totally blue and shittified

It’s a sucky Monday for me. Woke up feeling totally blue and in my half asleep dreamy daze, was hoping hard that it was only Sunday. Ya right. Time to wake up mochi.

Was just complaining to my friend that I’m feeling depressed in general and sure enough, I bought 2 bags in a span of half hour during my lunchtime. I’m crazy. That’s why I should never lunch alone. It’s bad for my wallet and mental health. Now, I’m suffering from the fear that the 2 bags will become white elephants. I even wanted to buy another 2 bags that was going at 2 for $99. 2 for $99!! And I thought it was bloody cheap. What a steal! What a deal! Grab it mochi…. Thoughts I had when I was standing in front of the display shelves, awed by the number of pretty bags I’m seeing..

I would be lugging 3 bags home today including the work bag I brought to work today and I’m still eyeing on the possible esprit bag which maria is checking out for me. Do you really need SO many bags??!! I don’t need but it’ll always be nice to have ma.

Anyway, WTH.I should be saving now to pay back G0V... PISSEDDDD!

I just received a notice that I gotta pay back some performance based payment thingy to m.0.e. $836!!! It’s SHIT. Dunno why this kind of SHIT always land on me. Though Mdm Hu and Miss Peh are also drowning in the SHITwith me, but I still feel shortchanged and that the whole thing is so disgustingly unfair.

They sent me a letter to confirm my resignation dated 25 MAY, with 0 mention of liabilities. Hence, is it not right to assume that I am no longer an employee of m0e already?

The shocking thing is that I’m informed in the current letter dated 25 JUL (2 months later) that my resignation is accepted subjected to me clearing the liabilities as stated in the dictatorial letter. And since I haven’t settled the refund, I’m still an employee of m0e. kaoz… and I already working for another organization. What SHIT is this.

I sent a letter requesting for an explanation as all these refund and entitlement SHIT wasn’t highlighted to me at any point and only informed as and when they wanted that money back. Printed big and loud was that a 5% late payment charge will be levied if I do not settle the amount in a week’s time. That’s worse than ah long’s SHIT.

They were informed of my resignation say 3 weeks before the crediting of the bonus. If I’m not entitled, why was it still credited? A long 2 months later, they are requesting everyone to send a cheque in 7 days to clear the payment.

What the SHIT.

Think I’ll need to use my 2 bags to bag all these SHIT and the SHIT will still be overflowing.

Perhaps it’s a sign that I should head back for the 2 bags for $99 deal.

interesting site visits..an experience of a lifetime.

some pics of my site visits during induction..! got a chance to wear the safety gears.. and we look really illuminated.. that's the whole idea isn't it.

~@ Circle Line Telok Blangah Site office~

~@Sengkang Depot~ ~ overlooking the site of the station~

~ some pics with my fellow inductees~

~ more pics @ site~

~climbing 6 storeys beneath ground level...that's how deep the station's gonna be!~

some info on hyperthyroidism

just chatted with a friend who recently discovered that he was suffering from Hyperthyroid. yep.. as we grow older, we become more updated with all types of weird illnesses. such a sad thing..

basically he only found out when he experienced paralysis and had to be sent to hospital for treatment. Got this little piece of info from a website to summarise the condition.

"In healthy people, the thyroid makes just the right amounts of two hormones, T4 and T3, which have important actions throughout the body. These hormones regulate many aspects of our metabolism, eventually affecting how many calories we burn, how warm we feel, and how much we weigh. In short, the thyroid "runs" our metabolism. These hormones also have direct effects on most organs, including the heart which beats faster and harder under the influence of thyroid hormones. Essentially all cells in the body will respond to increases in thyroid hormone with an increase in the rate at which they conduct their business. Hyperthyroidism is the medical term to describe the signs and symptoms associated with an over production of thyroid hormone. "

Common symptoms of Hyperthyoridism:
Palpitations
Heat intolerance
Nervousness
Insomnia
Breathlessness
Increased bowel movements
Light or absent menstrual periods
Fatigue

Common signs of Hyperthyroidism:
Fast heart rate
Trembling hands
Weight loss
Muscle weakness
Warm moist skin
Hair loss
Staring gaze

yep..so everyone.. don't take health for granted k..

dodged the attack from monday bluezzz

come to think of it..nowadays i buy jay chou or mayday cd, i'll bring home, gush about it for a while..then rip the songs into my comp and then it'll be stashed into my cd drawer liao. never to see the daylight again. especially if it's compilation of their greatest hits, don't even need to check out the lyrics.

