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| MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE |
[Dec. 25th, 2009|11:46 pm] |
Had a nice family gathering today. Went to my cousin's house after mass in the morning. There were my parents, (on maternal side) aunts x2, uncle x1, and cousins ("kor" and "cheh" - dialect for "brother" and "sister", cos I'm close to my mother's side of the family and have no siblings of my own, I just call them that) + their dogs and cat. XD Cheh's dogs were totally uninterested in Kor's cat! XD Ate (kor's wife cooked). Exchanged gifts. Tried out tennis on kor's Wii. (Conclusion - I fail both at real life tennis and wii tennis. XD) Played with dogs. Overall, had fun!
Well, Christmas is a time of giving and rejoicing. Wishing everyone who sees this a joyous Christmas! |
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[Nov. 22nd, 2009|10:53 pm] |
1) Finished Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box today. As much as I love Professor Layton, the explanation at the end felt kinda weak. Does it really explain the existence of everyone we meet at Folsense? Idk. D: I still look forward to the 3rd game though! (Can't wait for it, really! I'm a sucker for time travel stories, so if there's any time travelling involved (as the title seems to suggest - but there'll probably be some entirely logical explanation for it that doesn't involve sci-fi or the supernatural?) I'm already pre-disposed towards it. XD
2) The Mentalist 2x08 was good (for most parts). Cruel and chilling. - vague, majorspoiler-free fanning: I was just beginning to like that guy. Go, Minelli! Lovely music, I felt chilled by the scene too. Rage. Jane, so cold. The conversation about RJ and Jane. In the light, then seeing the light or spiraling into unending darkness?
3) Currently hating stock counts - particularly spending my Sat nights at them. And there's a 3rd one on 5/12. Argh!
4) AFA 09. Went on Sat. Of course, I would bring a camera that has dead batteries. x_x Luckily, my friend had a camera (though hers had an almost full memory card). Best surprise was probably seeing a One Piece cosplay group. It had Luffy (complete with meat), Nami, Sanji, plushie!Chopper, SOGEKING (never expected to see one!), Robin and Franky! No Zoro though? - how come? Pretty cool~ Photos when I get from my friend. Also played at the kids corner. XD And bought 5 volumes (the latest ones that I need to catch up on) of OP - cos they were selling at 20% discount~ :D |
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| I finished playing Gyakuten Kenji~~~♥ |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|10:45 pm] |
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And loved it the whole wayy~~~♥ みっちゃん～～♥ KYAAAA~ The last part of the game was loooong and full of 待った！s... what a persistent "final boss"!! ^^; But really, I think it had lived up to expectations built from the other Ace Attorney games~~ ♥ There're still the usual interesting characters and storylines, plot twists and turns that keep you on your seat, moments that touch you, times that have you scratching your head for what evidence to present, and familiar faces/objects from the earlier games! :D ♥ |
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| life update |
[Oct. 25th, 2009|11:33 pm] |
Surviving at work. (Rumour has it that quitting rates are attrociously high.) Busy with hamsters. Experimented with polymer clay today (see pic below). I confess that I have been on Facebook more than LJ lately (cos that's where most of my real life friends and a couple of my online friends are, and the friends I have on LJ no longer seem to be around much anymore). So if you want to add me on Facebook, just reply here and I'll tell you how.
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| Miss Singapore World 2009; on the topic of English |
[Oct. 1st, 2009|09:25 pm] |
Lol. If you're Singaporean, you might have heard of our recently crowned and decrowned Miss Singapore World 2009, Miss Ris Low. The girl got thrashed for her poor English and being involved in credit card fraud. Welll, exactly how bad is her English? See for yourself. Amazed? That appears to be the most popular and most spoofed video to demonstrate her bad English - I thought perhaps she was having an off-day during that interview, and found another interview in which she sounded slightly better. But well, the shallowness seems consistent in both videos. Credit card fraud issue aside, more than her imperfect English#, it's the immaturity in her answers at these interviews that get me wondering how she won Miss Singapore World. Someone spoofed that fashion interview. (lol. It can double as a Tourism Singapore! promo video. XD I actually found some of the photos very nice.)
