MATCH-MADE IN HEAVEN??
hahhaaa.... did this test given by Ms Sinus and this was wat was being said abt me and dearie...


Hari kelahiran (weton) Kamu adalah Kamis Pon.
Sedangkan hari kelahiran (weton) pasanganmu adalah Jum'at Pahing.


Keahlianmu di bidang bisnis akan banyak mencerahkan kehidupanmu. Hanya saja sifat takaburmu perlu dikurangi. Dan yang perlu diingat adalah jika kamu marah sangat menakutkan!


Dan ini dia kondisi keluargamu jika kamu menikah dengan Aduka...
Edan gila, keluargamu kelak akan banyak kebanjiran rejeki yang berlimpah.


It's all in Bahasa Indonesia... a bit difficult to translate lah... but niways, takabur ke aku nie???...

Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life
Clay's first ever book is coming to town... when, not known yet!... but for all Clay Aiken fans, watch out for this book here!.... anyone who spots this on the book shelves, plssssss let me know or buy for me first!!..... hehehee... ten-tiuk!!.....

The inspirational memoir is an account of Clay's extraordinary faith and will and perseverance, and an inspiring memoir by someone who became -- against all odds -- one of the biggest pop stars of his time. More info...

ooooooh!.... yesh!!.... he IS my O-Xiang!.... lurrrrrve his first song, second and third!!...... lurrrrve how his voice for his first and second song, make my feet stand!.. hahahhaa.... and how his eyes lights up on his third song!.... he IS the BEST and he IS World Idol material!.....


I couldn't decide who I'd prefer to go to the finals between the other two... Oli.. the only problem i have with her is her performance... i don't feel anything - no connection, no hair/feet-standing moments simply because she don't have eye-contact on camera!... if she has, it's for a teeny weeny slight moment only.. she has to remember that there are ppl at home watching!...


As for Sly, wat can I say - toooo CINONEH for my liking.. in my bro's words - he's better off in Taiwan.. if he does make it to World Idol (CHOY!!!!), he's such an embarassment simply because, he will strengtened the others' believe that Singapore is actually in China!.... blegggh!... the scenario at home when he sings....
Sly: .... fine...
Bro: ..... it's finDDDD .....
Sly: ..... pi*ture ......
Bro: ...... piCK-ture....
Sly: ..... hel - p (silent p) ....
Bro: ..... helPPP ....
Basically, diction Sly... diction!.... he's got too much of a Chinese slang to do well in the English industry. And, plssss eh, Ken... he looks soooo much more scarier than Taufik!... sorry A'lia! Weileen! *sticks out tongue*... hehehehee.... but he does!.... and he looks more scary in that Phantom of the Opera song!... i can't believe he read the whole book to understand the song coz it looks like he not only understood it, he became it (the phantom!)....


Oh well!... we shall all see... but it's obvious who the judges want in for the finals... Taufik... and... at least one judge wants Oli to be in!!... hahahaha... tat was waaaaay too obvious!!... ;)


KINDER SURPRISE!
In all the madness of my "moving workstation".... i forgot to mention how sweet my two dear friends - Ah-Xin and Ah-Pei have bought for me as a Hari Raya gift... 2-in-1!... chocolate and a toy!!... and actually Pei, you're kinda rite lah.. the more i look at it, the more i feel that the toy look like me!.. hahahaa....

WHERE WAS I???
Gosh!.. after trying to update my blog but to no avail!.. at last!.. here i am.... i finally shifted to my new dept and trying very hard to make myself comfortable with the new environment... Heck!.. smaller cubicle, less noisy ppl, must report movement, no coming in and out anytime, no nice neighbour like B to shout out to, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, no Tee to bitch with no more!... so go figure!.... Oh!.. i forgot to mention one more thing.. my workstation and the PC is actually a freakin shared computer so meaning - everytime someone needs to use something on this PC, i may have to drop everything and let them use! yeah... i will definitely be comfortable in 3yrs time?!!.....


