I'm worst wedding planner. :D

I must say, I'm gradually regaining back my old talkative and cheerful self, and never gonna miss those times of dissimulation! Life's great again, thanks to people I have known from volunteering and workplace. 

Learning's at its best when you actively learn from people who are expert in their fields. I have gotten it so wrong in my last workplace; I felt so incapacitated all the time. So, it's never about how intelligent you are and how much knowledge you have in the first place. Instead, it's about how adaptive you are to changes and how motivated you are in developing yourself and initiating changes. :)

Never had a module in statistics and was thrown into a field where statistics is most valued, but while I learn the ropes, help was pretty accessible as it was just an email away. The visiting Prof from NUS who led large clinical trials was very kind to meet me and my team a few times to give us invaluable advice on how to approach a study, developing and evaluating it, and that was on top of giving his statistical knowledge input. :)))

Work is accumulating at a pace faster than I can cope. Things are always urgent, and I'm always trying to catch up, no matter how hard I try to pace myself. The moment I complete something and I thought I can breathe for a moment, something bigger comes up again. Work-life fit... When is it gonna be me?

4 abstracts for one research conference, and this means 4 posters OMG. I have trouble making one and now I need to make 4?!! OH NO!

"7 Habits of Highly Effective People" - I'm glad that I'm gonna go for this course next week and so gonna practise mastering the ultimate quadrant thing LOL.

Planning a wedding is a chore; I finally am experiencing the woes of my friends who previously laboriously prepared their wedding! 

Planning a wedding on top of everything I have been busy with is hard work. 

I must say, I definitely don't have a knack for event planning. LOL.

Other than work and more work, I have been busy with... Dog stuff.

Recent case I have been assigned to.

Family with a beautiful Goldie wants to adopt our strays.

Goldie's name is Butterball.. So cute!

Here is Hamburger treading over grasses and terrorising adopter's yard with her kid. :)

Adopter's cute kids with Hamburger.

And what's most anticipated and at the same time tensing me up is of course the solemnisation in September. We've been meeting so many vendors and coordinating so much that we sometimes are at a complete loss about what to do next!

Our vendors left us homework and we can't seem to finish them, and this is definitely, absolutely driving me crazy. LOL. Sometimes, words just can't describe what I want for my wedding, and I felt like gesticulating the message across, but I just don't know how to too. LOL.

Our casual pre-wedding shoot will be at Bukit Timah Saddle Club... And Photographer requested my friends to be present in the photos too as he feels it will be so much more fun! :D
Thanks friends who are all taking leave to be in the shoot, love you guys!

A prelude to the wedding bridal shoot. :D

Here are 3 of my gorgeous bridesmaids!
(I'm trying out the dresses for Ting and Joanne lol.)

Really looking forward to our shoot on 8th July :D

Have to leave the rest of what I wanna share to my next entries.

My family trip to Taiwan.

Birthday card from colleagues (Oh that elf ear!)

Birthday spent at River Safari.

And so many more... Please be patient with me! :D

I'm long winded.

The cool thing about my job is I get to meet different kinds of (pleasant) people and I must say I love it! And the culture and values that the company hold have been really instilled in the staff. Help I need are readily available and people responds very quickly. :D

Recently 2nd PI (I have 2 projects now, long story) assigned a clinical research manager to help me in the data collection as he wants me to submit an abstract for a conference due in end June.

Then I assumed that the manager didn't know anything and explained every detail to him, even took him to the medical records office and show him every bit of the patient's data. Haha! He is a manager who already knew most things but was humble and patient enough to listen to every single word I said.

And later in the email he said, "Thanks for the informative tour." 

Hahahahaha that is a pretty nice way of saying that I'm long winded. 

To say the truth, I'm not an easy person to work with cause I'm always using alot of time to explain something and always micromanaging lol.

