Photo whoring.... typical non-work day

As OT seeing children for therapy, I seldom wear nice clothes to work. Simply because with kids, they drool, they will be all over the place. Sometimes I will rough play with them too. Jump here, hop there, climb here, climb there. Pull here, push there.

But when the chance comes, I will try to wear nicer when I go out. Haha... that's why when I went back to office during my annual leave for my centre 2 year anniversary celebration, my HQ staff at one glance will able to notice that I am not working on that day.


Thus, during my 2 days weekend classes, I tends to dress alittle nicer as this is also the only chance I get to wear my shorts, dress or skirts, which I can't do so on a typical working day.

I was walking around alittle aimlessly in City Hall after class. Just felt like taking a walk. Remembered someone was looking for a laptop bag.... so I had an aim finally. Couldn't find many. The one that he wanted was also out of production too. As I was walking at level 1, I was "attracted" to 2 push-cart stalls - Nail Kit from Israel and also sunglasses. In the end, I got myself a nail kit and 2 sunglasses. =X

As usual, I take photos of myself randomly.... these are the photos that I've taken after I reached home. Me with my sunglasses... ...

one of the sunglasses

Another one - it's said to be polarized

Another photo

And this is the photo of my nail kit:

If you know me well, I'm someone who don't care about the conditions of my hands, fingers, nails, legs, feets and toe nails. I just can't be bothered. Hmm... when I'm stressed or anxious or thinking deeply, I will tend to bit my nails too. =X But I guess I should start now, before it gets too late where they have to be admitted to ICU. LOLX. It takes alot of hard work to stay pretty. Sometimes I am a lazy gal. But there's always a reason or motivation for me to stay pretty. =)


Nothing much on the second day. Think I walked too much on the first, that I am alittle tired. None the less, taken some photos:

I love this yellow top because it is a bra-top.
(top with a bra attached)

Do my cheeks glow?

I Love DRAGONICA!

Remember that I once blogged about the online game that I've been playing here. Now I am going to share with you the game. As the title suggests, the game is DRAGONICA!

I think I've been playing for 3-4 weeks, though I am not very hard-core. But at least I managed to get to level 30. Thanks for Vorhees for introducing this game. =)

I would say this game is very challenging and you will get to fight different mobs at different places. The higher level you are, the more difficult it gets. That's what makes it challenging isn't it?

In the game, I am an Acolyte. A magician. A healer. Not very good with my fighting skills, but at least, I am able to help my team-mates, otherwise known as party members, to heal from the mob damages.

And this is me:



There are 2 reasons why I am sharing this. First, of course I want to share with my friends this wonderful game as it helps me to dis-stress after work. Hope it helps my friends too.

Another reason why I am blogging, to be honest, is to win the 60, 000 cash points.
As I am quite a noob in RPG game, I hope to receive this where I can equip my Acolyte with better armors and weapons.

In addition, I would like to get a gift for the one who introduce me to such an exciting game.

If you guys are interested in the game, do go to Dragonica to install it. If you like, do look for me at Elga server, Nick: EileenQuek.



If you don't ... ...

Updates - Facial, Spa and Mahjong

I went for facial at the beginning of the month. Apparently I haven't been going there since end of April. No wonder the extraction of the blackheads are so painful. After the facial, I booked for a spa appointment on the National Day PH on Monday.

I went for the spa on 10th August. The spa was damn cool. I managed to put on my new bikini that I bought few months back. I did 20 mins of jaccuzi, 20 mins of steam bath and a back massage. I bought the delight spa voucher at at a roadshow last year, which cost me only $38. Apologies. No photos to be uploaded here although I took quite a few of my own photos in bikini. I may consider to let you see if you falls under "close friend" category. LOL. Right "close friend"? lolx. I bought another 1time off 20 mins jaccuzi, 20 mins steam bath and a front and back massage @ $65. Anyone wants to join me the next round? The jaccuzi and steam bath is enough for 2 persons. I think the next round I will be quite embarrass and shy.... cause I've never done a FRONT massage before. =P

The last friday, I had my 2nd mahjong session of the month at zR's place. As zR's and Hui Hui's bday is in August, I suggested getting a cake from bakersinn. The tiramisu is on 50% off. =D
It was abit of a rush as I was busy with some stuff but thank god there is still cake when I arrived at tampines1's baker' s inn. Then I make my way to Khatib, taking 969.