I support the original but i'm still a pirate somehow.. how contradictory.

monday's surprisingly good. didn't feel too blue. good good.

anywayz, was just telling maria n babu the best way to reject someone whom you're not interested in meeting..

"hey..you free tomorrow?"
" i'm only free on the days which you're not free."

mochi says: it's tuesday...it's KB day!

a cold rainy sunday night..~

decided to change my blog song.. JUMP is too high and too happening for a blog la.. gets me too excited whenever i log in..haha. love the song though..my record was listening to it thoughout my 40min jog.. !! i love mayday!

caught harry potter yesterday.. it was not too bad. frankly i'm not very fascinated by this type of fiction fantasy stories. i watched it coz it's like a big thing that we're not suppose to miss. guess we do get sucked into the social norm in one way or another and in some part of our lives, regardless how strong willed we claim to be.

my buys from J8 : a pair of goggles, denim crops, cardigan and a puma t shirt. but all these for less than a 100 bucks..quite cheap hor! heh.. yep..usual way of how i justify my material wants.

combed orchard today for maria's dress for a function.. never saw so many dresses in my whole life. but the one she bought was sedap...pretty and elegant and unique. of coz...with me as a consultant...ahem. can never go very wrong. after our spree, we met up babu for dinner and it's always so nice chilling and just talking rubbish.. babu's ai4 ren2 was there too but he's like one of our jie meis..just a very masculine one.

dunno why actually, kept addressing him as babu's ai4 ren2. it's like very mushy and so cheenafied. but somehow i always conjure the image of him and babu running shoeless on the beach with their arms wide opened, running towards each other, shouting "ai4 ren2....wo lai le!"

WELL. i'm not very happy w my cutie purchases. the tops are very lousily sewn and looks very lup chup and cheapo. okay okay..they ARE cheap. Only liked 1 piece out of 4... haiz. luckily i bought 4 only. the quality is very lousy also.
accept it mochi, haven't you heard, you pay peanuts you get monkeys? oh..and you lots of waiting time too.

think my spree craze will s.t.o.p here. koko ni tomeru.

cutie's here....Jump's here too

shucks!! forgot to send the agenda out and monday's the meeting...shucksx100. still in my lala land la. dam.

came home straight after work today.. lethargic n feel like nua-ing.

passed by HG mall just now and saw JUMP cd! it's out...yep. needless to say..i bought it! keke. isn't it so so OBvious. would I not buy it if i see it?? would i just pretend the cd doesn't exist and walk pass it without reaching out for my wallet?? would i?? would i? of coz not!

and it came with a free jump poster.. ya. i'm always excited when i get a poster but it'll end up as a white elephant coz i've got no idea where to paste it. worse, i'll spend loads of $ laminating the huge posters and they progress to become not only huge but also expensive white elephants.

One fine day, i came up with a reasoning that I should not waste the poster by preserving them. so i decided to paste them on the insides of the doors of my cupboards so that whenever I open my cupboards, i'll have mayday staring straight at moi. dam cool.

oh yes.. announcement here: everyone listen up please.. my cutie's finally arriving!!! after about 1 and a half months wait!! will not order from cutie again.... can't even remember what i ordered liao lor. for those people who put on weight easily would have outgrown all the clothes by the time they get the stuff......

shall go watch my xun2 qin2 ji4 now...

sleepily feeling a sense of patriotism...

3 days of induction have zoomed pass.

lots of talks conducted by various divisions,packed closely back to back, one after another. one problem that i always have since schooling days is the speed of me gaining restlessness during long talks or lectures. It's almost immediate that my eyelids will auto slip into a state of comatose once my maximum tolerance for boredom is hit. I emphasize only my eyelids, coz my brain and mind seriously wants to remain awake but apparently the signals communicated weren't strong enough.

that was how i spent my 3 days.. helplessly dozing off in the mid of every talk. felt bad and disrespectful to the speaker but i could only apologise.

