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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Shanghai Trip 2015 - Day 2

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Day 2 we went for breakfast first then took cab to Yu Yuan. Breakfast Shen Jian Bao.

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I felt it's a little oily but still quite nice.

Yu Yuan is quite a tourist place, very crowded. You need to be careful with pick pockets. A lot of local snacks as well, you can also purchase souvenirs there.

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If you are at Yu Yuan, must not forget to eat the Nan Xiang xiao long bao there! It's the best xiao long bao I ever ate.

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At night we went to bund to see the night of Shanghai.

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Shanghai Trip 2015 - Day 1

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We planned the trip for Mother-in-law in May, just realise I didn't blog about it. Not just that my post are getting lesser.....

Shall not give myself too much excuses any more.

This trip is a short one 4 Days 3 Nights, reason being this is consider our 2nd time going out of Singapore with MIL. We don't know how she will behave and if she has the energy to follow us through a long journey. Location selected Shanghai, reason being my MIL only eat chinese cuisine unlike my mothers who eat any cuisine. Furthermore we wanted to bring MIL to somewhere she has never been before. Taiwan & Hong Kong she went with her friends & siblings before. And I haven't been to Shanghai too so final decision was Shanghai. Hubby has been to Shanghai once in many years back then for business trip. He did want to travel out of Shanghai, I told him not to do so reason being this trip is with MIL better not get too much travelling around.

Same thing Hubby did the research and arranged everything. I am just a follower. We took Singapore Airline to Shanghai, reason being there was promotion and also MIL haven't take SQ before. Who knows on our flight to Shanghai, the flight engine got some problem to start. We were disembark the plane and wait for repair. The whole journey was delayed by 3 hours.... We only manage to reach Shanghai at 4.30pm when we suppose to reach at 1.30pm.

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1st day was a little unexpected for the delay, we also met the off work/school crowd at MRT. Check-in hotel room and went out looking for dinner.

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We went Hai Di Lao for dinner...yum yum....but got long queue. Hai Di Lao arranged many activities for you while you wait for your table. You will not get too bored, there's free manicure, free change face performance, movie on tv, table games...etc

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They enjoying performance while waiting.

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Food was yummy after that we had a walk at the East Nanjing Road where our hotel was.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Looking back.....

Didn't realise it has been quite a long time I didn't blog....wonder why? I used to love writing down happenings in my life, my feelings and thoughts. Where has that part gone?

The tiring work life and turn me to a walking zombie I realise. Doing anything during weekends seems to make me feel tired. All I wanted to do is to rest on my sofa and watch dramas. There has been many happenings in life the past 2 months that I would like to blog but just couldn't pick up the heart to do so.

Sudden feelings makes me log on to this page again, wanted to note down some unhappiness. Working at this company has been close to 14 years going 15th soon. Looking back the job has turn me to another person. I have been through hard times at work, there was happiness and sadness moments. Many people come, many people left the company. Good colleagues left but I am still here. I no longer have any strong feelings when someone close resign, I even will ask the close ones to leave this company soonest.

I don't hate the company, I hate the management. I always believe if the management are good the life of the staff will be better. That's why leadership is important. As days goes by, I couldn't see my future in the company. These days there's always an anger in us that couldn't be release out. People being not co-operative at work and managers doesn't know how to handle the situation. Are they so lousy in managing? Or they are just simply ignoring?

Well whatever it is, I think I should learn to not get bothered by all these people. I know it's hard but that's the learning process of being a better person. I have learned from a previous manager "don't let the situation make you down, learn to turn the situation to your benefit".

Believe stress is good to you. Turn stress to motivation. Work is only just a small part of my life. My bigger part in life is my family & friends who really cares.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Labour Day

Had a meet up with the PSB group on Labour Day, when was our last meet up? It's like years! It was kind of a last minutes arrangement. Thanks to Kelly who suggested to meet up and find a location that we can have a quick lunch.

These guys are still the same, didn't change much and so is there job. When we first started studying, we all was hoping that getting the cert will hopefully help us to be able to find a better job. Haha who knows after 10 years we are all still doing the same job.

