photos to keep as a memo. We took with her parents b4 going the banquet. Half way thru the banquet, the younger cousins told us to all gathe outside as they want to a photo with all cousins inside.
Some of them had arrived later than others, thus onli half way thru the dinner we were able to gather all together outside. It was funnie to see every 1 trying to squeeze together for the photo. The cousins gang had grown with some married and some with partners. We juz wan to keep a memo of the good memories we had at the wedding, reminding us that we were 1 big family.
Then it came to a time when they decided to take the female and males alone. I was the onli sister in law there while all the other gals were related cousins. Yet, they will happie to include me into the photo despite me joining their family 4yrs ago onli. Most of them called me jie jie instead of sao sao, guess they are not use or dunno the correct way of addressing me.
I dun mind though, as I can truly felt their acceptance of me. They even arranged to go for a mid night movie after the dinner but hubs & I gave it a pass as we had oredi watched it.
It was a happie catching up with them, seeing some that we had not seen for a long time. Till the next time all, it will be CNY and this yr, you kids will have 1 more angbao to give while I will have 1 ang bao less to give..whahahah...
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| The boys &gals gang indiviually |
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Close to heart
I was randomly reading news on yahoo on Tue evening when I came across the news of a Navy serviceman injuried while onboard a ship. The name looks familar and the age and unit matches a poly coursemate of mine.
Wanting to confirm further, I went and checked his FB profile and confirmed his dialet name which I didnt noe.My worst fear came true. It was indeed my coursemate. I immediately posted the news to FB to get the other coursemates' attention, hoping someone will be able to give us updates and aso to help pray for his well being.
24hrs went past b4 the others picked up this news 1 by 1. Updates from the official channel were slow, we did not have many details and we were pretty anxious to know his condition. The next time when I saw the updates were, he lost both legs and an arm, though managed to save his right arms, 3 fingers were gone too.
I was in shocked, how can this happen to him? There were no answers, the official statement issued by the Navy states that investigations are on going and it would take ard a month for it to be complete.
You know when we usually see this kind of news, its always someone else's fwen, colleague, classmates,relative,kins etc etc?
I neber 1 day expect to see this kind of news and recognised the name to be some1 I know. The feeling of it is so awful, what is even more awful is, we have totally no details of the whole incident and there is onli so little we can do for him while he awaits for his fate.
Thinking back, we were not even close back in sch. Attending the same lecture, we werent even in the same class throughout our poly time. But still, he is part of the wonderful memories I had during my poly years. We do have common fwens who we will hang out together before or after lecture. Coming from different classes, we do exchange/swap tips and notes on n off. Its realli hit me hard to see him in this state, suffering from the wrost injury that any 1 could imagine.
News later came out with the appeal of blood donation for his blood type, O+ which I do not belong to. The onli thing our coursemates can do, is to spread the news ard, hoping some kind soul would donate their blood to him.
Meanwhile, we aso kept him in our prayers, hoping that he would be able to pull through this tough time.Though its easier said than done, I sincerely hope that you will be able to face this difficult times bravely Jason. Somewhere here, all our coursemates will be praying for your well being. We will be rallying behind you till you are able to receive visitors. Hang in strong there pal, be strong.
Wanting to confirm further, I went and checked his FB profile and confirmed his dialet name which I didnt noe.My worst fear came true. It was indeed my coursemate. I immediately posted the news to FB to get the other coursemates' attention, hoping someone will be able to give us updates and aso to help pray for his well being.
24hrs went past b4 the others picked up this news 1 by 1. Updates from the official channel were slow, we did not have many details and we were pretty anxious to know his condition. The next time when I saw the updates were, he lost both legs and an arm, though managed to save his right arms, 3 fingers were gone too.
I was in shocked, how can this happen to him? There were no answers, the official statement issued by the Navy states that investigations are on going and it would take ard a month for it to be complete.
You know when we usually see this kind of news, its always someone else's fwen, colleague, classmates,relative,kins etc etc?
I neber 1 day expect to see this kind of news and recognised the name to be some1 I know. The feeling of it is so awful, what is even more awful is, we have totally no details of the whole incident and there is onli so little we can do for him while he awaits for his fate.
Thinking back, we were not even close back in sch. Attending the same lecture, we werent even in the same class throughout our poly time. But still, he is part of the wonderful memories I had during my poly years. We do have common fwens who we will hang out together before or after lecture. Coming from different classes, we do exchange/swap tips and notes on n off. Its realli hit me hard to see him in this state, suffering from the wrost injury that any 1 could imagine.
News later came out with the appeal of blood donation for his blood type, O+ which I do not belong to. The onli thing our coursemates can do, is to spread the news ard, hoping some kind soul would donate their blood to him.
Meanwhile, we aso kept him in our prayers, hoping that he would be able to pull through this tough time.Though its easier said than done, I sincerely hope that you will be able to face this difficult times bravely Jason. Somewhere here, all our coursemates will be praying for your well being. We will be rallying behind you till you are able to receive visitors. Hang in strong there pal, be strong.
Saturday, 1 December 2012
人算不如天算
We've been planning to go on a short getaway ever since our loss of XB. Hubs had used all up his leave for this yr while taking of me back then and the nearest we can go is in Jan 13.
I have been actively researching for this trip as we wanted to visit other parts of Taiwan instead of north area onli.
The thing is when I tried to apply for leave, my superior told me that Jan is year end closing and hoped that I can consider pushing back my trip.
Since she had oredi requested, there is no way I can go against her, I mean, this is nt an urgent trip, can be done anytime, thus we decided to push to March.
The reason we choose Jan in the 1st place is due to the cool weather. Hubs loved cool weather countries. It will still be cooling in March though no where comparable to Jan, but I guess it is still cooling.
The onli ting I am excited bout going in Mar is, it will be our 5th ROM anni, its my bday month and the flowers are in full blossom.
I had always wanted to see the calla lilies in full blossom and this will be my chance. Hopefully, the trip will go thru. I've checked, airtix and hotels are more ex in Mar and airtix have limited seats oredi.
But hopefully by mid Jan when I can start applyin for leave,the hotels I wanted will still have vacancies and the air tix will still be available.
Wish me luck!
I have been actively researching for this trip as we wanted to visit other parts of Taiwan instead of north area onli.
The thing is when I tried to apply for leave, my superior told me that Jan is year end closing and hoped that I can consider pushing back my trip.
Since she had oredi requested, there is no way I can go against her, I mean, this is nt an urgent trip, can be done anytime, thus we decided to push to March.
The reason we choose Jan in the 1st place is due to the cool weather. Hubs loved cool weather countries. It will still be cooling in March though no where comparable to Jan, but I guess it is still cooling.
The onli ting I am excited bout going in Mar is, it will be our 5th ROM anni, its my bday month and the flowers are in full blossom.
I had always wanted to see the calla lilies in full blossom and this will be my chance. Hopefully, the trip will go thru. I've checked, airtix and hotels are more ex in Mar and airtix have limited seats oredi.
But hopefully by mid Jan when I can start applyin for leave,the hotels I wanted will still have vacancies and the air tix will still be available.
Wish me luck!
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| My guide books |
Friday, 9 November 2012
New deco
Found this off G-market, been toying with the idea of buying but neber got ard doing it while I was preggies as mummy say cannot anyhow stick things during preggies..After the miscarriage, I forgot bout this product till recently, I saw the offer for it and went ahead to buy not 1 but 3 stickers to decorate my beri empty looking walls.
Living room:
I have a pretty huge living room by today's standard and the walls are quite empty even with my 2 Mickey jigsaw, neber have the time or mood to complete the other 3 but then still cannot take up all the empty spaces. So I decided to paste some of the deco on the wall behind the sofa, which I initally wanted to apply a layer of those special wall paper.
The onli thing that stops me is the pricing.1.8K for 1 wall onli.OMG. Daylight robbery, I figured that I can think of other ways to deco the wall. Hehe this time, I brough a set of flowers with butterflies/insects sticker to paste on the wall. Complete with the pink painting I requested during renovations, it look like spring all year round now in my living room. Very girlish is hubs' comments but then he cannot do anyting bout it. I did wanted to paste my fav snow flakes but on 2nd tots it will onli suits the up coming X-mas and after which will makes it look like over-due deco, thus brought this flowery design.
Kitchen door:
My kitchen has a glass door living room and kitchen, though under use, I am afraid 1 day, some 1 might walked straight into it without realising the door is pull out. The problem with glass door is, it is transparent.
Been searching for someting to paste on the door to make it more visible, even though you are sleeply. I do not want those aninmals prints/flowers or wat so ever themes. I wan something associated with food since this is the doorway to kitchen.
