Sunday, October 31, 2010
Lots of people were sporting to dress up for Halloween last night, but I personally did not really like it. I understand it was for the fun of it, and everyone who dressed up for the party will live up to the theme. However, roaming the street with bloody face and heavy make up, make no sense at all.
I saw skeletons and 'ghosts' with bloody face bride along orchard road, and I even saw a 7 years old Snow White with bloody tears on her face, and her little brother (I think must be), dressed up as Dracula. Fortunately he was the cute version of it, long before his sharp teeth grow.
At first, I was quite impressed with the costume and make up, however, I was turned off when I saw kids crying after seeing them. It was cool to dress up, attending parties and having fun with friends, but it was not cool to scare kids standing behind then suddenly. It may be Halloween, but the kids did not understand it. Furthermore, the Halloween culture just started a few years back in Singapore, so it is still considered still new here.
Anyway, I still hope everyone have fun in Halloween parties, but I seriously hope all the 'scaring' actions can keep it inside the party compound. Not many kids knows 'Treats or Trick'.
Monday, October 25, 2010
在侄女的周岁生日派对里，看到这位七岁的小妹妹。她是我弟媳的表侄女。
她父母常年忙着做生意，从小就被付托给不同的亲戚照顾，所以非常独立。自己一个人玩，父母的店就是她的游乐场。她能随意的把架子上的玩具拿下来玩，也不会有人会阻止她。
她还有更过度独立故事，让我瞠目结舌！
在她四岁的时候，已经一个人，搭飞机到上海去游玩。据我弟媳所叙述，她吵着要到上海去见Uncle（爸爸的朋友）。她父母又真的没时间带她去，所以就拜托上海的朋友带她去玩一个星期。朋友同意了，这小妮子就踏上了上海之旅。
父母把她送到机场，然后交待空中小姐把她带上飞机。一路上，她就乖乖的坐在位置上玩耍。不哭不闹，也不妨碍到其他人。到达时，空姐就把她带到外面，交给爸爸的朋友。她就这样在上海玩乐一个星期。
一周后，朋友就把她带到机场。一样的交由空姐把她带上飞机，送回新加坡。
听了以后，我不知道应该说她太厉害呢，还是被逼张大?
I just came back from a wedding dinner in Goodwood Park. Jacqueline is Susanna's niece and she joined us in a few classes in the gym. Sometimes, when we have gatherings in Susanna's place, she will join us too.
Frankly speaking, I was going as a replacement for Pfeiffer. She and Nana were to represent the gym gang to attend Jacqueline's wedding dinner, whereas the rest of us were invited to attend the church wedding yesterday. However, Pfeiffer was so sick today, that she could not be there, so Susanna called me in the morning, and asked me if I can attend instead.
So Nana and I went, and it turned out that we had a great time! We had 2 guests from Denmark and they are really fun people. We cracked jokes and had fun trying to explain, how the wedding take places in Singapore. And why everyone has to stand up and shout 'Yum Seng' three times, etc.
The most enjoyable part of the dinner is actually the waiter. The waiter who served us tonight, happened to be his first day of work. So he was actually very nervous. His hands shivered when he was serving us, and for the first time, I see a person perspires so much while distributing yam paste. He was so busy running in and out of the kitchen, and serving us drinks, and he was trying his best to keep his cool, because his hands trembled so much while he was distributing food on plates and bowls. And best part is, he kept running into the kitchen, because he tend to forget to bring out the ladle to serve shark fins soup, or tongs to serve dishes, or spoons for us to eat our food.
Fortunately, it was a all ladies table, and we are all very patient with him. We actually joked that he might decided to quit after tonight. We found out very much later, that our table was the last to leave, as we got our food later than others. Hahaha!
Anyway, I was quite happy with the dinner tonight, though I am just a replacement. Fun experience!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
We were into the topic of getting a car accidents during lunch today.
Li Ching was telling us, that her sister who just got her driving licence at that time, actually had a car accident. She stopped at a slope and wanting to turn right. It was a manual car then and the car slided backwards and hit on to the bus behind her instead. Her sister is one 'garang' kind, she just said, 'Oh the bus hit our car!!!' And she drove away. Hahaha! Admired her guts!
After that, we said if the car hit a tree or something, the driver might still have to pay for it, because it is a public property.
I told everyone, 'Hmm, if I actually have the car accident during my driving test many years ago, I could have knock down 2 tresses and hit on the bus stop or lamp post, because at that time, I was tested on emergency brake. Instead of stepping on the brake when he hit the front of the car, I stepped on the accelerator!!!' Hahaha!!!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Gillian and June birthdays happened to be the same day, which falls on this Friday this year. Every year, the both of them will take turn to go on leave, so we will celebrate their birthday in advance.
