Class

Going for class soon!
Never been happier when I think of going for class, back with JCS then... Even though its's going to be a whole 3h+ of 'grilling', i dont mind it at all coz i lurrrve the sensei! Classmates are great people too, though I prefer those in business japanese class, since they are all working adults....

2 pix from Geek's last visit to keep you guys entertained! Not much to put up since it's all things in singapore, and I dont have new things for u haha....

Sara (the乖乖) & Kimmy (the monkey)!

And Kim just turned 1 ytd!! Happy Birthday darling!!
Yiyi loves u to bits!

One of the Geek's best shots, at Jurong Bird Park

He's gone to meet his family, which is good else i cant imagine what will happen to all the omiyage meant for them... he might just finish them up later on based on the excuse that those things are going bad soon... A trip in May is in the planning! But it may be Japan again, coz it costs quite a bomb flying out for him during Golden Wk... we're thinking of Kansai area this time, but I'm pretty reluctant to visit during the period (prefer autumn/winter/full spring)... Thinking of going in July for JLPT1 (which I havent started anything at all!!), and Sis is asking me to go in Nov, then followed by the regular New Year visit... it's abit,... too much for me.... I wanna go back to Australia/Europe again........... -_-

He's thinking of getting a car... I'm not totally for it, coz at the rate we get to use it, it's not worth paying for all those maintenance and leave the money 'parking there' (literally speaking)... it's up to him though haha.... cars in Japan arent that expensive at all...

So glad it's Saturday! Let Sunday never come!!

Earrings

Lost another one again!! There's somethg abt me that I must always lose one of the earrings I buy from Japan. Just 1, and the remaining one will stay with me to remind me of how many earrings I have lost. It doesnt help that earrings arent cheap (but oh-so-pretty) in Japan.

Grrrr.......

ただいま

im home! Reaching hm at this hour of the day basically sets me in a very good mood. What i realised ytd that going hm at 1830-1900 is actually (strangely) efficient. The bus is relatively empty, so i get a seat to do whatever i want, including tking a nap. What more, the bus driver drives like there's no return, prob coz the roads are (also very strangely) clear. It means i csn reach hm in abt 45mins, compared to the 1h+ i tk when its peak hr or at night where somehow they drive unusually slow. Anywayz, im imagining the looks on the kids' faces when they see me back, so early...

Small things like these mk mi happy.... even i still have to do perf mgmt for 2 more peeps hee coz i
get to do it in the comfort of my room, when i can slowly digest dinner.

Pumpkin soup was a smash-hit hahaha... Bro, maid and colleague totally loved it! Me2, obviously hee... will translate the recipe k! Gonna mk it again this wkend, coz i still have a quarter of pumpkin sitting in the fridge...

Realised recently that my dark eye rings are just as big as my eyes.... -.-


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Waffled

Am feeling super waffled and pissed today.

Labels: Work, Work, Work, Work, Work, and Work!

Perf Mgmt

Have decided to nuah away for the remaining 20mins instead of working on the team's perf management due today. It's so late anyway, might as well do at home right? Then people won't get to peep at the grades I give too.

Just an excuse.

Wed Blues~

Why am I still hanging around, when I feel so unhappy about it?
Is it just for whatever money I can get b4 I need to measure the road?
=( was just telling the Geek if I feel unhappy 60% of my life (estimated 60% of my day spent in office), then it's really kinda sad.


Went home pretty late yesterday (actually, for the past few days). Wasn't doing much constructive work besides replying to mails, stupid ones. Had the impulse to go get stuffs for the pumpkin soup, so dropped by at Sheng Siong @ CMW before heading home. Carried that bag of potatoes, onions, pumpkin (2nd one) and toothpaste (no, not for the soup). My expenses on cab have been increasing like mad........ must do less OT!!

My ATM cum credit card got retained by the machine this morning, while I was trying to add value to the ezlink card. So blur that I left it hanging there beeping (was on ipod) for the longest time until i reached the lift and realised the card isnt in my wallet. Rushed back in time to see the card being swollen up by the machine, 1 last look b4 it RIP.

Called DBS to get a replacement.
Arrggghhhh blur!!

Hey, nice butts! ;P

I know I sound perverted, but seriously, who doesn't have a thing for nice butts? In fact, I like both female and male versions of them. Ok, I'm making things worse =P

There's this fellow commuter whom I watch see every morning. He's actually of a pretty small build, ang moh guy. Not particularly good looking (dont have a thing for ang mohs save Johnny Depp), and look kinda boring. BUT, he's got a nice butt. That's the only reason why I enjoy watching him.

And I basically slept through the entire bus trip today, and we were in 2 different buses (back to back). When I got down the bus and saw his butts him, it got me thinking, if guys work out at the gym just to have great butts. I mean, females, yeah we all know they try to work out every single part of their bodies just to look trim. But guys?

If they do, aren't they just as perverted as me? Coz they are *trying to* attracting perverts like me to look at them!

I think I need less stress, more sleep.

When are you tying the knot?

