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2007-04-23T10:48:00.000+08:00

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Easter 2007

2007-04-10T09:36:00.000+08:00

Happy Easter Everyone....

It was one of my better Easters in recent years... had it pretty full on for the first 3 days of the long weekend and then pure vegetation on Easter Monday....

On Good Friday, we went for an early service (surprise surprise) at Riverview and then to breakfast. The service had a piece of jig saw puzzle on stage and then it was broken.... reminding us that Christ was broken for us... In the afternoon, my brother and I decided to visit the Avon Valley National Park - after getting lost for a bit, we eventually found our way there and I had an experience with a lizard... a BIG one... for those who know me, knows that I absolutely detests reptiles... in any shape or form... so a loud yell was heard throughout the National Park.... After the hard work at the National Park, we realised that we were pretty close to the Farm where the youth from church was having their youth camp so there we went for a feed... and a good feed it was :)

On Saturday, I decided to be ambitious and decided to cook popiah for my friends... I havent done it in a while (last time was probably in Edinburgh!) but I think it went ok... well everyone is still alive... :)

Easter Sunday was the highlight... TC flew in for a short visit from Melbourne and us girls decided to catch up... since I have always been taught that a picture is worth a thousand words, I'm attaching photos and well it can be seen we all had an extremely awesome night!!

Play Time & Pink

2007-04-03T12:00:00.000+08:00

Hhhmm... it's always play time for me but this time round, I'm planning to head back home for a couple of weeks, hopefully my birthday weekend so that WY and I can celebrate our birthdays together for once. We're also thinking of heading on to BKK or Vietnam for a couple of days of R & R (more like eating and shopping).... can't wait...

On another note, I streaked my hair pink again :) Think I might try purple the next time round...

All Jazzed Up

2007-04-03T11:46:00.000+08:00

A couple of weeks ago, CY, my bro and myself decided to check out the Perth Jazz Society gigs. So we found ourselves at the Hyde Park Hotel on a Monday night, listening to Elle Deslandes Sextet and totally enjoying ourselves. Last night, we headed there once again to listen to some really cool piano playing by Mat Jodrell & Konrad Paszkudzki presenting the songs of the Ray Brown Trio. I have to say the finale was really cool when the 2 pianists took turns to play on the piano for their encore.

Funnily enough, we've mentioned to some of our friends that we went to listen to the jazz and a couple of them have surprised us and 'admitted' that they are jazz enthusiasts... however.... we have yet to see...

Fiddler on the Roof

2007-03-10T21:27:00.000+09:00

Headed to Burswood to watch this musical and it was absolutely excellent! On our way there, I did mention to my bro that I was absolutely excited to watch this musical - reason being was that my dad had gone to see the musical in London ages and ages ago, and told me all about it. Later on, dad got me to watch the movie... roll forward decades later and hey I'm gonna get to watch the musical production too and with Topol as the lead! Topol was fantastic as the father - I think the musical is way better than the movie and somehow, the jokes were easier to catch on stage... or maybe I was too young to understand the jokes when I last watched the movie :P

Woorooloo Retreat

2007-03-07T14:35:00.000+09:00

So a group of approximately 27 of Twelve Stones boys and girls went to the Hill Top Farm in Woorooloo for the Labour Day weekend just past. I was put into a team with 3 other girls to prepare all the cooking - which I was looking forward to and had a great time working together with these 3 girls.

On the whole, the retreat was alright. We had some time of R & R time which we ventured to Lake Leschenaultia for a 3km hike. It actually felt longer than 3km, but the guys kept insisting it was 3km. The reward for the hike, we (about 8 of us) went to get a carton of booze to share amongst us!! The other bits were games, and workshops and night sessions with a focus on faith, evangelism and "Just Walk Across the Room".

The only negative impact I felt that was on this short break were a couple of girls from the other group. One of them just stood around with her husband, trying to look pretty. When people were carrying stuff out of my car on Friday night, she and her hubby just stood next to my car, as if they had some magical powers that the stuff in the boot would be carried into the chalets. Then she pulled a long face when she was giving cutting vegetables duty (good thing she wasnt part of the cooking team) and then when we were all cleaning up on the last day, she just stood in the kitchen with a cup in her hand pretending to drink and so she didnt help to clean up. Her husband the beaver is also just as hopeless... but we'll leave that one for now.

Another one made a remark to her boyfriend which was overheard by one of us.... that the retreat was filled with Asian food.... that was a very duh comment, as if she couldnt see that 99% of the people at the retreat were Asians - even though some were ABCs but hey all were from Asian descent!! Saturday and Sunday lunch was Asian but Saturday night was a BBQ and Sunday dinner was Italian!! It's not quite our fault that she went off with her boyfriend and some friends to KFC for dinner on Saturday night (I guess our BBQ wasnt good enough) or that she's suspectedly lactose intolerant and didnt tell us (the cooks) of her dietary needs!!! Oh and this same person when we were waiting to leave the farm for lunch on Monday after checking out, and the dogs were inside the chalet, she kept saying "Bad Dogs, Bad Dogs" to my 2 dogs, and for no apparent reason. The only reason I could think of was that she's OCD on cleanliness and totally childish. I mean she and another friend brought 13 soft toys to the retreat and they were there for only 2 nights!! Needless to say, the comments about my dogs pissed me off alot.

I think I better stop here, just in case these get read by people I don't like....

Bible Quiz Time!!

2007-03-02T10:47:00.000+09:00

You know the Bible 90%!

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

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Photos

2007-02-21T14:09:00.000+09:00

I've realised that I've been a little slack in posting photos on this blog.... I've just been lazy to take my camera out... Guess I have to be a little bit more proactive in taking photos :)

Gong Xi Fa Cai 2007

2007-02-19T13:37:00.000+09:00

And so we usher in the year of the Pig.... we had a good time ushering it in... had a massive 10 course reunion dinner at JS & SS place... and ate to our hearts content. YSF said that because there was so much left over, it means that we will all have an abundant life this year.

Then for dinner on the first day, we had steamboat at my place... I attempted to make the Coca chilli dipping sauce and from what my guinea pigs said, they think it was almost like the real stuff...

To put a damper on our cheerful spirits, the house had an attempted break in while we were having dinner and the burglar tried to break in thru the front window (which is thru my room). We only found out about it when WL had to move his car and reaslied the broken window. I think a couple of things foiled the attempted break in, the dogs started barking, humans started yelling at the dogs and the window wasn't big enough for him to get in (unless if he was a kid or a woman).... Needless to say I'm now paranoid...

Five years on....

2007-02-10T23:08:00.000+09:00

This month (and maybe today) marks the fifth anniversary of my move to Perth from Sydney.... it was an arduous journey for the first couple of years, but I think the last 1-2 years, things have levelled of a bit. So what do I still like about Perth? Let's see... my dogs, the weather (ok I dont like temperatures in the 40s or below 10), the openess, the freedom, the food, the fact that I can drive around here and not take public transport, and the friends I've made. What I don't like about Perth... expensive shoes, boring bags, and the EARLY closing hours of the shops, especially the supermarkets!!!

Prank!!

2007-02-08T22:19:00.000+09:00

My brother and I pulled off this prank on our cousin ....

Dad told us that our cousin and her husband was going to do a presentation to his class at SMU on working together as a husband and wife team....So bro and I thought it'll be quite funny to hear what they have to say, so we suggested to dad to skype the web cam with us so that we will be able to watch them in action - abt 6pm perth time

So dad did and during their presentation, dad and I were sending sms to each other and my bro and I just kept laughing at what they said. So half way thru their presentation, bro and I thought of a question and sent a txt to my dad and said the perth contingent got a question to ask and the question is you seem to know quite abit abt businesses, has your family always had a business that you helped out in. So dad replied saying yes good training. So we kept insisting that he shd ask our cousin just for the fun of it.

So when it came to question and answer time, my dad said "The group of students at University of Western Australia would like to ask you a question ...." That just triggered off laughs from my brother and I .... the 2 of us make up the UWA students?? And the look on my cousin's face was classic coz apparently dad didn't tell them that they were bring broadcasted to Aust and that was dad's way of announcing to them they were being shown 'live' to Aust. BUT what made it funnier which we found out later was that my cousins didn't know it was us who asked the questions until later when my dad showed them the text message!!!

Classic.... pure classic....

Book News

2007-02-02T11:37:00.000+09:00

I was kind of sad when I read that Sidney Sheldon passed away. You can read his obituary here. He was the very first author that I got hooked onto when I was 13 (I think!) after I saw the mini series If Tomorrow Comes. I will miss reading his books. He will probably be well remembered for writing the tv series "I Dream of Jeannie".

And onto another news, the last Harry Potter book will be out July 21, 2007!!! Can't wait... might have to start reading the last few books to remind myself what has happened so far so I wont get so lost when I read the book. Have to remember to place an order (yes, there's a level of kiasuness here) ;) And so the countdown begins .....

bis wir wieder treffen

2007-01-22T11:48:00.000+09:00

Geez I hope I got the above right.... I tried using Babelfish to translate - Till We Meet Again.... Anyway, we held a farewell dinner for the Freys' on Saturday and had some of our other friends over as well. The Freys were friends of my brother but we managed to get along pretty well :) I will always remember going for dim sum with them and introducing them to chicken feet and century eggs. They left behind so much stuff .... but they also left behind some really good alcohol, so guess who got to inherit them? According to them, I drink pretty well for a non-German, and with a height like mine!! :P They will be fondly remembered.... and hopefully one day we will meet again :)

2007 So Far....

2007-01-19T13:47:00.000+09:00

Managed to see McNaught's Comet on Tuesday at Salter Point Park. Initially it was a little difficult to locate the comet - what we thought was the comet at first wasnt the comet :) It was also pretty cool that one of the people there had telescopes that we could have a better look at the comet. The telescope had to be adjusted a little as I was too short to reach the view finder :P The evening finished off with waffles :)

The last couple of weeks have seen me thru a feeling of xianess... seriously if the beginning of 2007 is already like this I'm not really looking forward to the rest of 2007 if my mood isnt going to change.

Trying to plan a holiday in June with my friends - every year we try and plan but every year one of us would change a job and then we're stuck with probation times... so let's hope for all our sakes that this year (or at least until June) we hold off changing jobs!

This weekend promises to be fun... going to try and cook some chilli crabs tonite - if I can find the crabs, tomorrow evening there's KM's birthday party and then there's a farewell party at my place for my bro's German friends who are leaving Perth for good. And... KR recommended that I read 'My Sisters Keeper' by Jodi Picoult and I can't seem to put the book down! And next week... is a 4 day week... YAY!! :)

The Engine has yet to start....

2007-01-09T12:36:00.000+09:00

I've been trying to get my engine started... to go to the gym, to be on time for work, etc etc... but it's so damn hard :(

My year so far started on a pretty positive note but the last couple of days has gone down a little which is affecting me a little on the emotional side. I'm hoping it'll improve soon. I hate feeling so crappy... it affects everything that I do. Maybe I need a Biorhythm Calculator :)

Last week I managed to catch the movie Borat with my bro and WL - I kind of skived of work on the basis that I needed to rest... but hey watching a movie is a form of rest :P I can't believe I actually went to watch the movie...

What a Month.... What a Year!!!

2006-12-31T15:30:00.000+09:00

Wow... today's already the last day of the month and the year.... time just simply flies. This month has amazingly flown by... I've had my parents here for most of the month... It has been a good time to spend some time with the folks - needless to say, the nagging of 'going to the gym' was there, but other than that, we played gin rummy, ate alot, and just vegetated.

So on reflection 2006 has been an interesting year.... let's see what happened:

January 2006 - lost Toby, went to Singapore for a holiday, spent Chinese New Year with the family after a long absence ;-)

February 2006 - Buffy had a litter of puppies, which out of the litter, I decided to adopt Waddle to replace Toby. I also started to get irritated with working at a sucky company called Opez and started looking for new jobs.....

March 2006 - Delise had her graduation and my brother moved to Perth to pursue his doctorate degree (which I doubt will be his last degree that he's collecting!).

April 2006 - I started a new job!! Way cool... and I'm still at the same job.... extra way cool!! :D
And I started my own company called Mustard Seed Consulting.... this company needs to be further developed in 2007!! Also started the volunteer singing at 2 of the hospitals here with my brother under a group called Healthcare in Christ

May 2006 - Eat Inc blog was formed... but we havent been quite proactive with it, so 2007 might be a good year to start being a little more proactive

June 2006- My Birthday!! :) & this blog's FIRST anniversary :)

July 2006 - got my 'freedom papers' officially... FINALLY.... and was suppose to start on a 'healthy' regime but ... yeah... postponed it to January 2007 :P...also started being a little more active in church and started attending YA....

