First 2014 post since Year 2010!

Random surfing and I chance upon my long forgotten/abandoned blog. And Yes! I'm glad I found you ~Idyllicious~

The last blog that I've written was like in year 2010. Today, it is 3-Feb of year 2014. Back then, I was still a fresh grad, now I can no longer use this term anymore. From my early twenties to my mid-twenties. 

Time really waits for no man.

Yesterday, during house visiting at a relative's place, some kids were there playing. They were of age from toddler to about primary 2. Suddenly, Dad said something which really really made me happy. And I know its was from the bottom of his heart. *grins*

He said 这里这么多小孩都没有一个比你小时后可爱. 

WOW! I was like.. I felt so flattered! *blush*

I wanna say thanks to him but what actually came out was 哈哈，连我自己看到小时候的照片我也觉得很可爱. (Okay, I know that sounds super thick skinned) I shall let the pictures prove it.

Something I wonder if;

女儿是爸爸的前世女友.

The freckles girl

I was just having a chat with aunt. Coincidentally, I saw her and uncle Jimmy shopping in ION orchard last sunday. She noticed a spot on my cheek, and called to ask what is that spot doing on my cheek. I explained that I'm having freckles on both of my cheeks and nose bridge. Its being described as join-the-dots face. I didn't want them to stay put on my cheeks either, but I couldn't do anything to prevent it. I was told to apply sunblock everyday. Even if I'm staying at home, its still advisable to apply a layer of sunblock. The sun is really damaging. Nonetheless, I will still go swimming as often as I can. I tend to feel sick when I'm not exposed to the sun for a period of time. I need my frequent dose of Vitamin D!!

Upon ending the conversation, I promised aunt that I'll start applying sunblock daily, and I truely hope that I'll be consistent throughout.

I've been working full time for a consecutive 9 days straight without any rest day!! Ain it sad? Line issues, sample making, projects, blah blah blah.. Work is piling up day by day and I have only a pair of hands. Whatever it is, I can only do my best. Whether or not, I am able to clear the pile, I just have my reserves that pile will ever decrease. I'm so darn darn busy everyday, time seem to pass by so fast that its already the end of the day before I realize it. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I always feel that the most difficult thing to do in office is to stay awake without doing anything.

I have made mistakes during work, be it small or big mistakes. I just have the tendency to do things not in the right way. Feeling really bad about it. But I guess, learning through mistakes is also a good way to make sure that its deep-rooted in your head. The only thing I like about working here is the colleagues I have with me. When I was feeling down and demoralised, they'll cheer me up with whatever they could think of. Singing and mimicking in the line, saying jokes and being lame. Really appreciate it.

Attended a 2-days training, was thinking that I could escape and relax for 2 days, but it turned out to be exactly the opposite. Shit man! Work actually starts right after the training and end up leaving as late as the shift techs. I get to work alot with the people in the line as most of the time I hafta be in the line to learn the process and operations. Thus, my friends in the line are all the techs. They are actually quite fun people, its nice getting along with them. Initially when I just came, they were well-behaved and very ke qi towards me. But now, things are a hellout of difference. Its quite nice to be in the line, you get to learn more with the techs, having lil chats on and off, and most of all having a peaceful mind. The only bad thing is when you mix too much with them, you tend to talk like them. And when you talk like them, people will ask you question like "You M'sian?" *Roll eyes*

If I see you, I'm not obliged to talk to you. If I dun talk to you means I have nothing to inform you. If I talk to him means I have things to let him know. If I only talk to him, means I get to work alot with him. Lastly, if I wanna chat, I will chat with people whom i know better.

First post of the year

My goodness.. this really looks like an abandoned blog. The last update was actually months ago!

Been busy with work, especially after I've taken over this position on my own. There's so much to do, so much to learn and so much to report. Hardly do I have time for myself. Now, I really appreciate every moment of my weekends. Be it to meet up with friends, going for retail therapy or going town to people-watch.

I've been working in Pana for almost 3 months, still under probation thou. The location is quite near my place, the working environment is alright, the colleagues are great. BUT there's bound to be some imperfection within all good stuff. Shall not mention anything negative here. I have a mentor, KH, the reason I'm being employed is because I'm taking over his position as he's transferring to another dept. In our office, there are engineers and engineer assistants. On the whole, we could work quite well together.

