Casual Lunch

It has been a usual question among my colleagues when the clock struck 10:30am everyday… ‘What’s for lunch today?’

Today, Ah Leng suggested to lunch at Ichiban-boshi@Suntec City as she was able to redeem some free dishes and the last day for redemption is tomorrow. Since we planned to order lunch boxes for our department lunch which will be held on Friday, we could simply have it ordered and get the stamps to redeem the free dishes at one time.

We have a group of 8 and Ah Leng generously shared the free dishes with us apart from our own individual meals. It was as good as a cheap feast…. Hahhahaa… the lunch companion was great and we had lots of fun even-though it was a short 1 hour lunch.



Ah Leng, thanks for sharing the free dishes with us…*muaks*

Secretaries’ Week

We were invited to lunch at Angus House with Minowa-san today as we celebrated Secretaries’ Week.

Initially we were wondering which Ramen Shop he planned to bring us for testing (which usually is the case). Today, to our surprised, he suggested Steak instead and we were very happy to follow his idea.

We left the office around 12:15pm and were heading to Ngee Ann City for once! We were quickly seated and we all had set lunch with 150g of tenderloin and 1/2 dozen of fresh oysters.

1st came the fresh Oysters and their hot baked bread. 2nd came the soup of the day (Cream of Asparagus)simply awesome with the bread. The salad came right after and was really delicious and I understood from them that the salad dressing was home-made. Cool stuff.

The main course was simply delicious and indeed perfectly cooked. The meat was so juicy that you would want to ask for more… perhaps 500g!! While we were enjoying our lunch, we talked about office stuff too and jokingly told Minowa-san that he should bring both Linda & myself to Japan on a business trip since our GM kindly allowed Officers & Senior Officers to travel on business at least once a year.

Anyway, back to desserts, the tiramisu was superb man… it wasn’t too sweet and soft but just the right textures that make you crave for more… mmmh… would like to go back there perhaps for dinner sometime…

Lunch With GM

We used to have lunch with every GM in the past and this time is not exception though it’s after 2 years of his assignment here.

Today, we had the pleasure to be invited to lunch with our GM Kitagawa-san at Rakuzen at Millenia Walk. It was a casual luncheon with him where we shared from office issues to our hobbies.

It was quite a fruitful lunch with him as we were told that he would like Officers & Senior Officers in our branch to visit our overseas branch offices or even customers at least once a year to learn and be motivated. Somehow or rather, it was a good approach to us as we have been stuck in the office for years and it’s getting bored.

Kitagawa-san even suggested that we should have a membership at a fitness club, oversea trips, or even some enrichment classes. It was indeed great ideals but somehow it can’t be done with only 1 or 2 person’s effort.

Our conversation became interesting when we suggested having an oversea trip to Bangkok as a company to replace the Family Day and the Bowling Tournament. Guess GM will be taking serious thoughts about the trip.

Though having lunch is GM is not as fun as having lunch with own buddies, but it was indeed a very fruitful one as at least we know that he really cares about the staff here. Overall, I think he is one good GM who takes his staff seriously and concern about them.

Cheers!

Casual Gathering

It was one of those causal outing organized by Philip and Angela. It’s been a long time since we went karaoke together and it was my 1st time going to this KTV called the ‘Ten Dollar KTV’.

Indeed, it’s $10 for like 3 hours in a room with free flow of house drinks mainly soft drinks. The KTV situated in a very convenient Chinatown and it was on old shop-houses that brought back very fond memories.

As usual, we started off signing some favorite & new songs individually and followed by some weird songs then oldies… it was amazingly fun and some oldies certainly brought back memories. Though it was a mere 3 hours but we surely had fun with the sing-a-long session at the last hour. It was so fun doing the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' with Philip.



Besides the singing, of course we have some photo taking sessions. Our very own photographer Angela never failed to bring her camera with her whenever there is an outing. Cool stuff…

Life's So Fragile

It was only 2 months back when the family had reunion dinner together but today, hubby broke the news to me that his aunty passed away at 4pm.

Hubby learnt about the incident at 1st during when he did his routine calls to his parents and found out from his mum that his aunt had admitted to hospital after she informed his dad that her head was spinning. When father-in-law reached her place, she was still conscious and could open the door but not the gate.

Unfortunately, she went into a coma when the ambulance arrived. She was sent to SGH and was diagnosed that it was a massive brain stoke that drove her to coma. She had a brain operation to drain off the water and blood clots. She was still in coma when we visited her after the operation. When we saw her in the intensive care unit, my tears simply flowed like a river… it was heart-breaking to see your loved ones suffered in such stage.

At that time, I was reminded of the death of my dad 3 years ago. It was the exact scene that ran in my head and how I went mad when the nurse told us that my dad had passed away. Man… it was so difficult to forget that moment.

I was totally saddened by the news by my hubby like an hour ago after her death though she is not my aunt but I treated her like one. She was the one who taught me how to play the mahjong, went traveling with us to Malaysia and gave us so much courage and support even-though we are still childless. She never failed to talk to me or pray for us whenever she meets us.

Within 2 days, she has gone back to the Lord. Though is really heart-breaking and sad to see her go but we know that she no longer need to suffer and is having peace in heaven.

You will be missed dearly by all of us.