千六百四十一： The Bucket List

The Bucket List

As usual, the scathing sarcasm in Jack Nicholson's movie never fails to cheer me up. :D We will be losing a really good actor when he passes on. The movie was heartwarming, very funny, but also sad at the same time. I kept worrying when either of them was going to pass away in the show, due to their illness. I was reading N's blog about his grandma's passing on last week and I was almost in tears at the end of it. I guess most of us just take the elderly in our family for granted and we grimace at their nagging and their odd habits. But it's too late to show them we love them only after they leave us and it's often too late we realise that we won't have them back in our lives forever. :( must learn to treasure pple in our lives more, you never know when they will leave you for good.

On a lighter note, a new Singaporean seafood restaurant has set up shop in Kanagawa, near Tokyo. it's called Singapore Seafood Republic - http://www.wonderland.to/pc/ssr/index.html and the prices are crazily expensive by SIngapore standards. But I guess pretty ok pricing by Tokyo standards. But why the word republic in the name again? to remind people that we are Republic of SG? hmm..

I was watching a tv program that was comparing living standards in Japan with other countries and apparently, cost of living in Japan is 54 times that of Vietnam. (o.O)

There is a 20% off on all tops at River Island at vivocity by the way. got myself a blouse (not very cheap after discount still but it was sooo nice) and was at zara and found myself a top that doubled as a dress. that was cheaper than the River Island top actually. hmm. ok, some retail therapy (didn't buy any clothes since January when I bought the dress for the office new year party & only the 2 pairs of shoes during the John Little with my voucher) did make me happier today. :D so the next time i shop for clothing should be in Tokyo. Must 忍!

another 26 more days to taking off and seeing Ryo. Time passes alot more slowly when u're counting down time.

千六百四十: 老北京

Farewell dinner at 老北京 at PS. for Ayako...

dunno why tears came to my mind when they were ending the dinner with alot of reminiscing talk. I have only known her for this 1 year plus, but then I guess her eccentric ways have gotten to me and I think i will miss having her around. so many pple have left since I joined. maybe i'm just feeling moody, but feel super sad about it.

life feels like a farce nowadays, I dun really know what I'm doing and why. all becos of this b**tard who came along and made things alot more confusing and added on to my troubles. I am tired of trying to just brush it under the rug, and I will be having a mental breakdown soon. i should stop wearing non-waterproof mascara at work in case i burst into tears for no reason. which is something I feel i might do.

a month more to Apr 26 evening, which feels like 10 years away.

march must be the longest month of the year. & I realised that I overspend every March. why is that so, I haven't a clue. even after payday on friday, there is still 31st tomorrow?? its like come on, just end this month already!! its been hellish, and its been nearly a month since everything went downhill. what happened to my getting used to the alone-ness feelings?!

千六百三十九： Holiday Plans

Yay!　Spoke with Ryo and we decided to stay in Hyatt Regency for a weekend. I'll ask L to help me book a room on Monday. hee:D

Went for french today and I realised that I really can't be lazy. My mind was totally blank when he spoke to me and I just couldn't answer, even simple numbers. wanted to say dix-cinq for 15 when the actual word was quinze, and luckily the other girl said it first and Christophe (our teacher) made a joke out of it. and i was picked as victim for the conversation, but the guy kept asking questions from what they learnt last week, and I was like Uh OH... totally didn't understand him. and the conversation dragged on for quite a bit. -.- must start revising and forward reading tomorrow.

Shoko-san's farewell dinner at Himawari restaurant in the evening. alot of people I didn't know came to the dinner, mostly her own friends, while I went with A-san and Y-san. Throughout dinner, they were giving me advice on how to find job in Japan, and I really appreciate it. One of the girls from the fashion show had just joined Tempstaff and also asked her to assist in getting jobs. :D must start doing some search on the open positions myself.

Shoko-san tried to see what I was in my past life. She said I was this Japanese samurai guard, a boy, with a big white dog standing guard with me. Interesting.

Accidentally caught the re-telecast of 「トリハダ〜夜更かしのあなたにゾクッとする話」 on fujitv. Scary!!! but I dun really understand. cos all the stories didn't show their ending. as in the ending is just the victims screaming or something. so what really happened to them? and how did the stalker/watever or whoever that was sending them the weird messages get into their rooms?? hmmmm. and i didn't realise my sisters all went to sleep liao. only me awake!! eeeks

千六百三十八： Sim City 2 DS

got the game into my DS today, hooked onto it almost immediately. maybe it's just me, but the game is quite time consuming.

bad day today.

sleepy and just felt like everything went against me.

the only person I really wanted to be out with was the only person i was avoiding as well.

fck everything.

was contemplating quitting.

to change the environment so that i don't need to feel this shit everyday.

can I use the sexual harrassment card? because, by right, its true. why should I be the one to suffer when I was the victim? it would cost people their jobs, but do I really care? or should I say, why should I care? why should I quit when I can force the person to leave instead?

