$150 Robinson vouchers

31Aug

Alot of students MIA today.. some went printing and some dunno go where..

Anyway tomolo is their deadline and some are still struggling.. My 3 groups seems fine.. They only have to finish up their reports.

Rain the whole day again. Went out for lunch in a hawker center in amk. Had mushroom kuay teow soup.. funny soup base but was delicious. Wanted to join the rest in eating char siew rice but i have to avoid red meat cos my gout has not really recovered.

Buddy has been busy whole day with thoes judges and helping out in printing some posters.

Was surprise that my help was not really needed on the last day.. does that means that most of them have finished? Hmm.. we just have to wait and see tomolo

Hubby loves it when i go shopping at Centerpoint Cos he gets to eat at the S11 beside it. It has one of the best Wonton Noodles. So as usual we went to grab it before shopping. He ordered 2 super value set that comes with wonton noodles, a plate of veg and 2 shrimp wonton in soup.I made him ordered another wonton soup cos i really like their wonton. It was just fantastic..

After fabulous makan, we went to Centerpoint's Marks and Spencer in search of another pair of jeans. Had $150 vouchers given by the slimming center when i signed a very expensive package. Tried lotsa jeans and found one that fitted well. I thought it was only $89 but found out later at the cashier's counter that is actually $130!!!! Hiazz.. I also found a nice sleaveless Tee in grey and gold studs on the shoulders and a maroon raschel. Came out to be $180++. Used my robinsons card to pay for the remainders.

Later I went to Robinsons and bought a BIG mel bag for mummy. Love some of the colors but Mum has always been a careless person thus found the safest color.. BLACK. No amount of dirt will show then.. haha.. Mom complain that the bag is too ex thou.. Hiaz.. 好人难做.

Bought my favourite black forest ice blend at the coffee bean downstairs and headed home. So to summerize, great buys! Wonderful wontons and nice cherries!

Its about 12 mn ... updating my blog now...

Rainy

30th Aug

It has been raining...whole day..

Went to slimming after work, Hubby pick me up from school and brought me there. Really appreciate that he fetched me from work and then later when to shop around causeway point while waiting for me. It was rainning heavily after i am done and I asked him to come with an umbrella to fetch me from the civic plaza to causeway point .

We had Dinner at pasta mania and i wonder if their standards have dropped. The spicy chicken pasta really tasted horrible.

We went home after dinner (To stop myself from shopping).
Did the emerald earrings metal parts first.. and it looked like this.

And later i joined the chains to the metal and the finished one looks like this.. Simply love emerald colour.

Watched Project runway final episode while Daniel, Chole and Santio went to fashion week. Chole's design is really good and i really love her evening dresses. Good cuts to complement the body. Was happy that she wins the show.

mousebreaker.com

29Aug

Work work.. again.. what else? Boring...

After work, I went to c father-in-law and have dinner there again..

Pretty worried that father-in-law going back to work in KL next week. All in the family are worried and they tried to desude him to do so. However he is stubborn and refuse to take heed. Threw quite a temper about it i heard. We are worried cos he is still quite weak and will pant even walking for a few steps. Then the plan came in that mother-in-law and brother will go with him to KL for the first week. That seems to be better but.. we are just very worried.. Anyway I guess if we can't stop him, we got to join him...Tsk tsk

Tv show is boring after dinner and i decide to retreat to hubby's room to play online games. Found a link from gamershood.com to a driving test game on mousebreaker.com. Interesting game and i can't seem to pass it hahaaa. Anyway it was some great fun.

Went home when dad went to rest around 8.45pm.

I was too tired to do anything.. just laze around for a while and watch tv...

The cross

28 Aug

Work work .. It's Monday again, promised mum to go home for dinner.
Student are quite relient on me to debugged for them therefore I try not to go in so often or i will be stuck at a student's work sometimes for hours.

Went for foot reflexolgy after dinner..Hmm..

Went home later and try to finish up the other side of the white frog button earring. I also thought of another project that uses that cross crystal. This is my idea for one side.

Not very happy with it. Will come back again to add more crystals.

white butterfly earring

27th Aug

Went slimming early morning until 2pm. Hiaz.. so tiring.. fell asleep during treatment. Ask hubby to go to my house first and bath the dog.

Spent the next few hours cleaning up the place..

We rested for a while and went to hubby's house for dinner and to see father-in-law. I always have problem with the food.. Often I find nothing that I can eat. Not that i am picky but having gout and dieting, there is only very limited TYPE of food that i can eat.

