-- A Chinese Blog --

好久没来这里了，就连密码也忘了，试了好几次才成功进入。。。

第一次在博客写华语。。。在律师楼工作后，参与上市公司董事会，面对中国董事的会议，才察觉我的华语竟然退步了，就连董事用华语交谈的会议，我竟用英文做会议记录，原因是我写英文快过华文，头脑process英文快过华文，甚至有些华文字我竟然忘了怎么写，还有人以为我是英校生，身为华校生的我真惭愧。。。以前的我对英文一窍不通,上了大学,第一年只交印度朋友,做功课,吃喝玩乐都与他们一起,逼自己掌握英文...现在英文进步了,华文却少用生锈了,不知该高兴英文进步还是得伤心华文退步 X_X

八月八号，不知不觉我来新加坡已有两年了，离开校园也有两年了。。有时走在街上看着学生，突然觉得自己老了，虽然才24岁 +_+

很多人问我,会在此地长住吗?我从小就在甘榜小镇长大,习惯过着朴素的生活...住在大城市,什么都方便,是没错,可面对着四周的高楼大厦,就觉得有压迫感,仿佛笼中鸟一般...我之所以放弃家乡高薪工作,来到大城市,只因猪头...可能你会笑我傻,高薪不要却跑来吃苦,我只能说,人的一生中没十全十美,有取有舍,你要一样东西,就得放弃另一样东西...

当然,吃的苦中苦,方为人上人...这两年,我学了许多,也成长了许多...大城市-对我而言,是块挖金之地...长住/退休,能让我选择的话,我想,从哪儿来,就回哪儿去...我觉得,一旦一个人老了,他/她始终会想要回归自己土地去...

这两年里,忙着工作与课业,以前几乎六至七天都在工作,有得上夜课及考试..现在五天工,可有时也得加班至深夜,周一三日都得上课...所幸以前是半工半读的生活,习以为然,不然就发神经入住青山院了...大城市虽五花八门七彩缤纷,可我很多地方却没探索过.第一我家离市中心远,第二工作读书忙碌,第三因为忙碌,所以空闲时间想做的第一件事就是睡觉.人人民以食为天,唯独我以"睡"为天 XD

有一个地方是我喜欢待/发呆的地方--> 我家厨房...别误会我喜欢烹饪,我自认不是个进得厨房出得厅堂的人...当我不想对着电脑,电视,任何事物,我就坐在餐桌上,听着洗衣机洗衣水声,望着窗外的青青大树,时而静止时而随着风儿婆娑起舞,头脑放松平静一会儿...

窗外之树+吊晒衣物 =p

五个大小水壶=来自不同地方,到这打拼生活,同住屋檐下的五人

终于,写完了...竟用了一个小时打字,惭愧惭愧 = ="" 希望下次打华文字的速度能比得上打英文字的速度...

Happie New Year 2010

1st of all, happie new year to everyone =)

Another long time no updating my blog , till fren said duno i "dissapear" to where... Now, I'm at Macao Hotel, main purpose of online is check whether my tomorrow flight is on time / delay... Luckily (till now) is still same time, otherwise .....

So fast, my 10 days vacation at HongKong + Macau gonna end... Gonna back to working life, rushing works for Maxims Hotel which gonna open on this month...

Taking lots pictures, having lots fun and memorable trip.. Thanks to my dear who sponsor the trip & thanks to his 2nd sis too who brought us "kai kai" + treat us nice food... The most unique experience is sailing to an island for having seafood & sailing to Central river for countdown... This is my 1st time countdown since I was always at home every year..

1st time at casino is at Melbourne (till now haven't been to genting casino); 1st time new year countdown at HongKong... hmmmm... wonder that my "next" 1st time is where leh... hehehe

Oppsss... my online credit gonna end soon... Will try back spore update photos + blogs =)

Happy "Tiger" Year =)

--Site Visit + Gatherings--

It's a long time no updating blog as back to busy life. After my job confirmation, I busy handling few colleague's job and 1st time work many OT ($$ increase too..although not so much but happy as ex-job no $$ even work till midnight); and last week is my 1st week of ICSA class - corporate law and financial accounting. I'm very confident with financial accounting in earlier as it's the easiest subject to score during my university time. But, this time it's quite different with last time subject -- need to read many FRSs.. I never know what is FRS, and now each FRS has 50++ pages, and we need to study nearly 40 FRS + 13 chapters ... God bless me ...

