I’m quite touched that people pen down a lot of encouraging words for John’s sister and Charmaine. And I know our sweetie pie will never give up on herself.

That’s her when she got hospitalised initially…

Looking into her eyes, I know that she has a strong will to live & a fighter’s instinct. What touches me the most was when she told her mummy ‘mummy, i’m not scared if i pain pain!’ 

This actually came out from Charmaine who is juz a 3yrs plus kid and I cried~

Do visit this blog to know more about our little Charmaine…

Good nite to all.

Look at such an adorable gal. Tat’s John’s niece- Sweetie Charmaine.

Just 2 weeks later…

The news that my John’s niece, Charmaine Lim, 3yrs 7 mths old, has been diagnosed with 4th stage neuroblastoma cancer came as shock to everyone who knows her.

It is really heartbreaking to hear that.

The following blog has been specially set up to gather all the help we can find to defeat the monster in her tummy.
http://ourfeistyprincess.blogspot.com/

A message from John…

“Please help me and my family forward this email to all your friends who would like to join us in the fight against this monster. Any form of donations through the website will be greatly appreciated by my family.

On behalf of Charmaine and my family, I would like thank all of you for reading this email and your kind donations to Charmaine will give us the much needed ammunition to defeat the monster together with Charmaine. ONCE AGAIN, A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE.”

Get to go back to M’sia to spend my CNY. But this yr, the time spent there was the shortest. Onli get to spend the 1st day of new yr with my relatives…

1st day…

My super duper hyperactive nephew!

His “art piece” proudly taken by him.

Baby Ashley was there to visit her ah gong and ah ma =)

Look! She’s wearing my shoes. She loves wearing adult shoes but not hers…

She’s a clever too. She knows how to call me “Auntie Pie”, count 1-10 and sing Twinkle Twinkle LiTtLe Star (though a bit out of tune). Too adorable tat I cant stop loving her =p

So hard to capture her expression…Failed!

My closest cousin.

A pity I cant join her pri/sec gatherings this time round. I will usually follow her out whenever she goes for visiting.

My brillant niece…

Woke up quite early on the 2nd day. Followed Baby Ashley’s parents back home by car. Had enough of trains in Taiwan…My family came out by train instead.

Dear Sweetie was watching Barney in the car. She’s so engrossed…

Thx goodness, the car journey was onli 2 hrs plus and there’s baby Ash to keep me company.

Din collect lots of Ang Baos but tat doesnt matter…

Wishing all my loved ones with lots of luck and be in good health…

I cannot imagine I have taken like a few hundreds of pics for the whole trip.

DAY 1

Setting off on 1 Jan by Jetstar Asia

That’s our luggage for our trip. I decided to get a backpack as we’ll be travelling a lot for the 1st week. Come to think about it, I’ve made a wrong choice….

now you know why…cos he’s the one who carried it for me =p

Our first 3- nite stay @ Regal Executive Suite in Taipei…

Turned in quite early to get ready for our next day 1-day tour @ Hualien.

DAY 2

花莲一日游

Got up at 5.30am to catch our 7am train to 花莲.

Din get the chance to go Hualien 4 years back cos of an earthquake. This time round I defintely do not want to miss the chance.

火车来了

Reached Taroko Station (太鲁阁站) ard 10am.

风景真是壮观!

I dun noe how they can go all the way down to fish. I applaud for their courageous act.

Hmmm, think my pics appear rather small here. Time to change my blogskin.

To be continued…

Good night.

It’s like HDB cum SDE gathering.

Brought my Mr. Martin along too…

PeiJia was there too.

Weimin, with his wife (also from HDB) & cutie Cheryl. Get to know him thru our netball club.

Indeed A happy family =)

Thanks for the otahs and satays.

Sweetite is so shy…

Here are the ladies of the nite…

Jessica-our new HDB friend…

The men…

Thx to Dixie & her family for helping out. Her aunty also cooked very delicious Mee Hoon and curry.

Yummy! Yummy! Yummy!

So many of u! Seem like an illegal HDB gathering on Town Council territory =p

Phew, we managed to finsh 80% of our food.

We packed up ard 10plus cos after 11pm, we wld be considered as having illegal gathering.

Off we go… up to Dixie’s hse for gift exchange.

Really a headache thinking of what to buy beforehand. Must be unisex somemore.

Arthur, our OIC for our pressis x’change.

Look at what Dixe has received from our dear Jerry! Aiyo!!!

Very nice tees from Dennis Tee. Bought from Bangkok.

