my hair stylist gave me this for my B-day prezzie. 

cute as it is, i really dunno how to use it. i mean... i can't wear it, nor can i place it with the rest of the Swarovski stuff.

hmm... i need to go and think what to do with it.

but it's the thought that counts and i'm glad that after 14 years, she finally got my B-day right. 

that's the main point. and i'm happy. 

someone i thought i once knew...

few days ago, i saw her. a friend. 

well, more like an ex-friend these days.

we were close in the old days. no... not the lomantic lomantic kinda close. but the can-talk-about-everything kinda close.

then she met a guy & asked for my opinion of the dude.

frank then i was, i said he gave me bad vibes. 

next thing i knew, i lost a friend.

over the years, i heard about him being abusive towards her... but there's nothing much i can do abt it.

i'm not sure what's the moral of the story to all this. should a friend be honest and risk losing it all? or shd a friend be diplomatic and hope for the best.

maybe there's no moral to this story.

i dun know. 

why are we so focus'd on the 8 prawns?

8 tiger prawns for SGD239. that's a lot of moolah.

all these talk about touting and over-charging...

but when the said hawker centre has more than 1 stall being suspended at any one time for touting and/or over-charging, then the more relevant question is, "so what has the authority done about it?"

if something has been done, why is it not effective?

in fact, what has the authority done about SLS (the mall that has just as notorious for over-charging electronic gadgets) anyway? 

gahmen shd get down to the core of the issue and flush out the bad blood, once and for all... not make a din out of one event, then forget abt it few weeks later.

and why is the National Environment Agency giving the punishment to the stall holder anyway?  you want to attract tourists into the cty? make over-charging a criminal act and get the mata involved.

imagine over-charging a grilled sting-ray & get 6 months of jail... nice. 

why am i holding so many accounts?

Ah V. mentioned today (quite incorrectly, of course) that i am holding a very big portfolio.

it's so not true. it's definitely not very big.

just big. 

just... insanely big.

and with the current cost cutting measures, i dun think i'll be getting much additional assistance any time soon either. 

(sorry G4, no position for any of you at this time.)

think i better start to farm some accounts out to others. or i wont have any energy left to enjoy my leave (that is, of course, provided i DO have opportunity to take leave in the first place). 

grrrr....

photo of the bride...

13th March... attended a wedding event.

from 6am till almost midnight.

energy depleted. 

but it's nice to see a happy couple, so i'm good.

toys for boys...

so these are some of the stuff i got for my godson over the past 2-3 months.


a bmw bike... a full Bosch tool set (complete with helmet and goggles, no less).


oh, and the Bosch tool bench too (err... i didn't quite get ard to take a pic of that).


of course, there are also toy cars... toy submarine... educational stuff... can't quite remember the rest though.


which brings me to the point, that in general, kids these days are hell lot luckier than when i saw a child.


all sorts of toys... comfort... and all those attention & pampering.


kids are going soft, if you ask me.


hope my godson doesn't grow up to be a tofu.

in CBD area, things that are tasty are never filling

had lunch with a friend the other day at my usual tea-tasting hang-out place.

she loved the salmon and the cheesecake.

tasty? i agree. 

can't say they served a decent portion though. 

i had salad with duck. well, more like salad with very few slices of duck meat. 

surgically precision'd ultra thin slices, as a matter of fact.

must make mental note to stock up some C&E cookies when i am to go back there again for lunch. 

Let The Right One In

one of the more interesting vampire movies i've seen in years.

not exactly a horror story. more like part horror, part love story. of a 12 year old boy and a 12 year old (well, more like 12 for the past 200 years) vampire. 

i like. 

it's nice to know how a small budget movie can still tell a great story. maybe some local film directors can go watch this film and improve. dialects and cheap anti-govt shots can only go so far. 

on 2nd of March...

- Citi reached USD1.20 a share;

- BOA, USD3.63;

- RBS? 29 pence;

- AIG posted USD62bio quarterly loss and asked his Ah Gong for another USD30bio (on top of the oledi ridiculous USD150bio ang bao lui);

- Iceland, an EU country, has an inflation rate of 18.6%. . .

- oh, and in Singapore, more than 10k workers are likely to be laid off during the first quarter of 2009. Usual average? 10,000 a year!



hopefully, one year later, we dun see this sort of nonsense.
*cross fingers*

do skin care companies employ english professors to name products?

"Epidermal Re-Texturizing Micro-Dermabrasion"

Yup... i'm staring at a bottle of fine sand-like thingy and that's what it's called.

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"Epidermal Re-Texturizing Micro-Dermabrasion"

heck lah, why can't they just call it scrub? like in the old days?

you wanna be specific? ok, "facial scrub".

more specific? ok... "facial scrub. fine". 

how much more does one require to describe these sand-like... scrub? 

and people say lawyers write incomprehensible stuff. 

Sheesh.  

my godson is growing up nicely.

you know you...

you know you:

- are getting burn-out from work when you actually look forward to watching " CATS"... which is still 3 months away!

- need a life, when you start to accept that 12/15 hour workdays are normal.

- got too many dvds when you realized that the stuff you bought 6 months ago are still nicely wrapped.

- bought too many Early Learning Centre toys when the manager said, "Sorry, but we really have nothing new for you. REALLY!"

- have friends who think you look like shit when they start to recommend you Woffles Wu. (you know who you are!)

- start to actually feel like shit when Kiehl's staff insist on giving you samples of their "Anti-wrinkle cream." (wahlau, this one i also can't get over it!)

ps: i DUN look like shit, ok? i just look tired. i look really really tired.