God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way. And ME to share all the pain, laughter, tears, sorrow,happiness, sun and rain with you! Let us endure all the 暴风雨 and 彩虹 together!

Friday, September 12, 2008

Against all Odds - 2nd medal for Singapore!


Congrats to Laurentia Tan for helping Singapore clench a bronze medal in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.

She is the first and only paralympic medalist so far.

I feel that people with disabilities should be given more recognitions than abled bodies when participating in such event. The difficulties that people with disabilities faced is something that abled bodies cannot imagine. The hardwork that they put in is at least few times more than that of the abled bodies.

Nevertheless, it is such a great achievement! I am very proud of Laurentia to be the TRULY SINGAPOREAN to help Singapore clench a medal!

You'll never be alone

Meaningful and nice song when I chance upon it in facebook....someone posted it in my funwall....





- Anastacia Lyrics

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Terribly Sick

I'm feeling damn terrible now......

Cough worsen..... and it cause some pain at the Xiphoid process of the sternum when I cough.... Maybe my thoracic diaphragm has "overstrectch" after all the coughing....

Flu got worse.... when I blow my nose, apparently I noticed abit of blood. Guess too much blowing of my nose.

Fever is currently playing roller coaster with me..... it goes up as high as 38.70 and back to normal..... yet now it is back at 37.70.

Teary eyes..... sometimes tears just rolled down.... argh.... I just HATE to BE SICK!!!

Time to sleep.... long work day tml.... still have to attend therapy hub meeting after work..... maybe I'll skip that tml.... see how....

nite all....

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Sick

I went to see doctor yesterday. Been coughing and sneezing since sunday. BTW, I always sneeze 3 times each time I sneeze..... does it mean that someone is thinking of me? lolx....

Well, joke aside....

I wanted to go to work in the morning, at least to see my 1st client, then come back to rest but when I wake up@ard 6 as I wanted to give someone "morning sms".... I felt very tired and my body felt warm. Took my temperature, it was 37.6/7 0. Thus, I decided not to go to work already and smsed my colleagues to ask them to help me to call the clients' parents. Thanks ladies!!!

I was drifting on and off when I was sending these smses in the morning. But get back to sleep when all the neccessary arrangements were done. That was around 7.30am. I was sleeping till 10+ and I took my temperature, it was 38.60. Then decided to go to the doctor to retrieve some fever medication.

After that, I was just resting - drifting in and out of my sleep and occasionally checking on my handphone (under my pillow).


I guess, when someone is sick...... they tends to miss their loved ones more..... So do I!
=)

Haha.... suddenly remembers a phrase that someone said something like this few months back:

"You sick you come my house, I take care of you lor, your house has no space for me."

So Sweet..... but....

Monday, September 08, 2008

This I Promise You

I was "blog-hopping" and I saw part of this lyrics. This song sounded very nice and meaningful to me. Decided to google it and there it is.


This I Promise You.





- NSync Lyrics


This I promise you... ...

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Waking up @ the wrong side of the bed

Today, the day started with all the WRONGS.

First, I woke up late. I overslept. Suppose to wake up at 6.30am and leave my house at 7.15am so that I can meet wT for breakfast at Tampines Mall YaKun. Instead, I wake up at 7am. Just imagine how panic I was. To add on to that, as usual, I only pack bag and iron clothes before I left house (that is a habit). I did none of those the night before (and I slept early remember?). Thus, I have to start packing my bag - looking for my pencil case..... realised that I don't have any usable pens in it, thus didn't bother to bring it along. As last night the lecture room was cold.... it is better that I bring along my jacket.... to my dismay.... I couldn't find it!!!! Mood su*ks to the max.... well... but still managed to keep my cool.... and left my house by 7.20am.

Luckily wT was kind enough to help me order my cup of coffee, 2 pieces of bread and 2 eggs. Managed to leave the place at 8am and we took the train to Outram Park. Things was almost in place till I got diarhea! Sianz..... but glad that I managed to "finish" before 9am.