Besides study, past 2 weeks had few interesting activities -- 1st time join for site visit and another lunch gathering invited by sub-contractor which I like it so much as the foods are so... so cutety and tasty =p [mummy said I noneed to slim down, always eat eat eat]

13 July is Teo's birthday. So all of us headed to steamboat restaurant which is opposite Bugis Junction to have a b'day celebration with him. This time, many of us cook tepayyaki food + nice sauce made by a colleague from Kajima HQ office. And, many of them eat from 7.30pm to nearly 10pm. I eat till 9pm then surrender, too full till run to toilet +_+ And mummy is yelling me again for eating too much, become fatty @_@

teppanyaki...

steamboat...

me & teo, the b'day dai lou among the gang

2 pairs of lovely couple =)
-- All of us --

15 July is Hotel Michael topping up ceremony. My team project - Maxims Residences is the 1st hotel topping up whereby I haven't join the company yet on that time. I'm not involved in the ceremony as I'm not the team member, just grab some photos to share .

Hotel Michael Topping Up Day
The photo frame signed by the team members + consultants, etc...

24 July was praying session held at Hotel Michael. At first, we thought is praying session for "good brother" but heard colleagues said the praying session is pray for smooth and safety work. "Good brother" session will be held on September, during the ghost festival month. I never knew about the praying session till heard from a colleague on that day itself. I accidentally saw a safety admin colleague who wear safety helmet and asked her.. Then only know that she want to go to see the praying session.. So, I "38" and followed her + the safety manager to the site [To go for site visit, we must follow safety colleague / my own team engineer to site as we are admin staff who never join for safety course..]

This is my 1st time to site. In ealier days, QS department friends asked me to go to site too but they said the best time to go visit hotel is during handover time as the air-con and rhe building is ready. I always want to go to site because once the hotels are opened for business, it quite hard for me to visit as the hotel, especially my team project - Maxims Residences is a 6 star hotel whereby the rooms are only for those invited. In other means, even you are very rich, you need to be invited then you only can stay at the hotel. Sounds very geng huh @_@

Back to the praying session, there are only 2 girls (me and my friend) and all are guys... Many colleagues surprise to see us and our appearance quite funny as we wear guy colleague's safety shoe..They said we seems like Mcdonald - wearing big shoe + big vest +_+

During the praying session, everyone, despite culture (japanese, bangladesh...) took joss sticks to pray as a respect for the session. After the praying session, boss brought me to visit to our team project - Maxims Residences. I visited the hotel rooms and felt it's not as big as what I'm think. Then, colleague said "they expect you to come gamble than sleep ma..so room small lo.." True also hahaha @_@

Praying session

All with joss sticks during praying session
The only 2 girls... (we very "38" hehe)
money paper burning session
Maxims Hotel Hard Rock Hotel

photos again at site =)
site office map

25 July 2009, our team been invited for international lunch buffet at Vienna Buffet restaurant which is located at United Square (near to Novena MRT station). This is my 1st time too to the restaurant and the shopping mall. There are full of customers. It served varieties of foods - japanese, western cuisine, teppanyaki, desserts, cocktails...

There are many tiny and cute foods till i took most of them to table and took photo. A colleague said I seems like to take photos than eat. Another colleague said all the foods that i ate was exactly same as what his small niece ate. I only realized what his words mean after a friend interpret his words -- means I'm very childish @_@ But I'm still very excited seeing the nice and cute foods around haha...It's another day that I ate full again >.<

Chinese herbal soup which is served once u sit down

cute & tiny salads...i took all of them...

fried durian, tofu, abalone salad
mouthwatering desserts

mixed fruit juice...

jelly
japanese foods~

crayfish, prawns..yummy yummy

very very cute ... isn't it???

teppanyaki corner -- just select foods and put your table number clip and it'll be served to you

desserts corner (strong recommend for durian cake, really nice)

tube juices (very special,i drank lots @_@) ... cocktails

flower and fruit tea corner

Quite a long blog for today...I still remember that I wrote a blog with a very sad mood and I always used a word to remind me during my down time " There will be a rainbow after a big storm, heavy rainy day". That's true and I'm now quite happy after my depression time. So for my dearest friends who down at this moment, gambate + add oil... Only gone through sadness, we will know what is hapiness.. CHEERS =)

KTS JV Dinner Gathering

10 July 2009 (Friday) is 1st KTS JV dinner gathering at Club Islander, Sentosa Island. Before dinner started, there was a game. But then, i saw many people taking photos instead of enjoy the games =p

The waiters and waitress are very friendly and helpful, even help us to put on the napkin... There are variety of mouth-watering foods - salad, fried, rice, BBQ stingray, BBQ satays, BBQ potatoes, bread and butter pudding, chilled almond with longan, etc... Enjoying eating and socializing around...

Sentosa Island

Club Islander

BBQ Chefs food taking session...