Found the perfect stickers this time with the various breads/muffins/coffees design as though as you are entering a cafe. This is the closest to the food theme I can find. But then application of these stickers are a killer man.
Unlike the previous flowers theme, these sticker had onli the outline of the items, making them flimsy. Thus during application, many a times, I need to pull out the stickers to re-apply to get the correct shape. Then again, I am afraid while pulling them out, I would tear up the stickers accidentally. Thus I had a hard time gettng the various shapes rite. Spent a good 2 hrs doing these up.
The end product, makes me have a sense of accomplishment. 2hrs not wasted!!
Study room:
Lastly, I brough a world map. Found it interesting, I had always like the world map and the onli thing now is to decide where to stick it on. Had too many empty walls tat is..
After discussion with hubs, we decided to stick it up in the study room. Makes more sense as the kids will be using this room for studies next time, thus having something educational in this room fits the image.heheh...
Am pretty happie with the outcome, now I stared at it whenever I study in the room. hur hur..
Hubs make me promised not to buy any more of the stickers as for now as he is afraid I would turn our hse in to a kindergarden look alike with all the pasting.
Okie, I shall stop of the time being as there are no more discounts oredi..Hehe if I ever see the discounts again, there is no promise what I will or will not do...:)
Living room:
I have a pretty huge living room by today's standard and the walls are quite empty even with my 2 Mickey jigsaw, neber have the time or mood to complete the other 3 but then still cannot take up all the empty spaces. So I decided to paste some of the deco on the wall behind the sofa, which I initally wanted to apply a layer of those special wall paper.
The onli thing that stops me is the pricing.1.8K for 1 wall onli.OMG. Daylight robbery, I figured that I can think of other ways to deco the wall. Hehe this time, I brough a set of flowers with butterflies/insects sticker to paste on the wall. Complete with the pink painting I requested during renovations, it look like spring all year round now in my living room. Very girlish is hubs' comments but then he cannot do anyting bout it. I did wanted to paste my fav snow flakes but on 2nd tots it will onli suits the up coming X-mas and after which will makes it look like over-due deco, thus brought this flowery design.
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| Its Spring time all year round!!!! |
My kitchen has a glass door living room and kitchen, though under use, I am afraid 1 day, some 1 might walked straight into it without realising the door is pull out. The problem with glass door is, it is transparent.
Been searching for someting to paste on the door to make it more visible, even though you are sleeply. I do not want those aninmals prints/flowers or wat so ever themes. I wan something associated with food since this is the doorway to kitchen.
Found the perfect stickers this time with the various breads/muffins/coffees design as though as you are entering a cafe. This is the closest to the food theme I can find. But then application of these stickers are a killer man.
Unlike the previous flowers theme, these sticker had onli the outline of the items, making them flimsy. Thus during application, many a times, I need to pull out the stickers to re-apply to get the correct shape. Then again, I am afraid while pulling them out, I would tear up the stickers accidentally. Thus I had a hard time gettng the various shapes rite. Spent a good 2 hrs doing these up.
The end product, makes me have a sense of accomplishment. 2hrs not wasted!!
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| Coffee, tea or me? |
Lastly, I brough a world map. Found it interesting, I had always like the world map and the onli thing now is to decide where to stick it on. Had too many empty walls tat is..
After discussion with hubs, we decided to stick it up in the study room. Makes more sense as the kids will be using this room for studies next time, thus having something educational in this room fits the image.heheh...
Am pretty happie with the outcome, now I stared at it whenever I study in the room. hur hur..
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| Where is Singapore? |
Hubs make me promised not to buy any more of the stickers as for now as he is afraid I would turn our hse in to a kindergarden look alike with all the pasting.
Okie, I shall stop of the time being as there are no more discounts oredi..Hehe if I ever see the discounts again, there is no promise what I will or will not do...:)
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Of lions and lioness
While on our way home, we were toking bout some animals topic and hubs suddenly got reminded by a joke made by me thousands of years ago and started teasing me.
It started with an innocent trip to the zoo, back when I still have access to free zoo passes, it used to be 1 of our fav dating place..There was this once, while at the lion enclosure, hubs found me squatting down there trying hard to peep under the lions who were walking about.
Puzzled, he asked me wat I was doing, and I replied I was trying to differentiate between the male and female. He then started luffing so hard that he nearly rolled on the floor. In between his laughters, he asked me whether had I not learnt in school that the lion is distinguishable by its mane while lioness do not have it?
I pondered hard..Seriously I tink I didnt pick this up from sch, neither did mummy tell me or I read frm anywhere else. How was I to know?
Today, he went 1 step further to probe :
He asked me, den why do I think there are lions with mane and some without? So I told him, I just assume some have more hair, others do not, why am I suppose to tink so much of the hair on the lion's head?
"So you mean some have hair, others are just customers of Bejing 101?" he asked again..
"Ya la, something like tat lo" I replied.
"Lucky for you that you've got me telling you this GK, else next time your children will suffer" he went on
"How so?"
Since he was so high on this subject, he went on to act out a scenario, assuming that I had taught our kid the wrong thing, 1 fine day the kid went n told his fwen bout what I taught him..
Kid saying to his fwens " But my mummy says can differentiate lions by lookin under them to see their reproductive organs"
Kid's Fwen:" You mean you dunno lion have mane while lioness dun?"
Kids" My mummy neber teach me wat.."
Kid's fwen started to luff at him.
Kid came running home tell me that its all my fault that he got teased in sch for not knowing lions have mane and he tot they just have more hair than the other lions.
He got so happie that this tot that he keep luffin at me on the way home, all the way making those noisy sound simitating a kid saying " my mummy neber teach me wat"
Then suddenly he stopped and look at me, "eh, you think your mummy knows about this or not? did you asked her before? scarily she aso dunno..."
Ok lo, since you so happie rite? Wait till I go ask my mummy infront of you, see whether you can luff so happily or not..HMMMFFFFFFFFFFF.......
It started with an innocent trip to the zoo, back when I still have access to free zoo passes, it used to be 1 of our fav dating place..There was this once, while at the lion enclosure, hubs found me squatting down there trying hard to peep under the lions who were walking about.
Puzzled, he asked me wat I was doing, and I replied I was trying to differentiate between the male and female. He then started luffing so hard that he nearly rolled on the floor. In between his laughters, he asked me whether had I not learnt in school that the lion is distinguishable by its mane while lioness do not have it?
I pondered hard..Seriously I tink I didnt pick this up from sch, neither did mummy tell me or I read frm anywhere else. How was I to know?
Today, he went 1 step further to probe :
He asked me, den why do I think there are lions with mane and some without? So I told him, I just assume some have more hair, others do not, why am I suppose to tink so much of the hair on the lion's head?
"So you mean some have hair, others are just customers of Bejing 101?" he asked again..
"Ya la, something like tat lo" I replied.
"Lucky for you that you've got me telling you this GK, else next time your children will suffer" he went on
"How so?"
Since he was so high on this subject, he went on to act out a scenario, assuming that I had taught our kid the wrong thing, 1 fine day the kid went n told his fwen bout what I taught him..
Kid saying to his fwens " But my mummy says can differentiate lions by lookin under them to see their reproductive organs"
Kid's Fwen:" You mean you dunno lion have mane while lioness dun?"
Kids" My mummy neber teach me wat.."
Kid's fwen started to luff at him.
Kid came running home tell me that its all my fault that he got teased in sch for not knowing lions have mane and he tot they just have more hair than the other lions.
He got so happie that this tot that he keep luffin at me on the way home, all the way making those noisy sound simitating a kid saying " my mummy neber teach me wat"
Then suddenly he stopped and look at me, "eh, you think your mummy knows about this or not? did you asked her before? scarily she aso dunno..."
Ok lo, since you so happie rite? Wait till I go ask my mummy infront of you, see whether you can luff so happily or not..HMMMFFFFFFFFFFF.......
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Simple fare
Most will know by now that hubs is a much better cook den I though we both took home econs bak in sec sch...Eh, I tink mine is home econs, u noe the mandatory subject in sec 1& 2? I remember clownin in class, making my partner cook while I do clean up, chopping, reading instructions out loud etc.. I was however, especially good with handicraft like cross stitch, t-shirt designing...Nah..tat was years AGO....
Hub on the other hand, took a much sophisticated version of home econs known as Food & Nutrition in upper secondart years (luckily my sch did not have this option) and he did real cooking..Unlike me clowning ard in class, he told me he scored a decent B4 in the subject..Mine home econs is A1 if its of any consolation..(theory good, teacher did taste the food I cooked) hehhe...
