120119 BBQ... steamboat? 1.0

went to clean my new house in the morning and almost died. scrubbed like every corner of my room. the interior designer really did a horrible job with all the paint flecks and holes they left. pffft. would not recommend them to anyone now.

the window panes were a pain because there's so many of them. =___= argh!! and it was the first day of my good friend visiting so i was in pain and slogging at the same time. even so, i look forward to moving in my new room!

about 4pm i went home to prepare to go out. it was raining the whole day so the bbq at Timmy's was cancelled and changed to a steamboat dinner at orchard instead.

we only remembered to take picture once we came out cos we were all so busy eating. hurhur. mr security clicked so many times but it was still all blur. saaad.

was nice to see everyone again - and all the shocking updates! whoa. had a bit of drink (didn't have any since i was still in pain) before we left for the day.

120118 Dinner with Rob

On Friday night, we went to have dinner with our partner company, Catalyst. Their meeting room is so cool, there's alcohol everywhere. *w*

Since i wanted something sweet, Rob let me try this lemon thingy. It tasted like medicine. ughh. so in the end i drank green tea instead.

We went for dinner at this pizza place where we often go to for company lunch and gatherings. Me and MW shared a vegetarian lasagna. not too bad.

it was a good talk. but too bad out of the 5 of us who went, 80% have already resigned so there's really not much to say. Rob will be a good boss if we should stay on. 

121128 Marketing Mag Awards

and then for the 3rd time in a row, i'm having another course meal at the marketing magazine awards night. not that i'm complaining!

it was a very last minute thing as they had vacancy so i got to knock off around 4pm to go home and prepare for the night. i was pretty excited about it as it was the first time i was attending an awards ceremony, and i heard it was a black tie formal kind of event. wheee!

however, the rain really got to me. i didn't have an umbrella and when i was on the way home, the flashes of lighting and sounds of thunder was pretty scary. i was practically running all the way, scared that i might get struck =_= luckily, i was home safe!

prepared myself in an hour and got out... while it was still raining. ugh. my shoes... managed to reach redhill in one piece to hitch a ride on nat's car towards shangri-la hotel.

hung out the area for cocktail and to drink a while. it was really packed (these photos were taken post event so it looked empty lol)

nice hotel!!

and this is our table of people, with our Veolia clients

the lightings sort of made all our food looks bluish-green.

but with some flash, it got better!

every single dish is good and i filled myself with lots of wines again. white one this time. (was red at vivi's/azel's wedding)

the award giving was in between the servings of all the dishes. our company project, Veolia, was nominated for the category Excellence in Integrated Marketing and we got the bronze award!! NICE!!! here's joel, nat and our client going up to receive the award.

and here's the 2kg trophy! it is really 2kg, no kidding. not sure why they made it so heavy. because it is an item that weighs on your company..??

and here's all of us with our award! think i nipped this picture off their fb page.

and then it was good night~! yep, i'm in the christmas-sy kinda mood.

Episode 2: F5DIGITAL at Pulau Ubin

soooooooooooooooooooooooo i thought i've sworn off this island the first time i went there. and it seems like i'm back again. T_T had i known we were going there, i would have stayed home to heal my poor body. i was actually sick, but i thought the sun would help heal me a little. well, what's a better way to get the heat outta your body than to dry in the sun? anyway i was also thinking it might be the last company trip i'll go to, so i didn't wanna miss it.

so after a few bouts of screaming, wailing and scaring everyone with my mosquito stories from the last trip... we got on the bus and headed to pulau ubin anyway. darn.

and then we took the ferry over to Dooms Land.

and then we took a picture of all the sacrifices to be made to Pulau Ubin Mosquitoes (PUM).

however, it seems that before the Grand Sacrifice occurs, these people had to be fed first. PHEW. last supper eh? and this is how my dear hubby tries to take a picture of everyone. see the effect, not bad! vio zipai power.

 

we had a pretty decent meal, with cereal praws and crab. i was flicking off the silver fish off my fried rice...

what?!? laogong why are you not stopping them from taking my unsightly pictures!!! NOOOOO

and then the crab all belongs to me!!!

i'm kidding. we do share you know. and dear greg tries to shield himself from the flying juice while we clamped our crabs. hey! it's not that bad you know!! nothing flew in the end.

wow, it looks like someone couldn't really eat properly. or maybe some dogs came to mess our food up.  oh, see the green bottle? it's a company outing accessory given to us. so nice!!

so about 2pm, we started to set off on our bikes. laogong and me tried to do a duo bike but our butts couldn't take it after about 500m of cycling so we detoured back to the original point and found jessie. and we got in her van. hurhur. hey, it's alright for a sick girl to take transport you know! 

oh jeez, it was only halfway down, and it seems like someone fainted. poor thing. must be the heat and the rain.

our first stop was at the temple. first time i'm here, lots of pedestals around... and fishes! right, you know ow people just get excited about fishes cos they've never seen them in pulau ubin that many times before?

and of cos we had to take picture with the dog. i mean how many dogs have you seen that pokes its head out of a temple balcony fence right?

and before we got in the van again!! love these 2 pictures by nic!

and here's our next stop before chek jawa. so memorable. i remembered when i first came here we managed to borrow the insect repellent from the security guard. WHAT A LIFE SAVER.

we walked in to the jetty area and stopped to look at some mud lobsters. they are actually small little mud-colored crabs. there's one in each pic, can you spot them?

and then the breezy breezy coastal walk. oooh. this is like heaven compared to the other parts. (when you have your full insect repellent + sunscreen shield on)

before we left to go back, we saw a hoard of wild boars!!

there were about 5 of them but i didn't manage to capture all. seems like  mini family. ok maybe i was exaggerating about the hoard. but you know. 8D

back at the ferry terminal. a little uncle was feeding 6-7 dogs. wowwww.

and then we're all back at the ferry terminal waiting for the boat. oooh see how our tshirt all has our names? heh feels like class tshirt all over again!

the ferry ride back was awesome. so windy. i mean side from the fact we were going back. hey! i love this trip! i only got 1 mosquito bite. why would i wanna go back. hurhur. it was like heaven - see?

and our boat

and picture spams on the boat!

here's me with daphne and carolina (our sponsor/finance for the trip heh)

here's raynold and jessie (our main organiser and van provider hurhur!)

my laogong and mother hen (the miracles maker and most wonderful lady in my company)

and some more 'artistic' picture spams of me and my laogong hurhur

and finally, a great big thanks to our dear president greg for giving all of us a day off!!! you're the boss i follwed for almost 4 years, i'm sure you'll veer us in the correct direction again!! <3 br="br">

and do always maintain the monkey zest!!!!!!! :>>> (by the way we're the only ones with the episode 2 tshirt. hurhur)

and it's time to go hooooome...... (ooh i love how colorfully symmetrical the ceiling of the bus looks here, as expected of our CD!)