Friday, December 21, 2007

I've done something which is not my usual style again.

After aiming to get the Nokia Navgigator 6110 for weeks and have been telling my close friends for the past few days that I will upgrade my hp to that model this few days, and set to get my hands on this model yesterday (it's mid nite now), I changed my mind again at the counter!!!

Got a Nokia 6500 slider phone instead

Anyway will talk more abt it next time. Now busy trying to find back the contact numbers of my friends. As the shop was abt to close when it was my turn to be served, (spent hours waiting at teh Hello! Singtel shop), the salesperson was in a rush and did not transfer the contacts of my old SIM card to the New 3G SIM card. Now my old SIM card is de-activated and I can't get back the contacts stored .

So now I have to request my dear friends if your happen to read this, please sms me yr name and contact number. My HP number is still the same.

Thanks a lot ya.

and u know what. I just saw my horoscope for yesterday (20 Dec) in my email mailbox and guessed what it read:

Your Horoscope for DECEMBER 20, 2007
Today is likely to bring communication problems, XIANGXUAN. Perhaps a colleague is in a bad mood, and not very receptive to anything you might have to say. Or perhaps the phones are out or the computers are down. This could prove frustrating.

Really have communication probs .. damn kan-cheong to get back my contacts...

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

My new toy

Got my bonus yesterday. Woohoo!!!

Actually not that much lah, cos I only join my current organisation in June. So practically I received half of what I received last year. But still feeling happy.

Done some Xmas shopping and bought a new gadget -- a digicam. Yeah my 3 yr old digicam really CMI liao.

I surprised myself in the end, as initially, I had decided to get Canon Powershot A640 with rotational lens. (so used to this feature which was found in my old kyocera camera). had done some homework on it. Upon reaching Sim Lim Square with a friend ( need a guy ard when shopping at Sim Lim), found that the model is is discontinued (blame it on outdated forum thread.. the camera model only released last year leh) and the similar latest mode is Canon PowerShot A650 .

(pic from http://www.canon.com.sg/)

Wanted to get this cos it has the rotational lens function. And this model is 12 megapix!! But my friend said that it is so bulky, not suitable for me. and I wun be fully utilising its advance feature cos i dunno much abt photography.

So he recommended this camera which is sleek and has a wide 3 inch screen . showed me all the fun things I can do with this model, where can add icons (stars) on the pic taken directly on the camera. The best part is that this camera cost $100 less then the Canon PowerShot A650. Though it is 8.1 megapix , it has face recognition, smile detection features and the best offer among the authorised dealer in Sim Lim Sq came in a package of TWO 2 Gb SD card ( each value at $65) and a carry case.

So at the last minute, I can see it is quite stupid to get the bulky Powershot just becos of a that rotational lens feature and i decided to change my mind.

Here I present my new toy:

Sony Cybershot DSC-T70 in rose pink.

Too lazy to describe abt its specs cos they can be viewed here:

http://www.sony.com.sg/microsite/cybershot/products/t70/index.html#top .

One thing I realised. The above pic of cos is taken with my old digicam. So the last pic (most prob) taken with the old digicam is a pic of the new digicam which it will be replaced by.... How ironic!

Have to say although I am not very into pink, but this camera is very "me" hor. :P

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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Dinners

Can't believe within a week, I attended 2 wedding dinners and 2 dept xmas parties.


All these feasting really make me worried I will put on weight. Haha.

And next week, there will be more meet up and (naturally) dinner with friends.

Anyway, wanna showcase something here which i think my friends will groan :" Not again!!"

This is a gift which I received today..

Yah, a purple pouch. In the shade of purple that I like!! Thanks Sindra!

Gotta get back to work on my cards now. Time is running out....

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Monday, December 10, 2007

简单与不简单

Happened to chat with my poly friend recently and told her that I feel that this bunch of poly friends which I hang out with are the rare ones whom still retain their innocence after being in the workforce for so many years. Never had I seem them raised their temper , fighting for power. They always have kind words for everyone. Even though others have misunderstood them as materialistic gals becos of the way they dress, I know they are actually very simple gals and others would not know that the partners (now their husbands) they have chosen (given their looks, they have no lack of suitors) have a lower educational level than them.

Told her i could not understand why some people like to get involve in power struggles, like to compete, like to compare. What's wrong with leading a simple life? To which, she replied something like:

Others can say us chun2 (纯）or chun3 （蠢）. Leading a simpler life is much happier.

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to be continued

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Sunday, December 09, 2007

Nothing much happening during the past week -- as in events.

Happened to touch on a topic related to flirting and how someone was like always trying to gain attention in the mid week and co-incidentally, met a super flirt the next day . And that person was our course instructor....

My colleague and I attended this Dreamweaver course at an external site on Thursday and Friday. The class consist of 6, with me and my colleague sitting on the left side and a young school buy, and 3 other ladies seated on the right.
Initially, tot the course instructor was trying to be friendly or lightened up the mood when he start introducing himself to us (on the left), with details abt his age, and self-proclaimed he looked like Jon Leong (which we dun think so), giving occasional winks.

