Do You Believe In Serendipity?

doyoubelieveinserendipity — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:20:00 +0000

A Palmist once told me that there’s a “Mohammed line” which means that things will come to me instead of me having to seek them, just like how the mountain went to him. Good things in short.

I see that sort of coming true. But what I can foresee is a mountain of work, piled sky high. Someone told me that my future here will be bright since I’m given all these things. Another told me that these are opportunities which can propel me and get me a promotion and stuff more quickly. Perhaps that’s true. I don’t know about some of you people but I’m not an ambitious person. I prefer a more laidback lifestyle with worklife balance, knowing that when I want to meet up with friends, I can do so without worrying about slogging when I return home after that. Everything keeps coming in although it’s the holidays already.

I wonder if Chia feels that way in school. At least he doesn’t have to teach other subjects though.

doyoubelieveinserendipity — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:15:54 +0000

10 more days to my solo travel! Time passes really quickly… it’s been like about 3 weeks or so since I booked my tickets online.

As the date approaches, I got to admit that apart from excitment, I do feel jittery too. Throw in some insecurity and ta-da, it’s a rojak of crazy feelings! This will be the first time I’ll be away from home for so long, alone.

When people know that it’s going to be a 7- day trip, the look of disbelief on their faces was kind of funny.

Someone: 7 days?! What are you going to do there?!

Me: I want to take things slow and easy. I can sit at cafes and sip tea or coffee and enjoy everything.

Someone: If you tell me you want to sit at a cafe in Europe to drink coffee, I can understand but Bangkok?

Me: Haha… (still excited)

Changes, changes…. Soon Fluffball will be gone too. Will miss his way of welcoming me when I come home from work.

1 more week of meetings before my trip. Please pass quickly!!

Case 39

doyoubelieveinserendipity — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:59:33 +0000

Case 39 is a disturbing show about a demonic 10 year old girl. What was even more disturbing during the experience was having 2 couples in the not-too-big cinema spouting vulgarities out of fear and also scolding Renee Zellweger for being stupid in the show. It’s extremely irritating and distracting. It’s kind of funny how people could get so worked up just by watching a show. F- word coming out all the time is one thing but reference to a particular part of a female body in Hokkien was disgusting especially coming out of the mouth of the females themselves.

My word of advice: Don’t watch horror movie if you cannot it.

doyoubelieveinserendipity — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:20:13 +0000

Looking at the crowd at Tangs closed door sale for members, one would wonder what those people are doing there. Shouldn’t they be at work?!?!

Anyway if there are stuff to be bought from Tangs, this is a good time to do so with 12% rebate. So 12% of the cost will go to the membership card as points to be deducted from the next purchase.

It had been a fun afternoon shopping with colleagues but my feet feel dead since I was wearing sandals the whole day.

doyoubelieveinserendipity — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:16:42 +0000

I’m so looking forward to the opening of Universal Studios Singapore early next year!!! Can’t wait to ride on those adrenaline- pumping rides~~~~~~

I’ll go be a waitress at the IR.

Just kidding.

doyoubelieveinserendipity — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:01:05 +0000

I love the Xmas decor (have I already mentioned to you? )! I saw it again on Sat and I realized that looking at the lights from around the outside of Wheelock straight down to Wisma, Ngee Ann City, (and it goes on and on…), it really feels like a wonderland as the lighting stretches on. A Winter Wonderland. The blue lights create an even cooler feel (cool as in the temperature hoho…) Why don’t they leave the lights like this the whole year round?

Haha… going to be really expensive though.

doyoubelieveinserendipity — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:53:23 +0000

It was the opening of Prologue at Ion 2 weeks ago on Sat. Just happened to come across that place when I made my way up the higher levels of Ion (very seldom do I do that). Prologue is actually Popular (yes, as in Popular bookshop) new lifestyle concept bookstore. There’s also a cafe in it called Jam. It happened to be a rainy evening and sitting at Jam sipping hot camomile lavender tea was pure bliss. Oh, there are huge (almost ceiling to floor? Can’t rem…) windows there so it felt like a scene out of Singapore when looking at the pouring rain from a small, cozy cafe.

Wouldn’t mind experiencing that again

doyoubelieveinserendipity — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:29:18 +0000

30 DAYS!

When people heard what I’ll be doing in a month, they gave a stunned look. Disbelief was written all over the face. Next came the question, “Why?”or “Why there?”

I could only reply, “Why not?”

doyoubelieveinserendipity — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:55:52 +0000

2 Timothy Chapter 1 Verse 7

” For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self- discipline.”

While on the bus, I overheard 3 guys in front of me talking. A much older one was dishing advice to the 2 young teenagers and suddenly he was testing the older teen a verse and the teen had to tell where in the Bible can the verse be found. Making a mental note of it, out of curiosity, I came home and got my Bible to find out the exact verse and there it was.

Perhaps, there’s something nudging me to look up the verse. Find it quite apt during this period of time when stress is building up so quickly that it’s affecting my sleep.

doyoubelieveinserendipity — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:28:04 +0000

Sometimes I wonder why strange thoughts will come to my mind. Out of the blue, I was thinking of how Mathematicians could actually come up with the fact that in a long number sentence with divide sign, x, +, -, etc, it can be concluded that the division part must be done first “-_-

Also in one of her strange moods, my chili padi asked me why the PE today was, in her words, ” so lame”. It was such a random question and kind of rude too. I was sitting in front at the teacher’s table and her seat is right at the back so it was kind of strange to ask me that kind of question when I was giving them fun worksheets. Fun worksheets meaning crossword puzzles, word search and having to find the way through mazes. She must have felt so relaxed that it heightened her already bold character. I have decided that to a little creature like her, it’s best to counter her question with my own question. Therefore I asked her, “What do you expect when we only have half an hour and time is wasted each time I try to settle all of you down?” Woohoo! +1 for me! I can’t imagine her being a P6 pupil in 4 years time haha…

Oh ya, for the past 3 days, she has been trying to find out how old I am. Determined little creature too!