k-i-s-s-i-n-g.

this restaurant is gorgeous. Yellow Treehouse Restaurant, New Zealand was designed to be a hideaway from the city, somewhere the chic could dine in style but in the middle of mother nature.

Best part - the restaurant was built as a statement. The Yellow Group built it to show potenial clients that they can do anything.

However, the restaurant is fully booked for the year(!) and only 2,000 people have ever dines within its branches.

new zealand really pulling out the stops man... first LOTR then this.

in other news, if you read the papers today, 9 out of 10 MJC students scored distinctions for project work for the A's whereas only 26% from CJC and 85% from Hwa Chong getting the same result.

now, the papers are making a huge hoo-haa about how some teachers gave more attention to the project work module and some teachers just heck cared. For instance, MJC cited that they had to turn in 7 drafts before the project was approved and their teacher was very merticulous when coming to details and such. Whereas other colleges, the teacher saw 2 drafts, gave a rough overview for improvements and sent the students on their way.

my god, Singaporean JC kids, wake up and smell the common sense.

Not only are you implying you aren't good enough to develop your own ideas, but also that you rely heavily on others to validate and proof your work. do you honestly think that in the working world, your boss is going to check facts for you? or that he is going to allow you to submit 7 drafts?

by draft 4 you can go look for a new job already.

all i can say is that kids nowadays need to stop expecting help and to stand on their own two feet. sheesh, two page article dedicated to how reliant the kids are on the education system is appalling.

and parents, stop defending your children and blaming it on the teachers. you of all people know who unfair the world is. keeping your child wrapped in a tiny bubble isn't going to do good for your young ones.

whatever happened to good old resourcefulness and self-reliance.

manners where?

i took to most terrible, ungracious bus ride of my life today.

- man put his bag on the seat next to him when the entire aisle was filled with people standing.
- not a single person (not even above mentioned man) gave up their seat to a obviously preggers woman. she stood for the whole of little india before someone off in front of her.
- people snatched seats from a preggers woman (same one as above.) she looked at me and sighed.
- 3 kids played their stupid mp3 from their phones at max volume. wang lee hom, some extreme death metal and some extreme malay rock were infiltrating the bus.
- the conductor had to physically push people to the back of the bus.

seriously, where has all the hard work of courtesy gone?
call ourselves a first world nation.
we have third world manners.

shame on all of us.

maybe not.

i'm starting to get worried.
where are you now?

coming to terms.

i've realised: it's time to fuck it.

hidden talent.

here is another too cute to resist picture of baby zachary.

He is growing fast and furiously but has been a rather quiet and managable baby.
my sis in law is doing very well, recovering all too fast.
my brother? as usual lah, told me that day the baby said PAPA.

This week flew by too fast.
I managed to get my mojo going for work. so far it's been trying, figuring out terms and getting use to clients' idiosyncrasies. But i have to say, my company is letting me take on more work then i expected which is awesome.

throwing me into the deep end, or more aptly - the shark pool.

apart from that, i've just been clinging on to anytime i have left to spend it with the people that matter to me and doing things i like.

thats the key to prevention of burning out. All the late nights in the office, all the 24/7 emails you get will eventually wear you thin. i come to realised there are only 24 hours in a day and after that 24th hour, you start again.

so on weekends, i dedicate to doing things i like. I actually make an effort to wake up early and go for breakfast with my parents. I go out with the beau and maybe have drinks with my friends.

and most importantly, try very very hard not to call/email/communicate with my clients and so far, they have been understanding. but come monday, its all systems go again. thankfully, the week goes fast and somewhat painlessly.

well, TGIF tomorrow :)