Loopie - Joop

got my letter last night. in monetary terms it was better than i'd expected. i guess i brought it upon myself thru my wilful ways. switching divs was such a relief then, but now, i think i've derailed my prospects. what to do? made that decision, i have to live with it. woohoo... had a prep talk from my colleague after. she meant well, but i wasn't in the mood to listen. it's now really up to me. should i actively suss out projects to do? to do the monkey business of show and tell to bosses? i obviously have no projects this year, so how to show and tell? do i really want to?

Just returned from my colleague/long-time-friend's wedding at marriot. she looked very pretty, all grown up in her wedding gowns... saw so many of those ppl whom i'd worked with too.. haha they're the same happy bunch. sad to say, dinner at wedding dinners are seldom good. the best i've had so far was at sheraton towers. tonight's dishes were a little below par. looking forward to planning for our own wedding. should be pretty simple. prob a long trained gown for the wedding rite, then a shorter gown for the reception. we're not planning a chinese dinner, so 100 times less hassle. just need:- photographer/videographer caterer gowns/suit make-up and hair That's it. that's all. shouldn't be that difficult right? of course will need some help ushering and coordinating the thingie. but not that bad right? was looking at some of the photographers. avenue 8 ( www.avenue8.com.sg ) seems the most promising. will check that out soon. was thinki...

Went bonkas when i heard that the consultant at denticare wanted to charge me $500 per bottom wisdom tooth and up to $100 per upper tooth. yikes! sounded damn painful even before the process of extraction had begun. didn't buy the argument that a) he's that good and b) bottom teeth are very hard to extract. in any case did not hear of ppl paying through their noses for dental surgery. so made some calls, hao-e made some as well. and found that in order to qualify for subsidies, i had to get a referral from the polyclinic, then make my way to natl dental care at outram park to see the dentist/surgeon there. the costs would not add up to a thousand and after medisave subsidies i should pay only less than $300. sounds good to me. except that now i have to queue up at the polyclinic at bedok, prob spend half a day there to see a doctor just to get a referral letter from him/her. sighs.

Slept from 10pm last night, after nodding off during the movie "Qian Ji Bian" (some hong kong show that had ppl kicking vampires' butts). it was supposed to be a nice movie. but then, i was too too tired. damn. will watch it again tonight. awoke at 2am to switch off the telly and put chewy back in her cage. she's so endearing nowadays. jumping onto our laps and snuggling between us. hope she stays this way for a long time. i think we'll be very sad if we lose her. am reading this book called "Anyone out there?" by Marian Keyes. she's my fav author. she's irish and very funny. i'm at the low point in the story now, where the protaganist is trying to come to terms with losing her hubby/soul-mate. so it's not so funny now. i've read most of her books, they're not like the shopaholic series (which i was crazy about a few years back). not bimbotic, more neurotic. all the same, i was disturbed by this story, cos i can...

It's official, my 4 very unwise teeth are to be axed. gulp! now for the timing. when shall i do it? april? or may? better book my holiday first. then decide on a date like 2-3 weeks after. how's that?

Much Ado about Nothing... that was all of today. i'm a paper churning machine. i write for a living. ppl depend on what i write. therefore i'm a writer. right? yah right

i'm blogging from home... cos of cramps . took the morning off, now thinks mornings are so short... looks like i'm going back to work again soon. sigh.. will be off to the dentist (the dreaded one) later at 11.00am for an x-ray. see how many unwise teeth i really hv... projected arr time: 12 nn. opg finish at: 12.30 pm. back to office for quick bite and off to BT again. sigh... need a break. i'm going back to sleep

i've always wondered, why can't the work-week be 2 days and weekends last 5 days? that would be so great. nowadays weekends are so precious, and they always end so soon. who decided that we needed to work for 5 days a week. that is a painful ordeal and it repeats itself every week. sigh...

Just came back from the party at east coast park. so disappointing, nothing much to look at. purchased a harness for chewy, it's pink and red. very girly, just what i wanted to get to get for her. now hopefully, she won't choke on her collar so much. hee.. there were ppl giving up free doggie cakes too, which i took some. chewy liked it, it's pandan sponge cake (i think). and there's a free cookie too. other than that, nothing much. there was a long queue to redeem stuff from the ceasar's stall, but i couldn't be bothered to line up. the redeemable things were really quite good, got one large dog bag and towels, etc... ppl kept shoving pamphlets at me, which i couldn't refuse but i dumped them soon after. why would i need those? pro plan, pro former, eukanuba, whatever. the sci diet thing i've been feeding chewy is fine, so why change? i left soon after cos my dog was too young, and too fragile. the rest of the male horny dogs couldn't ...

Another week of raised voices, scolding contractors, chiding tenants and writing papers. Consoling colleagues, comforting oneself, and armouring up for the next slew of comments from the boss. It's finally the weekend! drearily drag myself up this morning, let out the dog and finishing up some household chores i'd chosent to ignore for a few days.. if you're wondering why my entry on a weekend is so sombre, well, cos i'm gonna see the dentist in one half hours... oh no... remember i was talking bout the weird tooth poking out of the front of my gum?? yeps the dentist will tell me whether i need surgery or not... the moment of truth. argh!!! to tell you the truth, i'm utterly petrified by the thought of me watching someone cutting open my gum, crushing my tooth and jerking the pieces out with blood spurting all over... and then i'll look like a pighead... no no no.... i don't want to be awake during the process. pls give me a GA. and ward me if you want. i ju...

I have a weird tooth growing out of the side of my gum!!! HELP! Apparently my wisdom tooth is not so wise afterall. it's growing in between the front wall of my gum between the last 2 molars. oh no... i shall hv to see a dentist to assess the damage. surgery?? gulp?!?!

