Running nose

Breathing with my mouth for the past few hours cos my nose was stuffed with tissue to stop the gushing of muscus.  Forgot to get Clarinase cos was too busy shopping at Vivocity and there was no more medication at home.  It was still bearable when I was there(my nose knew I had other priorities..haha!) but the dripping got worse once I reached home, not forgetting that I polished off a bag of Red Rock Deli Honey Mustard Djon chips too.  I hope it goes away tomorrow after a night of sleep!!I can feel the onset of a fever.  I need to refuel.

Siew Ching’s wedding…

Just came back from Siew Ching’s wedding held at Hotel Rendeveous today.  It ended pretty early cos the dinner started on time which was very good!

The dinner course was pretty spaced out and wasn’t too rushed too. The standard of service was so so but could be better though cos some servers didn’t look like they were given proper training on the distribution of food.  Food were left dangling from dishes/bowls.  Nice food overall!!:)

Killer heels. I nearly twisted my anke while walking to the hotel. Thank goodness I was able to balance myself in time…Phew!

Pretty, pretty…

Cindy and Shyling

How many bags do you have?

Bags Galore!!!

My current collection stands at 17 and this is not all of them. These are just the bags that I use more frequently. I don’t really buy branded bags… the most expensive one would be the “mega heavy” red Guess bag which is one of my favs. i guess you can never have enough of bags!!!

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自拍照5张!!

Haha.. having a “Me, Myself and I” moment at home with my Sony Ericsson hp.  Notice how I only take photos on my right cos I look better on that side…hahah..I look totally different on the left.. I think the Elvis one is damn funny…

Blow wind(or rather the fan) blow……

Sans colour

Trying my best to kek the dimples….

1 more time, SMILE!!!

Female version of Elvis..Wahahaaha..Did this using the frame shot in the phone.Had a hard time trying to take this pic cos I had to aim my face at the slot using the mirror.

Trip To Singapore Zoo…

Going to upload some of the pics which I took 1 month ago when I was at the zoo.  That Geraidine hasn’t uploaded her pics yet so mine’s limited cos my camera’s battery ran out 25 mins later cos I din charge them  and I already told Gerai to bring one.  Hmm.. a pretty enjoyable trip it was although there was a slight drizzle in the early afternoon.  We managed to catch most of the animal shows I think. Spent about 5 hours just walking around in the Zoo to look at the animals.  My favourite is the Polar Bear!!!!  He jus looks so huggable.. aiyo.  Take a look at my pics and you will know….

I still remember seeing the white tigers during my first trip in the zoo in primary school days.  But I think they were still kept in cages if my memory’s serving me correctly, and not in such natural enclosures. I guess the zoo must have shifted them or underwent some revamp/upgrade which is good.

This was at the Elephant show when the elephant was trying to turn itself on the log, displaying its fine sense of balance.

Not much photos here cos we were standing quite a distance away from the stage.

Mr and Miss/Mrs Girrafe were pretty lonely when we came by to their habitats. Same goes to the zebras and some other animals.  I guess everyone’s having their oohs and aahs at the more exquisite animals.

The snake was actually try to eat up the 2 dead mice inside its enclosure.  Notice one of them lying by it’s side already dead.  It was dragging the other one right in front of us, as if to show us that it was having “fun”.

Tang Tang Tang Tang!!!!!

The one swimming in the water is mother bear while Inuka’s basking in the sun near the chilled room.

Shanghai Trip in June

I know it’s been 3 months plus since my trip to Shanghai.  Decided to get my lazy body off the bed to do some blogging and show some random photos which I took during this trip. (Might not be in order of dates)

Cheng Huang Miao

We had one of our breakfast at the famous “Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao”.  There’s 4 storeys in the building to cater to different types of customers.  The first being a takeaway outlet where you buy and eat on the streets, 2nd was something like a fastfood outlet so you eat and go off and that’s the one with the longest q normally.  We went to the 3rd level.  The queuing time wasn’t too bad.  Seems like the higher you go, the pricer the items were and more variety.  Didn’t venture upwards to the last level though. Perhaps the next time ba.

