Monday, March 01, 2010
The month of FEB in 2010
Ok maybe I should make it a resolution this year to post an entry every once a month at least or most?
26 Feb 2010 Hand Foot Mouth Diease and ME
Yeah go ahead and laugh all you want because that was exactly what I did 2 years ago when my friend told me she had HFMD. "Hahahaha I thought only kids get it, oh maybe you are like a kid that's why you are prone to it!" She is indeed a very petite girl, just like your primary school niece. Anyway Karmas do exist, and that's why:
Those are images of my body parts in case you are wondering including all the ulcers and rashes. I was suspecting that I might be having HFMD on thursday night when I saw red spots on my fingers. By Friday morning, I had a big disgusting ulcer (you see in the photo above) on my tongue and I went ahead for work as I didn't want to waste time, got a big project on hand. However by near noon time, I really thought I shouldn't be selfish because I have a pregnant colleague (ok I don't know what are the repercussions of HFMD to pregnant ladies), my bossess have small kids and my other colleagues are confined in the same office as me! I left work to see a doctor just so to be safe. I think even the doctor felt amused as he couldn't confirm and diagnose me as having HFMD. He had this hmmm and half unsure but amused face when he said "It's a rare occurrence in adults and usually for kids only but your symptoms are exactly like it so I will have to give you 5 days MC, if you are a kid I will give you 7 days to stay home. I will make a compulsory report to the health authorities." Yeah and that explains why I became so much fatter munching on all the CNY goodies even though my tongue and throat hurts a great deal and unable to go out to exercise. Anyway the doctor said I can't exercise at all, just light exercise but I feel totally healthy! I read that one of the symptoms of HFMD is loss of appetite, why doesn't it apply to me at all? RAR!
The most worrying thing was that I met WAT babes on Thursday evening for dinner at Wendy's and I shared food and drinks with them =( But I think they won't be so unlucky! Anyway I found out the cause of my disease --- my darn nephew! Everyone esp. my mum, my bro, my sis-in-law and even simon were in more close contact with him than me yet... Haiz, I'm just down on my luck. Or maybe I am still young =D
CNY Visitations & FUN
1st day of CNY is always a pleasant sight as everyone looks lively and sparkling just like us:
Hong Yun Dang Tou is the word for my hair colour! Whenever people comment "Wah, your hair!", I will tell them that =) I started visitation with Simon 1st to his relative's place and then both of us came back to pick my mum + sis & Ric to Ah Ma's place in the late afternoon. It has always been the culture for my family to start visitation late. "Loots" aka angpows for this year seems promising =p CNY happen to be V'day too! Happy V'day to all, no singles will be alone on this special day anymore since it's also CNY! Simon & I watched "Valentine's Day" after all the visiting and I kept tearing nearing to the end of the movie. Don't know why but I felt very strongly for the story and I felt the twist within was really good!
People say Chu Yi (day 1 of CNY) is for visiting your dad's relatives, Chu Er (day 2 of CNY) is for visiting your mum's relatives and Chu San (day 3 of CNY) I would say will be to hang out with friends! Well since it's a holiday in lieu, we wasted no time in heading to Cable Ski at Batam!
Nice Simon gathered all 7 of us, namely (in order of confirmation to the trip) Simon, Me, Edmund, Stacy, Siew Kia and last min my sister and Richard! Other than 1) all of us being overkissed by the sun, 2) my sis spraining her back hence stopped ski-ing halfway, 3) Stacy still being slammed into the water right after she starts, 4) totally famished by evening time, I figured that we had too much fun! I still can't ski the whole round though, only managed 10 secs of fame haha and the falls got so unbearable that I had to wear a helmet as I could sense brain concussion on the way! I will definitely be back for more!
A must-do for CNY in Singapore would be to visit River Ang Pow! Even more so for the year of Tiger since I am one =p It's sort of customary now that this exhibition has been ongoing for years, 24th year this year. Eeek that means it started on the year when I was born?
