a weekend of celebrations

Tis been a busy week!

At work, we've been cooped up in a conference room, cranking our brains trying to think of good ideas, better ideas, indexes, tables, shapes and sizes...it's been super productive, but also super exhausting.

On the life front, there has been tons of birthdays. i hate it that there are so many october babies. it makes me feel...not very special.

Except for my granny of course. I adore her, and we had a yummylicious dinner on sunday to celebrate her birthday. Went to the ulu-est of ulu places - sembawang bottletree. I've been there once with the cjgals and gang, so I know the food is not too bad, but BOY did we have a spread! We had lobsters, crabs, prawns, fish, squid, sambal kangkong, vege, pig's trotters, noodles and rice. Damn good I tell you!

But the day before, on saturday, was Surin's wedding dinner. I say dinner loosely because it's more like a wedding party! It was the most chilled out wedding ever, and the earliest to start (the minute you arrive, actually)!! I had a good time, though the weather was a tad humid. Better than the rain, I say.

Thinking of all the food is making me quite hungry. Haven't had breakfast this morning coz no time for our usual morning break. In fact, we haven't had a break for a loooong time.

Foooood..!!

Doggy Season

I'm really not good with a camera. As in, I can take a decent picture, but the main bane of it is uploading it to show the world, or even the decency to send it to those whom you took of. Even after you said you would.

Yeah, I'm one of those annoying people. I take photos and I don't send them, I don't load them, and in recent times, you can forget about developing them.

I'm terrible.

Louis, my pet, my beagle, my baby (although now not baby anymore), and some (my mum) say my son...has proudly turned 2! On 4 Oct. He shares his birthday with my dad. But since I'm not very enthusiastic about celebrating birthdays, I didn't even think much about throwing him a birthday party. I just let it slide. He's a dog for crying out loud. He doesn't even know it's his birthday.

Side note, remember in primary school, where you were taught to refer to pets or animals as "it" rather than "he"? Look how fare we have come. Never discount heartware.

So anyway, I have done the near-impossible and uploaded some photos from my camera to my computer in the office, much to the chagrin of my colleagues (cos i owe them tons of photos). So to make up for my dismissiveness of louis' 2nd birthday...

Behold! Louis Vuitton Lee Lu Yi.

his favourite "dolly-dollies"

he thinks the $2K massage chair is his.

he loves to look out of the window and he does this everyday, for a couple of minutes each time.
as to what he really see or is looking at, i still don't know. so we watch him look...

very intently.

his current fav sleeping position when we're not looking.

but most of all, he craves constant attention.

taking a breather

the colleagues and i have decided we'll take a short break after lunch to recover from the lunch trip out.

i'm so full. had this seafood crayfish soup that is quite yummy. and i didn't even know it was just around the neighbourhood. my neighbourhood, that is, at the 'end of the world' (according to chriz).

woodlands la...

so anyway, everyone is suffering from some form of post-lunch syndrome. kinda need to shake it off by not doing any work for a while. we've decided to start doing proper work at 2.45pm.

i have trouble opening my eyes. long story...but my point is, i can't open my eyes properly. they're quite heavy, my eyelids. baaah...

oh yes, the colleagues and i have laid down some ground rules so that we can all save money, or rather not spend unwisely. we'll only eat out at most once a week. every fortnight, we'll have a Bring Your Own Food (BYOF) Day. and we put a cap on the amount we can spend on junk food supplies in a month. we even have a fund for it. cool eh?

save money people. it's always good to start saving. i really wished i'd started saving money much earlier. imagine if i had started saving just $100 a month from the time i started teaching tuition...i would have had about $9000 by now!!! woah...

so start saving.

a movie date (finally)

it's been months, perhaps even a year or more since i stepped into a cinema to catch a movie. so naturally, i was looking forward to and really glad to catch one with the colleagues.

so we watched "cloudy with a chance of meatballs" yesterday. it's the kind of show where you just go in, sit, laugh at times and not have to think so much. it was an alright movie, but it's the company that counts. twas fun.

so there...my first movie in a long time.

after that, i headed home. gave louis a nice long scrub-down.

oh, and louis tore at the pillow mum gave him. it has a hole now, with some missing fluff.

-give up-

a new look

how d'ya like the new look?

refreshing i think. though the problem with blogger is that if you are html-illiterate like i am, choices are somewhat limited.

well, i just thought the backdrop looks rather nice. gives a peaceful, serene feel to it.

and i ought to update some links and stuff...but aiya, you know how lazy i am. actually lazy with the added chore of having a slow laptop equates to nana-don't-feel-like-doing-anything-to-her-blog.

i'm not at home.

that's why i can do this.

i'm not supposed to say that i am at work because this is definitely NOT how one spends her day at work.

so i'm not saying anything.

except that i like this new look.