yesterday was a good day and today was a bad day.

Yesterday: The highlight of my day came at 11pm, when my colleague and I enjoyed roti prata supper at The Roti Prata House near her place. It's been a LONG time since I had late-night supper with anyone; so chilling out (albeit after a REALLY long day at work) felt really enjoyable and memorable. Coupled with the late night drive on the highway, I suppose it also brought back fond memories of driving at night and occasional late night suppers at Berkeley. Since we had a SERS announcement today, my colleague, the OIC for this site, had to give a briefing to GRLs yest night. I was supposed to help her set-up the equipment and stuff, but ended up staying for the whole briefing as the chinese ppt operator cum clicker. :P Thus ended up skipping dinner... But it was interesting to witness the entire meeting, chaired by my DD and Adviser Mr Arthur Fong. Was particularly impressed by the MP, cos he was REALLY personable and appeared very sincere. Showed no airs, and extremely patient when explaining certain aspects of SERS to the grassroots leaders... though it was a brief, one-off meeting, he easily earned my respect...

Today: Got called back to office to work on some urgent matters, and other depts were not very cooperative in assisting us by giving inputs urgently ( that's what ppl are usually bu4 shuang3 about)... Even got like a mild hung-up by another unit head..! so uncalled for. everyone deserves some basic respect and even if you are busy/tied up/stressed with something, it doesn't give you excuse to behave as such. However upon reporting this to boss, led to some shooting of arrows among bosses... Jing1 cai3 but pretty scary... Also had to deal with another unhelpful case in which other depts' this-doesn't-fall-in-my-work-area attitude resulted in unnecessary back-and-forth shoving of responsibility. Then spent my last 2 hours at work nicely doing up a table for boss. Seriously drained now. Need a holiday again!

Last Sat, my mum finally got her wish to get a family portrait taken at a photo studio. At like 8am in the morning, I got pulled out of bed by mum... cos everyone had to get ready for the 45 min drive across the island (to IMM) for our appointment. Goodness knows why we had to take THE PIC all the way in the West, but anyways, since that was what she booked i just went along with it. After all, my job was just to don my "inherited" graduation gown and look happy :) It turned out to be quite fun lah, cos the lady there helped to put on light make-up (something I'm seriously underqualified at and dun really fancy doing :P) and so i got to look pretty for the whole afternoon; and the photographer was quite fun to work with. There's so much nitty-gritty details that contribute to a well-taken picture... like where/how to place your hands, position your body etc etc. It's cool to be able to master such stuff. Was also very amusing for me cos mum, wanting to look nice for the photo, ended up wearing some funny gown that the photo-studio chose for her... I hope that decision didn't 'backfire'... oh well, I'll know when the photos are ready in about 2 weeks' time :)

Krabi (4) - my cool friends!

Of course, this trip wouldn't have been possible without Shu and Joyce... Below are 4 pics of us I really like:

Shu and I at Bamboo Island beach. Like this a lot cos we just appeared so happy!

Joyce and Shu at Bamboo Island beach... Look how clear the water is ;)

A cool pic taken by Shu while we were heading back to our resort (on the right hand side in the background)... I like the line on the road and how it cuts the pic into half nicely.....!Cheers! pic of the pseudo midnight pj party the very last night. Cos we look a bit siao in this pic, I have to censor a bit by making it smaller haha. We loitered at the local supermarket for at least 1/2 hr that night and came "home" with like ice-cream, yoghurt, sweets, beer and other junky stuff. I was sad when our mini getaway ended... :(