end of internship!

Today is the last day of my internship at GBK! I'm gonna miss everyone dearly, especially my hilarious, gossipy & pretty tax senior, Shing Ran (she looks abit like Park Eun Hye from Da Chang Jing) , who has patiently coached me in the last 8 weeks, all the tax knowledge that i have gained is credited to her constant training. She has been my desk mate for the 8 weeks and my chit-chat partner and gossip pal.

I'll miss all the other aunties at work who have showered me with so many nice goodies, offering me sour plums, potato chips & all kinds of tidbits during those dreary late afternoons when everyone just wants to sleep! I'll miss Linda, who has been very nice to me & given me soo many stuff to eat (very kind of her but not very good if you consider the after effect, haha) & Chong, who's so blur and kan chiong, my senior calls her "kan chiong spider", hehe. But i think she'd make a very entertaining gandma and she kinda reminds me of me, but hopefully i'm not as blur as her lar!

I'll miss super cute & "38" GH , who constantly provides source of entertainment to us, and offers me all kinds of slimming methods, haha. He's constantly advocating the use of sunblock and proper face care because apparantly the office lights contain UV. rays which can damage the skin as well! hurhur. Super farnie. He also loves to reminisce about his "peak" days when he used to have "Marie France" bodyline figure! LMAO! But it's fun having him around, i get to hear about all kinds of diet tips, haha, his latest attempt - eating low fat muesli cereals in the morning!

I'll miss the other interns, Sally & Darren, who left me behind corz they ended their internship 1 week earlier than me! They were the first people i could connect with corz we had something in common, having both come from NTU. Sally, the girl with the HUGE HUGE APPETITE, but VERY SLIM figure (jealous! y r all my friends like that and i put on weight just by eating veges?!grrr...) and Darren, the gym buff, who never fails to work out every single day and stays away from evil CARBOS!

Then there's K2 (the ah beng looking senior who turns out to be really nice & not ah beng, haha), K1(who has already left GBK), Alvin (the sensitive, politically correct, very very sweet guy who made cheesecakes for us!) & CY (the loud speaker & joker of the gang)!

And yes, i'll even miss my boss, despite all the bad rumours i've heard, she's been quite nice to us and treated us to Chongqing Steamboat for a farewell celebration! And my boss gave me ANG BAO in addition to my pay!! Yay! I'm a happy girl!

In gratitude for everything, i went to buy durian puffs from GOODWOOD PARK HOTEL, which are super super yummy lar ( the durian bits can stay frozen for quite a while despite leaving it in a non-airconditioned room) :








My seniors treated me for lunch at HUA YI KITCHEN at International Plaza! I eat Zha Jiang Mien, my first time, lolx, so shua gu! Their really the nicest bunch of seniors ever!



From left: top row (Shing Ran, GH,Hong Xiang, Bibi), bottom row (me (duh!), Chong, Eileen, Sui Lan)




In the 2nd pic, more ppl joined, my boss was out though, so no boss, lolx. Guy in blue: K2! Short guy(haha): Yin Kang!

My pretty senior was really,really nice too, she got me a duo eye liner from Paul & Joe!! I was really, really touched cause i didn't expect her to get anything for me. She's really become a personal friend of mine, and not just a colleague, thank you so, so much!

Me & my most fave person in GBK, my tax senior!

DUO LINER FROM PAUL & JOE!!!!! They have the prettiest packaging!




KK, I'm off to SHANGHAI for a week!!! They have banned access to blogspot :S So i won't be able to blog until i get back...so cya guys soon! will catch up with everyone when i get back! and school is starting soon!! ARHZ!! Aiyo...no mood to study...

jess,get well soon!

23rd July - Visited Bestie!



You're a really strong girl, it pained my heart to see the pictures of the first few days after your op., I'm so very sorry for not being around when you needed care and concern the most! But I'm glad you're recovering fast, i don't think i would have the courage to undergo the same thing, i would well have chickened out before the doctors coud even lay a finger on me. You're looking better, don't be too bothered about your mum & sis's teasing, you'll be back to normal very soon, the swelling is reducing and even though you look very different now, you're still that strong, caring, funny & beloved bestie that i know! Heartz alwayz! Will visit you when i get back from Shanghai, in the meantime tahan a bit more k, maybe soon your mum might let you drink a bit of MOS milkshake :)


Oh, btw, do you want jason mraz's songs from his new album?? do you have them? I can send them to ya if you don't :) And do take the painkillers if the pain gets unbearable yar! Don't be so stubborn, if you hafta take it, take it.


