Week #1 in Hong Kong

one week has passed and im still safe and sound in Hong Kong. i wont say my week went by without any hiccups or happenings but it's pretty okay as well. nothing very very drastic happen but still it's quite an eventful week here.

on tuesday, i was soooo sad. i almost wanted to go home. haha basically, on this day, there is an announcement that my new team will be spilt into 2 and i have to report to a new boss. i have nothing against the new boss but well, i kinda like my old boss. and with this split, there are more people joining us and it's kinda like back to square 1 for my current team. but anyhow, we will get by. was really shocked initially, followed by sad and unsettled and now, im pretty okay. accepting the fact that things have changed. oh well, cliche saying goes: change is the only constant. anyway, im pretty open to this new manager and hopefully, the new team can create sparks and all. ai zhai ai zhai. haha!

and on tuesday, i was feeling sooo pathetic. basically, i went to a mobile shop near my office to get a line. and when i reached there at 720pm, it has closed. darn. so the gung-ho me decided to take a train to the Causeway Bay and try to locate a simliar shop. and so that's what i did but it's not soo simple. i asked around and walked and walked, aimlessly, without knowing where i was and where i was going. the only aim is to looking for the mobile shop and thank God, i found it. so i got my line. then i asked around where is Wan Chai Road as i need to take a bus back and i followed some isntructions and walked and walked and walked. Aimlessly again. i've walked past 5 macdonalds and several bus-stops but i still did not find my bus. so wanted to call someone to ask BUT i dont have any numbers on my mobile. how sad is that? so i walked and walked and finally, took a cab home, only to realize the next day that i am just 1 metre away from the bus-stop that has my bus. ARGH. anyhow, i told my colleagues the next day and one of them was soooo sweet. he told me " oh man, call me. come give me your mobile. " hee hee. if he's not married, i would have marry him RIGHT AWAY!!!

other than that, i was busy with house-hunting. sooo difficult and so tiring. HK is sooo hilly and i have to walked up and down, up and down. but thank God, my agent is really good. she's very nice and sweet and has shown me many many apartments. some of them are pretty alright, some are small, old and dirty. the bigger and nicer ones are beyond my budget BUT im in a good position for bargains as the market is really bad. hee hee. thus far, have viewed 24 apartments and i have fallen in love with some. anyway i think i am more or less decided on which apartment to rent but i need my agent to negotiate for a cheaper price. hee hee. remember i have the bargaining power now. hehe! am pretty excited about getting my own house though.

oh there was a farewell party for a manager on friday. so i went because (1) FREE booze, (2) FREE food ( but only finger food, (3) networking (sigh). it was pretty alright. i had quite a bit as it's FREE but i was really hungry as there's only finger food. sigh. networked a bit by introducing myself to the sales team and also chit-chatted to some managers. wanted to talk to more girls from my department but they didnt even say " hi " to me. sob sob. i guess they really dont like me. HAHA do i look like i care? not really right? haha this is bad. anyway, it's pretty fun and interesting to see the mangers drunk and dancing crazily. but i still miss partying with my peeps in Singapore.

ooh, halloween this friday and i've gotten a party to attend. looking forward to it. darn, need to get a costume. need to spend money again. sigh.

my "first day" in Hong Kong

today is my first day in Hong Kong as a Hong Kong citizen. was pretty annoying. haha! getting all the things settled and all, so mafan, i want to go home! haha! took my 1-way trip from Singapore to Hong Kong last night and landed in Hong Kong around 1130pm. Luckily i "ordered" limoursine service to ferry me to my service apartment ( 1 month only ) at happy valley. quite shioks, S320 plus happy valley. feels like a rich person. happy valley is very holland village-ish. near town but yet residential. if i have the means, i would definitely want to stay here FOREVER. haha okay, maybe not forever but for as long as im in HK. this is how my "home" looks like:

this is part of the living room.
part of the bedroom.
this is the bed, quite big right?
the toilet and the BIG TV. hee hee.

have checked online. the cost for renting this current " home" is HKD 24,000 per month which is about SGD 5000 per month. CAN DIE right? if i rent here, i have to work as their chamber maids loh. hahaha. so too bad, i cannot continue staying here. got to enjoy myself now as much as possible.

opened my bank account with DBS HK today. soooo dumb. DBS HK and DBS SG are not "related" at all. dont understand. arent they under the same family called DBS. why they cannot check my SG account or whatsoever and kept asking me for HK whatever. sighz. but finally managed to open an account. then wanted to get a HK mobile line. BUT, because my HK ID is not ready yet, i have to pay a HKD 3000 refundable deposit. MAD! so i told the guy, " i'll come back tomorrow with my HK ID " and he said " sure " hahaha. waste of my time. then i went to the local supermart to get some food such as bread and instant noodles. supposed to last me through the weekend or whatever loh. hopefully lah. quite fun actualy to do grocery shopping. heh heh. maybe one day i will bump into my ONE TRUE LOVE, just like the movies. maybe. one fine day. maybe.

alrighty, need to be realistic and find my own apartment. please, let me get a CHEAP and HUGE one. CONVENIENT, FULLY-FURNISHED. haha am i asking too much? oh well, one never knows. seriously. really. *yawnz*

17 boxes!

the movers came to my house today to move my stuffs. it's rather amazing. i have 17 boxes to be shipped over. haha dont ask me what did i bring. honestly speaking, only my clothes, shoes and bags! 4 boxes of clothes, 2 boxes of shoes and 2 boxes of bags. the rest, i really have no idea. guess it's all the daily necesities which my mum bought for me while everyone else says i can get them in Hong Kong. haha i guess my mum is just worried that i wouldnt know where to get those stuffs. but oh wells, i agree with her! hahaha anyway she's coming over in November to help me to unpack and settle in. hee hee. feeling sooo loved.

now i am living out of my suitcases. haha! and my room seems soo empty now. i also shifted my room's furniture to give my room a new look. or rather, my brother prefers to call it his room! he kept asking me to remove all my "names" from the room but i told him " NO WAY! " i think i am so childish for my age ya, fighting with a 16-year-old kid over a room.

