Mooncakes

A late post on mooncakes because I didn't have the time to upload the photos to my computer. The festival was on 25 September 2007.

Lao gong bought Shangri La white lotus with double yolks mooncakes for my parents on last Saturday as I love to eat their mooncakes and my mum only told me to buy baked mooncakes and she even reminded me to buy with double egg yolks. Initially she told me to buy mooncakes with four egg yolks but where to buy it and that was loaded with high cholesterol!

It's so sinful to eat mooncakes but the crust by Shangri La is extremely thin and the white lotus is smooth and not so sweet as my parents and I do not have a sweet tooth. Some mooncakes will make my throat feel uncomfortable but not Shangri La.

Someone had given my office a box of Hilton mooncakes on Monday. The box resembled a round moon when it is opened. It's exquisite! And there are two cylinders of tea leaves in the box just in case you feel "jelat" after eating too much mooncakes. My sister did not seem to like Hilton mooncakes as she felt that it was slightly drier than Shangri La. She felt that both mooncakes from Shangri La and Hilton are not sweet enough but white lotus is not meant to be sweet.

One of the mooncake was missing as my colleague took one away before I managed to take a photograph with my hp. Can you see the two round cylinders on top? That is tea. One is Jamine Tea and another is Tie Kuan Yin.

Another company gave Raffles the Plaza but was soon grabbed by greedy colleagues including me before I managed to take a picture.

I'm going to grow fatter and fatter as my hands and mouth just don't listen to my brain and I kept on eating the mooncakes. Yummy!

Wallet found

Yeah! Lao gong's wallet was found by a postman and returned to him.

Why is it by a postman?

The person who found the wallet threw it into the postbox and it was found by a postman when he drove to AMK to collect the letters to be sent to SingPost. I should say that the person who picked up Lao gong's wallet must be a Singaporean as all the important documents are still intact including the ezlink card. Even all the credit cards are intact. The toto ticket is in the wallet as well. Only Singaporeans know that these documents are untouchable as it will trigger off the security alarm if they used it especially the toto ticket.

Although the wallet is clearly shown that it had been scratched by fingernails or something sharp, I'm thankful to the person who placed in the postbox but not threw it away into the dustbin. Probably, the person must be angry that the wallet only contains less than $50 and with so many cards that he can't even use.

I'm greatly thankful to the malay postman who called to Lao gong on Monday based on his namecard in the wallet and helped lao gong to keep the wallet so that Lao gong can collect from him on Wed. He could not collect from him on Tue as he worked late and needed to fetch me home from school at 10pm as he is always worried about me going home late and I greatly appreciate that. By the time I reached home, it's around 11pm. Although I prefer to take a cab, he does not like me to spend money especially on cabs. But he did not know that I took cab almost every morning to work and he doesn't know about this blog of mine. "Zhou Gong", the God of Dreams, always doesn't want to let me go off easily every morning. So it's not really my fault.

Back to topic. Lao gong gave an hong bao to the postman but he didn't want to accept it. Such kind-hearted person is difficult to find nowadays although I'm one of those too...hahaha

If I have picked up a wallet, I will definitely return the whole wallet including money in it. Unless I only find money, I will wait at the same spot for around 15 min and if nobody comes to look for it, I will take it. If it is a huge amount, I will report to the police. The person must be in need of money or else nobody will withdraw or take a large sum around.

In a country (forogotten the country), people can leave their bags and wallets around and nobody will take away. Definitely not in Singapore with the "gahmen" imposing higher taxes and frequent increment of transport cost leading to higher costs of living.

If We Hold On Together

If We Hold On Together by Diana Ross

Don't lose your way
With each passing day
You've come so far
Don't throw it away
Live believing
Dreams are for weaving
Wonders are waiting to start
Live your story
Faith hope and glory
Hold to the truth
In your heart

If we hold on together
I know our dreams
Will never die
Dreams see us through
To forever
Where clouds roll by
For you and I

Souls in the wind
Must learn how to bend
Seek out a star
Hold on to the end
Valley, mountain
There is a fountain
Washes our tears
All away
Worlds are swaying
Someone is praying
Please let them come
Home to stay

If we hold on together
I know our dreams
Will never die
Dreams see us through
To forever
Where clouds roll by
For you and I

When we are out there
In the dark
We'll dream about the sun
In the dark
We'll feel the light
Warm our hearts
Everyone

If we hold on together
I know our dreams
Will never die
Dreams see us through
To forever
As high
As souls can fly
The clouds roll by
For you and I




I happened to find this song with clips of FF7. I used to play this game together with my brother and Lao gong. But after an incident where I landed in hospital, I stopped playing PS completely. Whenever I touched my nose, I could feel that my right side of my nose bone was slightly protruding. No one knows what happened.