千六百三十七： APRIL Please!!

This morning I got the idea to just spend a weekend at a nice hotel in Osaka with Ryo when I'm there. We always stay at the weekly mansions, which is a big ease on the pocket, and very cozy, but sometimes, space is necessary. 2 pple in a tight space all the time, the tension is bound to get higher and higher. and then, the bed is the only wide space for sitting around, so u end up doing everything on the bed (using pc, watching tv, playing game, sleeping, relaxing, eating snacks .... ) and the bed becomes really kind of dirty after a while. Back to the nice hotel idea, checked the websites of Hyatt (to accumulate more points on my Hyatt membership) and the prices were abit steep. (3d2N for 64000yen was the cheapest package; that's about S$890!) then decided to ask L, our admin person in the team to check corporate rates to see if I could get something in the same hotel at a much better rate. Luckily, I asked, she enquired with our travel desk and got back with very good prices that's about half the prices I mentioned. hee hee! now all i gotta do is discuss with Ryo to pick the hotel he wants (L got me a few good ones, really owe her a favour after this) and then can ask her to book le. yay!

But it's still a long wait till I can see him, more than a month away. only thing to look forward to is payday tomorrow, for some short term gratification.

I think I should stop thinking things are better. He seemed kinda mean today. I should just stop thinking about this incident anymore even. I wish he was just not in the office more. I may miss having him around when he's not around, at least I dun feel shitty or in that awkward state of not knowing whether things are back to normal. and its alot easier to get over the person w/o having his presence around most of day. How to try to forget/ignore someone who is around all the time?! 陰魂不散。 argh.

why isn't it end of april yet???

千六百三十六： 上々

I haven't been able to breathe these 2 - 3 weeks at work, things have been so crazy. Finally a little bit of chance to breathe today, at least no one tried to bully me today and I had bit of time to relax and do my own stuff. & to tell the truth, I just felt so sick of UAT suddenly, having a headache and a cough all in the same day. so was glad for abit of chance to clear my head and think about how to proceed more systematically with UAT and showing the results clearer and proceeding faster and covering more scenarios as well. have to map out the excel sheet before I start doing testing tomorrow.

feeling lighter today, less of the horrible awkward feelings that have been making me dread work for the past month. today walked together and had a silly casual chat almost like what it was before.

the intense attempt to lose abit of the excess weight above 45KG for the past month seems to be working, partly due to illness I guess, at least 1.5 kg is gone. another maybe 1.5kg to go I think, but probably all the work stress will take the weight off soon by end of next month. actually, speaking of work stress, the stress isn't from the work i get or do (i actually draw energy from them) but rather, the stress is coming from all the people-handling in the office. all the crazy things other people due to you, it's alot alot more stress inducing than the PC.

so tempted to buy up all the magazines in kinokuniya this month. there were at least 5 with my idol on the cover, cos of his new drama coming out soon. so delicious looking despite his age. yummy!!

droools

have just been informed of an 8am meeting tomorrow. have to sleep now i guess. おやすみ☆

千六百三十五： ぷよぷよ

Finally it was games night tonight. Fever and headache from yesterday was much better this morning, didn't wake up with my head throbbing at least. was talking about ぷよぷよ (puyopuyo） at lunch and we decided to have a competition in the evening after work. All in good fun, cos I definitely wasn't going to win at this. hehe. too lazy to think about creating chains. but strangely, after an evening of playing, I got slightly better, and managed to win 1 game against Shinji. :D it was totally unexpected and I felt very happy after that.

Unexpected stretch of time with just the 2 of us today. I didn't realise how much I had missed our chats, since we haven't had anytime to the 2 of us for me to have any heart to heart talk or just confide in or even just complain or ask for advice since after the incident. and of course, once I started talking, it was like a flood, so many things came to my mind that I wanted to tell him about. Of course, after that, felt considerably lighter inside, and even though things might never be the same as before, it was nearer towards the way they were now. I don't feel so angry now, (maybe cos I'm sick) but I do feel less of the barrier and of me wanting to be sarcastic to hurt him or something. sighz.

