Shanghai or Suzhou?

I'm now in suzhou. Yup, i thought I'd be in Shanghai, but didn't realise that this place is really in suzhou. As usual, china has got plenty of land and this place is damn huge. The director doesn't quite allow us to retire before midnight, although the day starts at 7.30am. This means that i'm going to accumulate my insufficient sleep syndrome.

Anyway, the room's good. The food's good. The people are good. And we just had our sports night, which is also good. My team got 2nd and we were even given medals! Geez... but Gloria had to issue the report last night, which means that i've gotta close the database before tomorrow. And the documentation is so... CMI lor... i can't put my name to it! So i've gotta sacrifice karaoke tonite (which is oso good) n fix the database. :(

I'm so sleepy. I really hope i'll survive team-building tomorrow, especially since they've sent out warning messages like "you WILL get wet"......

Hum-chim-bang!

My vegetarian friend recommended me this vege restaurant in chinatown, which i somehow never realised exist. Brought my team there for debrief lunch n it was good. And as my other colleagues went to maxwell market, i got them to buy hum-chim-bang for me. Evelyn bought 21 lor! 3 cheers for evelyn! :)

Tonight's my brother's birthday dinner. Wondering if he can book out of camp in time. Anyway, since he had oredi spent 3 quarters of his birthday in his camp, it won't make much of a diff.

My closing meeting this morning went smoothly n quickly. But looking at the work done by my team members, i can only shake head. CMI. Now i need to start thinking of a funny item for next week's training. Apparently, they're going to have some game n if i suay suay kena that forfeit, i've gotta do something stupid. Based on my recent track record (3 police summons within 10 days), i think i'll just be the one.

What the crab

My nose is feeling better today. Much drier than yesterday. Fortunately I didn't call in the conference call last night as it's actually tonight instead! Praise the Lord for my laziness! :)

Brought my indian colleagues to NUS arts canteen for lunch today. Good thing they have a vegetarian stall. Introduced them to seaweed since i had jap food. They seem very impressed with the university n amit even wanted to enrol for economics. Only complaint was that NUS was too quiet. I think they meant that our students are not rowdy enough, unlike in india.

Now i've gotta rush a report n i'm getting sleepy. Tomorrow morning's the meeting n i'm still not ready. One of my clients is asking me out for dinner tonite too. Think it's seafood, aka crabs. N i suspect it's going to be chilli, or pepper, or both. Should i use my 1kg weight gain as an excuse not to go for dinner?

Sweet cure

My hopes to work late today were dashed. Since the moment I woke up, i was sneezing non-stop. Got through my status meeting in the morning successfully, then became semi-groggy. After lunch, my head was splitting so much i had to leave the client's place.... just to go meet peiqi n her classmates for desserts! :)

Good decision, since the desserts at bakers' inn helped to ease the flu somewhat. After that, i took the wheel back from peiqi (i allowed her to drive my car initially as i couldn't think very well). Sent everyone home n fell asleep as soon as i got home. Slept till 8+pm when my grandma dragged me out of bed for dinner. Guess the sleep also helped me feel much better. Oh, i just found out a couple of days ago that my mum is having cold war with my maid! Of all people!!!!

Should i attend the 9.30pm conference call that's going to take place in 2 minutes time?

Bumble bee

So busy at work today! By the time i got off, it was almost 7pm. Seems like the deadline for my work is drawing near. In fact, it's tomorrow.. n my team isn't making good progress. Guess i'll be in my client's place till late tomorrow. :(

I'm fine(d)

Tonight is campus superstar again. Although one of the hot faves is gone (that 13-yr-old girl), there's still the KC girl to watch out for. Which means, i'll most likely be sacrificing all appointments for tonite just to rush home n catch the show! Oh, must remind peiqi that it's 8pm..

I plan to do so much work today, but the client decided that he's sick n disappeared without telling us. So there goes my plans to work hard. Then there's also other things i need to do, like service my car, think abt my injections, etc. And of cos, appeal against my fines. I realise that i've got so many fines lately that i'm not interested to simply give them cash (and demerit points). Now to think of stupid reasons why i should not be made to pay those fines. That sounds like hard work too! So what should i say? I was speeding to a toilet along the expressway as there were only trees n no bushes? I was chasing after the ambulance that took my friend by mistake? I parked illegally cos i wanted to test the efficiency of the police? Hmm...

