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Thursday, February 22, 2007

CNY- Ang POWssss

Though it was 4 days Hols, I didnt manage to rest well at all. I was busy like a bee or perhaps more than a bee. Tired like a .... In short, I need more holidays! I didnt took any leave coz i got no leave at all. I'm still under probation jus in case you guys have forgotten that i jus joined the hotel in last december.

Geez....

1st of all, let's start off with my last min shopping. The day before new year eve, I was desperate to shop for my new year clothes. Not tat i didnt shop for new year clothes whereby i'm jus working opp far east plaza... I almost go there everyday after lunch. It's jus that I dun look good in whatever i tried. Accepting the fact that some girls look nice in whatever they wear, jus a simple tee, they can look as nice. Of coz i dun belong to this catergory esp when i have so much excess fats to shed away. More input than output.... that's always the case.

Hanging out at orchard area after work and decided to give up of the idea of getting some tops. None of them seems nice coz i looked kinda"meaty". I admit that i am. I went to holland V and met my beloved Sherin. On the way there, the bus was packed. There was this lady sitting down occupying 2 seats. 1 for herself and 1 for her stuffs. I dun really care that much and jus felt that she was really inconsiderate. But then, there's a pregnant lady standing beside me. Looks like 6 months kind whereby her tummy was very very big. That idiotic lady pretended that she did not see and after 2 bus-stops, i cannot stand it and tapped on her shoulders to ask if those stuffs on the seat belongs to her. I requested her to put her stuffs away for the pregnant lady to sit. And she stared at me and said " i got too many things. Where to put them?" " You can simply put them on the floor if you want to." I know she was unhappy with me but please please please be more considerate... I dun find them giving up the seat will actually cause any pain in you. Duh!

Hey... did i mention that she bakes pineapple tarts for me every year? Without fail, she gave me a bottle of pineapple tarts as well. Went for bbq Stingray for dinner...

Surprisingly, i managed to get an old navy skirt and a topshop denim skirt at last at FOS. It saved my trip to town to grab for clothes on new year eve.

New year Eve

I had yet to pack my room. My room was really in a mess. My books were all over the place. It simply shows how studious Rachel can be. Imagine the Rachel with the bookworm spec, digging into books in a quiet corner of the library with stacks and stacks of books around. * Grinz* Anyway, i dun wear specs, rachel being in a bookworm specs is out. Rachel dun like to read at all, so digging into stacks and stacks of books is out too. For most impt, Rachel never hang out at library. I'm jus being untidy, putting my books around in my room. Some books belong to previous semester, while the rest... are all the current modules that i'm taking. They are still nicely packed in the boxes that were given by SIM. Exactly what was given... they remain what they are. I started my modules already... yet you see my stuffs are still in the box unopened. You will know how hardworking.

Of coz before packing my room, i need to complete an online quiz. Damnnit!!! It's due on Sunday which was the 1st day of New Year. Nice Job unisim.... still wan us to study during offical holidays. It took me an hour to finish my quiz coz i never really read thru the books and notes given. Read them as i was doing the quiz and i did statistics during my A levels. I seems to have return my statistics knowledge back to Miss Chong.

One thing good about online quiz, you can compare answers. Samuel and i were like doing together and discussing comparing answers. So in the end, we got the same answer and submitted. And Samuel being Kiasu, he compared answer with the other classmate of ours, Kelly. I bet everyone did the same thing.

Brother saw me getting some new and cheap stuffs from FOS and wanted to grab some last min shopping there as well. I accompanied him to buy... Guys are easy. They can get some nice tees , go with jeans and they look good. Simple and nice.

By the time we reached home, we only left with a hour or so to pack our room before we set off for our reunion dinner.

Reunion dinner at Prima Revolving Restaurant

It's a disappointment one. The only good thing about it is the free parking and the view you get to see form the restaurant. The moment we were at the entrance, it was crowded. I think they should have some usher to guide the guests in and maintain the order there, taking turns to get into the lift rather than pushing one another. The very very ugly side of Singaporean!!!!!!!Everyone squeezed their way to the lift and up to the restaurant. The food wasnt too good as well. Spend $1k plus there for something that wasnt satisfying at all. We will try a new place for reunion dinner next year.

New Year

Went for visiting from House to house... And of coz there were always times when everyone came over to my place for dinner and gamble. I went for KTV on the 2nd day of new year. Brother drank a lot and i was asked to drive. Cant help being gan cheong when my brother is beside me. Pressure is there... SCARE!!!!

Well, Sing until 3am ... damn shag already man. Jus when i was about to go out, i saw a familiar face. He recognised me BUT, i jus cant recall who he is. I know somewhere... but my memory was failing on me again. So i told him " u look very very familiar but i forgot who you are."HE said we are in the same class previous sem. Oh ya .... business law classmate. U can imagine... he is my classmate not lecture mate and i cant remember at all. Well.... * Shrugs* what to do...


