Work

The last week of R&R before starting work was wonderful.. Met up with jiali and yanglin at holland v for lunch on wed. Yanglin kindly treated us to crys jade la mian xiao long bao. :D We had a nice chat during lunch. Kinda miss our ICES days.. too bad alex wasn't around. ;P Went on to tampines after lunch to get my white belt and key pouch from espirit as it was the last day I could use my 30% discount voucher. I wanted to get lime juice, and was worried that it wouldn't be sour enough. A nice boy behind the counter offered to squeeze an additional 10 limes into my juice.. hee. It was totally sour and yummy!

Went down to the american embassy on thurs to apply for my visa. To my relief, the interview was not the least bit scary. It seemed more like a conversation than anything. :) I was told to collect my visa the coming mon and got it without a hitch. ;) Met mum and sis for lunch at crys jade ginseng (korean) before going down to marina square for some shopping. Strangely, I felt really tired throughout the day. Perhaps it's the stress of applying for my visa.. Got a starbucks frappucino with coffee jelly to perk me up for tutoring later on...

The next day, mar, peach and I went cycling at ecp early in the morn. We spent 2 hrs jetting around, mostly chatting, before taking the bus down to orchard. At my insistence, we lunched at zingdo where I had my beef bi bim bap (again). Hee. I'm definitely a creature of habit. We shopped around, and I bought a lovely denim skirt from mambo.. There was this sale at isetan orchard and the skirt was really worth it. :D shh. don't let my mum know though. She was alr hopping mad about the 2 denim skirts I bought in hk.. Mummy can't tell them apart though. :X

Sat was peach's birthday!! Haha. I met shan at singpost for breakfast at coffee bean.. and went to the cll with her before meeting peach and meera at raffles city for lunch at aiwo.. It was totally delish; I stuffed myself silly. Peach had no idea though, what laid in wait for her.. ;) *sneaky grin* We took the train with meera to orchard (she had to go to work at borders) and went shopping. I bought a pair of beige-coloured 3 inch stillettos to wear to work (but have yet to wear it).. and Peach got her black bolero which caught her eye the day before.. :) The 2 of us had lots of fun wandering ard.. And then came the time to take the train back. I told peach that I'd be gg to my grandma's house (which is v near pj's house) for dinner.. On the train, I asked if I could go with her to her place first at my grandma was at her friend's house and forgot about the time.. *chuckles* To pj's surprise, mar, huiming, jo and tim were inside her house!! Haha. Apparently pj was suspicious as she knew I called her mum, but didn't guess we were throwing her a surprise bbq party! Hee. Sharm, pradeep and li hang turned up after that and we had a really fun bbq+chat even though the fire took ages to strengthen.

Hmm. Somehow what I did on sun eludes me.. I'd presume I spent the day lazing ard at home then. Hehe. Ahhh. And gave tuition in the aft. :)

Mon was my first day at work! I was pretty apprehensive going into a totally new environment and all, but my worries were unfounded. There's many nice friendly interns in my dept! :) Esp allan who's my predecessor teaching me the ropes. I'm really glad for him since it'd be way more difficult being taught by my busy boss.