It's soooo depressing!..... Me and B (yes my neighbour B is here with me but she's in another room pretty far away and at least she's sharing the room with Mr TV!) including Mr TV, are having a cruel culture shock coming in here.. we're still laffing and feeling a tad uncomfortable receiving emails abt who's on leave and sending out emails on where we're going at this time, that time... Oh my God!.. wat was I thinking when I said I wanted to move?!...... obviously, old office wins big time over this new office!!......






This is my old workstation. Wasn't able to download the pic earlier bcoz the office PC's USB port cannot fit my fat USB driver..


oh well!..... i'm wishing and praying that we're moving out sooon and moving back to, if not old office, at least somewhere near the old office so that i can be nearer to Tee and RosmAman!... RosmAman coming back soon... early Dec.. haizzz.... no more "nak gi breakfast? ok? LARI!"...


UNHAPPY WITH YOUR SUPERVISORS?
You're NOT alone!.. received an email reporting a survey done on Singaporeans on their job satisfaction and work environment:


Singaporean workers like their work environment and enjoy levels of job satisfaction that are well above their Asian peers. But they are not happy with their employers' supervision skills and teamwork practices.


38% rate their supervisors favourably, compared with the regional norm of 41 percent.


Only 31% believe their supervisors motivate them to do better


While only 36% say their supervisors coach them to improve performance.

CAMAT AYI AYE!....
A different schedule of events this year... the feeling of raya-ness a bit different.. with the lost of our paternal grandparents, the family (or perhaps, more so the mom) decides to organise a get-together at our house instead...


So, off we went in the morning to nyayi's house first.. but mom and dad couldn't stay long for the food was coming sooooon!.. so there i was, stayed practically the whole day, enjoying the company of my aunts and cuzzins and working on my make-up skills! (hah!)...


Back at home, the house was buzzing with activity as we had guests after guests of mom and dad.. your usual, regular guests talking their hearts out and doing a lot of catching up.. Dinner-time, dad's siblings came over for the get-together... and somehow, it felt different without nenek asking me where's dearie, when and where we getting married; while tok would be laying on the bed in one corner, sleeping or perhaps actually juz listening to the conversation all around him... hmmmmmm.....


It was also a different feeling; couldn't go to dearie's house on the first day.. felt guilty for not going but couldn't leave too with all the guests in the house... and now, two days passed without meeting him... sooooooo missing him now... he's got papers tml and it's the last!... cross fingers it'll go well for him... after that, it's hooray! hooray!... yeay!!....

A THOUGHT...
A tot came to mind the other day... it's like we normally seek forgiveness with each other among our Muslim brothers and sisters... hmmmm.... didn't cross our (or maybe it's juz me!?) mind(s) to seek forgiveness from my non-Muslim friends.... so here it is.....

To my dear non-Muslim frenz....

on this good day and month, i'd like to seek your forgiveness should there was a day or two in the past years and beyond, which I may not be in my angelic self *flutters eye-lashes*... bygones, yah?..

P/S: To my cuzzin in London, here's from us to you!.... *muuacks!*

FATHER-DAUGHTER TAG TEAM
The raya mood is ON in the house today as we completed the task of making ketupat and baking cookies and cakes...



The uncooked version... and the cooked....


The father and daughter worked real hard to do ketupat this year and we manage to get abt 80 ketupats!... YIPPEE!.... yesterday, we anyam. Today, we boiled it... can't wait to eat it tml, perhaps?.... YUMMMMYY!!!.....


THE "MISHAPS"..
Mum's fruit cake "sank" and we've decided to call it the sinking Titanic... she blamed it on the "wet fruits"....


I cut myself. And luckily, my baking sessions are over!


I've got a bump now on my scalp.. luckily it's not obvious and i'm icing it every 2 hrs, hoping that it'll go away by Sunday.


My first batch of cookies were too "baked".


