Always A Snack Time

Last Mon hubby & I went for comprehensive health screening, that's from his company.  And I was just shocked to discover that I'd put 3kg in the past 1 year!!!! 

Actually I shouldn't be too surprised as there's always endless supply of bites in the office.  Besides those bought by the ladies, my team travels frequently & here're some of the snacks they brought back for the past 2 months..

Nice chocolate from Bulgaria. 

V brought this back from Melbourne & I love it!  So placed an order to K who went back to Sydney to work for 2 weeks.  Nice!

And he also bought Lamington.

Chongqing tidbits from Sha.

Even Jen who visited HK, brought some nice egg rolls back.

Goldilocks from Manila.

This the latest (last Thurs).  Boss bought this in Osaka & he asked his wife to specially deliver a box each to E & I as he made his next trip without stepping into the office.  It's something like mochi in original & green tea flavour but a lil too sweet.  I'm touched though :)

Once Upon A Time @ MBS

I had my company Dinner & Dance last Fri & the theme was Once Upon A Time.  It's a night of fun & photo taking :)


Which character is this? ;)






A group pic

 


It's such a coincidence that my boss dressed up as Peter Pan haha!





Table hop! 
We're sitting far apart that night - my team's was right in front of the stage, the VIP table,
but I chose to sit with my friends which was right behind, near the entrance.


 

 

Posing with good friends






Busy night as I was moving from table to table.  Food wasn't the focus for most of us!





An inter-unit picture :)
The one with turban is our big boss.
See 朱葛亮 in the middle (he's actually my boss when I first joined in 2008)?
 When we're about to take picture, he started to look for something on the &
those around him helped in the search too.
Just when I wondered what was lost, he whipped up his feather fan (朱葛亮's signature)
out of no where.  Lost & found!  Ha!



Those in the leadership team dressed up as Indian royals.



Pretty witch

Some pics! (taken from friends as I was busy catching up with different friends and didn't get to take shots of some interesting characters)



When Genie met Moses :)



Prepped!

For this Fri's Dinner & Dance.  With matching gold shoes! :D

Bored!

Had lunch with colleague of another department, Cindy, today. Felt lazy so we ate @ our office cafe on level 7. After a short lunch, we're bored so started taking many shots of ourselves. Anyone there who know us must be thinking we're mad. Haha.

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Salad Lunch!

Recently I'm into making our own salad & glad that hubby likes it too. To spice up my lunch in office a lil, I volunteered to treat a few colleagues to salad with my self-made dressing for last Wed's :)

Since there's some left over soba, hubby & I decided to have it on Fri as well... & brought for another 2 colleagues who didn't get to eat on Wed & asked to try.

And all of them liked it... this the greatest encouragement.. for all the washing, cutting, boiling, packing into late night after work.  Gotta applaud hubby's support.. in doing everything together with me excitedly though I know having salad as lunch wouldn't be his first choice.. hee.

They've been asking for it now & another requested that I do the dressing for her ;)  I'm trying to negotiate barter trade though - my dressing for her strawberry cheesecake (Jelly Hearts) :P

Soba Salad with Sesame Miso Dressing :)

twelve cupcakes

A lil farewell gift for the tea lady in my office; yesterday was her last day of work.

She, from China, had been very nice.  During the few weeks when I was coughing very badly, she served me 2 pots of hot water (1 in morning, 1 in afternoon)... I'm very grateful because only Partners & Directors are served with beverages.

Some pretty cupcakes & God's words for her :)

Happy International Women's Day! :)

All the ladies were greeted by the big bosses with a stalk of gerbera once we came out of the lift on individual floors.
What a pleasant surprise early in the morning.. ;)

Farewell - The Countdown

A pre-farewell group pic with my friends across the building a week before my last day.
Thanks Irene for bringing the camera :)

1 June. My farewell lunch (from Irene & Cindy) @ Manna Korean restaurant near office.

2 June. Farewell lunch, from my team, @ Far East Square's Pagi Sore.
The only gentleman's my 'just-turned-ex' boss.

3 June. Last lunch with Irene & Zoey.

3 June. Farewell dinner @ a friend's restaurant - Raw Kitchen Bar... the ladies' treat. They're really nice to me :)

A real cool place to chill out (mosaiced her face who doesn't like to take pic, especially candid ones... I don't want to be killed!).
Raw is along Upper Bukit Timah Road, at the former Old Fire Station, now known as Spectra. It used to be the house (dormitary) of the Captain, where Raw is.

Well, another chapter closed. Other than some valuable sharing from my boss (WL), the biggest gain I've got for the last 8 months is Friendship. Much as I complained that the place was a cold place, I've made quite a few really nice friends. And after I tendered my resignation, I was fully booked for lunch every day (nope, I don't do dinners... except with those ladies & they should feel honored haha. But that's after they'd pestered me & been so persistant for weeks..).

I think I can make friends quite easily and I'm glad about that... though I must say it takes 2 hands to clap. But I can be selective too... there're some people which I just don't like to befriend with ;)

Ce n'est qu'un Au Revoir!

This was what my boss wrote in the farewell card.

