Friendster

I was browsing friendster when I noticed the new feature it has - who's viewed me.

I dunno but I find that as some sort of invading privacy - I mean you will now know who has view your profile which might not be quite nice for the person viewing. If there's a stranger viewing your profile you tend to view this person's profile for the sake of curiousness. Then the person will know that you view his/her profile.

hah!

If i were to pick 2 things I can't live without (apart from families, friends, and animals of course), it surely are Panadol n Coke.
Woke up with a very bad headache that I couldn't hardly sit, let alone stand - I know that Im falling sick when it was followed by continuous sneezing. But life goes on n I can't afford not going to work today, especially when there's a new joiner orientation later n I have to present the enTime part. Simply forced myself out of bed n had shower n breakfast before popping 2 panadols. While I was in the train the pounding in my head reduced a bit - quite a relief as I was quite afraid I'm gonna make another scene by fainting in the MRT. Reached office and had a can of coke to booze my energy. It helps - still feeling headache but at least there's an additional energy thanks to the coke. I know its bad but at least I manage to sit still and start working.

I remember saying how much I miss coding. Well, today I wish I could take it back. Now that the HK's application is up and ready for HR to do a proper test, I move on to the next things to do on my list - interface and conversion part of the global financial system.

Couldn't really concentrate at work so I put on hold studying OZ's conversion scripts. It's so complicated especially with my not so advance Unix scripting knowledge.
Decided to convert their .NET programs to our version of .NET instead. Sigh - I thought it'll be a straight forward thingy with less complications. Boy I was wrong.
I simply stared blank at the list of directories of programs given dunno which one is the first project and where is the solution. Without proper documentations, I really dunno where to start. Well, I guess I still have to go through all the projects n see where's the head and tail of things.

And we thought using the OZ's application will make our life less complicated ...

My 1st wakeboarding lesson ...

Yupe, finally I DID IT!
It was my best experience EVER! - can't be compared with fencing, fitness capoeira, bridge climbing, kayaking, reverse bungee/sling shot, parasailing, underwater walk, banana boat or anything I'd done before - period! Well at least for now 'cos I haven't try bungee jumping and diving yet ;)

But it WAS a great experience for me since I've been wanting to try this for ages. Went there alone and met few new friends there. Basically it was a wakeboarding workshop and each of us had hands-on twice or thrice. Well, I still couldn't stand *grin couldn't even rock forward as I tend to pull the bar when u're supposed to let it pull u. Guess I'm used to pulling the bars in the gym that I did this automatically. The guys kept on telling me not to fight the water 'cos I surely wouldn't be the winner heeee.
After the session was over me and 3 other girls decided to stay back awhile and hang out with the guys there - we hop in the boat twice while they had their practice. One of the stance which looks like superman 'cos he's actually flying was totally AWESOME.
Drank lots of salty water as well - yuks! But I love it and we were thinking of signing up for the course. Well, I will sign up after ramadhan is over. Can't wait to be in the water again - hopefully this time I can stand for a long period, at least rock forward for more than 20 seconds ;).

should I or should I not?

A friend of mine message me to join her n her buddies at the club tomorrow nite. She's been asking this for weeks and I always find excuse to escape it. She even called last week asking when can we catch up. Now I feel bad that I'm thinking of going just for a while. Anyway, the place is quite interesting, always wanna see this place but going there alone made me think twice. Yes, I'll meet her there but still ...
should I or should I not go? *contemplating*
I guess if I go, I'll just make an appearance and leave early...

Already cancelled tonite's dinner with friends 'cos another auntie of mine had surgery this morning and I think this must be prioritize over some dinner. I hope my friend doesn't mind knowning that she purposedly ask me along so that I can make new friends there. A sweet auntie of mine will wait 'til I reach the hospital and accompany me visiting this auntie - thanks auntie pah!

Oh ya, tommorrow I'll be going for a wakeboarding workshop *woohoooo* FINALLY. I decided to go for the workshop eventhough none of my friend can make it and let's see if I'll find ppl there who's interested to sign up for the course.
And I've bought the ticket to this 1nitestand comedy for next week - with a bunch of ppl who I haven't meet before. Well, I know one of the girl and saw another girl's face during the dinner at chicos but other than that - zip. Getting more and more brave now huh! - I guess this is the only way to make new friends.

