Minty Grapevine...

i need to sort out my thoughts a little. lolz. and blogging helps.

Things I want to do...[/U]
~ Take up classes at JJ
~ Improve my Salsa!!!
~ Take up Argentine Tango
~ Take Diving Licence
~ Trip to Pulau Redang!
~ Buy that diamond earrings that i fell in love with 2 years ago... oh man..300 plus...can't seem to make myself buy it... lolz
~ Improve my Euph playing... Do a solo soon with ...
~ Put my head back into serious piano learning...
~ Get that job!!! ahh!!!

In my prayers[/U]
~ TP or Navy? God please guide and help me...
~ poverty stricken countries: God please tame and forgive the corrupted. Please help and guide the poor...
~ child military: God please help those poor kids... Education will go a long way... Do away with the mindless adults and leaders...
~ desertification: God please guide man so that our ecosystem and future generations will not suffer our doings...
~ Mr B: God please guide him through this difficult time and enlighten him...

~ Mr A & Mr R: God please help them understand the meaning of love, giving, tolerance and forgiving...
~ Ms Y: God please help ease her mind and soul through this economy...

Random[/U]
~ TPJC MDC got a gold with honors! Well done students! and great effort Ivan and Lynda! =)
~ God Ma's Birthday!!! Happy happy birthday GOdma!!! =) I shall be nice and not reveal your age here...hehehe i know you must be wanting to knock my head again right...hahah =p

Hope you enjoyed the day! =) and don't forget our painting date!! =)
~ My Perfect Bday Celebration consist of my Fav Strawberry shortcake, red roses in a bed of baby breadths, special people, lots and lots of love...=)

I need a date...Would you be the one?[/U]
~ to come to my concert

~ to go diving into the deep blue sea with me?


Life's full of surprises... embrace it when you know it's coming...
smooches...

Haven't felt such anger, hatred and resentment for a long long time. And am rudely reminded how miserable it feels to hate or be angry with someone. Has it come about because of unresolved issues snowballing to a unavoidable 'crisis'? Or are we just jinxed? Or maybe I'm just not suited to the political music scene. haha To think that I took conflict & issue management. I suck at it.

Not exactly sure how to get rid of this feeling.
Person 1 suggested to face the issue and trash it out with A.
Person 2 suggested to just let go of the matter coz' A will most probably make me feel worst and more worthless if I were to further the topic.
Person 3 suggested to just avoid A at all cost, or better still, don't ever cross each others' path again.

As much as I would like to go with Person 1, can't help but agree with Person 2.

So how? I'm at a loss.

But I do realize from this episode, how A viewed me. Rather negatively I would say. In fact, i think he skipped a whole lot of good things remembering only the bad things, which I suspect was really way too exaggerated, elaborated, untrue and false as well. But before I would like to rebut or blame him or pick on him. I realize that I remembered A in a very negative light too. Just that i chose to keep quiet while he chose to go 'public'. I guess it's really human nature to remember only the bad stuff when you do not like that person huh.

Although I feel really unhappy, unjust, sadden and 不服气, and I would really love to trash out with A, maybe it's a better choice to try to let things go, like i've always had ever since I was his student. Never being good at words/English, I was always at the losing end, and still am.

I really hope no other students of A has to go through all these, and if they did, I hope that they didn't hold any resentment. It's miserable hating someone. Can be really tiring and frustrating. Now i understood how my seniors felt and the reasons why the chose not to come back.

My only comfort: A brought me into the band scene, if not for him, i would not have known music.
My 'discomfort': Sadly, I think that we will never be able to agree with each other.

Really hope that these resentment will go away. Hating someone is more difficult than loving someone.

Wanted to write about the wonderful sunday i had... But someone's just too busy to upload the photos. haha! PLUS someone at work commented how my blog is now full of FOOD and FOOD, which explains my size. So decided to put in other stuff istead of food. Right Chin? Oh oh! and i learnt a new idiom from a very nice colleague, Ms Ng Ai Hoon (oso my blog reader too!).
敲扳定案= which means to conclude or confirm! hehe so happy! new vocab, but hopefully i got the meaning and characters right. hehe

Ok....Some funny emails i got for you guys to enjoy at work!

Corporate Lesson 1[/U]
A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings. After a few seconds of arguing over which one should go and answer the doorbell, the wife gives up, quickly wraps herself up in a towel and runs downstairs.

When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbour. Before she says a word, Bob says, "I'll give you $800 to drop that towel that you have on."

After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her 800 dollars and leaves. Confused, but excited about her good fortune, the woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs.

When she gets back to the bathroom, her husband asks from the shower, "Who was that?"
"It was Bob the next door neighbor," she replies.

"Great!" the husband says, "Did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?"

Moral of the story: If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk in time with your stakeholders, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.


Corporate Lesson 2[/U]
A priest was driving along and saw a nun on the side of the road, he stoppedand offered her a lift, which she accepted. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to open and reveal a lovely leg.

