Wednesday, October 31, 2007

More NYC photos

Shopping at Woodbury Common Premium Outlet, one of the big factory outlets. We took an hour's bus ride to the place and another 1.5 hours back.



Clear blue skies (ok, with some drifting clouds) and the green hills behind. WW & his sis, WY.

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Subway in NYC
World Trade Centre used to be behind.
Chinatown in NYC. Good (by NYC standards) Chinese food and si mu nai chai (hong kong milk tea)!
Italian Street in Chinatown. As the name suggests, there are Italian restaurants and shops along this street. Together with some Italians, probably.
Park in Chinatown
Court, along the way from Chinatown to Wall St.

Wall St.
That's NYSE behind me! Wonder if it looks like SGX in there?
The ferry to Statue of Liberty. No, we didn't make the trip there, as you know, we don't like crowds (excuse, haha).

Friday, October 26, 2007

Things do not work when you need them most!

Like how there was a massive jam along ECP this morning when I needed to attend a 9am meeting and couldn’t be late. As a result, my usual 845am bus fetched me to office only at 905am. Good thing I wasn’t the latest and I didn’t quite care.

I like my new attitude to work. In fact, it makes things more efficient!

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Been a while!

Haven’t been updating in a long while! It’s either I lacked the inspiration or there wasn’t sufficient time.

In between, I’ve been to the States, specifically New York City. Explored a little of Ontario – Niagara Falls as well as Washington D.C. Although no where is better than home, the break from the work and more generally, the routines of life, was good. Good till a point where I’m starting to feel nothing is more important in life than life itself. Work is secondary to the need to fulfill own needs and wants. Thus, for the past two days I have been going back slightly earlier than my usual timing, wanting to do more things of my own interest. But alas, I found myself dozing off at 10+pm almost straight after dinner.

A break away from your familiarities does give you new insights. This morning while walking down the CBD from MAS to my office building, I noticed the fast-paced white-collared workers beside me, breezing through the crowds, always on a rush. I wasn’t happy that another lady wanted to cut into my path from behind and stepped up my pace to outdo her. That’s it in this world, everything’s competitive and fast-paced.

These days I’m still considering the thing I’ve been thinking about before my holiday. Should I pursue the Masters degree, and take it full-time? Recently there have been more opportunities surfaced for a possible alternate in career that gave me more considerations, which is a good thing. But then at the end of the day, when can I start living my dream?

Lamenting aside, during the NYC trip, we – WW, his mama, his sis and I – were with WW’s sis and new-born baby. She’s a cute little thing aka xiao bu dian who seems good-natured (at least to us; to her mama we don’t know) and has a pair of sparkling round eyes. She has the privilege of getting the green card and perhaps, the access to a more liberalized world. I wouldn’t mind working in the US, but given the limited entertainment options (museums, musicals and shopping – ok, maybe shopping aside), I prefer living in Sweet O’Singapore.

More photos to come. Perhaps tonight!

Monday, October 01, 2007

GardenAsia Oktoberfest with fellow young peers

Tian & I with the rest of young ones from my company at GardenAsia, a rather ulu nursery along Neo Tiew Crescent. Luckily we had someone sent us there.
Cheers to our beer samplers. These include beer from Paulaner's, Brewerkz, Pumproom and Archipelago
With the rest - Bain, Fang Rui, Lorraine, Sharon & Jennifer
Sharon & Lorraine
All having fun!

Random photos

Me @ Kopitiam. Can't recall where.
Cutting WW's white hair while he snapped a photo in the wardrobe's mirror
Snip!
WW's new house's balcony, with the evening sun
The bar counter
Me at the balcony
Teabreak with WW at Serangoon Garden food centre
Becoming our favourite weekend hangout place for teh & afternoon snacks