Driving Lesson #2

Had my 2nd driving lesson w Dar on 2nd day of CNY; it's actually a long overdue lesson but Dar claims that I am always too lazee to learn. Hey, not true leh... he also never offer to teach & who would say no to being chauffeured around rites? :P

Had to have this lesson coz on the 3rd day, was planning to visit YP @ the temple & wanted to drive there, but since I still cldnt drive the manual car, smart me thot of taking Daddy's car then leaving Dar's car for Daddy :) so clever rites? But Dar pointed out something: I'd still hafta drive the car home myself!!! Darn!!! so anyways, we switched cars near our estate & dar made me drive into my housing estate & then towards his housing estate. Kao... forgot how to control the clutch and there was this B-I-G lorry behind me whilst I was driving into my house there and then somehow it followed me out towards Dar's place and I had to stall!!! & the silly lorry driver horned @ me!!! So rude... Darling told me to juz ignore but i was damn nervous lors. After a while, Dar told me drive out on the other main road... still q scared but whew beta liao! :) (well, @ least he stopped nagging after a while heh heh) Getting the hang of it... but still thnk I need more practises so as to be able to get the biting point easily... sigh...

But know what, Dar didnt practise w me reversing and parking, so when I drove back the car, I couldnt really parked!!! In e end, I juz parked the car head in; it was slanted but WHO CARES! :P

Post Valentine...

What a surprise; Darling actually bought me flowers!!! I was really really surprised as he had been bz working the whole day and I couldn't figure out he could have found time to buy the flowers for me! *touched*

Look:

Pretty?? 3 pink roses to signify "I Love U" :) Thanks so much Dar!!!

& coz it was 小猪头's bday ystd... he gets to take a pic w the flowers too.

Happeee Birthday 小猪头！

Valentine's Dae

Most people think that this is one of the most over-hyped days of the calenders; expensive meals which may not turn out as nice as normal days; overpriced flowers... for me, though I do agree that it is a tad overhype, it is also another day where we show appreciation to our loved ones whom we may have taken for granted the rest of the year :)

Havent gotten anything for Darling for this Valentine's; did have something in mind but couldn't find anything suitable. And what with the New Year crowds, sleepy is getting tired of going shopping listening to the CNY tunes being replayed over and over again... so I shall resume my search after the hols... who knows, there may be some good deals :P Likewise, Dar has been asking me what I want, but don't really have anything I want in particular so I keep disturbing him by saying that I want another piglet stuff toy just to irritate him :P Coincidentally, when we went to Mustafa couple of days back to buy printer cartridge, I saw the baby version of my 猪仔 & 猪头!!! So cute!!! the smaller version and since I have the big 猪头 & e small 猪头, if I have the baby one it will be like "Do, Re, Me"!!! But of course, couldn't buy them lah, my bed is overcrowded as it is :P

Waiting for Dar to knock off work & pick me up. Dar suddenly remembered that as he has rented his car out, we will be stuck w the van for V-Dae... how totally unromantic!!! Actually I am ok w it lah but Dar asked me 2 ask Daddy if we could borrow his car instead. I was like, "ok then Daddy can drive ur van???" :P anyways Daddy said we cld use the car 2nite... whew! Not that I mind taking the van, but prefer the car coz it is more comfy & can drive faster. :) Actually we don't really have plans tonite; just goin for dinner somewhere and then dropping by Hwee's place laters. So i get the best of both worlds; spending time w my darling and also time w my gfs :) coz V-Dae is also Frenship Dae mah and so we shd also show our appreciation for our frens :) I remember back in JC/Sec school, we would buy little gifts for our frens or write little notes to each other... Really fun!!! n I do believe I still have some of the notes written to me when I was in Sec sch :) I am a v appreciative person ok??? heh

So to all those pp whom I have crossed paths with but have lost touch, do drop me a note, I would love to get in touch w u; & to all my dear dear dear frenz... cheerz to our frenship!!! *hugz* *hugz*

Babyface

Sleepy has been told umpteenth times that she lks much younger than her age which has prompted her thinking that she shd try to ask for student price @ salons or facial places in future haha. But it has yet to be tried... :P

Luckily Dar also dun exactly lk his age either or it will be kinda like him bringing a 小妹妹 out haha! Guess I took after mummy's genes coz mummy also looked much younger than her age and I remember some of her friends commenting then that she looked much younger than the 4 years diff b/w her and Daddy. And since young, Jie has looked pretty mature; I remember I put this photoshoot of us in my hostel and a fren asked me if she was my aunt!!! gosh!!! I am only like 1.5 years younger than her leh!!! But perhaps when she stands next to babyfaced me, she really looked much older haha.

