Time I was with EY....

Browsing through the data in my external harddisk... then I saw some pictures of old days with EY. Hmm... ever since I left them, I never forget this office. It's only after I left the office, I learnt the friendly environment. It's not comparable to the one I currently work with....

One is which our seating.... all seniors in EY will have a cubicle, personal extension, large space to put files. Compared to DT, small desk, shared extention. Senior even sits at pool area. -_-

My working place and my very good neighbour - Cynthia

Besides working, IAFG (Inter-Accounting Firm Game) is considered the one and only big event for my ex-firm, as well as for other firms. It's time where we fight against each other. EY consecutively grabbed the champion 5 years in a row, except for year 2006, we lost badly.

Not playing the game? Be the cheer team. :) Cheers and songs roared.

During off-peak period, we'd organise trip on our own.... Not to say off-peak as there were no off-peak...

Hongkong ~ May 2005

Bukit Lamba ~ May 2006

Taiwan ~ September 2006

Sentosa ~ November 2006 ~ One and the only annual trip cum annual dinner (more for annual dinner) I joined..... (for your information, I didn't attend any annual trip nor annual dinner before this.. hehe..) At first I thought we would be staying at Sentosa, who knows, after the treasure hunt and awesome activities at Sentosa, we were put to budget hotels at GEYLANG! Those hookers are just doing "business" right on the street and the hotel (call it motel will be more appropriate) is also the place they "rest". Gosh.... such arrangement was merely made to suit the budget. Budget constrained.

Sentosa made this exception... This was screened at Music Fountain before the show began..

From left: Melvin, Hwee Ling, me and Alex ~ ppl I trust.

And always... people come, people go....

Farewell with Shita ~ 2005

Farewell with Jia Chuen ~ June 2006

And finally, my farewell. Together with Chin Teck, Tin and Jesslyn ~ November 2006

Old days... old days.... 回不去的从前......

Nightmare

Nobody could be as this unlucky as me. Within six months, I'm auditing this Company twice. If it's a nice and tidy company, nevermind. To the contrary, the account is messy, management changed due to fraud, audited FS for YE 2005 and 2006 have not been signed off and I'm doing 2007 for 4 months. Arghhhhh.... what's the point? Prior years mess has not been cleaned up and what's the point I'm doing this 2007?? If the holding company could accept a report with one long list of outstanding matters and one whole chunk of unresolved accounting treatments, by all means! By that could that also mean that they don't mind using the unaudited figures (if they think the company is peanut to the group)? Then, what's the point of engaging us again? Waste of company's resources only (and waste of my energy and efforts).

This was the one and only engagement I'd ever worked this late at client's place. In January 2007, me and my assistant, including my manager at later stage worked until 1am or 2am+ for continously 2 weeks non-stop. Because of the bad screw up, it also caused me firefight for other engagements within my portfolios badly. What a nightmare to me. Never in my past 3 years' record. And now, same problems, same issues and same nightmare..... what makes the difference is I'm not willing to work till so late anymore. I'm burned out..... Please be considerate.... for one having messy companies for the whole peak period, if not messy then shitty client, how far can this person go?

Is there anything fair in this firm? No covers from the managers. Even work until die, nobody cares (yes, they care if you're partner). As what my manager said: "ppl are not interested in knowing the problems you face, they only care whether you have the solutions readily presented to them." If anything happened to the engagement, they push the blame all the way down from manager level, as if manager is not part of the team. Then the blame will stop at senior's level, which is always the case where I'll be eventually the victim and the scapegoat.

No fair judgements... The words highlighted in blue was like a wet blanket to me... and I suddenly woke up... This is the world. The dark world. Can I have some power to fight against the dark force, like Harry Potter?

Fortune teller

My mum learnt this from my aunt and was trying this on me... to see whether I got 劳碌命, haha.

How does it work? It basically works from one's birthday and it's very easy.... Here it goes..

Say if you're birthday is 08.06.1984, then....


Is the diagram illustrative? I hope so. One thing to take note is, the adding of number will need to go for one more round in order to get a single number, i.e. 8+4=12; 1+2=3. Those numbers stay in the triangle are the affecting factors and the most critical one being the number in the small triangle, in this case it's 9. Hmm... but what are those numbers stay outside the triangle telling? At the moment, I'm not sure... hehe.... I'll need to seek more advise from my aunt. Will keep you all posted ok? :)

Okay... so what does the number tell? Here it goes......

