Respect to other; Respect by other.

I am so pissed by this woman in my company. So what the big deal if you are one of the department head of our company, I know I'm just a small "fly" in my company, or even my department, but please at least shows some respect to other if you want to grant some respect back.

My other colleagues was out-station from the office, so I'm the only one left in the room. When you going into other people department, a closed door department, shouldn't you at least knock the door before you come in? This are the very basic manner that even the cleaner knows, the cleaner will knock before coming in everyday, you are such a highly educated person don't tell me you don't know what is manner. Don't tell me you will simply step into the Chairman's room without even knocking it?

After you step into people department, shouldn't you at least greet or courtesy enough to at least tell other what is your intention of coming? That woman actually just step into our department, start her conversation with her other colleague & treat me as if I'm not even in the room. If I never voice out the "Yes, what do you want?", I don't think she will even bother about my existence.

Just imagine you are at other people house, will you go & open the cupboard of other without even asking? This is so rude, this theory apply at work too. When you step out of your comfort zone (your cubical, okay, let make the zone BIGGER for her since she think she is so high high up, let make it department for her), you don't anyhow touch other people property without permission (like what she did, open our sliding cupboard door without even asking), didn't anyone teach you manner before? This is SUPER RUDE!!

Please be kind enough to say a "Thank you" after bothering other, not just simply walk in & out as if is your home treating all other like invisible.

These are all accumulated anger, a few days back, she step on my "tail" too.

I was washing my container after my lunch in the pantry a few days back, I turn off the tap to soap my container after wetting it, she just stand next to me, turn on the tap & wash her cup. HELLO?!? The sink in the pantry is just so small, are you in such a rush that you need to squeeze with me in such a small standing area & wash your cup? My hands & container are still in the sink, yet she can just wash her cup as per normal.

If you are in such a rush, you can just simply ask me to allow you to use the sink first, I'm very sure I will not reject your request. Worst still, after washing her cup, she simply go back to the pantry table, sit down & start gossiping with other colleagues. So what is the rush for you to cut my queue & wash you cup?!? This is totally unacceptable for me.

I know we are different in term of position in the office, maybe you feel that I'm not in the position or qualified to even talk to you, but let me tell you, a company can NEVER operate with just department head itself. Without supporting roles like us, both you & the company are just an empty shells, you can jolly well hug the empty shell company, go & die together. 

I always believe that other than position, power, experience & education, there is always something more important than these, is the quality & up bringing of a person. You can hold all the abilities or the power at your work station, but your character suck big thumb, you can never grant respect from anyone if you don't even know how to respect yourself & other.

You can hold the lousiest job in the world, but if you know how to shows basic respect to other & to yourself, no one will look down on you & yet they will respect you & respect your job. In other way, if you can never learn how to respect yourself & other, no matter how highly position you are, or how "holy" your job, no one will look up to you, yet they will feel ashamed of you.

I just couldn't hold back on my angry & my blood really boiled over this issue. I feel so ashamed to have such colleague in this company, but to think of it in another way, I feel rather glad or lucky to a certain extend that our job scope will never cross path with each other, if not, I gonna have a hard time to work with her.

I need SUGAR BOOST!!!

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Thing usually goes abit crazy whenever my sweet tooth are crave acting on.

First thing that always come across my mind when the crave is here is non other than Obolo's macaroon.

My love to macaroon is not what 1 or 2 words can describe it, the satisfaction is beyond any words description. My initially intention was to "fly down" to Obolo today & grap a few pieces of macaroon before I head home, but I just recalled that today is Monday, Obolo is CLOSED! I'm so disappointed.

The crave had been barking me for a couple of days, I can't simply ignore it now. So I head down to Coffee Club instead to get myself a slice of cake, Mango Madness.

Seriously, I'm feeling mad full now, but still, I'm eating my cake now while I typing this blog entry, I can only grade the cake so only. I feel a little sick after a few mouth, regret of spending 7bucks for that, guess I can skip my dinner again tonight.

Disappointment

On Thursday night, my dad called me. Surprised ah?!? Yah, so am I, of all people my dad call me.

