Wednesday 31st August 2005
March of the Penguins!! So darn cute!!!!

Decided to catch the "March of the Penguins" movie and call out the usual gang... In the end, only Susie, Ah Zai, Don and I turned up for the 915pm movie because Miss What wasn't feeling too well but she kindly picked up the tickets for us (she booked them) despite not feeling well. When Miss What called me earlier in the day to tell me that she was not feeling well, I suddenly didnt feel well too! While on the way to town, my stomach felt queasy and i had a weird "airy" headache (which are syptoms of a flu) and by the time i met Ah Zai and Susie at HMV, i felt terrible.... Didn't feel like eating dinner at all, but i shared a bit of Seafood fried rice with ah zai, who also didnt seem to want to eat. Susie on the other hand, also felt like vommitting after having his prawn noodles.... This "flu" virus is worse than i thought! It could be spread over the phone! Haha!

Don was late so we walked into the theatre almost 10 mins later and we walked in to the theatre, hearing the Emperor penguins speak............ French. Wah...... so posh. Anyway, the movie was really interesting, a documentry that was well shot and they gave a story to it, so it wasnt like watching a usual documentry on Discovery Channel. The voice overs were a little irritating at some points, but the worse was the singing!!!! Dunno why, but i felt like the singer was a little out of tune.... Susie and i kept laughing at the lyrics of a certain song.... and when i saw how clumsy the penguins were, i turned to Ah Zai and said, "Hey!! You know what! I think im a penguin!! Im as clumsy as them! See, they also fall down so easily..........."

He gave me a deadly stare and continued watching the movie, so i turned to Susie and said the same thing. He thought i was mad for saying that i was a penguin. A certain part of the movie was really sad, which was when they showed a lost penguin who was calling out to his/her fellow penguins and my heart and stomach turned 180 degrees when i saw it, because it was really heart wrenching. Ugh...

It was really entertaining although i felt very cold watching the movie, dunno is it because of all the ice in the movie or it was really cold in the theatre....... After the show, we 4 were standing at the junction facing the Hereen and Coffee Club and Ah Zai joked that we should huddle together like the penguins in the show! And seeing that i was the only girl, he told me to go find food! (like in the show, when the female penguins walk out to sea to replenish their energy.) But the sequence of the movie was that the penguins will mate first, then after the female passes the egg to the male, then they will go out to eat.

So i said, "But.... but........ I thought i was supposed to mate first? Before eating??"

Susie gave me a super disgusted look, "Pleaseeeeeeeeee lor! Who... who wants to mate with you!!"

I just peng san-ed on the floor while i was trying to speak my last sentence, "You forgot to say the next line........ Don't give yourself too much credit!" Both of us stood there laughing like mad people who just escaped from the asylum and the other 2 just simply stared at us. In the end, we decided to hang out at TCC near Centrepoint till it was time to board the last train home.


Friday 2nd September 2005
Farewell lunch and birthday celebrations for Mr Easy

Today was a mixture of emotions for our company...... My boss arranged a supposedly surprise farewell lunch for Lady and Miss Hungry at some steamboat restaurant at Tanglin Shopping Centre..... the 2 who are leaving were totally clueless about the lunch and they only knew about it when their "Mummy", a fabric supplier who they are very close to, (and they call her mummy, i dunno why) called Lady to tell her that she will be picking us up. There wasnt enough space in her car so someone had to "tong pang" in Mr Easy's bike. Lady kept telling me to sit on his bike but honestly, i have no guts to yet!! I said that i will only sit on his bike after i get my bike license.... hahaha... So in the end, the brave Miss Hungry sat on his bike instead.

The stupid concrete floor in the restaurant was super slippery and i thought i was going to do a "Penguin fall and slide" action the moment i stepped into the place! It was seriously very slippery and the new anti slip stickers that i pasted under my shoes didnt seem to help at all. Had to grab onto the chairs of customers on the way into the private room.... My boss had arrived and was waiting for all of us. As usual, she was super hungry and ate so much! I dun understand why someone of her size can manage to eat so much and still look so good. Dang it....

