Wednesday Rants

Do you know what I hate about my body? My nose! My bloody nose.

I have this ultra sensitive nose like a dog, any change of the weather, food at a distance, or signs of getting sick soon, my nose will usually gives the first indication of torturing me with non-stop sneezes, blocked nose and teary eyes.

Today, I had the attack again. It all started with yesterday with serious sinus in the morning, then it developed to slight fever and then by the time I hit the bed, my whole body just weakened and shoulders aching from the fever. Thought I could sleep through the night, but the stupiak hubby came home only at 3am after his company function (dunno it's true not!) and snored the whole night long till I spent the rest of the hours counting sheep in bed. WTF!

And now? My freaking nose is all blocked and I have to breathe through my pathetic mouth. Been feeling floaty the entire day but just couldn't take the time off to go see the doc or head home to rest. The Phuket event is nearing and I have to remind myself that I can't fall sick. All right, I will do myself a favour and leave the office now to go see the doc for some magic remedies...ciao!

By the way, my tasks are done, I is so glad :
1. Price list for the new products - checked!
2. Presentation tmr to brief internal staff on the conference in Phuket3 - checked!
3. Ensure the preparations for the triathlon challenge is well taken care of (action list, R&R, etc) - also checked!

but more work rolling in.....sigh...

Been Busy La

Aye, weekend comes and goes, just not enough to rest my tired brain and restless body.
Work has piled up tremendously cos' the boss has been throwing me with umpteen work just becos' she wants to get me ready when she goes for her maternity, it's so weird that wherever I go, I would have to go through a tough learning curve in the company, unlike others. No doubt that it is good training, but sometimes it can be quite stressful for the mind.

Here's the outstanding work for this week before flying off to Phuket this Sun:
1. Price list for the new products
2. Presentation tmr to brief internal staff on the conference in Phuket
3. Ensure the preparations for the triathlon challenge is well taken care of (action list, R&R, etc)
4. Getting prepared to be arrowed as emcee for the entire event. Damn, I dread it. I have stage fright, esp. addressing to one chunk of people I haven't met. The CEO and MD will also be there, so if I fumbled....that's it man...image down the drain.

Well, for consolation, the hubby is joining me in Phuket after my event is over! I is so excited about it! It will be his 1st trip to Phuket (but my 4th, haha!), and I is gonna be his tour guide to bring him to eat good and cheap seafood, massage and spa, buy levis jeans and sun tan at Patong Beach. I think he is more keen to visit ah-go-go bars to see scandily dressed char bors with star shaped stickers over their nipples..*LOL* I think it will be a good break for both us since it has been over 9 months since we last travelled together =)

Have a good week ahead people!

Catching Da Vinci Code Tonight

Have been earnestly looking forward to catching Da Vinci Code on screen since last year, and now it is finally launched in Singapore! Those who have read the book like I did, will know how exciting the sequel is, but but...I've read in the papers on bad critics for the show, that it is slow and boring and it failed to live up to the excitement the book has promised. And that Tom Hanks' lack of chemistry with his female actress also contributed to the failure of the movie. It is 2-stars worth only you know? I is very disappointed lor. But with free tickets tonight, I should not attempt to set any expectations, just go, enjoy the set, the aircon, the company (yeah, going to meet both Jeff and Serene!) and the yummy POPCORN! I is so happy!

Will give a movie review tmr..if have the time =)

Missed ANZ Already

Actually, I missed the cool weather most la...hate the hot and humid Singapore here, was perspiring like hell when out the doors of Changi Airport that night I landed. If only someone can shift our entire island to down under beside Aussie, then we can juz jolly ride up and not spend a cocka-nadan 8hrs on the plane! Aye!


The lok lok kok kok motel we stayed in Auckland. Can form an orgey there with the extra bed, haha. And you know how much I hate about hotels in motels/hotels in ang moh countries? They dun have the habit of providing bedroom slippers for their guests, so often I have to tip toe into the bathrooms cos' it's freaking bloody cold in the room lor!


This is a quite cool bathroom design I like, simple and space-saving. I think I'm obssessed with taking pics of my hotel rooms (and toilets!), did you realise that?? Hah!


