We are not Dead Yet... i think

Ok all.. yeah..haha.. i know i know, its been almost a year since the lazy bugs had updated their blog.., ok, not that we have no life ya (*look guilty*)
But we are just lazy..ahaha..
so lazy that i have decide to just post up photos ..hahah.. well a picture paints a thousand words mah..aahahahh...

Meanwhile... a short flashback on what had happened!

1. Aug 06 - Life in OBS still rocks! i climbed Gurung Tahan! personal archievment! it's been more than 1 year since i am operational! *thousand claps and cheers*

2. Dec 06 - me and mai bug went to VIETNAM!! yeah, a dream that we both wanted to do years again.. it was such a GREAT trip.. *tears* went to hanoi, sapa and spend almos 10 days there, trekking and eating oranges..ahah.. will be back there for Fansipan!

3. April 07 Went diving with batchmates from OBS... after a gap of almosy *gasp* 3 years! got sting by jelly fish, O ring broke in the water... but was still a great trip!

4. April 07 - Did my first Solo trip back to Vietnam.. HCM.. great solo 4 days.. reflected loads dudes...

5. April 07 Yeah! i can now conduct courses at East Coast Campus! watch out kids!!

6. July 07 Shaved my head for " Hair for Hope" children cancer foundation fund raising

7. Sep 07 sailing to batam and Bintan for Staff expedition! yeahhh.. planning next trip with mai bug.. chiangmai?

8. Oct 07 next solo?

9. Nov 07 Family trip to china!

10.Dec 07 Next back packing trip with mai bug!

Tay Sisters still rocks

i am operational! yeah.. now for both Ubin and ECC!

No more hair.... wah...

smileee!! *kachEeEEeeK*

yay! photos from mean angie's bday celebration. show! show!

bug and her cool stove! venisha super ready for photo, bug looking weird, angie just wants to eat her cake.

kevin also just wants to eat cake...
creepy eyes watching youuuu..

haha ok lah lazy to come with things to say for each picture so yea i have uploaded all into my yahoo photos. ch-ch-check it out dudes! over here *point to
link *

p/s: angie! can check out the homecare gathering face painting photos at the same link too! :D

Zippy and the sea!!

Yo all!
ITs been a real long time since i have updated the blog man...
yeah.. so now i am at my last phrase of training.. my hell week of co- instruction before my assessment to be an operational instructor!!
its been a real fun training!! a quick flash of what i have enjoying myself with :)
how i have made friends with the sea!!

i came... i kayak...


yeah.. my 4 days kayaking expedition during my 21 days course



kayaking cum sailing .. thanks to our flysheet


see how small we are!!


we have finally landed on land!! after kayaking for a total of 123 km for 4 days!!



also had a hand handling a power boat


yeah!! completed! but haven get license yet lah...


have tons of photos to upload but no time man.. how busy with my lesson planning for my next group of unfortunate participants who will be getting me an instructor..ahaha.. watch out world!!
till next time man.. when i land back on shore!!

sorry

hey bug, sorry, i know your birthday is way over and i still havent give you your present lor. sorry man i really had a tough time trying to figure what to buy for you (haa after 10 years!). meanwhile, here's a small gift ! hope you like it haa i thought it is damn funny man :D
have a nice time in camp (21 days!!)

Land!! *kiss flat ground*

Yo dudes! I am finally back from Taman Negara! back to the concrete jungle! it was an excellent trip, especially tough on the 2nd day (at least for me) (1st day was like walking thru bukit timah hill, not bad at all). lucky for me, i din die halfway up the campsite. it was more of jungle bashing (as Buggy called it) man, the guide like brought us to some abandoned jungle area and then forced a path and we had to crawl under over behind etc those bamboos, trees, branches, logs woohoo and maan the leeches were everywhere!! wah lau eh they even went to my friend's tummy and there's these 2 ppl who found leeches at spots i shall not say. ugh! damn those leeches! one even managed to sneak into my socks! gaaah into my socks darnit! i think leeches can somehow osmose their way thru things... something to think about people!

so yea great stuff, i think it was so much tougher than my hiking trip to Berlumut, at least there was a path up to Berlumut's campsite. this trail they brought was abandoned for abt 2 to 3 years plus the terrain was darn steep and there were some dangerous spots.. like superly narrow path where you practically had to crabwalk your way and hang on to the soil.

but we all survived tho there some who nearly gave up ("I can't do it man!"). and what a magnificient view from the top, was so totally worth it.

my best exp was certainly Caving. yup my first time and of cuz i have to be a loser at the last moment while trying to get out of that super mini exit. you really gotta think small! yea you should have seen my face okay?! i really do wanna go for more caving yea let's do it guys!

the whole trip was great and the people were nice as well, a few funny people and i even made a few friends (and someone said i look young! wahahhaha!). but of cuz there were a few times i just wanted to kill these NUS ppl (sorry NUS ppl i cannot help it) cuz some of them are so darn rigid. oh yea if you din know, i went with the NUS Rovers, i was the only non NUS person there.

haa~ cool stuff! will definitely do it again in a hearbeat!

here i'll share my photos i din take a lot cuz i was too lazy to keep taking it out from my ziplock bag. i'll go sieve thru the other's photos and then i will share it as well ya!

let's organise a trip to Taman Negara guys, will definitely be loads of fun!!

