Paul & Joe Party~

Paul & Joe invited me to a private party @ Wisma Atria on friday for the launch of new products


Discover Sweet Sensation!! What a nice theme~~

Look at all the new release!!

They-looked-edible~~
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There were some snacks and drink.. The smoked salmon and cheese is really great!! I forgot abt the lovely brownies!!


Some competition.. i din really pay attention...



A ribbon to indicate that you are the special guest~~

I'm really glad to go for such parties.. wish for more to come!!

All the above pictures are taken by my new hp (impulsive buy): Motorola RAZR V9

mine is a black phone~

Recent me~

Just a quick update before i go sleep~~

29 recent things in The Leap Year

1. addicted to Viwawa~ played for two days only~~
2. Looking forward to watch L change the world (haven watch yet~ gomen ne mayu-chan)
3. Waiting for 10 March, where my Paul & Joe Blusher comes to Singapore
4. Planning to buy a portable, external hard-disk in this or next month
5. Want a nice, stylist laptop bag for work
6. Going to order academic dress soon ~$$$~
7. Saving hard for a good digital camera (to be buy in june, just b4 commencement 2008)
8. Thinking of getting a new handphone(call log problem is quite a nuisance for me).
9. Trying to get Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 (and other classical from nodame cantabile)
10. Sleeping in my new $3000 (worth) bed (paid $2000, but not me)
11. Cleared alot of my things from room, and now only have a small table, instead of the orginal two.
12. Just ate another sinful cake from baker inn 3 hours ago (@ home)
13. Spend the whole of today in a server room.
14. Need hair serum badly
15. Wanna watch The Leap Years becoz of Catherine Lim (I love her stories)
16. Spending my weekends, studying with Baby Thia
17. Looking forward to a cash studio Day
18. In mids of planning for a buffet outing with boss & co.
19. Manage to not repeat any of my clothes for work since the 1st day of work on 29 Jan till now...
20. Want/Need/Wish for alot of things but no $$$ even though receive my pay liao
21. Registering for Japanese Lesson that starts after 30 Apr (Baby Thia's Exam)
22. Change my internet plan from Premium to Express to cut down on subscription fee and sign for two years to enjoy 25% discount
23. Applying for UOB lady's card and OCBC Robinson card.
24. Have not collect my URS lady's card
25. Love the omelette breakfast from my office
26. Miss the tuesday fruits sale @ level 6 (din came last week)
27. Bought a Tommy Hilfer Polo-T for Baby Thia
28. Baby Thia insist no late bus home alone becoz of terriot-escape
29. Going to sleep now.

Love all of you~ Cast a spell on my chat column so that i know you are reading..
Good Night~~ Oyasumi~~

Working Life => towards a month

excited!! of coz!! pay is coming!! haha

taking abt work, i thought of my collegues..
my boss(we called as RO) is a very warm and nice lady.
Apart from her ability to do work, she is caring towards developers and project members. On my 1st day of work, she went around look for lunch partners for me (how sweet!!)

talking abt my lunch partners, they are super cute.. today, one of them came over and say "tabe mashou~" (which means let's eat). coz they know that i'm in love with japanese stuff.

Another one is going japan soon.. Today, on talking about japanese drama and stuff, i realise she kinda like Karasawa Toshiaki and told her that i'll lend her shiroi kyoto (白い巨塔)..

at times i go around sharing my rosebud tea, or jasmine tea with my boss, and collegues.. they are really very nice ppl..

Despite work is tough and working hours is long, but having a boss and good collegues around, it is better than anything.

Suddenly i thought of 2 developers who i'm working with recently.

One is a foreginer who told me that he couldn't speak english(or ppl can't understand his english) when he 1st came to singapore.. so he keep watching CNA (Channel News Asia) to pick up the language. (i wonder if i should watch NHK then)
anyway, he is really good and responsible.

Another one is someone who can do work, but i cannot start this person... mayu-chan should know who i mean.. coz i was freaking mad on CNY eve and i keep grumbling to her abt this person..

i'm now looking forward to my pay day.. Planning to go ikea and get new table upon arrival of new bed.. Love baby thia for the gift~~ and the effort spent in moving my old furniture out of the room..

Clare Oliver

I saw abt her on the news, so i search for her.. on watching her video clip on tv, i almost cry.. this is from her:
I AM at peace.

But if I could go back and talk to myself when I was 19 I would tell that girl not to use a solarium -- that melanoma is not a small cancer that you just have cut out and you will be fine.

I may pass in another week or it could be two. If I really fight it out, I may even have six weeks left.