Does the temperature of the surroundings reflect the warmness of the ppl within that environment? If it did, then we'll all be ice-cold heartless creatures who have no warmth whatsoever. Turn the heater on man, we are turning into ice men here. the airconditioning is so fickle, sometimes it can be just comfortable, but today it's turned against us. its a ploy to get us to freeze to death here...

ALRIGHT!! It's past the mid-week, so it's two days left to the weekend. haha! give yourselves a pat on the back! cos it seems we'll make it there afterall! i know i know. i'm exaggerating, but seriously, it's such a relief to be able to get through everyday. i like wednesdays. don't you? planning to go east coast this sunday for the party by the beach for dogs. got chewy ready last night by dotting her head with frontline (something against ticj and fleas). in the end she had a funky spiked hairdo. it was hilarious. i was laughing at her, but she just looked at me innocently, in a questioning sorta way that said "??" hao-e isn't back yet. i shall have to pluck him from the arcade soon.

Me was so sleepy today, all because of the coffee i took during yesterday afternoon's meeting. sigh... all because they didn't have milo. shouldn't hv done that, cos i was having such restless sleep last night. i couldn't fall into a deep slumber, i was practically half conscious the whole day. felt like dying the whole day...

Our dear chewy will be going for her surgery on 31 Mar. Scary .. she's still so tiny. but i guess it's best for her to do it soon, so that she can be safe from the horny male dogs around her. hao-e and i both agree that its necessary. wonder if she could voice an opinion, what would she say? punished chewy last night for chewy the roller caps of hao-e's study chair, and hao-e's tommy denim bag. bad dog! slapped her on the butt and locked her in her cage for the rest of the night. she didn't whine till this morning. so i suppose she knows mummy's angry with her. been feeding her oily food (flaxseed oil + evening primrose oil) since monday. hopefully her coat will be nicer and she won't shed as much. hope she knows how much we love her.

This is my 3rd post today!! haha Well, that's because the first 2 were about yesterday. this one's for today. Twas a normal sunday morning, sleeping in, trying to ignore chewy's repeated cries for breakfast till 9.15am... no, we aren't bad parents, just rather slack and lazy. walked chewy to the police station which is i duuno, 1 km away? and they refused to let her in. now i know how the pet owners feel, you get shut out of everything indoors except for your house and the pet stores! REALLY! like my dearest chewy who's trained to pee and poo at the right spot, will dirty their floors! she wouldn't even do it on grass! STUPID ASSES ! Anyway, this area is full of ppl who don't like dogs, so i won't even bother hurling abuses at them. So this is supposed to be a nice entry... so here goes... we brought chewy to pet movers in the afternoon, to have a look at the obedience classes. i'd been persuaded that my dog which is of an intelligent breed should be...

We had our ROE yesterday afternoon at St Joseph's Upper Bt Timah. it was so damn far that church, next to Assumption Eng School... as expected. we got there late, my godmother as well, so we had to squeeze into the pews with some kids who ended up having no seats... oops! sorry!! so anyways, the rite was fairly short, at least shorter than i had expected. there was this mini procession of flags (gosh, didn't know that we had an RCIA flag?!?) and presentation of a book that contained the names of elects and candidates (later found out that candidates are ppl from previous journeys who didn't get baptised, why the difference in names? i dunno...). archbishop chia was there with his staff and hat. his hat had two tails! and all the priests were there. the north and western churches were all there and holy spirt church had the largest number of elects and candidates, bout 80+ of them. we had 50+. not far behind. we didn't have a uniform (thank God) that would have been t...

Last night, we ventured to this upper east coast rd house to look for a lady who can read ppl's lives on a stack of cards with creepy pictures. skeptical though we were, some of the things she mentioned were stangely accurate. well, the skeptic was amazed a little... she's this catholic lady. wow her house has so many pictures, our lady of perpetual succour, jesus christ, crucifix, so many of those, yet she has a buddha facing the tv and a lot of triangular wooden things on the wall. do they mean the "trinity"? anyways, mua mother-in-law got what she wanted and we left after giving her a big angpow.

this is a day when i hv to be at the office by 5.45am, so i got up at 5.05am after pressing the alarm off once (i'm so proud of myself here...) and went for a shower. didn't realise the water was too cold till midway thru and now i hv a backache. ah well... had breakfast with fren at macs after "morning duty" and shopping for facial cleanser (bought one half off!! good deal!!) and tried to get things done, despite numerous disruptions forcing me to give up promptly at 1pm when the whole gang went for lunch at sakae. i had my protein fix of maguro natoo (jap fermented beans with raw tuna, yummy!!) subsequently wanted to visit the dentist but dentist didn't like me much and kicked my ass out of the clinic (what ethics are they teaching the dentists nowadays?). so went to auntie looking perfect beauty for a facial. boy, the massage is quite good. shoulders relaxed a bit and nose is very red... she kept telling me this was to soothe and calm skin, that was to cool and...

That bloke which shares the same house gave me a budget of $500 for a holiday for the both of us!! That cheapskate! Flipped through the classifieds in search of the elusive cheapo holiday. Likely destinations include: Batam Bintan Desaru Sigh... where can we go? Last choice go to Genting to enjoy a bit of the nice weather i guess?

Chewbacca Lim Quiyi She's my favourite girl, even though she's sometimes dirty and smelly, and drops fur all over. Her fav food is Science Diet's Lamb and Rice small bites for puppies. She gobbles them all up in less than five mins. Chewy loves to run around the house chewing things.. once she nearly killed herself when she set her eyes and mouth on a cable. The one in a white t-shirt holding her is of course me. Don't i look like some freak with a huge doggie face??