Rainy day is definitely a very good day to sleep. Too bad that I have to wake up to go to work >.< I only slept at 1am yesterday so I'm quite restless in the office. Been wanting to fall asleep while doing the website changes in the office. I think I'm going to sleep early today so that I won't fall asleep in the office tomorrow.

Last night, was having some talk with my father and sis about Japanese surname. How come they got 4 letter characters in their name. My father said Japanese don't really have a surname. They actually got their surname from where they lived. So my father told me this story as an example. I was kind of laughing away. Let's say this guy is called 太郎 and he lives at the mountain top. Mountain top in chinese is 山上. So you combine together and you have a name: 山上太郎。lol. It's really funny how it's interpreted but I think this is how they got their surname.

Let's say for my sis's favourite idol, his name is called: 山下智久。 From the first 2 characters, you can tell that his ancestors was living below the mountain that's why the 山下. 智久 is his name.

Haha. Facscinating how japanese names derived. Ok. That's about all. I now going to surf this website that I've recently came across by chance. http://www.dannychoo.com
All you need to know about japanese culture. I think "ero" guys may like this site. Please do not be mistaken. I wanted to browse that site is because it's really a good site that depicts and writes alot on Japanese street culture and those daily life which you will not experience even if you go there for a week holiday. Really an eye opener for me but till now, my view of Japanese culture is the guys there are really "perverts", "guy dominated" and "girls are just merely a pretty vase with noo brains". Ok. I think I'm writing more like an ah-mah. haha.

I had too many photos of my neigbour's baby because he's really cute and smart but very naughty haha. So I just do a quick 5min photoshop work and combine all the photos. It's not the impressive one but I thought I just wanted to show his photos because he's so cute!

Wow. Today is a humid weather. I was perspiring even at home. Imagine if I go out now I think I will be wet all over. Maybe I should hang out at shopping centre instead of staying at home to enjoy the air-con haha.

Thinking of posting some photos of my sis's cranberry cupcake she made for all of us. It's quite tasty. We bought the cupcake paper from Daiso because it's cute with the cartoon designs. But I think the paper is not as good as the conventional one because it's not oil absorbent and it's oily when you touch it.



Enough for everyone!



The cupcake paper design - Rabbit = Usagi in Japanese



The cupcake paper design - Dog = Inu in Japanese

It was already 1.34am when I writing this post. Suddenly, I just felt like writing. Just came back from our company gathering at one of our colleague's house at Sunbird Avenue (just opposite Singapore Expo). Her terrace house was impressive with all the beautiful furniture and looks so high class.

After having our dinner, basically they had talked almost for more than 2 hours on many things. You can say that I'm just there to listen since most of the time the boss is talking to our colleague from "How to treat a child with high fever" to "The IT industry on whose in the top chart sales" to "Some experience they shared about doing business in China". I agree some topics are quite interesting but I just feel a sense of annoymity. It's just like a generation gap between a parent and their child. I just feel like I'm "small" or I shouldn't be there kind of feeling. Haha. Not sure as to why but this is how I felt.

Meiling got a $200 voucher for being good in customer service. Good for her. Boss was telling me to fight for the next round which would be around christmas time. Yup, $200 is alot but I feel that I'm not that kind of person who would "chiong" just because of that $200 voucher, especially when I really dislike customer service job. Sometimes, I get irritated or annoyed when I'm focusing on doing my design work and the phone suddenly rang on me! I hate being disrupted by calls or unexpected customers' walk-in when I was in the "peak" of doing my work.

I know I sound unkind but this is really how I felt. How are you going to force me to like doing customer service when I'm so dedicated to doing design work? Maybe, this is not the job for me. After doing for 2 years of facing all sorts of customers, I'm still cannot get used to the disrupting calls and walk-in customers. Afterall, I'm myself, I do what I do best. I think facing all sorts of nasty customers gave me quite a good experience on this field but I wonder, Customer Service, is it really something that anyone or everyone can do it?

Ok. enough of my ranting. I need to focus my energy more on my freelance project! hehe. I think this is really what I enjoy!

Sometimes, I feel that I have alot of things to write but it just disapppears in my mind when I started to write it down.

