The thing about Singaporeans

I've this colleague who is a Vietnamese, but grown-up in Australia. He was telling us that he became quite skeptical of Singaporean girls because those that he came into contact with were either...

1. SPGs
2. only frenly to expats but rude to locals
3. unfriendly to any guys who casual-talks to her in the office
   

etc etc.

Actually for number 3 I can totally understand cos the girl that he is talking about is pretty, those kinda girl that lotsa guys will be after, even if she has a boyfriend, so the % that she got to know some jerks/freaks like Marcus (that I suspect until now Merv still don't believe it happened to me), and it's like once bitten twice shy. But for the rest... I think he's just plain suay that he hasn't met nice Singaporean girls.

He commented that it made him quieten down in the office, which makes me understand why he only came to say hello 1 wk aft I came into the company, when I was sitting right behind him.

And later on he started saying that Singaporean men are too submissive, always begging, and trying to please their gf/wives. I told him I can only recall knowing 1 such person.

I wonder if we are making bad impressions on these expats in Singapore here. Or is it that it's just coincidence that my colleague is meeting all these weird ppl instead of normal Singaporeans like me?

Heartbroken

when I saw my friend being so thin....

I think he at least lost 15kg due to his cough & viral infection, can only see the outline of his bones from his t-shirt... really didn't know what to say when I saw him open the door... too shocked for words

And when I was updating Aimei I even teared, guess I really got a shock. Luckily he's on the way of recovering.

Get well soon my friend! Though I know u don't read blogs. =P And this year round will be different cos we're going to his house for countdown instead of Aimei's! Heh

Feeling dumb

ARGH! I feel so pissed off!

I was thinking SGD has increased in value against pounds & Euro for the past week, was afraid that it'll drop against them, so I asked my sis to help me buy some pounds & Euros and the exchange rate she managed to get:

€1 = SG$2.115
£1 = SG$2.957

which I think is not bad actually cos I saw the exchange rate from Yahoo finance was around:

€1 ~ SG$2.110
£1 ~ SG$2.935

And now before I wanted to sleep, the exchange rate is:

€1 ~ SG$2.1005
£1 ~ SG$2.9155

quite a great difference for pounds... luckily I didn't change much (cos I wasn't feeling rich), if not I'll sure be even more pissed...

Long time no update

I think I didn't really have a real update for 2 mths already...

Anyway my trip offshore Aussie was quite fun, but I had seasick... So missed out in some of the operations, which required me to stay indoors, and staying indoors makes me feel nauseous.

And London was quite fun! Went Stonehenge! And this is the only good thing that my newer camera (but more than my old faithful Panasonic FX8):

Taking self potraits. Haha. But it's only useful when u are alone, and the people passing by u will think that u're taking photo of a weird place. Like when I took a photo of the Big Ben, like this:

There are ppl who siam the area in front of me cos they thought I'm taking photos in front of me... Haha

Anyway, short update. I permed my hair again. Lol. Expensive man, burnt a hole in my pocket. But yay, pay is coming early this month. Wahahaha

Jet lag

I wonder if I'm having it now. I woke up at 4am just now (from a sleep/nap that I started at 12.30am), and now I can't fall back to sleep... But I felt really tired just now when I went to sleep leh...

I shall try to go back to sleep again, hopefully... I've dental appt at 9am...

Anyway the London trip was fun!! Will upload some photos on Facebook when I get em

Photos from Perth & Exmouth offshore trip

Good day ppl!

I've uploaded the photos onto my facebook, go look at it!

If u still don't have my facebook a/c, add me at

My London trip photos are in there too. Sorry ah, too lazy to upload onto blog. Keke

In Perth domestic airport

It's 10.04am now in Perth. Waiting to board my domestic flight to Learmonth. Didn't know domestic flights not so gancheong. Haha. My flight is supposed to be at 10.30, and there's another flight in front of mine using the same gate, which is at 10.10, n they are only allowing ppl to board the plane now.

So I'm now relaxing at a internet kiosk which costs AU$2/15min. Quite ok lah. My hotel one was $15/30min, siao.

Anyway I tried to walk around Perth town area but quite late yesterday liao. Reach hotel at like 4+pm, but their shops are all closed so early, like 5+... luckily my hotel isn't v far away from town, so the cab fare was only AU$12, which I think is considered cheap here. I kinda appreciate the cheap cabs in Singapore now when I'm overseas.

And everytime I ooverseas, I'll sure overlook sth minor. This time round, I missed out my windbreaker. ARGH... Summary is I bought 1 sweater at a souvenior shop in Perth town area. But quite ex ah. But I'm glad I can find one. It was like 18 to 20 degrees yesterday and with the cold wind, I was damn cold lah.

Going offshore today liao. Hopefully I can learn lotsa stuffs there. And I heard of stories of (old and not pretty) female welder's underwear being stolen on board (and of cos, she knows the person who stole it cos they are all on board!) Hope this kinda thing dun happen to me though. Hehe

Happy bday to my mother and 3rd aunt!! (Sis u can show this to em if u happen to read this, hehe) Bon voyage to my maid!

Going offshore!

I admit, I kinda neglected my blog. And now I'm going Perth tmr, then offshore from Tues till Fri, back on Sat early morn, I'll even more neglect my blog.

Anyway I intend to take lotsa photos back, hopefully the plug on board can fit my universal adaptor!

Cya ppl next wk!

Eye for a Guy 2

I blogged about this show back in June 2005 when the show was on Channel 5.

Recently, if u get to watch TVMobile quite frequently, u shld have at least saw 1 episode of it.

I didn't realise that it was such a long time back until I checked my blog counter, and found out that quite a few ppl googled for "eye for a guy 2", "denise keller wolfgang bali photos" etc etc, which didn't happen for the past 2 years.

Conclusion: There are people who watch TVMobile, and becomes interested in the programmes that they screened.

Anyway I was on the bus with Zhao Yong the other day and they were screening this show. I was telling him I watched nearly the whole series when it was shown on Channel 5 last time, and said sth like it was quite sad for Howard since he can't show that he's sad nor tell his friends bout it, which is the same as what I had commented on the Jun 05 blog entry, but I totally didn't rmb that I did.

Conclusion: A blog is a good invention for you to recall what you were thinking or what happened 2 years ago. I used to write diaries, but I stopped cos I type much faster than I write. =P

See me morph into Zhang Ziyi and Fann Wong

Haha. This is hilarious. But I'm amazed at how they do it....