Shan & Esther & Ting: June 2007

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Durian Durian

Had durian just now..yummy
Burp..my mouth still smell durian
Lalala..shanny gonna get jealous with me
(To shan: but my durian is the cheapo 3 for $10 kind 1..
cannot be compared to what u ate that time..ahem)

My way of eating durian..using bowl and spoon..hohoho

The Esplanade.. =X

Sunday, June 24, 2007

FONDUE

Typical fondue fountain

DIY fondue

Ingredients:

Half a bar of baking chocolate from Phoon Huat, melt it with the help of a rice cooker and a little water (milk will be better)
Finishing product will look something like this

Various fruits:
Bananas

Strawberries

Melon

Voila!!
Your own DIY FONDUE
HOW SMART

FRIED RICE

The biggest bowl of fried rice I've had in my life:

G's mum was kind enough to cook us dinner and we were given this huge bowl to share.
Conclusion: We did not manage to finish it.

Loves,
Esther

Friday, June 22, 2007

Animal Handart

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Interviews

3pm Interview today
10am Interview tml

-shan-

BBQ

- Qiao Wei -
1) 40satay
2) 20otah
3) 1 pack Crabstick
4) 2 pack sausages
5) 1 brush
6) butter

- Alan -
1) Cold Drinks (e.g 1 row greentea, 1 row lemonbarley, 5bottle water)
2) Sambal Sauce

- ShAN -
1) bbq pit (maybe will book the BBQ Pit at the beach) / wire gaze
2) aluminum foil
3) charcoal
4) 2 tongs (for food and charcoal)
5) starters
6) lighter

- Esther -
1) Lay's BBQ Potato Chips (1 pack, Large)
2) Twisty Curry Flavoured (1 pack, Large)
3) Marshmallow (1 pack, Medium, plain)
4) Sweet Potatoes (Around 10)
5) Sweetcorns (Around 10 halves)
6) QW's mini Birthday Cake
7) Salad
8) Plastic Plates (Around 10)
9) Plastic Utensils (Around 10 pairs)
10) Plastic Bowls (1 pack)
11) Tablecloth (Will try to get it)
12) Value Pack Tissues

- Ting -
1) Seafood (e.g prawn, stingray, sotong, salmon)
2) Trash Bag

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Britain's Got Talent

Origami

Was linking thru these webbies sometime back, have fun browsing thru:

http://www.origami.com/index.html
http://www.anikaos.com/kitties_mixed.html
http://masak-masak.blogspot.com/ http://ieatishootipost.blogspot.com/search/label/Peranakan

-shan-

Shan Day on 20 June 2007

Day Overall - Below Average

Early Morning:
Cramp Train, guy step on my foot and DID NOT apologies. Yucks. Whats wrong with the men in the morning? Mute?
Reach work, went to buy breakfast (fav bee hoon). So happy that it have not been sold out. Normally is all out by a certain time. But the best is yet to come. Some yucky people, who don’t know their work, only know how to take other people credits was queuing behind me. -_- with the noisy gang. YUCK~!! (me: ignore, pretend I did not see them. Bought my BEE HOON and went to office)
Reach Office, open my computer, put my bag, open my email, sat down and have my lovely bee hoon, hopeful that I can finish my bee hoon in peace. (Which normally I don’t get to do so) Just as I thought~!! Emails to asking me to do this do that by certain timing. Big Boss ask me to schedule meeting in the afternoon (URGENT~!)

Late Morning:
So, finish my bee hoon, did what I was asked to do. And back to the time consuming and detailed task. Which is a new setup of a spreadsheet, backdating to 3years ago. -_- (I AM GOING BLIND) Got a call for another dept, asking favour of teaching her how to build the intranet correctly. Go thru with her step by step at her desk for about 30mins then it was 12noon.