First for gout, I cannot eat soya products, I try to avoid seafood and red meat. Then for dieting, I have to avoid anything that is deep fried and go for soupy stuff. So left me with really little choice. The soya product is really giving a big problem cos i really love tufu and soya bean milk. I really love them but i just can't eat it. Sometimes i do steal a piece or 2 but that is the max i can go.

I think it's a sad case cos normally it is rare that girls have gout, it is more common in men. My father, brother, cousins and even aunties, uncles have it. It runs in the family. I read an article in the net that says that if it runs in the family, it has probably something to do with our genes that we are unable to dissipate the uric acid as well as other people. As a result, the uric acid accumulate and cystalize in the joint of the left big toe and cause pain and in worst cases, it just permanently show enlarge joint.. disfiguring the feet. That is what happen to my dad and i am quite scared of that.

Okie today's project on bead jewellary is the White frog button earring. And it turn out like that.

Used expensive tear drop black cystal for some of the ends.. Same problem with the frog button again.. Got to really fix the turning over problem. Fairly happy with this piece thou. What do you think?

Beads hunting

26th Aug

Leg swollen in the morning again.. called hubby to come bring me to c doctor. Ate the medicine while waiting.. While waiting for hubby to come, i actually felt better. So i decide not to go afterall cos it will cost $$ again. Hmm better take note of what i eat. Hiaz.. already alot of things cannot eat.

Went to Jin Long at the people's park centre. It's a old shop that sell all the various kitting , sewing stuff, it's stuff is pretty expensive TOO. Shopped for some time, trying to look through the various metal stuff for making earrings. Spent about $30+ .

Hubby went to look around while I went to jin Long, He told me there are more shops that sell beads. The one opposite Jin Long sell plastic flax pearls.. Hmm not really interested. Then we went to the bead shop at Basement 1. It has quite a good collection of swaroski cystal and Charms. Interesting shop. Bought a Jap beading magazine call friends. Interesting designs.

Hubby was hungry then so we decide to eat at the food court that was on level 1 or 2? Couldn't remember.. Ate some Taiwanese hot plate stuff, Quite nice.. Funny went we where there, there was no queue, but people seems to join the queue after we ordered our stuff. I wonder it is the Singapore thinking that thoes stalls have queue will definately taste nice.. Or izzit becos the both of us are some sort of 招财猫。。 whereever we go , we seems to bring people and $$ to other people. I guess he is the 招人 and i am the 招财！We stared at the queue and put our arms together to sybolize the cat's arm. Haah

Finally went to bead cage above people's park hawker center. Replenish my stuffs and was surprised that some of the BIGGER cystal is only 1/2 price of what JIN long is selling.. ARGHHH.. TUI! Heartache.. Should have come here first.. REGRETS...

Anyway went home after that. Reading through the various books that i bought on beads jewellary while figuring out my next project. Though about doing the Brown frog button earring first. This is the result.

There is one constraints working with chinese frog earring, and that is it only one sided. The other side often have some ribbon ends and could be unslightly sometimes. I have to figure out how to make it in a way that it will not turn that much to see the back of the button.

I am only fairly happy with this pair.. Hmmmmmm

First earrings Done

25 Aug

Finally finished the earrings..tonight. I had a hard time bending and adjusting the metals, The earring also looks bigger then the original one beacuse of the different beads i use. I hope Buddy wouldnt mind. I also have a hard time gauging the length of the earrings, I just painstakingly trial and error, opening and closing the jump rings until i get the correct lenght. In the end it looked like this..

Which i think is quite similar to the original except for the change of colours. What do you think?

Can't wait to give it to buddy. I love giving gifts to other ppl. Its make me more happy then being the receiver. The Joy of giving.. they say.

Anyway one of the son of my mother's friend came over to our house. He is our 3rd house agent. We tried to sell the house for 4 months now but have no offer so far. HDB called me up to pay for the installments arrears yesterday. Was stunned that i have to pay off 27K in total. My father haven been paying for many months and I didnt know about that until HDB called me up previously. I already paid 5k 3 months back to stall them until we sell the house.. but Seem HDB is getting impatient with us and decides to make ME pay everything while we are in process of selling. Told myself to go town council on monday to pay... Or else u know the lawyers letters will follow.

Hubby was quite surprised on dad's cool reaction when i told him about that yesterday. Anyway, I didnt have a choice, I am one of the house owners and things will implicate me if i don't pay(Even thou my name was forced to be inside- haiz long story). Being a daughter isnt that easy sometimes. Thankfully I knew i am going to get thoes CPF back the moment that the house is sold. Today I didnt feel that bad.. Was really in a daze when i got the phone call yesterday . Just couldn't understand Y i am always in this kinda situation where my parent's debts implicates me.

