Living It Up

My dad just told me that he found this growth on Peanut’s neck.  I asked him if he was sure it wasn’t tangled up fur… he said at first he thought it was but when he examined it, it feels like skin/flesh.  Oh dear… poor Peanut… the rabbit i neglect most.  I’m going to take her to the vet in the morning.  Worried about her.  My friend brought his bunny for surgery to remove a growth on the back about 3 weeks ago and his bunny died 2 days after the surgery, even tough the op was successful.  His bunny didn’t eat much after the op.  (That’s why i was so worried about Pinky initially).

Worried for Peanut ‘cos she’s a v.v.timid animal.  The ride to the vet itself will probably freak her out.  Hope my dad will be able to go with me ‘cos she’s a lot a lot closer to my dad.

Could u remember Peanut in your prayers too?

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Was supposed to post these photos last night. But i was very tired last night. As in really really tired… as in the tired till u can’t believe how tired i am kind of tired…u get my point…

Striking midnight blue shoes i bought from this shop at The Arcade 2 days ago, the new dress i bought from GG<5 yesterday, a new blue crystal bracelet from Chomel i bought last night & an old shawl that matches everything! The white shoes are for my white dress from Warehouse. :)

I nicknamed this “Pinky Tee” because the t-shirt’s pink and the design has bunnies all over! Soooo cute! Thinking of buying an identical one ‘cos i love it so much. Would be very sad if this one gets ruined for whatever reason!

The fruit-sweets i mentioned in ‘Bored & Hungry’

(Sorry about the super small thumbnail… that’s just the way it is in WordPress… blogspot sure does better thumbnails! )

Actually, Cirrus was right - i’ve recently developed a tendency to buy a pair of shoes first, then find clothes to match. But i’ve realised that this is the best way to put together a super co-ordinated outfit. ‘Cos it’s more difficult to find shoes than clothes… hence it’s easier to buy clothes to match your shoes, than vice versa. Heh. I’m usually a very lazy dresser. I buy clothes in blue / black / white so it’s always very easy to mix & match. But that also resulted in my wardrobe being very plain. But since i’ve started buying shoes first, then clothes to match, suddenly, i find myself dressing better! Muahahaha!

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It is with much ire that i am writing this post. Circumstances have forced me to work with this temperamental, greedy, and unethical woman. Not only is her character highly questionable, her organisational skills have also been found to be sorely lacking. There is no system in the way she does things. Everything is done on a haphazard basis. Her method of scheduling people to work is by sending them an sms, sometimes as last minute as 2 days before they are supposed to be on duty! Very often, she has to be reminded before she starts sending out her sms.

Although i don’t agree with the way she does things, i would have no issues if everything went smoothly because i don’t like to interfere in other people’s jurisdiction. U do your job, i do mine. 井水不犯河水 (directly translated as “well water will not offend river water”). But when she keeps sending the “u are on duty” sms to the wrong people, that impacts me! So of course i have to step in.

For months, i have politely suggested that she should do the work roster on a monthly basis, and the roster to be given out to all at least 1-2 weeks in advance. As politely as i suggested, she politely ignored. After tolerating her nonsense for 1 year, i got fedup and sent her a template of how a roster should look like, and asked her to fill in the blanks for me.

She ignored my email. I reminded her on the phone but she kept quiet. So i sent her another email to chase her for it… and still there as no response from her site. Finally, totally fedup with her poor attitude, i did a roster myself, and sent it out to her, as well as all the people involved. I was really annoyed and wanted to show it, albeit subtly. I wrote in my email,

“Dear Wretched Witch,

As I have not heard from you regarding the schedule for the month of Jul, I thought I’ll just do up a schedule myself. Hope this will ease your load since you’re so busy with XXX.”

In the body of that email, i also included my previous emails asking her for a roster. My boss was also on the cc list.

Guess what WW just replied? She said,

“The schedule for July is as the same as June roster, shouldnt be of any change, except if people are not free to do duty, they have to arrange themselves with fellow team members to cover up.”

