jus after my previous blog entry on coincidence. i just had another coincidence couple days ago. i was waiting for my mum to get off work with my dad..
dad: "see all these cars parked ard us.. it's all police cars.. police in plain clothes" me: "ooh serious? sure a not.. wat happened?" dad: "yest there were police barricade tape all ard this area. duno wat happened"
den i looked ard, to "investigate" who are the plain clothes police officers. and den...
me: "ah! tt guy (we shall name him q*c*** now) looks like my fren leh.. who's a police officer now.. but he's quite far away.. walking ard surveying the surroundings.. not sure if is him. but realli look like leh.."
i keep on eyeing q*c*** while he walks ard.. den q*c*** finally walked nearer to my dad's lorry. confirm ah is him! den i waved n he came over to say hi. afterwhich i managed to fish out bits n pieces of the incident tt happened from his mouth. apparently they're all ard here to look for any clues to the incident. heh. quite cool to have some "insider" info to things hor..
den his supervisor saw him talking to me.. asked him who i m. when q*c*** said tt i'm a fren.. the supervisor actually came over to say hi to me. kinda awkward.. i shall not divulge anything abt the incident la. sekali cannot say de. but it's quite interesting to find out tt i've a fren as a police officer who's in charge of my neighbourhood!! =p
actualli it's nothing much to rave abt la.. budden i tot outta my mundane life fretting over pipes, reactors n such, suddenly got police action leh.. such involvement like i oni watch on tv. so feels quite hyper. wonder how it is to work for the police.. or air force.. or watever profession that they're propaganda-ing on those tv shows...
recently i've been thinking a bit. experienced some glitches at work n dipped my morale. not to mention the "gloomy" economy now. i expect most of u noe, tt i'm not an easily contented person. no matter which job i'm doing, i noe i'll have things to complain abt n be unhappy. i noe, being content with wat u hav is very impt. but it's not easy to learn how to live this way.
my boss previously told me, tt typically project engineers dun stay long at the job. perhaps 2-3 years. den they'll move on.. either to a different project, a different discipline, a different job.. or even more drastically, a different industry altogether. however, if u stay on after 2-3 yrs, it probably means u realli like being a proj engr (i.e. like to be stressed, like to get scolded by anyone n everyone possible etc)
this brought me thinking.. wat else can i do if i decide to move on? i've pretty much no passion in anything. yet i dun wanna totally move to another industry, which will render my past experience useless. which means i would hav wasted abt 2 yrs of my life. but wat else shld i do??
as usual, urgency doesnt come, meiying has no decision. i'm not saying that the urgency has come. (thank god.. i'm not retrenched.. at least not tt i noe of.. budden my coy the ppl who get retrenched oni noes it on their last day.. oh well.. mayb dere shld b some urgency.. hmm)
today, some recruitment agency called me. initially i thought it's like all the prev calls, offering some odd finance jobs or some random admin jobs. but this time is different. the person knows my current coy n position. (tt's not diff.. recently i updated my present coy on job street) n den the person asks for a brief nature of my jobscope.. den suddenly the person knows what project team i am on! tt got me curious.. n i asked how the person got this info.. but of cos.. nothing was said.. n a position was offered.. which my experience here will be useful. ah huh! something good!! when i'm 1) not planning to look for a job, i haven accumulated enuff exp now.. 2) having doubts abt whether i shld continue on this career path.
well done.
nonetheless, i did not reject the person. i suppose it's a good opportunity for me to keep my resume up to date, n put myself out on the market n c if i've any market value. n i suppose if this works out well, i can even get the recruitment agent to keep me in the loop for engring-related jobs tt i can consider rite?
i hope the world is as pretty as i paint it to be.
on another note, i received the IR8A form from my ex-coy. it's been almost a yr since i left the coy. kept on tinking tt ties with the coy ended the day i left the coy. but tt's not exactly true. sometime last yr i got a letter from my ex-coy. contents nm. jus illustrating tt dere r still loose ends to be tied. den now for income tax.. comes again.
everytime i receive something from the ex-coy, i get a weird feeling.. not tt i regret changing jobs.. i tink it's jus a bad character trait of mine.. to look back at the things i've given up.. the good of it.. n den look at the bad of the current situation. no matter how i tell myself the good of now and the bad of past, i still fall back to the good of past n bad of now. n den i'm unhappy.
well done. hahahah.. but anywae, i suppose the IR8A form properly marks the end of my links with ex-coy.. does this mean my current coy properly begins now? it is ironic den.. cos a recruitment agency call normally means the beginning of the end of the current coy. both the events happened on the same day..
