Working in office

Firstly, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Hari Raya Haji & A Happy Thanksgiving. Yes... it's a holiday today but I'm working in office.

Well, nothing bad abt it and I get to earn extra $$... haha... Anyway, I had a great nite last nite having dinner with Apple & Zichun-jie at Lao Di Fang @ Park Mall. It was a really nice and great ladies chat we had, with all kinds of topics in mind. Pretty amazing how we can start from topic A and then link to topics B, C, D and so on... and even ended with topic A again... If not that they were rushing off to meet ZQ for the movie 2012, we'd have chatted through the nite.. LOL.... Thanks ladies for the companion! :)

I went home at about 9 plus and had a bath before turning in for the nite. Today's pretty quiet in the office, given the holidays in SG & US... I feel so..... RELAXED... Heeee.... :D

Religious outing @ Botanic Gardens

Today, we had a gathering for the religious group in Botanic Gardens. It was really nice and interesting and fun! As I've never been there before and not sure of the way, Apple has kindly offered to let me go with her, TM and TM's mum... Haha... So I went to TM's place at about 2 plus. It's very big and there are 2 main entrances. We were early so we took a walk to the Orchid Gardens and waited for the rest there.

Meanwhile, TM took some photos for us:-




Shortly, the rest arrived too and we found a good spot under some shady trees. Zifang then took us on an exercise spree. Haha... It was fun, with such a big group of ppl exercising together and even other ppl joined in the fun, especially a few Caucasian foreigners. Before leaving, the kids even waved bye to us. So cute! After the exercise, we took a walk around the Botanic Gardens and there were so many pretty things and plants to look at, of coz, with lots of photos taken:-


The pretty swan we saw in the lake. We were told, swans alwiz stay in a pair and if the partner die, shortly after the swan won't be able to live anymore... So lomantic....


Apple, Lynn & Me...


me & Lynn trying to post, but I think not nice, haha.. So weird


Me & Chunyi...


I was looking at the squirrels on the tree, din expect to become the background in this photo for these 2 chatty sisters (Jiayi & Zhenyi) from Malaysia... Hee...


Me with dunno wat fruit tree...


Ladies photo, with a little boy...heee..


This is interesting. The ladies have been "jumping" like this for whole evening after this first jump we had while walking. I think it's fun and funny and we were laughing like mad. After that, the ladies jumped a lot more, but I din join in. :p



By 7pm, we were all tired and the sky was getting dark, so we went home respectively. Thanks to the Malaysian aunties for the lift home and I'm sorry I cannot recall your names anymore. :(

Congrats to Hui Then on your wedding!

Last night I attended my poly's Buddhist Society senior wedding!
Congratulations to Hui Then & Steven on your wedding. Nice gathering for my poly Buddhist Society seniors & juniors! :D

I'm so tired....

Ladies' gathering - Making buns

Today I had a great gathering with a group of ladies from the religious class - at TM's house. Actually from morning I wasn't feeling well and went to "bomb" the toilet lots of times but I still went. :D Thanks to TM's mum for the mediaction to stop the diarrhea.

I was glad I joined in and did not miss all the nice and good food & events! At first, I only tot we go there make buns and then eat and go home, but TM's mum prepared so much food for us for steamboat and other fruits and food like wanton etc... Wow, we cannot finish all the food!








The event was nice with Suwen teaching us how to make the buns and it was my first time meeting her. Here are some pics of the "cheng guo" of the baos... All not very nice coz we all first time making:-


I think the one right on the top & on the bottom are mine. And the biggest one in the middle with the egg, is done by Zichun... So cute. :)


Apple was giving me a massage & Zichun holding the baos... Served like a queen, heee...




And finally, a group photo of us ladies with TM taking the pic for us!
From left: Auntie, Suwen, me, Zifang, Zichun & Apple

What a lovely ladies gathering. :D After that, the other ladies left so only left me and Apple. We had a nice chat in TM's room while he went to his parent's room to nap... Hee... At 6 plus, I left and shopped a while at Lot 1 b4 meeting idol for dinner. Dinner was nice too but too bad I din eat a lot as lunch as to overwhelming and not yet digested.

Independent week ahead...

My parents juz went to Granny's house in JB this afternoon and then tmr morning will be taking the coach with Granny to KL, my 3rd uncle's place and be there for 1 week oe so...

This is an independent week for me, I need to do a lot of things at home... Suddenly, feel that parents at home are so nice and I can be so relaxed...

Think I'm falling sick, been sneezing the whole day since I woke up this morning at 8 plus.. and the big ulcer on my tongue is really painful.. :(
Pray that I'd recover soon and stay strong...

Gambatte!!!!

Happy Halloween~

Yesterday was a long day for me.. Took me 1/2 a day to prepare vegetarian shark fin soup and bean curd fried wanton... For a Halloween gathering with my poly seniors from the Buddhist society! It was a really nice catchup and we had some much fun and laughter, especially with the presence of Theodore, Peiling's and Bryant's son... He's almost 2 years old and so so so cute... heee....

It was a pot luck so each of us brought some food. Other than the 2 dishes I "contributed" above, there were other dishes like curry chicken, pasta, salad, agar agar, drinks, bread.... Wow, we can't finish the food... heeee... as it was held in the La Casa Condominium in Woodlands @ Peiling's place, I had a hard time finding the place as it's only less than 2 years old. But it was a really nice place for gathering. Function room and KTV room too. If I knew there's KTV, we'd have brought lots of discs there to sing...

Also, Peiling made it a "fun" party where all of us had to dress up. Most ppl brought along their "dao ju" but I din. However, Peiling has 2 big bags of "costumes" for us to choose from.. From cute ones, to pretty ones, to scary ones.. I din have much choice as I can't put on makeup and wear stuffs on my eyes, so I chose the Halloween gal one... A fat Halloween gal.. hahaha...