Yes finally... I've closed this chapter of a decade yesterday. Was in a pretty emotional state the whole night.. I didn't cry during the farewell part though, which my colleague/good friend & hubby expected I would.

From being offered the job to leaving, I was given only 11 days to wrap things up & accept the fact that I'm really leaving this time round. My colleagues were surprised by the short notice as well.

Last Wed, some colleagues gave me a farewell dinner treat @ Plaza Market Café. It's a great one & they enjoyed it too.. especially the seafood. :)

An all-girls pic.

Last Fri ie. my last day at work, a close colleague & a few others wanted to have another lunch with me before my departure. Turned out that their manager, who's always treated me well, bought us lunch.

I received a few gifts too. A beautiful French crystal vase, a Chomel clutch bag & a nice cup with an extremely adorable cat (meant for my new workplace). Another colleague knows I like her delicious 糯米饭 & prepared that as my breakfast for 2 mornings (Thurs & Fri).. that's so sweet of her.
I was very touched by their nice gestures, to think that I've all along been in a stand-alone department & didn't really work with any of them.

And for 2 evenings, hubby came up to help me with my personal stuff that I supposed to bring home. I felt like I was moving house...

A farewell card for me..

The last day in my cozy lil office

About half an hour before I left, there's a bit of a commotion in the office...
My intention was to go around to take some pics with my dear colleagues before I ended my last day of work. My boss (who just turned 'ex') happened to walk into my room & a colleague mentioned that to him. So he asked me whether I wanted a group pic & I thought it's a good idea. Then there he went, gathering everyone at the reception area for a picture together. He even "conducted" the whole photography session!

Another one. You know why? Because our dear old lady (next to boss) MIAed during the 1st session & after waiting for a few minutes we went ahead without her. Then when she reappeared, my (ex) boss went around & summoned everyone again for another group pic. I was quite astounded as he, who usually expects everyone of us to be at our workstation all the time, disrupted his staff from their work twice! :P
I felt a lil bad for my colleagues too as everyone's rushing to end a day's/week's work on a Fri evening.

Well at least, it's a happy & heartwarming farewell for me.

Leaving the office with my dearest hubby did help a whole lot. :)

Spring cleaning

We're busy packing & cleaning up at home since 3 weeks ago. Every weekend was tiring (except the last.. when it's more like a grooming weekend for us.. hee). I wasn't spared in the office too.

My desk was in a huge mess!

Zoomed in.
Mostly tidbits lying around the desk & in the cabinet. I'm guilty of munching while working.

Cleared! Like it more like this :)

Also threw away lots of papers that didn't need to be archived.

To brighten up a monday morning

Let me introduce my friend in office.....

It's a wrist-rest hubby dearest bought for me half a year ago. A cute lil thing that never fails to cheer me up especially during days like this.. Yawn~~

She's since attracted lots of attention.. including my boss asked me was it useful in supporting my wrist & the big boss of our company (my boss' mentor) who kept staring at it while talking to me. Finally his curiosity got the better of him & he asked me "what's this"?

Shaken

The tremors on Tue had affected us in office. Where was I then? In the toilet.

I was meeting Celena for lunch @ noon. So about 10 mins before 12 I went to the loo. When I was still on the bowl, suddenly I felt I was spinning. My 1st thought was "how come I feel so giddy??" Then I wasn't sure whether it's the building or me because I couldn't see clearly the 3 walls of the tiny cubicle.. seemed like the walls were swaying! Thank God I'd just finished my business & I got up to see the water in the bowl was swirling. Then what appeared in my mind was "earthquake in Indonesia? Or our building collapsing?!?!" What I feared most was the latter as the few of us have always doubted this old building, based on some past experiences.

Thankfully I was still calm enough to flush & wash my hands. When I reached the office entrance (no I didn't run frantically), I saw my colleagues rushing out. When Claris saw me she asked me to evacuate immediately. In a split second I wanted to go & get my bag but with the advice from colleagues I headed straight to the staircase. Only then I felt the tension.

When we were going down the stairs, 1 of my colleagues slipped & accidentally pushed the other 2 in front of her. I was shock to see the 3 of them fell right before me & quickly helped 1 of them up. But we're still not moving... & then I saw a pair of legs were laying on the floor. It's our near 60 y.o. receptionist. Poor lady.. she must have already gone wobbly & the fall had aggravated her fright. As a result all the people (including our neighbours & students upstairs) were being jammed up there. So I used up almost all my strength to get her up & half-carried her from 5th level to ground floor. A big relief when we finally went out of the building. Quite drama right.

Very soon after, we got news that there's an earthquake in Indonesia. After some minutes of commotion, we went for our lunch together. Thereafter, though much to our reluctance to return to the office as we didn't trust our building, we still went back around 1.40pm.

Then about 10 mins later, we got the 2nd round of tremors which lasted only less than 5 secs. Very coincidentally, it happened just when I was about to go to the toilet again. We're so ready to evacuate again but ended up only 1 colleague ran down. But according to this colleague, many of our neighbours went down after the 2nd round. So are we the gungho ones? Me? Definitely not.

Apparently, my toilet story became the joke of the day. Ok at my expense lor. So I also gave my sound advice to my female colleagues for that day - "bring your handbag along when you visit the loo".