The Past Two Weeks... A Summary...
still not updated anything lately... slacker... no lah... busy with a few things:
1. work, work and more work...
2. room packing... finally finished the CDs, DVDs and books... left with the bits and pieces here and there... mum's deadline of 10 Dec is this Saturday... decided to ask her to help out...
3. birthday celebrations (officially ended on Saturday, with KC (from Kuala Lumpur) here in Singapore to watch Rent)...
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met Mel and Pat for dinner at Tanjong Katong Complex... didn't know they have a Qian Xi Lou here in the dominantly-Malay area... anyway, the food was good and the company was superb...
dinner was on Pat as my birthday celebrations... while Mel brought me a "Dave Teo" signboard for my door... as well as a couple of T-shirts from BKK...
after dinner it was home for mahjong with mum... mum and i ended up the winners for the night... sorry dudes...
went to buy breakfast for the family... heard the "mai-ya-hee, mai-ya-hoo, mai-ya-haa" song around the corner... realised that it was from the childcare centre... kids nowadays are having much more fun than those of my time... hahahaha...
in the evening, met Ken, Clarence and Shaun for dinner at Oasis, before the David Tao concert... Ken actually bought a gift for me... so touched... *sob sob* thanx, dude...
R SMSed me in the afternoon, asking whether i'll be home... he later drove to my place to pass me a birthday gift... so very very touched... *sob sob sob sob* thanx, pal!
in the evening, had my birthday dinner with my family, including my uncle... traditionally, uncle will give us ang paos for birthdays... no exception this year... dinner was steamboat buffet at Copthorne Hotel... great stuff...
my boss and colleagues did a birthday celebration for me... took me by surprise cos boss told me that there's a meeting (apparently with the new girl who just joined us today)... i liked the cake a lot... and the pillow cases they bought for me... one says "women dream about love"; another says "men dream about sex"... how more appropriate can that be? hahahaha...
Christina, the HR girl, further surprised me with a tub of Haagen Dazs ice-cream... ooh la la... simply sedap... thanx, girl...
birthday dinner with Kerry, SL and LK... the four of us have been steadily meeting now and then for dinners, karaoke and movies... keep it up, my dear friends...
dinner was at Swiss Culture, Suntec City... we had so much food... i enjoyed the cheese fondue very very much...
SL, who just returned from his holidays in Las Vegas and San Francisco, gave me the Madonna Hung Up US maxi single... wonderful remixes, especially the Chus and Ceballos one... SL also got me the Kung Fu Hustle DVD... hehe... LK bought me a box of chocolates, knowing that i'm a chocolate monster... Kerry already got the bedsheets for me last Thursday...
we had so much fun eating and chatting... SL surprised us with more chocolates from America as desserts...
it's been great birthday celebrations so far... enjoying myself to the limit...
it's just past midnight and my mobile phone started buzzing... SMS birthday greetings from B and SL...
in the morning when i woke up, more SMSes from Ming (ex-colleague), Linda (ex-colleague), Angel (my Sec 4 cousin), Eugene (running buddy), Kal (clubbing kaki), Vincent (friend whose nephew also has the same birthday on 30 November), Sarah (old-time friend), Arun (ex-colleague who's working in Australia), my elder brother and my sister-in-law in The Philippines and R (friend). And just before the end of the day, my colleague from another Department, K, also SMSed me... there were also email birthday wishes from friends... such lovely people i know... thanx a million, my dearest friends...
went shopping with mum at OG, Chinatown... bought more bedsheets... mum also went to buy mahjong tiles... nice...
the biggest birthday present that i could ask for was a phone call from my HK friend, Ken... Ken "disappeared" shortly after my return from my HK business trip in March 2005... didn't hear anything from him for a couple of months... was saddened by his disappearance... then a friend of Ken called to inform me that Ken was involved in an accident while visiting his dad in Australia... apparently his lungs burst during a diving trip and was hospitalised...
now Ken's up and running... back in HK... looking for a job... i was so glad to hear that he's fine now... and this must be the best birthday present this year...
had dinner with my colleagues... so much of negativity about the company... got affected by it... totally demoralised now... gotta start thinking about my future... promised my staff that i will at least stay until the end of the year... kept my promise... but now i'm not sure what's gonna happened come 2 January 2006... sigh... anyway i have to wait for the year-end bonus... also there's the 3 months' notice that i have to give... i wonder which company still practise this??
KC from Kuala Lumpur arrived in Singapore this morning... met him for Prime at 2pm... quite a nice movie... went to have mango dessert at Xu Liu Shan... expensive stuff... but tasty...
after that we met Kerry at The Heeren and we took a cab to Kallang Theatre... had porridge dinner at Oasis, together with Michael and Eddie...
bidded Michael and Eddie farewell and went to watch Rent... frankly, i was disappointed... somehow the musical lacks the punch and the power... when it was previously staged in 2001, i enjoyed it... of course, Karen Mok was a letdown... she simply couldn't and shouldn't do musicals... best to stick to her singing (studio)...
after that, we adjourned to Menotti (Raffles City) for coffee and cakes, before seeing KC back to the hostel...
it's such joy to see KC again... he's been travelling to SG now and then for the arts performances and the film festival... thanx for the support to the SG art scene... hahahaha...
woke up, had breakfast and started to tidy my room... managed to finish the books and the DVDs... so happy...
Mel, Pat and Andrew came for mahjong... as i couldn't play with them, they played with my mum... mum won, again... so far her track record has been 100% win with Pat and Mel... watch out guys... hahahaha...
after that we went to Chomp Chomp for dinner... lucky Pat struck lottery again, 3 times in a row... well done!! looking forward to more free dinners in the future...
came home... continued packing... slept... another week ahead...
God help us all...
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