I'm in the mood of some italian food by the way - hmm, maybe should check w/ my flatmate if she's in the mood for some fine dining as well so that we can have a great italian lunch on sunday.

its been a hectic day yesterday and today - since I got time to catch my breath awhile, I decided to use it for blogging.
Went to hospital during my lunch break to visit my auntie. Its not serious but they just want to keep her there for observation for few more days I guess.
On my way there was when I realised that TTSH has been a common place to visit since last year when this same auntie was admitted when her vein in the brain bursted.

Time flies so fast that without realising it fasting month is just around the corner. Then I started to remember things that happen during the last fasting month. Its not my 1st time fainting - its my 2nd inside the MRT - but definitely the worst faint I'd ever experience and will never want to experience again!

I remember when I regain conciousness I was surrounded by a lot of people but I can't remember anything back then, guess I walked out of the train and followed the staff to a place where I could lie down. I remember crying in the staff room because I dunno what had happened to me - I couldn't recall what I did earlier (gym), where I was heading to (friend's house), and I simply couldn't recall what I did the night before (watching tv when my flatmate reached home). I remembered hearing my mum cried on the phone (baby, what happen to u - where r u - oh my god what happen to u?) when I simply couldn't remember calling my house in jakarta (i dunno, mummy is it fasting month? - mummy I'm scared) *see how when there's trouble mum is the 1st one to call*
What I did remember is the mrt staff all looked worried because I couldn't recall anything ;).
I tried to be calm by opening my bag and see whats inside - when I saw the gym clothing I asked the staff what day it was and called my gym friend asking if I met her ealier. That is when I started to get back on track though I still couldn't recall why there's a present with me.

Luckily my mum called my aunt and I called my flatmate when I regain more conciousness. They picked me up at the station n my aunt brought me to the hospital - there's a big lump at the back of my head that I was advised to had it scanned ASAP.

A year almost passed by and I haven't have the scan done - a friend reminded me to have it done soon 'cos there might be a clog or something else 'cos I kinda lost my short memory before. Guess I'll have it done soon after hari raya.

After quite a hectic day yesterday, i decided to have an easy day today. After all I've sent the files to US and can't do anything before they give us the feedback. HongKong hasn't reply my email which means I can't continue the configuration of the dB. IT hasn't finish configuring the new server so I'm left with more readings but I've been like crazy yesterday handling a lot of things at the same time that my body was shaking in panic while solving all the problems at one go. Hah! and to think what luck I have, just as my colleagues were away lots of their applications have problem.

Just finished watching episode 9 and 10 of the korean series during my extended lunch time *hehe. Plan to finish all tonite. It's quite a romantic story - well, typical of teenage drama. I always have a soft spot when it come to this kind of genre .. can't deny this - I love romance movies.

Just heard a news abt one of my friend. She had a bad break up early this year. Well, I always suspect that one day the guy will take advantage of her. She's so very helpful to this person, emotionally and financially, that I told another friend of mine that this guy is a definited bastard if he ended up breaking my friends heart. And guess what, he really did that! I remember the early weeks after her breakup and I can't do much, just gave her few encouraging words of advise. But I think they're already in an unhealthy relationship for quite some time that she could easily move on and actually have found someone else now. That's fast - considering I'm still the same single old me ;).
Now I hear that her new guy is a nice person who's also stable financially which means she can enjoy what she's been missing before. This new guy is quite mature and that he said he never thought he'd meet someone - he always thought he'd end up single, made me think that I might hear a wedding bell soon. I'm just so happy for her and I hope they last long.

well, I hope someday I can write my own story - not a bad one I hope

1.5 weeks of solutide and korean drama for the weekend

with my colleagues away for the training, Im left alone in this room - its freezing when u're all by urself in this place, and I have to cope w/ it 'til next wednesday.

