When we get stressed up over truckloads of work that we have left unfinished, we tend to chat to relieve some of the stress that we are facing. Normally, this group of us are always the latest ones to pack up and retreat to the comfort of our home. A colleague was pouring her woes to me today saying how she was working until 10.30pm at home, not making dinner for her two little ones and how her daughter gave up and ate nothing but biscuits. While saying that, she was crying. Argh, my heart felt a pinch for her. The dilemma of being a mother. Then, another colleague of mine who joined the company recently has been working from 8am - 8pm daily, even during the weekends. And just that day he told me how he wasn't able to pick up his elder daughter after school anymore because he couldn't leave the office on time. But the worst thing was, the younger daughter said to him that 'she doesn't have a father'. It's so heartbreaking. Imagine if my daughter saying that very sentence to me in the future, I think I wouldn't want to live anymore.

But anyway the bottomline is: If you want to work in the travel or hospitality industry, you will have to sacrifice your families to a certain extent. So, don't join this line if you are a homemaker unless you're planning to be single of course..





It's fruits and more fruits, then feeding the car with more petrol and jogging at Bukit Gombak Stadium. Yeah, seriously it is sucha healthy day today. The stadium was really cooling as usual cos' it's located near Little Guilin. And the fruit bats flying above my head were great distractions from the accumulating lactic acid in my legs. It was all so peaceful - the sound of the hidden running water, swaying of the trees, whooshing winds, crickets noisily cricking away.. they allowed me to think quietly by myself..

It has been long ever since I have seen mother smiled so ever happily. Must be the nephew's masterpiece, good work little guy. I accompanied mother to the nearby pasarmalam after the jog and up till today, I'm still pretty amazed at how she puts herself into my shoes and tries to understand me all the time. The greatest mother on earth. =D We went walking around and she bought me a big big bag for all my shopping stuff in the upcoming Thailand trip, a cute mickey mouse pyjamas (so kiddy right =x), socks for brother, and a mattress for the little one. Then looking at how mother refused to use her plastic notes to pay for the stuff made me wanted to laugh, not for the silliness but for the cuteness of it. Ahh, I feel blessed to be a part of this family. Must have done tons of good deeds in my past life! Kisses to my past soul.





As I was walking to the nearest hawker centre for lunch with the colleague Nat, I saw these 2 malay men dressed in black behaving really suspiciously. They were turning their heads furiously like they're on a lookout or something. Then, not noticing that my colleague and I were just right in front of their faces, number one black guy passed something which looks like a packet of 'cigarettes' to number two black guy. While slipping the packet of 'cigarettes' into his pocket, he checked to see if anyone was looking at them once more, not noticing that my colleague and I were looking right at them. How stupid can they be? Trafficking drugs in broad daylight, in a crowded hawker centre, and in front of the eyes of two persons. But somehow, the thought of calling the cops didn't really come to us cos' I guess we were shocked from having witnessing that scene. I still remember one of their faces though, that sly smile.

Does this makes your mouth water? xD Thanks to the courtesy of the boss, I got this doughnut filled with hearts for my teabreak at work today. And for this doughnut, I guess I'm gonna help my boss and work from 3pm to about 6.30pm on the day of my birthday. Okay, I guess I'm tired enough to sleep now.
I have to tread carefully~





Have you ever experienced a day when everything just can't seem to be right? It's a day when everything goes wrong. Hahah! Well, that unlucky day sprung a huge surprise on me (i love surprises, but not of this sort..). I was at the railway train station this morning with 2 colleagues waiting for the luxury train to arrive, but it was delayed. It wasn't a great news cos' I had to make my way to Raffles hotel at 1.30pm to do a pre check-in for the train's departure tomorrow. So after all the passengers left, we scrambled to the entrance of the railway station and waited for our transport to fetch us back to the office. We waited patiently. Waited. And we waited.. By the time our transport came, I was already running really late. And guess what? When we were driven out to the main road, my colleague and I realised that we've forgotten the immigration forms. So we had to ask the driver to do a U-turn on the busy road, then ran back to get them. By the time I got back to office, I didn't feel well and there wasn't much time left so had only buns for lunch. -hussle hussle-

