Confirmation :)

Today marks the day I have worked for 6 months and is also the day I have pass my probation period (even though I've receive my confirmation letter 3 weeks ago :p ) how time flies~

Looking back at these 6 months, I'm glad at where I've ended up even though I admit I did grumble and whine abt the dept or the gp I was allocated at the beginning :p
Fate (or some ppl wld say god) has let me end up in a place where I am suited to be to learn for the next 2-3 years and where sufficient opportunities and exposure are provided for me :) now it is up to me to step out of my comfort zone and step up to the plate :)

I guess the lesson to learn from here is that I shldnt worry or grumble too much! Eventually things wld work out. Just let nature take it's course and I wld be fine. Guess I just never learn my lesson and I will keep being a worry freak :p

Away from home~

Seeing char go off to London for post grad studies, and providing char with recipes to cook for dinner, e feeling of leaving overseas again is coming back. For once, I wished I was able to be in a job that let me live a life overseas, or even provide me an opportunity to go for courses overseas just like what my dad was able to do in his career. Guess I just crave some independence and luxury of being to explore places.

Alternative is to further my studies overseas, but that's not on my agenda for now :(

How I wish I can visit char~

i ponder..

are we then sacrificial lambs? i really wonder...

Work-life balance?

How can one actually achieve work life balance? *ponders*

Different company cultures wld 'train' newbies different.. Some let them learn at their own pace.. Some guide them through slowly.. Some throw them into e fire.. Some put them through many 'test' to see how much work they can endure..
No idea which method is better or worse.. The grass is always greener on the other side.. But my only wish now is that 'bombs' will stop falling from above!
Major obstacles to overcome end of next wk.. I hope I do well in it and leave a favorable impression.. 'stress*
Really need to get some vitamin c to boost my immune system~

Lots of things have happened within this 3+ gg to 4 months since I have started work.. There's happy times, stressful times, frustrated times.. Hope to pen it down real soon..

Sweet potato couple

Haha after talking to carol last Thursday, I finally started watching 'We got married' over the weekends :D e episodes on SNSD seohyun and CN Blue yonghwa and totally can't help laughing and smiling to myself while watching them be a couple.. Totally an enduring couple.. Wld they turn out to be one after the show end? They are so suitable for each other! Hee and I think I found a new idol... Yonghwa!! He's such a sweet bf!! Going gaga~ :p

But because of WGM, I didn't finish what I was suppose to do over e weekends!! -_- looks like my report has no hope of completing again.. Haiz.. Just super hard to get my writing engine started.. But I need to get this done before the start of school semester!!! pls let me have to self preserverance to work on it after I get home from work!! After that I can watch all e YouTube videos of e sweet potato couple ^_^ *and go gaga even more*

Koda Bear!!

I'm bursting with excitement NOW!! and i just want to shout out loud to anyone and everyone!! DISNEYLAND HAS KODA BEAR MASCOT!!! can i fly to USA now?? O_O

was randomly searching for koda bear pictures to put as my itouch wallpaper when i discovered this fact! though the photos were taken by others in 2009, it means there's hope that one day i can meet koda bear!! koda bear has fans out there and is popular enough to have mascots!! woo~~~

i crazily saved the pictures i found on flicker and i gg to post it here!! :D (posting on fb just does not seem right cos these photos are not taken by me..)

so happy~~~ jumping with joy just to know that there's koda bear mascots!! i may sound silly but close friends know how much i love this bear and it is super duper hard or impossible to find any thing related to it.. ppl don't even know koda exist! *sob* haha so a mascot is such a big thing to me!!! :D:D woo~~

Introducing Koda Bear!

And these peeps are super duper lucky!!!

Koda with Kenai..

(the two of them feels like chip and dale to me! playful and cheeky!)

I think i will smile in my dreams tonight :p

I will meet u one day!! wait for me~~

Graduation Day!!

