Today was my Grandma's Bday which we celebrated with a nice dinner at Taka Crystal Jade =)

 

So i made an effort to dress up a bit nicer than my usual nike gear... click clack shoes and all; only to walk out of the house and knock out the heel on the shoe...

 

Not wanting to sacrifice my outfit, i thought - 'Not to worry, there's a Mr Mint jus downstairs in Taka, ill get the shoes fixed there' =) So we went on our way and went to fix the shoes. I took off my stinking shoes and the nice man Mr Jimmy Chua told me the cost and started fixing them =) Little did i know of the whacking big hole my shoes had!!! So... this super kind man fixed the shoes for me on the spot! Without asking me if i wanted it done or not =) and my shoes were really in a bad bad bad shape... sole falling out.. hole.. heel gone shit.. and he fixed it all!! He glued the hole back together, cleaned them up, stuck the sole back down and i walked away with a nice neat pair of shoes!! he was smiling all the way.. ha, wondering why i dont jus buy a new pair.. but i suppose he knows how much women like their shoes.. and yes, i love those shoes and im sooooo greatful to him for fixing them!! Without one head shake or condesending look, he jus fixed them!!

 

I guess there is hope for Good service in Singapore =)

 

Thanks Mr Jimmy!! I will CONFIRM find you again =)

so... since yesterday i was pissed off... and i drowned my anger in choc and pringles, today i am suffering from the knock on effects of guilt from the pringles and also i see some potential break-out areas on my face... i feel like such a 'mum'... telling myself that i mus cleanse my system and drink loadsa water today..

 

going gym later to kill that stupid cross trainer machine and break my legs and stomach.

in the spirit of this being MY blog and i can write wateva i like.. here goes another bitching session...

 

I seriously wonder wat the hell you do all day... you jus go to the same place all the time and occasionally come out of that place.. u jus sit there and pass messages and in the end i get nothing. but the shitiest part of this whole mess is that i dun have the guts to tell u this.. i cowardly come to my lil blog and bitch bout it..

 

*silence*....

 

going to get my orange choc to make me feel better bout uuuu!!!!!!!!!! and you cant have any!!!!!

 

PISSED OFF!!!

 

 

David has his website up!! Check it out @ www.yellowwfish.com

with 2 w...

wahh... now that i havent done for a long time.. stayed out way past my bedtime. Normally i sleep at bout 11, 1130. But yesterday was a bit later.. more like 3am... =p CAF Friend had premier tix to see the new Spiderman Movie. It was at Vivocity, the whole frigging cinema was closed for it!!

 

no spoilers on the show =)

 

Anyway, so after the show, we went to treat his fren supper at Telok Blangah somewhere =)  till 2am.

 

Now i super stoned and tired...  betta go work quick...

it has been 3 entire sessions or 4 weeks since I have pulled on my swimming cosi and jumped into the pool.. and last nite i payed dearly for it...

 

David was as usual up to no good on the pool side. Started off with a warm up.. i figured since I havent been swimming much i better warm up an extra 100m making it 200m (wat a warm up... ). Then we went onto the normal kicking drills followed by some fly/free mix-ups to get those other lazy muscles working. By the end of that I was alredi bit shaky, but i thought... 'I can definitiyl finish his workout, its jus gonna super painful... '

 

And sure it was!!! So then his super whamy set came - he calls is System 1, I call it Endurance set...

 

For me, 6 * 500m - 3 sets with peddles on 8min, 3 sets without on 8:30.

 

*faint

 

I didnt bring my peddles so thank god for that.. anyway, towards the end i was strugglng to keep within the interval.. sighhhhh... but at least i finished it.. somehow.

 

Then we moved onto what Coach lkes to call System 2 - I call it 'kill me now session'

 

12 * 100m so-called Sprint on 2:30 [it was about half way through the 100m's that i lost my arms somewhere in the pool...] followed by another 4 * 50m Sprint

 

Need I say more... So to total it all up...