BUT....
with that bump on my head, something put a smile (a wide one at tat!) on my face... coz it's looking all too cheery for Taufik!.... was soooooo pessimistic abt his chances bcoz at a time like this, they had to make them sing something in our mother language... like i wasn't sure whether Singapore is receptive towards a Malay song or not.. plus the fact that the Malays are all bz with the last minute preparations for the coming hols... PLUS the fact that Ken is on "it" again and that the judges were not oh-so clear with their comments... but Singapore, you have made me proud... at least, it goes to show that you're not so tone-deaf as I tot u'd be... (hehehe... tui bu chi).. BUT one thing's for sure.. Ken, you need to be more "sensitive".. pls speak in English when giving your comments.. though it's Asian Pop and they're singing Chinese songs, there are ppl out there who's non-Mandarin/Chinese speaking... and to have Gurmit wrongly translated the sentence don't help!...


Gurmit: (during the live results) So Ken, you said that Sylvester was better than Jay Chou yesterday?
Ken: I didn't say better. I said clearer.


SEE??!!.... like we know and it's a tad too late to know otherwise, rite?!!!

4 MORE DAYS...
Yippee!!!.... Cannot wait!... And the traditional hari raya songs, definitely don't help in curbing my anxiety!.. haha.. To my dear frenz and Muslim readers of my blog, here's a lil something for you, from me...

HAPPY BURP-DAY, IZY!!
Was pretty worried that your prezzie couldn't reach you in time yesterday!.. haha... luckily, it did and you received it juz on time!!... hoped you liked it and have put a smile on your face!!.. Wat come may in the office, may you be given all the strength you need to overcome it.. *muaccks!*

"BEAUTIFUL" CHARACTERS
Went out with dearie yesterday to get some last-minute make-up shopping done!.... hah.... at last i've got my prescriptives concealer which has changed it's packaging.. and it looks ultra nice!... and my bobbi's compact powder.... gems, i'm sorry i had to go first... i dun wanna look like a panda on Hari Raya later!.. hahahaa.. but we'll go when we go get our bonus?.. then i can go treat myself to that custom made loose powder!!.....


Along the way, we met some "beautiful" characters that coloured our nite...


1. crazy fella went around the make-up counters trying on the different products on his face!... we reached bobbi's counter at the same time as he does... i moved away from him coz he did look crazy!!.. and the next thing we knew, he took an eye liner and started drawing lines on his face!!.... in my heart, i ached!... coz it was BOBBI!!.... and after that, he went to the next counter.. sprayed perfum all over his head!... and strutted around with that "look" on his face!... SEN-CHING-PING!.... *shakes head!*


2. at Prescriptives counter, a guy attended to me... looked at him and nearly "cooed" loudly... "WAT BEAUTIFUL EYE LASHES YOU'VE GOT, MISTER!".... kalah aku!... too bad, yours is a tad too little..but whoa!.... i bet other girls would kill for eye-lashes like tat!!


3. We had a couple as our neighbour at Cafe Le Caire... we were both waiting for our food... the food arrived toooo slow for our liking... and the neighbour is getting impatient... when the food arrived, the girl complained that she didn't ask for wedges or something... and the other order was wrong.. when the waiter left, both of them left as well without paying!.... and both me and dearie said in unison - "at least pay for the drinks lah!"... *shakes head again!*


4. Four Mat-looking guys parked the car in front of us... but when they left the place, they on the most techno ah-beng song EVER and very LOUDLY at that!!..... how disappointing!... hahahaa.....

CAFE LE CAIRE
a.k.a Customer Service-less Cafe


Where: Arab Street (beside RH Fashion)
Taste: YUMMMMMY!!....
Price: Reasonable; Sheesha - $10


Customer Service: POOR
1. Order taking was slow!


