"lucky you're not my wife. you're so high maintenance."
I high maintenance meh? I don't need expensive things to make me happy. Saying that, if people want to give, no reason to reject what.
Actually i think most girls are like that... all they really want is to feel that their partner put in effort to plan something for their birthday.
Even if it was a packet of hor fun at a park or beach with candles around, i'd be just as thrilled and happy. What would really switch me off is to ask me "so where you want to celebrate your birthday? what you want to eat? where you want to go?".
so. really? am I that high maintenance?
ribena
wondering....
Tuesday 31 July 2007
What Do You Wanna Be?
I was asked at an interview, I asked all of you the same :
IF YOU COULD BE AN OLYMPIC DELEGATE, WHAT DO YOU WANNA BE?
and..WHY ?
~6th Sense
IF YOU COULD BE AN OLYMPIC DELEGATE, WHAT DO YOU WANNA BE?
and..WHY ?
~6th Sense
Saturday 28 July 2007
The Ring
In 6 hours time, I need to drag my ass off the bed to accompany Kenny in search of the elusive proposal ring…it better be a damn big rock.
~SeamonkeY~
~SeamonkeY~
Tuesday 24 July 2007
I wanna do all these.....
Before November, I wanna get all these done:
1) From 57kg, I wanna go right down to 52kg. So that's 5 kg to shed.
2) Improve my golf skills to hit at least 150m (range I mean)
3) Pick up a dance or a language which I really like and continue practising for long term.
4) Go for an eyebrow re-embroidery.
5) Do my eye lasik
6) Do a gals night out at Bangkok and have really good fun.
7) Do something really impromptu - totally unplanned, totally unknown, totally "just do it" spirit.
Mark this blog entry. I will be back to tick against them when November comes.
Many mini achievements make greater achievements. The sum of parts is greater than the whole.
~6th Sense (getting cranky today)
1) From 57kg, I wanna go right down to 52kg. So that's 5 kg to shed.
2) Improve my golf skills to hit at least 150m (range I mean)
3) Pick up a dance or a language which I really like and continue practising for long term.
4) Go for an eyebrow re-embroidery.
5) Do my eye lasik
6) Do a gals night out at Bangkok and have really good fun.
7) Do something really impromptu - totally unplanned, totally unknown, totally "just do it" spirit.
Mark this blog entry. I will be back to tick against them when November comes.
Many mini achievements make greater achievements. The sum of parts is greater than the whole.
~6th Sense (getting cranky today)
I M M O O D Y
Yes I am.
And I dont know why.
Nope it isnt the big 3.
Its just probably a feeling of lacklustre (if that is such a word).
I slack the whole day@work. Didnt do much stuffs except for surfing the net, check my personal emails, gossip with friends etc. At mid-day my day got lifted up slightly with a call from an interested party who would like me to fly to BKK for an interview. Position to be based in Shanghai.
The downside, she aint paying for my flight.
Then, I took KP's suggestion and politely asked to do a telecon interview instead. There is skype, hallo?!
Took the day's opportunity to update myself and read through some new product infor, that is considered as work and it probably took up 2 hours of my time, which is 25% of the total work hours.
Met my uni mates in the evening. Was I involved in the fun and laughter? Did I feel at ease? Dont know why I just find my social skills suddenly withdraw.
Checked and confirmed this isnt PMS.
Returning back home, I see my new super single bed arrived (outgrown my single bed already) but it arrived with scratches and with a T shape leg to support the bed frame. I didnt realise there was a T shape leg below (looks horrid).
Thats me, irritating me, never check properly before buying.
Spoke with KP on phone (our regular night calls), his work is driving him into a "i just wanna nua" stage once the sun sets. That explains his monotonous tone of voice which slowly lulls me into the deeper end of the "sian" scale.
The day hasnt been that bad for me, seriously.
But I M J U S T M O O D Y.
D O N T K N O W W H Y
And I dont know why.
