Speeding

Got caught "speeding" at 83km/h on a 60km/h road (i.e. Punggol Central) on 3-4am Sunday..
Ah 1st time in my 6.5 yrs of driving got caught..
To be honest, I think I was travelling near 90 until I braked when I saw the traffic police..
But anyways..the police asked if I was rushing anywhere..
Mind was blank (it was late)..so I said no..
Come to think of it..some possible scenarios flashed thru my mind..

Scenario 1:

Police stopped me..
I step out of the car..give my driving licence..
Say I need to go toilet urgently..come back later..
I do come back later and then the police let me off as I was rushing to the toilet..

Scenario 2:

Police stopped me..
I step out of the car..looking constipated when in fact I have a bad stomachache..
Give them my license in a hurry manner and ask them to hurry up as I need to go toilet..
Police decide to let me off..

Of course none of these happened..
And I am facing a letter in 2 weeks to a month and a $150 fine with maybe 6 demerit points..
But I am going to appeal..although my basis is not firmed up..
But if you don't try..you don't get it..

Or maybe I won't get the letter as the Police thought I was very cooperative and they have achieved their target number of offenders and mine was too minor (Scenario 3)

Any ideas for my appeal letter anyone?

Post CNY

At home on a Monday afternoon..
Diarrhea since yesterday..
I ate quite a lot of stuff on Saturday so I can't pin point what caused it when the doctor asked..
I ate Macs..
I ate Popeyes..
I ate pineapple tarts at my ex-colleague's house and drank Stella Artois (while mahjonging)..
I drank soya bean milk..
Or maybe I breathed in too much smoke or ate some joss stick accidentally at Loyang Dua Pek Kong..
So much effort just to ensure my year ahead is good..

One of my colleagues who played mahjong insisted that the pineapple tarts expired yesterday..
Reason being its end of CNY yesterday!
I laughed it off..sounds hilarious ma right..
Now I wonder if its true.
I ate a few near the so called expiry date..
And see what happened..

Anyway I am not complaining..
I can rest in my air-con room..
Temperature is reaching 35 degrees outside..
And I won't have Monday blues!
And then its Tuesday tomorrow..
But as some of you have already heard..
After Monday and Tuesday..
The calendar still says W T F
Before the weekend comes..

Last week of CNY

So CNY is gonna be over soon..
Lo Hei until hands tired recently..
But something seems to be lacking..
I think had not played alot of mahjong..
I have also quit betting soccer (but will resume at World Cup?)..
So Huat so much at Lo Hei for??
Then again..storing my luck for a better cause seems like a good idea..
The better cause being this Fri's $10m Toto of course..
Was at Red Dot Brewhouse with Mitch when the waitress gave us 2 pieces of paper for a Bingo game..
1 flew away..
There is 1 left..it has a lot of numbers..
but only 7 qualify for Toto..
And so the 7 numbers it was..
With of course a lot of other numbers (you can't only buy 1 system 7 for a $10m draw right)..
Hope is high as usual..
Holidays come to mind..
Lotsa material benefits start flowing in..
But it is too early to say..
It will all be decided this Friday..
I won't be at the Toto draw..
I will be at Pump Room cheering with beer to my win..

Watch this space..

Ushering in the Chinese New Year

Everybody is getting into the Chinese New Year mood..
Evidence??

I am going to have my 3rd mahjong session with my colleagues this week tonight..
The casino is opening on Sunday..
And of cos..what better way to usher in the new year than spend time at Lunar!!
Right?? no??

There is Ah Dong who looks like Ah Nan or Roger from KPMG (for ppl who know him)..
Other girl singers (was it Qiqi?) who don't look very young..
Alex who I think sang ONE song..
Pole dancers who need more effort, even though some are pretty..
But what is amazing is the clientele in Lunar..
Old guys with young girls..
Group of mature (old?) girls with killer moves in dancing..
Lonely girls with a group of guys and yet no guys want to entertain them and rather do their own killer moves..

But where was the CNY extravaganza (choreographed dance) performance?
Maybe we left too early for Pump room..
Where the Bah Poh is there..with much longer hair and more feminine..
Where they sang Retro songs to good effect..
Where the phrase "liquor before beer, never sicker" comes to mind..
We couldn't even finish half a pint of beer..

Ended the day with a disturbing cab driver..
Who kept talking to me after mitch went off and when I really needed a sleep..
He said I need to buff myself up cos I am small size and have a baby face..
When I got off the cab he even opened the door and gave me 2 clenched fists with conviction to say I must buff up..
But I forgive him for his weirdness..
Only because..

He said mitch is beautiful and I am handsome so we are a good looking couple..

Latest and Greatest

So people always ask me what's the latest and greatest (e.g. Audrey)..
And of cos the e.g. is referring to the people, not the latest and greatest..

Well..you could say about the disasters around the world..Haiti..Peru..
You could say the economy problems..like China..
You could say Obama's measures against Wall Street that didn't seem to materialise..
Or somebody died while watching Avatar..
Brad Pitt splitting with Angelina Jolie..
2 China players in the semis for Australian Open (are they taking over the world??)
The list goes on..

But..somehow to me (at least for today), the biggest news has to be this..

The launch of the iPad.

Someone said this on facebook..

"iPad 16gb for those light-flowing days, and iPad 64gb for the extra heavy days"

Well..this video says it all..

2010

2010 so far has been pretty eventful I must say..

Early on in the year, bought my first shares in the stock market..
Up and down so far..
But suddenly I become so informed of whatever is happening in the business world..
The coming bankruptcy of Japan Airlines, bank fees to recover taxpayer bailouts to be inroduced by Obama, lawsuits against Bank of America, profits of Alcoa not meeting expectations, and then there is Kraft's bid for Cadbury, with Ferrero involved.
But it's quite interesting I must say..something else to read up other than soccer news..

And then there is some unexpected news..
Which has been bothering me quite abit..
But at least it didnt turn out very bad..
And I hope and pray everything will be fine soon..

Then there are news of KPMG increasing pay, to even higher than the original pay scale..as usual they are the market leader for new policies..
PWC followed suit, with news of reinstatement (although I heard they called it increment)..
Just when everybody is demotivated, and I have a very good reason to say I am not motivated to work (not like I always have)..
EY comes out with news that we are reverting to the original pay scale..
No more excuses, but more money for beer!!
And isn't the big 4 something like a cartel as well, something like what the petrol stations are doing..raising prices together, decreasing prices together..
But who cares, at least the imbalance in pay is no longer so big..

And lastly, even mahjong has been topsy turvy..
WIn quite big, lose quite big.
Hope will always be huat huat and then CNY can huat somemore..haha

Anyway this may be quite outdated, but I still think he is quite amazing to play it this well

New Year post

It was a good break before the turn of the year..
Until I still can't get back the momentum at work this week~
Had beer, good food, went Sentosa and everything that was so relaxing..
I wish everyday was like that!

Anyway it's my 1st blog post with my new imac!
I must say its awesome..everything is fast and easy to use..
I might never convert back to a pc..
Now I know why ppl always say once you switch to a Mac, you never look back

New year, new resolutions?
Well, for me, the year hasn't started really well..
I wouldn't say I wanna make resolutions..I never fulfil them, neither do I have any major ones..
However, I just wish that everyone around me, especially my loved ones, will have a good year ahead and all will go well..

Happy 2010!

Audrey, this post isn't the latest or greatest but at least it's a post!