That's it.
I was just telling the Geek, one more person to ask about it, the combined efforts of these people questioning from chu1 till today will just squash the last whim of urge I have to settle now. It's finalized and certified dead. As I was saying it to him, the mail from Takeda san came, and he put across his point for the 2nd time this CNY, using the words 「鉄は熱いうちに打て」 - "Strike while the iron is HOT". And he colored the word HOT in RED. I'm pretty red now I tell you. I respect him for who he is and appreciate he's been really kind, and probably meant the best (or so he/they) think for me. But I stop at that. That applies to the rest of them, friends, colleagues, aunties, daddy, grandma and nieces inclusive.

I'm not that old yet, not even 28 (yet)! We're living in the a world where you shouldnt be bothered so much if someone gets married or not, coz in a few years' time, the earth will be destroyed from all your pollution and wastage of food from wedding banquets. And invites & ang bao packets that wont be recycled anyway.

Cool it.
This has ultimately caused me to erupt and burn the Geek. He said we're going at our own pace. I told him I have no pace since Ive decided to stop moving.



Ok. Maybe talking about work will make me feel better instead.
But no! I just got informed the Japanese manager (aka my biggest fan cum political supporter in office) will be transferred back to Japan. With him gone, there will be no other Japanese staff of managerial level for me to talk to. I felt so distraught after hearing it, and I swear I looked worse, coz he said sorry to me when he realised I got to learn about the news. Darn!!

Meeting tml with 本部長 and the MD (the Singaporean lady). Apparently during the session today (so that I can brief her on what we've talked about), she was concerned if the meeting would be conducted in Japanese. And she suddenly asked me "Which one of us, do you think, is better in Japanese huh?!". What would I say under such circumstances, so as not to risk my career while keeping my integrity? I simply replied "ermm I dont know".

But actually I meant, "You'll know tml!".
=)

Chorei turn tml too! Better go to bed le!

Just kill me

As per title above.
It's gonna be a full day of answering questions, finding info, and of coz, my fave fire fighting.


A quick glance at the consolidation of the labels for my post entries.
Says alot about me huh? I simply love my work, apparently twice as much as my love for the Geek, or even my fave past time, HOLIDAYING! Now, I'm so proud, and can hold my head very high up! I'm a certified workaholic.

Have a sudden urge to start working for GMAT now.
Abit too late (or should I say, too early??) now... but... abit cannot tahan le!



Geek came over for CNY.... very hot CNY it was!!
Will upload some pix onto Flickr when im less overwhelmed =|

Choco Molten Cake - v1.0

Made these ytd =)



Have a gut feeling they will turn out into real molten choco cakes heee....
Used to warm them up using the microwave (always in office) but it never worked, I guess coz the microwave 'cooked the cake' instead of 'melting the choco inside'. Got my bro to try warming up using the toaster and it turned out quite lava-ish, just that he didn't warm it enough...

Will try tonite and update again!


Oh yeah the Geek has boarded his flight, on his way here!
Yipee!!

Wandering Eyes

Must.Stop.Looking.

Leeches

There's too many redundancy hanging around in this organisation.
As I was just telling someone, these free riders are getting on my nerves in their own quiet ways, and they dont even think twice about their redundancy, even told right in the face. What's happening to the modern men's (and women) pride and integrity?! I feel like telling them, "Please kindly f*** off.".

Let Friday come soon.

M.EE.T.ING.S

had another meeting with th R&D head again today. This time round, i think he gave the GM face and let him join in the meeting. The other guy, this manager who helped out a lot, wasnt 'invited' and we arranged a dead space in the room where he cannot be spotted. All the while i was quite worried that he might get too excited and show himself, or even part of him. Quite comical actually. And i think its pretty shiok to be in discussion with the GM with chestnut colored eyes and long lashes. Yet another super digression.

After that mtg, i went on for the global r&d mtg which lasted 2h. When everythg was over, he came to suggest for such mtgs, i can apply to go flexi hrs, and he ll endorse it (which means, nobody except the MD can reject it). Woohooooo ok must keep calm. Told him i ll do it when needed. But happinessssssss!

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Polaroid 0.1b

C.O.O.L

So bloody cool.
Full link here.

クリスマス＆正月

Pix first. Super belated.
And I decided to keep things simple, instead of the Polaroid design I was thinking of earlier. Maybe next time.... Will come back with a decent post later on. =)

Loves it when my drinks get 'personal' =)

Saw this 日暮里 station. Some Happy Toys Project, apparently.
Have to hand it to the Japanese to come up with creative names like this.
"Happy Toys".

This statue at 丸の内.

"Lightopia" - 丸の内

Camwhoring Geek

Tokyo Tower getting all dolled up for ♥ Xmas ♥

Went to a standing bar for some drinks while waiting for a table at the proper restaurant. Getting a table for Xmas is next to I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-L-E.

Skiing at 那須, Mount Jeans.

MY artistic shot

Ignore me.

Someone was free enough to make a snowman, in the freezing temperature.
Just to welcome us. Thanks!

Some celebration going on at the ground floor of his family's mansion.

