추석입니다!

오늘은 추석입니다.
추석은 한국 최대 명절중의 하나입니다.
3일 동안 쉬는 날입니다.
정말 부럽다!!!

모두 즐거운추석 보내세요! Happy Thanksgiving!

Look at these pretty 한복. 나도 예쁜 한복을 입고 싶어요 ^^

중국 정원에 갑시다!

My family celebrated Mid-Autumn festival at the Chinese Gardens this evening. I was surprised to find it packed with families, mostly ang moh expatriates, foreign workers from China and Indians.

Everyone was so tired... the only person who's feeling otherwise can only be my niece! Nonetheless the lanterns were impressive!
Enjoy the pictures...

Don't they look familiar? Remember Finding Nemo?


年年有餘!


I just love the penguins and dolphins!!!

Shifting... yet again....

My MD came to my desk this afternoon breaking some bad news to me... I need to shift again! I shifted down to the 9th floor in May and within 4 months I need to shift back up to the 14th floor! Even then so that will only be my interim seat as I will be shifting to the adjacent unit which will soon be under my company. Yes indeed poor office planning.

Shifting up is no easy task when I have to be responsible for my marketing brochures and materials. This means they have to be brought up to the 14th floor as well. And who is going to shift them? Yes indeed it's just me Ms Armstrong. But what can I do? I guess I wasn't given any choice.

Next week is Jeans' Week -- meaning we get to wear jeans everyday.

'In appreciation of the hard work all of you have put in during this pre-deployment period, the Management has declared a Jeans’ Week from Monday 24 Sep, till Friday 28 Sep.

Keep up the good work, and enjoy your casuals!'

That set me thinking... do I own 5 pairs of jeans? Lol...

레벨 3 시험이 잘 못 봤어요...

I had my E3 level test this evening but I didn't prepare for it! I was so so tired after TOPIK exam has ended and all I wanted was a good rest.

Sigh I didn't think I will do well... There were already 2 errors as I wrote the words: 국제 전화 and 콧물 wrongly. Not to mention oral test... double sigh!

Today also marked my last E3 class. Yeah! We will be having a 3-week holiday before embarking the next level. I will still be continuing lessons at SKS since my current job allows it.

쉿! 요건 비밀인데... 저 요리해요!

오늘 저녁에 미국 코미디 영화 라따뚜이 Ratatouille는 보러 극장에 갔어요. 이 영화에서 인상 깊었던 텍스트 My favourite liners in the movie:

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement.

We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.

But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talents — new creations. The new needs friends.

Last night, I experienced something new, an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core.

In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: Anyone can cook. But I realize only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now cooking at Gusteau's, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to Gusteau's soon, hungry for more. ~ Anton Ego

이 영화를 한번 보세요!
누구나 요리를 할 수 있다! Anyone can cook!
Can you?

TOPIK 시험이 끝났다!

오늘 TOPIK 시험을 봤어요.
그 시험에 합격하기 위해서 열심히 공부했지만 그 Paper 1에서 실수를 많이 했어요.

그래도, 지금은 시험이 끝나서 기뻐요.
약간 휴식을 취할 수 있었어요.
....근데, 성적이 11월에 나온데 **흑흑**

I had my TOPIK test this morning.
Though I have been studying hard for this test over the past few weeks I still made several unforgiving mistakes in Paper 1 which is on grammar and vocabulary. I guess I have to continue to study and read more!

For now, though there's class test for my Elementary class next Thursday, I just want to stone for a while and relax.
I guess I have to start worrying when November comes...
That's when results are released...

Should I take KLPT too?
Should I?
Should I not?
Should I?
Should I not?

Thanks to Indo quake!!!

I received the following note from the IT department today at 11.58am:

Senior management has made a decision to have ALL employees leave the building and work from home for today. If you have any queries, pls contact your managers for further information.

A colleague who was sitting near me shouted, 'Hey did you receive the latest email? We can go home now!!'

I was quite in shock... I remembered early this year in March, there were tremors felt twice during work hours; once before lunch and another after lunch hour. However, management did not send us home even after evacuation drill was carried out. I guess this time they had a different opinion.

Can we have more earthquakes please?

Tsunami tremors in Singapore yet again...

I felt the tremors again!!!
This time not in office but at home...

I was babysitting my niece in the evening around 7.10pm when I felt my body swaying rather strongly and involuntarily.
At that time my sister and father were napping and my mother cooking in the kitchen.

I initially thought my niece was using her small feet to tap on the bean bag chair I was sitting on. But she was seated cross-legged; no action nor evidence. So I just brushed my fears aside, thinking I must be feeling giddy because I'm hungry.

At 9.30pm when the news came on.... I realised they were indeed tremors!!! The strong quake measured 8.5 on the Richter Scale.

So next time please trust your instincts because they may just be right.

My 100th post and a Big Thank U!

I'm so disappointed today.

My student sent me a sms saying he wished to drop his A Maths.
Life is so easy; just choose to give up!
A burden?! Why should a subject be a burden when you don't even put in effort to try?

Anyway to all my readers... my 100th post has arrived.
Thank you to all those who have been stopping by!
謝謝您分享了我生活的點滴...
快樂的...
哀傷的...

Happy 100!

Counting down....

1 more week to go before TOPIK!
It will be my first experience taking a Korean examination and getting certified for it.

I'm praying hard I can make it for my 300-word essay.
Argghh!