tragedy after tragedy

amidst the stress that i have been experiencing so far, i have kinda kept up with the local news. one word to summarise – tragic.

i feel sad for the widow who lost her husband to a cigarette. i feel sad for the mother who lost her two kids in an evening (thanks to her estranged husband) in ang mo kio.

you must have read about the first one. like smebody said (i tink is bour), her status changed thrice in a single night. single to married to widowed. read the 晚報 (this kind of gossip, u must read the tabloids, in fact all kind of news to get the juice out of it). my initial thoughts was this guy committed suicide (never thought of the reason though….). turned out that it happened the most tragic way that one could imagined.

According to 晚報, he went for a ciggie while his wife was in the shower and got stuck in the stairway. Hilton has a very good security system it seems. Cause he could not open the door from his side all the way from 10th to 1st floor. The cameras caught him. Then somehow, he managed to climb out onto the ledge at 3rd floor. Thereafter, you guys know the story. Sob story no. 1

Here come Sob story no. 2, also thanks to 晚報.

this man, 39 year old killed his two children, 5 and 3 years respectively, before he jumped down infront of everybody in the late evening yesterday. his wife quarrelled with him and went out, leaving the two kids at home. in his moment of anger, he killed both of them (details i din read), and set the house on fire. then in front of the neighbours who were watching downstairs (by this time, i guess all the kpos would have gathered ard), he jumped down.

His wife, despite not being on very good terms with her husband, is pregnant. She could not stand properly and kept crying when she was at the mortuary today.

I feel sorry for the kids for having such a father. They were the most innocent victims. I feel fortunate to be in a place where there is no such nonsense. I am thankful.

Oh, my Fb frens, you would noticed that i had a dream today….. it was very real until i woke up, cuz it was 1130 am. but i would the dream would continue or realise.

nana

november? still blue….

we have now officially crossed the calendar in to november 2009, so its panic time coming up.

juz realised smethg, i may be like most ladies………………who turn to retail therapy under stress. Funny? Not.

juz today, i spent my $$ on cosmetic products.  *grinz* call me a closet vainpot….

my buys:

1. Bioessence Tanaka White Ultimate whitening and spot reduction cream;

2. Olay regnerist cleanser;

3. Kose Mask White;and

4. Loreal Feria 3D hair dye.

Oh ya, not to forget my newly tailored shirt… shucks.. the garmen must really thank me for stimulating the economy…

Dun see that i may look nonchalant abt my outlook normally. The past week, prolly due to work and my usual bo-chap attitude towards my face, u can really see the breakouts, oily pores, blackheads…. and i m damn upset because they really cause discomfort.

Very rarely now, u see me having the time to stay at home, hence yesterday, i rejected bour’s suggestion to go zouk for free booze, but to head home straight after collecting my shirt.

shirt is perfect this time, i must say.eric is good…. if u need shirts, go personality menshop.

then, i decided to do a mask white for my poorly maintained and soon-to-be buang face. wow, the results was damn good. i tink the trick is to use a cotton wool, dab warm / hot water on ur face, then dry it and apply the mask, all the impurities really came out. cool!

today, i woke up really fresh and feeling very very good.. the face back to the smoothness… *grinz*.

now i need to tackle the dark circles and eye bags. sighz… really, i shudnt be typing this now and be in my bed if i m keen to stay away from the two evils… (oh, i bot the bioessence 24K gold dark circle serum, by the way) keke…

nana’s new resolution for 2010 (even if itis another 2 mths away, is to make a conscious effort to take care of my face. hee.) otherwise, the damage is really irreversible, like wat xiaolee said.

i shall go to bed now and resume work tmr.

bon nuit, tout le monde.

zzZZZzzzz……..

nana

Love Mi

At the risk of sounding like a old spoilt clock…. i m gg to HK to watch Mi. and good news… one more show added, making it a total of 10 shows. i want to attend the last show. which is… 3 rd Jan! =)

the october fear….

time is travelling way too fast for me to even be afraid…. the deadline is silently creeping up…..the chill is slowly sneaking in even as i m typing here. before i even know it, the year is coming to an end AGAIN.

i m off for rest of the afternoon, hence u see me typing here. not that i wan to, but xiao lan a.k.a bluey (nick given by bour, i like the nick!! hahahaha ) had to go for its road tax renewal.

anyway, had a taste of retribution lately for ill-treating my best friend in the past. very ill treated in fact (i meant my best friend). it came in the form of u. Soon, i will have a new label. More is to come.

Cause and Effect. Les Choristes: Action, Reaction.

Not that i m trying to act high and noble here. fancy making the above statement for someone who dun even know of this (referring to my best friend too…). i m NOT being boliao here.  Keeping silent does not mean i m accepting fault of oneself. I m not a free target. If i redeemed myself a little, well and good. if not, i am prepared to receive more. This entry probably will invoke unneccessary sparks. I certainly hope it does not, for this is my space, i write what i want to write.

true eccentricity @ work, in other words, in the weirdo category.

nana

ah ma, 83 歲生日快樂!!

老母雞祝你福如東海,壽比南山！身體建健康康！！

雖然只是一各很簡單的一個小蛋糕，更離譜的是你的生日還需要大姨的提醒，但代表著我們四位孫子女無限感恩的心意．

你也看不到這篇因為你不上網，但我們要讓大家知道你是我們五人心目中世界上最好最好的阿嬤．．．

永遠把我們摆第一位，每星期對我們無微不至的照顧，毫無保留的寵愛，也會有累的一天阿．好好的歇息喔

希望你和蛋糕一樣，每天都有那麼燦爛的笑容，那麼的開心　=)

nana

this is fucking ridiculous….

house juz kena poured paint….. eh, 02-143 owe $$ nt 02-151 leh….

miserable saturday

in office. i m overthinking again. sometimes i just cant help. is this hormonal? harping and harping. contradicting. why are the thoughts that were processed negative? i m not even happy when i managed to recon the comp.

anyway, some outdated pics.

