Date with Kampong Glam and Al Gore

Sigh.. As I have to work really long hours, weekends are a rare chance to rest, rest, rest. But my active spirit is never dormant. It always wants to come out to play.

Last Saturday, we happened to run some errands at Beach Road and decided to spend the afternoon at exotic Kampong Glam.

After this, we headed to National Library to see the screening of An Inconvenient Truth in which Al Gore gave a passionate and spirited lecture about our sick Earth.

I've always been conscious of using our natural resources with respect to electricity, paper, plastic, carbon etc. And now, I'm taking it a personal responsibility to remind and discourage people from wasting our resources.

With the spotlight on Saving Gaia issues and the many Earth documentaries playing on Discovery and NGC this month (to commemorate Earth Day), you will not miss the important message that our Earth is dying at an alarming rate. The Earth can adapt to the damage we're doing to it.

But we will not be able to adapt fast enough to the consequences of the damage. Disaster will happen in our lifetime if we don't act now.

ME Time @ SAM

Being an aspiring art connoisseur, I'm always on the lookout for notable exhibitions and events. (Whether I attend or not is another matter. After all, I'm only aspiring. During every year's Art Fest, I would take the event guide and circle the shows that I wanna watch. Then I will forget about them.)

The girls and I hold a soft spot for the SAM among the other museums for reasons only we will understand (not entirely coincidentally, Tay's holding her wedding there). And I have a penchant for art pieces compared to heritage exhibits.

So one Sunday afternoon, when I strolled down Bras Basah Road alone, I decided to pop by SAM planning to see the Xu Beihong exhibit.



Recently, many of Xu Beihong's paintings are in the spotlight. Each going for record prices at auctions. I only knew of him when reading the newspapers and learnt that a number of his pieces were produced in Singapore (Nanyang).



It's fascinating to see not just how each stroke on the painting is perfect, but also to understand the story behind each piece, what the artist wanted to express and how the painting reflected his emotions at that time.



Xu Beihong is well known for his drawings of horses as each was drawn with simple yet definitive strokes. And all of them portrayed Xu's feelings of hope, lost, remorse. To be able to express your thoughts feelings through art is really the highest form of personal expression. And I truly admire those who are articulate enough to do so.

I really enjoy spending time by myself like this :) Not to say I don't like being with people la.

Housewarming (Not Really)

My boo and I skipped to his cousin's beautiful new apartment to plan her wedding video.

超做作

Just a sneak peek of the photo shoot. Can't release the photos yet.

Holiday!

Suddenly, holiday plans are brought forward by 2 months. Excited :)

G2Pink-ed!

"You mean G2000 is actually... (dare I say it?) fashionable?"

Since its rebranding campaign last year, G2000 has been churning out super chic city wear season after season. No longer just carrying the staples of ze bankers and ze lawyers, its Pink range of pretty and well cut outfits have not let the girls down. Designs get snapped up in a jiffy - when they're still regular-priced. Imagine that! That leaves nothing good left for the sale season. And given the and DBS Fresh and Citibank cards' irresistable discounts, no wonder the girls don't wait till sale anymore.

Ask me how many pieces I've acquired in the last six months :)

Loving city chic,

chowchow

Moon Faced!

It's suicidal to take pictures with TV artistes. My face is big like dear Moon Face from the Enchanted Wood.

Sleep Beauty

Was been made up for a photo shoot 2 weeks ago.

Hoho, I'm making myself sound like a supermodel. No la, the shoot is for a new product's creative concept. We wanted to show everyday people enjoying the product. I was nominated as one of the "everyday" people. I can't give much details yet as it's still confidential info. Will update soon :)

Anyway, the makeup artist was telling me, "Wah, you don't have eye bags or dark circles hor? All the others before you had dark circles (I was the second last girl in line). How you maintain?"

Well, by sleeping enough lor. Not counting today, I usually turn in at 12 and wake up at 8. Full 8 hours, very satisfying. I don't know how I managed to sleep at 2am and wake up at 6am during schooling days, everyday. Come to think of it, I also didn't have eye bags/dark circles then. Heh.

Guess I'm just blessed in this way, just like some girls are blessed with long legs and beautiful skin. 知足常乐 :)

Office 有鬼?

At 10.30pm at night, I was at my desk analysing some data on my PC when the error messages start popping for every programme that was opened and declared that they needed to be shut down.

First thought that came to mind, Hell! I think I didn't save my work on the multiple Excel files!

Then, Hey! Why did my PC shut down on its own?!

And then, I heard (or thought I heard) some rustling some metres away and the sounds that resembled a female singer's voice on a cackling radio.

So I tried to make as much noise as I could to mask the maybe imaginery sounds (I didn't dare to turn back to check) by arranging my table noisily and calling my boo who didn't pick up.

In the end, I called the security guard who was at the guard house some 7 floors below my floor and asked him to come up to escort me down. I was the last person in the whole building to leave.

It took him a good 5 minutes to reach and I was trembling uncontrollably. My palms filled with sweat. (Even as I typed this, my palms are starting to get wet again.)

Alamak. So scared.

Ending thoughts, I used to think my previous job had an impossible work load. That was why I had to stay late night after night. Now I'm still staying back at the new job. Am I just a slow poke or what?

Self Introduction

It's been 3 months into my new job and I'm asked to write a self introduction to be posted on the company bulletin at the common room*. I've been attempting it for days but can't write anything more interesting than a sighting of the escaped terrorist (I'll write about it when it's safer). I'm still stuck at:

"Hi everyone, I'm Melissa from Marketing. It's been a great 3 months so far and I'm loving my job! My passions in life are"

Dammit. Don't I know what I'm passionate about? Or do I have lousy vocabulary that hinders me from writing?

I can't not submit my passage - the HR girl has been hounding me everyday. Ok lah, I'll just write something more complete:

"Hi everyone, I'm Melissa from Marketing. It's been a great 3 months so far and I'm loving my job. I treat everyday with bountiful energy and hope some of my optimism can rub off you too! My goal in life is to be a world citizen and live the lives of different cultures. I've experience life out of this little red dot but maybe in future, I can get a transfer and work at OSIM overseas :)"

Simple. Flattering. But not sycophantic.

And oh, I need to submit a photo too:

*Common room: sounds so Enid Blyton and her boarding schools :)