Blog Posts to Come

Posted on August 15, 2009 by Kristine

Just making a note here so that I actually do write these posts, cause I have found stuff to blog about (finally!) but don’t quite have the time as of yet.

1. Camry vs Aurion
I’ve driven both cars and going to write a post comparing the driveability of both cars.

2. Vlog/Entry for Nuffnang Australia
This one is quite urgent, they’re running a contest now and I’m going to try my luck at this comp. Actually its 2 posts. One will be a vlog and the other will be just an entry :)

Well, so far these are the next posts coming. I’ve been pretty bogged down with everything lately, I literally work, come home, have dinner, shower, read a book to sleep and then sleep. Repeat all week. I’ve literally lost all my social contact with people apart form cell group and church on the weekends. So I’m not exactly the most social person right now. In fact, I think I’ve kind of grown to like being anti-social. I’m a bit cynical just cause being alone helps sometimes. Talking to clients and interacting with colleagues all day sometimes just leaves me so drained that I just don’t want to talk to anyone. I’ve just used up my social quota for the day.

Its has been a pretty emotional and trying week, but I’m glad I pulled through it all. I’m not exactly feeling my best and haven’t wanted to post in a while. I do keep private entries so I do get my thoughts out sometimes, cause it ain’t fun to have the whole wide world to be reading your inner most thoughts. So if sometimes it seems like I haven’t posted anything here, it just means that I’m either too busy or have been writing private entries.

Well, nearly time to sleep for the day. I’m catching up on sleep during the weekends so there really isn’t much time at all to do much. So nights!

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Alive And Well

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Kristine

Yes, I do know my blogging is sporadic but that’s the way it’d have to be till end of this month. I think I’ve bitten of more than I can chew so I’m paying the consequences as of now.

Work-wise things are going great. Just dealt with the major paper work that had a deadline to it and then have to now keep up my client visits and make sure I don’t fall behind in notes. I am already a bit behind, but I’ve kept careful notes so it’ll have to wait till next week or so when I’m in the office more. I’ll be busy with a client for the next 5 and a bit weeks so I’ll be kept on my toes quite a bit.

Its Toh Truck’s last week this week before she returns to Singapore. I missed out on the farewell drinks at Minq last Friday cause I was zombified after starting work at 6.45am that day. I didn’t trust myself to drive there and back safely and that I would stay awake and be sociable for the entire duration. So I went home and slept for a good 12 hours.

So, I’ve another early start tomorrow morning and Thursday morning for the Support Meeting. 7am starts. As you can probably already guess, I don’t function too well in the mornings. Hence why I am going to bed now :)

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Kristine Moment #2824

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Kristine

In case you are wondering if it really has been Kristine Moment #2824, its not. That was just a random number I typed in. If I were superstitious, I’d be wondering what the hell my fingers were doing. But I am not.

Anyways, its been too long since I’ve last blogged. Just been so busy with everything and just recovered from starting work at 6.45am yesterday. I’m not exactly feeling my greatest seeing that I had a massive day yesterday but not to fret, I’m on the mend and getting back into my groove.

Just a couple of weeks ago I was at work on a Friday morning and I got myself the coveted car park underneath the building. I won’t lie to you, but the 6 lots at work are my favourite spots to park my car as I don’t have to walk a million miles in the rain or hail.

So I got to work nice and early and got a spot there, since it was Friday and half the staff weren’t there due to them having their days off. So I did my reverse park and up to the office i went.

About an hour or so after that, I went out to see a client of mine and then came back in again. See, I didn’t think I’d get a spot at my favourite car park but hey, there was a spot. So I happily went parked and went upstairs to get some more paperwork done.

Then at about 11am I had to leave again to bring my OT Student to meet a client of mine. I was in a rush as I had quite a few things on my mind and it was Friday, I was keen for the week to end so that my weekend could begin. I was rummaging in my bag for my sunnnies when I beeped my car open and looked ahead of me and saw a dent in the left front bumper.