Anyways, coming back to present, my hubs is the cook of the house, master of the kitchen while I happily pluck myself on the sofa waitin for food to be serve than helping to clear the table b4 going bak to the sofa again.heee.. All the while, things pretty much remains the same, till he got sick..
He was so weak that he cannot move much and of cuz had no appetite. Sick aso muz eat rite? Especially he have got a glutton wife...So I took the chance and told him that I will cook for a change. For an instance, he have me the "will you burn down my kitchen"look. Hey!!! I did some cooking b4 kk? Back when the hse was not renovated yet..没良心。。He forgot bout it le!!
I had not planned to cook any thing complicated, since he is sick. So, we sticked to porridge, steam cod fish, fried egg with sliver fish and my favourite 豆苗。。。Seriously I can do better, but I am just lazy and since he is wayyyyyyy better than me, why show off infront of the master?
I stick to the simple fare for a change, whahaha and satisfies my craving for a porridage and steam cod fish..Something he will not take if not for being sick..hehehe
Then on fri, I took leave to stay at home to mug, and being the lazy bum, I raid my fridge for anything that I can cook for lunch. The best thing bout having the hse back is, I can store lots of food in my fridge and can open and see what I wannna cook as n when I feel like it..Feels so damn good.
Found pork and sichuan veggie and decided to anyhow stir fry them..heheh Cooked porridge again and then lastly decided to fried an egg with sliver baits...Just like tat lunch is serve within 10mins...Such simple fare is the most suitable for lazy plp like me on lazy days where I juz wanna fill my tummy...
Hub on the other hand, took a much sophisticated version of home econs known as Food & Nutrition in upper secondart years (luckily my sch did not have this option) and he did real cooking..Unlike me clowning ard in class, he told me he scored a decent B4 in the subject..Mine home econs is A1 if its of any consolation..(theory good, teacher did taste the food I cooked) hehhe...
Anyways, coming back to present, my hubs is the cook of the house, master of the kitchen while I happily pluck myself on the sofa waitin for food to be serve than helping to clear the table b4 going bak to the sofa again.heee.. All the while, things pretty much remains the same, till he got sick..
He was so weak that he cannot move much and of cuz had no appetite. Sick aso muz eat rite? Especially he have got a glutton wife...So I took the chance and told him that I will cook for a change. For an instance, he have me the "will you burn down my kitchen"look. Hey!!! I did some cooking b4 kk? Back when the hse was not renovated yet..没良心。。He forgot bout it le!!
I had not planned to cook any thing complicated, since he is sick. So, we sticked to porridge, steam cod fish, fried egg with sliver fish and my favourite 豆苗。。。Seriously I can do better, but I am just lazy and since he is wayyyyyyy better than me, why show off infront of the master?
Then on fri, I took leave to stay at home to mug, and being the lazy bum, I raid my fridge for anything that I can cook for lunch. The best thing bout having the hse back is, I can store lots of food in my fridge and can open and see what I wannna cook as n when I feel like it..Feels so damn good.
Found pork and sichuan veggie and decided to anyhow stir fry them..heheh Cooked porridge again and then lastly decided to fried an egg with sliver baits...Just like tat lunch is serve within 10mins...Such simple fare is the most suitable for lazy plp like me on lazy days where I juz wanna fill my tummy...
Monday, 5 November 2012
Lack of updates #1651561
Weeeewww...Oct is over, I am so looking forward to my bonus which is coming in Jan 13..
Okie, a short post is all I can do now though I have a million things to update.
Been sick again (wats new), went for a poly classmate's weddin last nite with my sisters and met those who I dun wanna meet. Not exactly friendly (story on another day) but am glad to see my sistas and managed to arranged a gathering there...heheh
Been realli busy with work and hse and shopping (though neber buy anything)..
Gotta go off now as I am nursin a super bad sore throat which I tot it went away last wk..
Damn, why am I so weak? Shall be back with the posts when I am wel..till then
Okie, a short post is all I can do now though I have a million things to update.
Been sick again (wats new), went for a poly classmate's weddin last nite with my sisters and met those who I dun wanna meet. Not exactly friendly (story on another day) but am glad to see my sistas and managed to arranged a gathering there...heheh
Been realli busy with work and hse and shopping (though neber buy anything)..
Gotta go off now as I am nursin a super bad sore throat which I tot it went away last wk..
Damn, why am I so weak? Shall be back with the posts when I am wel..till then
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Happy wkend every 1!!
Its been a hetic wk, since its a shorter wk, thus was rushing to finish the month end thingys like crew payroll, NZ GST reporting (this month got 2 coy to work on), taking in as much invoices as I could to record the expenses..
Been thrown a bomb today by FPD dept, requesting me to help with the project costs reclassification. Hello boss? Its 4 vessels with 9 mths of chnages need to be look in, you think I no need time ar? Even with time, I aso need to do my daily things on top of this plus I have yet to close my quarterly reporting which my FC is patiently waiting for me to clear the shits tat are left by the previous company colleagues..
Okie, to be fair, you have given me time, its I juz dun haf the time..hur hur... Manage to clear 1 vessel and ask them to check on whether the costs are reasonable to them or not..Else, I would need to fine tune abit..
Whole yr dun check la, now found out the costs are allocate wrongly den request me to rectify in such a short period...NOT FAIR LA... But then again, fair or not, its my job, LL suck thumb continue to do..whahaha..
I tink the flu is finally gone, though still feel abit unwell, and my auntie came to visit oredi!! Neber was I so happie to receive this visitor whose presence is long overdue..Am super tired today but glad all is over. Am now listening to Kenny G's music and lighted up the aroma therapy to relax myself as I typed this entry.. Therapeutic music, therapeutic smell, doing my therapeutic activity, man, I'm glad this wk is over...
Oh, forgot to mention, met up with Hang Papa this wk for lunch. 1st time in history he sms me to go out for lunch (onli exception is during my bday), usually is me who have to contact him..Think he got a shock when he saw my miscarriage posts..But then, all is well now. Thank you for you concern, I owed you your bday lunch, wait till you get back frm China 1st....
Tmr, we will be going bak to msia, its been such a long time since I went bak. I couldnt bring myself to travel during the initial miscarriage phase, and after that need to go for weekly treatment at the chinese doc during sat, leaving no time for us to make a trip bak. Since tmr is a long wkend, muz as well go bak after such a long disapperance frm there. Mum and piggy bro is joinin us too.
Well, gonna go slp to prepare for the early wake up, reckon traffic might not be good..Oh god, please help to clear up the traffic while we cross the causeway...Happie wkend every 1...
Been thrown a bomb today by FPD dept, requesting me to help with the project costs reclassification. Hello boss? Its 4 vessels with 9 mths of chnages need to be look in, you think I no need time ar? Even with time, I aso need to do my daily things on top of this plus I have yet to close my quarterly reporting which my FC is patiently waiting for me to clear the shits tat are left by the previous company colleagues..
Okie, to be fair, you have given me time, its I juz dun haf the time..hur hur... Manage to clear 1 vessel and ask them to check on whether the costs are reasonable to them or not..Else, I would need to fine tune abit..
Whole yr dun check la, now found out the costs are allocate wrongly den request me to rectify in such a short period...NOT FAIR LA... But then again, fair or not, its my job, LL suck thumb continue to do..whahaha..
I tink the flu is finally gone, though still feel abit unwell, and my auntie came to visit oredi!! Neber was I so happie to receive this visitor whose presence is long overdue..Am super tired today but glad all is over. Am now listening to Kenny G's music and lighted up the aroma therapy to relax myself as I typed this entry.. Therapeutic music, therapeutic smell, doing my therapeutic activity, man, I'm glad this wk is over...
Oh, forgot to mention, met up with Hang Papa this wk for lunch. 1st time in history he sms me to go out for lunch (onli exception is during my bday), usually is me who have to contact him..Think he got a shock when he saw my miscarriage posts..But then, all is well now. Thank you for you concern, I owed you your bday lunch, wait till you get back frm China 1st....
Tmr, we will be going bak to msia, its been such a long time since I went bak. I couldnt bring myself to travel during the initial miscarriage phase, and after that need to go for weekly treatment at the chinese doc during sat, leaving no time for us to make a trip bak. Since tmr is a long wkend, muz as well go bak after such a long disapperance frm there. Mum and piggy bro is joinin us too.
Well, gonna go slp to prepare for the early wake up, reckon traffic might not be good..Oh god, please help to clear up the traffic while we cross the causeway...Happie wkend every 1...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Am sick again...