Basically I'm in charged of one of the front line process. And YES, I'm the only ONE person responsible for that process. There wasn't any EA assigned to me. sianzZ.. However, I'm still quite lucky because the people in the line were very helpful towards me. In the line, there are technicians and senior technicians, most of them are Malaysians, some of them are really young, even younger than me! I guess maybe there ain any huge age gap between us that made me click well with them.

On the whole, I'm treating everyday as training day, still doing fine in this new environment.

Christmas '09 was great! We had a privatised party at Lin' residence. Food was nice and A LOT! That turkey was huge! After X'mas dinner, we had our gifts exchange and followed by a night full of games. But I fell asleep halfway thou :P On Christmas day itself, there's a party over at Mommy's house. Spent the whole day playing with the kids. Baby Gianna is really really really cute!!! Love her so so much!

So what about new year's eve?? There must be some party going on right??? The answer is NO! There isn't any party plans and even if there is, its as good as having none. WHY is that so??

BECAUSE I WAS BEING CALLED BACK TO WORK AT NIGHT!!!

Due to some delivery problems os whatever it is, I wasn't given a choice but to get back to work on the first night of the year. The other unlucky guy suffering the same plight is Pung. Both of us were actually unwilling to go back, but we didn't have a choice. We were not used to night shift, when sleeping time comes, we became CUI. We tried chit chatting to stay awake, luckily he's quite chat-able and we could work quite well together.

TO THINK I'M SPENDING NEW YEAR DAY AT WORK! darn it

Well well, today marks the 3rd day of the year 2010. New year resolutions?? Hmmm..

• Better time management
• Get confirmed
• Pay back all loans
• Learn scuba diving (I hope so man..)
• Strike balance between work and play
• Save up for Europe Trip
• Go on short trips

I'm employed

Alrighty, its been a while since the last update.

Started giving tuition for a few weeks. It wasn't a really bad experience as compared to what I had thought of initially. NONETHELESS, I am still against being a teacher. I guess the real challenge for giving tuition is not the contents of the subjects but to bring the message across to the kid.

We finally had our privatized-BBQ came true. Even though there's only six of us and my sis, I believed that everyone of us had enjoyed that night. Thanks to our BBQ-planner Li Teng for preparing the food. Lets look forward for another one soon!

The six girls that once met in nyp and become good Frends.

Been visiting Mommy quite recently since I am not busy with anything. Had a Mid-Autumn celebration with Mommy and the little ones. Kids are really full of energy, everytime after my visit I will be so dead tired when I'm back home. I'm really happy when I'm with them.

Another visit to Mommy's house ytd to tell her the good news. And yes, the good news is I've got a job! FINALLY! Finally I could bring in income to the family. Finally, my backpack trip to Europe is a lil step nearer. Finally.... there's so much to look forward to. Hope that everything will go on smoothly in work.

Was chatting with Mommy when she was making dinner, we talked a lot. Talked about the days when she was young and living in the kampong, when it only cost 30 cents for a movie and 15 cents for a bottle of coke... all the way till she moved into HDB flat and how she came to become my babysitter. I really enjoyed listening to these stories, it made me feel as if i'm back to days when i was a little kid.

Jobless Idy

August is coming to an end soon and I'm still jobless. Watching the days passing by like nobody's business, wondering what I'm gonna do the next day every night before I sleep. Having high hopes that everytime my phone rings, it'll be some potential employer who saw my resume.

Sounds Wasted isn't it.

Everyone else is making contribution, be it giving tuition or having a part time or even better, being employed.

I'm just wondering, should I really consider giving tuition? Friends are encouraging me to do that. I know many will roll eyes (especially my sis) and say that its just so impossible. How could that be? Yea, I cant disagree with it too. For one, I don't have a way with kids. Two, I have zero confidence with those subjects. Three, no patience.

Let me think for two more nights.

Sis's birthday is coming soon! Thought of bringing her out for a meal and get her something she likes. Was thinking of getting her something that she could use for indoor exercising as she's gonna be confined for months after the op. Hula Hoop? No idea where to get it thou.

Hope that everything will turn well for her and she can put on her sport shoes soon!

