~Work! Work and MORE WORK!!!~

Yes working is stressful, it seems like there are endless things to clear..... (Wanna know how busy I am? Look at how long I didnt write a post....almost 3 month!!! Thats a record...)

Ya few updates on what I been doing recently....

In work:
1. DECEMBER - Busy with the project of finding sponsorships for the Republic Polytechnic Open House. It was tough but fufilling I guess...total sponsorship I found = S$240,000 worth of product and cash prizes hahahaha....

2. JANUARY - Busy with the project of setting up Republic Polytechnic Official Sponsorship Website. This is chanllenging as well as there are so many pages to set up within a short 1 month time frame. Well it itsnt officially launch yet...though its live now. Below is a print screen of the site so you guys will be the first in the world to take a look at it haha....



3. FEBURARY - Will be busy with the enhancement of the website (Database set up, epayment mode system set up, revise of content/ pages etc...) Will on going doing the project of the Republic Polytechnic Graduation Ceremony Sponsorship seeking too.... another busy month I guess (Meet client, building up my network...etc)

In Leisure:
1. DECEMBER - Me and DearDear had our 5th year Anniversary on 1st December hehe... we book a hotel at Holiday Inn Parkview and had a romantic dinner at Hotel Rendevous.

2. DECEMBER - Me and DearDear went to the Royal Carribean cruise featured in Channel News Asia on 21st to 26th December. Its a different cruise culture than star cruise... and the thing I enjoy most is the formal night dinner whereby everyone will be dress in grown and tux/ suit haha feels like it back to prom night in schools days haha. The room are really pretty and big as well as compared to star cruise. Food wise is not so good (cant except good chinese food as its an "Ang Mo" cruise). Western Food on the other hand is good.

3. JANUARY - Shopping shopping and more shopping!!! Yap shopping for chinese new year clothing hehe... bought 3 set of casual clothes and 3 set of working clothes for the new year (but most are either black/ white in color dun noe whether my relative will mine when I visit their house). Bought lots of chinese new year goodies and decoration as well...

4. JANUARY - Busy with Spring Cleaning... take a day off to clean up my whole house... pack my books and stuff. While packing my books I realise that I must have been day dreaming during my study period last year... as there are so many different cartoons drawn all over my books haha.... Yap after packing my house I realised that the blus blur me accidently threw away my MIO Box AC adaptor!!!....haiz was unable to use the internet for 2 weeks and I had to spent like S$35 to get a replacement adaptor...so expensive!!!

5. FEBURARY - Well chinese new year coming soon... take a few day leave to rest haha... ya hoping to get more "Hong Bao" this year. My New Year Resolution will be getting a promotion, earning more money (to clear my study loan), sucessful dieting haha, stay healthy, everyone around me be happy and healthy and world peace!


Yap going off now to my "temple marathon" now haha... going to different temple to pray (each for different purpose) as things are not going so well since the start of 2008...was constantly sick and etc etc etc.... hope things will get better soon.....

~Sister Wedding/ Xiuqin Birthday/ Disney Magic show and Enchanted Movie/ Holiday Inn Trip/ fren outing (Updates for past 2 weeks)~

Its seem so long that I last log in to my blog that i ACTUALLY FORGOT MY USERNAME haha....

Mm... ya lots of things going on the past two week....

1. Went out to celebrate Xiuqin 21st Birthday with my sec sch gals at MS at Yuki Yaki (some steamboat restuarant).


The Gals


The food not bad haha and the gals practically went crazy over the DIY ice-cream making... with all the colors and flavour mixing together.... in the end it ended up to be some fried rice/ mud color



(Mm.... I wasnt adventurous enough to try the end product haha)

But we did have fun haha....



Another Pic (In case you are wondering who is the birthday gal???? hehe she is the one holding the big present :) )



Me and Janis


2. talking about work...its busy and stressful..... haiz yap RP do provide staff to go for external courses/ team building programs. Below are some pic I took for my Team Republic 2D1N Orientation at Holiday Inn Atrium Hotel.




(Well it was quite fun and enriching....get to know more people around as well....)


3. Meet up with my JC click last Fri had dinner at Taka Crystal Jade after work. I actually lost my way....haiz I do have direction problems at times as I keep going to the wrong floor....sorry gals to let you wait for so long.


4. Been the organiser of my sister wedding last Sat at RiverView Hotel. i will say that the banquat service is really good as compared to the other hotels I went. The manager and staff are really friendly, the layout of the wedding theme is great to the details....lots of complimentary things were giver to us, in whole it was much better than we expected for the price we paid...(really value for money I guess).