One time the car financing company threaten to bankcrupt my father and remove our StUffs.. I was really pissed then cos I bought most of the stuff in my house. That include everything in my Study room, the 2 computers, computer tables, 3 cupboards, TV, the entire Home entertainment system. Then i also bought the washing machine, my closets.. U name it... All my hard earn money. Therefore u see, I hate to borrow any money and i Hate to owe people $$. I just didnt want to get into this kinda of situation again.

Spend some time thinking about my next earring project with the nice chinese butterfly buttons. I think i lack Gold pins, jumper, earring hooks and chains.. Will buy when i go over to bead cage again.

Tired

25 AUG

Growing into panda now having consecutively sleeping after 1am.

Why? I have been practicing my bead jewellary making skills. Still have not finish the one for my buddy. I found it a little too big and was afraid that buddy will not like the colour, black saworski on white beads. She is always into black but i find that this piece has more white then black. Had a hard time fixing the chains.. they are either too long or too short.. Hmms Need more practice with this.


Went for a game final year project marking today. It's a "new " word game, very similiar to scrabbles.. Only now it has new variation and new rules. The game itself is only so so.. never really like word games. Always puts me to sleep after 10 mins. Anyway the graphics are only Okie and the layout has some problems. I pointed out the "potential" design problems and they defended that the client wanted it that way. Then I have nothing to say.. Client is always right! Anyway was there for an hour. I only mark them average.

Eat at northpoint foodcourt after work. Had some chicken with cheese thiny at the Aussie fish stall. Nothing impressive, regretted for not ordering from my fav western food store. Anyway we went home after dinner cos i wanted to finish up the earrings. Yeah.. seems like the most important thing now after work. Heheh.. Poor hubby say i didnt sayang him cos i am only interested in my beads! Haha..

2nd presentation

23 Aug

Kinda rushed to work this morning as the student are having their 2nd presentation at 9am. Was terribly hot from walking from the mrt to the office. Was cooling off when buddy asked me if i wanted anything from the canteen. I asked her to buy me some ribena as i was really hot and thirsty. Damn.. Ribena is pure gulcose.. Wrong choice again!! One drink can cost you 400-500 calories.

Presentation went on. I was surprised of some of the progress of the groups. They are suppose to produce a prototype of their main screen and one sub screen. Some came with 2 ulgy graphics and one mouseclick away from the sub screen. I really didnt know how to comment. Some had bad attitude and try to bullshit their way around. Some are so defensive that i almost want to scream at them. These people just pissed me. Tell myslef to mark them poorly for attitude.

In the afteroon, Best fren asked me if I want to go to the 12% member sale at tangs. I asked hubby if i could go but then changed my mind and decides not to go cos i have been spending too much these days. Anyway i didnt have anything in mind that I wanted to get from Tangs.

Went home to do my beads again.. Must finish up the one for my buddy.

Bead Cage!

22 Aug

Finally got to bead cage.. above the people's park hawker center.
Bought alot of things in set. Eg. 1 set consist of - chains, jump rings, 9 pins long and short, T pins, earring hooks. So i bought one set of silver, bronze and black. Bought all the materials for my first project. Swaroski Black beads and small white beads. Promised my buddy to make a similar pair of earrings like mine , only that the beads are shiny black. Also bought a case to store beads , bead mat that stop beads from Running about and a bead plate.

Eat at the hawker center, eat zha jiang mian and fried jia xiang mian at this Tian Jing something stall. The power tripped at the stall many times and the hawker is trying his best to rectify the problem cos he can't really see what he is cooking!... The lights just went on and off.. To my amusement.. ahaha.. ( Yeah i am bad!)

After dinner, went to people's park complex, bought jewellary making and nail art book. Later we stopped by majastic theater.Was curious Cos we didnt haven been there before. It was quite late then about 8.30pm and most of the shops are closed. We found popular book shop at the topmost level. Hubby was sad that it only sell chinese books. I found another 2 books , one on beads jewellary and the other is Beads for small home projects. Interesting designs i though.. and it always come with a "Good" price tag.

Went home satisfied with my Buys! Tried doing my first earring piece.. Tried various ways of bending the pins into little connectors. Had a hard time assembling my first piece but manage anyway.. Did 1/2 of the earring.. It's too late to continue.. 1Am already Arghh..

Will definately do better for the other side of the earring after some experience.

PHP!

