A Wonderful Evening

Dear Dear just called me from airport to tell me that he is back.

Suddenly, I can feel my illness lifting off. The tiredness of traveling to revisit the clinic to get more medicines, the disappointment when finding out that a relief doctor is standing in for my usual doctor (found out she is usually OFF on Tuesday), and the long waiting time for bus to go home.. All of these doesnt matter anymore..

When Milo died, people told me must take good care of tututu, must give him lots of loving tender care, or else.. And now, I understand why...

Thanks to friends who have kept me company this few days. It may be your simple sms-es, or chatting, or even to hang out with me **when I am sick**. Thankzz! Realised that I am very scare of being alone and bored.

**Cough Cough Cough**

Time for cough tablet, and then sleep.

A Sick MElon

Cough Cough Cough!! Been having sore throat and running nose since last week.

For the last few days, I have been obediently taking the antibiotics, flu tablet, danzen and lozenges prescribed by my doctor. But my throat is still feeling horrible.

Today, I saw my colleagues eating green bean soup. Yummy.. I couldnt resist the temptation, so... after eating *my* green bean soup, I started to cough really badly for the remaining afternoon. Finally, my neighbour gave me the warning **Don't spread the germs to us, quick go see iris (our company nurse) to get cough syrup!!**

And it strucked me that I was given cough tablets from my doctor, but I have not taken any (because I wasn't coughing last week). Haha, after popping down a pill, my cough stop totally! Powerful medicine lez!

Feeling better now. A bit sleepy. Not sure if this is the effect of the cough tablet or I am tired from work. Throat still painful. Sianzzzz.

Sabrina's Wedding

Last night, I went to Sabrina's wedding at Hyatt. The bride is pretty, groom is handsome. The food is not bad, and the desert is nice too.

I know both the bride and the groom, but am closer with the bride. We studied together at Singapore Polytechnic some years ago. So, as much as I have expected, yesterday was kind of a polytechnic schoolmates' gathering. I saw alot of people who I have not met for a long time.

I am also quite surprise to find out that most of my ex-schoolmates are now working in clinical lab and research lab, majority in KKH, DSO, IMCB. One guy has also recently started his phD. **Surprise Surprise**

I wondered if I have not decided to move out of research life, will I be starting my phD by now?

VivoCity Discovery

With my shopping kaki, I spent a whole day exploring the new Vivocity. It is hugh. And it is very crowded too. Before stepping into the mall, I can feel the crowds inside it! HOW? BEcause, there is a serious traffic jam of cars queueing outside the mall just to get into the carpark.

There are queues outside all food outlets. Some are long, some are short, some super long. After walking rounds and rounds, we finally decided to eat at harbourfront Pasta Mania instead of joining the Vivo queues. But, Singaporeans think a-like. There is a long queue outside pasta mania too!

We returned to Vivo after lunch. I decided to get a cup of coffee from coffee bean before continuing with shopping. As usual, there is a long queue. This is one of the few times that I see such long queue at coffee bean.

While queueing for my coffee, I saw this on the menu "All sandwiches are available in low carb without bread." I wondered what is sandwich without bread?

Missing You?

Bear is leaving for Melbourne on Tuesday.

This is the first time (since they are together) that bear is leaving miffy alone in Singapore, while he left with his sister for australia to wear his graduation gown and hat. For a period of about 8 days.

Miffy decided not to follow-on because the past experience of tour in the same company of 3 hadnt been memorable to her. Will I be missed? Probably not, you dun miss people when you are enjoying. Will he be missed? I will find out soon.

Thinking back, I havnt been going anywhere for a while. Last year, we have cruised to Penang and Phuket, taken a tour package to China provinces, and fly to Egypt in december. Where have I holiday-ed this year? Tioman in April, and Hongkong in Augest. Woh, I think for certain people, this is consider not too bad!

Before deciding on the Australia's trip, he said last year he choosen to go Egypt, so this year it will be my turn to choose where I like to go. Hmm.. Considering his budget constrain, wonder when that will be.

Babies' Gathering on Deepavali

Yesterday was deepavali. Today, Sowmya invited us to her house. I had a great time munching on the Indian snacks and playing with babies!

People who know me, would have also know that I love babies, but minus the crying.

Christine, if you are seeing this, you must feel very happy to see that your god-daughter's has longer hair now. But I think her papa and mummy still like her hair to grow slighter faster.

Reichel and Kate

Reichel and Jia Sui

A Divine Obsession

Finally decided on my wedding gown. It is a simple tube dress with a train filled with crystals and small flowers pieces here and there. Boyfriend like it, bridemaid said its nice on me. So, this will be the one.

Now, my next headache is... How should my evening gown look like? I was surfing wedding websites to collect ideas. It is quite frustrating to have a wedding package with Made-to-measure evening dress. I wish I could just choose an evening gown available on the rack, but the variety of evening gown in my bridal store is very very limited.

