平安夜

很不安

Dad&Dar

You know your dog is spoilt rotten when you open the door to your room to find him
1. sleeping on your bed
2. with the air-con on and
3. dad accompying him.

The power of technology

Previously, my dad will call me to ask me where am I when we are both at home.

Now, he watsapp me. When we are both at home.

I wonder why he never train Darcy to be the messenger instead.

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Magnum saves the day.

After an extremely shitty day at work, all I can think of is magmun. Even knowing that I only have $40 budget to last me for a week more is not enough to deter me from buying that box of 4 magmuns at $14.50. This is how shitty my day was. The splurg was a wise decision.

My parents and I are magmun lovers and when it comes to magmun, they will not give in. It's everyone for themselves. So being the generous daughter that I am, I 赏 them a magmun each. But I made it clear to them that the forth is mine and it better stay where it is when I come back tmr.

While devouring our magmun, I told dad of tt crappy colleague and the shit he is giving. Dad offered to go beat him up. Den I said I think need to kill him else I will be the dead one due to heart failure. So dad suggested employing some FT to chop his arm off. Haha.. This is how gettin high on magmun is. We do not need to sniff glue, just give us magnums....!!

She said: I'm just a girl, standing infront of a boy, asking him to love her

I say: I'm just a girl, 只想混口饭吃，你就放过我吧!

钱真难赚啊!

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After nearly 30years, 老爸终于开口了!

我们一家三口和一狗在讨论他们家长子寻找房子的问题。。

老爸：。。其实还有一个方法，就是你找一个人结婚，买房，生孩子，然后请我们般去你家照顾孩子。这间房子我们租出去，我们俩就有钱了。

我：没有可能。你要等我结婚，你等一辈子都可能没有。我现在八字都没有一丿。你们还是死心吧!

老爸：为什么不可能？

我: 除非我随便找一个没出息的。。

老爸：不可以! (紧张起来了。) 不可以随便找。

我：好。如果真的象你说的，你们般来和我住，照顾孩子。我的未来家公家婆也会不高兴，心想'为什么我的儿子的家是他老婆的父母在住?' 然后就会为难我，我不开心然后就离婚，就般回来和你们住，到时不就是赔钱货吗? 不行。

Darcy： woof WOOF WOOF
(My Interpretation: I agree!
Dad's interpretation: Wat about me? Where am I going to stay?)



Now, I'm starting to feel the pressure. Shuxks.

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TMD

Me: 糟糕。脸涂太白了。
Dad:不会啦。Mrs yip的才算白 。
Me: 哪里可以拿她比。那是千年老妖。
Dad: 哈。说的也是。

Tis My Dad

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Argg... 1mth flew away just like tt..

today, i die die also must create an entry else i dun noe when else i will update..


i have so so much to tell, but i do noe know where to start, wat to write and watever who where wat?!..!!


So, lets the x random things occurs!!!!


1/ i'm sick of work. wats new? i want more tuitions! such tt i can earn as much as wat i'm earning nw so tt i can quit my job. But, will i?


2/ Darcy's right eye appears to be have some problem. His right eye lid will slowly slowly close while his left is still wide open and staring at u. I did some gentle eye massage but it still does nt go away. Shall wait n see hw tmr. If its getting worst, i wld need to bring him to e VET.


3/ Darcy had stop eating his kibbles as we gave him fish+rice for dinner everynite. It was suppose to be a every now n den meal but my parents started cooking fish+rice for him EVERY NITE resulting in his disinterest in kibbles. (All their fault!!) As we wld be going tw soon, it wld be very troublesome for the kind, helpful, wonderful person to have to cook everynite for darcy. So we started him back on kibbles. N he's still rejecting them. But not as much. A hungry dog is A HUNGRY DOG. Hope he will be back on kibbles by then.


4/ Last last time, my dad saw me talking baby language to Darcy and he called me 'xiao ren' and Darcy 'xiao gou'. Last time, my mum saw my dad talking baby language to Darcy and she looked at dad n shakes her head. Last nite, i caught mum talking baby language to Darcy. Me, i was => -_-!!!