August 2006 - Went for a murder mystery night which was pretty cool.... had a National Day BBQ at my place - my first official party at this house....

September 2006 - Went for a fruit party.... got a little fruity...

October 2006 - had an awesome Girls Night Out at Burswood... unfortunately we havent had one since :(

November 2006 - my aunt came for a visit... and streaked my hair pink... but it didnt quite last :(

December 2006 - had an awesome Christmas Party at work.... parents were here ...received great Christmas presents from Santa ...went to Fremantle Prison for their 'torchlight tour'

So what's 2007 going to be instore for me? No one knows except for the one above.. however, I do have a couple of things on my wish list which I hope gets answered before 31 December 2007....

Daylight Savings

2006-12-11T14:36:00.000+09:00

So WA aka wait awhile, has decided to join the rest of the world and adopt daylight savings. We're on a 3 year trial to see if they like the idea of daylight savings... kind of funny I know to have a trial for daylight savings!! Whilst I welcome this move of having more daylight hours (it doesnt get dark now till 8.30pm) I have today fallen victim to the change of time - but I blame the computer!!! I changed the time on my computer and somehow, thru some miracle, all my appointments have changed as well... so today, I had an appointment for a long awaited massage at 1.30pm... but because of this change of time, my calendar on my computer put the appointment at 2.30pm! So I had forgotten all abt it and slacked off to the post office only to come back to the office to have a message waiting for me that I'm late for my massage appointment! ARGH! Could have done with a nice relaxing massage!!

Muppets

2006-12-10T17:47:00.000+09:00

Back when I was in school, my friends and I formed the 'muppet babies' club... even though we were 16!! I was Fozzie Bear... and just doing this Muppet Personality Test I got of April Rain's blog.... Guess which muppet am I??

You Are Fozzie Bear

"Wocka! Wocka!"
You're the life of the party, and you love making people crack up.
If only your routine didn't always bomb!
You may find more groans than laughs, but always keep the jokes coming.

The Muppet Personality Test

Pinky Airport Driver

2006-11-29T11:15:00.000+08:00

I did a little experiment on Monday night and streaked my hair pink (only the top bits)... I like it but trying to get used to pink streaks :) Anyway, now's the season of everyone flying here and there... and I've become designated airport driver... here's my airport driving schedule so far

12/11 - pick aunt from airport
13/11 - send EC to airport
25/11 - send WL to airport
1/12 - pick mum & EC from airport
2/12 - send CK to airport (am)
2/12 - send EC to airport (pm)
7/12 - send aunt to airport
9/12 - send DC & family to airport (I think!!)
10/12 - send YW to airport (pm)
10/12 - pick EC from airport (not sure wat time)
11/12 - pick dad from airport

Anybody else want to be added to this list? :P

Winery Cruise

2006-11-29T11:14:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, our office was invited to a winery cruise hosted by one of the financial planning companies that deals alot of their investments with us. There were approximately 50 of us and most were their high net worth clients (and also our investors) and suppliers. SJ and I 'scored' a thank-you mention by the host when he was giving the speech... and me being the only chinese on board made it easier for people to spot me. The food was pretty good I thought - well there were prawns and a pretty good vegeterian lasagne and free flow of wine :)

We also did a wine tasting at one of the wineries and I tried the Rose wine which smelt like Ribena... even tasted a little like Ribena.... the dessert wine was good though... nice and sweet :)

The sucky bit was trying to get back to the office after the function - there were no taxis :( and then when we finally caught a taxi from the Hilton (after taking the blue cat bus out of the bell tower) the taxi driver was a grump!! He accused me of not being careful and hitting the car door on the roadside bench... like hello... didnt he realise how bloody windy it was as well???

Old Friends & Lobsters

2006-11-29T10:55:00.000+08:00

Last week a very very old friend & her family from TCC Singapore paid Perth a visit and stayed at the Pastors house. I had the luck to crash in on their dinner on Thursday night and had dinner with them all, realising that I havent seen GG & GME for like 11 years!! They said they last heard me going off to the UK and then lost track of my whereabouts since....

GME was my Missionettes leader when I joined the group in 1985 - alot has changed in the program since as well. Anyway it makes it a total of 21 years of knowing her. Good grief... time just flies...

We met up for lunch again on Friday at Fremantle. Had Cicerellos... yumm .... and pigged out. We said our good-byes after lunch - hopefully she'll send me some pics so I'll be able to remember them by.

For dinner, the young adults 1 & 3 combined a dinner and had lobsters courtesy of our resident lobster diver. We had 7 lobsters shared between 16 of us. The lobsters were so good!!! Unfortunately I was still quite full from lunch so couldnt quite appreciate the lobsters as much as I would have loved to.

Books & Perfumes

2006-11-23T10:54:00.000+08:00

I know I've been slack in updating this blog. Too many things have been happening... all good though :) A lot of eating parties and get together with friends before the leave Perth for an extended long holiday, or some they're going back to get married. At the moment, I have my aunt bunking in with me, my mum arrives next week and dad follows suit shortly after. So I'll be busy with the folks... social life will be at a stand still for the time being...

Anyway, I've been obsessed with books and perfumes the last couple of weeks. In a span of 2 weeks I have bought 5 (or is it 6?) fiction books and 2 Jamie Oliver cookbooks... I'm kind of excited with the Jamie Oliver cookbooks as one of them has a recipe for Yorkshire pudding!! :) And I absolutely love Yorkshire pudding!! :) Hopefully next year I'll venture into a different type of cooking as well..... trying out the Jamie Oliver recipes :)

As for perfumes, I've been hanging out at the perfume shops and departmental stores, spraying samples and smelling them. Gave me a headache after a while. So far, I got the D&G Light Blue (courtesy of my aunt), and the CK Summer (the bottle is so so cool!) I want to buy one more bottle and am currently debating betweeen the Armani Code or the DKNY Red Delicious. Decisions decisions... my rationale is that I havent bought this much perfume since my uni days :)

Idiot Alert!!! BUZZ!!! BUZZ!!!!

2006-10-18T16:40:00.000+08:00

No... I'm not the idiot for once... but it's with this guy that comes into the office. To me he is a space waster - he isnt employed by us, but the boss has given him a desk space to use and he doesnt come into the office everyday. When he comes in, he opens envelopes and does mundane stuff... I call him the space waster... amongst other names... he has other names like dirty old man, space waster and a f**kwit

Time and again he's asked me really dumb questions. Once he asked me what happened to his files as he left his computer running over the weekend and when he came back on Monday the files are 'gone' and the computer had rebooted itself. So I asked him if he saved his documents and he just looked blankly at me... and I said if you don't save your work, you cant expect it to be there when you come back after a few days... anything can happen like a computer rebooting itself....

Strike Two was when he asked me to do some interest calculations for him on Excel. So I did them and he thought I had some jazzy programme to do it. Anyway, I told him I saved the file on the shared directory, and he said he has no access to that directory. Next, I said I'll email it to him, then he said he has no internet access at work. Finally I asked if he had a thumb drive so I'll copy the files over. He asked me what a thumb drive is... after I showed him one, he said Oh yeah I have that in my drawer!! After I copied the files into a thumb drive, and went to his computer, his computer doesnt have a USB port!!! What the ....

Strike Three came this afternoon... he had already irritated me earlier in the afternoon when he tried to get me into trouble with the boss... then he wanted me to send an Australian cheque to Vanuatu, so I asked him to check that it can be done... so he said he'll email Vanuatu... and then he asked me what is the internet address here... So I said what do you mean by internet address... he said he is emailing someone and wants that person to reply to him here (at the office). So I asked him how are you emailing this person. He said I'm writing to him from my computer here.... but I dont have a work email address, so this person cant reply to here. So I told him that whichever email address he is emailing from, when the person receives it and hits reply, it will go back to whichever email address he has. So he said...But I want the email to come here not to my home.... It didnt make sense to me at all, but to avoid me getting anymore dumb answers, I gave him my work email address. Ok seriously, I think he lives in the stone age. Just then the phone rang for him, I told him he has a call waiting for him, and he asked me which one... erh.. we only have ONE phone line here and there was only ONE light blinking on his phone!!!

I had to go for a drive to get him out of my sight... seriously.... I might just end up being as stupid as him if I hang around him too much ....

Meeting with old friends...

2006-10-11T22:32:00.000+08:00

Last night, my brother and I got invited to the Pastors house for dinner.... we had mee siam, roast pork, apple strudel and waffles. But more importantly, they had some very special visitors from Singapore - Pastors ST and MT .... they were only in Perth for one night as they had planned to travel down south from today until it's time for them to fly back.

I've known PST and PMT since I was a Missionettes girl... (gosh that's like a super long time ago!) and I haven't seen them for a very long time - could even be as long as since I've been to Oz as they've been travelling missionaries to India as well.

Anyway, it was a good evening catching up with them, talking abt old times, sharing jokes (courtesy of PST) , and playing a game of Taboo. Unfortunately we forgot to take some photos :(

The beginning of the 4th Qtr

2006-10-09T18:24:00.000+08:00

Time just flies and now we're into our final quarter of 2006 - which means 8 weeks to the arrival of my parents. Things have just been happening the last couple of weeks that's led me to be a little lazy to write. I've finally recovered from my cold and the cough lingered on for a while longer, but it stopped last week. I still get abit of the 'ahems' but not as bad.

Last long weekend we ended up in Orchard Glory Farm Resort for the annual church camp. I have to admit that one of my motives of going there was to enjoy the good spread of food that was on offer, and needless to say, I was not disappointed. The dogs had a great time with with all their voluntary babysitters. I think they were pretty knackered by the time we left camp.

Last week, TC was back from Melbourne for a friend's wedding, so we (the ex bird girls) met up with TC on Thursday night at the casino and had dinner and a couple of drinks. I've found ou t that slushies at the casino is really good...

Then on Friday, I had a pretty classic day being a liability on the road that I was told to stay off the road in case I create a bigger liability... but we had DM's birthday (DM is the sister of my boss GL) and we headed to Oriel's for a nice relaxing lunch - with wine of course :) then dinner time, we had a couple of friends over for steamboat, moon cake and playing with lanterns (courtesy of CY's mum). Our original plan was to play the lanterns at Kings Park or a park nearby but after stuffing ourselves with food, we couldnt quite move. We ambitiously tried to get some inspiration from the moon and tried to write some chinese poetry but due to our limited grammar in the chinese language, we didnt quite accomplish that.

On Saturday, I spent a relaxing day at home just vegeing out and sleeping. There was a young adults dinner at the Santa Fe Restaurant which was really good and coincidentally, KM was having her friend's hen's night there as well, so we managed to sneak out every now and then. So as you can see, I've been stuffing myself.... I should get myself back to the gym before my old folks arrive and start their annual nagging .....

Aussie Germs are Weak :)

2006-09-16T18:12:00.000+08:00

A couple of times last year, when I was working for the terrible company, I tried ways and means to have sick days. When my friends were sick, I offered to share drinks with them. They thought I was nuts coz if I had wanted to just sit at home, I can just call in sick. But the conscientious part of me says that I have to be sick to stay at home.... I know... I'm nuts

Anyway, earlier on this year, when I was back in Singapore, my friend LYT wouldn't share a drink with me coz she said she was sick. So I said to her, let's see if Singapore germs are stronger than Aussie germs coz I can't seem to get sick from Aussie germs.... so we shared a drink.... a couple of days later I not only fell sick but lost my voice for ONE WEEK... what was also good was that I scored another 4 days of extra time off....

Back to the present... I'm sick again... , I think I got my germs from some Singaporeans and Malaysians... and this time round, I dont really want to be sick coz I actually like my job! I've been stuck at home since Wednesday afternoon... sleeping, coughing, wheezing, sniffing, sneezing and when I cough, the dogs actually get scared :( My tummy muscles hurt from all this coughing... coughing sucks... The best bit is that I found out from the chemist that there's such things as cough capsules... yay... considering I'm not a fan of the cough syrup :)
Anyway, back to the couch....

Sept 11

2006-09-13T10:56:00.000+08:00

Do you know how a certain memory of what you were doing at a certain time when something happened would always be inscribed in your memory? This is one of the dates that I think will be in everyone's memory. Time passes really quick that 5 years has come and gone since Sept 11, 2001. Common questions are Where were you when the attacks happened or What were you doing when you heard abt the attacks?

