Lunch out with 弟弟

Ling has been waiting quite a while for this chance to have a lunch with *弟弟... and finally came the chance today... Ling has been looking forward to this day she took leave about 1month ago!!

Ling went to pick up 弟弟 from school, and after making the necessary preparations:

bathed. checked.

sh sh. checked.

弟弟 insisted that he wanted to bring his packet of tissue with Monkey packaging, because Ah Ma promised him that he could bring it along.. Ok. No prob.

Monkey tissue. checked.

Ah Ma wanted to bring 弟弟 water bottle. But 大姨 aka Ling said no need, coz there's cold water available at the eating place. So 弟弟 thought about it and decided not to let Ah Ma bring his water bottle, coz he wants to drink COLD water...

弟弟 is excited for the lunch and so is 大姨!! And here we go to Bac Donald!! Oops. Sorry. Should be McDonalds!

As 大姨 likes to treat 弟弟 his favourite food, 大姨 asked 弟弟 what would he like..

大姨: 你要吃什么？

弟弟: 你随便叫，我随便吃 loh..

Goodness!!! This is exactly wat J J said!! What has kids been eating or learning nowadays?? 简直是人小鬼大!!

Since 随便叫and 随便吃, Ling ordered half a Filet-O-fish for JJ, which disappeared in about 5mins time.

But 弟弟 likes to have his fries first.

Indulging in his half Filet-O-fish.

Not forgetting giving one fries to Ah Ma. In our house, we always practise the virtue of Sharing.. Even for the Nuggests. 9pcs means each will have 3. Good boy knows that he has eaten 3pcs and honestly let 大姨and Ah Ma to have the rest.
But obviously he is a bit soured... coz he said: "这个都不好吃的.."

Eyeing at his COLD water... Good boy did not make noise even though he only had a small cup of his COLD water.

Ling thinks that bringing 弟弟to his BacDonald's is a good way to teach him things. For e.g.
- Learning some independence to ask for his currey sauce and COLD water
- To be polite when asking for curry sauce and cold water.
- Teaching him to share, and have his favourite food slowly, because nobody is going to snatch from him.
- Explaining why he cannot go the the Boy's toilet when he is with 大姨.
- Teaching him to clear the table (even though 大姨 will not clean it if she is out on her own).

*弟弟 is Ling's cousin's son, who is taken care of by Ling's mum. He is 3+years old.

these days, "spontaneous mode" allows decision to be made fast and quick.. Yesterday morning, our dear muz is asking whether there is any good movies or not.. apparently we both are quite disappointed about the lack of X-factor in The X-files... we are even more disappointed to find no new movies for this week...So Ling just asked why not go to Mad Jack? since dear yanah was very much mesmerised by the "thick fish", which she saw on a food blog for Halal food...



and Ding! that's it. Lets go to Mad Jack after work tonight. ~ Cool.



we asked around.. and we have special guests like Zahara and Eileen, who also made a fast decision to follow us when we are ready to leave the office.. they are simply very cool too... haha.



The Mad Jack branch that we went to is at Simpang Bedok. Didn't know there was so much life at the inner side of the area!! I ordered their XMad Fish & Chips set dinner, which eh... doesn't turn out to have extreme madness leh... the fish is fresh, no doubt. But the batter is not really for me.. a little too oily, and i still prefer the breaded type.. BUt the set dinner is quite worthwhile, about $17 nett which includes: Fish & Chips, a soup of the day, a drink, dessert of the day (a cake or pie) with a scoop of ice-cream!


Having dinner with colleagues is something that we often do within our own clique.. Going to airport, Simpang Bedok, East Point.. even delivery from fast food. We go for movies, ktv..


Come to think of it, I have been very lucky all along to have met with nice colleagues and people at every of my workplace..
Attachment at TRANS was enjoyable because of the nice colleagues, supervisors and of course fellow attachment mate. it was like a special arrangement to have met Nic during my attachment. Who would have thought that Nic, who stayed in Jurong, and did not really choose TRANS for attachment, would have end up in TRANS? and met this very nice colleague of hers by the name of Ling? I am sure she wouldn't have regret this arrangement.

Colleagues at hospital are very nice and fun-loving too! Be it the departent colleagues, nurses, other fellow hospital colleagues..
Or is it that Ling has brought fun to the place? haha.. I strongly believe so..

I just love working in the hospital..

Sometimes, you don't know whether to believe such "supersitions" or not.. but things just happened to MAKE you believe it..

there is this urban legend within our dept about this "cursed seat" that is in my level 6 office.. so far people who have taken that seat, were eh... ... met with difficulties during work, and doesn't stay long in THAT seat... ... so far, the current seat-er is the 4th "lucky" person.. and guess wat? she fell ill today as it is only her 1st week at the new seat. Oh, it's her first day taking inpatient cases...
~~Woo

But, another explanation for it could be that the air up at the satellite offices isn't that good probably.. imagine 4 people stucked in a small room.. breathing in wat ur neighbour just breathed out.. No window. Just a door which is always closed. How bad can that be.. Even bimbo lim at level 5 has taken MC already.. bad bad bad.. ..