interesting... (finally managed to link back to my introduction line.. hope the long story isnt too dreary n u got my point! woohoo~)
wow.. this is quite cool. i can just steal ppl's blog entries and link it on my blog. wahahaa.. for those who actualli still read my blog. here's finally something new.. check it out! =p
since a couple of years back, all the reality shows, free money shows like who wants to be a millionaire etc started being popular. i suppose the most recent such show is "deal or no deal". guess everyone has somehow, sometime watched an episode of it somewhere. i've watched one or 2 episodes. it's not too bad actualli, with all the pretty babes looking pretty beside their breifcases waiting for their number to b called. i had wanted to watch the episodes with the hunks when i saw the ad on tv. but somehw they werent appealing enuff for me to rem when it is showing exactly, n go home to watch them. dere's a part i find kinda silly tho, the part where the banker calls the host to strike a deal with the player. isnt it quite redundant? they can simply jus make the offer appear on the screen or sth. but they had to make it drama n hav the banker call the host n let the host create some suspense. lol
oh anywae.. sorry for digressing. better move on to the topic proper b4 u start wondering wat i m doing, commenting on a variety show tt has been showing for ages oredi. oh well the thing is, i read "kennysia.com" quite frequently, like the way he blogs. quite entertaining. so happens tt he managed to get on the deal or no deal in KL. n... u'll probably laugh ur head off after u watch his episode, or feel damn sad for him.. so when u've time, trust meiying n watch it okie? if the videos below dun work, u can search for "kennysia deal or no deal" on youtube. kennysia himself posted the videos. hehe
yea i noe i said in my prev entry tt i dun hav anymore parties for the year 2007. but hey.. it's last min tt this gathering came true okie? so happens tt squatter mz has a chalet with her frens , and her fren's frens etc... n decided to invite us for a new yr's eve bbq. n squatters eli, yu and i last min can make it! yeah~ we did manage to have a celeb for 2007 somehow, tho we missed our annual xmas celeb. pity squatter ja9 n xy wasnt ard tho.
so the bbq turned out to be a very big bbq.. tink 30+ ppl if i din rem wrongly. but everyone din noe everyone.. cos as i recall, there were like 3-4 cliques of frens dere, cliques of frens of the 6 hosts. okie i noe i'm not making this clear. but who cares. haha.
for those who duno.. i stay in the northwest. had a long way to travel to go pasir ris yea? take mrt take until almost wanna puke.. literally. haha. met up with eli n went 1st.. cos ah yu came fr work so was late.. haven been to chalets for a while.. so pardon me while i say this.
i cannot believe it tt i hav to pay to go into a chalet for bbq!!!!!!!!!!!
n den the bbq pits for the same block are all parked in the same area, as opposed to last time where u hav ur own pit in front of ur own chalet. the new arrangement is not very good u noe.. so smoky.. n no privacy. boo.
oh.. on new yr's eve's eve, had a short msn conversation with dwarf minmin n realised tt she was gonna hav a bbq at pasir ris too. but it was a pleasant coincidence tt she's at the same block, at the neighbouring bbq pit. haha. but min was bad k... b4 she left i was like "hey let's take a photo tog". den she said "we hav so many photos tog le wat".. or sth to tt effect. meanie min.
but anywae i had a nice time chatting with my dear eli, mz and ah yu. n also with kailee, audrey. not so much of serene tho, cos she was busy entertaining elisa n bf. oh tho u all may not c this, thks to kailee and audrey for bbq-ing food for me to eat until it's like a buffet! my plate was always full.. input onto the plate was faster den output.. until i decide to throw my plate to ah yu. n den it became her turn to input faster den output. lol. i oso enjoyed jus sitting dere n poking a lot of marshmellow on the sticks for audrey n kailee to bbq while i wait patiently for my bbq-ed marshmellow. oso enjoyed laughing at eli when she kept wanting to offer the sweet potato reserved for ah jack to others.. oso enjoyed looking at the preparation of the huge bento for ah jack by kailee n audrey when he called mz to say he's hungry on his way down. oso enjoyed looking at ah jack's expression when he saw the huge bento prepared for him. oh ah jack said my hairstyle is the jolin cai yi lin's hairstyle. which i insisted on interpreting as he said i look like jolin . n afterwhich he insisted tt i say he lost weight. den i oso enjoyed the calm.. peaceful.. anticlimax countdown we did by jus switching on the tv n looking at chn5's countdown. haha.. n oso enjoyed the ride home with eli n ah yu on my dad's lorry.
all in all, i'm jus glad i had something to do on new year's eve. it's nice, tho it realli seemed boring n it's not even my chalet. haha. but yeah! may the new year 2008 be a great year for all, and an even better year den the past years!! the best has yet to come~
oh jus realised i haven gotten any photographs from anyone. so this will b a photo-less entry. hehe. but i simply wanna blog on 1st day of 2008 yah?
shall blog this b4 2007 ends. the most exciting thing i've done in 2007, n the first time i'm doing such things.. is a theme-based party. It came one fine evening when minmin, ah li, lala and meimei were having dinner.. n was planning for a xmas party. den minmin suggested tt we hav a theme-based party this yr. n it was decided tt we shall hav a PJs party~
hmmm PJs party nothing much rite.. jus go someone's hse.. change n take some photos. but nahz.. ah li decided tt she wanna sing ktv.. so ermm yes. we wore PJs with xmas hats to chinatown. event date was Hari Raya Haiji eve.. 21 Dec 07. yes.. we din even do this on xmas eve.. but did it on harirayahaji eve instd.. so it was totally...
anywae dawndawn n minmin did a very good update of the event. if i blog i'll probably say the same things.. so i shall jus paste their links here.. u all jus click n read k? min n la.. i still dun hav the photos.. can u all send to me someday?