But in some ways it is not so good to have a babyface coz like Dar says, don't have so much credibility. Especially since I am working in the banks, and sometimes gota explain some policies or procedures to customers and they see me as small fry and immediately say they wana talk to Manager!!! but i am also q gald that I don't hafta entertain their rubbish anymore hee hee. Anyways, this conversation happened in the office the other day when my CSO asked me to go down to override her transaction:

cx: wah, so young can do overidding of transactions ah...
me: (didnt reply as I was checking the transaction)
cx: (cont'd) now staff getting younger, so young already has the authority to overide...
me: (grins) I am not as young as I look...
cx: issit? u r @ the most 30 plus...
me: HUH?? I am not even 30 lors...

Honestly i didn't know whether to be insulted or amused!!! Do i already look 30 plus? How horrifying!!!

Driving Lesson #1

Went for my 1st Driving Lesson last nite... driving lesson?? "wat driving lesson" r u asking? well... as Daddy's car is an auto car, I gota relearn how to drive a manual car and having bugged Dar the past couple of days, I was "scheduled" to have my lesson last nite :P

Was the first time driving the car since Dar got the car couple of weeks ago. Was q excited coz m somtimes too lazeee to take public transport to go for tuition and thus a car would be super helpful esp if I needed to travel to various places. :P

So last nite Dar first brought me to the carpark @ Kallang Mc's and then to the carpark around stadium there as the carparks there were much bigger. Was v v v v scared of driving the car coz the car was still new and I was scared that I couldn't control and will slam the car into something; thank goodness that didnt happen! First thing I had to get used to was the clutch; have been driving auto cars ever since I passed my driving test so it was kinda strange to see a 3rd pedal. Next, gota practise releasing the clutch to the biting point before stepping on the accelerator. Initially I was releasing the clutch soooo v slowly, then I realise I could actually release q fast till about 1/2 - 3/4 way before stepping on the accelerator!! Actually I not bad wor, engine didnt stall ok *beams* Then Dar taught me how to change gears; somehow it was smoother when I changed to lower gears. Dar said it is coz when I change to higher gear, I clutch in too fast, so the engine slow dwn liao then I step on the accelerator dat's why no power. Dar also taught me how to stop the car, after I asked stupid question like do i step on the brake first or I change to neutral gear first haha! Finally managed to get the hang of it (although still not v gd) and we were driving around the carpark in circles.

Dar then suggested I drive on Nicoll Highway for while before going home but i vehmently refused!!! Alamak, I thnk I will freak out if I were to drive w other cars on the road!!! Must practise more first... and I thnk I beta go dig out the "P=Plates" to put on the car :P :P :P

To be cont'd...

e Young @ Heart

Sleepy just returned from KaiYe's birthday celebration a while ago which was really interesting. It was kinda like a grassroots events but yet not really if u get wat i mean heh. :P V thankful to Dar for accompanying me there although he was sooooooooooooooo v tired :)

The celebrations was held @ the Geylang United Football Club in Bedok of which Kaiye is a member. (incidentally that building used to be a theatre. i didn't realise until Dar pointed out the big screen to me!!!) When we passed by on our way to park the car, I noticed a group of pp @ the door and I thot that they were Kaiye's invitees, but they were not; they were pp looking at football on the screen or something hee hee. Was v v v surprised to see Kaiye coz he was dressed in suit and bowtie; was the 1st time I saw him like dat heh. Dar was also v surprised to see him dressed dat way. And Dar is so cute, he passed the wine we bought for kaiye and then he spoke to Kaiye in chinese which had me telling Dar that Kaiye's chinese sux and Kaiye reiterated in a string of broken chinese haha!! Anyways as Kaiye is turning (or has turned) 60, the theme of the party was "Swinging 60s". Q cute rites, i mean who would imagine a 60 year old guy having a bday celebration w a theme and asking everyone to dress like the 60s!!! Well most of the grassroots didnt but kaiye's daughters n her frens/cousins did so it was q interesting.

