Twins & Baby

We've got a new ride!!! & it's wat Dar have always wanted... a White Vitara :) n he didn't tell me that he is buying it, juz conveniently brought me to view it! :P It's a pity we cldn't get the car b4 our wedding date or we wld have used it as the wedding car. (we intially wanted to use the baby Vitara but Dar thot he didn't want to do it up so we decided agst it) N yep yep, it's e same car as the car we used as our wedding car which is owned by his best buddy. n both cars are "SGT", is dat a coincidence or wat??? a pic of e cars:

Of coz Dar liked e car, but wat abt me? :p I q like it lah, coz it is tall n I lurve tall cars coz I feel q tiny in the car and can't really see in front of me but the car is H-U-G-E; being a 2 litre car so I m q apprehensive abt driving it @ first. & the turning angle is also v wide so gota be careful when I turn. Other than that, the car is q smooth n ez to drive, unlike baby V which jerks @ times but I like baby V coz it is so small so it is ez for me to park in any lots. Here's baby V:

& baby V w the 2 twin bros:

But me thnks the kewlest thng gotta b dat Dar got a GPS system for me - e direction idiot!

& it's q ez to use; we used it on our way to Genting n it worked coz it has the M'sia maps as well! Only thing is dat it loses satellite whilst in the tunnels so it wld b q a prob for me as to when to turn out. Thng is, the first time I used the system by myself, I turned out wrongly on the first turn coz Dar set it to a different setting!!! hahaha!!! so typical me rites? :P

Fiddling w my new phone

Yep Yep, haf gotten a new phone: the Samsung F480 in Corel PInk :) A change from the normal black n dark coloured phones that I've had had. Of course, if it was in baby blue it would be have been much much beta!!! :P

In the past I used Dar's contract to buy my phone n he used my contract but coz he lost his phone (n it was getting cranky anyways), he used his contract to get himself a new phone instead whilst I "patiently" waited for my phone contract to reach its 21st mth bday. Having wanted a touch-screen phone for a while, I kinda decided to get the Omnia and thus called my svc provider somewhr in Aug to ask for the $200 voucher. However, I was rejected by them, even though I threatened to cancel my contract. (My temp staff then told me that it was not effective as my contract is still 3 months shy of 2 years so they are not "scared" of me). Instead they offered to waive the $100 charge as my contract was not up to 21 mths yet. Was q pissed but then decided to wait coz I haven't really decided if I really want the Omnia (also coz I was worried that it wasn't user-frenly) n also coz was gonna b bz w wedding preps then.

After some bugging fr Dar, (coz he needed to service his phone n wanted 2 borrow my phone) I decided to phone hunt again. The intial plan was to buy the Omnia w my contract & then i-phone w Dad's contract next year. But my fren told me that using the i-phone was like "WAH!!!" whras the Omnia was like "Oh ok lors" although Omnia had much more functions than i-phone. HOW? was soooooooooo confused!!! Then I chanced upon the F480 whilst browsing thru e newspapers one wkend n asked my colleagues abt it. Did a comparison n found that this was more ideal than Omnia as it supports chinese software whereas Omnia doesnt n I need it to text Dad. n Luckily for me, there was an online deal for this phone plus I cld get $200 off as I m on the Ulimate Plan. On top of that, I got a $50 for choosing the Corel Pink colour. WOO HOO!!! So all in all I spent like maybe $50 on the phone. haha :)))))

& thuough I got the phone abt 2 wks ago, haf only started to use it 2 days ago. Lent it to Dar to use n he found it q nice to use but I m still getting used to it. Me used to be a Nokia fan coz of the user-frenly functions and features; in recent years, have been using Sony Ericsson phones (after the first V unpleasant experience) the past 2 times n was used to their functions n features so m a little disappointed w the Samsung phone coz of the lacking of the following features:

1) I can't change the message tone (Oh I managed to fig this out hee hee)

2) There isnt a short-cut key to writing messages

3) I can't set cartoon pics as caller images

4) The navigation is not v good, I had to keep pressing "back" to get to the main menu whereas in SE phone i cld juz press hard on the return key

5) If there are 2 numbers 2 1 pax's name; e.g. Dar's hp n Dar's hm, it doesnt show whether he is calling fr the hp or hm so I gotta set as 2 contacts.