He told me mum birthday is coming soon, he hope he can join us for dinner, celebrate mum birthday together.

Just a day before, mum told me that dad went over to her work place to look for her, he did propose the diner session together, but mum rejected on the spot. I can't blame mum for this decision, after so many years, from the day they got marry, till she gave birth to us, till the very day now, this is the very 1st time dad say wanna celebrate her birthday.

I bought up this issue to mum again yesterday although she told me her decision before, I told her it just an additional pair of chop stick, just use as a normal dinner with her daughters & a friend. She did not even think again & rejected me straight in the face, so I do not want to bring it up again.

I walk into my room, looked into the mirror, I realised that there are tears in my eyes.

For so many years, till I cannot recalled anymore, I can't recalled when is the very last time, the 4 of us have dinner together. Seriously, Although I used to hate him so much, for close to 20years, I had never address him or call him in the face, "father". I can't bring myself to address him "father" till today, but I really wish to have a dinner together, as a whole family.

I use to envy people around me when they can sit together as a whole family for dinner, that why I enjoyed eating dinner together with dear's family, that is the time I can feel the bonding of a FAMILY.

When I go out & have dinner, I saw people father peel the prawns for them, de-bone the fish for them, I really crave for this fatherly love when I see it. I can't describle my envy toward them.

I agree if I request, I'm very sure my mum can do the same for me. But she is a woman after all, behind her strong front, I believe she also have a tired side of her, taking up both the mother & father role, so I always put up a strong front in front of her, telling her that your daughter has grown up, it time for you to enjoy now.

While waiting for Jimmy under his block, I bought this incident up to dear again, I just can't control, my tears rolled down in the public when I talk.

I'm so looking forward for this dinner, for years, now the chance is here, but so near yet so far. I don't want to force mum in anyway, so I can only swallow down my disappointment.

Later in the night, when all of us in the pub, suddenly someone bring up the issue of family again saying that both parents, 1 need to be the angel, 1 need to be the devil, so this will create the balance in the family.

So who is the angel & who is the devil to me?!? My mum take up the responsibities of both, I know it really hard on her, so I won't want to ask anything much for her in anyway if she don't feel comfortable.

The most recent family photo we took together is taken on sis wedding day, 1 & only 1 photo took that day, I dig out my old photos, other than this, the very last family photo very took together is when I'm still a kid.

Most recent photo taken on sis wedding day

Look at the happy face of both my parents

I don't know if I can be as forgiven like sis

but not matter what happened in the past,

he is still our father, blood related.

that is something that cannot be changed.

My very 1 & only 1 photo with him.

I really don't know if I will be forgiven enough

to invite him to witness the very day

I marry off.

Photo is always so deceiving,

it usually not as perfect as what you see.

"Naked" feet

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TA~ TA~

My feet look so "naked" now, finally my toes nail get to breath after so long, I manage to defeated the lazy bug in me & hand on myself.

Removed my toes nail colour yesterday night & do some trimming. Both my toes & fingers nail are freaking long, especially fingers nail. Whenever I type on my keyboard, I tend to miss the key easily.

OMG!! I'm so disgusted by my toes nails, they are freaking yellow-ish now, no matter how hard I try to bathe away the surface, it still look so gross.

FML, cannot take it, I need a Pedi session so badly now!! ..NOW!! ..NOW!!

Poor Wapi - BEWARE OF IRRESPONSIBLE GROOMERS

All my dear friends cum pet lovers outta, please take note of this post.

When I saw this post, I was SUPER agitated, I hate irresponsible pet groomer, this reminded me of what happen to Dino when he is 5month old.

(This is "Loving Pets" address)

Back at that time, I was new to all dogs stuff as Dino was my 1st dog. Recommend grooming place for Dino was "Loving Pets" at East Coast Road by brother-in-law. (http://www.lovingpets.com.sg/index.html)

Dino when he is 4months old

Dino After his 1st grooming session in "Loving Pets"

Dino was perfectly fine & running around

Bought Dino there for his 1st grooming session when he is 4month old, seriously I think the groomer skill was good, Dino look mad cute & neat, so I intend to fixed the place as Dino grooming session next time again. 

