C'est la vie: June 2005

A note to my ah lian friends

In those days, we used to scribble notes and cards to one another. It could be a simple pass-it-on card with just 4 lines of scribbling, or a handmade card nicely decorated and thoughtfully designed.

I remembered how natural it was to write notes. There was never a need for an occasion or a reason. You write one simply because you thought of that particular friend and you wanted to brighten up her/his day. Simple as that.

(and of course when you have the latest gossip to share and it wasn't convenient to say it out loud... hence the note passing.. heh)

Oh the joy of receiving these lovenotes sometimes accompanied with candy or homemake cookies, never fail to bring a huge grin to my face!

I miss those moments. They form the memory of my JC school days, the sweetest memories.

I remember your cookies and cards/notes and as I chance upon this website, I thought of you and you and recalled how there was never a reason to send a lovenote to a dear friend.

Hugs, you two.

Whee!

I did it!!

30 mins of French today!!

That's a good start.

Ok, time to go wash up and kick start the day ;)

A plus tard!

When old school is better..

I am very slack these days in my French study.
At this level where basic French is assumed, I am not even sure if I have that standard!

Bleh. Slacker. I should really be putting in at least 30 min of study a day.

And well all talk no action isn't really going to help me progress. Discipline, I must have.

So I borrowed this from the school library last sat. Its a learning aid on pronounciation and diction. Whilst my written French isn't all too bad, my phonetics are all terrible. I don't even sound the least French when I speak it..

So hopefully this will help me improve a bit! :)

And look.. cassette tapes instead of CDs!! (this is an old text, in the 1990s, you see)

But fret not, says my faithful player who has accompanied me to Sydney and back to Sg.

I am here to save the day!!!!!

Very good, right?! :D

Funny

Hiyo, what are the odds that you get the a Friendster message from the same guy twice, over a span of 3 months?

So apparently this guy wants to be my friend.

Well, I'm not fond of making friends online particularly guys who leave sleazy messages.

Yicks.

And for curiosity sake, how many people still have walkmans and cassette tape players these days??

:D

A new week

I am doing the 5-2 am shift for the next three weeks at work. Was doing 1-10 pm shift for the past 3 weeks.

What a luxury it was to be able to get out of bed at 12 noon today! And not having to rush and dash out of the house for work, like I always do for the earlier shift.

Ok things to do before heading to work today.

1) Write cheques for the bills
2) Have lunch
3) Do some banking errands

And to adhere to my new year resolution to save more, I am limiting my expenses to cash transactions for the next 4 weeks till pay day. That is, no using of credit cards.. afterall those are future money and it makes managing my expenses and budget a big harder when I don't actually see the cash going out. And one thing I realise about myself is I tend to go shopping less when I am using cash. It would take a lot more for me to purchase stuff if I have to use cash - somehow it just seem easier to put items on the credit cards! Funny but true.

I have a target amount of savings I wanna attain end this year so yeah, cash and nets it shall be!! :)

Matrimonial weekend

Getting married is no easy feat, I tell ya.

Fussing about the flowers and decorations, the banquet seating arrangement, the music for march in etc.. Doing the rounds at the tables for phototaking and smiling till you can feel your make up all gluely and sticky on your face..

And no if you were wondering if I could married over the weekend, I didn't lah.
Though I did attend two weddings over the weekend.

Friday night was a wedding banquet at Raffles Hotel. A friend from university. I was glad dear was invited as well and he sure was a great company! I know I would be bored stiff if I have to sit through the 3 hour dinner alone, though thereotically I had some uni mates at the same table and I shouldn't be feeling that way.. hmm..