#Age old argument? idk. The opinions on having someone who can't speak English well represent Singapore seem to go 2 ways - 1) it's a disgrace - get someone who can speak better English. 2) it's the way we are - that's a true representative of a Singaporean. Idk, I actually agree and disagree with both.
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| Trying out a new hobby? |
[Sep. 22nd, 2009|11:01 pm] |
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I bought a few blocks of polymer clay today! Well, I still need an oven and more reading first before I get started. But it'll be fun if I can eventually make some pretty earrings and miniature items and figurines of characters I like. I realised there's a lot more reading for figuring out the jewellery part though (which I'm trying out first), so maybe success won't come so soon...
Halfway through Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box at the moment~ and in between cases on Gyakuten Kenji. Loving both~
Oh, and btw, since I mentioned it in my previous post - I probably wouldn't be blogging about the London trip anymore, since I've talked about it with my RL friends and I think, from the current activity of my friends page (mostly community posts and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sodiumion's twitter XP - absolutely nothing against that btw, don't take it a wrong way), that my online friends are mostly no longer active much on LJ either - well, and my enthusiasm about blogging the trip has disappeared with my depressing mood as I return to work... :( |
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| Back in Singapore! |
[Sep. 21st, 2009|10:09 pm] |
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I did forget to mention leaving XD but it was on the trip to London and York with CX on the airline promo tix that I mentioned before. I think it was generally enjoyable~~ I tried really hard to get things right this time, spent extra time packing, but I still forgot several things (uh, I forgot things like disposable fork (for my instant noodles) and mineral water (to save moooney there, cos things are so expensive in pounds at 1 pound = 2.345 SGD) but I did remember things like my chargers and didn't lose any maps this time! Improvement?). I'll continue to try hard! And there were of course, a few little spats, (well, me having my period during the trip = pre-menstrual crappiness probably was a part of it) but no major ones! so that was good. I'll write more when I tidy up some photos. |
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| Recovering |
[Aug. 19th, 2009|03:04 pm] |
Currently recovering from the op. I wish I can fast-forward this.
Warning for possible TMI.
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| Operation tomorrow! |
[Aug. 12th, 2009|11:27 pm] |
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In about 7 hours time, I'll be at the hospital waiting to be cut open! Joy. Remember that breast lump I might have mentioned on and off? (Never mind if you don't. XD) That's what I'll be getting removed tomorrow - for the second, and hopefully last, time. D: Well... really, I'm dreading the pain and inconvenience that I expect will be bundled with the recovery process. But I guess one of the things to look forward to tomorrow is being wheeled into the operating theatre - I find it like an amusement park ride. :D And of course, being alive after the operation. Always should be thankful to be alive. We too often overlook the fragility of life, tend to take it for granted that there'll be x years ahead of us. I'm often guilty of it myself - maybe not so much "x years", but that there'll still be time in general. How often do we ask ourselves, if we were to die the next moment, will we be happy with what we have done, where we currently are, what we haven't yet done in life? Me... I like being alive and there are things, dreams, that I want to do but haven't gotten to, but I think I would say I'm pretty happy with where I am.
I better go sleep now - I'm on my before-operation-fasting (no food or drink! D: ) and I'm wondering if I'll get too thirsty to sleep if I stay up too late... >>; Is there such a thing as being too thirsty to sleep? I don't know, and I'm not planning to wait around to find out. ^^; |
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| These days... |
[Aug. 2nd, 2009|12:18 pm] |
These days, I'm swimming in question marks. There're all these tasks at work that I've either never done before, have done but forgotten, have done but didn't question deeply enough to properly understand them before... (though they are also giving me a new drive in my work, wanting to learn more and do better.) I'm currently working under the same manager for a few engagements. I find him approachable and nice. But maybe because it's so, I feel I sometimes ask him stupid questions - must try to think more before asking. Interestingly, I worked with another senior who said she and some friends disliked that same manager. Said he was the type who made the team-in-charge play the bad guy with the client while he plays the good guy, and shoves a lot of work to the team-in-charge. Hmm, might be that I haven't had enough experience working as a team-in-charge under him yet - or it might be because I'm a new senior that his expectations are lower and he's helping more. In any case, I hope it doesn't turn bad.
