Monday, December 31, 2007

new year eve

last day of the year. anything thats not done today, will have to be left for next year. anything that i don't wanna do today, next year then do liao... that is... tomolo lor... was telling joelle, from next year, i need to start training for my ippt liao, cuz window closing at april... and joelle replied "next year? tomolo lor..." ghee... tomolo next year liao lor... had a great last day of 2007. i meant, if you wake up to this view from your window, what can go wrong for the day right?

and when i reached office, sat on my chair, saw the pile of work on my desk, these words on the label (that joelle pasted on my desk) put a smile on my face...

and whenever buggy users called me on the phone, i'll always answer with ....
i can't find a word that describes happy+joy.
oh ya, joelle just told me, the word is euphoria... (wow... got ink wor)

time goes by really slow today. not many people come to work, and those who comes, doesn't work... ok lah, maybe just me, keke... brought my wine opener today, cuz cw bought the kangaroo ridge for a little celebration... and maybe the most quality work i did today was to complete the nomination form for 2008's RC chairman... :P

my fav kangaroo ridge! and with a good wine opener, cw also cannot open a wine properly lor... weak ahhh... but thank god i 'ran' away after this bottle, cuz within the next 2 hours, cw, mathew, edmund et al opened and consumed 7 bottles of red wine... 有那么口渴吗?


brought joelle to have dinner at this 高记饺子拉面 resturant at buggis. the food is great, the service is superb! lets toast to end of 2007... cheers!


first up, 小笼汤饱. there's only 1 way to grab the 饱, that is by using the chopstick and grab the 'nipple' of the 饱... (as best described by rek...)
and to eat it, there are 2 methods:
1. put the whole 饱 into your mouth, and bite. (warning, hot oozing soup!)
2. nimble at the 饱, suck and drink the oozing soup, and munch the whole thing.

enuff of 101 tips for eating 汤饱...
here comes our 拉面.
mine is the 酸辣海鲜拉面.
joelle's is 炸浆拉面.

after that, joelle is flipping thru the menu for dessert and i told joelle "好想吃一样东西".
we both exclaimed "豆沙锅饼!!"


next up, shopping time... we went OG looking at baby stuffs...
these baby thingy, so the cute... keke..

and got pinky cap wor... haha...

btw, that dragon i was holding... it ROARS wor...


k lah, the year is coming to an end soon. with this, lets look back at my 2007.

2007, the year we went for our honeymoon, the year we were blessed with megan, the year i had my last resrvist, the year i started blogging and the year we changed our ic...

2008, the year where all the numbers add up to a perfect 10. that will be the year, megan arrives. the year when we enter parenthood, and our world will be revolving around this little angel. to my friends, wishing you all be blessed with health and wealth.


with this, i end my post for 2007. time now, 23:32, another perfect 10. promised myself to sleep like a pig this holiday eve... the best way to celebrate the end of 2007, and may i wake up every morning in 2008 with a view like the first picture above!

Sunday, December 30, 2007

thats a lot of socks

joelle just showed me an inventory list of what megan already had:

1 cap
1 tights
2 pacifiers
3 tops
3 recieving blankets
4 long pants
7 booties

8 bodysuits
12 bibs
27 pair of socks...

i don't even have 7 pair of socks...

my last sunday of 2007

the last sunday of 2007, i should be lazing at home, lazing...
anyway, got a call from alice saying concourse got power trip, again... wtf, check from home remotely and servers all still okie dokie, but not leaving things to chances until i fully checked... so went back to office... a very lan lan me with a very lan lan look...

oh yeah, everything's ok except the full backup didn't complete, due to dirty tape drives, so got to clean the tape drives, and while waiting, msn with joelle, whose at home, of course...

finally left office after 2 hours, when i reached home, saw this discarded printer at the lift lobby... nb, these people so inconsiderate, always dump things anyhow...


one last photo to share... capture this from concourse rooftop...
nice day like this, shouldn't be working at all...
there goes my last sunday of 2007...

megan's the winner

alrighty, the last sat of 2007 and a long day we had today. we left our home at 10am for our mac bfast then to our gynae appointment at 11am... well, megan is growing well and currently estimated to be weighing around 847grams plus. ghee, she was a little peanut back then, now... doc adrian's ultra sound scanner can't capture megan's whole body in a printout... haha... very lousy device... the thompson medical center has better device, but its more for detail scannings, that is not free, not included in package and not cheap lor...

after that, off we go to vivo city to shop shop... whilst on trian, we played with our new camera again... simply love its IA mode... oh, btw, just being curious on when to use 'while' and when to use 'whilst'... checked out the webby, and there is no difference, just that 'while' is an older language and survived in UK dictionay while it died out in US english...

once we reached vivo, its shopping time leaving no time for camera-ing... only until lunchie time, we headed to the foodcourt via the skypark... the midday sky is just so glaringly hot...

