Frenzy Updates!

Here's frenzied Carol with her updates. Suddenly, her mood is lifted! Is it because she has cleared her bout of 34 emails just now? Or is it her satisfying spaghetti lunch she cooked and chomped down? Maybe it's due to...

Xiaobai aka her beloved dog has done something 'proud'. He caught a rat! a rata-teeling rat! the situation was so exciting. i missed the exciting part thou. By the time I got down, i saw a squirming victim laying on the floor.

Ok, my dog has been rushing to the storeroom for the past few days. He barked at times. at what? we DON NOE! got rat? or got cockroach? god knows. then came this late afternoon when my eyes were goggy from doing work. I heard lotsa exclaimation at the living room. went down and my MIL and the 2 maids were looking for the rat. apparently there really was a rat in the storeroom. And it has scrambled out bravely to the praying table. MIL saw it. then it ventured to the water feature. Minah kept on trying... MIL and I gave up hope (i didn't do anything thou. just stand and watch. haha) and I suggested we put a rat trap tonight in the living room to lure the pest out. then suddenly Minah strike gold with the cane fumbling the hole. the rat came out and Xiaobai bit it once and let go. but the rat suffered injury liao. Xiaobai, for as long as I know is kinda timid but always put on a strong front. He always bark at cockroaches, etc but never caught them before. So I can imagine even if the rat is in front of it, he would just bark and scare it to death. By the way i went to see, MIL told me it bite the rat, I was surprised. She was full of praise for his bravery! haha... tonight, he will be rewarded with her bak kut teh. MIL cooked this tonight... i tested it and it's yummy! Xiaobai is in luck. to achieve this feat on this day where there's bak kut teh. perfect timing.

Think i'm abit crazy. mood swing? hack! as long as the mood is good, what does it matters?

Some pics taken lately...

Us at Sakae sushi @ Wheelock... the day where we spent an idyllic evening at Orchard. i shall not mention which day. but I truly enjoyed the time spent with hubby. We haven't been to Orchard like this for months!

Another shot at Sakae sushi. don like this shot cos it makes me look plump but hubby looks great lei. better than the previous shot.Tiffany and me. She likes this pinky hairband of mine. It's my one and only hairband. She clamped her hand at PIL's door and was crying. To cheer her up, I make her pretty pretty and she was very happy when she went to see her reflection in the mirror. Asked her if she wanna take pic and she nodded. girls are still girls... do this type of girly thing makes us happy!

Time for my bak kut teh now! but not before hubby reaches home thou.

Ciao!

Lament~Exhausted~Complain

I know it's useless to complain. but sometimes it's just a way of letting off the steam. hehe... let this be the holy place to let me blare whatever I have to say.

This week is d week that really drained me out since I've joined here. I was already contemplating to take leave on Fri since Tuesday. can you imagine? It's been conference calls non-stop these days. Thank god my company does provide a handset for us to use. If not, I think my ears would have gotten numb at the end of the day. My Tues was worst ever for me. Had conf call from 9AM till 530PM. only break was 1230 till 2PM. That was listening/talking for 7 hours! My God!

And something that I must vent out is I don't understand how some people in this world have no sense of urgency, no sense of responsibility and no team-work! Such a B.I.T.C.H. Think they can work with their mouths. All talk and no actions. They should go and be in Marketing. And today I just had an argument with her before knocking off. Gosh! Since she's not doing her job, bo-pian lor. I checked with her team-member(let's call him A) yesterday and did the updates last night so that relevant people can react in soonest time. In manufacturing, time is precious. We are so near to the start of build yet she can take her bloody own sweet time. And she emailed me today on additional updates. I took a look and realised it doesn't seem to be correct. I mean her understanding of A's data. Yesterday I had spoken to A and clarified whatever queries I had before doing the updates. And we argued as she mentioned my thoughts were wrong. I decided to conf A in to find out who's understanding is right. SHE JUST ASSUMED without checking with A. Indeed, my understanding and updates were correct. And upon learning that, she tried to insist her way of presenting the info but that would simply confuse everyone. Managed to shut her off then. glad that at least A and my way of doing things is aligned. But I just don't understand why some people can be so lazy to simply just ASSUME when getting the answer is just a phone-call away. realli feel like slapping her.

I keep telling myself not to get worked up. should cool down... but given my temperament, it's quite difficult to be cool. haha...

And I still have other issues on work on-hand to settled urgently as well. ARGH!
The company is having a celebration next Thurs and I'm asked to be the team's mascot! I feel like rejecting it but my name has been submitted up. I feel too over-whelmed with work and right now, whatever "miscellaneous" thing that comes along, it just kinda piss me off. althou i'm trying hard to tune myself to be positive and sporting which is the usual ME.

i'm going to be a bad bad girl tomorrow... going take leave to rest. but at the back of my mind, i can't keep work off my mind.

cool down gal... ice ice baby...woahaha...

The Wkend where everyone kinda fell sick

The "real" epidemic started on Sunday morning. when parents-in-laws told me they vomitted the whole nite after they came back from a wedding dinner on Sat nite. the whole of Sunday, both of them were very weak. MIL had fever after the puking stopped. FIL had diarrhoea. I could only helped pat her back to make her burp. Then make glucose drink for them. then bring poh zhai pills for them. and so coincidence the maid took the day off. then hubby sms me at 3pm saying he's not feeling well. so i went to fetched him back fm work. he came home and was feeling weak. gave him medicine to reduce his fever and body aches and off he slept.

And i had a dinner appt with my mum and family at AMK. when I came home, hubby was still feverish and not able to get up. gosh! damn worried. gave him medicine and cold towel at night and decided to take the next day morning off to attend to him. cos PILs are also sick. can't bear the thought of my poor baby suffering alone. hehe...

