DADDY CAME HOME FOR A SURPRISE VISIT!!!!
he surprised mama outside the office with a dozen roses which surprisingly looks to be of standard! dubai has made my father's taste improve!! =P
the surprise was sorta marred by the doo-doo security guard though..
papa: can u buzz for someone to take this in to my wife?
guessed what?!?! the stooopid guard buzzed my mother herself out! zzz... but come to think of it, my dad is quite dumb too! i mean, hello??? i'm working in the same bank, on the same floor, why didn't he even think of it?! *faints*
anyway, his trip back was totally kept frm all of us n he was actually headed to penang for a biz trip but detoured over to s'pore for an impromptu night. =)
in the end, i pangseh xinyu (sorry babe!!!) to hv lunch with mama n him.. trix came by all the way frm ntu too.. so it was like a mini reunion. hehe.
went to 包今天 meant to mimic some chinese folk story judge, 包青天. direct translation into eng somemore. cmi!
this shop reminded me of jerry during our citibank challenge.. we also saw the same shop at marina sq n he being a chinese national remarked tt singaporeans liked to play with chinese wrds. but he did admit it was pretty funny though. lol.
i like dim sum so much, i had this with mama 2 days in a row. teehee~ i dun eat with her everyday so she tends to indulge me when we do eat tgt (so far only 3 times in 2 wks).
at night, we visited ah ma with mooncakes. in the afternoon, my poor grandmother dropped a glass plate on her foot which smashed n cut a main blood vessel. sighs... she cld hardly walk n she lives alone!!! *worrying* :(
at night, we had boon tong kee chicken rice coz the father misses it...
the ultra big bowl of fish maw n crab soup coz i love-love it. hehehe... if u can see mama's hand in the background, shld be can estimate how really big it is ba?! n my ah ma v cute.. keep referring to it as shark's fin although i made it clear so many times i'm morally against eating shark's fin.
papa got really excited over beansprouts bcoz dubai doesn't hv them... they were a disappointment though. an overpriced disappointment. :(
we had half a chicken n fried tofu too~! aiyo, like tt how to lose weight sia? *sobs*
the night aft he left, mama was feeling pretty down so i wanted to treat her to the dhl balloon.. but sadly, it was down bcoz of wind conditions AGAIN! suay to the max lor. but since i promised the mother a treat, we headed down to raffles place's sakae for dinner buffet n trix appeared too!
being a part-time student at SIM, mama cld get youth rate leh!!!! tt made her rather pleased n smsed the daddy immediately specifically telling him she was a "youth".. hmm, old age does tt to ppl does it? haha.
screw the diet!!!
mama n me!
trixie n mama!! ^^
moving on, the job!!!! i hv been living n breathing standard chartered for the past 2 wks..
a really cool machine! n i like the ppl in the mailing rm.. its really the old ppl tt r nice. other than alex, edwyn n the chinese n malay girl who first taught me the ropes but nv got around to telling me their names. or mayb i was supposed to ask but didn't. haha.. but quite weird to ask aft 2 wks lor. so yeaps.
btw, the aunties in the office call alex, 偶像. n i suppose frm some angles he is quite eye-candy material lah.. but he gives me far too much wrk for my liking. ahhhh!!!!!
introducing the fabulous machine!!!!
1) put the stacks of paper to be inserted into the envelopes on the 2 trays...
2) obviously put the envelopes in the bottom envelope tray.
then press start.
.
.
.
the machine will make a hell lot of noise before it sucks 1 paper n 1 envelope in.
.
.
.
the paper will get folded into 2 or 3 parts depending on the size of the envelope.
(i think the ingenuity is just plain brilliant!)
.
.
.
the folded paper then gets fitted into the propped open envelope.
.
.
.
3) this is the glue part of the machine for the sealing of envelopes...
there r 500 filled envelopes here n the entire process for this 500 copies is approx 20 min.
before tt machine was introduced, poor me took a whole day!!!!!!!!!! :(
previously, i self-entertained with staples. now, i play with "toys" i happen to hv....
i turned the tikam tikam machine at vivo just the other day. these r meant to be disney desserts.. TWICE i got stuff frm the same range - milk pudding n peach jelly. i was dismayed but cheeleng pointed out tt at i got a pair n someday i can give one side to my bf.