2. Waiter/waitresses were NOT able to answer our questions.. eg
EA: Wat kind of sides are you talking abt?
W1: errrr.... i'm not too sure.. i'm pretty new here... sorry!
EA: oh!.. ok.. tat's fine... errmm.. wat kind of juices do you have?
W1: errrrr.... i'm not too sure... i have to check it out for you... *scurries off* (15 mins later) we only have Snapple...
EA: (to a different waitress while waiting for W1 to check out my juice) Wat kind of sides do you mean here?
W2: errrr....... not too sure... it must be like chilli sauce or something lah...
EA: looked at each other and smile... in the head thinking at the same time.. how can you charge us $1 extra for chilli sauce?!!!....


3. Order taking was WRONG!!


4. Food served was darn toooooo slow!


5. Because we were not eating in front of their shop or within it's area, we have to make-do with the lights from the street.. which by the way, was flickering!...


Bottomline:
Great for lepakz corner... if you're not tat hungry... willing to wait, and juz wanna chill out with your friends.... coz the food's great.. and it's reasonably priced... BUT if you're the fussy sort, and can't stand bad customer service, pls DON'T go here AT ALL!!... you'll leave like that neighbour of ours!....

WAT?!!!....
cannot accept!!.... how could Sylvester and Daphne be safe?!!..... Daphne was soooooo flat and Sylvester was soooooo cinoneh last nite!!!..... urrrrrgh!.... seriously, at this point, i think the person to really "look out" for is Daphne... since she is what you'd consider as "your royal highness", she may jolly well welllll afford a thousand odd smses!.... like i said, i really hope to see taufik thru' to top 2 and if he did, i'll go all out to vote him in!... urrrrgh!... how come that cinoneh still in?!!.... dun understand!


GOOD LUCK!
to my dearest!!...... having his first paper tml... am sure he can do it!... pray for him, yah?... thanks!! :-)

DON'T YELL!
I find this really amusing!!... hahaa.. was putting in comments on a friend's multiply and this was wat turned up after submission:

KEN MADE ME SMILE TONITE!..
As my good friend smsed me rite after Taufik's second performance - "i tink4d first time ken made u smile".... oh girl!.. u're damn rite lor!!.... i was beaming after his performances... a memorable performance of his second song!... really!.... i'm still smiling... hahaa...


tee (or maybe the rest of you) may say - "go get a life!".... wateva lor.... i'm supporting this dude.. and i'll support him till the end.. i may not be the most die hard fans who will be more than willing to vote 100++ times for him.. but i'll still play my part as a fan who wants to see him make it to the final 2!...


P/S: and to my ozzie clan, the pictures are up!... click on the picture on the previous entry pls...

THE "OZZIE'S" IFTAR AFFAIR
Weeeee!!... had such a grrrreat time yesterday, meeting up with the "Ozzie" clan (minus 1)!... ooooooh that ms Minus 1 missed such a great, great opportunity to catch up with the "in" thang that's happening in our lives!... hahahaha..... huh?!.. Ms Minus 1... notti! notti! Stood us up at the very last minute eh?.....


The nite went on without a hitch!... everything was fine EXCEPT at the end of the nite, after all that lafter and yakking, we decided to share a cab.... wat a MISTAKE!!..... walked from the cafe to Marina Mandarin.. but no taxi stopped!... decide to walk back towards Esplanade, in between hailing for a cab which has it's yellow lite on!... but was actually on call!.... and ended up at the taxi stand hoping for better luck!... hope... and hope.... and in the end, juz HAD to call a cab!... i hate doing tat!.. but wat to do?!... after nearly an hour, waiting for a cab... (plus the line wasn't even moving until they called a cab), we have therefore chop, certify and acknowledge that, that taxi stand, is the WORST taxi stand EVER in Singapore!!...

Another romantic affair..
Met each other 16mths ago through salsa class.. fell in love.. the girl - A malay/muslim. intelligent. pretty. the guy - A scottish. free thinker. "hobbit". considering converting religion for her. aaaaaaah.... the wonders of being in love... lovely!.... i can imagine the mother's ecstatic look upon knowing this love affair because i remembered distinctively, 4yrs ago, the mother said "si Z nie, takde matair.. tolong cik carikan untuk dia eh.."