@ the Blood Bank. To get this, donate 50 times of blood. I am not even halfway. so guess it would be sometime.

OHJ’s Kegan. Sleeping v soundly when we visited him last saturday. v handsome even when he is slpg…….

durian waffle at the icekimo thomson. near my house. went with issac and shun last saturday evening, the two durian fanatics who went ohh ohh, ohh my god, with eyes closed yelling wahh wahh whah….. this is damn good. ya according to them, this is f**king good… so if u are a durian fan, u definitely cant miss this. i had a taste, the generous portion of durian flesh slapped between the waffle is very fresh. definitely worth a trip down the ulu hidden hideout in thomson…

not a big durian fan. i like durians, but not as crazy as the both of them….. so from the durian enthusiasts. u better go and try.

nana

friday mania

just came back from Uncle Sam’s lunch with bour. I stink.

More updates coming….stay tuned…..

nananananana…..

double M

fyi, nana used to own this….

毛毛 with mehh mehh……fyi, the mehh mehh is known as piano! melody’s friend…

double C, cute and clean hor…..

miss it………………..

nana

自閉的射手

source

我報:

自閉、自傲的射手座近期寧願一個人,也不要與討厭的人相處,完全不想改變交友方式

準準準….不只近期…..

24 – 29 December 2009

Happening then. and I am going by hook or by crook.

nana

hari raya puasa 2009

splendid day. woke up at 11am, nua nuaz a while before meeting bour at 1230 for lunchie at amk. its been smetime since it has been so leisure. I simply refuse to head to office after sacrificing my weekends there.

we had duck porridge at the market, which i cannot fathom why i had to queue for SO LONG….blame it on the auntie who bot two ducks… arrggghhh….

not that i m complaining. the feeling of not doing work on a public holiday is damn good la…. topped with a cuppa KOI and a trip to NTUC, plus a rainy cool cool afternoon, public holiday can neber be more perfect than this.

dinner was spent here:

le le pot. its opened by a “carrefare” actor. situated right in seng poh lane, tiong bahru. shun brought us there. $20 nett per person (no GST, svc charge nonsense, which is good…..). Excludes the drinks though.

Well, as expected, serves the usual steamboat stuff… but i must say my 3 favourite things out of this place is:-

1. the soup – the tom yam soup is quite good surprisingly, i tried a number of steamboat place and so far, none has actually enticed me to drink their soup, except this one. not too salty, quite hot and sour. although, it got a little thick towards the end.

the tom yam and the herbal chicken

2. sliced chicken – again, not many places serve good sliced chicken. the others normally do a sloppy job with my favourite meat, but this shop marinates it quite well and after you fish it out of the soup, it still stays quite tender. =)

3. prawn – if it is not overcooked, it is very fresh and sweet!

So, if you guys are keen, shud try. it is opposite the tiong bahru market.

satisfying hari raya 2009

nana

mask II

inspired by the cleo magazine that bour just lent me. apparently, my face is smaller than shun’s… heehee…

lovely monday cuz it is the holidays!!

nana

Neil Sedaka – You Mean Everything to Me

This song, made me stay up till now. Was so bent on finding it before i go to bed. I suddenly remember the tune of Sealed with a Kiss, and i tot i MUST find this song.. hahaha like this song cuz the tune is quite depressing… now i can sleep in peace. ha…

nana

oktoberfest

hahhaa nana bot this over the weekend!!

this only appears during the oktoberfest and i like the beer glasses very much!! as much as i love the beer.

the package, $24,95 comes with two beer glasses, 2 bottles of erdinger white and dark each, and 6 coasters. only available at thomson plaza and bukit timah ntuc. (i mean of cuz it may come out in other supermarts like cold storage and stuff la, but being a typical sillyporean, i m kiasu). so, on a leisure saturday, i popped over, which is about 15 mins from my hse…

i got there, couldnt find it at the beer section, went over to ask the counter. Hey! i not gg to go home without asking alrite…. then this ah tiong came over (these days ah tiongs infest our supermarkets, eateries, if u realise by now….), he is in charge of the beer section. He said with a fucking blur and frowning expression, err…dunno, we keep asking for stocks, but we also dunno when the stock is coming….

i was about to call NTUC hotline to complain liao. How can u advertise something and announce very very prominently that the promo period is 18 SEp to 27 Sep, but NO stocks?????

just as i was gonna take the shuttle bus back home (fwee by the way!! hee), realised i juz missed it, so i tot i go back and look ard.

Lucky day! i went back, i saw the manager scolding the same ah tiong not the loud kind la… bleah.. but i spotted a box saying “Erdinger Festive Pack”. bleah……i gotta hang ard, and wait for him to finish. took abt 5 mins leh. but i find it shiok that he got scolded… heee….

then after the lashing, he knew what wanted, he opened up the only box and handed me a pack. He told me that they ordered 10 boxes, but only managed to get 1 box… kaoz… grabbed liao… so now i m the proud owner of two  erdinger glasses la.. =)

then i went to take the fwee shuttle bus back home. Nbz. gei zua… i was supposed to drop off at ave 4, but i tot the bus would turn into st 21. DIDNT!. so in the end, i went with the shuttle bus one big round, back into thomson plaza and then back home again.gei zua har?

but yesterday was damn shiok. rainy, relaxed saturday.

and long weekend this week!!

enjoy ur hols guys.

nana