Always looking forward to the Weekends...

Im so looking forward to the weekend everytime weds are here.
Coz it's already midweek!

Last Friday was a pretty sad day.
I was at Charles and Keith paying for a pair of very pretty white shoes,


when i saw smthg black on my diamond eternity ring.
Upon closer inspection, i realized that it was actually a hole!
One of the diamonds on my ring dropped out!
It was the one right in the middle of the 7 diamonds!
Luckily Lee Hwa was juz a few doors away, n i ran there to save my precious.
I din even know when and where the diamond dropped!

According to the salesperson, if you were your ring often, it is advisable to send it for servicing every 1 or 2 mths
Servicing is free and it includes cleaning n polishing,
n checking the diamonds and making sure that they are secure.
So ladies, Hurry Down and get your Diamonds serviced NOW!
To replace my one tiny diamond, I have to pay $80 to $100 for the diamond alone!
N I have to part w my ring for 2 whole weeks!
Baby was so sweet.
When I msged him to tell him what happened, he texted back saying
“Poor Baby. You go get a new diamond k. I’ll pay for it.”
Coz he was the one who bought me the ring last year.
Yippez!

On Sat, Baby n I went to the Suntec to check out 2 “branded sale”.
One sale sold shoes from hush puppies, renoma etc...which was so-so only.
The other sale sold auntie clothing that were so NOT branded.
There were lotsa cute childrens' clothing though, some from Gap and Osh Kosh.
I cudnt resist not buying anything, so I bought a whole lotta cute baby clothings for Baby’s 2 cute nieces! Teehee!

We went to the NATAS fair thereafter.
Got in for free coz Baby’s sis-in-law was working at the exhibition.
So stingy rite? $3 per pax only yet we also dun wanna pay. Haha!
We went ard asking about packages to Japan..
coz I really wanna go Japan! Esp Sanrio Puroland!
We met this really funny HongKong guy at Hong Thai.
The way he spoke Mandarin and English to us sounded exactly like it is on TV! Haha!
Baby n I were highly amused as most of the time we were trying to figure out wat he was saying. But he was a very frenly guy.
The Kodak moment was when we were leaving, he told Baby in his Hkg-accented Mandarin: “Ni de nu pen you hen piao liang” (your gf is very pretty).
N Baby replied “Wo zhi dao” (I know)
Wahahaha! Cheeky Baby!

After that we drove to the airport coz poor Baby had to work.
He had to see a big group of passengers off on a corporate trip to Korea.
So, being the nice gf I am, I offered to help Baby!
I was like Baby’s secretary/PA!
After everything, Baby said I did a very good job.
“What will I ever do without you? You simply complete me”
Yay!...100 brownie points for Princess Fiona!!!


After our nice dinner at the airport, Baby’s hp rang non-stop
coz his stoopid boss was calling from Korea.
When Baby was busy settling issues, I entertained myself!

Wah! My Fave Sunflowers!

Kiss! Kiss!

This weird Indian tourist approached me to take a pic with his wife/gf.
So funny! Haha!

Sunday was TMNT day!
It was super hot hot day.
I only like hot hot days when im out sun-tanning!
Poor me had to walk to the train station in the hot sun to meet Baby,
coz Baby din have the car this Sunday.
Sundays are supposed to be "being chaffeured" day.
*Squintz*


Anyway, watch TMNT the movie only if you are really bored
and wanna watch some brainless crappy show.
Or you juz wanna relive your childhood.
But the turtles are really cute! Esp the area where their nose is supposed to be!


Hehe! TMNT was Baby’s fave cartoon!
My fave is Raphael.
His fave is Leonardo.
So boring… everyone likes Leonardo,
coz he is the leader of the pack and the eldest bro.

Anyways...
Cowabunga peeps! Haha!


Weekends = Happiness
Saturdays = Fun & Play
Sunday = Relax & Rejuvenate

Me and my Martell

Last Friday was a Martell Friday. A group of colleagues and I went to Dragonfly to celebrate getting our bonuses and promotions. Personally, im not a fan of Dragonfly. Boiler Room's more my type. But some of my colleagues really dig Dragonfly. According to the waiters there, Dragonfly is the hottest and most popular outlet at St James. Well, i can see that. I've been there a few times and it is always so so packed! N the queues are so snaking long! Well, luckily we did not have to queue at all coz kiasu us went pretty early after work. One colleague of mine came at about 11pm. And after about 10 mins of queuing, the queue did not move at all depsite being in the members' queue! After awhile, he gave up and went to Butter Factory. Haha.