Weekend has been quite a peaceful one, sunday that is. Went to the gym on saturday - was quiet sad that now the intro step was taken over by another instructor and apparently it's more to intro step moves than intro step. Not much movements being taught there and the last part of the class is for abs, I wonder how am I going to upgrade to the B/I class soon with this pace, I guess I have to re-arrange my gym schedule to attend intro step at other branch with other instructor. Heard toni's class is good - probably I'll switch to her class then.

Had done combat 25 twice! it was a fun launch especially when 23 and 24 is not that great. Attended the launch on friday at bugis where the instructors are aldressed up like ninjas :) There's a lot of new movements so its so fun.

Decided not to attend the mid autumn celebration with my friends and also said no to a friend asking to meetup for a drink - I just want to spend the weekend at home. But then my uncle called and I felt bad if I didn't go the the gathering at his friend's place :(
So after gym, I headed down to my uncle's friend's house - its her housewarming cum b'day gathering so we spent the entire evening listening to my uncles' karaoke-ing, eating and of course birthday cake - luckily I went to the gym earlier.

Sunday is - as usual - time for me to do my ironing. Plan to spend the entire day reading the book I rent. But my flatmate came in with this korean series and asked me to watch it if Im free. I started to watch episode 1 and the next thing I knew Im done with episode 6. Gosh - this series is actually a devil in disguise. I missed Gilmore Girls, Oprah - actually I didn't switch on tv at all. I even cancelled going out for lunch and just ate whatever left in the fridge.

Its monday now, and I just spent the last hour watching episode 7. After blogging I promise to have some work done before heading out to buy lunch and spend my lunch break watching episode 8.

oh ya finally, finally!! I managed to watch wicker park on cable. Nice movie - i like it a lot.
Basically, if u're destined to be with someone u'll end up with this someone, even when others are trying to break u apart.

I feel bad!

Just came back from our lunch at Kintamani. Quite sad now they no longer had asinan - my favourite dish. Since we ate a lot together with JN and HP, we walked back to office - quite a long walk from Havelock to Raffles Place especially that its so damn hot today.
Once in the office, still panting I started to work immediately just to be so annoyed with this IT guy.
He sent email saying that the notes dB has been copied to the server but he said he looked into the scripts and there is no need to install the Excel, therefore my request of installing it is rejected/denied!! wtf...

I replied asking him to refer to the documentation I sent earlier in which one of the steps required before running the application is to install Excel. My first email to someone without even a 'hi' word in it. I then went to his dept and approached his asst. mgr who actually went through the steps with me and said the next time I were to work together with him in the future, I give up. I totally give up working with this MCP.

Back to my dept. and asked my boss to read the email he sent. I also said that I give up working with this guy in the future - but jokingly and we laughed saying how annoying this guy is. The next thing I knew my boss called me asking if it is a must having Excel installed - so I went to her room with the documentation and showed it to her. She said okay, read the email she composed before hitting the send button. I thought she was sending email to this guy, apparently she's sending an email to the partner asking him to look into this problem. Now Im the one feeling bad as I'm the one who's complaining abt him.

I think I'm gonna fall sick!

Been on binged eating for weeks - I've managed to control this but now I keep on wanting to eat sour stuff. Spent the entire lunch time from one place to another looking for something sour. Actually I was in the mood of the mango salad they sold in Orchard and I know they have it here in SunMoon so there I went but apparently they no longer carry this.

I should've gone straight away to orchard n buy it instead of wasting my time searching for it around here to no avail. Well, I guess coke will do for now - it's always like this when I'm going to fall sick.

Called home earlier and managed to speak to mom. She just came back from Bandung and brought lotsa foods from there. She said how can she gave it to me when I was not around :(. Dad came back from Lombok last sunday and my sis said that he brought a lot of ayam taliwang which is delicious from there. I want some!
But I'll only be home for hari raya next month *sigh*. The main disadvantage from being far from the family.

After months of coming late to work, today I reached the office at 8.10 AM. Finally ;). Well, I guess this will be a 'must' every wednesdays now that they've moved the conference call from 7 PM to 8.30 AM.
But the drawback is that I have no time for my daily routine of breakfast while reading e-mails that I only had a small sweet potato, a can of coke and 12 sweets(!!) for breakfast. I have to control the sweets part next week though.