Knocked off work on Friday evening and headed straight home with Simon to pick my mum, sis and 2 monsters aka my niece and nephew so we can all have fun together. It was mostly photo-taking and viewing the exhibits plus letting the kids have a ride at the funfair. With the photos as evidence of fun, we did enjoy ourselves and got to the point that all of us were so tired by the time we reach home at midnight! I think having kids are really not on my agenda list for the years ahead =) For that I am sure!
Couchsurfing has always been something I hold onto dearly although I am not as active as I should be but I know deep down, I admire such a great invention. So despite a busy week like CNY, I still managed to find time to meet up with Scott from Canada who is visiting Singapore for only 3 days...
I brought him to our longest shopping belt Orchard, to eat laksa at bugis (like what else other than food in Singapore is attractive tell me!) and lastly, we managed to get to swisshotel for that paramount view of central Singapore before he catches his 9pm plane to Australia! After every new meeting with a CSers, I always wonder when will we next meet again...
After meeting Scott, I headed over to RiHao's house for the annual SK gathering (Sang Khem)!
*Awaiting Photo!*
All thanks to WeeMay, RiHao and KarWai's initiative, we all got together again! It's always a tought job to "gather" people, especially a big group of more than 5. Even so, my bimbo gang have to make pre-booking one month in advance to meet and cannot even organise an overseas trip since 2 years ago. That is the norm or sad truth for the working-class I guess, for the various commitments people are tied up with. It has been a while since all of us (less some who didn't turn up) gathered on a dinner table with self-prepared food like what we did back in Cambodia. As we were going to start tucking in, Peiling suddenly commented "Wah got the Sang Khem feel" Hahaha I can't agree more. We talked and laughed and nua-ed the whole night away in RiHao's newly-renovated house. Our main laughing topic was how poorly renovated RiHao's house was, posing too many hazards to us. Hope we can keep to our annual meeting tradition!
Steamboat at SeeKee's House was pre-arranged like more than a month ago?
I was the EARLIEST!!! Haha hence had the privilege to eat all the good food I want 1st. Stupid Stacy was still playing mahjong when all of us were already halfway through our steamboat! Luckily she brought gifts for us haha! Seek's friend also came by and we all played Ban Luck together from which I won 80cents yeah must note down in my diary hahaha. That was the joke of the night for bimbos as Linda sneakily peek into Seek's diary and saw that she wrote "Won $1 from Mahjong =)". We finally tentatively fixed a date for our Taiwan trip in September! That's an achievement, really!
13 Feb 2010 Pre-Valentine's Day
Tadang! Dream come true for Mr. Simon =)
Yes the one on the right, who is me, is of course definitely a dream-come-true for him haha but the one on the left... Let's just say that I am a sweet girlfriend, yes I know that! I bought him a 32-inch Samsung LCD TV for V'day cum 19-monthsary. I granted one of his wishes! He was so surprised to see me that night as I was suppose to be staying at home to watch CNY countdown. So effort right? *full of praises for myself*
30 Jan 2010 Jimmy & Moon's Wedding
Got a phone call on my mobile one fine day at work "Hi I am calling from HDB. You have won a HDB 4-room flat, when can you come down to claim your prize?" Yeah right, when does HDB ever give out flats as lucky draw prizes? Moreover, I don't remember taking part in any lucky draws at ALL! It was actually Jimmy (sort of considered my ex-colleague) on the line. He simply wanted to invite me for his wedding! How linked is that to the 1st conversation sentence he started with?
Anyway, congrats to him and his bride (who happens to be the ex-girlfriend of my ex-colleague cum Uni-mate). Haha they have such a complicated relationship but wells the wedding was a good catch up session for all of us as I seldom meet them for KTV now. May they have a blissful marriage.
26 Jan 2010 Multi Racial Gathering
Had my once-in-a-blue-moon multi-racial meet up. Yeah sounds really cool and since one of the threesome had wrote about it, I shan't elaborate more as you can get all of the juicy details in Giraffe. The rationale behind that post title was purely because of my innocence =) Amy was raving about how great the body worlds exhibition at Science Centre was and gave details about how they even portrayed the real procreation process of human using cross-sectional view. She added that there was exhibition of giraffe also! So I went "oh my so they showed giraffes mating too?" Answer is NO, she merely wanted to say that there are animal exhibits but she made the topics seemed so linked right?
