today is national day public holiday

and IM WORKING!!! bah~

london should celebrate singapore's national day too lorz, we were part of their colony afterall.

n it's such a nice weather to nua at home... =(

oh well, at least i get full day of time off in lieu, auditors work 12hrs on wkends n prob get back nth.

u lucky ppl enjoy national day!

PwC farewell part 2

Guo Fu at Far East Square

NEA team farewell lunch for me, thx to my veri nice mgr.

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everyone gets a personal steamboat plus a set of food to 'steam' in. it's not too bad for e price.

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me n shi di! i heart my shi di, tats why i've been psychoing him to quit audit. haha.

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mrong with weekhim. weekhim doesnt smile much for photos hor.

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tog we make up e formidable NEA audit team tis yr, plus another hawaiian-looking a1.

i 'starred' away mrong's arm on her request. ok ma? hehe. wah me n mrong's dress realli v similar horz.

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Yan Palace dim sum at Hong Lim

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with e runmates, during lunch.

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tats a rare proper nice photo taken with mr heng. haha.

food wasnt too bad n it wasnt too pricey. e only thing is tat a funky ancient smell assaults u once u enter e restaurant.

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i seem to be always taking photos with e same bunch of runmates hor.

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Joaquim's steamboat buffet at Suntec City

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tis is e grand finale of farewells, supposedly a joint farewell for me n ting n eunice (who left 3 wks n 1+ mth earlier, respectively).

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a whopping 20 runmates turned up, sibeh give face. juz look at e length of our tables.

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we look like we'r in a beauty pageant. haha.

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mr ip man is being v difficult tat nite, e photos he took for me are mostly blur, n he likes to take multiple candid shots.

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n he cant even sit still to take a proper photo with mrs ip man. duhz.

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do we look alike?? we'r twins! LOL~ same height somemore.

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random ugly shot, mr zhai nan is quite extra in e photo. haha.

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we forgot to take a grand grp photo. oh well, im sure there's another farewell party coming right up. till then~
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miss u ppl!

pao

wat an interesting character. wahahahaha~

sibeh amusing~

3 x 7 = 21

today is e day where most restrictions are lifted: cannot wear bright colours, cannot visit other ppl's house, blah.

e extended family gathered once again to do wat they need to do in order for grandpa to have a gd afterlife. n my dad distributed some of grandpa's personal possessions to e other family members for remembrance's sake.

but e memories will still live....

爱你哦，爷爷~

finally a happie post

congratulations on ur graduation, sissy!~

my mum had to be e one to remind me tat sissy was e one who carried my bags n took e role of being my personal photographer on my convocation, n it's only natural tat i return e favour.

but sorry, dude, i was tempted to take leave n attend ur convo, but decided agst it in e end.

mighty congratulations on ur graduation once again! li hai lahz, e 1st n only one among us to get 1st class honours. so all e complains i received frm u abt sch is all worth it horz. haha.

enjoy ur day n sorry i cldnt be there to be ur personal assistant! =)

my dad is cleaning out grandpa's room

it hurts to see and hear wat he's doing. i wish i could tell my dad to stop lor.

grandpa's coin collection, old photos of my dad n my auntie when they were a kid, e undecipherable little notes grandpa had all over e room... haiz~

it still hurts to realised tat a member is permanently absent in e house, there's no one to say goodbye to b4 i go to work every morning, n i cant hear his voice nor his laughter anymore...

i dont understand, e last time i saw him at e hospital, he was still cracking jokes. but e nx day, he's gone.

this is such an unprecedented experience to me, i din expect tat it would hurt this much.

but oh well, ultimately, life still goes on huh.

i tot i took a photo with him this cny....

yuan lai it was last cny. 1.5yrs ago.

he looked so much better then~

another person in e family left

our indo maid of 11 days, we juz 'retrenched' her.

she fits into our family v well, been a great help during e wake. she likes our family e 2nd day she's here, n was crying when she said goodbye to us b4 she left.

even my grandpa liked her, maid said grandpa smiled to her, when i havent seen grandpa smile for so long. sigh~



did shifu say my life will get better by lunar june or after lunar june??

