Food galore

The only thing i remembered from the last few days were abt food n tkd. That sums up 80% of my life. Thursday i took class for elinn, just to find out she cancelled class. Went to eat dinner with peiqi till late. Was supposed to have a party on fri nite (new partners' treat) at fez bar with free flow n everything but got convinced to go down changkat instead. Sighz.. n of cos, it was food once more after that.

My family planned to have father's day lunch (yes it's LONG overdue) at humble house on sat, but realised there were road blocks due to the ndp @ padang. So ended up at boring old soup restaurant. Went for cell retreat at roxy hotel after before rushing to class. Once again, it was food after class. This time, dehua joined us n we had TWO suppers instead of one thanks to peiqi's disgusting craving for mango milk ice. Oh yeah, there was this group of people at the bedok coffeeshop supposedly betting if i was more than 25 or less. The lady actually came to ask me n I suspect they've got another agenda.. Basically we ate till 3+am n i still miraculously woke up at 9am this morning for church. Praise the Lord! :)

Rushed to NTC after church. Had to perform administration matters for national tournament once again. Yeah, i never seem to get out of it. In fact, i get more of it after each time. Wonder why. Many things happened, good n bad. Some things i probably rather not know. Stanley yeo joined us for dinner, so we made it quick. Oh, n i actually made a really sarcastic remark to stanley which peiqi n darren caught! Haha... ok, i'll try not to be so mean again. But i just couldn't help it! After dinner, joined my cell mates at fisherman's village for a short while. Feeling very very very sleepy rite now. Can hardly open my eyes. Konking out now..

Permanent damage

It's so funny how singaporeans just can't get over the peanuts issue. When URA spent $400k to find out that the best name for marina bay IS marina bay, the public had to chip in the comment that the cost is slightly less than peanut.. Well, i think the more important issue should be scrutiny of public funds since it's taxpayers money n i'm one of them!

Ended up watching "The Island" last nite with elinn cos peiqi insisted on watching the filming of some chinese student/adult debate in suntec. The show got me thinking abt clones again. A topic which i left at the back of my head for some time. Oh, the action n vehicle crashes in the show were quite exaggerated n got me laughing for a while.. :) Still, nice effort.

Even though we had dinner at nydc earlier on, the 2 pigs (aka peiqi n elinn) still wanted supper. Headed to chinatown for dim sum where they forced me to eat more. Sighz.. guess calorie count is going to be an issue for me soon!

Dover again

I'm back at my dover ite again. The only thing i remember about this place is the terribly inedible food. The last time i ate at the students' canteen, i had hor fun. Or rather, chunky fat starch pieces that tasted like erasers. I almost threw up n never went back there. The staff canteen is only slightly better.

The solution was to take a 10 minutes walk n cross the bridge to NUS. Ate beef claypot rice in science canteen which is very nice. N waffle for dessert. Tonite having the free movie in suntec. It better be nice since i queued up an entire hour for it!

Fae out

Fae tendered today. She told me about it last night while i was driving home from supper at ice cube (n it's probably the last time i'm patronising them too). I think it's detrimental to staff morale when both of us leave together. Well, something the others have to live with i guess. Still, it's so unfair that she got to tender much more easily than me! Anyway, today's super busy for me. My staff (that indian guy) really cannot make it and complaints went all the way up to management. I had to take over from him n do everything.

Budgeting for some of my audit clients before they get reallocated. Probably have to attend a couple of meetings next week. So boring..

Grading

I was early for grading yesterday morning, which is quite rare. Dehua, darma n peiqi came down to help out too. Peiqi swore it would be her last. Had a few students getting double, though i'm still somewhat thinking if i should hv given double to another student.. Maybe the next grading i would.

Anyway, peiqi n i decided to go funan for lunch n some shopping (fine, it was my idea n i was having a tough time persuading peiqi from being silly in not wanting to be spotted in funan). Tot we could wait for elinn who knocks off at 4pm. Unfortunately, her work got delayed for 45 min. By then, we were really sleepy since we had very little sleep (i had 4 hours, peiqi had 2 i think). Somehow there was some miscommunication n we tot we weren't meeting after all. It finally got settled to everyone going starbucks in siglap.

