Cash Cow no more?

Feeling so so poor now after i bought another pair of shoes from URS on friday. Well, no choice since my pig skin flat shoes from Exodus is breaking up. So saw a nice pair but it didn't look nice on me. Another not so nice pair look very nice on me so i got the not so nice pair.

We finally managed to find my Evita hair accessories. Little boy bought me the pink one. Ha ha, i'm in the mood of pink again. Its not the baby pink but its the bright pink! very nice. Took picture of it. But i haven had time to upload the pics as of yet.

Went on shopping at kino and little boy bought me a set of pastel coloured pens cos mine all dried up since school days and i wanted to buy new ones..hee..We ended up in starbucks for coffee to round up the day.

Saturday morning, we went to the china town market to see cat fish and eels..but the eels they sell are not the ones little boy wanted. Hee hee..After that we procceed on to China Sq Tea House to have dim sum. Haven been there for a long long time and also its little boy's first time there. So i treat nor..ha ha..nice nice..ate lot! Supposed to have Mr Teh Tarik cos i haven't had it for a long time but well, too full already so had to give it a miss.

Waited for the bus to go serangoon central and was sucking the lollipop. haven had a lolli for ages already. Taste rather nice. So we proceed on too serangoon central and bought the ugly Mory Eel. Ha ha..Went back to his home and put the eel into the tank and proceed on for dinner. After dineer, we went to the Marine Parade lib and borrowed some books, sank into the comfy sofa...rest and relax.

Training.

So this morning i came into office slightly earlier then usual cos there was a training on peer review and functional requirement gathering for quality control. The training was provided cos since we are partners with ac thus we are required to follow their style of project management.

The training was rather interactive with activities in between to keep us awake. Learned quite a fair bit of new things. ie. the reasons of peer review, the style and way peer reviews are done, the effectiveness on these peer reviews. But the entire session for this peer review is mainly trying to convince us to perform peer review. Learnt also the differences between the words Faults, Defects and Error. Also, the cost of detecting one of the previous mentions. The cost of a fault is much more expensive then defects. And usually when a fault or defect surfaces, the cost will be escalated by almost 30% since the final product is already done and the change has to be done all the way back to the design stage.

Learnt another things which is rather useful and i didn't have knowledge about it previously. There is a thin line bewteen requirements doc and functional doc and design doc. Learnt wat should be in wat and how to restructure sentence to remove ambiguity. Was also thought that there should be a baseline doc to follow and once signed, everything will be build upon this doc. Thus, everything in this doc got to be concise, direct and detailed. If the client wants to build a car, the doc must fully describe the car and not in the end after building becomes a motorcycle.

The trainer said one thing which really hit me due to my previous project in my ex company. It exactly reflects the sceanario. The functional doc was not specific enough. There were so many ambiguity when build started. Functional was not done properly. The end product was not what the user had expected. Timeline drag and drag and drag and yet budget was constant. Do not know what they asked for is a new request or exisiting just that we did wrongly cos the baseline was not define clearly and it wasn't signed off.

Hmm..Really amazing to see how the quality control ppl come up with guidelines to ensure on time project deliveries. But i will say, beacuse there are so many things to be done, there isn't much time to do everything. Thus, the task is left to the pm to decide with guidelines he wants to follow and suits the project best. Ha ha. But the PM from ac in this project is really good i will say.

I miss England so so much.

So my laptop screen saver triggered the miss. Then i started to flipped through the folders and the album of my England pics. How time flies..Been almost 2 years since my trip there. But its the most enjoyable and most fun trip. Reason might be due to there were no parents around and also its the first time 4 cousins are travelled together with another fren. 5 gals with huge bags on our shoulders. Hee..

So i just went through one of little boy's fren online album. She's right now studying in Brimingham (if i'm not wrong) and i guess she just visited Nottingham. So beautiful..The streets looks so familar once again. The statues, the brick like buildings, the grass patches..the look down from one of the cathedrals..all bring back so much memories.

All the memories, i wonder when is the next time i'll step foot on this country again. But if i'm going back there again, i'll make sure i'll spend alot of time there. At least i don't experience communication problem there. Hee..i miss the fish and chips with malt vinegar at lake district. I miss the red wine and salmon pasta i had in Dublin..I remembered clearly how the waitress face changed when we said we were from Singapore instead of China. I want to go back to London. I love london! go there for shopping. Dorothy Perkins, Warehouse, M&S, H&M and lots lots more. I want to sit on top of the red bus..(similar concept to the Hippo Bus in SG). I want to hear stories about london city. I want to visit the palaces again. I want to visit the castles again. I want to have late night out at ice place again.

Maybe next round, might just ask the gang to go on a road trip instead...to have a Harry Potter adventure. To visit the castle which the film Harry Potter. If my memory hasn't failed me..its in Oxford..I miss the time when Lynnie picked up sheep shit and tell me its tree buck when we sat on it for photo taking. but there won't any trees ard. Its just plain grass fields with tonnes of sheeps graazing...i remembered the cool breeze sweeping across my face..the laughter, the joy. I miss the chips..the chippies which lynnie will keep in her bag and take out to munch once in a while when we are on the topless bus..i remembered how the tuna are like over there...The plain canned tunas will come with corns in it and our dearest ma ma (mabel, my cousin.) will prepare the bread for us in the morning.

