pictures from all over

her beggar's looks!
junk food my mum brought back from aussie!

my chicken set

randy's salmon set
our desserts!

cosily sleeping on my lap in a bus!
moe, ntu cce and mda is so near my cousins place!

bored at ncs server room

someone else was bored too. forgot wad randy was doing to bore us

saw jacelyn tay and 715 at isetan scotts

saw this crew filming at marina square
just a simple show oso need so many tvs to monitor?!
my darling curled up in her chair
and in one of her pillow..

super cute with the biscuit in her mouth!

i brought her out shopping!

my internal mini crisis

becos i spent like 930 bucks in the past month (and the month hasn't ended yet!) and most of it was spent on food n clothes. and den i remembered, i ate out for almost everyday in 2 weeks! i grounded myself this weekend. even though i stayed home, had my meals at home, i still spent 70 bucks!!! 60 on dentist, 10 on my misc ingredients for cooking. arghhh. so that makes it to a total of 990 on my card, and some hundreds by cash. ooommmgggg. and den i need to pay mum 2k for my trip, change few hundreds for expenses. goodness me. and the stupid gondola i wan to sit is euro 35!!! which means its sgd70! crazyyy! pay 70 to sit thru a high class canal!

best part is im already thinking of where to go in dec. i think i should go do some part time work n get more money to go holiday!!! i wan to go bkk, i wan to go bali, i wan to go taipei, i wan to go perth. that reminds me, i have not made up my mind whether to renew my western australia license.. n whether i should convert it to spore license... i doubt mum will ever get me a car now that they lost so much to lehman :( stupid lehman. aunt said she'll buy a car for each of me n cousins if she gets back her money. but im not greedy! a honda fit doesn cost tt much!

we're government-less!

yups! i had a phone call this morning at 10am whilst i was still cosily in bed since its raining outside, my first reaction was to see if its from 'someone' but woohoo it wasn't! *dances* the someone went to hk today!!! so we're all without government and calls-free for the next few days!

went to cce meeting yesterday, only to find out bryan was on MC. aiyo, MC den MC lah, but at least sms us that you're on MC rite mr bryan teo? went to anchorpoint after that with rach, walked around in ikea whilst waiting for mr randy n mr thomas..by then my feet was already in pain being in heels for the morning. went to jack's place for lunch since it was someone's treat and went to order the microsoft polos n jerseys. cabbed down to sgx after that and the meeting was okay.. can sort of visualise what they want, and how it works. and then, the susie that randy described as a very blur girl, happens to be my poly lecture mate!! she's not blur at all loh! in fact, she's one of the top few of the e-commerce course la! which explains why she studied in NUS after poly. but, one point i felt weird was that she said she worked in sgx for 2 yrs! how can that be when we both spent 3 yrs in uni, and i've only worked for 6 months, but she worked for 2 years?! i went to uni 6 mths after my poly, so at best, she could have worked for 6 months more den me wad! where did the other 1 year come from??? anyways, i was taking alot of glances at her during the meeting, becos i was wondering if she is the girl in my course, but i confirmed it was the same person becos of her mole! *SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH* ntu got a mr big moley, sgx got a ms small moley! and i dun understand how she can be blur as randy said, becos pple is the super smart type one wor, needless to say, she hanged out with the smartest in my lecture. and mr randy was happily asking me to get her msn to keep in touch?! erms........... i dont really.......have much to say to a nerd leh. and den she asked me a question

'do you still keep in touch with the lecturers?'
me: *surprised look* no! you do?
she: ya! u remember mr han kee?
me: ohh ya the one who taught us .net
me (in my heart): crazy, i returned all my .net to him when i left poly!

and randy wants me to keep in touch with her!!! and talk about geeky nerdy stuffs like .net?! goodness, me n nerds are not in the same line of frequency la! (although i wan to wear specs to act nerd la) so mr randy, dont make me 'wei nan' in the next sgx meeting ok! fren fren enough alreadie!

by the time i reached home, my feet was like super bruised! all becos my mum wore my already-seasoned pair so i had to wear her new pair. arghhhhhhh. i po like hell to her when she got back!

meeting minutes 24th september v0.1 .docx

went for my MDA meeting, and then boss sent me to tanjong pagar mrt!!! tian ar! that was superrrrr stressful 10+ minutes! we talked about....alot! i can practically visualise doing a meeting minutes!