1 - 领导，独立

2 - 沟通

3 - 劳碌

4 - 策划

5 - 方向

6 - 金钱，智慧

7 - 人缘，贵人

8 - 责任

9 - 成功，商业头脑

For my case, I got 7 in the small triangle. I got 1, 6, 7, 8, 9 within the triangle. AND I DON'T HAVE 3 !!! hehehehe..... My mum's interpretation was: I have 贵人 in my life; I'm responsible and I'll be success in my career and I'll be RICH~~ But I do have 3 outside the triangle. *Sian* We don't know what it means at the moment though....

Anyway, just share share only.. What's yours? Try it out ~~~

Pirates of the Caribbean: At world's end

Watched this movie before I went back home. I didn't expect myself to watch this movie cos I didn't watch the previous 2 episodes and why should watch this before I feed myself with the previous 2 before this? Indeed... it's expected... I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE WHOLE STORY WAS ABOUT. haha. Maybe I was just tired (since it's mid-night box office); maybe I wasn't concentrate as I was thinking something else. I couldn't really link up the story. Of cos I can't without watching "Curse of the black pearl" and "Dead Man's chest", and I straight jump to the third, "At World's End". I don't even know who is Jack. haha. Although what little I knew was the casting - Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp played a role. In addition, the little I knew was Chow Yun Fat participated "At World's End". Other than that, I know nothing....

Nonetheless, the movie did impress me in some way. I especially like the way Jack dominated the situation. But I don't quite understand why Beckett didn't fight in the end but choose to end the battle and his life that way. That's the only thing that puzzled me. Hence, it seemed to me that the victory came too easy.

I think I'll watch again after I pick up the first and second series. To gain more background information, I'm reading Fact and Fiction now.. hehe.. (yeah, I'm always serious on things I'm into)

空

Facing the screen for so long and I do not know what to write. Don't know how to organise what's in my mind.

*after 30 mins or so*

I thought I could possibly work today. Maybe went back to work after lunch, but I didn't make it. Early in the morning, I saw Kitchi's sms and my emotion burst out again... My mind was just blank for the time until in the evening, I had a talk with Miao and I had a nap, I got my mind clear and I think I know how to handle this blow.

I was told that this year is gonna be a bad year to me and my good life will only start next year. I'm bearing this warning in my mind and I sort of like always prepare for the worst to come. However, sometimes right, when the setbacks come and I just cannot take it especially when I've put in my utmost effort. I'd feel that all the efforts have gone down the drain and I'm being fooled.

Anyway, couldn't let the xiao ren to pull me down right? Couldn't possibly let them bully me and ruin my career path. I believe I'm bound to meet the good (although I've met some of those), it's just that I don't have the luck at the moment. I should not have doubted my ability because of the words from devils out of unfair judgement.

I do not think that I'm in a wrong line. But, I could possibly in a wrong firm.

泪。累。

不习惯? 习惯?

For how many weeks I've been travelling to and fro JB and SG without miss? 24 weeks?

It had once started with a lot of "不习惯"....

我不习惯：

1. 没有车的日子
2. 每天要走很多路
3. 每天要和别人挤MRT
4. 每天要带钥匙出门
5. 每个礼拜要和别人挤巴士

Because of all these "不习惯", I walked until I gave up high heel shoes; Because of all these "不习惯", I "laid" on others in the MRT because I didn't stand steadily; Because of all these "不习惯", I locked myself in the house because I forgot to take the keys before I locked my room....

I have many stories around keys.... for I wasn't just lock up myself one time, but twice... and I need ppl to rescue me. My landlord would also leave me a note, asking me to take care of myself and my key when he's away in overseas because nobody would come and rescue during that time... I also left my keys at client's place... and I ended up waiting my landlord and housemate at colleague's home.... sometimes I did bring my keys... but it happened to me once that I was locked outside the house just because my landlord's mum happened to lock the gate which none of us had the key.... The key stories happend to me had once a big jokes to everyone. Was that really funny? I simply didn't get used to it as my family members will open and close the gate for me when I'm in JB. I do not need to bring the keys with me at all times....

And I wish I could be making use of every time I spend on travelling. I still couldn't sleep on bus or on MRT; I still couldn't concentrate on reading. My mind is just blank when I'm on bus or MRT.

