Harsh email...and sms

In the opinion of my colleague and even myself...I wrote a rather harshly worded email to my tenant's Mom and sms to the tenant last night. It's to inform...to please move out latest by 31 May 08. I shall refrain from writing anything more about him specifically as it's unwise to burn bridges, right? I'm sure I'm not perfect either.

No regrets tho, coz I'm not getting enough sleep from sharing room with my younger bro. Sorry Blue, I need to complain/explain to the world about your snoring.
Even whacking him a few times throughout the night with small pillows would not shut him up for long :(


Apart from that, I've been promising people that I'll try to update photos of my recent travel (18-23 Mar 2008) to Hoi An, My Son (pronounced as mee sern) and Hue (pronounced as hoo-ay) in Central Vietnam. I went to Hanoi to meet up with Trixy and we proceeded to Central Vietnam.
Read all about it later ok?

Normal Sunday, but then again...it's not

It was a normal Sunday (16 Mar 2008) for me where light cleaning and ironing chores were completed before dinner. However, my beloved younger bro (shall refer to him as Blue) suddenly called me to inform that he tripped and kicked the pavement in Bishan. He was describing the gory details of the condition of his right toe and I told him to quickly come home.

Don't think I need to explain further, just take a look at the pic below:

After finished having dinner I rushed to Tampines Mall (about 9:20pm) nearby to get Blue a new pair of slippers/sandals as he obviously cannot shove his toe into his sneakers. Royal Sporting House's (RSH) shutters have been closed except for one glass panel and that's where I went in and selected a pair of Rider's sandals for Blue. Lucky for him, it was the last day of promo and instead of SGD59.90, I got it for SGD39.90 before RSH closed about 9:45pm.

Blue in his new sandals the following morning.

That night I could not sleep well. I fell asleep about 12am and woke up about 3am. Thought I was hungry so had 2 pieces of plain bread and tried to go back to sleep. Sadly I stayed awake til 4:30am before dozing off and woke up the next hour and dozed off again.

When Blue woke up to get ready for work at 6:30am, I was awake too. But I was feeling lousy coz had lack of sleep and decided too seek medical help. As I was down with stomach flu last week, the Doctor suspected that remnants of it was still in my tummy so gave me the day off on 17 Mar 2008.

FYI, I'll be flying back to KL tonight and followed by another flight to Hanoi for my vacation with Trixy to Danang, Hoi An, My Son and Hue.

err...Glad to have a place to work?

I've been assigned to new assignment in Toa Payoh. Gosh, you should check out the condition of the room my colleagues and I (altogether 4 of us) were placed in.

yup, it's a storeroom. Good thing is that the room has air-conditioning and we were given a box fan to keep the room well-ventilated. The Ikea folding chairs were comfortable in the beginning but bad for posture, had backache after days sitting on the chair. Work hazards that Internal Auditors have to go through...

Nice view huh? :D

Those blocks of flat behind me were torn down and rebuilt, nice new HDB design...condo style.

To keep ourselves connected, I had to 'borrow' network cables from home (5m and 10m) as company-issued ones were only 3m long...not long enough the stretch into the storeroom. FYI, we were using a network hub ;)

Changi T3 and potential tenant (arrghh...)

Hello...I was out with Siew Khee to Expo for Metrojaya Warehouse Sale, a disappointing affair. The highlight of our day was Changi Terminal 3, we went to check out the spanking new 'baby' via MRT.



neat, neat rows of trolleys.....placed Singaporean style, I guess. Not even touching!

Tho there have been reports of floor tiles being reflective, I didn't even notice it.


On the 1st floor...looking into the T3 shopping concourse for departing passengers.


the building opposite's Terminal 2 Changi



Dont check me out, check the roof slats.....lets in natural light and lowers lighting costs ;)


Then had to rush home to Tampines as my Mom's friend's nephew and his family were waiting for me to view the spare room (think i reached back abt 3:30pm). I wouldn't have agreed to renting the room out but then my Mom said that the guy had no time to look for other place. They were happy with the size of the room, etc. so I gave them the keys (BIG MISTAKE), I'll never do that again...well, u'll know why, just read on...

Then his Mom texted me the following day to inform that he'll not be renting as they've found a relative who's willing to take him in. They'll return my keys the following weekend. By the following weekend, his Mom texted me that he'll be renting...just cannot make up his mind...haih...

Hope he moves out as informed verbally by end-May'08, hate not having the privacy tho the room rent's great @ SGD500 (excluding utilities).

Laksa in Queensway Shopping Centre

I was out on Saturday (16Feb) showing Siew Khee some parts of Singapore.

After doing laundry, ironing (something I don't do well but it has to be done) and groceries shopping at Fair Price, I took SBS Bus #59 to meet Siew Khee at Bishan MRT. We took the MRT to Orchard and headed towards Far East Plaza @ Scotts Road (said to be the equivalent of Sg Wang Plaza).

I was hungry, so as we exited at Tangs we had Teriyaki Chicken Meat Ball (S$1.30 each stick Tori-Q) and Sugar Cane with Sour Plum (S$1.60 each). It was about 1pm then, however there were not many people in FEP. There were stores and kiosk selling fashion accessories, jewellery store, food stores, clothes made-to-measure stores, etc.

Next we took to Anchorpoint and also managed to cover Queensway Shopping Centre. Finally tried the famous Katong laksa, found it a bit 'lemak' (rich for my taste).