A Singing Kangaroo

Today I received my 2nd pressie for my bird day.

I was only a day away from my boss, so being the good disciple of my boss, my lurpy sista courier his pressie over today becoz she will be in Bintan playing golf. So I also thick skin-ly ask for mine and was rejected and told off being sour grapes yesterday and so today. Being me, I shamelessly asked and asked and asked.

The other lurpy sista, small gal was taksed to send the BIG BOX of pressie over this morning. The courier man came and hand over a plastic bag. I took a peek in there and was shocked to see that mu lurpy sista had bought a pink box of Victoria's Secrets and a kangaroo for my boss !!!

Alamak !!!!!! I laughed and wrote back only to be told that the BIG pink box is for me !!!!! Even the kangaroo too !!!!!! Yay !!!!! There is a card too.... so funny !!!! I really had a surprise when I opened up the card. HA HA HA !!!!! So to be on the safer side, I decided not to open the box to give myself an embarassing surprise.....

Oh, what happen to my boss's pressie? I left it in his room !

So, this is my pressie from Victoria's Secret......

HA HA HA...so cute hor.... It is a pair of pyjamas with many many colourful circles on it. Think I will look like a clown if I wear this and go outside !

So you want to see the kangaroo and the card ? Here you are.

The Singing Kangaroo

I'm craving for... ...

As stress piled up in my head, with intermittance sleep in the night, no enough time in the office to do so many things despite giving up many lunch hours, I crave for.....

1) sweet stuffs as in choco, desserts, ice cream, etc, etc
2) meaty stuffs as in fried chicky wings, pork chops, steak, nice nice fish and chips, satay etc, etc
3) oily food as in cha kuey tiao, wet wet kind of friend hokkien prawn mee, etc, etc
4) MacDonald's fries
5) Coke Light
6) 杨支甘露

see...all the fatty stuffs.... & also ...

7) a good deep full body massage for 1.5 hours
8) a 一觉到天亮 kind of sleep
9) a 3 days 'nua' at home to watch HKG serials kind of holiday
10) a no-worry for money kind of shopping..... hee hee hee.....
10) another overseas holiday lor....

Birthday Card

It was such a pleasant surprise when I received a birthday card from a long time friend. As years passed, I have realised fewer and fewer people remember your birthdays, fewer and fewer well wishes and definitely fewer and fewer presents !!!

As years go, I don't really want to celebrate my birthdays, except dinners or teas or just a get together with loved ones, family member and close friends. Probably it is an escapism from reality to keep reminding yourself how young am I now....

But this year, I have no time to 'celebrate' at all ! The company once in a year major event is very close to my B day and so, last minute preparation and gearing up for the event has taken quite a fair bit of time, especially packing those DVDs, note pads to our global offices have indeed take away a whole chunk of my time to better use them somewhere else. So, no celebrate, no dinner, i guess... Even if I wanted, I don't think I even have the time....

Haiz.......

Well anyway, Happy (early) Birhtday to myself ! Hee hee hee.....

Gown Rentals

A friend mentioned about this site when I lamented that I don't know how to get rid of my wedding gown.

www.justgowns.biz

The owner had sent cool and updated gowns for rental at such affordable price !

If I had knew about this website, I would have go and loan it. But anyway, I also paid a good price for my gown and at least it is a design I liked very much ... so no 'heart pain'.

If you gonna attend a gala event and didn't want to spend the kind of money for something you wore for it once, check this out....

The Bowling Competition

Don't ask me how was the competition, how we played, how we fared ... ...

We didn't do as well as we did during our 1 and only training at East Coast a week ago. Everyone was playing below our own expectation.

Well, probably the venue no good, the ball no good, the lane no good, etc etc......

When my mentor read about my comments, she laughed and said I reminded her of one of her ex-colleagues in the company. When he didn't played well at the game, he blamed everything else except his skill.

My lurpy sista chose to believe me because I insisted everything was no good except my skill.

Hey, it's all the truth okay..... I can played past 100 points in each game during training despite me haven't been playing bowling for more than 10 years. But luck was just not on my side on the competition day itself... oh well, probably we have a very noisy neighbour 1 lane away who cheered and screamed and shaked the whole floor that most probably caused my balls to rolled sideway because of the tremors. And of course the noisy neighbour went on to win the best cheerleading award.

