That's Just Being KatsignerThat's Just Being KatsignerAn aspiring independent self-respected individual, with a mind of a feminist, trying to seize every new day to lead an ideal lifestyle of her own... 
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Lunar 7th Month Dinner
2007-09-04 17:59:00 As specially commanded by my Mum... She called me about 4 times while I was in a meeting yesterday afternoon, I was ordered to be back home early for the Hungry Ghost Festival Dinner ... @ the multi-purpose hall near my block...Well, the dinner got started at about 830pm... It's always been a culture at my neighbourhood, people will just buy some items, get them all chanted with some form of prayers and place them for auction, usually more than the item cost, by means of getting some good luck home... For me, I'm not very into it, I'm there just 'cos of the food... It can be kind of fun but I do believe this kind of culture is going to be lost soon... From what I heard from my dad, the amount of people who get involved is getting lesser and every year since 5 years back, the community is always suffering a deficit for this event... Life is tough, standard of living is no longer the same 20 years back in Singapore... Who would want to bid for 2 packs of rice (or 2 pot of plants) b... More About: Lunar , Month , Mont
Feet Need Sleep Most
2007-09-02 19:06:00 It's early Monday morning... at 1.06am, I'm yet to be in bed... Soon after this entry, I'm going to see myself off to sleep...Yes, yes, yes... My feet are really tired... due to long hours of standing with heels... With those bunions, it's even more painful with prolonged stress imposed on my feet... Imperfect feet as I deem though it's not truly affecting my life that much... However, I can't wear narrow pointed shoes and most of the heels, as those shoes are going to kill me with pain... Restrictions to beauty... Part of the job requirements, I just have to bear for it for those hours... Back home, I just have to spend some time massaging and squeezing my feet to relief the pressure...Thoughts of going for a surgery have yet to cross my mind, but I'm about to consider this as an option in future... Before I'm going to do that, I need to look for a Podiatrist in Singapore... Meanwhile, I'd like to search for bunion regulators... Wondering are they readily available in Sing... More About: Health , Feet , Sleep
Un-Pretty Mood
2007-08-30 08:30:00 Well, well, well...With my Mac hard-disk failure,with my procrastination of not backing up my data,with it being sent to the Hospital twice,with being deprived of a Mac machine in my life for coming to 2 week...Finally, I got it back home safe and sound... with no additional charges, and all programmes are almost re-installed back into my new hard-drive... Wee... My Mac-deprived days are gone... Hahaha...Well, well...My mood is not getting any prettier for the past days... One harsh night of sleeplessness made me a real-life zombie walking on streets recently... I skipped my Ballet lesson on Tuesday, a waste of 18bucks for the day... In exchange, I went to shopping for my personal toiletries instead... a day which I've been planning to do it weeks back, just that a chance don't get by since my days with Loewe... Looks like retail therapy don't actually work much for me as it seems... I need sleep more instead... Nonetheless, just based on items bought on Tuesday's night, I spent... More About: Life , Pretty , Reflection , Mood
Tough Deal
2007-08-26 17:59:00 Exciting weeks!!! Oh my God!!! It's coming to my 4th week stay with Loewe... and today, for the day, one of the "largest" bill I've ever encountered... Our very first customer is a local middle-aged guy, buying over $15k of handbags from us... Wow!!! However, as bizzare as it seems, this person who splurged so much on our handbags made us feel otherwise, as transaction was dealt with a man with no idea how to take care of leather bags... It's the first time out of my life to meet someone who spent so much on luxury leathery bags without giving a damn on how to treat the delicate leather bag nicely... Giving me demands (teaching me as well) on how to pack the bags; squeezing 9 bags into 2 X double paper bags by removing all the stuffings... Not so much of a choice, he's our "big" customer, have to kinda abide to his demands to keep the deal... Well, it's all out of our guided packaging standards which looked real ugly and not up to Loewe's reputation...Nonetheless, my days spen... More About: Deal , Tough
Mac is Down Again
2007-08-24 17:30:00 This seems rather infuriating... My Mac is down again... =( It seems so within a few hours when I'm upgrading my OS... What a luck!!! Trying real hard to stay as calm as possible as I'm able handicapped for coming to a week without my Mac and have to rely on a PC... I'm kinda of suffering from "post-Mac sickness" syndrome...Well, my OS is not starting at all and my Tiger 10.4 installation disk is being stuck within the drive, unable to eject... Guess I've got to bring my Mac down to the "Doctor" tomorrow morning... Hopefully, there's no further additional charges, as I can't really hear the hard-disk working and when I placed my ear near to the base, it's making some strange sound... Oh well, things just don't get so well for me so... Another Mac-deprived period coming soon...
