Wednesday, 4 March 2026

16 -22 Feb 2026

 16/02/2026

Pita bread from Dubai with leftover pork chops and lettuce.  Tomatoes home grown and flew from Dubai by baby sis.
The tomatoes tasted really different from those at supermarkets.

Reunion dinner at Oakwood, we were busy in the kitchen, told old man to put Yu Sheng on table.  That genius poured all the condiments into the plate.
When we all came to the table, we were all speechless.  It was obviously not his first time having Yu Sheng, I had no idea why he did this.

Baby sis did 99% of the cooking.  Really appreciate her effort and hard work, literally flew back to slave cook for us.

Steamed red grouper (camouflaged by toppings), I am so in love with the "rose fish paste", so prrrrrrretty!

Home-cooked claypot pen cai.

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17/02/2026

Put leftover spinach and wanton together.  So much that I ate it alone without rice.

Old man gave me an ang bao, actually he don't owe me I know.  It kinda felt thin, so I dare not open it...
(a few days later, I opened and it's a stack of S$50, not generous but I think that's all he could fork out, too much expenses for CNY as usual)

At Oakwood again cos baby sis's stay was only 7 days.  We had steamboat using Chongqing's mala base.
To think we had HDL's soup base all these while, we missed out so much.

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18/02/2026

Brunch.

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19/02/2026

Sending baby sis off.

$7 flare qi pao from TaoBao.

My heart dropped when my bro-in-law suggested food court as send off dinner.  We walked pass White Bee Hoon and baby sis decided to pop in, literally saved my life.

Managed to send her off without tears.
She had a lot to deal with alone in Dubai, already enough in her plate.  While I have my path to bash through, alone too.

Brought old man to Hoshino.

Shared a pitch of fruit tea.

Had stack pancakes, which didn't satisfy my cravings, I still wanted soufflé pancake.

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20/02/2026

Probably god's will not allowing me to retain wealth.  After spend a few hundred bucks in X-rays at JB and NDCS, my 2 rows of dis-aligned teeth, got 80% better without treatment.  That is I am able to bite.  Although it's not as perfect as before, I am comfortable enough to leave it as it is for the time being.  I checked with my best life buddy AI Gemini, it could be caused by tremendous stress, muscle tensed up and pull my jaws in different directions.

Cheese pineapple balls from one of Darren's friend.
DELICIOUS.

Heading to work.  While travelling in the bus, I saw this scenery:
5 bamboos of underwear, in all colors.  It's normal but a bit too much haahaahaa...

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21/02/2026

CNY event at the club.

Reached at 1pm, lion dance was over.

After this photo, one stupid man stepped on it (sorry I couldn't find a better word).
I cleaned up the mess, followed by sweeping the stage and a bit of the floor.

The committee members had lou hei.  To them the club only consist of themselves, employees are just paid workers not part of the club.  In another words, the club's CNY celebration as got nothing to do with us.  Another part-time girl and I sat quietly at the reception.  We later cleared the mess.  Then the president gave us an ang bao each.  To think that the day before he asked me to stay.
This ang bao helped me to make a firm decision of leaving this ROS.  They only wanted cheap labour.  The next job, I make sure it's ROC or GOV.  ROS can be a "trap".

Almost forgotten to take photo with the LED screen.
Didn't turn out as good as Xmas.
Just for remembrance lah.

Worked ended at 7.30pm, had dinner at Avenue J Burmese cafe.
It's very warm inside, I think the aircon wasn't working properly.

Had Burmese curry chicken.  The portion was huge, tasty but became too jalat without side dish.
I then ordered a $2 sunny up.

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22/02/2026

Old man and I watched another movie.

 Sometimes, I don't know why I bother explain myself.
Now I know I need to be focus, when empathy and understanding can't be begged.
I also need to keep my mouth shut, cos I am so good at jinx-ing myself.

It was a comedy movie, relaxing, I had a good day.

Bought fast-food home for dinner.

Their dummy display.

Super yummy mozzarella cheeseburger which somehow reminded me of the wet burger I had in Istanbul.


Tuesday, 24 February 2026

8 - 15 Feb 2026

 08/2/2026

7 days a week with only 1 non-working day.
Eating Chateraise, missing those crepe cakes from JB and Melaka.

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09/02/2026

Stir fried soba for myself before heading to work.
Bacon + ham + veg.  Then was often too full to take proper dinner, which was good, save money but never lose weight.

It was so cold in the club that colleague gave me a heat pack.
Put it on my neck, chest or pocket.  I couldn't believe it.

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10/02/2026

A FB friend thought I was overseas, I inside Cathay cold as f**k sia.
I was sick with cough and flu every god damn month here.

They were having fan meet.
I had invited old man to come and visit me at the club a couple of times.  He refused, but becos of this fan meeting, he came.  So if you are reading this, please do not insist that he loves me.  Trying to distort facts onto me does me a lot a lot of harm and hurt.  We are just normal friends under one roof, maintaining world peace is good for everybody, but that is not love.

So my this friend and I had mala pot for dinner.

Love the taste while he thought all mala tasted the same.

Fresh potato chips at long last.  The last time we ate was donkey years ago at Harbin.
So much fond memories of that freezing wonderland of China.