Due to miscommunication breakdown, we thought both of them will be on leave for the next 2 days, so we decided to have the cake cutting celebration today.
As per normal, one of us has to bring the birthday girl somewhere and the rest of us will prepare the cake, candles, camera and standby. So today, Shufen was assigned to bring Gillian somewhere else while we get prepared. (June was busy keying at her table, so she was safe, no need to send someone to guard her.)
However, Shufen brought Gillian to the pantry, getting her ice cream. So Joelle, Candy and myself started to gather to prepare for the cake. Then!!! We realised that the cake was at the pantry too! How to get the cake out with Gillian standing there? The 3 of us looked at each other and laughed out loud. In order not to cause suspicious, Shufen has to bring Gillian to look for paper cups for the ice cream.
Best part was, the 'green leaves' are stuck in some requests by boss, so Shufen has to stall the time for all of us. And the paper cups are running out, she still have to prevent Gillian from suspecting anything. (Clap hands for Shufen!!!)
The celebration still went on successfully, and we all have a great laugh!
Love my airtime friends...
Monday, October 18, 2010
刚才搭巴士回来时，遇到司机阿姨的一段小插曲。
从我上车的那时开始，一路都是高速公路。到了Holland Village 的 bus stop, 她应该是再也忍不住，放下了一车的搭客，往bus stop 后面的Coffee Bean跑去。
顿时， 大家一脸错愕，司机不见了，然后后面的巴士一直在鸣车笛。在巴士上的我们，也只能等。突然， 有一种在动物园被游客看的感觉。一辆一辆的巴士在我们的巴士边开走时，都往车内看。车站的人们也一直在看着我们。
人有三急，大家也蛮明白事理的，耐心的等待司机回来，一句怨言也没有。
谁说新加坡人没人情味？
Sunday, October 10, 2010
The Market Research team shifted office last Friday. They keep telling me to visit them at the new office, and I replied, 'Sure! When you have something nice for me to eat! Hahaha'
Their corner is one of my pantry corner. I will go over to look for them whenever I feel like munching something, or wanting to destress. Chatting with them can be very fun, because I always like to tease Amelia, Wendy and Anthea. Lilian always keep her cool.
Lilian is very nice person. I think she is the only person I met, who will learn skills so eagerly. I ever went to her for help on an issue which she could not solve. Instead of telling me that she did not know how to do it, and leave me to find remedy myself, she went to Yvonne (ex staff) and asked her the way. As Yvonne was teaching me, Lilian stood behind us and learned together with me. Another thing that I like Lilian is, she will tell me, there are new varieties of tidbits or biscuits and asks me to help myself at her table. Hahaha! Food really matters!!!
Wendy is one of the people who follows my blog closely. Though she seldom comments, but she will tell me to update my blog whenever she sees me not blogging for days. And she is very helpful too! Whenever I can't run certain datas on TNS, she is one of the person whom I will call for help, other than Amelia.
Amelia... We have a secret name for each other, which is inconvenient to reveal here. We started off from sharing information on the shows we catching online. We will tell each other what is nice and what to look out for, however, we stopped, partly I had not much time after that. She is also one of the helpful person who will come to my rescue whenever I have problem with my TNS.
Anthea is 'key person' whenever I need to borrow a Canon camera battery. It happens that we both use the same model of Canon Camera and she has a spare battery. Another thing about her that plant into my mind is, she is a very pink person. Imagine what you can find on her table. Pink files, pink magazine holders, pink phone, pink keyboard, pink notepads, pink pen holder. (Anthea, don't argue that you changed them to black now, but my memory stayed with the pinky things you have, Haha!) Oh! for your information, Anthea is the murderer of SpongeBob Square Pants. (Please refer to my previous blog on this case.)
Will miss them dearly... Though they will be sitting at Annex building now, hope we won't get drifted apart. I will go and disturb them whenever I have to run an errand in Annex building.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
上个星期六，李资政夫人去世了，享年89岁。
当人们上前去慰问李资政时，都安慰他，要节哀顺变。他回答；“知易行难。”
说真的，这真的很难。就像词里的意思一样，知道意思容易，但要行动很难。
这令我想起了我的嫲嫲。从小，我跟嫲嫲的感情都很好。 嫲嫲带我上学，我陪她上巴刹。去购物。当她走的时候，我也用了一段时间来习惯。
那天，在上班的途中，听到933 播了刘德华的‘练习’，这是我觉得最适合的歌曲。可是，我想大家应该多多珍惜。不要等到失去了才来后悔。
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