Once again, my favourite holiday is round the corner. I love Christmas.

Beautifully decorated streets and malls, Christmas carols, rainy cooling weather, spirit of giving, gathering of family and friends for yummy food, being on leave, continuous string of holidays..

Its been really windy at my place every night. Which also reminds me of Hong Kong. I really miss Hong Kong alot. Have been chasing the 10pm Hong Kong drama on Channel U lately and it just adds on to my missing misery. How I wish I can spend Christmas in Hong Kong!

There are many sides to me. I wonder why is there not just ONE me.

1. Do not write anything on anyone’s Facebook Wall that can land them in hot soup.
“Happy Birthday” and “Haven’t seen you since 1985!” is okay, but “Eh, saw you kissing this girl who didn’t look like your girlfriend!” and “Yo, heard you went for a job interview. Have you tendered?” is not.

2. Do not be a Facebook Whore.
Adding people from primary school you can’t even remember, friends of friends you met for three minutes, and assorted complete strangers just makes you look desperate to break the 500-friend barrier.

3. Do not assume that people want a play-by-play of your tedious little life.
Nobody cares that you’re in the shower one second, and digging your ears the next.

4. Do not be passive-aggressive.
If you’re upset with someone, take up the issue in person. Don’t wring Facebook sympathy by writing things like “XXX is disappointed and hurt. Why did you do that to me?”

5. Do not tag your friends in photos in which they look drunk, fat, or are missing articles of clothings.
Even if you look fab in those photos. You don’t want to start a bout of revenge-tagging.

6. Do not post photos that are more than 10 years ago.
No one wants to be reminded of their geeky, bad-haired secondary school days.

7. Do not wait two days before accepting a friend request just because you don’t want to appear parked on Facebook 24/7.
Everyone can tell from your flurry of Superpokes that you are, in fact, online.

8. Do not use Facebook for work-related matters.
Imagine being all comfy at home, ready for an extended session of Facebook-stalking, when you receive a message from your boss that your Powerpoint presentation wasn’t up to scratch. Sucks.

9. Do not start a Facebook group claiming that you can save an Amazonian tribe from urbanisation if you get 1,000,000 members.
Facebook cannot save the world.

10. Do not inundate your friends with invitations to play Texas Hold’Em poker, Vampire Wars, or any other game, or ask them to take personality quizzes to find out what beer/breed of dog/’70s song they are.
Those applications were fun when Facebook first launched four years ago. Now, they’re just tiresome.

11. Do not update your profile photo every three hours.
People aren’t as interested in the progress of your facial hair as you think they are.

12. Do not have a protracted Wall-to-Wall conversation with your friend.
If you need to talk, pick up the phone or send an e-mail. The world doesn’t need to know that the two of you are completely indecisive about where to have dinner tonight.

13. Do not engage in FDA (Facebook Displays of Affection) with your beau.
Writing things like “I love you, baby, and I can’t type properly because you’re now lying on my lap” just makes people want to gag.

14. Do not break up by changing your relationship status to “Single”.
Also, don’t change your relationship status for the heck of it. Being “engaged” to one friend on Tuesday, then “married” to another on Wednesday is juvenile.

15. Do not complain if people do any or all of the above.
Nobody’s forcing you to be on Facebook!

[extracted from 8 Days issue no 944 - the facebook issue]

I am really looking forward to a good rest next month.

I will give up my work and friends.

I intend to stay home and watch dvds from day to night to day.

I can’t wait for it to be here.

Went to my hairdresser today and wanted to colour my hair Ash Brown coz its so in lately. But my hair simply refuse to change its colour. The colour technician dyed it twice but my hair is still reddish. Ended up dying a darker shade of brown and it looks neither here nor there now. Sighs.. Plus my scalp is feeling kinda numb from all the dying.

Hairdresser says got to slowly change the colour like long long ago when my hair was previously Red and they took about six months to get it to Brown. To which I commented, by the time my hair colour is Ash Brown, Red will be the hotter colour again.

When I asked how the celebrities change their hair colour so swiftly and easily like Quan Yifeng’s hair is now Brown, their reason was celebrities use semi-permanent hair colour which do not stick to hair so tightly and will usually fade after ten washes. I should consider doing that instead, less damaging to my hair, since I colour my hair every four weeks due to my irritating white hairs.

I want Ash Brown hair!

Its finally Saturday – my favourite day of the week where you don’t have to think about waking up early for work the next day. Have been idling the whole day and getting ready to go for a colleague’s wedding now. I’m hoping Tang Yuan will be the dessert tonight. I’ve been served Yam Paste for the last four weddings and I hate Yam.

There was a lot of excitement about the announced retrenchment yesterday. My recently adopted life’s philosophy – I die when I die and not before. Though I think I will not be one of them, but who knows? It may not be bad news to me at all even if so. And I wonder if anyone I know will be given the letter..

Its the time of the year to measure work performance and I’m feeling super pissed, irritated, frustrated, angry and cheated even.

Aren’t sales folks primarily measured by their sales target? If this sales person achieve an average of 180% of sales target, shouldn’t this person be at least be minimally in band 3 category out of 5 (say band 1 is the best)? And if the person has great attitude, correct mindset, exhibit leadership, welcome change etc etc push the person into the band 1 or 2 categories?

WHY THE HELL AM I IN BAND 4?!?!?!

*. That will be in the past so its used to.

Now, I will sit there, not make a single sound and agree with everything you say so you cannot say I don’t adapt to changes.

KAOS, to think about it, the big change recently was to cut my comm by 90% and you expect me to sit there and KEEP QUIET?!? And other changes about forms, procedures, I will need to give our inputs coz we are the ones doing right? *.

Wa lau, I am really angry and cannot get over it. I’ve never been in band 4 can!

ETA 6-Nov: Edited * for safety coz I kiasee.

I’ve attended quite a number of weddings within a short span of time. I guessed its the age where its time for everyone to settle down. So far all the weddings feel very deja vu – nothing interesting, fun, outstanding, memorable or special.

Standard boring drill:

1. Reach venue, see the newly weds, say “Congratulations”.
2. Go to the reception desk, drop your red packet into the box and get table number.
3. Find table, sit down and catch up with friends about life.
4. Watch video montage of the newly weds from baby to their wedding photos
5. First march-in with flower boy(s) and girl(s) followed by the newly weds. Aisle tables will throw flower petals or confetti. Then cake cutting ceremony.
6. First dish presentation.
7. Eat three dishes – cold dish, soup, prawns.
8. Second video montage of the morning’s customary rituals. Standard games played by the ‘jie meis’ like drink the sweet, sour, spicy, bitter concoctions. (For this part, I object strongly to see the groom and his brothers being humiliated by wearing female clothes or undergarments.)
9. Second march-in by the couple.
10. Champagne popping followed by the yam seng then the newly weds speech.
11. Continue eating the rest of the dishes served hurriedly. Service levels usually drops like no more refills for your drinks coz all the waiters and waitresses too busy with all the serving, changing plates, collecting dishes etc.
12. Shake hands with family on the way out.

How I wish one of the wedding I am attending (seven more to go) is at least fun. I will love to attend a wedding on a roof top garden with dancing like those Ang Moh wedding or a yacht wedding!