Yap I am the wedding planner....from booking of hotel to taking videos/ photos to being the MC (god my chinese sucks man and I have to read the chinese scripts for the wedding.....bad choice as I actually read the wrong word...instead of bride and groom I read bride and bride....haiz embrasssment....but think nvm guess no one should remember as the main "zhu jiao" of the nite is my sister)

Yes will try to update the photos after I burn they from the camera (which I too busy to do so)




Mm...here one pic i have download from my camera hp (took at the bridal suite) heeh note I did a temp perm to my hair hehe....but mm... guess I still think I look better with straight hair...


5. Meeting the Ice skating gang for KTV on last Sun so sorry that have to go off early had some family stuffs to deal with.....

6. Went to see the Disney Magic show in the evening with Deardear at the indoor stadium....a surprise he gave to me (so sweet :) hehe). We got a 50% discounted tickets from Deardear colleague. The showtime is quite short, the characters are talking too fast and the stage is too small. Not as good as I thought it would be....

Mm.... Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that I saw last last week was much much better (the effect, the story line etc...) Or maybe I shouldnt make a comparision as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a Broadway show.

Saw the show Enchanted today after the Disney Magic Show...its was the typical fairytale story (which I like...romance etc) with a nice touch of humour... Well I would say that it is one of the better disney romance show I watch..... A show that will make you happy and laugh from the start to the end.

Yap a tight week ahea hope to have the time to update my blog again....Ya pardon my English/ Singlish to tired to write or check haha...

WOW I type for 1 HOUR!!!! now is 3.34am in my pc....going to sleep liao Yawn....ZZZzzzz

~The Art of Email~

Well have been really busy and tired this few days will try to update the photos and stuffs (Xiuqin 21st Birthday, Ice skating clique outing etc hehe) this weekend hopefully.....


Yes ya have been working for quite a while liao hehe finally get my first credit card haha so happy....



Yap waiting for my UOB ladies card to come hehe....

Guess one of the most important thing that I have to learn asap is the the art of email....yes the art of email NOT the art of talking!!!!

No 1. Be careful of whatever to be written (that include general comments/ simple questions/ replies) as the "CC" icon is hanging over your head.

No 2. Importancy of noting clarity, hidden messages and covering the *** surpass the tone of the messages.

No 3. Only write when one is sure that one can save oneself later from the rolling ball of troubles and arrows.

No 4. Respond fast in reaction before the others (Shield from arrows)

No 5. Arrows will be more effective in hidden form when others dun realised.


Well mm.... scary.....mm... maybe I really must go read "Sun Zi Bin Fa" haha...

~Photos as Promised~

Updates, updates and more updates!!!!

Update no 1:

Ice Skating Outing (last month)

PS: So sorry guys haha here are the photos...too busy to upload ;( haha no choice must upload today as hor today is iceskating outing again if I dun upload today haha i will owe u guys 2 outing photos liao....

Outing is arranged by Huiying...dinner at Pu tien and firework view at marina.

I must say dinner is great...haha thanks huiying... (food is good, reasonable portion and price is cheap as well) If I am not wrong is $98 for set dinner of 6person. Here the photos:



The gals hehe


and the guys..... haha

Ya my poor deardear mouth is swollen (his stupid dentist fault)


Fireworks hehe...


I like this the best!!! :)








Update No 2:

My workplace photos (Republic Polytechnic)

My workdesk (it is very big 1.5 times the size of normal office table haha)

Office work station overview



Window View hehe



Yes was quite happy with my work though its quite busy at times... so far boss and colleagues are nice and the best thing is our wk culture dun encourage office politics haha that GOOD!!! Cause I hate playing mind games during wk especially to people where you have to faced everyday. Mind games should only be play with clients haha (to rip max benefits for your company and urself)

PS: Ya know from my friend that some gov sector actually use technotra to track our blog mmm never mind.... haha...cause i didnt say any bad things haha...track loh I dun care hehe ;)
Mm...its seem weird...cause after I start wk my typing speed is faster haha....maybe I have to type alot everyday haha... that Good!!! hehe :)



Update No: 3

About myself

Ya busy working...

yes went to the dentist on wed as I thought that I had tooth decay as there is a hole on at my back tooth...eeekkk... but NO!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!! It turns out that its my teeth chip off...then the dentist scold me...say I keep grinding my back teeth till 4 tooth chip off....mm... I must really take caution liao as I dun want all my teeth to break before I grow old....