Remember my injection day nearly 2 wks ago? Its the flu vaccination with my colleagues told me they will inject virus into us and thus creating antibodies or something like tat. They say a portion of plp will fall sick after the injection. Initially, I seems to be okie, hur hur, starting from monday morning, I start to get runny nose.
The tap juz refuse to shut itself up. I lost count of how many tissues I used, tried taking spicy food during lunch with Hang papa but it did not help. The stupid running nose continued through the day and into Tuesday and my nose became sore from all the tissue rubbing..
I was feeling beri sick by then and my 2 lovely colleagues (aka my left/right speakers) can still luff at me. Saying that I have a slow reaction brain for it takes 1 wk for my brain to detect the virus injected into me and for it to act up. Damn. wat kind of colleagues I've got.
When they saw me having tears in my eyes due to the sneezing, they were so damn happie that they told me they will stop teasing me for an half hr for me to rest( that was half an hr b4 lunch). Teasing came bak straight at 12pm while preparing to go for lunch.
The worst part is, I am in a daze and did not have enuff brain cells to think of counter attack, juz saw there stonely for them to suan lo...
After lunch, I took a break and a sneaked a power nap while many were still out for lunch. It did not help. I hang on to it as I was scheduled to attend the appraisal training that I missed last thurs due to leave. This is the last training day and I die die aso need attend. I do not want 1 to 1 lessons from HR...
Then, I got lost while doing the NZ GST report. Numbers were swimming in front of me. Cannot concentrate at all but then still have to as a mistake will cause me to check thru the 500+ lines of entries that I have painstakingly entered.
Sometimes, I wonder whether it was rite to switch to accounts or not..On days that you cannot concentrate, its a diaster to be doing accounting job as a tiny mistake will sometimes meant you need to go thru the whole process to rectify it.
After the training session, I decided that I cannot take it anymore. If I sit there any longer, I am afraid that I might fainted there and then. So, asked for time off to go at 4pm to visit the doc. You know, sometimes when you want do someting and everything seems to go wrong? Its juz like tat for me. Realised doc is closed for the evening break and thus went home n took a yellow pill then K.O.
Didnt manage to go to the night session too as I overslp due to the effect of the pill. So, I went bak today to work feeling as shitty as yesterday. As much as I loved to stay in my bed and slp, I've got my dear NZ GST report waiting for me, where in turn my dear manager is waiting to check and submit to our dear NZ government by sunday. Essentially, tmr will be the last day of submission as the next 3 days are non working days in SG.
Luckily, I manage to finish the report at 1st try though I was wrapped up like as though I am in a winterland. Many colleagues who walked passed commented on my outfit today, den to realise I came in sick..hurhur..
Though had a tough day, but it is fulfilling to know I have 1 deadline less on my schedule. Working with deadlines does have its pros n cons. You can feel tat time passes faster as every wk I have deadlines to meet. Yet while trying to meet the deadlines, I sometimes have to have certain stress..
Well, the onli consolation now is the long wkend ahead and of cuz, pay is in early this month due to the holidays..yippeeeee......
The tap juz refuse to shut itself up. I lost count of how many tissues I used, tried taking spicy food during lunch with Hang papa but it did not help. The stupid running nose continued through the day and into Tuesday and my nose became sore from all the tissue rubbing..
I was feeling beri sick by then and my 2 lovely colleagues (aka my left/right speakers) can still luff at me. Saying that I have a slow reaction brain for it takes 1 wk for my brain to detect the virus injected into me and for it to act up. Damn. wat kind of colleagues I've got.
When they saw me having tears in my eyes due to the sneezing, they were so damn happie that they told me they will stop teasing me for an half hr for me to rest( that was half an hr b4 lunch). Teasing came bak straight at 12pm while preparing to go for lunch.
The worst part is, I am in a daze and did not have enuff brain cells to think of counter attack, juz saw there stonely for them to suan lo...
After lunch, I took a break and a sneaked a power nap while many were still out for lunch. It did not help. I hang on to it as I was scheduled to attend the appraisal training that I missed last thurs due to leave. This is the last training day and I die die aso need attend. I do not want 1 to 1 lessons from HR...
Then, I got lost while doing the NZ GST report. Numbers were swimming in front of me. Cannot concentrate at all but then still have to as a mistake will cause me to check thru the 500+ lines of entries that I have painstakingly entered.
Sometimes, I wonder whether it was rite to switch to accounts or not..On days that you cannot concentrate, its a diaster to be doing accounting job as a tiny mistake will sometimes meant you need to go thru the whole process to rectify it.
After the training session, I decided that I cannot take it anymore. If I sit there any longer, I am afraid that I might fainted there and then. So, asked for time off to go at 4pm to visit the doc. You know, sometimes when you want do someting and everything seems to go wrong? Its juz like tat for me. Realised doc is closed for the evening break and thus went home n took a yellow pill then K.O.
Didnt manage to go to the night session too as I overslp due to the effect of the pill. So, I went bak today to work feeling as shitty as yesterday. As much as I loved to stay in my bed and slp, I've got my dear NZ GST report waiting for me, where in turn my dear manager is waiting to check and submit to our dear NZ government by sunday. Essentially, tmr will be the last day of submission as the next 3 days are non working days in SG.
Luckily, I manage to finish the report at 1st try though I was wrapped up like as though I am in a winterland. Many colleagues who walked passed commented on my outfit today, den to realise I came in sick..hurhur..
Though had a tough day, but it is fulfilling to know I have 1 deadline less on my schedule. Working with deadlines does have its pros n cons. You can feel tat time passes faster as every wk I have deadlines to meet. Yet while trying to meet the deadlines, I sometimes have to have certain stress..
Well, the onli consolation now is the long wkend ahead and of cuz, pay is in early this month due to the holidays..yippeeeee......
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Finally gone...
For the 1st time, we tried to have a guy tenant in our hse, since he seems to be quite well kept during viewing of room. But then the nightmare starts since the day he shifted in.
Both hubs & I were deem to be easy going persons but then we do haf our limit. More so, when our hse is newly renovated and we did spend ALL our savings on it, it is onli natural that we want to upkeep our things as long as we can.
The tenant in question, is a Filipino guy in his 40s who worked as an IT manager in 1 of the manufacturing plant here. He told us that he would not be home most of the time due to work and will be out during wkends as he want to roam about. Fair enuff, we tot, means he juz need a sleeping place.
The 1st warning sign came when after we strike a deal with him den I suddenly rememebered to ask him whether he is a smoker. He seems abit hesitant in answering this question but finally admit to being 1. We were then relucant to accept him, but he keep promising that he would not smoke in the house and will go dowastairs to smoke. Seeing that he is sincere in this,we decided to gave it a try.
On the day that he shifted in, we realised that he had alot of things, more than 1 room can fit. And he tried to cheat abit by asking us whether he could leave his shoe rack in my living room (I rejected), and he left a humungous box outside his room, asking for a few days grace as he wanna send it back home (we agreed) and aso a small fan on top of the box as our room is equipped with a fan and he did not want to place it inside. Lastly, his TV box, is aso left outside his room.
It makes my living room looks messy now that some of his things are left there. He shows no sign of wanting to remove it anytime soon. I told hubs that I would give him 1 month, den we will speak to him. If he cleared within the 1st month, den all is good. Also, there is another tenant in the house, how would she feel if she sees that we allowed him to place his things outside of the room but not her? To be fair, we decided to be firm with the rule of keeping their things strictly inside their room.
For a start, things were quite ok except that we noticed he would close the doors extremely hard as he is lazy to pull down the handles to close the doors. Heart pain is 1 thing, as I always see my main gate vibrating whenever he closes the it, the other thing is, he has the habit of having a smoke early in the morning when he wakes up and late into the night juz before sleeping. Whenever he closes the doors, we will be awake by the loud banging. At 1st, we tried to ignore, but it got irritating after a while.But how do I tell him (an adult) to close to door more softly? It like giving instructions to a baby.
Also, after a wk or so, we noticed he got lazy and did not go downstairs for his smoke. Instead, he would juz stand at the corridoor and smoke away while all the smoke get blows into our living room. Wats the difference of allowing you to smoke inside and outside of the hse??We still get the smoke which is wat we dun wan!!!He would aso leave the door unlock while he smoke and when he walks over to the chute to throw away his ciggie.
To him, SG is safe enuff to leave the door unlock and walk away for a short awhile. Call me kiasee but then given his routine smoking time, I am afraid plp might noticed and "aimed" our hse. We tried toking to him bout locking the door but then the excuse he gave that he is juz outside!!He did however cooperate but onli when he sees us sitting in the living room, once we retreat to our room, he resumes to his old ways thinking that we were aslp.