 

 

making a grad total of... 5350m!!

 

Thanks Coach =)

What a comeback.. see you next time!

 

went back to work today.. its always strange going back to work after a long break.. planned to run today, but.. kinda didnt pan out. So it will be a torturing session tmw in the pool. it will be tough, i havent been in the water for about one month. Despite the regular runs and gym workouts, i foresee tmw another killing-session tmw. I will definitly miss seeing the look on Ernest's face at 4pm-ish every Tuesday where it begins to dawn on him how he is would suffer at David's sessions. Will miss u man... Have fun in Indo!

 

So we had lunch with Andrew, his replacement. Him and Hann the same - both big size sports man. Must be a Rugby thing. I wonder who will turn up tmw for swimming, recently the office folks have been skipping a lot of David's session, due to work, tired, or wateva it may be.. The Sharks must return!! But.. having said all that.. and although I know im going to be dead tmw at bout 9pm.. i amd looking forward to it =) ppl are alredi saying.. 'wats that down there?? [referring to my tummy] wahh, so now married alredi means and so fast the lil Ding's are coming eh??'

 

hmm...  - i think not - this is as close as ill get to 'lil Ding's' for now...

 

 

or this... look at this baby sleeping..

 

Actually its amazing how time flies.. my mum has been here since beg Feb, and end of this month she is flying home again. Seems like only a while ago that she arrived, but oh well.. all good things must come to an end. I cant deny that I will miss having her around, but thats the way it has always been. Perhaps that is why I never made that much time for her during her stay here, coz I dont want to get too close; it will be harder for me when she leaves again... Anyway, CAF and I are going to take her out today to get her a new set of suitcases coz she once AGAIN has bought so many things and her suitcase is not big enough =p

 

This weekend is actually a spending money weekend. Yesterday I got her a bluetooth earpiece and two USB Dongles (which she asked me to buy..) then today I am getting her the suitcases. AND.. i need to get a farewell gift for Ai Ping. She is leaving us on Wednesday so we are taking her out for lunch on Tuesday. Have been thinking what to get her.. actually been racking my brain over it throughout the whole weekend. I hope she likes the outcome of my brain-racking.. hehe.

 

Anyway... my comp is giving me a headache.. its seriously slowing down - dun ask me why. so i thought I would run a de-frag on it but my harddisk is so full that I cant even run that program. Even after a disk clean-up I still cant clear enough space to run the de-frag program =( Then the whole IE crashing thing.. even had trouble with my Internet Banking and other things.. My Nokia PC Suite went shit as well. sighhhhhh... oh well.. at least i can still chat on msn =p tmw when i go back to work Ill see whether my Outlook is gone shit =p

i need a new hard disk mann... but it somehow didnt see to be that impt coz i have been needing this for so long, but STILL havent done anything.. anyway.. today my internet explorer kinda acted v v strange, i suspect a virus =(.. and it killed my blog. jus took away my iTunes thingy.. reset my counter and moved some of my blog entries...

 

anyway.. but it was so impt that i jus packed up my stuff after a day-long meeting and went to the gym with ndrea =)

 

We did a ... i think it was 2 hr session.. coz we lost track of time and it was suddenly 2115... =S Did some cardio first, then we moved on to back exercises, abs, legs... *faint - But it was good though =) its a regular thing now ... rite ndrea?? =) but not monday la.. we wun be able to swim on tues.. ha.

 

Tmw is the Interschool Biathlon. Going to check it out with yo mama =)

2nd day of brng MRs Ding...

 

We been relaxing at home.. jus taking some time off work, enjoying each others company. CAF enjoying the PS2, me catching up on missed episodes of Desperate Housewives.. FrauKatze sleeping on my bed.. HerrKatze on CAF's bag.. and HundKatze in the fish tank...

 

hehe.. she certainly brightened up a quiet afternoon... hehe... poor thing.. now she's all wet and scared.. hehe.. later i give her some nice food and a good ol' head butting session, she seems to love that...

