2015 Week 2 review

2015-01-12 Monday
Morning I was pretty sure that I would be on time. 但是人算還不如天算, that damn NSF was so fast and took the previous train lor. So I got to wait for the next train, but I knew I wouldn’t be late liao.

Went to the meeting place to collect logs since Barry won’t take a long time there. Then came back. Lunch with JM, Joa, GD and Barry at Aperia. Coz I was uploading stuff for colleagues in Spain to collect, left a bit more so I told them that give me a while more and then I would go down a bit later. Actually don’t go with them I’m also okay one. Why? Read on…The stall didn't make the exact dry ban mian I wanted. Very soupy and they add 醬青 instead of 醬油. It’s destroying that food leh!

Then went Old Town to get coffee. All bough their after-lunch, only me and GD didn't get, with GD said want follow me wor. Aigoo, I asked (in a jokingly manner) why follow me I want to be unique leh. Then kena scolded bastard by him. T.T

Then almost reaching office, at around those condos there near office, suddenly he said 'will rain today, according to the forecast'. Then I said he's trying to entertain us. I don’t think that’s offensive or what, it’s really my opinion and reasonable to say that because the car was so quiet so he took the effort to talk. Out of nowhere, he said ‘Fuck you Benjamin!' as if he don't give a damn like that. Then JM still say ‘good one GD’... Did I say anything wrong? It's so boring inside the car that I also trying to entertain myself mah. Next time I just anti-social avoid all lunch out together la, stay in office do my work then go home earlier also good for me when I had enough laughter today! Keke, read on...

Whole afternoon I just entertained Barry and Joa 就夠我忙了. Ya I was ignoring GD ds… Aigoo, who asked him so hostile towards me batiuo. I was eating the 香餅 mah then it created a lot of mess that’s why I put a piece of paper below to hold all the crumbs. Then I told Barry that state of Perak is famous for these 香餅. So Darryll said his hometown is Taiping, so Barry said 他太平你和平 and my nickname now becomes 和平富特大代 or in short form called peace boss… Zzz… 弄到我哭笑不得。

That Reena don’t know today is eat wrong medicine or what, said the moment she sees me she wanted to laugh. Am I so laughter-inducing, funny or easy to bully? 為什麼每個人看到我都要笑或者欺負我的？ Told her my new elongated nickname she also laughing away…

Left office at 6.40 pm. Saggy should have stayed at the bus stop in front to wait for 154. It just whizzed in front of me as I tried to cross the arguably the most complicated traffic junction in Singapore. Luckily 151 came and I took the MRT from Botanic Garden home. Jin fast ds!!!

Had some interesting chat with Bay over Skype and hearty chats over WhatsApp. Ok I shall first talk about the Skype with Bay one. He came over and mentioned 五月天 乾杯. Told him that I picked and sang this song before in KTV, not an easy song. Precisely this was what Bay trying to say - don't see it’s such a catchy yet meaningful song - but when you want to sing it out in KTV. The numerous and sudden changeover from 高音 to 低音 and vice versa makes it perhaps even more difficult than say their DNA or 夜訪吸血鬼 wor!

And then those KTV goers are complaining about this song:

一首歌里面一会儿超低一会儿超高的
低的唱不下去，高的唱不上去，谁唱谁悲剧╮(╯_╰)╭

陈信宏你写干杯是想怎样！！！！！词不带重复就不说了，光主歌就横跨两个八度啊！！！！！加副歌再加半个八度，加尾声整三个八度啊！！！！！！！ 音域不够宽哪个调都唱不完整啊！！！！想在中间换调都没机会的啊！！！！！！ 又不舍得不背下来！！！！他写这歌的词曲都是虐人虐己来的

一开始“如果说要我选出代表青春那个画面”这一段不要放太多气，含住。后面以此类推，高潮部分要大吸气不然真会憋死！有时候气不足了可以配合肢体动作来续气。

Yes, TOTALLY AGREE! At the very start, cannot let go almost all of your breath otherwise will be very difficult or almost dying towards the end. The difficulty is also contributed by the rap parts.