HUH? Schedule for July the same as June roster? So i’m supposed to live with same cock-up schedule month after month huh? June-July-Aug-Sep and so on?? So brillant! Everyone applaud! *Rolls eyes* I am so sick & tired of this stupid Wretched Witch. Since she doesn’t want to co-operate, i shall not try to save her face either.

So my reply went,

“Hi Wretched Witch,

In case you did not know, there has been frequent errors in manpower involvement for weekend duties. We often have too many agents on duty for weekends, and we end up having to ask some not to come (because those who arrive early discover that the names in your sms telling them to report for duty don’t tally with the people you actually send the sms to.)

Also, when agents take leave to go on holiday, things get messy because everything is arranged 3 days to a week beforehand. For example recently, there was no one to cover Sweet Tweety when she was on leave & E was alone for his Tuesday duty. Another case was two Sundays ago, when Jenerous was still in Singapore and she turned up for duty, but you arranged for A to cover her. In the end, we had to ask A not to come because we already had 6 agents.

I believe we can prevent this from happening if we have a monthly black & white schedule, instead of relying on weekly sms. This way, we can also have advance planning for public holidays. Not to mention that since everyone can see clearly who is supposed to be on duty, it will be easier for them to make their own arrangements to swop duties.

Let us try this for July.

Thanks.

UptownGal

All the email exchanges were cc-d to my boss. I wouldn’t be surprised if the WW calls my boss to complain about me again. She did that last week when i acted for the benefit of her people. Anyway, that’s another story. Will leave it for some other time. Let’s see what this wretched witch can come up with now.

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Wah lau eh!! Was damn freaking pissed just now lor. Can u imagine? I purposely bought this bloody domain, took up a paid webhosting service with yahoo, and my blog went screwy just now?? Good thing was, all my posts were still saved inside my account, just that on the viewable site, all that was displayed were the 2 latest posts, and the ‘Meta’ section of my right sidebar. Everything else was GONE! So angry!! Like WTF man! I give you good money and the product i bought goes haywire before 1 week is up??

I remembered that i activated this “backup plugin” for WordPress (WP), and did a backup last week… but when i went to search on means to restore the backup i did, i couldn’t find any!! And the stupid website of that plugin didn’t have any instructions either! DUH!!!!

So i started doing a search inside the WP forums and it was stated somewhere inside that all reliable webhosting service would have their own backup database features. Hence i went into my Yahoo a/c to look for it. But, ‘cos i didn’t use the Yahoo backup feature to do a backup, i had nothing to restore my blog with! ARGH!!!! Wah lau eh… was damn super freaking pissed by then.

FORTUNATELY, there was an option to “repair database” and i figured that since my posts were still lurking inside my a/c, i probably just needed to “force” a republish of all the previous posts… so i chose the repair database option and TADA! It worked. Phew!

Whatever the case, that was scary wasn’t it? While i was panicking, i also spammed my friend’s cbox with my desperate cries of help. (Sorry Flask!) Oh well, me blog is back & running now! Phew! *Hugs monitor & cries*

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I am really really bored. Hungry too! But there’s no one to take a teabreak with me now. I’m just sitting at my desk, staring at this factsheet that i’m supposed to update, and popping this Florida’s Natural “Au’some” Fruit Juice Nuggets snack. (Will post photos of the really really cool packaging when i’m home.)

Heh… i really shouldn’t be blogging during office hrs… but it’s 20min to knockoff time! Plus, i have a viewing at 7:30pm… so my OT will cover this little time of nua-ing right? Hehe.

Sigh… working at Raffles Place isn’t good for saving money. I went to return a key to a tenant who works in a nearby office building just now… and on the way back to my office, i bought 2 bangles for $15! It was a one for one deal… so i couldn’t like just buy 1. They only sell them in pairs. So duh.

Yesterday, when i brought the shoes i bought last Fri back to the shop for them to adjust the straps, i ended up buying another pair! Luckily, the 2nd pair i bought was on a 40% discount. Not only that… guess what? I saw this really cool striking midnight blue dress from GG<5 just now! Will be going down to check it down later! Hehe.

