Monday, April 25, 2005
Assignment Services Rocks!
Assignment services rocks!!!!! even our "handsome and charming" intern Andrew says he will miss us when he finishes his internship on 29th April 2005. Andrew, I am not in the office cos of exam leave.. you know what to do ya? *winks* Hahahaa (Oh.. which is Andrew? The tall asian guy at the back row near the exit sign.. heheh..)
Saturday, April 23, 2005
The Doors
This afternoon after waking up and finishing my quiet time with Him, and after "Romancing the 3 Kingdoms", I decided to go online and check emails and stuff. After which I remembered the game I sent to myself from Liz and decided to have a go at it.
A scene from the game has been attached here for your view. Scenario of this game draws you to point your cursor on an object and click on the items in the room.
Check out the game The Doors for yourself.. I soon found myself hooked as curiosity and the sherlock holmes in me got the better of me.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Visit to the doc's
Before I tell you about my visit to the doc's, lemme let you in on a little secret that my fellow colleagues and I have 'labelled' this doctor at the clinic we usually go to near our office as ... mm.. "scary & weird". She was always in room number 1.
Anyway, my insect bite was SOOOoOOOoOooOOooOoOooOOoooOO (okie you get the picture) itchy, I had to see the doc ASAP, I couldn't type without wanting to scratch it. Went over to doc's and waited for them to assign me the room number for the doc. As usual, locals here can't really pronounce my name properly. The clinic assistant at the front desk shouted (I was just sitting IN FRONT OF HER) "PRESS-SI-LAH THUMB.... Room number ONE" x.x!!! *sobs* Dieeeee! Oh "lucky" me!
Told the doc what happened to me and she went into another connecting room and came back with ... 1. A metal kidney-shaped pan 2. A small knife in it 3. Cotton balls 4. Some lotion. (Dang!! She's gonna cut me up... ) and she had a MASK on. As she approached me.. (my heart raced..huh? cut me here and here? no injection? no warning?) She said to me: "Lift up your elbow high and turn your head to face the wall.."*Wails...* I asked her "Doc you gonna cut it up *gulps* nnnow?"
Doc: "Oh .. no la.. the knife's in there cos I'm lazy to take it out as I bring the pan here to clean your infected area" *PHEWWWWWWWW* Huge relief... Anyway she cleansed it..stuck gauze pads on it and tape up "Hong Kong" any-oh-how. (Really.. I have medical tape criss-crossed here and there..) I feel like a present wrapped by an over zealous kid who's eager to wrap a gift but lacks experience or the know-hows. I asked her "Doc, why do I have to face the wall?" (Was thinking in my head.. so that you can wrap it up worst than erm now while I ain't looking?) She said "Cos.. by looking and facing your wound as I clean it.. you are breathing in every spec of germs and dust." Arh? Waaht? come again? Dust? (Scratch heads while glancing at ceilinng...HmmMmmM..) Riight. Interesting.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
On My Mind...
Today's blog entry would be... what's on my mind..so just to prepare you first. It wont be in a consistent flow of thoughts. .MY MIND SWITCHES YA? Get the idea already? Great.
WRONG!!!! It wasn't a mozzie. COS watever bit me.. from SUNDAY .. STILL itches till NOW (Its 8mins to Wednesday!!) and the worst thing is.. its red, darn itchy (no longer a tad...if u wanna use a tad pls multiply by the power of 10) and .... *Pris begins to sob* and... its almost as gimongus and vast as the Republic of China, CAN!!! I am NOT Exaggerating.. okie maybe by a little.. (Readers go: "Huh?! Like real!") Alright.. Alright you heartless folks.. its not as big as China.. just as big (not forgetting itchyX10) as Hong Kong .. Can?
As I am blogging.. I am resisting from scratching it.. couldn't find my trusty "Zambuk" (Some gentle healing gel for insect bites) and if I still have hong Kong on my elbow tomorrow..I will go see a doc. It's swollen ya know! *Pris wants some attention here peeps!!* So pardon my French (I just realise I must be itchying to travel [note the ironic pun?] which brings out China, hong Kong & the French thingy), but d@mn that dreadful, greedy bug who sucked my blood and left me swollen and itchying!!
2. Bangkok
Patrico says he tailor-made a few pants and shirts and he bought alot of stuff. He bought a wooden figurine for all of us in the office. It's so cute! Mine's an angel woodrine (Wood+figurine). It can hold our photos too.. So sweet of him. He said he ate lots of nice Japanese food in Bangkok and all for a whooping.. *Gasp!* 8 bucks (SGD!). Amazing! I wanna go to Bangkok and shop till I DROP. Yes, I haev heard soO much stuff about Bangkok that I am DETERMINED to go there this year after Europe. (I dun careeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee......need to find kakis to go... anyone keen? lemme know..)
