Happy New Year 2008!

Happy New Year!! This post might be a tad late after 4 days but nevertheless its still the beginning of a new new new year!
Kick away all the unhappiness and bad luck from 2007, this year will be a much better year! i hope and i believe!

2007 has been a year of sadness for my family with 2 death in a row. A year that we will never forget.
2008 will kick start with a bundle of joy from heaven when my sis give birth to her third child in Jan.

In 2007, I joined Orita SinClair and met a bunch of crazy but lovely people with the same dreams.
2008 will be the year we grad and join the workforce. Hope all of us can find the jobs of our dreams!!

2007 is the 3rd year I spent Xmas and New Year countdown with Mr Chin.
In 2008, I hope we will still be celebrating these days together too. muacks!!

Last year havent really been a productive year for me. I should actually be working my butt off already according to my dear friends. Cos this year, i will be turning 24! *glupz* OMG! (shit ... y must i admit it) and yet I haven start working yet. Quite ashamed by the tots of it too. Some people my age are already earning thousands and yet im still day dreaming at home. So the first new year resolution is to FIND A JOB OF INTEREST AND A SALARY ENUFF TO FEED A COW LIKE ME! hope thats not too tough. I had enuff of collecting certificates! muahahaha!

I love what im studying now. But with the amount of work that we have to do everyday, sometimes stress is really too much to take. So the best stress relive is to eat! Eating time let me procrastinate the work to be done and it keeps me up at night with a full stomach. Thanks to it, my stomach is always full now with all the fats stored inside and the fats that spread to everypart of my body with the excess from my stomach. So the 2nd resolution is to GET RID OF ALL THE BLOODY FATS THAT ARE STUCK TO MY BODY! To me, that will be a little more tough than the 1st resolution. But i really dun want to be like FEI TIAN! *shivers*

Think this 2 new year resolution is enough to make me busy till 2009 le. Hope I can show myself a good report card at the end of the year. Hehe. And hope everyone will do well this year, all students will score straight As, those w/o work will find a job, those with jobs will earn BIG money, all couples will stay together, happy and sweet, everyone will be healthy and strong, shares will rise and everyone will strike 4D! Hahahaha!!

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On the last day of 2007, my family choose to do a mini renovation to our 7 year old house. So its a pack and throw day of all the rubbish at home. Our house is really not big, but the rubbish is a mountain high. We could have a $1 flea market and earn thousands, thats how much rubbish we have. Thanks god i have dinner plans with sisters and countdown with lp, lg and brother, so i manage to sneak out with wj and enjoy the last day of 2007 watching fireworks and not counting down in the midst of rubbish and paint!

So we met up with xf, wl and xb at the central where we dine at Mai Maison, a japanese restuarant with an english cottage theme. The food there is really yummy! A must try! thats one at bugis too, you guys must go try! Anyway after dinner, we went to TCC at clark quay. Along the way we watched people played GMax and "G-String" (didnt know the real name, so i just made up one). The swinging one looks so much fun!! The passengers are dragged to about 50 metres high before they are relesed, then they will swing like a big giant ball before coming to a stop. WJ say he will die of heart failure even before the ball starts to move up. whahaha! But it looks so much fun! anyone wanna play with me?

The Yummy yummy cakes from TCC. The one on the right taste like ferrer rocher!!

Cam-whoring with Xiao Bi! Look at all her different expressions! she is such a natural ... wahaha!

All the failed attempts of taking a picture!

Yes. Finally a proper one!! but our faces are stiff already ...

Xiaobi and Xiaofen still look more natural in their "zhao pai dong zuo"

thinking that its such a perfect pose for couple, they persued us to do the same. look at our relecuntant faces.

after much delay, we succumd to their professioanl persuaion skills.

A very akward group picture, clearly depicting 2 seperate groups. haha.