Ooh… there was something i wanted to blog about when i was on my way to the tenant’s office just now. As i walked past The Arcade, 3 middle-aged uncles walked out of the bldg and 1 of them stared at my chest. Wah lau eh. So disgusting. I glared at the asshole but he didn’t notice ‘cos his gaze was transfixed somewhere else! What an idiot! I’m not even wearing a low-cut top today! As i walked between his friend and him, i said in a very crisp tone, “Excuse Me.” And that jerk answered, “Yes, you are.” Like what the heck was his problem? I was REALLY pissed off and i threw him a sideway glance and muttered, “Prick!”.

Angry man. I know guys with less developed brain functions will say, “if gals don’t want guys to admire them, then dress so nicely for what?” But hello! Admiration is like when u look at a beautiful painting and u appreciate it. Staring open at someone’s mammaries is like like poring over a porn magazine and drooling lor! Very different matters ok!

Ok. 10min to knockoff time (GG<5 wait for me! I’m coming!). I shall go wash my cup now.

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Pinky’s back to normal now - jumping on chairs, munching his pellets with vigour, devouring the hay in his tray. Previously, he was nibbling so feebly on his food that it seemed as though his teeth were too blunt to bite the small shreds of carrot & celery. But now, his teeth are attacking the grilles of his cage when we lock him up. Heh. Strong teeth. (Though i’m always worried he’ll damage his gums / teeth with all his biting on metal.)

Was feeling really inert tonite - watching random stuff on TV - Da Chang Jin, Grey’s Anatomy, Scrubs, Fraiser, a Taiwanese variety show gueststarring Tanya Chua and some detective show on Ch 5. A very “blain dead” night.

As i read the Life! section and watched the shows on TV, my pc’s screensaver kicked off and started flashing images of Pinky. Heh… i love watching my screensaver of Pinky. He’s so inexplicably cute.

All my rabbits have their unique personalities.

Muah Chee’s very intelligent… and “talks” to us the most. U can tell him to do almost everything short of “roll over”. He knows the names of the other bunnies and he knows how to find them & usher them home when they’re hiding somewhere.

Peanut’s the most stereo-typical of all. She’s timid, doesn’t really trust humans, loves to take shelter behind MC & Coffee, but doesn’t really give any problems. Sometimes she’s cute when she stands at the door between her enclosure and Coffee’s, and ask to go over to his side by standing at this 45-deg angle & looking at u & the door. (She usually does this ‘cos MC always konks out in deep sleep in the afternoons. Think she gets bored.)

Then there’s Coffee. Timid and soft when he was a baby, and used to take cover behind MC. But now that he’s grown up, he likes to pick fights with MC. But he’s really good friends with Peanut. In fact, he sayangs her a lot… and will even groom her fur!

Horlicks is a very protective mom. She’ll fight any rabbit who attempts to come near Pinky. Heck. The minute she gets a chance to escape from her enclosure, she’ll jump over the fence and take an offensive on Coffee. Poor chap… doesn’t stand a chance against Horlicks ferocity. But when it comes to Pinky, Horlicks pampers him as much i do. No matter how tired/sleepy she is, when Pinky wants to be groomed, she’ll wake up to groom him.

Last of the lot is Pinky!! He’s a very stubborn bunny. If u don’t let him have his way (like when we lock Horlicks up to separate them), he’ll throw tantrums and not accept any treats you offer. He’s one haughty rabbit. Probably thinks we were all born to serve him. Real royalty type. But he can be really really sweet also like when I step out into the backyard and call his name, and he comes running. Or when i’m sitting in the yard reading newspaper, and he hops onto my lap. So manja right? Sigh… *melts*.

So that’s my day so far. Nothing exciting, but filled with lots of happy bunny stuff. I thought of a lot of topics to blog about during the day - i wanted to write about this really cool “pinky” tee i bought (it’s pink and has many bunnies from one shoulder down hence it’s a “pinky” tee… get it?). I also wanted to talk about how it how i did a real bitchy thing at work tdy… shooting off one of those sarcastic emails because someone was non-responsive to my requests… i even wanted to do an egoistical rant about long lashes… but i’ll leave that for another day.

