fabulous tan??

haha poor baby had jaundice. but she's all good now :)

i am working very hard, as always...

a picture speaks a thousand words.

peek-a-boo

here are the proud parents of baby calista on day 1. apparently the sister had a hard time delivering her because she was pretty big at 3.62kg! i thought the baby didn't look newborn to me, she was big, meaty and has lots of hair. haha no it's not a description of a gorilla! anyways i'd say she looks 70% asian and 30% caucasian - but i was told that things might change after a few months. :)big feet! haha like her mum.and long legs...just like her dad.one of the happiest and most excited person around would be the mum - or rather - the grandma in this case. :) i really like this picture of the mum in the midst of carrying the baby.and.. if you are wondering why i have not posted any close up photos of the baby's face - that's because i couldn't get a nice one with her eyes opened. will try to post it soon!

popped!

after the 'full dress rehearsal' (false alarm) at the hospital last week - the sister went into labour yesterday and finally popped at 3:21pm today!!

good job to the brother-in-law for being with the sister throughout her entire ordeal! :)

so who says foreigners only take from our society and do not give? here's the brother in law's contribution to our decreasing Singaporean population. haha!

MAJULAH SINGAPURA!

this is at lucky plaza...

fishnapped!

they removed all the fishes in the office aquarium tanks and replaced them with plastic fish picture cards! cost cutting or a case of fish kidnapping?! heh... has the light at the end of the tunnel been switched off due to budget cuts? LOL.

guess we won't be seeing live fishes for awhile now!

check out my 'new office' part 2

i also posted the photo of my 'new office' on FB and it sparked a series of comments... and i really liked this!:

the friend: Haha! Funny! I really can't multi-task. I can't imagine you understanding 2 TV shows at the same time. Groovy baby! Hehe!

me：we live in a fast paced environment. must watch two TV shows at one time if not cannot finish the HK drama in time. :P

the friend: In a fast pace environment, do u eat lunch & dinner together? Do you take on 2 men at the same time too? Hehe!

me: regarding your question, if you really wanna know - i apply the FIFO method - first in first out. some say it's fast in fast out...

- i am referring to your question on eating lunch and dinner together!! what were you thinking you naughty boy :P



not bad! looks like i still have that little bit of creativity and sense of humour left in me. heh...

check out my 'new office' part 1

working from home 是快乐的！one screen for work, one screen to watch hong kong drama...

i call this the best of both worlds.
工作不忘娱乐！

take flight

today.. is my flight booking day!! i booked 3 flights in 4 hours!!

$49.00 to penang
$58.00 to phuket
$108.00 to bangkok

the penang and bangkok trip is back to back, with less than 24 hours turnaround time!

who knows what's going to happen next year but... HECK IT! book first plan later!

933 hit awards 2009

today i received an unexpected invitation to the 933 hit award 2009! JY had a pair of complimentary tickets so we went for it together. pretty neat seats for a pair of free tickets i'd say. from our view we could see the stars walking to the backstage after their performances.

i realised i'm so not in tune with the chinese pop song scene (or rather the pop song scene in general heh) i had no idea that hit awards was tonight, no idea which celebs were coming, didn't know most of their songs and albums... nonetheless, I ENJOYED MYSELF!Olivia Ong!!! - my favourite!!! she sang the Little Nyonya theme song again - afterall that's the only chinese song she knows but i'm not complaining because i know this song too and i could 'connect' with her! :PS.H.E!!! - JY's favourite!!! actually, i like S.H.E too, and i was familiar with the lyrics of 3 out of the 4 songs they sang that night, really cool!i had a good time tonight and most songs were great. the very last time i watched any kind of live performance in the singapore indoor stadium was in 1996!!

after the event we went for supper till 4am with CY, DY and their 933 DJ friends including PF - who was one of the awards ceremony host. CY and DY are releasing their first album this year!!!

nice people.. very nice people :)

and i PONDer...

to be a big fish in a small pond...
or a small fish in a big pond?

hmm......

now i'm all but a salted fish in a drying up pond.

what's next?

This Is It

the movie... is awesome. MJ's really what you'd call a mega mega star. never once a MJ fan, but i was blown away by him in that movie. his moves, his words, his star presence...

RIP MJ... MJ would have probably said: "God Bless You"

today at work i learnt that...

parenthesis = brackets.. like ( ) kind of brackets.

hmm...

i didn't understand the client when he used the term. on one end i pretended to know what he was saying and on the other i was frantically google-ing for an answer. at first i was embarrased about my lack of knowledge, but after asking a couple of friends and none of them knew what a parenthesis was - my bruised ego felt slightly better.

why cannot just say brackets huh? so complicated for what?!

the 'long' and 'short' about him...

