So yup, as what I mentioned in my previous blog post, there had been a change in my job scope this year. Instead of processing invoices, now invoice processing has been delegated to my supervisor, while Benson and I took over HER responsibilities. Reason being she wasn’t able to produce the work that my boss expected from her… She was supposed to do suppliers reconciliation every year (every month, in fact), but she refused to do it, citing time restriction/limitation as the reason. So now, that particular duty falls to us. On top of that, I have to also create ledger cards and maintain the counterparty system, which was something she had been doing all along as well.
So in other words, we are kio-ing her sai, yes.
Sigh.
But honestly, now that I don’t need to do daily invoice processing, my time has been freed up tremendously. I have days where I literally has nothing to do. Meh. I’ll see how it goes after CNY. I have absolutely no mood to learn anything new now anyway.
My dad was warded again. Apparently he had another silent heart attack….and this time his symptoms were worse than back in August. I’m not sure what or how to feel about it. I think… 随缘吧。
I’ve been singing a lot at those M-Bar individual KTV booths! A little expensive but it’s so flexible. No need for prior booking, no need for a 2hr / 3hr block session etc.
Oh, and I’ve been playing this Travel Frog game Tabikaeru. I love the froggy so much that I installed it on both my phones! LOL. The froggy is so cute! <3
Yeah the points are a little all over the place in this post… but I don’t really give a damn. Not really in a mood to write much.
Happy Chinese New Year to all in advance, I guess…?
On a side note, I have updated the Taipei trip in my travel blog. Feel free to read.
My new phone is my first Huawei phone. So far it’s quite all right. I bought it for it’s OIS feature in its camera. It was difficult to search for its accessories though… but otherwise the phone seems pretty decent. Here’s an obligatory shot:
Not bad eh? At least it doesn’t have that irritating blue tint that my Samsung Note 4 used to have when talking photos from this tinted glass at my office.
I’ve got a new job scope – and…. I don’t feel like talking about it right now because it reminded me that I have many things yet to be done and I should be doing them now. So… I’ll elaborate about it at some point. For now, I’m just busy as hell….
This will be the first year where NO TRIPS are being planned beforehand. Bruno needs to find a new job and save some money. This is also a year where there’ll be much changes at work. I’m trying not to feel too stressed about it though.
I was thinking of perhaps going on a solo short trip to Helsinki this year end for a white Christmas, but then the airticket price is REALLY rather off-putting. Geez. S$1,270 for a return trip. I can get a 2 pax return airticket to Japan at that price! Yes I know Finland is halfway across the world.. but meh, spending over a thousand dollars for less than a week’s trip sounds really not-that-worth… Meh, we’ll see.
Went for a movie “marathon” last Saturday, at the spanking new GV Paya Lebar, with “nation’s first laser projectors”. Yes, the images were really sharper than other cinemas, but to be honest, once you are immersed in the movie, you really don’t go and take note if the images are “sharper” or not. At least I don’t focus on the sharpness when I was watching the films…
We caught Geostorm (I won’t ever miss any natural disasters movies!) and Mary and The Witch’s Flower. Geostorm wasn’t as bad as what most reviews said it was. I quite enjoy the movie actually. Of course, as with all movies, just leave your brains at home and stop questioning if it’s scientific or logical or what-not. Despite all the disaster scenes to be purely CG (obviously), the state of CG really takes my breath away every time I watch such scenes.
Mary and The Witch’s Flower is very Ghibli-ish (after all the studio’s under Hayao Miyazaki’s favourite student), but the story telling direction is quite different from Ghibli. I like the colours, I like the art – there are only very few parts where the animation/expression doesn’t really fit (Ghibli really does them better), but otherwise I enjoyed the animation too.
I realise I’m easy to please – especially when it comes to movies. LOL.
We met again on Tuesday, because I had to clear my ethnic half day leave since I didn’t take it on Chinese New Year this year. So off we went for lunch at the newly opened Ramen Nagi at Suntec, and that was a bad decision. Despite only 2 hours into operation for that day, they told us they “ran out of eggs”. So um, okay. Ramen with no egg. As if that’s not bad enough, their soup is laden with MSG. I was so damn thirsty for the entire day, geez. Never again.