on another note, i realized that i do miss my piano kids. hee hee the other day i just bought macdonalds for 3 of them as they asked me for children's day presents. and they were so happy to see me ( although i think it's more because of macdonalds than myself but i dont care ). they even smsed me to tell me that they will miss me and will keep in touch with me via emails and ask me to teach them again when i'm back from Hong Kong. 2 more mothers told me to contact them so that i can teach their kids again. hee hee guess im a GOOD TEACHER ya? actually i also miss the extra income. hahaha

also, i realized, ever since my relocation has been officialized, i have been having farewell parties, dinners and lunches with the same people. haha! been partying almost every week with the same group of peeps and also having lunches and dinners with people all over again. i told everyone that i wanted to take pictures with them so that i can stick them all over my wall in HK but i also forgot and in the end, i realized i didnt take any pictures. too busy chatting and yakking away that i forgot my mission. oh well, doenst really matter, im coming back in 3 months' time. hahaha!

mmmm been surfing the web for autumn/winter fashion. HAHA! trying to get some inspiration so that i can go HK and purchase fashionable but cheap stuffs from Mongkok! looking forward to wearing my boots again!! yay!!

okok i think am just bored and blabbering rubbish. 17 boxes. will have a hard time unpacking man.

crying

it's been a week since i have come back from Hong Kong. there are some thoughts running throught my head and all but somehow but yet they dont seems to exist at all. it's like as much as i am looking forward to my new life in Hong Kong, i am missing my usual life in Singapore. as much as i would love the independence and exposure and experience Hong Kong can give me, i am missing my family, friends and everything here already when i am still physically in Singapore.

this is really weird. because all along, i have been yearning to live and work overseas and be totally on my own. and i have always been proud of myself for being able to be alone. but now, it seems that i am not as "strong" as i thought i am. there have been conversation exchanged with my family and friends that have made my eyes brim with tears. especially when the replies that i've gotten are sooooo sincere and thoughtful.

for example, yesterday i was just jokingly asking my youngest brother: " are you going to miss me? " i was expecting answers like " no lah, i can have my own room now." (we're kinda sharing a room now haha) or " remember to give me money before you go ah ". instead this is what he said: " okay lah, a bit. when you're there, you send me a picture of you every month okay? then i know if you have grown fatter or not. " when i heard this reply, tears just flowed from my eyes and i was telling myself: I DONT WANT TO GO HK ALREADY!! and when my grandma asked me to go to her house so that she can cook dishes that i love to eat, i was really really touched. and when i saw how my mum fussed over the things that she want me to bring over so that i can settle down nicely, i felt soooo much love. and when friends tell me that they will miss me and ask me to meet up for lunch or hang out, i seriously am thinking: how can i leave all these behind just like that????? some friends have also mentioned that they want to send me off on 10/19. i am really not willing to let them come at all because i dont want to cry on that day. i can foresee myself getting all emo and drama when i see my family and friends asking me to take care and etc etc etc. sigh. when did i become so "weak" ?

seriously, now i realize it's not that easy to just drop whatever you have at home and just unplucked and move. although it may seems easy physically but emotionally, there will be difficulties. but anyhow, i see this as a good oppotunity to learn and grow up and i have promised myself that i will not cry on the day that people send me off. i want them to remember the smiley hannah and not the sobbish hannah. but then again, what if i cannot control? haha aiyah. tough tough tough.

only 1 week left. i have taken time off to spend more time at home but it seems that im still going out almost every day to meet up with friends. mmm, didnt know im so popular. haha! i guess i am not as lonely as i thought i was. sighz. i really need to control my tears. MUST CONTROL TEARS!

hong kong - love it or hate it

well well, this seems like a dream, seriously. everything's happening but yet it doesnt seems to be real. truly yours is relocating to hong kong! yes yes RELOCATING TO HONG KONG! will be working in hong kong for 2 years and in a totally different role and different team - Data Sales. doesnt it sound exciting? truly excited to move and all but yet am scared as well. honestly, to work and live in HK has been my longest dream and funnily it's coming true now! unbelieveable!

been in Hong Kong for the past 2 weeks. didnt feel much as am still living in hotel and eating on company's expense. haha! so when people ask me: " so how's hong kong?" i cannot answer them at all. but then my relocation date has been confirmed: 10/20/08 and from that day onwards i will be holding a Hong Kong working visa and citizen card. isnt that exciting?? living on my own, looking for my own apartment, everything within my own budget. but this also means that i cannot spend as much as how im spending now. :( yup, although im relocating, i am not on an expat package. it's a local hire package so financially, it is not making sense at all. but i still agree to this as i really want to expose myself to a different environment and seek different opportunities while im still young!!! agree? amen!!

well, for now, i am hoping that the rental will go down since the market has been going down. i know it's not good to gloat over a financial recession but it would really help me financially. also i need to settle my apartment and also to get myself all settled down. thankfully, i have a few friends here ( locals and singaporeans ) and they are very willing to help me. in fact, my very own colleagues are equally willing too! am feeling so blessed BUT i would love to be blessed with money too! haha! i can imagine myself living here, taking the MTR, public buses, partying at LKF, eating at Cha Chan Ting and etc etc etc. hee hee pretty excited, seriously!

i am sooo going to miss all my family and friends in Singapore and am pretty sure they will miss me too. haha but no worries everyone, I WILL BE BACK!!! :) oh on another note, i am going to NY for training in December!! how cool is that. hee hee looking forward to that, totally!

LIONS LIONS LIONS!!!

take a look at this:



i almost cried after watching this. sooooo touching. i mean seriously, if given a chance, i would looooove to have a lion!!! i simply loooove lions. i have no idea why but i really think they are really really cute! so cute that i once had a dream that i had 2 lions as pets and they were so cute in my dream. till now, i still remember the dreams very vividly and the 2 lions. Mrs Mun asked me to adopt a lion from the zoo BUT i dont want to see my lion from afar, i want to be able to touch him, play with him, feed him, bathe him and all. do you think it's possible?