My 2 PIs are enthusiastic about research and their passion for research was the reason for my hiatus from this space. And these are medical doctors, not research phd doctors. They are geriatricians and to be able to provide care for the elderly, they are slow paced, long winded and have the tendency to correct everything. Sounds like someone you know? Sounds like me right? Lol. If I have an intellectual capacity like them, perhaps I'll be a geriatrician too. Haha. It's very comforting to know that you are worth 3 hours of your PI's time for each meeting (also cause we are both so long-winded) and he made sure that you understood everything he said before he moved on. Geriatricians have the habit of having u repeat their advice so that they are assured that you understood them lol. I wanted to go for an analysis course and when I seeked his permission, he said, "Don't need to ask me la pls, as long as you don't stop doing research cos now they are really looking into a lot of research on the clinical side..." Lol. Yea, I think other than caring for the elderly, their next major interest is research.

I'm now a confirmed staff after 6 months' probation! Appraisals are times where your boss convey to you his/her honest opinions to you and they are the times where I get pretty nervous about cause I'm really not ascertain if boss (the operations manager, not the PI) knows what I'm doing lol. The first question boss asked me was, "How? Did you enjoy working here the past 6 months? Do you see yourself working here for the next 5 years?" 

They say, when u meet a good boss, follow him wherever he goes lol.

Then he went on to explain what you have done well, what's on target and what needs to be improved. 

And under the section "Develop self and Others", he said I needed improvement.

"Don't be shy to say what you think. I want you to give your opinions, whether personal or professional, to help the team. Give your advice from a view of a researcher to improve the team efficacy. 6 months is no longer a newbie... So many new people are coming in and they need your help. In 2-3 years' time, if anyone needs advice on evaluating a program, I will tell him/her go and ask HJ. I want you to be that person who gives advice to others."

"Develop your own character."

And he said, after going through each point, "Yes, of course I'll confirm you." I found a leader who would spend one to two hours with every employee (from admin assistant to manager level) to talk about his/her development. I found a leader, not a boss. :))) 

Love my job and love my leaders. :)))

Greetings!

Greetings from me and the all-time photo bomber - photo taken using my pristine iPhone 5S Gold, tempered glass screen protector and phone casing!

A pro photo of iPhone 5S Gold.

Finally not living in stone age. :DDD

Mr Ah Beng who owns the handphone shop "Love Mobile" at Nex remarked, 

"Wah, you made your iPhone 4 look like iPhone 3 omg, hahahahaha. Got chipped off at the edge, and also water damage. Like that I very hard to sell leh."

That's how I got pressurised into buying the tempered glass and a high quality phone casing. 

#Spent$140inphoneshop #3HilariousAhBengsinLoveMobile #oneofthemlookslikeHaHa
Hahaha, did I use hashtags correctly?

A Lesson from Lexie.

Lexie is the first puppy I was assigned to ever since I joined SOSD. First pup assigned but third to find a new home.

At the adoption drive, she was so bubbly and naughty; she can't keep still for a second and find joy in disturbing 3 of her other siblings in the playpen, so her fosterer has no choice but to segregate her from the rest and take her out for walks several times throughout the drive.

At the drive, she was not a popular puppy as she is not pretty to begin with; she is brown and tanned, she cannot compete with Yogi (my other assigned dog) which has a evenly spread black patch on her top and a white patch at the bottom.

(This is Yogi.)

On top of that, she has so much energy to expel, oblivious to the fact that she is actually being over-friendly in greeting other pups and humans. The other brown pup, Evie, a feminine girl with good temperament was never angry with Lexie even when she was treated roughly and everyone who came to the playpen loved Evie and quickly labelled Lexie as "naughty". 

Lexie never had more than one potential adopter in our once-a-month adoption drive when other pups can get more than 4 people vying for him/her at the same time. And that one potential adopter wrote his/her name down for her only after some persuasion and recommendation from Eason.

Lexie did not get off to a good start. She did not eat or sleep well at a factory site until she was discovered at 3 months old, and was moved around from fosterers to potential adopters and vice versa for around 5 times throughout the next 3 months, but it did not bother her as much as it bothers us. She continues to find joy in her daily life, greeting people warmly when she meets them.

