Friday, December 31, 2004
Happy New Year
new year eve is here again, and i'm here again.. all alone at home with my dog. haha.. you can say i'm one of those... "homies" who lives a really boring life. yeah, i am boring. admit it lah. lol.
choupijiang is performing at siloso beach now... they're gonna be performing 8 songs!!!! gawd.. that's a lot... i havent been to any of their gigs since the esplanade one in.. 2003 i think. the chinese rock band fest or somethin. it was nice. it had to blackout halfway.. haha.. but i regretted not staying later to see lmf!!!
anyway.. i cant think of any new year resolutions as yet.. i just know this whole year has been a very smooth year for me. i'd say i've learnt alot during my trip in australia and subsequently when i started my first sales job at @notebook. it was quite worthwhile despite the lowly pay.. haha.
i hope all goes well for the people around me, like my aunt who's goin through a rather tough patch in her biz; my another aunt who's been having vertigo for almost a year now; my mum - i hope her arm heals fast. yah.. that's roughly about all?
anyway... some pics of lmf and choupijiang =) have a nice new year~
ChouPiJiang. the whole band.
cpj and lmf @ hk
**these pics are really outdated, like last year or somethin. lol**
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21:13
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
MULTIPLY ME
my chance.. i found someone with the same name as me!!!! hahaha.. now that's comforting to know.. cos whenever someone calls me "keying".. i'll know that i'm not the only person on earth suffering from such a
"name" problem!!!
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18:19
the above are the pics we took on our (very long awaited) trip to sentosa on 23rd dec.. yeah. it's a super overdue entry, but well.. who cares. the pictures are taken by our very talented - lim cailing.
anyway, it was a day of joy for us. we've been wanting to go to sentosa since 2 semesters ago. but no one seems free.. and finally!!! lol. brought along lotsa food and we played frisbee. screamed a hell lot when we spotted Micky and Sakura - the two resident monkey performers just outside rasa sentosa. they had pink red swollen butts. dont look like babboons. well seriously, i havent been in close proximity to monkeys before. that was the first time.
then.. we saw this cute little guy. a white boy called james. we were apparently so balled over by him. you can actually tell from the pictures. i think he'll be one aspiring engineer when he grows up. he was so fascinated by the
i dont know what it's called.. was it tracker? " machine thingy used to dig soil during construction" he kept touching it. he is JUST SO CUTE!!!
well anyway, looking back, that day at sentosa, it was rather cloudly. only had the previlege of sun baking for like 30 mins
( now, that was 30 mins of scorching sun! )
it was just a few days before the deadly tsunami striked, killing up to 60,000 people.. and the death toll is still rising. last nite, i was waiting to cross the road to meet my mum at raffles hotel, and i looked at the clear evening sky. a part of me was like waiting to see a huge tidal wave coming over the raffles hotel building. i began to visualise what would the aftermath be. singapore would probably go underwater.. like the maldives. i don't know the extend of damage in the maldives, but i saw in the news reports that the 200 islands of the maldives could not be found / contacted. they're just 1m above sea level..
and well, talking about tidal waves.. i can still remember the time when i was at san francisco, at monterey and i saw those tidal waves come crashing onto the shore? i thought how nice it'd be to feel a tidal wave. but i dont think i'd be that happy to be caught in a tidal wave this huge anymore. i wonder how do surfers feel about the tsunami strike? since they're always in search of huge continuous tidal waves?
i cant help but feel extremely frightened, even though none of the people i know are affected by the tsunami. argh. it's a terrible feeling, i tell you.. i just have a terrible feeling that somewhat, the end of the world is near. those who have read the Revealations would probably have been shaken or somethin.
oh.. i just read my friend's blog. SHE IS FINE!!!!! she was at GoA at the time of the disaster.. thank goodness!!
i'm getting loads of difficulty trying to type nowadays.. havent been typing or writing for a long time and so, my standard of english has been dropping rapidly..
