HELP! I AM DESPERATE!!!
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Hee! Like that title?
Well, have not been blogging for at least a week.. Why?? CNY Lor... Been busy visiting relatives.. and giving out ang paos..
But this year, me and Ck quite enjoyed our CNY.. Cos we spent the nights watching movies: "Love matters" on the first night and "Red Cliff 2" on the second..
It was funny cos when we told Ja that we were going for a movie and that he was to stay at my grandma's house with his jiujiu(s) and yeeyee(s), his comment was:
"Oh you and daddy watching movie? Can you pack some popcorns back for me?"
On the second night....
"Huh!! Movie again! You watched one yesterday already right?!"
(LOL)
Anyway, we enjoyed ourselves...
Finally got back to work mode on Thurs..
On Fri, I went for high tea at Marriot Hotel with my 2 buddies who are also my colleagues.. Felt that Marriot's standard has dropped.. but nonetheless, it was a good time we spent eating and chitchatting..
Well, after that the zone had the MARKETPLACE OUTREACH session at riverwalk.. I felt a bit out of place initially (hahaha) cos there were so many youths!!
But I was very blessed by the sharing as Ck talked about DESPERATION.
And indeed it is so true.. Dreams, Diligence and Desire can only bring us to a certain level, but it is indeed DESPERATION that will lead us to BREAKTHROUGH!!
One very good example is my fellow colleague who is also a manager..
He was very very very DESPERATE for his promotion last year. And out of his desperation, he, with his team of consultants actually broke through and did the what seemed impossible!
I am sooo happy for him that he got his promotion!! And i believe it's not just because he has always dreamed, desired or worked hard.. but truly he was DESPERATE! He gave himself NO TURNING BACK and NO OPTION not to get promoted! Wow!! And I think I just was not desperate enough for my promotion last year.
You know what?
For the first time, I am not afraid of saying
" HELP! I AM DESPERATE!!!" :))
Sign off, ♥ Eve
3:04 AM
Great Food (Part 2)
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Yeah! It was really great food at the leaders chalet on Tues..
Abundance was the word..
BEE HOON, CURRY CHICKEN, BBQ stuff.. THanks to Jason for being our main chef fot the BBQ portion. Someone actually mentioned that your FIRE is powerful.. minimum flame but maximum HEAT!! Wow! How to do that?
Anyway, we all suffered the aftermath of the great food on wed.... DIARRHEOA!!!!
EEKS!! I thought i probably ate too much.. I went to the toilet 6 times!! My maid 4 times!!
Then... I realised that Kenneth, Serena, Huijuan, Ruxin, Audrey, Derrick and I believe many more also had it!!!!
After some "investigation", we felt it's the bee hoon as my maid mentioned it taste a bit funny...
Thank God Ck and Ja were safe.. And the only similarity is that they did not touch the bee hoon at all! BUt they (esp Ja) ate tons of chicken wings...
I was still struggling till I asked my maid:
"Jona, how many times have you went to the toilet already?" (See, even diarrheoa also has the peer pressure element!)
"Maam.. i stopped already"
"Wow! Why so good?!" (As i was indignant about the fact that I just went to the toilet again!)
"Maam.. you want to try this medicine I have?"
I took the pill and VIOLA!!! I am fine...
Moral of the story: Maids can be quite or even more resourceful at times!! (LOL)
Despite this aftermath, I still have no regrets for the food I took on Tues.. Think it might be a good thing too cos garbage in-garbage out! No residue inside my body! YEah!! Can maintain my weight!! Hahaha...
Sign off, ♥ Eve
1:32 AM
Great Movie! Great Food!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
GOsh! I am sleepy! Just finishing seeing all the pics of Ruxin, Derrick and Karen's Japan trip.. So glad they enjoyed themselves!
Also saw the pics taken during my family/s early renuion diiner on SUnday.. Why so early?? Well, the Zou family going back Jakarta to collect Georgie Boy's Ang Pao!!!
Well, my team (or at least for myself) had a good time together today..
Watched Red Cliff 2 and it's sooo exciting and nice! I mean I never like this kind of show.. the first part was quite slow for me.. but I really dun mind watching part 2 one more time.. got a lot of thoughts.. at least i found some moral of the story stuff... but my guys hor.. sigh! really didint study literature!!! They only thought about the horse "meng meng"... the rice dumpling being given to Zhou Yu (about the Carboh a leader has to eat.. blah blah blah..)
