The Sun is UP, yet I'm not.

It has been raining hard for the past few days. Gloomy skies and wet roads. But LOOK at today! SUNNY AND BRIGHT AND DRY! Ah, the beautiful sun!



However, I was out at Orchard with Jiehui and Yvonne on Tuesday although it was raining. JH and I met first and went shopping at Wisma. Then we had Sakae at Heeren. I found the restaurant manager very familiar and told JH he might be from the West Mall branch. Before we left to pay at the counter, I actually asked a waitress if he was transferred. And BINGO! He was! JH was stunned by what I did. Then we went to Paragon to look for presents. And guess what we saw:







They are actually earrings! And there's a mini switch behind the earrings to turn on/off the blinking lights! HAHA, what a creative design that adds to the lively mood of Christmas!

Then Yvonne came and met us at Starbucks, B1 of Paragon. She picked up a 50000 dollar note!!! But.... in Rupiah la. Haha! There was a money changer there and they were buying rupiah at 16.2. 2 grads and an undergrad could not figure out how to convert 50k rupiah to S$. OMG! We calculated from S$8100 to S$810. It turned out to be only S$8.10. HAHAHAHA! At Starbucks, we bought her a slice of warm chocolate cake cos' it was her birthday. But she was too full from her dinner at Crystal Jade and end up sharing it with us. We sat there till about 1045pm before we decided to go home as we were all very tired.

Staff dinner was held at Singapore Island Country Club (Adam Road) yesterday. They did not wear very formally. I was considered the better-dressed there. OMG, some came in jeans, tee-shirts, some even tattered. No standard karaoke competition, kelong judges for table performance item and best-dressed. Food was a disappointment. We had 12 people to a table, so squeezy. Food wasn't enough for the table.

Menu (in order):
1. Salad and fruits lobster (can't see lobster)
2. Shark's fin with fish maw (no shark's fin detected)
3. Roast Chicken (quite good with crispy skin)
4. Steamed Promfet (fishy but I like)
5. Stir-fried prawns (small ones)
7. Sea cucumber with broccoli and mushrooms (small mushrooms with small light brown sea cucumbers, a bit like fake ones)
8. E-fu noodles (half a small bowl each)
9. Yam lotus paste (yu ni) (a small scope each)

Sigh, what a let-down! I was hoping for more! And I thought people will come in pretty dresses and shiny shoes, and many people taking photograhs, but none. I expected too much. There wasn't even a lucky draw. SIGH!

The letter came. HAHA! I'll be going into NIE 3rd Jan 06! Dunno if it's a good thing or not. I'll be signing the 3-year contract this Saturday and found my 2 sureties - JH and CP. Sigh, what to do without them! So many guidelines regarding choosing of sureties.

I went back NTU a few days ago and got Chronicle. There's this article which is quite interesting: Dummy's Guide to Responsible Blogging

1. Be politically correct - Respect for others. Get your facts right about other people. This is to avoid being sued for slander. Also never say anything that would lower another person's reputation.

2. Master the art of abbreviations - Don't use names of places, schools, people on your blog that others can easily detect through search engines.
Example: Dear Diary, my name is E****** and I study in End Tee Yew. My teacher, Ms H, is so motivationally-deficient, she failed to turn up for lecture again.

3. Use a lock - some blog host requires a visitor to key in a password before the blog can be viewed.

4. Avoid taboo topics - Avoid topics on race, religion, politics and the Internal Security Act. Don't promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races or classes of the population of Singapore.

5. Make friends with an NUS law student - This is when you don't have the money to hire a lawyer.

*Adapted from The Nanyang Chronicle - October 17, 2005, Volume 12 No. 5.*

Sigh, so much to consider when writing a blog entry. Can't let out all the frustrations, sharing of happiness and sadness!!! Sigh, what can I write then? How sad.