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14:00
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
SLEEPY
having advanced authoring now. but man.. my mind's drifting away, out of this lab, into misty wonderland - which is in fact.. dreamland lar. so tired i can't really think properly. the shouts and laughter of my dear cousin, huixin still rings in my ears. that xiao tao qi!!! she's just 3 years old and already studying in k1. but she's really mischevious, like a devil in disguise. one moment she's smiling at you and when you dont wanna let her do something she likes, her face twists into a somewhat mean face and she scratches you. ouch.. but she's one bright kid.
the tidal wave, or rather, Tsunami has killed, up to date, ard 28k people. it's really sad. i kinda have a hunch that it's the end of the world or somethin. it's extremely scary. if it happened in singapore, we'd probably collapse under the sea. a whole nation will go underwater. eeks. the thought of it scares the hell outta me.
my mind goes out to angela.. she mentioned that she was goin to tour whole of india.. i wonder if she's alrite? god bless.. hope all i know are fine.
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16:53
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Today is DONG ZHI!!!
::some history::
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Dong Zhi is the thanksgiving of the Chinese calendar. "Dong Zhi" literally means "arrival of winter". Coinciding with the winter solstice, it is an occasion for the family to get together to celebrate the good year they have had. Tang Yuan or Glutinous Rice Balls is cooked and eaten to symbolise unity and harmony within the family. Dong Zhi occurs 6 weeks before Chinese New Year and would normally fall between 21st Dec and 23rd Dec.
Dong Zhi is a time for family reunion. Tang Yuan, sweet soup of glutinuous rice flour balls, is indispensible during this festival. "Yuan" (literally meaning "round") signifies "yuan man" (complete) and Tang Yuan means "tuan yuan" (family reunion). Eating Tang Yuan is symbolic of family unity and family prosperity.
For good luck, families prefer to have some pink tang yuan to mix with the white ones.
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these are the tang yuans my grandma made. nice.. the soup base is made usin rock sugar and ginger. extremely nice.. fed crystal some also. she didnt know how to eat it. i think i can also make pearl balls. you know those bubble tea kind?? yeah just add some black coloring.
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23:42
HAIYO
sickening computer!!! sickening XP PRO!!! ARGH!!!!!
am in my Advanced Authoring lesson now. Was tryin to do this flash game.. something like some alien game. AND!!! The program actually shut down by itself, stating some ERROR WITH THE PROGRAM!!! DIU!!!
brrr... Sentosa on Thursday. WeEe!! am just SO EXCITED.. lolx..
got a missed call from fujitsu sim lim... dont dare to call back sia.. in case aaron's looking for me cause of some mistakes in the stocks.. haha... yeah that's a cowardice act. but who cares??!!!
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16:34
Monday, December 20, 2004
The oh-so-disastrous Baker
what's more disastrous than having such a kitchen??!! flour, eggs all over
folding in the flour method
the final outcome...
i've always wanted to bake cakes.. cook. but i'm one such person who's got a really short interest span. as i was baking the walnut cake, i wasted one whole piece of butter (250g) and 5 eggs. the egg white wasn't beaten till fluffy - just cos of my impatience and laziness. lolx.. so i went in search (hi & lo) for my mother's secret weapon.. that mixing machine!! finally found it - in my grandma's room. man it was great help!!! but i still had to wait 5-10 mins for the egg white to be beaten to the state i want (fluffy foam). while waiting.. i actually thought about what my f&n teacher (mrs tan) said to me "ke ying, I think u'd better drop f&n lah. you cook so slow"... lolx. i agree with her man... but the cake didnt turn out too bad. can you believe it's actually possible to bake using a microwave?? i didn't use to believe only until today... but using an oven is still better. i am SO gonna get an oven when i move into my own house someday!! (that is... if technology havent caught up in the
baking tingaling)
make some chocolate fudge cakes also.. it tastes alrite.. cos no baking!! but.. i poured into the wrong container.. should have poured into something smaller. argh.. but nvm lar.. will see what i can do about it LATER.
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18:24
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
it's the second day of school today!!! and i still feel tired from the "partying" on sunday. lolx. in fact... i really had a great time at the "farewell party".
we actualy were like due to close shop at 7pm sharp on sunday. then came along jianting's "shit"... as we put it. it actually means... jianting's customer. anyway.. he had problems uninstalling his personal firewall.. we took like an hour trying to figure out what's wrong. turns out that he just pressed DELETE w/o uninstalling the file... so there was some missing stuff to make it uninstall from the control panel. dont know what am i talking about? DONT BOTHER.
anyway.. came a new girl called Jolene. she's just 17 or 18.. just completed her O levels. chiongster. with a beer tummy. and walks with a super gelek. nvm.. dont talk about her.
