This morning I came in to the office and saw a nice box of Royce chocolates laid out on my desk. With a very sweet note from the boss wishing me “Dear Rachel Happy Birthday!”
Nice…
And Godiva chocolates (again!) from the other colleagues…
And in case you are wondering why, it’s because I made a passing remark that I liked chocolates during one of our lunches..
Damn, I should have said I liked diamonds.
Heh.
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29 years ago, on this day, my parents were overjoyed with the birth of their first-born and only daughter.
29 years later, on this day, someone made me a very happy woman with his thoughfulness in planning the itinerary for my birthday.
Germaine bought me a birthday present with her savings from her pocket money, while Geanyne sang me birthday songs in English and Chinese.
And not to mention numerous nice smses from peeps…
So yes, it was indeed a very Happy Birthday.
Now looking forward to the cosy dinner party with the barflies on …

When nurturing of basic values like character building is shunted in favour of super memory skills.
When subjects like Bible Knowledge is scrapped due to economic futility.
When the leaders at the helm demonstrated that they will not serve the nation, serve the people with a salary that is vastly superlative to that of even the President of the United States.
When the leaders themselves plot to put the old geezers who are no longer of economic value where they belong; out of the country which they had helped to build up for …

Had been wanting to blog about the Halloween party I crashed this year, going as Jessica Rabbit no less, but just too busy to dig up the pics and post here. Went in a decadent La Senza corset and slinky mermaid skirt. I had wanted to buy the elbow gloves… but I ended up looking more like a serial killer than sex siren, so I dropped the idea. Anyway, so lazy to post pics. I also don’t need any more stalkers too, thank you very much.

Last Sunday, crashed a BBQ …

The initial audience of this blog consisted primarily of friends whom I had known from the mothering forum I frequented, and also a handful of close friends.
Now, it has grown to a daily readership of 500 odd readers and a few scattered across the globe too, as I can see from my statistics.
Till date, I must say that my blogders are mainly all very nice normal people, with the exception of ONE.
Asking me rudely personal questions about my sex life is crass and presumptuous. To insist on an answer when …

Is this one of their promises again?
Anyway, this should not even be a basis for arguing that a GST hike should be justifiable.
Is there even a need to to hike up the GST in the first place?
If wage increments are projected in the financial forecast, then there would be surpluses in income taxed, w0uldn’t there?
And saying that “the increase in GST was a necessary cog in the wheel to address the widening income gap” is simply oxymoronic. It will merely create a Catch 22 situation. Seems like Steve Chia was …

Ms Ho kicked-in-the-shin Ching so very graciously attended the recent Morgan Stanley annual Asia Pacific Summit, even after some dude at Morgan Stanley said some nasty untruths about her husband being a prince or what nots. Oh, they fired the bozo? Ah well. All is sunny then.
Anyway, the normally dour and grim Ms Ho attempted humour! Wittiness!
Attempt at wry humour:

“Maybe I didn’t do anything controversial enough”

Attempt at spinning:

“Temasek Holdings is different from most state-owned enterprises in other
countries because the Government does not interfere in its commercial decisions.
…. “But the biggest …

The purported text of Andy Xie’s leaked e-mail:
I participated in the panels on Commodity (sic) and China-India and in
some obligatory dinner parties. On Friday night the Singapore prime minister
invited the speakers at the meeting that the Singapore government organised.
Trichet, Larry Summers, Paul Volker (sic) Chuck Price, the finance ministers of
ASEAN countries were there. No government official from China was there …guess I
was there to make it look like China was represented.
The dinner was turned into an Oprah with PM Lee Hsein Long (sic) at the
center. The topic was on the …

A lot have been said about the MRT suicide of Mr Tan and the Wee-Wee saga.
I felt especially sad about the part where Mr Tan gave his son his last $10 before jumping to his death at the tracks.
I felt especially sad that once such as Ms Wee, nurtured to be amongst our future leaders, obviously do not have the capacity to even remotely feel the depair and desperation of a class who would be driven to such.
It brings to mind the works of Durkheim on suicide. It’s pretty dry …

As opposed to some peeps who constantly have to rub other people’s faces in the happiness of their relationships, eg.

My husband just had to buy me a red Lotus Elise S2 cos I finally
passed my driving test!
My husband [insert details of fantabulous activity or fantabulously expensive
something he bought for her].
Blah Blah Blah.

My posts about the someone in my life is not about all that shite.
The purpose of my blogging about the nice things he has done for me, the sweetness with which he gives in to me on some issues, …