It's scary, because I feel myself getting more tired, and each time I feel sleepy it worries me that I might not wake up.

So far I have lived 25 years. If I am lucky I will reach 26 because my birthday is on Saturday.

It is a short life, but I have lived it.

Subconsciously I did know that cancer was involved with solariums because I was aware of UV A and UV B rays.

But when I was 19, I saw a cheap offer of "buy 10 sessions and get 20".

The girl working at the tanning salon told me the fastest way to get a tan was to come in every second day and use speed cream.

My mum told me it was abnormal to get in a box and fry myself, but I told her it was cool and everyone was doing it.

After the 10th session I was starting to burn and it hurt, so I stopped. But I guess I stopped too late.

It would be irresponsible of me to blame it just on solariums, because I grew up in St Kilda and went to the beach a lot.

But you can't tell me the Government doesn't realise the dangers of solariums.

Young girls need to go out and educate themselves about solariums before they make any decisions.

Obviously my decision has been made, and I think they should be banned. But now that you know my story and the resulting risks involved, hopefully you will realise it is not worth having a golden tan.

I am angry at myself mostly, but I can't believe how much the industry is booming.

A lot of friends tell me I still have a lot of life left in me, but I just live every day as though it is my last.

I was 22 when diagnosed. I had just finished a Bachelor of Media and Communication and a Master of Cinema at the University of Melbourne and started work as a sports journalist at SBS.

I was on top of the world.

But I only got to work for three weeks and then I found out about my cancer.

I will never get to climb the so-called ladder, and even now I complain about not being able to run the rat race with everyone else.

I know I would be good at it -- I think I would be great at it.

I wanted to go to the top, but now feel I have so much potential that will be unused.

It was 2004 when they found a tumour under my left armpit, which they treated with immunotherapy.

In July 2005, it came back and this time they treated me with radiotherapy.

I was cancer-free for a year and seven months, and then in April I found a lump in my neck. I thought they could just cut it out, but it turns out there were seven tumours in my chest and one in my lung.

Now they have stopped counting how many there are.

I had all these ideas and in the end I was ready to accept that two years would be more than enough time left.

But I have accepted it, especially now that I am nearing the end and I am at peace.

When you are someone like me you realise that life is everything and you grab it with both hands and embrace it.

If there is something that you feel needs to be done, go and do it, and do it wholeheartedly because life is short.

People ask me how I can still be so happy with all this on my plate. But I have lived my life as a spark. I don't want to live a life where I am living until I am 100 and just flat boring.

I have always lived my life with compassion and passion. I have never been one to keep my silence about anything I have felt passionate about.

Melanoma is no joke. And I will keep championing this cause till the day I take my last breath.

Some links:
A tan to die for
Cancer campaigner Clare Oliver dies
Solarium skin cancer victim Clare Oliver dies
Crackdown on tanning salons
Brave Clare gets a boost
Clare's dying wish to come true

バレンタインデー etc

i forgot to take pictures!!! on valentine day (T_T)

i think i really sux @ this... no matter how i remind myself, i keep forgetting

must be becoz of the mess up stuff @ my client side.. haiz

and now my meal subsidy and transport reimbursement is messed up...
Hope i get it.. coz over $100 liao... (@_@)

valentine's dinner is @ waraku @ central.. not the pasta de...
baby thia say if want reservation then must eat their set meal..
however the seat is good and with a good view,
it was a seat for 6 ppl i think..super comfy.. and i pity ppl who had to cramp becoz of no reservation..

the food is pretty good.. serve with a glass of white wine and dessert.
i had grilled beef (have to grill by myself) with rice, pickles, assorted sashimi(the scallop very nice!!) prawn and veggie tempura, potato salad etc..
baby thia had seafood paper steamboat(with hokkaido crab, salmon, mushroom, prawn), unagi sushi, assorted sashimi, prawn and veggie tempura, potato salad etc..

i should say the meal was great..

and flowers from central..

my gift for him?
1) card
2) chocolate (chocolate in chocolate box)
3) wallet

his gift for me?
1) a bed coming in march..

end of v day..

work wise is super tiring.. tml still got OT

My 1st week of working

is nice, sweet, tiring, horrible and haiz..

i felt that i was wiping someone's butt. becoz of mistake he make..
haiz..

anyway.. on my 4th day of work, i work OT!! then saturday and sunday also.. so sad..
almost cannot see baby thia (T_T)

luckily manage to catch him for a while yesterday, if not i think i feel like crying...
and my OT are working to over 12 midnight.. (T_T)

back to work.. now still in office.. i suddenly thought of cs3214