LAINE STOP GRINDING UR TEETH!!!!!!

Yap went to few resturant this few weeks..... which I must comment that its not bad haha.... the royal plaza hotel at orchard opposite far east, sakura at orchard, the new billy bomber at cineleisure and five star chicken rice.

Royal Plaza Hotel at orchard opposite far east:

Me hehe (See the Pic...I am gaining weight)...must lost weight jiayou!!! (later go eat buffet with Ice skating gang must eat lesser!!!! ya lucky i skipping breakfast and lunch today)



My deardear :)



The food (didnt manage to take all the food as too much varieties there liao from western to jap to chinese to dessert to india to malay crusine....)Well its quite value for money and the food is good as we had the citibank 1 for 1 discount $33 only haha...


Sakura at Orchard:


Good varieties of food, value for money but food still not up to mark as some of the food is too salty and it is always very crowded and messy there.

New Billy Bomber at Cineleisure:

It look so sparse haha always no people one even at weekends but surprisely the food there is good haha... portion is big as well (if u order the burger). The staff there are very friendly.


Me hehe :)



Deardear



Mushroom Steak Burger



Roasted Chicken


Mango Smoothie

Five star chicken rice at river valley road:

This is my favourite chicken rice cafe haha... (thought that it closed down but no...actually it went over a renovation...ya the place now look more comfortable and cleaner)but...MM... the prices increased too after the renovation.

Nevertheless its still reasonably priced, cheaper than its rival chicken rice cafe few shops away....


Ya here a reasonable meal of less then 20dollars


PS: This must have been the longest blog I write haha.... and ya one with the most typing error too haha..

~Updates of me~

Busy busy and super busy.....

Started wk for almost 2 week liao...mm... my job is to search for sponsorship for different events in RP.

Ya only one word to describe....busy!!!! See how long I didnt update my blog or log in to friendster!!!

But in whole....colleague and boss is nice....great to wk with, good working enviroment as well except for the part that we r wireless thus no phone to call for my sponsorship and the IP phone lag..... haiz have to deal with it....

Ya willl try to post up my wk place photo this weekend... and ya the high tea buffet I went at royal park or is it royal scott hotel at orchard during the weekend it is great (1 for 1 buffet at $33 nett one person is only $16plus so worth it good vairety and nice food...one of the best high tea i had)!!! If I can find the time I will post up the photo as well....and ya also the ice skating outing photo i owe...haha...

tata have to return to my wk liao.... lunch in office today ;(

~I am Starting Work...YEA!!!~

After a long job search of 2 months, I had quite a number of job offers (HSBC, Klandee, Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society, UOB, Citispa, Infomatics, Sembcorp Marine, Singapore Manufacturer Federation ) but somehow its just wasn’t right for me I guess.

I am really glad that I finally landed in a job that I wanted (good job exposure, good working environment, gov sector and good pay hehe….), being the Officer for Industrial and Career Services in Republic Polytechnic. The job scope was divided to 2 parts.

The first part is to source for sponsorship for Republic Poly and to maintain the industrial relationship linkages with RP. I guess it would be a challenging marketing and PR related job. Well, I hope that I can have the chance to learn more on marketing and sourcing for sponsorships as well as how to make the standard proposals required. I also hope I can gain the communications skills needed to do presentations to big industries or gov sectors as well as to learn about legal doc and knowledge to the terms in the proposals.

The second part is being the administrator for the 2 modules CE and PP of the students’ industrial programs in republic poly. I guess it would be quite fun as I can get to interact with the students, do a lot of planning and also giving the students advices.

Well starting my job this coming wed….have a lot of mixed feeling right now….excited to start on the new job  but at the same time sad that my student life is over which mean I old liao :( and also no more long long holidays for me :( Nevertheless, I must jiayou on my work and be really hardworking so as to clear finish my school loan hopefully in 1.5-2yrs time.

Ya below is the screenshot of the personal webpage I created for my profile at Republic Poly intranet using Microsoft Frontpage…hehe was quite sastified with the results cause it’s the first time I use MS frontpage hehe….

Homepage (Laine World)


About Me


Journal


External Links


Tag

~Eating Places in Sg (Part 3)~

In case you are wondering where is part 1 and 2 just click the link below.

Part 1: http://lainebuffy.multiply.com/photos/album/90/Eating_Places_in_SG

Part 2: http://lainebuffy.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html

Place no 1: Chilli Padi (Nonya Crusine Buffet Style)opposite bugis junction



Recommendation: 4 star

Reason: Cheap and Value for money, not much variety but food is good though

Prices: $10.80 for lunch and dinner (additional dollr for Sat and Sun)
$6.50 for high tea

Must Try: the nonya kuay, dessert, lontong, mee siam, rojak and the CHILLI!!!


