A Health Checkup Says A Lot…

Yesterday, my workplace had a mini health checkup. It is just a very simple process of checking height, weight, BMI, blood pressure, fat analysis and random blood sugar. Perhaps the only useful tests were fat analysis and random blood sugar.

Well, everything was fine – all results turned out to be normal. For the fat analysis, females are supposed to have 20-30% of fats in their body. My fat composition is 20.7%, which to me, just means that I have no boobs. =(((((((

Anw.. here's a photo of me when i was young. Please tell me I look the same.

WoAH! I can upload photos without hello already! How cool is that!! hahah. ok anw these are my sec sch friends. testing testing...

The tale of a 罗汉

YesterdayI was looking at the luo han.. it was jus swimming around.. doing.. nothing. For abt 2 seconds, I felt sad for it, because it doesn’t seem to know its purpose in life? My dad walked past and I said..

"爸，你的鱼很可怜leh。"

"做么leh？"

"因为它每天这样游来有去hor, 很可怜leh。"

"Den 你的金鱼不可怜啦？"

*speechless*

As most of you would know, my father has this luo han yu as a erm… ‘pet’. It is supposed to bring luck and let us strike 4D one, but this luo han yu is useless lar. Once my mom was playing with it and then it knocked itself against the tank really hard. I think it got a concussion because my mom said it jus floated around for a while. Ever since the luo han fish woke up from the concussion, it became a bit ‘senile’ alrdy. My father even has to feed the luo han with a spoon lor. otherwise it wont know how to eat the food. -_-'''

**Dont say my fishes got no purpose in life okay. Their purpose is seeing me at home everyday, and waiting for the food to drop from the automatic feeding machine. A prupose in life is very important.

English Lesson (2)

Good afternoon class,
Today we are going to learn about simple present tense and present continuous tense. Let’s begin the lesson with 2 examples.

1) Yingying is eating her noodles.
2) Yingying eats her noodles.

As you will already know, 1) is present continuous tense and 2) is simple present tense. When do we use which?

For present continuous tense, we use it to describe actions or events that are happening now. In the office, when you see the printer printing out paper, you should say “The printer is printing now.” instead of “The printer prints!”

For simple present tense, we do not use it jus because an event/action is happening in the present. It is being used for 4 reasons:
a) sth that happens everyday: She eats her breakfast every morning
b) a habit
c) cannot rem
d) cannot rem

Useful lesson right? Another meaningful day for you. All thanks to me, all of you can proudly say that “I live my life to the fullest. I learn something new everyday.”

English Lesson (1)

Do you know when to use present perfect tense and simple past tense? All of us learnt this before in pri sch, but I believe many of you have already forgotten what tense to use. Look at the two sentences below:

(1) I have just finished my work.
(2) I finished my work yesterday.

When to use ‘have finished’ and when to use ‘finished’? The trick lies in identifying the time the event took place. When the time is not specified, use present perfect tense. When the time is specified (yesterday, 2 days ago), then use simple past tense. Simple past tense is also used after the word ‘wish’. E.g. I wish I had a car.

TaDa! A meaningful lesson learnt for the day. Tomorrow will be simple present tense and present continuous tense.

People are selfish

All of us have heard of office politics since young. And adults always tell us kids that it’s good tt we’re studying, cos the working world is a complicated and scheming one. Even Hong Kong drama serials tell us that. How a person who was originally kindhearted became a cunning and shrewd businessman. Ever since then, I have the mentality that circumstances shape our character. Because of the competitive business world, people have to learn to be crafty backstab blah blah in order to survive. Human beings seem to be victims of the world that they have no control over.

Recently, my perceptions have started to change. A few incidents made me realize that hey, it seems that human beings are the one who shape circumstances; they are the ones who cause office politics. But I know that human beings are not born selfish, we are all born with a kind nature, tt’s why kids are all kind natured, of cos there’re exceptions too la. Then as we grow older, we seem to want things our way. We don’t explicitly show this side of us, but upon close observation, it can be seen. I don’t know what examples to give lar, because these are daily observations from the people around me. Everyone thinks for themselves first, when we do sth, we know that it might put another person in a difficult position, but we jus brush away our thoughts with an “I don’t care” attitude.

I don’t know lar, maybe I haven’t grow up yet.

MANGO SALE

Tomorrow is mango sale lor.

AND I HAVE TO WORKKKKKKK.

This is sooooooooo unfair i hate thisssssss!