IF tt someday ever comes n i DO fall in love,
I WANT THE BROWN ONE!!!!
it looks more yummy ma. heeeeeeeee.
this was the swissroll i wanted n jessica got it on first try. sigh bigtime! even got cute little strawberry on top can?! neh neh pok!
on to the sad bit, aft the stanchart-amex acquisition, amex staff hv been leaving the bank so the past wk has been rather gloomy with alot of solemn goodbyes n snippets of ppl reminiscing back on times 10 yrs ago. it was a rather nostalgic atmosphere..
nothing much has really changed.. i rmbr coming into the office 17 yrs ago with mama. i was then a toddler n was v satisfied with my crayons n bullying little trix than to bother tt mama was busy working on a saturday. hey, 5-day wrk wk was a recent implementation yeah?
anyway, back to today's farewell... today is a friday. over the wkend, s'pore amex will fully intergrate into stanchart so many many many ppl left today n no one really worked. some went away on vacation presumably to avoid the coldness of the office.
the mailing rm uncle had a laminated cert proudly displayed thanking him for 30 yrs of service dated yr 2000. tts decades of wrk n association to a place (like a 2nd hm)... imagine having to leave all these suddenly?
no wonder fong yin had tears in her eyes. she's the woman who sat behind me these past 2wks. i think she treated me as the daughter she nv had.. i used to think she was queer frm how much revealed to me abt her life on my first few days. but soon, i got used to listening to her stories n at times, i got quite emo when i listened to them.
her climb to the top at citibank with only an o-lvl cert, her love for her only son tt made her leave the job she loved so much n her battle with breast cancer. i hv always admired cancer survivors but i hv nv heard a live recount of the radiation sessions, the vomitting, the hair fall, the probing of ur most intimate areas by scary doctors with strange instruments. eek!
n scarier still was how they removed the lump n finally the whole breast. it wasn't like i imagined it to be. n the scars streaking down frm her armpit to her chest; pained me just by looking. its tough, n they r strong ppl. i doubt if faced with the same prob, i will hv the courage to live through lor. :(
oh man, i feel like i hv matured overnight.
i wanted to get her flowers but i tot tt wld kinda be over-the-top so i was pretty overwhelmed when she gave me ferraro rochers, hugged me n when she took me to the shreadder machine n shreadded her diary coz it held, "memories of this place tt i dun wanna keep."
sighs. forever only exists in fairytales.
happier stuff......... lantern festival/mooncake feasting day!
a broker fren gave us our first mooncakes for the yr - baked double yolk.
i was initially totally in awe of the brand... but seriously, they didn't taste all tt spectacular. but st regis muz hv been pretty hip this yr coz i dun rmbr seeing them set up booths previously.. however, i felt tt their individually wrapped toothpicks for sampling is redundant n v unfriendly to the environment. =X
munch munch munch.....
mama seemed to like marriot hotel this yr... she bought snowskins frm there for the grandparents n the neighbours... however, i only fancy the box with actual embroidery ribbon!! preeeety~
mixed snowskin... tasted like plasticine to me though.
mix n matched quarters...
nxt up was frm intercontinental but i doubt they were v gd since theydidn't really make an impact n i forgot how it tasted liao. oops!
UPDATE: my bro just reminded me how it tasted.. the chocolate n rum wasn't mixed evenly so the choc parts were gd but the rum part was soooo overbearing tt it tasted medicinal! tsk tsk.. rushing to produce till standard drop. BAAAAAAD!
another st regis gift frm mama's counterpart..
bloody mary mooncakes..
no alchohol taste. SAD! red outside, yellow inside, super look like ang ku kueh! n the inside is lotus paste so even more like ang ku kueh. =P
daddy takes a bite n remarked: THIS IS BLOODY NO GOOD!
his sudden outburst made di roll around on the floor laughing...
the nicest of this yr goes to raffles hotel. chocolate champagne snowskin.... =D
i heard goodwood park wasn't bad too. the chempedak n durian was apparently solid stuff.. anyway, the queue at change alley proved its standard. but no one gave those to us n mama only hv a buy one policy per yr to avoid being excessively extravagant. I WANT MANGO POMELO, arrrghhh! =(
daddy: "ahhh, no one can match my milo!"
thickskin daooooo~
this yr's snowskin SUCKED!!!!
i miss these piggies in baskets.. i used to squat ages at the cakeshop choosing my fav basket colour when the inside r actually all the same n not tt i keep the basket afterward anyway. haha.
i used to play with these battery-operated cartoon characters too! we wld compete whose had the longer music but now, i find the screechy "music", noisy. hee.