Chanel says hi.

Something good happened today =))
Not mine, but the Geek's.

My work sucks as usual, just that nobody dares to come disrupt me at what I'm doing today (till tml) coz everyone knows it's important.

=(

tired.
mad drained.
and i dont have any idea of what ive been saying and whats been happening to me lately.
still gotta work from home tml, due to the homework coming from the R&D 本部長 after the meeting with him. basically left the office with a super heavy heart on Friday. Dinner with zp, and he got lost driving ard bt timah, couldnt find his way into serene centre hahaha...

wanna divert my attention to happier things. started the 2 back to back classes at bunka today. it was abit too much, but i enjoyed it coz the teacher was so entertaining. glad i took up this class instead at ikoma, who knows if i wld like the sensei as much? my classmate accompanied me to get the meiji choco from Taka, coz the ones at Isetan felt weird... got 6 bars of them in the end so i can prob get 12 molten choco cakes out of it.... he said 萧敬腾 is very shuai, a pretty boy! (?!)... i mean, i like him, but i havent heard anyone who comes close to saying he's good looking, and he left me abit lost for words with that comment hahahaha.....

≪只想赖着你≫was showing on TV just now... i dont usually like TW dramas... but think this one is 'watchable'.... think Jerry Yan only looks good from certain angles, and quite hideous at other times... and he definitely cant act haha......

im still working on the pix fr the last trip to japan... basically wanted to work on them a little, prettying things up abit for presentation sake, but apparently i couldnt mk up my mind abt how thgs should be hahaha....

oh read in the papers that there's gonna be fireworks on the 12th and 13th at Marina this mth, for CNY of cos! which is great, coz we booked a room at Pan Pac, which means, there's a high class we can see the fireworks from the room!! provided we get a room high enough, but Pan Pac isnt that tall a building anyway.... hmmm.....

Morning Coffee

I love my morning coffee, and think everyone should too. *sniggers*
Another dramatic event at at cappuccino machine today.
Steamed milk refused to come out, in fact, there was just alot of steaming haha (this part sounds like me)... I was looking at the machine, feeling super puzzled, when Ah Beng came in and joined in the staring. He asked "What happened?" and i looked at him, said, "Erhh it's spoilt again... no milk coming out........".... and he laughed... so we tried it a 2nd time, and it's just more steam.... On a very side note, i'm telling u his complexion is fantabulous,

He, looked at me, and put his cup on the cappuccino dispensing unit (milk & cappuccino are different units) and pressed the button for cappuccino. i stared hard at him and said to him "u cut my queue?!". He didn't look very sorry, apparently he did it on purpose.

Didn't bother him much after that.

Sickening

remb what i said on mon, abt thgs tking a turn? well my boss basicslly turned the table over at me and denied everythg i said. wth!? just to save his big fat ass?

i put up a front and stayed back to gather info that the MD asked for... until i couldnt tk it anymore and broke down in the ladies... on my way hm, it happened again, in the cab... and i totally collapsed while in the shower and never pick myself up that nite, regardless of what the geek said or did, i couldnt stop thinking abt wat happened in the day, and tears start welling agsin... my mum saw mi in that state and was shocked... she must be thinking ive cracked... me thinks so too

been hearing alot fr ppl, abt what the sickening piece of crap has been saying to those in japan, that im collapsing fr stress and acting nervous... its ok coz these ppl know who im, and i have the support of those here... BUT even if i wanna leave, i ll at least mk sure u do so b4 me, and consider it a good deed towards those poor souls in japan who have been driven sick by u... i ll let them know what a tale spinner and asshole u r, and with those skype history, i could easily have u up for sexual harassmt, if i want. basket.

i ll remain strong for ur sake, just to see the ends of ur good days.


on a *much* more pleasant note, was out shopping at vivo when i met this BBC at pinle (the soya bean shop)... he was the cashier and behaved weirdly, kinda doing a mini dance coz he was trying to look confused if i or the lady b4 me was going to let him have the order first... while i was paying up, he commented to the auntie (his colkeague?) i looked v fair (like out of nowhere, i just wanted soya milk).... in english! the auntie looked at him and went 'huh?', and i ended up translating for both of them. dats how i got to know hes fr UK.... and v cute, with that big wide smile, reminded me of felix, the team mate back in uni who was here on exchg

im tired. but i must walk on, fight on.


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Part Timer

sigh i wish there are thgs like cyborg bfs or bfs-for-rent whom u could use at times u need a part timer. Or rather, the cyborg is full time while the geek is on part time.

felt ultra betrayed by the boss today, and i cant imagine how i ll ever trust him again. Without trust, thgs wont work out and it will all seem meaningless. Might as well, set my mind and courage all out to leave this place, without guilt nor regrets.

i will make sure u regret what u just did to me today, only to know theres no turning back...

shall go on to tk leave for cny... and contemplating to chk w ah beng abt the MOT course........

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いきなり。。。

Abit overwhelmed by the turn of events, which seems like a good change for my team, at least for now.... Hope to be able to update more later!