Geez...its been a while ! Been hooked on FB & pogo lol.

Got me new laptop. A nice Dell, but good enough cos I never get to use the ones at home. Hubby is on one & kids are on the other. I bring my office laptop home but think its better to do my personal stuff on my own notebook.

Now let me see...what have I missed on blogging....

Work sux...

Live the Dream sux...

The operation sux....

The pain from the op sux...

BUT being home on MC till 7 Nov is awesome !

My first experience at surgery...

First of all, my op was scheduled for 4pm but I had to check in at 2pm for the post op prep which took less than 10 mins. Then I had to wait. The nice thing was I had my own room, TV & toilet.

And so the time comes & the nurse walks me to the operating theatre waiting area. The doctor administering the GA comes to see me. An ang mo & he asks the list of questions & explains the procedure. I tell him I am nervous. We chat for a bit.

Then he goes into the operating theatre. I am sitting at the reception area waiting for my surgeon. Then the head nurse walks me into the theatre & the anaesthecian asks if my surgeon is coming. Head nurse says yes...he says from where...Jurong ?? hurhurhur

I am asked to hop onto the bed...they give me a stool & I jest that I need a higher one. They laugh. I talk alot...bladdy nervous lah. Ang Mo anaesthecian & his assistant chat with me while they are trying to find the spot in my vein on my left hand. Two nurses stick monitors on me, whole lot happening left, right & even at my feet. I am freezing & I tell them. So there is a heater under the bed & they even blow hot air under my sheet. Nice. Then an oxygen mask is placed over me & I breathe. Oh ya, they poke twice before they got my vein :p POOF I am gone.

When I awake I am in the room...cannot remember what happened in the recovery area. Hubby comes with Sarah & we wait till I am less woozy, change & go home. I get this whole bag of painkillers & now that the local anaesthesia on the operated area has worn off, I know why I need so much painkillers LOL.

Its the third day after the op & I still feel pain & discomfort. Puked big time just now & I still have this slight numbness at the tip of my tongue. Appetite is bad too.

MIL's birthday tea party today st sis-in-law's place. I've just finished baking chicken pies. And we are picking up some donuts to bring as well. Made extra pies for hubby & kids to try. Passed. Lol.

My diva at the office tried to tell me what to do...sigh...like I dun know what I am doing. Deep breathes, be patient. I was told that one afternoon, someone popped in to get something & she was sleeping lol. No wonder she hates it when I drop into the room to physically search for things myself. Break her afternoon nap lolol.

hahahaha just saw sarah's christmas wishlist.

Hey sarah & ryan...my wishlist...a new laptop so that I don't need to use my office one at home...how ? hahahahah

I'm on leave for two whole days. But one day has already flown by too quickly...that sux ! lol be nice if I could turn back time & start the weekend all over again lol.

Family dinner last night at tambuah mas for godpa's birthday. Before that, made a trip to donut factory to buy each family a box of donuts lol. The queue was about 20 mins...not too bad. Anything longer & I would have bought bak kwa...no queue maaah.

hmmmm sarah has a christmas wish list....maybe I should have one too !

Lament for the day...if only I could time travel back :p

Yes the results for the soloists are ABSURD as Ken said. WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!! Robert was sooooo sooooo good. I was hoping he or Fendi would make it to the last two for a really good fight. Now I hope Fendi will win cos the other two, sorry nothing personal, really cannot cannot make it ! This show now is a farce where the soloists are concerned.

hahaha here I go criticizing Live The Dream contestants. Robert & Fendi are good. The other two should have gone home long time ago...both boring & out of tune. There were a couple of soloists who were more deserving. I think rani was pretty good. For the groups, Cats In The Cradle are good. After the Rain is wah liao...quite jialat. By Definition & Revelina pretty ok too. Leave it to audience votes sure haywire. Same like singapore idol...sigh. I may not be able to sing but think I am discerning enough to know who can sing & who cannot. Shona is there cos she is cute...marketable. Unfortunately voice nothing to rave about.

Lament for the day...oh here we go again !

Dinner last night was at Lau Par Sat. Wanted to have satay & heard that stall no 1, fatman satay was there & good.

It was nice but I was a little disappointed, not as good as I'd expected. Infact, I think the one which used to be outside Sembawang Shopping Centre (until the centre closed) was the best I'd had. Oh well...

Finally watched ratatouille & it was a nice fun movie. Enjoyed it. Have been a little sceptical of animations since Madagascar which was lousy. My fave new animated movies would be Lion King 1, Shrek 1 & Finding Nemo. This is excluding the original disney animations like snow white, cinderella, pinnochio etc etc.