Buffet Area

Lontong


Mee Siam


Gado Gado


Yam Kuay and Curry Puff



Place no 2: The Rice Table (IndoChinese Crusine Buffet Style) beside centrepoint shopping centre at the row shophouses

Recommendation: 3 star

Reason: Nice ambience (interesting dinning concept in the sense that all the food is serve to you once hehe), good services, food suitable for people who like lemom grass flavoured indochinses food, food slightly too salty for me haha...no wonder called the "rice table" cause got to eat alot of rice to overcome the salty food hehe...

Prices: $25+++ for dinner (drinks excluded)

Must Try: the fruit salad, prawn crackers, satay and curry tofu.

All the amount of food hehe....


another

Place no 3: Dragon Gate Restuarant Ala Carte Buffet Dinner(At Habour Front centre level 4)

Recommendation: 3 and half star (sister branch to chinese resturant at Mirama Hotel which I give 4 and half star)

Reason: The food is good with good variety as well but slightly more expensive then Mirama Hotel and the service is quite bad as the staff are quite rude.

Prices: $24+++ per pax as compared to Mirama Hotel of $18+++ per pax for dinner prices.

Must try: The salad prawn, chilli crab, steam fish (noted that the fried prawns there are not very fresh...the one at Mirama Hotel is better)


Roasted Chicken


Salad Prawns


Steam fish, steam prawn, chilli prawns and fried cereal prawns (this is not fresh)


Shark fin soup


Paper Wrapped Chicken


Sea cucumber with Vegetables, Sambal Sotong and Eefu Mee (The eefu mee taste terrible)

~My New Hp Sony Ericssion K810i Yipi!!! Thanks Deardear Muack!!!~

Went over to Plaza Singapura to get a new hp as my current hp abit "sortsort" liao hehe...

Me and deardear were looking at the range of hp deciding between Sony Ericsson K810i, the Samaung two sided phone and the newest LG shine.

The Samsumg phone is so cool 2 sided screen and button hehe but I guess the sms screen is too small to see only 2 lines.

The LG Shine is really classic and beautiful with the whole phone being shinning silver color and made of aluminium... its so call "unscratchable" but I guess the colors of the screen is still not as sharp.

After much consideration, decided to get the Sony Ericssion K810i due to the camera features.

So me and deardear took a queue no (7208) if I am not wrong and we went for dinner....haha lucky we smart go for dinner as hor after our dinner of 1 hour plus it just passed our turn by 1 hehe....

Thanks deardear for buying the hp for me (PS to Jason deardear:I love u so much hehe muack!!!)

Below are the pic of the phone :)






The Phone's Specs
http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=sg&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pip1&zone=pp&pid=10804


Btw the hp I bought is abit sort sort cause when I haven even message any message out it registered that 1 mgs is being sent out....mm...I wonder did the starhub people give me a used hp and all the components in the hp box are not seal up all the packages are stick by scotchtape....anyone bought a similiar hp like??? Or I am jus being paranoid?

And ya the hp also hang after I plugged the USB port out of the pc after doing pc file transfer.... is that the case for a new sony ericsson hp....

Maybe I should go down to starhub tml and reflect it to them....

~NDP 2007 at Marina Bay!!!~

Now at national libaray accompany my deardear.... poor him have to study and teeth pain some more cause he just went to the dentist this morning as his one of his teeth chip think bite something hard....haiz.... poor thing....teeth bleeding still have to study for exams haiz....

Ya this is me hehe nothing to do at the library so using my laptop for blogging loh.... hehe ya here are some of the photos I took during the NDP preview the Sat 1 week before the actual day (haha cause i forgot the date liao)....

Ya wanna say thanks to deardear's brother Andy that every year we get to go to the National Day Parade or the preview as he is in some RC committee or something. (Yes heard that this year tickets are really hard to get!!!)

Yes we were quite late for the NDP show as I didn’t expect that it will start so early this year. But we were lucky that the queue to go inside the sitting area wasn’t that long.

However, we still ended up sitting at the back row near the side.... though the view is not as good but it wasn’t too bad either as it is more spacious and we got to change seats as the person beside me...it occupying 1 and 1/2 seat and that half belong to me????

The overall view stage as shown below hehe...