Then, I had to carry a heavy paper bag full of immigration cards, a folder of passengers' information, my clothes and shoes to Raffles Hotel. It so happens that the President of Indonesia is staying there for some ASEAN agreement thingy and security was kinda tight that I had to be repeatedly questioned for the purpose of my visit. Now I see why taxi drivers were unwilling to send me to Raffles Hotel (cos' the entire car has got to be checked). The pre check-in was fine. After everything, I hugged the paper bag (was afraid that it'll give way due to the weight) like I'm some pitiful employee being given the sack, looking for the nearest train station. And dear me, I was walking in the wrong direction without realising it. So after telling myself that Singapore is small and I'll find a way out, I found myself at Suntec Shopping Centre! But what irked me most was that, out of 5 escalators in City Link, 4 of them weren't working. How suay can~ I was dying from the blisters and the weight of the ridiculous bag. Seriously swamped. And it's only Wednesday. -scowls- When you are down on luck, it means you are really unlucky. Sounds like some stupid thing The Noose will air. Hahah.

There was this warm fuzzy feeling in the pit of my stomach after knowing that my little nephew is looking for me everyday. It's nice knowing that you are needed by someone. On the other hand, I noticed a peculiar phenomenon after friends chat with me in the msn.
™ says: think the waterrrrrr dammmmnnnnn hoooootttt liao
Notice repetitive letters in your normal conversations? Congratulations, you have just got yourself the CTS (Caren's Twit Syndrome). Fyi, this syndrome is especially useful if there is a need for you to emphasise certain words to make your point heard.





Small little hands were slapping my face and arms while the birds outside were chirping merrily, going about making their morning nests. I was about to kill the brave person who had the guts to disturb my sleep, but that cute countenance came into view the minute I opened my droopy eyes. And I couldn't bear to. After I had a slice of bread, I fed him his porridge. Mama gave him a few picture cards and he dropped his toy cars instantaneously. He picked the cards up, shoved them near my face and read them to me one-by-one (pronouncing train as 'tray' and bicycle as 'marker'). And after he was done reading aloud, he flashed that innocent little smile at me. That cube of ice turned into melting water. Only you can make my heart melt..

My kawaii little nephew!

Everything was perfect yesterday and my nephew made my day until I spoilt the night by switching on the computer. Nevertheless, I had a really great night with the friends and the date.





It's up finally. And I mean FINALLY. I found a blogskin that I really like but it wasn't compatible with the nature of my posts. Don't ask me why cos' I racked my brains over and over, searching for any signs of betrayal from the codes but I just couldn't find any. So, I gave up and got this layout instead. It was orginally really messy and after spending another few hours doing the alignment and stuff, it seems better now. But still messy. I will just have to resign to fate.

First and foremost, I wanted to spend my whole week at home since work was really hell and I didn't have enough rest. But Mr Hansel Goh kept bugging me and was very unwilling to spend his day at home. Aye. Seeing that I'm such a nice friend to everyone, I agreed to keep him company and hunt for his t-shirts and belt in town. Okay so bhb right, I know. That's a white lie. In actual fact I agreed to go out cos' I had to drive to my aunt's house and yeah, my first time seeing my cousin's twin babies - one of them is named Cadence and the other.. Ican'trememberwhat. Gosh. I make a horrible aunt! Anyway, babies aside. I was at Orchard yesterday and the Christmas lightings are so beautiful, they just make a girl's dreams come true. =D It's a fairytale Christmas this year and I can't wait to catch the upcoming magical-like movies. (wishing for something special and magical to happen on this coming Christmas, maybe like a white horse with a knight on it appearing at my doorsteps? yeah right.) Okay, I got to catch the tv.

And I really like tea.





Let me whine. My week has been revolving around work and more railway train duties. This weariness and stress is at its extreme. And I believe yesterday was the worst day of work in the past 6 months. It's like a BLACK Wednesday. Okay wait.. I should stop rattling on about it before I can't resist the urge to treat my poor pillow as a punching bag. I'm seriously contradicting myself - can't type coherently anymore.

On a lighter note, I had dinner with Alva dear last week at Jumbo Restaurant. Yes, it was crazy because there were only 2 of us and just thinking about the cost after getting your stomach filled is enough to send you into a mad state of confusion. But we ate there anyway. The food was good and this restaurant really lived up to its name. We had yam ring with scallop, kangkong fried with oyster sauce and garlic. Pretty simple dishes but believe me it's quite alot for two ladies! And the star for that night was actually..