S$50 per photos... advertisement by admin staff (not me) XD with my department colleagues (Maxims Team) - victor, wong, cheng, max, lim, kaneko-sanwith admins - suat wen, anna with QS colleagues - EeMin, jeffrey, jayson, teo, chris
YeePei, jasmine, geraldine, EeMin, me

me & Sophie (safety dpt admin)

Me & Lili Chong ( a lenglui and nice PD's secretary)

cheah, jasmine, yeepei

On next day (saturday), actually already planned go east coast with colleagues for cycling, but feel very sleepy and dizzy; stella jie jie said my face was green, so last minute canceled my name from the list and took bus back home after finished my work at 1.30pm. Maybe too tired, i fall asleep and it was the driver who wake me up... so embarassing... this is the first time i slept till not realized the bus reached the final stop... @_@ [Tammy jie jie laughed non-stop after listened to my story +_+ ]

Today (Sunday) go to new house to take key from cousin. Thanks alot for her as she rent the house for us and charge a rental which is below market price; and put aircons for each room + cleaned toilet for us before we move in. All of us will going to paint the kitchen on this coming weekend, and next weekend the new bedroom set will be shifted in. Feel excited as we finally stay at a house which is without owner, can cook and do freely as we want.

Now, just ate durians ... It's a long time never eat durians (since 2 years ago)... yummy =)

Tomorrow is Teo's birthday... All of us gonna to have a birthday celebration for him... Happy b'day to the "dai lou" among the gang =)

City Square, Johor

Yesterday, we went to City Square Mall which is located near to immigration at Johor. The main objective is to accompany zhu tou go do his new glasses.

During dinner, we tried a restaurant that never been before - "House of Sudanese". We ordered set meal for 2 - Sudanese fried fish, chicken, and mix platter. The foods very tasty and the sambal gave me a good appetite. The set meal costed RM50.80. It sounds expensive but feel cheaper after convert it back to sing dollar XD . We planned to visit the restaurant again for next week.

The menu with wooden cover

chicken
mix platter

sudanese fried fish

After dinner, we watched "Ice Age 3- Dawn of the Dinosaurs". This time the cute Scrat has girlfriend during his nabbing of nut. The story is about the gang (Manny, Ellie, and Diego) ventures into misterious underground world to rescue their buddy, Sid from dinasours. The cartoon is cute and humor. Nice to watch and relax mind from busy work.

Lastly, we went to "Padini Concept Store". I planned to apply for the membership as I always buy clothes at Padini but the forms finished. There's sales so I bought 2 clothes...

We left the shopping mall at 10:00pm and reached home at 11:30pm, continued with taiwan show - "guess guess guess" till 1:00am and sleep ....

B'day Celebration + Farewell Dinner

There will be 4 new colleagues [ all guys, and me the only girl +_+ ] to join my department, Maxims Team this month. A new colleague from M'sia joined us on 29 June as site supervisor, while another colleague from Japan will join us on tomorrow (2nd July) as engineer. So, I learn another new thing... Bring him go safety induction course, intro him to our department colleagues, etc ... These 2 days, were my busiest days since my 3 mths working. Quite happy as learnt a lot of thing. Surprisingly, my boss and colleagues taught me about PE calculation, and also drawings, door schedule @_@ I try my best to get what they meant, as I feel @_@ for those enginner's calculation. Hopefully, I'm able to meet their expectation =)

Today (1 July) is my 4th month working... In other mean, my 3 months probation is over. Hopefully my confirmation passed hehehe.... 27 July will submit s'pore PR form, and hopefully it will pass too =p

Yesterday ... a day that i eat from morning till night, wanna become piggy soon. Lunch time is company birthday celebration for June babies. I prefer this month foods as most of them are my favourites ~ vegetarian foods such as yam, hash brown (potatoes), mushroom; and dessert -- mango pudding ~yummy~

June birthday galz & boys

All QS colleagues except me XD

After work, we heading to Swenson which is located at Vivo City for dinner. I was headache since noon, thus I just order a tomato soup + mango shrimp as my dinner. They saw my food so little, so put their foods on my plate; and I share salad too with EeMin. After dinner, we followed EeMin to Giant to buy S$2.39 cushion supporting back on chair. We bought 5 cushions to put at office.

-- Foods -- Mango Shrimps, Chickens, Cray Fish, Prawns ........

Ladies & Gentlemen

all of us

me & suat wen jie jie =)

SuatWen, me, EeMin, Jeline

They plan to go East Coast "kai kai" for next weekend... This month full with activities -- this Sat accompany zhu tou go Johor do spec; next Fri company dinner, next Sat either Johor take spec / join colleagues to East Coast.. and another 2 weekend have to go new house for cleaning and also furniture shifting. This is my 1st time to have own bedroom set, excited and waiting for it =)

I'm gonna to start study ICSA in mid of July, hopefully I can pass the papers @_@