千七百十八： Fireworks

went to meet xh for dinner on Friday. due to work, i was late by about an hour... ate at sakae teppan.. dunno why their rice was so dry it felt like the rice scratched my throat.. hmm .. after that we sat chatting at Gloria Jeans until nearly midnight.. I guess the influence of your surroundings is really very important in how your attitude is towards the things you do. how much you want to put in effort for everything you do depends on how much the other around you want to put in effort as well. if you are surrounded by a bunch of slackers, would you want to work hard? I don't think so. & since everyone is slacking, why would you know what is harder work than what effort you are seeing? we don't see why people can put in half-assed efforts & be proud of their "effort" thinking its cool to do whatever they are doing & laugh at people who put in wholehearted work. grr. anyway, highlight was that we got to see the fireworks by accident. :)

i'm so hooked on 花より男子　now... 小栗旬 is so handsome! i didn't know he was sooo tall. 1.84m! his character is so sad in the show.. 花沢類 is so melancholy... when 牧野つくし turned away when he tried to kiss her, the hurt on his face really made my heart drop.. (T.T) have been up til 2am every night trying to finish the show. heee.. i must watch the movie when it's out in sg! 花より男子ファイナル！！

finished work at 11.30pm today...

千七百十七： 10 more days

damn it. i can't believe how suay i was this evening. the usual instructor for the class this evening wasn't there and was replaced by the boring instructor from yesterday's body sculpt class. sianz. in the end we skipped the class & treadmilled our evening away.

10 more days til Ryo comes by.

finally finished getting the Japanese version of the F4 drama. :D

sick so sick of my work. & everything else. I just wan to sleep for days...

千七百十六： Hot Yoga

Finally 2nd week of UAT is over.

This week, i was really too busy to log on, having to work til midnight 2 times in the past week. the rest of the time i didn't only because i had made appt with others to go to the gym to force myself to leave earlier. it really amazes me that even though we all speak / read /write English, the pple in redmond can't seem to understand our emails. :S then we waste all sorts of time going back & forth.

gym on monday, tue, thurs & today. (Hot yoga this morning)

A accidentally kicked me when i was behind her with her heels today & now my ankle is swollen. hurts like mad. its amazing what heels can do.. how dangerous they are actually.

Finally made reservations for ryo's oct stay. we'll stay at Fairmont Singapore. the rates for hotel rooms are up the roof actually.. but the weekend price for the package is pretty worth it. I hope we have a good time.

have not been sleeping well the past few days. very weird dreams, of pple I thought I had forgotten about.

too tired now, can't really recall what I did during the week except work.. will update more when i can recall.

千七百十五： UAT

Lack of posts the past week due to being lazy busy.

UAT time this month again, being the Regional Coordinator is really a killer this time due to the volume of tests we are expected to execute & having to coordinate so many pple. wish that some of them would be more cooperative though. doesn't it irk u when u send out a very complete email that these people don't even bother to read then ping you for every little thing that could have been resolved if they had just read the emails? whats the point of having a mailbox if you don't read your mail?

Went to the gym on tue, wed and thurs.

Yesterday was a super unlucky day. I lost $50, dropped it i think, almost the minute i got it w/o realising. Until when I had reached the gym then I remembered the $50 & it couldn't be found by that time. sianz. got to the gym, waited a while, then I checked with the reception to realise that there were no classes cos it was national day. what a waste of my time!! so I took a shower, headed to peninsula to collect photos, but guess what, the shop was closed as well. argh!! headed home dejectedly. stayed at home the rest of the day to avoid more bad luck.

had very weird dreams this morning. dreamt of a huge tsunami and I was trying to escape it, then woke up in fright. ate breakfast, dozed off and dreamt of some weird evil ghosts who were trying to deny me my mushroom swiss burger. after that .. the dream continued to have my handphone stolen by some chinese foreigner worker at a bus stop. wonder wats going on in my head.

千七百十四： Baby Chloe

finally some breathing time.

went to D's baby girl's 2 year old birthday party yesterday, it was pretty fun. meaning, we had fun with the little girl :) she's so cute!!

baby Chloe looking at me as I try to take a picture with her.. 

