my current mood is ...

Liquan is rather upset. Her friends asked her out but failed to inform her that the outing was cancelled at the last minute. She only found out when she was trying to confirm the meeting venue and time. She remembered vividly that she informed the organiser about her attendance. So well, 1 saturday afternoon is wasted.

I feel sad for myself.

m1's for the hip and happening

Met up with my M1 collegues for dinner at Raffles City. There, we spotted what we thought was the most traditional method of blind dating (an elderly indian man holding few stalks of roses, waiting patiently for HER to approach him). It was kinda funny coz both the guy and the lady didn't seem to find each other despite it's obviousness. I realized that there's always boundless things to talk about, be it complaining about work, or their perceptions towards marriage. Really hope that we can meet up more often.

sunday school sports meet

Went to MGS with the intention of helping out or being a spectator for the sunday school sports meet. Happily wore slippers and denim shorts. I ended up being dragged to be the team leader for some group, playing monkey bars, bean bags, weaving through cones, throwing balls, and running 300m BARE-FOOTED. hahaha.. So much for wearing slippers.. Now I'm suffering from a blister under my toe..

Despite only have 3 above primary 4 kids in my group, we came in first runners up. That's quite an accomplishment as compared to some other group with a GIANT who came in last.. heehee.. So fun to see the little children running around with boundless energy, participating enthusiastically at every station. Old kids like me get drained by merely 300m. Can't imagine what I'll be like in 20 years time.

$30 or 30%

Have been working like crazy for the past 2 nights.. Yesterday till 11pm and tonight ending at about 9.30pm on a public holiday. There's like super lotz of work to be done at office that they had to call me back to help out even though my last day was on Monday. And all this commotion was a result of 1 person's mistake. Normally for online purchases of phones, M1 will automatically give customer $30 off plus free delivery. But on the August newsletter sent out to customers, instead of $30 off, it was stated as 30% off. So M1 had no choice but to honour it and gave 30% off all phones as pre-national day promotion for 2 days (7-8 August). So poor eshop from an average of 70 orders per day shot up to about 130 orders and poor temp staffs like me have to slog like crazy. Obviously there are perm. staffs in office who are ridiculously inefficient, making things even tougher for us but heard that she's getting fired so well..

Before this promotion started, M1eshop was peaceful and she happily threw most of her stuffs to us. Before leaving, I casually mentioned that I hope there'll be 100 orders each day so she will die from writing the forms and it did come true, just that I still ended up writing most of them..

wakeboarding

Purposely took half day off from work to go wakeboarding at East Coast Park Ski360degree with Nithe. It has been real long since I last touched a wakeboard, about 4 years. Remembered taking up wakeboarding in sec 3 coz of some related project (excuse to have some fun). hahaha.. Was so afraid that I've totally forgotten how to wakeboard after so so long, but after a few atempts, the feeling came back.

Wakeboarding on cable and behind the boat is actually quite similar. It's easier to learn behind the boat as the boat slowly accelerates and so the tension on the rope won't be that big, whereas cable runs at a constant speed so once your rope catches the cable, there's a sudden tuck. More importantly, cable is way cheaper than wakeboarding behind a boat so yar. Also, the ski park at ECP is bigger and more techno than the one in Batam.

Anyone interested to try? I'll probably be going down again some time next week. A real good workout for the upper body. I'll so gonna ache like crazy for the next few days..

why must school start so soon?

Shit.. I juz realized that I've to attend this design course for bioengineering design module for the whole of next week! Which means my sch starts 1 week earlier than the rest. This totally sux.. Thought I can slack for 1 week after quitting my job but looks like it's gonna be pre-sch blues..

7 More Things Money can Buy

People, turn to The Sunday Times July 29 2007, page L7.

7 More Things Money can Buy

1. Personal trainer


2. Paul Reed Smith Guitar


3. Fine dining on the high seas


4. Horizon 130 yacht


5. Country club membership


6. Luxury trip to Hakone, Japan


7. New Breast and a flat stomach

Let me zoom your attention to point 3. Fine dining on the high seas by our favourite il Lido! My birthday Cruise!!! I'm so proud and happy to be able to experience such luxury and at the same time share it with some of my closest friends. To those lucky 20, are you happy?

OSim 2007

Spent the morning at East Coast Park, where Nithe and uncle David took part in the Osim Triathlon Sprint 2007. The sprint comprises of 750m swim, 20km cycle, and 5km run whereas the olympic distance is double of everything. Had a great time trying to spot them as they were in the same wave. I juz rooted myself near the transition area where they bound to pass and wait for them to appear. It even started raining at the end and crazy people like me took out our brollies and continued cheering the participants on. I doubt I'll even complete a triathlon. It's way too demanding for me.. hahaha.. I'm satisfied being those at the sidelines, encouraging them to go on.

How cool is it to have you name printed on your number tag

durian power

I know what's causing my gain in weight. I've been snacking alot at office coz it's really really cold and there's free supplies of drinks in the fridge. Most importantly, Nithe's parents have been feeding me with durian 3-4 times per week. How to not gain weight?

More BBQ?

Had 2 BBQs in 2 days at the same place. One was uncle Lester's (nithe's dad)belated 49th birthday, and the other Joshua's NOC farewell. Both were fun!