Nice Lunch @ Commonwealth

Today's lunch was really sumptuous and I'll probably will never get another lunch like this again. The place that we went to is quite near to our office building and despite the look of the place, the food was really good. See the pictures below for the dishes that we had ordered for 2 persons.

Drunken cockles! Yummy !

Buttered pork ribs! Yummy yummy!

Bean sprouts with salted fish! Yummy!

This lunch is largely thanks to my facility supervisor as she treated me for some reason that was never disclosed. Nonetheless, the cockles were really good and I am already drooling for more. This dish is served cold so the freshness of the cockles is captured in the dish.

The buttered pork ribs is also one of the stall's signature dishes and those powdery substance you see in the picture is actually the butter. Yup, they managed to fry the butter until it turns into powder and it's so delicious.

Overall the lunch was really satisfying and I doubt I get to eat these dishes again. 1 person eating all of these dishes is a bit much, don't you think so?

Still the most I can do is to share these with everyone so if you are interested, pop by Commonwealth Blk 116 to get these babies!

Yum! (^_^)/ 

A Tired Day @ Work

Today is such a sleepy day for me. I had to attend my night class last night and I was supposed to be going home early. Yet I ended up reaching home only at 11.45pm because my group mates decided to talk about the annoying freeloader in our project group.

By the time I finished my supper and bath, it was nearing 1am. Plus it was such a draining session at the lecture that my brain was already getting drowsy. All these inconveniences now hit me today at work too. I could barely keep my eyes open while doing work. I know many people have been spying on me, waiting to complain about me to my boss but I simply can't summon enough energy to stay awake.

Even though I am writing this entry, I am still yawning away. Now I finally undestand that it is not easy studying as a part-time university student while working full-time. Time management is very important and now I am trying to make sure that I don't miss my assignments deadlines.

The only thing that's left is my sleep. I don't have enough sleeping hours in order to make it through the day during work. Even my tiredness shows on my face right now. *sighs* I wish I can go home right now. My concentration is so low at work today that I am not alert enough to stop people from catching me sleeping. Actually, it's more like dozing off while staring at my laptop screen.

My working environment is very bad due to the fact that it's a very political place. Mind you, I sucks big time at playing office politics. That is why I keep encountering so many problems that now my boss keep giving unnecessary trouble.

The more I try to stay out of trouble, the worse it gets for me. This morning my boss sent a stupid email on one of the e-payments that I made last month. This was for the clearance of the conservancy charges made to the town councils. The previous temporary staff had no problems while raising all these payments using the accounts codes that she was given by my colleague. So when I took over her duties, naturally I followed the same codes.

Yet my boss decided to stir up trouble for me by saying that I used the wrong code and that I should suggest a new code for the charges. What I don't understand is that why she kept silent when the temporary staff was doing the same thing yet she raised out her accusations when it was my turn to do the exact same thing.

It all boils down to the same conclusion. My boss wants me to leave the company and she is trying her very best to make me feel unwelcome. By questioning every single work
I did, she is not giving me the due respect that I deserve as an employee. Instead she tries all ways to find mistakes in my work. I am a human being and I am not perfect. So I make mistakes, just like everyone else! Why is she turning me into a pariah?

Maybe I should have suck up to her when I first entered the company. That should have been the best way to play the politics here. But truthfully speaking, I see no point in engaging all these politics. All I want is that I can get my pay at the end of the day. That's all. Sucking up to bosses is not my strong point at all but somehow all my colleagues in my departments are experts at that.

That is how my boss is like. Honestly, it's time that I should look for a new job. This government statutory board sucks big time. Pui!

So Pissed Off At A Stupid Door!

I can't believe my eyes today when I received an email from my boss, complaining about me not closing her office door before I left for home after work. See what she wrote in the email below:

--

I just came back from CCK, my office aircon is on and door is opened.

Understand that before I left, XX's thing was in my office and thus I did not close my door.

In future, before you leave the office, pls ensure my aircon is off and door is closed.

Thanks!

--

For the record, I am not a secretary, just a lowly-ranked admin assistant and this is the kind of treatment I get from my boss. I get the feeling that she looks down on me. It's pathetic, isn't it?

