Monday, July 09, 2007

a new home for my blog.

i've moved!!!

from now on, (or at least for now), i will be here! so please visit me there. but i have no tagboard! :( boo hoo.. still figuring out how to use that thingy.. so bear with me.

see u there! :)

Sunday, July 08, 2007

my new fur.

ok. after much thought and determination, i finally decided that straightening my hair is the best way to go for my norway trip cuz it's much easier to manage. plus i wunt really have to cut it..


one last look at my (not-so-curly) curly hair.. i was so nervous, the hairdressers were so amused! haha.. ask joanne if you don't believe. sigh. haha. went to do this on friday so this post is kinda late but still! so yup. the 'before' shot.


in process. (they applied some ultra smelly cream thing to my hair and had this ufo thing swirling around my head. it was nice and warm. made me sleepier than i already was..)


ta-dah! after doing my hair, went out with joanne and her friends who brought us for supper. or at least wanted to go for supper but they took like 1 hour driving ard, only to decide to watch a movie in the end. so silly. so yup. this is the 'after' shot. not too bad i guess. normal right? haha! guess this would be my original hairstyle if i didn't perm it. but it is much softer with the treatment that i had too! :)

anyway, so this is just a short post to show off my new hair. still getting used to it. really like that it's softer. but kinda missing my messy hair. sigh. oh well. thinking if i shld cut it shorter. but shall leave it for a week or so for now then decide. :)

Saturday, July 07, 2007

random zoo shots

4 more weeks till the end of my internship at the zoo.
4 more weeks till i fly off for yet another long trip.

sigh.

about this trip to norway.. i have mixed feelings. my emotions have been messed up about alot of things lately. sigh. i need a clear sign where i shld go, what i shld do! ah, oh well. perhaps this trip will shed some light... hopefully. shall not get too emotional / drama. haha.. here's some photos. (though not great photos...) enjoy:


that's me, the limo (8-seater) buggy that i drive and will miss dearly when i leave.. *it's the same buggy i took my buggy test with.. * and 2 ah mengs on board! haha.. me and desiree had to transport these huge ah mengs back to the store. haha.. must have been a pretty funny sight cuz we were carrying it half-way round the zoo to get to the buggy then had them as passengers as we drove to the warehouse. :)

some scenic shots. nice right? makes me feel like i'm in korea or something. don't ask me why but i do. haha! that's upp seletar reservoir anyway, i think.

here's another attempt to take in the scenery. both man-made and natural. sighhh..

this poor field mouse was caught in the trap at our office. was walking to the toilet and saw it. poor thing. i seriously don't think it is a rat but everyone thinks it is. heard how they will exterminate it, contemplated with some female colleagues about releasing it, was 'warned' by ops not to, went for lunch, came back and it was not there anymore. heard that they were either going to ask Origin (our external pest exterminators) to kill it or they will drown it in HOT water. yikes. i don't wanna find out where it went to, what happened to it. sigh..

the first dinner outing with the rest of the interns. went to botak jones (ang mo kio). the food is not too bad. the menu is interesting. heard it's pretty famous too. had lamp chops with rosemary. not too bad but the lamb was so small.. yikes. the chicken wings (from the other stall) were not bad though.

took a picture of a nice flower there. my photography skills are not too bad huh! haha.. the flower is so clear! heh. actually there's a function on the casio that's for flowers so i used that! haha....

meet melvin, writer of men's health magazine. he came to the zoo cuz he was writing a column called "try-guy". basically, he goes round to try all the fun stuff (for free! and gets wonderful photos of it to keep.) and write a couple of pages on what he did and stuff like that. a pretty cool job for a pretty cool guy.

here's melvin with mahout ng (the guy who always asks me for coffee), the asst. head elephant keeper. both very nice guys. ng might not be friendly at the start. was pretty afraid of him at first but now, he's really nice. will miss him when i leave. together with all the elephant trainers. they are the nicest pple to me in the zoo! :)

melvin is so lucky to get to bathe the elephants. something i wish to do too. seems easy n fun but i think it's really dangerous! he's really damn lucky. sigh. i hope one day i will get the chance too!!!


had my first half-day off work last wed. went to run errands with lionel and saw this as we were leaving the bank. this must be a lady driver! hello kitty dude! quite cute.


there was this whole bunch of flowers near lionel's place. they were all so lovely i didn't know what or how to capture it. so i quickly snapped a shot and left. think the owner saw me. haha. i love frangipanis!! they're pretty.. i think i will have them if i have a nice big garden next time. sigh.

2 pink cars seen on the same day! what are the chances. this car is totally diff. nice too.. was parked outside some church. and this nun was staring at me as i took this picture. was it her car?!?!? hmmm.. haha.

photoshoot for sam (zoo curator), suria and leela. leela is the fat one. really fat and round. couldn't stop laughing when she walked out. haha. but she's really cute and old.

duncan felt like mac's yesterday. and so he bought for the whole finance department and all the interns.. such a sweetie.. but it must have been pretty expensive.. each had coffee and sausage mcmufiin.. nice.

2nd outing with the interns. from left to right: meiyen from HR, song jie from finance, desiree from sales. we went to the prata house at thomson i think. haha..

from left to right: xinyu from advertising and promotions, and duncan from finance. check out the amount of food that we ordered man..

i had kosong prata, bomb prata (which was really sweeeeet! like really sweet cuz it's all condensed milk..) and mushroom n onion prata (which was customed made.. haha. it was not on the menu but i ordered it like how u order an omelette at a hotel breakfast buffet.. haha!), mutton curry and teh peng!


duncan's plaster prata. not a particularly attractive sounding prata name but i think it looks pretty yummy. sunside up on top of ur kosong prata.. with mutton curry, that should be good!

a closer look at my mutton curry! i must say it's not the yummiest mutton curry in the whole wide world but it wasn't too bad at all!


yesterday, natalie (writer) came to interview Night Safari porcupine keeper. and had to take some photo shots too. that's the indian crested porcupine btw. we have the malayan porcupine and indian crested porcupine at the Night Safari. the malayan are the smaller of the 2. ai ping (keeper) was feeding them banana and sweet potato.. they are noisy eaters and would finish everything.. even the banana skin.. they are rodents, according to ai ping.

ok. i hope this post was not toooooooo confusing. it's a compilation of the different highlights for the past 2-3 weeks. haha..

ciao~