The food was not too bad though the air conditioning didn't seem to work quite properly. It was a little too hot and stuffy for our liking, and it didn't help that we had wine glass after glass! My silly bf seemed to enjoy the wine a lot better than he did with the food. His refills were straight after another! And I think by the time I finish my one glass of wine, he already finished three glasses... :D

Sunday's wedding was a ROM reception at some exclusive and ultra expensive condo in Town. I heard per unit there cost at least 4 million. And man the visitor's carpark was one of a kind! Disregarding the fact that the carpark was bigger than most of the ones I see at the malls in Singapore, the cars parked there were woah and wow! (for lack of better words). As we drove into the carpark looking for a lot, we saw a galore of sports cars, and even spotted two red ferraris parking side by side. Mercedes and BMWs felt like some second-grade cards next to all those flashy ones, I tell ya. Some of those cars parked there cost a great deal more than the apartments an average Singaporean live in.. We made our way to the clubhouse and spotted many angmohs and figured these are probably the expat families.

(eeks I digress)

Ah yes the ROM reception. It was a simple solemnization affair with the Justice of Peace. The whole thing took less than 15 minutes followed by photo taking and lunch buffet. The newlyweds were dear's friends so it was a lovely time for him to catch up with his friends.

Number of weddings attended : 2
Number of times I was asked when my turn was : 3
Number of times he was asked when his turn was : 2
Number of times we whispered I love you-s : countless

I am feeling happy albeit really tired. Good night!

If

If only the brightness of my new hair colour could brighten me up now, how wonderful that would be...

I am damn freaking tired and spent.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Shazza no more.

Sunset

I managed to accomplish all on my do-list today except for item no 3.

Well, I spent a good 3.5 hours at the hair salon and my butt felt all sore after that! By the time I walked out, I only had time left to go fix my sunnies before I had to rush to dinner.

So after my last colour, I decided that it was high time to touch-up on the roots. As usual, I am clueless about what colours I want so I left it to my hair stylist to decided.

And look at my new hair colour!
(do not be deceived, its a lot brighter than what you see here)

The second picture is how it looks like under the sun/ lights. Erm, a bit orangey-red right?

Anyway, the hair colour has a lovely name which I adores. Its called Sunset.

The most memorable sunset has to be the one I encountered when I was in Tasmania in 2000. As we drove past the countrysides in the late afternoon, the view of the setting sun was just breathtaking... it was as though the sun was waving its farewell to the world after a day of basking in glory. As the sun bidded its goodbye, the sky showed its sorrow as it grows darker with gloom.

Its been a long time since I last sat down quietly at Sunset, taking in all its warming glory. Though sunrise marks the start of a new hope, sunset does not necessarily denotes the end. To me, it represents the beginning of nightfall in its very special version of stillness and tranquility as the moon takes over the shift from the sun.

If I could choose how I would like to be proposed to (if it ever happens), I would like it to be at sunset by the beach...

Its so very romantic, methinks :)

On leave

Too many days to clear so I took one day leave today. Plan this leave last week but I guess it comes in real handy! I desperately need a cheer-me-up day..

Plans for today

1) Pay a visit to the hair salon
2) Go fix up my sunnies
3) Chill out at some cafe with my Foxtrot comic book (it never fails to cheer me up)
4) Meet up with some friends for dinner

Its now 1pm and I better go get some lunch and start my day rolling!

Chill Sharon Chill, and SMILE :)

Am tired.

To be emotionally stronger - that's one of my 2005 resolutions.

But this weekend was one of blues.

My spirit was down and my soul was weary. My heart felt weighed down and my face saw no smiles.

Well, nothing upsetting happened, really.

But this is bothering me heaps and I hate to feel like that.

:(

And the stupidest dumbass thing is? That is not even a reality or confirmed yet.

So cute ;)

A recent pic

This was taken last Friday in the office.

Point of this picture is to show you how long my hair is now!! :D

Je t'adore beaucoup

Happy 6 mth anniversary my love

No it doesn't take flowers or any gifts to bring a huge grin to my face.

All it takes is that e-greeting card you sent me. Its very sincere and sweet.

Reading that brings a tear to my eye and my heart felt all fuzzy and nice.

I love you and you are right here in my heart.