When we first reached there, i was so much more interested in what was gg on next door at Powerhouse...it was the CLEO most eligible bachelor party! A colleague of mine has a fren working as an editor in Cleo or smthg, and cud get us in through the backdoor. He was planning call his fren so that we can go over later in the night. But by the time we had our food, drinks and merry-making...he was kinda too drunk to call his fren alry. Chey! Missed my chance!

But i was the happiest coz i had my fave Martell! And i did not have to pay a single cent the whole night! Hohoho! We had a few buckets of my fave Heineken to start off the night, accompanied by yummy chicken wings, fries and teriyaki pizza. The food is really not bad, pretty tasty! Den came 3 bottles of Martell, 1 Hennessy and 1 Johnnie Walker for the rest of the night for about 10 of us. I was drinking so so happily! When Baby came to meet me to send me home...i was pretty drunk alry...and boy was Baby pissed! Hahaha! Took a few crazy photos that night. Here's one crazy photo of the night that i managed to get hold of so far:



I totally HEART MARTELL!



Been partying quite a bit since last Dec. But so pathetic..only got a couple of photos to share from 2 ocassions.

Xmas at Boiler Room





Fashion Bar at The Cannery



Anyway, if any of you gers out there are bored of the usual clubbing scene...u may like to check out Gotham Penthouse. Not exactly a super happening place...but you'll LOVE...ODYSSEY! The 5 hot sexy guys from Johannesburg!




Just check out their hot bods and sexy dance moves that gets every ger oh-so-excited during their shows! *weet!* Think bare-chested hunks in stripped down to their briefs, grinding theirhips and pounding the dance floor to a repertoire of jazz, hip hop, R&B and pop. *SLURPZ!* Catch them before they are gone!

Letter Day

Yesterday was "Letter Day" aka "Bonus Day". It's time of the year when we get to know our variable bonuses and whether we r up for any salary increment or promotion. The day that everyone looks forward to, to see if their hard work has paid off.

I was indeed a very ignorant girl. While everyone kinda already knew that Letter Day was gonna be during the beginning of this week, i was totally clueless! I thot it was gonna be end March...like last year, so i din expect much. Well, apparently not. When i went to work in the morning, slogging hard and tabulating some frustrating numbers, my colleague Jon asked me to think of a place to go drinking to celebrate.

Me: Huh? Celebrate what? Your birthday ah?
Jon: *in disbelief* Bonus coming lah
Me: *in disbelief as well* Really meh!?? How u noe? So fast? 'Zun' anot?
Jon: Of coz lar! Im so resourceful!
Me: See how much bonus i get first lar. Skali get peanuts. Den i treat u eat peanuts k!
Jon:.....

After lunch, another colleague of mine waved at me excitedly,
ST: Psst! I heard from sector cooridnation dept that today is Letter Day!
Me: Letter Day? What letter? The XXX letter that we r gg to send out to customers?
ST: *rolls eyes* Bonus lar!
Me: Oh! Today ah? Really meh!? Jon also told me this morning, but i thot he bull-shitting.
ST: Really lar! Later u see lor!
Me: Ok ok! I go ask Jas! (my boss' secretary)
*Getting realli hyped up and...nervous*

It turned out to be true! We were getting our letters! But our boss was out for meeting till about 5 pm, and all the letters are in his hands! Shucks...the anticipation was bugging lotsa ppl. It wasnt like i was expecting or even hoping for a promotion like some of my collegaues. But for me, it was the excitment about the $$$. Just show me the $$$. I was hoping for a satisfactory increment and a good bonus enuff for me to do some serious shopping and to go for a nice holiday.

Well, we finally got our letters at the end of the day. My boss had given my team's letter to our team leader, and we were called into the meeting room one by one to receive our letter. When it was my turn, i din even noe coz i was totally at the wrong place! I was chit-chatting in the toilet! Haha! My colleague ST ran into the toilet looking for me and screamed "Fioonaaaaa! Your turn lar, faster! Letter letter!".

