Its now the last day of July.....I am disgustingly late, lazy and a good procrastinator hor?
So sorry, here is my long-overdue tag
Rules on this tag: No rules lah
I will not have rules, and will not tag anyone. If you wish to do it, please feel free so that we may get to know you better!
One: Hate
For those who may already know, I hate garlic, I also dislike spring onion, chives, onions, ginger.
Two: Music
I used to play the electronic organ and Alto Saxophone.
Organ: My dad submitted the wrong form to Yamaha Music School. The piano course form had a lighter orange form, whereas the Organ course was a darker orange form. Whose dumb idea was that to print forms on such similar color??
Saxophone: When I joined my secondary school band that year, Saxophone was not popular yet. Being in a all-girls' school, everybody wanted the clarinet or flute coz its more lady-like mah. The saxophonist had to wear a strap around the neck to hold the Saxophone, so it was deemed as UGLY.....lack of new recruit in the Sax section and I didn't mind that ugliness, so I took up the instrument. The following year, thanks to Kenny G. My section had overwhelming response, the rest was history, our section was the coolest section then!
Three: My many ECAs
I had 5 ECAs at one point in my primary school. My mum nagged and quarrelled with dad over this. Mum felt that my school work was getting nowhere, dad felt that it was a good chance for me to explore what I liked. Finally, I was left with one ECA - music ensemble, due to PSLE lah....
- Music Ensemble - played the pianica
- Choir (I hated it though, joined becuz Yamaha needed singing as part of the grades exam)
- Badminton (love the game, till today)
- Gymnastic (after 6mths, nearly cracked my neck, I gave up)
- Red Cross (for stupidity reason, joined becuz I thot the uniform very smart looking back then)
Four: My many jobs
After Uni, in 10 years of career, I had worked in 7 firms.
1) Local quasi-govt coy- Resigned after 2.5years, coz I hate programming
2) UK MNC - Retrenched after working 10mths due to re-org
3) US MNC - Retrenched after working 2years due to down-sizing
4) European Bank - Resigned after 3mths, coz was totally bored with job and people there.
5) HUGE FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods company) - Resigned after 2 years, health affected, supporting 10,000 users in 14 Asia Pac countries, always on 24x7 call, even when pregnant. One typical incident, a call at 3am to tell me that 400 ice-cream trucks in Australia can't dispatch the ice-cream due to servers' crash. I had to resolve it within 1-2 hours, can't imagine the impact on sales affected if its longer than that. I bet every household in the world has some products that is by this company! From soap, detergent to food....
Was admitted to hospital during last month before EDD due to pre-eclampsia (possibly caused by work stress, Gynae advised). Had to stop work completely and rest at home to wait for baby's delivery.
6) Local firm - Irregular hours which was not informed to me. Had to work odd hours at 12am-3am from the office at times. Was apprehensive as I was breastfeeding and had a 6months old baby at home.
7) US Bank - My happiest job by far.....very stressful as decision needs to be made on the fly, but I had supportive boss and fun colleagues. Resigned becuz I need to come to Canada lor.....
So, I am not exactly a job hopper....just that circumstances forced me too... :P
Five: Skirts/Dress
I hardly put on dress or skirts. I am quite tom-boyish by nature. I am a jeans and t-shirt person. I didn't have a single maternity dress, come to think about it!
Six: Control Freak
I used to be quite a control freak. I like to plan. Everything from A-Z. I am not exactly meticulous. But everything needs to have a plan. In secondary school, before any trip out, like a movie day out, I insisted that we all sit down and plan where to go, what to eat before setting off.
But as I grow/age and 'mature'. I realised sometimes, many things are better when nature take its course. And by nature, I of course means God. He is the ultimate controller I have learnt.
Seven: Travelling
We had the chance to travel Europe in "style" after graduating from Uni. We backpacked Turkey and Greece. Hopped on a bus in Greece to cross over to Turkey. On the bus, there were 30 passengers, 28 of them were smoking. Only the 2 of us were desperately grasping for fresh air on bus. On returning, we decided to give up the return bus ticket and took a flight from Turkey back to Greece instead.
Then we joined an organized camping tour to Europe in 28 days. In "style", i mean we pitched tent across Europe campsite. On the 2nd week, I was down with chicken pox at Venice, but the "ang mos"in the tour weren't afraid and told me to stay on and complete the remaining leg of the tour.....so I did. And I ate chicken...coz the "ang mo" cook didn't believe in our chinese custom! heheh. FYI, I had no scars from eating chicken.
I had so far travelled to about 25 countries. We hope to backpack or travel to India, Vietnam, Russia and the more exotic places when the kids are grown up.
Eight: Flowers and Diamond
I don't like flowers nor diamond. I prefer to admire flowers that are planted by the road or in the park versus a bouquet of flowers given to me. So far I have only received flowers in 4 occassion in my life.
1st: a junior in my sec-sch, I AM not lesbian lah, but I was tom-boyish. I like boys for sure. I threw away the flower when I reached the bus stop outside school. I simply didn't know what to do with it.
2nd: Flower for wedding day. It was prepared by the wedding boutique for me to hold. bo pian, as a bride, I can't be holding a pot of pandan leaves right?
3rd: As a wedding planner for my good friend (JS), her HB gave every bridesmaid a stalk.....
4th: This year's mother's day, I received a stalk from my girl (it was prepared by the church)
Diamond: I have told hubby, I prefer a good treat to makan than a diamond or any jewellery. I only own one very small diamond ring given to me by my aunt as wedding gift, its somewhere in a safebox in S'pore I think.
