how should i reward myself?

time really flies. yes cliche, but it's true. i have been in hong kong for 1 year 2 days. my "anniversary" is 10/20. at times, it seems like i have just moved here. at times it seems like i have been here for ages. it's weird. anyway, it's almost year-end. i know it's premature and i may not even get a good bonus or increment ( super sad ), i am thinking of getting myself a "present" to reward myself. what's the reason for this reward? well, to be honest, i dont think i need a reason to reward myself. haha. so i have been doing some serious thinking.



okay, i have been thinking about this for a year. at times, i have the urge to just go in and buy it. but then at times, i find that it's way to expensive for me. BUT i really want to have a chanel bag! I mean it's expensive but it's classic and never goes out of trend. i can carry it when im 28, 38, 48, 58, 68, 78 or even 88. and i can share it with my mum too. although if i really buy it, i would most probably bring it to me to HK and so technically, if my mum wants to carry it, she has to come to HK or i have to be back in SG.



recently, i have seen many Balenciaga and i kinda like it. because it's big and there are different colors. BUT some friends have told me that it's too "bonia-ish" and that it's too common and there's nothing special about it. but i really think it's chic and there are so many hollywood stars carrying them. and besides, this will be half the price of a chanel. so it's actually more "affordable" as compared to the chanel. and this purple is soooooo pretty!!!



am not really a watch person as i like to have different kinds of watch and i tend to get tired of my watches very easily. but another colleague of mine has the intention to buy a rolex and so i have gone wtih him a few times to look at rolex watches. and somehow, they are appealing to me. i mean i have no intention but i wouldnt mind getting a rolex for myself. the one that i kinda like looks something like this and it cost slightly more than the chanel. again, if i were to buy this watch, i can wear it when im 28, 38, 48, 58, 68, 78, 88 and even bring it to my grave or put it in my will for my descendants. haha but the only "issue" that i have is that i am not very particular about my watches. currently, i have watches that range from SGD 12 to SGD 500.




okay, i have been planning to go to Spain for like 2 years. it was never successful as there were many changes. anyway friend and i have confirmed that we are DEFINITELY going to Spain this year. so maybe i should save my money for a good Spain trip. also, i have kinda decided that i want to go to London next year and another friend has promised to go with me. woohoo. so maybe, i should not buy anything and use that money for these 2 trips. which means, if i were to go Spain, i can get my balenciaga, mango and zara. and when i go London, i can go to topshop and H&M. woohoo!!!

mmmm, it seems like my choice is pretty obvious. so why am i still thinking about the chanel bag?

T-O-K-Y-O

went to tokyo for business during the first week of october. one word - SHIOKS. business class ticket, 5-star hotel, free meals. SHIOKS. i wish i can go back more often. am asking my boss to relocate me there. but i guess it's just a request that is never going to be answered. but then again, one will never know. in my company, seriously, change is the only constant.

anyway, first time in tokyo. been planning to go tokyo for holiday for the longest time but somehow, it never happen. always thought it's expensive. actually it IS expensive. went shopping a bit and didnt get anything at all. they are sooo expensive. even their ah lian clothes are expensive. went to this mall called 109 in Shibuya. basically japanese ah lian clothes. OMG, a skirt cost USD 80. seriously, i dont know how these young ah lians can afford to buy clothes in japan. went to their so-called normal shopping malls. nothing is below USD 100. seriously, not my place for shopping. wanted to go mount fuji, cant even see it from my office. okay it's a little bit too far but many told me if it's a really clear sky, i can see it. anyway, not the season to go. disneyland and disneysea - wanted to go but it's super lame to go alone. another place i wanna go is kyoto, didnt go. japanese fish market, couldnt wake up. basically, i did nothing during this trip. haha. wasted.

best thing that happen to me is this:



yes, i was zipping through tokyo in this baby. of course i didnt rent it and neither did i buy this. a very nice client of mine offered to give me a tour of tokyo over the weekend and so this is his convertible. it's AMAZING. when the ferrari went really fast, it was an amazing feeling. it's a mixture of fear and excitement. fear because my client doesnt seems to be a good driver. excited because it's really fast and the vroom-vroom sound is solid. couldnt stop smiling when i was in the car. got many attention too. hee hee.

i'll let the picture do the talking.



the view of the tokyo tower as we drove past it. because it's a convertible, i could just snap it while sitting down. an advantage of owning a convertible, heh heh.



a beautiful view of tokyo. took this when i was on the roof-top of my client's apartment. NOPE, i didnt go to his apartment. it was very kind of him to check with his security about the roof access and he got me there. amazing view. and yes, he's FILTHY RICH. and nope, he's like an uncle to me. haha



the tokyo tower in my hands!! remains me of the japanese drama that i used to love - "OVERTIME", staring my favorite sorimachi takashi!!!



