*sighs* i'm supposed to be in bed but i can't get to sleep. why always like that?

when its time for bed, i can never seem to get my body to rest because my mind is in a mess. and then when its time to wake up, i simply snooze in bed until my hp alarm has rang dozens of time before i will jump out for bed and then begin my day with a mad rush of getting to office on time. and of course, i never get there in time.

my face is under the attack of a million zits. *wails* it must be the bad air in office (i was glue-sniffing the whole day today, if you see me next time with a runny nose + yawning nonstop + looking listless, please buy me a bag, i must be addicted, the rest of the days where i'm not glue-sniffing, i'm being a vacuum cleaner, breathing in all the dust particles! imagine the place looking like genting in the morning when we stepped in lor, its that serious.), thinking of tens of ways to come up with counter strategies against my political office colleagues, stressing over other business ideas, worrying about the high rate of transmission for hand-mouth-foot disease...

well, the paragraph above looks intimidating but trust me, those are only some of the problems my brain is going through at any point in time.

received a call from regan's school that scared me for a minute yesterday afternoon.

*music - my way by zhang jing xuan*
me : hello
teacher : hi, this is teacher meng choo, can i speak with mr or mrs chan please?
me : this is she. yes?
teacher : hi mrs chan, miranda has more uclers after doing our routine afternoon check for all the children.
me : *confused, thinking what has this got to do with regan* huh?
teacher : you asked me to call you if miranda has more ulcers in her mouth in the morning right?
me : *urhhhhhhh* er, this is regan's mom, not miranda's mom. you've got the wrong mrs chan.
teacher : AHHHHHH, sorry sorry...
me : its ok. by the way, please keep regan far away from miranda hor. thank you ar!

it really freaked me because regan was suspected of hmfd 2 weeks back. but after monitoring for 2 days, the doctor said it wasn't. its not a illness to joke about as it can be fatal for children.

everyone i meet whom are rude enough is really shock at my face condition and have no qualms about asking me openly and loudly "what happen!?!?". yes, my face is that bad... went for a facial on monday evening to clear them out. so hopefully they recover quickly.

talking about that, the only place i go for my facial is at faber house. its really great. i hate pushy service staffs and they don't at this place. i mean how can you relax when someone is talking their about the wonderous ways of their products or harping on how much you can save by signing up for their package? then my brain needs to do mental sums on how much i can save, how much is the package, if i've enough to pay, after i sign how long i must lunch on cup noodles etc etc...

BUT since they have been so nice so nice for the last couple of years, i've took up their package there. haha... its a big step for me as i do not believe in taking packages. couple of reasons why.

first, i have to come up with a lump sum upfront. just like insurance, i pay mine monthly and not yearly. hurts less on your pockets though if you pay yearly, you do get a small discount.

second, what if the shop close down?

third, i don't normally frequent just one. i go to wherever is convenient. sometimes, during the last minute (sounds very like me), i suddenly want to do a facial (or pedi or mani) and cannot wait till next day, i will call until i find one has available slots.

fourth, what if my favourite service staff that do for me is not there, i don't like to be 'handled by strangers' after i get a package since its mainly because that favourite service staff is there to 'do' me. don't need to build a relationship all over. very tiring one you know.

fifth, its really my favourite facial house. i'm been going to them for the last couple of years. not that i every visit others but i've heard lots of horror stories about others - face gone wrong, made to sign a $20,000 package, bought thousands of useless products and so on which is enough to make me appreciative of my current anesthetist.

i think 5 good reasons are really enough reasons to qualify my signup.

haven't tell dar how much yet. in fact, i don't every tell him how much each session cost. his heart stops easily over money matters ma. hee...

the system is pretty an ingenious one so they don't really call it a package. they coined it as credits. so you get a certain amount of free credits for the applicable tier of credits you purchase. more credits you purchase at one go gives you more free credits of course.

and there's no expiry date plus its not restricted to just yourself using the credits. the calculations comes up to about a 10% after adding in the free credits for mine. so if you got money can buy more, this 'discount' will be more lor.

ok la, i'm getting like so boring over this. hee...

anyways, a big happy belated birthday to CALYN LEE and DAPHNE LOO! i'm sorry i missed both your birthdays. you know i'm never good with dates. very bad in fact, so please forgive me. only realise it after i read both your blogs just. hope both of you enjoy your very day. and remember to say thank you to your moms for bringing both of you to this world ya! =) *muakz + hugs*

edit @ 1:12am : i think my birthday tag was not prominent enough (in case they think i "bo sim")... so here goes ~

edit on 1-apr-06 @ 4.00pm : after some feedback (everyone happy! yays...) ~

HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY to DAPHNE LOO & MENGLI JIE + HAPPY BIRTHDAY to CALYN LEE!