Dinner tonite was at Lavendar street food court....the wanton mee. Shiok ! Today's queue was long as usual but service was really really slow cos there were only two of them today. Usually there are 3 of them. Wonder why they don't get help.

Oh, donut factory & munchy's taste not much different, just diff flavours. I like different flavours from the two...chocolate mint from df & oreo's from munchy's.

Lament for the day...think I will get sick of donuts soon.

Yesterday we had donuts from munchy's. It was pretty good. Think J Co is better. Sarah says donut factory better but I wouldn't know.

Kids out at church studying...well at least I hope they are.

I need to colour my hair...sigh...the whites are showing arrrrghhhhh ! If got time, will go tomorrow.

Haven't used any of the vouchers I changed from my credit card points...some shopping due tomorrow perhaps ?

Another gantry on CTE from town back home. WTF ? If you want to reduce the traffic, don't fucking issue so many COEs lah & make cars so affordable. Go home kena one gantry never mind, now two ! We re going home for goodness sakes ! And wtf timing may be extended some more. Ya lah, the intention is to get us to take public transport and I don't mean taxis, take bus or mrt. So that can faster cover cost for new lines & make more money & oh, not forgetting covering the wage increases.

Didn't surprise me when gst went up after the elections & now all these policies. We have to work until we dieeeeee with the amount of money that we have to fork out. I reckon my generation will barely smell our CPF...sigh. At the last elections, if I remember right, one of the speeches indicated that their win was a clear signal of the citizen's support for the pap. But err...in the last few elections, got more & more people voting for opposition leh.,,,si mi signal hah ?? In this next election, we shall see what sort of signal lor. My parents' generation have always supported the pap because of how they built the country up but this generation is slowly dying off. I was a supporter too. It will hardly be surprising to see support & confidence wane.

Aiya, simply put... don't fuck up what you have taken so long & hard to build.

Lament for the day...dunno can smell or not...sigh. May only be given enough to buy walker, dentures & adult diapers...

Ahhh I now know where the donuts our neighbour gave us are from. J.Co Donuts from Jakarta. They are really very good ! Sarah says that The Donut Factory is awesome but just thinking of the queues...quite a put off. I hear that Munchy Donuts are good too. There is one opposite Ryan's school...need I say more lolol.

Donut factory is opening up in Novena Square, Munchy's is opening one at cineleisure & when browsing the J Co website, see that its coming here soon.

There are donuts stores sprouting up everywhere. Wonder if this is like the bubble tea or rotiboy or even the strudel fads ? Dunkin Donuts didn't do well but then the donuts are nothing compared to the ones I just mentioned. Not tried DF or Munchy's yet but J Co donuts is, to me, wicked good !

Wonder why Krispy Kreme donuts have not made it here ??? Must be franchise very high.

I had rotiboy in JB long before it made it here. I wondered then why no one brought it in. Lo & behold ! It came & went ! Competitors began to sprout up too. And then they all died a natural death. I guess the difference with rotiboy & the donut shops is that the latter has alot more flavours. Rotiboy is just the one. So the donut fad will last, at least for a longer term than the rotiboys, paparoti, mamaroti & whatever else roti.

The only roti that has lasted for eons & will continue outlast all is the mother of all rotis...Roti Prata lolol ! I also love my yu char kuay, ain't a fad that would fade too...best dipped in coffee !

Lament for the day...indulge & I'll look like a stuffed donut.

How terrible, two earthquakes in Indonesia. Fortunately a tsunami did not follow in its wake. Cora felt the tremors from the second quake while watching tv in the living room. I was upstairs in the bathroom & felt nothing.

Have been having off & on headaches today, even right now. And feeling very tired. Perhaps its the weather.

Army guy with the gun & bullets should be charged & punished accordingly. Lets not spare the rod....I believe it was 18 strokes. And the family kicking the press...well duh...they shoulda known that it would have been caught on at least one camera.

Another colleague is leaving the company...another HOD....sigh. wtf.

Ryan did fairly well for prelims. Quite happy he didn't get a U grade for chinese. Not a bad accomplishment.

Lunch on Sunday with the family, someone kena 4D (sigh...not us leh) & treating. Shaslik here we come !!

Yesterday one of our neighbours gave us a box of deeeeleeeeecious donuts...different toppings on them. Looked online & there isn't a store here. Think they went KL & bought from there. Yummy ! Then today, other neighbour gave us homemade ngoh hiang. Lol...they all returning the favour from the fish we gave. Which really isn't necessary.

Lament for the day...still sux. Lol.