MOVING ON...
my time here is almost up!.. have been called over to be relocated to the other place as soon as they've got a workstation for me!... yippee!... can't wait!!....


NOTE: I love Caffe De Paris food... it's YUMMY and all but it seemed that all 3 of us had the runs this morning!... is that coincidental or really, it's juz DETOX?!.... aaaaaaah.....

YEAY! YEAY!
Dah nak raya!... 10 more days!... and Syawal's here!... YIPPEE!!... lotsa food (obviously from everywhere else except my place), lotsa relatives, lotsa fun!.... the good thing abt hari raya is, you get to meet your relatives whom you've not met for a while... the only time you get to meet these relatives is during weddings or a funeral!....


So, really can't wait!!.... buuuut... at home, left with 10 days only and we still haven't started on any baking!!... let alone buy the raw materials!...mum dun seemed interested in baking anything this year!... but i wanna!!... wat's hari raya without kuih tart and my cookies, rite?!.... alamak!!.... hmmmm... i hope she'll go buy the stuff before Saturday so that I can idle my Saturday away baking cookies or tarts!...


FEELING INSECURE?
there's this one stewpid manager from HR who may be feeling soooo freakin insecure it's irritated the hell out of a colleague and myself!... because, she kept emailing my colleague who in turn came to me to answer her stewpid queries!... sooooo freakin stewpid!!!..... all these unnecessary questions were asked based on "looking at the organisation as a whole"... WATEVA!.... like i know you did that to other ppl in your own dept lor... and now, here!.... WHY?!.. juz because my colleague's going over... who, by the way, is 10x MORE capable than you are!... and you're juz trying to find that soft spot so that you can prick, prick, prick your way and burst that security and stability that my colleague has of her work!... blegh!... if dunno anything, dun go poking your witchy hands into other ppl's business!... after all that licking and sucking, you still couldn't get your ass up to the position that a 25yr old can attain!.. now, what does tat say of you??.....

GEYLANG, SIPAKU GEYLANG...
Since earlier plans were canceled, me and dearie went to iftar together.. nothing fantastic... nothing lo-man-tik which i'd hoped for! (hehehee...) but nice as usual... after iftar, we went to Geylang.. and boy oh boy!.... crowded, but not as crowded as previous years... full of budak2 taiks who I doubt were fasting at all!... but were there juz to be there and be an eye sore... food you get were all the same... burger ramly, ayam percik, otak-otak, blah... blah...blah..


intention of going there was to fill our tummy with the yummylicious burger ramly, kebab and ayam percik but after walking the whole of Geylang, i dun feel like eating at all... not too sure if it's the crowd, the smell or the basic fact that burger ramly is actually banned in S'pore?... but at the end of the day, the food turned me off... but dearie said, since we're there, might as well!...


such a disappointment!... the feeling of being there is so unlike previous years.. not as lively.. not so great afterall!.. oh well!.. next time we go, it'll juz to buy food and make some donations??... oh!... we notice that the TAA charity box is getting smaller and smaller... it's such a pity that ppl have not been donating as much as they used to... even the amt of collection has dropped!... oh well!... who am I to say much more, aye?....

JUDGE THE JUDGE(s)!

Only one word to say - CONTRADICTION!... they contradict each other and they contradict themselves even!.... irritating!.... how can one sound sultry and performed sexily BUT wasn't sensual?... how can one have no originality but complained of the other being too "Daphne-ie"??... how can one complain that the contestants do NOT understand the genre of the music but accuse one being a copycat and lack originality?


WATEVA judges!!!.... to Taufik, i think you have found your personality.. but they're too blind to see it!... i think you're smooth, you've been consistent with your performance and you've got a certain kind of charm that none in the competition has so far.. to Oli, you do have a sultry, powerful voice and you can be sexy (in your kind of way) when you want to!... coz you do look sexy today!... to Leandra, though you are declining (can't deny that) in your performance, but i still think you've got the best voice so far.. work on da' moves, babe!...