21 Aug

When for php training this morning. Learn the very basic of php and creating simple database in mysql. Tried linking up with dreamweaver. Taught how to define the site in dreamweaver for php. Slight confusion there.. Erm. Overall still fine.. Alot of things are similar to coldfusion, so it is still okie.

I know that if i open Dreamweaver and browser, it will crash sometimes. Hiaz.. ~$144~ Upgrade another 512 RAM still cannot take it. Training was quite a breeze.. Before we know it, it was 12pm and we decide to continue training again coming thursday.

Hated mysql really, the GUI sux and cannot import Excel directly!! Lousy software. What to do? Free things are like that. Still prefer my power mssql. Just that that stupid PHP don't know why got problems with mssql.

Went home for dinner. It's monday and my mother will be cooking. I tell myself that I must try my best to be home for dinner on mondays. It's my effort of keeping the family together. In my traditional home, dinner is a time for family bonding. Dinner will not start until every is at the table and we were taught only to eat food at the table and not infront of the tv. That is not tolerated when I am young. But as my family moved out of my 9 room wooden house at the seletar farmway into a 4 room flat, the dinning room in just beside the living room. We still sit at the dinning table but now we can watch tv too .. Haha.

Imagine my discomfort when i first moved into a HDB flat. Have been living in such a big house since i was born. It is hard to squeeze 9 rooms into a 4 room. Imagine that. Then i Understand why most singapore children develop short-sightedness from a very young age. Previously my TV is quite a distance away from my sofa. But when i moved into a 4 room HDB, My TV is only 6 steps aways from the sofa. You are always surrounded by walls...

But maybe my dislikes for reading storybooks is a plus point for my great Eye sight. But I think my father did a good job for creating a bright area for studying and my mother did a good job at nagging at me when i try to lie down to read or hold my book too close to my face.

Even today when i spent almost 12-18 hours infront of the PC moniter, My eyesight is still good . I just make sure that the lightings are correct and rest my eyes by looking at things far away in a another a corner of the room . Bad lightings always strain your eyes. I am a little astigmatic and therefore quite sensitive to bright lights. But anyway, i am still proud of my eyes.

Was tired and went to bed slightly early then usual

Zhi Char At Commonweath

20 Aug

Din really do anything much except houseowork the whole day.

Rested for a while and went out for dinner. We decided to head for commonweath to eat 煮炒。
Ordered 三捞河粉，排骨王，虾卷，芥蓝菜. I think we ordered too much cos there is alot of left over food. Somehow our appetite has grown smaller. Later we went to the hawker center there to eat some deserts. Hubby Queued for more then 20 mins to get some qing teng and nata de coco with corktail. IT's a Gigantic bowl of ice with little stuffs. Was not impressed and wonder y so many would queue for it. We went home after that.

Some people wonder how I could just go all the way there to eat Zhi Char. But me and hubby like to 环岛追追追。。go everywhere on the island in search of good food. I think many Singaporeans are like us. There is little places to go and have cheap fun, so the only resolution is to go hunting for good food. Then there will be new places to visit everyday and new things to eat, new things to see. I think that will make life more interesting.

Bought a popular food guide the other day. Just didnt read yet. Will read the next time when we are out hunting. Happy eating!

Violet Hair Freak

19 Aug Sat

Woke up early in the morning to go slimming.

In the afternoon,we went to Queensway shopping center to amend my newly bought jeans. I also brought some other pairs of jeans to amend. The auntie say she needed about an hour therefore we when to Ikea for a while.

First we went to buy a hotdog and went into the self check out counter to take a look. In the end, we didn't buy anything. Went back to collect my jeans and went off.

When to dye my hair after that. I tried the newest color which is Violet! Came out really purple. I loved it but wonder what others will say and hope my boss dun see them!! Haha

Went to see my father-in-law after that .

Hubby's KoK KoK thinkpad

18Aug~

Had a hectic week and unable to blog for everyday. Forgot some of the things I did. Man.. Its only a few days and i have forgotten what i did. Must be growing old.

Okie highlights of the day. Release the students earlier, they are happy and I am also happy .. haha.. Means they dun bugged me for an extra hour or so.

As I am having training on PHP and mySQL next monday, i borrowed hubby's old thinkpad to install all the software . There are no pcs in the trainning room therefore we are all required to bring our own laptops. That ThinkPad is really old. Only 128 Mb Ram.. Can u imagine that? I am used to at least 1k Ram. And only 20Gb Harddisk! My god, windows alone used up about 1/4 diskspace. Decided to go Sim Lim and upgade the RAM. Reached there around 6.30pm . Previously went to Memory World to asked about the ram. They insisted that we bring the laptop along.

