Ok, A's results was finally out. My set of results cannot really be considered as a decent one though i managed to pass everything. But, as we all know passing is just not enough. Still, after receiving the long awaited results, i felt relieved as finally everything has come to an end.
ok, maybe i m weird, but somehow, i m not that upset as i initially thought i might be. Perhaps maybe i was more or less mentally prepared for the outcome after sitting for all the papers.
ok, so no matter how well i fared, i will still continue to further my studies to get at least a degree before i stop studying. Survival will be hard with no degree but just the current set of A level results on my hand.
As usual, while receiving results, there is always surprises, both pleasant and unpleasant. The unpleasant one is commonly known as disappointment. Sometimes i really wonder does things always fell into the best spotlight when least expected???
Monday, March 9, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Valentine's Day Celebration
After a whole morning full of phone calls, i met up with valerie and jolene to celebrate v-day!
Initially, we planned to catch some movies but after scanning the screen for the seats available at the movie tickets booth at Cathay, we were no longer into that mood anymore. It was simply just soo packed. End up we all headed towards vivo to spend our time shopping, eating and chatting.
I officially announced that i am a fan of the White Dog Cafe. Though we had spent almost an hour queuing before we got a seat at the cafe, the food was really yummy. Pricing was just nice, it was not too outrageously expensive. The ambience there was also rather cosy. I enjoyed my dinner very much.
Initially, we planned to catch some movies but after scanning the screen for the seats available at the movie tickets booth at Cathay, we were no longer into that mood anymore. It was simply just soo packed. End up we all headed towards vivo to spend our time shopping, eating and chatting.
I officially announced that i am a fan of the White Dog Cafe. Though we had spent almost an hour queuing before we got a seat at the cafe, the food was really yummy. Pricing was just nice, it was not too outrageously expensive. The ambience there was also rather cosy. I enjoyed my dinner very much.
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
Colours Of Flower Festive'09
Beauty of Nature
Delights of Creativity
Creation of Man
All @ Sentosa Flower Festive 09
Stationed @ Imbiah, we have
Golden Harvest
Orchid Treasures
Delights of Creativity
Creation of Man
All @ Sentosa Flower Festive 09
Stationed @ Imbiah, we have
The Happy Cow Family,
the main lead of the event as we celebrate the moo 牛 year
Land of Blue
Land of Gold
Land Of Pink
Golden Harvest
Orchid Treasures
At Palawan,
Learning Journey
Giant Sculptures
School Displays
"Spring"
Most popular display among people esp with kids
My favourite displays among all.
There are some people who commented that the cow looks like a pig.
Anyway, it just looks cute!
Land of Green
Endangered Polar Bears @ melting ice caps
And of course, the primary attractions....
FLOWERS!! of all kinds!!!
Sigh~ why didn't some guys just proposed to their girlfriends @ the festive to make it more happening??? There are so many beautiful spots there suitable enough to make a memorable proposal...
Monday, February 23, 2009
CNY'09 @ Sentosa Flower Festive
ME!! @ Land of Green
This has been my first time working during CNY. Usually, for the past years, i have always spend the time going house-visiting, eating, watching tv and collecting ang-bao.
I have been working as an event host for the Sentosa Flower Festive 09. It was a 9-day event, from 24 jan till 1 feb and was quite an eye-opener as i get to see quite alot while working. I was rather fortunate as compared to my fellow crew as some of them encountered really nasty visitors who threathened to complain them to some higher authority. Even though the pay was not a lot, still i am glad that i took up this assignment during this long vacation and added some colours onto it.
Initially, i signed up for this assignment just purely out of fun after seeing the advertisement to hire some crew for the festive. I just thought that i can find an excuse to shift my restless lazy bum out of the house, into the sun, to be immersed to the nature, flowers, colours, people, noise during the flower festive, an event which i longed to be part of the crowd, and also i can get to visit sentosa for free.
I took many pictures at Imbiah and some at Palawan. There were really many beautiful spots and graphics which i wished i could capture.