Lesson starts...... today's module is on "Critical Review in Occupational Therapy". Well... this meant that most of my time in the coming months.... will be spent reading journal articles and journal articles.... assignments..... critics..... assignment..... critics..... how wonderful....

maybe I will be spending lesser time blogging...... lesser updates on myself..... maybe lesser time in the virtual world too. Maybe.... that might be good for some time too....

Anyway..... nothing else to blog about..... but just 1 last thing....

I bought some "comfort food" from Tampines Mall NTUC just now. Got myself 3-packet Kinder Bueno and 6 packets of Milo drinks (as usual) and another packet of sour gummy bears to keep me awake tomorrow. Long day to go....

Well..... got to wash up..... have dinner..... and do my on-line discussion for my another module which I have not done yet... ... ciao.....

Anyone wants to meet up for coffee or dinner or movie tml? I'll be free after 5pm.... (time to relax alittle before I grasp for oxygen soon....)

Friday, September 05, 2008

Tiring Week

This week has been a long week. Been sleeping rather late, (esp. sunday and monday.... was helping someone important with some stuff) and waking up early to work. It was till today that I endured.... forcing myself to stay awake during work was the hardest today after lunch. It was so difficult to keep myself awake while waiting for my client to turn up. But TGIF... I thought I got time to rest. NOT for this week.

After work, I went over to SGH PGAHI..... for a welcome dinner. Didn't get to really eat because we arrived at closed to 7pm when the dinner supposed to be 6 -7 pm. wT and I only managed to grab a few finger food before the introduction starts.

We were introduced to 1 of the 2 core modules that I will be taking this semster. I think I'm gonna have a hell of 6-7 assignments(ranging from 1500 - 5000 words) to do, exlucing 3 on-line quizzes and presentations.

After that, wT and I we went to some prata shop when we arrived at century square. We were all too hungry. lolx....

Anyway, this morning one of my colleagues brought this adidas jacket that we all find it so nice that we all tried wearing it... and I even take photo. We all looked nice in it. My colleagues said I looked nice in it too. I NEVER SAY HOR..... lolx....


Haha.... my colleagues say I take photo with "V" is youthful - I'm the youngest in my whole centre. ;)

I am dozing off while typing this. My dad just came back with chicken wings. Last week, I am unable to eat because of my cheeks. Today, because I was just having no energy to eat them and have to wake up early tomorrow.

Nite all.

Thursday, September 04, 2008

The Eiffel Tower

Finally attached the Eiffel Tower Handphone Chain to my G900 (after so many weeks). Thanks H2O for the souvenirs from Paris. She has brought a few and I was to choose 1. And I chose this:


And when I accidently flip to the back of the Eiffel Tower, I saw this:


This so reminded me of someone with initial his name starting with the letter A. =)

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Belated Teachers' Day

I made 2 bouquets of Carnation and roses for our 2 lovely Special Education Teachers for Teacher's Day today. It came a little late due to busy schedule at work. But I'm glad that they like it.

Happy Belated Teachers' Day.


Money Not Enough 2


Yesterday, my colleagues and I went to watch "Money Not Enough 2". I got the tickets at $6.50 each because Golden Village Club Member has this privilege on every Tuesdays. It has been 10 years since it's Money Not Enough 1 in 1998. One of my colleague and I was thinking that it should not be called "Money Not Enough 2" but it should be called "Money STILL Not Enough".

I got to agree that all of us enjoyed the show alot. Other than the laughter it brought us most of the time, we also teared. It was so close to our hearts, the hearts of fellow Singaporeans. They brought the thoughts and the feelings of common people into the cinemas. That includes things like, ERPs, increasing cost of living but not our salaries, giving money before rise of something/election, etc.

From the movie, we also saw the social side of society, where people have to fend for themselves. Something that I was getting emotional with, is the greatness of Mother's Love. I remembered that there was a part when the elder son, acted by Hui Ge, who got into problem because of the product that he is MLM-ing.....