Idy's Birthday

Whenever I went shopping in JP2, I will come across this Icing room. Its a cake shop which sells you plain cake and you are allowed to decorate it yourself within 30 min. Usually, you can see eager students putting their heads together surrounding a small cake, trying their best to fill up the cake with their creativity.

29th of August 2009 was a really really wonderful day. Not only it was the day I was officially announced as a Graduate, my very wonderful frends gave me a surprise too! It has never came across my mind at all that I would one day receive such a cake. The girls really put in effort in making the cake. Going on the net to search for pictures of lions and practicing it to make things perfect... so touched..



When its about 70% done. Its a picture of a lion and a girl, which actually reflects my email add "leogal". Haha, I'm surprised that they could think of this!



My cake!! Nice nice..


The Creators of the cake.

I love it! Thanks girls, love ya all!

I was staying at home as usual on birthday, watching tv and staff. It was until dinner when our whole family went out for a feast. Mum ordered 寿面 and many other nice dishes. When it came, it was such a big plate that it occupy half the table. I would still prefer having mee sua on bday, its nicer. After dinner, my sisters took out a cake from the fridge. I was thinking it must be either chocolate cake or mango cake, surely it wouldn be the one I am thinking of (Strawberry Shortcake).

Then I saw my cake, it was Strawberry Shortcake! The one I'm thinking of!! I'm so happy!

Phuket Getaway

At last, after all the uploading of pics (5 at a time), I could get my ass down to write about this memorable trip to Phuket with these wonderful people: Caryn, Lisa, Ee Siang and our big bro Lun.

This trip was made possible when one fine evening after dinner, one of us went surfing the net and suddenly.." Wah, the air tix to Phuket $10 only leh" and 2 hours later, after all the jio-ing, calling and informing-the-parents, the booking was done.

Let's get on and let the pictures do the talking. It actually took me 3 days to load these essence. Really a test of my patience.

The bad thing is to have to wake up so early but the good thing is I could finally get a plane ride in the day.

We always get to hear this word "chui", but what is the real meaning behind this word?

Look at our chui faces

Shouldn it be 6 of us? Our dear Ernest could not make it and left the 5 of us to conquer Phuket. I shall give Ernest some credits for sending us goodbye messages at 6am.

I can only say that I tend to be more vulnerable when I'm not activated. If my engine is running, I won't allow such pictures to be taken.

On board the plane. Notice this Ah Gong on the right..

This is the way he made himself immune to his granddaughter's cries. Man, that kid cried almost the whole journey and I was so tempted to pinch her for being so noisy.

Here we go! Our journey starts here.

This is the road which leads us to our resort. Don't look nice at first sight, wait till you see what it can bring us to.

Pacific Club Resort

This is the entrance of the resort.


The lobby

The kitchen. This is what we see when we enter our apartment.

Our walk-in wardrobe.

The living room, which gave us the really cosy feeling.

The balcony, its actually L-shaped couldn really capture the whole of it. Notice the 2 columns of glass panels, what lies behind it was the guys' bathroom. Lucky the girls' toilet wasn't like this.

This is taken from our balcony. Isn't it just so beautiful..

This resort has really done its part of making tourist feel so at home.

This is what we saw when we enter our bedrooms. The swans were made from bath towels.

Erm..

After settling down our baggage and stuff, we went hunting for our transportation for the rest of the stay. Its really sunny there and we came across this 7-11 and suddenly thought of Jon.

This is specially dedicated to Jon. (Homogeneous tan)


We rented a Hi-Lander, its similar to Hylux. And with Lun's GPS, we're more than ready to start our expedition.

The first stop we went was Downtown Plaza, and it turned out to be a market.

This is a mixture of potato and flour. Sounds fattening ain it? But we don't really care. It taste great!


The BBQ pork definitely look fattening but nobody cares. Nothing's stopping us.. muahaha

Time for our daily dose of Vitamin C. We brought fruits back to stock up our fridge. Not only the people there like sweet stuff, their fruits were also sweet.

The carpark exit, our car fits just nicely to this alley.

We made our way to Promthep Cape in hope to catch sunset.

Might Idy

It was really cloudy that evening, we couldn really see the yolk thou. Guys, being brave, went down hill to capture nice pictures while we girls waited there and feed on wind.

When you feel that you've actually lived enough, you might wanna try Bungee Jump. Being the youngest in the group, Caryn and me felt that we have not lived enough yet and so the rest of them tried bungee jump. Proud of them!

