celebrating a girlfriend's birthday

jaime's birthday - dim sum and tea

love my girlfriends...

So...

So i'm busy at work, really tired most of the time, and easily irritated by people. not pissed or anything... it takes too much energy to be pissed. just mildly irritated all the time. but then... irritation is just irritation. there's big irritations and small irritations. small irritations i get over fast. of course, i'm not so high-and-mighty to think that i don't irritate people... surely sometimes other people get irritated with me too! oh well... i'm sure the friendships that i have and treasure are strong enough to withstand all this crap that i go through.

so... however, on the bright side, got a lunch treat from big BIG boss for participating in the our divisional taskforce last year... and all of us got $100 worth of robinsons vouchers! WHEE!!! i'm rather pleased with that... bettina go shopping now...

SO... my face is getting better! THANK GOD!!! the medicine really worked wonders... compared to last year, and the year before, and the year before that... this is like a miracle... no disgusting rotting thing on my face, no huge scab, no scarring!

so... i feel like going drinking... but i have no time. maybe this weekend i will make time. jasmineeeee... we should go... :)

PMS

i just feel like complaining...

this one particular consultant... said he'd treat us... but never planned anything, wanted to go to macs or bk, then when we said no fast food, wanted to bring us to a hawker centre. ok. imagine how will a hawker centre treat work out for 1 guy treating 8 ppl? option 1: he goes around and buys for everyone, option 2, we buy our own food, pay for our own food, and claim money from him. up til lunch time just now, we still had no idea where we were going. finally decided on going to killiney kopitiam. and guess what... cos his boss was there, she paid for everyone instead. sooo... he didn't even treat us to lunch. his boss did.

bah.

it's not the lunch treat that is the point... it's not even where we're eating that is the point... it's that i can't tell if he really wants to treat us to lunch. if he doesn't, then why bother? the lack of thought into this irritates me. think people shouldn't say they're treating if they are not. and if they're treating, actually think about where would be a good place to bring everyone, and whether the people they're treating would like it there. else treat for what... no point.

bettina's PMS rantings.

boo hoo hoo

bettina is sad.... bettina has a cold sore on her face... bettina gets one of these horrible things every year... bettina's not gonna take any photos until it gets better.

on the bright side though, bettina likes the doctor that bettina went to see today. with the amount bettina paid, bettina better get better in like 1 week max. the doctor gave bettina 1 day MC but bettina still had to work... bettina is not type A. bettina has no choice.

Long Photo Post

Got a whole lot of photos that i haven't posted!!!!!! Let's start from the beginning...
Pamper Bettina Day... a whole day of fun planned by Berinda... so sweeeet hor?
Beginning with a delish lunch at Japanese Dining Sun.


Look at the wonderful food!!!


Berinda says," You better finish all the food. Who cares about dieting..."

Next stop, a pedicure to soothe our weary callused feet...

My ugly yellowed toes before...

After: Pretty olive toenails


Last but not least, a ride in a chauffeur (haha edde's gonna kill me for calling him a chauffeur) driven car to our final destination for the day, Villa Bali.


Blending in with nature at Villa Bali


Happy Day!

Ok so that's all for Pamper Bettina Day.

Next, for some reason the consultants that i work with have been asking us out for drinks pretty often...

Here's one of the occasions... The guy in the centre is one of the new consultants on our project.


The reason for this drinking session is him. He's leaving for korea for a job posting... how lucky rite? haha

Went shopping with Jess and Wendy...

Nice pic of me and Jess... the colour effect was accidental... but i think it turned out pretty nice huh?


Me and Wendy... seriously... i think i look better on the right side when taking photos.... i must keep that in mind... haha


Pretty dress i saw at Zara... I wanna buy a pair jeans i saw there! no time to go back so far...

Most recently, on Friday, I went for my 1st fine dining experience... well... not really fine dining... it's more like fine dining food in a normal restaurant atmosphere.

We went to Saint Pierre at Central Mall... We took the degustation set... which is like 10 tiny courses... it's like a sampler set. Some of my favourite food...

Smoked Salmon Sashimi. It has this super long beautiful elaborate descriptive name, but i can't remember it. so yeah... smoked salmon sashimi. haha. The food looks pretty huh...


um... This is.... Lor Ar (as in stewed duck)... YES... stewed duck in a french restaurant... it was pretty good i have to say... but i prefer the one at the coffee shop near my office. haha.


