KL trip was fun, albeit a bit tiring… we took the 2-level Aeroline coach from Harbourfront Centre… the ride took us 5 hours… the seats were styled like those onboard planes… but wif more leg room… similarly, food, water and hot beverages were oso served on the coach… there is a toilet on board the coach, but very very small, and only for light usage, which the crew constantly emphasized to us… :P
Our hotel – Corus Hotel, is very conveniently located, just 5 minutes walk from the KLCC. We spent our 3 days window-shopping at KLCC, Berjaya Times Square (which is very big, but shops on the higher floors are still not opened), Bukit Bintang Plaza, Lot 10, Sungei Wang, and Chinatown… a lot of time was spent walking for many hours since mornings till late afternoons… our legs were so tired upon returning to hotel…
We wanted to visit the Petronas Twin Towers twice on Saturday and Sunday… but the 1,320 free tickets were fully distributed very early! On Sunday, we reached there just before 8.30am, the official time when the distribution started, but the queue was oredi super long, snaking nearly the whole of the holding area…. We thot should just have our breakfast 1st, then join the queue again…. But who knows by the time we had had our breakfast @ around 9.30am, all the tickets are oredi fully distributed! OMG! The wonders wat free stuff can do!
We reached Singapore on Monday, around 9pm… half an hour later than the estimated journey time, probably cos there was a slight jam at KL when we left the hotel… met his parents at the Caribbean for a while as we had parked Pooh-canto at their carpark during our trip… his parents oso hadn’t had dines, so we went for a late dines cum supper at Telok Blangah….
The very next dae, both of us went back to work… & me started my 1st dae @ work @ PMO PSD… initially wanna start work on 28 Mar 07, so as to have 1 more dae of rest after the KL Trip… but was asked to start work earlier as 27 Mar is the PSD Advance 2007, something of a Work Plan Seminar for the new FY ahead… so morning was spent in a bit of orientation around the office and setting up of my laptop… afternoon was spent at The Legends Fort Canning Park… so my 1st dae @ work was pretty “zo-bo”… most of the execs are very new too, while the support staff are more experienced… v typical of civil service…
Todae is heavier, wif my Reporting Officer briefing me on my duties… afterwhich was reading up on the many procedures and files so as to familiarize myself wif the work… seems challenging daes ahead….
dearie's ict will end tomorrow evening... hope wun b too late... dis wil b the last ict for most of his platoon mates... while dearie stil has 2 more to go... he wil nid to join other platoons for his remaining 2 icts b4 he becomes a 'free' man! :)we are quite lucky.... he's able to book out for most of the evenings... except dis tue n partial of tdy... when he books out in the evenings, he wil fetch me fr my parents' plc n we wil head hm tog.... the next morning, abt 5ish am, he wil bring me to my parents' plc again b4 he heads back camp... me wil continue to catch up on my sleep @ my parents' plc... :P tdy, he can book out but nids to book in @ 1am.... so wil b gg my parents' plc to sleep while he sleeps wif his platoon mates in camp...tdy is d 2nd dae of my rest week b4 starting work nxt tue @ my new workplc... been watching d korean drama "Princess Hours" n reading Jason Hahn's book "Asking for Trouble: Tales of Saffy and Amanda"... the drama is realli cute n funni, relaxing n entertaining.... can understand y there was a craze on dis drama sometime back... as for the book, it is oso veri funni, thou exaggerated humour most of the time.... to gif women credit, in reality, nt all women r described as such in the book lor... *indignant shrug of the shoulders*cant wait for weekend to come, where we wil b going KL for a short 3d2n get-away b4 me start work...jus finished packing our travel bag (1 hand-carry n 1 backpack), b4 inserting some last minute items tmr evening n we wil b ready to go... :)
Todae is officially my last dae wif SMRT…. Time really flies! A month’s notice jus passed… felt 依依不舍 too…
My colligs, knowing my fav character is Winnie the Pooh, actually got me a Winnie the Pooh music carousel/trinket box from Royal Selangor! J so sweet & thotful of them! Particularly like the music… they oso joked that in future, can play it by my baby as itz v soothing… :P
Jo & May oso cot the moments of me opening the gift n reading the farewell card on their handphone camera & video-camera! A brief moment of my ugliest moment of breaking down was oso cot b4 Jo ‘mercifully’ stopped the recording… tried to receive the 6-minutes recording from Jo but too bad my card memory was full… sighz… time wasted in downloading onli to find it unsuccessful…
Hope my farewell words to Gennie cld b heard when she returns from her medical leave… cos kinda soft whn we playback the recording on Jo’s handphone… too bad couldn’t say to her personally…. Hope she gets well soon, stay bubbly!