Team Leader: Thank you very much Fiona, for all your hard work and effort.
Me: Thank u, thank u.
Team Leader: You have helped me a lot, n I know you have been stretched. So, thank you.
Me: Thank u, thank u.
(I know i sound damn dumb to keep saying thank u after she thanked me. But i was too nervous n i wasnt thinking straight. Was just staring at the letter in her hands!)
Team Leader: *hands me the Letter, and stuck out her hand* Congratulations. You have been promoted.
Me: *Stunned and in shock* oh!...*pause* Thanks!
(yeah i sound totally DUMB)

Overall, im pleased that my hard work has indeed paid off, and that i din put up with shit for nothing. Im now promoted from a Senior Officer(SO for short = 'Asshole'" to an Assistant Manager (AM for short). Sounds damn high ranking eh? haha!

So Yay!..I guess.

But upon pondering further, i realized that it just means 3 things:
1. Higher expectations coming my way
2. Expanded job scope and more work
3. More headache!

It may not be such a good thing after all. *sigh* Life is just so complicated.

I love. . .

...my new Lancome mascara
...my new black chiffon skirt with lace
...my fave Marks & Spencer pantent pumps
...my diamond ring
...my hair curls

But most of all...

Our Dates on Saturdays!

All Things Cute!

Babel

Last weekend, Baby and I went to watch what seemed like a promising show with 7 Academy Award nominations – Babel. Yeah, starring Brad Pitt – Baby’s idol. And true to its award nominations, the show was pretty good. The movie initially seemed like 4 unrelated stories being told in one movie, with a somewhat abrupt ending. However, at the end of it, it makes you think and reflect for awhile before you get the so-called ‘moral of the story’. It’s a cool movie and I highly recommend it. I give it 4 out of 5 popcorns! Here’s a sypnosis of it:

In the remote sands of the Moroccan desert, a rifle shot rings out - detonating a chain of events that will link an American tourist couple’s frantic struggle to survive, two Moroccan boys involved in an accidental crime, a nanny illegally crossing into Mexico with two American children and a Japanese teen rebel whose father is sought by the police in Tokyo. Separated by clashing cultures and sprawling distances, each of these four disparate groups of people are nevertheless hurtling towards a shared destiny of isolation and grief. In the course of just a few days, they will each face the dizzying sensation of becoming profoundly lost - lost in the desert, lost to the world, lost to themselves - as they are pushed to the farthest edges of confusion and fear, as well as to the very depths of connection and love.

Starting with a tragedy that strikes a married couple on vacation, Babel interweaves four stories that are set in 4 different countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico, and Japan) and in 5 different languages. Im particularly amazed at how a seemingly isolated event can affect lives on the other side of the globe. It showed the inter-connectedness of the world and portrayed humanity’s mutual dependency.

Another thing that intrigued me was how they drew a link to the bible with regards to the Tower of Babel. According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity to reach the heavens. God, observing the unity of humanity in the construction, resolves to destroy the tower and confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing any such future efforts. An interpretive account of the story explains the tower's destruction in terms of humankind's deficiency in comparison to God: within a Judeo-Christian framework, humankind is considered to be an inherently flawed creation dependent on a perfect being for its existence, and thus the construction of the tower is a potentially hubristic act of defiance towards the God who created them. As a result, this story is sometimes used within a Judeo-Christian context to explain the existence of many different languages and races.

The story found in Genesis 11:1-9 is as follows:
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel (confusion); because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Watch it! Be do beware of gross images e.g. girl stripping totally naked with saggy boobs and a weird looking bush, and forcing herself onto a handsome and very reluctant guy, old sweaty ppl making out passionately, bloody and grotesque sewing of a wound – just to name a few. Have fun watching!

Hello Kitty Strawberry Cake!

Wow!I would LURVE to have this cake for my birthday! With all my fave stuff - lotsa yummilicious strawberries on top and my fave Hello Kitty character... n what more, Hello Kitty is dressed as a Princess! But the cake content must be strawberry shortcake or Haagen Daz strawberry ice-cream cake though...Yay! I wonder where i can buy this cake...hmmm...Will anyone bake me this? Hehe...*hint hint to my friends who can bake*

My Poor Wardrobe!..and Clothes!