5/ I used to bring Darcy out for a walk about 1-2 times per wk. Now tt my mum had stop working, dad brings Darcy out almost EVERYDAY. I'm serious, ALMOST EVERYDAY. Me, i was => -_-!!!


6/ Note: This is a repeated event. Its does not happen by chance. I was watching tv in e living room, on my fav sofa, relaxing and partially stoning. Suddenly Darcy started barking at dad or mum. Dad will rise/emerge frm wherever he was, stop watever he was doing and scold Darcy den proceed to chase Darcy around the living room. (Note: This is suppose to be a scolding session but turns to playtime for Darcy n dad) Their fav part, is to circle around me, Darcy takes me as his pillor of support, Dad treats me as a trap(to trap Darcy). They will play hide and seek around me and dad frm scolding will become laughing. Me, i was => -_-!!!


7/ Frm Darcy, i learnt that when one become desperate, he can make the impossible possible. Example: Darcy n dad was playing hide and seek around me (as usual). I was sitting on my fav sofa stoning at the tv. Dad had seal up most of Darcy's escape routes. Darcy, unwilling to admit defeat, with his ciga-lookalike-bone hanging frm the side of his mouth suddenly make a jump at me. So sudden was his leap that i raise my arms as a shield for my face thinking that he will smack straight in my face but the next second he was gone. Darcy had jump on to me and flew over the headrest landing on the open space behind my sofa. Dad and i was shocked for a second and for once, Dad declares Darcy the winner of the Day.


8/ For those who knows of my difficulties of getting a dog in the past, wld know tt my dad was the main 'problem'. He was the one who said NO. N he being a person who seldom say NO to me makes this NO a rather significant NO. So, seeing how much he has bonded with Darcy makes me realised that not listening to parents all the time might just be a wise thing to do.

9/ 2 mths back, Dad asked me to take a pict of Darcy n him, just like the black and white photo he had taken with his previous dog. Dad showed me that photo the other nite and i said 'I dun think u can squat tt low now' hahahhaaa... Me was fun..

10/ I borrowed 4 bks frm e library 2 sundays back. Their title being 'Out of the blue - romance in Crete' , 'Anyone but you - romance+dog' , 'Animal's Ppl - True Life Account of an Indian boy in Khaufpur' and lastly 'The women of Pemberley - Sequence to Pride & Prejudice'. When i was loaning this 4 bks, i cant help but feel how diff these 4 bks are. Other than the first 2 where they are romance but one is wrt travel and one is on dog (tt was wat caught my attention). The other is a biography and one is simply a literature. I didnt read the brief outline at e back of e book when i was choosing them, i simply look at the (1)title and colour of e book and (2) flip to the first page and read the first few lines. No point in killing the story by knowing what half the book will be about or when the auther is just nt my cup of tea. So, if the cover is attractive enough and the first few lines dun make me yawn/sleep. Yup, i'd gotten my book.

11/ I started on the dog book first which took me 4 mrt trips to finish. Then the Crete one which took me almost a wk of mrt trip + a friday nite. Now i'm on my Animal's ppl. Its lettering are slightly smaller, the pages are thinner and the book is thicker than e first 2. That was how i decide wat to read first. I'd thought i wldnt be able to survive the first part of the book but i was wrong. This is a good read thou it requires more concentration power than e other 2. But its still an interesting book to read. So, go get it!

12/ Facebook is a dangerous tool. esp if your fellow colleagues n team leader are ur friends. They wld know wat u had been doing last wkend or how drank u were. No good! No excuses to use the next time they ask u to go drinking. I cant say ' ermm.. i dun drink' hahahah

13/ I went to mentoring last sat. Was called up e previous sat by my mentee n asked to come. But who knows, i postpone one tuition and went but he has to go for flag day. Sigh.. I miss mentoring. I miss acting like a 20yrs old and playing w them. Some new mentors even thought tt i was 17. haa.. those was e days.