Chloe & her birthday present

saturday, went to Sentosa with colleagues and got myself a sunburn on the left shoulder & back. I didn't know cafe del mar looked this good.

cafe del mar

Hiroki showing us card tricks

drank a little too much, was sleepy & headachy towards late afternoon. the sun was super hot as well. left at about 5pm..

gym planned for tomorrow, i'm getting quite fond of the ABT class at Cali.

千七百十三： Sentosa

Some photos to show, no time to blog now..

frisbee & gigantic cards

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexxis/sets/72157606504827833/

will update later

千七百十二： Flu Bug

The flu bug hit me yesterday and it was just sniff sniff sniff the whole day. had to ask around for tissue.

hit home with a bad headache & this morning just couldn't wake up properly.. argh..

my personal group pic of the wedding taken by N-san's camera:

everyone just looks so naturally happy :)

千七百十一： Fed up

fed up with the stupidity of some b-person (as i've mentioned before) but glad that she is showing herself up and proper during these meetings.

went to Body Balance with A today, it was conducted by J's brother. Abit weird, he totally dun look like J.

I realised I had double-booked myself on Sunday. D had sent me the invite to her baby girl's bday party since weeks ago and I had forgot about it until today but I had also promised to go for Dim Sum Lunch with the Japanese ladies also. argh. guess I have to cancel with the Japanese ladies.

been working on the new status sheets with H's help. First time I really try to understand excel macros. I always try to improve upon the previous versions, either from feedback or just my own feelings about wat's lacking. Trying to make everything as convenient for everyone as possible, because their main worry should be testing, but dunno if the new files will help them achieve that. hopefully. hmm.

ooh made this during the beading session on Monday:

high heels earrings

千七百十： 天使的烙印

watching 天使的烙印 on channel 8 now. Its a collaboration with Malaysian chinese actors/actresses apparently. But I'm quite confused who are the Malaysians since some of the actors from Mediacorp are originally Malaysians.

I know what is so different about Japanese people suddenly. They lavish praise abundantly, out of politeness maybe, but still, it makes the listener happy. so if you are looking for some positivity about your artwork or pictures, go show them to a Japanese. ;)

waiting for the end of August to come soon.

payday in another 3 days as well. :D

千七百〇九： Yoga

Joined a Yoga class for the first time today. Went to the hot Yoga class today with A & N-san at Millenia walk today. Because the lesson was so early, we had plenty of time to spare after the class for shopping.

Headed to Orchard where we were so tired after the class we just moozed around Kinokuniya and the stores in Takashimaya for a while. Had snacks at Cedele at Wheelock at 3plus and then chatted alot then we ended by heading to isetan to finish up my vouchers. :D

ate dinner with my family, shopped at NTUC, then skyped with Ryo.

time to sleep... tmr finally a change to sleep in.

千七百〇八： Weights

today i joined Y-san at Cathay for a Total Body Sculpt class. terribly tiring. it consisted alot of lifting weights and my arms were totally in no shape to do weights. after a while, couldn't move anymore. there was some weird guy in the class who tried to talk to me, who seemed to be in his own world and then who kept to his own pace instead of the instructor's but had a cute instructor who seemed to be straight for a change. & then the weird guy kept moving closer who was quite irritating since he had so much space in front of him. argh. weird.

after that my arms were so tired I had problems using chopsticks. (-.-!)

work was quite boring today, sans all the early morning meeting this morning that I had to join myself. argh.

abit braindead now, 8am meeting tmr morning again so off to bed i go.

千七百〇七： New desk

in a teleconf now.. its either tonight or 7am tomorrow morning. given that i have an 8am meeting tmr as well, this is the best time... :s

I got my retainers this evening. After a week of freedom from braces, a tooth in a bottom row has began to shift a little. :( but the retainers will push it back. it actually hurts to put on the top row. which shows how much the teeth have shifted in a week.

we started work on level 2 today. spent about 1 hour in the morning unpacking, dunno why my boss is going to tokyo next week, maybe to meet the new staff? I always feel like telling her, hv u done UAT b4? unpacked the rest of my stuff in the evening, while H kindly waited for me to leave office together. now that I'm not on level 4 anymore, i got no more A coming to my desk to ask me if i wan to leave work together. ;( everyone kept complaining lvl 2 was cold... but it felt the same to me, am I abnormal? i didn't wear a jacket the whole day either. I put up some of my posters at my desk today. but maybe i put up too many? dunno why my table just looked kind of messy. even though there weren't much things on it at all.

the camera & the pictures

picture from friday's dinner with the girls for F-san's bday dinner. we went crazy with the polaroid camera and took lotsa instant pics. its so fun i wan to get one too!