Thanksgiving

I have a bad back, minor scoliosis with stiff back muscles. And I am so not flexible.

At 20, I started chiropractic session when I was living in Sydney. 2 years of that did my back some good and I was more flexible then. All chiropractic adjustments stopped when I returned home 3 years ago.

Some months back, I started visiting this Chiropractor in Singapore. She's an American lady who is residing in Singapore with her husband. And she's darn funny! Always nagging at me to exercise and calling me a young lady with an old woman's back!

These chiropractic sessions aren't exactly very cheap. Its a good $75 per 30 min session. After examining my back, she wanted me to see her at least once a week for treatment.

$75 x 4 = $300!

Thank God I have company insurance where I can claim my medical bills but that's capped at $1250 a year. And honestly, if I had to fork out $300 a month out of my own pocket, I wouldn't be able to afford it.

So I tried to ask her if I could only come see her once a month.

She said no.

But guess what?

She very graciously offer to treat me at $10 per session! I couldn't quite believe my ears when I learnt of that offer. She certainly didn't have to do it for me and I wouldn't have asked that of her..

She nicely explained that she didn't want me to stop seeing her weekly just because I was worried about the money because my condition really requires constant treatment. And though there is no chronic pain at this point in time, it could develop into something worse if i left it alone.

I thought about it and decided that $10 per session was really too little and I didn't want to take advantage of her kindess. And since I still have some allowance left for medical claims, I requested she charged me more.

So we compromised and she'll charge me $25 per session and I'll see her every week for treatment.

I am so blessed and may God bless this kind hearted lady!

LDR

Long Distance Relationship

Love it? Hate it? Embrace it?

(Something that's going through my head now, and I shall gather those thoughts before I write about it)

On another hand, I'm happy its Friday!!! :)

High or low, the men don't get it

Well that last comment was thought provoking, at least for me.

Isn't it funny and absurd how guys tend to generalise girls as either being high or low-maintenance?

For argument's sake, I'm refering to the materialism sense in this entry.

When deciding if the girl is gf-potential, the universal question I hear these days are "Is this girl high maintenance, expensive to upkeep?"

Right. Duh. Duhhhhh.

As a new-age career woman, I totally embrace that women should be independent and self-sufficient. Gone are the days where we would need to depend on the male fellas to satisfy our material wants and needs.

Like that new swanky bag or gadget? We can well afford it ourselves! Fancy a new wardrobe, what's stopping us from getting it if its within our budget? Maybe its my circle of friends (and I'm not saying they are all ridiculously rich) but I don't see any girl-friend of mine having to scrimp and save just to buy something off the shops.

Yes, I can easily afford to get the latest gadget on my want-list, but isn't it nice and sweet if you got it as a gift from that special someone?

Does that make me materialistic, and i.e high maintenance, and bad?!

My ex bf was happier spending his money on his alcohol and car, then even paying for my meals when we dine out. We always went dutch even though he was working and I was a struggling student. He always told me he loved me for being low-maintenance and that I have never asked him to buy me anything.

I do not hanker for luxury items, I am seriously fine with not eating at fanciful restaurants and I do lead a fairly simple and inexpensive lifestyle (ok minus my french and golf lessons).

So, what if one fine day I decides to switch to the dark side and turn ultra-high maintenance?

Does that make me a bad-gf material?

Pfftt. Don't know lah. Maybe its my low-maintenance vibes that attract the guys.
Is that my redeeming factor or what?!

Bleh.

On a totally irrelavant side-tracked note, I had the weirdest dream yesterday consisting of both Star Wars and Harry Potter. I dreamt that Harry was a Jedi knight and he was flying on his broomstick and armed with a light sabre!!

Wahaaha! :D

Girlfriends

High maintenance vs Low Maintenance

What do guys think?

C'est vendredi et Je suis dans l'amour

We had our departmental birthday celebration today. Jolly good food and fun! :)

They got this ice cream uncle to station outside our office - you know the kind that you see with a bicycle with an attached box-cart type? There are quite a few of them in Orchard.

