UNGLAM AT HER BEST

I had a quick dinner at this pasta/pizza/salad place just 5 mins drive away which had a pretty good ambience. Like Marche style! I love coke in glass bottles. Just makes drinking coke an even more enjoyable pleasure. With great company , it just makes it all better. Talking about just everything, our lives and the countries we’ve been to, the future and all. 

It’s freezing today.
Currently at 10 deg and it’s already 10am. Highest at 18 and lowest at 5 today. May very well become an ice block just sitting here.
But I know I will miss this place.

The familiar day to day faces, the returning to the k.room to see all of their tired faces, the eating icecream late at night playing games in the freezing cold, the good dinners we’ve had, all the 2ndhand smoke before going up to our rooms, the ever friendly frontdesk and concierge, random german lessons from steffi and henriette, grampa-friendly colin and gavin and wendy wells, whom is pregnant CONGRATS!!, the friendly smiles of delegates and ian and keri and the whole team, and the first minute I stepped into Europe.

Almost every building here has a history of its own, a significance to Germany’s history, and it makes the experience of seeing it even more precious. 
I guess it’s really an experience, one that I’m lucky enough to have.

2 days to home. I’m gonna miss it here, the place and the friendly people..
but I can’t wait to get home (:

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JESS: here’s to you, and our to-be meet up when i get back (:
PY: kindly arrange carousel buffet!!!! HAHA
LAU: COME ONLINE!!!!!! HAHAHAHA
MAK: hope your exams are over now!!!
SHU: EAST COAST KOREAN SOON!!!
WANLING: you secret stalker!! dinner soon also!!!
ADDIE: yes yes okay see you pom pee pee tell me date and time again!
JIUN: BUY SOME GUMMYBEARS BACK!!
FIO: Kopi when???

KOONCHIIIIIIIIIN: Hope you’re happy there now (: *big big hug*

PEARL: WHERE IN EUROPE ARE YOU?? Your postcard, if you’ve mailed it, is not here yet ): 

so many plans!
can’t wait to get back and see the girlssssss (:

Right now, I just feel alone.

Bel in Beautiful Freezing Berlin.

That of course, only applies to me. Everyone else seems to feel 12 degs is normal.
NO IT ISN’T IT IS BLOOOODYYY COLD.

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Entry is going to be long, picture-less and probably only to my own understanding.
don’t say i didn’t warn y’all. 

It’s been a hectic week since the actual conference has begun.
Arrivals was in huge bulks from early morning till late.
Preparing all the departure notices was a nightmare.
Skipped most of my meals in the last 3 days, which is really an amazing feat for me. Funny enough, I don’t feel THAT hungry. 

Security level is way too high. Even higher than summit conferences and all. Crazy shit. 

Still cold, and bad weather is hailing from the Hague and has hit us yesterday, what with howling thunderstorms and even colder wind. Outside temp is supposedly higher.. ytd highest was 30 but it felt like 13. Expecting 20 plus today but currently 17. Kill me, someone.

Have been feeding constantly on chocolates. Growing fatter ):
Can’t wait for Fri and Sat to come so we can go out and have some fun! (if there isn’t much to pack, that is!!)

The Berlin wall grounds were amazing. With lots of history of every monument. Managed to wake up at 5am on some mornings to go for gym and jog and once, I ran and found my way to the Memorial Church which is a UNESCO site and it was amazing seeing it. Didn’t bring my camera along though, so I figured I could run this morning except.. I slept through 4 alarms and only woke up cos I asked front desk to give me a morning call. HAHA.

So now, I’m back at my badging/registration/hospitality helpdesk and watching the crowds go by (what crowd??? whole hotel almost booked by us)..
& just wondering in amazement,

how beautiful Berlin is.
I can make do with the coldness in exchange for such fresh air, huge portions of food and friendly people.

I’m officially known as “the little one” at the front desk ahahhaha. No name leh, so sad. But they’re crazily nice people.
For example,

me: hello, yknow everyday you guys clean up the room and place 2 chocs on the bed? can i have milk chocs instead of dark ones please?
pretty frontdesk girl: *looks in confusion cos her engrish not good* you want more chocs? no problem!!
me: no no, can i just switch to those chocs under 50% (cos chocs here go by percentage), if it’s not too troublesome? if it is, it’s alright.
pretty frontdesk girl: NO WORRIES!! NOW I DO IT!!!

That was say, 10am in the morning.
At about 3pm, I went up to get some stuff and..