Many thoughts ran through my head: “When did I do that? Was it was I was reversing the car cause I forward parked at my client’s work place? Maybe I scrapped it turning out? Oh no! Oh no! How now? Trish isn’t in, die, what am I going to say?”

Mostly it was a lot of “Oh no’s!” running through my head. Then I heard a beep, which meant my car was locking itself cause I didn’t get into it in time. All this while, I was staring at the car and panicking and worrying out loud, my OT Student must think I’m a bit of a ditz.

What I hadn’t realised was I didn’t notice lights blinking when my car beeped. Feeling rather stupid, I clicked my car open again and it was only then did I pay attention to where the sound was coming from.

I was looking at the car to my left, the spot where I had parked in the morning. When I came back from seeing my client, I had parked in another spot to my right. So I checked the number plate on the car that was dented and obviously it wasn’t mine. Not only that, I managed to complete miss the colour of the car. Mine is silver and the car with the dent was goldish silver (I’m sticking by this, there is such a thing as goldish silver).

So it was then I admitted my stupidity to my OT Student and we both had a laugh at the situation. Sometimes I wonder how in the world I’m still employed with my blondeness at times.

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Oz Lotto

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Kristine

Now its no secret that tonight’s lotto is the biggest in Australian history, with $90 million up for grabs.

Well, unfortunately I didn’t win. Otherwise I’d be on the phone straight away and organising plane tickets. I got 3 numbers but still lacked the supp number, which proves that my theory is right. By picking numbers in a single game, you have a bigger chance of winning. My other Slikpik ticket came up with 1 number so that is proof. Twice in a row, impossible to doubt.

Now the question is how to pick the right numbers.

To be honest, I don’t know. I randomly stabbed numbers as well as picked some of my favourite and lucky numbers. I picked some numbers for last year’s Christmas party and I won 3rd prize in the raffle, so I tried my luck again.

Lotto

If you zoom in, you can actually see the numbers I played. And checked online.

That’s how good my new camera is. Which brings me to say, I now am the proud owner of the Panasonic Lumix FS-15. I’ll do a post reviewing the specs, but I can’t stop raving about it! Its awesome because with its 12.1 megapixels and 5x optical zoom and fantabulous macro function, I can now take pictures like this:

Sunnies

and this

Newspaper
Taken from my room window on the 2nd floor, with max optical zoom to the ground floor. In the original resolution and zooming in, you can actually read the subheadings and almost make out the normal print. How about that from about 10 plus metres away.

Anyway, enough raving about the camera I digress. Perth has been hit with wild weather and driving home from Murdoch area yesterday was a nightmare. Driving on the Kwinana Freeway, I could feel my car swaying from side to side while I was doing something like 70 km/h. I did 100 km/h for a short stretch and traffic was too bad to sustain that kind of speeds and the weather too wild. That day was mad. I walked from the car park to work and the wind was blowing so strongly I swear (politely) that my umbrella nearly broke and I nearly got blown off in the wind. Mind you, my umbrella is the bg kind, not those pocket sized ones. It then poured and I ended up with half the front of my skirt wet and my coat was wet in front.

Stupid rain poured down not vertically but nearly horizontally. I was holding my umbrella to the side to avoid getting blown away and avoid getting drenched in the storm. Suffice to say, I don’t quite like winter and the rain. The upside to all of this is that the dams are getting full, so I’m not complaining.

Enough complaining now. From today on, I’m going to blog almost every day and include at least a picture everyday seeing that I have such an awesome camera. Now I just need to get Photoshop or use Picnik to edit my photos. I just need to do something other than play Sims 3 all night :) Which reminds me, I’m supposed to be doing some research for a gig. That will be tomorrow then, I’m too tired out right now. Haha. So much for proactiveness!