Back to work

I wish for a longer hols. My mood for holiday is here again. My habit of sourcing out for cheap deals for holiday re-surfaces. Last trip was the genting trip in last oct. It's been 4 months already... and i need a break to recharge myself to the on-going rachel at work. So hols anyone??? Let's go shanghai!!!

And one more thing... I will load those pics taken soon. Sorry for the long entry with NO pics. I have too many things to share and vent. ^-^

Rachel @ 2:57 PM


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Thursday, February 15, 2007


An outing with the big family of Royal Plaza

We set off to the Tiger Brewery at 6pm after work. Half of the crowd had gone there before. Hence, the tour in the brewery on explaining how the beer is being made and packed as well as the history of tiger brewery, only half of us attended. The rest of them proceeded straight to the drinking place and have the free flow of beer.

I guess that's the most interesting part of the whole trip is to drink!!! Everyone drank a lot.... especially those aunties. They really can drink!!!!!!! I'm such a lousy drinker as compared. We got so high after drinking, singing and some even dancing over there. Erm.... and dirty dance... I guess everyone enjoyed though i heard that the previous trip was even nicer as the crowd was bigger. What's more important is that the 30 of us who were there thoroughly enjoyed!


Oh Man.. I looked RED


Colleagues!!


The KTV Session
And here we go.... the DRINKING COMPETITION





Annie, Me and my Asst HR Manager, eileen
Us again!!!

Happy moments.... of coz there are sad times as well. One of my colleagues, Pauline, is leaving for Perth soon. She gonna work there and settle down. I may be working in this hotel for just 2 months plus, i really appreciate the days with her around. She can be a little fierce if you dunno her. She actually jus pulling your legs to see your reaction. She has been really helpful, try to help us out when we enocuntered problems. I guess i gonna miss her. I hate the feeling of parting with people... it emerges the unwillingness for the person to go but on the other hand, you simply know that she is leaving for good. Yucks!


That's pauline....


And i guess i'm gonna miss her.

Rachel @ 11:56 PM


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Sunday, February 11, 2007


Last thurs when i came back from school, my parents told me that " Ah ma was admitted to hospital." My grandma had fallen down and admitted into the hospital. On the very day, my parents went over to visit her and she was still pretty okie jus that she has really big "blue-black" on her hands due to the fall.

I was out with Kong Yi yesterday. Too bad, he has an Indian wedding to attend in the night so i headed home in the evening. My family was about to go for dinner and visit my grandma in the hospital when i reached home. I joined them.

I saw my grandma..... She looked weak. She mumbled when she tried talking to us. 99% of what she said, i couldn't understand. Frenz who know me, should know that i'm really poor in my dialect. I cant speak any other than English and Chinese. I saw my mum was holding on to my grandma.... but..... she seemed to be only moving her right hand. and her left hand ... she said it was so heavy.

I went over to ask the nurse what exactly happened to my grandma. She suffered from Stroke... Left side of her body will not be able to move. She's old... in her end 80's. by the side of the bed, I feel really sad about it...

Guess most prob she gonna spend her Chinese New Year in NUH.

Rachel @ 9:34 AM


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Saturday, February 10, 2007


Went for some shopping yesterday. Pocket injury..... it's more than that. I shall brand it as bank injury. Decided to try a new brand of cosmetic- Sephora. I guess it's an upcoming brand from Italy that it tries to bring in to Singapore market. The Sephora's poster was placed at the window panel of DFS and i think DFS is the only place that sell this brand as well. If you happen to passby, go in and take a look at their cosmetic counter. The variety of things that they have, it's comparable with MAC. What's more when the price is slightly cheaper than MAC, it's extremely affordable!!!

Got 2 tops, 1 shorts, 2 lancome Mascara, 1 Sephora compact powder, blusher and Cosmetic bag. In addition, i went to trim my hair again. Hahaha.... to start off a new chinese year, bringing on good luck.

I cant wait for pay day to come....

Valentine's Day is coming. I was reading the newspaper yesterday on the Life section of the online dating and the agency. They have some single and available people being screened on the papers. One of them was even a pilot and was quite charming. How could that be possible??? Pilot... Quite nice looking and no dating partner. So my colleague and me started to discuss.

She said: Not as nice as you said, normal looking la.

Rachel: Quite nice what, jus a little mature for us.

She said: Oh pilots, Pilots are flirty

Rachel: I dunno... my uncle is a pilot too. he seems pretty okie. I have a fren who is a pilot as well...for him, i'm not too sure.

Pilots... Are they really flirty? Applying to commerical airline pilots and the airforce pilots that we have? In my opinion, perhaps for the commercial airline pilots as they are able to know air stewardess. Mm... or maybe the airforce pilot can be flirty as well when they are earning a lot. Sigh.... pilots... i always wanna be a pilot since young. I wish to fly a plane... I wish to be in the big blue sky... It's jus my ambition. An ambition that will not come true...

Perhaps that's a good thing.... coz in that case, it proved that i'm not flirty. Boo....


Rachel @ 11:33 AM


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Friday, February 09, 2007

My First Time

My first time...