last day at work. went to marina south for dinner... it was a prawn fiesta. tommie was the one who bbq-ed and de-shelled the prawns. very nice.. and for the first few prawns aaron asked me to peel the shells. yucks. he said "u not my gf, but u my maid, my secretary." kns.. my contract teminated le lor.. so it's VOID.
anyway.. after that, it was KTV at cineleisure. fun.. laughed alot. but at around midnite.. i was falling asleep liao. tommie actually thought he made me cry cos he kept singing love songs. but i'm glad to know this group of people though they kinda suck at times, especially john and aaron. lol.
nvm.. first day of school yesterday. met up with the client.. dont know what she wants. that sucked.. till now we're still trying to figure out what in the hells bells is she thinking about.. just hope the project goes well.
nini says i'm pessimistic nowadays. is that so??? REALLY??!!!! probably.. but i dont know... perhaps lah. man i'd better do something about it!
guan yin niang niang please bless mi arh... thank u..
& oh.. if we still had PHS Band reunion dinners..... today will be the day we'll be holding the dinner.
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17:35
Thursday, December 09, 2004
just 3 more days and the new school term will be starting. a part of me dread going back to school.. cos once school starts... the days will be happening so fast i'll be graduating in the wink of an eye. funny how time flies by..
my last day at work will be on sunday.. and aaron and john are treating us all to k box.. cant wait. but i have a huge hunch that aaron and tommie are gonna be the only ones singing. haha.. both of them sing damn well. i have to admit.. i dont usually get the chance to listen to guys sing. so far only heard my dad and chongwei. NO MORE. haha...
just ate tosei.. stomach ache now.. 9:15 already... have to get out of the house by 9:45.. but i'm still here typing away. havent even bathe.. i feel so lazy. argh..
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09:15
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
my favourite.
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13:12
this is sweet rite.. i always smile when i look at them.. lol.
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13:11
my little bookworm
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13:10
flower girls.. given to me by my aunt
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13:09
Saturday, December 04, 2004
alas.. my first crush after 5 years
had a wonderful dream last nite. dreamt about the young man working next door, at the ali baba shop. he's around 23 years old.. chinese. with distastefully highlighted blond streaks, spiked hair.. around 1.75m and weight around 70kg maybe.. walks with a gelek.. but i think from his appearance.. he's someone who will treat his partner with loads of tender and care. someone i feel like wanting. lol. well anyway.. i dreamt of him smiling at me while he was geleking back to his shop. i peep at him everyday when i go to the toilet. but i always half suspect he's attached. all the nice guys are taken up.. not only that. i think 99% why i cant seem to find the "Right" guy is cos of my physical appearance.. but well.. i shant touch on that. anyway.. my heart almost shattered when i saw him with his girlfriend today. his girlfriend should be around his age.. a matured, petite lady. and.. my guesses were right. he's a true gentleman.. treating his lady nice - caring.. full of love and affection.
*smack my head* what's wrong with me... it's just a small crush that's never going to materialize. is it because of the book i'm reading? about how Hitler the dictator actually has a soft side and how his lady Eva stood by him till he loved her wholeheartedly? i never expect myself to talk about love or even think about love in my blog. seriously.. i've never thought about love for a long time. if u're talking about love for my family yes.. but till now i'm still madly in love with my little sweetie pie - crystal.
or is it that christmas is coming.. i hope to spend it romantically with a man? well.. i can always dress my darling up.. haha.. redecorate my room.. fill it with scented candles and full of chocolates.. and crystal and i can gobble ourselves to death.
wake up, ying.. WAKE UP!!!
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22:49
Reading: Hitler and Women
Listening to: LMFSHITS
it's 8 days more to school and also to my last day of work. dont know why.. nowadays i just dont like to serve customers. i'm kinda getting sick of looking at aaron's moody face in the morning. his face in the morning is like... "pay me my money".. or "dont touch me" that kinda face. u know, something about this supervisor.. is that he's very temperamental. when you ask him things nicely, he will shout the answer at u, kinda in a rude way. i just hate it when he has to do that in front of a customer. i'm guessing he'll lose all his staff if he doesnt change that habit of his. i dont know if tommie still feels like transferring to another showroom.. but i just dont like this kinda attitude aaron shows. almost wanted to shout back at him "I'M NOT DEAF! U'RE DEAF DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE ELSE IS!!!!" but well... tolerate lah. just a few more days..
