happy chinese new year

Oink Oink... Happy chinese new year to all!!! Have being too busy lately to update my blog, and think i'm getting old cos now i'm having short term memory, cant remember what had happened recently.. haha

I only remember that i have 4 tests coming up after this 1 week of CNY-cum-midterm break. sighs, and 3 tests are within next week!!!
Wish me luck... i need lots of, lots of luck.. =)

I received a sms from my cousin just now. she told me that bert had just returned from bangkok and had bought some snacks, but angie didn't want it and she told my cousin to give it to me.
HAHAHHAHA.. if it ends up that it is just a few small packets of snacks, then it will be very funny! LOL... i don't know why???

wish all a blessed piggy year 2007!

what an exciting and busy week!

Every saturday before RWM, xinhui, jane & i met for early breakfast. this idea is initiated by jane. well it is a great idea, since we do not have much time to really sit down and chit chat. thanks Jane!I've also learnt my lesson that i shouldn't be so kind as to give someone morning call, so unappreciative =(

Monday -
I saw Vivien again and her husband at the LRT station.. talk quite alot in the train since she's such a chirpy person.. and we talked almost everything under the sun.. she even shared with me her childhood memories.. haha
later on that day, met serena for dinner...actually it was quite a last minute decision to meet up. we went to cineleisure's HK cafe.. we ordered chicken congee, ham & egg sandwich, and guo tie and we shared the food. the food wasn't that bad, but after that i realised that it must have contain alot of MSG. my throat felt terribly dry and thirsty that night!!! anyway we had a long chat for 2 hrs.. and thanks serena again for the treat!

It had been a very busy week - busy with tutorials and preparing resume for the career fair.. edit and edit, finally done and went to career fair today! dont feel hopeful that i'll get a job through this career fair. after career fair, we went to mirama hotel for dim sum buffet @ 10.80 +++. the dim sums there weren't as fantastic as compared to yum cha.. after that we went to suntec to give dora a bday surprise. what a day!

good luck to all my friends who are applying for jobs.. and good luck to me too!

HIRE ME!!! (hahah)

time flies

I saw Vivien at the lrt station. what a coincidence! it had been 3 years since i last saw her, even though we stayed just a few blocks away from each other, i hardly see her at all. i used to assist her when i worked at motorola during the year 2004 before admission to NUS. we had quite a good chat during the journey in the train. hmm, time really flies - i'm now graduating soon; she just had a baby and she's still working at motorola.. haha

rwm started yesterday... different kids now but the same old volunteers.. xinhui was asking me if i'll still be going rwm once i start work.. of course i will, unless i need to work on saturdays..

exciting/stressful week

20 jan - met ying, shuhui, huili, huifen for dinner.. it has been ages since the 5 of us gather for a dinner, especially when ying is always sooooooo busy. indeed women are fickle minded creatures.. because we changed our mind from having dinner at bugis to esplanade, isn't it funny?! we were waiting for our turn to enter Ajitei Japanese restuarant, when ying suddenly mentioned about Ichiban Boshi... that's what changes our eating venue.. very fast right? that night was the day that ying decided to reveal the truth about her love life (after our interrogation)... haha

22 jan - after our CF lecture, val, dora, jill n i hopped onto jess's car and headed for the minds cafe. tuesday is ladies night, foc for the games.. the games there are quite fun.. other tables were like screaming on top of their voices, i wonder what game were they playing. is it that exciting? haha.. =)

tutorial starts this week.. all tutorials are super duper stressful!!! WHY??? is it because is level 3000 modules???

rwm starting on this saturday.. hope to see you guys again.. i think rwm is the only time we can meet each other, especially somemone owes me $$$ since last year.. now is the time for me to get my $$$ back!!!

gatherings

11 Jan was serena's last day of work @ slb. she decided to meet me together with my cousin for a dinner. end up it was treat from her! thanks. It was raining heavily but it did not dampen our spirits... we were suppose to go PS but ended up at SK.. but still we did have a great dinner together.. ate at wasabi japanese restaurant since sakae sushi was having such a long queue.. we ate and talk for almost 2 hours plus. in the end i realised that when my cousin got home, she had a scolding from her mum for coming home so late, it was only 10pm when she reached home (cos she needs to work the next day).. haiz... parents ah.. Serena! i'll be waiting for your call when u return back from China!

