Rain Rain

It has been raining the whole day.. non-stop.. I'm in my room now and it's cold, nice to sleep, to tuck under my blanket. Just thinking to update my blog since I have not update it for so long. I got nothing special to talk about.... Let's talk about the rain???

I like rainy days.. of course not too heavy rain till floods everywhere, but I like those rain which are tiny drops and erm... what's the word to describe... compact? heavy?? tiny drops and many drops? Whatever la..

I enjoy walking under the rain to be honest... and I don't mind stepping on puddles of water. But I know many people hate rain, hate the mud, hate the wet floor. Well, I don't really like wet floor either, but I like the feeling of the raindrops and the fresh surrounding after the rain. (take a deep breath).. ahh~~~ opppss.. just farted. =S

Listening to music while typing this and chatting with some friends... I really feel good. heheh... Just went karaoke last week and sing our heart out. Sorry to those waitress and the people who walked by our room and have to bear with the noise pollution, but I felt so good after singing.. It has been so so long since I had the last karaoke session. Thinking to do it again pretty soon. Any kaki? =D

The day someone almost died

Today in the office, someone almost died just like in the movie Final Destination. Let me tell you the story but you might not find it interesting due to my lack of story telling skill.

It all started with our internal meeting. All of us seated with the projector on and we pulled down the projector screen. And of course, after the meeting, we chit chat a little and as I walk pass the projector screen, I pulled it and let it go so that the screen will roll up back to the ceiling.

I continue to walk back to my screen and I heard a loud "thud". Evelyn, who is walking in front of me stopped and look back.. The horror on her face is indescribable... everthing seems to slow down and I look back, Jean's mouthed a speechless big "O".. The projector screen is falling 360 degree to the server, just in between Jean and I. The screen landed on the server and a monitor with a another loud bang.. Lucky thing Jean and I managed to give way to the screen just in time before it knocks our head. Or else... I will not be typing this now.

It's not everyday we came across the moments where someone almost died. So I find today kinda ermm... lucky?? HAHAHA. whatever... anyway, thank god no one get hurt except the monitor who got hit on the head.

Lip Reading

I'm in a middle of a meeting now with a group of people who definitely has the skill of lips reading. They are talking to softly that I can't hear a thing!! So now pretending I'm listening intensely to what they say, I'm actually writing this blog. At first I thought I'm deaf... but no, I can hear my keyboard sound.. Then I thought it's their moustache blocking the voice that came out from their mouth.. But no!!! They are actually whispering to one another on how to program the search engine... ahh.. let my boss handle it. When it comes to development, then only I start to stress.

It is very important to learn how to do lip reading. I have strained my ear when I finally gave up and try to guess what they are talking about from their lips. So congratulations to myself, now I know when people say the word "OhhHH" from their lips.

Hope this meeting not going to be long...

It has been a year!

365 days ago, today, I just started my life in Singapore and I'm actually staying somewhere else. I still remember very vividly the day I step onto Singapore, holding a map searching desperately for the nearest MRT and go for interview and start my life on the 15th October 2006. On this day, I met a very helpful taxi driver. This uncle has helped me all the way during my stay here without expecting anything in return nor he expect me to remember his good deeds.

I managed to survive till today, there are 3 person I must thank. First, Samuel, my friend who helped me to settle down in Singapore despite he doesn't know me very well. I get to know "street directory" from him, get a clearer view of Singapore life from his advise and he too, a friend who doesn't ask for anything in return. Secondly, the taxi driver uncle who helped me without asking for a cent and sometimes he sounded just like my father who asked me not to roam around at night. Thirdly, I want to thank Sugi for helping me when I faced financial difficulties.

Living my life here, I did expect the road to be long and winding but I never thought it was a bumpy ride. I'm glad now everything has became much smoother and I'm living a good life here.

Millions of thanks to my friends who non-stop introducting friends to me even though you guys are far away in northen Malaysia. I get to know many caring and nice friends. ;) And many thanks for giving me a call every now and then. Not forgetting my very best friend, Vivian who has been with me every ups and downs in my life. Miss you so much!! Muaks!