When Dino is 5months old, I bought him to "Loving Pets" for his 2nd grooming session again. I walk Dino into the shop, hand Dino to them & come back again 2hours later.

When I walk into the shop, the aunty in the shop say the groomer had left, she want to pass a message to me saying that Dino hind right leg was injure, ask me to take special attention to that.

For god sake, I put Dino on the floor & he is limping, tears roll down my face. I walk Dino into the shop perfectly fine with 4 legs, after 2hours, my Dino was limping, how could they do this to a 5 month old pup.

I called & insist to speak to the groomer the next day, her words pissed me off, she insisted that she did not drop Dino or hurt him in anyway, yet she pushed the blame to me say I pass them an injury dog.

How would I & the groomer not know my dog is injury if I walked Dino into the shop perfectly fine, with 4 legs & not limping? The groomer ask me to bring Dino to a vet & let her know the outcome again.

I bought Dino to a vet, luckily the vet say is not any serious injury, Dino will recover in a few days time. I called the groomer later, she did not say anything much, she just say, "Great to hear the your dog is okay."

I was SUPER PISSED by than, is that what you can say only? I don't need you to pay for Dino medical fee, is not that I cannot afford to pay for my own dog medical fee, but shouldn't she even offered to compensate it?

I reply to her in a harsh tone, "FINE!! Is that only what you can say now!! It okay, never mind, this gonna be the last time I visit your shop & I will NEVER recommend anyone to visit your shop."

I tried to warn other pet lovers in the "Pet Channel", guess what, my comment is being removed!! So be it, there always a "grey area" in everything, I tried, but there isn't anything much I can do about it.

Sis & brother-in-law Chow Chow, Max

Even now, brother-in-law don't bring his dog, Max, to "Loving Pets" anymore. He don't bother by what I told him in the start, till he experience it himself. Max was tick-free when he bought him to the "Loving Pets", when he brought him home, he was FULL of ticks.

He spend lots of time removed the ticks on Max & in his house, so now, all my family members will NEVER bring their dogs to "Loving Pets" anymore.

Dino now, turning 2years old real soon

Max, tick-free now :)

I'm glad that both Dino & Max are perfectly fine now.

Now, let me share about Wapi incident (Photos graps from Wapi's owner Facebook page):

Wapi before the incident

Wapi's tongue after the incident

WAPI was a happy three-year old Yorkshire Terrier, until his tongue was cut off by his groomers on 28th Aug 2010.

Conversation between Wapi's owner & groomer

Wapi's Veterinary Report

The owners are emotionally distressed by his injury and have been running around trying to get Wapi's veterinary report (took one whole week), rushing home after work and waking up early to give Wapi's medication and trying to appeal to authorities to do something (pending investigation)!

(Quote from Wapi's owner)

The 2nd Reason for the huge delay. ( LIES )
The pet shop blatantly lie to us.
Look at the dates:
We called the Vet on 31 Aug 2010
2nd sept 2010 - We asked again! - they say the scanner is down
4th sept 2010 - We ASKED AGAIN! - they r out of town. How convenient.
6th Sept 2010 - we find out the report was just WRITTEN ON THAT DAY ITSELF!

The owner start a "Wapi Awareness Facebook page" purposes is to:

1) Publicise the gross negligence of a pet groomer which resulted in Wapi's tongue being cut off while grooming and how consequently, the owners were only offered and compensated for the resulting medical costs ($66+ $152 = $218). This could happen to any of our dogs too!

2) Generate enough public awareness, so that the proper authorities will step in and set up protocol and jurisdiction in the event of such atrocities. Imagine if a barber or hairdresser disfigured his client this seriously while shaving or cutting their hair? Would a mere apology and a trip to the doctor suffice?

3) Start a discussion and compile a checklist for dog lovers to take note of when sending their pets to groomers. To find out what can and should be done IF such a tragedy were to befall our beloved fur-kids. Also, which dog grooming companies to stay away from. Be informed!