14/ Watched 'He's not tt into you' some wks back and i strongly reccomend to ALL girls out tt esp for those singles. Cause, i got a wake up call frm it. Seriously. Watch it and u will understand. 2 things every girl shld know: 1. Nv cut ur own fringe. 2. watch e show urself to find out.

Time to sleep! Hope i will update soon!!

Like father like dog..

Darcy n dad have something in common today ... their big tummy

I overfed Darcy today. Giving him an hard boiled egg and much much kibbles. Den my mum woke up and feed him some bread as shes having her breakfast. Den it was my dad's turn.

At 4pm, i started cooking for him. Boiling pumkin, chicken liver and steam brown rice.

Now, he has a big tummy and is sleeping again. sigh.. i shld watch wat i'm feeding him else he become like my dad...

Just another another day..

Darcy likes to try his luck everyday. EVERYDAY.

He do so by biting me. If i just push him away, he will come back and bite some more. Den i will start smacking his mouth and he will continue biting, even aiming for the hand that is wacking him. Den when i increase my strength and screaming NO with every wack i place on him he will den stop, stand back, look up and bark at me. (I think its only a matter of time my next block neighbours call SPCA). When Darcy bark at me, i will yell NO and point my finger at him which will make him bark even louder and when i stand up and raise my hand to hit him den he will pretend to run away only to do a round and come back to bite my hand.

By that time, i wld be screaming 'OUT' (its also a matter of time the NP are called for late disturbance to the neighbour) and pointing to the balcony or out of my door den he will stand there and look at me. I will walk to the balcony or out of my room and he will normally follow but stop at the middle of the smaller living room. With more 'OUT's he will sit down put his head on his paws and look up at me. Arrggg.... What am i suppose to do now? With that look, he sure win. I will nag nag at him den when he's bored of acting pathetic he will stand up, turn his back at me and walk away.. Vomit blood ar...

Looks like my dad's effort of bringing him front of GYNN, praying that Darcy will be blessed with well mannered is wasted. sigh..

In 6mths time, i wld be in TW, along with a couple of beloves.. This will be our grad trip you know. Thou it is 10yrs too late. But well, late better than never.. so yeah!! 6 more mths to TW and 1mth 1wk to BKK. woohoo...

Hope this November flies with love, joy and happiness!!

Ya.. i'm kinda high frm chasing aft Darcy.

Dreams may come true when u look pathetic enough...

I came back from dinner with my Da tu di and sat down with my dad while he was watching tv. I talked to him about my HP plans.

My eyes fall on a copy of Courts discount booklet and as i was looking at those 'wall TVs', i let out a LOUD sigh and said 'when will i be able to have one in my room?' all the while looking sad and longing at the pictures. It was actually more of my own thoughts spoken out loud than asking my dad for one.

Dad said 'I also want one, when will i have one then?'

I said 'You wait long also wont have lor.'

Dad didnt argue back this time round like he did many many times ago nor did he complain on ill treatment by his flesh and blood. Instead he asked me to turn on the TV.

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Come Sept IT fair, we might both have our wishes come true!! woohoooo.....

names..

There are people who choose to take on 'christian' or aka 'english' names at certain point in life.

To them, this is just for convenience sake or just a good chance to get a new identity because honestly, how many people truely loves their given name.

A lot of times, fellow friends and strangers asked why didnt i get an english name? I normally replied with a 'i dun noe' look and shrug it off. They never ask again.

The best part with using my chinese name is that, the lecturers/tutors seldom call on me because they dun noe how to pronounce my name. Yan is pronounce as yang and i have to settle with ang mos calling me yang teng.

At starbucks, when asked for my name, i will say yan which they, 10 out of 10 times, spelled it as Y-E-N. If i spelled out my name for them as Y-A-N, they read it out as yang. In the end i let them be, my eyes just followed the cup with my name so that i wld know tt its me they are calling when they called.