My other plans for the rest of this week:
20 Jan - meet my close jc friends for dinner steamboat
23 Jan - go minds cafe with nus friends


Happy birthday to shangmay! best wishes to you =)

thank you

i've left... and school has started.. kind of miss the life working as temp @ slb, but life has to move on..i've got to say thanks to those who have helped me enjoy my 3 months working there.

thanks to angie(lao lao) for giving me a chance to come back to work during dec holidays!

thanks to bert(dong chong cao) for all your wonderful & expensive lunch treat, you are definitely a great boss!

thanks to serena & shirley for being such wonderful friends.. especially during the meeting at the hotel, i can feel so strongly the motherly care and concern both of you gave me.hope that both of you will find a better working environment and not in a "niao bu sheng dan" place like changi again.

and

thanks to some other staff working there, though there's a few who i feel utterly disgusted with..=)

A pity that serena had deleted the photo which we took together..

happy new year

Hi folks, Happy New Year!!! It is year 2007... a new beginning for all of us, let the bad memories fade away and bring along the good memories to this New Year.

Glad that the outing i planned is successful... xinhui, jiahui, shangmay, jane, yaohui and i finally met on 27th Dec! Yes!!! Sebas is missing from this outing cos he is always so bussssssy... (anyway outing without him is still fun. haha..)
we did not go to mind cafe instead we went to eat steamboat, which xinhui suggested. We had steamboat at RajaInn which was located in Tiong Bahru Plaza. Buffet and ala carte are not worth the money so we chose steamboat set for each of us. jiahui, xinhui & i chose the tomyam for the steamboat soup, while yaohui chose chicken soup. The 4 of us were sitting at a 6-seater table, cos jane and shangmay will only join us for a while. And so we ordered 4 sets and supposedly to have only 4 bowls of rice but end up they serve us 6 bowls.. so the 2 extra bowls of rice can be considered free.. haha. the tom yam is too hot and spicy for me so i ate up my rice quite quickly and of course I took another half bowl of rice. the remaining half bowl of rice is finished up by yaohui. with 1 bowl of rice left untouched, we ordered a plate of slice fish to go with the last bowl of rice. comparing with what we had each, jiahui & xinhui each ate only 1 bowl of rice, while I finished up 1.5 bowl + 1 mouthful of rice and yaohui ate 2.5 bowl minus 1 mouthful of rice.. haha However the ingredient for the steamboat does not have many variety but it still mange to fill up our stomach, overall the soup is not too bad. xinhui decided to treat us and refuse to let us pay.. soooo jiahui & I had to resort to tucking $$$ into her bag secretly.. haha I managed to do it successfully but in the end xinhui saw the $$$ in her bag when she went to Guardian to buy something. we went shopping around tiong bahru plaza for a while ( it's my first time there) then after that we made our way home together. We had a great chat in the train and the next outing was...... steamboat at jiahui's house!!! Yeah!!!

The days are ending and school is starting soon.. i'm sure i will miss the days working in schlumberger. angie gave her approval to let my cousin replace me after i left.. glad that I helped my cousin to find a job since she had already gone for 15 interviews and yet not one is successful .. hope she will enjoy working there as temp girl. =)

Cheers to everyone!

busy week

i thought i can just work for the remaining few days or so in a relaxed mood, but sad to say my wish did not come true.. ever since shirley left, i need to help serena to consolidate the GST data which used to be shirley's job.. finally yesterday,IT person got me a laptop... and there i was, sitting in front of the laptop copy and paste, copy and paste....... on and on = this is my first assignment. The next 2 assignments are given by my supervisor 1) photocopy all expenses reports of 8 expatriates (i think this will take me at least 3-4 days) 2) consolidate all 2006 invoices that are going to be paid in 2007 in excel spreadsheet. Haiz... so sad right... before that i was like so free, and now i'm left with only 6 days to complete 3 assignments... now i hardly talk at all, and i strained my eyes too much that they turn red already!
At least my thai boss is kind enough to drop by our room and chit chat with us for a while.. he always like to ask me "Yi Lin! How are you today?" What am i suppose to say?! and so i always replied him "Okay loh" in actual fact the answer is "not very good" anyway i doubt he knows that i had so many things to do.. i was quite glad that i had such a good boss who is far better than the supervisor, who is willing to interact with his employees and he seems more like a friend, i think shirley & serena will agree with me =)

Last sunday went to jessica's 21st bday party. wow she's a rich girl lei, 3 storey bungalow and 2 cars somemore... wow wow!!! it was quite fun and her relatives are so funny.. but the heavy rain makes us tired cos we had to walk quite a long way in from the bus stop ( you know rich people drive car)

Results out on 26dec : post- christmas gift from nus haha.. hopefully i can do well this time...

i dont want to organise outing liao

After i told them to reply my sms asap instead of letting me waiting in vain for their reply... This time round, they really did reply very quickly especially sebas & jiahui.. haha.. But, this time the planning of outing goes haywire again... my goodness, i've been wasting so many sms.. maybe we are just not fated to have an outing =( but hopefully we can still meet up to go to minds cafe next week..