I bet 阿信 also knows that he can’t do a absolute increase of the pitch throughout the rap part. So after the first verse of the rap, he actually lower his key and start all over again at the second verse and this rises towards the chorus.

Then towards the end of the chorus, 阿信 suddenly drops his pitch to low tone and finished off the last 2 lines. 哇佬，這邊真的會要我命咧！And then coming to the end of the song also can see some sudden surge or drop in the pitch and this is what makes the song a challenging one to tackle during karaoke sessions with friends lor. Even Bay whom I think has a better range than me and has tackled 五月天 夜訪吸血鬼 numerous times liao also find it difficult.

Told Bay that next time go karaoke can pick this song. Improve the reading speed and also train to widen our vocal range. Generally, a person has 2 ranges - high and low tones. I think a good singer is able to have these 2 ranges overlap each other so that it’s effortless when switching the vocal mode to sing, not only mention that his 氣 must be very sufficient if not can die halfway through the song.

The next point is the hearty chats over at WhatsApp. explodingbelly very bx and bitchy and chatty over WhatsApp lor. Then PG saw zippyzipeng and stormscape uploaded photos at AEIOU cafe at almost the same time, possible instameet?!! Omo!!!! Then he went to tell explodingbelly about this, explodingbelly went ‘jelly’ over it aigoo...

Nicholas, PG and I had some of the most hearty laughers to date lo, all thanks to explodingbelly. WQBX ds...

Bay posted a HWZ link where the TS posted a picture of those internet banking dongles and asked if there are batteries operated or uses solar power. Then got one forumers his reply quite cute:
it draws its power from your body...everytime after u use it..u don't feel weak meh?

2015-01-13 Tuesday

Saw someone a bit familiar face from NTU last time. Mech Eng one?
We can use the electric car?!

Morning as usual left house to walk to Lakeside MRT. When I almost reaching the traffic junction - suddenly stomach pain. The thought of able to drive to work prompted me to go back home to settle it. Luckily 98 came just in time so I took bus home lo. Bo bian.

Had breakfast instead while waiting for sis to get ready. Aiyo, the rate she preparing for the day - 不遲到才怪…… Said she would be ready by 7.30 am but almost 7.45 am liao still not ready. Zzz... Dropped her at the bus stop near to MRT, but it was farther than I thought... And then I took Dunearn Road-Lornie Road-Upp Aljunied Road to work. Horrible jam. I just told myself I'm not going to get a car just to go work. It's just too time consuming le. Imagine the time I could save and do other things, e.g. play with phone or sleep. Joa was right about taking public transport, no wonder her car has been sold.

What a close shave at the meeting! Phew~ Then went to the hawker centre behind office to have Pad Thai. 我都覺得不好意思的說。Might as well ask them to go on their own. Joa was emailing the Taiwan hotel people. Aiyo, 幾個中文字都不會打的說……還要WK教。我熱心要助人，結果被GD講坐下來快快吃完它 =.= 為什麼他要在那邊？！Then he still dare to say 'Good' when I knocked my head on WK's car while getting in it. Zzz...

Nothing much happened. At 4.15 pm, the Taobao stuff arrived at my house! Yay! Sis also quite excited. Then suddenly JY appeared at the office when I was about to go home! Passed her the two postcards, one for her one for SG ds. Keke... Then went home le, traffic still not too bad, at least it's moving all the way.

Quite satisfied with the purchase except for the electrical storage box - too small for my extension cord. 而且不便宜咧！ Maybe I'll be better off if I get those boxes from Daiso and modify them lo. In the end only used one of them, the other got to give to mum and see what she is going to do with it.

有一點後悔買這個

因為家裡沒有一個 extension plug socket 裝得下！

Xiaomi LED light was so much brighter than I expected! The yellowish light is good on the ambience! Overall, xiaomi's products are high in quality. I very like it!

