EARLY MORNING BOMB!

Habibah (my office recep): Joan ah, you going TPC for meeting huh?

Me: Ya, why?

Habibah: Oh..Wah Khoon (my boss) wants to speak to you le.

Me (thinking to myself): Shit, what did I do wrong?

Me: Oh.

*****Transfering*****

Boss: Joan ah, that time when you teaching, which level you took huh?

Me: (a sign of relief), oh..er..I taught Pri 1-5.

Boss: Which levels you took the longest?

Me: Erm..should be 1, 3 and 5. Took them for the 1st half. Why le?

Boss: Okay good. I want you to represent SCS to give a one hour talk at Chongfu Primary for their teachers & parents on "Preparing your kids for Primary One" in Nov. I'll go through with you the slides that Fauziah prepare, but I want you to personalize it according & edit it.

Me: Oh...HUH???? Me?? Er..boss ar...

Boss: I want to train you for public speaking, then next time you will have more experience. Must get use to speaking in front of many people. Okay, so when you come back office we'll discuss in detail. Enjoy your meeting!

Me: Er...boss ar..actually..

Boss: No actually. Decided (sounding super happy & excited) Cya back in office.

Me: (-.-"") ok lo.

Boss: Good girl. Byeeeeee.

Me to myself: I AM SO DEAD!! ARRGGGHHHH..I DUN WAN!!!

P.S: Sharon, Yan...please update me on the latest Primary 1 policy that MOE has.

MEGA CELEBRATION

Yippee!! I had a mega celebration today for passing my advance theory. (>.<) Actually, it's just an excuse to take sometime off my hectic schedule. I really felt like a dog for the pass few weeks. Anyway, went for a S~U~P~E~R expensive but delicious dinner with my piggy cousin. It's a japanese buffet restuarant called "Kuishin Bo". They serve really nice food & desserts.

I love the Japanese Pancake aka the pancake that Doraemon loves.

Wanted to take photo of the main dishes also, but by the time we remembered, the food is already in our stomach. heehee.

FRIENDS

Was chatting with Ha Kao aka prawn dumplings (I'm jus so creative) yesterday night and the topic of friends came up. Seem like age and number of friends are of opposite relativity, i.e the older you grow, the lesser friend you have. Or maybe I should say, the lesser "devoted" friends you have. I am seeing lesser and lesser of such devoted friends around me.

Devoted in this case meant spending festives together, spending time together, going on a all girls holiday together and being punctual! It tells alot of where the person/group stands in your heart through you being punctual/late/super late. I guess the saddest thing that I feel as a friend is the feeling that I get from some of us - that meeting up becomes more of an obligation than desire. Meeting friends becomes more of fulfilling a responsibility.

It is just so hard to get everyone together for a decent dinner, let alone going on a holiday together. Everyone are just so busy with their own stuff, be it work or tuitions or boyfriends. Even if they have the time, getting them to stay away from their so called beloved one for a couple of days is as good as asking them to go and die.

Even pre-booking doesn't work. So what even if the appointment have been made like 2-3 months in advance.

"I cannot confirm now, let u all know later."
= I have to see if my boyfriend/boyfriend's friend/colleagues/company/other friends have anything on/wants to do anything first before I decide if I wanna join you all.

"Sorry, I have something on last minute"
= Sorry, I've found a better company for the day.

WTF!! I am being judgemental here but who cares?? Maybe you should be sorry that I am getting this feeling. After all, it was YOU who made me feel this way!! Maybe it'll be comforting to know that the "you" here refers to no one in particular but everyone in general.

Is this really part of growing old? I am quite skeptical about this. I see other friend's friend who, despite their hectic working schedule and family/relationship life, they still make it a point to spend time together, I mean quality time. And the best thing about these people is, they truly want to be with each other, the place/venue/food/company doesn't matter AT ALL!!! No questions raised. You ask, I free, I confirm, I go!

Somewhere somehow, when one goes into a serious relationship, the boyfriend's friend becomes more important than your own click. You will be seeing them more often than your own friends, you will be spending most of the festival celebrations with them in comparison. The mentality of spending the actual day together as before is so impossible. The keyword here is ACTUAL!!

"I can meet you 1 week before or after X'mas/New Year/CNY/my birthday, but not on the actual day."

So does that mean that we will never see each other on the day of event FOREVER. If that's the case, on receiving your invitation card for marriage or watever, my reply will be "I will be there 1 week before/ later to celebrate your XXX because I have better things to do on the ACTUAL day."

Sad to say this but I've been carrying out this "experiment" for 2 days on MSN by annoucing subtly that I have a blog. The hypothesis of this experiment is "With a time period, less than 5 of my close friends will notice my annoucement". True enough, my hypothesis is proven correct. Only 2 friends on my contact list noticed & out of the 2, only 1 is from my supposedly "close friends". Conclusion drawn: Nobody (except for the 2 who replied) ever takes notice of the sentances typed in the "personal message" function of MSN and my friends are just so "concerned" about my life. How encouraging is that?