Thank god for the interesting site visits which I made me feel so proud to be part of this organisation.

All the up and coming road/rail projects...
how land transport is operated and planned...
traffic management, what goes behind the scenes when determining the cycle time of the changing of traffic lights....
an indepth understanding of the unbelievably tedious planning and construction of the expressways...
how the ERP gantryworks...
and we got to view a super futuristic looking, high tech control room with traffic conditions all over singapore, displayed on a screen as big as the cinema's screen...

boring it may be, it did however make me better appreciate the convenience of this island's land transport system.

I can't believe myself just now when i actually took the newly constructed overhead bridge to cross the road instead of my usual jaywalking...haha.

about my job..

dropped by zhen's place today to pass her her pretty turkey lamp and she has kindly burnt copies of CDs of the Plain White T's for moi. arigato zhen san!

and her mousedeer n xiao bai have grown so huge..especially xiao bai.we were just remiscing how small and cute xiao bai was few years back... he was only the size of his current head now. err..okay..sounds abit weird ah the comparison..but yep..that's what we came up with.

did my usual jog just now after dinner..really need loads more exercise now that i've gotten into a habit of drinking TehC every morning..loads of milk n sugar.. it's became an addiction leh. bad bad. shall try to limit to 3 times per week la.

plus, my job hardly needs me to move my butt.. doubly bad. though the toilet is so near to my seat, I do make an effort to do little skips to the loo in bid to delude myself i'm moving. a total of about 5 tiny skips.

** yep..slight amendment to my previous post on the battle of the cat.. the meow meow belongs to ahmad..not babu. too confusing la..all bangkali names.**

anyway, everyone has been asking me about my new job but haven't been able to answer your queries proper. quite hard to explain by writing la..want to know meet me la. heh.

just a bit of info, i'm in charge of the staff suggestion scheme and some annual innovation competition plus the innovation fund which staff can apply for if they have good ideas on how to improve work processes. so they have to present n write reports to the committee who will approve their application for the fund and then they can do their trials... blah blah...on my end, i'll have to coordinate the meetings and write minutes and monitor their progress for their trials. lucky i have admin officers to do those routine stuff for me..

and as for me, my boss said i'll need to look at innovation as a whole and think of how to spur inno within the organisation. sounds super cheem to me.... whatever it is, i still think I should be learning ropes right from scratch in order to be able to answer my officers' questions..coz routine work may be routine but they'll still ultimately be a main part of my job lo... i feel. i need to get a feel of the whole thingy first.

and oh..im the secretary for another 4 committees.. think can die from writing minutes. my 1st set of minutes underwent a major revamp after the head of the committee vetted. Everything was amended leaving only 2 pathetic lines of my original text. 1 of which was the line that says " Recorded by: Shirley Chew". haha. best right.

mochi says: to err is human. come on mochi.. you're entitled to make more mistakes as a newbie..so take advantage of that right now..

angelic singing that touched me...

teared while watching this kawaii connie singing...her singing is so beautifully innocent and sincere!! omg!

stomach busy digesting suki sushi... softshell crab, peas, lobster salad, baked scallops, chawanmushi.... zzzzzZzz

my turkey pics are up and running..~

haiz..finally got the uploading done.. think my comp is fit for the dumps now after all these trauma.

i emphasize...captions.. MUST read k...coz i really spent days writing them! can't believe i'm forcing people to do this. haha.

anyway.. if you feel yourself squintting hard at the tiny pics, wait no further... you may click on the whole slide or "view all images" and the slideshow will play in a new window. Next, when you enter the new window, on the top right hand corner there's either this "original view" or "gallery view" option.