For me... I was still living in Sydney and getting ready for bed approx at approx 11ish pm when I saw on cable news abt some aeroplane flying towards the WTC and that just caught my attention and my eyes and ears didnt leave the tv or radio for the next week.

Fruit Party

2006-09-05T15:34:00.000+08:00

Apple, Grape & Kiwi

So CB had a fruit birthday party last Saturday - she's the Grape :) Initially I was planning to go as a mangosteen but it got cold that night so I didnt want to risk wearing that top. It was an interesting party seeing what some of the other people wore. The more creative ones were CB as a grape, there was a watermelon as well, a couple of strawberries and peaches and who could forget seeing bananas in pyjamas!! I wonder what CB would come up with for her 21st!!

Sting Ray vs Steve Irwin

2006-09-05T15:23:00.000+08:00

The news since 11am yesterday, one of Australia's more prominent conservationalist and environmentalist Steve Irwin got stung by a stingray's barb and died almost instantly. With his big eyes and smile, he always reminded me of one of the sesame street character,Elmo. Not meaning to be insulting, but just the facial expression reminded me of a muppet character. I have to admit when I first knew of him, his accent used to drive me insane - and it still does but after being in the country for a couple of years, it's pretty bearable. However, in his programs and appearances in the Jay Leno show, one could always see his passion for the animals that he showed.

Being a diver, and reading of how a stingray can kill someone is pretty freaky. I've seen these creatures in the water, gliding majestically in the water, one wouldn't think that they are capable of killing anyone even though we know that their tail is poisonous.

Here's to Steve Irwin, and as how my friend DLKP so eloquently put it, we need to eat more sting rays now to avenge what they did to him....

The Captain Did It ....

2006-08-15T22:41:00.000+08:00

Contrary to popular belief, it wasnt the butler that did it, but the captain. What am I talking about? Well last Saturday night was the much anticipated DiG's murder mystery party. I gotta admit, I didnt quite know what to expect but I did have a good time. It was a role playing party, each of us had to play a part - I was the owner of a girl power employment agency :) We were 'interrogated' by the police chief and we were provided with clues through out the session. In addition, we were given a script on what to say when we were interrogated. At the end, we were given a piece of paper to guess who the murderer was. It was something different, a unique way to have a birthday party and the mini Freddos in the Freddo ice cream cake was yuuummmm...... And I managed to have a 'teensy' bit of DiG's home made bourbon... I wanted more ... pity I had to drive :(

After the murder mystery party, I headed down to meet my bro and his friends at the Belgium Bar....

Did I mention that last weekend was suppose to be alcohol free? :P

Happy Birthday Singapore

2006-08-15T21:40:00.000+08:00

Yeah OK ... I know this is like one week late... Singapore's National Day falls on 9 August. This year, my bro and I decided to be a little patriotic. So we thought we'll invite some Singapore friends over to watch the National Day Parade (NDP). Little did we realise we actually have pretty limited number of Singapore friends. That was kind of sad. So in the end we opened it to the 'public'. We had a good mix both from church and EC and my friends - German (SF), Brazillian (LF), Indonesian (SW), Malaysian (YW) and Singaporeans. The Aussies bailed out :P It was also a case of East meets West. We fed them a good ole BBQ - but we at least had the usual chicken wings!! Impressively, the plates were in the theme of red & white. SF & LF made some Brazilian home made chocolates which literally melted in your mouth. The main purpose of this function was to watch the NDP. However, after several attempts to connect to the webcast, we managed to log into the Tamil webcast .... unfortunately, none of us could speak that language. Anyway, thanks to yours truly, who happens to get brain waves every now and then, suggested to EC to try and get the English commentary from the Singapore radio stations and it actually worked!!! Have to admit I lost interest in the NDP after a while.... the booze was more interesting.

It is funny how at these social gatherings that people would open up a little and you learn something about people that you wont learn if they weren't in these social gatherings. All in all I had fun - I wont comment as to how I felt the next morning.... after consuming wine (I lost count how many glasses), one can of Smirnoff Ice Blacks, bourbon and cokes, and vodka and lemonade..... for once I couldn't face food in the morning!! At the end of the evening, SF, EC and I finished a bottle of Jack Daniels.... here's a pic of us having dinner :)

Singlish....

2006-08-09T09:43:00.000+08:00

SINGLISH PET PEEVES

Does bad English irritate you?

What is it about bad English in Singapore that irks you most?
Local words like 'lah' and 'lor'?

20 (10%)

Bad grammar

102 (52%)

Accent

26 (13%)

Singlish is OK

49 (25%)

Total votes: 197

Perhaps this poll is too soon to criticise but to have a quarter of the people polled to say that Singlish is OK is disturbing. I had a hard time trying to decide which bad English of Singapore irked me the most. It's everything.... but what irks me most is the bad grammar and the accent. Personally, I have not been an advocate of Singlish ever since I was a kid.... perhaps it was the family upbringing where my dad always said we need to speak the 'Queen's English' and 'open your mouth when you speak'. Having been away for a number of years now, when I'm back in Singapore or when I hear another Singaporean speak in a foreign country I literally cringe. It makes it funnier when you try to hear a Singaporean speak Singlish to a non Singaporean and they have no idea what is going on. The foreigners think that we're not speaking English as we speak too fast. Singaporeans need to remember that when they are in a foreign country, they need to speak slowly as non Singaporeans are not used to our accent, slangs and lingo.

Having said all that, I admit I do speak with a bit of lah sometimes but that's only to fellow Singaporeans... I'm the first to admit that I speak differently towards Singaporeans and non Singaporeans..... but that's just because I dont see the point of being 'aksi' and I dont want to be labelled by fellow Singaporeans (especially relatives) that just coz I live overseas I now behave like an orang puteh.

An Alcohol Free Weekend....??

2006-08-07T00:03:00.000+08:00

Yeah that's what I told TM and CB when we went out for lunch on Thursday... but do you think I managed to do that?? Heh....

Last Thursday, TM, CB and I went to The Vic for lunch ... once again, the lunch and company was awesome... after lunch it felt so good to just laze about as the sun was shining after like 1.5 weeks of rain and cloudiness .... we continued to sit and consume more alcohol. Somewhat through that, we decided to go to the Subi Hotel for more drinks... so off we went - on the way we got CB her Japanese Mayo and TM got a lamp.... and it's a really really cool lamp!! By the time we were at the Subi Hotel it was past 3pm (now where did the afternoon go.... and I'm loving my new job - I didnt feel the guilt to rush back to work!) Whilst consuming some Coronas, I made a comment on having an alcohol free weekend... TM and CB had the 'yeah right' look on their faces.... but for all intentions and purposes I was set to prove them wrong... until CB suggested meeting at the Queens on Sunday (today) for a Sunday Sess.... All in all it was a great afternoon spent well with two great friends...

Come Friday, YW asked if she could come over for some wine so there goes my weekend resolution... well one can always argue that the weekend starts on a Saturday :) However, I can safely say I didn't consume any alcohol on Saturday - instead went out dinner with the YA3... I have to say I'm still reserved with this group - as I dont really know how much I can 'push' them and also the extent of their sense of humour and I suspect their sense of humour is 180 degrees away from mine.....

This afternoon was indeed spent at the Queens... giving CB some morale support on her first official 'date' .... but I think she did pretty well :)

I've got DiG's murder mystery night next week which I'm pretty excited about... except I havent read the synopsis and figured out what I have to wear!!!

What Being an Aussie Means.....

2006-08-01T15:53:00.000+08:00

I got this from JH today.... and no.. I'm not an Aussie :P

Being Australian is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch

American shows on a Japanese TV.

Oh and...... Only in Australia ... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in Australia ... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in Australia ... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET coke.

Only in Australia ... do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.

Only in Australia ... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.

Only in Australia ... do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

Only in Australia ... are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.

NOT TO MENTION...

3 Aussies die each year testing of a 9v battery works on their tongue.

142 Aussies were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.

58 Aussies are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.

31 Aussies have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree; while the fairy lights were plugged in.

8 Aussies had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

A massive 543 Aussies were admitted to Emergency in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth.

and finally.........

In 2000 eight Aussies cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the toilet.

Good things comes in Threes

2006-07-31T22:24:00.000+08:00

After being a grump last week, the rest of the week was exciting and busy (?) ... I should have posted this last week as it's been on my mind to do so... but time didn't permit.... Anyway, here's the 3 good stuff that happened and it all happened on the same day :o)

The first is that I am now officially a free woman and I have the papers to prove it :-P Even though I shouldn't be proud of this piece of paper, but it makes me a free woman. It's been a long and tedious journey to get to with a lot of support from family and friends and not forgetting the Big Boss above.... Secondly, had a great time at dinner with TM..... yeah... we had dinner and bourbon and cokes again!! Finally, RT called me up and I was so excited. I seriously thought I had lost contact with RT coz he some what disappeared from the face of the earth (well OK I knew he was being posted overseas for a couple of months but we lost touch - it was his fault!!). Anyways, he dropped in for a couple of drinks and we caught up with what has happened with life over the last half year. This also means I have my aqua buddy back so no more excuses for not going to aqua classes anymore... :o)

Grumpy

2006-07-24T21:33:00.000+08:00

I'm grumpy.... just in case the people I'm grumpy with reads this blog, I cant say who or why I'm grumpy. But you would think people would have abit more consideration.....

Rainy, Gusty Winds, Cloudy Skies....

2006-07-24T21:09:00.000+08:00

So today's weather had a severe weather warning, with strong winds, rain and of course cloudiness. When I described the weather to my pal LKP, he said it reminded him of Edinburgh... and how living in Edinburgh was like one of the best times of his life... and I would concur with him and I think most of the HWSRC gang would agree as well. Time really flies, 10 years ago this month we all graduated from HWU. 10 years on, most have kids, careers and living in different countries. Top of the list are the Bean Family, they have 4 kids and one more on the way - they can pretty much have a basketball team. The rest are a little more normal, with 1 or 2 kids... and LKP has a baby girl on the way...

If the weather continues like this, it'll make me nostalgic and who knows, I might start posting what we used to do at uni.... but the top 10 memories are (in no particular order)

1. Graduation Ceremony, Sunken Garden Party, Throwing caps in the air in Princes Street Gardens
2. Playing with fireworks during Chinese New Year in the middle of the night in winter... oh and throwing
oranges in the loch as well
3. Snow fights, making snow families, sliding down sunken garden in trash bags.
4. Getting in trouble with the warden for making too much noise in my room with like 10 people squashed in
5. Drinking at the pub, Doctors and everywhere else on Grassmarket and in HWU
6. Cooking, eating, more cooking, more eating
7. Hogmany
8. Driving to Manchester to watch Jacky Cheung concert and driving back in the middle of the night. Not that
I understood much of what was going on in the concert
9. Going out for suppers just on the eve of my exams in the middle of the night (dont tell dad!)
10. Making friends and forming HWSRC

The week started .....

2006-07-16T00:39:00.000+08:00

My week started pretty good (I got a new sofa) and it got a little bad (when the sofa delivery stuffed up), then it went satisfying (coz it was hospital ministry week & Ikea apologised for sofa stuff up) and then it stuffed up again (when the carpet people and I had a miscommunication in the time they were coming in to clean my carpets). But.... the week ended great!!!

I met a new friend, TM and he's such a great guy.... we went out for lunch at the Vic. It was suppose to be a lunch and a drink... yeah right :P A lunch and a couple of bourbon and cokes later (well, CC & Coke for TM), we continued drinking at the office, and then dinner and drinking at KM's and then to Carnegies where we had TC's farewell and met the rest of the ex bird crew. Incidentally, it was dinner at KM's new house which is absolutely gorgeous :-)

Anyway, 11 (eleven) hours after TM & I started drinking, we stopped drinking at midnight.... that's like approximately 15 bourbon and cokes of varying sizes and amounts... I have to admit I lost count after a while....

Score 1 for Me

2006-07-13T16:54:00.000+08:00

Well, to continue on with my sofa saga, the delivery guys called at 3pm to say that they would be at the house in 45 mins to an hour. We got back at 4pm and it didnt arrive till 4.30pm! At least it finally got delivered.... BUT to add insult to injury, the bottom of the sofa had a tear!!! AAARRRGGGGHHH!!! EC and I had to decide if we wanted to call Ikea or not to ask for a new sofa but we decided against it.