Thank god this morning, he felt better. but he's still having the after-effects of food poisoning. he feels very unwell after eating. i told him 'cannot' eat anything from now till tomorrow lunch. to let his stomach rest.

argh! hope everyone gets well soon.... blessed!

and I tried to take a morning nap today before heading to work. finally managed to lock my room after my niece Tiffany went out. cos I can't sleep with her around... grr... She is very active lei. And 5 minutes later, she couldn't come into my room (as i locked it). then she started boo-ing and went crying to my MIL,"Ma-ma, I want to go Xiao-shen's room." BOO!!! until Allan go and open the door. so poor thing! how? she's like my half-daughter right? sticks to me when i'm at home. She doesn't stick to Allan when he's at home. After she come in, before she went out, she told me,"Xiao-shen, later you don't lock the door ok?" *faint*

Kids say the darnest thing. really! there's just too many examples and it just makes me laugh my heart out... and kinda entertaining especially after a day's work ;)

View from the Penthouse

Went to hubby's sales office(which was the penthouse) on Friday's morning. stayed there for a while. mingled with his friend cum boss Ian and another colleague Venus. You really get to see people from all walks of life. Venus is actually a tai-tai... drives Lexus and carries a LV bag. but she is in this line to mostly serve her husband's client who are looking for properties. forgot to mention her husband is a banker. she got the typical tai-tai look. Chanel sunglasses perched up on her head. immaculate make-up, nails and everything. nice speaking to her.

I was sitting facing the sea and felt damn shiok! So so relaxing. I could sit there and daydream the whole afternoon man.

Some pics to share ~~~~~~~~~

View standing in front of the window. Hubby and I were saying his working environment is really good! get to look at the sea... shiok sia! keke....View taken from the sofa

The living room

Hubby carrying Natalie. looks really small beside hubby. (at home)

My SUPER long weekend starts Tonight!

Took leave this Fri... so it's gonna be NO WORK for the next 4 days...yeahie!

aw... taking a break. and yup, I didn't bring my laptop home. cos I want to put work aside. Out of sight, out of mind. get it?

Not going anywhere. but just want to take Fri off since hubby's not working on that day. for the rest of the other 3 days ---> Yes, he's working.

But it's OK. my to-do list...

-> go swimming (getting flabbier these days)

-> go trim my hair which i think needs a treatment too

-> go polish and scale my teeth (maintenance lah. flash the pearlies)

-> read my books? haven finish reading my books and thinking of buying Nicholas Sparks's latest release. argh!

-> Bake a cake? ok, i saw a recipe in the papers today. seemed easy and hubby likes to eat cake. but let's see how. haha. i predict i will be too lazy to do it.

-> Bring Xiaobai for his walks...

-> oh ya... FACIAL! Still got one more session at New York Skin... then can go shopping cos it's in Taka. woahaha....

Shucks, my throat hurts right now. I have asked Allan to go buy fisherman's friend for me since he's outside right now. hope it will help. we are supposed to go bbq this fri. I mustn't get sore throat.

We went to "Western Chow" at Hougang (Lor Ah Soo) there for dinner just now. read it at 8days and we went straight away. I order chicken curry rice (like katsu curry don) and he ordered Black Pepper Chicken Chop. Not bad... but the CC abit pricey for kopitiam ($5.80).

Will take pic next time...

Oh ya, share a pic of Tiffany taken yesterday. she took my specs and say very nice. Then she started putting on and i quickly snap it!

Shoes like Marriage

I came up with this weird analogy while walking to the ladies in office today.

Marriage is like us women buying a pair of shoes. You never know if the shoes will bite until you buy and start wearing it. aka getting married and living together. Of course, for some shoes, the moment you put your precious feet into it, it hurts and you know it's OUT for sure. Same goes for those guys that turns you off the moment you talk to them.

Then there are some who seems nice and everything... The moment you are theirs, they treat you like shit. These are like those pretty little shoes that make you feel like a princess but bite you to death after you buy and start wearing them.(i have never been in this situtation so it's based on my imagination and tv) Looks can be deceiving. And ending . Of course if you convince yourself to buy it when knowing it "kinda" hurts while trying it on, then you are just plain stupid.

But there are those shoes that initally you may feel a little bit tight. But after a few wear, it gets so comfortable that you just wish that it will never ever spoil. It just make me think of hubby. that i'm so used to being around him. *blushing*

All these thoughts originated from my current pair of shoes. the jwest sandals that i bought. it's so comfy right now that i can't bear the thought of it being spoilt.

this sounds like a silly analogy? but just wanna express the underlying meaning... now you go guesss what's that! =P

NO mood to work! Team-building pics!

REally not in the mood to work! I don't know why. sianz..... argh! God, save me!!!

Let me multi-task by uploading some of my team-building pics held on 26-Oct.

Cycling at ECP... I got a headache due to the heat hence, I chilled out at the beach together with Doris instead.


Doris is the one covering her face with the book. beside me is Michelle. Opposite is Tracy and Ivy(cap). Cindy tried to take a shot of ALL of us but her face was cut into half. Yah... next to her is Doris.
Finally we can see Cindy's face more clearly. The rest of us are too engrossed in our "dai-di" game. haha
After cycling, we cooled down and went to Roxy Square II for steamboat at Michelle's MIL place. This is Tracy and Cindy.

Ivy and me! happily scooping away...L to R: Doris, Bay Yong and Hwee SuanThis is my table of 7 gals and we sure can eat!!! Our soup is those "yuan yang" type (2 types). We put in so much food at one time that the soup simply overflow to the other side. haha.... We ate faster and more than the other table with guys! haha....
This is our Group Picture! Beside me are the 2 IA students attached to us. the taller one is Joanne and the one with long hair is Alvina.