There was also time where Tiong Bahru and Tanjong Pagar 我傻傻分不清楚.... hoo... hoo...

有些不习惯我习惯了。。。有些不习惯，还是不习惯。。。

心情写照

每天电话不停地响
许多的事要备忘
许多的门与抽屉
开了又关关了又开如此的慌张
我来来往往我匆匆忙忙
从一个方向到另一个方向
忙忙忙忙忙忙
忙是为了自己的理想
还是为了不让别人失望
盲盲盲盲盲盲
盲的已经没有主张
盲的已经失去方向
忙忙忙盲盲盲
忙的分不清欢喜和忧伤
忙的没有时间痛哭一场

~ modified from 张爱嘉 - 忙与盲

It's only RM436 ~ ~ ~

Woa Haa Haa Haa ~~~~ UNBELIEVABLE!! My current month credit card bill was only RM436! That means I didn't charge anything to my credit card this month except for the monthly routine pay out for insurance and CPA subscriptions fee, and RM83 petrol. It has NEVER been so low before in the past whereby my credit card charges stayed as high as RM1,500 to RM2,000 and sometimes even exceed RM2,000! It has always been the case I got salary banked in at this moment, and the next moment it was transferred to another bank, leaving the pathetic little sum of money in my bank for my living.

If I continue to keep my credit card usage to the minimum, I believe I can get rid of poverty very soon.... Woa Haa Haa Haa~~~

Coming soon (2) - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Hoo~~ Hoo~~ Hoo~~ I haven't finished read up the "The half blood prince" and now the 7th book is coming.... Oh my god... I must quickly finish up the book 6 before I grab this... is this possible?

I used to spend my summer break reading up the Harry Potter. The half blood prince was when I've already started working... no more summer break and that's why never finished the read up.. *good excuse huh* hehe....

Why I like Harry Potter so much? Well... no particular reason... just enjoy the reading, that's it. I very much enjoyed reading the Quidditch game part, I like more about Dumbledore's words to Harry.

Some extracts from Harry Potter that could enlighten you...

"To the well-orgarnised mind, death is but the next great adventure...... Money and life.... The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things which are worst for them." ~ Harry Potter and the Philopsoher's Stone

"Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself." ~ Harry Potter and the Philopsoher's Stone

"Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realise that love as powerful as you mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection for ever. It is in your very skin.." ~ Harry Potter and the Philopsoher's Stone

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." ~ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him." ~ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

"The order of Pheonix" did not leave me much impression simply because it's too thick. I found that it's just too lengthy and I think the writer merely prolonged the story for the sake of making the novel thick. You may also notice the series are getting thicker and thicker, of cos they're getting more pricey as it gains the fame. Undoubtedly, by its nature, I guess the 7th books must be the thickest amongst all......

Eye Massager

I've been thinking of getting an eye massasger for myself for quite some time. Basically is because I feel eye tiredness sometimes after facing the computer screen for long hours. It can be very ridiculous as the average hours I'm using computer approximates 12 hours a day. In addition, this has also caused me to have serious dark circle (although I'm born with dark circle. Don't you know that Hainanese usually born with dark circle?) and EYE WRINKLES! It's a sign of ageing and I can't let my eyes betray my age. You see eyes are so important. Even Darcy was attracted by Elizabeth's FINE EYES in "Pride and Prejudice". So, I MUST SAVE MY EYES!

Browsing through OSIM's website, I found 2 model of eye massages. I was pretty interested in iCare 100 as one of the effect of using this was "Reduction of eye wrinkles, dark rings around the eyes and eye bags". Oh.... this best suits me... This is exactly what I want, although I know very best myself that I can't get rid of the dark circle, reduction of dark circle is something I can do.

The other model offered by OSIM is iCare 200. Cos I didn't see "reduction of eye wrinkles and dark circle" being one of the effect of using it, hence, I didn't really give a damn although it looks solid.

I went to OSIM outlet today to try out both iCare 100 and iCare 200. As claimed by the promoter, iCare 200 is of better featured than the other (of cos! iCare 200 is double the price of iCare 100, ok?) because it comes with air pressure, heat and vibration. Whereas, iCare 100 was merely massaging with vibration. After trying out the both products, I agreed that iCare 200 was massaging my eyes in a more professional way simply because iCare 100 couldn't really fit my head (unless your head is big enough) and it's so heavy that it would need some support. In the end, needless to say, I bought iCare 200. I know my parents are going to comment this as an useless equipment and I'm being extravagant again.... but I don't care ~~ As I said, I must save my eyes and I'll try all means to save them.