There was this particular night when I hear him closing the door without locking and came out of my room to the living room, he got a shock and look paiseh when he came bak, but I was oredi beri pissed with his lazy ways. Mum feedback to me that there was once while she was at my hse, he juz came home and leave the door wide open and went to his room for quite sometime while looking for something. Would it kill him to lock the gate after him? He would do this infront of me too.. I cannot imagine if no 1 is ard and he did this and someone juz slipped into our hse without him realising as he closes his room door. I cannot risk it.
We would aso notice his other lazy ways, like washing his clothes after 2 wks and took up all the space we have to hang his clothes. We werent too please as there are 3 other persons doing the washing every wk to clear our laundry. He did not even have the courtesy to check with us if we are going to do the laundry or not and instead take matters into his own hands. He would aso leave his clothes hanging there for wks till he have no more new clothes to wear.
Then, I noticed that he would wear his home clothes revsered so that he can wear it longer. Nearly fainted when he told me this.Government often told us that this foreign talents are need to boost our economy when they come here to work. Tell me, how can he contribute to SG when he is juz down rite lazy? Manager somemore!!!
I listen to his boasting of going to smoking breaks, tea breaks blah blah blah, seems like he worked less than 5hrs a day, got paid as a manager and smmore can sneer that his boss. He told us that he would onli act to be on time on days he knew his boss is coming to office. There was once he woke up late at 7.30 when his work time is 8am. He can calmly go outside for his smoke and still slowly go take a shower. This kind of working attitude would get kicked from my company in no time. I can safely say most of us abide strictly to our working hours, lunch time. The way he describes his working style is as he is takin salary for smoking and having tea break in his company, anyting else, its been directed to his subordinates...
Anyways, enuff is enuff, told hubs to tell him tat we are not use to his living habits and decided that we will not rent out the room to home. He is given a mth's grace to find some place to move to. He tired to plead with us initially, promising he will change, top up the utilities bills (which shot up double since he moved in) etc..but we were firmed in our decision. We couldnt risk trusting him as we do not know when he will revert to his old ways. He den tried to bargain with us, telling us its not easy to find a place to move within a mth's time(bullshit) and ask us to let him stay till he gets a new place.
Luckily, we were prepared for all these, and hubs told him max is 2wks more and he will need to shift out. We do not want him to drag on n on..A day later, he told hubs that he would shift out by the wkend and request us to refund him the remainding rental of the month. We actually had the mind to forfeit it de but decided otherwise for it may be a better idea of him to move out as quickly as possible.
After he moved out, I spent 3days cleanin up his room which is full of smoke smell!!! Damn pissed off, have to use the aroma therapy thingy to smoke the room to get rid of the smell, clean ALL the wardrobe and cupboards, washed the curtains and sweep & mopped the floor. Can you imagine that throughout the 2 mths he is with us, he did not even clean the room? Even the trash bin is full of stains...agggrrrrrr....
Am glad that we got rid of him, and now we have a female singaporean staying in the room. Hopefully she will be better than him. But then again, I think its quite difficult to get someone who is worse than him.
Both hubs & I were deem to be easy going persons but then we do haf our limit. More so, when our hse is newly renovated and we did spend ALL our savings on it, it is onli natural that we want to upkeep our things as long as we can.
The tenant in question, is a Filipino guy in his 40s who worked as an IT manager in 1 of the manufacturing plant here. He told us that he would not be home most of the time due to work and will be out during wkends as he want to roam about. Fair enuff, we tot, means he juz need a sleeping place.
The 1st warning sign came when after we strike a deal with him den I suddenly rememebered to ask him whether he is a smoker. He seems abit hesitant in answering this question but finally admit to being 1. We were then relucant to accept him, but he keep promising that he would not smoke in the house and will go dowastairs to smoke. Seeing that he is sincere in this,we decided to gave it a try.
On the day that he shifted in, we realised that he had alot of things, more than 1 room can fit. And he tried to cheat abit by asking us whether he could leave his shoe rack in my living room (I rejected), and he left a humungous box outside his room, asking for a few days grace as he wanna send it back home (we agreed) and aso a small fan on top of the box as our room is equipped with a fan and he did not want to place it inside. Lastly, his TV box, is aso left outside his room.
It makes my living room looks messy now that some of his things are left there. He shows no sign of wanting to remove it anytime soon. I told hubs that I would give him 1 month, den we will speak to him. If he cleared within the 1st month, den all is good. Also, there is another tenant in the house, how would she feel if she sees that we allowed him to place his things outside of the room but not her? To be fair, we decided to be firm with the rule of keeping their things strictly inside their room.
For a start, things were quite ok except that we noticed he would close the doors extremely hard as he is lazy to pull down the handles to close the doors. Heart pain is 1 thing, as I always see my main gate vibrating whenever he closes the it, the other thing is, he has the habit of having a smoke early in the morning when he wakes up and late into the night juz before sleeping. Whenever he closes the doors, we will be awake by the loud banging. At 1st, we tried to ignore, but it got irritating after a while.But how do I tell him (an adult) to close to door more softly? It like giving instructions to a baby.
Also, after a wk or so, we noticed he got lazy and did not go downstairs for his smoke. Instead, he would juz stand at the corridoor and smoke away while all the smoke get blows into our living room. Wats the difference of allowing you to smoke inside and outside of the hse??We still get the smoke which is wat we dun wan!!!He would aso leave the door unlock while he smoke and when he walks over to the chute to throw away his ciggie.
To him, SG is safe enuff to leave the door unlock and walk away for a short awhile. Call me kiasee but then given his routine smoking time, I am afraid plp might noticed and "aimed" our hse. We tried toking to him bout locking the door but then the excuse he gave that he is juz outside!!He did however cooperate but onli when he sees us sitting in the living room, once we retreat to our room, he resumes to his old ways thinking that we were aslp.
There was this particular night when I hear him closing the door without locking and came out of my room to the living room, he got a shock and look paiseh when he came bak, but I was oredi beri pissed with his lazy ways. Mum feedback to me that there was once while she was at my hse, he juz came home and leave the door wide open and went to his room for quite sometime while looking for something. Would it kill him to lock the gate after him? He would do this infront of me too.. I cannot imagine if no 1 is ard and he did this and someone juz slipped into our hse without him realising as he closes his room door. I cannot risk it.
We would aso notice his other lazy ways, like washing his clothes after 2 wks and took up all the space we have to hang his clothes. We werent too please as there are 3 other persons doing the washing every wk to clear our laundry. He did not even have the courtesy to check with us if we are going to do the laundry or not and instead take matters into his own hands. He would aso leave his clothes hanging there for wks till he have no more new clothes to wear.
Then, I noticed that he would wear his home clothes revsered so that he can wear it longer. Nearly fainted when he told me this.Government often told us that this foreign talents are need to boost our economy when they come here to work. Tell me, how can he contribute to SG when he is juz down rite lazy? Manager somemore!!!
I listen to his boasting of going to smoking breaks, tea breaks blah blah blah, seems like he worked less than 5hrs a day, got paid as a manager and smmore can sneer that his boss. He told us that he would onli act to be on time on days he knew his boss is coming to office. There was once he woke up late at 7.30 when his work time is 8am. He can calmly go outside for his smoke and still slowly go take a shower. This kind of working attitude would get kicked from my company in no time. I can safely say most of us abide strictly to our working hours, lunch time. The way he describes his working style is as he is takin salary for smoking and having tea break in his company, anyting else, its been directed to his subordinates...
Anyways, enuff is enuff, told hubs to tell him tat we are not use to his living habits and decided that we will not rent out the room to home. He is given a mth's grace to find some place to move to. He tired to plead with us initially, promising he will change, top up the utilities bills (which shot up double since he moved in) etc..but we were firmed in our decision. We couldnt risk trusting him as we do not know when he will revert to his old ways. He den tried to bargain with us, telling us its not easy to find a place to move within a mth's time(bullshit) and ask us to let him stay till he gets a new place.
Luckily, we were prepared for all these, and hubs told him max is 2wks more and he will need to shift out. We do not want him to drag on n on..A day later, he told hubs that he would shift out by the wkend and request us to refund him the remainding rental of the month. We actually had the mind to forfeit it de but decided otherwise for it may be a better idea of him to move out as quickly as possible.
After he moved out, I spent 3days cleanin up his room which is full of smoke smell!!! Damn pissed off, have to use the aroma therapy thingy to smoke the room to get rid of the smell, clean ALL the wardrobe and cupboards, washed the curtains and sweep & mopped the floor. Can you imagine that throughout the 2 mths he is with us, he did not even clean the room? Even the trash bin is full of stains...agggrrrrrr....