Input = Output

I finally threw up on friday nite after the steamboat dinner. My stomach was revolting against my feasting habits. Not really a good sign.. So i didn't have dinner on Saturday (although i had late breakfast n lunch), but i went hougang porridge for supper.

Slept at 4+am, n had to wake up at 9am. Today's spex tourney at mountbatten n i had to go down to referee. Was feeling quite sleepy, so i left with peiqi after lunch.

And tonight is going to end with 2 dinners. :( I've got my niece's birthday first, then steven tay's wedding dinner. Sighz... i'll try not to overeat, and probably consider taking my powerful laxatives along. Oh yeah, my secretary sent out some SOS warnings about yellow fever n polio outbreaks in africa. Guess what? Those are the viruses i didn't immune myself against the last time i took my injections! Shit. I'm still thinking if i should go take those jabs at all.

Watched episode 10 of L word a few days ago. Was quite upset that dana passed away........

1, 2, 3... Bang!

Almost got into an accident in JB last night. The pressure put on the brakes was quite immense n i think i'll have to service my car pretty soon. The evening was interesting. Peiqi n her friend joined my indian colleagues n myself at fong seng to have cheese pratas. I was trying my best not to overeat as i oredi had 2 lunches before this. Took a picture too...


After that, i abandoned my indian colleagues to go JB, since they didn't have the visa. Went to pelangi 1st, n then to taman sentosa. Just as we had parked the car to go for seafood, the entire area blacked out! Apparently, the hawkers all had candles on stand-by mode. So we had candlelight dinner n ordered so much food! It was on the way back to the malaysia customs that i almost hit a car. The jam last nite was terrible. Oh, i actually did hit a car, or 2, but i think the owners didn't realise.. :) Those were basically very light knocks.

I've got many meetings the entire day today. Sianz....

Food guide

I'm still feeling the food from yesterday swimming in my stomach. As my 2 indian colleagues n I had to go down to henderson data centre in the afternoon for meetings yesterday, i brought them to the market there for lunch. The place was huge n there was a vegetarian food stall. I introduced them chinese rojak which they love. After overeating lunch, we were almost sleeping during the meetings. Even the client was dozing off!

Then in the evening, I brought them to Quality Hotel for vegetarian food. I invited my other indian colleague, a czech colleague, and a local colleague along. My introduction is always good! :) So we ordered so much food. Anyway, we had to end dinner by 9.30pm so that we can all rush back for the 10pm conference call.

During the conference call, i was doing every other thing except listen to the people talk nonsense. Found some software to download, chatting with my colleagues n friends on IM, clearing emails, etc. Think the bottomline was that i stayed awake throughout the call so that i can hang up in time.

Guess i'll bring everyone to IMM for lunch later, then fong seng for dinner. May end up going to geylang for durians n dou jiang you tiao with them too. Also made plans for warm choc cake at esmirada with my colleague for desserts tonite since it's her birthday. Then i need to start planning for tomorrow's lunch n dinner. Where should I go?

Weekend Tourney

It's been a long n tiring weekend. Most of it was spent in NTU, helping out in the IVP, instead of the IT Show. Still, i went down to IT show on fri afternoon n basically spent almost $2k there! More than half was due to the cost of my eten m600, but i'm so happy that i finally got it!!!! N i found this very cheap SD card with lifetime warranty running on high speed. Woo-hoo!

On Fri nite, i visited JB with my colleague for dinner. Saturday morning started early with me driving to NTU after picking peiqi up. After lunch, i sped down to my church in katong to attend my friends' wedding. Then picked dehua up n went back to NTU. Night time was elias class. At the end of the day, i was really tired, but i still had to pass stuffs to my colleague that night. Fortunately, she stayed in hougang.