Only the 2 “longs” of xiao long baos in the foregrd belong to our table as we were actually sharing a table with another elderly couple who were also Singaporeans.   I must say it’s really easy to identify ourselves with one other from the way we speak and behave..haha. We couldn’t possibly polish off 4 ”longs” of xlb ourselves honestly.  Had a pretty good conversation with them and got to know that they were going to Wuxi which happened to be in the news for the overwhelming amount of algae in the water.  I counted the number of folds on 1 xlb and there were exactly 18.  Counted once in Ding Tai Feng too but I think there’s more than 18 there.  Is 18 the minimum?  Anyway it was an enjoyable breakfast:)  The soup in the xlb was definitely sweeter than those in Singapore and I personally prefer our version of it.  But we went back there on our 2nd last day to eat again..wahaha.  I’m drinking from the super big bao on our 2nd visit below..Hee

Nanjing Road Pesdestrian Mall

This is a whole stretch of shopping malls and departmental stores along Nanjing Road. Lots of shops selling local food and shopping malls but the fashion is not to my style so I din get anything there.  Look at the sheer number of people shopping there and this is just the beginning of the 1-2km pavement.  There’s 1.3 billion people in China leh!!

We got our tickets for the side trips from the little tourist booths though.

Wasn’t a good experience but well at least we got to know the culture of how things work there.

Pearl on the Bund

A great candid shot by Lijuan on Lingzhi when she was eating the Fruit Hulu.  Super sweet but it was good especially on the kiwi and tomato.  Can’t blame me.. I can have a ultra sweet tooth if the craving ever strikes(normally once a month:S).

Haha.. This photo turned out loop-sided lah.. so I rotated it.  Most of the photos here are not photo shopped by the way except to change image size and adding of my blogsite address.

You can see that some of the pics are are not well-taken(blur, not clear, out of focus. blah blah blah).  Well lousy camera and lousy photographer..so please dun expect much..hahah.

Typical Streetlife

Not bad huh, I got almost all forms of transportation captured here.

Bicycles, Scooters, Buses, Taxis, Normal Cars.

A street full of Pepsi adverts

Water Village aka Shui Xiang – Zhouzhuang

This is one of the best picture which I like out of this trip.  I even set it as my wallpaer cos it made me feel like I was still on the waterboat when I looked at it.  Zhouzhuang is a very commercialised water village now.

There were so many tourists when we were there.

A better place to go would be Xi Tang which Lijuan also recommended.

We asked the auntie who was rowing the boat if she could sing for us but she wanted us to pay additional charges. Can’t blame them as they rely on tourism industry to survive.

Haha.. the funny thing was when we heard the boat rower in front of us singing, we asked our auntie to speed up so that we could hear her sing for free.

A funny thing happened on this trip.  There was this guy who was in our tour group as well and he was so excited to know that both of us were Singaporeans at the end of the trip.  He didn’t know where we came from cos we din really talk to him much.  Anyway after the trip, we met up with Lijuan and Kelvin for dinner and we actually received weird smses from him!! It was obviously the tour guide who gave him our number because he was the only one who had it.(We had to exchange contacts at the ticketing booth when we made our booking for the trip so that we could meet up.  It was Lijuan’s extra China number for visitors actually so thank goodness)
He called us at first for our Singapore contact numbers but we didn’t give it to him cos he was jus too weird about it.  We sort of said to sms him our email as a form of courtesy and ended the call quick.  Next came the smses. His first message was like “Can we be friends?” Something like that abd when we did not reply him, he came back with ” I’m just a lonely guy looking for more friends and mean no harm.  Do you look down on me? Am I right?” All of us were just like flabbergusted and laughing out.  I mean come on, a guy with common sense wouldn’t send out such messages to gals isn’t it?  He sent a series of smses but we ignored him.  He actually had the guts to call us early in the next morning!! I was about to pick up the phone to scold him when the prepaid SIM card ran out of value.  Lucky for him cos I was pretty irritated by then.

Hangzhou, Nanjing etc

The silk factories use this machine to get the silk out of the cocoons.

