New Toy
I have finally gotten my new lappy today!
Much smaller in size, definately easier for me to carry to and fro office!
Me is one happy ger today!
Wheeeeeeee..............!
Happy Belated CNY!
Sorry peepz...been kinda busy all these while so..
Here's a Happy CNY to all!!!!!
Hope everyone will have a Prosperous and Blessed Piggy Year!!!!!:)
Happy Valentines' Day!!!
Happy Valentines' Day to yr'all out there!!!!!
And don't forget Happy Friendship day too!!!!
Lostsa hugs and kisses!!!!! ;)
Social Class
Lately I’ve been blogging quite frequently, not sure if that’s a good sign but there’s been more things to blog about recently other than work.
Sidetrack…I’ve recently been confirmed in my new firm…nothing to rejoice because there’s really nothing much to celebrate about. It’s only just a piece of paper really, no increments and no “Welcome to the family” speech by my boss. I still haven’t met her since day one…I’m probably too unimportant for her…
So back to what I had wanted to say…. I’ve been getting close to this Korean colleague of mine. Let’s just call her Miss Lifestyle, that’s because her backgrounds’ pretty much the high flyer sort of…branded goods, fine dining and insists on staying in the city etc….
Miss Lifestyle had wanted to go shopping last night, she being alone and her not having many local friends, I obliged to keep her company. She also invited her friend, a Hongkie, a fellow schoolmate from UK, for dinner.
Miss Lifestyle wanted to get a present for a friend, but she ended up looking at a lot of her own personal stuffs most of the time. She brought me to a few shoe stores that she frequents and boy oh boy…a pair of shoes after 50% still equates to about 10 pairs of charles and keith’s shoes! I felt a lil awkward and out of place. I mean, seriously, I’ve never really walked into any of the branded boutiques stores in Takashimaya all my life. Yesterday night was truly my first. The sales persons there provided such good services that I truly understand now the difference between the rich and the poor. IMHO, when u shop at such places where the cheapest item can easily knock u off a hundred bucks, chances are you’ve gotta have some money in your bank to afford these. And by judging that, the sales people will definitely put their best to serve u, hoping u might give them a tip or 2 and maybe come back as regular customers. You dun wanna offend a rich cash cow do u? lol…
Anyway, when her friend arrived, it was already 9 and we’ve just started dinner…I was absolutely famished. Apparently her friend had gotten a bad day at work and decided to go retail therapy and got herself 2 pairs of chanel earrings! Another Miss Lifestyle! Sometimes I do wonder if it’s me…..else y is everyone so head over heels over branded stuffs? Ohhh that chanel bag…ohhh…that LV wallet…ohhh that Fendi earrings…
I can’t quite understand why u would buy a 300 over LV wallet to have it be all soiled and oily with the handling of money with every lunch that u go. Is it for the brand? The quality? Or the self-consciousness? Same goes for a pair of shoes, would u rather buy one where u can wear literally for the rest of your life cos it’s simply too expensive to throw away, or u prefer to buy the cheaper ones where u can dispose easily when it’s spoilt and no longer in fashion? I’d prefer the latter….
I’m starting to doubt my feminism….either that, I totally belong to a different social class.*shrugs*
S.W.O.T
Had an interesting lunch session today….
My Korean colleague was introducing me to another colleague usually stationed in Malaysia and so we were gonna have lunch together when we saw our MD along the way. He then decided, as a nice gesture, to take us all out for lunch.
My Malaysian colleague, let’s call her Miss Bun, was having a mid-life crisis, according to her anyway. She just hit the big 30 2 weeks back, so she’s sorta experiencing this loss of directions being single and all not knowing what a single women like her can achieve now. She lingers on the fact that she’s 30, not yet settled down and still single looking for Mr Right when there are friends of her age all settled down with kids and stuffs. She felt she was missing out in some things in life, not knowing exactly what’s missing.
Though I’ve only just met her, she seems like a really nice person. Really out-going, open-minded, really westernized I would say. But, I can however, try and guess why she’s single. My guess is, she’s someone who doesn’t really like to be tied down. She likes to do whatever and whenever she wanted to. Being with someone takes effort, commitment and compromise. Through her conversations, I don’t think she’s that kind of girl who really wants to settle down. To put it blantly, she’s a party girl in my opinion, always looking out to have fun, to party and to enjoy every bit of life. I don’t think she’s one of those who would be home on Friday night with her kids and stuffs. She’s even all planned out her “activities” all the way till May. She’s going shopping in Hong Kong next month, Bangkok party for a weekend in April…etc etc…U think she’s ready to settle down? I doubt that really…..
Anyway as she was lamenting, my MD tried to give her some advices, the consulting way. Which I found kinda pointless, because if life could be so theoretical and to be applied and optimized using figures and charts, then there wouldn’t be wars, no poverty and definitely no hungry people.
It’s interesting however to see how my MD tried to come out with a graphical explanation, or rather a SWOT (Strengths,Weakness,Opportunities,Threats) analysis of one’s life and how we can set benchmarks through our lives, thus keeping us focused and working towards each goals…yahdah yahdah… All these seem so familiar coming from a consulting framework to analyse business processes etc etc. But can we really apply such frameworks to our lives too? I could only shrug and ”work hazard” is what came to my mind, but I’ve never really thought about life in such a way. If only we can predict what will or can happen next in life, wouldn’t life be perfect then? Bah…if only it’s that easy...And how does it help mid-life crisis? And what’s mid-life crisis really?
Well…what can I say? Until the day I face my fair share of mid-life crisis…I’ll know exactly what that means…..heh
If I could change....
With the festive seasons drawing so close, it’s typical to see crowds scowling and scurrying to get their shopping done.
I had witnessed the crowd last weekend cos I hadn’t had time to get down to some proper shopping until last weekend. Anyway, I’m proud to say I have accomplished my “mission”…finally…I didn’t get too many stuffs, the crowd was appalling, I simply grabbed what I can wear and what I thot looks good enuff to go out. I’m too lazy to look for something that I really liked. They either have no more sizes left, no more colours or blar blar whatever reasons. Hmm…I really can’t be bothered so I ended up getting all my items within a budget of 100 bucks! Great savings…haa….good for my pocket really…
The crowd was exceptional. Changing rooms were having long queues and typically, you’d have those people who ignore the sign that says “Maximum 3 pieces per customer”. You’d still see people with 10 outfits queuing up and totally oblivious to the 10 others waiting in line with only 3 outfits. I never quite understand why these people show such inconsideration to others, as if they’re the only ones living on this planet. I mean who doesn’t want to try on their clothes and get their purchases done? You’re obviously not the only one so why can’t u just show a lilttle graciousness? *sigh*
Even on trains now it’s all packed every morning. Still, there’s always some smart alec who tries to read the papers in the crowded trains. Can’t they wait till they’re in the office or at home? I mean, the train’s already packed like hell and you’re still trying to fight for space to read the papers? Sheesh…and of course there’s the usual “pole dancers” who refuse to let others share the pole which incidentally is for public use.
Singaporeans lack graciousness and lack consideration. If I could change anything, I would change these people. Change their selfish mindsets and get them to be more considerate and be more aware of others around. Although Singapore is a small dote u say…we must never forget how big the outside world is. We cannot constantly think only of ourselves and allow ourselves to be, Jing Di Zhi Wa- a Chinese idiom as being a frog in a well, comparing to how a frog living in a well can only see part of the sky from inside the well, not knowing how big the sky is outside the well. We do wanna grow into a better society don’t we?
Just rambling….ha…