Elinn popped by my place after dropping peiqi to watch naruto. I was so tired, i fell asleep in less than an hour. Woke up at 11+pm to realise elinn had gone off. This morning i went down suntec to collect free tix for The Island. Was there an hour early, but there was already a very long queue! Gosh.. kiasu singaporeans indeed. It's such a waste of time, i decided that it would be the last time i ever go suntec for free tix. Working very hard today, but will probably leave punctually since i'll most likely go down sengkang tonite. I'm oso thinking of naruto.. :)

Revenge of the qix

Yesterday, i just tot i needed to work from home, which i did. N in the process of working from home, i finished my korean drama, had lunch with peiqi at tampines poly n dessert at tampines somewhere else in the afternoon too. What a productive day indeed.

Went down changkat at night. Surprisingly shimin popped down n so joined in our "sabo peiqi aka qix" plot. It was peiqi's birthday a couple of days ago n i was oso strategising with elinn how to sabo her. Yeah, i know i'm mature but i just tot that it's this kinda fun that stays with us for a long time. So fri evening, i had to send my younger sis to her friend's house in marine parade, then rush down to somewhere n found a small cake (one that is very creamy n dispensable n unappetising) n 6 cans of root beer mug n 10 eggs (elinn's idea which shimin n i didn't quite agree to so in the end i saved them for eating). I was thinking of doing it at east coast by finding some silly excuse to end up at the beach.

Well, we did go to east coast lagoon for supper, but peiqi instinctively refused to go to the beach when we told her we bought her a cake n just wanted to find somewhere to cut. Instead, she was craving for starbucks strawberries n cream so we went over to siglap. In the back of my mind, i was thinking of where else we could be messy n big enough for me to run n hide.. At starbucks, peiqi realised that no one else wanted to drink except herself so she gave up the idea of drinking.

We still had to cut the cake, n peiqi suggested going to the isolated corner in simei that had tables n chairs outside an ulu cafe. Despite the place being next to a police station, we started the fun after singing song, blowing candles, cutting cake n pretending to eat the fruits. Gosh, it was so messy n i guess i forgot to plan my exit route in time. In case u were wondering, the root beer mugs were shaken hard n meant to be splashed at peiqi. Unfortunately she got hold of 1 can n started taking her revenge. In short, it was loads of fun n lots of run. Only shimin survived the sabo. I suspect peiqi was subconsciously biased.. We didn't give too much attention to the policemen who were starting to stand outside, making sure we were not performing terrorist acts.

Woke up in the afternoon today n had big plans of going JB with peiqi to pump petrol. However, darren called me last min n asked us to help out in some tournament held in pasir ris crest sec sch. We unwillingly went down to help out since there were only 26 bouts, with only 1 referee. Pathetic organisation. Big sir n stanley yeo acted as scoring judges cum recorder, while the 1 referee was center referee. When we arrived, we started the system of 2 corner judges n 1 center referee. Big sir soon disappeared from the scene..

After class at night, peiqi, dehua n me went to JB for dinner/supper. Peiqi finally managed to realise her dream of driving into JB n pump petrol. Just got home n started burning naruto into dvds. Going to bed soon so that i can wake up for 1st service in 4 hours time. Grading tomorrow late morning.. :(

Burning holes

Just paid for my brother's dinner at esmirada in chijmes. Feeling so poor after that n lost my appetite entirely.. :( Fortunately I've got the food festival card to knock off 15% from the ridiculous bill.

Was so busy running up n down in the evening fetching my older sis n niece, brother, elinn n my younger sis. Fortunately peiqi has her car n could drive to supper on her own. Oh yeah, i've gotten my naruto and prince of tennis remaining episodes n another 2 more sets of jap animes. But i'm still stuck with watching the korean drama. Hope i can finish by this week, which is highly possible, then i can continue my animes!!! :)

Idling..

The last couple of days were mostly idle time for me at work, except for the partial training course i attended and the very important meeting at ITE. Left early yesterday n went home to look for my old sony clie to lend to elinn for a while. Managed to find most of the things except for 1 of the manuals (i think..). Passed it to elinn when we had supper after sengkang. Watched a couple more episodes of the korean drama before dozing off.