Original View = the blinds effect..gotta roll over the pics to see the captions.. so you've got a choice on whether you wanna read the wuliao words not.
Gallery View = they'll show the captions automatically and pics are laid out in gallery format. so you can stop the playing of the slideshow and watch it at ur pace by pressing the next button. COns is that the pic is very much smaller lo. so it's up to you.

giving such detailed n idiotically commonsensical instructions coz dun want anybody to curse me for jamming up their comp...haha... and it'll be worse if you navigate to a view which you dun like...waited...curse..and end up gotta choose another view...then the waiting start all over again. haha..oops.

coz a few idiots tried it and feedbacked to me le..haha. well, tried to change to the slide design that enables the fastest loading time.. think shouldn't be a prob. shall stop scaring everyone further.

enjoy......! and did i tell you that i love cappadocia?....

the link for your convenience :
http://www.slide.com/r/esDWroYd7D8Cb5tx3ksSQv-SUkUjoq5q?previous_view=mscd_embedded_url&view=original

battle of the dying cat..part2..

the cat is still outside.. must be too tired threatening suicide..so it's just sitting among our potted plants. sian la. when is it leaving!?! don't like cats and i don't wish to see a cat slowly dehydrating and starved to death outside my corridor. it hasn't eaten for god knows how long... in the run for the guiness world record for "the cat which can survive in a HDB in Hougang without food and water for the longest period of time".

dunno. we dun dare to feed it..incase it feels indebted to us and decides to guard our doors for good. how.. so poor thing. can't believe that it was perched at the railings for half a day yesterday... looked so so tired when i went to check on it but still determined to stay there coz she knows she's safe there...

amazing how animals just like human beings, instinctively knows how to protect themselves and at all cost. hmm..actually i think animals fare better than us in this aspect.

okay..enough of discovery channel...

i stayed home during the weekend.. and yes.. i've finally uploaded my turkey pics and even bothered to write captions despite the amount of times my comp hung in protest. already filtered out only 183 pics out of the original 800-900 pics i had.. that's a huge cut le. so you can be assured these are the best out of the best pics. haha.

HOWEVER, i'm waiting for another tour mate to send us some of the pics which were in her camera to complete my collection. yep..perfectionist, to put it nicely...bluntly, just too free to fuss about such gritty stuff.

remember....remember....Remember to view my captions k..took alot of sweat n blood to type them.. actually went to wikipedia to do research for the pics i took..the name of every hill, every ocean, every grass, every petal, every rock.... and the stories behind them.

the link should be up...soon! akan datang!

the cat battle...to be continued..

omg... there's been this huge cat on my corridor for about 3-4 days already. it just refused to go away no matter how we idiotically armed ourselves with a broom and make the "shoo! shoo!" sound... it just looked at us ferociously and kept meowing loudly. scary look on its face.

Think today was the last straw for us...and for the cat also.

As we were chasing it, it suddenly lept onto the ledge of the corridor and hung precariously at the edge as if threatening suicide if we push our luck further. I think it hasn't eaten for a few days and its body was shivering not sure coz of hunger or height phobia,..errr..maybe both.

my dad was busy scolding me "something wrong ah u..everything also take picture.." when i scrambled into my room to get my camera to take photo of the cat.. anyway, it looks super fierce. kowaii.

i called the town council and asked them to send people down to catch the cat..felt abit dumb even when was describing the incident.haha. i was like " i'm not sure if you can help but i need you to send someone to come and catch a cat at my corridor."

the 2 banglas came but they couldn't subdue the cat also coz it rean super fast and now it's perched on another part of the ledge. the 2 workers said they're going to send for more help.. so that's the latest updates...

don't like cats.

babu, i hope your meow meow is not like that.

jump!离开地球表面MV

信好帅。。。。歌好好听。。mv好high。。。。

面对五月天，小饼的台词就是那么毫无创意。。。

the goods and the bads.

liked oceans 13 better than oceans 12.. so that's good.

finally sorted out my pics...so that's good too.

settling down on my job... getting more used to my colleagues... kickboxing lessons starting soon... all seems good.

down with a slight viral eye infection =bespectacled.... my nice direct boss going to quit when i've only joined about a week (problem not with me of coz..ahem)... still not getting enough sleep... not blogging enough...still feels turkified after 1 week back home....... the not so goods.

haven't written much and feeling sleepy already. bio clock seriously malfunctioning man. need to send for repair during the weekends by catching up on more sleep.

more sleep=better mind=better body=better life=better skin=better eyes= better brain...

as you can see, i really need to sleep more.