You could say that I am totally not used to this kind of thing at all. In my previous job, there was no separate room specially to cater to my boss. We all share the same office room and it's an open concept. Hence, doors never come into the picture unless you are talking about the main office door.

Ok, I admit I forgotten to close her door but must she make such a hussy fit about it? There's no valuables in her room. On top of that, the executives in my department has the tendency to use her room for their mini meetings and they always left the door open after they left. So does that mean I am solely responsible for the closure of the stupid door?

It's just a door. If I remember to close it, fine. If I don't, is there a need to make a big fuss about it? Bah!

Anyway I have just closed and LOCKED the door since she won't be coming to the office for 2 days. It definitely would not be fair to me if I had already closed the door and the executives left it open after that. Damn them anyway.

One more thing. She actually made the effort to come back to office after working hours just to check her room. She sent that email at 6.42pm, a time where most people have already logged off work.

I don't know how my boss' mind works but it is definitely not in the right working condition. I am already trying to stay out of her way in order to avoid trouble but it was all in futile. Maybe she might come in this evening to check her fateful door again.

Ahhh whatever. I might just blast that door away, knock down the walls so that she won't have a room anymore.

Bleah!

Rainy Weather Equals Gloomy Mood

Today has made me realized how unreliable my colleagues are and that my relationship with them has deteriorated beyond repair.

The weather was harsh this morning, with heavy downpour started even before I reached my destination. Being the lazy pig, I didn't bring along my umbrella and so I thought of calling my department colleagues for some help.

The sad thing is, none of them responded to my calls, which went unanswered. I called at least twice and in each instance, I get no reply from them. One of them didn't even bother to set her phone to ringing mode, but instead auto-direct to voicemail.

Perhaps I am truly a shallow person and hence, I couldn't make any lasting relationship with anybody. My only friend is the internet, where I can roam around aimlessly without an identity. It's kind of disheartening to discover that my naive beliefs had been wrong all along.

I though I had maintained a pretty good working relationship with my colleagues but somehow along the way, I get left out of things. Things that probably don't matter to me anyway but it still kind of bothers me, you see. Perhaps I should just ignore it all. Ignorance is the best medicine to use in the corporate world. Pretend that I didn't see anything or hear anything would be most helpful to me in avoiding unnecessary trouble.

As long as I continue to get my monthly pay, nothing else matters to me. Not even the subject of promotion could make me fluttered, for I know there's little chance of that happening anyway. My future in this company has already been condemned a long time ago and I don't see a way out for me unless I tender my resignation from my position.

In fact, I have no position in this company, especially in my department. I have no proper title, no proper job scope, and in fact, no proper workstation when I first joined the company. I even had to sit far away from my department and hence, no one bothers about me. As the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind. It's a simple enough equation. So the only motivation that makes me going is the measly pay and the dismissal time. Why didn't I move on to a better job? The current economic is so bad that it is better to stay on as I am in the healthcare industry and it's rarely affected by any economic recessions for people fall sick all the time.

Nonetheless, I try to maintain sanity in these tough times purely for my own survival. I won't rely on other people nor will I extend an offer of help to anybody. Neutrality is the way to go to survive in this company. Well there's another way but it's disgusting. You'll have to buy your favour into the good books of the higher management people by playing up to them. In local terms, it's called sucking up to your boss. I am very lousy in pleasing people and making them happy, which is probably a career kamikaze for me since that's how the corporate world works.

Oh well, life is short so it's best I try not to dwell on such things for long periods of time. It's simply not worth the effort though once in a while rambling won't hurt either. My life is very boring and I don't have that many friends either. So I suppose I deserve it anyway since I am not a nice person to start with. *hiak hiak*

Oh well, it's as though it's the end of the world if I don't have any friends in my life. I live for myself, no one can live my life. That's the only way to go for me.

Kuroshitsuji Manga on Sale at Kinokuniya

I had finally submitted my application to a degree course at Global SIM earlier this evening with one of my colleagues from Nursing.

As she knew how to get to the place, Wendy offered to accompany me to submit my application and we went for dinner after that. Well, I was disappointed that I couldn't apply to the university of my choice as my results weren't that good enough.