Another Opportunity
2007-08-23 09:30:00 Something to think about... A great opportunity just came by... Thanks to Catherine... However, puts me in another different kind of position... It's now all up to me how much I want to take up this challenge... It's something I've never done before, zero experiences and perhaps with zero knowledge on what the company is doing...I had a met up with the Managing Director last night, supposed to be an interview session, but it seems like an interactive session that lasted coming to 2 hours... Giving me a freewill of option to take up the position or not... No doubt, it's a rather rare opportunity to meet someone along your life, who is willing to exploit his subordinates' talents and respect them as independent individuals... Too early to say so just based on barely 2 hours of meeting... However, it's really a high time change... Great one I think...This really makes me wonder what really makes a good Boss and why the world out of Government systems always seems much greener... ... More About: Opportunity , Reflection , Unit
My Mac is Coming Back Home
2007-08-22 05:58:00 Oh Yes... Finally, my Mac has been declared discharged... and I'm going to fetch it back home later this evening... However, I'm anticipating that most of the files and data I've stored within my Hard-disk is not going to be retrivable... ~Sob Sob~With my previous 4 year old 30G Hard-disk is being upgraded and replaced to 120G, I'm paying about less than $200 for it... In comparison with Ernest, an upgraded and replacement of 40G to 80G had actually cost him about $500+, mine is really a great deal... But with a price to pay... I may have lost all my data, music files and those photos I've taken!!! I may have to dig into my .Mac network drive to see what are the files I've backed up there, in hope I can get at least some of them back... Seriously hoping...So tonight will be the night of finding those "lost" files... More About: Home , Back , Ming
On the Brighter Side
2007-08-15 17:30:00 Oh well, as what Catherine said, what are the bad that had befallen on me, it created another opportunity for me... As it seems, at the very moment when things in my current job is not working pretty well, I'm able to fall back to Fashion Line... Apparently, I can see myself much more suitable in this line... As I'm already with the company on a part-tome basis, the manager is far more interested to get me converted to a full-time permanent employee...On the brighter side of my Life , I'm looking very forward for this to happen... More About: Reflection , Side
Mac Deprived
2007-08-14 17:59:00 When all things are not working well, (~Sign~) more other bad things befallen on you... It seems this applies to me well... My Mac harddisk is gone; failure... and best of all... my procasination kills... I didn't back up most of my stuffs on my Mac... =(I sent my Mac to Apple Service Centre yesterday and it has to be hospitalised for at least 5 working days; it's harddisk is going to get replaced, in hope the saving team can retrieve most of my data out from the disk... and now I've to rely on PC to check my emails and get some stuffs done... for a while I deem, soon I'll get my Mac back... Yeah!!! It's really been hard days for me recently as I'm trying to sort things out and get some of my problems resolved... especially my health is not putting me at any advantage... As much as I'd like to defend myself to resolve certain issues, it's best to stay still and let things go blunt... and it seems, tongues have stopped wagging and my aunt somehow has tried to talk to me and p...