Nope it isnt the big 3.
Its just probably a feeling of lacklustre (if that is such a word).
I slack the whole day@work. Didnt do much stuffs except for surfing the net, check my personal emails, gossip with friends etc. At mid-day my day got lifted up slightly with a call from an interested party who would like me to fly to BKK for an interview. Position to be based in Shanghai.
The downside, she aint paying for my flight.
Then, I took KP's suggestion and politely asked to do a telecon interview instead. There is skype, hallo?!
Took the day's opportunity to update myself and read through some new product infor, that is considered as work and it probably took up 2 hours of my time, which is 25% of the total work hours.
Met my uni mates in the evening. Was I involved in the fun and laughter? Did I feel at ease? Dont know why I just find my social skills suddenly withdraw.
Checked and confirmed this isnt PMS.
Returning back home, I see my new super single bed arrived (outgrown my single bed already) but it arrived with scratches and with a T shape leg to support the bed frame. I didnt realise there was a T shape leg below (looks horrid).
Thats me, irritating me, never check properly before buying.
Spoke with KP on phone (our regular night calls), his work is driving him into a "i just wanna nua" stage once the sun sets. That explains his monotonous tone of voice which slowly lulls me into the deeper end of the "sian" scale.
The day hasnt been that bad for me, seriously.
But I M J U S T M O O D Y.
D O N T K N O W W H Y
The New Future
As I listened to the suit described this new credit card his client was launching, all I'm thinking was how his client sleep at night.
Citibank just launched a new credit card with a monthly limit of S$500 that was clearly targeting at tertiary students. It's actually meant for 18 – 35 years old who do not make the S$30,000 a year cut but it seemed to be using the age old marketing gimmick of 'get-them-while-they-are-young'.
In the near future, we will have 21 year olds bankruptees. Scenarios such as this "I don't always have much cash on hand. A credit card will come in handy when I want to buy that $399 Hugo Boss shirt. If I wait for my $150 weekly allowance, the shirt might be gone." will never happen to junior college student Sng Ren Zheng, who is keen to apply for a card after he turns 18 next month according to a Straits Times report. Instead of 'getting-them-while-they-are-young', I think its 'getting-them-in-debt-while-they-are-young'.
And the icing on the cake? Instead of a 24% interest rate, this new fancy clear card has a 28% interest rate to guard against default risk and bad debts.
I take back my rhetorical question in the beginning of this post. I think the Citibankers are sleeping very well indeed.
~Seamonkey~
Citibank just launched a new credit card with a monthly limit of S$500 that was clearly targeting at tertiary students. It's actually meant for 18 – 35 years old who do not make the S$30,000 a year cut but it seemed to be using the age old marketing gimmick of 'get-them-while-they-are-young'.
In the near future, we will have 21 year olds bankruptees. Scenarios such as this "I don't always have much cash on hand. A credit card will come in handy when I want to buy that $399 Hugo Boss shirt. If I wait for my $150 weekly allowance, the shirt might be gone." will never happen to junior college student Sng Ren Zheng, who is keen to apply for a card after he turns 18 next month according to a Straits Times report. Instead of 'getting-them-while-they-are-young', I think its 'getting-them-in-debt-while-they-are-young'.
And the icing on the cake? Instead of a 24% interest rate, this new fancy clear card has a 28% interest rate to guard against default risk and bad debts.
I take back my rhetorical question in the beginning of this post. I think the Citibankers are sleeping very well indeed.
~Seamonkey~
Monday 23 July 2007
Taking stocks before the Big 3
I am almost in full admiration of individuals who quit their jobs to travel indefinitely. The free-to-roam spirit swept me before but never quite get down to doing it - blame it on the lack of sabbatical benefits in Singapore and the lack of guts to roam without $ coming in.
A church mate of mine, is doing just that.
