thank god for rain!

nope... not you RL! haha! but it is finally raining now... hopefully keeping it this way for a while to cool the surroundings!

the heat for the past weeks has been crazy... perspiring the moment you are out of the shower! a short walk from my living room to the kitchen to hang clothes was unbearable! no matter how much we try to control the air-con usage, we have been tempted many nights to turn it on!

so rain rain, please don't go away!

the week in a nutshell

havent had the mood to update my blog... coz the weather is too hot! haha! no inspiration! so here's what happened in my life in the past week!

it was a busy long weekend with the good friday holiday...

- fri: went to watch "the confessions of the shopaholic" with my sis, god-sis and their friend. after the movie, we went for a seafood session of the yummy salted egg yolk crab! totally sinful, but 100% satisfying!

- sat: was home preparing for the early kick-off of liverpool vs blackburn. great game and restore the lead in the table for a few hours.

- sun: busy busy! went for an ex-colleague's baby first month party near hougang in the afternoon. it was great catching up with the ex-marketing gals. went home for a short break before going to esplanade to watch CATS. didn't expect myself to enjoy it that much... haha... not a feline lover mah... but it was really entertaining and the interaction with the audience was great! my sis called it her close encounter with the meows!

the week at work wasn't exactly eventful... or should i say, my heart wasn't at work as much...

- tue: went to the airport to renew my airport pass... managed to catch a ride with my area manager. since i was at the airport, i couldn't give up the chance to buy popeye's for dinner! was done before 5pm, so managed to reach home early! hehe! then slept early for the early morning Champions League match. although liverpool didn't go thru the next round, we definitely showed more mental strength by pushing the game all the way!

- wed: actually blogged abt it alr! haha!

- thu: went with my colleague to check out the newly renovated east point store... the ugliest colour used...fyi... i got no say in the renovation works :( gave up on my P&M dept. also decided to check out the new tampines 1! the crowd is madness!!! i love my quiet and serene south-west part of singapore... the east is definitely not for me. and the surprising thing... i actually took a bus back - a total of 1.5hr journey home! boarded the bus in broad daylight and alighted in the dark!

- fri: met E and sis for dinner at GWC. went to kushinbo and must admit, our "stamina" is no longer that good! haha! but made my money worth with the crabs! yup! crabs again!

- sat: met up with RL, CH and SC for dim sum high-tea... as usual, it was good food and great company! and i took bus and MRT for the day... yup... no cab at all! even after the grocery shopping at vivo. cab queue too long!

that's a long posting... so till the next posting!

sharing of experience

helped an ex-agency friend today... he is lecturing at SIM part-time and was arranging for his students to speak to someone in the marketing / advertising industry. to inspire and let them gets first-hand advice on the industry etc...

it was so funny when he called me as i never expect to be qualified to share my experience with aspiring marketers! i mean, although i have been working for 12 years... yes... i don't seriously think that i chalked up enough experience to motivate people trying to break into the industry! role model? i am definitely not!

anyway, the experience was fun... about 10 students, sitting at BK Liat Towers... sharing with them how i started my career, my views on the industry and my advice for them! hehe... actually they were pretty shy... only 2 of them asked questions... the rest were asked by their lecturer! took abt an hour plus... hope i didn't scare them away and make them change major! haha!

mechanical jinx

wouldn't believe how jinx i was with anything electrical / mechanical. left work right on time to meet my sis at tiong bahru plaza to buy some stuff at popular and dinner too. as i was walking towards the taxi stand to meet my sis, and just went i pass mcd...i suddenly heard a loud "pah"! the lights in mcd went out, as i look further, the whole stretch of stores were all in darkness! oopsy... was hoping that it was only for the stretch at the atrium. but when we walked into the mall after my sis came, we realised that almost all the shops were affected. even the food court in the 3rd floor! surprisingly the common area and some fashion outlets still had lights. in the end we tried our luck at the basement and managed to get some jap bento for dinner.

i wonder how long was the black out as it was peak dinner hour, so even my biz will be affected... shucks! but it was the first time that i seen it happened and all customers were invited out of the restaurants. mcd even had crew standing at the entrance, subway had used chairs to block the entrance.

anyway, that is not all... when i stepped home, i proceeded with my usual routine... turn on the tv. to my horror, my digital set-top could not be turned on! i turned the main switch on and off, NOTHING! the blinking red light stared at me! quickly called the customer svc hotline, seems like the cable and the set-top might not be "communicating". 2 options - to make an appointment for them to come check and fix or exchange the set-top, the other is to make a trip to the customer service centre. the one at vivo closes at 9.30pm. i looked at the clock, it was 8.10pm... so what did the tv addict decides? grab the set-top and make my way to vivo city! couldn't bear to be without my tv... esp with desperate housewives and ANTM on mon nights! haha!

so that's my technically eventful monday!

回娘家

happened to be meeting a supplier at kallang place, which is a road across from kfc office. so i decided to take a bold step to go into the competitor's ground! haha! called ah dee to meet me at the lobby as i didn't take it was politically correct to go up to the office. so there i was back at the familiar lobby with the pond, chit chatting with ah dee and SC. also managed to "bumped" into some ops people too. after a while, ah dee needed to get back up to send an email, so they decided that it should be alright for me to go up, so i followed them right into the reliable slow and old lift of Esmart Centre! haha!

everything seems strangely familiar yet different! haven't been there since i left in July 2007! but felt so at ease when i see good old friends... the funny thing... they are not from the marketing dept! haha! as usual, mama s is still as hilarious! uncle p never puts on weight! still hears mc chasing for projections from ah dee! when mg saw me, he did come by and chit chat... it was quite amazing that he actually told me to "watch out for 8 apr"! wow... telling me his promo launch date! haha! then he surprised me by giving me a PH mug for the "pressure they have been giving me!" (this was in relation to the sales pressure of low prices by kfc & ph). mama s said i should go back more often to get freebies!

although it was a short visit, it was definitely fun... miss all the old friends that i made at kfc... hehe... like what mama s said - it was like me 回娘家!