Sometimes, I wish to throw all my unhappiness out of my "window" but things just keep on happening. When will I ever really feel happy again?

His wallet lost

Lao gong lost his wallet the second time within three months. I feel sad because of two matters due to this. Firstly, it was troublesome for him to do many procedures - filing a police report, calling to banks to cancel credit card, re-doing of IC, driving license, NETS and police card, and buying of new wallet. Secondly, he scolded me again due to this.

The first time he lost his wallet was in the States on 17 June 2007 (the first day). I had cravings for dunkin donuts and along the way back to the hotel, we drove to a dunkin donuts cafe and bought a dozen at around 1am. As Gilbert was very tired and the drive from dunkin donuts to the hotel took about an hour, three of us took a nap in the car first. Upon reaching the hotel at 3am, lao gong noticed that his wallet was missing and he suspected that he left his wallet at dunkin donuts. He scolded me for wanting to eat the donuts and caused him to lost his wallet. We searched in the car and even went to the same dunkin donuts cafe and the staffs told us that no wallet was found.

He lost the wallet the second time in Ang Mo Kio MRT station last Sat, 22 September 2007, at around 10pm while he was waiting for me at AMK MRT platform for my train to arrive. I was supposed to call him when I was reaching AMK station but I was deep in thoughts and forgot to call him. Luckily he saw me and boarded the mrt. The wallet was put on his lap and he forgot to take it with him as he quickly rushed into the mrt. Upon reaching Yishun, he noticed his wallet was missing and started scolding me for not calling to him in advance and caused his wallet to go missing. Why is it always my fault to cause the loss of his wallet? As I am typing this, my eyes are filled with tears. I wish he can be more understanding to me and pls, no more coquetry to others. These hurt me and will affect our relationship even when we have been together for almost 10 years. But I know that he will not see this. :'(

We returned to AMK station and couldn't find anything. We even went to the control station to ask but nobody returned the wallet. Furthermore, the wallet is new. It's such a coincidence that both wallets are by Braun Buffel.

The first time when he lost his wallet and scolded me, I endured. But for the second time when he scolded me, I exploded and we quarrelled. I don't know why he carries the pouch for. The pouch is for him to put in his wallet and hp but he put in his cigarettes. I hate people who smoke especially someone who is close to me. I don't believe that when a stressed person smokes, the stress will be gone or lessen. If this were to be true, there aren't such things/occupations as depression, psychiatrist or psychologist. In the end, he apologised for scolding me.

I sincerely hope that someone will return the documents to lao gong even if he/she took the money away. The documents (IC, driving license and his cards) are primary.

The ache

My body is still aching after kickboxing on Mon as I had no time to do stretching and some warm up. I reached Amore at 7.25pm as the kickboxing class starts at 7.30pm. It was so packed that even all the lockers were taken up including the small lockers. I had to wait for 10 minutes before I saw a lady taking out her barang barang and rushed next to her. During the 10 mins wait, I can't do anything except to see with a hawk's eyes.

The picture is drawn by stickgirl and she is talented in drawing. I love her pictures as her pictures always depict a story behind it.

It has been ages since I had drawn a good picture (excluding scribbling). Let me think...The last I have drawn is in Temasek Poly in my first year and it has been more than 6 years. I truly miss my art lessons in secondary school. My art teacher, Mr Joseph Ng, encouraged me to draw better and Miss Cheryl submitted one of my drawings to a National competition which I won the third prize with $150 cash and a trophy.

The theme was "Movie" and all I can remember is I drew a scene of a movie. $150 was a lot to me during secondary school in Year 1996.The trophy was placed at my secondary school and I couldn't take it back. I didn't even take my drawings which were placed at the notice board (drawings column).

I'm only good at still life where you give me a picture or an object and I will draw it to look like the picture or object. Ever since my mum sent me for art lessons in Pri 1, I started to develop strong predilection of drawing although I was forced to stop my art lessons in Pri 3 due to shifting to Simei. This never stopped me from drawing and I liked to participate in drawing competitions in a bid of winning prizes especially oil pastels in primary school.