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera~~~~ Finally.... I watched this show on May 16, 2007. It's weekday. I was worried that I can't cabut from office before 7pm for the show. It's a long awaiting show to me as I bought the CD 9 years back at RM84.90 and haven't got chance to watch the show in person. I didn't know much about this musical show when I bought the CD but I simply bought it because I like "The music of the night". So this time round, I was like by hook or by crook must watch one. Hehe...

I can't imagine myself would spend SGD147 on the show. I was very kiasu cos I thought the theatre is big and I afraid that I couldn't see the stage clearly. Hmm.. the theatre is far smaller than I expect. The stage is also small. So I think no matter where you sit, one can still see show clearly (at least know what they're doing) although certain seats bound to have limited view.

To my surprise, the orchestra group was playing under the stage. It was a very small space and it's cramped. But still, they delivered high standard of the music though, and the sound effect was simply superb!! The music was also richer than the CD I had. Can't help with it... music grows over time. There bound to have difference since one was played 9 years back. Compared to the version I had, I preferred this Phantom. His voice was PERFECT! He could sing some keys flawlessly.

The change of the scene was extremely FAST. The sets were spectacular and I personally like "The staircase of the opera house" where they sang the "Masquerade". I also like "The labyrinth underground" where the Phantom and Christine were in the boat and moved across the misty water, and the candles rose from the stage. Gosh ~ how did they make it?? The misty water of the underground lake looked so real ~~ and it's really beautiful~~

If I had the chance to watch this again, I would want to watch it in other theatre... not in the same theatre for the same show.

Comment from other media...

I'm losing confidence....

Working under "Robin", I find myself losing confidence. I don't quite like the feeling. I noted that some ppl have the habit of arrowing back for whatever you say, or whatever you do. No matter what it is, the winner must be them. They must have the last say. They can anytime find a point to shoot back. I envy that they have the ability to twist and turn in seconds. However, I believe they don't know this is as good as taking a step to destroy the other person.

Sometimes I feel like having a brain processes perfectly like a computer. I hope I could have a recycle bin in my brain, and once the recycle bin is emptied, I'm revitalised. Human being is still human being..... I will still take in some of their words although I don't wish to. I still make errors and silly mistakes when I'm panic. No matter how many rounds I check there will still be some mistakes unspotted.....

Being defensive, is this the only way to survive?

To amuse myself out of the blue..

Sometimes facing somebody I don't like or who's been upsetting me or so-called the disgusting fellow, I'll name them a nick.... one is for conveniences of talking at the back of that person and won't be get caught of; also, the third ears will not be knowing who I'm talking about.

The most hatred one being my RMT - Resource Management Team which is the team who does all the engagement allocations and sourcing for ppl. The one at my group is a disgusting woman and I'm calling her F woman. She has a very "cute" initial which I think it best matches her - FLK. Taking off the L in the middle..... hmm... it becomes FK woman. You know what I mean.... heehee... to cut it short, I prefer F woman.

There's also a doremon. Naming him so not because he can come out with a lot of interesting surviving kits to save me all along the way but merely because he looks like a doremon. I don't like him because he likes to waste my time.

Another one is the ego manager. He's short but I can't call him shortie cos it's just too obvious. YB thought of Tai Di Luo Bin which I think it's just too long. Then we concluded that we can call him "Robin". In my impression, "Robin" in Batman's series was a also a bad guy. Although "Robin" in Robinhood is a good guy. But nevermind.... I quite like putting this nick on him.... haha.

Although all these sound a bit boh liao.... but.... this is the only way we can amuse ourselves since we can't much about all these irritating ppl...

Yummy... yummy.....

It was mostly known as a farewell dinner for Kitchi as she's leaving on Monday (14/05/07) to Thailand for work. As she's considered an illegal worker there (she's doing the supervision for her boss at site) hence she'll come back every 30 days (according to her, maybe less than that) to have her passport chopped, then off, she'll go again... The dinner was mostly known as the farewell dinner, but allow me to correct the misunderstanding... the dinner was also a earlier birthday celebration for Kitchi as well (Erm... otherwise we can't find a good reason for buying her the backpack and also... or there's no better reason why we can have free dinner. haha.... kiddingz).