I asked - why are you doing that? Her matter of fact answer - to do something I wanna do before I hit the big 3. Now, that got me thinking.
What about ME? What have I achieved for the past 3 decades? What holds for me in the second half of my life (assuming God takes me away at the age of 60). What do I wanna do and have not yet done?
We aint talking about marriage here, babes and dudes. Its about personal gratification and doing what you wanna do before your life gets intertwined with a second half.
Time to take stocks...
Having walk the pyramids, see a real mummy, take photos at the Great Wall, see and feel snow, stayed in a villa, go to the border of North and South Korea, eat duck foetus, lived independently for 2-years, study overseas and have fun without parental presence, try to make it as a Property Agent, paid for my parents' tour trip, get baptised....the list stops?!
Have I achieved enough? Have I ventured enough?
What do I wanna do before I hit the Big 3? Thinking...thinking...thinking...here's my list of un-practical and illogical ideas.
Have super big boobs that will make me lose balance?
Have a super sexy model-like body to strut and show off?
Backpack and Travel alone to Tibet?
Turn blond-haired and go wild with thy dressing?
Have really long hair like Rapunzel? =p
Spend all my money on eating bird nest and get super duper glowing skin?
Work in a South Africa zoo and live among the animals?
Stay 3 days 3 nights in a Jungle off Mount KK, ALONE?
Walk and get lost in an island which nobody knows?
Join Singapore Idol and be a super star?
Start a School for Dummies.
Open a "sex shop" with money back guarantee to make you cum / come / cum / come ?
Start a consultancy firm on how to bitch your men around?
~6th Sense (what trails behind as I run towards the Big 3?)
A church mate of mine, is doing just that.
I asked - why are you doing that? Her matter of fact answer - to do something I wanna do before I hit the big 3. Now, that got me thinking.
What about ME? What have I achieved for the past 3 decades? What holds for me in the second half of my life (assuming God takes me away at the age of 60). What do I wanna do and have not yet done?
We aint talking about marriage here, babes and dudes. Its about personal gratification and doing what you wanna do before your life gets intertwined with a second half.
Time to take stocks...
Having walk the pyramids, see a real mummy, take photos at the Great Wall, see and feel snow, stayed in a villa, go to the border of North and South Korea, eat duck foetus, lived independently for 2-years, study overseas and have fun without parental presence, try to make it as a Property Agent, paid for my parents' tour trip, get baptised....the list stops?!
Have I achieved enough? Have I ventured enough?
What do I wanna do before I hit the Big 3? Thinking...thinking...thinking...here's my list of un-practical and illogical ideas.
Have super big boobs that will make me lose balance?
Have a super sexy model-like body to strut and show off?
Backpack and Travel alone to Tibet?
Turn blond-haired and go wild with thy dressing?
Have really long hair like Rapunzel? =p
Spend all my money on eating bird nest and get super duper glowing skin?
Work in a South Africa zoo and live among the animals?
Stay 3 days 3 nights in a Jungle off Mount KK, ALONE?
Walk and get lost in an island which nobody knows?
Join Singapore Idol and be a super star?
Start a School for Dummies.
Open a "sex shop" with money back guarantee to make you cum / come / cum / come ?
Start a consultancy firm on how to bitch your men around?
~6th Sense (what trails behind as I run towards the Big 3?)
Saturday 21 July 2007
Say It With Music
I happened to tune in to a dedication programme tonight on a radio station and got reminded me the reason why I do not listen to such programmes anymore.
The caller who called in was a tertiary student cramming for a chemistry paper. Within 2 minutes of the chat with the DJ, I got to learn that he is an aspiring actor with a passion in arts, stuck in the science stream and was in a limbo on how to have his cake and eat it too. I also learnt that he was alone at home and he went to school in the morning to finish up ‘stuff’. The DJ kindly entertained him by giving advice but was that a “roll-eye” in his voice I imagined?