in a pretty good mood now. must be that glass of white wine i had earlier. i think a glass after a long day really has therapeutic effects. it really lifts your mood by leaps and bounds.

of course, for those who drink often, i think they need more than a glass to get the same effect.

it is said one glass of occasional red wine is beneficial for health. my dad's neighbour says don't drink wines from australia as the quality is poor and thus bad for liver. try french ones instead.

it is also said that beer is cooling for the body, like our chinese 'liang teh'. good beers like hoegarden taste ok, not too bitter like carlsberg or tiger.

hmmm, now why am i at this topic when i'm not really considered a drinker huh?

the days are passing by like a bullet train that is running late of its schedule. so fast that its scary sometimes. wishing i can turn back the clock. oh well, then again no point hoping for something that will never ever happen.

life's good (other than my office politics which sucks bigtime). finally had a day to rest last friday. met char and sa to go shopping. didn't buy much though. only got 2 tops after like 4 hours of shopping. =(

i need more clothes! and shoes! and bags! and accessories! and...you get the idea...i just need to shop. haa...

time to logoff to watch my tv. i'm such a tvholic. i'm in love with 'da chang jin' airing on channel u at 10pm. its so nice. and its got a happy ending! i've finish reading the synopsis online. so touching. spent like 2 hours finish reading them as there's like 50 over episodes. =)

hope you've had a great weekend like mine. back to the battlefield again tomorrow. =S

i'm so in love with this serial. wanted to go buy the vcds. but after reading through the synopsis online, its got a sad ending. and i hate sad endings. it will make me feel dejected for a long long time.

so not buying and not watching anymore so i won't feel so sad.

channel u showing episode 13 now and its still very happy and funny. though i only catch that few half episodes now and then, i've laugh loads.

i like li xiaoyao, he looks so delicious! a bit like aniki takeshi. i like zhao ling-er! look so sweet. a lot of people likes li yue ru when i was reading the review, but i generally hate 3rd parties so though she's so sacrificing and stuff, NAH! as for ah nu and tang yu, they are the best! so candid, straight and direct.

but all of them are younger than me. so sad... *wails*

oh well, WHY the show cannot have happy ending one!

i'm pissed. i've to attend a wedding dinner of someone whom i don't know just because mom and dad says so. sighs... the burdens of married life sometimes. or rather, the burdens of my married life. it doesn't make me more independant. quite the opposite in fact.

i wanted to pose some pictures from work. show all of you my messy table, my black-out situations at the bank (imagine d*s bank branch black-out! how safe is that. but of course, the important security and systems, like my pcs, run on a different electricity line) and so on...

BUT the bluetooth adapter is not working. i've tried various means to make it detect my mobile but it doesn't. grrrrr...

so...next...time...ba...hmpf!

feeling sleepy. think i shall go take a nap. just wanted to post something. anything. haa... =)

have a great weekend!

i'm reading the above author books nowadays, not that she wrote that many, i think only like 8? but i've read them all and love them all.

the way she writes is simply hilarious. imagine me sitting in kfc having my late lunch and bursting into giggles while at the same time trying to bite my lips and looking left and right to make sure noone seen me but still end up looking like a lunatic! hur hur... its that funny lor.

its like watching a comedy romance, well in this case, reading it.

4 of her books is a series - confessions of a shopaholic (i tell you, the front part sounds so much like me that its scary), shopaholic takes mahattan (a little boring but still funny), shopaholic ties the knot (awww... so sweet, this proves all girls must marry rich man!) and shopaholic and sister (i think this book is the most touching one among all, i was crying in buckets). the other 2 is by itself - the undomestic goddess (not too bad) and can you keep a secret (i tell you, this one i laugh until i want to die).

a common trend of all of her above books is that anything disastrous happens, the female lead always thinks of running away from reality (and in couple of the above books, they did run away, which was stupid as grown adult women absolutely do not run away from problems, i mean where can you run to? reality still there what.).

another is why do the male lead always being protrayed as successful, rich, dashing, witty, understanding, so understanding that with a look they know what the female lead is thinking? ooooo, that just makes me so jealous.