All I know about the place is Robertson Park. What's the name of the restaurant? Erm... I forgot.. was that a Korean bbq restaurant or a Japanese was a topic for discussion. As I was flipping through the menu, I thought it's Korean as, in my impression, only Korean will serve self-service bbq and also, 80% of the meat served is beef. But I heard the waiter/ waitress greeting customers "yoshimasei" ... err.... isn't this the usually way of greeting at Japanese restaurant? Nevermind about it.... the food is not bad in overall..

Never thought mushroom taste so nice when you "peng" it.. hoho....

Second round....... at Canelé Pâtisserie Chocolaterie .... Deng~ Deng ~ Deng ~ Deng ~ who won't be falling in love with the chocolate if you see this:

Yummy~ yummy ~

Personally... I like this.... Kitchi said it's like toothpick bottle. -_-

Anyway~~~ I like it ~~~

Ya Kun Kaya Toast

Can't believe that I have been having brunch at Ya Kun Kaya Toast for continously 4 days!!! The same thing - homemade barley + kaya toast! Oh my god... I've got addicted to it!! The auntie can recognise me already lor..... haha....

I want to open a kopitiam like this!!

P/S: You can search Ya Kun at wikipedia you know? Win liao....

They can't have pedestrian at Tuas checkpoint??

I was working at Tuas today. It was very close to Tuas checkpoint so I thought of just heading towards to Tuas checkpoint after work. I got the taxi driver to drop me at the checkpoint and as I walked towards the departure hall, I was stopped by this. He told me that I can't walk at Tuas checkpoint and only coaches can pass through unless I was holding a valid bus ticket at the moment. I told him that I merely got the taxi driver to drop me here and I intended to take the bus at the other end. HE DISALLOWED STILL! He asked me to either take the cab or bus (182) to go back to Jurong East and paid SGD3.50 and returned here by bus. WHAT THE HELL!! That sound so stupid and ridiculous man! I was just 20 feets away from the departure hall and now asked me to take the bus all the way down to Jurong East and came back here again? The to and fro would take me more than an hour and somemore, I couldn't be sure myself I would be able to catch the last bus as it was already 9:30pm.

I begged the officer to excuse me once on the account that I was not aware of the stupid rule he's mentioning but he's very insistent. I feel like punching him, really. I looked around to see if there's any signboard or disclaimer BUT NONE! Come on, I was not smuggling or doing anything bad, I just wanted to get passed the checkpoint and catched the bus at the other side, and I was merely 20 feets away!! This si ren annoying officer!

Then, I called my colleague to turn back and get the taxi driver to send me to Woodland checkpoint instead.... Thought things would be smooth then.. BUT Woodland's traffic was super congested! Cars were not moving at all! My dear god.... what have I done to deserve all these today? Firstly the insult from MIC, then the discrimination from the officer; then, got stuck in the stupid jam. Are YOU training me to be strong and tough?? NOT THIS WAY, PLEASE.

Never do works at the back of your boss

I had smoother days as I expected this week. I couldn't believe that I could have such blessing this week. Who knows.... by end of today......... I received this stupid email from this bastard - a senior manager:

"I noticed that E has been taking over your responsibilities to wrap up the FS and the engagements. This is not equitable to him. I expect you to discharge your responsibilities as the AIC of these engagements."



Exactly these feelings...

The whole incident started from the day I came back from my TOIL. On Monday, this E came and told me that client suddenly asked for the FS and asked me to work on it. One of the company that I sent for review before I went on leave was done. Hence, first thing in the morning I did was to look at the manager's comment and sent the FS for amendments.

There was another company where client had merely sent me her figures on last Monday night (before I went off from office and subsequently I would be on TOIL). I told the client that I would be working at home during my absence and she didn't say she wanted it urgently and she's been notified of my absence for the next 3 days. When I barely returned office on Monday, E came and looked for me and told me that the manager asked him to draft the FS for his review. He told me that he had worked on part of them then asked me to continue. Ok.. I was feeling guilty as he helped me on the FS as requested by the manager. I was supposed to go client's place on that day but I ended up doing the FS as the bastard wanted the FS be scanned over to him for his review (he's in HK).

