just came back from dinner with Gaz and Ah Zai. Today, was a Total bitching session. for some weird reason, the 3 of us took turns scolding or bitching each other for every small thing! Since i was early, i decided to go to Paragon for some window shopping. Was extremely distracted by the Straits Times photo exhibition and wandered over to take a look. It was really interesting and there were so many cute photos.... And i didn't know that Singapore went through so many disasters and riots. I didn't know that there was a bomb blast outside the MacDonalds House (at Dhoby Ghaut) in the early 1940s or 50s lar. And there were so many riots that happened... There was also this incident where a Dutch family gave away their daughter to a Malay family before the WWII, but apparently after the war ended, they wanted their daughter back! Waaaaahh, you give people already can ask back one meh..... These people ah... too much lor. Then there was some distress or riots over this incident ok! Singapore's history is richer than i thought...

My favourite photo was one of Goh Cheok Tong and some other ministers who attended some event at a country club, then the photographer told them to sit on this shallow plywood box because if they stood, they would be blocking the sponsers logos behind. But.......... the wonderful shallow plywood box was not designed for 4 guys to sit on it, so it obviously gave way... so the photo captured was really cute and candid!

Gaz and i then walked over to Lucky plaza where we wanted to eat the "Ayam Pengyet" - Smashed Chicken, on the 4th Floor, but our clever Ah Zai decided to take the bus 167 from Yishun area which happens to take like, a million years to get to Orchard. So we only managed to get to Lucky Plaza at 830pm. Which the store had closed by then. Walked over to Scotts where we shared some Nann and 3 curries between us and i forgot how filling Nann can be! Gaz then bought some Roti-boy for me to try and that was super filling too. Ah Zai told me to help him get the Lemon flavoured Qoo drink, but when i went to the drink counter, i saw 3 different Qoo drinks on display but i could not seem to find the lemon flavoured one. So when the guy took out a can and i saw this lemon logo on it, i said, "Yeah thats the one". But..... it actually turned out that i got "Orange Blast" instead of the lemony flavoured one. When i brought it back to the table, he was upset that i got the Blast instead and i defended myself by saying that there was a lemon logo on it.

The lemon logo turned out to be an image for the sentence, "this drinks contains 1/2 the vitamin C of a lemon" (substitute the lemon word with the small lemon logo).

Chey............ how i know.... Got lemon i thought correct mah... So bimbotic. :P

After dinner, we walked over to Paragon (again!) to meet 2 of Gaz's friends at Coffee Bean, where i realised that i really do not like the drinks at CB. There didnt seem to be anything that wasn't too sweet, not chocolatey, not coffee or tea. There was Snapple and a small bottle of Mineral water for $2.50 (Not even Evian, still dare to charge this kind of sky-high prices.) so i settled for plain water instead. Again, on the way to Coffee Bean, we continued our bitching to each other and attacked each other relentlessly. We concluded that we were behaving that way tonight because we were missing our usual punching bag (a certain someone. haha!) so we ended up taking it out on each other. But it felt pretty good actually. Keekkekekeee!

My office collegues
Yes, after working for about one week, i realised that i have not talked about the people at my office. There are 2 girls who have been working for our company for about 3 plus years, the Secretary/Personal Assistant is a really funny girl, and makes more of an effort to try to talk to you and get to know you better. Let's call her, hmmmm.............. Lady. Erm, apparently, the other female designer calls her that. i dunno why, must be like how i call Miffy "Woman!" or something along that line. Except that im more ah lian. Anyway, the female designer, Hungry, is always hungry. She is quite skinny but toned as well. Heard from Lady that she apparently plays some sort of soccer (not those type of English Premier League football one) and swims often.

There is also a new freelance girl who comes in at flexible hours and works with us for project basis. Hmmm... Call her..... Shawl Girl. Because she always wears a shawl to work. Was from Malaysia and became a Singapore PR more than 10 years ago. She was very unhappy at her previous company and worked there for 5 years before deciding to make a change in her life! Quite easy to talk to, except must converse with her in Mandarin. Which i am so bad in. Caught her staring at my eyes very closely before and when i asked her what was she doing, she said she thought that i had put really heavy eye make up! *Bish!* I didn't know my dark eye rings could have the smokey effect!! Hahahaa!

Last collegue is a new guy who manages site and basically anything my boss asks him to do. His name is extremely similar to mine, in fact, its the male version of my name, EXCEPT that...... His name is missing 1 N, when it should be spelt with 2. After a while, i asked him whether he gave himself that name or it was his parents. Apparently its him lar.... hmmmmm... Anyway, its not really fun when there are 2 collegues in the office with extremely similar sounding names, and not to mention that LOTS of people pronounce my name like his. So i always have to listen up extra hard and wait for someone to call me twice before i realise that they are calling out to me. Miffy suggested that my collegues call my by my Chinese name. NO WAY MAN!!! so i proposed that my other collegues call him by his Chinese name. Cant really remember his Chinese name but i know it sounds like Yong Yi or something like that. So we call him "Mr Easy" - Rong Yi (in Mandarin). sounds a bit wrong, but never mind lar. haha...

Ok, off to feed my chinnies and to bed!