12 Dec, huifen, huili & i met up for a supposedly planned steamboat dinner, but the rain spoil our mood + huili said 3 people eat steamboat not very worth it and so we changed our plans to have dinner at marina square, cafe cartel. erhem, huili & i spent quite some time to walk from bugis to marina sq cos we want to save some transport fee. Anyway we reached marina sq finally, settled down and start eating.. huili & i were looking for the cheapest main dish on the menu... hahah.. after that we had cakes but when we were going to pay the bill, we then realised that cakes were no longer half price after 9pm... and so we each spent almost $20 for dinner. but overall, the time we spent together is very worthwhile =)

today, i get 1 whole day pay without having to work! Shocked!!! i was shock too... the company is celebrating high sales order achieved this year and so the whole company went to Changi Village Hotel to celebrate... No work today!!! hahah... i'm lucky that my boss allows me to go and still being paid. End up their celebration is almost 3 hours of meeting and 3 hours of friendly bowling competition. The remaining 2 hours are spent eating breakfast, tea break and lunch. my boss keep persuading me to join in the bowling competiton.. no way! i dont even know how to bowl and may end up causing the team to lose and furthermore i dont want to embarass myself.. haha.. i dont know what's the result as i left early

Irritated

All this while, i volunteer to help coordinates outings for friends but sometimes people tend to take things for granted. Sms-ing is the quickest way to pass a message, but still people take a long time, up to half a day to reply a 'Yes' or a 'No'. i couldn't take this kind of attitude anymore and decided to say this out loud and give them a good scolding...

It just happened today.... we're planning to celebrate xinhui's belated birthday, venue is settler's cafe. And of course, the birthday girl has to be free if not this outing will be meaningless. xinhui has to work and can only let me know when she will be free the day before, and she only inform me today afternoon. As her FOC secretary, i sms them and only 2 reply; until 10 pm still no reply from the rest. It makes me so so irritated, and this has not happened for the first time. previously i will sms them again thinking that they did not received my sms, and only until i met them, then i know that they had actually received it, just that they had not made up their mind yet!!! This is utterly irritating. i volunteer to help coordinate, but u guys just did not cooporate.. coordinating a outing is not an easy task especially when it involves more than 5 people. Now that i had said this out, i hope next time such things wont happen again! =)
{it's sometimes best to say it out loud instead of building up the anger inside without anyone knowing it}

Putting aside these unhappy things, i should say some other happy things. i went back to schlumberger to work again on thursday.. so happy to see shirley and serena again.. they still look the same.. angie, my supervisor was on leave for 2 days and yeah, it's gossip time for us threesome again.. when i start work the 1st day, our dept financial controller(boss), Bert treat us for lunch. We suggested going to changi airport to eat sakae sushi, but i guess my boss doesn't really like jap food (he's a thai) and so we ended up eating thai food, Sukhot Thai Express @ changi airport. He was really generous, guess he earns too much $$$ already... haha.. and so lunch including ice-creams for 4 of us costs a total of $107. Lunch takes for then 1 hour, and yet our boss doesn't seem like he wants to go back to work at all.. and he keeps asking serena if she wants to buy anything.. and what's more, there's a huge xmas tree at the airport, and he took photos for us threesome.. but he does not have good photographic skills, the photos are blur! (upload it when i get the photos)
feeling abit sad when i knew that 19dec is shirley's last day, she's going be HDB taitai, taking care of her daughter. i'll definitely miss her especially her laughter, it's contagious... i should get something for her, but what should i buy for her?(she's moving in to her new home in Jan)

{when i saw *** blog and learnt that *** is so closed to ---, i have mixed feelings... i dont know why }

The end of the semester

Yeah... finish my exams yesterday. But it was a total disaster. Sigh... The financial maths paper was do-able, similar to tutorial questions but if I was given another 1 hour, I would be able to finish it!!! I doubt anyone can finish the paper cos there was just too many calculations and all the time we were just punching the calculator for the answer.. On the other hand, the quality control paper was not as bad as the previous papers BUT we were unsure of the way we work out the answer. And when we compare each other answers, we had different types of answers. But what's done is done, I've did my best and hope that this time my CAP can improve.

That day at the volunteer tea, it was held at nussu suntec guild house.. Wow, guess the membership should be quite expensive.. activity they plan is ...... making noise by beating different instruments... my goodness! "noise pollution" lasted for 1 hour plus. It wasn't enjoyable(for me), i couldn't stand all the noise. but after that is eating time!!! yeah... We've waited for so long and our stomach were playing drums already ...fried beehoon, fried chicken wings, spring rolls, satay, money bag... Yummy =p Hey people, anyone able to eat chicken wings with only the fork??? Ok, I wasn't able to do that and of course I use my hands. and YH commented the way I eat and compare me with jiahui who is able to eat in a more ladylike manner by using fork... Fineeeee... this is ME ok..