=((((((((((

I must niam niam niam until I feel better.

I dun understand why everyone must rush to mango sale. you know how bad it is? if it is sale today, I iwll have to go early in the morning, while everything is still neatly folded (Which makes it easier for me to find my size n see the clothes clearly), and most importantly, make sure got my size. wah lau rush for wad? some can even take half day leave to go lor. Because these ppl are kiasu, i also have to be kiasu. very sian u noe. den must squeeze w the other women to try on the clothes.

Usually, mango sale also not like cheap until siao. but jus tt many ppl rush to buy, i also wan to rush and buy. so terrible right. i dun care i wanna go mango saleeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!! I want VIP card so that i can chope the clothes! I wan ISETAN card so that i can reserve the clothes and buy tmr!!!!!! I wan i wan i wan i wan i wan i wan!!!!!!!!!

Yawn.. that's all.

An Adult Relationship

I was really bored today, cos I didnt have to GO TO WORK. So I jus did a bit of random surfing on friendster. Most of my friends are attached lar, den they had a lot of lovey dovey photos in their profile. I glanced thru those photos and realised that people of our age are in a different relationship. Then i pondered a lil over this issue and managed to see the differences. Note that i am illustrating the growth of a teen rs to an adult one.

When we were young, and in love, wad were the things we did with the special one?

1. Stay back in school to study together
2. Take a bus together to everywhere
3. Sharing bubble teas
4. Eating together in the school canteen
5. Movies with popcorn
6. MacDonald's

Anyway, what i am trying to say is that the things we do were simple. and cheap. Everything seems innocent, dont u think? Then when we grow up...

1. Visit pubs together
2. Go clubbing
3. Drink Alcohol
4. Get driven around (most of the time)
5. Go expensive places
6. Can even drive to sentosa and bring along your dog.

Things are definitely more convenient lar, but aiya i also dunno how to explain the difference. perhaps its jus the sweet innocence lor.

When i'm bored, i crap a lot.

Work Place Blues

I’ve jus gotten my first taste of Office Politics. It’s not a very severe case lar, but it made me feel very pek chek. Usually, at the work place, the people who bully you are those who hold positions higher up in the hierarchical structure. However, here at my work place, some clerical officers wield their powers too.

I am supposed to organize a workshop regarding strategic planning for people in the management level. Since the Director needs to be included, I have to check the director’s diary and find a day he is available for the workshop. Who do I go to? Of course not the director himself, he is probably too busy to know when will be free. I will have to go to the Director’s personal assistant (PA). Let me digress. The PA tracks all the Director’s meetings and reminds the Director to do such and such when he forgets. So if anyone needs time with the Director, they will have to go through the PA first. If the PA doesn’t like you, then don’t ever dream of arranging a meeting with the Director.

This is what happened to me okay. Yesterday morning, I went to look for her to find an available date for the workshop.

“Hello XX, can I check with you when will Dr XX be free? I need to arrange a workshop.”

“Later can? I need to do this. (points to the computer screen.)”

(smiles widely) “Yup okieee.”

[After Lunch]

(sunshine smile) “Hello~”

(expressionless) “I’m not ready yet.”

(--__--‘’’’’’’’) “Okie nevermind… how about I look for you tmr?”

“Yar okay.”

[The next day in the toilet….]

“Hello.. can I find you now?”

“Busy leh.”

“Oh okay…” (prepared to walk away since there's nothing to say)

(mumbled so that I couldn’t hear) “laatrer sfsjgmvisgi skjfskdo”
{which is later before 430 look for me}

Mean people are everywhere. All she needed to do was open that diary of hers, which isn’t so heavy that she will spend lotsa time jus to open it, let me see the available time and viola, I’ll be done. I dun feel upset or wad, but I just think it’s very mean of her to do that lor. It’s really not like she’s got a million things to do, busy till no time to go toilet or wad. And I dun think I offended her leh. Oh perhaps I once asked her a qn which she couldn’t manage to answer den she felt awkward. Haiii but not my fault wad….So selfish. HUmphhhhh.

WARNING: SUPER BO LIAO

Everyday I visit my friends’ blog, and then I get disappointed when I see that they didn’t update their blog. So I have decided that I shall also write lar, you all go n update your blogs too ah.

But I’ve got nothing to update about! My life is as boring as a cow’s. Perhaps u can make a comparison between me n a cow.