Around 11, me and wj start walking to esplanade to meet lp,lg and brother, but the human traffic is so bad that we decided to watch at the padang instead, just in case we coludnt get there in time. We found a spot on the grass and watch some kids playing with balls and mini helicopter while waiting for time to past. Suddenly, i felt something bump on my leg. Thinking that its a ball, i lift up my leg and wanted to pick it up. But i coludnt see anything cos its really dark. So i look harder, and saw a pair of eyes looking back at me!! ITS A FROG! scare the shit out of me! I scream and jumped like a mad woman with all the people looking. So paiseh!! my mom say i should kiss the frog, maybe it will turn into a prince. yeah right, even if it is, he will be a ham sup frog, cos it jumped under my skirt! haha.


walking towards padang

look at the overwhleming amount of people!



Mr Chin with our son,Frosty.

My turn with Frosty. He look more like me right?

Family photos. My son is so lucky, so young get to see fireworks already ...

A very very bad attempt of capturing the beautiful fireworks.

Anyway after the fireworks, we wanted to walk to the war memorial to meet lp which is just across the street. Bad move!! We were stuck in the worst human traffic ever! It took us 1 hour to walk a mere 5 metre distance to the pedestrian crossing. And WJ was cursing and swearing to himself (i think), cos his face was black like coal. We were like totally stuck chest to back to the person infront and were able to move only inches every 10 mins. Cos the bloody TP keep letting cars go instead of people! In the end the people are all so fed up that they just run across the road ignoring the TP. If not we will confirm be stuck there for another 2 hours. Those TPs really need more training sia.

Thank god the mood changed after meeting up with lp, lg and brother. We went to a pub at princep road where jiawen used to work and had so much fun!! We open a bottle of Chivas and played dice and poker games. Laopo, Laogong and me gang up during the bluffing game and make brother drink almost every round til he seh. Even when he get the best score, he is also doomed to dirnk. Wahahaha. So funny! high 5 girls! Then we played poker with dice. Its just like poker, which you have ti get pair, full house or straights. During 1 round, i got 1s for all the dices le!!! which is a rare case, so the rest must drink. But they chao kuan lo, say trial so no need to drink. LIARS!! wahahaha ... Everyone was very high by the end of the night. Especially, laopo, laogong and brother! While walking to kopitiam, we tried to stripe brother's jacket but kana scold by all the bfs. haha. We were so high that we wanted to continue the drinking party at lp's house but too bad couldnt get a 7 seater cab, so had to go home. Nevertheless, that night was extremely fun. The best countdown ever with the gang!!

Groupie at the pub! *before everyone is high*

Brother is confirm drunk. just look at this pic. wahahaha!

Laopo and her uncle jackson

Laogong and her froggy Chin.

Brother with his ... erm ... jacket. Cos his partner YK decided not to come join us.

So heres a better deal with the 3 of us!

Me and my Mr. Chin

Merry Xmas!

Ho! Ho! Ho! Still in the holiday mood though Xmas is over. Laziness has crept over me so much that i haven touched any work for the past 10 days. But now that Xmas is over, im looking forward to New Year, then Chinese New Year, then whatever holiday that is next. Just want to escape from work!!!

Xmas eve had been really fun with Laogong, Laopo and brothers. Well ... frankly speaking, which outing haven been fun with them?! Wahaha! Still think that i was deciding whether to stay home or join them for countdown, due to some problems at home. well ... who would still have the mood to celebrate when your eyes are nearly blind from crying. Thank god there is always sunshine after the rain. So here's the people who created the sun!

1st: Nice ty on getting all in the picture with our exchange gifts.

2nd: eh ... Where's Laopo and Brother?

3rd: Laopo's back but where is brother?

4th: Now Laogong's missing.

5th: Poor Van kana tortured by us!

6th: Yankar look really bored now with the multiple tries

Finally! A normal picture with everybody in!

After a rather havoc Xmas eve, Xmas day was celebrated with my family at home with a surprise visit from Xiao Shu, Ah Ma, Er Shen and Ai ying. So we just had a simple dinner and a mahjong session after that. And the lucky me won $21! Haha.