Had my whinge to mum and dad as well and dad suggested I write in to complain. So I wrote in last night continuing from my earlier emails and telling them abt the tear. Earlier on today, the supervisor at Ikea called to pacify me (well I've actually cooled down anyway and the sofa was really comfy last nite) and offered to pay me back for the delivery charges and a new sofa. I declined the new sofa so we came to an agreement that he'll give me vouchers for the delivery charges and for the tear in the sofa.... :) :) :)

Now I have another excuse to drop into Ikea to buy some more stuff :)

Ikea Delivery Sucks

2006-07-12T12:50:00.000+08:00

On Monday, I got a sofa from Ikea and arranged to have it delivered. It was a rip off when at the delivery desk I got told to pay $60 for the delivery when only a couple of days ago, when I got the washing machine, I only paid $30. Anyway, totally BP, so had to pay $60.

Anyway, at the delivery desk @ Ikea, the knick knock of the guy there said to call a certain number after 9am on Wednesday as delivery would be on Wednesday. At 9am this morning, I called the number and then the same knick knock, gave me another number to call. When I called the other number given, IT WAS SWITCHED OFF! How spastic is that - to be a delivery company and still have the phone switched off? So I called the knick knock guy again to say the phone number he gave is switched off and the knick knock guy said that he cannot do anything about it. What a load of croc! So I got pissed off and called Ikea Customer Service, and I dont know why it's called Customer Service when they werent very helpful at all. The girl told me that they were loading the truck, so not answering the phone. So I said to her if they're loading the truck, why can't she go and ask them what time they can deliver my furniture, and then she said that they dont work for Ikea and they are at another warehouse. So, I wonder if she's psychic?? She then basically told me that I have to wait until the phone is switched on. I know this place is WA aka for Wait Awhile, but seriously, this was getting abit ridiculous. Here's a quote from the Ikea website that says:

"Our Customer Services departments will endeavour to resolve any issue to your satisfaction. "

What bull! I was also that I could write in to lodge a complain - which I did obviously. I also asked if I would get a reply - and I was told Yes. But heh.... surprise surprise, I havent got a reply yet!

Finally got thru to the delivery guy @ 10am who told me that they were going to deliver my furniture between 12.30 and 1pm - but they'll call an hour before arriving. So it's all good - or so I thought!! It went past 12.30 and still no call, so I called again and another guy said that the first guy who told me 12.30 - 1pm shouldnt have said that and instead it will be at 3pm!!!! Like What the F**K!

Update - 2.45pm
Well it's now almost 3pm, and I just called and asked if it's coming and I've just been told it will be in abt 1.5 hours - which makes it 4.30pm!!! And I should just wait and they will call me an hour before they get to my place.... Do they actually think people have got time to just wait all day?

Pirates of the Caribbean

2006-07-08T17:51:00.000+08:00

Went to watch the latest Pirates of Carribbean movie last night with SLB, PB, my brother and me. I enjoyed the movie - pirates lingo is a little hard to comprehend at times, but the SFX was all good. I can't comment on the ending - there wasn't one!!!!

Which Pirates of the Caribbean character are you?

Haven't done this in a while

2006-07-07T15:08:00.000+08:00

Lately I haven't come across any weirdos (to put it mildly) on the net, but came across one this afternoon and I thought I should post it for the hell of it :-) and Hopefully he had deleted himself of ICQ - we don't need another one like him around!!

JBoy (ICQ NUMBER: 292-120-989) :

When are we catching up?

JF:

do i even know u?

JBoy (02:48 PM) :

Not yet, I'm a friend you haven't met yet.

JF:

so why would i want to catch up with u then if i dont know who u are?

JBoy (02:53 PM) :

Because I'm a nice person and maybe we were meant for each other. But we won't find out until we get to know each other.

JF:

so maybe u should get to know me first even b4 asking me out that was pretty rude

JBoy (02:55 PM) :

Or are you pretty rude for taking such a negative attitude to a lovely gesture to get to know somebody?

JF:

says the person who doesnt even say hi but very straight forwardly asks when we can meet up

JBoy (02:58 PM) :

We've actually been chatting for 3 days now, obviously you don't remember. I'm thinking of deleting icq anyway. After a week of using it, I don't think I like the sort of people I've been meeting on here.

JF:

3 days?

JBoy (02:58 PM) :

Surprised?

JF:

doubt it

JBoy (02:59 PM) :

Like I said, I don't think I like the sort of people I've been meeting on here.

JBoy (03:00 PM) :

If you're an example of the kind of "friendliness" I'm going to be experiencing on icq, I think I'll delete it right now...

JF:

byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

JBoy (03:02 PM) :

Just some advice for your profile: Where it says "Generally an easy going person to talk to " you might want to change to "a real bitch" Bye.

June Birthday Babies

2006-06-29T20:19:00.000+08:00

By some strange co-ordination of things, my family including both mum's side and dad's side have managed to have quite a few June babies all within days of each other. My mum (being the very organised person that she is) timed it well to have my brother born a day after my birthday .... so we have ...

June 18 - Millie
June 19 - Shen Mei
June 23 - Wendi
June 24 - Erwin
June 25 - Su Ann

There's also Inez and Joshua, but I get confused with their dates. I think Inez is on the 21st and Joshua is the 27th. In addition, a good buddy of mine, Wendy is also on the same day as me and we share the same name, though different spelling!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVERYONE!!

One Eating Kaki Balik Kampung

2006-06-28T22:54:00.000+08:00

So CY has gone back to KL for one month.... one Perth eating buddy down... on the upside, he has promised to update the Eat Inc blog with his food adventures as he's also going to China for a couple of days... wonder if he'll have some snake :)

Meanwhile, I'm trying to pig out as much as I possibly can, coz come July 1, I am hoping to be a bit more disciplined with my eating and exercising plan ... one can only hope....

Goodbye Chicken Farm ....

2006-06-25T18:06:00.000+08:00

We had a bbq at KM & DM Chicken Farm today as we bade farewell to their house. They move to a new house over the next couple of weeks.... wonder if they'll still call it the chicken farm or something else??

On another note, TC has been transferred to Melbourne, so we're also going to have to say good bye to her as she leaves Perth on 15 July. She's going to be greatly missed :(

Another year

2006-06-24T00:36:00.000+08:00

Another birthday has come and gone.... I decided that quiet celebrations were in order this year so just had a simple dinner with some friends and tomorrow night some dinner and more importantly alcohol with some friends. Anyway, I got myself a couple of birthday presents :) I got my hair done (more blonde streaks), a moon stone ring, a chakra bracelet (very pretty with all the colours) and a dolphin anklet.

Thank you to everyone who has wished me happy birthday on emails, sms txt msgs, blogs and cards. It's all very much appreciated to be remembered.

Shortest Daylight in Perth

2006-06-21T16:06:00.000+08:00

Today is the shortest day for the southern hemisphere.... so that means days will get longer from tomorrow ..... which is good - I am not a fan of the sun setting at 5.30pm. And on the other side, the northern hemisphere will be experiencing their longest day...

Life

2006-06-19T23:58:00.000+08:00

I was reminded of how short life can be last week when one of the Uncles' in the church suddenly went home to be with the Lord. He was out walking his dog, doing his normal exercises when suddenly he suffered a massive heart attack and *poof* he was gone. This was a guy who was fit and got a clean bill of health from the doctors just a couple of weeks ago. On one hand I think this is the best way to die, no pain no suffering... however, the suddeness of it on the loved ones left behind isnt so good... the shock of it on his family was very overwhelming. I can now understand how my granny and uncle and auntie and dad felt when my grandpa passed away suddenly as well in 1958.

Rest in peace Kelvin, from the eulogies heard last night at the memorial service, I think you have done God, your family and yourself proud.

Cash & Cars

2006-06-14T21:56:00.000+08:00

Hhhmm... wish I had some of that in real life... Last week, EC bought the Walk the Line DVD which is an autobiography of the legendary Johnny Cash and June Carter. I must say I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. The soundtrack is also very good, this coming from a person who tries very hard to appreciate country music.

Last night, we went to watch the new Pixar animation movie, Cars. THE MOVIE IS SO SO GOOD!!! As with all Pixar movies, the story line wasn't corny and it had a moral at the end of the movie teaching humility and teamwork. The characters as always are cute and adorable. McDonald's is offering the toys as part of their Happy Meal.... maybe I have to live on that for the next couple of weeks to collect the cars.

06.06.06

2006-06-06T20:04:00.000+08:00

This date would only occur once in a lifetime ... I wonder if it's any equivalent to Fridays the 13th

Revelation 13:18
" This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."

Happy Anniversary to this Blog!

2006-06-03T22:11:00.000+08:00

It's been one year since I've started blogging... wow... time really flies.. Cheers :)

Chats....

2006-05-29T15:20:00.000+08:00

OK... in some ways, I would like to think that I'm a 'seasoned' chatter on the net... I mean I've been using various chat programs for like the last 10 years!!! However, on an off chance today, I found my way to my ICQ webpage and realised that people have been leaving me messages on there which I've not known about! I came across 2 negative comments about me... here's what they said

Diesel wrote: <228811699>

What a total waste of an effort! Total rudeness from her-I'm awestruck at what posesses people to act like her!? Good luck with Prince Charming-you'll need it !

Oh,and one more thing-you're 'About Me' above says you're 'easy going person'...Fat chance of that- you bit my head off just for asking where you're from ! Check my profile was the reply !!! Go figure.

David wrote: <82170190>
Gosh u wern't very friendly were u. wasnt expecting much, just common courtesy as to a stranger. Apologies if this sounds harsh but I dont think this was all my stuff. Good luck with prince charming!

OK so those were the complaints... here are my rebuttals

1. I have a profile, I spent time on my profile writing up where I'm from and other bits of information about myself, I made the conscientious effort to write my profile, so why cant you do me the courtesy of reading my profile first?

2. On my profile, I do say I dont like dumb questions. Asking me questions where the answers can be found on my profile is classified as a dumb question. Perhaps I should specify what is my definition of a dumb question for these dumb people.

3. When someone randomly chats to me, the first thing I do is to check their profile and see if I can gather any information on them. Just coz the lazy ones dont, doesnt mean that everyone is like them as lazy...

4. Sure I'm easy going .... but everyone has their faults and limits.. and to those that know me, knows that I dont like dumb people.... and those that know me better, knows I have limited tolerance for dumb people.... my tolerance level do not hold to people who are childish, screamish, irritating, too overly 'ladylike' and pretends to be a damsel in distress... etc

5. Finally, it's a frigging chat.... different people react differently to words. Some normal people when I say please check profile - after they ask a dumb question, they actually do check the profile and the apologise for not checking it first... and from there, we actually can have a decent chat.

Anyway, I've been battling a headache for the last couple of days, so seeing these online didnt impress me too much, I'm in 2 minds as to leaving them a nasty message myself... but then again... I'm a NICE person... ;-)

Music, Movies & Makan

2006-05-25T16:37:00.000+08:00

Last Friday, a part of the Hillsongs Worship Team was in Perth to have a 'Just Worship' Experience. Apparently it was their first WA trip.... It was held at the Metro Church @ Beaufort Street, Northbridge. We (CY, my brother and me) qued up since 6.15pm and waited.... the worship didn't start till 7.30pm (thanks to CY for getting me a bubble tea to keep me occupied). The aim of this worship was to raise money for the Hope Rwanda cause - a project which is organised by Mark & Darlene Zschech from the Hills Church in Sydney. Perth raised well over $40K for this fund raising project!! The worship ended about 9.00pm.... which I think was a little disappointment to the Hillsongs fan club.

On Tuesday (cheap arsed Tuesday) we (HT, my bro and me) went to watch The DaVinci Code. Enough hype has been said for this movie which came from the same titled book by Dan Brown. The movie was a disappointment as it was draggy at some bits, the parts where they could have explained better wasnt explained properly (no wonder my dad got confused when he watched the movie!) and it was a LONG movie....

Whilst there's a lot of talk about this movie and churches everywhere are raising issues as to the lies in the book - where personally I am getting a little tired of all this controversy talk... I believe that if a person's foundations in the Christian faith is strong, you would take this book as fiction reading, and ignore the fact that in the beginning of the book it does say that careful research has gone into the book. In no way should the contents of the book falter a Christian's believe. This reminds me of a movie I once saw in Edinburgh - The Last Temptations of Christ.... which was also a controversial movie/book. Finally. as dad pointed out to me last night, this book is a good way to share the Christian faith with non believers.