26 Feb 2010 Hand Foot Mouth Diease and ME
Yeah go ahead and laugh all you want because that was exactly what I did 2 years ago when my friend told me she had HFMD. "Hahahaha I thought only kids get it, oh maybe you are like a kid that's why you are prone to it!" She is indeed a very petite girl, just like your primary school niece. Anyway Karmas do exist, and that's why:
Those are images of my body parts in case you are wondering including all the ulcers and rashes. I was suspecting that I might be having HFMD on thursday night when I saw red spots on my fingers. By Friday morning, I had a big disgusting ulcer (you see in the photo above) on my tongue and I went ahead for work as I didn't want to waste time, got a big project on hand. However by near noon time, I really thought I shouldn't be selfish because I have a pregnant colleague (ok I don't know what are the repercussions of HFMD to pregnant ladies), my bossess have small kids and my other colleagues are confined in the same office as me! I left work to see a doctor just so to be safe. I think even the doctor felt amused as he couldn't confirm and diagnose me as having HFMD. He had this hmmm and half unsure but amused face when he said "It's a rare occurrence in adults and usually for kids only but your symptoms are exactly like it so I will have to give you 5 days MC, if you are a kid I will give you 7 days to stay home. I will make a compulsory report to the health authorities." Yeah and that explains why I became so much fatter munching on all the CNY goodies even though my tongue and throat hurts a great deal and unable to go out to exercise. Anyway the doctor said I can't exercise at all, just light exercise but I feel totally healthy! I read that one of the symptoms of HFMD is loss of appetite, why doesn't it apply to me at all? RAR!
The most worrying thing was that I met WAT babes on Thursday evening for dinner at Wendy's and I shared food and drinks with them =( But I think they won't be so unlucky! Anyway I found out the cause of my disease --- my darn nephew! Everyone esp. my mum, my bro, my sis-in-law and even simon were in more close contact with him than me yet... Haiz, I'm just down on my luck. Or maybe I am still young =D
CNY Visitations & FUN
1st day of CNY is always a pleasant sight as everyone looks lively and sparkling just like us:
Hong Yun Dang Tou is the word for my hair colour! Whenever people comment "Wah, your hair!", I will tell them that =) I started visitation with Simon 1st to his relative's place and then both of us came back to pick my mum + sis & Ric to Ah Ma's place in the late afternoon. It has always been the culture for my family to start visitation late. "Loots" aka angpows for this year seems promising =p CNY happen to be V'day too! Happy V'day to all, no singles will be alone on this special day anymore since it's also CNY! Simon & I watched "Valentine's Day" after all the visiting and I kept tearing nearing to the end of the movie. Don't know why but I felt very strongly for the story and I felt the twist within was really good!
People say Chu Yi (day 1 of CNY) is for visiting your dad's relatives, Chu Er (day 2 of CNY) is for visiting your mum's relatives and Chu San (day 3 of CNY) I would say will be to hang out with friends! Well since it's a holiday in lieu, we wasted no time in heading to Cable Ski at Batam!
Nice Simon gathered all 7 of us, namely (in order of confirmation to the trip) Simon, Me, Edmund, Stacy, Siew Kia and last min my sister and Richard! Other than 1) all of us being overkissed by the sun, 2) my sis spraining her back hence stopped ski-ing halfway, 3) Stacy still being slammed into the water right after she starts, 4) totally famished by evening time, I figured that we had too much fun! I still can't ski the whole round though, only managed 10 secs of fame haha and the falls got so unbearable that I had to wear a helmet as I could sense brain concussion on the way! I will definitely be back for more!
A must-do for CNY in Singapore would be to visit River Ang Pow! Even more so for the year of Tiger since I am one =p It's sort of customary now that this exhibition has been ongoing for years, 24th year this year. Eeek that means it started on the year when I was born?
Knocked off work on Friday evening and headed straight home with Simon to pick my mum, sis and 2 monsters aka my niece and nephew so we can all have fun together. It was mostly photo-taking and viewing the exhibits plus letting the kids have a ride at the funfair. With the photos as evidence of fun, we did enjoy ourselves and got to the point that all of us were so tired by the time we reach home at midnight! I think having kids are really not on my agenda list for the years ahead =) For that I am sure!