When i was in sing, ppl call me ting. But over at down under, they call me yan. For what reasons, i do not know. I always prefer it when ppl call me ting to yan because yan is the common name in my family whereas ting is MY name. So i was very unused to having ppl calling me yan over there. But as time goes by, i settled for yan.

When i go to starbucks or when i need to introd myself to ppl i will meet only once, i call myself yan. But the problem is, i do not response when ppl call me yan. So, sometimes i wonder, what should i call myself.

I like my given name and i cant think of anything else to call myself. My yan is unique and to date, i have know of less than a handful who uses the same yan as me. One famous hot hunk will be wu yan zhu. Hence i like my yan as much as i like my ting.

All thanks to my dad for giving me this name.

I did something very nosensical to my dad just now. It was a trick we played on each other for the past 20 over years. But it kinda stop as i grew older and more ladylike. He was unprepared and caught in surprise after i done what i done. Hence he threaten to tell all my friends about it. I just hope he wont be so heartless. hahahahahaha..... So to prevent him from doing that, i'm not going to bring friends back for the time being...

A typical conversation btw me and my dad.

Me on my hp: Where are you?

Dad on his hp: At home. Where are you?

Me: At home. Are you sleeping?

Dad: Ya.

Me: Anything to eat?

Dad: No.

Me: Are you hungry?

Dad: No.

Me: I'm hungry. What is there to eat?

Dad: We go out and buy.

Me: Got car?

Dad: Ya.

Me: Ok. Go where to eat?

Dad: ... I dun noe. Where you want to eat?

Me: I dun noe. I give you 10 mins to think.

Dad: ok. I give you a call later when i thought of one.

Me: ...

I'm not the lazy one lor.. Hes even worst than me. As the saying goes, like father like daughter.

CPF

After the 2.5k scare i got frm my dad, (which i'm still recovering frm it. Maybe i'm making too big a fuss of it, but hey, it created an impact alrite.) i'd been thinking of ways to save money the wiser way possible (i.e so that i still can have enough to spend, get my W&Ns and enough for emergencies and my parents).

I was thinking about it on the bus ride home and i came up with an idea which i mention to xy and later to my dad.

The idea comes from our govt which they name it "CPF".

I was thinking of setting up a CPF account for my parents. That is , for every 20% of 'allowances' i give my parents monthly, i open a bank account and save it for them. If at the end of the yr and they wanna go travelling or such, they can use that amount to go anywhere they want. Or in the case of any emergency, there is something to fall back on.

Well, as you can guess, the response from both my dad n xy wasnt good. Aft i mention to me dad, he laugh (prententiously), look at me for a brief moment(to see if i'm serious), and went back to what he was doing. All these indicates the signals for 'try if you dare and you will see what i will do. Not in a good sense obviously.'

Can see hes not a firm beliver of CPF either. Haa...

Monday blues..

Went for induction today. It was so boring. We were let off at 5.15pm. Went home straight and i was starving. Cooked tom yum instant mee, dry style and had it for dinner. 2 packs.


Dad came home and while watching tv and painting my toenails he told me that during my mum's checkup this morning, the doctor advise mum to go for a operation to reduce the swelling in her arm. The operation is safe and already carried out in Japan. My dad said it will cause around $10k. I asked bout his medisave, insurance and what not. He said in the end will be $5k. He asked if i can contribute half. How can i say no?


I saw my puppy, hp, wall tv, bag, camera all flying out of the window.


After one commercial, after my dad discover my unsmiling face, he said, 'the nurse called and said that my medisave can covered, so only need to pay for the hospital charges which is not much.

Hai.. i dun noe what to say.

A breath of relief that all the items i want come flying back?
Or shld i start worrying on savings as in seriously, if something is to happen now, i wont have any cash to deal with it. So are all those items hanging in mid air?

A friend once told me that if theres something i want, just get it. The more i wait to save for them, the harder i will get them.
A lot of other friends will surely say, save till you have more than enough money to spend on that item then buy it.

What shld i do?

Evil old man..