 

btw, HundKatze is my new cuttiepiee...

 

Later dinner with mummy.. and maybe a short jog around the block, or even a short jog to the new bike shop to get my bar tape.. im out, my bike has bare hands

Courtesy of my yo mama across my street, pls see her blog for the beautiful pics of yesterday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So excited after yesterday that I woke up at 715 this morning and cldnt stop thinking bout it. So much so that I cldnt sleep anymore... So i jus woke up, checked my mail and surfed net... write the ol' entry in FrauKatze Blog and then try to sleep again.

 

As i was lying there awake [oh, im off till Friday btw =p], i was jus reflecting on the things that have happened over the past 6 months. My Horoscope predicted yr 2007 to be a 'so-so' one, but so far it has turned out just fine. My job is ok, im having fun and i think my boss is ok with me too. I jus got married, and my mother was 'impressed' with CAF. I got my wedding/diamond ring which I couldnt stop staring at last nite...  i went to Seoul, I got my house and am moving into my own place soon.. im going to be reunited with one of my best friends soon (she's going to be working in singapore) AND i jus bought a beautiful new cat.. All very perfect if you ask me..

 

So with all this goodness, I am now weary of the bad that might come...

 

Or maybe this good-ness is making up for the bad-ness that has happened in the past yr or so... my time before i became a VM, or even before i joined Nike.. not the best times of my life, but then again, they were all shit due to me, not due to bad luck or wat... maybe i should have spaced all these nice events out a bit more so that whenever i let myself slip a bit from life, i can line up something nice to pick myself up again... Karma*... i am watching uuu....

 

or am i jus thinking too much..

 

*how to spell Karma...

as a fren put it - simple and sweet =)

 

my mum came, together with my grandma and two aunties. Then CAF Parents and family tog with his sis bf. Then Michelle (my witness  ) and her bf (they look soooo happy together =) Happy for you girl =) ), Alex and gf, and Hwee Cheng, Pat and Ernest.

 

Simple process actually... we went on together then we had to swear some thing that all our details are true and we are not marrying for some other purpose. Then.. all the guests came into the Registry Office, CAF and i sat down with the two witness (CAF Dad and Michelle) and we let the solemniser speak her stuff =) And yess... I cried.. had to happen. CAF surprised me with the most beautiful ring!!! OMG... its a trilogy diamond ring... when he showed me i also cried.. ha

 

actually i didnt cry laa... tears came from my eyes... for a little little while laa... haha but they were tears of happiness =)

 

Was a nice moment which I will never forget... CAF came out and said - wah, now i got a wife!! and i also came out and said - shit, now im married!! mann.. but life goes on.. jus that now im a Mrs =) but unreal rite now, but im sure it will settle soon =)

 

After dinner with the two families, CAF and I jus headed home and are gonna spend a nice evening in front of our BIGGGG tv with some Korean snacks =)

 

I love you CAF!! You look so handsome today =)

 

Photos to come....

As tmw approaches, i think it is only normal that one ponders about the reality of the situation... this is the day that you dream about when you are a little girl in a white dress with ur lil white shoes and flowers - the day that you think will never come.

 

Well, its here.

 

Im taking myself off the market for good. Its like... steralising ur cat... once done it can nvr be undone...

 

*i should of put that i love u post today.. not a few weeks ago..*

 

What would I miss being single? or what would change in my life with me being married

 

1. I will now have to check the 'Married' box on all application forms

2. I wun have a 'boyfriend' anymore.. but a 'husband'... can u imagine.. instead of saying.. "oh, my boyfriend is picking me up" it will be - "oh, my husband is picking me up"... ill feel damn old laa... haha

3. Ill be Mrs Ding, no more Miss Cambell.. hmmm.... Victoria Ding.. Victoria Cambell... hmm...

4. ..... ????

