on some immense pride

Nearing the end of the 21 Gun Presidential Salute, we heard the helicopters from the distance. The band started the national anthem, and in one reflex action, EVERYBODY was on their feet.

I love my anthem. Yesterday, for the first time, I sang it with thousands of Singapore citizens. It was enthusiastic and it was sincere, joyful yet solemn. Hung from the helicopter, my national flag in all it's majesty, graced the crowd with it's presence. It went on to bring a little bit of the Parade to all Singaporeans who would but only look out of their windows and into the skies.

For the millions of us, we were united in those moments.

And this was just rehearsals.

f

+ Flisha spoke @ 12:25 AM

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All Waxed Up

Hi Blog, maybe I'm just narcissistic, but I seem to love putting up my birthday posts just for the record - 

7th May 2009

Wendy does dodgy things all morning like walk up to Eelyn and myself who were talking, to tell her to pick up the phone, and then walked back to her desk to call her.  Carlo tells me that Wendy told him that VT wanted to talk to me.  After freaking my guts out, I took a walk to his office only to find that he wasn't there.  After lunch, Michelle calls.  I went up to get my Sunnies :-)  Wendy, Nadim and Junting had gotten me a yummy slice of cake, and Nadim wanted to get me a foon and a spork to eat it with...  And I found that pretty envelope of my new top in my bag! Christine then passes me some Stitch charms.  I juggled my handbag, gymbag and basket home on the magic bus, and my dad came to get me from the bus stop.  

Took the car out to meet Shuyan.  We went to Greenwood Ave for fish!  The server was just really friendly to the extent that he had no problems saying hi to us randomly.  Heh heh.  When I got home, I took off my slippers, and heard some giggling around the corner.  When I looked, there was Diane, Justin and my sister.  Diane was holding a beautiful pink & white cake named Felicia.  We sat and talked for a while.  It was good.

8th May 2009

Went to the Marina Barrage with my parents.  Met PZ and we had a ball of a time in Toys R Us.  Met Ber later and we went for lunch.  Then went to Spa Haven for my warm little date.  Date finished too late so I had to miss mass (that was a tad disappointing, but it was all my own fault anyway) Hung out for a good few more hours at PZ's office before my dad came to get me.  We had tim sum for dinner.  There was so much food it was just such a happy occasion.  Came home and cut the cake.

Throughout the day I received numerous sms-es and phone calls from all those who remembered (even if it was technology who reminded them).

It was such a simple 2 days, but so significant that everybody I loved and truly cared for were a part of it.  Thanks for being such beautiful parts of my life.

Love.

+ Flisha spoke @ 12:12 AM

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The Fantasies aren't Coming True...

Felicia dusts the cobwebs off her blog...

Hi Blog, it's been a long time since I've been here.  The fantasies are not coming true, but I haven't given up hope just yet.  There are so many things I want to do, yet I feel so stuck in my bird cage.  Feel like screaming - about what I have no idea.  I could list out everything I wanted to do, and yet I know that once I've finished doing them all, I'll still feel empty and unaccomplished.  Then again I guess it's better than not doing anything at all?  About those fantasies, hmm... we'll see how it goes yeah...

+ Flisha spoke @ 1:22 AM

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assumptions of an airhead

I somehow figured that the world revolved around me, myself and I.
Just cos I (in Celine's words) committed virtual suicide, and I stopped reading other people's blogs, I assumed that the entire world had decided to stop blogging.

Imagine my utter stupefaction to be proven otherwise as I browsed through those links.

Anyway I shall still be cleaning them up... They're 90% broken.

+ Flisha spoke @ 11:24 AM

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work woes

I was just blaming my lack-of-inspiration on the mundane things in life, and it's all been work! Oh yah... I never put it for the record on this blog. Dear Diary, on 21st May 2007, I became a mechanical engineer.

Now back to the mundane things in life...
Work's not that mundane. Really. Over the past 10 months, it has become crazily busy, and recently, just painfully dull. Either way, there's always the people around to spice it all up. In my stay there, I've made friends, seen heaps of drama, heard gossip, lived politics (heck it seems I've been caught right in the middle of a huge war)... it's all there! Oh well, work's work huh.

I think I speak for a many of my colleagues, and lotsa other people -
What is it with work that we wake up before our body clocks are ready to, go through that morning shower/breakfast routine, commute to work, walk into the office to spend every sun-shining moment... It's like spending more time in that office space that we do awake-hours at home!! In a denser space at that (all the authority regulations and heat-load calculations seem to suggest that offices are squatters when compared with our dwelling areas... everything has to be super sized)

So yes, that makes our colleagues are really important cos they make the day so much different. So why is it that some weirdo queerdos like to make life so difficult of each other knowing full well that they've gotta breathe the carbon doxide that their archenemy exhaled...? Why don't we just all smile genuinely, talk nicely, try to be human in relating to one another...?

Whoops got carried away bitching that I digress.