真的是够了...... wat a year~

i feel your pain

during early onset, u had to sit beside grandpa thru e nite to watch after him because u were so worried,
i feel your pain.

when his illness worsened, grandpa took off his prized rosary n flung it away in front of u in a moment of exasperation,
i feel your pain.

when u signed e Do Not Resuscitate form because u knew grandpa wld not want to live on life support,
i feel your pain.

having to transfer grandpa frm A class ward to C class ward because u think that u cannot afford it,
i feel your pain.

because we do not have sufficient resources at home to look after grandpa hence we had to send him to live with my well-to-do auntie instead,
i feel your pain.

having to witness wat an arduous task it is for every breath tat grandpa takes during e last days of his life,
i feel your pain.

making futile attempts to cure the bruises caused by needles inserted into grandpa's arms by rubbing ointment,
i feel your pain.

noticing how grandpa is losing weight at an accelerating speed,
i feel your pain.

not being able to arrive in time before grandpa stopped breathing,
i feel your pain.

e insurmountable grief when u said ur final goodbye to grandpa before e casket is closed,
i feel your pain.

having to see grandpa's personal belongings being burned into ashes along with e paper house for his afterlife as part of e rituals,
i feel your pain.

putting ur hand on e glass pane of e casket car while walking grandpa on his last journey frm home,
i feel your pain.

watching how grandpa's casket is being cremated frm e viewing gallery,
i feel your pain.

collecting your 89-year-old father's remains n to realise tat all tats left of him are juz brittle ashes,
i feel your pain.

i feel your pain, papa, even tho i didnt tell u.









shifu commented tat life is indeed fragile, after u've passed on, all u've become is a pile of ashes tat can be crushed easily to fit into e urn. how true~

so this is how it feels like

for 25yrs of my life, this is e 1st time i ever lost a kin.

it is realli quite painful.

13th Jul 2009 is my 1st day of work

n also my grandpa's last day on earth.


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Dear Grandpa,

Though you and I dont speak the same language, but you have been nothing but welcoming to me when I 1st joined the family. Thank you so much for being so understanding. I wont forget the times we shared as a family.

Rest in peace. We love u~

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Thank u to those who showed concern thus far, realli appreciate it.

today is my 1st day of work

wish me luck! =)

love smsed me to say: 'enjoy e start of a gd life'. i love e sound of tat. hehe~

8 jul 2009 is mz n lj's bdae....

n also my last day in PwC. been having quite abit of fun chit chatting with my runnies on my last wk, tendered n untendered mood is realli different, peak n off peak mood oso quite different.

din manage to complete clearance on 8/7/09 wed cuz i din bring my bloody MCs, hafta go back again on fri to submit b4 HR'll release my last paycheck. sibeh cat towards resignees. haiz.

i nearly got a shock of my life when i went HR to look at e calculation of my last paycheck n saw tat for 1-8jul im given SA1 pay when it shd have been SA2 pay (normally promotion is wef 1 jul), tot i wasnt being promoted to SA2 n my coaching manager din warn me beforehand...

my performance is okay, it's juz tat i tendered b4 1 jul hence they din bother to promote me. bah~

anyways, here are e parting photos i took with my (ex) colleagues across a span of 3 days...

my coaching manager! taught me alot of things, n always v tolerant of me, v grateful towards him. i feel like a giant beside him tho. oops~

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n kaiyuen is like a giant beside me. haha~ a veri gd person to talk to, feel more like a peer than a jr.

my pretty senior (who's realli pretty in person), she hates it whenever i call her zhenjun jiejie~~

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fellow runmate david who 'drove' me to dinner on our OT days. oh n he treated me to dinner as farewell gift, so nice of him.

mr 宅男 aka my photographer for e day. pls set me up with ur chio a2 lahz. muahahaha~