It was good old fashioned ice cream! The mini scoops of ice cream in a cup/cone/bread or the huge icy chulk of ice-cream block wedged between two rectangular waffles biscuits. Yums Yums! Reminds me of my primary school days, where I used to queue regularly for them! Ah those carefree days...

It was totally delicious and it was real nice to see the uncle smiling from ear to ear when he left us. $90 worth of ice cream sold in 1 hour, we were pretty sure he was calling it a day after leaving! (The ice-cream were like $1 each and we had 70+ at the party today, some obviously had second/third helpings!)

After the birthday party, it was back to the work war zone. It was a hectic day at work today. Many emails to reply, many documents to review, and my boss decided that she wanted me to sit in for a conference call today.

It was my first ever conference call.

The call involve folks from the London, US and Latin Americas regions. We are at phase 1 of a new project that my boss is initiating, and my boss wanted me to take the call on her behalf.

It was quite an experience. Imagine being in a phone conversation with 8 people at the same time. The call took like 45 mins and it was tiring just holding the phone (wish I had speaker's phone, then again it wouldn't be too feasible as the contents of the call are not ready to be broadcast as yet)

And I had questions directed at me which I obviously needed to answer... Its strange but I felt myself being a little nervous. And no, its not because I am speaking to ang-mohs and I was worried about not sounding coherent. Afterall I do converse with the Euro folks everyday! Hmm.. I guess I was caught off-guard as I took the call thinking that I could just be a listener/ silent audience, and not be expected to speak up! :D

Post-call work? I have to report back to my boss on Monday. And methinks there would be follow-up conference calls and meetings. Well, I'll find out if she wants me to play a more active role in this project.

J'espère si

quelqu'un m'a dit je suis jolie!

Something funny happened today.

I alighted from the bus and was strolling towards the workplace when I was stopped by a lady. She needed directions to go to Suntec. Since I was somewhat heading towards that way, I told her she could follow me till midway and I'll point her to the right direction then.

And then, all of a sudden, she said to me "You are very pretty, and your complexion is very nice... "

HUH?!

Wahahah, I didn't know whether to burst out laughing or what. Good thing I checked myself in time and said a polite thank you.

Is that a compliment or what? :)

Oooh, and here's the real funny and ironic bit.

I have pimples/ whiteheads popping out on my face, last I looked into the mirror while removing my makeup.

Bleh.

Not so pink in health

My body is protesting. I haven't been feeling tops in the health department, as of late.

My abdominal has been playing up recently, the pain lingers on and I can't seem to contain my food. I would dash for the toilet each time I eat something. All the diarrhoea was making me so dehydrated and lerthagic, not to mention a severe loss in appetite.

Finally dragged myself to the doctor yesterday. And Dr thinks that I am sufffering from gastric. So she puts me on Buscopan and Famotidine, for colic pain and gastrics.

And for once in a long long time, I actually heed the Dr's advice and take those pills.. The pain was just too unbearable!

Let's see how this turn out. If the pain persists on till next week, she's going to put me on antibiotics as it may likely be a case of viral infection in the stomach.

Sigh.

C'est la vie

Thursday, June 30, 2005

A note to my ah lian friends

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Whee!

When old school is better..

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Funny

Monday, June 27, 2005

A new week

Matrimonial weekend

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

If

Monday, June 20, 2005

Sunset

On leave

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Am tired.

Friday, June 17, 2005

So cute ;)

Thursday, June 16, 2005

A recent pic

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Je t'adore beaucoup

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Thanksgiving

Friday, June 10, 2005

LDR

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

High or low, the men don't get it

Sunday, June 05, 2005

Girlfriends

Saturday, June 04, 2005

C'est vendredi et Je suis dans l'amour

Friday, June 03, 2005

quelqu'un m'a dit je suis jolie!

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Not so pink in health

Snap Snap

2007 resolutions

French

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