When I was doing all these things, I mentioned to my neighbour about my concern cos I felt that, if I were the manager, I would think that E got all these done as all the email correspondences were all from him. But that time, I wasn't thought of protecting myself as I thought that as long as things were done.

I would expect him to question me if I did help out on the process though, I didn't expect him to email me and point finger on me saying that I discharged my responsibilities! He's not professional at all because he's looking things on surface and before he sent this email out, he didn't even bother to communicate with me!! That's why I said he doesn't show respect to ppl. Don't ever think that his "orders" should be ranked as first priority just because he's the senior manager and therefore he is standing on the top of the world! I have also current week engagement to run, I have some other managers to serve at the same time and I did what I should have done before I went off to client's place!

And my reply to his email:

"I admit that E helped me amend the PIC's points on the FS today. I just want to make it clear to you that I cleared your points on FS, get the FS ready for PIC's review myself when I was told by E that it has become urgent before client called me on Monday. I've also compiled the cleared EQAR's point and PIC's point, get it ready and put them on top of the file just in case that they need to be presented when I'm away at client's place.

I also admit that E helped me out on the other FS while I had also got some of the pages ready during my toil. I was not aware that you emailed him with regards of the FS. On Monday itself, when I was told by E, I did the leftover as told by E.

You may double check and and get E to concur if this is true. I didn't discharge my responsibilities as AIC from these engagements. "

What had he done the day before I returned office and subsequently on Monday and Tuesday:
1. He emailed E and asked E to draft the FS for review
2. He was urging E to scan him the FS for review on Monday
3. He sent all the client's email addressed to E but cc me

DID HE TAKE ME AS THE AIC FOR THE ENGAGEMENTS IN THE FIRST PLACE??? If he did, he would have done the above 3 things!!

Never try to get cab between 10pm to 11:30pm

Feel like cursing the taxi drivers who hide themselves at one place and only pick up customers with bookings. You know it's very difficult to speak to operator during 10pm and 11:30pm? Listen to the music only! When I was at this Havelock Road bus stop, I started to call the hotline. Saw a bus will get to somewhere near my place so I stepped in. Dunno where to get off so I chose to get off at a bus stop where many ppl were getting off (it's at Ranges Avenue). Then I started to call the hotline again. Again!! "Please do not hang up while we're transferring your call.... " "Your call is important to us.... we'll be attending to your call shortly.... " KNS !!

I saw the sign board and it was Lower Delta Road on my right. So I walked towards that direction as I thought maybe I could see the bus number I usually took. While holding the mobile, listening to the stupid music, I continue walking. Who knows I saw this "Jln Bt Swee Ho"... ohh my god!! I'd reached this Tiong Bahru Plaza already and I haven't got myself a cab yet!! What the hell!

Anyway, now then I know actually making a "L" turn from the bus stop I alighted, it's Tiong Bahru.... If I were to know the direction at that moment, I would be that panic anymore.

Cursing all the taxi drivers who didn't stop while I flagged by the road!!

P/S: food feast at Clarke Quay will be posted soon...

It's hot...... and crazy

Woke up at 5am today as I'd need to reach office early for stupid works.... It was really hot this morning and I even showered with cold water (first time for the past 6 years). Oh gosh... it's 5am+ somemore!

Wanted to catch the first bus... I guessed the first bus should be around 6am. To my surprised, there were many ppl waiting bus at this early hour! Some buses were even left no seats. To the contrast, these people were mostly the elderly and students. Hardly see anyone with this office dress code like me.

I thought I would be the first one who reached office this morning. Reached office at around 6:30am. But..... I WAS NOT THE FIRST *HUH??* but some ppl had already started working! When I told my colleagues this, everybody was asking the same thing: were they staying overnight? *sigh* so pathetic.... why do we need to work till so late and yet be the early bird still?? When can I get rid of this kind of life?

Down on mood..

Since came back from 3 days leaves, everybody's bugging me, for anything. Sian. They expect me to deliver whatever they requested in a day. Please... I've got many ppl to entertain in a day. I can definitely meet their expectations if I have 10 hands and 5 brains.

Multi tasks... multi tasks.... they all only know to expect ppl to multi tasks. One is using mouth, but we ppl are not just using mouth, ok! We need concentration!!! Just stop bugging me!

Tony's wedding + Family clubbing (Continue.....)

