Wheee part 2 of my previous post is still in draft hahaha lazydebz has been really lazy lately and actually....

I'm scared I'll be super lazy and nua for the next few weeks omg.

But anyw Christmas this year feels so different, was wondering is it because..
- I'm in the working world
- I'm celebrating it in Singapore
- Not everyone is present

Hahaha seems like working makes alot of difference. Like last time I always uad time to prepare for Christmas. Like do some gift shopping and wrapping. Spend some time out at least. Last year was slightly different cause I was in Kaohsiung and there's no Christmas culture there. But this year... Christmas didn't really felt like Christmas even up till the Eve itself. Must have been busy with work and not spending much time out to relax.. Hmmmm.

Hahaha that being said, celebrating in Singapore VS celebrating in Taiwan felt pretty much the same LOL. No Christmas feel and less presents over the years! Miss those times when we would gather to open our presents. For the past 3 years it's at my granduncle's place so it feels weird that we're not hosting for such celebrations anymore. (Maybe cause we are all grown ups also haha nothing to entertain kids)

And godsis didn't celebrate w me this year!!! Last year she came over, this year I'd be celebrating it with her in Korea if I agreed to join them last minute haha. But oh wells, next time kays!!! Still missing Korea and Taiwan since June!!!!

(oh right, for the first time in a looong while, I'm celebrating the new year in SG!)

But anyw Christmas was somewhat spent w people I love so it's okay!!! VHG X FAMILY. Only sad thing was that I didn't get to visit winter Wonderland yet!

Pics up!!!

Christmas eve - k session / ice cream / Xmas party

WAHAHA I finally had time to update. Like finally.

Peak is sort of over. Or rather, the official peak for corporate tax ended on 15 Dec, so by right TP's peak should have ended by then too because of the contemporaneous documentation requirement! But in reality...

Nope. Not really. We're still taking in work for FY2014 so it seems like we're still busy, but definitely less busy on my side!! And I took leave from 16th-18th once the leave block is lifted to rest. Like my main aim is just to... Sleep in and wake up late. I don't expect myself to be totally off from work, but as much as possible I want to avoid doing work! My seniors were saying that I should've taken a longer break and go overseas, if not we confirm will still use the laptop to do some form of work. Lol sadded :(

But okay laaaa, not much work to do except one write up after my client meeting on Tues! Thankfully my manager understood that I was going on leave so he didn't ask for it soon - we initially wanted to hold it aft my leave hehe. But I need to start asking for work soon if not I'll be too free at times and it's not good especially when round table is coming soon. Asked one senior manager how is it like though I know it's not as nice as I expected. But oh well I do hope everything goes well though. I don't need exemplary ratings or feedbacks but definitely not mean comments that were not communicated to me directly but only on the round table. Yknow, it feels abit like betrayal but sadly life's like that and there's nothing we can do. No power so just... Keep it to ourselves ba.

But this was indeed a crazy peak. Stayed till 4am in the office before, went back to office over the weekends (and stayed past 12 a few times), one week non stop cabbing aft work, not sleeping for one night cause I felt bad for not rushing something out that I couldn't sleep, bathed in the office and changed to my sleepwear (LOL totally feeling like I'm home please), stressed out at wee hours in the morning like how I felt like breaking down when I stayed up to study cause I did nothing much the whole day (not productive), etc. Thankfully there were nice colleagues with were encouraging despite having to review my work which I felt was not up to standard sometimes.. And also to our fellow batchmates!! Glad we supported each other throughout :):)

Kinda lost track what happened during the 3 months.. Not sure if I talked about how I spent my 22nd at work HAHA. Probably on Dayre, but well just brief updates!

- EY DND 2015

First corporate DnD!! Hahah wondering if I'm fated to alw do such stuff - when I was an intern we got arrowed to do cheer dancing; this year as a tax associate we have to perform! Actually most associates have to but for tax, we all have to participate in various roles. But okay la, I only get to do it once only :P shall post some pics for that night!

Featuring the billies!! Our table theme :)



Photo w my female batchies during the break before the actual dinner!! :):)


Shall upload our video one day! Thoight ours was good; if not because we exceeded the time limit haha. But oh wells! After-party was fun too! Just jumping ard the stage instead of a club - just shiok enough to forget about work stress!! :) sad thing is, cannot claim cab woops!

- Teoheng KTV!

Teoheng KTV on the very next day - we must have been crazy HAHA. But yay weekend well spent away from work! People came and left at diff timing and this was taken at some point LOL. Missing quite a few here.


- Birthday celebrations!

Wasn't expecting much for my 22nd cause it's not like any other milestones and it's peak and me haz no friends during peak but oh well, I was pleasantly surprised on many occasions!

Celebration #1 was with le godsis & Jeremy aft my KTV session!! Made reservations at Platypus - good food, good company, good service. And thanks for the treat fave sis!! *hugs*




Celebration #2 was in office for the October babies and I missed it cause I was out for dinner HAHAHAHAHA. But I got a cake, just no birthday photo :)


Celebrations #3, #4, #5 were on the actual day itself! The batchmates bought a slice of cake :) Hahaha but I couldn't eat it cause it was aft lunch so we shared it on the next day!