It was dark and gloomy in Auckland. Damn freaking cold, even the heater in the room didn't help much!


The miserable shopping mall in Sydney. Was desperately looking for a pair of shoes to replace my tattered and torn booties but no have! Sadz!


The busy street right outside my Sydney service apartment. It's in the heart of Chinatown, so we felt so like home staying there, seeing so many Asians like us, but with wierd Aussie punt ascent la.


While we waited for our lugguage to be out from the belt at the Melbourne domestic airport, we had the chance to admire and drool at the latest Benz. What a way to advertise! Cool!


The yellow cabs, super expensive, the meter runs faster than your heartbeat!


The typical street-like in Melbourne, juz outside HB's office in Conventry Street.


The morning before we head home back to S'pore, I zoomed around the vicinity near my apartment and stomped by this tramp station. It's so old-fashion that Sydney still has these electric trams around the streets.


Don't you just love these cute things? Colourful cakes for wonderful occasions. PS: they are not cheap ok!


Proudly introduce you - *Kangga*
He is my new toy I bought at the Melbourne Int'l Airport. First fell in love with it when I was in a souvenir shop near my apt, but I refuse to buy it cos' it cost abt A$23. Then I met him again in one of the shops in the airport, this time, it's priced at A$19.95 and it comes with a big gold medal chocolate round the neck! Cheap cheap! I think fate brought us back together again, so I bought him with my last twenty bucks in the wallet. Hee..I is happy!


Bought these macadamia nuts for my 2 gals. They love it!

Home is Good

I'm back! Yes, I'm back...

Sorry for not blogging, the hotels in ANZ really sucked. Our first night in Auckland, the internet service was down country-wide, and for Aussie, both hotels in Sydney and Melbourne didn't have WIFI in the room, only dial-up which we cldn't access. So basically we lost touch of the civil world last week, only managed to hop from company to company for meetings, meetings and more meetings.

The colleagues all commented that it was a "shiok" trip for me. Hey, what "shiok"? It was no joke ok? We had to rush from place to place and sometimes had to miss a meal to ensure that we arrive punctually at our disty's place. Australians are quite time-conscious, so we tried our best to be on time, except once when the MD's alarm didn't work and we had to wait 15mins for him at the hotel lobby to start the day's hectic schedule. And mind you, their cab fares are so bloody expensive. I was checking out their meter and horrors of horrors, the meter jumps every 3 seconds!! So let say if the journey takes you 30mins, you probably will end up having to pay about A$40 for the entire trip!

NZ seems to be a laid back place to me, once you are out of the airport and down the road, you see nothing but green patches of grass, cows in the lawn, calm sea and of cos' the sky! I don't remember seeing a single soul walking on the streets, it's seems more like a ghost town. haha. For Sydney, the first day's weather was gloomy and dark, it seems like the sky is going to erupt into a major storm, but surprisingly, it cleared before sunset and the next day's weather was bright and sunny with cooling breeze. Melbourne was ok, except that the night at HB Tan's place for dinner, the weather went down to as low as 10 degrees, so when he opened the sliding door for a smoke, we all crammed up in his living room and teeth chattering with cold. Luckily he offered us wine, so it felt all warm and nice inside abide the aircon weather at night. Can you believe it? There were only 4 of us but we managed to finish up 4 bottles of red wine and 1 bottle of Port. If I think I was sober enough to remember, I had 5 glasses of wine altogether that night. My alcohol threshold has weakened since I've retired from the partying days, so this time with 5 glasses, I think it's already a consolation. haha. I think the best part of the dinner at HB's place was the plate of oysters. Talking about it makes me salivate. I've tasted many types of oysters, but those which he served were really fresh and tasty. Those were the South Australian ones, as compared to the Sydney Rocks made available here in Singapore, they are really big and juicy. If there were no sushi, I could have walloped 10 of them that night and end up going back to the hotel room and hump the wall, muhaha!