To sum up, after signing off from work on the last day of the event, i do undedrstand that every job scope has its own challenge no matter how slack, or how easy the job seems to be to everybody's eye. Definitely, at one moment while working, one would feel lethargic and tired out of a sudden. Hence, it was really not easy to earn a living.
Must be more careful in spending $$$ from now onwards...hahaha
Up till today,
- I never knew that there were so much foreigners working in S'pore
- Singaporeans is the most difficult bunch of people to serve, sad to say...
- Sentosa was actually rather small
- Your bosses are normally not the best kind souls in the world, which you orginally pictured them as some teacher who will guide you along the way with patience and understanding since they themselves had walked this path before. BUT, unfortunately, that's just not the case. It's a vicious cycle continuing forever till doomsday!
- I really prayed that i won't fall into the same category in future.
- Never should anybody try to go out on an outgoing, be it with your family members or friends, to this kind of event, opened to the public during a public holiday, especially during day one of CNY because its a crazy sight and a big turnoff for roamance, anticipation, fun and laughter due to the long queue for practically almost any single damned thing.
Mass picture taking @ the hotspot Colours of Love,
couples fav place.
A hot passionate kissing scene under the gigantic heart at night will stir and filled the whole place with love & emotion. Temperature rising! El Nin-YO!").
Night view @ Giant Floral Wall was really pretty!
The magnificient Merloin @ night while stationed at duty at the Tree of Life selling wish charms.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Current Updates
I hate my current temp job.
I hated 90% of those damn customers who phoned in and made a hell out of my day.I am counting down to 28 mar '09 (the end of my contract; yeaa!!)
I am trying to finish the mass production of my valentine's day gifts
I am currently seeking solace from watching drama series to rejuvenate my poor soul after listening to a whole day of grumbles and disputes
I am trying to withhold my temper to engage in a verbal fight of cursing and swearing at those irritatingly idiotic, rude, ill-bred, crude, domineering, petty & narrow-minded customers.
I am trying hard not to sink into the same level of these kind of ugly customers by being more patient with the people in the service line. Seriously, most of the time, customers is always NOT right! especially at call centre!!!!
I think the system at the call centre is not just rigid but crappy and full of shit! And i god-damned cant be bothered following them.
PS: Gosh, I really do hate my current job!
I hated 90% of those damn customers who phoned in and made a hell out of my day.I am counting down to 28 mar '09 (the end of my contract; yeaa!!)
I am trying to finish the mass production of my valentine's day gifts
I am currently seeking solace from watching drama series to rejuvenate my poor soul after listening to a whole day of grumbles and disputes
I am trying to withhold my temper to engage in a verbal fight of cursing and swearing at those irritatingly idiotic, rude, ill-bred, crude, domineering, petty & narrow-minded customers.
I am trying hard not to sink into the same level of these kind of ugly customers by being more patient with the people in the service line. Seriously, most of the time, customers is always NOT right! especially at call centre!!!!
I think the system at the call centre is not just rigid but crappy and full of shit! And i god-damned cant be bothered following them.
PS: Gosh, I really do hate my current job!
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Unsettle Emotions- A Clash of Beliefs between the Modern and the Conventional
Gosh! I felt super guilt-ridden now. My siblings are both caught up with chicken pox, with me being their primary source of infection. Their symptoms are much more severe than mine, esp my bro as he really looks like he is infected with small pox. His whole face is lined with big angry red swollen poxes. There was hardly any space left in between each pox. The degree of the itchy sensation faced by them seems to be so much unbearable than mine. The itchiness was so significant that it drained their ability to go into a sleep.
Last night, i woke up at about 3 plus in the morning after being bitten continuously by that particular greedy and irritating god-damn mosquito. I heard my sis moaning and wincing at the itchiness. My bro was up sitting near the living room as besides enduring the tormenting itchiness, he felt super warm to fall asleep. This duration lasted for about 3 hrs before i know that i was drifting into a light sleep.