Am glad that we got rid of him, and now we have a female singaporean staying in the room. Hopefully she will be better than him. But then again, I think its quite difficult to get someone who is worse than him.
Thursday, 18 October 2012
3rd world class
In my line of work, I deal daily with invoices, account of statements, payments, receipts, payroll. I need to handle vendor's queries on non-payments, under or over payments etc..
There is this 1 incident that makes me fuming..It is normal to receive vendors' statement at month and then we have to reconcile the difference and the liasing with the vendor to resolve any discrepancy..
There was this particular invoice from MPA(The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore) charging us interest for an invoice that we had paid up and within their credit terms. So, I called them up, trying to resolve this problem.
The guy who picked up my call (Mr C) told me that they dun not entertain call in, asking me to write in instead., gave me the in charge's email and told me to write in requesting them to check. Luckily, I have certain experience dealing with government bodies, and thus, I requested for this email too, to keep him CC, in case the person who I should be dealing with did not respond to my query.
True to my prediction, they did not respond despite me sending reminders every 3 days( they need 3 days to response as stated in their auto reply mail, thus I waited for the dateline to be up before reminding them).
Its tiring to have to keep remembering to chase them for an answer, but still I keep on sending chaser as it is part of my duties. The most irritating part? They did not even bother to reply me, except for the auto reply.
I had already send so many emails/chaser to them, even if they had not investigate this matter, they can at least reply me to say that they are looking into this matter, but no, nothing, not a single reply from them at all..
The last stalk came when I received another interest charge this month, meaning to say not only they ignored my query, they continued to let the mistake carrying on, billing us the interest. I knew if I do not take any action, this thing will not get resolve anytime soon.
Their websites only stated the common email for us to send our queries to, but I've tried sending before and got no reply, so this time, I decided to write to their higher management, hoping to get the problem solved once and for all without me having to send chaser every 3 days and while having to explain to my management why we are being charged interest monthly. It seems like we are not doing our job in making sure payment is prompt.
The thing about complaining to the higher management (in this case the financial controller), the reply will come in faster than you say "chaser". Mr C who I found out is the manager of credit management, immediately replied me saying that the interest will be wavied within this week.
This Mr C, is all along being CCed in my mails and the chasers but then he chose to ignore me, also he was the one who insist me writing an email to them for the wavier.But he didnt take any action though he saw me asking time n again on this issue. Instead, the mintue I escalate this issue to his superior, he can emailed me bak saying that they can get it wavied within the wk even though he is on MC.
Why do you need me to blow up the issue before replying me? Should you have looked into wat I brought up in the 1st place, I would not have bring this to your superior to get you to work. I am utterly disappointed with the way the government sector employees work. I mean, we always claimed to have a world class system. Yet,with this encounter, had not been me who took the effort to went an extra mile to write in to the higher management, hoping to resolve this issue, it would have been left hanging there and my company will continue to recevie the interest charge every month.
This is the difference between private and public sector. 2 wks after this MPA issue, I got a statement from Raffles medical stating non-payment from us. I reconciled, and found that we have paid most of the mentioned invoice, others being not due for payment or non-receipt of the invoice. Wrote them an email, highlighting my concern, within half an hr, a staff called me back to liase with me on this issue.
I do not expect every 1 to be this efficient. Sometimes, we need time to go investigate the claims, but 1 month of no reply from them is realli my limit. It only goes to show how bad their attitude is. In my case, I am liable to answer to my superiors on the interest charged and therefore would make an extra effort to solve this problem.
We this kind of working attitude, I am sure we are going toward world class system, but is 3rd World...
There is this 1 incident that makes me fuming..It is normal to receive vendors' statement at month and then we have to reconcile the difference and the liasing with the vendor to resolve any discrepancy..
There was this particular invoice from MPA(The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore) charging us interest for an invoice that we had paid up and within their credit terms. So, I called them up, trying to resolve this problem.
The guy who picked up my call (Mr C) told me that they dun not entertain call in, asking me to write in instead., gave me the in charge's email and told me to write in requesting them to check. Luckily, I have certain experience dealing with government bodies, and thus, I requested for this email too, to keep him CC, in case the person who I should be dealing with did not respond to my query.
True to my prediction, they did not respond despite me sending reminders every 3 days( they need 3 days to response as stated in their auto reply mail, thus I waited for the dateline to be up before reminding them).
Its tiring to have to keep remembering to chase them for an answer, but still I keep on sending chaser as it is part of my duties. The most irritating part? They did not even bother to reply me, except for the auto reply.
I had already send so many emails/chaser to them, even if they had not investigate this matter, they can at least reply me to say that they are looking into this matter, but no, nothing, not a single reply from them at all..
The last stalk came when I received another interest charge this month, meaning to say not only they ignored my query, they continued to let the mistake carrying on, billing us the interest. I knew if I do not take any action, this thing will not get resolve anytime soon.
Their websites only stated the common email for us to send our queries to, but I've tried sending before and got no reply, so this time, I decided to write to their higher management, hoping to get the problem solved once and for all without me having to send chaser every 3 days and while having to explain to my management why we are being charged interest monthly. It seems like we are not doing our job in making sure payment is prompt.
The thing about complaining to the higher management (in this case the financial controller), the reply will come in faster than you say "chaser". Mr C who I found out is the manager of credit management, immediately replied me saying that the interest will be wavied within this week.
This Mr C, is all along being CCed in my mails and the chasers but then he chose to ignore me, also he was the one who insist me writing an email to them for the wavier.But he didnt take any action though he saw me asking time n again on this issue. Instead, the mintue I escalate this issue to his superior, he can emailed me bak saying that they can get it wavied within the wk even though he is on MC.
Why do you need me to blow up the issue before replying me? Should you have looked into wat I brought up in the 1st place, I would not have bring this to your superior to get you to work. I am utterly disappointed with the way the government sector employees work. I mean, we always claimed to have a world class system. Yet,with this encounter, had not been me who took the effort to went an extra mile to write in to the higher management, hoping to resolve this issue, it would have been left hanging there and my company will continue to recevie the interest charge every month.
This is the difference between private and public sector. 2 wks after this MPA issue, I got a statement from Raffles medical stating non-payment from us. I reconciled, and found that we have paid most of the mentioned invoice, others being not due for payment or non-receipt of the invoice. Wrote them an email, highlighting my concern, within half an hr, a staff called me back to liase with me on this issue.
I do not expect every 1 to be this efficient. Sometimes, we need time to go investigate the claims, but 1 month of no reply from them is realli my limit. It only goes to show how bad their attitude is. In my case, I am liable to answer to my superiors on the interest charged and therefore would make an extra effort to solve this problem.
We this kind of working attitude, I am sure we are going toward world class system, but is 3rd World...
Monday, 15 October 2012
Same same but diffferent
Hubs told me that his accountant came bak to work after a 2mths break from work due to his miscarriage...
He told me that she looked quite fine on her 1st day of work,even found time to ask about me and sent her regards despite us facing the same situation...
Hubs told me that he didnt dare to ask bout her well being for fear upsetting her.
I told hubs, though she look normal on the outside, but then deep down inside, she may not feel the same anymore.
It felt as though as everything is bak to normal, working, shopping, eating, net surfing, gathering, but then deep down inside me, there is always a void within me.
During bath time, I would sometimes be reminded that during my short pregnancy, I would tok to XB inside me, tellin him tat its bath time, asking him to njoy the water. Not sure whether this helps, but I read from fwens that they did tat during their pregnancies so that BB will not be scared of water during bath time next time..
On the surface, everyting seems to be the same as before, but then I noe someting is different within me oredi, I guess the same goes for every woman who went thru this path.
Same same but different, but life still goes on...
He told me that she looked quite fine on her 1st day of work,even found time to ask about me and sent her regards despite us facing the same situation...
Hubs told me that he didnt dare to ask bout her well being for fear upsetting her.
I told hubs, though she look normal on the outside, but then deep down inside, she may not feel the same anymore.
It felt as though as everything is bak to normal, working, shopping, eating, net surfing, gathering, but then deep down inside me, there is always a void within me.
During bath time, I would sometimes be reminded that during my short pregnancy, I would tok to XB inside me, tellin him tat its bath time, asking him to njoy the water. Not sure whether this helps, but I read from fwens that they did tat during their pregnancies so that BB will not be scared of water during bath time next time..
On the surface, everyting seems to be the same as before, but then I noe someting is different within me oredi, I guess the same goes for every woman who went thru this path.
Same same but different, but life still goes on...