Love ya! Take lotsa care, drink more, and i'll come over whenever i can so you wouldn't be so bored yar?!

24th July - Crystal Jade with Bee! Welcome Home!!

WELCOME HOME BEE(my roomie and confidante for 4 months)!! It was great being able to see her again! I've missed her and i am like super duper envious of all her travelling exploits!! It was fun hearing about all her adventures and i really do think she's the bravest and very very daring to be able to travel alone in a foreign land when there were hiccups during her trip in States! Bee, you've been missed! Thanks for all the yummy snacks from Japan and for the lovely hollywood keychain, arh, just a reminder of all the things i've been missing out on!

I had dinner at Crystal Jade with her today, ate my fave xiao long bao (which i bet i'll be having lots of it in Shanghai again,lolx) and shared wanton la mein with her. Yum yum, but very very full! We then went kai kai and shopped around a bit more, haha, you would think that she's already sick of shopping after spending nearly 1 mth in one of the most consumer-centred and shopping-crazy country in the world - Japan! But girls being girls, we're all shopaholics and the result of spending too much time on exchange, playing and spending money like there's no tomorrow? We end up spending even more! I wasn't supposed to buy anything, wanted to just accompany her to look for shoes but ended up getting one pair myself! I AM HOPELESS.

Oh well, it was nice meeting up with her again! Glad you're back!

2 more days to Shanghai!

Fion's Birthday

Fion's Birthday at Indulgz! (19th July 2008)



Me, Jie Shan & Fion met up at INDULGZ restaurant, at Tan Qwee Lan Street, to celebrate Fion's 21st birthday!! HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY GIRL!!

I got Fion to put on the pink fluffy tiara i bought for her, so pretty right?! Together with the lovely bouquet of roses, she was picture perfect, all ready to be the next Miss Congeniality! Hehe.


The glass water came in this glass bottles, the waitresses took like 15-20mins just to get us our glasses of water!! Did they really have to climb up to the mountains to collect spring water for us? Gosh, the service was soo inefficient.




I ordered the Wild Thyme & Crabmeat Soup, it was tasty at the first bite and it came with a breadstick. But it got a bit too jelat for me and the breadstick was a tad too hard for my liking. There were plenty of crabmeat inside though, in case you are a crab lover, you might like this dish. It cost about 7.80bucks.

Look at all our gorgeously wrapped gifts! My ah-hem beautifully handmade card, my wonderfully wrapped Hula&Co dress & F21 wallet, our Topshop bag & Sung's and Mich's Elizabeth Arden Green Tea perfume!


Chicken Bolognaise Melted Cheese Fries ($8.50) & Flaming Pasta ($19.80)

Yes, the pasta was literally flaming. What do i mean??! See below inserts for pictorial description.

The waitress came up to our table with a glass of white wine & a lighter. She litted the glass of wine and subsequently poured the flaming mixture into the plate of pasta, I thought it would be like a burst of orange flames but what we got was....

Where's the flame?? There! It's there! Open your eyes and peer harder! Iwill not be responsible for any deteoriation of eyesight though. See the non-luminous flame, the blue colour light on the pasta?? Yupz, that's it. Lolx. So much for FLAMING pasta -_-" Harlow??!! I was expecting something like those hawker centres where they fry char kway tiao, you sometimes get to see the burst of orange flames as they pour oil into the wok, so much for the dramatic name can! And the wine made the pasta very wine-y and a tad oily. Surprisingly, all the tables around us ordered the same dish! It was kinda funny seeing 2 waitresses trying to lit the glass of wine, they looked abit like circus performers, but instead of doing some really cool act like ermm...juggling balls of fire, they were setting fire on pastas. hurhur.

Cake session! We got her the American cheesecake from Goodwood Park Hotel :) but by the time it was served to her, it was in quite a pathetic state, with the berries dropping out and all. Really sorry! The hours of having to carry the cake about had resulted in the less than appealing appearance of an otherwise good (and expensive) cake!

