Kiwie Teoh

Recently the weather in Singapore has not helped us office workers very much. It has been wrecking our health for the past one month.

It’s the same everywhere: the air-conditioning in the office is super cold and forces everyone to put on a jacket while they work. Outside the office, the sun is damn hot. You work in office, you are frozen. Then you go out for lunch and begin to melt under the sun. Then you come back to office and you are freezing again.

One moment you’re freezing, the next moment you’re melting. What kind of sick weather is this man!? Down with global warming man. What’s worse is that offices only rely on air-coniditioning for ventiliation. That will only accelerate the speed of the flu bug getting from one person to another.

So far my office has been hit with many casualties getting flu, cough, sore throat, etc. Lydia, Jin Hui, Huiling, Felicia, Pei Ching and I all have been victimised by the ever-changing climate and the poor ventiliation in the office. With the flu virus getting around recently, I doubt there won’t be a next casualty.

Lastly, get well soon, riddancelibra. You gotta be guai and stay at home and rest man! Remember, Saturday is coming! 

The months of March and April has been kind to me, with the heavens sending me gifts of daily rain so that I won’t have to endure temperatures such as the likes of 35 degree celcius during lunch hours in office wear.

However, May is not.

Not only that the climate is starting up to heat up in May, but my office also has just been relocated to a location where the nearest decent eating place is a 10 min walk away under the scorching hot sun,

On top of that, there are 3 office/factory buildings that are standing in our way between our office and the eating place which we have been going for lunch for the past 2 days. All of them have front and back gates. If their front and back gates are both open, then we can just cut through these buildings to the eating place from our office and cut down our walking distance by half.

Unfortunately, those 3 damn buildings only opened either their front or back gates. They never opened both.

As a result, we have to walk round these buildings with the risk of getting heat stroke to the eating place for lunch. And the same goes for return trips.

Lame man.

This picture was taken at 7pm on Sunday from the door of my place.

The weekend is going to fade away and another week of work starts.

My team will be saying good bye to NYP earlier than expected and would be moving to paya lebar on monday. Theoretically I should be madly jumping around with joy at the top of esplanade since paya lebar is much much nearer my place than nyp, but somehow I am feeling unwilling to go!

Weird. I don’t know how, but I got emotionally attached to the place liao. Die. Cannot. I must look forward to moving to Paya Lebar! But I thought before I go, I should document my NYP office desk while I still can.

My office desk looks something like this:

on the right with a blue pastic bag is a mini-rubbish dump belonging to my colleague sitting on my right. it’s not mine. but i use it.

There’s pretty much stuff on my desk: keyboard, LCD monitor, mouse, earphones, handphone, watch, naigene water bottle, classified documents and dawggie.

For your information, its pretty easy to fall sick in here because there are 20 odd plus of us sitting together at one big table. So if anyone of us fall sicks, you will see this on everyone’s desk soon:

pills, pills and more pills!

I have already taken 2 MCs since starting work last month

I know, your mouth is already starting to form the words “drink more water loh.” I got listen to all of ure advice ok? This is my defense aaginst flu and sore throat:

one litre of water everyday..

I have never drank so much water during schooling or any other period of my life. In fact, I am so proud of the fact that I am able to pour 1 litre of fluids down my gullet so religiously at work.

You know, typing at keyboard for prolonged periods is not fun. Your wrists would get sore and tired from all that typing without you knowing it. So I brought dawggie onboard:

its not a soft toy lah. its a keyboard pad.

I lurve my dawggie. It allows me to rest my wrists on it as I type. Goooood dawg. In fact its so good that my colleagues have been trying to steal it away from me. Bad colleagues! Tsk tsk.

Dont you find my dawggie cute? I think its cute leh. Everyone wanna cop a feel of it all the time.

no eyes….dont ask me why.

it’s forever sleeping so peacefully…lazy dawggie.

dawggies butt with its tail. it wags its tail when its happy. (or rather, when i use my hands to make it wag.)

oohhh.. dwaggie’s reproduction system. cute.

psst: sorry for the poor pictures’ quality. got to point and shoot very quickly during work mah, so no time to focus the camera. haha.

As promised earlier, this is the long post on my birthday celebrations held by my colleagues in SCS at NYP. Beware, this entry contains ugly pictures of me who had been tired and sweating from one day of work.

I may have been working in SCS for only 3 weeks, but the people there are making me feel at home man! They actually made the effort to celebrate my birthday 2 days in advance on last Friday! Kudos to the PRSC team!

Before the whole celebration, the team decided to make a special trip out of NYP to Junction 8 in 2 cars. My super nice supervisor, CK, had earlier reserved a table at Ajisens for us.

They did not allow me the freedom of choosing what to order for myself. They of course chose the Volcano Ramen for me.

Volcano? No kick man.

It turned out that it’s not that powerful as it claimed to be. Haha! Want me to suffer by eating this? Wait long long loh. Its like water to me man!

Around 6pm, when its about time to knock off, this cake appeared out of nowhere.

Kiwi cake with red beans plus the candles for my age!

Thanks to Lydia for making the trip to the confectionary to get the cake and Jin Hui and Felicia for going to the NYP canteen to put the cake in the fridge earlier in the day.

My team: (From Left): Jin Hui, Javon, Pei Ching, Felicia, Zhao Liang, me, Derek, Lydia, CK and Huiling

Next my team and I finally took one group photo with the cake.

They trying to be funny.

Next the peepz from CSC who shared the same meeting room with us also hopped into the picture.

WARNING: UGLY PHOTOS AHEAD.

Soon we lit up the candles and sang the Happy Birthday song!

Gotta make a wish..reminds me of F4′a Zaizai’s song: Make a wish…Make a wish..

They made me stand far from the cake.

You guessed it.

Beware Hurricance Kiwie!

I blew out all but one candle, which took me another few more tries to extinguish it.

Cutting the cake to distribute to everyone single one in the room..

The guys in my team and a disfigured me.

They made it possible: My 2 supervisors in the team, Lydia and CK. Thanks for everything man!

This is the best birthday I ever had.