Indian Club-bing again!

AD and I had a long talk in office after working yesterday and we got ourselves quite high on his bottle of gin. It actually tastes fantastic! We tried Red Bull, 7-up, cranberry and orange juices. We also talked a lot as well about ourselves, which was a very nice feeling to be able to be comfortable and open up. However sometimes I asked myself why do I have to hold myself back during the times I'm sober (I know the reason why, don't worry!) but it's quite tough at times.

Anyway how's work coming along? A few issues here and there, but really nothing major as compared to what some other colleagues are going through. However I think I am a little behind on work in terms of ideas (I'm involved in problem crafting, designing and copywriting of marketing collaterals) and things are going a little slower on that front. There isn't really much motivation for me to do them, so I hope things will pick up after a good rest this weekend. Not to mention that the true things I would like to do here in RP are nowhere near the horizon, making me sit down and contemplate how am I spending my time here.

Anyway it was a nice, long talk where the both of us talked about our life, our ideals and dreams It came to me that I am nowhere near them, though I think it might be some divine arrangement of fate for me to continue to meet people such as AD to remind me on my personal conviction of what my purpose in life is. It makes me think back of the time when MDL told me privately before I left my previous workplace that she sees things working out for me well in life. AD was also very positive, nailed that perennial low self-esteem in me again and encourage me to try harder which was very nice of him. However I am unsure but I continue to hold that nagging suspicion not to trust people totally, especially in the workplace where anything can happen. Overreacting? I'm unsure...

Anyway we went on to Ashoka on the recommendation of his friend and it was already 3 when we reached (opps). It closed at 4, so we bought 4 drinks and checked the scene out. I realise it's not my type though, where although the music was great (a mix of live indian and pumped english songs), the crowd wasn't fantastic and it wasn't sufficiently dark for my liking. We left at 4 and head to Raagawood which I felt instantly at home. Ah, nice darkness and strobe lights!





That's me and Annh (I hope I got that right), a bouncer there whom we've had a few encounters. Like the first time when I was totally wiped out and was puking like nobody's business outside the pub, it was him who noticed and got AD and KR's attention to take care of me. Very nice and sweet gesture! He subsequently remembered and acknowledged me when I went back the past 2 times. It's interesting to observe the positive power of acknowledgement.

I finally realised what a hangover meant when I forgot to pop my vitamin C pill after returning home at 7 and woke up at 1130 for a haircut. I was totally uncommunicative and moody and it showed very obviously when I had my Japanese class in the afternoon where I felt totally unparticipatory. Goodness!

Chocolates, Enrolment & Clinic Clarke Quay

JSC was very nice to give everyone chocolates as a happy holidays gift (the new academic year starts in 3 weeks) and I got milk chocolates! Yummy! (stares at tummy)


Since the academic year was about to start, we were roped in to help out with enrolling new students. Here're me and my colleagues goofing around:

LS and I!

FS (my reporting officer, opps!) and I!

CP (the incoming module chair: dun play play! like HOD) and I!

IV from Culture and Communications and I!

Then HY and I went to Coriander Leaf at Clarke Quay for dinner to celebrate her woefully belated birthday and then we headed to Clinic for a 1-4-1 happy hour drink. HY wanted to go home once happy hour was over (tsk tsk!) and I took my time to waltz to Raffles Place MRT near my old workplace. Laid down on the raised stone partitions in The CBD Square Area in Raffles Place to admire the skyscrapers. Nice! Such a pity K800i can only do so much.

Sigh! Youth and Life!

Foosball competition

I finally discovered where all the 'official' pictures taken during RP-wide events are stored in the network drive and found this picture of our pod (or office) that took part in the Foosball competition some time back. Haha!

WL, VT, VL and I fighting to the end. Guess who won?

I can't wait for them to upload the Dragonboat pictures! ;)

Asian leprechauns

Wedding dinners

Today I attended not one, but 2 wedding meals! One was a lunch and the other a dinner. The lunch was a relative's and I felt restricted in my behaviour as my parents were around.

My sister and cousins

The pretty air stewardess bride and not-sure-what-he-does groom.

My mom, dad, uncle and the bride's father

Finally today I realise my indicator for being high on alcohol - my ears turn a bright red at the back! Gosh!

After which I went for YK's wedding dinner at Grand Park Hotel. Here's me with my ex-big-boss SF.


Then there's JM and SR, which I purposely angled the camera such that I caught the 'natural' look of FC.

Then I asked FC, SR and JM to come together, framing the shot such that it caught KL.


Fun!

Blue Banana, YF

Yesterday (till the wee hours of this morning) AD and I painted the town red again! We first went to St James Power Station's Firefly, to find that it was CLEO's 50 most eligible bachelors' night and there was a long queue so we didn't go in. We went to Movida instead, though we were a tad early and the crowd there were executives in their early thirties. After a one-for-one drink (it was happy hour), we left.

We joined EG, my room mate colleague at this salsa bar at Amara Hotel though it was a tad too bright for my liking (give me a dim place with shiny disco ball, someone!) After yet another drink, we went back to our favourite haunt, the Liang Court area of Orchard. We didn't go back to Rangawood in the end, and tried Blue Banana subsequently. A cool place, good music and much physical action amongst the predominantly Philippino crowds.

The hot babes from G Clef!


AD and I having lots of fun.


So that's the night! I crawled to the last lesson of Japanese for this term at PYAESS and it was difficult to say goodbye to YF, a high school mate whom I have not seen for years and it has been fun to have met her again. She's moving to another school so that she can attempt JLPT 2 at the end of the year. Gambatte ne!


Tomorrow! Two wedding meals and a holey wallet. Sigh!

MayDay is coming to SINGAPORE!

http://ginrawks.blogspot.com/

ARGH!!! I WANNA GO!!!!

Our first night in KL!

By fluke we discovered this fantastic Japanese restaurant and bar serving fantastic food and excellently-mixed cocktails!We drunk ourselves silly and had great fun! :)

Gate Closing .. Gate Closed .. Departed

I slept so early and almost immediately after I had my late dinner at 9pm yesterday night (thanks to swimming after 3 straight tiring days as emcee) and missed AD's call to paint the town red. Sigh! Nevertheless with that early sleep meant that I woke up early, just in time to send HY off to Washington D.C. Wow!

Gate closing...

Finally gate closed..

And believe it or not it took another 30 minutes or so before the plane took off. I think poor HY's fuming on the plane as she was in the queue for an hour while checking in. Have fun!

Symposium

We just ran a successful 3-days symposium to discuss the latest developments in Problem-Based Learning (PBL). Before the show, I was busy with compiling and printing the proceedings and survey forms. During the show, I was co-emcee with WS which I think I did a terrible job in and after the show (that's now), I'm going to crunch survey form data. Totally wiped out to the max I must say!

This is JSC with her symposium pack. I haven't got mine yet!

That's me with a new colleague AGL, with whom we make our days go by through hurling insults at one another.

That's JSC once again and with YC, our newest colleague and a person whom I met when I came for the interview last year. Welcome on board!
That's me and VL and we came in right at the beginning of the year together at the same time.
Without flash..

And now with! WS, the chief emcee for the entire event. Although he is very good and very experienced, he was willing to let me the underdog share parts of his scripts and possibly dilute parts of his show. My respect to him on that.

It's over!

できれば

できれば、

什么 will not be a problem,

什么 will be delights,

什么 lights up the future,

什么 heals the wounds

Some party!