I think probably because of the air-con in our office, getting infected by a flu virus can be so easy and now I'm getting a day mc to rest at home. It's a good opportunity to tidy up my messy room and organise my things since I was unable to do that during the weekends due to my sickness. Even had to wait 2 hours to be able to see the doctor just for 5 minutes and get my medicine before leaving beauty world centre for home. During the 2 hours, had lunch, went shopping around although there's really nothing for me to buy. Eventually I came across a top which I think was not bad but was interrupted by my sis to ask me to go down to the clinic as it was near my turn to see the doctor.

An encounter with a Japanese Culture

I wanted to share this small incident with you about how "too" polite Japanese are. This Japanese customer came to our office to review at his data. Showed him the DVD. After finding that he's data was not there. He explained to me in Japanese and I was stunned by what he was trying to tell me. Then I continued by saying that if data cannot be recovered then we won't charge them a cent. He then said "sankyu" to me.

I told him to take back his "thumbdrive" and you know what he answered? He raised his hand pointing to his thumb and said "thumb?" I was like shocked as to what is he's trying to say. I can't be bothered to explain to him so I just went over to my desk to take the thumbdrive.

After signing the necessary forms, I passed him the thumbdrive and he used both hands to take from me. I was quite surprised. Does he need to be sooo formal. Then I told him "sorry" and he told me a whole lots of "sorry, sankyu, gome" and even "BOW" to be me! I was shocked. Before he left the office, he also "bowed" to all the 'staff (as if we cared)" in the office before disappearing from my sight. What a polite guy. I wonder if he still remembers this is "Singapore" and not "Japan".

Ok. I've been very busy lately. Got a freelance web project from Jane. So that means I can earn more pocket money hehe. And I've been organising a Cutie Spree to order from them directly. That explains why I need extra pocket money, because I ordered 10 over items (which includes my sisters)and it costs more than $150. Omg. Burning a big hole in my pocket. So I've been controlling myself from spending $$ on clothes when I go out shopping nowadays. But I still spend on other things hehe, but not as much now so I guess that is an improvement?

Autumm collection from Cutie! Kawaii Nee!






(wanted to buy this, but it looks too winter look which I don't think is suitable in Singapore)

How I wished there is winter in Singapore and there will be more selection of clothes. >.<

Ok I will end here. Short it is but I will try to write more if I have the time.

Wah. Only when people complain would I write a new post on my blog. Ok, I've just finished watching the remaining episodes of jdrama Proposal Daisakusei. It was very touching. T.T. I recommend watching it! 4 out of 5 stars. And Yamapi was so Cuuutteee in the show! Normally I like watching JDrama's Gakusei Life and Jdrama consists of only 12 episodes so it's not as draggy as Kdrama. I still have 2 more jdrama that I've bought that is still waiting for me hehe...



A present for my friend. The reason that I'm posting this picture is not because I want to boast about buying a present for my friend but because "SOMEONE" said that the RIBBON that someone made was VERY NICE and she wanted to take a photo of it. I think I can also do some advertisement for PERLINI SILVER since that bracelet she was wearing was bought there.

Haha. Now is my time to brag about my NEW IPOD NANO! So thin and small compared to my previous IPOD MINI. I chose blue since my previous ipod was a pink one. A lot of them was asking me "Green is also nice, how come you didn't choose?" Why people keep asking me to take green? I know green is nice, but I just feel that blue and pink are the only outstanding colour for an ipod. My choice was actually getting a black but there is no black for a 4GB capacity.





Better don't brag too much. If not "SOMEONE" will said that I'm HARPING on my new IPOD again.

Some photos I took last week when I went with my parents to eat the 七月 dinner or feast. I won't say it's really a feast but what I like is to see them bidding the items. The highest amount to $2000 for a very big bottle of Wine which I think is around 4 litres.





My uncle and my cousin. She really likes taking photos. You can see from her pose that she was ready for this shot. haha.



This one was taken by my cousin. She saw my phone and wanted to take a photo of her father haha. After that, she spend most of the time playing the Java games in my handphone.

Ok. My update is done. I'm off to do my dad's stuff again. Ja ne.