cathay pacific dinner & dance

It was our annual dinner & dance last friday and I was one of the committee members. I'll let the pictures do the explaining. From the photos, it seems like it's christine and siautung's party. heh.

That's tasha and I before lunch, before the party.

Let the party begin!
Party: Cathay Pacific Dinner & Dance 2006
Theme: Moving the World for 60 Years
Dresscode: Dress to represent any destination that CX flies to

I was a French Maid that night.

with ben, judy, elaine, runi & ah-boon

tasha has a fetish for 'neck-dusting'. she keeps requesting me to dust her neck
christine and avril, she was smoking hot on the dance floor

sherril the vietnamese and jenny the..chinese

caught snacking
the interns with stephen, country manager
whee! CX sales & marketing team sans rai and tasha and chris toh
daniel chan
runi!
emperor patrick yeung, GM for S.E. Asia
space trooper

haha so cute!
VIP march in with commitee

that's the committee after our ridiculous song and dance. it was great fun though!
avril and partner's salsa
rai's "knock 3 times". splendid performance, totally unlike his usual self at the office
christine clinking the cutlery on rai's cue
yanti from cargo, cheering after rai's performance. she's really a helluva fun.
fighting for Ms Cathay Pacific

haha!
i won a Creative MuVo
Yum-Seng!
with another airport intern from ngee ann
they're not a couple but this looks like a wedding photo. in fact the photog is wai pheng's (above) "friend"
congrats Queenatasha! iSqueeze!
Congrats Christine! She got what she wished for! 4GB ipod!
woohoo!! winner of the mystery prize - a diamond pendant in our diamond anniversary year.

i truly enjoyed myself last friday. bran came to pick me up and our taxi was beside natasha's car with 7 passengers at the traffic light. haha

advertisement campaigns

BMW starts a campaign

Audi reacts

The Japanese have something to say as well..

Finally, the CEO from Bentley starts a campaign too

haha these were from bran

oh boy! that was one hectic week! stephen dropped the bomb and judy, jenny, daniel, boon and i stayed till 11pm on wednesday to attempt to complete some work. we had to stay back again till 12am on friday and return to work on saturday, both days with ben, to complete some serious work. i was in agony on saturday and i feel so bad that ben had to send me home.

the office is infested with all sorts of germs and the weather has been insane. everyone is having a cold/cough/flu/ and it rains at 2pm on the dot everyday.

suzuki LC

last weekend turned out to be pretty satisfying. i spent 3 hours cleaning the hamsters and rabbit cages and slept my saturday away. then off to bran's in the rain on sunday. when i arrived at 4pm, bran had just woken up from his dream. after much procrastination and hesitation, we went down to the motor show at 6pm. and look what i found!this is so cute! i want one!

lazy sunday

bran climbed up my bed at 5am and said he just had a nightmare. silly boy..

lazy lazy weekend. i paid all my sleep debts yesterday and that ungrateful rabbit peed on me and bran last night.

it's momma's birthday today. so is dilun's. happy birthdays! HDW is not home today so momma doesn't want to celebrate it today. we'll celebrate it again on her birthday according to the lunar calendar.

happy birthday momma!

happy birthday dilun!

Dogs hate halloween

yoohoo! what a busy busy day but I am so satisfied with myself. enjoy the pictures below! they're from mr daniel chan of cathay pacific.

my favourite

5 years 2 months

I had thought that after the SMAP is completed I would be able to breathe easy again, but hell NO! Boon is tying up the loose ends of the SMAP and I am finally able to continue with the other projects. I was informed of a presentation to our consortium agents at HKTB 20 hours before the presentation. The mothers and father at CX assured me that the presentation doesn't have to be fanciful, just informative (they do not pay attention to the presenters anyway). Boon and I stayed till 8.30pm last night before ben and his wife brought us out for dinner at The Coffee Club just below Ocean Towers.

The damn fax machine scared the shit out of me last night. I have never noticed the sounds the machine makes when it cuts paper. But I could hear it loud and clear when the office was dead quiet. It sounded like someone was running his fingers across the keyboard and I was scared silly. No one was in the office except Boon and me and Ben in his stuffy room.

The presentation didn't go as smoothly as expected. The agents were so agitated when I announced the "meagre" commission (according to them) they will be receiving for selling the package. It sorta started them talking and they spewed a barrage of questions, suggestions and complaints. Honestly, I was stumped by their explosion. Thankfully ben is very supportive and he took over from there. Okie dooks, lesson learnt.

Okay folks, no need to speculate anymore. Yes, Bran and I had a big fight 2 weeks ago and we wanted out then. But everything's peachy now. In fact Sunday marked our 62nd month together.

Kangta - Love vs. Memories (Thanks God)

bran shared this with me and he said, "you will like this." he knows me so well. i love him to bits.

This song title sounds funny and the singer looks damn delicate, but the song is absolutely bewitching.

update

ooh..so long! bran is sleeping soundly beside me now.

so busy at work. i'm really nervous about presenting the SWOT with boon kiat to the country manager on Friday. whee..

the 7 of us who worked on the plan had a trial run today from 9.30am to 2pm and we were not finished with it. I can't wait to be done with this so I can work on my other projects. Ben brought me along to visit several agents today and i met lynette, yi wei and shao. hello! and hong thai was really nice to lend us so many costumes for our d&d.

ok good night

bunny

happy birthday!