It was a UK university but I ended up settling for an Australian university which had a much lower ranking than the UK one. Oh well, I am truly not qualified to study in prestigious schools anyway. Let's hope that I can succeed in entering this Australian one otherwise I'm better off sticking with just my diploma. Who in the world needs a degree to survive as a human anyway?

Hmmm....

Right so after that, we headed to Bugis for a simple dinner at NYDC at Parco Bugis. There was a cute Elmo plush toy on display and we promptly took picture of it with our handphones. See mine below, taken with Nokia N95 8GB:




As for food, I chose the Hawaiian baked pasta and I added lots of cheese onto it. Hee... Wendy was quite shocked to see me putting so much cheese onto my food.




For window shopping, we popped in to some shoe shops as well as Kinokuniya.

Whoa, I was so excited to see that they were selling the Kuroshitsuji mangas at $6.71 each. I wonder if I should buy them even though I have access to online scans. If only I have a Kinokuniya membership card, then I could enjoy a 10% discount off the pricing. Hmmm but the subscription fee is not cheap and I don't really shop very often at Kinokuniya.

But the Kuroshitsuji mangas made me feel very tempted to buy as the drawings inside are superb. Too bad the books are all skrink-wrapped so I can't browse through them. Currently they are selling volume 1 to 5. The latest volume 6 is not among the selection so I can only assume that it's not yet available outside of Japan.

I think all the mangas are in chinese versions so I might have a little problem reading as my chinese has really gone down the drain. Oops.

Hmmm so should I apply for the Kinokuniya membership card then buy the mangas? Or stick to online reading? Hmmmm....

Well I suppose it might not be worth getting the membership card after all. A yearly subscription fee of $21.40 means that I would need to spend more than $200 per year at the shop to recoup my membership fee. Honestly, I don't spend that much of money on books.

So I'm better off with my online reading for now. Until the day when I truly become a rich person like Emma Watson. Heehee...

Superb XO Sliced Fish Bee Hoon at Buona Vista

Today's lunch is simply superb! My colleagues and I went to Buona Vista as my Malay colleague wanted to try out one of the Muslim stalls there. It's a good thing I decided to try out the other stall's specialty dish, seeing so many people placing orders for it. The dish is none other than XO sliced fish bee hoon.

It was quite a long wait for the noodles to arrive but it was worth it. I took a picture of the noodles to share:

XO sliced fish bee hoon. Yum!!!

It has a creamy soup base and the slices of fish meat are plenty and thick. Not to mention it contains more than just a dash of the XO liqueur. The taste of the XO was so strong and so seductive that made me want to slurp up the whole bowl.

It costs S$5 per bowl and it's money well-spent. I don't mind coming back to this stall again for the noodles. Yummy!!!

Condemn Dell Computers!

From now on, I am condemning all Dell products and services. My one and only experience with Dell customer service left an extreme bitter taste in my mouth. Not only they are extremely unreliable, they are also unrepentent.

I was helping one of my executives to purchase a Dell laptop as a replacement. The supposed estimated time of arrival (ETA) given by Dell was stated as 23 December 2008. However the ETA lapsed and no one from Dell deemed it fit to contact us to say that a delay had occurred. And so, I had to call back the sales person to check on the status of the delivery. The worst part of the thing is that the sales person is extremely hard to contact. Numerous calls went unanswered. Emails were either not replied or were sent late. In short, it's a disaster.

Then Dell gave a second ETA as 5 Jan 2009. The day came and went and there's still no sight of the laptop at all. Yet again, calls went unanswered and emails were replied late. They were supposed to reply back to us on the status of the delivery by yesterday. However the stupid sales guy only sent out the reply today.

Again, the ETA was pushed back. This time round, the new date is 22 Jan 2009. The reason given is that they need to do a firmware update on the laptop and hence delivery will be delayed. It's very frustrating to keep getting news that the laptop is unable to arrive on time. Don't Dell install calendars and clocks at their offices so that they can be punctual to their own customers at the very least?

Dell people are rude in the sense that they never bother to get back to you on the status of the orders made and all the dates they proposed were eventually lapsed. By the time 22 Jan 09 comes, it will be yet another new ETA from Dell. I can bet my moolah on that.

Dell = untrustworthy and unreliable.