Should I get a Cheongsum?

A V-neck?

A Halter-neck?

Or another tube dress again? Probably ask my bridemaid for her opinion. *indecisive*

Where are the Clouds?

The haze is really bad today. I am having running nose and sneezing all the way since I woke up. Probably I should not have taken leave today. Staying the office would have been better as it is indoor with aircon.

This is a photo of the basketball court taken from my room window. On a good day, the buildings behind the trees are clearly visible. But today, they are lost in the SMOKE. The kids who were playing in the court have decided to go home. Right now the court is empty.

The odd smell is very strong, and I have closed all the windows at home. I wonder how long is the haze going to last?

When can I see the clouds again?

The Wedding Ticker

Since the day we decided on our wedding venue, my excitment is increasing everyday. The excitment is similar to the feeling I had when I am looking forward to a coming holiday trip.

While surfing a forum, I found a wedding ticker. With some help from the blogger help, and some limited memory of the programming course that I took in NUS, I managed to add this ticker to my blog! Feeling a sense of great achievement! HAha!

7months and 21days.. tic tok tic tok..

Me and my feeder bus

Today, I waited about 15 to 30mins for a feeder bus to send me home from IMM. While waiting for my bus to come, I pondered about how frequent should the freqency of a feeder bus be?

Imagine this scenerio, if a person live 20 mins walking distance away from where the bus stop is, and got to wait for about 20 mins for a bus (if he want to take a bus)... Would he rather walk home or wait for the bus..

Every morning, I need to travel to Jurong interchange. I have several ways of reaching my destination. Either..

1. Take a feeder bus, which will stop right at the interchange.

2. Take a non-feeder bus, where I alight along the main road and walk about 5mins to the interchange.

3. Take another non-feeder bus, where I alight along another main road but is 10mins walking distance away from the interchange.

4. Take a cab. This is the last ultimate resort..

Out of 10 working days, I only managed to catch the feeder bus once. What happened to the rest of the 9 days? Most of the time, I waited for 10mins and there is still no sight of the feeder bus. But all the other buses come and go. So instead of waiting, I decided to take the other buses that come along, and walk a longer distance.

I realised that feeder bus generally move more slowly than the other buses. Sometime, it is literally crawing on the road! To reach the interchange via feeder bus, it took at least 15-20mins. But via non-feeder bus (plus walking), I can reach the interchange in less than 15mins! Also, after work, the longest queue in the interchange is the feeder bus queue. Sometimes, the queue can be so long that we have to wait for the next bus. This happened everyday, the passenger number is guaranteed to be so much. Why aren't the government or sbs increasing the frequency of our feedbus ar?

Yet, the public transport fee is forever increasing. But I do not understnad why I am paying more. There is no improvement to the transport frequency, or should I said that the frequency of feeder bus near my home is reducing! Sigh..............

Milo

Blogging seem so hot among everyone around me. So, I decided to start one too. It is also in the memory of a rabbit -- Milo.

He died yesterday. He "collasped" on Sunday afternoon. Panicking, I called the vet clinic hotline. The vet recommended that I observed him for a day, and if he is still abnormal, then bring him to clinic in the morning.

He hasn't been eating properly due to lousy teeth, which tended to over-grown. Colleagues told me that this was commonly caused by in-breeding. I learnt about the "over-grown" teeth when I brought him to clinic about 2 months ago for a swollen cheek. Vet said that the swolleness was because the absess built up due to overgrown teeth.. Can't remember the details, anyway I am not a vet, and it was quite sometime ago. All the teeth on the right side were removed at that time.

I still remembered that on Sunday night, and he was lying in the cage. I opened the cage door to let him out into the play pen. Usually, he stand and wait by the door to come out. But that night, he didn't move. He just lay there looking at me. Still keeping Milo's cage door opened, I let tututu into the play pen instead. And I saw that Milo try to shift in his laying position, so that he can see what is going on in the play pen. Its so sad.

What I should have done on Sunday? Try to seek another vet for advise? Bring him to an emergency hospital? Till now, for the last two days, my mother kept repeatedly said that I have caused his death, and said that he didn't want to die. I am blamed for not bringing him to seek medical treatment earlier. I am such a horrible owner. Hmmm... I decided that no more rabbit for me. No more no more.

My rabbits:
Tu Tu: First rabbit - Die due to hmm.. I also do not know. I am young, she was very very young. Probably less than 4 months old? All I can remember was, we went out in the afternoon. And by the time we returned home, I saw a stiff body in the cage. I have cried for a long time.

Tututu: Second rabbit - A replacement for Tu Tu. He looked exactly like Tu Tu, except that this is a Male. Now, he is about 4 years old. I promised myself that I will give him all my loving tender care, everyday.

Milo: The third. The cutest. Yet, the most pitifully one..