but lucky thing is dar do sound a bit like the male lead. erm, by that, i meant the last point la, cause, well, he is not dashing and definitely not successful or rich or what. but we are a bit telepatic as i only need move my tail abit sometimes and he knows what i'm thinking about. ok, not that i've a tail but i meant in context. if you get what i mean. =P

like when he asks me how much i bought that new pair of shoes, i say 'its on sale! only $5.90!' and his face goes like 'ya right.' but of course he just says 'ok' and agrees with me. tee hee hee...

my apologies, i digress. but anyways, do read her books if you have the time. its really worth the read. just what i'm looking forward to after a long stressful day at work. =)

i do not follow through any idol searches or anything that needs me to pay money to vote. i think its just a scam to make more money out from consumer just its a free-to-air channel.

i also do not feel its fair to the contestants and all and i think it must be mentioned by one thousand and one people that its just a game of who is richer than who (campus) to be able to garner the votes or who is more 'ke lian' than who (no offence here, just my 2 cents, superstar) or who is more handsome than who (super) or which record label wants who (singapore).

i think it should be free for all to vote. i think it should be restricted to one vote per ic and need thumbprint verification (so that it will become whose kampung bigger who is winner as one may vote using all his/her uncle, auntie, ah ma, ah gong etc etc ic lor).

after each round it should be reseted all over and all can revote. sounds a bit like our elections but its good ma, more fair right. and transparent. its auditable and trailable and accountable so no one can cry foul!

well, sounds like a big hassle. and i think the sponsers don't really care as long as the lines are ringing. it means that their cash register is ringing.

oh well, perhaps, i'm a little sore because sometimes i do catch one or two episode of super idol (timing just nice still at mom's hse after dinner and nothing else to watch ma) and i really like cheng xi whom got booted out last week. he's witty, funny, crappy and more natural than the rest.

though that bryan looks more cool but he really act like a block of wood with a stone face lor. lesser comments on the other as he's ok la. just not that cute enough. tee hee...

i really love the last part where they were asked to talk about the good points of the other two and cheng xi's answer is most spontaneous and interesting!

after singing so much praise for him, alas, i did not vote for him. i did told dar that if he does go into the finals, i will spend one call on him. and thats a lot considering i absolutely absolutely do not pay to call for anything at all. not even charity calls considering its too commercialise...

BOO! surprise.. haa..

was feeling moody a couple of days back and suddenly miss the song, auld lang syne. nothing depressing happening la. =P i think i was pms-ing ba.

but despite that the time of the month is almost over, i'm still feeling rather restless. (erm, the feeling was like fifty times worse this time last week, at least it kinda tone down) feeling things are getting very monotonous. very colourless. very uneventful. very...

not that my life is boring until very...boring?

i mean dar loves me to the max - calls me every morning to wake me up for work, calls and chat with me during office hours, buys me lunch occasionally during his lunch break (bt timah plaza has absolutely nothing good to eat and i refuse to walk under the sun to the nearby bt timah market to eat), fetches me home everyday after work... i'm happy, really really really happy, that he does all this.

we did some stuffs interesting once in a while too like visiting the asian aerospace 2006, trying out new food places (balestier fish head steamboat - 5 stars!), going to malaysia on our own to walk walk...

sighs... but i don't know why sometimes a little part of mei still feel a little void and very restless. i decided to classify that as part of my pms-ing and i hate that feeling. i wish it can begone with a snap of my fingers.

i think deep down in me, i roughly know why - like g o b t m, like s a d h, like e s l, like n a, like w d m s i a b a d n a w y t a m etc (sorry its all in codes as its personal la and i'm not like dap using the steady pom pee pee blogging website, wordpress to protect my entries) but...but...but...excuses!

oh well, lets forget all abt it for now forever.

i'm feeling super hot now. thinking if i should take a bath to cool down. the weather is really unbearable of late.

work is hopeless. don't know what i'm doing. just do whatever comes. actually, another colleague is on long leave and i'm covering her duties so i should be extremely busy (was thinking i've to work till 10pm everyday at first) but i've managed to go home before 7pm or rather 6.30pm almost everyday.

i'm

super

efficient

lor!

nevertheless, i'm looking forward to her coming back next thurs (as in, next ya, not this coming one). i'm very burned-out already. looking forward to my off on 24th and a whole week's leave in april.

not going anywhere for the short break. intending to but decided to save money la. =) so going to buy vcds (chinese paladin! i so in love with this serial) to day watch night watch and r-e-l-a-x.

its coming to 11pm. *yawns* think i better go get that bath i was talking about and watch the ch 8 serial, 'xing yuan'.

have a smashing week ahead peeps~

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
And here's a hand, my trusty friend
And gie's a hand o' thine
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne


... for the time being ...

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