in previous yrs, altho i'm not a very very festive person who goes for countdowns for all occasions, or hav very happening frens who'll always jio me for such countdowns, but i'll normally hav at least 1 xmas gathering with my Squatters, n mayb 1 with my Dwarves, n perhaps some new yr party with Selines, or cn5-ers, or another new yr party with squatters and dwarves.. this yr? cos of unforeseen circumstances, 1 xmas gathering got cancelled, 1 new yr gathering i din go for of bad mood. so oni left 1xmas gathering. which is the PJs party. hehee. how come this yr so sad ah.. is it cos we're old le.. dun do such stuff anymore? or cos everyone is adapting to their new phase of lifes so busier.. n the new frens made are not close enuff to hav such countdown parties? i duno.. but it's okie i guess. i'm not a very happening person either. jus sometimes, esp at the eves of public hols, when i feel abit sad tt i'm so not happening.. lol
so i tink the 2 peaks of my life is probably at sec sch, where life was realli 无忧无虑.. n i joined a happening cca, met a bunch of happening Squatters n 出生入死 with them.. n den had a bunch of sinful accomplices the Dwarves. yes we still talk abt how we always had our own main courses during recess, followed by slices of pizzas n garlic bread!! it's realli cos of the dwarves tt i'm in this state today..
the 2nd peak of my life probably happened during uni.. where i made the right choice of joining FWC to meet frens.. n i did meet the Selines.. where we're still keeping in contact till now. even when most other ogs died down.. n den we went tog to be councillors for the nex FWC. i realli enjoyed tt period of time.. the bonding, the regular outings, the fake flirtings, the mahjong sessions, the fright night!!! left a lot of fond memories.. n of cos my cn5-ers.. but with them is more of having a lot of fun while doing projs n stuff.. all my nus exciting stuff shld hav been covered in my entry abt nus graduation le
i'm not a good writer.. so i prob din make my life sound as exciting to you as it had been to me.. i'm grateful for my life so far.. nonetheless, i still hav a few wishes tt will make my life complete. hope 2008 will be a better yr.. HAPPY NEW YEAR MY DEAR FRENS!!!
Morning bus from Penang to KL.. tt's boss in the booth settling the details..
and the rest of us nuah-ing.. chk out xiaoyou's funny poses again!!!
The bus terminal...
After waiting for sometime.. we decided to do some entertainment.. n got caught in the act..
On the coach to KL... when we're not slping.
Finally reached KL! lunchie...
As we only reached KL abt 2plus... den ate till abt 3 plus.. n den got free tix to go the Eye on Malaysia.. meiying n jz were oni given 1 hour.. yes 1 hour ONLY to shop in the shopping centres...
my shop at Sungei Wang plaza!!!~
n den we went Berjaya Times Square.. to see the indoor theme park
n den we went to Petaling St.. aka Chee Cheong Kai.. dinner 1st!!! very nice.. n last but not least, after finishing shopping at Petaling st.. we went Red Box for late night KTV.. (i'm now a Red Box member.. can ask me along if wanna sing nex time. got discount. )
Day Four - Go home day...
As you all can see, all thks to our official photographer JZ, even tho we din go anywhere to see or do anything on the last day.. we still took a lot of photos!!! hahaha.. all thks to her we've had a trip well documented.. n this marks the end of the trip. thks frens for reading!
hmmm as promised, i shall update abt my trip. n since i'm damn free in office now, i shall pick a few photos of the trip n talk abt the trip.. instd of wat i normally do, jus uploading all the photos n make some comments. hahaha. if u all wanna c all the photos tho, pls feedback in the comments. (excuse to let u all make comments to my blog so tt i feel shuang.. )
okie.. i shall intro the ppl on the trip. shall oni say the nicknames n a description of them.. u all figure out who's who.. hehe.
Guys 1) xiao peng aka kq aka boss - wear specs, tallest in the grp 2) Mr. OK - wear specs, tanned 3) xiao you - the last guy w/o specs loh..
n together.. xiao peng and xiao you becomes xiao peng you.
Gers 1) me - if u duno who i m u're at the wrong webby stranger. 2) jz - the other one
Day Zero - Bus Ride
Take night coach to Penang.. 12 hour journey i tink.. zzZZzZZZZzzZ
Day One - Penang
Rented a car..
Went to Kek Lok Si Temple
the 诗情画意 shot..
Went to Air Itam dam.. (for info.. water in malay = air)
Went to Penang Hill....
hmmm too many scenery shots.. a funny one nex~
decided to walk to the Canopy Walk.. which says it's 1600m away... along the way.. spotted a nice hse!!!
pretty hor? =D den we continue walking.... n walking.. den realise tt the 1600m is total bullshit.. according to our estimation.. it is at least 3km... worse thing is.. the canopy walk is oni a 2min walk.. for all the effort n 3km walk to it.. n need to pay money somemore.. n den after walk finish the 2min le.. still hav to walk bac the same 3km route to get out!!!! so we gave up n jus took a photo with it for remembrance.. it was a painful decision.. n a painful journey..
Finally reached the canopy walk!!
Went to Toy Museum...
The 2 "colourful" guys wanna take photo with ger...
Finally.. back to hotel for the free buffet dinner @ revolving restaurant...
Tired.. at the end of the day...