And did I mention that I left my made-in-china booties in Melbourne? I was so pissed that the booties gave way the very first day on my trip. Damn, the fake PVC skin started to peel when I walked in them for the 1st hour and thereafter they just keep on peeling like bad skin everyday when I wore them. So embarrassed wearing them to the business meetings that I gave up and changed my attire on my 3rd day visit! You see, I wore my green adidas with jeans when I boarded the plane and the boots were the only pair I brought to go with my formal wear. So with the boots giving way, I decided to top my black blazar with the jeans and sneakers. Good thing the MD didn't comment anything, I mean I didn't have a choice too cos' I didn't have the time to shop for a new pair of shoes, the shopping malls all close as early as 5pm. Though I had the chance to do some light shopping (like for only 30mins?), I stormed around this shopping mall near my Sydney hotel, but to only realise that it cost as much as A$89 for a pair of china imported court shoes. Siao! I could easily bought 3 pairs of nice shoes from Charles & Keith or even in Far East Plaza. And those shoes weren't fantastically nice too. So I dropped the idea and bought myself a khaki sweater at the open bazaar instead. Heehee.. talk about being a shopaholic.

Photos will be up in the next blog, promise promise...*wink*

Jetset to ANZ....arrhhh...Long Flight to Catch..

Oh well, have juz checked-in and now using free internet in the airport, my flight is leaving in half an hr's time.

Guess what, was having dinner at Pasta Fresca earlier and when we called for the bill, we were shocked that someone by the name of "Veronica Fan" has already settled our table's bill!! We swear that we know no one by that name, but why is it that she has paid our dinner? Weird. I was joking that that lady might be the hubby's secret admirer or something, haha.

Aye..how i dread the long flight later. It's a freaking 9hrs and 40mins to Auckland ok? I think I will juz die in the plane with boredom and lack of sleep. You know how uncomfortable economy seats are? Sigh. Miss the hubby liao..

Gotta go..they are announcing for gate boarding liao...coming lah coming lah...

New Pics Taken from New Phone - Love 'em!

These are some of the first few pics I took from my new toy! Nice not?


My two darlings - the hubby and niece


Queuing outside Ramen Ramen last Sat.


My spicy but not-so spicy ramen...yums!


Oh, Ramen Ramen has some cool decor in their restaurant..i love these cartoon illustrations on the wall..make the eating place so vibrant and lively.


This one not taken from my new phone, that explains the poor quality. haha..Motorola sucks! Nokia rawks!
Taken while queuing to buy my new phone, the queue was super long ok, I only got my phone one and half hrs later in the queue! Sigh...good things must wait!

Don't You Juz Dread Writing Speeches?

I'm mental blocked. brained freezed.

Juz finished a 2-page speech for the MD for our NZ event next Monday. Why issit that MDs or CEOs doesn't write their own speeches? Afterall they are the ones who are speaking and they should know what they wanna write. We obviously have the slightest idea to what he should speak. But sometimes when they are narrating (yeh, I used the word narrating, cos' they are purely reading from script!), boy, I feel so proud of myself, cos' they are actually speaking on behalf of us, they are our VOICE, our puppets! They speak on what we want to say, so add more pointers in one paragraph, you see them panting and grasping for breath completing the sentences. Haha..serve them right.

So people, dun be fooled next time you hear the Ministers giving speeches. They might just be prepared by their Corp Comms unit or right/left-hand men. You think they so free can come up with such bombarstic speeches over the night ah? Nay....nay..boo..boo..

Ok, back to vetting the speech now...*yawn*

Nose Ran Away

After so long, the flu bug attacked again last Friday. Was sneezing non-stop the moment I woke up in the morning, so I took the day off to eat breakfast with the hubby before he sent me to the clinic. Slept through the entire day and catching up with the backlogged episodes of Da Chang Jin I missed while in Phuket. Now I'm way ahead on track cos the hubby and I spent the entire weekend VCD-marathon-ing, I think we have like finished 10 over episodes?? Haha..