Miss Hungry, Lady, Alice (the other freelance designer) and I sat together, huddled in a bunch and we kept laughing over rubbish like me telling Lady that we are "partners" (according to Mr Easy who keeps saying i am a lesbian, which is so not true) and that Miss Hungry was her old flame! So we kept trying to out-possesive each other by pouting and sulking whenever Lady served either one of us food first! Lao Ban asked Lady to tell her most memorable experience in the company and she mentioned about the surprise birthday party they tried to organise for my Lao Ban.... but it BACKFIRED big time when they called her boyfriend to ask him when was she coming into the office, but he said that they were going overseas!!! And my Lao Ban didnt tell them!!! Super backfire i tell you. I cant believe it. So they tried another time, this time planned with boyfriend what time to bring her to office.

They instructed him to get her to have breakfast at his house at 830am so they can come in at 9am... but my Lao Ban was so clever and went over at 8am instead! She tried to leave at 830am so her poor boyfriend had to stall for time by pacing up and down the house and mumbling something like, "I seemed to have forgotten something.......... but i dunno what it is..." Lao Ban was so exasperated with him and kept scolding him! So cute and backfire..............

I felt really sad that Lady and Miss Hungry have to go because we are starting to get closer now and i will really miss their whacky company. Lady also said that she felt sad too because she feels the bond between all of us now is one of the best she and Miss Hungry had, compared to previous collegues. Oh, and after our lunch, Lady decided to get a birthday cake for Mr Easy (his birthday is on 4th Sept) but i kept trying to tell her to do it on Monday and have a present as well, but she and Alice kept saying that it wasnt nice to celebrate after the actual day. After the super filling lunch, we all went downstairs and us 3, Alice, Lady and i were supposed to get into the cab but the other 2 kept wanting to walk off to Orchard side to get a cake! I had to stop them from walking off because Mr Easy and Miss Hungry were still standing at the entrance of the building, not wanting to leave because of the rain! So after squabbling for close to 10mins, we took the cab to Toa Payoh to buy a cake from BreadTalk.

The irritating taxi driver kept saying that he couldnt produce a receipt for me because he had closed the meter (when i had clearly told him before he stopped and he hastily pressed the stop button after i said that, hence not being able to print the receipt) and i told him to write one instead. But he kept making excuses that he couldnt get the paper out of the receipt holder and we all didnt have any paper with us, and me losing my temper, i just told him forget it and threw him the money. In my heated moment, i forgot to take down his taxi number. Oh well, i was not thinking straight.

After getting the cake and going back to office by another cab, it was close to 4m already. By 530pm Lao Ban has returned back for the surprise celebration but by 6pm, we were even more surprised when Mr Easy and Miss Hungry did not return...... So Lady had to call him to tell him to come back to office because she missed him, and he came back at about 630pm, after his site meeting. Afterwards, Lao Ban had to lie to him that she was going to call for an urgent 5 mins meeting because she will be busy on Monday and he commented in a mildly irritated tone, "Meeting? Now??" after he heard that. So all of us had to pretend to take our notebooks (I nearly couldnt find mine as usual!) while my boss ran to the conference room to light the candles. But she couldnt light them on time so Miss Hungry had to close the door on Mr Easy!

He was really surprised over the cake and my Lao Ban ended up the only one singing the birthday song in English and Mandarin for him.... I think he got stressed looking at the whole row of candles on the cake (29 already le!)......... After the cake cutting ceremony, Lao Ban chatted with us about some gossip and we left the office at 8pm..... to which i was too tired and stuffed to go for "Front Stence" combat class. I think i would have puked out my lunch and the chocolate cake on the nicely lacquered parquet floor in the gym.

Dad is back (actually waiting for my parents to return home from the airport) and hopefully will be going to Sentosa for a swim or cycle tomorrow!