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Down In The Dumps

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Kristine

I woke up yesterday to quite a rough day at work, having a 7am meeting and all the dramas happening at work. I came home yesterday and all I wanted to do was sleep cause I was exhausted from doing long days at work.

Then I woke up to the Twitter news that Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett having passed away. All I knew about Farrah Fawcett was that she starred in the original TV series version of Charlie’s Angels.

Michael Jackson on the other hand was one of the musicians I grew up with. I remember when he came to perform in Malaysia, I was mesmerised and watched him on TV for hours. I still have multiple videos of Michael Jackson that I taped straight off the TV. I remember being so bummed when I didn’t get to go for this concert.

I watched the TV specials of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett this morning and somehow I don’t feel so much as the fans on TV feel. I guess knowing the fact that everybody has to die someday and that its not like their my personal friends. This is not to say that I don’t feel sorry for their family members, I just don’t feel like I need to cry and sob and mourn all day long.

I’m probably going to cop it from people saying that I’m insensitive, but to each their own.

That being said, I’m off to shower. My head is starting to hurt and its freezing cold.

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Perth Airport Security Sucks

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Kristine

I’m fuming mad at the moment. Just came back from dropping Sam off at the airport.

Stupid incident happened with the security guard there. I’ve included below what I actually wrote to the Perth Airport Management.

This is what I wrote in the complaint:

Hi, I’m writing in to inform you of the incident I encountered this evening while dropping some friends to Perth Airport.

I must say, in all my years with dropping and picking people up from the airport today has left me with a sour note. So far this year, I’ve gone to the airport about 20 times to pick and drop people off and

I understand that the airport is undergoing some upgrades and therefore traffic to and the airport is affected. I was trying to pull up to drop my friends off at 11pm on the 23rd June and there weren’t any available spots to pull up, which was fine. I was going to make another round and try again.

I pulled to a stop in front of the departure gates as I had noticed a car in front of me signalling to pull out. There was a security guard who was telling me to move on. I pointed to him to show him the car was pulling out and was blocking my path so I could not move forward. This security guard yelled at me that I could not stop here.

I knew that but at that point, I obviously could not move forward due to the car being in front of me. I find this security guard extremely rude and not even bothering to look ahead to see why I wasn’t moving.

I hope you will take this feedback on board and improve your service as this is a poor reflection of your personnel.

Thank you.

Stupid idiot must have thought, “Oh, this is a young Asian girl driving this big ass car. Must be some rich kid who doesn’t know how to drive and doesn’t know she can’t stop in the middle of the road”.

Bastard. When he was yelling at me, I was pointing to the car in front of me, which was already halfway out and if I moved I would have hit it. I know la its 11pm but hell I think you don’t have to yell at me. I was so pissed I yelled back at him (through the window of course). He was so bloody loud that I could hear him through my window with the radio on.

And do you know what the best part was? I had to drop Sam at the rental car place cause there was no place to pull up man. What a day for an airport run. Now I’m too worked up about it to sleep.

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Waiting For The Camera

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Kristine

Well, since I’ve got my camera and I’m awaiting its arrival in another week or so, I’ve decided to stop blogging till then. I know I’ve got so many backdated posts but until I get everything settled and back into a routine, I don’t think I can spare time to blog.

Check out my Twitter in the side bar, I’ll be updating that multiple times a day instead of blogging in the main page for about a week :)

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45 Minutes

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Kristine

How long does it take for a girl to shower?

45 minutes.

This includes washing and shampooing hair, soaping entire body, scrubbing feet, moisturising face and body, and blow drying hair.

How long do you take?

That random fact aside, I spent the holiday (its Foundation Day in Perth) catching up on sleep, getting laundry done and playing with the kids. I think I need more holidays like this :)

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Four Day Weekend

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Kristine

Since it is my Friday off tomorrow and due to Foundation Day on Monday, I’ve ended up with a 4 day weekend again. Not that I’m complaining at all. Who can complain when they get a 4 day weekend, 4 day work week, followed by another 4 day work week.