 

I suppose nothing much will change and I also i will not miss anything.. oh well...  i dun feel any jitters ot anything... is that normal?? i dun have any second thoughts or anything either.. but i suppose that is a good thing =) tmw will be ROM only... i hope one day i will have a bigg dinner and shit that goes along with it... but have to wait for the money truck to arrive... ask mum to plan it =p... im sure she will enjoy it =)

 

Anyway... here it goes - 1 Day to gooooo!!!!

 

 

 

So back in Singapore.... good old - unfriendly, small and sunny Singapore. Going to Seoul really opened my eyes and reminded me of what life was like before I came here. NOt that life in Singapore is not good, but there are alternatives around the world. One where buildings are big, drivers are friendly, trains are fast and deeply connected and life is just simply a bit slower.

 

CAF had an awesome time - he walked around Seoul, saw the sights, walked around the shops and museums and ate the local food. Kimchi here, Kimchi there, Kimchi everywhere. Apparantly there are 300 diff type of Kimchi available and the things he told me from his travels are relaly interesting - wish i cld have been there with him.

 

The shoot was cool - fun. I jus hope the pics will come out good =)

 

When we touched town in Singapore, the humidity wave never fails to hit me when i step out of the plane - still recall the past yrs when I came from Germany to visit my relatives, the one thing that i nvr forgot was the long travellators and the wave of humid air that hits u the minute u step into the airport.

 

Anyway, jus to sum up a few farni moments of the trip -

Ernest - thanks again for coming with me - my stomach muscles got a good workout.. ha

 

1. Old lady begging on the street - asking us for money - Ernest gives money and she ends up scolding him for syaing bad things bout me... haha =p

2.  Ernest Man-Ego bruised in front of the Nike Korea office =p

3. Seeing Police men shopping in the employee store

4. Hotel-lo..

Toilet-oo - to shit-oooo

chocolate??

Kopi-o

teh-o

mil-ooo

Aiyohhhh!!!

5. Korean resataurant -

Ernest - wat is this?

Waitress - Kimchi

Ernest - this?? in water??

Waitress - EATTT!!

6. Trying to stick sticker on Ernest back or head without him knowing - in the plane =p

7. Korean Restaurant again...

Waitress to Michael - Are you sure u can eat all that?? (after she brings out the 3rd plate of beef)

Michael - dun worri - we got him, he can eat it (ernest)

 - and he did!!!

 

Sigh.. Day 3 was v tiring... we shot the WHOLE day... started the day with an 8am breakfast, leaving the hotel at about 9. Then we made our way to the studio for hair and make-up where Korea's top hair man and make-up lady were there to make us look nice and pretty =)

 

Then, the stylists were there to help us get dressed - literally  - and then off into the white room. My shot was so hard!! Who could have thought that running is such a difficult to thing to take a picture of!!! Anyway... it kinda dragged on for the whole day... leaving the delight of the day to be a trip to the local conveniance store to buy snacks and this:

 

 

CAF Food - and Mine...

 

Tmw another day... all outdoors!!!!!!!

 

pls dun be cold tmw...

 

I wanna go Employee store tmw!!! Ernest went today without me...  

Hope he can bring me there tmw.

 

 

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Day 2 in Korea was insightful. One of the VM's took some time out of her busy schedule and took me around for an afternoon =) She showed me the Nike Korea shops, Flagship doors, Sports Culture, Dept Store, Performance etc. V insightful and eye-opening. We should be able to do these kind of visits to other countries - Bigger countries to see how they do their work.  Its really quite insightful and also opens up your mind a bit. Jus sitting in Singapore can narrow you down a bit. I hope this visit can improve my stores. 

 

MydongDong Area - Nike Seoul

 

 

 

 Fruit Stall at the Rd side in ApGuJeong Area

 

 

 

 View from my room on the 10th Floor - so much space!!!

 

 

Left side - Baby shoe!! So cute!!

Right Side - Different colour Mary Jane

 

Nike AF1 Door - Check out the Fish tank

 

 

Ernest cheesing around on the Retail Visit =)

 

And to finish off a nice day, had dinner with Ernest coz CAF went wondering off to see the sites. And he is still not back....