***To my dear sisters: Not many people knows that I have a blog :) You gers are amongst the very few who knows =)***

Actually me having a blog had been for almost a year now, but I was never comfortable with the idea of my close friends (other than my sisters & some cousins) knowing. Reason? I don't know. Maybe because I din want them to know how I feel, maybe for fear that they'll be sarcastic of the blogging idea or maybe... I just don't think that they care and thus don't see the point in letting them know. If our path will meet only once in a while, then I don't see any point of alerting you on what is happening in my life.

Maybe to those reading, I am just being picky & trying to be difficult. You know, the thinking that "she is just jealous that she don't have the special someone to be with her". Maybe I am huh. Mmmmm.

Okay, I am starting to feel emotionally unbalanced & the more I type, the more anger I feel. And the most scary thing is, I don't give a heck that you will be reading this shoutout because... I want you to know!

SHIT!!

BOSS!!! I NEED COUNSELLING ALSO!!

SORORITY

'Sorority' meant a society or club of women or girls, esp. in a college.

I spent my weekends with my 2 groups of sororities. =)

Saturday
Met up with my secondary sorority for dinner, too bad though because Kat can't join us. I think the last time we had a complete group photo was in Sec 4. I wonder when we can have a full attendance. Haiz.

Anyway, the initial plan was to have our dinner at Sushi Tei. However, due to the IMF, everyone avoided Suntec and ended up in Orchard. And stupid us forgot to make a booking, so we ended up at Billy Bombers cos we din want to wait for 45 mins for a table.

As usual, we couldn't decide on where to go next after dinner. Some wanted to watch "Banquet", but was overthrown cos we couldn't get the tickets. Some wanted to go KTV but others rejected. So...we ended up in Meritus Mandarin..Top of the M. Wanted to go Ritz Carlton for a drink, but was put off by the thought of having to pass through Suntec that area. So the next best choice is Mandarin since Lynn has got 50% discount. Heehee :)

It was a nice choice actually. We never knew that Singapore had such a nice night view before we went up. Nice ambience also, except that it's not a place for large groups. It is more of a place for rendevous.

Anyway, I ordered Margaritas. It looked red on the picture, but when it was delivered, it was clear and HUGE!!! I swear I've never seen such a BIG cup before. It is really humogous. Actually all the other drinks are huge also. Their lychee martini are served like chinese tea with gallons of liquid inside the tea pot and rose's Zombie looks never ending. No matter how much she drinks, the volume remains unchanged. hahahaa..

Saw the circumference of the cup? It is as big as the tibits bowl. If ur face is small, maybe u can dip your whole face in it.

From the right: My Magaritas, Jieying's Lychee Martini (you might not be able to see the teapot, cos it's black. But definitely can see the Lychee with the red color thingy), Xiufen's CTE, Lynn's Sunset Tequila, Rose's Zombie (TALL glass) & Huimei's White Russian (blocked by mine)

Sunday

Met the sisters & brothers in Mdm Mok's place. Discussed the time line for the big day & settled on some logistics. It's a pity some of the sisters couldn't make it for today's meeting. Have to meet up with the sisters again to finalise on the day's events, especially the games part..THAT IS IMPT!!

I'm definitely looking forward to 3 Nov. This is the first time one of my best friend is getting married and this is also the first time I'm in charge of coordinating. Keeping my fingers crossed that nothing goes wrong last minute. I wouldn't want to "disturb" the groom & bride on the day. Luckily I have Suling to help me. :p

NO UPDATES

My life is still as boring. As the title suggests, there's no updates.

My life still revolves around work, tuitions & meetings..and the worst thing is, I see no end in this kind of lifestyle.

Maybe stability is the only consolation I can give myself and indeed I am glad that I have a stable income. At least I can promise my mum some sort of security, financial security to be specific. Very happy also to be able to sponsor her for this upcoming HKG trip :)

I have been attending the Amore lessons faithfully for the past few weeks, trying very hard to catch up with the lagging sessions. Hopefully I can finish my 12 sessions b4 the 3 months validity is up. I went for my 1st pilates class on wed, it was quite fun actually. Alot better than Yoga I would say. ALOT of toning there. As a matter of fact, my abdominal & thing muscles still hurts while I'm typing this. But then, this also shows that the pilates lessons is quite effective. I've borrowed the DVD from Kat. Will be starting my home-based pilates soon. Hopefully I have the determination to do it everyday. Praying also that this would help me loss some weight b4 Mdm Mok's wedding. Wahahahaha

Congratulations also to Mr Dory Wee for his success in securing a job. VERY happy for you, and although I said in my previous paragraph that I am trying to loss weight, I still want my chicken! Heeheeeheee..

LITTLE THINGS THAT SPICE UP MY LIFE

A funny conversation that I had with one of my client. The whole conversation was carried out in dialect.

Me: Can I know when is your birth-date?

Client: 23 of March

Me: Which year?

Client: I don't know. My ma gives birth one. Not me

Me: (huh?) You mean you don't remember which year you born in is it?

Client: I not educated. I don't understand. My ma give birth to me never ask me. I don't know.

Me: Er...never mind. (-.-")