& got mad at the way I was talked down to today. (I won a really cute toy at the Earth Hour Brownbag session today but thats besides the point). I dunno wats wrong with every one nowadays, is it the weather? why do they push me for stuff they dunno much about, when they think they noe the urgency when I actually know i know better and I know what i'm doing which is why I chose to work later the day before to give me more time to play with today? I control my own working time and style and I hate it when people try to control that for me. Do I give you much trouble usually? sighz. these human matters give me more stress than if my work was piled up like mountains.

almost 3 years anniversary soon. how time flies.

千六百三十四： Bonus!

At the beginning of this month, I had sent back some insurance policy within the 14-day free look period I had signed up for over the phone, and as there had been no word from them since, I had thought that they were probably going to drag the refunding process. But, received a pleasant surprise last evening at the mailbox. They had sent me a cheque refund of the premium paid, and now I have an extra $300+ I had written off as an expenditure. :D but gotta put that in the HSBC account for the annual premium instead.. i'm still 1k short to meet the $3k payment in September. argh. 

reminder to myself -> to put aside money for lasik and ryo's present as well

very bad stomachache yesterday so skipped French class and took a rest at home. Could be due to the overdose of otah I ate in the office for lunch (I ate like 10 otahs?!) and snack as there was an abundance of them cos the Japanese pple in the office don't really like spicy stuff. paid for it yesterday though.. :( 

just started using Apple Safari on my laptop as my default browser (dlded it with the latest itunes upgrade) and its pretty cool. firefox is actually more userfriendly (more intuitive) like the bookmarks option for example, but took me sometime to figure out why i couldn't import my firefox bookmarks into the safari bookmark menu. confusing!! trying to get used to it now, hope it gets better?

had a weird dream that I was sunbathing and then went into a male toilet w/o realising it until 2 guys walked in while I was using the loo. totally embarrassing. and what a strange dream.

千六百三十三： Coin Glass

mosaic session yesterday, made this to put coins / tiny stuff in. ;)

marbled tiles

piles of work this week, no time to even go to the loo, as compared to being able to blog from work last week.

photo of eating with maya/peiling and other of the long time no see Japan group at Szechuan court in Raffles City.

Peiling, me and Maya

mind is kinda blank now.. had nasi lemak for lunch today, paid for my ana tickets yesterday, printed my sister's stuff today.

went to watch Step Up 2 on tues with WH, after that we went for drink at peppermint park, st james, had abit of a chat. i dunno what he wanted, i didnt wan to guess at it, and he sent me back all the way home after drinks. and they always come back being nicer when u turn around and be the one to start ignoring them.

Wednesday was a mad rush at work, cos had to go simlim with H to get the ext hard disk and then G said I might have to go back to work at 9.30pm for the short window they were going to open up the system for me to insert those urgent companies so that they could be billed in time. In the afternoon, i got so mad at some of the rest cos they said something about me shouldn't be going for lunch if i'm busy. wtf?! maybe cos of the work stress and plus not being able to enjoy my lunch, i stayed mad until evening. anyway, reached simlim at about 7pm, so walked around simlim for a bit (microsd at $49 just to remember next time), got my harddisk, and then finally the rest came and we went to 7th storey cos they wanted to eat steamboat (cheaper there than the 天天火鍋). Anyway, dinner was ok, wasn't mad after that le.

very tired at having worked since 7.30am this morning (until 7pm?).

千六百三十二： １６０GB

yay! I got myself a 160GB external portable 2.5" hard disk drive finally. at $139 its pretty reasonable, and I'm in the process of transferring all the media stuff from my laptop to it. (laptop has only 600MB free space left.....)

I'm transferring my photos and it suddenly struck me, what if the hard disk spoils, since i never back up the hard disk. my photos how?! then i thought, hmm no end to it, since i uploaded everything on flickr already anyway, should be fine, after all thats wat i'm subscribing to flickr for anyway. so .. nvm, just carry on. if only i hadn't deleted 2 episodes of my 魔女ユーヒーdrama 2 days ago to create some space. (T.T)

today is Spring Equinox day, (a public holiday) and got to run a few errands. mainly payment for the air tix, maybe going to the bank, maybe mosaic class? then dinner with the excapcom pple.