My Life: Every morning I wake up feeling darn sian that it is another weekday. Then I jus get ready to go to work. At work, I slack slack and slack. Then eat. Then slack. Then go home and slack. Then sleep.

A Cow’s life: Every morning I wake up feeling darn sian that it is yet another day. (no difference of weekdays and weekends tho’) Then I jus get ready to go to the pasture. There, I slack slack and slack. Then eat. Then slack. Then go back to my shed and slack. Then sleep.

See, I lead a cow’s life. So I wonder, am I better off or is a cow better off?

Me: I go to work; I slack also have to pretend to be busy. When I eat, I have to note that I don’t eat too much, because I have a figure to maintain (not that I have much of a figure in the first place). I talk in my friends, I must lower my volume. But my office got air con, when I sleep my bedroom also got air con.

Cow: I slack, I slack openly. I want to lie down, I lie down. I want to stand around, I stand around. I feel like mooing, I moooo~ loudly also never mind. My cow friends are usually in their own slacking world, but I wanna talk to them I shout to them can liao. But I am under the hot sun everyday. I am exposed to UV rays for 12 hours a day; it is highly likely that I will die of skin cancer. But before that, I will be slaughtered. At night, I sleep amongst hay, stinky cows and their shit. The worst thing is, every morning someone will squeeze my nipples! Very ticklish you noe.

I am damn bo liao.

A Scary Post abt... AGEING.

I have absolutely no idea AT ALL why I am here, wasting my life, my youth and my soft tender skin away. Every single second that passed just meant that I am one second closer to having more wrinkles, cellulite and saggy e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g.

I’m at office, staring at the monitor and nothing intelligent is passing my brain at this moment, no, I should say today. I’m just so bored to death. Actually I have a lot of things to do lar, but it’s so hard to get started u noe? Sigh, I need lotsa discipline.

Today as I was dragging my 21-yr-old legs to work, I saw a VJC girl, or should I jus call her a JC kid, at SGH. “Xiao Mei Mei,” I thought to myself. “Aiya, not like I am a lot older than her.” *I stopped dead in my tracks*

“Wait wait wait, I better count how much older I am” I thought to myself. (counts slowly…)

FOUR YEARS OLDER?!?!??!?! OMG OMG I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! FOUR FREAKING YEARS!!!! You think, “ok wad, 4 yrs not a lot wad.”

Hey hey, den you tell me if u can see the difference between a new born and a toddler? Tell me tell me la! U blind huh?!

Therefore, I conclude that the difference between me and the JC kid is jus like the difference between a new-born and toddler. Except that their skin qualities are almost similar.

Gosh, I’m so OLD.

Congratulations yingying, you are...

mr brown of www.mrbrown.com

Like that ad for Toys 'R Us, you are that kid who doesn't want to grow up. Except you do. And now you're just a big overgrown kid who doesn't want grow up. You have a warped yet addictive sense of humour. It takes skills to poke fun at serious things and you have no problems doing that. Your peers look up to you and yet you're humble about everything. You are an infantile.

Which Singaporean Blogger Are You?

When I think of Hall 14, I think of…

- desmond pek (hahhahahahaha)
- lizards, cockroaches and unknown flying objects
- dirty pantry..
- loud voices
- warcraft
- gunbound
- scandalous-ness
- msn-ing
- surfing the net aimlessly
- doing the laundryyyy
- freedom

Ok there’re still many other things that I will think of, but those are very boring stuffs. Anyway let’s walk down memory lane together…

Year 1
I came to NTU alone. I had evon lar, but evon isn’t in the same course as me and she didn’t stay in hall. So I had to start making friends all over. Thinking back, I think I must have been damn courageous to apply for hall alone. And to stay with a stranger. And to come for FOC. But everything went quite smoothly for me. I forged many new friendships, which were true n real, sth tt I thought will never happen in uni. In a way I guess I should be thankful to mabel. Because of her, I participated in many things and opened up to many friends. But in my yr 1, I didn’t have many friends. Ppl like shuqing zhuyi .. I never talked to them before. Even jingyang who lived at my block. I was still too introverted to talk to them. And I think I should also be thankful to my roomie too. She’s v wonderful we did many things tog and we were very understanding to each other’s needs. So I guess God was more than fair to me.

At blk 67, there were many lizards and cockroaches. I tell you the darn cockroaches are damn hugee. And I had a lizard living with me in the same room. And I think I lived in fear.