Dear colligz, dun 4get me hor! Take care & do continue to kip in touch!
phew! the swelling of my left eye has finally gone down... at least can now view the world wif 2 normally sized eyes... imagine last few daes my left eye was swollen, puffy n nid to wear shades when me went out... such a bad scare...
dearie can come out every nite after his day ict... :P so nice, he came to fetch me hm from my parents' plc n we came back together... :P we were oso able to spend the weekend together... yesterdae we went to the army market @ bugis to have his name tags n badges sewn onto his 4 pcs of no. 4... today was spent lazing @ hm...
seems like next week wil b dearie's busiest week of his ict... he may finish v late tmr nite, so most prob gonna stay over @ my parents plc... but glad we hv booked a 3d2n trip to KL this coming weekend :P looking forward to it, me wil b in charge of planning the itinerary... hee...
tmr wil b my 2nd last dae wif smrt... gonna miss the team... but we wil stil kip in touch rite? gonna repeat myself again, my new wkplc wil b v near here.... so can stil lunch together, provided the team dun mind... hee... :P
dearie is on in-camp training (ict) today till next fri... meaning starting from 15/3/07 till next 22/3/07, me wil go back my parents' plc to stay... they offered to hv me stay over cos think they worried abt me staying @ hm alone, esp @ nitez... but dearie said married personnel hv the options of gg home @ nite after training... but we decided should the training end late, he might as well stay in camp cos nid to wake up earli the next dae... so we shall jus c how... :)
anyway, seems like a lot of ppl r gg on ict these few daes... is it jus coincidence or saf plans for ict during d 3rd n 4th weeks of march? hmmz... mebbe itz jus coincidence that ppl we noe hap to go on ict ard dis period too...
had a bad scare last nite... while in bed, me suddenli felt itchiness n irritation in my left eye n the next moment, my left eye became swollen! had prob opening my left eye too! the lower eyelid practically ballooned n there appeared 2b a layer of thick transparent stuff over my eye white... scared me n dearie! he quickly put ice in a thick face towel n tried to massage the swollen eyelid... me oso tried to wash my eye over running water... but the eye stil appeared as swollen as b4... me looked so ridiculous in the mirror!
dearie immediately drove me to ttsh a&e dept... rched there ard 10pm... waited @ the holding area til ard 11.30pm whr finalli seen by a doc... she said my symptom seemed like an allergy to food or medicine or some dust... but had the same dines as dearie n he's ok... oso din take any new medicine lately... cant recall any dust coming into my eye either... she couldn't put a finger to the cause... she then applied 2 drops of eye-drops into my left eye n asked me to wait outside for half an hr... she said she wil call me when half an hour was up... so we waited outside, 12.00 midnight came n went... finalli @ 12.20am, we went in to look for her... she looked apologetic n asked us to wait a while longer... finalli she gave me 2daes mc n asked me to rest @ hm over the next 2daes... oso hv to eat hm-cooked food (jus nice as mum wil surely cook @ hm :P) cos she deduced me could hv been allergic to the msg or the way outside food was handled n prepared... thot could finalli go home n sleep cos dearie needed to wake up @ 6.00am so as to report to camp by 7.30am... who knew we stil hv to wait @ the pharmacy for about 30mins!! geez!! anybody wif serious injury might hv trouble!
jus hope the swelling wil go down soon n dearie wil hv a good time during ict... thank u for taking care of me last nite... hee...
lodged a complaint with NEA regarding our food poisoning incident as cant find the correct feedback channel through Mos Burger... in the end, we lodged a complaint against NEA instead.... such poor attitude and service of the 2 staff who responded to us! realli gets on my nerves recalling the words they used....in the end, Jo managed to find the number for the Mos Burger outlet... she called them on fri... their service is much much betta! attempts at service recovery were made too...fed up wif attitude of the NEA officers, we decided to lodge a complaint to their higher management... an email was sent to the CEO on last friday... the next working dae (which is todae), an email on investigations to be conducted by NEA was sent by the CEO... but my name was spelt wrongly in the email.... aiyoz....
sighz... had a terrible time over the weekend... the sufferings started on thur, 1/3/07... at first, thot nothing 2b alarmed, then on fri morn woke up to even more discomforts...my 2 colligs, Jo & Gin, had the same lunch as myself at Mos Burger outlet at Raffles City on thur.... ebi rice burger meal it is... found it quite yummy... but @ nite, felt realli terrible... started to feel nauseous and stomach bloatedness... Jo oso smsed me dat she felt unwell and had fever on thur... on fri, smsed Gin onli to learn she was oso feeling unwell... aiyoz, 3 of mus b having food poisoning liaoz....visited doc on fri, given mc for fri... thot wil recover over the weekend, but onli got worse... started to hv diarrhoea n constant nauseau... so terrible... seem to hv lost so much water, start to feel sudden chest tightness n breathlessness on sun nite.... seen doc again on mon, given 1 more dae mc... more medicine too... yukz....fed upz... decided to feedback.... but no correct channel thru Mos Burger... nvm, emailed to NEA instead, since NEA regulates the hygiene standards of eating outlets in singapore.... we shall wait and see when NEA will reply... hmmz.... up til now, my stomach is still rumbling, feeling nauseous and having diarrhoea.... :((