First Potential Adopter was a 13-year-old boy, Eason (my good friend now lol). He loves Lexie to bits, but his 24-year-old sis, who has been terrified of dogs all her life, shocked the whole family by proclaiming bluntly, "If you keep Lexie, I will leave the house for good!" (Similar to something which I recently told my mum, "MOM, if you throw away my pillow, I will leave the house for good!" And she was like -_-", "how old are you already my friend?")

And so, she went back to Fosterer, Gillian, after a week. 

Then came a 2nd Potential Adopter who was very keen to give Lexie a good home. We all thought it would end well but much to our dismay, it didn't. Her son developed some allergic reaction towards her, and we said if she could wait it out, her son might just develop resistance and be okay soon. However, she could not afford to take the risk, and we were disheartened by the news. 

I asked if Gillian could foster her back again since it didn't work out for Lexie in her second home either. But she couldn't, as throughout the past month of fostering Lexie, her own dog was very jealous of Lexie's presence and barked at her non-stop. They both fought throughout the day and the din created wasn't exactly music to the ears, so her husband did not want us to bring Lexie back to them. Helpless, she and her daughter spent that night crying over Lexie's plight. :(


It was a few days later when we found an application to foster her. It was a family who can really take good care of her. The daughter applied without her mum's consent LOL. Her mum couldn't contain her shock when we first came to her doorsteps with a dog but became okay with it soon after. She said to us, "It's good to see that my children have a kind heart, that they always want to help people and animals." The senior volunteer who came with me hinted the mum to adopt Lexie but they tactfully rejected her requests, saying that she couldn't commit to take care of her for the next 10 years of her life.


Adoption drive after adoption drive, Lexie was there, leashed by Gillian and Eason with high hopes of promoting her to a good home. But again and again, they left the drive with disappointment.

Gillian would tell me a couple was interested but not interested enough to write down their names for Lexie, another was interested too but not as much as the other cuter puppy. After all, she is 5 months, big-sized and can't hold a candle to those young, sweet things anymore. Success of me finding a new home for Lexie has become even more elusive.


I called up Joel, a 18 year old boy, who wrote down Lexie as his third preferred pup, and he said the top of his list is Yogi (above pic) and no one else. (Anyway nice Joel has adopted Yogi! Yay!)

Then I called up a couple and the lady freaked out when I told her about the adoption fee of $300 which includes fees for microchip, vaccinations and sterilisation. She snapped and retorted that her last pup was adopted and she didn't pay any fee. As desperate as we were, we told ourselves that we weren't comfortable with future adopters who weren't willing to spend a single cent for the pup, and to be patient and keep our faith in finding the right person for Lexie.


Finally, one fine day, my leader told me to follow up an online application for Lexie, and it was an adopter well-respected by many and whose humble personality endeared her to her students. She is ah-hem someone very reputable in Singapore. 

Her current dog was also adopted from us and because how well she was treated she was so beautiful you won't think she is mixed breed at first sight. She eats freshly imported beef, was taken out for walks hourly by the 2 maids, eats on elevated platform so that she doesn't bend her neck to eat.. etc etc. 


Her friend texted this adopter that another dog Apple looks like her previous dog which passed on months ago but when she came to our website, she saw the below picture of Lexie on our website and her pitiful story, so she wants to help. At the same time she was looking for a dog to keep her dog company.
She said Lexie looked so pitiful in the picture with her ears down and all, and she knows she can't leave her alone looking for a permanent home.

During a week of homestay at adopter's house...

Like usual, she did a fantastic job of quickly settling in...

Continues her cheerful self and became best of dog friends with adopter's dog (doesn't look like a mongrel right?) quickly. 
I love this picture to bits! BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR. 

She got the dog to like her and they slept on the same bed. Awww...

