On flash floods, work and eating rubbish

Flash floods at Orchard made headlines this week. I was wondering how it was immediately reported that losses chalked up were in the millions, only to realise that luxury goods/HERMES bags made up a disproportionate proportion of the initial count. I also came across a piece of extremely smart advertising in Wednesday or Thursday's papers - NTUC Income somehow managed to get hold of the flood pics and rolled out a full page insurance advert on the same day the floods were first reported in the Straits Times. Full page advert right beside the full page reporting on a flooded Orchard Road... So clever!

This is week 1 with SOE. Table is now more cluttered with eye-sorish thicket of unglam cables plus new laptop cum monitor screen. Hai, need to get down to clearing my table clutter some time soon. Archiving with Outlook is a hassle so it helps that Outlook has a more advanced search function. And I kinda like the split screen option - the ability to drag open windows btwn the two computer screens gives me a bigger desktop space. My only attempt to personalise my comp was to replace the ugly SOE wallpaper with a close-up shot of sakura in full bloom. Hopefully the eternal spring on my desktop will remind me that there is always light at the end of the tunnel...

Just yesterday I also realised that I am queen of eating rubbish. My innocuous-looking mouth just draws snacks to it like a vaccuum cleaner. Tried to do a dessert/ snack count just now and despite my resolutions, I've eaten ice-cream/ cakes more than 4 times in the past 4 days! On Wednesday, I resorted to buying a Magnolia ice-cream cone from Cheers after futile efforts to find decent dessert at Lau Pa Sat. On Thurs, I brought someone to eat LRRH (choc mousse cake) at K-Ki during lunch, and had 杨枝甘露 (Mango sago with pomelo) after dinner. Yesterday, I had matcha ice-cream AND a huge portion of peach mango yogurt after dinner! Bleah, everyday is a dessert day for me, no wonder I'm getting flabby... Btw, Coffee Bean at 313 sells yogurt for some strange reason... but their yogurt was pretty sour even for a sour-philic like me. I still like yogurt from Frolick and Seoul Yummy the best :P

This weekend, I... supported a local artiste by buying her CD/ visited a 3-day old newborn baby at Thomson Medical Centre and shared the joy of a very proud grandpa.. Also tried several new yummy items at my fav Jap restaurant at Cuppage Plaza ;) But didn't exercise :(

Today I also unsuccessfully tried to do some last min housekeeping of my emails... Somehow am just hopeless with the strange archiving ways of MND LN and that got me really frustrated. Sigh, shall ask my IT dept for some last min help tmr, and thereafter pray very hard that my disorganised archives get successfully migrated over to my new SOE machine. SOE (stands for SoEasy...) is such an oxymoron. While Mon night will be a work-less night for me, the nightmare shall begin on Tues.... all my undone submissions will now face the fate of disorder with the absence of the 'Sections' function in Outlook... And the very procrastinaty me has also yet to figure out how Outlook works... bleah... :( At work, it really pays/ works to be organised... but sigh, why can't I just bask in my disorder...

Am so not looking forward to work man... but yay, come 21 Jun, new colleague handling TCs portfolio will finally join Hsg Div!