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long overdue - David's wedding

Monday, April 26, 2010 |10:44 PM

Don't be cheated by the date of this was post is dated. Its long overdue. I was supposed to have blog about this last month. But due to my extreme laziness, I only uploaded the pictures and was too lazy to actuall write. But then I realised if I don't post this soon, the next wedding which comes this weekend (which is my brother's one), I will have even more photos. So out of my busy-ness, I finally took time off to blog.

Besides blogging about David's wedding, the bestest news I have to say is -> my auditors are gone! yay! after 1 month of late nights, pia-ing all my conso packs etc..I finally sent my auditors off on the 30 April. The even better news is -> they actually commented that I am very nice to them. Kinda of unbelievable coz I seriously think I was quite a meanie to them. I even told 1 friend who is used to be an ex PwC and 1 of my ex auditors that "they bark and bug me all day and night long." hiaks hiaks.

ok back to the main post. I think this is the 3rd wedding of the year for me. When David invited me on msn sometime back in early april (1 night whereby I was working real late). I got a shock. Haha. I was like 'David..you? married?' Then the 38, kaypo me went to msn 1 of our common pals and ask "hey did you receive David's invitation?" I guess most of us are caught off guard by his sudden news of marriage but all of us are happy for him. well coz its David..someone whom we all thought was a typical "playboy". But I really enjoyed this wedding coz this was 1 of the wedding whereby you see me 玩到疯. Of coz as usual, our table is the loudest because there are 4 crazy girls that laugh @ the top of their voice.

the "yum seng" party which i felt was abit mild. But at the 3rd cheer, I could hear a very distinct female voice. Thanks to Lili (known as Celine on that day)

before we entered the banquet. David looked so sober but at the end he was way off.

Beer, white wine, mixture of beer, white wine & red wine and last glass is red wine. This is not all for the groom, in fact he had even more.

we have about 4 glasses of red wine.

David...all these are waiting for you. Round 1

and another 4 white.

some white, red and beer. all waiting for him to come back to us after his round of photoshoot. At the very end, David came back and left his gigantic glass on our table unknowingly. Of coz he was not spared and we took it out and while shaking our hands we made him drink everything. :p. In fact we asked for so much liquour that the waitress gave us the "lady gaga" look and brought us the whole bottle instead of giving us glasses.

yes, we are still sober after a few rounds! Feli and Me!

mr gary wanted to "chup" into our photo and of coz we allowed him to. Our poor camera man was adam. sorry no photos here.

I told sileas, let's 自拍. 1 of my 战友 when we were in Shenzhen doing the most "er xin" job back in 2008.

how can i miss jovy out? yes this is jovy. The thing i most 欣赏 about her and the thing which I feel we are so similar is the 2 of us are both gusty.

MIA for a month- I'm Back!

Saturday, April 24, 2010 |10:05 PM

sorry folks, been mia-ing for sometime. Thanks to the busy-ness at work. March is my Company's year end, therefore making April the most busy and horrifying month for any Accountant and above in my office- Finance Dept. The deadlines set was crazy and there was just a mad rush for accounts to be closed, consolidation packs to be stamped and verified by the auditors and all the proofs had to be done to support our work. For me, I had 13 accounts to close, 13 entity level conso packs to complete and 10 group level conso packs to complete. (mind you, each conso pack is 96 pages thick). Yes, that's the amount of work I have. To make it worst, my entities all have a "roll over" effect. Such that when my entities below (subsidiary/associates) figures change, I have to redo everything again. But thankfully, this is the 2nd year whereby I am going through this audit so things aren't as chaotic as last year. In the midst of the whole month of busy-ness, I am glad I was able to take some rest stops. The first being the public holiday which took place @ the beginning of the month - 2nd April (Good Friday).