As of today, slacker queen is so far so good... 苦命一条, so still surviving..

And August is going to be a busy month! Started off with the Nurses Day today.. (Happy Nurses Day... and my ward 47 rox) Coming up will be my journal club presentation (better start preparing soon), the QC project thingy, Health screening, Test Your Limit (aka our mini NAFA test), Captain's Ball Intra-hospital Tournament, maybe the HCA fund raising project..


Oh, and lao kang's birthday.. .. =D

1-day tour at City Hall

It was very much early-made plan that we (me, Jin, Sing and Chris) have our brunch buffet at 海天楼 -- a Chinese Restaurant at Pan Pacific Hotel.. It's really good to have friends working in hotel so that you get to enjoy food at the hotel's restaurant at half price!! Woots!!

Anyway, 海天楼 is situated at the 37th storey of Pan Pac.. its a round about restaurant and according to Sing, this restaurant is supposed to be able to revolve 360o but due due some technical problems, it didn't.

The buffet was a bruch buffet. Starts from 11.30am to 2.30pm. Food is mainly Chinese food with some dim sum menu. For a start, each guest will be able to enjoy a portion of the Chef's Signatures which is "Imperial Lobster Dumpling" and "Bird's Nest Egg Tart". Yummy Yummy. The lobster dummpling is really good... ... 馅料饱满, 外皮晶莹剔透... the filling is so fresh and Q!! Though Sing suspected that the filling might be prawns afterall, ah well... who cares?

THE Imperial Lobster Dumpling

The innovative container, which has a handle!! Amazing! Or is it Ling who is a mountain turtle..

Next, "Bird's Nest Egg Tart". Another of the chef's signatues. One word. G.O.O.D. The pastry is good. Egg custard not too sweet. Bird's nest.. well.. can't really sense any taste from it.. too bad they dun serve egg tart without the Bird's Nest. sure that i would easily gobble up 10s of them.. hur hur.

Besides the above two, we get to choose a portion of either Shark's Fins or Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.. Shark's Fins is really shark's fins. u can see the whole pieces of it in the broth, which makes me felt a litter sinful for eating it. The Buddha Jumps Over the Wall has loads of stuff in it -- dried scallop, mushrooms, small abalone, herbs, chicken..

The good stuffs submerged under the broth... The taste is good: 1 evidence -- Sing has tons of praises for it, even though she insisted she ONLY want to have Shark's Fins earlier on.

A list of food that we have ordered.
- Steamed Shrimp Dumplings.
- Pan-fried Pice Flour Rolls with crispy Conpoy (i.e. pan fried Chee Cheong Fun with shallots) --> not really well liked by us. I still prefer those that is wrapped with char siew or prawns.
- Steamed Scallop Dumplings with Vegetables
- Barbecued Duck served with Plum sauce (cripsy skin.. but too much fats..)
- Deep fried chinese buns --> my favourite!!
- Fried Prawn with Wasabi Mayonnaise and Mango

Jin's Fav!!

- Poached Live Prawns --> Big and Chewy!!
- Boiled Live Prawns with Supreme Stock

You can see the prawns which is soooo big... Even bigger than Ling's mouth and Jin's eyes!!

- Steamed Cod Fish with Pork
- Sauteed Garoupa Fillet with Ginger and Scallions x2
- Braised Bai Ling Mushrooms with Gingko Nuts and Seasonal Vegetables (Spinach, actually)
- Sauteed Diced Beef Tenderloin with Cashew Nuts in Black Pepper Sauce
- Fried Egg with Diced Prawns and Bean Sprouts
- Hai Tien Lou Homemade Tofu with Pine Mushrooms
- Soup of the Day
- Spicy and Sour Soup
- Corn Soup --> which Sing didn't really touched.. coz it is not the CLEAR corn soup that her mother cooked
- Fruits for dessert. Chris's favourite is the Cherries!!

- Chilled Honeydew Sago
- Soy Pudding

Cost: $37.50 per person. and that is after 50% discount.

Environment: 4/5 (the cushion of the chair kept slipping off.. or is it my big butt?)
Food: 3.5/5 (realised that i didn't really order much of the dim sum)
Price: 3/5 (imagine if we didn haf the discounts! wow!)

Poor Ling.. Who has to gobble down a bottle of Po Chai Pills just to make sure that she dun suffer from further diarrhoea...

Looks like T.L.T is in a 热带雨林...

