Off to Bundung, Indonesia

I'd be taking the flight to Bandung, Indonesia this afternoon with Apple & my parents... mainly to visit our poly classmate - Merlin and her 2 kids! Horray, holiday time!~

It's firm... I'm moving on~

I've been blabbering about an opportunity in an earlier post.
It's been confirmed today that I will be accepting the new role in the same company and my start date will be on 4 Oct.

Though the pay is not as expected, but there are other compensations that come in place, so I'm trying it out. Other than a higher pay, the title sounds nice too. It was originally named "Training Co-ordinator", but got changed to "Project Manager" instead. :)

Basically what I'd be doing is a totally new role in Asia Pac in the company so though the JD and scope is defined, not very sure on what I'm getting into. I'm feeling anxious, nervous, excited and nerve-wrecking at the same time. Contradicting, isn't it? It'd also mean that I no longer can "switch off" after office hours as I will have a Blackberry and laptop, so I can work remotely after hours, if needed.

I'd be training the Corporate Services dept on the usage of IT softwares and systems as well as planning project scheduling. The scope seems pretty big in the JD and travelling will be required. So let's see how it goes. :) Good luck to myself! :P

And oh, there were some drama and hoo-ha that went on for the past month. When my current manager knows that I might be moving on, she and her bosses created a perm post for me called "IT Supervisor" and asked if I'd like to take it up. It's a really challenging job and I declined it. After my decline, the post got "removed" and this post now no longer exists... :P Not sure what might happen in future and I'm looking forward to it with an open mind~

Finally passed my FTE today!

After 3 fails, I finally passed my FTE today... If I failed again today, I'd need to reschedule for my FTT on 30th Sept, which I'm totally not willing to do so! Thank God! :)

Photos - My little nephew Ao Yi

Saying hi to me, haha...




isn't he cute? Doesn't cry also... :D


Me with Ao Yi

Another tiring day!

I'm so tired.. Yesterday was Hari Raya, and I was working in the office too.
Worked till 6pm and came home for dinner and had a short rest before heading down to Lakeside to join Apple and the religious group for some vegeterian BBQ Session there. Also saw Lijun once again and it was really funnie how we can chat about everything and laughed all the way through. I think we really clicked! :) And sorry Ben (Lijun's hubby), then you might have felt a bit neglected when the few of us ladies were joking and chatting ard!

Today, went down to city hall again to meet up with Thao for short while. She's taking a 1pm plane tomorrow to Vietnam and I won't be free so met up with her today. Tomorrow, will be heading to BBDC for my theory lessons... :P

After the short meetup, took MRT to Lakeside to met up with Sam & his wife. We went to Junwei & Lucy's house warming. A pretty hot day but nice catchup with them all and I got home before 8pm! :D

Colleague from US visited

My colleague from US, Thao visited me in Singapore. Saw her for the first time yesterday morning when we met up in Chinatown, together with another fren of hers, Kim who came from Vietnam and can't speak English. It's pretty amazing, how we've never met before but know each other so well as we practically chat a lot on AIM for work related stuffs and also sometime juz simply chat :)

Brought them to Chinatown to walk walk see see and then to Clark Quay. After that we strolled to Funan IT mall, City Hall, Suntec, Esplanade, Merlion and finally had dinner at Lau Pat Sat. Hoho.. I'm not one who go out to shop a lot, so I actually lost my way when walking to Raffles MRT from Lau Pat Sat... We also took quite a lot of pics, but they're all in Thao's camera.. So I won't be able to upload as yet...

And today, we had planned to go to the Southern Ridges, but it was raining since early morning so that had to be cancelled. In the end, we met up at 2pm in Bugis and I brought them around the place again. After some walks, we took bus back to my home, so they can see what a typical Singapore HDB flat looks like. Then we headed to the coffee shop opposite my home for dinner, together with my parents. They also had some insight on what Hungry Ghost Festival and mid-Autumn Festival are like and my dad even brought us all to watch the getai... LOL... It was funny how they requested to take pics with my parents and they gladly obliged.. My dad is not one who take pics.. :P

After watching the getai, took them on a ride on the LRT and they mentioned how amazing that it's driverless and how the windows "opaqued" out when we reach flats... tsk tsk.. Honestly, I dun remember how that happen and can't explain to them too... It was a great weekend with them out, though really tiring. :)

haha... I failed practical 1.03 for today

I failed today.. my 3rd lesson in practical driving and I failed it.. Instructor said I was too tired and not concentrating enough and my braking still not smooth enough.. But I should be good on my next lesson... Hopefully~

Gym & exercise session

Per Apple's suggestion, we went to the gym this morning to exercise. There were supposed to be about 10 of us ladies... but in the end, a lot couldn't make it, but we still went ahead. It's been so long since I last saw Apple's sec skool fren Lijun and we had a great time catching up, since we were the earliest. Other than the 3 of us, there were also Lvying and her fren and Zichun n her fren.. Sorry ladies, cannot recall your names! Thanks Chun for the delicious and healthy sandwiches you made for us!

We did some workout in the gym and I showed Apple & Lijun what kind of exercises I did in Contour Express previously and I think it's pretty difficult for them, like how I felt when I first learnt those... LOL... After that, had wanted to do for hair treatment with Apple, however, I did bring along the receipt, so had to come home and pick it up before meeting Apple at West Mall again. And to our dismay, the shop has shifted location. I called and found that it's re-located to Lake side MRT so we took the train there... It's super crowded but a nice feeling to get the hair treated as I had some spilt ends and my scalp's really oily!

My first practical lesson

Silly me! All along I tot that I have to pass my advance theory before I can book for practical lessons at BBDC. It's more logical isn't it? Since ATT will tell u how the car works etc, before you go for practical lessons. But actually it's NOT the case. As long as I passed the basic theory test, I can apply for the PDL (Which I really did right after I secured my BTT) and I left it there for almost a month without realising I can go for practical lessons.

So after speaking to ZQ before the K-session on Sunday evening, I went to BBDC to top with my $$ before booking for my practical lessons. I'm having mixed feelings actually.. coz all along I've no guts to go learn driving. I had my first practical lesson tonight and it was not as bad as I thought it will be. I think I made the right choice by going to BBDC instead of private.. coz I realised how the circuit really helps! Never tot I will be in the driver's seat controlling the car...

Naturally will be nervous and stiff on the first lesson and din have much chance to really drive a lot. Next lesson will be coming Sun afternoon, hope I can do better then! Gambatte!

I'm 28 today!

Gosh, can't believe time really flies. I'm reaching my 3s in 2 years' time!
Thanks everyone for the wishes over MSN, Facebook and sms today.
Had a really great afternoon today! Hee...
And dad cooked mee suah for my birthday too..



I feel blessed!~

And oh, Sat nite during the religious class, everyone celebrated my birthday for me too.. Haha.. At that instance, I feel I'm too old for celebrations! And sun nite, went to K with Apple, TM, Barry, Lvying & ZQ... Nice feeling after not K-ing for so long.. And I dunno all the new songs! I'm into oldies! Haha...