Big balloons yipi!!! I love balloons :)


The crowd....if u notice opposite the merlion there, people without the tickets are sitting and watching the parade as well hehe...


Ok while deardear is busy taking photos I am busy searching the goodie bag...(Where is the fans and water I am so hot!!! haha)

Then the Uniform group marching...forming the word NDP 2007


There goes our Singapore flag...it look bigger this year cause haha its nearer to the audience as compared to previous years in the national stadium.



Deardear and me (I look so blur???)


Flag flying high hehe


The commandos droping down the water


The Helicopter show I like this part the most (u can see the water splashing as well)...ya firing of the canon starts as well...


The start of the parade....I realised that the parade this year is really more beautiful than the previous years perhaps due to the lighting, technology (like fountains and lasers etc) and the enviroment around...or maybe I just like to be near water areas haha....

Evening time...


Water Parade....in case u are wondering what is the shining light flowing down, its not light its fire sparks!!!


Lights, dancing incoporating the water fountain.


Kit Cham singing....noticed all the star star lighting everyone is holding that is so nice.


Another show...haha it reminds me of the sentosa new musical fountain show....


Laser Show this is nice


Another with smoke effect


The last performance where everyone is singing


Another view


The finale...and the start of the fireworks


Too bad didnt get much good pic of the firework as it is too near the audience and it is very smokey.....haha deardear managed to get better pictures than me :p

Fireworks to the sky


Fireworks from the stage






I like this can see 3 layers of it...




Wonder wat is that bunch of light at the bottom right hand corner of the photo doing at every pic I took. haiz...


Deardear with the 2 star star haha (see I take nice photos...look... clear foreground and background.... the person who take for us in the next photo shown cannot make it la haiz...)


Deardear and me


Ya had a great day and yes wanting to wish Singapore a HaPpY NaTiOnAl DaY aka BiRtHdAy!!!! And may our country prosperous...mm... dun be mistaken haha I am not a patriot...but jus tat if sg prosperous...I will find a better job faster!!!!

YEA!!!! :P

~Job Searching Dilemma~

Started my job search process since 14 Jun….send countless amount of resume to countless company…..

Jobs Interviews that I went, the job offers that I had and job offers that I rejected…too many till I don’t remember….let me try to recall

1. Mediterance Shipping— Account Executive (this is a big company, but cant handle the job scope)

2. Klandee— Operation Executive (this company offer really good pay and benefits but it’s a really small company)

3. Thye Hua Kwan Moral Society—Communication PR Executive (good job, good prospect, good exposure but lower pay (but I can understand cause charity ma…pay suppose to be low…)

4. MEP system—Sales Engineer (good pay, good prospect but hard job due to onsite to the ship…suitable for guy though)

5. HSBC—Personal Financial Consultant (no basic pay, have to sell insurance maybe I not that aggressive)

6. HSBC—Call centre Primer Client (high pay, good prospect but shift work)

6. UOB—Personal Banker (basic pay good and after probation very good but have to sell insurance 50% of the time and sign bond)

7. First Principle Financial—Financial Planner (Sell income shield…Maybe consider as part-time job)

8. Citispa— Marketing Executive (Very good job exposure, good stepping stone for future career but low pay and long job hours for me)

9. DSTAR— Procument Executive (Scary interview didn’t manage to get in)

10. ASTAR— Administrative Research Officer (Good job. Scary interview as well, didn’t manage to get in)

11. MDIS— Administration Officer (Wrong job)

12. Infomatics— Sales Executive (Wrong Job again)

13. Ellen Brooks — Marketing Executive (Wrong Job again)

16. Achema Pte Ltd—Sales Engineer (Very small company and differ job scope as expected as well)

11. Republic Poly— Administration Officer (Good pay, good exposure finally got back to me after 1 month finger cross!!!)

15. SMA School of Management— Student Service Executive (Good pay, good career prospect, exposure…mm…, will get back to me by latest 24 Aug….finger cross yea!!!)


17. M1—Marketing Executive (suppose to go for interview next Monday they called me up to postpone it…to when I dun noe???)

18. M1—Trainer (had a telephone interview with them 2 days ago will be getting back to me next week…finger cross!!!)

19. PPL Shipyard by Semicorp (Big Company….interviewing for engineering job)


Job searching is tiring. I dun wan to keep going for interviews and rejecting jobs……
Why is it so difficult to find a 9-5 job that pays $2500 for a company with more than 30 workers that require no night shit work/ 24hr standby or insurance......

Interview until sian…search job until sian… hope to get a job soon….
Wish me good luck hehe ;p