Black pepper crab!! (i hope the picture beside the crab doesn't make it look unappetizing..) I LOVE CRABS. And it so happens that the crabs Jumbo Restaurant has are of the topmost quality - the Sri Lankan crabs. These crabs are well known for their sweet and succulent flesh! By topping off with black pepper and adding a lil' butter to it.. tasted heavenly. Imagine both of us having to spend an hour just to suck every flesh out of those red stubborn shells. Okay, I guess I have to admit that we are really bad at cracking the shells.
We walked over to Clarke Quay to get our not-so-satisfying Turkish ice cream after dinner and saw quite a few hookers. They were only hitting on Caucasian males and it seemed like these hookers were having a bad night cos' their fees are oh so high even to the Caucasians. But it just makes me wonder why would these women choose to sell their bodies instead of trying out other jobs~

I so wanna type about the jogging episode, but really exhausted now..





The following paragraphs are written with little or no ethical considerations so if you are one who gets offended easily, please do not proceed to read any further.

A few days ago before some colleagues knocked off from work, they wished the rest of us a happy deepavali with that indian-ish accent which sent everyone else laughing and lots of mimicking after that. Okay, just try pronouncing deepavali (dee-par-var-lee), input a little indian accent and a head shake from left-to-right and vice versa. There you go. I can't believe I'm a racist even when I love their thosai and teh tarik..

I was planning to leave the office no later than 8pm yesterday when Alva told me she had invoices to do. So I stayed back a little while thinking that it couldn't take more than 5 minutes. But much to my dismay (as usual), she had to print 150 pages of invoices - 3 sets. It was already 9pm and if I left her in the lurch, I bet she would still be struggling to finish her work at 11pm. So I did lots of photocopying for her and accumulated paper cuts while she manual-fed the printer. After much hassle, we left at 9.45pm with empty stomachs and weary bodies. Then, there was something massive blocking our path. **Please do not try this at home.

Mouths totally hanging, we pondered over the cause of this unfortunate accident. But I reckoned the driver was drunk. While we were calculating the amount of damage the truck incurred, I realised that fuel was leaking like a running tapwater at the bottom of the vehicle. I cautioned Alva and we decided that we'd rather risk getting knock down by oncoming cars than bursting into flames.
Seeing that it was already almost 10pm, we made a unanimous decision to eat at the market nearby our office. Yeah it's pretty interesting eating at the place where a festival is brewing. We were outnumbered and all the times throughout dinner, there were lots of cat-callings and wolf-whistlings while they cheered in triumph for their day. Fyi, the office I'm working in is located at Little India.





My laptop has been threatening to crash for weeks now and I think it's almost dying what with the constant downloading of songs. So, just a short little update before the gloomy working week arrives.. There is actually a thunderstorm right now and I'm reminiscing the good o' times I had with the skies in Mersing. Even on a stormy day there, I was completely in awe seeing those dangerously beautiful lightning orbs up up in the sky. And right here in Singapore, it's just noise pollution and flashes of light like there is a paparazzi out there trying to take a shot of what you are doing in your room relentlessly.

After waiting for hours yesterday, I finally had the chance to breathe in some dust from the mahjong tiles. It was an excellent game cos' Harvard and bro spared no mercy and I didn't manage to win more than one round. Talk about the grievance and injustice I've suffered. =x Alright, I shall retreat to my warm and welcoming bed and at the same time, embrace a fantastically interesting day at work tomorrow.





This entry was supposed to start by complaining about my colleagues, and end by whining that they are some scary political creatures. But the sheer cuteness in all of them dispels the little grudges I had towards them. I just can't bring myself to allow the monster in me having complete control over the keyboard. Moreover, the time for me to leave the company is silently approaching.. and I guess before that time comes, I'm just gonna have to try to enjoy every minute with them. Yes, that sounds great.

One of my closest colleagues, Alva, actually skipped her language class after work at 8.30pm yesterday just to have dinner at Central Mall with me! <3 to you dear! Then we spent some time walking around Clarke Quay with all its pretty lights and bustling activities in the young night. It's just so happening right there and a simply great place to hang out. Totally in love with Clarke Quay!

And I'm going there again on this coming Thursday to celebrate Alva dear's birthday. This time, we're gonna look for the friendly Turkish man for his ice cream. (:

Oh and I think I haven't mentioned this. Last Sunday, I drove my family to Singapore Polytechnic for a lunch buffet cos' my granduncle was treating us as Uncle Meow Khee and family are gonna head back to Aussie. But by the time we reached there, my dad who was sitting in the passenger seat beside me, was sweating like nobody's business. Goodness gracious me.