The priest had a look and nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg. The nun looked at him and immediately said, "Father, remember Psalm 129?" The priest was flustered and apologized profusely. He forced himself to remove his hand.

Changing gear, he let his hand slide up her leg again. The nun once again said, "Father, remember Psalm 129?" Once again the priest apologized, "Sorry sister, but the flesh is weak."

Arriving at the convent, the nun got out, gave him a meaningful glance and went on her way. On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to retrieve a bible and looked up Psalm 129.

It said, "Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory."

Moral of the story: Always be well informed in your job, or you might miss a great opportunity.


Corporate Lesson 3[/U]
A sales rep, an administration clerk and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out in a puff of smoke.

The Genie says, "I usually only grant three wishes, so I'll give each of you just one."

"Me first! Me first!" says the admin clerk. "I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world." Poof! She's gone.

In astonishment, "Me next! Me next!" says the sales rep. "I want to be in Hawaii, relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of pina coladas and the love of my life." Poof! He's gone.

"OK, you're up," the Genie says to the manager.

The manager says, "I want those two back in the office after lunch."

Moral of the story: Always let your boss have the first say.


Corporate Lesson 4[/U]
A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?"

The crow answered, "Sure, why not."

So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.


Corporate Lesson 5[/U]
A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy."

"Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with nutrients." The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree.

Soon, he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Moral of the story: Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there for long.


Corporate Lesson 6[/U]
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field.

While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.

A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Moral of the story:
1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!


Hope you had some good laughs!

Till my next entry...Smoochies~

I'm so slow to blogging! Have to admit that all the late nights are really wearing me off quite a bit.
But really! I think i'm having one of the best time of my life at the moment. Finally graduated, enjoying my work, enjoying salsa, volleyball, badminton, meeting up with all my friends, partying away, seeing my friends getting married and giving birth, etc. The only complaint is that I'm just not spending enough time with my family. Quite difficult to understand myself sometimes. Haha. Here I am complaining that i'm not spending enough time with them and here I am placing almost all the activities before them. someone wake me up please!

14 March 2009, Saturday[/U]
It was a really busy day! visited my dad at Mandai in the morning(if you know what i mean) haha. Hope he's doing well at god knows where. =) Had a good lunch at AMK Hub Ichiban Bushi with my family after that.

I fell in love with a new dish, and am totally craving for it now![/I]

After the mad rush in the morning, i had a mad rush to Chiang's place for Arielle's 1 Month Party!!! =)
The Chiang Family! They really look so in love and blessed! Now that Arielle's out to this world, It's a whole new journey for Chiang and Khai Ling already=) Have loads of fun![/I]

A shot with 偉大的媽媽！and the maker of Arielle Chiang Khai Xi![/I]

Isn't she the most beautiful angel! Her hands are so small and cute! She's really an angel! only thing is, she slept through her party (even while she was fed) haha amazing![/I]

Here's a little video of them plus Ah Yiau and Kartik! =)


Met up with Mr L for dinner and movie after the party. Enjoyed a wonderful evening! =)
Went up to mount emily and had a great dinner at Wild Rockets in Hang out Hotel. Although the names are really cheesy, but i thought the place was really good. The food, ambience, music, and people=)
Thanks to chin for his recommendation AGAIN![/I]

That's our appetizer. simple bread with the very fragrant olive oil.[/I]

When the dish was presented to us, I was actually kinda disappointed. But when i tasted it, I was really blown away! both by the taste and the spiciness. lolz It was SO GOOD!!! and different from those oild soft shell crab when we have in those Jap restaurants! Plus a little of the restaurant's self made thick pepper sauce, which amde the entire dish even better! OMG thinking about it is already mouth-watering!!! yum yum! hehe[/I]

Crab Linguini! That's mine! DELICIOUS! =) nicely done! although Mr L thought that the linguini could have been softer, it was just nice for me though.yums!!![/I]

And this is the Duck Leg confit ordered by Mr L. Oh man it was even much better than mine lor!!! the skin, meat and FATs! lolz...yums![/I]


The Choco Lava! yums! Look at how the Lava flows...omg YUM[/I]

Tada! the Glutton me! =)[/I]

And that's Mr L. I've to thank him for his great patience for tolerating my incessant photo-taking craze. lolz and for being just great company! =) [/I]
And that's us with the very nice and suave Chef! So gald i got a few shots with the busy man! And he's really nice=) if only... hehe[/I]

Yes, I'm dreaming again... if only... hehehe..imagine if you have a husband who can cook so well and at the same time so smart! lolz ***Day dreaming***[/I]

Ok Mr L's name is Calvin. and he's really sporting hehe... beside tolerating my photo-taking craze, he's my model too![/I]

The very nice rooftop over seeing the city=) will definitely go back again with my novel and just sit there and read...[/I]

Oh i didn't mention. Calvin's a great baker (as he said so, lolz)

They are citrus and pandan chiffon cakes. Truthfully, they are really nicely done. Well done Calvin! =)[/I]

Oh and Calvin! CONGRATS to the new move=) really excited for you! Sounds like a really exciting thing to do and a really wonderful opportunity! Pray hard for me that it will be my turn too! =)

Got tickets to catch a midnight show "Departure" and headed to TCC for a drink. haha it was like science lesson! Now i know more about flour and baking powder. It's nice to have a food technologist as a friend haha! And yesh! i found a mid-night movie companion! haha so happY! plus a shoppoholic too! hahah...sounds like trouble right. lolz...