Woke up late today. Joined peiqi to NTU during lunch where we ate at jurong point. Pity elinn missed us by just 1 minute.. As dehua was eager to go out today as he's off today n tomorrow, he kept asking peiqi out, using her birthday tomorrow as an excuse. Peiqi didn't wanna hv dinner with him alone, so conveniently pushed everything to me n made me go with them for dinner although i was supposed to hv drinks with my colleagues. In the end, i still had 1 drink before meeting them at golden mile tower. Picked elinn up after dinner n went to COFFEE BEANS at east coast (of cos it was peiqi's bright idea, but since it's her birthday EVE, whatever..). Talked for a very long time about everything under the sky. Since peiqi got her car, she did her duty in sending all of us back, including dehua.

After sending elinn back, i taught peiqi reverse n parallel parking per her request even though it was eating into my korean drama time.. I've got an 8.30am meeting tomorrow n can't be late since all my department partners would be there. Now i'm thinking if i should start watching an episode or not. :(

Pump up

Saturday was free n easy. Woke up earlier than expected (i.e. before 1pm) n read all the newspapers available. Peiqi soon called me to tell me she was sad over her forfeiting of SEA games. I know how she feels, but of cos i dunno how to cheer her up. So i stole the car from my younger sis n we headed to JB to pump petrol I know, no relevance, but i just wanted to do that cos the pump prices went up AGAIN!! N this time, they reduced the discounts, making petrol in malaysia less than half singapore's price. By the time i got to the petrol kiosk in malaysia, my petrol light was lit.

Came back to singapore for dinner then had class n after much debate, we went to jackson for supper. When i got back, it was quite late. Not sure why, but felt inspired to start my korean drama fae passed me about half a year ago. I hadn't watched it yet. Now that i've run out of jap anime n waiting for the next batch, i tot i'd just kill time with koream drama.

Church this morning, n sent my sis to city hall. Brought my older sis n my niece to bedok interchange for ice watermelon n headed home to continue my drama. Evening was reserved for tkd, badminton n table-tennis in mountbatten. Elinn joined us at 7+pm after her work. Think my other hamstring's hurting too, though i believe i haven't pulled it yet. Peiqi's ankle is swollen though.

Had dinner at 85 mkt after much deliberation. My bro was the fervent supporter for it, while peiqi n elinn were craving for chomp chomp as usual. So unoriginal! Still wondering if i should watch another episode of the korean drama. I'm feeling tired n sleepy n aching all over. Gosh, i feel like an old woman oredi!!

Fraud no more

Was very stressed out yesterday. I was under lots of pressure to deliver my work (another fraud investigation) by yesterday evening n i had a new colleague helping me out. He just graduated n joined the firm last week so he was slightly slower. But still, he's supposed to be technically sound. In the end, i cleaned up more than 180 reports yesterday, while he did only 10 over.. Didn't know how to answer to my senior mgr who was wondering why we were taking so long since there were 2 of us working on it.

Then my older sis insisted on me picking her up from eunos at 7pm. In the end, i got my entire family to wait there at 7am, while i got there at 7.30pm. Well, we had to rush down to shangri-la for the major family dinner with big shot relatives and 6 tables were waiting for us since we got there 45 min late. Dun understand why they just dun start first.. N i really hate the jams in AMK n eunos.

Finally tendered today. Had to undergo another 1 hour session with my partner who was disappointed in me leaving despite all his talk. Anyhow, he still gave me the option to withdraw my letter up to my last day. He's right that i dun hv a strong pull factor cos i dun really know what i want 10 years from now. Was thinking abt it when driving n i figured it could be due to my parents making all my decisions all my life. In fact, they usually override my decisions, so it was always abt what they want, not me. N they say it's for my own good. Which leads to my current situation where i can't even decide properly what i want in life. I even wanted to be a nun a couple of months back..

That aside, tonight's tkd drills in changkat brought back certain memories of my girls' fighter team. Maybe i should train a junior team since there're so many kids in elias now. Of cos they should still be at least 9 years old or so otherwise i might end up strangling them for falling behind. Then again, i'm supposedly patient with my students.. :) Regardless, i'm definitely feeling inspired to a certain degree. Wanna train fighters once more. But also prepare to live with the disappointments that come along with it.

yawn..