So today we brought the laptop along and the sales personnel there had some difficulty installing the 512 Mb ram. Had some Blue screen of death followed by some window errors. But he managed if after changing slots. Was told to run the laptop for an entire to see if there is any problem. He even suggested that we upgrade the laptop. Hehehe.. Anyway Hubby say he wants to buy me one when he has a means.. However i think I do not really need it. I prefer a desktop anytime. Really needed that processing power for my 3d games and development work.

Went for dinner at the sim lim food court and went to people's park complex later. Wanted to buy all the necessary equipments and materials and swarovski beads to make earrings. Promise my buddy to make her a pair of earrings.But the shop called bead cage that specialised in selling items for jewellary making was closed for a few days. Was very dissapointed,but still got some beads and chinese buttons from some other shops. Why chinese buttons? Hehe.. I am not going to tell u.. Haha.. Guess I would just need to come back in a few day's time.

Went home after that cos hubby is still not very well. Watched Miyasaki's 报恩的猫。Bought that a couple of days ago at TS shop. Was a great show, wonderful story and beautiful images as always. Always admired Miyasaki's artwork. Simply Stunning anime. Cute , creative and unpredictable storyline. Every animator should be inspired by Miyasaki.

Erm.. Played Civ City again. Getting better at it.. Although still losing missions . Replayed and replayed missions until i win. Yiaks~ 1 am again.

Goofing around

16 Aug ~

1 presentation for my student's project. They are to present their comfirm information flowchart and their storyboard for critics. Many groups have problem expressing their ideas vocally. Some have problems with their language. Some are very nervous and keep saying the wrong things. Some are quite funny. I think My groups did pretty okie . The presentation dragged to 1pm. After we debriefed the students we let them go home.

Then me and my colleagues rushed to orchard for a farewell luncheon for one of my colleauge that is going for further study. We went to CoCA at Taka. It was a new experience to me as I never eat at CoCa before. I din even know it was a steamboat place. Anyway I find that some of the raw stuffs are not very fresh. The steamboat buffet is really not cheap and the food is SO So and the service sux. Think will not go there again.

After late luncheon end around 4, we decide not to go back to office and me and buddy shopped around taka and paragon.

When to paragon to stock up my origins products. Then we went to marks and spencer. I wanted to buy a pair of jeans. After trying numerous pair, I finally got one with a good cut. The price for good cut? $95. Also bought one super expensive satin night gown slip for $75. Argh.. ~$~ . We went to have a cuppa and left for Junction 8.

Met Hubby at Junction 8 and had dinner. I had a sinful piece of Black Forest cake at Secret Recipes while he had his beef noodles. Went to walk around a little before we go home. Hubby is not really feeling well therefore he wanted to go home and rest.

Played Civ City until 1am...

Razer Diamondback mousey

14 Aug
Start of project week. My students embarked on their project today.Today they are to present 3 ideas on the topic of fever. After project briefing, each group made up of 3-4 members came up to present their idea. Many people have different defination of the word "fever" and hence different interpretation of their idea of project.

Spent the entire morning listening to their ideas and we the supervisors brainstormed over lunch. We try to assign different supervisors to group with different strength and weaknesses. Some students needed the tough approach while some prefer the softer approach. Some are arragont and refuse to listen to critics while some just do everything we say without thinking. Some needed to be spoon fed while some just couldn't be borthered with what you said.
My approach is try to encourge things that are right, easier and safer. Make them see the light instead of correcting their ideas. I try to ask them more questions for self realisation rather then to point out their mistakes. I grilled them on the things that we are looking for. The "FEVER", Their concept approach and their message. I want them to understand what they are really going to do rather then do and see attitude. Their time is short so I have to make sure they understand what is going on and do proper time management on their part.

I spend 3 hours later just following up with the 3 groups that I am assigned to. Talking to them is a mental drain, I have to keep asking them questions. If they fail to answer any of my question, it means they they are still not sure of what they are doing. For some of them , they decide to change project. I make them brainstorm and come back with a new and comfirm idea tomorrow.

Oh Yes, said pretty nasty things to hubby this morning cos he didn't wake up on time to send me to work.Call him to wake up at 7am but when I was all ready waiting for him downstairs, I called him again and he is still sleeping. Got very angry cos my swollen legs are not well yet and couldn't walk very well. In the end I walk to the bus stop and later walk from the mrt to school. Ignored his phone calls all the way until off work.

