Monday, May 29, 2006

M.C

Back from a looong MC. And for the first time ever I actually don't feel like working. Not because of work environment or the people (which is usually the case). But just don't feel like having to get up and get ready for work. Dah jadi pemalas. Maybe if my work place is nearer to home I wouldn't be feeling this way.

I seriously need to subscribe and get connected from home lah. Boleh jadi gila being cut-off from the cyber world. Geek. I know. But all the broadband plans offered are not attractive enough. Bleargh.

Anyway, so much for resting for a week at home and on my last day of MC last friday I had to have a bad fall. Such cruel timing. Not a clutz at fault ok. I got up to make my way to the toilet to deposit the vomit that is making its way out but it refused to stay down. So my body jerked and it came out like an outburst while I was taking a step forward and whoooosssh-gedebaaaaap. I slipped on it and fall flat on my back. With a loud thump. From shock and pain, I weeped like a baby. I can't imagine if I went to the clinic and the doc giving me another week of MC. My management will probably scream in my ears. Sigh.

The best part is, having a replacement while I'm away don't really matter cause it's not like they help me lighten my workload. In fact, more than ever will be on my plate. Waste of the company's money.

Can't wait for my contract to end. Oh btw, X-MEN 3 is sooooo disappointing and senseless.

Posted at 9:44 AM

Monday, May 22, 2006

YouTube Me In

No thanks to the web for making me addicted to it like a vampire that need some blood sucking to stay alive. But thanks to it for making me catch up on shows I missed on TV. Yay. Don't go around reporting on me. Multitask is my middle name.

On days like today when walking about is not a good idea since the unpleasant morning, resorting to screwing my ass on this chair would be my best remedy. So since I do not have the means to get connected over the weekend, I am forgiven for getting my hands dirty over the internet at work. Plus, make full use of networking. Submit work and instructions via email. Beats from being physically where I'm needed.

Anyway, it's not about getting just entertained. Educational is part of it. Like getting more visual on prenatal exercises than just reading it off magazines or online forums.

Oops, speak of the not-so-evil devil. A crisis where I can't afford to be available virtually... brb.

Posted at 11:43 AM

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Nap-ster

8 hours of sleep the past few nights don't make any difference to the situation of my lazy eyes in the afternoon. I get sleepy and sleepier every afternoon. Yaaaaawn.

Well the good news is I'll be back at Tampines this weekend. Yapppeeddeeedoooo. But not so yappeeddeedooo about the journey that I'll be facing from the Sunny East to the Dark side of West when Sunday comes. Eeeeeek.

Anyway, I'm thinking of getting those huge shades to be less suspicious in-case I doze off right here on my desk. I mean you wouldn't wanna get caught stealing bones. So what better way than to hide behind a pair of dark bigger-than-the-face lens to keep myself off the radar. Kinda like this minus the sorry hair.

Posted at 4:48 PM

Monday, May 15, 2006

M is for the Million things She gives me

And so it was Mother's Day yesterday. I think. Not that I'm ignorant or could care less. But we never grew up celebrating it. To us, every day is Mother's Day. Shouldn't that be the way for us Muslims? You don't need an occasion or reason to buy her gifts or bring her out to expensive meals. It would be sad if one only gives such thing to a mother only that time of the year. But even expensive meals or flowers everyday could never make up for the sacrifices and love a mother has.

We never really had celebrations while growing up. It wasn't in our family culture. In fact, I never had a birthday bash or chalet ever. Not even in my teens or when I started working. I don't even know why I never bothered considering that I have the money to throw a party of my own. Not that I never had in mind. I wanted to when I turned 19 but I didn't exactly do what needed to be done in order to have a bash at a chalet. The last time I had a real 'party' was my first birthday and my aunt insisted on that. And I have an infamous picture of me crying with my four front teeth showing right before my b'day cake as proof.

Our way of celebrating occasions would be a favorite meal cooked by mum for the b'day baby and there will be 'pulut merah and putih' (agaknye ah nama dia gitu). I will be the one reminding my mum whose day is coming up and I'll go out and buy a cake (with no candles). But of course when it is my turn to get old I don't go grovelling or reminding people about it. Tak malu kan! In fact sometimes it was forgotten until the day is almost over and mum will feel so guilty about it. But it doesn't bother me. Cause I don't blame them, we're all busy with our own lives. Plus she never had to wait for an occasion to do something special for us. It doesn't mean that when I buy them gifts and cakes I expect something in return. I like buying gifts. Macam hobby gitu. It's nice to make someone's day. And during school days, I don't get sabo-ed by friends because my b'day is during the end-year school holidays. Phew! But I jumped at every opportunity to sabo a friend. Kekeke.

Furthermore, my mother knows how to have a good time. How did she spend it over the long weekend? A trip to KL with my bro and shop shop shop. Aku jealous! What would we do or be without our precious mother? Sigh..

Posted at 9:34 AM

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Get Your Nose in The Air

Don't you just love the smell of long weekends? And to have it on a double in 2 weeks span is heavenly. Lesser working days without comprimising the end-of-month ke-ching-ching. Yippee.

But the catch is, no more long weekends till Christmas. Not so yippee now are we. In fact, no public holidays till August. Argh!! Plans for short trips have just remained as plans. Boo friggin' hoo.

Agenda ;
- Friday > Shopping spree with Dad in JB. Just the 2 of us. Weeeeee.
- Saturday > mope around the house all alone while hub is in KL. NOT weeee-ing.
- Sunday > let the asset (Read: butt) go against depreciation by catching up on sleep.