ooh... the neighbour just came by with tung lok.. i shall go n taste it.
tootles~
he surprised mama outside the office with a dozen roses which surprisingly looks to be of standard! dubai has made my father's taste improve!! =P
the surprise was sorta marred by the doo-doo security guard though..
papa: can u buzz for someone to take this in to my wife?
guessed what?!?! the stooopid guard buzzed my mother herself out! zzz... but come to think of it, my dad is quite dumb too! i mean, hello??? i'm working in the same bank, on the same floor, why didn't he even think of it?! *faints*
anyway, his trip back was totally kept frm all of us n he was actually headed to penang for a biz trip but detoured over to s'pore for an impromptu night. =)
in the end, i pangseh xinyu (sorry babe!!!) to hv lunch with mama n him.. trix came by all the way frm ntu too.. so it was like a mini reunion. hehe.
went to 包今天 meant to mimic some chinese folk story judge, 包青天. direct translation into eng somemore. cmi!
this shop reminded me of jerry during our citibank challenge.. we also saw the same shop at marina sq n he being a chinese national remarked tt singaporeans liked to play with chinese wrds. but he did admit it was pretty funny though. lol.
i like dim sum so much, i had this with mama 2 days in a row. teehee~ i dun eat with her everyday so she tends to indulge me when we do eat tgt (so far only 3 times in 2 wks).
at night, we visited ah ma with mooncakes. in the afternoon, my poor grandmother dropped a glass plate on her foot which smashed n cut a main blood vessel. sighs... she cld hardly walk n she lives alone!!! *worrying* :(
at night, we had boon tong kee chicken rice coz the father misses it...
the ultra big bowl of fish maw n crab soup coz i love-love it. hehehe... if u can see mama's hand in the background, shld be can estimate how really big it is ba?! n my ah ma v cute.. keep referring to it as shark's fin although i made it clear so many times i'm morally against eating shark's fin.
papa got really excited over beansprouts bcoz dubai doesn't hv them... they were a disappointment though. an overpriced disappointment. :(
we had half a chicken n fried tofu too~! aiyo, like tt how to lose weight sia? *sobs*
the night aft he left, mama was feeling pretty down so i wanted to treat her to the dhl balloon.. but sadly, it was down bcoz of wind conditions AGAIN! suay to the max lor. but since i promised the mother a treat, we headed down to raffles place's sakae for dinner buffet n trix appeared too!
being a part-time student at SIM, mama cld get youth rate leh!!!! tt made her rather pleased n smsed the daddy immediately specifically telling him she was a "youth".. hmm, old age does tt to ppl does it? haha.
screw the diet!!!
mama n me!
trixie n mama!! ^^
moving on, the job!!!! i hv been living n breathing standard chartered for the past 2 wks..
a really cool machine! n i like the ppl in the mailing rm.. its really the old ppl tt r nice. other than alex, edwyn n the chinese n malay girl who first taught me the ropes but nv got around to telling me their names. or mayb i was supposed to ask but didn't. haha.. but quite weird to ask aft 2 wks lor. so yeaps.
btw, the aunties in the office call alex, 偶像. n i suppose frm some angles he is quite eye-candy material lah.. but he gives me far too much wrk for my liking. ahhhh!!!!!
introducing the fabulous machine!!!!
1) put the stacks of paper to be inserted into the envelopes on the 2 trays...
2) obviously put the envelopes in the bottom envelope tray.
then press start.
.
.
.
the machine will make a hell lot of noise before it sucks 1 paper n 1 envelope in.
.
.
.
the paper will get folded into 2 or 3 parts depending on the size of the envelope.
(i think the ingenuity is just plain brilliant!)
.
.
.
the folded paper then gets fitted into the propped open envelope.
.
.
.
3) this is the glue part of the machine for the sealing of envelopes...
there r 500 filled envelopes here n the entire process for this 500 copies is approx 20 min.
before tt machine was introduced, poor me took a whole day!!!!!!!!!! :(
previously, i self-entertained with staples. now, i play with "toys" i happen to hv....
i turned the tikam tikam machine at vivo just the other day. these r meant to be disney desserts.. TWICE i got stuff frm the same range - milk pudding n peach jelly. i was dismayed but cheeleng pointed out tt at i got a pair n someday i can give one side to my bf.
