big world, little girl

 

Oooo...I'm so happy cos I'm planning for my trip to Bintan in late Oct!! Before that, I'll be going to Thailand in mid Sep with 50% of my expenses sponsored!! I just hope that the damage on my wallet will not be catastrophic cos I really missed shopping @ Thailand. Oh ya, I must meet up Joe and get him to bring me to eat mango sticky rice again! So yummy!

 

But I look fwd to the Bintan trip even more cos I've been talking about a resort getaway for the longest time and I finally see it taking shape. I hope we can find a good package for the four of us. Me want to stay at the seaside villa, so so pretty!! Too bad, I can't bring my big big Stitch along *sob sob*

 

But... I'm still very excited about these 2 short getaways. These holidays from work are really necessary to compensate for the dog hours I worked. When I reached home at 6.30pm yesterday because I went back straight aft my training, my mum thot i was sick! She exclaimed that she nv sees me come home so early from work before. **That really says sth about my work hours isn't it** But other than the long hours, I've no complains about work. I think I'm really bless beyond a doubt in my workplace with a great boss and very wonderful colleagues.

 

*whistles: what a wonderful world... ...*

 

 

 

Happy Ger

Pantxike

 

 

 

 

I juz found out that my graduation ceremony will be juz days before my bday - 14 Jul (Sat)!

 

Kinda wierd that it's on a sat cos graduation ceremony has always been on a weekday but i can save my leave for other purposes! Woohoo! I juz told my mum about it since she reminded me twice to let her know once I know the confirmed date. Good that she is so enthu about attending, at least I've a guest coming for my graduation ceremony. I still remember that both my parents did not attend my poly graduation. kinda sad then =(

 

Looking fwd to wear the thick fat gown and mortar board. Have been wondering when my turn will come ever since I saw it on tv when i was young. Talking abt that gown, it cost me $63 just to rent it compared to ntu $35. And if they want to buy, it's only $10 additional!! How come everything about my sch is always so expensive??? Why can't they spare a thot for all the poor students.. haiz!!

 

 

 

 

Pantxike

I went for a haircut yesterday to trim my messy crowning glory. Have decided to grow my hair long this time round since I have been having it short for the last 2.5 years. Getting kinda of envious of long hair gers who can rebond, perm and style their hair. My hairstylist says that with my present length, my hair will be long by the end of the year but I must be able to bear through the next 2 to 3 mths cos that's when it will be the hardest to keep it neat (since it's mid length).

 

For some wierd reason, I always seems to look younger with long hair when it's the other way round for most people. Look at my photo taken after the hair cut yesterday, I still look like a poly student, don't I? Maybe it's my fringe bah... Eh, how come my head looks so much bigger in relative to my body?? Haha!

 

 

 

Next week is gonna be a crazy week ahead. My colleague is going for 3 weeks marriage cum honeymoon leave + 2 new interns are coming in. All these = more work! The new interns will need training and guidance. At least for the first 2 weeks, if they attend any meeting, I got to be there with them. But I think the experience of mentoring them and learning new lessons from them will be a great reward in itself. So I'm still looking forward to seeing them tomorrow. Aiya, I cannot be late for work anymore till they get their access card cos they will need me to get them into office! Ha!

 

 

Pantxike

I have brought so many things over the past month.. Think I need to curb my spending habits and start saving.. But it's hard cos they are all so pretty and I really do have use for them *sighz*

 

 

First I brought a "smashing-neat-compartment-ised box" from Ikea. It's very useful and I feel tempted to buy a couple more. Well, the greatest thing about it is you can decide how you want the compartments to be. The dividers can be added in or taken out! I use this to keep all my accessories so that I know where to look for them and not wonder if they had grew legs and ran away. I had enough of "search-rescue" especially when I'm always running late for work/appointments.

 

After settling my accessories, I dug out a box I brought from Value Shop previously. This one even cheaper. Only $1.50!! It was an impulse buy back then, nv expect it to come so useful oneday. I use it to keep all my belts. 