We took a lot of pics, but due to laziness, I'm uploading only 1 here, the group photo as the finale:


I love that little pumpkin there.. :D

1 week mark

Today is my one week mark of my lasik surgery. So far so good though sometimes I can feel that in my left eye, there's something inside... Let's see how it will go. I'm still on my eye shield when I sleep at night though the advice from the clinic is first 3 days... Also I feel that my eyes are not as dry as expected, but I'm still conscientiously putting the eye drop every 2-3 hourly... Closer if I remember. :D

Been 2 weeks since I went to the gym.... Feel myself bloating...

Happy 21st Birthday to my sis & Lasik updates

Firstly, Happy 21st Birthday to my kid sister! Today is her birthday and we brought her out to dinner last evening at the market coffeeshop zi char. She had wanted to go to Jack's Place for dinner, but becoz of my last min lasik changes, we had to "jiang jiu" and go to the coffeeshop, else I'd not be able to make it on time for my lasik surgery. I din buy her any presents but gave her some cash to spend instead. I think it's more feasible this way. She can choose what she wants to do with the cash.

Ok, now back to the happening events that took place yesterday... I had my lasik pre-evaluation appointment at 10am in the morning at LSC at Paragon. It was pretty organized and fast even though there are many people at the clinic. The nurses there are nice and polite and helpful. There were quite a lot of tests in the eval and many stations to go to. One thing that really surprised me was.. all along, I tot my myopia for my eyes were around 700, but upon checking, it was almost 1000 on my left eye and 800 on right. I asked the nurse who checked my eyes on that station how that is possible, since my contacts have been 700 for over 4 years and I can see clearly. She said contacts is not very accurate..... Duhz.. No wonder, coz I've not changed my glasses for 3 years since I dun wear them much. :P

After all the tests were done, including the dilation of the pupils, which made my eyes really uncomfortable, I had to wait over 30 mins to see the doc as he was in the surgery. Though I was first in q to see the doc, I still had to wait that long. And the consultation was only less than 10 mins..

After that, I proceeded to the main counter and the executive there explained to me on the differences on the different types of procedures available. My eyes are suitable for all kinds of lasik, and I was free to choose. I had only very slight astig, so it's only if I din take the ex package. But the executive told me the pros and cons of each package, so I decided to take the VISX Wavefront LASIK (IntraLase) which costs abt $4.2k after GST and I'm paying by installments... Duhz..

Originally I had wanted to schedule for the surgery in mid Nov but the executive told me that the sooner the better, so the eval results would not differ a lot. There was an empty slot yesterday night at 8pm and she advised me to take that up, So I can be back in office on Mon... And I did.. I was thinking might as well once and for all, dun drag. Things were happening so fast, my mind was in a whirl... Haha.. I had to rush to a bank in Raffles area and then rush home for dinner with family and take a bath (as no washing of face n hair 48 hours after surgery) and then rush back to Paragon for the surgery. Somemore they called me at 5 plus and see if possible to reach by 7 as doc was available. I rejected and went for the 7.30pm slot instead...

Mum had wanted to accompany me there but as she's working very early everyday so I rejected and went myself and a nurse brought me down to cab stand to take cab after the surgery. Honestly, while I was waiting for my turn at the rest area, I was really nervous and anxious. Glad that the nurses there helped me calm down a lot. After I was equipped with the surgery gownrobe, headwear, "shoes" and mask, I was admitted into the OT. There were quite a number of nurses there and Dr Marc Tay was very assuring and will tell what's the next step that comes along, so I can be mentally prepared. I think the whole procedure took less than 15 mins and there was no pain at all... Just very very smoky feel right after the surgery...

When I got home, I took the sleeping pill immediately but I can't get to sleep... There was a very uncomfortable feeling in my right eye so I took the 2nd sleeping pill. But I guess the eye shield also prevented me from resting. Honestly I dunno what time I fell asleep, but when I woke this morning, my shield were on the floor, hahaha... At least the eyes no longer feel pain or uncomfortable and I can see well. :D I then took the bus down to LSC again for my review. Dr Tay told me my eyes are healing well, but the sharp feeling in the right eye was becoz of the edge of the cornea that was cut. All I need to do is rest well and keep the eye moisturized. And indeed after I reached home a few moments ago, it was ok already. :D

Now life without specs or contact lenses is so convenient! Yeah!!!

No gym for almost 1 week

Hee, I skipped the gym for almost a week due to various reasons... Hopefully I'd be back there soon with my exercise routine!

I had a very nice and wonderful afternoon time today. Really nice and relaxing.

Dinner with Shihua

Today I met up with Shihua for dinner, to celebrate her belated birthday! Though I'm late by over a month, but it's alwiz never too late. :D I reached Bugis at about 6pm and met up with her at about 6.45pm. During the waiting time, I took the chance to visit Illuma, the new shopping there but nothing much, really. Very quiet and there was totally no crowd at all. The aircon was super duper cold and the ceilings are so high. I went to the highest level and when coming down the escalator, I felt as if I'm falling down. Had to hold on the handrail tightly to give myself some security.. Lol... In case if you dunno, I've fears for heights...

After we met up, Shihua suggested walking to City Hall for dinner as she's tired of the food in Bugis, so we walked all the way to Suntec.. She gave a few suggestions but as we go along, she changed her mind and in the end we walked all the way till Suntec for Kenny's Rogers. It's her favourite and I din know till tonight. :D We had a nice catchup over dinner and I'm glad the birthday gal enjoyed herself too. Thanks dear for walking me to the Suntec bus stop and then u had to walk to take the MRT yourself... :)