Yr 2
I joined FOC, made many more friends whom I should have made in yr 1. I moved to blk 65 and all my friends are there. Yr 2 I became closer to shanyi n ruishan. I joined JCRC learnt many new things discovered new interests. Mabel lives nxt to me on the fifth floor. I love living on the fifth floor it’s quiet and peaceful. And the toilet is wonderously clean. There are still many lizards, but they don’t usually come to my room. However, sometimes I feel lonely because the floor is too quiet. Esp when I jus broke up and I was so alone. But my friends were really nice. They spent time with me whenever they could. It was during this period of time that I realized how much they treasure me as a friend.

All in all, it has been a wonderful experience living in hall. Like mabel, I know I will only remember the happy memories, and perhaps the lizards. Heeheehee.

“20 30 40”
Yesterday Rs & I met Mabel for lunch. [Allow me to digress a while to talk abt our lunch date before I proceed on to explain wad my title means.] The 3 of us decided to reward ourselves by eating something expensive and delicious. Why suddenly reward ourselves, you may think. Well, we jus wanted to reward ourselves for being internationally acclaimed chio bus. Who would ever reward themselves for being chio right? It’s so novel. The next time round we’re going to reward ourselves for having nails.

We had NYDC baked rice, dunno what bacon sth rice and roast chicken with pepperoni rice. Wah lau I tell you the baked rice is THE whack man. It was just cheesy enough, a bit chao dar but hey the chao darred part was darn delicious can?! When I took the first bite of the succulent aromatic backed rice, everything jus melted in my mouth. Oh man… But mabel gave it 3 stars out of 5? I had initially wanted to eat this pork chop rice at shaw towers, but the 2 bimbos didn’t want to walk so far cos they want to shop, which is logically contradicting. Dun wanna walk den shop no need to walk? Orh ok lar, it’s the hot sun lar. Dun wanna sweat more like it.

Basically, it was a fantastic meal lar. I’m gg back for more baked rice in the near future. Yum yum! But I’m not gg to go suntec for lunch again! Do you know that we were caught in the lunch jam and the taxi fare cost us a blardly 7 bucks? Wad a waste of money lor.

Ok back to my main topic… well during lunch, the 3 of us just briefly mentioned abt single n attached girls. Cos mabel had this friend who didn’t eat rice for 3 yrs jus to stay slim. And her reason is she has to be slim because she has no bf. Which to me, was super ridiculous. I have always thought that only attached women bother to upkeep their looks. Alright, they’re just relatively more likely to do so. Well Mabel n Rs disagreed n said that when women get attached, they become slops. I have always thought otherwise! When a woman is single, there is not much reason for her to dress up, no? Dress up for whom to see? Train abs for whom to see? My belly button huh? Well... I remember that I nv really bothered to look stunningly pretty when I was single (although tt was when I was 17). But when I finally met someone I fancied, I hell sure diligently looked good whenever and wherever! At least there was a reason to look good! Guys like to wear girls as accessories and if their gfs look good, they feel proud too! Yes guys are kinda shallow but they are born like tt wad to do right?

So can u now guess wad my title is?? 20=single, 30=attached, 40=married! [title idea frm mabel] Now I’m going to give u a detailed breakdown of the differences between these 3 grps of women.

(1) Single
Being the typical economist, let me just make some assumptions. Single women are women who want to be attached.
(a) Young group
- constantly wants to look good
- spends a lot of money looking good
- willing to spend up to a few hundred dollars to cut/perm/rebond hair
- Put make up every single time they go out
They seem too high-maintenance, guys cannot afford leh

however.. they can also be…
- ugly
- don’t like to spend money
- or-biang clothes
- no figure
- fat in an ugly way
these are the reasons why they are not attached.

(b) Older grp (a.k.a spinsters)
- cynical
- looks like discipline mistress
- rich
- rich
- rich

(2) Attached
This grp of women are usually in their late teens and early twenties
- looks good
- likes to wear spaghetti strap tops
- long straight rebonded hair
- hair colour usually brown.
- looks pretty from the back. Whether look good from the front depends on genetics
- puts on make up when out with bf
- no make up when out with friends (sick n tired of make up)

(3) Married
- has short hair (less hassle)
- 2 bank accounts: one belong to themselves, the other is husband’s acc
- no more contact lenses, spectacles please
- bigger tummy (due to giving birth, n lesser exercise)
- scrimp n save
- don’t buy new clothes
- clothes from markets
- onset of cellulite
- granny panties perhaps