#4 was with Germ and Eugene! Quite funny cause Germ was asking when I will be free to claim my free dinner for passing him my tax cheatsheet :P And it ended up on the day itself because I had nothing planned haha. Thanks for the treat Germ! (think he paid Eugene's share as well) And thanks for coming all the way down to satisfy my cravings!



#5 was ofc, at homeeeee :) cheesecake yums ^^


#6 was with Michie who came to my office area to treat me to dinner!!! Thankyou sweetest exroomie :):)




#7 was with the hall loomies hehe. It's more like just a catchup but thanks for the dessert treat Weishan, 不愧是我的best roomie!



#8 was the gift from uni batchmates :):) super pretty I cannot! Thanks guys and girls!!!


- Meetups!!

With the alishanktvpeeps, though I only sang for 20 mins LOLOL.


And w my pretty ladies for Our Times! :)

- Grandpa's birthday!

Hehehe glad I didn't miss it this year!! Thou I was rushing work at home. :X


- Matt's farewell

Fast forward a lil, it was Matt's farewell!! Hope you had fun in sg for the past three months!! And helping us out during peak :)


- SHUBIN IS BACK!

That's right! Le petite friend is back from UK!!! And she only met me after a month since she came back tsktsk!!! As usual no photos of her lest she kills me!! So yup just food and Christmas decos :):)





Shall be continued in the next post. Need to sleep omg 2 days of my leave just passed like that. Boooooo :(

NOOOO. Omg I really really hate this feeling. Sigh, totally no mood now. I know people are nice but I cannot believe I'm just so careless again, and it doesn't help that I found out about this myself and rectified everything.

Noooo debs please be less careless! Thought it would only happen once last year :( emo nemooooooo T_T

Convocation is tmr! Hahaha I know I know, I'm supposed to be sleeping now so that I don't look like a panda tmr, but heyyyy I'm just so glad there's no Monday blues!!! Though I'm kinda dreading work on Tues! Cause..  I've been on leave since Wed. Was out at JB till Friday for orientation (shall find time to blog, I hope. Hehe my tw trip is still stuck lolol idk if I should finish it) and I get an excused leave for convo! Can imagine the amount of work piling up, as well as whether I can remember how to use the relevant software for my work :/

But yayyy weekends pretty much burnt! Slept in on Sat cause I had tea on Friday and I thought I'd get my sleep once I reach sg, like y'know the super looooooong sleep after chalets last time. But noooo the tea effect was too strong for me HAHA. Nonetheless thanks Mich and Silas for getting it!! ^^ So yeah slept at night instead and woke up in the afternoon. Just nuaed till I decided to leave for hair treatment to save my hair! No need super straight hair but at least less frizzy hehhhh.

Sunday spent having tuition and the cook-off session at Labrador Park! :D wasn't expecting much cause it was a Sunday and I was just sooooo tired (but cannot sleep) so I was a lil grumpy. But well all is well now! Hehe.

Kinda glad that I realised that I've gotten used to it and not feel so horrible that I had to endure my trip trying to avoid ppl. Was telling Anna the story behind why Lynn was acting so funny back in Taipei, and yeah and about how I've gotten over my slump! Wellllllll, if not I wouldn't have joined her (and the ppl whom went for dinner. Shan't make it obvious!) cause I'd probably be having a hard time throughout. Okay la, tough times don't last, tough people do!! I'm sure I can make things seem like how it was one year ago *insert swag sunglass emoticon*

Back to watching my showww! And yay to treating my parents w good food tmr; mandatory first pay treat!!!!!

Hehehe in case ya'll didn't know, I'm officially in my first perm job.... As an associate in Transfer Pricing at EY :) Perm job means cannot countdown to end of work already! No more 10-weeks internship where you can countdown and be excited when freedom draws near. Now I can only pray that peak wouldn't be too bad (cause I cannot work under stress T.T) and anticipate January when we can finally take a break!

Work's been good so far I guess? Hahaha like what Miss Jow said, NTU never had any courses that really teach about TP, so... my learning curve will be very steep! And I kinda feel it too, Barely 2 weeks of work (1.5 to be exact) I feel like I've done a lot though it's actually nothing much. Like general engagement letters which actually state the scope of work (and those are what we have to do), industry analysis report and bench-marking analysis.

Really learning a lot, like it but it's going to be quite tough at the start; we're only learning bits and pieces of the whole process! More to come! Sounds cheem but I hope it's not too difficult. Not a fast learner and I'm really scared that I cannot remember my stuff.

The current issue is that my sleep cycle isn't really adjusted back yet; most of the times I would fall asleep on the couch at 12-ish, and waking up at 2-ish to move to my own bedroom when my brother is ready to turn in for the night, too. Because of that I think I'm tired in the morning! And I don't have the habit of staring at my laptop screen for long hours so my eyes get really tired in the late afternoon oops. But I'll get used to all these soon!!