Hopefully other people have greater plans and have a smashing weekend may it be with family or friends. Or even if it is a well-spend quality time for one-self. I mean what better way to get it together by being on your own and actually enjoy it while it last. Not impossible. But the saddest part is, when I want to make a call to just talk to a friend when I need or want to, I always end up scrolling right to the end of my contact list which consist of 243 names. Beats me.

Posted at 4:10 PM

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Long Johny

Finally I get to grab the breakfast. Been so long lah since I have it. The last time I had it was when I worked at Paya Lebar. Damn that's quite long! The fact that there are 2 outlets nearby here, 1 in Marina and 1 @ Millenia don't actually make much of a difference. I grabbed the b'fast @ Capitol's outlet. How's that. Well the ones nearby is nowhere 'on the way' to my office. And ever since moving to the west, I have rather been religiously late to work every day. Sheeesh.

But I bought the wrong set ah. The menu have more things than I can remember. And the potato salad that comes with it can't get down my throat. 2 words - > Not yummy. But the sandwich is still as good but would it kill them to cut down on the oil. Geez. Oh and are you deaf? I said No cheese! Ok ok I know it's early in the morning and you have to mend the counter alone, so I forgive you.

Hmmm....I'm still dreaming of the popiah at Tampines. OINK!

Posted at 9:40 AM

Friday, May 05, 2006

Double Bummer

By now I probably have a little bit of clarity with whom to vote. I'm not at all excited about having this right to vote. I don't know why. Blame it on my lack of enthusiasm to understand but yet much much hearsay about related issues. But what I do know is that things, transportation and houses are getting more and more expensive but yet the wage standard has been the same since the worst economy downturn back in 2001. So like many other, I'm not exactly what you would call an ecstatic citizen.

Oh crap. On a lesser than a political note, I am very very very upset. Life is so unfair! Being here is such a torture! Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Why? Because I just saw a couple of Take That's reunion tour (May 2006) in UK and it sure as hell bring a lot of fuzzy-feeling-high-school-girl memories. I don't mind reliving those moments minus the shrieking and throwing undergarments part of course.

And darn I didn't keep up with Marky's new albums/songs. Much to my surprise, it is much better than his first solo attempt. But what is up with the girly like outfits and antics. Blimey!

Oh well, time to knock off soon and slip into weekend mode. Let's hope I feel much much better to be well enough to walk the grounds of the glorifying malls like any other Singaporeans whom are so so famous to be best at and can't seem to do without.

Ciao bella!

Posted at 5:19 PM

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Rolling Polling Day

So it is 2 more days till the first time I make use of my voting rights. The hub who is in his late twenties have yet to get a chance to utilise this rights. I don't mind swapping. But now that I have it, I seriously have no idea of which party deserve the cross in the box. Despite the obvious of course. Thanks to my lack of enthusiasm and STILL state of denial from changing my IC address from being a Tampines-ian to a Bukit Panjang-an, I have to make a trip back to the east on Saturday just for this ~~stupid~~ polling.

I for one am not a person who reads the politic section in the papers. Nor any article that has to do with it unless it is a spread on corporate scandals which is it at least enticing to read. Does this mean I have to start doing so in order to keep up with whose pants are on fire and whose licking and buttering whose boots? Should I care about the facts and consequences to those civil servants who bite the hands that feed them? I mean don't you think there is a reason why you are called Civil SERVANTS? Then again, thank goodness I am just but a sleeping citizen. But hey I wouldn't want to make a regretful vote either.

Will there be conspiracies if I don't put the cross on the you-know-what box? Will that mean my phones will be bugged? My house implanted with surveillance equipments? Black limousines following me around with men in black suit? Very Enemy of the State lor if you ask me. I don't mind the Will Smith though. Nyeh nyeh nyeh. Like as if a life of a regular [insert my age] yr-old would be an interest to the men in white.

So what will it be. Que Sara Sara. Inni minni mainee mo? Ok ok maybe I should go read something to know what I'm getting myself into. Ciao Romano.

Posted at 9:25 AM

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Card-less

Guess what we did over the loong weekend?? N-o-t-h-i-n-g!! I was too sick to go anywhere. I dread bus / mrt /taxi rides these days.

While the kiasu Singaporeans get to indulge in the progress package, there was no taxi in sight on Friday and Saturday. Darn it was a long wait for an available cab to come by. So anyway, while others get to enjoy the ke-ching-ching over the weekend, I was stuck at home puking my guts out and only to realise that I must have dropped my money zip-pouch in the cab maybe on that Saturday morning. I can't even remember cause I was half-out with my face in a plastic bag. Or I could have threw it out along with the puke-filled plastic bag into the bin at our void deck. So poor hub had to go down on Sunday evening (cause that was when I realised it was missing) and ransack the stinky bin. And noooo it wasn't in sight.

Initially I was upset cause I thought I had my IC in that pouch. But luckily I had it in my wallet. I have never lost my wallet or money pouch in my life and this makes it the official first time. Hurriedly called DBS and Citibank to check if there was any transactions made the last 24 hours. Phew! None.

But here I am on a new work week being ATM-less, VISA-less, Coins-less, Ez-link-less (I probably have my Ikea membership card and some other cards in that pouch too. Dang!!) I hate losing stuff. Hate it. Loathe it. It doesn't happen to me much and when it does boy it suck and my bodily reaction to that is just so F-U-G-L-Y.

Thank GOD for nafkah.