An Hour to Live, An Hour to Love

borrowed the book called " An Hour to Live, An Hour to Love" by Richard Carlson and Kristine Carlson after reading her entry on this book.

well i thought it's going to be a thick book and with many touching moments but i was sooo wrong. firstly the book is soo thin and the words are sooo huge. it reminds me of a book that a primary 1 kid will read. haha! and as i read the book, i find it sooooo boring. i dont even feel any love or whatever in the words. i mean seriously, the book is about a letter this husband wrote to his wife on their 15th anniversary and the wife responding after the husband died in 2006. if you're not the husband or the wife, how can you understand the love they had between them and everything, RIGHT??? and the things he wrote is very personal and i think ONLY the wife can get touched and teared. i was yawning ALL THE WAY! and the so-called touching things that he wrote, not touching or meaningful at all. maybe im too shallow? but i really cannot feel any love in between the lines of the book or even in the lines of the book! haha!

anyway if i really only have 1 hour to live, what would i do and who would i call? mmm, after some thinking, i think i will do nothing and call no one. because i dont believe in last-minute things. i mean if im really dying, then so be it. what's the point of calling up someone to tell him/her that i love him/her or hate him/her. i mean if i never said that means i am not going to say it. i dont want to do it because i know im dying. i dont want to do anything because 1 hour is too short to do anything. instead of doing something and not being able to finish it, i rather do nothing. maybe im lazy too. haha!

Incredible India

well, as per my previous post, i really really love India. i was rather skeptical about going to India because well, not that im racist but you know, haha i think i dont have to spell it out lah. haha! on the other hand i was pretty excited because it's a country i would never have thought of visiting if not for business reason ( this is before this trip ) and since i have everything paid for, why not? basically i was to be there for a week and to visit New Dehli for one day. wanted to try to make a trip to Taj Mahal but guess i dont have enough time as Taj Mahal is like 4 hours away form Delhi and I have the risk of missing my flight home.

anyway i must say, in India, im like a princess or rather the queen. becuase im like the ONLY chinese girl in the whole of India, they look at me as if i was a dinosaur - rare and extinct. haha! and they treat me like im some queen from another land, visiting them and gracing their country. the very moment i stepped into the airport, i was treated differently. everyone was queuing up to get out of the custom with their luggages but the airport officers looked at me and said " madam, you can go first " haha! and i was given the priviledge to ride on the elevator that is meant for big-shots who worked in my office building. haha! they saw me and they were like " madam, this way please " haha! and i got picked up by people at my very own hotel. haha! just got back from shopping and was looking all tired and dirty and then these 2 indians was like " hey, how are you? where are you from? " and i just replied politely that im from Singapore and they went on " you looked really cute in your outfit, where did you get that? " in my mind, im like " DUHZ, i look like a market auntie with ugly plastic bags and my hair is in a mess and you said i look cute? blind " and then they actually invited me for a drink at the bar which is at the top floor of my hotel. I told them " sure, let me put my things down and i'll look for you " very effective drop-off line! haha if they are cute like some bollywood star, i would definitely go with them. haha actually maybe not too.

this is Bombay. doenst look very indian-ish right?

aah, this is in Bandra Bends' End if i didnt remember wrongly. it's sort of like the outskirts of Bombay. do you see those small little thins in a distance? those are not rubbish okay, they are Indians. accordingly to my friends, they like to just hang out at the beach and yak non-stop haha no wonder we see Indians hanging out in Little India on grass. haha!

this is my hotel's view. i am facing the Arabian sea and im living on Marine Drive. apparently if your apartment faces the sea, it fetches a much higher price than the rest.

this is my friend's house in Bandra, not the whole block but the 2nd floor lah. Bandra is like the outskirts of Bombay. It looks dirty and small but guess what? it cost almost half million for this flat.

this is SharuKhan's house. it's HUGE!!!

see slums in India is everywhere. as compared to SharuKhan's house, such a stark contrast ya? apparently these slums are not legalized BUT should the governement ask these people to move, they have to pay them. interesting right? and they are really EVERYWHERE.

heh heh i took the so-called India Tuk-Tuk, which is called the Auto-Rickshaw. quite an exciting ride and they are only found in Bandra and not in the city area.

doesnt this look like flats in Singapore? acutually i think this is the only so-called flats i saw in Bombay. most of them are low houses.

this is Humayum's Tomb, in New Dehli. it is said that it is this tomb that inspired Taj Mahal. well from the picture, it may not look that grand, but trust me, the moment this came into sight, i went " OH MY GOD " and it's from the botoom of my heart that i am really inspired or amazed by this huge and amazing structure. i cannot imagine how Taj Mahal will be like. oh Humayum is some king i think. haha not sure.

this is the tomb of some scholar who is situated next to the Humayum's tomb. when i first saw this, im already awed. but then it pales in comparaion to Humayum's tomb. haha!

see i love it sooo much that i have to take another picture of it with me inside. and guess what, if you'rea an indian you only have to pay like 10 rupees to get in the park. for foreigners like me, i have to pay 100 ruppees. they should implement such practice in singapore to encourage us to go to our places of interests!

the street of New Dehli. see so many indians. hahaha! so lame.

in the whole structure, the only main thing is the tomb and the white box is the tomb. that's it. quite a waste of space right? maybe i should marry an indian who is willing to build Taj Hannah for me. hahaha!

another tourist attraction in New Delhi is the Red Fort. think it used to be like a castle kind of thing for some kings. there's houses, mosques, dining places, etc in the fort itself. very very grand again.

this is the gateway i think. cannot remember already. i just snapped snapped snapped. haha besides this is like 4 months ago.

all the buildings are white because it's real marble. although it's hot and sunnyoutside, the marble is cool to touch. very interesting. i think this is where the king entertain his guests in the old times.

the entrance to the red fort. i think it's called red fort because the outside is built with reddish brown stuffs, may be bricks. haha not sure.

this is the throne of the king. made of marble again. i think the king has to ride on elephant to get on top of it. not sure. just guessing. haha

well if i didnt remember worngly, this is the bed of the king and this is the bedroom. dont ask me how they sleep on such hard stuffs. i really have no idea. was there on my own and so dont have a local guide to guide me. maybe should have hired one so that they can explain to me what is this and what is that.

