lunar new year is around the corner!!

went to Toa Payoh just now to pass Alvin some ties.. well 8 in fact. i don't see the need for them anymore and i think he'll need it more in his new work environment (he got his job in HSBC!! ^^ so happy for him!!) so i passed all of my babies to him.. take care my babies mommy ain't gonna miss you anyway.. haha!

anyway when i was at Toa Payoh, mommy asked me to withdraw some cash from the bank ( Post Office of Singapore Bank or POSB ) Heaven forbid! me, draw money from a local bank!?!? hell to the no! so i withdrew some cash from my Citi account and gave it to her. No offence, but local banks just stink, the queue and the interest rate! gack!! after that, i went over to Fairprice to do some shopping. needed a packet of split green beans. goodness me! the supermart was jam packed with people! it was so freaky! gawd i can;t bear to stay in a place with all those low class commoners! i made my quick purchase and left in like 15 minutes (the queue at the check out counter was damn killer)

this is a reason why i HATE to go out on saturdays and sundays. its crowded everywhere. even getting a table for two in a restaurant in the town area is killer if you do not make reservations. hate singapore so much now..

Everything is as you want it until you decide

anyway how did you spend new year's day? let me boast a little here! hehe!

kenny baby came back to singapore just in time for the new year's. and even after surviving the 6 hour flight back to singapore from shanghai, he was willing to take me out for a picnic that very night! i was really surprised and was really, really looking forward to it. but since it was only 3pm, i told him to go get a nap first before dying on me later that night!

for the time being, i popped down to Mark's and Spencer's to get some frozen food (i let the maid off on that day. my fave auntie meeds her rest too you know!?) anyway, if you don't know, Mark's and Spencer's serve really good food. its to die for. especilly the desserts. i bought some crackers and cheese twists and a good strawberry cheesecake from there. next stop was Da Paolo's where i bought some sandwiches, salad and pizza. last stop was the MarketPlace where i bought a bottle of wine, some packs of ciggies and utensils.

kenny woke up at 7pm that evening and he looked so groggy and puffy faced! hahaha! i gave him a kiss on the cheek and he beamed immediately! its so cute of him. i just love it when he beams.. we freshened up and and left the house at like 9pm that evening for the picnic venue..

when we reached Kranji Dam, i was dreading that it would be so dark and quiet. thank goodness there were a few other couples there. prolly waiting for the first sunrise of the new year, like us, before sharing a kiss! hahaha! we had a great meal there and it felt so good. having him near me again, huddled together under his cardigan (i didn't bring a blanket, thinking it would be a warm and humid night) it felt so nice and fuzzy hugging him again, my head against his sighing chest. heaving so slowly. i feel so secure all over again. so safe and warm.. i remembered i dozed off in that position. but i didn't care if someone were to steal our belongings or whatever. because i know kenny is here and i am safe with him.

when i awoke from my short siesta, i was happy to see him still cuddling me. i beamed back at him and gave him another squeezey huggies.. haha anyway i was in time to see the sun rise over the horizon. It was so beautiful to see the malaysian state of Johore across the straits of johore slowly illuminate and bathe in the warmness of the sun. it was a really beautiful view. we wished each other happy new year and gave each other a peck on the lips.

that was seriously the best new year's celebration anyone could have. ever.

so happy kenny got safely back to singapore! he had so much stories to tell about his short stint in shanghai! for those of you who are unaware, kenny got 'loaned' to the Bank of Japan's Shanghai office for a good two months as their Taxation Director was not available for duty. Heard she was suspended due to a corruption case.. Okay, i shouldn't have divulged that. But mistakes do happen and it unfortunately happened to her. Ironically, i'm facing a situation similar to hers!

As you all have known, i am working for a local bank here in Singapore (hint for you my lovely people, the bank has the word "OVERSEAS" in it!) Anyway anyway, our department is being suspended for an indefinite period of time due to a fraud case (i'll explain it more later!) So for now, its like a paid holiday for me, slacking in office while doing something really silly. like a Credit Limit Increment calling campaign.

Oh the fraud case you ask? here's some juicy goss for you people! anyway in early november, a fraud case was detected. i don't know how they discovered it but the fraud case just surfaced.. after much investigating by the utterly incompetent compliance department, they found out that it was not just a few accounts that were fraudulently manipulated, but 500! they got a whopper of a shock and decide to terminate the agent immediately. i don't know if he was charged in court.

IN COURT YOU ASK?!?! yeaps.. there's a law for Banking Secrecy, whereby the officer is not allowed to use the details of a customer for his own interest without the explicit consent of the customer himself. This is also a conflict of interest for the institution (the bank) and the customer. a breach of this act may result in being fined S$125,000.00 for the officer and/or a jail term of three years. the officer is henceforth barred from working in any bank, insurance company, hedgefund company, mutual funds houses REITs trading and the Exchange. As for the institution, it may be fined for up to maximum of S$5,000,000.00 and its banking license suspended for a period of up to a year.

back to the story, so yeah. the department was closed since early november due to the fraud case. investigations and such took them like three to four months. so november went by like a boat sailing in the Mississippi, slowly but surely. then came december! and we thought we could resume selling but alas! our joy was shortlived! along came this bully of a regulatory board called the Monetary Authority of Singapore. it stated that all insurance agents and brokers MUST be registered with them, failing which will be practicing without a license and thus a fine is inevitable.

so again the selling was halted so that Human Resource is able to do the necessary paper work to facilitate with the registration. and today its the 13th of January 2011 and i am still not hearing any news from HR. how sad can life be huh?

I am blogging live from my ipod touch! Testing testing tessttiiinnggg

mahdonna donna mahdonna donna donna!!

Supernova

Supernova (in English) or ChoShinSung (in Korean) or ChoShinSei (in Japanese) is a 6 member Korean group managed under M Core. They're under the same company as SeeYa, Davichi and T-Ara. They've been around for quite a while but they are more active in Japan than in Korea.


They look like they're having a ball of a time here!! I wanna be there too!!






and a rather recent korean song..


oh and just so you know, they are all over 180cm tall!!

Our heavenly Father will always be looking down on all our rights & wrongs in life. HE will be the judge of all things Man does. Have Faith in Him. Amen.

Quoted from my boss' Facebook profile. He must've been going through such a rough patch. Just pray that this won't last forever..