This is the cake lighted with candles:


The extinguished one:


And don't know if I am very lucky or unlucky, one of the rounds when I opened my tiles, I got these:


Thus I try to make 十三爻..... and this is the tiles that I have before I decided not to make 十三爻 anymore (after I saw the 4th 九筒 on the table) :


They say a person will only get 十三爻 once in his/her whole life. I guess the reason is simply because the probability is so low. We played from 11+ pm to almost 5+am. lolx.... and I woke up early to go to NYP library to do some discussion with LT for my health promotion and project management module. =P

"Close Friend"

"When there's no expectations, everything is a bonus."

I'm glad that I am of help to you my "close friend".

And do you know what? I'm so proud of you for achieving As and Bs in your studies. Minus away that no-so-lucky module with no-so-good team mate. You are doing well. Just continue to have trust, faith, confidence and determination in yourself despite all the difficulties that might be facing. You can go far with your high standards!

Cheers!

1 month late submission of assignment?

I HATE that ACCUSATION statement.

My Aussie lecturer didn't receive my partner and my assignment. We were told that she was disappointed in us that we didn't even email her to tell her that we were facing problems submitting our assignments. And the thing is, she email to PGAHI staff and cc to us instead.

This can be a small matter. But I just don't really like the way this issue was being handled.

Since we were the people involved, I don't see why she cannot contact us directly and asked if anything has happened. Come on. We are all mature adults. I don't see a reason why we wouldn't contact her if we were facing a problem. Our marks are at stake - 80%. Even idiot will not be so stupid to risk that. Furthermore, who would delay handing up an assignment after 1 month? The next thing - Benefit of doubt. Shouldn't we be given that benefit of doubt? Lastly, if we had no problem sending her the assignments, we wouldn't be sending her a mail saying we had problem right? Because, to us, there wasn't a problem in the first place?

Initially, both of us are like having a heart attack. We were like ants on the hot pot. But it faded away with alittle anger and disappointment. WT added that it has increased our level of arousal that can cause us not able to sleep, which is true. I only managed to sleep after 3am. That email was received at 11+pm on a Tue night.

Thank God the misunderstanding was clear. Probably there was some receiving issues by her side. Anyway, we sent her the assignment again (as soon as we received that mail from her) via email and e-learning system and the Printscr() of the mail in our e-learning system that we used to send her. This teaches us to keep a copy of our sent copies of email/mail for evidence in case anything happens. This is not a problem for me. Because if you know me, I don't clear my emails most of the time after I read them - currently I have 21278 mails in my yahoo mail, 13920 as unread. Time to clear them. Soon.

Super Pissed Of

I was supper pissed of and still is by 2 things.

I hate accusation and I hate invasion of privacy!!!!

不知不觉 I begin to understand and what do I look for in my ideal bf/husband-to-be

I used to think why sometimes some people don't talk or respond. It didn't occur that it happens to me too. In a conversation with a friend (who reads my blog and asked me how's me and A, as soon as I published it):

Him: thinking of asking how you and A
Me: i just post n u read it?
Him: i always read
Him: is too you dao (I think there is a typo here... think he meant "you too dao")
Me: huh? what "too you dao"?
Him: everytime talk to you dao me loh
Me: haha
Me: that is me la
Me: when i dun want to or dun feel like talking.... i dun want to talk
Him: ok

I guess when one expects that someone talks or responds and when they didn't, we get sad, angry and disappointed over it. Thus, don't set the expectations. If they reply, it is a bonus.