After that is lucky draw, I won an organiser. almost everyone win something except for a few.. those who did not get anything were invited up to the stage. jiahui, huimin and phuihoon thinking that they may get a consolation price but haha.. they ended up being supporting actresses. A 19-year old boy who also did not win any price was asked to think of 3 ways to ask the 3 supporting actresses for marriage.. and of course they were so embarrassed... but overall it was a fun event.

And now is time to start planning for eating-gathering with huili, huifen and hopefully ying. hmm, Steamboat buffet we saw at the bugis and what else??? suggestions anyone? yum yum =p
cheers~

Finally back

It has been almost 3 weeks since I last blogged. Just mange to finish my first project and my laptop decided to rest!!! And according to the IT person, I have to wait for about 2 to 3 weeks for the hard disk to arrive. No choice but to wait... so I had to spend my time in stats lab completing my final codes project. Hmm... spend 2 full days in the lab, never get to see the sun set when going home.. so sad =( But our hard work paid off, we got full marks for the project. Yeah! During these weeks without a laptop is also a good thing.. I dutifully finish all my tutorials and assignments and also started revision for my exams early this time..

This coming saturday will be having Volunteer Appreciation Tea.. It's going to be fun, I hope..

Good luck to all my friends! =)

More codes to come

As planned, we went to Yum Cha this morning; reached there at 9:10am. Guess what!? We are 2nd in the queue waiting for tables and the queue is getting longer and longer... I've being there quite a few times, and this is the first time I saw such long queue. Maybe, tomorrow is public holiday and these people had taken time off to go there to have dim sum for breakfast. More shocking things happen after that... the waitresses were too busy to serve us that, people starts to self-service in a very kiasu manner. People were waiting at the kitchen door for the dim sum, and once the food are just pushed out, the next minute the food are gone! hahaha... that is how horrible it is today. And of course, those who are slow, will not be able to get the food they want. Since we undergrads are unable to compete with those aunties, we lose out. Everytime we join the crowd to wait at the kitchen door, we came back with only 1 or 2 plates. And of course, a few of the customers complaint; since we are paying for the service, why do we have to self-service?

Had a terrible time working out the codes for financial math module. Another project coming up! Codes again! And now this is for QC module.. and we have to run a total of 45000 iterations for simulations.. According to the lecturer's demo, his 10 iterations took up 5 minutes. Now I understand why he says group members have to take turns to stare at the computer!

I guess after all this programming codes and thousands of iterations, I will become expert in computing.. haha Hopefully, I will not have crossed eyes... X)

On the Go - eating and project-ing

I just have to blame myself for all the last minute work, and now... I need more time! Someone please help me. Among all these tortures in finishing my projects, I still manage to squeezzze some of my time to enjoy myself. hehe =)

Thanks to Dora, I'm going to Chinatown Yum Cha for the 3rd time! They were so excited when they heard about this breakfast dim sum buffet which is only abt $13plus per person and is very worth it. And yes, we are going there this coming monday!(before they close for renovation til 18Nov)
Before that, we were planning to go to Chomp Chomp for dinner cos Dora has never gone there before and the next minute they discard the plan and decided to go Settler's Cafe instead.. haha. And now it is because of me, since I have not gone there yet! My group of stats friends are just so funny... we can get soooo excited about food.

Yeah! 2 public holidays are coming up.. Suppose to go Gelare with my RWM friends this coming tues but just realised that no half-price waffle promotion on a public holiday! But.. almost everyone's not free except for a few of us.. No fun =( Hopefully xh can make it.(cross my fingers X)

Anyone heard of VBA.. I need help! Have learnt so many different programming codes but this is the worst i guess. Imagine, writing codes for a finance mathematical formula.. faint...

Ok that's all.. wish me luck for my projects!

The Launch

Hi everyone! It has taken me quite a while to decide whether or not to start a blog. The main reason why this blog is created is due to the fact that this year 0607 will be my last year of study in NUS. Soon i'll be starting my worklife which means there will be no fun, no play and of course no time to blog. haha...

My 21st year in life has been really fulfilling. I get to know more friends in school and spending more time outside instead of cooping myself at home with my sister and cousin(speaking of my cousin... makes me faint!) =)

To begin with, I post the result of a personality test I did many weeks ago. Some parts are quite true while some have overestimated my traits. Anyway these results are for fun or maybe is to point out some characteristics of mine that are waiting for me to discover.

Your view on yourself:
You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.
The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:
You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.
Your readiness to commit to a relationship:
You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.
The seriousness of your love:
Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.
Your views on education:
Education is less important than the real world out there, away from the classroom. Deep inside you want to start working, earning money and living on your own.
The right job for you:
You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.
How do you view success:
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.
What are you most afraid of:
You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.
Who is your true self:
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve

Interested can visit http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx to try the test.