Nothing from them is worth the thousand dollars paid for the laptop. So, in future it would be everybody's best interests to avoid purchasing any products from Dell. I have written to Acer to check on their laptop stock instead. Hopefully everything goes well and the new laptop might just be on its way. I'm exhausted from all the chasing and there's no reward for doing all those tasks. It's quite meaningless actually. Even I don't get to use a proper desktop. My office laptop is a permanent loan unit and it sucks.

It only has 512MB RAM and this makes it slow to respond to commands. I try to minimise any heavy usage of the laptop but it will still hang sometimes. Crazy little fellow.

*sighs*

So Tired of Work

To be honest, work is never an enjoyable part of my life. Ever. I have always dreaded going to work everyday and if possible, I would love to avoid working at all.

In reality, things don't always go your way. Hence, I am still stuck as being an office worker in a horrible company with horrible colleagues. Here, there are many masks to be worn and beware of the people hiding behind those fake masks. You never know which type of smile will hide a poison knife.

So most of the time I am alone and I try to stay out of trouble. It is never in my best interest to defy any orders given to me for it would means inviting trouble upon myself. In fact, my boss expects me to do more than what my job description states. The more work I do, the better she'll rate me.

Sadly, I never get the credits for the work that I have done. You can say that it's a thankless job. I can also forget about calling me colleague ot friend. They simply just like to leave me out of the loop. Well, not that I mind alot but I don't appreciate being treated like a rag doll. When my colleagues need me to do work, they will come to me. But when there's nothing else, they just chuck me aside.

Also, my dept is biased towards the executives. Executives get all the benefits like birthday celebrations and numerous tea-breaks. However, the admin staffs don't get anything at all. My dept also has to do the stuffs which other depts don't want to do. Hence, my dept is very messy and there is no sense of belonging either.

Working is getting more depressing by the day and nothing perks me up unless if it's time to go home. Pathetic, eh?

Oh well, life in Singapore is like that and no matter which company you work for, it's almost always the same thing. Life certainly sucks.

=(

Missing those yummy butter pork ribs

I just had a very satisfying lunch a few hours ago and I'm still missing one of the dishes as it was so good and delicious that I couldn't keep my mind off of it.

That particular dish is none other than butter pork ribs. Here's a picture of it on which I found on the web:




Just the look of the dish makes my mouth drools. Those creamy powder that you see on the pork ribs are actually the butter powder. The butter is slowly cooked until it turns into this powdery substance. Amazing, isn't it?

The taste of the butter pork ribs is quite milky and yet crisp. I just don't know how to put it into words. You have to taste it to know how delicious this dish is. Oh, it's at Blk 116 Commonwealth road.

I went with my colleagues to this zi char stall just to savour this dish. Of course, we did ordered other dishes to complement our lunch. Initially I was very surprised when my colleagues asked me out for lunch. Normally they like to hang out by themselves so I often have my lunch alone.

It was during the lunch that it was announced that this was a welcome lunch for our newest executive. In my heart, I was thinking about the unfairness again in my dept. We had a new admin colleague joining us last month yet till to date, no one had actually bothered to give her a welcome lunch. I don't know if the fact that she's a muslim plays a part because there's very limited muslim food choices here so if we were to have a lunch for her, it would be tough to find a halal stall.

Yet we would never know because we never bother to try. Then here comes this new executive and he was promptly given a welcome lunch within a week. *sighs*

That's the reality here in my dept. They look kindly upon excutives but they outright ignore admins. Sadly enough, I belong to the admin group and so gets outcast along with the rest of the admins. This situation only happens for my dept. In other dept, you can see that the executives mingle well with their admin staff.

It's truly depressing to work for this kind of dept where rank disparity plays such a big part. I hope I can leave this world of oppression soon otherwise I might lose my sanity.

Everything's Gone... I've Lost.

Well, what can I say? Everything is gone for me. Totally destroyed. In my career. My current job. I thought it would be a better future for me since it's a statutory board. Boy, I was so so so wrong. In all accounts.

I have been badly backstabbed in this company and it doesn't help that I am way too ignorant of the intricate things that go on in big companies. I have never worked in a big company before and certainly not as big as my current company. Never in my wildest dreams would I realised that I would be a victim of office bullying.