Sunday

yoohoo! happy 21st birthday to smelly ho diwei!

i got up early enough to watch doraemon and laze around in bed before i cleaned the hamsters cages and realised that i did not have enough bedding for them! the cage was only half filled and the hamsters were sleeping in the pail then. i don't have much of a choice, so i went to jurong point in the rain to get some bedding for them. this time i got them corn cob bedding and anchovies!

by the time i got home it was close to 3, i continued to clean the cages, gave them some anchovies and they took them out of their mouths as soon as they put them in. yiddy yaddda..ironed my clothes, read a little and it was time to head for my bro's birthday dinner. we had dinner at soup restaurant. i like that place, quaint deccor, good food. misa travel's husband & wife team gave us a treat at the airport outlet after our visit to the NATAs fair.

then we were home for the cake

and bran and i got ourselves another bunny! this time it's a netherlands dwarf. it's so soft and small it's like a teddy bear. and the ears are only slightly more than 1cm.

welcome!

bran with his other love

a simple solution

i read this in TIME and here is the gist of the cover story.

Diarrhea kills more young children around the world that malaria, AIDS and TB combined. Yet a simple solution - a fistful of sugar + a pinch of salt + a jug of water - can prevent many of those deaths. Why isn't it more widely used?

Many tiny patients in Bangladesh are weak, malnourished and dehydrated. They've suffered attack after attack of diarrhea and, in some cases, are clinging to life. Five-month-old Sohag had suffered diarrhea for seven days before she was admitted. Her weight plummetted to 2.75kg, just over one-third of that expected of her age. But her 15-year-old mother had never heard of diarrhea before Sohag was admitted.

Chronic diarrhea is the cause of 5000 young lives daily. Most cases of diarrhea can be traced to food or water tainted by intestinal bugs and rotavirus. Many children die from dehydration as they lose critical body fluids faster than they can be replaced. As in Sohag's case, many do not know how to prepare a life-saving remedy that can be assembled for just a few pennies.

While diarrhea is a major killer in developing countries, in the rich world it is usually no more than an irritant. SO developed nations channel health-care funds into areas preceived as presenting greater risks. Antiviral drugs are purchased and vaccines are ordered to guard against the potential threat from avian influenza instead of getting packages of rehydration solution costing just 6 cents a littler to those at risk of dying from diarrhea elsewhere. But far more children die from diarrhea daily then have ever died from avian flu.

Diseases that have high profiles and vocal activists - such as AIDS, TB and malaria - attract far more interest and money from big donors and governments, based partly on the misconception that they kill the most children. Celebs don't host concerts to fight diarrhea. WHO spent $7-10 million on controlling diarrheal diseases, but spent $217 million on HIV and $123 million on TB.

it's about time someone do something about this. Ben always say "charity begins at home", but we have a simple solution here, now, what are we waiting for?

tuesday

my parents picked me up from my work place after driving 6 rounds around the area because the car was not allowed to wait there. =)

IMM has changed so much. I love the new wing. they finally have some wingtai managed brands there. but it seems like they are going to implement parking charges because we saw dividers at the entrance. hmm..

we had lunch at ajisen and momma HATES it. heh. she complained about everything, from the soup base to the ramen to the green tea.

after shopping for some bananas and groceries, we came home and all of us took a nap immediately.

monday

another work-filled day, but i'm loving it.

i have half a day off tomorrow as a bonus for working our arse off for the anniversary celebrations! oohlala~

and i am so upset with bran. he says i need to lose 5kg.

of celebrations

it's been exactly a month since i joined cathay and the celebrations yesterday was a blast! the 'younger generation' in the office checked into a bungalow at nsrcc on thursday, packed the goody bags and ate and ate.

we woke up at 5am to move all the goody bags and what nots to the club house. that weili sure can perspire alot. she looked like she just came out of a pool when she was arranging the goody bags. i didn't stay at nsrcc long after the last tee-off at 9am. i had wanted to go to conrad earlier to practise on the piano before the reception at 6pm. i returned to the office to make some changes to the gala masterlist before ben brought me and christine to the hotel to join the 'older generation'. heh. whatever could go wrong went wrong. the delivery truck was late because of an earlier function, the truck could not find the unloading bay, and rai got stuck in the cargo lift! hahahaha! so we had to drag/carry the over 70 cartons to the passenger lifts because the smaller trolley was in the cargo lift as well. we were already delayed by an hour. we packed over 300 goody bags for the gala dinner. i was bathing at the fitness centre when ben called and ordered me to be at the lobby in 10. eh..but i still had soap suds on me. and i had not practised on the piano. we returned to the office and made more changes to the masterlist. by the time we got back to the hotel it was already 5pm.

the hotel's pianist was playing at the lobby and his playing was, of course, impressive. so, i didn't play at the cocktail reception, a month of intensive practice gone to naught. i couldn't muster up enough courage to play before such a large crowd either. so i stood faithfully by my booth to sell the aircraft models.

christine, boon, daniel, judy, elaine, tracy, sherril, ah-li and myself

the pyrotechnics at the openning was awesome! yadda yadda. by the time we packed up and moved all the cartons back to the office, it was already close to 2am. ben kindly sent a few of us home even though it was out of the way. i reached home at 2.30am and left for school again 6 hours later. omg the male hamsters are humping each other again.

phamtom of the opera

oooh! you heard it from me first! phantom of the opera at the esplanade, performance from 23 march 2007! i remember watching miss saigon 5 years ago and it blew me away. Wee!

letithia

i have been preparing for a performance for a long time, but when the day draws nearer, i realize i am not that prepared after all?

have you experienced this before?

anyway, does anyone know what is a letithia? how do you even pronounce it?

hee. the baby in the middle is letithia. this photo is so funny! the 2 babies (2 months apart) isabelle and letithia, and toddler brendan are all in it, but i guess diyang only wanted to take a picture of his mom and the baby.