Lessons Learned

If you read Bug's post titled Encouragement (see January 2006), well guess what people? Today is my turn.

i made a stupid careless mistake. i designed the coupons for our upcoming carnival and i seriously did not notice that the date was June 2005 instead of 2006. a huge small mistake. a nice colleague from FSC pointed me out this error and i quickly emailed the printer company the correct one. unfortunately, this morning, they called and said that it has been sent for printing (apparently i sent the email too late?? but i sent the error design in the morning & the right one in the eve. do they work that fast?). i was really freaked out. i think i felt like maybe crying and then juump off the building/kill self/resign? cuz i *know* seafood and especially skinny j will jump on me for this thing.

good news was printer co called n said that printing was delayed, bad news was we'll be charged extra for changing the cast film. so i pulled myself together and decided to tell my so *wonderfully kind* manager. now ok i expected a good scolding cuz it cannot be denied that i was very careless and did not check the work properly. but...

It's your mistake. You pay lor.

That was like a slap to my face. my mistake? yes. but can it be said that it was ALL my fault? but i sent the design to you and you gave me the go ahead. at that moment i just couldnt believe my ears. this must be how bug felt when seafood told her off. disappointment, anger, sadness...

you are the manager. you are my leader. im working under you. i am an assistant to you. my work is yours too. what happens to me reflects on you too. so why are you giving me the 100% blame? yes i know i am very careless and it was a bad mistake on my part. but how can you abandon me like that? if i did a great job you will be all smiley and laughing and patting yourself on the back on a job well done. cuz skinny and seafood will shower you praises on your god like abilities to lead.

so ask me, if i'm the manager what would i have done or said?

i would of cuz give the staff a lecture. and then you know what, i would say it's ok, because the staff would be feeling pretty bad by now. im sure lessons have been learned. what now? well no damage was done (coupons werent printed) so we have to pay? so what? money can be earned. in the end, it's the support from management to your staff that matters.

and the best part that was not the end of it. throughout the day, she kept jumping on my mistakes.

why do you keep spelling wrongly?!! *angry sigh*
but it's not wrong. it's the font. the R looks like a B. why aren't you apologising?

*after finding another error, this time it's the MP's correct designation*
why dont you call them (printer co) for her no (the saleslady's no)! do i have to teach you everything?!!
but i already have her no. i just need to breathe and think. it's been 2 mistakes, 1 after another. it doesnt help you keep saying it's *my* mistake. it doesnt help that you are pushing me to pay for all the extra charges. it doesnt help that you're jumping on me on my every move.

i am truly disappointed. you are NOT a leader. leaders dont leave their followers behind when there's trouble.

if you ask me, yes i have learn my lesson. i'll be handing it my resignation after June's event.

there they go!

lots of people leaving viriya now. think most of the old familiar faces are leaving (minus the managers!). yup in fact Bug is one of them. yea she has chosen to try to open the pink feather business at pulau ubin! haha! good luck man! first was victoria and his australia career advancement, now Bug. Patpong is on the move to world domination!!

anyway *serious*

aiya, so depressing! everyone moving on and here i am. no lah, not that i want to be like follow-the-crowd kind but it's just that i am now thinking more of what's going to happen next to myself. promote from pink feather to the high class red feather?? everyday my job at NL gets more and more monotonous. probably because i've been doing the same thing and i havent been absorbing much lately. maybe because i am starting to crave for more. maybe because i still think i want to do more children's stuff but yet over at NL feel like kena trapped, cannot do this and that, must bend myself to follow whoever whatever rules. "more intergenerational activity, more elderly activities, less children progs" sometimes feels like i am deceiving myself.

oh but working with elderly quite fun also lah, in a different way. hahaa i will always feel very young! and then dun need to shout and scold so much! dun have to feel like got so much responsibilities. hmmmmm!!.... *suddenly discovered something!* think that's it lah! maybe cuz working with elderly, i dun see the challenge (maybe really have, but at Nl cant really see unless maybe go nursing home?)! ya man with children you suddenly gotta start thinking of so many aspects to keep the programme going. like my tuition prog, even though so much problems at times, kids not turning up, kids late, kids being dumbasses etc but that's what keeps my brain moving! yea! that's ritE! always tryng to figure out how to keep them coming regularly, how to improve the situation....

but anyway, meanwhile on a lighter note! i have this new staff coming in, she is kinda... strange? *oh no dunno if im going to sound mean* she emm doesnt really sound very womanly, kinda patpong's voice and then she is emm kinda masculine (oh bug bigger than you!) so well emmm i kinda suspect she is maybe an ex pink feather ??? oh gosh! i hope she dun see this man cuz will be really mean if she turns out to be a real lady!!! but she is really big size for a lady! aaahh im sorry! maybe she used to be an athlete or something wah lau then im so mean to say otherwise! maybe i shouldnt have shared this information..... *worried*