Tw Trip Day 4 (6 Aug)

Day 4
- We took the bullet train from ZuoYing to TaiChung
- Met a kind uncle (about early 40s) outside the train station and ask him for direction to our hotel.
- The uncle turned out to be a taxi driver and offered to bring us to Sun Moon Lake (2-way) at a cost of NTD3,000.
- Since it's quite reasonable, we agreed and he brought us to the top of the mountain of Sun Moon Lake and even bought tea leave eggs for both of us.

At Sun Moon Lake

Peacock Garden

Taxi driver's namecard - his part-time job is cut grass

Tw Trip Day 3 (5 Aug)

Day 3
- On our way to Koahsiung (KS)

- Took the bullet train to ZuoYing Station.

- It was raining, but not very heavily. We decided not to go to Fo Guang Shan, since it's raining.

- Walk along the Love River in the rain and Dream Mall in the evening.

The Love River

Dream MallFerris Wheel @ Dream Mall

Tw Trip Day 2 Part 2 (4 Aug)

Day 2 Part 2
- After the trip to Yeliu, we went to Taipei 101
- Admission fee is about 20SGD

View of Taipei

Tw Trip Day 2 Part 1(4 Aug)

Day 2
- We had breakfast at Dunkin Donut (opposite Rainbow hotel).
- Headed to TP main station to take the bus to Yeliu.
- We had a hard time looking for the correct place to buy tickets to Yeliu.
- Anyway, at about 1pm we are on our way to Yeliu. Journey is about an hour.

- Yeliu is a very very nice place with good scenery
- We are lucky that the day has a very good weather, with strong wind.

Tw Trip Day 1 (3 Aug 08)

Day 1
- Reached Taipei (TP) CKS airport at about 6pm.
- Took KuoKuang Bus to TP main station and took cab to Rainbow Hotel (@ Ximending -XMD)
- Hotel is clean and big for both of us.
- Unpack our stuff and we head for Shilin Nite market at Jiantan Station
- Had their must try oyster omelette, guan cai ban, something similar to satay and also the hao da ji pai (big fried chicken).
- Conclusion: the oyster omelette and the guan cai ban are starchy. Spore's style of oyster omelette is still nicer. Realise that they like to use starch in their food, even the fried chicken also uses starch.

Trip to Spore Flyer

Went on a trip to Spore Flyer on 28 Jun at 930am. It's an excursion organised by DOS-StatsClub. Staff only need to pay $10 for the trip.

Gatherings~

It's the time for gatherings~

All my friends have finished their exams and to those who have finished their honours year... congratulation! You are finally entering into the new phase of your life - work!

To some of my friends who didn't know about this blog:
- Time to start everything fresh and forget about the past. It's a new life all over again =)
- Yes, we are still friends. Once a while meet-up can help strengthen our friendship, doesn't matter if the sms was sent wrongly to you or not. =p

Gatherings with different grps of ppl :-
1st gathering - we met at vivocity for dinner and followed by a movie "Accuracy of Death".

2nd gathering - we met at riverside point for dinner and shopped around Central.

3rd gathering - we met at parkway area for dinner and shopped around parkway parade.

Next up, I'm planning to go Taiwan during the first week of Aug. Spending the National Day in TW for the first time. haha.

In 2009, we planning to go Korea together! Yes the four of us. It would be fun~.

Hmm, plans make life interesting.

Good luck to all who are job-hunting now!

Too lazy...

Guess I'm slowly becoming a pig. getting lazier and lazier. Prob 5 days in a wk, 10 hrs in each of the 5 days are spent working and working. As a result, during the weekends I become a pig. hahaha.

Hmm.. let me try to recall what have I done for the past 3 months

Feb - Chinese New Year
Mar - My birthday
Apr - April Fool

In Feb, I went to one of my colleague's house, somewhere in ulu sembawang. This is the first time I played Wii.. It was really fun.

In Mar public holiday, I went to another colleague's house, somewhere near Joo Chiat. Also went there to play Wii.. Yes, it was really fun.

I also had a surprised bday cake from my colleagues. So surprised that I did not know what to say. haha

No shuai ge but got mei nu.. hahah... =)

the start of 2008

Newbies will auto joined the so called "Stats Club" and newbies are supposed to organise annual function... So there I was, visiting one hotel after another for 3 consecutive days after work..

ever since work has taken up 1/3 of each day (weekday) time just fly very quickly.. looking back to the days when i was just a fresh grad and now i have actually worked for more than half a yr - 7 months.