Oh and… i bought another pair of shoes tdy… that’s 4 pairs from the GSS… Muahahahaha.

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Sigh… i give up. I’ve tried no less than 4 plugins for playing mp3s hosted on my website but couldn’t get any to work! The closest i got was to get a player to link correctly to my files, but i kept getting an error msg that said it couldn’t open my file! Argh!

Can anyone help with this? Otherwise i’ll juz use blogspirit.com to stream the mp3s… hopefully your Internet connection is good enough so the music won’t be choppy. Bleah!

I’m also slowing categorizing my posts… not all of them, but i hope to do all i posted in 2006, and some of the other more memorable ones. In any case, all my posts from the old blog are still alive at that site, or, you can find them under the “Old Blog” category. But i gotta warn you that some of the formatting became warped ‘cos the 2 sites are of different dimensions… so if u want to relive some funny posts (like Turf Wars), it’s still better to chk out blogspot. Plus… i managed to keep different music for different posts in blogspot… not quite possible here due to the different way WordPress publishes everything!

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Sigh… i give up. I’ve tried no less than 4 plugins for playing mp3s hosted on my website but couldn’t get any to work! The closest i got was to get a player to link correctly to my files, but i kept getting an error msg that said it couldn’t open my file! Argh!

Can anyone help with this? Otherwise i’ll juz use blogspirit.com to stream the mp3s… hopefully your Internet connection is good enough so the music won’t be choppy. Bleah!

I’m also slowing categorizing my posts… not all of them, but i hope to do all i posted in 2006, and some of the other more memorable ones. In any case, all my posts from the old blog are still alive at that site, or, you can find them under the “Old Blog” category. But i gotta warn you that some of the formatting became warped ‘cos the 2 sites are of different dimensions… so if u want to relive some funny posts (like Turf Wars), it’s still better to chk out blogspot. Plus… i managed to keep different music for different posts in blogspot… not quite possible here due to the different way WordPress publishes everything!

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I just spent 8hrs, 480min, 28800sec doing up this blog! ARGH! It’s freaking tedious! And i still have no idea how stylesheets and whatnots work! *#$%&@ I searched for the most customizable & easy to understand template (chose the Regulus theme in the end), then did my best to change the banner pics, bkgrd pics, etc, to suit what i wanted. Bleah!

Realised that all the videos i uploaded in posts from my old blog are gone. I think that’s ‘cos i need to spend more secs, mins, hrs searching for a plugin that’ll allow me to embed youtube videos in this blog. Fantastic. Argh! *Pulls hair* So if u want to see the old videos, please chk out my old blog ok?

Excuse me while i go sweep up all the hair i pulled out…

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Happy Birthday to my dearest bro, Adam, his twin bro Superman, and my backup singing team-mate, socks!! 3-in-1 birthday tdy!

Happy Birthday guys!!

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Just want to say ‘thank you’ to everyone who prayed for the little chap. He’s almost back to normal now!! He’s still not eating as much as usual… but at least he’s taking the initiative to nibble on pellets & veg. The past few days, he wouldn’t eat unless someone fed him! Big baby!

Thanks for your prayers. Praise the Lord!!

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Hi everyone! This is my new home on the net. I kinda miss the old blogspot template… but hosting my own site gives me a lot more control over what i want to do… and the risk of it crashing with a free server is a lot lesser. (Not to mention the archiving tools that come with the webhost will make it easier to backup everything!).

So please bear with me as i sort out the ‘what to dos’ and ‘how to dos’. I am after all, a Biz Grad… with very limited IT knowledge… so all this simi css, php stuff all very foreign. Might as well be in German.

Patience ya? Meanwhile, i would appreciate all comments/feedback!

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Just went downstairs to check on Pinky. He didn’t touch the food in his cage from the time we said goodnight at 10:25pm. My dad said that he should have recovered his appetite because he started munching grass at 6:30pm. He also took a few bites of his pellets. (I didn’t witness that for myself because i went to the hospital with Cirrus, who fractured his finger while playing soccer last night.)