I really miss drawing.

Amore

My Planet Fitness package has expired and I seriously need to exercise. I was considering signing up for Amore or Fitness First. After much consideration, I decided to approach Amore as I was afraid that I'm too lazy to go to AMK and my money will be wasted again. Amore is so much convenient for me as one of the fitness centers is near home and the other is nearer to my workplace.

I met up with one of the sales consultant on last Wed and was recommended three types.

A one year plan costs $120 x 12 with an additional charge of $120 for membership fees. It comes with a free month and that adds up to $1669.20 for 13 months after factoring the GST in. A month will cost $128.40.

A two years plan costs $1320 x 2 years with an additional charge of $35 for membership fees. It comes with a free 1GB MP3 player and 3 additional months, and that adds up to $2862.25 for 27 months after factoring the GST in. A month will cost $106.01.

A three years plan costs $1320 x 3 years with an additional charge of $35 for membership fees. It comes with a free 1GB MP3 player and 8 additional months, and that adds up to $4274.65 for 44 months after factoring the GST in. A month will cost $97.15.

I decided to take up the two years plan which I can pay by installment of 24 months through credit card. I do not wish to commit into the 3 years plan as I will probably be moving out of this estate when married. The sales consultant did the procedures and after more than 10 minutes of waiting, I was told that the plan for two years can only be processed for 12 months installments. So I decided to sign up for three years plan (one year plan is bo-hua) which she said it can be processed for 24 months installment. But she came back to me saying that Citibank can only be used for 12 months installments. I can't afford paying $4274.65/12 which is around $356 per month with my miserable pay.

The supervisor came and tried to convince me to pay a lump sum of $1500 to ease the installment but I'm currently saving up to buy a rolex asap as the discount for rolex is too attractive. Moreover I still owe my own bank account money. I have been dipping into other savings account which I seldom touched as that account is purely for savings. If I take any money out from this savings account, I have the habit to put the money back. I asked the sales consultant whether there was any discount if I were to pay a whole lump sum but there isn't. So no point paying all. I told my sales consultant to let me go home to consider. She tried me into giving more vouchers and waiving off my membership fees. And she managed to psycho me to sign up the two years plan. Used my credit card and was denied as I forgot that I used the card to pay for my school fees that is more than $3300. I called up Citibank to raise my credit limit but was denied as well as I wasn't with them for more than 6 months and her attitude was quite bad.

I paid a deposit of $107 and came back to Amore on last Fri to pay after settling my credit card bills. And forgetful me utilised the card on last Thur and exceeded the credit limit again. I called up to Citibank again and the person was very helpful. I do not want to use other cards as I want to earn more air miles. Citibank PremierMiles card (under Visa Signature) gives 1.2 air miles for every $1 spent and I'm lacking of 6000 krisflyer miles to go to Hong Kong free and a few hundreds mile to be upgraded to Silver. I doubt I will reach PPS.

Signed up with Amore finally and was given the vouchers. The vouchers were pretty useless to me. I thought I can have a $100 voucher which I can use it to buy the hipscarf and gloves for their classes but it is just a 15% discount voucher and other useless vouchers. The good thing is there is a free packet of milk every time I come for a workout. I'm auntie mah. Got free things, I will definitely like it.

The next day (Sat), I went to CardioLatino - a dance workout. I like this because it's fun to learn different dance steps but it is not "siong" enough. After the class, I went for threadmill running.

I went for threadmill running again on Monday and kickboxing yesterday. Kickboxing is "siong" and left me exhausted. At least 30 push-up are in-corporated in kickboxing with some running and abs training. Sibei siong for a person who seldom exercise but I love the workout.

Bellyblitz sounds interesting. In the brochure, it states this: An entrancing signature class with moves inspired from Belly Dance that targets not just the abdomen but all parts of the body. This comes from combining traditional belly dancing moves and infusing it with aerobics techniques. Learn to do hip shimmy with style while toning your upper body with sensuous movements. Mobilize your arms, hips and target your chest area to reveal a confident, new you! Sounds interesting, yah?

School is restarting soon on 25 Sept and there comes my hectic life again. I wonder whether I am able to go Amore at least three times a week to make my money worth when school reopens. I just hope to lose 1 inch in every parts of my body by month end. Just a inch will do.