Soooo do i still continue to work for the rest of my lifetime?! hmm, a question to think about.

Up next, I nearly fainted recently, while on my way to work.. haiz, it happened again..

And we are suppose to go to TW for hol in march, and we even went to tour agency to check out the price... BUT, TW having presidential election during that period so our plan was cancelled. =\

It doesn't seeems to be a gd start for me in yr 2008..

Learning Journey

10Nov - Brought the kids to Central Fire Station. The little ones were having a wonderful time, esp when the firefighter allows the kids to hop onto the fire station to have a feel of how it's like up there.

17Nov - Attended Mentoring workshop at SCS, it was a good lesson... Not only learn how to be a better mentor, but also learn how to speak in a more appropriate manner. Our group - Young At Hearts comprises of sebas, hongchuan, yaohui, 2 HSBC officers and me. We had a fun and great time.

23 Nov - Had a dinner with my colleagues. One of them says that i dont have the traits of somebody from chij st joseph's convent. haha.. so how am i suppose to be like?

My mother is worried that i cant find a bf, she has being touching on this topic for quite a few times. constantly reminding me to keep a look out.. hahhahaha...

Good luck to those having their exams, see you all soon!

Influenced

I just did online shopping recently, under the influence of Alicia. It's her first time buying clothes online, and she influenced the 3 of us - peiru, weini and me. The 4 of us were like "wow! This is nice, that is beautiful" Ok, it's really cheap but we were taking the risk of paying for clothes that may not fit us, even though the measurements are stated clearly in the website. Nevertheless, I ordered 3 tops and 1 dress. The clothes are shipped from Taiwan, so it will take at least 20 days to receive the clothes. Hmm, I can't wait for the clothes to come.. =P

Had a 2hrs badminton game with my colleagues at Tampines. It has been such a long time since i exercise. Surprisingly i can still play well. hahha..

After the game, we went shopping ard tampines, majority of the time we were visiting shop watches. peiru & I were surprised by the questions asked by Shi Jian regarding watches. He asked them, so this watch is quartz, automatic etc... questions regarding the mechanism of the watch.. unlike we girls only looking at the exterior design, and not the interior mechanism.. hahha

2007 is ending soon and here comes 2008... Time flies!

friends for life

Friends add colours to our life, they add laughter, they share problems, they lessen worries, they advise...

Come to think of it I had 4 main group of good friends:
1)JC friends,
2)Sec school + Volunteer friends,
3)Uni friends and
4)Colleagues-friends

1) We meet up often, sharing our gossips & life with each others. Mainly gal talk but we have never-ending things to talk about, even thou we are all busy with our own stuff now
2) We try to meet up, postponing the dates all the time to ensure that majority of us can meet up.
3) We make it a point to meet up at least once every mth for lunch (jess, jill & me) and
a weekend gathering if possible.
4) We meet up every working days during lunch time, and created a "ba gua ju le bu" aka BGB, chaired by zhenhui, who provided most of the latest gossip.

haha.. wad an interesting grp of friends.
i must mention something.. i found my confidente - peiru.. haha

graduation photos

With my family and relatives.

Photos with XinHui & Jiahui on Commencement 2007.

questions

Times flies... 3 months just flew by........

Waiting, trying, seeking, questioning....

Is this what I like? Are you the one?

Questions, questions and more questions????

long update

oops.. it had been sooooooo long since my last update.. have started working and tommorow is my 4th week. starting to doubt if i really enjoy what i'm doing. i still find that there's a serious problem in the way the work is managed and handled by the people.. i don't really like it, and hopefully, i will be able to adapt to these, if not, i guess i will just leave that place after 1 year.

it is hard to get a job, and of course we will treasure it, whenever there's a job comes knocking at your doorstep.. and yes i have this mentality at first that i will work at least for 5 years( i told myself that), especially after getting to know the people there after 1st day of work and realised that they are all nice people. but i guess things has changed. hope that everything will turn out well.