another city view of tokyo. actually it seems like im on the empire state building in NY. i can basically see tokyo. so cool.



this is Shinjuku. i dont know why but i was dying to go there and when i reach there, it's just another shopping area. maybe i didnt explore enough. not enough time. hee hee.



aaah, this is Shibuya. the famous cross junction that is always seen in Japanese drama or movies. on the first night that i was there, i didnt know this was it. i always thought it's in Shinjuku and so i was searching for it in Shinjuku. only when my colleague told me it's in Shibuya then i realized i have actually crossed it. hee hee.



not sure where is this. cant remember. and no i was not drunk. it's just that i realized all my pictures look pretty much the same. guess tokyo looks pretty much the same everywhere.



aah was at a temple and happened to see a wedding ceremony. everyone looked so grand here. but to be honest, the colors make it look more like funeral than wedding. haha. but then again, it's the culture. maybe im just so used to having red during weddings.



was so excited when i see this group of ladies. they were all wearing kimono. sooo pretty. this was in harajuku. wanted to take pictures of some cosplay but unfortunately, i didnt see any. but anyhow, pretty kimonos are good enough. BUT, only the kimonos are pretty. haha.



not sure where is this. i think it's probably Ginza. again, this was taken when the car stopped at the traffic light. see, no reflection from the glass windows. another advantage of having a convertible. hee hee.



very very very famous band - SMAP. known them since i was 12. thought this poster was rather cute. if only i actually bump into them in person. haha. would have fainted on the spot. but then again, i prefer sorimachi takashi ANYTIME.

am now "begging" my boss to let me go tokyo again.

SIBEH PEK CHEK!

super duper pek chek. so pek chek that i just want to drop everything and not do anything and go home and sleep. i wanna scream and kill someone. the more i type, the more pek chek i get. argh.

in the morning, this friend told me he doesnt want to break up with his gf but yet he cannot forgive her gf over something. i asked him what and was expecting something like " she cheat on me with my best friend " but guess what he said? he said " she made a silly mistake and i really cannot forgive her as she didnt ' consult ' before doing that thing " and i go " DUDE, you are an idiot. and this is not a valid reason. you know you have other reason for wanting to break up with her and you're just finding excuse for yourself for not being a jerk to break up with her. " he denied of course. and i told him i am not going to say anything to him about this as he is a farking idiot and i think he's being super lame for telling me such a thing. fark. why do people get so blind when they are in love. if i am the gf, i would have dumped him when he told me the reason before allowing this idiotic jerk to dump me. *pui*

and then 2 hours later, a friend who had been staying with me over the weekend sent me a message to tell me that he broke something in my bathroom. i was FARKING pissed. reason being, he broke something which is not in a "breaking stage". i have been living in my rented apartment almost a year and i have not broken anything and he came just one weekend and he broke the thing in my shower? i was seriously farking pissed. he told me that it can be fixed by the superglue but he cant do it for me as he has no glue. WTF. go to the nearest supermart, buy one and fix it. dont give me such shit. he said he is very sorry for being so clumsy and if the landlord demand compensation, he will pay for it. FARKING HELL, of course you're paying for it. you broke it, idiot. i am really pissed. i am very anal when it comes to such things. i really do not mind friends staying with me BUT dont mess up my house. i totally hate it when they try to act smart and boil water for me. I DONT NEED YOUR HELP TO BOIL WATER. i can boil my own water and i have my personal preference and routines. dont come and try to be helpful and act like you're taking care of me. if you need to drink water, freaking buy a bottle of mineral water from the supermart. maybe i should stop housing people in my apartment. i shall make sure they pass all my criteria before i agree. anyway, guess what? i came home, i bought superglue and i tried to fix the thing, it's NOT FARKING FIXABLE. so i messaged my friend immediately: "hey, it cannot be fix. i have no idea how you broke it as it's not even on the verge of breaking. i have no idea what the landlord will say." am seriously so pissed that i cannot sleep and am penning this down!