And not forgetting the guys who non-stop introducing "potential boyfriend" for me, thanks for your concern on my personal life and my potential other half. Unfortunately, it didn't work out because :
1) Some of them are younger than me
2) Some of them can't speak English nor Chinese
3) Some of them pat my back as hard as they pat their brothers (thank god i'm alive)
4) Some of them asked if i'm lesbian
5) 1 of them asked me to address him as Grace instead of Gary. (Do you have a grenade? Throw it over)

2007 Shanghai Olympic Song

No comment. Quite a beautiful song. =D

Not my day

I had a bad day today.... a horrible day!!!! (playing the song 'I had a bad day.. da da da da~').
Early in the morning a customer called and started to scold and I still half awake, not knowing why. Then only I realized... she got frustrated as there's something wrong with the corporate website. Then I checked for her and ended up it's actually her mistake. Feeling "pai seh" herself for scolding me without apparent reason, she started to point the arrow to her colleague, saying her colleague is the one who made the changes. What a b***h!!!!. Then to hide her "pai-seh-ness", she started to find fault with me regarding the font size, line spacing, etc etc. Oh My God!!!! Just because you dislike the font size and you are screaming at me?????!!!!

I get so pissed off and I told her, I will get back to you later. Maybe because she's having her PMS, she asked "Are you dedicated to work on our website? Don't you know how to do it?" . I really want to tell her off, you can complain to my boss and ask for another engineer. I will be more than happy not to serve you. She's having Post Menstrual, I guess I'm having pre-menstrual. I go to my boss and told him, how about delegating this project to someone else since I have so many other projects to handle. But my boss just say no-no, just ignore her. Heard from my boss that she is just someone from low level position. Not that I want to look down on her, but... what rights do you have to scream at me early in the morning because you dislike the font size??!!!!

I checked my email... got an email from this b***h. She was complaining about an error.. And she CC her bosses and mine and few other people from outer space. Good!!! Found out that the error is her own mistake!!! And how happy I am to shoot back the email. muahahahahha...

So I replied and went for my meeting. In the evening, back in the office, another email from her. She said she realized that the website keep changing everyday and there is inconsistency in the website. Keep changing???? Information change, of cause display will change!!!!! And if it's actually drastic changes, I think she better go home or perhaps go to church, temple, pray pray... Coz I obviously didn't do any major changes. Maybe she should get a shaman, or medium... or a man...

Grrrrr.... anyway... after that I went to have dinner with my friend. By the time I finish shooting the email here and there, it's almost 7. Felt so much better after that. Finished whole bar of chocolate today... fuh!!!!! What a day! Never get irritated so much.

Now.. time to sleep. Tomorrow will be a better day~ =D Everyday is a brand new day. If this lady called again to find fault.. I will try to be funny with her. Will not let anyone like her to spoil my mood again. Nite nite!!!

Cisco Express Exhibition

I'm typing this blog as I am in the middle of exhibition. We are suppose to demo our company's products. Now everyone is in a special room listening to our sales manager demo-ing the application. So here I am, almost fall asleep here while waiting for the group of people to come out.

With me here is Dennis, our network engineer who set up the environment, and Donny, the sales person, and a part timer, named Samuel cum Bernard. In our company calendar, he's known as Sam. So I keep addressing him as Samuel, till just a moment ago he said "errr..... actually.... my name is not Sam. I am Bernard. Samuel is sick last minute". OOoooohhhh....

The food here is quite good. hehehehe.. there's this guy kinda cute next to our booth. Muahahahha.

-- Edited this post to add in this section --
My boss came to visit our booth late in the afternoon. Bernard stood up and said "You must be Samuel! " ..My boss said "I thought you are Samuel". I quickly chipped in and introduce them to one another. =.= . What a confusion. But at least I get some entertainment from both of them. =p
It's almost 4pm now. Waiting for Dennis to come over to clear up the network stuff. I just finish playing some internet game and then this Donny showing me the picture of Sam. He said better looking than Bernard. They purposely find good looking guys. HAHAHA.

