VinVin’s Tots

Eat ~ Celebrated Ms Leng’s 28th bdae (oops, woman’s biggest secret!!) at Jerry’s BBQ & Grill (Tanglin outlet) on Fri nite with SH. Bdae gal gt her ideal bdae prezzie, which as a bubble bath foot massager from Watson. Poor gal gotta lugged the massager from Pasir Ris to Tanglin. But couldnt reali blame us, none of us had transport coz its supposed to be an all gal’s affair *duhzz*

It was our 1st visit to Jerry’s BBQ & Grill and I must say we were reali impressed with the service as well as wide variety of food for both meat lovers and vegetarians. Me and Leng both had the dinner set, prawns for me and salmon for her. The dinner set also came along with unlimited visits to the salad bar, soup and desserts. SH ordered a vegetarian version of alfredo pasta and we had deep fried mushrooms and potato skins for appetizers *yummy yummy* The servings were generous and the staff were super frendly and had the initiative to take pics for us!

When we requested for a candle for bdae gal, the staff even gave us a mini "Happy Birthday" sign for the tiny brownie which we were taking it to be the bdae cake. Excellent service, definitely worth my re visit!

Play , Watch ~ Biggest beach vb event of the year in Sentosa —> *drum roll pls*  Swatch FIBV Beach Volleyball World Tour 2007 had landed at Siloso beach from 22-27 May 07. We bought tickets for the last day, which was supposed to be the matches for 1st - 4th placing. It was a super super scorching Sun and when we reached the grandstand around 3.30pm, most of our VB kakis were cooked like steamed crabs. Its not kidding to say tat we were having free sauna, practically within minutes being seated, my sweat were dripping onto the floor like a tap left running.

3rd and 4th placing was a "fight" between China and Brazil. The Chinese pair put up a reali good fight and caught up with the Brazilians to claim the 1st match. After the short break, the Chinese continued to dominate the game and within minutes, they claimed the 2nd match too. Next up was the finale of the event, the finals match up between (yet again) China and Brazil. It was quite a disappointing match coz the Chinese duo dun seemed to play as well as the prev pair, their spikes wasn’t deadly enuff and their blocking din reali take effect as the Brazilians managed to make a few good spikes.

We also caught Pirates of the Carribean - The World’s End. Other than a few anti climax, the movie was spectacular…Johnny Depp is as cranky as ever as Captain Jack Sparrow and Orlando Bloom is still as dashing as ever! (oops, starting to drool already,haha). Definitely worth watching and seriously, I cant wait for them to have another sequel! Oh ya, spotted someone from the next Fantastic 4 movie, which is showing on our big screens in June 07. Catch him below…

Eat ~ Dear Uncle H had a sudden crave for sashimi and the 4 of us (US, Uncle H & Ah Ger) made our way down to Honjin @ Robinson Rd for Jap buffet! Now tell me, how can I ever lose weight if there are so many temptations around…haiz…Ok, cant blame ppl if they do like my company for makan rite, kekeke :P  Getting kinda thick skinned here, heehee…Cant blame me, I m in holiday mood!

Knights of the Round Table..Well, we’re not talking abt the good old ancient times of King Arthur, its abt my ex coy..hahaha..Had a meet up with 5 of my ex colleagues recently and boy, time reali flies. Besides getting rounder (tink ah bui J still the roundest,hehehe), each of us are happier with life and work.

It wasn’t always easy to have a gathering, considering the mix of crowd (some ppl are extremely unwelcome at all), schedules (almost every1 is in accts line *roll eyes*) and of coz ppl making the efforts to attend the gathering. Gotta gif myself a pat on the back tat the recent gathering was a success! (Me the organiser leh, wat to expect, hahaha :P)

The gathering kicked off with lotsa poking fun at each other, since we haven seen our ex acctants for more than 3 years. Over dinner, the 4 warriors updated the ex acctants abt their plights, the evil plots and of coz none of them could visualise as when they left the coy, we were all still living in good harmony! They even think tat all the drama (mama) tat had happened could have been make into a block buster (Any producers are there??).

