Wednesday, November 30, 2005

work live work live work live zzzzz4ever

BrHd just gave me 2 more work scope (not assignments, but workSCOPE) today, not including the one i mentioned earlier abt the safety thing. Like dat oso can kana pull into yet another committee. As if my S/Hd's work i'm covering now isn't enough - barely coping, much less my own work... now have to do even more stuff. Still can insist that my D ordered him to want me attend and pass ISA course which clash with my BIG YAP thing in January, which i'm doing very much alone at the moment. Xiao boh...


anyway... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...............................................

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Work to live or live to work?

Tired, so this is gonna be short... maybe edit longer later.

After CGW and now student attachment over liao (except some loose ends haven tie up yet), thot can rest... instead got more work then ever. Now that YAP is waiting to run full-steam (and design companies r calling me up to ask if they've got the job - which i can't answer coz haven shown sponsors their works yet - which they can't coz they too tied up with events)... can't imagine how i'm suppose to make a miracle happen less then 2 months from now and make the event a success... but i gotta do it somehow.

The filming for the other aspect of the project is gonna start soon... again i'm like coordinating like siao. With my D happily telling them i'm the engine of the whole thing, i'm rushing to come up with material (as with YAP n interpretative signages - which i did almost all of them over Deepavali, Hari Raya n a Saturday in office), answering their queries, pleading with other divisions to let the filming proceed yet sensitive to their concerns and the film co. giving me details so last minute, and then i have to get everything cleared by another department so everything can proceed (and she had not given me the okay yet... later's the shoot liao... think i'm either gonna shoot someone or myself).

And now the LPS thingy is gonna start again... more mayhem and chaos... and i'm still coordinating the whole bloody thing alone, over 4 divisions and 2 contractors - islandwide.

Oh, not forgetting the H-roads and the recent fracas... had to argue with my AD coz he's so blatantly wrong over what was already set in stone - and he expected his word to overturn what our D, the planners, regulators, etc had already agreed months ago, and verbally wants me to do as he say. Now who's not thinking, and why didn't he voice out during the few times he ever looked at what i had proposed (he didn't even attended a single discussion, let alone know what's goin on). The hell with him, i'm not gonna let him ruin the whole thing and blame it on me. At least if i make my own decisions and is wrong, i'll gladly take full responsibility. Now that the legal AD is asking for opinions, why is my AD so quiet now? At least i've got a small victory with the rest backing my proposal.

And now, while my S/Hd is on leave, i'm covering and doing HIS work in addition to my own, which is quite alot.

And my AD still has the cheek to ask if i'm not overloaded yet, and that there's no such thing as being overloaded - he's a fine exampe... so many to do yet still can go home at 5.45pm. Yeah, that's b'coz he's nothing between his ears and let us do all the work while he uses his mouth. Now that he's mention that he'll want Jeff to concentrate on CIB full-time, i'll be taking over Jeff's committee secretarial role. Shitz...

40+ consecutive days of being in office to work or at least clearing some stuff... and still counting.


zzzz................

Friday, November 18, 2005

So touched n happy 2day!!!

I knew it was coming, but somehow was still quite taken by the warmness of my frens.

Today almost the whole of Parks West Branch and former Parks Recreation Branch celebrated my birthday during lunchtime in office! Didn't quite knew how it was planned coz i was kept outta the email loop, but we had 4 pizzas, some indian dough breads with curry, and a chocolate cake!!! They even switched off the lights and sang me a birthday song!!! Am so touched i didn't know what to say... was the first time i celebrated my birthday in years, and if memory serves me well, the first time in my 28 years friends gathered and celebrated my birthday together! And they even bought me 2 shirts as presents!!!

Dunno what to say... but this......


Thanks everyone for being there for me!




wah... darn tired. just got more work now that CGW will be over. Hope i can survive the madness!

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Song for past loves... n future hopefully, haha.

went to office today to clear some work after the crazy CGW week... this song was playin in my muvo2 and somehow it brought my mind back to the happier times past, seemingly so distant yet so much like yesterday. this song's a real melody for a loving pair duet, thru the odds, but just being with each other is true happiness as the rest of the world falls away...

we're all just strands of grass wavering with the winds of fate, so helpless in the storms of change, and that's what i leave myself to... might as well wave in full glory our fleeting fiery existence :)


"Come what may" theme song from the movie Moulin Rouge

Performed by Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, in duet

Never knew I could feel like this
Like I've never seen the sky before
Want to vanish inside your kiss
Every day I love you more and more
Listen to my heart, can you hear it sings
Telling me to give you everything
Seasons may change winter to spring
But I love you until the end of time

Come what may
Come what may
I will love you until my dying day


Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place
Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace

Suddenly my life doesn't seem such a waste
It all revolves around you

And there's no mountain too high
No river too wide
Sing out this song and I'll be there by your side
Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide
But I love you, i love you, until the end of time


Come what may
Come what may
I will love you until my dying day

Oh, come what may,
Come what may

I will love you, I will love you

Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place

Come what may
Come what may
I will love you until my dying day

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Happy Dip-avali!!

Funny... had wanted to go office do some work today and when walking almost to Gateway frontdoor, thought about the shut aircon and made a 180-degree U-turn. HAHAHA.

Well, at least i had some stuff with me to do, so went in search thru Suntec, newly-revamped Marina Sq and Raffles Linkway... darn, its so hard to find a coffee place with some quiet corners and cosy sofas, playin good jazz music without much distraction. Settled for a nice spot at Starbucky and plugged into Ella Fitzgerald's jazz (just splurged again on a set of her cds... maybe i should go get more at That CD Shoppe?? heheheh). Sat there for a good 4+ hours, accompanied by a grande cup of cappuccino which i forgot to add sugar and finished write-ups for 6 Changi heritage trees... whew!!! Well, 5 more to go at least.

Walked around the inside of Raffles City... haven explored that place since eons ago, and saw the myriad of Christmas trees, trinklets n decorations at Robinsons... and i thought "gosh... i've not celebrated Christmas for years"... Hmm... come to think of it, i've not celebrated anything much for just as long too, 'cept for Chinese New Year. Even i missed that one in 2004 while at Aussie, workin that day in the darn Jap restaurant. Well, eventhough i'm not christian, perhaps i'll add abit of festive cheer this time round. Even if eventually i'm goin round Orchard myself again, might as well make it a happy one.

NOTE: There's now a 50% off Christmas decorations at Raffles Place Robinsons (unadvertised), so grab some before they're gone!!!

And so, now i know why my wallet's gotten so worn. There's a small Christmas tree on my desk, and a pollyana hangin outside my cubicle wall, from Robinsons, decorated with my dips n other fruits. Just waiting for Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas album to be put on sale again...

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2 U!!! HoHoHo!!!
The Festive Spirit's for One n ALL
So Give Each Other a BeAr HuG
And Spread the Cheer!!!

MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! HoHoHo!!! :-D