I’ll be home for Christmas...

you can count on me….

yes… after all the hassles of arrangement and coordinations, we finally had decided to go for a retreat during the xmas weekend break. you can read more at my updated post of ‘my travelogue…. (part II)’.

I really am so looking forward to this. first, is bcoz of the resort that we will be stay (it’s just pure therapeutic) and secondly, I can’t wait to get out of this ‘fine city’ that I’m currently located. and finally of coz, what’s more fun than hanging out with good ol’ friends for the jolly season.

see you guys soon… ciao for now…

it’s not that bad...

it’s exactly a week I’ve been in Singapore. all I can say is so far so good.

work is not that hectic yet as JC is currently slowly passing on to me and I am not in full blast yet. just that it was a bit frantic for the first 2 days as we need to rush for the ceo presentation. No problemo.

Vivien, my landlady is very friendly. I had no problem at all socializing with her and her husband. they are very nice people. she even cooked fried noodle, tong sui dessert and salad for me. oh, she even forced me to drink honey ginger for my own good sake. so dear mummy, you don’t have to worry that I will hunger myself anymore.

had dinner with Hana at Bencoolen to catch up after years lost in touch. it was good to hear from her again and congrats on your newly born baby girl. hope we can do more during this 3 months ok.

weekend jog at the serene Bedok reservoir, visiting Kitty Lab at Singapore Expo and a late midnite Starbucks at Pacific Plaza with Terry was as relaxing as usual.

window shopping and Christmas deco sightseeing along Orchard Road with Vivien from day til nite is a pleasant new experience. she’s really an easy going fun lady.

end comes to end, it’s not as bad as I had predicted. or maybe it’s still a ‘honeymoon’ period for me? we shall know the answer when the weeks come soon…

goodbye my KL

some of you said I’m making such a big fuss about my 3 months stay in Singapore. I’m sorry if I’m being such an annoyance but I really don’t know why ever since when I first heard the rumor that they might need me to be in Singapore for few months, my heart immediately sank.

lately I’m not as committed to work as I used to be anymore, and decided to be more devoted to my own life. yes, many of you may say work is part of our life but you do not know how much I had sacrificed my personal time for work which now leads me to keep on asking myself if this is how I want to live my life. my answer is hell no!

since I have made up my mind not to give up my personal time for work, I had started to do things that I like or will like to do for my own pleasure. I have started to spend more time with my family, having dinners and weekends outing with them. I have started to spend more time in my room doing reading while listening to my favorite songs. I have started jogging quite frequent with Jen and sometimes with sis Rachel. I have started chilling out with old friends over dinners and no doubt, Starbucks. I have started to enjoy home facial while taking a short nap.

just when I have started to really enjoy what I do, this piece of news came and bothered me with the thoughts that I need to change my living style and I can’t do what I enjoy doing now anymore. This thought really does disturb me a lot.

I just came back from Aussie trip on Tuesday, and am trying very hard to enjoy the last few days in KL with those that are dear to me before I leave to Singapore tomorrow.

thanks to Kelvino, Nic, Zee Yeen and CK for the good tapas and wine dinner.

thanks to Shearwell, Din Din and Kenny for the ever fun and joyful Kim Gary dinner.

thanks to Dad, Mum, sis Shareen and sis Rachel for the hot hot Thai cuisine in conjunction of Dad’s 61st birthday.

thanks to Kelvino (again), Joyce, Nicole, Ben, Michelle and zonker Mark for the crazy Zouk session.

thanks to Wah, Kent and Jen for the delicious waterfish dinner and bubbly dicey beer.

thanks Jen (again) for the great jogging plus bitching session.

I shall miss you all for the next 3 months and hope I can slot in time to see you all when I’m back here once a month for that few days. Shearwell, Din Din, Jen, Kent and Wah, I hope you guys can really make it to visit me in Singapore ok? :)

ciao guys…. ciao KL….

I’m oh so excited...

all about tomorrow. no, it’s not my big wedding day nor any special date. but when comes tomorrow, there are 2 occasions that will be my first time.

tomorrow morning will be my first time for running long distance after ditching it since secondary school. don’t think I can run all the way through 4.5km but I hope I can finish the whole course within satisfactory time.

and tomorrow evening will be the starting of our aussie trip. this is my first trip with only these 2 fellas but it’s really something that I had been anticipating quite long ago. guys, be kind to me ok :P

oh gosh, I think the butterflies are fluttering in my stomach now. ciao...

Sorry just doesn’t seem to be the hardest word

I hate the feeling being blame for no reason but I also dislike explaining myself as I felt if you had already started seeing things only from your own point of view and pointing fingers at me, there is no need for me to waste my time to talk to you anymore.

if you are too ego to be aware, I would like to strongly state again that he is a staff of KL branch therefore his priority is definitely KL projects and unfortunately yes, I handle all KL project which I did keep you in loop of what is what but maybe you are too busy to even bother.

I had given his 2 months schedule since end of August for you to plan what is the good timing you need him to be in Singapore. I did remind you that his schedule is very pack for the coming 2 months and advices you to plan early. but you were giving me excuses that your client has not confirmed the project hence you can’t make decision until then. fine, I understand things will change inevitably so do my projects.

you only give me few days earlier notice 2 weeks ago needing him to be in Singapore. yes, it’s my fault for not informing you that KL projects has urgent hiccups yet his schedule had drifted slightly. but you have to bear some of the responsibility too for not planning early which I did remind you again and again.

I did not want to point fingers at anyone at that moment as I felt shits do happen and what we need to do is to look for solution. I helped you and give way in certain way in order for you to have proper training time for him. and again yes, it’s my fault that I did not know China embassy will close for a week long which caused him to have no passport on hand to go over Singapore. again I tried to help to arrange him to be in JB on Tuesday so that you and your team can save time travelling all the way to KL just to have the training since you were complaining that you have lots to do in Singapore.

this morning at 7am, he called to inform me the sad news that his grandma had just passed away and I sincerely do believe that he is not feeling good too that this sad news had interrupted our schedule and planning. he is supposed to be entitled for 2 days of compassionate leave and only has to report to work on Wednesday. but he realized that we really do need him urgently and he has voluntarily decided to take the earliest Tuesday noon hour bus to JB to help with the event midnite setup and the next day to concentrate on your training.

for God’s sake, he had just lost his beloved grandma but he is still bearing his responsibility as a cooperative team member in the corner of his mind. and all the fuck you can think of is it’s too last minute and you are very worried if there’s any more hiccups which you will don’t know what to do next and wish I could have just followed your order to send him down to Singapore last 2 weeks ago when you requested.

if this is all that is going on your fucking mind now and sorry is the word that you want to hear from me. So yeah, sorry. I had sent you a sms to say sorry too but if you are reading this and I really do hope you are reading this, that piece of sorry is not the hardest word I can say and frankly, it is not sincerely from my heart. if you want to know why, coz I felt you are the most shallowest (I know it’s grammatically wrong but I want to make it extreme) person in the entire company and all you can think is just you and yourself. the world will not stop if the project is missing 1 team member. the company will not close down if the project is missing 1 team member. to be honest, I am feeling more sorry to know that you are such a big (physically) jerk!