anyway i really want to visit India again and i want to go Taj Mahal. now im reading this book called "Shantaram" and it's all about Bombay and all and as i read them, i can kinda recall certain places that the book is talking about but i want to go back and see it AGAIN. amazing book, read it! ooh actually come to think of it, an Indian colleague of mine is getting married in March 2009 and her wedding is in Goa and she's going to invite me, which means i can go India again!! yay yay!!

updates!

wow i just realized that i havent written anything here for like the longest time - FOUR MONTHS! amazing right? haha actually i have things to share but im really lazy and so it's been MIA-ing for the past 4 months. but then again, not sure if anyone was reading it besides myself and a few other friends. hahaha so maybe it's not that bad?

let's see what have i been up to for the past 4 months. mmm, i went travelling! in March i made a trip to India and i really really really really really love india. it's really incredible India. it's a business trip and so it's very very shioks! business class, 5-star hotels, drivers, expensive but free lunches and dinners! sigh i love to go on business trips! haha! must start to "manipulate" my boss to send me on more overseas trips. i want to go JAPAN because i've never been to Japan and i have 3 Japanese colleagues whom i really really wanna meet. and in end-Apr-early-May, i made a trip to Israel for 2 weeks. very very very shioks. although it's not free and i have to pay for it, i gained a lot during this trip. i saw many many amazing things and i learnt a lot about Jesus and everything. it's simply amazing. and guess what, it's not as dangerous as how we see it on the media. maybe i wasnt near the gazaa strip. haha but anyhow, nice weather, nice people and nice views. i definitely want to revisit that place again!

other than that, the other good news is that im moving team. actually not exactly good news because i love my current team. my boss is good, my team-mates are amazing but the work is getting a little bored. which is why i decided to join another team when there's an opportunity there. although this has been finalized for about a month, but im still in my old team. haha need to hire the new replacement before we can work out the transition. getting quite excited as the new person is almost finalized. but yet im getting a little sad to move away from my wonderful team. well, i guess this is life - you dont always get the best of both worlds.

more good news - a colleague got married and had a simple wedding lunch. went and enjoyed myself very much, catching up with the colleagues from the other side of the office. haha! there were 2 tables of colleagues. not sure if the other tables are as happy as they have 3 managers there! my table was having so much fun that we were one of the last tables to leave the restaurant. haha! ooh, a couple just sprung out from our department. the most unlikely couple but yet speculations are going on. took me a while to get confirmation from both parties about their relationship but anyway am happy for them. funnily the other day, the guy asked me why do i think that they will not last. i mean seriously, what's wrong with him? i didnt even mention a word about this and he said i gave him that feeling. i got a little duhz and i told him " hey look, it doesnt matter what i feel or how others think. what is most important is that you 2 are happy and enjoying the relationship. so embrace it and made the best out of it. " and he can tell me " ya i know but just wondering " haha such a young relatinoship and he's having such thoughts. tsk tsk tsk. didnt told the girl though, dont want to make things complicated. hahahaha!

anyway i think life is very unpredicatable. a friend of mine was pregnant and she's all excited and happy and is eating well and all. but suddenly, one monday evening, i recieved a sms from her saying that she has lost her baby. this is sooooooooo sad. i didnt know what to say to her and she didnt know what to say to me either. so i could only send her smses asking her how is she and all. sighz. so young but yet she has to go through this. but well, thank God that she's young and can try again and that her baby is only in his/her first trimester. anyway just spoke to her on MSN and she said she's doing okay but she still cries sometimes for her unborn child. sighz. so sad. and her body is still not physically well. she's going to get another 2 weeks of MC. poor girl. only my age and she has to suffer this. must pray for her, pray very hard for her.

actually today (07/03/08) im on MC because i was down with a flu yesterday. haha actually the moment i left office to see the doctor, im feeling much better already. but since he gave me a MC for 07/03/08, i am not going to work despite the fact that im feeling better. hahahaha in fact not sneezing already. this doctor is quite a character. i told him i only had runny nose, he gave me medicine for fever, runny nose, sore throat and cough. tell me to have them when im having any of those. i think he doesnt want to see me again. that's why he gave me all that he could give. hahaha! i like this doctor but some of my other colleagues think that he's too long-winded, like an old lady.

okok i shall post pictures from my India and Isarel trips very soon.

Prison Break Season 4!!!

previously on prison break......*hahaha* okay maybe to some not funny, but i really like to say this line. anyway, recently, we have a REAL prison break episode happening in the usually tranquil and happy singapore!!! it's BIG BIG BIG BIG news in a SMALL SMALL SMALL country like us. the JI head - Mas Salamat has escaped from the detention center. well, if you need more coverage, googled it and you get tons of hits on this.

anyway, it's like watching Prison Break with a much much much uglier main lead. haha! if only Mas Salamat is as handsome as Wentworth Miller and all. haha okay i sound like a bimbo now. anyway, maybe Singapore Police can learn from PB. check for any tattoos that Mas has and search his cell for any special equipment. Then get a very very analytical detective like Mahone to track Mas down. who knows, it might just work. haha!

actually, it's kinda weird. it's been so many days and no one asked the family members of Mas? is he all alone here in Singapore? and i mean Singapore is pretty small and our security has been something which i believe most Singaporeans are proud of but suddenly they couldnt find this man? and i think the whole of Singapore is very very very curious about how a man with a limp can escape and still not be found. many void deck aunties and uncles speculate that Mas was beaten to death in the detention center and so in order to "cover up" this bloody mess, they let out news that he has escaped, staged this whole Mas operation and then a few more days, they will announce that they have found the body. HAHA! these aunties and uncles must have watched too much tv and movies. HAHA!

