work is not your life...

went to visit zhe yesterday.. hurts to see my good friend in so much pain. she looks so tired but the pain stopped her from getting her well deserved rest.

you'll get well k...like what i smsed her... it might be mentally and physically challenging for you right now... but just tell yourself it's your body telling you that it's time for you to take a rest.. dun worry about school...you can even consider quitting school and take a break for a while...and request to transfer to office based posts.

can't imagine that she went to school and taught as per normal despite a high fever and her condition! been a teacher and know how physically draining it is... so it's more unimaginable for me.

just bought a mini radio for her to bring along in our next visit so hopefully she won't feel so bored and out of touch..

jia you jia you..!!

praying for my tomodachis to get better

maria..you'll be fine! ganbatte yo!

zhe, hope you'll get well soon..hayai.. i know you will! jiayou jiayou!

tsk...watever!

stomach hasn't been feeling good.. can't put a finger to what exactly is the prob. whenever my stomach is digesting food after a meal, it'll make super lot of noise...the same kind of growling that happens when you're feeling hungry. then will be a series of burpings... just like a baby.. dam gross.

my colleague asked me if i was hungry...just half an hour after my lunch coz she heard the ridiculous noise coming from my stomach. the world's crazy..so is my stomach...a little riot going on. hate it!

was on course today..so really dreadful when i think of going back to clear my emails tomorrow. lemme scream in advance....ahhhhhhh.

meetin at 9.30am tomorrow...ordered old chang kee for my members as snack.. hehe...more like to satisfy my cravings la. dun waste the $2 per head snack allowance for meeting.

then 2pm...meeting again. .

happy meet-ING.

oohhh..check out this vid.. she's so bloody cutee.....KAWAIII. !! haha... whatever!

all ab0ut f00d

Food story 1: Gayathri Restaurant @ Little India.
Had planned to go gyming in the afternoon but last minute we arranged a farewell lunch for my manager.. just within the IE team aka. Innovation Excellence Team. So there goes my resolution to gym. Had $10 fish head curry at Gayathri Race Course Rd..just near my office. Food was good…better than the banana leaf which also serves similar dishes. $10 promo is only for every Wed Lunch…we had chicken masala, fish cutlet, mutton, and veggie..

Rating: **** /5

Food Story 2: Pepper Lunch @ Dhoby Exchange
So.. for dinner… Naz was betting that I’d not be able to stomach pepperlunch for dinner but I told him for the kuromitsu ice-cream I’d be there. Haha…recommended by babu… and it’s really oishii!! It’s soft ice-cream with gula melaka topping…thumbs up. Slurpz. The macha and sesame ones are not bad too. Loved my chicken pepper rice though I offered naz like half of my food coz I was really stuffed from lunch. In return, naz donated all his bean sprouts to me.. I love greens.

One down side is that it’s pretty pricey for fast food and the quality of food isn’t fantastic also for the price we pay. Naz complained that the steak was tough and his set was like $15. but I find my chicken pepper pretty tasty.. so no comments.

Rating: ***- hamburger & steak cut **** - chicken pepper rice
***** !! - soft ice-cream (kuromitsu, macha, sesame)


Food Story 3: Sun with Moon Japanese Fusion Restaurant @ Central, Clarke Quay
So my eating continues… dam. Went to Sun with Moon today for a colleague’s bday lunch. Their main courses are pretty ex and not very nice also.. but the desserts are good.. thumbs up. Presentation or taste wise…ichiban yo. A glimpse of a few pics of the desserts….

~their signature tofu cheesecake..texture was great and taste was thumbs up too...~

~macha tiramisu.. creamy and not too sweet~

~some buralle...forgot the name..but it taste like steamed custard egg.. ~

~our lunch ended with these sinful indulgences.~

Besides the mediocre main courses, the service quality of the staff also CMI.. they’re not like rude or anything, they’re actually very polite. But they’re just abit weird in their way of doing things and causes us a lot of inconvenience. Somemore we noticed that most of their service staff are not Singaporeans so we’ve got problem understanding their language and their puzzling reactions to our requests.