But it happened. And I was helpless to do anything.

I never stopped to think that all the while, I have been doing things wrongly in this job. Everything. I should have suck up to my boss. I should have suck up to the FM manager. Especially the FM bitch. I stubbornly did things my own way and this FM bitch was not pleased with me at all.

So she plotted to get me into trouble and she succeeded. She had something that I don't have. Power. She can wield power in her favour and I would be defenceless against her.

That is how things work in the corporate world and I was too naive to show my real feelings and thoughts to my "colleagues". To people whom I had put my trust wrongly. Right now, I am feeling the pain, the hurt that my job has given me.

Hurt by colleagues whom I thought were reliable. But I was wrong. My thoughts and feelings somehow managed to get to this FM bitch and poof! Here comes the attack. In this company, you have to do everything and you can't bitch about it. Every single work that comes into your hand has to be accomplished and you can't say that you aren't paid to do that job. You have no choice in any matter.

Guess what? I did exactly that and it's career kamikaze for me. Not that I minded much. It's just that my colleagues are so unreliable that irks me to no end. Yes, I admit I am a stupid person to believe them in the first place. Work is something that you can't find and build true friendships or relationships.

I know some of you will disagree with me on this. But to me, that's how I perceive my workplace now. This FM bitch even went to the extreme of getting my colleagues to stay away from me except for work-related matters. So I have become an outcast in my dept and a loner too.

I have been truly stupid to think so simple of these workplace matters. This FM bitch is not to be trifled with and she showed that to me. Now I have no more future left for advancement in my job. She put paid to that by complaining excessively about me to my boss, thus giving my boss a bad impression of me and my work attitude.

Now this FM bitch is leaving for another organization and that's a relief. However it's too late for me and my career. I can only hope to stay till end of this year and start looking for a new job next year and start things afresh. This time round, I will be smarter and interact less with my colleagues.

Also, I must start doing more work so as to appear extremely busy in front of the boss so as to increase my chances of promotion. Life's cruel and harsh but there's nothing we can do. It's a survival of the shrewdest individual that will win the competition.

For now, I just keep to myself and don't talk to anybody unnecessarily. I work alone, I lunch alone, I go home alone. Everything is just one word for me: ALONE. That would be the best way for me to proceed even though it will turn me into a super outcast.

Now I just want this whole year to go by and I can't wait to get my hands on a degree. With a degree, I would be able to get a better job and probably get to boss other people around. Wahaha! Ok, that's mean of me. Just joking. I just want to get out of the admin mold. Nothing else matters.

As long as I get to put food on the table, nothing else matters. There are people out there who live to work. But there are others who work to live. I belong to the second group but I would still put out my 100% into my work and hold nothing back. It's only when I feel that injustice had been done to me that I start drawing clear lines around my work.

Why should I do other people's work when they are supposed to finish it? And it's not as though they are too busy to do anything else. Rather they are spending time doing unneccessary work instead of prioritize their work. It's not my fault if they can't finish their work in the end.

However, I have no say in my dept and so I kept my mouth shut. But I do bitch around just like everyone else. No one is a saint in their lives. It's just that I'm pure unlucky that my bitching gets round to the boss. I'm resigned to it now. I stay clear from everybody so that I won't have to face awkward situation whereby no one talks to me. In fact, all the executives have stopped talking to me as they have been conditioned by the FM bitch.

I will never know the real reason behind her actions but one thing for sure, she's evil and probably that's why her husband left her together with their son. Yep, she's a divorcee. And I tell ya, this FM bitch is probably the best paid manager in my company as she did the least amount of work, choosing to delegate her work to the executive. She usually spent most of her time having tea/coffee breaks, long lunch breaks and shopping.

YES! She does shopping during office hours. How lazy can she get?! Anyway she's leaving in a couple of days and I won't be seeing much of her during this time. Hopefully by the time I go back to office after my training, she would already be gone by then.

By then, I hope my working life would be more peaceful without any troubles. I need to have a peaceful mind in order to survive in this cut-throat place. All right. Tonight's rambling is certainly long-winded. Time to stop. I'm falling sick to the flu virus soon. Argh! My nose has turned runny and I'm sneezing non-stop. Plus my throat is feeling the itch and I can't seem to stop coughing. Gosh!