"Wapi Awareness Facebook page" is meant as a resource for information to PREVENT such things from happening again and what are the things to look out for.

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This is my conversation with the owner:

This is the pet shop address:

For all information, this is how the irresponsible groomer look like & the nonsense he wrote. (Grap from the web page)

http://www.petstop.com.sg/site/

The reason for me to make his entry post is I don't wish any of the Pet owners outta to experience what we went through. 

When we decide to own a pet, it a kind of life-long thingy, be it what happened to them, we must take the responsibility on them till their very last breath.

Be it what happen to Dino *TOUCH WOOD*

I'll still love him as before

Shop till you Drop

My shoulder is aching, so are my back & my legs, but I enjoy my leave yesterday to the fullest.

I waited & waited, our 大小姐 taking her own sweet time, we finally meet up at around 1pm. The weather is freaking hot yesterday, I start "melting" even before I step out of my house.

♥Look at the crowd at the Taka fair♥

♥We are heading in♥

Reach Taka, our 大小姐 machiam like a "乡下老", she was amazed by the varieties of mooncake they offered there, she never been to any Taka mooncake fair before. Before we reach, she was still asking me why I insist to go all the way to Taka when everywhere else have mooncake fair.

Once we step into the fair, automatically the aunty 本色 come out of us, squeeze our way through the crowd (so typical Singaporean, sad to say, I'm one of them too, at time). Went to every shop, everywhere is offering samples, can you imagine I can eat the samples till I skip my lunch & feeling mad full?

♥This is what I bought for grandpa & dear's family♥

I decide not to get anything fusion stuff for dear's family this year, I'm going for something more traditional as I had a conversation with dear's mum over the weekend, she did told me she prefer traditional mooncake as compare to the fusion one (I have been buying all those funny favor for them all the past few years).

♥Early dinner at Thai Express♥

♥Our Foods♥

♥This is mad cute♥

♥You can choose your flash light colour♥

♥Say Cheeze♥

Ah cek reach not long after we done with our shopping for mooncake & Andy join us after he knock off at 4.30pm. Had our early dinner at Thai Express, as our 大小姐 keep complaining that she is starving.

As time goes by, I feel the 2 boxes of mooncakes is getting heavier & heavier, or should I say I'm getting more & more tired. I think the guys regret meeting us up yesterday, they are there to accompany for shopping or rather helping me with carrying my 战利品.

♥I'm so tired, finally can rest my legs♥

♥The KOHs sista♥

♥The ladies♥

♥The gentlemen♥

Till Cecilia reach, somemore shopping to do before we accompany her for dinner at TCC & this is the time we can finally rest our legs. I believe the number of steps I walk yesterday is equivalent to the number of step I averagely walk in a week.

Seriously, I miss Jo's trademark laugher (sometime you can hear those pig "koor koor" sound from her if you are "lucky"), ah cek stumbling with his words, Andy half "sian" face when his jokes back fire, I can't think of the words to describe Cecilia at the moment now. Anyway, what words used to describe them is not important at all, most important is I miss them all.

I miss the time we use to work together, I miss hanging out together with them after work, I miss the time we do silly things together as if there is no more tomorrow.

Those were the days that we can never get back anymore, it can only stay with us now as memories.
We end the day after we step out of TCC at around 9plus, the rest head back by train, while I took a bus & head over to dear's house. This time is not to look for dear (he is not home anyway), but is to look for his mum.

Luckily I got myself a seat in the bus. My hands are full with stuff & the bus is SUPER packed.

♥Lovely Tarts♥

Kathy help me to open the door & the stuffs in my hand, I'm so glad to load off the stuffs when I reach their house, everything just seems so heavy. Other than mooncake, I bought them some lovely fruit tarts (SUPER expensive, $10.80 each), chat with dear's mum & Kathy for awhile, so nice of dear's mum, she actually offered to drive me home as it getting rather late, but I don't wish to trouble anyone for my own convenience. I appreciate her offer but I still chose to head home by bus myself.