And that's all for our boring day. Gonna stuck here till evening.. zzzZZZzzzz

Company Sports Day

Someone, somehow suggested to have a day as company sports day. Which is a good thing actually. Just that I'm a bit lazy to exercise together with... the boss. And so..... we decided to go roller blading or cycling at the east coast park. Erm... thinking to jog instead. I can do only little roller blading and I can't cycle!!! The worst is that nobody believes I can't cycle. There's a saying.. not sure proven by whom.. "If you can ride motorcycle, there's no reason you can't cycle". The way they are saying this is like "If you can drive a car, you can drive a truck" or "you can eat with your mouth and you must be able to eat with your nose".

Well, my saying is that "If you can ride a motorcycle and can't cycle, just keep your mouth shut and don't tell people you can ride a motorcycle". Anyway, it's a good chance to learn cycling too. Let me tell you why if a person knows how to ride motorcycle not necessary knows how to cycle.
*Ehem ehem* *cough cough*

First of all, I would like to thank my papa mama , bla bla bla.... I'm so thankful to be able to stand on this stage...
*tomato thrown* bishhhh!

Ok so, actually a bicycle has two tyres and a motorcycle has 2 tyres. And so why can't you cycle ? Actually I do not know. Just feel that with the engine running, it's easier to balance. I don't have good balancing skill. Probably bcoz I'm tall and so my balancing point, which is the belly button is higher above the ground, compare to those people who are shorter, and their belly button is nearer to the ground which makes a person easier to balance.

Why is it call belly button by the way. It doesn't look like a button... AT ALL. Who's belly button looks like a button? You? Let me see. ermm.. I can't find your belly button. All I see is only the belly.

Warning : This image is not my belly button. I took this from google image search.
And belly button is definitely not as cute as a button. Ermm.. why people always say "as cute as a button". Button is not cute. In which area is the button is cute?? The number of holes in the button? (trying to imagine a button) . Nope, it's still doesn't look cute to me. A button is a button. WHat's so cute about it??!!!

Enough crap for tonight. Shall continue to crap next time.

Dog Calendar 2008

This is the calendar from Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary. They are selling it for SGD10. For dog lovers, this calendar is cute. All the money will go to Noah's Ark for the animals' welfare. I know it's a bit expensive, but whoever feel like buying it, do contact me. Thanks!!
Email me!

Life in Singapore

Two more weeks and I have been in Singapore for a year. How time flies!!! I get many questions from my Malaysia friends since I came to SG. A few common questions which are frequently asked are :
All the answers below do not target on specified person nor it is a conclusion made to everyone in the category. This is just based on personal opinion.
1) Is Singapore really that fast paced ?
Working in KL sometimes can be more tiring than working in SG, it isn't that bad, but definitely more stress compare to working environment in Penang.

2) Does the Singaporean hard to get along with ?
Personally I met several singaporean who are very helpful and nice. I feel that it's us, the foreigners who are competing against one another. However, house owners may be calculative and troublesome unlike house owners in Malaysia.

3) Are you able to adapt to the environment quickly ?
For those people who used to have own transport back in hometown, you might find it a bit troublesome to get from place to place. Not because the public transport is not good. The public transport service here is really good. Just that you might not use to it since you have a transport everywhere you go previously. Imagine now you have to walk to get a meal or catch the bus/mrt to get to somewhere nearby whereas previously you just need to start the engine and off you go, stop directly in front of the shop you wanted to. But you will get use to the environment here pretty soon.

Another thing have to get use to it is the way they hang their clothes. Some houses do have balcony, but for HDB flats, they hang their clothes on a pole stuck out from the flats.. hard to describe, but I will include a photo for you to see.

As for the food, ermm... I still miss my hometown food. And I'm only allowed to cook instant noodles here! *sob sob* .. There are nice food here though, just that I still prefer the authentic taste back in my hometown.