The gathering ended with all of us having a good laugh (we actually laughed till we cried!) abt the various events that we participated (courtesy of our "super enthu ex boss") from KTV competitions to all female soccer fiesta (we were the 1st female champions!). At least, we did have our share of fun and super hilarious memories. Now we are all trying to find the videoclips that contained all these memories so that maybe they can be uploaded onto You tube. So dun be surprised if anyone catch me on You tube one day!

Officially counting down to leaving the coy,hehehe..To be exact, another 9 more days to go. Den gotta minus a couple of days of leave for med chk up and retail therapy. Starting new job so gotta dress up abit mah, especially since gt inside infor tat gotta wear smart smart, no more dress down days..*sob sob*

So wats up wif moi and DD pig during the past weekend. Well, DD pig took part in Ripcurl comp on Sat and oni one word to describe the whole event ~Chaotic~ It used to be a 2 day event with oni 2 categories being played on each dae, but tis yr (dunno they cuttin cost or wat), everything was squeezed onto a Sat. And as expected, many of the games couldnt be continued after sunset coz the organizing committee oni prepared 2 spot lights!!! So, the teams tat advanced were told to continue play on Sun *roll eyes*

Due to their poor planning of squeezing the event into a one day affair, oni 1 team from each grouping can advanced to the next round as compared to last yr whereby top 2 teams of each grouping can advanced. So poor DD pig met a team led by ex national player in their 1st match and of coz lost the game. Altot DD pig’s team managed to win their subsequent 2 games, but nothing could b done to salvage the loss suffered earlier. Among our VB kakis, oni 1 team managed to make their way to the remaining matches on Sun. But most of our teams won at least 2 matches so blame it on the stupid changes to the elimination rules. *fuming*

Sun was Mother’s Day!!! We had dim sum (at C hotel!!! Its been a long time since I had dim sum and best part was dun haf to pay! Hahaha..Yeah, richie bro paid for the meal..hehehe…Had a pissed encounter at the ladies of the hotel where we had our dim sum. There was tis huge "NO SMOKING" sign on the door of the ladies and yet when I entered, 2 streams of smoke can be seen rosing to the ceiling from the 2 cubicles! Worst of all, dere were oni 2 cubicles lor…

So I gt one of the restaurant’s mgr to chk out the ladies and we saw tis cheenah lookin aunty wif super big Afro hairdo washing her hands. Obviously, she’s one of the culprits since I had been guarding the ladies door. She hurried outta the ladies upon seeing the mgr. The mgr shouted out to the othr cubicle which is still occupied and guess wat tat bitch (who’s ass was probably stuck to the toilet seat) replied "no, not smoking". Biangz, tat bitch even tried to sound irritated like she’s the innocent party. Not oni is tis bitch illerate (cant read signs) she’s oso a big papaya.

Went to bro’s new place in the West and it was a long journey back hme (we lived in the extreme east lor). His place was tastefully furnished and surprisingly neat! DD pig couldnt get his hands off the PS3 game set and who can blame him, considering tat the PS3 games were played on a huge LCD tv mounted onto the wall,hahaha…We were off to 4hrs of KTV wif uncle and ah ger at Chinatown. Finally tried the famous Ko Lo Mee from Sarawak and the chilli is sedap! Headed for home way past midnite, guess I m reali in holiday mood! Kekeke

~9 more days to go~

Decided enuf of me going on n on n on abt my work and workplace. Since has already tendered, shall give things (and ppl) a break, so tat bad Karma wun befall on me,kekeke. Spidey has taught me tat the more we hate a person/thing, the more we suffered coz we cant let go and move on wif life. So instead of letting revenge/hatred engulfed our life (of coz not like hw Spidey nearly succumbed to Venom), we shld juz continue moving ahead and treasure wat we have.