OMG.

I got a mini Fondue set from Dap! Think this gift was seriously over-budget. We kept it at $10 for everyone.

Anyway, I love it! Thanks!

Their gifts from BODYSHOP.

They got a pair of mugs given by Peijia & Gong. What a coincidence huh! =p

Jc had picked my gift from Muji.

It was a fabulous night! Thanks Dixie for being such a good host…

Hopefully we are able to come together and enjoy again!

EARLY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU =p

Some pics taken b4 we went in…

Some of my colleagues from my section…

Spohia was nominated as one of the best-dressed ladies for our D&D.

Jessica, my new friend from Sales. She’s a great singer!

Thanks to her cos she’s the one who helped me to pick this retro dress.

Veda was so sweet tat nite…. Look at her hairstyle, nice!

My buddies from Sales unit…

Dennis, with his ah nerd spects!

Yes, time to go in….

This was our emcee for last nite. A guy full of humour and multi-lingual who can speak English, Mandarin, Hokkein, Cantonese and Tamil. Weet weet… We were realli ENTERTAINED for the nite! Not as bad as I thought.

Our Director, Mr Yap giving opening speech. We get to hear Mr Yap and other DDs of various sections sing too. How can we not be entertained…

Our table in full strength.

She’s my Lao Ban Niang…

We are looking like a family again….

I’m trying to get them to act cute =p

Went over to their table to kapo….

Those bottles were our door gifts.

Snap snap snap…..

Next group… Friends from credit op unit (COU).

Their lucky draw prizes…

My table not bad too…Had 4 colleagues walking away with some prizes.

Geetha-5th prize

And DIXIE…2ND prize-$400 NTUC vouchers!!!!!!

U 2 best la!

A game where we’re supposed to tie all the items onto the string.

What can u see?

There’s hangbag, 4-inch heel, wallet, belt, earring, a strand of white hair,rose,etc…

Managed to catch hold of Huiqin b4 she MIA.

The dinner ended ard 11plus…I’m losing my voice cos of my cheering and screaming throughout the nite.

Fun! Fun! Fun!

That’s Peggy, Me and Gwen =)

Brought Jerline and Sindy along too…

Sidetrack-That nite did not go well… The drinks that we bot were spilled into Peggy’s bag. Felt so guilty. If we did not buy the drink, then her camera and foundation wILL not get wet.

The hosts for the nite…

Shelia, our own local top model. Real gorgeous!

Peggy’s friend-Shahirah is the New Face for 2008. Congrats!

Her features are very distinctive and attractive.

Angelia with us, the old faces…

All of us headed to Zouk to party after that.

Bumped into Jamie, Vivi and Carrine at the wine bar.

The crazy Sindy & Pegs

Jerline’s bf and friends were there too…thx to them that they managed to smuggle us to Phuture… It was MUCH MUCH fun with the nice R&B songs. It rockz!

Johnny’s gang…

Luckily, no one was drunk. Went for supper ard 4.30am. By the time I reached home, it’s already 6am. It has been a long time that I party till dawn. Glad that jERLine persuaded me to go with her, if not I would have gone home n zz. I admit that I AM getting lazier and lazier…mY BUMS ARE too heavy.

Howver, letting yr hair down in a while does make me feel good.

Had our 2D 1N camp at OBS (Pulau Ubin). My 1st time there…

Gilian and CPL (Puay Leng)…

DAY 1

Bkfast buffet provided… GD Welfare!

There’s a total of 29 young recruits like me =) Almost 50% is from SDE.

Had some ice breakers in a learning room after that…

We were divided into 2 groups- The BAOS & F1.

Played a very interesting game shown below.

Each team member was supposed to have one finger placed under the hula hoop. The aim is to lower the hula hoop from our chest to the groud level within 15min. I tell you, IT’S NOT EASY!!!! Initially I tot 1min would be more than enuf to perform that task. I WAS WRONG! We took almost 15min to complete the task successfully. You SHOULD try this in a group.

While doing it, instead of lowering the hula hoop, u will somehow feel the hula hoop going up n up, or left and right. And and….your finger must be in contact wif it.

It’s FUN and all about strategy, concentration and teamwork!

Later in the afternoon, we went outdoors and into the jungle for some games… LOTZ of mosquitoes and we were spraying ourselves with the anti-mos repellant now and then…They’re so irritating…. 