Early Afternoon:
I lunch in, cooking Maggie mee with a pot from my colleague, using mircrowave and hot water. Then went ahead to photocopy some origami steps from a book I borrowed from the library.
Then as I was finishing, one of my colleague who ALWAYS meet her husband for lunch told me that her husband got appointment, so as me want pei her lunch (actually I think she reject her hubby cos she tot I lunch alone eat Maggie very kelian, so pei me. >_< thanks. So thoughtful of you, sorry to her hubby though, *BLEAH*)
So we walk quite a distance to have MAC. She bought a meal and only wants the burger. So I had the coke and fries paying just $2. OOPS~!!
Back in office by 2:10pm. Haha. And the gal I was teaching earlier on the intranet, bought me strawberry (yanyan + porky + hellopanda) so sweet of her~!! Did my painstaking work again and told LLKK (for those of you who don’t know what it means, it is Lousy Lao Kok Kok) that I want to take Thursday and Friday PM leave. Then she was like shock. For a moment I thought she was not going to say ok. So I hurry up say BIG BOSS IS OK. Then she say ok lor. So long as you attend the meeting tml (which I don’t know why I should attend in the first place. It all high level talking. Probably LLKK knows she is not capable. Ahem) and finish this and this and that (TOTALLY SUCKS). Haiz.

Mid Afternoon:
Tease my colleagues abit to lighten up the mood. Chit chat a bit, relax, and was back to my painstaking work. Oh, and my big boss say don't need the meeting i schedule in the morning. Haiz. (So did the norm of cancelling the meeting)

Late Afternoon:
Almost blind, time to go home. Looking forward to meet my Dear for dinner and to chitchat with my darlings online. I guess this is the only things that is keeping me alive on weekdays. Haiz. It use to be great, but after LLKK came, I really suffer.
Now have a skin problem call Eazama, then did not sleep well. Really working hard in finding new job. (Please give me lots of support)

-shan-

Sometimes its better to have a small one

IT meets Biology

DADDY! HOW WAS I BORN?" Junior asks his dad, His dad, who is a software engineer sighs and replies, "Ah, my son, I guess one day you would have to find out anyway!"

"Well, I saw your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on MSN. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, but it was too late to hit the delete button."

"Six weeks later your mom sent me an instant message saying that her operating system was showing signs of unauthorized program activity from a self extracting file which had implanted
in her BIOS. Then nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared and said:

You've Got Male'!"

Ting Portobello Mushrooms

12 large portobello mushrooms
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3 cloves garlic, smashed and minced black pepper

PREPARATION:
Wash mushrooms; remove stems and set mushrooms aside. Melt the butter, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic & pepper together in a small pot or on the grill. Halve largest mushrooms or cut in strips. Brush the mushrooms generously with the melted butter and olive oil mixture. On a covered grill over medium coals, grill the portobello mushrooms stem-side down for about 8 minutes. Turn and grill the tops of the portobello mushrooms for 6 to 8 minutes longer. The grilled portobello mushrooms should be tender and nicely browned.

Portobello mushroom recipe serves 6.

Mr Ah Kiat

Love your job but never fall in love with our company

An interesting speech delivered by a CEO of a premier IT company of India during an employee session. He is incidentally, one of the top 50 Influential people of Asia according the latest Asiaweek publication and also the new IT Advisor to the Thailand Prime Minister. Extract of Mr. Narayana Murthy's Speech during MentorSession:
LOVE YOUR JOB, BUT NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR COMPANY BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOUR COMPANY WILL STOP LOVING YOU Narayana Murthy
I know people who work 12 hours a day, six days a week, or more. Some people do so because of a work emergency where the long hours are only temporary. Other people I know have put in these hours for years!!! I don't know if they are working all these hours, but I do know they are in the office this long. Others put in long office hours because they are addicted to the workplace.
Whatever the reason for putting in overtime, working long hours over the long term is harmful to the person and to the organization. There are things managers can do to change this for everyone's benefit. Being in the office long hours, over long periods of time, makes way for potential errors. My colleagues who are in the office long hours frequently make mistakes caused by fatigue. Correcting these mistakes requires their time as well as the time and energy of others. I have seen people work Tuesday through Friday to correct mistakes made after 5 PM on Monday.
Another problem is that people who are in the office long hours are NOT pleasant company. They often complain about other people (who aren't working as hard); they are irritable, or cranky, or even angry. Other people avoid them. Such behaviour poses problems, where work goes much better when people work together instead of avoiding one another. As Managers, there are things we can do to help people leave the office. First and foremost is to set the example and go home ourselves. I work with a manager who chides people for working long hours. His words quickly lose their meaning when he sends these chiding group e-mails with a time-stamp of 2 AM, Sunday. Second is to encourage people to put some BALANCE in their lives. For instance, here is a guideline I find helpful:
1) Wake up, eat a good breakfast, and go to work. 2) Work hard and smart for eight or nine hours. 3) Go home. 4) Read the books/comics, watch a funny movie, dig in the dirt, play with (your) kids, etc. 5) Eat well and sleep well. This is called recreating. Doing steps 1, 3, 4, and 5 enable step 2. Working regular hours and recreating daily are simple concepts. They are hard for some of us because that requires 'personal change'. They are possible since we all have the power to choose to do them. In considering the issue of overtime, I am reminded of my oldest son. When he was a toddler, if people were visiting the apartment, he would not fall asleep no matter how long the visit, and no matter what time of day it was.
He would fight off sleep until the visitors left. It was as if he was afraid that he would miss something. Once our visitors' left, he would go to sleep. By this time, however, he was over tired and would scream through half the night with nightmares. He, my wife, and I, all paid the price for his fear of missing out.
Perhaps some people put in such long hours because they don't want to miss anything when they leave the office. The trouble with this is that events will NEVER stop happening. That is life !! Things happen 24 hours a day. Allowing for little rest is not ultimately practical. So, take a nap.
Things will happen while you're asleep, but you will have the energy to catch up when you wake. Hence "LOVE YOUR JOB BUT NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR COMPANY"
Live a life like you should.