Met up with 2 of my JC clique over dinner last Thurs, FN and M. It's been absolute ages since I last saw M, since we went to different universities. FN - I think the last time I properly talked with her was when we started work. Feels like such a long time ago. Anyway, it was really good seeing them again, catching up on recent news, worklife and boyfriends, reminiscing (ah, getting old) on the good old days when we would go to East Coast Park after school. I was worried about things being awkward, us not having met for so long, worried about recognising them even (>> haha, I'm bad with faces yea). But yea, almost no awkwardness at all (imo), I really enjoyed it.
My mum's toilet went under compulsory renovation (compulsory because the Housing Development Board (HDB, a government body?) made checks and found it leaking? - I'm not too sure of the story, my parents don't tell me much sometimes, and I don't ask) and my dear mum, OCD kicking in, "chased" me out to stay at my cousin's house (which was walking distance from my house, but I wasn't allowed to go home even to get stuff) for a few days. I brought my hamsters (of course, they're tooo cuute~) - and feared for their lives with my cousin's dogs around. Her dogs are toooooo interested in them. >< Well, we put them in the kitchen and kept the door closed when we're not around. So that was alright. I had a fun time with her dogs too~ All in all, it was fun. Except that her house is so not condusive for doing work - too many distractions XD esp with her dogs and the TV (she has Starhub cable TV (read: I indulged in Taiwanese variety shows and HK dramas XD) and a massive collection of DVDs/VCDs).
Borrowed the Shinjuku Incident VCD from my cousin and watched it with my dad (who likes Jackie Chan shows - but really, this one isn't like the typical Jackie Chan movie - it wasn't a display of Jackie Chan's fighting skills and stunts in an entertaining storyline that gave him opportunities to fight; rather, it's a serious movie in which a guy called Jackie Chan happens to be playing the lead). (Bought a cable to connect my lappie to the TV, cos my dad doesn't want to watch on my laptop - he finds the screen too small.) It's a story about Chinese immigrants in Japan, focusing on a guy Tietou (Steelhead) who came to Tokyo looking for his girlfriend (who had earlier moved to Japan), how he worked and lived as an illegal immigrant, his friends in the foreigner-Asian community, relationship, and his eventual involvement in the Japanese triad.
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[Jul. 12th, 2009|11:43 am] |
Back from Japan~ (since two weeks ago ^^; ) Am happy with the trip and (though there were some unhappy moments - it seems to be included in the package of travelling with me >>) had a good time on the whole. This time's was
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Jul is also a new financial year for my company. 1 month bonus and promotion to "senior". That means I'll be involved in planning and leading teams and directly liaising with the engagement manager for the average, smaller engagement. I may still play a team member role for the bigger engagements. From 1st July, I got my first "TIC" (team-in-charge) engagement. I'm lucky that the manager for that engagement is approachable and I had been there as a team member before, but there are still a lot of new things that I'm slowly working my way through, and I'm busier than expected. Haha. Well, wish me luck.
Nowadays, been playing Gyakuten Kenji (which I somehow started playing during that 3 hour++ train ride back to Tokyo on Alpine Route day) (Edgeworth ♥~) and trying DW (borrowed from Shiy) on PS2 - I think I do suck at fighting games, I keep dying. >> But current status - yeeea, finally cleared Zhao Yun's story! XD Still on pangya (season 4~). Watching the GS takarazuka musical - enjoyable (I like the Phoenix and Edgeworth, and am generally impressed by the way the ladies play male roles - takarazuka virgin here XD) but I don't like Leona Clyde (Phoenix's girlfriend character, and a completely unnecessary addition!) |
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| Travelling |
[Jun. 3rd, 2009|12:54 am] |
Actually, I was back from China last weekend. >_> Plunged into work and catchup of leisure activities. Overall, it was a very pleasant trip. We had a knowledgeable and friendly tour guide (eek! that reminds me, I still haven't emailed her the photo we took with her yet! ><), and there were a couple of interesting people in our group who provided entertainment. XD The hotel was great~ It's been a while since I last stayed in such a nice hotel with those comfy comforters as bed covers and big fluffy pillows and a bed you practically sink into~! And a decent buffet breakfast~~~... I don't usually squander on luxurious accomodations when I go free and easy (more like, anywhere with a clean bed and bathroom would do) and all. I want to have one of those type of beds at home too in the future! Though it's too hot in Singapore, and I don't like sleeping with an air-con on much... (When I was in primary school, I think, the first time I stayed overnight at a friend's place was a pretty horrible experience. Besides crying for my papa (cough), I couldn't sleep because of the aircon. v_v) But where there's a will, there'll be a way! Anyway, my dad and I bought more stuff than I had expected. And I'm sad I can't bargain well. >>; But I think we had a good time on the whole. And I'm happy. ^__^ I hope my dad thinks so too. He was saying that as Chinese, we had finally came to the land of our ancestors. So at least, hopefully, it was a memorable experience for him.