It sounds like i'm writing a secondary school composition with the title " My 1st time" . I still remember i wrote in a compo about the first time declaring love. Well, it was all crap written and yet that compo let me published into some composition reference book. That was long long time ago.

What i wanna say about my first time was driving my swift out alone. I drove to pick Sherin from her place and went to Liquid kitchen at bt timah there for a drink. Driving out alone without mastering how to park a car... The moment i moved off, Yucks.... i forgot to put on my P-plate. Drove all the way to Sherin's place and put my "beloved" triangle plate on. Before that, it was the hardest time that i could ever have. Parking.... luckily Sherin's place had many empty slots that i reverse the car so as to park, i ended up in between 2 parking slots.

1st of all, i admit i'm lousy and need more practice. Secondly, Sherin's place was kinda dark that i cant see the markings of the parking slot. Seems more like an excuse!!! Hahaha ... okie, i'm lousy. Tried to do some practices at her carpark that totally freak her out . She tot how bad can i be in parking when i could even pass my TP. And she was wrong.... n finally realised that she was wrong.... when she got a big fright in my parking skill. No worries when i reach bt timah, parking was smooth but a little slow. Got mocked by a mercs... cant they see my luminous triangle. Be a little more patient!



LIquid Kitchen

Agnes came and joined us after that, telling us her breakup with her ex. It was an unexpected one. Things jus seem to be unpredictable. It feels good when nice things happen but unfortunate events will jus make a person feel unprepared and break down. Everyone wants to lead a better life including myself. However, how many pple are able to lead a smooth-going life? Everyone will get to encounter ups and downs in a matter of time as well as the severity.

Shall stop the topic before it goes sadder and sadder.

I should cherish the nice pple around me. It takes time but I will learn to do so.

Met up Kongyi the other day. Boo… he was stunned by the kinda luck I have. We were jus playing card games and I won like 90%. Nothing much jus sat down to chat and chill out.

Kong Yi and me

And of coz my first Statistics lesson yesterday. It was boring and i didnt know that i'm supposed to bring my notebook along. Most of them didnt know as well. So we could simply have like 6 to 7 pple sharing a laptop. The classmates dun seems to interact with each other and i only got to know 1 lady there. At least better than being a lone ranger. That's the thing about a brand new semester. You really have to get to intro yourself all over again, making new frenz but this kinda of frenz ship will only last for a sem. After that, it will be degraded to " Hi-Bye" frenz. The school did make an effort to bring us closer by having group project. Mmm.... my class got many uncles. = (


Some outdated photos taken like 1 or 2 weeks ago.

Ice Cream - Banana Split @ Gelare









Rachel @ 9:56 AM


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Saturday, February 03, 2007

Rach @ work

Been busy doing some report for month end. I need to search some stuffs which are from May 2006 from Accounts department. U know though i'm there for 2 months but i'm still pretty new and there's still tons of things that i do not know how to go about it.

Mmm..... Hence i went over and tried to dig out some documents but i need to search from those stacks of papers. So my asst financial controller came out and saw that he helped me out. Making me feel so "paiseh" about it. He even asked the other lady why she did not help me out and reprimanded her. I mean it's really fine for me to look for it myself. The lady was telling me in some kinda joking manner that " my face is really big enough" for asst financial controller to help me out.

I feel so bad!

I dun expect such things to happen.

Oh ya... i met Gideon the other day for drink. He gave me the impression of man of a few words and that day, that impression was gone. Was damn funny.... i think he does not have the habit to put on his seat belt while driving. On the way back, he saw TP at the back and quickly put on his seat belt.

Voom.... the bike passed his car...

Hahaha.... It was jus a bike which happened to be white colour and kinda big, looked like TP. He was like got cheated kinda reaction. Well,

lesson learned: Put on seat belt so that even see TP... No Panic.... ^-^

Rachel @ 12:24 AM


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Friday, February 02, 2007

Start of school again

I'm back to school again. It's part time studies... but still.... i feel like jus any other school year last time. I dread going to school. 1st day of school, I'm supposed to leave my office on the dot at 6pm but there were things to clear. I only managed to go off half an hour later. Too late to take a bus to sch, gotta rush down by cab. Orh! Pocket injury... If this happens every time i go school, i will be damn broke man.

Slow traffic but still managed to reach there quite early. Jus nice Samuel was there at that time as well... and we went for dinner together. Being grateful to me for printing notes, he treated me dinner. Okie fair enough.... Hahaha....

Economics... for this mod. Get to see some familiar faces at the lecture... but i think none of them are in my tutorial class. Samuel and i were screening on the new faces we have for this sem. And there he goes " got auntie leh"

What's wrong with auntie studying??? I replied " got uncle also wat... big deal"

And he goes again " This module got many girls." And i replied " Good for u but bad for me. No cute guys"


I mean it's true.... Hahaha.... well and he said " perhaps i sit too near that u cant see any!"

*Grinz* * Shrugs*


Rachel @ 3:52 PM


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