I was filled to the brim! We then headed down to Haji Lane for a short walk and passed a bar with lotsa people gathering in groups for a smoke of shee-shaw! Ah! I miss the days of smoking shee-shaw back in Canada! The exotic arabic quality of it all!

Sarah's Baptism! (20th July)

Congrats dear girl on your baptism and new life in the Lord! I am so proud of you dearie, you have changed so much in this period of time and it's all for the better! I'm so glad that you've found your purpose and aim in life, continue growing in Christ and be a good girl!

I was the photographer for the day! Haha, it wasn't my day, but since it's my blog, i shall just be abit selfish and add in a completely useless photo just cause it has me in it, or at least my back!

The whole family! Okie, my brother didn't come along...and my dad, aiyo, soo embarrassing can? He was so engrossed in using the SLR, he started taking pictures of the fountain at church, the plants, the greenery instead of my sis!! *faints* Can you imagine if my sister wants to look back on the photographs from her baptisim, she sees only the church building, the fountain and the green plants on chc rooftop??!!

KH's Birthday Celebration at Cineleisure! (21st July)

I treated kehang to Japanese pasta at Cineleisure Orchard, bill came up to $45.80, relatively cheap considering the last time he treated me to the Brazilian restaurant at Sixth Avenue, it costed aound 40bucks for 1 pax :S Due time i paid him back for all the treats he's been giving us and all the late night suppers, he claims there's alot but honestly i think i can count them with my fingers. We then caught "Wanted" (the movie with the adulterous, husband-stealing ANGELINA JOLIE!!) with PC and Masaaki, who were so late they didn't manage to eat dinner.

Wanted was ridiculously UNREALISTIC! i realised i've been criticising every single thing, but it's a fact! I mean bullets that can go 360 degrees???! No Kidding...Cars that can flip over other cars and still land in one perfect piece?! Lying in a pool covered with wax is a treatment to injuries?!! (HARLOW?!! THEN I LIE IN A POOL OF CHOCOLATE, WILL I BE CURED FROM SOME TERMINAL DISEASE??!!!)

RUBBISH.

Though, i have to admit Angelina Jolie is super hot in the movie and that's coming from someone who hates her...the movie was all action packed and the storyline was kinda expected. It was an average movie, maybe i should i have caught Dark Knight, which everyone has been giving good ratings for.

Poor KH was straining his eyes throughout the whole movie though, cause he got whacked in the eye during a soccer game the day before. And his eyes being his biggest asset and his "bread bowl" as his is a pilot, he panicked when his vision became blur, so he quickly went to see an eye doctor and they gave him eye drops that dilated his pupils and caused his vision to blur and become foggy. His eyes were like blood red, it looked abit creepy.... By the end of the show, not one but both his eyes were red..we were still joking that we could put a bottle cap or Salonplus on his eye to cover it up so he wouldn't look so creepy and pervatic (corz he was squinting and staring at everyone, some girl even thought he was checking her out, lolx).

After the movie, we headed down to Swensons to grab dinner (for PC & Masaaki who were starving) and gossiped about hall and PC (a-hem). As we headed back to our cars, a bird shit dropped on KH!! OMG, karma karma karma, alwayz suaning people! Super funny, we were walking quite closely and of all places, it fell right on his sleeve! Smart bird, lolx. Kidding kidding, if he sees this, he's surely gona whack me.

The highlight of the day was when we headed home and PC drove me & Masaaki back. OMG. We nearly died. He came out of Cainhill carpark and turned left. After turning left, there were two ways to go, either left or right so i just conveniently said left. So as PC took the left side road, we saw an oncoming car coming from the right! Masaaki and I then exclaimed and laughed in relief, " OMG!! Heng arhz! Luckily we didn't turn right man!!" The next thing we know...a white vehicle suddenly came head on with PC's car!! SHIT!! We were in the wrong direction on a one way road!!!! wth!!! Luckily the white vehicle had time to react and quickly slowed down, or we would have just collided. Masaaki, PC and i would then be on the front page news of the Straits Times Home Section - "Stupid NTU Undergads turn in wrong direction on one way Orchard street leading to head on collusion with unexpecting driver"! The poor driver must have gotten a shock, what the heck were these buncha kids driving in the opposite direction right in the middle of orchard road!! Retards.

