barrrrrrleyyyyy

family trip to bali! =D

 



my first stay in a pool villla! *thumbs up. felt like a princess for 4 days =)) its so awesome when you have a private pool, and the staff would served breakfast right up to your villa and even set up the table for you. mega nice! =D

day 1
nth much for day 1 given that we reached bali only in the late afternoon. so it was more of exploring around the area that we stayed. but it was damn cool at night because they have street lamp but somehow or rather, they just don't function. SOOO.....it felt like an adventure to me as we figured our way out in the darkness. my dad was like 'wah, jungle training'. =) thank goodness we did manage to find our way back in the end =) because its like we were walking along the road in darkness and not knowing whether we were in the right direction.

day 2
parents went for spa while sis and i spent the whole morning swimming and sun tanning. my deliberate attempt to sun tan didnt go really well. i only got teeny weeny bit darker =x anyway, went to uluwatu in the late afternoon, and it took us freaking 1.5 hrs just to get there via car! oh my. but the place was realllllly prettty except for the scary monkey that attacked ppl!

we watched kecak and fire dance at uluwatu as well. quite interesting actually. instead of using musical instruments like most dance would, these guys used their voices to create music and to tell a story.

day 3
spent the entire day out! went to many many places =)) coffee plantation, rice terraces, had drinks at this restaurant that overlooked a volcano, visited traditional balinese house, tanah lot, tried local food as welll. thumbs up!

the volcano!

 

this is tanah lot. apparently when its low tide, we can actually walk to the temple. but it was high tide when we went. so didnt have the chance to walk there.boooo. but it was reallly prettty there!

 

day 4

our turn to go spa while my parents spent the morning swimming. haha! awesome spa oh my! full body massage, full body scrub and then soaking ourselves in flower tub =DD perfect way to end the trip!



teambuilding day!

department's teambuilding day! (still cant believe 2hrs of dodgeball cost $800 -_-'', but yeah, if we do not spend it, the govt gonna take em back....so might as well...)

so friday was declared 'teambuilding day' as everyone headed down to marina country club early in the morning. thumbs up to that because i stay near to it! =DD despite stayin so near, i never knew there's a company there that organises dodgeball. anw! dodgeball wasnt too bad. kind of makes me wan to play netball again! =D

the 28 of us headed down to jalan kayu for lunch after dodgeball, and then to boss's house to play boardgames. stayed till evening before we all call it a day! =))

i don't know how and where to start updating my blog because i have not been doing so lately. mmmm. and yes, my laptop died on me months ago, and my erjie's old laptop also died on me days ago.....all my electronics are dying on me, possibly reflecting the power of my sweaty palms =/  hai.  and i cant sign into my friend's nus account to access the database for journal articles, which explained why i am here blogging...

is a lazy sunday afternoon and im home alone trying to edit my paper but ya, no access to journal articles. roars. and the mtv channel is not playing any nice music, not really helping much.

as far as i can rmb....this is what all that had happened.....

met up with jaclyn, allena and yifang and collected the cd and photos from the photoshoot + birthday surprise for allena and yifang! =)

half the strength here! its friday and everyone wasnt in the mood to do work, and a few of them were too excited for their kpop concert. as u can see, some of them have changed to their t-shirt for the concert.

 my awesome cubicle mates, short of rana who wasnt there.



then it was legoland with ryl! =DD legoland was seriously crowded and we queued an hr for each ride. kill me man.



lego miniature!

then it was kinect competition at workplace. obviously i wasnt participating...hahaha! went to support those who competed!

then then then......

rock climbing/bouldering ydae with colleagues! oh man, im aching all over now seriously. but it was fun! =D

and i did my very first presentation at work few days back! woohoo! =D and one more presentation to do next weeek! i cant wait for data collection for the study to begin.

alrighty. thats what i can rmb what had happened so farrrrr.....

more graduation photossssss! =D

public holiday (deepavali) was well spent with jaclyn, allena and yifang! =) yifang managed to get her friend to help us take photos (with a price of course), and so we met early in the morning for our graduation shoooot! yes, graduation shooot again! but with different clique this time around =) 

we decided to have part of our graduation shoot in school because during commencement, we didnt get to take a photo with 'i was here'!!, and anyway, it was way too crowded to even take a proper photo even if we had the chance to.

