Remember how a couple of weeks ago it was my supervisor’s birthday and we tried to surprise her and it kind of failed? Well last week, another one of my team mates was having a birthday, so we got her a cake too, and I was asked if we were going to surprise her again, […]
Archives for March 2014
Deetective
A few weeks ago, I had this chat with a friend about what happened in an episode of How I Met Your Mother. H: Who was the person that picks up Lily?Me: At first I thought it was the mother. Then I saw that the driver didn’t have driving gloves. But she does, just like […]
Saturday Snippets: We Found Bench in Singapore
Here I am again with a hodge podge of stuff that happened over the week. * We went and checked out Jefrey’s new cute one bedroom flat and had a sleepover. We watched movies on demand on his new smart TV. I was happy to rewatch two of my favorites – Frozen and About Time, […]
The Haze is Back in Singapore
The haze is back, so last Saturday, we bought some N95 masks and had this Singapore selfie. Some background first: somewhere in Indonesia, people are burning forests for farming purposes, and their smoke produces a haze which also affects Singapore air. Last year in June it got so bad that it reached the high PSI […]
When Murphy’s Law Led us to a Bollywood Bar
TGIF! Let me regale you with a funny Friday adventure. Two Fridays ago, my team mate Hari invited our entire team to drinks at a bar, his belated treat for his promotion. But because of Murphy’s Law*, we got stuck at work due to an issue with one of our funds and only got to […]
Bath & Body Works @ Marina Bay Sands
Bath and Body Works has finally opened a branch in Singapore this year, and it’s located in Marina Bay Sands. When Dred and I saw it, we kind of went nuts. There was so much stuff in there – lotion, body wash, perfume, candles. I had a hard time deciding on what I wanted to […]
How We Tried to Surprise Our Boss on her Birthday
It was my supervisor’s birthday last Friday, so I emailed this to her. She sits right next to me, so I heard her laugh. The day before, my team mate and I had talked about getting her a cake. Hari: I will buy the cake at CCP. What does she like?Me: She seems to like […]
Red Dot Brew House @ Dempsey Hill
My friend Tyne moved to Toronto over the weekend, but before she left Singapore, she asked if we could have one last night out with her. So we did just that the weekend before. I thought she wanted to go to a bar but for some reason, we ended up at a restaurant with a […]
Non-Stop {Movie Review}
On a flight headed from New York to London, US federal air marshal Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) gets text messages on his secure line phone stating that someone on the plane will die every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred to a specific account. “I don’t know who you are, but I will find […]
7 Things That Make Me Cry
I am a ridiculous lady who has the shallowest pool of tears in all of humankind. Okay, maybe that’s a tad exaggerated. But I bet if we ranked everyone, I would be in the upper 10th percentile. SERIAL WEEPER I cry very easily. I have been known to cry in public vehicles while reading articles […]