the other night, was trying to explain to my grandma in broken hokkein about this man and asking her to be careful. she's quite cute. she kept insisting that there are 2 men on the loose - one with beard, one without! and she kept saying that this is not real, just a show because she has sooo much faith in our Singapore Police Force. anyway managed to convince her that only ONE man is on the loose and she must lock her doors at ALL TIME. and she kept complaining that these people are very mean and kept asking me why they are so mean. haha sometimes, old women have the funniest ideas.

anyway, let's hope that he would be caught soon.

i am not closing this. haha

it seems that a lot of people are closing down their blogs or writing lesser and lesser. i guess as time goes by, there's lesser things to write and lesser energy to maintain one? not very sure of the reason for the closure but well, i am NOT going to close this, not because i am so popular that people's asking me not to close. not because that i have a lot more to write. not because i have a lot of energy to maintain. simply because, i am not closing it. haha no reason. okay i am blabbering, no idea why. haha

oh, my India trip has been confirmed. i will be flying on 03/09/08 to Mumbai and will be there till 03/14/08. then im flying to Delhi on 03/14/08 and back to Singapore on 03/15/08. only 1 meeting with the vendor on 03/15/08 in the morning and flight back home is at night 11pm. SO...i want to go to Taj Mahal!!!! hahaha hopefully i can make it as it will take 2 hours to reach there via the express train. quite looking forward to this trip but yet am quite afraid as well. haha!

oh and im going to ISRAEL! yay! since my Japan trip has been postponed and another group of friends cannot confirm the London trip, i have agreed to go Israel with my piano teacher. it will be for 2 weeks and i think im paying about 3k which i thought was a good deal. hee hee will get the itinery this weekend from my teacher, then will see what are the things im going to do. am really really really really excited!!! heh heh

then i want to go Spain in September, most probably Madrid and Barcelona. still in the midst of planning. My Japan trip will most probably be in October i think. haha so many trips, so little money. one of my friends asked me " where are you going to get all the money? " very very good question. i seriously dont know. hopefully everything will work out. so no more shopping and eating good food for me. i need to save save save. hahaha!

and today, i felt long and heavy tremors at work. another earthquake at Indonesia's Sumatra Island, 7.2 magnitude. it was really scary. the tremors were rather long and i was really feeling giddy and nauseous. let's pray that there wont be a tsunami. poor sumatra, so many earthquakes. imagine living there, always in the fear of earthquake and tsunami.

on a gossipy note, my friend told me that angelina jolie is pregnant, AGAIN! is ehe a sow or what? how many children is she going to have? doesnt she practice birth control or she just have sooo much sex with brad pitt? haha! anyway, i dont mind being their children. such gorgeous mum and dad, not to forget rich and famous. sigh, maybe i should write an email to them to ask if they want a daughter of age 27 haha. do you think. angelinajolie@hollywood.com and bradpitt@hollywood.com will work? haha!

gong xi fa cai!!

wow, havent written anything for the longest time. not that i am that busy but then i am that lazy. haha! anyway had a really good break because of chinese new year! hee hee very shioks, if only every week is like that - 3 working days week, shioks!

anyhow, nothing much happened or to do during chinese new year. basically it's the same every year and as you grow older, you get less excited about chinese new year. but thank god, my relatives still "remember" me. i still get the same number of ang pows and the same amount as before. i was soooo afraid that because i am hitting 30 and that i have started working, they will start reducing the amount they have been giving me! haha! well, as the saying goes, " money not enough lah". basically, this year, my family sing song, talk cock and play mahjong, literally. on chu yi, we went singing in chinatown, on chu er, we gambled in my uncle's house. as for talking cock, whenever we sit down for dinner, we start talking cock! haha! we even caught a movie together, all 16 of us.

as for the choice of movie, we selected " Ah Long Pte Ltd ". newspapare critics gave it only 1/2 star but still we decided to give local production our support. actually, it's not that bad but it's not good either. i think it's because in this moive, cantonese is used more than hokkien and so the jokes were not so funny and crude. Mark Lee is the main highlight and joke of the movie thought. some parts were pretty boring, some of my family members fell asleep. HAHAHA! i almost too. on hindsight, we should have watched CJ7 but then i guess we thought our grandma would appreciate Jack Neo more as she recognized him. anyway, this is not something that i would recommend.

on another note, the Edison Chan's scandal was hitting the headlines everyday ya. dont people get tired of such things? i mean initially it was soemthing interesting and all that but now, it's the same old news. same girl, same scandal, same man, same reason, same motives, everything's the same. but my parents are quite interesting. haha! they asked me to google the pictures for them as they are interested to see how scandalous the pictures are. my dad's friend even gave him a website but my blur dad forgot the address. and so i googled and showed them and their reactions were " eeeeeeeeeeee " haha! and then my mum said " aiyoh, so mean. dont see already. they are also of parent-born " haha! eh, they are the ones who ask me to google. i didnt offer okay? anyway, it's quite disgusting and not artistic at all. i thought Edison would be more artistic. haha! anyway, after seeing his dick, i told my friends " his dick very nice" and then my guy friends replied " why? very big? " and i said " no, not big. looks normal but looks smooth " and they couldnt stop laughing. i wonder why. im just speaking the truth. haha!

on another note, my uncle made a bet with me and the stake is his Audi A4 Cabriolet which cost 200,000! haha! he said, if i can get married by the end of 2008, he would give me his Audi as a gift! woo hoo!! anyone out there willing to get married with me? get the car and we can get divorce! haha he didnt state any other criteria! so let's get married!! *laughs*

Last and First Moments...

i must say, my 2007 ended in a very stressful manner. i met up with a newly married couple and 2 other friends for dinner, peaceful dinner. just catching up and all. well, we decided to make a trip to Butter Factory as another friend of ours was there. i kept teasing the couple to party along with us but i know they wont as they are not in the mood to party. however, upon reaching the club, the husband decided to go in for a drink! surprise surprise! now the wife is not exactly excited about this because she's not in any partying clothes but this didnt matter to the husband. and somehow, they started quarelling and the time was 1140pm!! oh my god, 20 minutes to the new year and im stuck with another friend in the middle of a domestic quarrel. we were at our wits' end, seriously. and so we waited for a while, hoping that they would stop but it didnt really happen. finally we mustered all our courage to walked up to the couple and tried to smooth things out. the time was 1155pm! we talked to the couple for a while, trying to calm them down and suddenly, we saw fireworks and everyone's just shouting " HAPPY NEW YEAR!" sighz, this is how i end my 2007 and start my 2008? kinda anti-climatic as i was all excited about partying and all. haha! but anyhow, they did make up after all so it's not so bad. my most stressful 30 minutes of 2007!

