I saw a dugong

@ Pulau Hantu. Hahahaha....actually it's my friend Dino lah. It happened like this :

Me : [over sms] Hey, remember to bring lunch tom.

Dino : You mad or what?! Tom I'm getting out of the house at 7am!

Me : Up to you. You can either pack lunch or eat seaweed on Pulau Hantu.

Dino : You think I'm a dugong?

and it turned out that there were plenty of seaweed at Hantu!!

Ah Plat's getting married

on 8 March 2007. :)

Time: 11am - 1pm

All other details are not out yet. :)

Out of control

Have you felt like you have lost control of your life during certain periods of your life? I'm feeling like that right now. I'm not even sure what I'm doing anymore and a vision (not personal) of what I'm working towards. But I sure do realised that I've allowed myself to determine my self-worth by the feedback on my work. Ya, it's sad, I know, and I'm trying to get myself out of it.

Wish list

I'm not skiving

The good and bad thing about coming to this place for IT courses is that they are so systematic and structured in their teaching. Why? Everytime we learn a new function, the teacher will first demo, and then ask us to do, and she will repeat the instructions over and over again like a broken record.

I'm not part of the dino gang mah...so anyway, juz now, I kind of like...dozed off...and when I woke up, she was repeating the instructions to 1 dino, while showing to him all over again, so I caught the instructions then follow loh.

So I was surfing the web in order not to sit around and waste time while she gets a good workout walking to and fro the various workstations to demo to the dinos.

Anyway, the dinos have gone for teabreak. It's amazing hor...that the class only has 12 people, and they can like finish ALL the food within minutes!! Everytime we break for teabreak, and I will head to the ladies first and when I come back, everything's gone!!! I wonder if they are here for breakfast and lunch...

Starry starry necklace

I like this necklace. So cute hor??


Saw it on the Tiffany & Co. website. See see only mah....

Realisation

It's therapeutic to be away from the office. I've re-realised that we shouldn't allow others to determine our self-worth. How many times have you felt lousy because you were corrected (or scolded) by someone else? That's because we value ourselves based on how others look at us.

I hope I won't still feel like shit when I return to the office tomorrow...

*sheesh* and I dozed off during this class................ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

IPPT

Having gone to the gym at least 4 times a week for the past few weeks, I still feel so tired running up the stairs. IPPT's next week!!!

Someone pls tell me that I'm dying and I shld just quit my job and go do something I really want to do before I die.

Hmm...maybe I would go Tibet or something, enjoy the friendliness of mountain folks, have hot chocolate while overlooking mountain ranges covered with snow.........

This morning dad reminded me :

"Your car har, 3 yrs already got to send for checking. You prepare about $1.8k for insurance and tax as well."

If I do die, pls incinerate me with my car. It costs me more than my life.

Things that irk me

I hate to attend weddings. It's just a loud affair to tell the world that 2 people are married and have all rights to have sex, that it's ok for the girl to be pregnant cos' they are married!

Do I care? Get married then married loh. It's not illegal to stay together, get pregnant without getting married. What's the big deal?

I don't even feel like getting married as I was flipping through the "Brides" magazine. Here's what they propose :

8 mths to wedding :
1. Set budget - not done.
2. Decide on date - not done.
3. Arrange for folks to meet - not done.
4. Book solemnisation venue - not decided.
5. Start course of facials - only have enough energy to crawl home each day
6. Decide on dinner venue - see above paras
7. Start making up your guest lists - still having nightmares about it, not started.

6 mths to wedding :
1. Find a bridal gown designer - not convinced how much my future husband is willing to part with his money on this
2. Buy/rent groom's wedding suit - he said he has plenty of suits?!?!?!?!?! I don't even want to think about it.
3. Design/buy invitations - not convinced that I shld hold a wedding
4. Choose caterer - see para 3
5. Shop around for photographer/videographer - taking photos with plastic smiles and melting makeup is not my cup of tea
6. Assemble bridal party - see para 3
7. Shop for wedding bands - see blog entry http://laihsia.blogspot.com/2006/11/new-toy.html

With 2+ months to Feb and the way things are going, I think it is not feasible to get married. Period.

After lunch

Everytime I'm alone, I'll start talking to myself in my head. Just random thoughts. One string of thoughts that amused myself was the phrase "don't give me the shit". I was thinking about what I want to say to certain people when this phrase "don't give me the shit" came into mind. The various interpretations of the phrase I thought of :

1. Don't take me for an idiot. What you are saying is not making sense.
2. I don't want to listen to you.
3. Don't give me the work that I shld not be doing (for eg by fellow colleagues and/or boss)
4. Don't give me that dirty look.

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It is well-known that people attend courses because they want a break from office. Like me. We were tasked to do an assignment 45 mins ago, and we're still at it, and I've also finished reading the Brides magazine. I'm not trying to show off but you'll understand why. Tere's the assignment that we were supposed to create :



45 mins. 45 mins of my life gone.

Irresponsible people

I'm attending a 2-day Microsoft Word Advance course. Wanted to learn about macros, style sheets, mail merge etc. Before the class started, the instructor asked us to give a short introduction on ourselves, and what is our level of experience with IT.