Trust and Judgement
2007-08-11 05:59:00 It's a day off from Loewe... Especially on Saturday, it's not supposed to be a day that I can go off... Nonetheless, it has been quite some time I'm yet to meet up with YL and Ernest... As arranged, we met for Lunch, however, ended up a Buffet Dinner at The Market Place... Sometimes it's not always as planned... But anyway, we still dine together, that's the point...It looks like almost everyone is facing a certain level of stress from different parts of our Life ; a kind of negative stress manifested from the problems we are facing... We're all Humans after all... Main topic of the day - Money and trust issues... the root of all Evil... No doubt, something unpleased happened to Ernest's friends; betrayal of human trust that ruined a friendship of coming to 10 years overnight... It's kind of hard to swallow for the first time, however for me, it's kind of easier... The thought of a deceptive semblance being portrayed in front of you really disgusted me to the utmost... Compa... More About: Trust , Judgment , Betrayal , Rust
Time Well-Justified
2007-08-10 05:59:00 A great sense of satisfaction... In comparison to the past, it's seriously the time I can enjoy getting little paid with the amount of work that I can justify... Back to Luxury Fashion line on a part-time basis do let me feel competent but yet another different kind of stress, much much lesser and easier compared to the Scientific world...Perhaps, it just only 2 days, kinda of too early to judge... Nonetheless, facing another different kind of world at least don't make me feel trapped and enclosed... At least, I've gotten some part of my social life much more interesting... I wouldn't deny the people I've met are mostly the rich, influential and a much more higher social class, including celebrities... Neither they would be that reasonable just 'cos they're more educated or better well-off in the social class to a certain sense... All walks of Life comes in, far more a better view than enclosed in a Lab doing the same amount of work over and over again which in decades to com... More About: Time , Well , Justified
Health
2007-08-09 16:30:00 The weather has been running haywire again recently... And I think I'm caught up with an allergic respiratory reaction, and I'm guessing I'm going to fall sick... Seriously, I hope not... With the recent stir-ups in my Life , my health has not been catching up too well...It's time to seriously think about how to actually take great care of my mental health... Delete away those negativities from work, life, home, etc and try to input more positivity... Thinking more healthily, believes my health will improve... In fact, much much more..."What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know...It's what we know for sure that just ain't so..."Mark Twain... More About: Health , Lifestyle , Heal
Amazing...
2007-08-06 17:59:00 Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rseerach at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!Something interesting is going on within the Brain while reading this... I wonder how AMAZING can each human brain perceive... More About: Life , Amazing
A Sunday
2007-08-05 17:45:00 This weekend has passed... and tomorrow is another Monday... the day I'd have to go back to my Lab... What a shame... I'm thinking how to face the irony situation... As what Andrea said, situation has taken out of control and it's not within my means by choice... Basically, I'm left with no choice but to face it bravely... Whether they can see the asset in me, I don't think it's a concern right now...Peaceful Sunday today, and for the first time I witnessed my parents at home for more than 6 hours, I'm glad and happy enough... Another possibly better thing for me is I managed to find a potential suitable violin teacher to guide me well... Will be meeting her in person next week, if the chemistry is there and we both feel comfortable with each other, I won't feel oblige to take up any lessons with her...Tomorrow is yet another day, and the night has not ended for today... Brace up and focus for tonight before Dawn... =) More About: Life , Reflection
Vincent (Starry Starry Night)
2007-08-04 19:40:00 The very first time I heard Vince nt is via Josh Groban's pilot self-tittled album... Immediately, I fell for it... Written by Don McLean, a tribute to Vincent Von Gogh, a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist... A Beautiful song indeed...Starry, starry nightPaint your palette blue and grayLook out on a summer's dayWith eyes that know the darkness in my soulShadows on the hillsSketch the trees and daffodilsCatch the breeze and the winter chillIn colors on the snowy linen land*ChorusNow I understand what you tried to say to meAnd how you suffered for your sanityAnd how you tried to set them freeThey would not listenThey did not know howPerhaps they'll listen nowStarry, starry nightFlaming flowers that brightly blazeSwirling cloud and violet hazeReflect in Vincent's eyes of China blueColors changing hueMourning fields of amber grainWeathered faces lined in painAre soothed beneath the artist's loving handsFor they could not love youBut still your love was trueAnd when no hope was left in... More About: Night , Starry Night
It's All Enough
2007-08-04 16:31:00 I don't feel good... It's like being bottled up and I can't yell it out to vent to make myself feel better... I choose to remain silent but yet I'd like to talk... Things got stirred up in my family again... I can't understand the estrangement that has remained in my family for years that has never been resolved... Honestly, as my parents' daughter, I feel utmost SHIT... I appeared as if nothing has happened, for the past 20 years... as if I'm just a normal person, smiling and joking with my friends when I get to see them, and back home have fun with my younger sister... 'cos I understand I shouldn't allow any form of emotions to overtake me to affect the people around me... It'd be unfair for them to witness and feel heavy on the emotional burdens I've been having that's has never subsided... Problems exist and I took coming to 20 years to get to understand the estrangement within my family... The reason why I used to detest and hate my parents... the reason why I deem ...