Reach home at 11pm, had my cold shower, on the air-con & I knock out straight on the bed. I love this kind of life, but I do not have enough "asset" now to enjoy this way of living, going in & out all those branded stuff shop. Till the day I become a 太太, I shall shop & swipe my cards with both eyes close (Dream on), whahahahah!!!!

Photos will be up soon, I hope so :) Photos are finally up!! I'm the last to upload my photos :) Enjoy the photos :)

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Another Long Weekend

Everyone is looking for long weekend, so am I. But at time, I will hesitate if I'm really looking for it anot.

It so boring in Singapore, we really running out of ideas where to go now.

On Thursday night, dear came over to pick me up after work, so sweet of him. He hates to pick me up from work cos my area traffic was really bad at time.

Accompany dear home to change first & we head over to Kallang Leisure park to watch Vampire Suck. Yes, indeed like the show name, the movie really suck.

I wake up rather early on Friday cos I joining dear's family for an early lunch. We head over to Great World City Crystal Jade, had my favourite "mala la mian" & of cos "xiao long bao", not only that, we still order many more other stuff.

Spend most of the time at dear's house watching TV program, till evening time we head over to watch movie again. Watch Resident Evil 3 this time, never join the rest for movie as their timing was rather late, dear still need to work the next day.

The show is getting rather dry now, keep repeating the same thing over & over again, so nothing fantanic about the show. After movie, me & dear head over to Long John for dinner & head back home to rest.

I spend whole of the afternoon at home on Saturday, poor dear, need to work till so late on Saturday, he only knock off at 4pm.

He came over to pick me up from home, head back to his house, let him have a good shower after a tired day before we head out for our breakfast cum lunch cum dinner at Puggol Nasi Lemak.

It feel so good to be full. After dinner, we start asking each other this question, "so, what next?". We really can't think of anywhere to go.

So we head over to Kallang to enjoy the breeze awhile, really can't think of where to go so we head home again.

Till later in the night, we join the rest of KTV session.

After the session, the rest head back, while me, dear & Jimmy head over to the Changi village carpark trying to look for the ice cream uncle to get some ice cream. Too bad, it a waste trip, the uncle not working that day, so we head over to Loyang Dua Pek Gong to pray instead.

The day ends at around 3am, so tired!! But at least we manage to at least find some activities to do on the weekend in the boring Singapore.

It Sunday, dear exam is on Tuesday so he is busy coping with his revision now. So I have tons of free time, so I make my tomorrow lunch box rather early.

In a flash of time, tomorrow is another boring working day, but is okay, cos I'll be on leave the day after. I'm so looking forward to hang out with the crazy peepz on Tuesday, thinking of the guess it will light up my morning blue a little tomorrow :)

Happy Birthday Sharon

招财狗

I had a great feast yesterday, mum's treat. I can't recall it for what reason she wanna treat us, but I want to eat something good for sure.

I suggested dinner at Sushi Teh, order lot of stuffs & the price of the dinner went a little steeper then usual. Mum is easy with that, her intention was simple, as long as it within her budget, the most important is everyone is happy will do. I think I inherit her gen in this, always put other as the priority before ourselves.

I was so fortunate yesterday, I did not spent a cents after work! I head over to Yamakawa to get candy & chocolate before heading home, Cat offer to pay my items for me, of cos I won't reject her offer, whahaha!! ;P

Jon is dear's family 的招财猫, Dino is my family 的招财狗. That day, mum was drawing the 4D paper, Dino as usual so interested in everything around him & keep disturbing mum. So mum came out with a crazy idea, she write 10 number, from 0 to 9 on small pieces of paper & ask Dino to chose 4 number.

Guess what, the 4 numbers Dino picked was selected, mum won $250 with 1buck. This time round I don't get to split mum's winning share anymore, mum say she will pass $100 to me after she collect her winning, the money is for me to bring Dino for grooming session.

I still thought mum will tell me to keep the remaining money after the grooming session, who knows, she ask me use the remaining money left to buy more toys for Dino.

Mum no longer 疼 me as much as before now!! She 疼 Dino more, 我吃醋了:(