Japan is in the plans next - towards late/end June with angixcia. Air tickets bought a while back, it seems now. Credit card points redemption promo something that seems relatively expensive now. Oh well. Still looking for accomodation though. Also monitoring the H1N1 situation. Buuut unless the situation downspirals in Tokyo, we should be going. So here's shouting out to my flist:
REQUESTS?
Especially you, sodiumion - I would love to return the favour you did me last time ♥ Did I even pay you yet? ._. Btw, how did you ship stuff back when you went? Post office? Don't think I'll buy that much, but just in case I go crazy? out of curiosity...
Doujinshi shopping-wise, limiting it to half a day, since Ann isn't into doujinshi. She'll be chasing down some Japan-only label at Ginza while I hunt for some Peony Jade at Ikebu? That's the plan anyway. XD
On other news, I decided to make an art journal~ > ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) doodle_ling I had enough of putting my art up here and there - here, at my fiction journal, at my website, at my rather dead deviantart account, elsewhere - that I don't quite know myself where exactly I have them at sometimes? Plus more than half my doodles don't see the rest of the world. So.... this journal will probably contain both fan and original art, incomplete and complete works - or maybe complete but looks incomplete anyway, and bouts of irresponsible spamming when I'm in the mood? >_> Something like that... |
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| Going to China! |
[May. 14th, 2009|08:10 pm] |
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Off to Beijing with my dad for a week! Guided tour cos my dad doesn't like free and easy. But I'm happy cos it's with my dad.
My mum's screaming at my dad over something about how he cooked dinner. Fully reminds me why I'm glad my dad is taking a break from my mum for this week as well. Appreciate that he even cooked dinner for you, man! (My mum won't be coming along. She gets tired too quickly to walk much - well... if you stay in the house, watching tv, most of your days, I'm guessing it's likely a natural result...)
Glad that Kris and Adam are going into the final 2~ (According to some blog of the results at least. Pity but I can't watch the results show aired tonight. I've been watching AI cos it's one of those shows that air late enough (10pm) even when I come back late from work. Haha.) I really was hoping that Gokey would be eliminated. :D The final 2's next week? Pity I'll miss it.
Anyway, dinner gobbled! Off I go to bring my hammies to Shiy's - Shiy is my hammie-sitter for the week I'm away! ♥ |
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| My hammies are sooo CUTE. And Tsuruga Ren is cool (a lil cute too - but not as cute as my hammies) |
[May. 10th, 2009|01:13 pm] |
I AM IN ♥ WITH MY HAMMIES. They are sooo cute. I like watching them eat, watching them run around, holding them in my hand and feeding them and feeling their softness, sooo cuuute! >♥♥<
( WARNING, HAMSTER FANGIRLING >> )
angixcia had been telling me to watch the Skip Beat anime, even providing me with YouTube links (that effort was probably what guilt me (belatedly, since its run on TV has already ended) into giving it a shot). And I finally did last night (even though I lost the links and just went Google-ing ^^; ). I began a little cautious, wondering what it'll be like, since I'm not much of a romance anime person. But it turned out FUN. I LOVED it. I love Kyoko and her inner angels and demons from the start! XD Love her spunk, she's a great character.