Unexpected Wish Come True
2007-08-03 08:45:00 As according to my wish and as expected... Had a conversation with my French boss and realised we are not in consensus, and in a few months time, I'll be leaving my Lab... as soon I get better opportunity elsewhere...I didn't feel upset and despondent by the situation and I can't find a strong valid reason to push the blame to myself, my boss, the Lab or anyone else... It's indeed, I feel unfair to a certain extend and perhaps I'm really that incompetent in their eyes... However, I've made my stand and point very strongly by telling my boss the truth on how I feel, for all the respect and understanding I've been giving, despite they know I've been unhappy... We're both expecting something from each other but nothing comes out from our expectations... If that's the way how they work in the Lab, I've totally no qualms about it and move on to the niche where I feel comfortable... There's basically nothing to be upset about, but to not feel unhappy about it, it's a lie... More About: True
Irony Suicide
2007-08-02 17:59:00 The Son came back home witnessed his mum committed suicide and struggling to die and to live at the same time... Just in time, his mum's friend was with him and sent her to the hospital... She managed to live again... Back home, the Son received the suicide letter and read it... Her mum was discharged from the hospital... The Son said, "I got the letter... Thanks...""Oh my God... I've forgotten...""You forgot... You forgot the suicide letter...""Well, I didn't think I'd have to remember it, did I?... Did you read the part where I said I'd always love you?""It's a bit hard for you to love me when you're dead, isn't it?"This makes perfect sense isn't it??? Excerpt of Marcus and his mum's conversation from the movie "About A Boy"... More About: Life , Irony , Suicide , Reflection , Iron
A Hundred and One 101
2007-08-01 17:59:00 It's the 101st Post... Life isn't that bad afterall... The Sun shines every morning whether you feel down or not... So, don't let those dark clouds over your head making your day gloomy... Alright, I know in some days, the sky is getting dark and when you know it, it's starting to rain... Just like today, 2 hours since I've woken up this morning, at 10:28am - it's raining... Something not encouraging is going on here... It seems that when days I took a break off from work, it's always raining... but hey, it's raining heavily with the sun shining BRIGHTLY...With all sorts of things I used to do and all forms of encouragements to myself in days I don't feel good... 101 of them... Cry and feel upset over it...Grieve over it and feel sorry about yourself...Cry one whole night if you wish, you'll get tired after that... So go to sleep and rest your body... Your body needs the rest after you cry so hard... Besides the swollen eyes you'll get the next morning, you'll notice you... More About: Oprah Winfrey , Reflection
Heavy Tuesday
2007-07-31 06:04:00 Had a rather ugly scene with my Dad last night and I wasn't feeling much better... And ended up having a heavy day this morning... With the stories I heard from my cousin's side on my sister, things just got stirred up for me... The incidents are not pleasant and I shan't go on any further...However, these 2 incidents do allow me to think and reflect deeply rather than avoiding and pushing the problems away and diverge my attention to something else... As I stood in front of my impression board last night and this morning, I realised how far-fetch am I... but it still brings me to ponder... If I allow existing problems to roll over, I can never get there... For a lot of things that I can't control, I've to work on building up skills to handle situations well, and be fair enough for myself and the people around me to get through... Feeling upset and being in indulgences are not going to help... and I'd only allow more "negative stuffs" to fall on me...I think the best for me no... More About: Life , Reflection , Heavy , Tuesday
Impression Board
2007-07-29 17:59:00 My Impress ion Board is Up!!! With all the Goals and things I want; to lead a lifestyle I've always wanted to... So instead of thinking and dreaming about it, I've been collecting those pictures from magazines in portrayal of a kind of Life I want to live... Be good to myself... That's why I came up with this idea of an Impression Board, and place it right in front of my Mac, which also faces my bed...In every morning I wake up starting from tomorrow, it's gonna be the first thing I see, keeping me motivated and inspired to work towards the Life I want... What you perceive the first thing in the morning, it'll just get into your head... When you're sleeping, your brain basically rewire itself to get ready for your next day's work, hence what you provide to your brain first thing in the morning (via your eyes, hearings and sense of touch), it'll just register it... That's why it's always the best period of time your brain absorbs the best, and work the best... Try playing Mo... More About: Lifestyle
