Wednesday, January 31, 2007

 

Updates...

Have been coughing non-stop… think this is what they call the 百日咳…

Anyway, I am a little stressed out… I am really afraid I am not able to perform and disappoint people… Oh well… See how lah…

Last week, I brought some work back home and only to stare at the papers and either switch on the tv or go out and dun return till almost midnight… :p I am bad… :p Maybe I am really stressed out by work and so I dun really wanna do it over the weekend…

Anyway, last Sunday, I took the opportunity of my parents not working and brought them out for an outing. I told them I will bring them to some places they had never been to before and without telling them much, drove them out…

Luckily, they enjoyed the trip and we are looking at going again this coming Sunday…

I brought them to Teo’s Plant Farm and showed them what an aquatic plant farm looks like and show them the Lim Chu Kang area whilst driving there… Then I brought them to Hay’s Farm, where my parents actually enjoyed looking at the goats and we brought back 5 bottles of goat’s milk and a pineapple. Organic one, ok… We then go to the dragon fruit plantation/farm next door, where we ended up buying dragon fruit drinks for CNY and a pot of ‘Sweet Chrysanthemum Leaves’. The plant is a small stemmed plant which has very sweet tasting leaves. The aunty taught us to use the leaves for brewing tea and cooking sweet soups and desserts. Very sweet indeed!...

After the dragon fruit farm, we went to Bollywood Veggies. We had a very unique lunch there, with papaya chicken and aloe vera tofu as part of the lunch menu… We took a tour of the BIG farm there and saw quite a bit of stuff that we will really not see in urban Singapore.

We then proceed to Choa Chu Kang where we visited Qian Hu Fish Farm, Woon Leng Orchids and Song Orchids. The weather was good and they enjoyed themselves. By the time we went home, we had 1 carton of drinks, 1 pot of plant, 1 big pineapple, 1 carton of goat’s milk and 1 big bag of snacks…

For this coming Sunday, I think I will plan to start earlier and include places like the Jurong Frog Farm (which I have no idea exactly where it is), Farm Mart and the Thompson nurseries. Want to include the Pasir Ris farms, but they are really too far away… :p

Sure end up buying a lot of things one...

Friday, January 26, 2007

 

Everyone has their own problems...

And I am bogged down by mine too... Very sian cos CNY nearing, yet problems keep popping up... I really do feel like giving up... Cos it is affecting me quite badly... Sigh...

Monday, January 22, 2007

 

It's time to post pictures...

I think I got Photobucket going right now... :p Time to post pictures of my tanks and my plants... :)

CNY is coming soon... All the music and the red based decorations... Time to spend (a lot more) money and start buying loh!... Hee...

Sunday, January 21, 2007

 

Crazy about orchids...

Hee... Second trip to the orchid farm at CCK area today... All thanks to Phillipe...

The first trip I bought 3 pots of jewel orchids... Today, I came back with a pot of budding Vanda 'Mimi' something... Theflowers are very sweet smelling, something like narcissus... And I also got myself a smaller pot of orchids, dunno the name of the species, though...

Spending more and more money... And this time not on fishie stuff anymore... LOL!...

Better control myself... But hor, with all the stress building up due to work, this little bit of retail therapy on my hobbies seem to make me feel better... :p

Anyway, now my corridor garden project seems to be near completion... Now I need to think of whether to work on the cabinet on the corridor and convert it to a vivarium/terrarium for more, especially emersed aquatic, plants... Am just afraid it will be messy or attract ants/cockroaches or receive complaints form nosey neighbours...

Friday, January 19, 2007

 

I feel burnt out...

Uh huh... And I am doubting my own capabilities... Will I disappoint? Or am I already a disappointment?

I seem to have had several mistakes in these 4 months plus...

And I seriously need to take a break...

Monday, January 15, 2007

 

Work work work...

Work work work...

Work work work...

Work work work...

I left office at 9pm today... Hope before the end of Jan things will be better... At least the aircon's on this time... Hee... Made me recall the ad for Jack Neo's newest film when Fann Wong asked to have her department's aircon switched on for OT work... :p

Anyway... I wanna take a break before CNY... My room needs picking up, man... So many things and so little time... :p

I can do a garage sale on office stationery alone! :p

Saturday, January 13, 2007

 

I am coughing to death...

*Cough!* *Cough!*... *Sigh*...

Coughing non-stop... No matter what I eat/drink or avoid eating/drinking... Think I am having both the heaty cough and the cold cough... as in the Chinese medicine type of coughs...

In the day time, my cough have phlegm.... the yellow type... And it seems to get better with the cooling stuff and water... But in the night, the phlegm disappears and there's a lot of clear fluid... And it seems to get worse with the cooling stuff...

I will try ginger at night from tomorrow... Hopefully, the coughing will cease shortly... It is bad for my throat and I can't talk leh... :(

Need to rest badly... Going to sleep till as last as possible tomorrow... Only got tomorrow to get enough sleep... Next week will be busy again!... :/

Friday, January 12, 2007

 

Broke my record...

I never worked so late... Left office at 10pm... And it was still pouring...

And I took 6 cab trips today... Another record... 4 of it was due to a VERY silly reason... Dun ask!...