There was also a live band there... ok not really lah, juz a keyboardist/guitarist w 2 singers. They sang mostly oldies which the crowd q enjoyed. And to our surprise, Kaiye's daughters organised some games for the guests!!! It was q hilarious. Of course we didn't join in but we watched them playing the game and had a really gd laugh!!! There was this game where the groups were given a piece of paper and they are supposed to cut a hole such that a person can go through the paper. And in 1 group there was this really skinny guy who was the model and who had to "squirm" his way through the paper. It had everyone laughing their heads off. The next game was also v funny; the groups had to do a relay w a safetypin held between the player's knees. Watching some of the players hop or trying to walk to the other side really tickled us to the bones!!! And after the games, whilst the 2nd group of singers sang, the guests took to the dance floor. Pity I left before Kaiye made his moves... i m sure i wld haf had a gd luff :P

It was great to see these much older folks (compared to me lah!) enjoying themselves tremendously. I would never have thought that there would be games and dancing as well. It seems that the older pp are getting younger @ heart whilst the supposed young pp r getting more drained and tires easily... how now brown cow? :P To be surrounded by his friends and loved ones in this celebration, I am sure Kaiye had a great time. I wonder who will be celebrating my 60th birthday w me?!?!? :P

PS: Bro Bear, in ans to your comment, my life has not been v interesting of late and I was told that pp have grown tired of my complaints :P

1 week into 2007

The first week of 2007 is over... so has anyone's resolutions been fulfilled yet??? :P

2007 started q okily for sleepy... Went to watch "Curse of the Golden Flower" w Dar on NYE which he didnt really like but i found it ok lah... Then went to meet his cousin @ some pub along Robertson Quay thereabouts. Missed the fireworks though... fren said dat it was rather gd this year... damn... n we were still wondering how come no fireworks this year as we drove out of Orchard Rd heh.

Didnt do much on New Year's Day... was happily catching up on my sleep and chatting w Mangojo online. Such a blurbloke she is... asked her if she was free then she never replied n she had e nerve to tell me she thot i asked her if she was free on e 2nd!!! Alamak... old pp... tsk tsk!! haha Went for KaiYe's RC Gathering. Yep Yep... even though I have already left PA for 1.5 years, they still invited me back *touched* and anyways I didnt want Kaiye to msg me on the day after "scolding" me why I never turn up hee. And they were real happeee to see me... n me likewise lah :) still miss the days of working w them; they may not be the best committee I have worked w in PA (still think TKNC is e best!!) but they were the comittee that I was closest to most of them and they really super dote on me man! Was telling Dar that they kept asking 3 same qn; 1) how r u, 2) where's ur bf & 3) when r u getting married haha!!! Had to "assure" them that I will definitely invite them to my wedding IF i do get married heh. But also v touched to see their concern isn't just for me alone, also for Dar... thanks folks!!!

On the 2nd, finally got to meet up w Hwee who was back for a short stint before flying to Shanghai. Joined her and her frenz for karaoke but we did more chatting then singing heh. And laters in e nite, met her and Siping for a quick drink @ Walas. And just heard fr her that she will be back for a 2 week break for CNY!!! happee happee!!! gota catch up then! :)

Also had some little surprises in my mailbox; received an email fr my JC classmates attempting to link everyone up!!! Gosh... except for Shanster, i havent seen the rest of them since we graduated!!! Really hope that we will be able to meet up or something... i remember this super hilarious time when the whole class went Tony Romas haha!! Still tryin to thnk who else was in our class hehheh... also sent out mails to 2 of my ex sec sch mates n received reply fr 1 of them who is now based in NY :)

So 2007 started w a lot of catching up w pp which is 1 of my resolutions; to keep in close touch w moi friends. And maybe catch up w those friends that I haven't seen in ages. So friends... let's catch up ya? :)

Oh n have a great year ahead everyone!!! :)

Kim Gek... & Proud to be one :)

Last Thurs was a very nostalgic nite for me; a nite where it brought together some friends I spent most of my school years with and whom I havent seen in ages; a nite where I caught up with a LOT of my old teachers; a nite where memories of my school days were brought back so clearly in my mind; a nite where we all remembered that no matter where we are, we are still the "Kim Geks" that we have been moulded into; a nite where we gave our heartfelt thanks to the woman who helped so much in our formative years to make us who we are today...