As you know hoe T.L.T people can really nua at a place, we sat at 海天楼 from 11.30am to about 3+pm.. after which, we walked from Marina Square to Suntec and finally agreed to watch The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

Of course before that, they slacked at 旺 drinking teh ..
Cost: $2.60 for my Ice Blended Holicks.
Time Ended: 4.45pm.. we gotta catch our X-Files at 5!!

X-Files: I Want to Believe
Cost: $9.50
Movie Rating：2.5/5
Time ended: about 6.30pm

A lack of the X factor. Not creepy enough though.
Rating will increase if not for the bunch of kids behind who apparently spilled their pop corn over the floor, and got a shock seeing that Scully and Mulder are actually a couple.

Following the X-files, after lengthy discussion, we dropped by the Esplande for some photo taking.. Poor Sing who thought that she was able to take a nice show with the river, didn't know that there were some constructions going on..
Cost: $0.
Time Ended: about 9+

Subsequently, we all agreed that we are somehow hungry again... and being a indecisive bunch, we eh... ah.. anything... dunno leh... decided to have a bite Mankan Sutra just alongside of the Esplande. BUt well... such places are always packed, so we eh... ah.. anything... dunno leh... and finally decided to proceed to Mac. Shared some drinks, fries, nuggets and McWings.
Cost: $3.
Time Ended: 10+ to 11

Well... Jin and Sing were apparently quite high and decided not to let the night end so early.. And being the staff of Pan Pac which means discounts at the hotel, we decided to proceed to The Atrium of Pan Pac to have a drink or two.. Turned out that after we placed our order happily, thinking of the half price, the staff said that discounts was not applicable as we did not make reservations. DUH!! As we have seated comfortably at the cushion.. who dare to just leave like tt??
Luckily it had free flow of titbits. Drinks without discounts is still affordable.

Ambience: 4.5/5
Cost: $25 nett for my Berrytini, which really makes me have a terrible headache
Time Ended: 1+am.

Total cost for 1-day tour at City Hall: $75 (not including our cab fare back home!)

Woots! Wat a fulfilling day!
Next Sat: Photo taking with graduation gowns + anther Wii session!!

And Ling prayed that she will get to have another go at Hai Tien Lou some time soon!! To devour all the other food which she didnt get to try.. and of course, with a better stomach..

nothing better to do..

hasn't been able to blog due to some certificate error... dunno wat's that anyway...
Saw this at hilii's blog.. since this is boring cerene's blog, it should be boring...
Here we go.. ..

Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, and things and you CANNOT use your own name for the boy/girl name.

Your name: Cerene
Four words: Cute, Class, Chio, Charm
State/country: California
Boy Name: Chris
Girl Name: Chris
Occupation: Con-man
Something you can wear: Cap
Something found in a kitchen: Chopper
Something you shout: Chey!
Something you do at school: Cheat
Name of an animal: Cheeta
Name of a Drink: Cola
Name a Hoilday: Christmas
Name a body part: Chest

Finally had my breakfast-cum-gosspis session at Ikea with Jin this morning.. Only slacked at the restaurant for about 2hrs, and dranked 3 cups of coffee... If the queue at the coffee dispenser weren't that forever-long, i would have enjoy more cups of coffee...
Slacking at Ikea is really a good way to slack.. For people like me and Jin, we can easily spend the whole day there, and probably come out empty handed.. BUT!! creative juices flooded...

today... I didn't come out empty handed.. Bought 2 rolls of handmade paper (dunno for wat, but my idea is just to stock it up for the rainy days), 2 packets of machiam post cards thingy and nasim's magazine folder.. and really.. where got nice flower designed magazine folder??!!

ANd indeed, Ikea is really a place for inspiration.. I got my idea for the HCA thank-you card.. (okok.. thanks to jin who suggested that idea...) but need to further develop it.. ..

Excited about my idea.. ...

today marks the start of my 3rd year at the hospital, and it seem like I have just started work not long ago.. Feels that I have not achieve a lot and yet, 2 years have passed...


some people has already made plans of the path that they will be taking... "i plan to be in this company for x years, after which i am going to further my studies, then i am going to do this do this and in x years i will do that do that"


none of such for me... i have no pull factor to pull me out and also, not much push factor to push me out of the hospital.. no long-term goals. no short-term goals. oh, maybe yes. get myself a rich and handsome boyfriend. haha.


boss asked me some time ago whether I have any educational plan. I say "not for now". Educational plan?? Pursuing Masters? gosh. thinking of the books, exams or papers that i need to write, i can already sense the dreadful feeling.. maybe i am becoming less and less academic type of person..

HMDP? hm... that sounds better... on the job training.. u see things "live". but the bond attached to it? hm...

so far, i have yet to find any fields that i want to specialise. Trying out psychotrauma now, but hopefully it will not be too exciting that my heart can't take it... shall see how it goes..