VIOLA! I saw a whole bowl of at least over 20 pieces of 34%, 38% and 43% chocolates on my working desk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D
Chocolates are cheap here! HEHEHE

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Another example:

At 6pm, still sitting at the desk, feeling a little weary from the long day, the security head saw me yawning and walked over.

old man: little one, you look so tired!
me: yes, long day!
old man: let me tell you a secret. we’re going to do a 1 min lockdown for all doors. but nobody else knows!! so just watch their expressions (i.e. the 2 security guards at the lobby)

2 mins later, all doors stopped spinning and working and it was freaking hilarious cos the 2 guards here went like, WAD HAPPENED OMG and they started panicking and walkie-talkie-ing the whole world only to realize their power on the walkies have been switched off too haahahahha.

I’ve picked up a couple of german lines too!!!!

Guten morgen! Ich haisse Christabel, ich komme aus Singapore!

WAHSEH I can speak that fluently lor now!!!! HAHAHA so proud of myself.

Shall go learn a couple of lines from steffi now!!!

byeeeeeeee

ich liebe dich.
(i think it’s spelt like that.. i love you)

Bel in Beautiful Berlin!!

Flight here was uneventful, a little turbulent-y, transit at Frankfurt was crowded and tiring, slept more on the 1hr transit flight than on the 12hr main flight -.-

First day was checking in, and walked the WIDE pavements to town to buy stuff and groceries and all before heading back to start work -.-

Day 2 was work work work and dinner at a cosy restaurant with clients and the whole team by a beautiful lake.. I swear pollen is everywhere if you dine outside. Fluffy cotton-wool looking stuff that gets stuck on your food and is flying everywhere.. like snow.. but.. not. 

It’s day 3 now.
Full of work.. My watch/phone/laptop timings are all screwed up by the stupid time difference. My watch skips a day and when I adjust, it forwards another day. Damn annoying. The time difference is a bit irritating. When I’m having dinner at 8pm berlin time, jh’s preparing for bed ): When I get to bed finally, it’s about time people wake up. A bit irritating and sad.. But thank you those who talked to me online and kept me a little closer to home (: (PEILIN I KNOW YOU WANNA SEE YOUR NAME LAH LOL)

Intercon is a nice hotel and all of us except my boss got super huge rooms and we have no idea why AHHAHA. But quite scary.. because ours are huge rooms, they are all in corners.. 3 different corners. So we are very far away from each other ):
Daytime is relatively comfortable and night time is horribly cold.
Daytime here is 4am-9pm.

CRAZY? HAHAHA Thank you daylight saving.. now we must work more.

The meals here are all potato-meals. Scary.
The first night, we dined at the restaurant and I read the menu that goes like..

Main Course – Chicken
Side Orders – 1. Potato Gratin, 2. Potato Salad, 3. French Fries, 4. Mashed Potato, 5. Baked Potato
?????
And I saw a group of delegates eating a main course of 3 huge baked potatoes with mashed potatoes and fries as side condiments?????
What is this world coming to?

And oh.. no lunch today. And guess what they told us to do?
Go ta bao from our breakfast buffet.. like put fruits and bread into plastic bag and sneak off. AND THEY REALLY DID IT!! WTH?????
The asians’d rather starve than to do such malu-ing stuff :X SO yes, I’m starving. HAHAHA 

Interesting place.
Lotsa support staff from Netherlands (YES YES BEAUTIFUL WINDMILLS) and they are probably the nicest people around! Actually everyone’s been very nice so far..
hopefully it continues through the entire event.

I miss home, miss the comfort of my room and bed.. hate the loneliness in the room, hate the jumpy feeling everytime I hear a noise from the next room.. hate waking up knowing I’m far away from home. Hate having to ration my calls to a min and hate not hearing your voice before sleeping every night.

& it’s only day 3..
10 more days to go.

Once in a lifetime opportunity.. I’ll enjoy Berlin.
And with you, on our chance to come together (:

Missing y’all (:

(And I realized, all of you are assholes lah. Read my blog but always don’t comment, then msn/sms me to tell me you read!!!!!!)

SAD!!! ):

Alright gotta go back to work now..

 LONG ENTRY I KNOW. SORRRYYYYY ):

<3!

I’ll be off for 2 weeks.
Hopefully, I will find time to update every couple of days or so.

Scared, and not really looking forward to it.
But okay, think Europe, think Germany, think Once-In-A-Lifetime opportunity,

Try to be positive.

& so..
please misssss meeee okay?????
Like see me online or what, just talk to me okay, be friendly!! HAHA.

I’ll miss you, more than you’ll ever know.

goooooodbyeeeeeeee (:

IN MY HANDS NOW!!!!!!!!!!

after murderous modules like accounting, marketing and blah.

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM A(n) (under)GRADUATE!!!!!!!!