After being the principal of SCGS for the past 28 years, Miss Heng will be retiring @ the end of this year and thus a dinner was held in her honour last Thurs. However... as usual... sleepy was late (no thanks to the rain & horrid jam @ orchard road) and thus missed her speech :( Was just in time for the dinner... but it seems that no one had the food in mind... and the food was actually not bad!!! Most of us were table hopping around and catching up with all the teachers; some of them still teaching in SC but some of whom have left but came back to pay tribute to Miss Heng. Due to work schedule, it is rather difficult to go back to visit the teachers, used to do that once in a while and I missed the times when I did relief teaching back in SC *wistful* and it is AMAZING how most of the teachers look exactly how they were when they were teaching us!!! Got hwee to comment that perhaps teaching was not such a s-t-r-e-s-s-f-u-l- job afterall heh!! actually I don't think so, just thnk that comparatively, we were easier to teach than the kids of nowadays (no offense!!) And teachers have really good memories as most of them can remember us, well maybe not the name, but if we tell them the year or class, they could very well tell us some of the things that we did!! Like how my former A-Maths teacher commented that we were a v naughty class and that she thought that we didn't like her!!! But dat's not true... like I was telling Dar... I feel that my class was the naughty but rather smart class, that's why all the teachers "bo bian" :P And it was very heartwarming when they asked us what we are doing now, and being so proud of us!

I almost didn't become a student of SC... mummy used to tell me that she actually wanted to enrol Jie in St. Joseph's Convent as it was nearer my house but 1 of her colleagues recommended SC and she decided to enroll Jie there... and being siblings she enrolled me there too!! Thanks mummy!!! My 10 years there are days where I look back fondly upon, the teachers were great; not only did they make the lessons interesting, they also instilled in us the values which we still hold today. Though so long ago, I can still vividly remember some of the things that happened in class!!! :) And it is also there that I know my closest gfs; Dora, Siping, Huiwen & Youping... whom have been w me thru my ups & dwns, listening to my complaints and giving me advice and just keeping me company... thanks babes!!!

I guess when pp think about SCGS, they will think about the school in Orchard Road and our "pinafore without the shirt inside". And though most other pp have a lot of comments about our school Uniform, we are v proud of our uniforms... it's very unique isnt it?? ;) And I was very lucky to have studied @ the premises in Orchard Road (now the Australian Int'l School or something). Though it was a small premise, it was v v cozy such that everyone knew everyone else!!! I miss the old school building and I remember on the last day of school there, we went around taking photos!! Had the chance to study in the new school for half a year, it was huge but I guess being that everything was new and all, wasn't really used to the new compound...

Really sad that Miss Heng will be retiring; future SC gals will be missing out on her dedication and leadership but I am sure the past and present SC gals will always remember what she has done for the school and for us gals. It is small wonder that when we have daughters ourselves, we are definitely goin to enrol them in SCGS!!

Glad that I live am I

That the sky is blue

Glad for the country lanes

And the fall of dew

After the sun the rain

After the rain the sun

This is the way of life

Till the work be done

All that we need to do

Be we low or high

Is to see that we grow

Nearer the sky

~school song~

Interesting Sat

Sat mornings are usually rather quiet; well crowds can suddenly come in but is nothing unmanageable. Last Sat was no exception; and sleepy was rather free as there were 3 (technically 4 but 1 went dwnstairs to help but she helped me cut cheques in the am heh heh) officers working so sleepy was kinda e "extra" officer :) But some "exceptional" incidents happened...

Firstly, the aircon suddenly dieded on us around 8.45 am. Still didnt realise until my teller asked me how come there's no aircon. Had to dig for the number to call for the aircon guy to come but the silly guy didnt switch on his handphone and no one picked up the office numbers listed. Oh dear!!! Thought that perhaps it was a tad bit early and that maybe there will be someone picking up the phone after 9 but NO!!! By this time, it was real stuffy out front; and the poor tellers were perspiring like mad as they had to wear jackets and had to resort to fanning themselves with brochures!! Luckily there weren't many customers or it would have had been worse!! Thankfully, finally managed to get the office gal and thankfully they were quite prompt in coming dwn... apparantly 1 of the units above us had a short-circuit or something, thereby affecting us.

But the more exciting thing was... my teller spotted a counterfeit $100 note!!! And got the whole office rather excited coz most of us havn't seen a counterfeit note before. It was a rather bad counterfeit for a few reasons:
1) it was smaller than the real $100 note;
2) the texture was super super smooth;
3) u know when u hold up the note to light and u'll be able to see the head of Yusof Ishak in the lite? For the counterfeit, it could be clearly seen and it was a cartoon cariature form!!!
On further analysing, it was q clear that the culprits used colour photostapting machine to produce the note but yet somehow, they managed to make the hologram feature on the note. The uncle who banked in the note claimed that he received it from a foreigner who boarded his cab; and he was rather upset that he had been cheated. But what to do, we have to send the note to MAS/BOC and see where it goes from there.

