Beauty In Simplicity

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

thanx friends for all the bdae wishes!! it really made my day (:

and i'm starting to love my colleagues so much. today the whole of the biz acquisition team (BAT) treated me to lunch. we ate at 'bao jin tian' its really nice because EVERYBODY was there and we ordered like super alott of dim sum to eat. initially i thought it was just a simple lunch with jacq penny kat and marilyn, but i was super shocked to see everybody there waiting for me. and we had 2 hours lunch break today (: cool!

back at the office, there was another surprise too. at first jacq told me that regina wanted to talk to me and that she seemed rather angry. so when i went over to look for regina, i saw the entire BAT standing there with a huge chocolate cake on the table. super touched (:

jacq also bought penny and i a precious moment fortune cookie. it was very pretty. penny's fortune slip read ' love brings understanding' and mine was ' you make the world a sweeter place' so sweet right (dunno why penny got quite angry over this. haha) but thanx jacq for everything you've done today (:

chaired my first meeting today. it was quite scary because there were like so many pple at the meeting room and i had to brief the agenda blah blah blah... but regina was helping me along the way so it wasn't that bad. anyway now that the project have finally kicked off, i alr forsee super busy weeks ahead.

help!! how on earth do i start doing a biz case??

at night i had dinner with my family at 'dian xiao er'. its been super long time since the whole family sat down tgt to have a proper meal. everybody is so busy these few days. the food was nice but i thought it was a bit too pricey. but still i enjoyed their company (:

btw thanx bros for the new handphone. i love it (:

and this marks the end of my bdae. <3>

still thinking whether to join jacq and the rest at mambo later. heard that regina will be going too. haha.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

A big thank you to ALL the people who have made my 21^st bdae such a special day. words can’t describe how grateful I am to every single one of you people. This means so much to me and I am so glad that you all can be here to celebrate this special day with me. oh and also to make the effort to come down in stripes!! i think you all look good! lol

Mummy and daddy: thanx so much for helping me to organize this party. To mummy, thanx for helping me to arrange the venue, food, cake and inviting all the people. Sorry if ever I threw my temper or even had the idea of cancelling the whole party once. To daddy, thanx for making the effort to come back to celebrate this day with me. Though you’ll be back for only a few days, its more than enough alr (:

Hockey babes: ariana and simun, you girls are what make this party works. The deco was very pretty. Appreciate each and every effort that you all had put in to think of the deco and games and even the box to put all the guests message in. qian aud ching and bel, thanx for helping out with the deco and the cutting of cake. what i really like was actually the cheering. it just made the whole party so enjoyable. the present was very nice too! esp the photo album. no amt of money can create those memories that we once had. love you girls ((:

1504: tianwee!! you dun realize how much i'm so thankful to you. coming all the way down to help me out despite your stomach flu. thanx for everything you've done, especially helping out as the emcee. you hyped up the entire party and i appreciate everything you've done for me. kokhong and kenrick, thanx for making the effort to come down. i love the present alott. will be looking forward to your 'malay' bdae party ya. haha. ngiam aaron, thanks for the present. pity you had something on in the evening and came abitt late but still every minute counts (:

TGL: you guys will and always be the group of friends whom i treasure and love so much! eugene and chunboon!! the huge heart collage is beautiful! eugene i know how much effort you had put in to get the photos from my friend and also to make the collage. pity you could not be here, but still i really love the collage (: and thanx for the bag too! its beautiful (:

yogz: babe! thanx for the havianas slippers (actually i kinda realised that you're buying me some footwear when you ask for my shoe size lol) but still, i'm so glad that you was there to celebrate this special day with me. 10 years of friendship is something that nobody can take away from us. you are what i call a true friend indeed (: more than anything i can ask for ((:

NTU impre: cindy kliff guanyi xiuwen, just your presence alr says it all. its something that i appreciate alott. thanx so much k ((:

SNGS: clara aud joyce, its really nice to know that after so long, you girls still made the effort to come down. its been so long since we last saw one another. and how amazing it is to know that we still got so many things to talk abt. clara! meet up for dinner one day ya. lots and lots of stuff to catch up on!

uncles and aunties: thanx for joining me to celebrate my bdae (: and the presents too (((:

yanyu: you are a great camera man!! thanx for making the effort to go around and helping to take photos. ALL the photos in the blog shld be credited to you bro! appreciate it so muchh.

my presents!!!

and once again, i thank you people from the bottom of my heart <3

this day really means alott to me.. alott.
life is not so bad after all (:

Thursday, May 22, 2008

today was quite a rather interesting day. there was not much work for me to do in the office so i spent like half of my time reading some e-book which olivia had sent to me during work. she sent me the entire shopaholics series la. so next time whenever i'm bored of doing my work, i'll just open the e-book file to read, and it will seem as though i'm reading some long report. haha. cool!

regina (my supervisor) treated me to lunch today! we had lunch at raffles city 'out of the pan'. the crepes there were delicious. we ordered like three different type of crepes, ceasar salad, chips with salsa sauce and waffle ice cream to share. and after we had finished our lunch, i thought we would start making our way back to the office, but regina just looked at her watch and said "lets go shopping". (i so wanna be an AVP la. you get 2hours of lunch time) so we ended up walking around raffles city for about 45mins before going back to the office.

it was the longest conversation i ever had with regina since the two weeks of PA. i realized that she actually loves to club alott. half of our conversations were revolving around which are the best clubs in town and where we can find good and cheap place to drink. she even suggested a getaway at cafe del ma for the entire department. oh and regina was also busy introducing the guys in the office to me. some matchmake sort of thing. there were the smart ones, the rich ones, the hardworking ones... haha. it was quite funny though.

in the evening, there was also some event going on at the privileged banking centre. regina introduced me to some of the BD and ZM there. she also kept asking me to drink the white wine there. said that if i wanna continue working there next time i must start learning how to drink. for a moment i did suspect she was abitt tipsy.

den it was dinner with TGL!! its been weeks since i last saw them. the last time was our kbox outing. chunboon brought us to someplace for dinner and we ended up having thai food. as usual, we ate like super alott of food. we had like a 12 course meal. and so it was a night of laughter and lameness once again. i love TGL so much! and boon actually spoiled the surprise by giving me my bdae present! think it shocked everybody cuz they didn't really expect him to do that. i refused to accept the present so boon had to bring the present home again. lol. sorry boon!!

one more day to my 21st bdae party! just wanna say a big thanx to simun and ariana for helping out with the deco and planning!! thanx girls!! i owe you both a huge favour!! i hope it will be a success (:

i'm sure it will be a fun day

i guess you won't be there alr. but why does my heart still yearns for your presence...

Saturday, May 17, 2008

i missed the days when i can sleep until 1pm. i missed the days when i dun have to put make up on in the morning. i missed the days when i can just slack at home the whole day doing nothing. 9 more weeks to go. damn.

i can really foresee super busy weeks ahead. with all the meetings to attend and proposals to submit.. sometimes i really wonder whether i will be able to last thru this entire PA. and just when i thought i was just assisting my supervisor in the project, i realized that she had actually put me in charge of the entire thing.

me: can i know who is the leader for this project?
her: you my dear! i put you fully in charge of the project. for the upcoming weeks, you'll have to set up a task force, arrange meetings with the branch manager and come up with a proposal for me to see.
me: .....

task force?! how the hell do i set up a task force when i dun even know anyone from the company. crap.

anyway regardless how stressful work is, its really nice meeting up with family and friends to relax and not think about work. thursday was kbox with jie meis. very long nv see them alr. miss them soooo much la. i think we spent half our time there bitching and taking photos instead of singing. koh, sorry for hogging the cam the whole night ya. haha

us being sad

us acting stupid (good job ngiam)

and today kuzzins had an early bdae celebration for me! dinner at crystal jade followed by movie at the cathay! we watched Made of Honour. i love the movie so much la! patrick dempsey is soooo cuteee!! hes charming, charismatic, and cute! oh and i dun mind being a maid of honour too! sounds very fun (koh and ngiam! hint hint). anyway a bigg hugg to kuzzins! thanx so much for everything! i love the presents too (:

i'm so glad theres no work tmr and sunday and monday... (:

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

1. I learn alott of new things from my supervisor today
2. I still have a lot more to learn.. alot more
3. My colleagues are nice pple! they treated me to lunch and jelly today (:
4. My colleagues love to bitch
5. They love to bitch about my supervisor. (now i'm abit worried)
6. I have to get more formal wear
7. I have OT today!!!!

and its only the 2nd day of work!!! wtf

and i have to read some biz report and come up with some framework for evaluating some customer profile by tmr. i have to like present it to my supervisor first thing in the morning ): damn sian..

kboxx with jie meis tmr. yay!!