That must be the reason...... because I perform best under stress you know...... hee

Egypt

Went Egypt with my boss and colleague for our company's global meeting. It was such a rewarding trip and I was still pretty excited about the destination despite a little disappointment in the beginning. Being able to see the Pyramids right before my eyes was just so magnificent and awesome !

This is the pyramids and the Sphinx in the day........

This is the pyramids and the Spinx in the night....

The next day, we took a domestic flight to Aswan to board our 3 nights cruise along River Nile. Before we board the cruise, we paid a visit to Philae Island and we had to take a boat to the island to marvel at the temple ruins.

The temperature rose to 36 degree celsius in Aswan and there was practically not much shade or shelter at the ruins. And so all of us have to walk under the hot sun.

Ancient Egyptian art carved onto the rocks and stones of the walls of the temple. So of them are so tall that we wonder how the ancient people do it.

A nicely carved lotus like leaf or flowers on a tall pillar. There are so many of such pillars around and some of them have closed petals.

Finally we got to board the cruise ship. There were so many such similar ships docked along this part of the river. If we are gonna to find our own ships, sure board the wrong one !

Before we returned to the ship for dinner, we took a sailing boat, a felucca ride, to Old Cataract Hotel to watch the sunset. Sitting by the balcony of the Old Cataract Hotel, watch the sun sets, while the sailing boats drift along the Nile River, was such a peaceful and tranquil moment. I felt so relax suddenly and was enjoying every moment of it !

The next morning after breakfast, the cruise sailed and we dock at Kom Ombo to visit its ruined temple.

The temperature was getting too hot by then and I had to use my umbrella to block away some rays while continuing the sightseeing.

That night, we had a dress up party and all of us were dressed up in Egyptian costumes and we had a good laugh at each other.

We had breakfast on the sun deck the next morning while we continued to cruise down the River Nile. Enjoying the morning cool breeze while gazing the scenery and enjoying the breakfast was such a luxury that I am still missing that moment now.

The afternoon was spent to visit the Luxor Temple. There was so many people there. Following the guide and try to listen to his commentary was quite difficult as too many groups were visiting the temple at the same time.

Rows of sphinxs on both sides of the walk path leading up to the Luxor Temple. We were told it used to be as long as 2km but unfortunately, a huge portion of them were destroyed.

We also visited the UNESCO site - Valley of the Kings. The resting place of many Egyptian kings who were buried underground. Some of them are buried so deep underground that we have to walk long routes underground or to do 'step aerobic' to underground.

We didn't have the time to visit the temple of the Queen and so we can only do on top of a pile of sand and took pictures of it from afar.

We also visited the Kahlili Bazaar on our free day as there wasn't a connecting flight to go home immediately after the meeting ends. And we managed to get some souvenirs here for our colleagues who worked hard in the office while we were at meeting and sightseeing in Egypt.

Bowling Training

This is the first and the last bowling practice we had on last Thursday for the competion tat will be held tomorrow..... hee hee

So you can see that the gals get worse as they bowl and the boys get better as they bowl.

So our conclusion is : The gals INSISTED not to warm up before the competition and we will INSIST the boys to warm up as many as they can !

Ha ha !!!!!!

Hope we can do better than this during the competition....

Aiyo ! I am so stressed !

Journey like a lifetime

I lived 5 bus stops away from the office. The journey usually takes about 5 mins usually. In the morning peak hour tme, the maximum it takes was about 20 minutes at most, even on rainy days.

This morning, it just took forever to reach the office. Traffic is usually packed. There were at least on 2 occasions that the bus did not move at all and I saw the traffic lights changed to red TWICE. This is the most terrible mrning ride I EVER EVER had in my whole working life.

I purposely left the house early so that I can be in the office early to clear my work, but no ! I am still late ! This is incredible, for people who know how near I lived from the CBD will be shocked to know I took 40 MINUTES to reach the bus stop at the office.

By the time I arrived at the office, I have no mood for everything. While I was running the weekly reports, deejay from our national radio reported the massive bummer to bummer traffic jam from Havelock to Church St is due because of a roadwork near Chruch St.

The bloody authority got no better thing to do on a Monday morning is it ?????