It was a very teary moment for me and some other volunteers when adopter texted me that she is definitely adopting Lexie...
"She is wonderful and gets along very well with Ariel. I would be delighted to give her a home and take care of her the rest of her life. Yes I will adopt her."

Now Lexie resides in the biggest house I have ever seen in Singapore, plays on the tennis court in the premises of the adopter's house and eats only fresh top-grade food which was brought in every morning.

Lexie has impacted a few human beings like Eason, Gillian and her daughter, a few other volunteers and me. She has shown us that no matter how things can go wrong, she just needs to be herself and stay positive, and keeping faith that she will find someone who loves and accepts her for who she is, everything will just turn out just the way it should be! She also has touched the hearts of many not because of how she looks, but solely based on her bubbly and energetic personality~~
I LOVE LEXIE, SHE IS SIMPLY AWESOME!

She has brought me to know her adopter, an inspiring, successful but humble person, and also closer to people like Gillian & Eason who love her so much!

Happy 27th Birthday to Me!

Yesterday, Super Junior Assistant Photographer was at a Zumba Event :)
I was so conscious of my own presence that I was hesitant to walk up the stage or to the front of the hall initially, but things got better after a short while of being thrown into a sea of unfamiliar faces - Even I was surprised at myself for actually adapting to the environment.


Most photos were a flop and a total embarrassment especially when placed side by side with the main photographer's, but my most salient achievement in the 2 hours was that my camera elicited a number of excited responses from the participants.

 Shamelessly presenting to you the few photos taken by yours truly, the Super Junior Assistant Photographer who brought nothing but more trouble to Main Photographer.

Yes! I was with him, now a professional photographer!

Upon seeing him, the sense of familiarity came back and I realised that I missed being his intern so much!  

He shared again his knowledge with me and this time it was not on BioInformatics, but his other passion, Photography. 

FREE PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON AGAIN LOL.

Am always a fan of someone who is unassuming, down-to-earth and loves to nurture the young.

(LOL okay I'm not young anymore)

Supper with him was how I spent counting down to my birthday (Although he has forgotten my birthday but I forgive him lol)!

Happy 18th Birthday to me!

Hi dears! I neglected my blog again, I'm so sorry! 
Promise that for the next few days when boss is away, I will update you as much as possible! Will update this entry when I have more time. 

Let me proclaim to you that life has never been better~~ YAY!
Knee is recovering well, Simba recovered, found motivation in my job, found role models in my workplace, met the nicest people in SOSD (faith in humanity restored!), and went to do a house visit at a former MP's place for a dog (she is one inspiring and lovely lady)!

I guess you got bored from me shamelessly wishing myself Happy Birthday at this space every April. And YA~~ After so many years, it is still my 18th birthday! 



1) Camera Lens

This year, I did myself a favor by buying something that costs an arm and a leg for my birthday - a camera lens, something that I always wanted to get but held back for the longest time! Reviews rave about Cathay Photo so I had to check it out myself and this is why I love forums - they never lie, the service is awesome! 

Nikon F1.8 50mm, specially designed for taking portrait photographs and I'm gonna make good use of it for my coming birthday celebration. 
I'm the only lady in the entire shop! Photography seems to be more of a hobby for guys. :D



2) Flowy Grecian Wedding Dress from a blog that gathers ideas for wedding gowns:

Although I need to be alot taller to look good in this.. 

Hmmmm... 

I still have time to choose something I like...

I don't have to be so uptight and all panicky...

3) Aravind Eye Care

Some interesting quotes to share:

"An average surgeon with the right attitude can do wonders for you."

"The contents are better than the container."

(Elaborate on these later. Have to sleep for now!)

Kayden, Happy Birthday!

My nephew's 2 years old!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAYDEN TOH!

(An opinion I have kept to myself for the longest time but couldn't keep it any longer: Why do hairdressers like to cut babies' hair to a crew cut? Come on, hairdressers, you can do better!)

