4 may 2005

it's been an interesting day of surprises for me. went down to Singapore Press Holdings today. it's my 2nd time there and of cos, not so blur today! :) i was fortunate to catch a cab on time before it started pouring cats and dogs! went down to look at Straits Times news papers relevant to 1945 Jap war period. haha~ i was again very fortunate to have hopped into the cab before the thunderstorm started after my research at SPH was over. as usual, i told the taxi driver: "uncle, Northpoint pls" it was just so funny how the taxi driver commented, "ah? going Northpoint? are you a news reporter??" :) i replied with a grin, "urr...no, i'm going home to work and i'm not a ji-zhe (news reporter)". when i got home, i was all drenched despite the nice taxi driver ferrying me to the nearest location to the lift door. well, got home at 4pm, earliest ever!!~ took time to have a warm shower before typing my meeting minutes report till dinner time.

didn't expect myself to meet Alex for dinner tonight. he left me a msg this morning informing me that he's on transit to hong kong from melbourne. didn't even have time to check my messages till lunch time. wow! a string of sms from him! well, gota meet up with him for dinner and had a good time catching up with him. it's just great joy meeting up old friends eh? i felt obliged to go out with him even though i had meeting minutes to finish up because he helped me so much last year, especially with transporting sleeping mattresses for my family. well, alex, i really wish you well! :) take care while you're in hk...will visit you and your ga-zeh (sister) soon!

it's midnight and i've just finished my meeting minutes. it's been a hard day! much of my brain cells died in the process!!~ well, i'm glad it's over...phew~ it felt so much like writing a 3500 words assignment during uni days! burning mid-night oil just to finish a report! man!! spent almost the entire day just sitting in front of the comp typing non-stop while listening to the recorded meeting.

know what happened just now? saved my doc into floppy A and with that, i shut down MS Word. when i went back to Floppy A to retrieve my file again, my comp prompted me with this msg: "file could not be read. it is not formatted" argghhh~ i almost cried out! spent the entire day on this...!! i don't want to re-type!!! thankfully and miraculously, after a few attempts, i found my document! wow! *thank God!* saved the doc again and again into My Documents and my yahoo email account for backup! phew~~ what a relief!!!!