ABCD… An Extended Version.

I’ve always said, ‘Work I can handle. It’s the people that I can’t.’

This is seriously like an understatement right now. Nothing rings truer than that and my current state of mind.

November has been a very trying time for me. When i originally said, ‘Nope, i don’t think it’s personal.’ I take it all back.

The last time I’ve been screamed at, spoken to rudely and bullied completely was when I first joined the industry. I’m sure my friends have heard me mentioned that person before. The one that said,’Do u look into the mirror to see how disgusting u look before u leave the house on a daily basis?’

It’s really not as bad now. I mean, at least the screaming does not consist of personal attacks like that. I still believe that no one else can beat that crazy.

But I’ll be lying to myself if I said I’m not upset.

I am.

But it’s more like a zen type of upset. I’m not as riled up as I usually would. Maybe it’s because to a certain degree, I pity the shouter/screamer. Or maybe I really don’t see a point why I need to react.

But I still don’t like it. Who does?

I’ve gotten all kinds of advice on how to handle this… Some are hilariously funny (and consist of what i should do) whilst some are simply damn sweet (mainly what they want to do).

I’ve gotten ‘gimme name! I go voodoo them!’, I’ve gotten offers from friend who said she will pin needles and slam her shoes on them.. Either that or get some of those aunties under the bridges in HK to help me curse them.

my bodyguards

And I’ve gotten silly picture of friends in thick gothic makeup (taken a couple of yrs ago during one of our D&D) and told to blow it up and put it up at my desk as protection- don’t mess with Ewey.

Be careful who you are dealing with….

I do love my protective friends.

However, I’m going to do nothing about it.

For now.

I just wanna constantly remind myself, I will not stoop to their level. I’m bigger than that. As long as I know I’ve done my best… *hello kitty mode*

I mean, what is the worst that can happen? I pack my bags and go back home.

But… I’m not done with China yet. Not just yet.

Like another friend said, “KARMA. If it is not happening now, it will eventually happen.”

What goes around, will always come around…

*deep deep breaths*

Reason 274 why I love Shanghai

Went to Shanghai for a training over Mon-Wed this week and came back feeling rather refreshed and inspired.

I seriously think that staying in gorgeous hotels always helps!

So… Let me introduce you to… Le Sun Chine. A gorgeous boutique hotel that I resided in for the 3 days I was there. Training was also within the hotel as well so it was really wow… I remember waking up on Tuesday thinking, “Dear God, I want to wake up here every day. Can?”. I was miserable when I had to check out on Wednesday…. and I’m still thinking about it on Friday. :o)

For more information: http://www.lesunchine.com/

superbly gorgeous!

Of cos, the training was really inspiring as well… and the people I met were great & smart & possibly fluffy… :p

 

All in all… great time for work.

 

And then there was a short but lovely catch up with Ming on Monday night… complete with a gongcha surprise (she even got the flavour right!!!! And i only bought it once when I was there with her the last time…)!!

Hello “Shanghai” friend… Part deux.

Sometimes, it’s really the little things that people do that makes life so much more beautiful. Not the big stuff mind you… little things…

Note to self: Never ever take my friends for granted. 

World Domination – The Aftermath

We did not managed to dominate the world. Nope.

In fact, Beijing fought back and tried to freeze us during the days Pinky & the Brain were here.

The cold aside… we bickered, we laughed, we became heroes, we ate, we drank, we watched movies, we posed and took load of pictures, we had alfresco lunch in winter, we shopped….

And most importantly, we spent great times together….

Thanks loves.

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Hitting the big 33… The Aftermath.

I’m not a big fan of birthdays… especially these days. Even though I swear I look nothing above 27 (I have colleagues to verify that!)… But I’ve finally hit the big 33.

I do quite like that number…. 33 no matter which number comes first. HAHA!

I consider it like erm… a turning point in my life. It’s the first birthday I’ve spent away from home. Dubai is not considered… because I came back in time to spend like the last hour of 14th Nov with my family… in our time zone.

Anyway, I digress. (what’s new?)

You know how you tend to count your blessings on key days? Like doing up a New Year Resolution list every year? (I don’t by the way…. because I’m terrible with resolutions.)

This year… I counted my blessings even more gratefully than I usually would last time.

Blessing 1 – A lovely family… who at the struck of midnight, recorded and sent me a birthday song. A silly brother who rushed home in order to sing the birthday song (but he missed it and had to send his own individual one)… Mum who prepared a lovely card and a gift way beforehand and passed it over to the friends who were visiting. Gloves that warms my heart this winter.

Blessing 2 – Friends who loved me so much that they specifically chose to come over to Beijing on this day to spend it with me. (I’m not saying those who didn’t come don’t love me! Wait… you are next.)

Blessing 3.1 – Cards made with love complete with loads of pictures by the lovely bimbos in my life. Sumi, Celia, Aple, Pris, Choo, Jas, CA – You are like the gems I picked up accidentally… I love you gals. (Despite sticking that huge ass 33 at the front of the card…)

Blessing 3.2 – more wonderful friends (thanks phoebe and Jess!!!) who prepared a Winter Package for me… Sooooo sweet!!