Eniwei, I was kinda happy that the hubby "dated" me last Saturday evening. As usual, we did our routine housework and nua-ing at home. The he said he's gonna bring me to this new ramen place at Railmall. I took some pics using my new phone but haven't uploaded them yet. Stay tuned, yah? The restaurant is tucked at one corner of the mall, was pretty packed when we reached at 7pm, but we didn't have to wait long cos' the turnover was quite quick. That's mainly becos' their serving time is pretty fast, we sat down and abt 5mins later, we were served our pipping hot and yummy ramen. Oh, by the way, the restaurant's name is "Ramen Ramen". I had the spicy ramen, but requested for the less spicy soup broth, Hubby had their chef's recommendation - Ramen Chitsu (Ramen with Cheese). We also shared the Tori Karaage, not too bad as starter but slightly oily. It was very satisfying but Hubby complaint that his soup base is a little too saltish for his liking, he prefered mine. kekeke...see, he always makes the wrong choice when comes to ordering his own food.

After the ramen, the hubby said he craved for Mac's chocolate sundae, we were debating which Mac outlet to go, in the end, settled for the West Coast Park one cos' he claimed that place is more romantic, we can go for a brisk walk at the Park after the sundae mah, he said. But haha..what coincidence, it was pouring cats and dogs in West Coast, so we only settled for a sundae and then quickly got home to catch Chang Jin again.

Sunday was spent swimming at Sis's place. Little megen had tremendous fun at the baby pool where we played slide and water guns. The lucky gal also has a barbie doll in jet-ski, damn power ok, you switch it on and it can propel in the waters with the barbie riding on it. Chio!

And yes, the decision is finally out - I'm flying to Aussie next Sun. What a dread, the itinerary is super packed to the brim and what the hell, I don't even know what marketing plans to discuss with these distys!!

The Long Awaited....NEW PHONE!!

Oh, did I mention that I bought myself a new mobile over the weekend?

Hee...I was on the flight back from Phuket reading the papers when I discovered to my delight that M1 and Handphone shop are holding a roadshow at Suntec, having unbelievable promotions for new subscribers and upgraders on most of the new models.

I immediately fell in love with the sleek and modern look of the Nokia 6280 when I visited the roadshow..



Cos my contract with M1 juz ended, to re-new another 2 yrs contract with them and trade in my old 6250 for the 6280, I only need to top up a mere $148! So I grabbed and queued for a total of 1.5hrs at the roadshow for this new toy!!

I is so excited! *screams*

The camera works juz like a normal digicam. You turn it horizontally to take your pics, and they have the zooming buttons and photo-clicking button on top of it. How cool! Oh yeh, it's a 3G phone, but I have yet to bring it to M1 to exchange for a 3G SIM card, will do so this weekend. Hiaks.

But fret. I missed playing mahjong on my old phone. Have forgotten where I have downloaded it from liao. *sob*

Pics Blogging Todae

I'm just gonna photo-blog today, cos' going for a meeting later, no time, no time..


My room in Novotel. The block was recently renovated, not becos' of the Tsunami, Novotel wasn't affect by it cos' it was located up over the slope. Whiny colleague's room is juz below mine.


My room has the spectacular view of the Patong Beach. Whiny biatch dun get it, she only sees the trees..haha!


Boss's hubby wanted to do a coffin donation to the poors so our guide brought us to this temple owned by some foundation/association. They are the ones who rendered the most help and donated the numerous coffins for those who died during the Tsunami. These coffins are reserved for the poors who can't afford to pay for their family's funeral. I didn't donate coffins, I donated money instead ~ 200 baht.


Some of the gruesome photos of the dead bodies. It was heart-wrenching, most of them were naked as their clothings were washed away by the strong waves.


Patong beached is pretty much cleaned up now. It's as good as our East Coast Beach, or even better! Moonsoon is approaching, so no one's really swimming in the sea.


The weather was terribly HOT during our stay. Was like about 34-35 degrees? If only I have brought my swim wear along, then I can tan and nua the whole morning on Sat.


Tuk Tuk in Phuket. It's so different from the Tuk Tuk we took in Bangkok. This is more spacious and of cos' expensive! We are charged like 100 baht for every trip to and fro the Patong Beach.


I bought a bikini and some beach wears along this stretch of shops..hee! Happy!


Our last stop in Phuket - Wat Cha Long, the famous temple in Phuket. Whiny colleague wanted to go there to get a Buddha pendant for a "FREN"...spent like an hr choosing leh..waste of my time.

That's it folks...till the next blog! Muax!