3. Ms. Infineon Tham
Yes, you guessed it. Talked to Grahame today and we had a good discussion on what account I should be taking on next. So there you go. (Btw.. that nick is given to me by Grahame.. not me. He calls me that or Priscilla Infineon Tham.)
4. Goods & Services, Utilities Allowance Review
5. Study Leave
6. Europe Trip
7. 1220am..
Saturday, April 16, 2005
PriPri's Book Of Records
Friday, April 15, 2005
Friday, 15th April 2005
Went to work as usual and couldn't wait for the day to end to attend caregroup. Oh and after caregroup, Yan, Angie, Yilin & I were meeting up for a round of pool as well as some drinks (NON-alcoholic, mind you). Yan said he will come fetch me after my caregroup.. YAY!! Thanks Yan!!
Met up with Imelda for lunch and I was delighted to see her after so long. First thing she said to me was even before she started eating her Jap lunch was "Girl, you very busy hor! You know how long since I last saw you, other than that day I coincidentally met you at PartyWorld Karaoke on your birthday........You ar.. everytime so busy.. projects ...assignments...conference calls... work... going out.. meeting friends.. hanging out with ur friends..Am I not your friend? Huh? And then...."
*Pris trails off as I realised I had opened a floodgate. Imelda's floodgate*
When she said that to me..I had a 5 seconds flashback to my birthday in March and finally traced back to the memory of seeing her that eventful day. Glanced at my watch and it indicated 15th April 2005. Standard dateline for filing my income tax. Oh yeah.. dang! I lost my e-filing pin, misplaced it somewhere and made a mental note to myself to call IRAS later to re-send me another pin since they have graciously extended the dateline till end of April for people like me. (All this was on my head while Imelda's foodgate continued to flood)
*OooPs! Where was I? Diverse off course.. Realise how fast I am thinking of something else while Imelda bombards me non-stop about how I have neglected her* I admit. I am guilty of neglecting her.
*Fast forward and soon it was caregroup.. * Felt an undescribable sense of joy when I saw my fellow churchmates. I wonder why. Guess cos God's presence was there. The lesson was meaningful but I kept glancing at the clock. Dang.. How come Yan didn't call me yet to say he is here? Anyway when the gals prayed together.. I dun know why I felt a warm presence around me. It felt ....nice? Or was I imagining things? But I did realised that when my mind was away for a few seconds.. I couldn't feel the warm presence anymore. I don't know how to describe it. But this was the second time I felt like this. The other time I kindof brushed it aside when I felt the warmth. The first time was more intense. It felt as though someone hugged me from behind. ..that kind of warm glow. Anyway, when caregroup came to an end I checked my mobile and realised that it was dead. Good grief!!! It's a no wonder I couldn't receive. Tried to revive my phone and managed to see a few texts from Angie and Yan. Poor Yan, he said he have been waiting for half an hour driving up and down the place trying to find me.. Awww.. My bad!! Truly sorry for making you wait!
When I made a speedy gonzales for the door while saying my goodbyes to my fellow churchmates.. received a last text from Yan that he couldn't find me and he droved off to meet the rest. *Pris wails...* And my phone went dead at that instant. Great. Now I have to make my own way to find them and without a mobile to contact them.
*Met Sherlene and her beau on the train while making my way to find the peeps and catch up with her alittle over (though she is also my colleague from the same dept. but different account) the short train ride from City Hall to Orchard...somehow.. the conversation led to Yan..* [Yan, if you are ever reading this blog which I doubt U ever will...realise how much everyone cares about you?]
Finally met the peeps who were truly understanding of how late I was. Thank God for these muffins! Lovely people. We had a good session of pool while laughing and poking fun at one another.. Then my stomach growled.. *growled..growled...* [Pris to her stomach: "Okie..Okie.. I will feed you.."] We played our last round and went for supper at Coffee Club and Yilin recommended the Garlic Prawn pasta & Sotong (Or was it fish?) balls to us and I added on another of their recommended dish 'Pacific Mussels in Chili Crab Sauce & Man Tou (Fried buns)' Yummy! Ate, chat, (The garlic prawn pasta was scrumptous!) and soon realised it was close to 4am. The folks agreed in unison that it was time to hit the sack and we departed on our ways. Wanted to catch a cab further down so Yan and I walked further down to hail a cab for me. He was walking back to his car, not cos we specifically wanted to walk together ok!! Yan asked me where do I stay and I said "-e--n" (<--security reasons la!) and he said he can give me a lift. wooOohooOo..great! Hahaha.. cheapskates.
