My Beloved Gramma....

Can you guess which one's my Beloved Gramma?? She, of Peranakan heritage, was given to an aunt for adoption. But of cos, they were just staying next door. That probably explains why she dressed differently from her siblings,

Here, is a photo of her siblings and herself...

From the top left, the gorgeous Grand-aunties:

Grace (3rd), Lilian (4th), Lucy (2nd), Allen (1st)

And the hunky grand uncles:

Andrew (4th) and William (3rd) - - *Mike(2nd), not in photo, passed away

While I used to play alone in my gramma's house in hougang, making 'jewelleries from paper, Lovely Grand uncle William (like a huggable bear), used to visit gramma and gave her massages. One day, he asked me to make a ring for him, and I had to use my aunty's thumb as a refernce, and till now, he still remembers me and the ring I made for him, which he claims he kept it in a book in his book-case....

My impression of gramma is of which, she likes to smoke and 'listen' to cantonese opera on TV, relaxing in a rocking chair. If anyone thought that she was asleep and attempt to switch off her TV set, she will wake and exclaim that she was indeed LISTENING to the TV!

She's not quite the traditional woman, cos when my mum and her sisters were teenagers, gramma will allow them to go out for tea parties, dance lessons at the CC or just outings, telling them: "Go, Go enjoy." It was my first uncle (technically, its 2nd, cos the 1st passed away at infant stage) , who stood at the door at night and waited for their return with a frown on his face.

My Maternal Great-grand father was a village head. Hence, gramma married (*arranged marriage) my grandpapa (whose father or himself was also a chinese village head) . Her siblings, married other Peranakan/ malay/Eurasian... And they mainly speak Hokkien, Bahasa Melayu Baba and English.... Only the descendent line from my gramma learn and speak mandarin.

And she picked up smoking because of her sinus...

I used to play in her midst of smoke, and at times ''warn" her,

cos TV was showing this heart panting while climbing the stairs

Here you can spot a lady who was dressing differently.

That's my gramma! hehe... She's about 1.7m Tall!

My sis did a family tree a few years back, and we got to know that our Maternal Great-grand ma has portugese heritage. (YES, with golden hair and blue eyes)

According to my mum, gramma had an eldest sibling who passed away during the Japanese Occupation, being tortured....... I didn't know until I blogged this entry... Which kinda upset me, considering that I was (and still am) fasincated by Japanese lanuguage and its fashion.. ..

erm......

Anyway, Just wanna blog about my gramma (deceased on 1989).

I recalled crying hard at her funeral because she took care of me since my baby days. She bath, cloth and feed me (猪肉粥）, I was pampered cos she doted on female grandchildren more (or so I heard).

I recalled once the otah seller thought that i was eating plain porridge (because the fish bits are white too) and persuaded my gramma to buy some non-spicy otah.

I recalled playing with her plastic figurine of Jesus and Mother Mary like I did with Barbie dolls. (Grandpapa & Gramma's a catholic)

I recalled her putting 香水into my hanky and her teaching me not to hold the chop-stick too high or too low (too low means short-lifed, while too high means - - difficulty in eating la)

I recalled her taking me to see the chinese sinseh (those in vans that drives to neighbourhood areas) because the adults were worried why i cant seem to put on weigh or has poor appeitite. (*now, i am eating way too much, the medicine works too fine)

Now I still tear when I tot of her. I hope that she'll be able to see how we are getting on now. At times when I felt no one loves me, or when I meet with some frustration, I will think of her and how she loved me.

Gramma, I miss you.

Halloween At Zouk

Location: Halloween Party at Zouk
Date: 27 October 2007
Time: 10.30pm

Mel and his gang decided to dress up for the yearly zouk halloween party,
here we are, in front of Grand Copthorne Hotel... So grand it is, that the lift has to be activated by access card. They booked a suite on the... was it 22nd floor? (can't remember... *_*)

I met Mel at 8++pm, dressed up like that, cut my left arm to get all the blood and wound...
*LOL.. no no. Its just fake blood and scar stickers. Coloured our eyes and lips black.
Vain Mel went to the extend of getting long black nails, which he sticked on BEFORE getting dress, hence had prob trying to wear his clothes, get his make-up done and cant wear his boots! LOL... Luck for him, he wore his coloured contact lens first..

**Gasp, I look fat>>>*_*

Captured outside velvet, cos the costume queue was SUPER LONG~

So Mel said: "PUI, I Pay La, cannot afford meh?" (设计对白）

Haha... actually, he just said,: " just pay and get in, the rest are in there already."

Yet it still took us like 30 minutes at the paying queue to get in. AND, he cannot reach for anything in his pockets, cos of his LONG NAILS. . . **VAIN**


Inside Zouk, the flash lights never did quite stop.... but I hardly take any. It was my first halloween party, didn't know what to expect so did not tot of bring my cam along. (*tot i expected more drinks and dirty dancing!) LOL....... these days it seems that I had lesser to drink by choice...

-VAMPIRE MEL - VOODOO MAN - MULITATED EVO-

and 晨基司汉（is it the right character?) behind, digging his *gold*?


Met a few people too, like Jodie the odie, at the entrance, and we happend to meet again inside. She's the gothic princess who spotted her prince (VAMPY MEL) inside... LOL..

And talking about coincidence, I saw Steven and Sherry at the dance floor of zouk. That was after we went back to the suite to clear off the make-up (*cos my "wound" started to peel) So I suppose I looked plain wif just a lacey top, pom pom black skirt wif tights and boots. Like any other gothic looking out there....

Stev: "Hey, did u still contact wif ..."

Me: "No" (*thinking, why still contact, after what he did. Then i realise maybe he doesn't know exactly what happen)

By the time we finished making small talk, MEL, Elvis and that horn n wing man were "missing", then I had to ask Stev to Look out for a vampire, w/o realising he was dressed as a vampire too (*是疆尸，没错吧？）

The next time I go out, i will make sure my outfit has pockets! Cos I had to wait at the lobby for Mel when I got separated from the gang. Why? Cos my HP and card were in his pockets! LOL..

Training.......

Training Batch photo in Tampines, with the trainer PAULINE CHEW!
hehe, well heard that 2 of them have already left the bank lei....



The usual click during our orientation/trainings, which is spreaded throughout 3 months...
and we still have some training not done with yet! ARGH>>>



In the pantry, enjoying some tea (*FREE*) and snacks and a fun time of posing and clicking.


Little ger ger Sharinn, and moi... that pic made me decided to go for a rebond despite my previous protest of (*die die muz wait one yr for the next rebonding session) ... cos its very harming to my sensitive scalp......


More pictures... now wif xiao fen fen... senior batch and in Jln Sltn... cool ger







Why last pic has this colour effect?? hehe...


Basically my training days were pigging out, absorbing info like a sponge, then stoning at each assessments then returning the next day for more training.... Glad that i am now able to have OTJ Training while pestering the mentors to let me handle more things... but time seems to pass to fast and i am leaving the branch in another... 3.5 weeks! Don't think i am ever ready for that........... argh............

MOSSS

MOS night... captured by those professional photographers walking ard the club and posting photos on the web.... no wonder Tony (by ex boss) told me not to get drunk cos island wide might see... haha

Ah Ying and me... some other guys, dono who posing behind.


Me and Karen.... i was already wearing boots, how come she's still so much taller then me? hehe