He asked the mother,

"If I am no longer the manager, will you look down on me."

The mother replied,

"No matter what happens, you are still my son."

In another scene, the mother was rather upset. Her friends asked her what happened.... she said she is very upset. Her children is borrowing money from her. She added that she is upset not because her children is borrowing money from her but because she cannot help them as much as she wanted as she has no more money. Thus, the friends taught her to go to beg. And she did. She was caught and send to the Police. The children came and pick her and they were all scolding her..... telling her off.... and asking her not to "throw" their "faces"... ... little did they know that she is doing all for their sake.

Next, is the cruelty of life that I am going to talk about. When one grows old and get married, one has to take care of their "new family" - the spouse and the children. Often than not, we forgotten that we were once a child and taken care of by our parents. We try to give the best to our children and yet we forgotten that we were given the best by our parents too. Yet again, this is the cruelty of our society - the sandwich generation. We can see that the mother is willing to sleep next to the toilet and EVEN inside the toilet, to whichever is convenient to her children.

The scene that affecting me the most is when Jack Neo's daughter is involved in an accident and require O- blood type. The only 2 bags were to be used on Jack Neo's mother. Upon knowing, Jack's wife went to the mother-in-law's ICU and wanted to snatch away the blood. Jack's mother upon seeing and hearing, she decided to end her life by removing the ventilator, so that the blood can be used to save her granddaughter.

THIS IS WHAT I CALL GREAT MOTHER LOVE.


Next, I want to talk about how GOOD Vivian Lai is in the movie. I believe that such wife does exist.



This wife of Mark Lee, takes the SHIT of Mark Lee. Vivian Lai helped to cover for Mark when he was caught speeding. And when she was arrested, this UNFAITHFUL husband still yet go and enjoy himself in GEYLANG. Whether he has sex with prostitute or not, it was not shown but I think he did. He went home drunk, with lipstick on his shirt, and perfume smell. A condom fell of from his pants.

To add on to that, Mark threw up on Vivian. He scolded her and told her off, saying that if he comes back, she should consider it good already. He even said she is smelly and asked her to go and bathe before she go and sleep. WTH.....

I remembered 2 scenes very clearly... ...

One scene is outside the subordinate court. Vivian said,

"You know I no need to depend on you. I just want you to care for me."

This line just struck me on what some women wants. They do not need their husband to give them alot of gifts. They just want the care and concern from the husband. That is what all they ask for.


The other scene is when the wife embezzle the company fund for Mark's sake. Yet again, Mark scolded her for being "kaypo", poking her nose into "Man's Business". And asked them to put her into jail. He scolded her for "throwing his face". Mark said that Vivian don't even dare to kill ants or something. How would her have the gut to embezzle money.

Sometimes, guys fail to understand that some gals will go all out to help the one that they love. From Mark, we can also see that sometimes guys do not know how to show their emotions and does not want to show their weakness to the people that they love. To them, they feel that they should be the strong power, to protect the people that they love. And when the loved ones helped them and get into trouble, they feel that they are not protecting the loved ones and got them into trouble. They scold the loved ones..... not because they want to..... but because they do not know to say "sorry" in a better way.

This is what I call GOOD WIFE that GUYS often take for granted.


What I like to highlight here is also the power of family. From Hui Ge's family, we can see that when 1 family working hard together, towards a common goal. One does not need to be rich to be happy. Being together during good and bad times, is already a happiness.

This show, to some, maybe just something to laugh about and forgotten. To me, this will be something for me to ponder for while sometime. Even now, I am still quite effected by the show. Die..... getting more and more emotional nowadays. You all may say this is just a movie. But this protrays the voice of people and the life of people in Singapore today.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Teacher's Day Celebration

Woke up early yesterday to prepare orange wedges, aka orange agar-agar yesterday... ...