Though i experienced before this kind of torturous "rather be death than alive" moment, i don't ever remember that the duration was so long. I could recount that it was one dark night, while i was suddenly awaken by this surge of sharp itchiness biting my back. Being alone in my room, with curtains drawn up, layers of light shining from the corridors of the flat next to my block peacefully in the silent night, i twitched and twisted my body on the bed trying my best to curb the itchiness away. Muttering inaudibly soft prayers, i managed to push myself up into a sitting position, grabbing the tail of the rear of my t-shirt, i fanned myself frantically trying to alleviate the itchiness of my back and to distract myself from the cues of itchiness coming from other parts of me like the scalp and the thighs. Then out of no where there was this light breeze that came sweeping in between my bedroom windows, right onto my back. A chilling shiver was sent down my spine immediately, stumbling me down onto the bed. By then, besides moaning, i was already sobbing silently, wondering how long the night is, praying for the night to dissipate as soon as possible and pleading for more strength to tide me through the whole process before falling asleep. Perhaps the sobbing helped to relief me indirectly in a way to channel some of the energy into the tears to ease off the tight emotional stress forming and also the brain from concentrating on the niggling itchiness of the skin. Anyway, i am really grateful that now i am freed from all the stinging and the urge to scratch like mad.
Apparently, its seems that the medicine prescribed by the doc for my bro case was not working that effective for him since we both consulted the same doc. But i also suspect that the reason why my condition is less serious is because mine was rather controlled as i did took some antibiotics initially because at that point of time, i m also having 3 big ulcers around my tonsils while the doc still cannot confirm the diagnosis. I m not sure whether was it a strep throat or not, but i do believe that this was a reason why mine differ much from theirs.
On the other hand, my sis's doc prescribed her a slightly different set of medicine. It was just an anti-viral drug, Acyclovir, that is also able to curb the itchiness away and was to be consumed within the 24 to 48 hours of the onset of the rash . The quantities of the antibiotics is rather huge dosage. However, she didn't take it as my mum kept insisting that she shouldn't take it and should let all thew poxes popped out naturally. Maybe that's why my siblings symptoms and conditions are more similar than to mine as my mom also requested the doc not to control the viral growth.
I am totally on the opposite side of my mom's belief. There were people who died of chicken pox and among these deaths, most of them were adults above 20. The condition of adults down with chicken pox is much more acute than children thus it is normal for adults to be administered with stronger dose of medication to stablise the condition.
Besides, i also felt skeptical about some of the concepts based on her theory that was passed down by generations of ancestors related to chicken pox. I could smell out the loopholes in some of the flawed logic as it truly doesn't make much senses, scientifically. With modern technology and recent research and developments, it is understandable that anti-viral drugs, antibiotics and any forms of medicine are aim to reduce the sufferings. If things and solutions were to always remain as the old way, i think people are still probably living in craves today.
Here's a few of some of the flawed logic which i still couldn't quite fathom. If anyone has an answer, do kindly enlightened me by dropping in a comment to help me out as i m now being brandished as the ignorant brat with a thick skull who "still doesn't get it what's good for her". In the meantime, the docs had assured us that its alright to consume any thing as long as you maintain a well-balanced diet.
1) Abstain from chicken, eggs and seafood, but its ok to consume fish.
Is it because the name of chicken pox, there's why it is related to chicken and we should abstain from eating? I thought chicken and eggs are one of the protein-rich food providers to aid to speed up recoveries? Der! fish came from the sea, what makes it different from the rest?
2) Must not consume any beans-related products like beancurd, almond, bean-sprout but is ok to eat long beans, lentils, string beans.
What's the difference??? Both have fibers and are sources of natural complementary protein food?
3) Abstain from any dark soya sauce but its ok to consume light soya sauce.
Is it because of the rumors that scars will turn black after consuming dark soya sauce? Really?
4) Must not drink anything that is cold.
Huh? Why?
5) Take a pepper bath to relieve the itchiness.
I thought i read sth online that its to take an oatmeal bath to sooth the itchiness?
P.S: I really hate chicken pox!!!!
Last night, i woke up at about 3 plus in the morning after being bitten continuously by that particular greedy and irritating god-damn mosquito. I heard my sis moaning and wincing at the itchiness. My bro was up sitting near the living room as besides enduring the tormenting itchiness, he felt super warm to fall asleep. This duration lasted for about 3 hrs before i know that i was drifting into a light sleep.