Couchsurfing has always been something I hold onto dearly although I am not as active as I should be but I know deep down, I admire such a great invention. So despite a busy week like CNY, I still managed to find time to meet up with Scott from Canada who is visiting Singapore for only 3 days...
I brought him to our longest shopping belt Orchard, to eat laksa at bugis (like what else other than food in Singapore is attractive tell me!) and lastly, we managed to get to swisshotel for that paramount view of central Singapore before he catches his 9pm plane to Australia! After every new meeting with a CSers, I always wonder when will we next meet again...
After meeting Scott, I headed over to RiHao's house for the annual SK gathering (Sang Khem)!
*Awaiting Photo!*
All thanks to WeeMay, RiHao and KarWai's initiative, we all got together again! It's always a tought job to "gather" people, especially a big group of more than 5. Even so, my bimbo gang have to make pre-booking one month in advance to meet and cannot even organise an overseas trip since 2 years ago. That is the norm or sad truth for the working-class I guess, for the various commitments people are tied up with. It has been a while since all of us (less some who didn't turn up) gathered on a dinner table with self-prepared food like what we did back in Cambodia. As we were going to start tucking in, Peiling suddenly commented "Wah got the Sang Khem feel" Hahaha I can't agree more. We talked and laughed and nua-ed the whole night away in RiHao's newly-renovated house. Our main laughing topic was how poorly renovated RiHao's house was, posing too many hazards to us. Hope we can keep to our annual meeting tradition!
Steamboat at SeeKee's House was pre-arranged like more than a month ago?
I was the EARLIEST!!! Haha hence had the privilege to eat all the good food I want 1st. Stupid Stacy was still playing mahjong when all of us were already halfway through our steamboat! Luckily she brought gifts for us haha! Seek's friend also came by and we all played Ban Luck together from which I won 80cents yeah must note down in my diary hahaha. That was the joke of the night for bimbos as Linda sneakily peek into Seek's diary and saw that she wrote "Won $1 from Mahjong =)". We finally tentatively fixed a date for our Taiwan trip in September! That's an achievement, really!
13 Feb 2010 Pre-Valentine's Day
Tadang! Dream come true for Mr. Simon =)
Yes the one on the right, who is me, is of course definitely a dream-come-true for him haha but the one on the left... Let's just say that I am a sweet girlfriend, yes I know that! I bought him a 32-inch Samsung LCD TV for V'day cum 19-monthsary. I granted one of his wishes! He was so surprised to see me that night as I was suppose to be staying at home to watch CNY countdown. So effort right? *full of praises for myself*
30 Jan 2010 Jimmy & Moon's Wedding
Got a phone call on my mobile one fine day at work "Hi I am calling from HDB. You have won a HDB 4-room flat, when can you come down to claim your prize?" Yeah right, when does HDB ever give out flats as lucky draw prizes? Moreover, I don't remember taking part in any lucky draws at ALL! It was actually Jimmy (sort of considered my ex-colleague) on the line. He simply wanted to invite me for his wedding! How linked is that to the 1st conversation sentence he started with?
Anyway, congrats to him and his bride (who happens to be the ex-girlfriend of my ex-colleague cum Uni-mate). Haha they have such a complicated relationship but wells the wedding was a good catch up session for all of us as I seldom meet them for KTV now. May they have a blissful marriage.
26 Jan 2010 Multi Racial Gathering
Had my once-in-a-blue-moon multi-racial meet up. Yeah sounds really cool and since one of the threesome had wrote about it, I shan't elaborate more as you can get all of the juicy details in Giraffe. The rationale behind that post title was purely because of my innocence =) Amy was raving about how great the body worlds exhibition at Science Centre was and gave details about how they even portrayed the real procreation process of human using cross-sectional view. She added that there was exhibition of giraffe also! So I went "oh my so they showed giraffes mating too?" Answer is NO, she merely wanted to say that there are animal exhibits but she made the topics seemed so linked right?
Looking forward to my trip to Perth, my next post will probably be a review of it!