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Mass Birthday
Author: uptowngal
As much as i like receiving birthday wishes, i also love sending them to friends… esp. if i can get the sms out at 12:00am sharp. Haha.
Anyway, here’s wishing Azure, Doh & Muscleman a big Happy Birthday & may you have a fantastic day celebrating it! 
read comments (0)Disturbed
Author: uptowngal
I’m quite upset now ‘cos 2 of my entries (Best of the Best and Best Parking Idiots Photo) on 28 Aug 2006 apparently disappeared. Thankfully, i managed to find a cached version of the page from Google. (THANK YOU GOOGLE FOR TRAWLING THE NET!) If not for the cached version, i wouldn’t possibly remember what i wrote regarding my darling Muah Chee… and i actually totally forgot about the photo from parking idiot. 
Now i’m just wondering how many other posts have i lost, if any? It’s kind of upsetting isn’t it? I don’t know what’s the reason that these 2 posts disappeared… i’m pretty sure i didn’t delete anything ‘cos i haven’t been blogging the past few days. Hope these are the only 2 posts that went missing.
99.9% there
Author: uptowngal
Praise the Lord! Eon* called to say they want to employ me. I’m beaming like an idiot now! Heh.
I was with the recruitment guy discussing how to handle the interview with Cofrance* tomorrow when Big Mac* from Eon called. At first i asked if i could call him back in like 10mins but he said he was boarding a plane and i could probably call him back 3 hrs later so i was like… no worries, i’ll definitely take the call!
The recruitment guy was quite understanding… i excused myself and took the call outside the office. The conversation went something like this,
Me, “So… is it good news or bad news?”
B.Mac, “Good news of ‘cos!”
Me, “That’s great.”
(At this point, i was practically jumping up & down)
B.Mac, “So we’ve decided that we want to employ you. As for your renumeration, you asked for $XX to $YY right? Well, we’re prepared to give u $YY. How does that sound?
(This was when i nearly hit the false ceiling of Peace Centre)
Me, “Wow. That sounds fantastic! So where are u flying off to now?
B.Mac, “I’m flying to Jakarta…. will be back tomorrow but i won’t be able to meet u till Thur.”
Me, “Thur’s fine.”
B.Mac, “We can go through the employment contract on Thur, and if everything’s fine, we can sign on Fri.”
(By then i was thinking… wah! Still drag till Fri uh? Thur sign on the spot already lah! Mai 夜长梦多 [translated as "night long dreams more" - the more u drag, the more problems might crop up].
Me, “Sure. Will meet up on Thur then.”
B.Mac, “But we can only give u the title of Senior Account Servicing Exec…”
(I was thinking… whatever lah. Call me admin assistant also can)
Me, “No problem at all.”
B.Mac, “The reason is ‘cos u’ll be dealing a lot with banks and so if we call u a manager and u’re not familiar with the product, it might not be so good.”
Me, “I totally understand. No issues there.”
B.Mac, “But we’ll see how it goes. Probably later on, we can explore the title of Manager again.”
(As Cirrus says, call me toilet cleaner also can!!)
And we ended the conversation. Hehe. It took tons of self-control to keep a straight face when i re-entered the recruitment guy’s office to continue our talk!
Sigh… i’m still so elated. Hehe. Was shouting whoops of joy as i was driving home. Haha. But i’m still going for the interview with Cofrance tomorrow… just in case there’s any unforseen hiccups. Azure told me last week that one of her ex-colleagues was offered a job over the phone but before she signed the employment letter, the HR retracted the offer!! How horrible is that!!
Heh… just like i was once a professional contestant, i think i’m turning into a professional interviewee now. Haha. Seasoned, calm, steady, totally no sweat. My ego’s also quite boosted ‘cos AAA* wants to offer me again. Wahahaha. But no lah. I think this job with Eon will be something that i can do for a slightly longer period of time.
There’s going to be tons of stuff to study & learn… which is good for someone with extremely short attention span like me. By the time i get the hang of the ropes, it’ll prob. be like 6mths later so i definitely won’t be bored anytime soon. I also really appreciate the fact that my direct superior, B.Mac is really approachable, and his boss, the executive director is ok too. As in, thank God i can click with my soon to be bosses!
On top of that, when i look at the way this job has panned out - from how i woke up in the middle of the nite ‘cos i felt this strong urge to open the email from Jobsdb, and how i quickly rushed out my resume when i saw this job, to the whole interview process, perhaps, this job was meant to be. I hope so! I’ve always wanted to work in law… and obviously i’m not going to be a lawyer… so perhaps this is as good as it gets. Thank God! Hallelujah!
*Names have been changed for blah blah blah…..