On the way to find his car which took almost an eternity .. and somewhat of a little adventure (we found ourselves at some dark, gloomy, smelly, stinking, garbage trash site at the back of Lucky Plaza where Yan supposedly park his car and all the while I was wailing if he is gonna 'sell me' away and procrastinating in a joking manner that I should have taken a cab instead..while covering my nose to avoid breathing in the stench.. and Yan just LAUGHED. Great.) *Typical Yan, always making booboos & yet he is so farny & crappy at the same time..haha* Alas, we found his car and he drove me home. He told me something after which when I put two and two together.. I should have known. No wonder the poor fella couldn't find his car. Mind's away.
Went home, bathed and finally my body was horizontal again. This is my Friday. (Mental note to myself: To pray for a number of people including Yan.)
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Gonna miss you......
There's the wombat and the london bear plushie on the top right hand corner of the pic. Wombat given to me by Brian when he went to Australia (Wombat is call Fatso), London Bear plushie from Khanh (No name yet for london bear). A Crown Relocations Lion plushie given by our vendor Crown (But they gave it to Kate & Kate gave it to me..)
On the same shelf to the left of the plushies is a fako red digital canon camera that Angie passed to me for fun and says thats my 'spy cam' and to the left ot it is a blue evil clown figurine that Big Patrick (Previous colleague also call Patrick..he is the caucasian guy standing with me on one of the pics on my office wall.. if you squint harder..) It's an evil clown cos its holding an ice cream with a hammer at the back of him..but its too tiny to be seen here. To the left of Mr. Evil Clown is Mr. & Mrs. Incredibles figurine.. got that from a drinking cup when I watched the incredibles. Further left of the incredibles are the 'peeping toms'. They look as though are peeping from the side of the wall, don't they? They are actually some Sesame Street toy collectibles that I collected during those days where you buy a McDonald's happy meal and it comes with a free toy.
And as you can see.. the rest are pics and postcards on the wall and some other plushies like the Burger King Reindeer.. she's cute.. and the 'Cheshire cat' on my CPU from Alice in Wonderland. Sigh.... SoooOo gonna miss my current desk.. (if I relocate..)
Anyway.. I pray that if I really do relocate.. there will be enough shelf space.. wall space for my plushies, postcards and pics..
Good news today is ... HB suddenly called my name in an exciting manner "PRIIIS-CIII-LLLA!!" O.O? Waahhtt? HB: "I got selected!!!!!" Pris: "Yayyyyy!!!!! Erm.. for what?" HB: "The Hokkaido Exchange Program!!" Pris: "Really? Coooool.....so when you flying?" .....*trails off to exchange of information and congrats from fellow colleagues nearby...*
As I resume back to my desk.. I suddenly recalled what my supervisor, Lien, told me yesterday. *SOBssssss* Lien, this is shocking news!! Still is to me.. though I know you are not here for long term and would head back to Melbourne one day. BUTTTTTT, I still can't swallow that it's that soon. Man, I think I am a creature of habit. But working with Lien has been fantastic.. I learned a lot from her and her sense of humour never fail to crack me up. Gonna miss you too... I really wonder how fast the transition of the current account to someone else would be. As much as I want it to be ASAP so that I can start something new and the feeling of something new always makes someone looks forward to it.. BUT on the other hand.. the faster we transition off..it would mean the faster Lien would return to Melbourne. Gosh! I know nothing will make her stay cos her work here is just really to gain more exposure. And I learned sooOo much from her since July last year!
Oh well.. it just means I have another friend in Melbourne that I can visit when I head down to Aussie someday to visit Jane, Nathanael and now Lien going forward. Not you know why I have to visit so many places cos alot of my friends are like all over the world (As detailed below)
Ex-colleague Annie & hubby Thomas - Bonn, Germany
Ex-colleague Anke - Stuttgart, Germany
Ex-colleague Caroline & hubby Joe - Calgary, Canada
Ex-colleague Petrina & hubby Bryan - Sydney, Australia
Ex-colleague Jane & hubby Nathanael - Melbourne, Australia
Ex-coursemate Apple & hubby Kafoon - Shanghai
Ex-colleague Patrick C. - San Diego, USA
Now I have to add Lien in the list together with Jane & Nathanael as they are all from Melbourne. Sigh...........And they are all my ex-colleagues or coursemates.. and the people on the list (other than Patrick C.) have been bugging me to visit them for the longest time ever!! *Aww... guys... realise that all of you are really at the ends of the globe? The hole in my pocket would be as big as the ozone layer if I visit everyone of you consecutively..*
Anyway, realised that I have yet to go to BANGKOK, GREECE (my honeymoon place), JAPAN, CAIRO, ISTANBUL, VIETNAM, OSLO, FINLAND, etc.... I better start building my network.. hahah..
Saturday, April 09, 2005
I had a good week!
All I have to say is that my shepherd, TY and I prayed on Thursday for a change in my work cos I have been rather stressed with this account though it really gives me good experience and Voila!