Day Two - Penang
One more shot with the car.. b4 we return it....
OK n xiaoyou went to return car.. while kq, jz n i went Lorong Kulit flea mkt.. which is realli a flea mkt.. nothing interesting to buy.. n can finish walking it within half an hr.. hehe
After returning the car n b4 meeting us, OK n xiaoyou went to Snake Temple (apparently with no more snakes oredi...)
N all of us converged at Queensbay Mall, a new shopping centre~
After tt we went to Khoo Kongsi Clan
Another comical shot from our xiaoyou~
After tt, we kinda searched HIGH & LOW.. simply cos we wanna eat Penang Laksa in Penang.. but we searched for so long n couldnt find we nearly wanted to giv up.. n come home telling ppl "we couldnt find penang laksa in penang!!!" but of cos with our persistence, we managed to find it!!! i realli like the thick beehoon.. very nice n Q.
We oso had the all famous chendol.. quite nice
Komtar.. the tallest building in Penang..
We then went to the cinema to buy tix for our midnight show. hehe.. stardust!!! ermm budden we took photos with the bee movie poster instd.. lol
Found a Singapore hotel in Penang... n it's air-conditioned somemore.. wOW
hehe c the choc boutique below? we saw it on the penang map n decided to go take a look.. tot it's some museum with choc sculptures or wat.. but upon entering.. alas. it's those cheat tourists to buy expensive chocs shop. i was like "how come we nvr go on tour package, go free n easy.. but stupidly come into this kinda shop to let ppl chop our carrot heads?" lol...
with all our shou1 huo4 for the day.. all the nutmeg belachan shopping etc...
went bac to the hotel to rest awhile before setting off for dinner n movie~
We travelled by foot from hotel to dinner place to cinema.. so along the way, we found a holland v lookalike place tt we din plan to go.. called New World Town or watever.. something lidat. hehe.. oni stopped to take some photos tho..
n den we came to where we're supposed to visit on the way.. heritage shophses! it's abit of a disapppointment cos i tot since it's on the map, it'll have some gift shops or wateverr for me to shop. but end up it's realli jus the architecture they're showcasing. it's jus normal food stalls. budden it's quite nice la hehe... but nonetheless, since we still had time, we decided to stop for a dessert b4 we leave for our midnight show..
okie.. midnight movie marks the end of the day... n the end of penang.. look out for my update on the rest of the trip! ie KL. hahaha...
i'm flattered. after blog inactivity for almost 2 mths, i merely blogged 1 day n so many ppl read the entries le.. so touched. i had wanted to add the following photos to my previous entries de.. but since u all hav read it oredi, create a new entry ba.. let u all c some photos of my office desk 1st.. how i personalise it.
started out to be a junk mail.. wat charity event.. wat climb the 27 flights of stairs of my office building..
subsequently my siao-onz colleague-frens start to ask if wanna join. dere's the indiv race, which is an endurance race, and the relay race, which is a speed race. but cos a team oni needs 4 ppl, managed to get outta joining the competition. den tot mayb can donate to their team la.. proceeds will go to president challenge. they call themselves Team SunRise.
this is the Sunrise team. quite apt hor.. behind them still got some sunlight.
den realised one of my colleague-frens kenna arrowed to take part in the competition as a department team, with the dept's director. laughed abit at how kelian she is.. gotta take part with director.. n den there's best-dressed team award. so this dept team dressed up abit. but as i duno if my colleague-fren minds, i shall not offer any pic here.
den na li zhi dao!!! last min my dept decide to form a team to join too.. n i was asked. bu hao yi si reject, i accepted. n i became like my colleague-fren above, who has to b in the same team as my director. so much for laughin at ppl.. wahhaa..
but it turned out to b quite fun. a potentially blue monday became a half-day due to the event, n quite happy to b able to meet up with the whole colleague-fren clique cos some of them are working at sites de.. so dun always meet up.
n standing in a crowd of excited ppl ready to climb stairs, even tho it's standing with my dept colleagues n director, turned out to b quite fun too. due to the best-dressed team award, some grps turned up in ridiculous costumes.. tt is quite funny too.
standing at the 8F waiting for my 1st runner to reach me, and cheering for all the ppl whom i dun even noe who passes me, is quite fun too. climbing the 6 flights of stairs itself, tho abit cannot make it after 5 flrs.. is quite fun too.
sitting on the top flr waiting for the results to be announced.. n doing nothing but sitting dere n taking photos.. is quite fun too. when results are announced, bcos i noe some of the winners, cheering for them is fun too. even tho i'm not very attached to my coy yet, but whenever a team frm my coy wins the other 2 coys, it's still fun to cheer.
okie shall end off with a group photo, and a photo of my number tag. meiying has decided to take advantage of the time i'm with this coy, and make full use of all the welfare n benefits n activities.
oh by the way chk out my new hairstyle! shall attach one more photo for better viewing..
yeah i'm sorry everyone. haven been updating for almost 2 months now. hehe. gotten more n more nuah ever since started working. now i seldom shop, seldom youtube, seldom watch dvds, seldom watch tv, seldom read storybooks.. now.. i wonder wat i've been doing for past 2 months.