The entire sunday was basically IVP. Had prata for breakfast at simpang bedok, then went down NTU. I was getting restless at the end of the IVP that i had to start kicking hand-mitts. Guess what? I pulled my hamstring! So i'm basically limping around since last night. Had supper at cheesecake cafe then went home to start playing with my new Eten M600.

Decided to work from home today. I'm so tired n my hamstring's really hurting lots!

IT show - 1st recee

Today's the 1st day of IT show n i was there in the afternoon. After walking the whole exhibition, i've decided to buy my eten m600 tomorrow. The thought of it is making me very excited! It's more than $1100, but i believe the investment is worth the money. After all, it's a gadget!

I've gotta help many people buy stuffs from the IT show too. Although i usually buy things on the last day, i'm not sure if i can make it down in time this sunday due to peiqi fighting her ivp. Hence, i've decided not to take the risk.. it's a rare thing that i'm sacrificing the last day (aka most impt day) of the IT exhibition. Sighz, what are friends for.

Oh yeah, i went JB to pump petrol last nite n realised that the pump prices have increased by 30 cents!!!! Gosh.. it's so expensive everywhere now. I really should sell my car away... n buy my type R integra! YAY!

Jab again

Received a piece of bad news from my doc in the middle of last night (think 10+pm). I have to take BOTH hep A & B jabs and it's mandatory. Or so the doctor said. Wasn't too conscious to understand what he was saying, so i guess he'll continue his explanation later. I just need to be mentally prepared. Ohm..................

Aching bum

Although i got home relatively early last night, i only managed to go to bed at 3+am. Nope, it wasn't conference call or peiqi's assignment. I was just listening to my colleague bitch about everything under the sky. And added my own comments, of cos. This resulted in the whole of my today being defaulted to sleepy mode. Yet, i still did a lot of work, or so i think. At least i completed the silly STF audit report.

While taking the train ride just now, i realised that my butt was still sore from those injections. Err... the doctor figured that with my "acute anxiety", i was better off jabbing my bottom than my arms. Oh, i've got a shopping list of people's requests from the IT show. Everyone assumes i'm going (of cos i'm going) n have offloaded their wish lists to me. I should extort some commission from them!

I'm so sleepy, i can't think anymore. Going to bed now. Or soon. Got a kick-off meeting tomorrow morning in tuas.. :(

Acute anxiety

I finally took my injections. I selected a couple of them out of the 10+ diseases. For hep A, i had to do a blood test before the immunisation. At the end of everything, i survived. Yes, i survived. I'm amazing! Though the doctor noted on my card that i had an "acute anxiety for injections"...

I've been so busy everyday, sleeping at 3-4am, yet waking before 9am. Then the whole day is packed. I end up taking half an hour naps in the middle of the day somewhere. Think i'll not play game tonight, but go to bed instead. I'm even going to skip my animes! :(

Just another work day

I'm so sleepy. Insufficient sleep for consecutive days. I wonder how i even get up in the mornings. I've still been eating a lot. Last night, i went to liquid kitchen n tried the fondue. Was thinking about it since wed nite when i saw it on the menu.. Guess the fondue is simple, but overpriced for that kind of quality. Overall conclusion -> Won't eat there again.

Today's the last day for one of my colleagues. And 2 weeks later, another colleague is leaving too. It's unbelievable how turnover is so high even here. Am i missing out something?

I'm multi-tasking now by updating my blog and having a conference call with people from all over the world. I'm just waiting for them to shoot me with their questions. I feel like a dartboard waiting to get shot.

End of duty

I finally finished call of duty 2 last night. Played the harder level, so it took me longer than expected. The only outstanding game now would be age of empires 3.

Going back to STF office this saturday morning to continue the audit. Hopefully this time i can drag peiqi along. My 2 new colleagues from india office just flew in this morning. I'll be going to africa with one of them in april. Guess i gotta start building rapport with them now. Talking abt africa, i just checked the website for vaccinations to take before going africa. Basically, the list is damn long lor! Shit man, i hate injections. I'm just going to pick n choose some, though i've got that stinging feeling that i'll most likely go down with the disease i didn't vaccine against. Why are they so infected??

I'm still thinking if i should go to the MOS party tonite. Should I? Should i not?