Sunday, 14 October 2012
Dressing up
For the past few months, I stopped shopping becuz of my pregnancy & miscarriage..The last time I shopped this yr, is during CNY and then I stopped.
After my miscarriage, I didnt have the mood to go bak shopping, hubs always see this as a sign of depression. Thus, he was quite supportive when he sees me wanting to shop.But then is emotionally, not financially. Whaha
At 1st I couldnt find any clothes to my liking despite Hubs bringing me to nearly all my fav haunts. I felt that no matter wat I tried on, nothing looks good. This is the extend of how bad my mood is. For some1 who shops like me, not able to buy even 1 top during shopping is a serious problem, or so Hubs claims..whhaha
I aso didnt like to go out often, getting tired easily. Hubs patiently encouraged me to go out more, even it is for a short while. Sometimes, after walking 1 round in the mall, without goin into any shops, I would say I wanna go home oredi, nothing hubs can do, but to go with my wishes.
Recently, I went bak to shopping, not the conventional kind, but online. Though abit difficult to judge the sizing intially, but I am proud to say I am still able to buy things tat fits till now. After rounds of buying frm the same seller, I can now judge whether I can fit or not by seeing the measurements they provide.
Until I think I am happie to go bak shopping again, I would temporary stick to this arrangement :)
After my miscarriage, I didnt have the mood to go bak shopping, hubs always see this as a sign of depression. Thus, he was quite supportive when he sees me wanting to shop.But then is emotionally, not financially. Whaha
At 1st I couldnt find any clothes to my liking despite Hubs bringing me to nearly all my fav haunts. I felt that no matter wat I tried on, nothing looks good. This is the extend of how bad my mood is. For some1 who shops like me, not able to buy even 1 top during shopping is a serious problem, or so Hubs claims..whhaha
I aso didnt like to go out often, getting tired easily. Hubs patiently encouraged me to go out more, even it is for a short while. Sometimes, after walking 1 round in the mall, without goin into any shops, I would say I wanna go home oredi, nothing hubs can do, but to go with my wishes.
Recently, I went bak to shopping, not the conventional kind, but online. Though abit difficult to judge the sizing intially, but I am proud to say I am still able to buy things tat fits till now. After rounds of buying frm the same seller, I can now judge whether I can fit or not by seeing the measurements they provide.
Until I think I am happie to go bak shopping again, I would temporary stick to this arrangement :)
Friday, 12 October 2012
Injection day
My company organised an flu injection drive today to get us vaccinated with the flu injection or watever it is called...Its pretty rare for a company to arrange for vaccination inhouse, at least in my years of working, this is the 1st time I come across this.
At 1st only the few of us from Finance joined, actually we didnt joined willing, we kinda dared each other to join, with only SH being the scary cat, die die aso dun join.whahah..End up 3 of us plus our FC signed up.
The thing is, I am most afraid of needles, much less volunteering for vaccination. But then cannot lost to the commando-trained uncle who aso is afraid but becuz of our jeering, signed up with us..Whahah..
Turns out not many signed up, onli 16 out of 60 pax. And the clinic realli sent a nurse and representative down to get us vaccined despite the low turn out.
The finance team went in 1st as the room is nearest to us, and we did not want to waste time waiting for the others to go 1st. Commando uncle went 1st and the rest of us are joking with him while he sat there waiting for the nurse to prepare the needles..Nerve wrecking moment I think, I would not want to be in tat position.Like a pig awaiting to be slaughter while the others look on..whahah
Expat colleagues from commercial department cannot understand why we are so happie over the injection and keep looking at the few of us rolling with laughter. But when its our turn, we cannot manage even a smile while sitting on the "injection chair"hur hur..
I think they were pretty amused by us but nonetheless, got use to us being noisy...heheh
The teasing continued even after injection as we start to compare who's arm is going numb, who is having flu symtomps oredi, who's injection bite is still bleeding..whahah And of cuz, we didnt let SH off, keep "encouraging" him to go for the injection since there are spares..He refused to budge, its only when the nurse and the representative left, then he felt "safe".Even that, our teasing didnt realli stop. I reckon it can continue for the next 2 wks till we find something new to tease.
Speaking of which, am feeling abit feverish now..damn, hope I wun develop flu like wat they say...
Going rest early today....Or so I wished...heheh
At 1st only the few of us from Finance joined, actually we didnt joined willing, we kinda dared each other to join, with only SH being the scary cat, die die aso dun join.whahah..End up 3 of us plus our FC signed up.
The thing is, I am most afraid of needles, much less volunteering for vaccination. But then cannot lost to the commando-trained uncle who aso is afraid but becuz of our jeering, signed up with us..Whahah..
Turns out not many signed up, onli 16 out of 60 pax. And the clinic realli sent a nurse and representative down to get us vaccined despite the low turn out.
The finance team went in 1st as the room is nearest to us, and we did not want to waste time waiting for the others to go 1st. Commando uncle went 1st and the rest of us are joking with him while he sat there waiting for the nurse to prepare the needles..Nerve wrecking moment I think, I would not want to be in tat position.Like a pig awaiting to be slaughter while the others look on..whahah
Expat colleagues from commercial department cannot understand why we are so happie over the injection and keep looking at the few of us rolling with laughter. But when its our turn, we cannot manage even a smile while sitting on the "injection chair"hur hur..
I think they were pretty amused by us but nonetheless, got use to us being noisy...heheh
The teasing continued even after injection as we start to compare who's arm is going numb, who is having flu symtomps oredi, who's injection bite is still bleeding..whahah And of cuz, we didnt let SH off, keep "encouraging" him to go for the injection since there are spares..He refused to budge, its only when the nurse and the representative left, then he felt "safe".Even that, our teasing didnt realli stop. I reckon it can continue for the next 2 wks till we find something new to tease.
Speaking of which, am feeling abit feverish now..damn, hope I wun develop flu like wat they say...
Going rest early today....Or so I wished...heheh
Thursday, 11 October 2012
Feeling low
Haf you ever experienced a few days tat you will feel down?Everything that you do dun go according to plan, dress you wore dun feel rite, you lack of self-confidence, you are just passing days..
I do haf these periods once in a while, recently came back again. Every morning when I look into the mirror, everything I choose for work doesnt feel rite. I am usually pretty confident with my dressing. Though I belong to the bigger sized gals, I did not feel bad about myself.
I felt good in my body despite being abit on the plump side. But during these days, I cannot find my confidence, everything I wore seems to be bring out the worse in me. I hate this kind of feeling. It is not depression, but then it does affect me in some way or another.
I feel like taking a break, a short 1 will do, maybe half a day. To haf abit of "me-time". Where I can go to a book shop, choose a book and read there while sipping coffee and watching the world go by. I like the feeling of seeing every 1 rushing to somewhere while I sit there watching, knowing tat I need not rush to somewhere, feeling relax and laid back.
Then, pop by the shops to do some shopping, taking my time to go over the clothes without hafin to squeeze with the crowds. I feel like walking ard aimlessly while listening to my MP3, awaiting for the next good bargain I may find while shopping.
Lastly, to take a long bus ride home when I can sleep and rest during the journey. I missed the feeling of getting a seat on those long journey bus and start to day dream b4 falling aslp during the journey. Used to do it during sch days where I would take buses onli no matter how long the journey is, juz to save on the MRT fares.
Well, the more I write, the more I feel like taking half a day off to go on this little adventure. Heehe, shall go back to office and check out my calender where I had planned my work schedules. Muz find time to work around the datelines to find time for my "Me-time"..
I do haf these periods once in a while, recently came back again. Every morning when I look into the mirror, everything I choose for work doesnt feel rite. I am usually pretty confident with my dressing. Though I belong to the bigger sized gals, I did not feel bad about myself.
I felt good in my body despite being abit on the plump side. But during these days, I cannot find my confidence, everything I wore seems to be bring out the worse in me. I hate this kind of feeling. It is not depression, but then it does affect me in some way or another.
I feel like taking a break, a short 1 will do, maybe half a day. To haf abit of "me-time". Where I can go to a book shop, choose a book and read there while sipping coffee and watching the world go by. I like the feeling of seeing every 1 rushing to somewhere while I sit there watching, knowing tat I need not rush to somewhere, feeling relax and laid back.
Then, pop by the shops to do some shopping, taking my time to go over the clothes without hafin to squeeze with the crowds. I feel like walking ard aimlessly while listening to my MP3, awaiting for the next good bargain I may find while shopping.
Lastly, to take a long bus ride home when I can sleep and rest during the journey. I missed the feeling of getting a seat on those long journey bus and start to day dream b4 falling aslp during the journey. Used to do it during sch days where I would take buses onli no matter how long the journey is, juz to save on the MRT fares.