4) How's the working life there ?
Ermm..... depends a lot on the bosses and the colleagues that you will be working with. I guess it's the same everywhere else. Conclusion : Profit per employee has to be high =.= ( I leave it to you to analyze)

5) Is it boring in Singapore ?
At first yes, but now I find that there are many things to explore and learn here. At first, after exploring few places here, I start to get bored. I went to explore the places station by station in the MRT map, then start to go places by bus. Then.... what else?? that's it??? Go to library... and people usually ask.. what the heck are you doing in the library???!!!!!!
Previously I thought, there are so many things to do back in Malaysia... actually there are many activities here too. Badminton, jogging, cycling ( I don't know how cycling, haven't tried yet), roller blading, ski 360, rock climbing. Share with you all in other posts.

6) Do I miss home ?
From time to time, yes I do miss home. I miss home even more than the times when I was in KL. I have went back home twice within a year, and the feeling is the same when I was in KL. Once you reached home, you feel that your parents are getting old again. Everyone around you have aged, and that includes me. I miss the food, the time when I drive around at night with my motorcycle everywhere when there are few cars around, and I miss hiking at Penang's Taman Negara... very beautiful place.. still got one last station (the light house) I haven't reached. Of course, I miss my friends terribly.. muaks muaks!!!

Story of Mooncake - mid autumn festival

Legend of Chang-Er, the Moon Goddess

The story begins around 2170 B.C. after the great flood in the Hsia dynasty. Yu, king of many kingdoms, was credited with stopping the flood, and with teaching farmers how to cultivate their fields, thus commencing a prosperous epoch.

At the same time in Heaven the Jade Emperor wished to help the farmers raise animals and cultivate their fields. He gave orders to his ten sons to become ten suns and travel across the sky one at a time, each taking one day. The ten young men disobeyed; all ten of them came out every day, and the heat from ten suns shining all at once made the earth intolerably hot. People and animals died of heat, rivers dried up, land became barren and forests scorched and burned. The farmers prayed, giving sacrifices and burning incense to Heaven for deliverance.

The Jade Emperor heard their prayers and saw the destruction caused by his sons. He sent Hou Yi, his bravest god, down to earth to solve the problem of the ten suns and end the catastrophe. Hou Yi was a good, courageous god with a beautiful wife, Chang Er. Deeply in love with each other, they were known as the Divine Couple.

Chang Er didn't like the thought of going down to earth, but she was unwilling to be separated from her husband, so together they descended to earth and became mortals among the Eastern clans. Hou Yi was a great archer and brought his magic bow from heaven with him. Knowing that Hou Yi came from heaven, the people of the clans proclaimed him to be their leader.

Seeing how much suffering and destruction were caused by the heat of the ten suns, Hou Yi climbed to the top of Tienshan Mountain and began negotiating with the suns to have pity on the unfortunate people. He pleaded to the suns to take turns and make their journeys across the sky singly, one for each day, and explained the white blaze of ten suns is much too much for the land to bear. He also told them how much Heaven loves all living things.

But the ten audacious suns considered it dull and boring to go across the sky one at a time and that much more fun was to be had by coming out together, so they refused to listen. They increased their heat and caused even more suffering. This angered Hou Yi. He took out his magic bow and arrows and shot down nine of the suns; the last sun begged for his life and promised obedience at performing his task of separating night from day. Finally the earth was at peace and people enjoyed their work and lives.

However, when Hou Yi made his report to the Jade Emperor, he was furious at Hou Yi for killing his nine sons, and refused to let the Divine Couple return to Heaven. As leader of the clans, there was much for Hou Yi to do on earth. He taught the people many ways to defend their land and themselves. He was so busy with his duties he became neglectful of his lovely and lonely wife. Chang Er was especially unhappy to be an earthly mortal with all of mortality's suffering, aging and death in particular. Also, she was angry at Hou Yi for shooting down the Jade Emperor's nine sons, and the couple became unhappy and estranged.

To avoid arguing with his wife, Hou Yi spent his time traveling about the land alone. He became familiar to its people, performing many good deeds wherever he traveled. He also killed a gigantic, 100,000-foot snake and a nine-headed monster that had caused much distress and thousands of lives. Many times he prayed to the Jade Emperor to let himself and his wife return to Heaven, but the Emperor refused his plead and so Hou Yi and Chang Er remained as mortals, suffering as ordinary human beings do.