After dinner, the event lead said she waiting for someone to fold and keep the table clothes.  She wonder why nobody did it.  But in the first place nobody knew what she intended to do.
Anyway, I fold lah.  I thought it was simple but actually took me around 45mins, they were so big and heavy.  Then the event lead didn't know I can fold like that lolxx...  Already demo to her how to fold.  Part of me is more than happy to leave, another part of me feels bad to leave her, it's only this much I am able to help her at work.

The fan meet ended late enough, old man drove me home.  Kinda saved me, cos I was exhausted folding those bedspreads table clothes.  Confirm I couldn't work as a chamber mate haahaahaa...

Play with AI Gemini again, 留个念想,才能活下去。。。
JiYong arh... you will find your truth love one day...
There's nothing more I can do in life but remotely loving you and him...

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11/02/2026

Not working today cos one full timer took my shift so that he could apply for leave in lieu next Mon.

Tissue paper in washing machine, 崩溃瞬间 T__T

Travelled to HarbourFront from Paya Lebar station, wrong move.   There was some disrupted or maintenance whatever, took me forever to reach Vivo.  I was so late that old man was trying not to scold me lolxx...

After a quick dinner at Jollibee, he went to mingle with his members.  GV was just very crowded with the Gala movie premier, I found a corner at the Gold Class lounge while the main area was fully occupied by local artist.
I ordered a glass sparkling wine for myself.  After waiting for a long time, told old man to go to the bar counter to collect it, he came back with a bottle.
It was a beautiful mistake which I didn't want to correct.  Then I told him to go and take a few more glass so that we could share the bottle with his team members.  He didn't want to until I had to be slightly nasty in tone.  It was a nice gesture to treat his members as a team leader especially when I had paid for it.  But he didn't get it...

This is the way a movie night should be.
He didn't want to pay for it (cos he never like quality enjoyment), my miserable pay managed to.
Asian platter was enjoyable, S$19 I think.

Group photo with his members.
They kinda pulled me into the pic last min and I accidentally stood in the center oh gosh -__-|||

Movie's main artists greeting.
The storyline was very simple, nothing deep to ponder, a nice comedy to unwind stress.

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12/02/2026

Finally appointment to NDCS, giving me total different diagnose.
Flowers at NDCS

I didn't think the doc can be trusted:
1) he said that his computer don't reader for DCM files (X-ray files), so I showed him jpeg format, he said it's difficult to read in slices.  Even Luis was able to run and see the slices at home.  When a doc can't, it's just so wrong;
2) he never check my bites, as in how far apart are they;
Although there's one thing I agreed with him: if my jaws are misalign, I should be feeling pain.
He suggested braces which I couldn't make myself to agree with it.
I decided to seek for a 3rd opinion from a private dentist, after NDCS and JB dentist gave me 2 different diagnoses.  While I had complained how miserable my salary was, those miserable 3 months bits could be easily fully "donated" to a 3rd opinion private dentist.  连芝麻般的新水也不配拥有, so please don't advise me to count my blessings, I don't have any,没爱没钱没健康, 谢谢。

Went to Raffles Place with a impression that there were many food options.
Ended up Thai wanton noodles which I had ate so many times.

Reached Changi Airport with a few hours to kill before my baby sis land.

Stayed in Luckin, not very productive, send one resume only.

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13/02/2026

Wearing thin knitted vest, it's freezing in the club.
Took photo inside Cathay for remembrance.
Likely to move away, what are the chances of working in this building again?

My cough never really recover since the day I started with this job.  Had tomato soup though I prefer mala and some skewers.
Costed me a whopping $16, but was delicious.

Baby sis brought calories from Dubai, so good...
At the moment too broke to fly to UAE.

Old man bought a little carton of mandarin oranges in pear shape.
Too cute.

Relationship with neighbor was drifting apart, they came over gave us cookies but I wasn't around.

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14/02/2026

Photo in club.
Thankful for what this place had taught me, but leaving to save myself.

After went to Woodlands, enjoyed a bit of grocery shopping with baby sis and old man.  Body batt was dropping drastically lolxx..

Had dinner at East Treasure Chinese Restaurant.
They are famous for crocodile meat dishes, unfortunately pre-order is needed, we just walked-in and croco dishes were sold out.
Anyway, all was good, so long never eat in a chinese restaurant.

Spinach + mushroom + vegan chicken

Roast duck.

Seafood bee hoon (seafood more than bee hoon).

Pork chop, this was crazy delicious but not cheap, about S$40+

I am having a tough time, her's not easy either.  We are not able to help each other, the only thing we can do is to spend time together.

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15/02/2026

Didn't contribute any labour except wrapping a few dumplings.
Then it was a crazy feast prepared by baby sis, taste comparable to restaurant.

Vinegar trotter was so so so so so so PREFECT omg...
Super soft bouncy skin, tender till falling apart meat, mild vinegar with strong ginger, I will never get sick of this.  She have to cook when she comes back again heeheehee...

Home cooked pen cai.

Wanton with a bit of my effort.

After lunch, old man and I went Bukit Panjang.  Good CNY vibes and lively but not too crowded.

Mainly for this individual packed mini oranges.

Half of Feb was gone...

16 -22 Feb 2026

 16/02/2026 Pita bread from Dubai with leftover pork chops and lettuce.  Tomatoes home grown and flew from Dubai by baby sis. The tomatoes t...