After studying for 19 years since kindergarden at the age of 4, tmr is e day to commemorate and finally close e chapter of official school days! E day to wear e 四方帽！

Since young, we have been hearing adults tell us that studying is much better than working but it never sink it. But having step into e working world for slightly more than a month, I come to fully understand what they meant. But no looking back :) knowledge is always there for us to pursue, it's just whether we want to pursue it a not :) *though I wld miss e freedom and ability to plan my own schedule :p*

Can't wait for tmr!! Photo taking time!

It's just how you look at things :)

I've been working for slightly more than a month and I guess everyone around me has heard me complaining or even whining abt my job :p really sorry to the ears of everyone.. As someone told me before, my troubles shldn't be his troubles.

For this past week, I have been attempting to adjust my mindset to at least make work more bearable. Especially since I don't see myself changing job so soon. So firstly would be to address what i'm unhappy abt and look at them in a different light :) along e line of the glass is half empty vs the glass is half full reasoning :)) here's what I thought so far :))

Roads are totally foreign and not very useful for future career switch vs but I'm learning something new! Now I look at road elements while walking around singapore instead of buildings!

Monday blues? Vs it's a brand new week to start anew and afresh! Life is short so I must treasure everyday even though it may be more than 8.5 hrs of work each day :)

A hole I can't / that it's very hard to get out vs since I'm in the hole already, why not give it my all and try and attain something for my career! At least I can attempt to build a platform in e hole so that my head can 'pop' out of the hole to see the surroundings :p

So many ecas = so time consuming vs at least it's an opportunity for me to rack my brain, and do something outside of my job scope. It's also an opportunity for me to shine.

My knowledge wld only be limited to tendering :( vs but at least I am doing costing and estimates which could be quite useful ;)

That's all for now. Guess I wld add more to the list as and when I think of something. But this would definately be something I wld refer back whenever I feel dishearten. And I wld also have to learn to keep my mouth shut and learn not to complain so much ;)

for someone who likes peace and quiet and does not like to talk a lot, i guess i have met my ultimatum.. nothing can beat this..

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seo luvs her lamp :) it's such simple things that make so much of a difference...

after a week~

a week has pass.. even weekends are gone too.. *so fast*

lots of different feelings after this one wk.. mostly not very positive ones.. wld like to pen them down somewhere but i know it wld definately not be here as i can't and shld not.. i also have enough of talking to/telling others abt it.. shall just keep it to myself and see how things work out..

bought my lamp! tmr morning is installation day! hope it will really brighten up my space and my day(s)!!

time for my daily 1 hr of show to 宠宠我自己 :)

first day of work~

last year i was an intern on site.. this year i'm a staff in hq.. who wld have thought it wld turn out this way? :p

first day of work was the usual going through of briefing and formality with the hr before heading to our respective dept.. we were a little hesistant walking through the office finding the respective person we were to report to.. but then we saw each other names on the partition.. but not mine.. turn out my desk was right at the end in the corner.. just in front of my boss..

yar corner table is gd.. but then i lack of ppl to talk to :( instead of the normal four tables forming a common space.. my side only got me and my boss table.. can't keep talking to my boss right? and i'm in front of her.. so also cannot slack or not do work.. but today she is half day so i was alone in the partly dark corner..
yar lighting at my table is not very gd.. not as bright as other table due to the lighting grid.. yess horrible tbp! i peep at my boss desk and she has a table lamp! prove my point! lol.. guess i wld soon get one too..

today already started reading the contract of the project i wld be helping out.. tmr wld be the day when work starts to come in when all the bosses are around..
even though never do much today but feeling so shag.. maybe cause i have been coughing a lot today?

so how shld i decorate my desk? even though it is empty now.. but i guess it wld soon be filled with files and papers.. but i still want to do something! haha the 'walls' are so empty! hee.. reason to go Daiso! maybe this time round i wld really shop at Daiso like how XM does there! :p

what have i been up to?

abt 3 wks plus since the end of exams.. and what have i been up to in the month of May?

