Sore Throat

Darts.. just when I'm preparing to go to China next week for my very first mission trip.. sore throat is creeping up. Can't remember when was the last time I had a sore throat.. probably a year back or so.. and it has to come now?!?! What bad timing. Not that I ate terribly heaty food over the weekend as far as I remember... oh gosh, I hate sore throats. Praying real hard that I'll get well before the weekend. Don't wanna fall ill when I go to China!!! Sulk.

It helps that my company is kinda flexible and I told my boss that I wanna work from home tomorrow. Brought lots of stuff back.. got to clear all the workload before I go on leave... sigh.. shall not think about work now. Time to rest and drink my next cup of water..

Batam

Just dug up some pictures from church camp.. actually I have a lot more in kenneth's camera which i have yet to retrieve from him. We usually take lots of pictures when we're out relaxing. Seems like a crazy thing to do but it's quite fun! The little gal along the beach is the super cute gal in my church, picking out mini seashells.

I really enjoyed the resort by the sea kinda feeling (bottom right picture). It can be a bit scary during high tide though (because the waves are literally under your feet - you can see and hear them, just can't feel them). Beach resorts look really nice in postcards and pictures though (refering to Jun's blog on her top choice for honeymoon - :-)). But it's so hot in Singapore that I doubt I'm really a beach resort kinda person. Prefer to see more snow-capped mountains in Switzerland, enjoy the beautiful scenery and music in Salzburg, or go for a hot spring bath during winter in Japan!!! Maybe visit Jan in Dubai too? Ooo... can't wait to go for my next holiday!

No more Germany

This is saddening.. my 1 month business trip to Frankfurt in October has been cancelled/ postponed.

Due to the stupid re-org, there have been changes to the team, changes to plans etc etc. And as a result, the team is short handed. And wel... I could still go because my ex global boss had promised me. But then.. it seems kinda bad not to help out in Asia when I can. Well, they said that the trip has only been POSTPONED, and not cancelled.. and it will still happen in future, even perhaps to london or NY, like 1Q or 2Q next yr. But changes happen all the time and I don't know if it will really come to pass. Of course, you have to discount that slightly cos they know I'm upset now. It's also quite sad cos I was intending to spend my birthday there, go for a holiday with my mum and dad to some parts of europe before the trip, and a holiday with kenneth after the trip. All of that is gone now! Sniifff.... but then, even if I did go to Frankfurt in the end, I guess I won't dare to still take leave before and after the trip. Sigh sigh.. so anyway, let's just keep my fingers crossed now. To think I saved up so much leave for my holidays in sept/ nov!!!!!!

Anyway.. that's a quick update. Shall enjoy the rest of my weekend for now... :-)

A day at the National Museum

We ended up at the National Museum on Kenneth's birthday in the end. How did this happen?

It was a last min decision after we found out that bus 36 couldn't get into suntec because of the NDP preview that night... and it missed all the suntec stops and stopped outside city hall mrt in the end. We were too lazy to walk back to suntec so we ended up going to the National Museum!!! We both can't remember when was the last time we ever went there so it was quite an experience!!! The place was pretty empty I must say. But it was a thorough history lesson.. where we spent almost 3 hours there before proceeding for dinner.

Re-org

Re-organisation in the office is always a bad thing.. people get moved around. New people come in, hopefully no one gets kicked out. Your boss changes, work flow changes, the team changes etc etc... sigh. And I was actually quite happy working with my small team - the american, german, and singaporean. Although all 3 of them are about twice my age, but it was great fun working with them. Things will change now. Oh well.. re-org seems to be happening all the time. And it has happened too many times already in this place. Just that this time it's pretty severe... I hope I will work well with my new colleagues.

That's not the worse. Even worse news today.. jin jee is leaving the bank!!! The 4 of us who started out together in the same team.. has only me left!! Leslie left first, went off to RP to teach. Eugene next.. to JPM. And now JJ!! Oh no! It's kinda sad because the 4 of us were really good buddies and we started out really well, though as strangers on Jul 15 2004, the day we started work, but good buddies not long after that. Sigh sigh. And JJ is moving out of Singapore too.. less chance to meet up. So you see... the banking world is such. Turnover is high. From the 8 Ops grads, only 2 are left in Ops. Plus me, still less than 50% in the bank.

On the brighter side... it's Kenneth's birthday today!!! Happy birthday!! I have picked out 4 places to go for dinner.. actually 6 places initially but 1 was fully booked (!!!) and the other was closed for a function. The 4 places are at rochester park, dhoby ghaut, holland rd, mt faber. Let's see what we feel like having tomorrow. I've booked all 4 anyway.. "kiasu" syndrome. No choice I guess.. it's a sat, it's the 7th July 2007, and it's Kenneth's birthday! Can't avoid to stand in long queues.

The weekend begins!!

I do

Too tired now to write down everything cos I need to sleep soon!!! Need to get up early for church tomorrow.. and came back late because of the screening of Transformers!!! It's a good show. You gals should catch it too!

Anyway, I guess you should know what happened... Kenneth officially proposed to me on Friday night!!! Aww... yah la, quite sweet I must say. But then again, it's a once in a lifetime thing. Some pictures for you to guess the story. I didn't collect the ring with him so it was nice to see it for the 1st time in its "finished" state when I wore it. Anyway, continue another time! :-)

Dinner at the Oriental. A bit chee-na but I like Chinese food so...

Must say that the desert was the cool part. It was a mango pudding with lychee sorbet in a cup on top of a cup of dry ice!

This really caught me by surprise.

The rest of the story as follows...