My Happiest Birthday Ever - Part 1

Today is my 23rd bdae. This is also my happiest birthday for the last 8395 days of my life. I'm trying to post this blog before today comes to an end, but looks like I don't have enough time already.

The reason why I feel this is my best birthday, I guess is because of my friends. My past bdaes had never been as lively as this one, except for my 15th one. Another reason is because, other than having the company of my current friends, I also recieve wishes from long time friends whom I seldom contact. I'm really greatful that I've not been forgotten by them.

My bdae celebration is actaully split into 2 different days.

On the 25th Feb Saturday, I treated my "Ki Siao Gang" to seafood dinner @ No Signboard. For presents, I recieved a 1GB thumb drive from Eve, Richard, Karen & Iris. Sherrie gave me a leather belt which I wear everyday to work. One present that caught me by surprise was a Nike hat with a Man U. logo on it from Cloe, one of Eve's sistas. I did not invite her to my bdae dinner as I had only met her a few times. Anyway she has flown overseas again, and I have to wait till she's back to thank her personally. After the dinner, we went to Party world for second round. However, due to eating too much white pepper crab, I actually lost my voice!!! The whole night I had to be audience. Sob Sob... But one thing I'm happy for is my disciple (Eve's younger bro) has improved in his singing technique. Keep it up Ah Gum! Kekeke.

Today - 28th Feb is my actual bdae. My colleagues/friends Liang Mey, Catherine, Grace, Serene, Shu Yun, Paul, Edwin Chng, Edwyn Ng & Mark Koh celebrate this day for me @ Waraku Japanese Restaurant after work. Cat had reserved a private room and we had to take off our shoes before entering. Lucky no Hongkees in our group. We spent almost half an hour looking at the menu before making up our minds on what to eat. Reason behind is none of the pictures look tempting, so we just tried our luck and ordered. Surprisingly, when the food came, all of them look delicious (taste equally) and portions are huge. We spent even longer time finishing the food.

After eating, we had the table cleared for the present giving. They gave me a blender (as per my request) as present, so that I can make protien drink with that. One of my new year resolutions is to gain weight, so I requested that as present. Coming along with the blender was the "agreement" which I had to sign. Wonder whose idea was that??? Personally I felt that the term & conditions were not very reasonable. I amended some of the clauses, and signed on it. Its meant to create the laughter anyway, so I just played along. After we left the restaurant, we went to Serene's house to see her new pet, Saber. Its a 4 mth old Siberian Husky (my favourite dog). Its quite active, and friendly (towards male species only). Look forward to playing with it again!

The photos are all not up yet. Will post in part 2 when ready. Do keep a lookout!

A busy week without my capable assistant

Actually there's nothing much I want to write for this post. Just some recap on what's going on for the entire week...

Its been quite some time since Edwyn (my very capable assistant) was attached to mail dept, to take over one colleague who went on leave. My workload increased tremendously without him around because other than my daily routine stuff, I have to handle his share of work. Most of which are complaints/requests from internal customers, which require immediate attention. I always have to leave my own work halfway done to attend to these matters. In the end, I have to stay back late to complete my own stuff.

With the few major projects coming up, I'm even more stressed than usual days. The projects require lots of focus, planning, info gathering and coordination, and also lots of site survey with contractors to be conducted. All these are very time consuming. I was beginning to lose my focus and patience. The whole week I was facing a great deal of pressure, and all the things I pre-planned in my calendar couldn't be done cos of shortage of time.

Above all these, I still had to worry about my god-sis's problem, and had to help her look for a job. I had promised to call her after office hours, but always ended up working late and didn't keep my promise to her. Was feeling abit guilty bout that. Saturday I finally met up with her to pass her the resume I did for her, and some job postings. We made ourselves comfortable at a coffee shop and talked for quite awhile. I couldn't do much for her, except to lend her a listening ear. Hope that she can settle her problem soon, and get moving ahead.

that's so much for the week. I'm going to end my post here...