He showed up at 6pm to pick me up. We went to slim lim square and he bought me a portable 80Gb Harddisk, a USB cable for my printer and a new game "CivCity ROME" for me to play. I got myself a Razer DiamondBack Mouse. Although not as good as the copperhead at 2400dpi, the Diamondback is 1600dpi which i think is suffice for me. Buying gifts it's his way of saying sorry i guess. There was another time that he made me really angry and he bought me 2Gb Ipod.

t was never my intention to extort expensive gifts for making up. I always tell myself to forgive him, afterall he is my husband and I swear to stand by him. SOmetimes I just want to show him that I will be angry so that he will not repeat history again. However it seems he always commit the same mistake and i just have to endure it time and time again. That's life isnt it? Never hope your partner will change to accomodate you. He will pretty much still be the same even after 50 years. Sometimes you just got to change your expectation alittle, be a little less crtical and try not to say hurtful things when you are angry. I hope we will go a long way.

CLICK

13 Aug

Woke up around 9am. My feet is still swollen. I try my best to do my chores such as ironing my clothes and doing my laundry. Called Hubby and he told me not to do too much and he will come over to help me do my housework.

He came around 10 and we went to causeway point for Breakfast KING .Then we bought tickets to see the show "Click" showing later at 4.45pm. When we came home, he help me do all my housework. It usually inculdes bathing the dog and washing his towels and mats. Vacumning and mopping the whole house. Felt bad that I couldn't help out much except cleaning doggy's ear.

Waited for him to rest awhile before going to causeway point. We grab some food at feista and went to see the show "Click".

Click is a show about a guy that was given a universal controller and could control his life like a DVD. Meaning he could fast forward his life to skip things or events that he didn't like in life like boring family gathering , sickness and even foreplay. He could also revisit any point of his pass by jumping to the correct chapters in his life. He feels happy that he is finally in control of his life but was dismay to find out that the remote control remembers his behaviour and forward everytime he falls sick or get a promotion . Some of these events make him skip YEARS. He finally realise that missed out on his children childhood, lost his wife and his beloved father when he was on auto pilot when he skips chapters. He regretted terribly and wanted to return the remote controller. But no matter what he does, the remote control just shows up. It finally skipped to the part where he die. The next thing he knew is that he wakes up on a bed in a bath and bed store. He was given a second chance to try the remote controller and he make a choice of throwing the gaget away.

I feel that many of the scenes are quite touching I really did cry my heart out. Hahaa..
Interesting show and I recommend you see it.

Dreadful Gout

11 Aug (Fri)
Was on leave today. Went to do my madicure and padicure. When I was out, I realise that my feet is getting quite swollen. I have a problem with gout and my feet tends to swell if I eat soya products or too much red meat. Anyway I felt pain in the toes when i was doing my pedicure. I could feel the swell in my feet when i finish the session with beautiful lace print on my toes nails.

When i reach home after dinner, It turn out really bad and my joint is really swelling in pain. I couldn't really walk or move. Took some of my mum's gout medicine and went to bed.
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12 Aug (sat)
Woke hubby up early in the morning and begged him to bring me to c some doctor in potong pasir. My father recommend him for glut treatment. I have seen him previously for my glut too. This doctor have very disorganised nurses. He has 4 and still they couldnt cope with the swamps of patients. They take too long to dispense medicine and they didnt priorities patients that came to c doctors and thoes that come to buy medicine. I was surprise that they are quite fast that day I got out of the clinic after 30 mins.

Went home and hubby went to pack me some lunch and went off to do his earrants again.
Being sick , I was angry when he came back 5 hours later and told me he had to go off again pretty soon. Was upset that he was not spending time with me when i was sick and needed a little TLC(Tender loving care). After crying off my anger we went for dinner at a place that is easily accessible without much walking.

He went off after dinner and I was home playing my computer games. My legs needed alot of rest and i try not to move too much. Went to bed early that day.

Mahjulah Singapura

8Aug
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Has been tired for the past few days but nevertheless agreed to a late night mahjong session with my usual mahjong kakies. I went home for dinner and packed my bags and we met at my friend's condo for some junk food and mahjong, which became our favourite passtime over the years. Previously our passtime would be composing music. We still do, just not so frequent now when everyone is busy working and has lesser time to compose. I wrote many lyrics but some are still stuck with various music composers.

As we munch and pung, we debated on our favourite ice-cream. Two of them were chocolate fanatics. One would love any chocolate ice-cream while the other love ben and jerry's fish food. Hubby got no particular preference while me, I only like vanilla or strawberry ice-cream. But I never have a crave for ice-cream. Its something that i can do without. I love cholocolates, but somehow i just couldnt stand chocolate ice-cream. Same goes with chocolate milk. Funny they thought.