Was super surprised to see the brand of the iPhone 4 glass protector. Lol... It's the same as the one I bought for Redmi Note baituo.

晨光的筆

好寫又便宜！

2015-01-14 Wednesday
早上搭地鐵時，聽到 933 DJ 在說日本民眾什麼事情，就算是一些瑣碎的，都打電話給警察。這包括手機打不開，自動販賣機找錯零錢，甚至公廁沒衛生紙！他們也太誇張了吧？！

Today traffic was rather smooth. Rather take public transport to work lo. The only gripe I have is when going home, driving is really much faster!

Reached office as usual. Joa said got train fault at Chinese Garden and the crowds overwhelming the platform. Asked me to go buy sandwich for her lol. So me and Barry went to the cafeteria downstairs to buy lo. Sis also complaining that the crowd at JE was horrible - I don't really what happened.

Raymond was in office, GD came back for a short while. Went out with Barry and Joa to Toa Payoh for lunch. The 'Taiwanese' small eatery shop serves food at some decent price I think not bad ds. But I can't finish the fish fillet rice set ($6). 多到鬼醬！
 

 魚柳飯套餐

第一次來這裡吃

考量到有冷氣設備而且分量很足

$6 不會說很貴

我覺得很值得喔！

Went back office, sent some emails before I went out to client office for meeting.

*This week a lot of meetings leh quite sudden and unexpectedly ds*

The meeting was damn long. Went home after that as it was 7 pm liao. Don't even want to go back office le. Joa and her ahlao 也太可愛了吧？I'm only messenger hor, so don't bully me leh!

Saw the news on the train fault happened this morning liao.

SINGAPORE - A Wednesday morning slowdown on MRT train service on the East-West line was caused by a door fault, said SMRT.

In response to queries, SMRT said technicians retrieved an earring and two beads that caused the door to jam at 8am on an east-bound train travelling from Joo Koon to Dover.

It added that trains travelled at slower speeds, and that passengers at Chinese Garden MRT station were asked to alight and told to board two additionally deployed trains instead.

Earlier, commuters had vented their frustration on social media, with a photo making the rounds purportedly showing a screen announcing an additional 10 minutes of travelling time between Joo Koon and Clementi stations on the East-West Line towards Pasir Ris. Others tweeted pictures of long queues at MRT stations. SMRT did not issue any reaction on its Facebook or Twitter pages.

Like that also can ah?

Unbox the Xiaomi box. Everything looks good - I like how portable devices can transmit whatever on the display onto the TV and also navigation is so much easier than before. But can't access to China TV shows, which means I had to look into how to enable that to take advantage of the Xiaomi box to the fullest!

盒子的盒子的外觀沒有什麼說明

盒子內容很簡單：

有機子、充電器、導線、說明書

充電器

基本上這是一個 5V/2A 規格的充電器

應該跟手機旅充是一樣的吧？

2015-01-15 Thursday
Left house at 6.55 am, reached office at 7.30 am. Heng ERP not opened yet.

First to reach office, even the lights are off. Swtiched on them. Malay AJM reached 10-15 mins later. GD reached about 8 am. Joa and Barry cursing at me because I drove today and the traffic was super bad.

YS said Mrs Siow talked to him saying she misses us! Wow what a great news for today. She's now an adjunct maths teacher at Hua Yi. 十年了真的超感嘆的。

Lunch at some kopitiam beside Toa Payoh Courts. Ban Mian $3.50 very worth! Joa said should have gone to McDonald's to get Sally. Planned tomorrow to get it. I ALSO WANT!

除了 office 的板麵

這裡的板麵也不錯吃

而且吃到死的那一種

因為分量太多了！

On our way back, Barry kept saying things which actually pointing towards he's leaving soon. E.g. he say still got 2 days then 2 days is very precious 要好好用, split into 4 times with 0.5 day each. I highly suspect it is used for going interviews. The whole morning I think he also not in the mood of working. Don't know what was he doing. A few days ago, when I asked him question, he was scrolling up and down repeatedly, as if not listening to me like that. Even Joa also got notice ds.