Oh yessss, let me introduce you to my colleagues!

Super thankful to have Rae now omg thanks for that half an hour of sleep time you spared for me omgomgomg T_T And thanks for the advice, I hope one day I'll feel the same way as you did!! :( But not soon though, need some timeeee. 

Song of the day: Demons by Imagine Dragons

(songs aft this are It's Okay It's Love & Though It Hurts It's Okay 😢)


Otw to Kaohsiung! Went to download this song cause it was stuck in my head for damn long. Didn't know the title of this song till recently when I heard it while shopping in one of the night markets in Taiwan! So as usual I tried to Google the lyrics to find this. :)

Gna spend about 2.5 days in Kaohsiung cause Idw to go Kenting alr! Like the weather is good but just don't feel like going. I shall just remember it as the place where I'm never fated to try the sports, and where I fell off an ATV~ Lynn was still asking cause she knew I wanted it so bad but I guess it's really okay! It's the same as how I don't have cravings for 雞排 since I came Taiwan; but I still had one yesterday!

I'm hoping I'll really enjoy my days in Kaohsiung; it's the place with the most memories, and maybe the place where will hurt the most cause everything is different already :( But this healing trip will only be useful to me if I can go to the place that is the most 觸景傷情 and say goodbye with a smile. I really hope I won't end up crying if I have to leave the place again :(

That aside, I'm excited to see people whom I missed! Shall try to keep my mood in check thereeee. And it's been long since I had my earpiece on! (cause Lynn is sleeping on the train :P She's been a really nice buddy to travel with yayyy)

Don't get too close, it's dark inside. It's where my Demons hide.

Something off my bucket list today so I'm extremely happy. Definitely not smooth sailing; haha never had the luck of successfully trying new stuff but I think overall I'm glad I'm still safe!!!!!

Given the number of times I fell and how close I was to the end of the cliff before I took off I'm just glad nothing serious happened. People who knew I was going to do this were telling me to stay safe since I'm so accident prone and if anything happened I wouldn't be here typing random stuff at 1 am!! And even more grateful cause I didn't get new scars from all the falls and scratches. Good idea to cover myself up like a bao in the hot weather but I want to avoid getting injured again hehe.

Hmmm essentials for tonight after forgetting to put sunblock today!! All those moisturizers and night cream to protect my skin! But definitely becoming 小黑 again!! (those snacks there are 鳳梨酥 from my new friends! It's different from Chia Te's one cause it's shaped such that it looks like the map of Taiwan)


And yes made new friends again!! Lynn was saying cause I was friendly so they offered to bring us around and even treated us to fruits and drinks. Felt so bad oops. Like my intention of talking to people was to avoid awkward silence! But still thankful to have people bringing us around and taking care of us. I don't think I deserve such good treatment, really!!!! My godsis says I'm a social butterfly. I beg to differ though, cause I think I'm one who likes to hang around with close friends.

Oh I spoke to the Koreans in our hostel only to know we bunk in the same room! :D Apparently they didn't come as a huge group but somehow they all booked the same hostel?!

But yeaps, this trip has been really interesting! Like meeting new people everywhere and talking to them! Spoke to locals, Chinese and even Singaporeans while we're up in the mountains! It's a totally different feeling from my previous trip, I like!!!

& I'm getting better at accepting facts! Like I'm slowly adjusting to the I don't really care already stage! Feels so familiar somehow hahaha. Seems like going on trips really make a difference; I'll be back stronger and better than before!! :)

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Since my phone is still not fully charged I shall ramble a little moreeeee!

Watched 康熙來了 with Anna and Lynn when we brought Anna to our hostel! It's quite an interesting topic though: Do girls need to have a male BFF, or something along the line!!

Idk leh, I kinda like to debate on this! Think I asked LG before cause everytime I met her I'd talk about stuff that would somehow lead to topics about me being a girly girl. Which kinda meant that it's super duper hard for me to open up to guys. So yeah, chances of me having a male BFF is sooo low cause I would always want to avoid any talks or stirring!

But I have to say that I've really tried to open up a little more especially during intern and exchange! Like trying to not avoid guys like they are plague HAHAHA. Still!! I think I wouldn't want to have a male BFF cause for me I think it's very difficult to draw the line between bestfriend and boyfriend! Like I don't think I can differentiate the way I treat them cause they are both close to me. Like for my closer guy friends last time I'm always having a little trouble with figuring out whether I like them as a bestfriend or what. So I just ended up friend zoning or bro-zoning them! Seems like my heart is always taking control of my mind so I can't think properly lolol.

But well.... I guess my opinion may change over time! Cause seems like having a male BFF is good when you need advice from someone with a different mindset, or when you need someone to protect you after getting yourself drunk, telling them stuff that you couldn't have told your boyf or anyone else, etc. But my question is always.. Won't the boyf be jealous of the bestf whom you're always so close to??? I think I'm narrow minded cause I may think too much if my future boyf is a girls' guy and have female bffs :/