N for some strange reason, the software doesnt work (again!!! coz my SE software doesn't work also :() I thnk it is my USB port but the strangest thng is dat I can trsf files via "My Computer" but not via the software coz it keeps telling me "not connected". HAIZ! but oh well, thankfully can still trsf or else i will b damn pissed. but I q like e phone, q nice to use... juz gotta get used to it :)

Back to work

Tis my 3rd day back @ work (aft a 3 week break) n I'm still trying to get used to it LOL. Can't drag myself out of bed each am (& Dar is not helping) so I always just reach the office either just on time or slightly late. Which is not v gd as they are starting the am meetings promptly @ 9 now so if I m late, then I would be stuck outside the room till the meeting ends :(

That is juz 1 of the couple of changes that has happened since I was away. Apparently my boss has stepped up on the project as the roll out date is getting nearer and wants my colleague and I to help to "drive" the proj. I was a bit like "huh" coz I m still a little blur abt e proj and how to go about handling prob. What's more, might have to go back to the RMs n the RMs faces are pretty black nowadays coz of the crisis. And my boss got a new boss! Coz the previous boss was in charge of sales n support but he is not too bz w sales so they've gotten another lady to take care of the support side... hafn't spoken to her yet... hopefully she is q nice! We're also shifting to a new office; intially there were talks of a renovation but now we are juz gonna move across the road to Plaza 1. A slightly longer distance fr OUBC but hopefully the lifts are not as screwed up hee. The "smallest" change wld be dat we now have dress-down Fri! I was surprised the dept didn't have it when I first joined... but I guess it doesnt really make a diff 2 me since I dun wear suits n all anyways :P

Actually I m rather xian of e job... but looking @ the crisis, I dun thnk there's anywhere I can go SOB!!! Just hope I can tahan till everything is beta bahs...

Nite Safari - 190908

Yeppers... we finally got to go to Nite Safari hee hee!!! Luckily it didn't rain as this was the only day we cld go; had to be a Fri as we were bringing the kids and Dar can't make it on wkends and we were goin for our HM the following wk and the voucher gota be used by this mth! so Whew! :)

Went to pick up the "B"s first; went up to pick them whilst Dar went to get some munchies for me and I waited for a while for Benedict to get ready. Little Benjy was all ready and excited. Then we went to pick up Fidelis fr his tuition class b4 picking up the 2 gals & then proceeding to Nite Safari. Bought the tickets together with the tram ride (cost almost $100!!! Imagine wat we wld haf spent without the discount coupons!!!) which was a good thing coz the kids were rather tired after all the walk.

First up was the animal show... managed to sit on the front row and the kids were rather excited. The 2 gals had a whole bag full of goodies but when Dar asked the cheezels from them they didn't wana give him!!! haha! Serves Dar rite for being greedy :P The show was q interesting but it was a pity Benjy didn't get the opp to "help out" on the stage, thnk he would have like it and would haf gotten a free ice cream in e process... but oh well... next time maybe. We skipped the fire show and opted to walk around instead... Benedict was a great help, helping Dar w the map :) It was q dark and it took a while to spot some of the animals; we were using the torch lite in the aviary and promptly got scolded by the keeper coz the lite would scare the bats haha!!! The enclosure was q big wors so it was no wonder the little ones got tireds and pestered for the tram ride (where Germaine, as usual, fell asleep :P)

Dar n I enjoy bringing the kids out coz they dun run all over the place and listen to us when told. It was the first time we were going out with Benedict and I was impressed by how much he cared for little Benjy and helped us to take care of him (like carrying him when Benjy complained that he was tired) :) I forgot to charge the cam batts so didn't take many pics, juz these @ the entrance & before the show:

I like this pic!!! Dar & little Benjy :)

Hope they enjoyed themselves as much as we did!!! Although we were both dead tired aft dat :Þ