I then asked PC a very important question...

"How long have you been driving??????"

"Since i was 18..."and now he's 24...

Speechless.

Don't worry, i wont tell anyone else, lolx.

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Didn't take any pictures cause i didn't bring my camera this time round, slpt too late the previous night trying to rush my PA report. But here's a few pics of my friends at hall 16, gosh, i'm sure gonna miss staying in hall :S

Gabriel's bday

This is also overdue, i've been too lazy to blog as of late becorz i've alwaz been too shagged out after work to blog about anything. But here goes, it'd be short...Garbiel's Bday!!

We celebrate twice for him! First celebration was on friday, we brought him for TIAN TIAN STEAMBOAT! (NOTE: PLEASE DON'T GO THERE! It's not that good, quite bad actually, the ma la soup wasn't fantastic with all the spices floating all about the oily soup, ewww....and the prawns weren't fresh either :S) I would recommend you guys to go to Chongqing Steamboat at Tanglin Shopping Centre instead, that's where my boss treated the us to last friday(will blog about this on a later date, too many backlogs, too little time...)!








Went there together with Myrna, Grace, Gab & I. Myrna bluffed Gabriel that we were going to have bible study and later she very funnily told him that we were gonna have bible study in TIAN TIAN steamboat, *faints*, and as expected, gullible Mr Gabriel took her word for it!! Lolx.

We surprised him and told him the truth later on. And we then feasted! Myrna ate like tons and tons and tons....my tummy was on the verge of an atomic explosion and she could still keep going at the food, lolx. The only good part about tian tian steamboat is probably the crabs and the spareribs and corn soup was quite tasty, but it all pales in comparison to chongqing though. The meal costed about 21?? Can't quite remember. Oh, and after our meal, Myrna even suggested eating durians!! How in the world does she remain so skinny despite her very very enormous appetite is beyond comprehension, lolx. *envies*




Our durians!! It was Gabriel's first time eating durians at the road side, haha, he was like thoroughly shocked that we were gonna just eat durians like that. Oh oh, and the funny thing was when we were bargaining for a cheaper price for the durians, Myrna was like"Uncle, pian yi yi dian la"....then uncle was taken aback and retorted offendly "Ni jiao wo she mo??!" Hurhur.

Aiya, uncle, you really not that young already what....lolx. Myrna then quickly reacted and called him shuai ger instead.


We ate 2 durians and we were utterly full and satisfied! I love durians! We then proceeded down to Raffles Place to bid farewell to our dear Sean, who will left us for Australia to study business! Of course, with Myrna & Sean around, we did what we always do...SHI LIAN PAI....haha, yes, AGAIN....we're never sick of it, this time we even got Gabriel involved, poor Gabriel had to act cute with us, but he managed!



Guess what is Sean holding?? Myrna's ice-cream looking microphone card, lolx. Sean loves singing kbox and err, Myrna likes food, lolx, sooo maybe that's y the microphone ended up looking like an ice cream cone. haha, that's Sean' theory.




The gang at Azaru Sabo! Me, Myrna, dan & Gabriel posing for the caamera!



Second celebration was at church and later at Marina Square's Azaru Soba (or something like that)! We presented Gabriel with Myrna's lab coat and a first aid kit box as present for his birthday at first (he's a medical student you see), silly him, he actually believed that was his present!!! We then presented him his REAL present which is a skinny tie, river island shirt and a belt! Time for extreme makeover Gabriel project 1! Lolx, we forced him to change into the new clothes and take pictures with us! Gabriel, you're gonna be the hippiest doctor in Singapore!

Btw, did i mention i luurve luurve the desserts at the jap restaurant, we ordered 4 different kinds, some muah chee like pancake with peanuts and black sesame paste, red bean paste with mochi and ice cream topping, deep fried sweet potato and mochi & one other dessert which i can't quite remember. All of them were delicious, though it's rather pricey! I wouldn't eat the main dishes there, i'll probably just go there for the lovely desserts!

Me and Myrna in our floral attires at foyer 8!