Will be moving back to Blogger so here's the new add: www.veggieyx.blogspot.com. Entries will be posted there but photos & links will still be here till I'm free enough to figure out the settings there.
Hope you're still reading on!

Posted some photos on Gallery. First was the one showing the presents I got (excluding the ones from I got the week after). There was the wallet from Jess , a Wallet Shop purse and Neutrongena lip balm (ya, very dry lips I had) from XH and HJ, an expensive card from colleagues.

Not to forget there was the box of choco that Amu bought from Sins. No wonder the chocs cost so much - they are really good. Just one will be sufficient to improve any bad mood.

There was also the Precious Moments music-cum-jewellery box that colleagues bought. It is so expensive! Wasted their money I felt.

So tired and sleepy these days. Wondered why. Oh did I mention that I had cold war with colleague? And he's on such good terms with the senior that I think I have little chance if I do appraisal for this job. Sigh, and I was hoping to use this job for appraisal.

It's a tiring Friday...

Had a very bad sleep. Woke in the middle of the night at 3+am to see messages on my phone. And they weren't complimentary msgs plus work-related, so totally pissed me off and my sleep was disrupted. Should write more quality entries. Pardon the lousy quality these days. Sian, time to log off.

It's been a real long time since I last updated. Was at a client place without internet access. Besides, was really tied down by work over these weeks. It was overtime work without dinner, and going home just to shower then sleep. Had a lot to say (as usual) but guess the work drained my thoughts out of me.

Am considering whether to shift back to Blogger.com, for Tabulas seems to be going slower and harder to log on. Besides, heard from Adigal that Blogger allows posting of entries via email. Is that so and how do I do it?

Gotta go. Till then.

Received 2 late birthday wishes. Thanks to Qiu and JX! It’s ok about being late J.

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To make a count, this year’s presents are not a lot, since I did say it wasn’t necessary to get me presents. Besides, everyone’s busy. So here’s what I got: a wallet from Jess, a card from office pals and a purse from fav hall juniors - XH and HJ. Practical enough for me and the card was real cute.

<br><br>It's been a bad day for me, on top of lack of sleep and sick. Still cursing the stupid weather for spoiling my birthday.

It’s my birthday. Thanks for all those who had sent me little messages, ranging from:
1. Az at midnight
2. HJ, Xunster from hall
3. XY (same birthdate as me)
4. BK
5. BH with the first birthday song in words, incl *claps*
6. colleagues JX, Amu (who said I was anti-socialite), Kenny (who kept saying I was ‘cute’)
7. sis, with the whole birthday song written in wrongly spelt words (cuz youngsters’ SMS lang) except for my name and ‘to’
8. pri school mate Julie who actually remembered my birthday!
9. SM, only one from JC gang that remembered
10. my fav pal from hall, Jess
11. BQ
12. Jo, Don from hall dance
13. longest known pri sch fren Adigal
14. Jaime, SH, PK from office
15. HL & RQ, fyp mates who made it minutes before midnight As to how I spent my day, well, didn’t really do much. More of lazing around. No, there was no party or such (there never was anyway). But I had a lot of after-thoughts today.
1. Never think your birthday means it's YOUR day. Once you have that thought in mind, somehow, you expect more from people around you and expect them to give in to you. It's just another day really. And taking a day off despite the busy work schedule (ya, this boss was kind enough) only make you think it's even an more important day (of cuz, you worked so hard for that 1 day leave, must not waste it anyhow). Am sorry to those who were feeling I expected too much.
2. Growing older means the birthday celebration changes as well. Not that I celebrated my birthday every year. Iin fact, the last time I blew out candles was when I was 19, then 18, and then it was 8 before that (ya, trying to explain why somehow I thought birthday cakes are a nice thing). Despite I always claim it was ok, it would be nice when your closest friends remember it and celebrate it with you (ya, i know it's not fair that i say and expect differently).
3. Overheatiness (caused by hot weather and lack of fan/aircon) can make people really flustered, even easily agitated. Losing temper becomes easy. Losing control of your mind is also inevitable (at least that’s the case for me), and to do such on your birthday makes the day a sad one.
4. Communication breakdown causes misunderstanding.
5. Conflicting thoughts (you know, when the angel and devil in your mind come out to duel) puts one in a dilemma, and thinking too hard sometimes gives a splitting headache. In addition, your mood turns bad, and you do anything/everything hoping to make yourself better (though usually failing, and make yourself worse).
6. When you feel down, a good solution is to find someone to talk to, not necessarily talk about what’s bothering you though.

And a lot more that I'm now too lazy to type.

Apologies to Sam and Ling. I forgot about staying over at your place. It slipped off my mind cuz I was really busy at work during the week. Next time k.

And a posting meant to be posted earlier:
Today, I attended one of the worst courses I ever did. It was boring, both the topic and the instructor. And I was still half-shocked by the difficulty of my current audit job at a new client from yesterday. It was so tough to tide over the long 8 hour course (thankfully he ended it early at 4+ pm)!

Had a lot to write initially but am just too lazy to type out now. That’s the thing about writing – you need to pen it down once you had the inspiration. JX just lent me a rather inspirational book but it cost too much for me to buy and keep. A recent hobby that I have is trying to buy good books and keep, but that’s an expensive hobby. Latest good books I’ve read: Tuesdays with Morrie…eh the rest are in Chinese.

A colleague just messaged me “Yanxuan’s birthday is this Friday, just to let you know”. Ha hahahahahahahaha.. How stupid (pardon the word) can that be? Eh wait, I’m not here to promote it’s my birthday coming hor. Merely wanted to talk about how careless people can be. Then again, since I’m on the topic, those who have been asking what to get me, I want $$$. Haha.. The things that I want to get, eh.. basically new specs. That’s all. No clothes, accessories, bags, shoes etc. Really. I have enough of such. It’ll be nice if you all get me some vouchers/discounts for specs (not real expensive type) or book vouchers (from stores like Kinokuniya or Awareness Place, if you know). Nope, I don’t need shoe vouchers or such. Thanks lots. Or simply, just get me a card and write some heartfelt words. That will be a best present!

Ok I'm sian till I went to change the colour scheme of the blog and it's erm... too pinky... but I'm now too lazy to change liao

I am so sian at work, not that I have no work to do but I don't know how to go about starting. Starting to understand how difficult it is to be a senior, trying so hard to make sense of what your assistant is writing (which you think is crap and grammatical/spelling errors make it worse) and at the same time, trying to figure out how the business works. That's really tough.

And my senior left before noon cuz his son was hospitalised, so the chatty male colleague kept talking to me. What he spoke was actually quite interesting and he's quite an okay guy, notwithstanding he was the guy who said I was cute. Anyway, I guess he said that of a lot of gals so I believe (hopefully correctly) that there's nothing of any sort.

Stress of the audit peak is creeping upon me. Can feel my stress level going up, and it doesn't help that I've been sick recently. Moreover, this is really a shi**y job, with its accounts messed up and last year's file in a similar state (basically, almost the whole team on the job last year has left the firm). Maybe I should take Adigal's recommendation to start typing out the resignation letter (just in case, you know).

My hate for audit is starting to go up the tangent curve.