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

my 1st day of PA was only an orientation session. there were 16 other interns there together with me (there were only 3 from NTU. super pathetic right) anyway the HR staff was giving us a brief intro about the company's history, financial performance, organizational structure, mission, values...she also told us about the different acts and laws and what not. felt kinda sleepy during the talk, but i had to refrain from sleeping. not very nice to let them catch me sleeping. we even played games too, where we formed into groups and compete with the other groups.

made even more friends today! the other interns were very friendly. they were very funny pple too. pity most of us are in different departments, but i'm glad to have found a group of lunch partners alr ((:

olivia janice me

i also met my supervisor. a very sweet woman though. anyway she was going through my job scope, and when she showed me my weekly task list, i was shocked. seriously, do other interns do as much as me?? i will be assisting her and her group in coming up with ideas for the new satellite branch concept (???). For the next few weeks, i will have to identify and scope target mass mkt consumers for the satellite branch, develop blueprint on the new concept and proposition to customers, identify branch financial drivers and develop specific branch goals...... OMG!! somebody please help me!! and at the last week, i have to freaking present the new concept to the heads. faintz. but at least one thing which i'm kinda looking forward is the site visits to the different UOB branches. its like doing some spot check kind of thing. cool! haha.

but no matter how much i'm complaining, i'm really glad to have gotten this job. i'm going to give my 101% during this internship program and gain as much knowledge and experience (: i know i can do it de. yup.

its going to be a long dayy tmr.

Monday, May 12, 2008

HAPPY HAPPY MUMMY'S DAY!!

mother's day was fun!! it was a super busy day but i really enjoyed myself (i think my mum enjoyed herself too (:

in the afternoon we went to 'shokudo' for mother's day lunch. ah ma was there too (: we ordered like super alott of food to share. the food there is really nice.maybe we'll bring my dad there when he is back from overseas.

mum ah ma and me

after lunch mum, ah ma and i went shopping! it was the first time i went shopping with ah ma! i helped her to choose a blouse and a bag. i think she was quite happy with it. yay. and my mum saw this bag which she really liked so bros and i decided to get it for her as a mother's day present. as for me, i finally got to buy some formal stuff for work. i ended up buying four tops, three bottoms, one bag, one pair of heels and more makeup. now i think i'm ready for work alr (:

mum and i den headed home to start getting ready for dinner. we received an invitation to attend this dinner and dance held by some dance school. it was great dressing up for the event. felt like i was attending school's prom few years ago.

me

i love the invitation card. its very pretty ((:

when we arrrived at the hotel, everybody was already all dressed up in their dancing attire, all ready to dance. they looked rather good. i even felt that most of the guys actually looked quite charming. (okay out of point)

anyway the ballroom was even awesome! there was a huge dance floor smacked right in the middle of the room and we were all seated along the sides of the dance floor. i thought it was rather cool (:

and so it was a night of good food and amazing performance. i got to watch the different types of dance. salsa, rhumba, waltz, tango, rock and roll, disco, ballroom dancing, fox, cha cha, lindy hop... there will always be people on the dance floor every minute every second! and its really amazing to see how everybody can dance and move around the dance floor so gracefully without knocking into one another.

the dance floor!! there were the young couples, the old couples, and even the mixed couples (which means super old aunties dancing with super young guys. my mum calls the guys 'dancing gigolos' i wonder how much do they get paid to keep those old rich tais tais company for the night. haha)

but the highlight of the day would most probably be the performance by this couple from thailand. the girl is super hot and sexy.

yup so this ends my day for mother's day!! it was indeed an eye opener for me and i would definitely love to attend such event again. thanx mummy for bringing me there tonight. (and i might just consider learning dancing, maybe latin, or salsa also can)

i'm so glad i dun have PA today ((:

take care grandpa!! we're all praying for you everyday (:

Friday, May 9, 2008

bon voyage chee!! we'll miss you ): oh and remember to keep your promise and bring us each a canadian boyfriend back ya. lol

it was another night of lameness and cam whoring with the darling hockey girls. ari, mun, qian, aud, azra (the lil bugger), chee and i met up to have a mini farewell for meichee. dinner at manhattan fish market, followed by a chilling out session at starbucks. as usual, we ended up taking super alott of pics which were quite funny during the process. did i mention before i love the hockey girls so very much ((:

okay here are the photos that we took at the toilets. think we pissed some of the pple there cuz we were actually making alott of noise and took up quite alott of space

and here are the photos which we took at starbucks. its somewhat similar to the ones we took during qian's bdae.. but the whole process was hilarious

we even had to take photos when we were at the station..