Monday, February 20, 2006

第一次，thoughts & Empress Dowager

Had been tagged by my friends to do some meme (Chinese one), but think I shall “play” them when I am free.

Guess what?
As at Friday 17 March morning, I can proclaim that:

我搭过飞机，
我乘过船，
我搭过缆车，
我搭过地铁，
我搭过火车，
我搭过巴士，
我坐过汽车，
我坐过lorry，
我坐过货车。。。


Very lor-soh hor. But can u see what’s missing?

Yaya, I had never rode on (pillion) a bike in my 24+ yrs of my life.

Had my first biking experience that nite. Haha, after re-read Fannie’s blog entry on her 1st biking experience, I can say I was braver than her. I din close my eyes at all. I quite enjoy the speed (not that the driver drove past the speed limit, in fact the journey was much smoother than I anticipated), can feel the wind. Shiok!

Perhaps there is a side of me who like thrills. I remember how someone screamed when she was pushed from the flying fox platform, but when it was my turn. I even requested my friends to push me higher and harder from the platform. I even dare to try flyin fox on another occasion when I was in dress & heels.

I used to wonder if the pillion rider will fall off the bike when it was turning round a bend. Haha. Like what Fannie said, the body will follow the momentum. Initially, I was grasping tightly on to the side of the seat, after a while, I was tempted not to hold on to the sides, but dun dare to take the risk of falling out and endangered my friend’s reputation of being a safe driver.

Frankly speaking, even if I was offered a ride on the bike again, I will have to consider the driver’s driving skills. It was trust I had in my friend’s driving skills that I dare to take up the offer. (shhh, hopefully he isn’t reading this cos I din tell him that as I din wanna boost his ego. Haha)


Speaking of bike, the new colleague (who was employed to replace the Auntie) is 2 years younger than me, wears colour contacts and rides a bike to work. Female biker sia, seems cool hor.
My boss made me her Reporting Officer, but from my last experience with the Auntie, I din control her much( I din give any orders to I dun wish to be that Auntie but she was already making things difficult), dun wanna seems like a bully, ordering her ard. I kept quiet when on occasions, she din not take much initiative, as it may do to she is still unfamiliar to the work she is expected to do.

However on Friday, my boss told me that it seems to him that I am not controlling her enough and that she seems not to know the hierarchy.

“If you don’t control her now, later you will find it’s difficult to control her.”

听了后，很不是滋味。如何管理下属真得很靠“技术”，拿捏得太紧，别人会在背后说你很野蛮； 管得“太松”，别人又不尊敬你，不听你的指示。

And it so happenned that in that afternoon, I was telling my friend that he being the only guy in his department is such a blessing, as aunties (most aunties) tend to bitch abt the gals but seems to dote on guys. I dunno abt my friends, but according to my past experiences, it seems that those 三姑六婆 , 倚老卖老的aunties tend to treat male colleagues better.

And it is even worse when you are at a higher hierarchy than those aunties, even when you are just delegating jobs to them, they will said that you 目无遵长，以小欺负大。

I hate office politics, try not to get involved in them but it seems unavoidable.

Now, that reminds me of something which I wanted to post earlier.

女人何苦为难女人呢？

If you had watched Memoirs of a Geisha, you can’t help wondering why Hatsumomo was so harsh on Sayuri when she just joined the house. As a young girl, Sayuri wasn’t much of a threat.

I recalled the scene where the grown-up Sayuri was telling Dr Crab “ Always seek a second opinion” when he asked her what advise she would give regarding those rumours he had heard abt her.


Always seek a second opinion. How many of us would remember that when we heard rumours abt someone. We are more inclined to believe in the person who spread the rumours if we happened to interact more with him/her. Unless we have a chance to interact with the victim, or dare to question the victim to hear his/her view, we are most likely to be brainwashed.



Ok serious stuff aside, now I shall present to you something yummy from The Patissier:




It’s call Empress Dowager.

Cost $5 for just a small piece. It’s now lying in the office fridge, 还舍不得吃。According to the website, it’s a vanilla sponge filled with strawberry mousse and fresh raspberries..

*slurps”. But come to think of it, it sounds funny when u say：
“I am going to eat Empress Dowager.”


Hahaha.

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