So everyone... OPEN ur eyes big big ya? :)

Bidding Farewell

Last Friday marks the last day that I would be working with 2 of my nicer and closer colleagues; they will be starting work @ the new branch come tomorrow. And though the branch is only just a short distance away, it was v sad to have to see them go. Had the "official" farewell for them on Thursday as my manager was not around on Friday and it was such a tearful farewell!!! Most of us so scared of spilling tears that we quickly dispersed from the "scene of crime" choosing to hide inside the office instead.

Veron was the Cash Officer @ the branch and having to be the alternate Cash Officer, I learnt a lot of things from her. Added to that, she is extremely helpful, patient and doesnt throw her temper around. It was really a joy to work w her as she would go out of her way to help me especially when blur me never knew how to answer the questions posed by my tellers or find numbers to pp in other departments for me. She is also very appreciative even when small little things r done for her. like help her to check reports or something and it is these little things that shows the goodness in a person.

As for Julia, though just a teller in the branch, her wealth of knowlege is amazing!!! Even beta than me heh heh!!! And I really admire her dedication to her work whether it is to solve customers' problems to little things like ordering stationery n blah for the branch. She also knows when not to call respective officers for overidding and that is 1 of the things I am most appreciative of... workwise. Guess both of us being "horses" kinda brought us closer also. Find myself telling her about my problems w Dar or about my friends and her concern shows *touched* and though she can be rather frank & straightforward, know it is for the gd of us as only true friends will want u to be beta rites? Thanks my dear, and I will learn to be more careful w my work and find out the correct information before giving out and I will also try to act more like an officer :P :P :P

It is never easy bidding farewell; day to day affairs have now become memories albeit nice ones. M gona miss them a lot... not only are they wonderful wonderful colleagues, it is the easy camaderie we have and the dependability that I am going to miss most. Made a mental note to stay in touch, but sometimes it is not easy what with everyone's busy schedule. Nonetheless, I shall not say "bye bye" here but "see you again". Take care...

New Wheels

Darling collected his new car on Fri :) :) :) n I kinda insisted that he came to pick me up after work just so that I could sit in the new car hee :P

Almost couldnt recognise the car coz I couldn't really recognise the colour; it looks grey but it is called purplish grey or something... so strange haha!! Managed to recognise the car by the car number; actually could have gotten the car earlier but Dar didn't like the number "5" so requested to wait for number "7" which is his favourite number. But like murphy's law, when u don't want n it happens; the 2nd number of the car plate was "5"!!! Dar was q disappointed heh. Car had the nice car smell but other than that it was q simple, we were q shocked to realise that there weren't additional lights above the driver and front passenger seats. Intially when I was sitting @ the back seat, felt the space pretty cramp but then I concluded that it was coz Dar & his fren shifted the seats WAY back!! heh

So now Dar gota "drive-in" the car. My only qualms is dat it is a M-A-N-U-A-L car and I haven't driven a Manual car since I passed my driving test eons ago so I will definitely need many many lessons *groanz* N i m actually q apprehensive to drive the car now coz it is new & I m scared that I cant control the clutch so guess Dar will be driving the new car more often. But Dar's hasn't managed to sell his old car which means I can still drive only that being a continental car it is q heavy... added to that that Daddy is out of town this week, e 2 of us r really spoilt for choices what vehicle to drive :P:P:P anyone wana rent a car 4 a week? :P

梁静茹签唱会

Went with Mangojo to the 梁静茹签唱会 compliments of tickets given by Shanster. :) thanks gal!

Mangojo came to pick me up and we arrived @ Expo ard 3pm admist the pouring rain. As we towards the Hall, noticed a lot of ushers helping to control traffic and blah. Intially thot "Wah, so happening ah, they expecting so many pp dat's why need ushers" but then realised it is coz there's a church there... which also explains why, the ushers "disappeared" halfway along our journey hee. Was expecting a looooooooooooooong queue so q surprised that the queue was NOT that long, guess it was partly coz of the rain bah.

The time stated on the ticket read 4pm so we were anticipating that we would be able to go in by around 330 pm. Good company helps in times like this when time seems to c-r-e-e-p by... and of course the crowd around u. There was this lady standing behind us and I intially thought that she was a Malay coz she had this scarf which she used as a head scarf... and she was q dark. Anyways she kept complaining about how the organisers couldnt let us go in and sit down first... and apparantly she q playing w her scarf and it kept "flicking" on Mangojo haha!! And @ ard 330 thereabouts, seeing how we were still not allowed into the hall, she actually went in to ask the organisers when they r letting us in!!! gosh!!! Reminds me of last year when I went to Star Awards w my colleague; there was this guy who kept on complaining about waiting n scolding the gf 4 dragging him here n how he was not goin 2 come next year; goin 2 leave half-way n blah... but we saw him @ e end of the awards haha! :P