A Decade of Torture
Author: uptowngal
The more i listen to that Fan Wei Qi song, the more i’m reminded of this old old friend of mine from JC - Iceman. Heh. When i first got to know him in JC, i thought he was damn arrogant ‘cos he ignored me on the bus on the way to school. But as fate would have it, Iceman has been one of my closest friends the past 10 years. Heh. But that doesn’t mean i’ve let him off for ignoring me on the bus… he’s still paying back for that… and for forgetting my birthday once… wahahaha.
I thought of dedicating the song to him on his birthday next month.. but aiyah, since the song is so popular now, might as well put it on the blog. Skali wait till next month, flavour change liao.
Anyway, Iceman has been a very very patient friend… heh… from helping me carry my textbooks, shifting table so i can climb down from the 2nd storey of TJC, going with me to the sinseh after i sprained my finger during basketball, getting tekan by our physics tutor whenever i sat next to him during tutorial (is that why sometimes u’ll rather sit next to Mr. Dandruff than sit with me??), listen to me whine / complain / bitch… the list goes on.
So here’s a big THANK YOU to Iceman… and Happy Birthday in advance!
All Hell Broke Loose (Nearly)
Author: uptowngal
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*
Happy Birthday!
Author: uptowngal
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!!
Latest on Pinky
Author: uptowngal
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!!
Godsend
Author: uptowngal
At the pet shop, he met this young gal called “Vivi” who breeds rabbits. She was really sweet and offered to come to my place to show us how we could get the babies to suckle from Horlicks. So i picked her up after work and came home.
We tried a few ways. First i carried Horlicks on her back and Vivi placed the baby on her chest… but Horlicks protested violent so we had to abort this method. Next, we tried to get Horlicks to sniff her babies & then place them in a tray in front of her…. Horlicks sniffed them then ran off. Plan B - failure. The 3rd attempt finally work. Horlicks ran around the garden till she got tired & laid down to rest against a wall. Vivi located Horlicks’ nipples & place the baby against it while i coaxed Horlicks to continue lying down with biscuit treats.
Wow… u should’ve seen the baby’s reaction when it was placed near the mother’s body. It sprung awake & rushed to try to suck the nipple. Some natural instinct kind of thing i suppose. Using this method, we managed to feed the smaller pinker rabbit (henceforth known as Baby002 - temporarily named according to birth order) till poor Horlicks ran out of milk.
Then we had to rest her a bit before feeding Baby001 (aka the miracle baby from this morning) a little. Horlicks was v.cooperative too. Vivi let her sniff 001 & Horlicks flipped onto her side, as though she really knew what we were trying to do. So we quickly placed 001 at her nipple & thankfully 001 managed to drink some milk too. But i think 001 was too hungry & it sucked too hard (i could hear the sound) and might have bit Horlicks too so Horlicks couldn’t tahan that long. Prob. about 2 mins and Horlicks stood up again.
Nevertheless, i’m glad we found a way to feed the babies. Nothing beats a mother’s milk. (Did u know that a baby mother’s milk is super high in calories? And that newborn baby needs no more than 5cc a day!) The dilemma i have now is how do i know when they’re full enough? (Overfeeding also can die… feed too little also can die…). Sigh… haven’t figured that one out yet.
Anyway, here are some photos of Baby001 & 002.
The one on top, the pinker one is Baby002. The greyish baby is 002, the miracle baby.
Same… 002’s the one on top.
001’s on the right.
A miracle & a tragedy
Author: uptowngal
After searching for like 5 mins, Horlicks came & started sniffing the corner of the cage…. and that’s when i saw a pink baby inside the litter tray!!! (As in the litter tray beneath the cage.) I quickly pulled out the litter tray from under the cage & there it was! The FATTEST PINKIEST little baby! Thank God it was still alive! And warm too! This baby is a true miracle baby! Somehow i’ve this strange hope that this miracle baby will be able to survive & grow up.
While i was really thrilled to find this 3rd baby, a tragedy occured during the night. Out of the 2 babies we placed in the nesting box last nite? The plumper one was sound asleep underneath the wool but the thinner one died. It was still a little warm so it must have just died only. Poor thing… i’m not sure if it suffocated in the wool (’cos it rolled itself to the corner of the box, totally covered up by the wool), or if it died ‘cos it was under-nourished at birth.
My dad fed the plump baby a little bit of milk just now but the fat miracle baby is still sleeping soundly. Oh… it did pee a little. Guess it got the most amount of food while in the mother’s womb. Anyway, i don’t approve of my dad handling the babies so much in the first 24 hrs.. i mean… what if Horlicks looks for her babies and can’t find them then she gives up nursing them or something?!?
But what’s been done cannot be changed… so bo pian. I’m going to try to force Horlicks to nurse the babies tonite. My gameplan is to place her standing up on my lap, then put the babies at her nipples (my dad claims he can’t find them). My dad thinks this won’t work but i think it will… well, we’ll see how it goes. I really hope miracle baby & plump baby will survive.
Please pray for them.