yvonne has internet!

Yay! After months of uncertainties and 2 weeks of total disconnection, I have decided to get certain and connected. I bought this iZZi internet package of 6 months which absorbs the activation fee and also comes with a little iBurst modem. This is what it looks like:

-my iZZi modem-

Oh well, maybe not as small as the Huawei modem which comes with Celcom or Maxis broadband but it is still pretty small nonetheless. About 3 times the size of those but light. Well, they work the same anyways - using USB. I'm not going to go into techy-talk (because I'm not tech-savvy) but OK lah. Pretty fast and this is (as explained by my friend, the sales agent) because they have one of their "base" at my area itself. So signal strength is always 100% here. Whoopie. Well, more info? All I know is the speed is 1Mbps. Not the fastest around but I guess meets my needs and I guess since it is a 6 months package, I could just use it for 6 months and decide later if I want to continue or not. Maybe Celcom and Maxis broadband would improve later on and have better rates by that time? hmmm. And then maybe DiGi will come around with good deals and say it's Time to Change. Till then, for the next 6 months, I shall be an iZZinet user.

And I like the orange. :)


Whatever. As long as I don't need to drag my laptop to the lobby and listen to little kids squel in absolute delight as they play in the swimming pool everytime I need to check my email or worse to post an entry.


Anyways, I like to squel too when I was a kid playing in the pool. I really don't do that anymore now.


The weather has been horrible lately and one don't get to see squeling kids at the pool. Rain and more rain. Dampening my spirits. Plus my office has become even colder now.

-My usually sun-beamed desk has been gloomily cold-

Anyways, some update about work. We had another successful party/outing for our deserving staff who have done their job well and made guests feel so happy they decided to write a good comment. This time, we went to Pavilion! Conveniently nearby and full of entertainment possibilities, Pavilion was such a good idea. We didn't even need to rent a bus.

We went to Kenko Fish Spa!

-oooh-

-here fishy, fishy, fishy...-

-very nice interior design with instrumental background music-

-some of my deserving colleagues-
Us: We're coming!
Fishes: Wah, buffet!

-I get a free dip too! *squel!*-

ahem.
There were big fishes and small fishes. The small ones were very ticklish while the big ones sort of mean serious business about eating our dead skin cells. The small ones were so small that sometimes I imagine them getting trapped in the hair of some of our more hairy-legged friends.

-my colleague iyzaccq whose feet were so popular amongst the fishes that wherever he sits, the others will not have fishes munching at their feet-

Yvonne: Where are the fishes?!
Iyzaccq: Nah, nah, give you some... *lifts feet from water*

and the mass school of fishes started to swim over to other people's feet.

Yvonne: I think you have a lot of dead skincells

We were required to wash and scrub our feet before even thinking of going near these little underwater friends. While dipping, sometimes we saw the fishes rise up to the surface to sort of gasp for air and I wonder if it was the smell of 20 over people dipping in at the same time. Like it was too much to take. Hehe!

-shiny naturally exfoliated feet-

Anyways, it was very relaxing and after the 30 minutes dip, we proceeded to Red Box Plus to sing our hearts out.

-Bringing RedBox to a new height-

Speaking of RedBox, I joined some of my trainees to RedBox in conjunction with their last training day with us and boy, did they bring karaoke experience to a new height.

we sang... yes...

-JonJon doing some tribal thing, I think-

But I think dancing was the main objective sometimes...

-WeeJian: shu shang de xiao niao pi...-

I never thought that we would be so... so cabaret in RedBox. Oh well, anywhere Jon goes, there will be some sort of dancing or shaking going on. He must have worked for the Moulin Rouge troupe in his previous life.


Apart from these, we also had a bowling tournament thanks to my colleague Bin who patiently organizes these sport activities. All his hard work paid off when we saw the teamwork and the joyful atmosphere as we almost filled up the whole bowling alley.

This dude even managed to pose while I snapped! lol!

And we lifted one of our dear colleagues who was leaving for Maldives the next day.

All the best, Tony!

yvonne can save lives

It has been a while... because "my" wifi has decided to wise up and become "secured" and therefore... Yvonne is at the lobby blogging this. Sigh. Well, at least the couch is comfy. Why is it that no one else in my house is into internet? At all? How can? hmm.

Anyways, another friend has left to join the mini Malaysian community in Macau. I'll miss you JenJen. Hope you don't miss Kg Baru Chilli Pan Mee too much. :D And another friend sort of went over to visit the love of her life. You better come back SL.

-me and Jen Jen-

I also went for my Level 2 Photoshop. Whoa. The possibilities of CS3. I'll never believe what I see in a photo anymore. I wish I had the time to create something out of ordinary photos. Sigh. Time. A forgotten word. Well, here is a random photo of what I did in class.

-Obviously during breaktime-

Er, no, CS3 Level 2 does not cover drawing Vince. :D And Vince just happened to be in the newspaper clipping that I received.


Aaaanyways, sad news and weird picture aside, we had a little suprise visit at the office the other day. I tell you, it is baby boom time. SO many little surprise visits. Can't help featuring Little Wong. Very cute and chubbs. And 'touchy-feely', as cheered on by his dad.. and his mom. 0_0

-my desk was a playground! Whee!-

So back to the main thing. I can save lives now! I went for First Aids and CPR Training last week. Seriously! Step aside people!

So we learned how to administer First Aid and CPR and also how to save choking people and various ways to turn victims without hurting them further. It was a very useful training. I recommend everyone to go for it because we can really make a difference.

One of the more fun topic was the Bandage chapter. We bandaged arms, legs, lost fingers etc etc. Well, if your eyes were hurt, you can't bandage one it. So we used "Calciyum" yoghurt cups to "protect the eyes". Of course, in a real situation, any small plastic cup will do. And bandage both eyes to cover the vision so the victim will rest his eyes.

Well, sometimes you might hurt both eyes >>

Later on, we had "Real Life Situations". We were broken into groups and given different scenarios to solve. I must say the make up was very realistic. Here you go:


And here's me doing some first aid!

*Clap! Clap! Clap!!*

And a less glamorous one saving Choking Charlie (as he is fondly known)...

*clap.*

:D