 

     

 

If you are wondering why I have become such neat freak suddenly, there is no need to wonder! Cos I've always been neat wat! Haha! To my mum's relief, I woke up one day feeling that I should really do something about the state of my pig sty. Hence I decided to do a big clean up campaigne.  I took 9 hours that day doing nothing but wiping, dusting, throwing, taking things out, placing them back, perspiring!! It's a big effort k. =P

 

   

 

Haha! The reason for the disparity is simply because I cannot finish cleaning my room in a day! Hence I have decided to leave the other half in its most natural and exotic look for a while more.

 

 

The other craze that I'm having right now is Kettle Chips!! If you think Lays and Ruffles are nice, wait till you tried Kettle! I had already finished my third pack for the week, no thanks to my colleague who got me hooked onto it.

 

 

 

 

HANDBAGS & FRAGANCES 

Sighz, other than pretty + useful boxes and addictive chips, I fell in love with handbags and fragances! Saw a elegant white handbag at Tangs and it happened to be on sale. After I feel it, smell it, touched it, stare hard at it, I decided to walk around Tangs to consider if I should really splurge on it. 

 

While I was still in a dilemma walking around Tangs thinking if I should buy the handbag, I chanced upon the new Bvlgari Omnia fragance. I'm no fragance expert, not some high class socialite who can differentiate the base note, middle note, music note, note pad. Haha! All I know is it has a nice floral smell which appeals to me. 

 

 

 VS

 

 

 

 

All is not lost, I saw a miniature version of Bvlgari Omnia in John Little. They only have the red and transparent version but the one that I like is the purple one. The sales lady tells me that new stock is coming in next week. Shall buy the miniature version and put it on trial first. I guess it won't be too late to buy the bigger bottle if I really like it. And if I don't like, I would have save myself from spending unnecesarily.

 

 

 

Ok, the last big spending of this month is my fake nails. I decided to do something about my nail biting habit hence I went to put on fake nails. They look very pretty but at the end of the day I still prefer my ugly but natural finger nails. I feel so restrained when I've the fake nails on and it can be quite a bother. Even to button my shirt becomes a hassle. I have concluded that only tai tais can maintained nice long nails cos they don't need to do household chores and their main duty is to look good.

 

Damage on Wallet:  Catastrophic (4/5) 

 

 

 

 

Pantxike

 

Phantom-ing!! Phantom-ing!! Phantom-ing!! (stomping)

Ah!! It has come!!

 

I can't believe that time whizz by so fast! I collected our tixs on 21 Nov 06 and four months have passed just like that. Today is finally Aprils' Fool and I'm going to watch The Phantom of the Opera tonite with Rox, Cyn & Ben!! Yipee!!

  

 

 

 

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I'm having a headache now cos I don't know what to wear!! =(

Sighz, guess I've to go and dig my wardrobe...

 

Anyway, I took a pic of myself yesterday that I was very satisfied with!

But too bad, this look ain't suitable for night function. Nvm, shall dress up

like this for my friend's wedding in May since hers is a garden wedding.

 

 

 

 

I feel very tong ku that I can't use photoshop to edit my photos and make them look better. No choice, just settle for plain vanilla photos first while i get the software from my friend. Ok, off to settle my headache now, hope I don't end up as the next wardrobe disaster or malfunction. *grinz*

 

 

Pantxike

Woah!~ It has been 3 long months since the last time I updated my blog.

 

It's a boring Sunday, doing work at home cos I simply have no time to finish them in office.

Reminds me of school days when u have to work through weekends as well!

 

I juz got converted to perm staff after 3 months which is pretty fast considered that I was supposed to be a contract staff for a year first. Work can get real stressful at times because of the fast pace in office. You are expected to work fast and yet cover all grounds. That's a high order for someone like me who is 1) careless 2) goldfish memory 3) *blur* and 4) inexperience. Sometimes I can feel my heart literally racing faster while working.

 

Of cos there are fun days as well. My colleague is getting married so I always accompany her to furniture shops. There was once we went into King Koil and the salesman asked us to lie on the bed to try it out. Can you imagine 2 gals in office attire lying on a bed in a King Koil shop. It sure feels kinda funny. I nv knew that they sell the mattress and the bed frame separately. On average, the bed will set you off by $4K! It's really a costly affair to get married.