had a steamboat gathering at jiahui's house yesterday.. it was a good gathering, and i've learnt many things =)

graduration ceremony this coming wednesday @ 3pm. any of my good friends coming??? so we can take photos together. =)

i'll upload the photos i took in HK one day.. too many photos already! haha

happy ending

Overall hk is fun, but the air is hazy. 6days 5 nights is enough time to eat, sleep and shop. since we are not very rich people, we cant afford to eat in restaurants and so we spent most of our time eating in "cha can ting" for breakfast, lunch and dinner. on the last day, we concluded that we are sick of eating french toast, macoroni soup and rice. another thing is that their food are oily and salty; and there are hardly any vegetables.. haha

ever since we return from hk, our luck had somehow changed for the better. i had 2 interviews after i returned and the most happy thing is that i received a job offer from dept of stats. yeah! i'm starting work on 11 june and i'm happy with my pay. and unexpectedly i passed my exams especially the 2 mod that i worried most.

A happy ending!

friends for life

huili, huifen, shuhui, ying ying and I met up on 14 May 7pm for a dinner gathering. although everyone was sooooo busy, we made an effort to meet up. I'm glad that we are still keeping in touch with each other =) - friends for life -

time flies, we had known each other when we were in JC1. although our friendship has been less than 10years, to be precise, it's actually 6years; we still can be so "noisy" when we sit down together for dinner.

i'm flying to hong kong from 17th to 22nd may!!! finally i'm taking a plane. told my sister just now that we will fly after her O level and another time again in yr 2010 before our passport expires. haha and she asked me this: " you got money meh?" My reply was: "OF COURSE!!! by then i would be working already. =)"

speaking of work, i'm waiting for dept of stats to call me!!! i went for the 2nd interview, thought that i would have a higher chance of getting that job. although i understand that many people are applying that job, and i guess they are still interviewing the applicants. at least, please let me know when i will know the outcome! sigh, that's the frustration of waiting..

farewell

goodbye to uni life, goodbye to exams, goodbye to my grandfather..
time really flies.... The month of May is the time for farewell. Everything are coming to an end, a turning point in my life. what is exactly life? when my grandmother passed away many years ago, i was too young; too young to understand why, and life still goes on without any uncertainties and fear. but now the death of my grandfather, makes me wonder why life had to be this way - full of uncertainties and fear.

a long update

oops.. it had been a long time since i update my life.. 1 word to describe - busy! i guess everyone are busy too... after the tests, came the projects. and finally i guessed my body became too weak to take the stress so i fainted!!! and on that same day when i was rushing my project report, my laptop auto shut down twice... even a computer needs to rest, so dont expect a human body to work day and night without any rest.. so friends.. PLEASE REST!!!

supposed to go on a graduation trip with sokhui to taiwan, but i dont know too many of her friends who are going and end up when dora knew it she decided to plan one too, to HK.. and so within 4 days she planned everthing and tickets are booked.. budget is way less than $500 for tickets and hotel accomodation. so confirmed! we are going to HK on 17 to 22 may.. although i wanted to go taiwan more than to go HK.. but never mind i'll still enjoy myself. and today we confirmed that we got the quad room for 4 of us which will saved about $100 for each of us.

ok went for my first interview just on friday.. for the position XXX HR exec (statistics). I saw this postion posted online 2nd march and applied it. after i realised that the job is re-posted again on 23 march. anyway i went and it was a terrible terrible one. It's not a outram XXX but at redhill.. 1 hr interview, they asked me like how do i go about doing an analysis for example the labour trend, how do i predict, what factors to include and why.. so demanding right... after that i realised that this position is just being introduced, the job scope is super challenging - need to do research, read up websites, must be updated with current affairs, need to do report every quarter, half yr and ad-hoc when MOM, MOH requires it. i think this is a no day no night job... and after everything, they asked me if i still interested, then do a research on a journal related to HR and write a summary and submit to them... hahah.. do you think i will do that?!? of course NOT! their "challenging" job scope had scared me away, i guessed no other people applied this job except my friend and i. because....... my friend applied very late and she got the interview on friday (same day as me) and at 1030am. so my deduction is no other people applied and the thing is that, my friend and i are not interested in the job.. HAAHHA

anyway, going for another interview on tuesday but is under a agency.. research associate.. sounds so professional haha. abit sick of interview already, i can understand how jill felt when she went for a total of 5 interviews in 2 weeks. but good for her she got a job so fast!!!

hopefully i can have the luck to find one which i like and also the company willing to hire me!