Ahhh….This is the life.

Not that I don’t have much planned up my sleeve for the weekend. I’ve got lunch with the girls (and guy) tomorrow, shopping with the other girls and then cell group at night with everyone else. Then I’ve got to do my laundry tomorrow and Saturday, clean my room as part of my weekly upkeep schedule, and go to the markets (if nobody has gone). Then on Sunday morning, I’ve gotta pick my uncle and send my aunty, my uncle and my cousin to the airport. Its also Sam’s birthday on Sunday, but I’ll be so zonked out with the driving to the airport so early in the morning once again that I’ll be so tempted to sleep in.

In between all that I’ll be catching up on my beauty sleep (I’ve worked from 7am to 6pm today and I did an airport run last night with the baby screaming in the back seat. I still hear the echoes) and reading up on my psychology, psychiatry and disability readings. I’m not sure what the OT Board is doing about the professional development thing, but I’m keeping abreast with the issues and reading the journals that we get at the office. Can’t afford to fall behind with everything, cause I’d feel extremely unwise should I do that.

Anyways, since I know its boring to read a post with just words in it, here you go. Picture of me attempting to nerd. The glasses definitely help with the nerdy look :)

Nerdy
I know. This is an unedited picture and I am acutely aware of having freckles and pimples. I think I should do a makeup post soon.

Till tomorrow’s post!

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Allergies And So Forth

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Kristine

Previously I tested some products in relation to my allergies. I guess to understand the full extent of my allergies, I’d have to start right from the beginning.

See, I discovered in 2004 that I was allergic to rockmelon. I’d break out in hives by eating it. Then I realised I’d break out in hives by just touching the juice. So therefore I stayed away from rockmelon ever since. It’s not the most common allergy, but I guess you can be allergic to fruit.

So then sometime this year I found our that I was allergic to both red and white wine. I’m not bummed about the red, but I sure am bummed about being allergic to white wine. I do love my sweet whites.

I found this out when I drank white wine one night and went off to shower and started breaking out in rashes. I thought it was cause it was hot (this was in summer this year) and I was just sweaty. So I had wine again another night and again I showered and was itchy. Only then did my aunty put 2 and 2 together, that I might have an allergy to white wine. So we experimented again. I drank white wine and lo and behold I broke out in rashes.

Fine. I tried red wine and same result. Thing is, I’ve drank before and haven’t broken out in hives yet.

So one day we were at dinner at a Chinese restaurant and they typically serve fruit at the end of the meal. And the fruit would usually be rockmelon amongst other things. Thankfully since rockmelon was out of season, they swerved honey dew. So I, being confident, claimed that I’m not allergic to honey dew as I’ve eaten it before.

I came home and voila! I broke out in itches. I don’t know how or why either.

Fine, so another day I came home and had to go to cell group one night and I figured I’d shower first cause I won’t have time to shower after I come back. So off I went to shower and then I came out and happened to wear a low back shirt and I found that I had broken out in hives for no apparent reason. I have no idea why and I showed my aunty. I didn’t not have wine, rockmelon or honey dew any time recently. That was when we kinda figured it might be the shower gel I was using.

Lo and behold, I think it is. Up to this day I’m breaking out in rashes each time I shower. I’ve tried many products, Neutrogena, QV, Sorbelene, Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson’s to no avail. Sorbelene was the only one with any hope but it feels strange to be showering with body lotion.

This was when we figured it might be my shampoo &/or conditioner.

This is what I look like typically almost every night after a shower:

Allergy1

Allergy2

Allergy3
Forgive the Power Puff Girls shirt. I was in PJs :)

Quite frankly, I’ve given up trying to find products that work. Like my dad says, “Just eat (or in this case) use it till you’re desensitised”. I wonder how long that will take.

The desensitisation of wine is going to be a costly process ;)

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