Market Sways and Swings
2007-07-28 17:59:00 Had a rather excited morning today... I'm taking over my mum's role to the wet market to get some ingredients for tonight's dinner (Yeah!!!)... Alone, yes, I went to a wet market near my place alone without my mum... Unfortunately for me, it rained and the surroundings felt cold... Kind of disheartening as I'm expecting myself to be back home with sweat and not rain water... So, before the rain gets any heavier, I brought an umbrella with me to the market, making fast and wise choices, I bought home 2 slices of fish, some pork, some veggies, carrots and potatoes... All done within less than 30 minutes (Good time management ah)... Right after this, I moved up to the ground floor to McDonald's and got some Lunch back for my brother and myself, as this is the most convenient spot to get Lunch back in the rain... What I had gotten back was bags of plastic bags containing the meat and vegetables and food from the market and McDonald's... When I witnessed how much the fishmonger'... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Oprah Winfrey , Earth , Market
Life
2007-07-27 06:00:00 Image Adopted from chiaroscuroAs such is Life ... I was feeling Bored in my Lab sometime in April... In process of molding into a better Persona... Rules of Life comes in... leads to in depth pondering...Repeated Lessons or Pure Coincidences??? More About: Reflection
Women in the Scientific World
2007-07-26 17:59:00 Can't help being so fascinated by those WildLife on Planet Earth... Hence, I went to Discovery site to read more about it... While I was surfing their site, I subscribed to their Video Podcast via my iTunes... That's when I realised I've not been listening to the Podcasts I've been subscribing - NOVA Science NOW, Science Friday and Skepticality... It's over 90 un-listened subscribed Podcasts... Wow...As usual, and as I do prefer, I "dug" and listened to those archives... So, early this morning on my way to Biopolis (my workplace), I listened to "Women in Science" Podcast by Science Friday (released on 27th August 2005... Oh ya I know it's like 2 years back... quite an old archive) on my bus ride... Seems to be everything is being "put into place", and for a valid reason behind why this archive was being chosen, I'm actually at the stage of assessing my career prospect in Science; whether I'd like to stay or move out to something else... More women are taking Science in their... More About: World
Going Green and Discover Our Planet Earth
2007-07-25 17:59:00 Though it's past archives, watching The Oprah Winfrey 's Shows on Hallmark is still that exciting... For 2 days, it's all about the Earth ... Going Green and From Ants to Elephant...For an environmental conscious person like me, these shows will just be more great than ever, I just love them!!! What can I further comment about it??? It's just SOOoo Great and Amazing... How I ever wish I could be on these shows to get those freebies Oprah is giving to the people on the show... It's really very generous on her side to create such an important awareness... I'm deeply inspired and influenced as well... It's so on par with my mind... Especially when it comes to the environment friendliness, I'm rather particular... Recalled a field trip I went when I was in Secondary 3, I've been to 2 places in the West side of Singapore, Ulu Pandan Sewage Treatment Plant and the Incinerator Plant nearby... The places are of course, pungent and unsightly... My classmates were cursing and swearing,... More About: Planet , Animals
The Uniqueness of Every Talent
2007-07-22 17:59:00 "All Human joys are swift of wing, for heaven doth allot it;That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it..."Phrases that I had written on one of my Calligraphy works when I was in my Secondary school days... Art lesson... I still keep it, together with some of my Art Works, which most of them have some yellowish spots on them... Those papers are not acid free, that's why...And here is what I've found... those rummages... of all those kept works of mine... Back to once I was inspired to be a Fashion Designer... hence the creation of KatSigner, where Kat- is the prefix from my name, Kat-ie and -signer is the suffix from the word De-signer... A nick I've been using for the past 9 years (and still using now)... However, those works I used for an interview as my Portfolio 7 years back in a Fashion School was rejected, just because I fused too much of Art inside and they suggested me to enroll into a Fine Art School instead... Well, in the end I went back to my Biotech... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Reflection , Talent , Tale
Chips Craves...