we almost died of itch here! swear the mosquitos were horribly hungry.

and yes, we wanted to go back to our EA classroom to take photos but it was locked sadly. so we just snapped photos outside...

the photographer loves to take candid photos.....we were on our way to garden by the bay!

it was soooo much fun taking the photos! =DDD and most importantly, we had the most enthu  photographer with us. we were like damn tired towards the end, and the photographer was like hyped up still, and continued to snap more photos and kept asking us to try this and that. and every view he saw, he wanted us to stand in so he could take a photo of it. realllllllly enthu photographer and damn efficient too. hahha! *thumbs up

yes, more photos even during lunch. hahaha! our photographer is on-the-go 24/7.

i think we spent close to 5hrs taking photos! wooots. damn tired at the end of the day! smile until i didnt want to smile anymoreeee....hahaha!

coastal settlement for dinner! a preeeettty place thats quietly located somewhere in changi. it has a 'close to nature' theme, so theres lots of plants n trees and flowers which i like. heh! i wouldnt mind spending my afternoon there with a cup of coffee =)) and when the sky turned dark, the place was beautifully lit up =)  anw despite being a quietly located dining place, the seats were all nearly reserved when we entered! thats surprising. and so, we only had like 1.5hrs to eat because the table that we were seated at was reserved then. 

portobello fries! initially i thought they looked like chicken wings =x but quickly realised they werent.

rosti and sausageeee

waffles to end the day! =D yums!!! 

good thing about this place is that it is near my workplace. GOOD! save time traveling. hahah! hate to go town after work because its so out of the way. 

our grad shots! =D now it seems as though i have graduated for yearssssss, when in fact its just 3mths agooo....

do i really miss school? hmmm. i probably only just miss spending time with my friends back in school. anyway my work now makes me feel as though im still schooling. so not gonna miss the part of reading articles and writing literature review for now. hah! but i guess i prefer working over schooling on the whole.

dinner date with colleagues!! i think its nice hanging out with colleagues after work because most of the time while we are at work, we seldom get to talk as much...ya, its not the case of 'its not as if we haven seen enough of each other at work' =pp

charis recommended new places for dinner so we decided to try out this place at siglap. seriously, siglap seems totally foreign to me. hahahha! i forgot whats the name of the place, but the portion of food was reallllly hugeeeeeee!

we headed for dessert at de la creme (i think its spelled this way) after dinner. took a lonnnnnnnggggggggg walk to the place and i didnt even realise we walked past this malay cemetry =x thank goodness charis n narin chose not to tell us. ahaha! if not ill freaked out.

yums! =D

birthday surprise for jaclyn and aga!! (and the manager just got to spoil our surprise *roll eyes)

dinner date with psychology friends at j8! we tried this place that aga recommended, and its not too bad! =)) and we started bitching about some people. hahhaha! better don't step on our toes if not you will find urself sneezing non-stop!! *glare

anw allena n i reached early so that we could pass the cake to the staff at the place we dined at. the staff was really nice and he knew we wanted it to be a surprise, so when we were all done with dinner, he was like gesturing to me from the back, asking who's the birthday girl so that he know who to give the cake to later. AND THEN...this manager came up to us and went 'hello, heres the bill. BTW, U HAVE A CAKE RIGHT?' tsk. i stared right at him and went 'hello, you just spoiled our surprise!' hahahaha! made him felt so paiseh =p oopsie!



why am i working at home on a weekend?! booooooooooo.

and i think im growing fat

my face is getting ROUNDER

im struggling with id and superego all day long. ego is getting confused because she cant hand the demands of neither the id nor superego. so tell ego what to do!

i think my english is improving having read manymanymanymanymany journal articles.

sometimes i want to be antisocial and talk less

listening to emo songs makes me think weird stuff

i have funny boss at work

im stuck with this journal article

im going out later to meet charlene

i want to go on holiday again

why cant we work 6mths and holiday 6mths

i have no idea what i am typing

i want to run

don't mind cycling toooo

i have yet to claim my time off from work

i wanna make brownies

work is draining my energy so much so that i don't want to go out on weekends because i wanna slp moreeee and have time for myself! and factor in some time going for therapy too...so im a lazy woman on weekends.