WHEEEEEEE CONGRATS CLASS OF 2009! (:

 

paddles up, family!

random mix

school-esplanade run

swimsuit babes! chey hahaha

liew jiajun, tan weixian, lin junhan, tan zhiying

first photo with ling'er! (:

in full force!

wheatley & nanhua = (:

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Yet another picturesque post. (actually got more, but the last 6 dint manage to get uploaded properly, so they cant be seen ): grr)
Random picture from older entries and whatever I can find on my office desktop (which isn’t a lot).

Memories, memories.
Life’s filled to the brim with looking-backs, what-ifs, if-onlys..

For the first time in my entire life, I was rude to my mom. Via SMS of course. In fact, it isn’t even rude. It’s just.. not as nice as usual. Maybe sometimes she really needs to wake up, grow up and get a life.

I can’t wait to train later. 50 mins to go, 6pm sharp outta office doors, on the 605pm bus, 635 reach Shell Busstop, 640 reach backgate, 645 outta toilet changed and all, 650 campus run, 710 finish run …

Plans plans.. and plans are always made to be thwarted.

For now, enjoy the many pics!

(:

(long/emo/sweet entry – BEWARE)

to all who’re going through a rough patch in life,
to all who’re trying to pick themselves up after a bad fall,
to all who’re struggling to find themselves,
to all who’re trying to be better persons,
to all who’re making more effort to love their loved ones,
to all who feel like dying but hanging on in there,
to all who feel unjust and angry at anything,
to all who need that one hug to make it all better,

One big Hug makes a lot of difference.

To Koonchin whose plans have been thwarted for now, but is staying strong.

To Puiyin who needs to be strong for her family.

To Shurun, whose birthday is coming and is turning 20!

To Pearl, who is flying off to Europe for her exciting mademoiselle tour.

To Junling, who is studying hard now.

To Lausanne, to find herself again.

To all my team mates who are training hard for upcoming races.
-for corinne and wanling to heal from all injuries
-for elaine and eunice to row harder, faster, fiercer!
-for jh, alv, jj, ck to never lose heart in the sport that brought us tgd (& for NCC if you guys are joining(: )
-for lawr, alex, alph, jiashan to keep going, in mental and on waters
-for joel, weihong, marvin, nicholas, jeffrey, glenn, shitan, and batch to set greater goals and bring the team even higher 
-for collin and all alumnus for the lessons they’ve given us and more
-for all who left the team, for some reason or another, to still be with us
-for new freshies to be everything we were, and more 

To my colleagues who are rushing out tenders day in day out.

To my family who is trying to be the best they can (except for one man, whose name I shall not mention)
-for my dad whose heart is bigger than the ocean
-for my aunt whose calls never fail to make my day 

To all whose names I did not mention, but are close to my heart always.
Those who’ve at one point in time or another, stopped to lend a helping hand or listening ear just to make my life a little better. Those who go all out just to put a smile on my face. Those who helped make me the person I am today.

To you,
for, only the person you love and who, truly loves you, can bring you the extremes of emotions – to the pits and back up again. Whatever the next step may be, I’ll always keep you in my pocket ;D love you, baby, even if you are fat =D     

It’s mean and harsh and I wish I didn’t have to say this but I will.
I hope one day, 30 years down the road, it’ll be you, sick and all alone, having to deal with everything your kids throw back at you in your face.. wishing someone will just take your hand and assure you everything’s gonna be fine..
& I hope if it ever happens to you, you’ll look back and realize what a son of a bitch you’ve been, for all your hurtful manners and doings and hopefully, remember where you come from and how you managed to grow up. Without either of them, you are zilch. They do not owe you a single thing but they brought you up to the best they could. I believe they deserve to be forgiven for any wrong-doings they have done to you at this point in time, cos after all, they ARE your fucking parents.
And if you think I don’t know how you always look down on me over the years just cos I entered a Chinese secondary school instead of your favorite English ones, and then going into poly instead of your favorite JC.. rmbr, you were everything and less. Sometimes, I really pity your son. He doesn’t seem to have a single say in whatever he wants to do. Every school, every tuition class, every sport, every cca, every activity, and in fact, every single moment of his life seems to be dictated by you.
& I despise you, and how you ruined so many people’s happiness with just your mean thoughts and scarring actions.

I used to wonder why nobody ever defends you.
Now, I understand and like them,

I will never ever defend you. Cos you are possibly one of the most hateful persons Ive ever known, family or not.

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I should really go confess and do something about this really angsty entry. But tonight, I’d like to sincerely wish all the people in that same category..

Hope you’ll have a taste of your own medicine one fine day.

GOD BLESS.