千六百三十一： Recipes

30-minute cookbook

feeling less burdened today than last week, in general but not as good as the 2nd half of last week. lunch was quite an awkward affair, I was still feeling some of the weirdness, dunno whether to talk more or not, to be friendly or not, can be friendly or not, want to be friendly or not, in case everything is misinterpreted and I dun wan to show I'm too happy either because I'm really not and I dun want to force myself to act like nothing's wrong as well. it's so complicated.

But I realised I cannot be alone with him because it was awkward (for me) to act all normal and try to joke and behave like things were before (which will never be again) and I was today feeling safe in the corner of the cafe, pouring myself a cup of tea when he suddenly was next to me. Startled me so much I nearly jumped but didn't, cos I had turned my head to see what the commotion was, in the kitchen area where some metalware had been dropped, and I turned my head back to see his face almost in mine. -.- that would have startled anyone actually. he was stretching over my arm to get a foam cup and I was very uncomfortable at him being so near. had to make small talk (to pretend normalcy) and I didn't noe wat to say because there was nothing I wanted to say really. sighz.

anyway, was looking up recipes because vegetarian food for lunch everyday is becoming boring. looked through my Japanese cookbooks as well and realised that its really hard to find something that I can prepare w/o waking up super early for -> I had to wake up at 6am to make the onigiris, which is something i definitely can't do every week. haha. & then, the food had to be able to last the whole morning until lunch and dun need a whole lot of separate containers for (like soup and rice?) which was super troublesome. saw a pasta with salmon dish that could be good. will try it out in the weekend maybe.

tired out with all the "excitement" in the office today. Step Up 2 tml!!

oh I called citibk to try to cancel my card. even though i used it at most 3 times in the past year, they waived my annual fee and got me to stay. they said the points could be used to transfer into miles. at 3200 points -> 6400 miles, its like much better than using my Premier miles card directly? since i get 5 points for $1 spent.. hmm. will try that one out if i have 3200 points.

千六百三十： 計画

3 months have almost gone by in 2008.

So many things have happened.

Some things I need to do within the week:

• cancel the citi platinum card - have only used it like 2x in 11 months
• buy kaya for a Japanese ex-colleague
• get / read the Leap Years book
• finish up the 2008 Fengshui for Dogs book at Popular
  
• print out my sister's stuff
• pay sis's hp bill and the house phone bill (because I chalked up 98% of the bill with calls to Japan)
• check out / purchase some stuff in USD (in view of such a low exchange rate, cannot let this opportunity go)
• check mphosis dress
• go ANA to pay for airpass on Thursday
  

wow. very packed week.

千六百二十九： 恋空

Last night we went to Food Republic at Vivocity for A's farewell dinner but in the end she couldn't make it, due to sudden work issues which cropped up. Our team went ahead and had dinner, then drinks at the outdoor lounge of St James, and it was pretty good atmosphere there. they had swing seats but the cushions on the couches were abit irritating, as they kept sliding off. & I guess I was too tired from the work week, 1 draft beer was enough to make me feel drowsy and abit tipsy. After that, I took H & M to Fong Seng for roti prata. they were very happy to try the banana prata and the seafood prata and introduced them to dinosaurs. they were very happy :)

the guys at St James


H trying out his first bandung Dinosaur

YH lent me his Anna Sui Lomo camera today. Supersampler I think? and his fisheye device for the digital camera. very cool! sample of the fisheye shot:

the supersampler in a bubble

Went for dinner to celebrate W's birthday at MOF at Bugis, its pretty good, and then we went to cineleisure to watch 恋空 (Sky of Love).

恋空

the movie was such a touching movie that I was crying buckets.. I realise movies with teenage love and illness will almost always make me cry. (referring to A walk to remember by Nicholas Spark which made me cry even after 3 times of watching it) but its really those super heart wrenching story in between and u just wan to cry along with the actors ... :( glad i watched it, haven't watched such a emotional movie in a while.

reached home nearly 2am, due to missing the last bus and making a stupid mistake of taking the last train until woodlands then taking cab. so tired.. so nitez!

千六百二十八： Earth Hour 2008

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Commit to switch off your lights for an hour on 29 March, 8.00-9.00pm.

千六百二十七： Fengshui

today....

is thursday?

Losing track of days.

was reading the Fengshui book for 2008 of Dog year people and i was surprised to see how accurate it was in term of dates and predictions. Maybe I should have read it earlier. But at least i managed to read the predictions or description for the next month before i had to leave. Next month will be a prickly month for love. :s

ham-ham says "rawr!"

very sleepy now, but mom just keeps on nagging and nagging. most irritating thing of the evening, my dad went to leave a bite sized piece of fish on the plate and then left the whole plate there saying he wasnt the last person to eat finish the fish. HUH?? in that case next time i wont even touch the dishes, just finsh rice and then wash up my stuff???