Time to rest.... Orhmmmm......

Today's My Lucky Day

I am feeling so lucky right now.

I had just gotten a free ride home from my colleague and that's a rarity in itself. Mostly our dismissal times do not match and thus being able to get this ride today is giving me such a good feeling.

First, I get to reach home @ 6.45pm. That's at least 15mins to 30mins earlier than my usual time if I were to take the public transport combo of MRT and bus.

Second, I don't have to wrestle with other strangers for a seating. I get to rest my legs during the 45mins journey, rather than enduring the usual 1 hour standing ride home.

Third, I get to escape from the horrid service of bus service no. 228 for once. To me, that's a very good thing because the bus drivers aren't very nice people. Just because they are driving the bus don't mean that they can be rude and mean to passengers. Hmmpf!

Just based on these 3 factors alone is more than enough to make it my lucky day. Ok, I'm probably exaggerating a bit here. How about a lucky transport day? Better?

Hmmm... if only I can get this lucky for every single day. Yeah I know, I am such a greedy piggy, aren't I? But that's just wishful thinking on my part. My colleague doesn't owe me anything so if I manage to get a voluntary ride, I should start counting my lucky stars already. w00t!

And so, with that, I'll get an early dinner too! How's cool is that? Oooooh kimchi!!!! Here I come!!!

*Yum*

My Special Day

Today is such a lovely day, except for the fact that I had to spend half a day in the office as I couldn't get a full day off.

Nonetheless, I had a fantastic lunch with my colleague at Carnivore Restaurant at Vivo City earlier in the day. It was a very meaty affair with beef and pork ruling the day.

In case you don't know, today's my birthday and that's my birthday lunch. I liked it the way it was, a simple meal with lots of chitchat in between. My colleague given me a small gift as a way of celebrating my birthday. The picture is posted below:




It's a small black tote bag with an unusual design of the top catch. Simple and elegant. After the lunch, we parted for home as she had another appointment with her boyfriend, who coincidentally shared the same birthday as me. There are so many coincidences in this world that it's truly amazing. Once, I had a classmate who not only shared the exact same birth date and year with me, he also had the same surname as me. Too bad we never kept in touch with each other after graduation as we were not that close.

Oh well, at least tonight I have a birthday cake to keep me happy. It's a long long time ever since my mum bought a cake to celebrate my birthday. It's a chocolate cake and the picture is attached below as well:




Overall, I have a good birthday today and it's nice to have a special day all for myself. Cool, isn't it? How I wish this day will never end!

=)

MRT Service Disruption at Bedok Station

Today is simply not a day for travelling.

The first that registered my mind when I woke up this morning was the rain pouring heavily outside my home. The rain continued well onto my journey to work. Hence the bus arrived late and the driver drived very slowly. By the time I reached the Bedok MRT Station it was already 8am.

Another setback was awaiting for me upon my arrival at the MRT control station. There was chaos at the station due to a train service disruption at Paya Lebar MRT Station and the repercussions travelled all the way to Bedok.

We could not enter the MRT platform as the station had closed up the entry tapping points. As minutes ticked by, more people arrived and cramped the station. It was only about 8.10am that they finally allowed the commuters to enter the platforms.

When I finally reached the platforms, I was faced with trains that were too overcrowded to board. At 8.15am, 3 trains passed by before I could managed to get onto the 4th train and even then, it made a tight squeeze. It was a great effort trying to remain upright while the train moved and jerked at a slow pace.

My only consolation is that by the time the train reached Raffles Place Station, most of the crowd would have already left the train and I could find a seat to rest before I reach my destination at Commonwealth Station.

The thing is, by the time my train reached Commonwealth Station, it was raining heavily around the area and that sort of dampened my spirits. The small road in front of my work building is notorious for serious water flooding during heavy rainfall and I was hoping that today it would not flood. In my life, I have never encountered any water flooding until I started work here. Life never fails to amaze me.

Much to my relief, it was indeed clear though there were lots of water puddles around. At least I could still cross the road to my building and not having to waddle through knee-high muddy water.

