Reflections

Have been very busy going out that I have had no time to blog. After my exams, everything was lazy lazy lazy. Been going out and slacking at home often, a priviledge I didn't have for 3 1/2 months since I was schooling. And now, December has already come to an end and in Jan, it's back to school already. Sigh. How depressing.

Xmas was a blast, and I am totally broke. Tomorrow New Year's eve is with family. I wanted a different beginning to 2008. 2008 will be a good yr for us and I wanted to enter it being around the people I care about, instead of in a crowded club or party with gyrating strangers who are high and drunk.
2007 didn't begin so well for us and wasnt too good till the end and I'm very particular abt beginning a new yr. I believe if you begin it wrongly, the whole yr will go wrong. I've also learnt to appreciate my family more, thanks to Amriq and I want to be around them this yr.
Usually I'd join them for dinner then rush to leave and felt bad many times. I know they also want me to be around but probably keep telling themselves that I'm young and would rather spend new yrs with my friends.
So this yr, I want to be with them. This is probably the most sincere blog entry since I've started this piece of crap.
I feel like I've accomplished quite a bit this yr and I know 2008 will be the start of better times. Hopefully 2009, I'd move into marriage and who knows what's come after that.

I've realized how many proper "friends" I have this yr and though I keep thinking that some ppl have all the friends in the world, I don't feel any less bad because I think it's important to have a few good ones rather than a bunch of useless ones.
I had a friend who doesn't speak to me due to me not symphatizing about her on-off-on-off-on-on-off-dunno-on-off-?? relationship with her boyfriend and she expects the world to cry along with her. I had so called close friends who didn't bother replying to my sms when I invited them for something.
And frankly I don't quite care.
I was upset initially but I tell myself I already have all I need and want and I do not have the time nor energy to waste on such meaningless people. My hands are already full with doing what needs to be done to accomplish what I want in my life and I'd rather not have them there than have them there so it's okay.
By the way, the new girl in my office seems pretty alright. We chat alot about stuff and I suppose her thinking is similar to mine as shes been in Sg for a long time.
I've also gotten very lazy in work due to the holidays and leave this month so come 2008 I better buck up and ASK FOR A RAISE TOO!

Alas, I have recalled that I didn't post the pics and now that I have changed my stupid Nokia phone to another stupid Nokia phone, the pics are in my old memory card which is up my cupboard and I am too lazy to bring it down. (why cupboard? cup-board.. doesn't make sense.)

So I have taken other pics and will put it up instead.

This pic says it all...



We went this close to the Singapore flyer


Taking a pic by the road?




















Something's not right
























AND THE GRAND FINALE...



Ronald DUI

A year older and none the richer..

It came and gone - my birthday yesterday. Finally turned 23 and it wasn't really a big deal because it felt older. Like after everything and working and schooling and whatever else that has happened in my life, only 23 ah?

Didn't feel very special, probably because it's my stupid OTB exam today and WPL exam on Friday so I spent the day studying. Only went out to Tampines for lunch with Vani at Sakae Sushi because my mum gave us her voucher and went to do Xmas shopping for the kids (not mine) and bought Amriq an Xmas present which I shall not state what it is cos he spies on me!

I spent the $200 I got for my birthday. My parents (+ Vani) were very sweet though. Amriq met me downstairs on 9th Dec at 11.45pm and he wanted to be with me till it was 12am and I was complaining to him that everyone went to sleep and no one at home bothered it was my birthday. I was already feeling down that I couldn't celebrate due to my exam and this made it worst.
After 12am he sent me to my door and the lights were all off and I said perhaps my mum thought I was at home and closed up everything. He opened the door for me and they were lighting my cake and screamed Surprise!!
Boy was I surprised!!!

Apparently Vani came up with the surprise and luckily I told her I was going downstairs to meet Amriq then she msged him and told him to bring me up. I don't know why I told her I was meeting him since they were all "asleep" and it was lucky that I did. She would have been heart-broken if she came out with the cake and found me not at home.