Rule number one: Tuck in your shirt!

Rule number two: Rmb to do some warmup to avoid straining ur body.

Rule number three: Rmb to open your eyes to enjoy the scenary.

Rule number four: Please SHOUT! (if not photographers like me might have thought that you fainted)

We have The Daring..

The Brave one..

The Superhero..

Look at our warriors with their frozen-shaking-forced smile.

Its good that not all of us jump. Time for me to take over the wheel and ensure highest level of safety.

We stop over at this fishing port. Look at the size of their sotong! They're not totally dead yet!

We continued to hunt for Au Sang Beach. According to the book, its a secluded beach and we thought that it might be a really amazing beach. We drove and drove, but sadly it couldn be found. And we came to this place which we were told that there's a beach at the end of the stairs. We pondered a while as we were reluctant to take this staircase. Its not those ordinary stairs in our HDB, every step is like the height from the ground to the kneecap.

Nonetheless, we still walked down..

We made our way to the tourist attraction in Phuket - Phuket Fantasea


It is actually a 3-in-1 combination of our Jurong Bird Par, Zoo and Sentosa.

The tickets were inclusive of a international buffet dinner. Look at the scale of their restaurant. The food was nice, but I still prefer those roadside stalls.

Stranger A decided to occupy a quarter of our photo.

The fake scarecrow with real albino crows on it.

At Karon beach

The waves were really huge! They're about 2m tall. I was standing on the beach where the water level was just at my ankle and below, when the wave came crashing down, the water level rise straight up to my chest level. How cool is that! Come to think about it again, its actually really scary.

Awaiting for the wave

Waiting..

Boom!! The power is enough to sweep me back on shore. Best natural jacuzzi.

My all-time-favourite jumpshot.

Lisa enjoying sand spa.

We decided to have poolside lunch back in our resort since we were already wet. And ooh, I don't know what word can I use to describe. Relaxing, Shiok, Heaven, Oh My Gosh!!

The best drink to have will be coconut!

Phuket Riding Club

We went horse riding without the guys. (They prefer Thai massage) It was my first time riding a horsey for so long. Its a nice experience, but its too expensive to take up horse riding in SG.

The size of the horse is directly proportional to the weight of the rider. I like my horsey, Wan, is her name. She loves to gallop and when she does that I was so scared that I might just fall off her back. Caryn's horse loves to eat. He kept eating along the way.

Know what is this for?

A simple tool to help remove your boots without bending down. Amazing eh..

We had dinner along the beach after riding.

Kong Ming Lantern

May all our wishes become reality.

Go Kart!

Jung Ceylon

Its Phuket's Orchard Rd with all the shopping centers there. Except that thers roadside stalls on the opposite.

I can swear that the roadside stalls sell really nice food. Let the pictures prove it.

Like crispy pancakes with different flavours. There's even quail egg flavour, which is delicious.

BBQ pork and meat balls

No idea what it is..

This drink stall uncle makes every single cup of beverage with his heart. He will let you taste the drink you ordered until you are satisfied before he gets paid. Really good service just to earn SGD$1/cup.

For sotong lovers, this is a must-try.

The fried chicken taste much much better than those fast food fried chicken we have here.

Steam corn

Eat and walk and eat and walk and eat and walk......

Best invention: Mango Sticky Rice (I still missed it now)

Pancake with chocolate and banana taste just right.


Care for something special and extraordinary?

Cannot see clearly right, nvm, let me zoom-in...

Fried maggots anyone? (OMG!!)

I managed to meet up with Aunty Becky who's working in Phuket. Its been awhile since I last saw her during CNY. It feels great to meet a family member when travelling. Had a great catchup time with her and I do hope to visit her again!

Some of them said we look alike. Good genes must be shared.

While I'm having dinner with Aunty Becky, the rest of them went around Jung Ceylon.

*sigh* Still wanna be 叔叔 when we're out in Thailand. And breaking the law too.

The Big Buddha

Finally, a picture of our vehicle. Its not an ordinary pickup, its a powerful pickup.

I guess that marks the whole 5-day journey. I had a wonderful time travelling with the company and I look forward to travel again together in the near future. To where, its not important. It is the comapny that makes the trip fun and memorable.

Thats for now

-Idy-