There seems to be some kind of donut craze in Singapore lately, that's what I understood from one of the Singaporean here. The queue is about 10-15 meters long and people buy by the dozen!!! The shops even limited the customers to a maximum of 2 dozens of donuts!
I did not understand what is so crazy about it. So, I bought just one donut the other day to try it out, to taste whether is it really that worth it to queue up for the donuts. Can't remember what was the name of donut I bought, but it had dark chocolate in the middle. OMG, I can tell you that it was SOOOOOOOOOO good! The donut was fresh and hot, and when I bite into the center part, dark chocolate was practically oozing out from the side of my mouth. Luckily didn't dirty my shirt!
Imagine blood by the mouth of a dracula. Instead of blood, I had warm, smooth, creamy dark chocolate flowing down the side of my mouth! It was such an indulgence. Yum yum...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
Stuffed in Singapore
Greetings from Singapore! After checking into my hotel, I was amused when I got into the hotel room, I was greeted with a baby cot in my room! WTH I did not request for a baby cot! I had to call down to housekeeping and tell them to remove the baby cot from my room. They thought that I have requested for one when I booked my room...NO I DIDN'T, why would I want a baby cot. Yeah I know you guys must be laughing now. :P
Information overload on 1st day of training. Trying to visualize on how the processes are being implemented in our company and it's confusing at times. We're stuffed with food. 1030am morning tea break...come 1230pm buffet lunch at coffee house (which was damn good)...then again at 330pm is the afternoon tea break. Not to mention that they have a coffee machine for us too. So I'm enjoying the daily cup of Latte or Cappucino. :D Gosh man, I am NOT going to stand on the weighing scale available in the hotel room! I'll surely faint seeing where the needle stops! Hahaha... control, I need self control.
I still need to do assignment on a case study and complete a few questions on the mock exam later tonite. Not forgetting to study for the upcoming test on Friday. Sob sob...no shopping for me. :(
Information overload on 1st day of training. Trying to visualize on how the processes are being implemented in our company and it's confusing at times. We're stuffed with food. 1030am morning tea break...come 1230pm buffet lunch at coffee house (which was damn good)...then again at 330pm is the afternoon tea break. Not to mention that they have a coffee machine for us too. So I'm enjoying the daily cup of Latte or Cappucino. :D Gosh man, I am NOT going to stand on the weighing scale available in the hotel room! I'll surely faint seeing where the needle stops! Hahaha... control, I need self control.
I still need to do assignment on a case study and complete a few questions on the mock exam later tonite. Not forgetting to study for the upcoming test on Friday. Sob sob...no shopping for me. :(
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Have you received your news?
My dear friends, wonder have you got your news yet? Are you safe? I've got my news. Will be safe for this round, at least. Can't help wondering what about next round. Hmm...It seems pretty bad this round as I've heard of a lot of friends who are impacted. Sob sob. Come to think of it, people who were working hard got the cut, where as people like "Employee of the Year" is safe! Darn man.... The package seems pretty attractive though. Life goes on....for those who have yet to receive their news, my well wishes goes out to you!
Read in the papers today that there's another mall attack in Manila. At Makati financial district. Glorietta Mall was the target this time. It was an upscale mall. Thinking back, I was at this mall close to 1.5 years back. My CV counterpart treated me dinner here. Reading the news sent shivers down my spine. What if this attack happened when I was there? All the what ifs... Security is tight in Manila and Makati, I'm sure it's the same in other districts. There are security guard posts standing in front of each shopping mall entrance, where they check your bags before they let you into the mall. Same goes for hotels. They even have an additional security check on cars before they let you into the hotel compound. No where is safe now...
Read in the papers today that there's another mall attack in Manila. At Makati financial district. Glorietta Mall was the target this time. It was an upscale mall. Thinking back, I was at this mall close to 1.5 years back. My CV counterpart treated me dinner here. Reading the news sent shivers down my spine. What if this attack happened when I was there? All the what ifs... Security is tight in Manila and Makati, I'm sure it's the same in other districts. There are security guard posts standing in front of each shopping mall entrance, where they check your bags before they let you into the mall. Same goes for hotels. They even have an additional security check on cars before they let you into the hotel compound. No where is safe now...