I miss climbing and walking and running with my almost 20 KG bag on my shoulder..chasing for the trains which half the time we will miss.. and we will be so pathetic like those in the amazing race while waiting for the next one. I miss the starbucks! the starbucks which we will have every morning. A bunch of grossly caffinated pppl..ha ha...i miss standing behind the wall trying to block oursleves from the super coolllldddd strong wind while waiting for the taxi to come.

So when so when so when again will i every go back. But but, i think next place which i want to visit is Korea during Autumn.. and i want to go prague and venice. I somewhat have this impression that prague and venice are the most romantic places on earth..Hey, little boy! heard that..save money to go there for honey moony next time yah! Love you!

So now back to reality..got to continue looking at the database and my excel file to check what i've loaded is correct. Back to earth liao.

The hole is getting bigger.

So the long weekend just Zooom past. And it Zoom past so fast till there was a strong flame causing is huge hole in my pockets!!

Its feels real shiok to just shop and shop. But it feels really sucky when u go to the ATM and realised there isn't much left to spend! Sigh! poor me. But i guess once in a while i'll just have to pamper myself abit right? Especially these days when i'm grouchy and unhappy with my work. Thats the perfect reason for spending just to make myself happy isn't it. Lame i know. But who cares?!

Friday was the beginning of the flames. I slept till super late, got up did my tank and found a bug in my tank. Looks like prawn and spider. Mutated? It has 6 legs tough. Looks kinda fat. Its was on the sand bed, well camoflauge. Initially, i thought it was a dead rotting prawn cos the last time my little shirmp died, i couldn't find the body till today. So i thought it was the dead body. Apparently it wasn't. It started to moved and i pierced the pincer into the mid section, took it out to a container. It was still strong though.

Went out for dinner at The fish and chips should near clark quay station. Was still early for our 9.20 show Firewall. So, we strolled down to china town area to find a greying population. I told him if i'm gonna be here constantly i'll feel so old soon. Ha ha, went in to OG. Thats when disaster struck! i bought a GUESS tote bag. Followed that, we went over to PS..Charles and Keith. Saw a pair of super nice shoes. Kinda look nice on me as well.. hee hee..not that expensive though. Heel is about 1 inch plus plus. Can still walk with it cos its shoes. I dislike the sandals type of footwear which more the half of SG gals are wearing. I still prefer black high heel shoes! But i wanted to get the discount card..so kinda stop the shooping there as movie is starting.

Saturday afternoon, i bought 2 pairs of shoes from CK and became a member. But still i'm short of one more causal footware. Kinda like a pair of greenie shoes from Exodus. Price is hmm..a little pricey though. Went to Unity Pharmacy and bought some hair tonic which cost alot! and some vits. But for a good cause, the money is well spend...hee hee..For some reason, i can't seem to find Evita hair accessories in most shopping places these days. Anyone knows where the botique is? i want to get pretty pretty hair accessories.

For i'm so numb with red and white.

Been almost 3 months in this red and white place. Well, i had great aspirations and hopes when i first step in here. But today, once again, i dread to come to work. I dislike the culture here. I've portrayed myself to be irresponsible with all my slip shot work. Thats not me i know. But they left me with no choice. I dread the work i'm doing. Though work is some what different from my previous coy. But still, thats not what i want to do forever. The word IT don't seem to fit in my life description anymore. And yes, maybe i should do something about it.

Sales, i know i'm not in for it. But the banking world seems so so so much more interesting then IT. Maybe cos i'm not in it yet thus i do not know the difficulties which i will face and if i will like the job. But i thought, hmm...maybe i can give it a try cos its no sooner that i will leave this job. The temptation is so strong to just throw that letter once again.

I need a life. I don't want the job to rules over my life. I don't want to spend my weekends back in this office. I want to spend time with my little boy and my sofa set. I want to go shopping. I want to plan activitites for the weekend way before. I just refuse to come back on weekends. Its something which i really dread. Wats the point of coming back when i don't get any incentive? We are like slaves to the red and white foreign purchase. I get the list at 4 pm and have to fix before i leave. Whats the point. Its supposed to be 6 pm everyday and 530 on friday. Have i ever left on the dot? The ans is no. I stayed till 7 and i still get the god damm f*** up look from that asshole.

Let's just say yah, in the new industry i might not be able to leave on the dot as well. But well, at least i MIGHT be happier learning new things which i want to learn (which i cant define what i want to learn). IT. i dun think is really the one. Instead of wasting time here, maybe i should just throw the letter, do some finiancial courses and maybe barclays, bloomberg? Sounds tough though. But i always wanted to be in that power suit in the business world. Should i give it a try? And sorry guys, for some reason, i kind of hate ur species these days other then my little boy. Cos he's just a little boy. Pardon him yah. But i really hope one day i will head a dept with all the guys under me. And ... u ppl will know the outcome yah =)