and working at the extreme end of singapore aint too good an idea because i would be too lazy to travel to town to meet friends for dinner. oh dear. look what work has done to me =(

anw, changi village for lunch with colleagues and we decided to pop by choc full of beans! actually this was taken some time back, just didnt have the time to update. apparently my colleagues all like to go pretty cafes to chill =))) so we had alot to share!

so cute right? i couldnt bear to stir the coffee =(

work has been awesome so far =D i have really nice colleagues to work with, so that makes going to work happpppy! and yes, im still looking forward going to prisons for data collection and interviews =) i think its interesting talking to the inmates and i think there are a lot of misconceptions that inmates are violent and aggressive...you know, like how they used to think people with mental disorders are 'crazy and violent'....but obviously thats all wrong. in fact, those inmates are really chatty (of course there are those grumpy ones) and they do share stuff with you, and i thought thats pretty nice =) but of course we do need to keep in mind what offences they commit though. not everyone is as nice of course. 

been reading many journal articles and writing papers. oh man. felt like im still in school somehow =x im like burning my weekends clearing my work, which explains my 'lazy-ness' to blog. but anw, i think the job is good because i do get a balance of spending some time in office writing, and out at prisons interacting with other people. so yeah, thumbs up for now! 

anyway im getting my first pay soon! woohoo! =D 

bangkok day 4!!

basically, we chionged shopping for the day! HENCE, we didnt have many photos!

ryl lent me her shades!beth was in the toilet, so the two of us didnt know what to do. so we camwhored. hehh!

anyway, we headed to platinum shopping mall. we realised there are actually 2 platinum shopping malls! we only went to one of them on day 1, so we decided to check out the another one. AND OH MY GOD. WE SHOPPED TILL WE DROP THERE. WE WENT WITHOUT LUNCH AND DINNER BECAUSE WE WERE TOO BUSY SHOPPING. and perhaps because we knew it was our last chance to buy stuff there, we really just spend. like we cant be bothered to think, we just grabbed and paid! kind of regret it now, I SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT MORE HEELS THERE! damn. we rushed back to our hotel by 5.30 pm and tried to squeeze all our stuff into 2 bags (we refused to pay $17 to check in our luggage. we want to hand carry them). it was a damn funny sight because the 3 of us were practically emptying our bags at the hotel lobby and repacking them all into our bags. haha! and then we rushed to the airport to catch our flight.

and that marks the end of my bangkok trip!!!! =)

Bangkok day 3!! =DD

We left for grand palace in the morning! we camwhored even when waiting for the train to come at the station platform. HAHA! ultimate. anyway, one bad thing about bangkok is that their train lines are not inter-connected. so they have MRT and BTS which are 2 separate systems. horrible. cant they just connect them somehow so it will be more convenient for commuters to transfer train rides rather than buying two train passes separately?

we found new ways to take photos. hahaha! 

hahaha! liz did not realised that we caught her unglam moments on camera!

ok, smiling nicely for us to take photos!

AND I SAW SI WON ADVERTISEMENT! hahahahha! my eye candy in super junior. we felt like we were at korea for the moment.

anyway, we got off the train and took a boat ride in order to get to the grand palace. so while on the boat, we took photos again! hahaha! i don't know where did all the scenary shots went to again. haha! ryl didnt upload them! anyway, we didnt exactly went into the grand palace because we felt it wasnt worth the price. probably can buy more clothes with that amount of money. so we roamed around the area because taking a cab down to chinatown!

so this is chinatown! we shopped for goodies and had sharks fins and bird nest there! yums! really reallly cheap compared to singapore. we roamed around the area until we realised we got lost! HAHA! and this kind thai uncle saw us looking lost so he came up to us and asked if we needed help. AND YES, HE GAVE US THE DIRECTION =) actually thais are pretty nice people =))

stopped by terminal 21 again!

i already forgot what we did at terminal 21. probably settled our dinner or something....

and there, we ended day 3! we were really dead tired by the end of the day because we have walked soooo much and the weather is not doing us any favour.