Now back to the point - work is so mundane. But what work isn't really?
It's that TQM concept, that Macdonalds concept... I forgot what it's called la... But it's that thing about simplifying jobs to simple tasks so that they can be performed by anybody. Apparently we'd be more efficient in our tasks if we concentrate on only one small thing. Then it's also supposed to become a HR problem, because then there's that Maslow dude saying that we need some new challenges now and then.

After regurgitating all that, all I'm really trying to conclude is that in theory, all work is menial and mundane, and we'll soon get sick of it if we things don't move along.

Actually I haven't finished bitching! But this should be just about enough before I shrivel up into a sour prune of an aunty.

Don't worry, I'm not as jaded as I sound just yet.

Or am I...??

+ Flisha spoke @ 11:40 PM

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Been thinking of typing away in here for about a week now, but haven't been about to figure out what to write. How dumb. I thought - maybe if I just started typing, it might come to me. Evidently not. What was I thinking.

Great, now I'm whining to nobody.

+ Flisha spoke @ 10:47 PM

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I know that God exists because now that I've lost sight of Him, I'm hopelessly lost.

+ Flisha spoke @ 8:59 PM

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It was awesome!!

See today's my birthday.
It hasn't ended.
But it's been simply packed with pretty surprises!!

I woke up early to very many smses waiting for me on my phone. Then I went to book my duck tour for 4pm. So the entire morning I was replying my bday messages and being thick skinned and collecting my messages etc etc. I by 11am I was really starting to get impatient cos I couldn't wait for my duck tour. Luckily Charissa sent me flowers in the midst of all that to distract me!!

At lunchtime, the sky became overcast and I was getting super worried that it'd rain and ruin my duck tour. My next couple of hours were dreadful cos I was just so so worried about my duck tour! Half the time I was thinking, 'Dear God, I'm gonna go to church to pray for wonderful weather but that's after I need it so will you please give it to me now and I'll pray for it later.' True enough, when I got to Suntec (where the tour starts), the sky cleared up and it's the usual hot and sunny Singapore. Someone out there is looking out for me!!

Duck tour was awesome!! My sister and I sat on this amphibious vehicle painted in the face of a duck named Katrina. It drove out of Suntec like a bus, turned into a small exclusive bumpy lane, and SPLASHED into the river to become a boat!! It was simply amazing. The pictures came out pretty, and everybody there was so nice and all....

My sister and I went for mass and then met my dad, mum and bro for dinner. After much drama, we finally got to Long Beach, Marina Bay where I had my bamboo clams, chilli crab, kangkong sambal belachan, drunken prawns, almond jelly, birthday 'peaches'... I was ridiculously happy lah, really.

We were on our way home for our dessert (which was my yummy bday cake), and I thought - what a nice end to an awesome day. I'm so happy I don't think I can be happier.

Little did I know.

My dad opened the letterbox and from afar, I saw the giant parcel. It HAD to be mine. It's my birthday! The handwriting all over my giant parcel was unmistakably Jason's. It's THE parcel!! My elevator ride home was unbearably long. I couldn't wait to get home to open my parcel labelled 'cards and chocolates'.

The first thing I saw were the HIPPOS!!! You know those super cute and yummy hippos that Kinder makes... Unfortunately they were squashed and they looked hilarious. I'm sure they're just as yummy. I took the other things out - Diane's card, Florence's card, Jason's card, another card from Diane, Florence, Ramesh, Austin and Bryant...

And GUESS WHAT I FOUND!!!!
I found this goofy message in Jason's handwriting 'I know your present look sucky now, but turst me, you will enjoy it.......' lots more instructions, and TAADAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

2 TICKETS TO THE PHANTOM!!!!!!
The one I've so wanted to watch and haven't been able to because I couldn't afford it!!

OK I cried my tears of joy. My andrenaline levels were like pumped up so high at the eleventh hour... (do we get heart attacks from these kinda feelings?) It's almost midnight I haven't cut my cake yet.... Gonna do that too....!!!

I'm and crazy happy mad wreck.

And all I can say is thanks. To everybody who's made my birthday so so special with your phone calls, messages and all other gestures.

Thank you.

+ Flisha spoke @ 11:20 PM

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face update

On 27th April I was stuck in AMK Hub cos it was raining and I got really bored so I did something and Noel says I need to blog it. So here it is!

It isn't as short as I had initially wanted it to be... but ain't I hot... eeeeheeeheeehee

+ Flisha spoke @ 9:38 AM

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wols

I JUST figured out how to read comments (rather they JUST appeared on my blogger thingy).
And GUESS WHAT!! I JUST read Kenneth's comment.

With reference to my 'pictures' entry on 20th Feb 2006 (two zero zero SIX), he said 'errr, where are the photos'.

Wahahhaha I just realized I didn't tell anybody!

They're here laaahhhhhh - www.felicias.shutterfly.com

I'm STILL uploading pictures.....

+ Flisha spoke @ 8:03 PM

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