5 filipinas are attached to our company.. 2 at funan and 3 at sim lim. mary-grace is attached to our showroom. cute girl.. 22 years of age. actually, sitting together.. i think we look like sisters. which is bad for me.. cos i'll eventually look like a filipina. and arhm... mary-grace actually thought i was one.. then i brought her downstairs we met her friend. she also thought i was filipina. GOD. but well... that's alrite. like wat millie puts it.. i shall retain my title of "racial mascot". tokin about milz.. i miss u, girl!!!
my aunt's bf, Than is in singapore now.. than's kinda cute. he should be quite charming when he's younger. though he's still quite charming now. nice american slang.. and he's a sweet talker. haha it's amazing how my aunt can talk so nicely when than's around her. cos she's so hot tempered whenever she sees my mum she'll flare up. she claims my mum triggers her temper. that's kinda true.. like in the past when i look at cheryl i just feel like shouting at her. or when i look at jianting do things i just feel like scolding him. TRIGGER. but well.. they were at the christmas tree gala the day before. dont know how did the evening end.. haha.. i'm just happy to see my aunt with the guy she loves. she havent been in love for oh such a long time.. Than's a Reiki doctor btw.. and he's healing my mum now.
i must say disciplines like Reiki and Qigong amuses me. How it works is something like they gather energy from the universe and transmit their energy to a targeted person's body and heal that person. i remember my aunt telling me that when Than was in US, he actually sensed that something was wrong with her right breast. so she felt kinda scared and asked her own Reiki master.. he also sensed something in her right breast. they both sensed a lump.. but they weren't sure if it's breast cancer or not. so she told her Qigong master. and 3 men were healing her right breast at the same time. so... to be on a "realistic" side.. she went to her doctor. went for a mammogram and found out that she indeed had this little thing in her right breast. she had two choices. wait for it to develop before they can be certain what it is.. or for the time being, use a needle to suck out the pus. she chose the needle. so after tests.. the doctor said it's not breast cancer lah... thank god.
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07:52
Thursday, December 02, 2004
it's been quite some time since i last blogged and i must say many things have happened. firstly, the sitex show.
was suppose to help out for 4 days.. but i went home after 1. there were too many people and i didnt see the need for me to be there.. so i asked aaron if i could go back to the showroom. plus, i didnt like those bitches standing ard there. and also.. the food sucked. i didnt even sit for 11 hours. but anyway, i still managed to sell a C1211D. still an achievement.
well anyway.. went back to the showroom. john, as usual.... talking cok like nobody's business. i really hate his racist streak man... always cracking lame jokes like "if u're in a dark room with an indian, chances are, u wont even notice him at all".. hello??!!! u cant see ANYTHING (white, yellow or brown) in a dark room at all?!!! goondoo. anyway.. he started calling me an FBI (fucked by indian). just cos i HAD an indian bf. but doesn he have to be so mean? then kept putting me into those racist jokes. i was so fucked up, i shouted at him. just hope he doesnt piss me off one more time. assistant sup SO WAT?? is there actually a law against racists?? if there isn't, i hope they come up with one. i hope all racists go to hell.
and yesterday - the most unlucky day of my whole entire working life. first thing in the morning... went to punch my card. got questioned by mindy, the boss. "who is kelvin to u?" kelvin's one of our suppliers who's on quite good terms with mindy. he happens to be my neighbour. i think he told her about me. wonder what he said... but it's kinda scary when mindy asked me that. and after that... went to the showroom. jianting the attachment guy... broke the key while he was opening the cupboard. then... i finally convinced this european couple to get the P7010BH - which is a high end model.. $4388. and yes, they wanted... BUT!!!! they found out they lost their visa and they had no cash. DAMN! and we already broke the seal. how can anyone be that unlucky? then also.. to add to the gloominess of the day... i got scolded by this customer.. too long to say why. and then... i sold 2 desktops to this woman.. and while we were doing system setup, found out that one of the desktops is faulty. damn! wat a fucked up day. and aaron kept saying "u damn suay". if he wasnt my boss, i'd have slapped him. hate it when pple say i'm "suay".
argh! glad i'm takin a break now. off day. and i'm too lazy to swim - AGAIN.
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