Oh ya, after the call we sat down and discussed our next steps. I took this opportunity to inform them that I couldn't do anything now 'cos IT hasn't install the database and Excel to the server. I also highlighted to HR that the development was done in the earlier version of the notes used in our firm and I foresee some problems here as well. My boss agreed and said that it must be fair for me as well - IT has been taking their own sweet time to put the database on the server when HR plan to release it to everyone next week. At the end when the deadline is near we will be the one blamed of being inefficient when up til today we're still unable to see the application. So today me and the HR director has been shooting lotsa emails to the IT dept and cc our partner in the emails so that everyone knows who's holding back the process here ... he3x

Boss called us yesterday saying that since we're now considered executives (sans the pay though) that we can't claim money for overtime. But it would be difficult if we were to claim time off everytime we work overtime as well that with the project we'll be expected to work overtime more. But she won't be that calculative so if we have to run errand and be out for an hour or two she wouldn't mind. Well, this shouldn't be a problem for me 'cos that's what I've been doing all along. Took this opportunity to ask if I can go back for hari raya next month since we're actually not supposed to take any long leave. Being a good boss that she is, she said special case only applied to me as I'm the only one celebrating hari raya. Anyway its also way of compensating for me being a single fighter for the next 2 weeks during the training. Thanks jenny, u're the best boss a staff can ever ask for!

Now Im thinking - is it okay if I tell her I need to run errand now? - desperately in need of something sour and the mango salad is the only thing I can think about now.

I can't believe I'll be saying this but I kinda miss coding !! - be it with VB, .NET, even writing Unix scripts.
I guess now that we are in the midst of this project, especially that I'm being assigned with configuring the server, reading the Oz's documentation to determine how it can be used by us, and also given the task to handle and distribute the interface to each person depending on what they're assigned to do, makes me realise that sometimes programming is the simplest of all - It's simply between you and the machine - c'est tout!
With the additional responsibility for the global HR I'm supposed to be busy now and yet I'm still able to update my blogs n read others as well - The IT people here kinda testing my patience actually.
How am I supposed to configure the directory structure of the server when you haven't even configure the server for us - c'mon guys! the US counterpart is chasing us on this. When will the fSecure be in? We need this to communicate with the Central server ASAP. This is my 1st experience with fSecure, I need time to study it before using it and time is running out - be more considerable with our hectic schedule please.
Guys, why is it so difficult to store HongKong's local HR application to the notes server and install Excel to it so that I can study the application before deciding if it's applicable for our business process here.
Don't you guys know I have to do this before end of this month so that I can concentrate on the other project next month?
I'm multitasking and you guys know it and yet you don't make an effort of speeding up your jobs! huh...

I hope 2 colleagues of mine who's attending the technical training next week will be more than a helping hand once they're back. Currently I'm the only one handling the technical part - I think I need a helping hand soon.
There's nothing much to be done on the functional since its only gonna be used when it comes to conversion.
Anyway, boss has hinted them that they're supposed to assist me once they're done w/ the training and I'll make sure that's what I get!

an update on my reading - Sophie's World
It is considered as a great book I read this year - apart from Dan Brown's DaVinci Code that is.
I've only read the 1st 3 chapters yet my mind starts to question the simplest thing that we take for granted.
But you can't really go wild or question all the things that existed 'cos remember some things exist because they're are meant to be - I believe in God and some things are the way they are because God meant it to be that way.

Which reminds me I have a timeline that I need to complete and past over to my boss by today ;)
oh ya, we're going to interview 3 more candidates for the programmer position tomorrow - one of them is my countryman. I hope (s)he is qualified enough to be accepted - at least the resume said so. Let's see how it goes tomorrow.

Yesterday after office, with a colleague of mine we went for a walk around chinatown. The mid autumn festival is just around the corner and after being here for 6 years, this is the 1st time I visited the mid autumn festival bazaar there. The giant lantern is nice - too bad I forgotten to take a picture of it on our way back to the train station. Had our dinner at the maxwell centre before heading home to watch Rockstar INXS.
Yay!! Mig is not even in the bottom 3 - I totally root for him as I adore his personality.