Wonder where he is.

 

So, Day's outcome was like this:

 

Great Time!

Great Weather!

Great Shopping!

 

Today's Goodies =)=)

 

BUT.. of coures, with every UP, there is a DOWN - Here's today's Damage...

 

 

 

Wahh... Im In Koreaaa... This is my first time here and so far I'm loving it!!!

 

Today we arrived at the crack of dawn - bit of a misunderstanding for the pick up at the airport, but we managed to get to the hotel after sitting through a thick jam on the way to Seoul Centre. Thanks to this misunderstanding, Mr Ernest got his room upgraded two notches =) Mine was upgraded too coz of CAF arrival. Thanks Nike!!!! We're staying at the Parkhyatt Seoul. The room/hotel is awesome!!! my room is on the 10th floor. Its really nice man... its got a living room kinda area, then the bed which is those kind of beds.... Its like it has arms that grab u and don't let you go once ur inside. In it, I had the best 20min nap i have eva had. Then of course the bathroom... The whole hotel has the very modern look - all v simple and minimalistic designs. Stylish and pleasing to the eye. =) check out the toilet - you can call me deprived or wat - but i have nvr seen this before!!! But i dun dare to use it...  

 

 

 

The windows are those large full glass windows. You can look right down onto the 7-lane roads and see the drivers making illegal U-Turns. It was quite an amazing sight - I think I have been in singapore for too long... - The buildings are HUGE and the roads are enourmous!! Our hotel is situated in the so-called financial/Business area of Seoul, so so far, nothing exciting to see where I am. The Gym looks out onto all this on the 24th floor!! haha, imagine running and looking over the city. BEST!! Tmw morning - Gym and me - ON!!

 

Anyway, so after the powernap which I took after arriving at the hotel after being stuck in the jam... we went to the Nike Korea office. One sentance - I think I will spend more time out in the shops as our office is so depressing... Really!! Nike Korea was holding their HO07 RSS while we were there and we saw the setup and the SPACE they have!! They take up 2 floors of another huge building. And their entrance is really really impressive - sorri folks, but our Nike Southeast Asia + Swoosh + Maxims cannot fight wat they have... Im so amazed.

 

So we stoned around in the office for a bit, I met with the Korean VM's and they were kind enough to agree to bring me around some shops tmw to see wat Korea does =) So later, we went round the area and looked at some shops in Korea. Mannn... they got nice things mann. I foresee my wallet taking a beathing this month...

 

CAF is coming tmw... I cant wait for him to come. Tonite will be a lonely night... I miss him =(

  And Of coures -

How cld I forget about this CUTIEPIE!!!!! 

Step 1 - Decide you're going to run with the office folks during lunch time

Step 2 - Pack bag in the morning - bring all things - shoe, shorts, top, inside top (=p), socks, washing stuff and towel

Step 3 - Go to work

Step 4 - Wait for Lunch Time to come

Step 5a - Run in hot sun

Step 5b - Run in RAIN!!!!!!

 

Goodness.... I mus learn how to do this....

 

Damnit... wanted to run with the guys todya, but it HAD to rain....

 

We ran yesterday as well, easy 8km run around my place along the canal's... There is a nice footpath there which is v quite and nice to run along. Pat and Hann came along. Pat, next time I will bring u along another nice route.

 

Sighh... I will be so sad to leave my place - I know that place inside out. I have measure all the possible routes to run along, then my cycling grp is jus down the rd, then my school is there, also my relatives stay just a stone-throw away as well. Its like a home away from home.. that neck of the woods.. But I will be back. SOOON!!!!

 

Anywya, turns out im leaving TOMORROW!!!! Damnit.. I thought it was Wed nite. So now.. I have to rush after swimming mann... rush to the airport. CAF!! Im so sorri booked you on the wrong flight! I cant believe im such a bodo... haha I still love you though, ask the pilot fly faster.