I am not dead!!!

Just tired... work is no fun nowadays with so much work and so many targets to meet.... but it is a better work environment now with some pests gone.. not exactly pests, more like back-stabbing bitches...

No mood to blog because after moving house, the comp is moved to a higher bar-top counter in my room with a super uncomfortable chair.. I rather laze in bed and watch my starhub cable than surfing....

One of the new highs is that I haven't even take any MCs till date since the year started, haha, it is certainly a major achievement...

Something unexpected happened today... I was just checking out on my hammies when I realized that there are hammies babies! My gosh... the 2 hamsters I adopted are actually 1 male 1 female?! There is a litter of 7.. still thinking who am I going to give them to...

Anticipation is here again.... with the bonus letter coming out anytime soon... there ain't going to be any wage increase so I wonder how small my bonus is going to be this year... after getting a whopping 3.4 months last year... I guess I am contented even with the .4 months. Haha guess I wont be telling anyone this year after the horrible lesson I learnt last year of trusting the wrong person with big loose lips.

My soon to be brother-in-law went to NATAs fair recently and booked me and the boy a Bali trip.. super cheap...4D3N, air fare included, stay in 4 star hotel , only $310 per person! How CHEAP is that?!

Oh yeah, my 5 years anniversary just passed... crossing my fingers that we can finally embark on a new life phase together...

freeze.....

It has started... first it was the freezing of head counts.... next it is the freezing of promotions for next year... next???? freeze the pay? freeze the bonus?

Think among the local 3, we are still quite solid... but the old birds keep saying that it is the end of pay increments and bonus.. nada...zlich... sigh.

Am I sitting on my bonus?

Just 2 days ago, my department gave us new office chairs. Brand new, sleek office chairs. Branded office chairs. They look so professional that you know it will be expensive. It is expensive because it comes with its own instruction manual on each chair. To tell you how to operate it. Which knobs to turn, which lever to pull.

On the instruction manual, I saw the product was from Herman Miller. So I went to www.hermanmiller.com  and guess what?

(this is not the exact photo of the chairs we got, but it is similar) It costs a whopping US$679 per chair for the model we got. Ok, this may be the retail price and not the corporate price. But how low can the corporate price go? So it supports the lumbar ( spine) and keeps you comfy.... but seriously, don't you think I am literally parking my ass on my bonus?

Then 5 days ago, they changed my pc. So my screen got upgraded to a 17 inch and I have a brand new CPU which runs faster and yada yada.... but my old comp was working fine!

WHAT ECONOMIC RECESSION?! I sure hope that I am not sitting and staring (literally!) at my bonus vanishing into new black sleek machines.

You -Owe - Me Bank! I want my bonus!

December is looming!!!

December is finally here!!! Yippee!!! Why? Haha a myraid of reasons... Already one happy event is happening this week!

This is a boliao post actually.. I am bored... hubby hasn't come home yet... he told me 15 mins ago that he is stuck at the causeway. Sigh.

the irony of neighbourhood shopping centres

When I was living in Balestier, my neighbourhood shopping centre was Novena Square, United Square.... 5 bus stops away from Far East Plaza.... 7 bus stops away from Heeren... , a trip to town, literally means driving for 10 mins to Orchard or even GWC.

Now? my house is a mere 3 bus stops away from CCK Lot 1.

Anyway, i borrowed my mum's ezlink card today and went to Lot 1 with my maid this evening. Had a good time buying junk food at the pasar malam... my favourite taiwan chicken fillet... taiwanese sausage... ramly burger.... woohoo.. it's ironic because I am a fan of taiwanese food but a stauch hater of the taiwanese beng living in the same house.

I hate to be the whiner who is complaining about living on a mountain... I am just bored. Bored because my boy is in Malaysia without me!!! And I am to be blamed for that, seriously. because he literally begged me to go with him and his whole family.. but i said no... why??? because ......

1. I have to wake up at 6am on Sat to leave the house at 7am... Hello?! I have been waiting to sleep in since MONDAY!

2. In a confined space with his family? 3 sisters? their family? Loud voices? Loud Malay Voices? Nooooooooooooooooo.

3. Staying in a house with his parents, sisters, brother, nieces and nephews? Sleeping in separate rooms, sharing room with dunno who? Noooooooooooooo.

4. Fighting for bathroom space with a sister who notoriously spends 2 hours in one? Nooooooooooooooooooooooo.

So Malaysia? Nooooooooooooooooooooooo.