I dunno why i'm still blogging despite feeling so sleepy. Maybe i just wanna digest the chicken wings i ate earlier at cheesecake cafe with elinn n peiqi. Had several dreams over the last couple of nights. I dun remember what i dreamt about, but i know they stopped me from having the sound sleep that i desperately need. I wonder if i'll dream again tonight. If i really do, i hope it'll be happy.

Burning naruto into dvds now so that i can delete them from my pc (they're taking up more than 20GB of space) n distribute the show. Oh, i mean share the joy of watching the show. I'm not into piracy or any personal gain business of cos..

I've been thinking a lot the last few days about many things. I wonder if the trigger came from my job change or my long conversation with peiqi. N my secondary school friend whom i met for lunch yesterday figured that i was too simple-minded. Probably an impression she had of me ever since she knew me.

And yeah, Sin City is stupidly gory n entertainingly violent. Black n white film with an interesting dash of occasional primary colours. I'm so glad i watched it for free. :)

Aching all over

Last few days have been tiring. Saw a doc on fri morning, n had 3 lunches with 3 separate groups of people. After entertaining the partner from san francisco last fri nite, i had to rush down to changkat n trained a little. Was a little high so couldn't do very much. Think peiqi drove my car to lido after that where we caught the initial D finally. Got home at almost 4am after the show.

Slept in on Sat as usual, but still woke up for my church cluster meeting in the afternoon. Left church at 5+pm n felt hungry. The 1st person who came into my mind was peiqi (obviously). Called her n realised she was cooking dinner at home(yeah, i was shocked too). Despite her unappetising menu (e.g. brinjal something, radish something stew, etc. cos i dun like them), i still went there since i needed food desperately n my gastrics were starting to activate. In the end, i ate quite a bit cos i realised that the food was indeed edible.

Went to take class with peiqi after that. Forgot wat i did after class but i knew i didn't wanna stay out too late cos i had church the next morning. We most probably went somewhere for food before going home. Next day i overslept n got to church an hour late. Had lunch with my church-mates to make up for it, then headed home to pack my stuffs (n watch more naruto). Left my house with my brother since he was challenging dehua to table-tennis with his polished bat. Picked peiqi up from her house n elinn from far east sq n headed to mountbatten cc.

Dehua was oredi there by the time we got there. We trained tkd for 2 hours, then played badminton n table-tennis for another 2 hours. By the end of it, i was totally "shek-out" n my arms were starting to ache. I was quite disappointed that my badminton skills totally sucked. Really lost all my techniques, i dunno how..

Went east coast coffee beans to quench our thirst. Strangely, we didn't eat much n it felt good cos we had a good workout. Dropped peiqi home at 11pm then went to pasir ris west with elinn n my bro for mango milk ice. Sent my bro home after that n brought elinn to the beach since she was crying by then..

We sat at the breakwater n talked for a long time. Unfortunately i was feeling really tired n decided it was time to go at around 1+am. Sent her back, then went home to bathe. Since my hair was wet, i didn't wanna sleep so i ended up talking to peiqi till morning (woah, i wasn't expecting that..). At around 7am, i decided that i couldn't work that day (n i was literally aching from head to toe) so i took urgent leave n slept till 1pm when fae woke me up with her phone call.

Continued with my naruto after talking till elinn called cos she wanted to watch fantastic 4. I couldn't find my car since it was with my younger sis n it wasn't in her school, so we went to eat at tampines mart with peiqi 1st. Got my younger sis to send elinn n me home where i completed watching naruto (i only had till episode 99). Went to meet peiqi after that n we went down to sengkang's class. Realised that there were many committed poom belts there n a few other coloured belts with potential. Got us quite inspired, but i really didn't know if i could commit..

Went to coffee beans again at chomp chomp this time for supper. Took a couple of silly pictures n headed home. Will sleep earlier tonight since i'm hoping to reach office before 10am. I'll try to quit again tomorrow n really hope it works out since i dun like to drag things at all.

On the roll

Went to Bugis yesterday with peiqi for more shopping. Ended up with a pair of 3 quarter pants from giordano that costed almost 50 bucks. I'm still thinking if that's expensive or not..

Took a bus home after billy bombers dinner. Didn't really wanna walk further nor stand in the train cos my muscles were really aching from the workout on tuesday. N i was oredi quite unhappy about having to climb DOWN the stairs at bugis village.

