Just came back from a dinner with my best sports pals, Aileen and Charlene. it's Charlene's 23rd birthday today and it's amazing how long we have known each other! 7 yrs! I'm feel blessed by the special friendship we share =) I was so hungry after my 3.5km run at Amore that I just gobbled down dinner at Noodle House without taking photos with them =( haha but we enjoyed the
1. Special Congee, huge and favored just right
2. Wonton noodles,the noodles is alright but the fried wantons are gigantic and the steamed ones are succulent with juicy prawns
3. Beef Horfun is not so good though cos the horfun were stuck together. Nevertheless, the prawns and all were good =)
yummy dinner... we went shopping around Centrepoint, absorbed in our world, as the passerbys flowed from different directions, all around us. There is nothing more lovely or precious as friendship.

I had a more sinful round of dinner yesterday, with my darling, for passing his driving test on the first try! Hear this, he only got 8 demerit points! super zai la... We went to celebrate at Intercontinental, Olive tree cos they are having promotion right now. 1 for 1 and we only paid about 55 in all... the spread was superb, to say the least. We swallowed down:

1. about 10 oysters each, fresh and juicy
2. 5 fresh tasting salmon sushi
3. crispy salmon pizza
4. fried tempura prawns, done golden and delightful
5. sausage in small cute dishes
6. creamy cod fish, smooth and good
7. dhal and chicken curry, these dishes are a bit dry
8. fragrant butter rice
9. strawberries with chocolate fondue
10. oozing chocolat fondant, tiramisu, chocolate alcohol cake, sorbet...
11. everything else that I can't name or recall but it's a truly unforgettable dinner buffet =)

catch the promotion before it ends oct 31!

Cyst woes

No that this topic is really important but I must declare my battle with cysts these few years. Not sure if it has been a result of my obsession with eye cream earlier, using Mac eye recovery cream and Estee Lauder rich eye repair too near the eyes, thus causing overactive oil glands. But come to think of it, it could be true... to make the eye area more moist, it will make sense to make the oil glands secrete more oil right? sheesh... major mistake

right now, I have undergone 4 eyelids surgery before, 2 on left and 2 on right. each time the swell was huge and the pus was imaginably overflowing... I wonder if I can finally say goodbye to cysts!
a few changes I am introducing to ensure that history doesn't repeat itself

1. eat more fruits and drink more water
2. avoid fried foods! some forum writers said that oil from those stuff can accumulate in the lids.. yuck
3. clean my eyelids with eyelid products daily
4. avoid eye makeup (so sad, no more mascara...)
5. sleep early ( really hard to accomplish)

wish me luck!

Updates updates!

Just sent my sister back to her hostel... it's funny being on the other end now, no longer the one going back to hall n facing the books... Now I finally taste what it is like to send someone away, to make time for her/him out of my busy schedule-- much like a parent.. There was an article about parents suing their children for not supplementing their retirement and to issues like this, I always wonder, "what happened to filial Piety?" Sure everyone for his own, it's one's responsibility to provide and fend for himself. But someone who is mature, and particularly someone who has experienced adulthood and parenthood will realize, how difficult it is to care for someone, to bring up him/her to maturity. If I were to be just responsible for myself, I certainly wouldn't demand so much of myself. But I want to not just give myself, but also my parents a better life, one that they have never been able to experience.

Work has been going along quite well but I certainly welcome more challenges, as long as they are not concerning overzealous perfection and insane meticulousness. The best thing that has come from work would be the triathlon team which I have recently become a part of. We got 6th in the corporate relay, I ran 5km, while the other two guys swim 750m and biked 20 km! wheee... here's some photos

2nd of work at new posting!

The last two days have been pretty 'thrilling' notice the inverted commas... afterall it's a new environment now, down to KPI, tasks, deadlines and all...stress and eyerings creeping back to my life... but I'll be ready to take on the challenges as they come

been meeting lots of friends recently and it's a joy to see all well and happy at their jobs. Sometimes it hit me that our worries were unfounded after all, not being able to find our calling in life, not finding a job that pays decently... But I must constantly remind myself not to slip into an employee life pattern, I want to be a biz owner one day. back to reading the book "never eat alone' =)

The most nerve wrecking lunch

With a sigh of relief, I'm glad to have survived my first ever self introduction in front of the big shots at work.. had to talk about my D I S C profile, my greatest achievement and my future aspirations. what is seemingly easy to accomplish face to face with another person has become ten times harder with successful individuals scrutinizing you the entire 3 mins, breathing down your neck, trying to dissert your personality.

I'm glad to be a survivor and my mentor rox! He's formerly from the SAF but has made a huge transition into the corporate world now... hope to interact more with him in the future.