More CNY Celebrations...

Tomorrow is the last day of CNY le... Let me upload somemore CNY related piccies before CNY comes to an end for this year...


Last Tuesday, my management catered lunch buffet for the whole office as I have mentioned previously... Hmm... But the 'Loh Hei' Yu Sheng was kinda pathetic for sharing between 2 departments! Damn kiam lor... Some of my collegues even chose not to 'loh' coz there was not enough space to accommodate all with just 1 set of Yu Sheng... At least should order 1 set per department mah!! But what can we expect??! It's recession leh!!!... Sigh... This is the only reason that everyone will say when portions of everything start to shrink or reduce this year! Be it bonuses, performance appraisal rankings (so that lesser people can get their bonuses), even for the mandarin oranges given from our management - Last year, each staff was given 1 box of oranges which contain about 20 oranges in a box, this year we were given only 2 oranges each - rather don't give better...


Ok... anyway, on last Saturday, we also had dinner at Deardear's house... Bernard drove Deardear and I to East Coast Park Jumbo Seafood restaurant to tah-bao chilli crabs, black pepper crabs and Yu Sheng... while Bernard went to Lagoon side to buy BBQ stingray, hokkien mee and cuttlefish kang kong.


After dinner, we played Blackjack... Hmm... Think my luck was not so bad that night, maybe bcoz Deardear and I were wearing couple t-shirts... so we have got couple luck!!! Hahahaa... Ok, nonsense I know! =P

Chingay Heartland Parade 2009

My neighbourhood was one of the stations for the Chingay Heartland event held this year on last Sunday . I think it's so cool to look at the Chingay floats passby my block directly from my kitchen window! My parents actually went downstairs to catch them upclose and personal! Hahaa...

At first, I didn't believe it when my dad told me that the floats will passby our place along Rosyth Primary School... only till I came online to check out the Chingay website then I read about it. At that time it was already 9.15pm... Channel 8was simultaneously broadcasting the parade which was held along Padang on either Friday or Saturday...

After reading the website, I ran to the kitchen window several times to look down onto the roads... All I saw was many kids sitting at the bus-stop. I was wondering if those kids were waiting to take a bus or waiting to watch the floats... I stood at the window and waited for quite awhile, but there's nothing but ordinary vehicles travelling on the road... There was also no road block. So I came back to read the website again, just to reconfirm if there are really going to be floats passing by...

On the website, it states that the performance should be between 8.30 to 9.25pm. By then, it was almost 9.30pm... I started to wonder if I have missed it. But how about the kids downstairs?? What are they waiting for?? I pondered about it... Then suddenly I saw 2 traffic polices rode past. This time I confirmed that the floats are coming... so I alerted my parents and standby my camera with me...

My mum was fast!! The moment I got my camera ready and was standing at the window, I saw my mum downstairs already... Few minutes later while still waiting, my dad also went down.

Waiting and waiting... then I finally saw bright lights shining on the road... and heard some music... Yeah!! That was so exciting! I don't know why but it reminded me of the Hong Kong Disneyland Water Parade - that wonderland feeling! Hee!

CNY Department Lunch

Last Friday was a day that I felt happy going to work bcoz I only had to work for about half a day... Lesser working hours = Happy!! This is bcoz we had our section meeting held from 10am to lunchtime and then we had our CNY department lunch in our conference room till 1.30pm. Then in the late afternoon around 3.30pm I had my appraisal.

We had our department Loh Hei, which was prepared by one of my colleagues' auntie... The portion was so much larger than the large size sold outside until it looks like a bush to me!! Hahaa! The salmon was still frozen while we were preparing the Loh Hei... we did not have time to defrost it and I could still see ice flakes on the salmon even after they were put onto the Loh Hei.

That was our first time to 'loh' for this year... it was a internal one... Tomorrow, we will 'loh' again together with the other departments... coz this time it is sponsored by our management.

Anyway, something stupid happened when we started to 'loh'... Everyone was so excited and started 'loh-ing' until one of my colleagues shouted 'STOP STOP STOP!!!' All of us stopped feeling puzzled on why she told us to stop... Guessed what??! We forgot to pour in the plum sauce... Ahahahaaa!! DAMN DUMB LAH!!!

Another weird thing about the CNY lunch is that we ate malay food instead of chinese food... bcoz my department has got Malays so the food must be halal and was bought from the Malay stall. Then my AVP bought us surprise desserts... See picture below... They are actually mini muffins with sugar icing on top. Looks very cute but not very nice to eat... coz the icing on top was very hard!