Anyway, I learnt quite a lot from this show.. about leadership, how to fight a good warfare, strategy, relationships etc.. Think I need to watch again to sink in more... "))
After that we went to a restaurant at upper east coast for seafood.. forgot the name.. the place is set in a traditional house (somewhat like the Little Nonya show setting)We ate like 10 dishes!!! And it cost reasonably cheap for 3 crabs, drunken prawns, sald prawns, Venison meat, chicken, Toufu, 2 kinds of vegetables, LAO YU SHENG! Very filling and Yummy!
With that, we bought titbits, ice-cream and drinks and went back to the chalet for business planning..
Think while I am writing this blog, they are still "swimming" (if you know what I mean!) HEY!! ARe you reading this from the chalet now??
Later on (as it's 3 am now), I will be bringing Ja and Jew to the chalet for swimming and fun")) Bought myself a tankini cos all my swim wear were Bikini!! Wow! Now cannot, got tummy:( SO must cover that FLAP first!
Looking forward to that as it will be Jew's ever FIRST swimming session and Ja's FIRST after his cast was off.. Must get him to swim, not too strenuous and he needs to shed some weight!
BBQ with the CGLS tmr.. So I better sleep now..
NITE! (Those in chalet now and if you are reading this... DON "SWIM" TOO LATE!!)
Sign off, ♥ Eve
3:07 AM
Write down your vision. Make it plain!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Looking forward to my team's ever first planning retreat (today) cos it's already past midnight now:)
Why first?? Well, for so many years, we have been planning with my director's unit together.. It's been really good and enriching..
But this year thought it will be good to do things differently! After all, our God is a God of new things!
This year, I am not going to make things very long and theoretical.. instead, just simply planning that's enough for my team of FCs to focus on their vision for their business this year!
Bible did mention in Habbakuk 2... "Make it PLAIN".. so think it will be good not to be too complicated this year:)
Anyway, besides planning.. the key focus is to build team up in our synergy and bonding.. hence we are in for a great time of movies, seafood dinner, karaoke and some games at the chalet if we can still tahan! Sounds fun right??
Thought this is a kairos time to do it in this manner as the team is not too big nor small.. just nice for outing like this. Perhaps when we grow to a size of 30? THen most prob back to "Bintan style" again... (LOL)
Sign off, ♥ Eve
1:13 AM
The Pursuit of BEAUTY is endless!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Hee Hee HEe! ISn't that a very philosophical title??
Well, WELCOME TO MY NEW BLOG SKIN! All credits to Serena for helping to make us a husband and wife skin... THANKS!!
Anyway, I thought my 'skin' is beautiful till I saw Serena's!!! Wow! Awesome man!
Nonetheless, I AM SATISFIED AND HAPPY:))
UPdates on Ja..
He is off his cast already.. however, as the crack has not fully join back, he is still walking with a limp.. SO doc advised us not to let him walk too much and also to go back to school prob only after CNY!
Ja is HAPPY! I am NOT! It seems like this holiday has been especially long for him..
If he is not back in school, it simply means I have to keep him occupied with programmmes and to at least give him some home work to do..
Well, don't get me wrong.. I am not the kiasu mum.. but it's just that if I dont put his brains to good and constructive use, they will be used for other things like PSP and WII...
Recently he is bugging me for a laptop of his own!! Kids nowadays!! When I was his age, I was only consumed with paper dolls! (Or is it not??)
So, the thing is.. Ck managed to get a lobang for my Fujitsu laptop to be repaired (ie) to change a brand new original screen for only $300!!!
OMG! Why didn't the lobang come earlier??!! So now I have 2 laptops!!
Guess by now you would have known what I am planning to do right?
Yes, I will be putting my old one at home for Ja to log in to his www.disneychannel.com etc.. (of course only with my supervision!)
Do you think that boy has been praying hard??? I mean.. longer holidays.. a laptop for him at home... I really suspect he has been praying hard! The fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much!!
Sign off, ♥ Eve
1:34 AM
Ja's Recovering!!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Oh yes! For all Ja's friends out there... I am very thrilled to say that he is recovering well... Doc is quite optimistic..