After 4 seasons, I finally decide that we had enough and went to bed. That night I lost $8 and Hubby won $18. But anyway had great fun and look forward to the next day's session. Previously, we tried playing thru the whole night but found out that we are all too "old" and will all fall sleep around 4+. Jumped into bed and hope to sleep.
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9 Aug

Had little sleep. Woke up at 9am and we went out for breakfast. Had breakfast at Ah-Mei's Toast at the railway mall. When we headed back to hubby's car, we realise a dent on the side of the door. We realise the family that park their car beside us loiter around our car when we were walking towards them. Hubby immediately went to confront them but they deny it and there is nothing or no proof to say that they have reversed into our car. Hubby had no choice but to apologise to the family. The curprits daugther was very rude and told us that we spoiled their day. All we can do is to curse them when they left.

Hubby is visibly upset. I didnt know what to say. Hubby drop us off back at the condo and went off to do his errants. When we were back at the condo, we played various old videos of our group. It brought back alot of fond memories and laughter. Waitied for monkey to reach us and we played mahjong again while waiting for the rest of the group to arrive.I was actually quite upset with the attendance. Previously we head count more then 10. Then we only have 6. Of
cos, we understand some ppl are really really sick but some people didnt even have the courtesy even to call and tell us that they are not coming. How rude right? Waste our food, wasted our effort to plan. Sigh.

My friend say that the important thing is that we had fun. I agreed over the years, the poor attendance really chills me and sometimes I just refuse to plan anything at all. Oh Yes the Neo Garden Catering is really good and the food all came in nice, clean and warm condition. It also
came with full set of cutlery , Tongs serving spoons, and even rubbish bags. Will definately engage them for future occasion.

Went home around 5.30pm hoping to catch the National Day Parade. It is still quite the usual stuff but the fireworks display is impressively Long... and extravagant. With the last fireworks dissappearing into the night sky, national stadium also faded away. It is it's last NDP . It will be torn down and make way for a newer stadium. This is the way of singapore, buildings come and go.... places get new face lift every few years. Welcome to Singapore, the city with ever changing landscape.

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Woke up later then usual, finally have the time to sleep in alittle but mom keep waking me up to do her staff early in the morning. Was angry that she disturb my sleep. Time to do my ironing. Used about 2 hours just to finish my stack of clothes. Before i knew it, it was almost 11.30am. I quickly bath and went to work.

One of my colleague went to Taiwan last week and I ask her to buy some voodoo dolls for me.
This was wat she bought for me.

From the left we have, Little Prince with his sword and shield. Next is little mummy ger, Then we have the Killer and Piggy. Was dissappointed that they ran out of Ninja. Oh nevermind just make my friend who is going to taiwan end of the month to buy that for me. Do visit www.voodoodoll.com.tw. The singapore version that is selling at Mini Toons is of poor workmanship and they are alot of copy cats. Just look at my version and compare it to theirs.Of cos, good things don't come cheap. They are 250NT each about $12 each. Not to forget the air tix price.

Was doing checklist and compiling my students's assignments. Had a big headache cos some sumitted late, wrongly. Finally arranged all the reports and files properly. Send a warning letter to thoes that didnt submit.

Sometimes I just don't quite understand how students can refuse to submit assignments. I didn't even dare to think about it when i was a student. I didn't even dare to fail. I remember that I never failed any major test or exam in my life. Well maybe Not yet. Oh Yes, if you consider driving test a major, I flank it once. Hehe.. When I was in Primary School, I can only get Ace.. B and C and D or F were never heard of. Even spellings have to get at least 75 marks. That's how strict my mom is. The cane is never far away.

I remember I will cry if i cannot finish my homework and have to burn midnight oil. My Heart will race if i forget to bring my homework and will BEG mom to bring to school for me. And my home is quite far away. In secondary, my results dipped a little, then it is always B. My mom tried by getting me various tution teacher. However only my Pure Bio manage to get an A. Even my chinese can only be a B3.

Then When I came to poly. It was still Bs.. and some Cs now.. for thoes various subject that I really make me tick. When I was working and studying parttime for my degree, I try my best to PASS. Yes, handed in every assignment thru FedEx to London. I still cannot bear to fail any subjects and Yes, the POUNDS you have to pay will also "Motivate" me not to fail. So you see, I just tried to pass everything. Because, I simply realise that I only nid to suffer once. Fail and you have to repeat, and REPEAT the suffering of having to study it once again. I remembered a chinese ancent saying "suffer now and enjoy later". 先苦后甜，苦尽甘来。

Barbie Dollies

Nothing much happen last week. Was quite busy with work.