Oopsie! My wardrobe is seriously overloaded!I have the biggest wardrobe in my family. No kidding man. But guess what happened today? It fell apart! hahhaha! k..i guess that's too kua zhang. But anyway, my wardrobe is the sliding door type, with 2 sides.


N in one side of the door, the main pole where my clothes are being hung on ...DROPPED! Nothing broke though. It kinda just gave way and dropped. My clothes are too heavy! After fixing the pole in place, I had a hard time trying to put everything back up on the pole! My arms were kinda aching after that...no kidding! N my wardobe is so full that my ironed clothes esp my cotton shirts, are kinda squashed n crumpled after i hang them up.

I had such a shock at first coz when i slide the door open, the door got jammed halfway! Coz the hangers got stuck. The whoel pole and ALL my clothes tumbled down onto another pile of clothes folded neatly on the shelf underneath. Lucky my wardrobe din break or spoil or smthg. Else i'll be very sad. I like e design of my wardrobe.

Shucks, I just went shopping last week and bought 2 GG>5 tops, and a pair of Marks n Spencer shoes. I also bought some tops from Mango, Guess and Miss Selfridge in the previous 2 weeks! I think i shud stop shopping.....my wardrobe is so full that it is protesting alry. Sobz =(

I think i should buy an extension wardrobe. Hahahaha!

Happy New Year!

It feels as if 2006 has just zoomed by...it has been not too bad a year. I just hope the years get better as i get older.

As the years go by, i hope be:
1. Richer (seems possible if i work hard enuff)
2. Happier (seems possible with the right mindset)
3. Prettier (wahaha! ermz...soon, i'll no longer be one of the sweet young things in the office. Only possible of i get richer n spend lots of money on beauty care)
4. Slimmer (as opposed to FATTER! most ppl put on weight as they age into the obasan stage dun they?)
5. Sexier (wahahah! That will prolly only happen if im Christy Chung or Kylie Minogue. Shucks.)
6. More successful (I'd better be!)

My New Year Resolutions!
1. Be Punctual!
Yes yes..i know im The Late Princess (I noe some Late Queens! So im still considered Princess status ok!)

This seems like a super tough feat! I have been late ALL my life since my dad stopped fetching me to school and all around =( Parents, bf, frens, team leader, boss etc all have said a thing or two (some said many!) about my tardiness. My poor Baby always have to wait super long for me to get ready to go out..coz im always so SLOW...dilly-dally-ing away.

Ever since i started work, it has been a norm for me to reach my office around 9.10am to 9.15am. But in the last 2 to 3 months, I have been reaching my office at 9.20am - 9.25am! Getting worse!

SO! From 2007! I MUST make it a point to be punctual! If not, the MAXIMUM allowance that can be granted to myself for being late is 10mins! So I shud report to work punctually at 9am every morning! And the latest time that i can reach my office is 9.10am! (i think i really need the allowance of 10 mins. At least for the beginning...!)

I reached my office at about 9.18am today. Wahaha! I will try harder tomorrow! Ganbate!

2. Be less short-tempered
Oops...im guilty of that especially when things dun go my way or when i dun get what i want. It din used to be so bad. My temper was generally still ok in the past i think. But this year is one of the worst since my JC days. Sometimes I make my parents and Baby get realli exasperated. Coz when things dun go as i want them to, i get realli pissed off and i'll be huffing n puffing away and picking fault at every little thing and scolding everybody. Oopsie!

N when i make Baby angry sometimes...i get angry at him instead n scold him for being angry w me. So Baby gets upset. =( My parents also told Baby to teach me to control my temper when i get mad! I think I became lidat partly due to stress at the workplace. I go bonkers when im super stressed up and I hate it when things aint perfect and up to my expectations.

So I promised Baby that I shall not get so worked up over small little things anymore! I must learn to take things easy and adopt a more optimistic and happy-go-lucky attitude! Yay!

I shall keep my new year resolution to just two. Becoz these 2 alone are already real toughies for me! I must work hard to be a better person with a better future in 2007 and beyond! Yay!...just hope my enthusiasm lasts...haha.