Say cheeze!

It was a pretty great day yesterday. Considering that I finally did my temporary crown for my tooth in the afternoon. So now, i can smile confidently without being self-conscious.

My fren had insisted that my broken tooth wasnt obvious. But no matter what, I always suspect that others would stare and laugh at my chipped tooth. In fact , there is always a part of me who wanted to tell and explain to everyone how I fell and broke my teeth- just to earn some symphathy. But ultimately, I didnt do it. Apparently, most who know about it found my mishap to be quite ridiculous. In fact, one of my friends laughed at it. (Yeah, u, vanessa, even though u may not be reading this post. But I will certainly send u this blog link and make sure u read this post next time).

Having went through all the injections and drilling of teeth, I have really learnt my lesson painfully. I now pay 101% attention to caring for my teeth and I am sure my dentists will be glad to hear this. Perhaps one good thing that comes out of this matter is that I am going to have a whiter and nicer permanent tooth soon.

Plus, I need to thank my Endodontist, Dr Andy Lim and Prosthodontist, Dr Quek, both from National Dental Centre. They are really the nicest dentists, very professional, yet friendly and gentle during treatment. To add on, Dr Toh fr Crown dental has been pretty good too. I sought treatment fr him the day that I broke my teeth. He was friendly and was pretty honest with my condition. The only bad thing was that the clinic only accept cash and the dental fees are sky high. (which prompts me to jokingly tell my frens that I shd perhaps find a dentist as boyfriend. But I am still receptive to this idea. So, anyone who has potential one in this category, pls update me. haaaaa)

P.S. Another happy stuff that is worth mentioning is that I finally collected my internship cert yesterday and I got a Gold Award. Think I need to really thank David for his generousity in the evaluation. Thanks David!!

'Black Out' on 28 March. It's Earth Hour!

Hey people, do your part for our Mother Earth and turn off your lights on this Saturday night to support the annual International Earth Hour.

Here's a little history first, this move was initiated in 2007 by World Wildlife Fund (WWF). It first began in Sydney, Australia where 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for an hour. In 2008, 50 million people took part in it! And two years after its efforts, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world's 1st global election, between Earth and Global Warming. And Singapore is proud to be one of those countries to join in this year.

You may ask, 'What is the purpose of switching off the lights on this day'? Well, switching off lights actually translates your vote for Earth, while leaving the lights on is a vote to global warming. Hence, "WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard."

This may seem obvious that most would want to vote for Earth but many would still hover between leaving it on or off, saying that "I am just an individual, it doesn't make a difference if I switch on or switch off. As long as others do so, it would be enough." But as quoted from John F. Kennedy,

"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try".

However, if circumstances doesnt permit you to switch off the lights totally, then at least minimise it. It would also be good if you could switch off electrical devices such as TV, air-con etc, just to save energy.

Earth Hour 2009
When:

Saturday, 28 March 2009
What:

Individuals and businesses are being asked to switch off their lights between 8.30pm and 9.30pm in their local time zones.
Why:

As a demonstration of public concern about climate change.
Official website:

earthhour.org

Blog: http://www.earthhoursingapore.blogspot.com/
ECO Singapore Website: http://www.eco-singapore.org/
ECO Singapore Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6718125635
List of participating companies and organisations: www.earthhour.org/singapore

JobsDB.com Career Expo 2009

Went to the JobsDB Career Fair this morning. There wasnt a big crowd perhaps because we went early. Among those employers who are present at the fair includes Singapore Police Force, Navy, SBS Transit, Comfort Delgro, MediaCorp, SG recruiters, and several financial planning companies like AIA, Prudential etc...

Some of the companies didnt have suitable openings for us. Yet, somehow we still managed to apply abt 20 positions, of which most of the companies didnt even have a physical booth at the fair. We applied for them through the online station where we could just scan the barcode of our registered card and perform a quick application, meaning that we didnt even need to prepare cover letters. Thank goodness!

Hopefully, we wont need to wait long to be called up for interviews. But looking at the job market, things are not promising. the news reported that the economy might take 2-3 years to recover instead of the orginally estimated 1 year recession. But to despair now is useless. So, yes, yes, I am going to start sending out resumes again.

By the way, I managed to spot a rainbow outside my window today. The saying goes that you can't spot rainbow without rain. So I hope the 'rain' will go off soon and a beautiful sight shall await in front of us.

JobsDB.com Career Expo 2009
Details:
20 - 22 March 2009
Suntec Singapore, Halls 602 & 603, Level 610am to 7pm Daily

What is Love to you?

Found this blog address from Feli's blog.

http://leloveimage.blogspot.com/

Truly sweet and inspiring. Make me feel like falling in love. Ha

A fresh appearance

I am so contented with my new blog design over here! It is the the 'Coffee Desk' theme taken from Btemplates.




In case you have missed out my previous blog design, here is a snapshot of the old design.

The main reason as to why I removed the old one is becos there had been some errors and missing links, of which I have no idea why. So the easiest way to solve it to have a complete 'overhaul'.

I simply find this new design to be much more pleasing to the eyes. The layout is also better utlised with lesser blank space at the sides. It also has an exact opposite background tone as compared to the previous one above... the format is also more user friendly this time round- I took less than 2 hrs to complete the editing and additions of links and widgets. Plus, there are some other great designs that caught my eyes. So, if you are using Blogger and am looking for new templates, I would highly recommend this Blogger Template website (refer to first para of this post for the link).

Countdown

Xian's last day of assignment was last fri while Vanessa's was on sat. So yesterday was officially the first day I was left alone during lunch. Pathetic...Usually, we would grab our lunch and eat at the canteen as we gaze ard trying to recognize ppl or share with each other any office gossips. But now that both girls left the company already, I prefer to stay in the office to eat my lunch.

The only consolation at work now is that there is a quite-cute engineer at the office, which at least make the environment more 'stayable'. and oh yeah,another reason is that at least i still have this temp salary to pull me thru my dental expenses.

But, i guess I am still looking fwd to the end of my assigment too. Counting down to about 19 more working days.. Yeppie!

Procrastination

It has been a while since I updated my blog... One reason is that I have been working for 8 days consecutively without break and it will add on till 15 March. I need to get off on Sun cos I wanna go to the IT fair as well as attend one of my girl friend's engagement. =) I haven inform my sup about it though but well, shd be able to get it approved.

Now, my eyes are almost shutting, all ready to enter into sleep mode. Zzzzzzzzz

Till the next post.

and Happy International Women's Day by the way.