6th-9th: spent packing and doing miscellaneous stuff

9th-18th: having a super duper fun time in Japan~ I really enjoy travelling and i really wish i can continue to travel every year!! else i'll be super bored in Singapore.. my feet want to walk walk walk around the world!

19th-21st: think i was at home slacking? catching up on sleep missed in Japan.. :p but it was also during this time that i got to know i starting work on 31st may.. agreed and regretted! so early cause it means only one more week of freedom!!

22nd: My first flashmob!!! At Changi Airport!! woo~~ must thank wei juan for this opportunity!! at first i was a little reluctant to join it cause rehearsals was held on sat during the revision wk and exam time.. and performance was the day before the Japan trip.. but i thought.. if i don't do it now, when would i do it?? so i just joined! and no regrets!! met new friends there like emberly, brendy and mei ling :)
due to the Iceland volcanic eruption, the actual performance was postpone to the 22nd may.. and so i missed the full dress rehearsal which was held while i was in Japan.. but.. at least i never miss the actual performance! :D
took lots of photos on that day.. but lost all of it cause i didn't know i did not fully transfer the photos from my phone and went to delete all the photos away from phone.. :( sadded.. but lucky emeberly took as many photos from me! and i can save them from fb! :D *heng*
this is the only photo i got which we took with the suai suai dance instructors.. :p

Popeye Chicken provided by Changi Airport for lunch!

So what did i do during my last wk of freedom?? *a packed wk!*

24th (mon): Potluck at Tsz Ching's house!! Got photos from grad trip from the rest, played wii/monopoly cards or mahjong (depending on which gp u are in), and eat!! Lots of food as usual but our potluck meals are getting better and better!! haha.. absolutely luvs jiawei's brownie!

25th (tue): went to help jee with her project stomp.. but wasn't really helping this wk.. rather sitting in for the I'mpossible talk.. :)

26th (wed): office clothes shopping with the pfm peeps! met up with hf and xq first to comb raffles city area.. before cheryl, lijing, ching (spotted missing by xq :p) and wc joined for lunch at Waruku and more shopping! (lijing left after lunch) managed to buy an office skirt i was looking for as well as got a lacoste shoe on sale! :D but halfway through the shopping trip my throat started feeling weird... and.. it just got worse... end up having fever that night.. pop a panadol and went to bed but ended up not really sleeping.. was waking every hour and keep gg toilet.. pop another panadol at 3 but it was only till 5+am could i really fall asleep.. first time not letting my parents know i was not feeling well and that night was really a long and horrible night..

During lunch:

27th (thurs): had already arranged an appointment with my friend to go to the hairdresser and as she was taking 'leave' because of me.. i still went to do my hair even though i was still not very well.. parents still don't know i was sick the night before so as planned i still went to the bank.. but it was horrible waiting in the loongg queue..

haha and i did something drastic (to me) to my hair! still getting use to it though..
the thing is.. i went to ask most of my friends whether i shld rebond my hair because 2 of my friends have this impression that i shld..(they have been trying to do stuff to my hair since sec school) but i was still hesistant.. don't want to spoil my hair.. and to me.. it is not like i have to dye, curl, rebond etc. to get a nice haircut.. and the result of my mini-survey: there isn't a need.. but as usual hairdressers wld say u need to do it.. and i remember i never really give the go ahead but she just started working on my hair :( cld be due to my friend chattering and giving opinions in the background.. in any case.. if i never try i never know.. so yess.. i rebond my hair!!
still adapting to the bangs.. wld i rebond again in the future.. high chance no.. haha..

28th (fri): initial plan was to go to the museums with the pfm peeps.. but since there was no news.. i stayed at home! still need to recuperate.. and my throat was still hurting.. spent the day blogging abt Egypt..