Well, the more I write, the more I feel like taking half a day off to go on this little adventure. Heehe, shall go back to office and check out my calender where I had planned my work schedules. Muz find time to work around the datelines to find time for my "Me-time"..
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Now reading-Chicken Soup for the Soul
The last time I read the chicken soup for the soul series was when I was in secondary sch. I love their short stories, inspiring, humourous, touching...Its one of those books that you can relax while reading the short stories..
Recently, not sure why its back in the trend again, Popular is having sales on the series and I took the chance to buy "The Magic of Mother & Daughter" title. This is especially close to my heart, having being beri close to my mum, sharing nearly everyting with her and vice versa..
When I was pregnant back then, I was secretly hoping for a gal, wishing the trait of close mother & daughter ties will pass on to my next generation, I too want to become my gal's mum & best fwen, just like my mum & I...
Although I had lost my child, I had not lost hope in getting pregnant again, reading the many stories inside makes me reflect on my relationship with my mummy, some are similar to wat we went thru, some shed light on how the older generation feel on certain issues, some can prepare me to better handle my daughter shd I be blessed with 1..
Reading it, lightens up my mood while savouring the stories of others, at time, reminding me of my own...
I hope, 1 day, I will be able to note down the little stories of my daughter and I, remembering the details of her growing up, from a baby to toddler, to a school child, to teenager and finally leaving me to start another family of her own.. This, would be the greatest thing in life, for a daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family, an extension of her self :)
Recently, not sure why its back in the trend again, Popular is having sales on the series and I took the chance to buy "The Magic of Mother & Daughter" title. This is especially close to my heart, having being beri close to my mum, sharing nearly everyting with her and vice versa..
When I was pregnant back then, I was secretly hoping for a gal, wishing the trait of close mother & daughter ties will pass on to my next generation, I too want to become my gal's mum & best fwen, just like my mum & I...
Although I had lost my child, I had not lost hope in getting pregnant again, reading the many stories inside makes me reflect on my relationship with my mummy, some are similar to wat we went thru, some shed light on how the older generation feel on certain issues, some can prepare me to better handle my daughter shd I be blessed with 1..
Reading it, lightens up my mood while savouring the stories of others, at time, reminding me of my own...
I hope, 1 day, I will be able to note down the little stories of my daughter and I, remembering the details of her growing up, from a baby to toddler, to a school child, to teenager and finally leaving me to start another family of her own.. This, would be the greatest thing in life, for a daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family, an extension of her self :)
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
My england is beri powderful
My mum comes from a chinese/dialet speaking background, was educated in Chinese schs and she onli picked up english when we start schooling. Even then, she didnt pick up much from us as we struck to speaking mandarin at home.
Despite that, she is 1 courageous woman to me, she is totally not shy speaking to others using her half past 6 english. Many times, still feeling proud of the fact that she dared to converse in english.
So, we tried to help her as much as we can, by correcting & teasing her whenever she got some phase/words wrong. 1 might scare that she will be angry, but its juz the opposite!! She is proud of her funnie pronunciation and continued with it..
Here are some examples for the funnier 1..
David Bacon = David Beckham (Sounds similar, at least to her)
Africa = Apricot (Dun ask me why, its after she showed me the fruit then I knew what she was trying to tell me)
Lobut = Robot (Hokkien style)
Chart = Charge (Hokkien style)
Ladio = Radio (Hokkien style)
Celebrate = Separate (Sounds similar to her again, though she knew celebrate is wrong, but she juz cannot prounce separate)
Lorec = Rolex (I guess this is common among hokkien speaking ppl)
8-lay = 8-days (wat's up with all the L pronunciation??)
Pakgate = Package (Her latest 1 tat send us rolling with laughter on the floor)
There are more that I cannot recall..Will try to compile again when they come to my mind..hehhe
Despite that, she is 1 courageous woman to me, she is totally not shy speaking to others using her half past 6 english. Many times, still feeling proud of the fact that she dared to converse in english.
So, we tried to help her as much as we can, by correcting & teasing her whenever she got some phase/words wrong. 1 might scare that she will be angry, but its juz the opposite!! She is proud of her funnie pronunciation and continued with it..
Here are some examples for the funnier 1..
David Bacon = David Beckham (Sounds similar, at least to her)
Africa = Apricot (Dun ask me why, its after she showed me the fruit then I knew what she was trying to tell me)
Lobut = Robot (Hokkien style)
Chart = Charge (Hokkien style)
Ladio = Radio (Hokkien style)
Celebrate = Separate (Sounds similar to her again, though she knew celebrate is wrong, but she juz cannot prounce separate)
Lorec = Rolex (I guess this is common among hokkien speaking ppl)
8-lay = 8-days (wat's up with all the L pronunciation??)
Pakgate = Package (Her latest 1 tat send us rolling with laughter on the floor)
There are more that I cannot recall..Will try to compile again when they come to my mind..hehhe
Saturday, 6 October 2012
September is over,Here comes October
In a blink of eyes, September flew past faster than I know. Its been 2 months since I lost XB, 1 month since I went back to work.I must admit. Things seems to be on track now.
I've been confirmed by my company even though I missed nearly 2/3 of my 3mths probation. Body is more or less recovered, since I have been going to Chinese Sinseh every sat and have been dilligently taking the prescribed medicine twice a day.
Sometimes, even I am impressed with myself. For the sake of getting my body into shape for the next blessing, I drowned down wat I presumed I would rather be sick den to drink medicine. All these, I hope will bear fruits eventually :)
Mentally, I knew I am getting better. Going to work does help. Toking & joking with my colleagues, getting busied over work makes me feel that I am back to the good old days. Though sometimes, just b4 falling aslp, I cannot help but to think of XB.
Another milestone is, I finally got ard meeting fwens. Huge step for me, as I am not sure initially how to handle the attention on my loss and how not to breakdown while relating the loss or even worse, try to act as if nothing had happened.
For the 1st time in months, I met up with partner, not a grp meeting but a 1on 1 meet up. I guess I had to start to re-assure my fwens that I am well now and not let them worried bout me even more. Though while relating to her on my loss, tears nearly flowed, but I think I can handle my emotions better now.
We caught up quite bit besides the loss, makes me miss the other 2 sisters. But then I am not ready to go out often. Preferred to come home after work as I am tired and would do some reading to realx my mind.
Hubs is aso feeling more relaxed, for I am no longer in my depressed mode and we are back to old times. We tried to go shopping more often so that he will not be too bored and especially armed with his new toy, he is excited to go ard shopping new "clothes" for his toy. I am happie to go along with him, making up the lost time.
As we embraced October, I do hope that I will become better. As someone once told me, I would neber be the same after the loss, as I will always feel the lost within me, but I can thrive to live better for the sake of my loss 1 and go on to await for god's next blessing. This, would be the only thing I can do in memory of XB.
I've been confirmed by my company even though I missed nearly 2/3 of my 3mths probation. Body is more or less recovered, since I have been going to Chinese Sinseh every sat and have been dilligently taking the prescribed medicine twice a day.
Sometimes, even I am impressed with myself. For the sake of getting my body into shape for the next blessing, I drowned down wat I presumed I would rather be sick den to drink medicine. All these, I hope will bear fruits eventually :)
Mentally, I knew I am getting better. Going to work does help. Toking & joking with my colleagues, getting busied over work makes me feel that I am back to the good old days. Though sometimes, just b4 falling aslp, I cannot help but to think of XB.
Another milestone is, I finally got ard meeting fwens. Huge step for me, as I am not sure initially how to handle the attention on my loss and how not to breakdown while relating the loss or even worse, try to act as if nothing had happened.
For the 1st time in months, I met up with partner, not a grp meeting but a 1on 1 meet up. I guess I had to start to re-assure my fwens that I am well now and not let them worried bout me even more. Though while relating to her on my loss, tears nearly flowed, but I think I can handle my emotions better now.
We caught up quite bit besides the loss, makes me miss the other 2 sisters. But then I am not ready to go out often. Preferred to come home after work as I am tired and would do some reading to realx my mind.
Hubs is aso feeling more relaxed, for I am no longer in my depressed mode and we are back to old times. We tried to go shopping more often so that he will not be too bored and especially armed with his new toy, he is excited to go ard shopping new "clothes" for his toy. I am happie to go along with him, making up the lost time.
As we embraced October, I do hope that I will become better. As someone once told me, I would neber be the same after the loss, as I will always feel the lost within me, but I can thrive to live better for the sake of my loss 1 and go on to await for god's next blessing. This, would be the only thing I can do in memory of XB.
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