Divorce letters ( THIS IS GOOD)

Dear Wife:
I'm writing you this letter to tell you that I'm leaving you for good. I've been a good man to you for seven years and I have nothing to show for it. These last two weeks have been hell. Your boss called to tell me that you had quit your job today and that was the last straw.Last week, you came home and didn't even notice that I had gotten a new hair cut, cooked your favorite meal, and even wore a brand new pair of silk boxers later that night.You came home, nibbled at your food for two minutes, and went straightto sleep after watching all of your soaps. You don't tell me you love me anymore, you don't want sex anymore or anything. Either you're cheatingon me or you don't love me. Whichever is the case,,,,I'm gone.
Signed,
Your EX-Husband
P.S. Don't try to find me. Your sister and I are moving away to West Virginia together. Have a great life!

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Dear Ex-Husband:
Nothing has made my day more enjoyable than receiving your letter. It'strue that you and I have been married for seven years, although a 'good man' is a far cry from what you've been. I watch my soaps so muchbecause they drown out your constant whining and griping. It's just toobad it doesn't work.Yes, I did notice when you got a hair cut last week,,,and actually the first thing that came to my mind was "You look just like a girl",,,but my mother raised me not to say anything at all if you can't say anything nice. And when you cooked my favorite meal, you must have gotten me confused with my SISTER, because I stopped eating pork sevenyears ago.I turned away from you when you had those new silk boxers on because the price tag was still on them. I prayed that it was just a coincidence that my sister had just borrowed fifty dollars from methat morning and your silk boxers were $49.99...After all of this, I still loved you and felt that we could work itout. So when I discovered that I had hit the lotto for twenty million dollars, I quit my job and bought us two tickets to Hawaii. But when I got home you were gone. Everything happens for a reason I guess. I hopeyou have the fulfilling life you've always wanted.My lawyer said with the letter that you wrote, you won't get a dime from me. So take care.
Signed:
Rich As Hell and Freeeeeeeeeeee!
P.S. I don't know if I ever told you this but my sister 'Carla',,,wasborn Carl. I hope that's not a problem for you.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

S.E.T

S.E.T'S BACK

COMING SOON !

HELLO LOVES

Wow.

We are back?

Times flies.
Yeah, like what Shan mentioned below, we left this blog to focus on the remaining years of our studies, stepping into the workforce and probably relationships.

Nothing has changed.

I love Shan and Ting.
Will be back to update more ( :

Loves,
Esther

S.E.T Back Again

Time Flies, 2years ago, S.E.T gave up this blog to focus on other things (probably relationship, career, friendship, family ties.)
Now, on this day, 19 June 2007, S.E.T decided to make a come back. Please enjoy our updates. Not hourly, not daily, not weekly, not fortnightly, not monthly, not quarterly, not half-yearly, not yearly. But as and when we like.
This blog is not to entertain anyone else. But us. S.E.T. So if you don’t like what we say, get lost. Cause we don’t give a damn.

-shan-

Shan & Esther & Ting