Meanwhile, the Eat Inc gluts have been pretty quiet... CY, my bro and I managed to have lunch at the Bella Rosa @Victoria Park on Sunday and we stuffed ourselves with the pasta. The portions were huge and they were generous with the seafood....SJ at work has been feeding me with really yummy afternoon teas of pastries from Jean Claude and other bakeries .. tomorrow he's going to cook a curry for lunch... sigh.... I think I have to hit the gym properly....

Weirdos

2006-05-18T17:05:00.000+08:00

Weirdo Warning on ICQ - 257-433-042 (Mark)

mark (04:46 PM) :
hi

Me (04:55 PM) :
hi

mark (04:56 PM) :
how are you my name is mark

Me (04:56 PM) :
hi mark

mark (04:57 PM) :
which asian country are you from ?

Me (04:58 PM) :
see profile
mark (04:58 PM) :

didn't come up that's why i have asked ,but now it's ok

Me (05:00 PM) :
ok

mark (05:00 PM) :
do you have pic of you ?

Me (05:01 PM) :
no

mark (05:01 PM) :
ok piss off then

Me(05:02 PM) :
hahah u just gave me a reason to write what an asshole u are on my blog

mark (05:03 PM) :
you asian all are so cheap

Hands up if you think this guy is a fked up arsehole? But at least he's in Sydney... not in Perth!

Stuffed

2006-05-17T23:02:00.000+08:00

I received an email from TC yesterday asking what I was doing tonite. Told her I would be going to the gym unless she can convince me otherwise... and her alternative suggestion was way better than the gym... it was an invite to the HYATT for a free dinner!! Who can say NO to that and free alcohol as well??!?!?

So off we went tonite to the Hyatt for dinner. It was the launch of Hyatt's new menu. There was a great sample of appetisers (about 5 types). They gave a little bit of each on the lazy susan so we could pick what we wanted to eat. There was a Hyatt representative on each table as well (about 20 tables in all) so that they can gather feedback from us. The main course was yummy.. I had the rare steak cooked to perfection with a seafood stick of prawns, scallops and oyster!! The dessert.... was... oh soo good (this from someone who isnt a fan of dessert) . There was a taste test of 7 different types of dessert on a plate for each of us, and it was fun trying to guess what each dessert was according to the menu. To top of the evening, each of us were given a mini chocolate cake to take home .... I havent tried it yet as it looks too rich and I'm too stuffed to eat anymore tonite...

Eat Inc

2006-05-17T22:56:00.000+08:00

A couple of us have set up this website called Eat Inc which incidentally sounds like 'eating'. It's a site dedicated to FOOD. The main objective is to recommend places that we have gone to eat or have successfully cooked at home. There's a couple of Eat Inc 'branches'. So far, Singapore, Malaysia and Perth. Hopefully in time to come we will be able to branch out more and offer a wider variety of food choices on the site. The site is slowing being developed with the help of Twelve Baskets so be patient if you do drop by the site and give us any positive and creative criticisms so that we can make your visit a happier one.

Whistle While You Work.....

2006-05-17T22:51:00.000+08:00

The last couple of weeks has just flown by, I'm now into my 4th week at my new job and so far I'm loving it. OK people who know I usually whinge by now, you would be surprised I haven't whinged yet. The people are easy going to work with, as long as I get my work done. They actually listen to opinions and adopt any good ideas that you have. I get to set protocols as to how I like things done. The plus is that we have this great kitchen at work, so last week I cooked laksa and this week, chicken curry is on the menu. Oh and SJ and I have similar taste buds (not bad for a kuai -lo) so every now and then he buys us afternoon teas, pies and scones. Very sneaky, coz it means I have to go to the gym a little bit more often. Another good thing is I get encouraged to go to the gym as well....

Striked Out

2006-05-07T22:21:00.000+08:00

Singaporeans went to vote yesterday and since I'm not in Singapore and since I didnt fly to Canberra (yeah right!) to cast my vote.... I've been striked off the Electors list... yay!! It doesnt make of a difference to me... hopefully, I'll not have to vote in Singapore it's a waste of time.....

Speak Well Speak Up Speak Out

2006-05-01T21:54:00.000+08:00

My bro and I did this test on the weekend thinking that we could participate in the challenge only to realise that the challenge was for2005! We were both pretty impressed with ourselves at our score as we did it in one attempt!! I stumbled onto this Speak Good English website some time ago and it was part of the Speak Good English movement that the homeland was trying to promote last year. I dont think it worked though just looking at some of the Singapore blogs that are on cyberspace. This movement is highly overdue as there is a need to improve some of the pronunciation and grammar usage by the inhabitants of the homeland. How ironical though to have a Speak Good English campaign, as I remember when I was growing up, they had the Speak Mandarin Campaign! Although that campaign didnt quite work on me.

Anyway, I recommend this website, it has mini quizzes for you to take to see how good your grammar is and the pronunciation.... also has lessons on how to improve your English... this is something that should be looked at if the homeland strives to be a global centre for businesses.... and people would stop pronouncing vegetables as ve-ge-ta-bles.....

Introducing Waddle.....

2006-04-29T19:58:00.000+08:00

Meet Waddle who's 8 weeks old..... the latest addition to the family. He's one of the puppies that I've decided to keep in memory of Toby. All the other puppies have been rehomed or sold. I pray that they have all gone to good homes. Waddle already has some of Toby's traits so let's hope he'll continue to be a chip of the old block and follow his father's footsteps :)

The 50th Post

2006-04-25T09:15:00.000+08:00

OK.... I've reached the 50th post.... it's been a slow climb I have to admit... but hey I got there...

Anyway, it was my first day of at my new job yesterday and so far so good :-) It's always good when 1. the boss doesnt mind that you can come into work late as long as it's before lunch time and 2. the boss comes and tells you that it's enough for the day and I can go home at 4pm!! Yeah!!

It felt funny yesterday as I sat through meetings and all I could think of was time sheets and what if I still had to account for 6 minutes of my time and what would have been on my timesheet for yesterday.

After a very hard and exhausting first day of work yesterday, it's Anzac Day today - a public holiday. Don't I just time it so well?? :-) Anzac Day in Oz is a reminder to the country for the servicemen and women who had served the country in all the wars, but the most prominent one being Gallipoli during WW1. So plans for today.... given the cloudy weather... pure vegetation

My Very Own Sampan

2006-04-21T00:18:00.000+08:00

So I'm about to embark on my own sampan and it's scary. When I was a kid, dad bought me this Smurfette Poster on the left and through out the years I'm often reminded of this poster. Even though I would still be employed by a company and be paid, I will have to learn how to set up my own sampan and be responsible for it.

The last couple of days, in the midst of vegetating at home and with HT who is also bumming around, I've had to think of a name for my company which would have significance to me, and checking out domain names and ASIC. Whilst this is all so exciting, I'm also apprehensive and scared as this is all a whole new challenge for me.

I've come up with the name 'mustard seed'. Why you may ask. It has a lot to do with faith , both between myself and God and between my future 'clients' and myself.

Whilst reminiscing with my brother and some friends about Sunday School songs we used to sing, a chorus popped into my mind which to an extent describes the challenges that will lay ahead for me

I don't know about tomorrow; I just live from day to day.
I don't borrow from its sunshine for its skies may turn to gray.
I don't worry o'er the future for I know what Jesus said;
And, today, I'll walk beside Him for He knows what is ahead.

Many things about tomorrow, I don't seem to understand.
But, I know Who holds tomorrow, and I know Who holds my hand!

I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
by Ira F. Stanphill

Bloody Pissed Off

2006-04-13T16:50:00.000+08:00

Today has been one of those days that just absolutely pissed me off. It started off with this morning when my darling of a satay sent me a txt message to ask if I had any client files at home, and if I did, I was to bring them in. That triggered alarm bells in me as I still had 2 more weeks to work at that place. When I got into work, I got called into her office and was basically told that I could pack up and leave. The convienient excuse she used was 1) the directors decided and 2) that there wasnt enough work to sustain me for the next 2 weeks. What a load of crap. Anyway, to add insult to injury, when I was packing up my desk, my boss STOOD next to me, watching my EVERY move to make sure I didnt take any 'client information' like WTF... 1) I'm not going to a competitor's firm 2) I'm out of that industry for the time being and 3) I've only been in the frigging company for a few months and didnt get a chance to know any clients!! Besides, if I had wanted to get client information, I would have done that ages and ages ago!!! Duh.... Anyway, I really felt like a criminal. My satay has such double standards.... when her darling secretary got escorted out of the building from her previous job (to join satay and satay is a competitors firm) she was all indignant abt the way the secretary was escorted and today she bloody did the same thing to me - except it wasnt out of the building but out of the reception area!! She didnt do it to the other people who left and they had gone to competitors firm.... Anyway, I am just pissed off that I got treated this way. They could have had the courtesy to give me a couple of days notice and not spring this surprise. Then again, it is to their advantage to spring the element of surprise on me. Admittedly, the last couple of days I havent been very motivated and just couldnt give a damn... but still, that was no reason for them to do what they did.

I'm giving them till Wednesday to pay me .... if not, I will kao buay kao bu....

And after all that... I did some retail therapy and got myself a new phone... I'm back to being a Nokia phone user....

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE :-)

An Interesting Week

2006-04-07T22:47:00.000+08:00

I've had a very interesting week that I should have posted as it went by but I was tired the last couple of nights... right now, I am pleasantly pissed after consuming 4 bourbon and cokes and a shot of something JR recommended with no dinner... and typing is not very easy at the moment!!!

So lets start of with Monday.... I handed in my resignation... where I got all the usual 'we are so disappointed' kind of crap... come on... do they actually think I believe that they are sorry to see me go?? They're probably jumping for joy! I just was pretty surprised to hear words like 'I'm not impressed with you', when like think about it, after all these months of unnecessary stress, do they actually think I would have stuck on?

Had a flu shot on Tuesday - no big deal but it was free so I thought what the heck, one more thing to scam off the company. However, as I was asked to tend to the phones on Tuesday whilst the rest of the people in the company went to play models for the day, I had a pretty good heart to heart chat with the IT guy, where I learnt some stuff.

On Thursday, I was asked by the HR Manager to reconsider my resignation. They apparently thought that I resigned coz I was asked to do my CA... like WTF... are they that dumb and so blind? Studying is the least of my worries... Anyway, I couldnt 'accept' their kind offer of a 6-12 month contract with no CA enforced onto me. BIG DEAL.... like what dad said to me, if I was to accept their offer what is to stop them from picking on me again? They may stop picking on me for a little while as they put their hate energy elsewhere but who knows within a month or two again, I'll be on their hate radar again. As always, dad always has a good point.

Thursday night, Calvin, my brother and I joined a multi church group to visit and sing to the patients at Holywood Hospital. I have to admit, it's one of the rare hospitals that I have visited that has no 'hospital smell'. There we sang and ministered to the sick patients with our singing. It was an experience. Some of the songs which we sung were from the days of old and it brought back memories. Managed to teach Calvin actions to Sunday School songs like "He's got the whole world in his hands"

Tonight, we (PG & JR and me) had to go for lawn bowling with the social club. Prior to going to the bowls, we ended up at the Rosemount and had a couple of drinks... that kind of helped us get thru lawn bowls. I swear, after a while, I have no idea what is going on. I think 10 pin bowling makes abit more sense.

I think it's time I foraged for some food in the pantry...

Good Stuff

2006-03-31T20:29:00.000+08:00

God answers prayers in the strangest ways. I asked Him to open doors for me as he sees fit and then presto...I get a new job totally different to what i'm doing now yet at the same time relevant to my studies.... yiippeee.... I'm just so happy to get out of the hell hole. Here are the top 10 reasons why

1. No more impossible productivity targets and chargeables for me to meet
2. No more being treated like a child in kindy being told very sternly what can and cannot be done
3. No more forced and unnecessary over time and having to account for every 6 minutes of my day
4. No more being asked by a non comprehending dolt of a boss if I REALLY have to go to the airport to pick my parents up
5. No more having to wear stockings, closed toe shoes, and play conservative dress up
6. No more having to be stressed about getting to work on time, stressed about taking time off, or even stressed about asking to start a little later or leave a little earlier
7. No more being paranoid that the secretary and bosses are reading our emails and being told by the secretary that I'm a F*****G Idiot
8. No more knowing that when the boss praises you, it's not sincere as she believes that once she gives me a praise, I slack off as I think I've earned brownie points
9. No more 6 monthly reviews
10. No more having to deal with 2 faced people who tells you that they are helping you and goes behind your back and gets you into trouble with the boss

and Yes I promise this time I will try and stay in this job for a longer period of time :)

A New Life Begins

2006-03-27T20:07:00.000+08:00

My brother officially moves to Perth tomorrow to continue with his studies... and will be living with me for the next few years.. I think it would be a pretty awesome/strange/wicked experience. In the last 12 years, I've only 'lived' with him for 2 years while I was back home and working there. Since then, he and I have been living in extreme ends of the northern and southern hemisphere. Of course there have been times when we were back home together for holidays, but at holidays, everything is all just fun.