and my first day of 2008 was quite cool as well. met up with my secondary chums for lunch as one of us is a january baby. during the lunch, we were discussing about celebrating 2008 christmas together, haha! and were were planning to meet up more often. haha! this is because, basically we only meet up during the months when one of us is celebrating our birthday during that month. and being the women of actions, our next gathering is on 01/20/08 - brunch at Pan Pacific!! yay! quite looking forward to it. also caught a movie with another group of friends, watched AVP2. i LOVED it! although it didnt get good reviews and not many people like it, i thought it was good! i looooooooooooove the predator! soooo cool and soooooo handsome! some scenes were really really cool!!! one of my new year resolution is to make my secondary school chums to catch a movie with me!!! interestingly, although we've been friends for 10 years, we have totally different tastes in music and movies. they listen to chinese and cantonese songs, i listen to english. they watch japanese, korean and some english shows, i watch mostly english shows. all of them REFUSED to watch "Stardust" with me!! i begged and promoted that show but none of them gave in. haha! am going to force them to watch " Todd Sweeny" with me in March, on my birthday! haha!

anyway, caught "body 19" and "one missed call" on saturday. heh heh LOVED the former and HATED the latter. body 19 is really good, scary but yet logical. one missed call has it's frightening moments but it's sooooo senseless and ring-ish, ending sucks BIG time! got the urge to watch " america gangsta " still finding company. date me if you're keen. haha!

actually nothing exciting has happened. spent my weekends doing basically nothing, actually am spring-cleaning my room. haha! am very very determined to throw away tons of things to make my room a minimalist. wish me luck, tons of luck!

HIV Prevention

found out something VERY interesting recently, with regards to HIV prevention.

take a look at this:

basically i found a postcard with a picture like this and the caption was something about someting romantic and sexual is going to happen between the couple very soon. when you turn behind, it's actually a HIV prevention advertisement... one of the line goes like this : ABSTAIN FROM CASUAL SEX. a friend asked, " do you think it's possible for us to do that? " hahaha! that i have no answer. this is the media reach out to the straight society about HIV prevention, asking us NOT to do this, NOT to do that, DONT do this, DONT do that...

ON THE OTHER HAND...

i was in the same gay bar on another night and that night happened to be a HIV prevention night..and instead of asking them NOT to, the idea that was used to was : USE THE CONDOM. haha! so different...they are not asking the guys not to have safe sex or even to not have sex. the media is asking the gays to have as much sex as you want but please, USE THE CONDOM. on the way out, they even gave us 2 new condoms, a lubricant sample and a card that says that we can go for annoymous HIV checks at some clinics specially for the gays.. i gave them the " do you think i need look " and they gave me the " what the fark is she doing here " look..haha!

well, i dont know but i really find this VERY interesting.. in both cases, the motive is the same, to warn people against HIV but the methods used are totally opposite. in the straight society, we are told NOT to have casual sex while in the gay society, they are told NOT TO NOT have casual sex but use the condom always.. think about it, which is more effective and which is more true? does a condom prevents HIV 100%? if im not wrong, it doesnt. does not having casual sex prevents HIV 100%? well, your faithful partner may not be as faithful as you think he/she is... so what is the best way? what about getting HIV from blood transfusion, contaminated needles or by birth? i dont know why but this really got me thinking.. do people from the 2 societies think different and needs to be administerered differently? why cant the same methods be used to inform people about HIV prevention? mmm...*shrugs*

updates!

havent been writing anything for quite some time.. basically am lazy.. haha! and with all the holidays and christmas shopping that i have to do.. no time lah.. but am soooo glad that it's christmas! not sure why but i think christmas is the only holiday that i spent a lot of money but yet i always look forward to christmas..of course chinese new year is my FAVORITE holiday as i get money... *money money money, it's so funny, in a rich man's world* haha! anyway, let me share what i have been doing in my otherwise rather boring life recently...

(1) Zouk-Out!
yes yes, i went to zouk-out this year..it was a very very last minute thing because my friend from London came and then we wanted to party and it just happened that he was here during the zouk-out weekend and so we went.. BUT we didnt hang out at all, haha! it was sooo huge that we kept messaging each other " WHERE ARE YOU? " i was with another 2 girl friends and 2 guy friends.. basically, it was a normal party..there are soooo many gays with soooo beautiful bodies! and Armin Van Buurn was soooo good! check this out:




the only annoying thing about this party is that friend's friend's girlfriend accused me and my friends of stealing their money! basically my friend and his friends have managed to get a hotel room and we sort of stayed in the room for a while as my friend puked and got a little sick.. and since there's an empty bed, both of us basically were sleeping in that room for only 45 minutes..the next day, when my friend and his friends discovered that their money and one of the girlfriend's wallet was stolen, the retarded girlfriend INSISTED that it was one of us who stole it as we were the last seen strangers leaving the room! what an idiot! there were sooo many random people coming in and out of the room and she might have misplaced her wallet and anything under the sun can happen.. it is THEIR OWN FAULT that they didnt take good care of their belongings..there's a blardy safe in the room and they should have used it.. stupid and arrogant people! on top of being dumb, they were so unfriendly..not a single "hi" from any of them when me and friends went into the room..*bleh* anyway, no one pursue this matter any further. *CASE CLOSED* haha!