Din bother to remembered the whole conversation but here's an extract

Instructor : " Yeah, I dun look like I am in my 30s right?" (flirty glance)
My colleague : " Except when u smile, the wrinkles will show."
Instructor : " It's in the smile." ( Wink) "Adds character , yeah?" (wink)

And then my colleague was typing a message on her hp and show it to me.
The message was :

He super flirty hor?

I almost burst out laughing loudly when just that moment, he turned to the ladies on the right, perhaps caught their looks ( I have to say, to put it diplomatically, they were just average looking) and said
" No, I'm not flirting with them."

Perhaps he didn't heard of this phrase called 不打自招....

Though I am paying attention in class, I find it difficult to keep my eyes open wide as I began to develop sinus symptoms. And every time my eyes were half opened, he 'd have caught me off-guard and threatened to frightened me with a surprise evil laughter. And asked my colleague to give him the cue if I start to doze off.

Anyway, the treats were empty threats and it was beginning to be quite boring that my colleague eventually asked him to go ahead to show us his evil laughter just to stop all this nonsense.

The flirting continued throughout the day. Especially during the breaks. We noticed how he "casually" portray himself as a family man by saying he'd like to have kids and he recently ended a long relationship ( ppl seldom reveal that much on the 1st day of knowing someone) and then slowly came to the questions of asking our age and if we are single or attached.

I was laughing when i heard my colleague's bullshit reply that she is single but dating 3 people at the same time now. (obviously trying to scare him off). Have to say, as she is in the marketing line, she sure know how to talk and talk crap when dealing with such people. have to contain my smile when i heard her continue bullshiting abt how she gave equal standing to the 3 guys and how aware they are abt it. It sounds so convincing that the instructor asked me if I knew all these, which I played along by saying of course I knew that as we are close.

I have to admit I am not the type who would know how to 应酬 and tend to draw out my spears and amour when dealing with these type of people. Here are some of the "attacks" I have launched.

1) During our practice sessions, he came over and saw the colour scheme I had for my webpage and commented
" I noticed you are quite a pastel person."

Quite irritated by the way he purposely soften his tone and his glance, I shot back
" Oh, it's just that I don't like yellow." (referring to the yellow background he had chosen for his demo)

2) In the afternoon, I was still having a runny nose and the the gal seated at the right was also having such symptoms. And there he was like making a joke of how we two from the same Poly having the same symptoms and said that he have a jacket and we can borrowed from him if he want. Because he was looking in my direction at the end , I cut him off by saying:

" Nah, it's ok. I'll be alright once I get out of here"
He gave my colleague a look, which she added "Ouch!"

Taking cue, I turned to her and added " Yah, I was ok when we were out having lunch right."

That left him finding a way out by saying " Woah. She has a sharp tongue."

I dun care that seems rude but was rather relieve that i manage to fend him off as he tend to speak more to my colleague after that.

At the end of the day, my colleague was telling me that she was so tired cos she feel like catching some rest during our breaks but he came over to our side to chat. ( and I had to admit i let her do most of the talking since she's good at it).

The next day was much better, for me. With the exception that he tried to make me tell him where I am off too after class (cos was wearing a dress) , make fun of the animal print lining of my jacket, and saying he is trying to get back at the 4 "Ouches" I gave him the previous day ( Oh man, he even count them. So petty), he was occupied by questions from the other students most of the time. If he's free, he will continuing with his flirting with my colleague who will know how to deal with his questions.

When filling up the evaluation form, we joked that we should reflect that the instructor was too flirty to his students. But , fairly speaking, to give him some credits, we were really impressed by the designs he had created, and he is generous to teach us some tips on other applications (like photoshop) when we asked.

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Nearly mid week of Dec, I am still working on my cards and gifts. How I wish I have more time after work or am able to work 24/7....

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Sunday, December 02, 2007

Blog have been left stagnant for a week...

Anyway, I finally completed the post on the wedding on 11.11.07.
( http://harmoniewong.blogspot.com/2007/11/1111-wedding-stage-1.html）

Had watched two movies for the past two weeks -- Lust. Caution and Hero. I prefer the later.

Went for the post wedding celebration which was a round of steamboat dinner and KTV session which last till 4am in the morning. Our just-married friend was telling us how her colleagues were bewildered at the fact that we the sisters were bullied into the drinking. Never of them seen sisters being forced to drink my brothers before. Which my friend were having the same sentiments when i told them abt the incident. So we pointed out fingers at the "culprit" -- the bro who led that session and had our "revenge" by saying he should help to serve us if he is a gentleman. So for that session, he was basically the one in charge of adding the ingredients to the steamboat, cutting away the prawns 'heads, topping our drinks and soup.

有人伺候（而且人家还是富家子），真爽！


Had went sourcing for Xmas cards and Xmas gifts. Had done up abt 10 cards so far and just completed 4 charm bracelets to be sent overseas.

Just hope that my "creative juice" keep flowing. It is getting more and more difficult to come up with different cards designs every year. I stick to my "no two cards are the same" rule.

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