Computer Breakdown

So sad and feeling so unlucky. My brother in law com breakdown and all the buttons that i have created for the common user interface for the project are all in there. I have been too tired to think of backup. Its totally so sui... asked hubby to help me fix, hopefully he is able to fix it.

At Suntec Wealth Fountain




^Baby fooling around

Car Wash

^He super serious like professional

Baby Fish

^My fish gave birth again.

Barney eyes

^mummy bought this singing barney for baby and the eyes can be turned.

^saw my baby sleeping position this morning, so funny pose.

Busy Week

Busy week... Start this week term break with project discussion on monday(gave tution as well) and tuesday. On tuesday after project discussion, went out with my mom and sis. So funny can, I rent a car and it is auto/manual aka semi-manual and i got a hard time getting used to the car, keep laughing in the car while driving. Drove the whole day and super tired cos we lost our way.

On wednesday went to find school for my baby then drove my sis to habour front, yet again we lost our way. Called my dad(our gps)for direction before setting out, he said go by CTE then AYE then exit Pasir Pajar. So off we go from CTE to AYE then i saw a signage which said exit telok blangah. Told sis that i think we overshot cos my classmate wai chong keep saying his place near sentosa and vivo city so i pretty sure we have to exit telok blangah. Sis said dad said exit pasir pajar. So we go straight and further we go reaching Jurong port and going towards Tuas. That is not the worse part. When my sis finally alight at habour front, she kept saying "jie go straight remember must go straight to expressway then go home..." Guess what the go straight is going to Jurong again... Lucky I knew it soon enough to u-turn. I really suck at direction. Need my dad wherever I go. He know the direction but cannot drive, I can drive but dunno direction. One is the head, the other is the hands and legs.

Driving alone and blasting music can be a way to destress but driving can be very tired especially when I keep losing my way... Driving can be expensive too.. The day i rent the car, the petrol, ERP and parking fee cost me more than 70 bucks. When buying car in singapore really need to think hard.. if not, got car no money...

Anway then on thursday, continue to find school for baby under the super hot sun. Finally found one and registered him for next year. Thursday and Friday I have been trying to do the user interface for my project but i got huge problems with vb to a breaking point where i nearly cry then ah bao asked me why dun give vb student do?, he also said for us to do vb we will need a lot of help, just like how he got help from others during his opp. Well I did sort of ask them. I email my team mates to give them 2 options, 1 is to do their own function without the common user interface, 2 is anyone volunteer to help me us(its our project, remember?) do the common ui and once i settle the vb problem then i will continue from there. And sad to say, only Yana(same as me, she is J2EE path) offers to help. The rest chose option 1. I was kinda disappointed, like ah bao said last sem, why is leader supposed to do all the things(design, compile etc), there is no points to say leader should do all, leader are there to guide the team not bao ka liao. And the problem is if the project meet with any problems, the leader get all the stabbed cos there is sure to be complaints among group members without the leaders knowing.

Today mood is so much better than the past two days. For the past two days, I felt kinda sad and super disappointed. On monday my course coordinate, Ms Tan called to see if i am interested to go China for OPP. Have receive 2 emails from her but I never reply or go for the briefing. But after talking to her, she said it will be good for career and blah blah blah... I was interested to go but i also need to consider for my family and my in laws which i told ms tan then she asked me to attend the briefing first to understand more then decide.

I called Harmon to ask him if he going for the long or short term of OPP but he did not pick up the phone. He called me back and my mother in law overheard my conversation with him. She told me it will be a good opportunity to go and ask me not to worry about my baby, she will arrange the rest, she just asked me to grab this opportunity and dun worry anything else. I was very touched by her support but in the end, hubby dun allow me to go. I was utterly disappointed. Nothing much to say, i guess this opportunity will be another regret in my life.

Picture Gallery

^Pretty roses.. The red roses is so red that it look like velvet in reality.

^a bit of red wine made me look "rosy".

Hubby was trying to snap shot me when just nice my son ran passed and snap him to.

My baby smile and gesture not done intentionally, he jus so happened to run pass with that smile and gesture.

^Hubby aunt whose birthday is same day as me..

^clutch bag from my mei mei

^Present from my mum.. seriously i dunno why she buy this for me.