1st guy : Hi, I'm XXX from the Home XX, XX Dept, so I protect the seas when you guys are sleeping. (I was wondering if he wanted us to stand up and cheer for him. Instructor asked if he uses MS Word during his tour of duty) Err..no lah. Usually if I want to get somethign done on MS Word, I'll get my men to do it. (Instructor said something like here to pick up some new IT knowledge then.) Ya..learn something new.

I tell you. It's really KNN you know. These dinosaurs who don't know anything come sign up for advance courses. The instructor is having a workout just demostrating on her computer, and then having to walk a few times for each task that she mentioned!!! Waste my time you know!!!!

Anyway, I've already finished checking my mails and reading other people's blogs and now I don't know what else I shld do online for the next 1.5 days! Later shld go Subway @ HV for lunch.

I just looked over and happened to glance at the dinos. Wah...uncles too tired trying to type some stuff and fell asleep. I think maybe his men will come in later and help him finish off the assignment. KNN.

Fishing

Headed down to Pasir Ris pond today to cheer the anglers on. This was what I saw :


Yes. It's a prawn hanging from a tree. Courtesy from my friend, PK. :D

New toy

Tut said something like "You can kinda expect when ah xia will change phone. She won't change phone out of the blue, like ah bit."

So you've got it. Got a new phone cos' my cranky Nokia 6260 likes to restart itself these days. The new phone - Sony Ericsson's Z610i. I'm not exactly celebrating the purchase of the new phone. In fact, I just want to say - KNN.

Yes. KNN. Cos' it cost me $298. I won't spend more than $200 on a bloody phone cos' prices will fall in no time, and then soon you'll see things like $0 with 2-year plan in the papers. Anyway, I wanted to trade-in my Nokia for $100 but the bloody damn software cranked up and now I have to send it to the Nokia service centre before trading it again for cash. KNN.

I bought a Polar heart rate monitor as well. Primarily it's used during the Schwinn spinning classes, so that I can work within my target zone than say, drop dead and die one of these days. Not a bad idea actually to drop dead and die. But nah, I got the watch cos' I was in a bad mood.

It wasn't much of retail therapy cos' I feel more pek chek after all the senseless shopping spree.

Besides the spinning classes, thought the watch would come in handy so that I can time myself for the 2.4km run when training for IPPT. Then I realised it doesn't come with stopwatch function. KNN. What kind of digital watch these days don't come with stopwatch function?! I bet even my nephew's watch come with stopwatch function! KNN!

EL said I can take his Polar instead. By the time I reached the VO2 max settings in the bloody watch, I feel like throwing it out of the window already. Wanted to go jogging initially but after the bloody phone and the bloody VO2 settings, I think my heart rate is almost equivalent to a 15-min jog already. KNN.

Things didn't start off well for buying of rings. We went to Lee Hwa @ PS the other day to purchase wedding bands. KNN. One stupid salesgirl served us.

Me : I'm looking for a wedding band from the Destinee range. It's made of rose gold and has a layer of white gold on top, and a diamond stud in the centre.

Moron : Oh. You hold on. I check. [She went off, and I wondered what the heck she wants to check since all the wedding bands are displayed right before us.]

Me : [Calls after her] Why don't you pass me the catalogue and I show you the design.

Moron : Wait har. I check.

Me : [I look through the display and saw it, and called out to Moron] It's here. No need the catalogue already.

Moron : Ohhh. This one. [Promptly flipped the pages of the catalogue and proudly showed me the ring in the catalogue. Then she took the ring out of the display.] You hold on. I check.

Me : [Turned to EL impatiently and asked him "WHAT THE HELL SHE WANTS TO CHECK THIS TIME?!]

Moron returned after some time with another colleague, with a bundle of rings.

Moron : You try the size first [Then pass me the entire bundle of rings]

At this juncture, I wanted to hurl some nasty feedback (if not vulgarities) on her level of customer service and intelligence. Anyway, I ought to be more gracious cos' shldn't buying wedding bands be a happy occasion? Tried the bands and found one that fit awkwardly.

[Me holding up the entire bundle of rings with one in my finger]

Me : [Fed up.] Excuse me. Can you take out the ring? I can't feel the fit of the ring with all these rings hanging like this.

Moron looked lost for a moment and turned to look at her colleague.

Colleague : [Speaking in mandarin to Moron] You see har. This is the size of the ring [pointing to the one on my finger], then you check the ones in the display and let her try the same size.

I don't care whether she's new or what. Don't waste my time and test my patience as they try to give her on-job-training while I'm buying a fucking ring! Moron looked around the display and found a ring and handed it to me. I tried the ring and it didn't really fit well. I passed the bundle of rings to EL and told him to try. He found a size and the colleague took down our sizes.

Colleague : I call other shops and check whether got size or not. Then I bring over.

Me : [to EL] Do you want to look around for other rings first?

EL : Sure sure. [He really don't give a shit about rings actually]

So the colleague took down our contact no and said he'll call when the rings are here. He called EL today. I told EL to tell the guy to go fly kite. $1200 a ring with this kind of service. These morons should just eat shit and die.

Already very agitated leowz. Too pek chek to carry on with the story on the proposal ring. KNN.