True to the organisers' words, trickles of the crowd were let in @ 350pm. As they wanted to let the pp in in batches, the crowd was stopped from entering the hall about 6 pp in front of us, which resulted in the aunty in front of us commenting why pp we were stopped fr goin in!! Alamak... ugly singaporeans ah!!! Then when we were inside, somehow 2 queues fr formed before the entrance of the main hall and lady w pink scarf kept asking the hubby/bf “为什么有两条？我们可以排那边吗？”and she asked this a few times within the short 3 min we were there and got frantic when she saw pp joining that queue!!! And when we finally got into the main hall, she was rushing in front whilst Mangojo and I were happily strolling to e less crowded area n finding seats. PIANGZ!!! Bet she wld haf rushed RITE to e front :P

So much of complaints... really did enjoy the showcase presented by Fish. (although was a little pissed intially coz we were forced to move due to the messy planning of the organisers which resulted in having 2 tall men sitting in front of Sleepy n blocking her precious view... luckily the guy in front finally decided to slouch a bit yipee!!) She sounds as good as the CD and she seems warm and sincere, and u cld tell that she really enjoys to sing :) Q like the songs in her new album as well... muz rem 2 borrow the CD fr Dar's fren as well as 2 pester pp to make the ring tone for me hee hee. She's gona haf a concert next year... feel like goin heh... Shao Ye helped to duplicate her previous convert VCD 4 me & I thot it was rather gd... but muz see if the hole in my pocket can be sewed up first :P or anyone wana sponsor???

And had a really gd time w Mangojo... hafnt seen her since Deepavali & so was exchanging gossip and telling her about my latest encounter w CB. & I know we r gona meet up soon... to go shoppin when the sales r here or 2 go HelloKittyland rites??? :P

Twitch Twitch

The skin juz below sleepy's left eye has been twitching for the past couple of days. Not that it is uncomfy... but it juz feels strange having it twitch on and off the whole day :( I tried to massage/press my fingers to the area to "calm" it down but it still comes back after a while. 1 of my colleagues say it is due to lack of sleep whilst another says that i am goin to strike lottery/toto!!! But then... I don't even buy them!!! I have heard before that if your eyebrows twitch, it means that something bad is goin to happen but not the area under the eye leh... anyone has any probable suggestions??

Was on course on Thurs & Fri; good break from work and the course ended v early on both days so it was double plus points. Unlike in PA where we could choose which courses we wanted to go to; now we don't have any choice. We only have certain dates that we can go for courses and that in itself is planned by the manager. Which sucks coz I don't like going for courses where I don't know anyone. But luckily this course comprised mostly of young officers who joined within the last 2 years and some of them I knew so all in all it was q fun. Got to know new people as well so now I have more kakis when goin for courses/briefings :) Realised also that everyone is v disiplined (not like me!!) arrive for course on time; don't take too long for breaks; don't chat whilst the coordinator is talking and don't give silly answers... unlike the PA courses... heh heh... issit the culture of the organisation or the influence of friends?? :P

Conversation Tool

It is funny how some things can become a conversation starter. Like a piece of clothing, having the latest gadget hairstyle... blah blah blah... how about a $50 note??

Darling picked me up from tuition today coz lazeee me cldnt b bothered to go home and get the car (and anyways the tank was close to empty... AGAIN!!!) and as I havn't had dinner and he only ate a bit, decided to grab a bite @ the Circuit Road food centre next to MacPherson CC. We didnt have very much choices as there were mostly vegetarian stalls down there and we didn't exactly wana eat vegetarian. Anyways in the midst of my meal, passed Darling the old $50 note he wanted and he conveniently put it on the table as he didn't bring his wallet down. We were chatting away when I noticed the drinks stall uncle eyeing something on our table and I thought he was looking @ Darling's phone or something. Then he picked up his spectacles and walked even closer to our table..
Uncle: "那个是旧的50块啊？”
Dar: “是啊。。。”
Uncle:“哇！现在很难看到这种50块了hor。。。”
Dar: “A nor... (pointing to me) 她在银行做工，人家进钱给的。。。”
Uncle: “Orrhh... 难怪啦。。。”
Me: “Uncle, 你要吗？”
Uncle: “我跟你换50对50就ok。。。”(laughs)
Afterwhich we didnt answer coz uncle went to sit down liao. We continued to chat and then this cleaner lady came up to us with the same exclaimation and roughly the same story goes. But this lady is v cute, when she heard that I work in a bank, she actually asked me to keep a lookout for the $50 bird and ship series for her and left her contact number with me so that I can call her if I have it!!! And she insisted that she would treat me to coffee when I come and pass her the money heh heh. Now I am worried that I don't have enought of these to circulate around as Dar and his best fren also ask me to keep a lookout for them... *frets*

Btw, have any of u seen the orchid series before?? It is a wonder that some pp still have these notes!!! They muz be when I was just born coz I can only remember the bird and ship series...

