sugar overdose

the sweet tooth was busy the past week...

the artist at our printer was leaving, so we ordered some cupcakes for her. quite a last minute job, so we thot we were quite lucky to get these lovely & tasty cupcakes at an affordable price with less than 3 days leadtime!

went for dinner with lil'c and gc at a nice italian/spanish restaurant at greenwood ave. haha... upmarket place that i will never venture on my own. nice food and ambience (except for the strangely nasal sounding musician). well, the tiramisu was nice but the panna cotta was quite disappointing...

shared the appetizer - melon with parma ham (the melon wasn't that sweet... i miss those in spain!)

the tiramisuthe panna cotta that wasn't up to my expectation! haha!

went to central with my sis on sat, and ended up with loads of snacks! haha! some of the highlights:

mini jap donuts - very crispy and yummy. we had maple syrup, cinnamon sugar, banana choco, peanut and sugared

mini fish tokiwado pancakes - each finished in a bite! flavours we tried: red bean (must have for my sis), chestnut, chocolate and kaya

and at the jap supermarket, we bought snacks and something i found interesting and ah dee will definitely too...

salt creamy caramel pucca bisuits!

Tix to the 'kop'

Yipee! Collected my tix for the liverpool match! Something to look forward for july!

flu scare continuation

thats me at work on friday! result of my paranoid boss!

flu scare?

down with a slight itch in my throat last night, and it didn't seem better this morning. towards the end of the day, i suddenly feels that i might be coming down with a flu! the runny nose seems to be starting. took my temperature after dinner and it was at 37.6! then again, it could be because i've just finished my soup tang hoon. so waited for a while before i took another reading and it became 36.5! well, just popped 2 panadol, hope i will be ok for tmr. otherwise cannot go work alr. my boss is super paranoid abt the swine flu. so staff that are sick and without mc will need to on unpaid leave. sianz right?

sigh... plus this is one packed weekend ahead! sigh...

shocking monday

the atmosphere in the office on a monday morning is not so typical today... no monday blues... but highly intensed.

what started as a normal monday morning turns out to be one of the most shocking day in my career! my finance manager got terminated of his service this morning... without any warning... not verbal or written... think no one in my office expected it. yah... he wasn't doing a good job, he was always late, he fall asleeps in meetings, he is defensive when he makes mistakes, he doesn't have computer skills (i.e. a finance mgr that doesn't know how to use excel!), he wasn't the most popular person in the office... BUT, we didn't think that was the way to treat him... he probably doesn't think that he was in the wrong at all (old and in denial)... so while i was also one of those who complained abt his work, my boss has always defended him to everyone... to the extreme that we give up complaining! so instead of giving him a warning letter or verbal counselling, they just shoved him the ultimatum - the letter of termination.

quite pity him lah... when i thought of a 60 year old man, driving in the heavy rain this morning... angry and shock of his sudden lost of job... i don't know how to describe, but it was not something we want to happen... it is worrying coz who knows if it will ever happen to me

you can officially call me an aunty

not in mannerism ok... but there is a new generation in my family and that makes me an official (god) aunt.

my god-cousin has welcomed his baby girl lyssa into the family last month, and today i met her for the first time at her first month party. its amazing that her arrival means the family has officially became a 4-generation family. although we are not exactly blood related, it was happy to see a new face i will see for the future new year and birthday gatherings.

so here's the picture of my god-niece... time will fly and soon she will be calling me 表姑姐!

ouch...

ouch... that's the sound i make every time i tilt or turn my head... yup... i hurt my neck or shoulder this morning. after my bath, i was drying my leg while bending down and when i got up, i heard a "snap" then followed by a sharp pain at my neck! OUCH!!!! it feels like a stiff neck, basically felt like a strain from my neck to my right shoulder...

one of my colleague had been suffering the same pain for more than a week. i hope i don't get to that stage. so tonight, it is 2 salonpas for comfort.