anywae for all who duno, meiying's worklife has become better since sometime in end of august. cos due to the hidden agenda of my coy, we hav a lot of networking events. so during one networking event for newbies in end aug, and an orientation prog for newbies in end sept, i've gotten to noe a group of newbies from diff depts, n since den it has been somewhat like having been thru FWC and den start to hav outings. n meiying has since had lunch partners.
i agree with m***hen (for privacy of my fren i've *** some of the letters of her name), that in a job, the colleague culture is actualli sorta more impt den the work itself. n i'm not particularly on very good terms with my colleagues in my dept. somehow i cannot get myself to go beyond the colleague relationship into frenship knowing tt we've to work together in someway or another. therefore i'm somehow glad tt my coy has this hidden agenda n i can get to noe a clique of colleagues in other depts, where we dun hav common jobscope, and most imptly, they're ard my age, and not all married with kids like those in my dept.
hehe so for every lovely fren who hav been concerned abt meiying's well being, i'm sorry for not updating earlier. n u can b assured tt meiying has been leading a better life. the clique of colleague-frens is abit siao onz de.. plus the hidden agenda of my coy, we hav damn a lot of weird weird activities like Active Day (go bedok reservoir exercise), recreation club member's night (where hav lucky draw n a number game similar to bingo called tombola), family day.. etc etc.. so meiying has been playing quite a bit.
oh n due to the siao-onz-ness of the colleague-frens, meiying just went on a penang-KL trip with them during the deepavali holidays. but the photos are in my office laptop, so i shall blog abt it another day k? when i finally feel non-nuah enuff to transfer the photos over to my pc, and hav the mood to blog again. happy waiting!!!
duno if it's cos i once took french (which of cos i've forgotten almost 95% of wat i learnt), or cos i simply like french stuff, i've always been quite interested in french foreign films.. (tho altho i like, i realli nvr bother to go hunt for the books/movies to read/watch)...
ok.. so much for fei hua intro. the idea is, a week b4 my bdae, i suddenly had this decision to chong3 chong3 myself n treat myself to a sistic musical/play. so i started surfing the sistic webby. but there is no interesting thing except for chitty chitty bang bang, which will oni start in nov. but i wanna watch in oct. haha. so i continue surfing the webby, and coincidentally it's now the Singapore French Film Festival. n i decided to settle for a french musical movie instd. yuan lai there is this place called the Alliance Francaise de Singapour Theatre, where they screen french movies every mth!!
so i jio-ed my beloved movie partner squadmte ELI! to go for the movie. The movie we watched is called "Les parapluies de Cherbourg", which translates to "The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg". It's a sad love story, with a good ending despite the sadness of the love story. both eli n i are pleased with the ending.
I enjoyed the show alot.. cos 1) it's a musical, the songs are not bad. 2) the storyline altho sad, has a good ending. 3) the female leads have VERY pretty eyes, n they look like barbie dolls. 4) the show hav some very cliche n purposely romantic actions, like when they kiss they hav to spin. not the camera spin, but the couple spin. 5) duno if it's an old film (the setting is in the 50s, 60s), there are some very funny lousy filming skills like the abrupt changing of scenes, and got some scene where the couple was walking a bicycle and supposed to be strolling, but u can c damn obviously that they're on a trolley/platform and they were being pulled along. so they machiam like ghosts floating lidat. 6) i feel good being able to understd some simple french terms like "bonjour, bonsoir, madame, madamoiselle, monsieur, oui, non" etc. (pardon me if i spelled wrongly. i din chk my french dictionary. ) 7) i feel classy watching a foreign film in a non-conventional cinema. 8) i watched the show with Eli, who appreciates the show as much as me.
2 photos of the sistic tix.. with the eiffel tower key chain lala got for me from paris as backdrop. how apt. but cos my camera is overseas with my parents, gotta take using my hp. n the resolution sux.
me: " hi can u help me chk if any of my teeth is spoilt n need filling? " dentist: " your wisdom teeth are very far behind. " me: " ermmm... so wat does it mean? " dentist: " very hard to clean."
Twenty-Five Years: If you got away with murder, it would be a fluke because you'd have left many clues. You wouldn't be able to make a plea bargain either, as there would be such a strong case against you.
got this quiz url from dawndawn's blog. n this is the result. super unfair/unfrenly. she got "sexually stunning". n i got this kinda bullshit??!~? wtf!!! knowing this kinda thing is normally those random generator, i decided to try again..
"mei ying -- [noun]: A person who makes a living suing celebrities"
huh... try again...
"mei ying -- [noun]: A poltergeist sent back in time to change the course of history forever"
wth is a poltergeist.......
"mei ying -- [noun]: A hard-core grave robber" "mei ying -- [noun]: A person who laughs at anything (even this entry)" "mei ying -- [noun]: A person with a sixth sense for detecting the presence of goblins" "mei ying -- [adjective]: Extremely flatulent" "mei ying -- [adjective]: Tastes like fried chicken" "mei ying -- [noun]: A person who enjoys the smell of rotten eggs" "mei ying -- [adjective]: Having the texture of congealed cheese" "mei ying -- [noun]: A person of questionable sanity who starts their own cult"
there is either some serious problem with this quiz.. or my parents apparently din gimme a good name. i noe i like to eat fried chicken.. but din noe eating too much of it will make me taste like fried ckn.. or for tt matter, feel like congealed cheese.. n enjoy the smell of rotten eggs? worse still... my character.. i din noe i had it in me to steal graves, or start a cult!!!! i realli learnt alot abt myself hor hahahaha. now.. who wanna join my cult????