IF tt someday ever comes n i DO fall in love,
I WANT THE BROWN ONE!!!!
it looks more yummy ma. heeeeeeeee.
this was the swissroll i wanted n jessica got it on first try. sigh bigtime! even got cute little strawberry on top can?! neh neh pok!
on to the sad bit, aft the stanchart-amex acquisition, amex staff hv been leaving the bank so the past wk has been rather gloomy with alot of solemn goodbyes n snippets of ppl reminiscing back on times 10 yrs ago. it was a rather nostalgic atmosphere..
nothing much has really changed.. i rmbr coming into the office 17 yrs ago with mama. i was then a toddler n was v satisfied with my crayons n bullying little trix than to bother tt mama was busy working on a saturday. hey, 5-day wrk wk was a recent implementation yeah?
anyway, back to today's farewell... today is a friday. over the wkend, s'pore amex will fully intergrate into stanchart so many many many ppl left today n no one really worked. some went away on vacation presumably to avoid the coldness of the office.
the mailing rm uncle had a laminated cert proudly displayed thanking him for 30 yrs of service dated yr 2000. tts decades of wrk n association to a place (like a 2nd hm)... imagine having to leave all these suddenly?
no wonder fong yin had tears in her eyes. she's the woman who sat behind me these past 2wks. i think she treated me as the daughter she nv had.. i used to think she was queer frm how much revealed to me abt her life on my first few days. but soon, i got used to listening to her stories n at times, i got quite emo when i listened to them.
her climb to the top at citibank with only an o-lvl cert, her love for her only son tt made her leave the job she loved so much n her battle with breast cancer. i hv always admired cancer survivors but i hv nv heard a live recount of the radiation sessions, the vomitting, the hair fall, the probing of ur most intimate areas by scary doctors with strange instruments. eek!
n scarier still was how they removed the lump n finally the whole breast. it wasn't like i imagined it to be. n the scars streaking down frm her armpit to her chest; pained me just by looking. its tough, n they r strong ppl. i doubt if faced with the same prob, i will hv the courage to live through lor. :(
oh man, i feel like i hv matured overnight.
i wanted to get her flowers but i tot tt wld kinda be over-the-top so i was pretty overwhelmed when she gave me ferraro rochers, hugged me n when she took me to the shreadder machine n shreadded her diary coz it held, "memories of this place tt i dun wanna keep."
sighs. forever only exists in fairytales.
happier stuff......... lantern festival/mooncake feasting day!
a broker fren gave us our first mooncakes for the yr - baked double yolk.
i was initially totally in awe of the brand... but seriously, they didn't taste all tt spectacular. but st regis muz hv been pretty hip this yr coz i dun rmbr seeing them set up booths previously.. however, i felt tt their individually wrapped toothpicks for sampling is redundant n v unfriendly to the environment. =X
munch munch munch.....
mama seemed to like marriot hotel this yr... she bought snowskins frm there for the grandparents n the neighbours... however, i only fancy the box with actual embroidery ribbon!! preeeety~
mixed snowskin... tasted like plasticine to me though.
mix n matched quarters...
nxt up was frm intercontinental but i doubt they were v gd since they
UPDATE: my bro just reminded me how it tasted.. the chocolate n rum wasn't mixed evenly so the choc parts were gd but the rum part was soooo overbearing tt it tasted medicinal! tsk tsk.. rushing to produce till standard drop. BAAAAAAD!
another st regis gift frm mama's counterpart..
bloody mary mooncakes..
no alchohol taste. SAD! red outside, yellow inside, super look like ang ku kueh! n the inside is lotus paste so even more like ang ku kueh. =P
daddy takes a bite n remarked: THIS IS BLOODY NO GOOD!
his sudden outburst made di roll around on the floor laughing...
the nicest of this yr goes to raffles hotel. chocolate champagne snowskin.... =D
i heard goodwood park wasn't bad too. the chempedak n durian was apparently solid stuff.. anyway, the queue at change alley proved its standard. but no one gave those to us n mama only hv a buy one policy per yr to avoid being excessively extravagant. I WANT MANGO POMELO, arrrghhh! =(
daddy: "ahhh, no one can match my milo!"
thickskin daooooo~
this yr's snowskin SUCKED!!!!
i miss these piggies in baskets.. i used to squat ages at the cakeshop choosing my fav basket colour when the inside r actually all the same n not tt i keep the basket afterward anyway. haha.
i used to play with these battery-operated cartoon characters too! we wld compete whose had the longer music but now, i find the screechy "music", noisy. hee.
ooh... the neighbour just came by with tung lok.. i shall go n taste it.
tootles~
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