SPOILERS AHEAD WARNING
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I fell down when walking on Monday. Just walking along the pavement, roadside, maybe my feet were tired (I had been standing and photocopying stuff practically the whole day). I was hugging a stack of papers, so my elbow took the blunt of the blow (somehow, my knees were just barely grazed). T_T I was so stunned (the fall was too unexpected!) that I lay there a bit, plastered to the floor, registering that I fell, maybe a little too long >> cos there were these 3 nice ladies who stopped to ask if I was ok and helped me up. It wasn't hurting too much at first, but when I went to wash my wound, once the water touched it, it damn hurt!!! And then I saw the blood. And I cried. A taxi uncle was very nice btw, cos I was wondering whether to wash my wound at the toilet in the nearby petrol kiosk or wait till I reached home, and asked the uncle if he could wait for me. I thought I took quite a while (with the crying and stuff too >>) and that he'd be gone when I came out, but he actually waited. Him and the 3 ladies makes me feel, there's still kindness in this world!! T___T (It's healing anyway, the wound. Had trouble bending my elbow (hurt too much) and lifting things with my right arm the first two days, but my arm can function normally now.)
I never did continue about playing the end for The World Ends With You eh?
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Snagged from coil
I tried a few times, getting around 70+ or 80+, this was the best one. XD Actually, I think this was my second try and my results subsequently got lower so I stopped. The site is lying when they said you're supposed to improve gradually? Maybe my fingers got tired. I'm a sprinter, not a marathoner? - typing-wise.
85 wordsTyping Test Btw, eh. I do read my f-list, but sometimes don't know how to respond to stuff... *is becoming more and more an awkward person* Sorry if it seems I'm not there. |
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[Apr. 28th, 2009|01:57 am] |
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Went with my cousin to the pet shops at Serangoon Gardens today to get more hammie stuff. Got another exercise wheel - a bigger one, which reclines XD and it seems to be used more as a bed and toilet than exercise wheel >> oh the noise when they do actually use it to run... um, you know shaking a can of beans? except this is um, spinning a wheel of poo bits? - and a gnawing stone (hmm), an exercise ball (haven't introduced (or cleaned) it yet) and two wooden hollow cube with holes - but there's not much space without a rearrangement so I haven't put that in either. Well, so far so good tonight. But they seem to be sleeping quite a bit? I still can't tell the two apart. My mum has decided to call them Ron and Ryan. But I don't want to call them Ron and Ryan. (I bet she can't tell them apart either anyway!) Anyway, no squeaking = good? Maybe they're too occupied with the new toys for petty squabbles. The only time I thought I heard squeaking, I rushed there to see one in the exercise wheel and the other in the sand bath house. Probably imagining it. (At least, I hope it's my paranoia than any more fighting.) Oh, I'm happy that they seem to like the food. I was a little worried that they wouldn't take to the type I got for them at first (since it must seem like a sudden change of diet). But this evening when I put food in their dish, they sat in their food dish eating (and making such a cute picture~ I will upload that one tomorrow!) and were so engrossed, they didn't even turn when I went ruffling through the bedding for leftover food from yesterday (to throw away). ^__^ Watching them makes me so happy~ |
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| New hammies! |
[Apr. 27th, 2009|01:40 am] |
So I got my hamsters today (or technically, yesterday). ^_____^ Photos taken, upload later. They're brothers. And I totally can't tell them apart by look. OTL Their markings look exactly the same, I've been staring at them for a rather long time tonight. Well, I can only say that one seems to sleep more than the other. Temporary names: Sleepyhead and Runabout. This is what I notice of their behaviour to tell them apart: Sleepyhead's always sleeping, even at night, when Runabout is already scampering around. (I hope Sleepyhead isn't sick. D: ) Strangely, they like sleeping in the wheel/under the wheel/behind the wheel/ once, in the sand bath house, but not on the bedding or in the house. Runabout has problems with the exercise wheel. Or, he keeps getting thrown out of it - as in, when he runs and the wheel turns, he can't keep up with the spinning and gets spun out. Sleepyhead can run relatively steadily on the wheel. And sometimes I dunno if they're fighting or something. D: But there's squeaking, at first it was just rolling around in the sand bath house. Then I noticed that Runabout is chasing Sleepyhead and trying to nibble its mouth or something. D:? There's no blood. But it's happened a few times already, and Shiy mentioned just now that chasing is a sign of fighting as opposed to just playing? And it seems that Sleepyhead's always darting and is the one squeaking, and Runabout's chasing it. Anyway, I decided to keep them apart for tonight. I didn't have another cage prepared, so since Runabout's the aggressor, he gets the small carrier box they were brought home in. D: I'm sorry, it is terribly small, and I know you'd rather have space to run. But I don't want to risk seeing bloody (or worse) hamsters tomorrow morning. Please bear with it for one night, Runabout. I'm planning to get another wheel and bathhouse (the last time I caught them in the squeaking-fight was Runabout trying to get Sleepyhead off the wheel that only allows one of them to run at one time) tomorrow and try again. And well, if they still fight after that, I can put the second wheel and bathhouse into the separate cage that I'll need to have anyway. :(
ETA: I let Runabout back into their bin (because he was just chewing at the ventilation hole and it feels horrible to think that he'll spend the entire night doing that) and removed the exercise wheel (and so without the wheel, I can no longer tell them apart. - the one I thought was chasing the other later got chased. Idk man. I just hope they get along better now. No squeaking so far at least? Fingers crossed!)