Though i experienced before this kind of torturous "rather be death than alive" moment, i don't ever remember that the duration was so long. I could recount that it was one dark night, while i was suddenly awaken by this surge of sharp itchiness biting my back. Being alone in my room, with curtains drawn up, layers of light shining from the corridors of the flat next to my block peacefully in the silent night, i twitched and twisted my body on the bed trying my best to curb the itchiness away. Muttering inaudibly soft prayers, i managed to push myself up into a sitting position, grabbing the tail of the rear of my t-shirt, i fanned myself frantically trying to alleviate the itchiness of my back and to distract myself from the cues of itchiness coming from other parts of me like the scalp and the thighs. Then out of no where there was this light breeze that came sweeping in between my bedroom windows, right onto my back. A chilling shiver was sent down my spine immediately, stumbling me down onto the bed. By then, besides moaning, i was already sobbing silently, wondering how long the night is, praying for the night to dissipate as soon as possible and pleading for more strength to tide me through the whole process before falling asleep. Perhaps the sobbing helped to relief me indirectly in a way to channel some of the energy into the tears to ease off the tight emotional stress forming and also the brain from concentrating on the niggling itchiness of the skin. Anyway, i am really grateful that now i am freed from all the stinging and the urge to scratch like mad.
Apparently, its seems that the medicine prescribed by the doc for my bro case was not working that effective for him since we both consulted the same doc. But i also suspect that the reason why my condition is less serious is because mine was rather controlled as i did took some antibiotics initially because at that point of time, i m also having 3 big ulcers around my tonsils while the doc still cannot confirm the diagnosis. I m not sure whether was it a strep throat or not, but i do believe that this was a reason why mine differ much from theirs.
On the other hand, my sis's doc prescribed her a slightly different set of medicine. It was just an anti-viral drug, Acyclovir, that is also able to curb the itchiness away and was to be consumed within the 24 to 48 hours of the onset of the rash . The quantities of the antibiotics is rather huge dosage. However, she didn't take it as my mum kept insisting that she shouldn't take it and should let all thew poxes popped out naturally. Maybe that's why my siblings symptoms and conditions are more similar than to mine as my mom also requested the doc not to control the viral growth.
I am totally on the opposite side of my mom's belief. There were people who died of chicken pox and among these deaths, most of them were adults above 20. The condition of adults down with chicken pox is much more acute than children thus it is normal for adults to be administered with stronger dose of medication to stablise the condition.
Besides, i also felt skeptical about some of the concepts based on her theory that was passed down by generations of ancestors related to chicken pox. I could smell out the loopholes in some of the flawed logic as it truly doesn't make much senses, scientifically. With modern technology and recent research and developments, it is understandable that anti-viral drugs, antibiotics and any forms of medicine are aim to reduce the sufferings. If things and solutions were to always remain as the old way, i think people are still probably living in craves today.
Here's a few of some of the flawed logic which i still couldn't quite fathom. If anyone has an answer, do kindly enlightened me by dropping in a comment to help me out as i m now being brandished as the ignorant brat with a thick skull who "still doesn't get it what's good for her". In the meantime, the docs had assured us that its alright to consume any thing as long as you maintain a well-balanced diet.
1) Abstain from chicken, eggs and seafood, but its ok to consume fish.
Is it because the name of chicken pox, there's why it is related to chicken and we should abstain from eating? I thought chicken and eggs are one of the protein-rich food providers to aid to speed up recoveries? Der! fish came from the sea, what makes it different from the rest?
2) Must not consume any beans-related products like beancurd, almond, bean-sprout but is ok to eat long beans, lentils, string beans.
What's the difference??? Both have fibers and are sources of natural complementary protein food?
3) Abstain from any dark soya sauce but its ok to consume light soya sauce.
Is it because of the rumors that scars will turn black after consuming dark soya sauce? Really?
4) Must not drink anything that is cold.
Huh? Why?
5) Take a pepper bath to relieve the itchiness.