In his travel he chanced to meet a beautiful mortal woman, Mi Fei. She was the wife of Feng Yee, the God of Water, who had a reputation as a womanizer and for ignoring his wife. Both lonely, Mi Fei and Hou Yi became friends and later lovers. In legend, such things never remain unpunished. When Feng Yee returned and discovered his wife's infidelity, he was furious and transformed himself into a white dragon, roaring and plunging in the water, destroying fields and killing many people. Hou Yi thought the dragon was an evil sea monster. He took up his bow and shot, blinding Feng Yee in one eye.

Thereupon, the god of waters registered a complaint with the Jade Emperor. The Emperor considered all the good deeds that Hou Yi had done for the mortals, and since he was already under punishment, the Emperor merely ordered Hou Yi to go home to Chang Er and never see Mi Fei again. Hou Yi had no choice but to return home. Chang Er was angry with him for his unfaithfulness and unhappiness came between the once "divine" couple. Hou Yi knew that he had wronged his wife and tried to soothe her, telling her that tears would make her age faster, as they were now mortals.

Chang Er looked at her reflection in the water, for in those days there were no mirrors. She was terrified to see wrinkles appearing around her eyes, and demanded that Hou Yi find some way to restore her immortality. Hou Yi was desolate and dared not stay at home, but he couldn't violate the Jade Emperor’s order by going to Mi Fei.

He became violent and drunk. In his drunkenness he treated the people cruelly. There were two men among the people who began to plot against him, Feng Meng and Han Cho. Both were opportunists. Han Cho told Hou Yi that the Royal Goddess resided on top of Kunlun Mountain and had a pill of immortality. Hou Yi decided that for the sake of peace at home he would climb Kunlun Mountain and beg the Royal Goddess for the pill of immortality. The Goddess, taking pity on him, gave him her one remaining pill.

She instructed Hou Yi that if one person took the pill he would ascend to Heaven, but if he cut the pill into two halves and shared it with another, they could live forever. The pill had to be taken on the 15th night of the eighth month when the moon was fullest. Hou Yi was very happy and thanked the Royal Goddess exuberantly and went home to Chang Er. They decided to divide the pill and take it at the proper time so that they could both attain immortality.

Three days before the 15th day of the eighth month, Hou Yi heard of a medicinal solution called "jade elixir" that could be found on Tienshan Mountain, an elixir that could prevent women from aging and allow them to stay eternally beautiful. Hou Yi wished to please Chang Er and resume a happy life at home, so he decided that he could make the trip in three days to obtain this wonderful medicine and to surprise his wife. He left for Tienshan immediately.

On the 15th of the eighth month, Chang Er saw no sign of Hou Yi. She waited and later grew impatient, and sought out Feng Meng the schemer and asked where her husband was. Feng Meng lied and told Chang Er that Hou Yi had gone to see Mi Fei. Chang Er believed him and became furious at her unfaithful husband. As the moon rose Chang Er went into the garden, looking up to heaven and remembering the contentment in the life of immortality and the happiness of heaven, and then she thought of the sorrows of the earth.

She was confused and filled with emotion. Thinking that Hou Yi had abandoned her, she swallowed the whole pill and at once she felt her body becoming lighter, rising upwards towards the sky. At this moment Hou Yi arrived back with the jade elixir and saw Chang Er ascending faster and faster. The gods and goddesses in heaven despised Chang Er because she had abandoned her husband. Chang Er had to change her direction and head toward the cold palace in the moon.

Hou Yi watched from the earth and took out his magic bow to shoot down the moon. He aimed but he could not bear to kill his wife. Frustrated and saddened, he destroyed his magical weapons and took to drink. Hou Yi's enemy Feng Meng watched and waited until Hou Yi was senselessly drunk, then he attacked Hou Yi then and killed him.

When Chang Er arrived at the cold palace in the moon and saw how her husband had been cruelly murdered she deeply mourned what she had done. She was cut off from the happy life in heaven and committed to eternity alone in the moon, becoming the moon goddess.