Now Kayden is going through the stage where he starts to imitate what we say and do, so upon seeing us try to get him to blow out the candles, he spontaneously pressed his lips together. The result was of course a pool of saliva which landed on parts of the cake. Eeewwww!

Hope you grow up to be an inspiring individual who is well-liked and respected by others! :D

Do you always meet a talkative friend all throughout your life? 

I think I have met another again. LOL.

Simon, my ex NTU coursemate, just joined our department. COOL. I ran into him 2 weeks ago in our office (either the office is big or I am just too blur.) 

He is one talkative person... and now I have someone to drive me home after work YAY.

And I saw my ex school teacher, Mr Jacky Tan, at the palliative care forum; he just joined the company as a Medical Social Worker! I was smiling to him throughout the forum and Colleague Evon smiled at him with me too. After much persuasion from colleagues, I mustered enough courage to go over and greet him, and although he couldn't recall who I am anymore, but at least he noticed us smiling away at him even when we were a hundred miles apart.

Me: "So sad he couldn't recognise me anymore."

Evon: "Of course la, he got so many students!"

Me: "He used to teach me Physics!!"

Evon: "Maybe this is his passion!"

Me: "Physics???"

Evon (rolled eyes): "NOOOO, I mean helping people. His passion is to help people la."

Niceeee.. My ex teacher is always helping people, in one way or another. :D

"You have never really lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

 -quotes-lover.com

Another piece of good news to share!
The photographer in SOSD, who has been in the photography line for 19 years, is conducting a photography crash course for us for free (so that we can help take photos of the dogs in future adoption drives)..!
It's no doubt a dream come true; I mean, photography class from a professional photographer that can easily fetch $600 per student is now offered for free?
:D
Basic equation of my life:
Photography + FREE Stuff = DREAM COME TRUE!
(Okay don't judge me, I am human.)

The Wedding Gown

Tried on a few gowns before signing with the bridal studio :D
Proudly presented to Colleague Michelle (who just got married) my contract which Simba and I signed with acquiescence to the wedding coordinators' fierce persuasion, but to my surprise, she went "AHHHHH, HJ you should have asked me along! I would have asked for more things for YOU!!" LOL.


I came into the studio, fell in love with it and set my mind on it. Although I might not have gotten everything's worth, but overall my wedding package is pretty good. After all, what matters the most is not the price tag that comes along with it or everything I can squeeze out of it, but it's whether the bridal studio's style matches what I'm looking for. :D


The wedding coordinator got me to describe the sort of gown I like, and after some brief introduction of myself and elucidation of that perfect dress, she defines my style as "Romantic".


After what seems like a thousand years of browsing through the catalogue, I pointed (see below) out what I thought is iconic in the olden days, and she explained that this is translucent so she got me something similar but is opaque lol.

Fell in love with the embellishment on the gown and the sashay bottom, though a bit of layering, lace, ruffles or frills will be great too! Maybe I will add on a piece of off-shoulder cloth on my arm (it's so cool the cloth is detachable)!

Just as I thought the feeling of slipping into a gown would be nothing but blissful, to the contrary, when I saw myself wearing a gown for the first time in front of the ceiling-length mirror, I felt utterly, absolutely insecure in an environment filled with other customers since I looked so tanned in that pure white dress and weird without much make-up on. LOL. My shoulders went all the way down I was practically hunching and the coordinator reassured me and said while she adjusted my posture, "The thing about wearing a gown is that the bride wearing it should feel beautiful and confident in it. Everyone will be looking at you the moment you walk into the hall, so you can't be hunching this way." Hmmm..

U know, actually u don't need to trim your tummy unless u choose a mermaid cutting gown! For all other types of cutting, they design it such that your waist looks way smaller than it actually is! Lol no time left so I'm going to focus on arm slimming only!