Tried to tell my partner i'm quitting today, but he pushed it to tomorrow. Smart move. Rite, i'll settle it tomorrow morning. Went esplanade with elinn during noon n chilled out at max brenners since Tea Room was closed.

Did some work, arranged drinks n dinner for tomorrow with the US partner from san fran, then went to orchard to pick peiqi up before heading to plaza sing. Collected my tix there n met keng boon too. Went back far east to pick elinn up (n saw her trip over the step) n had dinner at golden mile. Elinn bought me the tacky key chain that both peiqi n herself bought. I didn't think i wanted to waste money on that, but elinn got it for me so that i would look "cool" n won't forget her or something like that.

Headed home thereafter. Feeling so sleepy rite now.. Poor elinn still has to take class despite being sleepy too. Going to continue naruto now!

The final verdict

Despite receiving a couple of invites to go thumpers, i decided against it. In the end, i went on a shopping expedition with peiqi at suntec n novena sq. Spent 200 bucks on more clothes n even bought a bag since peiqi insisted my previous one was atrocious! Angeline met us for dinner at novena sq n we caught up with her on her life. She's planning for marriage n even got a flat now. N she's 2 months younger than me.

The US director called me this morning, waking me up. He made a good offer n i just sent him a note that I would accept his offer. Finally. This means that i'll be leaving pwc in a couple of months time. I really don't know how to tell my partner. I just hope he understands. Now i must start planning my departure speech..

Chong Chu Jiang Hu (重出江湖）

Had a meeting yesterday evening with some of the top people in s'pore pools, then went down sengkang to take a look at the poom belters. Ended up having a "prelude" badminton game with elinn n peiqi there. Had supper at changkat after a mini-drive-around. We are intending to train in elinn's gym this afternoon. Peiqi just got her new bright red adidas hand-mitts that she's very eager to flash around. They want me to train up n fight the selected welter weight SEA games player during the upcoming tournament but i'm feeling slow n lethargic. Maybe aiming for my 4th dan grading this oct would be more practical..

Just had a "coffee lunch break" with elinn. Now waiting for peiqi to come at abt 3pm, which is our agreed time. Hope she won't be late. :) N my secretary doesn't believe i'd be working out at the gym later.

Home sweet home

YAY! I'm back! I never felt happier coming back home before. Usually i would dread the feeling of going home, but this time it's different. Was so touched that dehua n peiqi actually took a cab to the airport to pick me up (although my parents came as well). Rite, i had to bribe them with mister doughnut, but still i guess it was their initial thought...

Had lunch at my grandma's place today n went bugis to cut hair with my bro. After wasting 60 bucks at the salon, we toured food mania n ate bits n pieces of food. Drove down to mountbatten after to pass all the grading stuffs to darren n trained a while with peiqi. She had the grand idea of us training together for the coming national tournament n playing badminton before/after training. Well, guess i could do that after church.

Going to watch CSI now, then take a bath. Yes, i sometimes do bathe at night, especially when i cut my hair earlier on.

Gastrics attack

Last night was bad. Took a car ride from hsinchu to taipei for almost 2 hours due to the jam. By the time i had dinner, it was already 9pm. Went to this classy place where a serving of steak costed more than SGD100. Had escargot, steak, white n red wines n chocolate truffles. My stomach was feeling so bad during dinner i threw up everything i ate. Initially it was just the main course i threw up. Then after the chocolates, i threw up even more. Felt so bad that i just wanted to head back to the hotel n rest. Did just that n my stomach was feeling empty with the gastric juices attacking non-stop. Felt just like dying..

I was afraid i would be dehydrated, so started drinking a bit of water. Since the hotel had complimentary fruits, i started eating a lychee. Ate 1 every half an hour to make sure i didn't throw up.. Wanted to see a doc initially but was afraid i might be warded, so decided not to. I really wanna go back to singapore n the merc limo would be picking us up from the hotel at 3pm. :(

Feeling much better this morning. The shower head here is really good. Feels like therapy. Ate a banana to fill the stomach before taking breakfast. Will be checking out soon since the client wants to bring us to the original ding tai feng for dim sum. Hope i can still catch my movie at that 8-storey high screen..