BUT!!! refusing to give up, i decided to vary my name abit...
haven blogged for ages.. this may jus become my tagline for the beginning of my every blog entry. this week meiying is a poor meiying.. took mc 2 days in a week. missed a dvd night in with my squatters, a mahjong session with my regular kakis (which i shall call the taitai-gang from now onwards), and the snowskin mooncake i've been craving for especially made for us by taitai!!!!!
took the 1st mc on tues. or is it mon. watever it is, went to work. cough cough sniff sniff cold cold. actualli well enuff to continue working. but tinking of the 14 days mc i hav left till the end of the yr, and the money i can claim for seeing doc (tho i still hav to pay 15% of the med bill), and the serious mindset of wanting to sleep, and a little bit of headache, i decided to take the rest of the day off to c doc. left at 10plus am.
mus b retribution for faking to be more sick den i m.. my dad n mum got diarrhoea while i was sick with cough sore throat n cold. den they recovered, dad went genting on thurs. so decided to slp with my mum on thurs. den friday morn i oredi can feel the grumbling of my stomach. wonder if the bacteria was still lingering ard my parents' room or i had overnight food the day b4. but nonetheless, i still went to work. cos got health screening on friday. cannot waste money.
it was a torture. felt weak in my legs, weak in my stomach, feel like puking. somemore din hav breakfast cos mus fast for the health screening. wanted to get the health screening over n done with early so tt can eat sth mayb ease the sick feeling. it was den tt i realised tt mus take Q number de!!! so i went down to take my Q number of... 106. n they were oni calling 54.
the ger told me to come bac 15min-half hour ltr.. so i went up.. chked some email. argh.. big boss ask me to draft email for big big boss. sibei sian.. so went down to c if my no. has reached. huh oni 67. but feeling too sian to work, i jus sat n waited... feeling sick... for ages... finally my turn.... to REGISTER.
haha but after registering den can go thru the health screening routine liao. take eyesight, height, weight (grrr...), blood pressure. all done quite smoothly. it's gonna b over soon. walk to nex station, take blood. ARGH so many ppl!!!! ok nm sit down n wait. it's totally not organised.. no Q no nothing. jus pounce on the nurse when he/she's free. but of cos mus try to let the ppl who came b4 u go 1st lah.. it's ur own courtesy. so i waited until it's sorta my turn den i pounced on a male nurse. it was a damn long wait...
sibei suay... i tink i kenna an amateur one. he pat pat my hand. look for very long.. den prepare to poke needle in. in my 22.5 yrs of life, everytime ppl wanna poke needle into me, i'll look at them do it. but tt day.. i was feeling too sick to witness the traumatising scene. so i looked away, closed my eyes n waited for it to happen. i felt the slight pain, den the pain intensified, which i assume means the needle caught my vein. so i turned bac to see if the blood is flowing oredi. yes the blood is flowing oredi, but not into the syringe.. i saw a look on the nurse's face n he withdrew the needle.. n abit of blood flowed out.
he cannot find the vein. he asked the nurse beside if she wanted to take over. n said "it's invisible." how encouraging. plaster no. 1 stuck on my right hand.
i changed chairs. feeling abit sad tt it's not over yet. n continue feeling sick. somemore cannot wear jacket... cos need my hands exposed to take blood mah.. so waited for a while more for the female nurse to get prepared. the nurse is quite good, from observation the ppl who approach her go off quite fast. n 2 aunties were saying they're waiting for her. the nurse came, asked me to exercise my left hand. den after a while, taptap rub alcohol. den asked me if i'm feeling ok. i mus hav looked sick den. den i said actualli abit not feeling well. asked me if i wanna rest awhile 1st. BUT I WANNA GET IT OVER N DONE WITH!!! it was oredi 2 hours n it's still not done ok. cos of alot of stupid waiting. so i asked her to carry on. as like the 1st time, i looked away, closed my eyes, n waited.
pain.. more pain.. i can feel the needle moving ard. i noe got some prob le.. but i cant bear looking at the nurse twisting the needle ard to find the vein. so i continued to wait.. until she said "sorry.. realli cannot get the vein"
i was so disappointed tt it's not gonna b over soon tt i broke down. perhaps it was bcos i realli wasnt feeling well. BUT IT WAS DAMN PAISEH OKIE! IN MY 22.5 YRS OF LIFE, I NVR FLINCHED WHILE TAKING INJECTIONS B4, NOT TO MENTION CRY! super throw face. luckily no familiar faces in the room. den bcos i cried, i had to sit aside n wait until my emotions cool down abit b4 i can try taking blood again. plaster no. 2.. anywae. on my left hand. n more waiting.. kns. to save my leftover face, i tried to stop crying asap la.. at tt time i was tinking, if oni i had someone at my side to comfort me, yet i dun wan anyone i noe to c me crying. so ironic. hahaha.
i was feeling so bad/sick i wanted to quit the health screening altogether. when i finally calmed down, knowing tt i still hav a ECG test tt had to be done at the hosp another day, i tot of asknig the nurse if i can do the blood test on the same day oso. den the nex devastating news came.. ECG can be done on the same day.. equipment is in the office bldg.
