Ok. I received emails from some friends asking me to update my 'sites' list. Haha! I guess it's time to reorganize my galleries/blogs/email accounts/etc. Especially after the cancellation of some of my email accounts and the Clubsnap gallery!
For a start, I will close down some sites and maintain only those that I list here.
Especially after what happened last Friday. The dentist's assistant was poking my gums with the 'vacuum' so hard that I think my gums were bleeding. Nabeh! I guess I deserved this since I did not make noise at that moment... but well... :-(
Now, I have a mouth full of ulcers and to add on to the suffering, one BIG ulcer right on the lips as I had accidentally bit into my lips last week. Aarrgghhh!!!
We were over at IKEA Tampines on Saturday to help them 'stress test' their crowd handling capabilities. IKEA Tampines in Singapore is not due to open till 30th November 2006. It is HUGE and is definitely a fresh change from the 'often cramped' Alexandra branch.
Huge entrance sign. Can't miss this
After parking, we had no trouble at all finding the entrance! The sign is big and clear! The carpark is spacious too!
As we were early, we had to do what Singaporeans do... QUEUE. Haha! It was really hot in the afternoon and luckily, there were tents set up to shelter us from the sun. However, the hanging fans were not working. It seems they have installed the fans but not the generators to power them!
(It was too hot... and I did not bother to go out to get a shot of 'IKEA' logo)
A lot of IKEA Tampines staff were there to greet and guide the 'Friends' of IKEA (as their membership is called). If I am not wrong, Mr. Philip Wee was there too... not bad... OH! We were each given a 'heart-shaped' plushie at the entrance.
One important thing to let you guys know is that the CAFE is very much better now! It is almost like my school canteen! It is spacious and we can forget about the 'excuse me' and knocks here and there, at the old Alexandra branch as we squeeze for seats! There are even two queues for people to line up to get their food!
So much for these bits and pieces of the new IKEA at Tampines! See it for yourself on the 30th lah!
Hmm... quite a lot of people I know are either down with a cough, runny noses, sore throats or fever.
THE END OF THE YEAR IS HERE AGAIN!!
*hooray*
*tweet tweet*
I was thinking... maybe I should make the 'fugsvidz' a regular thing on this blog - since it is really easy to put up. What do you think? Say a video upload per week? Sounds good?!?
Read from the papers that Civil servants will get a total of 2.2 months of bonuses this year! That's not bad. I can not even try to imagine the amount I will be getting this year next April.
Yupz! My company's policy on bonus payouts is end of the fiscal year (which is usually end of March or beginning of April - the following year). As such, I do not have the 'luxury' of having spare cash to tide over the New Year.
I have been a sick puppy for the last two days. :-(
Shucks!
Finally back in office today, everything look alien to me. My keyboard does not feel as 'friendly' as it did 3 days back, my table seems a little low for me, and the water tastes bad. Aarrggghhh!
During lunch time today, we were at Tampines DBS building to get a stylus for CTM's O2 phone from the 'Challenger' store. Upon reaching, we saw a sign stating that with effect from today, the outlet there will be closed. On the sign, there was a list of other outlets we could visit. Pasir Ris White Sands was one of these.
We decided to go over to White Sands as it was the nearest. When we reached there, we could not find any Challenger outlet at all! It was only moving in after the Tampines branch had closed. Duh! WTF!
These few days, I have been feeling tired and rather empty inside. No, not in the stomach! :-) Just the feeling of emptiness in myself. I don't see a clear direction in what I am doing and I certainly feel a little lost.
Nevertheless, I think it would be wise for me to garner up whatever 'energy' I have left to complete the year. It's been a rather hectic year for me and I guess I am in dire need of a good relaxing holiday. When the year ends, I would gladly show 2006 my 'two-fingers' of gratitude and bid it a fucking farewell. Year 2006 has really been a bitch overall!
Is it time for me to once again consider moving on to new working environments? Will everything be fine in the new year to come? Will everything work as planned in 2007?
Only God knows, and he ain't telling me anything!!
After getting my hands on a (big mama) flash unit from Cornelius, the school has to come with a letter informing parents that photo/video-graphy are not allowed during the graduation concert! WTF!
And, they are offering the PCD/VCD/DVD of the concert 'taken by professionals' at a price. Sucks! This means we have no choice but to buy the 'professionally-produced' (a.k.a. not cheap) discs from them right?! @#$!@%$!!#%
So Corn, lunch sometime soon to return the flash light to you? Ha! :-)
Just received my 'token' device from DBS. I wonder if other banks will do the same - requiring a second level of authentication for their Internet Banking facilities.
OMFG!!!
This means that if I have accounts from 3 different banks, I will need 3 tokens!! On top of this, I have also got one from the office for secured VPN access. Shit!!
Diao! It's such a sloooooooooooooooooowwwwwww day!! !@#!@#!$#@$@#%
nabe-nabe.com is back online again! Thank goodness it is!
I just noticed that a couple of pictures on this blog are not showing up -probably due to the shutdown/suspension of my Clubsnap account. I will get those fixed soon. :-)
Just received a call from NEA officer. He told me that the stall I mentioned had already received quite a handful of warnings and tickets from NEA before and I was definitely not the only one to lodge a complaint about the hygiene issue.
The previous post was put up at tomorrow.sg and received responses from people. Those who posted there generally felt that I over-reacted and was kind of petty in asking for the SGD2.00.
Can I stress that I did not ASK for SGD2.00? I demanded from him what he was going to do now that he has spat into my bowl of dessert. (I had half expected him to apologize but..) His first reaction was not to apologize but to ask me how much was that bowl of dessert. Like I mentioned in tomorrow.sg, I was too angered by his earlier actions to think properly - so I just told him 'two dollars' and when he passed me SGD2.00, I took it without thinking.
I agree that I should not have taken the SGD2.00, and I really regretted taking it. Well I was angry then and just simply took it without much thought.
Why would I want his SGD2.00 anyway? I was just too pissed by his behaviour.
Maybe people are not understanding what I really meant in my previous post. His unhygienic handling of food and inconsiderate shouting were the main points. I have come across a lot of hawkers who do tout but not in this way, and I did not complain against them! But well... :-)
Something was brought up on tomorrow.sg by Anonymous Monkey. He/She mentioned that the "non-elite/neighbourhood poor/average IQ ppl must always conform to highly educated standard..."
Erm, I don't remember ever mentioning anywhere that I was 'highly educated'... :-( I am not an elite in any sense and definitely not highly educated. So, I was not trying to make anyone conform to any 'highly educated standard'!
For the record, I AM NOT AN ELITIST and I don't want anything to do with any 'WSM-ism'!!! :-) I'm just an ordinary guy relating a bad hawker experience!
moe at 11/30/2006 09:36:00 AM