千七百〇六： Hancock

watched hancock today with A, it was super funny. we were abit shocked when he used such violence to save the people in the bank from the robbery.

went Fitness First after that, abit surprised that the bodycombat moves was exactly as what we did last month at California Fitness. tracks/moves everything thing the same. is this supposed to be right? but N-san came also and it was quite fun. but dunno why the studio was so warm today, perspired like crazy.

home now, waiting for ryo to skype with me. hmm .. wonder where he is.

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he fell asleep at 7pm .....

千七百〇五： The Dark Knight

Watched Dark Knight with J after gym yesterday. the movie lasted about 2.5 hours. and would advise people not to watch at cineleisure if it was screening in hall 4, cause the hall was the small screen with many many rows of seats. -.-

Christian Bale looked very good as bruce wayne. but his weird voice synthesizing thing was a turnoff as batman. & very violent joker. :( couldn't watch when he sliced those mouths open.. poor thing of heath ledger to have this show as an end to his career!! (T.T) very good maniacal acting of course, but would have wanted to see him in somemore shows like 10 things i hate about u.

we had Sakae teppanyaki for lunch. the mushrooms tasted very mushroomy.. i dunno how to describe, abit sourish? I don't like that taste, prefer if the mushroom was cooked with more sauces. walked around abit and I wanted to check out how much was the instant camera but couldn't find anywhere selling it. I guess have to go back JP to buy it le..

watching Hancock with A today and going to the gym with her too. Maybe N-san will be joining us as well.

千七百〇四： Lazy Saturday

I haven't had a Saturday free to myself for so long.

until my mom suddenly said she wanted to go shopping.

I realised i can't stand being in air conditioned buildings for long now. eyes become too dry and the place did feel quite cold. and was very drowsy & grumpy today. drowsy from the flu tablet, but I dunno why I was grumpy. bought tix for Dark Knight tmr as well.

alot of things running through my head.

I hope my head clears up soon. its still so far to September.

千七百〇三： Moving Day

will be shifting to the 2nd floor from Monday onwards.

finishing the packing in office now.

shutting down the pC in a few minutes. bye bye 4th flr!!

千七百〇二： Free to eat!!

Special day today... finally took my braces off! 1 week of freedom before the retainers are ready. feels very weird w/o the braces in my mouth, and I guess I don't look as cute (the braces did make me look younger)



hee hee. but I've gotten used to not smiling already actually.

gymed today, tmr doing buttcamp with A....... can eat alot from now on so must exercise more!

千七百〇一： Derby

hee hee

been concentrating on Derby Stallion on DS lately (because we are racing each other) and finally I managed to breed a G1 winner.



once again.. the competitive streak in me pushes me to want to do better than the guys. must take a pic cos if I don't, they won't believe I did it. grrrr.

hmm. was thinking while showering. my entries get shorter when my thoughts get longer. and of cos when u have more secrets, the less u want to write in case u blurt out something unknowingly. which could happen very easily since i just hate to keep secrets.

will have a surprise this week.

千七百： The Wedding

The wedding party went by smoothly. am so glad its over. the only problem was that so many people were so late. I can't believe it. it was a lunch ROM / Reception thing, not a wedding dinner, and the late pple were japanese, what were they thinking?! At least have some sense to contact us right? the party was a small thing, about 40 people, of course we tried to wait for everyone. even some of the people with responsibilities were late. -.-

anyway, happy that they liked the photo ppt I made, most people said they felt very touched after looking at it. I was also a little bit in tears and some people were crying at the end. hehe.. i'm glad.

best thing was the instant polaroid camera.

i also want to get one! some of the guests had very cool cameras.

Wedding Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexxis/sets/72157606137836781/

went for dinner / ktv with some of the guests after. it was fun.

final dinner today with some people. sighz. I don't think this half of the year will be good.

千六百九十九： いよいよ

finally the wedding party tmr. we did the flower arrangements today. pretty ok i guess.

had drinks with J at Cafe del Mar.

tired.