29th (sat): saw my baby nephew.. and played with him a bit... haha my mum did most of the entertaining.. :p and later at night, i met up with char to go explore the Marina Bay IR!

how do u find my new hairdo? :p

30th (sun): last day of freedom... stayed at home! and i feel it was a fulfilling day!! cleared up my lappie, did 2 jigsaw puzzles! watched some dramas (which i haven't been watching in quite a while since revision wk), cleared my tables.. haha feels like i have done the most stuff today then in the last few times i stayed at home... but then again, blogging is time consuming!! so far i have only completed half of my Egypt trip :( definately won't be able to meet my goal of completing all blogging before i start work..

Jigsaw given by char.. she bought it immediately after hearing i have gotten a job! :D thx gal!

And my Stain Glass Art Jigsaw Puzzle bought from Japan! *hugs* so gg to find a frame for it to hang it up!!

soon i wld need to sleep and wld have to say hello to early mornings every day from now on.. still coughing and having a sore throat.. just pray that tmr i wldn't keep coughing and i have a voice.. :(

hopefully i dun get a heart attack sms tmr morning.. and may my career start off smoothly tmr!! gambette seo!! :D

*can't wait for 14th june to come! another pfm gathering!! hopefully we can always meet so often!!*

*and i forgot to write: so happy for ernest bro and lynn!!! congrats to them!!! :D:D can't wait for next year! :p*

closing of a chapter in life..

whee~ in abt 6 hours i would be in Changi Airport to check in and then off to Japan for grad trip!! :D:D 13 of us!! wowow... never thought i wld have the chance to go with such a big gp of ppl and can go crazy together! :D really glad to have the PFM peeps to be part of my memories of uni life!

it all started with my first day to SDE for the pre-FOC tea session where there were only 3 ppl from PFM (rachel and tanu).. and then to FOC where i met the VELA folks which make the FOC experience so much more exciting and happening. Also remember the first familiar face i met on day 1 of FOC - wei chen! haha.. after seeing each other in Crescent and SA, first time talking to each other on that very day.. :D

Then it was Rag! the FIRE gals! haha what an experience! got to know more peeps through Rag, and hahaha lots of couples formed during this time :p

School started and i remember i used to sit on the left side of the LT for the whole of yr 1... not that i did not enjoy the company and friends sitting on that side, but i just wanted to have a more 'exciting' uni life.. so i kinda jump over to the right side of the LT :p and from there on.. got to really know what is now the PFM peeps :D:D and i indeed have a very exciting uni life since then!! with outings and meals.. project discussions.. and celebrations.. uncountable memories! so to the few PFM peeps reading this, THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF MY UNI LIFE! *hugs hugs*

not forgetting the many profs that taught us along the way.. there's a couple which i wld say are profs which i wld respect like BR, HBG, AG, LSP, PC, KHW. At least i feel i have learnt something after being taught by them :p but i guess the one prof i wld like to mention is BR. He is the only prof to teach me from yr 1-yr 4 (skipping yr 3). and though he always come up with weird and difficult questions for exam, i feel that at least his lessons are enriching and he tries to make the lessons useful and relevant for us (except IT for projects :p) And i guess being his first batch of students, he made a short mention to the yr 4s during the last intelligent lecture and i can feel he really treasure us as his students. too bad he did not webcast the lecture.. but he said that he can see some of us yr 4s have the capabilities to achieve great things in the future *touched* hopefully he wld be there at the commencement so that can take a photo with him for keepsake :)

now that school and exams have come to an end, it marks an end to my formal education.. after 16 years of studying (20 years if you count from kindergarden..) can say there's a tinge of sadness cause its time to leave the carefree life and enter into the a life with responsibilities and complicated issues to handle.. i will truly miss sitting in the LT for lessons or studying to gain new knowledge.. but i don't see myself in the near future gg to do masters.. i just don't like to do a research study :x took some photos on the last day of mugging in NUS.. but guess i wld only upload it after i'm back from Japan.. :)

For now, its time to set off to the land of the raising sun with the PFM folks!! :D:D enjoy the last true holiday before its time to start work!

civil servant~

Printing out my final report in my uni life and wld be attending my last 2 lectures in my uni life in about 5 hours time.. Mixed feelings.. Guess i wld miss the uni experience..

