Blue black

This is the state of my blue black 5 days after Paintball... it has progressed from purple to blue to red to now yellow-ish. The dotted part looked really digusting initially... it doesn't look as bad here. But I looked like I was having some kind of concentrated pimples/ measles/ rash... some really gross symptoms of a disease. But yet, instead of covering them up.. it was funny how on Monday a few of us were all comparing blue-blacks. Found out also that some of my friends were even hit on their head... am glad that didn't happen to me. 1 head operation is enough... !!!

Anyway, it's a public holiday today!!!!! But I was busy this morning, going to River Valley to meet a friend, went to Larry's in Orchard to get a GST form (and eyed some really nice rings.. haha), dropped my parents off at CSC, packed lunch from Man Zhu and went off to Kenneth's place for lunch. Then back to CSC to pick mum and dad.. and now I'm home! Thinking of watching Bridget Jones later... can't wait for Kenneth to finish his exam... that'll be in 3 days actually. Good for me but I think he's stressing out real badly!!!

Happy Birthday Mum

Happy birthday mum!!!

Part 1 - the cake

We had a mini celebration in church first on Saturday.. together with 2 other persons who had their birthdays 1 and 2 days earlier than mum.. The one in the middle is my Pastor.. he had an ice cream cake took ages and ages and ages and ages to thaw.

Part 2 of the birthday celebration - Shopping! Mum chose a matching Tiffany Atlas ring and bracelet that looks like this... nice ya?

And part 3 - dinner at Lawry's Prime Rib.. and more cake of course.

It's been a tiring weekend for me.. back to work tomorrow. Argh... why does the weekend pass so quickly... :(

Paintball

Went to play Paintball (a game where you shoot the opponent with a gun loaded with bullets that have paint in them) with my colleagues yesterday!! There were 33 of us in total, organised by the bank's Rec club!!! The interesting thing is.. of the 33 people, there were a couple of people from outside the Bank and a couple of people who are actually not part of the Rec club... but anyway, we met at Tanjong Pagar MRT at noon and took a coach to Orchid Country Club! Seemed really far to me.. but anyhow we reached in about half an hour I reckon. It was the first time for many of us so it was a trip to the unknown...

This game, I found out, is actually quite a violent one... you go into a "battlefield", hide behind obstacles, try to aim and shoot at your opponent (if he gets hit, he has to go back to homebase before he can continue doing anything else) and prevent them from reaching their treasure box and bringing it back to their "home", while you try to also avoid their attacks and bring your treasure box "home". Whoever finishes first wins obviously. There were a lot of tactics, crossfires, and of course... shots of bullets filled in paint.

The bullets, actually hurt. And the impact is so great that it can actually go through denim jeans!! Note that these bullets are shot at distances of around 30 metres on average!!! No joke!! Here are some of the after effects...

But well, after all the pain, the abrasions, the cuts, the blue blacks, it was great fun. Though I would call this Paint & Pain Ball.

Water Sprout

For some reason.. I decided that since today is a Friday, I should change to a bigger bag. And in my bigger bag, I thought.. might as well bring my camera. And guess what.. it was such a correct decision. I caught action of the Water Sprout at around 3pm this afternoon!!! It was like a cyclone/ twister kinda thing? Looked real scary initially as I've never seen this sort of thing before. Singapore being the safe place has never, up to now, in my recollection, experienced major natural calamities and of course I hope it will remain this way.
Anyway it was quite funny after a while because everyone (or almost everyone) left their desks and started taking out the handphone cameras to capture this spectacular moment. Look at this man.....

And some candid shots of the hoo-ha in my office..

The water sprout was gone after 15 min.. so back to work...

Katong Laksa

Guess what.. after staying in Katong for almost all my life, I had the real (I think) 328 Katong Laksa today for the first time!! It's strange how you never quite eat at places near you, but always have to think real hard about where to go for lunch/ dinner. And more often than not, we will end up eating at the same old places and grumbling that Singapore is just too small. Anyway, it was a good lunch trip today. Went there with my 3 colleagues/ bosses, 3 very different individuals, 1 German, 1 American, and 1 Singaporean but all very interesting people. Listening to them talk about how they proposed to their wives, how they look after their kids, how they have worked for x number of yrs etc etc... I wonder what I will tell my juniors next time when I reach 40-50yrs old. It may seem a long time from now but hey... time flies once you start work.
Anyway, back to the Laksa, it was fantastic!!! The rojak and otah were great too! My hp camera has died so no pic for today but I guess everyone knows where 328 Katong Laksa is, so do give it a try! :-)
Ooo.. and I bought a pair of red flatties yesterday too!! Cute!

Can't trust Tommy

Look at this price tag... first thing you notice... the price is handwritten. This is the story..

I bought (now regreting) this tee from TH last Friday and there were 2 tees of this kind left on the shelf. After trying it, and without calculating the price after discount, I decided to buy it and give myself a small treat... when I was going to pay, the cashier at the counter decided to be nice and gave me the other remaining piece (maybe it was newer). After keying in everything I told him that I decided to buy the one that I actually tried. While the cashier was reversing the old one and keying in the new one, guess what, the price changed!!! The first one that he entered in was actually $79 before discount. And this one was $89. Within a span of 30 sec, I realised I had to pay more!! Well, not that I wasn't willing to pay the price.. since I already knew it was $89. But I didn't know that the other one was $79, and I mean.. if you have 2 tees left, at 2 different prices... does this mean they changed the price and therefore they had the "sale"? And the price was actually handwritten (as you can see on top).. which you know.. suggests something fishy. Well, that event totally spolit my day. It was just so unprofessional, esp for TH. I called them up the next day again and all they could do was to say sorry mam, sorry mam.... I don't know if they know how their customer, me, feels. But it is definitely not a good feeling.

I guess my image of TH has been spoilt totally.

Collage!

My first collage! Doesn't look too bad huh?

Jun and Jan found out about my new blog.. so they said I have to update it from now on... oops.

Well, can't promise that I'll update it regularly but I'll try!! :-)

It's Friday tomorrow!!!! Yeh!!!!! Weekend!!!!

Oh, and Jan actually taught me how to use a feature in my camera to reframe a picture into another picture! Wow.

Girly day out

Finally.. I must say FINALLY, Yujun and Janice were both back in Singapore at the same time. I even took leave to meet them!!! It was such a special and memorable day.. so important that I have to blog it!