It must be tough to listen to similar sounding dedications all night long, especially on a Saturday night. Bet DJs sometimes wish to receive a call that starts with the question “Which is your favourite scary movie?” in a sinister voice. I wonder if DJs make fun of dedication callers as they chug down beer with mates after their shift?
~Seamonkey~
The caller who called in was a tertiary student cramming for a chemistry paper. Within 2 minutes of the chat with the DJ, I got to learn that he is an aspiring actor with a passion in arts, stuck in the science stream and was in a limbo on how to have his cake and eat it too. I also learnt that he was alone at home and he went to school in the morning to finish up ‘stuff’. The DJ kindly entertained him by giving advice but was that a “roll-eye” in his voice I imagined?
It must be tough to listen to similar sounding dedications all night long, especially on a Saturday night. Bet DJs sometimes wish to receive a call that starts with the question “Which is your favourite scary movie?” in a sinister voice. I wonder if DJs make fun of dedication callers as they chug down beer with mates after their shift?
~Seamonkey~
Thursday 19 July 2007
Tuesday 17 July 2007
the more we get together...
Crabs were a let down this time... so small. got a feeling we kena kon. pepper crab was ... gooey... didn't quite like it. steam crab was ok... then again $10 each.. heck it la.. just wack...
Amongst the 3 of us, we had 2 steam crabs, 2 pepper crabs, a plate of kai lan and a plate of har cheong gai... i even wanted prata after that but was outnumbered.
so... the highlight wasn't the crab... but i sure enjoyed catching up with one another. as we share and tok about our struggles and advises... something dawned upon me... we have all really grown. the struggles we face are no longer petty issues of yesterday but of a deeper level. Even as we each shared our responses to situations, i realised... we've grown... older...wiser...
i love my friends... they've seen me thru different seasons of my life, different phases, different sides... and they're still here with me... i love u girls!
ribena
otherwise now known as "dora the explorer"
Amongst the 3 of us, we had 2 steam crabs, 2 pepper crabs, a plate of kai lan and a plate of har cheong gai... i even wanted prata after that but was outnumbered.
so... the highlight wasn't the crab... but i sure enjoyed catching up with one another. as we share and tok about our struggles and advises... something dawned upon me... we have all really grown. the struggles we face are no longer petty issues of yesterday but of a deeper level. Even as we each shared our responses to situations, i realised... we've grown... older...wiser...
i love my friends... they've seen me thru different seasons of my life, different phases, different sides... and they're still here with me... i love u girls!
ribena
otherwise now known as "dora the explorer"
Sunday 15 July 2007
Monday, 7.30pm, Hougang
CRaB-GaLoRE!
Steam crab, pepper crab, butter crab, chillie crab
we will conquer, we will survive!
Crabs going at 2 for $20
A Peek into Lara's World
I'm 2 weeks into my new job and I'm loving it so far. My stint with this new company has started to challenge me both physically, mentally and spiritually. I liken it to that of a "commando training camp". That said, I choose to remain positive and strong that through-it-all, I will be G.I. Jane, knowledgeable and tough... ever ready to take any challenge that come my way. It's also been a struggle spiritually because sometimes in all the busy-ness, you tend to take many things in your own strength and you tend to forget the bigger 'FORCE' within yourself and that's my Big Daddy up there. The truth about it all is that I can accomplish so much more if God is in everything that i do.
I do apologise... Lara's in a much serious mood these days. But these are just some of the many things that are running through my mind lately.
Still, i'm enjoying myself especially learning all the new stuff the new position demands of me.
In the LOVE dept, well... lets just say that i now understand what it means by "my heart is really painful". But as all of Lara's gd friends know, "she will survive"!
Another melancholic piece of news... Gi just told me that she's leaving for US come aug for 3 mths or more. On one hand is that i'm happy for her that she's moving on to her next phase in life, and the pastures may be certainly greener over there, but i'm sad cos i won't have her around me anymore for a period of time. With the possibility of her even not coming back in a LONG time. I will miss her. *sniffs*
Sigh...