Each year on the 15th day of the eighth month, when the moon is at its fullest and brightest, people look at the moon and try to see in it the image of a beautiful maiden. Couples declare their undying love for each other under the full moon of this mid autumn day. Estranged lovers pray for their reunion.

Company Trip - Cruise To No Where

Yeahh, it's our company trip, a cruise~~!! cruise to where?? Cruise to no where!!


This is our dinner on the first night, friday day. ermm, looks nice.. want to know how it taste like??


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Our table for that dinner is table number 20. The guy there is Gao Fan, senior software engineer from China. Look at his face.. I wouldn't want to comment on the food.
The lady on the left most is Jean, a project manager. She's staring at her food. It must be too delicious to wallop everything at once.


Anyway, the food there isn't very bad but it's not fantastic either...

The next day, we went around the ship and explore. The next photo is Viton and I, a web designer in our company. We are known as "luyee-viton" in the company, just like the brand louisvuitton. hahahaha... so lame... But we have another guy in the company with the name CK. Unsure when we going to get Armani.

Got some other funny photos but going to upload it next time.. feel sleepy now.. zzzz

My Sunday

Sunday, a day for everyone to rest and actually it's family day in Singapore. Every sunday, you can see everyone goes out with family. But most of the time I prefer to stick at home and rot.
So what have I done today? Early morning, I wake up at 9am.. seems like it's still early, I continue to roll on my bed.. till 9.30am and so I took my bath. As usual, I on my notebook, ermm... many people still sleeping. Less than 10 people online in my msn list. Thinking to work on my doggy website and so I on the editor but then my stomach is making some strange noises and then I realize,.. I need food but it's raining outside! no worries, I have my instant noodles.

Errm... the aroma of my curry instant noodles... finished my breakfast! and so I continue to revamp my doggy website. At 12pm... feel like rolling on the bed... *roll* *roll* .

1pm, Ian and Kuan Loon online and we are suppose to discuss bout the recipes channel website. Anyway, we haven't taken our lunch and so we decide to discuss later. And so it's time for lunch. I went down to ta pao.. ate my lunch, and while waiting for the two of them I continue to roll on my bed. *roll* . By the way, Ian is a web designer and kuan loon is a C language programmer and I am the person who gives negative reinforcement while we are working on this recipeschannel.

Well, later on I went to library and by the time I reached home it's already almost 4pm. Finally we work on recipes channel. And now is already 5.3opm.. Wanted to do some laundry but there isn't any place to hang my clothes, so thinking to write this crap thing into my blog to make everyone dies of boredom from reading it. Thank you. Enjoy your sunday evening.

Sypnosis

Finally, here I am starting to write a blog. Everytime keeps thinking I should write a blog to inform the world that I'm still alive but it never happen. Well, I never get it to happen at home or anywhere else but unexpectedly, the birth of my blog is happening in office.. now... yeah.. i'm in office.. (better don't let my boss read my blog). But it's already over the office hour and of course, it's Fridayyyyy!

Anyway, this whole blog thing is going to be about everything and anything that I came across day by day, whether it's about culture, work, men, woman, trees, money, dead, living things, and of course food. I love food so as you read more of my blog, you will realize that I connect food with lots of things happening around me.Start to feel sleepy now?

Honestly, i do not know what else to write. Basically this is just a brief introduction about myself. But I haven't go into there yet and you are already yawning. Ok. I am a normal young lady with two eyes and a nose, and some people call me pig , not only because I was born in the year of pig but I am able to sleep wherever I go and I love eating. I love dogs, sports, my favourite cartoon character is garfield, favourite online game is gunbound (yeahh.. I know it's outdated but that was my generation). And I use to like Red Alert (I know it's outdated too). Basically I enjoy bits and pieces of my life which I'm going to share (the reason why I put it in blue is because this sentence is optional) along the way as long as I'm alive in this world. If you dislike the words in blue, kindly replace it with " which I'm NOT going to share ". It's hard to please everyone you know. (-.0)

Anyway, hope you will enjoy reading! Lastly visit my website~! http://www.alldogsworld.com/