Will upload the pic of the item of this present later...

Here comes the weekend.... so is my term break.... But this semester term break will be doing project project project. 3 different projects. Tired really tired, have been doing reports after reports. May need to buy somemore formal wear for presentation, this sem like wear so many times of formal wear that it kind of become a norm.

Anyway the good news is I got my driving license. Finally! Haha, thought I will fail cos the tester nag from the start to the end of the test but after all the nagging he gave me a pass. haha, need to thank the tester cos i also learn a lot from him. Straight after i pass the test, I went back home then my mil asked me to go for "driving orientation" cos my in-laws car is mercs which is auto, continental plus it is bigger compare to the usual car i drove which was manual, japanese and medium car. So there we go, I was the driver, my bro-in-law seat beside me while my mil and kiern-boy seat behide. We go round and round seletar reservoir, saw my com skill 2 teacher at the seletar reservoir carpark, i was driving and she was trying to cross the road so i signal her to go first then i think she thought i looked familiar cos she keep turning back to see me.. haha.. i did not recognise her until later part.

Then suddenly the car engine stalled. Mil said i never accelerate enough then I was thinking auto car can never stall engine then bro-in-law replied to mil "impossible where got auto car stall engine one". The car was like stuck at a small slope. We tried all ways and no way the car start so mil called sos.. my father-in-law. Eventually, he walked from the home to the seletar reservoir. By car it is near less than 5 mins can reach but by leg it was like more than 15mins. haha.. so in the end he called the garage ppl and they said need to tow the car. So there he is waiting for the tow truck while the rest of us walked all the way back home and poor me have to carry a 15kg small boy all the way cos he refused to let anyone else carry. Anyway the car was fix immediately once it reached the garage. Fil said one wire was damage that why. Brother in law keep saying i so unlucky first time drive then this kinda thing happen.. haiz.. i hope it won't happen again.

Initially, my baby refused to let me drive. He keep siting on the driver seat and hold the key. In the end, bil lied that he will drive and took the keys from baby while my mil grabbed baby to the back then I hurried sat at the driver seat and started driving. Baby keep crying said mummy cannot drive, i want to go home. Asked my mil go away. We said we bring him see monkey he said no. After about 5 mins drive, my baby got used and just enjoying his ride. He was not used to mummy driving cos most of the time i be sitting with him that why. I guess he has to get use to it...

Today while coming back home, in a cab, I suddenly felt a little emo. Was alone in the cab, well of cos the driver is there doing his job, while I seat at the back of taxi alone. Looking out of the window watching people goes by at Orchard Road. Realised Orchard change a lot, with all the new shopping malls coming up and some old malls renovating or had renovated. Thought of my 23 years life. Life is never so rosy, most people who see me now thinks that I have a good life but you guys never know what I have been through. Thought of how I wasted about 2 years of my life job hopping, never study, clubbing etc. I could have done so much in those 2 years. But if its wasn't for those 2 years, I will not have my precious baby and if its wasn't for those 2 years, I will not have a extended wonderful family. I guess that is what you call blessing in disguise. I know sometimes in school now, people will think I kiasu or arrogant, keep wanting to get good grades but that because I know how important education is to this society and of cos its very important for me, for my future and I tried so hard to study again, that why I do not want to give up so easily and I cannot give up. Saw people dress pretty go clubbing, meet up with friends... but here I am alone.. then thought of all my frens that left their foot prints in my life... who will be the one I can turn to when something happens to me, who will be there for me when I need a fren, then again I cannot think of anyone. Can't blame my frens cos I am not good in socializing, networking or even keeping in touch with them.. Am I a good person or bad person? After 23 years of life span, I still trying very hard to understand myself or should I say trying very hard to be the prefect someone.. had see people who said one thing and do another thing.. see people who back-stab one another... see people who talk bad at people yet act like an angel in front of everyone.. this kinda people let me think if I unknowingly am one of them.. and sometimes I am scared, scared of myself as I do see the evil me... And why do people celebrate birthday? Is to celebrate that we stay alive for the one year or is to celebrate that we are nearer to R.I.P?... Hubby just called to say Happy Birthday to me... was thinking how nice will it be if someone give me a small surprise? Hubby will never give me surprise cos he is the most practical old man you ever seen. Guess the surprise I want, I will need my baby to grow up then maybe he will give his mummy surprised and am crossing my fingers that is will not be too practical like his daddy... if not I may not get any surprised for the rest of my life...