BEFOREAFTERyup.. he cuts his own hair!! cool right?!

ok the "long hair" was actually some fake cheapo hair extension he bought to satisfy his desire to have long hair. he was trying to keep his hair for a really long time, but gave in to the hot weather.

fighting for time

grandma's in hospital :(
really hope she will recover because her great-grand daughter is coming to see her realllly sooon!!!!! - the sister is due in another month.

everyone. hang in there.

7am on a weekday...

means 10 more hours of excellent customer service...always ask: "Is there anything else I can assist you with?"

ps: i LOVE my new BB waterbottle~ wootz!

some say it's never going to be over

saw this window display at the new urban male store in citylink...this word is probably going to become a permanent part of our cultural lexicon.

when ah siao meets elvis presley

this morning i woke up from a dream. to cut the long story short, i dreamt of ah siao meeting an elvis presley looking persian cat at a multi storey carpark???!!

they were both standing on their hind legs only.. and shaked paws... WTH.

i seriously have no idea how this dream came about and why elvis presley of all people?!?!?! ..maybe it was because of THIS REPORT i saw on the news last night...

hmmm...

summer party 09

before i start, i can't believe i didn't blog about summer party 08?!?!

anyways this year's summer party is at Sentosa AGAIN! but it's not like i'm complaining. i think the concept of a beach party is great!the live bands and performances this year was pretty good. i liked the entire atmosphere...well as usual, BB's parties are always about nice music, good food, lots of alcohol and full of great people :)

the chewing gum and helium experiment

i thought what they did in the video was cool but i don't think it's real, heh.guys, don't try this at home...

i suddenly feel i have no friends... :(

boring weekend.

no friends.

我要的幸福...

你追求的又是什么呢？

简单就好。

the day i learnt more about autism

as part of BB's social responsibility programs, i was one of the volunteers to befriend an autistic child and bring him to the huge playground in turf city for an afternoon of fun...this is my little friend J who is five years old. he's so cute and he loves to play, i had a great time that afternoon. my colleagues could all tell i was enjoying the climbing, jumping and sliding more than him! heh..the kids had so much energy and i was very relieved when it was finally time for tea break. the entire place was so colourful, it was like going for a birthday party. heh..not easy at all to get J to stay still and pose for the camera, that's the best shot i could get of him! with french fries in his mouth.at the end of the outing, we went to a nearby pizza place to cool ourselves down with some ice cold beer. wonderful friday. :)

KL getaway with BB girls!

it was the first time i took a plane from Singapore to KL! i'd either always drive up or sit a coach. so we arrived and paid for a mini bus which took 7 of us to our hotel for 200RM.7 of us stayed in 2 connecting rooms and a seperate suite. G, M and me shared a suite and here's how it looks like... lots of room for the girls to come and chillax...we managed to get a couple of pretty cool shots using my LX3! i love the red background.we woke up the next morning 'fighting' haha..very very cool shot of M flying in the air! i swear it wasn't superimposed!horizontal me...a group photo before we set off shopping for the day!the girls caught with their leperd prings and jeebraaa prings..the evening was spent chilling out at the 33rd floor's westin executive lounge...
happy times are short lived.. time to go home now!I LOVE THE PEOPLE I WORK WITH EVERYDAY!!

SUPER WORRIED

i'm leaving for KL with the BB girls in a couple of hours time! but i'm seriously SUPER WORRIED now - why?? - because the mum just told me that some guy and her group of aunty friends are coming over to our house tomorrow.

what's the big deal you may ask? - the big deal is: that guy is actually from some dodgy equity e-platform brokerage firm who is here to use MY COMPUTER in MY ROOM to show a group of curious and clueless aunties about trading stocks online.

it sounds like an absolute disaster to me. let me remind you, the mum is the kind of person who would allow someone to convince her to part with $3,500 for a vacuum cleaner we absolutely have NO NEED for.

sigh.

come rush rush, go flush flush??

in case you cannot see the chinese words, it actually says there:
"来匆匆，去冲冲"

ngee ann poly open water in tioman

for the first time i'm on a 'business trip' - ie: i'm part of the dive crew and not a regular paying customer. brought a group of ngee ann poly students up to tioman for their open water scuba diving course over this weekend. i'm also using my personal dive gears for the first time, yup i bought a full set of dive gears for $1,600!! oh well in a way i think it's worth it because i dive much better now compared to using the rental gears...his name is Donovan and he's one of the students, DAMN BLUR.. but very cute. haha...how blur?? - he forgot to attach the hose from the air tank to his BCD. and he was frantically asking us "why dont have air one??"... =_=|
CJ and me the ralf tech gang! we both think our wetsuit is very cool. haha.CJ and me and our supposedly 'boss' for the trip...but i think i bullied him too much! hahmel, me and cal -- our sifu (cal was our open water instructor)and... back to work on monday with a chao tar face...