WTH... more waiting!!! not over yet even after i get my bloody blood out!?!?! the nurse suggested i get my ECG done 1st... so i walked out, went to lau sai 1st, den eventually walked back to the bloody room... cos mus take blood 1st, pay.. get some voucher den can go for ECG. 3rd time.. same routine.. finally blood come out le. thank goodness. plaster no. 3 on my left hand. the nurse immed got a milo for me, saying tt i shld eat sth soon b4 i faint. oh of which the milo later came out in my vomit. hahaha
oops i accidentally talked so much on the health screening alone. got more to touch on. haha. fast forward till i got bac to my desk. realli cannot take it anymore. feel realli faint n weak n stomachache n pukey.. asked for the day off again!!! haha.. by tt time oredi 12... 2 days mc in a week. took cab home.. c doc..
c doc is another episode altogether. Episode 2. haha. c the same doc twice in a week. both times are sicknesses tt can be faked. if i'm the doc i'll oso tink i'm faking it. both times i had to ask for the mc myself. the 2nd time he "interrogated" me ok. asked me abt the 3 plasters on my hand. when he asked me i was wondering if he was wondering tt i'm doing drugs. haha.. den after tt he asked me how come diarrhoea still go work in the morn. haizz.. unfrenly doc he is.
den go home... wanna go to slp so tt can forget abt pain/suffering. tt's wat i normally do when i'm sick. but diarrhoea is so tong ku!!! lie down oso not comfy, whole body ache and suan.. move into all sorts of posns oso not comfy. so irritating. not to mention the stomachaches... but after not eating ANYTHING except for tt packet of milo which i vomitted out, i felt better at night. of cos, i slept the entire day n night. except for a few hours in the evening when i feel so uncomfy lying down (can u believe tt!~?! meiying feeling uncomfy lying down ), i sat up n worked on the email tt i promised my big boss b4 i left office.. n chatted n watched tv. hehe. den went bac to slp.
n so bcos of my diarrhoea, i had to cancel my dvd night in... when i had met my squatters for ages.. n den bcos i was afraid i'll feel uncomfy n puke in kel's hse, or stink his toilet up.. i decided to cancel mahjong too.. which resulted in the supposedly baked for me snowskin mooncake landing up in taitai's mum's stomach instd.. n resulted in no mahjong until one month ltr... ARGH
Your world is colored with happy, warm, fun colors. You have a thoughtful and wise way about you. Some people might even consider you a genius. Charming and eloquent, you are able to get people to do things your way. While you seem spontaneous and free wheeling, you are calculating to the extreme.
Your color wheel opposite is purple. You both are charismatic leaders, but purple people act like you have no depth.
hmmm i noe i haven been blogging for a very long time. in fact, i haven even uploaded my convocation photos rite? hahaha.. but tt's bcos i haven finished collecting photos from everyone mah. but okie. i'll put them up soon
haha anywae yea i haven blogged since i started work. so today i shall tok abit abt my work. i've started work for slightly more den a month already. but unlike some frens i noe, i'm still relatively slack n bored everyday, cos my job is not those kinda where they can straight away throw me in kind. but i'm slowly being pulled into things la. so still ok.
well before today, i was sitting at a desk far from my supervisor, at the end of the dept. so between and in front of each desk, there are partitions. n bcos i m short, n i like to slouch, my sup always cannot see me from his desk, unless if he stands up of cos, which bcos he's a busy person, he does not do tt. so he always has to sms me in order to noe if i'm in office. hehe. n bcos he's busy, he often dun hav the time to walk over to my desk n ask me to do things. which is part of the reason y i m quite slack.
but oh well. good life has ended huh. bcos the guy sitting beside my sup has transferred outta the dept, my sup told me to move over and sit beside him. n now it's all convenient for him to talk to me, and ask me to do things, draft email, call ppl etc. n so i had a non-slack day today. not tt it's not good lah. at least i wun b bored until i duno wat things to surf online, and fall aslp. oh yah tt reminds me of the most impt disadv of sitting beside my sup. i cannot doze off at work anymore!!! which is bad. cos most of the time i doze off uncontrollably. die le....
hehe..yep tt's basically the highlight of this entry. working life is realli quite sian.. altho for the past month i've been practically doing nothing at work, i go home everyday feeling damn tired. n so i always go to sleep b4 1am. which is really not my normal behaviour. hahaha. n the worst thing is, altho i get to slp abt 6hours everyday, i still amazingly feel damn tired in the day and doze off at work. muahahahaha. i m realli very lihai of sleeping hor. lol.
oh i jus remembered something i tot is quite interesting and funny. this guy from another dept is supposed to go overseas this weekend. n so my sup told me to call him n tell him tt the flights are all confirmed and get him to standby, as long as approval is gotten den he can fly off le. so i called him, told him all i noe n m supposed to tell him abt, den he asked me sth abt claim procedure. which i duno, so i suggested he ask my sup. so after we said bye, my sup's fone rang. n i overheard him answering the Q. den awhile ltr, the person called me again, to tell me wat my sup told him abt the claim procedure. which is nice of him. cos i duno n he keeps me informed. but it was rather funny bcos i oredi noe the ans cos i'm sitting right beside my sup n can hear their conversation. so while the person was telling me the ans, i can oni say "orh.. orh... ok.." ok mayb it is not funny. but i tink it's funny.