She also gave me a game set - Game of Life. It's pretty fun and we played it twice and stopped after I won. hehe.
Amriq came yesterday as well and he has something special planned for me on 14th after my exam. I am VERY excited!! On 15th, family is having a BBQ to celebrate my bday with my aunt & cousin - both their birthdays are on 12th Dec.

Can't wait.

This year has been a blessed year. It didn't start of right and Amriq and I had loads of quarrels but I appreciate him and my family more than ever and it is such a peaceful feeling to know that my family has finally accepted him as part of my life and I know they know we are definitely getting married although they won't say it yet.

I hope next year will be a better year and I'm damn sure it will be.

I shall conclude this post by saying :-
I might not be cash rich but I am definitely rich in all other ways and that is something we should never take for granted.

New Kid On the Block

We have an addition to our team - she's an analyst to analyze whatever she's supposed to analyze. Hopefully they'd have the decency to train her, unlike in my case where I spent my first few days going through the files of the previous person to figure out what the frig is going on here.
She looks pretty busy though, yes, on her first day, very busy when the boss is not even in town. Tsk, don't make fun okay.

Anyways I heard she has an attitude problem - ya know the type who think they are all that and way too smart and above the rest. I heard only la, who knows. Perhaps she could turn out to be very nice or very nasty.

The $7K-earner gal has made very good friends with her, laughing away (they sit opp each other) since the time the new girl came in in the morning. They even went out to lunch together (I made up something, she loves to eat expensive food. Hell so would I if I earned Seven gazoons). Well, I supposed the new girl hit home since they come from the same country.

I wonder how much this one makes, considering how desperate the bause was to get her in makes me assume she was on a good bargaining end.
He's weird. When I first came in, he was all over me.

NO not in that sense, like totally fussing over me, totally taking care of me, I was like wow got such a boss ah? And now before she came in, he was already fussing over her. Instructing me to include her in every team dinner (remember a few posts ago I complained abt eating with stupid visitors who come) and everything if there was one BEFORE she even signed the frigging contract..

Mad ah? What if she didn't sign? So malu right? I think she's already minding it. Last time someone came down (and he's the global CEO mind you) she made up an excuse saying she was sick and on long MC but I saw her at the lift lobby at office, coming back from lunch.
Didn't bother telling my boss anything. His problem. I'm sure his fussing will die after one or two months.

Hoi, end of yr, increase my pay leh?

Though I've been in this dept 6 mths, I've put up with annoying people who love to make others wait. Isn't that worth, say $500 more?

Back to the new kid on the block. She's been nice (as in first day at work niceness) so far till earlier I thought she was abit odd.
We are supposed to have a gift-exchange in the office on 7th Dec so everyone has to buy something worth $15 and above. we were all discussing what to buy when she said she already bought it (and gave it to me to submit like last week - fast to impress? ) then one guy said "Oh you did? You should have bought the same thing on behalf of the rest of us!" then he carried on laughing.
Our friend just stared at him and went "Uh. OhhhhhhKayyyyy."

What do you think about this one? Rude generally? Or rude for a newbie?
He just laughed it off.
Oh and one more, another guy said buy huge bags of potato chips since its cheap and people like going for the biggest presents. She added "Oh not many women will touch potato chips."
The fella retorted, "Yeah? You'd be surprised."

Strike one fella! Zero newbie!

Oh well. Let's see how it goes. I can't be bothered if she's anti potato chips (she's stick thin) or whatever as long as she doesn't get on my nerves is fine.

I shall end this post by saying:

Nokia N80 sucks. My phone is blank. All I see is a white light and it's so irritating. First the headset died and I had to use loudspeaker to here people now I can't see shit.
This is the 3rd damn time there's something wrong with it. Later I'm going to Century Square branch to fix it.
Great. Last time I fixed the LCD it took 3 weeks. I wonder how long it will take now.
And they better not frig with me. They gave me this current LCD.
They frig, they die.