The food ministry aka YA3 will now have a new member :) We did say that we dont want to have a doctor in the ministry, but for my brother and other future members, as long as they are not a medical doctor that practices medicine, we'll allow them to join us.

Alot of people have asked me if my brother and I get along... I suppose we do... our friends hang out together when we're back home... but we're now both grown ups so maybe abit of adjustment on both our sides to get adjusted to.

I think I have to be mindful of the chores that we have to do... I dont really want my old man to complain to me that I 'bully' my brother. But really, I only get him to do all the man chores... then again... he says in his blog that he's coming here to a life of hardwork and household chores...

Work just sucks more and more.....

2006-03-23T22:06:00.000+08:00

I know I keep whinging about work but really work just gets from bad to worse. There's a rumour going on this week that we're abt to get uniforms to wear... IF I was in a service industry, constantly meeting people and clients, I can understand the need for uniforms to represent the company... but we hardly see anyone nor have any clients come into our office... and we have to wear uniforms?? Good grief...

Last week I scored a brownie point by doing an almost perfect file and I got 'praised'.... later on I found out that my satay doesnt like giving me compliments and praises as she feels that each time she gives me a compliment or a praise, I slack off thinking that I can be abit slack now that I've achieved some brownie points... that obviously pissed me off... but earlier on this week, I queried a client over a transaction on his bank statement which as work goes, it was my satay who had to ask the client abt this transactions coz low lifes like us are not allowed to speak to clients... and it turns out that it was a transaction that could have been easily recognised had I looked at the tax portal - well in the first place, the person who made the deposit into the bank account should have narrated the transaction better!!! Anyway, I got a blasting from my satay asking if I actually go thru the processing instructions and if I had, I would have picked up the transaction in the tax portal.... So I admitted that I dont use the processing instructions... Hey I'm a Pro at what I do so why should I?? Anyway, today I thought I will have a search for this processing instructions to see what the big deal is all about and I found out that it actually doesnt exist on our database but on the lap top of Number 1!!! Like Hello... how the f**k am I suppose follow these instructions if they are not readily available to staff??? Just coz the client that I requested this query from is some high flyer in some bank... he's being treated like a god... I think the bosses fail to realise that people do make mistakes.... to top it off, I later found out that satay made an error with some pension calculations as she used the wrong date of birth for one of the clients, and in that process, they had taken out excess pension money for the year... HAHAHAHAH!! She stuffed up!! So nobody's perfect, but I'm sure she will find some excuse to justify her for that.

Another guy at work got told that he works too slow and he needs to work faster - especially in the processing. Do they think we're robots now? He's only been with us for slightly over 2 months and has to learn so much new stuff and yet they expect him to work faster... and to make matters worse, they've changed his seating as well to be just outside the bosses office so that they can keep an eye on him...that's just so pathetic.

And of course, the bosses have their favourites, so no matter what any of their favourites does and does not achieve, they are excused and spoken for by the bosses... but the underdogs and low lifes like us who are constantly under the hate radar, whatever we do or dont achieve, we get blamed for it

This is my latest chant.... I NEED A NEW JOB.... I NEED A NEW JOB....I NEED A NEW JOB.... I NEED A NEW JOB....I NEED A NEW JOB.... I NEED A NEW JOB....I NEED A NEW JOB.... I NEED A NEW JOB....I NEED A NEW JOB.... I NEED A NEW JOB....

Congratulations Delise!!

2006-03-22T00:14:00.000+08:00

Delise graduated last nite from UWA and we were there to witness it with her. Great job Delise!!! We kind of crashed in on the post ceremony celebrations ... free food and free wine... after that we headed on to Northbridge for supper... ultra tired as got home and slept at 1am but it was well worth it spending the time with her.

Delise leaves for Singapore on Thursday... *sob sob* so tomorrow night we're having a party for her... not so much as a farewell party but a party to celebrate her achievements and our looking forward to her return in a couple of weeks.

Dim Sum

2006-03-19T15:29:00.000+08:00

There are certain 'must eat' things when one goes for dim sum... let's see.. there's the prawn and char siew chee cheong fun, there's the 'dan tart' (egg tart), pan fried radish cake and har kow. Once these are served to me, not matter in how big a serving, I am satisfied... and, I just had that for lunch :)

There's an eating crew starting to form between myself and some the younger generation at church - namely Delise, Calvin and Tim. It's great fun. For some reason, I actually prefer hanging out with these bunch of people rather than ... CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED ...

Anyway, we talked abt forming a eating and food ministry and our aim is to meet and eat. I know we're gluts ..... :) But it might be worth giving this some serious thought if we can also include perhaps helping out shelters to provide food and stuff to the homeless and needy. If eating is our passion and we are able to eat, wouldnt it be great to share eating with the rest of the world that has trouble looking for food?

Buffy Puppies (4)

2006-03-16T22:46:00.000+08:00

The puppies are growing.... their eyes have opened and their noses are turning black. At first I thought they had contracted some strange disease... then I realised dogs have black noses!! Duh!! They've now started to 'crawl' and can now 'sit up'. I'm having a hard time trying to decide if I do want to keep one of the puppies or not. Part of me do, and part of me don't. They've also outgrown their play box, so I need to find another play box for them....

After crossing hump day

2006-03-11T19:47:00.000+08:00

Thursday at work was pretty stressful. I had my 'review' meeting with satay, number 1 and the HR manager. They said that they were pretty happy with my performance and the usual crappy bullshit stuff..blah blah blah.... But hey did I have a choice? They forcefully imposed me a couple of stuff that I had to do and face consequences if I didnt, so what bloody choice did I have? To top things off, they wanna see me in a months' time again. I'm sick and tired of being under their radar and I dont agree to number 1 being in all these confidential meetings between satay and the HR manager and myself. She cant even handle being a effective manager herself so really, I think they need to be speaking to her as well.

Thursday night, had dinner at home with IRC and we had chilli mussels cooked by yours truly so obviously, I'll say that it was pretty yummy :) We watched a couple of dvds as well and had a couple of drinks - a pretty good night catching up with a friend. On Friday after lunch with DiG, we did a little therapy shopping... and I think I got a bargain... Got a pair of Hush Puppies shoes for $50 down from $100!! How cool is that!?!?!

Weekend is here again, was meant to go to KM's place for dinner tonite but that got cancelled, but it's all good, just means I get to read my book and vegetate a little bit more .... KM and I are on the prowl for a new job ....

Autumn

2006-03-08T19:39:00.000+08:00

Autumn officially started last week... however, the weather is still in the high 30s degrees C, today for example was 36 degrees C... the air conditioner is on almost 24/7...the insects are still everywhere... I'm sick of seeing flies, ants, strange bugs around the house... it's still so summery... The only thing that makes one know that it isnt quite summer anymore is that the sun has started to set by 7pm. Bring on the cooler weather!!

I couldn't resist this one....

2006-03-06T22:39:00.000+08:00

this guy thinks he's an italian stallion! this just makes it so hilarious that there are people who think so highly of themselves out there! :)

140-734-193 (08:20 PM) :
wanna make love honey..
ME (08:24 PM) :
do u actually expect someone to say yes?
hero (08:24 PM) :
most say yes
hero (08:25 PM) :
22 cm n huge
ME (09:03 PM) :
so?
hero (09:04 PM) :
do u have msn
ME(09:04 PM) :
no
hero (09:04 PM) :
u could see
ME (09:04 PM) :
i'm not as sick as u
hero (09:04 PM) :
22 cm n huge
ME (09:12 PM) :
so?
hero (09:25 PM) :
so what u want
ME (09:36 PM) :
nothing

Another Dumb Chat

2006-03-05T23:55:00.000+08:00

This chat just proves what Singapore men are like - well some of them I guess.

dave (11:31 PM) (ICQ 203-897-052):
Hi, are you in perth?
ME (11:32 PM) :
yes
ME (11:32 PM) :
havent we spoken b4?
dave (11:32 PM) :
i dont think so, i am a singapore airlines pilot anyway, and will be flying to perth soon, you like to chat?

ME(11:33 PM) :
ok
dave (11:34 PM) :
how old are you and what do you do?
ME (11:34 PM) :
3+
ME (11:34 PM) :
super
dave (11:34 PM) :
as in insurance? and unit trust financial planning etc?
ME(11:35 PM) :
as in SMSF
dave (11:36 PM) :
nice, i am dave, what is your name?
ME (11:38 PM) :
Lin
dave (11:38 PM) :
nice to meet you lin, where are you from originally?
ME (11:38 PM) :
singapore
ME(11:38 PM) :
and all this u're asking is in my profile
dave (11:39 PM) :
ok sorry
dave (11:39 PM) :
are you married?
ME (11:40 PM) :
no
dave (11:40 PM) :
do you have a picture?
ME (11:41 PM) :
no
dave (11:42 PM) :
can you describe how you look like?
dave (11:46 PM) :
you there
dave (11:51 PM) :
hellol?
ME(11:52 PM) :
dont u have any more original questions to ask then the usual wat do u look like questions? it gets kind of boring
dave (11:52 PM) :
ok, i fly to perth soon, i like to meet you if you are attractive?
ME (11:53 PM) :
that's even more lame
Asian Princess (11:53 PM) :
bye

Buffy's Puppies (3)

2006-03-01T21:49:00.000+08:00

Buffy's Puppies

Kindergarten vs Work

2006-03-01T19:28:00.000+08:00

I want to have a whinge, a big mega whinge. I'm beginning to see that I dont go to work everyday, rather I go to kindy. I get told what to do, when to do it and have got no freedom of speech or decisions. I also have a 'uniform' to wear. OK, so how did I come to these conclusions? Read on..

First the uniform. Apparently we have to wear stockings to work... regardless of weather or seasons. What era do they think we're living in? Do they know how hot it is to be wearing stockings in 38 degrees Celcius? Besides, low lifes like us dont have to meet clients nor do clients come into our secluded office much so why do we have to wear stockings? Last week, the HR manager came to our office to steady the ship (as we had 2 resignations in 2 weeks - which I thought was pretty cool)... Anyway, she came in to have a chat with me and noticed that I had walked around the office bare footed... like hello, it's bad enough having to be in heels all the time!! Then she saw that I was sitting cross legged on my chair and I wasnt wearing stockings!! Goodness, she nearly died of shock, kept asking where were my stockings and if I did wear stockings to work!! Thinking fast I told her that I did wear stockings that day but my stockings had a tear so I had to throw it away... Phew... close shave ....

Secondly, being told what to do. Remember in school when we were told what we had to do and when we had to finish it by and how to do it?? Exactly how we're being treated at the moment. Everyday we HAVE to finish our timesheet and we HAVE to update our job register and we get a whack of the cane if we don't do it. Today I got a 'nice' email abt time management. Is it not good enough that I am being forced to hit 85% productivity every week but now I'm being told how to manage my time? I think at uni we were given better time management than this! Funny thing is, the person who sent me that email is a good half a decade younger than me and what does she know abt time management when she doesnt even do half the things she tells us she will do!?!? Alas, she doesnt get into trouble for that as she's the apple of Wong Ah Ma's eye.

Finally, the backstabbing and bitchiness and politics and unfairness that's going around. After number 1 sent me that wonderful time management email, she IM number 2 and told her what she just sent to me and that I'll probably start complaining to Number 2 abt it and she tried to get on Number 2's good books by telling her that all she (Number 1) is doing is trying to help me... yeah right... doesn't she know that we see her a double agent? I mean she acts all nice with us, gets us to tell her what we think and feel and then she runs off to Wong Ah Ma with the stories! The stupid thing is that we get all these waste of time emails to do all these bloody admin stuff when Number 1 doesnt get questioned by Wong Ah Ma that she has abt 25 review files sitting for her to review our work whilst she wastes all these time getting us to update all sorts of rubbish and no one asks her why she hasnt reviewed these 25 files... how unfair is that? I think these people need to go for some management classes....