ok tt's all i wanna say for now. if anyone has any Qs, shoot. i'll see if i wanna reply okie? hahaha..
haha. jus now got one insect wanna attack me.very scary leh. i suddenly saw this thing flying into my eyes! luckily i had my specs on. els i cannot imagine it touching my eye. eeuww.. den it flew to my laptop bag at the side of the table. it's disgusting. it's a thin thin insect with long long legs. i duno wth it is lah.. so i tried to chase it away by tapping the laptop bag. it barely moved okie! so irritating. den i took a piece of paper n touched it, hoping it'll go away. NO! it flew to land on my laptop!!! argh! after attempting a few times, i gave up. whenever i agitate it, it'll jus "walk" to another location on my laptop. so i went to sought the help of a colleague. haha.. den he came with 2 tissue paper.. but he was too slow for the insect. it flew away. wah lau it betta not come bac okie!! so scary. :( n the worse thing is, i dun even noe how come will hav insect!! my desk is in the middle of the office, on the 22nd floor leh! it took the lift up ah? kns
My last long hols b4 i reach retirement has come to an end. i'm starting work tml. i tot i shld post an entry to commemorate it. haha. lemme c, how long is this last hols? i ended my exams late april. 2 months only!!! gosh. but it felt long enuff. had a nice grad trip (thk god it suceeded), a nice GSS (albeit going bankrupt), and nua until i m getting abit bored le. but in this last week of hols, i suddenly feel tt i dun hav enuff time to nua!!! talk abt human nature being insatiable. i've a very serious problem of tt. hahaha. 1st i complain tt i cannot find a job. which i eventually n finally found one. den i complain i din get a well-paying job. which i eventually oso got a pay increase. den i feel abit upset tt my job is not related to chem engin (while still abit upset tt my pay is not AS high as others) hahaha.. i m realli very serious in the insatiable human nature part. :P but i keep on trying to tell myself, tt i'm oredi lucky i managed to find a job, and i managed to get a pay rise, and my jobscope, tho unrelated to chem engin, is realli a pretty good job. or so from the jobscope it seems. n my chem engin foundation is realli not so strong anywae. it's fate tt despite my stubborn quest for an engin job, i managed to get myself something els? haha. so as my cousin says, "welome it with an open heart~"
okie for the benefit of those who duno. but i tink i oredi told everyone. lemme reiterate the story of how things screwed up n i manage to get the job i'm gonna start on tml. originally accepted a project engineer posn at XX dept. 2 weeks b4 the job starts, HR called and said tt XX dept dun need chem engr, they wan ppl with civil backgrd. i.e. they dunch wan me. den HR asked if i'm ok with posting me to other depts. den offered me 3 depts. but they are all not engring posn. tt's a dilemma. i wan engring!! but i plucked up the courage to ask if hav the govt pay rise. hav wor.. n since i dun hav any other job offers, i said ok loh. c wat i can get. den the nex day, HR called me again. asked me if XX dept wanna consider me, will i put tt in priority? i said ok. later tt afternoon, HR sms-ed me "after review, since u're keen on proj mgmt, u'll b back in XX dept". so dere. but the NEX day, HR called me again. "sincere apologies.. internal mistaken u for someone with proj mgmt exp.. meet YY dept director?" i.e. XX dept STILL dun wan me. haha.. n meet YY director c if he wan me loh. YY dept is my 1st choice outta the 3 choices HR gave me lah.. so anywae i went to meet the director and i got the job.
so for those who're interested, my job involves a lot of networking, meeting ppl, presentations, writing rpts, and flying. sounds good rite? i hope so. hope i'll enjoy my new job. tho i very dun hav xin li zun bei tt i'll end up with this kinda job. haha. but i can wear nice nice, work in an office, lead an you xiu life. so good luck to me! goodbye to my holidays!
oh well the thing is, i read "kennysia.com" quite frequently, like the way he blogs. quite entertaining. so happens tt he managed to get on the deal or no deal in KL. n... u'll probably laugh ur head off after u watch his episode, or feel damn sad for him.. so when u've time, trust meiying n watch it okie? if the videos below dun work, u can search for "kennysia deal or no deal" on youtube. kennysia himself posted the videos. hehe
so happens tt squatter mz has a chalet with her frens , and her fren's frens etc... n decided to invite us for a new yr's eve bbq. n squatters eli, yu and i last min can make it! yeah~ we did manage to have a celeb for 2007 somehow, tho we missed our annual xmas celeb. pity squatter ja9 n xy wasnt ard tho.
meanie min.
. n afterwhich he insisted tt i say he lost weight. den i oso enjoyed the calm.. peaceful.. anticlimax countdown we did by jus switching on the tv n looking at chn5's countdown. haha.. n oso enjoyed the ride home with eli n ah yu on my dad's lorry.
The bus terminal...
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