New Trend??

issit a new trend?? couple of friends have decided to change blog sites recently (incidentally we were all users of the friendster blog hee). Being a super nice gal n an even super friend, sleepy has dutifully updated the links. Check out the links on the rite :))

Has also added a super dear friend of mine to my links... Yoz HW... how's Amsterdam??

Burnt!!

U all wouldn't believe what happened just now... sleepy & friend was having dessert @ Seasons Reasons (located @ the new Marketplace of City Hall) when "disaster" stroke! We we eating their signature dessert, cup in a cake; which is actually chocolate brownie with vanilla gelato and mocha chips (or @ least we think they r mocha chips...) and commenting that although it is Halloween, there doesn't seem to be many decorations @ the restaurants we have walked passed. So anyways, sleepy's friend was pointing out that there were actually 2 small little pumpkins on the table @ the entrance and sleepy was trying to lean forward to see it (being blocked by a pillar), oblivious to the fact that there was an unconvered container with a tealight in front of her. Suddenly, a "Szzzzzssszzzzz" sound could be heard and to her horror... her lovely tresses have been fried!!! Luckily only a little portion of the hair was burnt, resulting in a part of the hair becoming curvy wurvy, but the worst thing was that, there was such a horrid smell!!! How come fried hair smells soooooo bad??? Just what is our hair made of anyways?? Of course, the bill was paid immediately so that ms frantic sleepy can go home to wash her hair to get rid of the bad smell... it is still wet now... hope it will be ok tomorrow *crosses fingers*

Think I always have had this "fascination" with fire... oh I don't like to play with matches, but rather with tealights. Used to love to burn those aromatherapy stuff when I was in hostel and also @ home or those candles that gives off some scent when burnt. As the holders/tealights are usually circular in shape, when the candle wax has burnt off in the middle, there is actually still some wax left @ the circumference of the base, and not wanting to waste, I would "dig" up the wax & put them in a new tealight and so on and so forth. Sometimes the wax pieces can be quite big causing the tealight to overflow haha... but actually that is still q ok; sometimes the wick burns finish but there is still a LOT of candle wax left over... mois would then use the burnt candle stick to try to burn dwn the wax or something (cant remember what I was doing then) and sometimes the fire can get q big... causing like a mini bonfire of sorts!! I remember once I was in hostel, I was using a burner that was not covered. Somehow my tissue paper holder was placed pretty near the burner and somehow coz the fan was turning @ dat time, the tissue paper caught fire and burnt the plastic holder!!! Gosh... luckily I happened to see in time or else sleepy would now be paying through her teeth for 1 block HAHAHA!!!

Morale of the story: restaurants should NOT use such dangerous tea light holders! :P :P :P

Sleepy explains...

Sleepytoon has again received complaints about the colour of the font that she uses on her website... resulting in readers having to hilight the passage before being able to read the delightful content :P

The thing is, there aren't very nice dark colour fonts that moi can use... and being a vibrant person (heh heh) I do prefer to use different colours for each entry. And the soft pastel colours are soooo v much nicer... funny thing is it doesnt really strike me as unreadable whilst writing the entry, so I can only once again that old people doesnt have good eyesight :P But I kinda like this shade of blue, and I thnk it is dark enuff to be seen on a white background so I thnk I shall be using this colour more often :) Hope this satisfies the older readers heh heh. In retrospect, is there anyway that I can change the colour of the background to a darker colour??