Will go back on 15th Jan (thurs) to remove his cast and Xray and if the bones have healed, he will be totally off cast!
PRAISE THE LORD!
Soooo happy!
Finally he can go back to school and we can all resume back to our normal lifestyle again! YEAH!
Sign off, ♥ Eve
7:17 PM
Rachel is gone... just a day after Brandon...:(
My mum in law was quite sad as she has grown quite attached to the 2 rabbits. It seems like when one of the companions is gone, the other one will likely to follow soon after as they will be depressed by the death of their companion..
Anyway, this marks the end of the rabbits episode... Like "The Little Nonya" (lol)
We broke the news to Ja on Mon...
He was very sad.. in fact, he cried (not the wailing kind) but more of tearing...
We told him the news after his visit to the doc..
Thank God we had other things that day to cheer him up..
1) His new Ferrari RED F1 racing car bed came on Mon and he was sooooo HAPPY! (Will post pics when my new laptop comes)
2) we brought him shopping that day (in his pram of course)... and he bought a "small" toy that cost me $8.95...
As for my mum-in-law, cos it was quite traumatising for her to dispose the rabbit, we (all the Tan siblings) chipped in to buy her a new Samsung LCD TV that comes with a free Samusung Theatre system and camera... To chong(1) chong(1) xi(3).. meaning to break the gloomy atmosphere!
Sigh! What an eventful month! Yet again! It seems that my blogs can form a TV drama serial on its own already!
Anyway, I have decided not to repair my laptop... I am still under warranty, but Fujitsu said that my screen was physically damaged hence not covered!! (Who damaged it? I was just using it a min ago B4 it collapsed!)
So now I am looking out for a lower end lap top since they will spoil within 1-2 years anyway.. Perhaps DELL or ACCER again..?
Any suggestion?
Also, can someone advise me who I should look for to transfer all my data out from my old laptop??
And also to set up everything for my new laptop???
I am really very IT illiterate!
Help!!
Sign off, ♥ Eve
7:03 PM
REST IN PEACE (Part 2)
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Aiyoh!! Choy choy choy! Why are my first few blogs of 2009 so (Da Ji Li Shi)??
Sat morning...
My mum in law called and said that rabbit Brandon has died!!!!!!!!!!!
Why?? We don know??!!
By right, the rabbits are already 6 months old and have stabilised.. they are also very active and energetic.. WHY??
Anyway, Ck went to dispose IT off.. gross hor.. don ask me for details...(eek!)
Poor Rachel, she is 'widowed'... not that i am sure of their marital status... it's based purely on my assumption.. they could jolly well be 'platonic' friends for all we know.. But I doubt so..Hee..
We are now looking for GOOD people to adopt her... Any takers?
After reading this, some of you may feel that Evelyn is very unsympathetic.. still joking around...
Well, I am NOT an animal or pets person... i rather have more children than pets.. (sorry to the pet lovers out there)...
That's why I am not for the rabbits project right from the beginning.. SIGH!!
Anyway, it's over...
(PLEASE DUN CONSOLE JA YET, WE HAVE YET TO BREAK THE NEWS TO HIM!!!!)
To side track a bit...
P.S some of you are wondering about my wish list.. thinking that Evelyn is wow.. very on for diamonds stuff..
But the fact is when Ruxin asked me for wish list, I really couldn thinking of anything I really want except for the bigger place..so the rest are just to fill up the numbers HEE!
And yes one more wish: Ja to get into our dream school for his primary one next year! (Will add that in!)
Nite...
Sign off, ♥ Eve
2:40 AM
REST IN PEACE!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
It's really a new year! All things have become new.. Like what i have been confessing in last blog, my FUJITSU laptop's screen has cracked internally on the 31 dec 2008.
'docs' have said that the cost of replacing the screen may cost as much as a new laptop!
So it's still in'ICU'.. Sigh.. Dear laptop.. U have served me well (but too short leh.. Only 2 yrs!)
Nevertheless, rest in peace if u need to..
So guys out there.. Any good lobang?? Any UNI students with extra accout to purchase one more laptop???
Till then, i can only blog with my nokia E71.. And that means.. No pics!
So PLEASE HELP.....
Sign off, ♥ Eve
1:26 AM