training, plans, trips, & my car to be! (+ pics!)

As much as I have my insecurities with my new job, like, I feel I'm not contributing enough etc. I do however enjoying the type of work I get to do. Understanding all 5 businesses within the Home Comfort Group. Learning practical supply chain concepts & process... Business operations... Feasibility analysis to come... I am invited to management dinners and meetings to learn! A flood of knowledge! I'm starting to dig up and apply uni work and notes to apply to my current work... I was lucky enough to go on a 4 days Proj Mgmt Cert IV training too!(2 days this week n 2 days next) Of coz, I will need to get assess before I get the Cert. Like, show prove of project work involvement throughout the project life cycle... I'm also finally getting AS400 queries training! Had Cognos (Cubes) Powerplay basic training... will be getting Ooptimiza basic training in sept... wow... I feel really good not stopping the information tsunami coming my way! Next step is to divert all these knowledge into practical use at work... I hope I live up to the standards!

In the mist of all these training and learning, I'm doing a low budget day trip to the snow this year this weekend! No fancy ski equipment or snow boards... just a fun day in the snow... Haven't been since 2000... time to see the snow again! Plus, it was a good season this year. Cold and lotsa snow.

This is just a planning stage and I really dont want to jinx it... coz i would really want the trip to succeed... but of coz i will need to walk in n out of a few agencies, do my homework before I just do it! Just go ahead and purchase a ticket to london! hopefully a cheap ticket to transit singapore for 2 weeks. In between london, do a trip to france, viist the louve and do the da vinci tour... and then in between singapore, head up to KL for 3 days. That is the plan... and will head to Hk for another trip in 2009...

Last update for the night! OVer the weekend, I paid a deposit for another CAR! Although not in my fav colour, but I reckon it looks pretty good in black, pretty stylish, pretty cool, and pretty funky... nice rims, nice recaro seats!!, nice GTi!!! and yes, I managed to get a VW Golf GTi within my budget with really impressive customer service from AUDI Centre brighton! After 2 weeks of horrible dealer service, this is like tip top! Agreed to all my terms, even the finance guy hired by the place was willing to match the interest rate I had in mind! Unfortunately, they wont get getting their commission from me taking up the finance as Dad will be earning the interest and the good AUD to SGD exchange rates! hehehe... wanna see my car-to-be?

In stylo angle pose


The Car with sunroof!

Wooo... Dashboard

Recaro Seats front and back!

life aint that bad

Just realise death of a close one is more to grab on to than my bag of life... think positive..... think positive....

invisible hands trying to grab on

hhmm... what lesson is it?
some can say old things don't go, new things don't come...
some can say be rid of bad luck when something bad happens to a person...

whatever it may be... i rather it all not happen... coz... whoever the immoral person who stole my bag obviously do not know what it is like to loss a whole lot of things close to heart... and if someone out there, may it be satan or the devil or someone who "curse" me (touchwood, hopefuilly not) or one of the part & parcels that life throw at me... God will take care of me still...

1 nice green Crumpler bag as an early b'day present this yr - given by dear Cindy
1 usb thumb drive for uni work when I was doing my Masters - given by Richie
1 silver i-shuffle, a yearly gift, handed to me when I went back for CNY this year to find out that the uncle who gave it to me have passed on just a week before...
1 orange baleno scarf, my fav., bought when I went to HK in 2000
1 work access card
1 work organiser
1 warranty card for a luggage i recently bought
1 Benefit eye cover
1 Benefit lip gloss in my fav colour
1 starbucks debit card
1 catherine manuel design wallet i bought for myself in a cool indo style print... with all my cards, license, loyalty cards i collected over the last 12 years... name cards...

*ka poof*

Disappeared while I look down to the spot I carefully placed my bag when I sat down for dinner, in a restaurant... looking at the spot where I still saw my bag when we walked off to choose dessert... looking at the sport hoping it would miraculously appear...


*sob sob*

invisible hand from my heart trying to hold on to those memories from things that are lost... holding on to the need of having the original & not the 2nd copy of the replacement... trying to grab my life in that bag...


So NO, it wasn't 'bout the hassle of cancelling credit cards nor key cards nor spending the time going places to get things replaced...

I like my things.
I get attached.
I want the original.
I'm anal and
I'm fussy.
I'm afterall,
a Virgo.

getting lost in art

I realise, with my love for "nighthawks" 1942 by Edward Hopper, i've never posted it up on my blog... its time i should...




His art is about feeling... there is this feeling he conveys through art, or perhaps its how i feel it... "rooms by the sea" 1955 is another one that makes you feel... feel the breeze... feel the space... feel that you are there in that room...



Recently I also came by Gustav Klimt, particularly "the kiss"... the posture of the 2 people, that angle, the submissive-ness, the colours, the "again" feel of it... its so passionate... then i started searching... and found that "expectation" (the woman on the left of the print) and "the embrace" (the couple on the right) actually makes up "the tree of life" and it all fits in and it makes perfect sense... life. expectations. embracing it all.

So... without further adieu... here they are... enjoy... hope you get lost in all these paintings as I have...


The Kiss


The tree of Life