And though I prefer using the small font size as it is cuter (like me!! :P) I have written this entry using the bigger font so that the older folks can read it and stop berating me on using pastel colour fonts hee. Maybe I can use the pastel colour fonts when I am saying bad things abt them... heh heh... *idea*

sleepy rests her case :)

Short Short Week

A happee little Sleepytoon was looking forward to this week as she only had to work 3 days this week... how's that?? :) :) :) It couldn't even dampen her spirits of having to do Cash on Tues heh heh. Wanted to take the following Mon off instead of tomorrow but it being the day before and after holidays, permission was NOT granted... but oh well... 3 days of work, 4 days of rest, 1 day of work, 1 day of rest then 3 days of work... not bad lah :P

Luckily had a relief officer @ branch on Mon and Tues which helped a lot as vouchers were checked on time and the tellers were "smart" enuff to ask him to do the overidding; both days got to leave branch before 530!! Today wasn't so bad either although I made this terrible mistake with my cheques but managed to solve the problem on time *whew* think I am rather butter-fingers these couple of days, keep dropping things and couldn't open the combination for the vault doors!!! Luckily my boss never scold me heh heh!!

Lookin forward to spending 2 whole days w Dar... well 1.5 lah since he gota drive boat on Fri... still apprehensive about him driving boat... just pray & hope for the best for him... Went w him to Gelare last nite for half-priced waffles... intially I was the one that wanted to eat but we kept postponing and last nite he had a craving for it. Funny thing is we headed for Parkway which we went to the previous time we wanted to eat; and was suddenly reminded that the old Gelare is now Don's Pie... what a BOO BOO!! In the end we went to the one @ Marine Cove which is pretty spacious... not like the other outlets I have been to and we managed to snag the cosy seats *smiles* Dar was reminiscing the very 1st time I brought him to eat Gelare; he claims he was never a big fan of such "fancy food" as he so terms, preferring normal hawker/foodcourt fare in the past and that I have been a bad influence to him! hee hee... hey... I also don't really like to eat v v v ex food ok... (coz to me; eat liao short while laters come out?? haha) juz dat don't really like to eat @ hawker/foodcourt so often coz it is hot & sometimes dirty... yep yep pampered am i...

Distraught!!

An extremely distraught Sleepytoon just plucked like more than a dozen white hair from her beautiful mane of hair!! ARRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!! Getting freaking old!!!! And they were all on 1 side of the hair... HOW COME??? Hairdressed have been telling me that I have more white hair on the right side of my hair than the left side but when I tried "looking" for them to pluck them out, i couldn't find them and then VOOOM!! They all appeared today!! Issit coz of the stress of the past week??

And Dar has gone off to KL with his friend and will only be back on Tues afternoon... sobz sobz!! M definitely not used to not having him ard :( Tues come soon quick!!

Hello to a new week

Boy am I glad the past week is finally over... it had been a rather bad week of sorts and I am juz real glad when it was Sat yesterday and Sunday today. :)

It was like nothing would go rite; on Monday, my colleague who is also the cash officer told me that her hubby might hafta go for an emergency eye op and thus might be taking the half day off... it turned out to be 2.5 days off which means I had to take over cash which I absolutely detest. Even my tellers were rather wary of me haha!! Then somehow, I managed to do everything wrongly... there was some case on Monday (which I can't remember) and then on Tuesday, I keyed in something wrongly which resulted in the main office calling and I had to call them back to and fro before the matter was finally was resolved!! And during that period, although it was my lunch time, the tellers still ask me to overide n help them solve their cases... like there's only 1 of me lors :P Then on Wed, after a big hoo ha about a Negative Balance case, I went to overide a transaction with Negative Balance as well!! *piangz* then it was a frantic rush of reversing the entry, trying to contact the person which took me like half an hour!! and @ the same time not letting my boss know about it!!! Gosh... luckily my alternate advised me and helped me to cover up. *whewz* On Thursday, my boss wanted to have a staff meeting and wanted me (coz I was assigned as "Service Champion" haha) to come up with something which would improve the service of staff and I was totally clueless!!! Thankfully, being a marketing student, I managed to smoke my way through haha. On top of that, had a quarrel with Dar (but we made up yipee!) so my mood was in the pits!! Was also very tired because of tuition as my kids were having their exams... thank god they have finished :)) And yesterday... the branch was to have a power shut-down so I had to stay back with my boss. The guy was late and though thankfully he didn't take very long, it took a while before the lines for the machines were brought up and so by the time I left the office, it was like 245!! I have never knocked off so late on Sat b4!!! so all in a all it was a pretty bad week for me...

But there were also little pieces of good news:
1) got a message fr a dear friend of mine... she somehow always seem to know when I am down and wld drop me a msg... thnx YP! And... i met up w 2 of my closest SC gfs littlebloom & huiwen. :)
2) my aircon's like FINALLY fixed!!! so bye bye to noisy nites :) :) :)
3) and yippee yayee... my boss has decided that we shd have alternate Sat off!!! although that would mean that we only have 1 wkday off a month, think it is so much beta!! *pleased*