After lunch, Bruno accompanied me to TCM where the doc helped me adjust the medication a bit because the TCM medicine she gave me was giving me insomnia and heat flushes again. After that, we had to go down to SGH to collect extra medication for my that. A 60 tab box of medication cost me S$134.40! Geez… heart medication is freaking expensive.
After that we lingered around Chinatown for a bit, before we head to Ming San for dinner. We were celebrating our friendniversary in advance, so we were more generous in terms of the dishes we order, and honestly all their dishes taste so good!
Aburi Salmon Maki
The Aburi Salmon Maki ($11.00) is just so good! Aburi Salmon is usually partly torched (top), and bottom half is raw. I honestly have no idea how to describe the taste and texture of it, but I swear to you, it felt like I went to heaven and back whenever I put a piece of that in my mouth. That’s HOW GOOD it is.
Unagi Tamago Yaki
Next, we ordered the Unagi Tamago Yaki (S$18.00). It’s grilled unagi, with some mayo, wrapped in warm half cooked omelette (almost like scrambled eggs), topped with more mayo, terayaki sauce, dried Japanese shrimps and pieces of fried fish skin. End result? A harmonious blend of tastes exploding in your mouth – allowing you to taste the unagi, the egg, the mayo, and a bit of saltiness and crunch from the dried shrimps and fish skin. I was half worried that things will fall apart when I picked up a piece with my chopsticks, but even though it looked that way, nothing dropped / fell apart while my chopsticks move it from the plate to my mouth. The chef is just so amazing at putting things (not just the tastes) together!
Grilled Ika
We were kinda worried that the above two dishes will not be enough to fill our tummies, so we ordered a grilled Ika (S$8.00). This dish, compared to the above two, is a lot more plain. Nothing much to shout about, but it’s fresh and perfectly grilled, all the way to the tip of its tentacles.
Garlic fried rice
Last but not least, we ordered a garlic fried rice (S$13.00) after eating all three dishes above, because we felt that we were still a tad hungry. I really couldn’t see any pieces of garlic in it, but oh boy, the garlic taste simply exploded in your mouth with each mouthful. It’s so amazing. And the best part is there’s no garlic after taste at all! What sorcery is this?!
The total bill adds up to S$55.00 (with two drinks, not in pictures), a price which we feel is totally justifiable, considering how good ALL the dishes are. We’ll definitely be back for the Aburi Salmon Maki and Unagi Tamago Maki! =D
… Thank you for being here throughout this difficult period. Thanks for coming over to spend time with me when I couldn’t go out. Thanks for being so patient and understanding even when I snapped at you because I was frustrated about other things.
So, my dad got 2 stents in his arteries, and was discharged last Saturday. Technically his heart is still very weak and operating at a very low efficiency, but since he’s a super laid back person, I think he’ll be fine. I hope so.
Coincidentally, after the TCM doctor changed my medicine again last Saturday, I was having trouble sleeping yet again (initially I was still able to doze a little on and off throughout the night) – I mean, I slept, but only for like 4 hours before I woke up and couldn’t sleep thereafter. Went to see her again on Tuesday to make some changes to the medication, and viola I was able to sleep now! Or at least I have been able to sleep from 11pm to 6am at least, throughout. And it’s deep sleep, not those dozing on and off kind. Hopefully I don’t jinx it by talking about it here, lol. Let’s hope I’m slowly getting back my sleep pattern.
Work is getting pretty boring – I’ve finished all my month end reporting for July, so I’m now litterally left with nothing to do. I’ll be on leave tomorrow and Monday, so that’s a long weekend to stay at home and play POE. Actually I’ll just probably spend the Saturday out or something alone – it’s been awhile since I have my me-time.
My insomnia is still not improving. The culprit is suspected to be from one of the chinese herbs that my TCM gave me, but it has been almost a month and the situation has not reversed yet. =(
And then my dad was hospitalized, and was found to have heart failure. He seemed to have suffered a silent heart attack two weeks back and a large portion of his heart tissue had already died, with 3 arteries blocked. The hospital deemed a heart bypass not suitable due to the dead heart tissue, and thus decided to stent two of his arteries.
I’m not sure how long he still has to live, but let’s just hope for the best…