千六百二十六； The Blues

Today was ok.

Didn"t have to face the distractions at work and feel all the hurt and anger so was able to do my own stuff and research w/o thinking too much.

I wan to sleep earlier tonight.

bearbrick says hi

Oh, but there is 1 good thing though. ERS bonus of $1137 to be credited into my bank account soon :D

千六百二十五： Fatigue

Tired of being angry, I want to not be angry, so I'm not just this lethargic person who stones into thin air to not show any feelings or to not feel any feelings.

Things are more back to normal today.

I want to confirm tmr's appt but no chance to.

feeling weak ... 8am days are so tiring.

was going to say something but I forgot.

oh. i remember now, my ticket to tokyo has been issued and also confirmed the domestic tickets to osaka. half happy but since not wanting to feel anything and that i emailed ryo happily but he didnt reply, i decided to just not feel anything also. no one to share the joy with anyway.

G talked to me today and i feel slightly better. although not at the new piece of old gossip i heard. as it just sent my mind into all sorts of redundant imagery that my overactive mind will just harp on it and imagine all sorts of things that happened, but rather, at the source of comfort and consolation she has been. i wonder if the gossip is true. but so wat, so what!! i have to force myself to think that. if not, i'll go back to having nightmares, go back to thinking all sorts of things, and i cannot escape those feelings of dread and paranoia and insecurity even in my sleep and dreams. Everyone keeps asking me if i have 100% trust in things on the other side. I say I dont want to know and i dun need to know. Knowing more hurts only yourself. because you have to live with the knowledge of betrayal and suffer the aftereffects while the guilty party might feel or might not feel guilty and just continues to live his life w/o consideration of hurting you or not.

i just want to hv someone around me for awhile. or be totally alone for a while. the emotional fatigue is really draining me.

trying to get some good macro shots of anything. this is not too bad i guess.

my workdesk.

I should change my next term's french classes to AM. having my time taken up all Saturday afternoon isn't working out very well which reminds me of the reason I stopped Japanese classes in the first place.

千六百二十四： Pepper Lunch

Met xh at IMM today for dinner. first time eating at pepper lunch.. food was so-so, they put too much corn in my rice. bleah.

felt alot better and clearer after talking to her, that:s wat best frens are for right?? happy for her that she's having her second one, maybe now i'll be godma of a little boy? :D my sis was saying i just need to be godma to all her kids and dun need to have any myself.. but at the rate my relationship is going, i probably no need to have any of my own liao (will be too old to have any by the time i ever get married...)

She's right, i should stop putting myself at risk of being hurt by people, and I should be more head rather than heart. If we had more privacy this evening, instead of being in a fast food restaurant, I would probably have just sobbed and bawled into her shoulders instead of just having a heart to heart talk having been so unhappy since last week. its really alot of emotional fatigue, with pple coming and leaving, including Ryo (u anticipate so much for their coming that its really hard to let them go so soon)

hope I have a better day at work tmr. today's onigiris were met with warm response, but that the rice grains were abit hard, in spite of which the onigiris tasted good. I'll try to make somemore next week.

8am workweek all week. good night.

千六百二十三： Ta-dum!

okie me in short hair.. kinda embarrassing so I'm just putting a small photo :

comments so far, i look more 大人っぽい　(looks more like an adult.. means.. old liao???!) , suits me, very nice, very cute.. etc .

hmmmmmmmm

first comment from my mom was "WAH SO UGLY!!!" ........ which really pissed me off. haha

bad day at work. stupid issues. feeling quite depressed these days, dunno why, just want to not work for a while. Maybe cos i havent taken any leave since jan? I want to be with Ryo in JP!!!!

千六百二十二： またお握り

made onigiri again this morning, to practise and to try out if the tuna fits the onigiri.

thousand island tuna onigiri

it turned out pretty good, my family members were the guinea pigs but think i have to add abit more water to make it a little more sticky :P

have to bring to office tomorrow, need to get ready some of the ingredients tonight. can save some money from now on. :D

千六百二十一： Drastic changes

I've finally done it.