Finally, after weeks of contemplating I decided to buy this book.
I mean 1000 places recommended to be visited before you die - it should be fun reading it!
Decided not to join tonight's outing and since tomorrow's karaoke is postponed, I plan on spending the weekend curling up on bed marking those places I've visited and make a note of places worth visiting.

Too bad, the book is sold out in Times; so I went next door to this book rental shop looking for something else to read. I've decided to return the book I borrowed earlier from the library - it doesn't tickle my interest at all.

I went out with Sophie's World . Heard lots of hoo-haa about this book and I think its time to find out myself what's all the hoohaa's about.

I'm sipping my light coke while writing this.
Just had an indian style fried noodle for lunch.
Like that's not enough I bought a pack of roasted almond chocolate and finished it at one go.

Went to IT dept this morning where they offered me some food. I said no 'cos I just had my breakfast which was tuna wasabi in wholegrain bread and a pack of preserved plum.

The guys were totally shocked when I told them that I should control my diet again that late late last night I ordered pizza and had all 6 slices at one go!

Writing this made me realize that I do have a habit of eating like crazy when something's on my mind, and normally this something is about my abs.

Its always that I feel I have to finish all so that I can go back on track the following day. But my colleague asked me to go for lunch at lau pa sat where I had noodle so I continue eating chocolate and planning to get back on track tomorrow.

I think I should get back on track on my next meal. I wanted to get back to my low-carb but I know its not good in the long run, I mean I've seen it myself what happened when I started taking more carbs. So I guess I'll just get back to my routinity for the past few months and be more patience with it.
To think that even the GP refused to prescribed me a fat burner 'cos I was considered on the light side not to forget a very healthy BMI makes me re-think about it.

Actually, to be fair to myself and to the trainer, eversince I changed my diet in which I had more food containing good carbs and take my protein shake after workout, I notice some new muscles on my back.
I guess I just have to stick with it and knowing that the problem area will always be the one with the least result, I have to look at the overall result rather than just at one area.

After 2 falls, I think my iPod really needs to be replaced.
The 1st fall happened few months back when I was so lazy to pick it up properly that the earpiece just slipped off n the iPod fell down hard - the lcd was broken.

The only advice the Apple staff gave me was to buy a new piece - if only there's a service for lcd replacement...

Last night, again, i accidentally pushed it and it fell under my bed.. but anyway its already broken so few more bruises wouldn't harm it.
The only problem with it is now I wouldn't know what song its playing and I have to be like a blind person guessing what Im selecting from the menu when u can't see everything clearly :(

note: my deepest condolensence to those victims and families of the victims of the mandala airlines that crashed in medan - one of my chat buddy's cousin was the pilot. God bless their soul n may they rest in peace.

My definition of a perfect weekend:

- organized friday lunch with colleagues so there's a valid reason for not going to the gym during lunch break
- burning the fats off by attending evening class of bodycombat at bugis
- end friday night with Tom Welling of Smallville
- started saturday by having an african spa wisdom massage
- had lunch before heading to orchard for a biz meetup *well, there's money involved so its biz right*
- spent 3 hrs in a hair salon

- rushing home to get dress for the firm's annual dinner n dance
- spent the entire evening having temporary tatoo, fun n laughter accompanied by a fine dinner course
- spent sunday at home with the rain pouring heavily outside there's nothing better to do then laze around
- went out to grab lunch and some other stuff to munch while watching tv
- spent the evening listening to music while completing my very own creation of accessories *more to come*

- went to the mall together with yolli after dawn for the nice yet fattening dinner.
- ended the day watching Red Eye with a pack of MnM's

this is what weekends are made for - time to pamper your mind, body, n soul.

supposed to me on pm leave today as Im planning to watch a movie - too bad there's no show during the time I want that I cancelled my leave, anyway boss is on 2 days of MC - no point wasting ur leave when u can have ur own "leave" for this 2 days :D