Oh yah, my AVP told us her bad experience dining at Compass Point Jack's Place last week... She said she ordered their chicken chop served on the hot plate. And while she was eating the food, she said she had this feeling that she was tasting rust. However she finished the whole chicken and was left with the baked potato... she then realised around the sides of the hot plate were all rusty... Her husband used servettes to rub against the rusty surface and the whole servette became brown in colour... which means the rust can actually come off from the surface of the hot plate... OMG!!! She was all along eating the rust!! Can you imagine that??? Yucks!!!

So better check your hot plate before eating if any of you happens to dine at that place or any other Jack's Place or order any food that is served on a hot plate. Anyway, my AVP informed the restaurant manager about the rust on the hot plate that was served to her but he apologized and said that he was not aware about it. So my AVP suggested that they conduct a check on all their other hot plates so as not to use them if they are already rusty. Hmmm... Perhaps after reading this, you may not even want to dine at Jack's Place already... =P

Oh, talking about my appraisal... I hated the evaluations... coz I felt that I worked so hard especially in learning so many more products processing skills compared to some other people in my team during the last whole year... but I was only rated with satisfactory performance while those who refused to learn new skills are rated good... TMD! I think it is simply not justifiable! There goes my performance bonus down the drain... (even if it is only a few hundred dollars also good, despite the economy downturn...) Waste my whole year's effort!! If I know this will be the outcome earlier, I should have left the company... Now I am stuck here in this f*ck up place where hard work is not being recognized but 'carrying balls' is.

First Day of CNY

The first day of CNY has always been the same for my family every year... We will always start off the day with a visit to the chinese temple at Telok Blangah for prayers as this is the temple which my family has always been to each year since young when we were staying at Telok Blangah Drive. The only difference from this year onwards is that my brother no longer travel with us for visiting, coz now he is married and so he drives a separate car together with his wife. That makes me a little bored during the travelling journey bcoz my brother is not in the car to entertain me with his crap! =(

After visiting the temple, we will then visit my eldest auntie's family who stays at Telok Blangah Heights. That is always our first stop where all my relatives meet and we, the unmarried cousins, nieces and nephews collect our many many ang pows! This is also where we always take our cousins group photo every year.

In this year's group photo, there's someone new... and that is my brother's wife, my sister-in-law... My brother informed us that we were not allowed to post the photo on Facebook coz he and his wife doesn't like it! But who cares?! I am still gonna post it here bcoz they don't know. Hahaa... =P


Actually we only have 3 places to visit on the first day. So after the first stop, we will proceed to Toh Tuck that side to visit my granduncle's family... then the third stop is to visit my grandaunt's family who stays at Bedok Reservoir. Both of these families are considered extended relatives and I only get to see them once a year. I think I cannot even recognize some of them if I see them on the streets. Hehee...

From Bedok, my relatives will then gather at my place for dinner. That's when Deardear came over to visit my family and to meet my relatives. Unfortunately my brother is not around to be the banker this time, so we did not gamble on the first day. Instead one of my cousins suggested playing Taboo so I told Deardear to bring the game over... Had lots of fun playing it this time bcoz my cousins were super funny in describing and guessing the words! Too bad 2 of my uncles were feeling tired after the whole day and wanted to leave around 10plus... and so my first day of CNY ended just like that.

Bling Bling Nails For CNY!

Once again, CNY is the time for me to dress up my nails again!! Hehee... For many times I have wanted to book an appointment with a manicure shop to get my nails extensions on. But in fact, I already have long nails myself, just that they are not long enough to my expectation and not as strong as the extended ones coz my nails often chips off when it grows up to a certain length.

Anyway, in order to save up the $100 to $150 and I was lazy to sit at the manicure shop for hours so as to get the nail extensions done, I decided not to go. Instead I chose to DIY the nail art on my own nails.

At first I was kinda clueless on the colours to use and design to be created... but in the end I got some inspirations from those nail art magazines which I bought previously! It's a pity that I have not master the skills of drawing flowers/ribbons using the acrylic powders, so can only make use of my Swarovski crystals.

Since I am wearing a pink top on the first day of CNY, I chose light pink as the base colour and then added some silver glitters using my Oops! J nail polish. After that then I added on pink and silver crystals on each finger to create the super bling effect!