Cousin said she wants to tag along the next time I go for gown fitting LOL! Told her that I wanted a toga but she advised me against it, saying that it will not be as elegant as other gowns.. Hmmm.. What do u think? I love Grecian... If you watched Thor 2, U must have noticed the gown that Natalie Portman wore in ancient Greece. :D

Autonomy & Mastery

One of the benefits that you can reap from a young, growing organisation is that you find yourself surrounded by opportunities to stretch your potential and mature along with the organisation, and this means you get to climb up the career ladder quicker. However, this also means you need to thrive as fast as you could but at the same time know how to pace yourself so that you don't burn out (which is unfortunately something I'm struggling with.)

"Change is the only constant." was what Boss said to me. 
"For the next 5 years, we are going to do more. I give you the autonomy ah, and you have to learn how to manage everything yourself and eventually gain mastery. I'm not saying that everything is gonna be smooth, in fact I'm telling you that the process is going to be painful, and I want you to learn from it."


4 months now and I am exhausted. Lol.
This was never what I wanted nor expected. I JUST WANNA BE A HOUSEWIFE!

I found 3 more aspiring housewives-to-be at my workplace and this is us not paying attention in the cooking class. 

It's not easy to find an inspiring boss whom you greatly respect and nice colleagues. So ya.. I'm going to stay in this and be as dynamic as I can be until Simba strike it rich!

S.E.A Aquarium

FINALLY... the S.E.A Aquarium on my first official OFF day. Okay, I admit I'm SLOW, don't judge me, let it go ok!


Here are some of the photos:
:D
They will come with a description later (sorry dears, I'm still not good at time management)!

TELL YOU SOMETHING EXCITING! I somehow landed myself in a small assignment to take photographs of an event in April! :D Thank you for the opportunity!
COOL! I'M SO EXCITED!

Running Man, Bridal Studio, Wedding Banquet Venue.

Running Man Ep 188.
Running Man went to Australia! Made me feel like going Gold Coast too (especially when my colleagues Iris and Evon will be going there (separately) this coming May.) 

Thanks to High Definition Technology, the kangaroos and esp koalas on screen are so cute!!!!

Rain is on this week's episode and I didn't know he can be so funny beneath his stolid exterior as portrayed in his previous concerts!

RICO-A-MONA Bridal.
The assigned bridal studio that will be providing my gowns, make-up and hair-do. I was actually debating between them and La Belle Couture, but what gave them the edge over the latter was their solid reviews mainly from my colleague Michelle and few other friends (whose perception of beauty is similar to mine).
Yes, it is one of the studios along Tanjong Pagar Rd, found in the heart of alternating bridal shops and Korean BBQ restaurants. :)



Rendezvous Hotel.
After sorting out several concerns, we eliminated Marina Mandarin, Mandarin Oriental, Shangri-La and a few others from our list of potential wedding banquet venues, and eventually settled on either Four Seasons Hotel or Goodwood Park Hotel. But due to parental objections (on my side) regarding the escalated costs, we have to confine our choices to hotels that were minus a star. 

And finally... We compromised and Rendezvous Hotel was the best choice made out of this compromise. They allowed for our wedding to be held in a ballroom (Simba only wants a ballroom), was well-received by the previous users on food and service (my concern), gave a reasonable price quote (my parents' concerns), had no pillars in the ballroom and no additional charges for another projector (photographer's concern), and was reliable based on its long history (his parents' concerns).

A Chinese wedding (or any other wedding) is never easy since it is never up to 2 persons and is organised based on a collective decision.

"Think about what you want, not what others want from you."

Something my ex-internship supervisor said to me tonight (Yea he still keeps in contact with me, he's so cool!).

It's nice to have someone listen to you once in a while. I find myself encouraging new friends (lol it's weird that some people whom I just got to know came to me with their problems) and guiding them through their problems, but don't feel comfortable talking to them about my insecurities. 

The moment he asked me, "How are you?", I began to flood the chat with my never-ending messages, knowing that he will offer some sound advice. I told him that I need to step out of my comfort zone to be more effective at work, and went on and on about it... My boss' expectations, the company culture, my awkwardness... blah blah blah...