~ Lara ~
I do apologise... Lara's in a much serious mood these days. But these are just some of the many things that are running through my mind lately.
Still, i'm enjoying myself especially learning all the new stuff the new position demands of me.
In the LOVE dept, well... lets just say that i now understand what it means by "my heart is really painful". But as all of Lara's gd friends know, "she will survive"!
Another melancholic piece of news... Gi just told me that she's leaving for US come aug for 3 mths or more. On one hand is that i'm happy for her that she's moving on to her next phase in life, and the pastures may be certainly greener over there, but i'm sad cos i won't have her around me anymore for a period of time. With the possibility of her even not coming back in a LONG time. I will miss her. *sniffs*
Sigh...
~ Lara ~
Friday 13 July 2007
Monday 9 July 2007
Argh...the title field is not working? Is anyone else having the same problem?
Anyway, I broke the news to my folks. Didn't think I was going to say it out now but it was a spur of the moment thing. Another reason for not breaking the news to them now was that I figured I wouldn't have answers to any of the questions they might fire at me. What I didn't expect was that my parents were so laid back about it – guess it runs in the family.
After breaking the news ever-so-subtly,
Father: (paused) There's pineapple in the fridge.
Mum: Ok (went back to sleep)
Yep, definitely runs in the family.
~SeamonkeY~
Anyway, I broke the news to my folks. Didn't think I was going to say it out now but it was a spur of the moment thing. Another reason for not breaking the news to them now was that I figured I wouldn't have answers to any of the questions they might fire at me. What I didn't expect was that my parents were so laid back about it – guess it runs in the family.
After breaking the news ever-so-subtly,
Father: (paused) There's pineapple in the fridge.
Mum: Ok (went back to sleep)
Yep, definitely runs in the family.
~SeamonkeY~
Sunday 8 July 2007
WOMAD Singapore 2007
Sorry but I have do do a little plug for my own ulterior motives. If we do not hit 10,000 folks on the Friday night, Im stuck with the festival director for the remaining days of the festival so here it goes...
In case you are wondering where Far Coast is, its located at International Building, Orchard Road. Its the best deal we have done, even better than my own staff discount ok *winks*
Will be posting the 10th anniversary festival promo video soon...watch this space.
GET YOUR WOMAD SINGAPORE TICKETS FROM FAR COAST NOW AT ONLY $40.
LIMITED TO 800 TICKETS ONLY.
In case you are wondering where Far Coast is, its located at International Building, Orchard Road. Its the best deal we have done, even better than my own staff discount ok *winks*
Will be posting the 10th anniversary festival promo video soon...watch this space.
Thursday 5 July 2007
A little delayed but...
CONGRATULATIONS SEA MONKEY!
You've finally got that BlinkBlink you dreamed about! I'm sssooooooo happy and excited for ya! It's cute coz when you went away for a long trip, in India, I dropped the bomb on you. Now, when I'm far far away in France, you dropped the bomb on me. Twice, I had to call you. Come to think of it, I should have saved your sms and send it to you "Call me now!". hahaha..
Good news from afar. India or France, it doesn't matter. What's most important is that you've gotten your BlinkBlink! Kidding! What's most important is that you found someone to spend the rest of your lives together, through good and bad!
You wore a hot, sleek, sexy black dress. He wore his sauve, cool KC. You wished for a Chinese but not so Chinese guy with a stable job. Wala!
Time to make a new wish :)
Good news from afar. India or France, it doesn't matter. What's most important is that you've gotten your BlinkBlink! Kidding! What's most important is that you found someone to spend the rest of your lives together, through good and bad!
You wore a hot, sleek, sexy black dress. He wore his sauve, cool KC. You wished for a Chinese but not so Chinese guy with a stable job. Wala!
Time to make a new wish :)
Ribena
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