Yummy log cake bought by Mr Chin from Chocolate & Spice.

Just realized that i didnt take any picture with Mr Chin this Xmas. *sad*

naughty!

just came back from double O after a night of partying with sisters. yeah. my favourite hunt! the place where my someone special appeared ... haha ... and of course the place where you can drink non-stop and be drunk like nobody's business!

im such a bad girl ... skip school today and go play ...
but its so much fun today! ... so its worth it! hehe

but who knows the bad part comes later ... i met a pervert taxi uncle today!! not really uncle la ... he look quite young ... but anyway ...

he dun have to show me his private colletion of porn on his phone screensaver right?!!! damn gross le ... who ask me ... so kahpoh ... so see see look look ...
haiz ... tml gonna have sore eyes le ...

Designer' hell

MJ send a link to this article about a designer's life. oh man.. it so true!!
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Design Hell
Do you have this strong interest for design and graphics?

Do you find yourself tinkering with Photoshop and editing photos till late at night?


Have anyone told you that you are good in art/drawing/mixing colors/making sculptures with plasticine and suggested that you should be a designer?


STOP RIGHT THERE!
So you think you are good in art and everybody right down to your Art teacher suggested that you should sell your soul to Temasek Poly, NAFA, La Salle or whatever art school that is growing like toadstools in Singapore. Nobody told me about the truth of the design industry and if they did, perhaps, I would have taken a different career path. Since I don’t want you to be trapped like I am, I thought I‘d share with you my experience and shed some light to this realm of creative darkness. And hopefully, you will not make the same mistake like I did and save tons of your parent’s money that you are going to spend on countless mounting boards, Copic markers, PCs etc.

Yeah right.

So lets see.. just right after you finish toiling endless hours, doing project after project and learning all that graphic software, you finally got a piece of paper they call a Diploma.. Ahh… the farce of education. There’s so many topics to elaborate but I’ll stick to the point.
The 1st thing I notice once I got a design job is that, they don’t work the regular 8 hours. Nope not 8 to 5pm.. not even 8 to 6pm.. When crunch time comes its more like 8 to 11pm. What do I mean when I say crunch time? Crunch time is when the whole office starts to go on a frenzy because dateline is near and the we have to die-die print 10,000 pink panties brochure by Monday. (Depend on the product lah.. sometimes the brochure is about a promotion on epok-epok, sometimes its about the latest designer moth balls and now it’s a sale buy 1 get 5 free pink panties.)


Crunch time, ie working late pass 6, can go on for days to weeks and even months! Its true.. imagine coming back home late pass 9pm every single freaking day. I have the experience working for a company that I have to SLEEP in the office to get the job done on time.. Do you have any idea how it feels to SLEEP in the office? Its like the office suddenly becomes a chalet.. a chalet with work in it. And mind you, I was not alone.. I saw my co-worker sleep on his desk with his hand still holding the freaking pencil. And it was 4am. And just when I thought I am the only one working for a devil, I comprain to another designer friend that she too have to sleep in the office.. I stayed for 3 days.. she stayed for a week.
Then some ignorant guy might say..


Before I elaborate on this, I suggest you sit down. I am telling all of you design enthusiast, that there is NO OT PAY. Gasp! Is it true?! Yes it is. So technically speaking, after 6 pm, when everybody rush to get in the MRT like sardines to go home, the designer is still in front of the computer, trying to make a 1 inch by 2 inch newspaper ad look nice. And he/she have is not being paid for this time. There is a word that describes a person who is forced to work with no pay.. the dictionary call it a SLAVE.