I thought i read sth online that its to take an oatmeal bath to sooth the itchiness?
P.S: I really hate chicken pox!!!!
Friday, January 16, 2009
Hitherto...
I have still yet to...
Complete reading all my novels
Go to the bank to apply for my atm car
Collect my bi-weekly contacts
Get into the mood of a studious student to do the reading of the basic stuff and info from the small pile of notes from Singtel
BUT...
I had deviated from my dad's strict diet discreetly... by munching on a few packets of oreo cookies, a handful of nougats and 1 piece of sweet-stew beancurd during dinner tonight....
I can't do without the "normal" snacking and diet that i usually have... If there's one thing that i cant live without it, that will surely be tasty food (not shuai ge)... be it healthy or trashy... that's why i never succeed in any endeavours made to go on diet... that's why i give up trying to be as thin as my sis, erika...
Haha... i m jus feeling a bit bored at home now...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
My 2 weeks MC
Can you imagine how depressing the situation is if you are down with chicken pox, together with a bad score throat, at the start of a new menses cycle in the beginning of a new year?
Fucking hell! That's really terrible!
Yea, i happened to be the above joker who is granted a full 2 weeks leave before i had to report back to work on next fri, 23 Jan.
Last week, after the prelude of 3 torturous days of fever and body ache, a full blown chicken poxes stride up with nasty ugly scary swollen angry red poxes popping up swiftly on my face and body, esp at my back. The fever had yet to be subsidised completely while the itchy sensation crept up and twitch onto my skin. The itchiness was simply unbearable!!!
I was super depressed and upset for the first few days because this was really not the right time to fall sick and take sick leave as i just landed myself a temp job. I was afraid that Singtel would terminate my contract and that my agency might charge me for breaching the contract. Furthermore, i felt and looked like a freak who was emitting out contagious virus to people. I also fear that i might jeopardised my sis's long awaited trip to Cape Town.
And thanks to my bro, YS, who is not making anything better by shunning away from my presence, refusal to sit on the same dining table to have dinner while i was having mine, covering his face with his shirt or blocking his nose with his fingers to breathe in any contagious air and walking away quickly when he felt that he was physically too near to me for his own good! He said that it was better to take precautions as he had no wish to be struck by chicken pox like me! What a bitch! Lucky he is not a girl, i can fathom how bitchy would he be if he is a gal!
Anway, a week later, which is now, i m near to recovery as the fever and score throat had gone down completely, and i m no longer on medication! I m now waiting for the poxes to dry up. The only thing that is killing me now is the awful diet!!! My parents were very strict with my diet. They were worried about the scars and thus they had made special arrangements for my diet to be simple and plain! Bread for both breakfast while lunch and dinner for kway teow/vermicelli soup diluted with a little light soya sauce with boiled fish, veggie and minced meat for dunno how many days!! Arggghhhh!!!
But heck, its going to be a week soon, i m going to drift away slowly from this hell diet!!
In the meantime, i have been spending my time ermmm, hmm on leisure. Hahaha!!! I'm aware that i should be doing some reading and seriously i swear that i really planned to read the whole pile of Singtel notes, the one on tallyman, the basics and stuff, but dunno why i seems to give up after browsing through just a few chapters of the basics in the morning on first day discharged from the comatose of the heavy medications. I dunno why, the info just cant seems to be seeped through my brain. I was bored!
Thus, in the end, i spent most of the time reading fictitious novels, watching stupid tv programmes and going online catching movies and shows!! LOL! Things that i always like to indulge myself in when i m free!
I finally get to read and finish A Leap Of Love, a novella by Catherine Lim. I have been yearning to read that ever since the release of the movie, The Leap Years. The novella was sooo poetically romantic!!! I hope to catch the movie soon!
I went online youtube to watch the 1st episode of Love or Bread (我的億萬麵包). The pace of the drama seems a bit slow and draggy. I don't like it at all. It's boring! Don't think i will continue watching the subsequent episodes. I still prefer Fated to Love You (命中注定我愛你). Freaking funny!!! The scenes containing xinyi's mum with ji cun xi are the best! A classic one!
Fucking hell! That's really terrible!