i ordered chicken rice, that sucks... and joelle ordered fired prawn noodle, that sucks big time... still not satisfied, we went to order 油条+豆浆... yummy... oh ya, was telling joelle about 油条's 典故... its created when some guy decided to use dough make the shape of 2 traitors who betrayed 岳飞, and deep fried in hot oil. still not satisfied, that guy took out the fried dough and ate it, and to his surprise, its delicious and wala, here comes our 油条! joelle thinks i'm bullshitting her thou... hmmm, not correct meh?

after lunchie, we went back to the skypark to camwhore a little... :P

off we went to shop shop... walked until hand, leg, back and feet aching all over liao, so we decided to take a break and have our fav latte at starbutt... bucks, i meant...

oooh la la, cheesey cheese cake and chocoly chocolate cake...





you think the shopping stops here? no way, off we go shopping again! haha... joelle was mentioning that cindy told her that GG5 can get something very nice and only $9 during this post-xmas sale... we decide to go treasure hunt for that $9 tag... 不容易找哦... but, i still found it! 任务成功, 叮咚!叮咚!

finally, our shopping advantage come to an end... while joelle's at the washroom, i 'sneak' out to take a shot at this... splashy...

due to taxi hike, and due to our heavy spending today, we took mrt home... reached yew tee and went for our dinner... S11's homemade ice-lemon tea and tasty 猪肝汤 that still uses the vintage 公鸡碗!


home sweet home, lets sort out our spoilts...
i got 2 shirts, joelle got 6 tops, 3 bottoms and 1 dress...
even megan got more than me, she got 7 pieces... :P

esprit: $152.73/-

mango: $71/-

the maternity house: $189/-

nichii: $71.73/-

fox baby: $26.45/-

pumpkin patch: $52/-

total spendings: $562.91
my burnt pocket: $302.18
joelle's burnt pocket: $260.73
megan's the winner... haha...

Friday, December 28, 2007

vi vie vo

no no, not the giant from jack and the beanstalk...
tomolo going shopping after our gynae appointment.
its going to be vivo - marina - city hall...

shop shop shop shop shop... :P

便宜到笑

hey hey, the last friday of 2007... went to power seraya with cw to work again... this time, its to settle the vpn cannot connect issue... once again, met cw at jurong east mrt and we went for bfast again... this time its my fav 两粒半生熟蛋+两片kaya烘面包... yummy...

after that, its off to jurong island... this time, cw stopped halfway on the bridge for me to take this oil rig picture... better than last time, at least... on the other side of the bridge, got some cranes, 排排站 under a nice clear sunny sky...

got a shot of these 3 don't know what... most probably are old used oil tank bah... who cares, looks nice anyway...

that would be me... my t-shirt actually... 很拽hor?

after that, its work work work work work... its so difficult to deal with those router codes... boring stuff to update anyway... couldn't get it to work thou... gonna go F the singtel people liao... grrr...

and we didn't realise its way pass lunch time le, so we got to decide where to eat, and i'm very against going to west coast market again... cuz the last time we went, cw got into a car accident... so we went to our 母校, ngee ann poly! there are so many canteens and we finally choose canteen 1, where there are going to be good western food and... business studies 的妹妹哦... great western food we got, but, its holiday... not many 妹妹 thou... my usual set of chicken chop 加个蛋... oh gosh, my 3rd egg today wor... then we were joking we must blend in like students... so i ask, then we must act like those 穷学生 and share ice lemon tea? haha...

the food there is darn cheap lor... this chicken chop plus egg only $3! and the ice lemon tea... $0.90... haha... 便宜到笑... but, must act cool, cuz we are blending in... hee... but after makan, we just go off, and when reached carpark, cw exclaimed "shit, 我们没有收盘"... haha, we can't blend in afterall...

while on the road, cw say only 4pm... wanna go JB?
hee... on lah! off we go to my home to take passport, check company email, and off we go... thank god no traffic jam wor... driving in JB is like riding in cowboy era, so damn dangerous... sianz...

finally, we reached the place... not sure where this is, but its very near tioman sentosa thou... oooh, 肚子又饿了....

and this the first time i saw the malaysia's parking ticket lor...


food food food food food...
first up 咸蛋虾婆 (ghee... my 4th egg??)
hmmm... 只听过咸蛋超人,没听过咸蛋虾婆... 叫来看看吧!

one word: hoyishi

next, its 炒帝皇苗 (i think this what its called...)
it says something like bean sprout on the menu...

sting ray... oh yeah!!

大醉虾...

minus the 2 tiger beers, all the food only for 70 ringgit... 我们又便宜到笑!
totally full and satisfied... we hit the road home once more...

hmmm.... forgot to mention, when i'm home to get my passport earlier on, i found 100 ringgit beside my passport... so we used it to pay for the food... think it belongs to joelle... :P

便宜到笑啊! haha