Edit again: Just checked on them. They're now sleeping peacefully, cuddled together in the house. GOOD. |
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| sick |
[Apr. 20th, 2009|10:14 pm] |
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I'm sick with a fever, headache and cough and the office was too cold and I'm kinda aching somehow. I've been miserable the entire day trying to force myself to function while my head is heavy and all I really want to do is go home, curl up in bed and sleep. T_T (Suddenly got a sore throat that became a fever this morning? Real sudden. I was still perfectly fine when I went to bed last night.) Can't simply go home because the firm's partner in charge of the engagement is coming down for review of our work tomorrow, and we haven't finished our work yet. I guess it's pretty sad when your client seems more concerned about you being sick than your teammates - or perhaps it speaks of how sick our job is - it's all too common to simply trudge on even while you're running a fever. (This isn't the first time I've done it, but it's not making me any less miserable doing it.) Or maybe my senior didn't want to ask how I was doing because if I said I wanted to go home, it'd be awkward for her to say no. And she did need all the helping hands she could get to complete the work. Or maybe I've been too idealistic about work and these sort of things is why it's hard for colleagues to be true friends. |
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| TWEWY |
[Apr. 11th, 2009|03:40 am] |
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WHOAWHOAWHOA! Wow. I've finally gotten to the end of TWEWY (though there's still the secret reports). I'm so glad I never encountered any spoilers about the end. O_O WHOA. (I can't help shouting even though it's the middle of the night... *cough* I was already shouting in a wth!? manner at the final boss -_- luckily I've my bedroom door shut and my parents don't seem to have woken up >> ) I'm still... a little confused about the very very end. Wonder if I can see it again just playing from the chapter... will try tomorrow. More thoughts tomorrow. *goes try out unlocking some secret reports* I seem to have got the pig noises for most chapters down. XD *Pig noise fanatic* |
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| medical checkup and nice dinner |
[Apr. 10th, 2009|09:37 pm] |
(I realise that my last post was made in the wrong LJ. *cough* It's a ramble about playing The World Ends With You anyway.)
I went for my pre-operation medical checkup on Wed. The nurse took my blood pressure, then my height and weight - oh, during which, such an exchange took place:
Nurse: *reads numbers off scale* 153.5, 50
Me: *steps off machine* *pauses* Can we take my height again? I was previously 154.
Nurse: *takes measurement again* 154, 50
Don't laugh! If you were as short yet as heavy as me, you'd quibble about that 0.5cm too!! >_> Maybe? ...I still want to get to 40+ kg anyway. Though I probably have to start exercising first - for health reasons as well. D: (Even though I'm always saying that I want to lose weight, I am too lazy and like good food too much to do anything special about it. ><; )
After the height and weight taking, we went through routine questions about any drug allergies and updating whether I've any recent ailments. According to the doc/nurse, I'm relatively young, so I didn't need to take a blood test (PHEW). She then went on to inform me of the risks of my operation. I'll be undergoing general anaestasia and they'll be sticking a tube down my nose/throat to help me breathe during the operation. The tube may damage my throat and vocal cords temporarily but I'd recover in two to three months. And also, there exists the risks of permanent voice loss, nerve or brain damage, and fatal drug reactions leading to death - but such cases are (she emphasises) extremely rare. T_T I don't even remember thinking of such risks (or knowing the existence of that possibly voice-damaging tube) my last op. I'm not really worrying about it, there's no point doing so - if I'm really that unlucky, it can't be helped - but it adds on a little bit to that feeling of "this is why I really don't like operations". (I probably didn't feel this way towards my operation last time because of the feeling of novelty (it was more exciting because it was a new experience). Plus, this time I have the memory of the discomforts of recovery from my last experience.)