Hair I've not let grow shorter than shoulder length since JC, I've finally cut it above shoulder length once and for all. It was longer than mid-back, and about 2 inches below my boobs this morning. I feel quite naked somehow, without the hair to hide behind, or to have something to fidget with my fingers when I dunno where to put my hands.　on a lighter side, this should reduce my appeal level regarding unwanted attention. :s should have less temptation and bad people trying to hook on to me after this (because... i hv short hair now... (T.T))

I guess I do feel lighter somehow.

went to the weighing machine after the haircut and I had lost 1 kg after the haircut. :D

things were almost back to normal on the bus today. Maybe its better that things stay this way, rather than me unable to get rid of the hate in me. some small part of me is hoping for a change of mind someday.

hoping for something to happen is something i'm getting good at doing..

as xq described aptly, some part of us already feel dead inside.

I should rest alot more this weekend.

千六百二十： お握り

Waiting for K to finish his mandarin lessons b4 he can have dinner with me.

Update on the Onigiri we made at S's place -

amateur お握りs

The ones on the left made by S, the ones on the right made by me. (can see who got abit more of aesthetic sense right?) despite the shape, the taste pretty good, we added some fishy stuff that was like salmon or something in the onigiris and this became our lunch.

sighz. this seems to be the only way i'm breathing nowadays. by ため息。

thinking of cutting my hair until a shocking length in a few days. apparently my face is 卵 (egg) shaped in Japanese. hmm. i think the thing about cutting hair when girls have had a big shock or some major problem or depressing event is true. sighz. just want to do some change to make myself feel alot better.

i was wondering, did anyone ever die of a broken heart before?

千六百十九： Gone

spent an evening with Ryo when he came last nite for a day of meeting investors today. He was staying in Mandarin Oriental Hotel and i must say, the room was wonderful. Except for some glitches - hairdryer not working ( very crucial in the early morning panic, pts down) and the tv had no sound due to the connection being loose on their very complicated machine set up to the theatre system in the room. They were paying corporate rates, so it was about $300 for their 1 night stay.

We had dinner together (Ryo & my family), just some simple zichar, and my sisters were trying to make simple conversation (in mix of watever japanese they know + English) and Ryo just kept deferring to me which was very funny.

after dinner, parents drove us back to the hotel, and it was already 10plus by then.. took some pictures of the room b4 we messed it up. No pictures of the view outside, we were facing the suntec convention centre and all we could see was some sort of tennis court. very boring.

the very comfortable bed


the 32" or bigger tv and workspace


2 tired people

almost didn't wake up in time for work, then took a cab there. bad day at work, bad news first thing in the morning causing me to feel like shit the rest of the day. I hope the participants in the bad news rot in hell. but i'm strong, will get over this shit, sleep over it tonight and put up stronger defences around myself next time.

tonight Ryo managed to arrange for me to join in dinner with him and my ex-boss from capcom and the credit suisse guy who arranged this trip. We had dinner at Palm Beach Seafood at One Fullerton, it was not bad. service quite prompt as well. the best thing of the night was the kong ba bao, no pics unfortunately cos i was with businessmen and not frens, dun wan to look silly taking pics of every dish... and the chicken wafer (something like peking duck but in chicken) was pretty good. They loved the teochew yam paste dessert, which was quite surprising to me, cos i always found it too sweet. (abit strange since I'm teochew). had a mug of beer and dinner ended at about 8pm as they had to catch a flight to dubai at 10pm.. so thats it, Ryo is gone again.

sighz.

will only see him in May.

and the 2 months of anticipating his 1 nite business trip is over just like that.

sighz.

千六百十八： Confusion

something to let me think about again.

I think he is serious.

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Update (2008/3/5):
he turned out to be another one of the jerks as well

千六百十七： 新年会２００８

Animal themed office party at Giraffe on Thursday evening. it was pretty good fun (& i won cutest animal award!)

I was dressed as a cat with ears and tail but unfortunately I can't find a pic that properly shows the tail so some of the pics, you can see me carrying a little black furry stub which is actually the tail. hee..

浅井さん in a swan costume & me


the cat bullying the mouse


rabbit and cat

& won alot of mini prizes from the game of guess the staff in the photo (photos had been photoshopped into unrecognizable shadows).

a great week, the PMs were here from JP so it was time to catch up with them after a long half year of absence from APOC. we went drinking after the party at Novus, at the National Museum, and they treated us to half the drinks.

Pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexxis/sets/72157604006270213/

Quite a productive work week with the PMs here, got them to clear up a lot foggy areas for the projects and vice versa. can't wait for them to come back to APOC asap.

Last week, found out many secrets as well. abit shocked...

Next week Ryo will be here (for a day) for work. really looking for it, haven't seen him since New Year..