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it's always hard for me to take a decent photo with lionel. i tink e problem lies with him. lol~

together these 3 guys represent 75% of e remaining guys in my run. quite pathetic hor.

my better twin! i love her! we always stick to each other during CG outings. gonna miss her~~

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oh she forgot to give me e botanic garden photos. oh well.

newly-recruited pee buddy esther. we like to talk to each other with e 'cubicle wall' in betw us.

huixian n cindy, e whole lot of us gals go shoe shopping during lunch occasionally. hehe.

i made my runmates go to e famous yong tau fu stall near PwC on my last day. but e yong tau fu wasnt featured in e photo.... -_-

followed by e usual ya kun la kopi. wonder if my new job allows me to have long lunches~~

my PwC staff pass. thx lionel for taking tis 'artistic' shot. i muz rem to go buy 4d on my staff code tis wk!

auditoress bunny chan at work on her last day. actually tats not even my seat, juz posing nia. haha~

tis is my workstation. i miss tat t61, my old personal fujitsu laptop is sibehhhh slowwwww~~~

farewell lunches/dinners coming up nx!

9th! (improved version)

hello folks,

i'm the 9th to resign in e run! sorry, the top 10 leavers spots are all taken, maybe the rest of u can vie for the last 10 leavers instead. lol.

once i knew i've got the job, i'm already feeling she bu de, im so gonna miss all the
- talking cok in office,
- long lunches n shoe shopping,
- ya kun la kopis,
- parties at e pantry,
- david's 'car' and 'shaver' (LOL),
- e 'sophisticated' gg-back-to-work-after-dinner days,
- e lionel-always-asking-me-to-punch-his-nonexistent-biceps sessions,
- e synchronised bladders with my better twin n upgraded-frm-colleague-to-friend esther,
- asking huixian for restaurant city pointers,
- laughing at hanmeng for being a zhai nan 宅男,
- marvelling at e kai sisters' veri elaborate costumes at DnD,
- apollo choc wafers frm e pantry (hopefully my new office's pantry is even better),
- sitting beside my love in office n seeing her almost everyday (tho she left PwC b4 me),
- having bfast at lijun's fav toastbox with e sisterhood,
blahblah... add more if i tot of more laters.

but then i started thinking of how much more shit will befall on me in ecoming yr, i felt relieved tat i've tendered. e coming yr will be much tougher, so gd luck to e rest of u lah. hehe.

when u'r in office and in the mood for lunch with an ex-colleague (see how many can be upgraded to friends, lol), just gimme a buzz at 9XXX-XXXX or email/msn ______ (but i doubt i'll be able to check msn mail at work, will update u with my work address later on).

i'll be at Singapore Land Tower, starting nx mon.

love u ppl! all e best wor~
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Qian Hui CHAN / Senior Associate / PricewaterhouseCoopers

gossip girl is getting ridiculous

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i love season 1, but season 2 is juz too ridiculous, i keep getting duh-ed by their veri fickle n brief r/s every episode....

serena hooked up with:

nate

dan

geeky artist

dan

hot southern guy

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dan hooked up with:

serena

new girl in sch

serena

serena's teacher

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blair hooked up with:

chuck

some scottish duke

chuck

nate

chuck

chuck hooked up with:

blair

random girl

blair

hot duhry secret society girl

blair

vanessa

blair

random girl

random girl

blair

best is nate, he hooked up with almost all e female characters in e series tis season:

serena

blair's duke bf's stepmother

vanessa

jenny

vanessa

blair

vanessa

gosh, enough alr! all american dramas tend to do tis, all characters muz get involve with each other, it's like permutation n combination. argh~

nonetheless, i still completed e whole season cuz i simply cant get my eyes off....

nate! omg he is super duper cute!

serena's cleavage. there's alot of it in season 2.

their fashion. they all look so gd!

btw, i have tis exact same dress!

in white n black, frm Bysi sale ages ago. hehe~

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i hope 3rd season is less ridiculous.

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