(2) Buying Bags!
recently, i have a VERY VERY strong urge to buy for myself this:



but it was tooo expensive.. the one i like is smaller than this and it already cost 4k! sighz too much and im not willing to spend that amount of money on a bag yet..haha but am VERY sure that one fine day, i will be able to afford one of these... so in the end, my mum kinda bought this for me:

quite nice right? hee hee i like it a lot..big and nice...and we bought it in KL, which is a BIG mistake..in KL, we bought it for RM3270 and so it's about SGD1400..my mum and i went into Gucci to take a look and it only cost SGD1320 here! so annoying! but oh well, never mind..actually my mum paid RM2000 and i paid RM1270...so it's almost a gift from my mum...BUT i bought her this as well:

it cost me SGD 1020..actually if you ask me, i thought it's pretty cheap because i always think LV in terms of SGD1500 and above...we went into the LV shop, looked around and almost bought another bag but my mum refused to let go of this bag..so in the end, i bought it for her as a birthday cum christmas present! im quite a fillial girl right? i think if you're a mother, you would love to have me as a daughter right? haha!

3) Malaysia, Truly Asia
went Malaysia with my family for a short weekend trip..quite nice as it's been quite some time since we go out as a family but we DEFINITELY need a BIGGER car..our tiny mitsubishi lancer is sooo tiny that me and my 2 brothers literally squeeze at the back seats! pretty uncomfortable but we aint got a choice..haha! went up to genting to enjoy the cool air and my dad won some money and treat us to a sumptious meal of abalone..went KL and bought the Gucci bag...went Malacca and bought many clothes and went JB to cut my hair...haha! pretty much enjoy myself..feeling rich as everything's dividend by 2..haha!

actually, i lead quite a boring life. oh well, i have to be content with what i have! christmas is coming! yay!

i didnt make it this time!

damn...look at this:

i aim to finish the race under 1 hour..but i took 1 hour 11 mins!! so infuriating!! no improvement from last year at all..and i thought i ran faster this time and i dont feel so tired this time..but then again, i didnt train at all this time..but then again, i want to run under ONE HOUR!! so annoying! anyway,never mind.. next year, i shall either (1) aim to finish 10km under 1 hour or (2) run 21km, the half marathon.. for both cases, i would need to train..but now im more interested in christmas shopping and eating.. haha!

BUT...

i took a whole 5 mins faster than my friend's boyfriend...haha! so happy..but then again, last year i won him as well..so no kick..and besides, he stopped to pee and i didnt..i only stopped to drink once...haha! but never mind, i still took lesser time than him..*grins*

my first and definitely not the last...

last friday..i went clubbing with my gay friend...yes yes finally, he has agreed to bring me along...and it's my FIRST time to a gay club..i was soooooo excited that i kept asking him if there's anything i should do or should not do in the club..and he was basically ignoring me...haha!

anyway, the club is located in Tanjong Pagar and it's called "Play"...or is it "Plaything"? okok...just checked, it's called "Play"...confirmed confirmed...anyway, upon we were quite silly, thinking that it's rather far from where we are...we took a cab..and it went straight down...and then we alighted and walked back...we could have walked for like another 5 more minutes and we would have reached the club...so silly!!!!

upon arrival..my heart started to beat uncontrollabley fast..i have no freaking idea why!! not that i am aroused or excited about the guys..but just that it's my FIRST time...anyway, paid and went in...and oh my god....there were soooooo many guys....everywhere i turned, i saw guys....and not just guys..but some of them were really cuteeee... seriously, i counted...there were only FIVE..yes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 girls in the club that night... and there was on e toilet in the club and it's basically empty...because there are only 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 girls! hahaha! actually i felt kinda weird...because there were sooo many guys and they were smiling and having fun...and some of them gave me the " what-the-fuck-are-you-doing-here " look.. and i gave them the " i-dont-know! " look...haha!

basically, we walked for maybe 1 minute and suddenly this very cute guy pulled my friend and forced him to drink... intiallyi felt kinda awkward as no one seemed to notice me..but my friend's friend was really nice..he started to talk to me...took a picture with me and showed me his boyfriend, who is EQUALLY cute...argh! so irritating...all the cute guys are gay!!! anyway, then more friends came and there were guys in every corner of the club...cute ones, tall ones, ugly ones, short ones, fat ones, skinny ones..you named it...they have it!!!! oh by the way, i spotted this guy whom i thought was rather cute and asked my friend to approach him..and then his friend said that he's a radio DJ..haha..no idea who's that though..but he's really quite cute!

then we went to the dance floor...and again, soooo many guys...everywhere!!! and the cute dj that i was mentioning..he smiled at me...but unfortunately, i guess it's just a friendly smile...sighz, that night..so many guys smiled at me and danced with me...but it's kinda different..somehow, i could feel it or maybe it's because i knew i was in a gay club...*shrugs* not important... ooh and i saw a few naked guys and a few kissing guys..hahaha pretty interesting!!

ooh then i spotted 2 of the cutest guy i've ever seen...sooooo cute and they turned out to be Thai...one of them is wearing black and he's soooo pretty, not really my type..the other was wearing white and he's sooo my kind but a little on the small side but oh my god..he's soooooo cute....unfortunately, they were not interested in me in the romantic sense...they treated me like a sister! hahaha....we drank, we danced, we went toilet together and we checked out guys together...hahaha! the white one was sooo cute that another chinese guy was hitting on him and i was sooooooooo darn jealous....

funnily, although it was a gay club, i enjoyed myself tremendously...i have no farking idea why...my gay friend said.." you were like alice in wonderland " hahahaha...i guess it's because everyone's sooo nice to me without an agenda...as in if i were in a normal club and if the guys danced with me..their hands will start to roam..but this will never happen to me with these guys for sure...and that night i only asked 2 questions whenever a guy talked to me... (1) are you a gay or bi? and (2) do you have a boyfriend? haha! that's all i didnt even ask for their names or anything...and to the very cute thai guy who's wearing white..i asked one more question: Can I be your first girlfriend? hahahahahahahahaha...he's sooooooo cute!!!!

ooh...then cellulite texted me asking me if i was clubbing..i replied that i was in a gay club and there were sooo many cute guys..and then she said..." aiyoh so demoralized to be there " and so i texted back..." who cares..it's fun! " and typically, this was her reply: " no potential go for what? " wahahahaha..she FOREVER looking for potential in clubs and bars and pubs... seriously desperate for men? as usual, she's looking for not so guai but not too huai guys...where to find? in GAY bars/clubs loh!! hahaha! *shakes head*

it's so over!

