Funny CV's

Work is quite mundane at the moment as we are in the procurement stages. This means checking through countless numbers of submissions and commenting on their contractual qualification.


As the development is massive, the work pacakges aren't exactly small value. Many of these people aren't from Singapore and this is where the fun part is.



I shouldn't really laugh, it is my own race and it's ability to write English that I am laughing at after all. But at least it gave me a good chuckle at work. As I can't post PDF files on blogger so I had to use my initiative and take pictures from my laptop.


But check these out for your amusement (names obviously have been concealed to protect the innocent!)

This bloke has 'groped' the decorating industry for 7 years!!

This person has been doing 'trivial things' with due diligence!!

This isn't all that funny. I still love doing design work, albeit management of the process. But I wish I was like this guy - highly appreciated by each party

The Singapore F1 Race

Staying in a hotel certainly has it's merits. Not only do I get free use of the pool and gym, I get a free paper in the morning too. I hadn't read newspapers in London for god knows how long. Save for the occasional Metro chucked on the seat next to me in the tube, of course.

Whilst the it's free, I thought it'd be good to learn about Singapore and what it has to offer by reading the paper. Good job I did! This week I found out a day earlier that the Singapore F1 race tickets would be on sale with general admissions, no seating tickets, pretty affordable. (I had to put my GBP-SGD conversion rate hat on to make it look affordable!!)

Next day, in the office, as soon as the clock hits 9am, I hit the website to get the tickets. It was bound to be busy and I was convinced the tickets would sell within the first day. And I was right on the first bit. I could hear neighbouring co-workers dialing the hotline on loudspeaker and getting engaged tone whilst I simultaneously went on the website and rung the hotline in a desperate attempt to secure some tickets.

One person pretended to be calling colleagues by looking at the phone directory whilst dialling the number. Dude, there's no pretending needed, we're all doing the same thing, trying to get through!

It wasn't until 11am before the website magically let me through and purchase my tickets. I was the excited proud owner of 4 tickets to the race in September. The first night F1 race in history. Although some smart arse pointed out that Valencia would be the first to hold a night race in August (Thanks NH!!)

In the afternoon I could hear the yank in the next row yelling down the phone to someone on the hotline who never bothered ringing him back for him to purchase some tickets. I was quietly laughing to myself having secured some tickets.

After sending a round-robin email back to the UK, I realised 4 tickets might not be enough what with the hype over here, my dad and a couple of Brunei mates might want to come over and watch it too. I promptly went back online the next morning to get another 4 tickets.

So now I am the proud owner of 8 F1 tickets. If no one wants it, I'm sure ebay will assist in recouping the money and some!

Singapore Zoo

We were desperate for more of the CNY celebration and I saw in the paper that Singapore Zoo had lion dance performances for CNY. So on the second day of CNY, sis CW and I trekked over to the zoo for some festive fun.

Stilt walkers at the entrance

As it's the year of the rat, the zoo had a display of the largest rodent on earth. These animals at the size of a big dog!!

Not forgetting my favourite baboons. Can you see their red arses? The little ones were quite naughty fighting amongst themselves and then hugging each other afterwards!

Then we spotted a colourful-arsed monkey. Can't remember what it's called. You can just about see it's bright blue bottom!

And a bat with its wings open during daytime. I didn't know bats had penises! This one opened its wing and started peeing a long stream of piss and pooed a few pieces too!!

Our festive lion dance show. We had prime position, right in front of the performance! We even managed to stroke the lion's back.

And finally, a festive photo. It's deemed to be very lucky if you manage to get this close to a 'live' lion during it's performance.

Chinese New Year 2008 - Year of the Rat

So this is sis CW's year. She was born in the year of the Rat. We spent the first day of CNY having a nice lie-in, trekked over to VivoCity in our new clothes with me determined to watch the latest Stephen Chow's movie CJ7. Well, we had nowhere else to go with no family homes to visit in Singapore.


For those who don't know Stephen Chow, he is the greatest comedian (in my opinion) Hong Kong has ever produced. I have seen his bestseller Kung Fu Hustle about a million times and wouldn't mind watching it over and over again. His long awaited new movie was out on CNY and I just had to go and see it. Of course, whilst all the Chinese were doing family visits, the rest of the country were out and about enjoying the public holiday. Needless to say the movie was sold out and we had no choice but to get a quick bite to eat and back to my lonely hotel.


I thought of a brilliant title for my post 'My Lonely Existence' as we walked back from the MRT station to my hotel. It was so quiet even the escalator was shut down due to the lack of use. But then, what is there to blog about a lonely existence??

We went to watch the fireworks at Esplanade in the evening and had a brilliant hawker centre style seafood dinner. Check this out:

After dinner we walked towards the river for the fireworks show and I was quite mesmerised by the night view of Singapore from across the river. It reminds me of Manhattan. (I'm thinking of going to work in NYC for a couple of years after I'm done with Singapore!!)




The fireworks display was only 15mins long. But at least we had some sort of a CNY.

CNY Eve Dinner

Well, my first ever CNY in Singapore. I was getting quite excited about it as it would be different. Unlike UK, no celebration whatsoever. Unlike Brunei, where it would've been a constant big family, eating affair. This year, it was just me, sis CW and her bf. Quiet, 'independant' CNY on our own...

Being the big sister, I tried to book a Chinese restaurant at the 11th hour to make sure we have a proper CNY eve meal. Managed to get something right in the middle of Chinatown. Rather proud of myself ... until we got there.

There was a mix up with the booking, they thought we were going the following night. I mean, who has dinner out on CNY night? Come on guys! We had no choice but to trek around Chinatown for another restaurant. Singapore, Chinese city, CNY Eve, the night of family reunion dinner. Finding a restaurant??? In Chinatown???? No chance!

We ended up in Chijmes, the second Chinese restaurant we stumbled upon. The first had queues which would equate to about 3 hrs wait! So we couldn't believe our luck finding a Shanghainese restaurant, which is virtually empty. Well, Shanghainese is Chinese right? WRONG! I guess it being empty was a bit of a no-brainer hint. Sat down, glanced quickly at the only two available set menus, we decided to treat ourselves and went for the more expensive menu.

The first course of yu sheng came. Ok, raw salmon and various other bits for a traditional starter. It wasn't too bad, but far too big for the 3 of us. Second starter came and it was... MARINADED DUCK'S TONGUE. We just stared at it. I mean look at this stuff:



It looked like an oversized dead grasshopper! Ok, it looked gross but maybe it might taste pretty good. So I put one of these in my mouth and it's hard to describe. I didn't taste gross but it was just very difficult to eat. All hard and sticky and yuck! I had to put it back down and we didn't touch any of it.

The next few courses weren't much better either, although more edible. Until we got to the broccoli and abolone dish. The only thing we could recognise and go aahhh, this is more like it! But dessert was a disappointing plate of fruits.


(That was a forced smile. I mean who would get excited over a plate of fruits??)

And so that ended our disappointing little adult 'independant' CNY eve dinner. SIGH!

My Site

Hmm... the frustration of the other blogsite and it's stoopid image uploading facility! I have decided to return to blogspot under a different name.

But to all who have been re-directed, here's the night pix of my site.