In the same conversation:

Him: you met A online?
Me: Yup
Him: so he is the one?
Me: i feel that he is the one....
Me: but maybe it is just the wrong timing
Him: haha how old is he
Me: 30 this year
Him: icic
Him: got 5 C?
Me: nope.
Me: but I don't go for 5cs lah
Him: oh what you go for?
Me: so long he is nice... caring.....
Him: icic
Me: no need condo
Him: so he can dont be working
Him: nice and caring can le
Me: got comfortable house can liao
Me: maybe 5 rm can liao
Me: cash...... comfortable can liao..... no need to slog to buy things can le... but of course things not referring to diamonds n stuff la
Him: icic
Him: must drive?
Me: drive is a bonus...... but not neccessary la
Him: icic
Him: can drink can smoke?
Me: hmm......
Me: i'm okay with social drink n smoker
Me: he smokes socially actually
Him: qualifications matter?
Me: at least dip i guess
Him: o level cannot?
Me: because with qualification comes knowledge and conversations topics
Me: unless the person can prove that he can talk on the same level as me
Me: oh... he must also need to have the 上进心
Him: so in your opinion a degree holder cannot be with an o level holder?
Me: not that it cannot be
Me: like i say..... unless o lvl holder can hold a conversation well......

To conclude, I do not need a partner with 5Cs. Maybe some Cs and other non-Cs include:

Communications - I need to work on it too. As sometimes when I'm unhappy, I just keep to myself. This is important because it allows us to know what each other is feeling or thinking. We cannot think that he/she will knows what we are thinking. People changes. Thinking too. Only through communications then we will know what each other is thinking. If not, assumptions will take place and everybody gets angry.

Cash - self sufficient and comfortable life, earn more than me. This is not so difficult. Being someone in social service sector and in an allied health that draws so low pay, I don't see how why I cannot set this as a standard. In addition, I don't really buy branded stuff, so no need to buy so expensive stuff to pamper me. Unless u want to. ;)

Car - a bonus but not a must. because I think I will enjoy all the "walking and hand-holding". And "standing" and "sitting" beside each other when taking transport. Weird person right? lolx.

Height - taller than me la. I alrdy so short liao..... thus, I cannot take someone who is shorter la. I think good to be at least 1.7m

"colour" - not someone who is fair la.... of course not someone of different race. I only wants chinese or at least someone who can speaks chinese. But not china people.

Condo - no need so good la. nice looking comfortable home can liao. Nowadays some condo looks very small too and having to pay so much. Maybe for the status.... but what for? Slogging so hard for it.... but no time to enjoy?

Knowledge - must be more knowledgeable, especially IT and technology related.

BONUS: If he has THICK eyebrows and is in the uniformed organisation(like Navy, Army, Air Force because I like guys in uniforms)

More to be added.....

Perseverance and Stubbornness and the few guys who I went out with in the last few years

Definition


Perseverance:
Steady persistence in adhering to a course of action, a belief, or a purpose; steadfastness.


Stubborn:
refusing to agree or give in; persistent and determined

Both definition is similar. So when do you say a person has perseverance and when do you say a person is stubborn? It is hard to judge isn't it?

I know myself that I definitely have traits of the above, especially when there is something that I strongly believe in. In the recent months and weeks, these traits has been shown in my work and personal life.


My own experience
To me, I believe that there are always solutions available for every problem, whether how long it takes us to find the solutions. Maybe, at times, we just "let go" of it, so that we wouldn't be troubled by it and maybe we will feel happier after "letting go".

But sometimes have we wonder that if the sense of satisfaction is higher when we managed to solve the problem? Not to brag but I was trying to help my colleagues with few IT-related problems at work. I do not succeed at first try. But neither do I give up. The reason is clear - because I believe in myself; I believe that the problems can be solved. Simply, I DO NOT GIVE UP.
Because I trust and Believe in myself. I may not have the answers to all problems, neither am I a genuis but I will seek other areas to find the solutions if it is not in me. So is that perseverance? But if no matter how I try and I still can't get the solutions? Do you call it stubborn because I refuse to move on? It is so hard to determine isn't it?