Modern Day Slave

And when you do tell your boss about it, the best answer that he can come up with, which I have heard so far is 2.
Excuse 1: “You have no OT pay because you are an executive. And we don’t have to give OT pay to executives. I don’t know which gahmen rule says this and if it does exist I hope that whoever came up with this would rot in hell.)Excuse 2: “Please don’t be too calculative EB.. just give and take..” But he refuse to accept the fact that I have been “giving” for 3 straight days in row and he goes home every night.
Actually, to be honest, I have to tell you right now, that design.. whatever it is, is a time guzzling industry. It takes time to make an ad, an animation, a movie. If you cannot afford to pay your workers because you need him/her to stay, you can easily appease the workforce by having this thing call TIME OFF.. BUT even that they take away from you! Yup I hope you are lying down by now.. because after the designer work nights without pay, they are deprive of having quality time with their family and friends.


Aiyah… but surely your Diploma salary is high what?
Another MYTH. A pay for a designer starts at 1.3k to 1,7k. It is high compared to say, a PSLE holder who is taking home $800 a month. But if you really calculate the OT hours, the designer makes just about the same with the PSLE holder and at times worst cause at least the PSLE holder can sleep on a bed. You sleep on the company’s sofa.
I have more points to make but this post is getting too long.. I’ll write the other stuff soon.

Passion kills,Evil Bunny!

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article taken from http://www.happeepill.com/index.htm

why?

is taking design really such a bad choice?

is having a dream really that bad?

is not thinking of future monetary issue really that wrong?

is doing what you love and enjoy such an unrealistic thing?

why?

why are we always fighting over this issue. am i really that spoilt, unrealistic and useless? why do you always think your way and wont put yourself in my shoes? why can you be so sweet and understanding all the time but make me wanna cry and die whenever this comes along? why?

our idea of the future is so different. will you be sick of this one day and say lets go our separate ways?

will quitting the course, forgetting my dreams, finding a decent job with a good pay makes you happy? will i be happy?

My mummy is so nice!

oh ... My mummy is such a darling ...
She loves us, take care of us and is always there when we need her the most ...

Just one call to her, and she will be right there for us.

where can you find another mummy like her?

she is just the best!

I love my mummy =)

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Yesterday was Deepavali holiday. So San Jie suggested having a picnic at pasir ris. Initially the arrangement was for all of us to be there by 4. But as usual, with our lack of communication and organization, we were still at home at 7. why? San jie and mummy only went to buy food at 4 and by the time mummy was done cooking, its already 7. But lucky for us, our time were not wasted. While waiting, er jie, poland kor, wj and me had a round of mahjong! haha. And surprising, I beat all of them with a total winning of $25! * proud*

Anyway, since we were still at home at 7. Its quite impossible to go pasir ris beach anymore, so WJ suggested going to west coast park instead. Thank god for the suggestion, if not we would have reach pasir ris at like 8? haha. Talking about moonlight picnic, here goes ...

The big family sitting around with lots of food!

Candid shots! oh ... i love the look on my daddy's face ...

San Jie, Poland kor, Baby jet and me!

Mummy 'The Ah Ma' with a bunch of kids.

My son, Persias, with Jet and Jorene

Josiane and Irwin

Me and WJ. so busy eating ... tsk tsk ...


Ah... and we went to climb the big rope thing ... so high so fun!

And just nice to see how fat my legs are ... *cry*

angry for what?

I'm unhappy ...

angry, upset, fuming, mad ...

but y is this so?

is it right for me to feel this way when something that is performing well suddenly falls under expectation?

am i being too critical?

or my guts feelings are right?

are things changing?

or am I just not used to it yet?

whatever ...

i just wanna be angry ...

maad market

went to red dot design museum with jass and fizah yesterday. The designer market there is totally cool! they are selling all kinds of handmade stuff, which are all very uniuqe and intersring. had my eyes set on a cute gray dress, but too expensive le, dun have the heart to buy. Y i so broke!!

And the funny thing is I forgot to bring my wallet out yesterday and still can go shopping. Hahaha. So Jassine become my sugar mama of the day, eat and buy all on hers! but ... must pay back la. haha

Bought a cute postbox pendent for $4!