Just the day before, the auditors were asking me if I intended to be back on Good Friday and I told them "Nope!" Sad to say, I went back on Sat though. :( But it was a day of rest for me on that particular friday (after pia-ing a whole week before trying to close off all the accounts). The cg had an outreach event. Only 1 friend came (many others we tried to invite went overseas) but it was quite enjoyable. We went for a show (Clash of the Titans) before heading to Marina Barrage for some kite flying action.

See the crowd? Its my 2nd time to this place and finding a parking space was like "ARGH!". Ended up doing illegal parking. I was telling the other people "if TP come today to catch illegal parking. Sure very good." But fortunately, they didn't come. hohoho

needless to say..you know which kite belongs to me.

Obviously, I wasn't the one flying it. But see my kitty high up in the sky!

Joel's mermaid kite also flew.

and the hello kitty kite continued flying for another 15 mins...

The view of Marina Bay Sands. I have a "love affair" with it. Looking @ Marina Sands always made me wonder if the decision to have not gone to Macau 1.5 years back was a wrong decision. Should I have stayed in Singapore, hoping for some things to happened yet till today nothing happened? But the focus of the picture was not Marina Sands..it was...this below

My kite flew away and landed on a tree. The area was prohibited so I couldn't retrieve my kite! BOOO!!!!!!!!

After my kite flew away just about 15-20 mins of being in the sky, I sat around and took pictures of interesting kites that I saw "proudly" flying high up there. The penguin kite caught my eye!

Joel's mermaid kite was just as "useless". I told her "mermaid belongs to the water. not the sky lah." It just refuses to fly!

Jeremy and Adrian tried their best. But...it didn't work. In fact, we had 3 kites that day. The cheapest being the guys one which was bought at only about S$5. AND...it flew the longest and highest.

The focus of this picture is really Marina Bay Sands itself. It was my dream 1.5 years back but due to some things, I gave this dream up which many times now I really do wonder, was it worth it?

call me a mountain tortise, but I have never been on this flyer before!

We caught this poor toddler. His parents were busy kite flying and left him all alone in the pram.

We finally left Marina Barrage at around 630-7 when the skies were turning dark and it started to drizzle a little...and soon after the Good Friday. Back to work, it was nothing but BUSY! For the whole of April, I left office like @ 10pm everyday. And was totally drained...

Just last Sat (17 april), I decided that I didn't want to go back office. Then at night, together with Shireen & James, we met up a couple which we used to outreach to in the past - Cindy & Thomas. Cindy is happily pregnant and Thomas is also in a stable job as a taxi driver. But I realised that their lives are still pretty much the same...We had some camera whoring session and this is the only picture i took.

Shireen, Myself and Cindy. Taken with my Iphone. Btw, yes I got myself an Iphone and its "with compliments" from Ascendas. Bought it using my benefits. :)))))

Then on Sunday (18 April), lunch was another feast. It was my Da-Sao birthday and also we pre-celebrated my mum's bday (24 April). Brother and I treated Da-Sao, Mum and Dad to Imperial Treasure (Cantonese Cuisine) at Great World City. We wanted to try somewhere different from the usual places we went and we were glad they all enjoyed it.

I was the earliest and as usual, they were all late! So while waiting, I snapped photos with my Panasonic Lumix.

The going to be married couple in 2 weeks time. (from the time I am writing this blog entry).

and we celebrated my Da-Sao birthday at home. She received 2 Ang pows from her "future dad and mum in law"each.

2 people in their 30s trying to act cute

Happy Birthday, Da-sao!

As April is about to come to an end. My workload starts to lessen after submitting all the conso packs and proofs to the auditor. Yipee!! Before I end, anyone remembered in the beginning of the year, Macdonalds had a collection of the Doraemon toys for the 12 animals of the chinese calendar. I collected some. And anyone remembered the controversy of "not having the pig". And eventually Macdonalds came up with the pig just last week. Finally...I managed to get the pig with the help of my colleague's hubby. :))) yay!

you've guess it right. This is my work station with lots of toys hanging about. Easily identifiable :))) but it brightens up the office as well. signing off :)