Anyway, i thought - 6:30pm was a long time ago and i was worried that Pinky still wasn’t enough right. Thus, I prepared more of the powder mixture i got from the vet & wanted to force-feed Pinky with it. I saw that Pinky’s litter tray had this big damp patch and there was some shit in it… but i couldn’t tell whether the shit was like er, fresh from tonight, or if it was in the litter tray already. The wet patch was definitely fresh… but then again, i wasn’t sure if it was Pinky’s work or did Horlicks use his toilet earlier on the night.

So i decided to go ahead and force-feed Pinky. Ooh… i barely squirted a drop into his mouth when the little chap struggled free & i was forced to put him down on the floor. He ran to his mommy straightaway for comfort. Bet he told her in rabbit language that his nanny bullied him ‘cos his mom started biting the grilles of her cage, demanding to be let out. I managed to chase Pinky back into his cage and almost immediately, he peed onto the floor of the cage. I think he was trying to put his point across - “back off. I’m drinking alright!”

I apologized profusely to Pinky… i felt sorry that i kept pushing him to eat and drink more. But i can’t help but worry about my favourite little bunny!! I always tell Pinky that we all tried so hard to preserve his life when he was a baby so he mustn’t throw it away by starving himself!

Pinky sneezed a few times just now. I believe his cold is back. Maybe he didn’t really fully recover from the last bout of cold. Well, nothing much i can do now. Still praying for Pinky. Thanks to everyone else who did.

Thank You Lord, for Pinky.

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I just entered my bathroom to shower when i saw this HUGE cockroach on my mirror!!

“ARGHHHHHH!!!!!”

I screamed, ran out of the toilet, grabbed the insecticide, and opened the toilet door stealthily and took a peep at the cursed roach. It was perched on my mirror, above my toothbrush. As quietly as i could, i took my toothbrush out of the toilet. Then i took a breath to calm myself down, and opened the toilet door again.

“PZZZZZZZZZZZTT!!!”

I aimed the nozzle of the insecticide at the roach & sprayed at it! WAH LAU EH! Guess what happened? IT FLEW!! So i had a huge roach, with hairy legs, and wings that work!! @%&*)#

I slammed my toilet door again and sought solace from my fren on ICQ. Mustering up more courage, i opened the door a slit to peek into the loo again. Scanned the toilet but i couldn’t see the damned roach. Then i saw it! It was on my window!! I quickly sprayed more insecticide on it and the wretched thing flew out of the window. Phew!! Talk about diehard…

Anyway, i closed my windows as fast as i could… slammed them shut in case the roach was lingering somewhere on the sill… at least that would ensure that it’s squashed. (”Crush it like a cockroach!”)

Now my toilet stinks of insecticide. Darn! How to bathe like that? Jialat… argh… i hate cockroaches!!!

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Pinky - refusing to eat 

Pinky’s not eating nor drinking. Had to coax/force him to take in some food yesterday and he ate - approx. 10 celery leaves, 6 strands of hay, and 2 shreds of carrot the whole of yesterday. That’s very very little. A celery leaf is like 2cm x 1cm in size… and a shred of carrot… think the small pieces u find in your popiah.

I called the vet for advice just now. The vet asked whether Pinky pooped or peed. Well, he peed once the whole of yesterday… and he dropped 1 small pellet this morning. How to shit & pee if u’re not eating nor drinking? But this is a very bad sign because a rabbit needs to eat constantly to keep his digestive tract working. Once it shuts down, that’s the end for the rabbit.

So things are looking very bleak right now. I picked up this powder mix from the vet. (Didn’t take Pinky down in case the car ride freaks him out more.) Supposed to mix it with water to form a paste & force-feed with a syringe. Managed to get 1ml of the mixture into Pinky before he nearly jumped out of my arms. The recommended dosage from the vet is “0.3ml a few times a day”. Great. I’m only getting him to take 1/3 of his dietary needs.

Told my dad that i’m left with no choice but to FORCE-feed Pinky every hour. Even if he drinks only 1ml of the mixture, that’s better than nothing.

Please pray for/that:
1) Pinky’s appetite to return to normal
2) Pinky doesn’t die.
3) Speedy recovery of the wound.

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