In the jungle, we were supposed to be blind-folded and find a designated tree from a starting point. A pity we did not complete the task within an hr. Some of us were too distracted by the discomfort (hot hOT HOT)and the mosquitoes. eh…I’m one of them…NOT focus enuf…

Returned to the dorm ard 6pm…Forgot to take a pic of our bung. Quite clean, not as bad as I thought.

Back in the learning room after our shower and dinner…Feeling fresh and clean again!

My group members-F1

Min Jeong, Jac, Zhen Rong & Ester from F1.

The 4 musketeers in F1 (from left to right)

Dennis, Zhen Rong, Ah Guo (team leader) and Patrick.

My 2 new F1 friends- Ester and Mei Feng

Lena & Ruixia

Peiying and Xueying

Kody- A very sweet and nice lady from CCK BO. Nice to know her. We gave her a nickname (xiao ding dang) during the camp as she had almost everything that we needed.

 Two groups were required to put up a skit based on a story line. Everyone was involved enthusiastically and that made our night entertaining and fun. Max was practically the joker in our camp. Too engrossed till I forgot to snap some pics. What a waste!!!

Before our nite ended, we had to come up with a proposal for our rafting mission for DAY2.

In order to build our raft, we had to “buy” the equipment from our facilitators. In order to buy from them, we had to earn “ubin money” by playing their games on DAY 2.

Our financial team~They’ve to plan what are the games we’ve to play and the credits we can earn to buy our equipment.

The raft construction team…

The flat design team~including me =)

Ester is really a gd artist.

Our end product =)

Our HDB logo with the 5 core shared values~ Care, Learning, Innovation, Quality & Teamwork. Can you guess what do the different symbols and colours mean?

Ended our discussion ard 11pm. I slept rather early to prepare for DAY 2. Din realli zz well and sub-consciously, I’ll always wake up now n then.

DAY 2

It started raining very heavily early in the morning….

Luckily,most of our games were played indoors. We were split into 2 teams -physical and strategy. I dun wan to use my brains so I’m part of the physical team. The games were fun and really made us sweat.

Too bad it was still raining in the late morning, if not we wld have played the flying fox.

Height elements were not included in our programme.

With our powers combined, we earned enuf credits to “buy” the equipment for our raft. Initially, I told myself I’ll not want go out to the sea as I did not want to get myself wet.

In the end,I CHANGED my mind & I’m glad I’ve made the right decision. I’m one of the 16 pple who went out to the sea. The experience was unforgettable. Definitely feeling a sense of achievement when everyone played a part in making this raft mission possible. I LOVE IT. Weet ah weet…

Alamak no pics taken for our raft..my camera was in the dorm =(

Some gp pics b4 we break for camp…No more gloomy sky in the early afternn and the heat was unbearable…

All of us received our OBS certs =p

Heading to the jetty…

Me and Ling Ling-My 1st 3 mth SRJC dance mate…Nice to see her again after 8yrs! She is still so  pretty.

Our facilitator- Wee Ling

A very bubbly and enthusiastic lady. You wun believe she has a 17 mths’ old baby gal.

Surprisingly, all our faces can fit into the frame.

This OBS experience had been wonderful =)

TASTY food in buffet style, FANTASTIC facilitators, CLEAN dorm and FUNKY pple like US.

CHEERS!

Hmm…actually yes, in between this period, there’s meihuan’s and shuyun’s weddings that I get to see some of them.

At YCK Sakura…

A pity I cant take lotz of pics with my limited memory space. Have to take selectively….

Went for bowling at Yishun Safra after our dinner ard 10plus….Luckily they’ve a few cars so tranpsort was not a porblem.

Ended the game ard 1am… Appreciate their presence to make this gathering successful! YEA =p

Sometimes u will be so lazy to touch yr comp after staring 8hrs at the screen @ work…Ever since I started work, I’ve been a lazy pig, rotting at home during the wkends.. Soon I realise I shouldnt waste my precious wkends juz like tat…

That’s my office!

Here are some updates:

Sharin’s ROM on 18 Aug 2008

CONGRATS to my dear friend…

Gorgeous and Beautiful… Envy =p

Sharin and sister, Maggie

Jiang Qiang, Yanqin & I were invited to witness their solemnization. So sweet ~She’s almost drowned in Kelvin’s arms…

Uni gathering @ Suntec MOF

Thx to Yiru & Pat for organising a simple meet-up for us =)

Great turnout!

Great Food served…

Too bad, Jamie, JOhn & Gong were unable to make it…Nvm nx time…

The men!

The ladies…

More ladies…

One more take..CHEERS!