trip management
1. he will be going to hongkong this friday
2. it will be his boy's first trip on a plane (see 4 yrs old only get to go for hols!)
3. he asked where i'm going for my holiday so i replied switzerland
4. he asked where else besides switzerland, i replied i dunnoe!
5. he commented im so cute and funny becoz i dunoe where im gg (*rolls eyes in slow motion* mum booked it wad..)

east area management
6. he asked which part of east coast i stay so i said.. ocean park.
7. he said he misses the bowling alley that used to be just outside my place
8. he said he goes to the east to buy FRUITS EVERY WEEK
9. i said a 'HUH?!' loudly
10. he replied he used to stay in telok kurau so he goes back to the same fruit seller becos they know each other well. (and possibly a future CRM client)
11. he also commented that he would go for east coast's wanton noodles whenever he's around the area
12. i replied that the wanton noodles tastes normal!
13. he replied true
14. he asked about the possibility of a MRT in marine parade in 2020
15. i replied maybe, an underground MRT but difficult becos east coast is built on reclaimed land
16. he asked if i got the F1 tickets (do i look like the kind who would spend hundreds just to see the car zoom past me in split seconds?)
17. he added, nadia bought tickets
18. *drops me off at tanjong pagar mrt*
19. *lets out a big PHEW*
20. *sms rachel immediately*

recorded by: joanne ng
version: 0.1
date released: 25th sept 2008


got this from another uni fren, and its very true!

"nothing wrong with a little shooting as long it's the right ppl that gets shot"

the needed catchup

met up with my uni best fren - dear chris who's back in sg! i haven seen him for like, almost a year! we had a pretty nice long chat at deliveg, a vegetarian restaurant in chinatown. food was.....okay. im not exactly a fan of vegetarian food, so...it was weird eating 'fake' meats although i was attracted to the sayings on their wall. like, 'you dont eat the animals becos they dont eat you' etc. walked to far east square and continue chatting in one of the swings there, and then walked back to swensens for dessert.

its good to catch up with him again after i've left perth.. and den he totally laughed his head off at the farm i want to have. wats wrong with waking up to the moo-moos, meh-mehs? its possible ok chris!

and like he mentioned, i miss the feeling of walking along the slope from curtin's carpark down to cross the road to erica underwood. 2.5 years walking down that road to get to uni, but im missing it now. actually i miss everything about uni lah. except the expensive food. my only regret was that i should have started learning driving in the beginning.. i probably could have explored more during weekends and holidays.

most of the com sci frens are back in their home country, whilst the rest are happily in perth. when will my mr nguyen graduate, get a job and support me and my farm?

my nasi lemak vegetarianized.

his fish bento set vegetarianized too.

his topless 5 and my sinful choco fudge sundae!

best frens forever okay! i'll see u cny next yr!

the lehman after effects

a week has passed after this lehman and whatnots, me went shopping with cousin happily today! she shopped so much today can! so irritating! the first thing i met her, she said 'something very big happened u know'. i thought her maid ran away or wad la.. in the end its this lehman thing. but she's thankful her dad didnt scream at her mum! haha, funny ar. and she's not affected, becos her mum terms this of being an 'earthquake', she said its just a 'tremor'! aiyo, anyway it wont affect us much except they said no year end holiday! so we'll secretly make our own plans to go vietnam or wherever!

had a short walk along the siglap connector to ecp with 2nd aunt yesterday n i told her i wan to buy a hdb flat if i have the money! den she suggested me to get mum to lend me the down payment, and then she commented she should look out for houses to invest too. this morning i overheard her talking to an agent, about condos.
-_- aiyo, we were talking about hdb the night before, and the next morning she was talking about a 3 million condo. -_- crazy, 3 million for an old condo just becos it has seaview. i think getting a flat around old airport road is good since circle line would be up soon, and leisurepark is nearby.

no one knows what's going to happen in the financial world anymore. i think having a flat is safer than investing in banks nowadays. 3 more weeks to my holiday!