Blessing 3.3 – Surprises after I come back to work one week later… it was like, my birthday was for 10 days… Thanks Jas for the super sweet self-made card.

Blessing 3.4 – evil BFFs like Cang..

Blessing 4 – All the love and wishes that I’ve received be it over whatsapp or FB. I may be 4,457km away from the world I grew up in.. but I felt the love, care and concern like everyone was right next to me.

I may not have gotten any candles or cake this year (I did get a muffin) but I really thank God for all that I have in my life.

I indeed blessed. 🙂

World Domination!

The past few days has been superbly horrid at work… superbly.

The only thing that kept me going was having friends I could confide in, friends who simply listened and friends who joined me in ranting. *thanks and I love you all!*

Of cos, the other thing was I could look forward to the arrival of Pinky & The Brain.

As their arrival was at 710am, I told them to just grab a cab directly and get to my place by themselves. I refuse to wake up that early cos I still have to work!

Then as the day neared, I thought… they are coming here specifically to spend my birthday with me. (As Pinky said, “IF not for you, I’d never willingly go to Beijing.” And of cos, the very fact that they are passing me hugs & gifts (which they’ve collected on my behalf), made trips to specifically help me buy stuff, pick up items my mum wanted to pass to me… etc.) And it’s just not right for me to take them for granted.

So… I made the decision to surprise them @ the airport this morning!! (of cos I’m not going talk about how anti-climatic it was cos my first shout of “SURPRISE” was overlooked cos Pinky didn’t realise it was me standing there. It took her 2 looks to realise it was me. So by the time i said “Surpriseeee…” again, the surprise was really not that surprising any more! *sweat*)

my darhlings….

And so, Beijing beware!!! We are here for World Domination!

Cheers to laughter! Cheers to Bimbo-ism! Cheers to having the girlies representatives here!!! CHEERS!!!!

p/s: I’ve been working most of Sunday and I only left the office at about midnight last night. So, I’m actually rather exhausted and nursing a rather bad headache. And the first thing that crossed my mind this morning when my alarm rang at 6am was…

“I don’t love them that much!” *closes eyes*

*3mins later*

GAWDAMMIT!!!! *drags self out of bed*

November is a great month!

Reason 174 why November is a great month:

Because I was born in November!

That on it’s own, makes the world a much more beautiful place to be in! :p

But 2012 is a very different year for me…. It’s my first year away from my friends and family. It could have been really miserable…

But Pinky & The Brain decided to make arrangements to visit me from 13th-18th Nov… *beams*

While I was happily counting down to their arrival… Welton decides he shall appear in Nov too! Abeit the tail-end on the 30th…

That’s 2 happy things to look forward to this month no?

Then I received news that I will be travelling to SH for a training/meeting from 19-21st Nov. That means I should be able to steal some time to catch up with another good friend! *beams again*

That’s 3 happy things!!!

So while I am excitedly waiting for next Tuesday to arrive… and minding my own business @ work…. I received a package from Singapore.

…..from none other than the mostly evil-sometimes sweet BFF (obviously, she has fallen into the “sometimes sweet” category today) who by the way has the loveliest kids (my favourite rascal Ernest & his little sis Le Fat [the BFF  says so… Nothing to do with me]).

sweet card, a preview and my birthday gift!

So here I am… beaming at my first birthday gift for 2012, thinking about the 2 living walking breathing birthday gifts arriving next Tuesday and counting down to end of the month.

What a great month this is turning out to be… again! *blissful look*

pst: ginny darhling, dec is a great month too! 🙂 just want you to know as well!!

Snow and slush… my 1st experience

Everyone was talking about the impending snowy weekend the whole of last week… day in & day out, I’ve got people telling me, “it’s going to snow this weekend.”

Me? I was just… “Oh, ok!!!” and carried on with my life as usual.

Ok, I lied… I was a little excited! Cos I’ve never seen snow!!! *giggles*

Come Saturday, and it started raining early in the morning… was out running errands and it was just raining all day. (Read: COLD!)… went back home to rest at about 4pm cos I wasn’t feeling too well. At midnight, I started receiving msgs from some friends about the fact that it has started to snow…. Looked out of window and saw only rain! But they swear it’s snow… and I realised it was more ice drops (risked getting pneumonia by opening my windows and sticking my hands out to test!!!) than snow.

A couple of hours later (erm, ya.. din sleep)… I was like a kid!!! Standing at my window looking at the snowstorm!!!! The ground and the roofs were all a beautiful white (there’s was a little light by 4am so I could see) and I went to bed a happy girl. :p

Thought I’ll take a picture of the lovely scene when I woke up later…

But too bad most of it in my area had already melted/turned to slush by 10am!! *weeps*

Chatted with another friend who told me it’s probably cos it is still raining so generally, it will melt… but there will be other days it’s just SNOW (without rain) and it will be gorgeous! *looking forward to it!*

Anyhows, despite being ill…. I still braved the cold to go to the supermarket because I’d run out of bread and milk… on my way back to the apt, it snowed again. Not really obvious… but more intermittently, rain+snow.

FUN!

And cold… *brrrrr*

Still… *clap hands excitedly!*