Wld of course miss the presence of the pfm clique together.. but i realise most of us are mainly in 2 companies.. lol.. so it shld make gatherings easier? :)

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Today (or rather yesterday) marks the day i sealed my fate... i went against what i thought fate was leading me to.. hopefully it is the right choice and i better start looking forward to being a civil servant :) *totally didn't forsee myself being one at such a young age*

but just found out something that make me a bit apprehensive again. had a gut feeling that it wld happen and it did.. just have to really prove to her i can do it!

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and i finally got back my dissertation! waited so long for it and having to wait for the email to collect it after almost everyone has done so is a torture! mixed feelings after receiving it though... comments made were ridiculous and even prof say can ignore.. need to edit a bit but for now i don't feel like touching it! :P

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this study break will be one of my busiest study break ever.. and exam dates are considered close for me.. hopefully i wld still be able to enjoy the process and study!

distractions..

i know i got projects to do, one after the other, but something is making me not do it! or rather it is distracting me! it's not shows, which i managed to control and not start on any.. but rather is storybooks! -_-'' why did i start reading percy jackson! :p gg to finish book 2 sooon.. in just one day? that's very bad.. after that hopefully i wld restrain myself from book 3-5 until i finish what i need to do!!

- it's 11.34pm.. should i just finish the 20 pages left of book 2 or start on my work first? :p -

100th post! - Happy 23rd Birthday :):)

yeah!! haha this wasn't pre-planned... i first created this blog to record down the events on my 21st birthday.. and 2 years later.. my 100th post so happen to be on my 23rd birthday celebrations!! :D

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3rd March 2010 (Wed)

Meet up with Charmaine at Vivo :)

Before that, i was at LTA for a career talk. Originally supposed to meet her at Jurong Point but then as Charmaine's interview ended earlier, she travelled down to meet me. :p

We met up at abt 3plus and it was a not here not there timing to eat.. we just walk around.. and then we came across Man Ji!! *surprise surprise*

Didn't get to eat their desserts while at HK, so tried theirs here. But char say not as nice..

We shared one of my favourite dessert (other then honeydrew sago..) 杨枝甘露!

After chatting and sitting there for a while, it was dinner time! haha.. went to eat at the Japanese Gourment Town. :) Food was good!!! will definately go back there again! *yum*

We decided to not order any thing from Ajisen since it can be found everywhere.

So we ordered the Pork Yaki-soba as shown below..

and Okonomiyaki (we ordered the one with sausage :p)

after that we continue to walk around before heading home..
thx char for the card, bag and little token for my itouch! :D:D


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5th March 2010 (Fri)

Usual day filled with lectures and project meeting.. but everyone dress up nice nice cause we wld be having our pfm gathering at night :D:D and haha also noe in advance there would be something for my birthday :p

only till fri did i noe where we were gg.. haha.. but we still stayed in school till 5pm to settle our TBP stuff.. then we headed down to bugis. Was a one hr journey from school as we took bus 33 and there was some jam along the way. but me, joel, xq, carol, tc ended up taking a short nap on the way there.. haaha.. we all too tired liao..

we headed to iluma to walk around and as there was still some time before the dinner booking, we decided to play some arcade :p played the Japanese drum game! :D (photos still with xm)
but it was fun and we had quite a number of free games :x

At 7, we headed to the Korean BBQ restaurant! yeah!! *yum yum*



Sat at the same table as carol, cheryl, lily, jiawei, xiaoqiana and tsz ching.. and we ordered lots of food to share!
other then the side dishes, got kimchi pancake, seafood soup, rice cake, beef with rice, and beef and pork to bbq!! woo~~~
lucky got 7 of us.. then can share and order so many stuff! :D:D


the rest were at another table and they had a different way of ordering, where some of them had their own main dish and shared some stuff.. actually also dunno how they shared :p

hee was busy talking about some stuff with the rest.. i think abt our Japan trip? :p

and then hf came carrying a cake from the back! *surprise!* :D

hee was given my red packet :p

talk a while more and then we headed off to claim our free acade game due to an earlier blackout!