Tadah~! Here's the end result!


I simply love them, especially shone under very bright white lights or spotlights!! They look super duper bling can!!! I cannot believe that these nails were actually done by myself!! I am so proud of myself bcoz I have never thought that I can be so good at it! I think if I were to get this done at some manicure shop, they would have charged me at least $65 to $90 without extensions. Heee... Don't mind me for being hao lian... I am just so very satisfied with my own skills! =P

Happy Moo Moo Year!!

In another 4 hours and 48 mins, we will be sending off the Rat and welcoming the Ox!! Hmmm... So fast, it will be Chinese New Year already... But actually I don't feel excited about it as compared to the times when I was younger... Hmmm... I think coz I am growing old so fast that I wish that I could turn back the time!

In fact, come to think of it, I do not really look forward towards CNY... coz after CNY, there will be no more public holidays until Good Friday which falls on 10 April... Sianz!! No break for 3 months plus wor... =(

Furthermore, after CNY, I will be having my performance appraisal with my AVP... I don't have a very positive feeling about it lor... Moreover, I have been very unhappy with my AVP for exploiting me with her bias and unfair treatments especially in giving leave approvals! Feel like bao-tohing her to my VP for her bias behaviour... who asked her to bao-toh me to HR for my lateness and always take advantage of me by asking me (and I mean only me coz I sit directly in front of her) to do things for her... she likes to bao-toh and use people so much, I shall do the same to her lah! But on the other hand I am afraid that it will reflect badly on my appraisal since my appraisal is still in the hands of that biatch... so I am still deciding whether to bao-toh or not. Let's see how my appraisal goes and then I decide... If she rates me poorly, I confirm go and bao-toh her! Hiak hiak hiak!!! *Evil laugh* This is called an eye for an eye! Hahahaaa!!! =P

I am so pissed with her that when I left my office on last Friday, I didn't even bother to say bye and wish her Happy Chinese New Year, coz I hope the Year of Moo Moo will be super bad for her! I am very bad hor... but I don't care! Bcoz this is my only channel to vent my dissatisfactions on work-related matters... Ok, enough about that biatch!

Wonder what to wear tomorrow... I have bought many new clothes for the new year but I don't know what to wear coz I think I have grown fatter now... so can easily see my tummy wor... then relatives will tease me for growing fat le... Aiyah, irritating! Actually I find it not as easy to slim down now... think as I grow older, my metabolism rate has becomes slower liao... Jialat...

Okie, time to go paint new colours on my nails for tomorrow liao... Ciaoz! Happy "Niu" Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai to all!! =)

Happy 4th Anniversary To Us!!

Yesterday was our 4th anniversary together! So fast, Deardear and I have been together for 4 years already! Met up with Eileen, Alvin, Fang and Tammie for dinner at Bugis MOF which stands for Ministry of Food. Eileen who has just became a recruitment consultant has become so used to her new job that she kept hearing it as MOM when I repeatedly told her that it is MOF!!! Diaoz... And Alvin heard it as MOS when Eileen told him that we were at MOF. *Faint* No wonder they are a couple! Hahaa...

Oh yah, the service at MOF isn't that good... Coz we were one of the tables that placed our orders just before their last order timing, thus our mains for the set meals came pretty late. While we just started eating the main course, a waitress came over to ask if they could serve us our desserts. We said no and the waitress seems taken aback by the reply. She then said that the ice cream will be changed to a gelato ice cream in this case. So Eileen and Fang told them it was ok to change it but serve later. About 5-10 mins later, another waiter came over to ask if they could serve the desserts again. We told him that we have already informed one of his colleagues to serve them later. Then he walked away... But written on both the waitress and waiter's face, I could tell that they are not very willing to serve the desserts later... coz their faces say "What time do you all (referring to us) want to stay till?? We want to go home leh!"... Poor customer service!


After sending Tammie home, we felt that it was too early to end our anniversary since it was only 11plus and that I am also on leave today, so we went to Changi Airport T3. Hehee... Deardear and I are frequent go-ers to T3. We will go there whenever we have nowhere else to go at night. Heee... Although there's nothing much to do there but it's nice to just walk around in the air-conditioned area and taking the skytrain to the other terminals and back. As we walked around, we found out that the Swensen's at T2 has become 24hours and there's also a 24 hours Ya Kun in T2. Next time if we want to have supper, can consider these places.