千七百二十六： ２６歳

Happy birthday to me！♪

26 years old today, suddenly I've leaped to the late 20s category. OMG!!!!

Thank you to all who sent me birthday wishes / gave me birthday treats.
- Hawx for treating me lunch at Shokudo Raffles City
- Local girls from MS - Thank you for dinner at Tonkichi Suntec & the Nike gym bag I've been hankering after since I saw it in Phuket
- Edwin for his Soba dinner & movie treat & agnes b skinny which will come in very useful for lunch
- Julius for treating me ice cream & accompanying me to shop for formal evening wear
- Akane & James & Calvin & my sis for their facebook messages
- Ayako for sending me a mixi message
- smses from Anthony & my cousin & Xinhuan
- msn msgs from QY
- Ryo for emailing me & calling me at about 12 midnight last night :D

very stupid of me to keep forgetting to take pictures with everyone this year..

so only took pictures of the presents -

the Nike Vintage print bag

agnes b skinny 

& angbao from my parents :D

ok I better go shower & get ready to watch the F1 races!
I think I'm supporting Raikkonen - very handsome haha, but don't think he will win..

& forgot to put my resolutions for this age. or should I say goals?
1. Tone up - must not have any flab & have to strengthen my abs.
2. Save up - must have at least 20K in cash savings by 27
3. Career up - must fight for higher salary next negotiations

千七百二十五： Bad to Worse

i wonder if having a slack one is better than a stupid one.

i better claim my leave while i can.

I don't really know what I want, but I don't want a team of slackers. Of course, it's too early to judge, but really really would really change to something more jp. dun care. i will just take my leave in Nov & new year holidays anyway.

tired..... suddenly rush of work this afternoon. had to miss my gym session.

keep forgetting tomorrow i have to go to R's wedding dinner. my mind is always just blank after work on weekdays.

千七百二十四： F4 + F1 prelude

Hot yoga yesterday and I think I put in my worst effort yesterday.. was feeling very lethargic & with all the muscle ache from the past week, I couldn't bring myself to just strain myself a little bit more. I had gone to the gym Mon - Thurs & yesterday this week and since Monday was a Public Holiday (敬老の日）, I caught 花よし男子　ファイナル the movie with A. 小栗旬 as 花沢類 is so cute!!



saw all the preparations for the upcoming F1 races when the bus went past Esplanade yesterday, realised the race cars will have to go under the NDP carpark area as part of their race route. how dangerous!! and the roads are really narrow, I hope the whole race will go safely w/o casualties..

had lunch with H yesterday at shokudo - first person to treat me to a birthday lunch this year! thank u H, hope everything goes well for u from now on..

Received a few more communications from unexpected sources this week.. maybe the stars & the planets are aligning for me since its my birthday?

千七百二十三： How to make people not work for you

Finally Friday..

Hectic week. because.. some buggers at work really know how to scream and shout but not do any work. These pple send tons of emails in a rude/sarcastic tone and I don't see them giving concrete instructions/information in their email. they only know how to pick on work other pple do, and all they do is ask stuff like *can i get this thing in a "consumable" format." comeon ,you receive the same emails as me and u are so stupid that u can't read the emails yourself? want me to collate the emails into 1 simple sentence for u? that is the most stupid thing I've ever heard. u want us to read the email to you aloud? these people I hate, they have no idea what they actually want to see, just make alot of noise hoping someone will make their jobs cushy & to protect their own asses saying - ya i pushed for them to do something wat!! pui! If I have your request nicely asked to me, I would maybe feel obliged to complete your requests but now its really just disgust .. learn some manners first b4 u get people to give u the work you want.

千七百二十二： Back in Singapore

you know how life is, the day you have to leave is always the day with the best weather so that you totally regret choosing the wrong day to leave.

Ryo sent me to the airport this morning.

we had a sunny day on Friday and we jumped right into it, sunbathing & swimming in the hotel pool in the morning before heading to the beach in the afternoon.

saw this in Patong -

I totally did not know they customise Ronald to the country's way of greeting

the sky was perfect in the morning on fRiday -

but it rained yesterday again so we just stayed in the whole day even after the rain stopped (cos the whole sky remained overcast).

I didn't really enjoy Phuket mainly cos I was having either sore throat / flu throughout the past week; which meant food either didn't taste/smell good, '& the rain didn't really make the holiday any better, and also the number of white men + thai girl couples I saw made me feel quite uncomfortable, as some girls looked like they belonged in high school still. Also the prices were not that cheap, 1 bowl of tom yam soup was almost S$10, its really defeats the point of enjoying good & cheap food in Thailand. Luckily the whole trip was about spending time with Ryo so the negative aspects weren't so bad after all.

Photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexxis/sets/72157607284862847/
Can't wait to see him in October again.

千七百二十一： Rainy day

ok so what's new? haha.. its raining again today, was sunny in the morning so we had about an hour of sunbathing before heading to our room cos of rain. tried to play metal slug 7 on DS and was able to last till Mission 3. Pity about the DS game is there are no cheats, and I'm just rubbish with only 9 credits.

We went down to patong to just be outside, in the end we stayed at starbucks after I bought a book - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers while Ryo played DS. The book was funny, because I understood the literal translations made by the author from Chinese idioms & sayings & it was quite fresh to be seeing the perspective of a person who is learning English & the British culture as a 2nd language. and especially the parts where her culture clashed with her English lover's, some of it I could relate to. the very bad/broken english at the start could put you off though, but I can totally hear it in my head coming from a real person.

dinner at Burger King today, because Ryo had never eaten in a Burger King in his life. no Burger King in Japan except Tokyo recently that's why.

still having a stuck nose & an off and on sore throat. I hope this clears up tomorrow.

千七百二十： Phuket - Surin Beach

Blogging from Surin Beach - Phuket.

Had originally booked the stay in Patong, but... apparently our hotel wasn't ready to open, we were shifted to Surin Beach. ;( its so quiet here.. not many shops / restaurants. i reached here on Saturday, no sign of any political unrest except alot of armed guards at the airport.

Trip from airport to hotel was 450 baht, then we just napped the afternoon away. heh.

sunday/monday was raining. it was sunny for a while yesterday so we spent the morning at the pool but it started pouring again in the afternoon. we decided to rent a car for the rest of the week, & this morning we got a car. (Braun car rental - only 1200 baht per day with full insurance) we drove down to patong, which was great cos we finally saw the beautiful sea & the sun lasted until mid afternoon. I had a facial for 299 baht - about S$12?! super cheap.. and felt very shiok.. have been sleeping alot these few days, which was good, but dunno why i just don't feel that well-rested still.. in the afternoon, we walked around the shopping complex at Patong (because it started raining again) & its really very tiring to try to bargain with the thais. in the end we just decided not to buy. after lunch/dinner at 4.30pm... we went to shop at carrefour. then drove back to our hotel with the sun setting.

thais drive crazily, including the motorbikes with 3 pple on them. well, we just try to give way & overtake only when enough width is on the road.

being in Phuket just reminds me of the tsunami incident & i can see how the worst hit area would be patong having no highland near the beach area at all. at least the buildings here at this beach is so far inland that it would take some time. I'm not sure if these signs were there b4, but there are now tsunami warning signs all along the beach town.

the best things about hotel rooms is that i get to watch all the shows on national geographic. super interesting, esp air crash investigation. so far, not many interesting movies, Jarhead was the best so far, about US marines stationed in Iraq, the rest were all repeats..

got a bad flu here... going to sleep ..

千七百十九： September

very quick recap of the past week + weekend:

Monday - work til 11pm

Tuesday - work till midnite

wednesday - work till 11pm

Thursday - gym

Friday - work til 3am

Saturday - Gym in morning; suntec lunch in afternoon; met ryo at airport in evening; marina sq imperial treasures for dinner; ritz carlton 1205 for the night

Sunday - Ritz poolside breakfast & jacuzzi; lazed in their bathtub with a view before checkout; marina mandarin 1015 checked in; lunched at chatterbox; watched Die hard marathon on Star movies: napped in room for whole afternoon; met with abe-san for dinner at long beach udmc; had an iced-tea lemonade at starbucks; watched Die hard marathon again; read all the magazines I kapo-ed from ritz; ate strawberries with ryo.

Monday - Ryo woke at 5.30am, left at 6.15am; i left hotel at 7.30am for work... worked till 2am last nite. zzz

Tuesday (today) - worked til 10pm - end of UAT!!!!!

finally month of my birthday -shit i:m going to be 26 soon (late 20s argh!!!)

looking forward to the phuket trip this weekend - hopefully the thailand chaos will clear up b4 end of this week..

going to collect mooncakes tomorrow; finally to the gym tmr as well. :D

what a mad rumble of thoughts, its cos my eyes are closing from the lack of sleep........