Friday, October 12, 2007
New toy
It has been a while since my last post. Been somewhat busy this last week. Hoorey I received a new toy on my bday, a new T61 laptop. My 4 year old T40 machine was giving me problems and since my scheduled refresh is end of this month, thanks to dear that helped out, my refresh schedule was brought forward. :D
How is the new toy? It doesn't look as sleek as the IBM T40 and I find that the battery drains quite fast. Still getting used to the 14.1" wide screen. Have been re-installing all the necessary software for the past day and still testing out the bluetooth function.
There should be news next week. Hopefully I will still get to utilize this machine for the next 4 years?
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Birthday
The title says it all...it's my bday! How was it celebrated? Well...thanks to a bunch of great colleagues, I was treated lunch and the birthday cake was simply superb!!! Even my mum said "Very nice oh...even nicer than Secret Recipe...what to buy ah?" Haha..Received a lot of birthday greetings from colleagues and sms greetings from relatives and college friends. Thanks a lot ya!!
Didn't expect any surprises and didn't receive any. As usual. Any presents? An opened packet of half full NIPS chocolate!!! In other words, none. As usual. Sigh..
"Where you wanna go eat?"
"QE II"
"You dont wanna go G Hotel eat Japanese food?"
"Well that was one of my options too which I had think of, ok la, we go Japanese food at G Hotel"
"You sure?"
"Yeah, we go G Hotel, then you can treat me QE II another day"
"Yeah dream la"
I guess it was because of the nice Belgium Cheesecake taken at 4pm, wasn't too hungry over dinner but ended up pretty full. Yet I still had little room left for dessert - homemade Kuyogoma ice cream. What's that you may ask. That's black sesame seed ice cream. This cost us RM10 for the single scope ice cream! How did it taste? Frankly, it was not as 香as the one I had in Japan. And it's much more cheaper to have it in Japan even after the conversion rate! So Kancil, make sure you taste this in Japan when you come across it. Btw, Yen dropped to 2.89! Thinking of buying some for keeps to be used next year!
*note: no pics to share as I am still figuring out how to transfer the files over to my laptop from his mobile phone through bluetooth. Read following post.
Didn't expect any surprises and didn't receive any. As usual. Any presents? An opened packet of half full NIPS chocolate!!! In other words, none. As usual. Sigh..
"Where you wanna go eat?"
"QE II"
"You dont wanna go G Hotel eat Japanese food?"
"Well that was one of my options too which I had think of, ok la, we go Japanese food at G Hotel"
"You sure?"
"Yeah, we go G Hotel, then you can treat me QE II another day"
"Yeah dream la"
I guess it was because of the nice Belgium Cheesecake taken at 4pm, wasn't too hungry over dinner but ended up pretty full. Yet I still had little room left for dessert - homemade Kuyogoma ice cream. What's that you may ask. That's black sesame seed ice cream. This cost us RM10 for the single scope ice cream! How did it taste? Frankly, it was not as 香as the one I had in Japan. And it's much more cheaper to have it in Japan even after the conversion rate! So Kancil, make sure you taste this in Japan when you come across it. Btw, Yen dropped to 2.89! Thinking of buying some for keeps to be used next year!
*note: no pics to share as I am still figuring out how to transfer the files over to my laptop from his mobile phone through bluetooth. Read following post.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
Vacation
The vacation bug has started! So many people are off for vacation. His parents just came back; My parents just left; a number of bloggers going off for holiday this month and next month...HOW NICE!I wanna go for vacation too!
There're already plans made for end of next year to attend my bro's convo in Aussie and at the same time tour Aussie. Since my sis is now in New Zealand on work assignment till January next year, maybe it's a good idea to go tour NZ now since I'll get free accomodation. Lol. :D
There're also talks on visiting The Land of the Rising Sun - Japan, next year too. Wonder if it'll materialize? Anyone wanna go?
There're already plans made for end of next year to attend my bro's convo in Aussie and at the same time tour Aussie. Since my sis is now in New Zealand on work assignment till January next year, maybe it's a good idea to go tour NZ now since I'll get free accomodation. Lol. :D
There're also talks on visiting The Land of the Rising Sun - Japan, next year too. Wonder if it'll materialize? Anyone wanna go?
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