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Kelly bought her son along, he isn't shy when he meet us which is good. He even get along really well with Adrian Lim. Haha Ben was always staring at Kelly's son with envy hoping his own son can quickly be that big enough to take care of himself. It's like a quick update during the lunch session,

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Even Kelly and me don't always meet up nowadays too, last few months we wanted to meet up but her schedule couldn't make it too. She changed quite a bit started doing sales at her old job and now seems like she will start doing MLM sales too. Great change for her, guess it will be better for her too.

Hope our next gathering will not take years to organise. But it was nice to see everyone once in a blue moon too.

After the lunch meet up I meet Hubby and have our afternoon tea at Blooms Bury Bakers, it's our 2nd time there and we still enjoy the cakes & coffee.

Relaxing & enjoying Labour Day. Happy Labour Day to everyone!

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End of April

Without much notice it's already the end of April?! Wow time really pass damn fast. Is it due to the busy schedule in life that makes us think that way? But anyway I'm glad that April has passed, why? I was damn stress over works and I didn't quite enjoyed the month of April. haha

As mentioned in my previous post I went for the excel course this month, it was damn stressful to go back to study and sit for an exam. What makes it worst was I had my 1st day of mense on the exam day! Nearly wanted to give up taking the test and ask for retest. Luckily I still make it for the test and got myself 94 marks! It was really a great relief for me once I saw my score as the passing score must be 75 and above. Crazy right? But I'm glad it's over and I have gotten some useful skills.

Just before the test I decided to do some exercise to release out the stress, so one of the weekend hubby bought me to punggol end point for cycling! It was a great work out and I enjoyed myself cycling along punggol end with great view.

Not forgetting to mention I love the bicycle! It's so cute! How I wish I own such cute bicycle.

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After the ride we had our sinful dinner....hahaha back to square one.

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Other than the stressful work and study there's also a little bit of fun stuff happened in April. One of it will be the Dinner & Dance! This year theme is back to school, ok it's really boring theme. And our dept usually wouldn't dress according to the theme. haha

Camera whoring in office while waiting for the others to finish their work.

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At the event hall the crazy girl at school...Mark Lee was the special guest that night. We didn't quite like his performance, it's kind of boring actually...haha

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Photos taken at the photo booth, this year is also the last year we attending D&D with Zenn San. She has just resigned and last day is end of April. Although it's hard to say goodbye to her, she has been Kai Xin Guo at work. Nevertheless I wishes her all the best in her future, hope we will still keep in touch. We will sure miss Zenn San.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Stress Level HIGH!

Ok what happened to this April? Perhaps because last few years this period I will be away for holiday so I don't handle so many shitty event. But that really makes me hoping my real holiday comes soon!

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So what have I been stress with? One major event going on in June and a stressful studying month! As mentioned in my previous post I need to attend English course & Excel course. Given a tied schedule at work now I still need to study! Damn shag loh! The excel course is really not that easy, there's so much to absorb in that 2 days. Back home I really need to do homework and do revision.

Hope June, my birthday month to come real soon! I hate this April.

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Hubby's birthday ~ Closed Terrarium workshop

It's a Saturday, but unfortunately I wasn't feeling well that day so some activities I planned have to be cancelled. I booked a closed terrarium workshop for hubby & me that day. We wanted to visit a cafe for tea break before the workshop. But the cafe is holding a private event, so we have to travel out for a early dinner elsewhere.

Hubby always wanted to know how to do a closed terrarium, found out this workshop from "Make your own" from a TV program. If you are interested: http://estore.makeyourown.sg/

They have some event elsewhere so only available slot that day is 7pm. We reach there slightly early, get to look around the small shop. The lady there is quite friendly, she gave some brief introduction of their workshop. She also allow me to take photo of their display too.

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The procedure of making closed terrarium is quite simple. The workshop will last around 1 - 1.5hrs depends on your speed.

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Both of us finish our product quite fast, the staff there is very nice gave quite a few tips on how you manage your plant when you are back home. She even offer to help us to take a photo with our final product.