another idiot just completed the 3rd strike. i have this client, he's a retard. apologies, he's worse than a retard. he is annoying and dumb. for the past few weeks, i have been trying to sell hm something. and they were almost buying. every day, he would call me and pester me for at least 30 mins on the pricing methodology of our products. i have explained to him a million times but this retard just cannot get it. and he's always asking for EVERYTHING to be in black and white in the contract. i asked if his legal team asked for it, he would replied " i havent passed to them yet but i know they will ask for it " to which i replied " no, pass it to them and if they have questions, i will get them to talk to my legal team " and this retard simply refused. he's been pestering me so much that i was really annoyed by him that there was once, after i hung up, i shouted " farking idiot " and everyone around me was like " woah, are you alright? " seriously, i have no idea why his manager is still keeping him as an employee. anyway, after so weeks of tolerating with this retard, this retard told me that due to change in business plans, they would not need the service from us but they would take it at the global level. fine. no $$ and i have to put up with this idiot. and this retard then asked me for the contracts that were signed at the global level. i told him i have no idea as those are handled out of NY and he said " could you help me to check? " and i said " I CANT. i have no freaking information at all " and he pestered me for another 30 mins, telling me why he needs the contracts and all the lame excuses. i told him to look for his NY counterpart to get it. and he said " if you send to me, i can check with them. " and i said " but i have no (farking) idea which contracts are you talking about. " and he said " why dont you send whatever you have to me and i'll check wtih them. then i told him " look, i dont have the contracts. i will ask my contracts team for it. " and finally, he hung up. after that call, he sent me an email, demanding that i send him the executed contracts by tomorrow. FARKING RETARD. well, so i simply put in a request to my contracts team to ask for the executed contracts. and guess what i got? this contracts manager asked me " why would a local rep need an US contracts " WTF! i cannot even view executed contracts? as i was too farking pissed to get back to this guy, i have not replied him yet. tomorrow, i am going to ask " are you saying that local rep is not allowed to view global contracts? " FARKING HELL.

PEK CHEK! PEK CHEK! PEK CHEK! PEK CHEK!

I am a Great Wall Climber!

this is a very proud me! i am officialy a Great Wall Climber. okok , maybe i didnt climb the whole wall but i did climb lah. and seriously, it was TIRING. it didnt look very tiring but it was. trust me. i was huffing and puffing and huffing and puffing. and in the temperature of like 18 Degrees Celsius ( i think ) , i was perspiring. a pity it's kinda misty and so cant see the wall properly but it was huge.







guess the pictures spoke more than my words. yes the pictures are very nice because it was misty and maybe i am not a good photographer but hey, it's quite a wonder how this wall is built. so hurrah to the Chinese! yay!

ooh when i arrived in Beijing, it coincided with the final rehearsal for the Chinese national day and guess what? they sealed up the WHOLE TOWN! not only do they close the roads, they close the pedestrain walkway too. they do not allow anyone on the street, not even to catch a glimpse of the rehearsal. WTH. pissed like crazy. and so me and friend just stayed in the hotel ( thank god the hotel is a good one ) and slept really early to get ready for our Great Wall adventure! okay, maybe not adventure but we really need to get up super early to have breakfast and to be picked up by our local tour.

talking about the local tour, friend and i pleasantly surprised that the tour guide's command of english is good. we can understand him very well and he explains all the historical stuffs to us pretty well. and his name is kinda interesting. his name is " Forest Song ". haha i am so paiseh to call him "Forest" as i know i might just burst out laughing.

ooh our tour also consist of the Ming Tombs. Basically we went to visit one of the tombs of one of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. Apparently, there are 13 tombs and only 2 are opened up. mainly because we cannot afford to open all up until our technology allows us to open it without harm. accordingly, when the tomb was opened up, as air gets in, everything gets destroyed. and this tomb was opened up because the emperor was not very good and so the chinese dont mind having the stuffs destroyed. haha. and besides, it seems that a lot of things got burnt and destroyed during the cultural revelation.





nothing much from the Ming Tombs. all the pictures didnt turn out nice. anyway, the big red box is the coffin and the small boxes are the jewellery. and the 2 empress were buried with the emperor as they both died before him and so they could be buried togets.

well, a trip to beijing will not be complete with the tour of the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace. although i have visisted the forbidden city previously, but i still want to revisit it. it's kinda of like going home. hahaha. after my previous trip to the forbidden city and after i confessed to my friends that i feel bad for the maids and servants who had to travelled on foot to all parts of the palaces, they started calling me "princess" or rather " ge ge" . hahaha. but to be honest, it's soo huge that after a while, everything kinda looked the same. friend and i just go " oh i thought we saw this just now? " and we realized that the emperors, empresses and concubines loved to entertain themselves in the gardens. so friend and i tried to entertain ourselves in the garden too. didnt turn out to be that entertaining. and i still pity those servants and maids for having to run around the palaces. friend think that they are only dedicated to one area and only need to know one area well and so they need to pass messages. maybe she's right. and friend made a very interesting comment. she said if she had a summer house and a house, she wouldnt make both of them the same. but apparently, in the olden times, only one design. haha. well, as evidence, i have uploaded some pictures from summer palace and some from forbidden city. and they all looked like they are from the same area! haha!













think we both look darn pretty here. *winks*