4th Aug. Went out for dinner and Kala for my friends belated birthday celebration. We met at Raffles place MRT station. I was kinda early and decided to drop in on the shopping arcade in the station. Was surprised how much have changed. I haven't been to this MRT station for sometimes. Didn't know now you have verious coffee joints , new dress labels and even push cart trolleys. The whole place looks refreshingly new and spacious now. Bright, clean and even fashionable.

Met up with friends later and Birthday girl decides to eat at coffee club just above the station. It is a little cosy building made entirely out of glass. Even the roof is made of glass and you can peer out into the dark sky. No stars thou, the area is too brightly lit to see any stars. I just hope that it will not be very hot in the afternoon. It reminds me of a greenhouse.. where there is deadly greenhouse effect- that is infra red rays enters and never leave the house. It will be smokin hot. Anyway, i ordered my favourite swiss mushroom and chess sandwich and my favourite hazelnuttea which is hazelnut latte. We catch up over dinner and on of my friend present me with a cat purse. She has just return from her europe tour. Alway admired her ability to travel for months. For me, the longest trip i went was 10 days max.

After a delightful dinner, we had a slow walk to the shenton way party world. Sang our hearts out till 12mn and went home. Shenton way's party world is much better than kster. The 2nd hand smoke was bearable cos most of the smokers went outside to smoke. I was very tired and was glad that hubby came to pick me up send me home.

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5th Aug

Went to see doctor in the late morning. Was suffering from my sinus for a few weeks now and decides that it is time to do something about it. Because of my blocked nose, i couldn't breath normally, couldn't sleep properly and the sneezing in the morning is driving me crazy. Got my nasal spray and some nose drop for instant relief. The nose drop really works wonders. Within seconds, the swells in the nasal cavity shrank and i can finally breath fresh air. But doctors warn that i can only use that for the first 5 days as it might irritate it further after 5 days. I only used it once.

Went out with my best friend for my shopping therapy. We went for lunch at the food-court of scotts shopping center. Both of us had some hot plate chicken and tofu+mushroom combination. Then we headed upstairs for a short coffee break and went off shopping. First stop was far east plaza. Lately many fashionable street wear sprang into the place. I wanted to find a pair of earring that looks like a crown. But was not satistfied with the quality.

Next we went to the Tangs. My friend wants to buy some birthday present for her collegues's and her son. We went thru the toys section and the accessories section but didn't see anything that catches our attention. Was a little dissappointed then we went to Isetan.

Was at the toy section where this Pink label oktober feast barbie catches my eye. It was selling at $39.90 and I think it is pretty cute. My friend bought a little lace jacket. She tried various jeans from levis but was dissappointed at the cuttings. Anyway both of us is starting to feel tired so we decide to have a drink. We went to TCC at first but we had to wait. Then we saw DOME on storey 4 and decides to go there instead. Had a pot of Earl Grey and a Terriyaki pizza to share.

Our next stop is paragon. Went to metro toy's department. Was memerized by a silver label collector's barbie doll. Hesitated if I should get it cos it was pretty expensive. It's about 169 before 20% off. I wanted to go off already but hubby bought it for me anyway.Look at my beautiful barbie. BTW FYI I am a avid barbie doll collector. My friend bought a superman toy for her colleague son.

Went dinner at spageddies in the basement. I always love pasta and i can eat it everyday. Had a wonderful dinner and went home after a long day.

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6th Aug

Was supertired after 2 long nights but nevertheless, i woke up at 8.30am. Went to my morning routines and went to slimming at 10.30am. Was surpised when the lady told me that i was late. Then I realise i checked the wrong appointment date and was actualy late for 30mins.

Anyway finish the session at 12 and went to shop a little at the NTUC supermartket. Hubby came to picked me up and we went to a nearby food court for lunch. Lunch was brief and uninteresting. The Nutritionist told me that i lack Iron and Calcium. Was told to eat more red meat and a small tub of yogurt everyday. The problem is, I don't eat liver, I seldom eat red meat cos i don't eat beef and mutton. Pork and duck and deer meat is all that i eat. However it depends on how they are cooked. Sometimes i cant stand the smell of pork either. Nutritionist said that i may feel tired becos of my lack of iron. Was told to eat Chinese spinach for the iron. Will ask my mother to cook some if i am going home for dinner.