Arrgh!!... Anyway, I started to notice back stabbing wounds... Hmm!... :(

I WANT A GOOD REST/SLEEP!

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

 

I wonder...

Ya... I wonder...

Well, I shall let things rest... For the moment...

But I will always be wondering this...

Monday, January 08, 2007

 

So so sick...

Ya... I almost cannot breathe... Have to open my mouth and breathe... Sian... So busy today... So, got another MC for tomorrow and since my boss told me to rest, I will just sleep in tomorrow...

I sure hope I will get better soon! There are SO many things to do this week!... *Sigh*...

There is something wrong with my Photobucket account... Always cannot upload pics... And I have so many pics I want to share... :/

Sunday, January 07, 2007

 

Jewels!

I went out with some AQ members to an orchid farm this morning... Thanks, Mr Ng and Mr Sng, for driving and organising! :p Or was it a nursery? Nah... Think there's no difference lah... :p

I had never seen so many jewel orchids before... In fact, my first time seeing them on sale (besides those on sale at Singapore Garden Festival, that is... :p)... And I bought 3 pots of different jewels... They are now residing in my 'A River Runs Through It' vivarium in office... I hope they will do well... Then I will have an excuse to go back and get more! LOL!... I would want a bamboo orchid and more jewel orchids... And the vanilla orchid looks cool!... Hee...

Anyway, while I was enjoying the outing, I find today's weather is BAD... It is SO HOT!... I feel more sick tonight... *Sigh*... Obtained an MC for tomorrow, but cannot exercise it... Monday morning got meetings and there's something important in the afternoon... I will try to rest, though... Can't breathe... And my head... It is aching so0 badly... I need to sleep... :p

 

Starting to get sick now...

Kena throat infection... I think it is a combination of the work stress and not enough sleep... My throat is in pain... and I dun feel like talking... And I feel a fever coming...

And I cannot take MC on Monday cos Monday will be BUSY... *Sigh*... Damn sian...

And to make it worse... I had to wake up early to work and wake up early to go for an excursion...

But I will ENJOY the excursion... :p We are going to some orchid nurseries... Yah... I am starting to keep orchids and airplants... :p Show pictures later... Having problems uploading them to Photobucket...

The gathering with my ex-colleagues was fun... As usual. :p I am damn lucky to meet some very nice colleagues and can acknowledge them as not just colleagues, or ex-colleagues, but as good friends. :) Thanks, HA, SF, CT and EH! :) We should have this regularly...

Friday, January 05, 2007

 

I wonder...

If anyone is still reading this blog as I had neglected it for months... :/

Anyway... I can always use this as a venue for me to vent my thoughts and frustrations... :p With or without an audience...

Work is TERRIBLE... I think I am over worked... Burnt out would be a good word to use... I am so tired, always feeling giddy, headaches, cannot sleep well and my back is killing me due to a slipped disc... The past few days/couple of weeks is just driving me nuts... So many things to do and so little time... And emails are still pouring in... And there are tonnes of stupid people who dun read emails but email you when they encounter problems BECAUSE they dun read their emails... Really feel like holding their heads and knocking them on a wall or a table...

Then that day that stupid air con stopped working and killed my tanks and mood...

*Sigh*... Pissed off now... :p

Luckily, tonight's meeting some ex-colleagues to makan and talk nonsense... Should feel better after that before plunging back to work tomorrow... Yes, a Saturday... *Sigh*...

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

 

No air con!!!

There's no air con at work and from the heat of things... I was in office last evening, and found the office hot. Yes, it actually is hot. I think the aircon had been of several days already.

So... My tanks are all heated up and drying out... and my crickets all died... The air was too hot and humid for them and they could not take it...

Now I cannot take it!... And I had barely sat here for an hour!...

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

 

Update...

Hmm... An update...

I now have 12 tanks!! Breakdown:

Living Room/Balcony
1 x 4ft planted display tank
1 x 2.5ft Sultan Fish tank - working on a plant filter for it soon

Bedroom
1 x 2ft planted tank for Endlers' Livebearers
1 x 2ft vivarium
1 x 2ft terrarium for hermit crabs
1 x 1.5ft planted tank
1 x 1.5ft paludarium (upgrading work in progress)
1 x 20cm dry terrarium for airplants

Office
1 x 2ft vivarium
1 x 9" terrarium
1 x 18cm vivarium
1 x 1.5ft tall terrarium

And I am thinking about sneaking 1 fishtank and a couple more terrariums for office... :p

I think I am CRAZY!...

Pics will be posted later... ;)

Monday, January 01, 2007

 

Happy New Year!!!

Happy 2007!!!

And with the new year, I am hoping to revive this blog!! :p

Time for me to post stuff again...

But, unfortunately, I left my card reader in office and dun have the use of the car today... :/ So, I will post the New Year's Eve countdown pics either tomorrow or on the 3rd!...

Anyway... I spent New Year's Day cleaning up and tidying my corridor 'garden'... It looks horrible now as the new plants have yet to settle down. Hopefully, in a few day's time, things will look better. :)

And I am going to work on my tanks and to start a dry terrarium for my airplants and set up a plant filter for my Sultan Fish tank later... :)

Happy new year! and Selemat Hari Raya! Soon it will be Chinese New Year!

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