Rating: **..sigh - main courses *****..!! – desserts

fireworks 2007

couldn't help but exclaim throughout the fireworks display.. with very limited vocab.. " waa...so pretty...so pretty..." x100.

everyone should go watch the fireworks since that's what our taxes went into. could almost see $$ sign flying around in the dark night sky. was so busy watching that i forgot to take a few pics of the display..

fireworks were pretty..our seats were good..high enough to have a panoramic view of the display.. despite having to climb 58 steps to get to our seats, it was all worth it.

however, happiness was shortlived when we saw the crowd during dispersal....
forgot how we manage to get out of the human jam.

spent the rest of the night at this club called "sahara" at boat quay.. naz's sis n friends wanted to try seesha so we tagged along.. din try it though..i'm not curious when it comes to anything foreign (besides oxygen) that i'll need to inhale and then exhale.

hung out till 2 plus..omg. forgot when was the last time i went clubbing even.

one of those few times that i took the night rider home too. i promise it will still be one of the few times..

we need more love in this world..

was pacing around orchard control while waiting for shan.. was on my hp, trying to call babu as our line got cut off earlier.

then i heard somemore shouting out loud " hello... hello... someone please..." repeatedly for a few minutes.. it was evening and the station was crowded.. but no one responded. including myself.


My view of the man was blocked by a pillar and as I walked to get a clearer view, i had a little shock. He was a blind man tapping his stick anxiously with his cries, hoping for someone to step forward.

I was on the phone and didn't want the conversation to be interrupted and just ignored. yes i did. in my mind I was thinking if it would take up alot of time if i were to guide him to the place he wanted.. or how to respond to his request if i'm not able to help. thoughts ran through my mind like sekali he's a bad guy or what (WTH, you watching HK drama ah!?!) .

on the other hand, i made out the logic that sooner or later, someone would help him one la. and sure enough, i saw a lady leading him up the escalator the next moment. my guilt pang eased abit.

how presumptuous human beings are.. always waiting for each other to make the 1st move. and not that I'm relieved that i wasn't the only one who held back at giving him assistance, but we do need to assume less and be less self centred.

I'm always the 1st to give up my seat to the more needy people on trains and buses... thought I'm fantastic already. hah.

there's always room for improvement mochi. ganbatte ne.

cakey disaster..

getsu youbi again...! quite frightened to go office tomorrow for fear of facing the reports i gotta do... somemore must shoot emails to beg people for info one...haiz. at least i've got my little private cubicle to wallow in when i'm swamped with work.. unlike when I was teaching, i gotta face the class even when i feel really lousy.

meeting dragged past 7pm today...tried so hard to pry my eyes open and look focused.. super challenging task.

weekend.. oh..weekend. saturday went ktv with buddy tan, buddy ng and WC. at the $10 family ktv... really alot of families with aunties and uncles...the only grouse i had was that we had to rush through our song selection... the rushy system will log you out wherever you are if you browse the same page for too long...then you gotta go back in all over again..!! super sianz.

thought the most fun part of our outing was when we hung out at Macs laughing at one of our ex-colleague's cupcakes creations. seriously lousy creations...aesthetics wise and taste wise.. and she's marketing her "creations" through a website. no personal attack here...we were just scolding her cakes. ssshhh... check out these pics...

i dunno la..just looks so unappetising to moi. the colors..the fake roses and omg..the amount of colorful cream. gonna put up these pics for only a week..haha..scared she'll surf upon this site...then she'll aim all these cakes at me.

went bowling yesterday with naz to ease my craving..yep.had craving ever since i bowled on national day. hah...caught Rush Hour 3 after that.. love chris tucker...he's so fast and funny. especially the part where he forced the french-speaking chinese guy to speak english..through the help of a nun... hilarious.

the start of a new week.. mina san..ganbatte ne.

who is fazzi wazzi... ??

happy national day everyone! oh gosh..it's so belated.

busy meeting up with friends and all and too busy busking in the public holiday mood. this PH was super long awaited... it's the norm for the working class. we countdown to PHs.

met up with putri, alf n jy yesterday and i totally hated the fazzi wazzi game. just like the idiotic black magic game. the 3 of them were enjoying themselves playing the game leaving me out totally. i wouldn't even call it a game... a game is fun and there's mutual participation. not the fazzi wazzzzi...so anti social.

after putri left us to meet her bf, we proceeded to east coast for bowling and makan. jy shocked us by killing us with 4 strikes in a row.. he's mad. had a yummy dinner at the east coast hawker centre and kind alf drove us back. nearly dieded of fatigue.

coz...the day before i tried prawning for the 1st time in my life w naz...it was so fun! caught a few prawns and met my quota for the day..contented. before we knew it..it was 2am..and touched home at 3am.. that's the source of my fatigue.

