Khew's Wedding

Congratulation to Khew and his wife..

Attended Khew's wedding dinner last night at Hyatt.. It was beautiful and Khew looked very nervous..I was the last guest to enter the ballroom and nearly walked in with the groom and bride.. haha!! Khew been sending me reminder since months ago to block the date in my calendar so it good that he saw me.. haha!!

The wedding started with the projection of their wedding photo.. very nicely taken and for a moment, we thought it was taken oversea.. can’t really tell which part of Singapore did they took the photo.. Lovely music was played.. after the wedding photo, the flower girls walked in follow by the groom and bride. Then the dinner start at 8:30pm.

I'm glad I attended as I get to meet up with my ex-colleague.. and I was extremely happy to see our special guests Joe, Michael and Tony (flow all the way from Japan).. Of cos, dinner was lots of fun with the Ang Moh on our table.. Tony worn the Scottish traditional clothes and Khew's wife was so excited and requested for a photo with him.. We had lots of laughter as dinner were served.. especially on the black chicken ginseng soup.. Michael and Tony actually asked if we colour the chicken and my witty reply was... it's an African American .. Joe, Michael and Tony were so excited when we were asked to stand up for a toast.. they keep wanting to do "yum seng" but instead Khew did the "English style".. Cheers.. haha!! But of cos, the group will not let him go.. when he final came to our table.. we did the "yum seng", it was long and loud that my ear was ringing.. Khew had no choice cos I've his boss and ex-boss on my table..

I'm very happy for him and he will be heading for Hawaii for honeywell..

~*~*~*~ Marriage requires two people to give up "mine" and "yours" in order to create an "ours" ~*~*~*~

Is so Unreasonable

I had an urgement with a client.. I can't stand unreasonable person.. and I can't stand people who accused my team, my company or myself.. We did nothing wrong.. we are a team of good buyers who follow closely to the rule and always did our best to source for the best value items..

If the purchase is not approved, that is the client internal issue.. we don't approve what you buy.. we just help you to source.. Stop blaming us if your company is incapable to control, communicate and handle problem..

Is Ugly!!

I had a meeting with the user and supplier yesterday over the requirement and cost estimation.. User will not reduce the work load and wanted every single item as planned.. Thus I've to get supplier to reduce their cost..

I managed to get supplier to reduce the cost not because I was a good negotiator.. It was out of goodwill and relationship that we have builded with this supplier over the years.. I know my supplier is willing to do it so he can get that client out of my back..

When I was in the discussion with my supplier, my manager called in and he was happy that I managed to reduce the charge to even lower than what my company is paying.. Isn't it amazing? Luckily my manager is very understanding and he agreed that the charge was reasonable and after working out on some calculation, we managed to agreed on a charge that was not so much loss to the supplier.. I'm grateful for the supplier's support.

My manager told me that it was a good work.. but I was not in mood to actually claim credit :(

What really upset me was... after we reduce the charge, the user actually says we can buy more expensive gift now.. sigh! probably just a remark.. but I thot you are suppose to be tight budget and yet when I asked for the budget for this work.. Reply was "there is no budget" :(

Isn't it ugly?

Hard Day

I had a very hard day with the client today.. they even wanted to talk to my manager.. go ahead.. I feel that my supplier is not charging you unreasonably as the scope of work is really alots.. When can stupid people stop comparing apple with banana..

The client know the cost for that work.. that why they dare not take up my challenage in comparing pricing with their current supplier..

They just want to push me hard.. so I can get my supplier to reduce the price.. but that is not fair to my supplier.. I pity my supplier and really hope that they will not do any future work for these people anymore..

I feel so tired to explain to unreasonable people..

Finally...

Been suffering since Sunday.. flu and cough..

Monday night, went to doc at Simei but it was a long queue and I really didn't have the patient to wait for an hour.. so decide that I will give it amiss.. Went home took a hot bath and lay on bed.. struggle for an hour before I can fall asleep even through I was really tired.. Through out the night, I was still coughing non-stop..

Yesterday I finally see a doc at Paragon.. it was "queue-less".. no dinner as I don't feel eating..

Hopefully I will feel better before the weekend..

Feeling Unwell

Throw out everything that I've taken for dinner :(

Feel very lousy.. and terrible..

Dining with the Ladies

Once again, is the monthly outing for the ladies... The occassion is to celebrate Amanda L's birthday.. This time we have a special guest Joshua with us..

We choose Aerin's at Raffles City.. It is a casual dining but the set up was beautiful except the water feature create too much noise which I felt we need to scream at each other as we chat through out the night.. We ordered pumpkin soup, tomato soup, chef's salad with chicken, deep fried calamari, spaghetti chicken, duck leg confit, rib eye steak... and ended with a dessert baked apple & rhubarb pie.. the ladies also ordered several funny colour drinks except me.. I only had warm water.. oh! & chicken nuggets with fried for our special guest Joshua..

The food is savour but the portion was too much for us.. the soup came in really big bowl and never tried their tomato soup.. it tasted like tomato paste.. too thick till it can go as a spaghetti sauce.. I personal like the spaghetti chicken very much because it tossed with kabayaki sauce and topped with nori & bonito flakes.. very Japanese style.. The dessert was also wonderful which is a signature dish but you need to wait 15 mins as it is freshly baked.. it is also in super hugh portion..

Overall it was a nice dining experience in a new place.... and with my lovely kaki :)

& not to forget to praise our guest Joshua, he was entertaining himself all night while the ladies gossip..

Happy Birthday Bro D

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Happy Birthday Bro D

one year older... one year wiser hor..

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