2007-07-21 17:59:00 Since yesterday till today, I was having some Potato Chip s cravings... I had 2 small packets of Lays yesterday late morning and one huge pack of Farmland Oregon Fresh Original Potato Chips today... Mum and I actually finished the entire pack within less than an hour...Hallmark Channel has squeezed all 4 "Oprah 4 Life style" shows to Saturdays afternoon, hence for today, it was basically a all TV day for me... Woke up at about 830am this morning, prepared my Breakfast and I tuned in to History Channel, just browsing what documentary is on... "Modern Marvel:Demolition"... Wow... History of traced evolution of planned destruction... Following as planned, next on National Geographical Channel for "I Didn't Know That" and "Mad Labs"... making my well-spent morning quite a knowledgeable one... Well, I'm pretty taken about that Money is actually very dirty; almost 90% of bank notes have drugs traces on them... That's why we are advised to wash our hands after handling money...Back to the... More About: Lifestyle , Oprah Winfrey
Grandeur Life
2007-07-20 17:59:00 It's Zack's Birthday today... While thinking what eCard and phrases for him, I thought of giving him some quotes of encouragement... Kinda of a nice gift I'm thinking... His dream life just got started over at Australia, and I hope he's doing well there... Hence, recalled Little Foot gave me a source book of quotes of joy and encouragement, "These are the Gifts I'd like to Give to You" by Douglas Pagels... I decided to search for one that it's best for his eCard... Undoubtedly, as I browse through the content page for a suitable quote, I was basically flipping through the pages and read a couple of quotes... I realised I never got to read them ALL!!! What a surprise... Those quotes may not serve as a "pushing" force to change my Life definitely, but they do have some pondering effects, which allows me to think deeply and in turn it might shape my Life into much better one...Most quotes that strike my thoughts are mostly Anonymous... And this one of them..."It is a grand thing ... More About: Reflection , Grande
Rules to Ponder in Life
2007-07-17 17:59:00 While I was searching my file looking for those Protocols I'm going to rewrite, I happened to find a sheet of photocopied paper I had zapped from Judith's desk a couple of months back... It's some phrases that struck my mind the moment I read it on her desk... and at that particular moment that took me, I asked her for that sheet of laminated phrases and said I'd like to have a copy of it, just that I felt so strongly that this is something she keeps it attached on her desk to serve as a form of motivation in Life ... Interestingly, I re-read the entire phrases again and I realised I had once forgotten... So what the hell is this sheet doing in my file of Protocols???Something so simple to understand but yet it can takes a lifetime to get them into our heads and fully accept what is happening around us... Most of the time... Basically every second as time goes by...I Asked for Strengthand God gave me Difficulties to make me StrongI Asked for Wisdomand God gave me Problems to Sol... More About: Rules , Laboratory , Rule
The Cocoon
More articles from this author:2007-07-16 05:59:00 A man found a cocoon of a butterfly...One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole... Then it seemed to stop making any progress... It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no further...Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon...The butterfly then emerged easily...But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings... The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time... Neither happened... In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings...It never was able to fly...What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly ... More About: Cocoon , Butterfly 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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