Buffy & Her Puppies (2)

2006-02-25T21:21:00.000+08:00

Buffy's done with giving birth. She's got 5 puppies altogether which makes up 3 male and 2 female with a combination of 4 White and 1 black/brown. I'm already tempted to keep the black brown puppy but she's a female. And in a way I want a white (male) puppy to replace Toby. Guess eventually I'll have to decide.

I'm happy to say mother and puppies are doing well.

Buffy & Her Puppies (1)

2006-02-25T10:39:00.000+08:00

Buffy gave birth today. I figured she might as she was very restless last night and this morning she wasnt her usual jumpy self. Kept hiding in corners especially in my wardrobe. YW came over for a chat and we had lunch. After lunch at abt 2pm, we were watching a movie and we noticed Buffy starting to shiver and as though she was having contractions. So we took her to her 'maternity ward', where shortly after she gave birth to puppy number 1.

It's now 4pm and she's given birth to 4 puppies, 3 white and 1 black. I think that's abt all she's going to have as 3 of the puppies are pretty huge.

Chats and Dumb Questions

2006-02-23T22:24:00.000+08:00

I've decided to publicise my chats with people who are dumb and have no netiquette. What is the point of me filling in the blanks to a profile and even specifically saying in my profile that I dont appreciate dumb questions and yet I get asked dumb questions?

HardROd1 (10:13 PM) :
fancy a chat, precious?
ME(10:13 PM) :
hi
HardROd1 (10:13 PM) :
how u doin
HardROd1 (10:14 PM) :
where r u?
ME (10:14 PM) :
i'm good
ME (10:15 PM) :
i'm at home
HardROd1 (10:15 PM) :
where is home?
ME (10:15 PM) :
i think it's in my profile
ME (10:15 PM) :
if u bother to read it first
HardROd1 (10:16 PM) :
oh u have attitude problem
HardROd1 (10:16 PM) :
I mean where in Wa?
ME (10:16 PM) :
perth -once again its in the profile
HardROd1 (10:17 PM) :
no it is not
HardROd1 (10:17 PM) :
not in the one i can see
ME(10:17 PM) :
really, i can see it
HardROd1 (10:17 PM) :
enjoy it then

Korean Food

2006-02-20T22:44:00.000+08:00

Yesterday after church, whilst deciding where to go for lunch with the kiddies, somehow, got lured to go to a Korean Restaurant down at Pier Street. We ordered quite a few dishes which turned out pretty good. My new favourite korean food is the Korean Seafood Pancake and the Hot and Spicy Seafood Soup in a Hot Pot.

Then KM came to collect her puppies and I told her what I had for lunch and we ended saying that we need to try the Korean Restaurant at Victoria Park and we said our good-byes.

A little while later, I got a phonecall from KM asking if i wanted to join her and hubby for dinner at that Korean Restaurant at Victoria Park. Coincidentally, when she got home, DM made a comment that he wanted to try that very same Korean place we talked abt!!! So off we went to try that Korean Restaurant and I had the same stuff again and we so overloaded on the kim chi it was excellent!!! And KM and I stuffed outselves with the Hot Pot.

So now, I'm on the hunt for recipes to cook the pancake and the hot pot. Time to google....

Graduation....

2006-02-17T20:45:00.000+08:00

The fresh grads at work will be having their graduation award ceremony tomorrow. I know that to some people, it's of no big deal but to me, a graduation ceremy always signified an achievement for me. After the ceremony when you see families and friends exchanging congratulations, you share in the pride and achievement.

Tonight on my way home, I've noticed quite a few families walking around the city, touring Perth, my guess is they're all here for the various graduation ceremonies that is taking place in the universitites this week.

All this brings back memories for me when I went thru my graduation ceremonies both in Edinburgh and Sydney and the other graduation ceremonies that I've been to for my brother and dad.

To all the recent graduates out there, Congratulations....

And The DUMBEST Award Goes To........

2006-02-15T22:50:00.000+08:00

OK... so what spastic thing did I do today at work?!?! The Empress Dowager aka Wong Ah Ma sent us all an email saying that we have ALOT of work to be completed by May 2006 and that she will be reviewing files for me and Number 2. Given the recent fiasco at work, I wasnt too keen on this new process. Funnily enough, I finished a file today for her to review. And because she doesnt like to have reviews after reviews I kind of got paranoid and stressed about it. To top it off, my file was returned to me for some amendments and that stressed me out - seriously, I was so on the verge of tears for fear that I would be reprimanded for it. Anyway, I wanted to IM to Number 2 that I'm all stressed and paranoid that Empress Dowager is reviewing our files and instead of IM that message to Number 2, I SENT THAT MESSAGE TO THE EMPRESS DOWAGER HERSELF! How much more spastic can I get? Needless to say Empress Dowager confronted me about it and I admitted that she stresses me out and makes me all paranoid. Number 2 cracked up laughing.... I started giggling.... the only positive side is that now Empress Dowager knows I'm stressed. The negative side is that she's probably given me another strike! Just as well I had a secret appointment today... and fingers crossed, that would bear some fruit and come to fruition.....

senses test

2006-02-14T21:45:00.000+08:00

Came across this website to test your senese... I'll not let you all know what my results were :p

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/senseschallenge/senses.swf

Have Fun :)

A Yummy Lunch, Discussions, Memories and Thoughts

2006-02-11T17:21:00.000+08:00

I had lunch with my ex boss the other day. TG was part of the 3 musketeers at TIFG and was my first boss in Perth and by far the nicest boss in my entire working life! We had a chat, caught up with our families and lives and past colleagues and got on abt my current job. He made a comment that I'm a 'unique' employee and if only my current employers can see that and that will make them understand me better. He further admitted that I was one of his best employees he's ever had. That is true as he's one of my referees :) I am pretty sure that if they didnt get into so much trouble with the authorities I would still be working there for them. Can you imagine when I used to work with TG, he would offer to make me coffee?!?!? A BOSS offering to make me coffee? Good grief, the first time he offered that I nearly did a flip over. Sometimes on Fridays he would allow us to go home at 3pm claiming that we're living on Sydney time. When my aunt used to come and have lunch with me, he would tell me to take an extended lunch break. One time, when my family was visiting me, he told me to go home to spend time with my family - this is such a far cry from my current boss who asked if I REALLY had to go to the airport when I asked if I could come in late for work as I had to pick my parents up from the airport on 2 different days. I wonder if that is the difference between having a male boss and a female boss?

Another great boss who was part of the team was TKL aka Big T to me. TKL sadly succumbed to cancer in December 2004. A very sudden discovery that he had cancer and it was way too late to save him. He knew how to live life to the fullest. He used to drag me out of the office for coffees as he needed to get out of the office for fresh air. When I stopped working for them, TKL would come down to my new work place and have coffee with me at least once a week. I miss you Big T - I actually still have your mobile number on mine, in memory of you. Big T and I confided alot to each other, he told me once that he treated me more as a friend as opposed to an employee as I was easy going and he could tell me stuff and I dont comment and just have an open mind. Big T understood the need to have fun. When my pal WY visited me in Perth once, and we had this massive mail out to do, he told me to go and entertain WY and he would do the mail out. A boss sitting in the conference room folding letters and sticking them into envelopes so that an employee can go and have fun?!?!?! Beat that! One time I had to go to Brissy for a training and Big T called his brother up there and told him to take care of me and to entertain me! How sweet is that? One day we will meet again Big T and I will take up that offer to ride on your Harley.

Both TG and TKL did alot for me during my turbulent first year in Perth. I owe you guys a lot. I don't know why I needed to pen down these thoughts. Perhaps the recent upheaval in my work brings back memories and what ifs. I just pray that I will eventually be able to work for a company and have bosses as cool as these guys, who understands the balance of life and work and most importantly, understands me.

self explanatory quiz

2006-02-11T01:23:00.000+08:00

Your Job Dissatisfaction Level is 80%

Your job is a total bummer, and probably the worst job you've ever had.
Your co-workers stink. Your boss is a jerk. And your company is probably in trouble.
Think about finding a new job quickly, even if it's just a not-so-great transition job.
You've got to get out of there as quickly as you can!

Should You Quit Your Job?

flied lice

2006-02-10T23:21:00.000+08:00

Well... ok... the title actually does sound bad... but that's how some people that I know back in the hometown pronounces the words... they get the 'r' and 'l' mixed up. So really, it's meant to be fried rice ;) that's what my aunt aka 'overseas domestic helper' cooked for dinner for the girls and I tonite. KM and JH came over for dinner, had some bourbon and coke and tried to have a Sex and the City Marathon....but that didnt quite pan out right.

So FL reckons (in his blog) that I may not be a comfortable cup of tea for some people, I wonder why.... just as well I'm not sitting next to him at the moment else he'll get a big 'klong' on his head.

My dog Buffy is officially pregnant. I think she'll be giving birth at the end of this month, the bets are opened as to how many pups she will have this time round :)

I got asked by the beanie today if I knew of any good Christian boy for her to matchmake with her cousin... like hello... I need one for myself?!?!! Maybe we threw too many beans onto her on her wedding day?

My voice is slowing coming back but at times it's very straining :( I guess I'll be spending this weekend on a sleepathon....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............

Back

2006-02-07T21:50:00.000+08:00

Isnt God just great? I've had a pretty hectic last couple of weeks and told myself that I needed some rest, and he actually made me sick enough to have a couple of days medical leave so that I can rest! OK... my boss probably isnt the happiest person out there now but I need this time of rest

The last few days before I left to come back to Perth was very busy. Since my last blog entry, on Thurs, we went to JB and had sudanese food - man the crispy fish was good, and managed to do some shopping with mum.... so she got me a couple of stuff :) Thursday night dinner was a quiet easy affair (dad just did some take away from the coffee shop) but later on that night, met WY for supper... for $6 we managed to have a porridge buffet... how cool is that? Needless to say, I think WY struggled to wake up the next morning

On Friday - it was shopping overload. Met mum for lunch at her work and we went for Japanese. I admit I had one of the best sukiyaki and mum had some japanese rice (it's hard to describe, but we had it when we were in Japan b4). Then off to shopping I went, but no shoes for me :(

For dinner, we were at Savannah where my auntie made popiah (fresh spring rolls) for us. It was absolutely delicious!! Now if only we could find some fresh turnips here that would be great for me to make some. After dinner, the girls and I went to watch a midnight movie - I Not Stupid 2, and on my way to meet them, I actually lost my way... how embarassing is that?!?!!?

Saturday we were having our house dinner party and mum made her very yummy fried kway teow.... went for a massage with WY as well and boy did that masseur really rub it in... I was so sore after that!! We later went back to my place and helped around a little and vegetated around as well. We bought a lotto ticket, but I'm not holding my breath that we would strike first prize. Dinner time came and it was a pretty good turnout. Had abt 6 - 7 of my close friends and they stayed till 2am. BL aka FL kind of pissed my brother and me off by bringing a girl who didnt have much social etiquette. Think my folks weren't too impressed either. If he continues, he would be one of the unmentionables in my family. The dinner spread was pretty good as well and one of my aunt's specially made some curry puffs for me to take back to Oz.

We had a lazy Sunday at home and started packing in the afternoon. When I was clearing customs/immigration upon my arrival, I got 'sniffed out' by one of the dogs and got very scrutinised by the customs people - I think they thought that I had bad stuff on me.... so it turns out that their dogs took longer than normal when they were sniffing me... OK.. didnt they think that it's becoz I have dogs as well?

Struggled to work on Monday and throughout the day I kept wanting to leave work to come home to rest but I persevered. I doubt that the people at work were appreciative that I did that. Now that I'm on a couple of days medical leave, I wonder what are they going to nit pick out of it?