Anyway, the movie was good!!! Bits and pieces of really funny scenes here and there. The flow was actually really good. Can make you laugh and then cry the next moment. There was a few moment that were so raw and familiar to me, got my heart clenched. all in all i rate this movie 8/10.


All in all, i enjoyed myself thoroughly over the weekend and am looking for to the next again! Thanks Calvin! You are great company and 'gentleman' haha=)

Till the next blog...
smoochies...

If you stand near enough, you might hear my bone squeaking and cracking away. Haha! Alright, I'm just exaggerating. But I'm my body's like aching here and there especially with so much activities going on lately. But i bet Ms young will be saying, "aches are good! I love aches" haha.

On Tue, had a 2 hour intense and really fun and funny badminton session in school with my colleagues, weihui, Mr Khor (forever mumbling away, haha but without him it wouldn't have been so fun haha), ChewHS Pro, Raihan, Yati, Rosna, KKK and a fb badminton friend, Edmund. Finally bought myself a better racket!!! So happy! Looking forward to Saturday's Badminton session with FB peeps again. =) Oh i have to say that KKK (my colleague) is really really REALLY pro!!! oMG, I totally didn't expect him to be this good, as in really really really tai chi good!!! his strokes are all so nicely and cheekily and strategically played! He made me realize that badminton is in fact a brainy game after all. It is definitely not as simple as it seems. All in all, I'm so looking forward to another game with my dear colleagues!

Just as true as what weihui and KKK mentioned, it was totally a bad idea to play badminton on Tue.
BECAUSE:
haha,Yesh we had road run the next day @ 7.40am!!! hahah OMG... well, although they voiced their concerns, they were still tempted haha. Also, part of the reason for me insisting the game is due to a sinful breakfast i participated on tue morning with my other partners-in-crime:
That's Ivan Sum!!! Constantly bump into him at the pantry during breakfast, unfortunately haha j/k, he is always equipped with tonnes and tonnes of delicacies like black chicken soup, a dozen of chicken wings, a whole big pot of don't know what haha[/I]

Oh did i mention that we were invading Chin's Ice-SCREAMA!!! hehe *Guilty* ahaha, Don't worry Chin, we will refill it when we are done with it hahaha[/I]

Anyway, below are some photos we took at the road run. Oh and i have to confess yet another thing. hehe
I was SUPER DUPER Late haha.. instead of 7.40am, think i reached there only at 9.30am. hehe And not in running shoes but in blades. Hahahah wah...Looking at myself, i ought to be spanked man. lolz...
Beautiful right? I was enjoying the really beautiful scenery while slowly blading to the meeting point. It's so rare that i can be at ECP blading so peacefully on a weekday morning. Totally enjoyable and addictive. So going to take leave one day to do that again![/I]






By the time i reached there, the race was over! haha and the students were all going wild and high with cheers, laughter, dance and each others' company=) I hope they will learn to treasure all these memorable and wonderful moments =)[/I]
That's me, Terry & Agnes. Love them to bits and pieces![/I]
ANd of coz, what's any fun day without good food, company and laughter! =)[/I]
Yummy hotpot...Oh am i'm hungry now...[/I]


Flushing all the deliciously-super-sinful food down my bottomless tummy haha[/I]


Isn't she adorable? YewHoong's lovely princess, Er Xuan =)[/I]
Er Xuan's so so bless with such wonderful parents (dad-top, mum-below)! er Xuan mus grow up to be the most sensible and loveliest girl yea~[/I]

It was really a wonderful lunch! really enjoyable=)


Since the day ended early so me, I decided(after thinking about it for ages) to trim my hair and dye my hair black. It's quite a move for me actually. Finally getting rid of the head of gold into my oriental self again. Also a sign that i've finally moved on. I'm not thinking of neither anymore. The 2 who i somehow foolishly dyed hair for. stupid me. haha
Luckily i had Lola to accompany me through this somehow emotional and nostalgic salon experience.
When do you actually have a dog to accompany you while u do your hair? lolz I'm truly blessed in some ways.




Expecting me to post my Oriental Look ??? lolz. Neh. Come catch me! =) A good excuse to come catch up with me=)

TOnnes and tonnes more to write... it's never ending isn't it lolz.
TIll My next bloggie.... smooches...