Yea, i happened to be the above joker who is granted a full 2 weeks leave before i had to report back to work on next fri, 23 Jan.
Last week, after the prelude of 3 torturous days of fever and body ache, a full blown chicken poxes stride up with nasty ugly scary swollen angry red poxes popping up swiftly on my face and body, esp at my back. The fever had yet to be subsidised completely while the itchy sensation crept up and twitch onto my skin. The itchiness was simply unbearable!!!
I was super depressed and upset for the first few days because this was really not the right time to fall sick and take sick leave as i just landed myself a temp job. I was afraid that Singtel would terminate my contract and that my agency might charge me for breaching the contract. Furthermore, i felt and looked like a freak who was emitting out contagious virus to people. I also fear that i might jeopardised my sis's long awaited trip to Cape Town.
And thanks to my bro, YS, who is not making anything better by shunning away from my presence, refusal to sit on the same dining table to have dinner while i was having mine, covering his face with his shirt or blocking his nose with his fingers to breathe in any contagious air and walking away quickly when he felt that he was physically too near to me for his own good! He said that it was better to take precautions as he had no wish to be struck by chicken pox like me! What a bitch! Lucky he is not a girl, i can fathom how bitchy would he be if he is a gal!
Anway, a week later, which is now, i m near to recovery as the fever and score throat had gone down completely, and i m no longer on medication! I m now waiting for the poxes to dry up. The only thing that is killing me now is the awful diet!!! My parents were very strict with my diet. They were worried about the scars and thus they had made special arrangements for my diet to be simple and plain! Bread for both breakfast while lunch and dinner for kway teow/vermicelli soup diluted with a little light soya sauce with boiled fish, veggie and minced meat for dunno how many days!! Arggghhhh!!!
But heck, its going to be a week soon, i m going to drift away slowly from this hell diet!!
In the meantime, i have been spending my time ermmm, hmm on leisure. Hahaha!!! I'm aware that i should be doing some reading and seriously i swear that i really planned to read the whole pile of Singtel notes, the one on tallyman, the basics and stuff, but dunno why i seems to give up after browsing through just a few chapters of the basics in the morning on first day discharged from the comatose of the heavy medications. I dunno why, the info just cant seems to be seeped through my brain. I was bored!
Thus, in the end, i spent most of the time reading fictitious novels, watching stupid tv programmes and going online catching movies and shows!! LOL! Things that i always like to indulge myself in when i m free!
I finally get to read and finish A Leap Of Love, a novella by Catherine Lim. I have been yearning to read that ever since the release of the movie, The Leap Years. The novella was sooo poetically romantic!!! I hope to catch the movie soon!
I went online youtube to watch the 1st episode of Love or Bread (我的億萬麵包). The pace of the drama seems a bit slow and draggy. I don't like it at all. It's boring! Don't think i will continue watching the subsequent episodes. I still prefer Fated to Love You (命中注定我愛你). Freaking funny!!! The scenes containing xinyi's mum with ji cun xi are the best! A classic one!
Next, i also managed to catch Wild Child by Emma Roberts. Haha dunno why, recently i m more into these kind of teen drama. Sigh~ perhaps its because in slightly more than half a year time, i will be past the teen phrase...sob sob~~ getting old le.
The plot shared some similarities with The Naughtiest Girl in the School where the wild, unrestrained, spoilt Poppy Moore was sent to an english boarding school, Abbey Mount Institution, by her rich daddy, up to her horror, after a crazy intolerable stint of messing up with his dad's girlfriend. She was unhappy with the arrangements and was bent to show it by misbehaving and being rude. Her room-mates soon discovered her unhappiness and came together to help her to devise schemes to get her expel....
Emma Roberts looked odd in blond, i guess that's not her colour. It just doesn't suit her... She's more of a brunette. She look absolutely stunning in dark brown hair. But i think she is too skinny...should fatten up a bit more...will look much better...
The movie was rather tame, not wild at all. It was not as bitchy as Mean Girls but was entertaining enough for me to keep my eyes stay put in front of the computer screen for the whole 100 min duration.
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