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… I found out that I cant bear to leave my company.

I’ve been working for 6 months in this company. Initially, I thought I would leave this company end of next month suavely. Since I’m working in the finance department, the people that I will miss the most should be people from my department, plus the admin girls.

But after the 2 days of party, I found that I was wrong. During this working period, I’ve unknowingly made friends from PR department and gradually developed the friendship with them. Everyone will definitely be missed by me. Next month, I will be leaving, and starting my next journey of life. Nice memories will be kept in the heart and I will definitely keep in touch with the friends that I’ve made this 6 months.

Let me start from the party on Thursday (26 June 2008).

As usual, I woke up and headed to my office. Saw some new faces when I reached the office. They are colleagues from our other offices - Thailand and Hong Kong. Later in the evening, you could see no one in the office. Then, when I opened the ladies’ door, I saw some of them getting ready for the party. Took taxi with Jia Yi and Sheryl to Sentosa. For the whole night, we were standing up and mingling with clients, suppliers, media and staff. In the end, I was so tired that I decided to go out for a stroll.

It was when I got to know Tan, my colleague from Thailand office. We chatted a lot and soon became like friends. We exchanged our email address.

After the whole party, took taxi back home with Jia Yi and Sheryl. I was the last one to alight, so I was responsible to pay the cab fare. Just dont know why, I short-changed the taxi driver. The cab fare was S$23.80, but I gave the taxi driver S$13.80. Was I really drunk? But I dont think I was drunk. I just drank a bit. Haha =)

27 June 2008 (Friday)

Simply love the photoshop and mac training by Mei and Drew. Though I’ve already know how to use photoshop, but it was really great to attend the workshop. Managed to learn more things than what I usually know. Later in the evening, we went James’ house for our party- part 2. Everyone was told to dress like what we want to be when we were 10/5/2. In the end, I came with a casual wear, cause I just simply lazy/dont know how to dress like what I wanted to be.

We had dinner and games together with everyone. The whole party was awesome.  This was one of my happy days in my company..

[1 more month to go. ]

Really enjoyed myself during the party and got so high. Cam-whoring session was on. We had dinner, games, karaoke and simply FUN! Took taxi home again with Jia Yi and Sheryl. I almost gave the taxi uncle $2 more.

Cant imagine my last day at work. I will definitely miss everyone.

Marmalade Pantry’s cupcakes are really irresistible. After knowing from many people that Marmalade Pantry’s cupcakes are nice, I finally have the chance to taste all flavour of cupcakes in one day. This makes bad news for myself - the weight conscious one. There are a total of 5 different cupcakes - Nutella cupcake, Cloud Nine cupcake, Elvis cupcake, Limonata cupcake and Chocolate Deluxe cupcake.

Limonata cupcake (center) - Lemon glazed cupcake
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)
Cloud Nine cupcake(bottom-left) - White coconut cake with cream cheese
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)
Chocolate Deluxe cupcake(bottom-right) - This cupcake certainly lives up to its tag of “The Ultimate Chocolate Cupcake”.
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

Photo credit: http://beverly.livejournal.com
Cloud Nine Cupcake
White coconut cake with cream cheese
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

Elvis Cupcake
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)
Chocolate banana cupcake with peanut butter frosting.
This cupcake is named after Elvis Presley’s favourite flavours - banana and peanut butter. So precisely, this is a chocolate and banana cupcake topped with a peanut butter frosting.

Nutella cupcake
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)
The frosting tastes exactly like pure Nutella.
Delicious, Chocolatey!
But …  this is so sinful..

Yummie cupcakes you cant resist.

On friday, went to have “better” food for our lunch. So, my colleagues and I went to Tanjong Pagar Xchange. We went to a Taiwanese Restaurant for our meals.Luckily there were not many people at the time and we managed to get our seats. There was one time, I couldnt find a seat at Tanjong Pagar Xchange when it was only 1230pm.

Dried Shrimp Noodles and Winter melon, dried scallop soup
I ordered this Dried Shrimp Noodles and it comes together with the winter melon and dried scallop soup. I didnt know that the noodle is spicy (cause it wasnt stated in the menu).
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

Ah Po’s Pancake
Jassy: “This is really nice! This delicacy is made of bean spout, carrot, spring onion. The chilli accompanied with this taste like the one you have for Fried Oyster Omelette. It tastes as nice without the chilli.”
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

Fried Rice
Emily: “Not much comment. I’m satisfied with the serving and the taste.”
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

Braised Meat Rice
Phyllis: “The meat were a bit fatty. It was sliced into very small pieces and it’s impossible to take the fatty meat out. “
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

Braised Meat Rice
Jia Yi: “The portion is quite small and the rice wasnt served hot.”
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

Vegetarian Hor Fun
Lynn: “It is filling but not really satisfying. A higher rating is give due to its nice presentation.”
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)

People come and go. People meet and people part.
C’EST LA VIE

This week is quite a busy week. Many things happened within these few days. People come and go. We cherish the nice memories we have with them and life still has to move on. I’m really glad knowing all of them and will definitely miss them.

How sweet is the meeting of kinship,
How tender the ties that thus bind,
When years have flown fast since we parted,
When the past is again brought to mind.

How we love to tell over the stories
Of happenings-long in the past,
And drift once again back to childhood
But the parting must come at the last.

Goodbye! Can we say it at parting?
How it brings the sad tears to our eyes,
How we try to choke down our emotions,
How the thoughts from our bosoms arise,
And we fain would steal off without trying
But write the fond words we would say,
For the tenderest ties of a lifetime
Are once again broken today.
-Ed Blair

A few of us had farewell lunch with the two colleagues(who are leaving) at Dae Jang Keun D’Hote Korean Charcoal BBQ Restaurant.

It was really nice to sit together in the private tatami room, talking and laughing. I will definitely miss the wonderful we spent together. I ordered their Seafood Fried Rice.

Seafood Fried RiceQuite a large proportion. Nice presentation of food. But a little bit oily.
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