And so that marked the end of my morning journey to work and by the time I reached office, it was already 9.15am.

Gosh!

JCI Lunch Celebration

Finally the JCI is over! No more getting stressed out over those last minute job requests by the clinic staffs. My boss had taken a 1 week leave right after the end of the audit but still managed to get me to arrange for a department lunch celebration.

Susan was intend on choosing The Line restaurant at Shangri-la Hotel and so that's where we headed for a nice session of buffet lunch.

At least it was nice until that Dolly decided to snatch my food away. More specifically, she snatched away my raw oysters each time I returned with a plate of them. Damn her.

Besides celebrating the end of JCI, Susan wanted to celebrate Peishi's birthday as well. She ordered me to get a birthday cake at the same restaurant. For the record, only executives' birthdays are celebrated. Admin staffs are always conveniently left out, or perhaps it's deliberately left out. Either way, I regretted ordering the best cake for Peishi's birthday. I should have ordered the cheapest cake on the house.

To cap off the celebration, we had a picture taken. It would have been a full department picture if not for the absence of Ismie, who had to skip this lunch due to fasting month.





Well, we did told him that we could have dinner instead but he refused. Not that we are being mean to him. But then again, he's an admin staff too so probably his feelings were not as important as those of the executives.

Yeah... by now you should have known that my company is a screwed up one. Admin staffs are dumped or pushed aside in favour of executives. Too bad for me, I belong to the admin side and so those perks do not apply to me as well. I doubt anybody bothers to remember my birthday.

Life sucks big time here and I can't wait to get out of this shitty place.

Damn.

Gimme a Break!

Oh my god. I didn't expect things to turn out so bad.

Well. Ok, I may have just exaggerate things a bit too much here. Anyway, I am just pissed off at having wasted my time listening to hogwash earlier on in the afternoon.

Ops. I better hope my colleagues don't come across this post. Hahaha!!

Ok... it's not really hogwash but the topics touched on were so boring that I didn't pay much attention to it. It's the CEO's special town hall speech and I ought to give him some credit but... his monotonous voice is not doing any miracles to my tired ears.

Such a special occasion deserved a better treatment than the one I gave. Oh, what did I do? Absolutely nothing. I was already dozing off towards the middle of the speech.

Yep.... sleeping in full view of the CEO. Damn, I'm good, aren't I? Of all the things that I dare to do, it has to be falling asleep in front of the CEO's speech party. I know I'm bad but what's done can't be undone.

Let's hope I can survive the rest of my time at this company, shall we?

=)

Dinner Celebration

Tonight, we had a dinner celebration by our fellow colleagues who had gotten promotion earlier this month. My boss had also gotten a promotion along with Doris and Ismie. So they decided to treat the whole department to dinner as a way of sharing their joy. Heee.... When there's good food, you can count on me to be around. Yum!!!

The restaurant that we went to was Bali Thai at IMM Building. Overall, the food was ok but it seems to be a popular restaurant among the people who live in the western part of the country. All of us had fun talking and eating through our dinner.

There was a mini-celebration of Veron's birthday and we took a picture of it as well.




We ended the night with full stomachs and headed straight for home. Since Sean lived in the eastern part of Singapore as me and Peishi, he drove us back home. Yeah, you read that right. We live in the east yet we went all the way to the west for dinner. It's a strange world but we'll make do with it.

See ya!

Nice Lunch @ Ben Jerry's Restaurant

Today's lunch was quite special from the usual fare that I had ate during working hours.

Together with my colleagues from NHGP, we went to a Ben & Jerry's restaurant along Dempsy Road (I think) which happened to be the only outlet that offers full meals other than just selling ice-cream.

I didn't take any pictures of the interior of the restaurant. However, I did snapped a picture of my food along with Susan's, using my Sony Ericsson K800i.

This is what I ordered. Some sort of a burger with ham & cheese. Yum...

This belongs to Susan's.

It was the only time that they took me along for their lunch sessions. I guess it might be due to the fact that my boss wasn't around and so I could have a longer lunch. Furthermore, I am not so close to these colleagues at my new company and thus there is no reason for them to ask me along all the time.

*sighs*

We shall see how things go. But, for the record, I really enjoyed the food. Just the food, thanks.