the lehman effect

its been all over bloomberg, cna, cnbc and whatnots that lehman brothers have filed for bankruptcy under chapter 11. one of the bigger players in the states with 160 years of history has to close down?! my 4th aunt has been 'camping' in the living room watching cnbc for the latest news from usa..becos...all my aunts has hundred thousands worth of mini bonds with lehman brothers! i certainly hope my mum doesnt have a share! and if no other banks buy over lehman brothers, it means their investments are gone! 2nd aunt is pretty cool about it, becos there's nothing that she can do about it anyways.

so i'll cross my fingers that she does get back her money, if not part of, else we wont be able to po her to sponsor us anymore trips.

dinner at dover

went to my cousin's place for dinner together with novi and meimei. sat thru an almost 1.5 hour bus ride to her place..and den my aunt who was supposed to come over after her bukit timah hike tua me! dinner was good, abit stressful which is the norms for me whenever i have meals at other's place. uncle koh invited me for dinner on monday! he invited his ex-mda top shot colleagues for dinner.. so he kept asking if im coming. but nah, i'm not into rubbing shoulders and exchanging an ugly business card with such high class pple. and my uncle is one of the mda users ex boss! after i told her he's my uncle, she said 'bye joanne' to me at the last meeting can!!!! previously i was like invisible to them! how practical is she loh!! i super look down on her now.

met up with my shorties for dinner yesterday at suntec's imperial treasure n dessert at nydc. imperial treasure is so-so, 2nd time there and its still unable to convince me that their food is nice. mudpies in nydc seemed to have shrunk alot! siew lin and alicia came over to my place to chill by the pool with meimei! and my aunt brought back her korean fren to stayover can!

a week of overtimes

3rd day in a row in NCS, and my first time working till 1+ AM?!?! reached home at 2, by the time i bathed and hair is dried, its already 3am. on top of that, i caught a cold the next day after the bbq, and better still, aircon in NCS's server rooms is colder now! I brought a normal jacket on monday, and then it was really freezing cold lah!!!!! aiyo, i regretted not listening to raymond when he sms me earlier to 'bring your winter wear becos server room is freezing'. on tuesday, i went to dig out mum's woollen jumper! haha, it definitely did keep me warm, but becos we were there for a long period, i was still cold.

i was happy to be at ncs rather than mda, budden after leaving ncs at 1+ AM on tues nite, i asked randy if i could be at mda instead. of cos his answer was no. and of cos i still prefer to be at ncs rather than mda anytime despite the long hours. but then again, i feel im of not much help becos i seriously have no clue about workflows calling a plugin which calls like 4-5 stored procedures?! most of the time, im just entertaining them, or helping to test if it works. i think we have easily did those steps more den a hundred times!

talking about ncs, i saw pearly! my dog's original owner! at ncs canteen! i found her familiar and then she was giving me that weird look like why am i staring at her.. i got out to talk to her and den she remembered me! such a small small world to see her in ncs..

something funny happened today! randy sms boss to tell him the workflow wasn't working....
boss: what is the workflow running on
randy: running on kaya toast!

hahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahaha. must be the kaya toast we had earlier on, and den his initial response was running on bread n butter can!

joke of the year

my cousin told me about how painful it was to explain to her mum about facebook. aunt asked my cousin to create a facebook account for her...my cousin created for her, and then my aunt's reply?

"no no, u teach me how to create then i go office and create! you create at home den how i bring the facebook to office?"

sometimes i wish i had such innocence in my life.

the longest bbq

went shopping with mum for winter wear at suntec and den at parkway.. super happy with my new jackets! we were going from one shop to another, and then i spotted it from outside and then it fitted nicely! mum liked the other grey jacket, so we both had one each from springfield. and then i got a holely one from mango! it was quite a rush since she only had yesterday to shop since she's going to brisbane today. and she'll be there for 2 weeks! the house will be even quieter tmr when my grandparents n 2nd aunt goes to china..

but.... i get to have parties and create havoc at home given the rare chance that grandparents arent at home! probably have a sleepover with mabel n joy this weekend! i got myself a jacket which actually comes in 2 jackets but they can be attached together.. i thought of bringing the inner jacket to ncs becoz its really thick and i've been having a minor flu/runny nose and my lips were dry till it's allergic, when i usually get that dry allergic lips when i go to cold countries. that's how cold it was in ncs's server rooms.