Baked Cod... this was really good.


My favourite... Creme Brulee... This is the only place that i've tried that i don't get jelat after 2 spoonfuls. really smooth and not egg-y at all... ooooh heaven.


Procedeed down to Cafe Iguana for some drinks... trying to improve my photography skills on Marv


Our loving couple... Marv and Mich...


Shuy and me...

oh yeah so that's like 3 weeks condensed into one post.

Work has been so busy these days. but it's a good busy. good to have work to do that challenges me. and my "boss" is really good too. he's great about questions... i can ask him everything. i like. hate to stay back in office though... but i guess it's life.

yay!

anyway the reason why i'm changing my blogsite is cos there are too many kids reading my blog... i'm sure u guys have heard me complain about this sometime... so anyway it hasn't changed much but i dun think anyone really wants to read my blog so much that they'll search me up on the internet... haha.

so long...

wow haven't updated in a while huh...

well it's not that nothing has been happening... it's that too much stuff is happening! and work is busy... so busy.

anyway... played mahjong... so fun. hate to lose... fortunately we play with chips only. haha.

Jac's leaving... i will miss her... everyone's leaving... and leaving me in singapore.

Berinda did a pamper bettina day. there's tons of photos for this one... i'll explain properly another time... words don't do justice to the whole experience.

Jaclyn Tay came to my church... she's pretty! very small sized... she looks a lot taller on TV.

gonna cook dinner for some friends tomorrow... sigh... singles nite yet again.

let's see... anything else? guy-that-i-dated-in-Santa-Cruz suddenly sms-es me... weird.

ok...next post will have the photos. :)

the life of an irritating guy

seriously, i wonder how people can be so irritating... i wonder if they do it on purpose... i mean maybe everyday they wake up and say.

"good morning world! i wonder how i can irritate someone today! let's see what i can do... i know maybe i can go to office, and slack off purposely. make sure that i don't have a computer terminal to use so that i can sit down next to bettina and stare at her computer screen for 15 minutes. yeah that sounds like something irritating that i can do! ohhhh... that's not irritating enough. maybe i can snoop around on the things on bettina's desk. hmmm let's wait til she's on leave so that i can flip through that notebook she always brings to meetings. oh and to make sure that i'm the ultimate irritant, i'll make sure i scold vulgarities all the time. F this, F that... yeah. i'm sure the girls in the office will be irritated by that."

can you believe that there's someone SO IRRITATING???? this guy is horrible. i gave him suggestions like why don't you try someone else's PC, why don't you go back down to your department. he doesn't even take the hint and go away when i ignore him blatantly. i asked him "um, so are you going to sit here beside me the whole day?" in a sarcastic tone before he went away.

maaaannn... i think he takes the cake for irritating-ness. tsk. why am i surrounded by irritating guys.

C is for Cookie, Cookie is for me...

I baked coooooookies!

From Left: Chocolate chip, Triple Choc Chip, and Chocolate Quakes

Yummy! I haven't baked in such a long time. Baking is so therapeutic. I love the whole process of baking... from mixing the dough, to putting it in the oven, and of course, the heavenly smell.

Don't my cookies look delish?

MoS on chu1 yi1

For some reason, me, jess and wendy decided to go to MoS on the first day with a couple of her friends... it was fun! but nowadays old already... cannot stay out too late... i get tired. haha


outside the MInistry of Sound...


Pretty lights that change colours!


Me and Jess being narcissistic...


the clubbing buddies.


i love how we can have so much fun together. *wink*


Cool water feature in MOS... yeah that's like a water curtain...not a very good shot i know... but it looked interesting... there's like lights flashing on the water and all. pretty.


Funky Retro room... look at the patterns on the wall!

We went to pure to get drinks. shared some jugs... played cai quan, loser drinks.


Jessica finishing up the jug... it's funny cos she kept losing... haha. so she kept drinking, and drinking, and drinking!

*does this count as a funny shot? i don't have alot of compromising shots wat... hahaha*


nice waitress offered to take the photo for us! we picked up those guys....NOT... those are wendy's friends. one of them has a very nice name... fu xin. means lucky star. such a "pretty" name rite? he says it's orbit to have a name like that... but i like the name! names should have meanings... next time when i name my children, i'll name them something meaningful.