Gong Xi Fa Cai 2006

2006-02-02T00:15:00.000+08:00

Well I've finally made it back home after an absence of 5 years (I think) to welcome in the year of the Dog. It seems strange to be surrounded by family I would say a little over whelming at times especially with the extended family. The weather and my toothache isnt helping matters. In addition, I think my taste buds have now changed as well..... Thought I'll log a food diary as to what I've been eating and what I've been up to, just so I remember

Touch down last Thurs and had breakfast - dad went to the coffee shop aka kopitiam and got fishball mee pok, fried beehoon with otak and putu mayam. Lunch - met ET for a buffet at Taka and did we have a spread!!! There were sashimi salmon, huge oysters, prawns, and lots of other stuff. BL & EC just sat and watched us eat. For dinner, the folks took us to East Coast where I had real satay, mee rebus, another round of mee pok fish ball and tahu goreng. Oh and not forgetting sugar cane juice! :)

Friday - breakfast at the coffee shop with the Reubens.... had a spread there as well - Yong Tau Foo, Chee Cheong Fun, Soon Kueh. Lunch met BL at Tangs and had laksa, tau pok and tau suan.... ( I was warned not to eat too much coz of wat we were going to have for dinner). Well, come dinner we went to a buffet spread at Straits Kitchen at the Hyatt Hotel and had the most amazing spread of food.... go check out twelve baskets blog and see a fraction of what we ate!!! That memory would remain in me for a long time! To top things off, went with EC and BL to have dinosaur.... but i couldnt have much as the tooth was hurting and I was being a grump

Saturday - had Nasi Padang, a discovery by dad. It was pretty good. And dinner, being CNY eve, we had our usual steamboat with special guests the Reubens and then we went to the Savannah and had another dinner with the extended family... it felt strange to be back and somehow, I felt more welcomed there by outsiders who were more sincere in hugging and saying that it was good to see me... there we had buah keluak, hee peow soup just to name a few. I was reminded of the traditions that we had to do and it really made me appreciate my roots. That evening, dad and EC took the Reubens to the airport whist mum and I had to clean the house b4 midnite (and note... I do not miss this cleaning up bit - I think dad goes a little overboard with this every year)

Sunday - being CNY day 1, we were at Savannah and had lunch there - it was pretty much leftovers from the eve dinner. The rellies that came visiting to Savannah were alot and half the time I wasnt too sure who was who. We went to visit an aunt and had her very famous curry puffs.... they are the absolute best!!! We went to visit my grandparents niche and I have to admit, i nearly cried there seeing my granny plaque for the first time since her death over 2 years ago. Dinner we were at my gran's and wat a spread she made... her hee peow soup, chap chye were my favourites!!! On a seperate note, someone called KM abt Toby and asked if there was a reward and KM said she's not sure as Toby isnt hers and that dumb arse hung up on KM!!! Now i'm really upset that I wont see Toby ever again!

Monday - late afternoon tea was a bbq at gran's place - and met up with grand pa's siblings.... he's got 12... and dinner was at my uncles place - kind of boring food not worth mentioning. met up with the girls for supper and we went to have supper with satay, mee hoon goreng, roti john, and pratas. got home and slept at 4am.

Tuesday - had laksa at katong, and then dinner was oyster omlette, fried prawn noodles, carrot cake and then dinner part 2 was bak kut teh. All this eaten with BL and the girls... it's great to be back and glutting with them. That's like one of the aspects I definitely miss while I'm away.

Wednesday - for dinner I FINALLY got my crabs!!! oh man it was soooooo good....

We're off to JB tomorrow and then on Friday my aunt's making popiah - a special request by me! :) and on Saturday the family and friends are here for dinner and so far, we've got quite a good spread so keep a look out as to what we'll be having.

I am not looking forward to going back to work on Monday as I know they're going to treat me bad.

it's been...

2006-01-24T20:22:00.000+08:00

It's been a hellish 2 weeks, work went chaotic last week when satay and number 1 decided to turn on their nasty self and gave me very incredulous amount of files to finish - note I told them way in advance that i was going on hols next week and they waited till the last minute till i was going to dump it all on me? Had my work review last week and that went horrible as well... it's like they've decided that they have no one else to pick on, so pick on me instead - even to the tiniest detail!! I suppose to a certain extent dad would say it builds character... and I may agree to that... but seriously, I dont need them to demoralise me....

It's also been a sad day ... I lost Toby... he's gone MIA as well and I have got no idea where he is... he simply vanished from YW's house today. Plus there's a thunderstorm and its abt to rain so I hope he's in someone's house all nice and snuggly and whoever has him, would call me on the mob and get me to pick him up!

It's also going to be a time for reflection... as I finally take my hols to go back to the homeland, I need to sit and think and ponder as to what I really want to do...What better time and way to do it than to do it with family and friends who know me best....

Welcome to Two-oh-oh-Six

2006-01-15T13:36:00.000+08:00

So 2006 is here... and we're already halfway through the first month... sometimes I am so amazed with how time has flown in the last few years. A couple of people have their birthdays today... Buffy (my dog), KM (a really good friend), and CMD (my boss...bleh). WL is also having his wedding today... I so wanted to be back for his wedding as it would have been a great time of catching up and reminising abt the past with all the gang.. and of course, the sabotaging of the couple would be an extremely entertaining event as well :(

It's 10 days till I fly home, slight risk of chance that my wonderful boss might cancel my leave... and that would absolutely piss me off, so for the moment I'm trying to be an absolute angel at work, so that she doesn't cancel my leave. I also need to start preparing a list of things to do, to buy and to eat.... and plans are already in the making for breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper.....

A couple of cool things happened that brought 2005 to a great end, mum and dad were here for Christmas, got some really nice Chrissy pressies :) and then my brother got accepted to do his studies here so he'll be stuck with me or rather I'm stuck with him for the next couple of years :)

So what does 2006 have install for me? God only knows. But as I continue to seek Him daily I pray that he will reveal his plans for me, for my life, for my career, and how to serve Him best... I pray that he will show himself to me and as God continues to bless my family and I, we will continually give him all the glory and honour which He so richly deserves.

the one who has been missing in action

2005-10-22T23:33:00.000+08:00

Right... I thought I should post something seeing that I've not for like the last 2 months. Things have been up and down, but I thank God that he has seen me through some of them and all the others I leave it to him.

At the moment, I've got lots of visitors in my house - as good as running a Bed and Breakfast. I have my auntie and her family here, and my brother is here as well. It has been good couple of weeks catching up with everyone. But living with so many people is once again testing my patience on tolerance. The upside is I dont have to do housework and cooking - dinner is actually ready for me when I get home from work - which is just a little too bizzare for me.

Work's been pretty good - now that the manager that I seem to have a personality clash with has left. Hey how would you react to her if she tells you that she doesnt give 'free answers' when you ask her a question? What's the point of making her a manager?? How is a person suppose to learn then? And as most companies go, the secretary is a little up herself - and I'm not too sure if I can quite deal with that. Ironically, I have been asked if I would consider going back to my old firm to work as they are in need of people.... hhhmm... if they can give me what I want, who knows, I just might go back to work for them, since they're the ones in need of people :)

Socially, has been a little quiet - but hey you need that sometimes. We went out for JH's birthday dinner last night which was pretty good and ended up in the pub , for once we didnt end up at our usual club. Of course one of the advantages of having my brother here is that I get chauffered around and so he came to pick me & KM up after we were done at the pub, which saved me cab fare, and I could drink all I want :) On a sad note, NC is leaving to go back to his home state. I do wish his and his fiancee all the best. Although I kind of know him, he has been good fun whenever we went out and he's been a pretty good sport. Besides, he said I look younger than how old I really am, so he scored brownie points for that :)

Physically, I admit I havent been to the gym for like 2 months. I keep telling myself that I'll do it next week, but you know how it is when procrastination sets in. But with the folks coming for Christmas, I better get myself into gear, before the nagging sets in again as it does every time I see them.

Finally... as Bugs Bunny says it.... THATS ALL FOLKS!!!!

the one in darkness

2005-08-13T12:17:00.000+08:00

So my one week of bumming around is coming to an end.... unfortunately I didnt get to go back to the Lion City as I managed to change the start date of my new job. But it's all good.

This week things didnt quite turn out how I expected it to. I've had disappointments after disappointments and now I dont even know what is happening. The expected and hopes became let downs. It's all so confusing and upsetting, and I dont know if I have done any wrong.

I dont like it that I'm feeling this way, I know that I shouldnt but I just cant help it. I wish I had a pensieve from Harry Potter, so that I can take out my current thoughts and put them aside and never think or remember them ever again.

the one that gets to bum around

2005-08-09T00:39:00.000+08:00

Well, I handed in my resignation letter this morning and I don't think my boss took it too well. I was kind of nervous as well and was stupidly giggling to which she thought that I wasn't being serious. And for some bizarre reason, I kept on giggling... that's just so dumb. Anyway, I was told to leave if I want to, so me being me, I left at lunch time. So very unexpectedly, I have been thrown into a 1 to 2 week holiday :) Short term plans have been made but one can only keep my fingers crossed for it to come to fruition.

Now I have to find out when do I start at my new job. I think that's the beauty of working in Aust, as compared to the Lion City, if you give a notice, you may or may not be expected to serve out your notice period and the new employers are pretty flexible. If I have to start on the date as stipulated on my offer, then Lion City here I come for a week... a week of pigging out with friends, having dinosaurs, shopping for my shoes, and spending time with the family who I haven't seen in a year. So stay tuned....

the one who is thankful

2005-08-06T01:55:00.000+08:00

I've had a very interesting 2 weeks.... I got fed up with the new work structure within my team and so made a few contacts and phone calls and hey presto, I have been offered a new job this week.

However, I believe that it is only with God's grace that I have been given this new opportunity. Sure I've questioned why did I have such a short stint in my present company (the circumstances leading up to me joining this present company was also very miraculous), but God knows of my current frustrations. It could be that he pulled me out for this short stint to give my body a rest from being overworked in the previous firm and now that I have rested and am feeling refreshed to be 'on the go' again, he has provided me with this new opportunity.

I thank God that he has once again answered my prayers and I continue to pray that with this new company, I will be able to provide me with the challenges and the opportunities that is needed to further my career.

For all my other unanswered prayers, I know that one day they will be answered - it may or may not be the way that I would like it to be, or if I will be able to understand it, but it is He who holds my hand and makes all things beautiful in His time. (Eccl 3:11)

the one who got a postcard

2005-08-02T21:32:00.000+08:00

Here's a postcard I got from the travelling folks in the Arctic Circle. Isnt it cute? They were so kind to visit Santa and told him what a Good Girl I have been and to give him my wish list :)

Santa Postcard

The funny thing is they are having Summer in Sweden/Finland but the temperature there is the same as the temperature which I'm experiencing in Perth.... and we're in Winter... what does that tell ya?

the one playing 007

2005-07-24T16:07:00.000+08:00

I had an interesting weekend so far.... On Friday nite, YW and I decided to drink and I was meeting the rest of the girls at 10 as well. So YW and I started drinking at 6 and by 10 when I was at the Shed to meet the girls, I was pleasantly pissed and by the time we left the Deen and I got home at 2am, I was royally pissed. I got thru 3 bottles of Smirnoff Ice, 3 pints of bourbon & coke, and some other strange illusions shots and I think that was the culprit that topped it off.

Yesterday, YW and I played investigators and we took an early morning drive to do our investigative work. Then a very nice dim sum lunch in the city and back to a nap.

the one with tic-tac-toe

2005-07-17T19:47:00.000+08:00

Here's to the memories of our first pets that we had. 3 cats walked into the old house that we were living in and started playing in the garden. They were christened Tic, Tac, Toe. Tic is the one with the little dot on his nose, and he later got called 'Charlie' short for Charlie Chaplin. Tac got really big and fat - approx 15kg - so got called 'Fat Cat'. Alas, for Toe, he died at a very young age :( However Tic & Tac lived on for a long time and gave our family lots of laughs with their antics and submissiviness to my brother and dad for their over active imagination.

the story of tic-tac-toe

the one who owns Toby

2005-07-17T17:32:00.000+08:00

This is Toby... my other dog. I rescued him from the dog pound a few years ago. As you can see from the photos, that's his job, lying around the whole day, at various places around the house. He has been christened 'Sir Toby' by the clan. This has been put up by request of one of the cuz who said Toby is her favourite...

Toby @ Work

the one who owns Buffy

2005-07-17T13:55:00.000+08:00

That's Buffy my dog. No I am not a fan of the movie show, but somehow the name suited her when it was time to name her. She's a big sook at times usually when she has to take a bath or have her hair brushed. But she really is a sweetie... although I'm sure there are some friends out there who would beg to differ :)

Buffy

the one that is freaky

2005-07-17T13:41:00.000+08:00

You are dependable, popular, and observant.
Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness.
In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do.

You are unique, creative, and expressive.
You don't mind waving your freak flag every once and a while.
And lucky for you, most people find your weird ways charming!

The World's Shortest Personality Test

I like the fact that I'm charming yet freaky :P