Just came back from my retail therapy. Seriously I need to restraint myself from spending money for the next 2 months. Have been spending a little too much this past one month. For com skill, I went to AMK hub to get a bottom for presentation but in the end I got myself a top, skirt and 2 pairs of shoes. Friends who know me well know i am shoe craze. Then today wanna buy foundation cos my Anna Sui foundation crack up and in the end I bought a foundation, 2 tops, 1 clutch bag and 1 hp pouch.. but the clutch bag and hp pouch, my sis offer to buy for me as birthday present so thank you... and I nearly bought another pair of shoe today after my sis left but too bad the size I want is out of stock. My sis was trying to stop me from buying during our shopping trip, "No shoe, no more shoe, you have a lot of shoes"... This month I seriously overspend.. still got stuffs from victoria secert... haiz.. that's the problem with gals. We can't seem to stop ourselves from some "harmless" retail therapy.

So tired.. birthday coming le... but dun have the feeling of happy cos so many things to think of.. project, proposal, resume, cover letter..... my mei mei asked me what i want for birthday 2 days ago, told her i will think n let her know but up till now no time to think... haiz....

Random Photos

Class IT0514 Chinese New Year Pics@ myHouse

*Watch out for ah bao the bumble bee!

Mother-in-law(mil) birthday pics

*Below pics was taken 2 weeks b4 her birthday, aunt bought cakes to celebrate the twin and mil birthday.

*Below pics was taken on the weekend b4 mil birthday. We threw her a surprised bbq party.

My papa birthday celebration pics@ bottle tree and home.

^my old pope



^the fish Kiern caught at bottle tree park.

Carol's & Vincent's Wedding

^wedding favours

^I miss my hair

Pics taken at Fairprice Plus@ AMK Hub

RuiWen's (Ling baby gal) Full Month Buffet

*I found a galfren for my baby.. heehee

Hectic but satisfying week

Long time never post liao... due to the fact that my com kana trojan then busy with reports, presentation and quiz.

I had a hectic week but very satisfying because

1. Ms Wong, my IT in retail banking lecture commented that my groups(consist of Yana, Lynn & me) was the best so far. She said we gave her a very good report with all the importants and relevant points in. That really pays off the effort that we spend doing on the report. Like to thanks my group mate for their effort too and sorry if I asked you guys too much to change or add on to the reports.
2. Yesh... get thru NE presentation. It was a super fast presentation by my team(consist of Harmon, Yana, Wai Chong, Fuqiang & of cos me). haha.. cos we are presenting in front of all NE student at the lecture hall. Thanks Harmon for doing the whole presentation slides.
3. Also got thru com skill presentation.. haha.. yes I got 3 presentations this week. Com skill also not so bad. Thanks to all my team mates.
4. Got my eCom quiz result today. Very happy with it, hope to maintain it so that I can get my A, haha...
5. The best part is I solve my mobile application development practical test question. Now all gear up for that on next friday. I solve this morning. I was trying out last night but never get it work so I was thinking of the solution when I go to sleep, thought of one solution b4 I closed my eyes so the first thing I do when I wake up, I try out the solutions and was so happy it worked that I nearly scream at 7am. Haha.. but I saw my hubby and son sleeping so I stood up go to a corner and jumping up and down with my hands covering my mouth. haha, call me crazy but yes I done it!

Initially I thought I got a great day cos end of presentation, solve pract test and got good result for eCom but I was so wrong cos the last lesson of tha day, I was so piss off by someone. Seriously, is not that I want to look down on you or what but you do not even know how to use System.out.println and you do not even know how to use the API and if else statement and you expect me to believe you do the pract test codes yourself?! Worse still, you still got the cheek to argue with me when you dun even know what is going on with all the codes. If you dun know just say dun know, why go all out to act smart alec? I had explain to you why that part of your codes is redundant for like 3 times and each time you said you understand then in the end you go ask Yana, what I meant and some more tried to defence your codes, said what "user dun know the value of key num 2?". HELLO... WAKE UP... THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED API AND U R THE PROGRAMMER. Even Mr Yip, our mobile application development, heard our argument and when I turned to look at Mr Yip, he was laughing and gave this eye expression and shake his head. Haiz.. if you dun know just say dun know and try to do yourself and learn, then need help then ask, at least you put in the effort to do rather than just copy. Stop acting like you are the Mr Know-All when you are obviously not.