talking of wednesday's at ncs, we left that place near 11. and without dinner. becos there wasn't any food available, and i thought i deleted some actual data, which i panicked for a while. and then while raymond was trying to re-populate the data back into their fields, i started to do them manually. (249 records were affected so i couldnt take the risk of leaving it) luckily, nothing was deleted, and the 249 records that i thought was affected, was actually added instead of updating the records! so there i was, finally calming down and deleted the extra 249 records. becos we had no other way of updating the 1000+ records, we left.

going back to yesterday, i had a short nap before loxy woke me up. and then i waited by my balcony to look if anyone had reached. that was already 5.30. rachel called at 5.45pm so i cycled to meet her..and then some china pple were at our pit! wah lao, they think its first come first serve or wat... we chased them off and started the fire. it poured heavily at like 8+ till 9+ !! so cold and so squeezy! i so wanted to cycle home in the rain! and then, the guys continued the bbq-ing, but not before setting up the temporary 'shelter'. fire went on and off, and it didnt end till 2+ am?! was supposed to leave around 9 or 10+ becos mum would be leaving early this morning, and so i didnt get the chance to see her and say saranghae before she left this morning :(

reached home at 3, bathed, and finish the last bit of coffee prince. its a really really nice drama, and even yoon eun hye herself said she's so into go eun chan's role that she'll go crazy if she's not acting as go eun chan. all their acting was great, i cried alot when she went to milan to study becos it felt just the same way when i had to leave for australia. i felt so into the show can! even joy said she was very into the show, and we wished it didnt stop! i read there would be coffee prince 2, but no idea if its confirmed. but the main lead gong yoo wouldnt be in it cos of army. arghhhh the scenes of coffee prince are still flashing through my mind!

my 2 in 1 jacket

the inner jacket

my other white jacket and mum's grey jacket

TGIF!

time really flies when you're busy.. and i've sort of 'detached' myself from the office unofficially! second week of requirements gathering for mda, and its tiring can.. im always yawning in meetings, and i admit i sometimes do that purposely to display my tiredness. especially times like today, where i finished work at ncs near 11 yesterday, and then meeting at 9.30am today! i was quite grouchy this morning, partly becos of what happened the night before, and then i was arrowed to do some traceability matrix (wtf is this loh) by joseph, the ncs's pm. and then i just checked my emails and by a twist of fate, mr im-very-busy got shot by the arrow instead!

"The primary objective of this document is to ensure that we cover all areas during requirements gathering, design & testing.
Can I suggest that only one person (perhaps John) updates the document and maintains the master copy.
John, pls do send the latest update date (YYYYMMDD) included in the filename to all team members on a weekly basis (Friday)."

im literally dancing when i saw this email can?! maybe it was my black face that made joseph change his mind? or maybe he knows i have 4 projects? or maybe he thinks mr im-very-busy-and-late will do a better job than i will? anyway, i dont care, and i have one less burden. somemore on a weekly basis loh..

on my way to exhaustion

its been a really long long time since i'm up at this time working! the last time was while rushing for mfa developments, and today its because i have 3 projects on hand all crying for attention.

and then my mind got farm-alized today. i started visualising myself staying in a farm in aussie, waking up to the moo moo sounds of the cows, barking of my dogs, meh-ings of my sheeps, and the oink-ings of my pigs, oh and lastly, the cryings of my babies. haha.

somehow after last nite's family dinner, i had this sudden urge to be back in australia again. to be able to drive down to woodman's point for some fishing, to lie down and look at the stars, to drive with the cold wind slapping my face, and to be away from this crazy place.

a break wouldn't help becos i still have to face the shit when im back.

i seriously want to retire soon... and my dearie has agreed to getting a big plot of land so i can have my farm fantasy fulfilled. even though i wouldnt sell any animals becos i know i would end up crying if they had to be killed for food. and then my family members can take turns to come visit me whenever they are stressed or for a weekend trip to see my cows pigs sheeps!

oooh, and my house will be rather quiet the next 2 months.. my poor dog will be home alone with novi.. and i get to cook dinner for 2 of us! grandparents will be back in fuzhou for a month, 2nd aunt will be with them for a week, shortly after 3rd aunt goes to nepal, and then we go to switzerland, and den mum will be in brisbane for few weeks again when she just came back like yesterday? hopefully there are cheap airfares for me to make a weekend trip there..

omg. its 2.03am and i just got an email from someone in mda. seriously. dont you pple need to sleep?!?!