In relationships wise, usually I adopt the carefree thinking. If I think he's not for me, I will just give up. In the last few years, there were 3-4 people that I went out with. Not all managed to maintain my interest. Haha... the following things that I'm gonna say here will be like secrets reveal.... cause I don't really like to share about relationships issues. Maybe only Hui Hui knows about them. LOL.


One of them, K, we went out a few times but I gave up because of an application in FB(either FFS or HP). I still remembered he named me "expensive junk". The next moment, I gave him back to himself and cut off contact. No matter what, I still value my self-respect. Anyway, he was the type of person who see external beauty more. Maybe that contributes to one of the reasons why I groom myself more, so that he will regret (LOL). Of course I always wanted to when I was a student but I don't have the financial means back then. There was a time when I saw him at Raffles City, I think he was shocked or surprise but I don't care anymore. NO more interest. Once I decided, I can be very determine. LOL.


The other one, N, I just gave up. Simply because there was no action. We did chat and share songs and lame jokes. He suggested that we go for some movie with his friends but it didn't happen. So I gave up too. If you know me, I don't believe gals making the first move for the first date.


C, I remembered going movie and dinner with him once. I still remember the movie was Leap Years. I remembered rejecting him a few times before accepting it. Same for K. Reason being, I have reservations in meeting guys that I've known online. And I only went out with him once. Because I wasn't very comfortable. Maybe I shouldn't judge him for only one time but I feel that he is trying too hard. LOL. He did ask me out for movies and dinners after that, but I always rejected him and I think he just give up after that. The reason why I reject going out with him because I realised that I started to like A when he went to India.


Among all, of course A is the one I like most (and of course he did say he likes me when he was in India, and both of us felt it was so strange as we didn't even meet before. The feeling was mutual.). The other 3 above are just crushes. A is also the only one that I didn't reject when he asked for the 1st time to go out last year. He is also the only one (among the 4) that I went out with the most. The only one that I still feel shy occasionally when meeting him. The only one that makes me feel that I want to be prettier (because he already know what kind of person I am internally). The only "MCP" that I am willing to put up with. HAha... if he was other people, they are going to get it from me. Smokers used to be out of my consideration but it turned out it was acceptable. This shows how love can accept all weakness. Anyway, he was just a social smoker... now I think he only smokes when he is overseas. Of course, among all, I think and feel that he is who he is. The feeling I have from him is just different from those above. And I'm glad that we had gone out many times and traveled together. No regrets.


The only thing is, he is now not interested in r/s anymore because of his past r/s-es. Maybe he is not ready for one yet. Like I say, I will just give up when things are not right in r/s and actually I fear relationship commitment or rather the expectations. That is why I've never been attached in my life. And I don't give people false hope right from the start. But A is the only one so far that I feel and think that I want to try not giving up. Because I believe he is the one. Someone that I have been waiting for, for my last 24 years. So is this stubborn or perseverance?


But I may just give it up after all for now(not that I don't like him anymore. I do and definitely more than before). I can't say it for the future what will happen but at least for now I'm giving up. This may just be the wrong timing that we met afterall. If I had met him 2 months earlier than I had or earlier than others that "breaks his hearts" or 1-2 years later, things might be different. Maybe just like in "definitely, maybe", he/she may be yours if he/she is meant to be. Maybe, just for my character, I do not want to give up without trying. Maybe, now that I've tried, I should just give up? If that makes him happy being single, without having to fulfill any expectations or being fed on "lies upon lies" by others.


(P.S: There is a similarity in all the 4 guys above. ALL of them has issues in their past r/s-es, i.e. how their gals left for other guys. How on earth did I become some love adviser when I'm not even been into any r/s? I guess it is just the wrong timing I got to know them - "Grieving stage" and it is just my luck.)

To me, I think perseverance is use for situations where there will be good ending i.e. persevere for an exam while stubborn is use for situations where you know there will be no good ending but still trying to persistent in it.

What do you guys think of Perseverance and Stubbornness then?