Family's big event again... cos someone was getting married... Aunties uncles would normally get very busy to help prepare this and prepare that. Then the cousins (depending on if you're marrying in or marrying out - i.e. marrying in - the guys will need to be "brothers" and the vice versa) were not idle also as they need to wake up early also, to be the "defensive brothers". :)

Well... I didn't play much in the event.... I was merely a food eater... :)

Erm... Don't want to say much about the wedding dinner... see the report at other media...



Second round..... Lush @ Eden


12 of us altogether... went home to get change and straight headed towards Eden...

There are some new pubs open at Eden. I think the most popular one is "Dolce" since I've heard many ppl talking about this pub (my logic is: If something's been discussed over the crowds means it's something popular.. hehe..). We reached there at nearly 12am but.. gosh... the place was just crowded and very noisy. The eldest cousin and his wife, Ni and En were already waiting us at one corner at "Dolce". As the place was over crowded, hence, we changed the venue to "Lush".







Everyone has to register at the counter and have their hand stamped before you can go into the pub. Things were settled by 堂姐夫, I only knew that I had my hand stamped with the word "Lush".








The pub is limited to age above 21 years old. These 2 girls didn't meet the requirement. They should be rejected outside the entrance but still... they managed to go in. Was there a loop hole in the security check or we're just too big of group?








Pub or shall I call it disco? It's all about deafening music, smoky atmostphere and wine. Seriously I don't know what's the fun about standing there and squeezing oneself in a small room.

堂姐夫名言：什么是夜生活？就是酒和二手烟~~ (Correct me if I heard it wrongly.. it's just too noisy and can't really catch what one's telling)






All the girls attended last night... Yin, Ling, Jennifer, Ni and me... aiyoh... Ni.... face's so red? But I know you're not drunk.. hehe..












See Ni's face? aiyoh.... as red as "Guan Gong"... haha....












Cheers....... To my surprise, Chivas + coke actually taste so good! Fantastic!












The brothers..... En, Dong, Kuan and 堂姐夫


Taken outside at "Dolce" when we're about to leave... Although my face color stayed the same (basically wine or beer won't make my face red), I couldn't walk a straight line already after a few cups of Chivas + coke. Surprisingly, the 2 below-21-girl didn't feel a thing!



Whole event ended at another feast at Wen Qiang "kuey tiao kia"... err.... not my cup of tea...

If you missed this round family gathering... look forward to the next ba... hehe.....

Tony's wedding dinner + Family clubbing

Just came back from family clubbing... after a few cups of Chivas+coke, I got a bit dizzy and not really sober already.... post a "Quan Jia Fu" of the clubbing members first... 12 of us altogether...

The image is a bit blurred also... the "Kueh Tiao Kia" auntie didn't do a good job.. but anyway, this is the only record of all the clubbing members today...

Stay tune ....

Coming soon (1) - Minutes to Midnight

Ohh yeah.... have been waiting their next album for 3 years after Meteora. The lead single from the upcoming album - "What I've Done" didn't give me much surprise.... *disappointed* I hope some songs in this upcoming album will be astonishing ..... but I won't be surprised if it's just so-so...

Meteora is still my favourite album which I've been listening to it for thousand times. Especially when I was stressed up during exams or for work, I'd just put on my earphone and played this album repeatedly, let the music wind around my mind while doing tutorials and wrapping files (when I was doing something I don't like but still have to commit to the accomplishment).

Human's inmost feeling is very fragile. Minor as peanut things could upset us. All songs in the album can somehow describe my feeling from time to time...

When I'm lost:

"I want to heal, I want to feel, what I thought was never real

I want to let go of the pain I've held so long...

I want to heal, I want to feel, like I'm close to something real

I want to find something I've wanted all along

Somewhere I belong"

or

"I don't know what's worth fighting for, or why I have to scream,

I don't know why I instigate and say what I don't mean,

I don't know how I got this way, I know it's not alright,

So I'm breaking the habit tonight"

Sometimes when I'm trying to escape from a fact:

"It's easier to run, replacing this pain with something numb

It's so much easier to go, than face all this pain here all alone"

When I was fighting with the witch in the office:

"One minute you're on top, the next you're not,

Watch it drop ,

Making your heart stop, just before you hit the floor

One minute you're on top, the next you're not,

Missed your shot,

Making your heart stop, you think won, and then it's all gone"

When facing the push factors in the office:

"Try to give you warning but everyone ignores me

[Told you everything loud and clear] but nobody's listening

Call to you so clearly but you don't want to hear me

[Told you everything loud and clear] but nobody's listening

I got a

Heart full of pain, head full of stress

Handful of anger held in my chest

Uphill struggle, blood, sweat and tears

Nothing to gain, everything to fear"

Some songs are simply too good like numb..... and One step closer (from the album of Hybrid Theory) - especially the "Shut up" part.. that's really awesome! "SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU! SHUT UP~ SHUT UP~ SHUT ~~UP~~~~" Cool ~~~

Face mapping exercise

I've learnt this website for quite some time... just that I didn't try it out as I'm quite lazy to. But then, I saw this post and I was thinking: surely not? The outcome is the same? Different picture of the same celebrity? Come on... I don't believe it. Hence, being busybody, I also tried upload a few of my pictures... On one hand, I was wondering which celebrity I resembled the most... On the other hand, I was also thinking if that "miracle" would happen on me also? It's a disappointment.... cos for every pictures that I uploaded, it churned out different celebrity faces!

It was Matsu Takako for the first try. Then..

With another picture, the outcome is different! *How come?* This round, it's Kim Hee-Sun. Okay... let's see what's next..

It's another celebrity face again ! Rachel McAdams. Win liao lor... firstly Japanese, then Korean, now Canadian...

And, hey.. that's a little boy... How would Joss Stone resembled him?

Then the last try....

Now is Lee Hyori.

I want to try no more. I guess it will give me another celebrity face if I were try another round. Well... at least give me one of 2 repeated outcome so that I can proudly tell others: Ohh.... this advanced face recognition technology actually featured that I resemble xxx.... haha...

P/S: I really want to take my hat off to wikipedia. Whatever chicken feed you search there, you'll get what you want there..

爱我宽柔

看到这个短片，心里有少少的感动。毕业这么久了，我会母校的次数是屈指可数。 少过5次吧。。 *很丢脸的说* 这个短片勾起了不少的回忆。如果你还没有看过。。。 就开来看看吧。。

http://www.foonyew.net/streaming/aiwokuanrou_HQ.wmv

你还记得校歌怎么唱吗？唱了6年了。。 虽然快10年没有唱了，可是这校歌始终还是占着记忆某个位子。。 挥之不去。。

“中华文物冠亚东 教化万方通
有教无类孟与孔 朝夕琴弦颂
尚规律 崇使用 爱我宽柔五育重
愿同学 勤俭正直 服务社会 扬校风。。。”

还记得杨文煌老师常常骂我们不积极唱校歌， 结果一直叫我们重唱？嗯。。 我想唱国歌时更糟，更没有人要唱。。 呵呵。。。 基本上我就是那个没有唱的人。。 呵呵。。。

我记得当我还在澳洲的时候，刚好碰上90校庆。我们这些在海外的宽中生就聚在某某人的家。。 嗯。。 忘记名字了（wsj 你再update 我。。 你那个读医科的同学）。。 录了一段短片，寄回母校以传达我们的祝福。。 很短的短片，就只说了：九十不老，百年更新。 我始终都没有看到这个短片。。 也不知道学校是不真的有收到，最后有没有在千人宴播出来。。

我们的ET班主任和阿水不知道还好吗？

** 打华文字真的很辛苦勒！吐血**

New drink from Starbuck..

Was shopping around at Jusco and saw there's a guy standing at the entrance of Starbuck, looked like promoting new drink.... Being busybody, I walked towards the guy with my sister, see what's new.

Both of us took one of the drink and the guy started introducing the new flavour of coffee... blah blah blah..... I didn't really pay attention to what he said but then I heard this: banana! What?! BANANA? "Yeah... it's banana... it's our new drink. It's coffee mixed with banana, chocolate chips and vanilla...... it tastes very nice..." "Oh no, sorry.... I don't take banana...." Then I put the drink back to the tray. This was then exchanged by a teasing from my sister: "ohh.... too bad....."

*argh* Why mix banana with the coffee??? Isn't it weird??

Gastric...........

It's only one breakfast that I skipped last Friday and I don't feel good with my stomach since then... it's sickening! Can't eat too full, can't eat too much bread, can't eat too much of the batter... *sigh* somebody told me gastric can be cured when meals has been taking with care. But this doesn't work on me.

Never ever skip breakfast in future again....