Moving on wif life, besides catching Spidey in action, oso managed to watch Broadway Beng Returns (BBR) and Return of white pig (tats me) to beach, muahahaha….Dun mind me ki siao abit coz Broadway Beng reali ticked my funnie bone alot alot…To the extent tat my (long lost) coughing fits resurfaced! Yeah, tats hw powerful tis ah beng is, dun play play ah (oops, tats PCK)…Hahahaha

I tried to control myself frm luffing damn hard, even tried to stuff my face into DD pig’s shoulder but still coughed quite abit. Heng ah, the cough din followed me home,kekeke. Toking abt BBR, it was my 1st stand up comedy and I was tinking will the whole show b veri dry wif audience like me who wun noe hw to react to gd comic timing. Furthermore, there seems to be quite a huge turnout of (rich) uncles & aunties as compared to the school kids’ affair at the screening of Blithe Spirit.

The whole show was presented in a mixture of Hokkien and English, with digs at S’pore Pools, casinos, IRs, not forgetting Ah Beng’s favourite hobby ~belting out songs~ from ABBA to Chen Lei (hokkien heavenly king). So for those who wanna luff their blues away, BBR will definitely make u luff till u tng khor! (hey, me nt tat crude hor,tats wat BBR flyer says,lol)

Enjoyed myself at beach on sat altot we lost every single 4-4 games,hahaha. The wind was affectin our judgement and make us reali laid back,hehehe..Walked Maple (WX’s puppy) to Rasa Sentosa and it took us abt 10mins juz to cover tat distance. Maple is so curious abt everything, she nearly had escargot (a dead snail) for tea break,kekeke. Too bad DD pig oni gt eyes for french bulldog, I prefer cuter dogs (u can call me a bimbo watever, heck care). Gonna grab my tickets to Dim Sum Dollies ~The History of Singapore b4 they are sold out. Once again, any1 who wanna haf a gd luff after a week of hard work, u noe wat to do *wink*

~The hardest thing to do is to forgive ourselves~

For the past few mornings, my FC has been treating me to Teh O in hope tat I will take back my resignation (yes, my letter hasn’t gone to HR yet!). But I’ve remained firm in my decision and I m quite glad that I’ve not regretted my decision. No doubt that location is near my place, dun haf to OT alot, good pay and lotsa freedom (imagining me MSN-ing whole dae) but den the whole environment juz sux.

During the few sessions of Teh O wif my FC, I kept emphasizing to him tat the biggest problem tat I’ve met is my mgr. But being a man, he juz cant simply understand hw can 1 old sweet lady be such a big obstruction to the accts team. Furthermore, he’s his superior and he dun haf to work alongside her, so hw can she "harass" him at all? And he finds tat we are makin a big fuss when we tried to tell him tat YES one person can reali manipulate the life and death of the whole accts dept.

Finally, he’s able to see some light as days goes by. Latest update tis morning, he dun wan mgr to do the monthly submission of reports to HQ. I’ve always managed to do up the reports abt 2 days b4 dateline but dear old mgr always wanna "check" to make sure everything is correct. Now her "checking" involves opening up the worksheet and staring at the same worksheet for at least 2 (minimum) hrs without cross referencing to source data.

Realli gotta hand it to her, can do checking juz by staring at the worksheet. I will wanna learn tis skill one day too, hahaha…The best part is the reports done by mgr are not checked by anyone and the data are incorrect! So whenever we close early, dear old lady will take her own sweet time to "check" the reports and submit them oni on the dateline itself.

So wats the purpose of rushing myself and my staff to hell when the person who’s responsible for submission do things at her leisure. Many a times, company dun progress is becoz they failed to pinpoint the actual problem and rite now its exactly wat’s happening. Ok, mayb the COO in Dubai dunno wat the hell is happening here and since dear old lady has been able to submit accts rite on the dot, no big issues rite.