ZAKAT..

I'm confused... i dunno how to calculate my zakat... anyone can help me, plssss??....

GREEDY Ms TAIK!....

Juz can't resist to say something on this!!.... we had a function and after it, there were still a lot of food for our taking... annnnd.... being the TAIK tat she is, asked for food from not 1 but 3 of them!.....


SP: I'm taking for Taik...
EL: Eh?! she asked from you too?
BC: She asked from me too leh!... let's juz give her a plate each!.. then she'll know!!...
EL came in and give her the plate of food...
Ms Taik: thank you!... (after EL left) BC, did you ask SP to bring food for me?
BC: Yah.. i asked her to take it back for you..
Ms Taik: thank you!....


SP came in with the plate of food and you can see the "glee" in her eyes!... she's had 2 plateful of food mind you!... how greedy can one be?!... we tot tat she'd say tat it'll be too much food if SP is bringing some more... but noooooo!!.... being her, she juz ate all the food to herself!.... DUUUUH!...

YAK-KITI-YAK!
i think it's me!... i'm feeling down, i'm feeling such a nutcase!... mom has been nagging since yesterday!... last nite it was abt me being childish juz bcoz i dun wanna eat that nasi padang she bought for me.... Y i didn't eat it?? Because there was no chicken!... instead there was fried fish which i *puke!puke!* dun wanna eat!.... PLUS, the rice, after mixing with all the gravy, has turned into this orangey, oil-like thingie.... and it juz turned me off!.... coz it felt like i'm eating very oily rice!!...


yeah! yeah!... i'm being choosy but like i said, it's juz NOT my day or something... and i can't freakin control myself!.... and then this morning, turned out, she's not working PLUS i woke up late!... i was rushing to get ready and when i left my room to the kitchen, she asked me to chg my skirt to pants!... i went "what now??!".... so, she nag and nag abt how *censored*, blah... blah... blah... *puts my hands on my chest* seriously! ... the morning couldn't have turned out ANY BETTER is it?!....


OF COURSE!!.... it turned worse...... a source said that there's a highly likely chance of my ex-boss coming back to work here!.... FUUUUUUUUUUCCCK!.... oh well!... tat's juz a rumour... can't believe in it!... but hell!.... we were speculating nonetheless even before this morning.. so, this news made it worst!.... but who cares, aye?... the main thing is, there's NOT a chance, i'm going under this person anymore!!... but poor B!... she may have to tolerate this person's nonsense some more...


so tell me now... is there anymore??........ brrrrr....

My personality is rated 30.
What is yours?quiz by midgetfarm.com

Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical, and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head. They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.


I'm bored.. so i decided to do this test taken from my cuzzin's blog... after a spring-cleaning of my desk, clearing stuffs and making sure, i'm bringing back what i'm supposed to bring back, i'm back to zero!..... aaaaaaaahhhh..... god! help me!!.... someone, plsssss rescue me.... i dunno how long my new boss is gonna "take me away" from here.... i hope it's gonna be sooooon... but preferably not this week!... hehheehe... wateva lah... i dun think i can tahan coming to work NOT working at all!!....

PMS-ing??!
Post-menstrual syndrome... really meh??.... haiyah... i'm feeling sooooo sian!... today's not my day or something i think...


i'm feeling sooooo dready...
the weather's cold...
was in a small squabble with dearie in the morning..
feeling like shit rite now!... urrrgh!...
old work's been accumulating though i should've actually been clearing them now..
some stupid ppl can't communicate clearly with their own ppl!... making others irritable only!..
someone's back from her honeymoon and acting cutesy all over!...
terribly miss that 2-3wks she was away!!... soooo peaceful!...


Blardy hell!... i'm bored!!..... blegggh!