The trip to Hangzhou wasn’t too bad.  Nice scenery and cool weather.  Nanjing was just boring, boring boring and we had spent 4-5 freaking hours on the lok-kok train just to get there.  (I would say a total disaster cos it was raining.  The only place worth was to the Sun Yet Sen Memorial where his body was laid)

On the train it was 3 person to a mini bench.  I would just say it was too close for comfort(non at all!!). But it did open up my eyes to how life was there so I’m pretty ok with it.   The gap between the middle class and the poor is definitely wide so don’t even talk about the gap between the rich and poor.

Food and Miscellaneous Pics

They’re not spicy at all…….

The next one is my favourite cos it was sweet and warm… something different.

The ones at DTF here suxs.

Look at the San Cham Ba that Kel is holding!!  It’s a full pot there!!!

Tried out the KFC there.  Not much diff.  They seem to sell egg-tarts everywhere.

Smile!!!

Finally, a pretty pic of 3 ladys and 2 unborn babies in Shanghai!!!!! ( This was taken in XinTianDi which is like Clarke Quay – full of foreigners and tourists with lots of pubs, ktvs and restaurants)

Some other things which I didn’t write about was our tailor made clothes and shopping bargains… I’m too tired now.. Will write about that in my next trip!!

MSN Quake which leads to No Emails Day

I was reading the news on the earthquake that was felt by many on our little island this evening when an ex-colleague of mine asked if I had felt the tremors. There’s a lot of hype on how the buildings were shaking for such a long time.  One of my ex-temamates even smsed me! He had felt it in his house and all of his family members ran out.  ( A little history: We had experienced the earthquake in Mar in our office together.  I felt the ground swaying and went over to his cubicle to see if he felt anything or if I was just dreaming.  That was my first “swaying” experience and I dunno why my first instinct was “earthquake!!”. ) Ok back to what I wanted to say, I didn’t feel any tremors today anyway cos I was on my way to tuition and the place was situated in a relatively low area. This EC said she didn’t too and so I thought I would give her an “MSN quake” aka the “Nudge” so she would see something shaking..haha. All of a sudden I had this silly idea that MSN should have a MSN Nudge day!! Everyone would log in at a certain timing and give every person on ur contact list a nudge to let them know that you are still alive and kicking.  This can lead to conversations with the people on your list whom you have never talked to before. I wonder if their servers would be able to take such a load.  We should celebrate such virtual days too since everyone leads a virtual life now.  Or maybe we could have a “No Emails Day!” You can only call up the person or do a video conference instead. How’s that for a change? I can forsee hundreds of execs looking at their BlackBerries every 10 secs to see

why they aren’t receiving any emails.  Haha.. The “No Emails Day” will also mean spending more time on other stuff since you won’t get disrupted by incoming emails and you can concentrate better.  We rely so much on emails to communicate nowadays and you spend time trying to figure out whether the person has any other “motives” for such an email blah blah blah.  Sometimes a call is all that it takes to solve an issue peacefully isn’t it?  The personal touch is diminishing among people.  Of couse, the email is also used to put things in “black and white” so that boss know what’s going on, you can cover ur own ass and make sure the other party fulfils whatever was written or agreed.  A word of warning though, your phone might be flooded with calls since people can’t email you.  You can also spend the day drafting emails and wait till the next day to send them out at one shot..Hahah.

Another one would be the ” No Computer/Laptop Day” But in order for this to work, you either have to make sure that you have lots of documenats in hardcopy to vet or a day full of meetings.  So since there’s hardly any work that can be accomplished, you can have the option to sleep at home or go to work and interact with ur colleagues by having coffee sessions all day long!! Sounds good isn’t it? Hahaha… We ought to give those computers a rest you know.. They work so hard for us and I think most of don’t swtich them off.  Instead they run at 24hours a day.   (Of course if your business requires computers to serve ur customers then u can’t implement this lah!)

I dunno why but I have this notion that Google would probably only be the company that would carry out such stuff..Just look at their April Fool’s jokes.  I haven’t seen other companies providing such “entertainment” to their customers yet:) (If there is, please let me know. I can be such a mountain turtle at times.) They look like fun people to work with, and they have some of the best brains in this Internet business, no doubt about that.

Ok. I think I’m too bored to come up with this kind of crazy thoughts.  It’s 3.25am now.  Time to sleep(If I can)

Letting go in progress……15%

Letting go in progress…… 8%

This is harder than I thought would be.