The thing is that I agreed to what Joa said. At one point I was irritated by her that I said I'm a cat and is called copycat. This is called the copy cat incident.

Then came back office, Joa and Barry purposely said I changed name called copycat. Zzz... Then Raymond kaypoh also joined in. Don't know what he said la, he sat so far away also can hear. Aigoo... Lastly when JM was leaving the office to site, Joa told her to say goodbye Mr. Copycat which she did! Ssf all the colleagues. This week the colleagues are very weird and I can't explain their behaviour ds.

Then at the teabreak, I was so dumb to ask that question, then big boss said I replace the outgoing coordinator baituo. Then Joa had another round of laughs. Geez...

Left office at 6.50 pm, actually is 7 pm. Traffic super smooth today, much smoother than the one on Tuesday. Reached home 7.30 pm.

PG afternoon WhatsApped over and asked to call to bitch over explodingbelly. So at 9 pm, I called PG and some super hearty laughters over explodingbelly.

Basically, this was what he mentioned over the phone, in summary form:

PG OT, just reached home at 9.20 pm. The first thing he said was explodingbelly very bx. There was a food tasting which had ended a few days ago, explodingbelly asked PG why he have invitation and why she don’t have. Then she said 跟 zippyzipeng 很不爽 wor… Zippy got giveaway, within 1 min PG saw it and then tell explodingbelly. But explodingbelly said no need to compete with the rest because zippyzipeng will treat her.

Moving on, yesterday PG was WhatsApping explodingbelly when the topic was on riding bicycle. explodingbelly wants to ride couple bike with zippyzipeng, then zippyzipeng sits in front, explodingbelly sits behind. A super hilarious conversation followed:

PG: Do I see you at ECP now?!

explodingbelly: Ya, I am! One of the tyres punctured. Now pushing the bike with zippyzipeng sitting on the bike.

PG: Are you kidding me? (referring to punctured tyre)

explodingbelly: Ya, I’m sitting on his lap now.

Omo! That’s quite scandalous leh! Tsk tsk tsk… PG totally went meltdown ds!

The topic is now on Chabuton food tasting event. When asked why not there, explodingbelly asked back why PG didn’t go. But PG replied that because he was not invited and explodingbelly should go because zippyzipeng got go.

Since explodingbelly said she didn’t get invited to food tasting events, PG told storm to come up with an idea where both of them would lure explodingbelly to a restaurant called ‘拉鍊’ selling 拉麵 and located at Northpoint because that’s where zippyzipeng lives. LMAO! This idea very bx.

2015-01-16 Friday
Today is the last day I'm able to drive to work. Traffic was a bit worse than yesterday but still I was able to siam the ERP! Xyy!!!

Again, I was the first to reach office, the tranquility of it really makes it conductive to work.

Went McDonald's at Toa Payoh Safra to have lunch and get Sally! Had the prosperity chicken burger ($8.90). Still prefer McChicken or McSpicy. Then Joa claimed she swapped my burger and hers (beef) and asked if the one I ate is beef or not. 哇佬，我吃雞肉那麼多年了還吃不出是肌雞肉嗎？And she said she opened up the box and swapped the burger, it's so obvious that I can't possibly didn't see it what.

Then I said they all very disturbing over at Communicator. So Barry came back with the replies:

1. Off PC.
2. Jump on PC for 15 mins (optional).
3. Brew TWG tea.
4. Enjoy communicator free days.
5. May be this is the last time we talk through Communicator.

Joa still said in caps: NICE ONE!

Zzz... 完全給他們炸掉去。

Left office at 6.30 pm after some small chats with Alb. Sent Joa home. I was a bit nervous that I steered the car out of the parking lot a tad early and it went mount kerb. Just a very slight mount kerb la.

Reached home only 7.30 am only ds! Yang! Watched a full episode of Hello Counselor while enjoying my fried noodles dinner.