not the only one.....

one never depends on just 1 alarm clock.........

and how can one just place da hope on the iphone alarm alone...????

must have others ... be it manual, battery or electrical-powered.......

boo hoooooooooooo

the day before...

typically usual is a complain about monday blues....... but then i think there's always a sunday blues, especially when the expectation of a working monday weights heavily on one's shoulders......

so today might as well be a preparation day for the next day...... making this sunday a domesticated day to do housework and cleaning up.....

aircon maintenance.....

dust and mop the floor......

dust and clean the drawer chest and cabinet tops.....

collect and fold da clothes.....

YAWN...!!

wave and wave....

a wave of problems since 0700 hrs .....

oh my oh my....

it's a LAO SAI DAY......

strictly casual....

u can buy this but never never wear it for work........

if not, your boss and colleagues will never again take you seriously.......

Stiffer

After close to 2 months, i've decided to add on 2 clicks for the front dampers in the car to make it stiffer... To my surprise, the ride height today was exactly the same as day 1 and the alignment is still ok so no adjustment was needed for the dampers...

I will be able to know the difference for the new settings when I take the usual roads on the way to work tomorrow morning...

conflicting response....

when i am at work:

i will think of lunch, think of knocking off, think of going for vacation leave.... and getting away from work.....

but after a long break, i would somehow think of going back to work.. cos i cant be lazing around all the time, cant be going shopping all the time and cant be listening to audio/watching tv all the time...

during the workweek, i wake up on time, have breakfast and lunch on time and are engaged in purposeful activities. however, during vacation, i sleep at odd hours, skip breakfast cos i wake up late and have lunch at odd hours: very unhealthy behaviour .....

so.... there lies a need to strike a balance between work, leisure, rest and idling...... too much work is no good and too much play is no good .....

welcome back to work..!!

bye bye......

ahh finally the grand prix weekend has come and gone......

so it's back to work on monday....

YAWN....

time to go to bed...

no sands....

sands is making waves as they cannot get enough locals to fill job vacancies......

well with the meagre offer what else can they expect..... LONG QUEUES?????

wake up lah......

headaches...

as if the whole world is not messy enough, we now have the swine flu .....

and this thing is giving me a headache...... cos suddenly we have to start preparing for its arrival......

just like SARS and the bird flu......

i happen to think isnt this like.... part 3 as in ...... 

the influenza strikes back? or the revenge of the flu?

kudos....

while i was taking a rest in my car in a HDB carpark, at the corner of my eye, i saw the lady in white approaching...... armed with the formidable "weapon", she's the nightmare of those who never display a parking coupon......

and as she walked in small but heavy steps, she meticulously checked every vehicle in the red parking lots.... well it's a sunday so there's free parking in the white lots...

since this was a fairly common occurrence, i didnt pay much attention until she came to this lorry........ the lady was not tall and unfortunately the season parking label on the lorry was high up on the windscreen....... in order to use her "weapon" to scan the RFID-enabled parking label, she really HAD TO STRETCHHHHHH herself.....

at the moment, i felt strange....... strange bcos this lady was so dedicated in her work........ it's a simple job i.e. to check for parking labels...... but the way she approached her job was admirable...... she's serious and thorough.....

*salute*...... parking lady!

some effort......

i promised myself that i will make an effort to wake up even earlier to beat the mother of traffic jams ......

and so i did.............. and left home at 0710 hrs promptly......

despite my best effort, the traffic condition was not good this morning........... as there were 2 accidents on the ECP/AYE..........

one: a 3-car collision on the benjamin sheares bridge....

two: a 1-car incident before marina south exit............. (another vehicle probably left the scene)...

so i ended up in heavy traffic.... and also met up with MANY road hoggers ....

just my luck....

for $1.50.....

to beat the timing and to save S$1.50, i pulled myself up by 10 mins earlier......

and i managed to reach the ERP gantry at 0727 hrs..... a difference of 3 minutes.....

but alas, i still cant beat the traffic snarl.......... it's just as bad.....

i miss the empty roads of 0630 hrs hee..... 

what a price ...?

oh no oh no.... this new shift hours is not good for me at all.............

although i get a little more sleep, what did i lose....??? i think a lot more than what i have gained.....

now i have to pay for morning ERP..... and after paying, there's still a traffic jam to endure...... it's not as if money is the cure for this scourge.....

worst of all, i have to move around mostly in 2nd and 3rd..... very very very frustrating to do that early in the morning.....

at the end of the day, there's also the evening peak hour traffic............... 

no good no good.....

saved...!

saved by a phone call..........! yes indeed.......

if not for the morning call, i would have overslept and be late for work........

haha thank you....

for i was so tired last night..................... and this morning i couldnt hear my alarm, the radio and also the first phone call........

thank god.....

too muchie

gosh gosh i clocked 12 hours today..........! OUCH!

i reached my workplace at 645 am and left at 640 pm....!!!! 

and i didnt really understand why......

oh come on......... and i need to be back there at 645 am tomorrow...!

what a chore.... :P

settled in...

slowly but surely i am settling into a routine...............

almost like clockwork, i become soooooooooooo sleepy at close to 2330 hours....

and i should go to bed soon......

so that i can function properly the next morning haha..........