and today wasn't a good day since almost the whole office was out of town... basically holiday-ING and 0 productivity.

mochi says: Tired-ING ..happy-ING.

calling for garang guni.

everytime i see my blog title, I get a tiny shock. can't believe i'm such a good photographer... to capture such a beautiful pic of the lalangs in turkey with sharon san nagging in the background "wahlau... can faster not.. everyone waiting liao! wahlau..you make me walk all the way back here to take these weeds? hurry up hurry up..done? done? okay..let's go."

been clearing my tops and bottoms from my wardrobe. realised that I have a number of tops which i bought and haven't even worn it once and now I'm stashing it already. so sad. some of which are from GG5. some cheap tops I got during sales. impulse and irrational buying la. cheap so what... no utilities gotten from them at all!

so..now. abstinence. i observe strict abstinence from buying during sales. I'd rather pay more to buy something I'd wear rather than coz "it's cheap and if I buy, i'd probably wear it sooner or later".

some of which are tops and skirts from esprit..and loads of those plain basic lycra tees from giordano. was crazy over them at one period and bought them in all sorts of colors. incorrigiblilty is me.hah. either my upper body has grown longer or i'm wearing my jeans lower and lower.. tops never seem to be long enuff for me to cover the fats on my waist leh.

hope i'll be motivated enuff to jog later.. bought peanut butter and bread! gonna spread peanut butter and strawberry jam on the bread later... perfect combi which everyone gotta try! spread the peanut butter first then the jam..but spread the jam sparingly la..if not too sweet.. throw in a cup of hot milo or kohii........... droolz.

mochi: always worth it to take some time to enjoy the simple things in life...~

oldies..always there and around..

havent had prata for a long time... and my dad bought jalan kayu prata for breakfast today! sinfully yummylicious.

yep..so went jogging during evening with fellow scagger.. to rid that feeling of guilt. haha..

heard this song Lean on me by Bill Withers on 90.5CLass in a colleague's car.. thought it sounds oldiely nice...feels good kind of song.. been listening to some old songs like YMCA... 4 non blondes "what's going on".... Ben E King's "Stand By Me" ...sharon san's most dreaded, my fave accapella of stand by me...that goes.... bom chi bom, bom bom chi bom...sha la la la..

Song: Lean On Me
Artist: Bill Withers

Sometimes, in our lives
We all have pain, we all have sorrow
But, if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on
For, it won't be long
Til I'm gonna need somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill
Those of your needs that you won't let show

You just call on me brother when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on
For, it won't be long
Til I'm gonna need somebody to lean on

You just call on me brother when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'll understand
We all need somebody to lean on

If there is a load
You have to bear, that you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load if you just call me
Call me if you need a friend
Call me ...

caught Jay's movie "Secret" .. it's not bad la. the storyline really reminds me of the combination of the lakehouse and 6th sense. but the good thing is that it does have some originality as well, in certain parts of the storyline. was in love with the theme song before watching, now even more in love with it after watching. though the song only came out when the credits rolled....sadz. was shocked that the almost everyone didn't rush to leave the cinema but sat back and hummed or sang along with the song... jay power!

周杰倫<<不能說的秘密>>
词:方文山 曲:周杰伦
冷咖啡离开了杯垫
我忍住的情绪在很后面
拼命想挽回的从前
在我脸上依旧清晰可见

最美的不是下雨天
是曾与你躲过雨的屋檐(oh~~)
回忆的画面
在荡着秋千 梦开始不甜

你说把爱渐渐放下会走更远
又何必去改变 已错过的时间
你用你的指尖 阻止我说再见
想象你在身边 在完全失去之前

你说把爱渐渐 放下会走更远
或许命运的签 只让我们遇见
只让我们相恋 这一季的秋天
飘落后才发现 这幸福的碎片
要我怎么捡

meetings and more meetings...

it was a thursday of meetings. the good thing was that before I know it, I'm a day closer to the weekends! yippeee!

never attended so many meetings in my whole life. made a boohoo today..didn't know that the evaluation forms had different pples' names on it.. so i just gave out randomly at the meeting lor... so I've got Miss S informing me that she's not Mr K. then Mr Z telling me he's not Mr A.

Haiya...we're all adults...just exchange k. haha.

yup..and oh! caught Transformers.. it was good la. but i'm not gaga over it. at least the $ was worth it, just the effects alone.

mochi says: 生日快乐隽毅 san!

just bored and lazy to blog..

~再多的五月天也不够我们沉醉~