Online Shopping 3

This part I will recommend some websites that sell nice stuff.

1. Online Website:

• www.jshoppers.com
• http://www.eyeslipsface.com/default.asp
• http://www.maidenform.com/home.jsp
• http://www.cct-fashion.com/index_main.php
• www.asos.com
• www.delias.com
• www.glamourpuss.com.au
• www.karmaloop.com
• www.supre.au.com
• www.wetseal.com
• http://www.mamasvintage.com/what_new.htm
• http://www.alloy.com/
• www.gojane.com

2. Blogs:

• http://msdivineshopper.blogspot.com/
• http://leamourcloset.blogspot.com/
• http://lapiccoladonna.livejournal.com/
• http://littleredheels.livejournal.com/

Online Shopping 2

Points to take note when purchasing online:

• If you purchase locally, do meet up to collect your item or opt for register mail as there is a risk of lost mail if you opt for normal mail.



• Try not to buy white apparels if you are not confidence of the quality from that certain website. If you really like the white apparel then ask around if anyone bought anything from the webby and how is their quality. The chances of getting your question answer will be higher if you post your question on forum.



• For local purchases, ask the size and the measurement before you purchase any apparel, ask any question you want. As for spree it is near to impossible to ask the size from the organizer as they themselves maybe first time customer on the particular website so the only way is to check if the website provide a size chart.



• Pictures sometime can be deceiving. Those pictures that are like magazine or with model that are like Japanese, be wary cos the picture are photoshop to make it look really nice.<>

< This is a more trustworthy pic.

• Last but not least, always do research!
  

Haha... This is the 3rd post I wrote in 1 hour plus.. Time to sleep.. Good night....

Online Shopping 1

I want to talk about online shopping cos a few people knowing that I shop and sell online for quite sometimes had asked me regarding online shopping. Some are still scared of doing shopping online so I hope to write this post as a guide for all online-shopper-wannabe. The guidelines are purely based on my experience for my loots which mainly are apparels and cosmetic. I will post different parts on different topics of online shopping cos a lot to say... lol

First of all there is a few different kinds of online shopping, I will focus on the 4 main kinds, that is

1. Online Website (E.g. www.gap.com, www.coach.com, www.jshoppers.com etc)
2. Auction (E.g. Yahoo auction and eBay)
3. Blogs (I will recommend a few blogs later)
4. Forum


For the online website, mostly is overseas website. You can buy brands that are not in Singapore. Things that I recommend to buy from overseas webby are apparels, accessories and cosmetics. Avoid purchase expensive stuffs. For brands like coach, ralph lauren etc, you can get it cheaper at the website(for coach is about 20% cheaper which is plus shipment to sing). But the problem is.. some webby do not send internationally and some do not accept credit cards that is issue out of U.S. For this problem, you can easily solve it by using Vpost or Comgateway which they also provide concierge service. For webby which do not send internationally, you can use Vpost or Comgateway service which they will provide you with a U.S address which you will enter during your online purchase when the seller send the item to the U.S address then the courier will send to Singapore to your address. Google yourself to find out more about Vpost and Comgateway. As for concierge service that they provide, they will pay on your behalf on webby which do not accept Singapore issue credit cards. For more information on this, go google youself.