And he casually said, "idk la, perhaps i older so wiser ma. I learnt something... Think about what you want, not what others want from you."

These words really hit me hard. Yea, how many of you and I are guilty of pleasing people all our lives that we forgot that we are actually living out our lives, that we play the main lead of our lives, and that, you and I, we, are writing our own destiny?

Together by AndroidsinBoots

The wedding video that makes Simba say "Yes! Let's engage this videographer!" the moment it ended

when we fall in love (Split-Day-Edit) from AndroidsinBoots (Still+Motion) on Vimeo.


Simba's ex hall friend just got married on 1st March and the theme for her gate crash is Running Man! AHHHHHHHH~~ They went to Korea for their wedding photoshoot and look totally like Koreans in the shoot! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I ALSO WANT!

:(

Now in order not to be a big copycat, I have to make my gate crash's theme either "The Walking Dead" or "The Big Bang Theory"! LOLOL!

Dress the best men and bridesmaids like zombies on my wedding day? Should I? I'm gonna dress like corpse bride!

People in the workplace

During our orientation, one of the slides that was flashed pointed out 4 types of people in the workplace.

Out of 10 people in the workplace, there will be:

1) 2 people who make the world go round (the achiever),

2) 4 people who watch the world go round (the complacent one),

3) 3 people who don't know the world is going round (the blur one),

4) and 1 person who slows down the world (the rotten apple).

I'm type 3! Lol! Fortunately CEO only talks about identifying type 4 and exiting them. 

Types 1, 2 and 3 are safe!

Social Work, Adoption Drives

Part time Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work, NUS, 1.5 year.

Should I? More importantly, can I afford the time?

:D

Taken by SOSD photographer:

Adoption drive 12th Jan, Cornerstone Cafe.

Brandon. Applaud this guy who comes to every of our drive in hope to one day find a dog he loves! 

He has been so persistent that every vollie knows who he is.

And 皇天不负苦心人， finally today at Pet Expo he brought a puppy home for a 1-week homestay!

One of our vollies, Sylvia, who was in-charge of one playpen together with me and a few others. 

Pups are always so food alert, aren't they?

"Adopt me! I used to be a street dog, and I didn't eat or sleep well for the first few months of my life. All I ask for in the next 10 to 15 years is that you give me care, and I will always stay by your side and will always love you."

Some pet lovers brought their own dogs along too!

Vollies of Playpen C!

Adoption drive 23rd Feb, at SOSD Rehab Centre

Yes, he was here again.

Kids interacting with Shinny, our shelter dog.

Our 1 month old pups, just rescued from Jurong industrial area!

"Dear future adopter, when will you come... and be my angel?"

Potential adopter filling up her particulars for me!

LOL. Talking to a boy who wishes to be a vollie!

Yes, I'm an awkward person and I'm proud to be one!

AndroidsinBoots & Naumi Hotel

AndroidsinBoots Wedding. ~6,500 likes on Facebook and rated 4.5/5 by 63 satisfied customers.
It was the photography studio handpicked for our ROM wedding as its works are phenomenal!
Unlike Mojoideas, my most preferred studio which did not rely on its outward appearance to make its mark, the splendour of AndroidsinBoots made my day the moment I entered. The photographer is an art of his own; he is one of those students I saw in School of Art, Design & Media during my NTU days! The bold dress sense & that scarily perfect English. U know what I mean! And he's one handsome young man. Lol.

And am I so right! The photographer & videographer are from NUS & NTU Arts School respectively (I'm definitely not a stalker, I just need to do a background check on the people I will hire for my big day.)

Like Mojoideas, the photographer & videographer are brothers who own the business together! :D 

Impressed by the the wedding videos the photographer played for us on their studio's big screen, and wants to engage them on the spot. Their style incorporates vintage, sentimental and some form of nostalgia, and their works reminded us of the films I watched just to scrape through my Arts & Humanities modules.