 

Enough about work related stuff. Yesterday was a good day cos I was feeling better after being sick on and off for the entire dreadful week. I decided to dress up a bit to make myself feel gd though I was juz going to Jurong Point alone. After shopping around for 3 hours, I brought myself a new pair of shoes, 1 gift box, 1 loose powder brush, 1 ring, 1 comb, 1 hair clip, 1 bottle of hair styling foam and a packet of 10 eyeshadow brushes. All these for less than $50 and enough to last me for a considerable period of time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pantxike

 

I gotten all my grades. They are all within my expectations so I've no complains about the outcome. Managed to maintain my GPA of 3.2 which means I can get the "High Merit" printed on my degree. No honours, got high merit also not bad. Better than nothing at all!

 

Finished my 2 reports - Community Service and Internship reports during the first week of my holidays. I'm amazed I can drag them writing them for 2 to 3 years. Anyway, nobody will read them, it is just a standard procedure that the school makes us go through. Juz like the 6 unless uni core courses that I'm forced to take.

 

I found a job as well. Life is an irony, just when I'm elated that I got myself out of SMU, I realised that the 2 other colleagues that I'm going to work closely with are SMU grads. How small can the world get!! I know one of them, did project with her before.

 

Sighz, I don't know to laugh or to cry. But I shan't think about it first. Shall enjoy the last few days of my holidays and my korea trip before I embark in my new job.

 

 

 

 

Pantxike

 

Cleared my Logisitics paper this morning. The level of difficulty for that paper was alright. I made sure I checked through every calculation before I handed in my paper. Hope that will help to eliminate any careless mistake I might have made and history won't repeats itself. Just one last paper on fri morning! I can smell my holidays in the air!!

 

Today, I splurged on this Liqueur Barrel Cake - Baileys Irish Cream with Premium Roasted Macademia Nuts. Even the description sounds awfully yummilious! It's expensive but since I didn't really spend much recently, can still afford to be a spendthrift for once. I shall be nice and share it with my friends on fri! Sidetrack a little, I wonder what will Santa Claus bring me this year for X'mas since I have so nice! Haha!

 

It's time to hit my notes again!

Countdown Counter: 1 day + 1 exam

 

 

 

Pantxike 

Phew! Cleared 2 papers at one go today - SCM and the dreadful history!

 

SCM was do-able cos the problem sums were similar to the practise questions. Have higher hopes for this paper because I spent 4 days just to study for it. I got a scare when i was looking at the first question. I know how to do it but suddenly I blanked out! I was telling myself, it's juz a mental block, go and do the rest of the questions first. Thank God when I revisited the question, it dawned upon me how to solve it. God must have heard the prayers from my sisters and send angels to help me =)

 

History - Juz simply vomit out the answers that I had memorised. My hand was aching after the paper cos I was writing non-stop. Finally got over the "dreaded-his-story" paper. Hooray!! When I was thinking about the qn I attempted on my way home, I can't help but to be amazed. I was writing about discrimination that Chinese in Indo and M'sia faced. It suddenly dawned upon me that if my great-grandfather had chosen to migrate to other neighbouring SEA countries instead of SG, I might have a totally different fate. I guess in his lifetime he would never have realised the impact of his decision on his descendents. I think this must be one of the most valuable lesson I learnt from history. The choice that we make today might have an effect that perpetuate across generations!

Today is a very happy day for me. I was laughing with my friends almost non-stop in the afternoon while preparing for my exams. I think I've not laughed so hard in sch for a long time. It was great to have their company in sch! It's funny to know how lame we can be when our powers combine! Thanks for the entertainment - Binary, Sofie and Ostrich!

 

I have so many things to thank God for in this entry. This shall be the last one! I had 7 different friends smsing me to wish me all the best for my exams this morning! I'm so touched because this is the first time I had so many friends who remembered and tell me that they are praying for me. I shan't let you all down. Will mug hard for the remaining papers!

 

 

 

Pantxike