As for auction, auction provide a wide range of stuffs. New, used, apparels, furniture, liquor, computer stuffs etc... For auction, always remember to check the seller ratings, as long as their ratings are above 97% positive you are mostly safe to buy from them. Always ask question before you bid or 'buy it now'. Ask as much as you like since you are a customer unless the seller do not want to sell to you. For local auction, always be wary on lady apparels. Some sellers sells overseas auction item with a high turnover profits, DO YOUR RESEARCH! Always do research before purchases. You can get overseas auction items by purchasing directly from overseas seller. If overseas seller have minimum quantity of let said 30 then gather you friends or the easier way is to join a spree BUT again be wary of some spree organiser who charge you handling fee or quote the shipment fee higher than it is to earn a profit. Some kind soul spree organiser, organise the spree cos he/she want to buy stuff as well and want to save on shipment so he/she will organise and let said initially she asked you to pay $3 for shipment but after that if shipment is only 2 bucks, she will return you 1 bucks. The down part of purchasing overseas auction is the quality of the apparels so be smart and do your RESEARCH! For overseas auction, if you purchase directly from example Taiwan auction, the trouble is on communication as you need to write email in Chinese, some seller although they indicate they don send overseas but you may try to email them and ask cos some will send if you purchase in bulk.

For blogs, this is the recent craze... Singapore seller setting up blogs selling their own pre-loved stuffs, handmade stuff and stuffs from overseas supplier. I normally shop for blogs that sell unique stuffs. The pros are the quantity of each design is limited so the chance of wearing the same as others is pretty slim, quality tends to be better than stuffs from taiwan auction and if anything wrong you can ask for change or refund easily depends on the policy. The cons are the price tends to be higher than stuffs from auction and nice items tends to be sold out pretty fast so when you see something you like you need to tag or email the blog owner fast.

For forum, quite similar to auction. Seller start a topic of what he/she want to sell and set a selling price which is the amount you will pay if you want to buy from him/her, normally they sell stuffs that they do not want or do not need. For forum, they also offer sprees where some people will gathers order from forum members to buy stuffs they want and share the shipment. Recently I bought a coffee table from a fellow Singaporebrides forum member for just 15 bucks. It is a glass coffee table which condition is pretty good and has that contemporary look and I saw someone selling the exact same table on yahoo auction for $100.

To be continue... ...

Updates of my son milestone. Baby Kiern now is at the stage of yak yak yak yak yak.... He just talk and talk and talk... haha.. but I am certainly glad that he is not at the stage of "WHY".. That's when we as parents will go a bit bonkers cos lil babe will ask why is this like that then why like this lalalala... lol

My son will talk on any chance he has.

"Mummy, I want to play XXX"
"Mummy, I keep my toys"
"Where's ah ma?"
"Where's ah gong?"
"Where's papa?"
"Where's yiyi(auntie, my sis)?"
"Where is gugu(aunt, lao ye cousin)?"
"Mummy, I want shh shh(pass urine)"
"Where is my blanket?"
"I want ice cream"
"I want macdonald"
"I want mickey mouse"
"I want to watch elmo"
"I want to watch again"
"I want to go upstair"
"I want to go downstair"
"I want to drink"
"I want coke"
"I want to see monkey"
"I want to go NTUC"


As long as he see me writing, he will said "Mummy work?" I said"Yes" He will replied "Oh.. mummy work" Then he take his own lil notepad and pen and look at me sheepishly "Qiyan work..."

In a bus full of people and we are standing.
Kiern: "I want to sit!"(He will speak loudly)
And he will goes on and on till he get a sit.

When he hear the gates open while in his room:
Kiern: "Mummy who come back?"
Me: "I don know."
Kiern: "I go down see"
(open the room door)
Kiern: "Close yes? close?"
Me: "Yes"
(he closed the door, went down and came back up)
Kiern:"Hello, I come back already"

Above is what he will said everyday without fail... and the list of what he said everyday just go on and on and on.... and did I mention he sing ba ba black sheep everyday... **in actual fact, I feel so bliss to have him in my life ;) **

I will like to announce the stupiest people in the world history..........** Drum Rolls**...............................................................................

ME!

Yes me!.... Because of my stupidness, it cost me my driving licence. My total demerit points is 14, yes it a pass BUT because of one stupid mistake, I kana 1 immediate failure..... ARGH................................ Why do I turn the streeing wheel so early to cause it to mount the kerb................. Really so angry with myself can.... licence hanging there for me le yet I do this stupid mistake... Carrot hanging there but instead of biting it, I hop away from it..... Damn it... Stupid me..... **Knocking myself**