My dad walked into my room just now as i was msm-ing and commented that i'd dropped a lot of hair in my room. (He must has mopped the hse today). So i took the opportunity to complain about how poorly looked after i am. Like there is no food at home when i got home frm work. And the fact that i only have 1 decent meal a day. And its outside food. So, of course my hair will drop due to my unhealthy diet.

Den as i was complaining i realise how little i actually eat during the week. A small DOM latte in the mornign, lunch in the nearby foodcourt, biscuit or chocolates (small amt cause we share our stock among the colleagues) and soup for dinner and sometimes some veggis. So it's actually quite a small intake of food. So i was quite puzzled and i said 'How come i'm not getting thinner when i'm eating so much?' And i was still thinking about it when he drop the bomb.

'Of course la, you eat so much during the weekend, hw to become thin.' With that he walk away.

A bit bu shuang but gotta agree with him. Because what he said is true as my pants always feel tighter on Monday as compared to Thursday.

Night at the Phantom..

Just came back from watching Phantom of the Opera. Got a hard time getting a cab so i took a train to khatib and my dad came pick me up. I learned something tonight.

Sing's public transport is way more efficient than driving. Say that i'm ungrateful for all you want, but seriously, when all you want is to get home asap, take a shower and rest, you will understand my comment.

Phantom was not too bad. My first musical in Esplanade though. But i always thought it will be grander in the theater. I like the starting, it was nice. Not all the cast were good though. I wonder if they really sing all those songs every single night. Won't they get bored? It's a nice experience and the seats we got are not too bad either. All thanks to ET. We bought the tixs since March so it was really good.

Its nice to dress up once in a while and attend a play or a musical and its nice seeing people dressing up too. Its a kinda manner and respect for the performers i would think.

I wonder what musical is coming up next...

Another today..

Today, i started my first day of work. Early. I have to reach the office by 9 am hence i left my house at 7.35am meaning that i woke up at 6.45am. Which is super early for me. Can't think of any other time i was up so early.

Work was boring as usual for most first day-ers. It felt weird having to dress formal when everyone is dressing down for friday. But because my first day falls on a friday, hence i have to wear formal. Which, fyi, makes me feel super out. And i felt tall too even though it was a one pair of 1 inch heels. Anyway, i spend a lot of time learning stuff, doing filings and staring into space. Hope that as time goes by, i will have lots of things to do and being able to do lots of thing too.

Went to meet Jul for movie aft work at Bishan but both of us were late hence missing the movie time therefore we had dinner only. That woman cldnt recgonise me when she saw a figure standing there waiting. I met ET for lunch earlier and she said i look like a teacher w my spects and dressing. Guess i have those 'dun play w me' kinda look. Which is good.

Came home and found a letter waiting for me. From MOE, asking me to photocopy all the necessary docts and send over to them. I was overjoyed but my dad felt otherwise. He asked me to think it thru before making any decisions and this is defntly not the first time he said that. He had always been against the idea of me becoming a teacher. And i can totally understands it. Hence leading me to doubt my choice.

Over my 2 decades of life, my dad had never try to influence any of my decisions made except 2. When choosing which sec sch, jc and uni courses. He always let me decides. So what are the 2 decisions of mine that causes such great disapproval? Firstly, it's the decision to go NIE which i can understand his feelings. Secondly, my decision to get a dog. Which i can never ever understand. Or shld i say i can understand why he's against me getting one but he doesn't understand that i will be able to handle it.

Dad wasnt afraid of the additional trouble that arises from keeping a dog other than when the dog fell sick. He was alright with the other food, bathing, walks matters. What he is afraid most, is that i will be unable to take it when my pet pass away. My emotional feelings. He knows i will be heart broken and so on and i try to convince him that i'll be alrite but he just dun buys it. So, anyone has any idea what i shld do other than go get a dog before informing him? I know. I shld find a bf and deceive him into buying a dog for me then i will ditch the guy.. Haha.. Brillant.

But first, he must be rich and dumb. Anyone noes of any such person? Dun forget to introd..