but then before that our gp photo!! before hf and wc headed home :D

we then headed to eat desserts!! treat from our dear wei juan cos she started work liao! :D
we went to Ah Chew Desserts which was across from Bugis Junction.. apparently this place is quite famous.. but i didn't know abt it before that night :p

but the place was really crowded! and again i had to order 杨枝甘露!! (even though they had honeydrew sago too :p but 杨枝甘露 harder to find!)

and this photo below is so classic!! haha

yeah and more group photo!!

11 of us managed to squeeze round a small table that is only meant for the most 7 ppl to eat comfortably? haha but we managed to do it and be able to have a great time eating our desserts!

really great we can have our semly dinner! and thank you for the surprise and cute little girl ang pow! :D

hopefully we can have another dinner soon!! before our japan trip :D

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6th March 2010 (Sat)

Happy Birthday to me!! :D

Sat is our weekly family lunch, and since it's the time of the year when it is my mum, me, and my sis birthday (one week a part from each other), it is our yearly treat from my dad :D

Me, my parents, my sis and my brother-in-law headed to ichiban boshi at Great World City to eat! hee.. yummy!! ordered tons of food to eat! :D:D

after lunch we went walking around, and then as i was heading out of Great World to take the shuttle bus to Orchard to meet up with Jas and Jee, i caught Char by surprise! haha didn't expect to see her there!! lol.. and somemore so qiao.. cos Great World is so big and we could bump into each other in that small corridor! loll..

and we realised it was the first time we met each other on my birthday since Crescent days!

haha.. too bad never take any pictures to remember that moment..

then if was off to meet Jas and Jee for kbox buffet cum k session!

was suppose to go museum but too bad the exhibit i wanted to see got some technical difficulties :( hopefully can catch it before it comes down (which is soon!!)

walk around 313 first and undiscreetly bought my birthday cake!! :p before heading to cine..

white chocolate cheese cake!! yum!! :D:D

and thanks to Jas, i got my first ever polaroid photos! haha we took a couple so that each of us wld have one and we got it signed in case either one of us become famous in the future! wahaha!

thank you jas and jee for the k-ing session and the pressie!! :D:D

handmade card from jas! polariod attached to back of star :))

and her ang pow! loll.. with a 'itouch' attached at the back so i can have one before i own a real one :p

and jee's present!! can't wait to start doing it!! :D:D woo~ yeah thank you for the many jigsaw puzzles to come every year! :D:D

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11th March 2010 (Thurs)

Happy Birthday jie jie!! :D:D

It seems so long since i had a free day!! and it so happen to be the first day of the IT fair!! woo~~

Decided to make my way down so i can buy my itouch!! :D:D

First time gg IT fair cause usually i would just ask my dad to help me buy anything i need cos i dread being in crowded places.. but this time round for my itouch, i don't mind squeezing in the crowds :p

All ready to head down to the IT fair! (which crazily spans 5 storeys)

And.....

ITOUCH 32 GB!! :D:D

haha freebies from the IT fair.. got screen protector, power adaptor, earphone and cover for itouch

glad they gave the power adaptor! then i can charge in Japan else wld need to buy it.. :)

So now i'm patiently waiting for my itouch to charge fully for use..

and the wait is soooo longg...

but meanwhile, getting use to itune so that i can transfer my songs..

*excited excited*

my first apple product!

Thank you everyone for making this possible!!

this also marks the first time in my 23 years i was allowed to use my ang pow money! haha else i'll really be broke by now.. though my pocket still has a hole in it after today.. but no regrets! :D