Some teasers for London trip

I don't really have a lot of photos with me but oh well, I shall post some that I've for the moment...

Had no jet lag at all when we reached there. =D The cab fare is ridiculous... the journey from the airport to the hotel was around 1/2 hour, and it was 70 pounds, ~SG$210...

Our 1st English breakfast! The 1st one was nice, subsequently, not nice anymore, haha.

A "rubbish eater" on River Thames

The tower bridge behind me (I heard that this is the "London Bridge" our childhood song)

The Windsor Castle (with 2 ppl acting funny)! Only 15 min cab from our hotel.

A building near the castle at night, beautifully lit (not taken on the same day though, we went back the next day)

The hotel that we're in!

Having dinner at the hotel with fellow GEDS from Singapore! (I feel guilty for eating such nice food for 5 days)

and fellow GEDS from other parts of the world taken at the Ha! Ha! Bar near Windsor Castle~

The last picture was taken by a nearly-drunk guy, which explains the blur pic. Haha

The rest shld've more photos than me. I shall make a more complete blog this coming weekend!

Anyway felt so much better aft 1 day's MC, caught a flu virus during my flight back. My worst SIA flight loh... The 1st flight that I take alone and it has to be 12hours...

We left the London airport late cos it was a popular take-off time in Europe. And in the end when we were reaching Singapore, I don't know if it's the weather or if the pilot was like rushing to land, and the plane was quite jerky. Nearly puked. In the end though I didn't puke, I felt miserable the whole evening. Missed my Sammi Cheng's concert (which ironically was the reason why I took the flight back alone instead of with the other Singapore GEDS), gave the tix to Rosie instead. Felt guilty cos I got the tix from my uncle. I think I shall call and explain to em soon...

Ok, tmr will be work day! But shld be a short week for me cos Fri is Tendering's Day-Out! I heard it'll be in Sentosa. Haha

I did It

Yap, I did It

I cried in the office.

Haha.

I think I accumulated too much stress. I was lying on my bed yesterday and suddenly recalled something, "Oh shit, did I change the reference year to 2008?" And I really cursed,"Bloody hell..." So naturally, I didn't have a good night's sleep.

Then I decided to reach office early by taking bus 30 instead of 61.

I kinda teared on the bus cos I was really so stressed up. And when I reach the office and I realised I didn't have any mistakes, I was so damn relieved.

Then A had an enquiring expression on her face and she did the crying action. I walked towards her and talk abit, then I started crying.

So relieved that it was nearly over. I was trying to hide unsuccessfully and suddenly I realised everyone in my dept room knows that I'm crying.

Then OMG, A started crying. Haha.

But I tried to explain that it was tears of relief. It really was wat!

Luckily they took it quite lightly. And they did joke about it, and had a small talk on how each of the estimators deal with the stress (like throwing pens onto the table, grabbing too much hair that he become abit bald etc etc).

1 of my colleagues started saying,"Welcome to tendering dept!" and stuffs like there's more to come. Haha. Then, went for happy hours today with the engineers and they were asking me how's my life in tendering dept. Seriously, I really find it ok! I don't mind working overtime but the most impt thing is to be appreciated for the things u've done, and for this tender, my hard work paid off, cos I was praised that I'm a fast learner. Haha.

And furthermore, dinner & cab fare can be claimed if I work until after 8pm (can call for booking somemore).

And I'm even going Europe to attend engineering training, which is today loh.

I need to think bout wat stuffs to bring. Maybe I should setup a GEDs blog for my training stuffs eh? Hmmm...

Having fun at work

Sometimes I feel lucky to be in a MNC.

We do funny stuffs like this:

See if u can find me in the picture (I'm in black)! Picture taken from 9th floor and put up on our notice board and I took a photo of the picture from the notice board. =P And the time shows how late I am in office...

OT till 11pm today...
OT till 11.30pm yesterday
OT till 9.30pm on Tues
OT till 9.45pm on Monday

Hopefully I didn't make any major mistakes in my estimate...

Anyway the letters is something related to my company, an awareness day for this thing. Those in A were wearing our coveralls (A stands for my company's name)

Oh well... I shall sleep soon. Heh

Bitching session

Ok, since Cai asked what happened in the office last Mon afternoon... I shall bitch now, though I'm so tired after my OT till nearly 10pm, I may forget about the incident... cos for a moment, I was thinking about what I wanna bitch on.

As some of you knows, there's this woman in my office whom we nicknamed Umbrella. She won't read my blog lah, so of cos can blog publicly. Haha

But anyway... there was a blackout last Mon afternoon, and everyone were doing their stuffs as usual, except for me, cos I was quite free and was only looking through past estimates. Then all of em were quite pissed cos they were using MS office... so I tried to console em and said, "Microsoft should have auto recovery for the files." Some went, "Oh yah!"