Simba prefers AndroidsinBoots over Mojoideas but for me it's the other way around! But it's okay cos we will be engaging both and I have absolute faith in both photographers/videographers that they will do an exceptional job! I'm over the moon that as packed as their schedule is, they happen to be available to document our big day. I'm counting my blessings.. :D And thank god I have picked up an innate OCD-like behaviour from Simba about 5 years ago, so I plan ahead of time now.

Click here to access an album in their Facebook page to get a feel of how their newly set up studio looks like!
And click here to view one of their many marvellous works. :D

Of course, not all is perfect. I was contemplating on whether to engage them at first as the photographer who met us was a bit awkward with us, and was afraid that these awkwardness may extend to my wedding day. However, Simba spoke up for him and said that not everyone is a conversationalist, even for people who run their own business and 1 out of 3 of us is an introvert. So okie lo... Let's just give him a shot. :)


Moving on...
Cloud 9 Pool & Bar @ Naumi Hotel is the venue chosen to hold our solemnization. :) :)

We went down to the sky bar and were very pleased with the service and most of all, the view.
Few pictures we took using his iPhone 5. 

If you plan to have an event in the hotel, they provide you with complimentary beer of your choice from the bar.

I regretted not bringing my digital camera along that day, as iPhone 5's camera doesn't do justice to the beauty of the backdrop seen from the bar. 

See you guys there on 7th Sept at 6pm! :D

And we bought a resistance trainer from Mustafa Centre, after I've seen it in some of Running Man's games. Here is Mr Showy with all his ostentatious poses.

Stationary Bike in my room; Mr Showy bought gym and physiotherapy nearer to me. :D

Lexie, our rescued dog.

I was featured in a Pet Taxi's Facebook page after I took Lexie, our rescued dog to the vet using its service.

Lexie looked so funny and still cos she gets carsick too, just like me! She freaks out completely whenever a car door is open; I had to calm her down before carrying her (I'm strong, she is 10.1kg!) into the car. 

We have found Lexie a new fosterer and we hope that someday this nice family can adopt her. :D

If you know of anyone who wishes to adopt her, let me know ok?

Breed: Mongrel

Gender: Female

Age: 4 months old

Personality: Friendly and likes attention

Rescued from: Sungei Kadut

Paper trained and listen to commands.

Don't mind my messy hair. Lol. Simba and I had been walking this hyperactive dog for 2 hours before we finally can get a cab! Simba had to run with her at times to keep up.
:D

Engineer

Awesome news to share:

Simba's request for transfer to the engineering department has been granted! :D

He will be officially an Project Management Engineer by Apr this year.

:)

Okie tell u something that I became stupidly worried (apparently now I know it's over nothing) when he broke the news to me. 

Don't get me wrong, I was thrilled.. Until I came to the realization that Engineers work with a higher health hazard risk than some of us. 

A friend of mine who used to work as an Engineer at DSTA gave me the feeling that the position takes you into experiencing cool stuff since she gets to leave her foot prints on top of physical airplanes! 

But then again it's so dangerous walking on a plane!

This led to me thinking that simba is gonna learn how to do checks on planes and some military vehicles. 

I went on to think about the accidents that have occurred on Engineers for the past ten years, and one of the most recent was the one on the navy ship; the Engineer lost both his arms and legs on one typical day of doing his routine checks.

Of course I'm not going to stop him from pursuing something he might enjoy but I would always want to give my 20 cents worth (although he already knew these common sense stuff).

"On site... U need to be especially careful and not be your usual blur self. Be alert at all times ok?"

"U know, sometimes when u wish for something and one day when u finally lay your hands on it, u start to find that maybe that something isn't so great afterall." (Cos Simba didn't study aerospace engineering, so it might be tough u see!)

In the end, after a million years, he told me that he's not gonna be engineer engineer. Instead his position is more to management. 

It's no wonder I don't perform at work; I spent time worrying about things that don't exist. Lol!