recently, i am the aunt agony for 3 of my guy friends...interestingly, all 3 have unique problems but my advice to them is the same... " life goes on, so get on with your life "....haha! yes, maybe im lazy and insincere..but honestly, what do you expect me to say? to me, relationship problems can only be solved the the creators of the problem..not the bystander because the bystander always see things in a different light...

anyway, for the first friend...basically, it's just a case of him not able to get over his ex-girlfriend...no idea why he loves her so much..and no idea why he always misses her and everything..it's just him and her..he simply cant get over her..maybe because they are really suited for each other except for the fact that she is a time quantity person while he's a time quality person...she wants to spend every single minute of ther life with him but he wants to spend time with his "gay" friends...so that's the main issue...well, i tend to agree with my friend as i think it can get really boring to be stuck to the same person for a long time, no matter how much you love him/her...so am not sure how they are going to resolve this issue but i told my friend this: " you will NEVER get back to her...life goes on, so get on with your life...dont forget her...always remember her and give her a special place in your heart...but you cant just stop because of her..." and he always tell me that i'm right and blah blah..but if i dont remember wrongly, it's been months since he told me he misses her...haha!

then the 2nd friend is sooo in love with his ex...they've only been togther for like 2 months but yet he cannot get over his ex at all...one minute, he's telling me that he's really pissed, the next minute he's telling me that he's angry, the next minute he's sad, the next he misses his ex...it was kinda difficult to deal with as i have no idea what to say but " life goes on, so get on with your life "....haha! and then this friend is kinda funny..he would be telling me about his ex..and the next moment, he would update me that he just hit on a cuite..emotional roller coaster is definitely not the way to get out of a relationship! it hurts your mentally and emotionally..but then again, maybe it's his way of getting out..so all i did was listen...which i think is more than enough... and he better stop whining if not i'm so going to "kill" him...

the final friend is the most dramatic of all...mainly because his ex-gf is quite dramatic to start with but then again, it's way tooo much...she created quite a big thing out of everything and i dont know what to say...but then again, knowing her, i know she would make a big fuss..haha! basically i think my friend's just getting tired of all her dramas and suspicions...maybe she had some bad experiences or whatever..but then again, this is not my problem..just that i get a little sick of hearing the same story again when my friend's talking to me....haha and i know he knows that im bored and had nothing else to say...anyway, i would believe that it's not the other girl's fault although i would say that girl might be the catalyst but well, if the ex-gf is not a pain in the arse, my friend would not have whatever i guess...but then again, this is not exacly my problem...i am only hearing one side of the story and all i can say is " life goes on, so get on with your life "....to both my friend and his ex-gf..

gosh! all these sad stories are giving me depression...hahaha!

i really believe that God is fair..haha

hey.. heard of alibaba.com recentlyon the news? if not..here is a brief sumary:



basically it is an e-commerce company that is part of the alibabagroup and it has its IPO on 11/05/07...well, basically why is this on the news recently...look at this:

okay..people..the launch price was HKD 13.50 on 11/05/07 and on the first day of trading..it went up...no, it shot up to HKD39.50!!!! can you imagine how much money can be made and how rich the CEO, chariman, board of directors, top executives are now? i wish i was part of them....

BUT....

God is really fair...take a look at this:

do you want to look like this? HAHAHA...aw man..i'm soooooo mean...seriously, i think i will suffer from karma...i got a strong feeling that my future husband will DEFINITELY look like this...HAHA! but honestly, if he looks like this and have as much money as this man..i wouldnt mind at all...with that amount of money in the bank accounts...he can go for any form or plastic surgery and whatsoever and i can shop till i drop!!!

so seriously, arent we all cleared that God is fair? *winks*

dont be irresponsible parents

seriously...i dont know why some parents are sooo irresponsible...if you're a parent..please do what a parent ought to and should do...okay..actually i dont know some parents..i only know of 1 pair of parents - my uncle and auntie! hahahaha hontestly they are such irresponsible and selfish parents who only care about THEMSELVES!!

any decent parents will know that when your child is having exams..it is YOUR responsibility to guide and revise with him/her right? well, my uncle and auntie happily "dumped" their primary 4 kid at my house so that we can guide and revise with him!! this is so wrong..firstly, my auntie is a poly grad..she is educated and can do it herself but she rather spent her time in shopping malls and in front of the tv...and it has been agreed that she will come and pick up her child after work but even that she's lazy..on one occassion she asked if any of us can do that for her...so messed up..i mean she DRIVES..and her coming to my house is ON THE WAY back home from her office...it is her OWN FLESH AND BLOOD..why is she soooo irresponsible??? doesnt she care about her son at all???

and yesterday my mum was just telling me the most outrageous news of the season...my cousin is having exams this coming week...instead of staying at home over the weekend to guide their kids..my uncle and auntie is going for a HOLIDAY IN VIETNAM over the weekend..and once again..dumped their kids with my mum...and my mum just had an operation on her middle trigger finger!!! how selfish is that??? and they are leaving today..and told my mum to go over to their house to look after the kids for her despite the fact that my mum told them she had a party to attend..they DID NOT consider the inconveniences they are causing to my mum AT ALL...i totally detest them for this..i mean seriously, this is fuck up! how can they just go for holidays WITHOUT even arranging and confirming that someone is going to help them with their kids? how can they even go in peace when their primary 4 kid is having exams and my cousin's results is bad...seriously bad...what kind of parents are these???!!!! honestly speaking, i despise them for this...

another thing...they can spend 10K plus on an expensive watch but cannot give regular money to my grandmother? they can go shopping and holidays but cannot visit my grandmother once a month? the other uncle, who doesnt drive and lives in the west will visit my grandmother every week regardless of circumstances when my grandmother lives in the east...such a HUGE difference!!! seriously, this is soooo wrong....i have nothing to say..i rest my case...

so people..if you want to have kids...PLEASE be a responsible parent!