But guess wat Umbrella said...

"So if there's no recovery files, you'll be responsible lah?"

She was laughing/smiling when she said that but her tone was definitely not a laughing/smiling tone.

I was so shocked at that sentence, I practically stood there stunned for 3sec, while A gave me a bu shuang look (she was bu shuang of Umbrella), and L went, "What?!" At 1st I thought L really didn't hear U, but apparently, she did, and she was equally shocked at what Umbrella said.

After the 3sec, I recalled what I said and replied, "I said should, SHOULD BE."

She is crazy lah, nv save her own work, it's her own fault wat. Always looking for excuses to push the blame to. The other time we had Green Team photo taking session, she was also like that.

There was a Town Hall Meeting, which was like all the employees in the office have to gather around the main area of the office for a presentation by big ppl, and it was around 10.30am for this particular one. The team leader, P, emailed us sth like, "Pls make yourself free after the Town Hall Meeting to take a photo.", around 1 week before the THM But everyone conveniently forgot about it, haha. And P came to look for us the afternoon after the THM. Umbrella wasn't around and I told her P came to look for us for the photo taking session, and that nobody stayed after the THM to take photo.

And there she goes...

"You cannot blame me you know. He only stated 'after the Town Hall Meeting'. How would I know whether it's 11am, 12pm or 3pm?"

And I said what I know, "Oh, I understand he meant right after the Town Hall Meeting, but I forgot about it. Haha."

And there she goes again...

"He should have stated clearly in his email. I'm very sure everyone read it the same way as me."

Wahlao... what did she mean man. And pls lah, I think she has no common sense... I've asked 10 ppl bout the email, and 10 ppl thinks that same way as ME, not HER. And there was another team member whom I'm quite close too, and think the same way as me.

And quite a few things happened also but I shall stop here. Haha. Tired. I foresee another 3 days of OT before I fly for London. Zzzz....

Happy MAF!

U may think we are crazy but yes, we went back NUS on Mon for our yearly MAF celebration.

Here's a starter:

It's supposed to read MAF 2007, but I did the F too slow... haha. Will try to edit it a bit nicer with Fireworks (no pun intended).

Just went KTV with my colleagues and I am so tired. Zzzzz.... Shall bitch tmr bout what happened in the office this afternoon.

Time flies

Time flies. I've been working for 3 mths already. I feel so seh everyday I don't feel like blogging...

But anyway, I did OT till 9pm on Thurs, giving up my Amore, which means they'll deduct 1 day from my 1 year subscription. Argh. The worse thing was they didn't use what I did on Fri. I mean I can understand why they didn't use, but I just felt not worth it.

Next time I shall only reserve a place for the lessons after 3pm.

Ok, I'll be going London from 6th Oct to 13th Oct for course~ But I've no idea what is cheap there. Can anyone tell me? =D

Sneezing panda

This is super cute and funny... I keep rewatching it



It's like...

munch munch munch
cheeewwww
xia dao
munch munch munch

And somebody actually did a spoof...



And other people made a short story about it:



Thanks to Panda Wong for showing me the sneezing panda video!

It's time to be narcissistic

I shall put a nice photo of myself during one of these
I-feel-narcissistic times.

U wanna say I act cute also can loh, but I just luv this photo. Makes me
look so happy with my Cinnamoroll. Haha

This is what I call nice

I'm so glad I didn't miss out on the photoshoot today... I like this
picture!

And it's not even photoshopped yet... As compared to the ones we paid
$40 per person. Grrr

I'm sorry Evo

Evo's my laptop (it's called Evo cos the model is Compaq Evo N620C, lol).

A very business-looking laptop which most girls won't wanna carry cos it's so heavy. But I'm glad I choose this model, it's a sturdy model & it has lasted me more than 4 years (still working now!). I rmb I paid $2.7k for it, and it was quite deal cos it was $500 off the market price. Haha. U can see the specs here: http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/notebooks/0,39050488,39012940p,00.htm

And now, I'm being so bad to my faithful-old-Evo when it's starting to get old and sick, cos I bought a new laptop...

HP Pavillion tx1000. I paid $1.7k for it... using my sis's student card @ Comex. Super chio laptop, which I'm surprised that I bought a chio one instead of a power one. But it's really a good deal. U can see the specs here: http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/notebooks/0,39050490,40027421p,00.htm

just that I upgraded the RAM to 2Gb and there's a free upgrade for students to 1.8Ghz processor, free 6-cell battery, and 3 years extended-warranty.

Another hole in my pocket....

And the bloody ppl didn't upgrade my RAM! I'm going to call to complain tmr. And argh... like that I've to go down Sim Lim to get my RAM done...

Oh btw, I'm a HP/Compaq supporter when it comes to desktop/laptop =P