Its quite sad tat in tis world dere are indeed certain companies tat do not c the importance of the accts dept othr than to make payments and collect $$. Its true tat accts dept dun generate $$ like operations dept but at least the accts dept make sure the coy dun spend $$ like water and ended up bankrupt. It oso makes sure tat the coy dun get involved in fraud scandals by ensuring tat auditors have access to watever financial data they nid.

I m so lookin fwd to my last day of service so tat I dun haf to listen to the awful voice of screaming bitch (I will blog more abt the interesting characters here soon), worries abt where to get lunch and best of all listen to rubbish uttered by the "asset of the coy".

~Fly away, no matter hw far or hw tough, I will hang on~

Ok, some quick updates b4 getting down to biz. My cough ~ 80% recovered, shld sae to the extent of can play beach VB without coughin my lungs out,hahaha. 28/4 was a busy dae for me with 2 happy occassions happening on the same dae. 1st joyous occassion~ finally 1 of us is a Tow Kay Neo!! (congrats to Fion!) Yeah, my poly kaki of 11 yrs has opened her nail lounge with a parter at Raffles City Shopping Centre. So for those ladies who like to pamper themselves once in a blue moon wif mani & pedicures, do drop by FE The Nail Lounge (#02-27) and lend some support to my kaki ok…Xie Xie in advance. (Eh, Fion ah rem to pay me some A&P fees ah,kekeke)

Next happy occassion was the wedding of Johnny & Christine. We had fun at the banquet, saboing the groom and of coz our party dun juz end at the banquet. We went for a chill out session at Boat Quay and yup, we had FUN! Too bad we din take any pics at the chill out session. Cant blame us, we were too busy playin games, singing, drinking and playin pool.

Ok, down to serious biz…I’ve officially tendered my RESIGNATION!!! Acty I did it on Mon after lunch, givin my FC ample time to digest his meal,kekeke. And I’ve signed my letter of offer tat fateful evening. So can sae tat everything almost sealed up for me. But den of coz, after my FC gt over his initial state of shock, disbelief, anger and helplessness (I m not exaggerating lor) over the PH, he came back for a counter offer (I knew he would do it) wif the post of asst manager.

Now, the counter offer was quite tempting but den its pointless for me coz I simply cant work wif a person who I dun respect. By now, most ppl would noe tat the oni person I cant work wif will b my mgr. Now, many will sae tat they dun understand y I cant continue working wif a person whom I’ve worked wif for almost 2 yrs. Well, ppl change and ppl do change for the WORSE. Some ppl might ask, am I tryin to be too hard on an old lady??? Come on lor, if any1 encounters her kinda attitude n behaviour, one will simply lose all basic respect for a human being.

1 classic example…She distributed out some documents to the staff and when 1 staff informed her tat the documents shld be redirected to another staff,the old lady yelled at the staff sayin tat she has no idea wat kinda work or portfolio the staff is doing. Pls lor, accts mgr leh, nt accts clerk..Hw can mgr dunno wat kinda portfolio the staff is having, like tat can b mgr meh??? The prob wif tis old lady is tat she likes to shoot her mouth off without realising tat she’s shooting herself in the foot. And tats the reason y nowadays we are not toking coz I will juz state facts tat will pull down any funnie/weird acts she’s tryin to put up.

A person who dun gif basic respect to others dun deserves mine. So no point working wif some1 who oni acts out her title but doesnt carry the title wif duty and responsibility. Like wat I’ve told my FC, I dun c a point of me and my staff working our butts off to provide the pay check of another person who’s living off us. She gets the credits, we get the shit. Outsiders who dunno still tink tat she’s the one holding the lead, in actual fact her pace has slowed down so much tat she’s left takin her own sweet time while the world progress on further without lookin back at her. 

I might not noe wat kinda environment I will be stepping into but I guess sometimes we nid to take a gamble now n den. It might be worse than my current situation but den at least I did something to rectify my current plight than to sit on it and whine. Moving forward might not be the best choice but its the right choice for me at tis moment.

~Marching ahead to unknown land. For better or worse, time will tell~