Anyway, I met up with angixcia and chrysan last night. We were originally going to Timbre for pizza and drinks, but Ann had to work late and we didn't make it in time for the last order for Timbre (10.30pm). So we ended up at a Japanese restaurant called Sun Dining (or something like that) at Chijmes which took orders till 11. Pretty, classy interior, there were some calligraphy-brush-strokes thingy on the walls, which I liked, and the service was good - when we entered, the place looked empty (well, it was past 10.30pm) and it felt like the staff - waiters and chefs, all turned their eyes upon us as we stepped in, but then, a waitress stepped up to welcome us with a smile and a cheerful, polite "a gentle reminder that our last order is 11pm" making us (me at least) feel much more comfortable - especially when compared to the poor service at Hog's Breath (whose waiters told us that we could still make it for the last order, then when we were sat and ready to order, said that the kitchen was close and we could only order appetisers and didn't even appear apologetic about it when we left). The prices were surprisingly alright - there were dishes that went to as high as over a hundred, but there were under $20s as well. Cool. I ordered a bowl of Hokkaido butter corn ramen, while Ann and Chrysan had steak with foie gras. And Chrysan and I shared tofu cheesecake. All tasted very good~♥ It's a place that I certainly wouldn't mind visiting again. ^^ |
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| Engulfed in work |
[Apr. 1st, 2009|10:04 pm] |
I'm tired, really. I've been working and working, and haven't gone out for leisure activity with friends for the past 2 weeks - I'm too antisocial and had no one asking me to hang out on fridays or weekends, and work taking out my weekdays leaves me somewhat relieved to get some precious rest on weekends that I didn't try too hard taking the initiative to ask anyone to meet me. (What a contradictory person I am being. D: Would be happy to go out, happy to not go out, yet still am unhappy with whichever. orz)
I really need to lose my almost compulsive desire for perfectionism btw. OTL It's killing me at work. Seriously. Rather, I'm throwing away the time I should spend sleeping on pointless little things that I know probably no one else would notice. Especially when I'm such a general scatterbrain and make such noticeable mistakes out of carelessness or forgetfulness. >< And people tend to recall the bad more easily than the good.
Anyway MY FATHER GOT HIS NEW CAR. Can't remember how much I said about it before (my memory's atrocious D: even more so these days with my lack of sleep) but it's a Chevrolet Aveo in a beautiful shade of blue. (Pictures next time?)
Talking about cars, I found out some interesting things about car brands while listening to in-car-conversation involving my aunts and my parents last last Sun. According to my aunt, the Honda Concerto never saw good sales locally because the name "Concerto" sounds somewhat like "kong sih toh" which means "Company folds/collapses" in dialect. XD And she went on to give more examples - "Suzuki" sounding like "su su kih" which means "lose all away", or "Toyota", which when broken up - "toh" sounds like "collapse", "yo" sounds like "shake" (in the sense of shaky/unsteady), "ta" sounds like "dry" (leaving one high and dry) - but my aunt added that Toyota still sells well because it is known to be a good brand. I don't know how common these interpretations are, but I found them interesting. lol.
Edit: The ATM card that got swallowed by the AXS machine - I had to call AXS myself cos they never called me back. Then I was reassured that the card was safe - safely on its way to or perhaps already at a bank, for it was sent there, and I would need to go to a bank to get a new card. Ooook. Bank closes crazily early on weekdays. Fortunately, there's now a branch a station away from my house that stays open on weekends. So I got a sparkling new RED colour ATM card~ I actually am happy with the new look. (*cough* even if they might have changed it a long time ago... my old card was that old. The plastic was peeling off at the edges.) So, all's well that ends well with that little episode. |
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